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SEPTEMBER 30, 1953
THE BULLETIN OF THE CATHOLIC LAYMEN’S ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA
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AUGUSTA, GEORGIA
LEARNING FIRST THINGS FIRST
At a trailer town outside Augusta, Ga., little tots hear the meaning
of the Crucifix from a MaryknOll seminarian, Brother Leonard
May hew of New York City. In an area swamped by an influx of
H-bomb plant construction workers, with no church or Catholic
school nearby, the local NCCS-UCDS requested the help of the
seminarians who spent their summer teaching religion to the
youngsters. (NC Photos)
N. C. C. W. institute Hears Plea for
Ex~Teachers)to Return to Schools
LORETTO Colo.—(NC) — Arch
bishop Urban J. Vehr of Denver,
addressing the Committee Insti
tute of the National Council of
Catholic Women here, called for
women with previous teaching ex
perience to ease the teacher short
age in Catholic schools.
"We don’t know what to do
about the child that wants to come
to the Catholic schools and we
can’t provide for them.” the Arch
bishop said: "I am wondering if we
havein’t reached the time when
some of our good women who have
had teaching experience formerly
couldn’t come along and help us
out
“There is a great need for quali
fied lay teachers . . The number
of students has increased two or
three fold in the past few years:”
At the same time Archbishop
Vehr stressed that qualified teach
ers must be paid "a decent salary.”
Forty-five women from 10 states
attended the five-day committee
institute, held at Loretto Heights
College. Discussion by all partici
pants rather than set speeches was
a distinctive note of the meeting.
Committee workshops included
home and school associations, pub
lic relations, social action, and or
ganization and development.
Participants in the social action
workshop agreed that the labor
situation among migratory groups
still remains one of the country’s
greatest problems. Need was
stressed for education of farmers
unwilling to pay a fair wage and
provide decent housing for migrant
laborers.
This workshop also heard a
plea for women living in areas
where public housing is being
planned to make known to authori
ties the need of large families for
large living units. Speakers also
urged communities to create a
feeling of welcome and accept
ance among minority groups set
tling in new community housing.
An important conclusion of the
workshop was that Catholic col
lege students today are more
aware of social problems and are
taking an active interest in correc
tive measures.
A mother and two daughters, all
of whom have been officials in
Catholic Women’s organizations,
were among those attending the
institute. They were Mrs. P. M.
Sullivan, Denver Deanery council
president about 20 years ago, and
her daughters, Miss Margaret Sul
livan, a past Denver Deanery
Council president and now organ
ization, and development chairman
for the Denver Archdiocesan Coun
cil of-Catholic Women, and Mrs.
Albert R. Spillman, Hempstead, L.
I„ national director, National
Council of Catholic Women.
Archbishop Vehr paid tribute to
his own Archdiocesan Council af
Catholic Women, which he called
his right arm. He then went on to
praise the National Catholic Wel
fare Conference and the National
Council of Catholic Women for
their assistance to the Church and
j localities throughout the United
States.
Eucharistic Congress
Asked to Stress New
Fasting Regulations
VATICAN CITY (NC) — The
14th Italian National Eucharistic
Congress—first since the new
Eucharistic-fast rules were promul
gated—has been asked by His Holi
ness Pope Pius XII to give them
special attention.
In a letter to His Eminence Al
fredo Cardinal Schuster, Arch
bishop of Milan, in which the Holy
Father appointed him Papal Legate
to preside over the Congress, Pope
Pius recalled:
"In the recent constittuion,
‘Christus Dominus,’ We altered the
fasting laws in order to remove
the grave difficulties which pre
vent the faithful from participating
in the Divine Mysteries.
“It will be opportune during the
congress if such laws are clearly
illustrated especially regarding civil
and domestic life which are becom
ing notably altered,” he said.
The Italian National Eucharistic
Congress is being held in Turin
and will conclude on Sunday, Sep
tember 13, with a radio message
from the Holy Father.
Eight Cardinals and 150 bishops
had announced their intentions to
attend the sessions. Special ships
brought pilgrims from Sardinia and
Sicily as far as Genoa. The Con
gress theme is “The Eucharistic
in Today’s Society.”
