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TWO-A THE BULLETIN OF THE CATHOLIC LAYMEN’S ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA APR T L 23. 1938 Atlanta Leaders Greet Bishop O’Hara ■{Courtesy Atlanta Journal) Bishop O'Hara being greeted by Atlanta leaders as he arrived at the Biltmore Hotel, Atlanta, for the mass meeting there. Left to right, Robert R. Otis, formerly president of the Atlanta branch of the Catholic Laymen’s Association of Georgia, Bishop O'Hara and J. J. Haver ty, K.S.G., first vice-president and chairman of the fi- nance committee of the Laymen’s Association. Jesuits Throughout World Now Number Over 25,000 U. S. Has 5,229 Members of Order, Statistics at General Congregation at Rome Show—Father Shields, Fath er Hines and Father Burke Attend From South EFFORT BENEFITS ENTIRE COMMUNITY Editorial in the Atlanta Constitution The campaign to raise $100,000 for the expansion of activities in the Savan nah,-Atlanta Diocese, under the per sonal supervision of Bishop Gerald P. O'Hara, is now under way. The funds are to be utilized largely in recon ditioning and improving present facil ities. All too often church edifices and schools, because of the lack of s. ici- ent funds, are allowed to fall into dis repair, frequently becoming the neglected buildings in the community. This is particularly true in the 1 areas, according to the Bishop. Im provements in this respect will, no doubt, soon be in evidence as a result of the campaign. More modern methods of serving the outlying sections of the diocese are to be inaugurated. In those areas where the people cannot attend services be cause of the distance, it is proposed to carry the services to the. people. For this purpose, trailer-chapels, purchas ed with part of the funds to be rais ed. are to be brought into use. The Diocese of Savanah-Atlanta was separated from the Diocese of Charles ton 88 years ago. Laudable progress in the spiritual development of the people has been the result. A success ful campaign will not only be of im measurable service to tne Catholics of the Diocese, but will inure to the benefit of the community as a whole. PRIESrslNVENTION KILLS PLANT PESTS Botanists Impressed by Father Hugh’s Method (By N.C.W.C. News Service) WASHINGTON. —Leading botanists and curators of museums and herba riums in the United States recently visited the Langlois Herbarium at the Catholic University of America in Washington, D. C., to view the inven tion of the Rev. Dr. Hugh O'Neill, its curator and a member of the depart ment of biology, for the destruction of pests and the preservation of plants in collections. Father Hugh was former ly of St. Leo Abbey. Florida. Faced with the necessity of preserv- ing-his own collection against the rav ages of insect pests and finding poisons and fumigants ineffective and obiec- tionable. Father O'Neill had a steel cabinet built with proper insulation and, with the aid of the University electrician, installed a heating appara tus. He now “cooks” his specimens before placing them on his shelves and his difficulties seem to have been end ed. The apparatus is simple, inexpensive and efficient. Dr. O'Neill was asked to prepare a paper telling the story of his invention for “Rhodora”, the journal of the New England Botanical Club, published under the direction of the Gray Herbarium of Harvard Univer sity. Previously insect posts in plant col lections were controlled by poisoning the specimens, periodical fumigation, the use of repellants or some combi nation of the three. New Zealand Marks Church’s Centennial Bishop Kelley Represents Hierarchy of United States There By PAUL KAVANAGH (New Zealand Correspondent, N. C. W. C. News Service) AUCKLAND. — Approximately one quarter of the Catholic population of New Zealand made a pilgrimage to Auckland to participate in the firs' centennial celebrations held in the Dominion. The first centenary observ ed was that of the celebration of the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass. That the celebrations were regarded as important by the Church overseas was amply manifest by the presence of Archbishops. Bishops, clergy and laity, under the leadership of His Ex cellency (he Most Re\. Giovanni Pani- co, Acostolic Delegate to Australia and New Zealand. The American Hier archy was represen d by the Mos* Dev. Francis C. Kelley, Bishop of Oklahoma City and Tulsa. -l he proceedings were marked by the enthusiasm of the laity. Thous ands were unable to gain admission to reme of the religious and civic func tion?. GATINS-CURTIS NEW YORK. N. Y.—The Rev. •Tames M. Gillis. C. S. P.. editor of The Catholic World, officiated at the mp'riage here of Miss Barbara Hope Gatins, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin J. Gatins, of this c : ty and granddaughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Joseph F. Gatins, of Atlanta, and James Freeman Curtis. Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs. James Freeman Curtis of New York, Washington and Rcslyn, L. I., Mr. and Mrs Curtis will live at Roslyn, L I. VATICAN CITY. — Remarkable growth of the Society of Jesus throughout the world, and notably in the United States, since the last Gen eral Congregation, in 1923, is reveal ed in figures released at the recent General Congregation held in Rome. The twenty-eighth meeting was opened on March 11 anniversary of the Canonization of St. Ignatius Loy ola and St. Francis Xavier, which took place in 1623. The meetings were held in the new Mother House at the foot of the Jan- iculum on territory which, under the Lateran Treaty, has privileges of ex tra-territoriality. They lasted until Easter and the members were pres ent at the canonization of the Polish Jesuit martyr, Blessed Andrew Bob- ola, in the Vatican Basilica on Easter Sunday. At that time the Society had 17,121 members, of whom 8,451 were priests, 4.549 students and 4,121 lay Brothers. The Provinces into which the Order was divided were 27. In the present General Congregation they offer a spectacle of extraordinary progress. Today the Society of Jesus counts 42 Provinces and four Vice-Provinces, with 25,460 Reliigous, of whom 11,365 are priests, 8.796 students and 5,299 lay Brothers. A century after the foundation of the society it counted 16,000 members and in 1773, on the eve of its suppression, it had 22,589. One of the countries where the de velopment of the society has been notable in recent years in the United States. In 1923, the Uinted States was divided into four Provinces (those of California, Maryland-New York. Missouri and New Orleans) with 2,626 Religious. At present there are seven Provinces, those of California, Chicago, Maryland-New York, Missouri, New Orleans, New England and Oregon. The number of Reliigous has doubled ,there being 5.229. of whom 2,273 are pirests, 2.- 360 students and 596 Brothers. The most numerous Province is that of Marylar.d-New York and Missouri.. Chicago, New England,, California, Oregon and New Orleans “-follow in order. The seven Provinces are rep resented in the General Curia by the Assistant to the Father General for America, who is Father Zaccheus Maher. Canada also has progressed. In 1923. it formed a single Province with 448 members. Now it is divided into a Province and a Vice-Province and the number of the Religious has more than doubled, now numbering 942. The Province of Lower Canada has 656, of whom 249 are priests, 234 stud ents and 123 Brothers, and the Vice- Province of Upper Canada, 286, of whom 99 are priests, 148 students and "9 Brothers. In 1923. Ireland counted 397 Jesuits, now 439. of which 181 are priests, 205 students and 53 Brothers. Even Mexico, notwithstanding the very fierce persecution of the last years, has progressed, for while in 1923 there were 325 Jesuits, at pres ent there are 456. of whom 211 are priests, 153 students and 91 lay Broth ers. The members of the present Gen eral Congregation are 171. namely 160 delegates formed by Provincials and two delegates for each Province, besides a delegate for each of the principal Missions. There are also added the eleven members of the General Curia. The program of the General Con gregation is not made public but it may be said with certainty that one of the main points wit h which it has dealt was to bring up-to-date with the “Ratio Studiorum" or program of the studies of the Society, according to the Constitution Deus Scientiarum Dominus with which Pope Pius XI reformed the program of higher ec clesiastical studies. A report has been spead that Fath er General, Father Wladimir Ledo- chowski, who has governed the So ciety since 1915. would hand in his resignation. This is unfounded and has been authoritatively denied by the General Curia of the Jesuit Fath ers. Another report that the Father General would ask the Congregation to appoint a Vicar with right of suc cession also is untrue. It is possible that the Father General may ask the Congregation to appoint a Vicar without right of succession (which, however, he could do of his own au thority) to assist in the vast amount of work devolving upon him. The United States was represented at the General Congregation, in addi tion to the Assistant Father General, Rev. Zaccheus Maher, by the fol lowing delegates of the various Prov inces: Province of California: Fathers Francis J. Seeliger, Provincial; Eld- ward J. Whelan, Los Angeles, and William G. Dunne, Los Gatos. Province of Chicago: Fathers Wil liam M. Magee, Provincial; Charles H. Cloud. Chicago; John F. McCor mick, Chicago, and Francis N. Loesch, Superior of the Patna Mis sion in India, which depends on the Province of Chicago. Province of Oregon: Father Walter, Fathers Joseph A. Murphy, Provin cial; Edward C. Phillips, Woodstock, Md.; William J. Duane, New York, and John F. Hurley, Superior of the Mission in the Philippine Islands, which depends on the Province of Maryland-New York. Province of Missouri: Fathers Peter A. Brooks, Provincial; Francis X. McMenamy, Cleveland, and Herbert C. Noonan, Omaha. Province of New Orleans: Fathers Thomas I. Shields, Provincial; John W. Haynes. Spring Hill, Ala., and Martin P. Burke, New Orleans. Province of New England: Fathers James H. Dolan, Provincial; Daniel F. Creeden, Weston, Mass., and John M. Fox, Pomfret, Conn. Province of Oregon: Fathers J. J. Fitzgerald, Provincial; Thomas R. Martin. Sheridan, Ore., and Francis C. Dillon, Spokane. ARCHBISHOP CURLEY DEPLORES NATION’S POLICY ON MEXICO Oil Deemed More Important Than Lives, He Asserts in Baltimore Address BALTIMORE,— The government’s prompt protest of the seizure of American oil .properties by Mexico and -he :c- ct th-a Vva~h"on administration to protest similarly Catholic persecutions in the Repub lic, was contrasted by the Most Rev. Michael J. Curley, Archbishop of Baltimore, in addressing 700 Knights of Columbus here. The Archbishop declared that when Catholics were killed and religious institutions were dcsi'v/ :' 1 in '-aco ' ' r" ' il ad ministration did nothing to prevent this, despite his protest. When Ameri can oil lands were expropriated by Mexican officials, however, the United States Ambassador in Mex ico City immediately took action, he pointed out. 