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THE BULLETIN OE THE CATHOLIC LAYMEN’S ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA
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Presbyterian College Professor
Awarded K. of C History Prize
Atlantic City.—Professor Samuel
Bemis, head of the department of
history in Whitman College, Walla
Walla, Washington, was declared
winner of the first prize of $3,000 in
the Knights of Columbus competi
tion for the best-essay on an Ameri
can historical subject written by a
professor or instructor of history in
any American college, at the Ameri
can history session of the fortieth
supreme convention here.
Whitman College is a Presbyter
ian institution. The prize winner,
whose essay was on “Jay’s Treaty”
assumed the pen name of Christo
pher Columbus and neither judges
nor members of the historical com
mission were aware of his identity
until a sealed envelope was publicly
New England Newspapers
Vigorously Criticize Pro
posed Federalization of
American Education.
Washington, D. C.—Strong oppos
ition to the Towner-Sterling educa
tional measure is developing in the
Uniteci States Senate as the propo
nents of the bill redouble their ef
forts to secure Its enactment. The
recent action of the National Edu
cation Association at its Boston
meeting, in reiterating its endorse
ment of the bill has been followed
by the introduction into the Con
gressional Record, by Senator King
of Utah, of several editorial express
ions of leading newspapers of New
England which oppose the measure
and of extrtcas from the report of
President Nicholas Murray Butler of
Columbia University, in which he
denounced the tendency to bureau
cratize national life.
Among the editorials quoted is
that published in the Boston Herald
of July G, 1922, printed when the
National Education Association was
in convention in that city, and
which in part is as follows:
“The Herald commends to every
delegate in attendance upon the ses
sions of the National Education As
sociation a careful, perusal of the
Faneuil Hall addrcsS\on the Fourth
ol July by Mr. Jermiah E. Burke,
superintendent of the Boston public
schools. It was peculirly appro
priate that he should have spoken
he did on that day in that place.
He showed himself to be a sentinel
of the Republic, just as every school
master now in Boston should con
sider himself or herself a sentinel
of the Republic, guarding constant
ly against the perils which lurk in
the attempt to centralize in Wash
ington, through schemes for Federal
aid, all educational activities.
Prussian militarists’ said Mr.
Burke,’ disregarded the lessons of
Alexander, Hannibal, Caesar and Na
poleon. They would establish an
absolute stale. Bismarck proclaim
ed that the schoolmaster was abroad
in the land, but the schoolmaster
was not free. He was an officer
of the State, obedient to the Slate,
compelled to do the bidding of the
State. What he should teach and
how he should teach was prescribed
by the State. All the agencies
within the State became subservient
to the military clique. Government
existed for the favored few. In 50
years the thought of the people was
distorted and malformed in con
formity with despotic theories. The
State was apotheosized. The Ger
man people came to associate the
Kaiser with Deity; they were led to
believe that militarism was a bless
ing, that the hands of all the world
were raised ngainst them. All this
wilful perversion of people mentally
anil morally was manifstly the re
sult of a false system of education!
Words To Take to Heart.
"These are words which every
American should lake to heart. The
Towner educational bills under con
sideration, however modified, pro
pose to bring within the scope of the
Federal government all educational
activities through the allurement of
great appropriations for Federal aid
to Slates; however innocent they
may seem in purpose, however pro
gressive they may look to those who
advocate them, however modified
they may be in transition through
the legislative body, they contain
opened at the general session of the
convention by Gaillard Hunt, chief
archivist of the U. S. State Depart
ment, who was chairman of the
Judges’ committee.
The American history session was
featured by a scholarly address by
Edward F. McSweeney, of Boston,
chairman of the Knights of Colum
bus Historical Commission, and by a
report of Mr. Hunt, chairman of
the judges’ committee, in which he
emphasized the importance of the
work of the commission. John F.
Reddin, of Denver, supreme master
of the Fourth Degree, also spoke of
the work now being carried on
throughout the United States, as did
Professor George Hermann Derry, of
Union College.
within themselves the germs of su
preme governmental control just as
truly as the system which in 50
years lured Germany into a condi
tion where her entire people were
convinced that the welfare of the
world depended upon the universal
acceptance of Prussian ideals.
“The Herald has been criticized
for saying that the Towner-Sterling
Bill leads to sectarianism. There is
nothing in the bill to indicate that
one sect or another would control
the educational machinery of the
United States, and yet if it were un
derstood that the first head of the
educational bureau established by
the bill should be a communicant
of any one of several churches which
might be named, bow many of those
who are now crying for the passage
of the bill would still support it.”
The editorial quoted by Senator
King from the Springfield Union
was in part as follows:
“It is claimed by Towner and oth
er proponents of the bill that the
rights of the states and commun
ities will not be interferred with.
Were this to be the case, what would
he the use of creating an expensive
Federal department of equal au
thority and position with other de
partments, with a secretary entitl
ed to a place in the Cabinet equal
to that of the secretaries of de
partments actually in control of fed
eral service as delegated in the
Constitution? Were it a proposition
to inaugurate a system of purely
Federal education for certain pur
poses or certain classes not within
the jurisdiction of the several states
such a proceeding might be proper
enough.”
Subsidy Bribe.
From the Boston Transcript, Sen
ator King introduced an editorial
which said in part.
“No state in the Union would will
ingly and without reward surrender
the control of its public school sys
tem to a Federal bureaucracy at
Washinngton of expose public school
system to alien meddling from Gen
eva. The only consideration which
would tempt a state to make this
surrender would be the offer of a
bribe in the form of a liberal Fed
eral subsidy of precisely the sort
that the Towner-Sterling education
Bill provides for. Caught between
the upper millstone of such a temp
tation and the lower millstone of
the rising cost of government every
where, the poorer and less populous
states of the union might and prob
ably would surrender their birth
right in return for such a bribe, The
State of Nevada for example, having
yielded to such a temptation and
having accepted such a bribe could
then be in a condition where, if the
Congress of the United States so
decreed, a secretary of education
from New England or the South
could make of the public school sys
tern of Nevada an educational ex
perimental station for the remaind
er of the states of the union, re
gardless of the effect of the exper
iment upon the youth of Nevada.”
