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Feb. 2,1967 THE SKYSCRAPER Page Five Honor Lifetime of Commitment Cantwell Wins JFK Award by Kathy Riley Probably few people outside of the Chicago Freedom movement had heard of the Very Reverend Monsignor Daniel M. Cantwell be fore last week. At the same time, his accomplishments over the past quarter century would be familiar to many a Catholic. This paradox was resolved last week. At an elaborate Jan. 24 dinner, sponsored by the Catholic Interracial Council at the Palmer House, both man and deeds were honored. Monsignor Cantwell, founder of CIC and for 20 years its chaplain, received the council's annual John F. Kennedy award for a lifetime of commitment to the cause of in terracial justice and interreligious understanding. The award was presented by R Sargent Schriver, former president of CIC and cur rently director of the Office of Eco nomic Opportunity. The activities of the soft-spoken, balding monsignor speak for them selves. While teaching sociology at St. Mary of the Lake Seminary, Mundelein, I1L, he helped establish Friendship House, a south side Catholic interracial center in 1942. A year later he helped found the Catholic Council on Working Life, which publishes New City maga zine, edited by Dr. Russell Barta, Mundelein chairman of sociology department. In 1945 he organized CIC and became its chaplain. Ten years later, he helped initiate the Arch diocese Adult Education Centers. Throughout the years, he has participated in many civic organi zations, including the Chicago Council Against Racial and Reli gious Discrimination and the Hous ing Conference of Chicago, which he helped found. Currently he is a member of the Fall Figures Reveal Financial Aid Jump Student aid given through the Financial Office increased 36 per cent in 1966-67, according to Paul M. Crafton, Student Financial Aid Director. This is an increase of 127,000 over last year's 406,517. These figures are derived from first-term records, but are likely to be close to the June final figures, he asserted recently. This aid in crease is due to a new federal 60,000 aid pro- g r a m, Educa tional Opportu- student is receiving is 1,030. Mun delein contributes about 230 and other sources make up the 800 difference, he explained. Some financial awards are given by clubs, foundations, business cor porations and other organizations. Twenty out of 22 such awards were received by freshmen. This may mean, he remarked, that fresh men are more ambitious in search ing for scholarships, or that op portunities for financial aid are be coming more numerous or better advertised. executive board of the Chicago Con ference on Religion and Race, of the Housing Committee of the Chi cago Commission on Human Rela tions and of the subcommittee on human rights of the Welfare Coun cil of Metropolitan Chicago. Retiring from the CIC, Monsi gnor Cantwell has recently been assigned pastor of St. Clotilde Par ish, South Calumet, in the Chatham community. Monsignor Cantwell's selection as recipient of the JFK Award is significant because his involvement in civil rights reinforces the cur rent thinking of moderates in the movement today. Since the nation has made tremendous gains in civil rights legislation, they feel the time has come to make interracial justice a fact in practice as well as in law. Bayard Rustin, special advisor to Dr. Martin Luther King and principal speaker of the evening, echoed this philosophy. We now understand, he said, that every formal and open sup port of segregation could be abol ished and that the American econ omy and social structure could still perpetuate, and even intensify, the second-class status of the Ne gro ... it cannot be solved as a Negro problem exclusively. Offering a feasible, concrete economic program as a solution, Rustin recommended building new towns and creating new jobs in areas around Chicago and planning attractive, integrated communities which people would want to live and work in. Earlier in the evening a press conference was held to explore the views of Cantwell, Rustin and Schriver. Discussing housing prob lems, Cantwell said that the most important challenge facing Chicago today lies in giving equal treat ment to Negroes in a choice of where they want to live. With that challenge in mind, Schriver added, There is no rea son to expect a diminution of the poverty program if Congress goes along with the President's request to continue the fight to help the poor. At the same conference Rustin countered, We haven't taken pov erty seriously . . . before progress can be made we must deal with economic and social contradictions . . . Problems will be eliminated only when heads of Negro families are allowed to have economic se curity. Head Start is not the only an swer, he continued, for the young Negro children are dumped back into a system of poor quality edu cation. Funds are therefore wasted, he said. Unlike advocates of the Percy plan which urges private business to invest in renovating slum hous ing, Rustin believes that the public sector must take the responsibility, for it alone has the capability and interest. Other notables at the press con ference and dinner which accom modated about 1,000 people were: Edmund A. Stephan, dinner chair man, loop attorney and trustee of the University of Notre Dame; Sister Mary Olivia Barrett, presi dent of St. Xavier College, Chi cago, who delivered the dinner in vocation; Rabbi Irving J. Rosen- baum, master of ceremonies and spiritual leader of the Chicago Loop Synagogue; and Dr. Edgar H. S. Chandler, associate of Mon signor Cantwell on numerous inter- faith projects. New Technique Introduced by Visiting Painter by Pamela Meadows Serene Flax, award-winning wa- ter-colorist, is currently exhibiting at Mundelein College's Gallery 4 and will speak to art classes Feb. 8. The artist's show covers a three- year span, 1964-66, and is extra ordinary as a record of her growth in a medium. THE FIRST group of water colors done in 1964 are freely ren dered collages. Serene introduces rice paper and pen and ink into these watercolors to create gay and festive moods inspired by such countries as Japan and Mexico. The second group of water colors take on a more geometric form. The artist uses broad areas of wash, over which are layered an organized composition of various hard-edged shapes freely moving across the picture plane. This use of stencils is further developed in the third group of water colors done in 1965. The forms used in this third group are reminiscent of Greek mythology. Classic profiles of men, women and horses are stenciled in