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THE BULLETIN OF THE CATHOLIC L AYMEN’S ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA
OCTOBER 25, 1930
THE BULLETIN
The Official Organ of the Catholic Laymen's Associa-
tion of Georgia
£ RICHARD REID. Editor
1^09 Lamar Building Augusta, Georgia
Subscription Price, $2.00 Per Year.
Published .semi-monthly by the Publicity Department
with the Approbation of the Rt. Rev Bishops of Re-
leigh, Charleston. Savannah. St. Augustine. Mobile ana
Natchez.■
Member of N. C. W. C. N ews Service, the Catholic
Press Association of the United States, the Georgia
Press A psooiation and the National r.ditPr*a 1 Association
FOREIGN ADVERTISING REPRESENTATIVE
S. T. Mattingly, Walton Building Atlanta, Ga.
ASSOCIATION OFFICERS FOR 1928-1929
P. H. RICE, K. C. S. G., Augusta President
HONORARY VICE-PRESIDENTS
COL. P. H. CALLAHAN, K. S. G Louisville, K.y.
ADMIRAL WM. S. BENSON, K. C. S. G„ Washington
BARTLEY J. DOYLE, Philadelphia
J. J. HAVERTY, Atlanta First Vice-President
J. R. McCALLUM. ■ Atlanta , Secretary
THOMAS S. GRAY, Augusta Treasurer
RICHARD REID. Augusta Publicity Director
MISS CECILE FERRY, Augusta, Asst. Publicity Director
Vol. XI. October 25, 1930. No. 20.
Entered as second class matter June 15, 1921, at the
Post Office at Augusta, Ga., under Act of March, 1879,
Accepted for mailing at special rate of postage provided
for in Section 1103, Act of October 3, 1917, authorized
September 1, 1921.
The 1930 Convention
The annual convention of the Catholic Laymen’s As
sociation of Georgia is unique not only in the United
States but in the Catholic world. There are other state
and diocesan gatherings of Catholics, many of them per
haps similar to the Georgia convention, but none iden
tical. For fourteen years the men and women of
Georgia have been gathering annually to review the
work of the year and to plan for future efforts intended
‘to bring about a friendlier feeling among Georgians, ir
respective of creed.” Jhe dawn of the Association’s fif
teenth year finds them as zealous for the work as in the
days when rampant anti-Catholicism in the state made
activity such as the Laymen’s Association was formed
:o conduct necessary if Catholics were to remain here.
Columbus will be host to the convention this year, as
it was on a former memorable occasion, in 1924. This
year, as then, the Rt. Rev. Bishop of Savamiah will grace
the occasion by his presence. Dr. John G. Coyle, one of
the great Catholic orators of America, will-come down
from New York to deliver the principal lay address.
Benedict Elder, the Association’s good friend from Louis
ville, Ky., who is president of the Catholic Press As
sociation of the United States, will come. The state of
ficers and members from every section of Georgia will
be there.
A great deal depends on the 1930 convention in Co
lumbus. When the Association met there in 1924, there
were some in the state who felt that conditions had so
improved that the need for the Association had passed.
In every year since that time embryo waves of bigotry
have been smoothed out by pouring facts on the trou
bled waters. Even the 1928 tidal wave was rendered in
effective. Efforts to turn the recent settlement of the
Roman question against Catholics in this state proved
futile in this state because of the campaign of educa
tion conducted by the Laymen’s Association.
It is vain to hope that there will be no future at
tempts on the part of anti-Catholics to place Catholics
In this state in a false light. It is not vain to hope that
inch attempts will likewise prove abortive if there is a
layman's Association to bring the facts to the press
*nd people of Georgia. Attendance at the convention
la Columbus by as many as can possibly come, even at
• sacrifice, is the first step in not only continuing but
Btrengthening the peace-breeding work of the Catholic
laymen’s Association of Georgia.
Catholics and Intolerance
The Democratic party in Massachusetts is at least
seventy-five per cent Catholic. Perhaps its Catholic
members number nearer eighty or ninety per cent.
Recently the Democrats went to the polls to select
standard bearers for the November election. For .gov
ernor they named Joseph B. Ely, a Protestant and
descendant of the Puritans. For the United States Sen
ate they nominated Marcus Coolidge, also a Protestant,
a distant relative of the former president, and descended
from the same Protestant stock. Both men were opposed
by Catholics.
The Democratic party in Rhode Island resembles in its
makeup that of Massachusetts. Here the Democrats
nominated for the senate Former Senator Peter G.
Gerry, a Protestant, and for governor, Theodore Francis
Green, likewise, we are informed, a Protestant.
In New York State most of the Democrats are Catho
lics. There the party’s nominee for governor is Frank
lin Roosvelt, a Protestant. The state has two Democrats
in the United States Senate, Senator Copeland, a
Protestant, and Senator Wagner, also a Protestant.
