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Catholic Lay
men’s Association
of Georgia.
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“To Bring About
a Friendlier
Feeling Among
Neighbors. Irre
spective of Creed”
VOL. XVI. No. 2
AUGUSTA, GEORGIA, FEBRUARY 15, 1935
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Snap Shots
The Reds are blue.
Film dirt is no longer pay dirt.
The newest Mohawk Trail led forty
to eternity.
Why does Baton Rouge? Its blush
should suffice.
Most people who say there is no
hereafter only hope there is none.
In closing Protestant missions, the
Mexican government has opened
Protestant eyes.
The birthday parties for our dem
ocratic president were coalition par
ties.
Catholic Press Month note: Up
holding the Catholic Press does not
ntean holding it up.
Anticipated news report: Hitler
demands plebiscites in Cincinnati
and Milwaukee.
The decision of the Supreme Court
does not alter the value of the Golden
Rule.
..Opposition to Papal Infallibility
comes chiefly from those claiming
personal infallibility.
The reaction to Will Rogers’ gags
is an example of the power of gag
rule.
New Jersey reports that the Haupt
mann trial cost it $MH>0 a day, and
the tabloids say it was worth it.
The editor of the Darien, Ga., Ga
zette says that if he had quintuplets
he would not name any of them
Bruno.
The birth-controllers are having
trouble making themselves heard
above the din raised by the Dionne
quintuplets.
With announcements made in elev
en languages in one London church,
people still call the rectory for the
hours of Masses.
The University of the South made
Postmaster-General Parley a Doctor
of Literature. Why not a Doctor of
Letters?
Harry Elmer Barnes, divorced and
remarried the same day, is sdll a
“great moral leader.* Tire blind
leading the dumb.
Monsignor John A. Ryan advocates
the elimination of the incompetent
small business man. The sheriffs and
"bankruptcy courts have been .at
tending to that.
A prominent clergyman indicts the
members of the senate as murders of
the World Court, and they plead
justifiable homicide.
New York's Commissioner of Po
lice has appointed 125 “intelligenzia”
in the department to special duty.
These foreigners get all the soft jobs.
..“Hold everything'’ should be coun
sel in time of excitement and not
when the collection basket comes
around.
CATHOLIC EDUCATION
LEADERS OF NATION
MEET IN ATLANTA
University and College Pres
idents and Faculty Mem
bers Attend Conference
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
ATLANTA.—Prominent educators
from many Catholic colleges and
universities attended the Mid-Winter
meeting of the College Deoartment of
the National Catholic Educational
Association. The Rev. William F-
Cunningham, C. S. C., Notre Dame
University, president of the Depart
ment. presided. The Rev. Francis L.
Meade. C. M„ dean of Niagara Uni
versity. N. Y.. was secretary.
The Executive Committee arranged
the program for the annual meeting
of the College Department in Chica
go on April 24 and 25. It also approv
ed, for representation at the annual
meeting, the report of the organiza
tion- committee proposing a complete
reorganization of the department
along the lines of regional units.
More than 80 representatives of
Catholic Colleges were present at a
luncheon-meeting, when preliminary
reports of the standing committees
were presented and discussed. The
report of the Committee on Educa
tional Policy and Program was pre
sented by the Rev. William J. Mc-
Gucken, S. J.. of St. Louis Univer- .
sity. The Very Rev. Samuel K. Wil
son. S. J.. president of Loyola Uni
versity. Chicago, presented the re
port of the Committee on College Ac
creditation. “Financing of the Cath
olic College” was the title of the re
port presented by the committee of
which the Rev. Dr. Maurice S- Shee-
Uy, Assistant to the Rector of the
Catholic University of America.
Washington. D. C.. was chairman.
The Very Rev. Edward V. Stanford,
O. S. A., President of Villanova Col
lege, gave the report of the Organiza
tion Committee.
Among other well-known educa
tors present at Atlanta, were: the
Rev. Daniel H. O’Connell. S. J., Loy
ola University, Chicago; Mother An
tonio. president of St. Catherine Col
lege, St. Paul; the Very Rev. Dr. Lo
renzo C. McCarthy, O. P.; president,
and the Rev. Daniel M. Galliher, O.
