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AUGUST 16, 1924. THE BULLETIN OF THE CATHOLIC LAYMEN’S ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA 11 "TWO WEEK CONFERENCE FOR CATHOLIC NURSES Studying Only Pagan Masters of Latin Is Assailed By Scholars Educators Assert Best Thought Expressed in Latin is Found in Christian Writers—Latin, Not Esperanto, Proper Universal Language Cardinal Logue Declares. 270 Sisters Attend Wiscon sin Gathering—Nurses to Be Sent to India. (By N. C. W. C. News Service.) Spring Bank, Wis.—The two weeks program of hospital conferences held here as a part of the ninth annual meeting of the Catholic Hos pital Association closed recently. In all, 270 sisters representing Catholic hospitals throughout the country, " attended the various sessions. Spiritual retreats for sisters and for lay nurses, as well as a series of lectures and discussions of subjects connected with nursing and hospital problems, were held during the meeting. ’ A resolution was passed authoriz ing the formation of an executive committee, the duties of which are to carry on the executive work of the medical mission board. Paluel J. Flagg, M. D., of New York City, contiues as chairman of the medical mission director of the propagation of the faith ip Boston, and the Rev. Frank A. Thill, national secretary- treasurer of the Catholic Students’ Mission Crusade. The chief work which has been planned for the board is “To Link Catholic Medical America with Ca tholic Medical Missions.” This will be done by carrying on an extensive educational campaign throughout the United States and Canada for the purpose of placing a mission jdeal before medical students, in ternes, physicians and nurses. The medical mission hoard also is au thorizing the sending of a group of nurses to the mission field in Akyab, Bengal, India. These nurses are now under the direction and supervision of the Rev. Michael Ma- — this, C. S. C., who has made a care- ™*ful survey of the Bengglesc sections of the Indian missions. A Georgia (By N. C. W. C. News Service) Dublin.—Problems of education are engaging widespread public at tention in Ireland. The cultivation of the Irish language was discuss ed by the Gaelic League at its an nual meeting. That organization does not consider that enough is being done for the promotion of the language. F'our years hence, the teaching of Irish becomes compulsory in the secondary schools. Practically all the Catholic schools and colleges already have included Irish in their curricula. The Protestant schools and colleges had not taught Irish. They now complain that it is a hardship upon them to make the teaching of the language compul sory. At the Maymooth Union, an im portant aspect of the educational question was discussed by the Rev. Dr. Leen, C. S. Sp., of Blackrock College, one of the leading second ary schools in the country. His main point was that the secondary system of English and classical study, in pursuing literary style at the expense of ideas has sacrificed the latter and failed to secure the former. He pleaded for more at tention to latin. He complained that the Latin of the Christian authors was neglected, if not actually ex cluded. He said: “The students in secondary- schools read during their course no other works than those of the pre- Christian classic authors. The con sequence is that from the age of twelve till twenty-two their minds are nurtured on paganism. These writings necessarily exercise a pow erful influence on the students’ in tellectual and emotional habits. “Our secondary system has pur sued form for form’s sake. It aims at developing the imagination and ignoring the claims of the intellect. Expression, not thought, is what it rewards. This has a deplorable ef fect on the mentality of the stu dent. Truth as such—conformity of expression with thought and thought with reality—ceases to have any value in his eyes.” The best thought expressed in the Latin language is to be found in the Christian writers. Dr. Leen con tended. Pagan- classics are not truly representative of the Latin culture which has formed and dominated European civilization. Cardinal Logue urged that the teaching of Latin be made more general. Esperanto would never succed as a universal language, he said. Lijjin, if taught to the youth of the country, would do for them ( what it did for so many in the mid dle ages, when it was a general me dium for business, for politics and for judgments in the courts of jus tice. F'or four years there had been no general meeting of the Maymooth union. This lapse has, however, in no way diminished the prestige and usefulness of the union. Today 800 nriests are members of this union Since it was founded, nearly thirty- years ago. Cardinal Logue has been absent from only one of its meet ings. No ecclesiastic in Ireland has known Maymooth longer than His Eminence. Addressing the bishops and clergy at this year’s meeting of the union he said: “I am nearly tired of this life, but as long as Providence spares me, I will always he deeply inter ested in the destinies of Maymooth and the destinies of the Irish chiirch and of Ireland. The Irish are a grand people to labor for. Thev never forget God and they never forget the church and the faith that St. Patrick brought them.” £. J. O’Connor Is Named New N.C.W.C. Secretary (By N. C. W. C. News Service) Washington, D. C.