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AUGUST 29. 1942
THE BULLETIN OF THE CATHOLIC LAYMEN’S ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA
FIVE,
CHAPLAIN—The Rev. Thomas
Brennan, Pastor of St. Mary’s-on-
Hie-Hil Church, is the present
Chaplain of Patrick Walsh Coun
cil, Knights of Columbus, Augus
ta.
Military Delegate
Visits Camp in
North Carolina
CAMP SUTTON, N. C. — The
part religion is playing in build
ing up and maintaining the morale
of American troops was stressed
by the Most Rev. John F. O’Hara,
C. S. C., Military Delegate, in a
visit to this camp this month.
In a short address at a luncheon
given in his honor by the Holy
Name Society of nearby Monroe
and attended by post officers,
Bishop O'Hara pointed out that
j both Church and Government are
aware of the importance of re
ligion in the training of men in
the armed forces, stating that the
proportion of chaplains now as
signed to military organizations
is vastly in excess of that in World
War I, when there was but one
chaplain for every 5,000 men,
while now there is one for every
1,200 men.
The Catholic Church’s effort to
minister to the spiritual needs of
soldiers and sailors is well exem
plified, the Bishop said, in the re
cent permissoin for the celebra
tion of Evening Mass.
In the course of his day's so
journ at the camp, Bishop O'Hara
administered Confirmation to some
troops stationed in this area, was
present for an outdoor evening
Mass celebrated by the Rev.
Charles J. Webb, O. M. I., camp
chaplain, officiated at Benedic
tion, and spoke at the luncheon.
Over 1,000 soldiers crowded the
open-air camp theater for the eve
ning ceremony.
Among those at the Mass were
the Rt. Rev. Vincent G. Taylor,
O. S. B., Abbot-Ordinary of Bel
mont Abbey.
Maryknoll Missionary
Who Visited Augusta,
Reported Safe in China
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
MARYKNOLL. N. Y. — After
eight months of diligent inquiry
by Government authorities and
fellow missioners, word has been
received at the Maryknoll head
quarters of the Catholic Foreign
Mission Society of America that
the Rev. Robert J. Cairns, of Wor
cester, Mass., is safe and well in
Canton, China, and has expressed
a desire to remain at his post.
This information was given by
telegram, dated August 10, from
the American Legation in Berne.
Switzerland, and was forwarded
through the State Department in
Washington.
When the war broke out, Father
Cairns was taken into custody by
the Japanese at his mission on
Sancian Island, where he was pas
tor and Guardian of the shrine
marking the place where St. Fran
cis <Xavier died. The day after his
arrest, Chinese fishermen found
his hat floating in the sea and it
was feared that Father Cairns
might be dead. Until today’s tele
gram, all efforts to locate him had
been of no avail.
Father Cairns attended Holy
Cross College and St. Mary's
Seminary before his entrance into
Maryknoll in 1916. In September,
1920, he was assigned to the Kong-
moon, South China, Mission. At
the outbreak of the Sino-Japanese
conflict he became engaged in re
lief work on the China Mainland.
He was appointed a member of
the Executive Committee of the
Canton International Red Cross
and placed in charge of the distri
bution of food, clothes and medi
cine at the Shameen refugee
camp.
Father Cairns’ career as a mls-
sioner has been colorful. In times
of peace he brought large pilgrim
ages of Chinese to the St. Francis
Xavier Shrine. He has had many
encounters with the pirates who
infested the China Sea. His boat
was once mistaken by the Chinese
as the advance guard of a Japa
nese invasion fleet. One of his
proudest achievements, however,
was when he coped with a chol
era epidemic that gripped Sancian
and succeeded in driving it off the
island.
(Father Cairns, when on leave
from his missionary activity in
China, has spent several vacations
in Augusta, where his friends,
who have been concerned about
his safety, will be glad to receive
the news reported above. ED.)
COOPERATION with its poli
cies is the price Japan demands
of religious groups in “the co
prosperity sphere,” if the wish
to enjoy “an attitude of tolerance”
from the invaders, it was asserted
in a radio broadcast from Tokyo
TRUSTEE—James L. Bartley,
the immediate Past Grand Knight
of Patrick Walsh Council, Knights
of Columbus, is now a member of
the Board of Trustees.
