The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1911-01-07
AMERICAN NEWS

OraDle EDWARD douglas WnlCe Cl1oT
Justice of the Supreme Court Of the
United States in succession to the
late Chief Justice Fuller, and the APP
pointment was unanimously confirmed
by the Senate.
The new Chief Justice is a devout
Catholic. He was born at Bayou La
Fourche, La, in 1916. He was edu-
Gated at Mount st. Mary's College,
Emmitsburg, Md, and at Georgetown
University. He served in the army
during the war and was captured in
1868 when Fort Hudson, La, was
taken by the Federal troops. After
the war he studied law and was ad-
mitted to the bar in 1868. He served
in the Louisiana Legislature for few
years and was then appointed Asso-
ciate Justice of the Supreme Court of
his native State, which position he
held until 1879, until the new consti-
tuition went into effect. In 1894, after
serving for three years as Senator
from Louisiana, he was appointed AS
sociate Justice of the Supreme Court
of the United States by President
Cleveland, and served continuously
ever since.
He has always been noted for his
staunch Catholicity and his appoint
ment emphasizes the fact that a man
can be a good Catholic and at the
same time a loyal citizen and upright
public official. He is the second Cath
olic Chief Justice of the United States,
the first having been Roger B. fancy
of Maryland, who was nominated in
1885.
Cudahy Observation-Disclosures Cud-
ahy, president of Cudahy Bros. Pack
ing Co., has donated two scholarships
for proficiency in Irish history, to be
applicable to Marquette Academy and
the Academy or Catholic High School,
Milwaukee, which may be selected for
a period of four years, annually.
Catholic Judge in New Jersey.-It is
a noteworthy fact that Justice James
Minturn is the only Irishman and
Catholic who has ever sat upon the
Supreme Court bench in the State of
New Jersey. He is highly regarded
in New Jersey for his knowledge of the
law and his eminently fair judicial de-
cisions.
Catholic HiqhIanders in Antigonish,
N. S.-The diocese of Antagonist, Nova
Scotia, Canada, is said to contain more
Catholic Highlanders than does the
whole of Scotland. There are $4,000
Catholics, numbering more than half
the entire population, and of these
$4,000 are Gaelic-speaking descendants
of people evicted from the Scottish
Highlands.
Church Extension Societies.-A dis
patch from Rome announces the NOM
nation by Pope Plus x OF Very Rev.
DR.. Francis Clement Kelly of Chicago
as President of the Catholic Church
Extension Society of t4.e United
Sta ties, and of Very Rev. A. E. Burke
of Toronto as President of the Cath
olic Church Extension Society of Can
ada. These appointments are for a
term of five years and are made, for
the first time, under the rule of the
new constitutions by which the Pope
conferred coronical standing on the
two societies. The newly nominated
Presidents have been at the head of
their respective societies since their
organization.
Denver Pioneers to Be Honored.-
AS soon as the new cathedral of
Colorado, is completed the remains of
the two pioneer missionaries who
brought the faith to the people of
Colorado will be removed from Mount
Olive cemetery and placed under
the marble altar. One of these
is Rt. Rev. Joseph Machebeuf con-
secrated first Bishop of Denver in
1868; the other is Rev. J. B. Raverdy,
his vicar general Both came to Col.
orado from New Mexico in 1851 and
died in 1885, The hardships and tri
umphs of their lives are portrayed
with the sympathy and directness born
of personal acquaintance by the Rev
William J. Hewlett, of Loveland, Col.
orado, in his Life of Bishop Mach.
ebeuf."
Catholic Educational Review.
Catholic University, Washington, D.
c., intends to publish a monthly
periodical, The Catholic Educational
Review, devoted to discussion OF
the problems of education from a
Catholic standpoint. The first number
will be issued this month and here
after it will appear monthly with the
exception of the months of July and
August 1t will be published by the
Department of Education of the Uni
versity and will give due considera
ton to the different movements in the
educational world-to methods, his
torical questions, text books, courses
of study, and to whatever affects the
welfare of Catholic schools, academies
and colleges.
The Militia of Christ.-Another fra
ternal organization has been added tt
those already existing. 1t is known
as the Militia of Christ for Socia
Service" and has for charter members
prominent Catholics belonging to the
American Federation of Labor who
hope by this means to counteract the
activity of the Socialists who belong
to the same organization.
The object of the Militia of Chris
for Social Service" is the defense o
the Christian order of society and it
progressive development. The Militi,