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Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1914-01-23
THE APPROPRIATION BILLS.

Though the antitrust laws now
have the spot light in congress, the
regular appropriation bills come home
quite ms close to where people real
ly live. The correspondents do not
mention them much. unless represen-
tatives become belligerent but the
money -spending of our legislators
should not escape with slight scru-
tiny.
Much Is being said at Washington
and II is good talk. about the need
for economy. But one should remem-
Der that sure way to get applause
in congress is to demand economy,
and also that sure way of being
defeated for recollection is to refuse
to vote for appropriations that help
your own district.
Everyone laughs at the absurd du-
plication OF needless army posts. for
which the United States pays heavy
bill. Yet II the appropriation for a
single one of these posts is cut Off
congress is flooded with petitions and
letters of protest from boards of trade.
mayors. governors. city councils and
citizens.
The river and harbor act of 1910
contained appropriations for 296 con-
gressional districts out OF S91. 1t
was a marvel OF poor distribution. II
is an easy thing TO get an initial
grant Of 100000 on a s2.OOo.O 900 pro-
jcct. Then like sum is sure every
year on the ground that otherwise
the money previously spent will be
wasted.
II has always been customary for
each cabinet minister In this country
70 hand In bill OF what he wanted.
regardless OF what any other de-
partment asked This Is the only |
civilized government In the world |
where the administration has always
assumed so littne responsibility for
the total amount OF money expended. /
Congress viii be extravagant Just
as long as the congressman are sent
to WASHINGTON primarily to get Jobs
for constituents and expensive inn
provements for their own districts.
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1914-01-23

According TO dispatches more than
half o fthe national hanks of the coun-
try have now applied for membership
in the new currency system. Up to
the 18th the actual number was 1926.
PENNSYLVANIA leads with 225. Ohio is
second with 1856, New York third. with
toi, and Indiana fourth with 100.
Washington advises state that e large
number Of the state banks have also
signitied their intention of nationaliz-
ing with a view to entering the sys-
TEN.
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1914-01-23
PROBLEM OF woMeNs WAGES.

Nothing seems to rankle more with
women. than the fact that they re-
ceive less pay than men for the same
work. The subject is suggested by
recent utterances OF Dr. Anna How
ard Shaw. a suffragist leader. In com
planning OF the Ford automobile com
pany for failure to include women
equally with the men In their profit
sharing plan.
A woman teacher often gets only
$500 for school work for which a man
would be paid 1880. The same is
true In almost all salaried positions.
To be sure. woman's work Is some
times more irregular. and she may
throw up her job any time to get mar
ried. SO do men throw up their Jobs
at any time. for good reasons or for
whims
Perhaps the root of the trouble is
that women crowd into occupations
paying low wages Out of 1890, 900
women wage earners in this country,
i.1s5,0oO are servants. There are s2s, 4
935 washerwomen.
Department store employees and |
sweat shop workers, paid some mea-
ger amount like SIS a week, have Of
ten protested against minimum
wage law. They say there are plenty
OF girls ready to take their places,
and they fear worse competition II
wages are raised
When an ambitious man finds him
self In an employment where the sup
ply OF workers is greater than the
demand. he tries to ut himself to
compete In higher class. Women,
must do the same. II they could make
women teachers relatively scarce, this
would have to pay higher
wages
Women who go into business, par
icularly in such lines as dressmak-
ng, millinery. restaurant, lodging =
louse, and hotel keeping. seem to do
veil. II woman serves the public
veil. the fact of sex does not count.
The Is on even terms with men. Here
3 a great field for feminine enter g
rise. The more enter It. the less II
Their occupations viii be overcrowd- -
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1914-01-23

society, but he is counted pillar
OF the state. Yet the higher up in
| the social scale his neighbors may
be, the less they follow his example
and gain their similar share Of public
approval.
| A college professor, writing In the
Independent recently, showed how the
20 members of his faculty, only one
had had a child in nine years. The
more neighborhood advances in
wealth. culture and education, the
less its stately homes are disturbed
by the laughter of children. AS the
servant comes in, the child goes out.
Perhaps the true cause is suggest
ed by the fact that the sharpest de-
cline in birth rate is shown among
the French. the nation that is preem-
inent tor thrift.
1t costs at least n third more to
feed and clothe a child now than IL
did rs years ago. the provision being
the same. But standards are higher
Probably 95 per cent of men 40 years
old wore patched pants to school as
boys. What mother dares to send
her boy to school with a patch today?
Formerly when your child had a
sore throat and cough. you paid the
family doctor 81 for a prescription, |
and trusted to time to outgrow the |
trouble. Now people go to a throat
specialist, and have the adenoids ia
ken out, costing from $40 to $50. It's
hat way all along the line.
Everyone believes in large families
except for himself No wonder the
firth rate looks sick.
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1914-01-23
DECLINING BIRTH RATES.

