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14 THE BULLETIN OF THE CATHOLIC LAYMEN'S ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA THE BULLETIN The Official Organ of the Catholic Laymen’s Association qf Georgia. Published Quarterly by the Publicity Department, 409 Herald Building, Augusta, Georgia. VOL. I. CONVENTION NUMBER No. 4 A CALL BY THE BISHOP. It is our desire to see The Bulletin become a means of communication ^between all parts of the Diocese, not merely confining itself to letting them know what the Laymen’s Association is doing, but letting the Catholics of Georgia know what the Church is doing all over Georgia, and what the "Church is doing ail over the United States. To do this we need the per sonal interest of every Catholic in the Diocese. We ask the priests particularly to take an active interest in the matter. Any details of their work will be gladly received by The Bulletin editors. The Bulletin has a future, and a great one. All should help in this work. (Signed) BENJ. J. KEILEY, + Bishop of Savannah. The above from the Bishop is respectfully called to the attention of every Catholic, cleric and lay, in Georgia. The Bulletin, while remaining distinctively the mouthpiece of the laymen and their Association, will, by the co-operation of the Reverend Fathers, as indicated by the Bishop, become a means of com municating official and parochial news, and can be made to greatly assist every worthy endeavor. ' THE EDITOR. A MONTHLY BULLETIN. Beginning with December The Bulletin will be issued monthly, and will be sent to all subscribers at $2.00 per year. Every member of the Association includes this amount in his or her subscription, but all others desiring the publication will be expected and required to pay the above price which has been fixed to cover cost of production and mailing. The reason for the change to a monthly is that three months was found to be too great an interval for the accomplishment of the object of The Bulletin which is primarily to keep our people informed of the work of the Associa tion, to keep them abreast of general Catholic events and to bring to their attention answers to current ob jections raised by non—and anti-Catholics. The Bulletin has been singularly successful. It was an experiment that succeeded at once. The first issue was widely praised, and the third was everywhere hailed as excellent. From every part of the country come calls for it. Indeed, more copies are sent out side than within Georgia. Naturally, this put too great a burden upon our appropriation, and was hardly fair to those Georgia Catholics who were sub scribing for work within the State. The new price will do away with this objection, the out-of-State readers paying for what they get. Some details are yet to be worked out and will be settled at the approaching meeting of the Finance Committee, but the editors are determined that the standard set by the quarterly will be maintained by the monthly, even if it is not raised, though this is the consummation we have set our minds upon. INTELLIGENT WORK. The ladies of the various Catholic organizations of Augusta are going about education of the growing Catholics along lay lines intelligently. The leaders are preparing a course to be worked in harmony with the publicity department of the Association that will supplement the Sunday School instruction. It will be designed to make the young men and women familiar with those points of teaching which are most fre quently attacked and will help them to answer the ob jections commonly voiced by the ignorant and bigoted non-Catholics met in the ordinary walks of life. In this instruction, which will be a part of every meeting of each female Catholic Society in Augusta; the pamphlets of the Association will be used, and the question box will be employed. Questions asked at one meeting will be submitted to the publicity bureau, and the answers read at the next gathering. This is practical instruction for laymen. It will in no way conflict with the work of the clergy and Sun day School workers, but will supplement it. The ladies who are conducting these classes are in daily touch with non-Catholics, and are familiar with the methods of attack they employ and realize the need of informing the youngsters so that they can give cor rect answers to all questions. In this connection it is not out of place to state that in St. Mary’s Academy in Augusta one of the classes is using the Association pamphlet, “Catholics and the Pope,’’ as a textbook. This is the kind of Catholic lay activity that will count in the long run most of all. Education along Catholic lines is the one thing that will ultimately remove prejudice against Catholics in Georgia. The more we study the matter the more we are con vinced that lack of education is responsible for the bigotry that is so rampant in the State. Every now and then we run across an educated man who is a believer of the falsehoods against us, but nearly every one who thus expresses himself shows by his spelling and writing and punctuation the lack of even a com mon school education. Teach the young the truth. Catholics have nothing to fear from investigation. What we desire is a rigorous searching into our teach ings. They will bear the closest inspection. The ladies of Augusta are proceeding along the right lines. Persevered in, their work can not fail to bring suc cess.