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Courier-Journjal — Friday, July 26,1968 \ \ East Berlin...a Prison with Sidewalk Cafes By A. E. P. WALL NC News Service Berlin — Most West Berliners boy- cott the Communist-run S-Bahn, the electric railway that serves the di- vided city, but I bought a ticket for 30 pfennings (7.5 cents) and stepped aboard. A few minutes later I was showing my passport to an East Berlin guard at the Friedrichstrasse station. He commented approvingly on the visas for Moscow and Warsaw, told me I had to change five marks into East German currency and passed me quickly through. When I stepped into the street I was behind the Wall, where machine guns keep more than a million East Berliners under one of history's larg- est house arrests. Before the Wall went up in 1961, more than 2% mil- lion East German residents had fled communism Jby way of Berlin. Today they still try to leave. It is as tough as escaping from a modern prison. The guards are armed and they shoot to kill. A day earlier I had entered the Communist sector by bus at Check- point Charlie, where I watched uni- formed guards push mlrrors-on-wheels under every vehicle to make sure there were no freedom-seekers cling- ing to the gas tank. The free streets of West Berlin, still under Allied control, burst with shoppers, taxis, private cars, trucks, buses and well-dressed workers. Behind the machine guns of the East, lines form at an occasional to- bacco shop and their are some busy book stores. But instead of West Ber- lin's merchandise displays — which rival New York's — the windows of East Berlin feature pictures of beard- ed Walter Uulbricht, whose power is backed by an estimated 20 Soviet divisions in East Germany. For five hours I •walked, crossing the River Spree on Friedrichstrasse, strolling along Unter den Linden from Marx-Engles-Platz to the Bran- denburg Gate, which is \verboten\ to foreigners. I passed what remains of (he once- famed Adlon Hotel, and not far down the street an unmarked bunker where Adolph Hitler killed himself. At a colorful sidewalk cafe I sat in the shade of an' umbrella for ice cream and coffee—and there went the 5 marks I had changed when I entered Communist territory. A few steps from the cafe was St. Hedwlg's cathedra!, damaged by fire during the war but handsomely re- designed and restored in 1963. Of Berlin's half million Catholics, 106,000 live in East Berlin. An attendant told rne that St. Hed- wig's was the first Catholic church- to be built in Germany after the Refor- mation. It dates from 1773. She said it is one of 57 Catholic churches in East Berlin, compared to 159 in West Berlin. It took, only a few minutes to clear the guards, board the elevated train and return to West Berlin. Many East Berliners would give years to spend those few minutes on a train headed for freedom. Many give their lives in full to the Communist gunners who patrol the Berlin Wall. Everywhere I've gone, in East Ber- lin and West, there has been friend- ship for the individual American. There also has been great reserve about American actions, especially in Vietnam (the subject of a sermon in a West Berlin church I attended on Sunday). The arcade of the Berlin Hilton includes a shop window with a picture of President Johnson, on which the shopkeeper had written: \Ami stay home.\ There are now some 2.2 million West Berliners, living in subsidized prosperity 10)0 miles from the free part of Germany. The Communists are harassed — emotionally, politically,\ and intellec- tually—by the presence of a freedom outpost inside the territory they have staked out for themselves. In sharp contrast to the East, West Berlin in 1968 had a per capita gross product greater than that of France or Britain. 2 Christian Papers Merging London — (RNS) — Two noted Christian journals, one basically Ro- man Catholic and the other interde- nominational, will merge Aug. 1 under an arrangement just announced here. They are the monthly \Search\, which was launched seven years ago by Michael de la Bedoyere after he left the editorship of the Catholic Herald following 30 years in that post, and \The New Christian\ which was launched as an inter-church fortnight- ly in 1965. German Bishops Urge War Objectors' Aid Munich, Germany — (NC) — The Munich archdiocese has appointed a priest to provide pastoral counseling for conscientious objectors to mili- tary service. - The German Bishops' Conference at its spring meeting decided to en- courage the establishment of bureaus in the various dioceses to counsel conscious objectors. New Liturgy, Folk Masses in' with Teens (Continued from Page 1) \I'd like to be a nun but I'm not talking about it in school. The boys would just make fun of me and the attitude would be 'stay away from her, she's going to be a nun.'