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The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-11-24
New Church at Buffalo
CATHOLICS OF BUFFALO, MIMI,
PROUD OF NEW STRUCTURE
BISHOP oTRoBEc OBLIGATED
LAST SUNDAY.

On Sunday, November Is, Right Rev
erend Bishop Trobec dedicated the
new Church of st. Francis at Buffalo,
Mimi. The pastor is Rev. Joseph
Heinz. At ten o'clock on Sunday
morning Solemn High Mass in the
presence of the Bishop was celebrated
by Rev VIM. Blum. The deacon of
the Mass was Rev. Alfred Kern, and
the subdeacon, Rev. Joseph Heinz.
Rev. George Rolwes was master of
ceremonies. After the dedication the
Right Reverend Bishop preached a
strong sermon on the necessity of
faith At noon dinner was served in
the parish hall by the ladies to the
Bishop and a number of visiting cler-
gy. Two beautiful side affairs had
been installed in the church in time
for the dedication. In the afternoon
Bishop. Trobec confirmed a class of
ninety-one candidates OF whom three
were converts.
Z The new Church of st. Francis is an
edifice of exceptional beauty. A tower
120 feet high gives it an imposing ap-
pearance. 1t is cruciform in shape,
and is built of red vitrffied brick. The
church measures 135 by 60 feet, with
a ceiling 36 feet high. The Roman
arch prevails throughout. The inter,
ior of the building is finished in light
amber with ivory trimmings. A large
sacristy, and sanctuary measuring
rs by 26 feet, gives ample room for
practical purposes. The new church
cost $4,000, and seats about six hun
dred persons The choir, which has
been trained under the personal di-
rection of the pastor, added material,
ly to the splendor of the occasion.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-11-24
POPULAR PARADoxEs ABOUT
ALCOHOL.

Monkeys are caught by boring a
small hole in an empty cocoanut and
placing lump of sugar inside. The
monkey thrusts in his hand, seizes
the sugar, and then cannot get his
fist out. AS long as his fist is
clenched he cannot get loose, nor
run nor climb. He screams, fights
and bites, but holds on to his sugar
and is taken alive.
Though alcohol palsies a mans
hand, blurs his mind, paralyzes his
will, undermines his morals, dictates
his religion-in short, reduces him
to total slavery, yet he will not sur
render his personal liberty" When
a mans personal liberty is preserved
in alcohol, it is stone-dead.
Alcohol transforms homes into
novels, wife's happiness into
shamed bitterness, children's play
into fear, paints neighborhoods with
squalid ugliness, fills jails, poor
houses, hospitals and asylums, and
passes all this bitter Inheritance ON
to other generations. All these social
evils come in the name of the social
glass;" The social glass is social
suicide. These things / have.net read
out of book, but seen while the roar
of machine shop was in my ears.
"A. Holmes. Dean Of PennsplDanfa State
College.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-11-24
Major Herman ]. Koehler
THE ARMY'S MOST FAMOUS
DRlLL-MASTER VISITS ST.
THOMAS COLLEGE ALUMNI
APPL VI NC FOR VARIOUS
BRANCHES OF THE SERVICE.

Two visits of Major Herman J.
Koehler to the College during the past
week added fresh interest to the work
of the drill hour Under Major Koch
1ler's system of military calisthenics
the West Point cadets have been
trained for many years, and thousands
of young officers in the Reserve Off
GERS Training Camps throughout the
country are now being initiated into
his system under his supervision. In
his first visit to the College the Major
addressed the students, showing that
physical training is the basis of all
military discipline and enumerating
avoided In the second visit he took
charge of the cadets and drilled them
for an hour. With the training which
the students had received they were
passed rapidly from one exercise to
another, and thus in the course of an
hour they covered summarily the
main points of Major Koehler's IA
NOUS system The distinguished Off
Ger expressed much pleasure at the
spirit with which the companies en-
tered into the exercises and the eff
cheney of which they gave evidence.
On their part the cadets enjoyed the
hour spent with man who is regard
ed in the Army as one of the great
drill-masters of the world
Upwards of two hundred and fifty
names of st. Thomas students, past
and present, who have enlisted in vari-'
Gus branches of the service, have al
ready been compiled. This list is
very incomplete, and is being supple
mented almost daily by the addition
Of new names. 1t is hoped that, with
the cooperation of friends of the Col
lege, a full roster of those who have
offered their services to the country
will soon be in the hands of the Col
lege authorities.
Applications for admission to the
third Reserve Officers Training Camp
will be closed on December 1. A
large number of St Thomas alumni
are taking advantage of the excep-
tional opportunity offered them to en-
ter this camp, and further applica-
tons are looked for during the re-
naming days.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-11-24
DOMAIN OF TEMPERANCE
WHY BEER IS SUPPLYING.

