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TEN CENTS A COPY. VOL. XI. No. 7.
AUGUSTA, GEORGIA, APRIL 5, 1930
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Catholic Church Leads All
Religions in Hospital Work
Its Hospitals Have Seventy-
Four Per Cent of Beds in
U. S. Church Hospitals
U. S. Bishop Beseiged
by Reds in China
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
ST. LOUIS.—Catholic Hospitals in
both the United States and Canada
are carrying three-fourths and more
of the burden of hospital work under
secrtarian auspices it is shown in an
analysis of statistical tables released
from the Catholic Hospital Association
of the United States and Canada
headquarters here after an extensive
survey of the general hospital field in
North America.
The figures for both countries show
that in point of bed capacity, Catholic
hospitals outstripe the percentages
and total figures of institutions under
other sectarian auspices by over three
to one. In Canada the superior per
centage is even higher. In the United
States the total number of church
controlled beds is 114,613 and of that
number Catholic hospitals contribute
85,803. or 74 per cent. In Canada
the total number of church controlled
beds is 23,238 and of that number there
are 19,510 controlled by Catholics, or
83.9 percent.
In the tables showing the relative
sizes of hospitals in the United States
according to bed capacities, the Cath-
alic hospitals do trail the Federal
and State-Controlled hospitals by a
small margin, the larger being able to
accommodate on the average 169.7
beds and the former 149.9 beds. In
Canada, however, figured according to
bed capacity, the average size of
Catholic hospitals is over half larger
than the average size of all other hos
pitals combined, although the bed ca
pacity of Catholic hospitals there is a
trifle less than that of Catholic hospi
tals in the United States. These fig
ures show that the average size of
Canadian hospitals less the Catholic
hospitals is 73.6 beds while the Catho
lic capacity is as high as 145.6 beds.
A comparison of the Catholic Hos
pital directories of 1918 and 1930 show
that the number of Catholic hospitals
has increased in the 12 years 18.8 per
cent. In 1918 there were 625 Catholic
hospitals in the United States and
Canada while in 1930, the survey
shows, the total number reaches 775.
Canada’s percentage of increase in
that 12 years is twice as much as the
increase in the United States. Canad
ian institutions increased 32.5 percent
in the past 12 years, while the per
centage increase of Catholic hospitals
in this country was just half, or 16.2.
In an analysis of the tables under
this heading by States it is found that
only two states are without Catholic
hospitals entirely. These states are
Wyoming and Mississippi. In 1918
Delaware was also listed as lacking a
Catholic hospital, but in that time that
state has taken its place with the
other states by establishing one Cath
olic hospital. The establishment of
this hospital rates Delaware as lead
ing in 1930 with two other states, Ore
gon and Tennessee, in point of in
crease percentages. These three
states show 100 percent increase in
the number of Catholic hospitals es
tablished in the 12-year period. In
diana and Texas are the lowest in
the relative percentages of increase,
both states showing only a five per
cent gain in the same period. Four
cases of percentage decrease is record
ed in the figures on Colorado. Mis
souri, Nevada and Oregon. Nevada
decreased 50 percent which amounted
to the loss of one Catholic hospital,
the state formerly showing only two
established.
Canada still shows up well in the
matter of decreases, only one province
indicating a drop in the number of
(Continued on Page Seven.)
New York Minister
Becomes a Catholic
CAIRO, N. Y.—The Rev. Francis
Kelley, pastor of the Catholic j
Church here, has had the pleas
ure of baptizing and receiving into j
the Church the former Rev. Cul- I
ver E. Alford, an Episcopalian •
minister and former pastor of the I
Calvary' Episcopalian Church in i
this village and a close friend of 1
the Catholic clergyman for many i
years.
r. Alford, who is 29 years old
and a graduate of Hobart College j
and the General Theological Sem
inary of New York, will take up
his residence in Cairo where he
will study Latin under the Fran
ciscan Fathers of St. Anthony's
Monastery, at Peekskill.
The converted minister's father
is tlie Rev. Charles B. Alford,
pastor of the Episcopalian Church
in Stattsvillc and Hudson.
Mr. Alford served for a time at
the Church of Transfiguration,
“The Little Church Around the
Comer,” in New' York City.
Soviet Warfare on Religion
Threatens Peace of World
Nicholas F. Brady
Dies in New York
Leading American Financier
Was Active in Many Cath
olic Movements
The Rt. Rev. John O'Shea, C. M.,
Vicar Apostolic of Kanchow. who
with 10 other American Catholic mis
sionaries. has been beseiged by “reds”
in the city of Kanchow, Province of
Kiangsi, China, the state department
at Washington has reported.
