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I Member of the N ational | Catholic Welfare Con- |J ference News Service X> Ur Quttrtin Official Organ of the Catholic Laymens AssociationgfCeorga “TO BRING ABOUT A FRIENDLIER FEEUNG AMONG GEORGIANS. IRRESPECTIVE OF CREED 1 * The Only Catholic News paper Between 8 al t i in o re and New Orleans. TEN CENTS A COPY. VOL. X., NO. 18. AUGUSTA, GEORGIA, OCTOBER 5, 1929 ISSUED SEMI-MONTHLY—$2.00 A YEAR A PROCLAMATION Ey the President of the United States WHEREAS, October 11, 1779, marks in Ameri can history the date of the heroic death of Briga dier-General Casimir Pulaski, who died from wounds received on October 9, 1779, at the siege ol Savannah, Georgia; and WHEREAS, October 11, 1929, marks the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the death of General Pulaski, it is but fitting that such date should be observed and commemorated with suit able patriotic exercises; THEREFORE, I, Herbert Hoover, President of the United States of America, in pursuance of the provisions of Public Resolution No. 16, Seventy-first Congress, approved June 18, 1929, do hereby invite the people of the United State of America to ob serve Friday, the eleventh day of October next, as the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the death of Brigadier-General Casimir Pulaski, Revo lutionary War hero, by holding such exercises and ceremonies in. schools, churches, and other suitable places as may be deemed appropriate in commem oration of his death; and further, I hereby direct that on that day the flag of the United States be ap propriately displayed upon all Governmental build ings in the United States. In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused to be affixed the great seal of the United States: Done at the City of Washington this 26th day of June in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and twenty-nine, and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and fifty-third. (Seal) By the President: HERBERT HOOVER, HENRY L. STIMSON, Secretary of State. (Pulaski Day will be observed in Savannah October 9, the anni versary of the Battle of Savannah in which Pulaski was wounded, instead of October 11, the date of his death, in order to give the dis tinguished visitors an opportunity to attend the Pulaski Day ob servance at Washington two days later) CARDINAL DUBOIS OF PARIS DEAD Great Churchman Labored to Combat Communism by Turning Souls to God (By N. C. W. C. News Service) PARIS.—Death has come to Car dinal Dubois only three months after the passing of his sister. Not merely his family and friends and members of the .Archdiocese of Paris are af fected by his being taken, but people throughout the world will grieve at the loss of so great a churc .man, Statesman and friend of humanity. Louis Ernest Cardinal Dubois, whose name was to become associ ated with three of the most historical cities of France—Verdun, Rouen and Paris—was born in the little town of St. Calais in the Diocese of Le Mans, September 1, 1856. He who was to have as his last church the world- famed Cathedral of Notre Dame de Paris received his early religious in struction in the village church of Notre Dame de St. Calais. After completing his studies for the priesthood with a brilliant record, Louis Dubois was ordained in Sep tember. 1879, just fifty years ago. He rendered valuable service to his na tive diocese" and was serving as vicar general when, in 1901, at the age of forty-five, he was made Bishop of Verdun. That year also marked the beginning of the Waldeck-Rousseau anti-clerical policy which was to ha rass the church in France until 1929, the year of the cardinal’s death. He was one of the last bishops appoint ed under the Napoleonic Concordat, and it was one of his most ardent desires that a new concordat should be established between France and the Holy See during his regime as Archbishop of Paris. In 1900, when he was made Arch bishop of Bourges, a new spirit was abroad in the land and Catholic ac tivities were in the process of re organization. The new archbishop gave great impetus to the movement, urging the formation of clubs in every parish and uniting them by means of a diocesan federation. At the beginning of the World War, Archbishop Dubois was still in Bourges, and, therefore, far removed from the battlefields. But in 1916, when he was"transferred to Rouen, he came into close