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6 THE BULLETIN OF THE CATHOLIC LAYMEN’S ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA MAY 9, 1928 THE BULLETIN The Official Organ of the Catholic Laymen’s Association of Georgia. RICHARD REID, Editor. Published Semi-Monthly by the Publicity Department with the Approbation of the Kt. Rev. Bishops, of Raleigh, Char leston, Sa'vanhah, St Augustine, Mobile and Natchez. 1109 Lamar Building. Augusta, Georgia. Subscription Price, $2.00 Per Year. FOREIGN ADVERTISING REPRESENTATIVE, S. T. Mattingly, Walton Bldg Atlanta, Gs. ASSOCIATION OFFICERS FOR 1924-25. p. II. RICE, If. C. S. C„ Augusta President COL. P. H. CALLAHAN, K.S.G., Louisville, Ky., and ADMI RAL WM. S. BENSON. K.C.S.G., Washington. D. C. ..... ... .Honorary Vice-Presidents I. .T. I-IAVERTY, Atlanta First 'Vice-President J. B. McCALLUM. Atlanta Secretary THOMAS S. GRAY, Augusta Treasurer RICHARD REID, Augusta Publicity Director MISS CECILE C. FERRY, Augusta. .Asst, Publicity Director VOL. VII. MAY 9, 1926 No. 9 Member of N. C. W. C. News Service and of the Catholic Press Association of the Untied States and Canada. rd to direct every effort toward making the stay of the Georgians a pleasant one. Their visit was one round of receptions, all arranged by the Cubans themselves without the knowledge of the editors. There is not-n-Georgia editor who made the trip to Cuba who did not return impressed with the beauty of Havana and the wonderful country of which it is the capital, amazed at its resources, fill ed with admiration for the cultured, highly intelli gent, chivalrous and enterprising Cuban people, and lastingly grateful to them' for the wholehearted hospitality shown the party. Havana and Cuba mean something to the editors they never meant before and we are certain that Cuba now has in Georgia many scores of newly-made and influential friends whose friendship will last as long as the sweet memories of the Georgia Press Association’s visit to “the Paerl of the Antilles.' Entered as second class matter June 15, 1921, at the Post Office at Augusta, Ga., under Act of March, 1879. Accepted for mailing at special rate of postage provided for in Sec tion 1103, Oct of October 3, 1917, authorized Sept 1, 1921. h "Thg Pearl of the Antillies” Three hundred and eighty-eight years ago aii expedition led by Hernando de Soto left Havana in Cuba on a journey of exploration which revealed to the Spanish leader and his intrepid band the physi cal greatness and wealth of that territory we now call, Georgia and the Southeast. Last month over one hundred and fifty newspaper folk from Georgia, headed by the president of the Georgia Press As sociation,, journeyed to Cuba annd discovered for them'selyes the wonders of the young repulic which but a few years ago fired the imagination of not only all America but the world, and experienced the overwhelming hospitality of the warm-hearted, lib erty-loving sons and daughters of “the Pearl of the Antilles!” 'Hie editors spent most of their time in Havana, the capital of a country with a population and terri tory resembling in extent that of Georgia, and with only a few thousand Americans on the whole is land. In customs, in language, in religion, in ap pearance, in climate and in dozens of other ways Havana differs from our Georgia cities as much as our cities might be expected to differ front Paris, Madrid, Vienna or Brussels. Rut the Georgians were not there many hours Before they felt almost as much at home as the*/ would in any part of our own United States. And why not? There are few states in the Union which have more in common with Georgia than Cuba. The relationship of Georgia and Cuba goes hack over four hundred years, when the first Span ish explorers set out from that fair isle to penetrate the great continent to the west. One of these, de Soto, anticipated the political oraators of our day by traversing the state “from the Savannah to the Chattajjpochee” and possibly “from Tybee Light to Rabun Gap’ before finding his grave in the run ning waters of the Mississippi. It was from Cuba that consecrated men first set out to preach the gospel of Christ upon Georgia soil, a work in which m'any of them gladly gave up their lives before, the rage of the savage just . as their predecessors had done centuries ago in the pagan countries of Africa and Asia, amoijg -l_he Barbarian tribes of Northern Europe and the cultured peoples of the South, long before Constantine ascended the throne of the Caesars. The first souls won to Christ in Georgia were won by Spahish missionaries from Cuba, 1 070 of them being confirmed on St. Catherines Island in 1606 by 4he: Bishop of Santiago as revealed in a book recently published by the University of California. The first buildings