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Member of the Nations) Catholic Welfare Con* Terence News Service Tittr HuUttxn Official Organ of the Catholic Laymens Association^Georgia “TO BRING ABOUT A FRIENDLIER FEELING AMONG GEORGIANS, IRRESPECTIVE OF CREED" The Only Catbalie Newspaper Between Bal timore and New Orleans TEN CENTS A COPY VOL. 10. NO. 8. AUGUSTA, GA., APRIL 27, 1929. ISSUED semi-monthly $2.00 A YEAR Patriotism of Catholics Lauded by Gen. Malone PERMITS TO SAY MASS REQUIBEOJL MEXICO Otherwise Priests Not Allowed to Officiate Even in Private When Public is Excluded Mexico City.—An order requiring priests to obtain official government “permits” to officiate at Masses from which the public is excluded has just been issued by the secre tariat of Gobernacion. The order is part of a renewed campaign to enforce the law on cults which has been marked by raids on convents and deportation of large numbers of women to the penal colony at Islas Maria, In connection with the deportation of women to the penal island colony, El Universal publishes a report from General Francisco J. Mejica, gover nor of Islas Marias prison, that the prisoners are busy 'constructing ad ditional quarters for the women. He asked that a large supply of sew ing machines and other equipment be sent to the prison. Two more convents were raided by the police last week. An account of a raid in Arts Street, published in. El Universal, said “seventeen sisters were surprised in the act of leading community life.” They were, the paper said, members of the Ca- puchan order who were making a living by teaching cooking and housekeeping. An attempt was made to hide the character of the con vent, it was stated, b'y putting over the door the word “Phala Society.” The second • convent, the report stated, was discovered at 102 Archi tects Street. Here ten Spanish sis ters and one Cuban sister were ar rested. They were charged with conducting a school for the training of housemaids. The Capuchian sisters, it was an nounced, will be "prohibited from leading community life” and the others, who are aliens, will be given eight days in which to leave the country. El Universal also publishes an account of the dismissal of Attorney Bruno Rosas, a special agent of the Department of Justice, as a result of charges that he is little better than a “cave man” and has been “committing scandals against re spectable families.” A group of women made the charges direct to President Fortes Gil. It was shown, says El Universal, that the special agent not only had been guilty of scandalous conduct but also had been in partnership ■with contrabandists. He is under arrest awaiting trial. Morrow Indorsed Saenz Tonr New York.—The mission in the United States of Moise3 Saenz, As sistant Secretary of the Department of Education of Mexico, who is tour ing America to spread propaganda regarding the cultural and informa tive education of his people under the Calles-Portes Gil regime, was in dorsed by Dwight F. Morrow, Amer ican ambassador to Mexico, in a message read at a meeting of the Committee on Cultural Relations ■with Latin Americans, held at the Aldi/le Club here. In his message, read by Hubert C. Herring, executive secretary of the committee, Ambassador Morrow adopted the role of sponsor for Senor Saenz and asked that the members of the committee afford ('Continito' 1 on page 5.) BY REV. DR. WILHELM BARON VON CAriTAINE, Cologne Correspondent N. C. W. C. News Service. Cologne.—Dr. August Kleineidam, ■who left his duties as practicing sur geon and physician for the Board of Health of Silesia to enter the theo logical seminary at Breslau, was or dained recently in the cathedral at Bautzen in Silesia and has just cel ebrated his first Mass in the parish church at Tegel, of which his son, George, is pastor. Dr. Kleineidam is 75 years of age. His son, George, his second son, Walter, and his cou sin, Joseph—the latter two pastors at Kottbus and Deutmanssdorf— served as assistant, deacon and sub deacon. Telegrams of congratulations were received from His Holiness, from Cardinal Gasparri and from the Pa pal Nuncio at Bedin, Msgr. Parcelli. The Kleineidam family has given many priests to the church. One of them was Provost of St. Hedwig’s Enters Carmelite Convent MISS ELIZABETH ANNE CLEM. Daughter of General Clem Enters Convent in Indiana Former Washington Society Girl Becomes Cloistered Nun (By N. C. W. C. News Service.) Indianapolis.—Miss Elizabeth Anne Clem, former Washington society girl and only daughter of Major General John L. Clem, U. S. A., re tired, famed Civil War “Drummer Boy of Chicltamauga, received the habit "Of Our Lady of Mount Car mel at the Carmelite Monastery in New Albany, April 17. Miss Clem, who has taken the name of Sister Anne of the Trinity, has been at the monastery as novice since Au gust. She is 21 years old. Relatives and friends were pres ent at the academy at which the Rt. Rev. Joseph Chartrand, Bishop of Indianapolis, Inu, offieated. Gen eral and Mrs. Clem, who make their home in Washington, have come to Indiana for the ceremony. Miss Clem was educated in a pri vate school in Paris after receiving her elementary education in this country. She has traveled widely in Europe, China and the Philippines. Her father won his sobriquet when as a boy, he served in the Federal Armj and shot down a mounted Confederate colonel during the bat tle of Chickamauga. (Among the nuns at the New Al bany convent of the Carmelites is Miss Anna Lee Elder, oldest daugh ter of Mr. and Mrs. Benedict Elder, of Louisville, Ky., widely known to members of the Georgia Laymen’s Association.