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AUGUSTA, GA., JUNE 15, 1929
ISSUED SEMI-MONTHLY—$2.00 A YEAR
Mexican Archbishop Named
Apostolic Delegate There
News Briefs
WASHINGTON, D, C. — Very
Rev. Ignatius Smith, O. P., prior
of the .Dominican House of Studies,
at the Catholic University, has
completed his six-year term in that
position, and has been succeeded
by Very Rev. Stephen McDermott,
O. P., of New York. Father Smith
was formerly national director of
the Holy Name Society; Father
McDermott was until recently pas
tor of St. Catherine of Sienna
Church, New York.
PHILADELPHIA, Pa.—St. Jo
seph's College of the Jesuit Fathers
here is erecting a reinforced con
crete stadium with a seating ca
pacity of 5,000.
LEAGUE OF SACRED HEART
PILGRIMAGE TO ROME
NEW YORK—Rev. John Corbett,
S, J., in a radio talk over WLWL
recently announced a Roman pil
grimage of the League of the Sa
cred Heart, leaving New York On
the Leviathan, and then return
ing on the President Roosevelt
July 8. Rev. Charles J. Mullally, S.
J„ national director, will lead the
pilgrims.
ST. LOUIS—Rev. Henry Huh-
man, pastor of St. Henry’s Church,
known here as the "flying priest"
because of Kls skill in aviation, died
here early in May. Lindbergh in
structed Father Hulmann before
his trans-Atlantic flight, and on
President Cosgrave and
Eammon de Valera to
March in Procession
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
DUBLIN—In the great Eucharis
tic Procession to be held here on
Sunday, June 23, as the crowning
event of the exercises marking the
Centenary of Catholic Emancipa
tion, President Cosgrave and Eam
mon De Valera will walk side by
side, bearing the canopy under
which will be carried the. Blessed
Sacrament.
Both political leaders, in accept
ing the invitation of Archbishop
Harty and the Catholic Truth So
ciety to serve as canopy-bearers,
have made it clear that in acting
together in this capacity, they in
tend to indicate no political rap-
proehment or truce ,but to pay
homage as Catholics to their Cre
ator.
All the Catholic Senators and
Deputies in the Oireachtas have re
ceived invitations to take part in
the procession, and it is understood
that all of them, including the Exe
cutive Ministers, have arranged to
do so.
Should the vacant See of Down
and Connor be filled in time to en
able the Bishop-elect thereof to
take part, it will bring the number
of Archbishops and Bishops from
Ireland participating up to 28.
It is confidently hoped that the
Most Rev. Michael J. Curley, Arch
bishop of Baltimore, will be able to
come to Ireland for the ceremonies,
and that other American and Eng
lish Bishops, not yet in to^uch with
the Catholic Truth Society,, will al
so attend.
The first steps in building the
temporary altar and canopy for the
celebration of Mass in the fifteen
acres, Phoenix Park, have been be
gun.
| (By N. C. W. C. News Service.)
’ GRAND FORKS, N. D—Com
peting against 113 other high
schools in North Dakota, the Aca
demy of St. James of Grand Forks,
conducted by the Sisters of St. Jo
seph, won the Lions’ Club Sweep-
stakes trophy for general scholas
tic excellence at the Annual State
High School Contests held at the
University of North Dakota, May
16, 17 and 18.
St. James took five first places
and three thrid places in the va
rious events. First place was
awarded the St. James Junior
Playmakers for their presentation
of “The Travellers’’ by Booth Tar-
kington. The Wild Rose, Academy
magazine, was judged the best
among high school publications
with a rating of 98.G per cent.
This same magazine won first prize
among all magazines, newspapers
and annuals at the Northern Inter-
Scholastic Press Association con
test held last November.
1 Other first places won by St.
James at the university contests
were': Girls declamation, won by
Constance Gerszewski; in music,
Mexico Inventories
Church Property
Many Valuable Paintings and
Other Articles Reported
Missing Through Looting
(By N. C, W. C. News Service)
MEXICO CITY—The Federal
Government has issued orders
that an inventory be' made of
all property pertaining to the
Catholic Church in Mexico and
that all churches be turned
over to a general committee of
the faithful. This general com
mittee, it was announced, will
appoint sub-committees to have
care of the church property and
the government will hold the
members of these sub-commit
tees responsible for the loss of
anything from the interior of
the churches and for the Dis
appearance of any article ap
pearing in the inventory.
