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Member of the National Catholic Welfare Coun cil News Service. • 'Tji&t Unltttm Official Organ of the Catholic Laymens Association^Geoigia “TO BRING ABOUT A FRIENDLIER. FEELING AMONG GEORGIANS, IRRESPECTIVE OF CREED" The Only Catholic Newspaper Between Bal timore and New Orleans TEN CENTS A COP':. NOE. 111. NO. 20. AUGUSTA, GA., NOVEMBER 10, 1922. $2.00 A YEAK ISSUED SEMI-MONTHLY FR. VAUGHAN, FAMOUS ENGLISH JESUIT, DIES IN SEVENTY-FIFTH YEAR Had Brothers a Cardinal Archbishop and Bishop and Three Others Priests—His Three Sisters Became Nuns. London—Father Bernard Vaughan, England’s foremost pulpit orator, died at 8 o’clock this mornihg at Jesuit College, Kochampton, in his 75th year, never- recovering from a paralytic stroke received while vis iting Viscount Fitzalan this sum mer. All newspapers deplore his death as the passing of a great Christian gentleman and patriotic Englishman. Tlic death of Rev. Bernard Vaugh an removed from the Catholic church in England one of its most popular figures and will be received with regret in the United States, where Father Vaughan was well known. He visited here on a lec ture lour in 1911 and 1912 and thou sands who heard him remember him well for his eloquence, his erudi tion and his wit. Father Vaughan is not less noted as an author than as a preacher and lecturer. Notable among his written work's are “The Sins of So- ciety,” “The Jesuit in Fact and Fic tion,’’ “The Menace of the Empty Cradle,” “Socialism from the Chris tian Viewpoint” and “Society, Sin and the Saviour.” Father Vaughan was born at Couj'l field, the twelfth of fourteen children of Col. J. F. Vhughan and Eliza Bolls, in 1847. Three broth ers of Father Vaughan’s father be came priests, one a Jesuit, one a Redemptionist and the other Bishop of Plymouth, and three sisters be- cams nuns. The next generation exceeded this record, for of Father Vaughan's eight brothers, six were ordained and all his sisters entered convents. His brothers included Archbishop Roger Bede Vaughan of Sydney; Fa ther Jerome, the first prior of_St. Augustus, in Invernesshire; Father Kenelrn, Bishop of John Vaughan; ahfl Cardinal Vaughan, Archbishop of Westminster. The Vaughans of Courtfield, who have always been Catlioloics, were subjected to no end of persecution on account of their faith, especially in the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and they have always occupied a foremost place among the Catholic aristocracy of England, Courtfield, where Father Vaughan was born, has been the home of the family since 1562. Father Vaughan was educated at Stonyhurst, entered the novitiate in (Continued on page Two) Hon. Alfred Smith, New York’s Governor-Elect Hon. Alfred Smith, one of the leading Catholic laymen in America, who was elected Governor of New York Tuesday. Archbishop of Tours Will Baptize Every Fifth Baby Born in His Archdiocese Distinguished French Prelate Makes Announcement to Show His Esteem for Large Families. Paris.—At the recent Birth rate Congress Msgr. Negre, Arch bishop of Tours, made known to Mhe delegates the decision taken by him sometime ago to show his esteem for large families. He does them the honor of himself baptising the fifth child. The infant does not need to come to the Cathedral. Busy and overworked as he is, the zealous prelate takes the time and the trouble to go to the most remote districts in his diocese to fulfill his promise. In Touraine there are now 93 children “baptized by Monseigneur.” They receive a special insignia, a little violet cross, which they are proud to « wear at religious ceremonies. This touching and significant custom may become general. Al ready the bishops of Blois and Amiens have declared their in tention of borrowing it from Tours. THREE HUNDRED DELEGA TES A TTEND MACON CONVENTION OF CATHOLIC LA YMEN’S ASSOCIA TION OF GEORGIA Georgia Laymen’s Work Surpasses That of New York, Baltimore and Boston, Archbishop Curley Says Washington Audience Hears Prelate Commend Catholic Laymen’s Association of Georgia for Its Efforts—He Asserts Opposition to Church Is Based on Prejudice Rather Than Viciousness and Urges Organization (BY N. C. W. C. NEWS SERVICE.) Washington, I). C.