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THE BULLETIN OF THE CATHOLIC LAYMEN’S ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA
JULY 3»; 5S».
PAY DIRECTOR FUERY IS
DEAD IN BROOKLYN, N.Y.
Served in Two Wars—Was
Commissioned Paymaster in
Navy Half Century Ago.
By N. C. W. C. News Service)
Brooklyn, N. Y. — Pay Director
John Furey, U. S. N, retired, died
at his home here during the past
week at the age of 89. His death
marks the passing of a member of
one of the pioneer Catholic families
of Brooklyn.
When the civil war broke out Mr.
Furey was a clerk in the treasury
department in Washington. He
joined the paymasters’ corps of the
navy and served throughout the
war. He distinguished himself in
action at Fort Fisher where he was
signal officer on the U. S. S. Mon-
ticello, and also in the pursuit of
the famous Confederate ram,
“Stonewall.” After the war he
served as assistant paymaster in
the Gulf and South Atlantic
squadrons and in 1871 was commis
sioned paymaster and assigned to
the naval academy at Annapolis.
During a four year Mediterranean
cruise 1825-89, he was granted a
private interview with Pope Leo
XIII. X
Because of disabilities incurred in
line of duty, Paymaster Furey was
retired in 1895 but was recalled to
the active list during the Spanish
war.
In 18GG Mr. Furey married Mar
garet M. Merrick, a sister of the lata
Rev. David Merrick, S. J. Mrs. Fu
rey died in 1900. Mr. Furey through
out his career was interested in re
ligious work. He was largely in
strumental in bringing about the
regular celebration of religious cer
emonies at several of the stations
on which he served. He was the
author of an article on Commodore
John Barry in the Catholic Ency
clopedia.
The South Foremost in Planting
Religious Liberty in America
. . /
George Gordon Battle, Prominent Member of the New
York Bar, a Southerner and a Protestant, So Declares
in Letter to the New York World.
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demic, Preparatory and Commercial
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mate unsurpassed for health. Easy
of access from all points North and
South.
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For small boys, under the care of
the Sisters of Mercy. For catalogue
apply to the Directress, Belmont,
N. C.
George Gordon Battle, prominent
member of the New York bar, a
Southerner and a Protestant, in a
recent letter to the New York
World, said in part:
“As a man of Southern birth and
traditions, a Protestant and a Ma
son, I protest with all the strength
of which I am capable against any
effort to import into my native
South considerations and emotions
of outworn bigotry—old, unhappy,
far off things. The South always
has prided itself upon its early es
tablishment of religious freedom.
“It was in Maryland that Lord
Baltimore and his government pro
mulgated the Toleration Act of
1649. It was in Virginia, Thomas
Jefferson, founder of the Demo
cratic party, who considered his
authorship of the Virginia statute
of religious freedom of 1876 his
chief title to fame. The Democratic
party has, under Jackson, Van Bu-
ren, Cleveland and Wilson, follow
ed the principals enunciated in the
Virginia charter of liberty.
“Southern Catholics have lived in
peace and amity with their Protest
ant neighbors and have done their
full duty in building up the coun
try in which they have made their
home. In Maryland, Charles Car-
roll of Carrollton, was the wealth
iest man of the period. He signed
the Declaration of Independence
and devoted his life and fortune to
the cause of his country.
“The late Cardinal Gibbons was
beloved and revered not only in
the South but by the nation. James
Ryder Randall, author of ‘Maryland.
My Maryland,’ was a Catholic. In
Louisiana there has always been a
large Catholic population, which
has played a great part in that
state’s history. The two chief jus
tices of the supreme court who
were of the Catholic faith were of
Southern birth and antecedents —
Chief Justice Taney of Maryland
and Chief Justice White of Louis
iana.
“In other Southern states Catho
lics have held high office and been
among the best citizens. Judge Wil
liam Gaston, of Newbern, N. C.,
was a devout Catholic and for many
years judge of the highest court
and one of the most prominent and
beloved men of his time. Governor
John Floyd of Virginia and his son,
John B. Floyd, were Catholics.
“General Beauregard and General
Hardee were Catholics. General
Longstreet died in that faith and
Admiral Raphael Semmes was one
of its followers.
“By every consideration of politi
cal principle and tradition, by all
the inducements of gratitude, friend
ship and loyalty, the men and the
women of the South should stand
by their ancient creed of religious
tolerance and should not take it
against any man who is a candi
date for public office tlfat he wor
ships his God in the faith of his
fathers.”