The opinion was expressed at the
conferoace for race bettermcnt just
hold az Battle Creek. Mich. that three
great nations, England Germany and
France. are facing race extinction as
the result o. declining birth rates Or.
,. NJ. cattell said at this meeting
that IL these races are 10 remain
powerful a century hence there must
he provision for the selection cf
healthy mothers. and for the cost Of
bearing and rearing children.
To-day the man with a half dozen
healthy and growing children Is
phenomenon. lie may not shine in
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1914-01-23
LOWER PRICES ON CLOTHING

The New York Evening Sun pre-
diets reduction in the price of wool
en- goods. Several American manufac-
turers Of wooden goods, that paper
says, have Opened their samples for
the autumn season of 1914 within a
day or two, and 1t is said that the
range IF prices fixed by the domestic
manufacturers was reached after an
exhaustive study of the degree of
competition likely to be offered by the
foreign wooden mills. However they
reckoned it, substantial reductions in
prices were made from those of last
year in consideration of the lower
rates Of duty imposed on wooden
goods by the new tariff law, which
became effective January /. 1t has
also been said, however, that what
ever reductions are made will be lost
between the middlemen and never
reach the ultimate consumer. But
the Sun believes that the manufac-
turers have tried to get their prices
low enough to retain their trade, and
the jobbers and tailors will have lit
lie better chance to meet their own
business expenses while making some
sort of reduction to their customers.
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1914-01-23
TRAINS RUN BY WIRELESS.

The Lactawanna Railroad company
after exhaustive trials, has installed
the Marconi Wireless system upon
its trains. and other railroads VIII
probably install the wireless to OPP
crate their trains as it will avoid
either partial or total loss of COM
munieation resulting from the pros
tration Of poles and wires.
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1914-01-23

1t is estimated that 1t will cost the
United States $4,000 a month to keep
the Mexican war prisoners. and as
the end of the turmoil is not yet in
sight, no one can tell just what the
total cost will be, il they are to be
tored. But we presume the bill. what
ever the final amount is, will be pres
ented TO the Mexican people for set
Element, for there is no reason why
the United States should stand the
cost of keeping the Mexican refugees.
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1914-01-23
John SHELTON Williams, The new con-

John Shelton Williams. the new con-
troller Of the currency and a member
Of the Federal Reserve Board. is a
man OF extensive banking and rail-
road experience. He has been re-
garded as anti-waH Street in his
views. and is said to have been Bit
terly opposed by the Ryan interests.
Mr. Williams position is one Of the
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1914-01-23

most important in the government
and the salary he draws. $40 ooo .
year is the same as the Secretary Of
Treasury. -
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1914-01-23

Inc Masonic lodge held special
meeting on Wednesday evening and
conferred the second degree Of ma
sorry upon candidate.
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1914-01-23

The veteran newspaper man of the
HALEY Times. T. e. Pecotte, after fif-
ty years of honorable public service,
has been proposed as a suitable Re-
publican candidate for governor. The
nomination comes to him from a
Democratic source to be sure, in the
suggestion of Editor Floed of the New
Freedom. but it is genuine compli-
ment nevertheless In this connection
1t Is recalled that Mr.. Picotte once
refused a nomination for congress
when nomination meant certain
election in Idaho. Now as then the
veteran prefers to hold his editorial
pen. And the Journal wants to con-
graduate him for staying on the job.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1914-02-07
SISTERS COAL MINE
SISTERS OF PROVIDENCE oPER-
ATE COAL MINE NEAR TERRE
HAUTE, IND.-PRoDUcEs SIXTY
TONS A DAY.

