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MAY 28, 1938
THE BULLETIN OF THE CATHOLIC LAYMEN’S ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA
ELEVEN
News Review of the Catholic W or Id
SCIENTISTS MEET AT NOTRE DAME
The Rev. John F. O’Hara, C, S. C., president of Notre Dame Univer
sity, greets two Nobel Prize winners at the symposium on the physics
of the universe, held at Notre Dame, May 2 and 3, which was at
tended by many famous scientists. Dr. Arthur H. Compton, of the
University of Chicago, is shown on the left and Dr. Carl D. Ander
son, of the California Institute of Technology, on the right.
POPE PIUS LEAVES
ROME FOR SUMMER
Makes Annual Trip to Cas-
telgandolfo — Other News
From Home and Abroad
THE HOLY FATHER through Car
dinal Pacelh. Papal Secretary of State,
has sent to the members of the hier
archy of the United States his con
gratulations on “the past accomplish
ments of ihe National Catholic Wel
fare Conference’’ and the assurance
that he “counts on the continuance of
of his highly successful functions in
coordinating and unifying the activi
ties of the Bishops.”
THE CAMDEN Diocese, newly erect
ed in New Jersey, will have as its
Cathedral the Chinch of the Immacu
late Conception, Bishop Eustance an
nounces. Bishop Eustace was install
ed in his Cathedral May 4.
THE ROMAN CURIA has issued a
new edition of indulgenced prayers
and pious works, and a new edition
also of the Index of Prohibited Books,
listing those in the previous Index,
published in 1929, and including all
others placed there through February
of this year.
FATHER MATHEW, the great Irish
Apostle of Temperance, is being hon
ored this year in his native land on
the occasion of the centenary of his
inauguration of his campaign against
liquor.
FATHER ANGELIS, a 77-year-old
priest from Lithuania, has died in a
Soviet prison at Mohilev, Russia; all
efforts made to liberate him were in
vein.
COLORED NUNS in the United
States number 450, or one for every
700 colored Catholics, while there are
130,000 nuns among the 21,000,000 Cath
olics of the nation, or one for every 161
catholics, the Rev. John T. Gillard,
S. S. J-. of Baltimore, says in a pamph
let, “More Colored Nuns”, recently
published.
A SAHARA OASIS, El Golea, has a
new church, recently dedicated by
the Very Rev. Gustave Nouet, Pre
fect Apostolic of Ghardaia in the Sa
hara presiding. El Golea, a post of
passage for years, has not had a church
before this time. The White Fathers
from Lyons. France, who serve the
colored Catholics of Georgia, are in
charge.
ENGLAND'S Home Secretary. Sir
Samuel Hoare, recently conferred per
sonally with Cardinal Hinsley. Arch
bishop of Westminster, on the co
operation of Catholics in the national
and raid precaution movement pop
ularly known as the A. R. P.
DETROIT’S Church of St. Hugo-of-
the-Hills, erected by Mr. and Mrs.
Theodore MacManus on their subur
ban estate, has been chosen by the
American Institute of Architects aS
one of the hundred most notable new
buildings in America. St. Hugo's v. r as
given to the Diocese of Detroit by Mr.
and Mrs. McManus in honor of their
late sons, Hugo and Hubert.
OUR SUNDAY VISITOR in a recent
issue asserted that some magazines
and other publications in the United
States deliberately uses obscene copy
in order to get publicity. A man who
gets drunk once a week deserves no
special commendation for being sober
the rest of the time, and a publisher
who allows the majority of his publi-
ations to be obscene does not deserve
patronage for any of them, Our Sun
day Visitor asserts.
FRANCIS SEYMOUR STEPHEN
SON, elected to Parliament just after
he left Oxford at 23, and a convert
to the Church in later years, is dead
in England at 75. He served in Par
liament 21 years.
CARDINAL HINSLEY of England
has organized a committee to assist
refugees from religious and racial
persecution in all countries, but par-
ticularly in Germany.
DR. CHARLES G. FENWICK, pro
fessor at Bryn Mawr College, was re
elected president of the Catholic Asr
Sociation for International Peace at
the annual convention in Washington.
Miss Elizabeth Sweeney was re-elect
ed executive secretary.
BROTHER JACOB LANG, O. S. B.,
of St- Vincent Archabbey, for forty-
eight years a Benedictine here where
his particular work was aiding the
poor ‘“travellers” who visited the ab
bey, died late in April at the age of
74. He was born in Bavaria and came
to the United States in 1888.
NOTRE DAME NIGHT was observ
ed with gatherings in 75 cities, featur
ed by a national broacast in which the
Very Rev. John F. O'Hara, C. S. C.,
president of the University, spoke
from Washington, John McCormack
sang from Hollywood and the Notre
Dame Glee Club and student body
participated at Notre Dame.
