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THE BULLETIN OF THE CATHOLIC LAYMEN’S ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA
FEBRUARY 27. 1943
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Diocesan N. C. C. W.
Board of Directors
Meeting in Macon
(Special to The Bulletin)
MACON, Ga.—The meeting of
the board of directors of the Sa-
vannah-Atlanta Diocesan Council
of Catholic Women, held here on
January 26 , was featured by a
talk by the Rt. Rev. Msgr. Joseph
E. Moylan, spiritual director of
the council, on the Catholic Con
ference on Industrial Problems,
which was to be held in Atlanta,
with the council as one of the co
operating groups sponsoring the
gathering.
Due to the heavy travel over
week-ends, it was decided to hold
the annual convention two days in
the middle of the week, early in
May, in Atlanta.
The following convention com
mittees were appointed by Miss
Anna Rice, .of Augusta, Diocesan
president: Nominating, Mrs. John
McCreary, Macon, chairman; Mrs.
Mary Dicks White, Atlanta; Mrs.
C. R. Gannon. Savannah; Mrs.
Marion Stulb, Augusta. Creden
tials, Mrs. E. C. Brisbane, Atlan
ta, chairman; Miss Helen Roe Nu
gent, Savannah; Mrs. William
Lucky, Jr.. Augusta; Mrs. R. H.
Fleming, Columbia. Resolutions,
Mrs. II. T. Wilson, Savannah,
Chairman; Mrs. John Turner, At
lanta; Mrs. Eugene Mock, Colum
bus.
The Rev. Harold Gaudin, S. J.,
pastor of St. Joseph’s Church,
asked the blessing at the lunch
eon, which was held at the Lanier
Hotel.
Splendid reports were submit
ted by the officers and chairmen
of committees. These 'showed
steady and fine ‘activity in all
branches of war work! and an un
usual amount of work done by the
Junior Red Cross, particularly in
Connection with the scrap drive
through the parochial schools.
A letter from the Most Rev.
Gerald P. O’Hara, Bishop of Sa
vannah-Atlanta, expressing regret
that he was unable to attend, was
read, and Miss Gertrude Benedet
to, of Macon, who has been a stu
dent at the Catholic National
School of Social Service, madb an
enlightening talk on the work of
the school. Miss Benedetto, the
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. A.
Benedetto, has given up her study
at the school to enter the novi
tiate of the Sisters of St. Domi
nic in Adrian, Mich., where, she
graduated from Siena Heights
College last year.
Resignations of Mrs. J. Harri
son Atkins, Atlanta, as chairman
of St. Thomas Vocational School
committee, and Mrs. James Neus-
lein, as chairman of the Parent-
Teacher Association committee,
were accepted with regret.
Prominent Figures at Conference
Conference on Industrial
Problems Held in Atlanta
(Continued from One-A)
THE REV. RAYMOND A. MC
GOWAN, assistant director, De
partment of Social Action, National
Catholic Welfare Conference, who
delivered an address on “Labor
Relations and the Encyclicals’’ at
the Catholic Conference on Indus
trial Problems held in Atlanta.
RT. REV. MSGR. JOHN A.
RYAN, D. D., Director, Social
Action Conference, who spoke on
“The Bishops and Social Recon
struction” at the dinner meeting
which concluded the Catholic Con
ference on Industrial Problems
held in Atlanta.
PRESIDENT’S BIRTHDAY
DANCE AT USO-NCCS ,
CLUB IN SAVANNAH
(Special To The Bulletin)
SAVANNAH, Ga.—In honoring
the birthday of President Roose
velt, a dance for service men, at
the USO Club operated by the
National Catholic Community
Service, was sponsored on Jan
uary 30 by the Lions Clyb.
. Mrs. T. J. Dowling, chairman
of the refreshment committee,
presided at the serving table,
with Mrs. William Leonard, Mrs.
Robert Jiran, Mrs. W. A. Dawson
and Mrs. T. A. Holtz, assisting.
Chaperons included Mrs. Wil
liam E. Hines. Mrs. R. J. Welsh,
Mrs. Jennie Bohan, Mrs. D. J.
Colvin, Dr. and Mrs. L. W. Wil-'
liams, Mr. and Mrs. F. A. Estill,
Dr. and Mrs. Alex Paderewski,
Mr. and Mrs. Armand Well, Mr.
and Mrs. L. Palmer, Mr. and Mrs:
A. F. Solms and Mr. and Mrs.
Carl W. Lowe.
