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The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-12-08
CATHOLICS FOUNDED
INSTITUTIONS
UNIVERSITIES THRo HoUT
EUROPE ESTABL SHED BY
CATHOLICS AND TAKEN BY
ENEMIES OF THE CHURCH.

Practically every university in Eu-
rope was established by Catholics, and
were it not for the brutal spoliation
Of the Church's prosecutors they
would be Catholic today. The tend
ency of State action since the Re
formation has been to secularize edu-
cation, expelling religion from institu-
lions that were founded by religion.
Today there are, however, independ-
ent Catholic universities at Anglers,
Lille, Lyons, Paris, Toulouse, Erie
burg, Louvain; there are Catholic fac
ulties of theology at Bonnie, Breslau,
Freiburg, Munich, Munster, Strasburg,
Tubingen, Wurzburg, Graz, Innsbruck,
Cracow, Lemberg, Prague, Olmutz,
Salzburg, Vienna, Agram, Budapest.
If any reader wishes to go into this
matter infinitely we would refer him
to the article Universities" and the
authorities referred to therein i'm the
catholic Encyclopedia" What the
Church does and can do when given
a free chance has been demonstrated
for centuries the world over, as it lis
being now in the United States,
where there are almost $500 paro-
chial schools, 230 colleges for boys,
$50 academies for girls, 81 seminaries,
and 8 universities, with combined
attendance Of almost 100000 stu
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-12-08
Soldiers Families Helped
HOME SERVICE SECTION OF THE
RED CROSS TO RENDER MA
TERIAL ASSISTANCE.

The Home Service Section OF the
American Red Cross, of New York
City, is prepared to assist the families
of the soldiers and sailors now in the
service. This section of the Red
Cross is doing a work which all Cath
olics should know more about, as fully
60 per cent of the families already Wis
tied are Catholics. Work was begun
last spring, and at present about 1,5OO
families are on the lists.
The object of the work is to give
financial aid wherever it is found nee
essary, to provide legal and medical
advice, to find positions for the mem
bers of the family who are able to
work, to give vocational scholarships
to the children who are eligible for
them, and in every sense of the word
to be friend and generous and IN
terested friend to both the family and
the man in the service. AS far as
possible Catholic visitors call on the
Catholic families, and in every case
the priest of the parish is consulted
about the wants and care OF the
family.
Owing to the close relation of the
Red Cross with the Government the
Home Service Section is enabled to
keep in touch with the men in the
camps and obtain all necessary infor-
nation about them, information such
as no one else can obtain.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-12-08
DOMAIN OF TEMPERANCE
EXPERIMENTS ON DOGS SHOW
ALCOHOL HERITAGE.

Two pairs of dogs were studied as
to the effects of alcohol To one pair
of dogs, Bum and Tipsy, DR.. c. F.
Hodge, of Clark University, gave alco-
hol with their food, beginning when
they were about three months OF age,
never giving enough, however, to
cause signs of intoXication. To the
other pair, Mig and Topsy. he gave no
alcohol. He compared the working
ability and found that Bum and
Tipsy tired more quickly and did less
work when tested than Mig and
Topsy.
When he compared the puppies OF
the two pairs of dogs, he found that
Bum and Tipsy had Is dead puppies,
s deformed Only out of 70 were
able to live. Mig and Topsy, which
had had no alcohol, had no puppies
born dead, were deformed and Al
out of As able to live.
In the case of dogs, it could not be
question of better care. The dog
families had exactly the same care,
except that Professor Hodge spent
hours working over some of these
puppies of the alcoholic parents and
"they simply would not put forth the
least effort to make a live OF 1t" so
much less vigor had they than the
puppies of the non-alcoholic dogs.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-12-08

