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THE BULLETIN OF THE CATHOLIC LAYMEN’S ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA
MAY 21, 1921
THE BULLETIN
The Official Organ of the Catholic Laymen's Association of
• Georgia.
Published semi-monthly by the Publicity Department with
the Approbation of the IU. Rev. Bishops of Raleigh, Charles
ton, Savannah, St. Augustine, Mobile and Natchez.
1409 Lamar Building Augusta, Georgia.
Subscription Price, $2.00 Per Year.
RICHARD REID, Editor.
FOREIGN ADVERTISING REPRESENTATIVE
S. T. Mattingly, Walton, Building Atlanta, Ga.
ASSOCIATION OFFICERS FOR 1926-1927.
P. II. RICE, K.G.S.G., Augusta President
COL. P. H. CALLAHAN, K.S.G., Louisville. Ky.,
ADMIRAL WM. S. BENSON, K.C.S.G., Washington, D. C.,..
BARTLEY J. DOYLE, Philadelphia
Honorary Vice-Presidents
.T. J. IIAVERTY, 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. VIII. MAY 21, 1927. No. 10.
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 Section
1103, Act of October 3, 1917, authorized September 1, 1921.
Member of N. C. W. C. News Service and of the Catholic Press
Association of the United States and Canada.
A Source of Inspiration
It is with a feeling of profound gratitude
that we present in this issue of The Bulletin the
generous approval and blessing with which His
Excellency, Most Rev. Pietro Fumasoni-Biondi,
D. D., Archbishop of Dioclea and Apostolic Dele
gate to the United States, has honored the work
of the Catholic Laymen’s Association of Georgia.
The commendation His Excellency has given
the efforts of our organization to increase good
will by acquainting those not of Ihe-faith with the
real teachings of the Catholic Church inspires the
officers and members of our Association with new
courage and enthusiasm.
No words of ours are adequate to express our
thanks; the Association will endeavor to show
its deep appreciation by striving to the limit of
its ability to make and keep its activities worthy
of His Excellency’s endorsement and blessing.
Ad Multos Annos
If Rt. Rev. Thomas J. Toolen, D.D., were coming to
Mobile totally unknown to the people of the Diocese,
he would nevertheless receive a cordial, wholehearted
welcome. For his coming would mean the advent to
the Diocese of a successor of the Apostles and the
continuity of that stream of grace lhat flows from the
brow of Calvary. It would mean lhat the Diocese,
plunged into grief at the death of the saintly Bishop
Allen, could now rejoice because a new shepherd was
taking a place in that illustrious line dating back to
the first rulers of the Church, the companions of our
Blessed Lord Himself, and because the work of His
Church in that part of the Vineyard, so splendidly done
since the erection of the Diocese a century ago, would
again he under the direction of a Bishop of the
Church.
But in the coming of Bishop Toolen the people
of the Diocese of Mobile have additional reasons for
rejoicing. Me comes with a reputation as a scholar,
an organizer, an executive, a man of winning person
ality and, above all, a man of God, a reputation
won in an Archdiocese where brilliant priests are the
rule and not the exception and where he neverthe
less displayed such zeal and ability as to attract
I lie admiring and ever enthusiastic attention of his
superiors.
lie comes from the Archdiocese that gave the
Diocese of Mobile its two previous Bishops, Bishop
O’Sullivan and Bishop Allen, and the tender affection
in which they are held would alone he sufficient to
insure their successor a warm' welcome as a man and
a priest as well as in his capacity as Bishop. He
com.es- from Mt. St. Mary’s College, of which his im
mediate . predecessor was president a generation ago,
and the Alma Mater also of Bishop Gerow of Mobile’s
neighboring Diocese. And the Archdiocese of Balti
more gave to the South where Bishop Toolen will
labor the Bishops of Raleigh and Savannah and the
late Bishop of Charleston, the South in turn giving
America’s oldest See its present Archbishop, formerly
Bishop of St. Augustine, all of which make Mobile’s
new spiritual leader the more welcome, to his Sec
and the South, warmly welcomed though lie would
have been before.
Bishop Toolen comes to a Catholic people who
make up in zeal what they lack in numbers. 11c will
have as neighbors not of. the fold a hospitable, kindly
citizenry, honest, sincere, mi l fair when they are
convinced of the facts. He will live in a state and
a section which has great things awaiting it in a
nfaterial way in the next generation. And under his
capable direction file Diocese of Mobile, should realize
on its potentialities and prosper spiritually and mate
rially beyond even llic most optimistic hopes and
prayers of the saintly line of prelates who have oc
cupied this historic See.
