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The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-03-03
Unite Catholic Publicists
A CORPORATION is ORGANIZED
IN FRANCE BY RENE Balm,
AND is APPROVED BY BISHOPS,

M. Rene Bazin, the eminent Cath
Ollie novelist, whose masterpieces are
almost as well known in the United
States as in his native land, has for
some time been accomplishing a
thoroughly apostolic work.
Thanks to his initiative and untir-
ing efforts, The Corporation of Cath
Ollie Publicists,' of which he has been
appointed president. has been found
ed. Taught by the lessons of the war,
the distinguished writer and his asso-
ciates wish to unite their country
after the war, politically and morally,
for its true and real interests. The
appeal is made to men of all parties
and creeds. But one Of the main pur-
poses of the corporation is to unite
all Catholics i'll a great campaign, and
to use the Catholic press, all Catholic
writer's, sociologists, speakers, teach
ers, and men in public life for the end
proposed. The program of the corpo-
ration has been issued under the title,
"The Necessary Reforms" Catholic
SlHClcuCS ID oue VI us WdLCuWOFuS
and it's strongest appeal is to the faith
the zeal and patriotism of French
Catholics, but it is addressed to all
men Of common sense and good
faith
The program has everywhere MET
with warm welcome. The French
Bishops in particular have given il
their heartfelt approval
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-03-03
CATHOLIC INSCRIPTION
FORBIDDEN
PROTESTANT INTOLERANCE IN
LIMERICK.

Some time ago, remarks the London
Catholic Times, a Catholic lady in
Limerick, Ireland Mrs. M. Mcnamara,
ordered that an inscription should be
engraved on tombstone erected at
the grave of her parents in st. Mum
chin's cemetery. The inscription
contained an appeal to Our Lord for
mercy on the souls of the deceased.
Though Catholics as well as Protes-
tants are buried in the cemetery, the
Select Vestry Committee of St. Mum
chin's Protestant Church objected to
the inscription. Canon Robertson,
one of the members of the Vestry,
emphatically declared that such an
inscription could not be tolerated
because prayer for the dead was con-
trary to the doctrine of the Irish
Protestant Episcopal Church, and
measures were adopted to prevent the
execution of the work. Mrs. McNam-
ara has taken legal proceedings and
has obtained decree of So ($25.0O)
against the Vestry for obstruction.
Judge Law Smith, who heard the
charge at the Limerick Sessions, re-
marked: 1T is the most terrible case
of sectarian bigotry have ever expert
enced, and coming from the North, |
know what that is" We could upder-
stand the Vestry's assumption of the
right to object if the proposal were to
place the inscription over the grave of
a member or members of the Irish
Protestant Episcopal Church, though
how it is that good Protestants in the
Irish Protestant Episcopal Church
and the Church of England, the
Mother Church, believe i'll prayer for
the dead, whilst other good Protes-
tants in the same Churches will not
tolerate it is something of d puzzle.
But the interference with the grave
of Catholics in cemetery in which
Catholics are regularly inferred was
an exhibition of extraordinary audac-
ity in city peopled by Catholics.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-03-03
CATHOLIC ART.

1t is an encouraging sign OF the
times to behold here and there a
return to medieval ideals which
raised Art to the highest plane
which it has ever attained. In
some of the most notable public
buildings there is evidence OF a
renaissance, Oh a small scale, OF
Christian art and idealism. One
of the most remarkable examples
OF this awakened desire to resur
rect the long dormant principles
OF Christian art is to be seen III
the decorations, by Sargent, Ill the
Boston Public Library. There we
behold, among other paintings, a
series OF ten panels developed
from the idea Of the Madonna
and the Mother of Sorrows. The
Mysteries Of the Rosary stand
forth as eloquent testimony to the
value OF true religion even for the
purposes Of art.
While pagan art, especially i'll
Athens, reached a high degree of
perfection, it lacked the spiritual
atmosphere that is clearly appar-
ent Ill the works Of the great
Christian masters. When we look
for that intense quality, that
human warmth of the living,
breathing creature, we turn III
stinctively to the productions Of a
Raphael, Guido REM, Murillo.
d Da Vinci, or to Il host of other
artists who were pcrmeated with
a spiritual comprehension of the
intrinsic beauty Of religion. Cath.
Ollie art succeeded in Transforming
the inane stare Of the pagan
classic into the spiritualized
yision-seeing, gaze Of the pull.
sating, throbbing original.
Art has ever been looked upon
III Christian times as the hand.
maiden OF religion. All the arts
and science are but a reflection Oh
that truth which was placed by
the Creator Ill nature herself and
revealed directly through the
medium Of His Church. Where
art is divorced from religion, art
remains Of the earth, earthly
Where it draws its inspiration
from the ethereal atmosphere oil
spirituality it reflects in like
measure, according to it's inspira.
ton, the truth of God.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-03-03
NEW TEXT BOOKS.

