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MAY 31, 1929
THE BULLETIN OF THE CATHOLIC LAYMEN'S ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA
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Secretary Wilbur Opposes Federal Education Department
Cabinet Member
Centralization
Declares
Dangerous
Secretary of Interior Tells American Council of Educa
tion That He Regards St andardization in Education
as Distinct Menace and B low at States’ Self-Respect
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(By N. C. W. C. News Service.)
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Definite dec
laration that a Federal Department of
Education is opposed by the Hoover
administration was made by Secre
tary of the Interior Ray Lyman Wil
bur in an address at the annual meet
ing- of the American Council on Edu
cation, held at the National Research
Council here. An adequate position
for education within one of the es
tablished departments, of the govern
ment and with sufficient financial
support for its research, survey and
other work is all that is needed, Sec
retary Wilbur said.
The .educational functions of the
government, Secretary Wilbur said,
were to develop methods, ideals and
procedures. A Department of Edu
cation similar to other departments
of the government, he emphasized, is
oot required.
“I have often wished,” Secretary
Wilbur said, ‘‘that I might have had
the spleasure of sitting in at the dis
cussions when the basic principles
underlying the organization of the
United States of America were being
thought out loud by men like Thomas
Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin. It
seems to me that the wisest and
shrewdest thing that was done was
to encourage universal public educa
tion as the basis upon which citizen
ship should rest. The schoolhouse
and the church have been the earliest
community enterprise throughout the
history of our gradual conquest of a
great continent. They came just as
soon as sustenance and defense had
been mastered. In themselves, they
were most significant because they
brought local self-government and
self-control into play.
♦‘There has been a unique distribu
tion of the taxing power so that the
majority of the expenditures for tax
ation have been raised and spent in
the local districts and only a modest
percentage outside of those for war
and its after effects has come from
the central government in Washing
ton. This, together with the organ
ization of the State governments, has
permitted of a wide range of develop
ment in the public schools. Fortunate
ly, too, there were no national uni
verities and the State universities fol
lowed a prolonged period of privately
operated and later privately endowed
institutions of higher learning. When
the State universities appeared they
were under the constant stimulation
of private and independent institu
tions of equal rank. This kept the
hand of centralized government large
ly off of the school teacher and the
school room.
"Of course, there have been mark
ed inadequacies in districts without
a proper sense of self-government,
without natural organizing power, and
without financial strength. Some ol
those who have looked over our edu
cational system have noticed only
these dark spots and have thought
that a national mechanism should be
devised that would be nation-wide in
scope and would bring these w r eaker
or dark spots at least up to the aver
age level of the country. Correction
of abuses is a poor method of de
veloping proper administration. It
seems to me that there is a distinct
menace in the centralization in the
national government of any large
educational scheme with extensive
financial resources available. Abnor
mal power to mould and standardize
and crystallize education which would
go with the dollars, ( would be more
damaging to local government, local
aspiration and self-respect, and to
State government and State self-re
spect than any assistance that might
come from the funds.
“We can not rise higher than our
source. That source in government
with us is local. The family and
the local community must be the
places where citizenship is built and
where the fiber of the nation is
strengthened and its forces recruited.
Too much help from afar is harmful
to the initiative and self-reliance re
quisite for character in a community.
“The place of the national govern
ment is not that of supplying funds
in large amounts for carrying on the
administrative functions of education
in the communities, but to develop
methods, ideals and procedures, and
to present them, to be taken on their
merits. The national government, too,
can give widespread information on
procedures, can report on what is act
ually going on in different parts of
the country and in the world, and can
unify to some extent .the objects of
those in the field of education inso
far as unification is desirable. There
is a distinct place for this sort of
thing in the administrative side of
the natonal government, but it shodJd
not be recognized as an administra
tive position with large funds at its
disposal.
“A Department of Education simi
lar to the other departments of the
government, Is not required. An
adequate position for education with
in a department and with sufficient
financial support for its research, sur
vey and other work, is all that is
l needed.
“Great gains are possible in our
whole educational scheme through na
tional leadership provided in this way.
