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THE BULLETIN OF THE CATHOLIC L AYMEN’S ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA
JUNE 17, 1933
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THE BULLETIN
The Official Organ of the Catholic Laymen’s Associa-
' tlon of Georgia
RICHARD REID, Editor
1409 Lamar Building Augusta, Georgia
Subscription Price, $2.00 Per Year.
Published semi-monthly by the Publicity Department
with the Approbation of the Most Rev. Bishops of Re-
■eigh, Charleston, Savannah, St. Augustine, Mobile,
Nfetchez, and Nashville and of the Rt Rev. Abbot,
Ordinary of Belmont.
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Press Association of the United States, the Georgia
Press Association and the National Editorial Association
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ASSOCIATION OFFICERS FOR 1931-1932
P. H. RICE, K. C. S. G., Augusta President
HONORARY VICE-PRESIDENTS
COL. P. H. CALLAHAN, K. S. G Louisville, Ay.
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. XIV.June 17 No, 12
Entered as second class matter June 15, 1921, at the
Post Office at Augusta, Ga., under Act of March, lb?9,
Accepted for mailing at special rate of postage provided
for in Section 1103, Act of October 3, 1917, authorized
September 1, 1S21.
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Father Quinlan
F ATHER WILLIAM QUINLAN, for sixty-two years a
priest of the Diocese of Savannah, has been called
to his eternal reward, and Georgia loses both a zealous,
unswerving priest and the last remaining clerical link
with the earliest days of the Diocese.
For over three score years Father Quinlan had labored
in every section of Georgia, in Savannah, Atlanta, Au
gusta, Albany, Sharon and the missions. There is hard
ly a person now living in Georgia who can remember the
time when Father Quinlan was not universally known in
the Diocese. Father Quinlan’s outstanding characteristics
were perhaps his charity and his sincerity; sincerity and
frankness were the best passports to his affection wheth
er one’s opinions agreed with his or not.
The Diocese of Savannah was but twenty-one years old
when Father Quinlan was ordained; it was younger than
that when he came to the Diocese and travelled it with
Bishop Verot during seminary vacations. Among his con
temporaries in the clergy in those early days were priests
who had labored in the Diocese in the days of Bishop
England—and Bishop England addressed the Congress of
the United States in the presence of President John
Quincy Adams.
In the death of Father Quinlan, therefore, the Diocese
of Savannah loses its last remaining clerical link not only
with the earliest days of the Diocese but with the infancy
of the Republic itself. But it is not the Father Quinlan
who is a link with the past but Father Quinlan, the zea
lous, able, sincere, priestly priest that the Diocese, the
State and the Southeast mourn today. May he rest in
the eternal peace to which his priestly ministrations as
sisted so many departing souls these three score years
and more.
Who’s Patriotic Now?
O NE does not need a very long memory to recall
those hectic days a few years ago when hundreds
of thousands of Americans appeared to be so thoroughly
alarmed over the “un-Americanism” of Catholic schools
that in one state a law was passed outlawing them and
agitators in other states prepared to have them follow
this curious example, subsequently declared unconstitu
tional by the United States Supreme Court.
But one may search in vain through ite histories of
every Catholic grammar and high school, college, uni
versity and seminary for examples of anti-American
demonstrations such as we read of with alarming regu
larity in educational institutions which are anything
but Catholic.
For instance, the New York newspapers recently re
ported that three hundred public school teachers staged
a riot when the Board of Education in that city refused to
reinstate a radical professor who was expelled because of
his radical teachings and for tolerating and encouraging
profanity in his classes.
Only a few days ago some five hundred radicals, in
cluding many students of the College of the City of New
York, if newspaper reports are accurate, attacked the
president, a member of the faculty and several women
guests at a public drill of the Students’ Reserve Corps,
this to express their opposition to military training and
the defense of the nation. The College of the City of
New York is supported by public funds and is a part of
the city’s public school system.
“Eut this is New York, where there are so many
foreigners.” Fordham, Manhattan, St. John’s, St. Francis
Xavier, Marymount, St. Elizabeth’s, Mt. St. Vincent’s,
Good Counsel, New Rochelle, St. Joseph’s, Georgian
Court, Sacred Heart and numerous other Catholic col
leges and over 600 Catholic schools with 350,000 pupils
are in New York and its immediate vicinity, and it is
impossible to cite a single such example in any one of
them since their foundation, and Catholic schocls in New
York are older than the Republic.
