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TEN CENTS A COPY. VOL. XIV., No. 13
AUGUSTA, GEORGIA, JULY 8, 1933
Bulletins
(By N. C. W. C. News Service*
SAN FRANCISCO. — The Rev.
Dennis J. Mahoney, S. J., a native of
Boston, who entered the Jesuit order
here in 1S73, recently observed his
60th anniversary as a Jesuit.
NEW YORK. — An anniversary
Mass was celebrated here June 30 at
Holy Cross Church for the Rev.
Francis P. Duffy, its late pastor and
famed World War chaplain, who died
a year ago.
CLEVELAND, O.—The Rev. Clem
ent J. Fuerst, S. J., a native of
Cleveland, and a member of the fac
ulty of Loyola University, Chicago,
has been appointed professor of the
ology in the Gregorian University In
Rome.
DETROIT. — Work on the million-
dollar Shrine of the Little Flower
will start here soon, the Rev. Charles
E. Coughlin, famed radio speaker,
has announced. Father Coughlin has
established a minimum rate of fifty
cents an hour for labor; eighty-eight
and a half cents of every dollar vrill
go for labor.
LONDON. — The Rev. Hamilton
Macdonald, son of the late General
J. A. M. Macdonald, of the Bombay
Staff Corps, and for many years an
Angelican minister, died at Arundel,
Sussex,, recently, at the age of 68
Father Macdonald entered tire Cath
olic Church in 1898, and immediately
started his studies for the priest
hood.
Harvard Awards Honorary
Doctorate to Governor Smith
(BY N. C. W. C. NEWS SERVICE)
CAMBRIDGE, Mass.—Harvard Uni
versity honored former Governor Al
fred E. Smith, of New York, at com
mencement exercises, along with the
British ambassador, the governor of
Massachusetts, and other celebrities,
in the presence of outstanding indi
viduals in many walks of life.
The conferring, of the honorary de
gree, Doctor 'of Laws, upon the for
mer governor climaxed a spontaneous,
but enthusiastic, ovation extended to
the “Happy Warrior” from the time
he and his party arrived in Boston un
til, in company with Governor Joseph
B. Ely, of Massachusetts, he arrived at
Harvard for the commencement.
Although notables were widely scat
tered about the university grounds,
and Mr. Smith was one of a large
group of prominent personages to re
ceive Harvard's high academic honor,
the presence of the former governor
of New York seemed to be the chief
mark of this year's graduation exer
cises.
High tributes were paid to Mr. Smith
at the exercises. Judge James M. Mor
ton, Jr., president of the Harvard
alumni, who introduced Mr. Smith at
the alumni exercises referred to him
as “a great American citizen, in vic
tory and defeat” . “You have won our
admiration, our respect, and our af
fection,” Judge Morton added.
A special outburst of applause greet
ed the conferring of the Doctorate of
Laws .upon former Governor Smith
when he was called “to be made an
alumnus of Harvard”.
Mr. Smith shared Harvard’s honors
with such distinguished persons, be
sides Governor Ely and Sir Ronald
Lindsay, as Governor Wilbur Cross,
of Connecticut; Ambassador Andre de
Laboulayt, of France, and Lewis W.‘
Douglas, director of the federal bud
get.
Cardinal Mundelein Praises
Progress of Catholic Press
. *
PUIPAPf) liflCT Tfl Address of His Eminence
uHSlmuU IlUal SU Climax of Three-Day Con-
CATHOLIC EDITORS vention of Catholic Editors
WINONA, Minn. — Miss Catherine
Bradshaw., of. Kimball,. S. D., an
alumna of the College of St. Teresa
here, has been awarded a fellowship
in Rome by. the. Italian. Ministry
through the Institute of Internation
al Education.. Miss Bradshaw will
study classical languages, and. lit
erature.
BERLIN. — His Eminence Michael
Cardinal von Faulhaber of Munich,
has entered a formal protest with
Chancellor Hitler and the Bavarian
government as a result , of the
•‘Brown Shirt attack on the
Catholic Craftsmen’s Convention,
which brought the conventon to a
sudden end.
CONVENT STATION. N. J. —The
Oxford Movement, centenary, essay
prize was awarded the Rev. Thomas
F. Coakley. pastor of Sacred Heart
Church, Pittsburgh, by St. Elizabeth
College, which sponsored the com
petition.. Contestants, were entered
from several countries.
MADRID.—Tlie hierarchy of Spain
has addressed to clergy and laity an
other protest against those interpre
ters of the Constitution, who, under
the pretext of separation of Church
and State, violate the rights of the
Church.
