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THE BULLETIN OF THE CATHOLIC LAYMEN’S ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA
THE BULLETIN
Oificial Organ of the Catholic Laymen’s Association
of Georgia.
RICHARD REID, Editor.
ruhlished Semi-Monthly by the Publicity Department
gpo!) Herald Building. Augusta, Georgia.
Subscription Price, $2.00 Per Year.
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ASSOCIATION OFFICERS FOR 1921-1922.
P. II. Rice, K. S. G., Augusta President
Col. P. II. Callahan. K.S.G., Louisville, Ky. ..Hon. Vice-Pros.
J. .1. Haverty, Atlanta First Vice-President
J. B. McCallum, Atlanta
Thomas S. Gray, Augusta ••
Richard Reid, Augusta •.
M ;ss Cecile C. Ferry, Augusta ... Assistant Publicity Director
Some Parental Duties.
‘Those who are engaged in social work cannot fail
Dixie Musings
•VOL. III.
June 30, 1922.
NO. 11.
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Entered as second class matter June 15, 1921, at the Dost
Office at Augusta, Ga., under Act of March. 1879. A®®*#™
for mailing at special rate of postage provided lor l
1103, Act of October 3, 1917, authorized September 1. 1J2I.
Good for Georgia.
Not in many a day has anything more beneficial
to our State occurred than when the people of At
lanta rebuked the latest effort of the bigots to stir
up religious intolerance in that city’. One of several
good results flowing from the rebuke is the effect
it had in restoring Georgia’s name as a State that
loves liberty and cherishes peace and good will
for owing to ber being so bad-
WsSSm among its citizens
■r
iy misrepresented in recent years, Georgia’s name
in that respect had been much tarnished
It must be gratifying to* everyone who has a touch
of civic pride to see his State taking the lead and
being commended for her lead, in the effort to keep
Hip-down religious dissension among our people. More
f than one paper of national influence lias taken fav-
@ J oruhlc note of Atlanta’s recent stand, and not least
among them is the Louisville Courier-Journal, from
which we print the following thoughtful and thought
provoking editorial:
“Within the last few days highest officers of
flSkhe Masonic order in Massachusetts and Connecti-
J»ut have advised Masonic lodges in their respec-
EPtive States that the Ku Klux arc seeking to cap
italize Masonry as a means of increasing the
Iilan’s power, and warning them that, far from be
ing in sympathy with and supported by Masonry,
the Klan contravenes the teachings of the Ma
sonic order.
“Simultaneously almost with this action of
these officials of American Masonry, clergymen of
Protestant churches at Atlanta—-the home of the
Klan—denounce the Ku Klux, characterizing their
organization as “a night-riding mob, a masked
bully, a secret assassin,*’ bent on ‘ enthroning in
this State Georgia flic most evil of all tyrants,
religious intolerance and hate,” and calling upon
all members of Protestant churches in Georgia to
shun the order and repress its activities.
‘“America’s distinctive contribution to civiliza
tion is religious tolerance. It is the shame of
the Ku Klux Klan that, in its quest of power, it
deliberately assails this contribution to human
progress made by the country it pretends to
serve.
“With its appeal to racial and religious pre
judice, proscribing as it does Roman Catholic and
Jew alike, the Klan had dared to presume that
thereby it would win the sympathy and support
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of Americans who are Protestant in religious
faith. This presumptuousness is well rebuked by
the action taken at Atlanta by Protestant churches
of that community.”
Who if an doubt that such a sentiment as that is
good for Georgia? It must inevitably make for
greater respect -or our people, for greater coopera
tion with'our aims and purposes, for greater confi
dence in the equity of our laws and the sanity of
our state policies, as these are regarded by our neigh
bors and fellow-citizens beyond the borders of our
State. And that will lead to an increase of immi
gration, of investment, of business commerce, and
trade.
Finally, if we only keep it up, it will result in our
people living in harmony among themselves, mutually
helpful, cooperating with one another, respecting one
to be struck by the fact that most of the problems
they come in contact with are due to the failure of
parents to realize their family responsibilities.”
With this striking sentence, the Rev. Dr. John
O’Grady, Secretary of the National Conference of
Catholic Charities, opens an interesting article on
“The School and the Home” in a recent issue of the
Catholic Charities Review. Dr. O’Grady has been
for the past ten years engaged in the study of juvenile
delinquency. He says that “when we run down the
case of the boy or girl of normal intelligence who
comes before our Juvenile Courts, we find as a rule
that the child has given trouble in school; and when
we follow the case further, we find that there was
some defect in bis home training.”
The writer then takes up a number of faults which
he finds, and which we all know, are common to
many homes. Too many parents are overindulgent
ith their children. As a result, the children become
selfish. They acquire the habit of measuring every
thing in terms of pleasure. They devote too much
time to play and develop a strong aversion to work.
This tendency, beginning in fhc home, soon manifests
itself in school work. When parents gratify every
whim and fancy of their children, they soon lose all
control over them. “We have frequently come in
contact with parents who have lost all control over
their twelve year old children,” says Dr. O’Grady.
“In studying these cases we invariably find that the
parents never place any restraint on the children.
