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Official
Newspaper For
The Diocese Of
Savannah - Atlanta
Vol. XXXV, No. 13
PUBLISHED BY THE CATHOLIC LAYMEN'S ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA
MONROE, GA., SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 1954.
“To Bring About
a Friendlier
Feeling Among
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spective of Creed
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AT LAYMEN'S CONVENTION—Archbishop Gerald P. O’Hara
is shown with Louis F. Budenz; ex-Communist, and for ten years
editor of the Daily Worker. The picture was snapped at the 39th
Annual Convention of the Catholic Laymen’s Association of Geor
gia.—(Morgan Fitz Photo).
iiillSHOF FRESHES AT
39TH ANNUAL CONVENTION
LOUIS BUDENZ WARNS OF
COMMUNIST INFILTRATION
IN CONVENTION ADDRESS
CLA EXECUTIVE
COMMITTEE WILL
MEET ON NOV. 21
COLUMBUS, Ga. — President
J, P. Meyer of the Catholic Lay
men’s Association of Georgia
has called a meeting of the As
sociations Executive Committee
for Sunday, November 21st in
Atlanta.
The group will meet at 1:00
p. m. in Parlor B of the Atlantan
Hotel. Plans for the operation of
the Association during the com
ing year will be discussed at this
meeting.
The gathering will be honored
by the presence of His Excellen
cy the Most Rev. Francie E.
Hyland, D. D., J. C. D. Auxiliary
Bishop of. Savannah-Atlanta.
J. P. Meyer Is
Re-elected State
President CLA
AUGUSTA, Ga. — J. P. Mey
er of Columbus was re-elected
president of the Catholic Lay
men’s Association at the state
convention held October 30-31 at
the Bon Air Hotel.
Other officers named includ
ed: Martin Callaghan, K. S. G.
Macon and E. M. Heagarty, Way-
cross, honorary vice presidents;
Mrs. L. E. Mock, Albany, vice
president; George Gingell. Co
lumbus, vice-president in charge
of programs; Damon J. Swann,
Atlanta, vice-president in charge
of publicity; Rawson Haverty,
Atlanta, vice-president in charge
of membership; John M. Bren
nan of Savannah, secretary; Al
vin McAuliffe, Augusta auditor;
John T. Buckley of Augusta,
treasurer; Miss Cecile C. Ferry,
Augusta, financial secretary.
John Markwalter of Augusta
was reappointed as executive
secretary.
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AUGUSTA. Ga. — His Excel
lency Archbishop Gerald P- O’
Hara made his first public ap
pearance since his return from
England, at the Laymen’s Con
vention here on October 30-31st,
Arriving in Augusta Saturday,
the Archbishop had the oppor
tunity of seeing many of Geor
gia’s Catholics at a reception
held here on Saturday evening,
October 30. The convention mass,
offered Sunday, morning saw the
Church of the Sacred Heart fil
led to capacity by those who
had come to see and hear His
Excellency.
The Archbishop was greeted
by a standing ovation as he en
tered the Banquet Hall Sunday
afternoon, prior to his address
to the convention. His Excel
lency told those assembled of
his very pleasant stay in Ireland
and of his new post as Aposto-
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AUGUSTA, Ga. — A startling
look at Communist infiltration
tactics weakening the American
heritage of Freedom was given
the 39th annual Convention of
the Catholic Laymen’s A socia-
tion of Georgia by One of the na
tions top Red Fighters.
Louis F. Budenz opened his
remarks by dedicating his words
to the “Tower of Ivory-House
of Gold*-Ark of the Covenant,”
words taken from the Litany to
the Blessed Virgin.
He said the power of prayer,
a rosary every night said for
his reconversion from Commun
ism and Masses said daily,
“brought me back home.”
The greatest weapon against
Communism today, as Budenz
explained it, is to know and un
derstand how the Communists go
about their infiltration.
“Today we are being persuad
ed to follow the policy of peace
ful co-existence-the basis of the
Communist party line. We find
that expression on the lips of
titular heads of the Republican
and Democratic parties.”
As a Communist and managing
editor of the Daily Worker, Bud
enz said he had often helped put
such catch phrases into the
speeches of men who stood out
in public life.
"stop McCarthy"
Budenz said he could present
proof of a campaign worked out
by the Communists to stop Sen
ator Joseph McCarthy’s Red in
vestigation.
He said he could present scores
of editions of the Communist
Daily Worker from the time the
“get McCarthy” 'campaign was
launched in 1950 a show how
non - Communist information
transmission belts have been uti
lized by the Reds.
“They said they would blud
geon the Eisenhower administra
tion with the bludgeon of Mc
Carthy and destroy both. Much,
money has been spent and more
will be spent to try to stop Mc
Carthy’s investigations.
The object of stopping Mc-
Carthv-like Martin Dies, another
investigating committee chair
man—was to try to make Con
gressmen so terrified of constant
attacks, that the weight and ef
fect of investigating committees
would be quieted forever, the
speaker pointed out.
BLASTS FOREIGN POLICY
He blasted the Dean Acheson
foreign policy, quoting General
McArthur, General Van Fleet,
General Mark Clark among oth
ers as testifying that the war in
Korea was “deliberately” lost by
the Acheson state department.
Budenz said when the editor
of the Daily Worker sent out
the word that McArthur was to
be destroyed in the Pacific, the
attack was continued “until our
most powerful man was with
drawn.”
Other Communist tactics are
to mix into politics setting one
group against another, taking
advantage always of bias or pre
judice to spread the Red party
line.
“This incoming Congress will
be anti-McCarthy,” Budenz con
tinued. “And you will be hear
ing the Federal Bureau of In
vestigation’s activities described
as “gestapo-like.”
WANTS U. S. DISARMED
“Russia wants the United
States disarmed, and wants an
expansion of East-West trade by
which they intend to build up
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PROCLAIMING THE FEAST OF MARY’S QUEENSHIP
St. Peter’s Basilica and. St. Peter’s- Square were thronged with the many
thousands who attended the ceremonies of the crowning, by Pope Pius Xil, of the
ancient painting “Salus Populi Romani,” (Salvation of the Roman. People). Com
memorative medals were conferred on. more than a score of emblems from national
Marian shrines. Shown during the, impressive ceremonies are His Holiness Pope
Pius XII carried aloft in the procession; Cardinal Spellman of New York, looking
at the famous pafhting; and carried in the procession through, the streets of Rome,
a banner from the NatibnaFShrine of the Immaculate Conception, Washington, D. C.,
depicting Murillo’s “Immaculate.Conception.”—(NC Photos).