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SIX THE- BULLETIN OF THE CATHOLIC LAYMEN’S ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA JULY 30. 1938 Father Protests Exploiting of Son’s Death by Radicals Seattle Parent Says Reds Seek Only Financial Profit From “M emorial” to Student Killed in Spain (By N. C. W. C. News Service) SEATTLE. — Moscow's sickle of death cut down young Thane Sum mers in the prime of his life. Moscow’s brutal hammer beat grief into loving hearts in his Seattle home. But when Moscow’s servants here sought to exploit the fact that young Thane Summers, former University of Washington student, was killed while fighting with the Reds in Spain, Thane’s bereaved father, Lane Summers, a prominent lawyer, voiced a solemn protest. Mr. Summers is not a Catholic. Lane Summers has issued a state ment labeling as “More Moscow” the “memorial” meeting for Thane Sum mers” arranged by “Friends of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade,” and de clared they were exploiting the death of his son as a means of recruiting ‘ more misguided martyrs” for “loya list” Spain. "Since no legal statute prohibits and no moral sense prevents the ex ploitation of the death of my son in Ihe Spanish war for the publicity purpose of subversive politics, I am prompted to proclaim this ‘memorial meeting’ for -what it is—more Mos cow!” said Mrl Summers. “Except for others who have sons, 1 would remain silent since my sin gle-handed struggle as a father to save an only son for the perplexing problems in this country has been lost" he continued. “Display placards announcing a ‘memorial meeting to honor Thane Summers,’ since the recent report of his death in Spain, have been thrust into the Seattle windows of news stands, tobacco stalls, vacant stores, public garages and beer parlors—all the places where political posters usually appear,” the statement said. "These large notices in bold type with black border have been distri buted by Communist adherents under the alias of ‘Friends of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade,’ ostensibly to pay tribute to courage and sacrifice, but actually to promote the sale of small 25 cent tickets of admission to the ‘memorial meeting 1 with which to fi nance more misleading programs of recruit more misguided martyrs. “To those other trusting parents whose children are still students under some insidious instructors in high school and university, the warn ing of mv experience is warranted against the public educator on tax- paid salarv who prostitutes his high profession by nour'n® the prejudiced versions, the subt’e slogans and the twisted truths of the Communistic propaganda into the confiding mind of youth—’be sole future protectors of real liberalism represented by American institutions and ideals.” THE CONFESSIONAL BY LEO J. LEONARD (Columbus Junior Catholic Club) “As the Father has sent Me 1 also send you. Receive ye the Holy Ghost; whose sins you shall forgive, they are forgiven them; whose sins you shall retain, they are retained.” Looking down the long vista of years, Christ must have foreseen the ever widening sea of sin and the ever increasing frailty of the human barks into which souls made in His image and likeness were entrusted. He must have seen the many ingenious devices which the arch-enemy of His creatures would contrive to draw the frail crafts of humanity into tempestuous waters away from the beacon of their Creator. He recognized the need of humanity in all times for a tangible reminder of His promise of forgiveness to the repentant sinner. In His Divine Prov idence, he recognized that humanity required more than the voice of con science which could be" stilled or made quiescent by human perversity. The Catholic Church has followed the direct command of Christ in the Sacrament of Penance. Her priests have in His name carried the command to forgive sins. The Church ventures not only to proclaim in the world’s ST. VINCENT FLASH STAFF IS APPOINTED Miss Mary McCarthy New Editor-in-Chief (Special to The Bulletin) SAVANNAH, Ga. — Miss Mary Mc Carthy has been appointed editor-in- chief of The Flash, student publica tion of St. Vincent Academy. Other apointments on the 1938-39 staff are as follows: Sports editor, Ann Coop er; associate editors, Theresa Smith, Winifred Persse; society