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Member of the National Catholic Welfare Cou»> cil News Service. 'i|jkt'Qullttm Official Organ of the Catholic Laymens Associaticm/Geosgia “TO BRING ABOUT A FRIENDLIER FEELING AMONG GEORGIANS. IRRESPECTIVE OF CREED" TEN CENTS A QOPY. VOL. III. NO. 4. AUGUSTA, GA., MARCH 10, 1922. THE NEW SACRED HEART SCHOOL, SAVANNAH - ■. :■<: •• •.> - >.: -rys- .< • J*'' j STANLEY BELIES 4* \ - y . *>_:**«■ ' 1 - ‘ . 1 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 vHvvf ^ 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* - ” u. 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