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Catholic Lay
men's Association
of Georgia
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Vol. XXX. No. 6.
“To Bring About
a Friendlier
Feeling Among
Neighbors Irre
spective of Creed"
THIRTY-TWO PAGES AUGUSTA, GEORGIA, JUNE 25, 1949
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ST. FRANCIS XAVIER INFIRMARY NURSES’ HOME, CHARLESTON — Pictured above Is the
$500,000 nurses home, now nearly completed for St. Francis Xavier Infirmary in Charleston, S.
C. The six-story structure of gray brick, which faces Ashley Avenue, on the block adjacent to
the infirmary, will accomodate a hundred nurses and also serve as a convent for the Sisters of
Our Lady of Mercy who conduct the infirmary. The building, which will be the latest and most
modern of homes for nurses, will have lecture rooms, demonstration rooms, a science laboratory, a
dietary laboratory, a chapel and an auditorium which will accommodate 250 persons. A lavatory
will connect with each two of the semi-private rooms for nurses and there will be a kitchenette
and a launderette on each floor. The St. Francis Xavier Training School for Nurses which
the new building will serve was established in 1900, and is fully accredited. Plans for the build
ing were executed by Harold Tatum, Charleston architect, in cooperation with Father Michael
Mclnerney, O. S. B., priest - architect of Belmont Abbey. The South Eastern Construction Com
pany of Charlotte, N. C., are the builders. Shown at the right is one of the residences which
are now being used as nurses homes, and which will be razed when the new nurses’ home is
completed.—(Photo by Holcombe—Courtesy of The Charleston Evening Post).
Bulletins!
WILLIAM C. EHRHARDT OF CHARLESTON,
ELECTED STATE DEPUTY OF K. OF C.
STATE COUNCIL IN SOUTH CAROLINA
GREENVILLE, S. C.—William C.
Ehrhardt, of Charleston, was
chosen State Deputy of South
Carolina State Council, Knights of
Columbus, at the annual conven
tion held here on May 29. Mr
Ehrhardt succeeds Joseph A. Put
nam, of Greenville, who has head
ed the K. of C. in South Carolina
as state deputy for the past two
years.
Henry Wells, of Greenville, was
elected state advocate, succeeding
Gregory Duffy, of Georgetown.
Oliver J. Richard, of Georgetown,
was named state secretary, to suc
ceed Jamile J. Francis, of Green
ville. A1 Bauman, of Sumter, suc
ceeds William J. Heidt, of Colum
bia, as state treasurer. John Bult-
man, of Columbia, was elected state
warden, succeding Thomas Madden,
of Charleston.
Anthony J. Redmond, of Ashe
ville, master of the North Carolina
Province, Fourth Degree, K. of C.,
was the principal speaker at the
convention banquet held at the
Ottaray Hotel.
The convention program includ
ed a reception at the Hotel Green
ville, Mass at St. Mary’s .Church,
and the convention session at Gal-
livan Memorial Hall. More than
a hundred members of the K. of
C., representing all of the subordi
nate councils in the state, attended.
William C. Ehrhardt, the new
state deputy, is the son of William
A. Ehrhardt and Mrs. Helen Craig
Ehrhardt. He attended the Citadel
in Charleston and graduated from
the Law School of the University
of South Carolina in 1931. He
is engaged in the practice of law
in Charleston, where he has been
active in civic and fraternal affairs.
He is a former district deputy of
the K. of C., and has been a mem
ber of Bishop P. N. Lynch Coun
cil. No. 704, in Charleston for fif-
WILLIAM C. EHRHARDT
teen years. He is also a member
of the Bishop Lynch Fourth De
gree Assembly and of the parish of
the Cathedral of St. John the Bap
tist.
The new state deputy is also a
member of the Elks, the Hibernian
Society of Charleston, the Charles
ton Rifle Club, the Lions and the
Charleston Chamber of Commerce.
A CONTRIBUTION of $1,000
has been made by Archbishop John
T. McNicholas of Cincinnati to the
Jewish Welfare Fund, it has been
announced by Frederick Raud,
chairman of the fund raising cam
paign. In a letter accompanying
the gift, the Archbishop said: “This
is only a token of my great con
cern and devotion to the Jewish
people. The sad story of their
persecution and ruthless destruc
tion during the war years can
never be told.”
