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AUGUST 24. 1940 THE BULLETIN OF THE CATHOLIC LAYMEN’S ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA ELEVEN Crescent Laundry Company Up-to-Date Laundry Work, Dry Cleaning and Dyeing IS Second SL Phones 16—17 MACON, GA. Out-of-town work done on short notice. 1107 Peachtree St. Hemlock 4466 2967 Peachtre Rd. Cherokee 5311 LAUNDRY-DRY CLEANING CLARK Raymond Bloomfield Secy. Catholic Funeral Director Sam Greenberg & Co. 274 Ivy Street, N. E. Phone Walnut 7908 ATLANTA. GA. To All the Congregation of Christ the King Church and School wishing you a most successful year. CARDEN HILL DELICATESSEN Cherokee 3139 2827 Peachtree Road ATLANTA, GA. _ GREALISH, POTEET & WALKER FUNERAL DIRECTORS 519 GREENE STREET AUGUSTA, GEORGIA The Liberty National Bank and Trust Co. SAVANNAH, GEORGIA C. S. SANFORD, President N. K. CLARK Vice-President and Trust Officer R. H. G1GNILLIAT Cashier HUGH H. GRADY G. W. UPCHURCH Assistant Cashier and Assistant Trust Officer Assistant Cashier Member Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation Spend Week-End Savannah or Savannah Beach $2.50 From Augusta to Savannah AND RETURN Air-Conditioned Coaches Tickets on sale every Friday and Saturday, also for Sunday morning trains. Final Unfit Monday. Dates of sale each week-end June 23 to September 1, 1940, in clusive. Ticket Agent will gladly furnish you additional information. Central of Georgia Railway GEORGIA STATE COUNCIL KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS Most Rev. Gerald P. O’Hara, D.D.. J.U.D.. Bishop of Savannah, Atlanta. State Chaplain Thomas J. Gilmore. Atlanta. State Deputy William T. Walsh. Savannah." Past State Deputy George T. Flynt, Atlanta. State Secretary R. S. Hcsien. Augusta. Treasurer Leo Leonard, Columbus. Advocate Thomas J. Canty, Savannah, Warden ATLANTA COUNCIL, NO. 660 Grami Knight Brian F. O'Brien, 627 Woodlawn Avenue, S. E. Financial Secretary George T. Flynt, 1356 Laner Blvd.. N. E. Council Meets 1st and 3rd Wednesdays, at 8 P. M.. at the Council House, 1200 Peachtree St., N. E. Club House Open Every Day and Evening at the Above Address. SAVANNAH COUNCIL No. 631 Jos. N. McDonough Grand Knight J. B. McDonald Financial Secretary Frank Puder. R. S. Meets Second and Fourth Wednesdays. 8 P. M. 3 West Liberty Street Savannah. Ga. Bishop Gross Council No. 1019 Louis C. Kunze Grand Knight Jos J. Spano, Financial Secretary Meets First and Third Wednes day, 8 P. M. 802 Broadway Catholic Club Bldg.. Columbus Ga. Patrick Walsh Council No. 677 James B. Mulherin Grand Knight R. S. Heslcn, Financial Sec. Visiting Brothels Welcome 1012 Greene SL Augusta. Ga. Macon Council, No. 925 Chas. Le A. Adams, Sr. Grand Knight Herman Huhn Financial Secretary Meets the First and Third Tuesday. 8:15 P M., in Mitchell Hall of the Catholic Club. 521 New St. Mulberry St_ Macon. Ga. Henry Thomas Ross Council, No. 1939 J. Boyd Touhey. Grand Knight Kenneth E. Ammons, Financial Secretary P. O. Box 391 Meets Second and Fourth fues- days at Knights of Co lumbus Hall. Brunswick. Ga. THE SOCIETY FOR THE DIOCESAN DIRI Pev. James J. Grady FOREIGN MISSIONS v r EAST HARRIS ST. Savapnap. Ga. “FOR SOCIAL WORKS 99 Mission Intention for the Month of September Sodality Members Donate Window to St. Mary’s Home (Special to The Bulletin) SAVANNAH, Ga.—Completing the group of stained glass windows in the chapel of St. Mary’s Home, on July 31, the Sodality of Our Lady of the home presented the final window to His Excellency the Most Reverend Gerald P. O'Hara, who is President of the Female Orphan Benevolent Society, which operates St. Mary's Home. The presentation was made by Miss Anna Owens, secretary of the Sodal ity, and Bishop O'Hara expressed his appreciation of the effort Which the organization had made in securing the window. - Later in the afternoon, a playlet “A Miracle of Roses”, was presented by the girls. The stage was convert ed into a garden, the play being pre sented against a setting of flowers. The cast of characters was as fol lows: Opening. Madeline Evans; Mis tress of School,( Edna Casey: Lady Clare, Catherine Evans; Grazella, La- Vita Felton; A Milkmaid, Catherine Benton; Mignon, Isabelle Pinckney; Bertha, Christin Hill; Alice, Shirley Wickboldt; scholars, Jane. Eva Usick; Mary, Dora Dell Taylor; Flora, Helen Marie Crowley; Anna, Barbara Rat- terree; poor people. Betty Ann Le noir, Lois Benton, Rose Stemberger, M. A. McKenna, Joan Evans, M. R. Lenoir, Edna Barfield, Annabelle Wimpee. At the close of the play the girls sang “Ave Maria”, accompanied by Mrs. Mary Gleason, who directed the musical numbers featured during the performance. ALEXANDER J. WAY, General Manager of The Catholic Universe Bulletin, Vice President of the Cath olic Press Association of the United States, and Secretary of the St. Vin- , cent de Paul Society, is one of four 1 prominent Catholic laymen of the Diocese of Cleveland whom His Holi ness, Pope Pius XII has named Knight Commanders of the Order of St. Gregory the Great. DENOMINATIONAL ENDOWMENTS ENDANGERED Conger Explains These Funds Are Jeopardized By Gasoline Pipe Lines In other advertisements facts have been given to show that if the Georgia Legislature should give gasoline pipe line companies the power to condemn public or private property in acquiring right-of- ways, Georgia and Georgia’s people would be seriously injured—injured through