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VOL. XXIII. No. 9 TWENTY PAGES AUGUSTA, GEORGIA, SEPTEMBER 26, 1942 ISSUED MONTHLY—$2.00 A YEAR
Charles Fahy, Solicitor
General of U. S. to Speak
at Laymen 9 s Convention
(Special (o The Bulletin*
MACON, Ga. — The committee
In charge of the program for the
annual convention of the Catholic
Laymen’s Association of Georgia,
which will be held in Macon on
Sunday, October 25, is particularly
pleased to announce that the Hon
orable Charles Fahy, Solicitor Gen
eral of the United States, will be
the guest speaker on that occasion.
Mr. Fahy, who is a native of
Rome, Georgia, is a son of the
late Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Fahy, of
that city. He is a member of one
of Georgia’s most prominent Cath
olic families, and a brother of B.
S. Fahy, president of the Rome
Branch of the Laymen's Associa
tion.
' After studying law at the Uni
versity of Notre Dame and George
town University, Mr. Fahy was
admitted to the bar in Washington,
D. C., at the age of twenty-one,
and in 1924 entered the private
practice of the legal profession in
Sante Fe, New Mexico.
He entered the services of the
Government as an attorney for the
Department of the Interior in 1933,
and also served as chairman of the
Petroleum Administrative Board.
In 1935 he became general counsel
for the National Labor Relations
Board, and went to the Depart
ment of Justice in 1940.
He served as Assistant Solicitor
General of the United States under
the Honorable Francis Biddle, and
last November, when Mr. Biddle
was given a place in the Cabinet
as Attorney General, President
Roosevelt appointed Mr. Fahy to
succeed him, the appointment be
ing promptly confirmed by the
Senate.
Mr. Fahy is a World War veter
an. having served with the United
States Navy Air Corps during the
stirring days of 1917 and 1918. For
a time he was attached to a Brit
ish bombing squadron in Northern
France and was later with the
American forces in the same area.
He was wounded in a crash near
Dunkirk, and was awarded the
Navy Cross for distinguished and
heroic service in line of duty.
MACON, Ga. — Here in Macon,
where the Catholic Laymen’s As
sociation of Georgia was organized
twenty-six years ago, plans are be
ing made for the reception and en
tertainment of those, who will at
tend the annual convention of the
Laymen's Association, which will
be held here on Sunday, October
25.
All details of the convention
program have not yet been com
pleted. but it has been announced
that His Excellency the Most Rev.
Gerald P. O'Hara, D. D., Bishop
of Savannah-Atlanta, will pontifi
cate at the Mass which will be
celebrated in St. Joseph's Church
to open the convention.
Honorable Charles Fahy, Solici
tor General of the United States,
has accepted an invitation to ’at
tend the convention, and will de
liver the prinicpal address at the
afternoon session.
Bernard J. Kane, of Atlanta, who
has held the office of President of
the Laymen's Association for the
past two years, will preside, and
other officers of the Association,
as well as local branch presidents,
will submit their annual reports.
Because of war conditions prac
tically all of the social features of
former years will be eliminated
Convention Speaker
HONORABLE CHARLES FAHY
His remarkable success in han
dling administration cases in the
Federal courts and before Con
gressional committees attracted
the attention of President Roose
velt and resulted in his appoint
ment as the Government’s number
one trial lawyer.
A well-informed Catholic lay
man, Mr. Fahy spoke on “Religion
in a World at War,” at the Insti
tute of Human Relations, held
under the auspices of the National
Conference of Christians and Jews,
at the University of North Carolina
in 1940. He was one of a group of
speakers who discussed “Freedom
From Want and Freedom From
Fear,” at a similar institute held
last year at Loyola University of
the South in New Orleans, and
was the principal speaker at the
. nnual convention of the Georgia
Bar Association, held in Atlanta
this year.
The Catholic Laymen’s Associa
tion of Georgia, therefore, takes
pride in announcing this disting
uished native-Georgian as its con
vention speaker. .
this year, and every effort will be
made to make this year’s conven
tion a gathering devoted almost
entirely to the transaction of busi
ness.
However, following the morning
session, luncheon will be served at.
the Dempsey Hotel, and at the
conclusion of the afternoon ses-'
sion. during which the annual
election of officers will be held,
the members of the Macon Branch
will entertain the visitors at a buf
fet supper.
The gratifying attendance of
young Catholic men and women at
the convention held in Rome last
year was an inspiring feature of
that gathering, and it is hoped that
many of the younger generation
will attend again this year. For
their entertainment there will be
a dance on the Saturday evening
before the convention.
