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Georgia Men at 1922 Retreat
Sacred Heart College, Augusta
Sitting—T. P. Doris, Jr., Robert J. Morris, E. W. Gillespie, T. P.
Doris, James Brodie, Edwin J. Dorr, Dr. V. D. Barbot, Jas. L. Mc
Creary, Jos. H. McNeil.
Standing, off steps—James P. May, Karl L. Sebler, James J. Joy,
Matthew S. Rice, Capt. E. J. O’Connor, A. J. Bindewald, Charles S.
Bohler,. John Brittingham, Jerome J. McCarthy, Rev. P. A. Ryan, S.
J., pastor of Sacred Hart Church, Rev. Thomas A. Carey, S. J., retreat
master, J. J. Spalding, J. P. McAuliffc, Richard Reid, Alfred M. Bat-
tcy, Henry Bindewald, T. P. Kearney, D. J. Hayes and Capt. P. H.
Rice.
On steps—E. H. Sullivan, Hugh Kinchley, ’ R. W. Hatcher, M. J.
Hallihan, James Ii. Mulherin and J. L. Herman.
In rear—M. J. Callaghan, Ed. A. Sheridan and Stuart A. Cashin.
Gilbert K. Chesterton, Famous
English Publicist, Enters Church
Washington To
U
Bar Klan from
American Army
“No Divided Allegiance,”
Says Senator Wadsworth,
Military Affairs Committee
Chairman.
ANTI-SALOONLEAGUE
BACKS KLAN FAVORITE
Alleged Fraud in Oregon
Election Attributed to the
K. K. K.—Canada Cold To
ward Klan.
Washington.—Whether or not tlie
oath of allegiance to the Invisible
Empire taken by the Knights of the
Ku Klux Klan, is more binding than
the oath of allegiance to the United
States taken by a member of the
armed forces of the nation, appears
to have been put up to the govern
ment fcul decision by the Kian’s
recently revealed attempt at pro
selytizing in the United States
Army.
Following attempts to dominate
tile civil government by placing its
members or friends in office in
Texas, Oklahoma, and other South
ern and Western States; and to
abolish private schools as part of a
plan to dominate educational in
stitutions in Oregon and elsewhere,
the Klan is now recruiting mem
bers in the United States army. At
a spectacular initiation ceremony
held at Odenton, Md., on the night
of August 15, several members of
the Tank Corps stationed at Camp
Meade were taken into the Klan,
according to reports from that
place. This was followed the next
day by tlie declaration of the leader
in the initiation ceremonies that ef
forts are being made to spread the
Klan influences broadcast tlnough-
out the American Army.
At the War Department, when fhe
attention of Secretary Weeks had
been called to reports of the affair
at Odenton, it was said that no re
port had yet been received from the
commanding officer at Camp Meade
and that pending receipt of official
information no comment could he
made. The attitude of the War De
partment, as authoritatively stated,
however, is that of unalterable op
position to tlie affiliation of mem
bers of the army with any organiza
tion claiming to the military service.
No Divided Allegiance.
Senator Janies W. Wadsworth, of
New York, chairimflh of the Senate
,Committee oil Military Affairs, said
[regarding reports of Klan activities
»n the Army: “As a general pro
position, I believe that the army
Jiuthorities should investigate very
lawfully the efforts of the Ku Klux
Klan or any other similar organiza
tion attempting to proselyte among
l)ui' soldiers. I have every conti
nence that the Secretary of War will
f see to it that discipline will he pre
served and that no divided allegi
ance will he permitted in the Army.”
The Senator made it clear that he
would regard the spread of the Ku
Klux Klan in the army as contain
ing a possible danger to the main
tenance of good discipline, although
he expressed grave doubts as to the
ability of the Klansmen to make any
appreciable headway in the matter of
converting the troops to Klan doc
trines. His opinions are rather gen
erally held on Capitol Hill, in the
latter respect. As one Senator ex
pressed it: “I have too much con
fidence in the good sense and pat
riotism of the American soldier to
believe that the Ku Klux Klan will
ever make any headway in the
army.”
DRYS BACK K. K. If.
Washington, I). C.—Earle B. May-
field, Ku Klux Klan favorite for
nomination for United States Sen
ator from Texas on the Democratic
ticket will have the support- of the
Anti-Saloon League in the primary
battle of August 2G, when he will op
pose former Governor James E.
Ferguson, who polled the second
highest number of votes in the July
primary. In case Mayfield is elect
ed it is understood that efforts will
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BISHOP KEILEY NOW
LOCATED IN ATLANTA
Atlanta, Ga.—Tit. Rev. Ben
jamin J. Keiley, D. D., who re
signed as Bishop of Savannah
last February, is now located in
Atlanta at St. Joseph’s Infirm
ary. He will remain here at
least for the present.
