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The Irish standard., 1915-04-10
ABsoLurIoN TO SOLDIERS.

The question was brought forward
whether or not absolution could be
given to soldiers who were hurriedly
summoned to battle without time to
make their confession, by general
formula or common absolution and be
absolved without having previously re-
ceived Holy Communion. The follow
Ing statement, which appeared in
Rome" is of particular interest to
Catholics throughout the world, espe-
cially at this time when the great
European conflict is raging and thou
sands of soldiers are hurriedly sum-
moned to battle without having the
opportunity of making their confession
and receiving communion.
Whether 1t is lawful, by a general
formula or common absolution, with
out preceding confession, to absolve,
before admitting them to Holy Com
munion, soldiers summoned to battle,
when their number is so great that
their confessions cannot be heard sew.
orally, after they have duly made an
act of contrition?" the s. Penitentiary,
having maturely considered what has
been explained, graciously decided,
Our Most Holy Father Benedict XIV
asserting. that the answer should be
given:
In the affirmative. And there is
nothing to prevent those thus absolved
in the aforesaid circumstances from
being admitted to receive the Holy
Eucharist. But let the military chap
lains not omit, when opportunity is
afforded, to instruct them that abso
luton so given will avail nothing un
less they are duly disposed; and that
If they escape danger, there remains
for them entire the obligation of 60
ing to confession in due course.
All things whatsoever to the con
trary notwithstanding.
Given at Rome in the s. Peniten.
tiary, 6 February, 1915.-Carolus Pero.
81. s. p, Regens., Josephus Balica
| s. p, Secretarius.
The Irish standard., 1915-04-10
CHALLENGING FAk,Rs.

| For ways that are dark in tricks
that are vain, The Bogus Nuns and
"Ex-priests" have the ability to prey
upon the gullibility of the curious and
the prejudiced without limit. The
statements of one of them would be
passed unchallenged were it not fol
the presence of Jealous pastor in
the audience. The following taken
from the Thornton, Indiana, Times OF
Feb. II, 1915, illustrates the methods
of the Bogus Nuns and their audi.
ences:
THE Holiness Christian Church
posted bills the first of the week
which read as follows: Mrs. Mabel
McClish, the converted nun, will tell
OF her life in the convent at the Holi.
ness Christian Church on February a
5, and z. Everybody welcome"
The woods are full of these scayen.
gers upon society and church who,
endowed with below-mediocre cal.
ibre of intellect, cater to the ignorant.
salac1ous and scandalloving public,
sapping and preying upon those who
give them audience for a meagre
means Of support.
Mrs. McClish conducted her meet.
ings all last week, batting large audi
ences with promises each evening of
something sensational on the morrow
in the way of an expose of the life she
was compelled to lead as a Catholic
nun. This led to a fame abroad. and
on Sunday night, when she was to
let 60 heavy charge, visitors came
to town.
Rev. Father T. M. Conroy, of Craw.
louisville. and the Rev. Father ]. F,
Connolly, of Lebanon, attended the
meetings. They arrived in the midst
of the opening exercises and took
seats in company with Mr. M. L..
Clouser we'll back. They were known
to several, and real live wire soon
conveyed the information of their pres.
ence to the pulpit.
Following the collection an attempt
was made to close the lodge in short
form, but Father Conroy, under the
head Good Of the Order" claimed the
floor. The grand padisha" was re-
luctant to yield, but finally told him
to proceed.
Father Conroy remarked that the
collection of the evening seemed rather
small. Il have $3.50 here to deposit
in a Thornton bank tomorrow morning
to guarantee the proof of the fact that
the lady claiming to be converted
nun was never nun at all and that
all the statements degrading to the
Catholic Church which she has made
were false and untrue, the decision
of the facts presented to be left to
three of the most prominent Protest.
ant citizens of the town which they
might select" The offer was rejected
and the services promptly closed.
The Irish standard., 1915-04-10
ONE OF THEIR OWN.

