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i|| Member oi tne Na- tional Catholic Wel fare Conference News Service- "TO BRING ABO Tifcf T&uilttin u ^nof the Catholic Laymens Associationy’Geor^a A FRIENDLIER FEELING AMONG GEORGIANS, IRRESPECTIVE OF CREED” The Duly Catholic Newspaper Between Baltimore and New Orlean* VOL. xv., No. 2 AUGUSTA, GEORGIA, FEBRUARY 17, 1934 issued monthly—$2.00 a year O- ADMIRAL raby Bishop Boyle Sounds Call for Advance of Catholic Press in the United States Bulletins ( By N. C. W. C. News Service) RICHMOND, Va., had a Catholic Hour night recently attended by three thousand persons, including Bishop Brennan, Governor Perry and Lieut.-Gov. Price, and addressed by the Rev. Dr. Fulton Sheen and the Rev. Michael J. Ready of the Na tional Catholic Welfare Conference. BROTHER DONATUS of the Fran ciscan Brothers, who nursed Father Abram Ryan, “poet-priest of the South”, in his last illness, died last week at Louisville, Ky. THE VERY REV. GEO. P. JOHN SON, rector of the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception, Portland, Me., has been named vicar-general of the Diocese of Portland by Bishop McCarthy. THE MESSENGER of the Sacred Heart for March will be a Maryland Tercentenary number, officials of the Maryland Tercentenary observ ance announce. DR, P. C. DAGNEAU, widely known Quebec surgeon, has been named dean of the Faculty of Medi cine of Laval University in succes sion to the late Dr. Arthur Rous seau. Dr. Dagneau’s family came to Canada in 1649. A LARGE CALVARY will be erected beside the railroad tracks at Poinponne, near Paris, where 214 passengers lost their lives in a crash the night before Christmas.. All but four of the victims had Catholic funerals. DR. JOHN J. A. SHERRY, of the Medical Bureau at Lourdes, has sail ed for China, where he will serve as a medical missionary with the priests of the Society of St. Colum- ban. ARCHBISHOP GLENNON, of St. Louis, in his Lenten pastoral says that “in a very special way do we admonish the young against intoxi cants. Lent, the holy season of ab stinence and mortification, is a most opportune tune for all to ponder the problem of liquor, and, so far as it concerns themselves, to solve it.” MARRIAGES of the very young must be classed with hasty marriages, Archbishop Glennon says, in de ploring hasty marriages. He points out that one may not be ordained a priest until he is twenty-four, and that the marriage state is equally as important as entering the religious state. ARCHBISHOP WILLIAMS of Bir mingham, Eng., in an address at the Birmingham Catholic Reunion, .pro posed that a message of regret and sympathy be sent to the son of the late Lord Halifax, aged Anglican leader, who died last month; the ap proval was unanimously adopted. CHALICES imported to the United States may come duty free if they are to remain the permanent proper ty of the Diocese, but a tax must be paid on them if imported to be held as the personal property of priests, a ruling of the Commissioner of Cus- tomsstates. “THE CROSS OF PEACE” by Sir Philip Gibbs, is the February choice of the Catholic Book of the Month Club. HERR VAN PAPEN, vice-chancel lor of Germany, recently made an at tack on the Christmas pastoral of the Austrian Bishops—an attack which has greatly astonished Austria, Herr Von Papen is a Catholic. (By N. C. W. C. News Service) PHILADELPHIA—President Frank lin D. Roosevelt, amid the press of of ficial duties, found time to take cognizance of the one hundred fiftieth anniversary of the ratification by Congress of the Treaty of Paris of 1783, the treaty which concluded the American Revolution and recognized the independence of the United States. The President’s action took the form of a personal letter to His Eminence Dennis Cardinal Dougherty, Archbishop of Philadelphia on the occasion of a Solemn Pontifical Mass in commemoration of the anniversary. The President particularly com mended the American Catholic His torical Society, under whose auspices the observance was, arranged, for its service to America in thus calling at tention to “a landmark in the history of the United States for progress and DEATH OF ADMIRAL RABY OCCASION OF UNIVERSAL SORROW Funeral of Charleston Navy- Yard Commander Held From Cathedral. Received Com munion Day of His Death (Special to The Bulletin) CHARLESTON, S. C. — The death of Rear Admiral James J. Raby, U. S. N., from injuries received in an automobile accident 30 miles south of Savannah January 15 when he was returning to Charleston from Miami, removed not only one of the most distinguished officers of the United States Navy but one of the nation’s outstanding Catholic laymen. Admiral Raby was commander of the Sixth Naval District and of the Charleston Navy Yard, and of the Seventh and Eighth Naval Districts as well. He was returning from Florida, where he was on an inspec tion tour when the accident happen ed; his aide, Lieutenant E. P. Aber nethy, was also in the ear. In swerving to avoid another car, the automobile was capsized; Lieutenant Abernethy was slightly and Mrs. Abernethy more seriously injured. Admiral Raby died within a few minutes of the accident, at a home nearby. Sunday morning, Admiral Raby received Holy Communion at Miami. BALTIMOREAN LEAVES FORTUNE TO CHARITY Frank A. Furst Bequeathes $2 50,090 to Archdiocesean Bureau—Other Bequests (By N. C. W. C. News Service) BALTIMORE. —' Generous