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AUGUSTA, GA., MAY 15, 1923.
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ISSUED SEMI-MONTHLY
ANTI-PAROCHIAL SCHOOL
MOVEMENT IN MICHIGAN
Leader of Old Fight Plans to
Utilize Non-Catholic Sun
day Schools in Campaign.
Grand Rapids, Mich—A scheme to
utilize the non-Catholic Sunday
schools of Michigan for the dissemi
nation of propaganda against the
parochial schools, has been exposed
by the “Catholic Vigil ’ of this city.
The plan is a part of the general en
deavor to bring about legislation
that would bar parochial schools
from the state, an attempt that has
been repeatedly defeated in the past.
James Hamilton, prime mover of
the Waynes County Civic Association
which was responsible for the anti-
parochial school concstitutional
amendment that was voted down in
the elections of 1920, is credited with
having devised the new plan. Ac
cording to the “Vigil,” Hamilton has
cfefctcd an arrangement with Super
intendent Engel of the Sunday
schools of the State, whereby Ham
ilton and his speakers will have free
access to the Sunday schools for pro
paganda purposes. Hamilton's rep
resentatives will be allowed to speak
from the same platform with the
regular Sunday school teachers in
Cvefy county in which there is a Sun
day school organization, it is assert
ed.
This new campaign of attack upon
■the parochial schools is to be form
ally launched at a meeting in Calu
met, May 22-24, the “Vigil” says.
Hamilton has succeeded it is’ said,
in raising a fund of $40,000 to pro
mote his scheme.
Commenting editorially on the ex
pose, the “Virgil” says: “Hamilton
knew and he knows today, that the
essential to the success of the school
amendment was prejudice. Prejudice
docs not want enlightenment, it does
not wish information. The seed that
was broadcast throughout Michigan,
that fell on every foot of ground
blighting wherever it grew the pre
cious product of fraternal peace up
on which America depended for its
mightiest asset of national duty,
breeding an atmosphere of suspicion
where harmony had reigned, was no
seed of knowledge but of provoca
tion, provocation of the most danger
ous of all passions.”
DUBLIN CASTLE IS NOW
IRISH SUPREME COURT
Free State Dispenses Justice
in Structure Once Seat of
Brish Rule in Ireland.
Dublin,—Dublin Castle, once the
sent of British government in Ire
land, has been completely trans
formed. It now accommodates the
various divisions of the Supreme
Court of the Free Stale. St. Patrick’s
Hall, one of the most spacious
apartments in the castle, has been
converted into a law library. This
library is used solely by the bar
risters practising in the courts. The
library in the Four Courts which
contained several thousand volumes
was completely destroyed.
Already the bar has succeeded in
accumulating an extensive collection
for the new book shelves.
What were formerly state residen
tial apartments for the use of the
British viceroy and his suite are
now utilized as law, courts and as
offices for -the officials connected
with the courts.
The judges under the old regime
still officiate. They comprise five
Catholics and four Protestants. A
committee is at present sitting in
private and considering the future
judicial system of the Free State.
One of the principal members of
this committee is the Master of the
Rolls (Mr. Charles O’Connor), a
Catholic judge and a member of a
leading Connaught family. It is ex
pected that far-reaching changes in
the judicial system will he recom
mended by the , committee.
It is not anticipated that more
than two of the existing judges will
be retained. One of these will be the
Master of the Rolls and the other
Mr. Justice Wylie, a Protestant. The
wife of the latter is a Catholic and
he himself is a liberal supporter of
the St. Vincent de Paul Society.
Knights Of Columbus Offer $5,000
Reward In Georgia For Proof That
They Take Notorious Alleged Oath
State Convention Albany Takes Steps to Stop Circulation of
Bloodcurdling, Hate-Breeding Fabrication—L. C. Kunze
of Columbus Unanimously Elected New State Deputy,
State Deputy John B. McCallum Declining Reelection.
Albany, Ga.—Action insuring the placing in an Atlanta
bank by the Supreme Board of the Knights of Columbus of
the sum of $5,000.00 to be paid to anyone proving to a com
mittee of representative non-Catholics that the “alleged
oath of the Knights of Columbus” is taken by members of the
order in any degree or that Protestants or Masons are any
where mentioned in pledges Knights of Columbus take fea
tured the twenty-first annual convention of the Georgia
State Council, Knight of Columbus, held in this city at the
Elks’ Home, Tuesday, May 8.
Officers for the coming term,
which starts July 1st, were elected
as follows:
State Deputy, L. C. Kunze, of Co
lumbus; State Secretary, ,T. J. Mc
Creary, of Macon; State Treasurer.
J. G. Dicks, of Atlanta; State War
den, D. W. Morgan, of Waycross;
Stale Advocate, James B. Mulhcrin,
of Augusta; State Chaplain, Rev
Leo M. Keenan, of Albany; delegates
to the national convention of tin
Knights of Columbus at Montreal
P. Q., next August, Stale Deputy
John B. McCallum and State Deputy-
elect L. C. Kunze.
