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AUGUST 26, 1033
THE BULLETIN OF THE CATHOLIC LAYMEN'S ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA
FIVE
Bishop Walsh Speaks
at Crusade Meeting
Other Noted Prelates at Cin
cinnati Convention
BY AtlLEEN C BORDEAUX . .
(Written for N. C. W C, News
Service)
CINCINNATI-Prelates, priests,
educators and students representing
42 dioceses, as well as missionaries
from far-off lands, attended the
eighth national convention of the Ca
tholic Students' Mission Crusade,
which closed here August 4th.
The Holy Father sent a message,
imparting the Apostolic Benediction,
which was read to the assembly at
the formal opening of the conven
tion by the Very Rev. Msgr. Frank A.
Thill, chairman of the meeting.
The message was sent to the Most
Jtev. John T. McNichol&s, O. P-,
Archbishop of Cincinanti.
Visiting prelates at the convention
included: Archbishops Edward A
Mooney, Apostolic Delegate to Japan,
and Francis Joseph Beckman of
Dubuque, and Bishops Joseph
Schrembs, of Cleveland; Francis W.
Howard, of Covington; Edmund
Heelan, of Sioux City; Emmet M.
Walsh, of Charleston: James Anthony
Walsh, Titular Bishop of Siene and
Superior General of the Maryknoll
Fathers; James A. McFadden. Auxi
liary Bishop of Cleveland; Joseph
Byrne, C. S. Sp., Vicar Apostolic of
Kilima-Njaro, and Amandus Bahl-
man, Vicar Apostolic of Santarem,
Brazil.
A Communion Mass was celebrated
each morning at an altar erected in
the ballroom of the Hotel Gibson. A
chapel yas arranged in the Old Eng
lish room, with seven altars, where
Home 50 Masses were said daily.
Foreign Mission night observed
Wednesday. Speakers were Arch
bishop Mooney and Bishop Walsh, of
Maryknoll.
Following a dinner at the Hotel
Gibson, Thursday the Home Mission
night was observed. Bishop Emmett
M. Walsh, of Charleston, spoke on
"The Home Missions ”.
The convention was concluded with
u banquet Friday on the roof garden
©£ the Hotel Gibson. Archbishop Mc
Nicholas, president of the Crusade,
gave the principle address "The Chal
lenge of the Eighth Crusade Conven
tion.
Classmate of Bishop
Smith Bishop-Elect
Bishop ol Nashville Co-con-
secrator of Bishop of
Helena
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
PITTSBURG,—The Most Rev. Hugh
C Boyle, Bishop of Pittsburgh, will
officiate at the consecration of the
Most Rev. Ralph Leo Hayes, Bishop-
elect of Helena. Mont., in St. Paul’s
Cathedral here, September 21.
The Most Rev. Jame6 A. Griffin.
Bishop of Springfield in Illinois, and
the Most Rev. Alphonse J. Smith,
Bishop of Nashville, will be co-
consecrators u
The Most Rev. Samuel A. Stritch,
Archbishop of Milwaukee, will preach
the sermon. Archbishop Stritch, Bis
hop Griffin and Bishop Smith were
fellow students of Bishop-'elict Hayes
at the North American College in
Rome. Archbishop Stritch and
Bishop Griffin were numbers of his
class, that of 1910.
No date has yet been set for Bishop-
elect Hayes’ installation in the Dio
cese of Helena. It is thought, how
ever, that it will take place some
time early in October.
Bishops and the
Catholic Press
(From the Recent Statement of
the Bishop^of the United
States)
"The Catholic pres6 during
the years of depression has giv
en proof of its many virtues.
Its editors have borne patiently
and cheerfully financial anxiety
and embarrassment. Out of love
for the Church and in the hope
of showing in this dark hour
the sanity of the Catholic po
sition anl the value of Catholic
principles, they have willingly
made heroic sacrifices.
