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THE BULLETIN OF THE CATHOLIC LAYMEN’S ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA
FEBRUARY 25, 1939
Crusade for Decent Literature Is Launched
REV. T. J. McNAMARA
IS NAMED DIRECTOR
RY BISHOP O'HARA
Catholics of Diocese to Be
Requested to Take Pledge
of Cooperation
Bernard Baruch Aids
St. Angela Academy
Gives Aiken School $10,000
to Aid Deserving Students
(Special to The Bulletin)
SAVANNAH, Ga.—The Catholics
of Georgia are called upon by their
Bishop, the Most Rev. Gerald P.
O'Hara, D. D„ to enlist in a cam
paign against the immoral literature
which is flooding the newsstands of
this state in common with the oth
ers throughout the land, and the
Rev- T. James McNamara, rector of
the Cathedral and Diocesan Super
intendent of Schools, has been des
ignated by His Excellency as direc
tor of the campaign.
The first step in the campaign will
be the requesting of the Catholics
of the state and Diocese to take the
following pledge during Lent, a
pledge which will enroll them as
members of the National Legion for
Decent Literature:
“Whereas, a vast amount of lewd
literature flows through this com
munity from many magazine racks;
and
“Whereas this literature is injuri
ous to morals, especially among
youths, and
“Whereas, even some magazines,
whose reading content is not in it
self bad, are supported chiefly by
the advertising of wares which ap
peal to the lewd-minded; therefore
“I promise to refrain from pur
chasing and reading such literature,
and even to withhold all patronage
from places where such literature is
sold.”
The campaign was launched by a
letter from Bishop O' Hara read in
the churches of the Diocese. “One
has but to cast his eyes over a typi
cal newsstand to become aware of
the character of many present day
publications with which this nation
is being flooded,” Bishop O'Hara
said, “We are not alone in deploring
ing the growing plague of immoral
literature, and I feel confident that
our non-Catholic • brethren, who
share with us the same ideals of de
cency and morality, will not fail to
unite their voices and their efforts
with ours in a common and mutual
crusade to rid the country of a
monstrous evil.” Since the depres
sion set in, 366 magazines of inde
cent character have come into being,
Bishop O'Hara asserted.
Father McNamara, discussing the
crusade, asserted: “All seriouS-
minded people are in hearty accord
with the statement that the traffic
in printed obscenity has reached gi
gantic proportions and in conse
quence obscene literature is an evil
of such magnitude as seriously to
threaten the moral, social and na
tional life of our country. History
demonstrates that no nation can long
survive when the moral law has
broken down. George Washington,
father of his country, warned that
the two firmest props of government
are morality and religion and these
are threatened by the existing traf
fic in printed obscenity. It becomes
a duty incumbent on all, a duty not
only religious but patriotic as well,
to unite in a campaign of effective
protest. Because the bishops of the
country realize that wishful think
ing, noble emotions, righteous in
dignation will never avail to check
the onslaught of this resourceful,
diabolical foe, an organization on a
national scale to be known as the
National Organization for Decent
Literature has been determined up
on. Each of the parishes of the state
is being organized and the hope is
entertained that all right-thinking
people will join with us in an or
ganized effort to combat this threat
to church and state.”
(Special to The Bulletin)
CHARLESTON. S. C. — Bernard
M. Baruch, noted New York financier
and chairman of the War Industries
Board in 1918 by appointment by
President Wilson, has given St. An
gela Academy. Aiken, conducted by
the Sisters of Our Lady of Mercy, the
sum of $10,000, to be used to aid de
serving students. Mr. Baruch, who
has extended South Carolina inter
ests, is the son of the late Dr. Simon
B. Baruch, a surgeon in the Confed
erate Army. Mr. Baruch is not a
Catholic, and the gift was a surprise
to the Sisters who had had no cor
respondence with him prior to the
announcement of the benefaction.
Charles J. Hughes
Remembers Churches
Will of Charlestonian Also
Leaves $10,000 for St.
