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The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-01-26
Bakst Theory of Colors

Leon Bakst, the celebrated artist who designed most of the scenery and stage decoration of the Serge de Diaghileff's Ballet Russo, with Nijin- sky, which is scheduled to appear at the Jefferson Thursday for a limited engagement of one night, has well defined ideas about the creation of his effects which seem grotesque and bizarre to many people.
 q have often noticed" he told an interviewer in Paris shortly before sailing to America to join the de Diaghileff ballet, that in each color of the prism there exists gradua- tion which sometimes expresses frank ness and chastity, sometimes sensual ity and bestiality, sometimes pride and sometimes despair. Any of these may be given over to the public by the effect one makes of the various shad- ings. That is what I tried to do in 'Scheherazade.' Against a lugubrious green l put full blue of despair, paradoxical as it may seem. There are reds which are triumphal, reds which assassinate. There is blue which can be the color of a St. Madeleine; and there Is the blue of a Messalina1
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-01-26
.HEFL|N SUGGESTS RAISING REVENUE
 TAXING FUTURES
The Alabama Congressman Would Take This Method to Curb Unrestrained
 Speculation in Cotton

Washington. January 25.-Demo- cratic members of the House ways and means committee have stricken out of the new revenue bill the provision
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-01-26
Woman of Underworld Pleads Cause of Her Kind
 From San Francisco Pulpit

San Francisco, January 25.-The Rev Paul Smith, pastor of the Central Methodist church. who has been lead
 ing a campaign for the suppression of
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-08-25

mate one chaplain was to be APP
pointed for every twelve hundred
men. Unless a new law is passed
the number of chaplains for all
denominations will thus be reduc-
ed by nearly two-thirds. This is
most regrettable as it will be very
difficult for one chaplain to at
tend to the spiritual needs OF so
large number.
Under the circumstances the
Knights of Columbus and Catho-
lies generally will take advantage
OF the opportunity to send volun-
teer chaplains to accompany the
forces. This unexpected change
in conditions regarding the troops
will throw an even heavier burden
upon the valiant Knights and all
Catholics during the present
crisis. 1t is not too much to hope
and to expect that all Catholics
will realize the increased necessi-
ty for assisting in every way pos
sible those heroic priests who will
be called to serve our Catholic
soldiers in a spiritual capacity.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-08-25

shape, and the will clings more
tenaciously than before to objects
of its own individual tendencies.
This is the time when earlier i'm
pressions appear, so to say, in
concrete form. The youth begins
to deliberate with himself as to
whether these earlier ideas are the
exclusive heirloom of childhood,
or whether they have any direct
bearing on the actualities of
existence. Virtue and evil fire.
quently appear in disguised
forms. The mind is not always
capable Of understanding the
nature Of either; the will not al
ways strong enough to choose
that which the intellect dictates.
During this period, which is
probably between the twelfth and
eighteenth year, youth has great
need of mature guidance from
others. A mentor, friend, a
parent can mold the future of this
youth with apparent ease. He
can be directed in paths that lead
toward honor and virtue, or on
the road which is broad and pleas
ant, and whose end is destruction.
Woe betide the parent who
neglects or who omits to give the
proper instruction to such a
youth. General counsel can be
afforded by religion. Individual
instruction must come chiefly
from the parents. If they be all
that God and nature intended
them to be, if they have the
eternal as well as the temporal
interests Of their offspring at
heart, they will spare no means to
preserve the flower Of innocence
fresh and unsullied through the
dangers that surround it. If
through their want of foresight
or any other motive they allow
this flower to wilt or droop in the
garden Of humanity, they need
expect little mercy before the
tribunal Of God. For a soul lost
through another's criminal neg
lect is so powerful an argument
for the damnation of the guilty
one that only the extreme mercy
| of an all-knowing God is able to
solve it.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-08-25
THE IRISH CONVENTION
OPINIONS OF LEADING IRISH
STATESMEN WITH REGARD TO
AIMS OF THE coNvENTlON--
CANADIAN MODEL MAY BE FOL.
LOWED.

