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(TEN CENTS A COPY. VOL. XI., NO. 18
AUGUSTA, GEORGIA, SEPTEMBER 27, 1930
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NATIONAL EUCHARISTIC CONGRESS AT OMAHA
Boycott by Public
Can Censor Stage
Rector of New York Cath
edral Doubts Effectiveness
of Official Sensorship
! (By N. C. W. C. News Service.)
I NEW YORK—Advocating the force
01 public opinion rather than of
(Censorship as a means of combating
obscene and indecent stage produc
tions which would result in a general
boycott of questionable theatrical pre
sentations, Msgr. Michael J. Lavelle,
rector of St Patrick’s Cathedral, here,
and leader in the Catholic Theater
Movement’s drive to purge the Am
erican theater of indency, made a
plea for the public’s support of the
Clean play in an radio address here.
i Monsignor Lavelle, whose blast
Bgainst several current productions in
New York a few weeks ago created a
Stir in theatrical and other circles,
spoke over Station WLWL and in his
'‘Message to Our Friends” expressed
the belief that improvement in the
Character of the modern drama
.would “come from the mobilization
Of healthy, practical, sensible and
Constructive public opinion.”
t Monsignor Lavelle referred, with
out mentioning the name, to a revival
of “Lysistrata” in New York and de
clared that the fact that the play was
a classic did not warrant its being
produced “if it does harm.”
In deprecating the value of censor
ship as a means of cleaning up the
stage, the Cathedral rector asserted
that censorship has proven a failure
because the word “seems to have
settled in the public mind as some
thing of an abomination.”
“Personally, I cannot tell why,”
Monsignor Lavelle said. “Freedom of
speech, of the press, and of other
things is so deep in the public mind
that there is a general revulsion of
feeling when anything appears that
Would seem to restrain liberty, even
when liberty goes so far as to be
license.”
Bather Hogan Named
Rector at Fordham
New President of Jesuit
^University Recently Ob-
t served His 39tb Birthday
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(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
NEW YORK — The Rev. Aloysius
J. Hogan, S. J., has been appoint
ed Rector of Fordham University,
succeeding the Rev. William J.
Duane, S. J. The appointment came
from the General of the Jesuits at
Rome, through the Rev. Edward C.
Phillips, S . J., Provincial of the
Maryland-New York Province.
Father Hogan was born at Phila
delphia, August 5, 1891. After his
college course at St Joseph’s, Phila
delphia, • he entered the Society of
Jesus on August 14, 1908 at St. An-
drew-on-Hudson, Poughkeepsie, N.
Y. His philosophical studies were
made at Woodstock College, Md., and
he taught the classics at Boston Col
lege from 1915-1920.
He was ordanied to the priesthood
tit Woodstock College in 1923. The
years 1924-1927 were spent at Cam-
Bridge University, England, from
which he received the degree of Doc
tor of Philosophy. From 1927-1930
Father Hogan was Dean of Studies at
the Jesuit House of Classical Studies
Studies, St. Andrew-on-Hudson, and
this summer was transferred to the
new Jesuit House of Classical Studies
at Wernesville, Pa., in the same ca
pacity.
BROOKLYN, N. Y.—Miss Ruth
Cecilia Willmann, member of the
well-known Willman family of St.
Gregory’s parish, here, has entered
the Novitiate of the Franciscan Mis
sionaries of Mary at Providence, R. I.,
it was learned this week. Her elder
sister, Agnes, is a member of the
same missionary Order, having joined
jn 1919.
A great lover of outdoor life, Miss
IWillmann flew to the Novitiate in an
aeroplane of the Colonial Airways.
For many years she has been a de
votee of outdoor sports, swimming,
riding, basketball and tennis. This
summer, with Mr. Howard Seitz of
Fordham, as a partner, she won the
mixed doubles tennis championship
of the Catholic Summer School of
America at Cliff Haven.
Miss Willmann was a member of
last year’s graduating class at St.
Joseph’s College here and was
Delivers Congress’s
Opening Sermon
The Most Rev. Francis J. L. Beck
man, Archbishop of Dubuque, who
preached the opening sermon at the
Omaha Eucharistic Congress.
(Photo by International Newsreel
and Townsend Studio.)
