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reserves in the United states to-day
WIN" have served under the colors and
ready To night for the Kaiser either in
America ar on the Continent.
These new conditions were reported
ny wireless and py voluminous re-
ports that Germans. travelling under
passports fraudulently obtained, car
ricd back to the fatherland.
And the German General STAFF gath.
cred around the Var board with its
american agents to meet each new
condition rs ii arose. Dne Of the first
problems was the transportation OF
officers and r~esctNists needed in the
trenches and the despatching OF other
soldiers and spies from Germany to
this country. For this hundreds, yes.
thousands Of American passports were
needed. Straightway under orders
from Germany regular bureaus were
established in New York. Chicago and
other cities to buy them. The price
was $50 for every passport bearing the
United States seal.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1916-02-20
How the Puppets Here Danced When Berlin Pulled the
Strings Revealed by United States Investigators
Machinelike Precision Shown in Plans to Hamper
Allies and Cripple Shipments of Munitions

This is the second and final instalment of the true story Of the
Teutonic spy system in the United States. Other articles may follow
as Developments warrant. The evidence on which these articles IRE
based was secured by the United States secret service under Chief
William j. Flynn. the investigators of the Department of Justice under
A. Bruce BieIaski and William M. OAqey and Capt. Thomas T. Tunnev
of the New York Police Department. Cases resulting in nesr,v . byn.
dfed indictments YER developed by Roger B. Wood. Assistant United
States District Attorney in charge of the criminal department. ,ctine
under the United States Attorney. n. Snowden Marshall
Other assistant Federal attorneys handling the cases Or. R,vuo,s
H. Ssraty. John c. Knox and Harold A. Content.
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By John PRICE JONES'.

"HE mdEiclan Wno invented the
wireless enabled the German
L General War Star to move to
Sew York. The splash and splu,ter
81 electricity sending radio waves
cracking over oceans and con-
t.ncuts have virtually transported
t~iermauy's warriors, taCticians and
scientists at Will 10 hold sessions IN
Manhattan on matters arising in
America and bearing on the battle
front IN the many theatres of actual
w~,rft.c. Germany foresaw the pos
slb,llt.es Of the wireless in war and
developed secret methods Of sending
code message Ivy radiogram when APP
rarcntly only ordinary messages We're
bong transmitted.
So. ihotgh denied the cable. Ger
many has in this country her wonder
.ul,y complex secret service or spy
system 10 tell her exactly VIVA; the
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1916-02-26
DON'T PREPARE!

OF all the anomalies that the
present war has evoked one Of
the strangest is that which bids
us: Don't Prepare! The behest
III itself is so absurdly and so SUI
premely stupid that there must
perforce be some other reason
that prompts such ill-seasoned adj
vice.
We are told that war is evil,
that preparation for war incites
to War-and other +platitudes of
like nature. Since when has pre-
paredness for a contingency
necessitated the approach of that
contingent? There are things
that are bound to happen, like
death and taxes, old age, and rain,
and war. Surely it were the
height of folly to neglect to pre-
pare for snch inevitable happen
ngs. OF course, all those things
may not happen to all in the same
way. The old frontiersman who
carried their revolvers well ex-
posed were wont to explain this
fact by saying: You may not need
a gun; but when you do, you need
it awful bad. " So with ma
ton. When an enemy is striking
at our boundaries we will need
protection lawful bad"
Why prate about the millennium
of peace! War is a phenomenon
which depends upon the free will
of man. 1t usually is rooted in
injustice somewhere; but then so
is crime of every kind. The fact
that injustice often causes wars is
no justification for remaining
supine and refusing to prepare.
Perhaps every war ever waged
was based Oh egotism or vanity or
greed Of some one. But does that
forbid the innocent party to de-
fend himself! Rather should he
stand ever ready to repel an I'M
just invader, and to assert with
force of arms the right to self
preservation. Eet no one deceive
himself about this anti-prepared-
ness nonsense; the honor and dig
nity of a sovereign state, and the
safety of it's inhabitants depend.
upon sufficient guarantee that
no one shall faunt either with i'm
punity.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1916-02-26

