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VOL. XIX. No. 3
AUGUSTA, GEORGIA. MARCH 26, 1938
ISSUED MONTHLY— $2.00 A YEAR
Bishop's Confraternity of the Laity to Start
Program With Two Great Testimonial Dinners
Bulletins
THE GOVERNOR of Louisiana
and the mayor of New Orelans will
be among the hosts to the Catholic
Press Association at its annual con
vention in New Orleans May 19-21,
with Archbishop Rummell as offi
cial host.
AMERICAN CATHOLICS con
tributed §647,000 for the support of
Catholic missions here and abroad
through the Society for the Propoga-
tion of the Faith, an increase of §6,-
000 over the previous years.
MSGR. PETER TATSUO DOI was
consecrated Archbishop of Tokyo last
week, the first native Japanese
Archbishop. Born in Japan 45 years
ago, he was educated there and in
Rome, ordained in Japan, and served
as parish priest and secretary to
the Apostolic Delegate to Japan. He
became a Catholic at the age of 12,
when his family entered the church.
A RETREAT LEAGUE for colored
Catholics has been formed in Wash
ington, with the sanction of Arch
bishop Curley, and named for Bless
ed Martin de Porres. The Rev. Henry
S. Grabenstein is director.
NEW YORK observed St. Patrick’s
Day with a parade of 75,000 desipte
threatening skies and chilly weather.
Cardinal Hayes, Mayor LaGuardia
and other notables reviewed the pa
rade. Postmaster General James A.
Farley delivered the St. Patrick’s
Day dinner address at Elizabeth, N.
J.
REV. REGINALD DUPRAS, O. P.,
of Montreal, at one time head of the
Dominican Fathers at Fall River,
Mass., has been named Bishop of
Prince Albert, Sask, Canada.
MSGE. FULTON J. SHEEN is con-
■ tinuing his series of radio addresses
each Sunday evening at six, East
ern Standard Time, over the Colum
bia Network on the Catholic Hour,
sponsored by the National Council of
Catholic Men.
BISHOP RALPH HAYES, rector of
the North American College in Rome,
ordained seventeen candidates for the
priesthood in the chapel of the col
lege on the Feast of St. Joseph,
March 19. Four were from the South,
Robert Arthur, Joseph Bradley and
John McGlone, of the Archdiocese oi
Baltimore, and Vincent Harris, of
the Diocese of Galveston.
BishopO’Hara to Accompany
the Cardinal to Budapest
Detained by Nazis
Father Moylan Director of
Movement to Secure Rep
resentation of Diocese at
the Eucharistic Congress
(Special to The Bulletin)
SAVANNAH, Ga.—The Most Rev.
Gerald P. O’Hara, D. D., Bishop of
‘Savannah-Atlanta, will accompany
His Eminence, Dennis Cardinal
Dougherty, Archbishop of Philadel
phia. to the International Eucharis
tic Congress sailing from New York
early in May. Bishop O'Hara, who
was formerly Cardinal Dougherty’s
Auxiliary Bishop in Philadelphia,
was a member of His Eminence’s
personal staff at the Eucharistic
Congress in Manila last year, and ac
companied him to Rome before the
Congress; Cardinal Dougherty was
Legate a Latere of the Holy Father
at Manila.
The Most Rev. Sigismund Waitz,
Archbishop of Salzburg, who, it is re
ported, was placed under arrest when
the German Nazi army marched into
Austria. The 74-year-old prelate is
well known to many Americans who
completed their studies for the priest
hood at the University of Innsbruck,
where he was bishop for 20 years.
Archbishop Waitz visited the United
States in 1926, when he attended the
International Eucharistic Congress in
Chicago.
‘White Spain’ Prospers, Says
Editor of Atlantic Monthly
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
NEW YORK.—Just returned from
Europe, where he was the guest of
General Francisco Franco on a two
weeks’ tour of Nationalist Spain, El
lery Sedgwick, Editor of The Atlan
tic Monthly, is warm in his praise of
conditions in that part of the Iber
ian Peninsula.
"I was amazed at conditions in
‘While Spain’,” Mr. Sedgwick said.
“C all the countries I saw in Europe
it was the most prosperous. Every
thing was well ordered and every
one appeared contented. Their ad
ministration seemed perfect and you
would hardly know there was a war
going on until you got near the front
lines. Franco has an ambitious pro
gram of slum clearance and the food
supply was extraordinary. Prices
were cheaper than in ‘Red Spain’.
“They are financing the war by ex
ports. The White Government takes
the olive oil, tin and other products,
guaranteeing the producers a certain
price. Then they sell them in London
and other places and keep the profit.
They aren’t contemplating any new
taxes-
“I don’t think there is any doubt
that Franco is winning the war. It
would seem that the Whites could
get along indefinitely.”
