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The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-11-24
PRESIDENT CALLS UPON NATION
TO AGAIN THANK GOD FOR
PAST BLESSINGS.

President Wilson has issued his
1917 Thanksgiving proclamation, call
ing upon the Nation, even in the midst
of the sorrow and great peril of a
world shaken by war, to thank God
for blessings that are better than
mere peace of mind and prosperity of
enterprise.
The proclamation, fixing Thursday,
November 20, as Thanksgiving Day,
follows:
1t has long been the honored custom
of our people to turn in the fruitful
autumn of the year in praise and
thanksgivings to Almighty God for His
many blessings and mercies to us as a
nation, That custom we can follow
now even in the midst of the tragedy
of world shaken by war and immeas-
urable disaster; in the midst of sorrow
and great peril, because, even amidst
the darkness that has gathered about
us, we can see the great blessings
God has bestowed upon us, blessings
that are better than mere peace of
mind and prosperity of enterprise.
We have been given the opportunity
to serve mankind as we once served
ourselves in the great day of our
Declaration of independence, by TAX
ing up arms against tyranny that
threatened to master and debase men
everywhere, and joining with other
free peoples in demanding for all the
nations of the world what we then
demanded and obtained for ourselves
In this day of the revelation of our
duty not only to defend our own
rights as nation but to defend also
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-11-24
Chaplain from Cleveland
FATHER HANLEY RECEIVES CON-
MISSION AND GOES TO
CAMP SHELBY.

Rev. James M. Hanley, for six
years assistant at st. Bridget Church,
Cleveland, Ohio, this week received
his commission as United States
Army Chaplain and left at once for
Camp Shelby. Hattiesburg, Miss,
where he was assigned. Father Han.
ley is the only priest of the Cleve'
land diocese appointed as army chap
lain. y He is an all-around athlete, q
great favorite in St. Bridget parish
and K. of C. circles, and he was given
q rousing farewell reception before
leaving for his new post,
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-11-24
The 'Red Mass
INAUGURATEs THE "RoTA YEAR
AT THE VATICAN.

The "Rota Year began with the
Red" Mass of the Holy Ghost on
October 16, said in the Pauline
Chapel, the parish church of the
Vatican, by Mgr. Zampini, sacristan
to His Holiness. Present with their
"Aiutanti di Studio and the officials
of the Rota were nine judges. After
the Mass and the solemn renewal OF
their oath, the Rota judges were re-
ceived in audience by His Holiness,
who said few words, quite private
in reply to the address by the dean.
The visit to the Cardinal Secretary
of State followed as usual.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-11-24
K. Of c. Mass Meeting

Sunday, November 25, at 3::3e P. NJ,
mass meeting will be held in the
Knights of Columbus hall, st. Paul.
The object will be to take measures
to raise the s25,O0O, which is the st.
Paul councils quota toward the three
million dollar fund being sought by
the Knights for war welfare work
All men and women interested in the
work are cordially invited.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-11-24
Monsignor Krek Dead

An important Catholic personality
has passed away in Austria in the
person of Mgr. Janez Krek, whose
sudden death took place last week at
Vienna. Mgr. Krek was we'll known
as prominent Slovene patriot
strong supporter Of the union of the
Serbs, Croats and Slavs. he was one
OF the most brilliant and effective
orators of the Reichsrath. in which
he held seat. e
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-11-24
so-cALLED LEADING CATHOLICS
ARE NOT ALWAYS PRACTICAL
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES SHOULD
BE DEFENDED IN A TOLERANT
4 SPIRIT - CHRISTIAN PAciFIsTs
NOT WANTED.

