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The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1916-06-17
CATHOLIC CHARITIES conference
FOURTH BIENNIAL SESSION WILL
BE HELD AT THE CATHOLIC
UNIVERSITY IN SEPTEMBER

The National Conference of Cath
Ollie Charities will hold it's fourth
biennial session at the Catholic Uni
versity, Washington, September II,
IS, 10 and 20. Work on the program
is nearly completed.
The Conference holds general meet
ings, usually in the evening, at which
fundamental problems of interest to
the entire membership are discussed.
1t holds/section meetings, each one
being in charge of a special committee
interested in particular field Of relief
work. There are committees on
families, on social and civic activities.
on sick and detectives and on chill
dren. Arrangements are made for
two meetings for each committee dur
ing the days of the Conference. At
each meeting from two to four papers
are read. These are discussed by a
small number appointed for that pur-
pose after which general discussion
from the floor is invited. The utmost
freedom of discussion is encouraged
The Conference never votes on any
policy of relief 1t leaves all members
untrammelled in the expression of
their views.
This arrangement lends intense in
tereSt to the meetings since there are
no less than twenty-seven states rep
resented at the Conference sessions.
Those in attendance bring the advan-
tage of wide experience and we'll
tested leadership to the expression of
their views in either papers or dis
cussions.
All Catholics who are interested in
any feature of relief work are cordial
" invited to become members. The
report of each biennial meeting of the
Conference makes volume of approx
imately four hundred pages. These
reports constitute already an impor-
tant element in the literature of Cath
olic charities in the United States.
Perhaps the most important construc-
tive action expected at the meeting of
the Conference next September will
be the creation of a National Catholic
charities monthly magazine. 1t will
he the successor to the st. Vincent
u6 Pdul kRldEJpfly -WulCu udD uCCn pun
lished by the Superior Council of New
York for twenty-one years.
AT meeting of the National Com
mittee of the St. Vincent de Paul So
ciety at the Catholic University in
November, 1915, heartiest encourage
ment was voted to the plan of con-
verting the Quarterly into monthly
and of placing it under the editorial
direction of Rev. John A. Ryan of the
Catholic University staff 1t is ex-
pected that the National Conference of
Catholic Charities will endorse the
plan, since it has twice voted in favor
of it at former meetings
All inquiries for information about
the work of the Conference or the
program of the forthcoming session
or the sale of the reports may be
addressed to the Secretary, Rev. DR..
Kerby, Catholic University, Washing
ton, D. G.
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A PRIEST IN CONGRESS
FATHER RICHARD THE ONLY ONE
EVER ELECTED.