Beer derives from hops bitter
tasting, sticky substance which forms
the active element of the Oriental mar
cotic - Tasheesh. This discovery,
credited to Professor Reinitzer of the
Polytechnic at Graz. is declared by
other European scientists to account
for the ''undoubted Supplying effects
of beer
Judge Lang of Zurich says:
Brandy makes man sick, but beer
makes him stupid" and DR.. Del
brueck declares that all civilization
must send forth the slogan, WAR on
Beer"
: Hasheesh is a. narcotic made by
the natives of India, Turkey, and
other countries from the leaves,
flowers, and stocks of the hemp
plant. Long ago it was the custom
of Eastern despots, when assigning
to servants the duty of assassination,
to intoxicate them with hasheesh,
and from the similar sound we are
said to derive our word, assassin"
The drug has peculiar, brutalizing
effect. 1t pulls in the nerves from
the finger tips to the inner recesses
as cat draws in it's claws. The
victim is left unperceptive, unrespon-
sive, and in time is degraded to the
level of the grunting hog.
Hops is very closely related to
hemp. Says Professor Renitizer, "In
the female blossom of the Indian
plant as in the female blossom Of
the hops we find glands holding a
narcotic, bitter-tasting, sticky sub
stance which forms the active. ele-
ment of the hasheesh from Indian
hemp. This is used by the various
Mohammedan people Of South and
West Africa, as opium elsewhere for
narcotic purposes
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-11-24
James c. Monaghan Dead
DISTINGUISHED AS DIPLOMAT,
EDUCATOR AND LECTURER
CHIEF AIM IN LIFE WAS URGING
YOUNG MEN TO HIGHER IDEALS.

Prof. James G. Monaghan, ex-consul,
famous lecturer and educator, has
gone to his reward at the age of 60,
in Brooklyn, N. Y, November IL, leav-
ing wife and grown-up son and
daughter. The story Of his Industrious
life, If fully told, should be an inspira-
ton to all young people in this Land
of Opportunity that he loved to tell
about SO eloquently from the lecture
platform.
He was born in Boston and received
his education chiefly in evening
schools and from the Christian
Brothers, after which he went to
Brown University from which he was
graduated with an A. M. degree and
later with an LII. d. In 1908 he re-
ceived the Laetare Medal from the
University of Notre Dame, Ind. He
was United States Consul at Chem
nitz, Germany, for seven years and
while abroad pursued postgraduate
courses at Heidelberg and Mannheim
Later he was professor at the Uni
versity of Wisconsin, at George Wash
ington University, at Notre Dame and
at st. Johns College, Brooklyn. He
was an apostle of technical education,
and was principal of the great Stuyve-
SAINT Evening Trade School in New
York. President Wilson called him
back into the consular service in Oc-
tober, 1914, and appointed him United
States Consul at Kingston, Jamaica.
Years before he had been taken
from the consular service to edit the
daily consular and trade reports,
then new feature of the work of the
Department Of Commerce. Secretary
Cortelyou said that at that time he
was the greatest statistician in the
employ Of the Government, and his
great talent as a lecturer was utilized
to bring these statistics before boards
of trade everywhere.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-11-24
lTHE cATHoL1c BuLLETIN, NovEMBER "a lg17

ment, and it is hoped that before
long arrangements will be made
on larger scale.
An coffee in favor of prisoners
of wa" was opened in December,
1914, as department under the
(PapaD Secretary of State. This
office, for the benefit Of prisoners
OF all belligerents alike, makes
enquiries regarding missing sol
diers and Investigations of every
kind in regard to their condition.
When reprisals on prisoners
were threatened the Pope inter-
vened by proposing to the various
governments that they should alb
stain from all measures of this
kind.
As regards spiritual matters the
Pope has recommended Bishops to
look after prisoners camps in
their dioceses, has sent representa-
tives to visit camps and has
granted special powers to chap
lains.
Material assistance has been
given in the form of provisions to
French prisoners, of Christmas
presents to Italians, of Easter
presents to Austrians and of gifts
distributed by the Apostolic Dele
gate of Constantinople to the
French and English prisoners in
Turkey.
Inter ALA, the Pope has fire.
quently interviewed on behalf of
individual prisoners with view
to their release or confinement in
more suitable conditions, espe-
|cially as regards health, has been
instrumental in establishing tech
meal courses and libraries for stu
dents, and has promoted the I'M
restricted exchange, of priests.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-11-24

