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The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-01-20
MOTHER
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The first word that takes crude
shape upon the tender lips Of the
babe is apt to be the word,
50 Mother" As the dying man
losses on his bed Of pain or rolls
i'll agony on the field Of battle, one
Of the last words he utters IS the
fond aspiration, "Mothor."
Nature has so ordered her chill
dren that the child naturally
draws from its mother not only
life and strength but inspiration
and ideals founded upon mater
nal love. Nature has ordained
that as a general rule the child
should bear close resemblance to
the parent. While it would be
heresy 10 say that the soul OF the
child is derived from the soul OF
the mother, it were an error to
maintain that the mothers soul
and heart and mind do not infiu-
ence the ideals Of the child. When
the body wakes strong and
energies from infancy to youth
and thence to full maturity, the
things Of life engross his atten-
ton. Many claims are laid upon
him for his time, his work, his
talents, ability, his wealth and his
influence. But running ever
through the broad tapestry made
by all the events Of his life is dis
cernible the sillen thread that
leads back to her who gave him
life. This tapestry will show the
high lights as we'll as the sombre
shadows Of his character; but the
true filial heart will never for a
moment allow that silken thread
to be severed, or even to be OBJ
scured. Writers tell us that on
the battletields Of Europe at the
present day, as the wounded roll
in agony and despair, it is not
uncommon to hear many men call
ing in their frenzy and raving,
and i'll various tongues, the name,
"Mother. " Truly the power and
the influence Of a true mother
never can be fully comprehended.
Men may rise to the highest dig
nifty in church or in state, I'M
limited power may be placed in
their hands; but the man who,
like Nero, would forget her to
whom he owes life is termed a
brute.
The renowned Dominican, Faith
er Tom Burke, on ascending the
platform before a vast assemblage
in Philadelphia, the largest gath
ering he had ever addressed, ut
tered an expression which re
echoed around the world as the
sentiment Of the race. Instead OF
taking pride in his apparent popu7
larity, he said simply: "Four
thousand miles to the East there
is a little town in Ireland. In
that town there is a little store,
and behind its counter stands a
little shrivelled old woman. But,
ladies and gentlemen, were she
here tonight she would arise in
your midst and, pointing up here
with shaking finger, she would
exclaim in her weak little voice,
that s my Toni y
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-01-20

For some time past there has
been a movement on foot to make
Washington a university center.
A committee composed OF Pro-
fessor Dana c. Monro, Professor
Charles A. Beard, Albert Bushnell
Hart. Gaillard Hunt, and Waldro
C. Leland, will meet in Washing
ton in the near future in order to
formulate plan to make the
national capital a university cen
ter for higher studies. The gov
eminent is now considering a bill
to give aid to the state for voca-
tional training. All this seems to
indicate that the Federal Govern
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-01-20
ST. PAUL.

The genius of Christianity is
ever shown not only III winning
and preserving the meek and the
religious spirit, but also in bend
ing under its golden yoke the
proudest spirits Of the world. In
the carly days she won to q life
Of sanctity an Agnes, Il Barbara,
a Domitilla. Naughty, kings, I'M
couth chieftains, felt the force Of
her primitive appeal and like
Clovis, submitted to her sway.
Powerful mOnarchs, like TheodO-
sius, bent the head low when re-
primandcd by an Ambrose for
their evil deeds. But her greatest
triumph, possibly, is III winning
and conqucring and bonding down
the so-callcd man Of the world
Paul Of Tarsus stands forth in the
first century as the typical man
Of the world. He possessed wealth
and social position. He had i'm
bibed the learning Of the Hebrews
at the feet Of Gamalicl. The
schools Of the Empire had taught
him the products OF Grecian and
Roman civilization. Paul was
learned, clever, high-spirited,
naughty, and irrepressiblc. His
energy and determination are
fully disclosed in the violence with
which he pursues the early Chris
tians. His pledge to. root them
out trunk and branch is mani
tested III the commission which he
asked and received to eradicate
them from the face Of the earth.
But the genius Of Christianity
arose to the heights and at a
simple stroke from heaven Paul
was felled on his journey Of ex-
termination. Here the inherent
greatness and sincerity Of the
man, in spite Of his errors, vaulted
over his pride. In humble sense
he might have uttered the words
blasphemously belched forth by
Julian the apostate, % Galilean,
thou hast conquered. > Humbly
did Paul submit to the voice of
Jesus that spoke to him from the
sky, and humbly did he accept
the faith and the call to labor and
to suffer and finally to die.
st. Paul stands forth among the
other Apostles as the dynamic
force which actuated the Church.
The Beloved Disciple symbolizes
the love which guides the Church
the voluble Peter was confirmed
in authority; but Paul can be
humble and breathe forth Chris
tian love i'll one moment, and the
next instant he discloses his
strength and vigor and an audac-
ity that is born of faith and con
viction.
In maternal terms he lovingly
admonishcs Timothy and his other
followers to a life Of holiness; at
the same time he fears not to up
braid even Peter himself when he
trembles for the welfare Of his
brethren. Of all the Apostles it
is, perhaps, not too much to say
that St. Paul himself resembles in
his early life the present man OF
the world. Nor is it too much to
say that the man Of the world
would do well to study Paul and
his conversion which led up to
such fervcnt Christian love as
caused the great leader OF the
Gentiles to aver that he would
become even anathema for his
brethren.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-01-20
MGR. SCHMITZ DIES