Atlanta has a warm spot in its
heart for Bishop Keily. It was
to Atlanta he came in 1886, when
he elected to accompany Bishop
Becker, to Georgia from Dela
ware. He served as rector of
the church of the Immaculate
Conception here for ten years,
until 1896, when he was named
rector of the Cathedral at Sa
vannah and Vicar-General of the
Diocese. His many visits to
Atlanta since his elevation to the
Episcopacy indicates that At
lanta’s affection for him is re
ciprocated.
EX-GOVERNOR COX HAS
AUDIENCE WITH POPE
Pontiff Expresses Regret at
Failure to Visit America,
Judge Ansberry in Party.
Rome—F'ormer Gov. James M. Cox,
of Ohio was received in private au
dience yesterday by Pope Pius XI.,
who spent considerable time in talk
ing with tile recent Democratic can
didate for president of the United
States and the members of his par
ty, including James M. Cox, Jr.,
Judge Timothy Ansberry of Wash
ington and Ernest Rice, of Dayton.
His Holiness repeated to Mr. Cox
liis oft expressed regret that he had
been unable to visit America before
his elevation to the pontificate and
said he would have crossed the sea
if lie had not been elected. He in
quired concerning conditions in the
United States, declaring his deep in
terest in the American people, whom
he said lie regarded as such an im
portant factor in the world’s devel
opment. \
Mr. Cox commented that many
people in the United States, on see
ing the first pictures of Pope Pius
published after his election had re
marked that lie looked very much
like ail American and that this was
the highest compliment they could
pay one of another country. His
holiness appeared to he greatly
pleased at this remark, laughing
heartily.
Before the lend of the interview
the. Pontiff presented Mr. Cox with
a commemorative medal, on one
side of which was a likeness of the
Pope and on the other a shepherd.
He gave all the members of the par
ty the Apostolic Benediction before
they retired.
The interview took place in the
Pope’s study, His Holiness having
personally conducted the party
thither after they had been formal
ly presented in the secret ante
chamber by Monsignor Vignalc, one
of the papal chamberlains.
Certain Protestant ministers of
some prominence, who heretofore
have enjoyed a reputation as men
of good intentions and some wis
dom, have seen tit to associate them
selves with bigots notorious for
their irrational hatred of Catholics
and their propensity to foster strife
as a means of personal profit, in the
formation of the “Evangelical Pro
testant Society.”
In the announcement of the pur
poses of the society, the officials of
the organization declared that it
was initiated “to defend American
democracy against the encroach
ments of Papal Rome.” The official
manifesto said:
“The Roman Catholic Church is
the outstanding peril to America and
the world. It has always claimed a
divine right to rule the world, both
religiously and politically, and since
the war it has engaged in a despe
rate effort to make good its claim.
Its intrigues have been directed
Philadelphia, Pa.—-A special copy
righted dispatch to the Public Led
ger, printed this morning, confirms
previouS reports of the entry, of
G. K. Chesterton into the Catholic
Church. Along with this news it is
reported that some members of the
Anglican clergy have been exceed
ingly plain spoken in their criticism
of the methods which, in their opin
ion, caused the writer to abandon
the Church of England.
The Anglican clergyman, Canon
Headderly, is quoted as follows: “As
a parson of the Church of England,
I should like to say that our An
glican treatment of the biggest—in
every sense—asset wc have on the
intellectual side is on a par with
our general muddleheadness as a re
ligious body. We have never had
such an apologist a$, G. K. Chester
ton, and yet he has hardly ever fig
ured at a church meeting. We pre
fer the dull logic of some dry-as-
dust professor from Oxford to the
mainly against Great Britain and
tlie United States.
“It is well known that the Roman
Catholics have determined to ‘make
America Catholic,’ if possible; to
create .hostility between the United
States and Great Britain, in order
to prevent the close cooperation of
Protestant countries; to undermine
our public school system in the in
terest of parochial schools, where
Romanism may be taught; to re
write American history in the 'in
terest of the papacy, and thus to
poison the minds of even Protestailt
children; to secure strategic posi
tions in our Government for the in
crease of Roman power and the fur
therance of Roman designs; to hold
the balance of power in this country
through the acitivity in politics of
Tammany Hall, the Knights of Co
lumbus, the. Jesuits and other sub-
sidary organizations, and, finally, to
undo the work of the great Reform- |
ation of the sixteenth century.”
sparkling paradox of the greatest
wit of the century.
“Religion is still groaning under
the weight of Puritanism and kill
joys in this country. Mr. Chesterton
would lift us up hut we won’t let
him. We are still seared by mid-
Victorian arguments about science
and miracles. G. K. G. would de
liver us and keep us orthodox at
the same time.
“Rut we would rather not be set
free. Any one who courteously and
fairly explodes Puritan fallacies is
doing more good than he knows to
the cause of true religion in Fin-
gland. Puritanism has virtually de
stroyed Sunday in thinking to pre
serve it. It has made religion sus
pected. It has taken away joy and
beauty and love while it was doing
work of angels who make merry in
heaven. Most of this sad work has
been through sheer lack of humor,
and this is partly why it can only
be undone by humorist like Chester
ton.”
