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FEBRUARY 15, 1930
THE BULLETIN OF THE CATHOLIC L AYMEN’S ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA
Carroll University
Campaign Successful
$2,500,000 Cleveland Drive
$14,000 Over Quota
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
CLEVELAND, O.—A campaign to
raise 52,500,000 for a new group of
buildings for John Carroll Univer
sity in charge of the Jesuits ended
January 30, with an oversubscription
of 514,000 on the quota. The money
will afford the Jesuits their greatest
opportunity for expansion in north
ern Ohio. Plans are to erect a build
ing to care for from 1,200 to 1,500
students; a dormitory for students
who live out of town; a gymnasium,
and a faculty home. The Jesuits
have conducted the only Catholic
College in the Cleveland diocese since
they came from Buffalo 43 years ago.
A campaign several years ago pro
vided funds to purchase a 43-acre site
on University Heights, a suburb east
of Cleveland. The present plant is
a shingle building, located at W. 30th
Street and Carroll Avenue, with an
enrollment of 350 high school and 350
college students. Tentative plans are
to retain this building for a high
school when the new plant is ready.
Some of the most earnest public ad
dresses for the success of the cam
paign have been made by non-Cath-
olic men. The general committee
eluded many of the foremost men
of Cleveland, irrespective of relig
ious faith. The Rt. Rev. Joseph
Schrembs, Bishop of Cleveland, was
honorary chairman of the campaign
committee and John J. Bernet, presi
dent of the Chesapeake & Ohio Rail
way Company, was the active chair
man.
The project was conducted by the
Rev. Benedict J. Rodman, S. J.. rec
tor of John Carroll University, who
came to Cleveland from St. Mary’s
College, St. Mary’s, Kansas, some
thing over a year ago. Details of
the campaign we re planned by Don
ald C. Dougherty and Arman L. Mer-
riam, of Cleveland, who have di
rected a dozen or more similar ap
peals.
A sum of 5203,000 given by the
priests of the diocese to Bishop
Schrembs in honor of his ruby jubi-
less as a priest was turned over to
the fund by the Bishop and will be
used to build the chape) for the new
group of buildings. The bishop also
gave permission to pastors to assess
their parishes a sum equal to the dio
cesan assessment and to 'turn the to
tal into the fund. This was approx
imately 5200,000 more. Besides the
5203,000 given to him by his priests
Bishop Schembs also donated $10,-000
more which he announced was a per
sonal contribution. Msgr. Joseph F.
Smith, pastor of St. John’s Cathedral,
personally gave $5,000.
Other large contributions were
$110,000 from the children of the late
Caesar A. Grasselli to build a tower
and a library in memory of their
parents. An anonymous donor gave
$100,000. Other large contributions in
cluded 550,000 from Samuel Mather,
non-Catholic millionaire; $50,000 from
Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Bernet; the .John
Carroll Guild, $30,000; W. G. Wilson,
$25,000; the Pickands-Mather Com
pany, $25,000; Mr. and Mrs. John
Sherwin, $25,000; the Michael O’Neil
family, Akron, $25,000. There were
thousands of other contributions
ranging in size from $10,000 down to a
few dollars. The Cleveland Plain
Dealer gave $7,500; and The Cleve
land Press and The Cleveland News
each gave $5,000 The girls at Lourdes
Academy gave $1,30Q.
Georgia Editor Commends
Encyclical on Education
Mt. Vernon Monitor Editorial Asserts That “Common
Reason Dictates to the Mind That the Pope Is Right in
This Matter of Education”—Recommends-Its Study
(From the Mt. Vernon, Ga., Mont-’ry
Monitor, January 23, 1930).
THE POPE OF ROME ON
CHRISTIAN EDUCATION
The Pope of Rome has delivered a
public message on the subject of
“Christian Education.” We are not
members of the Catholic Church
and do not believe in its doctrines
as we understand them. But this
message is the finest thing we have
ever seen regarding this subject.
In it the Pope sets out clearly the
distinct duties of the family, the
state and the church. He shows how
all three can and should work har
moniously together. He shows how
education must be Christian educa
tion if Christian civilization is to
stand. He tells how state educa
tion, if carried to the extent of mo
nopolizing educations, is bound to
destroy Christian institutions. He
warns of the encroachments of the
state on functions of the family and
the church. He states that, “The
real immediate aim of Christian edu
cation is to co-operate with Divine
Grace. He shows clearly how the
state can not give Christian educa
tion and should not.
He defines the duties of a state.
“Now the aim of civil society, which
.is the common temporal good, con
sists in insuring peace and security
in order that families and private
individuals may enjoy the free exer
cise of their rights and also consists
in insuring the greatest spiritual
and material well-being possible in
the present life by the unification
and co-ordination of everybody's ef
forts.”
He shows how Christian education
will not retard development of the
sciences, as so many contend, but is
the greatest means of promoting and
developing scientific work. He even
goes far enough to show that dif
ferent creeds can work harmonious
ly together in states for the educa
tion of its citizens and that the state
can render greatest good in educa
tion by providing subsidies for these
institutions rather than providing
ample “neutral or mixed schools.”