The death is announced of Monsig-
nor Emilius Schmit2, who had been
for many years rector Of the College Of
st. BOniface, Rome, which he founded
for the training Of missionary priests
for the northern countries Of Europe.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-01-20

Rev. James VI. RcardOn. EditOr-in-Ch1eF'
Rev. c. +. NcGinniS, PHI. d.,
Associate Editor.
Harry Lochecd. Advertising Manager.
Printed by WiIIwcrScheid & Roth.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-01-20
TIE ONLY WAY TO ABSTAIN.

Total abstinence from conviction is
a good way, the proper way-in fact,
it is the only way to abstain in order
to persevere. But this cannot be
made an argument, much less a valid
argument, against legislation to regu.
late, restrict or even prohibit the
manufacture and sale of alcoholic
liquors. Conviction depends on rea-
son, on arguments; and such 1egisla-
ton, y by making it more difficult to
get drink, tends to make the bibul0us
stop and think. 1t tends to make him
think why such laws are enacted, that
there must be reason or reasons gen.
orally thought sufficient to justify if
not require these laws. Reasons
must be considered Weighty that will
lead such organizations as the Anti
Saloon League, the w. G.. T. T., and
the Prohibition party to undertake
such labors and expense as they do
to check or to do away entirely with
the manufacture and sale of intoXi-
eating liquors. These things tend to
make the drinking man stop and
think, and to convince him that his
best interests lie in the way of total
abstinence. But it is one thing to be
convinced Of this, and quite another
to put his convictions into practise.
He may be too weak or too unWill-
ing to let drink alone. These laws
strengthen his weak will and help
him to persevere, just as they helped
to convert him after he was con-
vinced by them.
A Source of Strength.
Most persons have an erroneous
notion of law and it's sanctions. Law
is not a terror and oppression to men
of good will, but protection and
source of strength. And the more e1-
actly they are enforced the more of
protection and strength are they to
him. Man, like every other creature,
tends to follow the way of least re-
sistance. He is naturally self-indul-
gent; the path of self-indulgence is
the way of least resistance to him.
Whatever tends to make the gratifi-
cation of his appetites less easy, gives
more resistance to this course. 1t
bars the way, makes the path at least
somewhat difficult, and it ceases to
be that of least resistance. To drink
is a course of less resistance to the
Incorporate person than to ATTAIN
But the law that makes it more diff
cult to get drink makes it less diff
cult to abstain. So instead of crying
out against anti-liquor legislation,
even to the point of total prohibition,
and its sanction, however severe,
these Catholic papers should rather
welcome it, as it makes for temper
ance by barring the way to drink.
It may, indeed, bear hard on the
persons who can take a drink or
leave it alone, but who generally take
it; but if they will not give up their
glass, why expect the victim Of drink
to forego his keg of beer or jug of
whisky? which, by the way. their
glass is made to justify.
= VeyD ReD. III. A L0mbin0,
IN Pttsbars Observer
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The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1917-11-22
NO LOAFING ON THE JOB

What would be done with the driv-
err of an ammunition wagon who was
supposed to be carrying ammunition
to the American soldiers on the battle
front who quit the job to go fishing =?
What would be done with the man
whose business it was to get food to
the boys in the trenches who quit be-
cause he thought he had done enough
for that day, and who let the soldiers
go without their supper?
What would be done with the army
doctor who quit ministering to the
wounded because he didn't think much
of the war anyway?
That which would be done to each
of these men would be good and plen-
ty. And it would be done with the
full approval of all of US.
Then how about the man who neg
lects or refuses to do his part toward
getting the ammunition to the man
who is to take it to the front; the
food to the man who is to carry it to
the trenches; the dressings and band
ages to the surgeon. in order that he
he may perform operations and save
life? Is there any difference? The
soldier at the front is there to do his
part. The man just behind him is
there to do his. And the rest of US,
rank by rank, are here in order that
we may make it possible for all those
men to perform their work. There
must be no loafing on the job.
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1917-11-22
GERMAN ATROCITIES

