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TWELVE THE BULLETIN OF THE CATHOLIC LAYMEN’S ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA APRIL 23. 1938 St Mary's Home Dedication, Savannah, May 8 ^ ★ ★ ★ ★ Georgia Catholic Circulating Library Established GEORGIA GIRL GIVES BOOKS MAKING THE LIBRARY POSSIBLE Miss Louise Mulherin Pre sents Large Selection. Bishop McNamara Aids Catholic Cultural Project Miss Louise Mulherin of Augusta, Ga., and Kecoughton, Va., has pre sented to the Catholic Laymen’s As sociation of Georgia a collection of new Catholic books numbering in to the hundreds as the foundation of a circulating library for the mem bers of the Association. Miss Mulherin. the daughter of Mr. John P. Mulherin and the late Mrs. Mulherin, is a native of Augusta; her family has for many years been one of the most prominent in the city and section. Educated at Mt. St. Joseph’s Academy and at the College of St. Elizabeth, Convent Station, N. J., where she received her A. B. degree, Miss Mulherin specialized in dietitics and is now dietitian at the U. S. Hospital in Keconghton. The idea of a Catholic Circulating Library in Georgia has long been one of her ambitions, and recently she suggested it to the executive officers of the Laymen's Association, offer ing to start the library with r ivuce selection of new books. T hcu- tive officers of the Association ac cepted the offer with deep apprecia tion. and Miss Mulherin bought the jxioks after consultation with lead ing Catholic librarians in the East and with officers of the Laymen’s Association. In addition to the collection pre sented by Miss Mulherin the circula ting library contains a valuable col lection of current Catholic books g resented by the Most Rev. John M. IcNamara, D. D.. Auxiliary Bishop of Baltimore, who in addition to sub scribing to the Catholic Book of the Month Club for the Laymen’s As sociation sent a number of choice cur rent works from his library for the use of the Laymen’s Association. MISS RUTH PARK, a member of St. Mary’s-On-The-Hill parish in Augusta, and a librarian of many years experience, has indexed, cata logued and carded the books in pro fessional manner, contributing many days of service to the work. The lib rary is located in the offices of the Catholic Laymen's Association. There will be no charge for the use of books in the library for members of the Catholic Laymen's Association of Georgia, and every member of the Bishop's Confraternity of the Laity is ipso facto a member of the Lay men's Association. When books are sent by mail, it is expected that the recipient will remit stamps covering the cost of mailing when returning the book.. Those interested in the library are invited to communicate with the Laymen’s Association. Connie Mack Is Now a Georgia Colonel (Special to The Bulletin) ATLANTA, Ga. — Cornelius McGil licuddy, better known as Connie Mack, was presented with the key of the city of Atlanta by the acting may or and was made a Georgia colonel by Governor Rivers when his- Philadel phia Athletics came to Atlanta for a day recently. Governor Rivers drove from Lakeland to make him a colonel personally. VETERANS’ LEADERS ATLANTA VISITORS Legion Commander and Foreign War Vets’ Chap lain Speak in City (Special To The Bulletin) ATLANTA, Ga.—Atlanta was host to national leaders of veterans’ organ izations recently when Dan Doherty of Woburn., Mass., national com mander of the American Legion, and Father A. E. Shearer of Brooklyn, N. Y., national chaplain of the Vet erans of Foreign Wars, were visit ors. Commander Doherty arrived on a Sunday morning, was met at Peach tree Station by a committee of Legionnaires, and escorted to Mass at Sacred Heart Church. He delivered several addresses while here. Father Shearer was the guest of honor and chief speaker of a joint meeting of the three Atlanta units of the Veterans at the Chamber of Com merce Assembly Hall. MISS ANGELA COURTER, daugh ter of Mr. and Mrs. John Courter, of this city, was captain of the junior basketball team of St. Mary’s Col lege, Notre Dame, Ind., which won the college championship. Miss Cour ter is secretary of the College Ath letic Association. CLARENCE HAVERTY was the principal speaker at a recent meeting of the Advertising'Club of Atlanta. Mr. Haverty is vice-president of the National Retail Furniture Associa tion. REV. PHILIP DAGNEAU, S. M„ principal of Marist College attended the organization meeting of the Southern Regional Unit of the Catho lic Secondary School Department of the National Catholic Educational Association at Dallas, Tex. Others from Georgia attending were Sister Grace Aurelia