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Member of the National Catholic Welfare Con ference News Service TEN CENTS A COPY. VOL. XI. NO. 2. offi , Xifc? JQnlletin The Only Catholic News paper Between S at t i m o re and New Orleans. AUGUSTA, GEORGIA, JANUARY 18, 1930 ISSUED SEMI-MONTHLY—$2.00 A YEAR PAPACY’S AID TO PEACE DESCRIBED Dr. Corrigan of Boston Col lege Recalls Cases Where Vatican Was Arbitrator )BY N. C. W. C. News Service) BOSTON. — The role of the Popes in promoting and maintaining world peace was discussed by the Rev. Jones I. Corrigan, S. J., Professor of Sociology at Boston College, in a talk before 1,000 members of the League of Catholic Women, meeting at Notre Dame Academy here. “With the new freedom which will flow from the Lateran Treaties and the openly accepted sovereignty of the Holy See, Vatican City will gather a diplomatic corps composed of men not immersed in the intrigues and bargainings of a mataerialisttc world, but devoted to the promotion of international peace, based on in ternational co-operation and not on international rivalry,” said Father Corrigan. “The supra-national character of the Holy See, subject to no nation, yet keenly interested in the well-be ing of all. is the reason for the con fidence of the nations in the impar tiality of the Popes in adjusting in ternational disputes. “Nowhere in all the world is there to be found an atmosphere in which the spirit of conciliation between na tions will thrive as in the atmos phere of Vatican City. As a place where controversies may be brought with confidence that here the dis putants will be free in their discus sion. able to find in the Holy Father a friend worthy of their trust, emi nently fitted to reconcile divergent views, and aid them in the just so lution of their differences, it is with out a peer.” Father Corrigan gave an interest ing summary of the part the Vatican has played in international concilia tion in the past. Beginning with “the Peace of God” and “the Truce of God” in feudal times, he explain ed the mediations of Popes in the Hundred Years War, as well as the work of Nicholas V in offering his arbitration to France, England, Hun gary,! P.oumania, Lithuania, Albania and the Italian powers. “These few cases of Papal arbi tration. picked from a host of others.” he said, “show clearly that though the Popes during the later mediaeval centuries were unable to enforce peace, they were looked up on as natural mediators between warring Christian powers. Three Catholic Institutions Aided by the Hubert Fund, GERMANY REGRETS™ MUM’S TRANSFER Officiates at Eoyal Marriage Successor of Cardinal Cas- parri Honored in Berlin By DR. WILLY ELMENDORFF (Berlin Correspondent, N. C. W. C. News Service) BERLIN — Germans of every rank and denomination sow Msgr. Eugenio Pacelli depart from Berlin with great regret, although they knew greax honors awaited him in Vatican City. For twelve years he has lived in Germany, first as Apostolic Delegate to Bavaria and then as Nuncio at Berlin, sharing the tribulations as well as the pleasures of the people, mingling with them freely, which he could do all the better because of his perfect knowledge of their lan guage. When on December ,9 Msgr. Pa celli presented his resignation to President von Hindenburg, he was received at the president’s palace with military honors and was shown the same token of respect upon his departure. In presenting his resig nation, he thanked the elderly presi dent of the Reich for his cooperation and courtesy, paid tribute to the de ceased Dr. Stresemann and expressed great hopes for the future of the German Republic under the Presi dency of von Hindenburg. In the presence of Dr. Curtuis, Dr. Stresemann’s successor as Minister of Foreign Affairs, and Her von Schu bert Secretary of State, the German President replied that he was very sorry to see Msgr. Pacelli depart from his post in Berlin which he had oc cupied for nine years. He also spoke of his hopes for the establishment Selected Among 3 3 Schools and Agencies Named by Coolidge, Smith, Rosenwald (By N. C. W. C. News Service) NEW YORK.