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JULY 25, 1936
THE BULLETIN OF THE CATHOLIC LAYMEN’S ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA
FIVE
Irreligious Spirit Blamed for Persecutions
Edw. J. O’Connor, Jr., to
Head Georgia Legionnaires
RABBIS OF U. S. SCORE
MEXICAN PERSECUTION
Savannahian Elected at Ath
ens Convention — Marion
O’Connor Heads ‘40 and 8’
(Special to The Bulletin)
ATHENS, Ga. —Edward F. O’Con
nor, Jr., prominent Savannah real
tor, was elected state commander of
the American Legion for 1937 at the
annual convention of the Georgia
Legionnaires here late in June. Mr.
O’Connor was elected unanimously
after four other candidates had
withdrawn. He is the first Legion
naire from the First Congressional
District of Georgia to become state
commander.
Marion A. O’Connor, of Augusta
and Macon, was named to head the
“40 and 8,” fun- making organiza
tion of the Legion, at the state con
vention which preceded that of the
Legion itself; his title is Grand Chief
de Gare.
EDWARD F. O’CONNOR, JR., is
the son of Mr. and Mrs. Edward F.
O’Connor of Savannah, his mother
being the former Miss Mary Yolden
He was educated at Cathedral
School, Benedictine College and
Mount St. Mary’s College, Emmits-
burg, Md., and has long been active
in real estate, Legion and other cir
cles in Savannah. His family has
been active in Cathedral parish for
three generations, and his father is
P resident of the St. Vincent de
aul Society there. Mr. O’Connor
served on the Mexican border in
1916 and in France, entering as an
enlisted man and winning his com
mission .
The Rev. P. J. O’Connor of Au
gusta is a cousin of Mr. O’Connor;
he has five brothers. Dr. John J.
O’Connor, Philip O’Connor and Dan
O’Connor, of Savannah; B. J- K.
O’Connor of Washington, D. C.,and
Frank H. O'Connor, Little Rock,
Ark., attorney, and two sisters, Mrs.
Herbert A. Cline, Atlanta, and Mrs.
John Patterson, Savannah.
MARION O’CONNOR, who heads
the “40 and 8’’ for Georgia, is the
son of the late Mr. and Mrs. J. J.
O'Connor, of Augusta, and a nephew
of the late Capt. P. H. Rice, K. C.
S. G. Mr. O’Connor was born in
Augusta, reared there and educat
ed at St. Patrick’s School. He was
for years associated with his father
and uncle in business, and was a
member of city council. He served
overseas during the World War, has
been in charge of unemployment
relief work in Georgia and has also
headed the rehabilitation work of
the American Legion in the state.
Adopt Resolutions at Cen
tral Conference in New
Jersey
Insurance Leader Was
Recent Resident of
Washington, D. C.
AUGUSTA, Ga.—John Davidson Bry
son, a native of Augusta and in re
cent years prominently connected with
the insurance business in Washing -
D. C., died in Washington late in
June at the age of 64. Mr. Bryson
was a native of Augusta, the son of
the late Mr. and Mrs. William Bry
son, and a leader in insurance here
for many years. He was during his
residence in Augusta an active mem
ber of St. Patrick’s Church and of the
Catholic Laymen’s Association. He
went to Washington about 15 years
ago. Surviving are his wife, Mrs.
Maude Smith Bryson, his son, Wil
liam Bryson, five brothers,. Harper
C. Bryson, William Bryson, Judge
Joseph Bryson, and R. I. Bryson, and
two sisters, Mrs. E. R. Beall and Mrs.
Hampton Hankinson. The funeral was
held from St. Patrick’s Church; in
terment was in Augusta.
JOHN J. DONOHUE OF
AUGUSTA PARISH DIES
John J. Donohue, a member of Sa-
Sacred Heart Church, died here late
in June at the age of 29. Mr. Dono
hue was a native of Augusta and is
survived by his wife, Mrs. Cleo Bear
den Donohue, a soil, two daughters,
his father, John J. Donohue, Sr., his
sister, Mrs. Gertrude Daley, and his
brother, Dan F. Donohue, all of Au
gusta. The funeral was held from
Sacred Heart Church with interment
in West View Cemetery.