erected in our state were the result of the labors of Catholic missionaries, Span ish, if you will, but relayed to us by Cuba, and the remains of these structures dot the Georgia coast even to this day. In the last half of the eighteenth century the contact of Georgia and Cuba ceased, not so much because of the famous Battle of Bloody Marsh as because of disturbances in Europe in which Georgia and Cuba had no part, and which in sured what History indicates was inevitable and logi cal, that Georgia should be one of the states of the American union. In the story of Cuba’s long fight for independence, Georgia’s name continually appears, and when finally the intervention of the United States forecast the dawn of a new day for our trou bled neighbor, no state in the Union gave a greater proportion of her population to fight for Cuban in dependence than our own. There was every reason, therefore, why Geor gians should feel at home in our neighboring re public, and the logic of the situation was accentu ated by tlie reception accorded them. To call it wholehearted hospitality is to express only a frac tion of it. From the president of the Republic, who received the party in the Presidential Palace, rising from a sickbed to do so, down to the humblest Sunday is Mother’s Day and this is the month of the Blessed Mother, Catholics should see to it that their observance of Mother’s Day does not neglect the religious significance. The reception of Holy Com munion for her is a commendable Mother’s' Day cus tom. A Quincy, 111., woman a candidate for the state legislature there, has wired Governor Walker suggesting that the star in the American flag representing Georgia he removed because of the “judicial murder” she says was perpetrated late in March when two boys from that section of the country were electrocuted here for murder. The murder was a par ticularly cowardly one, its victim be ing an old man who gave his mur derers a ride along a country road. The boys confessed, according to stories in the daily press, and the mother oL^me of them says she ac cepts the confession. If capital pun ishment is ever justified it appar ently was in this case. The good lady went far afield to pick flaws, and then found only an imaginary one. She could have done much bet ter had she east her eyes no further than Herrin in her own state. Catholic Comment A MELANCHOLY FIGURE (From The Boston Pilot) What a melancholy figure is the Catholic who docs not read Catholic literature. - He is the heir to all ages in the domain of ti'uth. He has only to reach out, and the wealth of the intellectual world, in the shape of uplifting thoughts, noble ideals, and brave resolves will come tumbling into llis lap. But he pre fers to exchange this priceless in heritance of Catholic truth, for the mess of pottage that goes by the name of light modern literature. A Conspicious Example Honor thy father and thy mother.” In this day and time when the commandments of God often seem to be honored more in their breach than in their observ ance, this precept has not been exempt from dishonor. Indeed the rapid development of our country, making shallow people, who are ashamed of their former humble surroundings, wealthy overnight has been an unwitting cause of the disregard that it so often ex periences. It is indeed gratifying under the circumstances to find in the most conspicious and exalted position in the nation a man to whom one may point as a per sonification of filial love and devotion. Colonel Cool- idge was a man of influence in his community and even beyond it; he had served in the state legislature and senate and held other offices of public trust. In his young manhood he had worked as a millwright. Later he conducted a general store and an insurance busi ness. He was a man of high order of intelligence, but without a college education; he was thrifty, hard-work ing, liqnest, just. But these are not qualifications that count for a great deal in what is known as so ciety, and Colonel Coolidge, although highly respected by his neighbors, could not by any stretch of the imagination be considered a man of high social stand ing. When the Colonel’s son was elected from Massa chusetts to the White House, it was tins unassuming New Englander whom the President chose to give him the oath of office, and this in a little farmhouse in the rugged hills of Vermont, although he might have taken it from the Chief Justice of the United States^ a former president, in all the pomp and glory that democratic Washington can affect. On the rare occasions when the Colonel was per suaded to accept the hospitality of the White House, he was treated with all the respect and devotion that a prince could display toward his royal father. When the President left Washington for