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THE BULLETIN OF THE CATHOLIC LAYMEN’S ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA
NOVEMBER 27. 1937
THE BULLETIN
The Official Organ of the Catholic Laymen’s
Association of Georgia
RICHARD REID. Editor
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Published monthly by the Publicity Department
with the Approbation of the Most Rev. Bishops of
Raleigh. Charleston. Savannah. St Augustine and Nash-
ville and of the Rt Rev Abbot Ordinary of Belmont.
ASSOCIATION OFFICERS FOR 1936-1937
ALFRED M BATTEY Augusta President
J* J- HAVERTY K. S. G.. Atlanta ...First Vice-President
J. B McCALLUM. Atlanta Secretary
THOMAS F WALSH, Savannah Treasurer
RICHARD REID. Augusta Publicity Directoi
>TT FC11.F, FERRY Augusta. Asst. Publicity Director
Vol. XVIII
November 27. 1937
No. 11
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September l 1921
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Association of the United States the Georgia Press
Association and the National Editorial Association.
The Latest Panacea
O UT of the Middle West, from Kansas, there comes
through the United Press an account of sterili
zation which substantiates all that the Catholic Press
has been asserting about the practical dangers of the
movement, not to mention its moral aspects.
The Beloit Reformatory in Kansas receives girls un
der sixteen years of age. The records of the institution,
according to a former Congresswoman who inspected
them, showed that 62 of the 148 girls had been sterilized
during the recent gubernatorial regime, and 22 more
were scheduled for the operation, a major one in wo
men, when a new state administration took office.
“Parents’ pleas did not stop these wholesale sterili
zations one bit,” said the critics of the operations, ac
cording to the story tire United Press sent out October
23. Some of the reasons were “utterly ridiculous. One
girl was sterilized because she had a high temper.”
Such action not only deprives these girls of the pros
pect of happy married life and motherhood, but may
eventually drive them to the streets, in the opinion of
the Kansas opposition.
The chairman of the board of administration at the
time the operations were performed admitted that the
figures were substantially correct, but asserted that the
consent of parents and guardians was secured, an asser
tion the opponents of sterilization spiritedly deny. He
further states that the girls who were sterilized were
“obstreperous and fighting’ or were ' perverts”.
Sterilization was first advocated as a cureall for the
breeding of ‘morons”; now, as the Catholic Press pre
dicted, it is applied to those state institution officials
who in certain states consider “obstreperous and
fighting” and ‘‘perverts”. And the oldest of these Kan
sas girls was sixteen; most of them were of the age of
grammar and junior high school students, when char
acters are being formed.
Non-American Popes
O NE of the major worries of many Americans who
are not Catholics is the fact that the Pope and
his predecessors over a long series of generations have
been Italians. They are not comforted by the observa
tion that if the arrangement satisfied Catholics, it ought
to satisfy them.
Edward Doherty, writing in Liberty, gives an answer
such disturbed souls may be able to understand. Mr.
Doherty accurately asserts that “there is no rule that
an Italian cardinal must be elected to the Holy See.
The successful cardinal need not be a cardinal. He may
not even be a priest. Any Catholic layman could be
come Fope. That is, legally.” But any layman so elect
ed would then be consecrated a Bishop, the Bishop of
Rome and ex officio Pope.
However, says Mr. Doherty, in the event of a vacan
cy m the Holy See (which may God forbid, for a long,
long time) “it is almost certain the successor to Pius XI
will be a cardinal and an Italian. The Sacred Conclave
of Cardinals, which elects the Pope, takes many things
into consideration. If they elect a German, they may
antagonize France, they fear. If they elect an Ameri
can, there may be bad feeling in the British Empire,
because so many American Catholics are opposed to
England.”
On the other hand, “the Vatican is always seeking
young priests to train in diplomacy. These, after long
and careful preparation, are usually placed in impor
tant positions in the Vatican or foreign countries. Ob
viously, one. of these men is better qualified to take
over the cosmopolite and complex duty of the papacy
than one whose thought and training have been along
national lines. The cardinals realize this, and vote ac
cordingly. Incidentally, the majority of the trained
church diplomats are Italians,” just as they would nat
urally be Americans if the Holy See were New York
or Chicago or Washington instead of Rome.
Mr. Doherty in our opinion places too much emphasis
on national antipathies, and all our American Cardinals
have in a distinguishead measure that universality of
mind essential to the Father of Christendom. But we
believe that Mr. Doherty’s explanation is sufficiently
accurate to answer the good people who believe that
it is very un-American to have a non-American head
of the Church Universal.
