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The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1917-03-27
ANN MATURE WONDERFUL!

AIN ] ma IKE WONDERF VI!
Glasses
Glasses and golf balls take the
cake for being the hardest articles to
keep in sight. Getting misplaced,
glasses have the bottle opener lex
cUse US, we mean house slippers)
beat to a fragile.
Glasses are made so we can see
better. Some people see too much
without wearing glasses. Some
glasses are made to magnify things
and some to make things look
smaller. Butchers can do both of
those stunts without wearing glass
es. When cutting meat they focus
their eyes to diminish and when the
meat is on the scale their eyes mag
Nifty and see double.
We envy the fella who wears 5 and
1O-cent store glasses. He has per-
feet eyesight or he couldn't wear
them. If your eyesight weakens and
you don't like the eyedea of wearing
glasses, join the police force.
A lot of people wear big horn
trimmed glasses and they look like
they are looking through a couple
Of knot holes. We have a pair of
cheaters and wear them continually,
on the mantle.
-O-O
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-04-28
DIVISION In THE RANKS
SOCIALISM Is NOW ON TIE DE-
CLINE.

The British Socialists declined an
invitation from the French Socialist
party to send delegates to a con
gress of Socialists of the allied coun-
tries, which it was proposed to hold
on March Is. The British reply to
the invitation says:
1--WE are strongly of the opinion
that the congress should not be held.
The year 1917 is the most critical
period of the war. A great majority
of Socialists are fighting at the front
to repel the German invasion and are
unable either to attend as delegates
or appoint others to be present in
their place. OF the socialists now at
home q small majority consists of
those who are demanding peace at
any price. These anti-Nationalists
stand together in the support of a
policy which cannot fail to encourage
the aggressors. Even an overwhelm-
ing vote of the congress could not
entirely outweigh the effect of a fierce
i%nternecine debate raised by a few
VI NONotCo III AOuEA ColoIolNSS a1io ~
cialism itself would suffer, in the
opinion of world workers, whence
must come our cohorts.
1--WE appeal to Socialists through
out the allied countries not to attend
a congress which can only hearten
the enemies of real Socialism,
strengthen the powers of chauvinism
in Germany and greatly damage our
cause"
The communication then refers to
the Socialists of Germany, regarding
whom it says:
"The weakness of the German So
cial Democrat party, whose leaders,
despite pledges made in Paris and
Brussels, vigorously supported the
junket and capitalist army of aggres-
sive militarism, destroyed at a blow
all the mutual international confidence
between the Socialists of all nation
alities which the British Socialists
have spent the greater part of their
lives e~ndeayoring to build up"
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-04-28

"Those at the head of this Govern
ment, into whose hands are entrusted
the interests of 103, 000,00 people and
who enjoy that power, as the Church
teaches, from God Himself, have
deemed it wise to proclaim a state Of
war, and we, the faithful followers,
have heard the dreadful sentence, and
we abide by their decision.
There are two arms Of defense in
this country, the army and the navy,
and to them we look for that security
which is ours by right. | am aware
that many Catholic parents do not
know that in the navy their Catholic
boys receive every possible attention
and are enabled by the means sup
piled by the Government not only to
be good and loyal citizens, but to live
up to the teachings of the Church.
Catholic parents asking me to look
after their children, asking me to
look up their sons and see that they
go to the sacraments, and Judging
from the tone Of many Of these let
tiers, it seems to be the general i'm
preston among Catholic parents that
when. their children so into the navy
they are going to incur the great dan
ger and risk of giving up entirely the
practice of their religion. Now this
is not so.
I'm the navy today there are ten
Catholic priests. During last winter,
when we were in the South, there
were altogether about fo~rty-seven
warships, and all told there were
about 10000 men. Now it is est.
mated that of these 10000 men at
least forty per cent. are Catholics
forty per cent. of the personnel of
the navy are Catholics. Now these
ten priests not only ministered to
those on their own ships, but they
went to other ships where there were
no Catholic chaplains and there
sought out and found the Catholic
men and saw that they went to Mass
and received the sacraments."
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-04-28
SERVICES OF PATRIOT PRIEST

