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'fA.ft ssrfjg&S* m^srii^\ i*-*-****?** Courier-Journal — .Friday, April 5, 1968 >«£-' &&*&• Dr. Martin Luther King, center, leads demonstration in Memphis, Tenn. Memphis Priest Poses Question Is Non-Violent Movement Dead? Memphis, Tenn. — (NC) — \Well I marched and got my first taste of rioting and a little tear gas,\ said a Catholic priest who found Jiimself in_ thcMridst of the' year^first-^Big. city riot exactly three weeks after being assigned as a pastor in Mem- phis, Tenn. \What I'm really afraid of is that we have seen the death of the non- violent movement for all time,\ Fath- -. er William B. Greenspun, C.S.P., add- ed grimly. , The priest, pastor of St Patrick's Church here, paused in the work of providing food to striking sanitation workers long enough to describe the Memphis riot and assess its possible impact on the future. The 45-year-old New Haven-born Paulist has been pastor of the ghetto parish since March 8. St. Patrick's Church is adjacent to the Clayborn African Methodis Episcopal Temple where the march in support of the sanitation workers began under the leadership - of Dr. Martin Luther King. About 90 per cent of the strik- ing workers are\ Negroes. They ceas- ed, work Feb. 12 after the city jected their demands for higher pay, city recognition of their union, and payroll deduction of union dues. Father Greenspun said the march began peacefully at 11 a.m. from the steps of the A.M.E. temple, des- tination City Hall. He estimated about 8,000 persons marched, most of them local Negroes. Father Greenspun said he walked with, a small group of white persons which Included priests, nuns, Brothers, Protestant dergy and laymen. The march traveled' a short stretch of\ Beale Street — historic home of the -**s£togLGaa&**, , turn * d ° n t , l \ *»!\ Street neaoing Threetly for t-ily =rrall— \Then it started,\ Father Green- ' spun said. \A group of maybe 15 to 20 militant teen-agers got to the front and started-rbreakrrrg store win- dows. Then the police suddenly ap- peared, began flailing away, shoot- ing and throwing tear jjas.\ The priest \\'emphasized that the trouble was begun by persons who were hanging on the fringe of the march looking for trouble, not by the sanitation workers or their sym- pathizers, He praised the efforts of Negrfl ministers to calm the march- ers and prevent panic. The Negro leader whose efforts got most of the marchers safely back within the confines of the Clayborn Temple, according to Father .Green- spun, was the Tfev. Jim Lawson, a Methodist minister who has been the mainstay of clerical support for the workers since the strike began. The Negro youths-who started the riot were joined by an estimated crowd of 200 others who began loot- ing stores and battling police with rocks, sticks and gasoline bombs. By noon, three blocks of Beale Street was In shambles, as was a s-hort stretch of Main Street and the inter- section where Clayborn and SJ,. Pat- rick's churches are located. Gov. Buford Ellington immediately sent 4,000 National Guardsmcn_and „ 250 riot-trained state troopers \iri'to- the city and put anothcrfljOOO Guards- men on alert at their homo armories throughout Tennessee. Mayor Henry ^JrfBjlj^rthTawl-w-e- p.mJ&A^-MfJ^: few All rrTy-'bTtspT5~s>Bppeorrunning,' although the violence remained large- ly confined to the few blocks where it- broke out During the night firemen answer- ed more th.m ISO-calls, five of which proved to be major fires. Scores of .suspected looters were put under ar- rustr .adding l<> the 120 persons ar- rested during the first hours of the riot. Police reported a number of sniping incidents, none of which •re- sulted in casualties. Larry Payne, a 16-year-old Negro youth, wa-.s shot to death when he re- portedly emerged from a looted store (arrying a butcher knife and charged a policeman. By morning a .spokesman for Gov. Ellington's office announced that the riot was. under control. _ Father Greenspun tempered his pessimistic prediction about the end of nonviolence by noting that the. number of militant Negroes in Memphis is still comparatively small. \The mam problem is tccn-iiKers on \the streets, wild kids with nothing to do.\ he stated He said he feared the rtot might muse a white back- lash, however, and he expects it to damage his efforts to raise funds in white parishes to help the striking sanitation workers. \That would be a shame,\ he remarked J _JjM<Kiir. there hadL_boen^a\\Krwvtng trend of white sentiment against the cTFy's militant stand.\ __.-- Cleric Assails Methods Used By Evangelist _ Sydney — (RNS) -^A prominent clergyman and youth leader, the Rev. Ted Noffs, made a strong attack on Billy Graham's theology and methods, on the eve of the evangelist's arrival in Australia for crusades in Sydney and Brisbane. — -Mr. Noffs told newsmen that he felt Mr. Graham placed an \inordin- ate emphasis on sin and guilt.