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The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1915-01-09
SOCIAL SCIENCE STUDY
PITTSBURGH CATHOLICS UNITE
UPON LINES LAID DOWN BY
NATIONAL FEDERATION.

The Diocesan Commission of Labor
recently established in Pittsburgh by
Bishop Canevin is in line with the pro-
gram constantly advocated by the So
cial Service Commission of the Ameri-
can Federation of Catholic Societies.
Such commission will advocate the
principles endorsed by the federation,
namely: To render social service
based not so much on charity as upon
justice; in particular, to encourage
conference of Catholic employers and
conferences of trade unionists, first
separately and then jointly, with a
view to conciliation and agreement in
advance of all labor strife; to offer
mediation and arbitration in the event
of industrial disputes.
The main objects of the Pittsburgh
commission are to improve the spirit
ual and material condition of the
workingman, to remove certain
abuses such as excessive and unneces.
sary hours of work on Sunday, and es.
pecially to carry out the spirit of the
encyclicals of Pope Leo XIII and Pope
Plus x. Both of these popes have
strongly insisted on the urgent neces
sity of clergy and laity trying to deal
with the crying problems of the day
such as the enormous disproportion
between the excessive wealth of the
capitalists and the grievous poverty oi
the workingman, the greedy rapacity
often displayed by the employer and
the tendency of the employe to use
violent and therefore unnecessary
means to obtain his lawful rights.
The commission intends to start il
parts of the diocese short systematic
readings and discussions on economic
and social subjects. At first these
readings and discussions will be of {
practical and elementary charactel
and stringently limited in duration
In this way it is hoped to build vi
among the Catholic workingmen /;
school of thought which will brin,
about unity of action. Eventually thu
movement may spread throughout tn,
United States and lead to great edu
cative and organizing movement OF
the part of the great mass of Catholi
workingmen
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1915-01-09
K. OF C. LECTURE
MESSRS. GOLDSTEIN AND COL
LINS TO LECTURE UNDER THE
AUSPICES OF THE SUPREME
couNcIL-ITINERARIES ARE BE-
ING ARRANGED.

The Knights of Columbus lecture
courses by David Goldstein and Peter
w. Collins commenced with the adj
vent of the new year, as decided upon
by the supreme board of directors, in
accordance with instructions of the
Supreme Council and are to be con-
Quoted on the same plan as last year.
Tentative itineraries have been
arranged. David Goldstein is assign
ed to the east and south. One date
has been assigned for Rhode Island,
three for Connecticut, four for New
Jersey, one for Delaware, three for
Maryland, one for the District of Co
lumbia, three for Virginia, five for the
Carolinas, five for Georgia, five for
Florida, three for Alabama and two
for Mississippi. Peter Collins will
start his course of lectures in Mis-
souri,, eleven dates having been as
signed for that jurisdiction From
that state he will proceed to Oklaho
me-, eleven dates having been assign
ed to that jurisdiction; thence tc
Kansas, thirteen dates having beer
assigned for that jurisdiction.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1915-01-09
BAN ON MIXED CHOIRs
ALL CHURCHES IN TOLEDO DID,
cEsE EXPECTED TO CONFORM
TO THE PoPE'S MoTU PRoPRIo.

Beginning in January on the Feast
of it's patron saint, st. Frances dc
Sales Cathedral, Toledo, Ohio, will
inaugurate Gregorian music and the
male choir will take the place of the
mixed choir.
The Cathedral choir will be the first
in the diocese to adopt the change
where it has not already been in use
All the other churches are expected
to conform to the rule promulgated
by the late Pope Plus X, in the first
year of his pontificate. The delay in
making it general was due to the. fact
that time was necessarily given to the
training of choirs Of male voices. The
change will gradually lead up to the
old custom of congregational singing,
in vogue in the earlier ages of the
Church, and the singing will be a part
of the service, as it was originally in
tended.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1915-01-09
POPE BENEDICT HAS SECURED
THE CONSENT OF MOST OF THE
WARNING NATIONS FOR AN Ex-
CHANGE OF PRISONERS HIS
EFFORTS APPRECIATED.

