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Vol. XXVI. No. 7 FORTY-SIGHT PAGES AUGUSTA, GEORGIA, JULY 28, 1945 ISSUED MONTHLY—$2.00 A YEAR
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men’s Association
of Georgia
“To Bring About
a Friendlier
Feeling Among
Neighbors Irre
spective of Creed”
Bulletins
IN A DECREE issued by the
Sacred Congregation of the Affairs
of Religious, on July 14, the Most
Rev. Valentine Scliaaf, O. F. M„
American-born educator and
author, was named Minister Gen
eral of the Order of Friars Minor.
Father Scliaaf has been in Rome
for the last six years as a mem
ber of the Definitorium General,
the council that advises the Min
ister General of the., community
at the General Chapter of the
Order.
THE ANNUAL REPORT of the
Sacred Rota for the year 1944
shows that exactly one-half of the
64 petitions for annulment of
marriage were denied. In the ma
jority of cases in which an affirm
ative decrees resulted, the invali
dating cause was “fear and force.”
This is the lowest number of mar
riage annulment cases considered
by the Rota since 1939 when 42
out of 56 pleas were denied.
EDWARD L. HEARN, former
Supreme Knight of the Knights
•f Columbus, died last week. He
headed the K. of C. from 1899
to 1909. He had received many
honors from the Holy See, having
been named a Papal Count, a
Knight of St. Gregory, a Knight
of St. Silvester and a Private
Chamberlain of the Cape and
Sword. Among honors from for
eign nations were the Legion of
Honor of France and the Order
of Leopold II of Belgium. Dur
ing World War 1, he was active
in K. of C. work abroad and
served as director of its charitable
activity in Rome.
Mercy Hospital, Charlotte,
Announces Expansion Program
Construction to Begin Soon on New Maternity Wing
Costing $486,000 and Addition to Nurses’ Home Cost
ing $320,000— Hospital to Have New Kitchen, New
Heating Plant and Other Improvements
IN AN IMPORTANT DECISION
affecting the conducting of a pub
lic school on the premises of a re
ligious institution, tlic Supreme
Court of the State of Connecticut
has upheld procedings brought by
. the City of New Haven to recover
tuition fees from the Town of Tor-
rington for children attending a
public school .supported -by pub
lic l'Qnds, conducted in a Catholic
orphanage. The decision ruled
out a contention that the school is
not public school because it is con-
dutced and maintained in a religi
ous. atmosphere for “children of
one sect,” declaring that the fact
that ail of the children who attend
the school are of the Catholic
Faith is not determinative of the
question.
A Special Plea
In the Chapel of the U. S. Army General Hospital at Camp
Butner, North Carolina, on June 28th, the Most Rev. Vincent S.
Waters, D. D., Bishoifepf Raleigh, administered the Sacrament of Con
firmation to a class or service men and women. Bishop Waters is
pictured as he confirms Pfc. Gerald J. Hahn, of Ogdensburg, N. Y.
1 he Kbv. Charles McLaughlin, assistant pastor of the Immaculate
Conception Church, Durham, stands to the left, with the Rev. John
A. Brown, pastor of Sacred Heart Church, Pinehurst, at the right.—
<U. S. Army Signal Corps Photo).
Pope Invokes Divine Guidance for
America in Receiving Congressmen
Mrs. Thomas G. Garrison (above),
of Golden, Colo., president of the
National Council of Catholic
Women, with headquarters in
Washington, has issued a special
appeal for the collection and mak
ing of clothing for children and
Sisters In the devastated areas of
Europe, the Philippines and
China, in response to a request
from the Rt. Rev Msgr Patrick
A. O'Boyle, Executive Director of
War Relief Services — NCWC.
Chase-Statler Studios. (NC
Photos)
(Radio, N.C.W.C. News Service)
VATICAN CITY—Unless peo
ples are given security in their so
cial, cultural, political, economic
and religious life, the work of post
war reconstruction will amount to
no more than the building of new
houses and prisons, His Holiness
Pope Pius XII told a group of
United States Congressmen whom
he received in audience, some
weeks ago.
The Congressmen, including
members of a House committee on
naval appropriations, are making
a study of reconstruction problems
in Europe. Following their own
private audience with the Holy
Father, they presented Admiral
Ezra Allen, director of the Navy
budget office, and other Navy De
partment officials.
The -Holy Father, who already
had given his blessing to the Unit
ed States, its President and its leg
islators, said to the joint group:
BLESSES U. S. NAVY
“And Our blessing We very
gladly extend to the Navy and to
you its most distinguished repre
sentatives here present. The
greatest Navy in the world: May
its most cherished, its most suc
cessful mission of the future be to
protest and defend a most precious
treasure, of this world: Peace—
peace among all nations because
all nations are at peace with God,
governed in a spirit of justice,
equity and Christian charity.
