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The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1909-09-11
RARE ADVANTAGES.

Our schools and colleges were opened during the
week. The reopening should be reminder to every
Catholic family of their duty to their children In
the diocese of Salt Lake provision is made for par
ents to have their children thoroughly instructed in
the principles of their faith. The third plenary
council of Baltimore lays down the law for pastors
and their people, urging the former to provide
schools and obliging the latter to avail themselves
of the opportunity of giving their children Chris
tan education. Catholic parents do not always re-
aze their obligation and often fail to appreciate
the advantages which non-Cathoics are quick to
see and avail themselves of. In the PHILADELPHIA
North American Leigh Mitchell Hodges writes of
Catholic schools:
During the last decade each succeeding year has
witnessed notable increase in the number of such
institutions and marked advances in the courses pre-
scribed and the facilities afforded
"Hence, it is only statement of fact to saw that
the advantages offered by this branch of the
Church's activity on par with those obtainabe
at the foremost secular institutions while none who
has made close study of the matter will dispute their
supremacy as moral mentors.
"The cOnvent-bred girl has long been accepted as
a model of sweet, useful womanhood possessed Of
refinements and accomplishments which add dis
tlnct charm to her natural attractions, and it is
consideration of the first Importance that the devel
opment Of her domestic traits is singulary complete
The convent-bred girl while well grounded in
the classics and mentally cultivated in every vav
that may be of service to self or fellow-beings is
primarily home-maker and in this age of increas
ing common sense we are coming to right realiza-
ton of womans place and power in this. her biqb
est estate"
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1909-09-11
PROMISES AND PERFORMANCE,

Secretary Morrison of the American Federation
of Labor has opened interesting question relative
to the promises and the performance of the Pressed
Steel Car company in regard to the American tariff
to protect the American laboring man. He has asked
Secretary Nage of the department of commerce and
labor to investigate conditions at the plant of that
company to see if the company is really paying its
employees in proportion its products are protected
by the tariff laws. Mr.. Morrison says in part:
81 would particularly direct your attention TO
the fact that the Pressed Steel Car company is es
pecially favored by the United States government.
that this company is enabled by protective tariff
to place much higher price upon its products than
1t could if they the free list; that this com
pany because OF the tariff enjoyed by the iron and
steel industry collects vast sum of money each
year from the American public; that the new tar
1T law has just been enacted; that the representa-
tlves of the great iron and steel companies set I'm
the plea that If the present tariff was continued on
their products the benefits would accrue to their
employees and that if the tariff was not enacted thew
would be forced to reduce the wages of their en-
ployes; that because of such information being sub
mlted by representatives of the iron and steel COM
panies who desired a still higher tariff the nresan+
law was adopted in good faith by the last congress
[ therefore contend that the public has q ricb+ 70
know if the iron and steel companies. who are nrof
lt1ng on account of the protective tariff are kenn-
ing faith with the government and are paving their
employees reasonable wage rate, wage rate in
keeping with the protection enjoyed by the com
panies."
This is getting pretty close to common sense
If the tariff laws are enacted for the benefit Of the
American laboring man, somebody ought to see that
the American laboring man gets his share of the
benefits 1t is not necessary to enter into discus
sion OF the merits dement's of the protective svs
tenn, or to inquire whether it is the tariff which
makes high wages necessary or whether the bipb
wages make the tariff necessary The plea was mt
forth by the manufacturers that tariff on their
goods was necessary so they could paw the workers
good wages. The manufacturer gets the protection
and the aborer is left to get his proportion as hest
ne may, through strikes or otherwise The protectad
interests are not asked how they divide the profits
and II we are to judge by the results, the WORKERS.
don't get quite much as the steel barons Il looks
like the protection afforded to the American labor
ing man is pretty much absorbed by the rnanufac-
turer II the protection is passed ON to the worker
here ought to be objection on the part of the ro
'rletors to have full investigation, as Secretary
Morrison suggests; they ought, in fact. to court
uch an investigation to show their good faith IN |
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1909-09-11