The Irish convention, which adj
journed until August 20, is proceeding
cautiously and slowly in its delibera-
tons. Some of the leaders In ana
out Of Parliament have expressed
opinions as to the outcome OF the
meeting and the needs of the coun-
try.
The Rev. DIR. John Pentland Ma
haffy, Provost of Trinity College,
Dublin, declared:
In my opinion, solution will be
found in the creating of separate pro-
vincial governments, to be afterward
unified on the South African model
Lord Dunraven observed:
Il think the Canadian model, with
necessary notifications, probably VIII
be found to be the most generally
acceptable solution, provided the
scheme is submitted to a referendum
to secure listers adherence.
\ Sir Thomas Grattan Esmonde, 9
Nationalist member Of Parliament
said:
we are aiming at dominion sell
government, which would satisfy tne
Nationalist. am Indifferent as to
whether we should have continued
ranrnSanfafinn d Il aYNnsfuninSter unless
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-08-25
KING OF SPAIN
HE HAS ESTABLISHED AN Eff
FEcTUAL AGENCY FOR TRACING
THE MISSING PRISONERS OF
WAR.

1t is a source of satisfaction for
those in Europe who are intimately
interested in the work of tracing the
whereabouts of prisoners of war to
know that, after the Pope, one of the
most effectual agents I'm this respect
is the King of Spain. Alphonsus XIII
has as many as twenty men working
every day in the bureau which he
established in Madrid to perform this
work of charity. Many non-Catholics
experiment on the ability of the Span
ish bureau before trying that of the
one which the Pope has established
in the Vatican.
This latter is working harder today
than at any day these three years,
and with wonderful success. When in
the Office the other day hunting up by
request a few soldiers, the chief of the
Vatican bureau explained the methods
upon which his staff of priests and
laymen work from the hour they start
to find a soldier somewhere in
Europe" to that on which they have
set him in communication with his
relatives.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-08-25
Cardinals Titular Church
ENGLISH CARDINAL HAS GRAVE
IN THE ROMAN CHURCH OF
CARDINAL GIBBONS.

In reference to the eighty-third
birthday of Cardinal Gibbons, last
month, a writer in the Baltimore Sun
recalls a fact about the Cardinals
titular church in Rome, Santa Maria
in Trastevere, or across the Tiber.
The church, according to tradition,
dates from A. d. 221, having been
built by Pope Callistus, and is regard
ed as the first edifice dedicated to
Christian worship in Rome. The
portrait Of the Cardinal, which looks
down upon the visitor, assume to
have been taken not far from 1886 or
1887. The expression of the face as
we'll as the circumstance that his
elevation to the Cardinalate dates
from June, 1886, tends to confirm the
accuracy Of this judgment. 1t has an
elevated position, on the left of the
high altar.
To the student of literature and his
tory there lies an especial interest in
the fact that one of Shakespeare s
notable characters, himself a Cardi-
nal, has a grave in the church OF our
American Cardinal In the portico to
the left of the building we find the
sarcophagus in which is buried Cardi-
nal Campeggio, in his Latinized form,
the Campeius of Shakespeare's Henry
VIII, who in conjunction with Wolsey,
was engaged in the divorce proceed.
ings instituted by Henry against
Catherine of Aragon, an event unex'
celled in power of tragic appeal and
pathos in all the annals Of England
whether glorified by art or idealized
lby the shaping spirit Of dramatic i'm
agination.
The church has another element q
association with English historic life
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-08-25
an Imperial Federal Constitution j.

an Imperial Federal Constitution is
established"
Lord Middleton, who has succeeded
Sir Edward Carson as chairman of
the Irish Unionist Alliance, which was
founded to oppose any sort of Home
Rule, and who heretofore has been
regarded as the leading irreconcilable,
remarked:
Il suggest creating four states to
comprise the Irish Commonwealth,
although recognize there would be
great difficulty in balancing trade adj
vantages and defense responsibilities
think the decision should include
early revision of the empires con-
stitution. The delegates are receiving
printed details of the dominion con-
stitution for their guidance" which
is considered a significant fact.
Lord Chief Justice (of Ireland)
Campbell, lately member of Parlia.
ment for Dublin University, Carson
second in command in Ulster, said:
eff a solution is reached, it prob
ably will be on the Canadian model
but Ulster would resist being placed
under an executive in Dublin
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-08-25
INNOCENCE OF YOUTH.