3.000 Are Killed in
Dominican Hurricane
15.000 Injured, Archbishop
Reports. Churches, Or
phanages, Hospitals Ruined
NEW YORK.—Two cablegrams re
ceived here from Archbishop Nouel
of Santo Domingo state that as a re
sult of the hurricane that swept over
the Domanican Republic four church
es and four parishes have been de
stroyed, and Catholic schools, asylums
and hospitals have neen reduced to
ruins. Three thousand people have
been hilled and fifteen thousand in
jured, the Archbishop added. He also
states that he has given hospitality
in the Cathedral to hundreds of poor
persons. He closes with the report
that “four parishes have been total
ly destroyed.”
The Rt. Rev. Aloysius J. Willinger,
Bishop of Ponce, Porto Rico, has ca
bled to the Rev. Frederick J. Toomey,
general secretary of the Catholic
Porto Rican Child Welfare Associa
tion here to send emergency relief.
A fund has been transmitted directly
to Archbishop Nouel, to be used at
his discretion, especially In relieving
the needs of children suffering in
the disaster.
NEW HEVEN, Conn.—The Knights
of Columbus have appropriated a
fund of 525,000 for the relief of the
drought sufferers in the Middle West
and of the victims of the hurricane
in Santo Domingo.
The announcement followed a con
ference of the supreme directors of
the K. of C. held after a message had
been received from the consul general
of Santo Domingo.
Santo Domingo, the oldest city of
America, was founded by Christopher
Columbus, from whom the Knights
take their name.
prominent while at college for or
ganization work. She finished her
academic course at Ladycliff Acad
emy on the Hudson, just below West
Point, winning there a Regent’s
scholarship for her entire four years
of college. She was also prominent
in Girl Scout work, having for years
headed the troop in St. Gregory’s
parish.
She is the younger sister of Miss
Dorothy Willmann, national executive
secretary of the Sodality of the
Blessed Virgin, Governor of the New
York State Chapter of the Interna
tional Federation of Catholic Alum
nae, and former executive secretary
of the Catholic Medical Mission
Board. Her brother, the Rev. George
J. Willmann, S. J., a former mis
sionary in the Philippines, is now
editor of the Jesuit Seminary News
and Director of the Philippines Mis
sion Procure in New York.
Bishop for China
Elevated in Ohio
Cincinnati Franciscan, Mis
sionary in Orient, Con
secrated at St. Peter's
(By Special Telegraph to N. C. W. C.
News Service.)
CINCINNATI, Ohio—A new distinc
tion came to the Catholic Church in
Cincinnati September 17th when, for
the first time in its history of more
than 100 years, St. Peters’ Cathedral
here was the scene of the consecra
tion of a Bishop for a foreign post—
the Rt. Rev. Sylvester Espelage, O.
F. M., who was created Titular
Bishop of Oreo and Vicar Apostolic of
Wuchang.
The new Bishop’s invalid mother
witnessed the consecration from a
wheel chair.
The Most Rev. Albert T. Daeger,
O. F. M., Archbishop of Santa Fe and
the head of a vast mission area in
the South-west, presided at the serv
ices as consecrating prelate. Arch
bishop Daeger is the only Franciscan
prelate of the American Hierarchy,
and a product of Cincinnati institu
tions. His Grace was reared in St.
George’s parish here, where he lived
with the priests while receiving his
early education.
The Rt. Rev .Noel Gubbels, O. F.
M., Vicar Apostolic of Ichang, China,
and the Rt. 'Rev. Giovanni Mondaini,
O. F. M., Vicar Apostolic of Chang
sha, China, were co-consecrators.
Both of these Franciscan prelates
have seen long service in the mis
sions of the Orient.
Whiskey Distilleries
in Ireland Dwindle
Twenty in 1910 and Only
Three Today. Catholic
Temperance Bodies Active
By J. J. MOONEY
(Dublin Correspondent N. C. W. C.
News Service)
DUBLIN—There has been a re
markable decline in the consumption
of alcoholic drink in Ireland in the
last six years. Today, the Catholic
temperance bodies enjoy steady,
rapid growth and increased prestige,
while the liquor trade is at its lowest
ebb for a generation.
