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THE BULLETIN OF THE CATHOLIC LAYMEN’S ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA
FEBRUARY 25, 1939
U. S. Cardinals Arrive in Rome
(Left) His Eminence, George Cardinal Mundelein, Archbishop of Chicago, and (right) His Eminence Dennis Car
dinal Dougherty, Archbishop of Philadelphia, as they sailed for Rome from New York to participate in the elec
tion of the new Pope. Cardinal Mundelein was in Florida at the time of the Holy FatherV death. Cardinal
Dougherty dedicated the Co-Cathedral of Christ the King in Atlanta last month. They have arrived in Rome.
Pope Pius XI is Called ‘Leader of Century 9
at Pontifical Mass at the National Capital
Dr. Hutchins Favors Federal
Funds for Religious Schools
President of University of Chicago Says Such Assistance
Would Be Good Democracy and Good Americanism
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
PHILADELPHIA. — Federal aid
for parochial and private school stud
ents, as recommended in the report
of the President’s Advisory Commit
tee on Education, is supported by
Robert M. Hutchins, president of the
University of Chicago, in an article
entitled ''Uncle Sam's Children” in
The Saturday Evening Post.
Advocating a democratic method of
getting a decent education for all
children, Dr.. Hutchins scoffs at cer
tain persons who oppose the giving
of aid to private and denominational
schools by pointing out that in vir
tually every state of the Union these
schools already are receiving some
sort of aid from state funds and
through such Federal agencies as the
WPA and NYA.
The real issue, he said, is neither
Federal nor denominational support,
but "whether we mean what we say
when we talk about equality of op
portunity.” Our faith in American
democracy determined whether edu
cation can be free.” Dr. Hutchins
said. “If we lose faith in democracy,
then nothing can keep education free.
If we keep our faith in democracy,
then we may be confident that a de
mocratic method of getting a decent
education for our children will not
lead to dictatorship. I have no doubt
the American demoerccy is in great
er danger from the present horrible
inequalities in educational opportun
ity than it ever will be from an at
tempt to remedy those inequalities
by customary and constitutional
means.
“The other issue emerging from the
committee’s recommendations, which
has already raised the blood pressure
of certain educators, is whether Fed
eral funds shall be used for the sup
port of Catholic schools. This is the
way the issue will be phrased,
though the committee’s report is
much more general. It suggests that
where Federal funds are allocated
for reading materials, transportation
or scholarships the s-.ates be allowed,
if they wish, to make part of these
funds available to pupils in non
public schools. Some of the remarks
which this proposal have produced
are reminiscent of the days when A1
Smith was running for President and
it was widely charged that if he were
elected, the Pope would manage Am
erica by long-distance telephone.
"One basic principle that may be
drawn from precedents is that any
one conducting an educational enter
prise in this country is entitled to
public assistance. The public wants
as much education as it can get. If
private citizens undertake to partici
pate in meeting this need, the com
munity will help out, at least by re
fraining from taxing them on assets
used for educational purposes. An
other basic principle that may be
gathered from these precedents is
that pupils may be aided in going to
the educational institution of their
choice. NYA students, for example,
are not compelled to attend state uni-
versaties; they may go to Yale or
Dartmouth and use Federal money
to pay as high tuition charges as
there are in the country.
“I believe that we shall some day
look back on the report of the Presi
dent’s committee as the most impor
tant in the history of American edu
cation since the Northwest Ordinance,
which, 150 years ago, declared that
‘religion, morality and knowledge be
ing necessary to good government
and the happiness of mankind,
schools and the means of education
shall forever be encouraged.’ ”
FATHER O’HARA SEES
CATHOLIC REVIVAL
IN SOUTH AMERICA
BY EDMOND J. BARTNETT
(Special Correspondent, N. C. W. C.
News Service)
NEW YORK—The Very Rev. John
F. O’Hara, C. S. C„ president of the
University of Notre Dame, who has
just returned from South America,
where he was a delegate to the
Eighth International Conference of
American States at Lima, Peru, was
welcomed back at a dinner tendered
him here by'the Centre Association,
an organization of Catholic college
graduates.
