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VOL. III. NO. 18.
AUGUSTA, GA., OCTOBER 10, 1922.
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HD UNFOUNDED
American Author’s Charges
Against Austrians Shown
To Be False by N. C. W. C.
Correspondent.
BY DU. FREDERICK FUNDfiR
(Vienna Correspondent N. C. W. C.
News Service)
Vienna.—There has just been is
sued by a Leipzig publishing firm
the German translation of Upton
Sinclair’s book “Religion and
Profit.” That the author has au
thorized Professor Dr. Isidor Singer,
freemason, to translate the work
unchanged is a proof that Upton
Sinclair, up to this day, believes in
the truth of his assertions made
in his book during the Great War
and that he intends still to advo
cate its cause also today. In his
preface lie declares his hook to be
“A Study From a New Point of View
of the Supernatural as a Source of
Income and as a Means of Deriving
Privileges.” He further declares to
have “examined thoroughly the lib
raries for this purpose.” “He who
reads it,” he continues, “will agree
that it had to be written. It has
taken twenty-four yebrs of reflec
tion and one year of research. It
contains facts.”
Sinclair’s Charges.
As an Austrian, I have to take
Mr. Upton Sinclair at his word.
In this German translation, his book
contains statements no Catholic
Austrian can accept. Referring to
the papal encyclical letter of the
year 1891 concerning the invulnera
bility of private property, Upton
Sinclair says:
“And that stands for all countries
where robbery and conquest are in
troduced as well as the rule of the
upper classes and of hierarchy,
since time immemorial, and where
no proprietorship is founded on
anything else hut violence. Such
is Austria; Austria, the leader and
protector of the Holy Alliance, Aus
tria, that knew no reformation, no
revolution, no struggle between the
State and the Church; Austria,
where the revenues of the Catholic
primate amount to $625,000 a year;
in one word Austria is a country
ruled by hierarchy, for Austria
started the war, started it as a re
ligious war against a Slav nation
that had not acknowledged the Holy
Father as the governor of the world,
but belongs to the not-united
church.”
Upton Sinclair is not an indif
ferent author; his studies relating
to certain capitalist abuses were ap
preciated also in Europe. His
charges against the Catholic church
will be heard by many like an accu
sation made by an authority. But
liis book is a monstrous mixture of
imputations directed against the
Christian churches, the author not
shrinking from placing the Catholic
Church on a level with some super
stitious sect. Without entering more
lully into the matter, the object of
this article is to provide that every
word said in his book in relation
to Austria is unjust.
If it is an art to cache many er
rors and calumnies in a few words,
then one cannot help admiring Inn/
many deflamations Upton Sinclair
was able to pile up against Austria
and the Austrian hierarchy in those
sentences mentioned above. That
Austrial should have had “no refor
mation and no revolution”? Has
Upton Sinclair not had the time—
during those twenty-four years of
reflection and one year of research
in the libraries—to disover that the
reformatory struggles of the Hussit
es plunged Bohemia into several
wars? They are stimulating to this
day the hearts of the Czech people,
llic movement of Protestantism
made the Germans parts of the old
Hapsburg monarchy Lutheran lor
more than half a century. In 1848
Austria had her revolution just like
other European countries. As a re
sult of this revolution equal rights
were bestowed on the different con
fessions, which the general fran
chise was proclaimed. Long before
this, at the end of the eighteenth
century, Emperor Joseph II, as the
first of the European monarchs,
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'
MAKE CATHOLIC SCHOOL
IN IOWA PUBLIC WITH
NUNS IN CHARGE-MOVE
APPROVED BY MINISTER
Iowa City, la The problem
of rural education is being solv
ed by the residents of Hardin
and Oxford townships as the re
sult of a merger whereby stu
dents of three schools which
were closed for poor attendance
now receive instruction in St.
Patrick’s Parochial School of
Cosgrove, which is conducted by
eight religious and one lay
teacher, the last a Protestant.
Children from eight districts
of the country arc carried to the
school in as many buses and in
stead of nine separate one-room
schools, a commodious building
houses the entire flock.
