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The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-07-14
To. Provide Ambulances
NEW YORK KNIGHTS or coLUM-
BUS WILL SEND TWENTY
UNITS TO FRANCE.

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Twenty ambulances for the Ameri-
can Army in France is to be the cut.
standing. feature of the war relief
work undertaken by the New York
Chapter of the Knights of Columbus.
Each of these ambulance units will be
composed of five surgeons and eighty
six helpers, including nurses, a total
of 1920 men and women The entire
outfit will also be provided with two
motor trucks, one touring car and
nineteen motorcycles. Ten of the
ambulances given by individual coun-
ellis have already been provided, and
before1 the end of July it is hoped to
have the others fully equipped and
manned About August / the ambu-
lances and crews will be. sent to AL
lentown, Pa. for intensive training,
before proceeding to France.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-07-14
Deaf-Mutes in Convention
HARTFORD, CONN.,, is THE SCENE,
OF THE GATHERING OF THOU
SANDS WHO HONOR THE ABRE
DE LEPEE.

On Friday. July eglthe Catholic deaf
mntes assembled in national conven-
tion in Hartford, Conn, attended Mass
and received Holy Communion in ST.
.Joseph's Cathedral. Rev Joseph Pur-
tell, S. J., of Loyola College, Balti-
more. preached in the sign language
On Thursday afternoon confessions
were heard in the sign language at
the Cathedral. Friday afternoon cleo
tions were held, problems discussed,
and plans were perfected for the ex-
tension of the great work being done
for the Catholic deaf in America.
During the week thousands of deaf
mutes, with their instructors and
friends, gathered in Hartford to cele-
brate the centenary of the foundation
of the American School for the Deaf
one hundred years ago. The dele
gates assembled in st. Joseph's Cathe-
dral to plan fitting testimonials to
Able de slEpee, the French Catholic
priest who invented the sign language.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-07-14
ARMY CHAPLAINS.
FINAL APPoRTloNMENT GIVES
CATHOLIC CHURCH ABOUT ONE
THIRD OF cHAPLAiNcIES IN
ENTIRE ARMY.

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The final apportionment of chap
laincies for the old and the new army
has been announced by the war de-
partment, and the Catholic Church is
to have 48 out of the LA regular army
chaplains, and 116 out of $50 to be ap-
pointed for the new army. This
amounts to approximately one-third of
the whole number of chaplains in the
entire army. The original plan of
the War Department had been to al
low the Catholic Church % per cent.
of all the chaplains appointed. This
would mean thirty-two instead of for
ty-eight. The, increase is somewhat
less than the Church authorities had
expected. But it is at least a step
toward a more equitable arrangement.
Rev. Lewis J. O'Hern, C. S. P, in
charge of the appointments to the
Catholic chaplain corps, in an inter
view with the writer, said: Now that
the question is definitely settled as
to the number of chaplains the Cath
olic Church will be allowed, we have
not sufficient number of applications
on file or in sight to fill the vacancies.
However, | have an unbounded conf
dence that enough priests will be
found to fill every appointment offer
ed by the federal government
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-07-14
Rt. Rev. Bishop McCloskey
NEW. PRELATE FOR THE PHILIP
PINE ISLANDS VISITS IN ST.
PAUL.

Right Reverend James McCloskey,
recently appointed Bishop of the Dio-
cese of Zamboanga, Philippine Islands,
spent few days in st. Paul during
the past week. He was accompanied
by his Secretary. Rev. Joseph A.
Dougherty, and the following clergy
men: Right Reverend D. ]. Dougher-
ty, Bishop of Buffalo, N. Y, and his
Chancellor, Rev. Dr. ,Thos. J. Walsh;
Reverends F. P. Dougherty, j. A. Nc
cullough, F. A. Brady, J. A. Holahan,
D. Mckinley, J. A. Whitaker, and Mgr
w. J.. Crane, all of Philadelphia.
They were conducted on a tour
through the city of st. Paul by Rev.
M. 1. J. Griffin, of ST. Thomas College.
The Diocese of Zamboanga was
erected in 1910. 1t comprises an area
of $4,000 square miles with nine
provinces. In this territory there is
a Catholic population of 100000.
There are also 100000 pagans and
100000 Mohammedans, the latter of
whom are to be found exclusively in
this part of the Islands Bishop Nc
Closkey has spent nine years in the
Philippines, and he is enthusiastic in
praising the genuine faith, simplicity
and docility which characterize the
inhabitants.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-07-14
Queen Mary Of England
SHE RECEIVED AND SENT FOR
DISTRIBUTION A NUMBER OF
BADGES OF THE SAC RED
HEART.