Patristic literature is among the re-
markably large number of subjects of
which, for all practical purposes,
know nothing at all, writes John
Wiltbye, in America" My sole recol-
lection of the matter is the edifying
relation of how hereto, whom we
shall call Impudens, accenting him on
the second syllable, once placed him
self squarely in the path of a vener-
able prelate whose name, since l can
not recall it, is immaterial. This
hereto, as | take it, was not a mere
harmless garden variety of hereto,
such as may be seen of a clear day in
the streets of any large city, but
what is technically known as vitan-
dus, banned by bell, book and can
die hereto, and altogether most de-
plorable person with whom no good
Christian might lawfully hold con-
verse save in extremis. Very likely,
too, he lived up to his name, for it
is said that placing himself in the
path of the man of God, DO you not
know me?' he exclaimed" Now the
time of the day is not stated; per-
haps it was in those bad matutinal
hours before coffee, when even Saints
are bit uncertain; or, mayhap, the
venerable Father was wrothy at this
rude interruption to his bright dreams
of the heavenly Jerusalem; or, but
this l advance with reserve, in his
eagerness Impudens may have tres
passed on the holy mans toes. These
are but conjectures; happily, there is
nothing conjectural about the dear
mans answer. do | know you?'
says he. Yes, / know you for the
very spawn of Satan
This, in the language of the day. is
putting the ball over the fence with
| the bases FULL | mean to say, that il
| is an answer in no wise dubious OF
amphibological. You may question its
justice; you cannot possibly quibblt
over its meaning. But figure Tho
shock to the refined sensibilities 81
lImpudens, the counterpart, no doubt
iof modern parson with ten thou
sand year, a silk hat, spats, and {
Iline in the Social Register: while thu
Father, belize, was crude person
with a parish "beyant the tracks,
who drank his tea with good dea
lof expression from his saucer
Estimate, too, the hurt and the scan
dal to the prominent Catholics o
the day, lordly descendants by one o
1.-TWO generations, of noble sires WIN
had suffered for Pompey. or on dub
Gus errands bent, had lurked in th
i shadows of the Suburb. Many a dir
ner table buzzed with gossip tha
might; many, too, who condescende
to subscribe to the America of tn
| time, called for tablets to write tn
j Catholic Review of the Week, deplol
ing the rude manners of the uncOut
clergy, who like the Irish, had notf
/ ing but an undying love of the Fait
and an uncompromising hatred G
| heresy. If the social order and peac
| are disturbed by such rude filings,
they depfored, how are we to TAX
our rightful place In society and th
professions? We are deYout Cath,
II lies, but let it be remembered ths
II only d few years lie between us an
II the old prosecuting edicts Why rak
5Iun old scOres2 After all. there Ws
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-11-24
Rev. Paul Perigord

During the past week Rev. Paul
Perigord, former professor in st. Paul
Seminary, has been visiting friends in
the Twin Cities. He spoke at the
Loyalty meeting in Minneapolis. Fa-
ther Perigord is lieutenant and chap
lain of the French army.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-11-24
Honored by Chamber,

Rev John 7. Noonan, pastor Of St.
Anthony Churcll Des Moines, Iowa.
has been selected as a member Of the
board of directors Of the public wei.
fare bureau Of the Chamber Of Com
merce.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-11-24
VARIOUS DEGREES REAFFIRM
POSITION OF THE CHURCH ON
THIS VITAL SUBJEcT-DUTIES
AND RIGHTS OF PARENTS-RE-
LATloN OF THE STATE TO EDU-
CATION.

Rev. Thomas Slater, S. j., writing
in the London Catholic Times, gives
the following synopsis of the DEGREES
in the new code of Canon Law bearing
ON Catholic education:
The Catholic position with regard
to education is nowhere stated more
plainly, more briefly, and more au-
thoritatively than in the recently is
sued Code of Canon Law. In few
short paragraphs the traditional
teaching of the Catholic Church on
this important subject is set forth,
and the policy to which the Church
has constantly adhered is explained
1t may be worth while to direct the
attention of our readers to those
Canons. They will help to clear up
hazy notions on the subject, and they
will help us to realize how closely it is
bound up with our Christian faith.
One of the fundamental principles is
laid down in Canon 1113, which is as
follows:
Parents are bound by a most
serious obligation to procure as far as
possible the religious, moral, physical
and civil education of their children
and to provide also for their temporal
welfare"
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-11-24
Training for Civil Life.

