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VOL. XIX No. 8.
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a Friendlier
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AUGUSTA, 'GEORGIA, AUGUST 27, 1938
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Bulletins
D. F. KELLY, president of the Cath
olic Charities, Knight of St. Gregory,
Kuight of Malta and until his recent
retirement general manager of The
Fair, one of Chicago's largest depart
ment stores, died late in July in Nor-,
way while on a world tour.
WASHINGTON will be host Sep
tember 2-4 to the twenty-third inter
national conference of the Federation
of College Catholic Clubs. The con
vention opening Mass will be at the
Church of St. Paul the Apostle and the
convention sessions at the Wardman
Park Hotel.
THIRTY-FOUR BISHOPS have
expressed their intention of attending
the Fourth National Catechetical Con
gress of the Confraternity of Christian
Doctrine in Hartford, October 1 to 4.
RICHMOND will be Catholic Chari
ties headquarters in the United States
October 9-12 with the National Con
ference of Catholic Charities holding
its twenty-fourth meeting there.
THE LEGION OF DECENCY will
fight irreligious as well as salacious
films with every resource at its com
mand, Archbishop Jolm T. McNicho-
las, O. P., Archbishop of Cincinnati,
chairman of the Bishops’ Committee
on Motion. Pictures, declared, in a
statement following the appearance of
anti-religious propaganda on the
screen.
REV. Dr. EDW. V. STANFORD,
president of Villanova University, is
the current speaker over the Catholic
Hour, broadcast each Sunday evening
at five o’clock, Eastern Standard Time,
by the National Broadcasting Com
pany under the auspices of the Na
tional Council of Catholic Men.
DR. EVERETT R. CLINCHY, secre
tary of the National Council of Jews
and Christians, and a Protestant min
ister, commends the plea of Bishop
Noll of Fort Wayne for a United Chris
tian Front, and pledges his coopera
tion “for the perpetuation of relig
ious and American democracy, and for
the abjuration of communist, fascist,
atheist and racialist philosophies.”
BANCEL LA FARGE, noted Cath
olic artist, son of the famed artist,
John La Farge, and brother of Father
John La Farge, S. J., associate editor
of America, died at Mount Carmel,
Conn., at the age of 72. Mr. La Fargo's
mother was the granddaughter of
Commodore Perry. Mr. La Farge’s
mosaic at Trinity College chapel,
Washinlgton, is considered one of his
best works.
THE VATICAN and the Italian gov
ernment have reached an agreement
whereby the arrangements between
them in 1931 for the conducting of
Catholic Action are to be continued in
full force. The Holy Father contin
ues to express his disapproval of the
racial theories voiced in Italy by semi
official and unofficial sources.
. .THE JEWS of the Union of Amer
ican Hebrew Congregations plan the
establishment of committees on public
information about Jews and Judaism
through its 294 congregations in the
United States and Canada.. Lee M.
Friedman of Boston is chairman of the
national committee.. Local committees
will distribute the literature, contact
the press and use other publicity
media in cooperation with the national
committee.
Named to Hierarchy
The Rev. Matthew Francis Brady,
pastor of St. Rita’s Church, Ham
den, Conn., who has been ap
pointed Bishop of Burlington, Vt.,
to fill the See made vacant by the
death of Bishop Joseph J. Rice
last April. Bishop-elect Brady
was ordained in 1916 and served
as a World War chaplain overseas.
K. QF G, CONVENTION
HELD IN CINCINNATI
Catholic Action Theme of
Annual Meeting of Supreme
Council of Order
(By N. C. W. C. News Service
CINCINNATI—Warned that “a
Catholic cannot take a neutral posi
tion regarding any of the evils of our
day,” the Knights of Columbus as
sembled here for the fifty-sixth an
nual Supreme Council Convention
were called upon to seek commissions
in Catholic Action from the Bishops
of the United States “and from the
Bishop of Bishops—the Supreme Pon
tiff.”
The call came from the Most Rev.
John T. McNicholas, O. P., Archbishop
of Cincinnati, preaching at the Pon
tifical Mass in St. Peter’s Cathedral
with which the convention was for
mally opened.
The convention, which came to a
close yesterday, re-elected the follow
ing as Supreme Directors of the
Knights of Columbus for three-year
terms:
Leo F. Craig, of Sioux Falls, S.
Dak.; James H. Devaney, of Cascade,
la.; Edward P. Ryan, of Spokane,
Wash,; Michael J. Howlett, of Chi
cago, and John F. Martin, of Okla
homa City, Okla.
Martin H. Carmody, Supreme
Knight of the K. of C., received the
following cablegram from His Emi
nence Eugenio Cardinal Pacelli, Papal
Secretary of State:
“The Holy Father most willingly
participates in the fifty-sixth annual
convention of the Knights of Colum
bus, confirms his former august mes
sage of praise and encouragement to
the organization for its endeavors and
successes in various Catholic activities,
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Boy Scout National Officers
Avoid World Youth Congress
NEW YORK, N. Y.—In a letter to
Victor F. Ridder, nationally known as
a Catholic lay leader and member of
the national executive committee of
the Boy Scouts of America, James E.
