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The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-02-03
DRINK DID 1T.

The small crowd Of griny loafers
lounged weakly in the little circle of
light from the fitfully pickering lamp
about the door. Two or three OF them
were leaning against a many-colored
poster, almost unreadable in the
gloom. The door swung open-it was
never long shut-and a dapper figure,
in red jersey and peaked cap, ap-
peared with a CHEEKY greeting.
Come in, men. Come in and have
a warm. Fine treat tonight! Spleen
did gramophone. All the latest from
the halls. Come Oh in
One by one they went, irresistibly
drawn by the blazing fire. Comic
songs and Sousa marches rang
through the hall. Then the CHEEKY
voice was heard again.
Now for some grand opera, gen.
tlemen''
One living derelict, who had sub
sided silently after his arrival from
the saloon, reused himself at the
words.
grand OPERA" he muttered,
hazily.
The familiar whirr of the gramo-
phone began again, and then a voice
from the aluminium horn announced,
Song from Pagliacci, by Pompei
Carlyle, the famous tenor Of grand
opera" As the name of the singer
was announced, the ragged waif stiff
fened upright where he sat. Then,
as the first notes rang out, his face
held all the agony of a lost soul.
Straight to his feet he bounded; then,
was a cry, stop it, for heavens
sake, stop it," with grimy hands
pressed over his face, he rushed from
the hall, followed by a storm of abuse.
what is the matter?" queried the
commissioner.
Queer bloke," answered another
waif, still gasping from an attack of
coughing which had torn his frail
body. Sings outside the saloons
used to be in opera himself. Drink
did it.
The man had heard his own song!
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-02-03
Doctor Relnigius Lafort
WELL KNOWN NEW YORK PRIEST
PASSES AWAY.

Rev. Dr. Remigius Lafort, chaplain
Of Mt. ST. Francis, Peekskill, n. Y,
died recently. DR.. Lafort was born
January II, 1855, at Lierde, st. Marie,
Flanders. He studied at the Theo-
logical Seminary at Client, and at
Louvain University. He was ordained
to the priesthood at Client in 1880,
In 1883 he came to a professorship
at ST. Josephs College at Troy.
While there he taught many men now
high in the priesthood of the Church.
In 1886 he went to st. Joseph's Semi
nary at Dunwoodie as professor of
sacred Scripture. In 1898 he was ap-
pointed censor of books for the Arch
diocese of New York. In 1900 he be-
came chaplain of Our Lady of Angels
Academy at Lady Cliff, and in 1905
went to Mt. ST. Francis as chaplain,
a position he held until his death.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-02-03
A VENERABLE PRELATE
THE IMPRISONMENT OF ARCH
BISHOP szEPTYCKI.

It is not surprising that the
Ukrainians. are indignant at the con-
tinued Imprisonment of Mgr. Sep
tycki, Ruthenian Archbishop Of Lem
berg, by the Russians. Like Cardi-
nal MERCER, Mgr. Szeptycki has been
generous benefactor to his people.
During his episcopate he SO increased
the power of the innate Church that
it became, in a sense, the national
Church of the Ukrainians. He took
leading part in every public move
ment tending to their advantage. At
his own expense he founded a medical
school at Lemberg, a popular library
and horticultural school at Stanislav-
Of, and a secondary school also at
Lemberg. His principal benefaction,
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-02-03
Centenary Of Lazarists
WIN c EN- T | AN FATHERS CELE.
BRATE THREE CENTURIES OF
MISSIONARY LABOR.

