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SEPTEMBER 28, 1940 THE BULLETIN OF THE CATHOLIC LAYMEN’S ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA American Way of Life Must Be Based on Religion Declares Statement Issued by Conference on Science, Philosophy and Religion (By N. C. W. C. News Service) NEW YORK. — The way of life in America “must be based ultimately on the religious princfple of the Fath erhood of God and the worth and dignity of man when regarded as the child of God,” it is declared in a statement issued by 40 of the partici pants in the Conference on Science, -Philosophy and Religion which open ed at the Jewish Theological Semi nary. here, this month. Protestants, Jews and Catholics are among the representatives of more than 260 colleges, 18 scientific socie ties, four medical associations, twelve academic societies, five museums, five observatories and other institutions taking part in the sessions. Among those signing the “keynote" statement are Dr. Emmanuel Chap man. of Fordham Universitv: Jacques Maritain of the Institute Catholique of Paris, and the Rev. Gerald C. Walsh, S. J„ of Fordham University. Declaring that “probably never be fore in modern history has well rea soned and deliberate action been more important for the future of civ ilized man,” the keynote statement says “the decisions to be taken tran scend the sphere of military defense and economic organizataion; they in clude the whole intellectual outlook of our generation.” “Decreasing respect for ethical and religious values among the demo cratic people has introduced intellec tual confusion in their educational systems, in their literatures, and in organs of public opinion generally,” the statement asserts. “If America is to offer effective resistance to totali- Itarianism, Americans must marshal to het; defense, their intellectual and spiritual, as well as military,- forces.” “No resort to totalitarianism is needed to overcome the intellectual confusion of our time,A it is added. “America was the first nation to ap ply the same principle of co-opera tion between groups of different re ligious, political and educational views. Without for a moment con sidering that any discipline, scientific or philosophical, could be deprived of its genuine autonomy by any other and without believing it possible or desirable that western religions be reduced to a common denominator, our common background-gives us a broad basis for a united, democratic American way of life. This way of life must be based utimately on the religious principle of the Fatherhood of God and the worth and diginty of Man when regarded as the child of God. It must uncompromisingly op pose every effort at deification of the state, or the suppression of individ ual liberty and sense of moral re sponsibility.” CLIFFORD EUGENE RAY FUNERAL IN MACON MACON. Ga.— Funeral services for Clifford Eugene Ray, of Richmond, formerly of Macon, who died in Vir- -ginia on August 26 from injury re ceived in an automobile accident, were held from St. Joseph’s Church, the Rev. Peter McDonnell, S. J.. of ficiating. J. A. SHERMAN, AUGUSTA, SUFFERS FATAL INJURY AUGUSTA, Ga. — Funeral services for Joseph Aloysius Sherman, who was fatally injured in an automobile accident near Dearing on September 1, were held from the Sacred Heart Church, the Rev. J. E. O’Donohoe officiating. The Rev. Sebastian Doris, O. S. B„ of Belmont Abbey, a boyhood friend of Mr. Sherman, as sisted in the sanctuary. Mr. Sherman is survived by his father. Frank J. Sherman; five sis ters, Sister Rose de Lima, of Atlan ta; Mrs. John J. Knuck, of Hialeah, Fla.; Mrs. Marion Davis, Mrs. W. C. Knuck, and Mrs. Leslie Anderson, all of Augusta; three brothers, Frank Sherman, John Sherman, of Augusta, and James Sherman, of San Antonio, Tex., and several nieces and nephews. Members of Patrick Walsh Coun cil, Knights of Columbus formed an honorary escort. MRS. WILLIAM DAVIS FUNERAL IN AUGUSTA AUGUSTA, Ga. — Funeral services for Mrs. Elizabeth Mulligan Davis, wife of the late William Brady Da vis, who died in Memphis August 24, were held from the Sacred Heart Church here, the Rev. J. E. O’Dono hoe. S. J., officiating. Mrs. Davis was the daughter of Walter Mulligan and Elizabeth Mc Donald Mulligan, both natives of Augusta, and she made her home here until the time of her marriage. She is survived by one daughter, Miss Elizabeth Davis, and a son. Walter Davis, hoth of Memphis, and four aunts, Mrs. A1 Salvo.. Miss Kate McDonald. Mrs. Bessie Ferber and Mrs. C. C. Benson, Jr. FUNERAL OF ALFRED SALVO HELD IN AUGUSTA AUGUSTA, Ga.