Heading nearly 100 prominent Ca
tholics in attendance was the Most
Rev. Stephen J. Donahue, administra
tor of the Archdiocese of New York,
who presided at the dinner and de
livered the invocation. An active
and strong Catholic intellec.ual re
vival is spreading rapidly all over
South America, Father O’Hara said.
Secretary Hull was praised by him
for “the kindness and patience which
marked his direction of the Ameri
can participation in the Lima Con
ference.”
Father O’Hara said South Americans
are “certainly good neighbors”. “My
hope and prayer is that succeeding
years may bring closer and closer co-
o deration between the North and
South Americans, to the glory of God
and the general welfare of mankind”,
he added.
2,000 BURNED ALIVE
BY BARCELONA REDS,
NATIONALISTS STATE
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
BARCELONA.—New details of the
reign of terror in Barcelona were
made public at Nationalist headquar
ters here when it was stated that it
had been confirmed that Reds had
thrown approximately 2,000 persons
into the kilns of the cement factory
of Moncada where they were burned
alive.
BURGOS.—The office of the Mili
tary Judge Advocate of the National
ist Government made public a report
received from the Barcelona police on
the activities of patrols that operated
in that city while it was under the
domination of the Negrin Govern
ment. These patrols, it was stated,
were in charge of searching houses
and expropriating all objects of value
and were largely responsible for the
terrorism in Catalonia.
The patrols, it was stated, were
made up of 600 members of the Com
munist Labor Union (C. N. T.), the
Anarchist Federation (F. A. I.), the
Catalan Separatist Party (Estate Cat-
ala), the Socialist Labor Union (C.
G. T.), the left Wing Republican
Party (Iquierda Republicana), the
Trotzky organization (P. O. U. M.)
and the Left Wing Ca’.alan Party (Es-
querra Catalana).
Sacred Heart School
Activities, Atlanta
ATLANTA, Ga.—Refreshed by the
holidays given by Cardinal Dougherty
and Bishop O'Hara, four hundred and
thirty eager students returned to be
gin the second semester at the Sacred
Heart School, January 23.
Marian Gillooley has been elected
captain and Mary Jane Baker, alter
nate captain of the 1939 basketball
squad. The team got off to an aus
picious start this season with vic
tories over North Fulton High and
Mount de Sales Academy of Macon,
but two games have been lost, one
each to Washington Seminary and N.
A. P. S., city rivals. Despite the two
losses the team shows great promise
and all their opponents will know they
are in a battle, win or lose. High
scorers, so far, have been Captain
Gillooley, Margie Reardon and Alice
Burke.
A Kay Kyser program was present
ed by the Tenth Grade before the
High School body at the January as
sembly. Peggy Bussey acted the part
of Kay Kyser as the professor. First
prize went to Norwood Ozburn of the
Eleventh Grade, and suckers were
given to the other conteslants.
A motion picture set With a loud
speaker was presented to the school
by Father Reilly, pastor of Sacred
Heart Church. Educational films will
be shown which will benefit those
classes taking science, health, his
tory, geography, and safety educa
tion. The whole school is very grate
ful to Father Reilly for this gift and
we know that it will help us in our
Studies.
All the Catholic school pupils of
Atlanta were down at the Terminal
Station to welcome Cardinal Dough
erty of Philadelohia to Atlanta. He
arrived at a flag-bedecked station
where Protestants as well as many
Catholics were gathered to greet him.
Sacred Heart was well represented
—Isabel Rapier.
THE U. S. SENATE will hence
forth, like the House of Representa
tives, open its daily sessions with
prayer; previously it only offered
prayer at the beginning of each leg
islative session. Senator Matthew M.
Neely, of West Virginia, offered the
resolution.
APOSTOLIC DELEGATE
AND OTHER NOTABLES
ATTEND CEREMONY
Msgr. Corrigan Delivers
Eulogy at Memorial Broad
cast to Three Continents
WASHINGTON.—As the Apostolic
De'egate to this country concluded a
Solemn Pontifical Requem Mass for
the repose of the soul of Pope Pius
XI. and as high American officials,
and Ambassadors and Ministers from
all corners of the earth reveren ly lis
tened, the late Pontiff was hailed as
“the courageous leader of the cen
tury”, “the fearless flayer of injust
ice” and “the great man of his time,”
by the Rt. Rev. Msgr. Joseph Corrigan,
D. D., rector of the Catholic Univer-
ciiy of America, who delivered the
eulogy.
