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Published by the Catholic Lay men's Association of Georgia “To Bring About a Friendlier Feeling Among Neighbors Irre spective of Creed" Vol. XXIX No. 2 THIRTY-TWO PAGES AUGUSTA, GEORGIA, FEBRUARY 28, 1948 ★ ★ ISSUED MONTHLY—$3.00 A YEAR Former Lutheran College at Batesburg Being Converted Into Good Shepherd Convent ESTABLISH NEW FOUNDATION IN BATESBURG—Pictured above at a Departure Ceremony in Baltimore, prior to leaving for Batesburg, South Carolina, are the Sisters of Our Lady of Char ity of the Good Shepherd who have established a new foundation of that Order, St. Euphrasis training School for Girls, on the property which was formerly a Lutheran College in Batesburg. Sealed, left to right, are Sister Mary of St. Francis Regis, Mother Mary of the Divine Heart, Suuerioress ot the new community; Sister Mary of St. Clare. Assistant Superioress. Standing, left to right. Sister Mary of the Heart of Mary, Sister Mary of St. Magdalene of Jesus and Sister Mary of St. Lucy.—(Photograph by Segall-Majestic—Courtesy of The Catholic Review). Bulletins THE 30TH ANNIVERSARY of the first appearance of the Blessed Virgin Mary to St. Bernadette Soubirous was observed on Feb ruary 11 at Lourdes with pilgrims from all over France attending. The principal Mass was offered by Archbishop Virgil Begum of Auch, with His Eminence Jule Cardinal Saliege, Archbishop of Toulouse, presiding. In a sermon in the course of the jubilee the Coadjutor Archbishop of Toulouse stated that more than a hundred million pilgrims have visited the world famous shrine since the apear- ance of the Blessed Virgin to St. Bernadette ninety years ago. Position of N. C. W. C. on Federal Aid to School Set Forth in Letter to Newspaper A LARGE NUMBER of non- Catliollcs attended the Solemn Mass at which His Eminence Em manuel Cardinal Suhard, Arch bishop of Paris, presided and preached the sermon in the Cath edral of Notre Dame, closing the week of prayer for Christian unity observed in the French capital. Following the Mass a group of Protestant pastors and members of the Russian Orthodox Church went to the sacristy and thanked Cardinal Suhard for his works of charity. SISTER MARY LOUISE, head of the English department at Webster College, conducted by the Sisters of Loretto, in Web ster Groves, Mo., lectured to the students at Christ the King School in Atlanta recently, on the subject of “Vocational Guidance.” Sister Louise is a member of the National Council of English Teach ers and a member of the national committee of Radio and Educa tion. Her latest book, “Over a Bent World,” is one of the most popular volumes on the shelves of the library of the Catholic Laymen’s Association of Georgia. A JUKE-BOX DANCE at the famous leper colony on Molokai netted $100 for the March, of Dimes fund, it was reported to the Maryknoll Sisters’ Motherhouse in Maryknoll, N. Y WASHINGTON — (NC) — The position of the Department of Education of the National Catho lic Welfare Conference on the question of Federal aid to educa tion was set forth by Msgr, Fred erick G. Hochwalt, director of the department, in a letter to the edi tor of the Washington Post print ed in that newspaper on February 14. Monsignor Hochwalt’s letter follows: “In this letter of February 1, Mr. C. S. Longacre asks ‘Does the National Catholic Welfare Conference mean to tell us that it no longer fears Federal control of public education just because par ochial schools are included in the benefits to be derived from these appropriations? The answer is no. The policy of the Department of Education, NCWC, always has been and is now (1) opposition to Federal control of education, and (2) opposition to legislative pro hibitions against Federal aid to nonpublic schools. “On the general question of Federal aid there was a change of policy. For many years the NCWC did oppose Federal aid for public and nonpublic schools on the grounds that such aid involved too great a risk of Federal con trol of education. Later, however, in light of evidence gathered by President Roosevelt’s Advisory Committee on Education, which indicated that without Federal assistance some States could not finance a defensible system of schools, the department of Educa tion, NCWC, changed its position and recommended Federal aid for needy States. This recommenda tion was made on the premise that the need for Federal aid in the poorer States, particularly those in the