Martin J. Callrghan, vice-presi
dent of the Laymen s Association,
heads the local branch of the As
sociation in Macon, other officers
of the Macon Branch include:
Herman R. Huhn, Mrs. Charles Le
H. Adams, Edward Lackey, vice-
presidents; Charles E. Smith, cor-
(Continued on Eight-A)
ARGENTINE PRELATE
ATTENDING SEMINAR
VISITS PRESIDENT
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
WASHINGTON. — Emerging
from the White House after a half-
hour’s conversation with President
Roosevelt, the Most Rev. Miguel
de Andrea, Titular Bishop of Tem-
nus and Director of the Catholic
Workers’ Center, Buenos Aix-es,
said he had been accorded a “most
cordial welcome,” and that he had
brought to the Chief Executive of
the United States the warm greet
ings of President Castillo of Ar
gentina.
Bishop de Andrea was in the
United States as a member of the
Inter-American Seminar on Social
studies held under the auspices of
the National Catholic Welfare Con
ference. Accompanying him to the
White House were Don Rodolfo
Garcia Arias, Minister, Charges
d’Affaires of Argentina, and the
Rev. Leo Harkins, C. SS. R a
priest whose home is in Boston
but who has been stationed in Ar
gentina for some 17 years. Father
Harkins accompanied Bishop de
Andrea to the United States for
the Seminar.
Bishop de Andrea was known to
President Roosevelt before this
meeting. The President sent the
Bishop a mesasge of praise and
felicitation after reading an ad
dress which the distinguished pre
late gave at the . University of
Buenos Aires. The Bishop respond
ed to this mesage by declaring
that the President's praise “is for
many reasons one of the most es
teemed marks of approval in the
world.”
Following the visit to the White
House, the Argentina Minister was
host at a luncheon in Bishop de
Andrea’s honor. Among the guests
were His Excellency the Most Rev.
Amleto Giovanni Cicognani, Apos
tolic Delegate to the United States;
Under Secretary of State Sumner
Welles, the Most Rev. John M. Mc
Namara, Auxiliary Bishop of Bal
timore and of Washington; Norm
an Armour, United States Ambas
sador to Argentina; the Rt. Rev.
Msgr. Michael J. Ready, General
Secretary of the National Catholic
Welfare Conference; the Very Rev.
Arthur A. O’Leary, S. J., Presi
dent of Georgetown University;
Ray Atherton, United States Min
ister to Denmark and Chief of the
European Affairs Division of the
State Department; Dr. Leo S.
Rowe. Director General of the Pan
American Union, and Father
Harkins.
Haldeman-Julius Will
Discontinue Publishing
Anti-Catholic Booklets
(By N. C. W. S. News Service)
NEW YORK—The Haldeman-
Julius Publishing Company, of
Girard, Kans., will discontinue
publication and advertising of
anti-Catholic booklets, according
to a letter from the president of
the publishing house which has
reached Dr. Everett R. Clinchy,
President of the National Confer
ence of Christians and Jews.
The promise was in response to
a request from Dr. Clinchy urg
ing the publishing house to dis
continue anti-religious and anti-
Catholic booklets because of “the
consequences, in a war time like
this, of intolerance, hate, suspic
ious, disunity, developing from
these pamphlets.”
Dr. Clinchy’s request was made
after the matter was brought to
the attention of the National Con
ference of Christians and Jews by
the Press Relations Committee of
the United Catholic Organizations,
which has its headquarters here.
Annual Convention of Catholic
Layman s Association of Georgia
Assembles in Macon, October 25
Myron C. Taylor, President
Roosevelt’s Representative,
Received by Pope Pius XII
(Radio, N. C. W. C. News Service) * ; —r
VATICAN CITY, Sept. 19—His
Holiness Pope Pius XII this moni-
ing received Myron C. Taylor, per
sonal representative of President
Roosevelt in a private audience
which lasted 90 minutes.
Mr. Taylor, who has taken up
residence in the apartment in Vati
can City of Harold Tittman, who
had been Charge d’Affaires in Mr.
Taylor’s absence, was accompanied
to the Vatican Palace by the mem
bers of his secretariat.
(Mr. Tittman moved from Rome
into Vatican City following the
outbreak of war between the
United States and Italy).
