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The Monte Vista journal., 1913-06-14
carrier could be depended upon to
report the facts. His interest in
good roads is a vital one"

| ACHVOit iaStc' LID IA
good roads is vital one."
DECENTRALIzING GOVERNMENT.
For many years the tendency to
oentralize all power in Washington
has been very marked This good
roads discussion has demonstrated
that the pendulum is swinging in
the other direction. Personally, l
welcome the change. Genuine De-
mooracy requires that the govern
ment shall be kept as close as pos
sible to the people. Bureaucracy
is the foe of Democracy. They
cannot exist side by side. One
must destroy the other.
1t is to be expected that the
chiefs of the great departments of
this federal government should be
constantly reaching out for more
and more power. That is human
nature, but it is phase of human
nature which must be curbed in a
republic as extensive as ours. If
it is not, we will have a benefcent
despotism substituted for the rule
of the people.
want the federal government
to heartily cooperate with the
states in the building of good
roads, but | do not want to see the
national authority supersede the
state authority, The people of
Colorado have demonstrated that
they are able to handle this road
problem. They have overthrown
the old pork barrel' system of
distributing the road fund and
they have created an efficient high
way commission which is familiar
with the states needs. The war
den of our penitentiary is showing
the world how conviots may be
transformed into good men, with
good roads as by-product. The
counties of our state are doing
their part in response to Tom Ehr-
hart's prodding. In word, Colo
RADIO is in the vanguard of the good
roads movement and is in a posi-
tion to say to Uncle Sam, ave will
welcome your assistance, but you
must not undertake to boss the
job"
UNCLE SANS DUTY.
And Uncle Sam should assist and
assist most generously. Through
his land laws and forestry bureau
he is retaining possession of more
than half the area of the state. On
this land he pays no taxes. The
construction of good roads will
materially increase its value. Under
the circumstances l believe he
could we'll afford to give the state
one million acres of his land to be
sold at public adction and the pro-
ceeds put to the credit of the
states road fund. Such a grant
would probably net the state about
ten million dollars and 20 far
toward financing Colorado's road
problem.
OF course no attempt will be
made to enact road legislation at
the extra session of Congress.
There will be plenty of time be-
fore the regular session for public
sentiment to crystalize. In the
meantime l hope the folks at home
will give the matter the attention
it deserves and write me freely and
frankly. | want all the informa-
ton ] can get.
Let me utter just word of
warning in conclusion. Certain
powerful interests are financing
various good roads organizations.
l do not want to condemn their
activities, but their desires must
The Monte Vista journal., 1913-06-14

Miss Eva Codell left Monday for
her home in Leadville after visit
with relatives in this place.
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At The National Capitol
Che extraordinary Session
EDWARD
KEATlNC
Congressman from
Colorado

