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• J Member of the National (4 Catholic Welfare Con- j 1 T>hr SwUctttt i rht Only Catholic I Newspaper Between Bal- g ^ fercnce News Service. J § Official Organ of the Catholic Laymens Association/Georgia j» 1 "TO BRING ABOUT A FRIENDLIER FEELING AMONG GEORGIANS IRRESPECTIVE OF CRELD" ;I Pv timore and New Orleans ^ 1 TEN CENTb A COPY. VOL. V. 17 AUGUSTA, GA., SEPTEMBER 13, 1924. ISSUED SKM1-MON I HLY 12.00 A YEAR 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.