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Assert They Live in Contin
ual Terror—Hold Both Pro
ponents and Opponents of
Treaty Blameworthy.
By J. H. COX.
(N. C. W. C. News Service.)
Dublin.—Mr. Michael Carolan, a
Belfast Catholic prominently identi
tied .with public life in that city,
lias put the position there before
Dai’ Eirreann with first-hand know
ledge. ' Catholics who number 100,-
OOo of the population, lie said, were
living in hourly dread of an organ
ized,; gang of murderers ten times
more savage than the auxiliaries or
Bljwk and Tans who were respon
sible for Hie error in the South
jf Ireland. Upwards of 40,000
mtholics were on the verge of col-
upse from starvation.
Criticizes Dail Eireann.
Mr. Carolan asserts that both
supporters and opponents of the An
glo-Irish Treaty are far from being
-blameless for this state of affairs.
;. They are, lie says, too busy at sling
ing mud at one another in their
party polities to think of tlie poor
- Catholics of Belfast. He contin
ues:
“If you cannot or will not help
us to remain in Belfast there is
nothing left for us but to clear
out. I do not refer now to ttiose
who arc ready to face death, .as
sistance or no assistance, rather than
surrender or run away. But the
*ged and the women and children
who are now the favorite victims of
the murder gangs must he protected,
and if they have to leave Belfast on
account of Dail Eireann’s refusing
to protect them, then it is vour
bounden duty to see to it that they
have homes to go to.”
The same day on which this let
ter was published it was announced
that Rev. Father Laverty, Adminis
trator of St. Patrick’s, Belfast, had
received a letter of which the fol
lowing is a copy:
r
Rev. Sir:—I wish to inform
you that should the Sinn Feincrs
or 1. It. A. continue to take
over Protestant halls and places
of worship in Dublin and else
where, we Orangemen of Belfast
will take some of the convents
in and around Belfast and turn
the nuns out into the street.
I am just telling you what we
will do.
T. G. WILSON.
No places of Protestant worship
have been taken over in Dublin or
| elsewhere in the South. Sdme Or-
I #uge and Masonic halls have been
f occupied by military forces.
Collins’ Answer to Craig.
T lie Irish Provisional Government
refused to have any relations twith
flic Belfast Government in regard
to the commission set up to inquire
Into the present condition and fu
ture development of Irish railways.
Its refusal of cooperation was based
Oil the failure of the Belfast govern
ment lo observe the Peace Pact. Sir
I James Craig’s lame attempt to dc-
| fend his government drew a trench
ant answer from Mr. Michael Col-
i 1ms.
In the course of this answer Mr.
Collins shows that since the Peace
• I act was signed on April 1, the fol-
", lowing is'tile record of Belfast:
Catholics killed, 24; Catholics
wounded, 41; attempted murder of
Catholics, 29; Catholic houses burn
ed and looted, 75; Catholic families
rendered homeless, 89; Catholic per
sons rendered homeless, 400; Cath
olic houses bombed, 5; Protestants
.jkilled, 11; Protestants wounded, 34.
(All these atrocities were committed
."•itliiu the space- of 28 days. No
jfrotestant families were rendered
-meless. Mr. Collins concludes
s answer to Sir James Craig thus:
M’lhis is, you will admit, I am sure,
gl appalling record of crime to
&i>pen in the chief city of any gov-
feliiicnt which calls itself civilized,
''~%cially after having entered into
[honorable agreement with us in
h you undertook to restore or-
HMIHWS
Intruders Break Up Atlanta
Parent-Teacher’s Meeting
As Part of Campaign of Bit
terness.
Atlanta, Ga.—The anti-Catholics
of Atlanta went to new lengths in
their fight against the public school
teachers who are Catholics when at
a meeting of the Inman Park Par
ent-Teachers’ Association a lion-
member of the Association from an
entirely different part of the city,
and a man known to be anti-Catho-
lic, attempted to substitute for a
resolution of sympathy on the ill
ness of Miss Nellie Gatins, the prin
cipal of the public school in that
section of the city, one opposing her
re-election and that of Miss Henriet
ta Masserling, her assistant on the
ground that they are Catholics.
the story of the trouble precipi
tated by anti-Catholics, as told in
several secular papers throughout
tlie date follows:
The incident is undoubtedly the
culmination of the continued fann
ing of a flame of prejudice in school
system politics by Carl F. Hutcheson
and a few others over a period of
three or four years. This, though
is the first time the agitation en
gendered and kept alive by them
has ever broken into actual physical
violence, though the Hutchcsonites
are for a long time have been no
respector of sox in their methods or
verbiage when the dealing with mem
hers of tlie Catholic church who are
on the teachers’ lists of the Atlanta
public schools.
Last night at the Inman Park P.
T. A. meeting resolutions were in
troduced expressing sympathy in the
illness of Miss Neil Gatins, princi
pal of the school in that district of
the city.
Intruder Acts.