By civil education" without doubt
the Code means the imparting of that
knowledge and training to the chill
dren which will enable them to fill
worthily the place which they are
destined to occupy in civil life. We
may notice how broad are the ideas
of the Church. She is Influenced by
no narrow spirit in her educational
aims. BY the law of nature the young
during their years of immaturity are
to be fitted to take their place in life.
The duty of so fitting them is i'm
posed by nature on those who brought
them into the world. By the very
nature of things parents are respon.
sible for the education of their chill
dren, and, as long as they do their
duty, they cannot be deprived of that
responsibility by any human power
Religion gives its sanction to this
natural duty and enforces it. The
Fourth Commandment indeed only
makes express mention of the duty of
children to respect, love, and obey
their parents; parents have a right to
this. But they have this right because
they have the corresponding duty OF
bringing up, educating, and providing
for their children as long as these are
unable to provide for themselves.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-11-24
Duties and Rights.

ever l have commanded you. The
Church, then, is under the obligation
to teach especially her own members
what their duties are, and what is the
extent and limit of them She is
faithful to her Office and insists that
baptized Christians shall receive a
Christian education. A Christian edu-
cation means that nothing should be
taught Christian children which may
weaken their faith or endanger their
morals. 1t means that the relative
Importance of the various departments
of education should be settled accord
ing to the teaching of Christ. The
tendency is to relegate religious and
leven moral education to a secondary
Iplace in the school curriculum, or
altogether to pass over those all i'm
lportant subjects. Christ put them
first, they belong to the greatest and
the first Commandment. In scheme
|of Christian education they must re
tain their pre-eminent position. As
lCanon 1872 says:
.'All Catholics are to be brought I'll
from Childhood IN Sucn way ina
mot only nothing be taught them which
lis opposed to the Catholic religion
land to good morals, but so that re
Iligious and moral training hold tht
first place"
Catholic Teachers in Catholic Schools
Practically, as the Catholic Church
knows only too we'll from long ex
perience in many lands, this position
of honor for the Catholic religion ant
for Catholic morality can only b.
secured by Catholic teachers in Catho
lie schools. In other schools, even !
there is no hostility to Catholicism
the atmosphere is chilled by still
more deadly indifference in which th'
tender plants of Catholic faith ant
morals in the young cannot live ant
thrive. The Church has the duty an
the right to protect her children from
these dangers. and SO she forbids then
to 60 to nom Catholic schools. Can0l
1874 enacts:
Catholic children must not go {
non.C Catholic, undenominational, Q
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-07-28
VACATION.

Vacation time. Have you taken yours
Vacations are a modern invention-the
development of the past forty years, during
which period, as DR.. Vaughan, retiring
president of the American Medical Asso-
citation, says the average term of life among
civilized men has increased something like
fifteen years.
Vacation means more than the cessation
of vocation. Sitting down and talking
politics will not develop a statesman.
Watching baseball game will not develop
an athlete. Roosevelt was right in de
nouncing the bleacher athlete as an abnor
NAL phenomenon.
And a vacationr-like vocation-re-
CURES active doing to be a success, The
tired business man will get no benefit by
going to another city and disturbing hotel
r0tundas, any more than the farmer will
benefit by period of bucolic idleness. The
latter should go to the city and the former
should go TO the country, and both should
indulge more in such sports as tennis Cor
golf for less robust frames), walking, fish
ing, swimming, boating, motoring, and
camping.
Can more ideal spot be found than in
tenSaCOla Tor all this! NO, we are not lead
ing up to a summer resort boost Times
arc not ripe for that. We are simply call
ing attention to the home people to the
blessings which by long custom they are
50 prone to forget.
The glorious expanse of woodland
beckons. A hundred rivers whisper their
coy invitation. Our pilgrimage to the Great
Outdoors ends almost at the gate. and we
have the sports right at hand for which
Others must travel miles.
Life in Pensacola, in Florida, if we but
studied the art of living one-tenth as earn
estly as the old Romans, would be a con
tiuous vacation, pleasantly relieved by our
vocation.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-07-28
DICTATORSHIP AND DEMOCRACY

With policy of blood and iron,'' Ker-
ensky is building dictatorship that seems
the only way of saving Russia
Had it been established the day after the
car abdicated, Russia would have been
spared tremendous internal losses, and its
ultimate salvation would have been
fastened by the shortening of the war.
Russia, though her sufferings were great,
was not yet qualified for democracy, and
like France, she lost her head when she
hnaIIy gained her liberty-and fell into
many excuses and did many foolish things.
o the man who has been ground down all
his life, Selt-gOvernment is a fearful re-
sHonSibility. But in the case of France,
only that country felt the effects of it's
internal troubles, which surrounding in
Ilnences helped to cure. But in the case Of
Russia the world is made to suffer by the
proIongation of the war; the surrounding
con1agration cannot Quench the flames Of
Russia disorder and one of the beIlioer-
entS Is doing its utmost to prevent the
nation TO save itself.
&ussiaS continued retreat is making the
success of the United States all the harder
. and the success of kerenskv has to rs all
2 INC Importance OF a domestic issue.
In this time of contradictions no STR
prise will be excited at the paradox of the
achievement OF democracy Through dc
tatorship.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-07-28
THE LESSON OF MOULTRIE.

