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The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-09-08
FEDERATED CATHOLIC SOCIETIES

| 1T is the American boast today that
we have progressed in all directions
| to place of first and highest develop.
ment," the report read. In spite OF
the claim right no longer rules; JUS
| tice is fast declining, order is upset
| the family is endangered, the home is
disrupted virtue, public and private,
| is decaGent; materialism is in the
ascendancy, vicious propaganda runs
riot, and religious Indifference domi-
mates. 1t may be a startling state
ment, yet it nevertheless is a fact,
that the rapid drift of this country is
toward paganism. What can be it's
cause other than a system of educa-
ton which has totally eliminated
God?"
Secretary Matre reported that the
Diocesan Plan, which is to be adopted
by the convention, has the endorse
ment of over one-half of the American
Bishops, of the three Cardinals and
of the Pope's Delegate. The adoption
of this plan will place the Federation
on a firmer basis than heretofore and
will eventually embrace in it's mem,
bership the eighteen million Catholics
of the United States. The Diocesan
Plan is already in effect in Boston,
Milwaukee, Toledo, Grand Rapids,
CovingtOn, Newark, n. J., Trenton, N.
j., st. Cloud, Mimi, and other centres.
The report reviewed Federation's
activities on the Mexican question and
the interest the societies had taken in
saving the lives of two Mexican
bishops and in having religious liberty
granted to the Mexican people, the
same as we enjoy in the United States
but which is denied in Mexico by un-
just laws. Letters from the members
of the American-Me eXican Joint Com
mittee were presented as well as
protest from Catholic women of
Mexico against the iniquitous laws of
the new Mexican Constitution.
The report disclosed Federation's
crusade on all forms of vice and i'm
morality. The societies have !encour-
aged film censorship throughout the
states and published list of films
which should not-be shown in decent
picture houses Burlesque shows are
fiayed and protests were effective in
Cincinnati, st. Louis, Milwaukee and
other centers where burlesque shows
were made unpnoftable BY. decent peo-
pie. Branch Federations throughout
the country are cooperating with
vigilant societies in crusading against
indecent theatres, dance-halls, swim
ming pools, billboards, pictures and
posters, and all forms of Objectionable
advertising. The Federation expects
organizations during the coming year
to bring about reform in dress.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-09-08
Polish Writer Honored
EDITOR OF CHICAGO POLISH PA
PER Is MADE A CHEVALIER OF
THE ORDER OF ST. SYLVESTER.

On August %, Rev. Francis Gordon
c. R., general manager of the Polish
Daily News of Chicago-the DZiennik
Chicagoski-wa presented with the
brevet honoring Mr.. Stanislaus
SzWajkart, editor-in-chief, with his
appointment as a chevalier of the Or
der of st. Sylvester. On receipt of
the official papal brief of appointment
of Mr.. Szwajkart to the Knighthood,
Archbishop Mundelein ordered the
golden insignia to be made by the
jewelers. of the Vatican. AS soon as
this insignia of the order arrives, the
Most Rev. Archbishop will personally
decorate Sir .Szwajkart.
Sir Stanislaus Szwajkart was born
in Lemberg GO years ago, and re-
ceiyed his education there. On De-
cember 2, 1889, Mr. Szwajkart was
taken on the Polish weekly as editor
in-chief. On December Is, 1890, the
first edition of the paper as daily ap-
peared. Mr.. Szwajkart for many years
was alone, and the paper consisted of
but four pages. Now there are six
men getting out paper of from eight
to twelve pages
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-09-08
FATHER KETCHAM
ENGAGED ON HEALTH TRACTS
FOR USE AMONG CHOCTAW IN
DIANS-HE IS A FORMER IN
DIAN MISSIONARY.

The department of Indian Affairs is
having a number of tracts relative to
public health prepared especially for
the Indians, translated into the Choc-
taw tongue. Rev. VIM. E. Ketcham
member Of the Board of Indian Com
missioners and director of the Bureau
of Catholic Indian Missions, Washing
ton, and Peter Hudson, official inter
prefer for the Choctaws, are now en-
gagged in that work. They are at
present in Talihina, where a hospital
has been built for the treatment of
Choctaws affected with tuberculosis.
Father Ketcham is one of the best
informed men in this country upon
matters relating to Indians. He was
missionary in Indian Territory
twenty-five years ago. At first he To-
Gated at Muskogee and later he de-
voted his time to the Choctaws, learn
ing their language and familiarizing
himself with their customs. He re-
CARDS the work.. now being conducted
among the Indians to protect them
from disease, raise the standard of
public health, and teach them how to
live, as of the highest Importance.
1t is pointed out that thousands of
Indians have died from a lack of
knowledge of how to take care of
themselves and of proper regard for
sanitation.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-09-08
Chaplain for Fort Smelling
SPIRITUAL INTERESTS OF SOL
u. .ssea3 TO BE CARED FOR.