Boston—Vigorous steps to pro
mote the passage of the Towner-
Sterling Bill creating a Federal De
partment of Education will be taken
by the National Education Associa
tion, according to statements made
here following the annual conven
tion of that organization last week,
during which the legislative com
mittee of the Association issued a
defense of the measure, which is
now meeting attack from many quar
ters.
M. J. DAVIDSON DEAD.
Columbus, Ga.—Bishop Gross Coun
cil, Knights of Columbus, lost its
third member by death since its or
ganization when M. Joseph David
son died suddenly at his home. He
was a member of Holy Family par
ish.
REVERENT ACTING AT
0BERAMMERGAU LAUDED
BY BOSTON PROTESTANT
Boston—A touching description of
faith and devotion of the actors
who participate in the great Passion
Play of Oberannnergau has been
sent to this city by Harold P. Page
of Roxbury, the son of a Protestant
minitser and business secretary of
the International Y. M. C. A. Mr.
Page tells of the deep religious
spirit in which the actors approach
their work and gives tribute to the
outstanding Catholicity of the cast.
“One Monday morning,” wrote Mr.
Page, “we went along with the en
tire populace, or at least so it seem
ed, to six o’clock Mass in the parish
church (the community is almost
wholly Roman Catholic) where pray
ers were sent up to God for liis
blessing on the town, and the nation
on the play and on those who had
come from the outside work to see
the play. It was most impressive.
“Then after breakfast we went at
eight o’clock to the huge Passion
Theatre, seating 5,500 people where
we found every seat taken and hun
dreds standing. The play began
promptly and continued for four
hours. The last scene before the
morning session closed was that of
the Last Supper. It was set just
as Leonardo da Vinci paint it and
so well was it done that it was but
impossible to believe that one was
looking at a living picture and not
at the original.
“Perhaps the most dramatic mom
ent was when Christ dipped the
bread in His cup and gave it to
Judas, thereby branding him as the
one who was about to betray Him
The washing of the disciples feet
was very tenderly and reverently
done, and their the last farewells
had been said, and Judas had slunk
away, the curtain went down.
“The afternoon performance open
ed with Christ in the garden of
Gethsemane. This was in many ways
the most touching scene in the
whole play, Lang, as Christ, was a
tragic figure, and the man who
could see him portray the lonely,
all but-forsaken Christ and not be
the better for it, must indeed be
made of stone. The other highlights
were when Christ was carrying His
cross to Calvary and of course, the
crucifixion.
“During all the years when the
Passion Play was to me a remote
and never-to-be-nttained reality, I
had always felt that no human be
ing could possibly hope to reproduce
the Christ on the cross faithfully
and reverently. But Anton Lang did
it, and left me aghast but ever
lastingly grateful for having been
permitted to visualize that awful
moment in the world’s history. It
was beyond words.”
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Afanta Councilmen
Expelled from Club for
Voting for a Catholic
(Continued on Page 12.)
above named defendants jointly and
severally each and every one.
We further recommend that they
be placed on trial before the lodge.
ALT IVEY,
J. P. WALL,
R. L. HENRY.
Another communication, bearing
the seal of the National League of
Pathfinders and bearing the. signa
ture of W. J. Laney, secretary, call
ing on members of council to sup
port Harry York in the tax assessor
election by council the first Monday
in July, also was disclosed Thursday.
The communication, under date of
June 7, read:
Dear Sir and Brother:
At a regular meeting of our lodge
held Monday night, June 5, 1922,
Brother Harry York was indorsed
for the position of city tax assessor,
to succeed the incumbent, John Ma
lone.
Brother York has pledged him
self to slay in the race to the fin
ish (newspaper reports to the con
trary, notwithstanding,) and you
are earnestly urged to vote for and
use your influence to put Brother
York across.
Yours for God, Home and Country,
W.J. LANEY.
The seal was in the lower left-
hand corner. About the outer edge
is the inscription, “Phi Alpha Coun
cil, No. 1, N. L. P., Atlanta, Ga.”
Another circular inscription with
in the seal was, “Pro aris et focis”
(which, translated, is “For Altars
and Firesides”), and “12-20-14.”
KLAN OFFICIALLY
BARRED FROM CITY
IN SOUTH GEORGIA
(Continued from page one)
herd, of whom there are none in
Georgia.
Three of the four candidates for
Mayor in Atlanta have denied they
are members of the Ku-Klux Klan,
and one of them, Police Chief Beav
ers, lias declared his opposition to it.
“I am firmly convinced,” be says,
“that the influence of the Klan on
the public mind is a bad influence;
and I have no doubt whatever that
bad actions are attributable to the
Klan in this country, in this state,
and even in this city, though direct
proof may not have been brought
forward.”
The fourth candidate, Councilman
Walter Sims, the man who headed
the fight a year ago against the re-
election of Miss Julia Biordan, a
Catholic principal in the public
school's, and who last September at
tempted to have .the Knights of Col
umbus investigated, refuses to state
whether the Klan is backing him un
til the entry books are closed and be
knows who is running against him.
Attention Autoists!
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Francis Xavier, Brunswick, Ga.,
Sunday, at seven and ten o’clock.
Masses at Ridgeville, Ga., the
first and third Sundays at 8:30.
Convenient for week-end parties
at Pine Harbor Hotel.
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