A Lesson in Veracity
D EAN INGE, one time of St. Paul’s in London, in a
letter to The Spectator stated that “the Protes
tant clergyman of Salamanca has been murdered; and
before he was killed, it is said that his wife and two
small children, one of them a baby in arms, were ex
ecuted in his presence (by the Rightists). At Vallado
lid, the clergyman was thrown into prison with his
family at the outset of the movement; and it Is stated
that the prison was deliberately set on fire and all
were burned alive. It appears that the clergyman at
Miajadas and his wife were shot. The clergyman of
Saragossa was condemned to death and the Catholic
priests had gathered to gloat over the spectacle of his
death; but thanks to the intervention of the Consul, his
life was spared.” And so on.
Dean Inge at one time said the trouble with Catho
lic priests is that they are not gentlemen. The Ameri
can signatories of the Protestant letter of protest against
the letter of the Spanish Bishops assumed that Dean
Inge was a gentleman and an informed one, and in
corporated a reference to his charges into their state
ment.
Now comes Russell Palmer, American publisher, a
Protestant and a Mason, who shows from F. Theo.
Rogers’ “Spain; A Tragic Journey”, that Dean Inge has
misinformed them.
The “Protestant clergyman of Salamanca”, the Rev.
Atilano Coco, instead of being killed after his wife and
two small childreh, is enjoying perfect health, and his
wife and children with him, Mr. Rogers states after
personal investigation. Futhermore:
“At Valladolid, there are two (Protestant) clergy
men, one an Englishman, Mr. William Willes, and the
other a Spaniard, of the name of Manuel Borobia Mu
noz. As they are both alive, it follows that neither of
them fell a victim, with his family, to the fire alleged
to have been set to the prison of that city.
“The clergyman of Miajadas, Carlos Linan Andueza
by name, has not been shot in the company of his
wife. He disappeared from that town towards the
middle of July, after cooperating there with the mem
bers of the Popular Front, to which he probably be
longed. From Miajadas he went to Madajoz, where
he still lives with his wife, Consuelo (nee Holmo Mu
noz) at No. 5 Calle Castillo Milltar.
‘It is also untrue that the Protestant clergyman of
Saragossa was condemned to death and, needless to say,
quite untrue that the Catholic clergy had arranged a
rendezvous to witness his translation to a better world.
The clergyman in question, Mr. Benjamin Hera Benito,
fearing the possibility of reprisals being taken for the
villainous bombing of the Church of Our Lady of Pil
lar (no such reprisals were ever taken) applied to the
Civil Governor <a Rightist) for protection, which was
granted him, as well as means to remove to Jaca, where
he is still living in perfect health.”
A strict regard for the truth is a characteristic of
gentlemen. When a gentleman unwittingly misrepre
sents a fact, he feels bound in honor to admit his er
ror, especially when it had injured others. Mr. Rogers’
book has been out long* enough and has been quoted
widely enough to have brought it to the attention of one
with such an interest in Spain as Dean Inge appears
to have. Our English exchanges have had no reference
to any retraction of his. Is it too much to expect, in
the light of the evidence, that one will be forthcoming?
Dixie Musings
An Augusta youngster, deeplv im
pressed at seeing the Holy Father in
a news reel, said: “But I never knew
the Pope was a movie star.”
And children at a Georgia fair, see-
mg some Ssters inspecting the school
exhibits, thought they were Hallow-
e en fantastics.
_ Some of the Catholic children com
ing to the Religious Instruction Camp
near Savannah last year and this were
no better informed; they had never
seen a Sister before.
Our Jewish friends are exercised
over Mexican anti-Semitic legislation
which threatens to ruin the Jewish
merchants of the Southern Republic.
You cannot confine bigotry to one
channel; sooner or later it overflows
and sweeps everything before it
Some of our other friends are excit-
sd about Fascism” in Brazil. Here as
in Italy, Germany, Spain and else
where “Fascism” was the result of the
uireat and agitation of Communism.
Fud the world of Communism, and
Fascism” will race it to oblivion.
Wh° Remembers John Brown
Is Buried,” according to a headline in
the Atlanta Constitution, and we can’t
help thinking that this is rather dras
tic.
The Sardis and Waynesboro, jGa.,
high schools staged a football game
with six men on a side, an arrangement
sugegsted for smaller schools. Six men
could hardly do worse than some
eleven-men teams.
The Statesboro, Ga., Times, edited bv
Dave Turner, announces that the wife
of a prominent state official was the
guest of honor at a seated luncheon at
Brooklet. It sounds quite swanky.