\ \What they should do is glamorize the vocation more in church. The new habits are a step in the right direc- tion.\ Extending the same thought, we asked if she thought .priests should be allowed to dress the same as lay- men. (A recent article in a national magazine by a priest recommended such a step as a way to break down barriers between the priesthood and the laity.) The teen-ager, however, took a much more traditional position than the priest \Definitely not. Priests should stay the way they are. After all they are not ordinary people. With *o many men wearing Nehru collar* priests are ia fashion, anyway.\ Another girl said she thought churches were too exclusively for_the male. \I can see why there are no women priests, but how about something like women ushers or some kind of duties on the altar. Sometimes we think that the only important woman in Mass is the statue of the Blessed Mother.\ In the same vein, a teen-ager said he'd heard of Offertory processions in other churches but not in his. Young people would like this added ceremony, he thought. Combining all this with the fact that the survey showed teen-agers be- lieved the guitar Masses related to them, pastors who have youth Masses might consider using yauth exclusive- ly, including girls, as ushers, lectors, etc. One girl in an ethnic parish felt that deference to the older genera- tion hus cost her a chance to sing in the choir. \The choir only sings at the 11 o'clock Mass and in the old country language. I don't know the language and don't have tho courage to try for the oholr although I'd like to,\ —Ghoip-fliembership-seems-to be her main problem since the rest of the Masses, Including the hymns, af the church are in English. So, as they are on almost every is- sue, teen-agers are concerned about their religion, from the over-riding topics to minute details, which should be of more than passing import to at least one pastor. \Our priest leads the singing,\ says one self-proclaimed music critic, \and man, he sure should hire some- body else.\ COURIER-JOURNAL Vol. 79 No. 43 — July 26, 1968 Published Weekly by the Roch- ester Catholic Press Association. SUBSCBIPTTON RATES: Single Copy 15c; 1 year Subscription in U.S., 56.00; Canada, |7„Qty For- eign Countries, $8.00. Main Office 35 Sclo Street, Rochester, N.Y. 14604. Second Class Postage Paid at Rochester, N.Y. Both have circulations extending beyond the shores of Britain. An official announcement said Mr. de la Bedoyere, who is 68, would join the editorial board of New Chris- tian. His two consultant editors on Search, John Todd and Andrew Boyle, both Catholics, would contribute oc- casionally-to New Christian. — Former Synagogue Purchased by Camden Diocese Camden, N.J. — (NC) — Bishop George H. Guilfoyle of Camden has announced the diocesan purchase of a five-building complex formerly owned by Beth-El Synagogue for $175,000. He said the structure will be used for diocesan projects of ser- vice to the community. Located in the city's Parkside sec- tion, the complex includes a syna- gogue, a school building, two resi- dences, and an auditorium. The Beth- El congregatioci has moved to a new site in another part of the city. Bishop Guilfoyle said he hopes the center will have varied community service. \It is not intended that the Parkside Catholic Community Center will become a typical parish, but a center providing social, welfare and educationaL services. asJaffili as—reli- gious services to the people of the -surr-oundtag area.\ Speakers At WCC Assembly Uppsala, Sweden — Speakers of varying backgrounds ad- dressed plenary sessions of the Fourth AssemWy of the World Council of Churches in Uppsala. Among them were: Top left: Prof. Barbara Ward (Lady Jackson), the British eco- nomist who holds a professorship at Columbia University, New York City. A Roman Catholic, Miss Ward took part in a discus- sion on rich and poor nations. (Miss Ward writes a column for the Courier-Journal's Commentary Page.) Top> right: Robert Maurer, a student at New York's Union Theological Seminary, was a member of a youth, delegation which had speaking but no voting privileges; The young people pressed for more social involvement and greater attention to world crises. Maurer is a member of the United Church of Christ (USA). Bottom left: American novelist James Baldwin, author of many best selling books, told the AssemWy that the Churches have \betrayed\ black Christians. Bottom right: Dr. Theodore A. Gill, former president of the San Francisco Theological Seminary, San Anselmo, Calif., urged the Churches to get \brassu^-practical\ in their approach to edu- cation. E»r. Gill has conducted a two-year special study on educa- tional development for a. WCC unit. (R3VS Photo) 1 HUNGER... ...only^. .TJ^^.. a word to most Americans. { XW+4 V They've been damaged by rust due to excessive moisture.. 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