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Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-01-09

ska and a neighbor woman, he was Sc
verely burned by boiling water, which
one of the women threw OH his head
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CONSTlTUTIONALISTS' PROGRAM

that he leaves to-day for Aguascalien-
tes to resume his labors there and
perfect the work he has under way
in the direction Of religious limitation
and socialistic reforms. What he has
accomplished IN this direction in Agnas-
calientes, he says, he had planned
to have carried out here, had he re-
mained. 1t would have taken more
time, however, to have done so much
here, he admits, because Of the ex-
treme conservative tendency of this
capital regarding new institutions and
the fact that Aguascalientes is city
of about $4,000 inhabitants, while
Mexico has more than half a million
Lieutenant Colonel Berlanga says Inc
hopes, however, to see his reforms
carried out fully not only in AglaB-
calientes, but throughout the whole re-
public in not SO long time.
Regarding what the Constitutional
lists have done under his guidance as
to the churches in AguascalienteJ,
Lieutenant Colonel Berlanga went OH
TO explain that there Is only one priest
left there now He is paid a salary
by the Constitutionalist officials. The
priests cannot hear confessions nor
administer Extreme Unction, as these
Sacraments have been abolished by
the new authorities All he does is
Continued on. Page A.
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MINIMUM WAGE SCALE
STATE COMMISSION FIXES WAGES
FOR WOMEN AND MINORS IN
MERCANTILE AND MANuFAC-
TURING HOUSEWARES FROM
So TO SO DoLLARs-GoEs INTO
EFFECT NOVEMBER %.

A minimum wage of from So to SO a
week for women and minors of ordi-
nary ability has been ordered into eff.
feet in Minnesota November % by the
State Minimum Wage Commission
composed of w. F. Houk, Labor Com
missioner, and Miss Eliza Evans,
Secretary. Notice of this has been
sent to all employers.
In St. Paul, Minneapolis and Duluth
in mercantile stores and offices and
for mattresses and hairdressers, SO: in
cities with less than $4,000 popula.
ton, $3.50; and outside these cities,
$8.
In manufacturing and mechanical
establishments, telephone and tele-
graph Offices, laundries, dyeing, dry
cleaning, lunch-rooms, restaurant and
hotel occupations scale of 1915 is
provided in the three large cities;
$8.25 in other towns and cities and
So for the balance of the state.
The order will affect approximately
5000 employers throughout the state.
This scale was determined follow
ing an investigation of several months.
The commission used the wage of
$S.75 a week recommended by the
Twin Cities manufacturing advisory
board as basis for the manufacturing
wage. The other orders were then
worked out with this as a basis.
A higher wage for women workers
in mercantile lines is necessary in the
opinion of the commission, as it costs
them more to live They must wear
better clothes and their laundry costs
more where women workers are be-
fore the public every day as in stores
and Offices.
No scale was fixed for learners and
apprentices. The law provides fine
from SO to $50 or Imprisonment from
10 to 60 days for any employer failing
to comply with the order.
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CHRISTIANITY AND THE WAR

alone could answer such questions.
Hence we may regard this struggle a3
imperative and inevitable. Does
Christianity regard it so?
Christian View of War is Ethical.
Cardinal Newman in the Develop
ment of Christian Doctrine. speaks
about the paradox of the sanctifica-
tion of war by Christianity. Our
Lord Himself is represented i'll the
Prophets as a combatant infiicting
wounds while He received them, as
coming from Bozrah with dyed gar
ments, sprinkled and red in His APP
parel with the blood Of His enemies.
And whereas no war Is lawful but
what is just, it surely beseems that
they who are engaged in SO dreadful
q commission as that of taking away
life at the price of their own, should
at least have the support Of His pres
ence and fight under the mystical in
fluence of His name" Christianity
is jealous for the sacredness of Gods
image, and, therefore, thinks more
seriously of the selfish reckIessnegs
and the evil passions aroused by war
than Of the material loss or suffering
entailed In other words the Christian
view of war as of other evils is always
an ethical one Benjamin Franklin
declared There never was a good
war nor bad peace" But the true
Christian seems to lean towards
Shakespeare lines: War is oft
Gods bedell and vengeance; and
though it be the son of hell, the angry
heavens do make it their minister"
A striking passage in the writings of
John Ruskin presents the warp and
woof of the problem: THE strange
thing is that war seen at close quar-
ters is a soul-blinding, heart-blurring
business, but seen through the tract
of years it has been the parent of all
arts and civilization. From it are
drawn the ideals of knighthood and
chivalry And the highest images Of
Holy Scripture are those of the PAN
oply of God, of the fair fight Of faith,
CONTINUED on Page 3D.
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ETHICAL ASPECT OF WAR-WAR
AND PRoGRESS-THE NATION
AND THE INDIVIDUAL.
written for The Catholic Bulletin by
Cecil underwood.l