vent thereto, in 1768, until 1871. Dur
ing all of that period he was the most
potent moral force within the terri
tory. In the language of Munsell's
Historical Encyclopedia of Illinois he
rendered Clark important aid in
conciliating the French citizens of
Illinois at the time Of the CAPTURE of
Kaskaskia. He also made a visit to
V~incennes and induced the people
there to take the oath oil alleeiance
to the new government. He advanced
means to aid Clark's destitute troops.
but beyond a formal vote of thanks
by the Virginia Legislature, he does
not appear to have received anv rec-
ompense.' Governor St. Clair, in a
report to Thomas Jefferson, then Sec
rotary OF State, dWelt impressively
upon the value of Father Gibault's
services and sacrifices, and Judge
Law said of him, Next to Clark and
Vigo the United States are Indebted
more to Father Gibault for the Access
sion of the states comprised in what
was the original northwest territory
than to any other man Besides a
constant personal patriotic service,
extending over the entire period OF
his residence in Illinois, Pierre
Gibault advanced, in the interest of
his country, seven thousand eight
hundred lives in money and goods.
In the language of Dillon, the Indiana
historian, He never received a par
ticle OF compensation from Virginia,
or the United States, for his services
and he never received one cent of
repayment for money and goods
actually furnished to our troops and
as stated by Mr.. English, in his Con
quest of the Northwest There was
no reason why his great services
should not have been properly recog-
nized, but they never were As far
as the author is advised no county,
town or postoffice bears his name, no
monument has been erected to his
memory, and no headstone marks his
grave, as its location is entirely un
known AS we are about to celebrate
the one h%undredth anniversary of the
admission of the State of Illinois
into the Union and contemplate pay
ing honors to the memory Of the il.
lustrious dead who have rendered val.
liable services in the discovery, set.
Element, public defense, organization
and progress Of the State, advantage
should be taken Of the opportunity
thus afforded to discharge in a meas.
ure at least, the deep debt of graft.
tude due the memory of Pierre
Gibault." The bill provides for the
erection of a monument to Father
Gibault lin q park, road, or other
point within some county bordering
on the Mississippi River, which was
visited by Pierre Gibault in his life.
time
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-04-28
WONDERFUL CHANGE HAS TAKEN
PLACE IN FROZEN NORTH IN
THE PAST THIRTY YEARS.

Thirty years is a long time to labor
in the frozen wastes of Norway, hut
Bishop FalliZe has spent that period
in his present mission, and for TWEEN.
ty-tive Of them he has been it's Bishop.
He celebrates his silver jubilee this
month. So wonderful a change has
taken place in the religious attitude of
Norway that it seems not too much to
hope that it will one day return to
the Faith that the great Olaf cham
pioned so nobly.
In the current number of Catholic
Missions Bishop Fallize thus speaks
of the Church in Norway:
Thanks to Divine Providence have
no reason to be disheartened with re-
gard to my dear country of Norway.
Great is the fervor of our dear Cath
Olics and their constant presence at
the EuchariStic Table is edifying.
While many of their companions are
absorbed in efforts to make money
out of the terrible wal they devote
themselves to prayer that the great
blessing of peace may once again how
er over the world.
A large number of the faithful have
been obliged to emigrate on account
of the high cost of living, but their
places have been filled by other con-
verts. The Professionals, indeed, seem
drawn to us by an attraction of which
they themselves are scarcely con.
scious.
This is more and more a matter for
congratulation when we consider that
r~ationalism is taking a strong hold on
Protestant Norway. Members of the
University and a small fraction of the
Lutheran clergy have been going sc
far as to deny the divinity of Our
Lord, the truth Of the Bible, the value
OF the ~sacraments, but happily the ma.
jority Of the Professionals still believe
in the supernatural truths saved from
the deluge of the Reformation, and tc
defend their beliefs make use Of argu
ments borrowed from Catholic the
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-04-28
STATE OF ILLINOIS TO HONOR
MEMORY OF REV. PIERRE
GlBAULT-WAS GREAT PIONEER
AND RENDERED
VALUABLE SERVICES TO CIVIL
GOVERNMENTS.

