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THE BULLETIN OF THE CATHOLIC LAYMEN’S ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA
AUGUST 30, 1924.
NEWS OF THE KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS !
Church Can Meet Evils of Day
Bishop Turner Tells Convention
Extracts From Scholarly an d Eloquent Address of Bis
hop of Buffalo at Recent G athering of Knights of Col
umbus Supreme Council in New York City.
AID CIVIC MOVEMENTS
BISHOP SMITH URGES
Knights of Columbus Should
Cooperate With Civic Agen
cies He Says in Knoxville.
Special to The Bulletin.
Knoxville, Tenn.—Rt. Rev. Al
phonse J. Smith, D. D,, Bishop of
Nashville, in an address before the
Knights of Columbus, July 20th on
the occasion of the reception of a
large class of candidates into the
order, urged that the Knoxville
Council he a civic agency to co-op
erate with non-Catholic organiza
tions in promoting a great Knox
ville.
Bishop Smith also advocated every
Catholic man becoming a Knight of
Columbus, and he declared that the
Catholic laity should he more ac
tive in working with the non-Cath-
olics of the city in civic enter
prises.
Bishop Smith’s remarks were made
at a dinner in his honor tendered
by the Knoxville council after the
conferring of the major degrees on
a class of 45. The degree work
was in charge of Past State Deputy •
James J. Friel, of Nashville. The
speakers at the dinner, besides
Bishop Smith, were Rev. F. D.
Grady, Rev. Louis J. Kempheus,
James. J. Friel, of Nashville, State
Deputy J. J. Slattery, of Memphis,
District Deputy E. W. McQuaide of
Chattanooga and others.
A committee composed of Father
Grady and Father Kempheus, and
C. J. Guzzo, J. F. Shea, James A.
Gleason, Dr. T. S. Fitzgerald, E. F.
Walsh, J. J. Ashe, E. F. Hurley,. Den
nis Gallagher and John M. Kelly
welcomed Bishop Smith to the city.
Thomas Mullaney, Augusta
Dies After an Extended Ill
ness.
Thomas Mullaney, an old Augusta
resident, died August 18th, after an
extended ilness. Three sisters, Mrs.
Katherine Grogan. Mrs. Eleanor Lud
wig and Miss Elizabeth Mullaney
and a number of nieces and neph
ews survive. The funeral was held
from Sacred Heart Church, of which
Mr. Mullaney was a member, with
interment in City Cemetery.
“My first word on this solemn oc
casion is one of satisfaction that
this important national convention
of the Knights of Columbus has met
so auspiciously in this great center
of Catholic activity, under the kind
ly patronage of our beloved Cardi
nal, and amid the elevating in
fluence of the force of numbers and
the example of successful endeavor
that are'soi conspicuous in this pop
ulous community, in this metropolis
of our state and territory, from re
gions beyond the boundary of these
United States and from every part
of the Em Dire State itself, we can
not fail to feel here the inspira
tion that comes from great numbers,
from high and noble purposes suc
cessfully accomplished, from notable
achievements in the line of charity
and all other worthy causes. All
this should hearten us to the high
est efforts, should encourage us in
our praiseworthy projects and in
spire us to the most generous sac
rifices for the God whom we
worship, the Church to which we
are devoted, and the country which
we love and serve.
“And now, I might be expected to
express to you, my brothers in the
order, my appreciation of the work
that the Knights of Columbus are
doing for the holy and patriotic
cause that we have made our own.
This appreciation is readily and wil
lingly given. But I prefer to pay
you the compliment of making
merely this allusion to the record
of your notable achievements, so
universally acknowledged, and which
lies before all of us as Catholic and
Americans. For well do I know that
in the future you will devote your
self to that task as you have done
in the past.
When the Knights of Columbus
were founded this country was still
comparatively young. It had fought
for its independence and won it. It
had passed through the fire of a
reat civil conflict and in the two
ecades that intervened it had
shown how quickly it could recover.
It had begun to spread out into,
vaster territories and had hardly"
more than begun to develop its ma
terial resources. Its people
reverenced its constitution and gave
ready obedience to its laws. Law
lessness there was at times, as there
always will be. But law was revered
and there were few who openly
I flouted the law’s authority. Com
pared with our own day, it was a
period in which religion was a
serious influence in public and pri
vate life. Puritanism was still
vigorous in the Protestant sects;
paganism had hardly begun to in-
influenee public and private stand
ards of conduct. Such institutions
of learning as existed were still
largely centers of Christian feeling
and thought, and, though science
had begun to be a solvent of reli
gion, it had not gone so far to
wards naturalism as it has today.
