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TEN CENTS A COPY. VOL. XIII., No. 21
AUGUSTA, GEORGIA, NOVEMBER 5, 1932
ISSUED SEMI-MONTHLY—$2.00 A YEAR
News Briefs
( By N. C. W. C. News Service)
ARCHBISHOPS TO SPEAK
IN NATIONAL BROADCAST
Archdiocese of Chicago
Expends $10,000,000 for
Charity in Fifteen Years
WASHINGTON, D. C. — Cardinal
O’Connell. Archbishop Curley of Bal
timore, Archbishop Hanna of San
Francisco, and Archbishop Murray
of St. Paul will broadcast over a na
tional net work of the Columbia sys
tem from 6:15 to 7:00 November 20,
in a Catholic University broadcast on
the intellectual mission of the Church
in America.
OREGON SUPREME COURT
UPHOLDS ARCHBISHOP
PORTLAND, Ore. — The Supreme
Court of Oregon, in handing down a
decision upholding the right of the
Catholic Church to erect a parochial
school in a district in which its erec
tion was forbidden by local authori
ties because it was in a residential
district, asserted that the attempt to
prevent it was an invasion of the in
herent rights of the plaintiff, i. e.
the Catholic Church.
CHANCELLOR OF DIOCESE
OF INDIANAPOLIS DIES
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. — Rt. Rev.
Msgr. Francis H. Gavisk, chancellor
of the Diocese of Indianapolis, for
forty-two years pastor of St. John's
Church, and one of the most widely
known priests in the Middle West,
died here October 22. Before study
ing for the priesthood he was a re
porter and city editor in Evansville.
He was ordained in 1885.
FORMER CHAPLAIN OF
LEGION IS INJURED
OTTAWA, 111. — Rev. Joseph M.
Lonergan, past national chaplain of
the American Legion, was painfully
injured in an automobile accident
here recently. Five other persons
were also injured. Father Lonergan
is pastor of St. Mary's, Woodstock,
and senior chaplain of the 33rd Di
vision, Illinois National Guard, with
the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel.
NEW Y0RK~TaWYERS AT
ANNUAL MASS OF GUILD
NEW YORK — Two hundred mem
bers of the Guild of Catholic Lawyers,
most of them attired in academic
robes, attended the annual Red Mass
of the guild at St. Andrew's Church
in City Hall Place. Rev. Robert J.
White of the Catholic University, a
former practicing attorney, officiated.
Very Rev. Aloysius J. Hogan, S. J.,
president of Fordham University, de
livered the sermon.
BANDITS ROUTED AT
ST. MARY’S SEMINARY
BALTIMORE, Md. — When a mask
ed and armed bandit appeared in the
office of St. Mary’s Seminary here
and demanded one hundred dollars
from the office safe. Rev. Francis
Kunkel. treasurer, who was alone in
the office, knocked the gun from his
hand. Before Father Kunkel could
recover the gun the bandit escaped.
NUN-NURSE IN INDIAN
WARS IN WEST IS DEAD
DENVER, Col. — Sister Mary Lig-
ouri, who attended the wounded and
drying at the famous Indian Battle of
Big Horn, is dead here after being
a member of the Sisters of Charity of
Leavenworth for 65 years. She was
89 years old.
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
WASHINGTON. — The “Catholic
Hour'' is now heard over five more
stations than before the resumption
of Standard Time in many sections
of the country this Fall, it is disclosed
here at the headquarters of the Na
tional Council of Catholic Men, which
sponsors this national broadcast.
The addition of the five stations
since the termination of Daylight Sav
ing Time schedules throughout the
country brings the total number of
stations regularly carrying the
“Catholic Hour” to 54. Two of the
five stations added this Fall are new
to the ranks of those regularly using
the broadcast. They are KDYL, of
Salt Lake City, Utah, and KFSD, of
San Diego, Calif.
A description of the difficulties en-
Relief Work Leader
Mrs. Nicholas F. Brady, one of
the most distinguished Catholic
women of New York, who has
been named Chairman of the Na
tional Women’s Committee of the
Welfare and Relief Mobilization
of 1932, of which Newton D.
