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The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-06-09
Oblates and Dominicans
RELIGIOUS OFFER WILSON
SERVICES.

The following letter has been sent
to President Wilson,
Washington, D. c., May 20, 1917.
MY Dear Mr.. President:
Il enclose herewith a letter from
Very Rev. T. w. Smith, o. NJ. l..
Provincial of the Oblate Fathers
offering the services of those under
his charge, to serve as Chaplains in
the Army and Navy, as they may be
needed. | feel it my duty to mention
in connection with this matter the
fact that the members of this Com
munity have been very jealous in
their care of the soldiers along the
Mexican border; whenever the regu
lar Army Chaplains have had occa
sion to communicate with me, they
have mentioned with high praise the
work of the Oblate Fathers.
Il beg leave also to bring to your
attention the fact that Very Rev. Ray
mond Meagher, o. P, Provincial OF
the Dominican Fathers, has likewise
offered the services of his Com
munity to serve in any capacity, in
which they may be most helpful.
with very great esteem, l beg tc
remain,
Respectfully yours.
LEWIS J. OHERN, c. S. P"
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-06-09

claimed for their own see supremacy
over the whole Church. The rivals
OF Rome, even when opposing the
claims Of Papacy, dared not demand
for themselves the same prerogatives.
There is, then, in the Church of
Christ, an historical center of relig-
ious unity, center which has never
existed either in Jerusalem, or Con-
stantinOple, or Moscow. He who dis
owns that center of unity is logically
forced to admit that either the
Church is headless in her earthly life,
or that her supreme government
must rest in the civil power. In the
first case, we would infer that Jesus
Christ believed religious anarchy to
be the best means of perpetuating
His work amongst men; in the sec
ond, the Church would no longer be
the universal society Of the faithful,
but political tool, department of
civil bureaucracy, suffering all the
changes and vicissitudes of human
policy and of human uncertainty. So.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-06-09
Educational Convention
c A Lie EDUCATORS WILL
MEET IN BUFFALO, NJ. ",
THIS MONTH.

The Catholic educators of the Unit
ed States will meet in Buffalo for
their fourteenth annual convention on
June 1928, inclusive. The leading
subject before the convention this
year will be the question, so long
agitated, of the standardization of
Catholic colleges. Practically all col
leges now are in favor of adopting
some minimum requirements as a
basis of entrance.
One of the features of the conven-
ton will be meeting of the repre-
sentatives of Provincials of religious
orders of women, engaged in teach
ing. The invitations for this meeting
were extended by Bishop Dougherty,
of Buffalo, and it will be held under
his auspices. Bishop Shahan,1 of the
Catholic University, will give an ad-
dress, and probably Bishop Schrembs,
of Toledo. A large number of COM
munities have already signifed their
intention of sending representatives
to this. meeting.
The meetings of the convention
will be held in the Holy Angels
School and at D'Youville College,
both of which have fine assembly
halls and auditoriums. The general
headquarters will be at Lafayette
Hotel, where on Monday evening
there will be reception for the
priests and Brothers in attendance,
the priests of Buffalo being present
to meet and welcome them.
Some of the noteworthy speakers
this year will be Rev. Michael Earls,
S. j., Worcester, Mass; Rev. Peter
G. Yorke, of San Francisco; V. Rev.
E. R. Dyer, S. S., D. d., Baltimore;
Rev. Henry Woods, S. J., Rev. Joseph
S. Cameron, Phi. D., of Rochester, N.
T., and many others.
Bishop Dougherty will give the ad-
dress at the opening Mass, and Bish-
op Shahan, the President General,
will preside at the meetings.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-06-09

Both houses OF the Wisconsin
legislature have passed a bill
which is designed to put a check
on hasty, ill-considered marriages.
The application of the groom for
a license, together with the name
of the bride-to-be, will be posted
on a bulletin board at the county
clerk s office for five days before
the license is issued. Anyone who
believes he has reasonable ground
can raise an objection. In case
objection is raised, the county
judge takes a hand and decides
whether the wedding bells shall
ring. A $50 fine is provided for
county clerks who fail to live up
to the law.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-06-09