The first native Of Portuguese Congo
was ordained to the priesthood only a
few years ago. The following descrip-
ton of the first mass celebration was
written at the time by one of the mis-
stonary Fathers of the Holy Ghost.
AT last we have black priest, the
only one in the whole Congo terri
tory, a stretch Of country about one
third the size Of Europe.
The morrow Of the ordination wit
messed in the first mass celebration
of Gods newly amounted sight not
less beautiful than that of the preced-
ing day. Our whole Christian popu.
lation turned out for the event and
went in procession to the altar erected
In the open where the young priest
was to vest for mass. He was assist
ed by two of his former professors,
who rejoiced to greet as fellow
priest their black pupil of other days.
A first mass said by one of their own
was for our dear Christians a more
memorable occasion even than the
ordination ceremony had been, for the
presence of brother black at the
altar was an eloquent reminder to
them that with God and His Church
no race is inferior. After the singing
of the gospel our apostolic Bishop
spoke to the people of the happiness,
the dignity, the superhuman power of
the priesthood and babe his spiritual
son of yesterday to remain always a
true priest and to become a Jealous
apostle by bearing valiantly the cross
OF Christ in quest Of souls. When the
moment of Communion arrived, there
was scarcely one in all that throng
who did not kneel at the Holy Table to
receive from the hands of the new
priest their Sacramento Lord, thus
sealing the days Joy by. an intimate
union with Him who truly binds heart
to heart and gives earth's only happi-
ness"
The Irish standard., 1915-04-10
THE PRESS AND THE WAR.

Readers Of press reports from pa
pers maintained to further the inter-
ests and announce the victories of the
allied armies came in for some severe
criticism from the London Newspaper
World" which fears that the success
sive reports Of the so-called victories
have so long deceived the public that
q revolt against the press and Parlia.
ment will be the result. Fearful of
bringing about such a catastrophe this
one London paper places the blame
for the lack Of interest of the public
in the war upon the papers, as the
following illustrates:
V "Are the papers not to blame for the
apathy of the nation? Every day
take my fill of reassuring headlines
from every newspaper within my
reach. The victories of the allies roll
4 on in unbroken succession through the
columns of the press. The Austrian
army has all been wiped out several
times. have counted more Austrian
losses than the number of the whole
male population. The Germans are
beaten, starved, respondent, heart.
broken, suicidal. So we say day after
day. Yet that fateful trench line
scarcely changes. Is it not time we
told the truth?'
It might we'll be added that the
press has no greater responsibility in
this connection than the London war
once. The reports which the London
The Irish standard., 1915-04-10

every stage of the country's eventfu]
history, whether in the peaceful con.
quests of her trackless forests and
pra1ries to civilization, or on land and
sea In the assertion and defense of her
liberty and integrity, have always
stood shoulder to shoulder with others
of their fellow citizens in the perform.
ance of the good work.
At the height of the political and re.
l1glous troubles in Ireland during the
sixteenth and seventeenth centuries
many of the Irish were forced to
change their names in order to be
able to live at all, and all Irish school
masters were banished from the coun-
try under penalty of death. This was
the period when Grover Cleveland's
great-grandfather was brought from
Ireland to Connecticut and sold as a
slave, as stated by Prof. Cigrand.
Thousands of those Irish school
masters swarmed out upon the world
In those early days, escaping to Euro,
pean countries, Chile and Peru, in
South America, as we'll as in large
numbers to the American colonies.
1t might be of some interest to
learn that one of these Irish school
masters, named Michael Walsh, who
taught school in Marblehead and New.
berryport, Mass, from 1717 to 1860,
had as one of his distinguished pupils
the renowned Justice Storey of the
United States supreme court, and that
he prepared for Harvard university
the celebrated William Cushing.
1t may not be generally known that
Daniel Webster's first teacher was an
Edward Evans from County Sligo, and
that Rhode Island college (now Brown
university acknowledges its debt to
an Irish school master named Nc
Sparron. Guild, in his history of this
university, says that the first funds
for it were raised in Ireland, giving
the names of such contributors as
Murphy, O'Dwyer, Mccarthy, O'Reilly,
Mccormick, etc.
Chief Justice of the United States
supreme court, Roger B. fancy, de-
clares in his personal memoirs that his
first teacher was an Irishman whom he
eulogized as ripe scholar and &C
complished gentleman" These are
but a few of the early Irish pioneers
who contributed their share, as Prof.
Cigrand truthfully says, to the up
building of our common country.
The Irish standard., 1915-04-10
MAY MAKE U. s. DRY.