FUNERAL IN AUGUSTA
OF ALBERT YATES
The funeral of Albert Yates, a na
tive of Charleston and a resident of
Richmond County, Georgia, since
1913, was held from St. Patrick’s
Church late in June, with interment
in Westover Cemetery. Mr. Yates
was 50 years of age, and was ill four
weeks. His wife, Mrs. Mary Pearl
Yates, survives.
FUNERAL IN AUGUSTA
OF MRS. MARY BRIDWELL
The funeral of Mrs. Mary Bridwell,
formerly of Augusta, and for the past
15 years a resident of Atlanta, was
held from Sacred Heart Church early
in July, with interment in Magnolia
Cemetery. Mrs. Bridwell is survived
by her daughter, Mrs. Myrtis Camp
bell, three sons, Lester Bridwell, J. T.
Bridwell and Roy Bridwell, her sis
ter, Mrs. Ellie Dean of Atlanta, and
her brother, R. K. Weekly, of Au
gusta,
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
CAPE MAY, N. J.,—The Central
Conference of America Rabins, at its
forty-seventh annual convention
here, expressed “religious objection
to the policy of any State which
strikes at the very practice of relig
ion . . . specifically the treatment of
Catholics in our sister Republic of
Mexico.”
The Conference approved a recom
mendation to this effect submitted
by its committee on resolutions: The
Rabbis also denounced communism
and fascism as “incomparable with
the Democratic ideal of Judiaism.”
FATHER PASTORELLI
HEADS JOSEPHITES
Named Superior-General for
Fourth Term at General
Council of Society
Human Relations Institute
Studies Them for Lessons
They Teach United States
FR.SHEEHAN ASSUMES
POST ATTHOMASVILLE
Father McCarthy Presides at
Installation Ceremony
MARION O’CONNOR
M. J. Callaghan Is
Macon K. of C. Head
Funeral in Augusta
of John D. Bryson
Re-elected by Council at
Annual Meeting There
MACON, Ga. — Martin J. Callag
han, Sr., was re-elected grand
knight of Macon Council, Knights
of Columbus, at the annual election
meeting. Other officers elected in
cluded Charles McBrearty, deputy
grand knight; H. R. Casson, chan
cellor; P. J. Murphy, recorder;
Herman Huhn, financial secretary;
Francis Cassidy, treasurer; Henry
Kennington, Jr., lecturer; Augustin
Daly, advocate; Felix Woodward,
warden; Tom Travers, inside guard;
Joseph Modena and Frank Callag
han, Chris Huhn. Frank Burch, out
side guards; J. P. McGoldrfck, trus
tee; Rev. Peter McDonnell, S. J.,
chaplain.
MARKIN GARNETT CUSSON,
78, died here late in June after a
long period of illness. Mr. Cusson
came to Macon 40 years ago from
Cincinnati and during his residence
here was connected with several
Macon firms. He retired five years,
ago. Surviving are his widow, the
former Miss Julia Mullally, of Cin
cinnati; three daughters, Misses
Julia, Elizabeth and Charlotte Cus
son; two brothers, Alexis Cusson
and Hoyle Cusson, of Cincinniai;
and one sister, Mrs. R. C. Creager,
of New York City.
Rev. A. C. McLaughlin, S. J., of
ficiated at the funeral services. In
terment was in Rose Hill Cemetery.
Fallbearers were Chris Sheridan.
Tom Dempsey, Jack Cutler, John
M. Gibson, Kinloch Dunlap and Dr.
H. G. Weaver.
ED BARATTA, a former resident
of Macon, died in a hospital in
Omaha, Neb., late in June. Funeral
services were held here, the Rev.
Peter McDonnell, S. J., pastor of St.
Joseph’s Church, officiating. Inter
ment was in Riverside Cemetery.
Mr. Baratta was the only son of D.
Baratta and Mrs. Mary Sinclair
Baratta. He. was bom in Macon and
made his home here for many years.
He had been living in Omaha for
eighteen years. Surviving are his
widow and a sister, Mrs. G. W.
Freeney, of Atlanta Mr. Charles
G- Conn, of New York City is a
brother-in-law.