South, outweighed the risk of Federal control. “The Department of Education was not alone in making this change. A United States Senator, now an outstanding proponent of Federal aid legislation, once shar ed the NCWC’s views on Federal subsidies to education. Apparent- ( ly his reasons for changing were as legitimate as those of the NCWC. | | “In a second letter (February 8) | Mr. Longacre warns about the i ‘dangerous implications’ for any | private college or university which i accepts Federal aid. The warning j is well taken. May I suggest, how- I ever, that Mr. Longacre review rthe position of Dr. Martin Mc- j Guire, (Dr. Martin R. P. Mc Guire, Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences of the Catholic University), and my- 1 self as expressed in our statement , of dissent filed with the Presi dent’s Commission on Higher Ed ucation. I “There it is said that the wis- ■ dom of accepting or rejecting ! Federal funds is a matter to be ; decided not by the Government | but by the colleges and univer- ’ sities themselves. We had no in tention to recommend that the I I Federal Government compel pri- j | vate institutions to accept Fed- | eral funds. To do so would be as dangerous to educational freedom as Mr. Longacre’s proposal that j the Federal Government refuse to J ' support private institutions sim- I ply because they arc not under . the immediate control of State or local governments.” FROM ALL PARTS of the world, letters which are to be can celled at the St. Patrick, Mo., post office on St. Patrick’s Day and sent back to all parts of the world decorated with the shamrock stamp of emerald green, are flood ing daily to Father Francis O’Duig- nan, pastor of St. Patrick’s Church in the Missouri town named in honor of Ireland’s Patron Saint. ANCIENT ROME of the third and fourth centuries after Christ is being reproduced in a new Ital ian film version of Cardinal Wise man’s novel, “Fabiola.” Michele Morgan, French actress, has been cast in the role of the Christian heroine. (Special to The Bulletin) BATESBURG, S. C.—The ar rival in Batesburg of Sister Mary of St. John Eudes, Pronvineial of the Sisters of Our Lady of Charity of the Good Shepherd, and six other Good Shepherd Sisters, on January 26, marked one of the initial steps in the establishment here of St. Euphra sia Training School for Girls, a new foundation which the Sisters of the Good Shepherd are bring ing to the Diocese of Charles ton. Two Sisters of the Good Shep herd from each of the three con vents of the Order in the Balti more Province, the House of the Good Shepherd for White Girls, in Baltimore, the House of the Good Shepherd for Colored Girls, in Baltimore, and the House of the Good Shepherd, in Washing ton, D. C., will compose the com munity for the new establishment in Batesburg. Mother Mary of the Divine Heart will be the Superioress; Sister Mary of St. Clare, Assis- ant Superioress, of the new com munity, with Sister Mary of St. Francis Regis, Sister Mary of the Heart of Mary, Sister Mary of St. Magdalene of Jesus, and Sis ter Mary of St. Lucy, will form the new foundation here. The property acquired by the Sisters of the Good Shepherd consists of about 170 acres of landscaped ground, orchards and farm land, and the plant includes a three-story dormitory building, a two-story administration build ing, a superintendent's residence, a four-room school building, tenant houses, a garage, a dairy, barns and other farm buildings. The property was originally known as Summerland College, a Lutheran school for girls, which was # clo-ed some years ago when Newberry College, at Newberry, S. C., was made a co-educational institution. Since that lime, the property has been operated as the Weslervelt Home, for the chil dren of Lutheran foreign mis sionaries. For the present, the Sisters will use the Administration Building, which is now being remodeled and improved by the Southeastern Construction Company, of Char lotte, N. C-, according to plans executed by Father Michael Mc- Inerney, O. S. B., priest-architect of Belmont Abbey. Upon arriving in Batesburg, the Sisters found a large crew of carpenters, plumbers, plasterers, painters, electricians and other ' workers busily engaged in com pletely overhauling the Adminis tration Building, which will be divided into a convent for the Sis ters and quarters for some twenty- five girls, the number that can be accommodated at the train ing school until the main building has been