One Of the strange occurrences
so often to be met with at present
is found in the failure. utter aud
complete, that so many boys make
of themselves. Frequently they
come of good families; they have
all the comforts that youth re-
quires; the conveniences of every
description are at their call.
Schools, colleges, academies, hold
out inviting arms. promising to
|impart the mysteries Of science, OF
Education.
And yet, every year, a large
number of boys go down. down. as
failures in life-almost before
they have attempted to soar. In
some cases the reason may be
sought and found in the innate
cussedness of the boy s nature ;
more often. it proceeds from the
profound ignorance of the par
ents Byignorance we do not mean
lack Of education, but lack of
Discipline. If generally speaking,
God fits person for his duty in
life, one may we'll ask, what hap
pened to such parents that they
have lost all sense of right and
wrong in dealing with their chill
.dren. We have, seen boys of high
school age upbraid and excoriate
their parents in most vitriolic
manner; we have seen parents
outraged by seoundrels of young
upstairs. A moment LATER. these
same parents will plead with the
young imps, instead of applying
disciplinary measures.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1916-02-26
SUFFERING.

In our very best actions, in
those deeds that unite us with the
loftiest principles there is ever
some veneer Of imitativeness.
Human nature claims it's need of
servile complacency whenever the
individual Of the race acts-in
whatsoever way he may act. Even
the child apes the manners and
airs Of it's elders; youth seeks to
add to and to elaborate the work
of nature; hence rich apparel,
styles, fashions, customs. All
these peculiarities Of human
beings disclose a getting away
from primitive Nature.
Suffering At this one word
human, nature stands forth in it's
pure Uhadorned self. No imita-
ton here! No special garb to dis
tinguish the man who has been
stricken down by the hand Of
ruthless Suffering.
Here Nature stands untram-
meled and unpanoplied, in it's
pristine simplicity. All men here
meet on an equal footing; wealth
may procure added luxuries and
dainty morsels. But Suffering, re-
morseless, fiery, penetrating,
knows no distinction; it seizes its
victims indiscriminately, disre-
CARDS age and sex, ignores honor
and position, and with ruthless
grasp drags down the unfor-
tunates to the depths Of actual
pain, intense, haying, merciless.
Suffering may seize upon the
single human being, or it may
engulf whole people in its fiery
depths: it is unreasoning and I'M
sparing. Often it takes the good,
the strong, the needed, whilst APP
parently it passes by the man who
deserves to suffer. But one thing
is certain: Suffering never will
fail to brand the man who de-
serves the stigma; the innocent
frequently are marked; and the
guilty cannot escape.
= One blessing Suffering leaves in
its wake: it likens one to the
Man of Suffering. Whenever
Nature is panied, and suffering
results, our likeness to the Man
OF Sorrows grows perceptibly
clearer it we realize our good for
tune.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1916-02-26
CARDINAL GIBBONS URGES
CLEAN PICTURES

In conjunction with the efforts of
the international reform bureau to
obtain effective official censorship of
motion pictures, letter was received
last week from His Eminence Cardi-
nal Gibbons on this general subject
by Rev. w. F. Crafts, a Protestant
minister of Washington, superintend-
ent and treasurer of the bureau.
The Cardinals letter, which was
written from his residence in Balti.
more, is as follows:
Whatever will make our American
people better and therefore happier,
am. of course, for.
Films and moving pictures have a
wide, formative influence, and hence
| should like to see them instructive
and moral, at the same time enter.
tanning and artistic.
ITO secure such we must both try
to stop off the flood of degrading
pictures and appeal to our people to
demand good films.
Like food for body that the gov
eminent says must be pure, like cor
respondence in our mails which the
government says must be decent and
not obscene, so, too, the mental food,
the correspondence that is carried
daily into the minds and hearts of
our rising generation through moving
picture parlors should be wholesome
and elevating."
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1916-02-26

A correspondent of the Messenger
writes that the children of one of the
official schools were taught that
the priests were special types of
drunkards. because they get tipsy by
drinking every morning from golden
cups (chalices) In another case in
nocent children were obliged to listen
to the most immoral suggestions, the
end aimed at being the increase of the
population of the country without re-
gard to restraints of the law of NOR
atty as observed in all Christian
communities. Similar information
comes from Guanaiuato and other
States. The details are too horrible
for publication.
Another feature of the persecution
against religion is the wantonness of
the public press. No Catholic paper
is permitted to live. The scurrilous
press, on the other hand, is free to
disseminate all kinds of atrocions
calumnies against religion, and the
ministers of religion. There is abso-
lutely no regard for the feelings and
convictions of Catholics. What has
been said of the press is equally true
of the theatres, moving picture shows,
and even the public streets.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1916-02-26
FAITH AND REASON.