—Funeral services were held at the Sacred Heart Church for Alfred L. Salvo, whose death took place September 16. The Rev. J. E. O'Donohoe, S. J., officiat ed. Born in Charleston, Mr. Salvo had made Augusta his home for more than thirty years. He was the son of V. M. Salvo, a native of Italy, and Mrs. Louise LaFaureade Salvo, a native of France. He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Cecelia McDonald Salvo; three brothers, Colorado Salvo, Vincent Salvo, and Victor Salvo, of Char leston; and several nieces and nephews. X MR. JOSEPH COLVIN FUNERAL IN AUGUSTA AUGUSTA, Ga.— Funeral services for John Joseph Colvin. 85 years of age. who died September 14. were held from the Sacred Heart Church, the Rev. J. E. O'Donohoe, S. Jf, of ficiating. Born in Augusta, Mr. Colvin had lived here all of his life. He had been in charge of Meadow Garden, the old home of George Walton, sign er of the Declaration of Independ ence, which is now a museum. He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Clyde Rhodes Colvin, and several nieces and nephews., St. Mary’s-on-the-Hill, Augusta 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 K. S. Heslen. Augusta, Treasurer Leo Leonard. Columbus, Advocate Thomas J. Canty, Savannah. Warden ATLANTA COUNCIL, NO. 660 Grand 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. ML 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 CouncD No. 677 James B. Mulherin Grand Knight R. S. Heslen, Financial Sec. Visiting Brothels Welcome 1012 Greene SL Augusta. Ga. Macon Council, No. 925 Chas. I* A. Adams, Sr. Grand Kniglit Herman Huhn Financial Secretary Meets the First and Third Tuesday, 8:15 P. M., in Mitchell Hail of the Catholic Club. 521 New SL 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 Tues days at Knights of Co- , lumbus Hall. Brunswick. Ga. Erected in 1919. shortly after the parish was established with the late Monsign'or James A. Kane, as.pastor, St. Mary’s-on-the-Hill serves a large congregation of Augusta’s hill section. The Rev. Harold Barr is the pres ent pastor, with the Rev. George T. Daly, assistant. St. Mary’s-on-the-Hill Church, Serves Augusta’s Youngest Parish In 1917 the Very Rev. P. H. McMa hon, pastor of St. Patrick’s Church, in Augusta, purchased the site of the present St. Mary’s - on - the - Hill Church. Two years later the parish was erected, and the Rev. James A. Kane, formerly rector of the Cathedral of St. John the Baptist, Savannah, and at that time pastor of St. Patrick’s Church in Augusta, was placed in charge of the new parish in the city’s rapidly growing residential section. Six weeks after his appointment as pastor, Father Kane began the erec tion of a church, which was dedi cated in November, 1919. A fine rec tory was also part of the parish prop erty and Mass was said there while the church was being built. Father Kane was later elevated to the rank of Monsignor by Pope Pius XI, being one of the first priests of the Diocese of Savannah to re ceive that honor. Monsignor Kane served as pastor of the church until his death last year. He was succeeded by the Rev. Harold Barr, the present pastor, who has as his assistant the Rev. George T. Daly. BEGGS-McLAUGHLIN | o : o SAVANNAH, Ga. — The marriage of Miss Catherine Lachlison Beggs, daughter of Mrs. David Milne Beggs, and Philip McDermott McLaughlin, of Macon, took place September 14 at the rectory of the Sacred Heart Church, the Rev. Paul Milde, O. S. B., officiating. The bride was attended by her sis ter, Miss Elizabeth Beggs, as maid at honor, and Miss Margaret McLaugh lin, sister of the groom, as brides maid. • Frank McLaughlin, of New York City, was his brother’s best man. SIPPLE-FURST I SAVANNAH, Ga. — The marirage of Miss Anne Thomson Furse and Julian C. Sipple took place in the rec tory of the Sacred Heart Church, September 12, the Rev. Norbert Mc Gowan, O. S. B.. officiating. Miss Elise Furse was her sister’s maid of honor, and Albert W. Gar- many was the best man. The bride entered with her cousin, Stephen S. Furse, - of Atlanta. O— I O— HODGES-WHITMAN -O I -O SAVANNAH. Ga.