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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."