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The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1914-11-14
THE CONGRESSIONAL REC
ORD AND THE K. OF G.
Oath. f."

Many people who read the al
legged oath Of the Fourth Degree,
Knights Of Columbus, which has
been so industriously circulated in
many quarters, are inclined to be-
lieve that it is true because the
leafet containing nit states that it
is ''copied from the Congressional
Record, Of Feb. Is, 1913"
AS a matter of fact, this "oath .
is found in the Congressional Rec
ord; but that does not establish its
authenticity. How did it get into
this official publication which re-
cords the proceedings in Con
gress? And what does the Con
gressional Record itself say in
regard to the truth of this oath
An examination of the Congress
sional Record Of February Is,
1913, shows that this "oath" is
filed as an exhibit by Eugene c.
Bonniwell of Pennsylvania, who
charges that the supporters OF
Thomas S. Butler circulated it in
the district in which he and Mr.
Butler ran for office and that, as
a result Of this, he was defeated
In his protest, printed in the
Congressional Record, Mr.. Bonnl-
we'll says: Messengers in the
employ Of supporters of Thomas s.
Butler travelled the district, hav.
ing in their possession and circu-
lating a blasphemous and infa-
nous libel, copy Of which is here.
to attached, pretended to be an
oath of the Knights Of Columbus
of which body the contestant is q
member. So revolving are the
terms Of this document and sc
nauseating its pledges that the in
jury it did, not merely to the con.
testant, but also to the knights OF
Columbus and to Catholics III gen.
eral, can hardly be measured u
terms. Congressional Record
Vol. 40, PIT. 4, Feb. Is, 1913, p
1916.
Mr.. Butler, in his defense. as
printed in the Congressional Rec
ord, says: II unprecedented will
alarm the use of such a document
in political campaign, or at any
other time. | did not believe In its
truthfulness and so stated my
judgment concerning it on Noyem
Der 4th, 1912, as soon as complaint
was made to me of its genera
circulation. Inasmuch as | did no
wish to give this document, which
judged to be spurious, any
notoriety whatsoever, | refraineC
from its public condemnation I'm
til the time when a general com
plant was made to me and
thought it my duty to publicly
condemn it." Congressional Rec
ord, Vol. 40, PIT. 4, Feb. ID, 1913
P. 1919.
The congressional committee
| to which the matter was referred
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1914-11-14
DOMAIN OF TEMPERANCE.
wHIskEY EPIGRAMs.

"Whiskey never helped a man to
get job nor to keep one
"You can't buy beer and beef with
the same money"
= alcohol is a poison, not food"
"a saloon is place where moder-
ate drinkers are converted into drunk
ards"
Judge, have you tried this whis.
key?"
mo, but I've tried the man who
did"
"Who is the first man to be laid Off,
and the last man to be taken on?
The man who drinks"
1.-TWO chapters complete the story:
could stop drinking if | would.
would stop drinking if l could"
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1914-11-14
CHARITY WITHOUT FAITH.