Where in this great American Union is there a state
in which Protestants predominate in a political party and
where Catholics receive so much recognition?
The Constitution of the United States forbids applying
the religious test to a candidate for public office. It is
evident that in the instances mentioned the letter and
the spirit of the Constitution was obeyed. These men
were not nominated because they were Protestants or in
spite of the fact, but because of their demonstrated
ability and known character. These instances again re
veal the ridiculousness of the “Roman Catholic intoler
ance” and “Roman Catholic political domination” accu
sations bandied about by people who frankly admit they
would not vote for a Catholic for constable, and who
are the personification of the intolerance they attribute
to Catholics.
The March of Progress
When we prescind from the romance of “the good old
days,” which, as we are informed, never existed in
the rosy colors in which they are painted, and compare
conditions today with those of bygone ages and cen
turies, we feel a pride in the progress of mankind.
It was not so long ago that death was the punish
ment for innumerable crimes, many of them compara
tively trivial. A reading of Dickens and his descriptions
of the unfortunate motherless and fatherless little ones
in English orphan homes or of the lot of prisoners in
the jails of the country which prided itself on being the
most cultured in the world make us congratulate our
selves that we live in a more enlightened age. "
Truly the world does move. There are some people,
however, who think that Catholics have hot been gear
ed to the march of progress, although an analysis of
their charitable efforts and other works prove that they
are in advance of it. They cite real and alleged occur
rences by real and nominal Catholics of centuries ago
and then condemn the Catholics of the twentieth cen
tury for them. They seem to believe that all peoples but
Catholics make progress in this civilization.
Dixie Musings
The Macon Telegraph editorially,
quotes George Chamberlain, Ameri
can consul at Glasgow, as saying that
very few Scotchmen are coming to
the United States. Hasn’t The Tele
graph heard that they are being born
here to save fare?
The Charleston News and Courier
says an effort was made in the recent
senatorial campaign in that state to
use the religious issue. The News
and Courier inquired whether the
people of the state were prepared to
repudiate the memory of Major Gen
eral M. C. Butler of the Confederate
Army, long a member of the United
States Senate, who died a Catholic,
and Judge DeVore, Edgefield, of the
state circuit court, who also hecam;
a Catholic before his death two years
ago, and Bishop England, whom Gen
eral Martin Witherspoon selected for
his list of the half dozen citizens of
Charleston most illustrious in its his
tory and many others.
The News and Courier said it had
confidence in Governor Smith not be
cause he was a Catholinc but be
cause he was faithful and attentive to
his duties as a member of his Church.
Joseph Quinn, editor of the South
west Courier, carried a series of il
lustrated articles on the Catholic edi
tors of the country. Some of the edi
tors reprinted the articles in their own
newspapers. Not the editor of The
Bulletin, however. He is afraid some
of his readers might write to Mr.
Quinn and give him the low-down
on his contemporary in this neck of
the woods.
Archbishop Stritch of Milwaukee
succeeds Archbishop Curley of Balti
more as the youngest Archbishop in
the United States, according to the
Baltimore Catholic Review. Arch
bishop Stritch is forty-three, ten
years older than the Governor-elect
of Georgia. Archbishop Stritch start
ed his priestly career in his native
South, in Nashville; Archbishop Cur
ley started his in Florida. Both Arch
bishops became Bishops at thirty-four.
Both were Bishops for nine years be
fore becoming Archbishop. Both were
ordained in Rome, both were ordained
by Cardinal Resphigi, vicar-general of
Rome. Archbishop Curley was in
stalled as Archbishop of Baltimore
November 30, 1921, at ten o’clock in
the morning, in the same year, month,
day and hour that Archbishop Stritch
was consecrated Bishop of Toledo.
Therefore, according to the Baltimore
Catholic Review, which discovered all
these coincidences, the latter became
the country’s youngest Bishop at the
very hour that Archbishop Curley
became the country’s youngest Arch
bishop. Both are alumni of the Amer
ican College at Rome.
The New York Times recently re
ported a laymen’s retreat held at the
Princeton Theological Seminary for
the alumni of the institution.
officials at the same time laid a heavy
hand on Holy Family parish. The
first to be summoned was Mr. Rich
ard Needham, a member of the En
dowment Fund Committe; then Mr. P.
J. McSorley, for many years state
vice-president from Columbus, and
finally Mr. J. M. Tobin, president of
the local branch of the Laymen’s As
sociation. It is seldom than any
parish or organization is thus afflicted
within such a short itme.
The deaths of Mr. Needham and Mr.
McSorley have been referred to in
previous issues of The Bulletin. Mr.
