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Member of the National Catholic Welfare Con ference News Service. T&uUttw Official Organ of the Catholic Laymens Association/Geoigia “TO BRINGABOUT A FRIENDLIER FEELING AMONG GEORGIANS. IRRESPECTIVE OF CREED" The Only Catholic Newspaper Between Bal timore and New Orleans TEN CENTS A COPY. VOL. VII. NO. 6. AUGUSTA, GA., MARCH 20, 192G ISSUED SEMI-MONTHLY $2.00 A YEAH INAL ILL Entire Liner Chartered For English Delegation--Thous ands of Mexicans Coming Chicago.—An English delegation, presided over by His Eminence, Francis, Cardinal Bourne, Primate of England, will leave London dune 5 for the XXVIII International Eu charistic Congress to he held .lime 20-24, according to a cablegram re ceived at the Congress headquarters. The Congress housing committee has secured 1100 rooms in Chicago hotels to accommodate the pilgrims, and there are indications that more Will join the party later The Red Star line “Pittsburg'’has been designated the official ship for the English delegation, which will include many noted prelates of the British Isles, and several altars will be installed to give the passengers the opportunity of hearing Mass daily. On their return front the gather ing at Chicago, the pilgrims will visit the famous shrine of Ste. Anne de Beupre, near Quebec. Niagara, Montraeai, and Toronto are also in cluded in the itinerary. ' \ Several thousand Mexican Catho lics will attend the twenty-eighth International Eucharistic Congress to be held here, June 20 to 24, ac cording to information received at the Congress headquarters from Mexico City. The pilgrimage will be headed by a number of distinguished prelates, including the Most Rev. Leopold Ruiz y Flores, Archbishop of Mich- eacan; the Most Rev. Francisco Cro- zco y Jimenez, Archbishop of Guad alajara and the Most Rev. Juan Her rera y Pena, Archbishop of Monte rey. The Most Rev. Jose Mora del Rio, Archbishop of Mexico and Primate of the Mexican Church, who was re cently cited to appear before a gov ernment court following a clash wfeih Mexican officials over ecclesiastical matters, lias issued a statement of approval for the Congress urging all who can do so to join the Mexican national pilgrimage to Chicago. D. DF A. NAME ASHEVILLE Mobile Convent Houses Forty-Eight Nuns, Expelled by Mexican Troops Mother Margaret Mary Semple of Distinguished South ern Family, Superior of Religious Who Were Driven Out, Tells of Trying Experiences of Her Little Band Special to The Bulletin s Mobile, Ala.—Mother Margaret Mary Semple, a mem-1 ber of a distinguished Southern family, and forty-eight Visi-; tation Nuns who were driven from their convent at Cayoa- 1 can, near Mexico City, a few days ago, are now resting at Visitation Convent in this city, after their harrowing ex periences at the hands of the radical Mexican government. Six of the nuns are Americans and the others Mexicans. expelled the The troopers who nuns told Mother Margaret Mary that their heart was not in the work but that thev carried out orders against their will to save themselves from the danger of being shot for diso bedience. While searching the con vent they gathered around Mother Margaret Mary., knelt down and ask ed her blessing, according to a let ter received by the N. C. W. C. News Service at Washington. Mother Mar garet Mary and the nuns also sav ed the Sacred Hosts from desecra tion by consuming them, the same authority says. The experiences of the nuns were described by Mother Margaret Mary for the Mobile D.-yly Register, which carried the following story about the heroic little hand of women who refused to be frightened by the armed might of the Mexican gov ernment: “We were happy in Coyoacan, ’ declared Mother Margaret Mary. “The convent was called the.Kinta Maria and it was a most beautiful build ing on a hilltop. Surrounded by beautiful gardens the convent was symbolic of peace and quiet, a rest ful haven for us, we thought. We had 90 day students in our classes and they were devoted to us. Just before our expulsion we had install ed a new domitory for the nuns. “Out of a clear, sky, at 11 o'clock j on the evening of February (1. live policemen appeared and ordered us. to leave, 'ihey had been sent, they i said, by the minister of the govern-j ment. That was all the explanation i they would volunteer We were ac-! cuscd of infringing the rules of the I Mexican government within its» bor ders. Despite this accusation, 1 know it to be a fact that the Mexi can constitution’s provision pertain ing to religious freedom is identical with that of the United States. “I protested on the ground of be ing an American citizen. I asked per mission to communicate with the American embassy. That night I phoned the embassy but could not establish communication. 1 commu nicated, with the consulate, however, and was advised to ask the Mexicans government to suspend action until the consulate could communicate with the ministry. “After 36 hours, which was the re spite granted, the five police whom we learned to regard as sinister bear ers of evil tidings, again appeared and politely but firmly demanded our departure. 1 immediately phoned the embassy but they replied that this was altogether a domestic mat ter and that as much as their sym- MEXICAN CATHOLICS TO (Continued on Page 7) (By N. C. W. C. News Service.) Utica, N. Y.—Five .