In his statement of May 8, Presi-
Recognition of Russia
Opposed by Fr. Walsh
Georgetown Vice-President,
Authority on Soviet Condi
tions, Addresses D. A. R.
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
WASHINGTON.—Speaking to the
thirty-eighth Continental Congress
of the Daughters of the American
Revolution here, the Rev. Dr. Ed
mund A. Walsh, S. J., vice presi
dent of Georgetown University and
a widely recognized authority on
Russia, declared that the United
States government should withhold
recognition from the soviet until
it "ceases its unwarranted attacks
on the existing institutions of this
country.”
Urging the Daughters of the
American Revolution to continue
their fight against communism,
Father Walsh took sharp issue with
Senator Borah on his resolution
providing for recognition by this
country of the soviet government.
The delegates manifested a keen
interest in the distinguished priest’s
description of conditions he found
in Russia, and his quotations from
soviet documents providing for the
spread of soviet propaganda. He
painted for the delegates a strik
ing contrast between the second
Russian revolution and the revolu
tion of the American colonists.
the piano duo, won by Regina
Mulloy and Louise Malo; musician-
ship contest, which includes a writ
ten examination in theory, harmony
and history of music This also
was won by Regina Mulloy, with
third place in th4 same event going
to Honora O’Connor, another St-
.Tames student. Third place was
awarded the St. James Glee Club
in the mixed chorus event and to
Louise Maio for sight reading in
accompaniment. Prizes for these
victories are silver loving cups and
gold medals for individual achive-
ment.
Earlier in the year the Academy
of St. James won recognition in a
contest sponsored by the American
Chemical Society. An essay on
"The Relation of Chemistry to the
Modern Home,’’ written by Mar
garet Ross of St. James, was judged
the best on this £opic for North
Dakota. The prize was $20 in gold
and the right to enter the essay in
the national contest. The national
prize, which 'will be awarded later,
is a four-year scholarship to any
university the winner may desig
nate.
President Gil Has Invited
Monsignor Ruiz to Discuss
Subject With Him
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PRELATES RE-ENTER
MEXICO
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
LAREDO, Tex.—The Most
Rev. Leopoldo Ruizy Flores,
newly appointed Apostolic
Delegates to Mexico, and the
Rt. Rev. Pascual Diaz, Bishop
of Tabasco, crossed the in
ternational border into their
native land June 8. Arch
bishop Ruiz is on his way to
confer with Provisional
President Emilio Portes Gil
relative to a settlement of
the religious problem which
for nearly three years has
kept the nation in a state of
unrest.
The two prelates v/ere ex
pelled from Mexico in April,
1927, Archbishop Ruiz being
deported to the United States
with the late Archbishop
Moray del Rio, Primate of
Mexico. Bishop Diaz, then
secretary of the Mexican
Hierarchy, was taken by the
police through the brush tp
the Guatemalan border. For
several days nothing was
heard from either the Bishop
or his escort and great con
cern was felt. It developed
that his entry into Guatemala
was halted by the fact that
he is a member of the So
ciety of Jesus.
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(By N. C. W. C. News Service.)
.WASHINGTON.— The appoint
ment of the Most Rev. Leopoldo
Ruizy 1-lores. Archbishop of More
lia, as Apostolic Delegate in Mexico,
has been confirmed.
The appointment of Archbishop
Ruiz who has been received with
enthusiasm by the other members
of the Mexican Hierarchy who were
confidentially informed of his se
lection some days ago.
Archbishop Ruiz in Washington
said of the appointment: “In view
of the desire for a termination of
the unfortunate conflict, which for
more than two years has consti
tuted a major problem in Mexico—
a desire which is shared by all
parties in Mexico—there is every
reason to hope that the coming ef
forts will be successful in working
out a reconciliation which will per
mit of the early reopening of the
Churches and the resumption of
public worship throughout Mexico.”
