The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1914-12-19
from the National Capitol
By Stantsu Lawtsu
New Navy Chaplain.

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New Navy Chaplain.
Rev. I. J. Bouffard has been desig.
mated by Secretary of the Navy Dan.
iels for examination at the opening
of the new year, for appointment as
chaplain in the United States navy.
Father Bouffard belongs to the do
cese of Providence, R. l., but at pres.
ent is studying at the Catholic Uni
versity of America.
He will be the first Catholic chap.
lain to be appointed under the new
law, passed by Congress June 80, 1914,
which increased the chaplain corps of
the navy from "a to so, with the pro.
vision that only seven new appoint
ments can be made in any one year.
chapIains on the Border.
At the present time two of our
Catholic chaplains are stationed on
the. border with the troops at Texas
City, Tex, namely: Rev. jeremiah A.
Lenehan, with the Twenty-sixth Infan.
try, and Rev. Francis P. Joyce of the
Fourth Field Artillery, who has just
returned from Vera Cruz.
Urges National Labor Exchange.
The first annual report of the United
States Commission on Industrial Re
lations was filed with Congress last
week, the commission having been ap
pointed by that body to inquire into
the underlying causes of industrial un-
rest and to formulate working pro.
gram.
Nothing seems so clear to the com.
mission as the imperative necessity of
organizing a market for labor on a
modern business basis, so that there
will be no vacant jobs and idle work
ers in the same community at the
same time, or within distance where
the transportation is practicable" says
the report.
"The consensus of opinion is that
legislation for national system of
labor exchanges is an immediate ne
cessity. The plan the commission pro-
poses to establish is bureau of en-
ployment in the Department of Labor,
which would cooperate with state and
municipal employment offices, regulate
private agencies doing interstate bust
ness and establish clearing houses for
distributing information, thus uniting
all labor exchanges into one national
system"
Priest Opposes Kenyon Law.
Rev. Augustus ]. Duarte, S. j., vice
president of Georgetown University,
and president of the Truth Society of
the National Capitol, speaking at a
meeting of the officers of the Wash.
ington Truth Society's public moral
committee last week, declared that
vice has become rampant since the
closing Of the "red light" district, and
the chief effect of the Kenyon law has
been to scatter the social plague so
that it is almost beyond the control of
the police.
Father Duarte said the conditions
had been foreseen by those who had
studied the situation, and who opposed
the closing of the segregated district,
because of the evils which would re-
suit.
IF possible, of course, the deplor.
able plague should be destroyed root
and branch" continued Father Duarte,
but experience has taught that where
the evil becomes inevitable in any
locality, 1t should be treated like small.
pox or any other plague. The victims
should be effectively segregated or
quarantined.
ITO scatter the victims of the
plague is more disastrous than to
scatter smallpox patients among the
uncontaminated portions of the popu-
lace. Under a properly controlled seq
regated district vice is kept in one
spot instead of being scattered broad
cast"
He expressed the desire that per-
sons of all creeds give support to the
crusade against the spread of vice in
the national capital.
Catholic University Law School Ap-
proved BY Board Of Regents Of
New York.
The following letter from the assist
ant commissioner for higher educa-
ton will answer the inquiries that
have been made concerning the rank
assigned to the Catholic University
Law School by the board of regents
of New York:
The University of the State of New
York, the State Department of Edu.
cation, Albany, December /, 1914.
Augustus s. Downing,
Assistant Commissioner for Higher
Education.
FL. Dean Thomas G. Carrigan, School
of Law, the Catholic University of
America, Washington, D. c.
Dear Sir: This is to advise you
that the board of regents, at it's meet.
ing held November 10Th, registered