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THE BULLETIN OF THE CATHOLIC LAYMEN’S ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA
OCTOBER 26, 1940
THE BULLETIN
The pfficial Organ of the Catholic Laymen’s
Association of Georgia
HUGH KINCHLEY. Editor
216-217 Southern Finance Building Augusta. Georgia
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ASSOCIATION OFFICERS FOR 1939-1940
DR.-J. REID BRODERICK. Savannah President
BERNARD J. KANE, Atlanta 1st Vice-President
J B. McCALLUM Atlanta Secretary
THOMAS F. WALSH. K. S. G_ Savannah Treasurer
HUGH KINCHLEY. Augusta Executive Secretary
MISS CECILE FERRY. Augusta. Asst Exec. Secretary
A M McAULIFFE. Augusta Auditor
Vol XXI October 26. 1940 No, 10
Entered as second class matter June 15, 1921, at the Post
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Association of the United States, the Georgia Press
Association and the National Editorial Association
Published monthly by the Publicity Department with
the Approbation of the Most Reverend Bishops of
Raleigh, Charleston, and Savannah-Atlanta, and of the
Right Heverend Abbot Ordinary of p elmont
A Welcome to His Excellency
I T is the proud and happy privilege of The Bulletin,
upon the occasion of the tweniy-fifth annual con
vention of the Catholic Laymen's Association of Geor
gia, to extend greetings and a word of welcome to His
Excellency, the Most Reverend Amleto Giovanni Cicog-
nani, Apostolic Delegate to the United States, who is
honoring with his presence the Silver Jubilee Conven
tion of the Association which is being held in Savan
nah.
His Excellency has not only accepted the invitation ex
tended by Our Most Reverend Bishop to atend the Lay
men’s Association Convention, but has consented to of
ficiate at the Convention Mass in the Cathedral of St.
John the Baptist, and graciously agreed to address the
afternoon session of the Convention, at the Savannali
Municipal Auditorium, and also to speak at the luncheon
on Sunday.
Savannah has completed plans for an elaborate and fit
ting reception to His Excellency, upon his arrival on
the afternoon of the day previous to the Convention.
The band and cadet corps of Benedictine College, the
Savannah High School band, anil the parochial school
students will form a part of the escort which will con
duct the Apostolic Delegate from the railroad station
to the Cathedral Rectory, which will be h»s headquarters
while in the city.
The city officials of Savannah and the merchants of
the city are cooperating enthusiastically and the streets
along the route will be decorated appropriately for the
occasion.
Clergy and laity of Savannah, and from all parts of
Georgia, will participate in the formal welcome to
Archbishop Cicognani, to which The Bulletin adds
these words of salutation with the sincere hope that
His Excellency will find in this visit to Georgia an in
teresting and impresive experience that he may long
hold in pleasant recollection.
We know that for years to come the Catholics of Geor
gia will recall in gratitude and appreciation the memory
of the presence of His Excellency the Apostolic Dele
gate to the United States, at the twenty-fifth annual
convention of the Catholic Laymen’s Association of
Georgia.
WIIAT PRICE BIGOTRY
R ECENT conferences between President Roosevelt
and Prime Minister Mackenzie King, of Can.
atla, have linked these two great North American na
tions in a joint defense bond against foreign aggres
sion.
Looking back to the days of the American Revolu
tion we discover that if it had not been for the bigotry
which prevailed in the British colonies south of the
Great Lakes and the St. Lawrence, all of that vast
territory known as the Dominion of Canada might have
become a part of the United States.
So furious was the storm of anti-Catholic bigotry
aroused in New York and New England, by the Quebec
Act of 1774, which granted toleration to the Catholics
of Canada, that efforts to induce the Canadians to join
with the thirteen colonies in their struggle for inde
pendence met with disaster.
Canada had previously sought to ally herself with
the English colonies to the South, but when in New
England the cry of “No King’ ’was joined with that
of "No Popery” the Canadian Catholics were loathe to
cast their lot with those, who despised their faith and
sought to oppress their fellow-Catholics, when England
was extending a promise of toleration.
