Below is the OCR text representation for this newspapers page.

I Member of the National Catholic Welfare Con- 1 Hutlftw . 1 The Only Catholic f Newspaper Between Bal- g 1 ference News Service. I Official Organ of the Catholic Laymens Association^Geor^a \ I "TO BRING ASOUT A FRIENDLIER FEELING AMO.NG GEORGIANS, IRRESPECTIVE OF CREED” % timore and New Orleans & TEN CENTS A COPY. VOL. V. NO. 14. AUGUSTA, GA., JULY 26, 1924. $2.00 A YEA IS ISSUED SEMI-MONTHLY Rt. Rev. Leo Haid, 0. S. B., Abbot, Bishop and Dean of the American Hierarchy, Dies at Belmont, N. C. THE LATE RT. REY. L EO HAID, O. S. B., D. D. Macon. Telegraph Urges Jesuit Fathers to Rebuild St. Stanislaus > Such Action Would Be Tribute to Fairness of Macon and Georgia It Says, Recalling That State is Product of Catholic As Well As of Protestant Effort. Macon, Ga. — The rebuildin g of St. Stanislaus’ College, the Jesuit novitiate which was destroyed here by fire two years ago, ‘ would be a tribute not only to M aeon but to Georgia—the expres sion of a belief in the fairness and sane-mindedness of Georgians,” declared the Macon Telegraph of July 16 in an editorial urging the Jesuit Fathers to relocate the novitiate of the Southern province in Macon. The editorial follows: CANONIZING OF ENGLISH MARTYRS BEING URGED Ecclesiastical Court Exam ines Claims Presented For 252 Sufferers For Faith. By George Barnard. (London Correspondent. N. C. W. C. News Service) London—The claims to beatifica tion and canonization of 252 Catho lics who lost their lives in England during the persecution‘of the six teenth and seventeenth centuries are being considered by an ecclesiastical court. Exhaustive inquiries covering every part of the country have been made for many years in preparation for this enormous “trial” of the claims to sanctity of so large a body of martyrs. The court, which has been appointed by the Pope, is now meeting regularly at Westminster. The possibility of having 252 new British saints has annoyed some or gans of the press, which would pre fer to forget the Catholic blood which was split in the old days but G. K. Chesterton, in an interview, says he thinks it a splendid idea that the English, who are profoundly ig norant of their own history, should know’ their heroes. From All Walks of Life. Among the 252 ■ martyrs whose lives are being investigated by the court are many priests and lay folk in every walk of life—peers, and lay servants, tradesmen, schoolmasters, a painter and some w’oinen; one the mother of a family. “High treason” was the charge against them. It was high treason in the reign of Henry VIII to refuse to recognize the King as head of the Church. In the days of Elizabeth it was high treason for a priest to be in England, and it was high trea son for a layman to accept the min istrations of a priest. The martyrdom occurred in many parts, of the country. Of the eleven London martyrs included in the in quiry. one is a printer named Wil liam Carter, who died for the Faith at Tyburn in 1584. The Earl of Arundel who died in the Tower of London and Viscount Stafford who was done to death on Tower Hill arc two nobles who ap pear on the London list. Another interesting name is that of Edward Shelley, of the family of the poet Shelley. He went to his death at Tyburn in 1588. Most of the 252 martyrs were hanged, drawn and quartered, us ually to the accompaniment of other indignities. Margaret Clitheroe, whose story still lives in York, was pressed to death. Two other women on the list in clude Ann Line, described as “a delicate, elderly widow lady” and Margaret Ward, an unmarried wo man of London who was slaughtered at Tyburn for helping a priest to eocape from Bridewell Prison. Canon Burton, who is taking an important part in the investigation, says that the Catholic of England have always regarded the victims of the old persecutions as martyrs, but before public honor can be paid them it is necessary for the church to set the seal of approval upon their sac rifice by beatification. (By N. C. W. C. News Service) London.—Cardinal Gasquet’s doc tor told him in 1885 that he had not long to live, and that he had better say good-bye to his friends. Another London doctor confirmed his colleague’s opinion. The cardinal was then 39 years of age. He is now 78,^and is still planning new work. This medical error was recalled this week by the Right Hon. John Wheatley, minister of health in the labor gov ernment, who presided at a dinner in honor of Cardinal Gasquet’s sacerdotal golden jubilee. “If I may say so. as minister of health,” said Mr. Wheatley amidst laughter, “this little medical inac curacy makes one feel sceptical about the value of the medical pro fession.” Mr. Wheatley, the only Catholic member of the British cabinet, paid a striking tribute to the cardinal's