Does the Church Shaclle and
repress the activity Of reason in
every branch of knowledge? In
the "Catholic Mind" Of February
s, Father Peter Finlay, S. j., Of
the National University~of Ireland,
discusses the mutual relations Of
Faith and Reason. +" Though the
question is familiar to the Catho-
lie apologist it is treated here with
unusual clearness and cO9ency.
The author explains briefly and
satisfactorily the Calico ease, the
Church s attitude toward Darwin
ism and toward other modern sys-
TENS, and then answers conclu-
sivcly the objections Of those who
maintain that the truths Of Faith
cannot be reconciled with the
truths OF Reason.
The moving appeal for peace
that the Holy Father made on
Christmas Eve is also printed in
this number, rs are some wise
reflections on "a Set Of Shaw, !"
in one Of Mr.. Lord s characteris-
tic articles. Father Fisher ends
the issue by briefly contrasting
Catholic with non-Catholic mar
riages. The pamphlet is published
by The America Press, SO East
S3rd Street, New York, and can
be had for five cents copy
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1916-02-26
HEATING CHILD LABOR MEASURE
WINS IN HOUSE
PUEBLO CATHOLIC CONGRESS-
MAN FIGHTS FOR YOUNGSTERS
NOV UP TO SENATORS-IN-
TERSTATE SHIPMENT DENIED
PRODUCTS OF TENDER AGED.

Congressman Edward Heating, of
Pueblo, has been leading a fight in the
national legislature against child
labor, says an exchange. Mr. Keat-
ing is a Catholic
His anti-child labor bill went to the
senate from the house recently, having
passed the lower body TO congress by
a vote of 337 to 46. 1t prohibits the
interstate shipment of any commodity
produced in part or wholly by chill
dren under IA years of age, working
in mills, canneries, workshops or
manufacturing establishments. In the
case of factories, where children are
employed at night, or more than eight
hours day, the minimum age is set
at 16 years.
The bill was fought by southern
members largely, for the most part
on the ground that the bill is I'm.
constitutional. Representative Webb,
of North Carolina, chairman of the
judiciary committee, took this view
He endeavored to exempt the children
of widows from the scope of the bill,
but was not successful Former
Speaker Cannon offered an amend
ment to exempt canneries, because of
the competition with small establish
ments in Canada, where there are no
restrictions on child labor The only
material change made was by the
adoption of an amendment to exempt
boys and girls canning clubs.
Congressman Heating was among
the speakers at the twelfth annual
conference on child labor, which was
held few days ago at Asheville, N. C.
Such warm public support was given
the convention that the largest hall in
the city had to be hired to accommo-
date the crowds at the last session. At
least 1900 persons attended the meet
ings, and there were delegates present
from twenty states.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1916-02-26
RIGID INVESTIGATION OF
HASKELL INSTITUTE
CHARGES OF sleoTED Mls-RuLE.

The serious charges of bigoted dis
elimination made against the au-
thOrities of the Haskell Institute at
Lawrence, Kan, by the Rev. Father
Gordon, chaplain from the Catholic
Indian Mission Board, brought results
in a hurry when the charges were
given wide publicity through the col
umns of the Catholic press two weeks
ago.
E. B. Linnen, an inspector from the
Federal bureau of Indian affairs, and
the Rev. S. A. Elliott, a member of
the board of Indian commissioners,
arrived in Lawrence this week to
thoroughly investigate the charges
made against the superintendent of
the Institute
Father Gordon has asked the pres
ent superintendent to correct these
abuses and was told that. il he didn't
make himself less objectionable" or
words to that effect, he (the superin-
tendent) would deny him the privi-
lege of the grounds.
After several appeals to Commits
sioner Sells of the Indian bureau, con-
ditions were improved slightly. Two
weeks ago the Catholic Press associa-
ton took up the matter with the result
that bigotry will undoubtedly be elm
mated from the management OF
not only Haskell Institute, but also the
various other Federal Indian schools.
The most serious charges Father
Gordon makes follow:
There are rules which would seem
somewhat to protect the faith of Cath
Ollie pupils in government schools, but
these rules in most of the Institutions
are more honored in the breach than
in the observance Haskell Institute
is the chief offender against these
regulations.
AT Haskell Institute Y. NJ. C. A.
secretary, who is not an employee of
the government and who has no Off
cial status whatsoever, lives on the
school grounds in quarters furnished
him free of charge by the government,
which also supplies him light and
heat, and all kinds of privileges gratis
Against such discrimination the
Catholic authorities for years have
protested vigorously, but their pro-
tests have counted for nothing. If the
resident Y. M. C. A. secretary is con.
tinued at Haskell and other schools
in spite of their protests, demand
will be made that priests likewise be
furnished free room, light and heat,
etc. Of course, this demand will be
refused, but it will serve to put the
Indian Office further on record in its
unwarranted COURSE
Vigorous efforts to secure square
deal for the Catholic pupils have
failed. Appeal after appeal has been
made to the commissioner of Indian
affairs. Commissioner Sells declares
he is perfectly fair and that he viii
do the right thing in regard to the
Haskell situation. In the meantime
days, weeks and months go by and
conditions remain unchanged.
THE rules make attendance OF Cath
Olic pupils at Mass compulsory, but
the roll call invariably discloses the
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1916-02-26
FIGURES FOR MODERATE
DRINKERS.