They never pay any attention to their associates or
their amusements. Due to lack of restraint, the cliil
dren gradually develop more serious faults. It is
surprising to find the number of children of this type
who have acquired habits of lying, stealing and also
icious sex habits.”
On the other hand, some parents are too rigid in
dealing with their children, not permitting them any
share in the ordinary amusements and pleasures of a
child. Children so reared will not acquire those
habits of independence which are necessary for their
full development. Unless children participate to a
reasonable extent in the ordinary pleasures of a
child, they will become eccentric, taking on disposi
tions and habits that are unpopular and which give
offense. They will not do good team work. They
will seldom become leaders.
Children must associate with one another. They
must learn to share one another’s pleasures and sym
pathize with one another in their little trials. They
must learn, in short, to give and take, to stand up
for one another, and to stand by one another. These
things are impossible to the lonely, isolated pam
pered child.
Again, “some parents permit their children to as
sociate with whom they will, without let or hindrance.
They do not realize the influence of their associates
on the welfare of their children. The children are
permitted to go to the movies two or three nights
a week. The parents make no effort to see that they
prepare their school work. lhey take no sympa
thetic interest in their school work. They may won
der why their children’s marks are low, but they
rarely think of trying to get at the root of the diffi
culty by interviewing the teacher, or above all by dis
cussing their school problems with the children. Diffi
culties of the child in school are very generally the
first symptoms of a breakdown in its home life. It
may mean that the parents are overindulgent or too
severe. It may mean that they neglect its physical
and moral welfare. _
The ordinary teacher is conscious of the close re
lation between the home life of the child and its ad
vancement in school work. She readily discovers
that the child’s failure to prepare home lessons is
due to the fact that' it spends too much tinifP-gnTfre
streets or at the movies, or that _ltf6 parents have
GOD IS EVERYWHERE.
I walk the busy streets, God is not
there,
Nor in the homes where pomp
and wealth are found,
Where envy, pride and opulence
abound;
Theirs is the lust of worldly fame,
no care
Or thought of but one thing—that
they should share
The greater part of ease and com
fort here,
For life to them is blank beyond
the bier.
And yet, methinks that God is
everywhere
And though perchance His vengeance
he may spare,
Repay He will, what time may
suit Him best,
For lust of gold the root of
evil is;
He bids us of false gods on earth
beware.
Then trust in Him of all things
is the test,
Eternal justice and reward is
His.
—W. S. K.
It is estimated that" there arc
twenty million Catholics in the Uni
ted States, one million, or one in
every twenty, of whom subscribe to
a Catholic paper. In Georgia there
are about 20,000 Cathoics, 2,000 of
whom, or one in ten, contribute to
the support of The Bulletin. Many
also subscribe to other Catholic pub
lications. This is a record which we
believe cannot be surpassed by any
other diocese in the United States.
Miscellany
By GEORGE BARNARD.
There are, in this great age of
tolerance, still some business con
cerns which refuse to employ Cath
olics. I can imagine circumstances
in which a man would rather not
employ Catholics. If I were run
ning a shady business in which my
employees were expected to co-ope
rate in my dishonesty, I should not
employ Catholics, because it is prob
able that they would refuse to follow
with any show of enthusiasm the
unlawful methods by which I hoped
to gain success. Concerns which
have no use for Catholic help can
have no use for Catholic custom;
and when they are known to be de
sirous of having no association with
Catholics it would be a kindness if
Catholics would transfer their sup
port to rival concerns which do not
regard them as outcasts.
Albama newspapers devoted many
pounds of paper and quarts of ink
to condemning the Columbus out
rage. The gleam of righteous indi
gnation glanced from their eyes
perhaps the well-known editorial
I’s—when discussing the Georgia vio
lation of law are order in the Bir
mingham bombing of Mayor Dimon’s
home. All of which was proper and
encouraging. But the scene changed,
and the KuKlux started operations
in Birmingham. A health Officer in
that city, a doctor of reputation and
standing in the community, was
whipped when lured from home on
an errand of mercy. So notorious
was the affair that the Bar Associa
tion of Birmingham urged the city
commissioners to take action bann
ing demonstrations by the Ku-Klux
Klan or other masked organizations.
This brought forth the following
comment from one of the editors:
The Ku-Klux Klan will continue
to hold masked parades whenever it
so desires. A wise old woodpecker
told us the city commissioner would
not pass a prohibitory ordinance.
The fearless Columbus Enquirer-
Sun remarks that “this is scarcely
the bold and vigourous tone used
by the Alabama newspapers in their
attacks on recent happenings in
Columbus. Distance ‘ seems to lend
courage to editorial views these
days.” We might add that this con
dition is not peculiar to the news
papers of Birmingham. Nor of the
South.
