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AUGUST 30, 1924.
THE BULLETIN OF THE CATHOLIC LAYMEN’S ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA
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CHARLESTON’S NEWMAN
CLUB TWO YEARS OLD
Organization of Catholic Col
lege Students Prorgesses
Nicely in Short Time.
The Newman Club of the college
of Charleston, S. C., the first and
only organization of its kind in
the Southeast, dates hack to a meet
ing at Knights of Columbus Hall
i October 18, 1922. The need of a
^ club for the Catholic students of
* the city had been felt for some
time, and when fifteen young men
registered at the College of Charles
ton it was decided the moment
was opportune to attempt the or-
1 ganization. Eleven of these fifteen
i attended the preliminary meeting
► October 11 and heard Rev. Jos. L.
t O'Brien, rector of Cathedral High
i describe similar societies elsewhere.
A week later the society was or
ganized, with following officers bc-
, ing elected: President, L. J. Runey;
vice-president, M. A. McLaughlin;
► secretary-treasurer, C. F. DeVineau.
Present at the meeting were the
other charter members, D. C. Barbot,
L. J. Barbot, M. E. McLaughlin, W.
ii. Cross. John Sughrue and W. M.
Williamann. The next two meetings
were held in the high school build
ing: then Bishop Russell granted
to the club through Father May,
t!ie use of the hall in the Cathedral
yard as permanent quarters. The
name “Newman Club” was selected,
and the work of the organization
Was directed along literary, moral
and apologetic lines.
The Catholic women’ of the city
took a deep interest in the Newman
Club, and two entertinments given
by them netted enough to furnish
^Ihc club quarters in a very attract-
■ive fashion, giving the organization
■the finest quarters of the kind in
■the city. The next step was affili-
Bation in February, 1923, with the
"National Federation of Newman
(dubs. The club decided to open
jr ils membership to any Catholic
I, student in a recognized college, and
F. 0. Ferri of St. Charles College,
Maryland, was admitted as a mcm-
I ber, the second initiate, the first
' being Harold Ham of the College of
Charleston. Others received as
members about this time were S.
A. Cochran, College of Charleston,
. James G. Harrison, graduate of the
Citadel, South Carolina’s Military
College and -G. W. Aimar of the
^ State Medical College.
After a successful year, during
which the club had become thorough
ly organized with the ideals of the
great Cardinal becoming in -
creasingly influential in the lives of
the members of the club, the first
banquet was held. The banquet
was under the direction of the
1 mothers of the members, and the
guests of honor were Rt. Rev.
Bishop Russell and Father O'Brien,
chaplain of the club. Officers were
elected for the year as follows:
^President, C. E. deVineau; vice- pres-
Bkident, John Sughrue; secretary-
^■istorian, M. E. McLaughlin, and
^B-easurer, W. H. Cross. Another en
tertainment by the Catholic women
■of the city for the benefit of the
■club was staged soon afterward
k The members received during the
r second year were J. J. Curry of the
Citadel, and A. J. Kelly, C. T. Mauro,
J. M. Hayes and J. A. Ryan, first
k year men at the time at the College
I of Charleston.
The Newman Club has been very
active since its organization. The
religious feature is not neglected;
the members of the Club receive
Communion in a body quarterly and
on the anniversary of the birth and
- of the death of Cardinal Newman,
when Masses arc offered up for the
( Cardinal. Every Holy Thursday
the members of the club watch be
fore the Blessed Sacrament through
the night.
At various times prominent Char
lestonians have addressed the Club,
among them Dr. Maguire Dr. O’-
Driscoll and Professor Geisenheimcr,
who occupies the chair of economics
at the College of Charleston. The
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Turkish Republic Makes Friday
Day of Rest Instead of Sunday
Monsignor Noll Tells of Other Changes by Irreligious Gov-
erment—Prohibition Tenet of Mohammedanism Being
Discarded—Most Mohammedans Are Not Turks.
(This is the third of a series
of articles wherein Monsignor
Noll records his impressions of
Europe, after a five months tour
which he has just completed.)
BY RT. REV. MSGR. JOHN F. NOLL,
LL.D.
(N. C. W. C. News Service.)
Turkey, officially designated the
Ottoman Empire, has been greatly
reduced in area and population
since 1920.
Area: Before the World War the
Empire embraced (1) Turkey in Eu
rope; (2) Turkey in Asia; (3) Is
lands in the Mediterranean, At the
very outbreak of the war Cyprus
was annexed to the British Empire,
and in 1915 the British took over
Egypt, under a Protectorate. Ac
cording to the terms of the treaty
of Sevres (August 10th, 1920), Tur
key has no possessions in Europe
except the city of Constantinople
and a small area surrounding it.
Thrace and Gallipoli were ceded to
Greece. But at the close of 1922
Turkey expelled the Greeks from
Thrace, and the allied powers yield
ed to her demand for the restoration
of that province. Turkey no longer
possesses her Arabian province
Smyrna, together with considerable
adjacent territory, came under Greek
administration while the balance of
Asia Minor is retained by Turkey.