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Young Need “Policing Power of
Religion” Chicago Paper Asserts
Sunday Tribune Expresses View “Not From Standpoint of
Saving Souls But Simply of Social Behavior and the Wel
fare of the Nation’’—Religiop Basis of Morality.
R. H. Land. F. J. Bodeker
Land Drug Co.
Cor. Broad & Marbury Sts.
Augusta, Ga.
REMEMBER
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FLORIST
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"SAY IT WITH FLOWERS”
1009 D’Antignac St. Phone 1551
Augusta, Ga.
Asserting that it did not wish to
exaggerate conditions, the Chicago
Sunday Tribune, in an article, print
ed in the issue of June 8th, states
the evils that have followed in the
wake of the automobile. “Anyone
willing to consider them candidly,”
says the editorial, “must realize
that the automobile makes oppor
tunity for immorality and crimin
ality.” But while the criminality
phase of the problem is considered
serious, the editorial believes “it
can be met by measures of police
efficiency.” But ot counteract or
counterbalance the social effects up
on our youth of the jazz and joy
riding life of today, the article con
tinues, “is as difficult as it is
vitally important.” To this is added
the statement that “a generation
of young people are passing through
the nervous excitations of our
luxurious, high-geared, speed-loving
time, and at the same time they
are deprived of many of the re
straints and safeguards of the past.
While the writer clearly perceives
the “there has been a weakening
of religious influences over the
young at a time when it was more
needed for their protection,” and
that this loss is “of the gravest
consequence, if, in fact, it is not
irremediable,” he does not put the
blame there where it properly be
longs, on the present generation of
parents, educators, writers, scientists
and statesmen. It is they have sin
ned and it is they that deserve to
be accused and punished. They
tunrend their on religion, divorced
morality from religion, toyed with
or even worshiped at the altars of
naturalism and materialism, and now
profess to be shocked because the
younger generation draws its own
conclusions from the philosophies
of its elders, are horrified when
their sons and daughters repudiate
the few scanty remnants of the
Decalogue they had adhered to for
the sake of a certain propriety and
because they were of the opinion
that after all a tolerable standard
of bourgeoisie ethics was desirable,
because necessary for the safety of
business and property. Even the
Tribune articles adheres to this
position, since it admits: “We are
not looking at this question from
the religious viewpoint, from that of
the saving of souls, but simply from
and the welfare of the Nation.”
In other words, since experience
has taught that the younger gene
ration, which has escaped religious
influence, is sowing an undue
amount of wild oats, religion is
wished back, in order that it may
exert its policing power. The ques
tion is, however, whether the youn
ger generation will take kindly to
religious influences, realzing that
their elders, while far from re
turning to the God of their fathers,
wish to make use of religion as a
brake. One may agree heartily with
the contention “that the moral and
religious influences of the church
and of the home need to be restored
and reenergized.’ In the last ana
lysis thisis tantamount, however, to
a return to that Church which alone
is not swayed by the passing fancy
of the philosophies of the day and
the dictates of the changing opinion
of science.
The Tribune article expresses the
belief that “tbe task of the churches
was never greater than in this age
of vast and swift change.” While
we may agree entirely with this
opinion, it must not be overlooked
that for more than a century the
heralds and makers of public opnion
have belittled the churches and bent
every effort to undermine their in
fluence. How well they have suc
ceeded in the case of Protestant
churches is all too evident. They
have also robbed a great number
of Catholics of their faith and creat
ed much trouble in Catholic coun
tries. That they have not affected
the Church is due to Divine Provi
dence and the conscientious heroism
of such popes as Pius IX, and
Pius X., one of whom condemned
the errors of the nineteenth century
in the Syllabus, while the othev
cleansed the Church of the danger
of Modcrism.
Morality must be founded in re
ligion if it is to pdssess a binding
force, And only that religion can
give no morality positive strength,
which on its part is considered by
those professing it divinely ordain
ed and- therefore binding on all
A religion, which does not possess
these qualities, has lost its power
over men, and it is virtually use
less to attempt to apply it to the
purpose of saving the younger gen
eration from the sins of their
elders-
C. B. of C. V.
PROVIDENCE DIOCESE
Capt. Cecil B. Strobhar, of Cathe
dral parish, Savannah, who died at
Walter Reed Hospital, Washington,
D. C., in his thirty-first year.
Father Foley officiated at the fu
neral, which was attended by the
members of the American Legion
at Savannah.