DIR. Luther Halsey Gulick, for fiji
teen years physical director in the
schools of New York City, says, in
his preface to Good Health" (Gulick
Hygiene Series): During the past
few years, important contributions
have been made to the fund of mate
rial bearing upon the effects of the
use OF alcohol. These contributions
have come partly from recent careful
work in Germany, England, and
America, partly from investigations
concerning the interrelations of drink
with crime and pauperism, and partly
from the practical anti-alcohol re-
quirements on the part OF large
business corporations. The facts, SO
contributed, together with those more
generally known, furnish story of
such exceptional viyidness and power
that in regard to scientific instruction
on the subject of alcohol and narcotics
we cannot but be faithful to the de-
mands of school law in the various
states" .xs.a.-,
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-03-03
WORLD FIGHTS AGAINST AL
COHOL.

The movement against the sale and
manufacture of alcoholic beverages
has made great progress in the Unit
ed States. There are but two States,
in fact, which have neither prohibition
nor local option legislation. These
are New Jersey and Nevada. And
there is but very little territory left
in the local option States which is
not dry" by the vote of the COM
National Prohibition is be-
ing urged upon Congress, to make
more universal and effective the sup
preston of alcohol. and d more or
less distinguished leader Of the peO-
pie has announced his intention to
make it the paramount issue of the
presidential campaign of 1920.
All of these facts show the impor-
lance of the question. 1t is something
which the people of this country must
study closely and consider WELL Cath
olics have likewise some responsible
1ty in this respect. AS rule, they
have been rather Indifferent to the
proposition, or have treated it in
superficial manner. The great ques-
ton is as to whether prohibition is
really effective in reducing to an ap-
preciable minimum the evils of cx-
cessive alcoholism and whether as a
consequence it will work for the good
OF the community. Ii it will, 1t de-
serves to succeed. There is no doubt
as to the destructive result of alco-
holism. The Committee of Fifty
some years ago reported that twenty
five per cent. of the poverty in this
country is due to this evil. This may
be true or it may not, but it points
to a deplorable situation, which
shows much worse when the pain
and misery and sin, which result,
have been considered.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-03-03
THE DUKE OF NORFOLK
SOLEMN MASS OF REQUIEM WAS
OFFERED IN ROME FOR HIS
SOUL.

On February II solemn High Mass
of Requiem was offered up i'll the
church of the English-speaking Catho-
lies in Rome-that Of San Silvestro
for the repose of the soul of the
late Duke of Norfolk. Right Rev.
Bishop Stanley Of Emmaus pontifi-
Gated; and among those present were
Cardinal Vannutelli, who was the
guest of the duke when he was Papal
Legate at the EuCharistic Congress
that was held in London in 1908;
Cardinal Merry del Val, who was for
many years a personal friend of the
deceased; Cardinal Bourne of Lon
don, Cardinal Sbarretti and many
other nOtables.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-03-03
PATRIOTISM.

Often has it been said that next
to love of God should come love Of
country. This subject has been the
theme of thinkers Of all ages and
OF all nations. Love Of country,
or as it is commonly termed, patri-
otism, is that intensified and ire
fragable conviction that the well
fare OF that human society of
which we are a unit stands SUI
preme i'll our mind above all other
forms OF material prosperity.
In every age a strong love Of
country has spurred on citizens Of
all classes to do and to dare high
things for the common veal. The
history Of every nation shows
clearly that when danger threat
ems, the best elements of the COM
monwealth were prepared instant
ly to repel by any and every means
possible an unjust aggressor. Self
ish motives may sometimes actu-
ate unprincipled leaders in their
endeavor to make unjust incur
sions into foreign territory; but
the rank and file Of the citizenry,
those in whose breasts patriotism
burns high, are seldom subject to
the impulse for foreign conquest.
Patriotism is not by any means
the peculiar possession Of the in
habitants of large and powerful
nations only. 1t is to be found as
strong, as pure, as untainted in the
little Republic of San Marine, with
It's few thousand inhabitants, as
amongst the most powerful nations
OF the earth. Patriotism is that
instructive desire for self-preserva-
tion which, when tested, is capable
of evoking the highest and noblest
qualities Of the human heart and
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-03-03
THE INTENTION FOR THE
MONTH.