contact with the headquarters of the Belgian govern ment, then within his new archdio cese. That same year he was made Sf cardinal. In the winter of 1919, when the fate of French religious establishments in the Near East hung in the balance, Cardinal Dubois was sent on an of ficial tour of Palestine, Syria, Athens and Constantinople. Upon his return to France, he received from President Deschanel an official expression of gratitude of the French government for the service he had rendered. It was at that time that he was made a Chevalier of the Legion of Honor. He was named a Commander of the Legion in 1926, on the occasion of the silver jubilee of his episcopal con secration. On the Feast of the Immaculate Conception, 1920, Cardinal Dubois was enthroned as Archbishop of Paris as successor to the decased Cardinal Amette. Notre Dame Cathedral was filled to overflowing and a great con course of people filled the vast square (Continued on Page 7) Chinese Bandits Kill Bishdp, Two Priests Franciscans Reported Mur dered by Brigands (By N. C. W. C. News Service) HANKOW, China. — Bishop John Trudone Jans, O. F. M., of Sussen, Belgium, and two of his aides, Father Van Wert and Father Dynaert, have been slain by bandits near Siaotung, Hupelr Province, it" is reported. The three missionaries were mur dered by a band of Communist bri gands in an isolated section of the Province, according to a despatch from an Ichang, correspondent receiv ed by the Belgian consulate here. Bishop John Trudone Jans was ap pointed titular bishop of Rhodus, De cember 23, 1923, and was consecrated vicar apostolic of the Ichang vicarage May 1, 1924, at Changsa, China. He was born in Sussen, Liege, Belgium, March 4, 1877 and entered the Fran ciscan Order in 1S9G. He was ordain ed September 8, 1903. His jurisdiction in China com prised the major portion of the Hu peh Province, with headquarters at Ichang. where he made his residence. The Ichang vicarage, in 1928, had a population of 7,150,000 of whom 34,000 were Catholics. That particular section of China has Several missions, all of the Franciscan Order and most of them under Bel gian priests. Cardinal Dubois Photo shows Louis Ernest Car dinal Du Bois, Archbishop of Paris, who has just died follow- lowing an operation. Cardinal Du Bois attended the Eucharistic Congress at Chicago in 1926. (N. C. W. C. News Service) VACATION SCHOOLS NOTABLE SUCCESS Fifty Thousand Children in Attendance. Bishop Walsh Commends Movement (Bq N. C. W. C. News Sheet) WASHINGTON.—The highest point of success thus far in the religious vacation schools movement was reached during the past summer, when approximately 700 schools were held in more than 70 dioceses, ac cording to an announcement by the Rev. Edwin V. O’Hara, director of the Rural Life Bureau of the National Catholic Welfare Conference. That a total of approximately 50,- 000 children were in attendance for one month during the summer is in dicated by complete reports from 35 of the dioceses showing an attend ance of 30,000 and partial reports from 25 other dioceses placing the attend ance at 15,000. Father O’Hara said that there is every prospect that the hope of the bureau for 1,000 schools in 100 dio ceses next summer would be fulfilled. The schools were held in a great variety of conditions and' without exception were successful beyond ex pectations, Father O’Hara said. Eighty schools, the largest number reported, were held in the Diocese of Los-An- geles-San Diego. The Archdiocese of Dubuque was second with a total of 75 schools, organized by the Rev, Dr. J. M. Wolfe, diocesan superintendent of schools. Numerous testimonials on the use fulness oand success of the schools have been received by the bureau. Archbishop Drossaerts, of San An tonio writes: “The schools conducted in the archdiocese achieved unhoped for results. It is a pleasure for me to acknowledge the good accomplish ed. Children were reached who, with out these schools, would never have seen a Sister or a catechism.” Bishop Walsh, of Charleston, S. C.: “I cannot express the enthusiasm of the children, parents and teachers. I can only tell you that pastors are so impressed with the possibilities that 1 am going to try to have as many schools as possible next year.” In the Archdiocese of Baltimore the schools were conducted under the auspices of the League of the Little Flower, directed by the Rev. W. How ard, Bishop of Clarkesville, Md. In a number of dioceses the Diocesan Council of Catholic Women took the lead in organizing schools. Father Joseph Schmidt, director of the Propagation of the Faith 'in the Diocese of Harrisburg, organized 12 schools with a total attendance of 1,900 children. Minister and Family Received Into Church (By N. C. W. C. News Service) LONDON.