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THE BULLETIN OF THE CATHOLIC LAYMEN’S ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA
month, delivered the address which featured the
Columbus Day celebration in Columbus. The ex
ercises were held under the auspices of the Colum
bus Knights of Columbus. Major Cheadle, U. S. A.,
delivered the address of welcome, and George C.
Palmer gave a talk on “Influence.”
Columbus Day celebrations were held in every
city of the state in which there is a Knights of Co
lumbus Council. At Augusta, James B. Mulherin
delivered the address of the day. Atlanta Council
staged an inspiring program, and the councils in
Macon, Savannah and other cities were no less ac
tive.
Major H. B. Cheadle, U. S. A., of Camp Benning,
Columbus, has recently returned from an extended
tour of Europe, and is again active in Columbus
Catholic circles.
The Sacred Heart Benevolent Society of Augusta
is working on a playground project for Sacred
Heart Parish. The members have already taken
preliminary steps to turn a vacant lot in back of
the parish school into a modern playground for the
children, and hope to have it ready for use very
soon.
Chief Frank G. Reynolds of the Augusta Fire De
partment was elected president of the International
Association of Fire Engineers at the annual con
vention of the fire department officials of America
in Atlanta in October. Chief Reynolds, who is a
member of the Patrick Walsh Council, Knights of
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in your persons the wonderful stamina of our Amer
ican people that we resent with all the vigor of our
manhood a propaganda false as its advocates are
corrupt, and thus provided you with the opportun
ity of blazing to the world the honor of Holy Church,
and to do it enfolded in the starry banner of our
glorious country.
Your ideal of spreading the truth and the truth
only of what our Church teaches as its dogmas of
faith, is a glorious conception. You have, I believe,
accepted the proper heritage of the laity to assist in
having your neighbor know and understand the true
tenets of your faith. To do this in a non-controver-
sial spirit is a powerful omen that truth will pre
vail.
I may say to you that in my humble opinion your
association has the relative status of St. John the
Baptist, going on and before the^recent movement
inaugurated by the Hierarchy of the United' States
to join our Catholic manhood and womanhood in a
union of unselfish effort to combat the bigotry of
the day, and by uniting the strength of the Catho
lic laity in a compact and orderly organization,
prevent the development of many ills that have
made our body politic a sick institution, and which
will require heroic work to stem the tide of proflig
acy and immorality that today is confounding the
purpose of orderly government.
The assurance that comforts you and me that the
Catholic body of America ’will always be respon
sive to constituted authority properly established,
is, I may say, a comfort to many others of our citi
zenship. who, not endowed with the saving grace of
Holy Church, realize and recognize that in the or
ganization of the Catholic Church is the very bul-
work of our liberty, both as to speech and religion,
and the orderly pursuit of happiness.
We in America have ever been true to the ideals
of our forebears: we will continue to remain spon
sors for the ideal that we shall not interfere with
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Columbus, and of Sacred Heart Church, Augusta,
has been active in the International Association for
years, and is one of its most popular and efficient
officials. He will preside at the next convention of
the organization in San Francisco in 1922.
Alfred M. Battey will again head the Augusta
Knights of Columbus for the coming year, and
James B. Mulhern has been re-elected deputy grand
knight. The other officials of Patrick Walsh Coun
cil, recently chosen, are chancellor, Wm. M. Nixon;
warden, C. M. Mullin; financial secretary, R. S.
Hesliri; recording secretary, James Mura; treasur
er, J. D. Callahan; inside guard, Frank Sherman;
outside guard, Frank Hookey.
Mr. David Hallahan, the popular outside guard,
was elected advocate of the council.
The wedding of Miss Elizabeth Margaret Hayes
and James Angus Smith was solemnized this month
at the home of the bride’s parents, Mr. and Mrs.
D. J. Hayes, West Tenth Street, Atlanta, Rev.
James A. Horton, S. M., pastor of Sacred Heart
Church of that city, officiating. Miss Kate Murphy
was maid of honor, and Miss Betty Murphy flower
girl. Mr. Ernest Smith, brother of the groom, was
best man. Mr. Smith and his bride, who is a grad
uate of Mount St. Vincent on the Hudson, will live
in Atlanta after their return from a wedding trip.
The Bulletin depends on the members of the
Catholic Laymen’s Association of Georgia for news
for this department. Items of interest to the Cath
olics of Georgia will be appreciated.
any man to adore an Omnipotent God in any manner
that, to him, is proper and sufficient, but it may as
well be reiterated here today, in observing that right
we, to, will never allow the right to be taken from
us to adore God in such manner and place as to us
seems proper and sufficient to meet the mandates of
our conscience.
Hostility an Asset.
I have sometimes wondered that if you here in
Georgia are not thrice blessed in having an atmos
phere of hostility to your ideals that prompts you
to live lives of a Catholic conscience, and I wonder
if it would not serve a good purpose if in our larger
cities a spirit of hostility more definite and less sub
tle prevailed, to the end that our young Catholic
manhood might appreciate more fully the beauty of
their religion and be more responsive to the crying
needs of the day for vocations to the priesthood.
To you here in Georgia, it must come as a com
forting thought that in this day of world tribulation,
when confusion prevails in many lines of usual
endeavor and production throughout our own coun
try, and this miasma of uncertainty as to the future
is prevalent in all countries, that when men from
your own state, or any other state, would, by inu-
endo and insinuation cast asperation upon their fel
low men, no matter what their avocation, they make
little progress in such nefarious business.
It is an axiom well worth repeating on every pro
per occasion, that the heart of America is sound, her
people are chivalrous, courageous and generous;
they have little time and less inclination to pay heed
to demagogic and preverted politicians, no matter
from whence they come. Such whose aim it is to
tear down and destroy what is good will not long be
tolerated by the American people when their subtle
purpose is known.
Georgia—Past and Present.
To you, my native citizens and friends of Geor
gia, and to those who were not privileged to see the