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AUGUSTA, GEORGIA, MARCH 22, 1930
ISSUED SEMI-MONThLy—$2.00 A YEAR
N.G.G.M. BROADCAST
IS WIDELY LAUDED
National Catholic Radio
Hour Prompts .Universal
Flood of Commendation
Dr. Sheen National
Broadcast Speaker
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
WASHINGTON, D. C.—Hundreds
of letters commending the first pro
gram of a series sponsored by the
National Council of Catholic Men
have been received at the headquar
ters of the organization here. The
letters came from every section of
the United States, including the Pa
cific Coast.
The initial broadcast of this “Cath
olic Hour” was given March' 2 from
Station WEAF, New York. A revised
report received by the National
Council of Catholic Men from the
National Broadcasting Company dis
closes that the program was given
in whole or in part by twenty-six
stations, including one in Bowman-
ville Ontario. Two additional sta
tions have announced they would ac
cept the program beginning March
9, and another plans to commence
broadcasting it on April 27. Two sta
tions in Iowa are to present it every
other week.
The stations which broadcast the
first program for the full hour (6 to
7 p. m.. Eastern Standard Time)
were: WEAF, New York; WCSH,
Portland. Maine; WJAR, Providence;
WTAG. Worcester; WGY, Schenec
tady; WLIT-WFI, Philadelphia; WRC,
Washington: WWJ. Detroit; WSAI.
Cincinnati; KSD, St. Louis; WEBC,
Duhith-Suoerior; WBT, Charlotte;
WIOD, Miami; WAPI. Birmingham;
WKY. Oklahoma City; KPO and
KGO, San Francisco; KGW. Portland,
Oregon; KOMO, Seattle; KHQ, Spo
kane; KECA, Los Angeles, and
CKGW, Bowmansville, Ontario.
Stations WEEI. Boston; WGR. Buf
falo. and KOA, Denver, took only the
second half of the program, and Sta
tion WSM. Nashville, only the first
half. It is announced that, begin
ning April 27, Station WEEI will
broadcast the whole hour.
CONNIE MAGKWiNS j Diplomat Answers Charge
EDWARD BOOK PRIZE of Persecution in Poland
Awarded $10,000 Check for
Services to Philadelphia
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
PHILADELPHIA — The 1929 Ed
ward W. Bok award for “having ren
dered the most outstanding service
to Philadelphia” during the year, a
check for $10,000, was presented to
Cornelius McGillicuddy ("Connie
Mack”) at a ceremony here February
12. The check was accompanied by
a medal and a scroll.
Because of the recent death of Mr.
Bok, the ceremony of presentation,
which heretofore has been a public
affair, was held privately in a down
town hotel. A number of prominent
citizens gathered to do Mr. McGilli-
cuddy honor.
The recipient of the honor was ac
companied by his son. Connie. Jr., but
none of his baseball warriors was
present. The 67-year-old leader of the
Macks, however, spoke of them in
his address as co-inheritors of his
award.
Washington Kinsman Pollsil Ambassador Replies
Catholic Chaplain *° Eussia “ s bj Keoamnff
THE REV. DR. FULTON J. SHEEN.
Haitian Clergy Favor j
Withdrawal of U. S.
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
NEW YORK.—With “Man’s Quest
for God” as his topic, the Rev. Dr.
Fulton J. Sheen, Professor of Philos
ophy of Religion at the Catholic Uni
versity of America, on March 9 in
augurated his Lenten series of talks
on the “Catholic Hour,” sponsored
by the National Council of Catholic
Men and broadcast over a network
of the National Broadcasting Com
pany, from Station WEAF, here.
The Paulist Choristers were again
the feature of the musical program
of the “Hour.” which included in
strumental numbers by a string en
semble, a vocal selection exemplify
ing the Gregorian Chant in the style
of the Seventeenth Century, and a
hymn composed in the Sixteenth
Century.
American Commission Hears
Views of Archbishop
Those stations which reported to
the National Broadcasting Company i
their intention of taking the full pro- i
gram are KYW, Chicago, and WJDX.
Jackson, Miss., the former on April
27 and the latter on March 9. Sta
tions WOC. Davenport, and WHO,
Des Moines, are to broadcast the pro
gram on alternate Sundays. The lat
ter was scheduled to accept it on
March 9.
It is expected that stations in addi
tion to the’se stations reported as hav
ing received the program on March 2
and those that have fixed dates upon
which they will take it, others will
join the chain from time to lime.
