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WHAT DO YOU READ? Church, State, Family Obligation THE 1961 SOCIAL JUSTICE PAMPHLET under the title of "What Do You Read?" will be available at all churches throughout Australia on Sunday, September 3. In this message from the Hierarchy of Australia, the admittedly strong influence of the printed word on the minds of men over the centuries is stressed as a basic reason for concern regarding the nature and content of all literature.
The Church, State and the head of the family all share responsibility for the proper moral and mental development of the people. The concern of the State with physical health and its protection by rigid laws and regulations is accepted without reservation. The Church has always had as its responsibility the protection of the moral and mental well-being of mankind by the encouragement of good literature.
Reading Classics Is Time Well Spent Plentiful supplies of good literature are always available. Young people who turn to the classics are often surprised by the pleasure they experience in read-
ing good and worthwhile literature. Indecent and obscene literature constitute a poison only too readily available to youth. The ignorance of many mature people regarding sin, in the matter of pornographic literature, is surprising. Warnings by parents and ecclesiastical authorities on the evil nature of immoral and indecent literature are only too frequently ignored. What should and can be done by the authority of the State in this matter? Censorship as a power of the State is accepted without question in wartime and also for the protection of national secrets in peacetime, in the interests pf the people. Uncurbed censorship of any kind is a function of tyranny and cannot be accepted as a normal state. Freedom of the press is a key safeguard of civil liberty which however cannot be defined as a licence but only as a true rational freedom.
Indecent Literature Should Automatically Be Excluded Insistence on personal liberty cannot be acknowledged without recognition of the rights of others. The exclusion of all clear and deliberate pornography is taken for granted by all. References are made in the statement to existing legislation in the Australian States regarding obscene and indecent literature and to the desirability of Federal uniformity. Consideration is suggested of recent West German legislation which has particular provisions regarding the sale of objectionable literature to young people. In the final analysis, there is a very heavy responsibility on the State and the family. The State cannot abate its responsibility for the moral as well as the physical welfare of all citiens. Parents should give the best example to their children in the matter of literature and should prevent the entry into their homes of papers and magazines unsuitable for adults and poisonous to the minds of youth.
Victorian Supreme Court Justice Ex -student Of C.B.C., Kalgoorlie Mr. Urban Gregory Gow-
sion (Australia). He took silk in 1949. From 1948 to 1956 he was Independent Lecturer in Indus-
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ans, Q.C., who last week was appointed a Justice of the Supreme Court of Victoria, was born at Boulder, fifty-six years ago. From Christian Brothers' College, Kalgoorlie, he won a Government Exhibition to the University of West Australia, where he graduated B.A. in 1924. As a resident at Newman College, Melbourne, in 1925, he gained the Jessie Leggett Scholarship in the Law of Contracts. In the following year he graduated LL.B. with Honours and was articled to the late Mr. E. C. Rigby, C.B.E. In 1928 he was admitted to practice on the motion of the late Sir Wilfrid Fullager. In 1931 he commenced practice at the Victorian Bar, reading under Sir Norman O'Bryan. From 1942 to 1945 he was Assistant Director of War Organisation of Industry and in 1947 was appointed a member of the Overseas Telecommunication Commis-
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On Tuesday, August 29, Sister Mary Xavier
Hughes died at St. John of God Convent, Subiaco, aged 71. The late Sister M. Xavier, the daughter of the late Albert and Mary Hughes entered the order of St. John of God from Carlton, Victoria in 1916. She was mainly stationed at St. John of God Hospital, Subiaco, as on the nursing staff of the community. Sister Xavier was predeceased by two of her brothers as well as her One was a parents. priest and the other a doctor. There is a surviving brother and a
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vent chapel, this morning, attended by priests of the Archdiocese and representatives of religious orders.
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historic cave -art brought him international honours for for more than half a century, has died near Paris at the age of 84. His work took him to China and South Africa, and won him repute as the foremost expert in prehistoric art. Father Breuil was born in
Mortain and studied at the Sorbonne and the Catholic Institute in Paris. He taught at the University of Fribourg in Switzerland at the Paleontological Institute of Paris and at the Universities of Lisbon and Johannesburg.
The second Salvatorian Father to arrive in the diocese arrived last week on the liner "Australia." He is Father George Globan, S.D.S., who was born in Gjurgjevac, Croatia. Father George studied for the priesthood at the Gregorian University in Rome and was ordained on July 8, 1956. Since his ordination, Father George has worked in Italy and for 4 years in Vienna, Austria, where he taught in schools and carried out parish duties. In the Archdiocese, Father George will live with Father Paul, S.D.S., in Darlington; after getting to know the Croation people and where they live, he will commence his missions
among them. Besides his native Croation, Father George speaks English, Italian and French. His brother, who came to Australia two years ago, is living in Melbourne. (The telephone number of the Salvatorian Fathers newlyacquired residence in Darlington is 74 6372.) German,
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trial Law at Melbourne University. Between 1950 and 1961 he appeared before the Privy Council six times. For three years from 1950 he was a Councillor of the City of Sandringham. Mr. and Mrs. Gowans, who live at Kew, are the parents of five children.
Former Premier Makes Statement FORMER premier John public statement since his government was overthrown last May 16, assumed full resM. Chang in his first
ponsibility for the failure of constitutional democracy in Korea. Chang said in his public mea culpa that he intends to live as a private citizen for the rest of his life. He said he is ready to take any reprimand or punishment. Chang, Korea's leading Catholic layman, was expelled with his govextunent by a military junta after nine months in °OWL He has since been accused by the military regime of having abetted comitikution.
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