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THE BULLETIN OF THE CATHOLIC LAYMEN’S ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA
THE BULLETIN
|The Official Organ of lhc Catholic Laymen's Association
of Georgia.
RICHARD REID, Editor.
Published Semi-Monthly by the Publicity Department
Herald Building. Augusta, Georgia.
Subscription Price, $2.00 Per A’ear.
ASSOCIATION OFFICERS FOR 1921-1922.
|ft Rice, K. S. G., Augusta .. President
II. Cnllahan, Louisville, Ky Honorary Vice-President
■flbaverty, Atlunta First Vice-President
"j'jV. McCallum, Atlanta Secretary
i Thomas S. Gray, Augusta • ■ • •
Richard Reid. Augusta Publicity Director
Miss Cecile C. Ferry, Augusta ... Assistant I ublicity Director
VOL. III.' MAY 15, 1922. NO. 8.
Entered ns second class matter June 15, 1921. at the Post
Office at Augusta, Ga., under Act of March, 1879. Accepted
for mailing at special rate of postage provided for in Section
110S, Act of October 8, 1917, authorized September 1, 1921.
Bishop Barry.
The interest of the Catholics of Georgia in the
Lcese of St. Augustine is exceeded only by that
|v have for their own Diocese of Savannah. It
lot to be wondered at, therefore, that they are
sed that this szcient See against has an active
losing, by elevation to the Archdiocese
Baltimore, the great Archbishop Curley. And
■ hey find additional grounds to congratulate their
fellow-Catholics in Florida in the fact that it is
Rt. Rev. Patrick Barry, D. D., who has succeeded to
the See of St. Augustine.
Bishop Barry is widely known in Georgia. As a
scholar and a churchman, he has earned an enviable
reputation, and his capacity for work, his untiring
zeal, his seemingly inexhaustible energy, these and
other characteristics which distinguished him in
parish work augur for him equally distinguished
8 career as a prelate.
The Bulletin believes that the Diocese of St. Au
gustine, as well as Bishop Barry, should be con
gratulated. It bids him Godspeed in the great
Ivork that lies before him. We pray that his hopes
for the ancient Diocese, the cradle of our faith in
this country, may be realized. Judging by his
accomplishments up to this time, we are morally
certain that they will become realities.
General Malone.
It is now Brigadier General Paul A. Malone, U. S.
A., not Colonel Malone. Or it would be more proper
to say that it is again General Malone, for this dis
tinguished son of the Church, whom Georgia now
claims as its ,own, held that rank in the days of the
war. The confirmation of the nomination of General
Malone was announced in Washington a few days ago,
after President Harding had sent it to the Senate.
The Catholic Laymen’s Association of Georgia ex
tends to General Malone its hearty congratulations on
the great honor which lias come to him. There is
universal endorsement of the statement that it was
more than merited. General Malone proved his title
to his high rank on the fields of France, where his
military genius and his personal bravery won for
him repeated commendation and five decorations from
f | the American and French government.
It did not require a great war to reveal the ability
General Malone. Before the United States entered
strife, be was known as the orator of the army,
he ranked as high as a literary man. Since the
mistice he has been in charge of the Infantry
at Fort Benning, where his work has attract-
Tuternational attention.
General Malone is not only a great patriot; he is
s well a loyal son of the Church, one of the type that
s proud to make public proclamation of faith, when
occasion requires it. He knows there is prejudice
abroad in the land, entirely too much of it, but he
voices a spirited negative to the proposition that it
is of such porportions as to be a barrier to the pro
gress of Catholics in the world of affairs. If a man
is capable of doing some particular tiling better than
his fellowmen, the world will beat a path to his door,
though he live in the wilderness—this is General
Malone theory.
The career of General Malone is striking proof of
is own theory. A practical Catholic, one known to be
jeh wherever he goes, although his Catholicity is as
jffcrntatious as it is thorough, he had advanced to
- it heights in his patriotic profession. Yet he is
jpTst fairly started; he is a man now in the prime of
life.