Rev. Gabriel Richard was re-
markable priest, who, when Superior
OF the Sulpician Seminary at Issy,
near Paris, France, little dreamed
that he would one day sit in the con-
gress of the United States as delegate
from one of the Territories. He came
to the United States in 1898, and was
in 1890 sent to Detroit to take charge
of st. AIMS Church, a parish whose
establishment dates back to 1901. He
became not only pastor of his flock,
but one of the leading spirits in the
development of the, Northwest. He
gave an impulse to education and
established the first printing press in
Michigan, issuing several useful
books and the first copy of the Scrip
lures printed west of the Allegheny
mountains.
Not only does Father Richard
bear the distinction of being the only
Catholic priest ever elected to con-
gress, but the only one who had the
strange fortune of going directly
from a prison cell to the house of
representatives not, however, with
the full powers of a representative,
but as a delegate from a then far
western territory.
Father Richard was delegate in
congress from the territory of Michi-
gan in 1923.
During his paStOrate at st. AIMS
Church in Detroit it became his duty,
according to the Church, to excom-
municate one of his parishioners, who
had been divorced from his wife. For
this he was prosecuted for defama-
ton of character, which resulted in a
verdict being given against him for
$1,000. This money the priest could
not pay. AS his parishioners were
poor French settlers they could not
| pay it for him, and he was thrown
into prison. While confined in the
common Jail, with little hope of ever
being liberated, he was elected dele
gate to congress and went from his
prison cell in the wilds of Michigan
to his seat on the floor of congress.
The career in congress of Father
Richard was remarkable one. He
| delivered several speeches on mat
ters pertaining to his territory which
| marked him as an able speaker. He
was not only thorough French and
English scholar, but was conversant
with the Spanish, German and Italian
| languages, and has learned the In
dian tongues of the tribes of Michi-
gan.
When i'll 1882 the Asiatic cholera
decimated the Catholic population of
Detroit, Father Richard and his ven
cradle assistant, Father Francis Vim
cent Baden, labored among the sick
and dying day and night. He was
stricken with the plague and sue
cumbed to it September IL, 1882. He
had been pastor of st. AIMS for
thirty-four years, Vicar General of the
Northwest under four bishops, and he
occupied a leading place in tbs his
tory of Michigan as priest, an edu-
Gator, philanthropist, a legislator
and patriot
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inadequately appreciated. Dur
ing all these years the House OF
the Good Shepherd has labored
under the burden of an expense
which has drained it's meagre re-
sources and prevented the Sisters
from making any improvements in
their present quarters or erecting
the additional buildings which are
necessary to enable them to eX-
tend the sphere of their useful
ness. While the Sisters seek no
earthly reward or recognition
the fruit OF their labors should
speak more eloquentIy than words
to the benefciaries of their ac-
tivity-the people Of st. Paul and
vicinity.
In the belief that the people of
this city are not unwilling to do
what is necessary to place the in
stltutlon upon a plane OF efficiency
which it can never attain while
hampered by want Of room, and
insufficiently equipped for its
work, WhirlWind campaign to
raise at least 100000 will be I'M
dertaken this fall and it is ex-
pected that the friends Of the in
stitution-no n-Catholics as well
as Charlottesville rally to it's sup
port in this final effort to place it
upon a secure financial basis.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1916-06-17

AT this time of the year tens OF
thousands of graduates are com
ing forth from the seclusion OF
school life into the broad arena
of the world 's'activities where they
are expected to put into practice
the lessons learned during their
school days. The world expects,
nay, rather, demands much of
them and it will judge their
schools by them. Their intellect
ual attainment, their moral train
ing, their ideals of life and con
duet, their reverence for sacred
things, their respect for the
rights Of others, their cultured
manners-alI these will be taken
into consideration in forming an
estimate Of their value to society.
The graduates Of Catholic schools,
especially, will be watched. They
will be subjected to much closer
inspection than those who have
come from institutions where less
lofty ideals Of Christian culture
prevail. 1t behooves them, there
fore, to so conduct themselves in
public and private as to reflect
credit Oh themselves, the institu-
tons which trained them, and the
Church to which they belong.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1916-06-17

The Indiana Catholic and
Record of indianapolis, Ind, has
advanced its subscription price
from $3.50 to $500 a year, assign
ing as reason therefor the in
creased cost of paper and engrav-
ing. In this connection it gives a
list OF twenty-four Catholic week
ly papers published in the United
States, only two Of which cost
$1.00 a year, while seven sell for
$3.50, fourteen for $500, and one
for $3.50.
The increased cost of materials
of which the Indiana Catholic and
Record complains has struck all
Catholic papers alike A sub
scription price Of $3.50 year
leaves no margin for a Catholic
paper to develop under present
conditions and if the cost OF
printing continues to advance,
papers which now sell for $1.50
year will be forced to advance
the subscription price unless they
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1916-06-17

The Rev. Mr.. johnson, rector of
Trinity Episcopal Church, Newark,
n. j., resigned last week because
his sermons, i'll which he intimated
that there were sinners in his
congregation, did not please the
people. He refused to tone down
his discourses to the milk-and-
water consistency postulated by
the "holier than thou" attitude
of those who paid his salary. One
OF his vestrymen told him the
church should be like a grocery
intended to please the pcople>who
went into it. This is the kind of
religion, So-called, which abounds
Ill many of the Protestant
churches and it is just this brand
OF gospel truth which is eating the
vitals out Of non-Catholic Chris
tlanity. The churches are be-
coming social centers for the
PRONUNCIATION Of novel ideas on
all sorts of modern fads rather
than houses of God and homes of
prayer.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1916-06-17
SUBSTITUTE MILK FOR BEER.

