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THE BULLETIN OF THE CATHOLIC LAYMEN’S ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA
FEBRUARY 15, 1930
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N. Y. Teacher Barred
Because of Religion
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Orange County Official j
Gives Catholicity as Reason !
for Her Rejection
Sir Esme Howard Retires as
Ambassador to United States
ETHEL BARRYMOR PROUD
OF CONVENT TRAINING
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(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
MONROE, N. Y.—Barring of a pub
lic school teacher from service be
cause of her Catholic faith has
thrown this little Orange County town
into a turmoil, with the teacher, the
school principal and a letter as its
center.
The teacher, Miss Anna Mulhol-
land, 24, was refused a post at Pub
lic School No. 4 by William J. Hoff
man, principal, because she was a
Catholic. In evidence of the fact,
Miss Mulholland has produced a let
ter from the principal which reads:
"My dear Miss Mulholland: You
did not answer one of my questions
satisfactorily. I was anxious to know
whether or not you were Protestant
or a Catholic. If you belong to the
Protestant religion, report immedi
ately and send me a wire letting me
know when you will arrive so that I
can make any arrangements accord
ingly. If you are a Catholic, please
wire me at my expense. A contract
will be awarded you upon your ar
rival under the first condition only.
“Very truly yours,
“WILLIAM J. HOFFMAN,
“Principal.”
The Rev. P. F. MacAran, pastor of
St. Anastasia’s Church, Harriman,
who is leading the protest, seeks Hoff
man’s removal from office. The latter
admits he was perhaps “over zealous.”
“The fruit of liberal education is
truth, tolerance and freedom; not big
otry and abuse of power,” Father
MacAran said. “This bigotry is a
growing evil, particularly in small
towns, which threaten to enervate a
verile. tolerant youth, who by rea
son of unavoidable circumstances are
compelled to sit at the feet of teach
ers usurping that honorable profes
sion.”
In a letter he wrote to Frank Wat
son, president of the board of educa
tion, Father MacAran said he asked
whether such bigotry was sanctioned
by the board. No answer was re- j
ceisacf from his letter, the priest said.
Watson, who said he regretted the
incident, further declared no action
Would be taken against the principal.
“Mr. Hoffman admits he wrote the
letter," said Watson, “and admits he
erred. Certainly he exercised little
tact, and I make public apology' for
an injustice which has been done.
“Should Miss Mulholland again ap
ply for a position as teacher, I shall
see that she is appointed. Because
she refused to answer certain ques
tions. the vacancy, was filled by an
other applicant who satisfied the
principal. In the future we shall be
more careful not to discriminate
against teachers who embrace the
Catholic faith.”
Sir Esme and Lady Isabella Howard, distinguished Catholics and out
standing figures in diplomatic circles at Washington, who are leaving the
United States. Sir Esme, British Ambassador to the United States and Dean
of the Diplomatic Corps at Washington, is retiring from his country’s foreign
service. He enjoys unusual popularity in Washington and throughout the
United States, where he has written another chapter in a brilliant career.
(International Newsreel)
Gesu High, Miami,
Athletes Honored
Players on Team and Girls
Who Assisted Eleven
Receive Letters
(Special to The Bulletin.)
MIAMI, Fla.—Members of the Gesu
High School football team received
sweaters at a program given at the
K. of C. Hall in the Congress Build-
The sweaters were presented by the
Gesu School Athletic Association
ing Friday evening, February 7th.
through J, A. Quinn, president of
the organization.
A Sweater was presented to Joseph
Sammon. who has worked with the
athletic association for the past three
years in raising money to finance
the football team.
Members of the football team: Wil
liam Hugh, captain of the team, A.
LaSalle, J. Yarborough. Harold Brion,
Harvey Brion. H. Scott, H. Rogers C.
Xmaniers, Willard Schang, J. North-
ington and J. B. Nichols, manager of
the team.
Five girls were awarded letters
for their assistance to the team. They
are: Marjorie Muller, Lucy Quinn.
Genevieve Cox, Iris Duckens and
Marion Morrisey.
Church Unwittingly
Stops Horse Races
(By N. C, W. C. News Service)
LONDON. —A church stopped a
race meeting at Chelmsford, Essex
not by any action of a clergyman but
by £ freak of the weather.