Democracy, though it may have
feared enemies from without, was
trustful of itself, had confidence in
itself, and had not begun to fear
the danger from within itself. Sadly
as man’s spiritual nature was mis
understood yet is was acknowledged
that man is spiritual, and clear-
thinking and honest argument had
always access to the attention and
sympathy of the great American
public. The perplexing economic
problems of today were unheard of.
Industrials class hatred was un
known, as we know it today. There
was a decent respect for morality
in literature, in amusements, in all
the social relations.
“The Catholics of the country, few
in number compared with our pre
sent numerical strength, were then,
as now, suspected at times; their
social inequality was cast up at
them in places where, today, their
position is unquestioned. On the
great Atlantic seaboard, in the large
centers of population they were
organized parochially and as dio
ceses, but no national organization
existed to bind them together for
greater efficiency and more unified
effort. They were not apologetic,
they were not suppliant, those Ca
tholics of fifty years ago. They
asked no man’s pardon for exist
ing, for they felt they had as good
a right here as any others, and
they knew that over them, as over
all others, the Constitution extend
ed the shield of its democratic pro
tection. But they had no conscious
ness of strength, no sense as we
have today, of corporate and di
rected effort in spiritual and moral
undertakings outside a limited urea.
The problems of those days were,
indeed, different from ours. How
wisely and patriotically they were
solved is written in the history of
the years that intervened. The
heroic men who were leaders then
have their assured place in our an
nals. The present is a monument
that speaks eloquently of their
achievement and our pious memory
of their deeds is the tribute of
minds that appreciate and hearts
that are truly grateful.
“Today the world of our environ
ment is vastly different. The Puri
tanism ef those days has largely
petered out into paganism. Then,
within a few hundred years of its
advent to these shores is still re
tained some of the vigor of its
pristine severity. Now that almost
half a century has been added to
its age, it has not even the force
sufficient to inspire attendance at
service on Sundays. The weakness
of its hold on the nation is evi
denced by the appalling number of
men and women who own to no
church allegiance whatever. And
from indifference to religion has
sprung the paganism of the day, the
depreciation of spiritual values, the
exaltation of the purely physical,
the mad pursuit of enjoyment, the
restless seeking after new sensa
tions. We hear on every side the
phrases, ‘Live your own life,’ ‘Attain
your own happiness,’ ‘Realize your
own personality’; we hear of ‘the
tyranny of marriage’, ‘the tyranny
of parental authority,’ ‘the tyranny
of sexual morality,’ ‘the tyranny of
law’ itself.
“And think not that I exaggerate
the conditions that confront us to
day. The evils that I mention are
not merely the theme of the pro
fessional moralizer. They are ad
mitted by all thinking men. It is
only a short time since a well-
known writer referred to our civi
lization as a sinking ship. But, lest
we be misled by the very pessimis
tic, whose despondency we are de
nouncing, let us turn to a safer
guide, to our late Holy Father him
self, who in a solemn warning
given out the last year of his life,
called attention to the evils of the
day. They are, he said, five plagues
that afflict humanity at the present
hour—the unprecedented challenge
to authority, the hitherto unheard
of hatred between man and man,
the abnormal aversion to work, the
excessive thirst for pleasure as the
aim of life, and the gross mater
ialism which denies the spiritual
nature of man. The indictment is
just, an dthoughtful men every-
(Continued on page 11.)
MACON COUNCIL PLANS
FOR JUBILEE AMBITIOUS
Knights Arranging Great
Festivities For Twentieth
•4.
Anniversary September 18.
Special to The Bulletin.
. Macon, Ga.—Macon Council, Knights
of Columbus, is making elaborate
preparations for the celebration of
its twentieth anniversary jubilee,
and the committees at work hope
to make it one of the finest Knights
of Columbus affairs ever held in
the south.
The Council was instituted Sep
tember 18, 1904, and just twenty
years later to the day the jubilee
will he observed. The Council was
instituted by Victor J. Dorr, of
Augusta, later a Inember of the
Supreme Board of the Knights of
Columbus, and he and the present
member of the Supreme Board from
Georgia, Capt. P. H. Rice, K. C.
S. G., will be present for the
jubilee. Mr. Dorr and Captain Rice
are the only representatives the
southeast has ever had _ on the
Supreme Board of the Knights of
Columbus.
One of the features of the jubilee
will be a banquet in the evening at
Hotel Dempsey, the attendance to
which will be limited to Knights,
their ladies, and specially invited
guests. The state deputies and
state secretaries of Florida and
South Carolina and all the officers
of the Georgia State Council have
been invited as guests, and a gen
eral invitation is extended to all
the Knights of Columbus in Georgia.
