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Member of the National Catholic Welfare Coun cil News Service. '(jhr 3ntUtm l'he Only Catholic Newspaper Between Bal timore and New Orleans TEN CENTS A COPY. VOL. IV. NO. 13. AUGUSTA, GA., JULY 14, 1923. *2.00 A YEAR ISSUED SEMI-MONTHLY BABSON APPEALING FOR RELIGION IN EDUCATION Leading Economist Says Statistics Prove it is Neces sary for Prosperity. Washington,—A circular lelter urg ing college graduates to exert their influence to bring about proper in struction in spiritual affairs in their respective colleges, has been sent out by Roger W. Babson. The appeal is based on the statements that “Ed ucation unless guided by a religious- purpose is a very dangerous thing. Giving wrong economic teaching to the average man is like giving a gun to a maniac.” Calling attention to the fact that his organization for many years past has stressed the importance of the spiritual factor in business, even at the cost of considerable criticism of its attitude, Mr. Babson writes: “If statistics have taught us one thing during the past twenty years, it is that the spiritual factor is the greatest factor in the growth of communities and nations. It is well enough to talk about land, labor and capital. They all have their uses and functions, but of themsel ves they are helpless in bringing about prosperity. Laud, labor and capital existed long before there was even civilization. Many great na tions such as Babylon, Persia, Egypt, Greece, Borne and even Spain have possessed land, labor and capital in abundance hut fell for want of this far more important quality—the spiritual factor.” Explaining this contention, the let ter goes on: “Land, labor, and capi tal, and even education are mere tools which can lie used either for good or evil. Two men graduate from the same law school and get the same degree—one uses his edu cation to uphold the law, and the other uses his education to help^ men evade the law. Two chemists graduate from the same technical school in the same class—one uses his training to make foods pure; and the other uses the same training to adulterate foods. “However, the purpose of this let ter, is not to prove our proposition. You know that this position is ab solutely light. Rather the purpose of this letter is to urge you to use your influence in having our young people at school and college taught the truth of the situation. There is altogether too much materialism in our schools and colleges. The pub lic documents and private reports of many professors are harmful. The talks which many professors give, sneeringly referring to the spiritual forces of life, are very harmful. This materialistic trend is distinctly dangerous and every' college gradu ate should use his influonce to stop it and check it- Those of you who are actively interested in Alumni As- Georgia Methodist Bishop Publicly Labels Ku Klux Klan‘ Un-A merican ’ Bishop Ainsworth, After Refusing to Read Anonymous Com munication from Ku Klux to Prohibition Meeting in Ma con Church, Gives Reasons for His Attitude Toward Klan (Continued on Page Eleven.) Special to The Bulletin. Macon, Ga,—Bishop W. N. Ains worth, of the Methodist Church, pre siding at "an interdenominational mass meeting held under the au spices of the Women’s Christian Temperance Union at the Mulberry Street Methodist Church, July 5th, after refusing to read an anonymous communication purporting to be from the Ku Klux Klan endorsing prohibition and demanding the strengthening of the nation’s laws on the subject, gave his reasons why he considered “this organiza tion the most un-American and most dangerous in American life today.' Bishop Ainsworth said that if lie knew the Klan’s principles, it was anti-negro, anti-Jewish and anti- Catholic, none of which he was. In reference to Catholics, he said “The Klan, if I understand its prin ciples, is anti-Catholic, And I am not anti-Catholic. The Catholics be lieve some things that I do not be lieve, and they do some things which 1 would not do; but I am not, in the true sense of the word, anti- Catholic. Toward all of these men with whom 1 differ, and with whose principles I would in many respects take issue, I would yet reach out a hand of help. And I wisli to say, now that the opportunity has fur nished itself, that no man in this land who is standing for righteous ness and against the things of un righteousness, for which the authors of these resolutions say they stand, has any excuse to disguise his voice and cover up his face.” Resolutions adopted at the meet ing calk'd for the strict enforce ment of the prohibition laws and protested against efforts to weaken them. The remarks of Bishop Ains worth from the chair on the Ku- Klux Klan, as reported in the Macon News, follows: “I hold in my hand a communi cation which reached me just after I entered the church, accompanied by a request that it be presented to the congregation here tonight The communication purports to he from the Ku Klux Klan; hut so far as I know, it is an anonymous com munication. Nobody’s name is sign ed to it; and anonymous ^communi cations have never commanded my very deep respect. The communica tion will not, therefore, be read to this audience tonight. “This communication purports to be, as I have said, from the Ku Klux-Klan, an endorsement of pro hibition, and a demand for the English Attitude Toward Church Improves Says Cardinal O’Connell \ Boston. — Anti-Catholic sentiment is being gradually' eliminated in England in the opinion of His Em inence, William, Cardinal O’Connell, who has returned from a trip to that country during which lie visit ed many of the old cathedral and abbey