Rev. f. T. Burns, assistant at the
Pro- o-Cathedral in Minneapolis, has
been appointed chaplain at Fort Smell
ing. Father Burns will have full
charge Of the spiritual interests of all
the Catholic soldiers located at the
Fort. His residence for the time be-
ing will be at the rectory of st. Luke's
Church, ST. Paul. He will spend all
his time every day at Fort Smelling,
and will give every attention to the
spiritual and moral needs of the Cath
olic troops resident there. His ap-
pointment to this position is in con-
nection with the great work which is
being done for the soldiers by the
Knights of Columbus who have erect
ed hall and are doing so much to
promote the general welfare of all the
soldiers at Fort Smelling.
Rev. VIM. Harrington, former as
sistant at st. Luke's Church, is the
regular United States chaplain for the
First Minnesota Field Artillery. This
unit is now known as the 151st United
States Field Artillery. Father Har-
rington left last Tuesday night
with his regiment for the place as
signed it at Camp Mills, Mineola, Long
Island, New York
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-09-08
CHURCH PROPERTY
FRENCH BISHOP WARNS HIS
FLOCK AGAINST PRoFITING BY
CONFIscATED ECCLESIASTICAL
PROPERTY.

The Bishop of Puy, France, has
been reminding his flock in an i'm
portant letter that it is never legal
for Catholics to profit by the con-
fiscated goods of the Church. Ger
tain persons in the diocese seem to
think, he says, that irregular acquisi.
tion of the goods of the Church is
legitimatized by time, and that ten
ants of land and houses or possessors
OF other goods can now enjoy from
the government from which they have
purchased them these stolen goods
in safety of conscience. To such,
badly instructed in canonical legisla-
tion, the Bishop states that the pen
alties pronounced by the Holy See
at the time of secular coniscation
against all participating therein re-
main in full force and touch all into
whose hands the property has come
or may pass, as much as they touch
the first purchaser, always providing
such purchasers have not entered in
to an agreement with the ecclesiasti.
cal authorities
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-09-08
SESSIONS CLOSED IN KANSAS
CITY-NEW OFFICERS ELECTED
GABLE TO POPE.

A cablegram Offering ''fervent
prayer for happy success of your no
BILE peace efforts" was sent to Pope
Benedict by the American Federation
of Catholic societies at the closing
session of its convention in Kansas
City, Mo-, August %. The cablegram
was signed by Archbishop Sebastian
G. Messmer of Milwaukee and Bishop
Thomas F. Lillis of Kansas City.
The federation elected Thomas F.
Flynn of Chicago president, to succeed
John G. Whalen of New York, who
The following vice presidents were
named: j. J. Hynes, Buffalo, n. Y;
j. A. Collier, ShakOpee, Mimi; Joseph
Frey New York; George Reinhardt,
Kansas City; James mclaughlin,
Philadelphia; e. j. Cooney, Louisville
Ky. Anthony Matre, Chicago, and c.
r.. Schultz, Detroit, were reelected
secretary and treasurer, respectively.
An executive board was elected,
composed of the following: Arch
bishop Messmer, Milwaukee; Bishop
Lillis of Kansas City; Thomas H.
Cannon, Chicago; Nicholas Conner,
Dubuque, Iowa; Edward Fenney1
Brooklyn; Daniel Duffy, Pottsville,
Pa; C. W. Wallace, Columbus, Ohio;
II. V. Cunningham, Boston; Charles
l. Denechaud, New Orleans; F. w.
Hickenkamp, Jr., Quincy, H.; F. w.
Mansfield, Boston,; Richard B. Ennis,
Pittsburgh; John Paul Chew, St.
Louis.
The choice of the next convention
city was left to the executive board.
Chicago, San Francisco, Philadelphia
and ST. Paul have extended invitations
to the federation to meet there in
1918.
The convention approved the Organi-
zation of the Catholic national war
council, which is being formed to CO.
ing Oh the war.
Anthony Matre of Chicago, the ma
tiOnal secretary, reported to the con-
vention that the federation has m M
hership OF 1900, ,0GS4 oll l5sacill, e.ery
state in the union and most of the in
sular possessions. A crusade of large
proportions has been taken up against
vice and immortality, and plans are
under way for the formation of a
Catholic Young Mems Christian asso-
citation.
The report of the national morals
nil H1sift frOr
the Church.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-09-08
PREJUDICES COMMITTEE
NOTABLE COMMISSION Is DIS
CLOSES WORK BE-
LIEVING WAR WILL WIPE OUT
BIGOTRY AND ILL FEELING.

