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MAY 28. 1938
THE BULLETIN OF THE CATHOLIC LAYMEN’S ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA
THIRTEEN
K. of C. Commended by Apostolic Delegate
Archbishop Cicognani Lauds
Order’s Services to Church
DR. DERRY LECTURES
ON THE RED MENACE
Addresses Large Audiences
in Several Cities in
Southeast
SAVANNAH. Ga..—After lecturing
in seventy-five cities of the United
States from coast to coast on “The
Red Perild and the Way Out”, Dr.
Gorge Herman Derry, chairman of
the Social Education Committee of the
Supreme Council of the Knights of
Columbus came to the Southeast in
recent weeks to address large gather
ings in several cities in this section
under the auspices of the Knights of
Golumbus. Dr. Derry lectured in Jack
sonville, Charleston, Charlotte and at
other points in this section, and to
large audiences. At Savannah, where
he spoke at the Richard Arnold
Junior High School Auditorium, he
also addressed a meeting of the
priests of the Diocese by invitation of
the Most Rev. Gerald P. O’Hara, D.D.,
Bishop of Savannah-Atlanta. He also
addressed the clergy in other Dioces
es in the Southeast.
Dr. Derry
ravages of
“It can happen here,'
said in discussing the
Communism elsewhere.
before the court of civilization the
un. sal conscience of mankind,
communism stands convicted of unbe
lievable Crimes against God and man.
“In Russia, from the hearts of youth
ful millions, Bolshevism has tom all
regard for morality and religion. “In
Spain, the same blood-red hand has
butchered, by tens of thousands, in
nocent men and women on the sole
charge of their consecration in the
service of God. “In Mxico, after the
pattern of the beasts of the field,
communist God-destroyers are teach
ing the practices of grossest immoral
ity to little children in the schools.
An I now comes Mr. William Henry
Ch ar.berlain, for twelve years corres
pondent of the Christian Science Mon
itor in Moscow, and his Collectivism—
A False Utopia,” just off the press,
and Mr. Eugene Lyons, who has viv
idly pictured his six years’ observa
tion of the Russian scene for the
United Press in “Assignment in
Utopia.” Both emphatically prove that
the red leaders in Moscow have be
trayed the very revolution itself.
“The ‘dream’ of a better and
brighter day for the worker has faded
into piteous and bitter disillusion.
“The Russian proletariat now receives
much lower wages and is handed
scantier food than men in the darkest
pre-war days under the czars.
“The class struggle has produced
newer and more obnoxious class di
visions, and the only group which has
been benefited at all by the revolu
tion are the party bureaucrats and
job-holders. They have purchased
their precarious prosperity form of
freedom that civilized men revere.
“All these fatal facts are sedulously-
suppressed and camouflaged by com
munist agitators in the United States.
Though scarcely more than 40,000 in
number, this army of leaders is high
ly trained in all the arts of demago
guery and of mass psychology and
organization.
‘Boring from within,' they infest
the colleges, youth organizations, so
cieties to promote peace, and all man
ner of cultural and religious groups.
“But the predominant objective to
wards which all their major forces are
now directed is to capture the labor
movement in the United States, to
force all workers into politics behind
a united Popular Front’, to seduce
the C. I. O., units into a Farmer- La
bor Campaign, and then, amid the
misery and want and universal em
ployment of depression they confi
dently trust is now- impending, they
expect to see the toilers of America, to
whom the mere shadow of commun
ism is still repulsive and abhorrent,
inevitably succumb in their impotent
fury and desperation to the halcyon
hopes and fallacious promises that
everywhere constitute the stock-in-
trade of communist propaganda.
“Indefatigably, the 40,000 communist
leaders are already kindling through
out every industrial and farming area
in the land, the fires of tribulation
out of which they are determined
shall be born the American social rev
olution, as the next triumphant surge
onward in Red Moscow's subjugation
of the workers of the world.
“It can happen, it is already hap
pening here.”