Dennis J. Counihan, of Cathedral
parish, Savannah, who passed away
in his forty-fifth year. His wife,
two daughters, a sister and nephew,
all of Savannah, survive.
Mrs. Annie McCarthy, of Sacred
Heart parish, Augusta, an old resi
dent of that city. Surviving are a
son, P. F. McCarthy; three daugh
ters, Mrs. C. Y. Tarleton, Mrs. Jno.
B. Collins and Mrs. J. J. Dunne,
and several grandchildren and great
grandchildren.
Maurice J. Harnett, widely known
and respected Charlestonian, whose
funeral was held from St. Joseph’s
Church in that city. Mr. Hartnett,
who is survived by a widow and
several children, was a Confederate
veteran, severely wounded during
the war, and commended by his
superiors for his courage in action.
Daniel E. Leahy, a member of Im
maculate Conception Church, Jack
sonville, who died July 21 in his
68th year.
Mrs. Elizabeth Rattigan, wife of
James Rattigan, of Jacksonville,
whose funeral.took place at Im
maculate Conception Church there
July 18.
Herbert Gibbs, of Holy Rosary
parish, Jacksonville, from which
church his funeral was held July
19.
Michael P. Kennedy of Andersfm,
S. C., a member of St. Joseph’s
Church there, and pioneer merchant
ahd citizen.
Ingram Touhey, son of Mr. and
Mrs. R. F. Touhey of St. Mary’s
Church, Charleston, who died in
Orangeburg while visiting his grand
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Oscar R.
Lowman there.
JACKSONVILLE WOMEN
HOLD ANNUAL 0UTING1
Catholic Daughters of Amer-j
ica at Pablo Beach—Dram
atic Club Entertains.
Readers of The Bulletin can in
sure the appearance of the names
of their beloved dead in this column
by forwarding to it obituary notices
from the daily press.
Collects $300,000 in School Drive.
Providence, R. I.—Providence Dio
cese’s drive to collect the $300,000
additional pledged for this year in
its great school campaign has come
to a triumphant conclusion. The
pledge is raised, William J. Kennau,
the director, has reported, and 11
parishes have exceeded their quotas.
The success was won in the face
of unemployment in the diocese and
after a campaign last year had
brought a large amount. It is re
garded as a remarkable tribute to
Bishop Hickey and the clergy of the
diocese.
NO ENGLISH CATHOLIC PARTY
London.—Those who hope to es
tablish a Catholic Parliamentary
Party in England—an idea which
was condemned by the Catholic
Young Men’s Society in annual con
ference recently—have also to rec
kon with the opposition of Mr. W.
A. S. Hewins, who formerly was
Under Secretary of the State for
the Colonies. A Catholic Party,
he maintains, could never be united
except on matters which effect re
ligion.
TEMPERANCE ISSUE IN
IRELAND GROWS ACUTE
15.000 Total Abstainers Pa
rade in Dublin—Stricter
Liquor Laws Demanded.
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
Dublin. — The Pioneer Total Ab
stinence Association has made a no.
table demonstration of its strength.
The occasion was the celebration of
the Silver Jubilee of the associa
tion when a procession attended by
15.000 pioneers took place in Dub
lin. More than 500 priests were
in the line of march. The streets
were lined with many thousands of
spectators.
Dissatisfied with Licensing Bill
The Association and the Catholic
Total Abstinence Federation, with
which it is affiliated, do not re
gard the licensing bill introduced
in the Free State Dail, as an ade
quate reform. One of the main
planks in the platform of the as
sociation and the federation is that
the number of licensed saloons in
the country should be reduced by
half. This aspect of the question is
ignored in the bill. The Rev. .7.
Finn, S. J, spiritual director of the
Pioneer Association, says:
If the government or the drink
trade thinks that the public arc
satisfied with the present licensing
bill they are greatly mistaken.
Should there be any delay in deal
ing with the problem of the reduc
tion of licensed saloons a referen
dum bill will be insisted on. If the
government neglects to take action
we are determined that there shall
be a referendum so that the peo
ple may pronounce a decision on
a matter of such vital concern for
them all.
Public Meeting Follows Parade.
A public meeting comprising 11,-
000 persons was held at the con
clusion of the procession. Among
the speakers wast Most / Rev. Dr.