Mrs. Harry T. Wilson headed
the reception committee, which
included Miss Margaret McNally,
Mrs. Lawrence Dunn, Mrs. J. 3.
Horrigan, Mrs. Loretta Flanagan,
Miss Elsie Holloister, Miss Grace
Moran. Miss Elizabeth Leacy and
Mrs. Julius Wingo.
An orchestra from Fort Screven
furnished the music for dancing,
and Mrs. A. D. Bergen Accom
panied the assetnbiy singing.
Charleston NCCW
Deanery Holds
Quarterly Meeting
(Special to The Bulletin)
CHARLESTON, S. C.—Sixty
members attended the quarterly
meeting of the Charleston Dean
ery of the National Council- of
Catholic Wdmen, held on January
26 at the Manigault House, with
the Parent-Teacher Association of
St. Patrick’s School as hostess.
Mrs. J. Joseph Reynolds, presi
dent, conducted the meeting, and
thanked the affiliated organizations
for their cooperation which made
the conference a success.
Minutes of the preceding meet
ing were read by Mrs. Ernest
Douglas, and a letter of thanks
from Mrs. Austin Parker, director
of the USO Women’s Club, ex
pressing gratitude for the shower
given by the Deanery Council, was
also read.
Mrs. G. Leo Lowry, Diocesan
president, and national director of
the Baltimore region, was intro
duced by Mrs. Reynolds, and gave
the highlights of the. various Dean
ery and regional meetings she had
attended.
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Mrs. Charlotte Dillingham, ex
ecutive secretary of the Civilian
Defense Corps, explained the set
up, and presented Mrs. Robert La-
Motte, chairman of the Nursery
School Committee, who explained
the progress made by her com
mittee. Miss Anna Belle Mclnnes,
who is director of the Nursery
School, told of the actual work
ing of the school and the service
which it is rendering.
Corsages were presented Mrs.
Lowry and Mrs. Reynolds by Mrs.
Robert Clarkin, president of St.
Patrick’s Parent-Teachers.
Mrs. Frank B. Schachte invited
the members to hold their annual
meeting at her home on the South
Battery, since it will be imprac
tical to hold it in Summerville, as
formerly.
Mrs. J. Albert Von Dohlen,
chairman of resolutions, proposed
a rising vote of thanks to Mrs.
Reynolds for her work as chair
man of the Diocesan Conference
and as chairman of the shower
for the Women's USO Club.
Mrs. Leo Furlong, Mrs. Mattie
Duane and Mrs. J. W. Wallace,
Jr., were appointed members of
a nominating committee, to report
at the next meeting.
After the business session, re
freshments were served.
Miss Gertrude Benedetto,
Macon, Fourth Member of
Family to Enter Religion
' (Special to The Bulletin)
MACON, Ga., — Miss Gertrude
Benedetto, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. A. A. Benedetto, of Macon,
entered the convent of the Sisters
of St. Dominic at Sienna Heights,
Adrian, Mich., on February 10. She
is the fourth of seven children in
her family to enter the religious
life.
Two brothers or Miss Benedetto,
the Rev. Frank Benedetto, S. J.,
and the Rev. Arnold Benedetto, S.
J., are completing their theological
courses at St. Mary’s College, St.
Mary’s Kansas, in preparation for
ordination as priests of the Society
of Jesus in June of this year. A
sister of Miss Benedetto, the for
mer Miss Elizabeth Benedetto, is
now Sister Mary Aurelia, of the
Sisters of Mercy of the Union, at
Mother of Mercy Novitiate, in
Baltimore.
Having completed the first se
mester of four years required for
a degree of Master of Science in
Social'Work from the Catholic Uni
versity of America, Miss Benedetto
left to enter the convent. She was
a student of the National Catholic
School of Social Service in Wash
ing ton, D. C., and her field assign
ment was with the Department of
Welfare in Baltimore.
CHARLESTON COUNCIL OF
CATHOLIC WOMEN MEETS
CHARLESTON, S. C. — Mrs.
George B. Williams president, con
ducted the January meeting of the
Council of Catholic Women at the
Manigault House.
The Council went on record as
endorsing the salary of teach
ers in South Carolina, voted "a
subscription to The Catholic Di
gest, the Charleston Free Library,
and the Warm Springs Founda
tion fund.
