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JUNE 20, 1936
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Atlanta Extends Mighty Welcome to Bishop O'Hara
RECORD RECEPTION
HELD AT BILTMORE
IN CAPITAL CITY
Over Two Thousand Greet
His Excellency on His First
Formal Visit There
REV- JOS. G. CASSIDY
Bishop O’Hara will be extend
ed a formal welcome to Macon
on the occasion of his visit there
Sunday, June 21. The local
committee of clergy and laity has
completed its plans, and the Ma
con welcome is expected to com
pare favorably not only in heart
felt enthusiasm but in size with
the others extended the Bishop
in other cities of the state.
(Special to The Bulletin)
ATLANTA, Ga. — The Most Rev.
Gerald P. O’Hara, D. D., J. U. D.,
was greeted personally by over two
thousand Atlanta Catholics and their
friends when on the occasion of his
first official visit to the city he was
tendered a reception which was one
of the finest affairs of its kind ever
held in Atlanta on the occasion of a
welcome to a distinguished visitor.
Bishop O'Hara nad administered
the Sacrament of Confirmation at
St. Anthony’s and Sacred Heart
Churches in the morning to large
classes, and that night he addressed
the Georgia Federation of Junior
Catholic Clubs.
The reception to Bishop O’Hara
took place in the beautiful main hall
of the Atlanta Biltmore, where
exactly one year before to the day
the Catholic Press Association of
the United States was entertained at
a memorable banquet by the Atlanta
branch of the Catholic Laymen’s As
sociation of Georgia and The Bulle
tin.
J. J. Haverty, K. S. G., was
chairman of the general committee
on the reception with Hughes Spald
ing, John Jentzen, J. J. Bradley,
Bernard A. Kane and James A.
Harvey as the other members of the
committee. Bishop O’Hara was as
sisted in receiving by groups of four
from the parishes of the city, these
groups relieving one another at in
tervals. Practically all those greet
ing the Bishop were adults. Bishop
O’Hara meeting the children at the
schools; hundreds of them were non-
Catholics, including many of the
city’s and Georgia’s leading citizens.
As the reception closed, after the
reception line had been filing by for
hours. Bishop O’Hara expressed his
deep pleasure and gratitude for the
generous, wholehearted, cordial wel
come extended to him. He told those
present how much the heartfelt
greeting extended to him in Georgia
and in Atlanta meant to him and the
joy they gave him not only because
they are pleasant in themselves, but
also because of the encouragement
they afforded. He extended his
blessing to all present. During the
reception instrumental music was
rendered by Miss Claire Harper,
concert violinist, accompanied at the
piano by Mrs. Howard C. Smith, Jr.
The members of the reception
committee were composed of the
chief officer of each society within
each parish, which gave all repre
sentation. These included the
Knights of Columbus, Catholic Lay
men’s Association, St. Vincent de
Paul, Holy Name, Nocturnal Adora
tion Society, St. Anthony’s Guild,
Altar Societies, Parent Teachers As
sociations, the Syrian Catholics,
Young People’s Club, Apostleship of
Prayer, Sacred Heart Chapel Guild,
Ladies Auxiliary, Knights of Co
lumbus, Study Club, Vincentian
Club, the Orders of Mary Sewing
Circle, Newman Club, Sacred
Heart Alumnae, Business and Pro
fessional Women, Felicians and oth
ers.
Members of the reception cofn-
mittee assisting the central commit
tee included: A. A. Baumstark, Mr.
and Mrs. Russell Bellman, Max Bips,
George C. Blohm, John J. Bradley,
J. Clayton Burke, M. C. Carroll,
Jr., James J. Condon, Dr. Leo P.
Daly, Harry L- De Give, A. M. Dei-
ters, Carling L. Dinkier, George P.
Donnellan, T. J. Doonan. Dr. S. A.
Ferlita, Monty Fuller, Dr. William
J. Gage, Stephen Gemazian, Lewis
F. Gordon.
Evelyn Harris, John M. Harrison,
Clarence Haverty, John M. Harri
son, James A. Harvey, Jr., Dwight
Hollowell, David L. Lewis, William
McAlpin, John B. McCallum, An
drew P. McElroy, C. L. McGowan,
Harry M. Kinlev, John N. Malone,
Stephens Mitchell, Rowland Mur
ray. E. W. O’Brien, Frank O’Neill,
Robert R. Otis, Ed Schaeffer, L. D.
