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VOL. V. 17
AUGUSTA, GA., SEPTEMBER 13, 1924.
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GEN. NOLAN SUCCEEDS
SUCCESSOR OF PERSHING
New Deputy Chief of Staff
■* of U. S Army Has Had
Long and Erilliant Career.
(Hy N. C. \V. C. News Service.)
Washington.—Brigadier Genera!
Dennis E. Nolan, will become Deputy
Chief o( Staff, the second officer
in authority in the United States
Army, September 13, according to
announcement made by the Secre
tary of War. General Nolan will
succeed Major General John L.
Hines, who will be advanced to Chief
of Staft to fill the vacancy created
by the retirement of General Persh
ing.
General. Nolan is a Catholic. He
was born in Akron, New York, April
22, 187*A and was appointed to the
Military Academy from that State.
He was graduated in 1896 and com
missioned'k Lieutenant of Infantry.
He served in the Santiago campaign
where be earned recommendations
for brevets to the rank of first
Lieutenant and Captain. In the
Philippine ^insurrection he served
as a Majpr*of Cavalry, participating
in active operations from June 1899,
to January. 1900. He was a member
of the War Department Staff from
1903 to 1906.
*
In May 1917, General Nolan sailed
for France on the staff of General
Pershing, as v.hief of the Intelligence
Service of the A. E. F., which post
he held throughout the war. He
was successively promoted Lieuten
ant Colonel, Colonel and Brigadier
General. Accompanying the First
Army during the Meuse-Argonne of
fensive jp order to observe the op
erations of the Intelligence Service,
he was assigned to command the
55th Brigade of the 28th Division,
then actively engaged in the Aire
Vafley. After the engagement he
returned to his duties with the In
telligence Service and later served
with the Peace Commission in Paris.
Since his return to the United
States, General Nolan lias been a
student at the Army War College,
director of the Intelligence course
at that institution, Assistant Chief
of Staff. G-2, Commander of the
Second Field Artillery Brigade. Com
mander of the Second Division, and
since December 1, 1923, Assistant
(’href of Staff. G-4, in charge of
the Supply Division of the General
«slaff.
‘ General Nolan has been awarded
the Distinguished Service Cross and
the Distinguished S&vice Medal.
Jhe citation accompanying the form
er reads:
“for extraordinary heroism in ac
tion near Apremont, France, October
1, 1918. While the enemy was pre
paring a counter attack, which they
preceded by a terriffic barrage. Gen
eral Nolan made bis way into the
town of Apremont and personally
directed the movements of his tanks
under a most harassing fire of en
emy machine guns, rifles and artil
lery/
> The distinguished Service Medal
was awarded him '“For exceptional
* meritorious and distinguished ser
vices. He organized and administer
ed with marked ability the Intelli
gence Section of the General Staff
of the American Expeditionary
Forces.” Very recently General No
lan was awarded citation stars for
his services in Cuba during the
Spanish War.
Cardinals Give Their Views Upon
Proposed Moral Code for Schools
Archbishops O'Connell and Hayes Say Movement by Col- !
lier’s in That Direction is Encouraging, But Declare
There Can Bo No Morality Without Religious Basis.
New York.—Comments by Cardi
nal O Connell and Hayes on a plan
! it has proposed to induce a moral
,eode acceptable to all religions in
to the public schools of the coun
try, are printed in the issue of Col
lier’s nragazine of this date. The
[comments of the Catholic prelates
appear with those of nine other
prominent clergymen of various
faiths.
In its announcement of the pro
ject, Colliers says:
‘Because of our differing beliefs,
religious teaching has been barred
from many of our public schools.
“This has resulted—quite unwise
ly and unnecessarily, as it seems to
us—in there being little or no moral
training for our children in those
schools.
“Concerning supernatural reli
gion, men differ and divide; but
natural religion lives in every hu
man being. It is evidenced in that
moral guide which we call con
science—which may be crude or cul
tivated, but which is the essence of
every system of morals because it
is a part of the mind of every man.
“No sane person will deny the
necessity for all—regardless of creed
I—to aid in the development of that
fundamental force. An education
solely in the material things of life
is surely incomplete. The young
mind must be impressed at the
same time with the fundamentals of
what constitutes right and wrong.”
