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The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-08-10
For Parents Of Soldiers
CHAPLAIN GENERAL BISHOP
HAYES VISITS CAMPS AND COM
MENDS GREAT WORK FOR OUR
SOLDIERS RELIGIOUS VEL
FARE.

The Rt Rev. Patrick J. Hayes, D. D.,
Bishop Ordinary of the United States
Army and Navy chaplains at home
and abroad, stopped at Chicago last
week while visiting the army and
navy posts in the vicinity. Bishop
Hayes visited the Great Lakes Naval
Training Station and Fort Sheridan,
accompanied by his vicar general, the
Very Rev. William Foley, pastor of st.
Ambrose Church. On Thursday Bishop
Hayes left, accompanied by Father
Foley, for a visit to Camp Custer.
Bishop Hayes is completing his visit
of American environments and naval
training stations preparatory to visit
ing the battle lines in France.
Words of comfort for parents of
American soldiers and sailors and the
highest praise for the conditions found
in all training camps of both the mill
tary and naval forces in the United
States were voiced in an interview
by Bishop Hayes.
There are at present more than 500
Catholic priests serving as chaplains
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The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-08-10
GRADUATE CHAPLAINS
CHAPLAINS WHO WILL BE COM
MISSlONED ON AUGUST 16.

In the class OF cnaplains who are
now undergoing instruction at the
Chaplains' Training School, Camp
Zachary Taylor, Ky, and the members
Of which will. it is expected, receive
their commissions on August 10, are
sixteen priests, three of whom are
from the Archdiocese of Philadelphia.
Thirteen are from other diOceses or
from religious orders.
The roster includes the Revs. John
Joseph Bonner, Philadelphia; Joseph
H. Boutin, Leominster, Mass; William
Chaput, Mckee City, Wash; Andrew
Grin Dodge, Lawrence, Mass; Vincent
Joseph Dougherty, Brooklyn, n. Y;
Francis Xavier John Exler, West De
Pere, Wis; Thomas P. Kelly, Camp
Custer, Mich; Daniel James Lenihan,
Waterloo, Iowa; Michael John Nc
Keough, West De Pere, Wis; James
Patrick Mcmahon, Burwell, Neb.; Sid
ney J. Morrison, Chicago, H.; John
William Mundy, Philadelphia; G. Vim
cent O'Brien, Hancock, N. Y; Francis
Joseph Plutz, Campti, La; Francis Jo-
seph Ross, Philadelphia, and Ignatius
B. Boyce, Paterson, n. J.
On the teaching staff is the Rev.
Chaplain Fealy, of Baltimore, and it is
said that Chaplain Arnold, of Fort
Wayne, is soon to be an instructor.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-08-10
Students Mission Crusade
CONVENTION HELD LAST WEEK.
TO ORGANIZE WORK TO HELP
THE MISSIONS.

Representing 80 colleges and uni
versities, religious orders and mis-
sionary propaganda societies, 100 prel-
ates, priests and laymen were in SEES
sion at st. Mary's Mission House,
Techny, Illinois, from the 9th to the
Both of July, and organized the Catho-
lie Students Mission Crusade.
Sixteen Catholic student organiza-
lions are now enrolled. The movement
is already International It's immedi-
ate aim is to enlist every Catholic
students organization in the United
States and Canada and from other
student bodies if necessary, SO that
the Crusade will become active in
every institute of higher learning at
tended by Catholic students.
Right Rev. Bishop j. Shahan, Rec
tor of the Catholic University at
Washington, was elected President.
DR.. F. ]. S. Beckmann, Rector of Mt.
st. Mary's of the West, at Cincinnati,
who participated in all the meetings
of the Convention, was elected chair
man of the Executive Board, with Rev.
A. L. Schumacher and Frank A. Thrill
of the same seminary as his associ-
ates. Rev. John Handy of the Paulist
Fathers, who represented ST. Pauls
College, Washington, D. c., was ap-
pointed Field Secretary.
Student bodies are to form district
governments, whose officers shall act
as promoters of Crusade work, and
convene annual district meetings
Date and place for occasional interna-
tional conventions are to be fixed at
each preceding convention. The next
is to be held in Washington, D. c., in
1919. All Catholic student bodies are
invited to send delegates. Place will
be assigned on the convention pro-
gram, for discussion and further or
ganization of every moment and inter-
est proper to Catholic students, with
a view to forming a working union
Of all Catholic students in the United
States whose number is estimated to
be between two and three millions.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-08-10

