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THE BULLETIN OF THE CATHOLIC LA YMEN’S ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA
AUGUST 30, 1947
ON FAMILY THEATER PROGRAM
John bund. Father Patrick Peyton, C. S. C., and Maureen O'Sullivan
during rehearsal of "Three Way Love." a radio drama written espe
cially for "Family Theater" by Mrs. Margaret Lowery Mrs. Lowery
has also written for the radio show "Grand Central Station." The
program deals with family problems presented through radio dramas
and starring outstanding stsge and screen personalities. Father
Peyton is the producer of the series and hopes, through these broad
casts. to introduce family prayer into all the homes of America and
the recitation of the daily family Rosary into all Catholic homei,
(NC Photos >
Father Peyton’s “Family Theatre”
Among the Year’s Outstanding
Non-Commercial Radio Programs
With Other Editors
Now that the Family Theater
radio show has grown into one of
the outstanding non-commercial
programs of the year the question
is being asked . . . what keeps it
going? The answer has come from
the Rev. Patrick Peyton, C.‘S. C.,
its founder and national director.
The program, which is broad
cast each Thursday night from 10
to 10:30 p. m., E. D. T., is heard
on more than 300 stations of the
Mutual Broadcasting System and
is rebroadcast by the Armed
Forces Radio Services on more
than 265 stations in all parts of
the world. Featuring top-flight
movie and radio stars, the pro
gram is dedicated to the encour
agement of family prayer. It has
been estimated that if the pro
gram were produced by a sponsor,
its cost would run more than $22,-
000 a week. As it is, the weekly
cost is $2,500.
Father Peyton explained that
even the $2,500 cost would be
prohibitive were it not for the
generosity of the stars and exec
utives in Ihe movies and radio
who have cooperated in making
the program a success, by donat
ing their services. Musicians, tech
nicians and supporting players re
ceive only the minimum union
scale.
Contributions have come to the.
Family Theater from people in all!
parts of the country and in all'
walks of life, Father Peyton said.
He disclosed that there are large
corporations which have borne
the expense of from one to four
broadcasts and that newspapers
have supported the program for
as long as three weeks.
“The whole or a part of the ex
penses of a single week’s broad
cast,” Father Peyton continued,
“has been carried by the dona
tions of Bishops, priests and heads
of religious orders; by men and
women of all faiths and creeds;
by groups and societies; by boys
and girls in high schools and -ol-
lcges. And there is an interesting
story of the girls of one college
who sent $5,000 by giving all their
graduation gifts to Family Thea
ter. Among the gifts were two au
tomobiles which realized $2,000.”
Father Peyton disclosed that
many persons—housewives, busi
ness men, factory workers and
others — send in small contribu
tions regularly to keep the pro
gram going.
The Family Theatre is one of the
most popular feature programs
broadcast by Station WBBQ, the
Mutual Broadcasting Company's
outlet in Augusta.
ATTACKING THE PROTECTOR
Chesterton on more than one oc
casion emphasized the fact that
those who wrote against the
Church owed it to the Church that
they could write at all. For it was
the Church which kept the fires of
learning burning from the days of
the Apostles until modern limes:
In the United States the public
school system is only slightly more
than a century old. The founda
tions of this nation were laid by
men who in most cases were train
ed . in religious schools; in the
Protestant Church the religious
school was a fruit of the tradition
of education which was a Protes
tant inheritance from the Catho
lic Church. The Republic was in
existence a century before it had a
president educated in a school
system from which religion was
barred. Most of our Presidents,
including both the Roosevelts, re
ceived all or part of their second
ary education in religious schools.
Archbishop Richard J. Cushing
of Boston in a recent address to
the employes of the Boston Ele
vated Railway System stressed the
point that “Those who deny the
existence of God and what the
idea of God represents in the
world are parasites living upon a
God-believing world. They are be
ing supported by it while they
seek to destroy it.”
There is in this nation a group
of persons opposed to religious
schools, opposed to tax-exemption
of property used for religious pur
poses, and in many cases opposed
to religion and to God. They walk
the streets safely, they are in un
disturbed .possession of property,
their homes are inviolate, they live
in peace only because the Church
through the ages and across the
nations has impressed the Chris
tian moral code upon the mind and
heart of society.
These persons whose conduct
when it is moral is the result of
'the religious heritage they seek to
repudiate are weakening the effect
of the work of the Church. If they
were successful, there would be no
more safety for life, liberty or
property in this nation, their own
included, than there has been or
is in totalitarian gentries.
(The Catholic News.)
WOULD BAN ADVERTISING
THAT RIDICULES RELIGION
A voluntary ban has been plac
ed on illustrations which “ridicule
or tend to ridicule any religion or
religious faith” and on “adver
tising copy with salacious or sug
gestive text or illustrations” by the
Los Angeles Newspaper Publishers
Association with the adoption of
two codes concerning amusement
advertising. One code governs
copy and art and the other typo
graphical practices.
The code also. requires that ad
vertisers do not submit any “il
lustration of a character in cleri
cal garb shown in any but a re
spectful manner;” “profanity and
vulgarity shall be avoided,” and
“specific details of crime, inciting
imitation, shall not be used."
Mrs. Mary Brady
Dies in Savannah
^SAVANNAH Ga. — Mrs. Mary
Brady, widow of William V. Brady,
died here on July 23, funeral
services being held from the
Chapel of Our Lady of Good Hope
of the Isle of Hope. Father Aloy-
sius Wachter, O. S. B., officiating.
Born ip New Zealand, June 6,
1866, Mrs. Brady had lived in Sa
vannah for the last seventy-five
years. She was among the group
who re-instituted the mission
chapel at Isle of Hope some forty
years' ago.
Mrs. Brady is survived by a
daughter. Miss LuCille Brady; four
sons, C. R. Brady, Sr., Harold P.
Brady, both of Savannah, William
J. Brady, Isle of Hope, and Alex
B. Brady, Macon; five grandchil
dren, Mrs. Corinne Owens, Miss
Barbara Brady. ,J. W. Brady and
C. R. Brady. Jr, all of Savannah,
and Miss Peggy Brady, of Macon.
THEY SURVIVED SIBERIAN SLAVE LABOR CAMPS-~Ending eight years of wandering home
less across Europe and Asia these sixteen orphaned Polish youths are pictured on their arrival in
San Francisco en route to the Franciscan monastery at Burlington, Wisconsin, where they will begin
their study for the priesthood. After two years in a Siberian forced labor camp they made their way in
an arduous trek to a Polish refugee camp in India. They sailed from Bombay after student visas were
granted, permitting them to enter the seminary. They are pictured kneeling aboard the ship in thanks
giving for their safe arrival. With them, light to left, John Karpinski, their escort, who will also enter
the priesthood; Father Michael I.asienski, O. F. M., and Father Isidore Cwiklinski* vice-provincial of the
fxancisan Fathers of the Assumption Province, Pulaski, Wisconsin. INC Photos)
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