The Oregon Dairymen's Association
have discovered that milk is a fine
substitute for liquor.
1t is a stimulant, the dairymen de-
clare, and they voice the opinion that
it has kick" when served up prop
erly. In the annual convention of the
Association held some time ago, this
resolution was adopted:
Resolved, That the President of
the Association appoint committee
to prepare literature and have it dis
tributed, setting forth the value of hot
milk as a stimulant, and of other milk
drinks as a beverage, and getting rec
ipes and suggestions for their use.
and each member of this Association
lis urged to try personally to induce
soft drink houses, coffee-houses. etc.
to keep hot milk and other milk drinks
constantly on hand"
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1916-06-17
CATHOLIC PROHIBITION
LEAGUE.

A call has been issued by the
"Catholic Prohibition League
for the annual meeting to be held
at indianapolis, Ind, on the after
noon and evening Of Wednesday,
June %. This date has been
selected because it comedies with
the time set for the National Con-
vention of the Anti-Saloon League
of America. The call is signed
by the Rev. j. j. Curran, Presi-
dent, Wilkes-Barre, Pa; the Rev.
c. 7. Baron, Vice President, In
dianapolis, Ind, and Miss Frances
B. Frisbie, National Organizer,
indianapolis, Ind. The announce
ment says i'll part:
Sentiment favoring the aboli-
ton of the manufacture and sale
of alcohol as a beverage is rapidly
growing among Catholics through
out the country. For a long time
our people had been i'll doubt as
to the wisdom and timeliness of
joining hands with their non
Catholic neighbors in striking a
death blow at the American
saloon. But they are now fast
awakening to the fact that to re-
move the untold and well known
miseries of the drink habit, the
saloon must be first banished from
our midst, and the manufacture of
alcohol, as a beverage, prohibited
within the confines Of every State
of the Union.
We are told that Prohibition
will not prohibit until the people
become educated to dry condi-
tions, which claim has some merit
but are we Catholics to sit idly
by while our neighbors are doing
the educating and while Holy
Mother Church hes under the
SANDER that she is in league with
the constituencies liquor interests
OF the nation? Our Church has
never stood i'll the way of any
popular movement calculated to
benefit the people when such d
movement was not antagonistic to
her own interests or to the inter.
ests of faith and morals.
There is no secrecy in the
means and ends Of, the prohibition
movement or the Anti-Saloon
League Of America; nor are the
prohibition movement and the
prohibition political party one
and the same, for everybody
knows that we are left to ourselves
to use any. political party t.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1916-06-17
THE PROPAGATION OF THE
FAITH.

We publish on the first page the
letter of the Most Reverend Arch
bishop appointing the Rev. James
A. Byrnes OF the st. Paul Semi
nary, Diocesan Director of the So
ciety for Propagation of the Faith.
1t will be his duty to organize u
branch office Of the Society which
will serve as a clearing house for
the contributions made by charit-
ably disposed people to the mis-
sion work of the Church in local
tiles where it receives aid through
the parent organization. All who
wish to make donations for this
purpose should communicate with
Father Byrnes in order that their
gifts may reach their respective
destinations through his office
and, where the purpose of the gift
is not designated, that he may use
his Judgment i'll sending it where
it will do the most good. 1t is
not always the missionaries about
whom we hear frequently, through
the press and by letter, who are
the most needy. There are many
whose wants are not heralded
abroad, but which are known to
the Society and, therefore, any
gifts sent through it will be placed
where they will do the most good.
The appointment of a Diocesan
Director Of the Society for the
Propagation Of the Faith will not
Interfere i'll any way with the an
nual collection made for the Home
and Foreign Missions. A not
unimportant part Of his work will
be to stimulate Wcll-to-do, Cath
olics into giving generously
towards the missionary needs of
the Church and thus adding to the
total amount contributed for that
purpose from all sources.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1916-06-17

