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Member of the National Catholic Welfare Con ference News Service IGftr Qttttrtitt Social Organ of the Catholic Laymens Assoc iation/Georgk TO BRING ABOUT A FRIENDLIER FEELING AMONG GEORGIANS, IRRESPECTIVE OF CREED” TEN CENTS A COPY. VOL. XI. No. 5. AUGUSTA, GEORGIA, MARCH 8, 1930 The Only Catholic j News paper, Between | B al timore and* New Orleans. 1 ISSUED SEMI-MONTHLY- $2.00 A S EAR CARDINAL MERRY j ^Zd^TolT! National Weekly Broadcast i ARCHBISHOP RUIZ DEL VALIS DEAD I ——— l of Catholic Hour Arranged ANSWERS CRITICS Distinguished Prelate, Car dinal at 38, Dies at 65. Held Many Important Posts (By N. C. W. C. News Service.' ROME — The sudden death here, February 26, from heart failure fol lowing an operation for appendicitis, of Raphael Cardinal Merry del Val removed from the Sacred College of Cardinals a member who was a for mer Papal Secretary of State, Arch priest of the Vatican Basilica, and one of its most famous and colorful figures. His Eminence's death was entirely unexpected. He was taken suddenly ill with appendicitis the day before His condition grew worse during the night, and, on Wednesday, it was thought necessary to operate. Pro fessor Bastianelli performed the ope ration, and, following it. the Cardi nal rested comfortably until his heart failed. Cardinal Merry del Val was in his sixty-fifth year and had been a Car dinal for 26 years, having had the unusual distinction of being elevated to the Sacred College when only 38 years of age. He had been a Bishop for 30 years. One description of Car dinal Merry del Val published on the occasion of the silver jubilee of his elevation to the episcopacy in 1925, declared him to be “Irish and Spanish of blood, English by birth and educa tion, cosmopolitan by office, and Ca tholic in the deepest, truest and best sense of the word.’’ CARDINAL HAYES OPENS PROGRAM National Council of Catholic Men Secures Father Finn of Paulists to Direct Music (By N. C. W. C. News Service* WASHINGTON, D. C.—Broadcast ing of a weekly “Catholic Hour” over a network of stations of the National Broadcasting Company, for which the National Council of Catholic Men has been planning for the last several months, was inaugurated from WJZ. New York, at 6 p. m„ Eastern Standard time, Sunday. March 2. His Eminence Cardinal Hayes, in a short address, then dedicated the “hour” as a Catholic contribution to the religious and spiritual life of . America. The longer address that inaugurated the Hour was then given by the Rt. Rev. Joseph Scli- rembs, Bishop of Cleveland and Episcopal Chairman of the Lay Or ganizations Department of the Na tional Catholic Welfare Conference. The programs will be presented every Sunday from 6 to 7 p. m., East ern Standard time, for at least a year. „ , . ., OF MEXICAN PACT President Appoints — Kerney on Board! A P° stolic Delegate Recalls That Agreement Was Reached With Full Ap proval of the Holy See (By Telegraph to N. C. W. C. News Service) MEXICO CITY — His Excellency, the Most Rev. Leopoldo Ruiz y Flores, Apostolic Delegate to Mexico, has just issued a statement in which he answers two widely circulated pamphlets which criticize in improp er terms the arrangements made for the resumption of worship in the Catholic churches of the country, and brands as insulting a discourse circulated here, which is alleged to have been written by a Mexican prelate immediately following an au dience with the Pope, and to have been read at Louvain. Raphael Merry del Val was born in London, October 10, 1865. His father, Don Raphael Marquis Merry del Val, was at that time secretary to the Spanish Embassy to the Court of St. James, where the Cardinal’s brother, Don Alfonso Merry del Val, served in later years as Ambassador. The Cardinal’s father subsequently be came Spanish Ambassador to Austria, and to the Holy See. The family is one of the oldest in Spanish aris tocracy and traces back its ancestry for several hundred years. After studying at ' Baylis House, j Slough, Raphael del Val entered the Jesuit College of St. Michael at Brus sels, and later studied at Ushaw. Completing the latter course, he was selected by the court of Madrid to be private tutor to King Alfonso XIII. . When his father- was named Am bassador to the Holy See, Raphael ac companied him to Rome. He was ad mitted to the Academia dei Nobili Ecclesiastiei, in Rome, in 18G6, and was ordained to the priesthood on October 30, 1888. In the preceding year, however, he was sent to Lon don, in the suite of Msgr. Ruffo Scilla who presented the felicitations of Pope Leo XIII, on the occasion of the golden,jubilee of Queen Vic toria. In March of 1888, he went to Berlin with Msgr. Galimberti, to as sist at the funeral of