renovated and repaired. There has been plenty to be done also in the way of unloading and unpacking the van loads of furniture and equipment that the Sisters had shipped from Balti more. Three young men, William Floyd, Wallace Powell and Eu gene Punte, each of whom has a sister who is a member of the community of the Good Shep-. herd Sisters in Baltimore, have been of great assistance in the work of preparing the former Summerland College for the coming of the Sisters. The Sisters have also bpen help ed by Miss Catherine Touhey. of Baltimore, a sister of ’ Mother Divine Heart, Who came to Bates burg with the Sisters to assist them in getting settled comfort ably in their new home. Further assistance is being given the Sisters by Misses Veronica Nicholson, Jeannette Kramer, Ruth Sears and Mary Mc Carthy, who came down from Baltimore with the Sisters, and who are helping them in many ways. Until the Administration Build ing was made ready for occupancy, the Sisters were quartered in a four-room frame cottage on the premises. One of the rooms was converted Into a temporary chapel, where Mass was offered by priests of the Congregation of the Oratory, from nearby St. Wil liam’s Church, at Ward, and where the Blessed Sacrament was re served in the tabernacle. The altar and furnishings for the chapel which is being con structed on the first floor of the Administration Building, have ar rived, and were installed as soon as the work of remodeling had sufficiently advanced. While the weather (' not con tribute a cordial welcome to the Sisters, and their coming to South Carolina meant that they have had to put up with inconveniences such as going three times a day from their cottage to the basement of the Administration Building for their meals, they accepted such things as a frozen waterpipe or two, the failure of the cooking- gas supply tank to function and other misfortunes with cheerful ness and patience. Shortly after arriving in Bates burg, Sister St. Clare had the misfortune of suffering a sprained ankle, and was taken to Providence Hospital in Columbia, where the Sisters of Charity of St. Augu tine not only extended gracious hos pital and care, but loaded the sta tion wagon of the Sisters of the Good Shepherd with gifts of linens and canned foods when they started on the return trip to Batesburg. The Sisters were heartened by the very cordial welcome which has been extended to them by the citizens of Batesburg, who have showered many favors on them since their arrival. An instance of the good will with which the Sisters have been greeted was found when they dis covered that they could not locate the packing case in which their tableware had been shipped from Baltimore. Miss Touhey went into town to purchase some knives and forks and spoons only to find that she was shopping on a day when the merchants in Batesburg were observing early closing. A visit to a restaurant in hope that she might there be able to buy some tableware for the Sisters brought a generous offer of a loan of all the silverware needed until the Sisters could locate their own in their vast assortment of unpacked items. Already the Sisters of the Good Shepherd have had a number of visitors, among them being Sisters of Our Lady of MdVcy, from Aiken, and Sisters of Our Lady of Christian Doctrine from the Horse Creek Valley Welfare Center, near Langley. It is expected that the new foundation will be formally ded icated on April 24, the Feast of St. Euphrasia, patroness of the establishment. Bishop Emmet M. Walsh, of Charleston, visited St. Euphrasia Training School on February 13, the day the Sisters were able to move into the Administration Building , and unstalled Mother Mary of the Divine Heart as Su perioress of the new community, at an impressive ceremony held in the chapel of the remodeled build ing. Assisting In the sanctuary at the installation ceremony were Monsignor Martin C. Murphy, V. F. , of Columbia; Father J. William Goldsmith, S. T. L., J. C. D„ Assistant Chancellor of the Diocese of Charleston; Father Jo seph T. Rodig, C. SS. R-, of Orangeburg; Father Alfred Kam- ler of Columbia; Father William G. Doyle, of Greenwood; Father George Lewis Smith and Father Peter K. Berberich, of Aiken, and Father Theodore Cilwiek, C. O., and Father Timothy Sullivan, C. O., of Ward Upon their arrival in Columbia from Baltimore, the Sisters of the Good Shepherd were met at the railroad station by Monsignor (Continued on Page Two-A)