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AUGUSTA, GA., SEPTEMBER 30, 1922.
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AMERICAN PARISH SCHOOLS charity of catholics
ENROLL TWO MILLION PUPILS ™ D M PRESIDENT
Many New Catholic Schools Open Their Doors—Increased
Attendance Estimated at 100,000—2,800 in
Attendance at Georgetown University.
Washington, D. C.—Catholic edu
cational institutions throughout the
United States have thrown open
their doors for the school term
1922-23 with an estimated increase
of more than 100,000 pupils and
every indication that the total num
ber of boys and girls enrolled in
Catholic parochial schools now ex
ceeds the 2,000,000 mark.
The total enrollment in Catholic
educational institutions, including
universities, colleges, seminaries, re
ligious seminaries, novitiates and
training schools far exceeds 2,000,-
000. A decided increase in enroll
ment in institutions of higher edu
cation is reported, interest in thus
educating school children having
been given a decided impetus as a
result of the Catholic College week
held last May under the auspices of
the Department of Education of the
National Catholic Welfare Council.
Statistics for 1920, as given in
the Directory of Catholic Schools
and Colleges showed that 1,795,673
students were enrolled in elemen
tary schools. With scores of new
institutions, the building of which
had been hampered by war condi
tions, opened up since then in every
part of the country, it is estimated
that the Increase during the past
two years has been more than suf
ficient to bring the figures of those
enrolled in elementary schools to
more than 2,000,000.
No Shortage of Teachers.
Scores of Catholic schools threw
open their doors for the first time
this month. In addition, building
programs now being carried out in
many dioceses contemplate the addi
tion of numerous structures before
the end of the present year. The
Seattle diocese alone has seven new
schools now under construction. Al
though there is no indication of any
grave shortage of accommodations,
many of the schools are crowded
to capacity and annexes have been
necessary in some cities. The prob
lem of the shortage of teachers,
said to be one of the 'gravest that
confronts public schools today, is
not grave in Catholic institutions
of learning, which number more
than 3,000.
Registrations in colleges and uni
versities were no lefis notable in
their increases than in elementary
schools. Much of the increased in
terest in secondary and higher edu
cation is the result of the Catholic
College Week conducted by the De
partment of Education in May. In
the Baltimore archdiocese the cause
of higher education has been preach
ed from pulpit and public platform
in an intensive campaign for the
past six months and hundred of
free scholarships have been offered
by different societies and individ
uals.
Georgtown’s Record.
Georgetown University announces
that the registration will reach the
2,800 mark, the largest enrollment
in the history' of the instiution. The
Law School, with approxiametly
1,300 students, still ranks as the
largest in the United States, and one
FOUNDER OF FORDHAM
SCHOOL OF LAW DEAD
Rev. Terence Shealy, S.J.,
Also Established First Lay
men’s Retreat House.
of the largest in the world. The
Foreign Service School, which will
open with more than 500 students
on September 28, under the direction
of the Rev. W. Coleman Nevils, S. J.,
the newly appointed regent, is plan
ning to broaden the work of the first
school of its kind established in
this country. Father Nevils has or
ganized a Board of Research lead
ing to degrees of doctor of philo
sophy and doctor of science in for
eign service. This Board of Re
search will have supervision over
all post-graduate work and will be
under the direction of Dr. MacEhvee.
The School of Foreign Service feels
that the personnel available and with
the governmental facilities for re
search found only in Washington, a
remarkable opportunity is afforded
for men who wish to acquire an
extensive knowledge in the world’s
operations in diplomacy, science and
eomerce. A faculty of fifteen pro
fessors, most of whom hold respon
sible positions under the govern
ment, will head the Board of Re
search.
Oregon and Oklahoma.
Particular interest attached to the
opening of the Catholic schools of
Oregon and Oklahoma, where intol
erance is endeavoring to throttle
the system of education that has
been built up by the sacrifice and
toil of years. In Portland, the new
school of the Blessed Sacrament was
dedicated by Archbishop Christie
three days after it had opened its
doors with an enrollment of 550
children. In Tigard, where the
Franciscan Fathers have been strug
gling to secure the advantages of
Catholic education for their chil
dren, Father Anthony has had the
satisfaction of securing the services
of three Sisters of the Blessed Vir
gin Mary, who have already started
work. According to 1921 statistics
there were 7,300 pupils enrolled in
the schools and academies of the
diocese of Oregon City, and 563 stu
dents in the colleges and academies
for boys. There were then forty-
six parishes with parochial schools.
In the diocese of Baker City, which
comprises the remaining portion of
the state of Oregon, there were last
year five academies and one paro
chial school, with an attendance of
964 students.
Oklahoma last year had 7,028 chil
dren in Catholic schools, of whom
more than six hundred were Indians.
There were forty-one parishes with
schools, three academies for ytfung
ladies and three colleges for boys.
Increased attendance was marked in
all the Catholic schools when studies
were resumed September 11. Addi
tions were necessary to the teach
ing staff of the school of Our Lady
of Perpetual Help. Great success
attended the summer school held for
teachers at St. Joseph’s College,
Guthrie, during the summer and the
bachelor’s degree were conferred on
three sisters, while fifteen students
of the normal department were given
state certificates issuffd by the State
Board of Education on credentials
earned in the Catholic college.