The church stands alongside the
race track. Overnight there was a
sharp frost, and when the sun came
up it cleared the frost from the
track except whore the shadow of the
church had protected it.
When the officials carried out an
inspection they decided that for. a dis
tance of nearly a furlong the course
was unsafe for racing and the meet
ing was abandoned.
METHODIST BOARD
HITS TOBACCO AOS
Plans to Regulate Them
Through Food, Drug Act
WASHINGTON. — The Board of
Temperance, Prohibition and Public
Morals of the Methodist " Episcopal
Church is waging a war against
cigarette advertising through its gen
eral secreary, Clarence True Wilson,
and its research secretary Dcets
Pickett.
Wilson’s plan is to regulate tobacco
advertisements through the provi
sions of the Pure Food and Drugs
act.
“If the advertising of tobacco were
to cease,” he said, “it is probable that
within five years the number of to
bacco users would decrease by half.”
Public Nursing Band
for Dutch Catholics
Another Example of Catholic
Action From Holland
Africa Convent Must
Pay for Postulants
Required to Reimburse Par
ents Like Husband Taking
Their Daughter for Wife
NATIONAL CATHOLIC ALUMNI
k. FEDERATION TO MEET APRIL 25
(It/ N. C. W. C.-News Service)
NEW YORK.—The fourth conven
tion of the National Catholic Alumni
Federation will be held at the May
flower Hotel, Washington, D. C., on
April 25. 26 and 27, Edward S. Dore,
of this city, has announced for the
executive committee of the Federa
tion.
BY BEV. J. VAN DEB HEYDEN
(Louvain Correspondent, N. C. W. C.
News Service
LOUVAIN.— The Holland Catholics
are never idle; they are always
strengthening the existing organiza
tions and calling into being new ones.
In Amsterdam they have had for the
last few years an association. Kath-
oliek Amsterdam, whose aim it is to
coordinate all the Catholic educa
tional, social, economical and chari
table efforts of the various parishes
and to create, direct and support new
and special works for particular
needs.
Its latest creation is an association
for the methodical organization of
district nursing under Catholic aus
pices within the limits of the city,
which now counts 750,000 inhabitants,
about one third of whom belong to
the Faith. In the smaller places
throughout the land the association,
“The White-Yellow Cross,” exists and
is doing greatly appreciated work.
It has at its disposal a small army of
religious and lay nurses.
The level country and the splendid
roads have made the use of the bi
cycle universal in Holland, so much
so that foreigners never fail to be
shuck at the sight, not only of the
unusual number of bicycle„ riders of
.both sexes but also of the numerous
'Sisters in their religious garb, bik
ing early and late over the country
and city roads. They are district
nurses going from home to home
where there are sick to care for,
young mothers to assist, babies to at
tend, These nurses entrusted with
seme sort of official authority see,
moreover, to the execution of the le
gally enjoined hygienic and prophy
lactic measures to combat contagion,
assist at the public consultation bu
reaus and furnish medicine to the
poor. Thanks to this organization, the
sick may be eared for at their homes.’’
Her Mother and Daughter
Educated at Same Convent
Joyce Kilmer Park
Dedicated in N. Y.
KANSAS CITY. — Ethel Bary-
more is proud of her convent
training, she declared to a group
of convent-trained women at a
tea given in her honor at St.
Teresa College here. She is ap
pearing here in her play, “The
Kingdom of God.”
“I have never, forgotten iny
convent days, in fact, nothing
could make me lose my vivid
memories of them. The training I
received in my convent school has
helped me over the hard places
in life, as your training will help
you. You can not appreciate now
what is being done for you in
these convent surroundings, but
later you will realize how for
tunate you are and will be as
proud as I of your convent
training.” Miss Barrymore tJien
recounted that she had spent her
life from her sixth to her four
teenth year in the same convent
school in which her mother,
Georgiana Drew, and her young
daughter have been educated, that
is, Notre Dame Convent, Phila
delphia. She told with touching
pride how her daughter recently
finished her woA at the academy
with excellent percentages.
Father Duffy Among the
Speakers as Poet Is
Honored
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
NEW YORK. — Newspaper men,
poets and other writers gathered at
163rd Street and Grand Concourse,
the Bronx, to dedicate the new Joyce
Kilmer Park, in honor of the author
of “Trees,” and other poems, who was
killed in the world war. Among
those attending were members of the
Poetry Society of America, the Au
thors’ Club and the New York News
paper Club. Several hundred other
persons were present.
