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THE BULLETIN OF THE CATHOLIC LAYMEN’S ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA
APRIL 3. 1026.
THE BULLETIN
1 fic Official Organ of the Catholic Laymen’s Association
cf Georgia.
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VOL. VII.APRIL 3, 1026■ .No. 7
Member of X. C. W. C. News Service and of the Catholic
! rcss Association of the United Stales and Canada.
•^nteied a*> second class matter June 15, 1921, at the Post
DHice at Augusta, Ga., under Act of March, 1879. Accepted
lor mailing at special rate of postage provided for in Sec
tion 1103, Oct of October 3, 1917, authorized Sept 1, 1921.
Thomas W- Loyless
On a beautiful Georgia hillside," overlooking the
lawny Oemiilgee as it wends its way to the sea through
the. valleys of the stale he loved so devotedly and
served so well, the remains of Thomas \V. Loyless,
, whom the Macon News characterized as “one of the
most brilliant editors the state (which honors Henry
Grady and Joel Chandler Harris as her sons) has ever
produced,” were laid to rest last week.
Mr. Loyless was a Georgian. He was born at Daw
son when that present thriving city was only a strug
gling village recovering from the economic ravages of
the war. He died in Philadelphia where he went in
an effort to regain his lost health, hut he Was a life
long resident of Georgia, never being absent from it in
his nearly three score years of life except for a few
weeks at a time. His newspaper work was done on
Georgia papers, the Dawson News, the Macon Tele
graph, The Atlanta Constitution the Atlanta Journal,
The Augusta Chronicle, which lie edited for fifteen
years, and the Columbus Enquirer-Sun, where he also
occupied the editorial chair. He was a Georgian in
every, fibre of his being; indeed, as the Atlanta Jour
nal one of the score or more state papers that paid
him editorial tribute, says: “Into all he wrote he put
a certain savor of the soil that made his ‘copy’ as
truly a part of the slate as the native flower of its
hillsides or the harvest of its fields.
“He was a courageous writer,” the Atlanta Con
stitution recalls, “vigorous in style and forceful in
diction. No higher tribute could he paid him than
that he always shot straight--whether shooting at
sparrows or bears,” His .specialty was shooting at in
tolerance and oppression under whatever guise it ap
peared; No personal consideration, financial, social
or political, could restrain his .brilliant pen from ex
posing hypocrisy or injustice.
Mr. Loyless never did more brilliant or more
courageous work than in his mighty and. fruitful ef
forts to break down the wave of auti-Gatholic hatred,
and prejudice that was engendered in the stale by
demagogues seeking political advantage. The leaders
of these forces, welcoming argument with others as
opportunities for further vilification, misrepresenta
tion and for'cultivation of hatred, feared the strength
and honesty of his vigorous pen,and avoided conflict
with him whenever possible. His defense of tlie Cath
olic. Sisters and priests, of the venerable Bishop Keiley
and of Catholics in general at a time when defense
was least popular endeared him not only to Catholics
hut to all right-minded Georgians who abhor injustice
and love courage. Not only Catholics are indebted to
him for his defense of them in their hour of need,
hut Jews, whose battle he fought in the Frank ease,
negroes, whose ministers in Atlanta adopted resolu
tions of sympathy on his death, and every minority
in the state that needed defense from actual or at
tempted injustice.
Born in a Methodist family, Mr. Loyless remained
a Methodist most of his life, but. his study of the
Catholic Church undertaken to refute the evident mis
representation it suffered acquainted him with Cath
olic (caching. A few weeks before he died he ex
pressed a wish to become a Catholic, and he died
fortified by the riles of the Church he had done so
much to defend. His entrance into the Catholic
Church in his last days may properly he considered
one of the results of the anl.i-Calholie campaign in
Georgia, and recalls that another great Georgia jour
nalist, Joel Chandler Harris, was received into the
Church under similar circumstances some time before
his death a decade and a half ago.
“We will never forget Mr. Lovless’s assistance to
us in our hour of trial,’ Father Madden declared in
his touching eulogy at the funeral services and we
•shall also remember that it was assistance rendered
us by a man who was a Georgian to Iris heart’s core.
The decline of intolerance in Georgia today is due
more to no one than to Thomas W. Loyless, and we
can express our gratitude best now by praying that
God will grant eternal rest to his tired'soul and com
fort the hearts of those of his little family circle,
whom he loved with all the strength of his whole
hearted, loyal nature. May he rest In peace.