It was at the National Shrine of the
Immaculate Conception on the campus
of the Catholic University of America
that the Mass was said. The great
crypt of the Shrine was filled to the
doors. Besides the Most Rev. Amleto
Giavanni Cicognani the Apostolic Del
egate, eleven archbishops and bishops
also attended, including one Bishop of
an Oriental rite and a bishop from
China.
A member of the President's Cab
inet, high members of the Federal ju
diciary, Senators and Congressmen,
and officers of the Army and Navy
were included in a section for Amer
ican officials. The entire diplomatic
corps accredited to the United States
was invited, and ambassadors, minis
ters or charge d'affaires from very
nearly every diplomatic mission at
tended.
There had been planned a Mass cel-
sary of the coronation of Pops Pius.
These plans were changed when the
news of the Pontiff’s death arrived.
A great catafalque,, draped in black:
stood before the main altar,. On it
was imposed a large white cross, be
fore it the coat of arms of the late
Pontiff, and over it a replica of the
triple Papal crown. The University
buildings were draped in black and
gold.
The beginning of the Mass was
broadcast and later the eulogy also
was put on the air, by the National
Broadcasting Company, the broadcast
being sent also by short wave to
Rome and to South America. Sound
motion pictures also were taken of
the ceremony by a battery of cam
eramen.
Among the members of the Hier
archy occupying places on either side
of the high catafalque were the Most
Rev. John T. McNicholas, O. P-, Arch
bishop of Cincinnati; the Most Rev.
Thomas J. Walsh, Archbishop of New-
art; tlie Most Rev. Gerald P. O’Hara,
Bishop of Savannah-Atlanta; the Most
Rev. Francis P. Keough, Bishop of
Frovidence; the Most Rev. James E.
Kearney, Bishop of Rochester; the
Most Rev. Bartholomew J. Eustace,
Bishop of Camden; the Most Rev. Con
stantine Bohachevsky, Bishop of the
Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church; the
Most Rev. John M. McNamara, Aux
iliary Bishop of Baltimore; the Most
Rev. Rev. William A. Griffin, Auxili
ary Bishop of Newark; the Most Rev.
Michael J. Keyes, S. M.. Titular Bishop
of Aeropoli, and the Most Rev. Paul
Yu-Pin, Vicar Apostolic of Nanking.
Chinai
Among the members of the diplo
matic corps in attendance were: The
Ambassadors of Peru, Argentine, Bel
gium, Ecuador, France, Colombia and
Japan; the ministers of Switzerland,
Sweden. Albania, Guatemala, Den
mark, Hungary, the Union of South
Africa, Uruguay, El Salvador, Siam,
Lithuania, Jugoslavia, Latvia, , Bul
garia, Costa Rica, Canada, Panama,
Czechoslovakia, Haiti and Paraguay,
and the charges d’affaires of Great
Britain, Chile, Italy, Cuba, Germany,
Brazil, Greece, Venezuela, Bolivia,
"Honduras and Finland. The wife and
son of the minister of the Dominican
Republic, and the daughter and sno of
Ireland’s Minister ala were present.
CLASSIFIED LIST
OF CURRENT PLAYS
Following is a list classifying cur
rent stage plays prepared by the Cath
olic Theatre Movement of New York:
“A” Generally unobjectionable—
What A Life; Abe Lincoln in Illinois,
Spring Meeting, D'Oyly Carte Reper
tory, The Merchant of Yonkers, Out
ward Bound.
“B” Objectionable in Part—Hells a
Foppin, I Married an Angel. Knicker
bocker Holiday, The Gentle People,
The Importance of Being Earnest, The
White Steed.
“C” wholly Objectionable—Oscar
Wilde, Pins and Needles, Tobacco
Road, Kiss the Boys Goodbye, Leave
It to Me, The Boys From Syracuse,
Rocket to the Moon. Mamba's Daugh
ters, The Primrose Path. ,
TWO NUNS DIE AS
CONVENT IN CHILE
IS RAZED BY QUAKE
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
WASHINGTON.—The Convent of
the Sisters of the Sacred Heart at
Concepcion Chile, was destroyed and
two Sisters were killed and nine others
seriously injured in the earthquake
which wrought widespread havoc in
Chile, according to word received here.
