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THE BULLETIN OF THE CATHOLIC L AYMEN’S ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA
AUGUST 5, 1933
ACAIN—AMBASSADOR
DANIELS' ADDRESS
Colonel Callahan Disagrees
With Comment in The Bul
letin on His Answer
To the Editor of The Bulletin:
(1) Your comment on my recent
letter calls for a reply especially as
you did not answer my question,
•’Who in the last 25 years did as much
for Catholics in Georgia as Josephus
Daniels”, now ambassador to Mexico
and from whom we were expecting
so very much.
(2' There is a difference between
criticism and A personal attack. When
a Catholic weekly published to ad
vance the interests of the Catholic
Church criticizes h public official in
connection with a Catholic subject
like “Religious education in Mexico”
it can be said correctly that it will
be interpreted by all Catholic read
ers that the person under discussion
is not friendly to Catholics. There
is no other conclusion reached by
Catholics and, therefore, criticism
under such circumstances becomes a
personal attack. Any one differing
with this conclusion just does not
know the Catholic pulse.
(3) Criticizing Governor Smith,
Hilaire Belloc or Gilbert Chesterton
is an altogether different matter and
as your lawyer friends say such a
comparison is totally irrelevant, not
on all-fours, the issues under discus
sion creating an entirely different-
case. Incidentally, I want you to send
me a copy of the issue containing
your criticism of Governor Smith.
(4) With enough knowledge of the
Mexican problem to have been con
sidered by Woodrow Wilson for a
place on the Mexican commission in
1916 to prevent War between the two
countries and every year getting re
ports of conditions from some mem
ber attending the Mexican Seminars,
1 firmly believe that every statement
by Ambassador Daniels was absc
lutely correct.
plight of Catholics in Mexico today
and knowing Secretary Daniels to be
a spiritual and religious man with no
sympathy for irreligion I was jubilant
over the appointment, feeling he
would do more for us than even a
Catholic ambassador.
(8) If I had been in our ambassa
dor’s place, I would have said exact
ly what he is reported to have said on
this occasion and waited as he did
until the Fourth of July to say
something on “Religious Liberty.”
(9) Did your Bulletin carry the
Fourth of July address of Ambassador
Daniels? If not, why not?
Yours very truly,
P. H. CALLAHAN.
Louisville, Ky.
For convenience we have number
ed the paragraphs of the letter of our
Kentucky friend, Colonel Callahan,
and should like to say:
1. We were under the impression
that we answered the Colonel’s ques
tion when we said that the appoint
ment of Admiral Benson, which is
what he means by Ambassador
Daniels’ service to the Catholics of
Georgia was made by Mr. Daniels not
because the Admiral was a Catholic
nor in spite of it. We are certain
that Mr. Daniels would be the first
to disclaim the implication that be
cause of this appointment he has done
as much or more for Catholics in
Georgia in the past 25 years than any
one else, and that The Bulletin
should not express disagreement with
him on that account. The appointment
of Admiral BenSon was one of Mr.
Daniels’ most distinguished services
to the nation.
MR. DANIELS IMPROVES,
SAYS ST. PAUL EDITOR
Now Strikes “More Whole
some. Helpful Note”
2. We cannot agree with Colonel
Callahan’s opinion that when a Ca
tholic editor criticizes a public of
ficial “it will be interpreted by all
Catholic readers that the person
under discussion is not friendly to
Catholics.” We have too high a re
spect for and knowledge of the in
telligence of our readers to believe
it. The logical corollary of such an
axiom would be that it is pot, per
missible for Catholic publications to
criticize a public official who is not a
Catholic.
(5) In the matter of public educa
tion, the only feature you specifically
question although criticizing the
whole report generally, it is my firm
opinion Daniels is right and you are
wrong. The last reports I, have re
ceived indicate there are double as
many children going to school in
Mexico now than under the old
regime.
(6) Furthermore, this criticism was
not yours but was contained in an
article sent you by the N. C. W. C.
News Service as part of an address
to a graduating class by one of their
staff and at least four out of five of
all the Catholic papers threw it in
the waste basket, which was my
thought when I asked why you fail
ed to do the perfectly obvious.
(7) I regret as much as any one
the status of our Church and the
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3. We do not believe it more
reprehensible to criticize non-
Catholics than Catholics whose views
we believe are in error, thereby again
disagreeing, apparently, with Colonel
Callahan’s position. The Bulletin is
not in the criticizing business, and
would much rather have occasion to
approve than disapprove. In its April
6 issue this year it expressed
disagreement with Governor Smith’s
position on the recognition of Rus
sia. Yet not one of Governor Smith’s
numerous admirers among the read
ers of The Bulletin wrote to say that
The Bulletin should not express dis
agreement with those views because
of Governor Smith’s admittedly dis
tinguished services to the Church.
4 and 5. Here Colonel Callahan dis
agrees with every Catholic publica
tion which has expressed itself. When
the Colonel undertakes to defend and
commend the system of public edu
cation in Mexico, the principal of
which has been condemned by the
Supreme Court of the United States,
we can only express our regret.
6. The comment on Mr. Daniel's
address in The Bulletin was based
on secular newspaper accounts of the
speech, and not 9n anything sent out
by the N. C. W. C. News Service.
7. We have not questioned Ambas
sador Daniels’ sincerity or integrity
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(Editorial in the Catholic Bul
letin. St. Paul, Minn., official or
gan of the Archdiocese of St.
Paul).
