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THE BULLETIN OF THE CATHOLIC LAYMEN'S ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA
JANUARY 31, 1936
THE BULLETIN
The Official Organ of the Catholic Laymen’s
Association of Georgia
RICHARD REID. Editor
815-816 Lamar Building Augusta, Georgia
Subscription Price $2.00 Per Yeai
Published monthly by the Pu blicity Department
with the Approbation ot the Most Rev Bishops of
Raleigh. Charleston. Savannah. St Augustine and Nash-
ville and of the Rt Rev Abbot Ordinary of Belmont.
ASSOCIATION OFFICERS FOR 1935-1936
ALFRED M BATTEY Augusta . President
J. J. HAVERTY K S. G.. Atlanta ...First Vice-President
J. B. McCALLUM, Atlanta 1 Secretary
THOMAS S GRAY Augusta Treasurer
RICHARD REID. Augusta Publicity Director
M Tgc; "FPTT.F, ferry Augusta. Asst Publicity Director
Vol. XVII January 31, 1936 No. 2
Entered as second class matter June 15. 1921, at the Post
Office at Augusta. Ga.. under act of March. 1879 Ac
cepted for mailing at special rate of postage provided
for in Section 1103. Act of October 3. 1917. authorized
September 1 1921
The Bishop of Savannah
rr-iHE Most Rev. Gerald Patrick O’Hara, D, D„
J. U. D., having been formally installed as the
Bishop of the See of Savannah, is now the Ordinary
of the Diocese and the Shepherd of the Church in
Georgia. With this issue of The Bulletin reflecting the
installation in every page, extended editorial comment
would be as superfluous as it would be inadequate.
We may say, however, that the consideration of His
Excellency for his beloved predecessor touches Geor
gians deeply; his kindliness profoundly moves those
who are now his people. His distinguished ability,
rare scholarship and contagious earnestness give tts
confidence. His priestly character commands our re
spect and admiration. Already the people of Savannah
have taken him to their hearts, as all Georgians will
when they know His Excellency as Savannah does.
In his address of welcome for the laity of the Diocese
Mr. Thomas F. Walsh, Jr., told His Excellency that the
Catholics of Georgia are ever ready to render their
Bishops dutiful homage and obedience; but Bishop
O’Hara, he said, from the first moment that he stepped
from the train, elicited not mere dutiful allegiance but
joyous service.
May God grant to Georgia that His Excellency will
be blessed with length of years filled to the brim with
health and strength and happiness. The Bulletin and
the Catholic Laymen’s Association of Georgia are
particularly his to command, elated by the prospect
that they are to be honored by being allowed to
assist him in his apostolic efforts. In the words of
His Excellency, Bishop Barry, at the installation din
ner: Ad Multos et Felicissimos Annos.
Years of Blessedness
TyfHEN Mother Mary Gabriel Hynes of the Sisters
\Y of St. Joseph was bom at Locust Grove, Ga.,
Bishop England, the first Bishop of Charleston, was but
seven years dead, and there was no Diocese of Savannah.
The following year, 1850, the Diocese of Savannah was
erected; Mother Gabriel lived through the administra
tion of the first eight Bishops of the Diocese, to be
called to her reward on the eve of the installation of
the ninth Ordinary of the See. Mother Gabriel was
eighteen years old when the Sisters of St. Joseph came
to Georgia in 1867, immediately after the close of the
War Between the States, and was closely associated
with them before she embraced the religious life in
1880.
Mother Gabriel was, therefore, one of the few re
maining links with the Church in the earliest days, but
she was more distinguished for the quality and char
acter of her service than for its duration. Mother
Gabriel served as Mother Superior of the famed Acad
emy at Washington, as Mother Provincial for the Order
in Georgia, and in other positions of major importance.
A member of one of the leading and pioneer families of
Georgia, Mother Gabriel personified the spirit of the
Church and the graciousness of the South; only the
Recording Angel knows the number her sweet and
gentle spirit let to God.