MRS. NELLIE DAVIS died here
late in June in a local hospital after
an illness of three weeks. Mrs.
Davis was born in Syria, the daugh
ter of Joe and Mary Francis, and
had made her residence in Macon
for 32 years. Sh*,.was a member of
St. Joseph’s Churdh. Surviving are
her husband, Joe Davis, Third Street
fruit merchant; a brother, Tony
Francis, Macon; two aunts. Mrs.
Amelia Deep and Mrs. Marie Jo
seph, Macon. Funeral services were
held in St. Joseph's Church and in
terment was in St. Joseph’s Ceme
tery.
(By N. C. W- C. News Service)
WASHINGTON—The General Chap-
of St. Joseph’s Society of the Sacred
Heart held at St- Joseph’s Seminary,
here, re-elected the Most Rev( Louis
B. Pastorelli, S. S. J., to succeed him
self as Superior General of the Jose-
phite Fathers for his fourth term.
Father Pastorelli was first elected in
1918 and has been directing the affairs
of the Josephite missions uninterrupt
edly since that year.
Since Father Pastorelli’s taking over
the duties of superior the Josephite
Fathers and the work of the Colored
Missions have made great progress.
Under him the new Epiphany Aposto
lic College, Newburgh, N. Y, and the
new St. Joseph’s Seminary at the
Catholic University of America,
Washington, were built. Epiphany
College had been located in Balti
more until 1925 when the new edifice
was completed at Newburg. St. Jo
seph’s Seminary was also located in
Baltimore until 1930 when the new
building was completed in Washing
ton.
Two decades ago there were only
27,000 colored Catholics attending the
churches of the Josephites, while to
day there are 69,000 Catholic Negroes
being served by the missionaries, this
figure representing half the total
number of colored Catholics attend
ing churches for their exclusive use
in the United States. Attached to the
missions of the Society are 65 schools
in which 13,000 colored children are
being taught by 250 Sisters and G5
lay teachers.
Father Pastorelli is the fourth Su
perior General of the Society. Born
in Genoa, Italy, July 10, 1873, one of
10 children, he was brought to this
country when three years of age and
raised in St. James’ parish, Boston- He
entered Epiphany Apostille College,
Baltimore, in 1890. In 1894 he was ad
vanced to St. Joseph’s Seminary,
Baltimore, in 1890 and made his
studies at old St. Mary’s there.
He was ordained to the priesthood
September 11, 1898. After completing
his fourth year of Theology he was
sent to open the Josephite mission
at Mobile, Ala. From Mobile Father
Pastorelli attended the out-missions
of Chastang and surrounding terri
tory.
After three years on the missions
Father Pastorelli was appointed rec
tor of St. Joseph’s Industrial School,
Clayton, Del., which post he held un
til 1912 when he was made rector of
St. Joseph’s Seminary. He had been
elected consultor to the Superior
General, the Rev. Justin Mcarthy, in
1910, and succeeded Father McCarthy
in 1918 as the fourth Superior Gen
eral.
(Special to The Bulletin)
THOMASVILLE, Ga.—The Rev.
Thomas I. Sheehan, formerly manager
of St. Joseph’s Home, Washington,
was installed as pastor of St. Augs-
tine’s Church here the first Sunday
in July at a ceremony at which the
Very Rev. Daniel J. McCarthy, V. F.,
pastor of Holy Family Church. Co
lumbus, and dean of Southwest Geor
gia, presided as the representative
of the Most Rev. Gerald P. O’Hara,
D. D., Bishop of Savannah.
Present also at the ceremony were
the Rev. Thomas A. Brennan, pastor
of St. Theresa's Church, Albany, and
the Southwest Georgia Missions, of
which Thomasville was formerly a
part, and whose assistant Father
Sheehan was for several years, the
Rev. John F. Monahan. U. S. A.
major-chaplain at Fort Benning, and
the Rev. Wm. Carroll. Tallahassee,
Fla., pastor of the parish adjoining St
Augustine’s, although many miles
away.
Father McCarty said that Thomas
ville is to be felicitated on its new
pastor, who comes as no stranger;
for five years he served the mission
territory of which Thomasville was
then a part.
