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THE BULLETIN OF THE CATHOLIC LAYMEN’S ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA
AUGUST 5, 1933
THE BULLETIN
The Oflicia) Organ of the Catholic Laymen's Associa-
tion of Georgia
RICHARD REID, Editor
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Vol, XIV.August 5, 1933 No. 15
Entered as second class matter June 15, 1921, at the
Post Office at Augusta, Ga„ under Act of March. 1819,
Accepted for mailing at special rate of postage provided
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An Omen of Action
DISPATCH from Madrid reports that “Catholic
Press Week has just been held in Spain for the
first time, with observances throughout the whole
country. It is an omen of the great surge forward of
Catholic Action in Spain.”
It is significant that when a government seeks to de
prive the people of their liberty, it strikes them first
through the press. If it can silence the press, or control
it has made a beginning which is more than half its
work. Nor is it any less effective when it is religious
liberty that is at stake.
Unfortunately, in many places Catholics themselves
play into the hands of anti-clericals by undermining
the Catholic press through failure to support it That is
what happened in Spain. The fallacy and foolishness of
that policy is now apparent, and it is heartening to read
of the effective efforts being made to remedy the situ
ation.
The chief weapon of anti-Catholics is the anti-Catho-
lic press. The only effective antidote is the Catholic
press, for the Catholic press is the only means of render
ing the anti-Catholic propaganda ineffective by placing
the facts before non-Catholics as well as Catholics. The
Holy Father may issue encyclicals, our Bishops may pen
pastorals and our leaders, clerical and lay, may write
able and persuasive presentations of the Catholic posi
tion, but unless they reach cur Catholic people and our
non-Catholic neighbors, they are as ineffective as the
(lowers which waste their. fragrance in the desert air.
Catholics owe it not to the Church or to the Catholic
Press, but to themselves, to support the Catholic Press,
starting with their own Catholic newspaper, which in the
Southland is The Bulletin.
One Out of Five
S TATISTICS compiled by Het Schild, a Dutch Catho
lic monthly, indicate that there are more Catholics
in the world than members of any other religious group,
with nineteen per cent, or about one out of every five
persons in the world, professing the faith. The. number
©f Catholics is given as 351,839,665.
Confucians are second, with 304,070,114, Mohammedans
third, Hindus fourth, Buddhists fifth, Protestants sixth
and Greek Orthodox Catholics seventh.
In Europe, 42.9 per cent of the "people are Catholics, 25.3
Greek Orthodox, 24.3 Protestants, 2.3 Jews, "1.8 Mo
hammedans, 2.2 without religion, and 0.6 with religion
unknown.
The lineup in the Americas is: Catholics, 53.1; without
religion, 27.8; Protestant, 15.4; Jews, 1.8; Pagans, 1.0;
Orthodox, 0.4; unknown, 0.4; Mohommedans, 0.1.
In Africa, Catholics are 3.8 per cent, Protestants 3.5 and
Jews 0.3; in Asia, Catholics 1.7; Protestants 0.5. Only in
Australia do Protestants constitute a larger proportion of
the population than Catholics; they are 62.4, and Catho
lics 22 per cent.
With Africa 92.7 per cent and Asia 97.8 per cent non-
Christian, it does seem that they would be considered a
more logical field for the preaching of the gospel by
Bible Missionary Societies than Christian Poland, Bel
gium and Italy.
a subject which I confess I have never given much
thought. It is a most important matter now, as I see
from your words; and I do not think it would be fair to
myself, or to a subject so vital, to decide at once about
it. I shall take up the Roman side of the question with
Cardinal Newman.” He did, and became a fervent
Catholic.
The Anglican Bishop had no doubt the best possible
intention and sincerity of purpose, but the distinguished
English editor was right in principle. Yet people who
would not think of going to honest Republicans for an
explanation of Democratic principles, or to honest Dem
ocrats for information on Republican principles very
often take their explanations about things Catholic not
only from non-Catholics but from people notoriously
anti-Catholic.
Occasionally the Catholic Laymen’s Association of
Georgia receives an inquiry from someone asking for a
statement of the beliefs of a Protestant denomination.
The Laymen’s Association, while expressing its willing
ness to answer any question about Catholic belief and
practice, always suggests that questions about Protestant
belief be directed to some responsible official of the
denomination in question. That’s what we should like
others to do for us.