\ \The issue of sin which dominates the whole of Billy Graham's preach- = ing js quite a secondary issue in the teaching of Jesus. And sin for Jesus was a vastly different thing from -what\sin tsTfor Billy Graham: \For Billy Graham, sin takes the form of man's abuse of his bodily appetites. \Thus Graham dwells upon issues as sex, corruption and worldiness. In the teachings of Jesus, when it is mentioned at all, sin is man's failure to be obedient to the truth.\ The Sydney clergyman also criti- cized the Billy Graham program for an alleged lack of \spontaneity.\ \The crusade has to be manufac- tured wherever he goes,\ Mr. Noffs claimed. \It is necessary to mount a massive publicity campaign using the decaying resources of Christian ghet- toes. . _ . .. \It is understandable.that they all wanfW*? tin forces with him in such -artime- a?\^ttisf*De^fiii^i ffi Cffi^fitfc ' -tfons, irrelevant programs, remote- ness from real issues, are factors that drive the church into a. state of des- pair,\ he said. hg Legal Guns-Lined Up For State Textbook Battle (Continued, from Page 1) Pollock and Levine recalls that the Everson case, settled by the Supreme Court in 1947, established that a state cannot contribute tax funds to sup- port a religious institution. \A sectarian school is a religious institution since its basic purpose is religion and the teaching of re- ligion,\ the brief states. \There is no such thing as a secular education in a sectarian school because the whole curriculum is permeated by re- ligion. Textbooks, unlike transporta- tion, are an integral part of the edu- .. cation?!. RCKg$5.in., JL jsectamn. school. They are used in connection with the teaching of religious tenets and faiths. By furnishing textbooks to sectarian schools, the state enables sueh schools to purchase- religious texts with the money thus saved. The brief also stresses: \The stu- dent is only a nominal party in the selection and distribution of books under the Textbook Law. The paro- chial school instructs the students what books to obtain, it takes delivery of the books and it may store them indefinitely. The mere fact that text- books*also> happen to benefit the stu- dents has no constitutional signifi- cance since all'aid to parochial schools benefits their students.\ The Gitizens^for-Educational Free- dom (CEF) brief declares the Justice Kane decision \created a religious test which excludes an entire class of children on religious grounds\ from the benefits of the textbook loan law. CEF emphasizes it is_not arguing the New York l^gislature^walfobliged to include pupils of nonpublic schools when providing free textbooks. \That question is not before this Court,\ they said; lTM\fact is\%haf the~New~ York Legislature did' include all school children withoulexception, and on an equal basis, \So long as the New York law pro- vides for the loan of textbooks to all pupils in specified grades, the First Amendment freedom of speech demands that the rights, to receive the material remain unfettered, especially from fetters based on the recipient's religion,\ the brief de- clares. Consolidation Urged in Auburn £ourt Upholds Mayor's Curfew Milwaukee— (RNS) —The constitu- tionality of a mayor's curfew during Negro rioting here last summer was upheld in a Circuit Court ruling. Fa- ther James E. Groppi and seven mem- bers bf-theJVIilwaukee NAACP Youth Council had appealed the-ruling. The priest and Council members, were found guilty and fined $5 each and costs on Aug. 22, 1967. Three days later they appealed the convic- tions. his ruling. Judge Herbert Steffes commented: \In contrast with olher citifs ravaged hast summer by devastat- ing mob disorder. ... the local curfew y -. proclamation proved probably to be'\ 1 ' the most effectiveinisasur.e'-'trdupte'd jjnyjxhjy^o-pro^iSe^hiw enforcement personnelwith the most favorable op- portunity for immediate efficient po- lice action in re-establishing order and curtailing personal and property dam- age. (Continued froih Page 1) improved means of broader financial support. ...._. -_.-_ -_ Fundamental recommendations of the report were: 1. All Auburn Catholic schools should be organized as a school sys- tem with administrative personnel not no\w available. 2. Studies should be oriented for the college-bound student at the high\ school level and for the generally able student at the elementary level. 3. The school j>ystem should have freedom in appointment and place- ment of staff beyond the jurisdiction of the religious Orders. 4. The curriculum should be geared to the needs of the students with free- dom for program development great- er than that now permitted by Jhe Diocese. — - — 5. Satisfactory salary scale and high level of certification must mark lay teacher recruitment. S. The Cayuga County School Board should establish goals for the school systenffset roles, rules and pol|cy-and Select the chief aonTlnrsfratrv^officer. should-take grades K through 3, sev- eral others take grades 4.through 6. Grades 7 through 12 should be housed _in Jit Carmel High SchooL. „ 9. Development of a pre-school pro- gram should be considered. 