Father Brennan recalled the history
of the parish, to which priests have
been coming for a half-century, now
receiving a resident pastor for the
first time. He thanked the members
of the congregation for the splendid
co-operation given him during the
ten years he has served in Southwest
Georgia as pastor and assistant, and
recommended Father Sheehan to
them, asking for a continuance of the
same fine co-operation. In turn he
said that Father Sheehan and the
congregation could always call
him whenever an occasion arose-
Father Sheehan in thanking Father
McCarthy, Father Brennan and the
priests and laity present, and Bishop
O’Hara for the appointment, said that
Thomasville was his first Sunday
assignment when he came to Albany.
He said his appointment brought him
both pleasure and a sense of great
responsibility, one he prayed God he
would be able to meet worthily.
St. Augustine’s choir, composed of
Mrs. James F. Evans, Jr., Mrs. J. C.
Tonkin, Mrs. L. V. Mitchell, Jr,
Francis Gardner and Mrs. Boutelle,
organist, rendered the program of
music. A number of visitors came
from Albany and Valdosta for the
ceremony.
AUGUSTA GIRL GETS
DEGREE IN MEDICINE
Miss Amelia Sheftall Grad
uated From University of
Georgia Medical School
AUGUSTA, Ga. — Miss Amelia
Sheftall, a member of St. Patrick’s
Church and one of the most able
speakers on the K. of C. Radio pro
grams here, was awarded her degree
of Doctor of Medicine at the recent
commencement of the School of
Medicine of the University of Geor
gia here, the only woman among the
thirty-seven seniors in the class. Dr.
Sheftall was graduated from the
Junior College of Augusta and re
ceived her degree in medicine at the
unusually early age of twenty-three.
She was elected at Phi Theta Kappa,
honorary scholastic fraternity, at
Junior College, and has been presi
dent of the Wilhenford Hospital
Workers for three years. Dr. Shef
tall will serve her interneship at the
University Hospital here. Her talks
on the local K. of C. Radio programs
oyer WRDW have been on the con
tributions of, Catholics to medicine
and kindred Subjects,
Conference at Bine Ridge,
N. C., Explores Methods of
Georgia Laymen’s Associa
tion to Mitigate Prejudice
J. J. Haverty Leaves
on Trip to Europe
Members of His Family Ac
companying Him
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
BLUE RIDGE, N. C.—Current and
historic racial and religious persecu
tions were explored for the lessons
they teach the United States at the
first Southern Institute of Human
Relations held here in the heart of
North Carolina mountains under the
auspices of the National Council of
Jews and Christians. The conference
lasted seven days.
President Frank Kingdon, of the
University of Newark was chairman
of the conference, which had the
approval of the Most Rev. William J.
Hafey, D.D., Bishop of Raleigh, the
diocese in which Blue Ridge is lo
cated.
Frank Porter Graham, president of
the University of North Carolina, was
Protestant co-chairman, Francis J.
Heazel, a member of the supreme
board of directors of the Knights of
Columbus, and J. G. Deshler, of Ashe
ville. N. C., Catholic co-chairmen,
and Edgar B. Sttm, of New Orleans,
La., and Rabbi Edward N. Calish,
Richmond, Va., Jewish co-chairmen.
The Rev Dr. Michael J. Kenny, S.
J., of Spring Hill College, formerly
of the editorial staff of AMERICA,
addressed the conference on the per
secution in Germany, Richard Reid,
editor of THE BULLETIN, Augusta,
Ga., led the discussion on Mexico,
the Rev. Edward H. Stephens, direc
tor of the Society for the Propaga
tion of the Faith for the Diocese of
Richmond, spoke on “The Significance
of Catholicism for the Present Day",
and the Rev. Leo Frierson, O.S.B..
pastor of St. Leo’s Church, Winston-
Salem. N. C., participated as the
Catholic representative in the “Area
of Difficulties” round table discus
sion.
Father Leo also addressed the clos
ing session of the conference on the
social justice program of the Cath
olic Church, and Robert D. Doug
las, Greensboro, N. C., a leader of
the North Carolina Bar, the grand
son of Stephen Douglas, delivered an
address on “The Objectives of Cathol
icism”. At the request of numerous
members of the conference, Father
Stevens set up a temporary altar in
the conference hall and robed for
Mass, explaining the sigp.icance of the
vestments, of the altar and of the
Sacrifice of the Mass.