As the American party proceed
ed through the smaller halls of the
Papal residence, Mr. Taylor receiv
ed the salute of the Papal gen
darmes and the Palatine and Swiss
Guards in full-dress uniforms,
Mr. Taylor was welcomed to the
Pope’s apartment by His Emin
ence Giovanni Battista Cardinal
Nasali-Rocca and by the Monsignor
Alberto Arborio-Mella di Sant
’Elia, Maestro di Camera to His
Holiness, who ushered the Ameri
can diplomat into 4he Holy Fath
er’s library.
At the conclusion of Mr. Tay
lor's audience, Mr. Tittmann also
was presented to the Sovereign
Pontiff. As he left the Papal apart
ment, Mr. Taylor said he hopes to
have a second audience with His
Holiness next week.
Later the American party paid
brief visits to Monsignor Domenico
Tardini, Papal Secretary of State
for Extraordinary Affairs, and
Monsignor Giovanni Battista Mon-
tini, Under-Seeretary of State. His
Eminence -Luigi Cardinal Magli
one, Papal Secretary of State,
is temporarily absent from Vati
can City.
A brief announcemeht of Mr.
Taylor’s audience with the Pope
was carried, without comment, on
Page One of L’Osservatore Ro
mano.
VATICAN CITY. Sept. 19—Ex
tending their usual warm hospi
tality, Vatican officials are mak
ing every effort to ha' e Myron C.
Taj lor as comfortable as possible
during his stay within the confines
of Vatican City.
Mr. Taylor arrived in Lisbon
last Sunday noon from the United
States. He remained in the Por
tuguese Capital Incognito for four
days. His Excellency the Most
Rev. Pietro Viriaci, Papal Nun
cio to Portugal, welcomed Mr.
Taylor to Lisbon and offered him
every assistance during his stay
there. On his journey from Lisbon
to Rome, Mr. Taylor was ac
companied by M o n sig n o r
Egidio Vagnozzi, Counselor of the
Apostolic Nunciature in Lisbon,
Monsignor Vagnozzi was Counse
lor of the Apostolic Delegation in
Washington until this summer.
First word of Mr. Taylor’s im
minent arrival spread in Vatican
City Wednesday, and was received
with pleasure among his many
friends made during his previous
residence. His arrival was con
fidently expected Wednesday eve
ning. but when it was deferred,
due to bad weather, it heightened
speculation as to when he would
come.
When word of Mr. Taylor's ex
pected arrival became known,
European correspondents began
to speculate as to the purpose of
his mission. Mr. Taylor himself
issued no statement upon his ar
rival yesterday. His arrival was
quiet. Among the Vatican repre
sentatives who greeted him at Lit-
toria Airport was the Rev. Dr.
Walter S. Carroll, American priest
MYRON C. TAYLOR
attached to the Papal Secretarist
of State.
The motor escort passed
through the streets of Rome. A
detail of the colorful Swiss
Guards presented arms as the ears
entered the Vatican. Members
oi the Diplomatic Corps of many
nations assembled at the Tittmann
'apartment to greet Mr. Taylor. At
that time President Roosevelt’s
personal representative express
ed his pleasure on his return to
Vatican City and his appreciation
of all the courtesies that had been
extended him on his journey.
It is expected that Mr. Taylor
will remain here until September
28. The apartment house in which
he is domiciled formerly was a
hospice for pilgrims. In 1910 it
was converted into apartments for
diplomats accredited to the Holy
See who had made their residence
in Rome prior to the outbreak of
tiie war. Earliest arrivals includ
ed the representatives ol Britain,
France, Poland and Jugoslavia, to
gether with their families. Eaeti
has a small apartment and staff
oi attendants. Provisions are sup
plied from the Vatican stores.
When the theater of war spread
and involved Latin-Amcrican
countries a new problem in hous
ing the diplomats was presented.
A solution was found by renovat
ing the Palace of Justice, just be
hind the Vatican Basilica, and it
was there that apartments were
provided for the Latin-American
diplomats. The whole provides a
unique and most interesting situa
tion with a large diplomatic col
ony within the Vatican v ails.
At almost any time one may see
ambassadors, ministers, counsel
ors, secretaries, strolling leisurely
through the beautiful Vatican gar
dens, visiting St. Peter's, studying
in the Vatican Library, contesting
in the tennis courts. They may
leave Vatican City only with spe
cial permission of the Vatican au
thorities.
Altogether they lead an out
wardly quiet life in a world apart, *
experiencing peace and tranquili
ty in neutral Vatican City, physi
cally removed from the turmoil of
war-torn Europe.
A particularly warm welcome
was accorded Mr. Taylor by many
friends of long standing in diplo
matic affairs, who expressed
themselves delighted to see him
in such good health, recalling his
serious illness when he was hero
in 1910.