Easter
Easter, the.Feast of the Resurrection of Our Divine
Lord, is the most important feast in the ecclesiastical
year, for, in the words of St. Paul, “if Christ he not
risen from the dead, then is our preaching vain, and
your faith also is vain.”
“Behold we go up to Jerusalem,” He said to His
Apostles, “and the Son of plan shall be betrayed to
the chief priests and the scribes, and they shall con
demn Him to death. And shall deliver Him to the
Gentiles to he mocked and scourged! and crucified, and
the third day He shall rise again.” If, having pre
dicted Ilis resurrection, Our Lord did not fulfill His
prophecy, He would not he God and our faith would
be vain.
But Christ did prove Ilis Divinity by rising from
the dead, and there'is ample evidence to prove it. The
Apostles, except James and John, at first- did not be
lieve llic report, and Thomas went even further in his
scepticism than the rest, all of which indicates that
they were far,from being credulous men.
The hostile members of the Sanhedrim, forced to
admit by the weight of testimony, that Christ really
had risen from the tomb, consulted among themselves,
gave a large sum of money to the soldiers posted at
the tomb for the very purpose of disproving the re
surrection, and said to them: “Say you that His dis
ciples came by night and stole Him away when we.
Were asleep. And if the governor shall hear of this
we shall persuade him and secure you.”
lhc Apostles could not have been deceived, for
they were incredulous, saw Jesus, not once hut many
times during the forty days and under many different
circumstances. Sometimes He showed Himself to many
persons even to mor.e than five hundred, iu darkness
and in daylight, in a garden, on the road, in the cena
cle, on the hanks of the Lake of Genesareth, on Mount
Olivet. To admit lliat all were deceived is contrary to
all the dictates of logic, all the canons of reason
Why should the Apostles have wished lo spread
a report of the resurrection if it were false? What
could they hope to gain by it? Punishment from God,
for He abhors deceit. Death from the Jews, for since
they crucified their Master they would hardly have
spared them. Nothing from Christ, since he died
ignominiously. Nor is it possible that they, who a
few days before conducted themselves so feebly and
cowardly, could have accomplished the appearances
of the resurrection by violence or effected it by brib
ery, since they were notoriously poor.
The fact of the resurrection is, therefore, as well
established as any other fact in history. It is evidence
of the divinity of Christ, for Christ proclaimed Himself
is God, foretold His resurrection, and the pivine power
necessary to raise from the dead would not he ex
ercised by God to promote fraud.
We rejoice, therefore, in the resurrection of Christ
because it is the paramount proof to us that our faith
is not in vain and it is a pledge that we too shall rise
some day, glorious and immortal, if we obey the holy
will of God.
The Christian Altitude
A Georgia reader of The Bulletin, a convert, recent
ly sent in some clippings from a paper edited by a
high official of the Scottish Rite Masons and which
poses as a Masonic spokesman, although repudiated
by the late President Harding and many others. The
paper advertises a hook, “Convent Cruelties,” “A True
Story by Ex-Nun,’ written by a woman who never
was a nun and who was committed to a reformatory
at the age of fifteen because her family found her
unmanageable. Some of the headlines were: “Would
Put Wine Out of Business—Government Official Quot
ed as Being Against Roman Sacramental Wine;” “Ro
manists Seek Show Down on Public Schools—Demand
Place on School Board or Threaten to Open Roman
Catholic School;” “Mason Turned Papist, Proving
(Our) Story;” aud many others of that type.
Here are a few passages from the paper: “There
is more Romanism and cussedness on (his (west) coast
than one can imagine. Never saw the like of Masons
(?) who do not read the Fellowship Forum;” “Cardinal
O’Connell claims ninety-five per cent of convicts are
Roman Catholics.” “It is no disrespect to the Supreme
Court to assert that whatever stands in the way of
a yalid cpmpulsory public school attendance law must
be removed,” (this from an editorial); “Klan members
are fighting not only for their own children but for
the children of those deluded individuals” who send
their children to parochial schools.
Our subscriber writes: “I enjoy The Bulletin so
much. 1 can’t understand how it can be free of any
sarcastic remarks about Protestants when these papers
are so full of them against us; hut I’m sure ours is
the most Christian way.” We also are certain it is the
most Christian way, both because such utterances
represent the views of but a microscopic minority of
American non-Catholics, and because if there were any
better way our Divine Lord would have taught it to
us by His example.