Twenty years ago there were at least
20 distilleries for me manufacture of
whisky in what is now the Free
State. Today, there are only three.
Dublin less than a quarter of a cen
tury ago had half a dozen distilleries.
Now there is only one working full
time.
During the World War years, the
holders of licenses for the operation
of public houses in Ireland arrived at
the golden age. There were no
limitations on the sale of drink, and
the “pubs” were open from 7 a. m.
to 10 p. m. One well-known public
house sold for 5160,000.
Today it is very difficult to sell
licensed premises; At public property
auctions they are withdrawn every
other day. One establishment that
brought 550,000, in 1920 was up for
auction a fortnight ago, and the high
est bid was 56,000.
The decline in drinking in Ireland
in recent years has been said to be
due to the high prices prevailing for
beer and spirits, but the members of
the licensed trade, interviewed by this
correspondent, attribute the decline to
the fact that the younger generation
never visit the public houses.
The .prohibitive price at which
whisky is sold across the counter has
killed its sale as a popular beverage
for all time. The Government has
steadfastly declined to reduce the
duty. The temperance sentiment
fostered by the Catholic temperance
bodies is now so strong and so wide
spread that no Government would feel
called upon to do anything to popu
larize again the drink trade.
Cathedral in Russia
Now Atheist Museum
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
LENINGRAD — Having been con
verted into a central All-union anti-
religious museum, the famous St.
Isaac Cathedral in this city was of
ficially opened Saturday 11.
Anti-religious lectures will be giv
en regularly in the old Cathedral,
the altar of which has been fitted
up as a place for the showing of
anti-religious motion pictures. The
central part of the edifice will be
used for the demonstration of as
tronomical phenomena, while in the
museum there is a large collection
of writings pertaining to the former
activities of the Russian Orthodox
Church and the current athetistic
movement in Soviet Russia and else
where.
YoungWoman Goes by Plane
to Enter Religious Life
Apostolic Delegate
to Omaha Congress
The Most Rev. Pietro Fumasoni-
Biondi (left), Apostolic Delegate to
the United States, who was celebrant
of the solemn Pontifical Votive Mass
with which the Sixth National
Eucharistic Congress opened at
Omaha, Nebr., on Tuesday, Septem
ber 23.
Cardinal Dedicates
Brothers’ Novitiate
New York Building of Christ
ian Brothers Completed
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
BARRYTOWN, N. Y.—Urging all
Catholics to afford their children a
Catholic education rather than enter
them in institutions where “Christ is
denied and neglected.” His Eminence
Patrick Cardinal Hayes, Archbishop
of New York, addressed more than
1,300 persons, including over 100
priests, at the exercises dedicating
the Christian Brothers’ new novitiate
here.
His Eminence pointed out, in the
course of his sermon, that in Catholic
schools, “youths re taught to pre
serve their souls against the devil
himself’ and in referring to the Chris
tian Brothers’ novitiate the Cardinal
asserted that “here students are not
educated for themselves, but are
trained for others.”
Cardinal Hayes likened theteaching
of the Brothers to “a battle for the
Kingdom of God.” “It is not a battle
of bloodshed,” he said, “for it is
carried on in the classroom. Here,
at least, God is acknowledged and
loved, but in many classrooms of the
nation, He is not known, and even
denied.”
The novitiate, which is known a
St. Joseph’s Normal Institute, was
moved from Pocantico Hills following
the purchase of John D. Rockefeller,
Jr., of the Brothers’ former property.
The new buildings were erected at
a cost of more than $1,000,000 and
stand on a site occupying 250 acres
along the east bank of the Hudson
River.
100,000 Attending
Ceremonies in West
Apostolic Delegate, Cardinal
Mundelein and Scores of
Prelates Participate. Gov
ernor Welcomes Pilgrims
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
OMAHA, Neb.— Catholic America,
impelled by a deep and abiding love
in the Blessed Eucharist, turned its
gaze toward the western plains and
this metropolis of the Nebraska
prairies this week. September 22 to
25, for the Sixth National Eucharistic
Congress of the United States.