—Three Catholic in stitutions are among the 33 schools and welfare agencies named by for mer President Coolidge, former Gov ernor Alfred E. Smith and Julius [ Rosenwald as beneficiaries of a SG,- 000,000 to $8,000,000 fund provided by the will of Conrad Hubert. St. Vincent’s Hospital, New York , City, is named to receive $500,000, pay- | able from the funds on hand. The Catholic University of Am erica, Washington, D. C.. is named to receive $50,000, payable from the first $1,000,000 of the residuary estate. The Madonna Day Nursery, New York City, is named with nine other institutions to share the remainder of the residuary estate, which, it is estimated, is between $400,000 and $2 - 400,000. (Continued on Page Three) NOTRf DAME ELEVEN DECLARED CHAMPION “The most famous case of Papal arbitration in modern times, Father Corrigan declared, “was when Bis marck appealed to Leo XIII in 1885, to arbitrate Germany’s dispute with Spain over the Caroline Islands. The Pope succeeded perfectly in adjust ing the rival claims. “The Papacy has always seized up on any favorable opportunity of exercising her good influence in the cause of justice, peace and amity between all nations. The League of Nations and the Kellogg Peace Pact have brought us a long way towards peace, but the one is political, the other a convention that will hardly stand the test of heated national pas< sion. “The world needs some great mor al force to guide and uphold it amid the ambitions of sovereigns and statesmen, to protect men against their own cruel and rapacious in stincts, and to set a higher tone of n u m a n sympathy and fraternity among men generally. The new Papacy supplies just this moral force. World peace has a powerful ally of far-reaching influence in the New Vatican State.” Committee Writers of Make Leading Award (By N. C. W. C. News Service) NOTRE DAME, Ind. — Notre Dame University’s 1929 football team has been named champion of the United States by a committee of leading American sports writers, who made known their choice in a ballot spon sored by Albert Russell Erskine, au tomobile manufacturer. The result was announced New Year’s day by W. O. McGeehan, of The New York Herald Tribune, chairman of the com mittee of award. The Rockne team received 179 voles on the final ballot. Second was Pitts burgh with 41, and Purdue rated third with two votes. The vote of the committee of award itself gave Notre Dame eleven additional votes, bring ing that university's total up to 190. None of the other teams received a vote from the committee of award. Among those voting was Governor Theodore Roosevelt, who cabled his ballot from Porto Rico through the War Department. The Notre Dame team will receive a huge silver cup, to be held for one year, signifying it as champion. At the presentation ceremony, Knute Rockne, famous coach of Notre Dame, will be presented with an eight-cylinder automobile by Mr. Erskine. The Bankers Trust Company, of this city, and C. Bertram Plante, as executors and trustees of Mr. Hubert’s will, selected former President Cool idge, former Governor Smith and Mr. Rosenwald as a committee to select the institutions to receive awards un der the will. The schools, institu tions and agencies named by the com mittee were decided upon following more than a dozen conferences in which more than 500 institutions were considered. Mr. Plante said that 1.- 600 requests for aid from persons all over the country had been received and immediately rejected since the committee was formed. 1 Former Governor Smith said that the committee had tried to the best of its ability to make the money produce more money for charity, a like amount or as much more as possible. “The principle which has guided US in all the selections,” he said, “has been to aid the institutions which have planned new construction or permanent improvements, or needed additional funds for the extension of charitable work already started. ‘'Jake St. Vincent’s Hospital. For half a century the New York Hos pital on Fifteenth Street has had an obstetrical ward at St. Vincent’s. Now that ward is being moved to the Cornell University Medical Center, leaving the whole lower half of Man- hattan without an obstetrical ward. The hospital had the land on Seventh Avenue but needed the money for the building. So we decided to give it $500,000.’” Former Governor Smith also said that Mr. Hubert, the originator of the pocket flashlight, had, during his life time, made generous contributions to many worthy causes. The committee, he said, did the most it could to fol-’ low in his footsteps. It received re ports from every institution to which he contributed, and “followed him where we found that there was still a real need.” Alabama Fire Renders 150 Holy Trinity Nuns Homeless (By N. C. W. C. News Service) HOLY TRINITY, Ala.