Mrs. Oliver Goldsmith acted as
hostess during the social period
which followed the business meet
ing.
Presbyterian, Episcopal
Churches Propose Union
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
CLEVELAND.—A proposal for
union of the Presbtyerian • and
Episcopal churches in the United
States was before delegates at the
125th annual convention of the
Episcopal Diocese pf Ohio in Tx-in-
ity Cathedral parish hall here. A
set of basic principles for the
union, with suggested co-opera
tive arrangements to be made dur
ing negotiations, was approved by
the delegate^.
Recommendations of the Ohio
diocese will be forwarded to the
national convention of the Episco
pal Church, which will make the
final decision on the question at
its meeting in October. Conce£»
sions looking toward the union,
which have been framed by a com
mission representing the two de
nominations, include: acceptance
by Presbtyerians of a government
by bishops; acceptance by Episco
palians of the Presbytery, perpet
uating “the life, ministry, ordi
nance and sacraments of the Holy
Catholic Church” and acceptance
by clergy of each denomination
of ordination in both.
A REFUGEE FROM GERMANY
has disclosed to His Eminence
Arthur Cardinal Hinsley in Lon
don, who has released the infor
mation, the fact that the Nazi at
tacks on Cardinal von Faulhaber’s
residence at Freising in 1938 were
due to the Cardinal’s charitable
act in aiding a Jewish rabbi at a
time when a wave of hostility
had broken over the Jews and no
one else dared to help them.
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donal Catholic Welfare Confer
ence, Washington, D. C., likewise
saw increased cooperation between
labor and management and govern
ment as an “enormous achieve
ment.” He pointed to the set-up of
the War Man Power Commission,
on which representatives of labor,
management and agriculture sit
together, as an ideal for the fu
ture.
A warning that labor accept it
responsibilities or lose public
confidence came from L^ P. Dickie,
manager of the Southeastern Di
vision of the Chamber of Com
merce of the United States: Mr.
Dickie said labor should clean its
house of absenteeism, of “union
rules which limit production,” of
“union domination in the building
of training camps.”
Another speaker for labor was
Patrick Fagan, of Pittsburgh, presi
dent of District 5, United Mine
Workers of America. Referring to
a criticism expressed by Mr.
Dickie, who charged union mem
bers should not contribute toward
political campaigns, Mr. Fagan de
clared:
“If a union member wants to
help out in a campaign, why
shouldn’t he? Almost everybody
else can. We got up about $500,000
for the presidential campaign in
1936—that was about 90 cents
apiece—and it was a good invest
ment for everybody!” ’
Speakers at the morning ses
sion on the second day, at which
William Van Houten, instructor at
the Georgia School of Technology,
presided, were Dr. J. J. Carney
Jr., economist in the War Man
Power Commission, who discussed
the functions of that agency; R. H.
Lyle, regional director pf the
Social Security Board, who said
that recommendations that unem
ployment insurance be provided
for soldiers returning from World
War II are under consideration,
and the Rev. Andrew J. Capesius,
O.S.B., of St. Bernard’s College,
Cullman, Ala., who suggested
strikes might be avoided if work
ers submitted to a “waiting or
cooling off period.”
At the afternoon session, John
M. Harrison, insurance executive,
and prominent Catholic Layman
of Atlanta presided. Problems of
agriculture were injected into the
picture at this session by the Rev.
Edgar Schmiedeler, O.S.B., lectur
er in agricultural economics at the
Catholic University of America,
Washington, D. C., who asserted
that the American farmer has been
afflicted by two evils—price dis
parity and matter of credit—over
the past few decades. The “utter
lack of harmonious proportion be
tween prices paid for products of
the farm and those paid for pro
ducts of urban industry” is another
major difficulty of the farmer,”
he said.
The cash-crop agricultural sys
tem of the Southeast, influenced
by this section’s mild climate, pro
ductive soils and ample rainfall has
resulted in the depletion of its
soils, and a failure to acquire its
share of the business and industri
al life of the nation, said Dr. F. D.
Alexander, associate regional re
search technician of National Re
sources Planning Board.
Dr. Alexander noted the “en
couraging shifts” that have been
taking place; however, he added,
“the fact remains that in 1940
nearly half the population of the
region was still rural life with 64
per cent of those farmers receiving
most of their income from cash
crops? mainly cotton and tobacco.”