“May God bless you all.and all
your dear ones.”
The members of the. House of
Representatives received by His
Holiness included Representative
Harry R. Sheppard of California,
Noble J. Johnson of Indiana,
Jamie L. Whitten of Mississippi,
Walter C. Ploeser of Missouri,
Pete Jarman of Alabama and Rob
ert A. Grant of Indiana.
“This- is not the first time in
recent months that members of
your legislative body, of both.the
upper and lower chambers, have
been received by Us; and their
visits have always left a particu
larly gratifying and encouraging
impression,” the Holy Father said.
“We know that they came to Eu
rope, as you have come, to see con
ditions at first hand, not out of
mere curiosity but in a spirit of
fraternal interest, with the hope
and desire of being useful in the
arduous, almost frightening task
of reconstruction facing the peo
ples of ravaged Europe today.
“It does-seem at times a terrify
ing task. And yet people must be
saved from precisely this fear or
terror, which leads so easily to
their grasping at any specious and
flattering solution to their prob
lems that may be offered by un
scrupulous and* selfish leaders.
TASKS OF RECONSTRUCTION
“The work of reconstruction will
be long and hard—let that be
recognized by all—and much ma
terial help will be needed to carry
it through but, besides this help
and more important than this
help, the people must be given a
firmly-grounded sense of security
for the present and the future: Se
curity in their social and cultural
life, security in their political and
economic life, security in their re
ligious life. Without this recon
struction will not go beyond the
building of new housers and pris
ons.
“Europe will always be grateful
for the assistance America has
given and wishes to give. May the
light of God’s Holy Spirit guide
her, her President and her legis
lators in this mission so worthy of
her great heart, of ensuring to
sadly distraught people a world re
constructed on the Christian prin
ciples of justice and charity,
wherein all will enjoy the liberty
of the children of God.
“With this prayer on Our lips,
We beg God to bless you person
ally, your dear ones at home and
all for whom you pray.”
U
ARMY CHAPLAIN
TWICE DECORATED
ST. PAUL.—The Silver Star
Medal for valor and the Purple
Heart for wounds has been award
ed the Rev. Mark A. Farrell, Army
chaplain and priest of the Arch
diocese of St. Paul, in the Philip
pine Islands. The citation states
that Father Farrell was adminis
tering the Last Rites when the
enemy laid down a barrage near
Limon in Leyte, and regardless of
shells falling nearby, continued
his ministrations and assisted in
caring for and evacuating the
wounded
(Special to The Bulletin)
CHARLOTTE, N. C — A $908,-
000 expansion program at Mercy
Hospital, with a construction to
begin within the next sixty or
ninety days on the first unit, has
been announced by L. W. Dris-
K. S. G.. chairman of the
building committee of the hospi
tal advisory board, and Sister
Raphael, Mother Superior and
superintendent of the hospital.
The program provides for the
ei etion of a modern maternity
wing of the hospital, at a cost of
$486,000; a complete new kitchen,
dining room, cafeteria arid a cold
storage unit to be built in the
basement of the present hospital,
at a cost of $50,000; a complete
new heating plant and engineer
ing facilities, costing $52,000, and
an addition to the nurses’ home,
to cost $320,000.
FWA AID SECURED
The Federal Government,
through the Federal Works Ad
ministration, will participate in
the program by allowing a grant
of $193,000 as an emergency ex
penditure to help relieve what
surveys have shown is an acute
shortage of hospital beds in this
area, Mr. Driscoll said.
In explaining the acute' need
for more beds at the hospital,
Confirmation at
Camp Butner, N. C.
Most Rev. Vincent S. Waters,
Bishop of Raleigh, Confirms
Class of Service Men and
Women
(Special to The Bulletin)
CAMP BUTNER, N. C.—On the
evening of June 28, in the quiet
atmosphere of the quaint little
chapel of the U. S. Army General
Hospital, at Camp Bkitner, the
Most Rev. Vincent S. Waters, D. D.,
Bishop of Raleigh, administered
the Sacrament of Confirmation to
twenty-three officers and enlisted
men and women of this post.
Bishop Waters was assisted in
the administration of the Sacra
ment by the Right Rev. Msgr. Wil
liam F. O’Brien, pastor of the Im
maculate Conception Church, Dur
ham; the Rev. Charles McLaughlin,
of Durham, and the Rev. John A.
Brown, of Pinehurst. The service
men and women who were con
firmed had received instructions
from Chaplain Leonard J. Lewan-
dovvski and Chaplain H. F. X. Mc
Dermott, of Camp 3utner.