Judge De Lacy of
Washington Is Dead
Catholic Jurist One
Capital’s Best Known
Residents
of
Rev.Wm. L.Hornsby,
Noted Jesuit, Dead
St. Louis University Educator
Was Ordained in China
(BY N. C. W. C. News Service)
WASHINGTON. — William Henry
DeLacy. a prominent attorney of this
city, acting dean of the law school of
the Catholic University of America
and President Roosevelt’s first ap
pointee as judge of the juvenile
court in this city, died at his home
here March 3. Judge DeLacy was
67 years old.
Judge DeLacy was one of Wash
ington's best known residents. He
had lived here continuously since
his birth on February 8, 1863. He
was educated at the Christian Broth
ers College, here, and Georgetown
University and the Catholic Univer
sity of America. He held numerous
degrees.
Opening offices immediately after
his graduation from school. Judge
DeLacy engaged in the practice of
law here until his appointment as
first judge of the juvenile court by
President Roosevelt, when it was
created in 1906, as the outgrowth of
y a nation-wife children’s conference
held here to center attention on child
welfare conditions. Judge DeLacv
presided over this court until 1913,
and enjoyed a national reputation as
a leading pioneer in juvenile court
activities. His affiliation with the
Catholic University of America has
extended over approximately a quar
ter of a century.
Judge DeLacy was at one time
vice-president of the International
Prison Congress, and a founder of
the Criminal Law Institute. He was
also a trustee of St. Joseph’s Home
and School and St. Vincent's Orphan
Asylum, a prominent member of the
Knights of Columbus, the St. Vin
cent de Paul Society, a former treas
urer of the National Conference of
Catholic Charities, a prominent fig-,
ure in the Catholic Total Abstinence
Union, a member of the District of
Columbia Bar Association, the Amer
ican Bar Association, and several
clubs.
J ridge DeLacy is survived by his
widow. Mrs. Katherine Mary Clark
DeLacy, seven daughters and two
sens.
ST. LOUIS, Mo. — The Rev. Wil
liam L. Hornsby, S. J., aged 67, of
St. Louis University, whose career
as an educator, writer and the
ologian carried him all over the
world, died here. Father Hornsby
was born in Baden, was graduated
from St. Louis University and en
tered the Jesuit order in 1881.
His assignment to China came in
1893 when he taught in a college at
Macao and later studied theology in
Shanghai until his ordination as a
priest. Further service at Macao,
where he returned after ordination,
was interrupted when he was sent
to the Philippines to act as inter
mediary between the Americans and
Spaniards in 1902.
Services as teacher in a college in
Montreal, the Jesuit novitiate at
Florissant, Mo., the University of De
troit and St. John’s College, Toledo,
O., followed. Volunteering for work
in the Jesuit mission in British
Honduras, Father Hornsby spent
eight years in the tropics, much of
the time being devoted to the mem
bers of a leper colony. On his re
turn, he taught for a time at St.
Louis University until his selection
by Cardinal Mundelein, of Chicago,
for the faculty of his then new semi
nary. Father Hornsby held this
post until illness forced his retire
ment.
He spoke several languages, in
cluding two Chinese dialects, Latin,
Greek, Hebrew, Portuguese and
French and wrote many articles of
theological and scientific trend for
specialized publications. He once
wrote a pamphlet on the geology of
the vicinity of St. Louis. Surviv
ing is one sister, a nun in the Car
melite convent here.
BY VVM. F. MONTAVON
(Special Cable to N. C. W. C. News
Service.)
PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti—The
Catholic Hierarchy and clergy of
Haiti, while expressly stating
their aloofness from the politics
of tile country, have taken a def
inite stand for the ending of
American occupation of the is
land Republic.
This action, the clergy declared,
they cannot help but take, since
their love of the Haitian people
compels them to make their joys,
sorrows and asx>irations their
own.
The declaration of the Haitian
ciery was made to members of
the Forbes Commission, investi
gating conditions under Ameri
can occupation in Haiti, by Arch
bishop Conan of Port au Prince.
All five members of the Com
mission paid a ceremonial call to
the Archbishop’s Palace, and
heard his statement.
That ‘Confiscated Churches’
Were Merely Restored
MASONS DEMAND END
OF HAITI OCCUPATION
PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti.—An
official declaration of the Mason
ic Order in Haiti, demanding
withdrawal of American occupa
tion and return of representative
government in Haiti was made at
the open hearing of the Fgrbes
commission March 7. The decla
ration was made by Emanuel
Rampy, Masonic grand master in
the Island Republic.