Quite recently the London Times
published an answer to the German
Evangelical Association headed by
Professor Harnack; and in this reply
which was signed by the leading non
Catholic clergymen of England the
broad ground is taken that all true
Christians desire peace-a desire ex-
pressed with similar force and clear
ness by the German Evangelical mani
festo. And although one party en-
deavors to shift the responsibility for
the war upon the other; nevertheless
there is an earnest prayer uttered by
both sides that peace in the end may
prevail Moreover, the recently elect
ed Pope sent an autograph letter not
long ago to the Emperor of Austria,
expressing wish that his majesty
would use his good offices in behalf of
peace. 1t is felt, however, that at the
present moment both sides in the con-
flict are ill-disposed to hearken to any
peace proposals. So that the war is
apt to go on until the scale is turned
definitely in one direction or another.
Then the peace party may have a
chance.
But meantime the relation of Chris
tianity to the war may be discussed;
at least indirectly, for happily there is
no direct religious issue. Thus the
greatest war in history sees Catholic
and Protestant and schismatic and in
fide1 fighting shoulder to shoulder.
The immediate causes of this war are
racial and economic, not religious.
Will Slav and Teuton prevail in Eu-
rope? Will Briton or German hold
the supremacy of the sea and the
mastery of the worlds commerce?
Questions of this kind have been
pressing for an answer; and in the
present state of our civilization war
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FIFTY OLDEN YEARS
SISTERS OF MERCY CELEBRATE
THE ANNIVERSARY OF THEIR
ARRIVAL IN OMAHA HALF A
CENTURY AGo-SERMoN BY
BISHOP SCANNELL.

Last week was golden jubilee week
for the Sisters of Mercy of Omaha,
Nebr. The exercises opened on
Wednesday with Solemn High Mass
at st. Patrick's Church celebrated
by the Rev. John T. Smyth. The
service was attended by the Right
Reverend Bishop Scannell. large
number of priests, the members of
the Community and their friends.
After the Gospel Bishop Scannell
preached the sermon in which he
extolled the advantages of the relig-
ious life and dwelt on the work of
the Sisters of Mercy in the diocese
during the past fifty years.
After Mass a dinner for the clergy
and Sisters was served at Mt. St
Mary's Seminary In the afternoon
the students of the Seminary produced
Latin play for the Sisters, priests
and alumnae On behalf of the alum
nae Mrs. D. J. Riley of Dawson
Nebr., President of the Association
made a presentation address at the
cO0CIuSlOH VI Which, Bic pIOoChICu tAS
Sisters with a purse of $1,000 as a
token of esteem from the alumnae
Rev. ]. F. Mccarthy of st. Patrick's
Church replied on behalf of the Sis
ters.
On Friday evening the pupils of st
Mary's Seminary and st. Berchman':
gave play entitled ''Tyborne" il
Creighton University Auditorium.
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VATICAN LIBRARY
MGR. RATTI SUCCEEDS FATHER
EHRLE, S. j., AS PREFEcT.

At the beginning of October the Vat
ican Library opened as usual, but with
a new prefect Father Ehrle, S. j.,
the presiding genius there for so
many years, has at his earnest request
been released from his charge. Two
years ago new arrangements were
made, by which the treasures of the
library became much more accessible
to the public, and when this reorgani-
zation had been completed. Father
Ehrle asked Plus X to relieve him.
The late Holy Father was always re-
luctant to part with his trusted serv-
ants and in this case did not entirely
comply with the request, but granted
sub-prefect in the person of Mgr.
Ratti. He it is who now takes over
the charge.
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K. Or c. AID SOLDIERS
WILL PAY INSURANCE FOR MEM
BERS KILLED IN WAR.

