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Member of the National Catholic Welfare Coun- ijht TouUzttn | The Only Catholic Newspaper Between Bal- J cil News Service. 1 Official Organ of the Catholic Laymens Association^Ceor^a | | “TO BRING ABOUT A FRIENDLIER FEELING AMONG GEORGIANS. IRRESPECTIVE OF CREED" 3 timore and New Orleans TEN CENTS A COPY. VOL. III. NO. 18. AUGUSTA, GA., OCTOBER 10, 1922. $2.00 A YEAR ISSUED SEMI-MONTHLY UP TOD Sill'S LIBELS ON C H J FI CH 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, ,. (Continued on page five) ' 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- (Continucd ou page 10) 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.