|nateH the OCCASION. Every coun-
ty professed undying allegiance
to the Old Flag and all it stood
for. Never was a whole people
more aroused to greater heights
Of patriotic outpouring than the
citizens of Minnesota on those
momentous days.
Whatever blot may have been
placed by jealous hands on the
fair name Of Minnesota has been
utterly obliterated. Sectional
cords have been frightened to the
great heart Of the nation which
pulses in the Capital City the
sporadic voice of feeble protest
has been silenced forever: and
Minnesota has declared to the
world that the die has been cast,
and she will yield to the enemy
only when life is extinct: but dis
loyal she will be never.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-11-24

OF the question tsWhy" is en-
larged. The child begins to in
quire into the reason or purpose
of things. .Why do men have
beards?' No distinction is made
between efficient cause and final
cause, between cause and purpose.
The notion of causality is one
OF the most important Of intellec-
tnal processes. The child 8 mind
is attracted to the relation of
cause and effect by the repeated
occurrence Of different things. He
learns that hunger vanishes after
he has eaten something, that a ball
rolls it he drops it. Frequently
he assigns causes of his own ac-
cord. A boy will explain that milk
is white because it comes from a
white COW. Also supposed causes
are applied to prevent the effects
OF other causes. A little girl
placed heavy stone upon her
head. She explained that persons
who grew old and tall had to die;
the stone was to prevent growth.
In drawing conclusions, the child
has no idea that a conclusion is
correct if it conforms to the rela-
ton of things.
The third stage Of mental
developments entered upon when
the child wants to know the
How of things. Elbow do /
grow?' "How is it that it
Ithundersg' GLOW did God make
the world?'' If he is told that
angels light the stars at night, it
appeals to his Imagination.
| Study of the nature Of the ques-
tions that child asks convinces
lone of their Importance in the
Ichild's mental development.
lChildish questions deserve serious
attention and the answer TO them
is often difficult. To answer the
first questions is the mother
task. Motherly tact will have to
lshape the methods. The answer
should not transcend beyond the
child's mental horizon. If the
matter is too complicated the child
should be told that when he grows
older, he will receive an explana-
ton that he can understand. All
Questions should not be answered.
Rather postpone the question than
lglve an answer that is too deep.
All premature explanations are
useless, often harmful. A child is
very credulous and it's credulity
should not be, imposed upon by
nonsensical answers. If the child
suspects that it is being fooled, it
will lose all confidence.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-11-24
THE UNsPoKEN WORD.

Some writer once achieved tran
STORY fame by penning the words
OF a song, the burden of which
was, eff | but knew" Countless
thousands have acquired remorse
which death cannot efface by ex-
employing the truth Of those
words. If | had known, is the
wall they send up in bitter re-
pentance as a loved one is snatch
ed away by the ruthless Reaper.
Hearts that beat in unison came
to know discord: cacophany sue
ceeded harmony, and disruption
of various ties completed the
havoc. Now and then superior
nature chided the delinquent
friend for his puny puerility. Old
love and friendship yearned for
| the word that meant a renewal of
lold joys: but the word remained
unspoken. Pride, dastardly pride,
rebelled at apparent surrender,
and the structure of ethical beauty
ltoppled over in utter collapse. A
word would have saved the tenn
| pie, but the word was not spoken.
Achievement and excellence
AROUSE pardonable pride in one s
friend; they excite admiration in
the fair-minded stranger; they
| stir the Shiny depths in the soul
of the niggard and the envious.
Not rarely, the friend--the par
ent, the child-rises in peevish
protest over the success of one
who should be an object of felici-
tation The "well done, good and
faithful one' is missing to make
the triumph complete. A word
would more worth be than victory
itself: but that word is not spoken.
Or, mayhap, the loved one has
fallen through weakness or ia
ltigue. His vision may have been
blurred by the binding light of
the worlds effulgence: his step
has faltered because his strength
was shattered. Encouragement,
nay, despair, may have fastened
its poisoned talons in his weak
ened flesh. He looks about for
comfort, for pity, for the extended
hand of help. A word win infuse
new courage in his heart, and will
make the, blood to pulse fast and
fervent in his wasted veins. The
word is lacking: his spirits droop,
the fall becomes collapse: the
wreck is complete. As the last
clod Of unfeeling earth registers
a dull, heart-rending thud on the
lowered casket, then too late, ah,
too late, the word is spoken by the
lfriend-the parent, the child
|spoken to the signing zephyrs, the
1 bowed willows, the raised mound
but the word is the voice of re-
morse, of unavailing regret, I'll
| / had known. !"
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-11-24
AMERICAS ANSWER TO more
BEER" CRY IN BRITAIN.

