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THE BULLETIN OF THE CATHOLIC LAYMEN’S ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA
JUNE 15, 1929
THE BULLETIN
The Official Organ of the Catholic Laymen’s Associa-
tion of Georgia.
RICHARD REID, Editor.
Member of N. C. W. C. News Service, the Catholic
Tress Association of the United States, and the Geor
gia Fress Association.
Published semi-monthly by the Publicity Department
with the Approbation of the Rt. Rev. Bishops of Ra
leigh Charleston, Savannah, St. Augustine, Mobile and
Natchez.
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ASSOCIATION OFFI CERS FOR 1928-1929
P. H. RICE, K.C.S.G., Augusta President
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ADMIRAL WM. S. BENSON, K.C.S.G., Washington,
D. C.
BARTLEY J. DOYLE, Philadelphia
Honorary Vice-Presidents
J. J. HAVERTY, Atlanta First .Vice-President
J. B. McCALLUM, Atlanta Secretary
THOMAS S. GRAY, Augusta Treasurer
RICHARD REID, Augusta Publicity Director
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Asst. Publicity Director
Vol. X June 15, 1929. No. 11
Entered as second class matter June 15, 1921, at the
Tost 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.
“The Laity’s Opportunity”
Discussing ‘‘The Catholic Dayman’s Opportunity” j
in the June issue of The Missionary, Michael Wil- j
liams, editor of The Commonweal and author of “The i
High Romance,” “The Catholic Church and the j
Modern Mind,” and numerous other works of dis- 1
tinction, referred to the activities of the Catholic
Daymen's Association of Georgia as an example of
the Catholic laymen and laywomen of the country.
Dr. Williams said in part:
"After all, if the church is not better known, it is
largely because Catholics themselves have not been
more wisely active in making her known. It is not
the business of the non-Catholics to explain and
justify the Catholic Church—although, to their honor
let it be said, scores of highly prominent non-Catho
lics have been splendidly outspoken in defending the
church against the sort of attacks that were made
upon her during the stress and storm of the political
campaign. But what is said for or against the
church during periods of political excitment do not
have lasting effects, except (unfortunately) in stir
ring anger, and resent, or mere excitment. It will
he by calm, slow, continuous, unslackening educa
tional efforts extending over years and generations
that the true apostolate of the Catholic Church will
succeed.
‘‘The Catholic Daymen’s Deague of Georgia realized
that fact some years ago. Perhaps there was no
state in the union where anti-Catholicism was so
rife. The Catholics were few and far from wealthy.
But they organized and have carried on one of the
most truly successful branches of the lay apostolate.
They founded a permanent headquarters with a small
hut devoted staff giving its whole time to the task of
watching the press of Georgia and answering all
charges against or attacks upon the church. They
adopted the just principle that the great majority of
such attacks or charges were the result of ignorance
or misinformation rather than of malice or hatred.
Firmly yet courteously they answered all such er
roneous statements. The effect of such a method,
extending now over a period of years, has been enor
mously beneficial. We need similar groups in at
least a score of other states. Here is an opportunity
indeed for Catholic laymen and laywomen to grasp!
"Some day, we shall have an national organization,
linking together and coordinating, and financing, all
such worthy local activities. We shall have training
schools for lay speakers and writers and promoters
of Catholic apologetics; educating public speakers,
for example, as the Catholic Evidence Guild of Eng
land so successfully does; so that they may not only
speak in lecture halls, and forums, hut may so out
The Archbishop’s Suggestion
In addressing the annual banquet of the Catholic
Press Association at Cincinnati, the Most Rev. John
T. Nicholas, O. P., D. D., Archbishop of Cincinnati,
planted a thought which we trust will hear abundant
fruit. He said:
"As one reads the many bequests made to religion
and to all Catholic endeavors, it seems very extra
ordinary that thinking men and women who must
realize the great good accomplished by the Catholic
Press under most discouraging conditions do not
make some provision in their last wills and testa
ments to further this work. We may ask: What can
be done to interest Catholic wealth in our Press?
Somebody ought to be charged with this as a definite
mission.”
It is encouraging to have this thought introduced
by such an authoritative sponsor as the Archbishop
of Cincinnati. It is not new to the Catholic Daymen’s
Association of Georgia, which already has started an
endownment fund which when completed will not
insure the perpetuity of the work of the Association
but the continuance of The Bulletin as a Catholic
newspaper for Georgia and the Southeast. The en
dowment fund is now in its infancy, but there are in
dications that friends of the Association in other
parts of the country especially will assist in build
ing it up through gifts and legacies while the little
band of Georgia Catholics is making sacrifices to
meet the current expenses of spreading the gospel
of peace and good-will.
