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Georgia PapersCondemn Movement
To Drop Catholics From Teaching
Staffs of Atlanta Public Schools
Columbus Enquirer-Sun and
Three Atlanta Papers Ex
press Strong Disapproval
of Tactics.
BOARD NOW CONSIDERING
ANTI-CATHOLIC MEASURE
Leader of Fight Launches
It Almost Simultaneously
With Announcement He Is
Candidate for Bench.
Atlanta, Ga.—The three newspa
pers of Atlanta, The Constitution,
The Georgian and The Journal, and
newspapers in other parts of the
state, notably The Enquirer-Sun of
Columbus, have editorially de
nounced the latest movement of the
anti-Catholics of Atlanta, their re
newal of the fight to bar Catholic
teachers from the public schools of
the city. The drive against Catho
lic teachers resulted a year ago in
the dismissal of Miss Jiflia Riordan,
principal of a local grammar school,
and it is the aim of those enginering
the campaign to drop from the pub
lic school lists sixteen Catholic
teachers an dprincipals.
The light is being led by Commis
sioner Carl Hutcheson, of the Hoard
of Education, who introduced a
measure providing that nil Catho
lics be dismissed from Hie service.
The advisory committee of teachers
refused to consider the resolution.
Mayor Janjes Key objected to it be
cause it was too sweeping. The
measure was then amended to pro
vide that “all Roman Catholic teach
ers be dropped from Atlanta public
schools unless they renounce the
policy of that church, which is an
tagonistic to the public schools.”
Tlie Hoard of Education has not
passed on* tlie revised resolution.
Former Belgian General
Joins the Benedictines
Paris.—On tile feast of Saint
Benedict, a particularly impres
sive ceremony took place in the
abbey church of Maredsous, when
Brother dc Grunne, known in the
world as General Count Francois
de Hcmricourt de Grunne, ord
nance officer of King Albert of
Belgium, and former professor
at the School of War and Gener
al Commandant of the Belgian
Garrison at Le Harve until the
time of the armistice, pronounced
his solemn vows.
The family of Count de Grunne,
his children, grandchildren, and
nephews and many near rela
tives were present. The King
of Belgium was represented by
General Viscount de Joughc d’Cer-
daye one of the Aides-de-Camp
of his military house.
A large crowd was present to
witness the ceremony, which fol
lowed the • ancient Benedictine
rite, and a deep emotion gripped
ail the witnesses when, with a
firm voice, Brother de Grunne
repeated three times the decisive
words: “Take me, Lord, accord
ing to Your Word, and I shall
live; you will not confound me
in my expectation.”
TO OUR READERS
Readers of The Bulletin
will note the omission
this issue of the “In Cath
olic Circles” department. It
was also necessary, because
of conditions, to omit a few
other items of interest. It
is hoped that they will re
appear when The Bulletin
comes out again.—Ed. The
Bulletin.
Father Van der Zon s Efforts To
Celebrate Mass Easter Morning
In Thomasville End In His Death
Hon Joseph Scott
ThrillsAudiences
In Georgia Cities
Famous Californian Speaks
to Enthusiastic Gatherings
in Savannah, Augusta and
Atlanta.
“AMERICAN PATRIOTISM”
SUBJECT OF ADDRESSES
‘Best Talk I Ever Heard”
Verdict of Numberless Non-
Catholics—His Trip a Tour
of Triumph.
He and Mrs. Davis, Who Was
Driving, Killed When Auto
mobile Left Road, Hit Tree
and Turned Over.
OTHER OCCUPANTS OF CAR
SUSTAIN GRAVE INJURIES
Party Was Hurrying from
Fitzgerald to Thomasville,
100 Miles Away, for Father
Van’s Second Mass.
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CANDIDATE FOR OFFICE.
Commissioner Hutcheson an
nounced that he would launch his
fight at tlie April 18 meeting of the
Board of Education, hut failed to do
so. He has said he will take it up
later. Almost simultaneously with
the renewal of his campaign against
the Catholic teachers, Hutcheson an
nounced he would be a candidate for
judge of the superior court in tlie
coining elections.
Last year Hutcheson had as an
ally in his first against Catholic
teachers. Councilman Sims, chair
man oi the City Council Committee
on Education, and ex-oflieio a mem
ber of the Board of Education. May
or Key refused to reappoint him
chairman of the committee. Sims
was the mover of the resolution to
have the City Council investigate
the Knights of Columbus.
ENQUIRER-SUN EDITORIAL.'
The Enquirer-Sun of Columbus,
reproduces in part the editorials
from tlie three Atlanta papers, and
adds a hit of comment of its own.
Its editor, Thomas W. Loylcss, says:
“Once more, the Atlanta newspa
pers have come forward with a pro
test against the anti-Catholic cru
sade that continues to disgrace that
city. This time, the cheap politi
cians who use the Catholic issue as
their battle-cry are proposing to ex
pel al.l Catholic teachers from At
lanta’s public schools; some sixteen
in number, and several of them witli
long records of faithful service.