Plans for Drafting Code
The magazine then suggests that
these principles are the same in all
religions and outline its plan of
action. It proposes to call on its
readers for suggested articles in the
code, select a set of these articles
and submit them to Catholic, Prot
estant and Jewish leaders, then
JUDGE DE COURCEY OF
MASSACHUSETTS DEAD
(By N. C. W. C. News Service.)
Lawrence, Maas.—Funeral services
for Justice Charles A. DeCourcy of
the Supreme Court of Massachu
setts were held in St. Mary’s Church
in the city. Justice I)e Courcy died
suddenly at his summer home at
Sunapee, N. H.. August 23. He was
sixty-six years old.
Justice DeCourcy had been a menv-
ber of the Supreme Court of Massa
chusetts since his appointment by
former Governor Fhgene N. Foss in
1911. Previously, in 1902, he bad
been appointed a member of the
state Superior Court by the late W.
Murray Crane, then Governor. Mr.
I>eCourcy was graduated from
Georgetown University in 1878 with
the degree of A. B. Subsequently he
was honored with a Masters Degree
from the same institution. After
his graduation from Georgetown he
studied at i?ie Boston University
Law School and was class orator oil
his graduation. He also studied law
in the office of Justice Oliver Wen
dell Holmes, now a member of. the
Supreme Court of the United States
In 1904 the Catholic University of
A merit'll bestowed upon Mr. De
Courcy the honorary Degree of Doc
tor of Laws.
conduct a campaign to have the
code placed in every public school.
Cardinal O’Connell’s comment on
the plan, as published by Colliers’
is as follows:
"It is an encouraging sign that
the people of this country are now
awakening to the vital need of moral
training in education. Less than a
century ago the present practice in
American education was inaugurat
ed. The advocates of the discon
tinuance of the teaching of religion
did not foresee the inevitable con
sequences of the new policy. Today
the confidence of the past has be
come doubt and fear for the future.
There is an insistent call that
something be done at once to safe
guard the moral sense of the youth
I of America.
“The admission of an evil is half
the cure. The general dissatisfaction,
expressed frequently and publicly,
wi*h the character product of Am
erican schools and colleges shows a
change of thought in the right di
rection. How wholesome and how
promising is the present demand of
honest and earnest men and women
for more emphasis on moral train
ing at every stage of the education
al process! Let the hope be express
ed that discussion, study and ex
perience will soon open the minds
of all men of good, will to the only
solution of this fundamental prob
lem of life.
“The consideration of the question
of moral training seems centered
at present on the discovery within
the individual himself of the secret
of virtuous living, r.acn man U to
use his active and latent powers of
conscience and build unto himself
a law of lite. Human minds arc to
unite in this momentous investiga
tion for the development of a form
of conduct which can be aplied ef
fectively in the affairs of men.
“This ambition is now new iu the
world. The philosophers of old re
flected and pondered with the identi
cal end and purpose. With superior
intelligence and with admirable ef
fort they sought an explanation of
life, a motive for correct living, and
a standard of honorable conduct.
Where are their findings today?
“What man constructs for his own
satisfaction he tears down at his
own convenience and pleasure. Hu
man nature cannot be uplifted b-'
its own boot-straps. Human nature
rises only in the sublime realiza
tion of the fact that life is a gift of
God and that faith, love and obed
ience to God are the abiding obliga
tions of this earthly pilgrimage. In
this truth man finds motive, pur
pose, and objective which com
pletely satisfy his soul. Nothing less
suffices in the ordering of life's
duties and responsibilities. There
can be no morality without religion.
“William Cardinal O'Connell.”
Cardinal Hayes’ comment is given
by Collier’s as follows:
“In reply to your request that I
make comment upon the proposed
moral code plan of Collier s, I wish
to say that, while I regard the
movement as very significant be-
(Continucd on page five.)
Maryknoll Sends Twenty-One More
Missionaries to Labor in Asia
Necessity of Education
Emphasized by Supreme
Court Justice.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
In an address in Dublin during
August, Gilbert K. Chesterton,
famed English publicist, refer
ring to the controversy being
carried on in regard to George
Bernard Shaw’s play “St. Johan,”
said that in all the discussion
thire is an extraordinary gap or
vacuum which arose from the
fact that those tak ng part in it
had never heard of one funda
mental idea of the devil, which
may be summed up in. the old
saying “the devil is the ape of
God.” Evil, said Mr. Chesterton,
is nowhere so dangerous as
where it almost exactly copies
good.
