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The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-07-21
CHAPLAIN In FRANCE
REV. JOHN J. BRADY, FORMERLY
OF "ARkANSAS," NOW WITH
U. S. MARINES ABROAD.

The Rev. John j. Brady, chaplain in
the United States navy, who was re
Gently transferred from the U. S. S.
Arkansas to the, Marine Corps, is
the Catholic chaplain with the first
contingent of American troops that ar.
rived in France on June 26.
Father Brady is native New York
er, born in st. Gabriel's parish, and
brought UP under the eye of Cardinal
Farley, who was for so many years
pastor of st. Gabriel's. He was edu-
Gated at Dunwoodie and was ordained
nine years ago. His first and only
parochial assignment was to st. We
ronica's Church, where he spent six
years of splendid mission work. For
three years he devoted part of his
time to his work as a member of the
faculty Of Cathedral College, New
York. He was appointed a chaplain
in the United States navy in Septem-
ber, 1914.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-07-21
A Believing Governor
CHIEF EXECUTIVE OF NEW YORK
STATE ORDERS DAY OF PRAYER
FOR SOLDIERS. 49, /

In view Of the fact that the New
York National Guard was to enter the
Federal service, Governor Whitman
OF that State set aside day of prayer
for the men. He said:
Nov, therefore, /, Charles s. Whit
man, Governor of the State of New
York, do appoint Sunday, July Is, as
day upon which all our people, of
whatever religion or creed, shall re-
pair to their house of worship and
offer UP prayer to Almighty God on
behalf of our gallant young manhood
now about to 60 forth to battle in a
most righteous cause in the armies
of our beloved nation, discharging
thus their duty as worthy descendants
OF our ancestors who, while gaining
for us our liberty, acknowledged in
their Declaration of independence
their firm reliance on the protection
OF Divine Providence
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-07-21
Supreme Commander Dead
WILLIAM J. MCMAHON WAS HEAD
OF ORDER OF THE
ALEXANDRIA.

The members of the Order of The
Alhambra throughout the country will
read with sorrow of the death of the
Supreme Commander William J. Nc.
Mahon of Albany He died early Sun
day evening, July 8, at his home in
Albany, N. Y.
He was one of the best known citi-
zens of New York's capital city and
has long been identified with the
Knights of Columbus and The Alham-
bra. He was a charter member of
Albany Council, X. c., and the first
chairman of the fourth degree Assem-
bly, foD the Albany district. He was
always active in the affairs of The
Alhambra, and for the past four years
has been the highest officer, the Su-
preme Commander. He has also been
active and prominent in the affairs of
st. Patricks Church of Albany The
funeral was held, with Solemn High
Mass of Requiem, Wednesday morn
ing, July II, in st. Patrick's Church.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-07-21
CATHOLIC APPOINTED
JOHN .. RYAN MADE RED CROSS
OFFICIAL.

Henry P. Dawson, chairman of the
Red Cross War Council, announced
last week the appointment of John D.
Ryan, president of the Anaconda Cop
per Company, as director-general of
military relief Mr.. Ryan succeeds
Colonel jefferson R. Kean, u. S. A.,
who has been recalled by the War
Department from Red Cross service
and will be placed in command of
the 160 army ambulance sections in
France
MIR. Ryan is prominent Catholic of
New York City, and is one of the first
Catholics to- occupy so prominent an
office in the Red Cross. He is a par
ishioner of the Church of st. Ignatius,
is member of the Catholic Club, one
of the finance committee of the ST.
Vincent ue Paul Society, and a trustee
of the Emigrant Industrial Savings
Bank
Colonel Kean, whose place is to be.
taken by Mr. Ryan, organized forty
three base hospital units in this coun-
try, five naval base hospitals, eighteen
field hospital units and fifty ambulance
companies. Mr. Ryan will supervise
the Bureau of Medical Service, the
Bureau of Nursing Service and the.
Bureau of Supplies, all of which are
concerned in furnishing voluntary aid
to the sick and wounded of the United
States forces.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-07-21
MONSIGNOR VATTMANN
AGED ARMY CHAPLAIN Is STILL
ACTIVE AT FORT SHERIDAN.