Francis Xavier Infirmary
(Special to The Bulletin)
CHARLESTON, S. C. — The will
of Charles J. Hughes of Mount Pleas
ant, who died early in February, and
who left the bulk of his estate for
the establishment of the Charleston
Sicentific and Cultural Fund for
scholarships for scientific and artistic
studies, remembered St. Francis
Xavier Infirmary in his will with a
bequest of $10,000. the fund to be in
vested and the income to be used for
the maintenance of a room or ward
for crippled children. The Sisters of
Our Lady of Mercy are given his
house in Mount Pelasant, with fur
niture. furnishings and equipment,
and $10,000 to keep it as a place of
recreation for the children of the
City Orphan Asylum, which they
conduct. St. John’s Church in Sum
merville is left $5,000 and Stella Maris
Church, Sullivan’s Island, a similar
sum. The Salvation Army and Red
Cross are left $2,500 each.
Mr. Hughes was a cripple from in
fancy, unable to move from one chair
to another without being picked up
bodily. He was a. great lover of
children and was constantly enter
taining them. His interest in them
is evident from his will. Despite his
bodily ailment he had made two trips
to Europe and was planning another
when stricken.
Msgr. James A. Kane, Oldest
Diocesan Priest, Dies at 64
Former Cathedral Rector
Was Founder of St. Mary’s,
Augusta, and Pastor There
for Twenty Yeears
AUGUSTA, Ga. — The Rt. Rev.
Msgr. James A. Kane, V. F„ the first
pastor of St. Mary’s-on-the-Hill
Parish, which he founded twenty
years ago. died at St. Mary’s Rectory
January 29 after an extended illness
which became serious a month be
fore his death- With Monsignor
Kane at the time of his death were
the Most Rev. Gerald P. O'Hara, D.
D., Bishop of Savannah-Atlanta, his
three sisters, Miss Catherine Kane of
Augusta, his house-keeper for many
years, Miss Nellie Kane of Charles
ton and Mrs. W. J. Rogers of Wor
cester, Mass., and the Rev. John J.
Kennedy for six years assistant pas
tor of St. Mary’s.
RISHOP BOY SCOUT
SAVANNAH SPEAKER
Delivers Address at Com
munion Breakfast
REV. JAS. J. GRADY
IS GIVEN NEW POST
Chancellor Is Savannah
Beach Pastor and Director
of Mission Groups
SAVANNAH, Ga.—The Rev. James
J. Grady of the Cathedral of St. John
the Baptist, recently named chancel
lor of the Diocese of Savanah-Atlanta
by the Most Rev. Gerald P. O'Hara,
D.D., and Diocesan director of the
Catholic Youth Movement, had been
appointed pastor of St. Michael’s
Church, Savannah Beach, and dioce
san director of the Catholic Mission
ary Society for Home and Foreign
Missions, which includes the work of
the Society for the Propagation of the
Faith, the Georgia Missionary Society,
the Association o f the Holy Child
hood and the Students' Missionary
Crusade.
REV. DR. McDAID of Kilrea, Ire
land, has been named rector of the
Irish College in Rome, succeeding
Monsignor Curran, who becomes par
ish priest at Greystones, Ireland. Dr.
McDaid is 33 years old.
(Special To The Bullet’n)
SAVANNAH, Ga.,— The Most Rev-
Gerald P. O'Hara, D. D., Bishop of
Savannah-Atlanta, was the principal
speaker at the Communion breakfast
of the Boy Scouts of Cathedral, Sac
red Heart and Blessed Sacrament
parishes at the De Soto Hotel, Feb
ruary 12; the troops are sponsored
by the Holy Name Societies of these
parishes; the Holy Name Societies
and the Knights of Columbus spon
sored the breakfast. The sermon
at the Mass was delivered by the
Rev. T. James McNamara, rector of
the Cathedral. The Rev. James J.
Grady, director of the Catholic
Youth Movement of the Diocese,
presided at the breakfast and pre
sented Bishop O’Hara. A. J • Ryan,
Jr., introduced the guests.
ST JOSEPH S NURSES, seven in
number, have gone to Cincinnati for
a four-months course in pediatric
nursing in the Cincinnati General
Hospital. Those taking the course
are the Misses Maude Mitchum,
Lillian Helmly, Janie Rivenbark,
Helen Babin, Winifred Morris, Mary
Shaleuhy and Florine Ashmore.
