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Catholic Lay
men’s Association
of Georgia
“To Bring About
a Friendlier
Feeling Among
Neighbors Irre
spective of Creed”
Vol XXVIII, No. 3 FORTY PAGES AUGUSTA, GEORGIA, MARCH 29, 1947 ISSUED MONTHLY-$2.00 A YEAR
William George Bruce, of Milwaukee
Awarded Laetare Medal for 1947
NOTRE DAME. Ind. — (NC) —
The University of Notre Dame
has awarded its Laetare Medal for
1947 to William George Bruce,
Milwaukee publisher and civic
leader. Mr. Bruce, who observed
his 91st birthday March 17. is the
65th recipient of the annual
award to an outstanding Ameri
can Catholic. The medal will be
conferred later this year.
The Rev. John J. Cavanaugh,
C. S. C.. University president, in
announcing the award on Laetare
Sunday, said that in honoring Mr.
Bruce, the university ‘'honors one
who through the publication of
significant educational works has
contributed much to American
life."
“For more than fifty years, Mr.
Bruce has given his best talents
to this work.” Father Cavanaugh
added. “He has constantly cham
pioned the cause of education
through his publications. At the
same time, books and magazines
published by the company found
ed reflect his own high moral
standards. Mr. Bruce, therefore,
lias made signal contributions to
the intellectual life of the United
States and through these contri
butions to the moral stability of
the nation.”
The Laetare Medal is so called
because its recipient is announc
ed each year on Laetare Sunday,
the fourth Sunday in Lent. It is
awarded annually to a leading
Catholic layman primarily as a
recognition of merit and an in
centive to greater - achievement .
T^asl year’s recipient was Dr. Carl
ton J. H. llayes, historian, author
and diplomat. Other famous
Americans who have received this
honor include Supreme Court
Justice Edward Douglas While,
Alfred E. Smith, Admiral William
Shepherd Benson, Agnes fiepp-
lier. Maurice Francis Egan, Gen.
William S. Rosecrans, Anne
O’Hare McCormick and Dr. John
B. Murphy.
Son of a ship’s carpenter, Mr.
Bruce was born at Milwaukee on
March 17, 1856. He was educated
iti the public schools and by pri
vate instruction. In 1877 he joined
the staff of the Milwaukee Daily
News, and in 1881 became assist
ant business manager of the Mil-
daukee Sentinel, a position lie
held for eleven years. Meanwhile,
his interest in education had been
aroused by his appointment to the
Milwaukee school board.
Mr. Bruce entered the publish
ing field in 1891 by founding The
American School Board Journal
on a total capital of $600. In 1914
he founded The Industrial Arts
Magazine, a professional maga
zine dealing witii industrial arts
and vocational education. He
founded Hospital Progress, offi
cial journal of the Catholic Hos
pital Association of the United
States and Canada, in 1919, and
ten years later his firm acquired
The Catholic School Journal.
Each of these publications has
been successful.
Mr. Bruce’s company started to
print books in 1920, and since
then has published nearly 800
titles, including textbooks, novels,
religious-biographies and other
types. Since .1929 the Bruce Com
pany has specialized in Catholic
books and now is regarded as one
of the leading Catholic publishing
houses in the world.
For many years interested in
civic affairs, Mr. Bruce has been
active in various organizations
for civic and state improvement.
Among organizations he was
president of at various times are
the Milwaukee. Harbor Commis
sion, the Wisconsin Waterways
Commission, and the Milwaukee
WILLIAM GEORGE BRUCE
Auditorium. He also is a former
president of the American State
Bank, and his Honorary President
of the Great Lakes Harbor Asso
ciation.
In recognition of his contribu
tions to education and charity, Mr.
Bruce in 1920 was created a
Knight of St. Gregory the Great
by His Holiness ' Pope Benedict
XV. Mr. Bruce is the author of
several technical books on archi
tecture, school administration and
civic history and a number of
studies on taxation, immigration,
citizenship and other subjects.
CATHOLIC SCHOOLS SAVE
NATION’S TAXPAYERS
$400,000,000 ANNUALLY
SOUTH BEND, Ind. —- (NO —
Pointing out that the operation of
Catholic schools in America saves
taxpayers $400,000,000 annually,
the Rev. Dr. John A. O’Brien,
Professor of Religion at Notre
Dame University, asserted that
much of the newspaper discussion
of the Supreme Court ruling in
the New Jersey school bus case
was “singularly off the beam.”
“It conveys the totally erroneous
impression that Catholics are in
some way adding to the burden of
taxpayers through the operation of
their system of schools,” he. said.
“The exact opposite is the case.
The burden of erecting, maintain
ing and operating Catholic schools
is borne solely and exclusively by
Catholics.”
Father O'Brien pointed out that
nearly 3.000.000 students were re
ceiving their education in Catholic
schools and colleges throughout
the United States.
ADMIRAL IN U. S. NAVY
ENTERS CATHOLIC CHURCH
VATICAN CITY, — (NC)—• Rear
Admiral Ellery Stone of the U. S.
Navy, former chief of the Allied
Commission in Italy, has been re
ceived into the Catholic Church in
a ceremony in a chapel at St.