Sharp, David B. Smith, Lewis Van
R. Smith, Charles M, Thomas, R. K.
Whiteford.
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Oberst, Mrs.
L. Henderson, Mrs. J. H. Cahill,
Mrs. S. G. Harper, J. J. Masseling,
J. W. Clarke, Charles Stritch, Pat
rick Campbell, Miss Nell Jentzen,
John H. Jentzen, Miss Frances
Flynn, Thomas Kehoe, Miss J. Fitz
patrick, Thomas O’Keefe, Peter
Lynch.
Charles Bantz, Mrs. Clyde Haynes,
Mrs. W. O. Martin, Mrs. P. A. Aick-
len. Miss May Haverty, Mrs. J. F.
Sheeftan, Mrs. Ellen Anderson, Mrs.
M. Kuhrt, Miss Eleanore Harrison,
Mrs. Rowland Murray, Mrs. 9. H.
Mackay, Mrs. L. Lacher, Mrs, B- B,
Bellinger, Mrs. W. N. Wilson, Miss
Kate Murphy, Miss Irene Harvey,
Miss Ethel Lee Harvey, Mrs. H. A,
Catholic Stand on Education
Outlined by Bishop O’Hara
Attitude Toward Public Schools Not One of Opposition,
His Excellency Asserts in Atlanta, But Catholics Re
quire More Than Public Schools Can Give
FATHER CASSIDY ON
VISIT TO EUROPE
Catholic and Non-Catholic
People of Rome Arrange
Tour as Token of Their Af
fection for Him
There are few priests anywhere
more beloved members of their flock
and those outside the fold than the
Rev. Joseph G. Cassidy, pastor of
St. Mary’s Church, Rome; no one in
North Georgia is held in higher af
fection by friends and acquaintances
than he. The first resident pastor at
Rome, he is responsible for the erec
tion of St. Mary’s Church, now out
of debt, and that is but an indica
tion of the flourishing spiritual life
of the parish. A native of Flushing,
Long Island, N. Y, Father Cassidy
served at the Cathedral at Savannah
and at the Church of the Imamculate
Conception, Atlanta, before his ap
pointment to North Georgia. He is
now on his way to Europe, his trip
to Europe, Rome and the Holy Land
being arranged by friends in his
city, most of them non-Catholics,
who took this means of expressing
their regard and affection for him.
Mount De Sales Has
Successful Festival
(Special to The Bulletin)
MACON, Ga.—The Festival at Mt.
de Sales held here recently was one
of the most successful and one of the
most enjoyable affairs ever under
taken by the ladies of St. Joseph's
Church.
Not only financial success was ob
tained but a delightful evening for
all who attended. In the early after
noon the children were entertained,
all sorts of games and refreshments.
From six to eight o'clock the dining
room was opened for the service of a
chicken dinner served by the ladies
and thoroughly enjoyed by the many
friends, Catholic and non-Catholics
of Mt. de Sales. Later in the audi
torium a play was given by the stu
dent body and by St. Joseph’s Drama
tic Club; the latter under the direc
tion of R. H. Casson. Then on the
lighted grounds, the ice cream and
cake were served. The financial re
sult was far beyond expectation and
the spirit of co-operation was most
gratifying.
Out-of-town friends of the Institu
tion who did not attend sent generous
donations and beautiful expressions of
loyalty to Mt. de Sales.
Father McNamara, the loved pastor
at Milledgeville, came with a delega
tion. Cash contributions from Albany,
Jackson, Milledgeville, Savannah, At
lanta and other cities added greatly
to the fund.
MISS ALMA SHERIDAN was elected
president of the Mt. de Sales Alumnae
Association at the commencement
meeting. Other officers elected were
Mrs. Nelson Parker, vice-president;
Miss Sarah Thomas, secertary; Miss
Cecile Cassidy, treasurer. The meet
ing was presided over by the retiring
president, Mrs. Harper Williams.