Mr. Rampy declared that his or
der has 200,090 members, in 74
lodges, in Haiti.
Catechist Saves Girl
Turned Out to Die
Missioners Replace
Those Slain in China
Young French Franciscans
Succeed Them in Ichang
ICHANG—(N. C. W. C.Fidesl—Two
young French Franciscians from Lor
raine are on their way up the Yangt-
se River from Shanghai to this mis
sion, the Vicariate of Ichang, one
thousand miles inland, where in Sep
tember the bishop and three Fath
ers were massacreed by Communist
brigands. Thus new forces substi
tute the fallen.
Ichang is in care of Belgian Fran-
siscans. Late in August of last year
Father Tiburtius Clcodts, O. F. M'„
was killed. On September 14 Bishop
Trudon Jans, O. F. M„ and Fathers
Bruno and Rupert. O.- F. M.‘ met bru
tal deaths. In November missions
throughout a whole area of the vicari
ate were devastated by an attack
which at least in part had anti-
Christian motives.
(By N. C. W. C. News Service.)
UNCHONG, South China—In the
interior of China, even Catholics are
not always able to lay aside the
superstitious dread of a death in the
house. As a result, they often place
sick people out in the o-ien, and
abandon them, when a little care
would have saved the sufferers’ lives.
Recently, at Sunchong, where Fath
er Robert J. Cairns of Worcester,
Mass,, is the Maryknoll pastor, a Ca
tholic girl, seventeen years old, was
ejected from her home while criti
cally ill, covered with a mat, and
left to die. The Chinese woman
catechist of the mission called Father
Cairns, who anointed the girl, and
left medicine for her. The catechist
devoted herself to the care of the
supposedly dying girl, who recovered
her health, and is now perfectly well
again.
The survival of these ancient super
stitions is especially striking in a
place like Sunchong. where there are
not a few modern improvements, and
where a number of the Chinese are
“returned emigrants” from the United
States.
(Father Cairns is a regular reader
of The Bulletin.—Editor, The Bulle
tin.)
The Rev. Victor R. Stoner, who
traces his ancestry back directly
to George Washington and Daniel
Boone and who for more than
four years has been secretary to
Bishop Daniel J. Gercke and
Chancellor of the Diocese of Tuc
son, Ariz., has just been com
missioned a chaplain in the Unit
ed States Army. Father Stoner
has been assigned to station at
Fort McDowell, near San Fran
cisco, Cal.
Father Stoner, who was converted
to tire Catholic Faith in 1912, and or
dained to the priesthood by Bishop
Gercke in 1925, has had a varied ca
reer. He was graduated from the Un-
iverserty of Dallas, and later was giv
en a life- diploma on his graduation
from the Northern Arizona Normal
School at Flagstaff. He took graduate
work at the Universitty of Arizona,
and has taught in public and private
grammar schools in high school and
in the University of Arizona. He was
a private in the medical corps,psy
chological unit, during the World War
being discharged in December, 1918.
He was commissioned first lieutenant
in the Officer's Reserve Corps in
1928.
Since his ordination, Father Stoner
has been Chancellor of the Diocese
and secretary to Bishop Gercke. He
has been Catholic chaplain of United
States Veterans' Hospital No. 51, was
department chaplain for the American
Legion since 1928.
Father Stoner's great great grand
mother was a niece of George Wash-
ington. His great-great-great-grand-
i ether was a brother of Daniel Boone.
In a memorial treatise in the Bcone
family by Hazel Atterbury Spraker,
Father Stoner’s name, birthplace and
birth date appear on Page 393, section
2725.
The priest’s father was George
Overton Stoner, who, at the age of 15,
ran away from his home at Victoria.
Texas, joined Captain Dave Murphy’s
aS a , sco ut a n d fought for the I diers that entrained from Victoria. Ha
South throughout the Civil War. Lat- died in 1920.
--WASHINGTON. — Mr. Tytus Fil-
ipowicz, ambassador of Poland to the
United States, has just issued a state
ment to the N. C. W. C. News Serv
ice in which he refutes the charge
made by Metropolitan Sergius, the
present chief patriarch of the Rus
sian Orthodox Church, that “the
Catholic Church under the Pope's
leadership in Poland alone in 1929
forcibly confiscated 500 Orthodox
Russian churches, converting them
to Catholic uses.”
