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THE BULLETIN OF THE CATHOLIC LAYMEN’S ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA
JULY 25, 1942
THE BULLETIN
The Official Organ of the Catholic Laymen's
Association of Georgia, Incorporated.
HUGH KINCHLEY, ‘Editor
216-217 Southern Finance Building, Augusta, Ga.
ASSOCIATION OFFICERS FOR 1941-1942
BERNARD J. KANE, Atlanta...... President
MARTIN J. CALLAGHAN, Macon, 1st Vice-Pres.
J. B. McCALLUM, Atlanta Secretary
HUGH GRADY, Savannah Treasurer
HUGH KINCHLEY, Augusta . Executive Secretary
MISS CECILE FERRY, Augusta, Asst. Exec. Secty.
A. M. McAULIFFE, Augusta Auditor
Vol. XXIII
July 25, 1942
No. 7
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 Sept.
1, 1921.
Member of N. C. W. C. News Service the Catholic Press
Association of the United States, the Georgia Press Asso
ciation 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 Rev-
crend Abbot Ordinary of Belmont.
Who Coveted?
O BSERVANCE of the bicentennial of the battle
of Bloody Marsh was marked on July seventh
at St. Simon’s Island, near Brunswick, Georgia,
with a commemorative ceremony sponsored by the
Society of the Colonial Dames, Society of the Colo
nial Wars of Georgia, and the Fort Frederica Asso
ciation.
It is not unnatural that those Georgians who
elaim Anglo-Saxon ancestry would find in Gen
eral Oglethrope’s defeat of the Spanish forces in the
battle of Bloody Marsh a cause for celebration, but
granting all that, it does not seem that Spain’s title
to Georgia should be entirely disregarded.
An editorial in The Macon Telegraph on the sub
ject of the bicentennial celebration declared that
the battle changed the course of history and turned
back the tide of Spanish “invasion” which might
have brought Georgia under the dominion of Castile
and Arragan.
The editorial went on to say that It was only a few
years before the battle that Oglethorpe had come to
this country, and that the danger from Spain was
always imminent. “It was a great conquering
power and sorely coveted the little strip of land
along the coast of Georgia where the Spanish moss
hung in long festoons from the live oaks.”
Considering the fact that more than two hundred
years before the battle of Bloody Marsh, the expe
dition of Hernando de Soto had explored a great
part of Georgia, and that for more than a century
before the coming of the English, Spain had estab
lished missions and forts along the coast and even
in the interior of Georgia, it would seem that it was
England that “coveted” the land just as much as
Spain did.
That priority of occupation may have given Spain
a better title to the land than England gained by
force of arms is a question that might be debated.
If the Spaniards had been here long enough for
the moss that draped the live oaks to be known as
“Spanish moss,” perhaps Spain also hac’. a claim to
the soil upon which the live oaks grew.
Georgians, who prefer our boasted Anglo-
Saxon civilization to the culture of Spain, are en
titled to celebrate the anniversary of the battle that
brought the colony of Georgia under English rule,
but at the same time Georgians should not forget
that the Spanish missions which flourished for more
than a century when our State was but a wilder
ness, left a record as glorious as that of the mis
sions that are the pride of California.
But He Doesn’t Give His Name
T HE JUNE issue of The Bulletin, its readers may
recall, was dedicated to St. Mary’s Home in
Savannah.
It is very gratifying to learn that at least one
reader of last month’s issue was impressed by The
Bulletin’s presentation of the wonderful work that
the Sisters of Mercy are doing for the girls at St.
Mary’s, and is showing his appreciation of that work
in a substantial way that should inspire many others
to follow his example.
Monsignor T. James McNamara, the treasurer of
the Female Orphan Benevolent Society, that main
tains St. Mary’s Home, has received a letter from
Fort Jackson, Souht Carolina, signed merely “A
Soldier Boy;” This letter read as follows:
“Reading the Catholic paper that comes out every
month, I found out that you were in charge of con
tributions to those young girls out at St. Mary’s
Home on Victory Drive. I sort of figured I’d like to
help by sending you a dollar every month. It’s not
much, but I believe those kids would appreciate it.
“Father, the reason I haven't helped before was
that we weren’t getting enough money, but now
that we have a raise, I can at least give a measly
dollar a month to such a wonderful cause.”
Perhaps this letter from a young man now serving
in the United States Army, who does not give his
name, but who is willing to give his all for his
country and what he terms his “measly little” for
the children at St. Mary's Home, will serve to im
press upon those Catholics of Georgia who are not
members of the Female Orphan Benevolent Society,
that St. Mary’s Home is deserving of their support,
and impel them to enroll with those who contri
bute regularly to its maintainence.
For the convenience of those upon whom the
soldier’s letter has such an effect, the Application
for Membership form that appeared last month
is reprinted in this issue of The Bulletin.