Mr. Sedgwick said the number of
Italian troops in Spain “has been
greatly exaggerated,” and that he
saw “a lot of German engineers, all
in mufti, but no actual soldiers in the
line.”
ATLANTA, Ga. — The Very Rev.
Jos. E. Moylan. V. F„ rector of the
Co-Cathedral of Christ the King is
Diocesan director of the movement
to promote attendance at the Euchar
istic Congress at Budapest. The
Queen Mary of the Cunard Lines
will carry the pilgrims to Europe,
sailing from New York May 11, and
going to 'Budapest via Cherbourg.
Lisieux, the home of the Little
Flower, Paris. Lucerne. Munich and
Vienna, arriving in Budapest May
29, and leaving May 30, after the end
of the . Congress.
Tire return will be made via Ven
ice, Florence, Rome, where there
will be an opportunity for an audi
ence with the Holy Father, Genoa,
Avignon, Lourdes Paris, Cherbourg
and New York, arriving June 20.
The cost of this tour is §651.
There are two extension tours, one
to Brussels, The Hague, Amsterdam,
London, Southhampton and New
York, arriving June 28; the cost of
the basic tour and this extension is
§712. A second extension to Ireland
going from London to Dublin, Kill-
arney, Cork, Cobh, arriving in New
York July 3, will cost $806. Details
may be secured from Father Moylan.
The previous issue of The Bulletin
contained the complete itinerary, and
copies may 'be secured without cost
by writing to The Bulletin at Au
gusta. It is hoped that the Eucharis
tic Congress will be attended by a
representative delegation from the
Diocese.
MRS. PHIL SHERIDAN
DIES IN WASHINGTON
Widow of Famed General
Was Daughter of General
Bishop of Saginaw
SAVANNAH, ATLANTA
BANQUETS IN HONOR
OF BISHOP O’HARA
Bishop Will Outline Seven-
Point Program in Mass
Meetings in Key Cities
The coming week will witness such
an outpouring of Catholic laymen as
the Diocese of Savannah-Atlanta has
never seen in its history. From
every parish and mission through
out the great state of Georgia they
will assemble to do honor to their
Bishop, the Most Reverend Gerald P.
O’Hara, D. D., at two testimonial
dinners. The two dinners have been
arranged for two reasons. Because
of the vast area of the diocese, the
largest in the country east of the
Mississippi River, it has been divid
ed into two districts to reduce the
traveling distance and time for those
who want to attend from the extreme
points in the state. The other reason
is that the responses to the dinner
invitations have been so ready and
so numerous no one banquet hall
would be large enough to accom
modate all the men who want to
greet their Bishop.
Soviets Eye South America
Through Spain, Editor Says
BOSTON- — “The reason the Rus
sians are so much interested in Spain
is largely because of South America.”
Ellery Sedgwick, Editor of The At
lantic Monthly, who has just return
ed from Spain, declared in an inter
view with, The Evening Transcript.
The Russians “think they can get
Argentina and other Latin countries
through Madrid,” Mr. Sedgwick said,
“If they could get a Red Spain, they
could get all to the South of us.
They’ve already got Mexico.”
Mr. Sedgwick expressed the belief
that General Franco is winning the
war. He emphasized the issue is not
Spaniard against Spaniard but Span
iards against the Reds.
“Tlie idea of nationalist Spain is to
drive out the Russian influence,” he
asserted. “If you eliminated the Red
influence, the Spaniards would come
together. That’s all they want.”
The magazine editor was quoted as
saying he had seen documents show
ing that Spain was to be divided in
to Soviets under a Red regime. He
said it was entirely on the Russian
system, papers listing men “who
were to be made commissars and
others who were to be shot.”
An Insurgent victory, in his opin
ion, would, he said, “benefit Spain
and the peace of Europe-”
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
WASHINGTOI — Mrs. Philip H.
Sheridan, widow of the Union A ay’s
famous leader of cavalry, was buried
in Arlington National Cemetery fol
lowing requiem Mass in St. Mat
thew's Church, this city.
Sirs. Sheridan, who, like her dis
tinguished husband, was a devout
and active Catholic, died at the age
of 88 in the home which looked out
upon Sheridan Circle and the com
manding equestrian statue of the
Civil War military leader.
Mrs. Sheridan’s sphere was the
Army. Her father was Gen. D. H.
Rucker, Quartermaster General of
the Army. Her grandfather and two
brothers were army officers, as was
her son, Philip H. Sheridan, who died
here in 1917. She was the last of the
widows of the more prominent Un
ion leaders. Born in 1850 at Fort
Union, in New Mexico, Mrs. Sheridan
was educated in church schools in
this city and in Philadelphia. She
is survived by three daughters and
two grandchildren.