An important matter settled in the
Chicago convention of the supreme
council, Knights of Columbus, was the
closing of the activities of the Com
mittee on Religious Prejudice This
committee, brought into being about
two years ago, had for it's purpose to
trace to it's sources religious bigotry
and bring about its eradication. But
it is now felt that the committee is
no longer necessary, since it is hoped
that the war, which has become the
one and all-absorbing pursuit Of the
nation, will wipe out all traces of
religious prejudice. The convention
heard the report of this committee
and voted the sum of $4,000 for it's
publication. The report will first ap-
pear in the October Columbiad, the
official organ of the knights, and sub
sequently in pamphlet form, when it
will be distributed among Catholics
and non-C Catholics.
One of the interesting reports read
at the convention was that of the
supreme secretary, VIM. J. Mckinley.
One of the items of the report was
the membership statement.
The total membership June 80, 1917,
was 3S9, 9,311, of which 122,66S were
insurance and 266,643 associate men,
bers-fifty-two state and seven terri
torial jurisdictions, and 1888 subor-
dinate councils. Thirty-fve new coun-
ellis were instituted during the year;
four were merged, one in Connecticut,
one in Maine, one in New Jersey and
one in Massachusetts. Two charters
were forfeited, one in Kentucky and
one in Kansas.
During the year the gross increase
in membership was 1896, the net in
crease 21,196, of which latter 6,646
were insurance and 1850 associate
members.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-09-08
CATHOLIC CHAPLAINS
PRIESTS WHO HAVE BEEN cERTE
FLED FOR NAVAL OR MILL
TARY SERVICE.

Rev. Quitman r. Beckley, O. p, has
been appointed by Secretary Daniels a
chaplain in the u. S.. navy He is the
only member of religious order in
that branch of the service.
Rev. Harris A. Darche, assistant
pastor of Notre Dame Church. Chi
cago, has been appointed chaplain in
the navy. The following priests also
have received appointments: Rev.
Henry A. Norman of St. Joseph's
Church, Ashton, r. L., appointed to the
navy. Rev. Humfrey " Darling, for
merly a student at the Apostolic Mis-
sion House at the Catholic University,
and Rev. Francis F. Donnelly of st.
Mary's Church, Staten Island, N. Y,
were. appointed chaplains with the
regular army.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-09-08
Belgian College Intact
ONE INSTITUTION so FAR HAS
ESCAPED FURY OF WAR.

There is one college in Belgium
which has so far escaped all the
furies of the war and has continued
its ordinary existence. It is, curious
ly enough, the College of. Notre Dame
de la Paix, the new title wherewith
Our Lady of Peace is invoked now in
the Litany. At the commencement of
the war a shell fell on the college,
breaking glass and damaging the
kitchen, but since then no further
hurt has been suffered. In October,
1914. the courses of preparation and
humanities were resumed, also the
course of mathematics There are
many boarders and the day school
aourishes. Father DENIAL is still rec
tor. Father Colmant is professor of
rhetoric, and Father Chaineux still
teaches Greek.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-09-08
Burse for the Missions
CATHOLIC WOMEN'S ORGANIZA
TION PRESENTS SUM TO MIS-
SION SEMINARY.

At it's convention in Scranton this
year, the Catholic Women's Bene-
VIOLENT Legion voted to provide the
American Foreign Mission Seminary
at Maryknoll Ossining, New York,
with burse of five, possibly six, thou
sand dollars
The movement, initiated by Jealous
member, met with instant recognition,
and a. check for three thousand dollars
was given to the Seminary before the
end of August. The various councils
are interesting their members and the
full amount will soon be raised. The
Catholic. Women's Benevolent Legion
is the first fraternal organization to
take up this work of helping to train
apostles.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-09-08
Noted Catholic Author

Mgr. F. B. d. Bickerstaffe-Dr Drew, OF
the Manor House, Winterbourne' Gun.
ner, Salisbury Plain, England, chap.
lain with the British forces in France
better known in the United States as
John Ayscough, has postponed his
American lecture tour owing to war
conditions. The information came to
Rev. DR.. John Cavanaugh, c. S. c.,
president of Notre Dame University
from which institution Mgr. Bicker.
statfe-DreW received an LII. D. last
June.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-09-08
K. OF c. ELECTION
OFFICERS OF ST. PAUL, COUNCIL
WERE CHOSEN FOR THE
COMING YEAR.