Sources of Zeal
When the Catholics of Georgia thirteen years ago
launched their movement "to bring about a friendlier
feeling among Georgians irrespective of creed,” they
hardly dreamed that their efforts would be as far-
reaching as the intervening years has revealed them
to be.
In scores of issues of The Bulletin there have ap
peared tributes to the work from Catholic leaders of
thought and action in every part of the nation, nor
have these words of commendation been limited to
United States or even American sources. Within the
year, the blessing of the Holy Father and public
commendation by Cardinal Hayes and several
Bishops have more than honored it. The previous
issue recorded the compliment to the efforts of the
Daymen's Association through the invitation of the
Rt. Rev. Bishop of Harrisburg to an official of the
Association to explain the work to conferences of his
priests. This issue reproduces from The Missionary,
published by the Paulist Fathers, the peers of any
authorities on work among non-Catholics, an article
in which Michael Williams, distinguished author and
the editor of The Commonweal, cites the Georgia
laymen’s movement as an example to the laity of
the country.
At the recent convention of the Catholic Press
Association in Cincinnati, the clerical editor of the
official organ of one of our leading American Dio
ceses told a Daymen’s Association official that he
regarded the work being done by the Catholics here
as even more important to the nation as a whole
than to Georgia because of the inspiration it is to
the Catholic laity of the United States.
Such tributes are a source of great encourage
ment to the Catholics of Georgia; they give them
new zeal in their work of good-will and charity, and
after drawing strength from them they refer them
to their Bishop and their Clergy, without whose
wholehearted endorsement and assistance on the one
hand and cooperation on the other, the results re
ferred to in the kind estimates of the work would
not have been possible. These tributes impress on
the Daymen's Association a realization of -added
l responsibility and accentuate its ardent desire to
| continue to reveal itself as worthy of confidence re-
| posed in it inside of Georgia and out.
Dixie Musings
Dixie Press
The Dalton Citizen quotes a
North Georgia citizen as telling of
an Irish preacher describing drink,
which he said “is the greatest curse
of the age. It makes you quarrel
with your neighbors. It makes you
shoot at your landlord. And it
makes you miss him.”
Out of sixty petit jurors examin
ed for an Atlanta murder trial, in
which the defendant was a negro,
fifty-three disqualified because
they were opposed to capital pun
ishment. A great many jurors
more or less unconsciously opposed
to capital punishment sit in murder
cases.
What Senator Heflin says about
the Catholic Church is not import
ant. .What the press of the South
thinks of him is significant. .The
following quotations from Georgia
newspapers may therefore be of in
terest to our readers:
POISONING PEOPLE’S MINDS
Atlanta Constitution—A close as
sociate of Tom Heflin tells us that
he is so fearful that the Catholics
have designs upon his life that he
takes no chances on having his
food poisoned. He should use the
same discretion and not poison the
minds of the people.
“CATHOLIC DOMINATION"
Charley Brown down in Cordele
calls “Uncle Jim” Williams of the
Greensboro Herald-Journal a
"Catholic coddler.” Says “Uncle
Jim”: “We do not know what that
is. It seems to he some kind of a
fish or a peculiar apple.” He goes
on record as refusing to say what
he thinks Editor Brown is.
Editor Shytle of the Adel News
whose paragraph on intolerance
was quoted in the previous Issue of
The Bulletin, finds plenty of sup
port for his position. The existence
and extent of intolerance is pitiable,
he said. The Manchester Mercury
is one of several Georgia news
papers which repeated and endors
ed his thoughts. Likewise the Bre
men Gateway.
"At a time when all ordinary cre
dits are tight and business proceeds
with utmost caution, and unem
ployment continues on a large
scale, the Catholic Church in this
archdiocese keeps money in circula
tion by its building program,” says
F. Gordon O’Neill, editor of The
Monitor of San Francisco. That is
true generally throughout the coun
try. It has been suggested that
public buildings and other public
works be constructed in times of
cooperative depression, hut public
officials here today and gone to
morrow, do not view the plan with
favor. Catholic parishes and dio
ceses could make plans with this in
mind; the effect would be benefi
cial in several obvious ways.
