The Washington herald., 1911-01-22
Father Vaughan Says Eng
land Is Facing Danger.
NO GREAT BODY OF CATHOLICS
Famous Priest In Sermon Before;
German ConEreEation Declares Fu-'
tuFe Of Great Britain La Clouded.
Long List Of Aerial Fatalities Will!
Net Deter Progress of School.
By HERBERT TEMPLE,

! LONDON, Jan. N--Father vaughan, tho
most famous Roman Catholic preacher
in London. has discovered that England
is in danger; that its future is clouded.
| because its people are not patriotic
enough. and this again is the result OF
| the country not having a great body OF
| Catholic priests to teach them and bring
its people up in the only proper faith.
/ He told all these things not to his
usual English congregation. but in SER
\ mon in a German church here the other
day. AS his sermons are usually given
wide publicity in the London daily news
papers. however. his words have reached
English ears as well. but have hardly
! added to his popularity here
Germany, he said. is the most patri-'
otto land in Europe and its Catholic popu-
lation is the most patriotic party in the.
empire.
And if the great Central party in Ger
many was the recognized patriotic party,i
in the best sense of the work, the reason,
Of it, he continued. was not far to seek;
Patriotism was the outcome of religion.
and in the measure in which religion
was cultivated true patriotism flourished.
Progressive developments in connection
with the army balloon school and the
| army balloon factory go to prove that
the long list Of aerial fatalities in 80
| will not deter the military authorities
| from pushing on with the formation and
| extension of the Army Air Corps.
Both the Beta and Gamma airships
] are ready for commission. and the Lee
baudy which ripped while entering the
l balloon shed a few months ago. has been
| restored. Although Salisbury Plain will
| furnish the chief flying grounds for
heavier-than-air machines, the scope Of
| fered for short practice flights on the
Long Valley and Laffans Plain is evil
identity not to be ignored.
A Farman biplane has just been de-
livered to the balloon school on Farms
borough Common. This is the third type
| of aeroplane which has been added to
| the stock at Farnsborough, for the orisi-
nal Wright machine presented by Mr..
! Rolls was supplemented a few weeks ago
| by an original biplane. the invention of
| young civilian now enrolled on the
| balloon factory staff.
| Several officers have returned from con-
| tinental schools possessed of flying GER
| tifcates.
| The English must be remarkably
strong race if statement made by Col.
| Perowne. a defeated Unionist candidate
| for the House of Commons. it true for
| only a race of giants could live and pros
per on the kind of food he says We are
! eating.
Fifty per cent OF the bread eaten in
England. the colonel says, is adulterated
| with bones of donkeys. oxen. and horses
| Surely the Germans are far better off
with the horse meat and dog meat diet.
Four thousand gallons of petrol have
| already been distributed between Eliza
| bethville. the existing railhead of the
| southern portion Of the Cape to Cairo
Line. and Gondokoro, on the White Nile.
! to feed the British motor-car in which
Capt. Bentley and his party will leave
Cape Town on February T. in race
against a German car to Cairo, a distance
Of $500 miles.
The equipment of each man will weight
10 pounds plus gabardine tent, sun and
| water proof. which with ground sheet
will weigh 90 pounds. and a sleeping bag
weighing pounds. Altogether each
mans knit will scale ~ pounds-that is
to say, Is pounds under the government
weight allowance for soldiers on active
service
From Gondokoro northward to Khar-
| small launch, which will journey up the
White Nile making frequent depots for
the motor party. In the car will he car
ried a small supply of flexible steel ropes.
saws, picks. shovelS, and axes in case Of
emergencies.
I have just had an interview with the
Rev. Gertrude Won PetzOld, the first and
only woman intrusted with the charge Of
a pulpit in England.
Miss Won Petzold. who is a graduate of
Edinburgh University. and who has just
returned from a two-years' preaching
engagement in America, said that her
experiences in America had confirmed her
belief in the equality Of the sexes. and
her Intellectual face and large dark eyes
assumed an expression of deep convic-
ton when she declared her belief that.
there Is no work in the world that Il.
woman cannot do as efficiently as a man
il she is given the same training and
opportunity"
With the return Of the Duke and Ouch
ess of Connaught and Princess Patricia
to London, there has been an outbreak
Of interesting gossip emanating from
those who returned with the royal party.
Making all due allowances for the usual
cerned. there is not the slightest doubt
that the duke made himself enormously
popular. and that the whole Of South
Africa would like to have had him re-
main there in the place of Lord Glad
stone who is unpopular with all classes
and races.
The Duchess of Connaught suffers from
a shyness. which amounts almost to .
disease. She Is one long blush in pub
lie, and when people are presented to
her she becomes incoherent; but in spite
of this afliction she has a very exalted
idea Of her rank and Is punctilious where
etiquette IL concerned. When, therefore,
the royal party were met at Cape Town
by the Gladstones and were driven through
the decorated streets, the duchess was
extremely annoyed when Lady Gladstone
bowed right and left to the crowds and
took the cheers for herself.
OF course. Lady Gladstone should not
have bowed at all. In consequence Of
this incident the Gladstones received q
vary strong hint not to proceed with the
royal party to Johannesburg; q hint
which they wisely took In time. Lord
Gladstone has also incurred the disples-
sure Of many South Africans by insist
ing that ladies presented TO his wife
should make . courtesy rs " she were
royalty. Lord Gladstone himself ID prig-
Riah ana = REGARDED N oltoleth0r UNI