"With the beginning of bet
ter economic conditions it is to
be hoped that a Catholic paper
will find its way to every Cath
olic home and be read by every
member of the family. Catholic
reading is necessary for Cath
olic life. The average Catholic
is brought In daily contact with
much that is calculated to per
vert Catholic life and to weak
en, or even to destroy, Catholic
principles. The Catholic press
and Catholic publications will
help to counteract the danger
ous Influences to which our
people are exposed, owing to
the atmosphere of worldliness,
irrellgioa, and indlfferentism by
which they ate surrounded.”
NEWS BRIEFS
From The N. C. W. C. News Service
APPOINTED TO LEADING
CONVENTION COMMITTEE
Trinitarian Priests
Sail for Puerto Rico
BISHOP GORMAN c.f Reno has
been named by President Roosevelt
a member of the committee of distin
guished citizens to rehabilitate tht
nation's industrial system.
WILLIAM GEORGE BRUCE, Cath
olic Publisher of Milwaukee, has been
named a member of the State Advis
ory* Board of the Federal Emergency
Administration.
DR. EDWARD A. FITZPATRICK.
dean of the Marquette University
graduate school, is administration ot
the Recovery program in Wisconsin,
Governor Schmedeman announces.
BISHOP KELLEY of Oklahoma
City, a member of a board of fifteen
appointed by Governor Murray of
Oklahoma to study higher education,
has been making a study of the col
leges and universities, of Ontario and
Quebec.
THE REV. WILFRED PARSONS. S.
J., in a letter to the New York World-
Telegfam, asserts that the statement
of Dr. Harry Elmer Barnes, of Spain
is "ridiculous, unless he exempts from
intolerance those who arc vowed
openly to destroy all religion."
CATHOLICS are fully aware of the
deficiencies of the old regime. FatheT
Parsons says, "but they also know
that the radical dictatorship now rul
ing Spain is anything but a demo
cracy. Has Dr. Barnes ever heard
th old proverb: ‘The more it changes
the more it is the same thing?’ It ap
plies to Spain.
DR, WILLIAM E. CUMMER, dean
of the dental school of the Univer
sity of Detroit, has resigned to study
for the priesthood at Toronto as a
member of the Congregation of St
Basil. Dr. Cummer, a professor at th e
University of Toronto for twenty-
seven years, came to Detroit in 1931;
he is a convert, a widower, is 53
years old and has a married daugh
ter.
THE REV. WILLIAM SCHAEFERS,
editor of the Catholic Advance. Wichi
ta, Kansas, has returned from a lec
ture tour through Colorado. Wyom
ing. Montana. Idaho and Utah. Father
Schaefers has for five years been a
feature writer for the Wichita Even
ing Eagle.
THE REV. EDWARD J McLAUGH-
LIN of St. Mary's Church, Randolph.
Mass., saved the life of Carl Galante.
Jr.. 14. at White Horse Beach by rush
ing from the porch of a beach cottage
when he heard his ciies; the young
ster was seized with cramps while
swimming in the surf.
CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY of Amer
ica had 1.130 students in 270 courses
in its summer school which recently
closed at Washington. There were 34
states, the Distiict of Columbia, three
provinces in Canada, and Cuba and
Australia represented by students.
THE REV. THOMAS F. COAKLEY,
pastor of Sacred Heart Church, has j
presented his classmate, the newly
consecrated Bishop Ralph L. Hayes of
Helena, a crozier made of Philip
pine mahogany; it weights only two
pounds.
CLEVELAND will be hi*»t to the
ninth annual convention of the Na
tional Catholic Interracial Federation
September 2-4: Bishop Schrembs is
honorary chairman of the committee
on arrangements.
THE BOSTON PIIX>T. official
organ of the Archdiocese of Boston,
editorially arraigned "dance mara
thons" conducted in a certain Mass
achusetts city. Cardinal O'Connell
making it known also that he would
use every means in his power to end
“the disgraceful and brlital exhibi
tion."
THE PROVIDENCE VISITOR, of
ficial organ of the Diocese of Provi
dence, after bringing about the close
of a marathon in Rhode Island, was
publicly commended by a Protestant
minister.
THE SULPL1CIAN ALUMNI As
sociation will hold its annual meeting
at Chicago August 23: several Bishops
will attend. Alumni of the various
Sulpician seminaries in this country
and Canada will be present.