work. “I believe,” he said, “that the literary work of Cardinal Gasquet has contributed largely to that amazing advance in religious toler ance which we have witnessed in England during the past genera tion.” He quoted an extraordinary refer ence to Cardinal Gasquet, made by a German Lutheran professor when De Valera, Released, to Lead Irish Republicans (By N. C. W. C. News Service.) Dublin. — The release of Eamonn de Valera and his forthcoming re-entry into pub lic life, foreshadow a period of intense political activity during the coming autumn. The N. C. W. C. News Service correspond ent is reliably informed that the Republicans remain firm in ad herence to their principles, but that there will be no resort to violence in attempting to apply them. De Valera will take his place as leader of the Constitutional Republican party, and his fol lowers will constitute a group distinct from the element led by Joseph McGrath. After a short rest with his family in the west of Ireland, De Valera will open his campaign in County Clare, which is his own constituency. REPRESENTATIVE BLACK SCORES FEDERALIZATION Federal Control Would Fol low Passage of Sterling- Reed Bill He Says. (By N. C. W. C. News Service.) Washington.—The tendency of the Sterling-Reed Bill “to stagnate the youthful mind under a federal sys tem” through the establishment of a Federal Department of Education is pointed out in an address by Rep resentative Loring Black of New York printed in an Appendix to the Congressional Record as _ ah exten sion of remarfis. Referring to the proposal for Federal subsidies to the states doled out through a Federal Department of Education, Mr. Black said: “The outstanding danger is its possibility of Federal control of edu cation that would evolve into a rea sonable probability should the bill become law. True, you have the definite statutory language of the bill against the control but subse quent Congresses, acting under the spur of the Secretary of Education may eliminate the limitation and provide for a centralized control of education. Forces strong enough to have this hill adopted with its tre mendous expense feature would, if they controlled its administration, easily influence a Congress to make, their power absolute.” “Federal control is a dangerous thing and entirely out of accord with the American theories of education,” Mr. Black continued, “Civil freedom rests largely on intellectual freedom. Intellectual» freedom flows largely from diversification in the teaching field. The censored mind of the child developed into the abject mind of the political subject as distingu ished from the ruling mind of the free citizen.” Supporting his allegation that the Sterling-Reed bill tends towards federal control of education, Mr. the famous Benedictine scholar was raised to the sacred college. Cardi nal Gasquet was then described as “the historian of the world.” Cardinal Bourne, at the jubilee dinner, added his testimony to “the services of all kinds” that Cardinal Gasquet had rendered to the church in England during many years of strenuous labor. Long life seems to he a special privilege of the Benedictine Order, remarked Cardinal Bourne, the other day he had visited a Benedictine friend—Abbot Bergh—who was about to undergo a seroius operation, out of which he emerged successfully at the age of 84, and he had learned that the abbot’s daily visitor was his former novice master, another Benedictine who was 93. So that Cardinal Gasquet seemed to have every right to look forward to all sorts of other jubilees. In addition to the two cardinals and a cabinet minister at Cardinal Gasquet’s jubilee dinner, there were present four bishops, four anoots four peers, and over a hundred dis tinguished members of the clergy and laity, including many famous scholars. Cardinal Mercier, who could not attend, wrote: “I desire to join in rendering a tribute to the great historical work of Cardi nal Gasquet, which is the pride of the world.” “Since the burning of St. Stanis laus College, there has been much speculation as to whether'it would be rebuilt here or not. Talk has been heard of possible plans to move it to New Orleans or some other city, in its rebuilding. This, really, would be unfortunate in view of the beautiful and somewhat ideal site possessed by the Catholics in Vineville. Then, too, Macon is the site of one of the largest and most handsome Catholic churches in the country, on the one hand, and of a most excellent Catholic girls’ school (Mount de Sales) on the other, and it seems a veritable pity to take the third unit a.way from the trinity. “Outside of a small and negligible few, Macon is a town to which the relationships between Catholics and Protestants are especially fine. There is no appreciable tendency to draw a line of demarkation