REV. JOHN F. CRONIN
ON “CATHOLIC HOUR”
DURING SEPTEMBER
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
WASHINGTON,— “The Victory
of the Just” will be the title of a
series of addresses to be given in
the nationwide “Catholic Hour”
during September by the Rev.
John F. Cronin, S. S., professor of
economics at St. Mary’s Seminary,
Baltimore, it has been announced
here by the National Council of
Catholic Men, producers of the
broadcast. Father Cronin's series
will begin on September 6 with
an address entitled “In Labor and
in Toil,” and will be heard over
104 stations of the N. B. C. Red
Network each Sunday at 6 o'clock,
Eastern War Time.
The titles and dates for the bal
ance of the series will be: Septem
ber 13, “The Greatness and Little
ness of Man”; September 20,
“These are My Brothers,” and
September 27, “God is My Fa
ther.”
Father Cronin will be making
his third appearance in the Catho
lic Hour in this series, having
spoken in 1940 on “The Social
Crisis and Christian Patriotism”
and again last year on “Liberty
Defended.” Father Cronin has
written and lectured widely in the
social field. His Economics and
Society, published recently, has
been acclaimed as a unique com
bination of careful scientific
analysis and Catholic social prin
ciples. He also organized and con
ducted an Institute on Social
Studies at the 1941 Catholic Uni
versity Summer School, which was
repeated this year.
P. H. NABORS, a member of the
Catholic Laymen’s Association of
Georgia, who has been connected
with the Georgia Power Company
in Atlanta, is leaving at the end of
this month to serve as a Field Di
rector of the American Red Cross
overseas.
Best Wishes
Augusta Distributing Co.
FefWWk and 11th Sts. Phone 2-6486
Lombard Warehouse No. 4
Augusta, Ga.
Supreme Knight Matthews’
Anniversary Message to
Patrick Walsh Council
KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS
Francis P. Matthews
Supreme Knight
MR. HUGH KINCHLEY, Editor,
The Bulletin,
Augusta, Georgia.
Dear Brother Kinchley:
Omaha. Nebraska
It is gratifying to know that Patrick Walsh Council No. 677 of the
tonights of Columbus, located in Augusta, Georgia, is celebrating the
fortieth anniversary of its establishment, and that this event is being
featured in The Bulletin.
Certainly this is a significant event, and its importance can be
emphasized in no better, way than by the fact that your splendid pub
lication should pay tribute to the Council, its founders and its mem
bership, in recognition of the services which it has rendered to Church
and Country during the forty' years which have transpired since its
work was begun in your community.
Patrick Walsh Council has made notable contributions to the re
ligious and civic progress of Augusta and the surrounding territory.
It has supplied exemplary leadership for Church and State, and it has
extended its influence even to the national councils of the Knights of
Columbus.
We of the Supreme Council remember with pride, and cherish
with affectionate recollection the memory of our former associates on
the Supreme Board of Directors. Brothers Victor J. Dorr and Captain
P. H. Rice, because of their unselfish services and their beneficial in
fluence upon the progress of the Order and its work.
For that special*reason, and for others, on behalf of the Supreme
Officers and the members of the Supreme Board of Directors, and
the Order as a whole, I extend to the membership of Patrick Walsh
Council sincere and heartfelt fraternal congratulations upon the at
tainment of this significant anniversary, and bespeak for the Council
ever-increasing success and expanding influence in the future.
Sincerely and fraternally yours,
FRANCIS P. MATTHEWS
Supreme Knight
Camp St. Mary’s, Ridgeland, S. C
Closes Most Successful Session
(Special to The Bulletin)
RIDGELAND, S. C.—The Mis
sion Session of Camp St. Diary's
conducted annually under the
patronage of the Most Rev. Emmet
M. Walsh, D. D., Bishop of Charles
ton, was brought to a close on
July 10, with a High Mass cele
brated by the Rev. J. Laurence
McLaughlin, director of the camp.
