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Member of the National Catholic Welfare Coun cil News Service. Official Organ of the Catholic Laymens Assoc iat ionsfGeorgia TO BRING ABOUT A FiUENDLtSR FEELING AMONG GEORGIANS, IRRESPECTIVE OF CREED" The Only Catholic Newspaper Between Bal timore and New Orleans TEN CENTS A COPY. VOL. 111. NO. 17. AUGUSTA, GA., SEPTEMBER 30, 1922. $2.00 A YEAl; ISSUED SEMI-MONTHLY 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 (Continued on Page 2.) 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.