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THE BULLETIN OF THE CATHOLIC LAYMEN'S ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA
THE BULLETIN
The Official Organ of the Catholic Laymen s Associa
tion of Georgia.
Published Monthly by the Publicity Department.
409 Herald Building, Augusta, Georgia.
Subscription Price $2.00 Per Year.
ASSOCIATION OFFICERS FOR 1920-1921
P. H. Rice, Augusta President
Col. P. H. Callahan, Louisville, Ky Hon. Vice-Pres.
J. J. Haverty, Atlanta First Vice-Pres.
J. B. McCallum, Atlanta Secretary
Thomas S. Gray, Augusta Treasurer
Richard Reid, Augusta Editor and Publicity Director
Miss Cecile C. Ferry, Augusta..Asst. Publicity Director
VOL. 1 1. JULY, 1921 No. 8
PRESIDENT’S ANNOUNCEMENT
TO THE MEMBERS OF THE CATHOLIC LAYMEN’S
ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA.
The officers of your Association have decided to
hold our next State Convention in Atlanta, Ga., Sun
day, Sept. 11. It is most important that the officers
of the Local Associations throughout the State will
at once arrange to call the attention of the different
Societies and Sodalities to this meeting, that they
may meet and elect delegates. Members of the Asso
ciation are urged to be present as this will be one of
the most important meetings ever held by the Asso
ciation.
Automobile roads from every section of the State
leading to Atlanta are in good traveling condition,
so make up your automobile party and be with us in
Atlanta, Sunday, Sept. 11, 1921.
(Signed) P- H. RICE,
State President.
The officials of the Laymen’s Association hope to
make the coming convention the greatest ever held
by our organization Every convention is important,
but there never has been one held by the Laymen’s
Association that even approached in significance the
September gathering.
It is not too early to start planning to attend the
convention. It is hardly six weeks away. Officials
and members can do a great deal toward making
the convention the success the officials hope it to be if
they will get busy at once and organize parties to
motor to Atlanta. The Atlanta members are already
at work preparing for the convention, and if the
gathering is not the greatest in the history of the or
ganization, they will not be to blame.
THE WOMEN’S NUMBER
It was the plan of the editor of The Bulletin to
issue a Women’s Number of The Bulletin this month,
a number in which practically all of the articles
would be contributed by the women of the Diocese
of Savannah. Circumstances over which he had
no control, but which had considerable control over
him, caused a change in the plan, and it was not
worked out to the extent originally planned.
The Catholic Laymen’s Association of Georgia owes
a great deal to the women of the Diocese of Savan
nah. It recognized this debt long before Uncle Sam
• decided they were qualified to vote, and in 1918 ruled
that the term “laymen” included women, and they
were eligible to hold office in the organization.
Only those who are intimately connected with the
work of the Laymen’s Association can realize the
great part the women of the Diocese play in it. In
deed, they are responsible not only for what they do
to further its interest themselves, but for a great
deal the men do as well. Their enthusiasm is con
tagious.
It is not the intention of The Bulletin to attempt
to express to the women of the Laymen’s Association
the gratitude it owes them. It is not equal to the
task. The words of our Rt. Rev. Bishop in this
issue express its sentiments.
CAPT. P. H. RICE, K. S. G.
The Bulletin was the first to honor Capt. P. H.
Rice, President of the Catholic Laymen’s Associa
tion of Georgia, on the high honor conferred on him
by the Holy Father, that of being made a Knight of
St. Gregory the Great. It had the honor of thus
leading a: distinguished and almost universal line.
There are few states in the Union from which tele
grams or letters of congratulation have not poured
in on Capt. Rice. They have come from those in
high places and from the lowly, for Capt. Rice is
everybody’s friend.
One of the most prized letters is from His Grace,
Archbishop Hayes of New York, who extended his
“heartfelt congratulations on this well deserved
decoration in recognition of your services to God
and Country.” The congratulations of Rev. Jos. P-
Dineen, secretary to His Grace, were no less warm.
Rt. Rev. William T. Russell, Bishop of Charleston,
sent Capt. Rice a warm letter of congratulation. Our
own beloved Bishop was deprived of the pleasure of
announcing the Honor to Capt. Rice by the Associated
Press, and a half hour after the news arrived in
Augusta, Mr. Thomas F. Walsh, Jr., of Savannah,
had a telegram in Capt. Rice’s hands.
Supreme Advocate Jos. C. Pelletier of the Knights
of Columbus, State Deputy-elect John B. McCallum
of Atlanta, State Deputy Ernest O’Brien of Michi
gan, and many other leading Knights expressed their
joy at the honor which has come to Capt. Rice, and
there is hardly a clergyman or a religious citizen
with whom he is acquainted or an official of the Lay
men’s Association whicn has not sent in congratula
tions, and numerous non-Catholics added theirs to
the rest.
The Catholic Laymen’s Association is proud of
Capt. Rice and of the honor which has come to him.
And it knows he will honor the honor just as the
honor will honor him.
THE FIRST RETREAT
On the principle that a satisfied patron is the
best proof of excellence, the first retreat of the
Catholic laymen of Georgia was a remarkable suc
cess. Every man of the score fortunate enough to
make it is resolved to be back at St. Stanislaus for
the second one next year. And there will be others
there, for good news travels.
It is not the idea of the men that they are to mo
nopolize retreats. They can see no good reason why
the women of the Diocese of Savannah should not
be afforded the same opportunity, and hope that by
next summer arrangements may be made with some
centrally located Catholic institution for women,
whereby they may withdraw from the world for a
few days just as the Catholic men of the State had
the privilege of doing in July.
There is plenty of time to think the matter over-
That there is a demand for such a movement among
the women of the state cannot be doubted.