Following tlje administration of
Confirmation, Pontificial Benedic
tion of the Blessed Sacrament Was
giver, by Bishop Waters.
Those confirmed were: Pfc.
Adelbert J. Schaffner, Erie, Pa.:
Col. Thomas F. Graham. Fayette
ville. N. C.: Lieut. Mary II. Burke,
lloone. Iowa; Cpl. David H. Mar
tin. Anderson, Ind.: Pfc. Joseph I.
Pillitteri. Garfield, N. J.: Pvt. An
thony J. Suchyna, Depew, N. Y.;
Pvt. Donald J. McGrady. Fort
Wayne. Ind.: Staff-Sgt. William A.
Kisko, Bayojne. N. J.; Pfc. Fred
erick A. Rodgers, Middletown,
Ohio: Staff-Sgt. Albert J. Pacella,
Pittsburgh; Pvt. Donald J. Graen-
ing, Crystal Lake, 111.; T-4 Dorothy
L. Barbrick, Muskegon, 111.; Sgt.
John J. Ryan, Quincy, Mass.; Cpl.
Waldo A. Sorgi, Brooklyn; Cpl.
Stanley J. Niovich, Johnstown, Pa.;
Pvt. Charles P. Graham, Pensa
cola, Fla.; Pfc. Gerald J. Hahn,
Ogdensburg, N. Y.; T-4 Martin M.
Vucek, Pittsburgh; T-4 Ralph
Cheverine, Canonsburg, Pa.; Tech-
Sgt. Norman Bowberg, Trenton, N.
J.; Sgt. Donald J. Lyons, Camden,
N. J., and Pvt. Joseph Micalc,
Brooklyn. The sponsor's were
Major J. Wallace and Captain I.
Simmons. Army Nurses Corps, of
Camp Butner.
Mother Raphael and Mother
Mary Bride, one of the founders
of the Mercy Hospital, forty
years ago, said that the present
hospital has a capacity of 150
beds, but that the hospital is car
ding for as many as 180 to 190 pa-
. tients in a determination to give
service to the sick. This has been
| accomplished by turning all sun
parlors into wards, and most pri
vate rooms into two and three
patient rooms. Even the halls
have been utilized to provide a
place to care for the sick, the Sis
ters said.’
When the demand for hospital
ization reached the point where
the present facilities had been
utilized to the last square inch,
the hospital authorities decided
that there was pressing need for
expansion.
APPEAL WAS MADE
In January an appeal was made
to the Federal Works for a grant
which would clear the way for a
building program. Fred Piper,
field engineer for the Richmond.
Va., office came to Charlotte and
made a survey. Later the appli
cation was transferred to Atlanta,
Ga., office and Field Engineer
Warren Young was assigned to
further studies of the situation.
During the course of these en
gineer studies the Unitpd States
Health Service joined in the in
vestigations. The final decision
was that the shortage of beds was
acute and that the government
should allow a small grant from
the war time emergency funds
provided by the Lanham act with
the condition that the money
should be used to provide addi
tional beds for caring for the sick
on this area.
GRANT APPROVED
The grant has now been ap
proved by the Federal Works au
thorities and signed by President
Truman, according to information
furnished Mr. Driscoll yesterday
by Congressman Joe W. Ervin in
Washington. Mr Ervin has assist
ed in the work of presenting the
Mercy appeal to the Federal au
thorities and yesterday the hospi
tal authorities expressed appre
ciation for his assistance in the
matter. Senators Josiali Bailey
and Clyde R. Iloey also were in
strumental in getting the project
approved, it was said.
The actual project as passed by
the Federal Works authorities
calls for 65 beds. These are to be
provided for in the first four
floors. The hospital itself will
then build two more floors which
will bring the capacity of the
whole structure to 100 £eds.
The basic project is to cost
$386,000 with the government
furnishing half or $193,000. This
will finance the construction of a
basement and fou. floors of the
new wing with two more floors
to be added when the first four
are completed. The two additional
floors will cost $100,000.
The government participates
only in the construction of the
first four floors of the. new hos
pital wing with the hospital au
thorities undertaking the financ
ing of the whole $908,000 pro
gram less the $193,000 Federal
grant.
TYPE OF CONSTRUCTION
The construction will, of course,
be of brick and concrete to con
form with the present hospital
buildings. The plans and specifi
cations are already prepared and
the contracts will be let as soon
as possible with estimates that
the work will be completed on
the first unit in six or seven
months after actual ground is
broken.
In .preparing for the new ma-,
terpity wing Mother Raphael
visited the outstanding maternity
hospitals of the country and the
plans . for the new Mercy unit
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