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AUGUSTA, GA., NOVEMBER 9, 1929.
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ADMIRAL BENSON ADDRESSES C. L. A. CONVENTION
Mobile Diocese Observing Centennial
THREE-OAY JUBILEE ! Admiral Benson Commends
PROGRAM OPENS AT i Laymen's Association Work
LAUDS GEORGIA LAYMEN
MASS NOV. 10TH
Three Archbishops and Bis- |
hops From All Parts of
United States to Partici
pate in Ceremonies
ABBOT FRANCIS IS>
BLESSED AT ST.LEO
(By E. B. Kay)
MOBILE. Ala.—Sunday marks the
opening of three days of religious and
civic ceremonies in celebration of the
hundreth anniversary of the Catholic
Diocese of Mobile. Under the leader
ship of their bishop, Rt. Rev. Thomas
J. Toolen, D. D„ the clergy and laity,
together with many clergymen and
members of the laity from various
parts of the country will assemble in
the Cathedral of the Immaculate
Conception for the opening religious
ceremony, which shall begin prompt
ly at eleven o’clock.
A grand parade will form in Gov
ernment Street, east of the Knights
of Columbus building, and march to
the episcopal residence, where it will
be joined by more than twenty-five
Bishops and many priests, and thence
to the Cathedral. The parade will be
under the direction of John E.
Toomey as grand marshal, and com
posed of laymen from the various
parishes of Mobile and representa
tives of other parishes of the dio
cese. Each parish shall march as a
separate unit identified by the parish
banner and carrying the American
colors. The parade shall form
promptly at ten o’clock.
Solemn Pontifical Mass with Bishop
Toolen celebrating, shall start at
eleven o'clock within the Cathedral.
At this Mass an augmented choir of
seventy-five under the direction of
Rev. Manuel Campodonico, of War
rington. Fla., will furnish the music.
Presiding at the organ will be Mr.
John Fox. The sermon on this oc
casion will be preached by the Most
Reverend John J. Glennon, D. D.,
Archbishop of St. Louis, who is re
puted to be one of the best orators in
America.
Simultaneous with the ceremonies
within the Cathedral there will be
celebrated solemn pontifical Mass in
the garden of St. Mary’s Orphanage
opposite the Cathedral. The Rt. Rev.
Patrick Barry. D. D.. Bishop of St.
Augustine, Fla., will be the celebrant.
This latter ceremony is planned to
give to many, unable to find place in
the Cathedral, an opportunity to par
ticipate in opening of the celebration.
Provision has been made, by the in
stallation of speaking apparatus, to
Bishop Barry Officiates at
Elevation of Coadjutor to
Abbot Charles. Abbot Mar
tin Delivers Sermon.
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President Hoover
Wires Felicitations
Rt. Rev. Thomas J. Toolen,.
D.D., Bishop of Mobile, has re
ceived from President Hoover
the following telegram of con
gratulation on the centennial
of the Diocese of Mobile: “Will
you please extend my cordial
congratulations upon their cele
bration of the. one. hundreth
anniversary of the founding of
the Diocese.
Yours Faithfully,
Herbert Hoover
RT. REV. FRANCIS SADLIER, O.S.B.
Coadjutor Abbot of St. Leo
(Special to The Bulletin)
ST. LEO, Fla.—Rt. Rev. Francis
Sadlier, O. S. B., prior of St. Leo Ab
bey, was blessed as coadjutor-aboot
to Rt. Rev. Charles Mohr. O. S. B.. D.
D., Abbot of St. Leo. here October
28 at a ceremony which drew pre
lates and priests from all parts of the
United States. Rt. Rev. Patrick Barry
D. D., Bishop of St. Augustine, offi
ciated, assisted by Rt. Re\’. Bernard
Menges, O. S. B.. Abbot of St. Ber
nard’s Abbey, Alabama, and Rt. Rev.
Mayeul de Caigney. O. S. B., D. D.,
formerly of the British West Indies.
Among the distinguished church
men who came to St. Leo Abbey for
the ceremony were: Rt. Rev. Ernest
Helmstetter, O. S. B.. D. D.. Abbot
of St. Mary’s Abbey, Newark. N. J.,
and president of the American Cas-
sinese Congregation of the Benedic
tines: Rt. Rev. Vincent Taylor, O. S.
B., D. D.. Abbot-Ordinary of Bel
mont, N. C.; Rt. Rev. Martin Veth, O.
S. B., D. D„ Abbot of St. Benedict's
Kansas; and clergy from widely sep
arated sections. Abobt Martin de
livered the sermon.
The presbyter assistant at the bless
ing of Abbot Francis was Very Rev.
W. J. Reagan, S. J., pastor of Sacred
Heart Church, Tampa. Very Rev.
Michael Fox, pastor of St. James’
Church, Orlando, and Very Rev. Rey-
nald Bergamo, S. C., pastor of Our
Lady of Mercy Church, Ybor City,
were deacons of honor, and Rev. Rt.