In response to the London Daily
Chronicles request for a New Years
message from the Pope His Eminence
Cardinal Gasparri, Papal Secretary of
State, sent the following response:
The Pope weeps over the war, and,
being unable to stop it, he is doing
all in his power to tighten it's grieVous
consequences for the unhappy prison
ers and their desolated families.
Meanwhile he uplifts fervent pray
ers to the Redeemer that he may in
spire in the governments of the bellig-
erent nations feelings of Christian
charity that will at last end this fright
full war which is desolating humanity"
This shows that His Holiness has
not relaxed his efforts on behalf of
peace. Although he has not sue
ceeded in bringing about cessation
of hostilities he has been instrumental
in securing from Emperor William of
Germany, King George of England and
Emperor Francis Joseph of Austria
Hungary, the assurance that they will
cooperate with him in bringing about
an exchange of prisoners incapable of
further fighting. Official notifications
of similar import are confidently eX-
pected from France and Montenegro
and other belligerent powers, and it
is hoped that, as result of the Pope's
intervention, 100000 of the 100000
prisoners now held by the warning ma
tions will be allowed to return to their
homes during this month. The man.
ner in which this exchange will be
affected has not yet been fully deter
mined, but it is not unlikely that it
will take place through one or other
of the neutral powers of Europe. The
efforts made by the Holy Father on
behalf of peace are in keeping with
the announced program of his pom
tificate which is ito make every ef-
fort so that the charity of Christ may
prevail amongst men,"
That Pope Benedict's efforts on be-
half of peace are meeting with gen.
erai approval is evidenced by the fact
that congratulatory telegram was
sent to His Holiness by Mr.. Wanna
maker of Philadelphia, who advocated
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1915-01-09
PASSED THE SENATE BY A VOTE
OF so TO 7-SENT BACK TO THE
HOUSE WHICH is EXPECTED TO
ADOPT THE AMENDMENTS OF
THE SENATE-THE CHIEF SEC.
TIONS OF THE BILL.

The immigration bill, containing the
restrictive literacy test for the admis.
sion of aliens to the United States
which has been the obstacle in immi
grafton reform legislation for the
greater part of two national admins.
trations, passed the Senate on Jan.
2, by vote Of so to Z.
The vote indicated that the bill
could be repassed by more than the
required two-thirds' majority should
the president veto the measure. The
Senators who voted against the bill
were: Brandegee, McCumber, Mar
line, O'Gorman, Ransdell, Reed and
Walsh.
The bill passed the House February
last by a vote of 241 to 126. Although
the Senate amended the House bill in
several particulars, the literacy test
was unaltered, save for an additional
exemption in favor of Belgian sub
jects, which was adopted after pro.
longed debate
Among the Senate amendments
which House leaders say will probably
be accepted is one to exclude from
the United States all persons of the
African race or of negro blood. An
other strengthens the phraseology of
the prohibition of polygamists.
. The closing hours of the debate in
the Senate were devoted to an amend
ment by Senator Lodge to exempt
Belgian farmers from the literacy test
and from the provision which prohibit
Americans from soliciting or inducing
immigration. The amendment, as
finally adopted by vote of 81 to %,
follows:
THAT the provisions of this act, re-
lating to the literacy test or induced
or assisted immigration, shall not ap-
ply to agricultural immigrants from
Belgium who come to the United
ent European war or within one year
after it's termination, owing to cir.
cumstances or conditions arising
through the war, if it is shown to the
satisfaction of the commissioner gen.
eral of immigration that the said Bel
gian immigrants come with the in.
tention of engaging in agriculture in
the United States and to become
American citizens"
The literacy test as finally approved
by the Senate is practically as it
passed the House. All amendments
to enlarge the exemptions so as to ad
nit persons fleeing from political OF
racial, as well as religious, persecu
ton have been rejected. The section
follows:
"That after four months from the
approval of this act, in addition to the
aliens who are by law now excluded
from admission into the United States,
the following persons shall also be ex.
cluded from admission thereto, to-wit:
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1915-01-09
THE IMMIGRATION BILL

