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Member oi ene Na- tioual Catholic Wel fare Conference News Service. 'XjUt T&uXXttxn Official Organ of the Catholic Laymens "TO BIUMG ABOUT A FRIENDLIER FEELING AMONG GEORG a CREED" ■flie Only catholic Newspaper Between Baltimore and New Orleans TEN CENTS A COPY. VOL XIV., No. 11 AUGUSTA, GEORGIA, JUNE 3, 1933 ISSUED SEMI-MONTHLY— *2.00 A YEAR Bulletins ( By N. C. W. C. News Service) CLEVELAND, O. — The Cleveland Plain Dealer, after protests by the Catholic Universe Bulletin, has an nounced that no more anti-Catholic talks of Judge Rutherford will be permitted to ire broadcast there. Other stations in this neighborhood have taken similar action. . Oratory Winner NEW YORK. — Postmaster Gen eral James A. Farley recently open ed the art exhibit at Marymount College here. He was accompanied by his daughters, the Misses Betty and Ann Farley, pupils at Mary mount Day School, and iiis son, James, Jr. MONTREAL.— Herman Martineau, a member of Papal Zouaves, who defended the Pope when Rome was captured in 1868, died here recently at the age of 88. His deatli followed that of another Papal Zouave, Ben jamin Gourgeois of Three Rivers. WASHINGTON, D. C. — The Rev. Dr. George F. Stroliaver, S. J„ direc tor of the Department of Science at Georgetown University, will on next Sunday, June 4, start his series oi addresses over the Catholic Radio Hour, sponsored by the National Council of Catholic Men. Dr. Stro- haver succeeds the Rev. Dr. Paul H. Furfey, of the Catholic Univer sity of America, whose series end ed with May. SAN FRANCISCO, — Bishop-elect Philip G. Scher, of the Monterey- Fjresno Diocese, will be consecrated at St. John's Cathedral, Fresno. on June 29, by Archbishop Hanna, of San Francisco, assisted by Bishop Cantwell of Ins Angeles and Sail Diego and Bishop Gorman of Reno. Gra:e Mary Coliiflower, 17-ycar-old student of St. Cecilia’s Academy. Washington, who won second place in til • National Oratorical Contest linaLs just held at Washington, D. C. She was the only girl among the five finalists who competed. All will be taken cn a trip to Europe this sum mer as a reward for their success in ihe region-1 contests. The subject of Miss Collif tower's address was “Thomas Jefferson; Father of Con-, stitutional Democracy. - ’ She lacked one point for a tie with .lie new champion. Bishop Peterson’s Efforts Reopen New England Mill Prelate’s Good Offices Bring Peace to World’s Largest Textile Plant LONDON. — Bishop Hensliaw, of Saifoid, announces that he lias 200 priests preparing for ordination in various seminaries, only 105 fewer than the number of secular priests laboring in his Diocese, an indica tion of the increase in the number of vocations. There arc also 96 re ligious order priests in the Diocese. OSSINING, N. Y.—Fourteen priests and oee Brother will leave Mary- knoll July 30 for work 3n the Orient, bringing the number of Marknoll missionaries in the Orient to 130. Baptised Catholics in the Maryknoll fields of China and Korea number 35,090, and the Maryknollers are training for the priesthood some 200 Chinese and Korean seminarians. RUT'SilUKl.il, Pa. — The seventy eighth annual convention of the Catholic Ceutral Verein will lie held here August 20 to 23, Frank J. Dock- endorff, general secretary, announces. ST. LOUIS. — Monsignor Demp sey’s free lunch room in a recent v/eek reached the new high mark of 52,928 indigent men fed. In a single day 8,687 meals were served. ST. MARY’S, Kansas. — The Rev Charles Saldanha, a native of Indian and a Brahatn, will be ordained here June 25. A member of a convert family, he is one of fourteen chil dren and has a brother a Jesuit. He served for twelve years as professor of mathematics at the University of Bombay. NEW YORK. — The returns of the annual Catholic Charities appeal reached a total of $793,3S6, accord ing to latest reports. The Cardinal’s Emergency Committee, headed by Former Governor Smith, raised $91 385.25. FUNERAL OF BISHOP O’HERN, ROCHESTER Cardinal Hayes Presides. Bishop Walsh of Charles ton Delivers Sermon (By N. C. W. C. News Service) MANCHESTER. N..H.