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7RIEST-DELEGATE SAYS
Economic Growth Top
Goal Of United Nations
LNlTsD NATIONS, N.Y. (NC)
The most important issue
with wich the United Nations
has to eal is economic deve
lopment This is the view of
Father r rancisco Herrera, UN
delegatefrom Costa Rica.
His cuntry, like the great
majorit>of UN members, at
taches geat importance to the
forthcormg conference on
trade ail development to be
held in Gneva in 1964.
"ECONMIC AND social de-
velopmenare basic conditions
for peacd’ Father Herrera
maintains*'And it is most im
portant nt to dissociate the
question f social progress
from ectnmic progress. It is
absurd terry for economic ad-
vancemer. first, as many ex
perts thit. The human being
cannot beivided.”
Father errera agrees that
there has >een increasing re
cognition cthe importance of
social .d'elopment in UN
bodies. But;e feels there needs
to be more;
THE REST-DELEGATE
speaks withreat authority on
social mattes. He organized
the school ofocial work at the
University cSan Jose, Costa
Rica, 17 yes ago and has
been its dir«tor ever since.
He told thN.C.W.C. News
Service in a. ftcial interview:
"It is goodo meet people
from differentmntries and to
discover how many common in
terests we share. After all, hu
man beings are the same every
where. What makes it difficult
to reach a common point of
view on many issues, however,
is the fact that all nations are
seeking their own self-interest
first.”
DELEGATES SOMETIMES
see things differently from their
governments back home, Father
Herrera observed and a con
scientious delegate often en
counters a problem in voting
where a "question of basic jus
tice and truth is in conflict
with instructions from his gov
ernment.” He was happy to note
that this had never been his
problem.
Father Herrera's participa
tion in UN activities is by no
means confined to representing
his country at the Assembly.
He is a member of Costa Ri
ca’s National Commission for
the United Nations Education
al, Scientific and Cultural or
ganization (UNESCO), its Na
tional Committee for the UN,
and he is president of its Na
tional Committee for the UN
Children's Fund (UNICEF). The
University of San Jose is a
member of the latter.
FATHER HERRERA had high
praise for Alice Schaffer, UNI
CEF's representative for Cen
tral America. He praised UNI
CEF aid for developing com
munity centers throughout Cos
ta Rica. UNICEF has also done
important work with the minis
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try of health in his country, he
said.
The UN is generally well
known in Costa Rica, he con
tinued, largely through the ef
forts of the National Commit
tee for the UN, which distri
butes information through the
schools and colleges and pro
vides speakers for lectures and
conferences.
COSTA RICA HAS few if any
of the problems with which the
UN social and human rights
committee has been dealing,
Father Herrera explained.
"We have a very good pro
gram in housing; our Institute
for Housing is being helped to
some degree by the Allience
for Progress. As for the ad
vancement of women, they have
had civil rights in my country
since 1884 and political rights
since 1949, and they have the
same educational opportunities
as the men. We have several
lawmakers and professional
women.
“I THINK IT is a very good
idea for women to have a pro
fession, even though their pri
mary concern is that of wife
and mother. Women are highly
respected in my country. None
of this respect for them has
been lost as they gained equal
rights and opportunities.”
Father Herrera feels the
adoption of the declaration a
against discrimination is very
important. Costa Rica happily
does not have a racial prob
lem, however, he added.
AMONG COSTA RICA’S pro
blems Father Herrera cited an
increase in civil marriages,
and the "growing influence of
materialism and hedonism even
among Christians.” Assistance
to needy families in the cities
and care of abandoned child
ren are the major areas of so
cial work concern.
QUIET HUMOR, realism and
serenity mark the conversa
tions of this Costa Rican rep
resentative, who will celebrate
the twenty-fifth anniversary of
his ordination to the priesthood
on Dec. 17. He took his mas
ters' degree in social work
at the Catholic University of
America in 1948 and, says he,
"I have been teaching ever
since.”