.
inal when they produce results,
the abominable scenes of destruc-
ton witnessed in st. Paul last
Sunday.
To fill the cup of shame to over
flowing, the decent element of our
city was obliged to witness the
disgusting servility, the cowardly
sacrifice of duty presented by GER
tain public officials. Apparently
with an eye directed to future
votes, certain individuals in our
midst who, by their talents and in
fiuence, might have swayed the
crowd into the pathway Of sanity
and rectitude, grasped the op-
portunity to curry favor with the
worst elements in the city. When
public official or a cheap poll
tician will make use of his posi-
ton or his influence to promote
the spirit Of violence and depreda-
ton, it is time for public opinion
and the lawful authorities to pill
Tory them as they deserve. 1t is
precisely such action on the part
of prominent men, who are Catho-
lies, that often draws the fire
which our enemies are ever willing
to level against the Church
The Catholic Church teaches
that it is a grievous sin to use
against persons or property the vi
olence which was displayed here
during the past week. Let our
Catholics, at least, be on their
guard against such fragrant faunt-
ing of justice, and let them remem-
Der the admonition mentioned in
the beginning of this article. AZ
ter all. it is still true that a good
Catholic makes the best citizen,
and a bad Catholic is the worst
kind of a citizen. 1t is a verifica-
ton Of the old adage, corruptio
optimi pessima, the corruption OF
the good is the rottonest kind OF
corruption.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-12-08
A WAR CEMETERY
MEN OF EVERY CLINE GATHERED
IN THE BROTHERHOOD OF
DEATH-HATE GIVES WAY TO
CHARITY.

Describing a Catholic cemetery in
one of the battle-worn countries, a
writer in the Manchester Guardian
says:
Beyond the old portion of the GEM
etery the ground falls rather steeply
to fiat field, and there you see,
standing in row upon row, the new
white crosses. On the crosses, on
little strips of tin, are the names of
those who lie beneath. On some there
is one name; on a few are three
names; on most two.
The names upon the crosses would
furnish forth an atlas of the world.
From the bush of Australia, from the
great rolling prairies of the West;
from the hills of Wales and the grey
scattered fell-sides of Yorkshire dales;
from Scotland and Ireland, from the
fields of France and the sand flats OF
Flanders they have come.
And there are men of strange and
unpronounceable names who knew the
golden days of India, and men from
the deserts of Africa. A little apart
are the graves of a few Germans.
"A newly thrown-up mound covers
an unknown Chinese soldier and
strangest of all, perhaps, painted on
a board among the thick-strewn
crosses of Christ, are the Star and
Crescent of the Prophet over the dust
of Mohammedan soldier. One
woman lies there-an English nurse
who died in active service.
Some of the graves are very new
and a long, sinister trench, empty as
yet, says that the awful appetite Of
war is not satisfied. But already in
new confounding growth of pale
blue flowers, each of the older graves
is losing, save for it's little cross, its
individual identity. Nature is at hel
task of smoothing out and tonins
down. She seems to be uttering {
fatalistic call to forget the past
"Yet, standing in this little garden
in the austere presence of the multi
tudinous dead, one says that, when 81
much urges us to remember our hate
it may be well to listen to othe1
voices which plead with us not to for
get our charity
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-12-08
A JUST ARRANGEMENT.

There is little to be said for
the saloon, practically nothing.
Whatever one may think of personal
liberty, the saloon has never stood
for personal liberty. 1t has in it's
days robbed more men of personal
liberty than all other institutions
together. 1t has debauched them,
robbed them of their reason, it has
landed them in jails and peniten-
tiaries and it has immersed their
wives. and children in poverty and
misery that are worse than jails and
penitentiaries. The saloon has been
a despoiler in it's day, and the men
who have stood back of the bars have
not been animated by any high ideas
of personal liberty. With them it has
been profits, even If the price were
damnati0n of souls.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-12-08

Those who reject the doctrines
of Christ, doctrines and dogmas
announced with the most awe
inspiring plainness and in the
clearest possible terms, may be
Protestants according to the now
accepted definition of the term,
but only by the widest misuse OF
words can they be called Chris
tians, says The Catholic Record,
London, Ont. As Doctor Brown
son said years ago, they want to
believe the Christian religion in
general, but nothing OF Chris
tianity in particular; to believe
the Word Of God without believ-
ing anything in particular-that
is, to believe and disbelieve at the
same time. This is the type OF
Christian that Luther brought into
being.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-12-08
JUDGE SAYS LIQUOR CAUSES 90
PER CENT OF DIVORCES.