Three Sisters of the Sacred Heart from
the United States now in Chile are
safe, the word says. These Sisters are
not in Concepcion.
The Sacred Heart Sisters surviving
the destruction of their convent in
Concepcion are living in the convent
gardens, it is stated. The destruction
of the convent entailed a loss of about
$75,000, the report adds.
FR, GONLIN GREETED
BY SAVANNAH PARISH
And St. Anthony’s, Atlanta,
Bids Him Godspeed
(Special To The Bulletin)
SAVANNAH, Ga.— Blessed Sacra
ment Parish welcomed the Rev. James
H. Conlin, its new pastor, with a re
ception at the rectory, many members
of Cathedral parish where Father
Conlin was stationed several years
ago joining with his new parishoners
in welcoming his to the city.
The rectory was beautifully deco
rated, and lighted tapers in silver
candlesticks added to its attractive
ness. Assisting Father Conlin in re
ceiving were Mrs. John E. Schwarz,
president of the Ladies’ Auxiliary of
the church, and Mrs. Lee Howard,
vice-president. A musical program
was presented during the evening by
Mrs. Frances Elmore, Mrs. Rita
Aprea, Edward Daly, Miss Margaret
Steeg and William Wolf. Mrs. A.
Cooper and Mrs. James Doyle were
in charge of the punch bowl, assist
ed by Mrs. Wm. Hadsell. Mrs. Ed
ward Jones, Mrs. A. C. Guild, Mrs.
J. H. Mitchleson, Mrs. G. Little and
Miss Nell Cleary. Miss Leila Mc
Donough had charge of the decora
tions and refreshments, assisted by
Miss Margaret Murphy; Mrs. Frank
Barrahan supervised the signing of
the guest bok. About 400 called
during the evening to greet Father
Conlin.
As Father Conlin left St. Anthony’s
parish in Atlanta, where he had been
pastor for the past three years, his
parishoners gathered to bid him God
speed and to thank him for his splen
did services to the parish, they pre
sented him a purse as an indication
of their esteem.
In St. Anthony’s parish, says St.
Anthony’s Parish News, Father Con
lin did splendid work; the new rec
tory of the parish was erected by him,
he developed the parish organizations,
started the perpetual novena to Our
Lady of the Miraculous Medal, :.nd
increased the number of weekly
Communicants substantially. Father
Conlin was the third pastor of St.
Anthony’s, succeeding the late Rt.
Rev. Msgr. H. F. Clark, who in turn
succeeded the late Rev. O. N. Jack-
son, after the Rev. James E King had
served as administrator.
“We will miss Father Conlin” says
the St. Anthony’s Parish News, "and
we feel thrt he will miss his friends
to St. Anthony’s, but we know it will
be only a short time until he wins
the hearts of the Blessed Sacrament
parishoners as he has won those
here.”
Jeremiah O’Hara Set
Headlines on Deaths
of Last Four Popes
AUGUSTA, Ga.— Jeremiah O'Hara,
the oldest employe of The Augusta
Herald, with which he has been con
nected since its founding nearly a
half-century ago, and the only one of
the original force still left, set the
headlines for The Herald announcing
the death of Pope Pius XI, and in so
doing established the record of hav
ing set the headlines announcing the
deaths of four Popes, Leo XIII, Pips
X. Benedict XV and Pius XI. Mr.
O'Hara also sets the headlines for The
Bulletin, which has been printed by
The Herald for a number of years.
Recently he had the privilege of
meeting a distinguished namesake,
Bishop Gerald O’Hara of Savannah-
Atlanta, who visited The Herald of
fice when he was in Augusta to see
the January issue of The Bulletin be
ing made up.
MASS AC HUS ETTsThO NORS
LATE SUPREME PONTiFF
(By N. C. W. C. News Se> vk-el
BOSTON.—On the order of Gov
ernor Saltonstall, flags o-i all State
buildings, including the State
House, were at half-s-aff during the
time of the funeral of Pope Pius XI.
A resolution praising the late Pon
tiff as “a valiant and courageous
Vicar of God ... a true and holy
man of God whose meraoiy will be
revered and respected until the end
of time as the Pope of Peace in a
world where there is no peace,” was
adopted by the City Council yester-
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