Original plans for the Congress
wdre made for only a three-day meet
ing. Interest in this great demonstra
tion of faith has become so keen and
so widespread, however, that the
committee in charge has now decided
to open the Congress a day earlier—
September 22—with a meeting of the
diocesan directors of the Priests’ Eu
charistic League and the official civic
reception.
The official welcome was held the
evening of Septembre 2X in the Ak-
Sar-Ben Coliseum. Th^ Most Rev.
Pietro Fumasoni Biondi, Apostolic
Delegate to the united States was the
principal guest of honor, and de
livered the concluding address. Other
speakers included Arthur Weaver,
Governor of Nebraska; the Rt. Rev.
Joseph Schrembs, Bishop of Cleve
land. and Richard Metcalfe, Mayor of
Omaha. Arrangements were made to
broadcast the addresses at the wel
come over radio station WOW, and
others.
Holy Hour services were held in
every church in Omaha on the first
night of the Congress. It is pre
dicted that 100,000 members of the
Catholic laity will take part in the
Congress in addition to the members
of the Hierarchy and the thousands
of priests. Bishop Schrembs presid
ed at the Holy Hour for the clergy, in
St. Cecilia’s Cathedral.
The addresses by His Eminence
George Cardinal \ Mundelein, Arch
bishop of Chicago, and of Judge
Martin T. Manton of New York, in
the stadium of Creighton University
Wednesday evening, September 24,
will be broadcast over a network of
the Columbia Broadcasting Company
at 8 p. m. (Central Standard Time).
The local stations WOW and KOIL
will broadcast other Congress events,
and efforts are being made to have
I at least one Congress session broad
cast over a national chain of the Nat
ional Broadcasting Company. Seven
ty-five thousand persons are expected
to attend the session in the Creighton
stadium, while 25,000 are expected for
the civic reception.
Mayor Metcalfe has issued a pro
clamation welcoming the Congress
visitors and declaring Thursday,
September 25, a half-holiday, so that
non-Catholics and Catholics may wit
ness the solemn public closing pro
cession, to be held in the streets near
the Cathedral. More than 100,000
marchers and spectators are now ex
pected for this procession.
Thousands of dollars were spent in
decorating the streets and buildings
of Omaha for the Congress. The City
Council appropriated a large sum of
money for this purpose.
All of the services at St. Cecilia's
Cathedral will be sent out over a
public address system so that throngs
unable to gain admittance to the
Cathedral will hear the music of the
Eucharistic, Congress choir of 100
male voices, directed by John Jami
son and under the sponsorship of the
Rev. Edward Gleason, a former mem
ber of the Sistine Chapel Choir in
Rome.
Noted Pianist and Wife
Enter Religious Orders
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
BALTIMORE, Md.—Alfredo Oswald,
a pianist of international reputation
and until recently a teacher in the
Peabody Conservatory of Music here,
entered the novitiate of St. Isaac
Jogues at Wernersville, Pa., Septem
ber 18 to study for the priesthood in
the Society of Jesus. Earlier in the
day, his wife, Beatrice Oswald, who
also taught at the Conservatory, en
tered the Carmelite Convent in this
city. The Oswalds, who were mar
ried 18 years, were childless.
“For years,” said Mr. Oswald, “we
have been giving our time, our money
to the Church. Now we feel that the
only thing left to give is ourselves.”
“We have thought this over for
years,” he added, “and it is not a de
cision that has been quickly made.”
A few days ago the Oswalds sold
their possessions, and the goods were
moved away in truckk
Mr. Oswald, who taught at the Pea
body Conservatory for eight years, is
the son of Enrique Oswald, Brazilian
composer. He came to this country
in 1921 and toured as accompanist to
Albert Spalding, the violinist. His *
own subsequent tour, which took him
to most of the principal cities in the
United States, opened in New York,
where critics received him with high
praise. He lived in Europe for 20
years before coming to this country,
having been a pupil of Giuseppe
Buonomici, and a member of the
faculty of the Florence Conservatory
for six years. He is an honorary
member of the Brazilian National In
stitute of Music. Mr. Oswald also
works with considerable ability in
water colors and etching.
Mrs. Oswald was Beatrice Bacchelli
of Florence, Italy, the daughter of a
famous Italian engineer and the sister
of a prominent Italian author. Mrs.
Oswald taught Italian at the Peabody
Conservatory.