Judge W. H. McHenry, recently Dis
statement in which he says:
81 have recently been asked this
question, Why are you for prohibi-
tion?' and as I answered it then, L
will answer it now: Thirty-five years
ago, | began to practice law, and from
that time to the present | have spent
my life in an environment where
have constantly been face to face
with the cruel and cursed conse-
quences of drunkenness. l have, seen
my neighbor boys of school days
ruined by liquor, convicted OF crime,
their families disgraced and pauper-
lied; 1 have seen them rotten with
disease and insane as the result OF
drunkenness.
II was judge of the district court Of
Polk county for fifteen years, and in
the discharge of my duty was COM
PEELED to send my playmates of child
hood days to penitentiaries, inebriate
asylums and to the jails as conse-
quence of aloons in Des Moines.
During that fifteen years on the
bench, spent four years in the GRIM
inal division. | sent more than q
thousand men to penitentiaries and
| jails for criminal offenses committed
by them, and / know that 80 per cent
of these crimes were caused by drunk
enness originating in saloons.
Il granted more than 1000 divorces
and I know that 80 per cent of them
were the consequences of drunkenness
and the drunkenness was due to the
saloon. l have taken thousands of
children from the homes of drunk
ards and placed them in state insti-
tutions for public protection and edu-
cation whose homes were ruined by
drunkenness. have seen and know
the moral depravity, the poverty, dis
grace, the ruined hopes of mothers
and children, the insane asylums and
poorhouses crowded until the .accumu-
lated curses that / have seen spring
from the presence of the saloon con-
denim that institution as the vilest
influence that infests this world to-
day."
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-12-08
Candyless Months
CATHOLIC SCHOOL CHILDREN TO
FOREGO CONNECTIONS FOR
FOUR MONTHS.

Much has been said and written in
favor of meatless and wheatless days,
but it remained for four hundred stu
dents of the Cathedral school, of Den
yer, Colo, last week, to sign pledge
and send it to State Food Administra-
tor Thomas B. Stearns. Wishing to
accord with the desire of President
Wilson and Food Administrator Her.
bert Hoover in conserving food, and
understanding that sugar was one of
the scarce foods, the pupils promised
to abstain from candy for four months,
with the exception of the Christmas
holidays, and to turn over the pennies,
nickels and dimes saved to the
Knights of Columbus War Fund.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-12-08
MUST BE ON GUARD
sEDlTioN AND DIsLoYALTY MUST
BE RUN DOWN AND REPORT
ED BY LOYAL PATRIOTS.

The time is past for temporizing
with disloyal men and women in this
country, according to the Minnesota
Public Safety Commission. It is the
manifest duty of all true blue patriotic
Americans to use every means in their
power to report cases of sedition and
disloyalty wherever it may rear It's
ugly head.
It is said by writer that one out
of every twenty persons in the nation
today is disloyal, and about one out of
every 100 is so openly seditious that
he should face firing squad II ne
were to receive the sort of punishment
that is melted out by an autocratlc
government. Any one who talks and
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-12-08
ENGLAND's CRIMINAL BLUNDER.

Arthur Nee in an article in The
Daily News, London, arraigns the
British Government for it's action in
deciding to increase the output of
beer. He says:
THE Government has come to it's
great decision. 1t has given it's reply
to the greatest moral crusade of our
time. 1t had to decide whether it
would follow the King in Lord Kitch
ener's way to victory by stopping
drink to win the war or whether it
would bow down once more to the
enemy which Mr. Lloyd George says
is greater than Germany and worse
than all submarines. And it has de-
cided to surrender. We are to have
more racing and more beer.
THAT is the reply of the Govern
.ment not only to this country but to
those American papers which are
asking bitterly why they should stop
the waste of grain in their country to
send it to be wasted here.
America may well be thankful
that her troops are taken direct to
France instead of landing here; she
has made it a crime to give alcohol
to any American soldier from end to
end Of the United States, and she is
well spared the horrors of our drink
ing camps.
"But what will she say when she
sees her precious grain, the grains of
corn upon which human liberty de-
ponds, brought over here at the cost
of her sailors lives, to be handed
over for brewers to destroy?"
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-12-08
; THE CROSS OF WAR
CHRISTIAN BROTHERS WIN DIS
TINGUISHED HoNoRS FOR PA
TRloTIc STANDARDIZATION IN
TRENCHES.