Started as local enterprise, the Mou1-
trie (Ga.) Packing Plant has so developed
the livestock production of it's region that
Swift & Co. have purchased it and will
double its output, giving it a capacity of
six hundred hogs and one hundred head
of cattle day.
The Moultrie that saw the launching OF
the enterprise is not the Moultrie of today,
1t was one Of those regions full of promise
and failure so common in the south. There
was hardly any cattle raised-the packing
plant was indeed the last desperate remedy
to keep economic stagnation from driving,
up entirely.
During the first six months only $500
hogs were offered for sale; during the past
six months the Moultrie packing plant
bought no less than 1000. During the
second years operations the company
handled 10000 hogs; during the past wear
It handled 8O.000-aIl raised in Moultrie's
il, mediate territory. Money was never so
plentiful in Colquitt as it is now. and there
is IS much money in circulation in the
sumner as in the fall, for the livestock ina
o1stry furnishes cash market every day
in the year
Now Moultrie's plant is to be doubled !!
West Florida is berinning to see the
light. Work on Chipley's packing plant,
aid talk on PenSacola'S, have already be-
g'm. The 100000 enterprise that is now
Icing established in Chipley is the result
~ small experimental plant of is, winter.
winch proved what a real packing plant
would mean. What NIoultrie has accom-
| r!iShed. other places can accomplish.
Raising corn is profitable Converting
that corn into pork or beef is more profit
;,"'e still. But to add third profit and
cure and can the meat is the very summit
q success.
We are at the door OF prosperity-will
. NC cross the threshold?
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-07-28
K. Of c. WAR FUND
CONTINUES GROW

Notwithstanding the many late in
sistent demands made upon Pensa-
colians for war fund subscriptions to
aid this country in her fight to make
the world safe for democracy, the
subscriptions to the Knights of Co
lumbus welfare war fund are exceed
ing highest expectations. The teams
which are in charge of Thomas W.
Brent, Edmund Fox, John H. Christie,
Louis c. Higgons, Thomas W. Salt
marsh, D. J. Hayes and Capt. B, J.
Trobuk, are doing valiant work, and
the success, thus far, is due to their
efforts
The funds are being solicited for
the purpose of establishing recrea-
ton quarters in training camps and
war zones, to furnish innocent amuse-
ment and to keep up the morale of
our sailors and soldiers,
A recreation hall, which includes
gymnasium, shower baths. reading
room, etc, has been equipped, and
will be opened shortly, in order that
the local council may assist in this
good work.
These quarters, both in this city
and in the camps and war zones, are
open to all, regardless of creed or
| belief.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-07-28
The SCRATCH PAD
by THOMAS EWING DABNEY.

The principal cause for the alarm
with which certain politicians view
the selective draft system is that
there is no room in it for 'influ-
ence."
In Denman and Goethals continue
to quarrel now, it will have to be
somewhere else than in the public
prints.
Col. Watterson's ITO hell with the
Hapsburgs and Hohenzollerns" should
be widened to include a few sena-
tors.
While President Wilson is making
the world safe for democracy, It
would not be amiss to make Illinois
safe for negroes.
1t is hard to say what hurt the so.
| cialist party more-Benson, Stokes,
SpargO, Sinclair and Russell leaving
it, or Berkman getting in Jail.
Germany, having proved that she
couldn't lick anybody, now announces
that she is not in the war for con-
quest.
The derisive acceptance of German
Mikes maiden speech is no doubt
causing the kaiser's heart to become
so heavy that he will soon be chang
ing chancellor's again.
The fact that people have to DIG
so hard to get it, is not doubt re-
sponsible for the saying that money
is at the root of all evil.
The Journal received, through its
Washington bureau, and printed, the
first master draft list in Pensacola
beating even the exemption board
Which is eloquent commentary on the
difference between the methods of an
awake press and of red tape official
dom.
PUNK into the liquor camp the
bombshell has fallen! When the mi
litia goes into camp in armory hall,
! on August 5, the half-mile zone law
will go into effect and all the Pala-
| fox street bars and the wholesale es-
! adjustments are bestirring them
selves to effect a speedy mobilization
of the militia.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-07-28
PENSACOLA'S DUTY TO THE
SERVICE.

