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.*u*r .memm* £ll m~: 1mm WSM y#t •S3; •*. J| .'! V I«OS :«-s* 1 If K£\ 'Wmtom. I*—- (NC)-if the U& igtldres the needs of a La- tin America, \we do so at out own peril,\ a Catholic educator- •aid here. Dr. Joseph F. Menez, chair- man of the political science de- partment at Loyola University, Chicago, said economic and social deprivation makes Latin America ripe for unrest and disorder today. Arlyne Weider is phased to offer tn her newly opened Ave Maria Studio a selection of the truly unusual in Catholic Gifts and Art Exclusive lines that will please the discriminating buyer. t // you seek a gift item that it different in its beauty and appeal, you're incited to drop in 'at 410 Westminster We're open from lO AM to 9 PM *OOK SHELF Book for a Retreat The Cull from Beyond: Thoughts for a Retreat, by Jf>hn Wslctearsr\**. N? *3entr»h*toMsfc}iifr&Kr'***\ ,72 \W\ $3.50, Available at Rochester's Catholic b»ok«lo>res, Nuns Honored By Mothers Club t Phone us at HI MO/7, but u?e'ri sure a visit to the studio will hm rewarding. We're exclusive loithout being expensive, FACULTY MEMBERS of St. Francis Church, Auburn, were honored at a dinner in the school hall given by the Mothers Club recently. Left to right (seated): Mother Mary Bernard, Mother St. Vincent, school principal; Mother Mary Alfred; (standing) Mrs. Sam J. DeRosa, club president; other Mary of the Euchar- ist; Mother Mary Virginia; Mother Mary of Perpetual Help; Mother ary of Liesse, Mother St. Claudia, and Mrs. Pat J. Netti, dinner chairman. McGuffey Reader Stirs Debate Mart rt« 70 YMI* fervlt* T» RMkHtOT Arts Trcvtlm When about to travel consult our Xuthorized Agency on St«amihip lines—Air Lines Cruises —^Hotels Resorts GRINNELL'S KALBFLEISCH TRAVEL AGENCY TELEPHONE: BAIcar 5-S440 btabfliM 1190 • Twin Lakes, Wis.—(RNS)—An 82-year-old textbook, long regarded as a curio and a remembrance of things past—McGuffey's Reader—has been made mandatory reading in schools here, spurring a controversy that has political, social and religious overtones, It has become a matter of modern education versus oldtime educational methods, liberal or middle-of-the- road political views versus conservatism in varying ex- tremes, and a subject of debate among church figures. i A Catholic priest of the community has opposed' use of the so-called basic reader as \outdated\ arid \sec-j tarian,\ a view shared by the state's superintendent of schools who first ordered the book removed from the schools, but later permitted its use as a \supplemental\j reader. . 1 A Congregational minister, on treme right-wing organization.' the other hand, supported use- Last w*ek, thr U.S. Catholic. of the McGuffey Reader from'bishops warned against such his pulpit, stating that it con-'groups. Attorney General Rob- tained good moral lessons as ert Kennedy termed them \a part of its subject matter. |tyefh#|idous danger\ to the • nation.) Although the McGuffey Read-, er has been described by some Mr. Lovely's complaint rharg- observers as being ilrong \in ed that the board had adopted Protestant morality and 19th -century.patriotism,\ some of the', minister's -congregation report- edly stayed away from church following his endorsement. The school board, which or- dered use of the old text, has suspended the school principal. Raymond J. Oestreieh. for 'in- compatibility\—-he had opposed use of the McGuffey Header In favor of more modern volumes. Mr. Oestreich said the roots of the controversy seem to po much deeper than the merits or demerits of a reading text. Harry A. Lovely, a citizen who has instituted r-ourt action to oust four members of the five-man school board, said \what they are doing Is similar to what 1 have read of the John Birch Society.\ Independence If all of Chica- go, described as ah educational and patriotic organisation, has promised to underwrite any fi- nancial loss suffered by the school—it could lose $10,000 In funds for defying the state— and the board members. ichool books containing sec- tarian religious passages, thus risking withdrawal of state fi- nancial aid and imposing their own political beliefs on the school. The four board membrrs, in defending their position on Mc- Guffey's Reader and a fnrth- comng \AmPri'-anism Program\ for the Twin Lakes elomontary school, points out that the read- er h?s br>-i p .used by the Dan Smooth Report. The report is published in Dallas by Mr. Smoolh. a one- time member nf the FBI. Op- ponents of the school board have charged here that Mr Smooth is a member nf Ihe John Birch Society, right-wing organization. In their \Americanism pro- gram.\ the four board members ordered a new-type course in American history for seventh and eighth graders that \will try to focus the kids' minds on their basic heritage,\ according to William B. Smeeth, clerk of the school board. Some difficulty has been found by the board in selecting texts for the course; civic books currently used have in most cases been found wanting. In its announcement, the board slated that \all materials used in our schools will constantly be scrutinized to avoid indoc- trin'itinn of our children in so- cialistiq and communistic the- ories.' 1 The state's superinlendrnt of schools, assured by the school hoard that sectarian selections nf McGuffey's Reader would'be scissored or blacked nut. decid- ed he would permit Its use for supplemental reading only. As the controversy continued, it w;is reported that school ad- ministrators had not been con- sulted on either the textbook or Americanism programs, that teacher morale was low, and that a number of parents had withdrawn their children from 'he c'eT'ntpn.' school in a near- bv communitv. < , Out of a full experience, a full culture, and a full heart conies this book of meditations by a well-known Cenacle re- treat-master, Father Walchars,' S.J. A personal narrativo out of the tioubled pa.si. some trag- ic night of Nazi Germany or Communist China, stands in heightened language and italic print before each meditation; the mind hungers to have it dis- cussed, to have an answer to the world's suffering. j THE QUESTIONS, the prob- lems, are as old as the hills— man's usual questions: What am I, and what am I for, and why do I live, and what is the mean- ing of this and that part and every part of my life, and what really is sin, and what is death, and trial and temptation, and who. who above all is this Christ? THE ANSWERS are up to date, comprehensive, many-sided as the human beings to whom they are directed, running from fifteen to twenty pages of del- icately persuasive argument that only in retrospect reveals its logical strength. En route, the imagination i.Sj ibusy, the mind is continually! spurred by this man's range of thought. He is of the modern world, he has taught modernl philosophy, he knows that men! have lingered in the half-light] of Dewey and Heidegger andi Ni^tsche whon the truth lay 1 ' within the blinding brightness'i of God's Church. He s'udies the' mnrlrTi h^ro whn finds a cour-1 jfr nf d^nqjr wh»n he mi<Tht ]e,-v n fmrn vo Wman a nd Augus-,1 tine and Paul. He shows what wonders of, Chns:-kindness are spurned by, those whn plav God. and what' satanir cruelties devised. He takes nn one bv one the pagan I philnsnohies that Western men toy with, the religions that side- step d\ath. and shows in relief, Christian depth, \a single ner- fnrr'Tn'-p vh'~h h^ tn be prac-1 ticed and pondered.\- i Chapter VIII nn the Martyrs of Chukiahn. Chapter IX on Praver. ChantP: XII on a tre- mendously significant meeting' with the ghost of Nietsche, these one is not likely to for- get; this sort of wiling we can- not steadily demand even of short-story writers and novel- ists. 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