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THE BULLETIN OF THE CATHOLIC L AYMEN’S ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA JUNE 17, 1933 b OUR 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. Member of N. C. W. C. News Service, the Catholic Press Association of the United States, the Georgia Press Association and the National Editorial Association FOREIGN ADVERTISING REPRESENTATIVE George J Callahan, 240 Broadway. New York, 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. E> 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-