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A CHRISTMAS BOX FOR THE
EDITOR.

The holiday season is at hand
a time Of remembrance and of
gift-giving. Will the readers of
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MILK SUBSTITUTE FOR BEER.

Milk as a substitute for beer as a
beverage for the American working
man was advocated by Thomas w.
West, president of the West Steel
Casting Company of Cleveland, at the
nineteenth annual meeting of the Am
erican Foundrymen's Associations:
'The first results of the committees
work" said Mr.. West, "came through
having quite number of saloons near
foundries and other industries closed
by the liquor license commissioners
of Cuyahoga County; following this
came the adoption of resolutions by
the Cleveland, Philadelphia, and New
England Foundrymen's associations
asking their respective state legisla-
lures to enact laws which would pre-.
vent saloons operating within 500 to
500 feet of the property lines of foun-
dries, mills, and other INDUSTRIES
Mr.. West advocated manufacturers
to arrange for supplying milk to their
employees. He showed how easy it
was to induce the employees to change
from beer to milk. One workman,
with, little effort, persuaded forty-six
of his fellows to replace beer with
milk. He declared the time had come
when, for the safety of the men aad
the protection of the employer under
the employers liability act, the saloon
must be driven away from close prox-
unity of manufacturing plants.
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shooting at close range. / went
Ito the house, the store, the shop,
the factory. / pulled out my
paper and my list. I submitted
the question. Most surrendered
at once when thus individually ap-
pealed to. The few that hesitated
l stayed with till they saw a
great light and subscribed.
Only here and there an Obtuse or
|stingy soul escaped.
"a. There were always a few
poor people who could not afford
to take the paper. On Christmas
or New Year / would state this
fact to the public congregation,
and ask the well-to-do to send a
Christmas or New Year gift to
these poor, that would come
every week in the year. This al
ways met with quick response.
At the close of the revival
each year I appealed to all new
converts to take church paper.
This is my experience Tt fills
me with JOY to recall it! Halle
Elujah! !"
Go thou and do likewise.
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/ The following item headed a
column of London correspond
.ence contributed by Lady Mary to
the Minneapolis journal of last
Sunday:
II was visiting at the convent
in Carlisle Place the other after
noon when Lord Kitchener called
and asked for the reverend
mother. Reverend mother he
said, can you let me have imme-
diately 100 nuns as nurses for the
'front.'? After a moment 8
thought she realized she could do
as he desired, and forthwith it
was arranged that they were to
leave within a week.
eff he could, Kitchener of Khar-
toum would have nuns only as
war nurses, having the highest
opinion of them in such capacity. "
This must prove a delectable
morsel for the blatant bigots who
are denouncing the Catholic Sis
.terhoods, AT any rate, it will help
to counterfeit the effect of some
of the poisonous vomit of the un-
fortunate individuals who are suf-
ferlng from anti-Catholic convul-
sions.
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AN INJUSTICE TO IRELAND.

The Right Reverend Bishop
Naughton of Killala, Ireland, in
the course of a sermon at the
Cathedral, Ballina, on a recent
Sunday inveighed against those
who advise the young men of Ire
land to leave the country to
escape service in the army. In
this connection the Bishop said
he considered it a duty on his part
to make a passing remark on the
imprudence of those who were
away to America during
the past few days through the
panic caused by the unfounded
reports Of compulsory enlistment
or CONSUMPTION. He did not blame
the young men of the country
districts so much for their folly
and timidity as he did their evil
advisers. 1t was how proved that
there was no foundation Tor this
report of CONSUMPTION. At pres
ent there was no necessity Tor 1t,
nor from all appearance is it prob
able that there will be. The con-
duct of these young men in flying
away at the very mention of a
supposed danger had given the
name OF coward to the Irish youth
that was never given before, and
had even given grounds for their
very sincerest friends to believe
that if there was necessity for
arming our men to defend our
shores the manhood OF Ireland
would fee as towards and leave
their aged fathers, mothers and
sisters a prey to the barbarities
of any enemy who would land
upon our shores.
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JUST A REMINDER.