Victor Ridder Heads
Marquette League
Succeeds Judge Talley
Work for Indian Missions
in
NEW YORK—At the annual meet
ing of the Board of Directors' of the
Marquette League for Catholic In
dian Missions, Victor F. Ridder was
elected president to succeed Alfred J.
Talley. Judge Talley, whose term of
office expired with this meeting, had
been president for 14 years. During
Judge Talley’s administration, over
$1,000,000 was sent to the Indian Mis
sions of this country and Alaska and
more than 60 chapels were erected
through the League.
Mr. Ridder became a member of the
Board of Directors in 1921. For the
seventeen years that Mr. Ridder has
been associated with the League, he
has always manifested a keen inter
est in the development of the Indian
Missions. He formerly was treasurer
of the League. George B. Fargis, a
member of the Board, has been elected
to succeed Mr. Ridder as treasurer.
Before his election to the Presidency,
Mr. Ridder read the financial report
of the League from May 1, 1937, to
April 30, 1938, showing an income of
$55,000. of which amount, $42,000 was
sent to the Indian Missions-
ARCHBISHOP RUIZ IS
GOLDEN JUBILARIAN
Former Apostolic Delegate
to Mexico Long in Exile
(By Charles Betico)
.. (Mexico City Correspondent,
N. C. W. C. News Service)
MEXICO CITY—The Most Rev.
Leopoldo Ruizy Flores, Archbishop of
Morelia, who is commemorating his
sacerdotal golden jubilee, pontificated
at solemn Mass in the Basilica of Our
Lady of Guadalupe, assisted by two
members of the Guadalupan Chap
ter and in the presence of the Arch
bishops of Mexico, Puebla and Guada
lajara, the Auxiliary Archbishop of
Morelia, the Bishops of San Luis
Potosi, Tacambaro, Tulancingo, Que-
retaro, Chilapa, Cuernavaca, Tabasco,
Huajapan de Leon and Chiapas, and
the Auxiliary Bishop of Mexico. The
Most Rev. Luis M. Marftinez, Primate
of Mexico, preached. Formerly Apos
tolic Delegate to Mexico, Archbishop
Ruiz was long an exile in the United
States.
Medical Association Opposes
and Deplores Birth Control
Clinics, President Declares
i
Association Has Never Approved Them, Dr, Abel Writes
Bishop Noll
Work for Youth Especially Cited in Address to Supreme
Board at Washington
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
WASHINGTON—As a represents
tive of the Holy Father, His Excel
Itncy the Most Rev. Amleto Giovanni
Cicognani, Apostolic Delegate to the
United States, expressed gratitude to
the Knights of Columbus “for what
they have accomplished, what they
are-accomplishing and what they will
do for Church and country, especial
ly to the benefit of youth and good
example of Christian virtues, at a din
ner tendered him by the K. of C. on
the occasion of the quarterly meeting
here of the Suprme Board of Direc
tors.
Saying he took the opportunity “to
recall with gratitude the deep ap
preciation your many fine services
for the cause of religion,” the Apos
tolic Delegate addressed the Knights
of Columbus as follows:
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
HUNTINGTON, Ind.— The action
taken by the House of Delegates of
the American Medical Association last
June with relation to birth control
“was limited solely to the relation be
tween doctor and patient”; it “did
not indorse its employment either
from a sociological or eugenic view
point,” and the A. M. A. “has always,
and does now depreciate the existence
of birth control clinics.”
These are assertions contained in a
letter which Dr. Irvin Abell, Presi
dent of the American Medical Asso
ciation, has addressed to the Most
Rev. John H. Noll, Bishop of Fort
Wayne, and which is published in the
Bishop's new book “Catechism on
Bir;th Control.” Our Sunday Visitor,
printing the letter in next Sunday’s
issue, will say that it “gives the lie to
sponsors of birth control and matern
al health clinics who claim that they
have the approval of the American
Medical Association.”
In his book “Catechism on Birth
Control,” Bishop Noll not only re
views the subject from the Catholic
viewpoint, but shows that birth con
trol is a practice which: nature de
nounces as immoral; is the sure road
to national decay; is proved by statis
tics to be a social menace; has no
possible Bibical approval and is there
in called a “detestable thing,” and is
condemned by the best medical and
economic authorities.