“The leader in this particular
movement is a fellow by the name
of Carl Hutcheson, once a newspa
per reporter, of a kind, now a law
yer, of a kind, and a candidate for
judge of the Fulton superior court-
think, of it! Hutcheson, strange to
say, is a member of the Board of
Education; or, rather, it is not so
strange, after all, considering the
low state of Atlanta politics of late
years—with the kind of people whom
the Carl Hutchesons could humbug
being considerably in the majority
when it came to voting. Anyway,
he and his kind now occupy posi
tions of power in the community,
"lid can, therefore, do much harm,
®swdl as bring much disrepute
ta, which they do with
Governor Hardwick of Geor
gia Condemns It—Presi
dent Harding Opposes Cen
tralization.
St. Louis. Mo.—Seven governors of
eastern, western and southern states,
in commenting on the editorial, “An
Appeal to Governor to Halt the
March Toward Federal Empire,” re
cently published- in the St. Louis
Post-Dispatch, have unequivocally
condemned the centralization of
power in the government at Wash
ington,- and promise their aid in
checking the tendency. President
Harding, through his secretary,
George B. Christian, Jr., also ex
pressed the view that “an effort
should be made to halt the persist
ent effort to reach the federal treas
ury in payment for public service
which very frequently deserves to be
the burden of the separate common
wealths.”
In tlie course of the editorial, the
Post-Dispatch called attention to the
fact that the governors of the states
of flic union have been organized
since 1908 in a continuing body
known as the Governors’ Confer
ence, and urged upon them the ne
cessity of a special meeting “to for
mulate a definite program of action
and to press it upon their respec
tive legislatures in concert to the
end that the most hopeful experi
ment in self-government ever at-
'tempted by a great people shall not
end in failure and despair.”
Governors Against Federalization.
Tlie governors who replied with
approval and pledges of co-operation
are Thomas E. Campbell, of Arizo
na; Percival P. Baxter, of Maine;
William C. Sproul, of Pennsylvania;
Emery .1. Sans Souci, of Rhode Is
land; Samuel R. McKelvie, of Ne
braska; ,1. R. A. Robertson, of Okla
homa, and Thomas W. Hardwick, of
Georgia.
The editorial in flic Post-Dispatch
was an exhaustive review of the leg
islation and the judicial decisions
which in the last twenty years have
abridged the powers of the several
states and vested in the federal gov
ernment authority and functions
which, the paper declared, were spe
Augusta, Ga.—A tour of triumph,
that is the only way to describe
Hon. Joseph Scott’s series of ad
dresses in Georgia last week, start
ing in Savannah Friday night, April
21, continued in Atlanta the fol
lowing evening, and culminating in
Augusta Sunday afternoon.
Mr. Scott came to Georgia direct
from Iloston and Washington, and
gave those fortunate chough to hear
him an oratorical treat they will
cherish through their lives. He
was heralded as a great orator, the
most renowned on the Pacific Coast
an done of the best in the country,
and he proved his title to the repu
tation which preceeded him, and re
vealed why the people of Los An
geles so often made him president
of the Board of Education and the
Chamber of Commerce.
In Savannah, Mr. Scott spoke at
the Chatham Artillery Hall Friday
evening at eight o’clock, before an
audience of 1,000. Grand Knight
Leo Morrissey, of the Savannah
Council, Knights of Columbus, in
troduced him. Previous to the ad
dress Friday evening, Mr. Scott was
the guest of honor at a dinner in
Savannah, attended by many of the,
leading Catholics of the city. He
was met at the train by a delegation
of Knights of Columbus and other
prominent Catholics.
State Deputy John B. McCallum,
accompanied Mr. Scott from Savan
nah to Atlanta, and at Macon, a del
egation of members of the Macon
Council, Knights of Columbus, were
at the station to greet him, and to
express their regret that he was
not able to stay over and deliver
an address there.
State Deputy McCallum introduced
Mr. Scott at the Municipal Auditor
ium in Atlanta, and an audience of
1,500, many of them non-Catholics,
heard him, in spite of the fact that
it was Saturday night, a poor night
for lectures.
AGAINST CATHOLICS
New Yorkers Organize Evan
gelical Society for Avowed
Purpose of Opposing
Church.
THE AUGUSTA MEETING.
Mr. Scott left Atlanta early Sun
day morning, arriving in Augusta
shortly after noon. Here he was
met by a committee of Augusta
Catholics. During his stay in Au
gusta lie was the guest of Capt. P.
H. Rice, K. C. S. G„ president of
the Catholic Laymen’s Association
of Georgia, and who, with Mr. Mc-
Callum and Past State Deputy Thom
as F. Walsh, Jr., of Savannah, was
responsible for the Knights of Co
lunihus sending him to Georgia. He
was introduced to the Augusta au
dience, which filled the Imperial
Theatre and numbered about 1,200,
by ex-Congressman Win. H. Flem
ing, who paid a sweet tribute to him
as an educutor of note, a success
ful business man, an orator of re
nown, a distinguished scholar, and
eifically reserved to the respective i a true patriot, as revealed by his
nued on Page Three.
(Continued on page two.)