carriers should make frequent re-
ports to the Postmaster General
concerning the condition of the
roads used by them. The compen-
sation which would be paid to the
road officials of the township or
county would be entirely depend
ent upon the energy and ability
they displayed in the building and
maintenance of their roads. For a
road which was barely passable for
a rural carrier the compensation
would be low, for a fair road it
would be quite bit higher and for
a tirst-class road it would be very
much increased. The rural mail
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deeply Interested in this subject
TOR some time and he has done
much good work, but he has been
hampered in his efforts by the lack
OF a definite, well-defned policy.
A few days ago the House au-
thorlzed the appointment of COM
mittee on roads to consist of twen-
ty-one members, and Congressman
Dorsey w. Shackleford of Mis-
souri, one of the grizzled veterans
OF the House, resigned his place
on the all-powerful committee on
ways and means in order that he
might head the new committee.
Approaching the Importance to the
West of this latest development in
the good roads movement, | made
a special effort to get on the COM
mittee and succeeded, being the
only representative from the inter-
mountain west who landed.
With Shackleford leading the
committee, the good roads issue
will be forced to the front in the
House. One result will be the
adoption of well thought out
scheme for the extension of federal
aid to the building of roads.
TWO PLANS.
Alr eady two sharply defined
schools of thought on this subject
are being organized in the House,
and | am confident the same lines
of demarcation will divide the SEN
ate. One school has been dubbed
''The Dirt-Road Statesmen" and
the other is sneeringly referred to
as "The Joy-Riders."
Both sobriquets are picturesque,
but accuratively expressive. The
"Dirt- Road Statesmen" are led by
the redoubtable Shackleford, and
just now they seem to include a
marked majority of the members
of the House.
They contend that the primary
purpose of the good roads move
ment should be to provide the
farmer with a more expeditions
and economical means of transport
ing his produce to the railroad sta
ton. Therefore they would have
Uncle Sam turn his attention to
the humble dirt road first of all.
"The JOY Riders scotf at this
plan and declare that the federal
government should establish a.
great bureau Of roads here in
Washington and proceed to con-
struot system of national high
ways at cost of from $4,000 to
S25,OOO per mile. They would
leave the building and upkeep of
the dirt roads to the township, the
county or the state. AS this scheme
has met with the support of the
automobile interests, its advocates
have been called THE JOY Riders.
In the last Congress Shaokleford
took charge of the "dirt road"
forces and introduced a bill en-
bodying their views. 1t provided
that the national government
should pay the township, county
or state for the use of the roads
used in the delivery of the mails,
the amount per mile to be deter
mined by the condition of the
road. For this purpose the roads
we're divided into three classes and
the compensation graduated 30 as
to put premium on the building
and maintenance of first-class high
ways.
THE sHACKLEFoRD IDEA.
"The government pays the rail
roads for transporting the mails
,,,,,x tLa;r otaal roa1a oaiI Shack
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from it was first kindled the great
"Paschal Candle; and afterwards
the perpetual lamp, and other lamps
and candles in the church according
as light was required. The devout
had let their hearth-fires die out at
home and fastened to the church to
obtain fresh light from the "hallowed
fire" for their renewal
The Paschal Candle, in olden times,
was usually very large. In some OF
the cathedral and abbey churches of
England, it was simply colossal In
1857 the paschal taper for the abbey
church of Westminster weighed three
hundred pounds. For the smaller
parish churches, in the country dis
tricts of England, fifteen pounds was
the usual weight. The Paschal Candle
is symbolical of the rising of the "Sun
of Righteousness" from the tomb; and
is also a type of the Pillar of Fire,
which lights the spiritual Israel
through the wilderness of the world.
There are many ceremonies connected
with it, especially at Rome; and it
was known in England so early as the
days of the Norman conquest.
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SOME EASTER CUSTOMS
Expressive of the Peoples Joy at
Resurrection of Christ.

The word Pasch nowadays refers
only to the feast of the Resurrection
but in the middle ages it came to sig
nifty every joyful feast; so that in the
Roman order we read of the Pasch OF
the Epiphany and the Pasch of Pente
cost. The reason of this was that the
day of Easter was the great day in the
Christian Church and was the norm
of all ecclesiastical joy. So great was
the Easter joy that we are not sur
prised to see the growth of beautiful
customs which expressed the joy Of
those who wished to celebrate the fact
of Christs rising from the dead.
Thus at Paris it was the custom fol
the silversmiths to provide the most
costly service of plate for the ban
quet which was given to the poor in
the Hotel Dieu on Easter Day.
During Holy Week princes ordained
that prisons should be opened anG
pardon granted to criminals, and in
solvent debtors discharged.
We learn from Saint Chrysoston
that the Emperor Theodosius sent let
tiers of pardon to the cities for the
days preceding Easter, custom which
/ was observed by his successors il
order to initiate the divine mercy
during those days when it was so evi
dent in the passion and death o.
Christ.
| In France there was a beautiful
ceremony which took place every year
after the High Mass on Easter Mon
day. The magistrates announced the
name of the citizen that best deserved
to be called so on account of his liber
atty to the poor the King of Aims.
This man was then crowned as a kins
and conducted to the prison where
he had the privilege of delivering two
prisoners. Then he made solemn
distribution of aims, after which The
festivities we're closed by public
dinner.
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A priest claims to be physician of
the soul. We are careful as to our
choice of physician for our bodies.
How much greater care should be
necessary in the choice of a physician
in these very delicate spiritual mat
tiers. The mind needs more delicate
handling than the body, the spirit
much more delicate handling than the
mind. How can q careful choice be
made In place where there is only
one priest who must necessarily be
the most general kind of general prac-
titioner?
The priest is, in reality, the spiritual
physician of the soul. 1t is his duty
not merely to reconcile the sinner
with God by absolving him from sin
but to suggest the means and remedies
against relapse in order that the
penitent may lead a good life in
future. The priest must, therefore, be
skilful in diagnosing the diseases of
the soul and in applying the proper
remedies. To enable him to do this
many books have been written that
map out the way of spiritual progress
and describe the vices and obstacles
encountered by the soul and point
out the means to be utilized in order
to overcome them. In the seminary
every priest receives a training in
these matters to fit him for the
delicate work that devolves upon him
as spiritual physician. But, as in
other professions, some are more skill
full than others. Nevertheless, even
the general practitioner" knows suf-
ficient to direct the ordinary soul
and to prescribe the remedies for it's
ills, just as the general medical prac-
titioner is well enough versed in
medical knowledge to enable him to
deal with the ordinary run of diseases.
In difficult and obstinate case of ill
ness the medical specialist is called
in to diagnose the case and prescribe
the remedy. So also those who have
advanced farther than others along
the road to spiritual perfection and
who need special advice to enable
them to attain still higher plane can
always have access to spiritual ply
sicians who are skilled specialists.
Even those who live in parishes where
there is but a single priest can, occa-
sionally, at least, enjoy such advan-
tages because, whenever possible, the
pastor provides a strange confessor
for his people in order that they may
lay before him their spiritual needs
and be guided by his advice.
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THE GROWN OF 7HORNs
THE STORY OF THE SPINY CIR.
cLET PLACED ON OUR
LORDS BROW.

