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22 THE BULLETIN OF THE CATHOLIC LAYMEN’S ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA ance in the face of what must have seemed at first hopeless difficulties. You are truly to be congratu lated. I am instructed by our Association to convey these expressions to you with the request that you in turn convey them to your Georgia fellow workers through the columns of your Bulletin. Our Associa tion was inspired by and is modeled after yours, so you see the effect of your work is by no means con fined to the limits of your State. (Signed) Frank C. O’Malley, Secretary.. Atlanta, Ga.I am so very, very busy and have been for some time until I have not found time to reply to yours. However, I shall do so at the earliest oppor tune time. I am enjoying the literature you have sent me. I am a member of the Methodist Church, and have asked for the literature to set myself right in the matter. I was all along of the opinion that the propaganda spread against you was “tommy rot.” Atlanta, Ga., May 6. Please accept my thanks for literature sent me recently; also allow me to say that quite a lot of it has been the means of convincing me that I, as well as many other Protestants, have been falsely impressed in reference to Catholic belief. I enclose a stamp and ask you to please let me know where I can procure a Bible used by Catholics. Again thanking you for literature, I am. St. Mary’s Seminary, Baltimore, Md., June 5, 1920. I tha nk you for your ready and kind response to my request for information concerning the organization and work of the Catholic Laymen’s Association of Georgia. I found it a source of pleasure and edifica tion to learn of the thoroughness and zeal of the Asso ciation in its glorious work. May it continue to be blessed. (Signed) J. C. Shortall. National Catholic Welfare Council. The Hierarchy of the United States. Washington, D. C., May 28, 1920: I wish to acknowledge receipt today of some pamphlets of the Catholic Laymen’s Association of Georgia. You are doing splendid work and my pray ers are with you. Sincerely yours, (Signed) John J. Burke, C. S. P., General Secretary. Augusta, Ga., June 24. Kindly allow me to thank you for your letter and literature of the 23d. I be lieve that the great criticism of your church is caused by the people being misinformed as to your doctrines, and I trust that the day is near when we shall have that friendly feeling among Georgians that you speak of in your letter. Macon, Ga., June 24. Yours of the 23d received, and wish to say that I appreciate very much the copy of “The Faith of Our Fathers.” I want to thank you very much for answering all of my questions, which are answered to my entire satisfaction. Marietta, Ga., April 2 7, 1920. Sirs:—1 have wrote you once or twice not to send me any more of your poppy cock on Catholicism, and you keep on annoy ing me with the rotten, hellish and deceitful stuff, and now you need not think that you can fool the people all the time, and as to your Knights of Columbus Oath, I have one taken from the records at Washing ton, and it is quite different to your sugar-coated one in your circular. If you have such good societies in the Roman Catholic Church and its institutions, why in the name of high heaven did you all not want the Georgia Legislature to investigate same some years ago. You know you are wolves in sheep’s clothing, and that what you are sending out is rotten to the core, and you are trying to deceive the general pub lic. Don’t send me any more of the rotten, damnable stuff, I don’t want to see it. Atlanta, Ga. The various pamphlets and bulletins which I have been receiving from the Association have afforded me very interesting as well as helpful reading, and I wish to take this occasion to thank you for placing my name on your mailing list. Vada, Ga. 1 occasionally receive some literature from you which I very much appreciate. Am not a member of any church, but would be glad to learn the truth concerning your church. Have read Car dinal Gibbons’ “Faith of Our Fathers.” I have the utmost confidence in the sincerity of Gibbons. Will appreciate anything you send me, and especially any thing written by Cardinal Gibbons. Atlanta, Ga., April 21, 1920. 1 have read your Bulletin with pleasure. Better a tardy acknowledg ment from me than none. I have been ill and de pressed, hence no letter before this time. I have noth ing but praise to send you. The necessity for your work is made manifest when I see by the morning paper that Watson carried fifty counties in this State. What a commentary on the patriotism, the honesty and belief in fair play of the citizens of this State. It makes me feel ashamed of the State of my adop tion. I am humiliated as much as disgusted. The practical effect of your work is recognized by all Catholics, the need of it is accentuated by the present primary. I have always had my doubts about the old saw, “Truth crushed to earth,” etc. It stays crushed a long time, and when finally able to raise its head, it gets another whack with the same old bludgeon in the hands of some other party. The old lies which have been answered completely hundreds of years bob up with undiminished vigor requiring another burial all over again. Excuse this discursive letter. I have naught but commendation concerning your Bulletin. Keep up the good work—you have certainly the moral support of all Catholics, in fact, all fair-minded men, regardless of creed. Believe me to be, most sincerely yours (Signed), J. Carroll Payne. Catholic University, Washington, D. C., April 16, 1920: My late return to the University after Easter in part accounts for my delay in acknowledging your kind letter, and in thanking you for the pamphlets. I must confess that I requested one of your pamphlets, “Catholics and American History,” from a rather selfish motive, viz., because I have been working on nearly this same subject during the winter. I must congratulate you on the excellence of these pamphlets that you sent me; but more especially to be con gratulated I think are yourselves, members and of ficers of your Association for the zeal and interest that you have put into this work to make it such a success. I have often thought that such an Associa tion should be started in many parts of the country, but scarcely hoped that it would remain for the Cath olics of the South to initiate this movement. Your great success is well merited, and I shall be glad to bring it to the attention of others in this section. I must, thank you for putting my name on your mail ing list, as I shall be glad to receive copies of all your publications. With hest wishes for your continued success, 1 remain sincerely yours (Signed), J. F. Leary. St. Tammany Council, No. 1380, K. of C., Cov ington, La., April 18, 1920. Editor, Catholic Lay men’s Association of Georgia Bulletin, Augusta, Ga. Dear Sir: I am glad to see such a vigorous plant as The Bulletin springing up from a soil so frequently alleged as alien to the interests of the Church. Please enter our subscription, and send your bill. St. Tam-