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THE BULLETIN OF THE CATHOLIC LAYMEN’S ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA
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Convicts’s Notable Painting of
Christ Dedicated to Fr. Hayden
N. Y. FIGHT FOR CLEAN
BOOKS WILL CONTINUE
Failure of Bill at Recent Ses
sion of Legislature But
Seed of New Efforts]
New York, — The fight for the
“Clean Books” hill which failed to
pass at the recent session of the
New York Legislature, is to be con
tinued at the next session accord
ing to Justice John Ford of the
State Supreme Court, organizer of
the Clean Books League. Address
ing a meeting of the league here,
Justice Ford said:
“We are in splendid shape now
to push ahead for victory iu the
next legislature. I am as certain
as I am of my own existence that
when our people are informed of
the shocking immorality of the pub
lications which are put into the
hands of their children under sanc
tion of judicial decisions, they will
compel their Representatives at Al
bany to abate the evil. This abate
ment may not come in the form of
our mild measure either.”
The task which the Clean Books
League has mapped out for itself
is To arouse the moral forces in
every county of the state,” accord
ing to Justice Ford. He continued:
“We have with us the most pow
erful religious influences in the
state. Our movement is a purely
moral one. The church people of
right should take the lead and may
very properly combat the immoral
influences which arc operating
ceaselessly to defeat the efforts of
the church, the home, and the school
to turn the hearts and minds of
youth toward virtue and morality.
I can conceive of no objection to
the religious organizations . under
taking an active propaganda against
unclean books. Your average Sena
tor or Assemblymen is not power
fully impressed by a delegation
from some other district than his
own. But let even a little group
of church people from his own con
stituents wait upon him with a
plea for a moral measure and im
mediately he is all attention.”
Justice Ford declared that the
efforts of the Clean Books League
need not be confined to working
for the identical bill which the
league sponsored at the last ses
sion of the legislature, say
ing that the organization could give
its support to any measure that
would accomplish the suppression of
obscene literature.
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(By N. C. W. C. News Service.)
Atlanta—An oil painting of Christ
done on the wall of the chapel of the
United States penitentiary here by
a Russian convict, Max Sassanoff,
has attracted the favorable attention
of art critics and may result in the
release of the painter. Sassanoff was
convicted in New York on a charge
of forgery.
The painting has just been com
pleted after six months of intensive
work. It shows the Saviour on the
steps of the temple surrounded by
the sick and unfortunate while above
are Cheruinib which, the painter says
are symbolic of the angels of mercy.
Prisoners posed for the various fig
ures. Sassanoff has dedicated the
painting to the Rev. Thomas P. Hay
den, Catholic chaplain at the prison,
“to show how much a man appre
ciates kindness.”
This incident has served to recall
Irish Emigration Lower
Majority Leaving Erin Come
to the United States,
Dublin—Last year 21,000 em
igrants left Ireland. This number
compares with 44,396, in 1913, the
last year before the war and with
26,056 in 1921.
To arrive at the effect of these
figures on population statistics, re
turn-emigration or immigration
should be taken into account. For
mer emigrants to the number of
5,439 returned last year to re-settle
in Ireland. This was 1,000 more
than in 1921 and 511 less than in
1913. The net emigration last year
was therefore 16,660, as compared
with 38,556 in 1913, and 21,595 in
1921.
Eighty-four per cent of Irish em
igrants sought their future in the
United States. Only 13 per cent,
went to the British Dominions. Two
out of every three emigrants were
between 20 and 30 years of age,
and women outnumbered the male
emigrants by 54 per cent. These
statistics relate to emigration from
Ireland to countries outside Europe.
Emigration from Ireland to the
continent is negligible.
Irish emigrants to Canada arc
mostly Pnotesttints. Those ’going
to the states are mainly Catholics.
Lepers Remember Benson
Admiral’s Kindness to Them
Years Ago Recalled.
Washington, D. C—The memory ol
a perfect day on the blue waters
of the Pacific, when he sailed the
great American fleet around till
island of Molakai so that the un
fortunate lepers there might view
the mighty squadron was brought
back to Admiral William S. Benson
when he received from Brother Jos.
Dutton a draft for ten dollars in
tended for a three-year subscription
to the N. C. W. C. “Bulletin” and
for other publications of the Na
tional Catholic Welfare Council.
Brother Dutton is giving, his life
to the lepers of Molokai. He has
never forgotten the signal act of
kindness on the part of Admiral
Benson, when he took the Ameri
can fleet from Honolulu to Molokai
so that he and his unfortunate
charges might view it. Each year,
when Admiral Benson’s birthday
comes around, he never fails to re
member him with a card.
Montana Catholic College
To Be Enlarged by Addition
of Wing.
Helena, Mont.—Contracts have
been awarded for the resumption of
work on the South wing of the new
St. Charles College here, according
to announcement made by the Rt.