These arguments of political econo
mists or economic politicians or what
ever they are remind us of the discus
sions of physicians which give the pa
tient high fever when he hears one
say: "All right, but the post-mortem
will show I’m right.”
housing work on the lecture platform
and to serve his country in other ways.
One of our Southern editorial writ
ers sees much in common between
Nazism and Ku Kluxism with their
Nordic and Anglo-Saxon supremacy
principles and their storm trooper and
white robed band psychology. "The
whole idea of Aryan control was ex
pounded by Wizard Hiram before Hen-
Hitler ever got around to it.”
“The first step in getting South
American trade is to learn South
American manners,” says Robert Quil
len, whom we believe more than worth
quoting twice in two columns.
Were we embarrassed when the
University of Georgia football tear
was in Boston and the erudite Bosto.
Herald split an infinitive! The Herald
editorially said that the Boston Uni
versity building program "is now to
be actively begun.”
Holy Cross won an exciting foot
ball victory over the University of
Georgia, 7 to 6, so Georgians (except
those from Tech) will perhaps agree
that-the Holy Cross eleven ranks with
its nine.
They invited us up to a Georgia
smoker the night before the game in
Boston so that we might tell them
something about Georgia, and espe-
ciauy about Georgia’s numerous vic
tories over Yale.
We were able to inform them that
Coach Harry Mehre got the men from
Athens m fighting mood by telling
them that every man on the Yale team
was a Republican.
But when they met Holy Cross they
evidently ran into a bunch of New
Dealers. TYying to regard them as
Yankees didn t help much either, with
Mr. William Osmanski leading the op
position.
The faculty adviser plan at the Uni
versity of Georgia did not work out
very well, according to an Atlanta
Constitution editorial, and Harrison
Jones, Atlanta business leader, pro
posed that upper classmen be the
confidants of the freshmen.
. I n Catholic colleges and universi
ties, there is the confessional and the
spiritual director for young men—and
all others—in trouble. You cannot
improve on the wisdom of the
Church.
American Leftists claim there are 2,-
000 young men from the United States
in the "Abraham Lincoln Battalion” in
Spain. Each of the 2,000 is there in de
fiance of the law of the United States.
We hear nothing of them or the Rus
sians or the French, in Spain, only of
the Italians and the Germans, until
there are appeals for mony to help
them. i
When Captain Hartman of Georgia
was taken from the lineup late in the
game, after over three periods of dis
tinguished service, the twenty-five
thousand people present, led by the
Holy Cross fans, gave him perhaps the
greatest ovation ever given a visiting
playel^wa Boston.
The Augusta, Ga., Herald reports
that in New York State there is a li
quor dealer for every 555 citizens and
m Georgia one for every 626 citizens,
according to the reports of the Federal
treasury department. Georgia, you
will recall, is dry, which means that
the state gets no taxes from the liquor
which is sold. The Federal govern
ment gets its, or else . . .
The alleged “Fascist” government in Brazil, which
denies it is Fascist, is disturbing many of our com
mentators more than the government just beyond the
Rio Grande which is admittedly radical and anti-re
ligious and patently Communistic in tendency. “Fascism”
is invariably a reaction to Communism; eliminate
Communism and such reaction will fade.
Social Justice Exemplified
C OL. P. H. CALLAHAN, K. S. G., of Louisville, Ky.,
who still retains his Prohibition convictions un
diluted, has a theory of Social Justice which he has
transformed into fact. Its details were worked out
some years ago by Colonel Callahan and Monsignor
John A. Ryan of the Catholic University of America,
a pioneer in the Social Justice program; Colonel Cal
lahan then installed the “Ryan-Callahan Plan” in his
factory.
The plan provides in the first place a living wage
for everyone in the plant, to enable the employes “to
live in what we term the ‘American Fashion’ so that
they win be a credit to the Company and the Com
munity in which they live.”
Secondly, six per cent interest is then paid at the
end of the year as “Wages to Capital”, to the owners
for their investment. This investment is determined
only by the cash and accounts receivable, inventories,
buildings and equipment at actual cost, less the gov
ernment allowance for depreciation.
Finally, all profits after the wages to labor and the
wages to capital are divided equally; the first half goes
to the employes, in the ratio of the wages received,
and the other half is paid to the stockholders.
It is most essential that everyone concerned know
and realize .what this system means to each of them,”
says the plan s sponsor, “namely that half of whatever
is made or saved is theirs, and likewise that half of
whatever is wasted or lost will have to be borne by
them.”
The first requirement of the successful operation of
the plan, it seems to ns, is mutual confidence. The
success of the Ryan-Callahan plan demonstrates that
this and the surmounting of other obstacles are pos
sible where there is good will on both sides.
