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PUBLISHED BY THE CATHOLIC LAYMEN'S ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA
“To Bring About
a Friendlier
Feeling Among
Neighbors Irre
spective of Creed”
Vol.'XXXV, No. 26.
MONROE, GEORGIA, SATURDAY, MAY 28, 1955.
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Three Day Celebration Marks
Jubilee Of Columbus Parish
Movie Morality Sinks
(By Rev. John D. Toomey)
Yes, he has done it again. Howard Hughes and his RKO
Studios have given us SON OF SINBAD, condemned by the
Legion of Decency. Not content with THE OUTLAW and
THE FRENCH LINE in his effort to portray the passions of
the flesh in all their sensuality, Hughes has given us SINBAD,
which the Legion says “is a challenge to decent standards of
theatrical entertainment and as an incitement to juvenile
delinquency, it is especially dangerous to the moral welfare
of youth.”
There is a slogan coined by the movie industry that
“movies are better than ever.” If Hughes continues his pres
ent course and if the Production Code officials continue their
“more lenient and intelligent approach” (as described by
Variety), then we might be saying that “movies are lower
than ever.” We have no objection to the purpose of the indus
try in winning back its audience from television, but we are
beginning to question the ethics of its methods when we find
such productions as SON OF SINBAD appearing in our local
theatres.
The executive secretary of the Legion of Decency, Father
Thomas F. Little, recently stated: “It is well known that pro
ducers, as a matter of deliberate policy, have been contract
ing for a considerable amount of literary material which is
gravely offensive to the moral law . . . and there has develop
ed a seemingly co-related attitude on the part of the produc
tion code administration under which bars have been repeat
edly dropped to permit the appearance on the screen of con
siderable material which any code worthy of the name would
be expected to exclude.”
Local theatre owners would do well to ponder the ques
tion: Do we want our theatres to continue as places of legiti
mate community ‘entertainment, or do we want them to be
come movie burlesque houses where decent people fear to
tread?
GEORGIA STATE COUNCIL
CONVENTION IT ATLANTA
ATLANTA, Ga. — The 53rd
Annual Convention of the State
Council Knights of Columbus
will be held here Saturday and
Sunday, May 28th and 29th.
Guests of honor at the Conven
tion will be His Excellency The
Most Rev. Francis E. Hyland,
D.D.J’.C.D., Auxiliary-Bishop of
Savannah-Atlanta and the Hon.
Luke E. Hart, Supreme Knight.
This meeting will mark the first
occasion on which a Supreme
Knight has honored the State
Convention with his attendance.
It will also be the .first official
visit by Mr. Hart since his elec
tion to the office of Supreme
Knight.
The schedule for the gathering
is as follows: Saturday, 10:00
a.m.: Registration at Council
Home. 2:00 p.m. Business Ses
sion-Adjournment at 5:00 p.m.
7:00 p.m. Reception in Crystal
Lounge of Biltmore Hotel. 8:00
p.m.: Banquet in Georgian Room
of Biltmore Hotel, followed by
open house at Council Home.
Sunday, May 29th, 8:30 a.m.:
Convention Mass at Sacred Heart
Church. Morning Business Ses
sion, 10:00 a.m. 1:00 p.m.: Buffet
Luncheon for officers, Delegates
and Knights attending the Con
vention. 2:00 p.m.: Afternoon
Business Session.
Arrangements have been made
for entertaining the Ladies of
out-of-town Knights. Plans call
for a motorcade tour of Atlanta
on the afternoon of Saturday May
28th, and for a luncheon at the
East Lake Country Club at 1:00
p.m. on Sunday May 29.
The Charge to be made for the
Reception and Banquet on Satur
day May 28 will, be $6.50 for
Knights and $6.00 for their
Ladies.
COLUMBUS, Ga.—A three-day
celebration from May 15 through
17 marked the Diamond Jubilee
of Holy Family Parish. Highlight
ed by a Solemn Pontifical High
Mass attended by nearly 1,000
persons the Jubliee observance
ended with a Banquet, Tuesday
evening, addressed by the Hon
orable Dennis J. Roberts, Govern
or of Rhode Island.
Bishop Hyland read the follow
ing cablegram at the Sunday
Mass:
“Happy occasion seventy-fifth
anniversary Holy Family Parish
His Holiness cordially imparts
Your Excellency clergy faithful
attending Jubilee celebrations Pa
ternal Apostolic blessing implor
ed.”
The Banquet Tuesday, attended
by more than 250 parishioners and
friends of the Parish, was honored
SEE PHOTOS ON PAGE 3
with the presence of His Excel
lency the Most Rev. Francis E.
Hyland. Auxiliary Bishop of the
Diocese.
The guest of honor and princi
pal speaker. Governor Roberts
told the gathering that his work
ing day is spent in an atmosphere
of Georgia since the State House
in Providence is built of Georgia
marble.