DR. JOHN C. H. WU has resign
ed his position as Chinese Minis
ter to the Holy See in order to as
sume the professorship of Chinese
philosophy at the University of
Hawaii in Honolulu. With his wife
and the younger five of their
thirteen children, Dr. Wu will sail
from Naples for New York on July
23. They plan to spend two weeks
in the United States on their way
to Hawaii. While in this country
they will leave their son, Vincent,
at Belmont, N. C„ where he is to
attend Belmont Abbey College.
TWENTY ITALIAN PRIESTS,
from fourteen Dioceses in Italy,
are preparing to sail for America
where they will work in the Arch
diocese of New York, where they
will be assigned to parishes where
there arc large numbers of Italian
speaking people.
FATHER ANGELUS F. DELA-
IIUNT, S. A., member of the Gray-
inoor Fathers Mission Band of
Washington, D. C., was elected Su
perior of the Franciscan Fathers
of the Atonement at their general
chapter at Graymoor Monastery,
Garrison, N. Y.
GOVERNOR THOMAS E.
DEWEY of New York was received
in audience by His Holiness Pope
Pius XII, on June 8. The governor,
who was accompanied by Mrs.
Dewey, spent thirty minutes with
the Holy Father.
APPOINTMENT of Father
Joseph M. Egan, S. J., as head of
the Chicago Province of the Soci
ety of Jesus has been announced
in Rome by the Jesuit Superior
General, Father John B. Janssens,
S. J.
FATHER JAMES H. O’NEILL,
Deputy Chief of Chaplains of the
U. S. Army, a priest of the Diocese
of Helena, has been named a Do
mestic Prelate by Ibis Holiness
Pope Pius XII.
Knights of Columbus Announce
Extension of Advertising Program
NEW HAVEN, Conn.—(NCI—
The Knights of Columbus has an
nounced it is extending its adver
tising campaign so that nearly 30,-
000,000 persons will soon be able
to read the truth about the Cath
olic Church in their favorite mag
azines.
Five magazines which have been
carrying the Supreme Council’s
series of Catholic advertisements
will now be augmented by three
additional publications with a com
bined circulation of 14,663,971.
Magazines already publishing the
ads in the United States include
American Weekly, Pathfinder Col
liers, Liberty and Atlantic Month
ly. Their combined circulation is
14,983,287.
The new publications will in-
include This Week, Parade, and
Grit. Published as a magazine sup
plement to leading newspapers.
This Week is distributed in Atlanta.
Baltimore, Birmingham, Boston,
Chicago, Cincinnati, Cleveland.
Dallas, Des Moines, Detroit, In
dianapolis, Los Angeles, Memphis,
Milwaukee, Minneapolis, New York,
Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Portland
(Ore.), Rochester, St. Louis, San
Francisco, Spokane and Washing
ton, D. C. The total of this cir
culation is 8,864,663.
Parade, also a newspaper supple
ment. having a circulation of 5,-
150,665, is distributed in Akron.
Boston, Bridgeport, Chicago, Den
ver, Detroit, El Paso, Erie Fort
Wayne, Houston, Jacksonville, Long
Island, Madison, Newark, New
Bedford, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh,
Portland (Me.), St. Paul. Salt Lake,
Syracuse, Toledo, Washington,
Wichita, and Youngstown.
Grit, which describes itself as
“Small-Town America’s Greatest
Family Weekly,” has a circulation
of 648,653. Much of this distribu
tion, it is said, is in towns of 1,000
population and less, an interesting
fact in view of the false beliefs and
lack of information about the Cath
olic Church which prevail in many
of the small towns of the country,
the K. of C. announcement states.
The Supreme Council Committee
has authorized the publication of
the second series of advertisements
in the four Canadian magazines,
which recently completed publica
tion of the first series of six ads,
Mac Lean’s, Star Weekly, Montreal
Standard and New Liberty.
The potency of the advertising
program continues to manifest it
self in many ways, the statement
relates. The second series of ads,
like the first one, is bringing in a
heavy volume of mail requesting
pamphlets and information. Many
of those who request the pamph
lets later enroll for religio»s in
struction by mail and a <oclly
number are now confirmeu mem
bers of the Church, the announce
ment declares.
A plan to supplement the maga
zine advertising ampaign with ra
dio spot announcements is now tak
ing shape.