“Dissipating Religious Prejudice—
A Georgia Example” was the sub
ject of an address at an evening ses
sion of the conference by Richard
Reid, the address being followed by
an extended question and answer
period on the methods of the Cath
olic Laymen’s Association of Georgia
in its work to mitigate bigotry and
increase good will. President Graham
of the University of North Carolina
presided at the session.
(Special to The Bulletin)
ATLANTA, Ga.-J. J. Haverty, K.
S. G., Miss May Haverty and Mr.
and Mrs. Clarence Haverty left for
Europe from New York early in July
for a stay of several weeks on the
continent and in England. Mr. Hav
erty, first vice president of the Cath
olic Laymen’s Association of Georgia,
also spent last summer in Europe .
ATLANTA COUNCIL, Knights of
Columbus, has a First Friday Club
which receives Communion each first
Friday and has breakfast at a down
town restaurant afterward. Evelyn
Harris is chairman.
EVELYN HARRIS was installed as
president of the Rotary Club of At-
lana at the first July meeting.
DR. STEPHEN GERNAZIAN, At
lanta eye specialist, represented the
Georgia Optometric Association as its
official delegate at the annual na
tional convention of optometrists in
Detroit. Dr. Gemazian edits the state
publication of the Georgia Optome
trists.
MISS KATHERINE STOCKING
has the sympathy of her numerous
friends on the death of her mother,
Mrs. Allene W. Stocking, who died
early in July. Miss Stocking is a con
vert to the faith.
THE VINCENTLA CLUB of Sacred
Heart parish has completed a fine
season of activity including a benefit
bridge tournament conducted by Mr.
and Mrs. F. X. Kersher and spon
sored by Mrs. H. A. Agricola. Mrs.
Carl Brenner and Mrs. C. C. Nich
ols were winners of the tournament
and each received a beautiful silver
cup. The proceeds of the tournament
went to Catholic charities.
Speakers at the conference, Cath
olic, Protestant and Jewish, voiced
their conviction that behind the per
secutions, religious and racial, in Rus
sia, Mexico, Germany, Spain and
elsewhere, is the agnostic and atheis
tic spirit, and that with a majority of
the people of the United States affil
iated with no church, it is dangerous
to proceed on the assumption that
“it can’t happen here”. A similar ba
sis was attributed to indifference to
economic evils, and the connection
between the deficiency of religious
education in the United States and
the problems of dwindling religious
affiliation was the subject of extend
ed discussion.
FATHER ALFRED LARUE, S. J_ of
Guelph, Ontario, is dead at 89, after 70
years as a Jesuit and 55 years as a
priest. He was ordained at Birming
ham, England.
Other speakers at the institute in
cluded the Rt. Rev. R. E. Gribben,
Protestant Episcopal Bishop of Char
leston, S. C„ Dr. Robert McElroy,
professor of American history at Ox
ford University, the Rev Dr. S.
Parks Cadman and Dr. Everett R.
Clinchy, New York, Rabbi Morris S.
Lazaron and the Rev. Dr. Andrew
W. Gottschall, Baltimore, R. B. Elea-
zor, the Rev. Dr. M. Ashby Jones
and Dr. W. A. Smart, Atlanta, Dr,
S. C. Mitchell, of Richmond College,
Dr. Howard E. Rondthaler, president
of Salem College, Winston-Salem, N.
C., Dr. Neil Poteat, of Raleigh, N. C.,
Rabbi George Solomon, Savanah,
Rabbi Louis Binstock, New Orleans,
Dr. Julius Mark of Nashville, Presi
dent W. D. Weatherford of the Blue
Ridge Y. M. C. A. graduate school,
and others.
BISHOP HENRY TIHEN, retired
Bishop of Denver, and formerly
Bishop of Lincoln, Neb., observed the
diamond jubilee of his birth, the gold
en jubilee of his ordination and the
silver jubilee of his consecration re
cently. Bishop Tihen, who retired in
1931, now lives at St. Francis Hospital
Wichita, Kansas. ,