by six chaplains before their de-
parture. The men we're mostly Catho-
lies, and the chaplains were kept busy
hearing so many confessions. Con-
fessions were heard on the hillsides in
the afternoon previous to their de-
parture. The next day there was
Field Mass, and all the men went to
Holy Communion. Hundreds of the
negroes, who were from Louisiana,
made their confessions in the French
language They will undoubtedly be
of great service in France.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-08-10

in the United States Army and Navy,
and about one-third of the boys en-
rolled to fight for the Stars and
Stripes are OF the Catholic faith" said
Bishop Hayes. with the inspection
in this country completed | expect to
go overseas in the near future.
With reference to the care of our
men | came to the firm conclusion that
no army of men, especially on such
stupendous scale, has ever been better
provided for in regard to creature
comforts. Our boys are we'll housed,
well fed, and we'll clothed.
Another striking thing is the small
amount of sickness of a serious ma
ture among our boys.
"Recreational necessities have not
been overlooked by the Government.
Everything of legitimate nature that
might appeal to the boys has been
provided. The Knights of Columbus,
the Y. NJ. G. A., the Jewish Welfare
board, as we'll as other agencies, all
combine to give the soldiers and sail
ors those lighter moments that throw
the balance safely from the extreme
tension of military life to the normal
life, which is home, and which the
boys are not allowed to forget
THE mothers Of America can never
be too grateful to the President of the
United States, to the Secretary of War
and to the Secretary of the Navy for
the solicitude, the care and the protec-
ton they have thrown around the sol
der and sailor boy, not only in the
camps under their control, but even
outside.
THE moral condition of the camps
and stations is due both to the Fosdick
commission work and to the Organiza-
ton known as the military police. 1t
would not be fair to have the people
imagine that the military authorities
were not in perfect accord with the
keeping Of the conditions in and
around the camps morally clean. Were
it not that the splendid high ideals of
what the American soldier should be
are constantly kept in mind by the
commanding officers, all that has been
accomplished might not have been.
The clergymen in many towns and
cities which | have visited have told
ne that these places are today better
and cleaner since the soldiers and
sailors have come"
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-08-10
SEAMEN'S INSURANCE
LARGE AMOUNT Is TAKEN BY
ALL CLASSES - GOVERNMENT
PROVIDES GENEROUSLY FOR
WIDOWS AND DEPENDENTS.

More than $4,000 masters, officers,
and seamen on American merchant
vessels traversing the war zones have
been insured by the United States
Government. This insurance totals
more than $115, 100000. Claims under
the insurance are so far little more
than $180,00O
This insurance as to vessels travers-
ing the war zone is compulsory,
though it is not required that the in
surance be taken through the Bureau
OF War-Risk Insurance However,
virtually the entire personnel of the
merchant marine is insured by the
bureau, the Government rate being
only 25 cents for each 500 of insur-
ance.
Since the American fleet has been
patroliing the seas the rate has been
reduced from so cents for each 500 of
insurance.
If the owner of a vessel tTaversing
the war zone fails to insure the mas
tiers, officers, and crew, the Secretary
OF the Treasury may take out the in
surance for them with the bureau and,
further, fine the owner not more than
$1,000
The insurance affords protection for
disability or death resulting from war
perils and provides for compensation
during detention following capture.
One American captains wife has been
receiving monthly check for $337.5O
since her husband was captured by
the Germans.
man may now enlist in the mer-
chant-marine service with full assur-
ance that in case of death, disability,
or detention in prison his dependents
and loved ones will be provided for.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-08-10

duct? What about the obligation to
attend Mass every Sunday whether one
desires to go or not; what about the
what about the insistence upon fast
and abstinence; what about the strict
requirement to make restitution for
every stolen penny; what about the
eXhortations to daily prayer, to reg
ular reception of the sacraments, to
the practice of constant charity? One
could add Indefinitely to this enumer-
alton of Catholic duties. Catholics
must have both faith and good works
if they are to be worthy Christians
and real Catholics.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-08-10
HOME INFLUENCE
THE DUTIES OF CHRISTIAN
MOTHERS-HOME TRAINING OF
GREAT IMPORTANCE.