Here is Americas answer to Mr..
Lloyd Georges decision to provide
more beer
''The argument for prohibition is
clean-cut, simple, and direct" says
the New York Independent"
"The drinking of alcohol never sup
piled to any normal individual, posi-
tive good-in health, efficiency, power,
or happiness.
'The drinking of alcohol does pro-
duce for countless individuals and for
society, positive evil-in disease, loss
of efficiency. impairment of power,
vice, crime, and unhappiness.
'"The cold fact is, that, liquor is
made from food; and in this day of
the world every people which is at war
is suffering for lack of food. Here
and now the. question becomes one,
not between indulgence and absti-
hence, between pleasure and self-de-
NAL, between personal liberty and tyr
amy, between virtue and vice, be-
tween health and disease-but be-
tween food and drink.
Shall the many have food or the
few have drink? That is the question.
Cutting off one-half of our produc-
ton OF distilled and fermented liquors
would save enough foodstuff to pro-
vide eleven million loaves of bread a
day.
What are we going to do about it?
Are we all to suffer for lack of food
in order that some of us may continue
to get pleasure out of drink? To sac
rifice bread for beer, food for whiskey.
would be utter folly and wickedness."
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-11-24
THE POPE AND WAR SUFFER-
INGS.

An Anglican who signs himself
Diplomaticus has the following to
say on the Pope's efforts to- lessen
suffering due to the war:
The efforts of the Pope have
been conducted both on behalf of
prisoners in general and also in
favor Of individuals.
A proposal for the general ex-
change of prisoners unfit for
military service was made by His
Holiness to the sovereigns and
heads of states of the belligerent
powers on December 81, 1914. All
the governments accepted, but in
practice it was only found possible
to carry out the exchange as be-
tween France, Belgium, Great Bril-
tain and Russia ON the one side and
Germany on the other. An agree
ment was subsequently concluded
between Italy and ,Austro-Hun-
gary and has been in operation
Tor some time past.
The Pope then took up the ques-
ton of invalid and wounded pris-
oners, and in May, 1915, opened
negotiations with the belligerent
states with a view to such pris-
oners being interned in neutral
countries. The negotiations with
the French, Swiss and German
governments were successful, and
several thousands of these prison
ers have been interned and tended
| in Switzerland.
In 1915 the Pope made further
appeal in order that they should
agree to allow the strict observ-
ance of Sunday rest for prisoners
of war. All the governments adj
hered to this proposal.
In April, 1916, the Pope put
forward a plan for interning in a
neutral country, after eighteen
months captivity, the fathers Of
at least three children. The Vati-
can warmly urged the matter, but
negotiations have been delayed
lowing to certain practical difficult
ties. Nevertheless it has been
found possible to accommodate q
Icertain number Of these prisoners
lin Switzerland by way Of expert
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-11-24
CRIME AND DRINK.