Sfie relinquished all rights over
Egypt, the Suez Canal, and the Is
lands in the Meditecrannean. Meso
potamia, Palestine, Syria and Ar
menia, became independent, though
the first three were placed under
mandatories, Palestine being ruled
by a High Commissioner for Eng
land,
Population: Turkey’s population
has been reduced to about 7,000,000,
among whom more than 6000,000
are Mohammedans. The government
decreed that all Christians, who are
for the most part Greeks, should
leave Turkey, whereupon Greece re
taliated by decreeing that all Turks
should be banished from Greek ter
ritory. However, there was an ex
ception made in behalf of Constanti
nople on Turkey’s part, and in be
half of Upper Thrace on the part of
Greece. This exception was provid
ed for by the Treaty of Lausanne,
whereby a limited number ot Greeks
could remain in Constantinople and
a limited number of Turks in
Thrace. At this writing, July 1924,
there are about 600,000 Orthodox
Greeks in Turkey, and about 100,000
Armenians. The number of Uniate
Greeks is about 50,000. Between
1915 and 1919 more than on® half
ot the Armenian population was de
ported, and the greater number of
them perished.
There are not many Protestants
in Turkey, while the Y. M. C. A., has
been very active, especially in "Con
stantinople.
Before the war the racial and re
ligious groups of the Ottoman Em
pire had the following population:
(1) Musslemans, about 10.000,000, di
vided among eight nationalities.
While there was little apostasy from
their ranks, their number was de
creasing because of the high infant
mortality rate. (2) Christians, di
vided thus; Greek Orthodox 3,000,000
belonging to five nationalities;
Armenian Schismatics, about 2,000,-
000; Greeks, united with Rome,
about 1,000 000. (3) Jew's about
300 000. For centuries the political
and religious head of Turkey has
been the same. The latest King-
Pope was Sultan Mohammed VI.
However, his political power was
taken away from him in December
1922, and early in 1924 he was also
deposed as the religious head ot the
Empire, and banished. While he
was given shelter in Switzerland,
his children, princes and princesses
went south into Syria, where the
Moslems of Beyrouth welcomed
them.
The New Turkey is a republic,
whose president is Mushaplia Kemal
Pasha, and whose government has
moved from Constantinople to An
gora, a little town lacking all mod
ern conveniences, and difficult of
reach from the large centers in
Turkey. Not only has the govern
ment abolished the Caliphate, hut
it would officially abolish all relig
ion, beginning with Christianity. It
began by ordering French and other
foreigners to remove Christian em
blems from the school rooms and
then boldly decreed that Christian
schools must close entirely. Then
came the threat to suppress the
Ecumenical Patriachate, the Armen
ian Patriarchate and the Grand
Rabbinate of Constantinople. It has
substituted Friday for Sunday as
the day of rest, and ordered all lines
of business to close on Friday and
to operate on Sunday. It has remov
ed the century-old ban against un
veiled faces on the part of women,
and ladies are now seen, for the first
time, participating in public dances
unveiled.
Prohibition has been in force in
Turkey, in accordance with a tenet
of Mohammedanism, hut in the new
Turkey, beer and wine will he allow
ed; in fact, they can he purchased
at hotels now, the beer being served
in unlabeled bottles and the wine in
cups.
The people of Turkey are not in
sympathy with its irreligious propa
ganda, hpt it is not likely there will
be any rebellion against it. The
most probable solution will -be the
establishment of the Caliphate in
Egypt. The Turk has become more
intolerant since the war, because the
new political movement has made
him more national and his national
ity and his hatred for Christianity
are closely interwoven. This, of
course, does not bring good cheer
to the 500 000 Christians, who still
have their homes in Constantinople,
one of the most beautifully situated
cities in the world, and long a great
stronghold of Christianity, until
Moslem, occupation.
Its greatest mosque was once the
most famous Catholic cathedral of
the East, that of St. Sophia, where
several General Councils of the
Church were held in the early cen
turies, and where Christian emper
ors were crowned. The Christians
now in Constantinople were permit
ted, according to a provision of the
treaty of Lausanne, to remain, hut
they may he forced to leave under
the pressure of discrimination, per
secution. and unbearable educational
laws. There are- those who have
the impression that the Mohamme
dans are mostly Turks, which is by
no means true. The Turks are Mo
hammedans, but compose only a
small portion of Islamism. In fact
the Turks are of a wholly different
origin from the Arabs and Egyptians
who are also Mohammedans. The
Turks are of Mongolian stock, even
though the primitive type has been
so changed that they rather appear
to he of the white race. The Egyp
tian, who can be traced hack to
African origin, has lived in Egypt
almost unchanged as far as history
takes us back.
KING KNIGHTS ENGLISH
CATHOLIC ARCHITECT
His Designing of Anglican
Cathedral, World’s Third
Largest, the Occasion.
(By N. C. W. C. News Service.).