Tuesday evening, September 4, st.
Paul Council Knights of Columbus,
held the election of officers for the
coming year. The following men
were elected:
Grand Knight, J. c. Flanagan; Dep
uty Grand Knight, P. w. Fahey;
Chancellor, w. D. Jameson; Warden,
T. F. Kennedy; Recorder, Edw. Flynn;
Financial Secretary, Edw. Ode; Trus-
tees, j. ]. Neagle and D. Kirby; Ad-
vocate, F. Danz; Inside Guard, L. A.
Mcmahon; Outside Guard, C. Maley;
Treasurer, H, M. Kalscheuer. The
new officers will be installed at the
first regular meeting which will be
held on Tuesday, October 2.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-09-08
REPUBLIC is TAKING MEASURES
TO CARE FOR HELPLESS
QUESTION OF RELIGION WILL
= PROVE SERIOUS PROBLEM.

France is not only conducting a
brilliant defense at the front, but is
gallantly shouldering the heavy bur-
den which the war has imposed upon
her. One of those burdens, and
neither the least not yet at it's
full weight, is that of the children
who have been or who may be
orphaned by the fortune of war.
Months ago it was estimated that
the number of these orphans Of
the war had piled up to million and
a half; yet, with her indomitable spirit,
undeterred by the practical difficult
ty of providing for such piteous null
titude, France, in the full tide and
stress of war, has determined to take
over their Wardship as debt due to
the heroism of their fathers and moth
ers, who have lost their lives in the
defense of the country. 1t was de-
cisiOn that does honor to the French
heart, even though it was one
that was only to be expected from the
nations traditional chivalry, observes
the London Tablet For such stu
pendous undertaking the Intervention
of the State was necessary, and there
can therefore be no discussion on the
principle of such legislative work;
it would, indeed, as the late Cardinal
Sewn, Archbishop of Lyons, declared
a wear ago, be a sacrilege to contest
it. 1t is only when we come to the
details of the method to be pursued in
the Bill witch, introduced into the
Senate, was last week passed into
law by the Chamber, that there is
matter for discussion and even regret
full remonstrance. This Law on the
orphans of the war who are to be
the children of the nation, is a lengthy
measure which provides elaborate and
what may appear to some, meticulous
machinery for assuming and carry
ing on the guardianship of these un
fortunate children, whether born be
fore the war or born or conceived
preyious to the end of hostilities
whose father, mother or support have
fallen military or civil victims of the
enemy or been. incapacitated in the
war. First, come provisions for set
ting UP the machinery of the national
guardianship.
The Controlling Forces.
There is to be a central authority
the National Office, sitting at Paris
composed of representatives of wha
we should call the County and ToWr
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-09-08
Cemetery Sunday

Sunday, September 16, will be Gem
etery Sunday On this day the tari-
GUS parishes throughout the Archdio-
cese of st. Paul will make special COM
memoration of the departed. Notices
will be given in all the churches next
Sunday to this effect In St. Paul and
Minneapolis, as well as throughout the
diocese, special services will be held
in the cemeteries and a sermon will
be delivered on the subject of the day.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-09-08
Generous Non-Catholics
CONTRIBUTIONS FOR X. OF
WAR FUND.

The Catholics of the Country have
most generously responded to the
$3,OOO,OOO fund which the Knights of
Columbus need for their work in the
cantonments. Leading Protestants
have also contributed, in every in
stance expressing their approval of
the broad lines upon which the work
of the commission has been mapped
out. Among these may be mentioned
John D. Rockefeller, Jr., who sent
Col Callahan check for $1,000, with
a letter in which he heartily approves
the work undertaken by the Knights.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-09-08
NEED OF SISTERS
BISHOP EXPLAINS THEIR VALUE
IN-FAR EAST.