This charge Metropolitan Sergius
has received widespread publicity in
this country recently, and is given
prominence in an article on “God-
lessless and Humbuggery.” in the
current issue of The Nation. Metro
politan Serguis is represented as sup
porting the Soviets in their religious
policy. After making this charge, by
which he denounces the Pope as the
enemy of the Orthodox Church, he is
qtfoted as saying: “As far as we
know, no archbishops in England or
elsewhere acted against these Cath
olic violences.”
The statement of Ambassador Fil-
ipowicz follows:
“The churches dealt with in the
interview credited to Metropolitan
Sergius, chief partriarch of the Russian
Orthodox Church, to the effect that
500 Orthodox Russian churches were
in 1929 forcibly confiscated and con
verted to Catholic use is full of er
rors. After Polish rule was restored
in Poland, the Polish authorities
seized only about a half dozen
churches, among them the most
prominent being the Russian Cath
edral in Warsaw, which was entirely
destroyed as a too striking monu
ment of Russia’s former domination
in the Polish capital. As to other
Russian churches it ought to be re
marked as follows:
“After the Polish insurrection of
1930 the Russian government sup
pressed forcibly in Poland the so-
called Greek Uniat church, all these
Uniat churches being converted into
Russian Orthodox churches. Again
after the Polish insurrection of 1863,
the Russian government suppressed
Catholic monasteries in Poland, and
many of their churches were con
verted into the Russian Orthodox
churches. When in 1919 Polish rule
had been reestablished, the olu
Greek Uniat churches and many of
the former Catholic monasterial
churches were restored to their cor
responding denominations.
“So the ‘forcible confiscation’ re
ported. was merely a restoration to
the original owners.
“I may also remark that Metro
politan Sergius overlooked the fact
that the restored churches, if left
in the hands of the Russian Ortho
dox clergy, would be merely build
ings with no parishioners present,
had they not been returned to their
rightful owners. Permit me to add
that the Greeg Orthodox church in
whose name Metropolitan Sergius is
reported to speak, has been in Po
land since. 1924 an autocephalic
church, that is, it forms an inde
pendent Polish Greek Orthordox
church. It has its Metropolite and
six bishops. A sub-Faculty for
Greek Orothodox Theology is incor
porated with the Warsaw Univer
sity. There are in Poland over 400
of Greek Orthodox churches, the
Orthodox Greek church in Poland
being considered on the same level
as the Roman Catholic Church, as
its clergy receive pensions from the
government.”
er, during the reconstruction days, he
was an active member of the* Ku
Klux Klan, the original organization
from which the present secret society
took its name.
During the World War, George
Overton Stoner, more than 70 years
old and almost blind, acted as mount-
ed escort for each contigent of sol-
Father Stoner’s grandfather. Mich
ael L. Stoner, also fought in the Con
federate Army. His great-grandfath
er Rose was in the War of 1812. His
great-grandfather Stoner was in the
Revolutionary War, taking part in the
Battle of King's Mountain.
Father Stoner was bom near Vic-
toria, Texas. February 6, 1893.
Bishops Suing for Return
of Churches in Poland
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A special section of this
issue of The Bulletin is
devoted to Jacksonville,
the third of a series of
such sections featuring
Florida cities.
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(®y N. C. W. C. News Service)
WASHINGTON.— Information just
received here from Poland reveals
that the charge that the Catholic
Church, last year, confiscated a large
number dl Orthodox Russian churches
in Poland grew out of the fact that
Catholic Bishops have sought, through
proper court action, to have returned
to Catholics a number of churches
and monasteries which passed to Or
thodox control during the period of
hostile Russian rule in Poland.
The charge of confiscation made
against the Catholic Church originat
ed with an interview granted by the
Metropolitan Sergius the present chief
patriarch of the Orthodox Russian
Church, who declared that “the
Catholic Church under the Pope's
leadership in Poland alone in 1923 for
cibly confiscated 500 Orthodox Rus-
i sian churches, converting them to
Catholic uses.” This charge has been
widely circulated and has been
made the basis of adverse comment on
the Church in journals of opinion in
this country. It also has been report
ed in the secular press that the Or
thodox Church of Russian Poland had
appealed to the League of Nations
against the “confiscation.”
This charge by the Metropolitan
Sergius elicited comment from the
Polish Ambassador to the United
States, who, in a comprehensive
statement, declared that it was “full
of errors.” The information just
reaching this country makes it plain
that one great error in the case is
that, while there has been called upon
to interfere with the juridical pro
cesses invoked by the Catholic
Bishops to bring ahoqt the restoration
to the Catholic Church of properties
rightfully belonging to it.