—Laveccha Proto
First Native Norway
Bishop in 400 Years
Convert From Lutheranism
Vicar Apostolic
HAITI IS OPTIMISTIC
OVER DEVELOPMENTS
Country Hopeful Work of U.
S. Commission Will Effect
Settlement of Troubles
ROME—(N. C. W. C.-Fides.)—The
first native son of Norway to be
come a bishop in his own country in
400 years, the Rt. Rev. Olaf Offerdhal,
is a convert from Lutheranism. Bishop
Offerdhal was appointed Vicar Apos
tolic, of Norway by His Holiness Pope
Pius XI, March 12th.
Bishop Offerdhal was born in 1857.
Following his entrance into the Ca
tholic Church he became a student
for the priesthood and studied at
the Urban College of Propaganda
Fide, Rome. On his return to Nor-
x way he held successively the offices
of professor, parish priest, pro-vicar
general and finally administrator
Apostolic. He has translated the en
tire New Testament into Norwegian
and has compiled a new catechism
which is now in use throughout the
country.
The appointment of Bishop Of
ferdhal bridges the hierarchical gap
in this country of 400 years since the
reformation. Norway, evangelized in
the ninth century by St. Ansgar, be
came Lutheran in the 16th century
under Kings Christian II and III, the
Catholic Church was persecuted and
its nine bishops exiled. In the 19th
century the anti-Catholic laws were
rescinded and missionaries multiplied.
The present Catholic population num
ber’s a scant 3,200 of whom 1,000 are
in Olso, the capital. Catholic mis
sionaries number 36, aided by 380
Sisters, 216 of whom are of the Con-
gregation of St. Joseph of Chambery.
(By Special Cable to N. C. W. C.
News Service)
PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti. — With
the departure of President Hoover’s
Haitian Commission from here a few
days ago, optimism with regard to
the ultimate success of the settle
ment by which a provisional gov
ernment will be set up to conduct
the affairs of the republic until elec
tion can be held, continued to spread
throughout the country. Representa
tive opinion anticipates that the
commission plan will be successfully
carried out.
(BY N. C. W. C. News Service)
PORT AU PRINCE. Haiti.—M. Eu
gene Roy’s designation as tempor
ary president of Haiti under the
terms of the agreement made be
tween factions here a few days ago
through the arbitration of the United
States Haitian Commission, was for
mally approved here by an assem
bly of people’s delegates amid in
tense scenes of enthusiasm.
According to the settlement by the
commission, M. Roy will assume his
duties as head of the provisional
government May 15, at which time
President Louis Borno’s term will
expire. . The temporary president
will guide the affairs of the repub
lic until a permanent president can
be elected by the deputies and sen
ators in joint session. This election
is expected to take place some time
in the fall.
The appreciation of the Haitians
for the present political peace which
the commissioners’ work has brought
to the country, was demonstrated in
the shouts of the people wildly
cheering the commission along with
the new president-elect and the re
public.
In the Parisiana Theatre, where
M. Roy was taken after his selec
tion to make an address, the new
governmental head quietly told the
enthusiastic populace that he would
carry out the terms of the commis
sion’s settlement to the letter, and
thanked the commission for its work
in the republic. He again told the
people that when his work is com
pleted and a new government con
stitutionally formed, he desires to
return to private life.
Catholic Missionaries in
China Remaining at Posts
(By N. C. W. C. News Service.)
ROME—Despite that a number of
their co-v/orkers have been murder
ed, that grave concern has been felt
for the Rt. Rev. John A. O’Shea, Vicar
Apostolic of Kanchow, and his asso
ciates trapped by Communists in the
beseiged city of Kanchow, and that
conditions are said to be omnious
and unsettled, Catholic missionaries
in China continue to stay at their
posts, as they always have in the
past, it is reported here.
24 MARTYRS SINCE 1923
After being comparatively quiet for
nearly all of the first quarter of this
century, it is pointed out, conditions
have been bad in China since 1923,
and 24 missionary priests, including
three Americans, have suffered
martyrdom. Only recently an Ita
lian Bishop, a priest and three nuns
were murdered. Belgian missionaries,
with eight dead, are said to lead the
list of nationalities in this martyrol-
gy. The Italian missionaries, with
four, are second. The American and
French missionaries are third rank
ing. with three each.