The gentleman who thinks that
the whole world is as flat as Zion
City is not more obstinate than the
parent who still clings to the no
tion that the Catholic School is in
some mysterious manner inferior
to the public school. The chief rea
son for their faith in the public
school seems to be that the public
school usually costs more money
to build and require more to main
tain. Such parents would do well
to contemplate the product rather
than the apparatus. The superiority
of the product of the Catholic
School, even in matters of purely
mundane educational efficiency,
hardly requires demonstration. The
“Pottstown Ledger” ran an essay
contest the other day. The iden
tity of the contesants was conceal
ed, and independent judges were ap
point. Eight out of ten prizes went
to the children of the local Cath
olic school, and one received hon
orable mention. Only ten Catholic
school children competed.
Writers, unless they watch their
work very closely (a habit which,
I must confess, docs not seem to
be prevalent) arc apt to overwork
individual words. The late Monsig
nor Benson, for example, was prodi
gal in his use of the word “extra
ordinarily.” Someone has accused
Max Pemberton, the author of a
shelf of sensational novels, of a
too frequent employment of the
word “holocaust.” In denying that
this particular word is his chief
trouble, he says: “If I were in the
confessional I could tell you my ver
bal guilt.” I have no doubt that if
Max Pembertoh were in the confes
sion he would tell at least that. He
was once listed as a Catholic, but
I do not think he would now an
swer to that description.
another, and ill time coming to love one another..Lfh e teacher may recognize the child’s shortcomings
no interest in its school worj^-—Hut the teacher feels
herself powerless to deaL-'jyjth the home conditions
The Anglicans are now taking a
great interest in St. Patrick. Re
cently an Anglican divine went to
great pains to prove that St. Pa
trick was an Anglican and—- a gen
tleman. The High Church paper,
the Church Times, in an editorial
note says that no revision of the
Church of England Calendar will be
tolerable that does not replace on
it the name of St. Patrick. It al
ways has been our idea that St. Pa
trick never was on the Church of
England Calendar, so replacing bis
name there would be rather diffi
cult. However, in honoring St.
Patrick, the Anglican Church is but
following the rest of the world. In
stitutions of higher learning in
Georgia, conducted under Protestant
auspices and without a Catholic on
the sttident lists, regularly observe
St. Patrick’s Day.
Punctuality in the commencement
of church services is very import
ant. It is always a delicate mat
ter upon which to speak to one’s
pastor; but all my own friends
among the clergy are the embodi
ment of promptitude and can take
no offense. I know of a little
church which was getting a reputa
tion for the earnestness of its con
gregation. Business men got into the
habit of attending daily Mass on
their way to the train. Then the
priest in charge was replaced by
another. Sometimes the newcomer be
gan Mass on time, but usually he be
gan five or ten minutes late. When
last I heard of this church its daily
congregation at morning Mass had
dwindled to -five, and these people
were those who had no train to
catch.
of the child. ThisiJS'Hhe parents field and unless
the parents (jp- t',’,ejr duty in this field, the teacher’s
task--sf'dealing with the child holds little of promise
There is no way of measuring the great good v {no
great happiness, and, if we need to put on plane,
the great prosperity that must come to lp& people of
a State where the citizens, regardless o)[ creed, strive
for a friendly feeling among themsrV ts-
That is what the Laymen!
Ijjvint; for ail these years—no
'>■ I'S pf
Btion has been
And when
ence Corn
ell of At*
She may see the first evidence of stubbornness, dis
obedience, lying and dishonesty. She will discover
many faults which escape the notice of parents. But
she is powerless to deal with these unless the parents
co-operate. It is impossible to train a child in
habits of obedience by making it obedient in school,
when it is allowed to do as it pleases at home. It
is impossible to train it in habits of truth and hones
ty ,g£~ ■■lues are not insisted on in the
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A Georgia negro was tried-ffeprllg
the month-tot the theft of fifty
Shis worth of coal. A newspaper
account of the case read: “The pros
ecuting solictor waived argument of
the case, but counsel for the defense
made a talk lasting some thirty
minutes, during which period he
touched upon subjects varying from
scandal among tlie British royalty
to the power of the press. In spite
of this the negro was acquitted.
There is justice for j r ou, justice un
der difficulties.
A contemporary corrects what it
calls “a slight -typographical error.”
It appears that “9,500 men” should
have read “75,000 men.” If that
is what the editor regards as a
slight deviation from accuracy, I
^irav-jjiat he may be preserved from
any serious blunder. ——
Mere man is alarmed in some
places at the strides women arc
making in lines formerly open to
the stronger sex alone. A Catho
lic uni zirsity in the Middle \Ve3t
threatens, to retaliate by starting a
movement for a king of the May.
George Barnard seems to think the
girls will come back with an ulti
matum for a Mrs. Santa Claus,
. My mention of the little girl who
told Archbishop Ryan that marriage
is “a state of terrible torment” re
minds the editor of the Buffalo
Echo of another misunderstanding
of the same subject. This time a
school boy was at fault. During the
weekly catechetical instruction a
priest gave an explanation of the sac
raments, and in order to test the
efficacy of his teaching asked:
“What, then, is Extreme Unction?”
Up spoke a boy: “It is a sacrament
received when one is seriously sick.”
“Correct,” said the priest encourage-
ingly. “Now who can tell me what
matrimony is?” After some hesita
tion On the part of the class a small
lad arose and answered diffidently:
“Mat-rimony is received when two
are seriously sick.” Next please.
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