A few weeks ago one of the Broth
ers of the Christian Schools, whose
devotedness to the people has merited
SO much gratitude but has met so
much persecution from the French
Government, received the War Cross
(Croix de Guerre) with the following
military notice:
Though exempt from all military
obligation the recipient of this mill
tary honor has placed his devotedness
at the service of the patriotic cause by
assuming the direction of an am
bulance corps established with the Bel
gian army by the Brothers of the
Christian Schools. He has done honor
to his country and has acquired for
himself and his confreres the conf
dence and the respect of the Allied
armies, by his never-failing devoted.
ness in the most perilous circum.
stances, and particularly in the bonn.
bardment of Fumes, where he held
his post under shell fire, and at the
battle of the User, during the course
of which many of his valiant con.
freres fell mortally wounded.
The titular of this honorable cita
ton is the Rev. Brother Paul, in the
world M. Leger, before the war di
rector of a school in Lille, today
superior of the Brothers in the am
bulance corps attached to the Belgian
army. In this capacity he assumes
the direction and proper functioning Of
the services rendered by his valiant
band on the battle front, in the hos
pital trains and in the first line hos
pitfalls.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-12-08
AN INDIAN MISSIONARY
"cHlEF THUNDERBoLT" AND HIS
MISSION FATHER ISlDO e
MOST REvERED AMONG OKLA
HOMA INDIANS.

TWenty-eight years ago when Okla
homa was still territory and the
home of the untutored Indian, there
came man who was destined to play
an important part in the lives of in
habitants in and about the present
confines of Fort Sill and Camp DON
iphan. That man was Rev. Isidore
Ricklin, O. S. B., founder and present
superintendent of st. Patrick's mis-
sion at Anadarko, Okla.
Today there is not an Indian in
the remaining bands of Kiowas, Della
wares, Wichitas, Apaches or Ancato
Indians whose life has not been, to
some degree, ordered by the multi
activities of this Catholic priest
known to his loved charges as Chief
Thunderbolt.
The first Mass Oklahoma Indians
ever took part in was not far from
the present site of Fort Sill, and by
sign language Father Isidore con-
veyed revered message, duplicating
with appraised hand the power and
love of God.
The happy and veteran priest has
declined offers Of charges far more
to be desired as regards remuneration
and attendant advantages; but he has
steadfastly refused, preferring to be
with the people he knows and under
stands. On a trip through the East
a few years ago before well filed
churches he voiced the appeal of the
Indians for a permanent house OF
worship and the result was a mission
that stands at Anadarko, costing
more than $4,000, and it was all
possible because of the wonderful
personality and indomitable will and
courage of Chief Thunderbolt, the
most loved and popular man among
the 5000 Indians, now charges Of
Uncle Sam, that will remain on Ok
lahoma land.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-12-08

fess to be Catholics, says the Al
manac of the Sacred Heart.
These non-Catholics may not be
good-living people themselves,
they may understand very little
of the doctrines and practices of
the Catholic Church, but they
know at least that Catholics are
expected to lead good lives. The
religion they profess requires this
and when Catholic falls short
of what even those who profess
no religion attain, these latter are
often shocked.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-12-08

Fifteen dollars fine Or 60 days
in Jail was the sentence melted out
a few days ago by Judge William
O'Driscoll in the Seventh Police
Court in Jersey City to a man
brought up on the charge of
using profane language to. a
young woman on a street car. A
few such sentences on offenders
in every city would soon put an
end to profanity which is becom-
ing altogether too common on our
streets and public places.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-12-08

1t falls upon the ladies of every
parish to make a Service Flag.
On it's field of blue there should
be shown a star for every young
brave who has volunteered or an
Swered his country's call. In
years to come these service flags
will prove proud possessions of
that Church which has ever
taught it's children loyalty to God
and country.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-12-08
Stations Of the Cross