Furthermore, the principles of radicalism and com
munism are being taught in classrooms in numerous col
leges supported by public funds not only in the “foreign”
East but in the rugged West and the conservative South.
They are not being taught in any Catholic school in the
land. There is freedom of thought in Catholic colleges,
*aid freedom of expression, and encouragement of initia
tive, but as soon as a professor in a Catholic college
teaches that two times two is twenty-two or that- God is
a myth and morality a delusion and snare, out he goes,
and not all the columns that shallow people pour out
about academic freedom can reinstate him.
Developments in Spain
' t ’HE SOMEWHAT inaccurate report of the “excom-
■ munication” of the members of the Spanish Gov
ernment for robbing the Church of its property and for
the other injustices inflicted on it surprised, shocked
and scandalized many good people who see nothing
strange in their own denomination excommunicating
a member for playing cards, dancing or drinking a glass
of beer.
The Spanish Government proclaimed to the world that
it was going to separate Church and State. It started
by seizing all Church property, and declared it the
property of the State. It forced the Church to pay a tax
on such property as in its bounty it allows to be used
for religious purposes. It closed all religious schools,
which become the property of the State, and the Sis
ters and priests, who conduct their schools, such as
our own in Georgia and the Southeast, and great uni
versities like the Catholic University, Notre Dame,
Georgetown, Loyola and a host of others, are forbidden
to teach. It took possession of the hospitals, identical
with our own Catholic hospitals, made them the prop
erty of the State, and “laicized” them, i. e„ replaced the
Sisters there with lay persons. In its zeal for the separa
tion of Church and State, it minutely dictates rules for
religious services and ceremonies.
. This is not separation of Church and State; it is
Union of Church and State with the Church the slave
of the State.
“But the Church was in politics!” How often have we
heard that charge fired against the Church in the
United States by non-Catholic religious leaders who
were themselves at the same moment attempting to dic
tate to the White House and to Congress, and who ad
vanced not a shred of evidence to substantiate their
charge. If the Church were in politics in Spain, could it
not, with its admittedly great moral power, have pre
vented the present anti-Catholic government, backed
by a minority, from getting into power? The Church
has leaned backwards in order to avoid the suspicion
that it is in politics. Yet grant for the sake of argument
that it was in politics. There are non-Catholic denomi
nations in the United States in politics. Who outside a
few atheistic radicals would suggest that on that ac
count the government should seize their churches and
treat them generally as Spain is treating the Catholic
Church?
“But the Church is opposed to the Republic!” The Holy
Father explicitly has urged Catholics not to hinder the
Republic or to combat political reforms because “the
Church can live in harmony with all forms of govern
ment and all civil institutions, provided the rights of
God and of Christian conscience are safeguarded.” The
Church flourishes nowhere more than in the United
States, the greatest of all Republics.
Yet, on the other hand, the Anglican Church in the
colonies was largely Tory. Did our young Republic
confiscate its property and make it the slave of the gov
ernment? It did not; it allowed this and all other
churches the freedom to which they were entitled by
logic and the law which followed the logic.
We earnestly hope that Prosperity,
whose return we have been awaiting,
is no relation to the beam of light
which took forty years to get from
Arcturus to Chicago.
Sometimes we think that Prosperity
must be coming back disguised as a
messenger boy. A brusque business
executive reprimanded a messenger
boy quite severely for his imitation
of a snail with spring fever. “I’m
afraid you hurt him to the quick”,
said a fellow executive. But he snap
ped: “He’s a messenger boy; he has
no quick.”
We wish to assure Mr. Clarence
Mackay and Mr. Newcomb Carlton
that we are not referring to the mes
senger boys of either the Postal or
Western Union, but to those of an
other prominent telegraph company
whose name we have forgotten.
Last month was the hottest May
in the history of Georgia weather
bureaus. Glad to know it; we
thought the depression was getting
us.
Col. James Haggerty of Willimantic,
Conn., is quoted in the Dalton, Ga.,
Citizen as saying that “once in a
while an Irish Catholic may be found
trailing with the G. O. P., but he is
certainly out of step.” There was a
time in New England when they
would not go into a hospital ward
until assured it was safely Democra
tic. But one may accept Colonel
Haggerty’s witticism only with
geographical reservations.