10. Religious education program ex- tending to Catholic children in the city's public schools must be develop- ed as a unified project extending across parish lines. iwnaGismf«e*-i 7. St. Hyacinth, St. Alaysius and SS. Peter and Paul schools should no longer be used._because of their age, size and-quality of facilities. 8. The school system should be or- ganized on a Kindergarten to 6th grade and a 7th to 12th grade struc- ture. ' Some present parish schools 11. Quality education will require a significant increase in materials, supplies and books. 12. Tuition will be required but school support should also be sought from the community because the values 'of the improved educational program will extend to the whole city. The survey recommended in..sev^ eral^ places- that\- \selectivity\ should Be used to reduce present student en- rollment, to permit program develop- ment and to improve the caliber of teachers. _ _ It said, perhaps prophetically, \The Catholic schools are at a place in time where they can still make de- cisions rather than have decisions forced upon them. The possibility of providing the best-in education to a selective group of children~wouTd~be a rewarding effort for the Church and have a significant effect upon the city of Auburn. ' \The opportunity to-- lead, rather than to follow is inherent in the de- velopment of a quality, independent school system.\ Jewish children in a concei Mary noted on this pictu She Reca Catholic Press Features .„ San Francisco—Few teachers hi trouble remembering their first ch Many of them keep, photographs a \mementoes ilfee^iiaiilP 3 #685a B Wns'S gifts from the children. Many ol< teachers lake pleasure in follow: the careers of some of the pupils. Sister Mary of St Helen isn't mi different. She has the photograp the mementoes, the gifts. But th are not very many careers she » \\ w *TolT6W'The^nira^nrst\chTsSe^ ! ^ in a Nazi concentration camp, i nearly all of her pupils were destii to die very shortly in the ovens Auschwitz. •In 1941, having just teen profi ed as a member of the Helpers the Holy Souls, Sister Mary of Helen was arrested near Paris i sent, along with hundreds of ot . -nuns,- to-<rconcentrationr camp-at-'' tel, France. Vittel, she was soon learn, was a stopping-off place thousands of doomed—Jewish sd tists, artists and intellectuals t their famiHesc; The Jewish men and women ki what their fate was, but in one the many odd \conspiracies\ of war, the Nazis and the Jewish adi and the nuns at Vittel saw to it 1 the children did not find out—1 the little ones remained childrei while longer. Sister Mary, who recently reti ed to her native England after s ing as a C.C.D. principal in San Fi ' cisco, talked afcout\ Vittel, she photographs of the doomed child and drawings by some of the art .Her .\coUectipV' if it can be. < ed'that, differs sharply' from that juat went on tour in the U.l drawings and poetry by the ad and children who were Inmates the Nazi death camp at Terezln, other stopping-off place on the to Auschwitz. The Terezin children's drawl Young Re Pressures < By FATHER PATRICK J. BURKE, S.S.C. NC New* Service Saigon — Life is difficult for ev one in North Vietnam, but it is dj ly difficult for Catholics and I dhists, according to an eyewitnes The report of a Catholic boy escaped from North Vietnam in i 1967 has just been published Mekong Features, a service sped; ing in articles for foreign publicati The 16-year-old youth is Nguyen Truong. Most of his family left North in 1954 when the country divided by the 17th parallel, but could not escape for 13 years. truong described the hardship! living in North Vietnam and the pression of the Communist regi He said Catholics and Buddhists, under constant pressure from Communist party and government The party cadre tells Christ! \Suppose you live a lazy life and all day to worship Christ, will He i you rice to eat and clothes to put c { __ I k. • *X3hristiansa»reH;he-foes of our pie,\ they say. „_ After _the__arresl in. J.966- of -Fa Trail dinh Can, pastor of Quynh parish, the cadre arrested Bif Paul Tran dinh Nhiem of Vinh. Tl months later Father Can was brat back to his church, -where the a assembled the population and rei verdict condemning ~ Father Can guilty of crimes against the pec \Then he was taken away and no ever heard from him again,\ Tm . said. .... — Truong said- that many chun and Buddhist pagodas have been t ed into offices and storehouse for government The little church Quynh Ban has been used as a s granary since 1$65, he said. Truong confirmed the reports the fegDBe'Sf repressive attitude ward marriage summed up in \three delays\ — delay in choo a mate, delay in getting married, lay in having children. Truong said that all the young ; pie in North Vietnam must lean heart the following jdogan: \Delay making a choice of 3 mate. If the choice has been m postpone marriage, If the Tnarr haa been made, wait to have child If the children areJhorn, limit t number; one child is not enough, children will do, three are too ma Shop at Gorman's Culver-Ridge, Brighton and Pittsford stores Friday night until 9.