..ROCHESTER, N. Y. —FiveBishops
will attend the convention of the La
dies’ Catholic Benevolent Association
here July 11. They are Bishop
Gibbons, of Albany; Bishop Alter, of
Toledo: Bishop Malloy,, of. Brook
lyn; Bishop Walsh, of Charleston, and
Auxiliary.. Bishop.. McFadden,.. of
Cleveland.
PORTO RICO. — Robert Hayes
Gore, of Illinois and Florida, first
Catholic Governor of this Catholic
dependency of the United States
since it has been under the Ameri
can flag, opened his inaugural ad
dress here with a prayer for the
grace of God.. Bishop Byrne of San
Juan, owned the program with the
invocation and Bishop Wiilinger, of
Ponce , and Bishop Colmore, Epis
copalian. gave the benediction.
Cardinal Mundelein, Bishop
Boyle and Bishop Sheil
Convention Speakers
BY BURKE WALSH
(Staff Correspondent, N. C. W. C.
NPWS SPTVirPl
CHICAGO. — That members of the
Catholic Press Association be more
vigilant in checking on anti-Cath-
olic radio broadcasts throughout the
country, and, wherever possible, use
the influence of the local members
for their elimination, was urged in
a resolution adopted at the final ses
sion of the Association’s 23rd annual
meeting here June 24.
CONVENTION RE-ELECTS
ASSOCIATION OFFICERS
Richard Reid, editor of The Bulle
tin of the Catholic Laymen's Asso
ciation of Georgia, was re-elected
president for a second term. Other
officers re-elected included: The Rt.
Rev. Msgr Albert E. Smith, editor-
in-chief of The Baltimore Catholic
Review, vice-president; J. H. Meier,
publisher of the Catholic Press Di
rectory, Chicago, secretary, and
Charles H. Ridder, business mana
ger of The Catholic News, New York,
treasurer. The Bev. Harold Purcell,
C. P., editor of The Sign. Union City,
N. J.; James Brady, of The New
World, Chicago, and Bernard
Vaughan, of The Bulletin, St. Paul,
were elected members of the execu
tive board. The Rev. Wilfrid Par-
s ons, S. J.. editor-in-chief of Amer
ica; Michael Williams, editor of The
Commonweal, and Patrick F. Scan-
lan, managing editor of The Brook
lyn Tablet, were elected to consti
tute the Literature Bureau. Mai
Murray, of The Messenger of the
Sacred Heart, New York; the Rev.
William H. Taaffee, of The Evange
list. Albany, and A. J. Wey, of The
Catholic Universe-Bulletin, Cleve
land, were elected members of the
advertising bureau.
Jesuit Bishop
The meeting voted continuance of
the Circulation, Vigilance Committee
“as constituted” and that the central
bureau records “be transferred to the
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IV. C. News Service Grows
Despite Year of Depression
(BY N. C. W. C. NEWS SERVICE)
CHICAGO.—Tne N. C. W. C. News
Service further developed its world
coverage of Catholic news and ex
panded its field of subscribers in the
last year, despite economic difficulties
faced, Frank A. Hall, director, said in
a statement presented at the twenty-
third annual convention of the Cath
olic Press Association of the United
States in session here.
Expansion of news sources was ef
fected through the arrangement of
regular coverage in Poland and Puer
to Rico and by the wide increase of
coverage in Latin America generally.
The enrollment of subscribers in two
more countries brought up to 15 the
number of countries in which N. C.
W. C. News Service dispatches are
now printed
“The burden and responsibility
placed upon the News Service by the
increasing value and demand for in
ternational news is constantly grow
ing.” Mr. Hall said.
Despite the problems Catholic pa
pers faced, Mr. Hall said, there was
no record of a single Catholic news
paper in this country suspending pub
lication last year. Even more striking,
he said is the fact that two new Cath-
olc papers were established in the year
and another was rehabilitated.
In the foreign field, the News Ser
vice gained six subscirbers in Ireland,
Poland, Australia, New Zealand, the
Panama Canal Zone and India. It now
serves Catholic papers in Australia.
British West Indies. Canada, Colom
bia. England. Hawaii, India, Ireland.
Italy, New Zealand, Panama Canal
Zone. Philippine Islands Poland, Puer
to Rico and the United States.
(Special Correspondence, N. C. W. C.
News Service)
MUNDELEIN, 111 — The Catholic
Press of the United States is on the
right track today and is steadily mak
ing progress, His Eminence George
Cardinal Mundelein, Archbishop of
Chicago, assured delegates to the 1933
convention of the Catholic Press _ As
sociation in the United States, in a
personally delivered message here,
June 24.