of Mt. St. Joseph’s School Augusta, and Sister Anna Marie of Sacred Heart High School, Atlanta. “Now It Can Be Told” Statement of Appreciation and Thanksgiving by the Most Rev. Gerald P. O’Hara, D.D., Bishop of Savannah-Atlanta Now that our diocesan campaign to raise funds for the establishment and maintenance of certain needed relig ious, charitable and educational works has come to such a marvel ously successful conclusion, it may not be out of place to make known certain thoughts that were in my mind prior to its inception. It did not take keen vision to real ize that if we were to continue the splendid work done in the past by Bishops, priests and lay folk in this diocese, provision should be made— as they did before us—to raise the necessary funds. We have but to look about us in this state to see what the Faith and generosity of the people in days gone by, were able to achieve for the honor and glory of God, and the good of souls in this diocese. Beautiful and spacious churches, schools, hospitals and in stitutions for the poor, and for orphans, speak eloquently of what the Catholics before us did. We would be remiss in our duty to God, to the Church, to our fellow man, and do to the sacred memory of those who labored here before us, if we did not seek to devise means to con tinue, and preserve and expand the works which they established on such a sound basis. MILWAUKEE expects an atend- ance of more than 2,500 at the thirty- fifth annual convention of the Na tional Catholic Educational Associa- tion there April 20-23. In the summer, of 1936 and 1937 the vacation schools for the children of the rural sections of the state were conducted. They involved consider able expense, and were financed in large measure because of the gener osity of priest friends who permitted me to take up collections in their churches. However, the taking up of collections involved frequent ab sence from home, and moreover, the method was slow. After much thought I decided to lay my plans before the Catholic peo ple of Georgia, and to enlist their help. I hesitated for months before advancing the idea, first, because the method I thought best adapted to se cure the most results, was something new in Georgia, and had never been tried before; and secondly, because from an economic and financial standpoint, the times were anything but favorable. Despite these real difficulties, trust ing in God, and filled with confi dence in my people, I decided to make the venture. The Catholic population of Georgia had been given for years as about twenty thousand. I felt sure that the true figure was in excess of this num ber, and so the first move was to take a state-wide Catholic census. I said to myself that if the campaign it self were not to produce conspicuous material results, we would at least have made a thorough census, and would know how many people we had, and where they were located. The taking of the census was nat urally, no small task; it required an army of workers. I called upon six hundred people to volunteer for this task all over the state. To my im mense joy, not six hundred, but twelve hundred came forward to do this work! This was a revelation. That fact alone gave me great assur ance, and something told me right then and there that if we would not realize the goal of one hundred thou sand dollars, which, with no little timidity I had set as an objective, we would come fairly close to that amount. In three days the census was com pleted, revealing that the Catholic population was closer to twenty-five thousand than to the previous e sti- mate of about twenty thousand. EASTERN EDUCATOR COMING TO BELMONT Bishop O’Hara Essay Contest Judges Announce Winners From all over the state word came to me that the census-takers rejoiced in having been called upon to do a speical work for the Church. It was Catholic Action in action. That, par ticularly, was to me a source of great encouragement. Before groups of the faithful, which increased in number with each meeting, I unfolded the program of progress which my experience in the state prompted me to formulate and my confidence grew and grew, as I observed group after group giving to the plan their earty endorsement. The outstanding events in the cam paign were the two dinners for men in Savannah and Atlanta,, and the meetings open to both men and wo men which I had the pleasure of at tending in Savannah, - Atlanta, Au gusta and Macon. When the cam paign dinners in Savannah and At lanta were being planned, the com mittee felt that if three hundred men could be induced to attend the din ner in Savannah, and a like number to attend the one