You may talk about the Roman
Catholic Church taking charge of
things all you please; but when you
see such ideas as these coming from
the head of that church you may
easily see the reason.
While Protestants quarrel over a
foolish prohibition statute and at
tempt to incorporate creeds into the
civil laws of the land and then try
to force subjects to obey their creed,
Roman Catholic leaders are announc
ing principles and rules of conduct
that no one can successfully attack.
Sensible people who know reason
and right are naturally going to lis
ten to such doctrines and follow
such men.
Common reason dictates to the
mind of a reasonable man that the
Pope is right in this matter of edu
cation. Experience of nations past
upholds his position.
The State of Georgia has already
monopolized grammar and high
school education and, with its twen
ty-five colleges, is gradually mon
opolizing college education. We Prot
estants are daily crushing Christian
Education in our own very midst. It
wouldn’t hurt us to heed some sound
advice, even though it does come
from the Pope of Rome.
GARVANS GIVE $50,000
TO CHEMICAL PROJECT
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
NEW YORK. —The American
Chemical Society has anounced
that Francis P. Garvin, president
of the Chemical Foundation, and
Mrs. Garvan, will contribute $50,-
000 a year to swell a fund intend
ed to keep the American public in
formed on the progress of chemi
cal research.
Mr. and Mrs. Garvan have con
tributed $200,000 recently for
a study of the common cold, and
they have expended $250,000 in
prizes for anual essays on chemis
try in schools and colleges. Both
are Catholics.
D'ANNUNZIO DONATES $5,000 TO
CHURCH FEND
(By N. C. W. C. News Sendee)
PESCARA, Italy.—Gabriele d’An-
nunzio, poet, warrior and playwright,
has just donated 100,000 lire (more
than $5,000) to the Church of San
Cetteo here to swell its alteration
fund. The poet’s family formerly
lived in Pescara, and his letter to the
pastor stated that he wished his
mother’s remains brought back here.
French Army Staff
Chief a Catholic
General Weygand Was Inti
mate Friend of Foch
BY M. MASSLANI
(Paris Correspondent, N. C. W. C.
News Service)
- PARIS.—General Weygand is the
one to whom the Government lias
just entrusted the important duties
of Chief of Staff of the French Army,
vacant since the retirement of Gen
eral Deebney.
The new Chief of Staff was the
intimate friend and disciple of Mar
shal Foch and is, as everyone knows.
, an avowed and practical Catholic.
| An anti-religious sheet, criticising his
nomination, makes use of words that
are attributed to Clemenceau; Wey
gand is in with the clergy up to his
neck.”
It would be difficult to determine
whether Clemenceau actually spoke
as quoted, but one thing that is cer
tain is his appreciation of the very
remarkable intellectual attainments of
General Weygand, and the fact that
the present regime bolds him in high
esteem.
Philadelphia Debates] ENGLISH BENEDICTINE
Religious Education \ DIES IN LONDON AT 97
Board of Education Rejects
Part Time Plan
Poland Eighty-Seven
Per Cent Catholic
Catholics Outnumber Poles
There by Twenty-Four Per
Cent, Statistics Reveal
(BY N. C. W. C. News Service)
WARSAW. — According to statis
tics compiled by Antoni Troszynski
and published in a recent issue of
Espero Katolika, Poland is probably
the most vital nation in Europe. The
average annual increase over a pe
riod of ten years has been 427,000.
The total population as of January,
1929, was 30,625,000.
According to nationality, the Polish
statistics are: Poles, 63.2 per cent;
Ruthenians, 14.3 per cent; Jews, 7.8
per cent; White Ruthenians, 3.9 per
cent; Germans, 3.8 per cent, and mis
cellaneous 1 per cent. They are
more Catholics of the Latin rite than
of any sect in Poland. They are
practically 75 per cent of the popu
lation. The Oriental rite, next in
number, is slightly more than 12 per
cent.
The figures given for the City of
Posen are particularly interesting.
In 1918, it had a population of 158,-
185; in 1928, 237,048. Poles formed
57.1 per cent of the population in
1918 and 96.5 per cent in 1928. Re
ligious statistics for 1918 were: Cath
olics, 64.1 ner cent: Evangelists. 31.9
per cent; Jews, 3.6 percent; others,
less than one-half of one per cent.
In 1928 the Catholics had increased
to 95.7 per cent, the Evangelists had
decreased to 3.2 per cent, and the
Jews to .9 per cent and all others to
one-fifth of one per cent.
Warsaw, the capital citv. has 50
churches, 53 chapels and 600.000 par
ishioners. The largest parish, “All
Saints,” has more than 50,000. “Our
Lady of Loretto” has 50.000; St.
John’s parish alone has 49 places of
worship.
TJie City of Cracow, with only one-
fifth the population of Warsaw, has
70 churches.
(By N. C. W. C. Newsservice)
PHILADELPHIA.— The committee
on schools of the Board of Education,
by a unanimous vote. Wednesday
rejected a proposal to have higli
school students devote one hour a
week to religious instruction, to be
received at their own churches or
synagogues. The proposal, brought
before the committee by a Protestant
group, was rejected on the major
premise that it “ignores and directly
contravenes” the principle of
church and state separation, and
would tend to divide students into
sectarian groups.
