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TWELVE
JANUARY 26. 1946
THE BULLETIN OF THE CATHOLIC LA YMEN’S ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA
SCENES AT IIOBSE CREEK VALLEY WELFARE CENTER—pictured above is the Horse Creek Valley
Handicraft and Welfare Center, conducted by the Sisters of Our Lady of Christian Doctrine, on U. S.
Highway No. 1, between Aiken, South Carolina, and Augusta, Georgia, with inserts showing the playground
and swimming pool. Established in 1941, the Welfare Center is now well advanced in its program of
service to the people of an industrial region where the first cotton mill was built in 1846, at Graniteville,
by William Gregg. In addition to teaching hooked-rug making, basket-work, caning chairs, cooking, sewing,
gardening and carpentry projects for boys, the Sisters cooperate with the Boy Scouts, Girls Scouts, the
Red Cross, and the Aiken County Welfare Department and Board of Health. The Sisters distribute clothes,
shoes and other articles to those in need, maintain a clinic, and the buildings are used frequently for civic
and community assemblages.
N. C. C. W. Appeals for Clothing for
Children and Nuns of War-Stricken Nations
ST. FRANCIS DE SALES
PARISH IN COLUMBIA
FORMS YOUTH CLUB
(Special to The Bulletin) )
COLUMBIA, S. C. — Members
of St. "Francis de Sales parish, of
the high school age, have organize
ed a Catholic Youth Club, elected
officers, and made plans for a
program of activity for the coming
year.
Robert Bultman was elected
president of the club; Miss Mar
garet Bultman, vice-president;
Miss Catherine Jumper, secretary
and treasurer'. The Rev. Richard
C. Madden, administrator of St.
Francis de Sales Church, will be
the moderator of the club, while
Miss Eleanor Cantwell will serve
as sponsor.
Present at the organization
meeting, in addition to the elected
officers, were: Henry Jumper, Wil
liam Duffy, George Stuart, Tench
Watson, Gertrude Bultman, Alice
Hogan, Anne Durbin, Joan Sage,
Dorothy Bond, Patricia Gleason
and Elizabeth Watson.
The Midnight Mass at St.
Francis de Sales Church on Christ
mas was celebrated by the Rev.
Richard C. Madden, administrator
of the parish, with the Rev. Mr.
Nicholas a Bayard, a member of
the parish who will be ordained as
a priest of the Diocese of Charles
ton, this spring, as deacon. The
subdeacon of the Mass was Mr
Gerald Powers who is also com
pleting his seminary course pre
paratory to ordination for the
Diocese of ^Charleston.
SAVANNAH HIBERNIANS
PLAN CELEBRATION OF
SAINT PATRICK’S DAY
(Special to The Bulletin)
SAVANNAH, Ga.—Plans for
celebrating St. Patrick’s Day with
all the splendor of pre-war years
were made at the quarterly meet
ing of the Hibernian Society held
Ei the De Soto Hotel. Joseph W.
McAvoy, chairman of the board of
stewards, has announced that the
annual banquet will be held on
the evening of Saturday, March
16, and John J. Bouhan, chairman
of the speakers’ committee, said
that efforts were being made to se
cure orators of national promin
ence for the occasion. -
Eleven of the twenty-three
members of the society who, arc
veterans of World War H were
welcomed by Henry M. Dunn, past
president, who also paid tribute to
Lieutenant Commander Daniel J.
McCarthy and Lieutenant Colonel
Joseph C. Davis, members of the
society who lost them lives in the
nation's defense.
The returned servicemen includ
ed Dr. R. F. Sullivan, Dr. H. H.
McGee. Frank Rossiter, Julian Co-
rish, Walter Corish, Ormonde
Hunter, Jack O’Neal, Thomas Mc
Gee, William J. Kehoe, Henry B.
Brennan and Charles Pritchard.
The society set apart a page of
its minutes, as a memorial to the
late Harry Persse.