Sister Mary de Sales Doyle, of the Sisters of Mercy,
a member of another leading Georgia Catholic family
died in Atlanta within twenty-four hours of the death
of Mother Gabriel. Sister Mary de Sales, 79 years ot
age at the time of her death, was also beloved through
out the State and Diocese; for twenty-five years be
fore going to Atlanta she taught music at St Vincent
Academy, Savannah. A gentle, cultured religious, she
had been most influential in forming the character of
generations of Georgia young women. Georgia mourns
the death of these venerable religious; their lives of
service and devotion will, we may be confident,
recommend them most heartily to Him Whom they left
all to follow.
Dixie Musings
The installation of His Excellency,
Bishop O’Hara, not only gave the See
of Savannah a new Ordinary; it af
forded Georgia a stirring pageant of
the ages perhaps unparalleled in the
history of the Church in the South
Atlantic States.
Only once before has a member of
the Sacred College of Cardinals offi
ciated at a ceremony in Georgia—if
the recollection of the oldest inhabi
tants is trustworthy—when His Emi
nence, Cardinal Gibbons, dedicated
Sacred Heart Church in Augusta over
a third of a century ago. The gath
ering of members of the hierarchy,
prelates, priests and Papal Knights at
the recent installation was without
doubt the largest in the history of
the Diocese and perhaps in the South
east
No Intervention in Mexico
F ATHER WILLIAM J. KENEALY, S. J., broadcast
a series of three addresses over WNAC, Boston
recently, and a listener wrote advising him to “leave
the Mexican problem to the Mexican people.” That
said Father Kenealy, is precisely what he advocates;
it is the refusal of the United States to “leave the
Mexican problem to the Mexican people” that is re
sponsible for the situation there today.
Prescinding from such ancient interference as that of
our official representative, Joel Poinsett, who in 1822
organized a secret society which overthrew Mexico s
first independent government, and from subsequent
moves through which we secured enough territory from
which to carve more than a half-dozen states, we are
informed by the present Chief Justice of the United
States, in an address delivered August 1, 1920, that the
Wilson administration in 1914 “did not limit itself to
refusing to recognize Huerta. ... The administration
set out to destroy Huerta. ... Mr. Lind was sent to
the City pf Mexico with the object of asking Huerta
to resign. It was an unjustifiable mission. The ad
ministration used all its endeavors to overthrow the
government which then existed in Mexico. • . . We
seized Vera Cruz in order to drag Huerta from his
post, and we left other nations to save our own citi
zens.”
Theodore Roosevelt in The New York Times of
December 6, 1914, wrote that “since the United States
took part in a civil war in Mexico, in the manner in
which Wilson and Bryan forced our government' to
take part, this country, through this act alone, is re
sponsible for the horrible injustices, the terrible out
rages, committed by the victorious revolutionaries
against hundreds of believers of both sexes.”
The government at Washington which overthrew
Huerta and placed an embargo on all arms except those
destined for Carranza was thus responsible for making
him president. It supported Obregon when Carranza
was assassinated in 1920, it supported Calles and
Cardenas, none of whom could have been president of
Mexico without such support.
“Leave the Mexican problem to the Mexican people”
is sound advice, and it is recommended to the admini
stration at Washington. The present unhappy state of
affairs beyond the Rio Grande is the result of inter
vention in 1914, and before, and of continued meddling
since, against the protests of millions of American citi
zens.
Why should our government not adopt toward the
government at Mexico City the same policies as toward
Leningrad and Berlin? And why should our am
bassador to Mexico not emulate the judicious conduct
of our diplomatic representatives in those countries
when the situation parallels in principle that across
the Rio Grand*#
A Deplorable “Racket”
G EORGIA secular newspapers, and others elsewhere,
received in recent weeks an advertisement offer
ing “four booklets of facts” for one dollar. The book
lets, “Guaranteed Authentic”, were enumerated as “The
Pope’s Men”, “The Cloistered Nun”, ‘T‘he Making of a
Priest” and “Jews and Catholics.”
The advertisement, calculated to appeal to anti-
Catholics, was accompanied by a letter to the news
paper to which the advertisement was offered stating
that the booklets were published by the International
Catholic Truth Society.
