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The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1911-11-25
A PAGAN RENAISSANCE.

In the course Of lecture an
"The Irish Drama" delivered be-
fore the English Section Of the st.
Paul Institute of Arts and
Science, recently, DR.. Richard
Burton Of the University of Min
nesota said: 'sIt is probable that
the Irish players who have taken
New York by storm in their pro-
auctions Of the Irish drama will
be seen in St. Paul, under the
auspices of the st. Paul Institute. F"
DIR. Burton made no secret Of the
fact that he believes there is emo
finer modern literature than the
Irish dramas Of J. M. Synge, W.
B. Yeats, and Lady Gregory. They
give true picture Of the folk life
of Ireland and with their mys-
ticism and poetry they are what
the drama Of this country needs"
DR.. Buttons reputation as a
student and critic of English
literature is probably we'll found
ed; but in the present instance
his estimate of the Irish dramas
now being presented in some of
the Eastern cities differs materi-
ally from that of critics no less
competent than he to pass judg-
ment on them. Ii these Irish
dramas are all that he believes
them to be, it is strange that there
should be such unanimity in the
COMBINATIONS that have been
hurled against them by those who
ought to be the first to applaud
them if, as he says, they present
ca true picture Of the folk life of
Ireland" The most Objectionable
of these dramas are "The Cruel
fixion of the Outcast; Countess
Kathleen" where There is
Nothing by w. B. Yeats; the
"Playboy of the Western World :"
''The Tinkers' Wedding 'sThe
Shadow of the Glen;'' and s'The
Well Of the Saints" by j. M.
Synge
Tt is indeed inexplicable that il
these are the masterpieces DIR.
Burton declares them to be they
should have been banned in Dub
lin, the only Irish city in which
they were exhibited, and in which
the "Playboy of the Western
World" had to be produced
under the protection Of the police.
They were then "hawked around
England by the Irish Players for
the delectation Of those who
wished to see Irishmen shown un-
fit for selfgovernment, - after
which they were brought to this
country where they have met with
anything but a cordial reception
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EARLY SHOPPING.

The Guild of Catholic Women
Of ST. Paul are making a praise
worthy effort in the interests of
early Christmas shopping. They
call upon their friends to attend
to this duty as early in the holiday
season as possible; and, if the
suggestion be acted upon gener-
ally it will relieve in no small
degree, the strain put upon clerks
during the few days prior to
Christmas, and make it possible
for them to enter into the joyous
spirit that prevades the social
atmosphere at that time. It is to
be hoped, likewise, that the ques-
ton Of early closing will receive
due consideration, and that the
larger stores and business houses
will not insist on keeping open
until the last laggard shopper has
spent her last penny. IL it is made
known that the stores will be
closed at a reasonable hour on
Christmas eve, prospective pur-
chasers will govern themselves
accordingly. By all means let us
boom the early shopping and the
early closing movements. All
civic organizations should join
hands in promoting such laud-
able undertaking.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1911-11-25
IRELAND'S NEW CRUSADE.

The campaign against bad
literature in Ireland continues
with undated enthusiasm. The
Catholics Of Limerick have
been so unanimous and enthusiast
tic in supporting it that the
manager of one of the British
papers, the sale of which had been
stopped, has written to a local
news agent saying, ''I do not see
how [ can do anything unless you
can get Protestant or a Jew who
would not be amenable to Catholic
influence.
Dublin also has taken up the
crusade and what may be called
domiciliary visits are to be paid
to the various news agents of the
city by members of the Young
Mems Society, until promises
have been secured that the objec-
tionable Sunday papers from Eng
land and other literature of a
debasing character will not be
kept in stock or ordered for their
patrons. The Vigilance Committee,
in order to be sure that these
promises are kept, have stationed
pickets at the railway stations
whose duty it is to confscate and
destroy or return to the senders
all parcels of condemned matter
that fall into their hands.
1T is healthy sign Of our ma
tional morality says the Clonnel
Chronicle, ssthat all the churches
are up in arms against the cir
culation in Ireland Of newspapers
mostly English publications for
Sunday reading, il you please
which specialize and vie with
each other in the presentation Of
the pruriencies Of the divorce and
police courts, and add thereto
other features" which must
demoralize and often. we are
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1911-11-25

