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EIGHT 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 ■ Subscription Price $2.00 Per Year 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 Office at Augusta. Ga_ under act of March. 1879. Ac cepted for mailing at special rate of postage provided for in Section 1103. Act of October 3. 1917. authorized September 1 1921. Member at N. C. W C. News Service the Catholic Press 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.