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THE RTTT.T.ETIN OF THE CATHOLIC LAYMEN’S ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA
APRIL 25. 1942
SIXTEEN
Addresses Georgia
Labor Convention
FATHER GREELEY
Among the speakers at the .an
nual convention of the Georgia
Federation of Labor, held in Au
gusta, was the Rev. James A.
Greeley, S. J., assistant pastor of
the. Sacred Heart Church, Au
gusta.
Father Greeley told the dele
gates that the solution of labor
problems should be approached
and considered from the stand
point. of the intelligent man, of
patriotism, and of religion.
Father Greeley, one of the out
standing speakers among the
members of the Society of Jesus
in the South, will be the principal
speaker at the coming convention
of the Savannah-Atlanta Diocesan
Council, of the National Council
of Catholic Women.
HAROLD TITTMAN, Charge
d’Affaires of the mission estab
lished at the Vatican by President
Roosevelt, was received in private
audiences on April 3 by His Holi
ness Pope Pius XII. Mr. Tittman
introduced to the Holy Father
his wife and two sons, who hSve
just joined the American diplomat
now in residence in Vatican City.
Reversible Cross
The Catholic Soldier’s War Aims
The following address was de
livered at a Communion breakfast
held on April 12 for members of
the Holy Name Society of Camp
Croft, by Private John E. Cun
ningham, of the 34th Infantry
Training Battalion, a graduate of
the Catholic University of Ameri
ca; whose home is in Philadelphia.
For the first time in history, the
U. S. Navy is providing ecclesi
astical equipment—altar sets,
crosses, candlesticks, etc.—to its
chaplains ashore and afloat. To
conserve space aboard ship, the
brass candlestick is reversible in
Us non-tipping base. When Cath
olic services are being conducted
the Corpus is visible ~to the con
gregation. When Protestant serv
ices are being held it is simply a
cross with the letters IHS. Of
ficial U. S. Navy photo. ^
When a nation goes to war, it
has been the custom for the lead
ers of that nation to make a dec
laration to the people of their war
aims. This is to insure that they
are representing the people and
also that the people may know
what they are fighting for. It is
ordinarily an attempt to convince
the world that this quarrel is just
and the ends they seek are good.
Today this group represents a
people at war. We are part of that
great army within an army, the
Catholic soldiers of America. We
are fighting"and we know what, we
are fighting for; in other words,
this group has its war aims, or
perhaps I should rather say that
we have our peace aims. And that
is what we are getting forth to
the world today.
After this morning’s inspiring
demonstration can there be any
doubt in anyone’s mind what those
war aims are? Can the people of
Spartanburg ever say that we
don’t know why we’re here or that
we don’t know what we want?
Anyone who had even a faint glim
mer of the immense meaning be
hind what happened this morning
must surely know that there is
grim and determined purpose
gripping the minds and the hearts
of all these men, and that the pur
pose will be achieved, cost what it
may, in our sweat or our soil or
even our blood.
Most of us have never taken the
trouble to sit down and formulate
into words just what these war
aims are. But nevertheless we all
know what they are. And there is
unity among us. Our war aims are
identical. For there is a sameness
of foundation and training among
us which will allow the circling of
ideals as important as these in
one direction only.
Let’s make this clear at the
start. For the overwhelming ma
jority of 'us, .army life is not our
ideal. We all know of situations in
which we would be happier. We’re
not irfaking any bones about the
fact that we’re giving up a lot in
the way of peace, security, home
life and love, to be here. We do
not relish the fact that all of us
are in a position where we may be
and probably will be called upon
to kill other men or be killed in
return. Wc may be soldiers, but
we don’t like mud and filth or
pain or blood any more than any
one else.
Let’s make this clear also. We’re
accepting all this and gladly be
cause we believe that our aims
are fine enough to sanctify the
savage means we are forced to use
to attend them. And that is why
we’re almost happy in what we’re
doing. We know that the reward is
going to be well worth the price
we have to pay for it.
That prize that we seek with so
much zeal is peace in a world that
seems to have forgotten the mean
ing of the word. Hillare Belloc
summed up our desires in the first
four lines:
From quiet hours and first
beginnings
Out to the last and final ends
There’s nothing worth the
wear of winnings ‘
Save laughter and the love of
friends.
