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THE BULLETIN OF THE CATHOLIC LAYMEN’S ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA
FEDERAL JUDGE FLAYS
INYISfRIE GOVERNMENT
Judge Manton Tells Catholic
Alumnae Hooded Forces
Menace Religious Freedom.
New York,—The right of the Cath
olic Church to religious freedom is
being menaced and abridged in many
parts of the United States, accord
ing to Federal Judge Martin T. Man-
ton, who spoke at the commence
ment exercises of St. Joseph’s Col
lege for women in Brooklyn last
week.
Judge Manton called attention to a
recent meeting on Long Island of a
“hand of hooded and masked men,
gathered in a cornfield to protest
against the importance and influence
of Catholics in the affairs of the gov
ernment.”
“These men were masked to hide
their faces as if in shame or fear,”
said Judge Mantor. “They did not
wish to be seen and the natural
question is—why? They not only
defied a criminal law of our State,
but they defied the age-old law that
the accuser shall face the accused.
“Why, in this enlightened age, are
there thousands of American citi
zens, masked and in the dark, prac
ticing the trades and conduct of
men ashamed of their acts and. de
clarations?”
More than 2,000,000 students in
Catholic schools and colleges, said
Judge Manton, receive both a men
tal and moral education, which is
lacking in many public schools. This
country, he pointed out, ( was set
tled by 'people who came here for
religious freedom and the first
schools here, as well as in Europe
were church schools.
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Alien” Leaves Texas Klansmen
Mourning Loss °f Over $45,
Beaumont—Nine thousand gullible
Ku Klux Klansmen of Beaumont are
today minus $45,000 and searching
for Charles L. Schless, a Russian
Jew, who has apparently made him
self more invisible than the Invis
ible Empire itself. When last heard
of, Schless was headed for points
north, leaving behind him a ram
shackle plan^in which he published
the “Beaumont News” and carrying
with him an amount estimated at be
tween $45,000 and $90,000.
Schless left town before meeting
a committee of Klansmen from Sour
Lake who had arrived to hold a pri
vate conversation with him. He also
left behind him a young woman
from the same place who had won—-
but never received—a handsome
touring car as the result of a “Beau
mont News” contest and a Beaumont
lady who had accepted a $500 check
in lieu of a cheaper that had been
awarded her. The check, like many
other checks written by Schless, has
been returned by the Beaumont
banks marked “no funds.”
Meanwhile the Cyclops of Beau
mont and two trusted lieutenants
found that the known liabilities of
the “Beaumont News” exceed $90 -
000 with many unhonored checks and
notes still out.
Schless, with a ramshackle outfit
and little funds, started the “Beau
mont News ’ when the Klan feeling
was at its height. Faced with bank
ruptcy, he beheld the fiery cross,
emblem of the Klan. To Schless, it
denoted the shekels of the gullible.
The Klan needed an organ and
Schless arranged that the “Beaumont
News” should become that organ. A
$50,000 bond issue was suggested
and, with klansmen's money much in
evidence, the sum of $45,00 was sub
scribed.
Schless then bethought him of a
subscription contest. Two automo
biles were first prizes. With Klan
aid the contest flourished. The sub
scription list jumped up to 9 926.
Meanwhile tlje “Beaumont News ’ be
come more and more fulsome in its
praise of the lKan.
The crash came after the contest.
The woman who won the first prize
arrived to claim her trophy, but
found it not. The second prize win-
ned accepted a $500 check but there
were no funds in the bank.
Meanwhile Schless had disappear
ed, with many unhonored checks
scattered about town and not a cent
in the cash drawer. When the Beau
mont cyclops finished his in inves
tigation, with a view of issuing re
covers’ certificates to keep the stan
dard of the “News” a flying, he dis
covered that the known liabilities
exceeded $90,000, that the $45,000 in
bonds had nevor been recorded, and
that all the contract advertising had
been collected to date and some in
advance. The sole assets of the
plant were the dilapidated machin
ery and the office cat.
Employees of the newspaper have
filed an involuntary petition in
bankruptcy but they have as yet
found no one on whom to serve the
papers. The directors arc unable to
secure a quorum, most of them, for
the time being, having sought the
cloak of invisibility.
It is not certain that the Beau
mont klansmen will continue their
efforts to carry the message of the
white sheet into the hearts of their
countrymen.
The Trials of a Pastor in
Building a School
Ku Klux in Macon
HARPER BROS
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Augusta, Ga.
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Bourke Cockran.
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New York.—Funeral services for
the latd Daniel .1. Riordan, United
States Representative from the elev
enth New York district, were held
in St. James Church. The body was
laid to rest in Calvary Cemetery
with full military honors befitting
a member of the naval committee of
the house.
Representative Riordan, the sec
ond Catholic member of the house
to die within a few months, was a
close personal friend -and associate
of the late Representative Bourke
Cockran, who died in March.
Governor Alfred Smith, of New
York, a boyhood playmate of Rep
resentative Riordan, headed the
honorary pallbearers. Representative
Riordan was elected to the fifty-
ninth congress to serve out the un
expired term of Timothy D. Sulli
van and was later re-elected and
served for eight sessions. He was
born in this city in 1870 and served
two terms in the New York State
Senate.
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RETREAT FOR LAYMEN
A retreat for laymen will be conducted at Sacred Heart College,
Augusta, Ga., from Thursday evening, July 12, to Sunday morn
ing, July 15. Very Rev. E. J. Cummings, S. J., president of Loyola
University, New Orleans, La., will be retreat master. There will
be no stated fee for the expenses of the retreat; each retreatant
may make a private voluntary contribution. Men who wish to
make the retreat should fill out the form below and return it at
once to the Retreat Chairman, Catholic Laymen’s Association of
Georgia, 1409 Lamar Building, Augusta, Ga.