Though the words thorns, briars,
thistles, have very indefinite mean
ing, not only in Scripture, but also in
modern nomenclature, says the Ave
Maria, we are quite certain as to the
identity of the plants used to make
the Crown of Thorns. The spinous
plant used was undoubtedly the shrub
known to botanists of our day as
''Ziziphus Spina Christi" 1t was for
merly considered a huckthorn, and in
cluded by Linnaeus in the genus
"Rhamnus." The plant is common in
Syria, and is a native of the East,
where it sometimes grows to the
height of twenty feet.
There is an opinion-not very pre-
valent, however-that the plant of
which the Crown of Thorns was made
may have been another common spin
GUS plant of the East, "Poterium
spinosum;" but neither tradition nor
fact is in it's favor. This plant is
rather small, with PROSTATE stems
never two yards long and not rising
high above the ground. There is no
science in which names have been so
conservatively and unchangeably held
to as bontany previous to the eight
eenth century; and the very name
of the plant "Spina Christi as it
was known before this time and ever
since suggests it's identity
The Crown of Thorns is not men
toned among the relics discovered by
st. Helena on Mount Calvary; nor are
others, such as the Holy Tunic, for
that matter; and so it is likely that
the crown passed from the hands of
the soldiers into the possession of one
of Our Lords disciples. st. Paulinus
first refers to it's existence in a letter
to Macarius, and later we hear of it
from st. Gregory of Tours. Robert,
Count of Flanders, speaks of the relic
in the year HOO. 1t was given by
Baldwin II to st. Louis of France in
1888. The following year it came to
Sens, and was kept in a special
chapel, where it remained until the
French Revolution. After the restora-
ton of peace, it was solemnly trans
ferred, in 1906, to the Church of Notre
Dame, Paris
In 1896, when the Crown was placed
in new reliquary, it was photo
graphed, and at the time competent
persons established the identity of the
plants composing it. 1t consists of a
circle of the thorny plant above men
toned, and certainly identified as
"Zizphus Spina Christi The branches
of this plant are wound and held to-
gether by stems of the common rush
identified as "Juncus balticus')
which grows throughout Northern
Asia, Europe and America, and is
abundant in the Holy Land. The whole
Crown is about seven inches in diam.
eter
The thorny plant is no longer so
abundant in the Crown itself as form
erly, because pieces have been taken
as relics to various other places, the
principal being at Pisa, Treves and
Wevelghem, in the Diocese of Bruges,
Belgium. All these relics show thorns
very unlike those of the plant called
'Poterium spinosum," which are often
much branched; and, therefore, there
can be little doubt as to the identity
of the plant of which the Crown OF
Thorns was made.
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THE PAsCHAL CANDLE