Conditions have become SO seri-
GUS i'll Mexico during the past few
days that President Wilson
threatens to send another note to
Carranza to inform him that the
administration is not pleased with
the pretended efforts he is max
ing to pacify Mexico. No one ex-
cept the dyed-in-the-wool par
tisans of the watchful waiting"
program ever dreamed that Car
rama could restore order in
Mexico. 1t is well known fact
that he dare not enter Mexico
City. He knows better than to
risk his life by going where the
people do not want him, even
though he has an army at his
back. This four years will, no
doubt, go down i'll history as the
term of the invertebrate admins
tratiOn because Of it's wishy-
washy policy in regard to Mexi-
can affairs.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1916-06-17
CHURCH N U S|C
A SUMMER COURSE IN CHURCH
MUSIC WILL BE GIVEN IN ST.
MARY'S SEMINARY, BALTIMORE,
FROM JULY "a TO AUGUST IL.

The Summer Course in Church Mus.
ic conducted last year at the Peabody
Conservatory of Music, Baltimore, Nd,
was an outcome of the concert given
at the Conservatory hall by the Schola
Cantorum of ST. Mary's Seminary dur.
ing the Convention of the Society OF
st. Gregory of America held in that
city in April, 1915.
1t will be given this year under the
auspices Of the Society Of st. Gregory
and again under the direction of Rev.
Leo P. Manzetti, First Vice President
of the Society of st. Gregory and
Director of Music of the Schola Can,
forum of St Mary's Seminary. In or
der to accommodate those who come
from distant points and for the sake oil
greater convenience the class lessons
in Traditional Gregorian Chant will be
held twice a day for three weeks In
stead of once day for six weeks
Also, to allow those who desire to at
tend the course to take short rest
after the years work it has been
deemed advisable to set the time from
July "a to August II inclusive. This
represents total of thirty-six lessons
in lieu of thirty, as in the previous
year
The course in plain chant compris-
es: principles, reading of Gregorian no
tation, tonality, psalmOdy, phrasing,
rhythm and tempo. Father Manzetti
always connects the study OF Gregor'
ian rhythm and phrasing with the in
depreciation of the classics and mod.
ern music which makes the course
very interesting. Each class begins
with voice exercises to insure proper
tone production and perfect vocal uni.
son.
Another class will be organized for
the study and Interpretation of poly
phonic and modern Church Music.
Private lessons can be had in har.
mony, counter-point, harmonization OF
Gregorian melodies, voice culture and
composition. Special attention is
called to the fact that the course
though lectural in part, is in the main
Scholastic, the whole body OF students
being formed into a real schola for the
rendition of Gregorian and figured
music, once they have mastered the
theory and principles of each.
For information and conditions ap-
ply to the Rev. Leo P. Manzetti, Musi-
cal Director. st. Mary's Seminary,
Baltimore, Nd.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1916-06-17

President Eaton of Beloit Col
lege, Beloit, Wis, announced last
week that next year no discrimina-
ton will be made in the freshman
class regarding attendance at
chapel exercises and Bible study.
All students, no matter what their
religious affiliations may be, must
attend these exercises. This is
the point which caused consider
able discussion last year when the
Most Reverend Archbishop Mess
mer Of Milwaukee forbade Catho-
lie students to attend the college
as long as they were obliged to be
present at these sectarian eXer-
cises.
The stand now taken by the Col
lege authorities is, it seems, final
and in view of that, it behOoves
Catholic students to keep away
from the institution. This will
impose no hardships upon them
for there are innumerable colleges
under Catholic auspices to which
prospective students may go and
i'll which they will receive an edu-
cation without danger to their
faith. Apart from this there is no
reason why Catholic students
should not patronize Catholic in
situations Of higher learning
where the course i'll secular
branches is equal to the best i'll
the land and where a thorough
training is impaired in religion.
Intellect and heart are developed
III such way as to produce the
ideal Christian gentleman-intelli-
gent and refined-one who knows
his duties in relation to God, him
self, and his fellowmen, and who
performs them with a fidelity in
spired by the consciousness Of his
dependence upon God, the Author
Of his being.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1916-06-17
THE DRUNKARD.