Education For God and Qountry
I N this issue of The Bulletin appear the School
Regulations of the Diocese of Savannah-Atlanta,
as approved by His Excellency the Most Reverend
Gerald P. O’Hara, Bishop of Savannah-Atlanta, and
the calendar for the coming school year, as an
nounced by the Right Reverend Monsignor T. James
McNamara, Diocesan Superintendent of Schools.
At this time, perhaps, it will not be amiss to re
mind our readers of the canon of the Church on
the duties of parents and guardians respecting
education of children under their charge so as not
to endanger their faith. They are not free to send
children to any school they may fancy. So jealous
is the Church of her own perogatives on this score
that her canon restricts to the Ordinary of the
Diocese the authority of granting permission for
Catholic children to attend other than Catholic
schools. He alone can give such permission—a
perogative he does not delegate.
It must be remembered that the Church teaches
that religion is not only important in education,
but that it is absolutely necessary. In the Catholic
school religion is not a half-hour period added at
the beginning or end of the class day, it permeates
the whole curriculum. If the atmosphere is of the
world, worldly, faith and morals are apt to be en
dangered. The atmosphere that is desired in
education is one that is thoroughly Catholic, and
the atmosphere that is thoroughly Catholic is
found only in the Catholic School.
In a volume just issued from Our Sunday Visitor
Press, entitled “Our National Enemy Number One—
Education Without Religion,” His Excellency the
Most Reverend John F. Noll, D. D., Bishop of Fort
Wayne, has assembled a mass of authority, non-
Catholic as well as Catholic, to demonstrate that
education that is purely secular and materialistic
that has no place in its curriculum for religion and
morality, is an enemy of this nation and the prin
ciples and way of life for which it stands, no less
than are the menacing hordes of the Axis powers.
Summoning witnesses from one end of the world
to the other, from England, Canada, Ireland, Bel
gium, Austria, France, Spain, Portugal, Argentine,
Brazil, Australia, New Zealand, China, and even
Germany and Italy, to substantiate the charge he
makes, Bishop Noll has added to their testimony
the opinions of noted Americans: Cardinals,
Bishops, priests educators, editors and writers,
judges, Protestant ministers, and national leaders,
among which last is President Franklin Roosevelt,
who in a message to the National Conference of
Church-Related Colleges, in 1937, declared: “If
the Catholic schools .prepare youth for better citi
zenship; if our country will be immensely benefitted
by a character formation built on the eternal prin
ciples of religion and morality, then they are
rendering a public service, and since these schools
are not operated for profit, they are in reality pub
lic schools.”
Another significant quotation that Bishop Noll
submits is from Dr. Luther A. Weigle, Professor of
Religious Education at Yale University, who wrote:
"The ignoring of religion by the schools of America
endangers the perpetuity of those moral and re
ligious institutions which are most characteristic
of American life. It imperils the future of the na
tion itself. Inevitably, this ignoring of religion
discredits religion in the minds of our children. Im
pressions are being made which lead to their think
ing of religion as relatively unimportant or
irrelevant to the real business of life or intellec
tually negligible, or a mere matter of personal
taste or preference.
“The principle of religious freedom which in
sures the separation of Church and State is
precious. It touches bed rock in its truth. It guar
anties our liberties. But the principle of separation
of Church and State must hot be so construed as to
render the State a fosterer of non-religion or
Atheism. Yet it is precisely what we are in danger
of doing in America today.”
This expression by Dr. Weigle was widely quoted
in the press of the country several years, ago, and
since it was written there has been an encouraging
and more widespread recognition of the necessity
to restore religion to the place it held in American
education when the foundations of our nation were
being laid. The “released time” programs that
have been adopted in a number of states are an
indication of this trend.
In answer to the charge that the public school
alone was American, Bishop Noll has quoted from
the pamphlet, “Catholic and Education,” published
some years ago by the Catholic Laymen's Asso
ciation of Georgia.
The Catholic Church has ever seen the essential
need for education under religious auspices, the
Order of Saint Benedict, which now conducts the
Benedictine Military School in Savannah, in our
own State of Georgia, having had fifteen hundred
years experience in conducting schools.
That those schools in which religion is taught
are the greatest safeguard of the American way of
life is impressed upon us by the fact that before
Adolf Hitler attacked the churches he had begun
to close the religious schools.
Let parents and guardians of Catholic children
be reminded that in choosing Catholic schools for
Catholic children, they are serving both God and
Country, and fulfilling not only a religious but a
patriotic, duty. __
Dixie Musings
The editor c- The Bulletin
along with representatives of the
daily and weekly newspapers of
Georgia, attended the annual con
vention of the Georgia Press As
sociation held in Atlanta last
week.
Other members of the Catholic
Laymen’s Association of Georgia
who attended were Evelyn Har
ris, vice-president of the Southern
Bell Telephone Company, o£ At
lanta, and Kirk Sutlive, editor of
The Blackshear Times, a past
president of the G. P. A. Mr. Sut
live acted as toastmaster at the
banquet held at the Ansley Hotel
and received the award made by
the Salvation Army for the best
religious editorial appearing in
a weekly newspaper in Georgia
during the past twelve months.