Baker is chairman. Mrs. Brady
will head a group of from 500 to
1.000 prominent women selected
from every part of the country
for their leadership in welfare
work. (Photo by Mrs. W Burden
Stage.)
25.000 at Crusade
Rally in Worcester
18.000 Children Form
Mighty Choir at Services
at Holy Cross Stadium
WORCESTER, Mass. — Twenty-five
thousand persons, 18,000 of them
school children, thronged Fitton
Field, scene of many a Holy Cross
College athletic victory, in one of
the greatest public religious demon
strations New England has ever
seen, the occasion being the first out
door rally in this section of the Cath
olic Students’ Mission Crusade.
The Most Rev. Thomas M. O’Leary,
D.D., Bishop of Springfield, presided,
assisted by the Very Rev. John M.
Fox, S. J., president of Holy Cross
College, and clergy of the Diocese of
Springfield. The sermon was de
livered by Rev. George R. Rossen-
back, C.SS.R., national director of the
Holy Childhood Society Bishop
O'Leary also spoke. Rev. Michael A.
Lahey of Worcester was marshal. The
rally was sponsored by the Diocesan
Propagation of the Faith Society, of
which Rev. George J. Hurley is di
rector. Tire eighteen thousand child
ren present formed a mighty choir
for the singing of the Benediction and
other hymns.
tailed in the maintenance of the
“Catholic Horn" under the present
economic conditions, together with in
teresting figures on the conducting of
the “Hour,” is given in a letter sent
to friends of the “Catholic Hour’ by
Walter T. Johnson, president of the
National Council of Catholic Men. Mr.
Johnson points out that the depres
sion has reduced considerably the
number of contributors to the support
of the “Catholic Hour” and the
amount of contributions from those
who are continuing to donate toward
its maintenance. Drastic reductions
have been made, he writes, in the ex
penses connected with the broad
cast.
The only increases in the new bud-
(Continued on Page Five)
But Cardinal Mundelein in
Address to Laity Urges
Even Greater Efforts in
Present Difficulties
CHICAGO—Nearly $10 090.000 have
been expended for the needy of this
city in a period of 15 ye irs by 1>e
Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese,
His Eminence George Cardinal Mun
delein, Archbishop of Chicago, noted
in the course of an address which lie
made before the annual luncheon ot
the Archdiocesan Council of Catholic
Women, here, attended by 2.500
persons.
Paying a tribute to the work of the
St. Vincent de Paul Society and urg
ing the women of the archdiocese to
be active in the Council of Catholic
Women, His Eminence declared that
under present condit : ons the Church
should be unusually active in safe
guarding the interests intrusted to
it and in helping the poor and weak.
“Now. with an enormous cit.v like
this and those in want numbering
not only hundreds and thousands,
but tens of thousands and eve i hun
dreds of thousands,” His Eminence
said, “charity on an enormously large
scale becomes imperative, ana that
means organization aorong our people.
This, we have tried to do. Long betore
the pressing emergency of the present
time, we organized our Catholic
charities. And how many of you here
know that during its existence of
fifteen years the am .unt distributed
by us among the poor and dependent
runs not much short of ten million
dollars, and all of this comes from the
free-will offerings of our Catholic
people to their neighbor in distress.
“Again in the past year, to be of
greater help in this time of stres and
depression, we organized the largest
St. Vincent de PauL Society this coun
try has ever seen and enrol 1 -d nnder
the banner of charity three thousand
five hundred men, the flower of man
hood in every parish, for the good
Samaritan work of bringing help and
neighborly sympathy to the family s
without means and feed and shelter.
Today this Vincentian army of charity
remains intact and in full strength,
and we have offered to place it at
the disposal of the State to aid it m
caring for its needy and now depen
dent citizens. In this emergency we
Catholics stand for two things, in a
country as rich as ours in resources
the State must care for those of its
citizens who are without wrote and
helpless and starvng throughout no
fault of their own. And second, as a
duty to its taxpayers, this rdli.'t
(Continued on Page Five)
Gen. Clem, ‘Drummer
Boy’, Is Confirmed
Noted Array Officer Recently
Became a Catholic
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
INDIANAPOLIS. — A beautiful
chapter in the colorful career of
Major General John L. Clem, U.S.A.,
retired, has just been written in the
Blessed Sacrament chapel of the
Cathedral here, where the Most. Rev.