loss of revenue from rail road taxes, through losses in com mon school funds, through losses in county taxes, through loss of jobs for thousands of laborers, through injury to the state’s interest in the W. & A. Railway, through the con stant danger of explosions, and many other ways. All this, without the people of Georgia benefiting in any way from the gasoline pipe lines themselves. This is to call to the attention of the religious denomination^ of Georgia, and to the charitable and public minded citizens of the state, a special danger vto them. These groups have hundreds of thousands of dollars in endowment funds in vested in railroad securities. Let’s take the case of the South-Western Railroad Company as an example. The proposed gasoline pipe line through Georgia from Port St. Joe to Chattanooga parallels the South- Western Railroad. So much of this railroad’s revenue is from the transportation of gasoline that if the gasoline pipe line were built, the road’s remaining revenues would be insufficient to pay oper ating expenses and its stock would therefore become worthless. A list of the stockholders of this com pany shows that a large percentage of its stock is held in the endow ment funds of various charitable and denominational institutions — schools, colleges, hospitals, orphan ages and other charities. _ Among these are the State University, Mercer University, Wesleyan Col lege, the Berry Schools, the Acad emy for the Blind, several churches and old ministers’ funds. Various interests opposed to giv ing these powers of condemnation to gasoline pipe lines which cannot help Georgia, have collected and placed information and literature on this subject in the hands of the undersigned. 1 will be glad to fur nish it on request. Be sure your candidates for the legislature are opposed to granting any gasoline pipe line companies the right to condemn property in Georgia, and be sure that if elected, those candidates will continue to oppose granting the extraordinary powers these special interests are seeking. Let these northern mil lionaires learn that their millions can’t buy the power to exploit Georgia and Georgia’s citizens. A. B. CONGER 1314 22 Marietta St. Bldg. Atlanta, Ga. In this country where social works, even social security, take headline space in the nations’ program, it is to be hoped that there will be sym pathetic and prayful interest in the intention recommended by the Holy See for the month of September. So cial service, the handmaid of God's charity, had deteriorated into a Phar isaical nothingness when Christian ity made its appearance in the world. Then, with the advent of the Angel of the Anunciation, we find the first example of the new order as the maiden Mary of Nazareth hurried to her cousin Elizabeth in the hour of her trial. That action, however, found no re percussions among the arrogant Ro mans or self-sufficient Jews. “There was no room in the inn” for the hum ble carpenter, Joseph, nor for his young wife even though it was evi dent that “her days were accom plished that she should be delivered.” Only the beasts of the field were available to render the service which today our social works and workers would undertake for even the hum blest mother and child in the world. THE PERFECT EXAMPLE OF SOCIAL SERVICE After the hidden years at Nazareth Christ the Worker became Christ the Teacher and that teaching included a complete course in social service. Jesus of Nazareth was a member of the human society of His day. With the Omnipotent Intelligence of the Godhead He saw the needs of His fellow creatures, and, with the all- embracing charity of the Redeemer He proved how necessary was the application of the spiritual and cor poral works of mercy to the daily life of His followers. The sick were made well .the lep ers were cleansed, the mul titudes were fed .the dead were restored to life, the children were gathered within His loving embrace, and all men with His hearing were taught the saving doctrines of Chris tianity. None were omitted; rich and poor became the beneficiaries, not only of His society, but of His social works. LIVING CHARITY After the Ascension the Church founded by Jesus Christ put into ac tual practice the doctrines He taught. Thus we find St. Paul exhorting the Romans to love “one another with the charity of brotherhood . . com municating to the necessities of the saints . . . pursuing hospitality . . . providing good things, not only in the sight of God. but also in the sight of all men.” (XII. 10, 13, 17). The in terest and care manifested by their Founder was continued by the early Christians who vied with one anoth er in the exercise of the spiritual and corporal works of mercy, which to day constitute “social works”. As the gentle doctrines of the Re deemer infiltrated even the most sav age of the -European tribes, social service became the privilege of king and peasant alike. Pope Leo XII re minds us ‘ civil society was renovated in every part by the teachings of Christianity . . . that it was brought back from death to life. to so ex cellent a life that nothing more per fect had been known before or will come to pass in the ages that are yet to be.” Charity was a real, a living thing, reaching a climatic peak under the gentle administrations of St. Vin cent de Paul. Then came the dark day when heresy reared its ugly head and the apostate Luther trod underfoot not only obedience to the Vicar of Christ, but to the principles of Christian brotherhood and service which had been the earmarks of Catholicity since its foundation. THE FLAME RELIGHTED It remained for the zealous Catho lic layman, Anthony Frederick Oza- nam to scale the high wall of Protest ant indifference to social service and lay the foundation for the establish ment of the great St. Vincent de Paul Society. However, there was another exponent of social service who la bored simultaneously with the great Ozanam. and. while the name Pau line Jaricot is not enthroned as foundress of The Society for the Propagation of the Faith, she deserves a high place in that other sphere for which the prayers of the faithful are requested during September. In the January. 