The mind Of the child has been
described by the ancients as a
tabula rasa-a blank page-on
which impressions are to be re
corded. AS the faculties Of body
and soul gradually develop and
unfold, Impressions are traced
upon the mind. Since the child
possesses, strictly speaking, no in
nate tendency towards one
source Of Impressions rather than
towards another, it becomes .ap-
parent that the images stamped
upon the mind will proceed or
dinarily from surroundings, ex-
ample, and teaching. AS the exer-
else of the will begins to emerge
from its embryonic state, the in;
dividual child uses his power 81
selection and of rejection. The
effect of original sin still remains
in the intellect and in the will
For this reason the child, entering
the state of manhood or of woman
hood, may become good or bao
despite external factors. Hence
full many a flower is born tc
blush unseen, and waste it,
sweetness on the desert air, Of
uncongenial surroundings. Gener
ally speaking, innocence is the
prerogative of childhood.
There comes period, however
a stage, where the brook and
river meet, !" when innocence is ex
posed to- danger from within, tt
peril from without. AT that lcriti
cal time in life the youth is ap
preaching maturity Life and it
- 4 "A fi7oifl
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-08-25

Agnes Repplier, the noted
Catholic essayist, says: Il have
long since lost patience with If,
religious schooling. 1t is so thin,
so metallic, SO unwarrantedly
complacent, so aloof from the
great currents of thought, the
great enthusiasms, the great pur.
poses of the past! Apart from the
prop which faith lends morality
it lights up history and interprets
the heart of man. 1t also serves
to steady our not justifable pride
1t is like the good landscape back
ground which the famous English
portrait painters loved to give
subjects. +"
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-08-25
"ABSORBED IN PRAYER.

One of the results Of prayer
when practiced in a high degree
is to cause the soul to remain IN
state Of abstraction from earth
ly surroundings. We read in the
Lives Of the Saints that many OF
these holy men and women prac-
ticed prayer to such point that
they became oblivious of all human
needs. A surprising thing, how
ever, at the present day is that
many persons, not otherwise fam
ed for sanctity, frequently become
so absorbed in prayer that they
always become oblivious to ex-
ternal happenings least to
some happenings.
These persons possess what may
be called the sporadic gift of
prayer. That is, they enjoy that
gift only occasionally. The prin-
cipal occasion upon which they
are observed to be in full fruition
Of this blessed gift is about the
time the ushers begin to take up
the offering Of the faithful at Sun
day Mass. The ushers themselves
are the best witnesses, almost the
exclusive witnesses, to this won
drous gift which these chosen souls
enjoy. The Church commands
that all the faithful contribute
according to their means to the
support of her works. The occa-
sion for complying with this duty
is usually when the usher timidly
approaches and falteringly ex-
tends a receptacle for the slender
Offerings. Alas, usually, in fact
invariably, it is at that very mo-
ment that these elect souls feel
the moving of the spirit. With
eyes fixed humbly upon the floor
hands folded tenderly in submis-
sive guise, and soul elevated and
glancing furtively from the corner
of their eye, these devout ones
await in fearful trepidation until
the distracting usher with his
annoying receptacle has vanished
in the distance.
| Far be it from an ordinary NOR.
tai to enter into the secret sane,
tuary Of these devout souls and to
search out their motives. Human
intelligence, however, seems t6
apprize us that if the motive oil
| such persons be good, the time
which they choose for their alb
sorbing process is, to say the
least, inopportune. In fact, such
action, to speak plainly, is no
tonly hypocrisy, but it is deliber
ate dodging-artful or artless- o1
ones Christian duty. It is al
EVIL that has become widespread
as nearly every pastor Of souls
can attest, and it is most disgust
4 ing in it's childishness, and some
d times sinful in its direct evasion
I of compliance with the law which
|, commands us to contribute to thu
support of the Church.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-08-25
Canadian Consumption
CARDINAL BEGIN ISSUES LETTER
OF PROTEST-NEW LAW DOES
NOT EXEMPT YOUNG MEN
STUDYING FOR THE PRIEST
HOOD.