In his letter to Cardinal Schus
ter, Pope Pius said it was fitting
to hold the congress in Turin “on
the occasion of the fifth centenary
of the Eucharistic prodigy which
gave the capital city of Piedmont
the title ‘City of the Most Holy
Sacrament.’ ”
The miracle to which the Holy
Father referred took place at
Turin’s Corpus Domini Church in
1453, while the city was being
sacked by foreign troops. A soldier
was carrying off an ostensorium
containing the Blessed Sacrament,
when suddenly the ostensorium fell
to the ground leaving the Host
suspenotod ip air.
CABINET MINUS
CATHOLIC AFTER
DURKIN RESIGNS
WASHINGTON.—(NC) — Resig
nation of Martin P. Durkin as Sec
retary of Labor leaves the Cabinet
again without any Catholic mem
ber.
The 58-year-old head of the
American Federation of Labor’s
plumber’s union, known in Wash
ington -as a devout Catholic and
a daily communicant, resigned his
post in the Eisenhower administra
tion on September 10.
One of his last public acts as
Secretary of Labor had been at-
tendendance of a Labor Day Mass
after which he laid a wreath before
statue of the late Cardinal Gib
bons.
In his letter of resignation to
the President, Mr. Durkin stated:
“I request that m.y resignation be
made effective Wednesday, Sep
tember 9, 1953. My reason for
setting that date is that it will per
mit me to take part in a Labor
Day affair arranged by Archbishop
Patrick O’Boyle to be held here
in Washington.”
As Secretary of Labor under
President Eisenhower, Mr. Durkin
was the 14th Catholic to serve in
a presidential cabinet. He suc
ceeded another Catholic, the late
Maurice J. Tobin, in the post.
During his period in office he
was awarded the Rerum Novarum
Award at St. Peter’s College, Jer
sey City, for distinguished service
in labor-management relations. In
his address he frequently referred
to the encyclicals of the Popes on
social justice—particularly the
“Rerum Novarum” of Pope Leo
XIII—as the strongest basis on
which to combat the menace of
communism.
He was awarded an honorary
Doctor of Laws degree at De Paul
University in Chicago last June.
A Democrat who had voted for
Adlai Stvenson in the last presi
dential election. Mr. Durkin w>as
sworn in as Secretary of Labor on
January 20 last year. His appoint
ment to the otherwise completely
Republican cabinet was reported as
the “most controversial” of Presi
dent Eisenhower’s nominations.
While in office he had worked
on a plan for revisions to the Taft-
Hartley law. a project included in
President Eisenhower’s campaign
promises. When he learned that
the administration had no inten
tion of acting on his recommenda
tions, Mr. Durkin told reporters,
he felt he must resign from the cab
inet.
In a letter accepting the resigna
tion, President Eisenhower ex
pressed deep regret and stated:
“Your patient skill and rich expe
rience have been of unique value.
They have enabled you, in a re
markably short time, to summon
talent and to initiate policies that
can inspire a truly effective De
partment of Labor in the future.”
The President praised the “spirit
of unselfish service that has char
acterized your work in this admin
istration.”
Neither Mr. Durkin’s litter not*
the President’s referred to the dis
agreement between th-m.
Washington columnists bad been
predicting the resignation stating
that Mr. Durkin’s patience “had
been tried to the breaking point”
by White House treatment of his
Taft-Ilartly amendment sugges
tions.
At a press conference following
his resignation Durkin told report
ers he had been led to believe, af
ter a series of conferences with
White House staff members, that
the administration was in agree
ment with his efforts. He added:
“As one who came from labor, as
a working man with my tools, I
have always tried to abide.by agree
ments.”
Durkin had worked his way up in
the labor field from a job as a
steam fitter’s apprentice in Chi
cago at the age of 17. As lie ad
vanced to a journeyman in the
plumbers’ union, be took courses
in beating and ventilation engi
neering at evening technical
schools.
In 1921, he became business man
ager for his Chicago local of the
plumbers’ union and the same year
he married Anna M. McNicholas.
They have three sons—Martin B.,
William J. and John F. Durkin.
He took a leave of absence from
his labor post in 1933 to become
director of the Illinois State Labor
Department and later came Jo
Washington as secretary-treasurer
of the plumbers’ union. In 1943,
he became the union president.
Following his resignation last
week, he returned tc his post a#
union head,