Josephus Daniels, American Am
bassador to Mexico, whose recent
address on the occasion of assuming
his office distressed Catholics because
of its fulsome flattery for the radical
regime that has so bitterly persecut
ed the Church, struck a much more
wholesome and helpful note in a
Fourth of July speech, accounts of
which have just come to hand
through the N. C. W. C. News Ser
vice. This time he spoke at the
American Independence Day cele
bration in Mexico City and suggest
ed that the anniversary could be best
observed by the writing of a new
Declaration of Independence, “phras
ed to suit the modem era.” One of
the truths to be written down as
“self-evident” in suen a new declara
tion would be, he said:
“That the possession of liberty
must include the unrestricted
right of freedom of thought, free
dom of speech, freedom of the
press, freedom of worship.”
Inasmuch as thfre has not been
any notorious abridgement or de
struction of these sacred rights in
the United States, Mr. Daniels must,
of course, have been thinking of
Mexico, where such freedom is non
existent. Evidently he is learning.
What is needed, the Ambassador
observed, is “a Declaration of Inde
pendence from the present-day foes
which frustrate the abundant life,
deny the fullest liberty and impede
happiness.”
and (9) we carried his Fourth of
July address and commented approv
ingly of it. This should have reach
ed our Kentucky readers, of whom
Colonel Callahan is one, a few days
before the above letter was mailed to
The Bulletin.
Sister's Profession
at Belmont Convent
Postulants Also Received by
Sisters- of Mercy There
8. If Colonel Callahan had been
in Ambassador Daniels’ place and
had said exactly what he is reported
to have said, The Bulletin would have
expressed similar disagreement and
deeper regret.
(Special to The Bulletin)
BELMONT, N. C. — The chapel of
the Sacred Heart Convent was the
scene of a beautiful and impressive
ceremony on Tuescday afternoon,
July 18, when two young ladies re
ceived the habit of the Sisters of
Mercy. They were Miss Marie Sab-
lan, of Agana, the Island of Guam,
and Miss Ada Jones, of Greenville,
N. C. In religion they will be known
respectively as Sister Mary Merce
des and Sister Mary Josephine.
When the two postulants, dressed
as brides, entered the chapel escort
ed by the Mother Superior and the
Mistress of Novices, the sweet
strains of “O Glorosa Virginum”
flooded the chapel. The procession
then approached the altar, which
was beautifully decorated with pink
gladiolas and roses and a multitude
of candles, while the side chapela^
were heavily embanked with ferns.
After the brides of Christ had re
ceived from the hands of the Rt.
Rev. Abbot Vincent Taylor, O. S. B.,
the candle which is symbolic of in
ward light, Abbot Vincent delivered
a sermon on the religious life. He
reminded his hearers of the young
man in the Gospel, who having kept
she commandments of God from his
youth came to our Lord, asking what
he might do to become perfect. “In
every age there are souls,” he said,
“who are not content to follow the
broaa highway that skirts the base of
the mountain of perfection, and they
forsake the broader way for the nar
row, tortuous and winding path which
leads to the summit.” These young
women, he explained, had dene this
in entering upon the religious state.
Abbot Vincent concluded by bestow
ing on the postulants his blessing, and
they then retired to exchange their
bridal array for the beautiful habit
of the Sisters of Mercy with its deep
signification. The reception ceremony
closed with Benediction of the Blessed
Sacrament.
Many friends of the Sisters were
present from Charlotte, Oxford, Mt.
Holly, Asheville, and Belmont. Among
the guests were Mr. and Mrs. W. R.
Jones, of Greenville, N. C., parents of
Sister Mary Josephine.
honor that Christ had granted her in
calling her from among so many thou
sands to embrace the Religious Life.
He spoke of the fact that besides the
vows of Religion, the Sister of Mercy
also pledges herself to the service of
the poor, the sick, and the ignorant,
and emphasized the Christ-like char
acter of such a life of self-sacrifice. In
closing he reminded the Sister of the
great reward which will be the por
tion of those who spend their lives in
Christ’s service and then gave his
blessing.
Sister Mary John is from Limerick,
Ireland, having left her native land
to devote her life to God’s service in
North Carolina.
We believe all friends and well-
wishers of Ambassador Daniels will
do him a distinct service if they cease
to stress his initial address in Mexico
and concentrate on his latest one, al
though we cannot fully agree with his
advocacy of “unrestricted” rights.
Here it is August; if it were not for
cur friend, the Colonel, there would
have been no reference in The
Bulletin to the one found objection
able but the three mild paragraphs
with which we dismissed it in our
May 20 issue.
SAVANNAH NEWS LAUDS
MISS AGNES ROURKE
Death Severe Loss to City,
It Says Editorially
On the morning of July 19, Sister
Mary John pronounced her first vows.
Abbot Vincent officiated as on the
previous afternoon, and delivered the
sermon in which he congratulated the
young novice upon the wonderful
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Savannah lost a very valuable, high
ly trained and long experienced edu
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public effort, when Miss Agnes
Rourke died.
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Miss Rourke had a keen appreciation
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she rendered those wo were coming
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the men and women who were to
carry on the life of her city. She
never wearied in her efforts to keep
thoioughly abreast of modem educa
tional methods and was thoroughly
conversant wih everything pertaining
to developments in American educa
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Her lung service established, contacts
with thousands of Savannahians to
whom she was a genuine personality
and remembered for her kindly in
terest in their welfare and through
her efforts to promote their progress
through the schools. Not confined in
her interest to the school room, she
broadened her life and her usefulness
by business and other activities, and
there were few, if any, women in the
city who had a larger circle of ac
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She was a vital working factor for
the community and her death came
as a distinct shock and with a sense
of personal loss to a host of Savan
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