Smelling hospitals, dropping poison
ed candy from the clouds for little
children to eat, mixing ground glass
in hospital bandages, unmanning
wounded soldiers, chopping off the
hands of little children, bayonetting
to death the helpless, gouging out
the eyes of the sick, violating the vir-
tue Of girls, bombarding Catholic in
stitutions and Red Cross hospitals,
poisoning court plaster are the
speakable things.
The unspeakable atrocities of the
kultured klass in Kaiserdom cannot
be printed in civilized publication.
We can tell you of things that will
set you to thinking. Here is one in
cident: They caught him. A burly
brute. He was wounded and about to
die. They took him to hospital to
save his life. He fought to keep his
clothes on. Then they mistrusted him.
He died in desperate struggle to
keep his clothes on. Then they found
in the bosom of his shirt, next to his
withered heart, two human hands-a
woman's hands, with swollen fingers
richly jeweled.
It was Pope who said: '"They are
neither men nor women. They are
neither brute nor human. They are
ghouls."
In one village the Canadian boys
found four young girls nailed to the
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1917-11-22
I'M Couldn't LOSE

They both lived in boarding
house. He lived on the first floor
from the roof. She lived on the sec,
ond floor from the street. The house
had two stories. So, you see, they
! lived pretty close together.
We have put simple story, but
it's a common story.
She was getting little older each
day. She was bound to marry some
one. She would not die an old maid.
He was only twenty.
Ten years after the wedding they
were both awake-much awake. She
was no longer willing TO make over
old dresses, as she did when bachelor
girl. :.
She would often say: 4 am a wife
now, and this is not enough. A man
should support me in better style"
For years the husband listened to a
lot of nagging. until one day he lost
his nerve, got reckless, and then lost
his job.
His failure to furnish the funds that
his good wife" required to keep up
with the Jonses aggravated the sltua-
ton, until one day this good wife"
said to him: 81 wish | had a husband
that could take care of his wife,"
If you've ever had this said to you,
and said while things are breaking a
little bad, there's no need of my en-
larging on the subject.
But to return to my story: By this
time folks would speak of him as
"poor Jim," and some would call him a
failure" with friendly accent on
the word failure"
Once the doctor told Jim thats he
was on the verge Of nervous prostra-
ton, but she said: cts all nonsense;
you have nothing to worry about"
Finally awakened to the fact that
America needed him, he walked
right out and enlisted. When he came
home that night there was look in
his face that had not been there for
years. 1t might have been hope. And
this is what he said: "Mary, I have
enlisted" and his voice shook little,
and then he added, "And I'm going to
France at once"
She screamed-of course she did.
And then she called him every name
that she could think of. But Jim stood
silent and let the words beat him
down. When she had worn herself out
with her rage, Jim calmly spoke like
this: '"Time and again you have told
me that I was no good; that l could
not make enough money to support
you; that had been drag; that you
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1917-11-22

A number of the farmer readers of
the Independent have inquired of this
paper concerning who is responsible
for damages done by stock in dis
tricts where, the herd law has been
abolished. According to law enact
ed by the legislature two years ago,
the Ward county commissioners have
declared the herd law abolished in
many of the townships of the county,
upon petition of twenty-five per cent
Of the legal voters of such townships,
Such law is suspended during def
mite time, designated in the petitions
and pending the will of the voters at
the next general election. In such
cases where the herd law has been
abolished, stock may run at large and
unless the stock breaks through a
legal fence and destroys feed or does
other damage, no damages can be
claimed by the owner of the grain or
other property.
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1917-11-22

may look at the prices quoted on meat
in the st. Pioneer Press, for example,
and find them Is to so per cent lower
than the prices charged by local meat
dealers. st. Paul is a big city and it
costs fully as much to do business
there as it does in Minot, and perhaps
more. The Independent has been CIV
en- to understand by local dealers that
according to the price that they have
to pay Armour and Swift, they can
fit. For instance, the best bacon costs
the dealer As cents per pound in Minot
and after paying the freight and 9TH
err expenses, he must get 30 or 60
cents pound to make a decent living
profit. The trouble appears to lie
largely with the big packing con-
Germs. DR.. Ladd will undoubtedly
look the matter up and see if the st.
Paul dealers are charged less than the
North Dakota dealers. Pot Roast is
quoted in the st. Paul papers at from
s to II cents a pound. In Minot they
sell for 20 to % cents a pound. Ham
is quoted at Is per cent to 25 per
cent higher in Minot and sirloin steaks
from Is to 40 per cent higher. And
still, the local dealers say they are
not making the profit they made three
years ago. 1t costs only 2 3-4 cents
a pound freight to ship meat from st.
Paul to Minot, the Independent under
stands, so there should be but little
difference in the price, unless the Mi
not dealers are being held up. The
Minot dealers and consumers alike
will welcome a thorough investigation
by DR., Ladd.
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1917-11-22