Queen Mary has always been
thought by the public to possess very
strong evangelical sympathies which
make anything Catholic Objectionable
to her, and this idea has been sedu-
lously fostered. Some pious French
people conceived the idea of present
ing the British Tommies with a num-
Der of the little flags of the Sacred
Heart which are SO popular amongst
the French poilus, and are said to
have protected so many soldiers in
moments of great danger. They there
fore forwarded a few days ago to
Queen Mary large. supply of these
little flags, with a request that the sol
diers might wear them on the feast
Of the Sacred Heart The Queen has
replied in very gracious autograph
:ie+:: ::er in which she thanks the donors
for their kind thought and piety, and
says she has forwarded the flags to
the Catholic Chaplain-in-C Chief of the
british Army, who will charge him
self with their distribution amongst
the Catholic troops. The French are
very gratified by this letter, and Cath
olie soldiers will in due course re-
eeive the little flags.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-07-14
Saint Christopher

A new .confraternity has been
erected at Bourges, France. for avia-
tors and automobilists, who are placed
under the protection of st. Chris
topher. Two Masses a week are said
for. associates, and the laudable mo-
tive of the confraternity is to assure
during the war an increase of prayers
for the numerous and brave military
aviators and automobilists who risk
their lives every moment. After the
war it is proposed to erect in the
Diocese of Bourges sanctuary Wor.
thy of St. Christopher where the con
fraternity viii continue its work for
ALI ayiators and automobilists.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-07-14
K. OF. c. AWARDED OFFICIAL STATUS

This committee is composed Of
Colonel P. H. Callahan as Chairman;
Supreme Knight James A. Flaherty,
Supreme Secretary, VIM. j. Mckinley,
Supreme Treasurer, D. J. Callahan,
and James ]. McGraw. Rev. Lewis ].
O'Hern, C. S. P, who is recognized by
the government as the official repre-
sentative of Catholic Chaplains and
other war questions, will work in con-
junction with this committee
Plans are already drawn for the
sixteen Knights of Columbus build
ings in the training camps already
designated by the Secretary of War,
and these buildings may be increased
later on to thirty-two. They will be
fully equipped, maintained and oper-
ated by the knights of Columbus as
was done last year on the Mexican
border
Not the least of the works to be
undertaken is the furnishing of
priests where there are no Catholic
army chaplains, both here and in
Europe, with the American troops.
and the Order will pay their expenses
and keep. A fund of one million dol
lars, to be known as the Knights of
Columbus War Camp Fund, is to be
raised. The Supreme Officers sent out
an appeal for voluntary assessment
of two dollars per member, payable
within thirty days from June "a. The
balance over the assessment fund will
be solicited from wealthy members
of the Order and Catholics generally.
To this end a campaign will be in
augurated by every council in the
United States commencing July %.
At meeting of the st. Paul Coun-
Gil slast Sunday nearly $4,000 was
pledged for the Catholic Soldiers
Club at Fort Smelling 1t is expected
that the assessment alone on MEM
bers in the st. Paul Council will net
$4,000. At this social center at Fort
Smelling everything possible will be
provided for the comfort of the sol
diers, a piano, victrola, literature,
stationery, ice water, etc. 1t is ex-
pected that the Catholics of st. Paul
and Minneapolis will provide suitable
entertainment at frequent intervals
for the same purpose. One of the
special features of this center will be
an Intelligence Bureau. By means Of
this bureau friends and relatives of
the soldiers will be enabled to. keep
in touch, by letter or cable. with the
men at the front, through the chap
lains.
Although the national campaign for
funds has not yet been officially in
augurated, reports are pouring in
from the various Councils showing
the enthusiasm with which the MEM
bers are taking up the work. Up to
July Z, contributions to the War Camp
Fund amounted to $34,62O.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-07-14
HOME FOR GIRLS
CATHOLICS OF LONDON HAVE
PLACE SUITABLE FOR WORK.
ING GIRLS.

r
Cardinal Bourne recently blessed
the Hostel for Catholic Girls, in Lon
don, open to Serbian refugees, which
has been set up at Victoria under the
auspices of the international Catholic
Girls Protection Society. The hostel
provides accommodation at very low
rates for respectable girls. There are
private rooms and bedrooms, dining
and recreation rooms, and everything
to make the place bright and attrac-
tive, while there are particular facili-
ties for girls to practice their relig-
idus deyotions, and strangers of other
nationalities are informed where they
can find a 'iss.. speaking their lans
guage, etc. 1t is the. first venture of
it's kind in London
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-07-14
ECCLESIASTICAL LAW
THE NEW CODE OF. CANON Law
WAS PROMULGATED BY THE
POPE.

