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FOUR I’HE BULLETIN Of THE CATHOLIC LAYMEN’S ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA DFCEM3ER 20. 1947 $Ijp fifullrftti The Official Organ ot the Catholic Cay men's Association ot Georgia Incorporated HUGH KfNCHLEY, Editor 216-217 Southern Finance Building, Augusta, Ga. ASSOCIATION OFFICERS FOR 1946-1947 ESTES DOREMUS. Atlanta President M. J. CALLAGHAN, Macon, Honorary Vice-President FRED WIGGINS, Albany Vice-President J. B. McCALLUM, Atlanta Secretary HUGH GRADY, Savannah .... Treasurer HUGH KINCHLEY. Augusta Executive Secretary MISS CECILE FERRY. Augurta Financial Secretary A M McAULIFFE. Augusta Auditor VOL. XXVIII DECEMBER 20 No. 12 Entered as second class matter June 15 1921 at the Post Office at Augusta, Georgia, under the Act of March 3. 1879. accepted for mailing at special rate of postage R rovtded In paragraph 4. section 538 Postal Law* and ffgulations as modified bv o«rnpranh fi Memoer of N C W C News Service. Religious News Service, the Catholic Press Association of the United States the Georgia Press Association, and the National \ Editorial Association / Published monthly by the Catholic l.aymen’s Association of Georgia. Inc., with the Approbation of the Most Rev erend Bishops of Charleston and Sovannah-Atlanta. and of the Right Reverend Abbot-Ordinary of Belmont. Aiding Anti-Religious Aims L IMITATIONS of space, brought about by the prevailing shortage of newsprint, prevent The Bulletin from giving its readers, as often as it would wish, the benefit of the Washington Letter, written each week for the NCWC News Service by J. J. Gilbert. However, Mr. Gilbert's letter of last week is one that is of such timely importance that The Bulletin will devote space on this editorial page to quote from it as follows: “For some time certain elements have been going about saying religious groups are trying to break down ‘the wall between Church and State’ in this country, and that various religious denominations re trying to take over the public schools. “We are now beginning to see the first glim merings of a by-product, or perhaps the next cal culated step, of this sort of propaganda. Some people are beginning to advocate an attitude to ward the public schools that would make them so actively secular they would be aggressively anti- religious. “A particular unfortunate aspect of this develop ment, and it seems to be a development that could have been foreseen, is that persons prominent in GAIN it is the prayerful wish of the publishers and staff of Tne Bulletin, that all of its patrons and friends may enjoy a Holy and a Happy Christmas and a New Year filled with bless ing's, spiritual and temporal'. Dixie Musings There was an appealing Short story in a recent issue of The Sign, national Catholic maazine, various religious groups are' in the ‘fordronf of those who opposed released time religious instrue- 1 r l , h _. H y Ghost ’ tion, free bus transportation and welfare services for children attending parochial schools, and sim- near Conyers, Georgia. The story, entitled “Goose “Lei the Earth Be Glad” H OLY Mother Church, in selecting the Offertory for the Mass which the Roman Missal provides for the first, or the midnight Mass on the great Feast of Christinas, took the words of the psalmist: "Let the heavens rejoice, and let the earth be glad before the face of the Lord, because He cometh.’’ Surely, if there ever were a time when the earth should have been glad it was on that night, more than nineteen hundred years ago. when in the stable at Bethlehem, the Blessed Virgin Mary “brought forth her first-born son, and wrapped Him up in swaddling clothes, and laid Him in a manger,” for the Holy One who was born of her was to be called the Son of God. The Word was made flesh and dwelt amongst us—The Messiah. On each recurring anniversary of the Nativity of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ the earth is glad, and we are now approaching the gladness which the coming of another Christmas Day will bring to the world. In this inspired account of the birth of Our Blessed Lord, Saint Luke tells us that the shep herds, guarding their flocks on the hills of Judea, heard a choir of angels voice the message of the Incarnation by proclaiming glory to God on high: and bringing a promise of peace on earth among men of good will. Victory days in Europe and in Japan brought World War II to an end, but though that raging, world-wide conflict has ended, we cannot say that peace now really reigns on earth. In the very land hallowed by the footsteps of the Saviour of Mankind, blood is at this moment being shed, and we hear talk of a “cold war" in other parts of the world. There is not much in the news that comes to us these days from the radio or our daily newspapers to make us glad, and we know that there are mil lions of men, women and children to whom every day is a day of misery, privation and suffering. As with