In addition to founding and di
recting the School of Social
Work at the university, Father
Herrera was for seven years
rector of the seminary'. He or
ganized the minor seminaries,
teaches in the school of Nur
sing, and serves on innumer
able boards in addition to the
UN commission mentioned
above. All of this is belied by
his calm and unhurried manner.
HE ESCAPES ON Saturdays,
he says, when he visits his 77-
year-old mother, who is a "phe
nomenal walker.” She lives on
a little farm in the mountains
and he goes there to relax. He
likes to read history, and he is
a mystery fan too. His favo
rites are Conan Doyle and Aga
tha Christie.
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FEDERAL ASSISTANCE
College Bill Won’t End
Church-State Aid Issue
WASHINGTON (NC)—Appr
oval of Federal aid for class
room construction at all U. S.
Colleges is a major congress
ional move in the controversy
over government help for priv
ate education.
But both sponsores and criti
cs of the measure agree more
discussion will be heard on the
Church-State issue raised by
its equal treatment of public,
private and church-related col
leges.
ADOPTED BY the House on
Nov. 6 by a 258 to 93 vote and
by the Senate on Dec. 10 by
a 54 to 27 ballot, the bill
establishes a five year, $1.2
billion program.
Colleges can seek Federal
assistance to help finance con
struction of non-religious fac
ilities. They can ask for eith
er outright grants for one-
third of a project’s cost or-
repayable loans for up to 75%
of cost.
THE MONEY CAN be applied
only to libraries and buildings
to be used for instruction or
research in the natural and phy
sical sciences, mathematics,
modern foreign languages and
engineering.
The bill specifically bars use
of Federal funds for any faci-
ROME REPORTS
lity to be used for "sectarian
instruction,” for religious
worship or primarily for any
part of the program of a sc
hool or department of divinity.
AFTER SENATE passage,
President Johnson immediately
spoke high praise of the bill.
"The Congress,” he said, "is
well on its way to doing more
for education than any Congress
since the Land Grant College
Act passed 100 years ago,” he
said.
The measure was strongly
backed by the late President
Kennedy. His successor has
sources as playing a major role
in getting it adopted before Con
gress adjourns.
EVEN THOUGH the bill
includes church - related col
leges on an equal footing with
all others, this fact does not end
Senate controversy over al
leged Church-State issues, the
matter which dominated Senate
debate.
The bill passed the Senate
under a truce in the controve
rsy, A few days before final
Senate action on the measure,
its sponsor, Sen. Wayne Morse
of Oregon, introduced a separ
ate bill which would give tax
payers the legal power to block
in Federal courts any assista
nce for church-related col
leges.
A BLOC of southerners, led
by Sen. Sam J. Ervin of North
Carolina, wanted such a prov
ision in he bill itself. The Se
nate earlier had approved this
approach.
But such a "judicial review”
provision was scrapped in Hou
se Senate conferences on a
compromise version of the bill.
Morse’s separate bill took the
steam out of efforts to keep it
in the measure.
MORSE TOLD the Senate his
subcommittee on education will
take up the review issue next
year. He argued successfully
that extensive hearings, with
testimony from ranking consti
tutional experts, was necessary
before the Senate makes up its
mind on whether to permit in
dividual taxpayers the unusual
power to block Federal expen
ditures.
Denial of Federal benefits to
church-related and other pri
vate colleges would have a ser
ious impact on U. S. higher ed
ucation. Most American colle
ges are privately operated and
a majority of these private in
stitutions are related to churc
hes.
THE U. S. OFFICE of Educ
ation has reported that in 1962
there were 2,100 colleges and
universities. Of these 1,357
were privately operated.
The U. S. office said the na
tion has 842 Protestant, 335
Catholic, 9 interdenominati
onal, 8 Jewish, 6 Latter-day
Saints, 2 Russian Orthodox, 1
Greek Orthodox and 1 Unitari
an.