Next year the State of Illinois,
through a committee that has been
appointed for the purpose, will cele-
brate the hundredth anniversary OF
its admission to the Union and, at
the same time, will do honor to the
memory of the men who have been
prominent in it's history. None OF
these men better deserved the tribute
that will be paid to their names and
their deeds than the Rev. Father
Pierre Gibault, the great Canadian
missionary and pioneer, who soon
after his ordination in Quebec was
sent to Illinois as Vicar-General. He
labored with %unfagging zeal and tire
less energy for a third of a century,
during most of which time he was the
only priest in the territory which is
now occupied by the States OF Illinois
and Indiana. The arduous nature of
his missionary work may be judged
from an extract from a letter which
he wrote to the Bishop OF Quebec
six years after his arrival in Illinois:
This is the fourth voyage | have
taken, the shortest of which was five
hundred leagues" In 1910 he blessed
the little wooden chapel that had
been erected at Paincourt, the pres
ent site OF the city of st. Louis. In
spite of many difficulties and in the
face of grave dangers incident to long
journeys in those days, he succeeded,
one Of his biographers tells us, in
vastly improving religious conditions
in the scattered missions of the sur
rounding country" All that is known
of the closing years of his life is that
in 1871 he left Illinois, which was
then a part OF the Diocese of Balti-
more, Md, and retired to the Span
ish territory beyond the Mississippi
But Father Gibault's beneficent
activities were not confined to the
field Of religion. He earned the title
of the patriot priest" by the valuable
services which he rendered to the
civil governments of the districts in
which he labored as a missionary.
Those services are described in a bill
which has been introduced in the leg.
islature Of Illinois by the Hon. Fer
dinand A. Garesche Of East st. Louis,
entitled: AN Act to Provide for the
Commemoration of the Life and Pub.
lie Services of Pierre Gibault and
making IN Appropriation to Carry
Out the Purposes Thereof" The bill
says: pierre Gibault labored within
the boundaries of Illinois from his ad.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-04-28
MISSIONS IN

ology. Many Of the ministers, in fact,
are adopting the dogmas formerly re-
pudiated by them, being forced to this
by the fear of rationalism.
The divine service, moreover, in
many Of the Lutheran churches is a
close imitation of the Roman liturgy,
and the cult of the Blessed Virgin, be-
lief in purgatory and faith in the in
vocation of the saints is heartily en-
couraged. But a short time ago these
people %reDudiated with horror any
thing approaching the Catholic chant;
now they are giving concerts in which
our hymns and canticles hold a prom
inent place on the program.
Not less noticeable is the change in
tone of religious magazines and jour
mails. Formerly the writer's in these
could not say enough against the faith
to render it odious. and ridiculous.
Now these same publications are
pointing out the beauty of ancient
Norway when it was a child OF the
Church and proclaiming its d]eteri0ra-
ton since the Reformation which,
they claim, was forced On the country
by bloodshed and violence.
When came to Norway thirty years
ago, the great temptation that beset
Catholics was human respect. Their
standing in the community was less
ened by their religion, and they were
apt to conceal rather than proclaim
their affiliations.
Today all that is changed. Our
priests are honored, IL nuns es-
teemed and loved, and old anti-Cath-
Ollie legislation aimed at discouraging
the growth of Catholicity, has given
way to laws Of the most lenient type
all this, too, while our Catholics re-
main an infinitesmal part OF the popu-
lation.
The development Of our Holy
Church, as we see, is endangered
neither by public opinion nor by leg
islatlon. What really hinders its more
rapid progress is first OF all a lack
OF priests. As for nuns, each of our
stations possess a community Of re-
%ligious, the Sisters of St. Joseph Of
Chambery, alone, counting eighteen
houses throughout Norway.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-04-28
THE CHURCH IN ARGENTINA

