The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1914-04-18

he said, according to the notion of
many, If not most people, liberty is
the right of part of the people to COM
pei the other part to do what the first
part thinks the latter ought to do for
its own benefit"
Iowa Church and School.-Holy
Name parish, Marcus, Ia, is to have
a new church and school, the former
to cost about $4,000 and the school
to be erected at a cost of about $780,.
900.
An Arctic Diocese.-The Bishop OF
the Arctic regions in Canada is Mgr
Divide Charlebois, of LIE Pas, Canada
His episcopal palace is log hut. In
the last visitation of his diocese he
travelled $500 miles and visited four
teen Indian missions; 1000 miles OF
the journey he made in canoes.
Guarding the BilIboards.-The ST.
Louis Federation of Catholic Societies
has the promise of ninety of the larg.
est billboard concerns that they will
not display suggestive posters.
Louisiana Law Enforcement.-Ab bill
for the state inspection of converts
is before the Mississippi State Legis-
lature. 1t appears, however, that a
greater need of the state than new
laws is the reasonable enforcement OF
present statutes. Mr.. Hine of the Ma
tional Child Labor Committee in Feb
ruary, 1911, reported children Of six,
seven and eight years working in the
canneries at three o'clock in the morn
ing stumbling through the dark over
the shell piles, munching piece OF
bread and rubbing their heavy eyes.
In three years matters seem to have
improved but little, since H. H. Jones'
in January, 1914, after defining the
legal restrictions on child labor, which
are by no means stringent, con
tinues: 81 found fifty violations OF
the law as to ages and forty-five as to
hours in the canneries at Pass Chris.
tian and vicinity. 1 found no afidavits
of age"
Vincentians in United States.-The
St. Vincent de Paul Society in the
United States numbers today not few
er than eight hundred conferences
The first conference was established
in st. Louis in 1845.
The Church in Guiana.-Dutch
GUIANA South America, has nearly H..
900 Catholics. It's Cathedral at Para
marble is a large, two lowered edifice
The Bishop is a Vicar-Apostolic.
Missions for Deaf Mutes.-Three
years ago the first mission to deaf
mute adults in Pittsburgh was preach
ed by the Redemptorist Father, Rev
Thomas Calvin, and with great sue
cess. This year children and adults
had a separate mission in De Paul In
stitute. Sixty-eight children and forty
adults made the mission.
Students in Jesuit SchooIs.-The
registration of students in the Jesuit
Colleges in the United States and
Canada on October 1, was 20,50O. Oh
this number 1919 were in high
schools and colleges and 5,081 at the
universities.
Gift for Altar Promised.-The sum
of $4,000 has been pledged to Rev
P. H. Bradley, pastor of Blessed Sacra
ment parish, ST. Louis, Mo-, for an
altar in the church, which is soon to
be built on the site of the present
frame structure.
Oldest Philippine Academy.-The
oldest academy in Manila was estab-
lished by Spanish ladies Of culture
and wealth, in 1869, and is now in
charge of the Sisters of Charity.
Missionary Brought Valuable Seed.
Rev. Father Bachelot, the pioneer
French priest, who established the
Catholic mission in Honolulu in 1927,
rendered the Hawaiian Islands great
service when on his return from Cali
fornia he brought with him the little
algarboda Seeding and planted it in
the mission grounds. From that one
tree all the islands have become heav-
lily forested with these most valuable
of trees.
Negro Sisters Constant Oblate
Sisters of Providence are Commun-
ity of Colored Sisters devoted to the
higher education of colored girls. They
have several Houses in this country
and Cuba, and their Motherhouse is in
Baltimore, Md. Their zeal, disinter-
estedness and heroic labors in behalf
of their race have merited for them
unstinted praise from Catholics and
non Catholics alike. They take only
yearly vows, yet defections are un-
heard of, thus affording demonstra-
ton of the capabilities of the race.
OLD WORLD NEWS.