—Mr. and Mrs. Cheatham E. Hodges announce the marriage of their daughter, Miss Margaret Elizabeth Hodges and Charles A. Whitman. Jr., which took place last month at the Cathedral of St. John the Baptist, the Rev. Dan iel Bourke, performing the cere mony. Mrs. William Hodges was the ma tron of honor and Cheatham E. Hodges, Jr., was the best man. Unpublished Letters Show Pius IX Kept Aloof From U. S. Civil War (By N. C. W. C. News Service) NEW YORK— Further evidence that Pope Pius IX held himself aloof from the United States Civil War and that he steadfactly refused to give any color to indorsement to slavery, is revealed in a hitherto unpublished letter of, Gen. George B. McClellan, the celebrated Union commander, just brought to light here. When he was defeated by Presi dent Abraham Lincoln in the election of 1864, General McClellan resigned his commission and sailed for Europe, on January 22. 1865. with Mrs. Mc Clellan and their child. He was in Rome during the winter of 1864-65 and was received in audience by the Pope. Throughout his sojourn in Europe, where lie remained until 1868, Gen eral McClellan kept in^pnstant touch by correspondence with S. L. M. Barlow, a distinguished New York lawyer and counsel for the Ohio and Mississippi Railroad, of which Gen eral McClellan was president in 1860- 61. Mr. Barlow had been an ardent advocate and principal supporter of General McClellan’s candidacy for the Presidency, and, as he wrote, managed McClellan’s campaign from my house at No. 1 Madison Avenue” New York. In a letter of March 18. 1868. Gen eral McClellan speaks to Mr. Barlow of his audience with Pope Pius IX. This letter is part of the “Barlow cor respondence” which S. L. Barlow, grandson of the correspondent, has made available to Thomas Kearny of this city. Mr. Barlow and Mr. Kearny plan a book on “The Barlow Papers”, and the latter believes the hitherto unpublished letter about (he Papal audience to be highly impor tant. The letter reads as follows: “Three days ago, the Pope sent for us to see him. ‘His Holiness’ was bright and kind as possible,—more than usually condescending. He said he could not well refuse .to see (prob ably the Confederate Commission ers—Slidell and Mason— but the names are indistinct. T. K.); that he told them that he could take no part in the struggle; and could in no way give his benediction to slavery. They then said that it was impossible to emancipate a mass of slaves at once. He said that this was probably so. They talked of gradual emancipation. He said that slavery must cease to exist, or they could not have nis blessing.” During the Civil War it was claim ed, alike in the North and South, ,hat the Pope planned a public statement, and various views were attributed to him. Mr. Kearny feels that “this statement of the ♦ope, made three years after the war—when the pas sions engendered by the conflict were cooling—to the former Commander- in-Chief of the Union Armies (Nov. 1, 1861—March 11, 1862), and reported by McClellan three days after the state ment attributed to ‘Mis Holiness’ was made to him, seems to go far toward determining his attitude toward the struggle in which he ‘could take no part,’ as well as his attitude toward slavery, to which he ‘could in no way give his benediction’.” Mr. Kearny points out that no date is given for the audience with the Confederate Commissioners. There fore, he says, “it is difficult to be certain as to whether the interview was in 1861, when the War was a struggle for the Union only, as view ed by Lincoln, or later, when it be came in effect a war also for the abolition of slavery."' If Mason and Slidell were the ones received in audience, declares Mr. Kearny, it is fairly certain the interview took place in 1861 or early in 1862. Father Barr Heads 400th Anniversary General Committee AUGUSTA, Ga. — Various details of the arrangements for the observ ance of the 400th anniversary of first recorded celebration of Mass near Augusta, are being handled by a com mittee which is headed by the Rev. Harold Barr, pastffr of St. Mary’s-on- the-Hill Church, and which includes the pastors of the other churches in the city and representatives of Cath olic organizations. This committee includes Miss Anna Rice, Mrs. Ethel Keenan Lynch, Mrs. Owen Schweers, Mrs. A. F. Otis, Mrs. C. C. Kemp, Mrs. William Hef- TILTON-HUGGINS SAVANNAH, Ga.