This inventory order, coming as it
does immediately after the exchange
of declarations between President
Portes Gil and Archbishop Ruiz
Flores looking toward a settlement
of the religious problem in Mexico,
is considered particularly signifi
cant since it is generally felt
in Mexico City that a conference
between representatives of the
Church and State soon will be
held.
The church inventory order is the
result of frequent robberies which
have been committed in the
churches since 1926, in which year
the government took possession of
the churches. Many valuable paint
ings and other religious articles
have disappeared since the edifices,
have been beyond control of church
authorities.
Deputies Expelled
Forty-twomembers of the Cham
ber of Deputies were expelled from
that body at a session held Mon
day night and it was stated that
they will face charges of complicity
in the recent rebellion. The ma
jority of them had favored the
presidential candidacy of Gilberto
Valenzuela.
VILLAN0VA HONOR GOES
TO U. OF P. SCIENTIST
Mendel Medal Awarded to
Dr. John A. Kolmer
(By N. C. W. C. News Service.)
VILLANOVA, Pa.— Villanova
College has honored Dr. John A.
Kolmer, director of the laboratories
of the Graduated School of Medi
cine at the University of Penn
sylvania, international authority on
the blood and considered by the
medical profession to be one of the
most eminent immunologists in
America, in conferring upon, him
the Mendel Medal.
The presentation of the medal by
the Rev. J. H. Griffin, O. S. A.,
president of the college, marked
the occasion of the formal dedica
tion of Mendel Hall which is to
house Villanova’s School of Science.
The dedication exercises were pre
sided over by Cardinal Dougherty.
The awards of the Mendal Medal
marks the inauguration by Vil
lanova of an annual presentation
to eminent Catholics who have
achieved distinction in the field of
science.
CATHOLIC DIPLOMAT
Sir Esme Howard, British
Ambassador to the United
States and dean of the diplo
matic corps at Washington,
who recently caused much com
ment i n foreign offices
throughout the world and in
the press by his offer to forego
the right common to diplomatic
representatives in the United
States to import liquor, is a
Catholic ond a member of one
of the oldest Catholic families
In England.
Another U.S. Missionary
Is Murdered in China
Body of Thirty-Two Year-
Old Priest Found in Bandit-
Infested Territory
By Rev. Dr. Wilhelm Baron von
Capitaine
(Cologne Correspondent, N. C. W«
C. News Service)
COLOGNE.—The Mission House
of the Sacred Heart of Jesus at
Hiltrup, near Muenster, has just re
ceived word of the murder in China
of Father Joseph Winkelmann M.
S. C., whose body has been found
with those of three other mission
aries between Kweichow and
Hunan.
Father Winkelmann has been
missing since the end of November
Leaving his station at Shihtsien he
went to Shanghai to confer with his
provincial and conduct three
younger missionaries to Kweichow.
They were evidently killed by bon-
dits. Father Kinkelmann was
thirty-two years of age.
The German missions in China
are said to be in a pitiful state.
Many of the stations have been
plundered and the missionaries*
taken prisoner and held for ransom.
A number have been killed.
Fake “Interview” With Foch
Exposed by French Journalist
1,555 Jurisdictions
in Catholic Directory
Paris Annual Places Cath
olic Population of World at
4,000,000
By M. MASSIANI
(Paris Correspondent, N. C. W. C.
News Service.)
PARIS.—The Catholic Pontifical
Annuary for 1929, which has just
appeared, indicates that the Catho
lic Church now lias' 14 patriar
chates, 245 archbishoprics, 908
bishoprics, 57 abbacies and 331
apostolic vicariates. These 1,555
jurisdictions administered the af
fairs of the immense Catholic
family of 400,000,000 souls.
In addition to the occupants of
the residential sees, there are 600
bishops- who although they are not
in charge of a diocese have duties
of an episcopal nature. Some of
these are included among the 1,555
prelates enumerated above, for ex
ample, the vicars apostolic.