For the month of March the in
tention recommended by the Holy
Father is Large and holy faml-
lies. -
From the earliest ages, under
both the old aud the n W Dis
pensation, large families have
been the rule among those who
have lived according to the laws
of God and of man. Modern ten
denotes show an ever-increasing
disregard for not only tradition
but also the moral and the divine
laws. During this month the So
cleties of the League Of the Sacred
Heart are urged by the Holy
Father to pray that Christian
families may be not only large
but also possessed Of those quail
ties and virtues which made the
Holy Family Of Nazareth the
model in holiness for every Chris
tian family.
Modern methods OF education,
modern theories of discipline,
modern ideas of the family as a
unit have caused disintegration in
many quarters. The idea seems to
be prevalent that children and
youth are endowed with sufficient
intelligence and will-power to
guide Alright their conduct and
their destiny. The result has
been, outside the Catholic Church,
to loosen the bonds Of family
ties and to cast the members aside
to drift separately down the mill
stream OF divorce. Even among
Catholics great laxity is apparent
III the conduct of the home.
ADJUSTMENTS and distractions of
various degrees Of appeal serve
to withdraw the child from the in
fluence of the home. The boy and
the girl with the responsibility
OF youth soon come to depend
upon their own immature judg-
ment in choosing companions, di-
versions, reading, and other lines
OF conduct. The result is, frc-
quently, that immaturity of judg-
nlent leads to transgressions of
the moral code; this in it's turn
produces a weakening Of the
moral and religious fibre, with the
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-03-03
VICTIMS OF HUNGER
THE CHRISTIANS UNDER TURK.
ISH RULE.

In the suffering brought about by
the war no people have been more
sorely tried than the Christians under
the rule of the Turk. In the days of
peace the fate of some of them was
hard enough. The Mohammedan has
never been slow to find an excuse for
prosecuting the Giaour. The war
has afforded him special opportunities
of exhibiting his hatred of the Chris
tians and he has seized them eagerly.
The reports of the Armenian mas
sacres filled the inhabitants of the
civilized world with a cause for indig-
nation and horror, the expression of
which checked Turkish ferocity. But
Turkish oppression has not ceased.
Suffering themselves from the scarcity
of food, the followers of the 'Proph-
ct" have imposed such conditions
on the Christians, especially in Syria,
that they are reduced to state of
famine. and many of them are perish
ing. This, according to news from
Paris, is the effect of measure
adopted at council which was pre-
sided over by DjemaI Pasha
Throughout Syria terrible distress pre-
walls. In Lebanon over one hundred
and ten thousand persons have died
of hunger. At Beirut, Jerusalem and
other places a score or so of victims
of want are picked up dead daily.
Through the generosity of the Holy
Father the Apostolic Delegate at Con-
stantinople has been able to relieve
many of the starving, but there are
multitudes of others whom, owing to
lack of resources, he cannot succour.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-03-03

On one occasion, Tim Healy,
one of the foremost members of
the Irish Parliament Party, gave
expression to the following not
able words i'll the British House
OF Commons:
Il would rather that my chill
drcn understood their religion in
preparation for the eternity that
is to come than that they should
be rich, prosperous and educated
people i'll this world. | care little
for your So-called education. But
there is one thing that | and mine
have Il grip of, and that is a be-
lief III the Christ to come and d
belief that our children, whatever
be their distress, whatever be
their misfortumes, whatever be
their poverty i'll this world, will
receive a rich reward if, listening
to the teaching of their faith,
they put into practice the lessons
they receive in Catholic schools. "
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-03-03

In cleverly written negro
dialect sketch in "Our Colored
Missions" a negro NANNY gives
her reason for wishing her hus-
band to join the Holy Name So
ciety. The reason is that a body
Of men receiving Holy Communion
together gives a powerful exam
pie, the good and strong ones
carrying the weak ones along as if
they would say to the Lord,
"Take us in a body without pick
ing us apart. .
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-03-03
Catholic Progress in Norway
MANY CONVERSIONS ARE RE-
PORTED, BUT WORK is HAM
PERED BY LACK OF MISSION
ARIES.