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New York.—With a frank avowal
of the intention to enter politics
“along the lines employed by the
Anti-Saloon League,” the Evangelical
Protesant Society, a new anti-Catlio-
lic organization marshaled by lead
ers of the Methodist, Presbyterian,
and Baptist churches, has tarted a
national campaign against the Cath
olic Church from headquarters just
opened here.
Bishop William Burt, former head
of the Methodist propaganda in Italy
and Rev. Dr. David James Burrell,
pastor of the Marble Collegiate (Re
formed) Church of New York City,
are among those enumerated in the
list of charter members of the new
society. Others of its founders are
Rev. Curtis Lee Laws, Rev. Robert
Stuart MacArtlmr, Rev. Frank M.
Goodcliild, and Rev. John Roach
Straton, all Baptist ministers. As
sociated with them in the organiza
tion is Gilbert O. Nations, editor of
The Protestant” and fromer pub
lisher of the “Menace.”
“To Defend Democracy.”
The officials of the society an
nounce that it was initiated “to de
fend American democracy against
the encroachments of Papal Rome.”
Accompanying the letter explaining
the purposes of the Society was a
manifesto which was in part as fol
lows :
The Roman Catholic Church is
the outstanding peril to*America amt
the world. It has always claimed a
‘divine right’ to rule the world, both
religiously and politically, and since
the war it has engaged in a desper
ate effo rtto make good its claim,
its intrigues have been directed
mainly against Great Britain and the
United States.
“It is well known that the Ho
man Catholics have determined to
‘make America Catholic,’ if possi
ble; to create hostility between the
United States and Great Britain, in
order to prevent the close co-opera
tion of Protestant countries; to un
dermine our public school system in
the interest of parochial schools,
where Romanism may he taught;
to rewrite American history in the
interest of tlie papacy, and thus
to poison the minds of even Protest
ant children; to secure strategic
positions in our government for the
increase of Roman power and tlie
furtherance of Roman designs. . . .
to hold the balance of power in this
country through the activity in pol
itics of Tammany Hall, the Knights
Augusta, Ga.—Rev. Leon
ard Van der Zon, assistant to
Rev. Leo M. Keenan, pastor
of the Southwestern Georgia
Missions, with headquarters
at Albany, and Mrs. George
Davis, of Fitzgerald, were
killed Easter Sunday morning
and two others were severely
injured when an automobile
in which they were hurrying 1
from Fitzgerald to Thomas
ville, in order to give the
members of the Thomasville
congregation an opportunity
of hearing Mass, struck a,
sand-bed in the road, got be
yond the control of Mrs.
Davis, who was driving, left
the road, collided with a tree
and turned over. The acci
dent occurred near Ocilla, Ga.
Besides Father Van der Zon and
Mrs. Davis, the occupants of the cai?
were Mr. and Mrs. George Kratzerj
George Ivratzer, Jr., Miss Daisy
Moye and a negro servant, all of
Fitzgerald. Mrs. Ivratzer was dan
gerously injured, and Miss Moye sus->
tained a broken collar hone. Oth
ers in the party escaped with a few
scratches.
The Southwestern Georgia Mis-,
sions cover 15,000 square miles of
territory, or more than the com
bined area of Massachusetts, Rhode!
Island and Connecticut. There wcri)
hut two priests, Father Keenan and
Van der Zon, to attend eight church
es, nine additional stations, and the
1,000 Catholics in this great terri
tory; and it was necessary for each
to say Masses at two places Easter
Sunday. Father Van, as he was
familiarly known among Catholics
and non-Catholics in South Geor
gia, celebrated Mass at seven
o’clock at Fitzgerald. He was not
able to drive a car, so Mrs. Davis
and the other members of the party
volunteered to go with him to
Thomasville, 100 miles away, for
Mass at eleven, an accommodation
frequently afforded him. The party
left Fitzgerald about eight o’clock,
and had gone several miles when the
machine struck the sand-bed. The
injured were rushed to the Ocilla
Hospital seven miles distant, by
passers-by, but Father Van and Mrs.
Davis died on the way.
Mrs. Davis was a native of Rich
mond, Va., and the wife of the pro
prietor of the Aldine Hotel, Fitz
gerald, one of the leading Catholics
in South Georgia. Her husband, a
son and a daughter survive her.
THE FUNERAL
(Continued on page three.) I Continued on Page Thj
A Hogh Mass of Requiem for the
repose of the soul was sung in Al
bany Tuesday morning, April 18,
by Rev. Leo M. Keenan, pastor of
the Southwestern Georgia Missions.
Rev. Emmet Walsh, formerly jiastor
at Albany, and now pastor, of St.
Patrick’s Church, Savannah, deliver
ed the eulogy. The remains \vero
then sent to the Cathedral of St.
John the Baptist, Savannah, ftccom- i
panied by a guard of honor com
posed of j. H. Mock, ,1. H. Lynch,
T. S. Lynch, L. E. Mock, J. G. Bar
ron and J. H. Brosnan. The body
lay in state in the Catsedral until
the following morning.
Lather Keenan was celebrant of
(Continued on page two.)