Gaughran, hishop of Meath. The
bishop’s commentary upon the won
derful spectacle witnessed in the
Dublin streets w’as that it was the
greatest sermon on temperance that
had been preached in Ireland since
the days of Father Matthew — the
apostle of temperance who roused
the country in the middle of the
last century.
Rev. P. J. Gannon, S. J.. li.-vfng
referred to the eclipse of idealism,
said :
“There seems but one great ideal
which can unite us all w'hatever be
our creed, political, social, econom
ic or religious, and that is the ideal
of a sober Ireland. It may help to
check the moral disjntergration we
see around us and heal some of
the grievous wounds inflicted by
civil strife.”
The celebration coincided with the
publication of the Life of Father
Cullen. S. J.. the founder of the
association. Father Cullen’s biogra
pher is the Rev. Father McKenna.
S. J. The membership of the Pi
oneer association today is about a
quarter of a million.
Special to The Bulletin.
Jacksonville, Florida.—The Catho
lic Daughters of America, Court of
Jacksonville, held its annual out
ing on Flag Day this year at Pablo
Beach, and to the efficient outing
committee, Mrs. Anna Barrett, Mrs,
Clifford Masters, Mrs. Verot Pacetti
and Mrs. D. F. Long is due t
splendid success of the gatherin
Arriving at the beach, various
diversions appealed to the members
of the party—surf bathing, motor
ing along the shore drive, several
tables placed for cards and dancing,
until call for assembly was sounded
and a general marcjfe.was directed to
the spacious pavilion where a boun
teous picnic dinner had been spread,
the arrangement, menu, table decora
tions all contributing to a perfect
setting.
The grand regent, Mrs. W. H.
Jeacle, extended to members and
guests greetings fraught with hearti
est welcome and then in happy ex
pressions presented the state regent,
Mrs. N. Corbett O’Neill, with a
pretty souvenir in recognition of
work culminating in the establish
ment of a Florida state court. An
other surprise, a delightful incident
of the celebration, was the cleverly
worded tribute paid to Grand Re
gent Mrs. W. H. Jeacle, by the vice
regent, Mrs. W. H. O’Neill, in her
narration of the progress marki. _
years of service in the office of
executive and offering in behalf of
loyal members a beautiful token
telling of their love and esteem.
Both officers responded with assur
ances of gratitude for the spirit of
good will prompting the treasured
evidences of sweet appreciation.
Standing near to Old Glory a
short recital of the story of our
flag’s origin and adoption was given
by State Regent Mrs. N. Corbett
O’Neill, followed by a renewal of
pledges of allegiance to the Stars
and Stripes, and the singing of The
Star Spangled Banner, led by Miss
Carol Wheeler, concluding the pro
gram of this date in court history.
On the evening of July 16, after
a short business session, the Dram
atic Club of Court Jacksonville No.
52 (recently organized) entertained
the members and friends, present
ing their first study, “All on. Ac
count of An Actor.” A clever little
sketch, well written, accurately in
terpreted. manifested marked ability
and carried warranted encourage
ment for deservedly meritorious at
tainment.
The scene is laid in the parlors
of a country hotel and the cast in
cludes:
Mary Brown, the Maid
■ Miss M. McEvoy
Lucille Prentice, Actor
• Miss J. Hoffman
Eunice Smith, Admirer
Miss M. Bianco
Aunt Ellen, Chaperon
Mrs. Clifford Masters
Mrs. Hiram Jones, Hotel Guest..
Miss Ellender Bragg
Mrs. Adelaide Crane, Leading
Lady, wife of Millard Crane,
the Actor Mrs. Verot Pacetti
Director and General Manager...
Mr. William H. Jaecle, Jr.
Each character was faithfully por
trayed and the complimentary en
dorsement of the audience com
pelled a repeated curtain call. To
the splendid training of Mr. Jeacle
who, for many seasons featured a
prominent role in the “Florida Mas
queraders,” is due the gratifying
results of competent direction under
this efficient leader. The volunt,
close aplication of this class
students is remarkable with succe
assured.
Our historian and press corr
spondent, Miss Maude McEvoy,
spending her vacation with rela'ti
in Alabama.
The Catholic Daughters of Ame
ca are justly proud • of their clu.
house—fitted with every modern ap
pointment, centrally located and
particularly interesting to business
and professional women, where will
be found a comfortable home for
travelers, as well as residents. The
latch-string hangs outside and bids
you welcome.
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