troubled hearts we approach rgain the \ ProtesW"churches on~one sideband‘the Catholic I borbood and what happened when he called to visit the Trappist monks. A branch of the Catholic Uni versity of America Engineering School is now in full swing at the Army Engineer Center, Fort Bel- voir, Va., under the guidance of a committee of Army and univer sity officials. Full credit is given for all work done at the military post, and degrees ultimately con ferred will be identical with those accorded other Catholic Univer sity engineering students. ilar public welfare programs. By the very vigor i Grease anfl Red Pepper,” by Grov- with which they have fought these proposals, call- j er Abies, with illustrations by ing them The camel's nose under the tent,’ these Harvey Kidder, told an amusing— men of religion have paved the way for a pro-1 and an inspiring story about a !™““d seculanst v,ew that is now beginning to ' Kmall Colored boy of the neigh- appear. - ‘They have said that the Catholic Church is trying to ‘take over' the public schools. Now those who capitalize cn their trail blazing say that all the religious groups are trying to ‘muscle in,’ and that they should be actively resisted. This gives an excuse for swinging the pendulum far in the other direction toward active, belligerent secular ism or anti-religion. “Thus it is that you have addresses at teachers’ conventions flaying ‘the churches' for causing ‘di vision’ among pupils by their released time religious instruction; speeches that tell ‘the churches' to get out of the schools or that call upon the people to put them out; speeches that glorify and idealize the schools as the focus of a community’s solidarity, and urge that nothing—not even religion—be per mitted to interfere with them. Schools have been called the medium through which all health and welfare programs are placed at the disposal of the family in a natural, simplified manner. “Propaganda of this sort, in turn, prepares the public for a ruling by a school official banning the singing of Christmas carols making reference to the Nativity or any Christmas observance having ‘religious significance,’ as if Christmas were not a religious feast. This school official said that while ‘personal jollity and merrymaking’ are fine for the children of public schools, ‘the religious features of the day should be eliminated. It should not have any sectarian religious significance.’ “There is a recurring reference these days to 'sectarian religion,’ with the suggestion that it is narrow-minded and unchristian for one to think that Iris is the true religion. It is even bruited about that the various religious denominations are fight ing fiercely among themselves, and that the schools,; if left alone, could do better by a person than the churches do. At any rate, it is said, the churches are threatening their own spiritual mission if they in terfere in any way with the ‘unifying’ work of the public schools. “Such persons create the impression that the In a recent issue of The Builder, the weekly bulletin of Druid Hills Baptist Church in Atlanta, it was announced that a collection was taken up in the church for the benefit of Our Lady of Perpet ual Help Free Cancer Home, the offering amounted to $689.99, and that there would very l'kely be additional contributions to the fund. The Rev. Dr. Louie D. Newton, president of the Southern Bapti = t Convention, is the minister of Druid Hills Baptist Church. The “Valley Ranch of Peace”, an establishment well known around Sante Fe, New Mexico, will be purchased by the Order of Cistercians of the Strict Observ ance for a Trappist monastery, ac cording to announcement made by Abbot Edmund Flutterer, O. C. S. O., of the Abbey of Our, Lady of the yalley, in Rhode Island. season which should be one of great joy there does come a thought of blessed hope that holds a measure of gladness for even the heart submerged in sorrow. There is a wry in which the nremise of peace, given by the angels on the first Christmas Day can become a reality. The Virgin Mother of the Babe of Bethlehem, in the message given at Fatima, told us that the way to bring peace to the world was to reek it through her intercession. As we gather before the altar this Christmas, In humble adoration of the Inf--:t Sviour, let us offer fervent net'Mqns to the Imr.