Tobin was at work on the plans for
the coming convention of the Lay
men’s Association when stricken; he
had practically completed them. The
1930 convention will, therefore, be in
the nature of a memorial to his un
tiring and unselfish efforts, and his
co-workers, under the direction of
Mrs. H. C. Smith, have taken up the
work where he put it down. They
will make it a memorial worthy of
him, a convention of which he would
have had reason to feel proud had he
been spared to attend it.
A total of 2,360 men at the Citizens?
Military Training Camp at Plattsburg,
N. Y., many of them college men,
participated in a recent essay con
test on Americanism there. The win
ner was Victor J. Rafinski 19, a junior
at St. Francis College, Brooklyn,
whose parents emigrated from Poland
twenty-two years ago. His closest
competitors were a Princeton stu
dent, a student from Dartmouth and
an assistant instructor at Columbia
University.
Begin at the Bottom
The latest available statistics reveal that
aoldiers lost their lives in the World War,
Whom were Germans. Eighteen million of
Were wounded. In a single common grave
ten million
1,808,545 of
all nations
Frdnce
thirty thousand unknown soldiers are buried.
The cost of the war in money was two hundred and
forty-seven billion dollars, or over two thousand dollars
for every man, woman and child in the United States.
Two thousand persons, five hundred and forty of whom
idled instantly, were'poisoned in a single gas attack at
Champagen in 1917.
Future generations which the leaven of the teachings
®f Christ will have thoroughly permeated, will read of
this war with as much amazement as we read of the sack
«f Rome by the barbarians.
What can we do about it? We can hardly sink our
warships and destroy our guns while the rest of the
world is shining up theirs. But every person whose re
lations toward his fellow-men radiate the good will of
Christ is doing what he can to promote the ideal of-uni
versal peace. When we have enough such individuals,
that ideal will be transformed into an actuality.
A recent issue of the Toronto Daily Mail and Empire
reports that “members of the Ontario district of the
Missouri Synod, Lutheran Church, were strongly urged
to work for the establishment of more parochial day
schools for the education of Lutheran children along
Christian educational ideas at the session in St. Paul’s
Lutheran Church here. At present the Ontario district
is operating five such parochial schools entirely without
jfovemment aid.”
Anti-Christian History
“The Rise of the Christian Church” by Professor
Godenough of Yale University is “prescribed for the
Fre-hman Course in European History” there. Rev. T.
Lawrason Riggs, an alumnus of Yale and authorized, as
the Catholic Transcript of Hartford says, “to foster and
protect the Christianity of the Catholic students of the
University”, has registered a protest. Professor Good-
enough regards Christianity as “one of the cults known
as mystery religions which were widely prevalent in the
Roman Empire during the first centuries of our era.”
That is the Professor’s thesis, and this he proceeds to
impose on his youthful, impressionable students with
the authority and influence of his professional chair.
“In the midst of this age of hatred of the Romans”,
Dr. Goood&iough writes, referring to the years our Lord
trod the earth, “there appeared about 28 A. D. in Pales
tine a preacher. He was a young carpenter from the
north of Gallilee, of whose past we know nothing ex
cept that his home was in Nazareth, and that his family
consisted of his mother, Mariam or Mary, her husband
Joseph, and several other children.”
Again, of the Crucifixion of our Lord, Dr. Goodenough,
undertaking to dispose of the Resurrection, says that
Jesus was “killed in a way which at once made him ac
cused in the eyes of all good Jewsr. . .The excitement of
the mob cooled as quickly as it had heated, and Jesus
was soon forgotten.”
There is nothing here which has not been said tinve
and again by anti-Christian, anti-religious writers; there
is nothing here which has not been refuted in every age
by historians of established and enduring reputation.
Yet here is a professor in a great university presenting
these old, threadwom, discredited assertions in a work
“prescribed for the Freshman Course in European His
tory.” No doubt a similar situation exists in many other
leading secular universities. Is it amazing, then, that so
many inexperienced youths, exposed to such doctrine,
the fallacy and erroneousness of which they are not in
a position to see, and imposed upon by those to whom
they look for guidance, should lose their faith? And is
it peculiar that the Catholic Church seeks to preserve
the faith of its young by endeavoring to protect them
from such corroding doctrine? What is the defense of
Catholic parents who refuse to cooperate with the Church
in her efforts to preserve the faith of her children?
Discussing the idea that a monu
ment be erected to a deceased Junior
Senator from Georgia, the Dalton Cit
izen says it agrees with the Macon
Telegraph when it says that he was
not great enough in life to have a
monument erected in his memory in
the capitol or out. “A man who
spent his life time abusing his bet
ters and flying the flag of hatred is
not a fit subject for a memorial of
any kind,” says the Citizen. “His
example in life is not worthy of emu
lation. He should be forgotten.” The
life of this man served at least one
good purpose. It showed how ephe
meral is the notoriety and how futile
the career based on hate.
Very often our Catholic societies
and conventions wax eloquent in pro
tests against ignoring of the parts
Catholics played in American history.