Joseph Chartrand, Bishop of Indiana
polis, confirmed the former “Drum
mer Boy of Chickamauga.” General
Clem, now 81 years old, was convert
ed to the Catholic Faith, just a year
ago.
General Clem's wife, who resides
with him in Washington, D. C., and
his daughter, the former Elizabeth
Anne Clem, are Catholics. On April
17, 1929, his daughter, who was pro
minent socially in the Nation’s Capi
tal, became a nun of the Order of
Our Lady of Mount Carmel at the
Carmelite Monastery, then in New
Albany, Ind. She received the veil
from Bishop Chartrand and her par
ents witnessed the event. General
Clem at that time was a member of
the Episcopal Church.
Recently, he again visited his
daughter, this time at the new Monas
tery of the Carmelites. He had the
privilege of conversing with his
daughter, who is now Sister Anne of
the Trinity.
In the Civil War. at the age of 10
years, he ran away from home and
followed the fortunes of the Federal
troops. At the battle of Chickamauga
he won the picturesque title that has
remained his through life.
Major General Clem saw service in
four wars. He was in the Indian
Wars in Texas in the ’70s. the Span-
ish-American War. and served as an
instructor in the World War.
54 Radio Stations Are Now
Broadcasting Catholic Hour
Heads American Bar
Clarence E. Martin,-of Martins-
burg, \V. Va., who was elected
president of the American Bar
Association at its recent conven
tion in Washington. Mr. Martin
is an alumnus of the Graduate
School of the Catholic University
of America and is a member of
its Board of Trustees. He is a
former president of the American
Catholic Historical Association,
and a Knight Commander of the
Order of St. Gregory. (Under
wood & Underwood Photo.)
Bishop of Salt Lake
City Is Consecrated
Cardinal Hayes Elevates
Father Kearney to Episco
pacy in New York
(By N. C. W. C. News Service.)
NEW YORK—His Eminence Patrick
Cardinal Hayes, Archbishop of New
York, in St. Patricks’ Cathedral on
October 28 elevated to the dignity of
Bishop, the Rev. James Edward Kear
ney, pastor of a Bronx Church, and
an outstanding educator.
The new Bishop will assume charge
of the Salt Lake City Diocese, suc
ceeding the Most Rev. John Mitty,
Coadjutor Archbishop of San Fran
cisco, another former Bronx priest.
Archbishop Mitty and the Most Rev.
John J. Dunn, Auxiliary Bishop of
New York, acted as co-consecrator
for Bishop Kearney. The service was
marked by impressive grandeur
which held in rapt attention a congre
gation numbering over 5,000 persons.
Opposite the Cardinal, the Perfect-
Apostolic of the Bahama Islands, the
Right Rev. Bernard Kevenhoerster,
O. S. B., occupied a place with the
bishops and monsignori attending, at
his right.
The assistant priest of the Mass was
the Rt. Rev. Msgr. Michael J. La-
velle, rector of the Cathedral. Sev
eral priests from Salt Lake City par-
participated and one of them, the Rev.
Rev. Msgr. Duane G. Hunt. Vicar of
the diocese, was one of the deacons of
honor with the Very Rev. Msgr. John
F. Brady. The deacon of the Mass
was the Rev. Thomas Deegan, presi
dent of Cathedral College, and the
sub-deacon was the Rev. Patrick J.
Lennon, pastor of St. Cecelia’s
Church.
The Most Rev. Francis J. Spellman.
Auxiliary Bishop of Boston, himself
(Continued on Page Five.)
MEXICAN PRIMATE
AGAIN REPUDIATES
ARMED RESISTANCE
Archbishop Diaz Calls on His
People to Confine Them
selves to Peaceful Opposi
tion to Unjust Laws
(BY N. C. W. C. NEWS SERVICE)
MEXICO CITY.—The Most Rev.
