Jobs and Poverty Top Problems
Church Lollor Day Statement Emphasizes Obligation'
Of All Economic Factions to Elevate Human Dignity
which it aroused among our department' dir~ctor, the state ment emphasizes that all forces Negro fellow citizens are frus in the struggle "will want to trated, not so much by the un opposition of give special attention to the compromising those who opposed its enact problem of racial injustice." on a "completely non-partisan "No greater mistake could' be ment in the first place as by the basis" dominates the 1964 Labor made than to think that this apathy and indifference of those Day statement of the Social. problem, the sheer magnitude , who favored its adoption," the Act ion Department; National and tragedy of which we have ' statement asserts. yet fully to grasp as a nation, Catholic Welfare Conference. 'The plea is directed to labor, was taken care of once and for Labor Day Statement all by the enactment of the Civil mana~cment, governme,nt, "all Text on Pages 10-11 segmcnts of our economy and all Rights Act of 1964," the Catholic Ironically, the s e problems interested voluntary groups at Church statement p<>ints out. "The passage of this statute mount at a time when "we are the local, regional and national was truly history-makiilg in its currently 'enjoying a remark level" to play their proper role "in this all-out' crusade for implications, but" in the long ably high level of economic prosperity in this country," the run, could prove to have been a human dignity.", , Prepared under the supervi- , curse, rather than a blessing, if statement notes. Millions of able-bodied Amer .ton of Msgr. George G. Higgins, the hopes and expectations
W A~HINGTON (NC) - :An appeal "to move full speed ahead with the war on poverty and' unemployment"
lcans are unemployed, through no fault of their own, and mil lions more are the victims of the most degrading kind of poverty -all the more degrading be cause it so often goes unnoticed in a land of bounteous plenty,'" the statement observes. Automation has brought cer tain potential blessings, but has also created "a number of very economic and social problems," the church document says, add ing::- "Private enterprise in the in dustrial sector of our econom,y, given a high degree of intelli gent cooperation between man agement and labor, can help solve the problems of mass un.
employment and mass poverty in the midst of plenty, but it cannot and should not be ex pected to do the job alone." The government should lose no time in tooling up its own set of anti-poverty programs, now limited in scope, and should be ' prepared to adopt additional programs as they become neces sary, the church pronouncement stresses. Seek New Ways It has become "rather fash-, ionable" to blame many econom ic woes on the so-caBed break down of collective bargaining and also to berate labor for lack of militancy, moral idealism and Turn to Page Seventeen
Fr. William D.' Th'omson Heads Hyannis Parish'
Fr. Thomas F. Daley, Retiring Army Major~ New Pastor at Norton Parish
The CnOR
The transfer of a pastor, the appointment of an ad. ministrator and an administrator pro tempore, and the transfer of an assistant were announced by the Chancery Office this morning. The Very Reverend William D. Thom son, M.A., pastor of Saint at Catholic University,
Mary's, Norton, will become Degree Washington, D.C. In 193~, he re
pastor of Saint ,Francis turned as an instructor of Phil.
Xavier's, Hyannis and the osophy of Education at the Col
Fall River, Mass., Thursday,Septo .3, 1964
Vol. 8, No. 36 ©
1964 The Anchor
PRICE lOe $4.00 per Year
Estimates Non-Public Education Expense Now $6.6 Billion
WASHINGTON (NC)-The u.s. Office ot EdueatM>l'l Mtimates U.8. non-public education is now worth' about fG.6 billion annually, This is 22 pel' cent of the total esti mated expenditures of $33.7 billion for all U.S. edueation ill the 1963-64 school year, based .on the' expenditures per acoordin~ to the statistics 'teacher in public schOOls. Large feleased by the federal edu ly because of the decentralized eation office. Anticipated en financial operation of non-public l1011ment increases 1I1's' Fall pre eumably will be accompanied by ttlll greater expenditures. It lIllid 8.3 million students were enrolled in nonpublic schools end colleges last year. The federal office gave these .mounts as estimated expendi tures of non-public education: '2.8 billion for elementary and ~ol1dary schools and $3.8 for Iligher education. The figure for non-public 00 .ation is higher tha~ the esti anate of $2.4 billion for the fed eral government's total contri bution to education in the 1963 84 fiscal year which closely cor l'esponds with the 1963-64 aca demic ycar. The estimates for non-publie echools are what are generally described by Catholic educators . . the "savings to taxpayers." ~is i1l becaUle ~'fiiurea aq
school systems, including those church-related,' no actual tional figures on tileit' school oosts are available. The 1963-64' estimate of $6.6 billion represents an increase .of $500 million over its estimate of $6.1 billiOil for' the 1962-63 school year.
