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THE BULLETIN OF THE CATHOLIC LAYMEN’S ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA
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Belgian Missionary in Philip
pines Finds Curiosity Con
structed by Predecessor.
Las Pinas, Rizal Providence, P. I.
The Rev. Victor Faniel, a Belgian
missionary in the Philippine Islands
with a talent for music and fair me
chanical skill in tuning and repair
ing musical wind instuments, was
lately called by his confrere the pas
tor of Las Pines to examine the po
tentialities of an unusual pipe-organ
set up in his church’ It is probably
not duplicated anywhere in the world
and therefore worthy to command
the interest of all lovers of art and
precious relics of the past.
The instrument, whicli was much
deteriorated in the earthquake of
1863, when six of its 23 stops were
rendered useless and have remained
so ever since, has just reached its
one hundredth year of existence. It
was Father Diego, a Spanish Recollet
Friar and the parish priest of Las
Pinas from the year 1797—1831, who
built it with the aid of hs native
parishioners, spending five years at
the task. To preserve the bamboo
stalks from the attacks of grubs, he
took the precaution to imbed them
first in sand from the beach. That
accounts for the partial preservation
in good condition of the instrument
up to this day.
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Catholics Of Southwest United
By Attacks Of Anti-Catholics
EI Paso and Dallas Organizations Report to N. C. C. JYL
Convention at Washington that Wave of Prejudice in
Texas Has Welded Those Against Whom It Is Directed
Into a Single, Efficient Force.
■Washington, D. C.—A remarkable
report of the solid work done by
the National Council of Catholic
Men in the face of the most virulent
antl-Catholic campaign in the his
tory of that portion of Texas was
submitted by A. W. Norcop, of the
EI Paso diocese to the annual con
vention of the National Council held
here last week.
Organized one year the El Paso
Council has established a central
service bureau, with two paid sec
retaries, a free legal aid bureau, a
free medical aid bureau and em
ploys a full-time visiting nurse for
work among the congested areas of
a city that, according to the report,
has the highest infant mortality in
the United Stales.
Mr. Norcop pointed out that there
are less than five thousand American
Catholics in the principal city of the
diocese and only a scattered hand
ful in the outlying districts. The
problem of Mexican immigration,
with practically' two hundred thous
and of Mexicans coming over the
border each year merited special at
tention, and a plea was made for as
sistance from the national organiza
tion on the ground that this is a
national problem and that other de
nominations which have erected
community centers, schools and
churches for Mexicans in El Paso
have expended more than a million
dollars to win the faith of these
people and are now expending more
than 8500,000 each year in their act
ivities. Ministers have been brought
from many parts of the United
States and imported from Mexico
and South America, while floods of
anti-Catholics literature have been
deluged on the city. The result was
that civic harmony has been dis
turbed to such an extent that the
mayor found it necessary’ to appoint
a Tolerance Committee, but even
this has not stopped the storm of
attack that the comparatively few
Catholics have had to meet.
“However,” said Mr. Norcop, “we
are holding our own facing these
prblems ne by ue as they can he
analysed and with a splendid spirit
engendered among our people look
forward to tine results.”
Washington, D. C.—Catholic man
hood in Texas was never so aroused
to its duties and responsibilities as
it is today as a result of the at
tacks of the Ku Klux Klan and other
anti-Catholic elements, according to
a report mad ■ by George N. Burgess,
delegate of the diocese of. Dallas to
the annual convention of the Na
tional Council of Catholic Men.
“In the past,” said Mr. Burgess,
“it was practically impossible to
arouse the Catholics in the diocese
of Dallas, which is one of the larg
est in the United States and has a
population scattered over remote
and inaccessible sections of the
state. The attacks which have been
leveled against our Church and its
institutions have done that. For
merly' we were on the defensive and
it was scarcely a fighting defensive.
Today we stand in public to meet
attacks against our Catholicity and
our citizenship.
“Many of our Catholics in the dio
cese of Dallas were not voters. They
took no' great active part in politi
cal contests. The result was that
enemy, which came to Dallas this
year well organized, was able to
dominate things.
“Anti-Catholic bias was played
upon the ignorance of the people
concerning things Catholic was cap
italized. Particularly was the atti
tude of Catholics regarding the pub
lic schools misrepresented. Well-
meaning people were convinced, by
the arguments of agitators, that the
Catholic school was a menace to the
nation, that Catholics were under
the political domination of the Pope
was in some mysterious manner
able to control American political
destinies.
“To meet this we must educate the
whole people —’who for the most
part are fair minded—to a real con
ception of what our stand is as
Catholics and citizens. The first
tiling necessary was to present a
united front and we are succeeding
in doing that. There is a distinct
necessity for a great campaign of
education. In this work the Na
tional Catholic Welfare Council can
play' a notable part.”
Oklahoma Anti-Catholic Measure
Fails to Secure Place On Ballot
Movement Against Parochial Schools Defeated Despite
Strenuous Attempts of Its Backers—Non-Catholics of
State Show Little Enthusiasm for Intolerant Amend
ment.
Oklahoma — Religious prejudice
has been checked in its attempt to
destroy' the parochial and private
schools of Oklahoma.
The petition to place an anti-
Catholic school measure on the bal
lot in the November election has
failed, the forces behind it being
unable to muster the 70,000 signa
tures necessary’ to insure it being
brought before the people at the
polls.
Tlie coUapse of the campaign was
foreseen several weeks ago, hut there
were still misgivings in the hearts
of many fair-minded citizens that
the forces of intolerance might have
in hand a host of names which
would be brought forward on the
last minute on Sept. 20. The pro
ponents of the measure were count
ing on a last-minute rush to put the
measure over. Their expectations
failed.