i Where is the need Of dogmas in
religion? is it not enough to be
kind to my neighbor, to feel for
him in his troubles, to help him SO
far as I can? Can not be good to
my neighbor no matter what creed
| profess, or even if | profess no
creed at all?
These questions, SO frequently
asked nowadays, indicate a
strange ignorance Of human ma
ture and of the history Of the work
of Christianity in purifying and
elevating it.
In pagan Greece and Rome, just
at the time when men were as
careless about definite convictions
and as eager for novelty as many
persons are today, cruelty, sheer
enjoyment Of human suffering, at,
tanned a degree Of refined ingenu.
ity which was not human, but
diabolical. The martyrs Of Christ
victims Of that cruelty in all its
extremes of malice and ingenuity
by their heroic loyalty to their
Divine Master, helped to change
the human heart and to exercise
from it the demon of cruelty
Dying i'll torture, they prayed fol
their torturers, like Him Whose
witnesses they were. Their blood
became the seed Of Christians
They were loyal to Jesus Christ
because Jesus Christ is God. They
forgave and loved and prayed for
their deluded and brutalized tor,
turers, because deep in their
hearts was the lesson of charity
which they learned from the
example and teaching Of the Son
Of God made man.
The mystery of the Incarnation
established on earth the reign OF
love. Men learned to love one
another when they learned that
Jesus is the Christ, the Son Of the
Living God. When God became
man He raised human nature to 8
sublime dignity and grandeur. The
death of the Goldman for us upOr
the Cross showed us the mys
terious value and dignity Of oul
souls. His lifelong example, az
well as His emphatic teaching, In
culcated this lesson which III
sealed with His blood. His owl
tender love for the poor The
ignorant, the outcast, the dis
agreeable, the unattractiye, ever
for the enemies who sought Hi.
life. was explained and enforced
by Him in explicit and emphatic
dogmatic teaching. The root
principle of all His teaching wa
the mystery of the Incarnation.
The true lovers of men, the tru,
friends of mankind, were always
those who remembered the words
of the Master-words which HI
tells us He will repeat with al
solemnity before the whole human
race on the last day: Whatso
ever We did to the least of NJ
brethren, that We did unto Me.
Men loved one another because
they believed that Christ is God
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1914-11-14

Minneapolis is to have two regu-
lar policewomen, Mrs. Georgiana
Sharrott, and Mrs. Charlotte Claw
son who have been working for
some time under the direction of
the Juvenile Protective League.
st. Paul started out with two
policewomen about a year ago and
has added another to the force.
They are Mrs. Kelly, Mrs. Hessian
and Mrs. Moore. Chief of Police
O'Connor says they are the best
"men" on the force. They do
more to keep certain classes of
people out Of Jail than all the rest
Of the force.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1914-11-14
THANKSGIVING PROCLAMATION
PRESIDENT WILSON DESIGNATES
NOVEMBER 26 AS THANKS
GIVING DAY.

The following proclamation by the
President of the United States has
been issued:
ct has long been the honored GUS
tom of our people to turn in the fruit
full autumn of the year in praise and
thanksgiving to Almighty God for His
many blessings and mercies to us as
Nation. The year that is now draw
ing to a close since we last observed
our day of National Thanksgiving has
been, while a year of discipline be-
cause of the mighty forces of war and
of change which have disturbed the
world, also year of special blessing
for u.s.
at has been vouchsafed to us to
remain at peace, with honor, and in
supply the needs of those who are in
want We have been privileged by
our own peace and self-control in some
degree to steady the counsels and
shape the hopes and purposes of a
day of fear and distress. Our people
have looked upon their own life as a
nation with a deeper comprehension, a
fuller realization of their responsible
ties as we'll as their blessings and a
keener sense of the moral and prac-
teal significance of what their part
among the nations of the world may
come to be.
''The hurtfu1 effects of foreign war
in their own industrial and CONNER
cial affairs have made them feel the
more fully and see the more clearly
their mutual inter-dependence upon
one another and have stirred them to
a helpful cooperation such as they
have seldom practiced before.
Our crops will feed all who need
food; the self-possession of our people
amidst the most serious anXieties and
difficulties and the steadiness and re-
sourcefulness of our business men will
serve other nations as well as our
own.
"The business of the country has
and the commerce of the world with
new channels of trade and intercourse
| The Panama Canal has been opened to
the commerce of the nations. The two
continents of America have been
bound in closer ties of friendship. New
instrumentalities of international trade
| have been created which will be also
new instrumentalities Of acquaintance
| intercourse and mutual service. Never
before have the people of the United
| States been so situated for their own
advantage or the advantage of their
neighbors, or SO equipped to serve
| themselves and mankind.
"Now, therefore, |, Woodrow Wilson,
President of the United States OF
| America, do hereby designate Thurs.
day, the tWenty-siXth of November
next, as a day of Thanksgiving and
prayer and invite the people through,
out the land to cease from their
wonted occupations and in their sew
eral homes and places of worship rem.
der thanks to Almighty God.
"In witness whereof | have here.
unto set my hand and caused the seal
of the United States to be affixed.
Done at the city of Washington
this 8th day of October, in the year
of Our Lord one thousand nine hun,
dred and fourteen, and of the indie
pendence of the United States OF
America, the one hundred and thirty.
| ninth.
| (Signed)
"WOODROW WILSON.
"By the President:
Robert Lansing,
Acting Secretary of State
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1914-11-14