it in all that makes for the glory and pride of oul
race
Has the modern non Catholic intellect so com
pletey lost the sense of reasoning and the apprecia
ton of great things as not to understand the weight
and value of this one fact and this protection of the
productions of our civilization2
Fifty years ago that great statesman and man
of giant intellect, William Ewart Gladstone. wav-
ing aside his inherited preudices publicly acknowl-
edged the indssolube union of the Catholic Church
and Christian civilizations:
'Since the days of the persecution by Pagan en-
perors" writes Mr.. Gladstone ''the Roman Catholic
Church has marched for fifteen hundred years at the
head of human civilization, and has driven, har-
messed to its chariot, as the horses of trumphal
car, the chief intellectual and material forces of
the world Its learning has been the learning of the
world, its glory grandeur and majesty have been al
most, though not absolutely all that in these re-
spects the world has had to boast Of" (Studies Of
Homer, vol. II, p. 531)
To me, dispassionately and calmly surveying the
ground the past offers no problem more difficult of
solution than the persstency in heresy of great and
morally clean men like Gladstone His sister bowed
to the call, entered the Church. and died nun at
Bruges. Many of his intimate friends. Dalgairn.
Frederick Oakley, Faber, Cardinals Newman and
Manning and Others returned to the faith, but for
some reason, known only to God, Gladstone died in
at least, material heresy.
His persistence in error would seem incredible
were we not too familiar with the subtle influence
OF panthestic philosophy in perverting the vision
and the will of highly educated men, Agrippa's
challenge to Paul was not altogether idle or unmean
ing. Much learning does indeed often make men
mad and we have deplorable example of it in the
case OF the former president of Harvard Or it NAV
be that Gladstones controversy with Cardinal Man
ming on the prerogatives of the Holy See soured
him. Manning better armed for the contest
and Gladstone may have felt-more keenly bv rea
son OF his European reputation-the humiliation of
his defeat Many fervent prayer has gone up to
God for his soul, and, though we cannot plead Gin
Vnclbe ignorance on his behalf, let us hope that by
the operation of some mysterious law. unknown 70
Us ne may IN the end enjoy the Beatifc Vision of
God.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1909-09-11
GLADSToNE'S ELOQUENT TRIBUTE To
THE CHURCH.
To the Editor, Sir:

10 the Editor, Sir:
lhe history of Christianity since the davs of +be
Apostles, the formidable trials the Church suffered
In the early days and her unimpared vitality +odo
make Us feel sure that the storms now raging around
the Rock of Peter will leave it. as all others have
DONE boldly outlined against a clear horizon and
washed clean Of the seaweed and barnacles which
sea OF human lmperfection inevitably deposits with
time, on its adamantine sides.
The Church of Rome-the Catholic Church
must ever triumph till time shall be no more Tho
Divine arm sustaining and protecting the Church
Is visible IN Rome itself Jerusalem, that accom-
plshed her destiny amid calamities and nrod;;o,,s
services was, in its time no more striking
pie OF Divine guardianship than is Rome TODAY
Her spiritual supremacy shows through al 1;c;ss;
tudes, and is conclusive proof of her nrovder+io1
MISSION Is II not the doom of everything earthly
TO decay and perish-the fate of the works of man
ment? =" ino eaten gar
The Church Of Rome alone remains uncbanoad
y 'iie' and retains after long existence of +ven+
,-I5 'iie unlmpaired vigor of early manhood
her are the ruins of empires and behind bor
! 'iie cemetery Of royal dynasties.
Clle 'lIne when her rebel sons Turned on ber
- - 'le sixteenth century, she has been Of.
Tao4eu as the enemy Of human enlightenment and
0i'!l-zatlon Yet what are the facts2 The
g. nun Is today in his Vatican nalace ord :;
- ei Daslllea' surrounded by more treasures
u art and monuments of human skin al 49,
genius than any living man, than anv soverairn r, 49,
any corporate society in the world 0'''1sisH OF
= H. tomorrow some appalling catastronbe uoro
" sweep from off the earth int 40
every work Of art and science. every ,asS sea-
human knowledge and human skill and lo..o-9l' .,
cave fba P q the whole family of mankind yet
Rome ~ ~ -soan vatican untouched the Pope of
.orlJ rom the treasures of his own household
sted :; Sex Inc world. No art institute that ex
9''u 4 Inc past or that exists today can approach
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1909-09-11
AUTOMOBILES.