Representation of the Holy See
is assured in states and nations
where Catholic interests exist by
50 pontifical delegates—24. nuncios,
4 internuncios, 1 charge d’affaires
and 21 apostolic delegates. Foreign
representatives at the Holy See are
divided into 11 * embassies and 18
plenipotentiary ministers.
It is scarcely possible to enumer
ate the women's communities
which, besides important Congre
gations, embrace purely diocesan
institutions. With regard to men's
Congregations, there are 37 monas
tic orders,. 17 mendicant orders, 8
orders of clerics regular, 66
ecclesiastical congregations and 10
religious institutes.
At Rome there are 30 seminaries
and ecclesiastical colleges of dif
ferent nationalities and 23 colleges
belonging to religious orders.
Article in “America” Proves
He Did Not Voice Nn-
Catholic Statements
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
NEW YORK.—In an article pub
lished in America, a Catholic Re
view of the week, the Rev. Paul
Doncoeur, S. J., refutes statements
made in an alleged interview with
the late Marshal Foch published in
the Boston Sunday Post aujl other
newspapers. The alleged interview,
said to have been translated by
one Winifred Stahl from the French
of “Rene de Paux,” “close friend”
of the marshal and “distinguished
French journalist” pretended to
give Foch’s views on theology.
Father Doncouer’s article is en
titled “A Newspaper Hoax on Mar
shal Foch.” The alleged interview,
he says, was greeted with laugh
ter in French journalistic, military
and religious circles. The so-call
ed interview, he asserts, never was
given by Marshal Foch. He adds:
“Moreover, the ideas attributed to
the Marshal are an absolute contra
diction of everything he professed
and practiced up to the day of his
death. Everybody who knew him
scoffed at the cloudy and stilted
metaphysics attributed to him.
The marshal was a sturdy and ro
bust believer. Never, in his most
confidential moments with his
friends, did he ever utter a word
which remotely resembled this al
leged interview. He died as he
lived, a believing and practicing
Catholic.
“Far from believing that God Is
a product of our own imagination
(as he is represented as saying),
his profound conviction, as ex
pressed to those who enjoyed his
confidence, was that we are guid
ed by God in all the happenings of
this world and that we are but
“blind instruments of His‘Divine
Providence,”
The “distinguished French jour
nalist” named in the alleged inter
view, “Rene de Paux,’* does not ex
ist, Father Doncouer said. There
(Continued on Page Five)
Catholic School Girl Wins
National Spelling Contest
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
WASHINGTON.—Virginia Hogan
a pupil of St. John's parochial
school of Omaha, Nebr., won the
National Spelling Bee and the Nat
ional Awards of $1,000 itj gold from
20 other contestants from various
parts of this country at the Nat
ional Museum here yesterday.
The parochial school pupil won
her victory by spelling correctly
the “luxuriance.” which had
caused the downfall of Viola Strbac,
of South Milwaukee, Wis., who, at
the time, was the only other sur
vivor of the boys and 17 girls who
being eliminated by mispelling th?
word “panacea.”
By coincidence, the victory and
the award came to Miss Hogan on
the eve of her thirteenth birthday.
The young girl, who is an honor
pupil in the eighth grade of St.
John’s schol, won her way into the
contest here by triumphing in simi
lar contests held for the City of
Omaha, and then for the State of
Nebraska. In the contest here, she
represented the Omaha World-
Herald.
While an exact count was lost in
the excitement of the occasion, it i:»
believed that Miss Hogan won out
in the seventieth round of words.
This means that she spelled cor
rectly 70 of the most difficult
words in ordinary usage.
The judges of the contest were
the Rev. James Shera Montgomery,
chaplain of the House of Represen
tatives; Maj. Gen. Henry T. Allen,
U. S. A., and William C. Deming,
chairman of the United States Civil
Service Commission. The words
were pronounced for the contes
tants by Dr. Francis A. Litz of
Baltimore City College, and Prof.
C. E. Hill of George Washington
University. George B. Woods, dean
of American University was chair
man.
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Ireland’s Rival Leaders
to Bear Canopy for Host
N. Dakota Catholic Academy
lTriumphs Over 113 Schools