1910 issue of The Catholic World the Rev. R. Corri gan, S. J., wrote a scholarly and en lightened article on the subject of “A Catholic Lay Leader; Pauline Jar icot”, from which we quote the fol lowing: “Eighty years before our present day champions of social justice, and half a century before the Rerum Novarum Pauline Jari- cot’s heart and mind and imagination were active in the cause of the work ers. She was so far ahead of her time in the sphere of social justice that she was regarded as a visionary who deserved to fail. Her failure (however) was the failure of a Chris tianity keyed too high for an age in which Karl Marx was to be a proph et.” SOCIAL WORKS MUST CONTINUE Today, as in the time of the refor mation, the world is entering upon an entirely new era. Totalitarianism will endeavor to reach the long arm of the state into every walk of life, into every phase of Christian endeav or. But, as in that period four long centuries ago, the Church founded by the great Teacher and Social Worker must prove the fortress to resist ibe onslaughts against charity. Hospitals must be maintained where the souls as well as the bodies will be cured. Orphanages must be enlarged where children, recognized as the handiwork of God, rather than the puppets of the state, will be trained to become future members of society and heirs of heaven. Homes must be visited, not by secret police, but by social workers who will direct families along the path to better health and more contented living. Knowing the difficulties which face the world of tomorrow The Society for the Propagation of the Faith, uniting with the Holy See, begs the prayers of every Catholic American for the continuation and enlargement of social works. The bulwark of Christian charity must receive rein forcements from every source if it will resist the attacks of the future. The missions of the Catholic Churchy must be aided in their social endeav ors, for already they have made phenomenal progress—a progress which is threatened seriously if the European conflict extends much fur ther. Like the nations of that unfor tunate continent, the Catholic Church must not be found unprepared for what is coming, and She gives evi dence of her preparedness by Her ap peal to her children for the prayers “for social works ’. RT. REV. MSG. THOMAS J. McDonnell, National Director, The Society for the Propagation of the Faith. FOUR CENTURIES CF PROGRESS “The fourth century of the Society of Jesus has a special significance in a world of tottering institutions, for the Society has somehow managed to survived turbulent times. This would be a shock to some historical figures; those who have buried the Society so often would fim^ it hard to be lieve that their names are forgotten and that their work is in vain. But the Society has not only survived; it is actually thriving today with life and activity. Despite 400 years of harried existence, it is still weaving the threads of its colorful history. This is the perennial 'Jesuit enigma’.” (July-Aug, Jesuit Missions). Added to the foregoing record of achievement may be viewed the fac tual side of the picture showing that there are now working in the mission fields 2,145 priests, 975 schclaslics and 665 brothers, members of this same Society. German Protestant Bishop Gives Permission to Hear Confessions to His Clergy (Special Correspondence, N. C. W. C. « News Service) GENEVA.—The Most Rev. Dr. Mei- ser, Protestant Bishop of Bavaria, has informed his clergy that he sees no objection why the members of their congregations should not be admitted to Confession, if they so desire, al though he does not wish the Sacra ment to be administered in the Protes tant Church on general terms. The ruling shows that Protestant in terest in Catholic tradition has by no means died down in Germany despite the violent anti-Christian campaign of the Nazi regime- A few years ago the Rev. Albrecht Schoenherr. Protestant pastor of the province of Uckermark, had publish ed a study on “Martin Luther, the Reformer, and Confession". The au thor' took the position that both Lu ther himself and quite a few of his associates insisted that the church should “take sin and grace seriously” which was to mean that the Sacra ment of Penance should have its place in the Protestant Church as well- In one Protestant church of Mu nich a "Mass” is now being said which in many respects reminds of the Catholic ritual. i These and similar trends must hot " be interpreted as an indication joS rapid progress of the efforts directed at an eventual reunion of Catholics and Protestants, but they are un doubtedly significant events.