Teachers that prove incompetent
are quickly discharged, but there is
one teacher that can not be dis
charged, though she be an incompe-
tent and careless teacher, and that
teacher is the mother
These words are quoted from the
'Homiletic Monthly" The author,
Rev. r. Kuehnel, advises mothers to
train the heart of the child, to turn
it early to God, and 'leave the book
learning to teachers in schools. -
Laying the foundation is the mother S
privilege-the most important of all.
She must teach the little one to pray,
to, know the difference between right
ard wrong, to realize that God knows
everything and will reward or punish,
according to our acts.
hove and patience in plenty are de-
manded of this first teacher, and she
must not fail her little pupils in their
demands on both. She must be ready
to repeat the same lesson again and
again. until the child has learned it
thoroughly.
If tempted to impotence the mother
must remind herself Of how often she
hn''" res instruction on the
S.
=. member how lessons must
be repeated even to US over and over,
Father Euehnel says. 1.-THE priest is
the teacher of his people. How often
must he Sepeat the same lesson over
and over sgain! And he is not talk
ing to little children but to grown
people, who pride themselves with
being in the full possession of their
reasoning faculties. The priest can
not say: 1 said this often enough
the people must know it now No;
he must repeat the same lesson, the
same warningsl the same advice again
and again, and often he finds it neces
scary to repeat the same words as
urgently as though they we're then
said for the yeryiflrst time"
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-08-10
The Church in Porto Rico
FATHER VASSALLo OF SAN JUAN
DESCRIBES SOME OF THE NE
CESSlTIES IN AMERICAS POS
SESSION.

Reverend Mariana Vassallo of the
Bishops House, San Juan, Porto Rico,
has been visiting Buffalo in the inter-
ests of Catholicism in his native is
land. 1t is a fascinating story, as
Father Vassallo told it to a Union and
Times representative, that story of
the struggle of the Bishop and priests
of Porto Rico to preserve for the in
habitants the religion of their fathers.
Porto Rico is the cradle of Chris
tianity in America. Only five years
ago the fourth centenary of the foun-
dation of the diocese in 1911 and the
landing of it's first bishop, Dr. Mauso,
in 1913, was celebrated Cardinal Far
ley of New York and other distin-
guished American and Cuban prelates
attended the festivities.
American Occupation.
Catholicism in Porto Rico has un-
dergone severe trial since the
change of governments. For four hun
dred years Spain had supported the
Church and clergy in the island. Then
came the American occupation, and in
four months time there was COM
plete severance of Church and state.
The support of the Church was thrown
upon the people, who were in no posi-
ton to meet it. Aside from it's being
an entirely new obligation, which the
people had first to be accustomed to,
they were too poor to assume it. The
American government retained Church
property, and though a transaction
has later given the Catholic Church in
Porto Rico some compensation, it was
by no means sufficient to meet the
necessities.
The greatest need in the island at
present is for parochial schools. This
need is accumulated by the schools
that the various Protestant sects have
opened there. For years the sects have
attempted to gain foothold in the
island by winning adults to their faith
After nothing but failure they have de-
termined to work among the children,
and accordingly have opened manv
schools throughout the country. With
these sects there is no question of
money, nor is their work hampered by
a want of it, for they are supported
chiefly by wealthy missionary and
Biblical societies in the United States
Near the city of San Juan there is
a town called Rio Piedras, which has
become the center of education in the
island Here the government has es-
tablished a normal school and uni
versity. The sects have likewise built
schools in this place. It is the hope of
the bishop of Porto Rico to open q
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-08-10
Catholic Negro Soldiers
CONFESSIONS HEARD ON GREEN
HILLSIDE BEFORE THEY
LEAVE FOR FRANCE.