down through the social body, but good humor and fight spirit are the gen eral order of things. The Catho lics of Macon have through the years proven themselves patriotic and unselfish citizens. The test of time has declared them. They are good people, and good friends. They are sincere; their motives line up well with those of other men. “If the Catholic authorities should find it convenient and advantageous to rebuild St. Stanislaus in Vine ville it would be a tribute not only to Macon but to Georgia—the ex pression of a belief in the fairness and sanc-mindedness of Georgians. “This state is the product not only of Protestant effort but of Catholic as well. From the days of Geor gia's early history, tile Catholic people have labored, struggled, fought., hied and died for the glory of our commonwealth. They gave their lives in the revolution, in the war of 1812, in the war between the states, and in the Spanish-Ameri- can war, and in the late tragic world war. Side by side, Catholics and Protestants have dorked and have fought and worked for the common cause, building a homeland for their children. It is only befitting that these children, whose fathers marched abreast and worked hand in hand under the folds of a com mon flag, now go on together un der the stars and bars—their stars and bars. It is a common heritage, a mutual love. They respect and revere it together. They bled for (Continued on page 11.) VICAR-APOSTOLIC OF N. CAROLINA SINCE 1888 Seventy-five Years Old, He Was Fifty-One Years a Priest—Funeral July 28, at Belmont Cathedral. Special to The Bulletin. Belmont, N. C.—Rt. Rev. Leo Haid, O. S. B., D. D., dean of the hierarchy of North America, abbot of Belmont since 1885 and Bishop and Vicar-Apostolic of North Carolina since 1888, died at Belmont Abbey July 24 after an illness of a few weeks. Bishop Haid had been in ill health for some time and bat recently was confined in the hospital at Charlotte. At times he seemed in spite of his seventy-five years to have thrown off the ills which attacked him. Nine days before his death, on his seventy-fifth birthday,, he re ceived the final vows of two of the Benedictine Fathers at Bel mont. and bestowed the habit on two novices. He suffered a relapse shortly afterwards, and even his great courage and re markable vitality were unable to resist the final attack, and on Thursday night at 9:30 death ended one of the most distin- /guished and useful careers in the history of the Church in America- Through Saturday and Sunday the body of the beloved Bishop lay in ^Tate in the Cathedral which now stands a monument to his memory in a spot which was a wilderness when he first came to North Caro lina. Here the remains were view ed by hundreds, Catholic and non- Catholic, who had known him in life and grieve for him in death. Monday morning at six o’clock there was a solemn requiem Mass sung for the repose of his soul, a private Mass. In the evening matins and lauds of the dead were chanted by the abbey clergy. FUNERAL ATBELMONT CATHEDRAL ON TUESDAY Abbot Charles of Florida to Pontificate at Mass—Bis. hop Boyle Eulogist. Tuesday morning at 10 o’clock a Pontifical High Mass will be sung in the Cathedral, Rt. Rev. Charles Mohr, 0. S. B., D. D., Abbot of St. Leo's, Florida, pontificating. The eulogy will be delivered by Rt. Rev. Hugh Boyle, D. D., Bishop of Pitts burgh. In addition to the clergy of North Carolina and scores from other states, there will be present at the funeral Rt. Rev. Patrick Barry, D. D., Bishop of St. Augus tine; Archabbot Aurelius. O. S. B„ of St. Vincent’s, Beatty, Pa.; Rt. Rev. Abbot Ernest, of St. Mary’s Newark, N. J.; Rt. Rev. Abbot Val entine, of Lisle, 111., Rt. Rev. Abbot Bernard, Cullman, Alabama; Rt. Rev. Msgr. Thomas, pastor of St. Patrick’s Church, Washington, rep resenting Archbishop Curley, of Baltimore, who is now in Europe; Very Rev. Felix Carp, chancellor of the Diocese of Richmond, represent ing Bishop O'Connell, whose health will not permit him to attend; Rt. Rev. Msgr. McElroy, V. G., repre senting Bishop Russell of Charles ton; Very Rev. T. A. Foley, V. G., of Savannah, representing Bishop Keyes, of Savannah, Bishop Russell and Bishop Keyes being away, and many others. Interment of the remains in the abbey cemetery will follow the Pon tifical High Mass of Requiem. The grave will be simple, marked by a plain marble slab. Here lie ten priests of the abbey and vicariate who have labored at the abbey and in the vicariate of North Carolina under the direction of Bishop Haid, and who have preceeded their abbot and bishop to their reward. Bishop Haid was born in Latrobe, Pennsylvania on July 15, 1849, an received his early education unde’ (Continued from Page Eleven.) (Continued on page 9.) Cardinal Gasquet, Invalid Forty Years Ago, Now Golden Jubilarian