William I, and to congratulate the new Emporor. In November of the same year, he was sent by the Holy Father to Vienna, to present a gift to the Emperor Francis Joseph. Tire Rt. Rev. Aurelius Stehle, O. S. B., Archabbot of the famous St. Vincent Archabbey, Latrobe, Pa., and Chancellor of the Catholic Uni versity of Peking, China, who died recently at Pittsburg, Pa. Nun and 9 Children Lose Lives in Fire Five Other Sisters Injured in Manitoba Disaster On January 1, 1892, Pope Leo XIII nominated Father Merry del Val Cameriere Segreto particepante. and, in June, 1893, sent him as Pontifical delegate, to present the red hat to Cardinal Schlauch. In 1896. the Pope entrusted to him the office of Secreta ry of the Commission for the study of the Validity of the Anglican Ordi nations, and, in the following year, named the young priest Domestic Prelate. In the early years of his priest hood. it is said, Monsignor Merry del Val displayed the qualities of a great prffacher, and was well known (Continued on Page 11) THE PAS, Man.—Sister Margaret, superior of the Cross Lake Indian School, an isolated outpost, died with nine of her charges in a lire that de stroyed the school February 20, ac cording to advices received here. The superior died in a vain attempt to lead the Indian girls, none of them over nine years of age, from the school. Sister Jeanne Deschantel was seriously injured in a leap from the second floor. As soon as word of the tragedy was received here, plans were made to rush aid to the scene. The Rt. Rev. Bishop Ovide Charlebois, O. M. L., Vicar Apostolic of Keewatin, prepar ed to leave in an airplane, and an other plane was made ready and dis patched immediately, to bring out the injured. The fire was discovered about three o’clock in the morning by the Sister Superior, who awakened the other nuns. All of thjm fought their way throught the smoke to the dor- 1 mitory, where the little girls were sleeping. The superior remained behind with the children, handing them out lo the sisters waiting outside. When all but nine of the children had been rescued, a wall of flame shot up between the sisters outside, and the superior, and they were unable to get through to her to bring her out. News of the fire was first bi-ought here by a man who drove fifty miles through severe weather from Cross Lake. The fire, the man believed, be gan in the third floor of the school, a brick structure built In 1914. The cause has not been determined. Damage to the building was esti mated at $200,000. The Rev. William J. Finn. C. S. P.. director ef the Paulist Choir of New York, so widely known .to radio audiences, has been appointed to di rect the musical program. He will have as one of his counselors the Rev. William J. DesLongchamps. an authority on Gregorian chant and other forms of ecclesiastical music. The Rev. Karl J. Alter. Director of the National Catholic School of So cial Service, Washington. D. C., is in charge of the talks. Mr. Grattan Kerans, a member of the staff at the headquarters of the N. C. C. M., in Washington, lias been chosen direc tor of programs. James Kerney, a distinguished Catholic and publisher of Tren ton, N. J., who has been named by President Hoover to the commis sion appointed to inquire into conditions in Haiti. Mr. Kerpey is author of “The Political Educa tion of Woodrow Wilson,” a high ly praised work. A Finance Committee has been created to supervise the disbursement of funds contributed for the weekly broadcasts. Major General Frank Mc Intyre. U. S. Army, retired, of Wash ington. is chairman, and Orio R. Kelly, Vice-President of the American Trust Company. New York, is treasurer of the committee. The third member, Charles P. Neill, of Wash ington, is secretary. A fund of $30,000 has already been subscribed toward the expense of the ■weekly programs, but thus is not deemed sufficient for their continu ance for the remainder of this year. An additional $25,000 will be neces sary, and this will be sought. It is the plan of the N. C. C. M„ hereafter to raise $50,000 annually for this work. Noted British Soldier Dies a Catholic Lieut.