On his visit last week to New Or
leans, Rev. Father Slevin, S. j.,
chaplain at Camp Shelby, Mississippi,
gave a good account of his work
among the soldiers.
Every attention is given the men
from a physical, material, moral and
spiritual standpoint. There are two
Masses every morning and three on
Sunday. The Masses are well at
tended
Over 1,400 negroes left the camp
last week for service abroad. These
colored troops were addressed in turn
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-08-10

OFFICIAL INFORMATION OF MOST
NTERESTING CHARACTER -
SECULAR JOURNALS HAVE
DONE LITTLE TO TELL WORLD
OF TIE HOLY FATHERS SOLICI-
tube FOR POOR WAR VICTIMS
AN ANSWER TO 100000 PETI-
TIoNs FROM MANY QUARTERS
-VATICAN ONLY CENTER FOR
WORLDWIDE WORK-A WORK
OF PURE CHARITY.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-08-10
Prosecute Clergy

Five high church officials in the
state of Jalisco, Mexico, have been
and thrown into prison, &C.
cording to report received in Ell
Paso. Their arrest followed the ar
rest and deportation of Archbishop
Francisco Orozco Y Jimenez of Quad
alajara. Friction between the church
and state was given as the reason
for the arrests.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-08-10

WANTED-Catholic Woman, thirty
years of age or under, as housekeeper
in the country for widower and four
children, age from twelve to seven
years, three boys, one girl; must be
neat housekeeper and good plain cook.
| can furnish reference. John Kneip,
Route Z, lie Mars, Iowa.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-08-10

WANTED-A housekeeper for priest
in Twin Cities. German-American
preferred. A good home. Address
A. A. A.. care The Catholic Bulletin,
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-08-10

WANTED-A reliable woman as
housekeeper for priest in North Da-
kota. Address "X' care The Cath
Ole Bulletin.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-08-10

Will you explain for the benefit of
a non-CathoIic the right of the Church
to make laws regarding marriage?
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1918-04-19
BY WILLIAM A. RADFoRD.

Too much importance cannot be paid
to the construction of your hoghouse,
and observation has no doubt con-
vinced you that 'spermanency pays in
this type of building perhaps more
than in any other.
A hoghouse built like a daylight fac
tory is as important to your bank ac-
count as to the ultimate consumer of
your ham and lard.
By far the most effective means of
lighting a hoghouse is shown in the
accompanying illustration. It is
through the roof, and by using the
greenhouse type Of sash laid flush with
the roof. In this way the sun shines
down more directly upon the glass and
less of the germ-killing rays are de-
fected.
1t is a well-known fact, that prac-
tically no germs can exist in direct
sunlight, and therefore you should
make use Of this cheapest and best
disinfectant on the market to do your
share in reducing the enormous loss
from disease in western hogs.
The 6 by 8 or 6 by foot-pen with the
6-foot way along the passageway has
proven to be the most economical size
in the straight-side hoghouse and an
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1918-04-19

of man who kept wine shop oppo-
site what the tablet signified.
1t was placed there said the ro-
tund publican, to mark the height of
the waters of the Danube at the great
freshet Of certain year.
"sMercy = / said. AS high as that?
Why, should have supposed your viii
lage would have been swept away!
"'Oh!' replied the citizen, patroni-
zingly, that was not where the water
was. The Baron Zwettel gave us the
beautiful tablet to mark the great
flood and it was put there, where you
see the bricks disarranged by that low
err window, and that is where the flood
was but the wretched boys defaced it
and threw mud at it and made it a
mark for their arrows, SO we put it up
there out of their reach. Aha! They
cannot trouble it now
s'And, truly, the man did not seem
to see any incongruity in the affair y
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1918-04-19