Patrick Nolan, pastor of St. Joseph's
Church, Winter Haven, deacon of the
Mass, and Rev. F. Aldin, E. C., of
Tampa sub-deacon. Rev. Aloysius
Dressman, O. S. B.. Fr. Marion Bos
nian. O. S. B., and Fr. Ignatius Mc
Carty., were masters of ceremony,
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President Hoover Supports
Louvain Against Warren
(Bv N. C. W. C. News Service)
WASHINGTON — President Hoov
er expressed disapproval October 18
of the inscribing of the quotation,
“Destroyed by German Fury; Re
stored by American Generosity.” on
the library of the University of Lou
vain. as insisted by Whitney Warren,
architect.
Mr. Hoover, speaking for himself
and those associated with him in the
American gift of the library, issued
this verbal statement:
“I and thoqe associated with me
in the American gift of a library to
the University of Louvain wish to
emphatically disclaim any approval
of the action of Mr. Whitney Warren
in insisting upon an offensive inscrip
tion upon the building.
“The library cost about 32.000.00)
francs, wholly provided from the
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In Convention Address He
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Cites Its Activities as
Example to Laity
United States. Of this sura over 70
per ce>> was secured by a commit
tee under my chairmanship and the
other part by a committee under the
chairmanship of Dr. Nicholas Murray
Butler. Mr. Whitney Warren was
the architect and did not produce a
most notable building af great credit
to himself and the Nation.
“The authorities of the. university
three years ago, with my approval,
refused to allow the inscription in
sisted upon by Mr. Warren, and if
my recollection serves me rightly,
Dr. Butler also protested against it.”
President Hoover’s interest in the
Louvain library was fostered by his
relief work in Belgium in the early
days of the war and later, when
the United States entered the con
flict, when he was food administrator
under Wilson.
(Address of Admiral Wm. S. Ben
son, U. S. N., Retired, at the four
teenth annual convention of tlie
Catholic Laymen’s Association of
Georgia, Savannah, October 27.)
In this age and in this country the
Church is surrounded by new condi
tions and confronted by new prob
lems. In the course of a century
and a half the social order has been
completely changed. The natural
barriers of mountains and deserts and
seas which once separated and isolat
ed one people from another are sur
mounted. Transportation and other
means of communication have left no
nation of the earth unknown to an
other. The liners that skim the
oceans, the trains and automobiles
that traverse the land, the airships
and airplanes that navigate the skies
—all of these are familiarizing races
of the most different types and the
most distant regions with one an
ther's faces, languages, customs and
thoughts.
A CHANGED
WORLD
Here in the United States we see
men and women of every other con
tinent and color and civilization.
More significant, I think, than this
mingling of men is. the exchange of
ideas made possible by the cable, the
telephone and the radio. It required
fourteen days to bring to America the
news of Daniel O'Connell’s death in
1847. Only the other day the people
of England heard by radio the dem
onstration which greeted the British
Premier when he landed in New
York. Jules Verne thought he wrote
daring fiction when less than 60 years
ago, he had the hero of his book go
round the world in 80 days. _ Forty
years ago George Francis Train ac
complished the feat in 63 days and
was acclaimed a conqueror of time
and distance. Less than two months
ago. the German Zeppelin, sailing
through the aid, circumnavigated the
globe in a week.
With all this flux of people and cul
tures and ideas there have come some
serious concomitants. While interna
tional barriers have thus been le
veled, so too have the precincts of the
home been invaded, and the ties of
family loosened or broken by these
new .agencies of transportation and
communication. A thousand differ
ent distractions, amusements and pre
occupations of which our ancestors—
even our fathers and mothers—knew
nothing are luring this generation
from the fireside, from religion,
from duty. For many thousands the
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PONTIFICAL MASS
OPENS FOURTEENTH
ANNUAL GATHERING
Bishop Keyes Celebrant of
Mass and Speaker at Ses
sion. Captain Rice Elected
for Eleventh Term
(By N. C. AV. C. News Service
SAVANNAH, Ga. — Admiral Wil
liam S. Benson, U. S. N., Retired re
turned to his native Georgia, Octo
ber 27 to deliver the principal lay ad
dress at the fourteenth annual con
vention of the Catholic Laymen’s As
sociation of Georgia, which opened
with a Pontifical Mass at the Cathe
dral of St. John the Baptist, with Rt.
Rev. Michael J. Keyes, D. D.. Bishop
of Savannah, as celebrant. Although
there are but eleven cities in Geor
gia with resident pastors or priests,
more than twice that number of com
munities were represntd by delega
tions at the convention, some of them
traveling nearly four hundred miles
each way.
Admiral Benson, who is a native of
Macon recalled that his parents and
his near and remote ancestors were
Protestants and most of his relatives
are Protestants still. He said he was
reared in the Methodist creed, re
mained in it until manhood, and
knows the Protestant mind; he declar
ed that when one considers the false
history and the false conception of
the Catholic Church taught Protes
tants and how comparatively little is
being done outside of Georgia to
bring the facts about the Church to
them, it is a little strange that there
is not more anti-Catholic feeling rath
er than less. He warmly commended
the work of the Catholic Laymen's
Association of Georgia “to bring
about a friendlier feeling among
Georgians irrespective of creed” and
cited its activities and its spirit as an
example to Catholics in other states
of the Union.