The public Consistory for the
comforting of the Red Hat on the
Cardinals who are to be pro-
claimed on November 81, will take
place three days later. Ordinarily
the public Consistory is deferred
much longer than this, but in
order to save the new Cardinals
another journey to Rome, Pope
Plus x has arranged for the pub
lie Consistory almost Immediately
after the holding Of the private
one in which the names Of the new
Cardinals are made known to the
members of the Sacred College.
The public Consistory will be held
in the Consistorial Hall of the
Vatican and the ceremony will be
of most impressive character.
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these divorces possible, if not
necessary? There must be in the
family life itself or in society
something that brings about these
external conditions which render
necessary an appeal to the divorce
court. 1t is not to be wondered
at that the United States has the
unenviable reputation Of granting
more divorces than all the rest of
the civilized world put together.
If marriage were entered into
with more deliberaton than often
accompanies the action of the
contracting parties, and if hus-
band and wife really understood
their responsibilities, and each
tried to do the utmost for the
preservation of the home they are
expected to establish, there would
be fewer divorces, fewer frag-
mentary families, and more
wholesome social life. In ultimate
analysis, the true cause for the
divorce evil must be sought for in
too prevalent disregard for the
religious aspect of matrimony ;
and apart from the teaching Of
the Catholic Church on this i'm
portant topic there is no effica-
cious remedy for it.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1911-11-25
THE PROGRESS OF CATH.
OLICITY.

The Able M. Stradelli Of Boil
ogna, has recently published a
very instructive volume in which
he gives statistics to show the
numerical growth Of the Catholic
Church during the past one hun
dred years. He compares the
Catholic population of the diff
ferent countries of the world at
the beginning Of the nineteenth
century with what it was at the
close of this period, and adds
some interesting details concern
ing the status of Cathoicity par
ticularly in regard to the HER
archy and clergy, Catholic organi-
cations, newspapers and period
icals.
He assures us that these stats
tics are taken from reliable
sources, and, therefore, they may
be accepted as approximately
correct. Of course, it is not very
easy matter to secure exact data
on a subject Of this nature and, no
doubt, issue will be taken with
him regarding some Of his state
ments. On the whole, however,
such a compilation is of value, not
alone for the information it con
tains, but also because it may be
the means Of inducing others to
compile a more satisfactory
volume.
The figures show a remarkable
gain in church membership
throughout the world, the loss sus-
tanned by the Church in countries
where the spirit Of infdelity and
materialism has made inroads into
her ranks being more than COM
pensated for by accessions in other
lands. He gives the United States
and it's dependencies a Catholic
population of 22,5OO,O0O; Canada,
2.250.O00: Latin America, 100000
900; England, 2,18O,0OO; Ger
many, 20,321, 440; the Neither
lands, 1,882,O00; Switzerland,
l 100000: the smaller European
States, $4,000; Africa, $4,000;
Asia, 100000; Japan, 10000;
Polynesia, 55,227; Australia, l.
100000. He places the number Of
conversions in Russia between
1905 and 1909 at 100000, Of which
1913, 900 were in Poland.
This summary Of what has been
accomplished during the past one
hundred years furnishes an in
centive for Catholics to redouble
their efforts for the spread of
divine truth. If equal success at
tends the Church s efforts during
the coming century who can es-
innate the value Of the important
role she is destined to play in the
life Of nations as well as Of
individuals.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1911-11-25

satisfied, induce to active partici-
patton in crime. The newspapers
which traffic in this sort of matter
it is proclamation Of the term
to refer to it as literature" as is
sometimes done are a danger to
the moral health Of the COM
munity upon which, with SO much
justification, we pride ourselves,
and it is agreeable to find the
clergy of all the Churches in their
campaign which has for it's object
the prevention Of the sale Of the
obnoxious prints in this country
being backed up by an almost
unanimous public opinion. !"
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1911-11-25
UNDER IMPERIAL PROTEC
TION.