--oulatc Heart of Mary that the hearts of men of ill-will will be so imbued with n lev- of God and lho ; - f'-'lov: m~n. so that a real ard lasting peace will let all the earth be glad. Church on the other are engaged in a fierce hand- lo-b-rd struggle. Many people swallow this, either because they want to, or because they don’t think. But it take; two to make a struggle, and if some Protestant individuals and publications are con Ope of the most unusual flights in aviation history will be staged shortly when ten Sisters board "a flying convent”—in Rome bound for Australia. / The Sisters, members of the Order of the Sisters of Mercy, will make the trip in response to an appeal by the Vicar General of the Archdiocese of Melbourne for additional nurses at a Catholic hospital there. • The charterttd plane leaving Rome will haye an altar install ed in the cabin so the Sisters will be enabled to say their pray ers and read their office while in flight. Curtains will be draped over the windows to insure priv acy at refueling stops. On over night stops, 1 the Sisters will stay at convents along the route. Paul D. Williams, widely known Catholic layman of Richmond, Va., was re-elected president of the Southern Regional Council at a meeting held some weeks ago in Atlanta. The organization voted a study of civil rights in the South as a major 1948 project and adopt ed a resolution asking a campaign of equal rights for veterans after hearing that the Veterans’ Admin istration has failed to make proper provisions for the handling of Negro cases. Mr. Williams, who was one or the founders of the Catholic Com mittee of the South, and its first executive secretary, is a former vice-president of the National Council of Catholic Men. Furfural, a chemical made from agricultural waste such as grain d o??jSS for a C whole b new , !l 1 d f ustry < to not make a struggle. The Catholic Church has 1 n VIL 17 , constantly maintained an attitude of friendship: r ' wn ^ ur ?' Dr ' Christopher and charity. It is true that Catholics have spoken Lf th „ . T br , ofesso J of chemistry out vigorously against persecution of religion, but 1 0 . Gmversiy of Notre Dame, in this they have condemned Godless regimes— j ,?“ ra , at a recen t meeting of the ensures of all religion, Catholic, Protestant j alumni of Canisius College. Dr. and Jewish. I Wilson has been engaged in re- “Lcck rather to the scholarly warning which search in the use of furfural, from ‘^P°stle, St. Patrick, and has never three emine.it Protestant clergymen have given j which nylon and other synthetics ’ been broken or weakened ,in spite Inauguration of the Irish Air Line's new service between Dub lin and Rome was hailed by His Holiness Pope Pius XII at an Vice Premier Sean Lemass and thirty citizens of Ireland who made the first flight from Ireland. “The Irish have long been found in all the known continents of the world,” the Holy Father de clared, “and thus why 0 should they not find a place also in the air?” “It is well known that Irishmen do not need an airline as a link to Rome,” the lloiy Father added, "because this link was forged J,- ! 000 years ago by their heroic in the official organ of 111- Council for Social Action can be produced. of ihe Congregational Christian Churches. Dean I Luther A. Weiple of the Yale Divinity School, Dr. ! F. Frne t Johnson, director of the Department of i What effect have, the Research and Education of the Federal Council of of Decency’s “Condemned of the persistent hammer blows of God's enemies. “With their lives permeated by Legion ' an indomitable faith and moulded rating, by its precepts,” the Pone con- “Can CaiMVsm Win America?” U NDER the herding quoted above there appeared .... ... p . vwvl ,Jj BL P„J| in the November edition of Georgia Education Churches, ami Tom Keolin, legislative secretary of j and Catholic disapproval had upon tinued, "it is no wonder the Irish Journal, the officirl organ of the Georgia 1r<lr nf + 1 ’" Onommiinnul iiu i,«, »«;. *•■-- — .... Education Association, an editorial which began with these words. CathoHc^or^vci^a^L-na^odiTr sc'hoc)/ 8 buf ' people in our country to defend against the secu-', Cne answer Jo that question has of individuals, pure in family life, opposed to givin- I v monev n anv ■ hao- or riLi | lervation of our culture. , boen **ven by the theatrical trade with a heart for the poor and af- directly or indircc'ly to institutions maintained bv : “‘ T1,e £trcn §J- h of their (the Catholics') claims |? urna * Variety, which looks upon Dieted patient, peaceful, loyal and any church, Catholic or Prote an! ! i0r of their schools as a part of the nation’s Ule recent conferences between brave. “Since Or* r-niVtl i c to divide tax money with 1 educational establishment/ wrote Dr. Johnson, ‘lies ( the Fox organization and the, The Holy Father concluded by non-public sohcch comes from Itomon Catholic ! * n th / ir concord-on that a purely secular program leaders, it is well for our members to under t-nd 1S enough. 10 the extent that Protestants co the general hre-k^-omd r *d nhile orliy of the J In . th^s judgment they arc confronted with , , Catholic movement hi Ap~erica. This n provided in ! diificu t au? tiap . . . I'rom a typically secularist ] urcs “have hurt considerably at travel on the new air service “mav edFor Harold E. j P° mt of v °' 7 there is no problem, for all criticism Cue box office.” 1 - - i, ‘lies j i ox organization and the, me Holy Father concluded by ogram Legion representatives over the praying that “now when the Saints s con- po-sible reclassification of the film j will wing their flight from the villi a as an indication that these nieas- j Liffey to the Tiber,” all those who a series of eight .