N.G.G.M. ADDRESSED
RY PAPAL DELEGATE
Admiral Benson Guest of
Honor at Ninth Annual
Convention at Fort Wayne
(Special to N. C. W. C. News Service)
FORT WAYNE, Ind. — With praise
and congratulations from Most Rev.
Pietro Fumasoni-Biondi, Apostolic
Delegate, the ninth annual conven
tion of the National Council of Ca
tholic Men concluded its sessions here
October 22, after having committed
the organization to a continuance of
its effort to remove religious preju
dices and foster a better understand
ing between Catholics and those of
other creeds. The Apostolic Delegate
was the principal speaker at the ban
quet which was the final function of
the big gathering, and was heard and
cheered by more than 800 persons
from various parts of the country.
This was the first time a convention
of the National Council of Catholic
Men had an Apostolic Delegate as
a guest and speaker. His Excellency’s
presence and participation in the pro
gram served to draw many of the
clergy and laity of adjacent cities.
,A11 the officers of the N, C. C. M.
were re-elected. They are Walter T.
Johnson, Kenton, O., president; Jo
seph M. Tally, Providence, R. I..,
vice-president; James E. Deery, In
dianapolis, secretary; Francis R, Low-
tner, St. Louis, treasurer, and Charles
F. Dolle, Cincinnati, executive sec
retary. Maurice C. Niezer, Fortt
Holy Father Blesses
Laymen’s Association
Cables Blessing - to Conven
tion. Apostolic Delegate
Also Sends His Blessing
A cablegram to Bishop Keyes from
cardinal Gaspani, Papal Secretary of
i State, bestows the Apostolic Blessing
on the Catholic Laymen’s Associa-
l tion of Georgia and its members. The
j cablegram, answering one of greeting
I and filial devotion from the Laymen’s
j Association through Bishop Keyes
reads;
j “Holy Father deeply appreciates
mesage expressing devoted filial
homage of the Catholic Laymen’s As
sociation and bestows Apostolic Bles
sing on all.”
A telegram was received also by
Bishop Keyes from Archbishop Fum
asoni-Biondi, Apostolic Delegate to
the United States, in response to a
message of greeting and devotion from
the convention; it read;
“I am sincerely grateful to the Ca
tholic Laymen’s Association of Geor
gia for their kind message. May God
bless them and help them to contin
ue their splendid work with chari
table eagerness.”
(Continued on Page Eleven)
The evening of the convention Ad
miral Benson broadcast an address
similar to his afternoon address over
WTOC at the Do Soto Hotel at the
invitation of the Savannah Board of
Trade.
Bishop Keyes in his address assert
ed that in laboring to mitigate big
otry and increase good will in Geor
gia it is working not only for this
state but for the country as a whole;
he declared that the activities of
Georgia in stemming the tide of big
otry here on the firing line have a
powerfully beneficial reaction in the
great centers of Catholic population
as well. He paid a splendid tribute
to the work of the Catholic Laymen’s
Association, ranking it in the fore
front cf lay organizations with which
he is familiar. Even though people
not only differ from Catholics in
creed but hate them as well, Catholics
are not to return hate for hate; this
is the principle of the Laymen's As
sociation, he said, and it is based on
the Divine injunction that we Should
love our neighbors and even our en
emies. He congratulated the members
of the association on the splendid sup
port given it and urged that they con
tinue, and that in addition they edu
cate themselves in their religion as
j Admiral Benson previously had sug
gested so that they might be better
able to give reason for the faith that
is . theirs thereby reducing misunder-
I standing of it.
President P. H. Rice, K. C. S. G.,
was re-elected for the tenth time, and
other officers named included J. 3,
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Smith, Coolidge, Rosenwald
Trusiees $8,000,000 Fund
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
NEW YORK, Oct. 19.—The lunch
eon meetings of former Governor Al
fred E. Smith, Calvin Coolidge and
Julius Rosenwald, which have been
going on for several months and
have aroused considerable comment,
were for the purpose of discussing
plans for administration of an $8,-
000,000 fund for charity, it was re
vealed here.
The fortune, left to be administer
ed by “a Catholic, a Protestant and
a Jew,” was that of Conrad Hubert,
inventor of the electric flashlight,
who died last March. The huge
trust fund, three-fourths of his es
tate, was left to be given to educa
tional, benevolent and religious or
ganizations.
The three men had^planned to keep
information about the bequest secret
until their plans were completed,
but the purpose of their luncheon
meetings in thes Bankers Club here
leaked out.
Former Governor Smith was dis
pleased when he learned that the
news was public jYroperty, and the
only statement he would make was:
“This is a labor of love for. us
three and we have spent our time
working on it. We will make our an
nouncement in a short time when we
have everything ready. But we
don’t want the story coming out in
dribs and drabs. And that’s every
word I have to say about it now.”
The donor of the huge bequest was
the organizer of the Everyready Bat
tery Company and, after the Na
tional Carbon Company bought it
over, held a controlling interest iw
the Yale Electric Company,