John F. Pate,, a lion-member of
the association, and a resident of an
entirely different section of the city,
who claimed to be attending the
meeting as a proxy and by request
introduced as a substitute resolu
tion opposing the re-election of Miss
Gatins and Miss Henrietta Masscr-
Iing, her assistant, on the ground
that they are members of the Cath
olic church and that they oppose
the reading of the Bible in the In-
man Park school.
A hand to hand encounter start-
ed immediately and a telephone call
had to be sent for policemen. Two
of the participants were rather bad
ly handled, but the squad of police
men, headed by Lieutenant of De
tectives Bob Waggoner, who raided
the fight, made no arrests, and the
report was made at the police stat
ion that S. J. Warner and C. H. Terry
the two men who were injured, re
fused to say who attacked them. The
meeting however, was broken up.
“Pate, the man who started the
tiouble, and who lives several miles
across the city from the location of
the Inman Park School, was the
companion of Carl Hutcheson in the
recent street fight over Hutchesnn’s
similar agitation several weeks ago.
I’olice Chief’s Comment,
i he resolution of sympathy,
winch Pate sought to subsititute by
his anti-Cathoiie resolution, was
drawn by ladies of the association
some ten days or two weeks ago.
‘Commenting on the matter today
Chief oi Police James L. Beavers
said:
“It any incident ever constituted
disorderly conduct, the disgraceful
affairs that occurred in Inman Park
school is one. 1 have instructed the
men I have detailed on the case to
trace the incident to its very bot
tom and to serve copies of charges
on every participant to appear in
police court.”
EUROPEAN STA TESMEN AND EDITORS*
WARM IN THEIR PRAISE OF LETTER
OF PONTIFF ON GENOA CONFERENCE
Spanish Hierarchy Frowns on Plan
To Form National Catholic Party
Madrid.—The decision of the
Archbishops and Bishops of
Spain dissolving the various
commitees organized to pro
mote the “Great Social Cam
paign” of the Catholics of this
country has been transmitted to
M. Herrera, chairman of the
Campaign and editor of the im
portant Catholic daily newspap
er, “El Debate.” The order of
dissolution was made because
the Hierarchy had reason to be
lieve that this nation-wide soc
ial movement among Catholics
was to result in the formation
of a political party.
The action of the Episcopacy
lias brought to an end the con
troversies which had. arisen
among the Catholics of Spain.
The leaders of the movement, it
was asserted by tnosc opposing
it, were planning to unite all the
Catholics of the country into a
single organization with the ob
ject of creating a Catholic party
in Spain on the model of the
German Center or the Popular
party in Italy.
Previous efforts made in that
direction have demonstrated the
impracticability of organizing
Spanish Catholics for political
aims. Moreover, the formation
of a Catholic social movement
with the intent to use its forc
es later as a political party
would be contrary to the views
of the Spanish clergy. This
plan would he equally out of
harmony with the attitude of
the clergy of other European
countries, such as France, where
the latest lenten pastorals of the
bishops, notably Monsignor Ju-
licn, of Arras, and Monsignor
de la Villerabel, of Rouen, cm-
phasized that religion should be
removed from party considera
tions, and that while it was the
duty of the Catholics to colla
borate in the work of the Gov
ernment, they should refrain
from organizing themselves into
a Catholic political party.
The French Cardinals and
Archbishops have an organiza
tion which has promulgated and
promoted a social and religious
program, and have given their
approval and support to various
Catholic bodies having like pro
grams, hut they have made it
clear that a purely political
party composed of Catholics
would lie impracticable and ob
jectionable.
New Hampshire Attorney
Heads State Commission
Appointed by Governor to
Study Growing Evil.
(Continued on Page 10)
TRUE CATHOLIC FAMILY.
Paris.—A touching ceremony has
just been held in the church of
Saint-Pierre du Gros Caillou in Pa
ris. Two parishioners, M. et Mme.
Dantzenbourg, who were celebrating
their golden wedding anniversary,
arrived at the church accompanied
by 60 children, grandchildren and
great-grandchildren. Mass was said
by Rev. Father Dantzenbourg, one
of their sons, and the two deacons
were two of their grandsons. One
of their daughters is a nun.
Keene, N. H.—New Hampshire has
recently been widely,, though not
well, advertised by extensively cir
culated newspaper stories about the
divorce proceedings of one of its
former United States Senators, who,
failing to get a speedy divorce in
the courts of his home state, ob
tained a decree in Bulgaria. He
married again, in Italy, only to find
the validity of the Bulgarian di
vorce questioned.
I he action of Sen. Hollis might
lead the unsuspecting to believe that
New Hampshire is a state in which
persons seeking divorce have a hard
time of it. The fact is, the con
trary is true.
New Hampshire has more divorces
in proportion to its population than
any other state east of the Missis
sippi, has a divorce law so lax that
divorce may be obtained upon any
one of 14 grounds—the loosest ar
rangement it is said, of any state
in the Union—and has established
the unenviable record of having one
out of every six of its marriages
ending disastrously in the divorce
courts.
So serious has the situation be
come that Gov. Brown lias appoint
ed a State Commission on Divorce,
to study the situation and to recom
mend remedial legislation.
