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TEN CENTS A QOPY.
VOL. III. NO. 4.
AUGUSTA, GA., MARCH 10, 1922.
THE NEW SACRED HEART SCHOOL, SAVANNAH
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STANLEY BELIES
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States’ Rights Are Threaten
ed by Protagohists of Sab-
batianism and Federaliza
tion He Says.
REVEALS DANGERS TO
SONS OF REVOLUTION
Kentuckian Also Asserts In
creased Federal Activity
Runs Expenses to Appalling
Figure.
Cincinnati, O.,—Religious liberty
and the rights of the states are men
aced by the propagandists rtf Sab
batarianism and fedeqplization, Sen
ator A. O. Stanley of Kentucky, de
clared in an address he delivered
before the Ohio Sons" of the Ameri
can Revolution here last Wednes
day.
The extent and success of this ad-
vocacy of the drastict regulation
of the industrial, moral and spirit
ual activities of American citizens,
and of the centralization of auth
ority in the Federal Government,
Senator Stanley said, was shown by
the host of petitions coming to Con
gress in support of Puritanical leg
islation and by the number and cost
of bureaus and commissions created
within the last ten years.
Speaking of the forces which
brought about amendment of the
Federal Constitution to prohibit the
making, sale and use of liquor, Sen
ator Stanley. said:
“This powerful, well-organized and
enormously subsidized propaganda
having succeeded in radically chang
ing the form and purpose of the
government is now advocating oth
er sumptuary legislation, attempt
ing to force into an iron groove and
to provide the most drastic and vex
atious regulations for all the indus
trial, moral and spiritual activities
«f the citizens of the United States.”
NEW PROPOSALS OF PURITANS
Instancing the sort of limitations
which these propagandists would
place on the Constitutional rights
of the people, Senator Stanley cit-
, ed several hills now pending in
Congress and being urged by large
numbers of petitioners.
“Bills to abridge the freedom of
speech and of the press, more intol
erable than any continental cen
sorsliip; to give to any arbitrary
bureaucracy practically unlimited
power to exclude from the mails all
correspondence, magazines and
newspapers discussing subjects
which the bureau may in its super
ior sanctity or wisdom believe are
calculated to foster vice or encour
age misdei Uanors in any one of Ihe
forly-cight states,” were among the
measures now being pressed for
passage, Senator Stanley said. Oth
ers of similar nature, he said, were
bills to supervise and censor horse
races, base hall, athletic contests,
theaters and other means and places
of amusement.
“On July 13, 1921, a bill was read
into the ‘Congressional Record’ ac
companied by petitions and other
papers in which it is claimed that
the measure is supported by 1,425,-
295 people in eighteen stales of the
South and West, imposing long
terms of imprisonment and fines
not exceeding 510,000 for any per
son operating a freight, mail or
other train on Sunday or opening a
postoffiec or delivering any mail, or
newspaper published on Sunday, and
any corporation so offending is to
be fined $100,000 for the first of
fense and for the second offense
suffer the forfeiture of its char
ter,” Senator Stanley said.
RAGE FOR FEDERALIZATION
Turning to the rage for federali
zation, Senator Stanley said:
“The Federal Government can not
^ylo twenty times as many things as
the Constitution ever authorized it
to do without spending many times
Couples It With Flea
eration in Answering,
tack by anti-Catholic
lication.
EDITOR OF ‘PR0TE
APOLOGIZES FOR Rj
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Had Stated Commanc;
Nider Was a Cathd;
Would Use Legion to'
mote Catholicism.
The Sacred Heart Parish School.
Savannah shown above, will he
erected at a cost of $60,000. Work
has already started on the building
at Thirty-sixth and Ahercorn
streets. The plans pall for two
stories and a ten foot basement. In
the basement will he located lava
tories, a kindergarten room, a large
play room, 54 by 25 feet, an infirm
ary, a boiler room, a supply room
and janitor’s quarters* The first or
main floor will contain four large,
well-lighted classrooms, 34 by 24
feet, each with a wardrobe room 24
by 6 feet; the principal’s office, a
library and a retiring room for the
teachers, and a large entrance hall.