A NOVENA in honor of Our lady
of Lourdes at the Cathedral was at
tended by large congregations; start
ing February 3, it continued until
February 11. the anniversary of the
first appearance of the Blessed Vir
gin to St. Bernadette at Lourdes in
1858.
HENRY B. BRENNAN was elected
vice-president of the Savannah Bar
Association at the annual meeting
held recently. Mr. Brennan was
formerly president of the Savannah
Branch of the Catholic Laymen’s As
sociation of Georgia.
MISS FLORENCE MARTUS, the
famed “Waving Girl” of Ty’oee, was
featured in a story in a newspaper in
Colombia, in South America. Ray
mond Montsalvatge, of Savannah .re
ported after an air trip there. The
first thing he noticed in El Heraldo at
Barranquilla, Colombia, was a pic
ture of Miss Martus and an extended
story about her. Miss Martus, who
is the aunt of Father Thomas A.
Brennan, of Albany, is a member of
the Thunderbolt parish.
MISS HELEN BURNS made an ad
dress on SL Bernadette over Station
WTOC February. 19; Miss Bums is
, treasurer of the Cathedral Sodality.
Monsignor Kane died late Sunday
night; the following morning mem
bers of the congregation who had
learned of the death of their pastor
received Holy Communion for the
repose of his soul. That night and
the succeeding night the men of the
parish formed guards of honor over
the remains, the first night in the
rectory and the second night in the
church which Monsignor Kane built.
The office of the dead was recited
by Bishop O’Hara and the priests of
the city and Diocese before the
Pontifical Mass of Requiem Febru
ary 1; Bishop O’Hara officiated at
the Mass, with the Very Rev. Dan J.
McCarthy, vicar-general of the Dio
cese, as archpriest, the Very Rev.
Boniface Bauer, O. S. B., Savannah,
and the Rev. John E. O’Donohoe, S.
J., Augusta, deacons of honor, the
Rev. James H. Conlin, Savannah,
deacon of the Mass, the Rev. T.
James McNamara, Savannah, sub
deacon, and the Rev. Harold J. Barr,
Athens, master of ceremonies. A
priests' choir composed of the Rev.
John J. Kennedy, the Rev. A. Sitler,
the Rev. George J. Laugel and the
Rev- A. Gall chanted the Mass.
The sermon was delivered by
Bishop O’Hara who, after pointing
out the sublime dignity of the priest
hood, recalled how Monsignor Kane
labored to be as worthy as possible
of the dignity; His Excellency out
lined Monsignor Kane’s services in
Savannah and in Augusta, and as
serted that the flourishing spiritual
life of the parish was his greatest
monument.
Active pallbearers were Luke J.
Glennon. F. B. Pope, Richard Reid,
Dr. W. W. Battey, Marion C. Stulb
and E. J. Gallaher; members of the
parish were honorary pallbearers.
The remains were then taken to Sa
vannah for services at the Cathe
dral of St- John the Baptist, where
Monsignor .Kane was formerly
rector.
Members of the Knights of Colura-
bus and of the Benedictine Cadet
battalion served as a guard of honor
before the services when the remains
lay in state in the Cathedral. The
spacious Cathedral was filled for the
ceremony, and Bishop O'Hara offi
ciated, assisted by the Rev. T. James
McNamara as archpriest, and the
Rev. John J. Kennedy, Monsignor
Kane’s assistant, and the Rev. John
E. O'Donohoe, S.J., pastor of St.
Patrick’s, Augusta, as deacons- A
large delegation of the laity and re-
(Continued on Page Six)
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MONSIGNOR KANE
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SCHEDULE OF MARIST
ELEVEN IS ARRANGED
Ten Games Are Announced
for Next Fall for Atlanta
School’s Cadets
FATHER KENNEDY,
FATHER BARR GET
NEW APPOINTMENTS
Athens Pastor Succeeds
Monsignor Kane in Augusta
—Father Kennedy Named
Pastor at Athens
(Special to The Bulletin)
ATLANTA, Ga.—Marist College has
arranged a ten-game schedule for the
cadets’ football team in the fall; Coach
Louis Van Houten’s charges will play
seven Georgia Interscholastic Associ
ation games. The schedule was an
nounced at the recent football ban
quet at the Ansley Hotel, at which
the Rev. Philip Dagneau, S. M., prin
cipal of the college, was host and
toastmaster. The schedule follows:
September 15, Tech High; 22, Mon
roe Aggies: 29, Commercial High; Oc
tober 6. Albany High at Albany; 13,
Boys’ High; 20, Rome High at Rome;
27, open; November 3, Georgia Mili
tary Academy; 10, Richmond Acad
emy at Augusta; 24, Lanier High at
Macon; 30, Brunswick at Brunswick.