Father Charles Dubois Wood
sends greetings to the editor and
readers of The Bulletin from the
Eternal City. Father Wood is en
joying a leave of absence from the
Diocese of Charleston where he was
formerly pastor of St. Mary’s
Church; he ie one of the most
widely known priests in the South
east. He expects to return from
Europe in the early autumn. He
remembered his ‘friends in Rome
and at the Shrine of St. Anthony
in Padua.
Because of the great amount of
news matter available from the
Southeast this issue, commence
ment news especially, it was neces
sary to hold some until the next
number of The Bulletin. Corres
pondents and school officials will
assist The Bulletin greatly if they
will send in news of graduation ex
ercises as early as possible.
Edward V. Killeen of Brooklyn,
a member and warm friend of the
Catholic Laymen’s Association of
Georgia, was invested with the in
signia of a Knight of St. Gregory
by the Rt. Rev. Bishop of Brooklyn
the last Sunday of May. Word that
the Holy Father l)ad thus honored
him came to Mr. Killeen Holy
Thursday while he was in Augusta.
Mr. Killeen although active in a
number of business enterprises
finds time to be more than a
church-going Catholic, as nume
rous Catholic activities, including
the Laymen's Association, can
testify. The Bulletin congratulates
him on this honor so worthily be-
Valdosta, Ga., Times—Now
that Senator Heflin has failed to
have the Senate join him in con
demning a Massachusetts town be
cause of indignities that were heap
ed upon him, it is probable that he
will claim that the Senate is domi
nated by Catholics. As we see it
the senators do not care to pick up
the quarrels of a member who is
never satisfied without being in
one.
ENCOURAGING HEFLIN
M .a con Telegraph—By vot
ing favorably oh the Heflin resolu
tion, in which the senator from Al
abama sought condemnation of the
disorders at a meeting in Brockton,
Mass., at which he delivered a Ku
Klux Klan address, the senators
from Georgia may have pleased the
members of the klan, hut it is a
safe assumption that they have dis
appointed a greater number of
Georgians.
Besides all this, Senator Harris
and George gave aid and comfort
to Heflin in his asininity and in
his flowering martyr complex.
Nothing delights him so much, it
seems, as to assume the attitude of
a martyr, bleeding for a sacred
cause. Securing even 13 recruits
out of 96 will give him the idea
that he is the leader of a glorious,
if small, army battling for the peo
ple, when he is only a clown who
would be amusing, if he did not in
reality speak the sentiments of so
many intoierants.
REPRIMAND THE SENATE!
Brunswick, Ga., News—Tom
Heflin just can't contain himself.
He went lip into New England and
took the liberty, because clothed
with a senator’s toga, to hall out
Catholics generally, and we all
know how vitriolic he can become
on the subject. And when some
boys in a crowd outside the hail in
which ,he spoke forgot themselves
and showed their ill-manners
enough to shy a bottle or two at
the senator, he wanted the United
States senate to pass a resolution
reprimanding the whole aggrega
tion. But the senate, composed in
most part of men with clearer
heads than the Alabamian, voted
his proposition down, 69 to 14. Now
Heflin is madder than ever and
threatens to have the senate re
solute the reprimand those 69, if
such a stunt can he pulled off.
IGNORING HIM THE REMEDY
Bullock (Statesboro, Ga.) Times
—As a senator, Heflin de
mands the senatorial courtesy
which he is not entitled to as a
private citizen. His recent resolu
tion in the Senate, intended to sat
isfy his personal grievances, what
ever the reason for those griev
ances, compelled two Georgia sen
ators to line up with him through
that spirit of courtesy to which his
station and not his personators;
they could not have done otherwise,
perhaps, without breaking a pre
cedent that may some time be val
uable to them. We regret they had
to do it, though.
Senator Tom Heflin is a pest
that must be endured till he can
be gotten rid of. The less atten
tion he gets, the more harmless he
is.
Into the streets and public places. Plans for such
things are now being studied and discussed in high
quarters.
"But meanwhile, we Catholic laymen and lay-
women need not be idle; we need not and should not
wait till some wonderful plan has been handed out
to us by others. If we do, it is likely that the won
derful plan will promptly fail in practice, no matter
how perfect it may theoretically be. Let us get busy
now! We can work harder,-,for and in any society
or organization to •which we at present belong; we
can make ourselves recruiting agents for such
groups, bringing in the slackers and those who
should be working but who as yet have not seen their
duty. We can increase the number of readers of the
Catholic papers and magazines. We can distribute
pamphlets and books. There is no lack of present
opportunities and every, even the slightest, increase
of fervor and activity in even the smallest parish in
• the land contributes vitally to swell the vast and
mighty current of Catholic Action which the times
demand.”