1t is disquieting to learn from the
weekly bulletin of the Department of
Health that the sort of folk we used
to call moderate drinkers have death
rate far exceeding the teetotalers.
FCrty-three Of the leading life insur-
ance companies, we are told, conspired
six years ago to discover the truth
about alcohol in it's relation to the
prospect of long life, and collected the
facts concerning two groups, to-wit:
Ca) men who drank two glasses of
beer, or glass of whisky, or their
equivalent, day; OBJ men who drank
more, but were not considered by the
companies to drink to excess. The
mortality of the second group was
quite fifty per cent above that of the
first
This distressing discovery suggests
several queries. First, will the beer
drinkers admit that two beers equal
one whisky? Second, is a beer or
whisky known quantity? Third, if an
allowance above this wretched pittance
is not considered excessive by the in
surance companies, where does excess
in their Judgment begin? Fourth, IL
drinking to a degree that increases
mortality by fifty per cent is not ex-
cessive in the opinion of the insurance
companies, what is the opinion of the
insurance companies worth? Finally,
If the moderate drinkers of yesterday
killed themselves at this rate, how did
the real drinkers of the day before
exist at all? u., Val 7-,,,
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1916-02-26
DOMAIN OF TEMPERANCE
THE DIE HAS BEEN CAST.


The breast of old King Alcohol is torn
with narrowing fears,
His face is scanned with furrowed
lines of care,
Into the coming future he in consterna-
tion peers,
For he sees his ignominious finish
there.
For ages he has filled the land with
agonizing pain,
Unclaimed young manhood as be-
sOtted slaves,
And through the many clouded years
of his despotic reign
Has streWn the country with dis
honored graves.
The wrecks of homes and broken
hearts are strewn along his trail
Wherever he has blown his blight
ing breath;
The pleadings Of the stricken sore
have been of no avail
To shield beloved ones from moral
death.
He mocks at wifely prayers, treats
with scorn the mothers tears,
AS he binds their loved ones in his
deadly chain;
The voice of press and public treats
he with contemptuous sneers
AS to his Golfers flows the golden
gain.
But his power soon will vanish, gone
will be his blighting reign,
Coated over will his sceptre be with
rust;
Wiped from off our fair escutcheOn
every alcoholic stain,
And his tottering throne will crum-
BILE into dust.
Weakened is the public conscience to
the national disgrace,
And when victory has at last been
nobly won
The trailings Of the serpent rum will
neVermore deface
The fairest land meath heavens
cleaning sun.
Captain Jack Crawford. the Poet Scout.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1916-02-26

The Panama Congress will
doubtless result in some startling
revelations. The Church in South
America long has been target
for the shafts Of ministerial invec-
tive as well as for the ardent darts
Of missionary zeal. But expert
ence has shown that with a man
like Speer guiding the destinies
OF the Congress the Church has
little TO fear. During the past few
years we have read wonderful
papal letters-that were never
written by the Pope; we have
been RECALLED with piquant NOR
sells and choice tidbits from the
secret larder of many rowing
Latin-American minstrel. The
salient feature about the mission
airy endeavors Of our misguided
brethren is that they are forever
pointing the finger Of scorn at the
mistakes, the weaknesses, the i'm
moralities and the general short
comings of Catholics the world
over. Would it not be the better
part Of wisdom to go on doing
their own work rather than to
spend time and money and energy
in denouncing the work of their
competitors?
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1916-02-26
.L|NCOLN'S STEPMOTHER
THE GREAT EMANCIPATOR WAS
REARED BY A CATHOLIC.