METHODS of the Catholic Infor
mation Society of Narberth Pa., were
described in the concluding lecture of
the Apologetics Institute at the
Catholic University of America by
Karl Rogers, director. The Pennsyl
vania work, conducted by laymen, is
one of the most successful in the field
of lay apologetics.
THE REV. BERNARD HUBBARD.
S. J., exploring in Alaska, has discov
ered ancient war masks, paddles of
huge war canoes and other findings on
an uninhabited volcanic island in the
Aleutians.
RICHARD REID, president of the
Catholic Press Association, has been
appointed chairman of the publicity
division of the Augusta. Ga . National
Recovery Act organization by Mayor-
elect Thomas Barrett. Jr., general
chairman.
THE REV. M E JACOBS, S. I a
full-blooded Mohawk Indian, now
resident in Montreal, was a speaker at
the dedication of the Onondaga Lake
Parkway at Syracuse August 16
JOYCE KILMER, Catholic poet ana
author, killed in the World War, was
remembered with a Military Mass at
St. Brendan’‘s Church July 30. the fif
teenth anniversary of his death.
THE REV. GEORGE STROHAVER.
S. J., head of the chemistry depart
ment at Georgetown University for
the past year, has been named dear,
of the school of arts and sciences.
Father Strohaver came to Washing
ton a year ago from Holy Cross Col
lege.
Ft. Barr Discusses NRA in
Augusta K. of C. Broadcast
Points Out Parallels Be
tween National Recovery
Act and Papal Encyclicals
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
AUGUSTA.—Parallels between the
National Industrial Recovery Act and
the Encyclicals of Pope Leo XIII and
Pope Pius XI were traced by the
Rev. Harold J. Barr, assistant pastor
of St. Mary’s Church, in an address
broadcast over Station WRDW. Fath
er Barr's address was delivered in
the weekly program sponsored by the
Patrick Walsh Council of the K. of C.,
of which he is chaplain, in coopera
tion with the local N. R. A. commit
tee.
"There is no group of citizens more
confident of the success of the N. R.
A. or more enthusiastic about its pos
sibilities than we Catholics." Father
Ball said, "for there is none more
convinced of the soundness of the
principles upon which it is based."
“I have been asked;" Father Barr
said, “to speak on the National In-
ductrial Recovery Act. Since this act
approaches a solution of the problem
offered forty years ago by Leo XIII
it is with joy that I speak of it, for
with the passage of this act, this
country faces a new social order and
we Catholics have a duty to see to it
that this new social order approach
es the standard of social justice."
In pointing out parallels between
the N. R. A. and the Papal Encycli
cals, Father Barr said:
“The Catholic Church has always
insisted that in the words of Pope
Pius XI ‘the wage paid to the work
ingman must be sufficient for the
support of himself and his family'.
The President in the N. R. A. insists
on a living wage through the start
ing point of a minimum age.
“Reforms must be introduced to
guarantee it, .are the wise word of
the Encyclical expounded by the
Popes. The President is guarantee-
SAVANNAH COUNCIL HAS
ITS SECOND MOTORCADE
• Special to The Bulletin-
SAVANNAH. Ga—Savannah Coun
cil, Knights of Columbus, sponsored
a motorcade to Ludowici. where the
Marist Fathers of Brunswick have
a mission; J. O. Maegioni was chair
man of the committee of arrange
ments. This is the second of the
made to the St. Simon's* Island on
the coast.
ing it by such reforms as shorter
hours thus creating jobs for those
who have none, and secondly by in
sisting on higher wages.
“ 'The wise measure of public au
thority must assist it.’ says the En
cyclical. The whole N. R. A. flows
from the authority of the govern
ment and the people from whom the
government gets its authority.
"When the Bishops maintain the
justice of the living wage and the
equity of the high wage.” Father Barr
continued, "they take the position as
sumed by the N. R. A. and its ex
pounders when they say there can
be no return of prosperity to the
nation until our peode have jobs at
living wages, and the only way to
insure prosperity is to increase the
purchasing power of the people.”