lives TO do his share to maintain
the order demanded by humanity.
Every walk of life-religion,
science, art, literature, govern
ment-presents on the pages of
history the work of pioneers.
Every blessing enjoyed by man
today, in whatsoever sphere his
lot may be cast, is the result and
the fruit of struggles and labors
OF the part OF those who blazed
the way IN that particular sphere.
The comforts and Injuries of pres
ent-day life owe their existence to
the pioneer efforts of those who
set out for new fields of discovery
and OF invention. The liberty we
enjoy was purchased for us by
the gloriously ragged soldiers at
Valley Forge and the rough, I'M
trained farmers at Lexington and
Bunker Hill. The faith that is en-
shrined in our hearts comes down
to us as a heritage transmitted
by our ancestors from the fields
of martyrdom and suffering in
every country.
This law of compensation de-
mands inexorably that as we en-
JOY the fruits Of the labors, suffer-
ings, and service Of those who
have gone before us, so we also
dedicate ourselves to labor, to suf-
fer, to serve, each in our own ca
pacity, in order that those who
will follow us may have a. heri-
tage from us. A man who is con-
tent to enjoy his present blessings,
and who shirks the duty incum-
bent upon him to prepare bless
ings for future generations, is a
man who strives against this in
exorable law. In his case com
pensation will be melted out in
many ways.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-06-09
MISERY in MEXICO
EFFECTS OF THE REVOLUTION
ARE PAINFULLY VISIBLE.

Mr.. Louis #. Poole of Brownsville,
Tex, was in Washington on May 26
and told a reporter for the Post:
Mexico is not a cheerful place
these days. I was in Vera Cruz not
long ago, and all the sights of that
town and the vicinity were mournful
shall never forget the picture of des-
olation it wrecked engines,
dismantled trains, burned stations,
skeletons of factories and villages, lit
tie wooden crosses along the roadside
marking the place where men fell and
were buried, thousands of vultures
feasting on bodies of horses and
mules, hundreds of beggars and mis-
cry everywhere. all these making a
scene of horror that exercises a de-
pressing effect. Of course, we have
read about these conditions, yet one
must see them to realize them in all
their ghastliness."
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Cathedral Choristers
A MOST PLEASING MUSICAL
TREAT WAS GIVEN LAST WEEK
BY THIS GROWING oRGANIZA-
TON.

The Cathedral Choristers, which
have their being by the labor of
Father Talbot, were heard in festival
last week. This festival will be re-
membered as an invitational affair
for the friends and admirers of the
Cathedral Vested Choir who sang de-
lightfully.
The program was in two parts. In
part one the Choir sang number of
old liturgical chants, including Greg
orian and other Sacred Compositions
quaint and modern. The work was
good. The difficulty of singing such
music a capella is feat in itself, but
it was given finish which only hard
work and time can attain.
In part two the program was given
a patriotic touch. Commemorate
numbers were given by individual
Choristers. Four numbers were given
by the assisting soloists: Alma John
son Porteous, contralto, and James
G. Calihan, tenor. Helen Corbett was
at the piano and Mary Brown at the
organ.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-06-09
THE SACRED HEART.

If one were to delve into the
depths that produce human mo-
tives Of action and Of conduct, and
bring to the surface the profound
est underlying cause Of all these
motives, careful investigation
would discover written on that
motive the word, love. The love
of God evoked created nature out
of nothing: the love Of God pre-
serves creation within the realm of
existence. Love is the great par
adoX Of existence: it is at one and
the same time the most tender, del
icate, vulnerable emotion, and the
most powerful, irresistible, over
whelming factor in creation. Love
in it's purity can raise the basest
clod to the heights Of heroism.
Love OF country can transmute the
lowliest peasant into the might
lest leader, and we have a Joan Of
Arc Love Of God can transform
a little girl of tender years into
the valiant heroine that the pow
er of Rome could not move, and
the world honors Saint Agnes.
Genuine love, not the cheap, taw-
dry imitation that frequently
usurps its place, is the greatest Of
all human projections. In this
sphere the Master said, greater
love than this no man hath than
t that man give his life for his
friend. 7"
The heart, whence the life
streams Of man pulse forth, has
ever been known as the symbol Of
love, for love is the center whence
emanate all other virtues. The
love Of Jesus Christ, as symbolized
in His Sacred Heart, is the sweet
est, the tenderest, and the most
powerful that mortal man can
share. 1t o'ertops all time, all
space, and all conditions of man
kind, and pours forth in ceaseless
flow it's salutary stream upon the
children Of men. Before the in
famous tragedy of Calvary this
Heart was palpitating with infinite
love for the fallen creature. The
lance of the Roman soldier pierced
that depository Of love divine, and
the foodgates Of Gods mercy on
the world were broken down, as
the torrent of Christ s love gushcd
forth, never to be stayed.
The man who is insensible to the
pleadings of love is a man who has
Invested himself of his normal ma
ture. The man who can remain
deaf in the face Of the infinite love
Of Jesus Christ is comparable only
to the souls who are lost, for they
are confirmed in evil, and such an
unfortunate one confirms himself
| in evil.
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GENEROUS PATRIOTISM

