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student body) and it's graduating class
is the largest.
Great interest centers in these exer-
cises, which are attended by large
numbers Of pople from all sections of
the United States.
The author of one of the most talked
Of books at the present time-"OUT
OF SHADOWS INTO LIGHT"-Rev.
Charles ]. Callan, o. p, is a professor
in the Dominican House of Studies
at Washington, a roof which shelters
so many learned sons Of Saint Domi-
mic, the historic order whose fame has
belted the earth for nearly thousand
years.
This little book which Father Callan
dedicates ito all preachers and teach
ers of Gods word, who, by personal
holiness and Jealous labors, lead 9TH
ers to knowledge and love of things
eternal" treats of the joys of Heaven.
what it means to strive for the best
always, that it is the narrow way that
leads to life, and closes with those
beautiful lines
ooh, If no other boon were given
To keep our hearts from wrong and
stain,
Who would not try to win Heaven,
Where all we love shall live again?"
The work is masterpiece and a
great credit to Father Callan, and
should be a worthy library companion
to that great book of Cardinal Glib
bons, The Faith of Our Fathers; II
should be found in every Catholic
home.
Father Callan was born in Lockport,
N. Y, Dec. 5, 1878, educated at Lock-
port High School,, and Canisius Col
lege, Buffalo, N. Y; entered the Do
minican Order in 1889, and in 1906 was
sent to the University of Fribourg,
Switzerland. He possesses a mind of
crystal clearness, and intelligence Of
exalted range, an idealism limitless,
yet practical in it's application.
Father Callan is one of the literary
lights in the Catholic Church today,
and the future has, no. doubt, great
honors in store for. him.
Arlington National Cemetery, which
is said to contain more interesting fea-
lures than any in all the world, lies
on the Virginia hills beyond the Poto-
mac, and the old Lee mansion, which
stands on the brow OF the hill, opens
a century.
Everly soldiers grave is marked, and
among the striking monuments per-
haps none stand out more prominently
than the one erected to the unknown
dead. Two thousand, one hundred and
eleven nameless soldiers are gathered
here in one common grave.
A separate part CT the cemetery is
set apart for the Confederate dead
and preparations for the erection of a
handsome memorial are under way.
It is interesting to know that the
women who served their country as
nurses, are entitled to be buried in Ar
lington.
In this cemetery we come across the
graves Of the men who have made
American history famous, and the an
nual memorial exercises held in Ar
lington Decoration Day are always the
most impressive in the country be-
cause of the number of Army and
Navy officers in attendance. Thou
! sands of people come to Washington
| each year to attend these services and
the most distinguished orators of the
nation deliver addresses. The visitors
are estimated as reaching fully 10000
for the past four memorial day serv-
| ices.
The site of the Arlington cemetery
| Is on the old estate belonging at one
time to the Washington family of Rev
dictionary fame, and at the beginning
of the Civil War, was the home of Gen
eral Robert L. Lee, of the Confederacy
| OF all the many questions that are
constantly being asked the War De-
partment at Washington to answer, the
one most frequently put before it, il
as to the correct position of flying "Old
Glory" on Memorial Day at army posts
and stations.
To those who have no relation to the
military service, it is almost the uni.
versal belief that the flag should be
displayed at half-staff all of May 30th
but this is not so-for Paragraph 44e
Of the Army Regulations prescribes as
follows:
| On Memorial Day, May Both, at ali
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