"Catholic economists, the Catholic
clergy. Catholic Bishcos and the
Popes have not been the only ones
who have advocated these princi
ples and policies,” Father Barr add
ed. "There have been plenty of oth
ers. conscious also of the great
fundamental truth of the dignity of
many and of the fact that industry
and commerce were made for man
and not man for industry and com
merce. But these are sufficient to
show in what perfect accord the stip
ulations of the National Recovery Act
are with the attitude of our citizens
who are Catholics and how natural it
is for Catholics to give it their heart
felt approval and enthusiastic assist
ance."
-1 Alabama Missionaries
for Now Posts
Leave
LOUIS C. KUNZE, state deputy ot
the Gcotgia Knights of Columbus, was
name cl one cf the five mem
bers of *thc resolutions committee of
I he National Convention of the
Knights of Columbus, held in
Chicago this month. Luke Mart. SC
Louis, supreme advocate of the order
was chairman. Mr. Kunze. who pre
viously served two terms ns state de
puty, is one of the most widely
known members in the order in the
South, and has served his council at
Columbus as grand knight for s>
number of years.
The Southeast was represented at
(he convention also by the other state
deputies and immediate past state
deputies and by Supreme Director
Francis J. Heazel, of Asheville.
Augustan’s Catholic
Book 400 Years Old
Defense of Church Printed in
1567 Still in Fine State of
Preservation
AUGUSTA, Ga. — Hugh Kindi-
ley of this city has in his possession
one of the oldest books in the slate.
“A Counterblast to M. Homes Vaync
Blast Against M. Fekenham", a work
of apologetics written by Thomas
Stapleton and published in Louvain
in 1567. Despite the fact that the
book is nearly four hundred years
old. and was printed one hundred
and sixty-six • years before Ogle
thorpe came to Georgia, it is in a
splendid state of preservation. The
book has been in the possession of
Mr. Kinchley's family from time im
memorial, and was brought to Au
gusta by Mr. Kinchley's grandfath
er. Hugh Dempsey, one of the found
ers of the Southern Express Compa
ny, who'came here from Albany. N.
Y.
The author of the work. Thomas
Stapleton, was born in Sussex. Eng
land. in 1535. and died at Louvain
October 12. 1598. Educated at Can
terbury. Winchester and Oxford, hr
became a fellow at Oxford, but left
England at the accession of Elizabeth
rather than conform i.o the new re
ligion. He went to Louvain, assist
ed in the founding of the famed col
lege at Douai, and was eventually
appointed professor of Scripture at
Louvain by King Philip II of Spain,
Belgium then being ruled by Spain.
He was one of the leading npologeti-
cal writers in the days immediately
following Luther, and the arguments
he advances in his old work, a copy
of which is in Augusta, are as po
tent against the 1933 critics of the
Church, as there were in the 16th
Century.
MRS. ROOSEVELT
Joins Catholic Villagers in
Prayer for Rain
'By N. C. W. C. News Service)
WASHINGTON. D. C.-How she ac
companied the devout villagers of a
little tow*n on the Gaspe Peninsula
to their Catholic Church to pray for
rain to end a 16-day drought was told
by Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt at her
regular press conference recently. The
President's wife hed just reutrned to
the White House from a vacation in
the Province of Quebec.
Interrupting a discussion of world
events, particularly as they affect the
women of America. Mrs. Roosevelt
spoke at length of the life led by the
fisherfolk of Gasp. Religion she
said, is the main thing in their lives;
the center of beauty and the center
of culture.
Mrs. Roosevelt also told of a friend
ly talk with the Cure of the village
and of visiting at his home, where she
had luncheon .with him and his sis
ters. She was greatly impressed, she
said, with the dignity of their lives.
They saw nothing remarkable in re
ceiving a visit frem the wife of the
President of the United States, but
expressed much interest in the pro
gram of recovery outlined by Presi
dent Roosevelt, she said.