$1,000 scholar ships in Social Service, voted at the biennial convention of .the Catholic Daughters of America iii July, were formally confirmed and allotted to the National Catholic School of So cial Service at Washington, at the semi-annual meeting of the supreme officers and directors of the order here recently. An appropriation of $1,000 also was vqted to the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception at Washing ton, and another $1,000 for education al work among the Mexicans in the United States. Asheville, N. C., was chosen as the Convention city for the order in 1927. and Miss Maisie V. Scanlan, of Atlantic City, was appointed' direc tor of the junior organization. A framed coat-of-arms was presented to the Rt. Rev. W J. Hafey, Bishop of Raleigh, who is National Chaplain of the order and who addressed the meeting. Miss Mary C. Duffy of Newark, N. J., Supreme Regent, pre sided at the sessions, and a dozen officers and directors from all parts of the country were present. Intolerance Lost Canada to United States Senator Walsh Reca lls Congress Arranges For St. Patrick’s Day Address f —i (By N. C- W. C. News Service.) Washington.— By unanimous consent, the United States House of Representatives on March 2, set aside thirty minutes for a St. Patrick’s Day address on the floor March 17.* Representative John Q. Tilson, of Connecticut, asked the unani mous consent of the House, des ignating Representative Jeremi ah E. .O’Connell as the speaker. There was no objection. Although St. Patrick’s Day ad dresses have been delivered in the House before, so far as is known a time has never hereto fore been formally set aside for the purpose Representative , Tilson expressed the belief that the day is of importance to a su..ciently large part of the population of the country to warrant the rational legislators devoting thirty minutes to it. Spanish Transatlantic Aviators Proclaim Faith As Columbus Did By REV. MANUEL GHANA. (Madrid Corresponentd N. C. W. C. News Service). Madrid.—Efforts made by certain papers to “secularize” the exploit of the Spanish aviators whose succss- ful flight to South America has at tracted world attention have made It necessary to state clearly lhat Commander Franco and his intrepid companions, Senors Ruiz de Alda, Duran and Rada, are religious men. Press comments have sought to convey the impression that these men who so sincerely profess the Catholic faith are not merely unbe lievers but actually hostile to rcli- 6 "commander Don Ram/m Franco and his companions are sincere and practical Catholics, not merely by family tradition but hy personal conviction. .When they reached Huelva, they Persecution of Catholics by New England Responsible He Tells Capital Audience Rt. Rev. Denis J. O’Connell, D. D., Renowned As Edu cator Here and in Europe (By N. C. W. C. News Service) Washington.—Complying with the request of the Bight Rev. Denis Joseph O’Connell, I). D., Bishop oi Richmond, Virginia, to be relieved of his See, because of ill health His Holiness Pope Pius XI has promoted him to the Archiespiscopai Titular See of Marianine, it was an nounced by the Apostolic Delegation here." Bishop O’Connell is 77 years old. The Delegation also announced that Bishop O’Connell will serve as Apostolic Administrator of the Dio cese of Richmond until his successor is appointed. Three Day Period Appointed —Radical Officials Have Daughters in Convents Mexico City.—Catholics have de cided upon a three-day period of mourning “over-the death of Liber ty in Mexico.” Private houses, bus iness offices and shops will be drap ed in black, and cards and posters nearing the ’respectful pica for “free dom of conscience for Catholics who form ninety per cent of the Mexican population, will be displayed in win dows of shops and private residences and in others appropriate and con spicuous places on private property. Colonel Tejada, Secretary of the Interior, who has been directing the snti-Catholic campaign in the ab sence of President Calles from the Capitol, retaliated for this an nouncement by ordering the execu tive heads of all departments to fur nish him without delay with a list of their Catholic employees. The circular states thai. any employee vho has made a protest, public or private, against the anti-Catholic acts of the government, shall be dis missed. The Secret Police are spying on the employees, particularly on the women clerk, to secure cveidcnce against them. Convent schools, orphanages, hos pitals and other institutions arc be ing closed and thousands of chil dren have been turned out of school. A peculiar phase of the sit uation is the fact that a daughter of Colonel Tejada is a student at a convent school, which has not been dosed thus far, and two daughters of President Calles were hurriedly removed from a convent school two days before, the present anti-Cath olic campaign began. (N. C. W. C. News Service) Washington.—Religious and racial intolerance lost Canada to the new American Republic in the Revolu tionary War Senator Thomas J. Walsh, of Montana, told an audi ence of 1,100 here recently. Sdnator Walsh was speaking at the dedication exercises.of the new $400,000 Jewish Community Center; and his theme w^s the folly of in tolerance in a nation so constituted as the United States. His audience was the largest gathering of Jews ever to assemble in Washington. The fundamental laws of the United States barring religious tests and qualification, he saiij, were forced thoroughly the Rounders of the Na tion by citing the services rendered by Catholics and Jews to win the War for Independence. “It' is quite likely too,” he added, “that there was not lost upon that generation the lesson of the failure of Canada to join in the insureetion.” proceeded to Palos dc Moguer, the famous port from which Golumbs’s sailed on his voyage of discovery One of their first visits was to the Church of St. George, where they were accompanied by great cliowds of people. In this church is vener ated the image of Our Lady of Mir acles, before which Columbus and liis companions prayed many hun dred years ago. They heard Mass the morning of the flight. Tlie next