The Continental Congress of 1774 allowed bigotry to
obscure the vital importance of Canadian territory arid
military aid that could have been had for the asking,
and issued such a violent denunciation of the Quebec
Act that later and wiser efforts of the Carrolls and
Benjamin Franklin could not succeed in winning the
Canadians to the cause of the colonies.
Throughout the history of our nation, from the day
of the fiery address of John Ja^ against the Quebec
Act, to a night when the glow from a flaming cross
shed its glare over -the uniforms of New Jersey Bunds-
inen, attacks against the Catholic Church in America
have not hindered or halted her glorious progress, but
they have spread seeds of dissention and bitterness
among American citizens and wrought untold damage
to American ideals and principles and our national
welfare.
Our Silver Jubilee Convention
O N Sunday, October 27, the Feast of Christ the King,
in Savannah, the Catholic Laymen's Association
in Georgia will assemble in convention for the twenty-
fifth time.
It is natural that on the eve of this twenty-fifth con
vention that our thoughts travel back through the years
to that first meeting that was held in Macon in 1916.
At that time Georgia was reputed to be the most ram
pantly anti-Catholic state in the Union, a report that no
Catholic in Georgia would venture to question, no mat
ter how devoted he was to the reputation of the state
in which he made his home.
Abused by a hostile press, subjected to vilification, al
most submerged in a raging sea of bigotry, the Catho
lics of Georgia had witnessed the surging prejudice
reach its crest in the enactment of a “Convent Inspection
Bill” by the Legislature of Georgia, one of the thirteen
original states which had ratified the amendment of the
Constitution of the United States providing for freedom
of worship.
Immediately upon the passage of the Veasey Bill a
handful of Catholic men gathered in Augusta, and dele
gated Captain- P. H. Rice, then grand knight of Pat
rick Walsh Council, Knights of Columbus, to go to Sa
vannah and confer with a group of Catholic laymen
there. After some discussion of possible plans that
might enable the Catholics of Georgia to copq with the
situation and try to dissipate some of the shameful
prejudice prevailing in the state, a delegation called on
the beloved Bishop of Savannah, the late Right Rev
erend Benjamin Joseph Keiley, who gave his hearty
approval to the movement and called a meeting of rep
resentatives of each parish in the Diocese and the vari
ous Catholic organizations of the state in Macon, where,
aroused by the presence in that city of an “ex-priest,”
the Catholics had already inaugurated a movement to
combat attacks against the Church.
Albany was represented at the meeting by John Mock,
and Fred Wiggins. Atlanta was represented by Robert
R. Otis, P. G. Keeney, Thomas C. Hamilton, Jack J.
Spalding, Dr. Joseph H. Hines, Richard A. Magill, J. C.
Gavan, Dr. D. B. Smith, John M. Harrison, E. P. Kenny,
and John B. McCallum. From Augusta went Victor
J. Dorr, T. M. Heffernan, A. J. Schweers, Dr. W. A.
Mulherin, P. H. Rice, T. S. Gray, Harry V. McAuliffe,
John J. Tarleton, George E- Toale, T. J. O’Leary, Louis
Battey, James J. Farrell. J. J. Callahan and Captain E.
J. O’Connor.
Macon was represented by A. J. Long, who became the
first president of the Catholic Laymen’s Association, Dr.
N. G. Gewinner, Henry M. Sours, Herbert Loynd,
Stephen McKenna, J. G. Weiss, Dennis Cassidy, Martin
Callaghan, Dr. W. D. Wells, P. J. Slavin, E. A. Sheridan.
From Savannah: William J. Harty, Thomas F. Walsh,
Jr., William Kehoe, J. W. McGreevy, Daniel Conners, M.