COL. JACK J. SPALDING was
honored at memorial services of the
Atlanta Bar Association at recent ex
ercises after which the judges of Su
perior and Municipal courts adjourn
ed for the day. Colonel Spalding was
the dean of the Atlanta Bar, and the
most distinguished of the seven mem
bers of the Bar who died during the
year and were honored at the cere
monies.
CENTENARY IN APRIL
FOR LITTLE SISTERS
Four-Day Program in Sa
vannah Will Mark Found
ing of Order for Poor
STEPHENS MITCHELL was re-elect
ed editor of the Atlanta Historical
Bulletin at the annual meeting of the
Atlanta Historical Society.
LEWIS F. GORDON was one of the
principal speakers at the Louisiana
Bankers’ Conference at Baton Rouge
late in January.
GRAY “BILLY” RAINS, who was
graduated from Marist College sever
al years ago, and who is head ar
ranger for the "Old Maestro” Ben
Bemie radio network band, was a re
cent visitor in Atlanta. Mr. Rains was
noted as a musician while living in
Atlanta; he is now located in New
York.
AUGUSTA, Ga.,—The Rev. John J.
Kennedy, assistant pastor of St.
Mary’s Catholic Church and chaplain
of Mt. St. Joseph's Academy, for
nearly six years, has been appoint
ed pastor of SL Joseph’s Church,
Athens, succeeding the Rev. Harold
J. Barr, who comes to St. Mary’s as
pastor here, the Most Rev. Gerald P.
O'Hara, D. D., Bishop of Savannah-
Atlanta, announced February 3. The
changes became effective February
8th.
Father Kennedy, one of the most
popular of Augusta clergyman and
noted for his eloquence and scholar
ship. came to Augusta from Savannah
in 1933; previously he was at the
Cathedral there. Born in Ireland and
ordained in Dublin, he served as a
priest in Australia from 1905 to 1928
except for the four years during
which he was a chaplain for the Aus
tralian troops in Palestine, Egypt,
Gallipoli, Belgium and France during
the World War; he was twice dec
orated for gallantry under fire, once
by King George at Buckingham Pal
ace.
Father Barr is a native of Savan
nah and educated there and in Mary
land. where he was graduated from
St. Mary’s Seminary, Baltimore; he
did post-graduate work at the Ca
tholic University of America. He
served at the Cathedral in Savannah
as assistant and as rector, at the Im
maculate Conception Church in At
lanta, and St. Mary/s here before
going to Athens; he was for several
years assistant to Monsignor Kane, of
St. Mary’s, whom he now succeeds.
Father Barr is widely known in Au
gusta and highly popular here.
K. OF G. IN SOCIAL
JUSTICE GRUSADE '
Supreme Officer Addresses
Savannah and Atlanta
Conferences on Campaign
(Special to The Bulletin)
SAVANNAH, Ga. —Neil H. McGow
an, representing the supreme board
of the Knights of Columbus, attend
ed two conferences of Georgia K. of
C. officials early in February, speak
ing to them on the current K. of C.
Crusade for Social Justice. At the
Savannah conference, at which State
Deputy William T. Walsh presided,
officers of the Savannah, Brunswick
and Augusta Councils were present;
at the Atlanta conference, which
State Deputy Walsh * also attended,
the Macon, Atlanta and Columbus
Councils were represented by their
grand knights, financial secretaries
and other officials.
(Special to The Bulletin)
SAVANNAH, Ga. — The centennial
of the founding of the Congregation
of the Lattle Sisters of the Poor will
be observed throughout the world in
April, and the Savannah Sisters nave
ranged for a four-day program, start
ing April 24 with a Military Mass in
the chapel of the Home for the Aged.