The advertisement and letter were referred to the
Catholic Laymen’s Association of Georgia for informa
tion. The Laymen’s Association recognized the effort
as a “racket”, and had a member write for the book
lets. They came after a delay of about three weeks.
They were published not by the International Catholic
Truth Society of Brooklyn but another reputable or
ganization in Europe, which sells them at retail for
four cents.
Thus these “racketeers”, operating from a post office
box number in a metropolitan area under a vague com
pany name, lead readers to believe they will send them
anti-Catholic booklets worth one dollar; instead they
send them booklets published by a Catholic organization
retailing at sixteen cents, four cents each, plus postage.
This “racket” has been tried in the South before, al
ways secretively, always anonymously. The lapses be
tween efforts indicate that they have not been success
ful, an impression strengthened by information from
authoritative sources. Most newspapers will not carry
the advertisement, even when accompanied by a money
order. Most readers ignore it when it appears. The
Post Office Department and Better Business Bureau
are investigating this enterprise.
The beautiful Cathedral of St. John
the Baptist lent itself to the cere
mony with all the dignity of some
great medieval edifice, and furnished
a magnificent setting for the solemnly
impressive procession of priests of
the secular clergy and of the various
religious orders — Jesuits, Benedic
tines, Marists, Fathers of the Society
of African Missions, Franciscans, Au-
gustimans, Vincentians, Redemptor-
ists, Josephites, Dominicans among
them—with the monsignori, Bishops
and Archbishops in their prelatial
robes, the Papal Knights in uniforms
which owe their origin to Michael
Angelo, the officers of the installa
tion Mass in vestments and His Emi
nence, the Cardinal, in cappa magna
of ermine and the other insignia of
his office as presiding prelate, Arch
bishop, member of the Sacred College
and counsellor of the Holy Father.
The Cathedral was dedicated by
Archbishop Martinelli in 1900. and
consecrated in 1920, with Archbishop
Glennon, of St. Louis, delivering the
consecration sermon. To erect a
mighty Cathedral in a Diocese of
less than 20,000 Catholics, in a city
with less than one-third that num
ber and in a Cathedral parish, con
taining only a fraction of that third
was a courageous undertaking, one
involving untold sacrifice on the part
of Bishop, priests and people. Those
who sacrificed for the Cathedral and
who lived to see the day that it gave
such an appropriate background to
such a brilliant ceremony must have
been happy in their part in making it
possible.
The Philadelphia party, headed by
His Eminence, the Cardinal, and
Bishop O’Hara, came South on the
“Bishop O’Hara Special” of ten Pull
mans, two diners and a club car over
the Seaboard Air Line. Special me
nus were printed and the special was
appropriately marked; two hundred
persons were aboard the special, in
cluding Bishop O’Hara’s mother and
father.
professor successively at Somerset and
Washington, pastor of St. Catherine
of Siena Church, New York, organ
izer and national director of the Holy
Name Society, editor of the Holy
Name Journal, assistant to the Mas
ter of the Dominican Order at Rome,
Bishop of Duluth, Bishop of Indian
apolis and Archbishop of Cincinnati.
Thus were Rome. Ireland, the Phil
ippines and great centers of the Uni
ted States linked by two great prel
ates at the installation. The presence
of the Most Rev. Edward F. Mooney,
D D., Archbishop-Bishop of Roches
ter, extended this evidence of the
universality of the Church. Bom at
Mt. Savage, Md., educated at St.
Charles’ College, St. Mary’s Seminary
and the North American College in
Rome. Archbishop Mooney was suc
cessively professor at St. Mary’s Sem
inary, Cleveland, headmaster of
Cleveland Cathedral Latin School,
pastor at Youngstown, Ohio, spiritual
director of the North American Col
lege in Rome, Apostolic Delegate to
India and Titular Archbishop of Ire-
nopolis, Apostolic Delegate to Japan,
and Bishop of Rochester, surely a
distinguished career for one yet in
his early fifties.