-Col. McKay Was Winner of Victoria Cross The talks to be included in the pro grams -will be given by priests noted for their scholarship and their elo quence, and by laymen of distinc tion. «A wide range of Catholic sub jects, but all of them of religious or cultural import, will be discussed by (Continued on Page 11) Knights of Columbus Support Radio Hour Supreme Knight Assures Bishop Schrembs of Order’s Assistance Bishop, Two Priests, Three Nuns Murdered in China (By N. C. W. C. News Service.) LONDON—The Salesian Bishop, Msgr., Versiglia, Father Caravario and three Chinese nuns, who were captured by Communistic bandits February 26th, have been killed, ac cording to a Hong Kong dispatch re ceived there. The bandits, the dispatch relates, attacked a boat on which the mis sionary party was traveling at Suipin. After an initial demand for $500, which was refused, the brigands fought the boat crew and others in a successful attempt to carry off the Bishop, priest and Sisters. The party was taken into the mountains, according to the dispatch, and here murdered. Two other priests who went to the stronghold of the bandits in an effort to obtain the freedom of the five mission work ers were too late to save them. The party was visiting missions in Yinktak Distdict when the bandits attacked it. Several Chinese Chris- tions are reported also to have been captured, but their fate has not been learned. born in Piedmont, Italy, nearly sixty years ago. He was ordained in 1894 and became a Bishop in 1920, when he was placed in charge of the Vicariate Apostolic at Shiuchow, China. The Bishop first went to China in 1905 as a priest. He founded the first Salesian mission in the country, and established many other works, most of them for the benefit of Chinese children. The difficulties that faced him were tremendous, but he over came them with great success, as is attested by the fact that there are now more than 100 Salcsians in China caring for the spiritual needs of 40,000 Christians in schools and missions. Bishop Versiglia also established the ^ the J riTvIm- nf rhmo« bus will subscribe $5,000 to be paid NEW YORK—Bishop Versiglia was Order of Chinese Salesian Sisters. The Bishop studied at the Gregorian Universiy in Rome, and entered the Salesiau Order in Turin. Early in 1926 he came to this coun try and established headquarters at the Salesian Church of the Trans figuration. in Mott Street, Chinatown, where he delivered a series of lec tures, some of them in Chinese. After a year a critical situation in China called for his presence there and he returned. • By N. C. W. C. News Service) CLEVELAND, Ohio—-The letter of Martin H. Carmody, Supreme Knight of the Knights of Columbus, to the Rt. Rev. Joseph Schfembs. Bishop of Cleveland and Episcopal Chairman of the N. C. C. M. Department of Lay Organizations, assuring the generous subscription of the Knights to the fund for a nation-wide radio broad cast under the auspices of the Na tional Council of Catholic Men, is as follows: “It was a pleasure indeed to receive Your Lordship’s kind letter of Feb ruary 8, explaining further the work to be undertaken by the National Council of Catholic Men under your direction in broadcasting the Relig ious Hour. Especially do I appreciate Your Lordship’s gracious expression of commendation for the work of the Knights of Columbus. “While the Supreme Board of Di rectors will not meet again until early in April, I feel no hesitancy in giving assurance of the whole-heart ed support of that body to the splen did work contemplated, and, accord ingly, am happy to advise Your Lordship that the Knights of Colum LONDON — It is just revealed that shortly before Lieut.-Col. John F. Mc- ' Kay, famous British soldier and win ner of the Victoria Cross, died at Nice the other day he became a Ca tholic. News of his death was given prominence in the daily press here, but the fact of his conversion is made known for the first time in a letter received by a Catholic paper from the soldier’s widow. Col. MacKay had a remarkable mil itary career and was the only officer entitled to wear ribbons of medals awarded for the Dargai. South Afri can, Nigerian and World War cam paigns, besides the Victoria Cross. For thirteen years ly suffered from serious wounds received in the world war. Since last August he underwent four operations. Before he died he said he wanted his friends to know that his conversion was an act of thanksgiving to God for his recovery from his fourth operation, and was not a “deathbed conversion.” Col. MacKay’s wife is a Catholic. She has received letters of sympathy in her bereavement from, among others, the Princess Louise and the Duke of Connaught. CATHOLIC IS KNIGHTED BOMBAY—(N. C. W. C„ Fides)— Bombay’s Police Commisioner, Sir Patrick A. Kelly, knighted by King George in the New Year Honors List, is a practicing Catholic and active worker for the Church. On one occa sion under Archbishop Goodier he headed the annual Catholic Charities fete. The Delegate’s statement declares the Holy Father was perfectly in formed of all negotiations and” that the arrangements for the resumption of worship had his anyroval before they were signed by the representa tives of the Catholic Hierarchy. These not in agreement with the settlement, or with the rules which the statement itself sets forth, have the right, His Excellency states, to have