'Hie anti-Catholic movements of the present time
cannot stand the test of truth. Our common sense and
the universal testimony of all fair-minded men
teaches us that. And that career of General Malone
teaches us that it cannot stand tlie test of economics.
College Education.
In iifs first message to America, transmitted by
tiie Associated Press, Pope Pius XI made a plea for
higher education. After referring to his life-long
connection with libraries and seats of learning, His
Holiness said:
“The university must be a shrine of learning. Its
purpose should he to mould intellectual leaders and
endow them with deep erudition, guided by the
principles of faith Zeal, spirit and learning are
forming the most important effort of achievement.”
It was with this conception of the functions of
university training that the Department of Education
of the National Catholic Welfare Council began its
campaign for a Catholic College Week in which the
importance of higher education should be stressed.
It is significant, however, that the preliminary an
nouncement of the Department immediately attracted
attention, were given wide publicity by the leading
sgPito newspaper?" lnn#~-p£QVoked men of affairs of
national prominence to public tfrseussion of the value
of a college course.
Among those who have contributed to this dis
cussion is Samuel Rea, president of the Pennsylvania
Railroad. Mr. Rea, who is not a college graduate
himself, having entered the service of the great
system he now directs at the age of 15 years, has
made a study of the education data in the official
biographies of 1G3 leading officers and directors of
the Pennsylvania Railroad. He announces that the
record demonstrates conclusively that the young man
who begins his work with a mind intensively train
ed by college education, has a much greater chance
of attaining a position of~high responsibility and
corresponding compensation than lias the young man
without this advantage.
Mr. George Reynolds, president of the Continental
and Commercial Bank, Chicago, says: “If my words
have any weight, I would like to impress on boys
and young men one point: GO TO COLLEGE. I did
not go; but I realize that the man who has made a
university course has a tremendous advantage over
the boy who had to plod step by step through the
hard school of experience.”
Few people today question the need of a high school
training. In twenty-five years the same unanimity
of opinion will prevail regarding the necessity of a
college education.
There are 45,000 students i(i Catholic colleges, uni
versities and seminaries. An almost equal number
attend non-Catholic colleges. Catholics appreciate
the value of higher education. No class is making
greater sacrifices to educate their hoys and girls.
The most significant thing, however, is that, when
possible, they desire their children to receive their
education in a Catholic college. This is not merely
the result of religious loyalty. Catholics know what
their colleges are and what they are doing. They
understand the superior kind of training which i,s
given in a Catholic college. They value the religious
atmosphere which prevails there. They want their
sons and daughters to be educated, upright, honest
and hard-working men and women. They send them,
as a matter of conviction, to the one place where
they can be s'o trained—to a Catholic college.
We hear many complaints about the lack of op
portunity for young people today. There never was
a time in the history of the United States when the
chances for leadership were so many and so tempt
ing as at the present time. This is particularly true
where Catholic leadership is concerned. The Church
has emerged from the war her prestige remarkably
Dixie Musings
Among those who journeyed to
Florida to attend the consecration
of Bishop Farry was Rev. P. A. Ry
an, S. J., pastor of Sacred Heart
Church, Augusta, who found out
when lie got there that he had run
in on a sort of reunion of old school
mates.' Father Ryan was not only
a schoolmate of Bishop Barry at
the Jesuit College at Mungret, Lim
erick, Ireland, but o ftlie consecra-
tor, Most Rev. Michael J. Curley, D.
D., Archibisliop of Baltimore; the
co-consecrator, Rt. Rev. William
Turner, I). D., Bishop of Buffalo;
and the vicar-general of the diocese
of St. Augustine; Very Rev. James
J. Nunan, D. D. Other distinguished
schoolmates of Father Ryan and the
new Bishop of St. Augusitne were
Rt. Rev. Michael J. Gallagher, D. D.,
Bisho pof Detroit, and Rt. Rev.
Thomas M. O’Leary, I). D., Bishop
Of Springfield.
It seems that Mungrcf /nfghf weW
be called the Episcopal College.
We read in a great many Catholic
papers that anti-Catholics are op
posing the re-election of a Catholic
in Oregon to the House of Repre
sentatives. Well, what does any
one expect anti-Catholics to do in
a case like that?
