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About The bulletin of the Catholic Laymen's Association of Georgia. (Augusta, Ga.) 1920-1957 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 19, 1932)
I ill Member ol inc Na- | Ml tional Catholic Wei- 0 Ml fare Conference News 8 efl Serviee- Tjht J&uJittxn Official Organ of the Catholic Laymens Association^Gsoi^a “TO BRING AS OUT A FRIENDLIER FEELING AMONG GEORGIANS. IRRESPECTIVE OF CREED me Only CathoUc Newspaper Between Baltimore and New Orleans TEN CENTS A COPY. VOL. XIII., No. 22 AUGUSTA, GEORGIA, NOVEMBER 19, 1932 ISSUED semi-MONTHLY-$2.qq a News Briefs ( By N. C. W. C. News Service) Redemptorists Observe the Bicentennial of Their Order JUSTICE CARDOZO GIVES LIBRARY TO ST. JOHN’S BROOKLYN, N. Y.—Justice Ben jamin N. Cardoza of the United States. supreme court has given almost his entire personal law library to St. John’s College. The books, thousands in number, will be housed in a spe cial “Cardoza Alcove.” There are 750 textbooks in the collection, many of them being English reports in law and equity printed in old style type. Fifty of them were printed between 1730 and 1750. There are 100 old Ameri can reports and textbooks, and a set of 70 volumes of “Cases and Points.” CATHOLIC FIRST KANSAS WOMAN IN CONGRESS HAYS, Kans.—As the result of Tuesday’s balloting Miss Cathryn O’Laughlin, a member of St. Joseph’s parish here, became the first wom an ever elected to the United States House of Representatives from Kan sas. Miss O’Laughlin, who was reared in Western Kansas, is 38 years old and an attorney. 25-YEAR-OLD ATTORNEY MEMBER OF CONGRESS BUTTE, Mont.—Joseph P. Monag han, a Catholic attorney elected last Tuesday to serve the First Montana District, will be the youngest member in the United States House of Rep resentatives after March 4. next, it is believed. Mr. Monaghan is 25 years old. father McCaffrey is NEW CHAPLAIN OF 69TH NEW YORK.—The Rev. Joseph A. McCaffrey, rector of Holy Cross Church and Chaplain of the New York Police Department, has been designated by His Eminence Patrick Cardinal Hayes for appointment as chaplain of the 165th Infantry, the old Sixty-ninth Regiment, New York Na tional Guard Father McCaffrey, who succeeds the late Father Francis P. Duffy, was born in this city, March 11, 1890. He served overseas as a chaplain with the regular army and saw action at Soissons, Aisne-Marne, St. Mihiel and the Argonne. He was cited for valor and decorated with the Croix de Gurre. BROTHER OF FR. RONALD KNOX EDITOR OF PUNCH LONDON.—The brother of the Rev. Ronald Knox—E. V. Knox who for many years has written under the name of “Fvoe”—has been appointed editor of Punch on the retirement of Sir Owen Seaman. Mr. Knox is not a Catholic. Father Knox is a convert. Their father was a former Anglican Bishop of Man chester. Punch, which is Great Britain’s pre mier humorous weekly, has many Catholic connections. A famous edi tor. Sir Francis Burnand, was a Cath- , olic and its present cover, which has been in use for several decades, was designed by a Catholic—“Dicky” Doyle. (Bv N. C. W. C. NEWS SERVICE) WASHINGTON.—The centenary of the death of Charles Carroll of Car rollton, the last survivor and the only Catholic signer of the Declaration of Independence, who died at Baltimore, Md„ November 14, 1832, recalls the following remarkable sentiment ex pressed by the illustrious patriot shortly before his death: “I have lived to my 96th year. I have enjoyed health; I have been blessed with great wealth, prosperity and most of the good things which the world can bestow—public appre ciation, esteem, applause—but what I now look back on, with the greatest satisfaction to myself, is, that I have practiced the duties of my religion.” Mr. Carroll was born at Anapolis, Md., in 1737, of Irish ancestry, and On Georgetown Faculty •O' Anton Lang, Jr., son of the famous “Christus” of the Oberanuncrga*! Passion Play, who came to the United States this fall as an instructor in German at Georgetown University, Washington, D. C. Mr. Lang attend ed Holy Cross College, Worcester, Mass., from 1926 to 1928, receiving his degree in the latter year. Since then he has continued his studies at Eurpean universities. —(Wide World Photo.) BISHOPS IN ANNUAL N.C.W.C. MEETING/ Administrative Committee Session Precedes General Gathering at Washington (By N. C. W. C. News Service) WASHINGTON—The meeting of the administrative committee of the Na tional Catholic Welfare Conference here November 14 inaugurated a series of gatherings which is attracting to Washington members of the Hierarchy of the Catholic Church from all parts of the country. The meeting of the Administrative Committee, receives department and bureau reports covering the activities of the National Catholic Welfare Conference during the year in the fields of social action, education, lay activities, the Catholic press, immigra tion, apologetics, and the relations of the Church in the United States with the Church and Catholic activities in other countries. The board of trustees of the Ca tholic University of America meets at the University Tuesday. The an nual general meeting of the bishops of the United States will be held at the Catholic University on Wednes day and Thursday. CARROLL LECTURE (By N. C. W. C. NEWS SERVICE) NEW YORK.The Catholic Book Club here has selected “Charles Car- roll of Carrollton,’ a biography by Joseph Gum, for November. The centennial of Carroll's death occurs this month. inherited his