The present movement aginst the
parochial schools, now defeated for
the time being, was evidenced first
in the spring. The Ku Klux Klan
took a hand early in the program
while several narrow-minded editors
attempted to prod the Church thru
editorial and news columns. “Sister
Mary Ethel”, a notorious anti-Cath
olic lecturer, was imported from
Alabama, and three other lecturers
were brought from outside states.
The Americanization Society of Mc-
Alester started a vigorous propa
ganda. Masonry was appealed to,
but while some of the Masons put
their shoulders to the wheel, many
in the largo cities refused to re
spond.
While some observers express con
fidence (hat the issue will not be
revived, others declare they saw in
the practical abandonment of the
movement more than a month ago
plans for the institution of a larger
and more intensive campaign next
spring.
The Catholic Home, the official
organ of the Oklahoma diocese, had
the following editorial comment to
make on the defeat of the bigots:
“Words of tribute should he paid
the citizens of this state. With
Catholicity cringing under a con
certed attack, the strength of which
none could surmise, with leaders of
other denominations fearing for
their private schools, with the en
tire nation focusing its eyes on
Oklahoma, the school crisis passes
for a time and automatic relaxation
follows.
“Those who have had their fingers
on the pulse of religious intolerance,
who are acquainted with various
movements of a national character,
who pore over the reports from Ore
gon that stands alone on the battle
line for liberty were not too sure
that Oklahoma would not sweep
along in its vortex of bigotry 70,000
persons of such convictions that
would lead them to sign their names
to stamp the Catholic school into
oblivion.
“The entire campaign was well
planned and buoyed up by money.
But we believe the' leaders of the
anti-Catholic movement overesti
mated the ignorant dupes who were
boldly .willing to affix their names.
UPTON SINCLAIR’S
LIBELS ON CHURCH
PROVED UNFOUNDED
(Continued from page one )
abolished serfdom among the pea
sants. In the whole Austrian ecc
lesiastical rights of property were
founded on conquest and violence.
There is one act, considerably in
fringing upon the rights of property
recorded in Austrian history. It
was, however, directed not in favor
but against the church. It was at
the time of Emperor Joseph II,
when thousands of convents were
closed by the state authority, their
property being incorporated into
funds, administered by the state.
Primate’s Salary Falsified.
What Austria was Sinclair refer
ring to when ,in his bork, appearing
in 1922 in German translation, he
stated that the revenues of the Cath
olic Primate of Austria amount to
$625,600 per year? The year 1922
only can signify that the present
state of Austria is ament. But there
is no Catholic primate of Austria.
The Archbishop of Salzburg, from
ancient times, bears the title of a
primate of Germany. Before the ,
war .this Austrian dignitary of the
church had not an annual income
of $625,000, but of thirty thousand
Austrian crowns. Tins sum, even
before the war,.was just sufficient to
meet the expenses of a modest
household, if compared with the rep
resentative duties of a bishop. After
the war, the Archbishop of Salzburg
got into such distressed condition
that he had to discharge all his do
mestic servants with the exception
of one valet, while he himself suf
fered cruelly for several years from
want of the necessities of life.
I make Mr. Upton Sinclair an of
fer: Should the proof be furnished
that he made a wrong statement ill
saying that in the Austria of our
days some Catholic bishop has an
income of $625,0C0 dollars, he should
pay the difference between the high
est episcopal revenues, he is able to
discover in Austria, and the sum lie
pretended. Should he, on the other
hand, find a bishop in Austria with
a living of over a thousand nay, five
hundred dollar per year, he may cut
my head off and fasten my scalp to
his belt as a token of his victory
over the Austrian Catholics. Should
he claim that he makes, herewith, a
had stroke of business, he may con
sole himself with the thought that
certainly it would be very satisfying
to decapitate one of those who stilt
believe that all salvation in this
world comes from the belief in God
and one who has found his greatest
happiness in his fidelity to the Cath
olic church.
Sinclair's Silliest Accusation
It has been reserved to Upton Sin
clair to state that Austria started,
the war against Serbia, as a religious ~
war against orthodox Serbia, whilst
ils real cause, as is well known, was
the murder of Sarajevo. The old
Austro-Hungarian State itself had
several million of orthodox subjects
in Croatia, Bosnia, Herzegovina and
Hungary, while millions of inhabi
tants belonged to the Protestant and
Calvinist church. Count Stefan Tis
za. the mightiest statesman in the
old monarchy at the time of the out
break of the Great War, was a Cal
vinist. Neither before nor during
tlie war was there a government
m Austria or Hungary, which was
led by the Catholic parties. The
Emperor, who signed the declaration
of war, was the same who put his
name under the interconfessional
laws rejected by the Pope and whose
Austrian government had cancelled
the concordate with the Papal Sec.
It is a blow into the face of every
historical verity to declare that re
ligious considerations and motives
influenced in any way or degree tlie
declaration of war against Serbia.
Upton Sinclair had a good name
!" ';, ur . < ! PC ' 1 , regrct that he ha* en-
fl ? J anks of t)le most super-
f cal slanderers of the Catholic
church and that his twenty-four
jcais of reflection and his research
in the libraries have .pot prevented
him from recognizing the most pri
mitive historical facts.
SIXTY YEARS A PRIEST.
Boise—The Rev. Joseph M. Cat-
! S 'if" Ind,an missionary for
oiu half a century, celebrated his
>0lh anniversary in the priesthood
last Fuday in December. Father
Cataldo will keep his 76th anniver
sary as a member of the Society of
Jesus.
Master of nearly ten Indian lan
guages, this devoted priest has dis
tinguished himself in the evangeli
zation of tiie Red Man, and is at
present, in charge of the Ncz Perce
tribe at St. Joseph’s Mission, Slick-
poo, Idaho, where convent and
school were destroyed by fire in
191G.