The sudden swing of the allied ma
tons toward prohibition, forced by
the demand for highest individual ef-
ficiency in their hour of crisis, and the
advanced position taken upon this
issue by such members of the admin
istration as Secretary of State Bryan
and Secretary of the Navy Daniels,
makes the present trend with the
allied nations matter of peculiar in
terest and Importance to Washington.
In referring to the matter, Secre-
tary Bryan said: 1T has been evil
dent for some time that the prohibit
ton sentiment is growing throughout
the world, and the war has increased
that sentiment.
"The European war is giving con-
elusive proof that total abstinence has
it's value on the battlefield. Russia
has gone to the extent of abolishing
the sale of liquor, even though in doing
so she sacrifices an annual revenue of
$500 100000 in the midst of war. The
German emperor is an advocate of
total abstinence. The British govern
ment is refusing liquor to it's soldiers,
and in France the legislature is con-
sidering the liquor question.
IF John Barleycorn is a failure in
fight, who can respect him in time
of peace? A man cannot advise others
not to drink when he himself drinks.
Indulgence compels silence on the SUBJ
ject."
Secretary Daniels said: ut is in
evitable that should appreciate any
support which is given to my conten-
ton that the highest military efficiency
demands abstinence. So far as the
navy is concerned, it is matter of
obtaining the highest individual ef-
f1ciency for the officers and men, just
as railroads adopt such a course.
1T has been said of my order that
1t tended to cause the public to think
of the officers of the United States
Navy as men who drink to excess.
Nothing is further from the truth. The
nations of the earth are coming to
realize that abstinence from alcoholic
liquors is essential to military ef-
ficiency, just as it is to Industrial and
commercial efficiency, and to the very
life of nation"
The Irish standard., 1915-04-10

Whatever money Is spent by her citi
zens In ale houses. The question re.
mains, Is England enforcing prohibit.
ton and following Russia? The ap.
pause must necessarily please the
vanity of the Car. National prohibit.
tion either as an order of the Car of
all the Russians or as statement
coming from the chancellor of the
English exchequer, and not making
over people and the slow and steady
rules OF ages that interests the phil
osopher. Without question the gov
eminent of Russia by it's encourage
ment of the drinking of vodke, which
caused the revenue has done untold
harm to the people. Their intemper-
ance correspondent to the lack of par
ticipation denied them in the affairs of
the government. Since the war began
the working classes of England, so
far as the traders are concerned have
been on a spree. The government had
much work to dos So times for the
laborer were prosperous, consequent
~ the men focked to the tavern, but
lodged the doors of the recruiting Of
flee. In this way the government was
neither getting its work done nor was
1t succeeding in getting recruits for
the army. While this state of affairs
existed Irish papers were being sup
pressed and the recruiting offices were
busy offering the kings shilling to the
young men of Ireland. The question
remains that either England or Russia
undertake the question of prohibition
on high moral grounds. The people of
each of these nations differ widely in
temperament, customs and habits, the
standard of living is different, the ma
tional aims and ambitions are different
and it is too soon to estimate what.
ever importance may be attached to
the orders of kings and chancellors
when times are abnormal in frantic
attempt to make whole population
good by an act of parliament or by a
dramatic attempt to focus the serious
attention of the citizens of the coun-
try upon the seriousness of national
problems. The statistics furnished by
the English government show that in
times of stress and economic depres-
sion more liquor is consumed than at
any other time. It is explained that
In times of depression when poverty
pinches, man may purchase glass
of porter for penny, it's stimulating
effect temporarily relieves his feelings.
He is unable to purchase any quantity
of food for the same piece of money
that will do anything toward satisfying
his depressed spirits Neither of the
countries in question can be said to
have achieved great moral victory
over the habits of the people of their
respective countries by pronounce
ments against the habits of intemper-
ance. Moral questions of this nature
must originate with the people; with
the classes who are supposed to be
benefited.
The Irish standard., 1915-04-10
WAR AND soBRIETY.