transparent overlays and in juxtaposition to one another. These stenciled forms are combined with subtle- colored washes and lacy patterns to give an illusory atmosphere to her painting. THE LAST group of water colors were inspired by the J. R. R. Tolkien Lord of the Rings se ries of books and are outstanding in color and form. Mrs. Flax has achieved an unusual unity between the water color media, and her form and content. There is exciting depth to her large and organic forms. Serene explores her progression into water color media in her ar ticle for the January, 1967 issue of the American Artist. nity Grants (EOG), and a 33.3 per cent raise in the Illinois State Scholarship Pro- Pau, M Craf ton gram. One hun dred and sixteen students are re ceiving aid from EOG and 140 from the state scholarship program, he added. EOG recipients who rank in the upper half of their class this year will receive a 200 bonus for next year. This program was initiated to stimulate students to improve their grades, Crafton explained. Another financial program in troduced this year is the Illinois Guaranteed Loan Program (IG- LP). The IGLP is smaller than the National Student Defense Loan program, both in the number of borrowers and in amount of money borrowed. Fourteen million dollars was appropriated for loan pur poses this year and will increase to 40,000,000 next year. 'There is considerable feeling that the NDSL program will be phased out of existence in a few years, he said. Mr. Crafton added that only 20 students have IGLP loans this year, while 136 have Na tion Defense loans. Mundelein students receiving fi nancial aid last term totaled 517, 47 per cent of whom are receiving two or more kinds of aid, or pack aged aid. Of these 517 students, 150 are freshmen, 142 juniors, 118 sophomores and 107 are seniors. The average amount of aid each Polish Professor Presents Personal Picture; Describes Emergence of Country's Culture by Peggy Sieben With a few minor mix-ups, Speak-Easy presented its first ses sion in the new 3:15 p.m. time- slot, Jan. 24. APOLOGIZING for misinforma tion printed in the pre-program fact sheets, Mr. Dale introduced Speak-Easy's guest, Professor Zbegmiew Sidorski, professor of physics at Warsaw University. Professor Sidorski has been in Chicago for a year and a half and is now associated with the uni versity of Chicago's Institute of Metals. The fact sheet issued be fore the program had mistakenly identified Professor Sidorski as a professor of history visiting North western University. Thus, pointing out that he was not equipped to discuss Polish history, Sidorski of fered instead to draw from his own experiences a picture of new Polish history. Although Poland has had a much longer history than America, the country remained largely unde veloped until after World War II. Before the war, Poland was pri marily agricultural; the lands were controlled by wealthy landowners while the little industry was largely controlled by foreign pow ers. After the war, the land reform initiated by the government di vided the blocks of land into me dium-sized lots suitable for private ownership. Foreign aid, mostly from Russia, enabled Poland to de velop and nationalize its industry. TODAY, Poland is a self-govern ing socialistic country. It is not yet wholly communistic, but, as Sidorski, a Party member, pointed out, the Communist Party is hop ing to achieve total communism in Poland. Polish education, Sidorski stated, is a little different from American education. It is state controlled: instruction, texts and examinations are uniform throughout the coun try. Polish children begin school ing at age 7. Elementary school ing is an eight-year sequence; high school, a four-year sequence. Higher education is available in universities and technical schools. MR. SIDORSKI told how the Polish people solved the post-war problem of population explosion versus school shortage: planning ahead to the Polish Milennium cele bration of 1966, the country con centrated on building thousands of schools. Although many of these were government-financed, the peo ple themselves, through private do nations, built almost 1,000 schools. There is only one religion, Ro man Catholicism, and three politi cal parties in Poland, the professor commented. There is, Mr. Sidor ski stated, no discrimination against practicing Catholics or non-Communist Party members. Religion, Sidorski stressed, is treated as a strictly private affair, and no business or government form requires a statement of re ligious affiliation. Mr. Sidorski did, however, plead general ignor ance in matters of religion, ascrib ing this to his lack of interest in such affairs. He did note, though, that any decline in religious senti ment is perhaps bad for bishops, not for people. THE POLISH press, radio and Next Speaker Reverend John Lee of Fu Jen Catholic University, Formosa, is scheduled for the Feb. 7 Speak- Easy. He is an authority on Com munist China. This last Speak-Easy session will be held in the auditorium. television are government-con trolled. Mr. Sidorski declined to make a definite statement on free speech in Poland. Commenting on personal free doms, Sidorski fell back on sci entific terminology. Personal free dom, he said, cannot be measured in liters and ounces. Explaining the communistic conception of free dom being dependent on the ma jority welfare, he stressed that American people are thinking that the American type of freedom is good for all people all over the world. In his opinion, for exam ple, the Berlin Wall really im proved the situation between East and West. THE EVERYDAY life in Poland is also somewhat, but not entirely, different than in America, Profes sor Sidorski explained. Students have the choice of going on to the university provided, of course, they pass the state entrance examina tion. People are not required to be em ployed. His own wife, Professor Sidorski noted, did not work the first ten years of their married life in order to take care of the chil dren. Commenting on capitalism, Si dorski observed that in Poland there are no private bands: the Polish people don't need banks . . . they have less money (than Ameri cans). Although rents are small, there is an apartment shortage in Po land and families must generally wait some time before their name comes up on the waiting list. POLISH fashions, Sidorski noted, keep up with the latest styles. Polish girls are wearing mini-skirts, and his daughter's let ters beg him for Beatle records, although, he smiled, maybe she doesn't know yet about (the) Mon- kees.
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