Reports received at the Propaganda
Fide here vary as the conditions un
der which the different missionaries
carry on their work. Some report
that the mission fields assigned to
them are quiet, that they live in
safety and security. Others report
that there is considerable unrest in
their mission fields, and that they
live in a state of constant danger.
The Fides Service here has com
piled statistics to show that there are
1,415 foreign priests, 938 foreign reli
gious Sisters and 201 foreign reli
gious brothers laboring in the mis
sion fields of China. In addition to
these, there are 1,132 native priests,
and 2,029 Sisters and 176 brothers.
It is given as one reason why Ca
tholic missionaries do not flinch in
their work, the fact that there are
2,373,677 Catholics In China already,
and that the number is growing.
Moreover, there are 70 Catholic Bis
hops, of whom 11 are native, and 23
Prefects Apostolic. Pope Pius XI is
represented in China by the Most
Rev. Celso Costantini, Apostolic Dele
gate.
Third of Six Chinese
Bishops Is Dead
Three Chinese Natives Con
secrated in 192 6 Have
Passed Away
(By N. C. W. C. News Agency)
NEW YORK.—Nicholas F. Brady,
director in more than 50 corpora
tions, a Papal Duke, and one of the
first members of the American branch
of the Knights of the Sovereign Or
der of Malta, died at his home here
March 27. He was in his fifty-second
year.
Mr. Brady had been ill for some
time, but on Wednesday his condi
tion seemed slightly improved. That
night he lapsed into a coma from
which he did not emerge. His Emi
nence, Patrick Cardinal Hayes, Arch
bishop of New York, visited Mr.
Brady on the Tuesday and Wednesday
before his death. His Holiness Pope
~’ius XI cabled an expression of sor-
rom immediately upon being inform
ed of Mr. Brady’s death.
Nicholas Frederic Brady was bom
October 25. 1878, in Albany,. N. Y., the
son of the late Anthony N. and Mar
cia Myer Brady. He was educated at
the Albany Academy and Yale Uni
versity, from which he was grad
uated in the class of 1899. On Au
gust 20, 1906, he married Genevieve
Garvan, who survives him.
Upon his graduation from Yale. Mr.
Brady went directly to the New York
Edison Company, in which his father
was largely interested at that time.
After serving in almost every branch
of the industry in that company, he
was made treasurer and late vice
president. In 1913, he succeeded his
father as president of the company.
Most of Mr. Brady’s business career
was spent in the active management
of New York public utilities, and
in 1928 he was an important factor
in bringing about the consolidation of
the Brooklyn Edison Company with
the New York Edison Company, the
United Electric Light and Power
Company, the New York and Queens
Electric Light and Power Company
and the Westchester Lighting Com
pany. Upon the consummation of this
merger he was made chairman of the
board of directors of the consolidated
companies, a position he held until
his death.
Mr. Brady was regarded, both in
this country and abroad, as one of
the leading Catholic laymen of the
United States. The last honor he re-
Dr. Johnson Says That
While God Has Nothing to
Fear From Reds, His Crea
tures Have
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
WASHINGTON. — The spread of
Red atheism from its generating
source in Russia throughout the Unit
ed States if the American people do
not foster and preserve the religi-
bus spirit upon which the nation was
founded was the fear expressed by
the Rev. Dr. George Johnson, Execu
tive Secretary of the Department of
Education of the National Catholic
Welfare Conference and Associate
Professor of Education at Catholic
University, in a sermon delivered at
St. Patrick’s Catholic Church here
March 19, the day designated by the
Holy Father Pope Pius XI as a time
of prayer for the cessation of reli
gious prosecution in Russia.
Numerous members of the Diplo
matic Corps accredited to Washington
from many nations were present, as
well as many United States govern
ment officials.
The Rt. • Rev. John M. McNamara.
Auxiliary Bishop of Baltimore, was in
the sanctuary, and gave the benedic
tion. The Rt. Rev. Msgr. C. F.
Thomas, pastor of St. Patrick’s, led in
the saying of the Rosary, and the
church choir sang.
“The existence of God is the fun
damental fact of the Universe.” Dr.
Johnson declared. “It is a fget, not a
theory, not something that is pro
duced by thinking but something that
is antecedent to all thinking. It is
not a by-product of capitalistic eco
nomics or any other economics, nor
can it be nullified by Communism.
“Publishing cartoons picturing the
burial of God, is as far as man can
go in destroying God. Such per
formances dramatize, as it were, the
complete nonsense and futility of
atheism. God has nothing to fear’
from the Soviets.