editors, Mar garet Siem, Catherine Cafeiro; alum nae editor, Veronica Kearney; busi ness manager, Margaret Dooley; as sistant business manager, Agnes Feuger; circulation managers, Mary F. Jiran, Lillian Bunger, Patty Spell man and Betty Brennan; treasurer, Anne Mallard. Reportorial- depart ment; Senior Marie Griffith; junior, Mary Ott; sophomore, Eliza Hennes- sy; freshman, the class; columnist, Virginia Prescott; humorist, Mary El liott. Typists are Betty Ray, Madge Clifton, Margaret M. Hahn, Ethel Little, Margaret Evans. Both the editor-in-chief and the business manager have attended the Georgia Scholastic Press Association convention in Athens for the past three years and have thus familiar ized themselves with the journalistic requirements of the Henry W. Grady School of Journalism. JACK O’DONNELL, son of Mr. and Mrs. T. F. O'Donnell, has passed men tal examinations for entrance in the United States Naval Academy at An napolis, according to word received from the U. S. S. Texas. Mr. O'Don nell is enlisted in the navy, where he has been for the past year. He is a graduate of Benedictine School. MISS'MARGARET COUNIHAN. of the Health Center staff, and a gradu ate of St. Joseph's Hospital, has been appointed special tuberculosis nursing supervisor by the Chatham-Savan- nah Tuberculosis Association and the Savannah Health Center. hearing the pardon of sin, but also to smooth and cheer the heart bruised with contrition, bidding the sinner cast off the shameful memory and fear, en couraging him to resume the fight against his weaknesses. It is common to hear those outside our faith deprecate the Confessional and reason that sins are forgiven by direct confession to God alone. Christ’s command to His apostles to forgive sins in His name is plain. He could not have intended that His instruc tions were to apply only to the Chris- tions of that time, since He came to save all men. The Church's answer is the answer of Christ. To the lost sheep she is sent, bringing His mes sage of mercy if the sinner observes the conditions under which the Church promises pardon. These are the same conditions which Christ ever imposed, the terms given to the palsied man in the Gospel: "The soul that has sinned must repent " It is what men need that the Cath olic Church has to offer, for that was the mission of her Divine Founder. Humanity of whatever race or creed or position seeks a confidant when in quicksand of despondency. It would be rare if we could or would confide our sins to anyone were it not for the Sacrament which Christ has in stituted and the Catholic Church faith fully carried out. We, as Catholics, should at all times be witnesses by reason of our heritage and knowledge, to the Divine Wisdom and the Divine Power which reaches out through the instrumentality of the Catholic Church to the erring children of men, proclaiming to all sinners: "Be of good heart, thy sins are for given thee”. ST. JOSEPH’S INFIRMARY is one of the several charitable institutions which are recipients of substantial bequests in the will of the late Thorqas J. Peebles, retired Atlanta banker and a non-Catholic, who died in May. He left a bequest of $1,000 to the infirmary. Catholic Art Shop ROY BURNS Located in the basement of the Cathedral, Savannah Complete Line of Religious Articles and Church Furnishings. COMPARE OUR PRICES We shall consider it a pleasure to serve the priests, religious and laity of the Diocese Catholic Scout Rite Widely Distributed Ten Thousand Copies Have Been Circulated WASHINGTON. — Ten thousand copies of the “Catholic Investiture Secular Magazine Lauds Fight on Evil Literature Salacious Publication Men ace to All Decent Litera ture, Says Argonaut Macon Boys at Camp McClellan Exercises Ceremony for Boy Scouts” have been printed, it has been announced here. It was first printed in April, 1936, by the Baltimore Archdiocesesan Bureau for the Extension of Scouting. In view of the many requests for its use received by the Catholic Committee on Scouting, its reproduction in a sec ond edition was approved by the Bishops’ Committee at its November, 1936, meeting. The leaflet on the Catholic investi ture ceremony was compiled by Mr. Louis P. Barcelo, C. S. C., Field Scout Commissioner, Boy Scouts of Amer ica, District of Columbia Council, and by the Rev. Edward Fuller, S J