Governor Charles Whitman, of New
York, in Hearst's Magazine, says that
he has found " per cent of crimes
coming before him as a magistrate
due to drink, and he adds: In fact,
in the great percentage of cases in
toxication was urged as defense.
How far it influenced the remainder
have no means of knowing, but it is
safe to say that in one way or an
other it was responsible for many of
them. Out of an experience which has
touched all classes and conditions of
men, / am willing to state my belief
that in the present crisis the United
States would be better able to meet
the high duties before it if prohibition
were general and absolute"
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-11-24

A suggestion has been made by
the Catholic Press Association
that two novenas be made by as
many persons as possible-one
novena asking the intercession OF
Our Lady of Peace to bring the
horrible world conflict to an end
the other pleading with Our Lady
of Guadalupe on behalf of the
suffering Church in Mexico. By
beginning these novenas on the
last day of November they may be
brought to a close on the Feast
of the Immaculate Conception.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-11-24

The Catholic Columbian has
been asked to warn pastors
throughout the country against
the calendar arrangement gotten
ont by the so-called Catholic Pub
hcation Co. of Cincinnati. The
priest is always approached by a
Mr.. Sullivan or a Mr.. Seidner.
For the privilege of securing adj
vertisements in the city or parish,
the pastor is promised goodly
sum for the church. They secure
the ads and get out the calendars,
but several priests in our diocese
have heard no more from them,
and the donation has not yet been
given.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-11-24

tfAre you rearing a son? Or is
he just growing up?' asks a
Philadelphia writer. "The true
mother begins in infancy to train
the child. She has in mind the
man she wants him to become, and
never for moment loses sight of
this image. Every day she builds
little on the structure. which has
three des-the. physical, the men
tai, the moral. When complete it
forms a wedge which will carry
the man successfully through
every tight place in his career
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-11-24

Later the knights of Columbus sent
him over the country on lecture
tour. 1t was while on this educa-
tional work that he overtaxed his
strength giving as many as three lee
lures day. He was stricken with
paralysis while addressing a large
audience in the West His life seemed
to be miraculously spared after this
attack, but the force of his eloquence
had been weakened and his career as
an orator was over.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-11-24

DR.. Eugene L. Fisk, medical director
OF the Life Extension Institute of
New York, said a short time ago that
the moderate drinker, who takes two
or three drinks a day, is on danger
GUS ground, and that he Is putting
narcotic poison into his system, and
ultimately it will break him. 1t will
shorten his life, impair his mind, shat
ter his nerves, and wreck his stomach.
These conclusions are not based ON
theory. They are scientific facts
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-11-24
Bishop Nc loskey Installed

A letter received Tuesday from
Rev. J. A. Dougherty, secretary to Rt.
Rev. James p. McCloskey, announces
their safe arrival, and the solemn in
stallation of the Bishop in his new
see of Zamboanga, Philippine Islands,
September IS. In the distinguished
party coming from Manila to partici-
pate in the ceremonies of installation
were Mgr. Petrelli, Apostolic Delegate
to the Philippines; Most Rev. M. J.
O'Doherty, Archbishop of Manila, and
Rt. Rev. Alfred Verzosa, Bishop of
Lipa.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-11-24
Large Number of Chaplains
Serving

At the recent meeting of the execu-
tive board of the National Catholic
War Council at Washington, Rev.
Lewis J. O'Hern, C. S. p, reported
that 166 Catholic chaplains were adj
ministering to the needs IF the Ameri-
can troops both at home and abroad.
Of these. 125 have received regular
maintained by the Knights of Column
bus. Additional chaplains will be ap-
pointed at an early date.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-11-24

The Government of Canada asks
Canadians to lend to it one hum
dred and fifty million dollars for
war purposes. This money is to
be expended in Canada. The
Dominion Government lends it to
the British Government. 1t is
then used to pay for munitions
made In Canada and for: food
stuffs exported by Canada. This
ID not a debt which Canada will
have to repay out Of the revenues
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-11-24

An exchange says: The Italian
General Cadorna, whose army,
last week, met with such reverses
and losses in Northern Italy, is
the same General Cadorna who,
on September 20, 1870, battered
down the gates at Porta Pia,
Rome, when the Papal army sur
rendered to Italy. This is not
exact. The present Cadorna was
then young man on the staff OF
his father, the older Cadorna, who
was in charge of the invading
army in 1870.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-11-24
Cardinal Logue and
the Convention

Cardinal Michael Logue, Archbishop
of Armagh and Primate of all Ire
land, who was II years old on Octo-
Der first, has sent the following reply
to the editor of the English Review"
regarding Sim Fein and Interna-
tional Magma Charta:
Have not seen the English Re-
view DO not approve of revolution
airy action. Have no control over
Sim Feiners. Success of Convention
only remedy. If it fails-chaos!