All aliens over 16 years of age,
physically capable of reading, who
cannot read the English language, or
some other language or dialect, in.
cluding Hebrew or Yiddish:
Provided, that any admissible alien
or any alien heretofore or hereafter
legally admitted, or any citizen of the
United States, may bring in or send
fon his father or grandfather over 55
years of age, his wife, his mother, his
grandmother, or his unmarried or
| widowed daughter, if otherwise admis-
sible, whether such relative can read
| or not; and such relative shall be per-
mitted to enter That for the purpose
of ascertaining whether aliens can
read the immigrant inspectors shall
| be furnished with slips, of uniform
| size, prepared under the direction of
the secretary Of labor, each contain
ing not less than thirty nor more than
forty words in ordinary use, printed
in plainly legible type in some one of
the various languages and dialects OF
immigrants. Each alien may desig-
nate the particular language or dia-
lect in which he desires the eXamina-
to read the words printed on the slip
in such language or dialect.
"That the following classes of per-
sons shall be exempt from the opera
ton of the literacy test, to-wit: All
aliens who shall prove to the satisfac-
tion of the proper immigration officer
or to the secretary of labor that they
emigrated from the country, of which
they were last permanent residents,
for the purpose of escaping from re-
ligious persecution; all aliens who
have been lawfully admitted to the
United States and who have resided
therein continuously for five years,
and who have in accordance with the
law declared their intention of becom-
ing citizens of the United States and
who return to the United States with
in six months from the date of their
departure therefrom; all aliens in
transit through the United States; all
aliens who have been lawfully ad-
mitted to the United States, and who
later shall go in transit from one part
of the United States to another
through foreign contiguous territory"
Other features of the bill, which
| change existing laws are designed pri..
marily to increase safeguards of
health and morals, and to protect la
Dor of the country. The head tax on
immigrants is increased from 81 to Sc.
To the general exclusion classes are
added the following: Migrants; per-
sons afflicted with tuberculosis in any
form or with any disability which
renders them incapable of earning a
livelihood; persons who teach or ad-
vocate the unlawful destruction of
property; those who previously have
been deported; stowaways; children
under 16 years of age unaccompanied
or not coming to one or both parents;
and persons not eligible for citizenship.
President Wilson has expressed his
disapproval of the literacy text and
it is said that he may veto the Bill
for that reason, though there is
possibility that he may sign it on ac-
count Of other provisions it contains
| upon which he looks with favor.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1915-01-09
THE LATE FATHER WAKEHAM
SPENT THIRTY-oNE YEARS IN
SEMINARY WORK-WAS A MEN,
BER OF THE SULPICIAN CON-
MUNITY.

The Rev. Richard X. Wakeham,
whose death we chronicled last week,
spent thirty-one years of his religious
life in the work of educating young
men for the priesthood. After his
graduation from st. Charles College,
then located at Ellicott City, Md, he
completed his studies for the priest
hood, as a member of the Sulpician
community, at st. Sulpice, Paris,
where he was ordained. On his re-
turn to America he taught at st.
Mary's Seminary, Baltimore, and at
ST. Johns Seminary, Brighton, before
becoming a member of the faculty of
ST. Joseph's Seminary, Dunwoodie,
N. Y. When st. Joseph's Seminary
was taken from the control of the
Sulpicians, Father Wakeham became
a member of the diocesan clergy and
retained his place on the staff until
two years ago when he retired on
account of i'll health. The last year
of his life was spent at Loretto Rest,
Coldspring- g-on-Hudson, N. Y, where
he died. His funeral took place from
st. Patrick's Cathedral, New York, and
the remains were inferred in his ma
tive city, Columbia, Va. Father Wake
ham was the author OF Sketches of
Sermons" in two volumes.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1915-01-09
WILL TAKE The VEIL
MISS DAHLGREN WILL BECOME
A SISTER OF THE BLESSED
SACRAMENT.

Miss Lucy Dahlgrea, member of a
socially prominent family of Washing
ton, New York and Philadelphia, will
forsake the life of a society girl and
enter the convent of the Sisters of the
Blessed Sacrament at Cornwells, Pa
Miss Dahlgren is a relative of Mother
Katherine DreXel, who founded the
convent where is centered the order
that is committed to work among the
colored race and Indians. Mother
DreXel took the veil in 1899 and has
contributed $1,000,O00 to the work to
which she has devoted her life. Miss
Dahlgren is twenty-one years old. She
is studying in the convent of st. Leo's
Church, New York, and will enter the
Motherhouse at Cornwells on January
%. She is granddaughter of the late
Rear Admiral Dahlgren, who made
fortune out of his invention of the
Dahlgren gun, used in the civil war.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1915-01-09