Cardinal Begin, Archbishop of Que
denouncing the new Consumption
Law, which does not exempt ecclesi-
astical students from enforced mill
tary service. He says in part:
This CONSUMPTION law is a menace
which causes the Canadian clergy the
worst apprehensions.
"This military service, as it is pro-
posed, or at least, as we are enabled
to judge from the speeches and state
ments it's discussions have provoked
is not only a serious blow to the rights
of the Church of Christ, independent
in its domain, and whose laws and
practice exempt the clergy and that
class of the society which that name
designates from the service under
arms, but the CONSUMPTION law also
constitutes a fatal obstacle to the re-
cruiting of ministers of God, shep-
herds of souls, as well as to that of
the staff of clerical teachers, and
through this. very fact, it creates, in
our society, an evil much worse than
that which it pretends to remedy"
Referring to the unsatisfactory
clause regarding exemption boards,
he writes:
IF we judge by the very rude
knowledge revealed by certain speech
es made in the Commons one may
indeed fear that some legislators so
little enlightened and maybe also
somewhat illwilled, may not make a
choice that we would approve, and
here is what legitimatizes all the
fears.
'On the other hand, treaties assure
the Canadian Catholics the free prac-
tice of their religion. The legislation
under way may strike such liberty a
political wisdom will, in the end,
overcome in the hearts of our states
men the urgings and counsel of GER
tain elements liable to trouble for
ever the peace of this country and
that no one will dare, on matter SO
important and delicate, hurt the sen,
timents of the whole Catholic popu-
lation of the Dominion and impru-
IDENTIFY sow, on this side of the At
lantic, the seed of the fatal religious
discords that have divided the old
world"
Commenting on Cardinal Begins
important utterance the Montreal
correspondent of the New York Times
says:
''This statement, coming from the
Archbishop of the ancient capital of
Quebec, has created profound sen.
sation. The CONSUMPTION bill speci
| fically eXempts all clergy who are
entitled to exemption under the old
treaty rights granted the Church OF
Rome in this province, and the only
persons it affects are divinity stu
! dents who are not yet priests.
"There was a proposal to exempt
| divinity students at first, but it was
| eliminated from. the bill as the result
of extreme pressure brought to bear
by Ontario and the West"
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-08-25

Last Sunday the Evangelical
Lutheran Synod of various states
commemorated the anniversary of
their foundation. The Rev. Julius
Gamm, in the anniversary sermon
in the st. Paul Auditorium, is
quoted as having stated that four
hundred years ago Martin Luther
,sowed the seeds of liberty. Ii
history be correct, he also sowed
several other things. His catering
to autocracy was, to say the least
a strange method Of promoting
democracy.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-08-25
ARMY OFFICERS AND ALCOHOL