—The Mother house and Novitiate of the Mission ary Servants of the Blessed Trinity was completely destroyed by fire of undetermined origin January 2, with damage variously estimated at from $100,000 to $150,000. About 150 Sisters, sleeping in the building when the fire broke out, were endangered and barely escaped with their lives. The Blessed Sacrament was rescued at the risk of his life by the Rev. Thomas Judge, C. M., founder of the Holy Trinity congregation here. The most serious loss to the Sis ters, who have worked tirelessly in the face of apparently insurmount able obstacles to make the mother- house a success, was the destruction of records. All documents of the group were destroyed, among them the mailing list of the Holy Ghost Magazine, which the Sisters pub lished. The disaster leaves the nuns home less and penniless in a country where very few Catholics live. The mother- house was established about twelve years ago and the path of progress until the fire had been a most diffi cult one. Improvements to the prop erty have been made at great sacri fice, and the blaze in one short night, wiped out the evidences of more than a decade of unremitting toil. The building group destroyed, val ued alone at about $50,000, consisted of a main building flanked by two wings. The former, 300 feet in length, was the utility building, housing, among other things, the offices of the Holy Ghost. The wings, each 150 feet in length, contained a chapel, auditorium, schoolrooms, and on the second floors, dormitories and cells. The structure was built in 1924. Only recently a heating system was installed at great cost, and work of reboarding the building and con structing a portico in front of it, was halted by the fire. Efforts to raise funds for recon struction of the mother house already have been begun by the Rev. Mother Boniface, who is in charge of the mother house. DEVELOP CHARACTER AS CURE FOR CRIME Christ, Not Caesar, Can Remedy Evils, Archbishop Curley Declares in Sermon GOVERNOR SMITH DISCUSSES DUTY OF CITIZENSHIP In Talk Over WLWL, New York, He Deplores Lack of Interest in Government His Eminence Pietro Cardinal Maffi, Archbishop of Pisa, who officiated at the marriage of Crown Prince Humbert of Italy and Princess Marie Jose of Bel gium. in Rome. His Eminence, on the day of the wedding, was decorated by both King Victor Emanuel of Italy and King Al bert of Belgium. Pope Says Jubilee Mass at St. John's Goes Forth to Italian Soil to Officiate in Church Where He Said His First Mass )BY N. C. W. C. News Service) BALTIMORE.— A plea for the de velopment of Christian character ra ther than additional laws was made here January 5 by the Most Rev. Michael J. Curley, Archbishop of Baltimore, who delivered his New Year's sermon in the Cathedral. At the same time, the Rev. Francis X. Talbot. S. J., speaking of St. Ignat ius’ Church, condemned legislation as a means Of fighting the spread of obscene literature. The ills of the country, Arch bishop Curley said, are due to "the spirit of great church bodies which have given up appealing to Jesus Christ and turned their appeals to Caesar.” (By Rev. John J. Cogsidine, M. M.) ROME—“His Holiness has come forth from Vatican soil, not only to Rome but to the world.” It was a prelate who spoke as he trailed in the small group accompanying the Pope through the Lateran Missionary Mu seum. We were passing through the Halls of China; we had left be hind the Balkan countries, the Near East, Mesopotamia, India, Siam, Indo-China, Japan, and had before us Oceania, Africa, and the Ameri cas. It was still the small hours of the morning of December 20th. to be another memorable day of 1929, for His Holiness had just finished Mass in the church where 50 years ago this morning he had been raised to the priesthood. What a mark of the man in this act of the Vicar of Christ! Except for the formal .procession of the blessed Sacrament in the Piazza of St. Peter last July, this the first journey of a Pope beyond Vatican territory since 1870, was to the “Mother of the Churches of the World,” St. John Lateran’s, to say Mass in secret and then to pass an hour luxuriating amid the exhibits of the lands of the world apostolate in a mission mu seum of his own creation. The system of multiplying laws (Continued on page seven) Son of Anti-Clerical Leader Is Baptized BY MSGR. ENRICO PUCCI (Rome Correspondent N. C. W. C. News Service) ROME. — Two unusually interest ing incidents that were direct de velopments of the settlement of the Roman Question have just come to light. One is the conversion of Dr. Aldo Mezzabotta son of Ernest Mez- zabotta, who was an extremely pop ular and bitterly anticlerical novel ist. The other was the successful invocation of a recent Italian law to change the given name of a man who declared that it was the choice of his anticlerical father, and caused him “moral suffering.” After a visit to the Blessed Sacre- (Continued on page seven) (By N. C. W. C. News Service) NEW YORK. — Former Governor Alfred E. Smith delivered a radio ad dress for the first time in nearly a year January G. when he spoke’on “The Duties of Citizenship” over sta tion WLWL. broadcasting agency of the Paulist Fathers in New York.’ The former Governor’s speech was devoted exclusively to the duties de volving upon all citizens, and their debt to the commonwealth. He em phasized the importance of the vote, and criticized those voters who rib- main dormant in the four-year period between presidential elec tions. “It is essential to understand and to feel the close relationship of the government to every home and there fore to the life and welfare of the family,” Mr. Smith said. “The gov ernment and its affairs concern every family. You have only to reflect on some of the things which government does for you and this becomes imme diately apparent.” The various phases of government —health department, labor laws; taxation and regulation of transpor tation—were discussed by the speaker, who pointed out their relations to the family and its well-being. “First of all,” the former Governor continued, “people have the right to express their choice of candidates for the various offices to be filled on every election day. No office is too small or too unimportant to warrant a faithful citizen in remaining away from the polls. In the State of New York hundreds of thousands of peo ple only vote at presidential elections. How can they claim to have any in terest in the government of the state or its civil divisions when for three out of four years they refuse to par ticipate in the elections? “People who are not sufficiently in terested to cast a ballot certainly can not be interested in any operation of the government. If such a feeling were general and widespread throughout all the states, democratic representative government, so far as the commonwealths of the country are concerned, could not be said to b« much of a success. “Casting a ballot is only the begin ning of what people ought to know about their government. Democratic representative government is-based on the theory that those elected to the law making bodies of the state are the direct representatives of the peo ple residing in the districts in which they are elected. A pure democracy in the place in the state for the pur pose of making laws. Obviously that is impossible. We therefore rest the future success of the state upon rep resentative democracy. There should be as much interest in the election of the representatives who make our laws as we would take in our own activities upon proposed statutes were it possible for us all to be pre sent and vote. “It follows naturally that if repre sentative government is to be a suc cess a citizen should make it his business to communicate his wishes to his representatives. How many people know the name of the senator or the assemblyman representing the district in which they reside? That applies not only to the state legisla tors but to the national legislature and just as much to members of the Board of the alderman. Lack of in terest in public questions on the part (Continued on page seven) Ireland Receives Its First Papa! Nuncio Since 1645 BY J. J. MOONEY (Dublin Correspondent, N. C. W. C. News Service.) DUBLIN—The reception of Arch bishop Robinson, Papal Nuncio, in Dublin, provides a strong contrast to the manner in which the last Nuncio to Ireland was received. While Arch bishop Robinson was received at the chief port of Ireland, and escorted to his residence by the Head of the State, the Nuncio Rinuccini, Arch bishop of Fermo, who landed in Ire land in 1645, was obliged to take shelter in a shepherd’s hut, which he shared with domestic animals for two days. At the time of Archbishop Rinuc- cini’s arrival, Ireland. though she possessed a federal parliament of her own, was in the throes of bitter civil war, which was to be followed a few years later by Cromwell's bar barous massacres. In order to reach by the shortest and safest overland route, the City of Kilkenney, where the Federal Parliament was seated. Archbishop Rinuccini landed at Kenmare, Kerry, on October 21st. Many parts of the province of Munster were then in the hands of the English Ally, the fa mous Inchiquin, and it was from this protagonist of the anti-Irish forces, that the Archbishop took re fuge with a shepherd. Having with difficulty and in dan ger reached Kilkenny. Archbishop Rinuccini was received by the Bishop of Ossorf in Saint Patrick’s Cathedral now known as the Protestant Cathe dral of Saint Canice. In this Church, a few years later, Cromwell’s troopers stabled their horses. After his reception in the Cathe dral, the Nuncio was received by the Supreme Council of the Parliament, and by the Archbishops of Dublin and Cashel, who were in Kilkenny specially for that nurpose. The Arcli- biship of Armagh, Hugh O’Reilley, was in Ulster with troops protecting the Catholic cause, while the Arch bishopric of Tuam was vacant, its late occupant having just been killed by anti-Catholic troops in Sligo, and there buried in an unknown grace. Archbishop Robinson was formerly an American Francijcan and prelate,