legacies to Catholic charitable and educational institutions as well as to other chari table institutions in Baltimore were left by Frank A. Furst, Maryland po litical and business leader, who died last week and who was buried on Friday. morning in the Frank Furst Memorial Chapel in Holy Redeemer Cemetery. The Memorial Chapel was built by Mr. Furst at a cost of $50,000 as a burial place for members of the Re- demptorist Congregation and for Mr. Furst’s parents, his wife and him self. The chief beneficiary in Mr. Furst’s will is the Bureau of Catholic Chari ties of Baltimore. The will provides that one half of the residue of the estate is to go to the Most Rev. Mich ael J. Curley, Archbishop of Balti more, for the Bureau of Catholic Charities—but this particular legacy is not to exceed $250,000. Mr. Furst was the largest contributor annually to Catholic Charities in this city. Thitry-four charitable agencies in all were left bequests ranging from $1,000 to $10,000. Special legacies are left members of for peace among the nations.” The Mass, presided over by His Eminence, was celebrated by the Most Rev. Gerald P. O’Hara, Auxiliary Bishop of Philadelphia and president of the American Catholic Historical Society. A sermon of special historical in terest was delivered by the Rev. Dr. W. J. Lallou, professor at Overbrook Seminary. Mentioning briefly the political and social results of the Revolution, Father Lallou emphasized particularly the religious importance of the Treaty of 1783. It was one of the principal factors in the establish ment “not only of political independ ence”, said Father Lallou, “but of religious independence as well. The same year that witnessed the ratifica tion of the Treaty (1784), he recalled, saw also the establishment of an American Catholic Hierarchy free from the former control of the Vicar Apostolic of London.” O O Sunday night he spent with the Re- deptorist Fathers at New Smyrna, Fla., and received Holy Communion before starting on the fatal trip. He was a daily attendant at Mass and a daily communicant whenever that was possible. Greatly interested in Catholic Ac tion, Admiral Raby was in demand as a speaker at Catholic affairs as well as at secular gatherings, and he never failed to respond when it was Catholic Press Leaders Come to Georgia for Winter Ses sions of Association AUGUSTA, Ga. — Catholic press leaders from various sections of the nation gathered in Augusta during the past week-end for the winter meeting of the executive board of the Catholic Press Association, the ses sions of which were held at the Bon Air-Vanderbilt Hotel. Richard Reid, president of the Catholic Press Association and editor of The Bulletin of the Catholic Lay men’s Association of Georgia, presid ed. Those attending included the Rt. Rev. Msgr. Albert E. Smith, Litt. D., editor-in-chief of the Baltimore Catholic Review, vice-president; Joseph H. Meier, publisher of the Catholic Press Directory, Chicago, secretary; Charles H. Ridder, business manager of the New York Catholic 'News, treasurer; Benedict Elder, edi tor of the The Record, official organ of the Diocese of Louisville, general counsel; the Rev. Harold Purcell, C. P., editor of The Sign, New York, James J. Brady, business manager of The New World, official organ of the Archdiocese of Chicago, and Bernard Vaughan, editor of The Bulletin, offi cial organ of the Archdiocese of St. Paul, members o f the executive board; the Rev. Wilfrid Parsons, S. J., president of the American Press and editor of Thought and of America, New York, chairman of the C. P. A. Literature Bureau; Frank A. Hall, di rector of the N. C. W. C. News Ser vice, New York, and Vincent de Paul (Continued on Page Ten) Dr. O’Shea Retires as N. Y. School Head Superintendent of Public Schools Educator 47 Years (By N. C. W. C. News Service) NEW YORK. — Forty-seven years as an educator is the record of Dr. William J. O’Shea, superintendent of New York City Public Schools, who retired on January 31. Doctor O’Shea, who is a Catholic, began his educational career as a public school teacher in 1886. Ten years later he was appointed as a principal. Still another decade later he was named a district superitend- ent and, in 1918, an associate super intendent in charge of Manhattan’s elementary schools. Doctor O’Shea is the author of a series of English textbooks and co author of a work on mathematical astronomy. He holds degrees from Fordham University, Manhattan Col lege, and the College of the City of New York, i N. C. W. C. Press Chairman Says Dispensing With Cath olic Paper Should Be a Last Measure of Economy BY MOST REV. HUGH C. BOYLE (Bishop of Pittsburgh) (Episcopal Chairman, N. C. W. C. Press Department) The coming of Press Month brings the annual period in which a serious effort is made to advance the in fluence and effectiveness of Ca tholic newspapers, magazines and other publications, arpo ng Catholic people of the United States. We,—not only Catholics, but the rank and file of adults among us,— make up a newspaper reading nation. The urban citizen will, normally, read two papers a day, not casually or superficially, but with astonishing thoroughness. The habit, long con tinued, is an educational process of sorts, and we speak of men and women whose culture has been its product. We fall into the way of automati cally accepting as true all those things which we read in the paper and