There is food for thought in the
following statement clipped from
the Brooklyn Tablet: 81.
Getting married means estab.
fishing a family. To start the
married life without that intention
is to start wrong. The girl who
remains at business after marriage
and because of business sets aside
her obligations Of maternity is
acting immorally. Motherhood is
the most important business in the
world for her. Let her give up
her side lines.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1914-11-14

Mayor Nye signalized his re-
election to the Chief Magistracy of
Minneapolis by making many
changes in the police force He
has not yet asked for the resigna-
ton of Brother" Jones of the
Bertillon staff, whose ability
to manufacture calumnies about
Catholics is well known to the
readers Of this paper. Is Jones
too useful a man to be dispensed
with by the Nye regime?
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1914-11-14

A truly Catholic life is the best
sermon. 1t appeals to all classes,
1t encourages other Catholics to
initiate it i'll their own persons and
it gives non-Catholics a true idea
of what the Church is, as shown
by her fruits. We can all help
in this way, if we will, by living
lives that reflect the teaching
of the gospel and mirror the per-
fections Of the Divine Model.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1914-11-14

The total membership of the
Knights of Columbus is 27,119,
distributed in 1878 Councils.
This large and united body of in
telligent Catholic laymen ought to
be a power for good, socially, re-
ligiously and civically. 1t COM
prises the cream of practical Cath
olics and can do much to enhance
the value of Catholic patriotism
by it's loyalty to civic institutions
and to the teaching Of the Church.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1914-11-14
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER IA, 1914.

His Eminence Cardinal Falco-
MO, former Apostolic Delegate to
the United States, has been ap-
pointed a member of the Sacred
Consistorial Congregation. This
is most important position be-
cause Of the fact that all nomina-
tions for bishops are made by this
Congregation.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1914-11-14

frequently. Too many make use
of this excuse to explain their
failure to receive the Bread Of
Life as often as they need it,
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1914-11-14

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There is a big difference between d
wish and logged resolution.
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Rev. James NJ. Reardon, Editor.
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Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1914-12-31
PRES. ". D. LEWIS
ASKS QUESTION
Wants to Know What Interest Life
Insurance Companies Charge
on Farm Loans.

Fort Worth, Tex. Dec. 3l.-W. D.
Lewis. president Of the Farmers
Union OF Texas, today gave out the
following statement:
II understand that the next Legisla-
ture will be called upon to amend the
Robertson law so that the foreign life
insurance companies may be permit
ted to lend money in Texas without
suffering the pains and penalties Of
that law.
"The Farmers Union favors the free
and unlimited lending of money and
every farmer who ever rode bale OF
cotton to market knows that the vol
ume Of a product offered has largely
to do with the controlling price, but
II not asking too much, we would like
for the foreign life insurance com
panles that are knocking at our door
to take the stand and say whether or
not they will lend money on farm prop
erty: what amount is available and
at what rate OF interest? Perhaps the
latter is a hypothetical question, but
they can at least give the present rate
of interest they are asking on farm
loans.
while the subject OF life insurance
loans Is up for discussion. | would like
to ask the home life insurance com
panies what per cent Of their loans
Is on farm property and what rate Of
interest the farmer pays for the use
of It? Let those who seek to reply &c
the inquiry observe that have asked
what the farmer pays-not what the
insurance company gets for the money
All this talk about per cent money
sounds like fairy tale. BY the tint
the money is loaned to the banker
to lend to the broker, to lend to the
real estate agent, to lend to the farm
er, the trapsaction looks like "th'
house that Jack built" and does thu
farmer about as much good. We hav'
all the 10 and Is per cent money II
Texas We need.
I'VE ask only for information. Blu
when the Robertson law is up befor
the Legislature for discussion, the
Farmers Union will be heard from
and will see to It that the farmers
interests are protected"
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1914-12-31
FARM PRIZE LIST
WAS ANNOUNCED
Model Farms, Stock Raising and
School Gardening Among Things
for Which Prizes Are offered.