Gods test of manhood is, know,
Not will he Gomez but Did he go?"
My son we'll knew that he might die,
And yet he went with purpose high,
To fight for peace and overthrow
The plans of Christ's relentless foe
He dreaded not the battle field;
He went'to make fierce vandals yield.
If he comes not again to me
I shall be sad; but not that he
Went like mana hero true
His part unselfishly to do.
My heart will feel eXultant pride
That for humanity he died.
Forgotten grave This selfish plea
AWakes no deep response in me,
For, though his grave I may not see,
My boy will ne'er forgotten be.
My real son can never die;
'Tis but his body that may lie
In foreign land, and | shall keep
Remembrance fond forever, deep
Within my heart of my true son,
Because of triumphs that he won.
1t matters not where anyone
May lie and sleep when work is done
1t matters not where some men live;
If my dear son his life must give,
Hosannas | will sing for him,
Fen though my eyes with tears be
dim.
And when the war is over, when
His gallant comrades come again,
I'll cheer them as they're marching
by,
Rejoicing that they did not die.
And when his vacant place I see,
My heart will bound with joy that hi
Was mine so long-my fair. youns
| SON
And cheer for him whose work i!
done.
DR. James Hughes.
| Greater significance is given Il
| these lines of DR.. Hughes by the fac
that his own son was killed in action
| some time ago, and now lies buried il
| France)
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-06-09

1t is stated that at a meeting Of
the Evangelical Alliance, held on
May %, in st. Louis, resolution
introduced by Rev. DR.. ii. Holton
was adopted, entrusting all
Protestant religious work in St.
Louis and vicinity for the regular
army and the naval recruits to
the Y. M. G. A. Considering that
a large proportion of enlisted men
will be Of the Catholic faith it
will be interesting to observe
what steps our people will take to
promote the welfare Of our fellow
religionists.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-06-09
GREAT BRITISH JURlSTS ON
DRINK.

Lord Coleridge: 1.-The shortest way
OF shutting up half our gaols, and
diminishing the mass of our criminal
population, would be to make Eng
land sober. Drunkenness tends to
crime, and increases the expenditure
of the sober people of this country"
= Justice Hawkins (Lord Brampton):
"Nine-tenths of the crimes in the
calendar seem to have been commit
ted under the influence of intoxica
ton"
Judge Rentoul: Several of our
greatest judges have stated that 80
per cent of all the crime they have
tried arise from drink. l can say
exactly the same-but I have found
the evils arising from drink greater
in the Civil than in the Criminal
Courts. The unhappiness, poverty,
hatred, and ill-will arising from the
amount of money spent in drink by
some. members of the family are
worse in their effects than actual
crime, and l speak with equal ex-
perience in both Courts
/ ONoANN AAdJ PCA dACC HOS uC-
stroyed large numbers of people, and
will, at the present rate of increase,
in time destroy the country itself. In
toxicating drink is totally unneces-
sary.'
Justice Grantham: Twelve MUIR
ders, eighteen attempts at murder,
and woundings without number, that
were just as likely to have ended in
murder, have been mine and my
brother judges daily fare for the last
four weeks in one Circuit; and in al
most every case drink was the cause"
Justice Mellor: ut is the duty of
all who value the prosperity of the
country to strive to diminish and put
an end to this vice of drunkenness,
and in doing this they must not be
too nice about it,
Justice Fitzgerald: "The crying and
besetting crime of intemperance-
crime leading to nearly all other
crimes-a crime which might very
well say leads to nineteen-twentieth
Of the crimes Of this country
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-06-09
MoB1L1z1NG THE CHILDREN