A coal mine with productive ca
pacity of 60 tons day, sufficient to
supply heat, light and power for one
of the largest convent schools in the
country, has been successfully man
aged for years by the Sisters of Provi-
dence, who conduct the Academy of
"St. Mary of the Woods" near Terre
Haute, Ind. The convent was founded
in 1910, but it was not until 1894 that
the discovery of valuable coal deposits,
underlying the lands belonging to the
institution, was made. A shaft was
first sunk to a depth of 81 feet, but
this was later abandoned for shaft
27O feet deep, where the average thick
ness of the coal vein is five feet. The
mine is now operated under the man
agement of one of the Sisters, who
is we'll versed in everything pertain
ing to mining operations and machin-
cry. The equipment is of modern type
throughout.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1914-02-07
BOYS COURT FOR CHICAGO
RESCUE WORK AMONG YOUTHS
WILL BE ASSISTED BY ITS
ESTABLISHMENT.

A Boys Court will soon be estab-
lished in Chicago, to care for all cases
in which youths from seventeen to
twenty-one are involved. The de-
parture from established methods
came in answer to the call of social
workers, who long have realized the
necessity of such court to handle
the cases of the many youths, whose
age debars them from the Juvenile
Court, but who are still too young to
be tried in the court where hardened
criminals receive their sentence. For
twelve years Father guile of the
Workingboys' Home has been advo-
eating this reform; it was also urged
by Mrs. Britton of the Juvenile Pro-
tective Association; both Of whom de-
clare that great injustice is often done
to the boy of these years. With little
more than a child's responsibility, he
is treated as a fullgrown man, and,
when he makes little slip, he is
condemned to associate with the low
est class of degenerates. When he
falls into the hands of the police, his
lot is hard, and often he has to lie
three or six months in Jail to await
trial. To those interested in social
welfare work this special branch of
the municipal judiciary supplies long
needed want in dealing with youthful
offenders.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1914-02-07
THREE O|OCEsEs GET REQUESTS
CARDINAL GIBBONS AS RESIDU-
AIRY LEGATEE APPORTIONS
$265,o0o AMONG THREE SOUTH
ERN DIOCESES.

Some time ago it was announced
that Cardinal Gibbons was the residu-
airy legatee of the will of the late
Miss Eliza Andrews, and that sum
amounting to more than $250,000
would come into his possession when
the estate was closed.
AS soon as it became known that
His Eminence was to receive this
large sum he was deluged with letters
from all sources requesting aid.
His Eminence has just issued a
statement in which he announces the
disposition which he has made of this
bequest. Miss Andrews left a sealed
letter addressed to him in which he
was directed to distribute the residu-
airy legacy among three Southern do
ceses, namely the Dioceses of Rich
mond and of Wheeling, and the Vicar
late Apostolic of North Carolina. Not
a cent of this bequest goes to the
Diocese of Baltimore nor to educa-
tional institutions, except what may be
needed for such purposes in the do
ceses among which it is divided. No
restrictions are placed upon the use
to which this legacy may be put in
advancing the interests of religion.
Discussing the exact amount of the
legacy, Cardinal Gibbons said that he
had been informed on reliable author.
fly that the total would not exceed
$265,000.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1914-02-07

was the Rev. Joseph Pierre Picot de
Cloriviere, who was ordained in Balti-
more on August 1, 1872, and died Sep
TENDER 20, 1926, aged fifty-eight years.
He lies buried in the crypt benath the
chapel of the convent Before he
came to America he was the Chevalier
Joseph Picot de Limoelan When he
was an impulsive young man of thirty
two, he went from his home in Brit
tany to Paris and took part in a plot
to rid the world of Napoleon Bona
parte. On Christmas eve, in the year
1900, the conspirators exploded an in
fernal machine in a Paris street, just
two minutes too late to end the career
of the First Consul. Scores of other
victims, however, were killed and in
jured. Limoelan's two companions
were apprehended and executed but
he escaped, came to America, changed
his name and his ways, made a pre-
carious living as a painter and eventu-
ally studied for the priesthood, was
ordained, and died peacefully as chap
lain of convent. Our only comment
on this is that in this case as indeed
all others, the old axiom is aptly:
AIS well, that ends we'll"
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1914-02-07
NEW CATHOLIC LABOR UNION
SECURES BETTER CONDITIONS OF
SERVICE IN SPAIN.

