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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 GLOVER GIFTS SHOPPE Objets O’Art China—Glass mont.” ‘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. 610 Sumter St. AIKEN, S. C. Games AIKEN, S. C. Warrenville Driig Co. PRESCRIPTION SPECIALISTS Warrenville, S. C. FUEL CO. coal—wood—Kindling HEATING OIL PHONE 76 AIKEN, S. C.