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AUGUSTA, GA., DECEMBER 15, 1922.
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DU HEALEY CONDEMNS
INVISIBLE GOVERNMENT
AT PAN-AMERICAN MASS
If No Nation May Destroy
Government, No Group of
Individuals Should Be Per
mitted, He Says.
Timothy Heaiy
Irish Free State’s New
Governor General.
Seven Georgia Women
Represent Diocese At
National Convention
Washington—In a sermon general
ly interpreted as an attack upon the
Ku Klux Klan, the Rev. 'Patrick
J. Healey, of the Catholic Univer
sity, delivered an emphatic plea for
the preservation of constitutional
rights and religious freedom at the
fourteenth annual Pan-American
Mass in St. Patrick’s church here
yesterday. Speaking to an audience
which comprised diplomatic repre
sentatives of twenty American re-
'publics, ranking officers of the
armed forces of the nation, Justices
of the Federal Supreme court, offi
cials of the federal and district gov
ernment and prominent laymen and
clergymen of all denominations, the
speaker announced impressively that
“liberty may he gained but it must
be guarded and its price it eternal
vigilance.”
“If the arbitrary will of any man
or any group of men is permitted
to suspend the orderly processes of
law, there can he no liberty,” he
said. “If liberty is to survive there
must he law in society and self-
restraint in individuals. Religious
freedom is the most sacred posses
sion of free peoples. Yet, if we arc
to believe the tales told with sucli
seeming truth and so frequently of
late religious freedom itself is
menaced in certain parts of this
country.”
“Referring to a recent speech of
Secretary Denby, of the Navy De
partment, Dr. Healey continued:
“When a responsible officials, a
member of the president’s cabinet,
finds necessity to address such word
to his fellow countrymen, and when
the daily papers are filled with re
ports that substantiate his fears that
freedom is menaced in this country
there can be no doubt as to the
direction in which patriotic duty-
lies.
“Should any nation or any com
bination of nations dare to lay im
pious hands on that flag which for
seven score years has been the
symbol of hope to the oppressed of
the world, there can he but one
opinion as to what should he the
fate of an American who would liesti-
tatc to cast his life between that flag
and dishonor. When an attack more
dangerous because more insidious
than any that can come from abroad
Is made on that flag and the Consti
tution it represents, patriotism can
lead but one way.
“If no nation or group of nations
can be permitted to destroy the life
of this great republic, no group or
groups of malicious and misguided
men shall be permitted to impair its
institutions. At that great crisis of
the nation’s history when America
responded to his appeal. We are
again engaged in a war testing
whether Constitutional liberty can
long endure and, as in the days of
Lincoln, there will he found in tht
America of today such solid and en
during patriotism, such passionate
devotion to liberty, such deep-seat
ed desire for justice, that the words
of Secretary Denby will bear fruit
and the government of the people,
by the people, and for the people
shall not perish from the earth.”
Commenting upon the spirit of tol
erance which the predimantly Catho
lic countries of Latin America have
always treated their religious minori
ties, he continued:
“Tlie broad and liberal spirit of
Americanism, which is so strikingly
illustrated in these southern repub
lics, appears in a much stronger
light by comparasion with what takes
place in oilier parts of I he world.”
The III. Rev. Msgr. C. F. Thomas,
rector of St. Patrick’s, was the cele
brant of the Mass. The Most Rev.
Michael J. Curley, Archbishop of
Baltimore, presided. The historic
church was thronged to capacity long
before the services started and hun
dreds who were unable to gain en
trance stood in the streets outside.
Diplomats and officials, who attend
ed the mass were guests of Msgr.
Thomas at a luncheon in the Rectory
following the ceremonies in the
church. Archbishop Curley presided
uincheon.
Mr. Ilcaty is a native Irish
man and a lifelong worker for
the freedom of his native land.
“We have been given a mea
sure of freedom as large as
that enjoyed by any of the
states in the American Union,”
he is quoted ns saying in an in
terview on his arrival in Dub
lin after his appointment. Pres
ident William T. Cosgrove, pres
ident of the Dait Eircann, pre
dicts that Mr. Ilealy’s coming
will bring peace to Ireland, after
long centuries of strife.
Mrs. J. S. Howkins of Catho
lic Laymen’s Association
Calls N. C. C. W.’s Atten
tion To Its Activities.
Catholic Women
Hold Convention
At Washington
N. C. C. W. Hears Postmas
ter General Work Condemn
Birth Control — Delegates
Visit White House.
Washington — Determination to
make the National Catholic Service
School for Women an institution
“which is to set standards in every
field of social activity,” insistence
on the preservation of Catholic
ideals of married life, and interest
in problems of immigration and edu
cation were the outstanding charac
teristics of the second annual con
vention of the National Council of
Catholic Women held here during
the past week.
Postmaster General’s Address.
