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THE BULLETIN OF THE CATHOLIC L AYMEN’S ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA
APRIL 25, 1936
COED SISTERS MAKE A TEAM
Smiles help when these three debating sisters of Marquette University,
Milwaukee, go into forensic action- Left to right are Helen, Jean and
Catherine Schwartz who team together. Their father, E. Perrin Schwartz,
is managing editor of Father Coughlin’s new publication, “Social Justice.’
(Milwaukee Journal photo.)
NAZI TACTICS EASED
BUT PROSPECT IS BAD
Election Calm Gives Little
Assurance to Catholics
(Special Correspondence, N. C. W. C.
News Service)
AMSTERDAM.—The Nazi govern
ment in Germany, prompted by a de
sire tc secure the good-will of Ger
man Catholics in its election drive,
temporarily called a halt to the many
petty persecutions against the Chris
tian Churches. These persecutions had
reached a stage causing alarm to
Catholics after the recent arrest of
the clerical head of the Association
of German Catholic Youth.
The patience and reserve maintain
ed by the German Bishops was once
more put to a test when the Nazi
government requested them to give
their support to the foreign policy
adopted by Chancellor Hitler after the
recent reoccupation of the Rhineland.
But now the Most Rev. Petrus Legge,
Bishop of Meissen, who recently was
fined in a Berlin court for alleged
violation of the Nazi currency regu
lations, has been deprived of his pass
port so that he cannot leave Ger
many.
Anti-Christian propaganda in that
country continues unabated, with
government officials making no ef
fort to interfere. The Nazi Church
Minister, Hans Kerri, in a recent
speech likened Chancellor Hitler to
the Saviour. Christ, he said, came to
quench the thirst of humanity, point
ing out that He was the Son of a
simple carpenter. Likewise, he said,
Hitler, the unknown corporal of the
war, had fulfilled the longing of the
German people.
No less blasphemous was a state
ment by Hanns Johst, president of
the Nazi Literature Chamber, who
termed the Nazi monument in Mu
nich the “Bethlehem of the Hitler
government.”
Doubtful official German statistics
notwithstanding, Catholic observers
here are convinced that the German
Catholic voters did not unanimously
support the Nazi regime in the last
national election as it is claimed in
the official ballot results released by
the Berlin propaganda office.
It is well known that in a great
many instances ballots not marked
with the customary cross in the cir
cle besides Adolf Hitler’s name were
simply taken to mean indorsement of
the Nazi policies, although the voters
had no other means of expressing
their disapproval, except by leaving
the circle blank. No opposition can
didates were admitted in this elec
tion farce, and therefore no votes
could be cast to express one'- dis
approval of the present German re
gime.
The German Bishops had made it
clear before the election that Cath
olics voting in the affirmative could
do so in view of the national issue
of liberty and honor ai stake in the
Rhineland question. But they also
made it plain that such affirmative
votes could not be interpreted to mean
aopreval of the anti-Catholic policies
of the Nazi government.
CONFEDERATE VETERANS
HONOR MSGR. WIITCHELL
Named Brig. General on
Staff of Gen. Harry Lee
(Special to The Bulletin)
SAVANNAH, Ga—The Rt. Rev.
Megr. Jos. D. Mitchell, V. G„ pastor
of St. Patrick's Church and vicar-
gencral of the Diocese of Savannah,
has been named Brigadier-General
and Assistant Adjutant General on
the staff of General Harry Rene Lee,
commander-in-chief of the United
Confederate Veterans, according to
word received here. Monsignor Mitch
ell lias for the past several years
been chaplain of the Francis S. Bar
tow Camp, Sons of Confederate Vet
erans. publicity d : rcctor of the en
tire organization of the Sons of Vet
erans, and editor of the Sons of Con
federate Veterans Department in the
Southern Magazine.
Msgr. Baker, 95, Is
Lauded by President
(By N. C. W- C. News Service)
LACKAWANNA Pa.— President
Franklin D. Roosevelt has sent a let
ter of congratulations to the Rt. Rev.
Msgr. Nelson H. Baker, noted apos
tle of charity, here on the occasion
of his ninety-fifth birihday and. the
sixtieth anniversary of his priest
hood.