Rt. Rev. j. B. Fallize, Apostolic
Vicar of Norway and Spitzbergen, re-
ports gratifying progress for the Cath
Ollie Church in what was until recently
a stronghold of Professionalism. In
spite of the hardships and suffering
occasioned by the war among the mid
die and lower classes, many CONVEX
sions are registered, while large per-
centage of the non Catholic population
looks more favorably on the Church.
Services in the Protestant churches
contain many Catholic features A
few years ago the Lutheran churches
were closed to Catholic church music;
today their many concerts include
compositions of Catholic masters.
Historians and philologers diligently
search the history and literature OF
Norway, not as formerly, to find weak
spots in the Church of the Middle
Ages, but to prove that it has been
very beneficial to Norway.
Thirty years ago Catholics in Nor
way were tempted TO be ashamed OF
their religion Now their priests and
nuns, mostly women from Germany,
enjoy the esteem of the entire popula-
ton; and the old and frequently cruel
legal letters have vanished. Although
the number of Catholics is compare
lively small, in spite of rapid growth,
the Church enjoys such liberty as is
accorded her in few countries.
Unfortunately, Bishop Fallize has
been unable to obtain missionaries
and to found a single religious conf
munity of men in Norway. There are,
however. many prosperous commune
tiles of nuns.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-03-03
THE CHURCH OF RUSSIA
WONDERFUL POSSIBILITIES If
WEST AND EAST SHOULD
MEET.

Though Russia has ever set it's face
like flint against proselytism of cults
originating in the sixteenth century,
SO also has it been unyielding in re-
canting from the schism that separ-
ates the empire from Rome, observes
the Catholic Union and Times. Yet
when one of it's great men, the Rus
sian Ambassador, Count Benckendorff,
died i'll London recently, it was very
glad to have the Catholic Church open
her doors for the Requiem Mass. The
occasion brought together forgiving
mother and erring child.
The Solemn Requiem Mass We
celebrated in Westminster Cathedral,
the new one which Catholic English.
men have had to build to replace the
grand old one Wrested from them in
the sixteenth century. And England
highest and most powerful represen,
tatives, assuredly non-Catholic, attend
ed the solemn obsequies of her power.
full ally's diplomatic agent.
Another admission of the kinship OF
the Eastern Church was made a few
weeks ago when the Holy Synod of
Greece, head of the Orthodox Church
in the Hellenic kingdom, appealed to
Pope Benedict against the blockade es
tablished by England, and which
threatened to starve the Greek nation
If Rome and the eastern church
should become united, through the lat.
ter making it's submission to the Vical
Ollie body such as would stagger the
numerical strength of Mohammedan
ism.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-03-03
DOMAIN OF TEMPERANCE
PASSING OF THE BEER DRlNkER.