—-Col. Walter F. Martin, formerly of St. Louis, has resigned as executive secre tary of the National Council of Catholic Men to enter the com mercial field, it has been an nounced by headquarters of the N. C. C. M., here. Colonel Mar tin will represent several insur ance companies in New York. Edward J. O’Connor, who has been with the N. C. C. M. since its. organization and has been assistant secretary, will sncceed Colonel Martin as executive sec retary, it was announced at the same time. Mr. O’Connor also is a native of St. Louis. Irish Religious Body Observes Golden Jubilee at Dublin. Dublin.—The Golden Jubilee of the establishment of the Archconfrater- ity of the Sacred Heart at Phibsboro on the North Side of Dublin, was celebrated recently with elaborate ceremonies. The Archbishop of Dublin and prominent Catholics from all parts of the Irish Capital took part. The Archconfraternity w-as first established as a confraternity in 1874 by a member of the Vincentian Order in connection with the Vin centian Church at Phibsboro. It was raised to the dignity of an. Arch confraternity by Pope Leo XIII and granted the privilege of affiliating other confraternities. The archcon- fraternity now numbers 4 000 mem bers and it has 600 other affiliated organizations in Ireland, England, and Scotland. OLD AGE NO HANDICAP IN SERVING THE CHURCH German Priest-Philosopher Retires at Eighty-Seven Af. ter Teaching Sixty Years. By Rev. Dr. Wilhelm, Baron von Capitaine (Cologne Correspondent, N. C. W. C. _ News Service.) Cologne.—A remarkable annivers ary was observed in Germany this year when the eighty-seventh birth day of Dr. Constantin Gutbertlet, priest-professor at Fulda, was cele brated. Dr. Gutberlet has just re signed his professorship because of his great age. In the Catholic Church, age has never been an obstacle to appoint ments and honors, and recently there have been plenty of instances of pastors, deans, and even bishops and popes, who have passed eighty years and still discharge heavy -and responsible duties. In civil life, Eng land for a long time has pensioned off its officials at sixty-five, and recently that Plan has been adopted in Germany, but even in ecclesias tical life, it is seldom a professor is found discharging his duties at eighty-seven. Dr. Gutberlet was born in 1887 at Geismer, that ancient city where St. Boniface cut down the sacred oak of the god Donar. He has writ ten a long series of books and ar ticles, exegetical, theological and philosophical, some of which have become standard texts in scientific and philosophical circles. He has been a professor at Fulda for sixty years, and for many years has been canon at the Fulda Cathed ral. Essentially modest and pious, he did not desire any festivities on the occasion of his anniversary, and even declined the ovation the stud ent, who know bim as “The grand old man,” planned for him. BRAID & HUTTON Incorporated Product Made for Our Southern Climate FOR EVERY CLASS OF PRINTING SEE Commercial Printing Co, all 862. 747 Ellis. Augusta, Ga. CARPENTER’S 50-50 GROCERTERIA Six Stores in Augusta. Strictly an Augusta Concern. Bailie-Edelblut Furniture Co. THE QUALITY STORE 708-710-712 Broadway Co&rphtfo Jl/vi«* Furnishings AUGUSTA. GA. PERU’S AMBASSADOR TO VATICAN DIES AT 91 He Served Also As Minister to Spain and France—Out standing Figure Sixty Years (By N. G. W. C. News Service.) San Sebastian—One of the best known figures in the diplomatic ser vice has passed away with the death here of His Excellency Don Juan Mariano de Goycneche Gamie, Count of Guaqui, Marquis of Villafuerte. Duke of Gamica and Grandee of Spain of the First Cass, who for more than a quarter of a century has been the diplomatic represen tative of Peru at the Holy See. Born in Peru in 1883 of a family belonging to ancient Basque nobili ty established in Peru ever since the days of the Spanish domination. Ambassador de Goycneche entered the diplomatic service at an early age, his first assignment being to the Peruvian Legation at Madrid. A man of remarkable intelligence and