The basement of the new st. Dun
STAINS Cathedral, Charlottetown,
Prince Edward Island, was opened for
divine service for the first time on
last Christmas Day. Pontifical High
Mass was celebrated at midnight by
the Right Reverend Henry j. O'Leary,
Bishop of Charlottetown, assisted by
the Cathedral clergy, and the sermon
was preached by the Rev. J. G. McMil-
Ian, D. D., pastor of All Saints Church,
Cardigan.
The basement church has q seating
capacity Of 200 and 200 more can be
accommodated when necessary. 1t is
40 feet long, 80 feet wide and 120
feet wide at the transept, accupying
the greater portion of the basement
under the Cathedral. 1t is completely
equipped for church service and will
be used by the congregation until the
interior of the Cathedral proper is
finished. At the present time the
exterior of the sacred edifice is COM
plete but the interior will be left un-
finished for time.
st. Dunstan's Cathedral is a pure
Gothic structure of the later fifteenth
century type. 1t is 200 feet long, 80
feet wide and 120 at the transepts.
1t is as fireproof as such building
can be made and is the largest cathe-
dral in the Maritime Provinces.
The new Cathedral replaces the
church destroyed by fire in March,
1913, which had been completed
only seven years before at cost of
$250,000. The new edifice is built on
the same lines with the exception of
large sacristy added to the rear.
The Bishops residence which suf-
fered in the fire that destroyed the
Cathedral has been thoroughly re-
novated and remodelled and a large
wing added to it. It was re-occupied
by Bishop O'Leary ,3sd the Cathedral
clergy the week before Christmas.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1915-01-09
WORD PICTURE BASED UPON OBJ
SERVATIoNS MADE DURING A
RESIDENCE OF TWENTY-EIGHT
YEARS IN THAT COUNTRY.

1t is commonly believed that in the
Mexican Republic to the south of us
there are only two classes of people
the rich and the poor, or say the
landowners and the poems, writes W..
Sloan in the Standard and Times of
Philadelphia. 1t is often said that
there is no middle class in Mexico,
no yeomanry, so to speak. Judging
by what one sees at the railway sta
tions as the trains rush through the
country, there are only few we'll
dressed fellows in the small towns
and a crowd of INDECENT hangers-on
whose chief occupation is to wait for
the arrival of the through express
and beg a "centavo" from the Ameri-
can tourist. They never beg of one
another.
A residence of twenty-eight years
in Mexico, most of which time was
passed in the capital itself, convinces
me that there are five or six classes
of Mexicans, and that the lines OF
division are sharply defined. This is
Tile case WHClL VIC lCthC TIC SouhSAJ a.
a whole. Mexico is a large country
and is inhabited by many races OF
Deoples, so that we dare not say that
the classes or divisions are the same
in every part of it.
First, we have the rich, whose In
come is from the mines or from the
fields, and this so large that great
norton of this class is enabled tC
acquire a residence in Europe, where
they remain until war or famil!
changes induce them to return home
Many of these wealthy people live il
palatial houses in Mexico, hideou
enough looking on the outside, bu
elegant and well furnished within
and their estates or ''haciendas' oftel
stretch away into hundreds of squar
miles of territory, some OF it cult
waited, much of it arid and good TO
nothing. The daughters of these pee
pie will usually be found in the COZ
vents of Europe or of the Unite
States, while the sons, if not in schoo
will be found acting as overseers o
the estate or leading life OF fre'
dom that. often degenerates into reel
lessness and license. The Nader
family comes from this class, as doe
Venustiano Carranza. The parent
usually possess but little education
but they are very desirous that the
children should enjoy the best that
to be had These families are usual
very religious and are strong supper
ers of the Catholic Church. Occasion
ally an individual among them, liz
Carranza, will break away from tt
faith of his fathers, and for one re
son or another will become an inve
crate foe of the Church.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1915-01-09
THE POPE AND PEACE