This is the indictment.
It is an indictment that would he
instantly dismissed in any court in
Chritcndom. It contains no speci
fication of acts done. It is made up
wholly of opinions which every sen
sible and well-informed man knows
have no warrant whatever in fact.
Yet upon this indictment the Na
tional Patriotic Council organized
in Washington as an offshoot of the
Evangelical Protestant Society, pro
poses :
1. To ban Catholics from holding
political office.
2. To prevent any public funds be
ing devoted for certain purposes.
3. To wage war upon the paro
chial school and to bring about le
gislation which will close these in
stitutions.
The first article of the Constitu
tion of the United States guarantees
religious freedom by providing that
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Second Laymen’s
Retreat Breaks
Record of 1921
Thirty-Five Men from Five
Georgia Cities Make it at
Sacred Heart College, Au
gusta.
FIFTEEN MORE THAN
LAST YEAR’S CLASS
Rev. Thomas A. Carey, S. J.,
of New Orleans Retreat
Master—Women’s Retreat
at Macon.
Augusta, Ga. — Thirty-five men
from five Georgia cities were exer-
citants at the 1922 retreat for the
Catholic laymen of Georgia, con
ducted at Sacred Heart College un
der the direction of the Jesuit Fath
ers, from Thursday evening, August
17, to Sunday morning, August 20.
This is an increase of fifteen retreat-
ants over last year, when the retreat
was held at St. Stanislaus’ College,
Macon, since destroyed by fire.
The men who made the retreat
were: R. W. Hatcher. Milledgeville;
E. H. Sullivan, Sandersville; J. J.
Spalding, D. J. Hayes, Robert J. Mor
ris and FI. W. Gillespie, Atlanta;
James L. McCreary, Ed A. Sheridan
and M. J. Callaghan, Macon; Capt.
P. H. Rice, K. C. S. G., Matthew S.
Rice, James Brodie, James R. Mul
herin, A. J. Bindewald, Joseph II.
McNeil, K. L. Sehler, Stuart A.
Cashin, Hugh Kinchley, J. J. Joy,
T. P. Doris, T, P. Doris, Jr., Richard
Reid, Capt. E. J. O’Connor, Jerome
J. McCarthy, J. L, Herman, M. J.
Hallihan, Edwin J. Dorr. James P.
May, J. P. McAuliffc, T. P. Kearney,
A. M. Battey, W. M. Nixon, Jr., Dr.
V. D. Barbot, Henry Bindewald and
John Brittingham.
The rctreatants were quartered at
the old Sacred Heart College, and
dined at Sacred Heart rectory. Med
itations were held in the college hall,
and the religious exercises in Sacred
Heart church.
Tlie Sacred Heart Benevolent As
sociation, of which Mrs. Frank Carr
is president, assisted in preparing
the meals for the rctreatants, a de
partment which was in charge of
Charles S. Bohler of Sacred Heart
parish. Spring Hill College boys
served. The women of the Benevo
lent Association also assisted in
preparing Sacred Heart College to
receive the rctreatants.
The retreat started Thursday ev
ening, August 17. Supper was served
shortly after 7 o’clock. The first ex
ercise was scheduled for 8 o’clock.
It was a meditation, directed by
Father Carey, and was followed by
an examination of conscience in Sa
cred Heart church. The meditation
marked tlie beginning of the retreat
silence, no retreatant speaking until
Sunday morning except in free time,
one hour after dinner and an hour
after supper. The silence, which
was voluntary, was strictly observed
by every retreatant.
The Program
The men rose at 6:30 each morn
ing. At 7 o’clock Father Carey con
ducted the meditation in the college
hall. Mass followed at 7:30, with
breakfast at 8:15, meditation at 9:15,
private reflection at 10, conference
at 11:30, examination of conscience
at 12:15, and dinner at 12:30.
The afternoon program started
with free time at 1:15, rest at 2:15,
Stations of the Cross at 3:30, medi
tation at 4:30, private reflection at
5:30, rosary and benediction at 6,
supper at 6:30, free time at 7, medi
tation at 8, examination at 8:45, and
night prayers at 9. The rctreatants
then retired.
The retreat closed Sunday morn
ing at the 6:30 mass, at which F'atli-
er Carey bestowed on the rctreatants
the Papal Benediction. The men re
ceived communion in a body, and
after mass they sang “Holy God, We
Praise Thy Name.”
The retreat was more successful
than even the most optimistic hoped.
Rev. P. A.' Ryan, S. J., pastor of Sa
cred Heart church, spent consider
able time in changing Sacred Heart
College into dormitories for the
men. Augustans, both Catholic and
non-Cntholic, came to his assistance
generously with furnishing* He wa»
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DIVIDING THE NATION
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This is the Effect of the Latest Anti-Catholic Drive, Launched By the “Protestant Evan
gelical Society”—The War Record of the “Unpatriotic” Catholics, Against Whom
4he Drive is Directed, and Whom They Would Deprive of Rights, Reviewed.