! The feast of st. Peter was celebrat-
ed with the customary solemnity this
year, in Rome, an enormous concourse
of the faithful being present as usual,
especially at the evening services.
On the eve of the feast Pope Benedict
paid, also as usual, a special visit to
the great basilica to venerate the
Tomb of the Apostle. This year,
however, the eve of the feast had a
special significance: the solemn pro-
mitigation by his Holiness of the new
Code of Canon Law, work on which
has been going on since the publica-
tion of the "Motu Proprio" of Pope
Plus X, "Arduum Sane Munus," ap-
pointing the codification commission
in 1904
The ceremony of PRONUNCIATION
took place in the Consistorial Hall Of
the Vatican, there being present
twenty-six cardinals, maay consultors
of the commission, and other bishops
and monsignori
Cardinal Gasparri, president of the
commission, placed in the Pope's
hands a copy of the new Code, on ac-
cepting which his Holiness delivered
an address, saying that joys and sor-
rows alternate in the life of the
Catholic Church; and this occasion
was one of great joy amid the sor-
rows that are overshadowing the
present pontifcate. He warmly
thanked the members of the commits
sion, particularly the cardinals, from
among whom he selected Cardinal
Gasparri as having merited much
praise for his zeal and his untiring
energy. He paid generous tribute to
his predecessor, Pope Plus x, the
originator of the monumental work of
cGdifying the Canon Law, regretting
that that illustrious Pontiff had not
lived to see it's completion.
The official Bull of PRONUNCIATION,
entitled "Providentissima Mater Ec-
clesia,' dated Pentecost, 1917, orders
that the new Code will go into opera
tion on Pentecost, 1918.
A cursory glance over this volume
of 521 pages discloses the establish
ment of the new Sacred Congregation
of Oriental Rites and the enumeration
of feasts Of precept, two of which are
restored THAT of Corpus. Christi and
that CT st. Joseph
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-07-14
WONDERFUL PROGRESS or THIS
GREAT CATHOLIC ScHooL-iTS
MANIFOLD .AcTiVITiES-lTS EN-
RoLLMENT, EQUIPMENT AND
PROSPECTS. -
(Communicated)

Those who know how slowly and
laboriously educational institutions
are built up, and who have not fol-
lowed from year to year the progress
which st. Thomas has been making,
find it hard to realize that College
which barely seventeen years ago was
composed Of one building, housing one
hundred and sixty lstudents.-could now:
count eight spacious modern build
ings in which over eight hundred stu
dents last year answered the roll call.
Administration Building, Residence
Hall, Chapel, Dormitory, Infirmary,
Glass Building, Armory and Club
House, and Rife Gallery fringe in
ever lengthening line the avenue that:
winds through the beautiful grounds,
forming a group which in its pic
turesque setting on the banks of the
Mississippi constitutes noble and
charming seat of education
4 Standing ont in relief from this
chain of buildings are the Residence
Hall, the Armory and the Chapel. The
Residence Hall is structure of
ample and artistic proportions, with
airy and cheerful rooms furnished
simply and tastefully, where in long
hours of studious solitude youth
learns to love literature and to form
habits that are the ground work of all
real success in life. The Armory Is
one of the great armOries of the coun-
try, large enough for the ordinary
drills of a whole regiment. The
Chapel, however, it Is that detains
the eye, for from whatever angle it is
viewed it presents something new to
admire. The beauty and dignity of
the Byzantine churches of Northern
Italy are embodied in the chapel that
rises on the knoll in the forefront of
the st. Thomas Campus. These three
buildings would lend an air of dis
tinction to any college. When the
present St.. Thomas group will be
rounded out with a Science Hall and
a Service Building, the College will
be fully equipped for the great work
(which the future has in store for it.
Eight hundred and thirty students
were enrolled last year. OF these the
Northwest contributed the bulk, but
more distant States, among them New
York, Rhode Island, California, Okla
homa, Washington, Wyoming. and
kentucky contributed their quota tx
sven the gratifying total The stu
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-07-14
Catholic Officer Promoted.
BROTHER OF REV. LEWIS O'HERN
is MADE COLONEL.