1t is an ancient custom to have a
great ornamental waxlight at Easter
called the "Paschal Candle" in hon.
or of the resurrection of our Lord.
On the eve of Easter, the perpetual
light that had been removed to the
front of the sepu1chre- land all other
lights there, or that might perchance
happen to be anywhere else in the
church-were solemnly extinguished.
The hallowed or holy fire" was then
kindled in the church porch by means
of crystal or burning glass, if the
sun was sufficiently bright; and, If not,
by means of new steel flint. This
fire was blessed by the priest, and
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1913-03-22
.HEROIsM OF THE CLO|sTER
FORTY SISTERS OFFER THEM
SELVES FOR WORK AMONG
THE LEPERS.

Mgr. Merel, Bishop of Canton, re-
Gently petitioned Mgr. Bruchesi,
Archbishop of Montreal, to send him
some Canadian nuns to care for the
lepers in China. Mgr. Bruchesi COM
piled with this request, and then wrote
to tell Mgr. Merel that he had asked
the Sisters of the Immaculate Con-
ception to undertake this painful
charge. In his letter the Archbishop
wrote as follows:
81 went to the convent. The nuns
knew my object / addressed forty of
them, and I said: My children, the
work 1 propose to you today is one
that will involve abnegation and sac
rifice, but beautiful and glorious as
the charity taught and practiced by
the Divine Master is the care of the
leprous women. Will you undertake
it? Any Sister who is willing to do
so viii please stand up My Lord
Bishop, at once the forty nuns pres
ent stood up. The matter is there
fore settled and I am pleased it is.
Your leper settlement will be placed
under the care of the nuns from Mon
treal,s and this viii be, I am certain.
a source of blessings and graces for
our diocese. We hope to send you
some missionaries in the spring"
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MARRIAGE UNDER SOCIALISM

Marriage, according to the words of
Jesus Christ related in the gospel, is
an institution sanctioned by God.
Have you not read, says our Lord, that
He who made man from the beginning
made them male and female? And He
said, For this cause shall a man leave
father and mother and shall cleave to
his wife, and the two shall be in one
flesh.
According to the Catholic concep-
ton, marriage is a sacrament whose
object is the sanctified propagation
and Christian education of the human
race. 1t is a mutual surrender in
which both parties acquire. mutual
rights; it is bond which no man can
dissolve. Christian marriage, purified
and ennobled, is the realization of a
sublime, divine idea.
According to Socialistic writer's
such as Marx, Hyndman, Bax, Engels,
Bebel, etc., the family must undergo
continual transformations to reach a
final stage of development. Hence
"OOAOSh Will u1OdppOdl anu d WIuGly
extended communism will result.
From the objections made against
marriage by these writer's it is easy
to divine what the greater perfection
hoped for will be. Love is to form
the sole bond of union; no civil or
ecclesiastical restriction will be toler-
ated, and sexual qualification will be
allowed full play. And not only do the
men advocate this reform" but we
find even women upholding the same
principles. In the national convention
of the Socialist party held in Chicago
in 1904, twenty-five women delegates
voiced their sentiments in the follow
| ing language: eff after marriage
women learn that they have made a
mistake, they should go before JUS
tice and be divorced merely by signi-
flying their mutual agreement to the
divorce. Then they should try again,
but with someone else Where a
woman had more children than she
could care for, the State should sup
port them" This advocacy of free
love has, indeed, passed beyond the
stages of theory; it has passed into
open practice. One of the first mar
riages of this kind was that con-
tracted between the Daughter of Karl
Marx and Edward Aveling. Eleanor
was a most gifted woman, whose tai
ents were used in extending the inter
ests of Socialism, Her creed, learned
from her father, contained but two
articles atheism and free love- Ed
ward Aveling, the translator of Marx s
Capital" was also an atheist and a
believer in free love-; hence their
views harmonized completely. They
became "soul mates" and lived openly
together as husband and wife. In 1886
and 1887 they toured the United States
under the auspices of the Socialist
Labor party and addressed meetings
in the principal cities of our country
But Aveling's love gradually cooled
and at the death of his legal wife,
who had been living in London, he
married another woman and separated
from Eleanor Eleanor, whose love
was still strong, in despair committed
suicide, and Aveling, unable to satisfy
his desire, and seized with that unrest
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CEASE THY WEEPING.