P., dean of Providence College; Sis-
t er Mary Aloysius Malloy, president
of St- Teresa’s College, Winona.
Minn.; Sister Mary Evelyn, dean of
Rosary College, Chicago; the Rev.
George Johnson, Secretary General
of the National Catholic Educational
Association; the Rev. Alphonse M.
Schwitalla. S. J.. and the Rev. Tim
ber M. Smith, S. J.. of St. Louis Uni
versity; Brother Patrick, F. S. C.,
president of Manhattan College:
Mother -Grace Damann. president of
the Ursuline College, New York City;
the Rev. Mother Marv Felix. R. H. C.
J.. provincial, and Mother Mary Ig
natius, R. H. C. J, president of Rose-
mont College, Rosemont, Pa.; the
Rev. Hugh Conahan. S. S. J . dean of
Xavier University. New Orleans; the
Rev. Thomas F. Maher. C. M„ dean
of St. John's University. Brooklyn;
the Rev. Dr. Felix N. Pitt, superin
tendent of schools. Louisville; the
Very Rev. Dr. James Moynihan,
President of St- Thomas College,
St. Paul; Sister Madeleva, C. S. C.,
President of St. Mary’s College. No
tre Dame. Ind-; the Rt. Rev. Abbot
Ambrose Reyer. O. S. B„ president,
and the Rev. Aloysius Menses, O. S.
B., dean of St- Bernard College. Ala.;
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Father Nevils Lauds Work
of Late Head of Red Cross
J .Carroll Payne Narned
Knight of St. Gregory
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(BY N. C. W. C. NEWS SERVICE)
WASHINGTON—Tribute was paid
to Judge John Barton Payne by the
Rev. W. Coleman Nevils, S. J. presi
dent of Georgetown University, as
the late chairman of the American
Red Cross was buried in Oak Hill
Cemetery amid ceremonies attended
by outstanding leaders in civil and
social life.
Father Nevils was invited to deliv
er the eulogy at the grave on behalf
of the American Red Cross, and in
his brief address declared;:
“We cannot but feel that there is
universal sorrow for dear Judge Pay
ne. There is mourning in all the
world, because in Japan we saw 60
nations pay tribute to him as the
great Red Cross leader. Then, too,
there are thousands, nay, millions,
he has helped. There is the consoling
thought that todajl he is receiving a
welcome from those who have gone
before, and are waiting to greet this
great father of mercy. Our loss is
heaven’s gain and heaven is all the
more attractive because he had pre
ceded us—our dear, devoted, loving
and sweet father—Judge Payne.”
Father Nevils attended as an Amer
ican delegate the thirteenth interna
tional conference of the Red Cross
held last October at Tokyo.
In speaking with some friends,
Father Nevils told how Judge Payne
had attended his Mass eacli Sunday
during the journey and encouraged
others on the boat to do the same- In
the course of the trip, Father Nevils
said, Judge Payne had discussed with
the Georgetown rector many religi
ous problems.
In the course of Judge Payne’s
final illness, Father Nevils was the
only clergyman who attended him.
This was at Judge Payne’s own insis
tent request. He was not a Catho
lic.
Holy Father Honors Leading
Atlanta Catholic Layman,
Bishop Keyes Announces
(Special to The Bulletin)
ATLANTA, Ga.—J Carroll P/iyne,
one of Atlanta’s most widely known
and most influential citizens and
business leaders, and an outstanding
member of the Georgia Bar, has been
named a Knight of St. Gregory by
the Holy Father, according to word
received by the Most Rev. Michael J.
Keyes, D. D.. Bishop of Savannah,
and communicated by him to Mr.
Payne.
Mr. Payne has been associated with
practically every major Catholic
movement in this city for the past two
generations, and has been a moving
spirit in most of them, and with him
Atlanta’s other Knights of St.
Gregory. Col. Jack J. Spalding and
James J Haverty.