Double Standards
W E SHOULD not like to imply that the President
of the United States is un-American, for we have
an innate reluctance toward making ourselves ridiculous.
But that is precisely what anti-Catholics are implying
when they say that one cannot be a good American un
less educated in public schools.
President Roosevelt is an alumnus of Groton School,
an Episcopalian institution in Massachusetts. He sent
his sons there, just as his distinguished kinsman,
Theodore Roosevelt, sent his sons to another Episcopalian
school in the old Bay State, St, Mark’s.
President Roosevelt should, if the words of anti-
Catholics be accepted at their face value, be barred
from public office and even citizenship, the penalty they
prescribe for those attending other religious schools.
All of which is patently absurd. But many good peo
ple do not see its absurdity if the person in question is
attending a Catholic instead of- an Episcopal, Presby
terian, Methodist, Baptist or Lutheran school.
Incidentally, President Coolidge sent his sons to a
denominational school in Pennsylvania when there were
plenty of public high schools available in Washington
and Northhampton. No one demanded his impeachment
nor did anyone construe his action as opposition to the
public schools of the nation.
An Editor’s Logic
O NE of our exchanges frem England, The Catholic
Fireside, has an interesting story about the late
Sir F. C. Burnand, for many years editor of Punch) who
happened across a copy of St. Augustine's Confessions.
One day as he was reading it in his office, his Bishop,
an Anglican, came in, and suspecting that the editor was
“on his way to Rome” invited him to call on him so that
he might place the Anglican position before him.
This the famous editor did, and the Bishop explained
to him in an able manner the position of his church; he
seemed quite impressed with the cogency of the reason
ing of his episcopal friend. But when the Bishop then
started to explain the Catholic position, Mr. Brunand
said:
“Pardon me, but don't you think, Your Lordship, that
Cardinal Newman would be the best man to go to for
the Roman position? You have interested me deeply in
A
“Catholic Domination”
RECENT issue of a comparatively new anti-Catho
lic publication at Yonkers, N. Y.—name on re
quest—calls President Roosevelt “a Roman Catholic
sympathizer” and indignantly records his appointment of
five Catholics (including the law partner of Senator
William G.McAdoo) by Mr. Roosevelt as “positive evi
dence of the power of the Church of Rome and her con
trol of American politics under the present administra
tion.”
The publication says that the new law in Spain for
bids priests, monks, nuns and others belonging to re
ligious orders to teach. “Religious orders must cease
giving secondary instruction by October and primary in
struction by January. That is what will have to be done
in America.”
Coming from the source it does, all this is not import
ant, but it is well for Catholics and fair-minded non-
Catholics to know that this sort of thing did not pass out
with that part of the inflation which brought ten dollars
for a white sheet. Such propaganda is being distributed
in every part of the country by people who hope to
profit by it. •
Dixie Musings
May-
aces,
the New Deal bring you all
The Cavalier in The Richmond
Times-Dispaich says that “there is no
wiser course for any man to follow,
if he wants to have a large following,
than to advise the people to do those
things which they are wholly intent
on doing. Go with the crowd if you
would be called a great leader.”
Arthur Brisbane is quoted as say
ing that “a boy who is not a socialist
before he is twenty-five has no
heart; if he is a socialist after he is
twenty-five, he has no head.” For
hard-hearted youngsters, then, try
our Catholic colleges.
Governor Smith was not the only
Catholic nominated at the Chicago
Democratic convention of a year ago.
Major-General Matthew A. Tinley of
Council Bluffs, Iowa, was nominated
for vice-president, but withdrew be
fore a vote was taken.
The Catholic Citizen of Milwaukee
reports that plans to start a dry daily
newspaper in New York have been
suspended because of business con
ditions although more than half of
the necessary $5,500,000 had been
pledged and an advance subscription
list of 60,000 secured. This indicates
the size of the project of establishing
a Catholic daily.
One way for a Catholic of wealth
to make his name immortal would be
for him to bequeath a substantial sum
to a Catholic newspaper. One hundred
thousand dollars, for instance, the
price of a moderate-sized school
building or church, would insure the
perpetuity of a publication like The
Bulletin and send it into every Cath
olic home in this entire Southeastern
section, defending the Church, in
structing Catholics, quickening their
faith and encouraging them to multi
ply the number of churches and
schools now dotting the territory.