Three centuries OF Vincentian mis-
sionary labor and the centenary of the
arrival Of the Lazarists in the United
States were fittingly commemorated
in Philadelphia on Thursday and Sun
day of last week. James Cardinal
Gibbons, the venerable Archbishop of
Baltimore; Most Rev. John Bonzano,
d. D., the Apostolic Delegate; the
Most Rev. Edmond F. Prendergast,
d. d., Archbishop Of Philadelphia; at
least ten Bishops, many right reverend
mOnSignOrs and hundreds of priests,
including members of many religious
orders, participated in the solemn OBJ
seryanQe Of the dual anniversary.
st. Vincent de Pauls Church, Ger
mantown, Pa, was the scene OF the
ceremonies on Thursday, while on
Sunday, services were held in St.
Vincent's Seminary, nearby Cardinal
Gibbons presided on the first day,
when the Right Rev. John J. McCort,
D. d., Auxiliary Bishop Of Phila-
delphia, pontifcated and the Right
Rev. Patrick j. Donahue, D. D., Bish-
op of Wheeling, W. Va, preached the
sermon.
On Sunday the Apostolic Delegate
celebrated the Solemn Pontifical
Mass. The sermon was delivered by
the Right Rev. Philip r. McDevitt,
D. D., Bishop Of Harrisburg.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-02-03

Two hundred pastors of all de-
nominations, Catholic, Protestant,
and Jewish, met recently in New
York City to discuss plans for the
religious census that is to be talk
en- in that city on February 4.
The object is to show, if possible,
that the Government census I'M
derrates the number of church
goers in the country when it
states that only thirty-eight per
cent Of the population attends
any church or Sunday school.
New York will be parcelled off
into thirty districts, and $4,000
canvassers will endeavor to reach
all of the 100000 persons in
these thirty districts.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-02-03
TO CHARITY
LARGE PORTION OF WoMAN'S
ESTATE TO POOR AND NEEDY.

In disposing of an estate valued at
$23,0S0, the will Of Mary E. Grandle
Of Philadelphia, Pa, directs that her
jewelry is to be sold and the proceeds
used to buy one or more vessels for
use in st. Malachy Church, which, in
connection with its st. Vincent de
Paul Society, also will receive the
principal of $4,000 trust fund after
the death of a niece, Elizabeth
Grindle. The testatrix made several
small private requests and directed
that the residue be divided among st.
Vincent Home, st. Joseph Orphan
Asylum and the Misericordia Hos
pital.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-02-03

When the Spouse Of Christ APP
peared before the Roman world
she was assaulted by all the ma
terial power Of the Caesars.
Though wounded and covered
with blood, she quickly recov-
cred and chanted paeans of tri-
umph over the fallen giant.
Down the ages heresy, tyranny,
ignorance, malice, internal dis
sensions, evils Of every kind have
threatened to destroy her, but all
III vain.
The difficulties with which the
Church has TO contend today are
found in the persecution raging
in Mexico, the fratricidal struggle
now deluging Europe, al the
apparently triumphant progress
Of atheism. These evils are not
new. Pc, secution,. wars, and athe-
ism often have raised their arm
against the Church only to fall
back lifeless. The triumph Of the
Church in the past has been
achieved chiefly through the blood
Of martyrs and the power OF
prayer. The past few years have
furnished many martyrs, and il
now behooves the Catholic world
to exert the force Of united pray
er, according to the intention >ot
the Holy Father, in order that the
spiritual triumph Of the Church
be complete.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-02-03

week upheld as constitutional the
Blue Sky laws Of Ohio, Mich
gan, and South Dakota, regulat-
ing the sale OF securities and de-
signed to bar get rich quick
schemes. This decision will effect
similar laws in twenty-siX states.
State authorities still have power
through security commissioners
or banking superintendent to
forbid within state borders the
sale of securities which officials
may consider to be fraudulent.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-02-03
PERMITTED TO LIVE.