The employees and workmen of the
Northern and other railways of Spain
have formed Catholic Syndicate with
headquarters at Valladolid Catholics
predominant amongst the workers, but
they felt the necessity of drawing to-
gether for defence.
The syndicate works quietly but
without ceasing to obtain from the
companies better conditions of serv-
ice, using, however, only the weapons
of reason and justice to further this
end. 1t also endeavors to quicken
amongst it's members respect for Cath
Ollie ideals and that bloom of faith
which sometimes gets sadly rubbed
off in purely materialist associations
1t has already obtained the concession
Of two months sick leave on full pay
by the companies, which may at dis
erection be extended to three months,
provided it is needed and merited by
good conduct. Moreover, the syndi-
cate has obtained that all, who have
been in the companys service more
than two years, shall benefit by the
concessions granted to fathers of large
families. Free medical benefit has
been obtained, and the concession that
all vacancies shall be filled from the
ranks of supernumerary employees.
Now it is working to obtain a mini
mum wage of three pesetas per day,
and the railway company is studying
the matter, which is somewhat COM
plicated.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1914-02-07
CONVERSION
HOW A NORWEGIAN AND HIS
FAMILY WERE BROUGHT INTO
THE CHURCH.

Mgr. Fallize, Apostolic Vicar of Nor
way, tells US the following story of
a conversion, says the Missionary:
ga short time after l had settled in
Tromsoe a Protestant of that town
came to ask me this question: Tell
me, priest, is there still Pope in your
Church,
Certainly, my friend! There al
ways was and is now a Pope in Rome.
The Catholic Church was never, from
the beginning to this very day, with
out her supreme shepherd, the Pope.
Then Immediately receive me into
your Church.
ct would be only too glad to do so;
but tell me, what is it that led you
so quickly to this decision?'
The matter lies in a nutshell!
Luther, the founder Of our religion.
said, as perhaps you know: Z shall
be the ruin and the death of the
Papacy. Now if the Papacy still ex-
lists today, after three and a half GEN.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1914-02-07
SOCIALISM IN A NUTSHELL
p. w. COLLINS ENNUcIATES SOME
PREGNANT TRUTHS REGARD
ING THE MOVEMENT.

Socialism was never known to put
a single penny in the pay envelope of
the working man.
Socialism never aided organized la
Dor, but it has used all it's efforts to
check it's progress.
The glare of the spotlight is life to
Socialism; that of the searchlight
means death
If Socialism appealed to the mind
instead of the passions it would have
been relegated to oblivion long ago.
The application of Socialism to the
body polite as a remedy for it's ills
would send the patient to the incura-
BILE ward
Those who know Socialism least
are its loudest champions.
A most delightful sight to see pink
tea" Socialists and their comrades and
the proletarians mingled together.
Legitimate discomfort is the off
spring of Socialism and bears a strik-
ing resemblance to its parent
The working man who embraces So
cialism retards the progress of the
workers.
Socialism and strike breaking are
doing the same kind of service against
the trade unions to destroy them.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1914-02-07
To WEIR Of SILOE
FOUNDATIONS OF BUILDING MEN,
TONED IN BIBLE FOUND
IN JERUSALEM.

On January 81 news of the finding
of the foundations of the Tower of
Siloe was received by DR.. Kellar of
the Episcopal Theological School, Cam
bridge, Mass, from a friend in Jeru-
salem. The tower is mentioned in
the Gospel of St. Luke (XIII, A.:
Those eighteen upon whom the tower
fell in Siloe, and slew them; think you
that they also were debtors above all
the men that dwelt in Jerusalem?"
The excavators, according to the
message, 'have discovered a long, we'll
cut Greek inscription, which speaks of
the presbyters and fathers with
Simonides, laying the foundation of
the synagogue and the baths. These
baths and the foundations of the syna-
gogue are exposed. They have found
the base of a circular building, the
tower of Siloe.'
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1914-02-07
CHANGES IN CARDINALS
HOUSEHOLD
FATHER GAVAN OF BALTIMORE
APPOINTED PASTOR IN WASH
INGTON - FATHER STlCKNEY
SUCCEEDS HIM AS CHANCEL-
LOR.