—An Anglican clergy man and four members of his family have recently entered the Church, separately and in different parts of the world, it is just revealed. Mr. Maurice Frederick Bell, M. A., until last May Anglican vicar of Newland, Worcestershire, has been received into the Catholic Church at the Abbey of St. Maurice, Canton Valais, Switzerland, by the Abbot. A month earlier his wife had been received at St. George’s Church, Wor cester, England. Their eldest son, Anthony Bell, had a flourishing pre paratory school at Aldwick, near Bognor Regis, and he gave this up to become a Catholic. The local priest, Father Kelly, O. S. M., receiv ed him. He has since been clothed as a novice at the Abbey of St. Mau rice where his father was received. The second son, Roderick, who was working with an Anglican mission in India, found his way into the Church independently and has now returned to Europe to study for the priesthood with the Salesians at Fribourg, Swit zerland. The third son, Michael, was received a few days ago at the Abbey of St. Maurice. He is relinquishing a scholarship at St. Edward's school, Oxford, to go to Ampleforth, a Bene dictine School. Medical Scholarships Given Mission Board Creighton U. Will Train Doctors for Foreign Fields (By N. C. W. C. NEWS SERVICE) NEW YORK—Two scholarships to train doctors for service in the for eign mission field, have been donated to the Catholic Medical Mission Board by the Rev. William J. Agnew, S. J., President of Creighton Univer sity, the Rev. T. H. Ahearn, S. J.. re gent of the University, has informed the board. The Rev. Edward F. Garesche, S. J., director of the board, announces that the scholarships will be awarded to the applicants considered most prom ising, and adds that an effort will be made to send one student to the Uni versity this year. Applicants must fulfill all University requirements, as well as pledge themselves to serve at least five years in the foreign field. Both men and women are eligible for the scholarships, which give free tuition for an entire medical course. Fr. Duffy Official of New Drama Group (By N. C. W. C. News Service) NEW YORK.—The Rev. Francis P. Duffy has been elected vice presi dent of the newdy formed Church and Drama League of America, an or ganization intended to encourage the production of more and better plays and motion pictures. The group, founded recently, already has a mem bership of 20,800, with headquarters in New York and chapters in Chicago, Cincinnati, Indianapolis, Pittsburgh, Boston, Milwaukee. Pasadena, Ta coma. St. Petersburg and Ogden. In addition to Father Duffy, officials in clude Bishop William T. Manning, the Rev. Harry Emerson Fosdick, Rabbi Nathan Krass and Dr. S. Parkes Cad- man, who is president. (By N. C. W. C. News Service) ROME.—Missionary deaths in China have been brought to a total of eight in the first eight and one-half months of 1929 by the murders of Bishop John Trudone Jans, O. F. M., Vicar Apostolic of Ichang, Hupeh Province, and two of his priests, according to figures compiled here by Fides Ser vice. This makes 1929 the worst year, in point of fatalities, since the presenl Wave of banditary began. Twenty- two missionaries have been slain since 1923. Bishop Jans, who went to China May 9, 1907, was the first bishop to become a martyr in China, The Fides Correspondent at Peking reports that the Apostolic Delegate at Pekin, His Excellency Archbishop Celso Costantini, and the French and Belgian ministers have protested to the Chinese government. The gov ernment. in reply, telegraphed from Nanking to the representative of the Holy See that it had commanded an inquiry and issued strict orders to the local authorities to guarantee protection to the Catholic missiona ries in the region. The eight killed since the first of this year were, Father Seybold, Hol bein and Coveyou. American Pas- sionists, murdered Apt?l 24; Father Timothy Leonard. Irish priest of St. Columban’s, July 15; a Belgian Fran ciscan, Father Tiburtius Cloodts, Au gust 28; and Bishop Jans and his two priests. Fathers Van Wert and Dyn aert, about September 14. Father Angelo Melotto, Franciscan was the first of the present list of priests to be killed, meeting death at the hands of bandits September 4. PULASKI PROGRAM PLANS COMPLETE Pontifical Mass Feature of Savannah Sesquicentennial Observance. Governor Is sues Proclamation (Special to The Bulletin) ATLANTA, Ga.