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Published by the Catholic Lay men's Association of Georgia. nlUlin "To Bring About a Friendlier Feeling Among Neighbors Irre spective of Creed 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.’'