REV. FRANCIS F. MURPHY, S. J.,
chairman of the faculty on economics
in the Graduate School of Georgetown
University, died at the Jesuit Rectory
at Palm Beach, Fla., late in April. A
native of Rome, N. Y„ Father Murphy
was fifty years old. He went to Flor
ida because of illness. His father and
brother were with him when he died.
SIR STEPHEN KILLIK, Lord May
or of London during King George's
jubilee year, and the fifth Catholic
Lord Mayor of London since the
Reformation, died late in April. An
other noted London Catholic claimed
by death recently was Sir Richard
Terry, noted London organist and
choirmaster of Westminster Cathed
ral. Cardinal Hinsley officiated at
the Requiem Mass.
ONTARIO has over 100.000 pupils
in nearly 800 Catholic schools, recent
statistics show. In 1840 there was but
one such school, in 1918 there were
559; the total now is 793. Catholics
who numbered 19.3 per cent of the
population of the province, 3,432,000,
in 1931 now constitute 21.7 per cent
of the population of 386,000, or 745,-
782.
PROTESTANT Religious Journals
in conventon in Washington late in
April went on record as opposing
federal grants to educational institu
tions conducted under religious aus
pices.
CARDINAL HAYES was honored I
at a dinner at the Biltmore Hotel,
New York, by the alumni of Man
hattan College on the occasion of the
golden jubilee of his graduation from-
the college. The Cardinal spoke at
the dinner not only as Cardinal-
Archbishop of New York but, he
said, as a representative of the col-
lege's fifty-year class.
BROTHER GEORGE LEWIS of the
Christian Brothers, professor of
mathematics at LaSalle College,
Philadelphia, has been elected a Fel
low of the American Association for
the Advancement of Science by a
unanimous vote.
ARCHBISHOP FORBES of Ottawa
recently observed his golden jubilee
as a priest and his silver jubilee as a
Bishop.
MT. ST. MARY'S College at
Emmitsburg, Md., will honor a dis
tinguished alumnus, the Rt. Rev.
Msgr. E. J. Flanagan (Father Flana
gan of Boys Town) with an honorary
degree of Doctor of Laws at com
mencement exercises in June.
MRS. EDWIN MARKHAM, wife
of the noted poem, author of “The
Man With the Hoe”, died in Port
Richmond, N. Y„ late in April; the
funeral was held from St. Viviana’s
Cathedral, Los Angeles, with a Re
quiem Mass.
HONOLULU Radio Station KGU
became the 72nd in the United States
and its possessions to broadcast the
Catholic Hour when it took on the
program Easter Sunday, Monsignor
Sheen speaking.
BROTHER BENJAMIN ESCHER,
S. J., a member of the Society of
Jesus in the Southern Province for
42 years, died late in April at Hotel
Dieu, New Orleans. Born in Switzer
land, his last assignment was at
Loyola University.
REV. JOHN F. McELWEE, a na
tive of Wilmington, Del., has sailed
for Europe to take up his duties as
a member of the general council of
the Oblates of St. Francis, the first
American priest so honored.
BISHOP PRESGEWALSKI of the
Russian Orthodox Church and five
other ecclesiastics have been executed
by the Red government at Arch
angel. Condemned in 1936 to ten
years imprisonment, they escaped and
reached Archangel where they were
intercepted and shot after being ac
cused of attempting flight for the
purpose of making anti-Soviet propa
ganda abroad.
CATHOLIC SCHOOL students in 16
states have won first prizes in the
ninth annual Gorgas Memorial
Essay Contest. The essays are now
being studied by judges for the five
national awards.
SISTER MARIE ANDREA of the
White Sisters at Rivet, Algiers, in
Africafi stricken at her post, was
taken on a twelve-hour plane trip
to Paris for an operation, the first
flight of the 65-year-old nun.
Chicago U. President Quotes
St. Augustine on the Mind
(By N. C- W. C. News Service)
NEW YORK.— St. Augustine is
quoted by Robert M. Hutchins, Presi
dent of the University of Chicago, in
an article in Commonweal, entitled
“The University and Character.”
Declaring that “the role of external
and bodily goods in happiness can
not be minimized,” Mr. Hutchins says
that what St. Augustine said must be
remembered: “When we come across
anything that is not common to us and
the beasts of the field, it is something
to the mind.” “Even a vegetable lives,”
Mr. Hutchins says, “arid may, for a
vegetable, live well. But we should
hardly care to be happy in any sense
in which a turnip could be happy. Ex
ternal and bodily goods are goods,
and indispensable ones. But we want
them not for their own sake but for
the sake of the highest operations we
can perform, the moral and intellec
tual virtues. Activity in accordance
with these is happiness.”
