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2 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.