Paul Aymon, regional chairman
of the American Federation of La
bor, said he was convinced “that
the majority of all groups are fair
people,” He said he realized also
that “labor has some members
we’re not proud of,” However, he
added, “management has some au
tocrats who are just as fascist-
minded as some of those people in
Germany, Italy and Japan.” As
evidence of this he cited two cases
in Tennessee when labor unions
were told to “stay out” of certain
Cities.
Clarence Haverty, president of
the Haverty Furniture Company.
Atlanta, presided as toastmaster at
the dinner, meeting which closed
the conference. Before introducing
the first speaker, who was Mayor
William B. Hartsfield, of Atlanta,
Mr. Haverty read telegrams from
Governor Ellis Arnall. and the
Right Rev. Msgr. T. James Mc
Namara; of Savannah, who was to
have served as general chairman
of the conference, in which regret
at their unavoidable absence was
expressed.
Those who assume that because
the Catholic Church is conserva
tive and authoritative in religion
she is “reactionary” in her social
doctrine were challenged by the
Rt. Rev. Msgr.- John A. Ryan, Di
rector of the Department of Social
Action, National Catholic Welfare
Conference, to read four docu
ments and then “try to assert with
an honest mind and a straight face
that the Catholic social doctrine is
reactionary, or that the CathrJic
Church defends the oppressors of
labor and functions as a retainer
of plutocracy.” The documents
named by Monsignor Ryan were
the “Bishops’ Program of Social
Reconstruction,” issued February
12, 1919, by the Administrative
Committee of the National Catholic
War Council; “The Church and
Social Order,” issued on February
7, 1940, by the Archbishops and
Bishops of.the United States, and
the Papal Encyclicals, “Rerum
Novarum” and “Quadragesimo
Anno”.
The closing address? delivered
by the Most Rev. Gerald P. O’Hara,
Bishop of Savar.nah-Atlanta, ap
pears on the editorial page of this
issue of The Bulletin.
The invocation before the dinner
was made by the Very Rev. William
Lonergan, S. M., pastor of the
Sacred Heart Church, who had
served as chairman of the attend
ance committee of the conference.
Details in connection with- the
conference program were handled
by Miss Linna Bresette, field secre
tary of the Catholic Conference on
Industrial Problems, and Mrs,
John Leamy, who served as secre
tary of the conference.
Acting as co-sponsoring groups
for the meeting, which was the
first held by the Catholic Confer
ence on Industrial Problems in this
section of the South, were the Sa-
vannah-Atlanta Diocesan Council
of Catholic Women, the Catholic
Laymen’s Association of Georgia,
and the Savannah-Atlanta Com
mittee of the Catholic Committee
of the South.
Officers of the conference were
the Rt. Rev. Msgr. T. J. McNamara,
Savannah, general chairman; the
Rt. Rev. Joseph E. Moylan, Atlanta,
chairman; the Very Rev. Dan J.
McCarthy, V. G., Columbus, and
the Rev. Thomas A. Brennan, Au
gusta, deanery chairmen.
Annual Retreat Held at
Ursuline High School
COLUMBIA, S. C.—The annual
Retreat for the students of the Ur
suline High School, held January
25-28, was conducted by the Rev.
Ambrose Smith, O. P., a member
of the Dominican Mission Band,
and a brother of the Rev. Igna
tius Smith, O. P., renowned radio
lecturer, and member of the facul
ty of the Catholic University of
America.
The Retreat followed the mid
year examinations, and the three-
day period, devoted to inspiring
conferences, spiritual reading and
prayers, served as a refreshing in
fluence on the students for a re
newed . and greater interest in
their work for the second semes
ter, which began February 1.
Father Smith imparted the Pa
pal Benediction at the close of the
Retreat.
ANNIVERSARY MASS AT
MACON CHURCH FOR
PROFESSOR G. WEISZ
MACON, Ga.—A Solemn High
Mass of Requiem was offered at
St. Joseph’s Church on January 28
to mark the first anniversary of
the death of Professor J. G.
Weisz, organist at St. Joseph’s for
more than sixty years. The Rev.
Harold Gaudin, S. J., was the cele
brant; the Rev. Michael McNally,
S. J., deacon, and the Rev. P. J.
O'Hara, S. M. A., subdeacon. Stud
ents of Mount de Sales Academy
and St. Joseph’s Parochial School,
and many members of St, Joseph's
congregation attended.
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