Please make reservations for me at the retreat to be held at
Sacred Heart College, July 12 to 15, 1923.
Signed •.
Street Address ,
Cit and Slate
The Oregon Law
(Continued from Page Seven)
sonstitutional right of a parent to
have some voice in the bringing up
an education of his children
The State is more and more taking
hold of the private affairs of indi
viduals and requiring that they con
duct their business affairs honestly
and with due regard for the public
good. All this is commendable and
must receive the sanction of every
good citizen, but, in this age of agi
tation, such as the world has never
known before, we want to be careful
lest we carry the doctrine of govern
mental parentalism too far, for, af
ter all is said and done, the prime
factor in our scheme of government
is the Ainerican home.”
If it be true that the prime factor
in our scheme of government is the
American home—and who that is in
formed on the beginnings of our
government, the views of its found
ers and the history of its develop
ment will doubt it—then a menace
to the home is a danger to tlie na
tion. If parental authority be null
iiicd, how can the home exist? The
authority of the parents is the foun
dation upon which the home rests
Take that away and its stability is
destroyed, its doom sealed. 'Hie
very word loses its meaning. For
how could the home endure if a
man’s dearest possession, his child,
could be taken from under his au
thority, deprived of the education
which the parent considers essential
to character an right thinking, and,
perhaps even taught things which
would be abhorrent to the parent’s
moral sense? Under such a system
a moral chasm would be- created be
tween parents and their children
The home fires of affection and res
pect would be turned quickly into
ashes of hatred and mistrust. The
joy of family life would give way to
the desolation of selfishness. The
law of nature, so far as human pur
pose could bring it about, would be
replaced by the design of anarchy.
That, indeed, is what has been
done in Russia and that must be the
inevitable consequence of a system
under which the state undermines
the home by asserting complete jur
isdiction over children in disregard
of parental rights.
And yet this policy, rejected as it
has been by all civilized nations, as
we have shown, Is seriously propos
ed as a means to better American
ism. God pity our people if sueli
foUy can gain any great support
among them. Only the ignorant and
fanatical could entertain the delu
sion that such a policy would make
for national improvement. To the
intelligent and well informed, such
an idea will be considered an absurd
ity in all but the menace its adop
tion by a sovereign State presents.
Catholics will do their best to pre
vent the threatened national calam
ity of having such a policy prevail.
They will be actuated by no selfish
motives in their determined opposi
tion to this invasion of the people’s
sacred rights. They see clearly a
duty to country, as well as to re
ligion, in the issue which has been
thrust upon them. Their ardor in
the judicial fight to be waged will
be intensified by the knowledge that,
in defending their own schools, they
will also be safeguarding the corner
stone of American liberty—the borne.
Washington, D. C.—The task of
the modern pastor who would build
a sclioolhouse for his parish is not
an enviable one, according to the
Right Rev. Monsignor James F.
Mackin, pastor of St. Paul’s Church,
who at the age of 85, is embarking
upon the construction of a modern
$200,000 school.
“Everybody wants something dif
ferent in the school,” said Monsig
nor Mackin in speaking before the
St. Paul Parish Council of the Na
tional Council of Catholic Men.
“First the little boys came around
and want to know if the new school
is to have a swimming pool. There’s
a puddle out there two feet deep
right now-
“Then the young men come
around and want to know if we are
going to have a stage from which
they can spout Shakespeare. We’ll
have to build them a stage to sat
isfy them.
“Then the young girls come
around and want to know if they
are going to have a place to
dawnco.’ I suppose the next thing
they’ll lie asking for is a beauty
parlor. Maybe they’ll want a mani
cure parlor, too. The best manicure
parlor is the kitchen. I saw recently
that the girl who won the prize for
having the most beautiful hands
in the New York contest claimed
they were the result of washing
dishes.
’The present generatoin of our
young people is traveling so fast
that we can hardly keep up with
them. It’s about all we can do to
keep up with the children.”
Parades Despite Disapproval
of Mayor Williams.
Special to The Bulletin.
Macon, Ga.—The Ku Klux paraded
in Macon June 19 despite the op
position of Mayor Luther Williams,
and of Rev. I)r. Walter F. An
thony, pastor of the Mulberry Street
Methodist Church. City Council
granted permission for the parade
after laying over the request from
one meeting to the next. Reporters
counted 337 robed and hooded Klans
men in the parade. They carried
placards which read: “We were here
yesterday, 1866,” and “We will be
here forever”; also “Vindicated by
Congress” and “We are soldiers of
the Cross, the Miitia of Christ”.
The parade proceeded from the
downtown section to Central City
Bark where candidates were “natur
alized.” Many witnessed the “nat-’
uralization” process at a distance.
At a certain part of the proceedings
the view of the “unnaturalized” was
shut out by the grouping of Klans
men around the candidates.
BUCKLEY-MOORE.
Augusta, Ga.—Rev. James A. Kane,
pastor of St- Mary’s-on-thc-Hill, of
ficiated at the marriage of Miss
Margaret Alyce Buckley, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. D. J. Buckley of Au
gusta, and John Whitfield Buckley
of Charleston, S. C. The attendants
were Miss Lucile Moore and Ray
mond Lackman. After a wedding
trip, Mr. and Mrs. Dowling will
live in Charleston, where Mr. Dowl
ing is located.
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