The President’s letter is as follows:
“My dear Monsignor Baker:
“I have read in the newspapers
that you recently celebrated your
ninety-fifth birthday and that short
ly you will observe the sixtieth an
niversary of vour Oordination to the
Priesthood. These are indeed notable
anniversaries and I desire to join
with your other friends in extending
hearty congratulations with all good
wishes that you may long enjoy
peaceful days and the supreme hap
piness which must come to one who
has earned from a grateful people
tile title of ‘Priest of the Poor’.”
At the age of ninety. Monsignor
Baker came by automobile to Geor
gia to select Georgia marble for the
great basilics he erected near Buf
falo.
FATHER DAMIEN'S remains will
arrive in Antwerp early in May. with
an official reception of the remains
Mav 2.
Ambassador Daniels
at Mass on Easter
Mexico City Catholics Throng
Few Churches Government
Permits to Be Open
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
MEXICO CITY.—At the special in
vitation of the Most Rev. Pascual
Diaz, Primate of Mexico, United
States Ambassador Josephus Daniels
and Mrs. Daniels attended Solemn
Pontifical Mass and witnessed the Eas
ter procession in the Mexico City Ca
thedral today. A majority of the
members of the diplomatic corps were
present, occupying seats in the cen
tral nave of the great edifice. The
services lasted nearly three hours.
Illness prevented Archbishop Diaz
from officiating and the Most Rev.
Maximino Ruiz, Auxiliary Bishop of
Mexico City, was the celebrant of
the Mass.
Ambassador and Mrs. Daniels were
accompanied by Stephen E. Aguirre,
third secretary of the American Em
bassy.
The churches in the Nation's Cap
ital were tnronged from early morn
ing until 1 p. m. and it is estimated
that 200,000 persons assisted at Mass.
Banks and places of business had
been closed since Holy Thursday, al
though government offices remained
open.
REPORTS of the reopening of nu
merous Catholic Churches in Mexico
could not be verified by the N. C.
W. C. News Service in Mexico City;
a limited number of churches has
been reopened in some places, but in
only one state has the number of
clergy been increased, that of Guer
rero, which formerly allowed only
eight priests for the entire state; now
43, or one priest for every 15,000 peo
ple, is permitted.
CONGRESSMAN DIES of Texas
told the House of Representatives in
a recent address that a Consul of
the Mexican Government is in Texas
organizing Mexicans, both citizens
and aliens, along Communistic lines,
and he called for an investigation by
the Slate Department.
MEXICAN WOMEN, taking the
government there at its word when
it said women would be allowed to
vote, have organized to guarantee the
vote to all women in the coming
election. The Mexican government in
practice confined voting among wo
men to those affiliated with the Na
tional Revolutionary Party.
CALLES’ exile to the United States
is a move for public safety in Mex
ico, the government there says. Calles
asserts he had no warning of his ap
proaching expulsion from the coun
try and denied any knowledge of or
connection with revolutionary plots.
PRESIDENT CARDENAS is leading
Mexico into Communism, Calles said.
“His policy of fostering Communism
may not lead to revolution, but it is
ruining the infant industries of Mex
ico—it can only lead to anarchy and
chaos.”
PETITIONS from Catholics in sev
eral Mexican states for the reopening
of churches have been forwarded to
President Cardenas, but he has not
acted on them or acknowledged them.
AT CUIDAD GONZALEZ. Carde
nas occupied the pulpit of the Cath
olic Church and delivered there a
speech eulogizing Socialistic educa
tion and attacking the clergy. The
incident caused intense indignation
in the city.
CARDENAS gives lip service only
to democracy and is “coquetting with
Communism and its supporters,” Jef
frey Paul, special correspondent of
the Washington Post, says in an ar
ticle sent to that newspaper from
Mexico City. _ ,
AN ATTACK on the Catholic
Church in a speech by Former Presi
dent Emilio Portes Gil, now head of
the National Revolutionary Party, is
being circulated in the United States
by the Mexican Government in the
“Weekly News Sheet”, which the
government there uses for propaganda
purposes. This news sheet is mailed
to influential Americans in all parts
of the United States.
TEACHERS in the State of Colima
have been informed by the govern
ment there that they must either sign
the anti-church pledge or be dismiss
ed from the teaching staff.