Cease thy weeping, Magdalena,
Calm thy grief and dry thy tears,
This is not thine hour of sorrow,
There is now no cause of fears,
But a thousand for rejoicing.
Rise, and give thy gladness voicing
Alleluia!
Smile again, o Magdalena,
Let thy joyous features glow,
Every cause of grief is vanished;
Danish every sign of woe;
Christ has made glorious morrow
Triumphed over sin and sorrow.
Alleluia!
Sing thy praises, Magdalena,
Christ is risen from the tomb;
Lo, he liveth, 10, he cometh,
Victor over dole and doom;
Whom we mourned in deaths dark
prison.
ROBBED in living light is risen.
A1leluia!
LII Cu1u6 eyes, " hdSuo1cAld,
And resume thy wonted cheer;
See, how bright his forehead shineth
See, his wounds like gems appear!
Yea, like pearls the wounds are
glowing.
Light on our new life bestowing.
Alleluia!
Sing thy praises, Magdalena,
All thy light is come again,
Sweet with joy thy bosom swelleth,
For the power of death is vain.
Far away be grief and mourning,
See the risen Lord returning.
Alleluia!
D. u. DOnGh0e
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which is characteristic of irreligion,
also ended his life
In contrasting this Socialistic union
with the great number of holy mar.
riages which we still find among the
faithful members of Gods Church,
who, living in conformity with her
laws, enjoy peace and contentment,
are we not indeed forced to conclude
that the happiness of the human race
is only furthered by obedience to the
laws of God and His Church?
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TRUE WISDOM.
written for The Catholic Bulletin
by Phrey.)

'Tis hard to be honest, tbs hard to
be true,
It's hare. to retract lie
But, oh, how much harder for. me
and you
With sinful soul to die
How easy to love what is pure and
good,
How easy it is to pray
That we do with a will what we ought
and could,
That we do our duty each day.
How noble, to be true child of God,
How safe, in His bosom to lie;
For him who has loved the Mother
of God,
How easy it is to die.
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Did the teaching of Jesus bring in
the real golden age as the prophecies
imply. If it does not, the failure to
do so must be sought not in this
teaching but in the human will Man
can and unfortunately does reject
the teaching of the text, GLORY to
God on high and peace on earth to
men of good will"
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The character of man is formed by
his daily thoughts, and daily words,
and daily actions, until it becomes
fixed. His principles stiffen into habits.
AS he thinks often, so he is likely to
become permanently.
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FARMS too large, want more neigh
bors and less hired help. Want to
sell direct. Catholic church, COOL
schools, no debt. Call on or write
Secretary, Farmers Cooperative
Store, Coils, MINI.
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All Realized in Our Lord.

These expectations and prophecies
that we have mentioned, have mean
ing only when we apply them to
Jesus of Nazareth. In Him are full
filed all the prophecies of old. He
has renewed the world by re-establish-
ing the bond between it and heaven;
He has founded a religion of love
and truth; He has lifted man out of
his moral degradation; He has freed
him from the yoke of fear and taught
him to address God in the words:
"Our Father" Through the instru-
mentality of men from Judea He has
conquered the world and established
a universal kingdom whose sovereign
He still remains. He has inaugurated
new era, which, after a lapse of
nineteen centuries, still bears His
name. During all these long centuries
He has given courage, consolation and
strength to millions and millions of
men, and He is today the way, the
truth and the life to such as are of
good will. He is today the light of
the world.
If we put this one true light under
the bushel, if we stop proclaiming
the crucif1ed Jesus Christ, the Savior
of the world, then the world will
again be thrown back into the dark
ness of paganism, into its idolatry, its
superstitions and moral corruption.
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THE EXPECTATION OF NATIONS

the world, he shall give life and ami
nation to everything.
The question: Who is the great
saint?" was answered by Confucius
himself: Il have heard that the true
saint will appear in the far-off Occi-
dent"