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THE BULLETIN OF THE CATHOLIC LAYMEN’S ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA
AUGUST 29. 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. Seety.
A. M. McAULIFFE. Augusta Auditor
Yol. XXIII August 29, 1942 No, 8
Entered as second class matter June 15, 1921, at the Post
Office at Augusta, Ga., under act of March, 1879. Ac
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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-
ercrui Abbot Ordinary of Belmont.
Fortv Fruitful Years
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wo kinds of anniversary celebrations.
One merely marks the passage of a certain
number of years, the other observes the complet
ion of a certain number of years of achievement.
Those who are familiar with the history of Patrick
Welsh' Council, Knights of Columbus, founded in
.^igusta in 1902, will not hestitat^ to place the
Fortieth Anniversary of its founding, which Patrick
Walsh Council is now celebrating, among those an
niversary observances that mark the end of a period
of brilliant service.
Since that memorable moment forty years ago
when a group of Catholic men of this city, three
priests and fifty-five laymen, received from the
■Supreme Council of the Knights of Columbus the
charter which authorized the formation of the
council here, Patrick Walsh Council has been prom
inently identified with the Catholic, civic, and
fraternal life of Augusta, and its members have been
devoted in. their exemplification of charity, unity,
fraternity and patriotism, the cardinal principles
upon which the Orderwas founded,
j In the two score years of its existence, the mem
bers of Patrick Walsh Council, as individuals and as
a group, have ever been among the first to respond
when ever there was an opportunity to render ser
vice to their Church, their community, or their i'el-
lowmen.
During the World War the local council, with
•+rW--triti of the national organization, maintained
several buildings for the soldiers at Camp Hancock,
and for several years alter the Armistice conducted
a school for ex-service men in this city.
Members of Patrick Walsh Council played a
prominent part in the organization or the Catholic
Laymen's Association of Georgia, for it was a com
mittee of members of the Council which called on
Bishop Keiley, with a delegation from the Savannah
Council, at the time of the conference which re
sulted in the calling of the meeting in Macon at
which the Laymen's Association was organized.
Patrick Walsh Council has a right to be proud of
its record in the past, a record that should inspire
its members to face the future with a determination
to unite in charity and fraternity to render patrio
tic service, to Church, to country and to this com
munity. in an even greater measure for many more
years to come.
North Carolines New Monsignori
r T"'HIS ISSUE of The Bulletin contains the an-
J. nouncement that His Holiness Pope Pius XII
has elevated the Very Reverend Monsignor Dennis
A. Lynch. Chancellor of the Diocese of Raleigh, al
ready a Papal Chamberlain to the rank of a Domes
tic Prelate, with the title of Right Reverend Mon
signor, and the further announcement that the Holy
Father has conferred the dignity of Papal Cham
berlain. with the rank and title of Very Reverend
Monsignor on four other priests of the Diocese of
Raleigh: Father J. Lennox Federal, rector of
the Cathedral of the Sacred Heart. Raleigh; Father
Louis J. Bour, pastor of St. Lawrence Church, Ashe
ville; Father Cornelius E. Murphy, pastor of St.
Mary’s Church, Wilmington, and Father Peter Mc-
Nerney, pastor of Our Lady of Perpetual Help
Church, Rocky Mount.
This gracious act of the Holy Father, directs at
tention anew to the calibre of the priests who are
serving the Diocese of Raleigh with distinction, and
is not only an occasion for congratulations to each of
the five individually, but it is also a tribute to His
Excellency the Most Reverend Eugene J. McGuin-
ness, Bishop of Raleigh, under whose able leader
ship the Church has made such remarkable progress
in the Diocese of Raleigh.
Those who arc familiar with the unusual gifts of
mind and heart which are possessed by the zealous
whom the Holy Father has named as mem-
the Papal household, know that the honors
have come to them will increase their in-
<ce enlarge their opportunity for service, and
,.ispire them to a measure of fruitful priestly ser
vice even greater than that which has brought them
this well-merited distinction.
A Problem In Latin-America
A NY' ONE who has followed the efforts that have
been made in recent years to develop Inter-
American friendship through a good will policy, and
more recently the efforts to achieve Western Hemis
pheric soldidarity against the Axis, could not escape
the realization that the suspicion, mistrust, and per
haps animosity, aroused against the United States
among our neighbors in Latin America, are obstacles
to the attainment of that friendly unity so greatly
desired.
John Erskine, well-known author, essayist, and
former professor of English at Columbia University,
writing as an Episcopalian, in an article published in
The Catholic Digest for July, deplores the practice
of some Protestant bodies in sending missionaries
to South America “to win converts from one branch
of Christianity to another,and finds in this mis
sionary activity a contributing factor to the mis
understanding and mistrust of the United States
(hat has arisen in the nations to the South of us.
In the August issue of The Catholic Digest, an
other Protestant, John W. White, who spent about
twenty years in South America as a correspondent
for The New York Times, contributes an article en
titled “Protestant Missionaries to Catholic Heathen.”
