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EIGHT 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. 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