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THE BULLETIN OF THE CATHOLIC LAYMEN’S ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA 5 T. J. DOOLEY & CO. Savannah, Ga. HOUSE PAINTING and INTERIOR DECORATING Is Our Business NEW FISH COMPANY Andrew Aprea, Mgr. Savannah, Ga WHOLESALE SHIPPERS FISH AND OYSTERS Savannah Gas Company 114 BARNARD STREET. Savannah, Ga. BAMBOO ORGAN PRIEST BUILT 100 YEARS OLD 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. John D. Carswell F. W Clarke, Jr. President Jas. Al. OolPns treasurer JOHN D. CARSWELL CO. Insurance 112 BAY STREET, EAST SAVANNAH, GA. Morrison-Sullivan Dry Goods Company Dry Goods and Notions 23 BROUGHTON STREET, W. SAVANNAH, GA. Savannah Bank & Trust Co. SAVANNAH, GEORGIA. CAPITAL, SURPLUS AND PROFITS $1,550,000.00 LIBERTY BANK and TRUST CO. Savannah, Ga. Capital $300,000.00 Surplus and Undivided Profits $525,000.00 Solicits-Your Account DANIEL HOGAN CO. DRY GOODS, RUGS, DRAPERIES Savannah, Ga. BRAID & HUTTON Incorporated PRINTERS, STATIONERS AND LITHOGRAPHERS 10-18 Whitaker Street BANK AND COMMERCIAL SUPPLIES A SPECIALTY. Savannah, Ga. TELEPHONE 529. 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.