It is but natural that a period
of volcanic unrest like the pres
ent should bring into the open
many strange theories of life and
conduct. Persons accustomed to
little serious thinking in time of
peace contract a habit of going
off at a tangent during a time like
the present.
The proportionate excess of fe-
males in the war-ridden countries,
the real or imagined perils to in
dustry, the effect Of the present
war on the generations to come,
and such like subjects engage the
attention of many serious-minded,
thinking men. But the man of
small caliber (and large bore) +,
the man with a moral twist in his
makeup, strives to remedy exist
ing or future evils by thoughtless
or malicious application of false
ideas. Hence it is that during the
present time an effort is being
made to suspend the Federal Child
Labor Law during the period of
the war, on the plea that the chill
dren will be needed to take the
place Of men in the mills and fac
tories.
Surely, it were inconsistent, if
not ludicrous, that a large and
powerful nation like the United
States should be forced to such a
step. With a population Of more
than one hundred million persons
it scarcely can be said with truth
that it will be secessary to subject
the tender hands and weak limbs
of small children to the exacting
toll of mill or factory-toil that
ordinarily requires the strength
and the endurance of adult per-
sons. If this country, as we are
told, is going into the war to up
hold the rights of humanity, it
were preposterous and outrageous
to expect that we can stand idly
by while the most vital, the most
helpless, the most unprotected
portion of humanity-the children
are forced to bend their unma-
tured shoulders to the tasks of a
man. The growing child needs
mental as well as physical nourish-
ment and freedom from exactine
labor: this is the basis upon which
the struggle for the Federal Child
Labor Law was waged, What an
eternal brand of shame would BE
stamped upon our banner were it
said that this great United States
could not raise an army Of men
to uphold the flag without also
raising an army Of children to
slave in our centers of industry.
1t is to be hoped that these
thoughtless men, who advocate a
suspension of the above law, will
see the error of their position, and
not tempt the government in its
hour of peril and stress to drive
immense numbers of tender chill
dren into what would be for them
nothing more or less than a state
of slavery.
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A VIEW OF LOYALTY THAT IN
WOLVES SACRIFICE GENERoS-
ITY DEMANDED IN THOSE LEFT
BEHIND.

Il Did Not Raise My Son to Be a
Soldier BY Edwin Markham.
0 mothers, will you longer give your
sons
To feed the awful hunger of the guns {?
What is the worth of all these battle
drums
If from the field the loved one neve.
comes?
What all these hosa1nas to the brave
Ii all your share is some forgotten
grave?
The Unselfish Mothers Answer.
God gave my son in trust to me;
Christ died for him, and he should be
A man for Christ; he is His own,
And Gods and Mans; not mine alone.
He was not mine ito give" He gave
Himself that he might help to save
All that Christian should revere,
All that enlightened men hold dear.
ITO feed the guns" Oh, torpid soul,
When freedom, honor, justice, right,
Were threatened by the despot's
might,
With heart afiame and soul alight,
He bravely went for God to fight
Against base savages whose pride
The laws of God and man defied;
Who slew the mother and her child;
Who maidens pure and sweet defiled
He did not go ito feed the guns
He went to save from ruthless Huns
His home and country, and to be
A guardian of democracy.
What if he does not Gomez" you say:
All, well, my sky would be more gray
But through the clouds the sun would
shine,
And vital memories be mine.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-06-09

Abiding to the late Sir Francis
Burnand s connection with Lon
don's well known comic weekly,
Punch" which extended over
forty years, the Daily Tele-
graph" Of the same city notes the
anomaly of "a fervent Catholic
conducting a popular periodical
that had once been violently
Protestant and anti-Catholic, par
ticularly in the days of Cardinal
Wiseman and Lord John Russell. =
It might, however, have also re-
ferred to the fact that Punch 81
first and greatest cartoonist, Rich
ard Doyle, resigned his position in
those days rather than obey an
order to draw cartoon which
would have been insulting to the
Dnna
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-06-09

Admirers of the late Count
TOlstoy are recalling his prediction
that about 1915 the strange figure
from the North-a new Napoleon
would enter the stage of the
bloody drama. He is to be a man
Of little military training, writer,
or journalist, but in his grip
most of Europe will remain until
1925. Some writer's point to Lord
NOrthcliffe as such man.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-06-09