The Jesuits who treated Indians as
fellow men never had reason to hate
them,” writes Robrt Quillen, the
sage of Fountain Inn, S. C., as a cap
tion of one of his daily syndicated ar
tides.
A number of highly placed persons
in the United States signed the letter
of criticism of the Spanish Bishops
published in the New York Times. We
doubt the effectiveness of ahy move
ment to tell these gentlemen what we
think of them and that we don't pro
pose to be insulted thus. The remedy
lies in convincing them that they were
wrong, and this by a presentation of
facts. A Protestant gentleman. Russell
Palmer, California publisher, has un-
dertakn this task, as indicated else
where in this issue of The Bulletin.
The open letter of these Protestants
occasioned the answer of Monsignor
Ready, the answer of representative
Catholic clergy and laymen, letters
from many Protestants disassociating
themselves from the letter of criti
cism, Mr. Palmer’s statement and oth
er similar matter. So out of the evil
came good.
Now is the time to remind our peo
ple that in harmony with the spirit of
Christmas religious Christmas cards
should be used, and cards which re
mind us that peace was promised “to
men of good will” rather than “peace
on earth, good will to men.” Some re
ligious orders send Christmas cards to
Catholics without invitation, and
sometimes we send them back, and
then rush out a couple of days before
Christmas looking for cards. The reli
gious orders and Catholic .associations
sending the cards are all doing merito
rious work, which is assisted if we use
—and pay for—the cards.
Art Kuhl of The Queen's Work re
ports "the best capsule criticism” of
Justice Black’s radio speech, that of
Father Edward P. Dowling. S. J., of SL
Louis, who said: "I thought when he
started out that he was going to ex
plain to the Supreme Court how he got
into the Klan, but he wound up ex
plaining to the Klan how he happen
ed to get into the Supreme Court.”
The New York Tjmes of October 28
announced that the Rev. John H.
Johnson, Negro candidate for City
Council in New York, was endorsed by
the Communist Party and other or
ganizations including the Interdenom
inational and Baptist Ministers Union.
An advertisement in the New York
Times said that Rabbi Stephen S. Wise
was to speak for Thomas E. Dewey,
candidate for district attorney, over
WOR. A Presbyterian minister was the
Republican nominee for Governor of
New Jersey. Whatever else this
proves, it does not prove that the Cath
olic Church is in politics.
Especially since the secretary of
charities for Cardinal Hayes issued an
authorized statement repudiating the
action of the politicians who distribut
ed circulars asserting that LaGuardia
was a Communist and an atheist and
urging Catholics as Catholics to vote
against him. Pastors of Catholic
churches in New York forbade the dis
tribution of such circulars at the en
trance of their churches when they
learned of them.
There is considerable surprise mani
fested by some of our Catholic and
secular newspapers at the news that
Hon. Tom Heflin has been on the Fed
eral payroll. It’s been no secret down
this neck of the woods, where
we have long known that he is getting
56,000 a year to publicize the federal
Dudley Glass in the Atlanta Geor
gian recalls that a New York lawyer
getting a land title from Texas wrote
back that the title did not go back far
enough. Whereupon the Texan replied
that the land was acquired from the
United States Government “which ac
quired it by purchase from France,
and France acquired the land by con
quest in a successful war with Spain,
which attained title to it by virtue of
discovery by Columbus, who claimed
it on October 12, 1492. Columbus got
his authority from Ferdinand and Isa
bella, of Spain, who got their author
ity from the Pope of Rome, who claim
ed authority by virtue of the fact that
he was Vicar of Christ on earth, and
Christ had authority as the Sbn ol
God, and GOD CREATED THE
EARTH.”
A real “Tobacco Road” character
died recently, Algernon Morgan, who
lived on Tobacco Road, near Augusta,
Mr. Morgan, who on occasion used the
information facilities of the Catholic
Laymen’s Association of Georgia, was
splendidly educated, urbane and
widely traveled, a man of culture. The
success of “Tobacco Road” brought
visitors to the section from all parts ol
the country Mr. Morgan spent a large
portion of his time chatting with them
at what he called his “Castle of the
Sun" and telling them that the picMiee
drawn in the play is not so.
The Brunswick, Ga., Pilot lists as
prominent Yankees: Gomez, Crosette,
Lazzeri and DiMaggio.
The Rev. Bascom Anthony, Georges
Methodist, says that while he is op,
posed to all tyranny, given the choice
of the tyranny of the big boss and the
tyranny of the mob, he will take the
big boss “because he may have sense
enough to know what he is doing, and
the mob never does.”