Current Comment
Down in Carrolton, Ga., there is a
paper which some time ago took the
late Pontiff, Pope Benedict XV, to
task for approving the Armament
Conference. The manner in which
the editor referred to Pope Benedict
led the publicity bureau of the Lay
men’s Association to take the mat
ter up with him. It was suggested
that the time to object to what the
Pope did was when he opposed the
aims of America, not when he en
dorsed them. The editor announced
that he did not care whether the
Pope approved of what America did
or did not do, but he did object to
the publicity the views of the head
of the Catholic Church were getting.
All of which was given due publi
city in the columns of the Carrol
ton County Times.
Then came to the editor of The
Times a message from the Knights
of the Ku 'Klux Klan, No. 13, Ga.,
Sand Hill, expressing to him its
deep gratitude and appreciation of
the sand you have taken in behalf
of American rights and citizenship;
as expressed by you so forcefully in
your recent articles, entitled: ‘Edi
tor of Times Brought to Task,’ and
Who Cares Whether the Pope Ap
proves or Doesn’t Approve?’
‘You have shown the courage of
your convictions, which you will
defend at all hazards, the Pope and
all his great company of edversar-
ies notwithstanding.”
THE SQUARE AND COMPASS
Masonic Publication, Denver, Colo.
The country is full of Masonic
journals, and the remarkable mono
tone evoked from these harps of one
string is wonderful in this same
ness; I said “one string”—but in that
I overstepped the mark—because
they have two. The first is devot
ed to the wonderful sky-blue-pink
perfection of everything and every
body to whom the name “Mason” or
“Masonry” is attached; and the
other string is devoted to telling
what a hell of an outrage the Ro
man Catholic religion is, and what
a blot it is on the world in general
—and Masonry in particular.
Take the best known and widest
distributed one of them all (because
free), the New Age, as an example.
The January and February issues
“scream” with anti-Catholicism. It
out-mcnaces the Menace. It’s a
severe case of Catholicfobia, and I
wouldn’t be surprised but some one
will finally have to shoot the poor
pup la .r^if-defense. . . .
The cornerstone of Scottish fU'e
Masonry is supposed (?) to be tol
eration and freedom from religious
bigotry, but when any one mentions
“Roman Catholics” the New Age
froths at the mouth. How much
of this is sincere, and how much
is propaganda, I will not attempt
to determine, but to say the least,
it has greatly the appearance of a
“smokescreen.” The rite is “tar
red with the same stick” as the hier
archy, and the lady doth protest
too much.
Now, I like to twist the tail of
the priesthood myself, on occasions.
I don’t dare to beat my wife—she’s
larger than I am and she won’t let
me kick the cat. In such cases an
occasional fling at the Holy Father
helps to let off steam. But as a
steady diet it gets nauseative in the
extreme. You feel like the morning
after the night before.
The rite is slowly and insidiously
educating the Craft to believe that
the end and aim of Masonry is to
fight the Catholic Church.
Spiritualism.
lonan Doyle, the distinguished ficlionist, is now in
country lecturing on spiritualism. The secret
iiortal life will never be discovered by the
Holmes method. It will not be made known
claim to be ni ' *■ lure the spirits of
’ hack to r '’ill be divined only
id sancity of their
enhanced. That the moral leadership of the World is
hers, is an unquestioned fact. Will our young men
and women grasp the significance of this fact and
prepare themselves to demonstrate the qualities of
moral greatness which their religion inculcates and
teaches them ?
The Church has a great future before it in the
world today. In no country has it prospered more
than in America. Opportunities for leadership in
the Church, in politics, in business, in science, are
without number. What is needed are not more
opportunities but trained men and women to grasp
the opportunities which offer on all sides.
The Catholic college lias produced numberless lead
ers in American life. Cardinal Gibbons, Archbishop
Ireland, Chief Justice White attended Catholic col
leges. These men had brains and their Catholic
faith; to these two great gifts of God they added a
sound education. Is it surprising that they became
benefactors of mankind and ornaments of the Church
of which they were loyal sons?