Now it is the contribution of the
French in the development of the
Ohio Valley that is under discus
sion. Miss Mary‘Ross of Brunswick
is demonstrating an infinitely better
way of proceeding, and although she
is not an organization she is succeed
ing better than many a one in her
efforts. The early history of Georgia
in which the Spanish played such a
large part, was being ignored in tills
state. Miss Ross did not denounce;
she did not protest; she did not ac
cuse anyone of bigotry. She started
to study the early history of Geor
gia. Working with Professor Bolton
of the University of California, she
wrote many an interesting treatise on
the subject. She directed the atten
tion of historians to the facts, and in
terested them. She emphasized the
value of this early history to the
state. In this effort The Bulletin has
been happy to assist her. Georgia
is gradually becoming conscious of
its history for the two centuries be
fore the coming of Oglethorpe, for
merly the alpha of the state’s story.
Protests and denunciation and recrim
ination would have done nothing but-
stir up ill feeling.
Henry Clay Evans, Jr., commenting
in his column in the Tampa Daily
Times on the contemplated erection
of an additional school there by the
Salesian Fathers, says: “In these days
of mumbo-jumbo that covers all of
our state and public school systems,
any city is fortunate which can
possess church schools as well. For
these are usually not too busy with
red tape and theories to miss the
chance of offering a real education to
the young. Has the world become
more cultured or civilized since the
state has usurped the place of the
church in education? I doubt it.”
Father Gannon’s True Voice of
Omaha prefers censorship of the stage
to the force of public opinion advo
cated by Monsignor Lavelle of New
York. “Censorship—unpopular though
it may be—seems to be the only prac
tical way of keeping moral filth off
the stage—at least in New York,”
Father Gannon says. Unless censor
ship has public opinion behind it, it
can be accomplished little.
Quimby Melton, editor of the Grif
fin News, recently published a list
of the 59 men who in his opinion
rule Georgia. There was not a Cath
olic among them. Therefore, what
ever is wrong with Georgia, Catholics
are not responsible. t
“It was so warm in Georgia this
summer,” says The Echo of Buffalo,
“that they are now harvesting roast
ed peanuts.” That’s a hot one.
One of our contemporaries refers
to Senator Blease as following Sim
mons, Brown and Love into oblivion
because of his opposition to the candi
dacy of Governor Smith. Just to keep
the record straight, Senator Blease
made campaign speeches for Governor
Smith, and at least once ducked a
barrage of eggs in so doing.
A prominent magazine editor picks
Babe Ruth as one of the “really first
rate men who subscribe to the ideas
of the Catholic Church.” He forgot
Connie Mack.
A letter addressed to “The Bulletin,
1409 Lamar, Bldg., Atlanta, Louisia
na,” was mailed in New Orleans, Fri
day afternoon, October 3. It was de
livered in the office at Augusta, Ga.,
on the first, mail Monday morning,
quite as if it were properly address
ed. Yet there are still people who
criticize the Hoover administration.
The Columbus branch of the Catho
lic Laymen's Association has lost
three of its leading officials and mem
bers within the past few weeks, and
the hand of death which took these
Dr. A. C. Millar of Little Rock,
Ark., in the recently primary con
test in this state appealed to
Arkansas anti-Smith Democrats” to
refrain from voting in the primary
and to hold themselves in readiness
should “unfit” men, i. e. any man who
campaigned for the Democratic presi
dential nominee, be nominated. “Dr.
Millar,” observes the Cincinnati
Catholic Telegraph, “is editor of the
Arkansas Methodist, organ of" the
Methodist Church in Arkansas,
doubtless a great champion of
separation of Church and State.”
BISHOP’S MOTHER DIES
Mother of Bishop Joseph F. Rummel
of Omaha Was 83
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
OMAHA, Neb.—Mrs. Theresa Rum
mel, 83, mother of Rt. Rev. Joseph
F. Rummel, Bishop of Omaha, died
here late in August at the episcopal
residence. Bishop Rummel was cele
brating Mass in the private chapel
of the residence at the time of his
mother’s death. She had been fail
ing steadily for 10 weeks, but was able
to assist at Mass on the Feast of the
Assumption. Surviving are, Bishop
Rummel, the only son, and one sister,
Mrs. Rose Schmelter, of Ossining, N.
Y.
CATHOLIC HEADS GLIDER
WORK AT AIR SCHOOL
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
SAN JOSE.—Albert G. Kelly, 20-
year-old San Jose youth, has not only,
succeeded in obtaining admission to
the most exclusive air school in the
country—the United States Navy Air
School at Pensacola, Fla.—but in the
short time he has been there has been
placed in charge of glider construe-
Young Kelly, a graduate of St,
Joseph’s high school in 1927, left San
Jose that year to join the medical air
corps at Mare Island. While there
he was among the few who were
chosen to study at the Pensacola air
schooL