—A proclamation is sued here by Governor Hardman of Georgia designates October 9 as UuE- aski Day and urges the people of the state to observe it with fitting exer cises. At the same time Governor Hardman announced the appointment of the following members of the Georgia Pulaski Sesquicentennial Commission: Hon. Gordon Saussy, Mayor of Savannah. RL Rev. Michael J. Keyes, D. D.. Bishop of Savannah, Hon. Pleasant Stovall, former L’nited States Minister to Switzerland and editor of the Savannah Press, H. V. Jenkins, publisher of the Savannah Morning News. Mills B. Lane, presi dent of the Citizens and Southern Bank. T. M. Cunningham, Jr.. Mrs. Robert H. Roux, Mrs. J. E. D. Bacon, Mrs. F. E. Johnston, William Harden, Morris H Bernstein, General William L. Grayson and Brigadier-General Robert J. Travis. SAVANNAH, Ga.— The coming of the Sesquicentennial of the death ol Count Casimir Pulaski, who lost lib life in the seige of Savannah wh?ie serving as a Brigadier-General in the American forces, finds this city pre pared to observe it with one of the most complete programs ever arrang ed for a similar event in this section. The program has been prepared by the Mayor’s Committee under the di rection of Hon. Gordon Saussy, Mayor of Savannah. The observance will bring to Sa vannah an official delegation from the capital of Poland. Warsaw; the Pulaski Centennial Commission appointed by Congress; Francois Pu laski, a descendant of Count Pulaski, who comes from France; delegations from the Polish, French and Czcheo- slovakian embassies. governors of several states, United States officials, representatives of nearly every PolisA organization of size in the United States, numerous other notables and hundreds of citizens of Polish extra ction from every section of the East and Middle West. The Savannah observance is being held October 9, the anniversary of the Battle of Savannah in which Pulaskr received his fatal wound, instead of October 11. the date of his death, in order to give the notables attending an opportunity to attend similar cere monies two days later in Washing ton, D. C. Pulaski was a Catholic and a ma jority of the 1.000 colonial soldiers, French. American and Polish, who fell in the Battle of Savannah were of the Catholic faith; the Mayor’s Com mittee therefore invited Rt. Rev. Michael J. Keyes, Bishop of Savan nah, to arrange for a Pontifical High Mass as the religious feature of the ceremony. The Mass will be cele brated at Park Extension if the wea ther is favorable, if not it will be celebrated in the Cathedral of St. John the Baptist. Rev. Joseph D. 1923. An interesting fact in connec tion with his death is the opening of a 250-bed hospital in Hankow, China, dedicated to his memory. This in- stiution, opened about two months ago. is in charge of the Franciscan Missionaries of Mary and native Chi nese Franciscan Sisters. Other missioners who have given their lives for the Faith in the Orient since 1923 are: Father Achille Soenen, Scheut Father, killed by revolting soldiers, December 23, 1923. Father Pitton, Paris missioner, kill ed by brigands February 4., 1924. Father Aurelian Maignez, Francis can. killed by soldiers cf Honan, Au gust 3. 1926. Father Ruyffelaert, Scheut Father, murered near Suiyuan, August 12, 1926. Father Frederick Lauwens, Scheut Father, killed near Siwantsc. August 20. 1926. Father Dugort and Vanara. Jesuits, killed by soldiers at Nanking, March 24. 1927. Father Joseph Hou. a native secular priest of the Vicariate of Kian, Pro vince of Kiangsi, killed April 25, 1127. His catechist was buried alive. Father Van de Boc, Scheut Father, and a Chinese priest, killed with six other Catholics. September 30. 1927. Father Hermenegild Waeldele, Franciscan, assassinatd by disbanded soldiers, November 3. 1927. Father Alexander Julliette, Pirpiq Father, killed by brigands on the Is land of Hainan, January. 1928. Father Joseph Winkelmann, Sacred Heart of Issoudun, killed by bandits. Nor-ember 28, 1928. (Continued on Page 7) 22 Missionaries Slain in China in 6 Years—8 in Year