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Vol. XXVIII No. 9 FORTY PAGES AUGUSTA, GEORGIA. SEPTEMBER 27, 1947. ★ ★ ISSUED MONTHLY— $2.00 A VKAK
BISHOP OK CHARLESTON MARKS ANNIVERSARY—In commemoration of the twentieth anni
versary of his, consecration as Bishop of Charleston, the Most Reverend Emmet M. Walsh, D. D., cele
brated a Solemn Pontifical Mass at the Cathedral of St. John the Baptist, in Charleston, on September
17. Bishop Walsh is pictured as he was imparting the Benediction to the large congregation, which in
cluded members of the Fourth Degree Assembly of Bishop P. N. Lynch Council, Knights of Columbus,
in full regalia, who served as a guard of honor.—(Photo by Robert Olis),
Catholic Committee of the South
Holding Its 1947 Meeting in
Charlotte, September 23rd-25th
(Special to The Bulletin)
CHARLOTTE, N. C.—U. S. Sec
retary of Labor Lewis Schwellen-
baeh and Charles M. McCormick,
Baltimore employer - pioneer in
labor - management partnership,
ave major participant* in the
eighth annual convention of the
Catholic Committee of the Sojith
in Charlotte, September 23 to 25.
Dr. Arthur Raper. U. S. De
partment of Agriculture social
science analyst, and Dr. Ira Reid,
Atlanta sociologist, arc discussing
machines in the cotton fields, par
ticularly the mechanical cotton
picker and their impact on South
ern economy.
David E. Lilienlhal, head of the
atomic energy commission, and
Dr. Horace W. Odum, University
of North Carolina expert on the
South's regional problems, were in
vited to the chief evening session,
presided over by Archbishop Jo
seph F. Rummel of New Orleans,
and Episcopal chairman of the
Catholic Committee of the South.
Other laymen participating
Include Price McLcmore. Waugh,
Ala., inventor of the flame culti
vator for cotton growers; Dr.
Frank J. Welsh, dean of the Mis
sissippi State College of Agricul
ture; Dr. George Mitchell, At
lanta. newly elected executive di
rector of the Southerii Regional
council; Neill McLean, Bricks. N.
C., expert on the credit union
movement and Dr. Thomas Ar-
ceneaux, Lafayette. La., dean of
Louisiana State University School
of Agriculture.
Prelates who are speaking and
presiding at various sessions are
Bishop Peter Ireton of Richmond,
Bishop Vincent S. Waters of Ra
leigh; Bishop Francis Cotton of
Owensboro; Bishop Emmet Walsh
of Chai'leston, and Bishop William
T. Mulloy of Covington.
Monsignor Luigi Lugutti, chair
man, National Catholic Rural Life
conference, is presiding at a dis
cussion of Southern rural prob
lems and Father George G. Hig
gins of the NCWC Social Action
Department, is leading a discussion
on labor-management regulations,
presided over bv Francis Heazel,
K. S. G , Asheville, N. C.
On the program were: A social
action conference for priests, a
teachers’ institute, the impact of
the mechanical picker on the econ
omy and people of the South; the
South, cradle of the American
family, the rural life and future
of our nation; can management
and labor be partners and the
Southern apostolate needs apostles.
“Outstanding leaders in Church,
governmet, agriculture, industry,
labor and education’’ are taking
part in the convention, CCS offi
cials stated.
In a pre-convention statement
issued by committee leaders the
current meeting was termed: “A
unique three-day Southern pro
gram for clergy religious and
laity interested in the South's fu
ture for God and country.”
Scheduled first on the program
was a social action conference for
priests from 9:30 a. m. to noon.
Its theme was labor in the Soutu.
Also scheduled for the morning of
September 23 was the teachers’ in
stitute which included in its
topics The Catholic Teacher;
Catholic School Discipline; Cath
olic Education, and a Challenge to
the South.
The opening session was set for
2:30 p. m. Tuesday, September 23.
At the session appointments of
committees were made. Discus
sion include: The impact of
the mechanical cotton picker on
the rural and urban economy of
the South’s displaced persons.
The Family life meeting fol
lowing the theme “as the family,
so the nation” was held at 8
p. m.
The second day of the meeting
is beginning with uip rural life s<* -
sion. Topics of the meeting will
include: What are the rural and
economic problems of the South?
What has been done about these
problems? and what can be done
in the future for llie good of the
South?
The labor-industry meeting was
to be held in the afternoon using
the theme “Can Labor and Man
agement Be Partners? 1 ’
Presentation of the 1947 CCS
award is being made at the pub
lic session Wednesday evening.
David E. Lilienthal, chairman of
the atomic energy committee, re
ceived the award last year.
The final day of the conven
tion is beginning with a general
meeting and will continue with
workshops and reports on work
shops. The closing business meet
ing will be held at noon.