• •' -ies by field Fc.v wh'rh an”C vember 29. I??* The closer" c { then quoted by C, (No- . * the public rhools on religious grounds' is’ re jected as rr-iv'’:'". We Protestants cannot dismiss the matter oa easily.’ c l to Th* Ch - G—fury. < tl Jemr.rv 17 10i5.)” - "t it M-. Fey’s .irticl-s was, . . . . , >» K unu prm to FAcclfo-I Journal, a”d 1 , ■ • v ,=* d: ‘There is desperate need for a | * * A - 1 -f of rtcivmn 1 ilrn of f onlr nn f Kn pna-1 * ?.0th must earn around $8,000,000 reach their destination safely, and better for their the- e was rde’e /] to -o edTo ’i p~t?. which sur- ge-tc d he o” ° ’O p : Tt o', the se-iss of art icles by *' •. F' TT r-d v/h toll rd •’ od from what source he rc~ ' '"'12 O Concl ■dir" ( V-* ■ t to !;' rcir o' articles, Mr. Fey dec lared: ‘ J ~ -1. tote! ** scuHy ^ o', fslants need to study ’-hat . r-% -■a Cr.‘ ’tel to Cbu-eh in Amto- ca is tr. lirto to ( ,f ? r U'i how it works to accomoli h ’ Its purp As f r rd as t’J.: rd vice i it would have been better i it h-d rl, r the Catholic Laymen’s As-C"'.' ?/. icn of C: a has been urtonq for thirty yenrr, that to-; «■ seek inform-tton to regard to t b- “a'hcT'c C/:: C -to. to CsihoVto sources to get it ; : .d n o ': <I“~ : d rolrl 7 u ::n the statements of pu' K pa'lom o ■ ; vdiidua s that have been con sptoi’.eu- for 4 icir attitude of opposition toward Ca'fcnlie s and 1 Ci: T::ch. Believing that ihe Georgia Election Association is. as it p.oelrtov, rot ca&CathoUc, it is believed that the editor of its official organ would be glad to know that the ccrio.o of eight articles of Mr. Fey- in The Christian Century were answered serially by Our Sunday Visitor, and will let its renders know that they can read what the other side has to say by writing to Our Sunday Visitor, Huntington, calm, rational, statesmanlike attack on the real issues, the cri'is in public education, the real mer.n'ng o', indirect aid.’ the proper policy on a specific i ue .-rich as transportation . . . The Pro testant rh'losophy of education must be restated and applied to the real issues of today.’ ‘Demi Y/clg'c reminded that ‘it was not un believers, but believers- who brought religious free dom into American life and established it as a national principle,’ and that 'the separation of Church and State in this country was intended net to restrict but to emancipate the churches, not to imoair but to protect religious faith.’ “It is indeed time to restate principles, and to defend principles. It is time, too, to recall the real mcrn'ng of reparation of church and state. It is time to protect the schools of our country, not Iron religion, hut from active, aggressive secular ism that seeks to stamp out religion from the life of the nation.’’ Indiana, for the booklet in which the answers to Mr. Fey’s article have been published. If any cl' those who have read Mr. Fey's articles would like to read the reply to them 1hat was made by the Catholic publication, The Bulletin will be glad to secure a copy lor them, and send it to them with its compliments. “With a negative cost of some be happier and 1,300,000, coupled with advertis-' visits.” ing and print costs of $1,000,000, j . es for distribution, Edgar Kobak, of New York City, president of the Mutual Broad- in rentals on ihe film before start- easting System, has been elected ing to break even,” Variety ob server. “Box office pattern estab lished by ’Amber’ to date, con- requc-ntly, lias given 201 h plenty to ■ 'orry about.” The theatrical publication stales lhat in the first veek that “For ever Amber” was released Twen tieth Century-Fox obtained 475 bookings on it. and in the first fourteen days of showings it took it more than $2,00,000 from the nation’s movie-goers. “Gross in most instances, how ever, has fallen off considerably, a large part of it due directly to the church ban.” Variety adds. “Because of bxhibitors' reluctance to incur the displeasure of their local church authorities," 20th is said to face new play-dating. Some who booked the film already are reportedly asking to be let out of their contracts.” chairman of the Advisory Coun cil for Science and Engineering at the University of Notre Dame. Mr. Kobak, a former student at Notre Dame, succeeds Harold ranee, chairman of the Board at (he Studebaker Corporation in South Bend. Indiana, as chairman of the Board. The Advisory Council reviews scientific and engineering research conducted at Notre Dame’s lab oratories and advises the Univer sity regarding this and proposed new research. Important research m nuclear energy, electronics, can cer, synthetic rubber, peniclillin, insulin, germ free animals the causes of tooth decay, plastics, vac cines toxins, vitamins, proteins and other fields of vast benefit to man kind are being carried on at pres ent in the Notre Dame labora tories ■—H. K.