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12 THE BULLETIN OF THE CATHOLIC LAYMEN’S ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA THE BULLETIN The Official Organ of the Catholic Laymen’s Association of Georgia. Published Quarterly by the Publicity Department, 107 Ninth Street, Augusta, Georgia. VOL. I. No. 3 We Catholics want to live in peace with our neighbors. From early childhood we have been taught to respect the rights of conscience and the sincerity of the religious belief of our neigh bors. We bear malice to no man and we de sire to injure none. We preach the Gospel of Love, and with God’s help we try to practice it. We do not ask from any man that which we are not willing to accord him. The Southern Messenger, San Antonio, Texas. THE CHURCH IN GEORGIA. While the past few months have witnessed a sig nificant recrudescence of anti-Catholicity in the State, they have also seen some happenings that mark great progress for the Church. Catholics number about one-sixth of one per cent, of the population, yet a large number of politicians and other professional anti-Catholics profess to see in their presence a dis tinct menace to the grand old commonwealth. And these modern Cassandras fail to understand what a great compliment they are paying us. Talk about David and Goliath. There are not enough of us to even raise a big noise if we wanted to, yet they make the welkin ring with their yellings about the danger to Georgia we are. Of course, these outbreaks of mouth disease are most numerous around election times, and they must be vote-getters, else their pop ularity would not be so great. But let these fearing ones note the following: Dur ing the quarter just ended the debt on the Cathedral at Savannah was wiped of? and the handsome edifice consecrated. The last ten thousand owed on the Sacred Heart Church in Atlanta was paid and the fine church of the Marists was formally devoted to the service of the Most High a few days ago. The debt on Mount de Sales Academy in Macon, amounting to $100,000, was paid off through the splendid efforts of that excellent cohort of Catholics who live in the Central City, and Rev. Mothers Gene vieve and Alphonsus celebrated their golden jubilee. The Catholic Laymen of Augusta, under the lead ership of Dr. W. A. Mulherin and Mr. Thomas S. Gray, raised a fund of $100,000 to start and perpet uate a free boys’ high school. A new church has been started in Moultrie in the vast mission district of Father Emmet Walsh. Father McCarty has started a new church in Col linsville, Savannah. The high school in Savannah is being rebuilt at great cost. A new church at Gainesville is planned in Father Clarke’s Athens District. These are the important forward steps noted by the editor of The Bulletin. Doubtless there are others, but these should be enough to console those who see dark days ahead for the church. And if these evi dences of material progress do not suffice, consola tion may be had in the following figures taken from the latest Catholic Directory: State Converts Cath. Population West Virginia 160 61,000 Maryland 918 273,200 Virginia 468 42,800 North Carolina 81 8,100 South Carolina 99 10,000 Georgia 266 19,829 Which analyzed shows that in the province of Bal timore this diocese leads, in percentage to Catholic population, in the number of converts to the Faith. And another thought: The State that comes closest in the South to Georgia’s percentage is Alabama, which is another place where the anti-Catholic bigot rages. So, all in all, there is no much for Catholics in Georgia to worry about, as long as they continue to mind their own business and keep up their campaign of informing those who seek knowledge. The fellow who is filled with prejudice is not doing so much harm as he thinks he is. FIRST CATHOLIC DAILY. Catholics all over the country are rejoicing in the appearance July 1st of The Daily American Tribune, published at Dubuque, Iowa, beginning July 1st. This is the only Catholic daily published in the English language anywhere. That this consummation was ef fected in the United States should please every Ameri can and should please enough to secure its support. The Catholic daily is an experiment; not a rash one, but nevertheless a venture. For years one of the livest and best of the Catholic weeklies has been The Catholic Tribune. Some time ago it became a semi weekly, and latterly a tri-weekly, and the daily was begun only when enough subscribers had been secured to at least give chances of success. The American Tribune is a real newspaper. It is not a church paper, as this term is generally under stood. It gives the news of the world every day and has the usual departments of the secular daily. It simply gives a Catholic tone to Catholic news and prints nothing that is anti-Catholic or unfair to the Church. Instead of minimizing Catholic news, as the regular press is accused of doing, it aims to give due importance to such, and while being careful to preserve proper proportions, yet seeks to give Cath olicity its due. The editor is Nicholas Conner, one of the leading Catholic laymen of the West and indeed of the coun try. He is a thinker as well as a doer, a forceful writer and the possessor of a great fund of general