Peter’s Basilica.
Father Wilfred C. Hurley. C. S.
P., of the Church of Santa Susan
na, administered conditional bap
tism, and the American naval offi
cer was confirmed by Archbishop
LeOne Giovanni Nigris, former
Apostolic Delegate to Albania. He
later received his first Holy Com
munion from Archbishop Nigris in
the same chapel, and then was re
ceived in private audience by His
Holiness Pope Pius XIL
DR. ALFRED Bit,MANIA. Min
ister of Latvia to the United Stales,
who wax received into the Cath
olic Church last week iu Washine-
tou, was baptised by His Excel
lency Archbishop Amleto Gio
vanni ('icognani, Apostolic Dele
gate to the United States.
Monsignor Thomas McDonough,
Chancellor, Named Auxiliary
Bishop oi Saint Augustine
SUPREME COURT DENIES
PLEA FOR REHEARING
IN SCHOOL BUS CASE
WASHINGTON. — (NCI —The
Petition for Rehearing filed by the
appellants in the school bus case
of Everson vs. the Board of Edu
cation was denied on Monday by
(he United States Supreme Court.
The Petition dealt exclusively with
tlie alleged unconstitutionality of
the resolution of the Board of Ed
ucation of the Township of Ewing,
N. J., which provided for the re- (
imbui'sement of parents who are I
sending their children to public
and Catholic schools. The attack
on the resolution was centered'
around the proposition that Hie
specific denomination of Catholic ,
schools violated the First Amend-’
ment. I
The Court on Ibis point bad held
that “although the township reso
lution authorized reimbursement
only for parents of public and
Catholic school pupils, appellant
does not allege, nor is there any
thing in the record which would
offer the slightest support of an
allegation that there were any chil
dren in the township who attended
or would have attended, but for
the want of transportation, any but
public and Catholic schools.”
The Petition was supported by
a special brief, amicus curiae, fil
ed by the American Civil Liberties,
Union. This brief, in effect, sought
a complete reconsideration of all
of the issues in the case so that
there might be a “clarification of
concept” of the public welfare doc
trine enunciated by the Court” to'
enable local authorities to distin
guish between action which will
be regarded as valid public wel
fare legislation and that which
will be regarded as invalid support
of religious institutions.
State Department
Clarifies Status
of Myron Taylor
(By Religious News Service)
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — The U.
S. Department of State has ad
vised the Executive Committee of
the Southern Baptist Convention
that while President Truman told
a group of Protestant churchmen
last. June the mission of Myron
Taylor to the Valican is a tempor
ary one he did not mean the ap
pointment would terminate with
(he signing of the Italian peace
treaty.
The letter from the State De
partment was received by Dr.
Duke K. McCall, executive secre
tary of the Baptists’ Executive
Committee, in reply to a petition
adopted by the Committee January
22 and forwarded to President
Truman.
“Treaties with the countries
contiguous to and immediately re
lated to the Vatican having been
agreed upon,” said the January
22 petition, “we earnestly urge
and petition the President of the
United States to fulfill his prom- I
ise, made last June, at the earliest
possible date.”
The Department’s letter sta'ed:
“By reference from the White
House this department has re
ceived your communication of
January 27. 1947. on behalf of the
Executive Committee of the South
ern Baptist Committee transmit
ting to the President petition con
cerning the mission of Mr. Myron
C. Taylor to the Vatican.
“At his press conference on
June 14. 1946, President Truman
corrected reports to the effect that
lie had told the group of Protes
tant leaders that Mr. Taylor's mis
sion would be recalled after the
signing of the Italian peace treaty.
He indicated the mission was tem
porary and that when its purpose
in assisting in the establishment
of peaceful conditions throughout
the world has been accomplished,
no official representing the Presi
dent of the United States would
be sent to the Vatican. Mr. Taylor
has never been appointed as am
bassador or other diplomatic offi
cer of the United States nor has
his presence at the Vatican as per
sonal representative of the Presi
dent established a United States
embassy there.”
In releasing the text of the let
ter to the Baptist prose, Dr. Mc-
New Auxiliary
Right Rev. Monsignor Thomas
J. McDonough, Chancellor of the
Diocese of St. Augustine, Florida,
who has been named Titular
Bishop of Tliaenae and Auxiliary
Bishop of St. Augustine. Bishop-
elect McDonough was born in
Philadelphia and was ordained
there in 1938. He has been serving
as Administrator pro tempore of
the Diocese since November, 1945,
when Bishop Joseph P. Hurley of
St. Augustine was appointed
Regent ad interim to the Apostolic
Nunciature in Belgrade, Yugosla
via.—(NC Photos).
NCCW Relief Fund
Providing Food for
Rumanian Children
ATLANTA, Ga.—An Associated
Press dispatch from Bucharest,
Rumania, published in The Atlanta
Journal, stales that in •< recent
interview, Bishop Gerald P.
O’Hara of Savannah-Atlanta, now
Regent of the Apostolic Nuncia
ture in Bucharest, said that the
National Catholic Welfare Coun
cil was helping to feed Rumanian
Children during the current food
crisis.