Lawrence J. McCarthy was
elected to fill the vacancy in the
membership rolls. The meeting
was conducted by President Peter
Roe Nugent.
GOING EVEN FARTHER than
the Nazi regime the communist
dominated municipal government
of Berlin has seen fit to ban all
religious instruction from public
school curricula.
(N. C. W. C. News Service)
NEW YORK, — Response to the
clothing appeal for children and
nuns in waf-devastated areas of
the world, conducted by the Na
tional Council of Catholic Women
in conjunction with War Relief
Services-National Catholic Welfare
Conference, has spread to 44
States, the District of Columbia
and Toronto, Canada, it has been
announced here.
Councils and affiliated national
organizations of the N. C. C: W.,
whose aid was enlisted to sew,
gather and send everything possi
ble to aid the unfortunates, are
responding with an average of 350
boxes a week. According to reports
from local chairmen, these contri
butions wil be greatly- increased
with materials now enroute to the
shipping center here. Clothing for
every age, from the new born to
the adult, has been sent to the
center.
At one peak of the appeal an
average of 1,000 cartons a week ar
rived at the warehouse for sorting
and repacking. Special efforts are
being made to- send all newly ar
rived clothing as quickly as possi
ble in order to combat the rigors,
of winter in devastated lands.
Affiliated organizations of the
N. C. C. W., adopted a variety of
ingenious methods in collecting
garments — such as conducting
baby showers; sponsoring dinners
at which an item of clothing was
the price of admission; establish
ing sewing parties to prepare
layettes; forming “transformation”
parties during which such items as
men's shirts were transformed in
to clothing for children and babies.
War Relief Services—N. C. W. C.
announced that many blankets
have been donated and in a num
ber of instances quilts and mat
tress pads have been cut dov/n to
serve as crib covers.
Since 1943, exports of War Re
lief Service-N. C. W. C., have in
cluded essential foods, clothing
and medical supplies, as well as
special articles, such as books in
the Polish, German, Greek and
French languages for use in Dis
placed Persons camps; radios, craft
materials and other articles to aid
the war-stricken. A special Christ
mas shipment to Belgium, France,
and the Netherlands included
more than 9,000 pairs of bedroom
slippers; 100,000 Holy Family
Christmas crib sets, and 1,175 cases
of “Nescafe,” which were dislri-
b t t e d throughout orphanages,
sanatoriums. homes for the aged
and similar institutions as a
Christmas gift from American
Catholics.
Resident directors on War Re
lief Services-N. C. W. C. in foreign
countries, constantly survey the
needs and report any changes so
that only immediately useful ma
terials are sent to the country.
Distribution of the supplies is car
ried out through local relief
agencies, well-known and long
established in the war-stricken na
tions.
MACON COUNCIL K. OF C.
PLANS DEGREE CEREMONIAL
MACON, Ga. — Announcement
has been made that Macon Coun
cil, Knights of Columbus, will
hold an exemplification of the
first, second and third degrees on
Sunday, March 31, at St. Joseph’s
Hall, the class to include candi
dates from Albany, Americus and
Millidgeville as well as from Ma
con and its suburbs.
Grand Knight Charles C. Me*
Carren is being aided by the in
surance and membership commit
tees of the council headed by John
F. McBrearty and Martin J. Cal
laghan, Jr., in plans to double the
council’s membership quota for
the year, which has already been
attained.
The first degree will be con
ferred oi. a number of candidates
at the regular meeting of the
council which will be held on the
first Tuesday in February. An
other first degree ceremonial may
be held at the firSt meeting in
March.
English Cathlic Paper
Deplores Appeasement of
USSR on Poland and Spain
LONDON—(NO— An editorial
in The Tablet, London Catholic
news review, on grave dangers that
face the Church in Poland and
Spain reflects the current trend
of Catholic writing and thinking
here.