St. Patrick’s School had been
operating with decided success
for several years because of the
large number of Catholics in the
vicinity, but this success reacted
to the disadvantage of the pub
lic schools. Then it was decid
ed, by vc.e, to merge the sev
eral smaller schools with St.
Patrick’s, to retain the sisters as
regular public-school teachers
and to make provision for re
ligious instruction by eliminat
ing it from the regular curricu
lum and making provision for
teaching it in the school build
ing outside of the regular school
hours.
The country superintendent of
schools, a Presbyterian minis
ter, I^cv. J. N. Leeper, entered
whole-heartedly into the plans.
Sister Eulalia, the principal of
the school, is one of the few
rural teachers in the county
holding a first-grade state cer
tificate. New courses are being
added this year, including agri
culture and domestic science.
The school has met. all the re
quirements of the state board
and offers courses permitting it
to be classed as an accredited
four-year high school.
CATHOLIC JUDGE'S
DEFENSE OF CLERGY
Hon. Peter Daly of New Jer
sey Scores Those Who Con
demn All Ministers When
One Is Suspected.
New York—Likening the clergy
to millions of beautiful stars, Judge
Peter F, Daly scored those who are
always ready to whisper words of
calumny whenever a clergyman is
involved in public charges. Judge
Daly, a member of the Middlesex
County Court of New Jersey, was
speaking at a grand jury pinner
and bis address had particular ref
erence to statements being made in
connection with the finding of the
dead bodies of a Protestant minister
and the wife of the church sexton.
“I do not know the circumstances
of the crime,” said Judge Daly. “I
know not who is guilty of this crime.
But I do know that filthy tongues
have begun to wag viciously. The
clergy of the church mentioned in
this case should not be condemned
and those who talk should remem
ber the injunction ‘Let he who has
not, sinned case the first stone. It
matters not the religion—it matters
not whether it is Catholic, Protes
tant or Jew—not all the clergy
should be condemned, even though
one should have fallen.
“The clergy arc like the millions
of beautiful stars above. We may
be walking along when a star falls
from above, and we stop and say,
‘Oh!’ But the millions still remain
fixed in their orbits and shine beau
tifully upon us. To me the clergy
of the Protestant, Catholic and Jew
ish faiths arc like those stars. While
one star may fall, the others still
shine. And so with our clergy. One
may fall, but the others remain firm,
and we should not judge all clergy
men by the deeds of one.”
IC. IC .REPORTS
REM YEAR OE
EFFECTIVE WORK
Hierarchy Approves and Will
Intensify Work—Pope Pius
Sends His Blessing to Con
vention.
Washington, D. C.—With His Em
inence Cardinal O’Connell, Arch
bishop of Boston, in the chair, the
archbishops and bishops of the
United States to the number of sixtj
met at the CatlioLc University, in
Washington, D. C., on Sept. 27 and
28, to consider and deal with many
highly important matters affecting
the church in America. The states
men for those present declared it
to be the most enthusiastic, harmo
nious and effective meeting of the
hierachy since the inception of the
annual meetings in 1919.
The outstanding results of the
meeting were as follows:
The work of the National Catho
lic Welfare organization is to con
tinue with intensive activity in all
its departments.
Archbishop Hanna and Archbishop
Curley, appointed as a committee to
issue a statement concerning the
status of the N. C. W. C. to the
press, spoke as follows to a repre
sentative of the N. C. W. C. News
service:
“All the reports of the various de
partments of the N. C. W. C. were
listened to with most intensive in
terest and were received with sin-
cerest applause.
“These reports brought home to
the assembled hierachy the enor
mous amount of work accomplished
during the last three years.
N. C. of C. M. Meeting.
The mission of the Catholic
church to protect the inalienable
rights of the individual together
with the necessity for organized ef
fort in support of that mission,
were the subjects of addresses de
livered by members of the hierarchy
and distinguished Catholic laymen
at the mass meeting held in con
nection with the convention of the
national Council of Catholic Men
here last night. Particular empha
sis was placed upon the need for
protection of the rights of parents
to direct and supervise the educa
tion of their children in religious
schools of their choice. The speak
ers were the lit. Rev. Joseph
Schrembs, Bishop of Cleveland; the
Rt. Rev. Michael J. Gallagher, Bish
op of Detroit; Judge Wendell P.
