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12 THE BULLETIN OF THE CATHOLIC LAYMEN'S ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA IN CATHOLIC CIRCLES GEORGIA NOTES Rev. Alphonsus Elmer Otis, S.J., former president of Loyola University, New Orleans, and until a few weeks ago a member of the faculty of St. Stanislaus College, Macon, died in New Orleans February 22d, after a few days’ illness. Father Otis was recently named assistant to the General Visitor of the Jesuit Order, Very Rev. Norbert de Boynes, S.J., and had gone to New Orleans to assume his new duties when he was stricken. Father Otis was laid to rest among the pines of Spring Hill College Sunday, February 27th. His Grace, Archbishop Shaw, of New Orleans, presided at the office of the dead and gave the final absolu tion. The requiem mass was sung by Father de Boynes. Father Otis was well known and highly regarded throughout Georgia. He preached Lenten sermons in Augusta and Macon in 1920, and had been heard from the pulpit in nearly every city in the State at some time or other. Lord Mayor Donal O’Callaghan, of Cork, Ireland, successor to the famous Lord Mayor McSwiney, was a visitor to the State during the month. He delivered an address to a large and interested audience Satur day, March 5th, at Atlanta. The following day he spoke at Savannah, where the reception accorded him was as warm as that at the State Capital. Mon day, March 7th, found him at Augusta, where he told of conditions in Ireland to an audience that crowded the Opera House, the largest auditorium in the city. He then went to Macon, and again was given a fine reception and an attentive hearing. In order to speak at Macon, the Lord Mayor cancelled an important en gagement at Philadelphia. Rev. J. A. Irwin, D.D., a Presbtyerian minister of Belfast, Ireland, well known to Georgians through his speaking tour of the State with President de Valera, of the Irish Republic, last spring, has been sentenced to a term in prison in Ireland for having a revolver in his possession. Rev. Mr. Irwin impressed those who heard him here as a gentleman and a scholar, and the news of his imprisonment was a shock to the friends he made in the State, although some such action against him was anticipated here. The Waycross Journal-Herald recently carried the following item: On a number of occasions in the past we have seen the appearance of buildings im proved as the result of being worked over or repainted, but never have we seen as much improvement in the appearance of a building as Dan Morgan has wrought in the Catholic Church. Even strangers stop to ad mire the Pretty Chapel, or The Church Around the Corner, as they call it; but the local people who failed to watch the work while in progress remark: ‘Why, what did they do with the old building?’ ” The Knights of Columbus have moved to their new home in Columbus. Under the direction of Secretary George J. Burrus, the furnishings of the Columbus Knights were recently removed from temporary headquarters in the Webster Building to the new home in the Crawford Building at Thirteenth and Broad Streets. The new hall, recently remodelled, will be elaborately equipped. The Columbus Council put on a very successful third degree Sunday, March 13th. Rev. Emmet Walsh, pastor of St. Patrick’s Church, Savannah, has started work on the renovating of the parish rectory. Rev. H. A. Schonhardt, pastor of St. Patrick s in Augusta, is also having repairs made on his parish house. St. Patrick’s Church in Augusta is now equipped with three new memorial windows, the gifts of the families of Mr. and Mrs. John D. McCarthy, Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Dempsey and Mr. and Mrs. T. M. Heffer- nan, respectively. The subjects of the window de signs are the Annunciation, Christ Commissioning His Apostles, and Christ With His Little Ones. The windows were made in Munich before the out break of the world war. It was impossible then to send them to America, and they were sent to Holland for safe-keeping. It was the ambition of the late pastor of St. Patrick’s, Very Rev. P. H. McMahon, V.G., to see the windows installed during his life time, a wish he did not see realized. Another addition to St. Patrick’s is the installation of a statue of St. Rita. Devotions to St. Rita have been started by Father Schonhardt, and are proving very popular. St. Patrick’s is the first church in the Diocese to conduct the special St. Rita services. I Supreme Secretary William J. McGinley, of the Knights of Columbus, was a visitor to Atlanta during the month. Mr. McGinley made the trip to inspect the K. of C. Free School for Ex-Service Men at the Marist College. A “postage stamp” course will be inaugurated by the order next year whereby ex-ser vice men will be educated by mail, Mr. McGinley said. Even university courses will be included. Rev. Father Bernard, pastor of Sacred Heart Church, Savannah, is running a series of motion pic tures at Benedictine Hall for packed houses. The pictures were •’produced under the auspices of the Catholic Art Association of America. Three of them have already been shown, “The Victim of the Seal of Confession,” “The Transgressor,” based on the ap parition of the Blessed Virgin at Lourdes, and “The Eternal Light,” portraying the Passion of Our Lord, all scenes taken in the Holy Land. Father Bernard has three more pictures scheduled: “The Burning Question Who Must Pay?” showing the work of the Knights of Columbus, April 8th; Luring Shadows,” a lesson on spiritualism, May 5th; Pope Benedict XV and the Canonization of Joan of Arc, June 1st. The collection at Sacred Heart Church in Milledge- ville for the suffering people of Central Europe, re ported in last month’s Bulletin as fifty-three dollars, was subsequently increased to seventy-eight dollars. “The Flying Squadron” of the Catholic Laymen’s Association plans to visit Milledgeville and Athens in the near future. President P. H. Rice, of the Laymen’s Association, who has been ill for some time, has regained his former health and vigor. St. Patrick’s Day was observed quietly in Georgia this year. Banquets were planned in several cities, but in view of the distressing state of affairs in Ire land, they were called off. Details of the State cele brations had not arrived at press time, but it is under stood that the plan for raising funds for the sufferers in Erin was advanced by the modest celebrations that were staged. Eighty thousand men are enrolled in the Holy Name Union of the Detroit Diocese, which thus ranks close to Chicago and New Jersey among the leaders in numerical strength of Holy Name Societies in the United States.