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THE BULLETIN OF THE ZK'fWC.XC LAYMEN’S ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA
SEPTEMBER 27, 1947
Proposal to Amend Constitution and By-Laws of
The Catholic Laymens Association of Georgia
Will Be Presented at Convention in Columbus
A motion to amend the Con
stitution and By-Laws of the
Catholic Laymen’s Association
of Georgia will be presented at
the annual convention to be held
in Columbus next month.
In order that all members of
the Association may be familiar
with the provisions of the
Amended Constitution and By
laws which will be proposed at
the coming convention, by a
committee headed by Clarence
Haverty, Atlanta, and including
Dr. T. H. McIIatton, Athens;
Robert E. McCormack, Albany,
and Henry M. Dunn, Savannah,
the President of the Association,
Estes Doremus, of Atlanta, has
directed that they be published
in The Bulletin.
Any member of the Laymen’s
Association, who wishes to sug
gest any revisions or additions
to the proposed amendments, is
requested to submit his recom
mendations to any one tyl the
members of the committee for
consideration.
It is proposed to amend the
Constitution and By-Laws as
Amended in 1941, at the conven
tion held in Rome, as follows:
1. The name of the organiza
tion shall be THE CATHOLIC
LAYMEN’S ASSOCIATION OF
GEORGIA. Its object shall be
TO BRING ABOUT A FRIEND
LIER FEELING AMONG GEOR
GIANS IRRESPECTIVE OF
CREED.
2. Its membership shall con
sist of all Catholics in the State
in sympathy with is purpose, and
who shall contribute to its sup
port.
3. Meetings shall be held by
delegates in convention. The dele
gates shall be two representatives,
one man and one woman, from
each parish and mission in the
State, to be named by the parish
priest, and one delegate from
each Catholic society in each par
ish, to be designated by the so
ciety’s executive officer, or elected
by a vote of its membership.
4. The place and time of the
State Convention shall be select
ed by the President, Vice-Presi
dent and Executive Secretary, who
shall give to the local branch as
sociation in the convention city at
least sixty days notice of their se
lection.
5. The State officers of the As
sociation shall consist of a Presi
dent, a Vice-president, a Secre
tary, a Treasurer, an Executive
Secretary and a Financial Secre
tary.
All of these officers, with the ex
ception of the Executive Secre
tary, and the Financial Secretary,
shall be elected by the vote of
duly accredited delegates, as de
fined in Section 3, at the annual
convention each year.
The Executive Secretary and the
Financial Secretary shall be nom
inated for their respective offices
by the President, and will take of
fice upon the approval by a major
ity vote of the membership of the
Executive Committee.
6. There shall be an Executive
Committee consisting of the duly
elected state officers together with
nine additional members to be
chosen by the annual convention.
The President shall have power
to make ad interim appointments
to fill vacancies among the officers
and Executive Committee.
The direction of the Associa
tion’s affairs shall be vested in
this Executive Committee, at any
meeting of which the attendance
of two of the elected officers and
four other members of the com
mittee shall constitute a quorum.
The President shall name an Aud
itor who shall reside in the city
wherein is located the publicity
bureau, and this auditor shall su
pervise accounts of all officers,
auditing the same monthly, send
ing an approved statement to the
President.
7. The President shall preside
at all meetings and shall exercise
such power as is usual to the pre
siding officer of a similar organi
zation. In case of death, resigna
tion, or absence of the President,
or by his request, his place shall
be filled by the Vice-president.
8. The recording Secretary
shall keep a true record of the
proceedings of the Association.
9; The Financial Secretary
shall receive all moneys and shall
pay same promptly to the treasur
er. The Financial Secretary shall
likewise perform such other work
as may be assigned by the presi
dent. The Financial Secretary shall
give bond in an amount fixed by
the Executive Committee, the pre
mium thereon to be paid by the
Association.
10. The Treasurer shall re
ceive all moneys from the Finan
cial Secretary and deposit same in
banks designated by the Executive
Committee, in the name of the As
sociation. He shall pay all orders
drawn on him by the Executive
Secretary and countersigned by
the President. The Treasurer
shall give bond in an amount to be
fixed by the Executive Committee,
the premium thereon to be paid
by the Association.