Dr. E. A. Landau, rabbi of the
Temple B’Nai Israel at Albany, Ga.,
at a St. Patrick’s Day banquet
sponsored by the Knights of Co
lumbus in the friendly Dougherty
county city told his audience that
St. Patrick was not an Irishman,
but was born in Scotland. The next
morning nearly every daily news
paper in the South gave the state
ment prominent position, many
news editors featuring the startling
and iconclastic assertion. Most peo
ple are under the Impression that
St. Patrick was horn in Ireland, that
is to say most people who are not
Catholics. Butler’s Life of the
Saints, the standard work on the
subject, says: “St. Patrick was
horn towards the close of the fourth
century, in a village called Bonaven
Taberniae, which seems lo be the
town of Kilpatrick, oil the mouth of
the river Clyde, in Scotland, be
tween Dumbarton and Glascow. He
calls himself both a Briton and a
Roman, of mixed extraction” Father
Butler, (he author of this work,
died iu 1763. The Catholic Encyclo
pedia, also gives Scotland as the
birthplace of the patron saint of
Ireland.
Of course we cannot deny that
some with Irish blood in their veins
do not agree with Dr. Landau,
Father Butler and the Catholic En
cyclopedia. Many of them, and
there are scholars who are not Irish
who support their claim, assert that
he was horn in—France. No his
torian of standing is authority for
the popular impression among non-
Catholics that St. Patrick was a na
tive son of Ireland. Nor do the
Irish lament it; St. Patrick was
great enough for a dozen nations
to claim. Reading accounts of
March 17 observances, it sometimes
appears that he has replaced St.
Joseph as the patron of the uni
versal church.
“Bill Biffem”, commenting in his
column in The Savannah Press on
the reference lo the birthplace of
St. Patrick, says: “The Sandy.s are
canny. Yesterday they had all the
Irishmen hearing the expense of
celebrating the birthday of a Scotch
man.” Joe Kirkwood, the former
Australian golf champion, in an ex
hibition last week in Augusta said
that playing golf is a gift; that is
why the Scotch are so clever at it.
People have an impression that the
Scotch are close. But the value of
impressions is very nicely demon
strated by the prevalent one about
St. Patrick’s birthplace which is re
sponsible for these three para
graphs.
THE TREATMENT OF BIGOTRY
(From the Dalton. Ga., Citizen)
There is n 0 cure for bigotry; But
it can he ignored.
CATHOLICS AND EDUCATION
(From the Birmingham, Ala. News)
In The Commonweal of Jan. 30,
Charles A. McMahon says: “In Sep
tember the Catholic school system
Vn the United Sitatas opened its
doors to 2,461,830 pupils, that num
ber representing the total enroll
ment in Catholic universities col
leges, seminaries, high schools' nor
mal training and elementary schools
which are today staffed iiv 30,000
religious teachers and 3,000 la'v teach
ers. It is estimated that the cost
of maintaining during 1925-26 the
7,000 elementary parochial schools
in operation in th e United States
will amount to $140,620,872. During
the past year the diocese of Pitts
burg alone raised nearly ..6,000,000
for the extension of its parocial
school system.
lhc first copy of The Evangelist,
published by the Catholic Press
Association of Albany, N. Y., was
issued March 19, and it looks more
like a metropolitan daily than a
brand new Catholic weekly. Rev.
Joseph A. Dunney is editor and Win.
L Gormack, until recently a South
Carolina newspaperman, is busi
ness manager. The issue contained
twenty-four pages and from a typo
graphical and news standpoint it
ranked with the very best of the
Catholic papers that came to our
desk last week. 'There is a com
plaint voiced at times that there
are too many Catholic publications
hut it is our opinion that (here are
too few Catholic newspapers of the
appearance and calibre of The
Evangelist. We wish it a long, use
ful and happy career.
Hearing complaints of some ves
tibule Catholics about the length
of sermons, we are prompted to
voice our observation Dial the only
class that delivers longer discourses
than the clergy is the laity when
it gels a chance.
Some of Hie readers of The Bul
letin who are radio fans have-com
plained to ps that they are unable
to gel Die Paulis! radio lectures on
their machines, although they con
tinually receive other Nevv York
programs. Do any of our readers
get the Paulist programs? Try it
next Monday night and drop us a
line about results.