“Your Holy Family parish was
15 years young when that marble
began its journey north,” he said.
“It makes part of Georgia forever
a part of Rhode Island.”
The chief executive paid tribute
to the State of Georgia for “being
very generous to a soldier of
Rhode Island—Gen. Nathanael
Greene—in the Revolutionary
War. General Greene, he said, lib
erated Georgia from the British
and the state in gratitude gave
him his home at Savannah.
“The Catholics of the South re
member Gen. Beauregard and that
other Catholic general, Long-
street,” Gov. Roberts said.
“These are a few incidents that
emphasize that the Catholic faith
has always been ‘at home’ in the
South. Here were Catholics of
character, courage and conviction.
They fought and they fell. They
lived and died by the dictates of
their conscience under the com
mandments of a church that de
mands loyalty to the government
of our choice and genuine love of
neighbor from us all.
“This is a fair land that the
Catholic Columbus discovered and
the Catholic De Soto explored.
These were the colonies to which
the Catholic Maryland taught tol
erance. And when the colonies
dared to be independent, it was
the Catholic Charles Carroll who
was the first to sign the Declara
tion. He was the richest man to
sign. He had the most to lose. He
meant it when he pledged his life,
his fortune, and his sacred honor.”
Gov. Roberts said Catholic
blood has been shed in every
corner of the globe to prove that
those principles of “life, liberty
and the pursuit of happiness” still
belong to America.
“We Catholics don’t expect any
special praise for that,” he said.
“As Catholics, our conscience de
mands that of us. As Americans,
we thank God that He has per
mitted us to be part of this coun
try with its greatest power for
good that can be the hope of man
kind.
“Catholic Columbus and Catho
lic Providence have many things
in common. In 1828, when the City
of Columbus was laid out, the
Catholics of Providence, R. I.,
were bestirring themselves to get
a priest. They were then 150 in
number. You had your first parish
and your first baptism in 1835. In
Providence it was 1837 before the
first church of 3ts. Peter and Paul
was ready for its congregation.
“I am proud to be associated
with you. You are truly an im
portant part of that militant Am
erica that can put its trust in God.
I shall take away from Columbus
a greater sense of the security of
America. For I have seen my faith
in action. I have seen the work of
a powerful and faithful few in
these days of danger from within
and without, manning the very
ramparts of civilization, holding
the world to the Catholic teaching
of human dignity based on man’s
immortal soul, of moral responsi
bility of God, neighbor and self,
based on justice and charity, of
family unity and the sanctity of
the home.
“May this good parish of the
Holy Family stand guard at its
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May 17, 1955.
My dear People:
Your aitenlion is called to
the fact that the Howard
Hughes-RKO motion picture
entitled SON OF SINBAD has
been condemned by the Nation
al Legion of Decency.
Because of fhe condemnation
by the National League of De
cency, to the standards of
which we all subscribe by our
annual pledge, and because of
fhe very nature of the film it
self, which could easily render
if an occasion of serious sin,
all our Calholic people, with
out exception whatsoever, are
hereby forbidden to view the
picture entitled SON OF SIN
BAD.
Begging God to bless you, I
am.
Devotedly yours in Christ.
FRANCIS E. HYLAND,
Auxiliary Bishop,
Vicar General.
Luke E. Hart, who was elected
Supreme Knight August 19, 1953,
is a member of Kenrick Council
No. 686, St. Louis, Missouri, was
born near Maloy, Iowa, and, as
a young man, moved to St. Louis,
where he has practiced law since
1905. He served as a District
Deputy from 19166 to 1918 and as
State Deputy of Missouri from
1918 to 1920. He was elected to
the Supreme Board of Directors
in 1918 and served on that body
until 1922 when he was elected
Supreme Advocate, which office
he held until elected Supreme
Knight.
Mr. Hart was a member of the
first Board of Aldermen of St.
Louis established under a new
city charter, serving from 1915
to 1953, and was president of the
Lawyers’ Association of St. Louis
in 1938-39.
He headed a committee of the
Knights of Columbus which pre
sented a statue of Lafayette to
the French Republic, at Motz, in
1920, and was awarded the Star
of Morocco. He was made a
Knight Grand Cross of the Or
der of St. Gregory the Great in,
1927 and Knight Commander in
1939. Other honors accorded him
include the Order of San Rai-
mundo de Penafort, from Spain,
and Secret Chamberlain of Cape
and Sword, awarded by Pope
Pius XII in 1951.
COLUMBUS JUBILEE—The Honorable Dennis J. Roberts, Governor of Rhode Island, speaker
at the Tuesday Banquet is pictured with His Excellency Bishop Hyland and the Rev. Herman J.
Deimel, pastor of Holy Family Church.—(Photo Ledger-Enquirer).