J. O'Leary, William A. Saunders, William J. Ryan,
Thomas Ballentyne, J. H. McKenna, Frank J. McNally,
Jr., and Thomas ,L Finn, now the Rev. Thomas L. Finn
of Atlanta.
Brunswick was represented by C. T. Calnan, Milledge-
ville by R. W. Hatcher, Sandersville by W. A. McCarty.
Sharon by John W. Burke, Tennille by M. T. Lanigan.
and Washington by James Hines.
Bishop Keiley was present, as was the Reverend
Thomas A. Carey, S. J., A. L. Rogers, then State Deputy
for Florida, of the Knights of Columbus, and Louis W.
Peterson, secretary of the State Federation of Catholic
Societies of Louisiana.
Of that group of sterling Catholic laymen of Geor
gia, who banded themselves together to defend the Faith
they loved and practiced. Louis Battey was killed in
action in France during the World War, and death has
taken many others.
While we mourn the loss of those who have pass
ed away, and remember them in our prayers, we re
joice that some of those who founded the Catholic Lay
men's Association are still actively interested in the
work of the Association.
It is hoped that evqry one of the living members of
the Laymen’s Association who attended the meeting in
1916 will be able to he at the 1940 convention in Sa--
vannah.
Fred Wiggins, R. R. Otis, Dr. Joseph Hines, J. C. Ga-
van, John M. Harrison. John B. McCallum, Dr. W. A.
Mulherin, # John Tarleton, A. J. Long, Herbert Loynd.
Stephen McKenna, Martin Callaghan, Dr. W. D. Wells,
E. A. Sheridan, Thomas F. Walsh, J. W. McGreevy, M.
J. O'Leary, W. A. Saunders, William J. Ryan, Thomas
Ballentyne, J. H. McKenna. John Burke, and Father
Thomas Finn will all, it is hoped, be at our Silver Ju
bilee Convention, that the Catholics of Georgia may
pay them tribute for the work which they helped in
augurate at that eventful meeting in Macon.
The convention in Macon was the inauguration of the
work of the Catholic Laymen's Association of Georgia.
Let us pray that the convention of 1940, honored by the
presence of His Excellency the Apostolic Delegate to the
United States, and sanctioned and attended by Our Most
Reverend Bishop, will encourage the Catholic laity of
Georgia to a continuance and renewal of effort that
we may, with the blessing that His Holiness Pope Pius
XII has so graciously bestowed, enter another glori
ous epoch.
May our enduring endeavors bring new blessings to
our Diocese and our State, that we may hold and main
tain the acclaim of the Catholic world for a form of
Catholic Action that has wrought a triumph of truth and
charity over malice and prejudice. -
May the recollection of that first convention in 3916,
and the inspiration of this our twenty-fifth convention,
inspire the officers and members of the Catholic Lay
men’s Association of Georgia to meet the future with
hope and confidence.
Dixie Musings
In this issue it is the sad duty of
The Bulletin to bring to its readers
the news of the death of New Or
leans of Father Edward Cummings,
of the Society of Jesus.
Father Cummings conducted the
annual laymen’s retreat held in Au
gusta in 1923, and the editor of The
Bulletin was one of a group of thirty-
seven men who attended.
In all our memory we have never
been blessed to hear anything more
sublimely beautiful than Father
Cummings’ meditations. Never to
be forgotten by anyone who heard
it was his closing meditation on the
Passion of Our Lord.
And it is still recalling, after
seventeen years the words that came
from the lips of this devoted Jesuit
priest that a prayer is offered that he
be granted eternal rest.
The Church World, of Portland,
Maine, in a recent issue quoted a
leading article from the London
Times which expresses this apprecia
tion of the part borne by the Holy
Father in the present world crisis:
“The greatest non-belligerent in
Christendom is His Holiness the
Pope. Neutrality in action does not
impose on His Holiness isolation in
thought or indecision, in judgment.
