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DECEMBER 21. 1937
THE BULLETIN OF THE CATHOLIC LAYMEN’S ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA
SEVEN-A
Convention Resolutions
*
CHATTANOOGA COACH
Wm. H. Coughlan Honored as He
Retires from Notre Dame
High School Post
CHATTANOOGA. Tenn.—When.
William M. Coughlan, for 11 years
head football coach at Notre Dame
High School here retired from that
post in November to devote all his
time to business, he was honored with
a dinner by the Laymen's Dinner
Club at the Knights ot Columbus, at
tended by leading college and univer
sity officials and coaches from this
section. Paul Jones a star on one of
Coach Coughlan’s teams a few years
ago, becomes head coach.
Dorr’s
124 BROAD
AUGUSTA
“Good Taste Apparel”
Crescent Laundry
Company
Up-to-Date Laundry
Work, Dry Cleaning and
Dyeing
519 Seeowd St fhww W- M
MACON, GA.
Owt-of-town work don m
short notice.
Bailie Furniture
Company
Ike Quality Stone
Complete House
Furnishings
7M-710-712 Broadway
Augusta, Ga.
Goodyear Tires
Willard Batteries
Genuine
Alemiting
General Tire &
Supply Co.
Broad at Twelfth Street
Phone 2600
Augusta, Ga.
A Georgia
Product
Made for Our Southern
Climate.
RESOLVED, That we express to
the Very Rev. Dan J. McCarthy,
pastor of the Church of the Holy
Family and Vicar-General of the Di
ocese of Savannah-Atlanta, to Mayor
Wilson, Mr. Kunze, chairman, and the
officers and members of the Colum
bus Branch ^of the Catholic Laymen’s
Association of Georgia, to the Cath
olic Club of Columbus, to the
Knights of Columbus, to the man
agement of the Ralston Hotel, and to
all others who had a part in the ar
rangements and entertainment for
this convention, our heartfelt thanks
for the wholehearted welcome and
bountiful hospitality extended tp us.
We came to Columbus believing we
knew what to expect because of our
two happy experiences on previous
conventions, but this surpassed even
those memorable occasions.
RESOLVED. That we extend to
our distinguished guest and princi
pal lay speaker. Hon. Victor F. Rid-
der, of New York, our sincerest
thanks for the honor he has done us
in making the long journey from
New York to Columbus to grace this
occasion and address the convention,
and we assure him that if he could
know the encouragement that his
coming has meant to his brethren in
the faith here everywhere, but espe
cially in the smaller communities, he
would feel that the great sacrifices
he has made to be with us are more
than worth while.
RESOLVED, That the Columbus
Enquirer-Sun and the Columbus
News-Record for the space they
have devoted to the convention in
their columns, which is but an indi
cation of their customary fine atti
tude.
RESOLVED, That we send from
this convention a message of affec
tion and love to our former Bishop,
the Most Rev. Michael J. Keyyes, S.
M. D. D., who for the first time in
fifteen years is absent from our an
nual gathering. We express our
great joy at the news of his improv
ed health, and pray that God will re-
RESOLVED. That we extend our
sympathy to our suffering brethren
in Spain, that we pray that God in
His Wisdom and Mercy will deliver
that sorrowing country from the
scourges of His enemies, that we
warn our fellow-citizens in our own
beloved country that the forces of
irreligion and atheism which plotted
the overthrow of religion in Spain
are active in our nation and that we,
impress on them the necessity of the
eternal vigilance which is the price
of liberty.
- RESOLVED. That we commend
the press of Georgia for the discern
ment which prevented it as a whole
from being misled by the propagan
da which sought to make the situa
tion in Spain a battle between the
forces of “democracy and Fascism.*’
As Americans and as Catholics we
are opposed to all totalitarianism,
but we believe that Communism is
the greatest threat to America, not
only because of its underlying athe
istic philosophy, but because it alone
poses as democracy in an effort to
mislead the people, while the other
brands frankly admit their anti
democratic policies and principles.
