The Irish standard., 1917-06-02


IN FROM CATHOLIC COLLEGES
AND NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
TRAINING IN VARIOUS lNsTlTU-
TioNS.
Catholics of America in this hour
are not being outdone by their non
Catholic fellow citizens in giving evil
dence of their loyalty to their coun-
try. or the men, there is no ques-
ton. Even in peace times they pre-
dominate in both army and navy, be-
ing represented in both arms of the
service far in excess of their percent
age in the nation. And now Catholics
are volunteering on every hand and
particularly the regiments to which
Catholic chaplains are delegated are
receiving a flood of recruits of our
faith. Stirring patriotic appeals have
laity of the various dioceses.
The postgraduate students in the
ecclesiastical school at the Catholic
University, who will probably be called
upon to act as chaplains when the
United States forces are modified for
war, have been organized into three
tirst-aid classes, fitting themselves to
give the largest possible measure of
service on the battlefields.
Very Rev. Edward A. Pace of the
university faculty, who is a member
of the intercollegiate committee or
ganited in cooperation with the war
department for courses of military
training in colleges and universities
of the country, in stating the purpose
of the Catholic University, with re-
gard to war service, said:
ut is to the everlasting honor Of
the University of Oxford that there
was not an able-bodied man left in
that institution. We want it to be
the proud boast of the Catholic Uni
versity of America that every man is
doing his best to serve the country"
The new laboratories presented to
the university by Martin Maloney of
Philadelphia have been turned over
to the government for research work
in chemistry. A registration bureau
has been organized to find out what
every student is best fitted to do and
to find for him place in government
service. The first aid classes for the
ecclesiastical students are the first of
the kind organized in this country.
Among the appointments recently
announced is that of the Right Rev.
Joseph S. Glass, G.. M, D. D., who
has been named by Governor BAN
berger as a member of the state coun.
Gil of defense, organized at the direc-
ton of Secretary of War Newton D.
Baker. The state council will assist
the national council in it's work for
preparedness.
Rev. Edward H. Fitzgerald, for
many years an army chaplain, has
been detailed to Fort Douglas. Father
Fitzgerald saw service in the Philip
pines, and was in the army for many
and has been living in Los Angeles.
The Knights Of Columbus have Of
fered to the government the free use
of their country club house and thirty
one acres near Fort Myer apd the
great public wireless station at Radio.
So many young priests have volun-
teered to go out as chaplains that the
meeting of the alumni of the Amer
lean College in Rome, which was to
have been held in Baltimore on May
%, has been postponed.
Between 80 and 80 per cent of the
available students of the senior class
of Georgetown (Jesuit) arts and law
departments have. applied for admis-
sion to the officers reserve corps train
ing camp For the undergraduates
military drill has been established uIl-
der the direction of Major e. " Book
Miller, u. S. A., retired. In addition
to the regular courses of the medical
school Special instruction is being
given in. military surgery, military n.y.
giene and camp sanitation.
A number of the graduates have Of
fcred their services to the army or
navy, and Georgetown professors have
been placed in charge of the Naval
Reserve Hospital in Washington. The
Georgetown University hospital, like
wise, has placed at the disposal of
the naval department a complete sec.
ton consisting of 100 beds.
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