The Church has declared that
the feast Of the Sacred Heart was
established in order that, under
the symbol of the Sacred Heart,
the faithful might honor with
greater devotion and fervor the
charity, the love Of Jesus Christ,
which led Him to institute, in COM
memoration of His death, the Sac
rament of His Body and Blood.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-06-09
National Union Meeting

The forty-third annual convention
of the Catholic Young Mems National
Union will be held in the city of
Philadelphia, beginning on August
Is. The convention will be formally
opened with a Pontifical Mass the
following day in the Cathedral.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-06-09
Gift Of Non-Catholic

Daniel R. Hanna, son of the late
Senator Mark Hanna, has presented
as mark of personal friendship city
property and business buildings sit
uated in Ravenna, o., and valued at
$4,000, to Rev. Chas. H. Gardner,
pastor of the Immaculate Concep-
ton church, of that city.
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HEADLESS CHURCHES
CATHOLICS ALONE PROFESS Al
LEGlANcE TO ONE UNcHANGE-
ABLE SPIRITUAL HEAD.

The Russian church is left by the
busting of the car without head,
just as the destruction of the mon
archy in England would leave the
church established by Henry VIII.
Vladimir Solovyer, writing in The
Catholic World, has these sensible
words about the Holy Synod:
Throughout the Christian world
only the Bishops of Rome have
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-06-09
Catholic Admiral

Rear Admiral Augustus F. Fechte.
Ter, u. S.. N, has been placed in com
mand of the sixth division of the bat;
tleship fleet somewhere at sea-
The Admiral, who was born in Prus.
STA, is a Catholic. and was educated by
the Christian Brothers, New York.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-06-09
Golden Jubilee

Right Reverend Bishop McGolrick
of Duluth, Mimi, will celebrate the
golden jubilee of his priesthood on
Tuesday, June 26. He was ordained
in All Hallows' College, Dublin, in
June, 1867. Three years ago the sill
yer jubilee of his elevation to the
episcopate took place.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-06-09

1t seems a difficult thing to pre-
pare modern young men for the
task of defending their Church.
Cardinal Newman desires that the
Catholic young man who enjoys
the privilege Of higher education
should be at least as conversant
with sacred and profane history
as is the educated catholic.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-06-09
Father O'Hara will Receive
Degree

Rev. E. v O'Hara of Portland,
Oregon, has distinguished himself in
sociological work. The University of
its Diamond Jubilee to confer upon
him the degree of Doctor of Laws
in recognition of his public services.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-06-09

A subscriber submits two clip
pings from Catholic papers in
which a curse is placed upon GER
tain enemies and upon all who will
forgive these enemies. The sub
Scriber wished to know if this is
Catholic teaching and if we pro-
TESS such doctrine. We answer,
to both questions, decidedly no.
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SATURDAY, JUNE 9, 1912.

Friday, June Is, will be the
feast of the Sacred Heart Of Jesus.
1t is a day that should be express
ly dear to every devout Catholic
who recognizes in that Sacred
Heart the source of all blessings
here, Of all happiness hereafter.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-06-09

An intensely practical booklet
of twenty pages has been issued
by the Central-Verein. 1t is en-
titled, "Guide Right" and bears
the appreciation of Archbishop
Glennon. 1t is intended as a
moral guide for the soldier, and
it is as practical as it is brief.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-06-09

4 The President has proclaimed
gthe week ending June 25. 1917,
as Red Cross week, during which
the people of the United States
will be called upon to give gener-
ouSly and in a spirit of patriotic
sacrifice for the support and main
tenance Of this work Of national
need
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-06-09

Rev, James NJ. ReardOn, EditOr-tn-Chief
Rev. c. +. McGinnis. PHI. d.,
Associate Editor.
Harry LOcheed, Advertising Manager.
Printed by WiIIwerscheid & Roth.
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Remittance may be made by Draft,
Post Office or Express Money Oroer, OF
Registered Letter, addressed to
THE CATHOLIC BULLETIN,
Bis Newton Bldg, st. Paul, Minnesota.
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Entered as second class matter, jan
uary IL, 1911, at the post office, st.
Paul, Mimi, under Act of March 3. 1879.
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/ Did Not Raise My Son to Be
Soldier" BY Edwin Markham.