father’s wealth. He was educated abroad at the Jesuit colleges at St. Omer, Rheims and Paris, and also studied law at the Temple in London. He was a cousin of the Rev. John Carroll, later the first Catholic Bishop in the United States. Both were loyal friends of George Wash ington and rendered patriotic services in the cause fo the colonies. Charles Carroll served in the Continental Congress until 1778, and was elected to the first congress, under the new constitution, as a senator from Mary land. He survived all the signers of the Declaration of Independence, and died 33 years after the death of Gen eral Washington. Carroll’s remains repose in the fam ily chapel at Doughoregan Manor, Maryland. Centenary of Their Coming to America Also Marked at Ceremonies Throughout the United States (By N. C. W. C. News Service) LIMA. O .— With four prelates participating, religious ceremonies ex tending over four days are being held here to commemorate the second centenary of the founding of the Re- demptorist Order and the first cen tenary of their coming to this coun try. Participating in the ceremonies are the Most Rev. John T. McNicholas, O. P., Archbishop of Cincinnati; the Most Rev. Joseph Schrembs. Bishop of Cleveland; the Most Rev. John F. Noll, Bishop of Fort Wayine. and the, Most Rev. Karl J. Alter, Bishop of' Toledo Speakers paid tribute to the early j labors of the Redemptorists and to their faithful work of today. Solemn High Mass was celebrated by Bishop Alter. Archbishop McNicholas was to deliver the sermon but he was un able to do so because of a throat af fliction and the Rt. Rev. Msgr. Frank A. Thill. Director of the Laymen’s Retreat Movement in Cincinnati, read the Archbishop's manuscript. Bishop Alter, speaking at the eve- , ning service, took as his subject “The ; Redemptorist Order.” In the course of his sermon he said: “A century ago there was only one Catholic priest resident in this part of Ohio which now constitutes the Diocese of Toledo. Father Quinn at old St. Mary’s. Tiffin, was the first priest of the Diocese of _ Cincinnati, to which jurisdiction this territory! then belonged. “The second resident priest, how ever, was Father Tschenhens, a member of the Redemptorist con gregation who, with two companions, had come across the sea to give this territory the benefit of his devoted ministry. Bishop Fenwick of Cin- Continued on Page Eight) Hyper-Nationalism Is Enemy of Peace So Father Gillis Declares in Catholic Hour Broadcast (By N. C. W. C. NEWS SERVICE) NEW YORK.— Hyper-nationalism was called “the chief enemy of peace and prosperity,” and fundamentally “primitive, raw, naked savagery,” by the Rev. James M. Gillis, C.S.P., November 13 in the course of his ad dress on “Citizens and Aliens,” over the “Catholic Hour.” The “Catholic Hour” is broadcast over a network of the National Broadcasting Company, through Sta tion WEAF, here, and is sponsored by the National Council of Catholic Men. Father Gillis declared that if the Disarmament Conference at Geneva ends without having achieved results, “excessive nationalism is the diplo matic marplot.” He said that many of our citizens “fail to distinguish between splendid isolation and selfish isolation.” “Isolation,” he said, is no more pos sible in modern times than “security, achieved by physical means.” “If Eu rope and Asia starve,” he said, “America starves. For weal or woe the world has become a unit. There fore, a misguided, unbalanced nation alism is not only a crime against the rest of the world, it is suicide.” Mrs. F. D. Roosevelt Denies Her Magazine Talks Birth Control (By N. C. W. C. News Serviee) PITTSBURGH—In its content and intent, the magazine “Babies, Just Babies,” of which she is the editor, is “as far from birth control as it could possibly be,” Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, wife of the president-elect, said in a letter just written to a reader of the Pittsburgh Catholic, and printed in that publication. Mrs. Roosevelt said, in part: “I am editor of a magazine called ‘Babies, Just Babies’, which is written mostly for the care and upbringing of children up to five years of age, and the articles and stories are writ ten by some of the outstanding doc tors, and in its content and in its in tent it is as far from birth control as anything could possibly be. “I hope this answers your ques tions, and if there is anything further which is troubling you, or which you would like to ask me, please feel free to call or me." Centenary of Death Recalls Charles Carrolls Devotion Gets Rosenwald Medal Dennis Francis Kelly, distinguished Chicago merchant and one of the or ganizers of the Associated Catholic Charities of that city, who has just been awarded the Rosenwald Foun dation medal for outstanding civic service. This is the fourth year that the medal has been awarded, and Mr. Kelly is the first Christian to receive it. Mr. Kelly also enjoys the dis tinction of being the first life mem ber of the Catholic Press Association. N.C.W.G. OFFICIALS AID RELIEF WORK Archbishop Hanna Addresses Letter of Endorsement to Chairman Newton Baker (By N. C. W. C. News Service) SAN FRANCISCO.