Education is preparation for the fu
ture and there must be constant
change to keep in step with the ad
vances made. Our conceptions re
garding the mental make-up of chil
dren are shifting and the require
ments of life are changing with a
civilzation which is being revamped
by the practical applications of sci
ence and invention. The object of
those of us who seek the greatest
possible advantages for all from edu
cation can, it seems to me, be accom
plished without disturbing the initia
tive and responsibilty of local end
State units of government.”
Fr. Sdiwitalla Heads
Hospital Association
Re-elected at Catholic Medi
cal Convention in Chicago
(By N. C. W. C. News Serv’. :■>.)
CHICAGO—The Rev. Alphonse
M. Schwitalla, S. J., dean of the
School of Medicine of St. Louis
University, St. Louis, Mo., was re
flected president of the Catholic
Hospital Association of the United
States and Canada at its four
teenth annual convention which
closed here May tenth.
Other officers elected are:
The Rev. Maurice Griffin of
Cleveland, Ohio, vice-president, and
I Sister M. Irene, secretary-treasurer.
Sister Helen Jarrell of St. Ber
nard’s Hospital, Chicago; Sister
M. Rose of Mercy Hospital, Pitts
burg, Pa.; Sister M. Leonissa of
St. Elizabeth’s Hospital, LaFayette,
Ind-; Mother Allaire of the Grey
Nunnery, Montreal, Canada; Sis
ter M. Therese of Mercy Hospital.
Chicago; and Mother Marie of the
Immaculate Conception of St.
Mary’s Hospital, Green Bay, Wis.,
were elected members of the execu
tjve board of directors.
An important resolution dealing
’with the purposes of hospitals
adopted by the convention reads as
follows:
’’While this association views
with approval and sympathy the
efforts now being made for the
reduction of hospital and medical
costs, and the new emphasis upon
the social functions of the hospital,
it still hereby re-affirms the funda
mental principle that in all such
efforts the primary consideration
must even remain the physical ana
spiritual good of the patient.”
Fr. Clarkson Speaks at
Graduation Exercises
| (Special to The Bulletin)
Macon, Ga.—Rev. Felix J. Clark
son, S. J., pastor of St. Joseph’s
Church, delivered the commence
ment address at the recent grad
uation exercises of the local City
Hospital Training School for
Nurses.
PAUL HAID, ’04, HEADS
N. Y. BELMONT ALUMNI
(Special to The Bulletin)
BELMONT, N. C. — Paul Haid,
04, of the Continental Fire Insur
ance Company, New York, and
nephew of the late Bishop Haid,
was elected president of the Bel
mont Abbey New York Alumni As
sociation at a recent dinner at the
Biltmoro there. The meeting was
addressed by Rt. Rev. Vincent Tay
lor, O. S. B., D. D., Abbot-Ordinary
of Belmont, and was the largest the
New York body has ever held.
Mother’s Day was observed here
with a special Mass in the grotto
of Our Lady of Lourdes.
Rev. F. Norbert McGowan, O. S.
B., has been appointed dean of dis
cipline.
Stanley Fragge, of Asheville, is
the new president of the Piedmont
Club, Paul Campbell is vice-presi
dent. Edward Mansfield, secretary
and Carl Fuchs, treasurer.
“The Haunted House” was pre
sented at the Abbey early in May
by the Piedmont Players of the
Abbey and was one of the greatest
triumphs ever staged here.. Fr.
Cuthbert Alien, O, S. B., was di
rector; in addition to the student
body, those present at the perform
ance included the seniors of Bel
mont, Charlotte, Mt. Holley and
Gastonia High schools and Sacred
Heart Academy.
Rev. Louis Haas. O. S. B., pre
fect of studies at St. Vincent
Archabbey, Beaty, Pa., and a
brother of Rev. Bernard Haas. O.
5. B., was a recent visitor here.
Bishop Gerow Addresses
Alumnae of Mississippi
(Special to The Bulletin)
GULRPORT, Miss.—A banquet
at which the principal address was
delivered by Rt. Rev. Richard O
Gerow,, D. D„ Bishop of Natchez,
followed by a concert closed the
tenth annual convention of the In
ternational Federated Catholic
Alumnae here Vicksburg was
selected as the meeting place for
next year. Miss Jane Lang, Pass
Christian, is president, elected last
year for a two-year term. Ten
cities of Mississippi in which con
vents of the Sisters of Mercy are
located were represented by more
than CO delegates. Rev. H. A
Spengler, pastor of St. John’s
Church, delivered the sermon at
the opening Mass.
