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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 ADMIRAL BENSON’S ADDRESS - (Continued from Page 4) 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 11 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