The text of Dr. Abell’s letter to
Bishop Noll follows:
“The action taken on Birth Control
by the House of Delegates of the
American Medical Association at its
meeting last June was limited solely
to the relation between doctor and
patient. It did not endorse its em
ployment either from a sociological
or eugenic viewpoint. It has always,
and does now, depreciate the exis
tence of birth control clinics. Since
the Federal Court ruled that a doctor
might give birth control information
to individual patients, it took the
stand that in individual cases in
which, in the opinion of the doctor,
pregnancy was inadvisable it was ad-
missable and legal to give such in
formation. Since the traffic in con
traceptives has now reached the sum
of many millions of dollars yearly, the
Committee recommended that a study
of the various contraceptive methods
be made, in view of determining any
harmful effects which might accrue
from their use; it further recommend
ed that in the event the obstetrical de
partments of the medical schools de
cided to give such information to its
students that only such methods as
were free of harm should receive
their endorsement.
“The House of Delegates of the
American Medical Association is made
up of 170 members elected from its
various component units, one dele-,
gate for each 725 members. This House
has the responsibility of formulating
the policies and principles of the or
ganization. There has been, as you
know, much misconception regarding
the action taken last June and in all
probability at the coming meeting in
San Francisco a further clarification
of its stand will be made.”
“Splendid, and yet unostentatious, is
your educational program embracing
the establishment of graduate scholar
ships at the'' Catholic University of
America, the endowment of youth-
studies at Notre Dame University and
elsewhere, extension courses from
your home office, very dear to my
heart, the educational and welfare
work which you carry on so well in
the Eternal City, the ‘Oratorio Di San
Pietro.’
“Your active help in the field of
youth work, exemplified not only by
a boyology institute at Notre Dame
and a foundation in Rome, but by a
Boy Life Bureau and your sponsor
ship of the Columbian Squires, shows
that you have the interests of the next
generation at heart. Your many great
charities, including a substantial sup
port for the nationwide Catholic Hour,
are a tribute of great zeal in the field
of practical apologetics.
through study-circles, conferences,
lecture courses and other such activi
ties as the Bishops of this country
strive to encourage, especially through
the agency of the National Catholic
Welfare Conference.
“The Holy Father holds that mili
tant leaders, properly prepared and
armed, must be the first and immed
iate apostles of their fellow work
men. Such men will be an invaluable
aid to the priests, Pope Pius XI de
clares, in carrying the torch of truth,
and in relieving grave spiritual and
material suffering. It is consoling to
know that the Knights of Columbus
look with ardent zeal to the outwork
ing of this plan and desire and try
to lend it their earnest cooperation.
It is thus they will be of great spirit
ual advantage to so many souls, and
a powerful aid to the Church which
aims to construct our social institu
tions in harmony with Christ’s justice
and charity.
Macon Man*s Hobby
Featured in Article
MACON, Ga.—A recent issue of The
Macon Telegraph issued by the
students in journalism at Wesleyan
College published an extended feature
story by the Misses Alice Price and
Marjorie Standifer on an unusual
hobby of Stephen McKenna, the clip
ping of newspapers and the filing of
the clippings. Mr. McKenna has been
clipping newspapers for twenty-five
years, and his collection now fills
more than fifty large boxes, arranged
by subjects and cross-filed. He has
clipping and filed on Macon institu
tions and organizations, on subjects on
which there has been unusual in
terest, on leaders in Macon and the
South and on many other topics, in
cluding towns in th Macon terri
tory.