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,Role of Diocese At CCI) Congress Led by Bishop Connolly, who moderated a general session and celebrated a televised Mass, Di ocesan delegates participated en thusiastically in last weekend's New England Congress· of the Confraternity of Christian Doc trine. Held at Cathedral High School, Springfield, Mass., the 6»ur.-day meeting had as theme 'I'ura • Pale Twentr
Dean' of the Cape Cod Area. lege of the Sacred Hearts, Fall
The 'Reverend Thomas, F. RJiver, being stationed at Holy
Daley, recently retired Army N-ame, J!'all River, meanwhile.
Chaplain will take, up the ad In June 1949, he was transfer
ministration of Saint Mary's, red to Saint Mary's Cathedral
Norton. as assistant and remained there
The Reverend Antoni C. Ta until appointed Director of the
vares, assistant at Santo Christo , Catholic Welfare Bureau in New Church, Fall River, wiH report Bedford and Chaplain at Saint to Saint Elizabeth's, Fall River, Mary's Home, that city. He con as administrator pro tempore. tinued in these posts unt·il ap The Reverend Ernesto L. Rego p<>inted adm~nistrator of Saint Mary's, Norton, in April 1957. Borges, assistant at St. Eliza Father Thomson was the re beth's, Fall River, will become assistant at Santo Christo, Fall Turn to Page Two FATHER. THOMSON River. FATHER THOMSON , A native, of Ta'unton, Father Thomso~, 90n of Mary (Curley) Thomson and the late. DaV'id ThOmson, was born April 14, 1906. He attended st. Mary'. High School, Taunton, and Bos ton College while he received CASTEL GANDOLFO (NC)-Pope Paul VI has dett his philosophical and theological training at St. Mary's Seminary, l'lounced nationalistic pride, prestige polities, the armament. Baltimore. He was ordained May race, and social and economic antagonisms as symptoms of ~1; 1932 by the late Bishop James a "regrowth of divisions and oppositions among peoples" in E. Cassidy. a plea for peace among na acing omens, existing todq After a brief stay at St. Law rence's, New Bedford, Fathe.1," tions. The Pope caiIed on all among various countries." '1'!homson studied for his Master'. nations to remember that Human Dignity "security rests on an In a voice choked with e~ effort toward mutual under ti()n, Pope Paul pleaded: standing, on the generosity of "Men of good will!' Listen .. loyal mutual trust, on a spirit of our humble voice, the voice of '. collaboration for common ad. brother and a father,evokinll vantage, and on aid; particularly undying memories of two fear to developing countries" more ful wars, not to project empty and frightening phantoms upotl than on "the~ hypothesis of • lawful and 'collective use of the world's present stage but to .-rmed force." extend to the depths of men'. "In a word," he 'lIQid, "it rests hearts an invitation to wiBe and responsible reflection, an elG on love." hortation to place, above every Speaking at his weekly gen eral audience, the Pope departed ' other interest and every other from his "usual familiar and value, that of human dignity and spiritual colloquy". to discuss fraternal concord, and a fore taste of the joy and prosperity' "some serious thoughts • ** which can never again be born caused by two stimulating mo of war but only of peace in sin tives." cerity ~d goodness." The first, he sa i<1, were the Negotiate Again 50th anniversary of World War The Pqpe's plea came on the I and the 25th anniversary of World War II. The second, he heels of his first encyclical, Ec clesiam Suam, in which he of stated, were the "acute disagree ments, already stained with fered to act as mediator in dg. Turn ~ Pale Nine~ Wood aAd pregnant with meu .. -. I'ATBIiiILDALBI'
Pope Paul Makes Plea For Peace in World'
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