Very Rev. Mgr E. J. Vattmann,
Major, U. S. A, who had retired from
active service and was living in Will
mette, ILL.,, Immediately upon the
declaration of war offered his services
to General Barry, who accepted them
at once. Mgr. Vattmann had entered
the army as chaplain in 1889 and had
seen war service during the Sioux war
and later in various military posts in
this country as well as in the Philip
pines, Sc. he was well prepaeed for.the
task. Two years ago when he cele-
brated the golden jubilee of his or
dination he was created a Monsignor
by the Holy Father. Today Major
Vattmann is living in Fort Sheridan,
near Chicago, his quarters being in
the huge gymnasium building. There
every Sunday he offers up the holy
sacrifice of the Mass for those of the
future officers whose homes are at
such a distance from the camp that
they cannot avail themselves of the
holiday granted by the commandant
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-07-21
Rev. Walter Elliott
YEARS IN THE HOLY
PRIESTHOOD.


The veteran missionary, the Rev
Walter Elliott, c. S. p, observed the
forty-fifth anniversary of his ordina
tion to the priesthood, recently.
He was ordained in 1872 in New
York on the same day that Fathers
Thomas Robinson, Louis Rosecrans
and Augustine Brady were ordained
Bishop Rosecrans, uncle of Father
Rosecrans, and brother of the Gen
eral, officiated. Father Elliott, be
gan Immediately on his life work OF
preaching missions and retreats, and
Of giving lectures to non-C Catholics
The late Rev. Alexander P. Doyle
C. S. p, was associated with Father
Elliott in this work, and with him In
1903 founded the Apostolic Mission
House.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-07-21
The Dominican General
VERY REV. LOUIS THEISSLING
MAKING TOUR OF THE WORLD
VISITING HOUSES OF HIS
ORDER.

The Very Rev. Louis Theissling,
0. P, Master General of the Domini-
can Order, is making his visitation of
all the branches of the Dominican
Order in the world. Having visited
the United States, Father Theissling
sailed from Vancouver for China and
Japan. After he has attended to Off
cial business there, he will visit the
Philippine Islands, where the Domini-
cans, besides conducting the Univer-
sity of st. Thomas in Manila, have
many missions. From the Philippines
he will go directly to South America,
visiting the Dominican foundations in
Peru, Brazil, Chile, Venezuela, and
Argentina, besides Colombia, in which
latter place matters Of great impor-
tance between Church and State will
be handled. After that, together with
his travelling Companion, the Very
Rev. Gabriel Horn, o. p, the Master.
General will return to Rome, where
for the last 700 years the Dominican
Generals have always resided.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-07-21
DR.. Egan in Hospital
MINISTER is MOVED AFTER DAN.
IsH SPECIALIST is CONSULTED.

Maurice Francis Egan, American
Minister to Denmark, who has been
i'll for several days, has been removed
to private hospital, where there are
better facilities for treatment. The
removal of DR.. Egan is said not to
imply any change in his condition.
The transfer was decided upon
after Professor Schou, a leading Dan
ish specialist and personal physician
to the late King Christian TX, had been
called into consultation. The distin'
fguished diplomat and noted Catholic
writer has gone through trying
times during the past three years,
and has by his work established a
reputation in upbuilding American
ideals as one of the country's lead
ing foreign representatives.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-07-21
KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS CAMP WORK

Knights of Columbus club house al
Fort Smelling has already been let
The Most Reverend Archbishop has
sent the following letter to Mr.. d. w
Dwyer, of ST. Paul, with regard to the
work proposed by the knights of Co
lumbus for war camp activity:
st. Paul, July 2, 1917.
My Dear Sir:
beg leave through you to congratu-
late the Knights of Columbus of
America upon their noble act in prom
isinG to raise for the country one
million dollars-this sum to be ex-
pended, under their care and direc-
tion, for the moral and religious well
fare of Catholics in our Army and
our Navy, whether in America itself
or beyond it's borders.
1t is the solemn duty of Catholics
to do all they can in aid of their fell
low Catholics who are Offering their
very lives to the service of the nation.
Let me encourage the Knights of Co
lumbus of Minnesota, as far as my.
selves quickly and readily, the task
of raising their quota of this sum OF
million dollars. Each Knight of
Columbus will, of course, do his full
duty Furthermore, l will ask all
Catholics not members of the Order
to cooperate with them so that their
quota be subscribed, and, indeed, over
subscribed. AS token of my good
will l ask that you put me down for
a personal contribution of $25O.OO.
This is time when Americans must
feel that sacrifice is demanded from
them. | may add that Catholic Ameri-
cans should be first and foremost in
their work of loyalty that the present
situation demands.
Very sincerely,
(Signed) JOHN IRELAND,
Archbishop of st. Paul.
Mr.. d. w. Dwyer.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-07-21
ALUMNI OF INNSBRUCK
ARE HoLDlNes THEIR ANNUAL
MEETING IN TOLEDO THIS
WEEK - DISTINGUISHED PRE-
LATEs ARE MEMBERS OF THE
ASSOCIATION.

