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THE BULLETIN OF THE CATHOLIC LAYMEN’S ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA I 1 CATHOLICS IN GEORGIA JACK J. SPALDING “A man who represents all that is best before the Bar/* is the way the editors of “The Book of Georgia’’ describe Jack J. Spalding, one of the organizers and a former president of the Catholic Laymen’s Asso ciation of Georgia, and one of the leading citizens of Georgia and Catholic laymen in the South. Mr. Spalding is a Kentuckian by birth, and a Geor gian by choice. He was born in Morganfield, Ky., August 29,’ 1856, the son of Ignatius A. and Susan (Johnson) Spalding, and educated in the Morganfield schools, Seton Hall College and St. Louis University. Choosing law for a vocation, Mr. Spalding was admitted to the Bar in Morganfield in 1878. He was county attorney in 1881, and in January of the fol lowing year removed to Atlanta, where he soon gained recognition as a leader of the Bar of the .state. Mr. Spalding was united in marriage December 1 8, 1877, to Miss Elizabeth Hughes, of his native city, daughter of Daniel H. and Wright (Parker) Hughes. There is no more loyal booster of Atlanta than Mr. Spal’ding. In every movement that has for its pur pose the advancement of the capital of Georgia he is sure to be found in the front ranks, and he is credited with having done as much for the improvement of his adopted city as any other Atlantan. The Capitol City Club, the Piedmont Driving Club, the Knights of Columbus (fourth degree assembly), the St. Vincent de Paul Society, and the Catholic Laymen’s Association, all claim him as a member. TRIBUTE TO MR. TOALE. The following tribute to the late George E. Toale, a member of the Augusta executive committee of the Catholic Laymen’s Association, appeared in the edi torial columns of The Augusta Chronicle: The halo about the gladsome season when we commemorate the birth of the Prince of Peace has more than once this Christmas been turned into a hue of blackness for many of our community, and the latest to be mourned is the taking away of a courtly, Christian gentleman, a choice spirit—George E. Toale. The tidings of his death will bring sorrow to hundreds and will come as a shock even to many of his closest friends. Critically ill but for a brief season the end came with such rapidity that even those nearest about him feel that it was but yester day when they were met with that irresistible smile and came under the spell of his presence. The editor could not claim the honor of knowing Mr. Toale intimately, but he did know him most pleasantly, and like every one else, could but be im pressed by those characteristics which stamped him as being to the manor born. As modest and as gentle as a woman, yet with all the fine, upstanding qualities of splendid manhood, George Toale moved in a com paratively small circle of friends whose devotion to Mr. Spalding headed the Catholic Laymen’s Asso ciation during 1917-1918. He is interetsed in all Catholic activities and the Vincent de Paul Society has no harder worker than he. At present he is engaged in a campaign to erect in Atlanta a Knights of Columbus building that will be a credit to the members of the order. He worships at Sacred Heart Church in Atlanta. In politics Mr. Spalding is a staunch Democrat, and he was chosen to represent his section at two na tional conventions. He was a delegate to the St. Louis convention in 1888, and was chosen delegate at large to the next convention, held at Kansas City. When the Armenian and Syrian Society of Relief for the Near East was formed to supplement the work of the Red Cross in Palestine and adjacent countries, Mr .Spalding was selected by President Wilson as the Red Cross Commissioner to go to Palestine, but was forced to decline the service on account of the young families of his two sons who were in the war and looking to Granddad to keep the home fires burning. Atlanta and Georgia are proud of Mr. Spalding as one of its first citizens. The Church is proud of him as a loyal son. The Catholic Laymen’s Association is proud of him as a zealous worker and an energetic defender of his beliefs. All of them are proud of him as a man of principle, a gentleman of culture, a citizen of the highest type. him was beautiful in life and became accentuated in death. The death of George Toale will cause a void in the hearts of those who were fortunate enough to know him, for, “None knew him but to love him, None named him but to praise.’’ Non-Catholics frequently misunderstand relations between the Pope and Catholics. This subject is well and briefly explained in Catholics and the Pope, issued by the publicity department of The Catholic Laymen’s Association of Augusta. The teaching staff of the Catholic University at Washington numbers 82—28 full professors, 1 7 asso ciate professors and 42 instructors; 35 are priests and 4 7 laymen. The male students number 682. In Trinity College there are 344 women students. The library of the Catholic University totals 128,782 books. Mr. John F. Mulhersn, of Augusta, who served over seas as secretary for the Knights of Columbus, has re cently been appointed as K. of C. Secretary at Lake City, Fla., where the United States Public Health Ser vice has a hospital for ex-service men.