visit was to the Francis can Monastery of La Rabida, where the Franciscan Fathers encouraged the airmen as their predecessors had encouraged Columbus. Commander Franco has solemnly promised that they will come hack, if God grants them a safe return flight, to give thanks to Our Lady of Miracles. An impressive religious celebration will he arranged on their return. “Its people were almost exclusive ly French and Catholic,” he con tinued. “Scarcely fifteen years be fore Lexington, they had fought the English on the Plains of Abraham. Generations of strife had driven them from the country to which they owed allegiance and from that from which they or their ancesters had come, breaking out from time to time in wars in which they had become involved, and had disposed •hem to revolts. “But they held coldly aloof be cause of the fierce, not to say the fiendish, intolerance of New Eng land. They preferred to tic up with an ancient enemy rather than unite with their neighbors who though they tolerated the Jews, were un restrained in their persecution of their fellow Christian, Catholics and Quakers. “Thus half of the continent of North America was lost to the Unit ed States, and,a potential enemy left at the doors of the infant re public. To the credit of the people day, however, it must bi: Bishop O’Connell was born at Donoughmore, County Cork Ireland. January 28, 1849. He studied in the American College at Rome and was ordained a priest on May 26, 1877 Following liis ordination he carried the decrees of the Late Plenary Council of Baltimore to Rome and returned as secretary to Bishop Conroy, delegate to Canada. Following the death of Monsignor Hostlot in 1884, Father O’Connell was made rector of the American College, Rome. He was made a do mestic prelate March 20, 1887, and continued ps rector of the American College until July, 1895, when he resigned to act as vicar of Cardinal Gibbons for his titular Church, St” Maria, iu Trastevere, Rome. Father O'Connell became the third rector of the Catholic University of America in 1903, and on December 16. 1907, w r as elevated to the titular See of Sebaste. He was conseerat ed Bishop by Cardinal Gibbons at Baltimore on May 3, 1908. and on December 24, 1908, was appointed Bishop Auxiliary of the Archdiocese of San Francisco. On May 7, 1909, he was succeeded as rector of the Catholic University by the present rector, ihe Jtighl Rev. Thomas J. Shahan. On January (Cpntinued on page 7) Although excitement here has never been more intense or a sense of injustice more profound, such meetings as have been held have been devoted to the peaceful discus sion of the best means of obtaining justice. 'Ilie government lias order ed several such Inertings prevented or broken up as soon as they began. The venerable Archbishop of Mexico City, who is confined to his lied, has issued a statement to tile Catholics of Mexico in which he says: “I do not want a single drop of blood to - be shed in our country. In all their actions good Catholics should ob serve the moderation which the Church recommends. I only hope lhat peace will return as soon as possible to all Christian homes, the heads of which have been so deeply outraged in their sentiments as true Catholics ” President Calles declared that he is determined not to change or modify in any way liis application of the articles of the Constitution re lating to religion and the schools, in answering a telegram from the Ste vedores' Union of Vera Cruz com mending liis course, and Secretary Tejada in a statement to the press charged attempts to discredit “the pacific work of the government.'’ The expulsion will continue, lie de clared, Admitting however that cer tain agents of the Department of the Interior had violated their power and descended upon Catholic schools where they were not requir ed to go in the exercise of their pre scribed duties. Ten priests, a nun and four Marist (Continued on page 7) Baptists Oppose, Senators Shelve Virginia Bible Reading Measure of that day, however, it must said that "their gratitude overcame Rev. Y. Y. Downnan, their. illiberality; and they made Saints’ Episcopal religious freedom the cornerstone of mond, and two women also spoke in the political system they erected.” behalf of the bill. (By N. C. W. C. News Service) Richmond, Va.—The Senate Com mittee of Public Instruction and Education recently shelved tile bill providing for the compulsory read ing of llie Bible in all grammar and high schools of the State, by a vote of ten to four. The chief speech against tile bill was made by Kev. Dr. George W. McDaniel, pastor of the First Bap tist church of Richmond and one of the leading Baptist preachers of the South. Rablii A. S. Anspaclier, of Richmond, also spoke against the bill. The chief speaker for flic forces supporting the bill was the Rev. George Booker, pastor of a Richmond Patriotic Sons of America, a fraternal order; the Junior Order United American Mechanics, and the rector of All church, Rich- Tile hearing was shifted from a committee room to tiie Senate chamber, when several hundred people, including more than two- score women and a number of cler gymen, assembled for the meeting The debate was between the Rev. Mr. McDaniel, whose vigorous speech against the Dill in 1924 was regard ed as a big factor in its defeat, and the Rev. Mr. Booker. The greater part of Mr. McDaniels' speech stressed the point that the hill was contrary to all the principles of re ligious freedom advocated by Thom as Jefferson. At one point he de clared : “The adoption of this bill by the Democratic members of t)u\ Virginia Assembly would be a betjcayal of Thomas Jefferson in the house of liis disciples.” It took the Cominittc only five minutes to decide to table tlis bill indefinitely.