A year ago Senator Heflin told Senator Robinson
on the floor of the Senate that if he carried out his
threat of repeating his speech against religious in
tolerance in Alabama, the people there would tar
and feather him. Now he wishes the Senate to de
clare war on the Catholic Church because some un
named, unidentified individual tossed a bottle at him
in Massachusetts for making hjmseif obnoxious
there.
The Christian Index, discussing the contributions
of J. C. Penney to Protestant efforts, says: “We are
inplined to think that there are many other business
men today who are inclining toward this theory of
stewardship. Mr. Jim Anderson of Knoxville is per
haps the largest individual contributor among South
ern Baptists. He gives seven hundred and fifty dol
lars through his church every Sunday. Last year he
lost a considerable sum of money and suffered the
tragic loss of his noble companion. But Mr. Ander
son didn’t let up in his giving. He increased it. He
gave, on top of all his other regular and special gifts,
fifty thousand dollars to the Christmas love offering.”
The Catholic Bishops of England have issued a
pronouncement on education in which they empha
size the point that the teacher in a school acts for
the parent and not for the state. The pupil belongs
to the parents; it does not belong to the state. Some
times it seems that this fundamental principle is lost
sight of in these United States.
A Trappist Brother, a member of one of the strict
est orders in the Catholic Church, died recently at
New Melleray Abbey, Peosta, la. He was eighty-
seven years old, and spent fifty-three consecutive
years in the abbey. He was the fifteenth monk to die
at New Melleray in fifteen years. Not one of the
fifteen was less than seventy; one was ninety-three
years old. Fasting and penance did not injure their
health.
“Have the atheists ever built a charity hospital?”
asks O. O. McIntyre, thereby ^teaching a volume of
sermons.
stowed.
News of the erection of I he new
parish of St. Mary at Rome in
North Georgia and the appoint
ment of Father Cassidy as pastor
is not only interesting but gratify
ing to the Catholics of the diocese
of Savannah; it is an irdication of
the progress of Catholicity in Geor
gia. The church in Rome is over
fifty years erected; a new church
is planned. Some of the finest
Catholics in the state live there
arjd we may expect to see St.
Mary’s parish under Father Cas
sidy's direction soon take its place
among the most flourishing cf the
'smaller parishes in the diocese.
A peasant with a troubled con
science went to a monk for advice,
according to the Knickerbocker
Press, Albany, N. Y„ as quoted
in the Literary Digest. He said he
had circulated a vile story about
a friend, only to find out the story
was not true. “If you want to
make peace with your conscience,”
said the monk, “you must fill a bag
with chicken down,, go to every
dooryard in the village, and drop
in each one of them one fluffy
feather.” The peasant did a 3
was told. Then he came back to
the monk and announced he had
done penance for his folly. “Not
yet,” replied the monk. "Take your
bag, go the rounds again and gather
up every feather that you have
dropt.” “But the wind must have
blown them all "away,” said the
peasant. “Yes, my son,” said the
monk, "and so it is with gossip.
Words are easily dropt, but no mat
ter how hard you may try. you edn
never get them hack again.”
THE CATHOLIC AGAIN
Willacoochee, Ga., Time s—
Sure, we know who made Senator
Heflin’s son get drunk and play the
fool in New York not long ago.
The Catholic pope is the fellow re
sponsible. Any good “100 percent
American” ought to know that.
(Note.—Since the above para
graph was written, we see that
Senator Hefl’n says his son was
“the victim of a Catholic plot.”
What did we tell you?)
SOME BAD POLITICS
The Madison, Ga., Madisonian—
The Georgia senators have not
helped themselves with many good
people in this section by taking up
the cause of Senator Hefflin in the
matter of his interruption during a
Ku Klux tirade in Boston. if they
meant it as a political gesture it
was a failure.
NO ENTHUSIASM
The Cobb County Times —
Heflin's resolution in the Senate
was voted down by a wide margin.
And although both of Georgia’s
Senators voted for the Alabamian s
grievance, we dare say they were
n't any too enthusiastic over the
affair.
SENATORIAL COURTESY.
Walton, Ga., Tribune—The
Macon Telegraph thinks that Sen
ators Harris and George should not
have voted for the resolution giv
ing comfort to Heflin, of Alabama.
And so do we, but we imagine that
their action was the result of
“Senatorial courtesy” rather than
any abounding sympathy for the
Alabama bull.