The choir of Sacred Heart School will
furnish the music. There will be a
banquet tendered the Most Rev. Ger
ald P. O'Hara, D.D., Bishop of the Di
ocese of Savannah-Atlanta, at one
o’clock, and there will he Pontifical
Benediction at three o’clock, Bishop
O’Hara officiating.
The following day. April 25, there
will be a children's Mass at the Cath
edral of St. John the BaptisL with
congregational singing by the children.
On April 26, Memorial Day, there will
be Mass in the chapel for the nuns of
the city, at eight o'clock, with Pontifi
cal Benediction in the afternoon at
three. The final day, April 27, will
have a Mass at nine, a Pontifical Mass,
at the Cathedral, Bishop O’Hara offic
iating; this will be known as Benefac
tor’s Dy. There will be a luncheon at
one for the benefactors, inspection of
the Home from 2:30 to 4:90, and Pon-
,ti£cal Beafidwtiaa a* fouc.
MARY ANN KALKHURST, infant
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jack Kalk
hurst, granddaughter of Mr. and Mrs.
W. H. Schroder, and great-grand
daughter of the late Col. and Mrs. Jack
J. Spalding, was the first baby chris-f
tened in the new Co-Cathedral of
Christ the King, in which the funeral
of her great-grandfather was the first
ceremony of any kind.
R. A. KIRKPATRICK, nationally
known lecturer, delivered an illus
trated lecture on the Utah National
Parks at Marist College Auditorium,
unde rthe auspices of the Sacred
Heart Chapel Guild. Mr. Kirkpatrick
for many years was president of the
National Americanism Congress.
IMMACULATE CONCEPTION
Council of the National Council of
Catholic Women held its first business
meeting in the rectory late in Janu
ary. Mrs. Grover Heyser is modera
tor, and Mrs. H. H. McLaughlin,
president, presided. The Very Rev.
Joseph E .Moylan, V. F„ spiritual di
rector for the Atlanta districL end
Mrs. Reyburn L. Watkins, organiza
tion chairman for the Atlanta dis
trict, presided.
THE CO-CATHEDRAL Club and a
number of its friends were enter
tained late in January by Miss Mar
gie Manning at tire home of her
parents, Mr. and Mrs. William Man
ning, Jr. Assisting Miss Manning in
entertaining were the Misses Dorothy
Wrigley, Jeanne LeSebre, Alice Lewis
, .and jllary Barker lYiiittoda-
Nuns Professed at
Charleston Convent
Bishop Walsh Officiates at
Ceremony There
(Special to The Bulletin)
CHARLESTON, S. C.—The Feast of
the Purification of Our Lady, the
Most Rev. Emmet M. Walsh, D. D.,
Bishop of Charleston, presided at a
ceremony of Profession at the Con
vent of Our Lady of Mercy, when
Sister M. deNeri Faase, of New York,
Sister M. Clement Fine and Sister
M. Marcella Zwingmann, of Charles
ton pronounced their Vows.
The Bishop in his address to the
Novices stressed particularly the re
sponsibility they were freely assum
ing and explained the significance of
the Religious life.
Assisting the Bishop at Mass and
at the ceremony were the Very Rev.
J. J. McCahill, of Our Lady of the
Assupmtion Church, the Bronx, New
York; the Very Rev. Paul Hatch and
the Rev. Albert Faase of the Oratory,
Rock Hill. S C. and the Rev. J. J.
McCarthy, assistant pastor at the
Cathedral. Charleston.
JEWISH LEADER SCORES
ALL SUBVERSIVE “ISMS”
(Special to The Bulletin)
ATLANTA, Ga. -— Since the new
"isms” have become prominent,
"Americans seem to have lost sight of
Communism,” Isador S. Worth, na
tional commander of the Jewish War
Veterans, asserted at the annual ban
quet of the Atlanta Post and its aux
iliary. Americans should combat all
subversive ‘isms”, Mr. Worth declar
ed; “I consider every American citi
zen a trustee of liberty and, being
such, he must guard the sacred trea
sure of which he. is trustee.”