DRIVE ON INDECENCY CELIBACY FOR YOUNG
IN PRINT EXTENDED MINISTERS IS URGED
Rhode Island Legislature
Votes Investigation
While the General Assembly of
Rhode Island voted to investigate the
“growing totalitarianistic, irreligious
and salacious periodicals” through a
special committee, and the Mayor of
Amarillo, Texas, promised enactment
of a special city ordinance to stop the
sale and distribution of indecent read
ing matter if other means proved in
effective, the drive against this current
rtnt evil has gained momentum
throughout the whole country. -
Tire Most Rev. John J. Cantwell,
Archbishop of Los Angeles, has given
his approval to the establishment in
that Archdiocese of a League for
Clean Reading similar to that or
ganized by Bishop John F. Noll for
the Diocese of Fort Wayne, The
Tidings of Los Angeles announces.
The League will be organized in the
Los Angeles' Archdiocese through the
Sodality of the Blessed Virgin in all
high schools and colleges. Pledge
cards will be distributed through the
students in an effort to reach the
parents. The pledge is a promise to re
frain from the purchasing or reading
of publications which violate given
standards.
VIGOROUS MEASURES
In a signed article contributed to
The Monitor, newspaper of the Arch
diocese of San Francisco, W. H. Mc
Carthy, Postmaster of San Francisco,
says “it took a League of Decency’ to
at least partially clean the cinema
screen,” and “it looks as though it
will require equally vigorous meas
ures to stem the tide of filth that is
inundating the magazine world.”
“By your campaign to demonstrate
the evils of Communism you are
giving a most commendabl rsponse
to the Holy Father’s Encyclical on
'Atheistic Communism.’ His Holiness
insists that the first requisite for
Catholic Action is the careful train
ing of individuals prepared to fight
the battles of the Lord: a task very
urgent and indispensable, v/hich must
always precede direct action in the
field. This program is to be enacted
“As the supreme officers of a repre
sentative order of Catholic laymen in
this country, I am sure that you must
have been deeply pleased by the re
cent announcement that our Holy
Father had instituted a central office
of Catholic Action in Rome, under the
competent guidance of Cardinal Piz-
zardo, to aid and stimulate and guide
the program of Catholic Action
throughout the world. No doubt that
this action of the Holy Father will
provide the laymen of the United
States with many fresh and worth
while opportunities to serve as com
batants in the Army of Christ. And I
am confident that the Knights of Co
lumbus, under your wise and bene-
ficient leadership, will bo eager to
give themselves in the service of the
Bishops of the United States in or
der that our Holy Father’s definition
of Catholic Action—‘the participation
of the laity in the apostolate of the
Hierarchy’—may be realized in this
great nation.
“As a representative of the Holy
Father I am pleased to express grati
tude to the Knights of Columbus for
what they have accomplished, what
they are accomplishing and what they
v/ill do for Church and Country,
especially to the benefit of youth and
good example of Christ'ai virtues.”
Sacred Heart School
Wins High Honors
Miss Gillooley First as Act
ress in State Competition
Christian Index Editor Rec
ommends Postponement of
Marriage for Five Years
(From the Atlanta Constitution)
It would be wise for young minis
ters to postpone marriage for three to
five years after graduation, Dr. O. P.
Gilbert, editor of The Christian Index,
declares.
Dr. Gilbert in an editorial in the
current issue of the Baptist magazine,
said while he is not an advocate of
prolonged bachelorhood for ministers,
“such a state on the part of young min
isters completing their courses at one
of our seminaries would go far to
ward solving the problem of providing
well-trained ministers for needy
places, both in urban and rural cen
ters.”
Who has completed academic and
theological schooling and has taken a
wife to accept a call to a church where
the income provides a standard of liv
ing below that to which the wife was
accustomed prior to her marriage," the
editorial continued.
In view of this fact, would it not be
wise for the young men completing
their studies at our seminaries this
spring to agree to live without a wife
for at least three to five years in or
der to give themselves entirely to the
Lord in the hard places both in the
city and rural churches?”
DEATH SOLVES NOTHING by
Margaret Sothern, published by Sheed
Ward, is the May selection of the
Catholic Book Club. It is a novel
about modem Germany.
(Special To The Bulletin)
ATLANTA, Ga.— Atlanta’s Sacred
Heart School is sunning itself in the
reflected glory of the Senior class.