Chaplain of Troop, B. S. A„ Wash ington, D. C. The first troop in vested with this ceremony was Fath er Fuller’s troop at St. Aloysius Church here. An introduction to the leaflet, writ ten by the Rev. Dr. Edward Roberts Moore, National Director of the Cath olic Committee on Scouting, says, "this splendid ceremony is heartily commended to Diocesan Chaplains and pastors of parish Scout Troops in all dioceses where permission has been given by the Ordinary for its use.” "We suggest to chaplains in con ducting the ceremony,” Dr. Moore writes, “that they inform the Scouts that the ‘Scout Oath’ is not an oath binding in conscience as is commonly understood by the term ‘oath,’ nor is its violation a matter of confession, rather it is a promise of self-imposed resolution by which the boy promises ‘On my honor, I will do my best to do my duty to God, etc.” (By N. C. W. C. News Service) SAN FRANCISCO.—Strongly in dorsing the Most Rev. John J. Mitty, Archbishop of San Francisco, for his fight against indecent publications flooding the newsstands, an editorial in the Argonaut, secular magazine, says such publications are more than indecent; that “their quintessence is tommy-rot,,’ and that they make “man despair of his kind.” “We are not of those who favor state censorship,” the editorial says. “The great evil of censoship is that, once begun, the censors never know when nor where to stop. But we will say this, no matter whose feelings may be hurt, that if from 75 to 90 per cent of our American magazines were legislated out of existence, neith er humanity at large nor the Amer ican public in particular would lose a single iota of anything of the slight est value” “There is a Gresham’s Law in re spect to literature as well as in fi nance,” the editorial also says. “Ac cording to Gresham’s Law, an unsound currency will drive all good money out of circulation. When a man finds that he can legally pay his debts with a dollar worth only 50 cents, he does so, keeping the dollar that is worth a hundred. And in literature indecent magazines drive the good magazines and good books off newsstands and the shelves of book dealers.” Asserting that “there are few things in this world which are altogether good or altogether bad,” the editorial says “our sexy magazines have suc ceeded in giving the public something for which not one good word can be said.” They really villify the whole human race,” the editorial declares, MACON, Ga.—Five boys from St. Joseph's Parish attended Citizens Mil itary Training Camp, at Camp Mc Clellan, Ala., and all received honors while attending camp All five are members or former members of Boy Scout Troop Six, sponsored by Knights of Columbus, and attribute their success at camp to training re ceived in Boy Scouts and R. O, T. C. They are: Edward Cassidy, son of Mrs. W. J. Cassidy and the late Wm. J. Cassidy and a nephew of Father Edward Cassidy, S. J., Joe Genone, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Genone, Carl Chapman, son of Capt. and Mrs. C. F. Chapman, Joe, Thomas, son of Mr. and Mrs. Joe Thomas, and An drew McKenna, son of Wm. A. Mc Kenna and the late Mrs. McKenna, who was selected as Major, the high est rank for a trainee. Andrew also won three medals, one as best com pany commander, one as captain of the winning basketball team, and one for the best blue trainee. Carl Chap man won the American Legion medal for best drilled man in white course. Joe Genoe was the championship ban tamweight boxer. SISTER CASSIANA MARIE of the Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondolet, a teacher at St. Joseph’s Academy, Green Bay, Wis., has completed a five- panel mural painting for the mother- house of the Sisters in St. Louis. The painting depicts the activities of the Sisters, and has been widely com- mended by authorities in art. “and they should make you weef> when you think of the noble tree that was cut to provide the wood pulp which, when turned into paper, is used to provide you with something that you should never have been provid ed.” The South’s Home Largest Furnishers ★ STEI “The Home of ICHI’S Quality Furniture” ★ Cherry at Broadway Phone 3100 Macon, Georgia T. CARTTER LI'PTON, MRS. KELLY EVANS, W. T. WILLIFORD. President Vice-President Secretary & Treasurer MACON COCA-COLA BOTTLING COMPANY Everywhere 5c MACON, GEORGIA