ENGLISH WOULD REPAIR
WRONG TO JOAN OF ARC
Niche in Winchester Cathe
dral for Maid of Orleans an
Act of Reparation.
Washington.—Expressing re
gret at his inability to attend
the opening of the National
Conference of Catholic Charities,
President Harding said in a let
ter received by Bishop Shahan:
“I can not too strongly ex
press my good wishes for the
forthcoming Conference, for I
have long known of the splen
didly organized and efficient
charitable works conducted
through the Catholic organiza
tions of the country. I feel that
the efficiency and practical qua
lity of the work of this kind
which has grown up in our coun
try constitute impressive testi
monies of that fine humanita-
rianism which we claim as an
American characteristic.”
Bishop Keyes
To Be Present
At Convention
New Spiritual Head of Dio
cese To Attend Eleventh
Annual Meeting of Lay-
mne’s Association.
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 29,
DATE OF CONVENTION
Augusta, Ga.—Rt. Rev. Michael J.
Keys, S.M., who will be consecrated
Rishop of Savannah at the Cathed
ral in that city Wednesday, October
18, has accepted the invitation of
tjie Catholic Laymen's Association o
Georgia to be present at its seventh
annual convention, to be held in
Macon Sunday, October 29. Bishop-
elect Keyes wired his acceptance of
the invitation to the Laymen's Asso
ciation office in Augusta.
In sending out the call for the
seventh annual convention, Capt. P.
H. Rice, state president, says that
it i. the hope of the officers of the
organization to make it the greatest
convention the Laymen’s Association
has ever held, and one of the largest
gatherings of Catholics this section
of the South has ever seen. He has
issued a request to the officials of
Laymen’s Association locals to have
delegates appointed from the various
Catholic societies, and from the
parishes. Each society is entitled
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JAMES T. VOCELLE WINS
NOMINATION TO SENATE
Camden County Catholic
Promoted From Lower to
Upper House At Atlanta.
Special to The Bulletin.
St. Mary’s, Ga.—James T. Vo-
cclle, who represented Camden
County in the State Legislature
for the past two years, the only
Catholic member of that body,
won the Democratic nomination
for State Senator at the recent
primaries by a majority of for
ty. Mr. Vocelie will be the
only Catholic member of tho
Senate, and the first Catholic
in years to take part in its de-
New York—Catholic education and
sociology sustained a heavy loss last
week in the deatli of the Rev. Ter
ence J. Shealy, S. J., founder and
dean of the Fordham University law
school, following an operation in
St. Vincents Hospital, where lie had
been ill for several months.
At the time of his death Father
Shealy was director of the Laymen’s
League of Retreats and Social Stud
ies in connection with which lie es
tablished the retreat house of Mount
Manres_a, Staten Island, as the first
house in the United States to he de
voted exclusively to retreats for
men. Father Shealy established
the work of the laymen’s retreat in
(Continued on page Two)
London.—The non-Catholic Eng
lish are about to conclude an act
of reparation to St. Joan of Arc that
has long been overdue.
Last year a fund was opened by
the Anglican authorities for placing
in Winchester Cathedral, a canopied
niche, in which a statue of the Maid
of Orleans is to stand. The fund
has been completed, and the mem
orial to France’s new Saint will
shortly he in place.
The Anglicans, who have taken
the matter in hand, are quite frank
about its significance and openly
style it an act of reparation to St.
Joan. And there is an act of jus
tice in the placing of the memorial
(Continued on page two.)
liberations.
In Camden County, which de
cided under the rotation system
who should represent Southeast
Georgia in the Senate this year,
there are 880 registered voters,
and only nine Catholics.
Mr. Vocelie is still in his
twenties, and is a practicing at
torney at St. Mary's. lie also
edits the Southeast Georgian, a
weekly. His record in the House
of Representatives last year was
such as to merit the endorse
ment of his constituents by pro
motion. It is believed that ho
will, be the youngest member of
the State Senate. He is state
advocate of the Knights of Co
lumbus.
CA THOLICS AND EDUCA TION
The Catholic Laymen’s Association of Georgia presents
m part in this issue of The Bulletin its latest pamphlet:
Catholics and Education. The matter it contains was com-
piled from the files of the Association. It covers the scope
of criticisms and objections concerning Catholics and Educa
tion coming to the publicity bureau in the years since the
Association began its work “to bring about a friendlier feel
ing among Georgians, irrespective of creed.” It is publish
ed, and the pamphlets will be issued, to further this aim, and
it is believed that it will help many to a true knowledge of
the attitude of Catholics toward education and the public
schools. It is the hope of the Laymen’s Association that
this knowledge will remove the objections and quiet the sus
picions that many well-disposed, Christian-minded persons
have been induced to entertain against their fellow-citizens on
that score. The matter of the pamphlet will be published
in The Bulletin in installments. The first one follows:
It is said “Catholics are kept
in ignorance by the Church,
which is opposed tp their being
educated because then they re
ject her teaching.”
