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w m A j 1 Member of the National jl Catholic Welfare Conn- | cil News Service. 'Xjkt 'Qullttm Organof the Catholic Laymens Association/CeoMia TO BRING ABOUT A FRIENDLIER FEELING AMONG GEORGIANS, IRRESPECTIVE (X CREED" ten cents a copy. VOL. III. NO. 9. AUGUSTA, GA., MAY 30, 1922. BELF1SI CATHOLICS The Only Catholic Newspaper Between Bal timore and New Orleans $2.00 A - ISSUED SEMI-MONTHLY' 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