recourse lo the Holy Seee, but they have not the right to sow discord and distrust, thereby under mining the respect and obedience that is due to authority. Ihc Dele gate hopes that his statement may be an “antidote to the murmurings and calumnies or the discontented.” The statement in part is as fol lows: “Two pamphlets have recently ap peared, one of which has the title The Religious Settlement, and is published under the pseudonym of Arquimedes, and the other has the title Grand Offertory of Opinions and Hopes for a Sacrifice, by J. Leopoldo Galvez, priest. These pamphlets are written from a point of view which, in appearance, is Catholic, but in reality is undiscip lined and criticizes in improper terms the arrangement for the re sumption of worship in the temples. Hie competent one to judge the licitness and convenience of these arrangements was and is the Supreme Pontiff. Armed defense could not deprive him of his right to seek a peaceful solution of the conflict, even though to that end there would be necessary both tolerance and compromise, so long as principles and conscience were safeguarded. It is very easy to draw caricatures and make persons say things which are contrary to what they have said, but such conduct is neither chari table nor licit in a matter of such transcendent importance involving the faith and the discipline of the Church. No one, therefore, either of the faithful or of the clergy has authority to pronounce judgment oil the actions of the supreme authority of the Church in these matters. “We consider truly to be harmful - these pamphlets published illicitly, without permission of ecclesiastical authority and distributed illicitly, or read by the Catholics. Following these pamphlets there has appeared a discourse credited to a Mexican prelate which is said to have been read at Louvain, and it is stated al together maliciously that this dis course was written immediately af ter the author had had an audience with the Holy Father. We considei the discourse, no matter who may be the author, an insult to both civil and ecclesiastical authority 7 .” Tiger Claws Priest From U. S. on Mission in India at^ the late of $500 per month. “As slated in my previous letter, this action has already received the unanimous endorsement of the Su preme officers. However, before be ginning the payment it must be of ficially acted upon by the Supreme Board of Directors. “With the assurance of my pro found esteem, I am, sincerely and fraternally yours. “MARTIN H. CARMODY. “Supreme Knight.” (By N. C. W. C. News Service) WASHINGTON.-How an American Catholic missionary in India, seeking to protect his native parishioners from the attack of an infuriated Bengal tiger, engaged the beast bare-handed in a desperate struggle, has just be come known herewith the receipt of word that the missionary, who was seriously injured in the encounter, has completely recovered from his wounds. The missionary is Rev. Christopher Brooks, C. S. C., whose home is in Watertown, Wis., but who has been stationed in India for nearly 10 y 7 ears. His mother still lives in Wisconsin, and a brother, the Rev. Peter A. Brooks, S. J., is stationed at St. Louis University, St. Louis. Mo. On January 3, last. Father Brooks and his assistants were working, in the Church of the Little Flower at their station. Suddenly, they 7 were disturbed by a great commotion in the little clearing outside the church, and, rushing out. heard tne natives shouting excitedly that a tiger had been seen in the rice fields nearby. There being no time to return to his quarters for a rifle. Father Brooks and a native priest, Father Anthony Gomez, C. S. C., his assistant, and Brother Bede, C. S. C.. an American, started at once into the rice fields. The tiger leaped from the rice, and. striking one of the native men. The beast made for Father Gomez, but the native priest narrowly 7 escaped the onslaught of the animal. The tiger then fell upon an old Christian native, an’, knocking him to the ground, began to claw him. Father Brooks, seizing a spear from a man standing nearby, sought to wound the animal in a vital spot. The attempt was unsuccessful, and the animal, transferring his attention to Father Brooks, knocked him to the ground and began to tear at his chest and arms. Brother Bede, seizing a gun Lam a native standing nearby, who, though possessing the rifle, was too fright ened to use it, shot the beast through the head, killing it instantly. Father Brooks is a graduate of the University of Notre Dame. Ind.. and received the degree of Doctor of Philosophy at the Gregorian Uni versity. in Rome. Returning from Rome, he studied for three years at Holy Cross College, in this city, where he was ordained to the priesthood.