Grenfell, Kitchener and Roberts of
Great Britain, Won Haeseler of Ger
many and Wahlberg of Finland have
testified that, from their keen OBJ
servation of soldiers engaged in war
fare, abstainers from alcohol can
stand up under hard work better than
non-abstainers, even though they
drink in so-called moderation.
A certain doctor took two gangs of
soldiers and set them to work at the
same kind of manual labor. To one
gang he gave an alcoholic beverage.
To the other gang he gave none.
The gang without the alcohol did far
more work than the gang with it.
The next time he tried the same
experiment he shifted the gangs
Again the gang without the alcohol
did the most work, showing that the
result of the first experiment was not
due to a superiority of the men.
Arthur Hunter, president of the
Actuarial Society of America, and
actuary of the New York Life In
surance Company, says that "the
laborer who gains his livelihood by
the strength of his arm destroys by
the use of alcohol the very foundation
of his efficiency"
Yet it is the laboring man who
supports the saloon.
Alcohol is also the same handicap
to mental workers that it is to
physical workers. Experiments have
been made with translating one lam
guage into another, with rifle shoot
ing, with memory, etc.-all showing
marked loss of power to think after
the use of alcohol.
The alcoholist is a poor surgical
patient. Surgeons dread to tackle
the patient who has been steady
drinker He has less than the normal
powers OF irecuperation.
The man in the liquor business
is a poor life insurance risk. The
experience of life insurance COM
panies has been SO unfortunate with
this class Of people that they are now
classified along with people engaged
in hazardous occupations" To deal
with liquor is indeed hazardous oc-
cupation, fol, the barkeeper is likely
to be constantly tempted, and the con-
slant use of liquor undermines the
health. The death rate of the saloon
proprietors is said to be 1872 per cent
of the regular death rate.
-NeD Century.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-08-25
CATHOLIC ARMY CHAPLAINs

Acting upon advices from the
United States military COM
mander in France the government
at Washington has decided upon
a reconstruction Of military
forces. Hereafter each regiment
will be composed Of $500 men,
nearly three times as many as
constitute regiment according
to American standards. Accord
ing to law only one chaplain is
allowed to each regiment. Hence
it is clear to see that under this
new method d chaplain will have
the care Of nearly three thousand
men. According ia the first pSti.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-08-25
DOMAIN OF TEMPERANCE
CHRONIC ALCOHOLISM.


OF much greater significance than
the single acute alcohol poisoning,
says Prof. Karl Dehio of Dorpat, Rus
STA, in The Scientific Temperance
Journal, is the chronic form of the
use of alcohol which leads to chronic
alcoholism This consists, in the
strict sense, of continued series of
single acute poisonings. If the
separate indulgences in alcohol follow
each other in such succession that
sufficient time intervenes between
them for the after-effects of the first
dose to completely disappear before
the second is taken, then we have
to do with cases of repeated separate
drinking, but not with the condition
of chronic alcoholic poisoning where
the body is constantly under the in
f1uence of the after-effects of alcohol.
If, on the other hand, the doses of
alcohol are repeated so closely to-
gether that the effect of the second
dose begins before the after-effects Of
the first have disappeared, then the
ChCSLo are anu CduS0 CUT
| responding disorders.
A so-called moderate quantity of
alcohol leaves behind effects that are
not completely gone after twenty-four
| hours. The repetition of such guam
tity every twenty-four hours leads,
therefore, gradually to an accumula-
| ton of the effects, to a continuous
effect, which is manifested in
chronic diminution of mental and
physical executive ability. Then we
have before us the conditions of
chronic alcoholism.
| 1t is evident that the origin of
chronic alcoholism depends not so
much upon the size of the simple dose
as upon repeated drinking at such
short intervals that complete recov-
cry of the organism does not take
place.
Since for such restitution from
moderate doses of alcohol, at least
twenty-four hours are necessary, there
is danger in the daily use of alcohol,
even if every single time only So
called moderate quantities are used.
From the foregoing, 1 come to the
following conclusion:
| Whoever desires not to put himself
in danger of chronic alcoholism, will
avoid taking alcoholic drinks regular
ly and daily, for experience teaches
that whoever drinks daily consumes
as rule such quantities that con-
tlnued effects and chronic conse-
quences ensue; in other words, he be-
comes chronic alcoholic.
/ would not be misunderstood.
know many honorable men who drink
without becoming drunken and with
out laying themselves open to charges
of neglect of duty, men who would
vigorously protest against being look
ed upon by their fellow citizens as
drinkers. Nevertheless, the sharp eye
of the physician and other keen OBJ
servers detect in them certain
physical clumsiness, a certain dull
ness of the senses and of the mind,
a certain Incidence and indifference to
! political, social, and ethical ques-
! lions, which can be explained only as
light degenerative symptoms resulting
from chronic alcoholism.