—The Amos- keag Mills, largest in the world, once more are operating due directly to the good offices of the Most Rev. John B. Peterson, Bishop of Man chester, who acted as mediator in the seriour labor troubles affecting 7,500 persons. Peace returned to this city May 21 after a hectic week in which the mills were closed down, the Na tional Guard called out after rioters had overpowered police, thousands of dollars worth of property damage done and many citizens of Man chester placed in jail. Tire Amoskeag Manufacturing Manufacturing Company, through Frederick C. Dumaine, acceded to the proposal of Bishop Peterson that the workers receive a 15 per cent wage increase at once and that there be no discrimination against workers who participated in the strike. John L. Barry, president of the State Board of the American Federation of Labor, and Horace Rivere. organizer of the United Textile Workers of America, called upon the workers 'to accept the terms. In his request to the workers to accept the proposal of the mill man agement, Bishop Peterson pointed out that this was the largest increase offered by any of the mills. “If employers and employes would compose their differences for the time being at least," Bishop Peter son said, “they would comfort the president by their confidence and (Continued on Page Six) PAPAL DELEGATE IS WELCOMED TO U, Distinguished Group Greets Archbishop Cicognani on His Arrival in Hew York (By N. C. W. C. News Service) His Excellency the Most Rev Amleto Giovanni Cicognani arrived in this country last week to take up his duties as Apostolic Delegate to the United States. ' Brought from Genoa by the liner Conte di Savoia, which this time established a record for an ocean crossing from a Mediterranean port, Archbishop Cicognaani. the sixth pre late sent by the Holy See as Aposto- lic Delegate to the United States, ar rived in New York May 22. His Ex cellency remained in New York as the guest of His Eminence Patrick Cardinal Hayes, Archbishop of New York, until May 26, and during that time Was accorded many honors, among them a brilliant and colorful reception in St. Patrick's Cathedral in which more than 2,500 persons, in cluding many prelates and lay digni taries, took part. (Bv N. C. VV. C. News Service) ROCHESTER — Impressive funeral services were held at St Patrick s Cathedral here May 26 for the Most Rev. John Francis O’Hern, Bishop of Rochester, who died May 22, following a heart attack. The en tire city suspended activities for one minute as the funeral was being held out of respect for the memory of the prelate. His Eminence Patrick Cardinal Hayes, who consecrated Bishop O’Hern four years ago, presided at the Pontifical Requiem Mass, which was celebrated by the Most Rev. Wil liam Turner, Bishop of Buffalo, with the Rt. Rev. Msgr. George B. 3urns, of Rochester, as deacon, and the Rev. Thomas P. O’Hern, of Buffalo, as sub-deacon. Robert Hayes Gore, whose appoint merit by President Roosevelt to be Governor of Puerto Rico has just been confirmed by the Senate. Mr. Gere, who is a newspaper publisher in Florida, with a winter home at Fort Lauderdale, is a native of Ken tucky where he attended Catholic schools. He and Mrs. Gore and their nine children are members of St. Ed mund’s parish. Oak Park, a suburb of Chicago, where they maintain a home. One Child in Ten in U. S. Is Attending Catholic Schools From New York, Archbishop Cic jg- r.ani went directly to Washington t<» take over his official residence. Uiion his 'arrival in the national capital, His Excellency was greeted by a group of eccleiastical dignitaries, headed by the Most Rev. Michael J. Curley, Archbishop of Baltimore, and the Very Rev Msgr. Paul Mareila, auditor of the Apostolic Delegation, and by a group of laymen. Among the events planned in honor of the new Apostolic Delegate in Washington was an archdiocesan re ception in the crypt of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception on the campus of theTlatholic Uni versity of America, followed by a reception in the Mullen Library of the University. So Statistics Announced United States Office Education Reveal by of The sermon was delivered by the Most Rev. Emmet Michael Walsh. Bishop of