the summer he thought he was doing no more than a pleasant duty in exchanging the comfortable North Shore for the humble Coolidge home in the Green Mountains. Colonel Coolidge, who never became reconciled to the advent of the automobile or the telephone and would have little or nothing to do with them, welcomed the radio. One memorable evening the President delivered a radio address to an invisible audience numbering mil lions. At the end of the address he gave public evid ence of liis affectionate reverence for his father, who’ was listening in, by bidding him a fond good-night. Whether we consider President Coolidge a success as the chief executive of our nation this is not the place to say. Nor would we shower him with fulsome praise because of his veneration for his father,. Now that the mortal remains of his sire are laid away in his native hills, the peace of mind of Calvin Coolidge and his consciousness of his dutiful conduct toward his departed parent are more powerful remedies in soothing the heartaches occasioned by the separation than an eternity of regrets. We think it appropriate, however, to direct to the attention of our young people and of the older ones as well the wholesome example the President set in this respect. Our parents have a generation more of ex perience than we. The vanity, the futility of wealth, power and social position are more apparent to them than to us. The Lord of course knew this when on Mount Sinai He handed down the commandment: “Honor thy father and thy mother.” A dutiful obser vance of this commandment will spare us years, of vain regret, and gain us rich treasures in heaven Enterprising newspapers, realiz mg that prohibition is perhaps the chief topic of interest these days, in terview many leading figures on the subject. Some of those interviewed are Catholic prelates, and their views, while not identical, are not inharmonious. Then editorial writ ers in the same newspapers conclude that Catholics have launched a movement against prohibition! “Many Catholics quit Church in Loyalty to Spiritism: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Deserts Catholicism Se we read in a leading story on the front page of one of the iarg est newspapers in the South. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle has been out of the Catholic Church so long that we have all hut forgotten he ever was in. Bishop Floresh has appointed Col onel Callahan secretary of the Eu charistic Congress pilgrimage body of the Diocese of Louisville. Some of our Catholic writers, mainly laymen have been worried about the Colo nel’s orthodoxy, but since Bishop Floresch, who is his Bishop apd his spiritual leader and superior, ap parently is satisfied with his Catho licity, the rest of us should be dis turbed about it no longer. We often hear about the numer ous calls made on Catholics for con tributions for religious purposes, but those who respond oft enest and most liberally seldom are the com plainants. People fortunate enough to be required to pay income tax in most cases have a very difficult time trying to make their contributions to religion total even a fraction of the amount exempted for that pur pose. Joseph Quinn of the Propa gation of the Faith magazine packed a volume in a few words recently when he commented on church con tributions in this fashion: “Some times a man will pay <J>8j80 for two theatre tickets and put the twenty cents change in his vest pocket for Sunday’s collection.” It is our con viction, however, that the Catholics of Georgia and neighboring states contribute more per capita for church purposes than their brethren in most states with large Catholic populations. An evangelist addressing a Ku Klux meeting at Waycross declared that “nearly ninety per cent of the men who are violating the Eight eenth amendment are foreigners.” That will he news to Judge Barrett and Judge Sibley of the Georgia Federal District Courts. It will be news to superior, court, judges in Georgia whose courts are clogged with liquor ■ cases, some of which rarely or never have foreigners be fore them for this or any other rea son. Statistics from cities with large populations reveal that the vast majority of “foreigners” who run afoul of the law are native born children of immigrants, indi cating that the trouble lies not so much with the foreigners as with our handing of their children. New York did not resemble a Sunday A PIONEER MOVEMENT (From The Catholic Herald St. Louis) The vast majority of Americans not only need to be taught what Catholicity means and teaches, but they are willing to leant; but only through publicity can they be reached. Catholic publicity is there fore more or less of a necessity. The Paulist Fathers arc making a break in the right direction with their