NEWS BRIEFS
Columnist Praises Way
Georgia Catholics Meet
Objections to Church
Answering an unsigned, anti-
Catholic communication to The
Macon Telegraph criticizing the
“Struts ahd Frets” department con
ducted by Ben B. Johnston, Mr.
Johnston writes in the May 12
issue:
“It amazes a large crowd, says
Nameless, to ponder the hold they
have on the press.
“This sentence contains a de
plorable lapse of grammar. The
pronoun ’they’ has no antecedent.
However, I assume that Nameless
means to say the hold the Katho-
lics have on the press.
"I a«r going to do Nameless a
favor. I am going to tell him how
the Catholics got such a hold on the
press as he thinks they have.
“They got it by intelligent hand
ling of controversial matters in the
neutral press—that is, in the papers
that are neither violently anti-
Catholics or radically anti-Protest
ant. They got i^ by abandoning
the practice of calling their critics
foul names and making threats.
They got it by answering rabid op
ponents calmly and with good hu
mor. They got it by stopping as
far as possible anonymous and un
authorized Vox Popping from the
Catholic side. There is, in this
state, a man whose duty it is to
answer criticisms of the Catholic
church which appear in Georgia
newspapers, especially criticisms
which grow out of a misunder
standing of Catholic creed and
practice. His replies to such criti
cisms are always intelligent and
always temperate. He always signs
his name. I assume that there are
others like him in other states.
"If the Katholics have a hold on
the press, Nameless, that . Is how
they got it. Right or wrong, they
have learned that intelligence is
more effective in argument than
violent language and that an
authorized spokesman gets a bet
ter hearing than an anonymous
howler.
“Really, Nameless, if your con
science is reasonably clear, it re
quires no more courage to conduct
your affairs in the open than it
does to skulk, and it’s Immensely
more effective. You ought to know
this, for I threw away several ol
•your postcards before this one
broke into print.”
Fake Agents Target at
C, P. A. Convention
Catholic Editors Taking’
Vigorous Action Against
Them to Clean Up Field
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
Cincinnati.—Th/e plague of the
dishonest subscription agent for
Catholic publications was dealt a
severe blow in the last year and
bids fair to be wiped out summar
ily in the near future, it was as
sured on the opening day here of
the Nineteenth Annual Convention
of the Catholic Press Association.
Three definite indications were
given that the day of the dishonest
agent is passing rapidly; first, the
delegates were told of a militant
and effective year’s campaigning by
the association to this end, involv
ing the elimination of no fewer than
61 undesirable agents and the pros
ecution and conviction of several.
Second, numerous editors applaud
ed the campaign and pledged con
tinued support. Third, editors of
three important Catholic magazines
which heretofore have not cooper
ated financially in the association’s
effort annouunced from the floor
that hereafter their publications
will do so.
With these optimistio signs, it
was predicted that soon parish
priests and laity may feel they
have thorough protection against
fraud and are in a position to wel
come canvassers for Catholic pub
lications. Considerable progress al
ready has been made in thus re
viving confidence, it was reported. .
Father Francis P. LeBuffe, S, J.,
business manager of America, New
York, and chairman of the associa
tion’s circulation committee, re
ported on the year’s activities. Sev
enteen additional publications not
■ employing professional agents have
joined the campaign, besides sev
eral which do use such agents, he
told the convention.
In the last year, through the
committee's central office in charge
of C. J. Lillig, 459 investigations
were made, an increase of 153 over
last year, with resultant elimina
tion of the 61 undesirables. The
committee now has listed 543 sales
men who are either irregular or
delinquent, and against whom it is
protecting the Catholic public and
editors. As a result of these ac
tivities, said Father LeBuffe, dis
honest agents Ifave developed a
wholesome fear.
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grimage of 250 people from his
Archdiocese.