Edward p. O,Hern, ordnance de-
.partment, on July was advanced to
the grade or rank of lieutenant
colonel. Col. O'Hern is one of the best
known and efficient of our army Off
GERS, ana is an expert in ordnance,
one of the features which will play
such an important part in our present
international trouble. The lieutenant
colonel comes of notable Catholic
family. and is a brother of Rev. Lewis
Js O'Hern, @. s. P., whom the Catho-
lie hierarchy has recently placed in
charge Of the spiritual welfare of the
Catholic soldiers in the national army.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-07-14
Hamburg Loses Chimes
NINETY-THREE BELLS ARE CON-
VERIFIED INTO CANNON.

Hamburg. Germany, has just hidden
a touching farewell to the noted
chimes in two principal churches, st.
Nicholas and st. Peters, from which
the bells have been appropriated un-
der general order seizing all German
church bells to be melted into cannon.
Great crowds assembled around the
churches and joined in hymns which
organists played for the last time on
the BELLS, The chimes are composed
of forty-three and fifty bells respec-
lively, and will provide about thirty
tons Of gun metal
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-07-14
Catholic HospitalAssoci citation
ANNUAL CONVENTION is POST
PoNED FOR THIS YEAR ON AC-
COUNT OF WAR CONDITIONS.

The annual convention of the Cath
Ollie Hospital Association will not be
held this year. 1t had been scheduled
for Aug. 29-31. The Marquette Sum
mer School for laboratory technicians
also will not be conducted this year.
The reasons for this decision are the
adverse conditions of the country.
During the coming year plans will be
made for great convention in 1918,
and the summer courses at Marquette
Medical School will be resumed, these
events, however, again depending upon
the conditions of the country and the
opinion of those interested in the
work.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-07-14
BEQUEST SHRINKS
-AMouNTe LEFT TO- PAuLIsT.
FATHERS IS LESS THAN
ESTIMATED.

An accounting fled in the Surro-i
gates Court in New York City by the
temporary administrators of the estate
of Miss Jessie Gillender, whose will
was upheld recently, shows that the
total value of her property, estimated
at $4,000, 900 at the time of her death,
is only $710.367, and that the residu-
airy bequest to the Pallist Fathers,
instead Of amounting to $1,000, 900 as
estimated, will be only 1886, 1867. The
administrators report that Miss Gil
lenders property which she inherited
from her father, Arthur Gillender, is
$417,511 in personally and the re-
mainder in really. m
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-07-14
The Ideal Parish.
SISTERS IN MILWAUKEE INSTlTU-
TIoN ARE INDICATED BY LEG
ISLATIVE COMMITTEE - ANTI
CATHOLIC PUBLICATION Is
SEVERELY ARRAlGNED.

The Sisters of the Good Shepherd
and their management of their insti-
tuition in Milwaukee, Wis, have been
attacked by a publication known as
the Kuryer Polski. A legislative COM
mittee was appointed to investigate
the charges, and completely exon
Grated the Sisters. The following is
a summary of the committees report:
THE committee visited the House
of the Good Shepherd, and every fa-
cility was offered to the committee
by those in charge of the institution,
for making a thorough investigation
and inspection. Numerous witnesses
were called and their testimony given
in executive session. This testimony
has been transcribed and is on file at
the Department of State, where the
same is open to public inspection.
1.-The charges contained in various
issues of the Kuryer Polski, in rela-
tion to the House of the Good Shep-
herd, and the findings of the COM
mittee in relation thereto, are as fol
lows:
Charge No. /. The name would
indicate that it is charitable, relig-
ious institution, but the name is mis-
leading.
"The committee is convinced that
the House of the Good Shepherd is
to a large extent a charitable insti
tuition, as the evidence shows that the
moneys derived from the services OF
the inmates is not sufficient to pay
for their maintenance.
"Charge No. 2. 1t is only re
1igious'' insofar as the personality
of owners and managers is con
cerned.'
"The House of the Good Shepherd
is a religious institution. The in
mates are required to attend services
each morning. While the services
are such as are customarily conducted
in a Catholic Church and all inmates
are required to attend such services
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-07-14
DON LICINI REFICE
A NEW COMPOSER OF DIsTINc-
TioN APPEARS IN ETERNAL
CITY.

