The Irish standard., 1917-05-26
Catholic Patriotic Echoes
On War Preparedness

(From Address of Chaplain Duff, for
Which He Received Thanks of War
Secretary Bakery
The navy today is practically a
great school. The enlisted man can
enter between the ages of sixteen
and thirty years; he is then sent to a
training school and there for six
he is instructed in arthme-
tic, spelling, reading and history and
put through it's drills, and then sent
to the battleship. When he reaches
the battleship, he is asked if he
wishes to pursue his studies, and if
so, he is given opportunity of advanc-
ing still further. When he is sent to
the training station, a list of trades
is put before him. He is asked if he
would like to become a mechanic, if
he would like to become ships
filter, a plumber, if he would like to
learn the trade of carpenter, if he
would like to become a musician, a
baker, if he would like to take up the
study of medicine, if he would like
to become a yeoman-which is an
other word for. secretary-and after
he has decided, he is put into the
branch which he selects, and his
teachers see that he becomes pro-
ficient in that branch, and, so, after
all, it is like great university, q
great school, where every one can Sc
lect and follow his vocation.
Rev. Francis Murphy at Patriotic Meet
ing in sheboygan, Wis.
Next to God is country, and next
to religion is patriotism. Patriotism
is the vital spark of the nations hon
or, the strong shield of the nations
safety.
"The thundertones of duty are
sounding in our ears. We must act.
Its a grand old flag, your flag and
mine! 1t has protected you and has
sheltered me. It's the symbol of hui
man rights and human liberty 1t
means more to humanity than any
other flag on earth. We call it the
Conquering Banner. It's never furled
in defeat. Wherever that flag goes,
thither goes liberty. Let us VOW it
warm-hearted devotion, answering
loyalty, active, intense patriotism.
1--WE must be up and doing. Our
country wants us all, wants you and
wants me-needs our purest love, our
sublimest service. Let us pledge our
all, whenever, and wherever we can
best serve.
Before the tocsin of war had
sounded for us, some of us may have
wished to select for ourselves the al
lies as the enemies of our flag. But
now that our country's choice is made,
we'll fight for that flag, with any
friends and against any foes.''
William p. Larkin, Supreme Director
of X. c., at New York knights OF
Columbus Meeting.
Catholic and Protestant hands have
together woven the fabric of the flag
from the days of Lexington and Con
cord, and the green grass breaks low
ingly from the commingled dust of
Catholic and Protestant on every bat
tlefield of the Republic.
And today, when supreme trials
are again testing the soul of the ma
ton, when the temples Of democracy
are in danger of being overthrown;
when the heritage of liberty that has
been bequeathed to us in the blood of
the men who have gone before is
threatened with destruction, the spirit
that animated them will quicken our
souls too, and please God there shall
be an. end of suspicion and bigotry and
sectarianism; and Americans all we
shall face into the Valley of the Shad-
ow of Death, if Divine Providence so
DEGREES, to keep the old flag flying on
land and sea, and that Columbia may
remain the Citadel of Freedom and
Liberty among the nations Of the
earth"
A Timely Protest.
Sir Edward Feeney, X. S. G., former
National President of Federation, to
M. Viviani, French Commissioner to
the United States:
M. Viviani, you are today a great
power in France. When you return
to your people, go to the Chamber OF
Deputies and advise the cannibal NJ
Sixte-Quintin to have his resolution
drafting priests as regular soldiers
rescinded. Tell your Socialist Cham
Der of Deputies that in America VIC
do not eat ministers of the Gospel OF
Christ because we~do not agree with
their teachings. Here mans re
ligious belief is his own affair. Fur
Their, that France needs the blood OF
American Catholics, who believe that
the priest, the ordained of God, is
worthy of respect and reverence; that
we think it was infamous to force
French priests into the trenches
where 1000 of them have been killed /;
that the despised Hun did not force
the priest into the trench; that the one
great blot upon France in this war has
been the cowardly effort of the French