SEATTLE, Wash.—Robert Cor-
lcery, a student at Gonzagra High
School, Spokane, has just won the
oratorical championship for high
schools in the State of Washing
ton.
BROCKTON COUNCIL TABLES
ANTI-HEFLIN ORDER
BROCKTON, Mass.—City Coun
cil here has tabled an order sug
gesting that the city marshal de
termine whether Senator Heflin
had not broken the Sunday laws of
the state .when he lectured here
March 17. The order provided that
should it be shown that Senator
Heflin spoke without a permit a
warrant for his arrest should be is
sued. It is this meeting and the dis
turbances occasioned by it that
have been the subject of the Ala
baman's continuous speeches in the
Senate.
SAN FRANCISCO—Three of the
quadruplets born to Mrs. Veto
Mauro at St. Mary Help Hospital
here early in May survive. The sur
vivors are two girls and a boy and
are gaining in weight and strength.
The girl, five pounds and fifteen
ounces at birth, was the largest.
AUSTIN. Texas—Tom Kilday,
star fullback on the St. Edwards
University eleven, who will receiye
his Bachelor of Arts degree in
June, has received an appointment
as a cadet at West Point from Con
gressman James P. Buchanan, and
expects to report at West Point
July 1.
NATIVE OF BROOKLYN
PRELATE IN CHINA
NEW YORK, N. Y.—Rt. Rev.
Msgr. Francis X. Ford, A. F. M., a
native of Brooklyn and an alumnus
of Cathedral College here, and the
first student to enter the newly
LOYOLA PRESENTED
$300,000 LIBRARY
BY E. A. CUDAHY
(By N. C. W. C. News Service.)
CHICAGO—The gift of a
library building to Loyola Uni
versity, here, by E. A. Cudahy
has just been announced by the
Rev. Robert M. Kelly, S. J.,
president. The building to be
erected on the lake shore camp
us of the university, will cost
$300,000 and will be a memorial
to Mr. Cudahy’s wife.
Designed by A. N. Rebori,
architect, the library will be
of imposing appearance, its
lines being classic with evi
dence of Spanish influence. The
exterior walks will be of lime
stone.
Work on the library builc.ng
will start within a month.
Mr. Cudahy, the donor, is
chairman of the board of direc
tors of the Cudahj* Packing
Company. ^
Pope Honors Couple on
Golden Anniversary
Parents of Rev. Charles C.
Conaty Fifty Years
Married .
(By. N. C. W. C. News Service)
LOS ANGELES.—A solemn high
Mass of Thanksgiving, celebrated
by their son the Very Rev. Msgr.
Francis J. Conaty, and personal
blessings from Pope Pius XI, cabled
from Rome, were among the honors
accorded Air, and Airs. Francis P.
Conaty here early in Alay, upon
the celebration of their golden wed
ding anniversary.
The Rt. Rev. John J. Cantwell,
Bishop of Los Angeles, presided at
the Alass and more than a hundred
monsignori and priests were in at
tendance. Another son of the
jubilarians, the Rev. Charles C.
Conaty, assisted his brother at the
Alass as deacon and the Rev. Wil
liam E. Cort, a cousin was sub
deacon. Air. and Airs. Francis P.
Conaty were married at Taunton,
Mass., Alay 17, 1879 by Air. Conaty's
brother, the late Bishop Thomas
James Conaty of Los Angeles.
(Father Charles C. Conaty was a
chaplain at Camp Hancock, Au
gusta, during the war, has contri
buted to The Bulletin frequently,
and has visited Georgia often and
is well known here, as are his par
ents.—Ed. The Bulletin.)
Father Fay, C. P., Gives
South Georgia Missions
ALBANY, Ga.—Rev. Richard Fay,
C. P., of the Passionlst Fathers,
Union City, N. J., and widely
known missionary, conducted mis
sions early in May in the South
founded Alaryknoll semiqary in
1912, has been named the first Pre
fect Apostolic of the Alaryknoll
Kaying Alission in Northeastern
Kwangtung Province, South China.
Monsignor Ford was ordained in
1917, and has Since labored in
China.