Stafford, of the supreme court of
the District of Columbia and Rear
Admiral William S. Benson, presi
dent of the National Council of
Catholic Men.
Bishop Schrembs, who as chairman
of the department of lay organiza
tions of the National Catholic Wel
fare Council, presided at the meet
ing, outlined the fundamental con
siderations which must govern at
tempts at the solution of present
day problems. On this subject the
bishop declared:
New Christ’s Teachings.
“In the first place, while the the
ory which would make Christianity
a mere program of social reform
is untenable and absurd. I make
bold to maintain that any attempt
at social reform must prove vain and
abortive unless it he rooled and
founded on the teachings of Jesus
Christ. Revealed religion and re
vealed religion alone, therefore, con
tains all the principles which, if
acted out, deliver man from every
evil, be it moral or economic. The
Truth shall make you free.”
Praising the efficacy of the ap
plication of the teachings of relig
ion to the solution of everyday prob
lems, the bishop cited the example
offered by the middle ages, “when
men were happier, when content
ment was more universal, when hu
man life was more worth living. The
ages, in fine, which have handed
down to us the most glorious monu
ments of human genius whether in
the world of letters or in the world
of art.”
The bishop’s second proposition
as he outlined it was “that it is not
Christianity that has failed but the
world which has rejected Christian
ity. A false philosophy which arose
some 400 years ago an.l which dei-
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Committee of Georgians
To Escort Bishop Keyes
From Capital to South
PENALTY FOR CITIZENS
WHO DO NOT VOTE, AND
UNNATURALIZED ALIENS
Washington, D. C.—A tax on
aliens who make their homes
in the United States and refuse
to become naturalized was sug
gested by Judge P. J. N. Hally,
of Detroit, at the unnual conven
tion of the National Council of
Catholic Men, during his report
of the activities of the Detroit
diocese, and a penalty on all
those registered who refuse to
vote was suggested by Admiral
William S. Benson.
“One of the gravest problems
that confronted Michigan in
fighting the anti - parochial
school movement”, said Judge
Hally, “was the fact that many
Catholics were not citizens—al
though some of them had been
in this country for years. I cer
tainly believe there should be
some kind of a tax on those
who come here, make their liv
ing here and enjoy the comforts
and protection of the country,
w'ithout assum'ng the obliga
tions and privileges of citizen
ship.”
Admiral Benson, the presiding
officer, declared his hearty ac
cord with Judge Hally’s view.
“What is more”, he said, “I
would favor a tax on all those
who fail to do their duty to
their country by voting.”
DEFEAT OF GREEKS
BLAMED OR ALLIES
Rev. Dr. Fenlon, Back Prom
Europe, Holds Christian
Nations Responsible for
Turks’ Triumph.
Washington, D. C. — The signal
failure of the diplomacy of Chris
tian powers is blamed by those con
versant with the situation for the
destruction of Smyrna and the pre
sent situation in the Near East, ac
cording to the Very Rev. John F.
Fenlon, S.S., of the Catholic Uni
versity, who has just returned from
the affected areas and was in Smyr
na within the last mouth.
Dr. Fenlon left the destroyed city
when the Turks began the drive
which finally forced the Greek
troops to flee before them and end
ed in the catastrophe which has cost
thousands of lives. At that time,
the end of August, there was no
grave fear among the populace that
the Turks would menace their sa
fety. The Greeks, however, were
altogether discouraged, especially in
view of the fact that the allies were
regarded by them as prohibiting
them from exercising a free hand to
deal with the situation. It was
claimed by the Greek authorities
that the necessity of maintaining
the neutrality of the straits and the
refusal of the allies to permit the
use of Constantinople as a base of
operations was seriously affecting
their arms.
