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THE BULLETIN OF THE CATHOLIC LAYMENS ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA
MAY 17, 1952
Citizens Who Fail to Vote
'Vote' for Bad Government,
Says Priest Who Was Lawyer
(N. C. W. C. News Service)
BOSTON — Every instance
where a person fails to vote is “a
positive vote for bad government”,
Father Itobert J. White told the
Catholic Alumni Sodality here.
Father White, former dean of
the Catholic University of Amer
ica law school, served as a Navy
chaplain in World War II and is a
retired Rear Admiral. He was a
lawyer before studying for the
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priesthood. He emphasized that the
struggle to control the nation’s des
tiny is a ceaseless fight, and that
anti-Christian forces could win if
by default.
“One cannot conclude even a
cursory condemnation of wrong
ful power by default,” he said,
‘without reminding the fifteen
million voters who, according to
experts, plan to be slackers, non-
voters, that every non-vote is a
positive vote for bad government.”
An alumnus of Harvard College
and Harvard law school, Father
White spoke out against the pro
posals of Harvard’s President
James B. Conant for uniform edu
cation of the nation’s youth. He
said Dr. Conant’s position is not
representative of Harvard tradi
tions and the great mass of Har
vard’s graduates.
Father White also referred to
the U. S. Supreme Court decision
of the McCollum case, which out
lawed the released-time religious
instruction program in public
schools of Champaign, 111.
By the McCollum decision, Fath
er White said, the Supreme Court
“struck down local and state au
thority and set itself up as the
super-state school board of the na
tion, to enthrone secularism, athe
istic and pagan, as the official pub
lic school religion.”
Contrary to the views of Dr.
Conant, Father White said “we
count the numerous fine private
schools as our friends, including
the Episcopalian, Quaker, Luther
an and Synagogue schools.” He ac
cused Dr. Conant of “employing a
technique similar to communism
and Facism” as he “shouts against
us the new shibboleth ‘divisive.’ ”
He charged that Dr. Conant
“would impose upon all secondary
education the social-straight-jacket
of Godless education.”
Father White said it is not far
afield to consider the fate of Har
vard's seal under Dr. Conant in
relation to his ideas of education.
“In 1650, ‘Veritas’ was in a setting
‘In Gloriam Christi,’ ” he noted.
“In 1765, the setting was changed
to ‘Christo et Eeclesiae.’ It was
during Mr. Conant’s administra
tion that the seal was tripped of
‘Christo et Eeclesiae.’ Gentlemen,
you may be sure that such strip
ping still leaves the seal in im
perishable stone, and in the long
and great tradition of Harvard
University.”
Rev. Patrick Adams
U. S. Navy Chaplain
Ordered to Korea
CHAPLAIN ADAMS
MACON, Ga.—Lieutenant (j. g.)
Patrick Adams, Navy chaplain, has
left to report for duty with the
First Marine Division after a brief
visit with his parents, Mr. and
Mrs. Charles LeHardy Adams in
Macon.
Father Adams received his or
ders for overseas service after fif
teen months duty with the Second
Marine Division, Fleet Marine
Force, at Camp Lejeune, N. C.
After graduating from St. Jo
seph’s Parochial School in Macon,
in 1930, Father Adams attended St.
Joseph’s Seminary, Callicoon, N. Y.
He entered the Franciscan Order
of Friars Minor in 1936 and then
attended St. Bonaventure Univer
sity, Allegany, N. Y., and Holy
Cross College, Washington, D. C.
He was ordained to the priesthood
in 1942 and served for five years
as assistant pastor of the Sacred
Heart Church, Rochelle Park, N.
J. Before entering the Navy, in
■ 1950, he was attached to St. Bona
venture Church and St. Bonaven
ture University, Allegany.
Hope that the Supreme Court
will reverse itself in the McCol
lum case was expressed by Father
White. He said the “hope is some
what strengthened by the decision
of the same Supreme Court” in
the recent New York released-time
case, involving a program of re
ligious instruction off public school
property.
“The battle front is broad and
hostile forces well camouflaged,”
Father White said. “Catholics have
been warned by the Holy See that
a false liberalism brought about
socialism which, in turn, brought
atheistic communism. Now, it is
evident that communism will nev
er be accepted, knowingly, by the
American people. However, omi
nous processes such as these we
have considered, are at work and
would weaken religion and moral
ity and prepare this nation for its
downfall as a Constitutional Re
public. They then could seize con
trol of a Government as a totali
tarian state although they would
perhaps give it some other ap
pealing name.”