On the contrary, the Catholic
Church is foremost or aii institu
tions in the United States, in pro
moting education.
Our census for 1JX0 shows that
Catholices in this country were that
maintaining 16 Universities with 19,-
91)2 students, 114 Colleges and 139-
996 students, 164 Seminaries with
11,198 students, 309 Normal Schools
with 10,544 teacher-students, 7’23
High Schools with 129,838 students,
and 7,412 Elementary Schools with
1,795,653 students, or a total of 2,-
106,027 students.
In the maintenance of these
schools the Catholic Church in the
United States spends one-third of
her entire income. Conducting them
are 55,000 teachers, of whom all hut
a few have forsaken the pleasures of
home, family and society to dedi
cate their whole lives through to the
work of education, for which they
receive on the average less than §400
per year.
Proof enough, surely, for any rea
sonable person, that the Catholic
Church does not keep her members
in ignorance and is not opposed to
their being educated 1
It Is Said: “Catholics have
been driven to make a show of
education in this county be
cause of the existence of the
public schools, which ’ have set
a pace Catholics were bound to
follow or perish.”
On the contrary, the Catholl
schools made an excellent showin
before the public schools existed at
all.
The first school in our country was
a Catholic school, opened in St. Au
gustine, Florida, in 1603, thirty years
before the first non-Calholic school,
the Dutch Reform School, was open
ed in New York in 1633. x
In Governor Benavides’ “Memo
rial” to the King of Spain made in
1629 and published at Madrid in
1630, still three years before the
first non-Catholic schools, many
then flourishing in New Mexico are ;
enumerated. i
Catholics opened the Vlrst schools
also, in California, Colorado, Texas,
Arkansas, Kansas, Missouri, Iowa,
Dakota, Michigan, Minnesota, Illi
nois, Ohio, Maine, Maryland, Ken-
(Continued on page 7)
Texas Democrats and Republicans
Of Oregon Assist Anti-Catholics
Lone Star State Majority Party Rejects Resolution Disap
proving of Ku Klux, While G. O. P. County Organization
in Northwest Favors Bill Directed Against Religious
Education.
San Antonio.—The democratic par
ty of Texas refused to go on record
as denouncing the Ku Klux Klan,
despite the warning of party leaders
that “the existence of the party in
Texas and the nation is at stake as
a result of the activities of that or
ganization,” which was described as
“the degenerate offspring of the
Know Nothing Party.”
Notably among those who sounded
the warning was Col. H. D. Lindsley,
of Dallas, first national commander
of the American Legion, and former
mayor of Dallas- Col. Lindsley was
one of the sponsors cf the resolu
tion condemning the Klan, which
was voted down by the committee
on platform and resolutions.
The resolution against the Klan
was offered by Judge W. B. Teagar
den. It was defeated by a vote of
22 to 4. Later when the Teagarden
resolution was offered as the dis
senting report of the minority of
the committee on platform it was
rejected by a vote of 24 to 4.
The verdict of the whole commit
tee on platform and resolutions was
a severe blow to fair-minded demo
crats who were sorely disappointed
by the convention’s evident partial
ity towards the Ku Klux organiza
tion.
Colonel Lindsley was outspoken in
bis criticism of the committee’s ac
tion.
“The Ku Klux Klan issue is not
state hut national,” said Col. Linds-
ley. “If the democratic party does
not purge itself of the influence of
this organization, it may soon be
come the party of the mob. The
result will be that the voters will
cast their ballots, not along demo
cratic and republican lines, but
along Klan and auti-Klan lines.”
Portland, Ore.—The executive com
mittee of the Multnomah County Re
publican Center Committee has gone
on record in favor of “the so-called
compulsory school hill which is be
ing fathered by the Oregon Con
sistory, Ancient and Accepted Scot
tish Rite of Freemasonry.
In the same breath the commit
tee, which hacked the defeated Ku
Klux Klan candidate for Governor,
in the primary election, goes on re
cord as believing “that all Repub
licans have the right to decide for
themselves what religion they shall
accept,” and deploring the efforts of
“certain individuals and organiza
tions” to inject the religious issue
into politics.
The committee apparently fears
the effect which the tactics of the
Ku Klux Klan and the Federated
Societies have already had in the
Republican ranks and has felt moved
to take cognizance of what seems
to he a movement in behalf of a
third party. As a result a resolu
tion was adopted which read as fol
lows :
“We deplore Hie foe that at this
time there has arisen in our midst
an attempt to reorganige the co
called progressive party, which can
not hope to attain any of its so-call
ed objects, hut the activities of
which can only result in the triumph
of our democratic opponents.”
Meanwhile W. H. Emrick, presi
dent of the “Law and Order League,”
who was chairman of the night
hoard in election precinct No. 201,
has been arrested on five counts,
in connection with alleged election
frauds, and his hail has been fixed
at @2,500. The true hills charge that
Emrick threw ballots to his favorite
candidates in five instances, includ
ing the contest between Governor
Olcott and Charles Hall, the latter
the Ku Klux Klan candidate, who
benefited by Emrick’* activity.