Welcome to the C. P. A.
This week the Catholic Press Association of the
United States and Canada comes South for its annual
convention for the first time. It comes to Georgia
at the invitation of The Bulletin, and to Savannah in
compliment to the Rt. Rev. Bishop of tile Diocese.
Savannah, Georgia and the South all extend a cordial
welcome to the distinguished visitors.
The members of the Catholic Press Association
have reason to feel very much at home in Georgia.
Catholics are pot very numerous in the Southeast, a
condition for which economic conditions arc res
ponsible, but this section has a Catholic history that
antedates that of any other part of the continent
from Mexico to the frozen wastes of the North. It
was in the neighboring state of Florida that the Holy
.Sacrifice of the Mass was first offered up in’
our country—by the priests of Ponce de Leon’s
party over four hundred years ago. Florida, Georgia,
Alabam'a and Mississippi were visited by De Soto and
his companions, including “twelve priests, eight ec
clesiastics and four religious” on his ill-fated march
to the Mississippi, 1539-1542.
In Georgia, too, a few miles from Savannah, there
was established, shortly alter the settlement of St.
Augustine in 1565, the first of the numerous missions
which flourished for generations along the Georgia
Coast. In 1566 the soil of Georgia was reddened by
the blood of the firsb Jesuit martyr in the Western
Hemisphere, Father Pedro Martinez, one of three mis
sionaries sent to this section by St. Francis Borgia
himself, a victim of the Yeminasses on Cumberland
Island. On the Georgia Coast a generation later four
Franciscans shed their blood for the faith and in 1606,
a year before Jamestown and fourteen before Ply
mouth, the Bishop of Cuba confirmed within the
present confines of Georgia no less than 1,070 Indians..
When the English expelled the peaceful Arcadians
from their happy Canadian homes, many of them
found refuge in Georgia, and they with Maryland
Catholics, French exiles and victims of the San
Domingo uprising came to the state when men were
still living who could recall the Spanish missions.
Thus from 1566 to the present time there has been a
practically continuous line of Catholics in Georgia,
a record surpassing that of any other state or province
in the United States or Canada.
As Catholic journalists the members of the Catho
lic Press Association should also feel that here they
are on congenial soil. The neighboring Diocese and
City of Charleston was the birthplace of the first
Catholie newspaper in the United States, Bishop Eng
land’s Miscellany of a century ago. It was in Augusta
that Father Abram Ryan, the Poet-Priest of the Con
federacy, edited his Banner of the South, printed by
the way, by the same daily newspaper, The Augusta
Chronicle, which now prints The Bulletin. Another
adopted Georgian, James Ryder Randall, the author
of “Maryland, My Maryland,” for years on The Au
gusta Chronicle, adds distinction' to the history of
Catholics in journalism and Catholic journalism in
this section, and two of the most famous Georgia
editors of the last generation, Joel Chandler Harris
and Thomas W. Loyless, embraced the Catholic faith
in their latter days.
And as Catholic Americans the editors should
find themselves in a sympathetic atmosphere. It
was in the Catholic Peter Tondee’s Tavern in Savan
nah that Georgia’s share in the Revolution was largely
planned. A monument to Pulaski, who gave his life
near Savannah for the cause of liberty, adorns one
of the beautiful squares of the convention city.. In
every generation there have- arisen Southern Catholics
to serve their state and country in high places, from
Revolutionary times down to the days of United
States Senator Patrick Walsh and Admiral Win. S.
Benson, U. S. N., commander of naval operations dur
ing the World War, both Georgians.
It is not a nfere perfunctory welcome, therefore,
that is extended the Catholic Press Association by
The Bulletin, the Catholics of the Diocese of Savannah,
(lie city, the state and the South. We rejoice that
the Association, with its membership of brilliant and
influential journalists directing the destinies of the
greatest religious press the world knows or ever has
known, has done this section the honor of selecting
it for its 1927 convention. Wc wish them to meet
the Catholics of this section and judge for themselves
their zeal and their Catholicity; wc wish them to be
come acquainted with our neighbors not of the faith,
neighbors fo'r whpse kindliness, integrity and whole
hearted hospitality wc vouch. And we desire our
neighbors not of the faith to know, through contact
with them, the scholarship, the ability and the high
purpose of the editors of our Catholic papers, their
zeal for the cause of religion and patriotism.