The drunkard is self-made wretch,
who for all his failures, and all his
heartaches, and all his misery has no
one to thank but himself. He was not
always drunkard. No, indeed!
Once he was only man who said he
could take a glass or leave it alone"
in other words he was mistaken, for
no man can take glass of beer and
leave it alone at the same time. He
only thought he could; subsequent
events proved that he was wrong, and
that the only way to be sure one will
not fill drunkard's grave is not to
touch any kind of Intoxicating drink
The drunkard is a man whose wife
is sad, lily clad and unhappy. The
drunkard is a man whose children are
hungry and shabby and neglected.
The drunkard is man who sows mis-
cry in every heart and in every soul
with which he comes i'll contact, and
regret in his own. He is a slave,
a poor degraded slave, who will not
break the chains that bar him from
responsibility, wealth and happiness.
The saddest part of il all is that
the drunkard is q willing slave, for
he could reform If he willed to reform.
He does not will it. True, he might
relapse occasionally into the sin of
drunkenness, but, willing to reform,
he would rise again, and eventually
he would be cured.
The safest way to insure yourself
against the possibility of ever becom-
ing drunkard is never to start drink
ing. That is very safe recipe to
keep one from becoming one of the
most pitiable beings in all of the
world-a drunkard.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1916-06-17
MGR. ABBELEN'S JUBILEE

Right Reverend Monsignor Peter M.
Abbelen, who this year completes 40
years as chaplain of Notre Dame
Convent, Milwaukee, Wis, and the
fiftieth anniversary of his arrival in
this country, is native of Duelken,
Rhine Province, Germany, where he
was born on August s, 1913. He came
to America on November 6, 1866,
locating with his parents at st. Fran
els, wis. He attended the parochial
school Of his native town and the
University of Muenster. He was or
dained at ST Francis Seminary, Mil
waukee, on January 10, 1868. #
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1916-06-17

We would like to believe that
each year the number of Cath
olics who fail to make their Eas-
ter duty becomes fewer and fewer.
Perhaps it is fact. Neverthe-
less, too many put off this obliga-
ton until the eleventh hour; and
if only one failed through wilful
neglect to fulfil the law, it would
still be too many.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1916-06-17
SATURDAY, JUNE II, 1916.

Friday, June %, is the feast of
Corpus Christi which, i'll most
churches, will be observed the fol-
lowing Sunday, June %. 1t was
instituted to honor our Lord Ill
the Blessed Sacrament of the
altar and affords the faithful a
special opportunity to tender to
Him the homage Of their worship
full devotion.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1916-06-17

Next Sunday, June Is, is
Trinity Sunday. 1t marks the
close of the paschal season and
is the last day set apart by the
Church in America for the fulfil
ment of the precept regarding the
annual reception Of Holy Com
munion. This precept of the
Church prescribes the minimum
required Of those who would lay
any claim to being practical Cath
olics.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1916-06-17

receive better support from the
Catholic community in which they
circulate. A word to the wise
is sufficient. ("
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further the cause of temperance
and total abstinence as best we
can.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1916-06-17
Rev. James NJ. Reardon, Editor.

Entered as second-class matter, jan
uary IL, 1911, at the post ONCE, ST
Paul, Mimi under Act of March 3. 1879.
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Religion is the best armor man
can have, but it is the worst cloak.
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