The Meriwether Vindicator, of
which Henry H. Revil is editor, pub
lishes a statement by the president
of the American Association for the
Advancement of Atheism. “We will
not reverence or respect the so-
called holy traditions of the Chris
tian or any other religion.” says
the statement; that is an indica
tion of its general tone. “In this
country we expect the sternest op
position in the South.” The Vindi
cator emphasizes this point, and not
without a suggestion of pride. In
our opinion there is a stronger re
ligious feeling among tile Protest
ants of the South than among them
in any other part of the country.
A leading Catholic yfecklv recent
ly carried an article on the Trap-
pists of Kentucky, which, if it ap
peared in a secular newspaper,
would warrant a letter of correc
tion. Sometimes our own newspa
pers refer to priests as Rev. Smith,
Rev. Jones, Rev. Brown, a practice
we dislike in secular papers. Lit
tle incidents like these make us
more charitable toward the secular
press.
THE SPIRIT OF INTOLERANCE
(From the Columbus, Ga., Enquirer-
Sun)
lhc Athens Banner-Herald says
tlie country seems to he going wild
from the lack 0 f spirit of tolerance”
and adds that “no country can suc-
and , rank as a great nation so
long as her people harbor such a
spirit and allow it lo control them
m then-action and speech.’.’ The
Banner-Herald further asserts that
such a spirit is un-American and
it carried to extreme will stamp opr
nation as one of partisanship and
opposed to freedom of thought and
the rights of our citizens. No na-
;; an 1thrive and grow that is
hidebound and carping in its policy
c to citizens’ belief, religious
or otherwise.” *
The Banner-Herald is inveighing
against a condition that should be
uiied, because there is so much evi
dence of unwarranted intolerance it
!, s , be =oming aiarming. What all of
us need just now is that spirit, of
charity which endureth all things
trV'T!?' aU , . hings ’” f ° r without
It WC shall soon be as a ship without
either rudder or sail, driven before
and hSr 1>rejlldice
ON THE OTHER HAND
(From the .Winston-Salem, N. C
Union Republic) ’ ’ ’’
Senator Simmons succeeded in
fax 1 'on lb Fart of the inheritance
tax on the estate of the late James
B. Duke taken off in the tax reduc-
tion bill passed the past week by
J!'L : senate- If Duke had been a
fo rn a ,ad had left his money
!?' , LaUiolhc hospitals instead of
Methodist institutions wonder if
Mi Simmons would have been so
active in getting this lax wipe
out? And would the Christian Ad
vocate and other religious papers
been praising Senator Simmons for
this great act if the bequest had
been left to the Catholics instead
of the Methodists? An answer from
some of these brethren who h e
a fit every time A! Smith is men-
Honed tor tlie presidency- would he
illuminating. ‘ ’ " u ° J,e
HONORING FATHER DUFFY
(From the Charleston (S. C.) News
and Courier)
Tlie memory of Father Duffy can
ne\ei fade from this community
while any of those who knew him
in life still live. His parishioners
at the church which he served so
ong have paid a beautiful tribute to
Him in the chimes and the tablet
winch they have dedicated to his
memory in St. Joseph’s church. He
was one ot tlie loveliest and saint-
liesl of men. a gentleman of the old
school, a scholar and a man of
God.
THE ATLANTA BARBER BILL
(From the Greensboro (Ga.) Herald-
Journal)
Instead of the Ku KIux Klan in
Atlanta being responsible for tlie
city ordinance against negro barbers
serving white people, it is said that
the union white barbers brought
the pressure on the Atlanta law
makers. Regardless of the reasons,
the incident has caused more dam
age to the reputation of Atlanta for
fair and honest square-dealing than
anything in some time. It will taka
more than a community advertising
fund lo erase the harm done in this
one matter.
tion of Si. Bernard High School and
Co’jege. i s the latest new arrival
at 1 lie Bulletin office. In addition
to other articles of merit there is
one on the Benedictines in Alabama
which should prove a valuable con
tribution to the Catholic history of
Ibis section.
Many jurors in Chatham county
court, which sits in Savannah, re
cently declared that they were op
posed to divorce. Whether this was
due to what the Macon ' Telegraph
would call “an improved moral
•sense” or to a desire to escape jury
duty does not appear. Giving them'
the benefit of the doubt, the news is
Die While and Blue, the publica- heartening.