Patrick Gallagher, 10 years old,
gave new Stations of the Cross to St.
Mary Church, at Hanover, Ia, in hon
or of his one hundred and tenth birth
day university. Impressive services
were held Sunday when these stations
were erected and blessed.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-12-08
Offer c Communion for Bishop

On motion of the chaplain, the Rev.
Mark Lappen, the Denver K. of c. on
Tuesday week unanimously decided to
go to Communion in a body, offering
this up to God for the success of the
work of Bishop J. Henry Then. The
Bishop himself will be asked to set
the date.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-12-08
There is something so grand an,

There is something so grand and
great about the Church that we
can't help feeling proud of it
its great history, it's marvellous or
ganization, it's solemn ritual, says
Father Matrlrin. Many a person
takes this for the spirit of the
true Catholic. 1t isn't. The true
spirit is the mind of Christ, and
that is the martyr spirit, the
readiness to make sacrifice when
called for.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-12-08

leXpanded III numbers and IN
equipment. The personnel of the
faculty has been Of a high order.
The standard aimed at and reach
ed by the professors and instruc-
tors OF the various branches has
been attested by the fact that
members of the faculty have been
called to different parts of the
country to assume larger respon-
sibilities and places of honor in
other institutions. The recent
president of the University of
Minnesota, now head of the Rock
efeller Foundation, infused a new
spirit of energy and common
sense into every department. of
the institution. He left record
OF achievement that, would re-
quire the ability and the energy
OF a strong man to equal. The
authorities congratulated them
selves upon the acquisition of DR..
Marion Burton to preside over
the destinies Of the University.
Recently DR.. Burton has made
number of addresses throughout
the state advocating loyalty to the
government. His speeches, as re-
ported in the daily press, are re-
plete with exhortations to Amer
leans to exert themselves to the
limit for victory. Outlining and
admitting Germany's past sue
cesses, DR.. Burton still made plain
his belief in ultimate victory for
the Allies.
On several occasions, however,
the daily papers have reported DR.
Burton as stating that, were the
Germans to invade this country
he would kill his wife and daugh.
ters, rather than let them face
the brutalities Of an invading
Teuton army. Assuming the cor
rectness Of his quoted statement
since no denial has been forth
coming, the question arises as tt
| just what DR.. Burton understand
by the word murder. AS ordi
narily understood, murder is the
unlawful taking Of the life Of {
human being. Law and self-de
Tense frequently justify the tax
ing Of a human life; a murderou:
Iattack on the members Of one I
family probably would justify
| the fathers killing the assailants
| 1t is difficult to see, however, jus
what logic or process Of argumen
would justify a man in killing hi
own family in order to protec
them from assault. Such lin
lof conduct would be in keeping
| with the theories Of those VIII
advocate euthanasia and Of thos
who permit the killing Of helples
infants. Such teachings hav
been at times advocated by half
baked physicians; coming from
the head of a university they ar
absolutely barbafOuS, 1t not GRIM
inal. Tradition tells us that Viz
ginius plunged dagger into tn
heart Of his daughter in order t
save her from the lust Of bruta
Roman executive; but neithe
Christianity nor sound ethic
would ever sanction such mod
of procedure. Sensational state
ments made for effect upon tn
: mob are to be expected from
small-bore demagogue; comin
from the president of a great an
. honored institution they are dis
, graceful, misleading and utterl
abominable to every Well-balance
mind.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-12-08

Dispatches announce that the
Methodist Episcopal Boards of
Home and Foreign Missions" will
enter upon a campaign to raise
eighty million dollars in the next
five years ito spread Methodism
to all corners of the earth
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-12-08
Nom Catholic Bequests

Among a large number of requests
made in the will of the late Mrs. Kath-
arine Sprattler, non-Catholic of
Paterson, n. j., was $4,000 or $4,000
each to Catholic Institutions, st. Jo-
seph Hospital and st. Joseph Orphan
Asylum.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-12-08

AS Father Deepen, of the Louis
vile Record, observes, The fourth
War-Christmas is approaching
apace. From all indications it will
duly come and go as came and
went its three predecessors, in
strife and bloodshed.