Mrs. John Jerome Rooney eulogized
Kilmer and told of his love for parks
and children. His poem, “Roofs.’’
was read by William Griffith, and Ed
win Markham, author of “The Man
With the Hoe” and other works, read
two of his verses as a tribute to the
dead poet.
■ The Rev. Francis P. Duffy, chaplain
of the old “Fighting 69th,” cited the
heroism of Kilmer in a short speech,
declaring that he asked for the most
dangerous assignment in the war, that
of scout in No Man’s Land.
Hardeeville, S. C., to
Have Mission Soon
Father Carvil of Paulists
Will Conduct It
(Special to The Bulletin.)
CHARLESTON, S. C.—Rev. Joseph
F. Carvil, C. S. P., of the Paulist
Fathers at Winchester, Tenn., will
conduct a mission at St. Anthony’s
Church, Hardeeville, from Sunday,
February 16th, to the following Fri
day. Mass will be celebrated every
morning at 6:45, and the evening serv
ices and sermon will _ be at eight.
The Hardeeville mission is under
the direction of Rev. Sidney F. Dean.
CINCINNATI ARCHBISHOP
LEAVES FOR ROME
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
CINCINNATI, Ohio. — The Most
Rev. John T. McNicholas, O. P.,
Archbishop of Cincinnati has left
New York on the Lloyd Sabaudo lin
er, Conte Grand for his ad limina
visit to Rome, it has been announced
through the chancery office. Arch
bishop McNicholas sailed for Naples
and will leave Cincinnati within ■ a
few days for a short sojourn in the
East.
The Rt. Rev. Monsignor Urban J.
Vehr, rector of Mt. St. Mary Semin
ary, accompanied Archbishop Mc
Nicholas on the visit. Announcement
was made by Archbishop McNicholas
that Auxiliary Bishop Joseph H. Al
bers will have charge of the admin
istrative duties of the diocese during
the former’s absence.
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NYERI. British East Africa. —(N,
C. W. C.—Fides) — Postulants for
the new convent founded by the
Missionaries of the Consolata in
Kenya Colony must be bought from
their parents just as an East African
husband buys his wife. The British
government has fixed thsk. equivalent
of $150 gold as the maximum mar
riage recompense to be given the
family of the girl; hence the Mother
Superior on the insistence cf the
parents -likewise must send this sum
each time a young lady is accepted
for the religious life.
This is the present development
in the thorny question of founding
the Monastery of Mary Immaculate
in the Vicariate of Nyeri. In Oc
tober, 1918, the first five candidates
were accepted for the project. The
first formal entry into the postu-
lancy took place on December 8,
1927, and the first profession was
witnessed December 8, 1929, when
10 young native women after almost
10 years of training, took their vows.
The idea, so novel to the primi
tives, of young women between 15
and 20 years leaving their homes for
a life in common, not to work far
a husband as all tradition in Kenya
prescribes, but for the Church,
roused a storm of bitter opposition
even among many parents who
seemed passingly fervent Christians.
“Furious mothers presented them
selves, almost crazed with anger,”
writes Mother Gertrude of the Sis
ters of Consolata, foundress of the
undertaking, “and sought to carry
off their girls almost by force.
Others had recourse to the govern
ment, which sometimes obliged us
to advise the young women to re
turn home or to give to the parents
the sum of approximately 3.0"! lire
(?150), which according to the cus
toms of the country, is the price of
the girl to be paid by prospective
husband in case of matrimony. Some
of the young women were stolen
from us by violence, while there
were cases of members of families
who entered the convent surrepti
tiously and beat one or other of the
postulants most cruelly.”
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SAN FRANCISCO.—The diamond
jubilee of St. Ignatius' Church was
celebrated by the Jesuit Fathers with
speciad Masses February 2. At the
6:39 Mass Father Francis J. Sheerin,
S. J., ascended the altar and pro
nounced his final vows in the So
ciety of Jesus.
Seventy-five years ago the first
St. Ignatius church and college in
San Francisco opened on Market
Street where the Emporium stands.
Later a building was erected on Van
Ness Avenue, but it was destroyed
by the fire of 1906. Then the present
building on Fulton Street was
erected.
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