JANUARY 29, 1938
THE BULLETIN OF THE CATHOLIC LAYMEN’S ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA
NINE
TIME MARCHES ON
IN ESSAY CONTEST
Georgia Constitution Com
petition Closes March 15
Students in eighth and correspond
ing grades in the parochial schools in
the cities where there are parochial
schools in and in public schools in
cities where there are no parochial
schools are reminded of the Bishop
O’Hara Essay Contest on the Con
stitution of the United States fcr
which three $25 prizes are offered.
The contest closes March 15. Teach
ers in the schools are urged to in
terest their pupils in the contest,
which is being held in connection
with the sesquicentennial of the rati
fication of &e Constitution by the
state of Georgia.
THOMAS J,
IS DEAD IN AUGUSTA
Father of Priest and Nnn
Was One of Founders of
Laymen’s Association
AUGUSTA, Ga. — Thomas J.
O’Leary, one of the little group
which laid the foundations of the
Catholic Laymen’s Association 22
years ago, and a member of the first
convention, died here late in Decem
ber after an illness of less than two
weeks. The Most Rev. Gerald P.
O’Hara, D. D„ Bishop of Savannah-
Atlanta, presided St die funeral Mass
and delivered the sermon; the cele
brant of the Mass was Mr. O’Leary’s
son, the Rev. W. D. O’Leary, S. J.,
M. D., of Spring Hill College. Cler
gy from all the Augusta parishes,
and the Rev. H. J. Barr, Adiens, and
the Rev. George J. Dietz, Aiken, S.
C., assisted at the Mass at St. Mary’s.
Interment was at Westover Ceme
tery, Bishop O’Hara officiating.
Mr. O’Leary was born in Augusta
February 22, 1869, and was a life
long resident of the city. For many
years he was prominent as a mill
executive; he was a charter member
of die Knights of Columbus, whom
he served in various capacities. He
was a past exalted ruler of the Elks,
whom he represented in national
conventions at points as far away as
Seattle. He was active in the St.
Vincent de Paul Society since boy
hood, and was the first president of
the society at St. Mary’s Church, a
post he held at the time of his
death Never seeking public office,
he nevertheless served as jury com
missioner and vendue master.
Surviving are his wife, who was
Miss Catherine Doris, of Augusta;
his son, Father O'Leary; five daugh
ters, Mrs. Richard Reid and Mrs. E.
J. Cashin, Augusta; Sister Kathleen
Marie of die Sisters of St. Joseph,
Atlanta; Miss Loretto O’Leary, now
in Switzerland, and Miss Anna
O’Leary, dietitian at Charity Hospi
tal, Cleveland; a brother, D. J.
O'Leary, Jacksonville; a sister, Mrs.
John M. Mays, Aiken, S. C., and nine
grandchildren.
TULANE UNIVERSITY honored
the Rev. Alphonse M. Schwitalla, S.
J., dean of the School of Medicine
of St. Louis University, with the de
gree of Doctor of Laws at the inau
guration of Dr. Rufus C. Harris as
president of Tulane. Father Schwit
alla is president of the Catholic Hos
pital Association and editor of Hos
pital Progress.
NEW ORLEANS observed the 123rd
anniversary of the Battle of New Or
leans with a program featured by a
Solemn Mass before the Shrine of
Our Lady of Prompt Succor, in the
convent chapel of the Ursuline Nuns,
the annual fulfillment of a pledge
made 123 years ago.
New Immaculate Conception
Church at Hendersonville
Rev. Philip J. O’Mara, Pastor—Beautiful Edifice De
dicated in 1935
The new Church of the Immaculate
Conception is another recent addi
tion to the Diocese of Raleigh, hav
ing been dedicated by Bishop Hafey
in August of last year. The edifice
is of granite construction, impressive
in its interior and beautiful in its in
terior appointments; its polychrome
liturgical altar is regarded as one of
the finest examples of the art adapt
ed for liturgicai churches. The Rev.
Philip J. O’Mara is pastor of the
church and the Rev, Edw. A. Rigney
assistant.