The Universal Church
I N JUNE of this year a colored Catholic, the Rev.
Charles A. Logan, was ordained a priest by the
Bishop of Los Angeles, and a month later comes the
news of the death of a colored priest, the Rev. Charles
Uncles, 9. S. J., at Baltimore.
The Interracial Review states that to its knowledge the'
ordination of Father Logan was the twelfth ordination
of a colored priest since the War Between the States.
The Review rejoices at the ordination not because he
may or may not be more successful as an apostle to his
race nor for any other similar reason, “but because Holy
Orders as a Sacrament was instituted by Christ for the
members of all races and its be^ng conferred on American
Negroes reflects the true Catholicity of the Church of
Christ, edifies all true Catholics, whether white or color
ed, and must be most pleasing to Almighty God.”
A recent issue of Truth quotes Dr. E. W. Byden, a
Protestant Negro, as saying: “The thoughtful and culti
vated Protestant Negro, though he may ex animo sub
scribe to the tenets of the particular denomination to
which he belongs, as approaching nearest to the teach
ing of God’s word, cannot read history without feeling a
deep debt of gratitude to the Roman Catholic Church.
The only Christian Negroes who have had the power sue
cessfully to throw off oppression and maintain their posi
tion as freedmen were Roman Catholic Negroes—the
Haitians. And the greatest Negro the Christian world
has yet produced was a Roman Catholic—Toussaint
L'Ouverture. In the modern ecclesiastical system, as was
the case in the military system of ancient Rome, there
seems to be a place for all races and colors.,”
Such a benefactor of the Catholic
Press would be cited as an example
wherever Catholic publications are
printed or read; he would be a sort
of patron saint of the Catholic Press.
The influence of his benefaction
would be felt not only in the territory
chiefly served by the newspaper he
assisted, but throughout the nation
and the world through those who
would be inspired to emulate his
pioneering example.
Thousands of men have given more
for public purposes in the United
States than the late Joseph Pulitizer,
but not even Carnegie’s benefactions
are better known than those of Pulit
zer, whose benefactions assisted news,
papers and newspapermen.
Bequests to parishes, to orphanages,
to hospitals, to schools and colleges,
to the Diocese and to religious or
ganizations are all too few, but they
are most numerous where the
Catholic Press is flourishing, thus
bringing Catholic activities to the at
tention of those able to assist them,
and willing if they become familiar
enough with them and their needs.
A note on paye 291 of “Tamerlane
the Earth Shaker” by Harold Lamb
(Garden City Publishing Company)
says that “hashish eater” is apparent
ly the origin of the word assassin
"which was brought back by the
crusaders, as it appears in the account
of the Jesuit, written about 1330.” This
is all very confusing to us, since St.
Ignatius Loyola, the founder of the
Jesuits, was not born until a century
and a half after 1330.
The 1932 World-Telegram Almanac
in its index refers to “Methodist
World Wild Statistics.” Wc knew the
world was wild but we didn’t know
our Methodist friends had it so
scientifically analyzed.
he told the police and reporters that
he was from New York.
The New Age, published by the
Scottish Rite Masons at Washington,
iD. C., was bitter in its opposition to
the effort in California to relieve
non-profit private schools of taxa
tion, as is done in every other state
in the Union. The New Age is al
ways in the forefront of every move
ment to hamper Catholic schools.
Nice people!
And in the very election when
The New Age and those of like mind
were venting their spleen on private
schools because most of them hap
pened to be Catholic, The Monitor,
official organ of the Archdiocese of
San Francisco, was urging its read
ers to vote for the bond issue which
would make possible the erection of
additional public schools to replace
frame buildings which are lire haz
ards.
The Government of Spain has
authorized an extraordinary bond
issue of 700,000 Pounds Sterling for
new schools to replace those of the
religious orders, ordered closed by
the government. The government it
self places the number of new
schools required at 7,000, in the
primary grades alone.
Thomas E. Baggs, writing in The
Jonesboro, Ga., News, says: "I am
not a Roman Catholic, but 1 have
more respect for one who attends
worship in the morning and fishes in
the afternoon than I have for on©
who lies around home all day Sun
day and neither tries to be sociable
with his neighbors nor attends
church, but yet criticizes those whom
he happens to see having a little
recreation on Sunday afternoon.”