Born in Virginia September 21,
1855, Mr. Payne is a member of
pioneer Virginia and Maryland fam
ilies. On his paternal side, he is a
descendant of Capt. William Payne
who recruited the “Fairmount Blues”
during the Revolution; on his
mother's side he is descended in direct
line from Governor Thomas Green,
second governor Maryland, who came
to America with the Calverts in
1634.
Mr. Payne's mother was, Anne
America Semmes, and his father
Major Rice Winfield Payne; his fath
er, a leading member of the Virginia
bar, became a Catholic many years be
fore his death.
Senator Borah Cites Evi
dence That Government
Has Abused U. S. Citizens
(By N. C. W. C. News Serice)
WASHINGTON—The Senate of the
United States is called upon to pro
test “the anti-religious campaign and
practices of the present rulers of Mex
ico;” to condemn strongly “the cruel
ties and brutalities that have accom
panied the campaign,” and to author
ize its Committee on Foreign Rela
tions, or a sub-committee of that
group, to hold hearings and collect
evidence on the religious situation in
Mexico, in a resolution presented on
the floor by Senator William E. Borah
of Idaho.
The Senate committee would collect
data, the resolution states, “for the
purpose of determining the policy of
the United States in reference to this
vital problem and in what way we
may best serve the cause of tolerance
and religious freedom.”
THE RESOLUTION provides for
an oppropriation of $10,000 to defray
the expenses of such hearings and
would authorize the investigating
committee “to require by subpeona or
otherwise, the attendance of witnesses
and the production of books, papers
anl documents.”
Following the introduction of the
Borah Resolution, Senator David I.
Walsh, of Massachusetts issued a
statement saying that “it is expected
that the Senate will take prompt and
favorable action on the resolution and
that hearings will be held in the near
future.” He stated that for some time
a group of United States Senators
have been giving attention to the
many protests and petitions directed
against the religious persecution in
Mexico.
SENATOR BORAH declared his res
olution asking that the Senate Com
mittee on Foreign Relations investi
gate the religious persecution in Mex
ico was prompted largely by evidence
that American citizens were maltreat
ed.
Replying to critics who asserted that
this resolution was inconsistent with
his fight to keep the United States out
of foreign entanglements that might
result from adherence to the World
Court, Senator Borah said:
“My interest in this matter has been
by reason of evidence furnished me
that American citizens are being mal
treated and deprived of their property
in Mexico, and also by the fact that
thousands of refugees are being driv
en across the Mexican border and are
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| J. CARROLL PAYNE, K. S. G. |
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ing from the Jesuit Fathers at
Georgetown University, Mr. Payne
entered the law school of the Univer
sity of Virginia, transferring after one
year to Tulane University, New Or
leans, where he received his degree
in law. He then became associated
with his uncle, Hon. Thomas J.
Semmes. in the practice of law in
New Orleans. On November 25.
1885, he was united in marriage to
Miss Helen Fairlie Hill, daughter of
FATHER FREDERIC
IS ELECTED ABBOT
Former Georgian Named to
Succeed Late Abbot Ed
mund of Trappists
(By N. C. C. W- News Service)
BARDSTOWN, Ky.—The Rev. M.
Frederic Dunne, O. C. S O., Prior of
Gethsemani Abbey, near here, for 33
years, has been elected Abbot suc
ceeding the late Abbot Edmond M.
Obrecht.
The Most Rev. Corenun Guyader,
O. C| S. O., Abbot of Melleray,
France, presided over the election.
The blessing of the new Abbot, which
will be a public ceremony, will take
place some time this month. The Most
Rev. John A. Floersch, Bishop of
Louisville, will officiate on that oc
casion.
Abbot Frederic was bom in Inonton.
Ohio, April 25, 1874, the son of Hugh
Dunne and Mary Louise Stenger
Dunne. When a very small child, the
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
Protestant ministers and Jewish
rabbis were nine-tenths of the more
than 500 signatories whose names ap
peared on a statement made pub
lic recently by the National Con
ference of Jews and Christians. This
statement pointed to the persecution of
religion in Mexico and expressed “our
alarm at every restriction upon the
right of churches to function, and the
right of individuals to practice the
religion of their choice.”