Dr. Guy B. Johnson
to Receive Annual
Award oi C. C. S.
CHARLOTTE, N. C.—(NC)—
Dr. Guy B. Johnson, race rela
tions expert of the Southern Re
gional Council, will be given the
annual award of the Catholic
| Committee of the South at the
committee’s convention here on
September 23 to 25.
) The award is bestowed each
| year on a man or woman whoso
| work has contributed most great-
i ly to the advancement of the
South. Previous recipi:ntc include
David E. Lilienthal, now head of
| the U. S. Atomic Energy commis
sion, and Dr. George Washington
Carver, deceased colored scien
tist. The Southern Regional coun-
| cil is a non-sectarian organization
for the economic, political and
cultural improvement of t li c
South.
| Dr? Johnson was selected for
this year’s award, a CCS annourice-
! ment states, “to acknowledge
j through him the excellent work of
(the Southern Regional council and
j to give recognition to a good ex-
' ample of sound and sane South
ern leadership.” The recipient is
a research professor in sociology
at the University of North Caro
lina and is known for his studies
of the American Negro and his re
search into the economic status of
Negroes and economic. ,• political
j and philosophical trends affect
ing them.
Bulletins
MYRON C. TAYLOR, President
Truman's personal representative
at the Vatican, left Italy on Sep
tember 1.1 for London on his way
back to the United States after
two weeks' stay in Rome.
SUPREME KNIGHT John E;
Swift of the Knights of Columbus,
will be heard in a Columbus Day
address which will be broadcast
by the Mutual Broadcasting Sys-
temn, on a coast-to-coast network,
on Sunday,October 12, at 11:15
a. m., Eastern Time.
ARCHBISHOP ARTHUR
HUGHES, 45-year-old White Fath
er, recently appointed first Vati
can diplomat accredited to a
Moslem State when he became
Internwneio in Egypt, has gone to
Rome to receive his credentials
before assuaging his post.
Bishop Emmet M. Walsh
Marks 20th Anniversary
as Bishop of Charleston
CHARLESTON. S. C.—His Ex
cellency the Most Reverend Em
met M. Walsh, D. D., commemo
rated the twentieth anniversary of
his consecration as Bishop of
Charleston, on September 10, by
celebrating a Solemn Pontifical
Mass at the Cathedral of St. John
the Baptist.
The Mass was preceded by a
colorful procession along Broad
street from the rectory to the Ca
thedral, with Fourth Degree mem
bers of the Knights of Columbus,
in full regalia, with baldrics and
swords, serving as an escort to
Bishop Walsh and the assisting
clergy.
Bishop Walsh was assisted in
tlie celebration of the Mass by
Monsignor James J. May, Vicar
General of the Diocese of Charles
ton, as archpriest;; by Father Jere
miah W. Carmody, pastor of St.
Mary's Church, Charleston, and
Father Ward Cleary, C. S. Sp.,
pastor of St. Peter’s Church and
the Immaculate Conception
Church, Charleston, as deacons of
honor; by Monsignor John L. Man
ning, D. D., Chancellor of the Dio
cese of Charleston, as deacon;
Father Sydney F. Dean, assistant
pastor of St. Mary’s Church,
Greenville, subdeacon; Father Jo
seph Murphy and the Rev. Mr.
Joseph Maloney,, master of cere
mony.
The sermon at the Mass was de
livered by Monsignor Martin C.
Murphy, V. F., pastor of St. Peter's
Church, Columbia, and Mass was
sung in the Gregorian chant by a
choir of priests, under the direc
tion of Father John J. McCarthy,
pastor of Blessed Sacrament
Church, Charleston, with Father
Maurice Shean, Congr. Or at., of
the Oratory of St. Philip Neri,
Rock Hill, at the organ.
Present in the sanctuary were
Monsignor Andrew Keene Gwynn,
P. A., pastor of St. Mary’s Church,
Greenville;- Monsignor Joseph L.
O’Brien, S. T. D., rector-emeritus
of Bishop England High School,
Charleston, and Father Francis
Larkin, SS, CC., Sacred Heart
Seminary, Washington, D. C.
Attending clergy included Fa
ther Patrick Walsh, O. P.: Father
Alfred* Kanilet. Father Dominie
Corigliano, O. P., Columbia; Fa
ther Ronald Anderson, Father
Thomas McLaughlin, O. F. M.;
Father Gordon Krahe. O. F. M.,
Greenville; Father Edward A. Kel
ler, Father John Simonin, Beau
fort; Father Frederick Suggs, Co
lumbia; Father William A. Tobin,
Florence; Father George Lewis
Smith, Father Peter Berberich,
Father Alfred DeFazio, C. SS. R.,
Aiken; Father John Gallagher,
Congr. Orat., Ward: Father Joseph
T. Romig, C.. SS. R.; Father
Charles J. Baum, Spartanburg;
Father James A. McElroy, Sum
merville; Father John A. Nedley,
Congr. Orat.; Father Vincent G.