cor, better still, try and entertain
the men of the service by something
other than star gazing on Palafox
street, as that's all there is to do."-
From letter of the editor of the
Catapult to The Journal.
A pregnant idea, this.
One can hardly meet a civilian but has
a friend or relative, either in the army or
navy. or about to become a member, The
psychological response should, therefore,
be favorable to the suggestion of doing for
the boys here what we hope will be done
for our own boys somewhere else.
True, Pensacola has established a read
:: room, a most creditable institution it
is, too, but this diversion appeals only to d
comparative few.
Remain the picture shows and the soda
vi ter stands, but these, too appeal to only
a few. And what else does Pensacola
offer, besides looking at the monuments
iov. satisfying enough, true, but too short
lived?
Chosen from our best, and imbued with
the ideals of service besides, the men OF our
military establishments are of exceptional
moral character; but when thousands OF
men try to kill time in place where ade-
Guate provision is not made for healthy
Observation-Disclosures without any inter
csts, any friendships ashore, doomed to
walk up one street and down another and
back again in a sort of deadly treadmill-lS
It any wonder that some OF them should
WELD to the dark forces that beset them :
The miracle is that more do not.
It is Pensacola's duty to substitute the
good for the evil influences. Every church,
every club, every organization, every pub
lie and private influence is responsible.
The city authorities are responsible. Every
man, woman and child is individually re
| sponsible.
Entertainments. dances and outings
should be planned for the benefit of the
service men. and. above ALL the innumer-
able little attentions of southern hospitality
paid them to make them feel at home
So far Pensaco1as interest in the ser
vice lads has been confined to what it can
sell them. Are we never to realize we are
at war and really cooperate with the adj
ministration in building the most magnif-
cent army the world has ever seen?
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-07-28
Third Anniversary of the
Great European War

against France; Germany declared
var against Belgium; England de
clared war against Germany; latter
retaliated.
Aug. 6-Austria declared war
against Russia; Russia declared war
against Austria.
Aug. Montenegro declared war
against Austria.
Aug, 9-Austria declared war
against Montenegro.
Aug. 1O-France declared war
against Austria.
Aug. 12-Montenegro declared war
against Germany; Great Britain de-
clared war against Austria.
Aug. 23-Japan declared war
against Germany.
Aug. 25-Austria declared war
against Japan.
Nov. 5-England declared war
against Turkey.
May 28-Italy declared war
against Austria.
May 24-Germany announced state
of war with Italy.
June 3-San Marine declared war
on Austria.
Aug, 21-Italy declared war on
eept. 15-serbia declared war on
Bulgaria.
Oct, 16-France declared war on
Bulgaria.
Oct. 19-Italy declared war on Bull
garia.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-07-28

Today is the third anniversary Of
the great war, a war in which Pensa-
cola, as a seaport, has been intimate
ly concerned since it's outbreak. On
July %, 1914, the German steamships
Vogesen and Rudolph Blumberg, and
the Austrian steamship Lucia, were
anchored in the harbor, when across
the seas, the buleet which asSaSsinat-
ed the Archduke Ferdinand, set the
world afire. One of those steamers
is now here, though it no longer
flies the German standard, but the
Stars and Stripes, and has the az. S.
S. Quincy" painted in black du her
coat of battleship gray. The other
two have been similarly American
ICED and sent away.
Form the beginning Pensacola has
felt the effects of the war, and her
part today is mutely testified as one
of the great war eagles from the
aeronautic station hovers over the
city. Soldiers and sailors on the
streets complete the picture.
High Spots in the Great War.
1914:
July 28-Austria declared war
against Serbia, following assassina-
ton of Archduke Francis Ferdinand;
Germany modified fleet.
Aug. Germany declared war
against Russia.
Aug. 2-Germany violated Belgian
neutrality.
Aug. 3-England announced she
would fight if German fleet attack
ed French coast.
Aug. 4-Germany declared wal