Preparations are now being
made for the international Euchar-
istic Congress which meets next
year at Vienna, Austria, during
the month Of September; and on
the invitation of the Most Rever-
end Archbishop Nagl of that See,
who has just been made Cardinal,
the Emperor Francis Joseph has
taken the Congress under his
special patronage and will act as
protector Of that august assem-
blage. Last year, for the first
time, royalty, in the person of His
majesty King Alfonsus Of Spain,
took part in the Congress and
made an open profession of faith
in the Eucharistic Lord in Whose
honor it was convoked.
The announcement that the
aged Emperor of Austria will
take a very special interest in the
coming Congress has been received
with great rejoicing, not only
among his subjects, but by all
Catholics. By this act the veneer
able monarch proclaims himself,
as it were, the guardian Of the
Tabernacle of the King Of Kings,
and by so doing accepts the high
est honor that has come to him in
the course Of his long and
illustrious reign.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1911-11-25

What about the church census
which was taken up in St. Paul
some time ago under the auspices
Of our non-Catholic brethren? The
complete returns have not yet
been made public. The popula-
ton Of few wards according to
church affiliation was given in the
public press and showed that
Catholics were largely in the ma
jority. Are the promoters afraid
to make known the result Of their
canvass lest it show the numerical
strength of Catholics? By all
means let us have the complete re-
turns.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1911-11-25
INTERNATIONAL HEALTH
EXHIBIT.

The Grand Rapids Press publishes
from DR.. Collins Fl. Johnston, upon his
return from visit to the Dresden
International Exhibit:
Zone chart at the hygiene exhibit
ton shows that of sixty-two deaths
that occurred in factory of 1000
workers in Leipsic last year, SO were
drinkers. In an Investigation of 1000
deaths from heart disease 1t was found
that 80 per cent were drinkers and
only 20 per cent non-drinkers. OF
LAB cases of bodily injury last year,
625 took place on Sunday and 125 on
holidays; 730 occurred in taverns and
only 81 in factories or places Of work.
The impairment of mans working
capacity is illustrated by the fact that
in Dresden bottle factory the piece
workers do only 20 per cent as much
work on Monday as on other days,
and in furniture factory In Munich
only Is per cent as much because OF
excessive drinking on Sunday.
ga forceful illustration is that of the
German workingmen's sick benefit
society, which had over 100000
members in 1909. It's reports show
that sickness was two and one-half
times as prevalent among drinking
members as among non-drinkers.s An
other practical lesson was taught by
large chart stating that rs cents
worth of wine contained twenty-five
food units, beef 769, milk 1876, rice
2,142, potatoes, 1926, eggs, 4,0S4 and
oatmeal Ala.
"The hereditary influence of alco-
holism is shown i'm many ways, OF
which need mention but three. or
81 children In drinking families only
10 developed normally; AZ suffered
epilepsy, spasms, malformations, de-
fective vitality or feeble-mind edness,
while OF 81 children I'm non-drinking
families only 10 were physically or
mentally below par. The liquor
dealers OF Dresden tried to induce the
directors to remove this part OF the
exhibition, but without avail"
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1911-11-25
DOMAIN OF TEMPERANCE.
ALCOHOL AND DISEASE.