Again we extend a cordial and heartfelt welcome
to the Catholic Press Association of the United Slates
and Canada.
Of the thirty presidents of the United States,
eleven were sworn into office by Catholics. They
were Van Huron, William H. Harrison, Tyler, Polk,
Fillmore, Pierce, Buchanan and Lincoln, who took the
oath of office from Chief Justice Taney, and Wilson
and Harding, who took it from Edward Douglass White.
Yet the Republic still stands.
Dixie Musings
The big news this week is the
Catholic Press Association conven
tion in Savannah, a gathering that
turns the eyes of the American
Catholic world southward. It brings
to Savannah and Georgia one of the
most notable groups of Catholics the
south has ever known; it brings
them to one of the most pleasant
spots and among some of the finest
people under the sun, as we believe
will be demonstrated to the Catnol-
ie editors’ satisfaction before they
again turn their gaze homeward.
It is a decided compliment to this
section to have Savannah selected as
the 1927 convention city. No outer
city in the south, no other city even
twice Savannah's size anywhere has
been ever so honored. Buffalo, St.
Louis and Detroit respectively en
tertained the three previous conven
tions. The selection of Savannah
followed invitations extended for
three years by the Bulletin, supple
mented by those of the mayor of Sa
vannah, and civic and Catholic or
ganizations of the state and city.
The decision to accept the invita
tion was made at a meeting of the
executive committee of the Catholic
Press Association in Chicago last
January. It was an ideal day for
such a decision. The wind roared
across Lake Michigan and the Boule
vard, and piercing cold that drove
the mercury down to ten or fiiteen
degrees below zero laid seige to the
La Salle hotel, where the, meeting
was held. The thought of Georgia’s
balmy breezes and the warmth of
Savannah's welcome could hardly
have been ineffective on a day like
that. And yet we are certain the
invitation would have been given
the compliment of acceptance by the
executive committee on a day as
mild as Georgia June.
“On May 18-20 the Catholic Press
Association will hold its first con
vention in Dixie,” says the Buffalo
Union and Times editorial.y. “Down
in the sunshine of the south the
Catholic editors will have a lew days
of relaxation from the tedious work
of grinding out editorials for the
information of a Catholic public-
Dixie 1 wc are coming!”
And all Dixie is glad to hear it.
The dates of tile convention are May
19-21, hut if Father Ferger comes
down a day early, so much the bet
ter. Father Ferger was host to the
1924 convention in Buffalo, and the
warmth of the welcome made the
editors forget the chill of the air.
In St. Louis a year later the weath
er was as warm as it was cold in
Buffalo. Last year it was a hit cool
in Detroit. In Savannah we promise
the kind of weather you read about
in resort literature, and we base the
promise oil experience with a num
ber of Georgia springtimes.
The entertainment in Savannah is
in the hands of a splendid commit
tee headed by Col. M. J. O Leary. Sa
vannah has a well merited reputa
tion for hospitality, one second to
no other city in the United States,
and there is every indication that she
will outdo herself on this occasion.
The program announced is not the
half of it; the committee will show
the visitors something entirely new
in the way of welcome.
The letter of President Ernest
Camp of the Georgia Press Associa
tion welcoming the Catholic editors
to the state and the acceptance by
Mr. Stovall, of the Savannah Press,
of Mr. Camp’s invitation in his ab
sence in Boston to express this wel
come in person are hut indications
of the cordial reception the atliolic
Rrcss Association will receive.
Some of the editors may put in an
appearance in your city. One writes
he will see us in Augusta, while
another says nothing but unforeseen
circumstances will keep hiim from
Atlanta. We have advised them that
Augusta and Atlanta would be pleas
ed to have them, hut the convention
is in Savannah.
The page of convention pictures
appearing in this issue of the Bul
letin was prepared by the N. C. W. C.
News Service and appears this week
in all the papers subscribing to the
picture service. The Bulletin’s pages
are not large enough to permit the
reproduction of all the pictures to
gether. The arrangement of the
page and the consequent publicity it
gave Savannah and Georgia are due
to the co-operation of Justin Mc
Grath, director of the N. C. W. C.
News Service, Washington, I> C., and
Simon Baldus, Chicago, pres'ident of
the Catholie Press Association.
When the Bulletin appears again
the convention will be history. We
feel that the reciprocal feelings of
the Catholic editors on tlie one
hand and of the people of Georgia,
Catholic and nofi-Catholic, on the
other, will he mutually advantage
ous and ns permanent as they will
have reason to he kindly.—R. R.