Russia has given up her greatest
source of revenue, a revenue long en-
joyed entirely by the government, be-
cause of the manufacture of vodka, the
national drink of the Russians. The
manner in which the outside world
may pass upon this act of the Gear in
trying to enforce national prohibition
has deserved, and will deserve, seri-
Gus attention. The countries of west
ern Europe, regardless of the fact that
France and England are now in league
with Russia in the European conflict,
have never regarded Russia as their
intellectual, moral and political equal.
Russia has been given consideration
on the ground that it is a country of
vast territory with teeming millions of
people, her possibilities undeveloped
and her people as a whole untutored.
The stand taken by the powers of
western Europe against any desire of
Russia for an outlet to the south has,
in years gone by, showed plainly the
fear of Russia's domination and politi.
cal affairs in Europe, were she alive
to her possibilities and capable of en-
forcing them. Can Russia at this time
for national prohibition claim to have
placed herself upon the same intellec.
tual and moral plane with the more
advanced countries of western Europe.
or course, England has applauded
the act of Russia out of courtesy.
England was bound to do so because
Russia came to the rescue in dividing
the forces of Germany in the European
conflict, without which Paris would
now undoubtedly be in the hands of
the Germans. 1t has been pointed out
that in the case of England the lack
of efficiency is due not so much to
over-indulgence in beer, but to q lack
of beef. The question may be studied
seriously in England, because per cap.
ita, among classes who could we'll af-
ford 1t. England drank far more than
Russia. England drinking is done in
public. Social drinking. drinking for
convivial enjoyment, is characteristic
of the drinking in every other coun.
try saving England. England, no
doubt, is impelled by the great neces.
sity Of furnishing Russia with ammu.
milton and her resources are such that
she can we'll and conveniently use
The Irish standard., 1915-04-10

paper quoted and which it criticizes
are announced as official from the war
office. Great head lines are printed
when trench is regained, but no men
ton is ever made of the loss of a
trench, which made regaining neces-
sary. The London papers and the Lon
don war Office cannot expect to thus
deceive the British public, report con-
tinuous victories, while at the same
time they proclaim the necessity for
new recruits. No wonder Llyod George
asks the British to sober up so that
they understand just exactly what he
means.
The Irish standard., 1915-04-10

Statistics show that per one hundred
of population, Germany has the great
est number of men, able-bodied, and
capable of bearing arms, of any nation
In Europe. Pro rata, there are less
cripples and Weary Willies" than in
any country of continental Europe.
German efficiency in matters of phys
ical development is quite independent
of what England and Russia now aim
to promote by charging their own
lack of efficiency against the taverns.
The Irish standard., 1915-04-10

Things bigoted and sensational ap-
peal to certain classes. The "es.
capped nuns" and "ex-priests" draw
their crowds from this class. An les.
capped nun" and an "ex-priest" are
very extraordinary, indeed. When the
deceivers advertise lecture with the
subject, "Why left the Catholic
Church." the bigots look for some
thing extraordinary. Well, such crea-
lures are extraordinary. They are too
extraordinary to be as numerous as
their advertisements.
The Irish standard., 1915-04-10
TROOPS IN IRELAND.

There are at the present time $1,000
English troops on Irish soil. 1t is plain
from these figures that since the war
began, according to the figures of the
parliamentary leader, that an English
trooper is sent to Ireland every time
an Irish recruit enters the British
army. News items appearing in the
The Irish standard., 1915-04-10
N Office.

To Subscribers, Friends and Patrons.
The IRISH STANDARD and the
KASOTA TYPESETTING co. have
moved to new quarters in the Mer-
chants and Jobbers' Exchange Bldg,
corner First Ave. No. and Fifth St.
We will be pleased to meet and greet
our friends at the new address.
The Irish standard., 1915-04-10
TWINS ENTER CONVENT.