The State Council sent telegraphic
greetings to Rt. Rev- Michael J
Keyes, D. D., Bishop of Savannah
and to Rt. Rev. Benjamin J. Keiley
D. D., retired Bishop of the diocos<
and for many years chaplain of the
State Council. The sum of $400 was
voted Bishop Keyes for missionary
purposes in the stale.
A Knights of Columbus Defense
Committee, charged wiili the duty
of handling all attacks on Hie
Knights of Columbus in Georgia,
was created by the convention, with
Richard Reid, of Augusta, as chair
man.
Resolutions were adopted approv
ing the work of the Catholic Lay
men’s Association of Georgia and
making The Bulletin the Associa
tion’s official organ, the official or
gan of the Knights of Columhus
State Council. The resolutions com
mittee also recommended that the
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MODERNISM DANGER TO"
FAITH BAPTIST ASSERT
New York Church League
Hears Catholic Church La
beled Force That Can With
stand it.
New York—At a meting of the re
cently organized Baptist Fundamen
talist League, an organization op
posed to “modernisin’ in religion,
three hundred members of the lea
gue adopted a constitution pledging
themselves to rout from pulpit,
school, seminary and missionary so
ciety all men found “unsound in the
faith.” Dr. John Roach Stratton,
president of theleague, presided.
In the discussion of the subject it
was agreed by all, “modernism ’ is
“endangering the home life of the
people, and the proper training of
our youth, encouraging the appalling
wave of crime and immorality now
sweeping around the world, weaken
ing the marriage bond, promoting
free love, crowding the divorce
courts, debauching the people with
commercialized amusements, encour
aging lawlessness, and undermining
the very foundations of organized
society in its every branch.”
According to Dr. T. T. Shields, of
Toronto, who was the principal
speaker of the evening, “Modernism
has declared war on the Christian
church and it is up to the church
to make war on ‘modernism.’ ” Dr.
Shields pictured the devil as “listen
ing in with glee” while “modernism”
was seizing hold of all Christian
agencies and destroying them. Cath-
olism versus Modernism was the
next point in Dr. Shields talk.
“Roman Catholics,” he said, “are
making enormous strides everywhere
fairly honey-combing the life of old
England. Men are turning from Pro
testantism, which modernism has
made doubtful in their minds, and
are clinging to the authority of
Rome. And modernism will never
be able to cope with Roman Catho
licism.”
“Modernism,” he continued, “is a
cuckoo which never builds its own
nest but lays its eggs in the nest of
another. It is the opposite of truth,
seeking to gain control of all ec
clesiastic machinery and everything
that has to do with the propagation
of Christian faith.”
DR. ELIOT WORRIED BY
DECLINE OF EDUCATED
President - Emeritus Warns
Smith Alumnae Against Re
stricted Families,
Boston, Mass.—A warning that
college-trained men and women are
not living up to their duty to so
ciety to give children to the world,
and that unless there conics some
change for the better the result will
be the virtual extinctioin of “edu
cated families” was sounded by Dr.
Charles W. Eliot, president emeri
tus of Harvard, in a talk here be
fore the Smith College alumnae of
Boston.
“Women’s colleges in the United
States,” said he, “have still to dem
onstrate that the fertility of the
race is not affected by higher edu
cation.”
“Statistics distinctly show,” he
continued, “that, educated men and
women, married, are not replacing
themselves. This is a tiling that
needs to he studied in colleges for
men and colleges for women, be
cause if things go on as they have
since colleges for women started
and since colleges for men have
been turning out so many bachel
ors or men who postpone their
marriages, it means llie ceasing of
educated families.”
Dr. Eliot said that lie had recent
ly been studying the Harvard quin
quennial catalogue, and that he had
noted the disappearance of families
among the alumni.
The question of marriages and off
spring among college women was
first brought up at the gathering
by President Emeritus Seelye of
Smith, who mentioned that Dr. Eliot
was the first commencement speak
er at Smith 40 years ago, and that
he had at that time submitted the
question whether “in the eyes of
men college education would impair
the delicacy and separate charm of
women, and, therefore, decrease the
number of marriages and diminish
the fecundity of the race,” Dr.
Seelye was of the opinion that
Eliot’s question of 40 years ago had
been answered, and that college wo
men “have married and brought
forth children quite as often as
other women.”
It was then that Dr. Eliot came
back with the declaration that the
question had not been answered.
Russia’s Martyr-Priest,
and Heroic Archbishop
VATICAN WILL CONTINUE
RELIEF WORK IN RUSSIA
Pity Crowds Out Indignation,
and Pope Pius Will “Repay
Evil With Good.”