A former Klan official, writing
to The Macon Telegraph, labels the
Supreme Kingdom movement grail.
“Sure it’s graft,” he says. ‘^Didn’t
the K.K.K. say the*- were going to
build colleges and schools and hos
pitals and poor houses? Well,
where arc they?”
The Dixie Press
All our life we have heard the
wrangle between Protestants and
Catholics and other forms of relig
ious views and we have yet to see
any good come from it.—Adel, Ga.,
News.
Editor Slvytle has perhaps noticed,
as we have, that most of the people
who do the most fighting about their
religion do the least living for it. It.
is a mark of Christians that they
love one another, as Christ com
manded.
When it comes to church and
stale and church mixing in gov
ernment, there arc a few Pro
testant organizations in Georgia
that will bear watching The
Greensboro, Ga-, Herald-Journal.
It is significant that the loudest
condemnation of the alleged “mix
ing of church and state by Catho
lics” comes from communities where
Catholics are conspicious only by
their absence. Are Protestants in
large Catholic centers less courage
ous Ilian their brethren elsewhere?
Or can it lie that they know Catho
lics better?
It is to be 1 hoped there were no
Catholic priests in the murderous
Mexican gang which killed a hun
dred people in the holding up of a
Mexican train, though the news ac
counts insist that there were.—Cor-
dcle, Ga-, Dispatch.
It’s like Editor Charlie Brown's
real self io say that. We assure him
that his hope is not without foun
dation. Subsequent reports asserted
that most of the killing was done by
Mexican federal soldiers. It is re
ported by news services that nearly
all tiie passengers killed in the train
attack were good Catholics.
The Catholic church is credited (by
the Christan Herald) with a gain of
140,257 (for the past year.) The next
largest gain is credited to the South
ern Baptist church, 65,918. Third
position falls to the Presbyterians,
U. S. A., with 39,130. The Methodist
Episcopal is fourth, with 29,060.—
Valdosta, Ga., Daily Times.
The Catholic directory estimates
the Catholic gain during the year
as 604,574. But even the Herald’s
figures admit lhat the Catholie
church is increasing faster than any
other. How do those who are con
tinually picturing the Catholic
church as tottering to its grave be
cause unable to exist in an enlight
ened age explain this?
The Cordele Dispatch says Pat
Harrison has a better chance of be
ing the democratic nominee than has
A1 Smiith. We jnst can’t figure out
Charlie Brown supporting a man
whose given name is “Pat-”—The Sa
vannah Press.
Mr. Brown is with the editors in
Boston, where hundreds of thousands
of these “East Coast Political Ro
man Catholics” lhat he talks so
much about live. The kind that
elect a Catholfic United States sena
tor—and a Protestant governor and
mayor.
Some of the members of the K. If.
K. state that this organization is
not responsible for the crimes com
mitted in some sections of the state
by men who use masks to conceal
their identity. The fact is indisput
able, however, that such outrages
against law and order have been
committed in sections where that or
der is strongest in numbers. Any
man who will use a mask to conceal
his identity is a coward and a scoun
drel, no matter to what organization
he belongs.—Sandersvillc, Ga., Prog
ress-
The right of trial by jury was won
by hundreds, even thousands of
years of effort and organizations or
individuals set the clock of civiliza
tion hack centuries when they pre
sume to judge and punish a man
without due process of law. 'They
do more violence to orderly govern
ment than any other force. The
klan cannot escape responsibility for
the recent development of mob role.
The Catholic Total Abstinence
Union of America is planning a
national campaign of education
in favpr of total abstinence from
intoxicating liquors. The decis
ion was reached at a recent con
vention of this useful society.
Its president. . in his opening
speech said that the drive was
necessary because with the pas
sage of the Volstead Act so
many persons felt that the fight
against alcoholism was ended.—
The Tampa, Fla., Tribune.
The Catholics Church through its
Total Abstinence Socieites and oth
er organizations with a similar pur
pose is the greatest foe of liquor and
the saloon this country has seen.
An Augusta Catholic surprised
prominent non-Calholics there re
cently ljy telling them that the
Knights of Columbus barred from
'membership Catholics engaged in
the liquor business even when it was
lawful. We know of no non-Catho-
lic organization that took such a
stand. Yet Catholics and liquor are
supposed by some uninformed peo
ple, with little or no acquaintance
with Catholics, to go hand iu UaniL