Twin sisters, Emma and Margaret
HUFFMAN, of Cincinnati, have entered
the Order of the Sisters of St. Francis
at Oldenburg, Ind. The sisters are %
years old.
The Irish standard., 1915-04-10

SUPREME DIRECTORS TO MEET.
The supreme board of directors of
the Knights Of Columbus will hold q
meeting on Sunday, April 18th.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-06-04
PROPOSALS FOR MOTOR
TRUCK TRAILER

Sealed proposals will he received
at the Office OF the Department of
Public Works. Detroit. Mich. until
Monfay. June :, 1915. at 10 o'clock a.
m. eastern standard time, at which
time and place they viii he opened
for one Model 512 Troy Motor Truck
Trailer with 36N7-inch tires OF
our selection. required for handling
asphalt. all 10 be in accordance with
specifications on file In the office OF
tho Department of Public Works. De-
livored T. o. p Western Yards with
On 30 days.
Bidders are required 10 Gle n certi-
fed check i'm the sum of 500 with
the Department Of Public Works, be-
fore the proposals are opened. condi-
toned that should they be- the low
est bidders they viii. within five days
after being awarded the contract by
The department. enter into contract
with surety company bond In the full
estimated amount ~ contract
Checks and proposals 10 be placed
In separate envelopes
the right 10 reject any or all pro-
posals is expressly reserved. All
proposals TO be made iu duplicate.
i5t5 GEO II FENE ELL.
A-l430 Commissioner
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-06-04


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adjoining such lot 81 ~
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cd On the south side OF Fpl@oG;
avenue. In front OF or AdjointD0
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avenue. In front Of or ADJOINING
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avenue. and woodmsre avsuIS.
the. John r. Clark estate suh.
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such lots or parts Of lots n6Hl-
bered 1857. 1858, 1es. ITO. III.
liz. ia. ia. between Elsmsre
avenue and Lawndaie avsnuAs
the John T.. Clark estate auH
OF lot 9. ship Yard tract
(0 On the north side IL Homer
avenue, in front Of or sdjoin-
ng such lot or part of lot mum.
bered i7s, between Elamere
avenue and woodmere avenue
the John r. Clark estate sub.
of lot 8. Ship Yard tract.
Cd On the south side of Rathboue
avenue. in front OF or adjoiuing
such lot or part of lot NUM-
bered 81. between Elsmere 4yo-
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avenue and Woodmere avenue.
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portion OF the northerly half OF
the westerly half OF lot 7. ship
co. on the north side Of Longworth
avenue, in front Of or ad1oin-
numbered 2s4, 2s5. 26s. 2s7. 371.
and nsswssn E aHsne ,n sv inSc
7. Clark estate sub. of lot y
ship. Yard tracy.
(1o) On the south sioe OF LonEworth
avenue. In front OF or adto!n.
numbered 2si. between Eismers
avenue and Woodmere avenue.
the John Y. Clark estate sub.
OF lot s. Ship Yard tract.
(1D On the east side Of Park ave-
nue., I'm front OF or adjoining
such lots or parts of lots num-
bered 35. 81. IS. between DIX
avenue and Toledo avenue,
Quinn and Haggerty's sub. Of
part OF T. c. $50. lying be-
tween Dix and Toledo avenues
G2) On the west side of Park Ave-
nue.. In front OF or adjoining
such lot or part OF lot mum.
bercd 40. between Dix avenue
and Toledo avenue. Quinn and
HaRgerty's sub. OF part Of
II. c. $50. lying between Dix
and Toledo avenues
As are owned by you, on or before
June II. 1915. or In default there
of, the same Will be constructed. re-.
or put to proper line and
grade by the Department OF Public
Works and the expense thereof. to-
gether with the cost of this publica-
ton. will he assessed against said
lots.
GEORGE II. FENKELL.
Alag Com'r OF Public Works.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-06-04
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