Senator Henry Cabot Lodge OF
Massachusetts, in a brilliant adj
dress delivered recently, states
that "the great war in Europe
has obscured the Mexican ques-
ton, as it did many others, in
the peoples minds. -
Nothing could be more true.
During the past two years and a
half Americans have been content
to look afar and to penetrate with
their gaze the fields Of carnage
that are rapidly making vast
graveyards in Europe The Great
War is being discussed in the
press, on the platform, from the
pulpit, in clubs, in lodges, every
where, in fact, where men con-
gregate. Opinions differ as to
whom belongs the blame for the
war in Europe: there is but one
opinion as to the cause for the
deplorable conditions in Mexico.
When the little Republics of Cen
trail America stir up miniature
revolution we Immediately send
our marines and our fleet to quell
the disturbances. The horrible
upheaval in Mexico has produced
nothing more than a comic opera
display in which the hero is
scorned and the villain triumphs,
But few days ago two Of the
most prominent bishops and up
right citizens of the Republic of
Mexico, while going peacefully
through the land, were seized,
tried without a chance to defend
themselves, and sentenced to
death. Only quick action on the
part Of influential Americans
brought our State Department
into immediate action, and these
distinguished ecclesiastics were
permitted to leave" their own
country. They were permitted to
leave the dioceses over which they
ruled in the name of God. They
were permitted to leave the soil
Of their native country, the focks
entrusted to their spiritual care,
the churches which they had -fos-
tered, the faithful whom they had
educated, the possessions Of their
Church: in a word, they were per-
mitted to leave all without hope
Of redress. These distinguished
men were exiled before and We're
living on the charity of private
families in Chicago. They who
formerly dealt out charity and
spiritual benefcence to others
must now depend for their daily
substance on the charity of stran-
gers in strange land. .
Many American citizens were
not permitted to leave because
they were shot down in cold
blood. As Senator Lodge well
says: Mexico itself is bank
rupt; industry is at. a standstill
the people are starving. Carranza
has overthroWn every state gov
eminent and put military chiefs
Of his own selection in command
Of each one Of them. Some Of
them have openly overthroWn re
ligion In the states and they have
tyrannized over and robbed the
people. The outrages upon harm
less women, because they were
nuns, and upon harmless men
because they were priests, have
shocked the civilized world.
These men and women also were
not permitted to leave because
the majority Of them have beer
either killed or reduced to slavery
T9TcTT0p pADANA
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-02-03
THEORIES OF EDUCATION.

There is no wider field more
fruitful for him who deals in
theories and experiments than the
vast field Of education. 1ndividu-
ais and organizations have en-
deavored from time to time, III
different ages and countries, to
improve upon the traditional
methods in force among civilized
peoples. There is no doubt but
that educational methods are fire.
quently susceptible Of improve
ment; but experimentation in this
field when directed by unskilled
hands inevitably proves detri-
mental to the victims Of the ex-
pertinent, the children.
The General Education Board
now announces that it will give
its support to AN experiment in
the education OF youths in this
country which, if successful, will
mean directly the complete mod
ernization of elementary and sec
ondHy schools. " The Teachers
College OF Columbia University
will be made the experiment sta
ton for carrying out this plan.
Unlike other theories in education
this proposal demands serious
consideration, as the New York
Times remarks, first, because of
its radical and subversivc nature,
and secondly, because the plan is
supported by the force of $50, 000,-
1000 controlled by the General
Education Board. Dr.. Abraham
FleNner outlines the plan in A
Modern School !"
The basic principle Of this ex-
pertinent is that education must
be better adapted to the needs OF
the common life than is the cur
riculum now in common use" DIR
Flexner states that the modern
school will drop the study Of
grammar. = New methods OF
teaching literature and history
will be applied. Modern Ian
guages will be stress d. .
Science, industry, and the domes-
tic arts will be prominent in this
new school. An attempt will be
made to render school work real
to the pupils. This will be
worked out "by means Of pie
lures, lantern slides, charts, maps,
shop and laboratory, special read
ing matter and discussions to give
the pupils sufficient contact with
their industrial, social, economic,
vocational, and domestic environ
ment, so as to derive the basis for
their school work from real situa-
tons"
From the general outline OF
this novel plan it would seem that
materialism could go little fur
Their. It furnishes what the Times
calls bread-and-butter education
and nothing else. All that has
been understood under the gen
eral name Of culture will be wiped
away. Intellect will be trained
along mechanical lines, magma
ton will be. stunted and, appar-
emily, the will must suffer fol
want Of sufficient control, since
"the school will frankly discard
that theory of education known
as formal discipline =
An attempt will be made to
interest colleges and universities
in this new plan and to have il
introduced into the elementary
schools of the country.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-02-03
DOMAIN OF TEMPERANCE
WHERE DID YOU PUT YOUR
CROSS?
written for The Catholic Bulletin by
DIR. James HendersOn.)