Mr. White declares that because he is a Protest
ant he fought against accepting the truth of the
situation but bis experience as a newspaper man had
forced upon him “the conviction that the activities
of Protestant missionaries are nullifying practically
all our sincere efforts to win the friendship of the
South Amerirans,” and he reaches the conclusion
that the first step toward the solution of the prob
lem, in which he states his interest is purely patrio
tic and political, and not religious, is to call home
these missionaries.
Another disturbing element in the South Ameri
can scene is revealed by Religious News Service,
which reports through its subscribing papers that
Dr. Elmer T. Clark, of New York, editorial secretary
of the Board of Missions and Church Extension of
the Methodist Church, told a group of young peo
ple in North Carolina recently that “a peculiar prob
lem is emerging throughout Latin America” in the
“presence of a large number of small sects which
are crowding in from the United States”.
“Among them,” Dr. Clark is reported as saying,
are several varieties of independent churches call
ing themselves Pentecostals, Assembly of God,
Jehovah's Witnesses, Four Square Gospel and Mor
mon”. Groups which he adds, make up in zeal and
energy what they lack in numbers. Dr. Clark is
further quoted as saying that these little sects pro
selyte among other evangelistic groups and them
selves, and are “discrediting Protestantism in the
minds of a considerable section of the population
of every country.”
If an official of the Board of Missions of the
Methodist Church in the United States is disturbed
by the presence of the missionary activity of cer
tain other Protestant denominations South America,
is it any wonder that Latin American natives, with
a heritage of Catholic culture that dates back beyond
the coming of the first Protestant to the Western
Hemisphere, would resent being classed as heathens
and look upon the United States as the source on
anti-Catholic influences?
Catholics, both in North and South America, have
long realized that the best approach to more cordial
relations with Latin America would be through
those in this country who are united to the vast
majority of Latin Americans by spiritual bonds, and
any prejudice against the United States which may
exist in Latin America would be much greater than
it is were it not for what the Catholics of the United
States have been doing in the capacity of ambassa
dors of good will.
Let us hope that the White and Erskine revela
tions of an unfortunate situation may contribute
toward correcting it.
Onr League Of Prayer
S OME months ago several members of the Catho
lic Laymen’s Association of Georgia inaugurat
ed a movement to foster a united offering of Masses.
Communions and prayers for victory and a just
peace.
With the approval of the Most Reverend Bishop
of Savannah-Atlanta, the Laymen’s Association has
sponsored the organization of a league of prayer,
which, as the League of Mary Immaculate, has been
dedicated to Our Blessed Lady, who. under her title
bf the Immaculate Conception, is the Patroness <$f
the Catholic Church in the United States.
All that is required as a qualification for member
ship is a promise to recite the Rosary daily for the
duration, or recite the Stations of the Cross once a
week for the duration, or to make a Novena of
Masses and Holy Communions once a month for the
duration. The League has no officers, no meetings,
no dues.
Peace with Justice after Victory is the hope and
prayer of all America. Those who have not yet en
rolled in the League of Mary Immaculate for the
purpose of imploring the intercession of Our Blessed
Lady during this time of our nation’s peril and
trial, are urged to use the application for member
ship form which appears in this issue of The Bul
letin, and join with the members of the League of
Mary' Immaculate in this crusade of prayer for peace
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Dixie Masings
The Intermezzo from Cavel-
leria Rusticana, adapted to fit
the words of the Ave Maria, play
ed softly in the background when
Radio Vatican told the story of
the audience granted to the com
poser, Pietro Mascagni, by His
Holiness Pope Pius XII.
A few months ago Signor Mas
cagni sought an audience to beg
the Pope’s blessing for his daugh
ter whose life was in great danger.
Shortly afterward the daughter
unexpectedly recovered. Father
and daughter were then granted a
private audience during which His
Holiness gave the girl a framed
picture of the Blessed Mother
and remarked to the father that
the Intermezzo of Cavaleria Rus
ticana could be sung with the ef
fect of a prayer.
The record played while this
story was being told was made by
the noted tenor Toto Schipa.
One of the Liberty ships launch
ed recently at Mobile was chris
tened the Joel Chandler Harris,
honoring one of the South's most
beloved writers, best known as
the author of the “Uncle Remus”
stories. The late Joel Chandler
Harris, an Atlanta newspaper man
and a contemporary of the famed
Henry W. Grady, was received
into the Catholic Church shortly
before his death in 1908.
Commenting on the election of
the Rev. John LaFarge, S. J., as
executive editor of America, in a
recent issue of The Christian In
dex, publication of the Baptists of
Georgia, the Rev. Dr. Louie D.
Newton described the Jesuit
weekly as “most influential Cath
olic publication in the United
States.”
Undoubtedly America’s influ
ence will be even greater with the
elevation of Father LaFarge to
the position of executive editor,
just as America will be more
heartily welcomed each week be
cause it is now featuring a series
on interesting letters from Wash
ington, contributed by the Rev.
Wilfred Parsons, S. J.
Friends of the Rev. A. C. Mc
Laughlin, S. J.. in Augusta and
Macon, where he has served, and
in other places where the beloved
Jesuit priest is known, will be
distressed to learn that Father
McLaughlin, who has recently
been assistant pastor of St. Jo
seph's Church in Mobile, has had
to undergo an operation in New
Orleans and has suffered the loss
of one eye and is in danger of los
ing the sight of the other eye.