Following the Mass, Father Mc
Laughlin thanked the departing
campers for their cooperation in
making the three-week period of
study, prayer and play an eminent
success, and then awarded prizes
to those who had excelled in their
class-work. Among those in the
secondary grades winning recog
nition were: Elmo Neal, Clifford
Harvey, Margaret Powers and
Clarabelle Picnkney, for achieve
ment in Church History; A. J. Mur
phy, Wilbur Kaney, Betty Pinck
ney and Genevieve Pinckney, for
achievement in the class on prayer,
George Nichols, John Pinckney,
Marie Sedimy and Francine Leffle-
man for achievement in the class
on Grace and the Sacraments;
Thomas Hughes, Robert Shahid,
Jeannette Moore, Elizabeth By-
voet, for achievement in the class
of the Missal and the Mass. Among
those in the primary grades re
ceiving awards were: Arthur Bou-
lia, Bernadette Boulia, Donald
Houghton, Mac Gibson, Fred Nim-
mer, Martha Reed, Nora Reed,
Margaret Morton and Jane Ryan.
It was with no little feeling that
the Seminarians, Mr. Ronald An
derson, of St. Bernard’s Seminary,
Rochester, N. Y., and Messrs.
Bolchoz, Ryan and McGinnis, of
the Theological College of the
Catholic University of America,
who had taught the advanced
courses, and the Sister M. Jerome,
Sister Mary John, Sister M. de
Neri, and Sister M. Immaculata,
of the Sisters of, Our Lady of
Mercy, who had taught the pri
mary courses, watched their in
dustrious students advance to re
ceive their rewards. Nor were the
remaining members of the Camp
staff, Messrs. Jellico and Harring
ton; Mrs. Boulware, the camp dieti
cian; Sister Anthony and IVJiss
Catherine Sheehan the registered
nurses, and Mrs. Veronica Mc-
Makin, of Charlotte, Miss Eileen
Simmons and Miss Jose Bremer,
both of Trinity College, Washing
ton, D. C., Miss Churchill Carroll,
of Winthrop College, and Miss
Margaret Ferillo, of Charleston,
the counsellors, less affected.
At the conclusion of Jhe cere
mony, the campers began to leave
in groups as they had come. They
had arrived untanned, not too full
of pep and a little indifferent. They
took their leave full of energy,
browned by the healthful sun.
muscles rounded by the many
camp sports such as swimming,
baseball, volley ball, basketball,
archery, and even dancing. In
three weeks they had come to learn
and love the ideal of Camp St.
Marys—a sound mind in a sound
body through knowing and loving
Christ the leader. They had form
ed new friendships, renewed old
acquaintances, made new contacts,
which together with the well-regu
lated courses in religious instruc
tion and chapel exercises could not
but have a salutary and invaluable
effect upon their character and
personality.
An event oT-the Mission Session
was a visit from Bishop Walsh,
who arrived on July 4, and in
whose honor the Camps entertain
ment committee presented a Gil
bert and Sullivan light opera pro
gram, featured by selections from
“The Mikado,” rendered by Pat
rick Ryan, with selections from
“The Pirates of Penzance” and
“Pinafore”. The program opened
with the entire assembly, lead by
His Excellency, singing the Na
tional Anthem.
The following morning ten ot
the children, Mary Edens, Jere
miah Ford, Jesse Hunter, Clara
Keating, Fred Nimmer, Donald
Pinckney, Lenihan Pinckney, Mar
shall Smith and Kenneth Spence,
received their first Holy Com
munion from the hands of the
Bishop. Later Bishop Walsh ad
ministered the Sacrament of Com
firmation to Caroline Heidtman,
Patrick Keating, Daisy Lemox,
Sidney Pinckney, Oliveros Pinck
ney, Jane Ryan, Mary Shoemaker,
Adelaide Smith, Marshall Smith,
Virginia and Philip Thibedeau.
The Recreation Camp opened on
July 12 with a record number of
boys and girls in attendance. Chil
dren coming from Florida, Geor
gia and South Carolina to spend
a few weeks in healthful and pro
fitable recreation at Camp St.
Mary’s on the beautiful Okalee in
Beaufort County.
CATHOLIC USO LEADERS
MEET IN ASHEVILLE
ASHEVILLE, N. C — A regional
conference for USO directors and
assistant directors in National
Catholic Community Service clubs
in Regions Four and Seven, em
bracing North Carolina, Virginia
South Carolina and the District ol
Columbia, was held at the Battery
Park Hotel here the week of Au
gust 16.