Where did you put your cross-where
did you put your cross,
When Booze at the bar of judgment
waited to see your toss,
When there in freeman's sanctum,
a freeman you had your say,
With the wild eyes in your vision, and
the woes you'd wipe away?
There with the marking pencil you in
your might decide,
To succor the ones still living, reveng-
ing those whove died
Died with the drunkard's raving, died
with the drunkard's loss;
When you stood in the booth in judy
ment; where did you put your
cross?
When the blue mark scared the ballot
it seemed like a stroke of flame,
To blot out the years, of sorrows, to
bury the years of shame;
TO burn the lips that tasted, to blister
the lips that touch
You pressed it deep in the paper, the
ballot says as much.
You and you in your thousands; you
and you-and me;
Pressing the button, brothers, to set
our brothers free; =
| Without any qualms Of conscience,
breasting all fear Of loss;
Growing the YES" with glory, there
where we placed our cross.
God! but that one brief moment
seemed like the stroke of fate
Scoring for loved and lost ones; pity
| it came so late!
Visions of blear eyes staring into
some vacant space,
Visions Of men besotted; fallen, and
lost in the race;
| TrOoping of wild eyed mothers; wives
with their famished brood,
| Hungered and ever grieving, here in
life's solitude;
Gould | have the heart to curse them
| knowing their lives We're drOss
God! how my soul rose soaring whilst
marking my sacred cross.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-02-03

It seems that in this country we
always have the question Of the
Bible in the public schools. Re
Gently Senator T. W. Putnam OF
Blue Earth, introduced bill into
the State Senate to allow the
reading Of the Bible in the public
schools, without any danger OF
the school that does this losing
its state aid.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-02-03

We acknowledge receipt Of
new Catholic magazine. It is call
ed the Mission Message, and is
published monthly in Milwaukee,
by the American Missionary As
ISOLATION Of Catholic Women. It's
object is to spread a knowledge of
our Catholic foreign missions and
to stir up interest in practically
helping our heroic missionaries.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-02-03

On January &c, a bill was Of
fered in the Wisconsin legislature
by Assemblyman II. G. Jeske OF
Milwaukee. The bill provides for
the taxation Of all church prop
erty, including parochial schools.
The present Wisconsin statute eX-
empts churches and benevolent
and charitable organizations from
taxation. The Jeske bill, ii
passed, would remove churches
from the exemption class.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-02-03

We wish TO call attention to
letter to be found on page five OF
this issue. 1t was written by the
Right Reverend Bishop Of Duluth,
Mimi, and may prove interesting
to persons seeking homesteads III
that part OF the State.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-02-03

Thanks to the prompt action on
the part of our State Department,
the two Mexican Bishops who
were sentenced to death at Zaca-
tecas have been allowed to leave
the country. It certainly is a
most gracious concession on the
part Of Carranza that two Of the
most esteemed prelates> and citi-
zens Of the Republic are permit
ted to become exiles from their
own land.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-02-03

DR.. A. j. d. Haupt, Director OF
the Social Service for the League
of Protestant Women, stated last
week that Crime is costing Min
nesota not less than $4,000 per
day"
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-02-03

According to a recent decree OF
the Sacred Congregation of the
Holy Office, a scapular medal must
DE blessed as often as a new one
is put into use. on the loss or the
wearing out of the first one.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-02-03
LOSS AND GAIN TN THE
CHURCH.