in Atlanta, we would be doing very Well indeed; be cause it was to be made known to the men who would be thus invited, that they would be asked to pledge financial support of the diocesan program by enrolling as members of the Bishop’s Confraternity of the Laity. To our utter amazement four hundred and eighty-eight men at tended the Savannah dinner, and four hundred and seven were at the Atlanta dinner! But what was more amazing still was to discover that when the second campaign banquet was over, and before the campaign had actually gotten under way, the Catholic people of the diocese had subscribed almost three-fourths of the allotted goal! BISHOP OFFICIATES AS HE LEAVES FOR BUDAPEST CONGRESS His Excellency Will Ac company Cardinal Dough erty to Ceremonies Hungary in — o The Bulletin will have the honor of presenting to its read ers another series of articles by 4-His Excellency, Bishop O’Hara, similar to the memorable series with which he honored The Bulletin last year after the Eucharistic Congress in Manila. (Special to The Bulletin) SAVANNAH, Ga.—The Most Rev. Gerald P. O’Hara, D. D. Bishop, of Savannah-Atlanta, will officiate at the dedication Sunday, May 8th at four p. m., of the new St. Mary's Orphan Home for Girls, which will give to the Diocese a fire proof and modern home to replace the old frame building, where the girl orphans have been housed for many years here. The dedication of St. -Mary’s will be one of the last ceremonies at which Bishop O'Hara will officiate be'o e leaving for Philadelphia and New York to accompany His Eminence, Dennis Cardinal Dougherty, Arch bishop of Philadelphia, to the Inter national Eucharistic Conrgess at Budapest, Bishop O’Hara was also a member of the Cardinal’s official party last year when His Eminence was Papal Legate to the Eucharistic Congress in the Philippines. When Bishop O'Hara came to Geor gia, he found that the generosity of Georgia Catholics, particularly friends of the orphanages in Atlanta, had provided the boys with a splendid fire-proof building at Washington, a structure dedicated in 1932 by Bishop Keyes. His Excellency conceived the hope of providing a similar hpme for the girls, and the new St. Mary’s on Victory Drive is the result. Assist ing in providing this home was one of the major objectives in the cam paign of the Confraternity of the Laity. His Excellency Will Present Prizes at Special monies in Atlanta and Savannah Cere- Dr. Rockett of Rhode Island to Be Commencement Speaker F. (Special To The Bulletin) BELMONT. N. C.—Dr. James Rockett, director of public instruction for the State of Rhode Island, will de liver the commencement address at Belmont Abbey College at the exer cises June 9. Dr. Rockett was educated at Holy Cross and Harvard • was state director of education from 1925 to 1935 and has been state director of educa tion since the latter year. His son, James F. Rockett. Jr., was graduated at Belmont in 1936. ABBOT VINCENT and Father Cuthbert Allen, O S. B., attended the forty-second-annual meeting of the ' em Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools at Dallas, Texas, March 28—April 1. Belmont Abbey Junior College is one of three junior colleges accepted for membership in the Southern Association; the prepara tory school is also a member. CHAMPIONS of North Carolina in the Junior College Class, with nine- teeii basketball victories registered against three defeats, Belmont's ath letes are now turning their attention to baseball under the direction of Coach Howard Wheeler. £HE REMAINS of Father Gerald A. novan, Maryknoll missionary, who was murdered in China, will arrive in San Francisco next Monday. Fath- The judges in the Bishop O’Hara Essay Contest on the Constitution of the United States, commemorating the 150th anniversary of Georgia’s ratification of the Constitution, have rendered their decision naming the following as the winners of the first prizes in the three divisions: MARY GANN of Sacred Heart School, Atlanta, in the division of parochial schools for white children. BEATRICE McCORMACK of St. Theresa’s Parish, Al bany, in the division of the children in public schools in com munities in which there are no Catholic schools. IRENE DEYETTE ot St. Benedict’s School, Savannah, In the djvision of parochial schools for colored children. The quality of the essays submitted was very high, and the understanding of the Constitution by the students partici pating splendid. In each division there were several essays of unusual excellence. The judges in the contest were Richard Reid, Augusta, chairman; Louis C. Kunze, Columbus; Habernicht Casson, Macon; Hugh