Vatican Shunning
Holy Land Issues
ROME (RNS)—A Rome Radio
broadcast, commenting on what
it said were Arab and Israeli
attempts to secure political
Pope Paul’s pilgrimage to the
Holy Land in January, stressed
that so far the Vatican has suc
ceeded in preventing it from
being "deflected from its pure
ly religious aim.”
It said the Vatican, "by very
careful backstage contacts, has
succeeded in allaying Arab
fears that the pilgrimage may
involve recognition of Israel by
th e Holy See and also Israel's
fears that.the Holy See favors
Arab interests.”
THE BROADCAST stressed
that the Vatican so far has not
recognized Israel and has con
sistently favored the interna
tionalization of the Holy Places
in Israel and Jordan.
Meanwhile, a broadcast from
the Arab radio station in Je
rusalem’s Old City said the lo
cal Arab paper, Al-Manar, had
quoted Foreign Minister Anton
Atallah of Jordan as saying the
Pope’s pilgrimage would bring
"general blessings” to the
country and that the pontiff's
contact with the people of Jor
dan would draw his attention to
the Arab Israeli conflict.
IT ADDED THAT Premier
Atallah would head a Jordanian
delegation leaving for Vatican
City shortly to discuss arrange
ments for the papal visit and to
accompany the Pope on his tour
in Jordan.
In another broadcast, Israeli
Radio reported that Yosef Nah-
mias, Israeli’s Inspector Gen
eral of Police, and Theodor Kol-
lek, director general of the
Prime Minister’s office and
chairman of a special inter-
ministerial committee prepar
ing for the Pope’s pilgrimage,
would also be in Rome for con
sultations with Vatican offi
cials.
It said telecommunications
officials are making arrange
ments for about 1,000 press,
radio and television reporters
expected to accompany the
Pope. Special high-speed trans
mission systems for press re
ports, pictures and television
are being installed, it noted.
Christmas Play
NEW YORK (NC)—"In Such a
Night,” a Christmas play by
Robert Crean, will be telecast
Dec. 22 at I p.m., on "Direc
tions ’64-A Catholic Perspec
tive." The one-hour program
is coproduced by the National
Council of Catholic Men and the
public affairs department of the
American Broadcasting Co.
THE AMERICAN Council on
Education, a federation of
individual institutions and of
organizations representing
higher education, vigorously
supported the college aid bill,
as did U. S. Commissioner of
Education Francis Keppei.
However, three public sc
hool groups fought it. They
charged that its inclusion of
private schools would under
mine public education and "op
en the door to Federal tax sup
port of private education at all
levels.”
Four chairs will be plac
ed on the right hand side of the
section.
Cardinals and other members
of the papal party will sit in what
is usually the tourist class sec
tion.
NO CHANGES will be made in
the lounge, and the usual waiters
will serve. The crew has not
been specially chosen, and will
remain the same as those who
would normally fly that plane on
that date, Jan. 4. But the ste
wardesses are receiving spe
cial instructions on which mem
bers of the party take prece
dence—in other words, who
should be served first.
Pope Paul’s plane will identi
fy itself to control towers along
its route with the call letters
"AZX."
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1963 GEORGIA BULLETIN PAGE 3
Radio Will
Keep Pope
In Contact
VATICAN CITY (NC)—Pope
Paul VI will be able to keep in
constant touch by radio with
his Secretariat of State during
his flight to the Holy Land.
Matters requiring an imme
diate decision will not have to
wait even until his flight of two
and a half hours is completed.
A RADIO IS being placed at
his disposition aboard the Ali
talia (Italian Airlines) DC-8
jet that will ake him to the
Jordanian capital of Amman.
A similar linkup will be in
stalled in the Apostolic Dele
gation in Jerusalem, where he
will be staying.
The Pope's plane will be bla
zoned with the white, red and
green flag of Italy and the white
and yellow papal flag with the
crossed keys of St. Peter.
THE POPE WILL travel in
what is usually the first class
section. But all seats on the
left hand side of this section
will be removed save one arm
chair for the Pope. If the Pope
wants a companion near him
another chair can be set down
there.
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