A new musical star is rising on the
ecclesiastical armament. The per-
formance of the Oratorio, Maria Mad
delena," in the great Hall of the Pom
tifical School of Music at Rome, has
placed the young Maestro Don Licini
Refice in the front rank of Catholic
composers. He is now to be reckoned
with beside such men as Don Perosi
and Don Casimire, Roman Chapel
Masters, who have assured the
triumph Of the great reform of sacred
chant undertaken by Pope Plus x, of
blessed memory.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-07-14
Bishop McFaul's Will

The greater part of the estate of the
late Bishop McFaul is left by the will,
probated in Trenton. N. j., for charit-
able and religious work to be carried
on by his successor. The bequests In
clude $4,000 to Mrs. Mary E. oCon.
nell. a sister; $4,000 to John J. Nc
Faul, brother. and $4,000 for. divi-
sion among the Bishops domestics.
The executors are the Right Rev. John
A. Fox. LII. D., vicar general of the
diocese. and the Rev. James j. Pow
[ers, chancellor.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-07-14
HOUSE OF THE GOOD SHEPHERD

those not of the Catholic faith are
not required to follow or take part
in such services.
Charge No. 3. 1T is not run to.
elevate the character of the prisoner
girls, but is run for profit, for the
gain of dollars and cents. Nothing
elevating about it
"The committee finds that the
character of the work required of the
inmates is elevating to marked de-
gree, and corrective in application.
That the institution is not run for
profit is shown by the answer to
Charge No. 1.
Charge No. 4. The girl-prisoners
are forced to work fourteen to fifteen
hours a day, Notwithstanding child
labor laws, and are mistreated shame
fully
"The evidence shows that the in
mates are required to work on an
average only four and one-half hours
per day. The testimony of the man
ayers of the institution, as well as
that of the inmates, given under
oath, is that the statutes in regard to
child-labor are being strictly COM
piled with.
Charge No. 5. The girls are mis-
! treated shamefully.'
"The committee is convinced that
this charge is absolutely unfounded.
No evidence whatever was presented
which would indicate that the inmates
are in any way abused or mistreated.
."The committee finds that the
charges contained in various issues
of the Kuryer Polski are not substan
tiated by the evidence presented, and
are of the opinion that such charges
were made without proper investiga
/ tion and are unfounded.
"The committee feel that in justice
j to the management of the House OF
the Good Shepherd. the Kuryer Polski
4 should publish the findings of this
| committee, together with complete
retraction of the charges made.
j Respectfully submitted,
m. w. PERRY chairman
"F. N. BERNARDY,
JOHN CAMPER,
"WM. ARMENIAN.
4 Dated Madison, Wis, June 9th
u 1877 sefsTf -E
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-07-14
COLLEGE OF SAINT THOMAS

dents are organized into a corps of
cadets, comprising nine companies, a
military brass band, signal corps
and other organizations. An officer of
the United States Army, detailed by
the War Department and assisted by
four sergeants of the regular army,
has charge of the military training.
Every day every student turns out
under arms, for an hour of drill forms
part of the daily routine at st.
Thomas.
Military Features.
Z The steady increase in attendance
is due in no small part to the grow
ing Importance attached to military
training, and to the growing appre-
citation of it as parents come more and
more to understand its advantages.
Every well trained cadet is a telling
illustration of the benefits that accrue
from course in military school.
Manly bearing, precision, promptness,
initiative, alertness, courtesy, the
spirit of obedience and respect for
authority are cultivated by system
which is devised to secure just such
results by methods that have stood
the test of experience. The reputa-
tiOn which St. Thomas has estab-
lished for efficiency as a military
school is now a matter of common
knowledge. It is one of the institu-
:tions designated by the War Depart
ment as an Honor School-a distinc-
tion conferred on the ten best mills
| tary schools of the United States.
The splendid training of the st.
Thomas cadets was evidenced in a
striking manner at the annual inspec-
tion which was conducted by Colonel
Julius A.. Penn on May IS, and also
at the Military Tournament given by
the College at the st. Paul Audi
torium on May %. The audience of
Eight thousand people who gathered
for that occasion will long remember
the marvellous precision and variety
of military exercises that entertained
and interested them during the even
ling. 1t was the training of the St.
Thomas cadets that enabled them to
render valuable service in drilling
the Citizens Auxiliary of st. Paul and
minneapolis, when two months ago
those organizations made st. Thomas
the center of military activity for both
cities. During the past year COM
mission in the regular army, two COM
missions in the Marine corps. place
at West Point, and captaincy in
i the OfEicers' Reserve Corps were
IaWarded to st. Thomas students. At
the Officers Reserve Camp at Fort
Smelling ninety st. Thomas students,
lcontlnued on page 81 ~