Attached to the Church of the Im
maculate Conception is the parish
school, conducted by the Sisters' of
Christian Education, whose fame as
educators is worldwide. The Sisters
also conduct St. Genevieve-of-the-
Pines College, Little Flower Camp
and the parish school, of St. Joan of
Arc Church, West Asheville, N. C.
Lo Pa Hong as Bishop O’Hara
Described Him for Bulletin
His Excellency Acquainted for Many Years With Famed
Chinese Layman, Victim of Troubles in China
In the March 27 issue of The
Bulletin last spring, the Most Rev.
Gerald P. O’Hara, D. D„ Bishop
of Savannah-Atlanta, paid the
following tribute to Mr. Lo Pa
Hong, famed Chinese Catholic
layman and Papal Knight, with
whom His Excellency renewed _ a
previous acquaintance at Manila
where both were at the Interna
tional Eucharistic Congress, and
who was killed in recent days in
the troubles in China while he
was engaged in his work of
charity. Protestants, Jews and
pagans of China have united in
tribute to this great Catholic lay
man, whom Bishop O’Hara de
scribed as follows:
It was at the Malacanan that I met
again one of the most famous China
men in the world, Mr. Lo Pa Hong,
whom I had seen at the Chicago Eu
charistic Congress, in 1926, and whom
I had entertained in Philadelphia that
same year. Mr. Lo Pa Hong is one ol
the most decorated men in the world,
having been honored many times by
the Pope as well as by various gov
ernments for his religious, charitable
and patriotic activities. He is a very
wealthy man, and devotes most of
his income to the maintenance of
some seven or eight insitutions in
Shanghai, which is his home city. In
these institutions he houses over 7,-
000 people, the sick, the aged, the
homeless, the wayward. Because of
this noble work he should be ranked
among the most celebrated philan
thropists that have ever lived. His
devotion to St. Joseph is most touch
ing. Of this Saint he talked frequent
ly and familiarly, as though he were
a kind and generous neighbor living
next door to him, so to speak, to
whom he could go at any hour with
the assurance of receiving what he
His devotion to Our Lady is also
edifying- I remember how during
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the long ceremonies of the Chicago
Congress the rosary was always in
his hand. In 1926, on a certain occa
sion when I was trying to show him
from an electric car the building
of the Sesqui-Centennial Exposition
in Philadelphia, I noticed that af
ter a while he took out a prayer
book and began to read it. During
the Manila Congress, since he also
was an official member of the Papal
Legate’s party by appointment of
Our Holy Father, and stayed with
us at the Malacanan Palace. I had
frequent occasions to observe him
both at the palace and at the Con
gress ceremony. The rosary was to
be found entwined about his fingers
almost all the time. I asked him one
day how many times a day he said
the beads. He replied: “On busy
days I manage to say it only about
twenty times; when I have more leis
ure 1 generally say it thirty or forty
times a day.”
Mr. Lo Pa Hong is an edification
to all who meet him. Be it borne in
mind that Mr. Lo Pa Hong is one of
the busiest business men in the
world, holding important executive
positions. To bear this out I might
mention that he is the general man
ager of the Chinese Electric Power
Company, Ltd., of Shanghai; gener
al manager of the Chapei Electricity
and Water Works, Ltd., Shanghai;
general manager of the Shanghai In
land Water Works, Ltd., Shanghai;
general manager of the Ta-Tung
Navigation, Ltd., Shanghai; manag
ing director of the Central Hospital,
Peking; president of Sacred Heart
Hospital, Shanghai; director of the
Hospital of St Joseph, Shangiiai;
Chinese Consular of the Shanghai-
French Municipal Council, etc., etc.
When one thinks of his tremend
ously busy life, of his multiple bus
iness interests, and of the incessant
calls upon his time in the many high
executive positions that he holds,
and at the same time realizes that
this man manages to spend literally
hours in prayer every day, begin
ning with the serving of Mass, a
custom which he has. observed for
45 years, there come to the mind the
miserable excuses of even petty bus
iness men who will tell you that they
are too busy to bother about church
and the interests' of their souls. I
consider it one of the great privi
leges of my life to have known this
outstanding Catholic layman, who
lives on the other side of the world
in a pagan country.