For a number of years the large
bell of the Immaculate Concept
ion Church in Atlanta has not
been rung. The reason given was
that the vibration set up by the
swinging of the huge weight was
dangerous.
But within the last few weeks
the bell began to ring again. The
Rev. Joseph R. Smith, pastor of
the church, installed an electrical
device that makes the bell ring
without the necessity of swinging,
and once more the members of
the parish are hearing the Angelus
ring each morning, noon and night.
George M. Widney, who deliver
ed a lecture in Augusta some time
ago under the auspices of the
Library of the Catholic Laymen’s
Association of Georgia, and who
graduated from Mount St. Mary’s
College, Emmitsburg, Maryland, in
June of this year, has been ap
pointed by the Department of State
as a civilian attache of the United
States Embassy at Lima, Peru! Mr.
Widney, whose home is in Mobile,
was secretary of The Sign Seminar
to South America last year.
The Catholic Book Club's selec
tion for July is “Living Upstairs,'
by Francis Meehan, published by
E. P. Dutton & Company.
Farris Jaber, a defense course
instructor at North Carolina State
College in Raleigh, received a
thrill several days ago when he
recognized his brother Edwara
Jaber among a group of soldiers
before “The Sign of the Fox,” a
pub “somewhere in England,- who
were pictured on the front page
of the Raleign News Observer.
Eddie Jaber, a private in the
U. S. Army Air Corps, enlisted i n
January. He is remembered in
Raleigh as a stellar football play
er on the team representing the
Sacred Heart Orphanage at Naza
reth, from 1936 through 1939.
Private Jaber is the son of" An-
tone Jaber and the late Mrs. Han
nah Jaber, of Raleigh. His brother,
George, is also in the Army, stat
ion in Wyoming, Anthony, anoth
er brother lives in Raleigh, and a
sister, Mary, works in the War De
partment in Washington.
The Rev. Vincent Lloyd-Russell.
pastor of Our Lady Help of Chris
tians Church, Los Angeles, is the
current speaker on the “Catholic
Hour” program, produced by the
National Council of Catholic Men
and broadcast over the Red Net
work of the National Broadcasting
Company.
Father Lloyd-Russell began the
new series of discourses, on the
subject: ‘The Catholic and Cul
ture,” on July 5, speaking on "The
Meaning of Culture.” Addressed
which have follow’ed have been
under the titles of: “The Soul and
Culture,” “The Matter of Culture,”
and the concluding discourse, on
“The Cultural Synthesis,” will be
delivered on Sunday, July 26.
The N. C. W. C. News Service
relates how calm savoir faire en
abled a Maryknoll Missioner in
Hong Kong to do the impossible,
to escape from his internment,
and That not by illegal flight but
by convincing the Japanese au
thorities that he should be allow,
ed to go.
The priest is the Rev. Maurice
Feeney of Albany, N. Y., who is
now back at his mission post in
South China. One of Father
Feeney’s companions, the Rev,
Joseph McGinn, describes how it
happened:
“Father Feeney had bluff and
daring and on the strength of it
got out of Hong Kong. He went
before the Japanese and explained
calmly and convincing that while
he was an American citizen, he w r as
of Irish descent and tnat Ireland
was not at war with the Axis. Sev
eral of the Irish Jesuits had pre
viously been freed and, lo and be
hold. Father Maurice was likewise
given a pass. Nobody in Hong
Kong held out for him the slight
est chance of success.
“The Japanese permitted the
Maryknoll priests in Hong Kong
to take considerable part of their
belongings to St. Stephen’s Col
lege where they were interned.
They were getting good treatment
when Father Feeney left—rice,
some meat, vegetables, flour and
sugar. The cook is an American
sailor. All priests say Mass every
day and have the freedom of the
small peninsula on which the col
lege is located. The Maryknoll
Sisters are conducting a school for
the children of the internment
camp.
“Almost 150 of us Maryknollers
on the China mainland are be
sides ourselves with work, trying
to do all that falls to us in these
busy war-time days.”
H. K.
Ur. Kenneth J. Duffy, head of
the Spanish and Latin America
Relations Department at Arm
strong Junior College, Savannah,
has reported to Fort McPherson
for duty with the U. S. Army.
Second Lieutenant William Har
ris Ray, son of Mr. and Mrs. Henry
S. Ray, has reported for active du
ty with the United States Army at
Camp McClellan. He was recently
graduated from the Benedictine
Military School, where he was ca
det major.
An outstanding student at B. C.,
Lieutenant Ray was awarded the
cup given by the class of 1942 to
the ideal cadet of the senior class
on the basis of scholastic, military,
athletic and general ability.
His sister, Second Lieutenant
Ann Ray, R. N., is stationed at
Hunter Field, Savannah, and his
brother, Private Henry S. Ray, Jr.,
is stationed at Greenville Flying
School, Greenville, Miss.
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