Dallas. Tex, Dec. 3l.-The Texas
Industrial Congress gave out yester'
day It's annual announcement OF So.
900 In prizes for the best results dur.
ing the 1915 season In farming. gar.
dening and stock feeding contests
among Texas farmers and citizens.
The following is the list:
Class A-Four.crop model farms, an
acre each OF cowpeas, cotton, corn and
kaffr, milo or feterita, $1,000.
Class B-Best acre OF corn. $1,000.
Class C--Best acre OF cotton, no
prizes offered this year.
Class D-Best acre OF kafir, milo
or feterlta, $1,000.
Glass E-Best acre of peanuts, ST.
900.
Class F-Best steer not over three
years old when finished, $1,000.
Glass G-Best baby beef not over
telve months old when finished, 81 900
Class H-Best hog not over twelve
months old when finished $1,000
Glass Best acre yields of wheat
oats, rye or barley, on not less thar
FIVE acres. $1,000.
Class BEST gardens, $500. tDi
ylded into parts OF 1915 each for bes
rural and graded schools-best higl
schools, best home plots and best va
cant city lots)
Entry in any Of the contests ma!
be made without cost by any person
qualified to enter Application blanks
and other literature will be furnished
by the congress to all interested.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1914-12-31
DALLAS LEGISLATORS BUSY.
Several Bills to Be Introduced in Next
Legislature.

Dallas, Tex. Dec 31-several i'm
portant bills will be introduced at the
next session Of the Legislature by Dal.
las County members State Senator
]. c. McNealus will try to perfect the
anti-pollution Of streams bill, the Rob
ertson insurance law, the Hogg stock
and bond law and will attempt to Sc.
cure a concurrent resolution calling
for a constitutional convention for a
revision Of the State constitution.
Senator McNealus will advocate
forty-eight hours a week as the maxi
mum working time for women, com
pulsory education and free textbooks
and supplies. and an amendment to
the libel law which viii give news
papers more latitude on Legitimate
news.
Senator McNealus will also propose
a law to keep public printing in Texas
shops. M
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1914-12-31
NEW YORK DAY BY DAY.
BY CHARLES HENRY ADAMS.

New York, Dec. 29.-What does war
really mean to the women of war
ring Nation? With their hands they
knit stockings and make shirts, but
what do they do with their hearts and
brains In what new relations, 1,
any, do they stand toward their men
folk and toward each other? How
are the little, intimate details Of their
lives affected by those details which
even today sum up the world for nine
tenths of the feminine sex What is
the war doing to women?
Those were some OF the questions
| put to Elsa Barker the author Of
Letters From a Living Dead Man."
1.-THE Book of Love-" and much more
verse and prose. As poet, especial
ly, she has been given a high place
in modern American literature. She
has Just returned from a prolonged
stay abroad, the earlier years in Paris,
the latter period in London. She was
at the English capital when war was
declared and for many troubled weeks
thereafter
Aside from the fact that Mrs Bark.
err is on peculiarly cordial and init
mate terms with many English
women, including members of distin
guished families, can imagine nc
more effective interpreter of woman
hood involved in the present crisis
than an American woman who adds
to her natural sympathy the ardol
and vision of poet
"What does war mean to women
she repeated. 1T means that they
are showing themselves so brave, sc
united, so wonderful"
Her eyes were shining and there
was a little catch in her voice as she
went on:
THE war has developed new
spirit among the women such spirit
as !, did not knoyfepuldfeSdst in the
world They berel bqand together ii
| the r2dst'sblendN uaRy. The barriers
% cless nd"c9stg-FTq tpvn;c the maj
| tJidaI hadsesSand claims are forgot
ten. Suffragettes and society butter
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1914-12-31
AT THE QUEEN.