The following summary Of an adj
dress delivered at Birmingham, Eng
land, by DR.. G.. Sims Woodhead, Pro-
lessor Of Pathology i'm Cambridge Uni
versity is reported In The Alliance
News:
Alcohol is perhaps the most import
ant factor in the production of dis.
ease 1t does more than anything else
to render people incapable of with.
standing disease. Alcohol prepares
the human body for the attacks of
disease, just as did the extreme heat
of the past few days the straw for the
engine spark to set on fire. It can
be proved that alcohol taken in com.
raratively small quantities interferes
with the blood. It alters the fluids
very slightly indeed, but certain sub
stances which interfere with the &C.
ton of disease germs are diminished
in quantity. These substances become
less active and are unable to do their
work so well as usual. The fight
between disease and these substances
becomes unfair, the germs make use
of their opportunities, invade the body,
and set up disease.
Take, for instance, the scourge of
tuberculosis. During the last ten
years the death-rate from consumption
has been declining. In London the
decline was 10 per cent, in Paris
per cent. It is significant in regard
to these figures that in this country
(Great Brittany the drink bill has dur.
ing the same period dropped from
$22.30 per head Of the population to
$16.55 per head, whereas in France it
is very different. In this country with
the decline of the consumption Of alco-
hol has come lower death rate from
tuberculosis. We do not say this was
the sole cause, but we do remark that
the two things have gone on together.
Better housing, clothing, education,
feeding and conditions of life generally
have had great deal to do with
the fall in the death-rate. At the bot
tom of all, however, we have the grad
ual diminution in the mount of money
spent on drink. This is tremendous
gain to the nation.
We, as medical men, have to do all
we can to point out to people that
there is a very direct connection be-
tween tuberculosis and the amount of
alcohol consumed. To get rid of tuber.
culosis, we must, of course, get rid of
the tubercle bacillus. The bacillus can
only do it's work when placed in favor
able conditions, and alcohol has the
faculty of tilling and manuring the
ground for it's growth. Were no alco-
hol in the soil, the bacillus would fall
on very stony ground. BY taking alco-
hol the human being renders himself
more open to attack by diseases Of
various kinds, and impairs his facul-
ties often to a slight degree, but sufi-
GENTLY to interfere with his powers
of doing good work. Alcohol, we are
satisfied, is the doctors worst friend,
because the doctor wants to get his
patients well. The total abstainer will
get well more quickly than If he takes
alcohol, and great many doctors
believe it now. More are coming to
believe it every day.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1911-11-25

"America' cautions it's readers
against buying a new edition of
"The Imitation of Christ, by
Thomas A Kempis, with Twenty
four Colored Reproductions from
the Old Masters, now being pub
lished by Little, Brown & Co.,
Boston. To make the book unob-
jectionable to Protestants the text
has been shamefully garbled. For
instance, that section of the last
chapter of the first book which
mentions with praise "the Carthu-
slams and Cistercians, and the
monks and nuns of divers orders
is left out completely, yet nothing
is said to indicate the omission,
while the entire fourth book, on
Holy Communion, furnishes mum
berless examples of this unscrup-
ulous editing"
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1911-11-25
SATURDAY, NOV. Is, 1911.

The twelfth volume of the Cath
Ollie Encyclopedia has been issued
by the Robert Appleton Pub
fishing Company. It contains an
unusually large number Of import
ant and interesting subjects. It is
announced that the entire work of
fifteen volumes will be completed
by October, 1914 notable
achievement when we consider the
labor and expense involved in the
production of such a work.
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At the recent Methodist Episco-

At the recent Methodist Episco-
pal Convention held in Denver,
Colorado, Bishop Hamilton of Bos-
ton, in the course of a plea for a
"larger brotherliness," said: II
am grateful for the presence of
the Roman Catholic Church in our
states: Think what it would
mean to the stranger coming to
our shores with no church Of his
home life The Bishop recog-
nizes the advantage of Church
which is universal, even though
he cannot attribute that note to
his own denomination. More s
the pity.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1911-11-25

One day not long ago eleven
divorces were granted in the city
of st. Paul by one of the judges
of the District Court, on the
grounds of drunkenness, cruelty,
and desertion. It would be inter-
esting to know the real causes
that underlie this wholesale sever
ing of the marriage bond. How
account for the drunkenness,
cruelty and desertion that make
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1911-11-25