Few priests who have ever labor
ed in Georgia have been remem
bered with deeper affection than
Father McLaughlin, and many
prayers will be offered for his re
covery.
“The world's trouble is not so
much that it has ceased after a
fashion to love Christ, but rather
that it has ceased to have faith in
Him. It is not a want of affection,
but a want of belief in Him that is
so- pathetic today,” Father Joseph
Boggins, S. J., told a congregation
of more than 10.000 people at the
annual Corpus Christi demonstra
tion at Nudge College, Brisbane,
Australia, in a sermon delivered
at the invitation of the Most Rev.
James Duhig. Archbishop of Bris
bane.
The invitation to Father Bog-
gins, who earlier this year was
chaplain at the U. S. Army Air
Base at Daniel Field in Augusta,
came after favorable comment on
his sermon delivered at St. Ste
phen's Cathedral in Brisbane at
the commemoration of Anzac Dav.
The fact that Manila was spared
even more severe damage in the
Japanese bombing of that city was
credited to the alertness and cour
age of the Very Rev. John F. Hur
ley, S. J., Superior of the Philip
pine Mission, by Colonel Andres
Soriano, Secretary of Finance in
the W’ar-time cabinet of President
Manuel Quezon, the N. C. W. C.
News Service reports.
Manila, Colonel Soriano said,
escaped further damage because
vessels in the harbor which con
stituted military objectives were
hurriedly remoyed. He credited
Father Hurley with having inspir
ed their removal. Sensing the
critical situation, Colonel Soriano
said, Father Hurley quickly tele
phoned friends in the city and
they obtained launches and towed
the vessels away. Colonel Sori
ano said he himself had gone out
with Father Hurley to help in
the work.
Father Edmund D. Sliney, lieu
tenant colonel and ranking chap
lain of Hickam Field, officiated at
a Solemn Requiem Mass offered
in the post chapel for the late
commanding general of the Ha
waiian Army Air Force, Maj. Gen.
Clarence L. Tinker.
General Tinker, a Catholic and
a native Osage Indian, lost his life
while leading land-based bombers
from Hawaii which participated in
the Battle of Midway. General
Tinker was the first native Indian
to achieve the rank of general in
the United States Army. He was
born in the Osage Nation in 1887.
An absorbing, interesting, and
inspiring little volume is “Mary
In Her Scapular Promise,” by John
Mathias Heffert, which may be
obtained in a brochure edition
from the Scapular Bureau, 326
East 29th Street, New York City,
for the small price of fifty cents
for a single copy. The Bulletin
agrees with Monsignor Fulton J.
Sheen that the booklet is “Master
ly,” with Father Daniel J. Lord,
S. J.. that is “A great contribu
tion,” and with AMERICA, that
it is unusual.
In four months after publication
it became America’s best-selling
devotional book, and it should find
a place in every pamphlet rack.
Sixty years ago. during a
yellow fever outbreak in Pensa
cola, Florida, twenty Sisters of
Mercy came to that city and min
istered to the suffering and dy
ing without thought of tlie danger
to which they were exposing
themselves. Today, only two of
these courageous women, who
were placid in ttie face of peril,
and who served when others fled,
are alive. One of them is Sister
Mary Helena, R. S. M., who re
cently observed her diamond
jubilee as a reiigious at the Holy
Name Convent in New Orleans.
Mrs. James Patrick Sinnot Dev-
eraux, wife of the heroic command
er of the Wake Island defenders,
was buried in Arlington Cemetery
on July 24, following Requiem
Mass at the chapel at Fort Myer,
Virginia.
Mrs. Deveraux, w’ho was 27 years
old, died after an illness of several
months. She was sent home with
her son from the Far East by Ma
jor Deverailx last October. She
had not heard from her hero- hus
band since the fall of Wake Island.
It is believed Major Deveraux is
a prisoner of the Japanese in
Mexican Catholics in To
ledo, Ohio, now have their own
church having purchased the
former Trinity Baptist Church,
which as the Cluu'ch of Our Lady
of Guadalupe will now serve the
105 resident families in Toledo.
Kirk Sutlive, one of Georgia's
most popular newspapermen, and
a member of the Catholic Lay
men's Association of Georgia, re
marked in his BUckshear Times
recently: “There are a lot of things
connected with this war business
that I can't see through, and if
the government keeps shoving
those stickers off on me my wind
shield is going to be another.”
Kirk Sutlive also tells the story
about a farmer who had been put
ting a few tobacco leaves in his
hen nests to discourage the mites
and continues: “When this farmer
came to market and saw the un
usually high prices being paid for
tobacco he beat it back to his place,
gathered up the hen nests, tobacco,
straw, pine leaves and all and toss
ing it in a sheet returned t o the
market. He placed it on the floor
and it brought 8 1-2 cents per
pound.”
And according to this indepen
dent tobacco expert, that tobacco
that brought & 1-2 cents must be
in the cigarettes the editor of The
Bulletin, is smoking today. II. K.