Mrs. F. X. Minich of
Anderson, S. C., Dies
Solemn High Mass for Be
loved Member of St.
Joseph’s Parish
(Special to The Bulletin)
ANDERSON, S. C.—Mrs. Anna
Louise Minich, one or the most be
loved members of St. Joseph’s Church
here, died suddenly late in March
at the age of 29. Mrs. Minich, the
wife of F. X. Minich, was the daugh
ter of Mr. and Mrs. John Lyons and
a native of the city; she was a grad
uate of Anderson High School and
Winthrop College, doing post-gradu
ate work in music. She was active
in the Catholic Woman's Club of
Anderson and until recently was
president of the Anderson Chapter of
the Winthrop College Alumnae.
The Rev. Henry L. Speisman, pas
tor of St. Joseph’s Church, was cele
brant of the Solemn High Mass of Re
quiem at the funeral, with the Rev.
Thomas J. Mackin, pastor at Spartan
burg, as deacon, the Rev. Sydney F.
Dean, of Greenville, sub-deacon and
the Rev. Charles J. Baum, of Ander
son, master of ceremonies. The choir
of St. Peter s Church, Columbia, un
der the direction of Mrs. Curran
Jones, sang the Mass. The Rt. Rev.
Msgr. A. K. Gwynn V.F, pastor of St.
Mary’s Church, Grenville, who bap
tized Mrs. Minich in her infancy, of
ficiated at the interment.
Surviving Mrs. Minich in addition
to her husband and parents are two
children, F. X. Minich, Jr., and Lou
ise Lyons Minich, three brothers. Jo
seph Lyons, Thomas Lyons and Rob
ert Lyons, and two sisters, Mrs.
Henry Wood, of Calhoun Falls, and
Miss Margaret Lyons, of Anderson.
CATHOLICS
in the News
BISHOP KELLEY of Oklahoma
City, was one of the principal speak
ers at the Sixth National Training
Conference of the Boy Scouts of
America at French Lick, Ind. Scout-
ing’s principles are right, Bishop
Kelley said in lauding them.
DR. THOMAS PARRAN, JR.,
health commission of New York
State, who has been appointed sur-
g. ,n General of the United States
Army by President Roosevelt, is a
graduate of Georgetown University
Medical College and is forty-three
years old.
REV. WM. I. LONERGAN, S. J.,
one of the most distinguished of the
Jesuit Fathers of the United States,
formerly president of the University
of San Francisco, and in recent years
a member of the staff of America in
New York, died in Danbury. Conn.,
in March at the age of 52.
RE. MIVCHAEL J. MAHONY, S. J.,
distinguished philosopher and a
member of the faculty of Fordham
University, died in Now York in
March. A member of the Fordham
faculty since 1911, Father Mahony
oreviously taught at Holy Cross Col
lege. He was the author of several
standard works in the field of phi
losophy.
REV. PIERCE KARRY, born in
Ohio, ordained an Episcopalian min
ister, in which capacity he served
in New York until 1927 and in Lon
don for a few years after, has been
ordained a priest in Rome where he
made his studies in theology after his
reception into the Catholic Church.
He will labor in London, in the Arch
diocese of Westminister.
CLIFF HAVEN'S CATHOLIC
Summer School in Northern New
York will include music courses with
Lucrezia Bori, Giovanni Martinelli
and other grand opera notables as
advisers, plans for the forty-fifth
session announce. The school occu
pies an estate of a square mile on
Lake Champlain.
Marists to Observe
Milestone Centennial
Society of Mary Approved by
Pope Hundred Years Ago
THE MARIST FATHERS or Society
of Mary received Papal approbation
one hundred years ago this month,
and special ceremonies marking the
observance of the centenary are being
planned in various parts of the
country. In Georgia the Marist Fath
ers are in charge of Sacred Heart
parish and Marist School, Atlanta,
and of the Southeast Georgia Mis
sions, with headquarters at St. Francis
Xavier Church, Brunswick.