The Pelham, Ga., Journal reprints
from the Athens Banner-Herald, an
editorial on General Sherman in
which, while recalling what he did
to the South in his march from At
lanta to the sea, it is asserted that “in
his defense be it said that he pre
ferred to destroy property rather
than to take human lives.”
After the Battles of Shilo and
Vicksburg, the editorial states, “it
is said that he avoided fighting in
every way possible and resorted to
strategy and maneuvering in prefer
ence to taking lives ... It is good
to learn of his good qualiities even
at this late date, all of which shojjld
be credited to him and his purposes
for using the torch rather than taking
lives should be appreciated by the
generations of todajC’
Just the same, no one better run
for Congress in Georgia today on a
platform exonerating General Sher
man
And speaking of running for Con
gress, we were introduced to the Ki-
wanis Club at Louisville, Ga., bv
Judge Price recently as the only ma^.
in Richmond County not running for
Congress.
That may be part of the New Deal
President Roosevelt promised the
country.
at Baltimore and his first Mass - at
Rensselaer, N. Y.
Thus the valedictorian of a class
which numbered one hundred at
graduation and which included over
two hundred and twenty-five at va
rious times, devotes his life to the
service of the altar. The salutatorian
is also a priest, the Rev. George A,
Shea, D. D., Ph. D., vice-chancellor
of the Diocese of Springfield, Mass,
A list of the members of the class
who became priests is almost like the
dean’s honor list.
This is one answer to the question:
“What are our Catholic colleges do
ing to develop Catholic leadership?,
What becomes of our leaders in col
lege after they leave college?” A
goodly portion of these with the
keenest intellects and the finest abilty
esters the priesthood. By some queer
twist of the American mind, as sooB
as a man puts a Roman collar on,
the non-Catholic public forgets that
he is an individual and classes him
as just another priest. Nuns fare the
same way.
Thus, when the “ten outstanding
citizens” or a hundred outstanding
citizens in a given community are
named by popular vote, men and wo
men who haVe founded the great
Catholic hospitals and colleges, and
who have made the most distinguish
ed intellectual contributions are riot
even mentioned. It is not bigotry;
just a blind spot in their visioin.
Tire forty-two members of this class
who became priests include secular
priests, Jesuits, some of them labor
ing in distant Pacific Isles, a Mary-
knoller in Korea, and a Dominican,
And their college, although as thor
oughly Catholic as any in the world,
is no seminary. In fact, some of their
fellow classmates became bond sales
men.
One member of the class, also a
leader like so many of those who
have been ordained, a few months
ago was made a member of one of;
the best known and most highly re
spected law firms in New York. Had
he become a priest instead, most of
those who knew him would have
said: “I knew he would.” With the
same ability that he now has, and
with the same energy, with a Roman
collar on the non-Catholic world
would have classed him as “another
priest”. But that doesn’t worry the
clergy; the recording angel is not
affected with myopiaism.
And, speaking of ordinations, one
for the Diocese of Charleston this
month interested, us very much, that
of the Rev. John P. Clancy. Four
teen years ago Father Clancy was a
pupil of ours at St. Francis Xavier
College High School in New York
City. He is one of several members
of that class who became priests. One
is a Jesuit. Another was ordained in
Rome a couple of years ago; another
in Paris more recently, these latter
for the Diocese of Brooklyn.
There is only one explanation of the situation in Spain,
unreasoning hatred of the Church and religion by men
who, were they in America, would be orating from
soap boxes in the slums of our large cities. And were
they in America, many good people who now, misunder
standing the facts, are inclined to sympathize with them
could not be bribed to touch them with a ten-foot pole.
The Pioneer Accountant
F R. A. LUCAS PACIOLI, “a devout monk, a popular
teacher of mathematics and a friend of Leonardo
da Vinci,” after finishing in the year 1494 in the City of
Venice his “Suma de Arithmetica, Geometria Propor
tion!,” decided that such a work should contain also an
exposition of the method of keeping accounts as follow
ed by the merchants of Venice.
