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THE BULLETIN OF THE CATHOLIC LAYMEN’S ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA 13 BEYOND OUR BORDERS. Chief Justice Edward D. White, of the United States Supreme Court, and the second Catholic to hold that exalted position, administered the oath of office to President Warien G. Harding March 4th. “The countries of South America are not at all what the generality of people of the United States suppose them to be,” says former Secretary of State Bainbridge Colby, recently returned from an extended tour of the Latin countries. ‘‘They are quite as ready to give profitable instructions to us as they are in need of any.” Former Governor Alfred M. Smith, of New York, has been appoitned a member of the United States Board of Indian Commissioners. The appointment was one of President Wilson’s last official acts. The Catholic Union of Great Britain at its half yearly meeting held late in February, elected Lord Edmund Talbot, Unionist whip in the House of Com mons as president to succeed Lord Walter Kerr, re tiring. Lord Walter Kerr recently took issue with Cardinal Mercier, and the Hierarchy of Belgium on the sympathy they expressed for Ireland. The remains of Pope Leo XIII will be transferred from their temporary sepulchre in St. Peter’s Basilica to the tomb constructed in the Church of St. John Lateran on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the founding of the Society of Italian Catholic Youth this year. Anton Lang, celebrated the world over for his por trayal of the role of Christus in the Passion Play of Oberammergau, is among the notable Europeans who are being assisted by the European Relief Council, of which Herbert Hoover is chairman, according to an announcement made from the New York office of that organization. INFORMATION FREE. A Plea for Peace. Catholic Belief. Catholics and Marriage. Catholics and the Bible. The Pope and the War. Catholicism and Politics. Catholics and The Pope. Knights of Columbus Oath. Catholics and the Public Schools. The above booklets giving information about Catholics and their attitude towards questions of the day will be sent you gratis upon request. All questions about Catholics and their belief answered. Address, THE CATHOLIC LAYMEN’S ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA. Augusta, Georgia. THE KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS. (From The Macon Telegraph.) We do not belong to the Catholic Church, but we are no more afraid to give vent to the truth than Tom Watson is to distort it. As far as the city of Macon is concerned, it is hardly necessary to take a stand. Catholics and Protestants are so finely knit to gether in the social and business structure of this town that the matter of man to man and of friend to friend is a much more substantial affair than the hazy reference to great and hidden mysteries. When these men whom we know so well we can almost read their inner thoughts before they are ex pressed, tell us upon their solemn honor as brother to brother that there is nothing in their Knights of Columbus obligation that could be in the least ob jectionable to Americans or offensive to even their women folks, then we promptly, and rightfully so, forget all those charges that flare up just before each election time. The United States Constitution gives to every man the right to worship at whatever altar he desires. The conflict between the Catholic and Protestant re ligious beliefs was magnified by the heretics of history. Today it is enlarged by the heretics of politics, print er’s ink and finance. It has generally proven to be a most unprofitable and inadvisable medium, however in the end. The United States Congressional committee on elec tions made the following report in the Congressional Record of February 15, 1913: ‘‘This committee can not condemn too strongly the publication of the false and libelous article referred to in the paper of Mr. Bonniwell, and which was the spurious Knights of Columbus Oath.” A half a dozen prosecutions have been instituted in the United States against persons who distributed the alleged Oath, and the distributors found guilty. In the city of Los Angeles, the court turned the mat ter over to the Masons. The following letter was the result: Hon. Paul J. McCormick, Court House, Los Angeles— My Dear Judge: I take pleasure in handing you herewith the findings of the committee of Free Masons to whom you exhibited the cere monials and pledges of the Order of Knights of Columbus. I am very glad that I have been able, in a measure, to secure the refutation of a slanderous lie, which has been widely circulated and which has been disseminated in many cases by well- meaning, credulous and deluded persons. I shall see to it that this report has wide cir culation among Masons, and you may use it in any way you may deem best to bring about an understanding of the truth among men who, above all controversies and contentions, desire (Continued on Page 15)