Charleston, S. C., who eulogized the late prelate as "a man loved for his greatest virtue—charity’’. The Most Rev. Thomas F. Hickey, Titular Archbishop of Viminacium, whom Bishop O’Hern succeeded as head of the Diocese of Rochester, was present in the sanctuary, as also were the Most Rev. Thomas J. Walsh, (Continued on Page 6) Many Exhibits of Catholic Interest at World’s Fair .. (By N. C. W. C. News Service) .. CHICAGO—With announcements of “A Century of Progress” exhibits re lating ta Catholic persons, and things being made practically every day by officials, the coming World’s Exposi tion is taking shape as a center of special interest to Catholics of the United States this year. Among the latest announcements of interest to Catholics are those reveal ing that a reproduction of a tiara worn by Pope I.eo XIII will be shown; features of the Irish Free State ex hibit; the selection of a Catholic hospital as the locale of a motion pictureto be shown by the American College of Surgeons, and a number of events and “days’* in which the participants will be predominantly Catholic. The reproduction of the papal tiara will be included in the exhibit of repheas of famous crowns used by rulers of various nations. The Irish exhibit, which is said to be the first national exhibit , of that country ever displayed beyond the confines of Ireland, will include the following features; 68 Irish paintings; specimens of Irish handwork in linen wood, metals, laces, and the like; stained glass display; specimen pages of the famous Book of Kels. replicas of the Lismore Crozier and of St. Pat reik's Bell, in the section of antiqui ties. an exhibit on church plate and vestments, and a display of modern Irish industrial progress. The American College of Surgeons selected St. Joseph's Hospital, Aurora, as the scene of a motion picture il lustrating modern methods and prac tices in hospitalization. The choice v/as made, after an examination of various institutions, on the basis not only of attractiveness of exterior but of equipment and arrangement of the interior. It has been learned that the Illinois Catholic Historical Society will have as its exhibit a memorial to Father Marquette, the first white man to live in the confines fo the present city of Chicago. (By N. C. W. C. News Service) WASHINGTON. — Statistics com piled by the U. S. Office of Educa tion estimate the number of children attending private elementary schools in the year 1929-30 to have been 2,- 255,430. A pamphlet just published, the first to be issued by the Office of Education presenting statistics on private elementary school enroll ment, states in its opening paragraph that the “Department of Education of the National Catholic Welfare Conference reports 2.222,598 pupils enrolled in the elementary schools that are affiliated with the Roman Catholic Church.” On the basis of the figures gath ered by the Office of Education, it is evident that one elementary school child in every ten in this country at tends a private school. A questionnaire was sent by the federal officials to 9,900 private ele mentary schools. “Replies,” the pamphlet states, “were received from 6,815 schools, including 592 non-sec tarian schools, 263 affiliated with Protestant denominations, and 5,954 Roman Catholic schools. In these replies the actual enrollment by in dividual schools totals 1.802,947 pu pils, of 79.5 per cent of the number estimated by this office from various reports. Of these. 1.730,670 pupils were in Roman Catholic schools. This is 77.9 per cent of the total re ported by the Department of Educa tion of the National Catholic Wel fare Conference to be in elementary schools of the Roman Catholic Church.”. The pamphlet also publishes a supplementary table of statistics of Catholic schools taken from the ‘Di rectory of Catholic Colleges and Schools, 1932-33.” This table gives the total number of students in Catholic school* as 2.222,598 and the number of teachers as 58,245. of which 53,384 are members of Religi ous Orders. John S. Young to Be Awarded Doctorate St. Benedict’s to Honor Catholic Hour Announcer (By N. C. W. C. News Service) ATCHISON, Kas.