West, chief executive of the Scouts,
states that after extended study of
the question, augmented by confer
ences with its officials, the Boy Scouts
of America declined to participate in
the “World Youth Congress” at Vas-
sar.
In a letter to the officials of the
Congress Mr. West, writing in the
name of the Boy Scouts, stated that
they could not participate as request
ed “because of the fact that it has ap
peared to us that the American Youth
Congress which has assumed responsi
bility of host to the World Youth Con
gress is not genuinely representative
of the youth of America, aiid has to a
very considerable extent been domin
ated by the Communistic groups in
America.”
In a letter to President McCracken
of Vassar College, .where the congress
is being held, Mr. West further states:
“The general impression which most
of us have gotten here is in support
of the claims made in American Mer
cury Magazine and elsewhere that the
Communistic Party very definitely is
doing everything in its power to make
use of the American Youth Congress
in order to strengthen its foothold here
in America. Our sincere hope is that
this element will not handicap or de
stroy the values that might come out
of the World Youth Congress, prop
erly organized or conducted. Our ex
perience has been such as to make us
believe that the Communistic group
are alert and expert in- the technique
of capitalizing every opportunity for
advancing the cause of communism
here in America.”
Committee of Congress Told
Communists Recruited Army
for Leftist Spain in the V. S.
POOR AND INCURABLE
VICTIMS OF CANCER
WILL BE ASSISTED
1,500 to 1,700 American
Youths Virtually Held Pris
oners by Reds There, Es
caped Soldier Says
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
WASHINGTON. — Positive testimo
ny that Communists have controlled
the sending of American youths to
fight with the Leftist forces in Spain,
was given here to the House Special
Committee investigating Un-Ameri
can Activities .
The committee was told that be
tween 1,500 and 1,700 American boys
are being held “virtual prisoners” in
the so-called Loyalist armies in
Spain, and that virtually everyone of
them would return to the United
States if he could manage to be re
leased.
A member of the committee itself
named eight prominent Government
officials—six men and two women—
as members of the American League
for Peace and Democracy, which, one
witness testified to the investigating
group, is a Communist-dominated or
ganization.
These and other disclosures brought
the promise that the committee will
investigate further the so-called
“front organizations”, through which
Communists employ others not actu
ally affiliated with the Communist
Party to advance the tenets and
plans of Communism.
It was promised still further that
efforts are to be put forward to iden
tify and deport the hundreds, and
possibly thousands, of aliens, who,
while illegally in the United States,
are working to further the cases of
Communism and Nazism here.
Abraham Sobel, of Boston, who
fought for the Leftists in Spain, told
the committee that the Roxbury
Workers’ Club and the American
League Against War and Fascism, of
which he was a member, solicited his
enlistment with the so-called Loyal
ist forces.
In answer to a direct question, So
bel also said that members of the
Communist Party are contributing
factors in the American League for
Peace and Democracy and its prede
cessor, the Americai League Against
War -and Fascism.
Representative Noah M. Mason, of
Illinois, a member of the Dies Com
mittee, declared that “evidence on
file with this committee contains
proof—acceptable in any court—that
the League (American League for
Peace and Democracy) was organiz
ed by leading Communists in the first
place, is controlled by known leading
Communists today . . . Denial that
it’s a front for the Communist Party
can’t do away with the testimony that
has been presented here.”
Representative Martin Dies, of Tex
as. chairman of the committee, read a
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REV. HXFLEUREN
IS DEAD IN EL PASO
Beloved Jesuit Father
Served in Georgia, Florida
(Special to The Bulletin)
GRAND COTEAU. La. The Rev.
Henry Fleuren, S. J., a member of
the Society of Jesus for forty-six
years, died late in July in El Paso,
Texas, where he was assistant pastor
of St. Joseph’s Church.
Father Fleuren was born in Orthen,
Holland, 65 years ago, and came to
the United States in 1892, joining the
Society of Jesus at St. Stanislaus Col
lege, Macon, where he made his noviti
ate. He made his studies in theology at
Woodstock College, Maryland, and was
ordained by Cardinal Gibbons in 1906.
A member of the original faculty
of Loyola University, New Orleans,
Father Fleuren taught also at the Im
maculate Conception College and Jes
uit High School, New Orleans, Tampa
College, Sacred Heart College, Au
gusta, Ga., St. Ignatius’ College, San
Francisco, and St. Mary’s University,
Galveston. During the World War
Father Fleuran was a Knights of Co
lumbus chaplain. Father Fleuren was
one of the most widely known and
beloved of the Jesuit Fathers in the
South.
The funeral was held from St. Jo
seph’s Church. El Paso, with interment
in the Jesuit Cemetery at St. Charles’
College here.
«Host to Congress
The Most Rev. Maurice F. Mc-
Auliffe, Bishop of Hartford, who
will be host to the Fourth Na
tional Catechetical Congress of the
Confraternity of Christian Doc
trine, to be held at Hartford,
Conn., October 1 to 4. Thirty-
four members of the Hierarchy
have accepted invitations to be
present.