The following system employed
by a Methodist clergyman to
bring his church paper to the no.
tice of ought-to-be subscrimers was
novel and effective. Perhaps it
may prove suggestive to priests
who are interested in the spread
of Catholic literature as well as
to members of Catholic organi-
cations and societies who could
well afford to take a more person
AL interest in this phase of Cath
ole activity. At any rate, it
shows, by analogy, what a little
effort can do to boost the circula-
ton of a Catholic paper. The
following is the story as told by
the Methodist Bishop Peck:
81. | took the paper into the
pulpit. l opened it wide and
showed it to the people. 1 expa-
tiated upon its beauties, and its
benefits, it's departments, its neces-
sity to any member who would be
an intelligent Methodist and
know the current history of his
church. | warmed to my theme
and exhorted. ] appealed to their
loyalty; / excoriated the disloyalty
that dropped the church papers
and took outside papers, especial
ly if they were cheap. I swept
the whole keyboard of incentives
to take the paper. Then, when
the iron had been made hot by
striking, / struck to weld it by
taking subscribers ON the spot. I
got all / could on Sunday as a re-
hgious work. / used blank cards
often in the pews.
-. / followed up this bonn
bardment from the pulpit by a re-
newed attack at the closer range
in the prayer-meeting. / repeated
this effort in the prayer-meeting
at intervals. Il always gained
some at the close of a warm
|prayer-meeting.
80. | next put clean copy of
the paper in my pocket and start
ed on my pastoral visitation each
afternoon. By this time I had
made list of all who ought to
take the paper, but had not sub
scribed. With this list and the
paper in my pocket I began sharp
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QUEER JUSTICE.

When Bully Boozer beats his wife,
we put him in a cell, and there he
leads pleasant life, and likes it pass
ing well. We fill his plate with
wholesome fare, when sounds the
dinner gong, and see that while he
fingers there his life's a grand sweet
song. We hand him magazines and
books, and papers day by day, so he
can loaf in cozy hooks and read the
hours away. Sweet women call and
hand him tracts, and cheer him up
so well that he forgets the ugly facts
which put him in his cell. Meanwhile
his wife, with blackened eye, is toll
ing DER a tub; she has to toll, with
sob and sigh, to get her children grub.
Her husband, sentenced by the court,
earns money when he's Free. and.
though he is a yellow sport, he feeds
his family. Because he filled himself
with ale, and started household strife,
we lock him in our coy Jail and pun
ish kids and wife. He has the rest he's
long desired, with time to read and
sleep, the while the woman, sick
and tired, must work and watch and
weep. Thus flows our justice in a rill
the kind we keep on tap; the inno-
cent must pay the bill, while sinners
have a snap ~
-Wdit Mason, in the EUeRtnO Bulletin.
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RELIGIOUS INSTRUCTION.

The general intention recon-
mended by Pope Benedict XIV. for
the members of the League of the
Sacred. Heart during the month
of December is religious instruc-
ton.
There is no Catholic who does
not understand that religious in
struction is absolutely necessary
for the preservation of the Faith.
The sacrifices made by Catholics
in our country to provide schools
where such instruction can be
given to their children are elo-
qnent evidence of our convictions.
Children not trained in the knowl-
edge of their duty towards God
and towards the Church which He
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1914-12-05

At Mothers Congress" held in
Seattle a few months ago, and at
which there was an attendance of
nearly a hundred women, ostensibly
assembled in the interests of the chill
dren and the home, there were dis
cussions, more or less profound, on
many subjects. Resolutions on di-
verse matters, from endorsing the
teaching of seX-hygiene and eugenics
in the classroom to prohibiting smok-
ing on the street cars, were passed
unanimously; but of the cancer of
divorce which is destroying the homes
of the land, corroding the vitals of
society, and filling the asylums, jul
venile courts, and ultimately the peni-
tentiaries with the unfortunate Off
spring of divorced parents, not word
was uttered. The crime of race sui
eide was also unmentioned. This is
curious in view of the declared aim
of the congress, viz: "The welfare
Of the child and the conservation of
the home" Now does anybody sup
pose those omissions would have been
possible if few representative Cath
Ole women had been present, or even
one, who would have discussed those
questions from the standpoint of Cath
Ollie morals? The amount of lasting
good to be done on occasions such
as that alluded to is simply incalcul-
able. The teaching of the Church is
definite on all the social and moral
problems which trouble our day; and
in the discussion of all the vexed
questions there is need for the Cath
Ollie woman with her positive religious
convictions and her clearer vision of
things spiritual
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has established to guide them safe
ly to Heaven will never rise above
the life of the senses and worldly
ambition.
Religious instruction is not a
merely intellectual process by
which children learn the truths Of
Faith; it must penetrate the
heart 1T must be spiritual; it must
result in fidelity to all the prac-
tees of Catholic life. 1t begins in
the home where the little ones
learn to lisp the names Of Jesus
and Mary at their mothers knee.
1t must be supported by the good
example Of father and mother and
continued in schools where the at
.mosphere is permeated with the
spirit of reverence and love for
God. Only when boys and girls
are so educated can we hope that
they will resist all allurements Of
the world and Of the senses and
repel the temptations of the devil.
Religious instruction should
not cease with attendance at
school. Catholics owe it to them
selves and their children to grow
in the knowledge of their religion,
as they advance in the knowledge
of worldly things. Attendance at
sermons and instructions in the
church together with the reading
of Catholic books and papers, is
necessary, if we would keep our
Faith alive.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1914-12-05