—John S. Young of New York City, staff announcer for the National Broadcasting Com pany v/ho for more than three years has been at the microphone every Sunday on th? “Catholic Hour.” will be granted the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws at the seventy-ninth annual commencement exercises of St. Benedict’s College here, on June 2. Mr. Young will be presented for the honor by Dr. Thomas E. Purcell of Kansas City, Mo., President of the National Council of Catholic men which organizaiton is the sponsor of the Catholic Hour” programs. PRIVILEGE TO LIVE AND WORK IN AMERICA, SAYS DELEGATE (By N. C. W. C. News Service) WASHINGTON — His Excellency the Most Rev. Amleto Giovanni Cicognani, Apostolic Delegate to the United States, arrived here May 26 to take up his residence in the na tional capital.” As His Excellency stepped from the train that had brought him from New York, he was greeted by a com pany of distinguished priests, head ed by the Most Rev. Michael J. Cur ley, Archbishop of Baltimore, and the Very Rev. Msgr. Paul Mareila, Audi tor of the Apostolic Delegation, and by a representaton of laymen. Arch bishop Cicognani met each member of the welcoming party, and then graciously posed for a group of news paper cameramen who were awaking his arrival. He went directly to the Apostolic delegation, where he issued the following statement to the N C. W. C. News Service; “Coming to the capital of your na tion is a great honor and a real pleas ure. Many duties await me and I will give myself to them as soon as possible. I need not repeat that I hope and pray that prosperity will soon come back to your country which is dear to me and in which l very (Continued on Page Six) 100,000 Catholics in Japan, Apostolic Delegate Reports Mississippi Priests Ordained 25 Years BALTIMORE, Md—Two priests oi the Southeast, the Rev. Patrick C. Doyle, pastor of the Church of the Assumption, Yazoo City. Miss., and the Rev. Bernard O'Reilly, pastor of the Church of Our Lidv of Victories, are among the members of the silver jubilee class of St. Mary’s Seminary, ordained twenty-five years ago. ROME. — (N. C. W. C.—Fides).— The Most Rev. Edward Mooney, Apostolic Delegate in Japan, has just departed from Rome, after taking leave of the Holy Father. He re turns to his post in Tokyo by way of Canada and the United States. His Excellency stated briefly be fore departure that the Church in Japan will continue to build itself upon a spiritual elite which enters steadily into its ranks. Progress in Japan is solid, though the results are not spectacular. , ‘Striking beauty of soul is found among the Japenese people,” declar ed His Excellency. “Our missiona ries never tire of speaking of the spiritual depth which they discover in So many who seek out the priest, attracted by the sublimity of our Christian heritage. “Our Catholic body in Japan is made up of two main elements. We have the sturdy group in the south, the Nagasaki Christians, survivors of the dark years of persecution under the Shogunate, ruled by a Japanese Bishop and cared for by Japanese clergy. These number over GO,000, two-thirds of the Church members in Janan. “Throughout the rest of the coun try. then, with the most important agglomeration about Tokyo, are some 40,000 converts of the last few gen erations. Almost every individual in this group could supply material or a very interesting spiritual bio graphy. Many of them are from the educated classes and represent men and women whose high idealism has led them to Jesus Christ. “In Korea, where the conditions of the apostolate are radically differ ent. Catholics are more numerous and group conversions are the rule. Marked advance is also being evi denced in the organization of the growing Catholic body and a most significent and encouraging develop ment in this line is the splendid Catholic Action program which the Bishops formulated recently in Seoul. “Silently, humbly, the Church’s messengers are winning their way in Japan. Catholic schools, each one brought to a high standard of ex cellence. are already fairly numer ous. Hopeful beginnings in medical and social work give promise of re sults in this demonstration of Chris tian charity."