Scharff, Congr. Orat,; Father Ger
ald Ernst, Congr. Orat.: Father
Edward Wahls, Congr. Orat.; Fa
ther Edward Chmely, Congr. Orat.;
Father Aloysius Kaszuba, Congr.
Orat.; Father Timqthy Sullivan,
Congr, Orat., Rock Hill; Father J.
Fleming McManus, Father J. Law
rence McLaughlin, Moultrieville;
Father Richard C. Madden, Myrtle
Beach; Father Allen R. Jeffords,
Father Louis R. Williamson, ITarts-
ville; Father Francis A. Gorman,
O. F. M.-; Father Maurice Daly,
Anderson; Father J. Edmund
Burke, Camden; Father Albert A.
Faase, Georgetown; Father John
P. Clancy, Father Nicholas Bayard,
Father Thomas Haggerty, O. M. I.,
Sumter; Father Charles L. Sheedy,
Dillon; Father A. W. Calner, Fa
ther J. Alexis Westbury; Father
Henry F. Wdlfe, Father St. John E.
Patat, Father Roy F. Aiken, Father
Louis Sterker, Father Joseph
Richmond, Congr. Orat., Father J.
William Goldsmith, Father Jerome
C. Powers, Father Leon J. Ilubacz,
Father Thomas J. Mackin, Father
D. F. Murphy, Father Stephen A.
Zamborsky, C. S. Sp.; Father Wil
liam G. McMenemy, C. S. Sp.; Fa
ther W. J. Croghan, Charleston;
Father Anthony J. Hackett, C. S.
Sp., Hartsville; Father William G.
Doyle, Greenwood, and Chaplain
Patrick J. Flannery, Shaw Field.
The evening before, Bishop
Walsh was complimented at din
ner given in his honor at the Fort
Sumter Hotel by the priests of the
Diocese of Charleston.
Father Francis Larkin. SS. CC.,
from the Sacred Heart Seminary,
Washington, D. C., was the guest
speaker.
Bishop Walsh was presented
with an ermine cuppa by the
clergy serving in his Diocese.
Bishop Walsh was born in Beau
fort, S. C., March 6. 1892, the son
of the late Thomas F. Walsh and
Mrs. Wilhelmina Jennerman
Walsh,, moving to Savannah with
his parents in liis boyhood. After
attending St. Bernard’s Seminary,
Rochester, N. Y., he was ordained
for the Diocese of Savannah in
1916 and had served as a priest in
Georgia for eleven years when he
was chosen by the Holy See in 1927
to become the sixth Bishop of
Charleston.
He was consecrated Bishop of
Charleston in September, 1927, at
the Cathedral of St. John the Bap
tist, in Sa v annah, by Bishop
Michael J. Keyes, S. M., then Bis
hop of Savannah.
Monsignor Manning Succeeds
Monsignor O'Brien as Rector
of Bishop England High School
(Special to The Bulletin)
CHARLESTON, S. C„—Retire
ment ofthe Right Reverend Mon
signor Joseph L. O’Brien, S. T. D.,
LL. D.. as rector of Bishop Eng
land High School has been an
nounced by the Most Reverend
Emmet M. Walsh, D. D., Bishop of
Charleston.
Monsignor O’Brien will become'
rector-emeritus of the school which
he founded and will continue to
serve a* Superintendent of Schools
for the Diocese of Charleston, and
as pastor of St. Patrick’s Church
here.
Monsignor O’Brien was born in
Avoca, Pa., April 30, 1884. He grad
uated from Mount St. Mary’s Col
lege, Emmitsburg, Md., with an
A. B. degree, in 1910, and was
awarded his M. A. degree by
Mount St. Mgry’s in 1912. From
1910 until 1914 he attended the
International Catholic University
of Fribourg, in Switzerland, where
he was ordained in 1912.
Coming to the Diocese of Charles
ton in 1914, he founded Bishop
England High School a year later,
and has continued to serve as its
rector since its foundation. He
has been pastor of St. Patrick’s
Church since 1929.
In 1930, Spring Hill College con
ferred on Monsignor O’Brien the
pontifical degree of Doctor of
Sacred Theology and was later
awarded an LL. D. degree by the
College of Charleston.
It was in 1934 that His Holiness
Pope Pius XI elevated him to tlie
dignity of a Domestic Prelate with
the rank and title of Right Rever
end Monsignor.
For some years he was professor
of Literature at the summer school
of Marywood College, Scranton,
Pa., and has lectured of Religion
and Literature at Saint Cyril and
Methodius Summer School, Dan
ville, Pa., for a number of years.
He is the author of “John Eng
land, Bishop of Charleston, «nd
has written numerous monographs
and articles for Catholic and
secular publications.
Renowned as an orator he has
delivered many addresses before
distinguished groups all over the
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