Members of the local committees
are engaged in raising five thousand
dollars in Minot for the Y. M. C. A.
war fund. Despite the fact that our
citizens have subscribed literally to
the various war funds and the two
Liberty Loans, they are responding
nobly to the present appeal for funds.
Our boys will soon be in the trenches
cover there" and after they have spent
days and nights in the muddy trench
es, fighting the very devils from hell,
they will appreciate the comforts af-
forded in the Y. M. C. A. huts which
are maintained just behind the lines.
When you are giving to the Y. M. C.
A. war fund, remember you are Civ
ing to the boys right from our own
city and district.
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1917-11-22
WAR PROFITS

CONGRESSMAN p. D. Norton, who has
returned from Washington. ID. c.
makes the following statement con-
corning the purchase Of horses III
North Dakota for the army by buyers
for the governments:
| Government officials have left the
door wide open for widespread and un,
considerable graft in the handling OF
| the purchase of army horses in North
Dakota and | will demand y congress
ional investigation when congress
opens.
The biggest holdup practiced upon
farmers of the northwest for long
time has been pulled off right here in
our midst in connection with the buy
ing of horses for the government by
contractors and middlemen.
"Of horses purchased in the state
private contractors and middlemen
having the inside track IN the matter
have taken a toll of from 4O to 70 dol
lars on horses sold to the government.
This has been made possible only by
the silence of officials who have failed
to make public the prices paid by the
government and who have allowed
these profteers to reap enormous
profits without rendering any service
in proportion to such profits, and fire.
uuently without mourning any finan-
cial liability or obligating themselves
to deliver a single horse to the gov
eminent"
Cavalry horses for which the gov
eminent paid S16O per head have been
bought from the farmers for 500 to
S115. Heavy artillery horses for which
the government paid S195 to 500 per
head have been bought from the farm
ers at from $40 to $3.50. The prac-
tice has been for government inspect
ors to go to point where horses are
brought in for inspection, the con-
tractor being onthe ground and doing
all the direct dealing with the farm
ers.
Congressman Norton will take the
matter up with the farmers of Minot
and Williston during the next few
days and it is hoped that he can point
out a way whereby they will get what
is coming to them. One buyer has
bought 1000 head of horses for the
army, from North Dakota farmers
during the past three years. The Con-
pressman would have done a fine thing
for our farmers had he discovered
that they were being "eypped" be-
fore so many of these horses were
sold. Still, he may be able to accom-
plish a great deal Of good vet.
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1917-11-22
FEED AND SEED FOR FARMERS

FEED AND SEED FOR FARMERS
It appears to the Independent that
by all means an extra session of the
legislature should be called early in
the winter. North Dakota farmers
are in quite serious plight. In many
sections of the state there has been no
crop to speak of for the past two
years. Rust and hail damaged the
1916 wheat crop and drouth caused al
most complete failure over large
part of the state this year. Many
farmers are in serious plight finan-
cially and there is no use denying this
fact. Not only are they short of
but little feed as well. Many have
been compelled to part with large
portion of their stock and to invest in
high-priced feed besides. Some barely
got their seed back and while the
quantity is small the quality is excel
lent. But they need funds to pay in
terest and living expenses. It is
feared that many will have to dispose
of their seed, as good as it is, in order
to raise funds for the winter, unless
something can be done by the state for
the farmers as a whole. And that
something ought to be done and very
soon. This country is engaged in the
greatest war in history. North Da-
kota farmers are expected to do their
part and they are doing it nobly. Many
have sent their sons and they don't
know just how they are going to car
ry on farming operations next year,
but perhaps they can manage it some
how, if they can only procure seed and
should meet and take up this matter.
ical period in her history. Our farm
ers must keep their stock and they
must be given whatever assistance
they need in procuring feed and seed.
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1917-11-22
"A LETTER FROM MOTHER"

I've just had a letter from Mother,
The last I'll get while I'm here;
For / soon will be far DER the ocean
To fight for "Old Glory's" career.
The letter was written with a pencil,
With faltering, unsteady hand.
/ could see her face as l read it
And my youth came back once again.
"My Dear Boy,"-so ran the letter;
Tomorrow you're going away.
You have answered the call to the
Colors,
And America needs you, they say.
You're giving up home for your coun-
try,
Your Mother and Father and all,
And even your life if it need be
To answer Columbia's call.
You are going away into battle,
Far, far from home and from me;
Tomorrow when dawn comes upon us
You'll be vending your way DER the
sea.
My prayers will go along with you;
And tell you truly, my boy,
When l think of the love of my coun-
try
Ny tears fade away into joy.