He recalled warnings given in
recent books by Arnold Lunn and
Douglas Hyde, noted former Brit
ish communist, against the condi
tioning of a nation for commu
nist success by exploitation of the
weaknesses and vices of mankind.
He cited the flood of erotic liter
ature and magazines available in
drug stores and on newstands, and
said this problem “may be point
ed up today by another case” now
before the U. S. Supreme Court,
the case involving the banning of
the motion picture, “The Miracle,”
in New York state.
Father White said the New
York courts had found the film
“sacrilegious and obscene, a foul
travesty upon the reverential be
lief of Protestants and Catholics
in the most sacred event of the
Birth of Jesus Christ.” He added
that the question before the high
est tribunal is whether “the ciaim
of unbridled license, under the
guise of constitutional freedom,
shall strike down New York’s law
and with it our common-law ptsy
Deanery Council of
Catholic Women
Meets in Augusta
AUGUSTA, Ga —Father Edward
J. Banks, C. P., of the Army Chap
lain Corps, from Camp Gordon,
and Miss Billie Jennings, athletic
director at Mount St. Joseph Aca
demy, were the speakers at a spe
cial called meeting of the Augusta
Deanery Council of Catholic Wom
en, held on May 13 at the Sacred
Heart parish hall, with Mrs. D. J.
O’Connor, conducting the meeting.
Mrs. Norman Boatwright, newly
elected president of the Deanery
Council, invited all young women
interested in the activity at the
Servicemen’s Center to attend the
meeting.
Mount Saint Joseph
Academy Graduation
In Augusta on May 30
AUGUSTA, Ga.—The annual
commencement exercises of Mount
St. Joseph Academy will be held
on the evening of May 30, in the
school auditorium, with His Excel
lency the Most Reverend Francis
E. Hyland, D.D., J.C.D., Auxiliary
Bishop of Savannah-Atlanta, pre
siding.
Class Day exercises will be held
at Mount St. Joseph Auditorium at
7 o’clock on the evening of May 28.
tection of decency, public morals
and sacred beliefs.”
“Again our hopes are strength
ened by another decision of the
U. S. Supreme Court, which sus
tained the conviction of an anti-
Negro ajitator under an Illinois
statute called a group libel law,”
Father White continued. “Such
enactment renders criminal any
picture, motion picture or play
which holds up any race, creed or
color to contempt, derision or ob
loquy. Let us hope that the Su
preme Court will uphold New
York’s law against sacrilege and
obscenity.”
Father White counseled his lis
teners that in the present crisis
“we do not stand alone, but with
our allies, fellow-Americans who
believe in God and His Command
ments.” He concluded: “So proudly
we stand, hrave, confident and un
afraid—shoulder to shoulder with
all men of good will in this strug
gle to shape our nation’s destiny,”
Foundress of Sisters
Of Blessed Sacrament
Honored in Philadelphia
PHILADELPHIA, Pa. -(NCI-
More than 4,100 Catholic women
of Philadelphia and vicinity at
tended a luncheon in Convention
Hall as honor was paid to 94-year-
old Mother M. Katherine Drexel,
foundress of the Sisters of the
Blessed Sacrament.
Highlight of the affair was the
presentation of a $1,000 check to
Mother Katherine for her untiring
labor among Negroes and Indians
during the last 70 years.
Because of her age and ill health,
Mother Katherine was unable to
attend. The gift was accepted on
her behalf by Mother Philip Neri,
of the Cornwell Heights Mother-
house of the Sisters of the Bless
ed Sacrament.
Mother Philip told of the work
of the community which is estab
lished in 25 dioceses; has 500 nuns
in 60 convents and conducts 63
schools, including Javier Univer
sity at New Orleans.
Mother Katherine also was given
a scroll which cited her as “Phila
delphia’s most distinguished lady-
one who has given conspicious ser :
vice to God and country and whose
outstanding achievements in wel
fare, social and educational work
are on a national scale.”
Mother Katherine is a daughter
of the late Francis Drexel, well
known Philadelphia financier and
philanthropist. She lives at the
motherhouse in Cornwell Heights.
A colorful procession led by
Monsignor Cornelius P. Brennan,
spiritual director of the Alliance
of Catholic Women, preceded the
luncheon. In the procession Mon
golian, Negro and Indian boys bore
a statue of the Blessed Virgin.
(Blessed Sacrament Sisters,
members of the Order founded
by Mother Katherine, conduct
Our Lady of Lourdes School, in
Atlanta, and St. Peter Claver
School, in Macon).
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