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w Iff m m is m w The Bulletin .. of the Catholic Laymen's Association of Georgia .. ISSUED MONTHLY 407 Herald Building, Augusta, Georgia. SEPTEMBER, 1921 “To bring about a friendlier feeling among Georgians irrespective of Creed.” VOLUME 11. Entered as second class matter. Accepted for mail ing at special rate of postage provided for in Se^- $9 00 A YFAT? tion 1103, Act of October 3, 1917, authorized Sep- ^ * tember 1, 1921. No. 10 THE SIXTH ANNUAL CONVENTION ATLANTA, GA„ SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1921 It is customary to say of every convention that it is the greatest in the history of the organization. To do otherwise than to make that statement about the 192 1 convention of the Catholic Laymen’s Association of Georgia, at Atlanta, Sun day, September 11, would be to violate every prin ciple of truth. There were present at the convention fully 300 delegates and visitors from every city in Georgia, and from many of the towns. Savannah, 300 miles from the convention city, carried off the honors for out-of- town attendance with about two score delegates and members, Augusta was a close second; in fact, it dis putes the honor which has been awarded to Savannah. Macon, in proportion to the number of Catholics in the city, did perhaps even better than Augusta and Savannah. Columbus did herself proud by her dele gation. Athens, Waycross, M i 1 1 e d g e vile, Albany, Washington, B r u n swick, Reynolds, Decatur, Mariet ta and many other Georgia cities were well represent ed. The convention opened with Mass at 10:30 at the Church of the Sacred Heart at which the rector, Rev. James A. Horton, S. M., delivered the sermon. Im mediately after, the dele gates and members assem bled in the hall of the Mar- ist College for the conven tion proper, which was op ened by Rt. Rev. Benjamin J. Keiley, D. D., Bishop of Savannah with prayer. The morning session, at which Capt. P. H. Rice, of Augusta, state president, presided, was taken up with the reports of the committee on credentials, Richard A. Magill, Atlanta, chairman, the address of welcome by President W. P. Jones of the Atlanta Branch, the response by R. W. Hatcher of Milledgeville and the appointment of com mittees. Then followed the reports of President Rice, of Augusta, and Secretary John B. McCallum of At lanta, after which the meet ing adjourned for luncheon at the Capital City Club. Three Hundred at Dinner Over- three hundred members of the Associa tion and their friends sat down at the banquet, as the guests of the Atlanta Branch, of which Winfield P. Jones is president. The great hall of the club was filled to its doors. There were no speeches at the dinner. After the dinner, the del egates and members re turned to the convention hall, where they heard the reports of T. S. Gray, state treasurer, an d Richard Reid, director of publicity. Mr. Gray showed the asso ciation to be in sound fi nancial condition. The re port of the publicity direc tor, for the committee, is reproduced in part else where in this issue. First Vice-President J. J. Hav- erty of Atlanta presided at the afternoon session. Admiral Benson, who was introduced by Rt. Rev. Benjamin J. Keiley, D. D., Bishop of Savannah, com plimented his fellow Geor gians on the work they had done in organising the Catholic Laymen’s Associ ation of this state. “Your purpose to ac quaint your neighbors with the attitude you hold on the principle of the separation of church and state is so definite and certain that it is hard to believe that any one could for a moment think we would have any other condition that we now have and hope to continue,’ said the Admiral. “Your Association has done more work than even you yourselyQ^ realize. THE 1921 CONVENTION It was the greatest in the history of the Cath olic Laymen’s Association of Georgia. P. H. Rice, of Augusta, was re-elected presi dent, Col. P. H. Callahan, of Louisville, hon orary vice-president, J. J. Haverty, of Atlanta, first vice-president, John B. McCallum of Atlan ta, secretary, T. S. Gray, of Augusta, treasurer. Richard Reid, of Augusta, was elected chairman of the publicity committee, succeeding E. A. Sheridan of Macon, who asked that he be re lieved of the position. Mr. Sheridan remains as a member of the committee. The address of the day was deivered by Ad miral Wm. S. Benson, U. S. N., of Washington, the man who transported millions of United States troops to Europe during the war without the loss of a single man. The complete text of Admiral Benson’s speech will be carried in next month’s Bulletin. Greetings were cabled to His Holiness, Pope Benedict XV, by the convention through a com mittee headed by J. J. Haverty, of Atlanta. The delegates and visitors, to the number of 300, were entertained at a dinner at the Capital City Club at noon Sunday. The convention adopted resoutions denying that Catholics are opposed to the system of pub lic schools, and that they preached or favored so cial equality, and went on record as opposing any organization which constitutes itself a super government and undertakes to enforce the laws, despite the fact that the state has two courts of justice functioning for the duty. Besides Admral Benson, the convention speak ers were Col. Paul B. Malone, U. S. A., a dele gate from Columbus, Michael Williams of Wash ington, D. C., and Benedict Elder of Louisville, Kentucky.