The Georgia High School Associa
tion's annual contests to determine
state rating have found Sacred Heart
among the top-ranking schools of the
state. In this series of competitions,
the skit “A Pair of Lunatics”, present
ed by Dorothy Neill Williams and
Marian Gillooley. received first place
in the fifth district preliminaries, and
second place in the state finals at
Athens.
But this is only the beginning. The
best high school actress in Georgia,
is a student at Sacred Heart. She flis
Marian Gillooley, who receivtd this
special honor for tier work in the
prize-winning skit. She won over con
testants from private and public
schools throughout the state.
In the declamation branch of the
same contest Dorothy Neill Williams
was rated third, while Anita Aspin-
wali was awarded second place, for
her reading, in another of the com
petitions. Dorothy Neill is the first
girl ever to enter the declamation, and
she received the privilige, only after
much cajoling. But Dorothy (and in
cidentally, her Alma Mater) knew she
could do it!
Another illustritfus senior is Doro
thy Cremin. Dorothy received first
place in the fifth district Ready-
Writer's Essay Contest. The entrants
are not informed of the subject of
their essay, until the moment of
writing, and after that it’s every man
for himself.
The Sacred Heart annual has gone
to press, and wilt be on sale in about
two weeks. This is the first year book
of that school, and is considered a for
ward step on the road to a school
paper. Catherine Murphy, who has
edited the annual, pronounces it a
success, both financially and artisti
cally.
Introducing the tops of a top-rank
ing class: The Senior superlatives for
this year have been announced as fol
lows: Most versatile, Catherine Mur
phy; most popular, Margaret Mary
Toomey; roost beautiful, Veronica
Byrnes; most talented, Anita Aspin-
wall; most intellectual, Loraine Flynt;
best personality, Jane White; most
athletic. Margaret Manning; best
natured, Margaret Lynch; wittiest,
Dorothy McGill; most original, Doro
thy Cremin.
DANUBIAN CONGRESS
HELD AT FORDPJ
Germany Refuses to Partici
pate in Discussion
NEW YORK—There is no such a
thing as a nation today, in the true
sense of the word, said Dr. Nicholas
Murray Butler, president of Colum
bia University at the final so a: bn of
thre three-day Dunubian Congress at
Fordham University, '.the Lc ogress
was sponsored by the Graduate School
of Fordham to investigate the possi
bilities of a political and economic
reapprochment between the Danubian
States and the consequences of the re
cent German Anschluss. Five Speak
ers presented the viewpoints of Czech
oslovakia, Hungary. Jugoslavia,
France, and Poland- ” The speakers
were designated by the Washington
Embassies of the participating govern
ments. •
Although repeated efforts were
made to secure Germany's representa
tion, no asknowledgemcru was made
by the German Embassy. Dr. Gabor
de Besseney, chairman of the con
gress committee, said.
The first session, at which Dr. Fred
eric B. Robinson, president of the Col
lege of the City of New York, pre
sided, was opened by the Very Rev.
Robert I. Gannon, S- J., president of
Fordham. The speakers were Brackett
Lewis, representing Czechslovakia,
and Dr. Robert Valeur, representing
France.
James W. Gerard, former United
states Ambassador to Germany, was
chairman of the second session, at
which Dr. Francis Dcak, Associate
Profes'sor of Law at Columbia Univer
sity, represented Hungary and Edward
Weintal, director of the Polish Infor
mation Bureau, presented the view
point of Poland-
Dr. Butler presided at the closing
session. Mirko P. de Dominis, lecturer
and newspaper correspondent spoke
for Jugoslovia and Dr. Gabor de Bes-
senyey, lecturer in political science
at Fordham, summarized the results
of the congress.
ST. VINCENT FLASH
Wins Certificate of Dis
tinction at University
ATHENS, Ga.—A certificate of dis
tinction was awarded The Flash, the
student publication of St. Vincent
Academy, Savannah at the annual
convention of the Georgia Scholastic
Press Association at the University of
Georgia. The Flash was entered in
Class A.