exceptional ability he made rapid strides and was soon appointed Minister Plenipotentiary to France. In 1870 he was entrusted with the delicate task of negotiating the treaty of peace with Spain after the war of 1866 anji was so successful that he was able to sign in Madrid the Hispano-Peruvian treaty of peace re-establishing amicab'e rela tion between the two countries, on terms eminently satisfactory to both Spain and Peru. Following this achievement he was appointed Min ister i' Snam. At the time of the war between Peiu and Chile, de Goyeneche was again transferred to Paris and in 1895 he was appointed Minister Plenipotentiary to the Holy See a post which he occupied for 25 years winning the warmest affection and esteem of the Pontiffs Led XIII, Pius X and Benedict XV. When in 1919, the Peruvian Lega tion was raised to the rank of an embassy, de Goyeneche was made the first ambassador and presented his letters of credence in February, 1920. Unfortunately, failing health forced him to seek an extended leave, immediately after his appoint ment, the affairs of the embassy being administered during his ab sence by the Charge d’Affaires ad interim, Don Riccardo Roy Boza, Marquis of Giles, who is also a rep resentative of ancient Spanish no bility established for several cen turies in Peru and a diplomat of high order. STOP SUNDAY NEWSPAPER WORK. Paris—One step more has been taken toward the establishment of the Sunday day of rest for the newspaper world. The government has decided that the Journal Offi cial will cease to appear on Monday from now on. The paper will not have to be made up on Sunday, and all the information formerly carri ed in the Monday issue will appear "hereafter on Tuesday. ENGLAND AROUSED BY COMMUNIST SCHOOLS They Teach Immority Arch bishop of Canterbury De clares in Statement. (By N. C. W. C. News Service) London.—The menace of the Com munist Sunday School, already pointed out by the N. C. W. C. News Service, has at last moved England to action. In the House of Lords this week was read, for the second time, Ihe Seditious and Blasphemous Teaching to Children bill, which seeks to “prevent the perversion of the minds of children under 16 years of age by seditious and blas phemous teaching or literature.” It is not likely that the bill will become law, as its sponsors well know. It is a private measure, which will be read once more, for the third time, in the Lords, and will then be shelved for lack of Government facilities to give it at tention in the Commons. Such hills serve their purpose as “demonstra tions.” Those who spoke in support of the bill were alive to the danger of communism as it is taught to the young, unchecked, up and down the country. The Archbishop of Canterbury as serted that communist teaching was on the increase. Some of the teach ing in the proletarian schools was not only anti-Christian, but vicious and immo’ral. He had in his pos session some publications contain ing matter so vile as to be unquot able, including the teaching of free love in the widest and most animal sense. This was more perilous than any attack on the Christian relig ion. The Archbishop thought that many parents who allowed their children to attend such schools were totally ignorant as to the teaching imparted. The Duke of Atholl charged that the existing machinery for stamp ing out the schools was not doing its work. The canker was growing, and nothing had been done by the authorities to check it, he said. NEW YORK REDEMPTIONS Falls Dead of Heart Disease In Street. New York.—Returning to his rec tory Tuesday after visiting his fa ther, a patient in St. Vincent’s Hos pital, this city, th eRev. Joseph A. McGuirk, Redcmptionist priest, as sistant pastor of the Church of Our Lady of Perpetual Help at Fifth Avenue and Fifty-ninth street Brooklyn, fell dead of heart disease. Father McGuirk was born April 14, 1876, in this city, and was or dained June 16tli, 1903, completing his seminarj course at the Redemp- torist Seminary at Ilchester, Md. Solemn requiem Mass was celebrat ed Friday morning at the church of Our l^idy of Perpetual Help. Burial was in a private vault in this city. PRINTERS, STATIONERS AND LITHOGRAPHERS BANK AND COMMERCIAL SUPPLIES A SPECIALTY. 10-18 Whitaker Street. Savannah, Ga. 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Aplications for the men’s retreat should be sent to the Catholic Laymen’s Associa tion of Georgia, 1409 Lamar Building, Augusta,, and for the women's retreat to the Sisters of Mercy, Mount de Sales Academy, Macon, NOT LATER THAN AUGUST 15. The following application blank may be used: Please make reservations for me at the retreat for to be held at August to Signed Street Address City and State