Catholics of Philadelphia took no
part in the movement, neither sup
porting nor opposing it. This attitude
was taken because, it was said, Catho
lic circles here feel instruction in re
ligion can best be given Catholics in
their own schools.
The plan was presented to the
board’s committee in a petition sign- *
ed by the Rev. Floyd V/. Tomkins,
rector of Holy Trinity Protestant
Episcopal Church, and the Rev. Au
gust Pohlman, rector of Temple
Lutheran Church. Their petition ex
pressed “a desire to bring religious
instruction as a part of tire senior
high school work.”
PLAN HELD
INADVISABLE
Hie scheme was termed impractical
and inadvisable in a number ol
counts in the objection of the sub
committee of the committee on
schools, which had had the measure
under advisement for several weeks.
The sub-committee, consisting of
William Rowen, president of the
Board; Arthur W. Horton and Dr.
Solomon Solis-Cohen, said of the
plan that it “ignores and directly
contravenes a fundamental principle
of the Federal Government, and of
Pennsylvania. namely, that the
Church and State be kept absolutely
separate.”
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
LONDON.—Perhaps the oldest
Benedictine in England Is dead
here at the age of 97. Dom John
Adalbert O’Sullivan spent tire
last years of his life as chaplain
at St. Anthony's Hospital, Cheam.
He was buried at St. Augustine's
Abbey, Ramsgate.
Bern at Kilkenny, Ireland, in
1832, Dom John was educated at
Downside Benedictine school,
England. He joined a group of
English monks who went to
Subiaco and later formed the
community at Ramsgate. He was
solemnly professed in 1857 and
was ordained the following year.
Dom John later worked in Ire
land, where he attempted to es
tablish an agricultural college, at
Lcopardstown, near Dublin, and
at Auckland. New Zealand. He
returned to England in 1914. The
venerable monk translated the
lives of several modem mystics.
MISSIONARY-DOCTOR
WILL WORK IN AFRICA
Poor Give Home for
Delegate to India
in
$40,000 Contributed
Small Sums for Residences
LIBREVILLE, Africa.-(N. C. W. C.
Fides) — The right Rev. Louis
Tardy, Vicar Apostolic of Gabon, an
nounces the arrival in Libreville of
Father Grimeau of the Congregation
of the Holy Ghost, a priest who has
just secured bis doctorate in medicine
in Paris.
Father Grimeau has been prepared
for a medical apostolate in French
Equatorial Africa. He will be assist
ed by a corps of Sisters who are
registered nurses, three of whom are
already in the field while others are
expected shortly.
PRIEST CITES POVERTY
AT NATIONAL CAPITAL
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
WASHINGTON.—There is as much
dire need among the citizens <,f
Washington as in any other large city,
but it is more successfully concealed,
said the Rev. Dr. John O’Grady, di
rector of Catholic charities, in a'radio
address from station WMAL. Wash
ington, said Dr. O'Grady, has more
dependent children, relative to its
population, than any other city in the
country.
MADRAS.- (N. C. W. C. Fides).—
Detailed reports of efforts of Indian
Catholics to provide a permanent
residence for the Papal Delegate to
India as a jubilee gift to Pope Pius
XI reveals that the gathering of 110,-
000 rupees ($40,000) was the work of
India’s poor. Toward this sum only
160 persons gave 50 rupees ($16) or
more, and the total of their contri
butions was but 18,000 rupees ($6,000).
Thousands of people of little means
contributed their mites. It is inspir
ing to note on the lists “The fisher
men of Sea Street, Negombo, Cey
lon,” who gave the proceeds of two
days’ fishing.
Archbishop Edward Mooney, of
Youngstown, Ohio, is the present
Apostolic Delegate in India and is
the first to occupy the new residence
which has been secured at Bangalore
in Mysore. The home is a commodi
ous and dignified mansion command
ing one of the finest views in the city.
The sum sufficed not only to make
this purchase but to secure a sum
mer house in the Nilgiri Hills.
In order to collect the jubilee fund
a central committee was formed in
Bangalore with the Bishop of Mysore
as president. His Excellency, the late
Patriarch of the East Indies, inteuest-
ed himself in the movement, placed
the proposal before the Indian Hier
archy and urged action.
The largest individual giver was
Mr. C. S. Antony of Colombo, who
donated 5,000 rupees. Among the
dioceses Colombo stands first with
34,143 rupees; 1,800 Catholics in Co
lombo gave five rupees or over. Cal
cutta comes second with 8,600 rupees,
Malacca third with 5,663, Jaffna 4.-
228, Mysore 4,196.
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UNIT FOR SANTA CLARA
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
SANTA CLARA. Cal.—A unit of
the United States Naval Reserve radio
communication division will be or
ganized here. Santa Clara will be
one of the first colleges in the coun
try to have such a unit. It will be
organized under the direction of Dan
Bardin, chief radio man of the United
States Naval Reserves and a student
here.
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