churches. “I could not help seeing a great change coming over the religious life and sentiment of the English people,” said Cardinal O’Coiinell, on liis arrival in Boston. “There is a calm but very impres sive wave of Catholic sentiment that is gradually eliminating the bitter anti-Catliolicism of the radical Protestantism of even half a cen tury ago. It is refreshing to see that this sentiment is gradually growing among the bishops, among the clergy and among the people. I ascribe a great deal of it to the re newed interest in those wonderful cathedrals and abbey churches, many of which I visited, and which are really sermons in stone for the English people. “It is a common thing now lo see in the ‘London Times,’ High Hass advertised in Anglican churches; it has ceased to cause surprise any longcr. But I must 'say it is be wildering to find that the Congre gational ministers are dbnning chasubles, and that they too are saying High Mass of Requiem for Ihe dead and are venerating the old Saxon saints. “This surely is a real change in the religious life of Ihe English people. Of course, side by side witli this goes the reaction to be expected. A small hut very hitter and noisy faction is awake to all this and ut ters its feeble but unavailing pro test. “I should say that socially Eng land has changed very radically very fundamentally. There is almost nobody in the parks and the Bow is deserted. One feels rather that the English people are having their serious difficulties in an economic way. But let it he said to their great credit that they are game and that they will come through.” Cardinal O’Connell said that while he went abroad for a rest he was not idle. He visited many towns, although he stayed when possible al little country inns. preservation and strengthening of our laws on this subject. “The Ku Klux Klan, so far as we may he able to judge of such a dis guised order from communications that are again and again reaching the public, has many planks in its platform that seem to be rock-rib bed in righteousness and are worthy of cordial endorsement. The main objection that I have to an organi zation of this character rests upon other grounds, and yet, since the opportunity presents itself, I will take this occasion to say that there are planks in its platform for .which I, as an American citizen, cannot stand. “The. Ku Klux Klan, if I know its principles, is anti-negro; and I am not anti-negro. The negro is guilty of some things that I would not have him do; he does some things I wish he would not do, hut I am not anti-negro. I would reach out my hand and help him; and may God help every good citizen in this land do so! “The Klan, if I understand its principles, is anti-foreigner; and I am not anti-foreigner. There are things that pertain to many of the foreigners that have found ref uge on our shores; that I cannot ap prove, that I would change, but properly speaking, I am not anti foreigner. I want to reach out my hand to every foreigner who has cast his lot among us, and help him make a good American citizen. “The Klan, if I know its princi ples, is anti-Jew, an<L I am not anti- Jew. Some of my Hebrew friends my be guilty of things that 1 do (Continued on Page 2.) RETIRING GOVERNOR OF GEORGIA SCORES KLAN Provisions of Bill Introduced Into Legislature at Atlanta Also Bars Masking. Special to The Bulletin. Atlanta, Ga.—Retiring Governor TTios. W. Hardwick in his final mes sage to ®the stale legislature the last day of June condemned “in visible government” and urged the general assembly to pass a law re quiring every secret order in Geor gia to file lists of their members with the clerks of superior courts and to make it unlawful to appear in public masked. A bill along these lines was introduced into the legis lature a week later by Representa tives Bozeman and Wimberly. The reference to “invisible govern ment” and to the proposed measures in Governor Hardwick's message follow: “We have no room in Georgia for invisible government of any kind or character. “Government in Georgia should be in the open and above-board.^I have no objection to the existence of secret fraternal organizations, whose sole purpose and practice is the cultivation of civic virtues and social relations; but I do object, with all of the force and emphasis of which I am capable, to any' secret organization that assumes to censor the conduct of other per sons or to sit in judgment upon their actions. Men who follow such practices are themselves the worst of criminals, and strike at the very foundation of all governments. They would subvert the courts, and en throne the mob. “Men who are trying to walk right in the sight of God and man, do not need to cover up their faces,- in the state while they are doing it. “The general assembly of this slate should pass a statute making it unlawful, under heavy penalty, Priest Celebrates Golden Jubilee Among Lepers Tokio—Mission life in the Far East is hard on Westerners under all circumstances, and the reaper Deaths lays low many ardent la borers before they have,gather ed the fruit of their toil; but a life given to caring for lepers would seem likely to pay the heaviest toll in health and vigor. It was, therefore, an unusual oc casion for joy and congratula tion when, on June fi, 1923, the Kev. Drouart de Lczcy, director of the Leper Hospital in Gotcm- ba, Japan, celebrated the fifitieth anniversary of his ordination in to the priesthood. He observed his golden jubilee among his de voted afflicted ones whose pray ers and gratitude and love made the day most happy. GEORGIA BILL WOULD REVEAL KLANIEMBERS I (Continued from Page Two) Urges Anti-Masking Laws. He Condemns Religious Prejudice in Augusta speech Special to The Bulletin. Atlanta, Ga.