cial morality that many men Of all
religious professions and of high
standing in social and economic life
seek their spouses among the ladies'
of Argentina, and thus form Catholic
homes-a proof to demonstration
that the Professionals and anti-Cath-
olics resident in Argentina, many of
them men of the highest standing,
do not believe that in marrying
Argentines they ally themselves with
degraded and immoral women, and
thus the statement made in the
Protestant Congress of Panama is an
infamous falsehood.
This statement of mine receives
full confirmation from the statistics
of the latest census of Argentina,
which prove that the number of mar
riages Of foreign men with Argentine
foreigners among themselves; and
the number of marriages contracted
by foreigners with the women of Ar
gentina is eight times as great as that
of Argentine men with women from
abroad.
Drunkenness Among Notwithstanding
People.
We are accused, moreover, of be-
ing buried in drunkenness and igno-
rance. & = x
I AS for drunkenness, we are far
from being it's victims; on the con
trary, the consumption of alcoholic
beverages is decreasing gradually in
proportion to the number of inhab-
~itants. On this head also we can ad-
wise the Protestant Congress that
their own country far surpasses us
in the vice we are accused of.
In the matter of education Latin
America gives an example to the
pie, devotes to the education of her
children more than a third part of
her total revenues-a wonderful out
lay, and such as few nations can
parallel. If there are still illiterate
people in Argentina, it is not through
| TIC HcSllStIlCt vi Tic CIVIL pOWGTS,
nor for want of appreciation on the
part Of the people, nor through sloth
of church authorities. There are IL
literate people in Argentina today
for the sole reason that it is impos-
sible to attend to all the educational
needs of the country. Resources are
not limitless, and the sparse settling
of many districts obliges the State
to multiply schools in far-outlying
regions without important civil cen
tiers and in immense tracts of noun
famous country, where people live
almost as solitaries and where there
is nothing to compensate for the sac
rifices made, since often a scant thir-
ty pupils can be collected for three
leagues around.
Such are our eXertions and our zeal
for the spread of education that we
can say with lawful pride that we
have outstripped in this respect many
of the non-Catholic nations.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-04-28
Commission Government
OVER 500 CITIES IN THE UNITED
STATES HAVE ADOPTED
THIS FORM.

Over $50 municipalities in the Unit
commission, commission-manager, linn
tied council or variations of these new
forms of government in the search for
increased efficiency in the conduct Of
public affairs, writes Rev. Peter E.
Dietz. This statement will surprise
many of those who read it.
In 1901 the disastrous Galveston
flood left the city PROSTATE, and the
city government was unable to cope
with such a condition. The governor
appointed a commission and gave it
extensive powers to meet the unusual
situation. Thus was first demonstrate
ed the remarkable efficiency of a small
body with great powers, for the com
mission soon brought order out of
chaos. So well pleased were the citi-
Gems with the concentrated form of
government that they had it made
permanent, and the efficiency Of the
government of Galveston soon attract
ed the attention Of the whole country
and the plan began to spread to other
cities.
During that very period many of our
cities were struggling to find some
adequate substitute for the existing
system of government with it's long
ballot, cumbersome tWo-chambered
councils and the division of executive
responsibility among numerous cleo
tive officials. This was the system
which under the sway of national par
ty bosses, had brought on the era of
gross inefflciency and corruption. The
practical common sense of American
business men saw in the Galveston
commission plan the very tool that
was needed.
This tool was seized upon by cities
seeking efficiency, and after the city
of Des Moines in 1907 combined with
this concentration of authority that es-
sential principle of democracy, name
ly, the control of the government by
the voters through the initiative, refer
endum and recall, the commission
movement spread rapidly to every part
of the country.
In t~hlrty-four states there are now
general statutes authorizing cities to
adopt new and improved forms of gov
eminent, the commission form being
specifically provided for in twenty
seven states.
One of the most noticeable features
is the trend toward the manager idea,
over ninety municipalities having
moved in this direction.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-04-28
A Modern Catholic Pioneer
TRIBUTE TO PRlEST-SCIENTiST
WHO LABORED IN JAPAN.