RESOLVED, That this convention
authorizes and that the local
branches promote a campaign of ed
ucation to extend the knowledge
of the efforts of the Catholic Lay
men's Association of Georgia, and
that the Catholic organizations of the
state be requested to co-operate by
devoting a program to the
C. L. A. movement before the
launching of the annual campaign
for memberships; that with the ap
proval of our Most Rev. Bishop a
campaign for increased membership
be conducted in every section of
Georgia during February, Catholic
Press Month, in the manner outlined
by His Excellency and the executive
committee.
RESOLVED. That local associa
tions with the pastors of their re
spective localities inaugurate clubs
for the Study oi Communism and its
antidote, namely the nr-nViplcs of so
cial justice enunciated in the en
cyclicals of the Holy Father, the
Magna Cbarta of the- laboring peo
ples of the world.
RESOLVED, That we thank the
pastors of the Diocese, the priests
and the Sisters and Brothers for their
interest in and assistance to the work
of the Laymen’s Association; this, af
ter the approval and aid of our
Bishop, was the Association's first
source of encouragement and
strength, and we are accordingly
grateful. We particularly thank
them and the parish, local and state
Catholic organizations for what they
did to assure the success, of this
splendid convention.
RESOLVED, We thank our good
friend, Mr. Benedict Elder, for again
coming the long distance from Ken
tucky to Georgia to assist us in our
convention deliberations, and for the
heartening and enlightening words
of counsel he addressed to us. Mr.
Elder is by universal consent the
Association's greatest friend outside
of Georgia, and we prize and honor
him accordingly.
RESOLVED: That we again ex
press to our beloved Bishop, the
Most Rev. Gerald P. O'Hara, D. D.,
J. U. D., Bishop of Savannah-At
lanta, our pledge of unswerving loy
alty, that we felicitate His Excel-
BASQUE CHILDREN
RETURN TO SPAIN
English Committee Con
vinced of Pacification of
Territory Held by Rightists
BY GEARGE BERNARD
(London Correspondent. N. C. W. C.
News Service)
LONDON—Convinced by the re
ports of the two representatives who
accompanied the refugee children *o
Bilbao that the city is normal, the
National Joint Committee and the
— a#
lency on the magnificent strides the
Church in the Empire State of the
South is making under his inspiring
leadership, that we voice the pride
that is ours in having him for our
shepherd, that we reassure him that
we are his to command in all his la
bors for the advancement of the
Church in our great state, and that
our most fervent prayer is that the
Catholic Laymen's Association of
Georgia will ever be worthy of His
Excellency's approval and blessing.
Basuqe Children's Committee have
completely altered their policy and
are in a mood to send a large group
of the children home in a Franco
ship.
Though Bilbao fell in June last, the
t\yo committees responsible for them
have sk ,wn no hurry about getting
the children back home. When let
ters came from parents asking for
the children's return, the committees
hinted tha the letters had been fab
ricated or signed under duress. Then
the committee appointed a commis
sion of lawyers to report upon the
position, and the lawyers declared
Bilbao was safe, that the letters came
from the parents and that the chil
dren should go back at the earliest
opportunity.
Then the committees agreed to send
a group of children of the National
ists would accept, to travel with
them representatives appointed by
the committees. This was agreed and
two representatives traveled. They
cabled from Bilbao to say that the
place was normal and that another
group should be sent. For some rea
son this message was never issued to
the press. The committees followed
their first group of 160 children with
a second group of 54. Another 50
or so soon followed-
THE HOLY FATHER left the Vati
can early in November to inaugurate
the new Lateran Athenaeum.
Georgia s Story to the World
Georgia's j>ast attainments, her pres
ent possessions and lier future possibili
ties are being published to all quarters
of the globe-—thanks to the enthusias
tic interest of thousands of patriotic
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A short time ago we announced that
we had prepared eight booklets” on
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and all Georgians, for your own use —
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sands— the demand has been so aina/.-
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