In a recent issue of "The
Month, :" Mr.. billiard Atteridge
gives an analysis Of the work of
Protestant missionaries in South
America during the past seventy
years which goes to show how
unsuccessful are the proselytizing
efforts Of the sects. According to
it, the missionaries claim only Al
307 Protestants out of total pop
ulation Of more than 100000,
or a little more than one Protes-
tant to every one thousand per-
sons. Surely Professionalism has
nothing to boast of in connection
with it's missionary activity in
South America. But then, there
is nothing surprising about this.
it is the same in all Catholic coun-
tries. Catholics may be negligent
in regard to their church duties,
they may cease to be practical
Catholics, but they seldom affil-
late with any of the sects.
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DOMAIN OF TEMpERANCE.
ALCOHOL in INFECTIOUS Dis
EASES.

Starting with the. discussion at
medical congress in Weisbaden in 1883,
of the use of alcohol in medicine,
Prof. e. Ewald reviews the important
experimental work and clinical ex-
periepces that have since thrown
light upon the question of its use, in
infectious diseases particularly. In
the midst of all shades of views, from
complete Withholding to unstinted al
lowance, runs the red thread of per-
sonal impression and untested asser-
ton, instead OF precise proof and un-
equivocal findings. We lack large
numbers of similar cases treated,
some with and some without alcohol,
for comparison.
Experimental researches, he says,
have yielded nothing in favor of alco-
holic prescription in Infectious dis
ease. Susceptibility is not lowered,
the virulence of the injecting germs
is not weakened. This is in harmony
with clinical experience.
The relation of alcoholism to infec-
ton is a different matter from alco-
holic medication, but here all observ-
ers are agreed that in infectious tropi-
cal diseases alcohol has deleterious
influence on the resistance of the
organism against invasion and upon
the course of the disease when estab-
lished. In venereal infection the in
furious influence of alcohol is clear
and emphatic. 1t is both direct and
indirect, for without eXaggeration it
can be said that seventy-fve per cent
of the cases incurred danger of infec-
ton while under the influence of alco-
hol. Total abstinence gives the best
prospect of avoiding the syphilitic Sc
quences, paralysis and tables.
The Leipzig Sick Club statistics af-
forded a large amount of valuable
data. In those, consumption among
drunkards was found to be ten times
as frequent and fatal as among the
generality, and other infectious dis
eases were from one and one-half to
two times as frequent. This was
owing, of course, not only to the di-
rect effects, but to the indirect as
well, to the general misery of the
drinkers life, dirt, bad housing, In
sufficient diet, neglect of personal
hygiene.
If cancer is included among infec-
tious diseases, then the injurious eff
fects of alcohol are shown here also.
According to the statistics of the
United Kingdom Temperance and Gen.
eral Provident Institutions, in the
five years from 1891. to 1896 there
were seventy-six deaths from cancer
among abstainers to 140, twice as
many proportionally, among the non
abstainers.
The Alcohol Question. Berlin 1914, No. 9.
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President Wilson failed to at
tend the annual "Pan-American
Mass" in st. Patrick's Church,
Washington, D. c., on Thanks
giving Day. 1t was the first time
that the President of the United
States absented himself from this
function since it was established
some years ago by Mgr. Russell.
The President promised to attend
but later on decided to visit his
daughter in Massachusetts and
spend the day with her. No one
will deny the President the right
to spend Thanksgiving where and
how he will; but it was unfortu-
nate that, in the present temper
of Catholics regarding the failure
of his Mexican policy, he allowed
anything to interfere with his
announced intention to be present.
Perhaps he felt that he could not
afford to run the risk of offend
ing the A. P. A. bigots who pro-
tested so vigorously against his
attendance at the Mass last year
and who warned him not to attend
this year under pain of their dis
pleasure. Without impugning the
President motives, it looks as if
he were rather pleased to have a
legitimate excuse for absenting
himself from Washington on
Thanksgiving Day.
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CONVENTION