About 100 priests, all graduates of
the University of Innsbruck, Austria,
were in Toledo, Ohio, this week at.
tending the annual meeting of the
American Alumni of the university.
In America there are about 300 mem
bers of the alumni The opening meet
ing was held Tuesday evening, July
II. On Wednesday morning the
visiting priests attended the celebra-
tion of Pontifcal Mass in the Cathe-
dral. Bishop Gallagher of Grand
Rapids, Mich, preached the sermon
Following the Mass business ses-
sion and luncheon was held in st.
Johns University. At this time
officers were elected for the coming
year. On Thursday morning, July 10,
a solemn Requiem Mass for deceased
members of the alumni was cele-
brated in the Cathedral The closing
session of the convention was held at
the Democratic club on Thursday
evening.
Cardinal Begin of Quebec, Arch
bishop Messmer of Milwaukee, Bishop
M. J. Gallagher of Grand Rapids,
Mich, Bishop Henry Althoff of Belle
vile, Illinois, and Bishop Ferdinand
Brossart of Covington, Ky are mem
bers of the alumni. Rev. Henry
Laudenbach of st. Louis Church, Buff
falo, is the president of the alumni
Other officers are: Vice president,
Rev. C. S. Ruszkowski, Cleveland; !;
treasurer, Rev. A. L. Canister, Chester,
Pa; historian, Rev. R. Huelsebusch.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-07-21
THE COLLEGE In WAR TIME

and the higher scientific courses. The
selective draft system will make it
| possible for our young men to COM
| plete their collegiate work before be-
| ing called upon to serve in our arma-
| ments, and wide discretion is given to
| our cOnscription boards with the
view of securing our best talent to
mobilize the resources of the country.
Mount St. Charles College reioices
that SO many of her students have
joined the colors, and she will gladly
give many more, but she would re-
mind those who enlist that they can
discharge their full responsibility to
their country only by securing others
to take their places at Alma Mater.
Highly educated men are needed now
more than at any ether period in our
history.
Another reason why our colleges
should be better patronized during the
war is because of the growing impor-
tance of the modern languages. The
war is bringing us in closer contact
with foreign nations. We need an
army of interpreters now, and when
the war is over our business men will
be obliged to count many linguists
among their employees, if we are go
ing to hold our rapidly developing
foreign trade.
Need of Priests.
Finally, the Catholic college, and
especially the Diocesan college, has
acquired an Importance because of the
war that it did not have before.
Priests are needed now more than
ever, both to provide chaplains for the
army and navy, and to fill up the con-
sequently depleted ranks of the paro-
chial clergy. What makes the need
more acute is the fact that Europe
being also in the war, can no longer
spare us recruits. We are, therefore,
compelled to supply the deficiency
from our own subjects. In the de-
signs of God and of His Church the
Diocesan college is the chief institu-
tional means of fostering and devel-
oping vocations for the priesthood.
1t is the training school for the SEM
mary. There is much talk about agri-
cultural preparedness as a preventive
of famine. If we do not soon begin
and begin in earnest, to cultivate the
possible priestly soil of our boys souls
by sending them in large numbers to
our Diocesan colleges, there is going
to be, before many years, a dearth
of priests in this country that bodies
spiritual starvation to innumerable
souls. Thanks be to God, we have
here a college which, in addition to
the training that fits for secular pur-
suits, is especially equipped to fur
nish the remote preparation for the
Holy Priesthood. Let there, therefore,
be concerted effort, during the COM
| ing vacation, on the part Of students
and faculty, priests and people, to fill
this college next September with the
choice Catholic young men of Mon
tana, SO that during the stress of war
and afterwards, neither state nor
church, in this great commonwealth,
may suffer for want of leaders.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-07-21
CATHOLIC ARMY CHAPLAINS
CATHOLIC ARMY AND NAVY
CHAPLAINCIES.
WASHINGTON, d. c..
July 12. 1917