the sending of such a message at a
banquet given last week to Governor
Brumbaugh, of Pennsylvania. The fol-
lowing telegram was sent in care of
Bishop Kennedy, of the American Col
lege, Rome:
1--WE express our profound apprecia-
ton that the Pontiff on his accession
to office turned his heart and soul inn
mediately to the efforts for peace and
later in his anxiety for his spiritual
children engaged in the conflict has
again raised his hand and voice in ap-
peals for the cessation of warfare"
The Pope's efforts in the cause of
peace are in keeping with the senti-
ments expressed in his first encyclical
letter and reiterated in substance in
his address to the members of the
Sacred College of Cardinals who were
received in audience by him on De-
cember "a.
On that occasion he expressed his
regret at the absence of some of the
Cardinals, owing to illness, referring
especially to Cardinals Agliardi and
Martinelli. He added that the latest
news regarding the health Of Cardinal
Agliardi made it apparent that his re-
covery would be speedy. He then
enumerated the efforts he had made
to render the war less terrible and
said that he would continue to devote
all his energies to the suppression or
limitation of the inhuman sacrifice of
life
Pope Benedict dwelt on the efforts
he had made for peace and to miti-
gate suffering These efforts, he said,
had entailed upon him more anxiety
than any other task incumbent upon
him by reason of his position. Public
ly and privately, he had left no way
untried to show that there was indeed
gested short Christmas truce.
Unfortunately, he added, Christian
Intervention had failed, but he was not
discouraged. He intended to continue
his every effort to hasten the end of
this unequaled calamity or to alleviate
iGo 0Clu consequence liz SpOhC AOpC-
fully of the project for an exchange
of wounded prisoners incapable of
fighting further and encouraged pas
tors and individuals to redouble their
prayers in public and in private for a
cessation of the Mar and to the end
that when the arms fall to the ground
the hands that held them may be re-
turned to the labors of civilians and
peace"
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1915-01-09
CATHEDRAL FOR DUBLIN
ARCHBISHOP WALSH OFFERS THE
CITY 100000 FOR oRMoNDE
MARKET SITE.

Archbishop Walsh, of Dublin, has Of
fered to pay the corporation the sum
of 100000, the amount expended by
them in acquiring and clearing what
is known as the Ormonde Market site,
with a view to utilizing the ground
for the erection of cathedral fully
worthy of Dublin.
The Archbishop has been on the
lookout for suitable site and this one
was suggested by Professor Geddes,
an expert in town-planning, who con-
sidered that none could be better for
trail, being near the two Protestant
athedra1s-Christ Church and st.
Patrick's, and from the architectural
point of view, at least, it would be a
distinct advantage to the city if the
new Cathedral were erected there.
The proposed site occupies about two
acres.
The site in question had long been
occupied by deplorably congested
congeries of insanitary dwellings, says
the Irish Catholic" but in olden days
it was portion of the territory belong
ing to st. Mary's Abbey, and undoubt-
edly Church property. It's restoration
now to ecclesiastical purposes would
be something equivalent to an act of
reparation for the confiscation and
sacrileges of the past. Of course,
there would remain the necessity of
clearing the river front of the site be-
fore Dublin's Notre Dame could be
seen in it's full glory, but this would
be only a question of time and money.
Our citizens of all creeds will applaud
the Archbishop's project. Irishmen
all over the globe will aid it's full ac-
complishment.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1915-01-09
SOCIAL SERVICE WORK
FATHER o'cALLAGHAN PLANS
SETTLEMENT HOUSE FOR
PAULIST PARISH.

Within the next month the Very
Reverend P. J. O'Callaghan, c. S. p,
pastor of ST. Mary's Church, and head
of the Paulist community, Chicago
hopes to install settlement house in
the building at 1922 South Wabash
avenue.
He is completing plans for gym
nasium and motion-picture show as
additional features for the settlement
house. There will be reading-rooms
sewing facilities and other depart
ments of interest for persons of ali
ages.
The protectorate of the Catholic
Woman's League will occupy an up
per floor, removing its headquarters
from Z West Madison street.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1915-01-09
GODS NEW YEARS GIFT

What shall the coming year bring
forth,
o Lord, who rulest the land?
For the navies of the sea and air
Are but stubble in Thy hand,
The battalions in the field go forth;
They arm in mighty line;
Do they kneel to know Thy holy will?
Have they asked from Thee a sign?
The Kings invoke Thy holy name
In their carnage and their strife;
But the purple gift it was Thine to
give
Recks not Of pity nor life;
For they're drunk with the wine of
lustful power,
And scared with the sins of earth;
And their prayers and preachments
now mock Thy name,
And make of Thy laws but mirth.
Thomas O'Hagan in Detroit Free
Press"
Jan. l, 1915.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1915-01-09
NEW LORD LIEUTENANT 7
BARON WIMBoRNE SUCCEEDS
MARQUIS OF ABERDEEN AS
LORD LIEUTENANT OF IRELAND.

Baron Wimborne has been appoint
ed Lord Lieutenant of Ireland in sue.
cession to the Marquis of Aberdeen.
The Baron will take Office February
II.
The change in the Lord Lieutenancy
will be welcomed in social and sport.
ing circles of Ireland, for, while Lord
and Lady Aberdeen devoted much OF
their time to charitable work, it is eX-
pected that the new occupant and his
wife will revive the social glories OF
Dublin castle, and give their patronage
to racing and other sports.