The Rt. Rev. Msgr. William F. Mur
phy, pastor of St. David’s Church,
Detroit, who has been named Bishop
of the newly created Diocese of Sag
inaw, Michigan. He was precog tized
Bishop at the Consistory held in Vat
ican City, March 17. Tlie new Bishop
has three sisters in the Sisters of St.
Joseph, at Kalamazoo, Mich.
SITUATION GRAVE
Nazis Jail Catholics, Seize
Newspapers Despite As
surances of Hitler
(Cable, N. C. W. C. News Service)
AMSTERDAM. — On the testi
mony of an American eye-witness
who was present in Vienna when the
stirring recent events took place, it
can Be said that His Eminence Theo
dore Cardinal Innitzer, Archbishop
of Vienna, tcok advanced steps to
bring about the peaceful acceptance
(Continued on Page Five)
One of the affairs will be held
Monday evening, March 28, in the
great dining room of the De . Soto
Hotel, Savannah. The other will be
given in the ball room of the Pied
mont Driving Club. Atlanta. on
Wednesday epening, March 30.
Bishop O'Hara will be the giiest of
honor and . incipal speaker at both.
Presiding at the first dinner will
be Dr. J. Reid Broderick, the pop
ular Savannah physician, who is a
communicant of the Church of the
Sacred Heart. He will act as toast
master. Seated on he dais with him
and the Bishop and Alfred M. Battey.
of Augusta, vice-chairman of the
dinner committee, will be the dioce
san Chancellor, the Rt. Rev. Msgr.
Joseph F. Croke and the Rev. John
F. White, pastor of the Church of
the Immaculate Conception. Staten
Island, New Yonc City. Also the Rev.
Joseph G. Cassidy, pastor of the Sa
vannah Church of the Blessed Sac
rament who, by appointment of the
Bishop, has been serving, and will
continue to serve, as director for
the Savannah district of the move
ment to forrri the Bishop’s Con
fraternity of the Laity, Joseph F.
Griffin, Sr., chairman of the publi
city committee, with other laymen
who have been active in connection
with campaign affairs of a general
(Continued on Page Three)
Cardinal Reports on U. S.
Aid to Suffering in Spain
JOSEPH P. KENNEDY, United
States Ambasador to Great Britain,
has enrolled his daughters at Sacred
Heart Convent School, Roehampton,
near London, conducted by the Sisters
of the Sacred Heart, whose schools
the girls attended in the United
States.
NEW YORK—Interesting details of
how r relief is administrated to wound
ed, sick and needy non-combatants
in war-torn Spain through funds
forwarded by the American Spanish
Relief Fund, are contained in a let
ter received by the Fund from His
Emminence Isidro Cardinal Goma
Tomas. Primate of Spain, who has
been designated by the Holy Father
to supervise relief there.
The text of the Cardinal’s, letter
was made public here at the na
tional headquarters of the Fund
342 Madison Avenue. The Fund, so
far has raised §32,000 for Spanish re
lief. John J. M. O’Shea is its nation
al director.
Cardinal Goma’s letter detailed dis
bursements of about §10.000 forward
ed to him by the Fund. Nearly §2,C0C
of this amount was spent on cloth
ing and giving medical and other aid
to orphaned children. Abandoned
children placed in charitable insti
tutions received another §1.600 for
their upkeep, the Cardinal reported,
while §1,700 was expended for the
relief of families forced to flee from
Red territory in which the head of
the family had either been assassin
ated or made prisoner.
One of the most interesting items
was an account of $935 distributed to
priests hiding in Red territory for
fear of their lives and living in mis
ery. These funds were transmitted by
persons who must remain unidenti
fied. but who risked capture and
death.
Tlie sum of §800 was used to aid
the poor and orphaned in the City
of Teruel, scene of bitter fighting for
the last three months. Money spent
for clothing distributed to other re
fuges amounted to S500. while a simi
lar sum was used in dispensing alms
to refugees.
Writing from Pamplona. Spain, on
February 28. Cardinal Goma’s let
ter was addressed to the Rev.
Francis X Talbot, S. J., national
chairman of the American Spanish
Relief Fund.
“I repeat in the name of the Hiera-
chy of Spain and particularly in the
name of many people who have found
relief in your generous charity, my
smeerest thanks for your aid,” the
Cardinal wrote. “May the good God,
who rewards even for a glass of wa
ter given in his name, shower on all
the contributors His blessings of
every sort.”
Commenting on Cardinal Goma’s
letter, Father Talbot pointed out that
since it was written (February 28) the
American Spanish Relief Fund has
sent an additional §10,000 to His
Eminence.
“The need in Spain grows great
er with each victory of the Nation
alist forces,” Father Talbot declared.
“There has been more poverty, star
vation and need in the areas controll
ed by tlie Leftists than in the terri
tory held by the Nationalists.’'