(pondemning the “short-sighted
desire to appease the Soviet Un
ion,” the article comments on the
anomalous position of the British
and American governments, whose
foreign ministers have been
“guests of the most totalitarian of
single-party dictatorships,” but
which say they “cannot entertain
diplomatic relations any lohger
with Spain because Spain is under
single-party and dictatorial rule.”
Catholic feeling here is that the
situation has been influenced by
a rapidly increasing propaganda
campaign to rekindle civil war in
Spain and replace the rule of Gen
eral Franco with the tyranny of
Communism.
Referring to French efforts to
break off^relations with Spain, the
Tablet, comments: “Although both
General De Gaulle and M. Bidault
are Catholics, they arc letting
themselves be pushed towards a
policy which would seek to restore
a bitterly anti-Catholic regimo in
power in Spain.
T h e Polish Government is
“much more rbviously the creation
The Village
Greenhouse
Iradcll McCarty, Prop.
Flowers for
All Occasions
PIIONE id
Midnight Mass Offered
for the First Time in
Horse Creek Valley
(Special to The Bulletin)
AIKEN, S. C.—The first Mid
night Mass ever offered in Horse
Creek Valley was celebrated in
the chapel of Our Lady of the
Valley, at the Horse Creek Valley
Handicraft and Welfare Center,
operated by the Sisters of Our
Lady of Christian Doctrine on U.
S. Highway No. 1, near Langley.
The Rev. Francis Winum, Cong.
Or'at, assistant pastor of St. Mary
Help of Christians Church, Aiken,
celebrated the “Missa Cantata
and delivered the sermofl. Greg
orian music was. rendered during
the Mass by the chapel choir.
At St. Mary Help of Christians
Church in Aiken, the Midnight
Mas? was celebrated., hy- the Rev.
George Lewis Smith, the pastor,
who also delivered the sermon.
The Mass was sung by the church
choir under the direction of Mrs
F. E. Ardrey.
Masses were offered on Christ
mas Day at the Monaco home in
North Augsuta, and at the camp
of the Irish Traders, near Belve
dere.
On the afternoon of December
21, the annual Christmas party
was held at the Horse Creek Val
ley Handicraft and Welfare Cen
ter and a Christmas pageant was
presented. Gifts were distributed
to the several hundred children
who attended.
St. Mary Help of Christians
parish in Aikenfand its missions
shipped thirty cases of canned
foods,' waighing 1,224 pounds to
the War Relief, Services of the
National Catholic Welfare Confer
ence for distribution to the starv
ir,g peoples of Europe and Asia.
This generou response to the
appeal of the Most Rev. Emmet
M. Walsh, D. D., Bishop o f
Charleston, on behalf of the cam
paign, exceeded the expectatiom
of The Rev. George Lewis Smith,
pastor of the Aiken parish and its
mission. Several non-Cathoiic';
of the city made donations and
practically every Catholic in the
parish and on its missions gave
generously all . kinds of canned
foods.
DIVINE ASSISTANCE in bring
ing lasting peace to the world was
invoked by President Harry S.
Truman and Monsignor Thomas G.
Smyth, pastor of’the Shrine of the
Blessed Sacrament, at the Capital’s
traditional ceremony of the light
ing of the National Community
Christmas tree, resumed for the
first time since 1941.
and imposition of an outside pow
er than any Spanish Government
has been sinqe Joseph Bonaparte,”
the paper says, "yet Britain,
Franbe and America are all in re
lations with this Polish Govern-
I. M. PAIGE
W. W. ROBERTSON
YE FOUR LEAF
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‘V . ST. ANGELA ACADEMY, AIKEN—Established by the Ursuline Nqns in 1900, St. Angela Academy in
' Eijcen, South Carolina, has been conducted as a hoarding and day school by the Sisters of Our Lady of
'K/brcy .since 1906. The attractive structure pictured above, designed by the Rev. Michael Mclnerney, O. S.
R rioted priest-architect of Belmont A,bbey, \yas added ip the school in 1938. With Sister Mary Bernard
Superior, St. Angela’s has one of the largest enrollments in its history this year.
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