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8 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.