Richard Reid, president of the C. P. A.
and editor of The Bulletin of the
Georgia Catholic Laymen’s Associa
tion, presented the delegates to His
Eminence, at the same time express
ing the great gratitude of the Associa
tion to the Cardinal for the invitation
to meet in Chicago and praising in
the highest terms the efforts of the lo
cal committee to make the Relegates
stay pleasant and profitable.
The Most Rev. Hugli C. Boyle,
Bishop of Pittsburgh, and Episcopal
Chairman of the Press Department,
N. C. W. C.. responded to the Car
dinal’s address, declaring that “rarely
have I heard the ideals of the Cath
olic Press better treated than by His
Eminence this afternoon." Touching
on Cardinal Mundelein’s long and
earnest interest in the work of the
Press, he recalled once observing His
Eminence “reading proof from the
actual type in the "forms”, a _ feat
which few who are not professional
printers can perform.
His Eminence declared the Catholic
Press to be a “distinct department” of
the Church, praised its worth, gave the
editors and publishers valuable coun
sel for their work and bade them be
of good cheer and not to be discour
aged by the problems confronting
them.
His Eminence had refused some 30
other invitations to speak to conven
tions in Chicago, but accepted that
of the Catholic editors because, he
said, of the importance of their gath
ering. His address climaxed the three-
day convention. It was given at beau
tiful St. Mary of the Lake Seminary
here, an institution which the Car
dinal himself created and which is to
day one of the outstanding seminaries
oi the world. The delegates had been
brought to its spacious grounds by bus
and were guests of the Rt. Rev. Msgr.
J. Gerald Kealy, the rector, who per
sonally conducted them through its
many structures.
His Eminence said: “There were
some 30 conventions coming to this
city to which I was asked to person
ally say a word of welcome. The only
invitation I did accept was one to wel
come the Catholic Press Association.
I do so because I consider the Cath-
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New photograph of the Most Rev.
James T. G. Hayes, S. J., Bishop oi
Cagavan, Philippine Islands, taken
shortly after the ceremonies of his
consecration in St. Ignatius Church,
New York City. Bishop Hayes is a
native of New York and was conse
crated by Cardinal Hayes on June 18.
maristTather is
BISHOP OF SEATTLE
Rev. Dr. Gerald Shaugh-
nessy, S. M., of Catholic
University Honored
PRESIDENT AWARDED
HONORARY DEGREE BY
CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY
Cardinal Hayes, Apostolic
Delegate, Archbishop Cur
ley Participate in Com
mencement Exercises
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
WASHINGTON.—President Frank
lin D. Roosevelt received the honor
ary degree Doctor of Laws at the
44th annual commncement exercises
of the Catholic University of Ameri-
ica, which His Emminence Patrick
Cardinal Hayes, Archbishop of New
York, and the commencement speak
er, told him was an opportunity to
pay “our tribute of admiration and
gratitude for your efforts in behalf
of our country and humanity.” Mrs.
Roosevelt also attended the exer
cises.
VATICAN EXPLOSION
LAID TO SPANIARD
VATICAN CITY — A Spaniard,
Demetrio Solamon, has been arrest
ed here and charged with placing
file bomb which exploded in the por
tico of St. Peter’s Sunday. June 25.
While endeavoring to escape atter
placing the bomb, Solamon threw his
passport away; the passport, which
carried a photograph of the bearer,
was recovered and alter a search of
the hotels where he was located.
WASHINGTON. — The Rev. Dr.
Gerald Shaughnessy, S. M., of the
Marist College here and a member of
the staff of the Apostolic /Delegation
in Washington, has been appointed
Bishop of Seattle by His Holiness
Pope Pius XI, according to word re
ceived here from the Holy See.
Dr. Shaughnessy will succeed to
the See left vacant by the death of
the Most Rev. Edward John O’Dea on
December 25, 1932.
Bishop-elect Shaughnessy was bom
at Everett, Mass., May 19, 1887 and
was graduated from the Plymouth
High School in 1904 and from Bos
ton College in 1909 with the degree
Bachelor of Arts.
Then followed seven years as tea
cher in private and public high
schools of Baltimore, Md., in the
Anaconda, Mont., High School, and
All Hallows College. Salt Lake City.
He entered the Society of Mary in
1916. and made his theological studies
at the Scholasticate of the Society—
Marist College in this city, an affi
liate of the Catholic University of
America.
