Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-02-12
FINE SPEECHES
AT BANQUET OF
DIOCESAN UNION
Second Annual Affair Proves to
Be Successful in Every
Way.

CathOlfC Young Men D-octsdn Onioit
was held at the Continental Hotel
last night. Delegates and members
of the twenty eight clubs represented
in the union from all over the do
cese of Newark were in attendance
That the affair was an even greater
success than the first banquet of the
union held last year was due In a
large measure to the nicely with
which the toasts were arranged. The
four speakers. last night were bril-
liant, interest ng and entertaining,
1 but, above ALL terse.
The committee that arranged the
banquet was headed by John A.
Moran, of Bloomfield. former presi-
dent of the union The other MEM
bers of it were Charles B. McCourt,
also a former president; Assembly
man Hubert Rowe, of Essex; James
A. Marshall. Daniel ]. Mcnamara,
Aloysius j. Mann, Thomas Hill, James
F. Martin, Thomas McGrath. William
Kirch. treasurer, and Henry Gerhard.
corresponding secretary. Benedict F..
Gregory, president of the Diocesan
Union, acted as POSTMASTER.
The toasts and those who responded
to them were: plain Facts About
the Diocesan Union" by Rev William
A. Reyes. spiritual director of the
union; Character Building" by John
L. O'Toole, president Of the Federation
of Holy Name Societies, Essex di-
vision; Young Men and Mother
Church." by Rev. Linus Monahan, G.
p, pastor of the Monastery OF the
Passionist Fathers at Hoboken, and
Opportunity, by Professor James
J. Hopkins, principal of the Jersey
City High School.
Tells OF Growth Of Union.
Father Keyes told of the growth Of
the union since it's inception thirty
seven years ago. but confined himself
principally TO telling what Presidents
Moran, McCourt and Gregory had
done while they were at the head or
the organization. He praised the OBJ
jects of the union and the good 1t was
accomplishing among young men.
when young men put their hearts
into such tasks / think the clergy
should take off their hats to them"
he said I'm the Diocesan Union we
find men growing up in Catholic man
hood, true to their church and true to
their country, with no narroWness nor
bigotry. To instill and teach true
Catholic manhood is one of the aims
Oh the blOEe5di1 CIllOIl eAlAd SidOS+
John L. O'Toole defined character
and reputation. Character is what
man really is: reputation is what men
think he is" the speaker said. He
told the young men to strive to make
their clubs places where the charac-
ter necessary to Catholic manhood
could be builded and where anyone
could turn to find true. conscientious
men.
D., in,,s Monahap n p naztor
of the monastery at West Hoboken.
talked on Young Men and Mother
Church" "Our great public system"
he said "cf which we have made a
fetish, is defective because 1t leaves
out the religious element. There are
doctrines being taught in the public
schools, colleges and universities
which are dangerous, sueversive to
religion and morality. Professors In
great universities are teaching that
God is a myth and fable; that the
decalogue is to be no more observed
than the acts of our legislatures;
that there is no irrevocable right and
wrong; that things wrong in one age
might be right IN another
Divorce a National Disease.
Under this teaching marriage is
becoming a mockery and divorce
national disease. We are no longer
a nation of homemakers the home to
many of us is simply a place where
we eat and sleep, or, in other words,
a clearinghouse. Our political life is
corrupt and honest men are disap-
pearing from politics. We are drift
ing back to the blank ignorance that
prevailed before Christ"
Principal James j. Hopkins, of the
Dickinson High School. Jersey City,
made a bri liant speech on the subject
of Opportunity" He opened humor-
ously by greeting this opportunity to
talk to John L. O'Toole, as a repre-
sentative of the Public Service Cor
pora ton. on a subject that had been
borne in upon him again by an expert
ence during the evening. A new rule
of the company does not permit
smoking on the rear platform of cars,
and Mr. Hopkins asked Mr. O'Toole
to use his influence with the company
to have the order changed. II be-
long to the straphangers and back
platform occupiers OF the trolley cars,
where am sometimes packed in with
men who have eaten steak smothered
with onions and garlic with their
macaroni and I am prevented from
disinfecting myself with cigar smoke"
Touching on point in Father
MOnandn'S Talk ne SAUL Spedhlf16 lIOIu
his close association with the public
school system, that those who have
the good of education at heart fully
realize the fact that religious teach
ing ought to be in the schools and
there is hardly a round table talk
among them that the talk does not
tend this way. The day is surely COM
ing, he said, when religious teaching
but not creed would be taught In the
prhl'c schools.
Opportunity for Catholic young men
lies before them as never before. he
said, In living up to the dictates Of
their conscience. The reason why so
many Catholics are appearing IN high
places, not only in political life but
in business life as well, is because
the people are realizing that those
they trusted there before, however
otherwise equipped, lacked conscience.
Catholics are being put on trial to
see IL they i've up to their profess
sions Young men ought to realize
that as an opportunity to show their
wort mess of the trust.
Opportunities wasted by Catholic
men, he said, were movements such
as were found outside the church
Where" he said. ARE our Catholic
Big Brother movements. Catholic
Boy Scouts, Catholic probation Of
ficers and Catholic hHlps for the I'M
that in New York the cardinal has
raised large fund for the purpose.
Money is not all that is needed" he
said. but the work and cooperation
you Catholic young men can give"