July II, 1917.
Hon. Newton d. Baker, Secretary of
War, Washington, D. G.
My dear Mr.. Baker:
Your esteemed favor of the 9th inst.
just received, and I thank you most
heartily for the equitable distribution
OF the army chaplaincies as announced
in your communication.
The ratio offered us is absolutely
satisfactory, and it will be a genuine
pleasure for me to communicate the
contents of your letter to the entire
Hierarchy of the United States, and
to the Catholic Press.
am sure that the news will be hail.
ed with the greatest joy by the Catho-
lie population everywhere, but espe-
cially by the officers and men who will
be ministered to by these chaplains.
. With very great esteem, l remain,
Respectfully yours,
(Signed) LEWIS J. O'HERN, C.. s. P.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-07-21
Catholic Pupils Win
CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL BOYS
CAPTURE BIG PERCENTAGE
OF SCHOLARSHIPS.

Capturing one-fourth of the free
scholarships awarded boys to the Uni
versity of Pennsylvania in open com
petition against pupils of the high
schools of the city, as authorized by
city ordinance, graduates of this years s
class of the Philadelphia Catholic
High School for Boys continue to
show their marked superiority and to
uphold the marvellous record of the
institution The Right Rev. Mon
signor Hugh T. Henry, Ii. D., Lift. D.,
is rector Twenty scholarships were
awarded and Of that number eight
were won by girls, twelve going to
boys.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-07-21

At a late quarterly meeting of the
Conference of st. Vincent de Paul, in
Paris, an interesting address on the
"Participation of the Society in the
Temperance Crusade" was delivered
by the President-General. He said in
part:
Last spring a general national
committee against alcoholism was
formed in Paris, embracing all the
different anti-alcoholic associations
These are manned with good mem
hers. and are rendering valuable serv-
ice to- the country. The support OF
the PresidentGe General of the Society
of st. Vincent de Paul was asked for.
| gave without any hesitation, not a
mere formal adhesion, but active sup
port.
IF you will open dictionary OF
some forty years ago, you will not
find in it the word alcoholism the
French Academy had not adopted it.
The word is, therefore, compara-
lively recent, but the thing itself is
ancient, since Noah and Bacchus were
it's first victims In fact, there have
always been many drunkards, but
there were few alcoholic subjects. The
reason is, in the case of France, that
up to the eighteenth century alcohol
could be got only at the chemists. 1t
was forbidden to private individuals
to manufacture or sell it. Times
have indeed changed!
The Great Plague.
"For some years past alcohol has
become the great plague. Every age
has it's own. The Middle Ages had
famine, the black plague and leprosy.
These were as nothing compared to
alcoholism, the generator OF all
disease and of every form of degen-
eracy, which is spreading it's ravages
over the whole world. 1t has become
for some countries national peril.
Since the beginning of the war this
peril, added to so many others, ap
peared threatening enough to decide
the authorities to take restrictive
measures. Absinthe is prohibited, al
cohol is forbidden to soldiers, but the
rest OF LnC ndLlOH HAS luIl pei ihil0Sioi
to poison themselves, if they will
The privilege of the manufacturers o.
the fermented liquid is hardly affected
and people still await the law which
would Danish alcoholism. 1t would
forever ennoble the statesman wht
would promulgate it.
'But can we rely solely on the eff
cheney of a law, which depends 81
much on the way it is administered
Laws are but the reflex of customs
they do not alter them. The cure viii
slowly come from a moral movement
a yeritable crusade.
''The role which the members of the
st. Vincent de Paul Conference have
to play comes in here, and they can
not conscientiously evade it. Thei
charitable vocation brings them II
contact with thousands of families be
longing to the laboring classes, thos'
whose misery has often no othe
cause, mediate or immediate, than in
temperance The Brothers should in
etruct them on the gravity OF thi
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-07-21
BISHOP CARROLL EXPLAINS
NEEDS OF COUNTRY WITH RE-
LATlON TO ITS COLLEGES
CHURCH AND NATION ALIKE
REQUIRE THAT CANDIDATES
FOR PRIESTHOOD AND PROBES.
SlONS BE TRAINED FOR FU-
TURE.