“The general opinion among Am
ericans,” said Dr. Fenlon, “was that
the Turks, should they advance to
ward Smyrna, would overcome this
discouraged opposition, and this
proved the case.
Allies Fail.
“But back of this victorious ad
vance of the Turks lies the signal
failure of allied diplomacy. What
politics could be more ineffective
than that of the allies who had the
Turks under their control and who
permitted them to get out of hand
again? There is no defending the
Continued on Page Four.
Special Car Will Bring Him
to Savannah October 17,
Day Before Date Set For
Consecration.
ARCHBSHOPCURLEY
TO ACCOMPANY HIM
Sucessor of Cardinal Gibbons
To Be Consecrator, With
Bishops Barry and O'Con
nell Assisting.
Special to The Bulletin.
Savannah, Ga.—Very Rev. Joseph
D. Mitchell, Administrator, M. A.
O’Bvrne, president of the Savannah
branch of the Catholic Laymen’s As
sociation of Georgia, and L. A.
Downs, vice-president of the Central
of Georgia Railroad, wilL leave Sa
vannah Sunday for Washington
where they will meet Rt. Rev. Mich
ael J. Keyes, S. M., Bishop-elect of
Savannah, and Most Rev. Michael
J. Curley, D. D., Archbishop of Bal
timore, and accompany them back to
this city, arriving Tuesday morning,
the day before the consecration of
Savannah’s new Bishop.
Archbishop Curley will be conse
crator at the elevation of the Bishop-
elect. The trip to Washington and
return will he made in the private
car of Mr. Downs.
Plans for the consecration . are
complete. The consecration ceremo
nies will start at 9:30 Wednesday
morning, October 18. There will be
a pontifical low Mass, with the sing
ing of the Processional, the Veni
Creator, the Litanies and the Reces
sional. The oo-consecrators will be
Rt. Rev. Denis J. O’Connell, D. I).,
Bishow of Richmond, Va., and Rt.
Rev. Patrick Barry, D. D., Bishop
at St. Augustine. Rev. W. G. Mul-
holland, S. S, of St. Mary's Semin
ary, Baltimore, and Rev. D. O’Mcare,
S. M., of the Marist College, Wash
ington, I). C., of which Bishop-elect
Keyes was president at the time of
his elevation, will be masters-of-
ceremonies. The consecration orator
has not been selected.
After the consecration Mass, the
visiting prelates, clergy and invited
guests will be tendered an informal
dinner near Savannah, at a place to
be named later. There will be no
speeches, in the afternoon at five
o’clock the newly consecrated Bishop
will be given a public reception at
the De Sota Hotel, at which there
will be addresses of welcome by the
clergy and laity and a response by
Bishop Keyes. The reception is in
charge of a committee representing
every parish and every Catholic so
ciety in the city. To this reception
the official bodies of the city and
county have been invited.
Admission to the cnosecration
service will be by ticket. A seating
committee has been appointed, with
Rev. T. A. Foley, pastor of the Cath
edral, as chairman. It wil be ar
ranged that all can have a place in
the Cathedral for the ceremonv.
Children will not he admitted.
The children’s part in the program
will be their welcome of the new
Bishop and his party at Union Sta
tion Tuesday morning. Every Cath
olic child attending the Catholic
schools of Savannah will be at the
station, equipped with American
flags. The children, with the Bene
dictine Cadets, the Boy Scouts and
the Girl Scouts, in uniform, will es
cort Bishop-gleet Keyes to the Cath
edral Rectory.
Various committees have been at
work for months arranging for the
consecration. W. A. Saunders is
chairman of the general committee.
The ways and means committee is
headed by M. A. O’Byrne, and his
committee members are J. J. Haverty
of Atlanta, P. H. Rice of Augusta, E.
A. Sheridan of Macon, and J. G. Bar
ron of Albany. Rev. T. A. Foley,
pastor of the Cathedral, is chairman
of the program committee, the other
members being M. A. O’Byrnc, W. A.
Rooks, J. J. Powers, Joseph McCar
thy and C. C. Cambridge.