At the quarterly meeting of the
board of directors of the knights of
Columbus held in New York recently,
it was decided to pay insurance to all
members of the order who lose their
lives in the European war. None of
the fraternal or old-line insurance
policies covers the loss of life in war
and the knights Of Columbus is the
first order in America to make such
a liberal ruling. The announcement
is taken as an evidence of the excel
lent financial condition of the insur-
ance department of the society.
Quite few members of the Knights
of Columbus are in the European ar
mics, so that the order is liable to have
to pay a number of insurance claims.
They are mostly men who came to this
country and became American citi-
zens, joining the order, then went
back to aid their mother countries
when the war broke out.
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IOWA 7. A. CONVENTION
FATHER O'CALLAGHAN OF CHICA-
GO DELIVERS PRINCIPAL AD-
DRESS AT The CONVENTION
HELD IN CHARLES CITY, IOWA,
ON OCTOBER 22-oFFICERS
ELECTED.

The annual convention of the Cath
olic Total Abstinence Union of Du-
buque was held at Charles City, Ia,
on October % Solemn High Mass
was celebrated in the Church of the
Immaculate Conception by the pastor,
Very Reverend w. j. Convery, as,
sisted by the Rev. NJ. Carey as deacon,
and the Rev. p Ryan as subdeacon.
The sermon was preached by the Very
Reverend p. j. O'Callaghan, c. S. p,
national president of the Catholic
Total Abstinence Union of America.
His subject was "The Heresy of Mod
erationism"
After Mass the delegates assembled
in ST. Joseph's Hall, where the meet
ing was called to order by Father
Convery. Among the delegates were
twenty priests A committee on reso-
lutions was named and their report
was adopted by the convention.
The afternoon session was taken up
largely with discussion of ways and
means of advancing the cause of total
abstinence and of renewing the life
and vigor of the societies already eX-
listing. For this purpose a committee
was appointed consisting of Fathers
Convery, Donlon and Martin, Mr.. Nc
Manus and Mrs. Kane, who will visit
the subordinate societies and endeavoT
to organize new ones.
The following officers were chosen
for the coming year: President, Rev
w. j. Convery; secretary, Mr.. Beech
er; treasurer, Rev. L. Donlon.
In the evening a public rally was
held. at the opera house presided over
by Father Convery. The principal ad
dress was delivered by Father O'Cal
laghan of Chicago. Brief addresses
were made by Father Convery, Mayor
Mcleod, Rev. William Dibble of the
Congregational Church, and Mr.. Dar
rah of the Y. NJ G. A. Archbishop
Keane, who intended to be present
was forbidden by his physician tc
make any public addresses on account
of the condition of his health
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James Shields was the Irishman
and the American-the Irishman by
birth, temper and education, the
American by loyalty and service-the
Irishman and the American to typi-
cal degree. His whole career is
summed up in those words, the Irish
man and the American.
l give the outlines of his life. He
was born in Ireland, in 1906, of honor
able and respected lineage. His direct
ancestor, with four sons, fought on
the losing side in the battle of the
Boyne-one of those sons later joining
the army of Spain and there rising
from one honor to another until finally
he was commissioned the Captain
General of Cuba An immediate uncle
of our hero was soldier in America S
revolutionary war and in that of 1912.
James decidedly sprung from a family
in which fear of the battlefield was
unknown. In his native isle he re-
ceived, mainly through the tutorship
of another uncle, a priest who had
been a professor in the College of
Maynooth, a liberal education. At the
age of seventeen he emigrated from
Ireland in search of fortune in other
lands. Arrived in America, he first
adopted a sea-faring life, afterwards
serving as a soldier in the Seminole
War, thence pushing westward to
Kaskaskia, at the time the Territorial
Capital of Illinois. There he was the
school-teacher, the lawyer, and quickly
the oficeholder. He served four years
in the State Legislature, was elected
State Auditor, and in 1S4S succeeded
Stephen A. Douglas. as Justice of the
Supreme Court of Illinois. Two years
later he was named by President
James X. Polk, Commissioner of the
Land Office in washington. This office
he resigned to become the brigadier
general of volunteers, to be soon
breveted major-general in the Mexi
can War. The war over, he was named
by President Polk governor OF the
newly-organized Territory of Oregon
Ia position, however, which he die
not accept-a higher distinction com
ing to him from the State of Illinois
Illinois chose him as its representative
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congregation. 1t was formerly Prot
estant church which was bought in
1898 when the parish was first
organized as a mission attended from
ST. Vincent's Church. 1t was dedicat-
ed on September Is of that year by
Archbishop Ireland, to whom an adj
dress on behalf of the congregation
was read by John B. McHugh. The
congregation then consisted of about
twelve families.
In 1907 st. Andrews was erected
into separate parish with the late
Father Arctander as the first resident
priest. He died after brief illness
on September Is, 1909. During his
pastorate he added a sanctuary and
sacristy to the original building and
otherwise improved the church prop
erty.
After Father Arctander's' death the
parish was without a resident pastor
until July 81, 1910, when the Rev.
A. Printon was appointed.
During the four years of his incum-
bency he has paid the Cathedral as
sessment of $4S75, improved and
decorated the church. adding a base
ment hall which is used for parochial
All these improvements
have been paid for and at the present
time there is not a cent of debt on
the parish. The congregation now
numbers about two hundred families.
Tho nood Cf a ohurob r1oro ooOtrol1v
located is urgent Since Hamline was
cut off from st. Andrews and formed
into a separate parish, the present
Church of st. Andrew is not con-
located for all the members
of the congregation. The new site is
as near as possible in the center of
the parish. Already several large
donations have been made towards
the project.
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MEXICAN SECRETARY or STATE
ANNOUNCES IT IN THE MExl-
CAN HERALD-A SYSTEMATIC
CAMPAIGN AGAINST ALL RELIC
IONS AND IN FAVOR OF SOCIAL
ISM WILL BE INAUGURATED.