—In a letter ad dressed to Newton D. Baker, head of the National Citizens’ Committee of the Welfare and Relief Association, the Most Rev. Edward J. Hanna, Archbishop of San Francisco and chairman of the Administratice com mittee, National Catholic Welfare Conference, has added his appeal for assistance for private agencies of re lief. Archbishop Hanna is a member of the national group of citizens who are directing the mobilization of wel fare and relief work. In his letter, Archbishop Hanna said “As one who is serving on the Na tional Citizens’ Committee of the Wel fare and Relief Mobilization, and as Chairman of the Administrative Com mittee, National Catholic Welfare Conference, I wish to add my further word emphasizing the more than critical need of every help and assist ance that -l be given today to the private agencies of relief. We face a winter that will be, to my mind, in credible in its exactions upon our charity, and nothing short of terrible in the suffering it will bring to worthy individuals and families- The heart of our people must and will answer the appeal and the need of their fellows.” MEXICAN CATHOLICS PLEAD FOR FREEDOM OF THEIR SCHOtS Union of Fathers of Families Publishes Petition to Gov ernment While Obeyng; Present Unjust Laws By CHARLES BETICO (Mexico City Correspondent, N. C. W. C. News Service) MEXICO CITY.—The Union of the Fathers of Families has issued a statement, which has appeared in all the papers of the capital, making clear the purpose and intent of the organi zation and denying its connection with the Association for the Freedom of Education. “The Union,” the statement says, “is a general organization which in its aims, program, tendencies and components has no political interests and pursues no religious ends.” The Union, it is declared, “advocates free dom of instruction for all, without distinction of class and religious, po litical or philosophical opinions, but takes into account legal realities and those of the 'moment in which we live.” It dees not attempt, the state ment says, “to change the order or to create difficulties for our country, limiting itself ... to respectful, in cessant and peaceful appeal for the fulfillment of the law, without secta rian exaggeration or unwarranted | intrusion on the part of the govern ment fn the field which by natural law primarily belongs to parents.’’ The statement affirms that it is. not and will not be the wish of the Union to oppose the system of the govern ment, but it does hope to convince public officials of “the great advan tages which would accrue to the or ganic peace of Mexico, to the general civilization and to the development of our country, from frank and loyal co-operation on the basis of mutual respect.” Meanwhile, the educational program of the government is so unpopular in the States that local funds are not appropriated for school purposes and hundreds of school teachers have remained unpaid for months. A teach er’s organization. Nueva Generacion de Maestros, is demanding the fed eralization of all education as a rem edy for unemployment among teach ers. EXILED PRELATE ORDERS PRIESTS TO OBEY LAWS (By N. C. W. C. NEWS SERVICE) MEXICO CITY.—The secretary of the Archbishop of Guadalajara has released to the press a telegram from the Most Rev. Orozco y Jiminez, now living in exile at Los Angeles, Cali fornia, directing all priests in the Archdiocese to adopt an attitude of complete submission to the govern ment of the State of Jalisco, and con demning in severest terms the report ed seditious attitude of some persons. Thousands who attempted to enter the closed churches thinking that ser vices were to be resumed, threatened such a disturbance that the troops were called out. More than 20 army corps, consist ing of infantry and cavalry, have been concentrated at Jalisco by order of the Secretary of War and it is plan ned to send two more corps. All the troops now stationed in Jalisco, in cluding their commanding officer, General Figueroa, saw service there during previous rebellions. Los Altos, stronghold of the Cristeros in 1928, is now occupied by Federal troops. Mexican Aqueduct, Gift of Exiled Prelate, Dedicated By CHARLES BETICO Mexico City Correspondent, N.C.W.C. NEW’S SERVICE MEXICO CITY.—When the town of Temacalcingo, State of Mexico, pre pared to celebrate the opening of an aqueduct which provides it with drinkable water, the man who spent his paternal inheritance to build the aqueduct as a gift to the town where his parents were born could not be present. He had been expelled from his native land as a “pernicious for eigner.” The public celebration was “indefinitely postponed” and the aqueduct opened without ceremony. The benfactor who gave his per sonal fortune of 560,000 for the town where he lived in his childhood is His Excellency the Most Rev. Leo- poldo Ruiz y Flores, Apostolic Dele gate to Mexico, the only native Mex ican ever so honored by the Holy See. He is now living in exile in the Uni ted States, his absence lamented by the people who for years have looked upon him as their protector. In 1904, the Municipality of Temas- calcingo initiated the work of con structing the aqueduct to bring wa ter to the town from the Los Pastores springs, some seven miles away. The revolution caused the work to be sus pended. Later a company was organ ized and some $18,000 spent on the project, but mismanagement caused the work again to be suspended. Archbishop Ruiz y Flores then pro vided $18,000 to make up the deficit and guaranteed funds for the com pletion of the work. It was necessary to trench eleven springs, to build a bridge over the Lerma River and to construct a tun nel 325 feet long by ten feet wide to give passage to 500 gallons of water a mintue. The total cost of the proj ect was $60,000 and the entire amount was given by Archbishop Ruiz.