'But oil meant more than lives,” His. Excellency declar ed. The Archbishop recalled that the Knights of Columbus hacLalso pro tested against American inaction, but hr"! ii'-. a'k .d :c: iiition. "You only asked,” he said, “that the gov ernment stop intervening in favor of the persecutors of the Church in Mexico, as the government had been doing for decades.” Tie Knights were told not to apol ogize for having their rights respect ed, nor to apologize for defending the church and their co-religionists. The Archbishop urged them to be strong Catholics, respectful always of rights of others, but at the same time re fusing to be deprived of their own tights. holyweeTradio DRAMA IMPRESSIVE National Council of Cath olic Men Is Its Sponsor WASHINGTON, — Highly enthus iastic reports concerning the series of radio dramatizations of the events of the first Holy Week, entitled “The Living God”, are reaching the offices of the National Council of Catholic Men, under whose auspices the se ries was presented,- it was said here today by Edward J. Heffron, N. C. C. M., Executive Secretary. The responses received to date have spoken in the highest terms of the impressions of the script and the flawlessness of its execution in the hands of the Hollywood cast, the members of which volunteered their services for the occasion, Mr. Hef- ron said. The cast, composed with one exception of names well-known on stage and screen, was headed by Walter Connolly, Pedro de Cordoba and Una O’Connor. The one excep tion was the Rev. Charles Logan, Administrator of Our Lady of Guad alupe Parish, Santa Ana. Cal., who played the part of the Priest. GEORGIA WISHES CAMPAIGN SUCCESS Editorial in the Augusta, Ga. Herald Catholics of the Savannah-Atlanta diocese are being asked to subscribe $100,000 toward a found to finance the orphans, the missions, the religious va cation schools, students for the priest hood, and the Catholic Laymen’s As sociation o'f Georgia. It is the most ambitious program that has been undertaken since the Most Rev. Gerald P. O'Hara, bishop of Sa vannah-Atlanta, was placed at the head of this diocese. Augustans have taken a prominent part in the program which have been featured with banquets in Savc-nah and Atlanta and a mass assemblage in Augusta, with Bishop O’Hara the prin cipal speaker. Those of other denominations will wish their Catholic friends God-speed. in this worthy endeavor. Augustans, we are sure, will do their part toward making this movement entirely suc cessful. alexiaFbrothers MOVING TO SOUTH Headquarters Are Changed From Chicago to Chatt anooga Suburb (By N. C. W. C. News Service) CHICAGO.—What is expected to be the last class to make its religious pro fession in the local m therhouse of the Alexian Brothers—those who pro nounced their vows at St. John of God Monastery on the Feast of St. Joseph —was the largest class in the history of the community. The Chicago monastery of the Alex ian Brothers, whose work is the care of the sick, is the Motherhouse for the United States. However, in a few months the Motherhouse is to be re moved to Signal Mountain, Tenn., just outside of Chattanooga, where the novitiate also will be situated. The Brothers have acquired a building that was once a hotel on Signal Mountain, to which they are adding a chapel and monastery. The former hr ' cl will be opened by the Brothers as a place of rest for men convalescing from ill ness, and those who desire health-giv ing retreats from everyday life. St. John of God Monastery here will con tinue to house the Brothers attached to the Alexian Brothers’ Hospital in this city. Reorganization Bill No Threat to Church Cardinal Asserts Archbishop of Chicago Wires His Opinion on Measure to the President (Bv N. C. W. C. News Service) WASHINGTON—As debate on the Federal Government Reorganization Bill grew warm and the measure faced a crucial test. President Roose velt permitted to be read on the floor of the House of Representatives a telegram he had just received from his Eminence George Cardinal Munde lein, Archbishop of Chicago, stating that the measure in no way menaces the welfare or freedom of the Catholic Church. Responding to this telegram, word from Chicago states, President Roose velt told Cardinald Mundelein that he was “more grateful than I can say” for “so frank and courageous an expression of honest coinvietion” made by His Eminence as “a sin cere and outspoken champion of free dom.” The Cardinal’s telegram was read to the House by Representative Lind say C. Warren of North Carolina, who had just introduced an amend ment exempting the United States Office of Education from any change under the bill, and denying the pro posed Welfare Department jurisdic tion over educational matters. This was an amendment which was agreed upon in committee. “As the House knows by this time,” Representative Warren said, “the mere word ‘education’ in the stan dards set up in a part of this bill by no stretch of the imagination could ever have extended to any form of Federal control over education. “In this connection, Mr. Chairman, I am authorized by the President of the United States to read to the House a telegram sent from Chicago, dated today, and received at the 12:10 p. m. It is addressed to the President and reads as follows: “ ‘As a result of my own investi gation gathered from reliable and in formed sources I cannot find that the welfare or freedom of the Catho lic Church is in any way menaced by the pending Reorganization Bill. My sole purpose in stating this to you is because we have been drawn into the discussion and my personal knowl edge of your fairness to us would render any such action quite impos sible on your part. “CARDINAL MUNDELEIN.” The reading of this message was greeted with applause.