—Miss Harriet Ann Huggins and John Howell Til ton were married at the Church of the Blessed Sacrement, August 30, the Rev. Michael Donna officiating. Mrs. Patrick W. Roach, of Colum bus, sister of the bri^e, was matron of honor, Mrs. Charles H. Pitts, Jr., of Augusta was the bridsmaid. The bride entered with her bro ther, G. Walter Huggins, and D.J. Mahany was the best man. The ushers were John G. Butler, Jr., Marion F. Tilton, and Harry G. But ler, Jr. I SWENSON-BOLTIN | o o SAVANNAH. Ga.—Miss Florence Swenson and David W. Boltin, Jr., were married August 31 in the rec tory of the Cathedral of St. John the Baptist, the Rev. Robert Brennan, of ficiating. Mrs. Hancel Ray. of Parris Island, sister of the bride, was matron of honor. COOK-HEARNE —O o i> WAYCROSS. Ga.—Mr. W. R. Cook announces the marriage of h»j daughter, Miss Frances Louise Cook, to Joseph H. Hearne. at the Cathe dral of St. John the Baptist, Savan nah, the Rev. Daniel J. Bourke, offi ciating. Mrs. Sidney S. Sable was matron of honor, and James Tobin was best man. O GOLDEN-TOWNSEND SAVANNAH. Ga.—Miss Christohel Townsend and Peter Joseph Golden, were married at the Sacred Heart Church, the Rev. Peter Trizzino, O. S. fernan. Mrs. Andrew Sheahan, Miss I B -- officia,. t r ^ , MnKl.v Mr, Gene How- Miss Daisy Hamlin, of Columbia, was maid of honor and John Raynola Catherine Mobley, Mrs. Gene How errd. Mrs. M. C. Stulb. Mrs. C. C. Stulb, Mrs. Ben B. Boeckman, Mrs. R. A. Bresnahan, Mrs. James B. Mulherin, Mrs. W. A. Herman, Mrs. Joseph L. Herman, Miss Dorothy Smith, Miss Florian Keener, James B. Mulherin, John P. Mulherin, J. C. Dempsey, John Chesser, Hugh Kinchley, John T. Buckley, C. C. Kemp, Jr., and Dr. John Bips. DIOCESAN PRESIDENT N. C. C. W. TO ATTEND AUGUSTA, Ga. — Mrs. Reyburn L. Watkins, of Atlanta, Savartnah- Atlanta Diocesan president of the Na tional Council of Catholic Women, and the directors of the Diocesan Council, will be the guests of the Augusta Deanery Council at the luncheon which will Be held at Hotel Richmond here in connection with the observance of the 400th anniver sary of the first Mass said in the vi cinity of Augusta. On Saturday evening, September 28, the executive board of the Savan- nah-Atlanta Diocesan Council, Na tional Council of Catholic Women, will meet at Hotel Richmond. The meeting will be addressed by the Rt. Rev. Monsignor Joseph E. Moylan, of Atlanta. Local executives who will attend will include Miss Anna Rice. Augusta Deanery president, and Mrs. Ben Boeckman, Mrs. Ethel Lynch, Mrs. Dan O'Connor and Mrs. John Buck- ley. DID YOU KNOW THAT . . . 116 Years before work on the Pana ma Canal was begun, a monk named Antonio de Cereso planned and supervised the Canal of Raspadura which was the first “ditch” to con nect the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. was the best man. James J. Collin* and Joseph A. Battle, Jr., were ush ers. ATKINSON-CRAWFORD SAVANNAH, Ga.—Of interest here is the announcement of the marriage of Miss Georgia- Atkinson and Dr. William B. Crawford, which took place in New Orleans, at the Holy Cross Church, the Rev. William Har- ty, S. J., officiating. o x - O ’| DURBAN-TECKLENBURG | O Q CHARLESTON, S. C.—The mar riage of Miss Pauline Livingston Teeklenburg and Mr. George Aimar Durban. Jr., of Aiken took place at the Cathedral of St. John the Baptist September 24. The ceremony was performed by the Rt. Rev. Monsignor James J. May, rector. Mrs. Durban is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Teeklenburg of 173 Queen Street, and was graduated from Memminger High School and from College Misericordis, in Dallas, Pa. She was one of the attendants to Miss Charleston in the 1940 Azalea Festival. Mr. Durban, son of Mr. and Mrs. George A. Durban of Aiken, was graduated from Clemson College and now is associated with his father in ral estate and general insurance busi ness in Aiken. Miss Betty Teeklenburg was her sister’s maid of honor, and Mrs. Clif ford Baxter Morgan, of Summerville, matron of honor. The bridesmaids were Miss Anne Owens Thorne, of this city, and Miss Rosamond Durban, of Aiken, sister of the Bridegroom.