Washington—That there will be no
decrease in the offerings for the
Papal Russian Relief Fund is shown
by the publication in the “Osserva-
tore Romano” of the thirty-fifth list,
in which are included donations
from every part of the world.
“Although the Holy Father and
the faithful are overcome with grief)'
says the Roman paper, “over the dis'-
regard for these principles of loving
charity which has been made evident
in these last days, Catholics will not
let the voice of indignation drown
the voice of pity. But realizing that
their contributions go directly to the
most miserable and afflicted—espe
cially to the children and the sick—
and feeling no regret for the contri
butions already sent, they will in
tensify their generous and unani
mous response, in memory of the
noble Christian motto which is our
greatest strength: “Repay evil with
good.”
The thirty-fifth list has the fol
lowing two offerings from American
dioceses: Boston Archdiocese (3d
offering), $1,000; Diocese of Grand
Rapids, $1,500.
These arc the first individual
photographs of Vicar-General
Butchavitch (above), executed
by the Reds, and Archbishop
Cicplak (below), whose sentence
of dcatli was later commuted to
ten years imprisonment. Their
trials before the Bolshevist trib
unal at Moscow revealed that
their only “crime” was the prac
tice of fneir religion.
Washington, D. C.—Mme. Kalinim
wife of the president of the Russian
Soviet Republic, has been refused ad
mission to the United States as a di
rect result of the trial and execution
of Msgr. Butchkavitcli and the im
prisonment of other Catholic eccles
iastics in Russia. Authorization for
a visa to admit Mms. Kalinim was
cancelled by Secretary Hughes with
the following announcement:
“The presence of Mms. Kalinim in
this country is rendered wholly un
desirable by the deep feeling which
has been aroused by the execution
of Vicar General Butchkavitcli. The
action of the department is taken
especially in protest against this ex
ecution.”
The State Department took this
step after a protest had been re
ceived from the Rev. John J. Burke.
General Secretary of the National
Catholic Welfare Council, asking that
Mine. Kalinin be refused admission.
Her proposed visit was advertised by
her friends as being in the interest
of relief work for Russian children,
CIRCUIT COURT UPHOLDS
MIXED MARRIAGE PACT
Kankskcc, 111.,—The Illinois Su
preme Court will be called upon to
decide whether or not a pre-nuptial
agreement involving the religious
training of children resulting from
a mixed marriage is binding even
after both parents are dead.
The question will be brought to
the Supreme Court as a result of a
ruling of Judge H. F. Rucl, who in
a circuit court hearing here decided
that the twin children of Mr. and
Mrs. Irvin Sorenson, who under a
pre-nuptial agreement were to be
brought up Catholics, should lie
raised in that faith. The mother,
a Catholic, died at the birth of the
twins and the father’s death occur
red shortly afterwards.
After the death of the father, the
maternal grandparents, who are
Catholics, sought possession of the
children, as did also the paternal
grandmother, who is an Episcopal
ian. In holding that the children
should be given into the custody
of mother’s parents, the court said:
“For a court of justice to disre
gard such a sacred obligation would
open the door to irreparable injus
tice and grave fraud. ‘The death
of the parents makes the agreement
none the less binding then if they
were living. It makes no difference
that the education provided for
them was to be Roman Catholic. An
agreement entered into under like
solemn circumstances to baptize the
children and raise them in the Epis
copalian faith, or Presbyterian or
any other denomination would have
the same binding force and effect.”
The paternal grandmother will ap
peal the case to the Illinois Supreme
Court and it will constitute the first
Illinois text cast on the validity of
a pre-nuptial coutract.
CHAPEL CAR SURPRISES
APOSTOLIC DELEGATE
Washington, D. C.—America’s most
distinctive contribution to modern
missionary enterprise was given its
first introduction to the Most Rev.
Pietro Fumasoni-Biondi, apostolic
delegate to the United States, last
week in the nation’s capital, when
the delegate inspected the chapel car
“St. Paul,” which is now touring the
east and south.
The delegate expressed his sur
prise and gratification at the Ameri
can missionary spirit which had
prompted the work of the chapel
cars, three of which are now operat
ing in the United States. After in
specting every section of the car
minutely, His Grace inquired of the
Rev. Eugene J. McGuinness, vice-
president of the Catholic Church
Extension Society, who is in charge
of the car, concerning the experi
ences of the missionaries in remote
parts of tile country.
The value of the chapel car, Fath
er McGuinness explained to the del
egate, was as much in levcning the
spirit of prejudice as it was in bring
ing the Mass and the Sacraments to
thousands of Catholics scattered in
remote sections of the country in
which there was no church or priest.
Monsignor Fumasoni-Biondi ex
pressed great surprise when he was
told that there are only eight thou
sand Catholics in North Carolina
and ten thousand in South Caro
lina. He commented on the disad
vantage that Catholics in such sec
tions of the country have been la
boring under for years and said
that especially for these people the
chapel car was able to do a splendjf’
i and much needed work.