BALTIMORE.-The Rev Paul An
thony Fursman. M.S.SS.T.. of Holy
Trinity. Ala has sailed for Puerto
Rico, where he will assume the di
rectorship of St. Augustine's Military
Academy in Rio Picdras. Accompa
nying Father Faul Anthony were
three Brothers of the Missionary Ser
vants of the Most Holy Trinity,
Brother Joseph John. Brother Bar
nabas and Brother Sebastian. The
missionaries sailed on the S. S. "Bar
bara".
Governor Gore, of Puerto Rico, has
registered two of his sons at St. Au
gustine's Academy.
Fathi r Paul Anthony is considered
an authority on Boy Work in the
United States. Bi-fore his ordination
to the priesthood he was Colonel Ed
gar S. Fursman. commandant of the
Columbus Cadet Corps of New Jer
sey. He took his course of studies
at the Catholic University of Amer
ica and was ordained at the semi
nary there. For the past two years
he has been Director of St. Joseph’s
School at Holy Trinity. Ala., con
ducted by the Missionary Servants of
the Most Holy Trinity, of which Ol
der the Rev. Thomas A. Judge. C.M.,
is Custodian General.
BISHOP COMMENDS
PROGRAM OF NRA
Most Rev. John A Dolfy of
Syracuse Lauds It for Vision
and Courage
SYRACUSE. — President Roosevelt
is pointing the way to a future' of
sound and profitable business, and
he believes that the American people
have intelligence enough to sec this
and to adopt the present measures as
a permanent economic policy, the
Most Rev. John A. Duffy. Bishop of
Syracuse, is quoted as saying in a
copyrighted interview printed m
The Syracuse Herald.
"There must be a period put by
law—a stopping point fixed—beyond
which greed and avarice cannot go,
and President Roosevelt has had not
only the vision to see this, but the
courage to translate his vision into
action." Bishop Duffy is further
quoted as saying.
-»"In doing this, he has put into ef
fect the principle announced by Pope
Leo Xlll. 40-odd years ago. that gov-
unment has not only the right but
tW tluty to assist in the formation
cf economic units. President Roose
velt has done a Class A job. 'Die ex*
periment. thus far. is beautiful.”
“Greed, the ultimate cause of eco
nomic distress, because it is a morul
failing, brings religions and morality
into the economic picture,” the
Bishop added. "Religion is not a
mere department of life. Religion L*
an eternal spirit breathing over the
temporal world. Religion recognizes
that greed and avarice are appetites
which man cannot control without
Divine assistance.
"The success of the mest hopeful
plan ever proposed for economic ad
justment calls for the revival of the
knowledge and the practice of Chris
tian faith and morals. The real Amer
ican patriot these days will be found
cn his knees before God, asking for
the strength to bottle greed in his
own heart. In the attainment of
social justice the individual is im
portant. Mass Action is individual
action multiplied. When one hun
dred anti twenty million Americans
realize that God and religion cannot
be divorced without disaster from
economic life. America will take one
necessary step forward towards en
during prosperity."
Bishop Duffy lauded the part labor
groups have played, saying that “they
have made success of the president’s
plan their common cause.” The Bish
op also said that "in America we
have all that is needed to lead the
world through the present crUris."
“America has proved her capacity to
do this," he added.
Then, saying that both the public
and parochial schools have been big
factors in Americanization. Bishop
Duffy continued:
Americans look upon the parochial
school as a sort of challenge to the
public school svstem. This is a grave
error. Back of the parochial school
is. of course, the Church, but Jesus
Christ and His Church are not alien
thing!*. God is not an alien in Amer
ica. The parochial school.':, in every
respect other than their religious
backgrounds, have the same, identi
cal aims and objectives as the public
schools. They are just as truly Amer
ican in all respects. And they have
been necessary to the realization of
Americanism by countless immi
grants."
SAVANNAH BENEDICTINE
CLASS HOLDS REUNION
SAVANNAH, Ga.—Graduates of
the 1932 class of the Benedictine
School held their reunion recently in
Savannah. Twenty members were
present. Francis J. McLaughlin wag
elected class president; Jerome L.
Sullivan, vice president; Charles E.
Traynor. secretary; Dennis Leonard,
treasurer.
A committee was appointed to
range- to present a cup to the idedl
athlete at Benedictine.