Under date of October s, the Mex
lean Herald, published in Mexico City,
gives the following interview with
Lieutenant Colonel Berlanga, Secre-
tary of State for the Constitutionalists,
in which he outlines the program
mapped out By them for the de-Chris-
tianizing of Mexico under the admin
istration of Carranza and Villa whom
the American government has taken
under its protection.
"A systematic campaign not only
against the power of the Catholic
clergy, but against that of all forms
of religion has been carried out in
Aguascalientes, by the Constitutional
list authorities, according to Lieuten-
ant Colonel David G.. Berlanga, Secre-
tary of State for that Government. who
has been serving here temporarily as
secretary to the Federal District Gov
ernment in this capital
Lieutenant Colonel Berlanga says
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ROOSEVELT HEARS NUNS STORY
VISITS SACRED
HEART NUNS ExILED FROM
MEXICO AND HEARS THE STORY
OF THEIR sUFFERlNGs.

Last week eX-President Roosevelt
accompanied by Medill Mccormick
ind two priests, paid a brief visit to
the Convent of the Sacred Heart, Chi
cago, where he interviewed the five
luns of that Order who are refugees
from Mexico. In simple words they
told the story of the indignities
1eaped upon them and the suffering
they had to endure before reaching
American territory.
From the lips of these women from
the ruined convent of Guadelajara,
he Colonel heard details of the saw
agery of the armed horde of Mexico.
The famous Roosevelt teeth became
tight set with indignation as he
learned that these women of culture
and education were driven from their
home at the bayonet's point and forty
weeks in small, two-room hovel,
where they slept on the hard ground
and consumed only coarse bread and
water.
AS IlOOOCNclI IlSICuCu W IkIlO Lc1S vi
horror which has been corroborated by
numerous witnesses, word came from
Mrs. Mary Onahan Gallery, president
of the alumnae association of the
Sacred Heart, that a letter from the
State Department in Washington, had
been received in response to protest
against Mexican outrages recently
sent President Wilson by the members
of the association. The letter read
Madam: The department acknowl-
edges the receipt of your letter of Oc-
tober 8, addressed to the president, in
which you request this government to
interpose it's good offices in behalf of
religious liberty in Mexico.
''In reply you are informed that the
department has repeatedly made
representations in behalf of persons
and properties belonging to religious
orders in Mexico and that it is at
present endeavoring to obtain from
Venustiano Carranza suitable guaran-
ties for the priests and Sisters now in
Vera Cruz, Mexico.
ROBERT LANSING,
Acting Secretary of State"
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Last week five lots were purchased
in Warrendale Addition, Como Villa,
for site for the new Church of st. An
drew which will be erected next sum-
mer to take the place of the present
frame structure on Churchill and
Hatch Streets. The new location is
bounded on the East by Chatsworth
Street, on the West by Argyle, and
on the North by Van Slyke 1t has a
frontage of ATS feet and cost $1O,50O.
The property contains two houses, one
of which will be remodeled and used
as parochial residence, the other
will be moved from its present site
The new church will face Van Slyke
Street and run parallel to Argyle. The
work of eXcavating will be done this
winter so that everything will be in
readiness for putting in the founda-
tion in the spring. In the meantime
plans will be prepared and specifica-
tions draws for the new church. The
new site contains ample room for a
parochial school which will be erected
in the future
The people of ST. Andrews Church,
under the direction of the pastor, Rev.
Thomas A. Printon, deserve great
credit for the efforts they are making
to provide suitable church for divine
worship. The present church is in
adequate for this purpose. 1t is too
small to accommodate the growing
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ARCHBISHOP HOWLEY DEAD.
METROPOLITAN OF ST. JOHNS,
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS FIRST
NATIVE OF THE COLONY RAIs-
ED TO THE EPiscoPATE-AN
AUTHOR OF NOTE.