Ordained to the priesthood by Car
dinal Bonzano, then Archbishop and
Apostolic Delegate to the United
States, on June 20, 1920, Father Shau
ghnessy received the degree Bache
lor of Sacred Theology from the
Catholic University. In September of
the same year he became a member
of the faculty of Marist College, at
the same time pursuing higher
studies at the Catholic University,
from which he received the degree
S. T. L. in 1922, and the degree S. T.
D. in 1925. He studied also in Eu
rope, served on the faculty of Notre
Dame Seminary, New Orleans, and
was a member of the Marist Mission
band.
After the degree had been con
ferred by the Most Rev. Michael J.
Curley, Archbishop of Baltimore and
Chancellor of the University, Presi
dent Roosevelt spoke briefly with
His Excellency, approached the
speakers’ table, and said:
“I had come here without any
thought of saying any word about
any subject. But I am so much mov
ed by this wonderful commence
ment, that I have asked the Chan
cellor to permit me to express my
very deep thanks to the University
from the bottom of my heart for the
very great honor conferred upon
me.”
The President said it was a great
pleasure to him to greet again “my
old friend of New York. Patrick Car
dinal Hayes, and my oid friends of
Washington, the Chancellor and Rec
tor of the Catholic University.”
“And last but not least,” President
Roosevelt continued, “to greet my
new friend who has just come to
Washington—a man I have been glad
to welcome and whom I hope to see
very much of during the next four
years. I refer to the Apostolic Dele
gate of the Holy Father.”
President Rosevelt concluded by
reminding the graduates that it was
not only their commencement day,
but also Flag Day, and spoke of the
happy occasion which saw the gath
ering of "great dignitaries of the
Church and among them the Presi
dent of the United States.”
A huge audience filled every avail
able space in the great university
gymnasium, and many waited out
side, unable to gain admittance. Dig
nitaries in many walks of life occu
pied places on the platform. Among
ihem were:
His Excellency the Most Rev. Am-
leto Giovanni Cicognani, Apostolic
Delegate to the United States; the
Most Rev. Thomas C. O'Reilly, Bishop
of Scranton; the Most Rev. Francis
M. Kelly, Bishop of Winona; the
Most Rev. John M. McNamara, Aux
iliary Bishop of Baltimore; Secre
tary of Commerce Daniel C. Roper;
Postmaster General James A. Far
ley, Justice Pierce Butler of the U.
S. Supreme Court; the Ambassadors
of Italy, Poland, Belgium, Germany
and Turkey, the Ministers of Yugo
slavia. of Panama, Albania, and the
Irish Free State; the Charge d’Af-
faires of the Egyptian Legation; the
Very Rev. Msgr. Paul Marella, Audi
tor of the Apostolic Delegation; the
Very John J. Burke, C. S. P., Gen
eral Secretary of the National Cath-
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C. P. A . Will Sponsor Motion
Picture Story Competition
(BY N. C. W. C. NEWS SERVICE)
CHICAGO.—A contest for stories most
adaptable for reproduction as motion
pictures will be conducted by the Lit
erary Awards Foundation of the Cath
olic Press Association of the United
States next year under a plan sug
gested to that body by the Rev. Wil
frid Parsons. S.J.. Editcr-in-Chief of
America, and chairman of the Liter
ature Bureau, in his annual report at
the association’s annual meeting in
session here. The stories would not
be scenarios, since technical knowl
edge not possessed by non-profession
als would be required for these.
Father Parsons, in proposing this
plan, said that last year and this, “due
to the uncertainties of the financial
situation,” no competition was spon
sored by the Literary Awards Foun
dation. Now, he added, accrued in
terest to the Foundation fund amounts
to more than $1,200, and he proposed
that at least $1,000 of this be set aside
for prizes.
Then, announcing the proposal to
devote the contest this coming year
to offering prizes for the best stories
most adaptable for the screen. Father
Parsons continued:
“The winning stories would be pro
tected by the Catholic Press Associa
tion and would be offered to the in
dustry under such conditions as would
preserve the integrity of the story and
its underlying philosophy The asso
ciation and the winner would share in.
the profits of such a sale, and the
profits accruing to the association
would be immediately applied to the
Literary Awards Foundation, thus ad-
ding to its awards in the future.
“At the same time, it is proposed
to tie this contest in with a vigorous
and compelling campaign in the Cath
olic Press against the paramount in
fluence of the oriental mind in mov
ing pictures, and in creating a demand
by the Catholic public, at least, for
entertainment that does not affront
Christian morality and teachings, and
moreover, that is imbued with the
proper and uplifting philosophy, and
at the same time is entertainment of
at least the same technical value ew
that which is now being shown.”