Rev. John P. Carroll, Bishop of
Helena. The contract calls for the
enclosing of the entire, building and
the interior finishing of the three
lower floors. A new chapel, a Li
brary, a larger dining room and a
kitchen and private rooms for the
accommodation of 40 additional stu
dents will be included.
Building operations on the col
lege were suspended about a year
ago because of the financial depres
sion in this part of the country. A
donation of $100,000 originally given
for the erection of another build
ing but subsequently made avail
able for the south wing, has made
resumption of work possible.
the cases of two other prisoners
whose artistic endeavors in recent
years have resulted in’ their release
from confinement. One was an in
mate of the Federal prison at Leav
enworth where a painting of his
over the high altar of the Catholic
chapel attracted attention of Pres
ident Wilson. The President became
interested, learned the identity of
the prisonr, pardoned him and called
him to Washington where he was
given employment decorating gov
ernment buildings. The other case
was that of Ramon Garcia who, while
waiting trial in the county jail at San
Bernardino, drew a picture of Christ
on the Cross on the wall of his cell.
The fame of the picture spread and
after Garcia had been convicted and
sent to prison he was released under
a commutation of sentence. He has
since then painted several notable
pictures.
Oblate Oldest Missionary
One Active in Ceylon Despite
His 98 Years.
Paris—When the venerable Father
Dandurand, O. M. I-, passed away at
the ripe old age of 102 at St. Bona-
fice in Canada, the Missionary Ob-
lates of Mary Immaculate, did not
relinquish their claim to the honor
of having the oldest active mission
ary in the world in their ranks.
The Rev. C. Chounavel, O. M. I.,
who is chaplain of two hundred aged
men and women at the hospital of
the Little Sisters of the Poor in
Columbo, Ceylon, succeeds to Father
Dandurand’s distinction. Father
Hounavel celebrated his ninety-
eighth birthday yesterday, devoting
the day largely to resting from his
sttbnuous labors of Easter Sunday
and the preceding days.
The missionary sphere in which
Father Chounavel has toiled extends
from the frozen north of Canada,
where the Oblates carry the gospel
to the inhabitants of the land of
the midnight sun, to the equatorial
regions of Indian Ocean. When, after
being sent into Canada in 1852, he
found that the climate was too rig
orous for his health and that his
nose and ears were badly frozen as
a result of its severity, his super
iors changed him to Ceylon, where
he has labored since.
KNIGHTS AID SANITARIUM
Baltimore.—A donation of $20,000
from the Knights of Columbus to
ward the $200,000 fund which is be
ing raised for the Eudowood Sani
tarium, has been announced here.
The donation was made uncondi
tionally.
Secretary Hughes
Says World’s Need Is Re
ligious Instruction.
Washington, D. C.,—The import
ance of religious training was stress
ed by Secretary of State Charles E.
Hughes in an address made before
the Sunday School classes of Cal
vary Baptist Church here last Fri
day.
“The interrogation of the future”,
said Secretary Hughes, “will be, ‘Are
they trained in religion?’ There
is an abundance of instruction in
everything else. What the world
needs today is religious instruction
and the Sunday School represents an
important effort to meet that need.
“The work of the school should be
honestly dealt with. Either deal
with the subjects in the Bible hon
estly, or leave them alone. You
must teach boys and girls to do the
right thing. Sustained conviction of
righteousness, instilled by proper in
struction, will supply the power
upon which the nation will rest in
the future.”
30,000 AT PASSION PLAY
San Francisco.—Thirty thousand
spectators witnessed the “Passion
Play of Santa Clara” as presented
by the students of the University
of Santa Clara in the Civic auditor
ium. Tlic performance was given
five times in three days. The at
tendance is said to have established
a new record for a Catholic ama
teur production.
DR. LAPP AN OFFICIAL
OF AMERICAN COUNCIL
N. C. W. C. Executive Made
Member of Executive Board
of Citizenship Organization.
Washington, D. C,—Dr. John A.
Lapp, of the Department of Social
Action of the National Catholic Wel
fare Council was elected a member
of the Executive Board of the Na
tional American Council at the an
nual meeting held here last week.
In addition to Dr. Lapp, the Na
tional Catholic Welfare Council was
represented at the meeting by the
Rev. Dr. .Tames H. Ryan, the Rev.
R. A. McGowan, Charles A. McMa
hon, E. J. O’Connor, Miss Linna
Bresettc and James R. Ryan. Father
McGowan delivered the Invocation
at the afternoon session.
The nation-wide citizenship cam
paign conducted by the N. C. W. C.
was explained by Mr. McMahon in a
report of activities of agency mem
bers of the Council, which is a fed
eration of all organizations engag
ed in the promotion of patriotism
and good citizenship.
President Harding, General Persh
ing, United States Commissioner of
Education, Jphn J. Tigett, Dr. C. R.
Mann of the War Department’s Gen
eral Staff and Frand A. Vanderlip,
president of the Council, were
among those who addressed the
meeting.
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