Tonigh:-The famous Maurice Cos
tello, Estelle Mazda and Robert Gail.
lord in a grand two-reel vitagraph.
THE Governors Order" Beautiful
Mabel Trunnell as Olive in a grand
Edison. THE Lesson OF the Flames"
The famous Marshall Neian and
Marion Sias In "The Winning Wits,
kers.' This Is a fine bill tonight. See
II sure.
Tomorrow-The world famous play
and book. THE Vlrginian." will be
shown in motion pictures. with the
worlds foremost actor, Dustin Far
mum. as the Virglnlan. All have read
the book. many have seen the stage
production. See the cream Of all to
morrow. The hve-act masterpiece
that gives the actor and the subject
a chance to thrill every reader OF the
book to his fullest expectations.
Saturday-Another Paramount mas
terpiece. THE Lost Paradise" with
the famous II. b. Warner and an all
star cast, in FIVE thousand feet Of
heart interest and beauty.
The Dixie will run late tonight fol
those wishing to wait for the houl
that passes out the old year ant
brings In the new.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1914-12-31
AN EASY NEW
YEARS RESOLUTION

In the January American Magazine
James Montgomery Flagg, the famous
humorist and artist. does an amusing
piece in words and pictures entitled
-Four Easy New Years Resoliainis. :
One Of the four is to give mp the mthy
habit Of smoking under the following
conditions
"ln powder mills.
while chewing tobacco.
During the acts Of any grand
opera, irrespective OF what language
1t may be given in.
while eating flet Of sole. porter
house stek or sweetbreads cooked
with mushrooms.
while laying carpets and carrying
pint Of tacks in my mouth.
In any building where the danger
of fire is enormous and powerfully
built redheaded fireman. is watching
me with narrowed lids.
while reading the works Of Henry
James.
In the presence Of anyone who car
say with a straight face, Dear ole
Chicago"
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1914-12-31

flies, duchesses and laboring women.
mistresses and maids. Irish, Scotch.
Welsh English, all are working to-
gether in a common sisterhood. Nor
is the sex solidarity accompanied by
any hostility to men. The women
stand together and stand solIdly be-
hind the men. ready to hold on for
ever"
But are there no rebellious onesT
asked. Are there no women utter
ly opposed to war, or who cannot bear
to give their sons and husbands to
the holocaust?
II do not know Of one woman In
England who Is not Loyalty back OF
the British Empire" she replied
There's no need to call It the old
Spartan spirit; It's the British spirit
When the men decide to go there are
few tears and no complaints or plead
ings. There is brave, quiet acques'
cence, even II II Is bride whose
husband OF a week is leaving her, or
mother who Is losing her only son.
zone pretty young Danish woman,
n relative OF Queen Alexandra, has
been appointed recruiting sergeant.
She is only twenty years old. She
wears the regular recruiting ser
geant's badge. and every day visits
shops and factories where the man
ayers allow her to talk to the work
men and try to get their pledges &c
enlist.
"A mother know said to her youni
son: My boy, | don't want you t'
Join the army-but II ! were you
should 60 That is the feeling every
where.
"The war has taken the minds q
women off themselves. When sailet
for America, at Just the time the win
ter tollettes usually blossom forth
rot a woman | knew was wearing
new dress. For weeks the Englisl
women have done no shopping. An
other way In which the EnglisI
women show their splendid breeding
and control Is by their courteou
treatment OF the Germans in London.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1914-12-31
And For Three Summers Mrs. Vim.
cent Was Unable to Attend to
Any Of Her HousewOrk.

Pleasant Hill, N. CD suffered for
three summers" writes Mrs. Walter
Vincent, Of this town, "and the third and
last time, was my worst.
had dreadful nervous headaches and
prostration, and was scarcely able to
walk about. Could not do any Of my
homework.
| also had dreadful! pains In my back
and sides and when one Of those weak,
sinking spells would come on me,
would have to give up and lie down,
until il wore off, uqqs ,itF ti@..
Twas Certainly in a dseattiiif state o
Health, When | finally decided 10 try
Cardui. the womaD's tonic. and firmly