PEACE GROUP SEEKS
INTEREST OF YOUTH
Dr. Fenwick Re-elected at
Washington Convention
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
WASHINGTON.—Closing its tenth
annual conference held here this
week—a meeting devoted to discus
sion of social, economic, and political
interdependence of nations and the
need of organizing a world society to
promote international collaboration
and world peace—the Catholic Asso
ciation for International Peace ex
tended an invitation to the Most Rev.
Edwin V. O’Hara, Bishop of Great
Falls, to continue as its honorary
president, and re-elected Dr. Charles
G. Fenwick, professor of political
science at Bryn Mawr College, to
serve as its president during the com
ing year.
Dr. Francis E. McMahon, of Notre
Dame University; the Rev. Athana
sius Karlin, O. M. Cap., of Victoria,
Kans., and Miss Mary G. Hawks, of
the National Council of Catholic
Women, were elected vice presidents.
Miss Kathleen Murphy, of Fordham
University, was elected treasurer, and
Dr. John Schuler, of Fordham. was
elected assistant treasurer. Miss
Elizabeth B. Sweeney, of Washington,
was again chosen executive secretary.
Georgia Jesuit Goes
to India for Study
Rev. Mr. J. J. O’Connor, S.
J., Ceylon Missionary,Starts
Theological Course
(Special to The Bulletin)
NEW ORLEANS, La.—The Rev.
John J. O’Connor, S.J., a native of
Augusta, Ga., where he was star
quarterback on the Richmond Acad
emy football team, and who volun
teered to spend his life as a mission
ary in Ceylon, has completed his pe
riod of regency or teaching as a schol
astic at St. Michael’s College, Batti-
caloa, Ceylon, and has gone to Kur-
seoing, India, for his theological
studies.
Mr. O'Connor was given a magnifi
cent au revoir by the students at St.
Michael’s and his fellow faculty
members at Galliputt at the shore es
tate of a Ceylonese gentleman Spokes
men for the students expressed their
gratitude to Mr . 0”Connor for his
innumerable acts of kindness toward
them, and he expressed his apprecia
tion, urged them to be faithful to
their religious duties and expressed
the prayerful hope that he would find
them all good Christian leaders in
their communities when ha returned.
FATHER CASSIDY GIVES
RETREAT IN CEYLON
The Rev. Edward Cassidy, S.J., a
native of Macon and formerly of
Spring Hill College, now laboring on
the missions in Ceylon, recently gave
a retreat to the Sisters at Kalmunai,
his first retreat there. The Sisters
were all natives of India. Father
Cassidy was the guest of Ceylonese
priests. The retreat was given dur
ing the rainy season. There were no
electric lights, and one night the oil
lamp he was using on his lecture ta
ble was blown out by the high wind.
Fortunately, Father Cassidy writes,
he did not find it necessary to refer
to his notes. Father Cassidy also
gave a retreat at St. Michael’s Col
lege to the boys of the student body.
The long vacation at the college, six
weeks, started with Holy Week.
CHARLES F. D0LLE OF
N. C. C. M. DIES AT 62
Cincinnati Attorney Widely
Known in Lay Activities
CINCINNATI. — Charles F. Dalle,
attorney and prominent Catholic lay
men of this city and formerly Exe
cutive Secretary of the National
Council of Catholic Men, with head
quarters in Washington, D. C., died
at his home here at the age of 62
years. He is survived by a widow, a
son, two daughters, and three sisters.
Mr. Dolle took a prominent part in
the organization of the N. C. C. M.
in the Archdiocese of Cincinnati and
it became one of the outstanding
units of the national organization. He
was vice-president of the Cincinnati
Archdiocesan Council and of the Cin
cinnati Deanery Council at the time
of his appointment as Executive Sec
retary of the national organization in
1925. He held the post of Executive
Secretary for seven years, resigning
in 1933 to resume his practice of law.
FR. O’CONNOR AGAIN
C.U. FACULTY MEMBER
Georgian Assistant to Dr.
Smith and Teacher at
Preacher’s Institute
(Special to The Bulletin)
WASHINGTON, D. C. — The
Preacher’s Institute of the Catholic
University of America will start its
fifth consecutive year with the
opening of the Summer School in
June, with the Very Rev. Ignatius
Smith, O. P., S. T. Lr., Ph.D., LL.D.,
named Dominican preacher as di
rector, and Rev. P. J. O'Connor, M.A.,
of the Diocese of Savannah, as as
sistant to Dr Smith and teacher in
the institute.