The idiotic chauffeur who transforms what
should be safe and pleasant means of transporta-
ton into juggernaut has done more to make the
automobile in the public estimation a thing of
horror than anything else. 1t seems to be an utter
impossibility to make the chauffeur sensible.
Scarcely a newspaper is issued that does not contain
the story of an automobile accident in which death
has come to the riders or to some one who mistak-
emily got in the way of the flying machine. The
chauffeur is irresponsible; he breaks the laws lin
iting the speed of his machine, and when he meets
with the inevitable accident, if he survives he
usually tears his hair and carries on like maniac
But his contrition doesn't help>o the home that
has been visited by death through his idiocy; his
anguish doesn't compensate for the sorrow that
comes to the homes that were full of happiness and
of love of life.
Yet it seems that all the trouble with the speed
could be forever banished from the land by a
simple law that made the possession of an auto
mobile that had the capacity of running beyond the
speed limit of the state msdemeanor, or a felony
if necessary. If it is unlawful to run a machine
faster than twenty miles an hour, the owner of a
machine has no use for one that will travel faster
than that, except to break the law Just now the
efforts of manufacturers are directed to making the
machines fast An automobile that will not do a
mile a minute is good in the eyes of the speed
raaniacs. Yet it is doubtful if within few years
there will be single state in the union that will
permit such speed upon its highways. If we are not
to grow into nation of law breakers, it might be
proper to notify the manufacturers that they cannot
sell their machines if they are capable of doing more
than twenty miles an hour The only hope of the
public in this matter lies in compelling the makers
to put out machines that are 'foolproof"
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1909-09-11

The recent death of Father Ducey of St. Leo's
church. New York, brought from the secular press
OF that city most abundant tributes to Father
Ducey's worth All of the big papers of the me
tropos made reference to his sincerity of purpose
MS lnteXlble honesty and the influence he exerted in
his parish and beyond it. An enemy of corruption.
whether social, political or financial he attracted TO
st. Leo's not only the Catholic parishioners. but
hundreds Of hearers of other denominations who
held him in high esteem. The World SAYS an Irish
wit and an Irish urbanity rendered Father Ducev
as companionable in club as he was powerful in
the pulpit
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1909-09-11
CARD FROM BISHOP sCA-1AN

feel 1t my duty to protect Catholics and the pub
nc generally from fraud and imposition by notifying
them from time TO time that no person bearing the
name and gar5 of priest sister, or anyone else
authorized or permitted 10 solicit or collect in this
olocese for any purpose whatever connected with the
CathoIc Church without having from me permission
IN writing, bearing my seal and signature Should
anyone be found engaged in doing this unlawful
Work or collecting without such document, he
Hauo ana an lmposter l. SEAMAN,
Bshop of Salt Lake.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1909-09-11
TO OUR SUBSCRIBERS

Inc lntermountain Catholic goes into nearly every
Catholc home in this diocese circulation in Mon
Una 4L, Iaaho Colorado. Wyoming Nevada and many
other states is very large. Only reliable firms and
BUSINESS men advertise in the paper. All subscribers
wiz ma II to their advantage when about to invest
purchase or consult business matters to read over
me hst or our advertisers. We not only recommend
out ask for them the patronage of all our readers
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1909-09-11

OF course, Ohio, Notwithstanding its reputation
as producer of presidents, feels just little nifty
because of the triumph of its aeroplanists.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1909-09-11

Sept II, the day set for the end of the world by
a Maine prophet, has come and gone, and we are
anxiously awaiting the next announcement of the
crack of doom.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1909-09-11

