The Irish standard., 1913-08-23
Especial to tn. Irish st.nd.rd)

Canada, has requested the PAulist
Fathers to come to the city Of Tor
onto. and first, to take charge Of the
Catholic students at the University Of
Toronto. and secondly to take charge
Of parish in the city.
Toronto, Canada. is a city Of 100000
Inhabitants, and has about twenty
parishes already, but the proposed
parish will be in the new part Of the
city. ~
There are 1t present over two hun
dred Catholic students at the Toronto
university, and it will be for their
benefit principally, that the Paulists
are invited to settle in the city.
The community has already made q
great success of work Of this char
acter, being already located at New
man hall, Berkely university, Califor-
mia, and Saint Austin's hall, state uni
versity, Austin, Texas.
Certainly it would be better if all
Catholic students would attend Cath
Ole schools, but since many are actu-
ally found at these secular UNIVERSE
ties, it is the duty of the church to
station priests at such institutions
who will safeguard their faith.
&. It is earnestly hoped that the Paul
list Fathers will take up this much
needed work at the Toronto univer.
sity.
Plans were made by the knights of
Columbus of Washington for CAM
paign at the supreme council of the
order, which met in Boston beginning
August Bird, to have Washington Sc
lected as the permanent headquar-
tiers of the organization. The con-
struction Of a headquarters building
at cost of s1,000.00o is proposed.
At the last supreme council in Col
orado Springs, Supreme Knight James
, "A. F1aherty recommended that the
headquarters be moved from New
Haven, Connecticut, to washington,
D. c. Action was deferred, pending a
ballot by the state councils on the
question at this years meeting.
Since the unwilling of the Columbus
Memorial in the national capitol, the
order Of the knights Of Columbus is
known to millions Of Americans whose
prior knowledge of the organization
was hazy or negligible, and this, be-
cause Of the ceremonies were held at
: washington, the publicity center Of
the western world.
What more fitting place could be
selected for the permanent headquar-
tiers, where not only every section of
the country is represented, but every
nation of the earth sends it's quota Of
diplomats, citizens selected from the
best minds Of the nations.
This building could be constructed
to contain quarters where Catholic
young men, strangers in the city,
could apply and be taken care of, a
feature which the Y. M. c. AIS
throughout the country make a spe-
cialty of, and no matter what condi-
tons are in other cities, in Washing
ton many Catholic men who come to
accept government positions have
quarters under the roof of this organ
ization.
It seems as if this would be step
in the right direction, and no more
fitting expression of approval of the
work Of the knights Of Columbus has
ever been uttered than that of Car
dinal Gibbons, when he said:
4 know of no organization in the
world, religious or civil, which has
done more to extend the ideals OF
Christianity throughout the world,
tighten the burden Of the poor and
afford protection to the home than the
Knights of Columbus"
Although twenty-four other nations
have accepted Secretary Bryan's
peace plan in principle, and have Of
fered to enter into further negotia-
tons regarding it, the little Central
American republic Of Salvador is the
first to accept the proposal definitely
on the basis of Secretary Bryan's
application Of the original state
ment of the peace proposal made by
President Wilson.
Costa Rica in accepting the prin.
ciple Of the peace plan is the 25th
nation to indorse the proposal, which
originally was made to the representa-.
tives of 80 foreign nations, comprising
all of the diplomatic corps in Wash
ington, except Mexico.
first named will teach in the prep.