The Institute was formed five
years ago during the rectorship of
the Most Rev. James Hugh Ryan,
D.D., now Bishop of Omaha, and it
has answered a great need long felt
by the clergy throughout the coun
try for more advanced work in the
fundamentals of the art of preach-
ing.
Each year has seen the enrollment
increased, with thirty-eight register
ed for last year, including Diocesan
priests from as far west as Nevada
and members of eleven religious or
ders, including Jesuits, Redemptor-
ists, Benedictines, Paulists, Domini
cans, Viatorians, Marists, Passionists,
Augustinians, Capuchins and Fran
ciscans. Faculty members from va
rious seminaries have attended the
institute for special training, and the
institute has resulted in notable im
provement in ’ preaching. The suc
cess of the Institute in its infancy
presages great things for the future.
This is Father O’Connor’s fourth
consecutive summer as assistant to
the famed Dr. Smith and as teacher
in the course. Father O’Connor, also
noted as a pulpit orator, is a native
of Savannah, and assistant pastor of
St. Mary’s-on-The - Hill, Augusta.
Father O’Connor’s father, the late
P. J. O’Connor, was national presi
dent of the Ancient Order of Hiber
nians, national president of the
Catholic Knights of America, and
one of the leaders of the Georgia
Bar.
Augusta Boy, Son of
Famed Athlete, Dies
Burns Fatal to 13-Year-Old
Bernard Smythe
AUGUSTA, Ga— Bernard Mul-
ready Smythe, 13 year old son of Mr.
and Mrs. Harry Smythe. the former
a leading International League base
ball pitcher, died here Holy Thurs
day morning when a kerosene stove
exploded at his Martinez, Ga., home.
The fire was smothered by his
mother, who left her sick bed in an
adjoining room to aid her son.
Funeral services were held at the
Sacred Heart Church, the Rev. M. J.
Cronin, S. J., officiating, with inter
ment in Westover Memorial Park.
Pallbearers were James Bartley,
Frank Keenan, William Van Sant,
Joseph Arthur, Leo Cotter and Geo.
Smith. Two platoons of his fellow
students at the Academy of Rich
mond County formed an honorary es
cort with the Altar boys of the Sac
red Heart Church. Every cadet at
the Academy volunteered to parti
cipate in the honorary escort.
Bernard Smythe was a member of
the freshman class at the Academy
and had made a brilliant record in
his scholastic work at this institu
tion. He was a first honor graduate
of the Sacred Heart Parochial school
last year. He was also active in work
of the Sacred Heart Church, of which
he was a devout member and in
which he served as altar boy.
Harry Smythe, father of the boy.
was pitching a baseball game with
the Montreal, Canada, team when ad
vised of his son’s accident and im
mediately started to Augusta. In ad
dition to his parents, he is survived
by one sister, Harriett Mary Smythe,
paternal grandfather, John William
Smythe and several aunts and uncles.
MSGR. MONAGHAN NAMED
0GDENSBURG COADJUTOR
Seton Hall College President
Named to Episcopacy
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
WASHINGTON. — The Very Rev.
Msgr. Francis J. Monaghan, S. T. D.,
President of Seton Hall College,
South Orange, N. J., has been
named - Titular Bishop of Mela and
Coadjutor to the Most Rev. Joseph
H. Conroy. Bishop of Ogdensburg, N.
Y„ according to word from Vatican
City received here.
Bishop-elect Monaghan made his
classical studies at Seton Hall Col
lege and completed his course in
Theology at the North American CoH
lege in Rome, where he received the
degree of Doctor of Sacred Theology.
He served as an assistant pastor for
some years, after which he wak
named head of the Department of
Education at Seton Hall College. He
was Professor of Dogmatic Theology
and Metaphysics at the Immaculate
Conception Theological Seminary,
Darlington, N. J., and also Professor
of Philosophy and Religion at St.
Elizabeth’s College.
THE HOLY FATHER has sent
felicitations to The Evangelist offi-
cial organ of the Diocese of Albany,
on the occasion of its tenth anniver
sary.