Agricola, Mr. D. A. Moncrief.
Mrs. E. J. Epler, Mrs- Harold
Smith, Miss Catherine McElroy,
Grover C. Heyser, David Azar, P. G.
Keeney, John Bips, Mr. and Mrs.
J. J. Nicholson, Mr. and Mrs. V. C.
Lambert, Mr. and Mrs. J. Camarata,
Miss Mary Agnes Edwards, Miss
Marguerite Heyser, Mrs. Lawrence
C. Grant, Miss Katherine Brady,
Miss Zelpha McGlone, Mr. and Mrs.
Charles F. Huber, Mr. and Mrs-
Frank Baumgartner, Sr.
Mr. and Mrs. Clive Maloof, Mr. and
Mrs. Solomon Jabaley, Mrs. George
A. Beihl, Mrs. S. T. Grady, Thomas
A. Clark, Mr. and Mrs. Theo Chess,
S.. ,T. Grady, Mr. and Mrs. E. R.
Ricci, Mr. and Mrs. M. Ddggendorf,
Mr. and Mrs. M. B. Cole, Mrs- H.
H. McLauchlin, V/. J. Riordan.
(Special to The Herald)
ATLANTA, Ga.—On the occasion of
the administration of Confirmation in
the Sacred Heart Church here Sun
day, May 24, Bishop O'Hara, before
addressing the children, spoke to their
parents on Catholic education and the
necessity of Catholic schools. He
praised and congratulated those
fathers and mothers who insist on
sending their children to Catholic
schools.
Referring to the public schools, the
Bishop said that while they were ex
cellent as regards the qualifications of
their teachers and the equipment of
the school buildings and class rooms,
they could not satisfy Catholic par
ents because of their failure to im
part that religious instruction that
Catholic children should have. This
failure, he added, was no fault of the
public schools. They have no other
course. Serving as they de the pub
lic at large, they are forbidden, by
the very circumstances of the case, to
impart the religious teachings of any
one particular group.
Bishop O’Hara said in part: “Before
proceeding with the Confirmation
ceremony, I wish to take this oppor
tunity to pay a public tribute of well-
deserved praise to the Sisters who
teach in this school. Like thousands
of other Sisters throughout the land,
their lives are devoted and conse
crated to the sacred cause of Catholic
education. They have turned their
backs on every earthly hope, ambi-
toin and reward in order to spend
their lives in teaching the rising gen
eration to know, love and serve God
at the same time as they learn to
read and write and count.
“The training that our nuns give
their pupils in secular knowledge is
second to none. The excellence of that
training has been publicly and na
tionally demonstrated, time and again
It fits them admirably to take their
places with honor in the professional
or business world. But over and
above this valuable and necessary
education, the Catholic school imparts
something that is far more important.
It gives a complete religious training
of the mind, heart and will that fits
youth for life’s greatest task and
highest ambition—the saving of their
souls.
“Our teaching Sisters keep ever
before their pupils that true success
is based on the love and service of
Goo. They build up character as
well, by disciplining the wills of their
pupils in the direction of all that is
noble and holy.
“The Catholic Church is not op
posed to public schools as such. In
deed, one cannot but admire how well
qualified for their task are the teach
ers in the public schools and how
splendidly these schools are equipped.
In the relatively brief time that I have
been in Georgia I have learned how
excellent the teachers and the Schools
really are in this state.
“However, it is not enough, we
Catholics maintain, to teach children
reading, writing, arithmetic and the
other branches. Something else,
something far more precious is re
quired, otherwise the training of the
child is incomplete, and that some
thing is Religion. And this is where
the difference lies. This is the rea
son why, at great sacrifice. Catholics
wish to have their own schools. This
is why all over the world, thousands
of men and women forsake the hopes
of an earthly career in order that
Catholic children should receive a
Catholic education and grow up in the
knowledge and love of God.
“That Catholics are not alone in this
attitude is clear from the many pro
nouncements of non-Catholic educa
tors and others interested in youth,
who deplore the fact that American
youth, to an alarming degree, are be
ing reared with little or no religious
training.