It is interesting to know that
these very lines made up the war
philosophy for which our well
known Catholic Soldier gave up
his life. I am speaking of course
of Joyce Kilmer.
Our war aim then is simply
peace . . . peace to live the way
we have a right to live, as hus
bands and fathers, with security
for our children, the right to raise
families in a clean and free at
mosphere, undarkened by the roar
of gunfire or the terrible monot
ony of marching armies. We want
the peace that brings with it the
fundamental rights of the Ameri
can ideology — life, liberty and
the pursuit of happiness. Peace
and the right to worship our God
in the way we have been taught
and know is right. Peace, and the
right to assemble as we did this
morning, in a free city, of a free
land, to pray for what we have
need of. There is nothing else
worth living for; there is surely
nothing else worth crying for.
And we are wiHing to live and
die for this peace. But we must be
sure that after we have fought and
paid for it we really get it. In
other words, the men who are
fighting this war have a right to
demand and do demand that there
is not repetition of 1919.
We do not hate the people we
are fighting, but only what they
stand for. The German or Japa
nese that you may kill or I may
kill had no more to do with start
ing this war than we did. He loves
his life as we love ours. He has
his family and children whom he
loves and who love him and are
afraid for him even as each of us.
He laughs as we do and cries as
we do and is afraid as we are.
How, then, can we hate this man?
We don’t, but we will fight him
and kill him because it is the only
way we can conquer the system
which threatens to crush us. We
hate Naziism — as followers of
Christ we love Nazis.
Then when the war is over and
we have won the peace we are
seeking, have the leaders of our
United Nations the right to toss
away the fruit of our labors as
they did once before by any child
ish vindictiveness? Have they the
right to plant the seeds of another
war for our children to fight by
attempting to crush the people we
have conquered? We are big
enough to want this peace and se
curity for the whole world and
that include^ our present enemies.
Leaders of nations, we beg you
to remember your duties toward
those who have fought for you
and toward your own unbrn chil
dren. Don’t make us go through
this again.
These are our aims. We gather
ed this morning to pray God that
we may attain them. We’re right;
we know we are. Can God deny
the praters that came to Him with
so much love and devotion this
morning? I don’t think so.
Diplomas Presented Nurses
at St. Joseph’s Infirmary
Training School, Atlanta
(Special to The Bulletin)
ATLANTA, Ga.—His Excellency
the Most Rev. Gerald P. O’Hara,
Bishop of Savannah-Atlanta, con
ferred diplomas on twenty-five
graduates of St. Joseph’s Infirm
ary Training School for Nurses on
Sunday, April 12, following the
Mass celebrated at the Cathedral
of Christ the King.
Preceding the Mass there was a
procession of the staff doctors, the
faculty, the graduating class, and
the student body from the rectory
to the Cathedral.
Honor graduates of this year’s
class were Miss Jeraldine York,
Atlanta; Miss Eulalia Kirven, Eu-
faula, Ala., and Miss Jane Evans,
Elberton. The. program was an
nounced by Sister Maria, superin
tendent of nurses at St. Joseph’s
Members of the graduaing class
are Misses Pearl Ray, Aldine Ray,
Martha Thompson^ Eva Garland,
Elivia Glodfleter, Doris Denny,
Mary Ethel Shuman, Carolyn Mal
colm, Licille Smith, Vera Blan
chard, Georgia Harwell, Eunice
Roby, Frances Few, Margaret
Thocas, Eulalia Kirven, Betty June
Graves, Jane Evans, Louise Moro
sini, Jeraldine York, Miriam
Moses, Mary Shenhor, Mary Alice
Moore, Virginia Thompson, Gloria
Bussey and Dorothy Weaver.
BENJAMIN KARR
DIES IN ATLANTA
ATLANTA, Ga.—Funeral servi
ces for Benjamin Franklin Karr,
retired wholesale produce dealer,
who died Aprils, were held from
the Immaculate Conception
Church, the Rev. Joseph R. Smith
officiating.
THE ADDRESS OF THE MOST
Rev. Francis J. Spellman, Arch
bishop of New York, on the Fourth
Degree, Knights of Columbus, ra
dio program, was printed in the
Congressional Record at the re
quest of Senator Robert F. Wag
ner, of New York.
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