The Washington herald., 1911-08-20
THE TREND OF THINGS

Ministers Helping Taft Peace Plans
Ministers of Great Britain, Germany.
and the United States, who are closely
organized, and some in France who
keep in touch with the government.
foresaw last spring the possible attf-
tude of the United States Senate to-
ward the world peace treaties. and laid
plans accordingly. 1t was an English
man, the Rev. F. B. Mayer, indorsed
in his position by Ambassador Bryce.
who warned American clergymen while
here that the Senate would see In the
treaties abrtdgement of its own con-
stitutional privileges. He went fur
ther and said certain members would
be governed not by jealousy for the
Senate, but by influence of manufac-
turers and others whose interests de-
mand the continuation of war.
To help President Taft and Secre-
tary Knox in getting treaties through,
committees of about a dozen religious
organizations in the United States are
ready to amalgamate into one big
movement. English clergymen are
keeping cut now, but will do what
they can later on, American clergymen
leading. German clergy come in by
the way of a council that is federated
with the British. If the Senate puts
the treaties over until December, and
shows an unwillingness to confirm, a
big campaign of clergymen and fore
most Christian laymen will be formed
and work for the treaties in earnest
Everything is in readiness.
Roman Catholics of South America
Have Aid of North American
Churchmen.
Just before he fell Ill Pope Piux x
dispatched Father Gennochi, long one
Of the most active of the learned COM
Of the Bible, to Rio de Janeiro, charged
to study conditions of the Catholic
Church in South America and make a
report to him. Father Gennochi had
spent seven years among Moham-
medans in Arabia and Afghanistan
and three among cannibal tribes in
New Guinea, before taking up Bible
commission work in Rome.
Pope Plus X had also appealed to
the Rev. DR.. Charles P. Grammar, OF
the Catholic University at Washington,
also a member of the same Bible COM
mission to enlist If possible the char
liable Catholics of the United States
to help the Roman College of Latin
America, located IN Rome ana IN Qdn-
ger of closing unless larger financial
support be assured it. In his appeal
to Rev. DR.. Grammar, which the Pope
makes direct, he states that nothing
is to be expected in financial help from
Latin American Catholics, and yet he
says that in Rome and at this college
must be trained the leaders for South
America and the West Indies which
the church there stands in so much
need.
Cardinal Albuquerque, the one men,
Der of the Sacred College in South
America as Cardinal Gibbons is the
one in North America, is Archbishop
of Rio de Janeiro. and to him. in his
letter commencing Father Gennochi to
South American prelates, Pope Plus X
appreciates the poverty of the church
in what he calls the neglected con-
tinent," deplores the poverty of the
Holy See itself in being unable to pro-
vide missionaries for the many un-
occupied fields in Brazil, Bolivia, Ar
gentina. and Peru particularly, and
urges Catholic leaders of South
America to foster in all cities Catholic
weekly newspapers after the manner
OF Catholic prelates in the United
States. The Pope praises the press as
religious educator when rightly
edited, and appeals to the clergy to
undertake through 1t larger things for
the church.
Rev. DR.. Grammar is professor of