The Sutton case at least has given the world an
opportunity to how patriotism is encouraged and
tostered by the gentlemen" in the military school
at West Point.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1909-09-11

The troubles of the incubator baby of the St.
Louis fair seem to justify the hope that they will
not become over popular in society.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1909-09-11

When the government gets to living within its
income it might become popular for the rest of us
to do the same thing.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1909-09-11

taking care of the money when IS V0'eo TO the
American laboring man, but IS helo III 'fuS' OS TIE
manufacturers
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1909-09-11

Mr. Kid Mccoy, onetime prizefghter, has re-
turned from Paris, and says the gay French capital
is no place to go if you're broke Most people have
discovered that the best place to go when broke is
to work.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1909-09-11

If anybody ever had any doubts as to the prac-
ticability of aviation, the beginning of lawsuits for
infringements of patents on flying machines ought
to set them at ease.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1909-09-11

At this writing it looks pretty much like Pitts
burg and Detroit the Pirates and the Tigers. would
hold the stage at the final performances.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1909-09-11

9uDscriners removing from place to another.
uesHlng papers changed, should always give for
mer as we'll present address
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1909-09-11
CORRESPONDENCE sOIICITED,

ne reverend Clergy requested to send THE
- 5-.OO CNIAIN CATHOLIC contributions
- interest to their respective parishes.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1909-09-11
REMITTANCES.
CHANGING ADDRESSES

hemlttances should be made by postofice ex
press money orders, drafts registered letters
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1909-09-11

0Entered in the Postoflce at Salt Lake as Second
Class Matter)
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1909-05-04
Missouri Geology.

The Geology of Morgan County is
the title of bulletin recently issued
by the Missouri Bureau of Geology and
Mines. edited by c. F. Marbut. profess
>or of geology OF the University of
Missouri. The book represents the
work that Prof Marbut has been doing
for the last few years in studying and
mapping the Ozark region of Southern
Missouri. The report not only shows
the characteristics of Morgan county.
but also of all of this region of south
ern and southwestern Missouri. All
the natural features of the county.
from topography. physiography and for
estry to the general geology of the
region. are infinitely described. The re-
latiOn of the rock formations to the
general outline of the land is shown.
not only by diagrams and crOss-sec
tion>. but by excellent photographs of
the predominant features of the sec
tons. This volume. together with
The Geology of Pike county" by r.
Il. Rowley. are valuable not only to the
miner. but also to the farmer. the
lumberman or the fruit grower. for
from them one can get a knowledge of
these sections of the state that would
be- impoSSibl" if one depended on a
personal investigation.
Another report made by this bureau
i an exhaustive treatise on the Lime
and Cement of Missouri" by A. A.
Buchicr. assistant state geolOgist The
book shows by statistics and illustra-
tion> what great part this industry
plays in Missouri, and where lime and
cement hearing rock is located In or
der to believe that this truly is the
cement age one should examine this
report.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1909-05-04
OUR WASTEFUL
POLITENESS

Not very long ago the manager of q
cities issued instructions to the ex-
change girls that they must no longer
Use the word please" in conversation
with patrons. 1t consumed too much
time. What number. please" was
>horn of its embroidery and reduced to
What number" To he sure. il was
less courteous. but. on the other hand.
it was infinitely more profitable. BY
actual count it was found that the
girls had been saving please" nine
hundred thousand times day AL
lowing half second to its utterance.
here was an awful daily waste of one
hundred and twenty five hours. Five
days going to waste every round of the
clock: Il sheer loss of sixty months
ont of every wear, l. il any wonder
the manager was concerned and put a
stop Ia the drain. Why. the time it
took to say please in one day was
more than enough to allow him and
his whole family to 90 to Europe.
rope.
True. this is but a local circum-
stance: but to those of us who are not
asleep it p"rtendS the be"innin" of
Of single word of politcncsS in tcle
phone exchange can insure such a re-
markablc saving of precious time. our
duty lies clear before us Hello" Dear
sir" Yours truly Beg pardon"
Thank you." and Il score of other lit
tie plea aSantrics left over from our un
progressive days must inevitably fol
low the fate of the telephone please
and the kitchen coffee grinder 1t
would not be surprising to learn that
the people of the United States say
Good morning" hundred million
times a day. The loss of time that this
represents. allowing second to each
greeting. is enough to befudde the
most reckless Spendthrift. 1t means
that as nation we stand still more
than three Years every day. There
are not figures enough TO calculate
where the world would have been in
its history by this time if we had been
free of Just this one encumbering for
mality of speech.-Clifford Howard in
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1909-05-04
Would Award IN" to Girls.