During the past few years it
has been the custom on the part
of many Catholic writer's to de-
plore the great losses which they
claim the Catholic Church has
sustained in recent times III this
country. We are told that during
the past century large numbers
ranging from thousands to mil
lions have been lost irrevocably to
the faith in America. In this con-
nection it is a pleasure to call
attention to an illuminating ar
ticle in the January number Of
the Catholic Historical Review.
Right Reverend J. f. Caneyin,
Bishop Of Pittsburgh, Pa, pre-
sents an examination into the
question from the standpoint of
critical analysis.
The Right Reverend writer lays
down the principle that to solve
the problem with any degree of
accuracy we must begin with
some definite period and with a
sufficient knowledge Of the Cath
Ollie population in this country at
that time. Given the Catholic
population at that date, its in
crease in the nation can come
from births, immigration, and con-
versions. It's decrease will be by
deaths, emigration, and perver-
sion.
He notes that the first official
records. Of immigration began
with the year 1920. At the time
Of the first government census in
1890, Bishop Canevin estimated
the Catholic population Of the
United States at $4,000. Between
1900 and 1920, Florida, Louisiana,
and the West, with a Catholic
population Of $4,000, had been
added to the territory Of the
United States. Bishop Canevin
arrives at the conclusion that in
1920, our Catholic population all
told numbered $4,000. The num-
Der Of Catholics among the for
eign-born can be found by the
percentage Of Catholics in the
population Of the country from
which the immigrants came.s Fol
lowing out this principle the Cath
Ollie population should have
grown by natural increase and
immigration to about 16,483, 800,
in 1910, and in 1915, the Catholic
population would. have reached
the total Of. 20,7o1,318.
The Catholic Directory for
1916, gives the Catholic popula-
ton as about sixteen and a half
millions, but this does not mean,
however, that since 1890, over
four millions Of Catholics were
lost to the Church. In the first
place; there are today in the
United States more than four mil
lion immigrants from France,
IItaly, Belgium, Cuba, Mexico, and
Spanish America. Although these
people are thoroughly Catholic
today, not thirty per cent of them
would be included in the census
which furnished the figures for
the Catholic Directory. There are
besides great numbers Of recent
immigrants, who are practical
Catholics, and who are not enum-
Grated in the parish census. All
in all, it seems impossible to
prove from figures that the
Church has lost in numbers, while
on the other hand, she has GER
tainly gained in prestige.
The Church in what is now the
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-02-03

When court opened in the little
town Of Viroqua, Wis, on a re-
cent Monday morning, there were
eight divorce eases awaiting trial.
Surely this constitutes some kind
of record.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-02-03

Rev. James VI. ReardOn, EditOr-in-Chiet'
Rev. c. II. NcGinnis. Ph. d.,
Associate Editor.
Harry LOcheed, Advertising Manager
Printed by Willwerscheid a Hotth'
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-02-03

The customs regulations have
been amended to exclude lottery
tickets. obscene articles and other
prohibited matter. Hereafter any
letter or sealed package under
suspicion, will be stamped Sup
posed to contain matter prohibit
ed TO importation. J" Then it will
be carried to its address. There
the postmaster, in the presence of
the party to whom it has been
sent. will open it, and if the con-
tents are not to be delivered, he
will destroy them.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-02-03

In The Catholic Mind for Janu-
airy s, there is very interesting
article on the "Mysteries of Di-
vine Providence" by Father Haul,
Of the Bombay Examiner. It an
swers in a novel way the question
as to why God permits evil in this
world.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-02-03
BISHOP BARAGA.

The Indian Sentinel publishes
a brief history Of Bishop Baraga,
one Of the most Jealous of all the
missionaries who ever stroye for
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-02-03
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1917.

Ash Wednesday, the beginning
Of Lent. will fall this year on Feb
ruary 81.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-02-03

Entered as second-class matter Jan
uary IL 1911, at the post office, ST.
Paul, Mimi, under Act of March 3. 1879.
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Tn Far reaching decisions the
United States Supreme Court last
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