The suggestion that radio be
used to support the magazine ad
vertising was made by Paul J. Tag-
gert, of the Catholic Broadcasters’
Association, who expressed the
view that the radio messages, even
though brief, would substantially
augment the hundreds of thou
sands of requests being received
from the magazine advertisements.
The Supreme Council committee
on Catholic Advertising welcomed
Mr. Taggert’s invitation and a se
ries of eight radio announcements
has been prepared for use by mem
bers of the Catholic Broadcasters’
Association desiring to assist the
Catholic advertising program. The
radio messages are taken from the
current series of magazine ads., and
the announcements are available
and may be used as desired on any
Catholic radio program.
School Aid "Appallingly Un-American”
Unless Given All American Children
Declares Catholic Press Association
DENVER — (NC) — A strongly
worded resolution urging that
Federal school aid, if it be
given, “be accorded all school
children of the United States,” was
adopted at the closing session of
the 39th annual convention of the
Catholic Press Association of the
United States. Any other course
would be “appallingly un-Ameri
can,” the resolution said.
The resolution on Federal school
aid was as follows;.
“Whereas the Federal Govern
ment proposes to aid the education
of children by imposing and allo
cating public taxes, and whereas
the public taxes are imposed upon
citizens irrespective of race, color
or religion, we protest against any
allocation of tax funds made on a
prejudicial distinction of race or
color or religion, and insist that
Federal aid, if it be given, be ac
corded all school children of the
United States.
“We affirm with all our strength
that any other course would be
appallingly un-American, and we
urge all who cherish the princi
ples of American justice to let their
concern over this issue be known
in no uncertain terms.”
Father Paul Bussard, editor of
the Catholic Digest, St. Paul, Minn.,
was reelected president of the
Catholic Press Association of the
Unitied States as it closed its 39th
annual meeting here. It was de
cided to hold the 1950 meeting of
the C. P. A. in Rochester, N. Y.,
Francis A. Fink of Our Sunday Vis
itor, Huntington, Ind., was reelect
ed vice president and George A.
Pflaum, publisher of the Young
Catholic Messenger, Dayton, Ohio,
was renamed treasurer.
Msgr. John S. Randall of the
Catholic Courier-Journal, Roches
ter, N. Y., was elected secretary.
Dean J. L. O’Sullivan, of Marquette
University School of Journal
ism in Milwaukee, was re-elected
member of the executive board of
Uie association. Monsignor Ran
dall and the Rev. Albert Nevins,
M. M., of Field Afar, Maryknoll,
N. Y., were elected new members
of the board. Joseph A. Gelin of
the Catholic Universe Bulletin,
Cleveland, Humphrey Desmond of
the Catholic Herald Citizen, Mil
waukee, and the Rev. Joseph Car-
roll, S. J., of America, New York,
continue as members of board.
The Association re-expressed its
gratitude to His Holiness Pope
Pius XII for his apostolic blessing
and reaffirmed its loyal fidelity to
him and to the social principles he
has propounded.
Other resolutions expressed
warm gratitude to Archbishop Ur
ban J. Vehr of Denver, to Msgr.
Matthew Smith, editor-in-chief of
the Register System of newspapers
and to the Rev. John B. Cavanagh
and other members of the
ilustrious Denver Register staff”
for their hospitality to the meet
ing.
Reports by Mr. Pflaum. as treas
urer, and the Rev. Aloysius F.
Coogan, editor of Catholic Mis
sions in New York, and retiring
secretary of the Association, indi
cated healthy improvement in the
financial condition and an increase
of membership in C. P. A.
In addition to Father Coogan,
the Rev. Thomas J. McCarthy, edi
tor of The Tidings, Los Angeles,
retired from the executive board
at this meeting.
MONSIGNOR O’BRIEN
TO DELIVER LECTURES
CHARLESTON. S. C.—Monsig
nor Joseph L. O’Brien, S. T. D.,
LL., D.,- pastor of St. Patrick’s
Church and rector-emeritus of
Bishop England High School here,
has left for Dallas, Pa., where he is
to deliver a series of lectures at
College Misericordia, conducted by
the Sisters of Mercy of the Union.
Monsignor O’Brien has been lectur
ing at the summer school of College
Misericordia for ten years or more.