GOULD-CASTELANE CASE
DECISION UNCONFIRMED
Rome.—The pope has decided not
to confirm decision of the pontifi
cal commission of Cardinals in the
Gould-Castcllane annulment case,
hut to submit the question to a new
examination by a commission, to
which will he added two new car
dinals, whose names are still un
known. The new commission will
meet in October.
What the decision of the commis
sion was is not vet known. Some
time ago it was reported in the secu
lar press that it was favorable to
the annulment of the marriage. It
was even added that the pope had
ratified the decision, hut the Vati
can at that time informed the N. (’,.
W. C. correspondent at Home that
when these reports were published
the pontifical commission had not
yet even reached a decision.
The case is that of Count Boni de
Castellanc, Italian Catholic nobleman
for the annulment of bis marriage,
in 1895, to Anna Gould, an Ameri
can and a non-CathoIic. In 1906 the
countess obtained a civil divorce and
remarried. The count then sought
the papal nullification of the mar
riage on the grounds that Anna
Gould, before marriage, expressed
her intention to obtain a divorce if
she found the union unhappy. He
held that this constituted a lack of
full consent, an essential to the
validity of marriage.
PRESIDENT OPPOSED TC
KLAN AND ITS OBJECTS
So August 29 Letter From
Secretary Bascom Slemp
to New York Editor Says.
(By N. C. W. C. News Service.)
Washington. President Coolidgc
disapproves the aims and purposes
of the Ku Klux Klan. Public an
nouncement of bis attitude in regard
to the organization, supplementing
denial of membership in the Klan,
is contained in a letter to the edi
tor of a New York news service who
bad submitted certain questions in
regard to matters in which Jews
were particularly interested. The
letter follows:
“The White House. Washington
August 29. 1924.
“My Dear Mr. Branin: Comply
ing with your request of August 21,
I a in sending you, on behalf of the
president, a message which the
president lias authorized for the
Jewish New Year.
“As to the other mutters touched
upon in your communication, 1 am
authorized to say that the president
is aware of the many annoying diffi
culties in connection with tlie ad
ministration of the Immigration law,
and he is decidedly in favor of
even possible effort to humanize
the law and its administration.
“Concerning the Ku Klux Klan, the
president has repeatedly stated that
he is not a mendier of the order and
is not in sympathy with its aims
and purposes. As to the govern-
ntont of the United States exerting
its influence in other countries to
protect the rights of the population,
the question is very difficult to deal
with, as it involves international re
lationships.
“The Government of the United
States would be unlikely to view
with satisfaction the efforts of an
other government to include itself
in the strictly domestic concerns of
this country; all independent gov
ernments arc particularly insistent
upon complete control of all their
domestic concerns, and it is a mat
ter of the utmost difficulty on this
account to interfere in the domestic
administration of the affairs of
other countries.
“As to Zionism, the rebuilding of
Palestine as the Jewish national
homeland the president has repeat
edly given his most hearty indorse
ment to this movement, and express
ed his wishes for its success. Most
sincerely yors,
“C. BASCOM SLEMP,
“Secretary to the President.”
Oxford and Cambridge
Both Have Catholic Summer
Schools.
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
London.—-Two Summer Schools
for Catholics have been held with
great success at Oxford and Cam
bridge Universities. At the former;
the subject was "St. Thomas Aqui
nas and His Teachings,” and many
famous Catholic professors have lec
tured on it in its various aspects,
including the learned and eloquent
Lisbon of Clifton, wbo spoke on
St. Thomas’ Liturgical poetrv. At
Oxford. Social Studies were the ob
ject of the School, which was ar
ranged by tbe Catholic Social Guild.
Mr. Francis Urquhart, M. A., Dean
of Balliol College, lectured on “What
a New Session of the Vatican Council
Might Do For Peace.”
Cancelled Postage Stamps Support
Belgian Missioners in Pagan Lands
(By N. C. W. C. News Service.)
Maryknoll, N. Y.—What is thought
to lie the largest group of foreign
missioners sent out by any one so
ciety in America will leave this
week from Maryknoll, N. Y., the
home of the Catholic Foreign Mis
sionary of America which was or-
fi anizcd but J3 years ago by the
ierarchy of America. When this
group reaches the field a total of
68 Marykuollers will be at work in
Eastern Asia.