in which we have no personal in terest; and a goodly portion of those matters also in which we have a per sonal interest, and which tell for our case. The notion of examining the news, and the color of the news, critically, never enters our heads. Commonly it is impossible. But, even where it is possible, it is not done; and our vision of the world and its affairs , and our interpretation of them, we accept as they are set forth in the columns of the papers to which we are addicted. The world and its doings may be seen from many angles, and they may be interpreted in many ways. While the office of a secular newspaper can be asked to see them fairly, and to inter pret them according to the canons of decency and honesty, it can hardly be asked to see them or interpret them in a Catholic way. The effect of this is that even our Catholic people come, eventually, to be possessed of pagan or rationalist or materialistic minds; minds that are not made by the Faith, but by the popular and passing persuasions of the day. These are commonly pagan. It is not at all a difficult matter to make the mind of a Catholic man or woman inhospitableto the Faith. Secular schools often do it for our young people, when developing boys and girls are subjected, out of social considerations and sometimes for years, to a scholastic atmosphere which anaesthetizes the sense of the supernatural. But more than any thing else, this feeding of the mind through secular newspapers, mag azines and books, sets up a conflict in which the Faith is hard put to it to survive. It is important, if the Faith is to be made a vigorous quality in a Ca tholic family, t hat Catholic news papers and periodicals should find a welcome. Not only should they come BY REV. MANUEL GRANA (Madrid Correspondent, N. C. W. C. News Service) MADRID—El Debate, leading Ca tholic daily of Spain, has published an important editorial on the ac ceptance of the Republic by Spanish Catholics. In the editorial, the paper scores those whose would question the loyalty and patriotism of Span ish Catholics and counsels its read ers to contihue to follow faithfully the principles and standards of the Church as defined under similar conditions by Pope Leo XHI and reiterated since the advent of the Spanish Republic by the Spanish Episcopate and by His Holiness Pope Pius XI The Catholic Church is not in compatible with a republic form of government, either through principle or by exerience, says El Debate and thereafter inquires: “It is not rather the case %nd the Second Republic of Spain has made itself and declared itself incompatible with the Catholic Church?” ? N. C. W. C. PRESS CHAIRMAN ° o ——o BISHOP BOYLE FOUR BISHOPS NAMED FOR UNITED STATES New Bishops of Providence, Trenton and Amarillo and Chicago Auxiliary Selected (By N. C. W. C. News Service- WASHINGTON.—Word has just been received from Rome of the ap pointment of four American Bishcps. They are: The Rev. Francis P. Keough, As sistant Chancellor of the Diocese of Hartford, who has been named Bish op of Providence; The Rt. Rev. Msgr. Moses Kiley, Spiritual Director of the Ndcrth Amer ican College in Rome, who has been named Bishop of Trenton; The Rev. Dr. Robert E. Lucey, pas tor oi St. Anthony's Church, Los An geles, named Bishop of Amarillo; The Rt. Rev. Msgr. William D. O’Brien, President of the Catholic Church Extension Society, named Ti tular Bishop of Calinda and Auxiliary to His Eminence George Cardinal Mundelein. Archbishop of Chicago. Bishop-elect Keough, who succeeds the late Most Rev. William A. Hickey as Bishop of Providence, was ordained to the priesthood in June. 1916. He was educated at the Hart ford Diocesan Preparatory Seminary, at Issy and Paris, France, and at St. Bernard’s Seminary, Rochester, N. Y. He has labored in the capacity of Dio cesan Director o! Catholic Mission Aid society, Diocesan Director of the Propagation of the Faith. Chaplain of the House of the Good Shepherd, and Assistant Chancellor of the Diocese of Hartford. Bishop-elect Kiley, who becomes fifth Bishop of the Diocese of Tren ton, succeeding the late Most Rev, The editorial says, in conclusion: “To use the same words as those of the Pope in the Encyclical Diicetissinia Nobis, provided the Divine rights of God and of Christian consciences are safe Spanish Catholics, as such, should find no difficulty in adapting them selves to republican institutions." In the same issue, El JJebate quotes an editorial from L’Osscrvatore Romano, in which the Vatican City daily praises Spanish Catholics for their concept of civil order and de clares that “the enemies of the Re public of the State and of the public authorities are not the persecuted priests religious and Catholics and those recently expelled, but rather their persecuters.” "The new regiment has emerged from the recent elec tions in a stronger position", the quoted excerpts adds. ‘ It includes groups who do not accept it. but who are at last resigned to discussing it. In turn, they ask of the Republic that it now follow conservative courses . . . The Spanish Reublic, as a reflection of the true thouhgt of i the nation, is not under discussion.” (Continued on Page Ten) President Calls Philadelphia Mass “Landmark in History” (Continued on Page Eight) Executive Board of C. P. A. Holds Meeting in Augusta (Continued on Page Ten) (Continued on Page Ten) Spanish Catholics Commend Loyalty to the Republic