That Catholic missioners have rem
dered no inconsiderable services to
the cause of science is a fact not
generally known, says the editor of
THE Field Affair."" We have been es-
p~ecially pleased, therefore, to receive
from Bishop Berlioz an appreciation
OF one of his priests, the late Father
Faurie, written by a non-Catholic
Japanese professor. We take the fol-
lowing extracts from the article re-
ferred to above:
In making botanical collections he
Travelled throughout all Japan, strik-
ing into many unbeaten paths. His
~assiduity was almost Incredible. He
would climb any mountain, however
difficult, if he thought it botanically
interesting. Quite alone, with his
p~ressplates and very simple provis-
ions on his back, he would travel and
work for many days in the mountains,
sleeping at night, perhaps, in a tree
or under a crag. His collections
were very extensive, his herbarium
at Aomori being by far the largest in
Japan.
Father Faur1e was a cheerful
amiable man, much beloved by us.
Still working for evangelism and bot
any even at the point of death, and
at last when he found his powers
fading away, lying down to sleep
quietly in the arms of Him Whom he
served, he died as he had lived, a
man Of sincere piety and lofty ideals"
Plans are being made for the cree
ton. of a monument which will COM
memorate Father Faurie's distin-
guished labors for the extension OF
botanical knowledge. This work has
been undertaken by his friends and
admirers especially among botanists.
We learn from Bishop Berlioz that
Father Faurie discovered hundreds
of new species and, what is more
rare, a new genus, which bears the
name of Fauria Japonica." The
Bishop also tells us that the camellia
is called after a missioner, Father
Camelli, S. j., who was the first to
make this flower known in Europe.
Poverty is in want of much, but
avarice of everything.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-04-28
a NEW LIGHT ON OUR SOUTH
AMERICAN NEIGH1OR-CHURCH
AND STATE ARE IN PERFECT
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. MADE
ARE GROUNDLEsS.

Two very remarkable articles on
lie appear in THE Queens Work. for
April.
The first is by German Jose Rim
sche, and the second is a letter from
the rector of the Cathedral OF Tucu-
man. The entire field of Catholicity
is gone over thoroughly in the two
articles, and it is astonishing that
with this evidence before us any
claim at all can be made in favor of
the accusations of the Panama Con-
ference. With remarkable fairness
the authors admit that although the
country has had squalls of anarchy
and tyranny, yet these have passed
away and left no trace on the char
acter of the people. There are Ma
sonic elements, a bold Soclallstlc
party, and a moderate form OF liberal
ism in some of the intellectual circles
and among the new laws, just as they
are in other countries, but these do
not represent the country, nor have
they had any decisive influence on
the people at large. The relations
between the Government and the
Church are most cordial, and stand
in perfect harmony, thanks to the eff
forts of Archbishop Mariana Antonio
Espinosa, and the rest of the Argen-
tine bishops. The Government, faith
full to it's Catholic constitution, sus-
tains the Catholic faith, etc; and in
return the Church responds gener-
ously by her Jealous work among
the people.
The spirit Of the Churcn's sanctity
has protected and still protects the
unspotted purity Of the homes OF
Argentina against all kinds of vice.
Il do not know" said the Bishop
of Catamarca, "of a single instance
Of persons of the higher lass who
live together in open scandal. All
are married by the Church.
The rector of the Tucuman Cathe-
dral informs us that:
"The Argentine a point TO his
home with pride as a lofty example
of Christian honor and virtue. Among
the higher classes Of society, an IL
legitimate child is practically un-
known; it would be a scandal. Among
the poorer people in the suburbs OF
the great cities and in the Sums Qos
centres o%breros), there is, no doubt,
something to correct and improve;
but our morality is very Tar from
fearing comparison with that OF cor
responding classes in other large
cities of the world.
The caIumny Against South Ameri-
can Women.
The Protestant accusation that In
South America a great proportion OF
the Catholic women have lost their
honor is an offense as gratulfous as
it is unjust. We have already spoken
OF the moral standing of our homes.
The Catholic conscience which forms
them is a crueible of society which
does nc tolerate the lightness OF
moral principle so common, and even
sanctioned by law, in non-Cathollc
communities.
To such an extent is Il faith look
ed upon as the guarantee OF Y So
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-04-28

a much simpler ceremony to pour the
water on the head OF the one to be
baptized, than to immerse the person
in water, Security to health; many
of a delicate constitution, inyalids,
prisoners and such like, could not safe
ly. nor easily be immersed in water.
Yet they may not be deprived Of the
Sacrament when they wish to receive
it. 1t is necessary for their salvation.
Because it is necessary for all, God
has made it easily available to all.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-04-28

Poverty is in want of much, but
avarice of everything. :
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-04-28

Is it right fer a Catholic to dance
on st. Patrick's Day?
The festival of the patron saint OF
Ireland is not in this country a holy
day of obligation. Because this day,
the 18th OF March, falls within the
season of Lent, a time of p%enance, self
denial and abstinence from worldly
amusements, the recreation of dane
ing is not consonant with the Catholic
spirit of the season. 1t is not, how
ever, positively forbidden by the
Church on this day or on other days.