Speaking of the Mongolians among
whom he works, Bishop Ter Laak
says, that one strong hope of his mis-
sions in the Far East is a liberal sup
ply of Sisters to instruct women.
The women in Mongolia are consid-
cred inferior and only Christianity can
raise them. Catholic devotion to the
Blessed Virgin makes a strong appeal
to them, and the unselfish lives of the
Sisters are a constant source of won
der to these people who have known
only selfishness.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-09-08
THE ORPHANS OF FRANCE

Councils, the University and other
State bodies, and Social OrganiZa
tions, which will have supreme man
agement of the whole system. Under
this there will be local offices in each
department or county, which are to
carry out the work by placing the chill
dren for education and employment
distributing the grants yet to be de-
termined, and supervising the institu-
tions and persons to whom the chill
dren will be entrusted. These De-
partmental Offices are to be similar
in their composition to the National
Office, and will establish Cantonal
Sections, which, as their delegates in
the communes, will act as their boards
of managers and as Intermediates be-
tween them and the persons and insti-
tutions in charge of the orphans. Be-
sides the nominated members in the
National and Departmental Offices
there is to be an elected element; in
the former, of women known for their
work for children, and in each of the
latter Of two representatives of insti-
tutions of private benevolence, one of
whom must be woman, and of three
delegates of the Cantonal Sections.
| After this come regulations by which
| the children are to be adopted on the
application of the Family Council.
The Departmental Offices will appoint
Councillors of Wardship, whose duty
| it will be to see that the education
| laws are duly carried out, regard being
observed to the liberty of the parent
or guardian and to any testamentary
dispositions of the father Later sec
| tions of the Law provide for the plac-
ing of the wards in schools or in work,
with public or private institutions or
private persons offering the neces-
sary guarantees"
A Grave Omission.
From this it will be seen with what
minuteness the ground has apparently
| been covered. But there is one
grave omission, which, though pointed
out from the first, the Government
/ persistently refused to rectify. Here
i we have a Law to deal with a work
which NJ Viviani, Minister of Justice
j himself declared to be one of edu
| cation rather than of assistance, and
yet it contains no mention of re
1 ligion or of how the faith oi
these wards of the nation is to be
safeguarded. 1t may be that it lies
hidden or implicit in the word moral,
which is mentioned once or twice in
the text; in the provision that chill
dren may be sent to private-that is
denominational-e educational institu
tions or private persons offering the
necessary guarantees" or in the
! lCcntinued on page So
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-09-08
Religious Freedom

According to cable from Rome on
August 16, it was announced at the
Vatican that Russia has abrogated the
restrictive measures of the old auto
cratic regime against the Catholic
faith. The new Russian Minister tc
the Holy See is NJ. LysoYoysky.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-09-08
Church in Uruguay

The commission which is revising
the federal constitution has adopted a
clause separating the Church and
state in Uruguay. The confiscation of
Church property also is provided for.
The draft of the instrument will go to
Congress for final approval before be-
coming effective.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-09-08
Sailors at Gibbons Hall

Gibbons Memorial Hall at the Cath
olic University Of America is to be
used by the Navy Department for
quarters for $50 student naval officers
who are to be stationed at Washing
ton. When war was declared the
trustees of the Catholic University Of
fered the President the use of the in
stitution for what purpose he might
see fit.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-09-08
French Priests Honored

II is stated that 3,700 French
priests in the French army have re-
ceiyed the War Cross" and that in
the army are $4,000 Catholic priests.
OF whom three hundred are chaplains
with rank and title OF captain. Every
colonel has soldier-priest as assist,
ant chaplain in each battalion.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-09-08
Father Of Cardinal Dies

Rafael Merry del Val, father Of
Cardinal Merry del Val, the secretary
of the supreme congregation OF the
holy Office, and of Alfonso Merry del
Val Zulueta, the Spanish ambassador
at London, died in Spain on August
90.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1917-04-11
SINK SPANISH STEAMER

Paris, April 11.-Spanish steamer
San Fulgencia, 1858 tons, sunk
without warning, according to stories
told by her crew, safely landed at
Nantes.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1917-04-11
SAFE

Miss Forty-Odd awoke in the mid
die of the night to find burglar ran
sacking her effects. Miss Forty-Odd
did not scream, for she prided her
self, among other things, upon her
courage.
Pointing to the door with dra-
matte gesture she exclaimed:
Leave me at Once!'
The burglar politely retreated a
step and said: 81 had no intention Of
taking you"