Pascual Diaz, Archbishop of Mexico,
again repudiates armed resistance as
a means of defense against the anti-
religious laws of Mexico and urges
his people to peaceful resistance with
in the law, to more assiduous devo
tion to prayer and to the other exer
cises of piety, in a “Diocesan Edict”
he has just issued. The document
restates portions of His Holiness Pope
Pius XI’s recent Encyclical Acerba
Animi, and declares that “we should
be grateful to God for the predilec
tion shown toward us by His repre
sentative on earth.”
The “Diocesan Edict." is addressed
to the clergy and all the faithful of
the Archdiocese of Mexico.
STATE OF JALISCO LIMITS
NUMBER OF PRIESTS TO 56
The Legislature of the State of
Jalisco, in session at Guadalajara,
adopted, at its session of October 20,
a law limiting the number of priests
in the entire State to 56, or one for
each 50,000 persons based on the last
census.
It is reported here that on October
23 police under orders from the At
torney General searched the office ot
the Most Rev. Francesco Orozco y
Jimenez, Archbishop of Guadalajara,
allegedly in search of subversive pro
paganda, but no arrests resulted.
The Rev. Hipolita Alba has been
expelled by the Municipal Commit
tee of the National Revolutionary
Party of Zapopan, in the state of
Jalisco, on a charge of having vio
lated the law on religious worship.
The decree was executed by the
municipal president of Zapopan.
Another report from Guadalajara is
to the effect that police raided a con
vent there, arresting 17 nuns and
confiscating a number of religious
objects. The law of the State pro
hibits convents.
ELEVEN MEXICAN CHILDREN
GIVEN BLASPHEMOUS BAPTISM’
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
Eleven children, most of them the
sons and daughters of municipal em
ployes, were given a blasphemous
"Socialist Baptism” in the stream
that flows through the principal
street of Cordoba Vera Cruz with
Edouardo Valverde, the mayor of that
city, presiding, xhc mayor served as
“Godfather” for the first child, the
son of Municipal Director Adalberto
Arroniz. Senorita Quirazco, a public
school teacher, was "godmother.”
At the close of the ceremony, Luis
Catano Moret, a local attorney, said
he favored this blasphemous travesty
because it would "redeem the little
ones from clerical baptism.” He ex
plained that the candidates for bap
tism wore red caps and coats as a
symbol of the national proletariat.
ANNOUNCE CANDIDACY OF GOV
TEJEDA FOR PRESIDENCY
The Ruralist and Workers’ Syndica
list Party has launched the candi
dacy of Governor Adalberto C.
Tejeda of Vera Cruz for President in
1934 and has called upon workers to
support him as the “only leader who
has remained loyal to the revolution
ary postulates.” The party manifesto
declared “it is time vacillating revo
lutionary leaders who are untrue to
the revolution’s ideals be cast out
and men like Tejeda seated.”
Michigan University Daily
Scores Mexican Persecution
ANN ARBOR. Mich.—Continued
persecution of the Catholic Church
in Mexico, can result only in harm
to Mexico since the Church “seems
to thrive on persecution,” “The
Michigan Daily”, published at the
University of Michigan, declares in
an editorial.
“After a few short years of peace,”
the editorial states; “Mexico appears
to be on the threshold of a repetition
of the bloody days of the Plutarco
Calles regime.
“In a blustering statement of his
intentions, Rodriguez calls the atti
tude of Pope Pius XI ‘insolent.’ This,
from a petty national politician ad
dressed to the head of the Roman Ca
tholic Church, is the height of
arrogance. It is Rodriguez, obviously,
who is ‘insolent and in no small de
gree. As head of the largest organ
ization in the world, the Pope has a
right to speak, and he has a right to
be heard with respect. His opinion
is more valuable than that of a thou
sand Roariguezes or Calles.
“Mexico itself is unimportant as
compared with the Catholic Church.
What Calles does or what Rodriquez,
his puppet, does will mean nothing in
the long run. The Catholic Church
seems to thrive or. persecution, and
the only harm that can result from
another prolonger series of butcheries
will fall upon the Mexican nation. As
long as men of the calibre of Calles
and Rodriguez hold sway, Mexico is
doomed to remain one of the. back
ward nations of the world, if, indeed,
she remains long a nation.”