In his baccalaureate sermon, deliy
cred recently in ST. Charles College
Helena, Montana, Rt. Reverend John
P. Carroll, Bishop of the diocese, made
some telling points with regard to col
lege needs in war time He said in
part:
How can the college contribute to
the success of the war? Some say by
closing its doors and sending it's stu
dents to the front. This is the mis-
take England and France made and
against which they SO solemnly warn
ed us at our entrance into the conflict.
So grievous was the mistake that-to
speak of only one of the professions
these countries find themselves prac-
tically at the end of their supply of
physicians, and the Balfour Commits
sion appeals to the American Medical
Association to send 200 doctors each
month to the western front. What is
true OF medical men, is true of engi-
neers, chemists, physicists, electri-
clans and all manner of scientific men
with whom America must furnish her
self and her allies. We need more
Edisons, Goethals, Hollands and Mar
conis. Lawyers, statesmen, political
and social economists will be needed
as never before to solve the problems
with which changed national and So
cial conditions are rapidly confronting
the world. Larger and better crops
to feed America and the world will
demand an increasing number of
farmers who understand scientific cul-
ture of the soil and the proper use of
fertilizers.
Where will this army of skilled men
be found if your colleges close their
doors and send their students to the
front? In four years not only would
the ranks of the professions, and the
scientific and technical callings be de.
cimated, but there would be no. one
prepared even. to take up the study oi
these vital pursuits. No wonder the
Secretary of War recently urged the
college and university presidents OF
the country to put forth all their eff
forts to increase the attendance at all
our higher institutions of learning
For he knows that in case the war is
protracted it is not so much the men
at the front who are going to win it
as the men of brains and skill behind
the lines. "One master mind is worth
million hands,
To furnish for our country men who
will help to solve the big problems OF
the war is one of the reasons why
Mount st. Charles College will, next
September, open up three new courses
of study-the pre-medical, the pre-law
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-07-21
Catholics on the Minnesota
NEWLY APPOINTED cHAPLAINi
LEARNS BY CENSUS 81 PER
CENT OF CREW ARE cATHo-
Lies.

s.
The following incident will be of
interest to- the Catholics throughout
the United States. Rev. Thomas S.
Regan, recently appointed a chaplain
in the Navy, has taken religious
census of the U. s. S. Minnesota to
which he is attached.
Father Regan was in Washington
last week and reports that of the
thirteen hundred men aboard the big
warship, eight hundred are Catholics,
or sixty-one per cent. The highest
percentage reported in any one group
previous to this was from the United
States Naval Training Station at Port
Royal, S. c., where Rev. Edward Duff
reported fifty-five per cent Catholic.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-07-21
Irish Bishops Dead
REPORT OF DEMISE OF TWO PRE-.
LATES HAS JUST BEEN
RECEIVED.

On July IL word reached Rome of
the death of Bishop Mangan, of
Kerry, and of Bishop Browne, of
Ferns, in Ireland.
Right Rev. James Browne was a
native of Mayglass. of the. diocese of
Ferns, Ireland. and was born in 1842.
He was appointed to the see of Ferns
in 1884. Right Rev. John Mangan was
appointed to the diocese Of Kerry,
with residence at Killarney, in 1904.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-07-21
VINCENTIAN MEETING

Sunday evening, July %, the various
parish Conferences of the st. Vincent
de Paul Society of st. Paul will meet
in the Cathedral School hall at eight
o'clock. This will be the third quar-
terly meeting. The clergy especially
are invited. The chief topic of dis
cussion will be, The Need of Cen.
trail Bureau of Registration in Every
City, as explained in the June num-
Der Of the Catholic Charities Review,
page 191.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-07-21
PRIESTS FOR ARMY
THREE FROM DUBUQUE DIOCESE
HAVE TENDERED SERVICES
AS CHAPL AIMS.

Three priests of the Dubuque dio-
cese have offered their services to the
war department as chaplains in the
United States army. The three priests
to volunteer their services to the gov
st. Francis Church, Dyersville; Rev.
F. G.. Renier of Ames, and Rev. j.
Mulcady of Cresco. The priests, after
securing the permission of the Arch
bishop, forwarded their application to
the head army chaplain, Father
O'Hern, and are awaiting orders.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-07-21
Chaplain Aid
NEW SOCIETY WILL UNITE EFF
FORTS OF OTHER AGENCIES.

An association has been formed in
New York City with two-fold object:
To provide for the needs of Catholic
priests, serving as chaplains in army
and navy, and to care for the spiritual
welfare of soldiers and sailors. The
society aims to coordinate the various
activities along this line, and it is
called The Chaplains' Aid Association.
Cardinal Farley is honorary president
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-07-21

Our society reckons a great num-
Der of men accustomed to speak in
public or to write in the press Let
them enlist in this generous crusade
and become affiliated with temperance
associations. These associations are
numerous; they try to propagate total
abstinence, which means they exclude
even fermented drinks"