If the Catholic boy or girl attends college for four
years, profits by the training given therein in langu
ages, mathematics,scicnCe and philosophy, comes out
into the world and is not a success, both material and
spiritual, then everything we know about preparation
for life is upside down. Success Is not infallibly cer-
eveu for a college graduate, but his chances
It must have required great cour
age on the part of the editor of The
Times to declare to the world and
to Carroll County in' particular that
he did not care whether the Pope
approved or disapproved of what
America did and to do his best to
insult him. We know of no Cath
olic -in Carroll County, although
there may be one or two; still there
can be no doubt about the courage
behind the act. The Ku Klux has
declared it to be courageous; there
fore it cannot be otherwise.
“Such courage as you have exhib
ited on these and other occasions
appeals to every true, patriotic, red-
blooded, one hundred per cent, Am
erican citizen,” the letter continues,
“and as such, we wish to commend
you in no uncertain terms for such
patriotic utterances.” The patri
otic utterance being, you recall, a
condemnation of the Pope's approval
and commendation of America’s in
vitation to a Disarmament Confer
ence.
Just at this point we recall the
solemn declaration of Col. Simmons,
Imperial Wizard of the Ku Klux
Klan, on the stand in Washington,
that the organization is not opposed
to any race or creed.
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While on the subject of the Ku
Klux, we remember reading recently
that a Denver judge ruled that an
oath taken by a court witness takes
precedence over any oaths he may
have taken before an organization.
The decision was gravely published
in nearly every paper in the coun
try. We-may next read of a de
cision by some jurist'that it is
against the law to steal.
A bill introduced in the Massa
chusetts senate with the object of
making church-going compulsory has
been dropped. In the present condi
tion of popular feeling it is prob-
JEWISH CHARITY.
(The Catholic News, New York)
The Most Rev. Austin Dowling,
Archbishop of St. Paul, Minn., in
sending a subscription to the fund
for Jewish relief in the war-stricken
countries, wrote a letter that has
attracted attention throughout the
country.
“The fine tradition of charity and
benevolence flourishes today, as of
old, among the Jewish people,” said
the Archbishop in this letter. “It
has in this country manifested tiself
in deeds of generosity that have
made them the envy of every other
group which deals with misery and
want and suffering.
“Now, however, with very good
right they ask for assistance out
side their own body. They have
done and are doing themselves their
utmost for their nfflicted brethren,
the innocent victims of savage war; I
but the need is too great and too
instant to be measured by their
own resources, and they have good
reason to feel that very many in
all our communities will feel it a
privilege to have this occasion to
repay debts of charity under which
they lie to their Jewish fellow-
citizens.
“This campaign for relief, then,
stands on its merits as a cry for
help from starving infants, from
men and women who faint with
weakness and are reduced to extrem
ity by diseases that the war brought
in its train. It stands on its mer
its also, as coming to us under the
high recommendation of men and
women who have always shown an
unusual sense of responsibility to
wards all in need, and who have
become experts in efficient and ec
onomical administration of their
sacred trusts.”
L. F. Frankel, St. Paul, commit
tee chairman, in his letter of thanks
said:
“On behalf of the St. Paul Com
mittee for Jewish War Sufferers, I
desire with deepest sincerity, to
thank you for your contribution, but
more particularly for your kindly
and sympathetic words.”
Uws
way of
It is now ascertained that Pope
Pius XI. celebrated mass in Westmin
ster Cathedral when he was in Lon
don in 1914. Father Ratti stayed at
St. Ermin’s Hotel, which is just off
Victoria Street, and occupied Room
No. 555. On the presumption that
he might have celebrated mass in
the cathedral, on account of his
proximity to it, the. cathedral au
thorities searched the clerical visi
tors “Sac. Achillo Ratti.” The
“Westminster Cathedral Chronicle,”
in recording these facts, remarks:
“In the year 1914 he signs himself
Achillo Ratti, priest. In 1932 hej:an
sign fyipself Sovereign Pontiff,
iaing