The Most Reverend Michael F.
Howley, Archbishop of st. Johns,
Newfoundland, died on October Is,
in the seventy-first year of his age.
In his death Newfoundland loses one
of it's most notable figures. He was
the first native of the colony ever
raised to the episcopal dignity. He
was noted as a historian and as an
active public-spirited citizen who
prominently identified himself at all
times with the public affairs of the
colony.
The deceased Archbishop was born
in st. Johns in 1912, son of an Irish
immigrant who established a prosper
Gus business there. After an educa-
ton in st. Bonaventure's College, st.
Johns, and the College of the Prop.
aganda at Rome he was ordained to
the priesthood in 1868 and served
for time as secretary to Archbishop
Eyre, of Glasgow, Scotland. In 1870
he returned to Newfoundland, and on
June "a, 1892, he was consecrated
Titular Bishop of Amastris and Vicar
Apostolic of st. Georges. In 1894 he
was transferred to the Episcopal See
of st. Johns, which in 1904 was made
an Archbishopric, with Monsignor
Howley as the first Metropolitan of
the province of Newfoundland. His
diocese has a Catholic population of
$4,000 administered to by thirty-two
priests.
Archbishop Howley was the author
of an Ecclesiastical History of New
foundland," Life of Bishop Mullock"
and Newfoundland Name Lore"
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written for The Catholic Bulletin by
James c. Nolan.)

Some ten years ago Viviani in the
Chamber of Deputies declared that in
France he and his kind had extin
guished the lights of heaven and that
they would never be relit. To an ap
peal last week that day of prayer
be named for ending the war, he, now
Premier, answered that the Govern
ment of France had nothing to do
with prayer.
Viviani, Viyiani,
Frenchmen, hurl him down,
Tempt no more the wrath of Cod,
With that gibbering clown.
He and all his clique would seal
Frenchmen's lips to prayer,
And today your hour has come
Hope, or black despair.
Viviani, Viviani,
Fool of all the fools;
Sons of Clovis, Charlemagne,
Will you be his tools?
Shades of thy great past forbid,
When the arms of France
SIA NlODO1
Never met mischance.
Frenchmen, Frenchmen, Waterloo
Were Napoleon's field,-
Where the allied armies must
To his legions yield,-
Only for the sunken way
Leading to Ohain,
Only for the roads made soft
BY the soaking rain!
Frenchmen, once twas Joan of Arc
Held thy banner high,
Then it was that France, indeed,
Loved her starlit sky;
Infidels today presume
To usurp thy state,
Frenchmen, throw the scoffers out,
Make them abdicate.
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AGED RELIGIOUS DEAD

After sixty-two years of religious
life in the Order of Charity, Sister
Teresa Vincent died on October Is in
Carney Hospital, South Boston, at the
age of eighty-two years. She labored
in that institution the last thirty-ive
years of her life and her work was
characterized by noble spirit of self
sacrifice and kindly tenderness. Sis
ter Teresa Vincent served as nurse
during the Civil and Spanish Wars.