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THE BULLETIN OF THE CATHOLIC LAYMEN'S ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA 11 CATHOLICS IN GEORGIA THOMAS F. WALSH, JR. While the Big Four Walshes in the North and West are adding lustre to that honorable name, another Walsh, a Georgian, is doing his duty to make it even more noteworthy in the South. He is Thomas F. Walsh, Jr., of Savannah. Mr. Walsh was born at Beaufort, S. C., August 22, 1879. He was educated in the public grammar and high school of Beaufort and at the University of South Carolina, Columbia. On December 20, 1901, he was admitted to practice before the Georgia Bar, later becoming a member of the law firm of Anderson, Gann, Cann & Walsh. Later he withdrew from that partnership, to form the new firm of Mc- Intire, Walsh & Bernstein. He was married on October 3, 1904, to Miss Mary LaPrince Jager, in St. Mary’s Church, Charleston, S. C. Three children have blessed this union, Mary Elizabeth, Margaret N., and Thomas F. Walsh, III. Mrs. Walsh is now serving her second term as presi dent of the Catholic Women’s Club, of Savannah. Mr. Walsh was the third president of the Cath olic Laymen’s Association of Georgia, and is still one of the most active members of the organization. He is State Deputy of the Knights of Columbus of Geor gia, Past Grand Knight of the Savannah Council of the Knights, and deeply interested in all the affairs of Knighthood, attending the national conventions annually. He is quite as prominent in civic affairs as he is in religious and fraternal circles. During the World War he served as head of the Local Draft Board No. 2 of Savannah, which had the reputation of sending more men into service than any other Board in Georgia. Mr. Walsh has been Assistant United States Dis trict Attorney, president of the Savannah Bar Asso ciation, and Associate District Counsel for the Sea board Air Line Railway. Those who know Mr. Walsh best describe him as a man whose ability is exceeded only by his aversion to the limelight, a man of decision, a deep thinker, a student with a surprising store of information on diverse subjects, a staunch believer in the future of Georgia, and a loyal son of the Church. CARDINAL GIBBONS ON THE CONSTITUTION An article on the Constitution of the United States, written by His Eminence, Cardinal Gibbons, in a re cent issue of the Baltimore Catholic Review, declares the Constitution a safeguard of religious liberty, and calls on all Americans to uphold the principles of the Constitution. The article, which inspired some favor able comment in the secular press of Georgia, is re produced here: “As the years go by I am more than ever con vinced that the Constitution of the United States is the greatest instrument of government that ever issued from the hand of man. Drawn up in the infancy of our Republic, and amid the fears and suspicions and oppositions of many patriotic men, it has weathered the storm periods of American public life, and has proved elastic enough to withstand every strain put upon it by party spirit, Western development, world wide immigration, wars, little and great, far-reaching social and economic changes, inventions and discov eries, the growth of individual wealth and the vagaries of endless reformers. “That within the short space of 1 00 years we have grown to be a great nation, so much so that today the United States is rightly regarded as the first among the nations of the earth is due to the Constitution, the palladium of our liberties and the landmark of our march of progress. “When George Washington secured its final adop tion, largely out of respect for his judgment and as a tribute of confidence in him, he made all mankind his debtor forever, for the Constitution has proved the bulwark of every right and every fair promise that the American Revolution stood for. With the Constitution came the solidarity and the union which has marked our progress up to now; without it we would have remained thirteen independent colonies, with the passions and prejudices peculiar to each. For all times to come may it remain the instrument safeguarding our national life and insuring us the liberties and freedom which it guarantees. Palladium of Religious Liberty. “For the first time in the history of mankind re ligious liberty was here secured to all men as a right under federal protection. “That was indeed a big thing, a mighty thing for a man to do, to write into the fundamentals of a gov ernment enactments that would stem the tide of pop ular and traditional prejudices. But that the Consti tution of the United States did, so that not only was religious intolerance branded as something un-Ameri can, but future American citizens came to our shores, full hearted, and well disposed and the whole world was made a debtor to the wise founders of this charter of human rights and human interests. “Had this wise provision been left out of the Con stitution who could have foreseen the evils confront ing us! “No one knows better than myself what a line of demarcation and separation religion can cut in this country from ocean to ocean, and no one has been more eager and earnest in his effort to keep down and repress religious distinction. “I fear no enemy from without. The enemy I fear is he who, forgetting human nature and the history of Europe, would raise the question of another’s re ligious belief, and introduce strife and discord into the life of our country. So deep and strong are re ligious feelings that any fostering of religious differ ences can have but one effect, to destroy what a hun dred years of trial and test has proved to be the great est blessing enjoyed by man here below. Religious Beliefs Protected. “Fortunately our common law protects every American in his religious belief, as protects him in his civil rights so that whatever offenses may be occasionally committed here in this respect, are local (Continued on Page 19)