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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. NAVAL RESERVE RADIO 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. Try the New Sea Food Package Fresh Fish without odor or waste—Always Fresh—Always to be had—Always ready for the pan. NORDIC FILLETS At Your Market or Grocer’s Daily. Palmetto Fish & Oyster Co. COLUMBIA, S. C. Wholesale SEAFOOD Distributors The Georgia State Savings Assn. BULL AND YORK STREETS—SAVANNAH, GA. 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