—Ed. Bulletin.) 75 Sings of His Son in Berlin and Apostolic Delegate prior to Bishop Joseph Deitmer. This is not the only instance of late ordination in Germany. The former leader of the Center party and president of the German Cath olics’ Assemblies, Prince von Lo- ewenstein, entered the Dominican order and was ordained at the age of 73 years. The former captain of the Karlsruhe life-guard and adju tant of Count Von Haesley, Ever- hard Edler von Groote, who was al so Lord Mayor of Gladbach-Neu- werk, major during the World War and commander of a battalion in Belgium, entered the priesthood and became rector of the Elendskirccche in Cologne, founded by his ancestors. He died there last year. The former professor of the acad emy for young noblemen at Colog- ne-Bedburg, Dr. Barth, joined the Capuchin order at Binges and was ordained last year. His wife and eldest daughter are Benedictine nuns and his son is also a member of the Benedictine, NOW IN UNITED STATES Official Catholic Directory Re ports Increase of 423,709— 580 More Priests New York.—The Catholic popula tion of the United States totals 20,- 112,758, according to the Official Catholic Directory for 1929, publish ed by P. J. Kenedy & Sons, which has just been released for distribu tion. The number of converts re ported during the year was 36,376, or 2,385 more than in the previous year. The increase in total Cath olic population for the year was 423,- 709. A comparison of the General Sum mary of 1929 with that of the pre vious year shows that the clerical personnel is on the increhse. Al though the number of Archbishops is unchanged the number of Bishops has been increased by five. There are 17 Archbishops and 104 Bishops administering the affairs of the Church. The directory lists 18,370 secular priests and 7,400 priests of religious orders, an increase of 352 secular and 228 pri.ests in religious orders, or a total of 560. There are 136 semi naries preparing young men for the priesthood and the number of semi narians is listed at 11,686, an in crease of 254. Educational institutions, other than of a strictly ecclesiastical na ture, shows a gain in 1929. There are now 237 colleges for boys as against 225 in 1928 and 734 acade mies for girls as against 729 last year. The number of parochial schools is inc .’eased by 53 with an increase in attendance of 200,845, making the total number of schools 7,063 and the children attending these schools 2,488,682. The social agencies listed in the general summary evidence increased activity in the fact that there are now 357 orphanages as against 351 in 1928, with 54,360 inmates as against 51,961 in 1928. The 150 Homes for Aged show an increase of three over 1928, and an increase of nine hospitals in the charge of re ligious shows a development in hos pitalization. The number of pages of text mat ter has been decreased only by 12 despite the fact that two sections totaling 41 pages have been trans ferred from the Directory to the Official Catholic Year Book, its com panion volume. In transferring these two sections, “The Statistics of Re ligious Orders” and “Missionary Ac tivities” the publishers have cross- referenced the Directory with the Year Book-in such a way that con sulting either volume is easy. Another new feature in the 1926 edition is the addition of a list of the dioceses according to States. Af ter the name of each state, the names of the dioceses in it are re corded with the pagination for those ecclesiastical divisions. This will facilitate the gathering of Catholic statistics by states and will prove a great help to those for whom the geographical help to those for whom the geographiccal division is more pertinent than the ecclesias tical boundaries. Several dioceses include within their bounds parts of more than one state. These also are listed with the names of the states into which their territory extends. Georgia Catholic School Boys Oratorical Winners Benedictine and Marist Fa thers’ Students Champions of First and Fifth Districts Atlqpta, Ga. — Vincent Cefalu, a sophomore of Marist School, con ducted by the Marist Fathers of At lanta, won the high school oratorical championship of the fifth congress ional district of Georgia in a con test at Fulton High School, Atlan ta, March 29, and at the same time Julian Halligan, of Benedictine School, Savannah, won the first con gressional district championship in a similar elimination contest at Statesboro. Both winners will en ter the state oratorical contest with winners in other congressional dis tricts in Georgia at the State Capi tol in Atlanta, April 27, at which Georgia’s representative in the na tional contest will be selected. The Marist and Benedictine School representatives triumphed over the pick of the high school orators in their respective districts, all of whom spoke on some phase of the Constitution. (This story is appear ing in Catholic papers throughout the United States and Canada this week. —Editor The Bulletin.) Major General Malone (By N. C. W. C. News Service.) Dublin.