There has been circulated much
literature on the beneficial effects OF
beer. 1t has been lauded as a sub
stitute for bread, nerve builder,
blood maker, a physical architect.
And it's attractive feature, according
to the same literature, is that 1T is not
an intoXicant, produces no lntoX1cat-
ing effects. Beer-drinking has always
been considered as practically harm.
less.
But comes now the physician to
depose that confirmed beer-drinking
is most injurious to health. DIR. S. H.
Burger, after an experience OF thirty
five years, says that beer is most
insidious poison rendering the system
incapable of resisting disease.
"The first organ to be attacked is
the kidneys; the liver soon sympa.
thizes, and then comes, most fire.
quently, dropsy or Bright's disease,
both certain to end fatally. Any
physician who cares to take the time
will tell you that among the dreadful
| results of beer drinking are lockjaw
and erysipelas, and that the beer
| drinker seems incapable of recover
| ing from mild disorders and injuries
not usually regarded of a grave char
acter."
DIR. S. S. Lungren, leading home
opathic physician and surgeon, says,
after twenty-five years practice: 1T
is difficult to find any part in the con-
| firmed beer drinkers machinery that
is doing its work as it should. This
is why their life chords snap off like
glass rods when disease or accident
gives them little blow Beer drink
ing shortens life. This is not mere
opinion; it is well-settled recognized
fact Physicians and insurance COM
panies accept this as unquestionably
as any other undisputed fact of
science"
The president of the Connecticut
Mutual Life Insurance Company has
for years been investigating the rela-
ton of beer drinking to longevity,
and he declared, as the result of Il
series of observations carried on
among a selected group of persons
who were habitual drinkers of beer,
that although for two or three years
there was nothing remarkable, yet
presently death began to strike, and
then the mortality became astound-
ing and uniform in it's manifestations
There was no mistaking it. The his
tory was almost invariable. Robust,
apparent health, full muscles, a fair
outside, increasing weight, florid
faces; then a touch of cold or a sniff
of malaria, and instantly some acute
disease, with almost invariable ty-
phoid symptoms, was in violent &C.
ton, and ten days or less ended it.
Of course, the writer's above quoted
are speaking of the confirmed beer
drinker, the one who INDUCES, as Il
rule, every day without going to eX-
cess. His days are numbered. In
half the states prohibition has driven
out the sale of beer. In the other half
the life insurance companies have out.
laWed the beer-drinker. His lot is an
unhappy one at best; and it is grow
ing worse year by year. When the
doctors turn against him his case is
) hopeless.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-03-03

There is an excellent bill now
before the Missouri Legislature.
1t proposes primarily to prevent
hasty marriages by requiring that
all applications for marriage IL
censes shall be filed and pub
lished, and that no such license
shall be issued until ten days after
such application. This publica-
ton would give such publicity to
the application that parents and
guardians would most probably
hear of the purpose of the young
people and thus be epablcd, when
necessary, to interpose their au-
thority against the issuance Of d
license.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-03-03

eventual consequence that bud
ding manhood and womanhood
beholds a woeful lack OF ylrtuous
innocence and simplicity. All
these deplorable effects are dl-
rectly traccable to the criminal
neglect OF parents or guardians
who omit to furnish those safe
guards which only parents can
supply, and without which I'M
petuous youth soon vaults over all
barriers of morality and restraint.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-03-03

During Lent it would be we'll if
Catholics would cndcavor to read.
more than usual, publications
that treat of our religion. In the
average Catholic mind there is
vast room for Improvement and
enlightenment with regard to a
knowledge Of the different doc
trines and teachings, as well as of
the history Of the Church.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-03-03

1t is significant i'll the various
pastoral letters for Lent, issued
throughout the country, that one
Of the recommendations made by
the bishops is that Catholics alb
stain during this time from intox-
icating drink in honor Of the
Sacred Thirst of our Lord. This
practice is approved as being for
many persons a very high form of
self-denial.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-03-03

According to a new japanese
law, applicable to Japan and
Korea, religious teaching or cere-
monies are ordered discontinued
in the schools. The ordinance
stipulates that the private schools
should conform within ten years.
This will work new hardships on
our Catholic schools in these
countries as religious instructions
cannot be given during regular
school hours.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-03-03
The Presidents Reply.

The White House,
Washington, Feb. 6, 1917.
My dear Mr.. Mclaughlin:
Your generous message of Feb. 5th,
pledging to the administration the I'M
sWerving loyalty of the two hundred
and fifty thousand members of the An
cient Order of Hibernians, is very
heartening to me, and / thank you and
them for this inspiring reinsurance.
Cordially and sincerely yours,
WOODROW WILSON.
Mr.. Joseph Mclaughlin, National
President Ancient Order of Hiber-
mans, Philadelphia, Pa.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-03-03

The National Child Labor COM
mittee has just sent out an all
nomcement that the thirteenth
national conference Of child labor
will be held in Baltimore, March
%, n and 70. In view Of the I'M
portance OF the subject it is To
be hoped that some concrete good
will result from the deliberations
on the part OF state officials, social
workers, and other experts in this
branch Of sociology
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-03-03

y subscriber writes to an ex-
change: 4 always give my paper
to my neXt-door neighbor, who is
not Catholic, and, strange to say,
she reads it from the first page to
the last. " This method, if gen
orally followed, would prove very
effective i'll spreading knowl-
edge of things Catholic.