Dan O’Leary, noted pedestrian, who
died recently in Los Angeles at the
age of ninety-one, was one of our
boyhood heroes; he sponsored a race
in our community in which several
hundred of us participated, and we
never did know definitely who won.
But the sale of rubber heels took a
decided spurt. When O’Leary de
feated Edward Payson Weston in
1878, the House of Commons ad
journed to witness the end of the
race. The single race in which we
participated convinced us that walk
ing is a sport that tries men's soles.
The New York Herald-Tribune,
commenting on the disturbances in
which students of the College of the
City of New York are accused of
participating, asserts that the right
of freedom of speech gives no one
the right to be a rowdy. "The
faculty of C. C. N. Y. reached the
right and inescapable
separating these young
the public institution
sought to disgrace.”
decision in
bullies from
which they
Homer J. Buckley, director of pub
licity of the Century of Progress,
addressing the Catholic Press Asso- 1
ciation in Chicago, said that some
visitors to the Fair find their way
to the midway, spend all their time
there, and then go back with a dis
torted idea of the great exhibition.
The things worth seeing at the Cen
tury of Progress are, he said, not on
the midway.
Some Boards of Education are giv
ing teachers attending the Century
of Progress the same credits as if
they attended summer school. The
Chicago exhibition is indeed an
education for those with background
enough to evaluate the relative im
portance of mechanical and spiritual
progress. And any Catholic-minded
person is able to do that.
The Fair has been given some un
fortunate publicity recently. Some
Ernest Camp, editor of The Wal- people go to Europe and come back
ton Tribune, has been appointed poet ^inspired by the great Cathedrals and
laureate of the Georgia Press Asso
ciation, succeeding the late Dan G.
Bickers, editor of The Savannah
^, Morning News.
Mr. Bickers was one of the most
beloved editors of Georgia, and a
prolific writer of poetry. Whenever
he penned anything which he
thought of Catholic interest. The
Bulletin would be favored with a
copy of it. He was a gentle, kindly
soul, and will be mournfully missed
in the Georgia Press Association.
Mr. Camp appointed Mr. Bickers
the first poet laureate of the Geor
gia Press Association, and now the
mantle falls on his worthy shoulders.
Mr. Camp was president of the Geor
gia Press Association when the Geor
gia editors went to Cuba and when
the Catholic editors came to Geor
gia. The spontaneity of his poetry
is indicated by the fact that he often
breaks into verse in writing news
items. He is a sweet-singing poet,
and not a mere rhymster.
Secretary Perkins got into the
newspapers and discussions by her
reference some time ago to the bare
footed people of the South, the
shoeing of whom, she was quoted as
saying, would boom the stock in
shoe factories. Madam Secretary
was accused of misrepresenting or at
least exaggerating. Then, as if to
vindicate her, a barefooted man
strolled down Peachtree Street in
Atlanta. But the effect of this
vindication of Secretary Perkins is
somewhat weakened by the fact that
works of art, while others are
scandalized by what they see at re
sorts they could find duplicated at
home if they went looking for them
here too. You get out of life and
out of trips just about what you are
looking for.
Governor Gore of Puerto Rico, in
voicing disapproval of birth control,
wherein he differs from his pre
decessor, says: "I believe that the
great God will, by his own plans
and in his own way, control the
population of the world.” There are
those who appear to believe that
when God laid down the Command
ments He did not take into considera
tion all the possibilities, and that
they must rectify His error by chang
ing His commandments. Governor
Gore does not appear to be among
them.
This is the silver jubilee year of
retreats at Mount Manresa at Staten
Island. N. Y., one of the pioneer, if
not the pioneer, retreat houses of
the country. With the Georgia re
treats half-way to their silver jubi
lee mark, they are in the front ranks
of pioneers in the movement.
The Dawson, Ga., News comment
ing on the imprisonment of a husband
because he spanked his wife said that
on the other hand “she could have
beaned him with a rolling pin with-*
out even being arrested.” We shall
now ask The News to explain to tho
younger generation of wives what a
rolling pin is and what its original
purpose was.—R. R. _