On the occasion of the celebration of
the birthday of Abraham Lincoln, the
name Of Sarah Bush Johnson Lincoln
ought not to be overlooked, says T..
]. Kenny, S. j., Professor of History
at st. Louis University, ST. Louis, Mo-
The life of that great American presi-
dent was Respondent with Christian
virtues, and we believe the woman in
the home deserves most credit for
them
The mother in Abraham LincOln's
home, after his tenth year, was Cath
Ole. Nancy Hanks, Lincoln's true
mother, died when he was nine years
old. She had already instilled into his
mind tender lessons of honesty and
truthfulness; but in the boys tenth
year, Abe's father married again,-an
estimable widow, Sarah Bush Johnson.
This woman was Catholic and under
her motherly tutelage the young man
developed the sturdy virtues of that
patience which hath a perfect work
his tireless industry. and an abiding
sense of the nearness of loving God.
1t was at her home that the early
missionary priests of Illinois were
wont to celebrate the Mass for the
scattered flock of Christ there in the
wide. prairies. Father J. M. /. st. Cyr
used to tell of Abe's genial helpfulness
in assisting him on such occasions.
Some hearers, when repeating the
fathers narrative, gave out the impress
sion that Lincoln served at his Mass.
Others, however, Who quote, | think,
with finer accuracy, say that the fu-
ture president merely assisted Father
ST. Cyr in getting things ready for the
congregation. On one occasion he
used his carpenters skill to make
chairs or benches for the accommoda+
ton of the neighbors who gathered for
the Mass. Father Peter LeFebre, who
was later Bishop of Detroit, was an
other of the missionaries, whom Mrs.
Lincoln entertained. He used to say
that Abe received Holy Communion
from his hands. He was most likely
mistaken. There were many Lincolns,
relatives, in that vicinity,-there are
several families there yet, not a few
of them Catholics-and it was doubt
less cousin of Abe, of the same
name, whom Father LeFebre COM
Let the Guardians" who are quot |
ing fabricated letters of Lincoln to
support their anti-Catholic campaign |
loorp tho Inocnp thot fhn ono rdiop IF |
Lincoln's boyhood days, the woman |
whom he loved as mother and who |
loved him as one of her own sons, the |
who prepared for and entered |
most heartily into the celebration of |
birthdays on February IL,
nearly a century ago, was herself a |
daughter of the old Mother Church.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1916-02-26
MINIMUM WAGE AND
SPECIAL PENSION BILLS
IMPROVING THE CONDITION OF
WOMEN WAGE FARMERS.

The Rev. DR.. John Ryan, Professor
of Political Science in the Catholic
University of America, in a lecture
delivered recently in Washington, on
the Minimum Wage" stated that be-
tween so per cent and 55 per cent of
the women wage earners in the United
States get less than eight dollars
per week, and that between IS per
cent and 65 per cent get less than nine
dollars per week. He further showed
in figures that less than eight dollars
is not living wage in any Of the large
cities of the country.
The distinguished economist said
that in England, Australia and some
of the States Of our own country,
where the Minimum Wage has been
tried, it has proved successful. He
pointed to Oregon in particular, where
the United States Bureau of Labor
has made an investigation of the work
ings of the law and has found con-
ditiOns of the women wage-earners
much improved.
Special Pension Bills.
Special pension of $40 per month
each and places on roll of honor for
former soldier holders of medals of
honor and over 65 years old, are
authorized in a bill introduced by
Representative Sherwood of Ohio,
which passed the House last week.
1t is estimated that not more than
1000 veterans come under the pro-
visions Of the measure
Another pension bill is before the
House, designed to benefit the widows
of Spanish War volunteers who served
more than 80 days 1t would grant
widows whose incomes do not exceed
$3.50 a year pensions of $12 month,
and SO additional for each minor
child, without regard to the causes of
the soldiers death.
Representative Mann urged the pas
sage of the bill to encourage volun-
teer duty.