Our own Bishops of the Southeast;
Bishop Keyes, Bishop Barry, Bishop
Hafey, Bishop Walsh, Bishop Mc
Namara and Bishop Ireton, added dis
tinction to the occasion; their records
and achievements are known in de
tail to the readers of The Bulletin.
Others came from distant Sees, Bishop
Byrne of Galveston, for instance.
Bishop Byrne, whose effective op
position to contests offensive to the
principles of morality has made the
entire nation his debtor, is a native
of Bymesville, Mo.; he was educated
at St. Mary’s College, Kansas, and
St. Mary’s Seminary, Baltimore, serv
ed as pastor at Columbia, Edina and
St. Louis, Mo., and has been Bishop
of Galveston since 1918.
The Office of the Catholic Press
T HE Catholic University of America’s Session News
says editorially that until the layman in the
United States realizes that the Catholic Press is his
means of obtaining a voice in the social life of America,
until the Catholic men and women come to appreciate
the significance of a unified Catholic opinion toward
problems of the day, until the Catholic population real
izes the power of the Catholic press, we shall, to a great
degree, be voiceless and unable to promote the high
ideals of social life which are intimately bound up with
Catholic faith.
This is a fact which apparently does not occur to
those subscribers of Catholic publications who cancel
their subscriptions because of expense. It especially
escapes those who discontinue the Catholic newspaper
of their territory on the ground that they cannot afford
it, and yet continue to spend a dollar for secular pub
lications for every dime they withhold from their own
Catholic press.
The improved attitude of those not of the faith toward
Catholics, which the late Bishop McDevitt cited as one
of the outstanding characteristics of our day as com
pared with the days of his boyhood, is due mainly to
the Catholic Press. This is truer nowhere than in the
Southeast, where The Bulletin has an unusual number
of readers among representative citizens outside the
Church. Every Catholic benefits in his or her social,
civic and business relations through the resulting im
proved understanding. Those able to do so, and that in
cludes every Catholic patron of the secular press,
ought to indicate their appreciation by their support of
their own press.
Thousands thronged the Union Sta
tion that balmy sun-saturated after
noon when the special rolled into
Savannah on scheduled time. A com
mittee of clergy and the laity wel
comed the Cardinal and Bishop as
they alighted from the train; the first
to greet Bishop O’Hara was the be
loved prelate he was coming to suc
ceed, Bishop Keyes, who put his arms
around his successor as a father
would greet a son
Through solid, cordial masses of
humanity the Cardinal and Bishops,
with Monsignor Mitchell, who went
to Philadelphia to accompany his new
Bishop to Georgia, and the other
members of the delegation were con
ducted to waiting automobiles, nearly
one hundred of them, which took
them to the Bishop’s Residence, be
fore which the children of the schools
and hosts of others waited with the
Benedictine Cadets, who saluted the
Cardinal, and their new and retiring
Bishops. After cheering Bishop O’Ha
ra, the children got a glimpse of
Bishop Keyes behind him, and sent
up wave after wave of applause for
him. Bishop O’Hara told the chil
dren that it would be his hope to
win in their hearts a place as large
as that they have in their affection
given Bishop Keyes. His Excellency
got off to a magnificent start in that
direction by granting them a holiday
in honor of His Eminence.
Father O’Hara of Notre Dame once
said that a certain member of the
Sacred College was not great be
cause he. was a Cardinal; he is a Car
dinal because he is great. That might
well have been said of Cardinal
Dougherty. Born 71 years ago in Ash
land, Pa., educated at St. Charles
Borromeo Seminary, Overbrook, and
at the North American College in
Rome, he has served successively as
a member of the faculty of the Over
brook Seminary, first American Bish
op of Neuva Segovia in the Philip
pine Islands, Bishop of Jaro, also in
the Philippines, Bishop of Buffalo,
Archbishop of Philadelphia, and, since
1921, a member of the Sacred Col
lege of Cardinals. His Eminence is
by universal agreement one of the
most distinguished and beneficent of
American citizens, and one of the
outstanding figures of the world.