Joseph Madden, a Catholic, one of
the foremost attorneys in New Eng
land, who last year led a fight in
the New Hampshire legislature for
the enactment of more rigid laws
against divorce, was the selection of
Gov. Brown to be chairman of the
commission on divorce.
“In the past 40 years,” says Mr.
Madden, “the number of divorces
in this state has increased 500 per
cent while the population 1ms in
creased only 25 per cent. Twelve
or fifteen years ago divorces aver
aged one in every 17 marriages. Dur
ing the past few years the ratio has
increased to one to every five or
six marriages.”
Protestants Advance Plan for
Instruction During School
Hours — Massachusetts
School Board Petitioned.
Washington, D. C.—A movement
of nation-wide proportions to re
arrange the. time schedules of pub
lic schools so that children of all
religious denominations may re
ceive regular religious instructions
has been inaugurated with the pow
erful hacking of Methodist Episco
pal, Baptist, Presbyterian and other
religious bodies.
Initial actions has been taken by
the Maiden (Mass.) Council of Reli
gious Education, Inc., in petitioning
the Maiden School Committee to
excuse from schools for certain
study periods, high school children
of parents who so wished, that they
might receive religious instruction
in the Malden School of Religious
Education. The request has been
cefused by the school committee,
but the leaders of the movement
are now preparing to take it up
with greater force in tiie hope of
having their program for the reli
gious instructoin of children in
school hours in operation at the be
ginning of the next school year.
Cities Experimenting.
Meanwhile it is pointed out that
from 200 to 300 cities in the United
States are experimenting with the
subject of religious instruction of
public school children on school
days. Among these are New York,
Detroit, Grand Rapids, Milwaukee,
Houston, Todelo, Rochester and Mal
den. Protestants of this last city
have been giving religious instruc
tion to school children on week days
for some time, but always outside
school hours.
The proposed new plan has been
endorsed by a committee on educa
tion which claims to represent thir
ty-three religious denominations
and sixty-seven state and provincial
associations with a membership of
23,000,000, the result of a fusion of
Protestant agencies meeting^B Chi
cago last February for thejfi&ijose
(Continued ou Pagei
President Facta of the Con
ference Expresses H i
Deep Appreciation of Inter -
est of Pope in Movement.
PROTESTANfPRESS
ALSO COMMENDS IT
Complete Text of Message of
His Holiness and Corres
pondence Attending Its An
nouncement Made Public.
Rome—Italian statesmen and Ital
ian editors, no less than those of
other countries, have been quick to
appraise and proclaim the oppor
tuneness and importance of the*
Pope’s first letter on the subject of
the Genoa conference. Premier
Facta, who is president of the con-*
Terence, has voiced his appreciation,
of the holy father’s benevolent in i
terest in this assembly of the vic
tors and vanquished of the world
war.
In concluding the inaugural ad
dress in which he expressed his good
wishes for the beneficial results of,
the conference, Premier Facta re
spectfully and gratefully recalled the*
wise action of Pope Pius XL
“To the conference has been ad
dressed with equal sentiments to all
nations and kind auguries of con
cord the august word of the pontiff
performing the high office of love
and of peace.” said Signor Facta.
Matter of Pride to Catholics.
This eloquent testimony of the
alue of the Pope’s letter to Arch-'
bishop Signori of Genoa indicates
that Pius XI, although taking not*
personal part in the conference, ha*i
efficaciously contributed somethin;}
even more important than its discus
sions and decisions; that is, its spir-l
itual preparation. And it is on thitj
spiritual preparation that the prin t
cipal part of the direction of af-4
fairs of the powers assembled at Ge
noa depends.
It must, therefore, be a just cause
of satisfaction for Catholics to ser
that this first assembly since the
war of conquerors and conquered i>
inspired by the beneficicnt influence
of the supreme Roman pontiff, the
asserter of universal brotherhood*
Nor was the presence of a repre
sentative of the church wanting, be
cause at the opening of the confer
ence, among the personages invited,
there wus also the archbishop ofl
Genoa.
The holy father’s letter was writ-,
ten after the archbishop of Genoa
had addressed an appeal to his dio
cesans exhorting them to pray for.
the success of the conference. This
letter appeared at the most propi-*
tious moment, because at the Vati
can a suitable occasion was being
considered of showing the interest
the Holy See was taking in the re
sults of the conference, and the
pope himself, after consulting the
cardinal secretary of state, wrote to
the archbishop of Genoa:
Text of Pope’s Letter
The exact text of the holy father’s
letter to archbishop Signori is as
follows:
Venerable Brother:
We have read with great
pleasure the letter to your peo
ple on the occasion of the In
ternational Conference yv'ifAh for -
the first time convokes, in this
glorious city in peaceful dis
cussion, both the /Victors and
the vanquished, an(d to which
conference are jfiircctcd the
hopes of Nations.
Representing /is we do the
God of peace "and of love, who
by specitA providence: “respicit
super cjgenum et pauperom,”
and who/ through His inscrutable
judgment called us so unexpect
edly to ^ontinuc the mission of
charity r ad peace of our lament
ed predecessor, we hope and
tri)r;fa-*jgat the envoygJsaf the