—Representative Boze man of Worth County and Wimber ly. of Laurens County have intro duced into llic House of Represen tatives of Georgia a bill which would require all secret organizations and societies to file a list of their mem bers with the clerk of court in coun ties in which they have their meet ings, and would prohibit the wear ing of masks or other covering over the face and head outside of the lodge rooms. The bill was referred to’ the general judiciary committee. The bill provides that any fra ternal or secret organization or so ciety must file with the clerk of the superior court of the county in which it meets or has a meeting place, a list of the -names of each and cvry member, togpther with a list of the officers arid that the list shall be recorded in a book provid ed for that purpose and designated as “Names of Members of Secret Or ganizations.” A fee of twenty-five cents for each 100 names or fraction al part thereof is to be paid to the clerk by the person filing the list. Failure to file such list is made pun ishable as a misdemeanor. The bill further provides that the list of members of all organizations must be filed by the first day of October, 1923, and on or before the first day of October of each year thereafter. It is provided that the secretary or some other official shall file additional names of any new members within thirty days after they have been initiated. A fee of Dr. FAral Contra of It Would Deprive American Schools of Their Freedom Says President of American Educational Council. (Continued on Page Two) Washington—Tile current issue of the “Educational Review” contains an article written by Dr. Samuel P. Capon, Chancellor of Buffalo Uni versity' and President of the Amer ican Council on Education, in which the author emphatically opposes the Sterlihg-Towner bill hut speaks fav orably of the plan for a Federal De partment of Education and Welfare as recommended by President Hard ing in connection with the proposed reorganization of the Executive Branch of the Government. Dr. Capen writes as follows: “The United States does not need and should not have a national sys tem of public schools. The strength of American education lies chiefly in its diversity, its flexibility, and its freedom. The schools of Nevada have never been and should never he like the schools of Massachusetts. The schools of Alabama ought not to be like the schools of New' York. The schools of any locality should be conditioned by the needs of the community that they serve. Their primary task is to fit pupils for the circumstances of living that prevail in that community. 'Hie United States is made up of a group of re gions having different concerns, va rying industries and wide differen ces in the composition of their pop ulation. The boundaries of these re gions do not correspond with state boundaries, but, under the plan ol educational control which recognizes the state as the largest administra tive unit, it is still possible to ad just public education to regional needs. Need Local Responsibility “The diversity and freedom that have characterized American educa tion arc dependent upon local ini tiative and local responsibility. A national system controlled from Washington would shortly destroy both. A most superficial study of the educational systems of other civ ilized nations confirms this asser tion. French education, for example, despite its many excellences, suffers from a blight of centralization which dries up all local public in terest and roulinizes the teaching force. To a less marked degree but (Continued on page three.) Queen Victoria of Spain Receives Golden Rose From Pope Pius XI Madrid.—Impressive ceremony' marked tlie functions hefd in con nection with the reception of the Vatican envoys and the presenta tion of the Golden Bose to the Queen. Dona Victoria Eugenia, Queen of Spain, although 1 reared in the Church of England, is a fervent Catholic and has been intensely de voted to the faith ever since her conversion and marriage, in 1906, to His Catholic Majesty, Don Alfonso de Borbon. Ever since the World War, the Queen has been an ardent “social worker,” and God alone can count the acts of social service, charily and benificencc, which she has performed. As a proof of the high esteem which he great merits have won from the Holy See, the Supreme Pontiff sent her the Gold en Bose, a distinction which is ac corded by tlie Pontiffs only' to those illustrious persons who have deserv ed well of the Cathdlic Church. His Holiness Pope Pius XI en trusted to tlie Marquis Sachctti the honor -of bearing to Spain the pre cious jewel and the Apostolic lettei of concession accompanying the va uable gift- The Marquis was accon panied by Commendatore Giove. T] Bose of Gold was enclosed in magnificent case of valuable woo lined with white silk velvet. T1 Bose is, in reality, a rose bush wit many branches, covered with leave and adorned with twelve large rose and seven buds. The rose hush set in a magnificent jar in the Bei aissancc style, marvelously dust ed, adorned with beautiful garland and with handles representing tw dragons. It is marked with the I’ai al Coat of Arms and a Latin inscri] tion to the following effect: “'1 Victoria Eugenia, Quean of Spai Pius XI, Supreme Pontiff, dedicate gives and donates, Year 1923.” The highest of the roses hidi in its petals the little flacon coi taining the balsam and musk place in it by His Holiness at the time was blessed. The Bose of Gold is valuable example of the goldsmith art. It was made by the Vatican gol smith, M. Tabanelli, aud has bee valued at 50,000 lire.