The group includes ten priests, two
brothers, and twelve sisters. It will
be divided between South China and
Korea. The China contingent will
sail from San Francisco, Sept. 27
and the others will take the north
ern route from Seattle. Sept. 29.
Thirteen States, Massachusetts,
California, South Dakota, Ohio, New
York Missouri, Iowa. Michigan, Vir
ginia’, Utah, Pennsylvania. New Jer-
sev and Maryland, are represented
»jy ’ Hie missioners. The Hawaiian
Islands, the Straits Settlements and
the County Cavan, Ireland, each also
hi* a member in the band.
Among the departing priests are:
Bev. Joseph A. Cassidy, A. F. M.
well known in Boston as a result of
his work at St. Phillip’s Church, Co
lumbus Avenue; Bev. James M.
Drought, A. F. M., A. M., S. T. B.,
New Yo.rk City, who is to take
charge of the new Maryknoll Hos
pital for university men in Hong
kong; Rev. Charles A. Walker, A. F.
M., San Francisco, recently in charge
of Maryknoll activities in Seattle.
The list of Sisters includes Sister
Mary Juliana Bedier, Salt Lake City,
former stenographer to IU. Rev.
Bishop Glass of that city and a con
vert to the Catholic faith; Sister
Mary Lucy Lcduc, Detroit; Sister
Mary Augustine Kuper, Baltimore, a
grand-niece of the late Archabhot
Krug of Monte Casino, graduate of
Notre Dame of Maryland College
and holder of an M. A. Degree from
Columbia University, and Sister
Mary Ligouri Quinlan. Stuart’s Draft,
Va., daughter of John J. Quinlan,
former vice-president of the Chicago,
Rock Island and Pacific Railroad.
Hon. Wendell Phillips Staff-
ford, Associate Justice. Supreme
Court of the District of Colum
bia, writes:
“The Catholic High School
movement commands my hearty
approval. Higher education has
become so accessible to the
young of our day that he who
fails to take advantage of it
will find himself at every turn
in competition with those who
are better trained and equipped
than he. This is true even of a
college education. How much
more is it true of a high school
education.
“It is^nothing short of insani
ty to neglect these opportunities
and yet expect to hold our own
with thowe who have not neg
lected them. Thorough intel
lectual'training and enlargement
of mental vision should be pe
culiarly the aim of those who
profess themselves the followers
of One who said. ‘I am the
Truth/ ‘I am the Light.’ If we
really believe it let us act up-
op it.*
By REV. J. VAN DER IIEYDEN
(Louvain Correspondent, N. C. W. C.
News Service.)
Louvain.—Between the years 1897
and 1923 four hundred and twenty-
five thousand francs were secured
to the Belgian missionaries in pagan
lands through the sale of canceled
postage stamps collected by the
seminarians of tbe six Belgian di-
cesan seminaries
The work ‘TOeurve des Vieux
Timbres,’ as it is called—is still go
ing on, and with yearly results, as
against those of years immediately
preceding the war, increased five
fold. The credit for originating it
belongs to the students attending
the Liege Seminary during the
scholastic year 1891-92. They were
promoted to it by a feeling of com
radeship for college chums who had
answered King Leopold’s appeal for
Congo missionaries. Of the total
earnings three hundred thousand
francs are reserved to the Liege
Seminary. They served to found in
the Congo six Christian villages,
one hospital and twenty-nine so-
called “Fermes Chape lies, ’ to which
the missionary appoints black
catechists for the teaching of reli
gion and other picked blacks to load
in agricultural pursuits. He visits
these foundations at regular inter
vals. supplies them with farm im
plements, seeds, plants, etc., ad
vises and directs. The chief who
grants the use of the land retains
the title to the property, whilst the
Christian neophytes, who form a
sort of community around the small
chapel .enjoy the fruits.
Next in importance to the O. V.
T., of the Seminary of Liege, is the
S. Amandus Work of the Bruges
Seminary. It was started in 1902.
During the first twenty yeais of its
activity is averaged annual receipts
that barely reached 2.000 francs
mark; hut after the war, it took a
fresh start, so that for the year
1923 a tenfold increase in net pro
fits was reported
The Seminaries of Malincs, Ghent,
Namur and Tournay entered the
stamp-collecting field later and their
contribution to the mission fund,
while small, yet, is steadily in.
creasing.