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Member of the National Catholic Welfare Coun cil News Service. 'Tjht HuUtttn Official Organ of the Catholic Laymens Associatkm/Ceoigia “TO BRING ABOUT A FRIENDLIER FEELING AMONG GEORGIANS, IRRESPECTIVE OF CREED The Only Catholic Newspaper Between Bal timore and New Orleans TEN CENTS A COPY. VOL. 111. NO. 7. AUGUSTA, GEORGIA, APRIL 25, 1922. $2.00 A YEAR ISSUED SEMI-MONTHLY’ 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. E I 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.) 'L .. 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.)