“Catholic parents manifest a true
solicitude for their children when
they send them to Catholic schools,
and I am glad to have this occasion to
congratulate them and to thank them
for the good example that they are
giving. ‘Every Catholic child in a
Catholic school’ is an ideal that Cath
olics should strive to live up to as far
as circumstances permit. In this re
gard, it is interesting to note that, in
proportion to the Catholic population,
there are more children in Catholic
schools in Georgia than in any other
diocese of the country except Ra
leigh”.
Gilbert Chesterton,
62, Dies in London
Finished His Autobiography-
Month Before He Died
Continued From Page One
soon became well known. An indica
tion of his rapid rise to fame is had
in the fact that as early as 1908, there
apepared the anonymous volume, “G.
K. Chesterton; a Criticism.”
Although his mastery of the para
dox was so complete as to cause the
title, “Prince of Paradoxes” to be con
ferred upon him, it in no way ob
scured the fact that there was no
field of letters which he did not pene
trate with vigor and distinction. He
was an essayist, novelist, biographer,
poet, philosopher and a critic.
Mr. Chesterton engaged in two
the Catholic Church in 1922. His
conversion has been attributed not
only to intellectual and spiritual
forces, but also to the assistance of
his most intimate friend, Hilaire
Belloc, and of the Rev. John O’Con
ner, an Irish priest of Bradf ord, Eng
land, and also to the example of his
brother, Cecil, who became a Catholic
in 1912 and died in the World War.
Mr. Chesterton married Miss Frances
Boggs in 1901. She was received into
the Church in 1926.
Chesterton Paid Two Visits
to U. S.-Widely Known Here
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
NEW YORK—G. K. Chesterton,
who died Sunday at his home in a
surburb of London, was widely
known in the United States not only
through his numerous brilliant
writings but also through the thou
sands of persons who met him in the
course of his two visits to this coun
try.
Mr. Chesterton's first visit to the
United States was in 1921, when he
professed some surprise that he
should be looked to for frequent and
brilliant use of the parodox, saying
that he had “protested over an dover,
by symbol and speech, that I should
not know a paradox if it met me in
the street”. He afterwards described
this tour, in which he delivered a
number of lectures, in a book entitled
“What I Saw in America”.
In 1930, Mr. Chesterton paid an
other visit to America. On this oc
casion he delivered a course of lec
tures at the University of Notre
Dame, Notre Dame, Ind., from which
he received the honorary degree,
MRS. L. N. BLACKSTONE
DIES IN AUGUSTA PARISH
Doctor of Laws. Canisus College,
Buffalo, conferred the honorary de
gree, Doctor of Letters, upon Mr.
Chesterton, and Holy Cross College,
Worcester, Mass., honored him with a
reception. Mr. Chesterton delivered
a lecture in Mechanics Hall, Wor
cester, under the auspices of Holy
Cross College before a large and im
posing gathering.
Mr. Chestorton engaged in two
public debates in the course of that
tour. One was with Cosmo Hamilton
in New York on the question, “Is Di
vorce an Asset", with Mr. Chesterton
taking the negative side. The other
was with Clarence Darrow at New
Haven, Conn., on whether or not the
world would return to religion, Mr.
Chesterton taking the affirmative
side. In both instances the decision
of audiences made Mr. Cheserton the
winner by a large majority.
AUGUSTA, Ga.—Funeral services
for Mrs. Lula Elizabeth Blackstone,
who died here late in May at her resi
dence, were held at Sacred Heart
Church, with the Rev. J. E. O'Dono-
hoe, S. J., officiating. Mrs. Black
stone was a native of Aiken County
but had lived in Augusta for the past
thirty years. She was a member of
Sacred Heart Church. She is surviv
ed by her husband, L. N. Blackstone,
Sr., three daughters, Mrs. O. C. All
good, Mrs. O. B. Coursey, of Augus
ta; and Mrs. S. B. Harkins, Atlanta;
three sons, A. L. Blackstone, L. N.
Blackstone, Jr., and C. J. Blackstone,
all of Augusta, and fourteen grand
children.