Second only to Cardinal Dougherty
m rank among the prelates at the in
stallation was the Most Rev. John T.
McNicholas, O.P.. S.T.D., Archbishop
of Cincinnati, who likewise has ac
quired his present unsolicited emi
nence by brilliant service in succes
sive posts of unusual responsibility.
Bom in Ireland at Kiltimagh, Mayo,
59 years ago, he was brought to this
country by his parents at nine, edu
cated at St. Joseph’s, Philadelphia
St. Rose’s Priory, Kentucky. St. Jo
seph’s, Somerset, O., and at Rome,
Bishop John B. Morris, of Little
Rock, is a native of our neighboring
state of Tennessee, where he was
bom in Hendersonville, educated at
St. Mary’s College, Kentucky, and
the North American College in Rome,
served as pastor of the Cathedral at
Nashville and vicar-general of the
Diocese, was consecrated coadjutor
Bishop of Little Rock in 1906, became
Bishop in 1907. and was made an as
sistant to the Pontifical Throne in
1931. Among the prelates at the in
stallation was his co-worker in the
Diocese of Nashville in the early
days, the Rt. Rev. Msgr. Francis T.
Sullivan, pastor of the Church oi
Sts. Peter and Paul, Chattanooga.
Bishop John M. Gannon of Erie, an
other Pennsylvanian journeying to
Savannah for the installation, was
born in the city where he now re
sides as Ordinary. He was educated
at St. Bonaventure’s College, the
Catholic University of America, the
Appolinare University, Rome, and
the University of Munich, earning his
doctorate in theology and in canon
law. was pastor at McKean, Oil City,
Cambridge Springs and Meadville,
Pa., superintendent of schools for
the Diocese of Erie, auxiliary Bish
op, 1918-1920, and Bishop of Erie for
the past 16 years.
Bishop Moses E. Kiley, who, with
the Rev. Dr. John B. McCloskey and
Red Bank and the Rev. Thomas U.
Reilly, chancellor, represented the
Diocese of Trenton, is a native of
Somerville, Mass., educated at St.
Laurent College. Canada, St. Mary’s
Seminary, Baltimore, and St. Thomas
College and the Propaganda Univer
sity, Rome, finishing with the degrees
of doctor of sacred theology and doc
tor of philosophy. He served as a
priest in the Archdiocese of Chicago,
was the first Archdiocesan Supervisor
of Catholic Charities, established the
Central Catholic Bureau of Catholic
Charities and Misericordia Hospital
and Infant Home, was spiritual direc
tor of file North American College in
Rome from 1926 to 1934, and conse
crated Bishop of Trenton two year#
ago.
Bishop John F. Noll, famed founder
of Our Sunday Visitor, came down
to Savannah from his native city and
See of Fort Wayne. Bishop Noll was
educated at St. Lawrence College,
Wisconsin, and Mt. St. Mary’s Semi
nary, Cincinnati. After serving as pas
tor at Kendallville, New Haven. Hart
ford City and Huntington, all in In
diana, meanwhile founding Our Sun
day Visitor, he was consecrated Bish
op of Fort Wayne in 1925. Bishop Noll
is Episcopal Chairman of the Depart
ment of Lay Activities of the Na
tional Catholic Welfare Conference, a
position which gives him a particular
interest in the Catholic Laymen’s As
sociation of Georgia.
Such is the caliber of the men the
Holy See selects to preside as shep
herds of the flock; such are the Bish
ops who honored the installation by
their presence. A most impressive rec
ord of Abbots, monsignori, priests;
and laymen at the installation could
also be presented, but here is the end
of the column. Perhaps it is just as
well, for we know that the regret at
those not fortunate enough to be at the
installation is keen enough, without
making it more poignant. The day of
the installation is gone, but he who
was its central figure will abide with
us, keening green the memory of that
glorious day on which the Diocese of
Savannan received such a distinguish
ed addition to its illustrious line of
Ordinaries from the heroic Bishop
Gartland to the beloved Bishop Keye*.
—R. R.