Continuing, the. educator declares
that “the economic and social injustice
of our times results from the weak
ness of absence of the moral and in
tellectual virtues, which, as we have
seen, are independent.” “Economic
and social injustice," he adds “does
not result from lack of information,
lack of natural resources, or any fail
ure of technology. We are plentifully
supplied with all three. No, the prin
cipal issue of our day is a moral and
intellectual one. The great problems
of labor, capital, the Constitution, the
judiciary, communism, fascism, war
and peace revolve around fundamental
questions which every student ought
to face intelligently, questions affect
ing the ends of economic activity, of
organized society, and of human life.”
NORTH DAKOTA University con
ferred the degree of Doctor of Laws
on the Very Rev. Vincent J. Ryan,
pastor of St. Anthony’s Church, Far
go, N. D„ and vicar-general of the
Diocese of Fargo. A naive of Wis
consin, Dr. Ryan was administrator
of the Diocese pending the appoint
ment of Bishop Muench.
REV. STEPHEN J. O'DONNELL,
nephew of Mayor Edward J. Kelly
of Chicago, was among the semi
narians ordained by Cardinal Munde
lein recently in Chicago. Mayor
Kelly attended the ceremony.
REV. DANIEL J. QUINN and the
Rev. John Corbett, noted members
of the Jesuit Order, natives respect
ively of New York and Brooklyn,
who entered the Society of Jesus to
gether, observed the golden jubilee
of their profession late in April.
Father Quinn is a former president
of Fordham University and Father
Corbett, formerly of the Georgetown
faculty, for many years was con
nected with the Messenger of the
Sacred Heart
AN EPISCOPALIAN, Mrs. Mary E.
Dulany, of Eau Claire, Wis„ who died
there early in May, gave $190,000 to
Sac-ed Heart of Jesus Hospital at Eau
Claire for a memorial wing, and also
made other contributions to the hos
pital believed to total $50,000. Mrs.
Dulany gave Christ Episcopal Church
at Eau Claire $100,000 and ten years
ago built a $30,000 chapel.
JERSEY CITY has seen Catholics
engaged on both sides of the current
dispute there, members of the Catholic
War Veterans of New Jersey backing
Mayor Hague and members of the
staff of the Catholic Workers oppos
ing him and -disturbing literature
against him. Several of the Catholic
Worker group said that the police re
fused to arrest them.
THE B'NAI B'RITH through its
Anti-Defamation League at the an
nual convention at Washington con
demned as “vicious propaganda the
charge that the Jews are Communists
or promote propaganda.” A report
made at the convention asserted that
Russian Communism has fought unre
mittingly against the religious - faith of
the Jew, and declared thaf “a Com
munist who was a Jew is now an
apostate.”
IN GERMANY, the B’Nai B'Rith
points out, there were 550,000 Jews,,
Gf whom not more than 200,000 ■ could
vote, yet the Communist vote short
ly before Hitler came to power was
6,000,000. indicating ti-j unreasonable
ness of blaming Communism there on
the Jews.
MONTREAL’S Anglican Synod re
fused to take action on the resolution
cf a lay delegate criticizing the so-
called “padlock law” of the province
and urging its repeal. Canon R. S. W.
Howard asserted the Synod should
“support the law rather than make it
more difficult for the Government to
suppress Communism.” The Quebec
Chronicle-Telegraph editorially con
gratulated the Synod, asserting that
“the only people who are agitating
the ‘Padlock’ lav/ are the Communists
themselves and a few ‘parlor pinks’
who are not entitled to serious con
sideration.”
METHODIST MINISTERS in Seat
tle have joined Catholics in protest
ing the ruse whereby a police officer
dressed as a priest and persuaded her
to confess the slaying ten years ago
of Ensign James Eugene Bassett of
the United States Navy. The ministers
said they wished to be understood not
as regretting the obtaining of the con
fession but as deploring the manner
in which it was obtained.
MEXICO'S PRESIDENT Cardenas
in grudgingly acknowledging the sup
port that Catholics are giving the
campaign to reimburse foreign oil
companies for their holdings, referred
to it as “the unaccustomed attitude of
Mexican Catholics who fo: - the first
time in the history of the country
have come forward without egoism
to contribute to the national recov
ery.” An editorial in El Hombre Libre
criticizes this and other statements in
lie address, asserting that he is
thereby reflecting on ninety per- cent
of the population.
CHICAGO Catholics have contribut
ed $33,000 toward the seminary in New
Mexico for the training of clergy for
Mexico, the laws of Mexico making
it impossible to train clergy there.
AMBASSADOR KENNEDY. was
honored by the Catholic Council of
International Relations and the
Breakespeare Club with a reception
in London attended by the Arch
bishops of Cardiff, Birmingham and
Liverpool.