broadcasting of serinc.tis and re ligious services, but the movement they are pioneering sbpuld be ex tensively exploited. THE REMEDY (From The Standard and Times, Philadelphia) Having discovered the real cause of bigotry, we are in a condition to suggest a remedy for this ugly phe nomenon, which is ill reality noth ing but a malady of the mind. The antidote is the dissemination of knowledge that will undo the work of the imagination and substitute for the warped pictures, w'hich the mischievous activity of the fancy has woven, pictures that correspond to the actual truth. ON THE OTHER HAND (From The Catholic Observer, Pittsburgh) It is veTy wrong for Catholics to interfere in the government of Mex ico. They should be allowed to make laws to suit themselves, whether these laws he against hu man and divine conception or not- But it is quite all right for the Jews of America to compel President Taft to break off diplomatic relations with Russia for the Czai-jst persecu tions. And it is au fait for 110 Episcopalian bishops to petition President .Coolidge for a Sharp note to Turkey owing to the persecution of Christians there. The date of the Eucharistic Congress in Chicago is drawing near and all who can should plan to at tend. The Knights of Columbus pilgrimage from Georgia, which has the endorsement of our Rt. Rev. Bishop, should have representation from every city Cuban with whom they came in contact, all seem- in the Diocese. HISTORY REPEATS ITSELF (From The Louisville Record) 1492: Columbus and his crew assisted at Holy Mass in Palos be fore starting on his voyage to the New World. 1926: Commander Franco and his crew assisted at Holy Mass in the same spot, befbre start ing his non-stop flight across the Atlantic. Four hundred thirty-four years, and the same Catholic Mass, the same Catholic Faith, the same sweet (submission of courageous hearts to the guidance and protec tion of Christ our King. ‘THE EVERLASTING MAN” (From The Ave Maria, Notre Dame, Ind;) Prof. Phelps, of Yale University, says that after reading a book by G. K. Chesterton he “feels like cheering.” _ Reviewing, for Scrib ners Magazine, the latest hook by ‘the Catholic Dr. Johnson,’ as we call Mr. Chesterton, the Professor writes: G. Iv Chesterton has produced a book that seems to hear in every chapterthe impress of genius—“'Hie Everlasting Man.” In reading it amid the pullulation of contempor ary flapperisms and adolescent pruriences and jazz scientific works, I can think only of the old-fashion ed phrase that God has raised up G. K. C. for this especial purpose, to stand as a witness to the eternal truth of religion. When I began to read this book, I had my pencil ready to mark the. passages that seemed most memorable. I put up my pencil, for I found I had to mark school before the foreigners started . . to come over in such numbers, nor nearly every sentence. The style is is Atlanta, with perhaps the larg- brilliant, without becoming mo- est percentage of native born inhab-' notonously so. It is a great hook, a Rants of any city of its size in America, ready for judgment day. In Lithuania Jews are suspected by fanatics of killing Christian chil dren for ritual purposes, and we are about to point a linger of scorn at them until we recall I hat there are many apparently intelligent people in the United States who believe that their Catholic neighbors and associates imprison women in con vents and condone and encourage other immoral acts. Tlie papal ai’my is drilling, Pierre Van Paassen writes from his van tage point in New York to the At lanta Constitution, and .“one won ders who the prospective foe can be.” Since the papal army, accord ing to The Constitution columnist, numbers 1,000, our guess is that if it decides to fight any army it logi cally will select the Salvation Army. An Augusta non-Catliolic was sol emnly informed recently that the Catholic Church had bought out the Salvation Army, spur to the intelligence, a solace to the heart. SCIENCE AND LIFE. Cardinal O’Connell in the Boston Pilot. Science has made many wbnder- ful discoveries in the past, fresh dis covers are being made almost ev ery day, some of them of great ben efit to mankind; hut science has its limitations, and these limitations can be easily and clearly defined. Science has never created anything, Man’s desire to probe into the. un known, between life and nondife, which science is not able to bridge over is insatiable. Everything in nature, and in the universe points to a personality, a Supreme Intelli gence, an infinitely wise God, as the creator of all things, and the source of all life. All tilings were made by Him, according to a definite plan, a perfect design, carried out with infinite wisdom and skill, without any confusion, and without any mis sing links.