The Rev. P. C. Gavan, S. T. L., for
twelve years Chancellor of the Arch
diocese of Baltimore, has been appoint
ed pastor of the Church of the Sacred
Heart, Washington, in the place of
the late Father MCGEE. Father Gavan
was born of Irish parents in Bolton,
Lancashire, England, November "a,
1872. He pursued his classical studies
in st. Charles College, Ellicott City,
and at the American College, Rome,
where he was ordained March Z, 1897,
by Archbishop Keane, formerly rector
of the Catholic University. The Arch
bishop retained him for two years as
his private secretary.
The Rev. Louis R. Stickney, who has
been a member of Cardinal Gibbons
household for six years, has been ap-
pointed to succeed Father Gavan as
chancellor. He was born in Newark,
N j., but moved with his parents to
Hartford, Conn, where he spent his
boyhood. In 1892 he entered St.
Charles College, Ellicott City, Md,
graduating in 1896, and went to Rome
to study at the American College. He
was ordained there June Is, 1902, and
was sent to Canada as secretary to
the Apostolic Delegate at Ottawa. He
remained there about year, and on
January 1, 1904, succeeded Mgr Rock
er as secretary to the Apostolic Dele
gate at Washington. On March 8,
1908, he was transferred to the Cathe-
dral, Baltimore, and given charge of
the foreign correspondence of the Car
dinal.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1914-02-07

lieves that by so doing he is guilty of
sin. 4. We do not believe that a
great deal of cursing and swearing"
is necessary for the impersonation of
any character on the stage, nor would
we hold the actor entirely guiltless
who would indulge in cursing and
swearing in order to show a stage
character true to life. How far he is
morally responsible depends on cir
cumstances. 5. AS a general rule,
persons using such expressions mean
nothing by them. But it is not a nice
habit to fall into and cultured peo-
pie never offend in this way.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1914-02-07

tinue under the soutane," as the writer
expresses it, "the patriotic work for
France which they had begun under
the uniform"
And, first of all, the writer recalls
that under the Second Empire there
was at the head of the See of Agen
prelate who bore noble name
the Count de Levezou de Veins. Be
fore studying for the priesthood, Mon
signor de Veins had been a colonel
of regiment of cuirassiers. He had
been a married man and heaven had
blessed his union with two brave and
pious sons, the younger Of whom made
the campaign of 1870 as lieutenant
of the 93rd Infantry under Canrobert
At the battle of Rezonville, where the
regiment was literally decimated, this
young officer was fatally wounded.
Left bleeding on the field of battle,
he was not found by his comrades un-
til the following day just as he was
about to breathe his last. The other
son of Monsignor de Veins was an
artillery officer, and quilted the serv-
ice as a lieutenant-colonel. He did
brilliant service in Mexico under the
walls of Puebla, directing the fire of
his battery, he was grievously wound
ed.
Monsignor Curry, who was for a
long time Archbishop of Algiers, was
soldier before becoming a priest,
and, curiously enough, his soldierly
career began at Algiers, the very
place he later ruled as Archbishop.
Monsignor Lamoureux was an Off
Ger before he was a Bishop. AS such
he distinguished himself in 1870 re-
cruiting and organizing a corps of vol
unteers.
Monsignor de Logonnes, Bishop of
Rodez, went through the war of 1870
in the Army of the East as a cap
tain.
Monsignor Augouard, the indefati-
gable Vicar-Apostolic of the Congo,
fought in the same war in the Zouaves
of Charette.
At Nice there lives at present a
most respected pastor who, not so
long ago, was one of the most dis
tinguished of the higher officers of
the French Army. Able Crepeaux
was received at st. Cyr (the West
Point of France) when he was hardly
seventeen, the year before the Franco
Russian War. At the battle of Cham
pigny, where his regiment had five
hundred killed or wounded, of which
twenty were officers, the young lieu
tenant received grievous wound
A little while after he received with
his promotion the Cross of the Legion
of Honor. Captain at twenty-three,
major at thirty-fve, M. Crepeaux was
made aforementioned at forty-two.
At the moment of his promotion to
colonel he resigned his commission in
order to study for the priesthood.
Three years ago, most distin-
guished officer, Colonel de Courson de
Villeneuve, left the service and few
months later was ordained priest by
the Archbishop of Rheims.
Able Perrin, who fills today the
Office of vicar of the Cathedral of
Belancon, fought valiantly in 1870 in
the Corps of Colonel Keller. At the
end of the war he was quartermaster-
sergeant. A few months later he left
to study for Holy Orders.
Dom du Bourg graduated from ST..
Cyr in 1862 in the cavalry. His wife
dying, he provided for his children,
gave up the army, and became a Ben
edictine.