Within a few hours of the new ag
gression, the Pope sent a personal
message to the rulers of the last
three countries on which the hoof
of the invader has fallen, assuring
them of his conviction that their
cause was the cause of justice ond
of his own intention to pray for its
success. For this magnificent and
prompt response to the latest infamy
perpetrated by the enemies of right
eousness the Pope has the gratitude
of every Christian in the world.
“Truth is the first casualty in
wartime . . . But through the fog
the Pope’s messages shine like a
luminous ray.”
In a letter published in The At
lanta Journal, John M. Harrison
called attention to the failure of
Bond Almand to include the part
that the Irish settlers played in form
ing the population of Georgia that
boasts of Anglo-Saxon descent.
Mr. Harrison cited that many
families of Georgia claim Irish des
cent and *hat at least four modern
office buildings in Atlanta are own
ed by and named for families of
Irish origin.
The Chaplains’ Aid Association, of
New York, in a recent publication
reports that Mass kits had been fur
nished through the Association to
the Rev. Joseph R. Kock, U. S. A.,
at Fort Benning. Ga., and to R'ev.
Thomas J. Mackin, of Columbia, S.
C„ for use at Fort Jackson.
It will be an awful blow to our
patriotic spirit if Japan, in retailia-
tion for our embargoes on scrap iron
and wheat, will forbid the export of
American flags from Japan to the
United States.
An advertisement appearing in
newspapers throughout Georgia of
fering to mail on request a pamph
let "What the Catholic Church Is
and What She Teaches—A Statement
of Catholir Doctrine,’’ has brought a
number of inquirying letters to the
office of the Catholic Laymen’s As
sociation.
For the benefit of those whose
curiosity may have been aroused and
has not yet been satisfied, the ad
dress 2699 Peachtree Road, N. E.,
Atlanta, which appears in the adver
tisement, is tlie address of the rec
tory of the Cathedral of Christ the
King.
Rumble and Carty, of St. Paul,
Minnesota, publishers of "Radio Re
plies," have announced the publica
tion of a new card system for the
instruction of converts, written by
the Rev. Dr. Leslie Rumble, M. S.
C., himself a convert, with years of
experience in the apostolate to non-
Catholics.
Doctor R'umble believes that the
twenty-five cards, which cover
separately such subjects as God,
Man, Religion, Church, Pope, Con
fession, and other topics will facili
tate the study of Catholic religion
by converts and non-Catholics re
ceived mixed marriage instructions. -
At a cost of one cent each for the
cards the cost is negligible.
Congratulations of the Cathodlic
Laymen's Association of Georgia
were wired to His Excellency the
Most Rev. Amleto Giovanni Cicog
nani, Apostolic Delegate to hte Unit
ed States on the occasion of the
thirty-fifth anniversary to. the priest
hood.
The telegram sent by Dr. J. Reid
Broderick, president, stated:
“The Catholic Laymen's Associa
tion of Georgia extends hearty con
gratulations and best wishes to you
on the thirty-fifth anniversary of
your ordination to the priesthood.
We anticipate with pleasure the
the honor of your visit for the cele
bration of our twenty-fifth anniver
sary.”
It may be somewhat early to count
the shopping days until Christmas,
but it may not be too previous to
suggest that in ordering Christmas
cards it is well to select those which
recall the religious significance of
the day* , ,
St. Joseph’s Hospital, Savannah,
recently observed the 65th anni
versary of its founding. Its records
show that 81,399 patients have been
treated in the 65 years, which testi
fies to the work accomplished by
the Sisters of Mercy who have been
in charge since the hospital was
founded.
An editorial in The Catholic Week,
official organ of the Diocese of Mo
bile, says in regard to a civic dinner
which was given in honor of the
Most Rev. T. J. Toolen, Bishop of
Mobile, in connection with the dedi
cation of a Shrine at St. Patrick’s
Church, Phenix City, Alabama, that
the event indicated a vast and far-
reaching change in the attitude to
ward the Catholic Church and her 1
clergy on the part of the people of
a Section of Alabama where less than
a decade ago feeling against the
Church ran high, in a veritable hot
bed of anti-Catholicism.