London—The great Anglican Cath
edral at Liverpool, designed by the
noted Catholic architect Giles Gil-,
bert Scott, was consecrated during
the past week. The occasion was
one of great solemnity, King George
and Queen Mary, high dignitaries of
the Anglican Church and many dis
tinguished visitors from abroad be
ing present.
A feature of the ceremonies pre
ceding the consecration was the be
stowal of knighthood upon the archi
tect. This occurred at a dinner, to
which Mr. Scott had been invited
without any intimation of the honor
which was to be conferred upon him.
When completed, the new Liver
pool Anglican Cathedral will be one
of the three largest churches in
the world, ranking next to St. Pet
er’s in Rome and the Cathedral ot
Seville. It will also be one ot the
three Cathedrals which the Anglican
Church has built, the other two be
ing St. Paul’s in London, complet
ed iu 1710, and the Truro Cathedral,
consecrated in 1891, All of the other
numerous Cathedrals in which An
glican services are carried on today
were originally built and intended
for Catholic worship.
The ceremonies at Liverpool mark
ed the first time in seven hundred
years that a British Sovereign at
tended the consecration of a ca
thedral. The last previous occasion
was the consecration of the Salis
bury Cathedral in 1225.
Six Thousand Crusaders
Attend Conference at Car-
thegeba, Ohio.
(By N. C. W. C. News Service.)
• Carthagena, Ohio.—Although the
Carthagena Local Conference of the
Catholic Students’ Mission Crusade
is only two months old, a rally held
here Tuesday drew six thousand
ardent young people. Twenty-seven
members of the clergy attended.
An impressive parade, headed by
a Crusader in full uniform and in
cluding bands and floats, traversed
the streets as a part of the rally.
There was a series of short sermons,
a High Mass was celebrated and
Benediction given. In the afternoon,
races and other contests were held
on the campus of St. Charles’ Semi
nary.
Thirty-nine local units from towns
surrounding Carthagena took part.
They were welcomed to the town by
the band of St. Mary’s Preparatory
School, of Burkettsville, Ohio.
K. of C. and Foresters
to Aid in Press Month
(By N, C. W. C. News Service)
Washington.—At the conven
tions of the Knights of Colum
bus, held in New York, and the
Catholic Order of Foresters, held
in Columbus, Ohio, a resolution
Was adopted officially to ob
serve February, 1925, as Press
Month in all the Council and
Court meetings held by these
two organizations, by setting
aside fifteen minutes in each
meeting during which the inter
ests and welfare of the Catho
lic periodical press will he dis
cussed. In addition each Coun
cil and Court will be instructed
to appoint a special committee
of three to cooperate with the
press month committee of the
Catholic Pres,s Association, dur
ing Press Month, and so make
Press Month more than a half
hearted annual gesture.
The resolutions were presented
by William J. McGinley, Supreme
Secretary of the Knights of
Columbus, and Thomas J. Can
non, High Chief Ranger of the
Catholic Order of Foresters.
Calcutta Archbishop Dead
End Comes at Marseilles
While Visiting Europe.
(By N. C. W. C. News Service.)
Louvain.—The Archbishop of Cal
cutta, His Grace Brice Meuleman.
whose missionary activity in India
and departure for Belgium were re
ferred to in earlier dispatches to the
N. C. W. G. News Service, died at
Marseilles recently three weeks af
ter landing.
His traveling companion. Father
Van de Schueren, S. J„ whom the
children in the United States, which
he toured twice in the interest of
the Bengal missions, christened “Fa
ther Santa Claus”, on account of his
long and flowing white beard, reach
ed Belgium alone.
Archbishop Meuleman’s successor
is his coadjutor, the Rt. Rev. Ferdi
nand Perier, who has been tf resi
dent of India since 1906 and was the
departed Archbishop’s right hand for
the past three years. He was horn
in Antwerp, September 22, 1875.
FATHER BUSCH
Toledo, O.—Rev. Francis X. Busch
S. J., president of St. John’s College
here for six years, has bqen appoint
ed to the chair of dogmatic theology
at the Seminary of St. Mary of the
Lake, Area, 111.
BRITISH SURPRISED AT
IMMIGRATION QUOTAS
U. S. Quota For South Ire
land Half Total of North
and Great Britain,
DublinT—B r i t i s h Parliamentary
statements announce that the United
States authorities have fixed the
following immigration quotas: To
be admitted from Great Britain and
Northern Ireland, 42,000; from
Southern Ireland, 21,000.
The London “Times ’ professes to
be surprised at this apparent dis
proportion, and many Englishmen
do not hesitate to say that a prefer
ence has been given to Southern
Ireland.
The reason for the apparent dis
proportion is quite simple. The
quota for each country is 2 per cent
of the number of the former resi
dents’ of that country in the United
States when the census of 1890 was
taken. From the middle of the
Nineteenth Century till the year
1890 millions of Irish citizens emi
grated to the United States. During
that period there were three famines
in Ireland, and a large proportion
of the population, unable to obtain
any work at home, had no option
but to emigrate.
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