Florida and South Carolina. To
lighten the baggage of the visiting
Knights it has been decided that
the banquet will be an informal af
fair.
The chairmen of the various com
mittees in charge of the jubilee
are: General committee, Julius E.
Loh; arrangements, W. H. Mitchell;
finance, A. J. Long, Jr, reception
Chas. McBrearty; program, John J.
McCreary; entertainment, Edward
P. Lackey.
J. B. KENNEDY, EDITOR
OF COLUMBIA, RESIGNS
Becomes Associate Editor
of Collier’s—Myles Connel
ly Named His Successor
(By N. C. W. C. News Service.
New York—John B. Kennedy will
resign the dual position as Editor
of “Columbia,” the official Knights
of Columbus magazine, and Publi-
cty Director of the K. of C. on
September 1, according to announce
ment made by William J. McGinley,
Supreme Secretary of the order ,to-
r. Kennedy will become Asso
ciate of Collier's Weekly, a national
periodical, on September 1, and his
successor as Editor of “Columbia”
will be Myles B. Connolly of Bos
ton, it was made known today at
the office of “Columbia.'’
Mr. Kennedy has been by profes
sion, a newspaper man since he
graduated from St. Louis University.
He was born in Quebec, Canada.
January 16, 1894, and was educated
in Canada and England. He came to
the United States in 1909 and en
tered St. Louis Unversity, special
izing in philosophy. He has been
engaged in' newspaper work in St.
Louis, London, Montreal, Toronto,
Chicago and New York, and in the
beginning of the World War was a
European correspondent and asso
ciated with Herbert Hoover doing
relief work.
For his services during the war
Mr. Kennery received the following
decorations: Decorated Officer,
French Academy. Star of Moroco
(French); and Knight of Leopold
(Belgian.) He was a co-author with
Maurice Prancis Egan, of “The
Knights of Eolumbus in Peace and
War,” ■ • .
St. Petersburg Parish
Plans Splendid $150,000
Church and School.
Special to The Bulletin.
St. Petersburg, Fla.—Plans for a
parochial school in St. Paul’s parish,
of which Rev. James J. O’Riordan
is pastor, and completed, and call
for a structure to cost in the neigh
borhood of $159,000. The plans
were submitted by Taylor and Wake-
ling, and provide for a building 200
by 45 feet, with the exception of
the auditorium, which will be 50 feet'
wide. The school will he one story
high, concrete and brick structure,
throughout and will have eight large
class rooms, principal’s suite, retir
ing rooms, and an auditorium seat
ing 600, all fireproof. The building
will be erected at the corner of
Nineteenth Avenue and Fourth
Street. Tho auditorium will be used
for a school for the present.
SAN FRANCISCO K. OF C.
COLUMBUS DAY PLANS
Five Hundred Candidates to
Be Admitted to Order at In
stitution of New Council.
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
! San Francisco.—The impressive
and colorful celebration of Colum- m
bus day in San Francisco will be
featured this year by the formal
institution of a new Knights of
Columbus Council in the dfensly-
populated North Beach district of
this city, wherein many thousands
of Italian and Italian-American
Catholic families live. District
Deputy Joseph L. Sweeney an
nounced tentative plans for a big
initiatory ceremonial - on the after
noon of Columbus Day, with a class-
of five hundred candidates for
Knighthood.
The proposed institution of a new
Knights of Columbus council in the
North Beach district is regarded by
the Catholic clergy and laymen of
this city as a decisive step forward
in the interests of Catholicity and
Columbianism. The tremendous
strides of non-Catholic and anti-
Catholic secret societies have been
watched with anxiety by many,
who are now cheered at the thought
of a new K. of C. branch in the
Italian quarter, which, despite its
big Catholic population, has been
compelled to withstand the onrush-
ing steps of causes and interest in
conflict with the principles and
teachings of the Church.
Augusta Notes
Father Laube Improves.
Other Catholic News.
Augusta, Ga.—Rev. Alfred Laube,
L. A. M., pastor of the Church of
the Immaculate Conception, who has
been at University Hospital since
the first week in July, is much im
proved. He is still far from his
former vigor, however, and is con
fined to his bed.
W ard-Tousignant.
Miss Margaret Ward, niece of Mr.
and Mrs. James B. Kearney of this
city, and Arthur Tousignant, for
merly of Massachusetts and now of
Greenville, S. C., were married at
Fairhaven, Massachusetts, Thursday,
Father Louvine officiating at the
ceremony and the nuptial Mass
which followed. After a wedding trip
Mr. and Mrs. Tousignant will live
at Greenville, S. C„ where Mr. Tou
signant is manager of the Monaghan
Mills.