To the Editor Of The University Missourfan:
The women students are aS loval to
the University of Missouri as are the
men. They may not make so much
noise but their love j. IL deep and
sincere a> any mans ever wa>.
The women who help bring honor
to the school should b rewarded the
same as the men.
The athletes who appear on Rollins
field and in RothwelI gymnasium in
contests to uphold the name and fame
of the University are honored i'm return
by granting of the University letter
for their good work. This is right.
Every Tiger who shows himself worthy
t" play in game against an institu-
tion of equal rank should have some
sign to show to the world that he had
~triven for and won a place on the
Varsity team.
But why not honor the young women
too. Every girl who belongs to a win
ming class team in basketball. tennis
hockey. or baseball should receive an
M 1t is true that they have not
played against another school but that
is no fault of theirs. The girls have
always been willing to bring honor to
''Old MizzOu' in athletic contests and
did so until the University authorities
made rulings against such contests.
This ruling was not made because of
anything the women now in school have
done. The girls who practice and do
'he best they can to encourage sport
among university women should have
some recognition. Each one on win
ming class team should be awarded an
M" SENIOR.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1909-05-04
Civil Service as a Career.

Not all books published nowadays
are purely for purposes of entertain
ment. The Federal Civil Service as a
Career" by F.. b. X. FOltz. interesting
as IT Is to the general reader. is de-
signed to serve all young men who may
become applicants for Federal posi-
tions. Every year l65.OOO young men
step into useful and profitable posi-
tionS by way of civil service examina-
tions-l25.OO0 by high grades. 10000 by
appointment. Nearly million men
have entered the Federal service since
the present system began in 1888.
The young man wants to know what
he may expect from the start in the
way of salary. and what he may hope
20 attain by faithful service. He wants
to know something about the merit
system as it affects promotion. He
would like to look in at the window.
as it were. and see how hard Uncle
Sam works his boys. The author is an
office holder in the Treasury Depart
ment at Washington and competent to
tell him the facts gathered first hand.
There is multitude of books deal
ing with the problem of how to choose
a vocation: but here is book which
tells in simple manner the facts
about an occupation of growing impor-
tance and of increasing interest to the
youth of America. In its completeness
1t will be found of great educational
value. not only for helping the aspir-
ant to office in securing a desirable ap-
pointment but to every voter and ev-
cry other person interested in the ad-
of our government.
Published by G.. P. Putnam's Sons.
New York
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1909-05-04
Comic Supplements.

The Nineteenth Century Club of
Oak Park. Chicago. has begun cam
paign to eliminate the comic supple
ment of the Sunday newspaper. Many
women assert that the pranks depicted
in the funny pages have had bad in
flucncc on their children. who are apt
to he imitative-New Note
Dear ladies. boys played evil pranks
before the comic supplement told the
tale. Ask your father who tied the
tails of the dogs to cans of rrdolent
refuse: ask your unclcs who put the
tack~ i'm the teachers chair and sprink-
led asafetida on the Schoolhouse stove:
ask elder brother who hung the mid
wifc's 81 on over the preachers door.
and the book beer emblem above the
portal of the church. Classic jests of
boyhood these. as ancient as the pur-
loining of apples and playing hockey.
The comic supplement reflects palely
the eternal hoy. whom not even the
lady president shall see bereft
of love for slap-stick comedy.