The Rev. James J. Salway, C. M.,
is pastor of St. Patrick’s Church, and,
the editorial stated that one of the
civic officials present declared to
Father Salway: “Not so long ago
Father, we wanted to run your Sis
ters and Priests out of town. To
day we are happy to be able to honor
your Bishop.”
“No little credit for this change,”
the editorial says, “must go to the
kindliness and friendly spirit with
which Father Salway has met his
non-Catbolic neighbors and taken in
terest in their endeavors and prob
lems.
“St Patrick’s School in Phenix
City, although a separate institution,
expresses well the spirit of the
church. It has 250 pupils, of whom
only 20 are Catholic.”
Some,months ago the editor of The
Bulletin was a visitor at the rectory
in Phenix City, and spent a pleasant
afternoon in the company of Father
Salway, who was at one time oR
the pitching staff of the Boston
American League baseball club.
We offer congratulations to Father
Salway upon the completion of his
Shrine, which we saw in the early
stages of its construction, and look
forward to hearing of even greater
progress in his parish in the future.
During the American Legion con
vention held in Boston last month,
The Boston Herald published an edi^.
tion featuring the ex-service men’s
annual national gathering, and which
carried prominently a picture
showing a blood transfusion being
performed through the cooperation
of the Jos. M. Neel, Jr.. Post No. 3,
American Legion of Macon.
J. P O'Brien, a member of St. Jo
seph's parish could be recognized in
the picture with the two doctors who
performed the operation. A volun
teer blood transfusion service has
been sponsored for four years by the
Legion Post in Macon, under the
chairmanship of John J. McCreary,
a past commander of the post.
Mr. McCreary has been aetive in
the work of the Catholic Laymen’s
Association in Macon for many years.
According to a statement of Mrs.
Margaret E. Carey, registrar emeritus
of Loyola University of the South,
sixteen religious denominations were
represented on the campus of the
Jesuit institution in New Orleans
during the last school year. Students
came from thirty-three states and
ten foreign countries.
We read that the University bf
Notre Dame has under construction
an 8,000.000-volt atom smashing ma
chine. The article does not say
whether or not it is made up of line
men from the Notre Dame football
scuad.
The Rev. Daniel A. Lord, S. J..
editor of The Queen’s Work, national
Sodality magazine, published in St.
Louis, has received a letter from
North Carolina that was addressed
as follows:
“Please deliver this letter to ihe
Catholic Priest who delivered -er-
mon over Columbia Radio on Sep
tember 17 1940. His first name is
Daniel A.; did not catch his last
name. Catholic Church, St. Louis,
Mo.”
Father Lord was the speaker on the
tenth anniversary program of “The
Church of the Air,” presented Sep
tember 1, over the Columbia Broad
casting System.
It was ah exceptional pleasure that
the editor of The Bulletin enjoyed
when he attended the ceremony at
the Sacred Heart Cathedral in Ra
leigh when the Right Rev. Monsig
nor Arthur R. Freeman, of Kin
ston, N. C., was invested as a Proth-
onnotary Apostolic.
Monsignor Freeman was a lay pro
fessor at Mount St. Mary's College,
Emmitsburg, Maryland, when the
editor of The Bulletin was a student
there.
While in Raleigh we enjoyed a
visit to Duke University, with the
Rev. John A. Brown, of Nazareth,
North Carolina. Father Brown’s au
tomobile, in which the trip was made
from Raleigh was decorated with
Mount St. Mary’s stickers.
The next afternoon, while in Char
lotte, we were shown around that
city and taken to Belmont Abbey ly
the Rev. William E. Pearson, who is
assistant to our old friend Father
Maurice, at St. Peter’s Church in
Charlotte. Father Pearson, like
Father Brown, was also a student at
Mount St. Mary’s though he did not
have any college stickers on the rear
window of his car.—H. K.