Dr. Issac Landman, editor of The
American Hebrew, and Dr. Everett
R. Clinchy. a Protestant minister,
were outstanding among the speakers
who vigorously condemned the per
secution of religion in Mexico be
fore a mass meeting of several thou
sand persons in Brooklyn shortly be
fore Christmas. Frank A. Thorne,
president of the Methodist Episcopal
Hospital of Brooklyn, introduced a
CATHOLIC EDITORS
NAME ATLANTA AS
CONVENTION CITY
Catholic Press Association to
Meet in Georgia’s Capital
City for May Conference
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
CHICAGO.—Atlanta will be the
headquarters of the Catholic Press of
the United States May 23, 24 and 25.
At the conclusion of its two-day
meeting at the Stevens Hotel here,
the Executive Board of the Catholic
Press Association announced selec
tion of the Georgia city as the place
of the 1935 convention of the asso
ciation, and also the dates.
Host to the convention will be The
Bulletin of the Catholic Laymen's As
sociation. and the Atlanta branch of
the association, Richard Reid, editor
The Bulletin and former president of
the C. P. A., presented the invitation
to Atlanta, among invitations from
several other cities. It was extended
by the Most Rev. Michael J. Keyes,
Bishop of Savannah, whose diocese
includes Atlanta, and was backed up
by letters from the mayor, civic
bodies, all the newspaeprs of Atlanta,
and the Georgia Press Association.
Discussions, calculated to bring
practical aid to the Catholic publish
ers and editors of the country and in
particular to place before delegates
first-hand accounts of successful edi
torial. advertising and circulation
building devices and experiments of
the last year, will mark the Atlanta
C. P. A. convention.
While numerous routine matters
and special problems were disposed
of Joseph J. Quinn, Editor of the
Southwest Courier, Oklahoma City,
and President of the Association, set
aside one complete day for discus
sion by the Board of Convention
plans. The entire program was can
vassed, several changes from previ
ous convention procedure were
made, and subjects and speakers
were tentatively chosen, even though
several months remain before the
actual convention. Special handlers
of particular sessions are at once to
arrange acceptance of speaking as
signments. Thus those who will ad
dress the convention are to have
ample time to make surveys and
studies, where these are required, to
obtain data for their papers to the
convention. The actual program is
to be announced later.
Activities of the Circulation Vigil
ance Committee of the Association in
suppressing or discouraging activities
of improper salespersons in the field
of the Catholic Press were reported
to the Board by the Rev. Jerome W.
De Pencier, O. S. M., Editor of
Mother of Sorrows Magazine, Chica
go. The impressive work of this
committee in an important field over
a period of years was brought out.
A plan was approved for submission
to the convention whereby these ac
tivities would be considerably ex
panded.
Present at the Board Meeting be
sides President Quinn, Father De
Pencier and Mr. Reid, the latter two
being Board members, were: Joseph
H. Meier, publisher of The Catholic
Press Directory, Chicago, and Secre
tary of the Association; Charles H.
Ridder of The Catholic News, New
York, Treasurer; Dr. Thomas P. Hart,
Editor of The Catholic Telegraph,
Cincinnati, and Benedict Elder, Edi-
resolution which was approved con
demning the religious persecution in
Mexico as “a serious blow aimed both
at religion and human liberty.”
The Christian Century, undenom
inational Protestant journal of reli
gion, declared that the statement on
the Mexican persecution issued by the
Bishops of the United States last No
vember is deserving of “ringing ap
proval” in its main contention. Say
ing that the statement would have
been re-printed in its columns if
space permitted, The Christian Cen
tury then asserted that “the Bishops
are right in saying that there is war
against religion in Mexico” and that
“the Roman Catholic Bishops, Arch
bishops and Cardinals are right when
they say in their closing sentence: ‘We
are pleading not only the cause of the
(Continued on Page Four)
After receiving his collegiate train-
(Continued on Page Eight)
Senate Resolution Asks
Mexican Trouble Inquiry
(Continued on Page Eight)
(Continued on Page Four)
Protestant, Jewish, Secular
Editors Denounce Mexico