FR. WALSH, NOTED
BENEDICTINE, DIES
Catholic University Profes
sor Was Confraternity of
Christian Doctrine Na
tional Director
(By N. C. W. C. News Service
WASHINGTON.—The Very Rev.
Francis Augustine Walsh, O. S. B„ one
of the best known priests in the Unit
ed States, died at Providence Hospital
here last evening. He was 54 years
old.
Father Walsh was known as a teach
er, a writer, an editor, a speaker and
an administrator. He was Assistant
Professor of Philosophy and former
Regent of the Seminary at the Catho
lic University of America. He was
the author of numerous works, chief
ly on spiritual and philosophical topics.
He was the Editor of New Scholas
ticism. He was constantly being in
vited to give addresses, and was a
speaker in the “Catholic Hour” in 1933-
He was Director of the National Cen
ter of the Confraternity of Christian
Doctrine at the headquarters of the
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Bishop O’Hara Announces
Coining of Famed Order
Founded by Mother Rose
Hawthorne Lathrop
(Special to The Bulletin)
ATLANTA. Ga.—The Most Rev.
Gerald P. O'Hara, D. D., Bishop of
Savannah-Atlanta, announces the pur
chase for the Servants for the Relief
of Incurable Cancer, the order found
ed by Mother Rose Hawthorne Lath
rop, of the old Hebrew Orphans’
Home, to establish there a charity
hospital for sufferers from cancer.
The site occupies an entire block,
400 by 400 feet, and the purchase
was negotiated by Robert R. Otis.
The home was used for a number of
years as an orphanage for Hebrew
children, but in recent years the chil
dren have been cared for in selective
homes. The grounds are commodious
and beautifully wooded.
Mother Rose Huber, superior of the
Sisters and the successor in that ca
pacity of the late beloved Mother
Rose Hawthorne Lathorp, the daugh
ter of Nathaniel Hawthorne, illus
trious American author, wished a
location for the order in the South
so that it might extend its work. At
lanta appealed to her as the ideal
site because of its size and central
location, and the negotiations for a
suitable site followed through Bishop
O’Hara.
It is the plan of the Sisters in all
their hospitals to minister to those
serving from incurable cancer and
to minister only to those unable to
pay'for such care; this merciful as
sistance is extended to all, irrespec
tive of creed. Mother Rose was
moved with pity by the plight of
the poor suffering from incurable
cancer, a class of sufferers for which
no provision had been made, and her
founding of the order which now has
hospitals from Massachusetts to Geor
gia followed.
The new hospital will care for about
150 patients, and work has already
been started on renovating the build
ing acquired for it. The building is
of Moorish style of architecture, and
there will be no substantial change
in its architectural appearance. In
side, hospital type elevators will be
installed, a sprinkler system provided,
and the best of modern hospital
equipment incorporated into the in
stitution’s facilities. There will be a
main kitchen in the basement and a
small one on each of the three floors.
On the first floor there will be
three wards and several private rooms,
a lounge and reading room for the
patients, a dining room for the Sis
ters and a chapel with a capacity of
150. The men’s department will b-
on this floor, and the women’s de
partment on the second floor, with a
lounge for the women patients and
quarters for fifteen or more Sisters.
On the third floo , which only covers
part of the building, will be the com
munity rooms for the Sisters. In ad
dition to the boiler plant and kitchen
in the basement, there v/ill be s*ore
rooms.
These improvements will leave one
wing of the building untouched and
not utilized; it can be remodeled and
used later as the hospital grows.
Author of Best Seller Gave
Kansas Hospital to Sisters
(By N.C.VV.C. News Service)
HALSTEAD, Kans. — Selection of
"The Horse and Buggy Doctor” by the
Book-of-the-Month Club has served
to recall that its author. Dr. Arthur E.
Hertzler, a non-Catholic, gave his
widely known hospital here to the Sis
ters of St. Joseph of Wichita some six
years ago. *
Dr. Hertzler, Professor of Surgery in
the University of Kansas medical
school since 1909, established his first
hospital here _jn 1902. He made it a
rule never to charge a patient more
than $4 a day for room and nursing;
never to charge more than $150 for any
operation; never to ask for a fee in ad
vance, and never to ask a patient whe
ther he could afford to pay. He ad
hered to these resolutions and his hos
pital grew. In 1932, when it was trans
ferred to the Nuns, it had 200 patient
beds, a nurses’ training school for
nearly-a hundred students, and a rep
utation that brought patients from dis
tant places.
Feeling that taxes were hampering
his charities. Dr. Hertzler caused the
following statement to be published in
the Halstead Independent of March 3.
1932:
“To My Friends: I have conveyed
to the Sisters of St. Joseph the hospi
tal and equipment, free of all debt, for
the sum of one dollar. . . . The Sisters,
being a charitable institution in name
as well as in fact, will be able to carry
on better than I. . . . The Sisters will
carry on my policy of giving all we
have to whosoever may come.”
Dr. Hertzler has continued as chief
of staff and operates the Agnes E.
Hertzler Memorial Clinic, named in
memory of his wife.