“The afterthought bore fruit,” says a pamphlet re
cently issued by the Georgia Society of Certified Public
Accountants, published by the Society under the aus
pices of the Accountants’ Council of the Atlanta Cham
ber of Commerce for distribution to the business men of
Georgia. “The result is a very lucid and complete set of
instructions for opening, keeping and closing a set of
double entry records.
“The double entry principle of debit and credit had
been in use for upwards of two hundred years, but
Pacioli has the distinction of being the first to set out
in a text book the science of double entry bookkeeping.
“For this afterthought, crystallized in his book, Pacioli
is known to all accountants. It is an astonishing fact
that no improvement has been made upon the basic
principle since it was first enunciated by Pacioli. Re
member, this was in 1494, and'Christopher Columbus had
returned to Europe and set out on a second voyage to
America. While the form has since been changed and a
multitude of labor-saving devices introduced, the sub
stance is identical.”
This is another indication of the overwhelming debt
our modern civilization owes to the monks of old. To
the Georgia Society of Certified Public Accountants and
the Accountants’ Council of the Atlanta Chamber of
Commerce, we extend our thanks for giving the fact
such wide and effective distribution, i
“A1 Smith is still sulking in his
tent,” says one of our Georgia con
temporaries. “Some friends of good
government tried to persuade him to
run for mayor of New York but he
spurned their proposal.”
Recalling Governor Smith's ad
dresses in last fall’s campaign, we
are of the opinion that on that record
he would not qualify for even the
consolation prize at a convention of
amateur sulkers.
W’e do not believe that Former
President Hoover thinks that Mr.
Smith was entitled to any honors for
the masner in which he sulked.
The prize for plain and fancy sulk
ing goes to Governor Smith’s chief
rival in the 1924 Battle of Madison
Square Garden.
We may decide to enter the com
petition ourselves if some of our sub
scribers don’t send in a check.
June 3rd, the birthday of Jefferson
Davis, is a bank holiday in the South.
“I see you have the flag out for
Jeff’s birthday,” we remarked to an
Augusta merchant. “No,” he said,
“we have it out because the banks
are closed.”
There’s something in that. They
can’t make you pay notes when the
banks are closed. Unless they are
closed permanently.
Looking over our college class list
sent on the occasion of another ap
proaching five year reunion, we note
that forty-one members of our class
in college have become priests. On
the other hand, some are newspaper
men or went into politics.
The valedictorian of the class, Wil
liam M. O'Neil, was one of those who
became a newspaperman, after serv
ing in the War as a lieutenant; he
was night news editor of the Knicker
bocker Press, Albany, N Y., news
editor of the Syracuse Herald and
night editor of the Springfield, Mass.,
Union. There he resigned to enter
the Passionist Order, and we now re
ceive an invitation to his ordination
Father Clancy was an earnest stu
dent and even as a high school stu-
ent he had splendid judgment; never
seeking honors from his classmates,
he had them thrust upon him. A
native of the Diocese of Brookland,
he volunteered for service in the
Diocese of Charleston, and we know
that he will have reason to like it
as well as the Diocese of Charleston
will have reason to like him.
Our felicitations to the Hon. John
E. Swift of Milford, Mass., a friend
of The Bulletin since its earliest days,
whom Governor Ely has appointed to
the Superior Court bench to succeed
the late Judge Webster Thayer. Judge
Swift, an associate in law of Sena
tor David I. Walsh, is a member of
the Supreme Board of the Knights
of Columbus, and was barely nosed
out for the post of lieutenant-gover
nor in the recent election he has
visited in Augusta. He is a member
of the faculty of the Boston College
Law School. Judge Swift is another
splendid example of Catholics in
public life who reflect credit of the
church.
A New York telephone operator
won $118,000 in the Irish Sweepstakes.
'That’s one time she got the right:
number.
That’s rather rough on the tele
phone company, and we’ll withdraw
the remark. Besides, we might have
Evelyn Harris, publicity director for
the Southern Bell Telephone Com
pany, down to talk it over with us.
On second thought, we’ll not with
draw it. We’d enjoy a visit from Mn
Harris immensely.
Once in our secular newspaper
days we had the whole telephone
organization after our scalp. In v,
story about those who had to work
Christmas Day we mentioned every
one but the telephone operators. And
there they were, plugging away al
day Christmas.
And it dids’t help asy when w
said that we were only mentionin
professional people, and theirs
not a profession but a callisg —R-