“But we his creatures have. Though
the malice of man cannot destroy
God, it can destroy in human beings
a sense of their dependence upon God
and their obligations to him. ‘That
way madness lies.’ God made us.
made us for His own purposes. His
will is our life; our happiness is in
His service. The Individual who
forgets this primary truth, who lives,
not for God but for himself, who
finds the reason of his existence in
his own desires, is a moral and social
menace. Let men forget their obli
gations to God, and there will be left
no guarantee of truth or morality or
justice in the world. Emancipation
from the law of God means enslave
ment to the law of tooth and claw.
_ “This is the threat of Soviet Rus
sia to the civilization of the world,
its threat to American democracy.
Of course this anti-religious war is
doomed to ultimate failure, but it can
succeed for a time. And that time
may be just long enough for the
dread poison to spread abroad
through the world, carried through
the arteries of an organized system of
propaganda, affecting the ignorant
and the malicious in all countries, and
causing the dread disease of internal
strife, class war, and revolution.
“Today we are, taken by apd large,
a religious people. The greater part
of our adult population has had some
contact with religious instruction,
some religious education. As a con
sequence, leadership in America is
largely in the hands of religious
minded men. They have consciences
that can be relied upon and thev are
guided by sound principles. More
than that, the rank and file of the
people exhibit those fine Christian
virtues upon which our government
was founded—obedience, humilitv,
patience, charity, faith in God and
man.
“Will the coming generation, and
the generations that follow it thus
ROME—(N. C. W. C.-Fides—A cable !
from Fenyang to the Sacred Congre- !
gation of Propaganda Fide under date j
of March 12th announces the death !
of the Rt. Rev. Bishop Louis Chen, 1
O. F. M„ Titular Bishop of Attuda 1
and Yicar Apostolic of Fenyang. 1
Shansi, China. Bishop Chen is the
third to die of the six Chinese pre
lates consecrated by His Holiness
Pope Pius XI in October, 1926.
Bishop Chen was born in the
Vicariate of Luanfu, South Shansi, in
1875, entered the Franciscan Order
in 1896 and was ordained in 1903. As
Vicar Apostolic of Fenyang. Bishop
Chen ruled an area of 32,000 square
miles with a population of 2.039,000. of
which the Catholics total 16.476. The
territory is entirely staffed by native
born priests, who number 19.
Bishop Chen’s death reduces the
original six bishops consecrated by
the Holy Father to three. The first
to die was the Rt. Rev. Philip Chao,
Vicar Apostolic, of Suanwhafu, Octo
ber 14. 1927, and the second, the Rt.
Rev. Odoric Cheng. O. F. M., Prefect
Apostolic of Puchi. November 13,
1928.
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400 French Priests, War
Veterans, Meet at Lourdes
(By N. C. W. C. News Service.)
PARIS—Tlie fifth congress of the
Association of Ex-Service Priests just
held at Lourdes was attended by 400
clerical veterans of the World War.
These priests represented 60 of the
75 diocesan unions of the P. A. C.,
as the association is popularly called.
The Rt. Rev. Pierre Gerlier, Bishop
of Tarbes-et-Lourdes, former ad
jutant of Infantry as well as mem
ber of the Paris Bar. was host to the
congress. Bishop Berber left the
bar in 1913 to enter the seminary at
the age of 43, only to have his studies
interrupted by the war. Seriously
wounded in the Battle of the Marne,
he was taken prisoner and resumed
his theological studies in Bavaria,
through the intercession of the Bishop
of Mudfaster.
The prelate host was only one of
the interesting figures at the con
gress. When Bishop Gerlier placed |
a wreath of flowers at the foot o
the memorial to the war dead, h<
was attended by the Archbishop o
Sens, the Auxiliary Bishop of Lille
the former Bishop of Bamak in th<
Sudan, the Bishop of Mackensie, anc
two vicar generals. The address ot
that occasion was debvered by Abtx
Bergey, deputy from the departmen
of Gironde. Many of the priests wen
conspicuous because of mutilation:
received in warfare. Four of them
bbnded, wore the decorations o
chevaliers of the Legion of Honor.
A commemorative plaque, unveilet
during the congress, reads: “To th<
Four Thousand Priests. Religious
Clerics and Seminarians who died foi
France—Erected by their brothers o ;
the National League of Ex-Servic
Priests, Lourdes, 1930.”
The chief aim of tlie P. A, C. h
to secure the restoration of compiet;
civil liberties to the French clergy.