bVAoAAoo01AAA1AA5 VIC ICbA % dAlO UlG
of partisan advertising which they
have received from certain class
of newspapers.
The Rev. M. Kenny, S. j., writ
ing in America, enters into
details regarding these plays and
shows that, taken as whole, they
are not only anti-Irish and I'M
Catholic but pagan in content and
purpose. eve have read them"
he says. eve found several
among them more vile, more false
and far more dangerous, than THE
Playboy,' the 'bestial depravity'
Of which carries it's own con-
demnation; and we deliberately
pronounce them the most malig-
nant travesty Of Irish character
and of all that is sacred in Cath
Ollie life that has come out Of Ire
land. The details, which are even
more shocking than those Of The
Playboy' are too indecent for
citation. Elsewhere, referring
to Mr.. Synge, the same writer
says: In all his plays ugly sneers
at the peoples morals and re-
ligious principles are frequent, but
in THE Playboy' his nti-Catholic
animosity is openly revealed. :"
The charge Of critic of the Pail
Mall Gazette that Yeats and his
followers seem to bear a con-
tinuous grudge against the Cath
Ollie Church, - and that ''the gross
ness of their insults to the Catholic
peasantry Of Ireland is as inartis-
tic as it is offensive will not,
says "America,'' appear exagger-
ated to those who know both the
plays and the peasants.
The Sacred Heart Review of
Cambridge, Mass, after calling
attention to the fact that some of
the plays are harmless and others
very harmful, goes on to say that
"the Irish Players come to us
with great flourish Of trumpets
as opponents Of Irish life in dram
attic form. They have produced
plays that are immoral in tone
and tendency, horrible satires on
Ireland's people and Ireland s
priests. Even one of such plays is
sufficient to vitiate their whole
repertory. n *'The Playboy Of
the Western World is rotten
enough to faint entirely the pro-
gramme of Irish Players and to
condemn the whole movement. u
The Providence Visitor, referring
to the failure Of the Irish Players
to draw more than a handful at
the local theatre where their plays
were presented, says that Yeats
has forfeited all claim to be &C.
cepted as leader Of Irish
thought" and that his plays are
un-historical, anti-national, and
/ anti-C Catholic. In them he gives
expression to his pagan soul. They
are part and parcel Of his plan to
subvert law, order, Church, and
morality in Ireland"
We might multiply indefinitely
quotations from reliable sources
in regard to the character of these
so-called Irish dramas; but from
the tenor of the foregoing crit
icisms it is evident that the Irish
dramas which DIR. Burton lauds
as, "true pictures Of the folk life
of Ireland" are far from depicting
the Irish peasantry as they really
are. We hope that no effort will
be made to bring the Irish Players
to the Twin Cities. II they come
it is safe to say that they will re-
ceive anything but cordial re-
ception from the descendants OF
those whom they caricature.
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ATHLETICS AND TOTAL A6STI-
NENCE.

The British Temperance Advance Is
authority for the statement that Frank
e. Beurepaire, of Australia, champion
swimmer of that country, and quarter
mile, half-mile and mile champion of
England, wrote recently to an engi-
neer, 1.-THE effect of alcohol in athle-
tics I consider disastrous in every
way. I am a life abstainer"
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1911-11-25

Dominican Gothic Monastery-The
largest Gothic Monastery In this coun-
try Is the Dominican House Of Studies
near the Catholic University and form
ing one Of the present group Of build
ings affiliated with it. It's cost was
about $250,0O0.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1911-11-25

Entered as second-class matter, jan
uary ~. 1911, at the post office, St.
Paul, Mimi. under Act of March 8. 1879.
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Rev. JAMES M. REARDoN, Editor.
S. L. O'CoNNoR, Business Manager.
B. P. KoLEsKY, Advertising Manager
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-02-06
WHEATON TO AGAIN
COACH THE MODES

Henry NJ. Wheaton. coach of the
victorious Annapolis football team
which defeated the Army last fall,
has been re-appointed head coach of
the Navy for 1911. He has also been
appointed coach of the baseball team
at the Naval Academy for the coming
Seson.
To the authorities at Annapolis,
Wheatons work was satisfactory last
year. His successes throughout the
early season. crowned by the victory
over the Army mule at Philadelphia
did much to make him hero at the
Maryland institution and it is the
hope Of the middies that his efforts
will meet with similar successes dur
ing 1911.
Wheaton played in the backfield on
the 1907 and 1908 Yale teams. of which
Ted Coy was a member. The year
following he was made field coach, and
with Howard Jones. head coach, turn
ed out a wonderful eleven.
Wheaton was also a member of the
baseball nine for two years. occupying
place in right field on the 1908 and
1909 mines. His playing on the dia-
mond was as spectacular as his work
on the gridiron.
He has never ventured forth as a
coach in the baseball game before and
his efforts during the coming season
will be watched closely. His appoint
ment to such position is the result
Of the high opinion which the naval
authorities hold of his ability