—‘ Opposition to the Catholic Church is opposition to a church that never has existed and that never could exist under the name Catholic. It has grown out of ignorance of matters of faith” declared the Most Rev. Michael J. Curley, Archbishop of Baltimore, who spoke on the work of the Na tional Catholic Welfare Council, and who devoted considerable attention to the wave of hositilty to the Church now evidenced in America. The occasion was the first recep tion given His Grace by the Wash ington District Council of the Na tional Council of Catholic Men and the prelate took occasion to review briefly the situation while made ac cessary the formation of the Wel fare Council and to emphasize its substantial achievements in the few years of its existence. Tribute to Georgia Laymen. Admiral William S. Benson, na tional president of the National Council of Catholic Men, addressed the meeting, which was pesided over by Thomas J. Donovan, president of the District Council. In his . open ing remarks, Archbishop Curley paid his respects to Admiral Benson and spoke of the high regard in which he held him. “As you know, the Admiral was not born of the faith.” he said. “He came up to us from the far away state of Georgia. That is his native state. “I have lived near Georgia for 17 years, and the laymen of Georgia with a diocese of 20,000 people or so, the laymen and women of Geor gia have done more for their lay men's organization than the laity of New York, Baltimore and Boston combined. 1 am talking, as you un derstand, from the standpoint of proportion in numbers. I came up from the state of Georgia last week, and 1 know what they have done in eradicating prejudice. They have set an example for every other dio cese in the country. Georgians are honest. The American public, my friends, the great mass of our popu lation, of our 100,000,000 people, is honest. They may be’ opposed to us, they may be prejudiced, hilt as Am ericans 1 like to believe, and 1 think l am right, that their opposition is not a vicious opposition. It is an opposition that has grown out of ignorance regarding the matters of faith. Their opposition is to a church that never existed and never could exist under the name Catholic; and if you and I were raised in the sur roundings in which many of our enemies of the faith have been rais ed we might be much worse enemies of the Catholic Church. There is great work, therefore, to he done by the priests and people in America, who have received the gift of faith. That is to place it before the pub lic, to place it before Americans who are anxious to know. There is a groping after the supernatural. There is no man who does not real ize that his heart’s desires can never be filled by the things of earth. Reasons for Welfare Council “Now, I think it would he a good tiling to place before you briefly the story of the Bishops’ meeting and tlie works which the Bishops under took. In 1918 (the golden jubilee of the Ecclesiastical Head of tlie Archdiocese of Baltimore) tlia Hier archy of America came together to do honor to their Chief. In plan ning that event, a feeling was arous- Bishop Keyes Compliments Organization on Work it Has Done to Allay Religious Prejudice. MEETING UNANIMOUSLY . RE-ELECTS OFFICERS Nearly Four Hundred Attend Banquet at Hotel Dempsey. Father Mattern Delivers Convention Sermon. His Holiness Bestows Apostolic Blessing On Laymen’s Association His Holiness, Pope Pius XI. lias cabled through Cardinal Gas- parri, Papal Secretary of State, His Apostolic Blessing to the members of the Catholic Lay men’s Association of Georgia and their families. The cable follows: Holy Father is greatly pleased with the filial homage and de votion of the Catholic Lay men’s Association of Georgia, and gladly bestows on its members and their families His Apostolic Blessing. CARDINAL GASPARRI Bishop Keyes, for the Laymen’s Association cabled the following message to His Holiness, through his secretary of state: The Catholic Laymen’s As sociation of Georgia in annual meeting most respectfully of fers its filinl homage to His Holiness, Plius XI. and begs His Apostolic Benediction. MICHAEL J. KEYES, Bishop of Savannah. (Continued on Pace 2 1 (By N. C. W. C. News Service) * Macon, Ga.—Three hundred dele gates, representing every Georgia city and town in which there is a Catholic congregation attended the. seventh annual convention of the Catholic Laymen’s Association of Georgia in this city Sunday, Octo ber 29, and heard Rt. Rev. Michael 1922 CONVENTION, CATHOLIC LAYMEN’S ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA St. Joseph’s Church, Macon, Ga., October 29 A