Members of the branch of the b.
hemian Catholic Workmen of Cedar
Rapids, Ia, are making preparations
to entertain the national convention
of that society, which will be held
in January, 1915. 1t is one of the
strongest Bohemian Catholic fraternal
orders in the United States. About
seventy-five delegates will come from
various states to attend the meeting,
and will remain nearly a week.
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In an article on "War" in the
November North American Re
view" VIM. l.. Phelps says: cit
is a curious result Of this war that
many persons are wondering
whether or not Christianity is a
failure. Without stopping to in
quire how a remedy can be a fail
ure when it is not given a trial, it
looks to me as if everything was
a failure except Christianity"
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Next Tuesday, December s, is
the Feast of the Immaculate Con-
ception of the Blessed Virgin
Mary. 1t is the patronal feast of
the Catholic Church in the United
States. 1t is a holiday of obliga-
ton on which all the faithful, not
legitimately excused, are obliged
to attend Mass as on Sunday.
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*CLERICALS" AND t'CLERI.
CALISM."

Infidel tacticians show char
acteristic cunning and dishonesty
in their use of the word "Cleri-
cal. Thus, they call the Centre
Party in Germany the Clerical
Party;" and they refer to the
great Catholic papers, of Paris
and Rome, Ella Croix," and the
"Osservatore Romano as the
Clerical Organs Their pre-
tence and their insinuation is
that the Centre Party and "La
Croix'' and the "Osservatore'
stand for the clergy as against the
lalty, and represent the aim of
Epriestcraft to dominate in all hui
man affairs. When they call a
man a ''Clerical" they mean that
he refuses to accept the dogmas
of atheism, and to stand in with
the atheistic machine. When
they say that the State is essen
tally lay" they play upon the
feeling of decent men that the
clergy are better out of the po-
lltlcal game; but they mean, and
they hope to get a majority to
agree with them in meaning, that
the State is essentially atheistical.
They pretend to mean that lay
men alone should run the political
machine; they mean in reality that
a man must have no religion and
no morals based on religion; that
he must be an atheist when he
becomes politician, a citizen full
filling fthe duties of citizenship.
1t is an insult to the intelligence
OF every layman. 4 By constant
repetition it is calculated that. the
insult will become familiar, until
it is accepted as a maxim Of phil
osophy and of statecraft. And
there is a public press, partly
venal, partly merely thoughtless,
that will see to it that the atlle-
istic dogma is driven home by
constant repetition.
How effective such repetition
can be, may be seen from the
fact that even the Literary Di-
gest" has been betrayed by it
into lapse of Judgment and good
taste. In its issue of November
l28, in the course Of an article on
"The French Church and the
War, " it persistently refersto La
Croix as the Clerical journal, =
as if utterly unaware Of the I'M
fair and dishonest tactics and the
insult to its many Catholic read
ers, that are involved in the use
of the epithet.
Atheistic politicians, who are
politicians inFthe first place, are
glad to use religion and clergy
men for their own purposes.
They make hypocritical appeals to
principles which they deny in or
der to deceive simple folk; they
use as tools clergymen whom they
[despise to mislead honest Chris
tians who have some respect for
their clergy. This is the explana-
ton of the political activity of
several non-Catholic preachers in
this country. There is a peculiar
irony in this situation since these
same non-Catholic clergymen suf-
fer from a perpetual nightmare
which they call the political activ.
lily of Rome.
just as they say that the State
must be essentially s'lay,' mean.
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HAD BETTER TAKE NOTE.

You young men, or middle-aged
men, or old men, had better take note
of the signs of the times and make
up your minds to the fact that in this
day and generation it is your drink
or your job. You may compromise
with your conscience or laugh at the
oracular temperance orator, but you
can not fool the man with your job
in his hand. Nor can you sign a
truce with the growing ostracism
that separates success from the man
who habitually crooks his elbow. w.
Atlanta Constitution.
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SATURDAY, DECEMBER S, 1914.

During Advent the solemniza-
ton of marriage is forbidden by
the Church and this prohibition
remains in force until January 7,
the day after the Feast of the
Epiphany.
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Entered as second class matter, jan
uary 10. 1911, at the post Office, st.
Paul, Mimi, under Act of March 3, 1879.
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Contract a habit particularly a bad
one-and 1t is your tyrannous master.
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Rev. James NJ. Reardon, Editor.
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