—A St. Patrick’s Day mes sage written by Marshal Foch dur ing his last illness has just been de livered to the Irish Independent with the approval of the great war hero’s family. The Marshal had promised to write the message and had dic tated it and was revising it when his final relapse occurred. The let ter contains the following passages: “On the day sacred to the nation al Saint of Ireland may an old sol dier who loves the Irish character and appreciates the military virtues of the race, as shown all through the ages, pay his tribute of respect to the achievements of the Irish troops fighting on French soil dur ing the World War? "The associations between your people and the French nation are of long standing, and all through our history we have had Irish soldiers of distinction in our service, and more than once have we owed much [to the traditional valour of the Irish New Military Commander of Philippines Addresses Atlanta C. L. A.—R. A. MagiII Re- Elected President - (Special to The Bulletin. Atlanta, Ga.—“No oath I ever took, including those from the grade of second lieutenant up to and in cluding the grade of major general, ever bound me by more solemn ties to the service of my God and my country than the obligation which I took as a Fourth Degree member of the Knights of Columbus,” declared Major General Paul B. Malone, U. S. A., commander of the Sixth Corps Area, Chicago, in an address before the Atlanta branch of the Catholic Laymen’s Association of Georgia April 10, his last scheduled public speech before leaving for the Philip pine Islands to assume his new post as military commander there. Gen. Malone, who is known as the "silver-tongued orator of the United States Army,” again demonstrated his right to that title by his elo quent and inspiring address, deliv ered to a large audience in the spa cious hall of the Columbus Club. The occasion was the annual meeting of the Atlanta Laymen’s Assocciation, and General Malone paid a glowing tribute to the work that the Cath olics of Georgia are doing through their Association “to bring about a friendlier feeling among Georgians irrespective of creed.” fighting on our side, as at Fonte- noy and other eighteen century bat tles. Even today the military ar chives of France contain much evi dence of the part played by Irish genius and Irish valor in our mili tary history. “There were moments in the war on the western front when your sol diers were set by necessity to tasks that seemed beyond human attain ment, but more than once did they achieve the seemingly impossible, adding new luster to your country’3 roll of fame. “It had been my hope that one day I should be able to visit Ire land to move amid the scenes and among the people so loved of your heroic soldiers, but at the moment it seems that fate is going to deny me that pleasure; but if I cannot be with you in body on that day of your Saint, I can at least be with you in spirit and honor the memory of your heroic deed, and wish a great fu ture to the Irish nation,” , Physician Ordained at First Mass in Church Catholic Press Association Meets in Cincinnati in May Catholic Literary Awards Foundation Prizes to Be Awarded at Convention (By N. C. W. C. News Service.) Chicago.—Leaders of the Catholic Press will discuss practical problems confronting it, in both the newspa per and magazine fields; reports of progress achieved and of the vari ous bureaus’ accomplishments of the last year will be given, and the importance of Catholic publications will be placed before the public at an open meeting and banquet, at the nineteenth annual convention of the Catholic Press Association at Cin cinnati, May 16, 17 and 18. The general program for the convention has just been announced here by Mr, Joseph H. Meier, publisher of The Catholic Press Directory and Secre tary of the Assocciation. As the final event, the prizes will be awarded in the seven contests for literary excellence under the Cath olic Literary Awards Foundation created and conducted by the As sociation. The exact program for The ban quet and public meeting which will be held Friday evening, May 17, has not as yet been completed. Details concerning this event, which is ex pected to be one of the outstanding parts of the program, will be an nounced later. He referred particularly to the Association’s publicationThe Bul letin, which he said he rated sec ond to no religious publication in the country with which he is familiar in its Christian spirit of charity, fidelity to principle and its news interest and he like wise commended the spirit of good will and understanding which he said he noted in all the Laymen’s Association’s ac tivities. Richard A. Magill, president of th<? local branch of the Catholic Lay men’s Association, presided at th« meeting, and General Malone was introduced by the first vice-presi dent of the state organization, J. J. Haverty, of Atlanta, who recalled the General’s distinguished career as a military leader in various parts of the world, and especially as briga dier general in France, where his gallantry in acuon won for him the highest honors from two govern ments. A report on the work of the state office during the past year was made by Richard Reid, publicity di rector, of Augusta. Capt. P. H. Rice, K. C. S. G., who was schedul ed to make his report as state presi dent, was unable to attend because of a conflicting meeting of the su preme board of directors of the Knights of Columbus. Mr. Magill was re-elected presi dent of the local branch during the course of the meeting, and other officers were named as follows! Vice-presidents, T. C. Hamilton, Im maculate Conception Church; J. Charles Gavan, Sacred Heart Church; J. A. Masseling, St. Antho ny's Church; secretary, John G« (Continued on Page 5) Message to Ireland Was One of Last Letters Marshal Foch Wrote