The address of welcome to the Na
tional Capital delivered by Postmas 7
ter General Work, speaking on be
half of the National Administration,
was a strong commendation of the
ideals and program of the Council
together with an unqualified and em
phatic approval of Catholic princi
ples governing family and marital
relationships. Praising the influence
exerted by mothers upon the con
science of the nation, Dr. Work took
occasion to denounce the propagan
dists of birth control in the follow
ing words:
“There are those in these days
who would mate people as animals
are controlled, who would regulate
human offspring by the ability to
maintain a fixed standard of living.
Who are they that would patent li
centiousness, deny the rights of pa
renthood and the privileges of being
born? Surety they never felt the in
fant’s breath upon their check or
say the trusting soul of a child
through its eyes or evaluated those
who were reared in respectable pov
erty by self-denying mothers.”
The convention’s welcome to
Washington by the federal govern-
Special to the Bulletin.
Washington, D. C.—Seven Georgia
Catholic women represented the dio
cese of Savannah at the second an
nual convention of the National
Council of Catholic Women at the
New Willard Hotel in this city NT>v.
21-25. They were Mrs. .1. H. How-
kins, Miss Marie Sheehan and Mrs.
Joseph E. Kelly, of Savannah, and
Miss Beta Bricken, Mrs. R. G. Kuhrts,
Mrs. Joseph Moody and Mrs. Alice
O’Donell, of Atlanta. Archbishop
Curley was celebrant at the opening
mass, and Bishop McNichols of Du
luth, delivered the sermon.
Three hundred delegates from all
parts of the union were in attend
ance, and they were welcomed by
Postmaster General Work. Rt. Rev.
Joseph Schrembs, D. D., Bishop of
Toledo, chairman of the department
of Lay Activities of the National
Catholic YVelfarc Council, was pre
sented with a handsome episcopal
ring—containing a large emerald sur
rounded with diaiponds—by the
members of the National Council of
Catholic Women.
One of the features of the con
vention was a visit to the White
House where the delegates were in
troduced to President Harding. A
brilliant banquet at the New Wil
lard Hotel closed the convention.
Mrs. J. S. Howkins, diocesan rep
resentative from Georgia, was among
the delegates who addressed the con
vention, and she took occasion to
refer to the work being done by the
Catholic Laymen’s Association of
Georgia, of which she is an official,
being a member of the publicity
committee under the direction of
which the publicity bureau is oper
ated. The address of Mrs. Howkins
follows:
“The National Council of Catho-
olic Women was introduced into the
diocese of Savannah (Georgia) in
October, 1920. There was no mass
meeting held, but the Catholic or
ganizations all over the state were
invited to join, and did so; many
individuals also joined. In the wo
men’s clubs there are classes in
which the study of Catholic prob
lems and activities are considered—
education, Bible, juvenile detention
work, civics, municipal, state and
federal legislation. Many lectures
by experts are given on these sub
jects and are a source of pleasure
and benefit. The Catholic women’s
club of Georgia belong to the city,
(■Continued on page 12.)
PIERCE BUTLER OF ST. PAUL
NOMINATED BY PRESIDENT
FOR SUPREME COURT BENCH
PIERCE BUTLER
RELIEF FROM VATICAN
RUSHED TO RUSSIA’S
STARVING MILLIONS
Papal Mission Workers Open
Their First Food Kitchens
to Nourish Stricken Popu
lace.
Moscow—For the first time in
centuries the Papal and the Papal
coat of arms, the crossed keys of
Peter surmounted by the Papal Tia
ra, may he seen flying freely ia the
streets of Moscow. Petrograd, Krass-
nodar, Rostov-on-Don, and in dozen
of towns and villages of the Crimea.
In response to the appeal recently
made by His Holiness, funds for the
Catholic Relief Mission have been
contributed from all quarters of the
world and are now being adminis
tered in Russia by special represen
tatives of His Holiness chosen from
different nations. The personnel of
the Papal Relief Mission includes,
Professor Edmund A. Walsh, director
general, and Louis J. Gallagher, sec
retary, both Americans.
Assisted by a corps of Russian cm-
(Continued on page 8)
Methodist Bishops Demand Strict
Obedience To Church Divorce Law
(Continued on Page 9)
Baltimore—Litoral interpretation
of the law of the Methodist church
relative to divorce will he insisted
upon hereafter, according to a de
cision of the Methodist Episcopal
Bishops who met in executive ses
sion here last week.
A resolution which will he sent to
district superintendents, was adopted
and read as follows:
“The divorce evil has become much
more common in the last few years
and in some places, at least, some of
our ministers have been overlook
ing the law. We call upon our mini
sters to give strictest compliance to
the law of the church as it relates
to divorce. We call upon our district
superintendents and annual con
ferences to note with earnest soli
citude any violations of the law in
this respect, for we earnestly desire
that our ministry should he freed
of all odium attaching to violation of
the scriptural law.