CLAUD A. SNELL
DIES IN AUGUSTA
Funeral services for Claud Aloysi-
us Snell, who died at his home in
Blythe, Ga., were held at St. Pat
rick’s Church early in June with the
Rev. Jeremiah O’Hara officiating.
Mr. Snell is survived by his wife,
Mrs. Arrie Rebecca Morris Snell; and
two brothers, Ralph Snell, Blythe;
and Neal Snell, Augusta. Interment
was in Magnolia Cemetery.
BISHOP SCHREMBS of Cleveland
delivered the invocation at the
Thursday morning session of the Na
tional Republican Convention, and
was given an ovation by the conveo-
When an American newspaper
sought Mr. Chestrton’s views on di
vorce, he gave a brief but forceful
exposition, beginning as follows:
“I am a Catholic, so I don’t believe
in divorce.
“If I wasn’t a Catholic, I think I
would become a convert to that faith
on the one issue of divorce alone.
“As it is being practiced, divorce
is striking at the entire social struc
ture of the world. Consider the con
tract of marriage, solely as a contract.
If any business contract was as easy
to break as is this, our business world
would be in chaos.”
Mr. Chesterton's works became noted
for their vigorous exposition of Ca
tholic thought and Catholic apolo
getics. In answer to the inquiry why
his religious beliefs were so promi-
ent in his works, Mr. Chesterton
once said:
“I am one of these people who be
lieve that you’ve got to be dominated
by your moral slant. I am no art-
for-art’s sake man. I am quite in
capable of talking or writing about
Dutch gardens or the game of chess,
but I have no doubt that what I would
say or write about them would be
colored by my view of the cosmos.”
Mr. Chesterton founded and edited
G. K. s Weekly in 1925. He lectured
frequently, contributed to English and
American periodicals, and labored so
indefatigably on his books that two
of his full-length volumes made their
appearance within two weeks of each
other.
Mr. Chesterton’s black hat, cape
and large walking stick made him a
familiar figure in London, where he
maintained an office in Essex Street,
and also were well known to many
Americans. So great was his power
of concentration that he frequently
was seen walking along the streets,
completely engrossed in a book or
manuscript and oblivious to his sur
roundings. He frequently crossed
literary swords with George Barnard
Shaw and H. G. Wells. Of the former
he said that “Shaw always criticizes
man from the position of one not of
mankind”, and Mr. Wells' writings he
answered with devasting works.
In 1934, His Holiness Pope Pius XI
honored Mr. Chesterton, together with
Mr. Belloc, for services rendered to
the Church by his writings by con
ferring upon him Commandership in
the Order of St. Gregory the Great.
Among Mr. Chesterton’s works are;
“Defenant”, “Greybeards at Play”,
“Twelve Types,” “The Napoleon of
Notting Hill”, “The Club of Queer
Trades”, ‘Heretics”, “Dickens", “The
Man Who Was Thursday”, ‘All Things
“Considered”, “Orthodoxy”, “Tremen
dous Trifles'. “The Ball and the
Cross”, “What's Wrong in the World”,
“Alarms and Discursions”, “The In
nocence of Father Brown”, “A Shil
ling for My Thoughs”, “A Short His
tory of England”, “Irish Impressions”,
“The Superstition of Divorce”, “The
New Jerusalem”, “The Uses of Diver
sity”, “Ballad of St. Barbara”, “The
Man Who Knew Too Much”, “St.
Francis of Assisi ”, “Tales of the Long
Bow”, “The Everlasting Man”, “Wil
liam Cobbett”, “The Incredulity of
Father Browm”, ‘The Catholic Church
and Conversion”, “The Outline of
Sanity”, “The Return of Don
Quixote”, “The Judgment of Dr.
Johnson (play)”, “Collected Poems",
“Robert Louis Stevenson”, “The
Secret of Father Brown”, “Generally
Speaking”, “The Poet and the
Lunatics”, “The Thing”, “The Resur
rection of Rome”, “Come to Think of
It”, “All I Survey”, “St. Thomas
Aquinas”, ‘Avowals and Denials.”
The Citizens & Southern
National Bank
Augusta, Ga.
“NO ACCOUNT TOO LARGE
NONE TOO SMALL”