The second floor will have four
large class-rooms, the same size as
those on the lower floor and an as
sembly room 54 by 24 feet. It will
he ready for use in three months.
PLEASES PRESIDENT
Harding Thanks Administra
tive Committee of N. C. W.
C. for Its High^JEstimate of
Work of Arms Conference.
Washington,—Preside:f . .lias
written to Rev. John J. Burke,
General Secretary of the Nation
al Catholic Welfare Council, the
following letter.
The White House
Washington
February 15, 1922
My Dear Father Burke:
• I have thought possibly you
would like to haVe an acknow
ledgement of the ' resolutions
which you were good enougli re
cently to hand to me giving the
expressions of approval and con
gratulation of the National
Catholic Welfare Council on the
accomplishment of the Inter
national Conference on the Lim
itation of Armament. I am glad
your organization looks upon
the work of the Conference with
such high appraisal and finds
so much of the belief that it
will further the maintenance of
a commendable peace. Since I
had no part in the conference
directly, and may appraise its
work without prejudice. 1 am
happy to say that I think it ac
complished very great tilings the
fruits of which will not lie gath
ered by this generation alone.
With a very cordial expres
sion of esteem, I am,
Very truly yours,
WAR MSN G. HARDING.
The Administrative Commit
tee of the Council in the state
ment on the Limitation of Ar-
, mament Coference presented to
the President stated that the
Conference had “substantially
vindicated” the hopes of those
who had joined in Ihe appeal
for its assembling.
SIX MORE DIOCESES GAVt
MORE THAN DRAFT QUOTA
Washington, D. C.,—Records
of the participation of Catholic
manhood in the service of the
country during the World War
will be ninety per fent complete
at the end of the present year
if the activities of different dio
ceses in compiling their records
during the past three months are
any indication, according to Dan
iel J. Ryan, director of the Nat
ional Catholic War Council’s Bu
reau of Historical Records.
Sjx dioceses have already tab
ulated data to show that they
furnished more than their quota
of the population to the service
and seven others are nearing the
top. These latter: Leavenworth,
Boston, Dubuque, Portland, Nat
chez, Mobile and Kansas City.
Reports indicate that tho work
is being vigorously prosecuted
now in the dioceses of Provi
dence, Cleveland, Springfield,
Brooklyn and Duluth and in the
archdiocese of Chicago. Addi
tional space has been provided
by the Historical Records Bureau
to accomodate incoming records
The work on diocesan war pamp
hlets is also being rushed to com
pletion.
FB. BARRY BISHOP
OF ST. AUGUST
Vicar-General Succeeds
Archbishop Curley in Flori
da—Msgr. Swint Auxiliary
Bishop of Wheeling.
Baltimore Md.—Word has been re
ceived here of the appointment of
the Very Rev. Patrick Barry, vicar-
general of the St. Augustine diocese
as Bishop of St. Augustine, to suc
ceed Archbishop Curley and of the
designation of Monsignor John J.
Swint of Weston, West Virginia, as
auxiliary bishop to the Right Rev.
Patrick James Donahue of the dio
cese of Wheeling.
The appointments mark the first
designation of members of the Am
erican hierarchy by His Holiness,
Pius XI.
The new bishop of St. Augustine
is a native of Ireland and a broth
er of (he Rev. William Barry, pas
tor of Holy Rosary Church, Jack
sonville. His choice is a popular
one, for as rector of the Cathedral
Washington, D. C.—». mm n»au»
for the Catholic Church ind 'Jl
olic army chaplains and
plea for religious tclevaucd
ringing notes in a letter whX
ford MacNider, national comma:?
er of the American Legion lias wrff
ten to “The Protestant.” an ant?8
Catholic public'..Jon of Washington]
D. C, presumably in answer to^al
statement in its current issue that
the h ad of the American Legion
“is a Roman Catholic” and that
every policy and purpose of
Legion, it is expected, will thus'
known to the clerical party and
the directing hierarchy which is it,
potential head.”