Bishop O'Hara is quoted as say
ing lhat a consignment of food
consisting of 500 eases of powder
ed milk arrived in Rumania last
month, and was distributed
through War Relief Services of
the N. C. W. C. to needy children,
irrespective of race ; or creed, and
that aonther consignment of 1,000
bags , of corn flour, 75 hags of
wheat flour and 200,000 bags of
sugar was being expected in
Bucharest.
VETERAN BRITISH DIPLOMAT
IS NAMED TO VATICAN POST
LONDON.—(NC)—John Victor
Thomas Woolrych Tait Perowne,
who has been named by the Brit
ish government lo succeed Sir
Frances O’Arcy Osborne as Brit
ish Envoy Extraordinary and Min
ister Plenipotentiary at the Holy
See, is a veteran of 27 years in
the British diplomatic service.
Eton and Cambridge educated.
Mr. Perowne recently has been
serving as counsellor in the Brit
ish Foreign Office. In his diplo
matic career, he has served at
Madrid, Lisbon, Copenhagen and
Paris. During World War 1, he
served in the Scots Guards,
Mr. Perowne is a Knight of St.
John and a Companion of the Or
der of St. Michael and St. George.
His wife is the former Agatha
Beaumont, daughter of Lord Al
lendale.
Call noted that “this interpreta
tion eliminates all definite means
of dating the termination of Mr.
Taylor’* jnisstnu to the Vatican.”
WASHINGTON — (NC) — His
Holiness Pope Pius XII has named
the Rt. Rev. Msgr. Thomas J. Mc
Donough, Chancellor of the Dio
cese of St. Augustine, to be Titn-
lar Bishop of Thaenae and Auxil
iary Bishop of St. Augustine, it is
announced in word received by
His Excellency Archbishop Amleto
Giovanni Cicognani, Apostolic
Delegate to the United States.
Monsignor McDonough was
named Administrator pro tempore
of the Diocese of St. Augustine
on November 26, 1945, when Bish
op Joseph l 5 . Hurley of St. Au
gustine was named Regent ad in
terim to the Apostolic Nunciature
in Belgrade. Yugoslavia.
Bishop-elect McDonough was
horn in Philadelphia. December 5,
1911. the son of Michael Francis
and Margaret Nolan) McDonough,
who reside in Overbrook. Phila
delphia. He attended St. Agatha's
School. Philadelphia; West Phila
delphia Catholic High school for
Boys, and St. Charles Borromeo
Seminary, Overbrook. He was or
dained in the Cathedral of Sts.
Peter and Paul in Philadelphia
by Bishop Hugh L. Lamb. Aux
iliary of Philadelphia, on May 26,
1938.
Following his ordination, Bish
op-elect McDonough made studies
at the Catholic University of
America, where he received the
Doctorate in Canon Law in June.
1941. Meanwhile, he had held
temporary assignments at the
Seminary in Philadelphia in the
summer of 1938, at the Cathedral
in Philadelphia in the summer of
1939, and at St. Charles Church,
Cornwell Heights, Pa., in the sum
mer of 1940.
Upon completion of his courses
at the Catholic University, Fath
er McDonough went to the Dio-
cease of St. Augustine. He was
named a vice officialis of the dio
cese in June, 1941; Vice Chancel
lor. September 8, 1941: Officialis,
November 8. 1941: Chancellor,
September 2, 1944: Vicar General,
November 7, 1945. and Adminis
trator pro tempore, November 26,
1945. He lias also served as a Dio
cesan Consul tor, a member of the
diocesan building commission. Di
rector of the Shrine of Our Lady
of La Leehe. Moderator of Junior
Clergy Examinations, and a mem
ber of the Council of Administra
tion.
His Eminence Dennis Cardinal
Dougherty, Archbishop of Phila
delphia, will consecrate Bishop-
Elect McDonough on April 30. in
the Cathedral of St. Augustine,
with the Most Rev. Emmet M.
Walsh, D. D. Bishop of Charles
ton. and the Most Rev. J. Carroll
McCormick, D. D., Auxiliary
Bishop of Philadelphia, as co-
consecrators. The sermon will he
delivered by the Most Rev. Michael
J. Ready, D. D., Bishop of Co
lumbus.
Bishop Gerald P. O’Hara
Officiates as Rumanians
Mark Pope’s Anniversary
BUCHAREST, Rumania—(Radio,
NC)—Catholics throughout Ru
mania took part in fitting cere
monies in commemoration of .hr
eighth anniversary of the corona
tion of His Holiness Pope Pina
XII.
Here in Bucharest, one of tho
principal ceremonies took place
in the chapel of the Apostulie Nun
ciature at which Bishop Gerald
P. O’Hara of Savannah-Atiauia,
now serving as Regent at the
Nunciature, officiated.
Representatives of the entire
diplomatic corps, with the execu
tion of Russia, attended the ser
vice. The King was represented
by a court official.
MEDICAL MISSION SISTERS
stationed at an orphanaae in Heer-
len, Holland, recently received
from Queen Williclmina clothing'
which Princess Juliana had worn
ak a little girl.