BISHOP OF NASHVILLE
LOSES HIS MOTHER, 84
Marist School Squad
Banquet in Savannah
(Special to The Bulletin)
SAVANNAH, Ga. — Hugh H.
Grady was the principal speaker at
tile annual banquet for the football
squad of Marist School here, at
which eleven of the members woe
awarded letters. Brother Nicholas,
principal, was toastmaster, and
Brother Claude, athletic director, an
nounced the awards. Short talks
were made by Coach Anthony Kent
and Eugene Wright. Tommy Thom
as was awarded the trophy for the
outstanding player, one donated by
Stubbs Hardware Company, and the
heavy jacket in the contest open to
all eighteen players, was won by
Richard McDonald; Dan J. Sheehan
was the donor.
Article in Columbia
Written by Georgian
John Toomey Contributes
Study of Father Byan
NEW HAVEN, Conn. — An article
on Father Abram Ryan, “Poet-
Priest of the Confederacy,’ by John
Toomey. a student for the priesthood
for the Diocese of Savannah-Atlan-
ta, is a feature of the January issue
of Columbia, the magazine of the
Knights of Columbus, which has an
international circulation of about
750,000. Mr. Toomey is from St.
Mary’s parish in Augusta, and is
studying at the Sulpician Seminary
at the Catholic University of Amer
ica, Washington, D. C.
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
SIGOURNEY, la.—Funeral services
for Mrs. Mary Paulus Adrian, mother
of the Most Rev. William L. Adrian,
Bishop of Nashville, were held at St.
Mary’s Church here. She was 84 years I
of age.
As Bishop Adrian's physician
would not permit him to make the
journey from Nashville, the Most
Rev. Henry P. Rohlman, Bishop of
Davenport, was celebrant of the
Solemn Pontifical Requiem Mass.
NASHVILLE—The Most Rev. Wil
liam L. Adrian, Bishop of Nashville,
was planning to return to his resi
dence from St Thomas’ Hospital
where lie has been ill following an
operation and an attack of phlebitis.
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GEORGIA STATE COUNCIL
KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS
C. Victor Markwalter. Augusta, State Deputy.
John J. McCreary. Macon, Fast State Deputy.
A. J. Ryan, Jr., Savannah, State Advocate.
W. J. McAlpin. Atlanta, State Secretary.
J. R Touhey, Brunswick. State Treasurer.
E. G. Sutter. Columbus. State Warden.
ATLANTA COUNCIL
No. 669
A. J. Creep
Grand Knight
Box 1658
Gen T Flyut
Financial Secretary
1356 Lanier Bhr’d. N. E.
Chas R Cannon
Recorder
Meets ecvrv Monday. 8 P. M. at
1206 Peachtree' N E
Business Meetine First and
Third Mondays
SAVANNAH COUNCIL
No. 631
T. J. Canty. Grand Knight
i B McDonald
Financial Secretary
John W Oavts. R S.
Meets Second and Fourth
Wednesdays. 8 P M.
3 West Liberty Street
Savannah Ga
Bishop Gross Council
No. 1019
Salvador Spano
Grand Knight
Jos J Spano.
Financial Secretary
Meets First and Third Wednes
day, 8 PM. 862 Broadway
Catholic Club Bldg.
CnhrmhtK Oft
Patrick Walsh Council
No. 677
Lords J. O’Connell
Grand Knight
R. S. Heslin. Financial Secretary
Visiting Brothets Welcome
1612 Greene St Augusta. Ga.
Macon Council, No. 925
R. H. Casscn
Grand Knight
Herman fluhn
Financial Secretary
Meets the First and Third
Tuesday, 8:15 P M_
in Mitchell Hall ol the Catholic
Club. 521 New St
Muiberry St. Macon, Ga.
Henry Thomas Ross
Council, No. 1939
J. Boyd Touhey. Grand Knight
Kenneth E. Anunens,
Financial Secretary
P O Box 391
Meets Second and Fourth Tues
days at Knights of Co
lumbus HaH.
Brunswick. Ga