The article in “The Protestant” is
captioned “Rome Heads American
Legion,” and among other, false as
sertions, includes one that “|L_U
peculiarly important to the fv
Hierarchy to have the official .
of tiie Legion at this partiij
time.”
Following tbe publication of Cj
inander MacNidcr’s letter “The
textant" sent broadcast a prii
slip labeled, “Correction and ApolJ
ogy,” in which there is a retract ion 1
of the statement that Mr. MacNider J
is a Roman Catholic and the belated!
information that “he is instead
Protestant, a Mason and a thorough
patriot.”
COMMANDER MacNiDElt’S
LETTER.
Commander MacNider’s letter
“The Protestant” ,is as follows:
This country was formed hy me
who sought religious tolerance and
it is that spirit whicli has made iq
free, fine and worth living in,
happen to be a Protestant and
Contributes $2 50 for Relief
of Pogrom and Starvation
Victims in Europe.
of St. Augustine and vicar-general
of the diocese he has won a host
of friends among clergy and laity.
The diocese of St. Augustine has
more than 50,000 Catholics, and the
parish of St. Augustine, the oldest
in the land has a full record of bap
tisms and marriages dating back to
‘the year 1694. Its first colonists
came from Spain in 1565, more than
a half century before the Pilgrims
IRISH HISTORIAN A DOMESTIC
PRELATE;
Dublin.—Canon Dalton of Ballin-
l-obe, County of Mayo, who has been
appointed Domestic Prelate hy the
Pope, is one of the best known pas
tors in Ireland. He is the author
of a remarkably fine history of Ire
land, a work on which he spent
many years of ceaseless labor. His
countrymen are delighted with
distinction conferred upon L* - ”
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New York,—Archbishop Patrick J.
Bayes, of New York has contribut
ed the sum of $250 to the Jewish
Joint Distribution Committee for
tile relief of Jewish victims of wars
starvation and pogroms in eastern
Europe.
“The appeal of my cordial appro
val and best wishes for every pos
sible success,” said Archbishop
Hayes, in his letter to the committee
“I feel confident that the presen
tation in the appeal of the awful
suffering your committee proposes
alleviating, will open up the foun
tains of mercy and charity and
bring about more generous results.”
Cfja&vibutions in New Yorjk, it is
iced, now approach $1,600,000
" 00,
tend a Protestant church, but as
landed at Plymouth Rock.
The appointment of an auxiliary
bishop to the ordinary of the
Wheeling diocese was not unexpect
ed as Bishop Donahue has been in
ill health for- some months past.
His infirmities prevented him from
attending the recent installation of
Archbishop Curley.
Bishop Donahue is the senior
bishop in the province of Balti
more. He was consecrated in 1894
and has remained at his post for al
most twenty-eight years. The
Wheeling diocese includes parts of
West Virginia and has a Catholic
population of *e4tni»-63.00P. Monsign
or Swint is . Patrick's
Church in v] , [ Virginia ft
member of many Masonic hodies,|
which I have taken a more or l|
active part. I have great ndniij
tion for that institution, the*
man Catholic Church. Its
and teachings for the preserjj
of the integrity of our lawfup
eminent were well exemplified8
heroic deaths of men who semBP
my own command. ’And might
add that the chaplains of that fait|
gave a human touch to their sple
did service that made them belol
by all, Jew, Protestant aud Cath<]
alike.”
Gilbert O. Nations, formerly CS
nected with the “Menace,” is e<fil
of-“The Protestgnt.” With theg|
regard of truth and accuracy -s '
marks the professional anti- 1
olic publication, “The Prct
printed the following on li - ’
ject of Commander MacNidv
American Legion, and the Catij
Church:
“ROME HEADS AJHERICi*
. LEGION”
“Recognizing in the Anted
Legion a powerful factor inj
future politics of the United
the Roman power lias never
opportunity to push its alieijS
ence in that great organizes
valorous and popular
men. Information has come
magazine from a source deeme
fectly reliable that Hanford*
Nider, who was recentls
head of the Legion, is
Catholic.
“It is pcculiarlyj
Roman hierarchy
ficial head of
particuL