SYRACUSE, N. Y—At the invi
tation of the West Groton Congre
gational Church and with the ap
proval of Bishop O'Hern, of Roch
ester, Rev. Thomas AI. O’Connor,
pastor at West Groton, has deliv
ered a series of lectures in th«
community hall here on the princi
pal articles of doctrine of the Cath
olic Church. Four hundred men and
women attended the lectures.
BOSTON, Alass.—Boston College
will open a school of law in Sep
tember, Very Rev. James H, Dolan,
S. J., president, has announced.
Rev. John B. Creeden, S. J., for
mer president of Georgetown Uni
versity, will be regent and Dennis
A. Dooley, dean. Two years of work
in an approved college will be a
requirement for admission.
BROTHER LEO OFFERED
POST AT CATHOLIC U.
SAN FRANCISCO—Brother Leo,
of St. Alary’s College, noted schol
ar, writer and lecturer, has been
offered the post of head of the
English Department at the Catho
lic University of America, Wash
ington. D. C., but has not been able
to accept because of the expansion
plans at St. Alary’s. Ten years ago
St. Alary’s College, which is con
ducted by the Christian Brothers,
had 60 students; now it has COO,
enrolled in its new $3,000,000 col
lege.
ST. MARY'S, Kans— St. Mary’*
College here, conducted by the
Jesuit Fathers, loses Steve
O’Rourke, its baseball coach, who
will retire at the end of the pres
ent scholastic year. St. Alary's has
annexed the Kansas College Con
ference baseball title every year
since Coach O’Rourke came here _
15 years ag<c
Bishop Confirms 130 in
Savannah Cathedral
(Special to The Bulle-tin)
SAVANNAH, Ga.—Rt. Rev. AD-
chael J. Keyes, D. D„ Bishop of
Savannah,’confirmed a class of 100
children and thirty adults at the
Cathedral Pentecost Sunday; the
adults came from Cathedral, St.
Patrick's and Sacred Heart parish
es.
Rev. Herman Diernel, since his
ordination a yeaj- ago assigned to
the Cathedra], has been named as
sistant to Very Rev.. T. A. Foley,
V. G., pastor of Blessed Sacrament
Church, and he is succeeded at the
Cathedral by Rev. John Kennedy.
The orphans from St. Alary’s were
guests of Air. ahd Airs. John F.
Gleason and Air. and Mrs. Charles
Hogan at their Pine Harbor sum
mer home fifty miles from Savan
nah; they were carried to Pine
Harbor in a special bus.
St. Vincent’s P.-T. A. entertain
ed with a successful dance at Bar
bee’s May 23; the Georgia Five fur
nished music.
The Ladies Auxiliary, A. O. H.,
gave an all-day party at Eenedic-
tine camp Alay 28, and conducted
a card party May 24 for the bene
fit of the tornado sufferers.
The annual picnic for the grad
uates of Sacred Heart School, spon
sored by the school P.-T. A., was
held Alay 28, with Airs. N. A. Ruane
as chairman.
Alay processions were held in all
the parishes of the city during the
month, and were even more beau
tiful than usual.
The pupils of Sacred Heart and
Marist Schools presented a splen
did vaudeville and minstrel show at
the Alunicipal Auditorium Alay 17;
it was a gratifying success.
Rev. Fr. Stanislaus, O. S. B., was
the speaker at the May meeting
of the Eucharistic League of Sacred
Heart Church.
Rev. T. J. Knox, of the Cathedral,
addressed the Alay meeting of the
Catholic Woman’s Club. There will
be no election of officers this year,
as they were elected last year for
two years.
The funeral of Sergt. James
Leonard, Confederate veteran and
retired police officer, was held early
in Alay from Sacred Heart Church,
with interment in fcatholic Ceme
tery. Flags of the police depart
ment and in the Confederate Me
morial Hall were at half mast dur
ing the funeral.
Georgia missions, of which Rev.
Leo Al. Keenan, is pastor. The
missions were splendidly attended
by non-Catholics as well as Cath
olics, many coming great distances
for the services. At Bainbridge and
Fitzgerald Father Fay was assist
ed by Rev. Thomas A. Brennan, as
sistant to Father Keenan, and in
charge of these missions.