11. Local associations may be
formed with the approval of the
Executive Committee.
12. The Executive Secretary
shall have charge of the publici
ty and other work of the Associa
tion. All pamphlets, articles for
newspapers, correction of mis-in-
formation, etc., issued in the name
of the Association, or by any of
its branches, shall be prepared by
him or submitted to him for his
approval. The Executive Secretary
shall be empowered to spend such
sums as may be necessary to carry
on the work of the publicity de
partment, provided, however, that
the estimate of expenditure shall * 1
be first approved by the Executive
Committee. The Executive Com
mittee shall each year pass on the
budget of expenses for the ensu
ing year as prepared by the Ex
ecutive Secretary.
13. This constitution and thes«
by-laws may be amended at any
convention by a two-third vote of
the accredited delegates present.
Reporter Witnesses
Severe Suffering of
Bavarian Stigmatist
By MAX JORDAN
(N. C. C. W. News Service)
COLOGNE. — Therese Neu
mann, stigmatized peasant woman
of Konnersreuth, Bavaria, went
through unusually severe suffer
ings on the Feast of the Sacred
Heart, according to a report of
the Catholic diocesan paper of
Hildesheim. Its contributor who
was present in Konnersreuth on
j that day, says that Therese Neu
mann had received Holy Com
munion at home in the morning
and then had a vision of the scene
on the Mount of Olives and of the
perforation of the body of Our
LoYd by the spear of a Roman sol
dier. The Ground inflicted, as seen
by Therese Neumann, was so se
vere that she felt the pain "to the
tips of her fingers.” The follow
ing day she was so ill that no visi
tors could be admitted to see her.
Several times before, she had ex
perienced heavy pains in her
heart.
Five days after the Feast The
rese Neumann was seen by the Hil
desheim reporter in the local par
ish church, decorating the altars
with flowers. When he spoke to
her the following day at her home
she had fully recovered from her
illness. The reporter was talking
to her while the family was hav
ing its _ noon-day meal. Therese
herself did not take any food or
drink.
dren of Atheists should benefit
from the social services provided
by the State. If that concept is
false, what excuse exists for ob
jecting to Catholic children rid
ing to whatever school they go to
in buses provided by the State?
“Instead of tormenting strife,
these clergy should join together
with other men of God in a unit
ed front a gainst all who corrupt
and prevert our children by elim
inating religious and morals from
education. Millions are dying for
their faith and these folks quar
rel over buses for school children.
I would provide buses to bring our
children to Sunday schools, to
churches, of any faith, of any de
nomination, that they might hear
the word of God and not live in
darkness.
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Columnist George E. Sokolsky
Discusses the School Bus Issue
Under the title, "Fists Against
God,’’ George E. Sokolsky, whose
syndicated column, distributed by
King Features, appears in The Sa
vannah Morning News, The
Charleston News and Courier, and
other newspapers in this section,
had this to say in the course of
his recent comment regarding the
agitation raised in certain quar
ters concerning the transportation
of parochial school pupils in pub
lic buses:
“The principal issue seems to be
that Catholic parochial schools
haye been claiming participation
in certain social benefits provided
American children through taxes.
As I find the facts, no Catholic
school has requested any state gov
ernment for a fund for buildings
or teachers, for libraries, labora
tories or other equipment. The
Catholic schools have contended;
that if buses or free lunches, med
ical examinations, dental clinics
or other social services are pro-1
vided by the state for any Amer
ican children, they should be given
to all American children whatever
their religion.
“The two arguments usually ad
duced against the Catholics are:
(1) That the state provides a free
school system and that when par
ents choose to send their children
to other schools, that automatically
exclude themselves from whatever
benefit the children in the public
school system enjoy; (2) that the
ideal of separation of Church and
State is imperiled by the very ex
istence of the parochial school.
“What is involved here is the
nature of the education in a free
society. Certainly the separation
of Church and State cannot mean
that the child is not educated in
the faith of his parents whatever
that faith may be, nor can it mean
that the State, in providing social
services for American children
I should discriminate between one
child and another on the basis
of faith. If that is the logic of
tiie situation, then only the chil-
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