Skinncr-Kalbfleisch.
Rev. Rene Macrcady, S. J.. pastor
of Sacred Heart Church, officiated
Thursday morning at the marriage
of Miss Lillian Skinner, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. R. E. Skinner of this
city, and Charles Francis Kalbfleiscli. ^
Miss Violet Skinner and J. J. Staf
ford were the attendants. After a
wedding trip to the East, Mr. and
Mrs. Kalbfleisch will live in Augusta
where Mr. Kalbfleisch is connected
with the Georgia Railroad.
Cawley-Curley.
Rev. H. A. Schonhardt, pastor of
St. Patrick’s Church, officiated at
the marriage August 19th, of Miss
Nora B. Cawley, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. R. B. Cawley of Blythe, Ga.,
and Patrick Curley of Augusta. Mr. .
and Mrs. Curley w'ili live in Au
gusta, Mr. Curley being connected
with the Post Office Department ,
there.
Laird-Purkall.
The marriage of Miss Ettie Cath
erine Laird, daughter of Miss Ida
Laird, and Roy Augustus Purkall <
was solemnized August 18, Father
Schonhardt officiating. After a
wedding trip, Mr. and Mrs. Purkall
will live in Augusta, where Mr.
Purkall is located with the Georgia
Railroad.
Former Florida Sister
Sister Mary Rose Dies in m
Rochester, N. Y.
Special to The Bulletin.
Jacksonville, Fla.—News has been
received here of the death in Roches-
ter, N. Y., of Sister Mary Rose 1
Hopkins of the Sisters of St. Vin
cent de Paul, one of the four sis
ters who came to Jacksonville a
few years ago, purchased the De
Soto Sanitarium in Springfield, con
verting it into St. Vincent's Hospb
tab Sister Rose was the head of
the hospital at the time and under
her four years’ direction many im
provements were made in the hos
pital and its capacity doubled.
Sister ' Rose made hundreds of
friends in Jacksonville and the
news of her death which was due
to pneumonia and followed a short
illness, caused widespread sorrow
in Jacksonville. Sister Rose was a J
native of Binghampton, N. Y., Since
leaving Jacksonville she has been
stationed in Michigan and New
York. Among her survivors is
Father Hopkins of tl.c Diocese of
Syracuse, her brother.
GEORGIA STATE COUNCIL I
KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS
L. C. KUNZE. Columbus, State Deputy.
J. J. McCREARY, Macon, State Secretary.
JOHN G. DICKS, Atlanta, State Treasurer.
J. B. MULHERIN, Augusta, State Advocate.
D. W. MORGAN. Waycross, State Warden.
Rev. LEO M. KEENAN. Albany, State Chaplain.
Atlanta Council No. 660
Lewis D. Sharp, Grand
Knight
George T. Flynt, Financial
Secretary.
40 Cooper St.
Meets Every Tuesday
Evening 8 P. M., at
Knights of Columbus
Building.
18 E. Pine St., Atlanta, Ga.
Patrick Walsh Council,
No. 677
James B. Mulherin,
Grand Knight.
R. S. Heslin, Financial
Secretary.
Meets Second and
Fourth Thursday of
Each Month
1012 Greene St. Augusta, Ga.
Savannah Council
No. 631
M. J. O'Leary, Grand Knight.
M. C. M’Carthy, Financial
Secretary.
J. B. McDonald, Recording
Secretary.
Meets Second and Fourth
Wednesday of Each
Month.
1 W. Liberty St., Savannah,
Macon Council No. 925
A. A. Benedetto, Grand
Knight.
J. V. Sheridan, Financial
Secretary.
Meets the First and
Third Tuesday, 8 P. M.,
at Knights of Columbus
Hall.
567 Mulberry St., Macon, Ga.
FATHER PRENDERGAST COUNCIL,
No. 2057, Albany, Ga.
J. H. Lynch, Grand Knight. N. F. Dugan, Deputy Grand Knight.
T. S. Lynch, Financial Secretary.
Meets second Tuesday in each month at Knights of Columbus Hall.
Bishop Gross
Council No. 1019
Columbus, Ga.
John A. Power, Grand Knight;
Joseph Spano, Financial Secre
tary; George J. Burrus, Record
ing Secretary.-
Meets First and Third Tuesday,
8:00 P. M., at Knights of Colum
bus Hall, Broad and Thirteenth
Street, Columbus, Ga.