MY ROSE IS WHITE, written by
Charles A. McMahon, editor of Cath
olic Action. Washington. and read
over the Catholic Hour program on
Mother’s Day by Hugh O’Connell,
vice-president of the Catholic Actors’
Guild, was read into the Congression
al Record by Congressman Michael J.
Stack of Pennsylvania.
LOUISIANA Catholic schools are
again sharing in the distribution of
books for schools provided for by an
act of the Legislature.
CARDINAL HINSLEY
COMMENDS SCOUTS
They Oppose False Inter
nationalism, He Says
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
LONDON — Within a year Cath
olic Scout troops in. the London area
have increased from 53 to 88, it was
reported at a meeting of Scouts, and
Rovers here.
His Eminence ^Arthur Cardinal
Hinsley, Archbishop of Westminister,
who addressed the meeting, said false
notions of what Scouting meant have
grown up and were in many quarters
distracting attention from the move
ment's real significance.
“The Scout movement from the
beginning,” the Cardinal said, “has
been dependent, not upon military
training, but upon all that is implied
by loyalty to superiors and fellow
scouts alike, working always for the
common good and maintaining a high
ideal of loyalty and good fellowship.
“The Hitler Youth movement, on
the other hand, depends on national
ism, which is its mainspring. We do
not favor that. spirit among our
youth.
“The Scout movement is a very
fine thing indeed, with very great
ideals at its root. I want you, as Cath
olic Scouts, to reap all the benefits
possible from your organization. It
will aid you in avoiding that false
internationalism which has been un
fortunately introduced into this
country, and others also, from Rus
sia.”
No Priests Canadian
Legislative Members
But Many Ministers Are
Among- Law-Makers There
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
OTTAWA,—Following refusal of
New Brunswick legislature to change
an old law prohibiting clergymen
from being elected to the provincial
house the Canadian Press, secular
news agency, made a survey of the
other provinces and found that New
Brunswick was the. only province
prohibiting election of clergy. Ac
tually there are the following mem
bers of the clergy in Canada’s legis
lative halls: House of Commons, Ot
tawa, .one each of following demoni-
nations. United Church, Christian
Church, and Baptist Church; Alberta
Legislature, two bishops of Church of
Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints,
two ministers of United Church, and
one each of Swedish Baptist Church
and the Church of the Bretheren,
Ontario Legislature, one member of
the Church of England and clergy.
There are no Catholic priests mem
bers of any of the Canadian legisla
tures.
“LIBERAL” REFUSES
COMMUNISM COMMENT
(By N.C.W.C. News Service)
NEW YORK. — Dr. Harry F. Ward,
noted "liberal" and chairman of the
radical-controlled American League
for Feace and Democracy, refused to-
give his opinion of Communism when
asked to do so at the end of a student
"peace strike” meeting at Columbia
University he directed as chairman.
As Dr. Ward was leaving the meet
ing a newspaperman approached him
and asked:
"Doctor, from what you said at the
meeting we can understand why you
are opposed to Fascism. But isn’t
Communism just as bad? Won’t you
tell what you think of Communism?"
The question seemed to startle Dr.
Ward for a moment; then he brushed
his questioner aside ryith this re
sponse :
“No, no vve can’t do that. We're not
concerned with Communism. We're
just concerned with Fascism.”
He refused to amplify this statement
and hurried away with another speak
er at the “peace strike”. James Water
man Wise, a fellow "liberal’’.
Cardinal Hayes 50 Y ears Ago
in Essay Scored Communism
(By N. C. W. C. New Service)
NEW YORK,—A warning against
Communism and other forms of poli
tical tyranny issued 50 years ago in
an essay writen by a student known
as Pat J. Hayes is reprinted by the
New York Journal and American.
The student, a senior at Manhattan
College in 1887 and 21 years old, is
today His Eminence Patrick Cardinal
Hayes, Archbishop of New York.
There is a reference to a “danger
ous spirit that has been fostered
among certain classes in portions of
these United States.” The essay says
that such elements “abuse liberty and
place the fabric of freedom in an in
secure position.”
“If we but make a litle study of
the people which compose this dan
gerous element, we will invariably
find that they are deserters to their
own country, in which they were
ground to the dust, enjoying, neither
the benefits of education nor the
frucifying influence of Christianity;
thereby dwelling in an atmosphere
ip which the governing power was
regarded as despotic and the proper
aim of every dart of hate and malice.
"They leave their native land. Am
erica welcomes them; she builds them
up.
"But before long, being out of their
wonted element, they abuse liberty
and place the fabric of freedom in an
insecure position.
“Hence, we see the dangers of an
improperly educated element of
society, whose conception is far from
a popular government is far from
being clear.
“Our Constitution tolerates as much
liberty as is conducive to the pros
perity of any people; therefore, all
factions which wish to promote either
anarchy. Socialism or Communism,
deserve the brand of censure from
the ruling power."