Kinchley, Augusta; Kenneth Ammons, Bruns wick; John M. Brennan, Savannah, and Furman Smith, At lanta. Bishop O’Hara will present the prizes to the Atlanta and Albany winning contestants at a special ceremony at Sacred Heart Church, Atlanta, at 7:30 P. M., Tuesday, April 26, the ceremony consisting of the Archbishop Carroll prayer for civil authorities, and presentation of prizes by Bishop O’Hara, who will deliver the sermon, and Benediction. The Savan nah prize winner will receive her award at St. Benedict’s Church May 1, at the Mass at 10 A. M,, at which His Excel- 33 years V ago"and‘^"o^naln j wUJ confirm a class of the parish; the program there 1931. I will be similar to that in Atlanta. Then the campaign itself began. Each evening of the week of April 3, from all over the diocese, reports came in from the local chairmen and captains giving the nightly totals re ceived in each parish. By the sec ond night the amount pledged was much over one hundred thousand dollais. The total increased until at the present moment about one hun dred and ninety thousand dollars represents the total pledges made. To think that the people, who, be cause of hard times, I thought would scarcely be able to reach one hun dred thousand dollars, almost dou bled that amount! To give adequate thanks to those who have been responsible for this marvelous achievement, is an impos sible task, and I will not attempt it. God knows the depth of my grati tude to my priests and people for their wholehearted response to my appeal, and it is to God that I turn, begging Him. the Giver of all good gifts, to bring joy and happiness and blessings beyond number, both spir itual and temporal, into the lives of my devoted clergy and beloved laity for their splendid co-operation. Truly this is a happy Easter, be cause it will now become possible to inaugurate certain works for the good of religion, and the salvation of souls in this state, which not so long ago I thought would have to be deferred indefinitely. Whilst I rejoice, of course, over the material help that has been pledged, I rejoice particularly because of the widespread co-operation which our Catholic people all over the state have given throughout, and also and because of the diocesan spirit that has been developed—a spirit of Cath olic unity and solidarity, built upon Faith and love for God, which is more valuable than all the gold in the world. This I rejoice in. This I thank God for. We will be faithful to the sacred memory of those Bishops, priests and lay folk who labored and sacrificed here before us. and with our united effort we will do our best to con tinue and further develop the works which they inaugurated. St. Mary’s Home is conducted by the Sisters of Mercy, who have had charge of the caring of the girl orphans since the early days of the Diocese, as the Sisters of St. Jo seph have had charge of the care of the boy orphans. The old building originally was in the suburbs of Sa vannah, but the city had grown around it. As the demands for space grew, additions were made to it, but the age of much of the building and its wooden construction made the erection of a new structure not only desirable but essential to afford the proper shelter for the little ones and to remove them from fire hazards. The new home is located on beau tiful Victory Drive, on the road from Savannah to Thunderbolt and Savan nah Beach. In the spring, with the azaleas blossoming, it is one of the most beautiful sights to be seen any where in the country; at all times the fine parkway in the center and its lines of palms and seasonable flow ers make it always a placeeof rare beauty. The home site overlooks the Drive, on a spacious, site on one of the most attractive knolls in the tire section, and the natur ages of the city make background for the splendidly equipped has been described in of The Bulletin. LOYOLA U. DEBATERS MAKE SOUTHERN TRIP They Meet Teams From Mississippi to S. Carolina NEW ORLEANS, La.—Four mem bers of the Edward Douglass White society, comprising the varsity debate squad, recently completed a tour which included encounters with teams representing six of the outstanding universities of the South. The men making the trip were Harold Ains worth, John McCann, Robert F. Mor row, and Joseph Miranne. They were accompanied by the Rev. Thomas F. Maher, 9. J., moderator of the so ciety. The debaters travelled 2,000 miles, and met Spring Hill College at Mobile, the University of South Carolina at Columbia, Auburn. Alabama Poly technic Institute and the University of Alabama in Alabama, and the Univer sity of Mississippi and the Mississippi State College for Women.