“The srciptural law” referred to is
embodied as follows in paragraph
as 68 of the book of discipline:
“No divorce, except for adultery,
shall be regarded by the church as
lawful and no minister shall solem
nize marriage in any case where
there is a divorce and the wife or
husband is living: but this rule
shall not he applied to the innocent
party to a divorce for the case of
adultery nor to divorced persons
seeking to me remarried.”
'the section of the book of discip
line in which this paragraph appears
is under the heading “Special Ad
vice”, and some ministers, it is said,
hitherto held this as not mandatory.
A later paragraph however, provides
for the trial of ministers who per
forin the marriage contrary to pro
visions of the section.
'the question of a united Method
ism, or of the reconciliation into one
church of all the Wesleyan scats in
the United States was broached at
a meeting of the American Methodist
Historical Society in the Merchant’s
which occupies the site of the
Methodist meeting house in the
United States. A project for the cele
bration, in 1834, of the sesqui-ccutcu-
nial of American Methodists was
broached and the Rev. Edward L.
Watson, the president of the society
stated that it was proposed to bring
together the Methodist Episcopal
church, the Methodist Episcopal
Church South, the Methodist I 1 ro
tes tan t Church and other groups of
Wesleyan or Methodist 'origin. On a
motion of Bishop McDowell the bis
hops agreed to urge the matter at
alt the conferences in: the United
States.
Leading Catholic Laymen
Named to Succeed Asso
ciate Justice Day, Who Re
cently Resigned.
Washington. I). C.,—Pierce Butler,
of St. Paul, Minn., Yvho was nom
inated by President Harding last
week to be a member of the United
States Supreme court to fill the posi
tion vacated by Associate Justice
Day by his resignation, will bring
the number of Catholics on the Su
preme court to two when he takes
oath of office. Justice McKenna, a
native of California, is the only Ca
tholic now on tlie supreme bench,
which has been so honored in the
past by distinguished Catholic lay
men.
Mr. Butler is a democrat in poli
tics and lias a nation wide reputa
tion as a lawyer of character and
ability. He is 56 years of age.
The appointment will restore to
the bench the political equation
which existed when Justice Clark
resigned. He, a democrat, was suc
ceeded by Justice Sutherland, a re
publican, hut by selecting a democrat
to succeed Justice Day, republican,
the court will again stand six rcpubli
cans and three democrats.
It was staled yesterday in court
circles that Chief Justice Taft gave
the president an unstinted recom
mendation of Mr. Butler’s qualifica
tions when the chief executive ad- .
vised him that Mr. Butler was being,
considered for the vancancy. Senator
Kellogg, republican, Minnesota, as
well as others prominent in north
western affairs, also gave the presi- ,
dent praise of Mr. Butler’s abilities
as a lawyer. £
He was born in Minnesota in 1866/
the son of Patrick and Mary But-,
ler, and was educated in the public
schools and in Carleton college, from
which tie graduated in 1887. Three
years later he became assistant
county attorney of Ramsey county
and from 1893 to 1897 was county
attorney. He eng/ged in the prac
tice of law and from 1900 to 1905
was general attorney of the Chica
go St. Paul, Minneapolis and Omaha
Railway. In this capacity he became
a leading national authority on
railway questions and since that
time lias been retained in many
important cases in which railway in
terests were involved. He was coun
sel for an important group of rail
ways in connection with the federal
legislation providing for the valua
tion of railways. Two years ago
lie was retained by the Canadian
government as its counsel in the pro
ceedings to determine the price
which the Grand Trunk Pacific Rail
road should be paid for its proper
ties when these were taken over by
the government.
In 1910 Mr. Butler was appointed
special counsel for tlie government
in the prosecution of the Chicago
meat packers, then under indict
ment for violation of the Sherman
act. This was the famous case before
Judge Wilkcrsoiv and, while the
jury acquitted the packers, Attor
ney-General Wiekersham paid high
tribute to the ability displayed by
Mr. Butler in the case.
Recently Mr. Butler was retained
by the city of Toronto to handle
its case in fixing the Y-aluation at
which its traction system is to he
bought by the city.
Mr. Butler is a member of the
Knights of Columbus and a regent of
the University of Miunesota. He has
been an adviser of Archbishop
Dowling on educational matters and
lias helped in the development of the
educational fund. He was marr'ed
to Annie M. Cronin in 1891, and of
eight children, seven are living and
three served in tlie world war.
VINCENTIAN PRIESTS FOR CHINA
St. Louis—Three priests of the Vin
centian Order from this province
have been selected for duty in the
Chinese missions and are to leave
in the near future. They are: Rev.
Paul Mistier, C. M., S. T. D, of Ken-
rick Seminary faculty; the Rev. Ed
ward Sheehan, C. M, of the Vin
centian Preparatory College at Cape
Girardeau; and the Rev. John La-
vcllc, C. M., president of St, Thomas
Seminary at Denver, Colo.