boards or some other means or Secur-
ing dead air spaces Immediately under
the hogs. This is well secured by
using a second-class tile in or 5-inch
thickness with a 1-inch top coat OF
1 to cement and sand spread on top
of this course Of tile.
The proper changing of the air in a
hOghOuse is of the greatest Impor-
lance, for in order to do it properly,
it is necessary to have control at all
times and yet have no drafts directly
on the hogs.
For letting the air in, openings should
he left just under the caves on each
side of any type of hoghouse, and it is
found that by II opening about ev-
cry sin feet is very close to being right.
This is easily secured by leaving out
5 by by II tile if this size is used.
The exit of the air, the ridge-roll
type Of ventilatOr which we have de-
velOped, is by far the cheapest and
fully as effective as any of the more
fancy types. For few cents, ridge
roll ventilator will provide as much
ventilation as an equivalent number
of dollars invested in some of the more
elaborate types. These ventilators
should be placed from six to eight
feet apart, depending upon the expos
ure of the building.
A very common mistake is made in
providing means for the air getting out
with no way for it to get in.
Of course, the openings under the
caves should be provided with small
doors or other means for shutting off
part of the air in extremely cold wealth
er. Sliding doors all connected to-
gether by light rod may be easily
made so that the whole side of the
building may be regulated at one time.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1918-04-19

equivalent number Of square feet floor
space should be used for each pen in
the round hoghouse.
Experience and observation have
convinced the writer that the parti-
lions between the pens should be on
hinges, so as to swing up. Thus all
pens may be turned together. The
partitions along the passageway should
slide up and be so made that they can
be fastened about nine inches above
the floor. By having the partitions
along the passageway SO that they
may be raised partly up in this way,
it is possible to feed young pigs slim
ulating and conditioning foods before
they are weaned.
Some general details that apply to
all types of permanent hoghouses will
be interesting. Hollow tile founda-
tons when laid on a hollow tile or
concrete footing to get the proper
amount of bearing on the ground,
are as strong as the wall itself,
which, of course, is ali that is neces-
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1918-04-19
Floor Plan.

sarv. 1t is only a waste of material
to put in a II to 16-inch concrete foun-
datiOn to the floor line when the foot
ing 80 to SO inches below the ground
line can be easily made the proper
width, and the wall really started at
this point.
It has been demonstrated that in
building the foundation in this way
to the floor line, fully SO per cent is
saved when solid concrete founda-
ton is taken into consideration. This
is partly on account of no forms re-
quired and partly because of the saw
ing of wall above the footing. In lay
ing the hollow tile below the ground
level, it has been found that nothing
in the way of strength or ability to
serve it's purpose is sacrificed by leav-
ing out the joints between the ends of
the tile, and great deal of time, OF
course. is saved in laying.
Experiments and experience have
proven that the only really satisfactory
way of building a hoghouse floor is
to use hollow tile or fake floor of
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1918-04-19
Land Of Skeletons.

Carl Emil Junck, the millionaire dye
dealer of Chicago, said on his return
from trip through Germany:
1.-THE Germans are starving. A fat
man is as rare in Germany today as
a-well, as a side of bacon or real to-
bacco.
Germany is today a land of living
skeletons. In a Hamburg restaurant
one afternoon skeleton opposite rue
sat eating an egg substitute omelette
about the size of a half-dollar.
Il look at the poor fellow with a
plying glance and said:
"ECan such rations nourish you?'
"'Well,' said he, in dismal voice,
'they keep skin and bone together"
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1918-04-19
How Man FIGHTS Natures Forces.

Life is a fight. From cradle. to
grave man is engaged in a struggle
against natures forces. With our first
breath we begin to counter these
forces, and continue from our first
breath to our last, says Charles NJ.
Horton, in Industrial Management. In
dividually we are compelled gradually
to give way to these forces-to decay.
1t is the law. Nature dictates. And
all life recognizes it. From earliest
dawn of history mankind has instinc-
lively resisted this law, actively and
passively. Humanity's first thought
self-preservation--is the one big ac-
tive agent, and as an agent it came to
mankind as an outgrowth of primitive
mans own endless fight against de.
cay.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1918-04-19
RELIABLE PRESCRIPTION
FOR THE KIDNEYS

For many years druggists have watched
with much interest the remarkable record
maintained by DIR. Kilmer's Swamp Root,
the great kidney, liver and bladder medi-
cine.
It is a physicians prescription.
Swamp Root is a strengthening medi-
cine. 1t helps the kidneys, liver and blad-
der do the work nature intended they
should do
Swamp-Root has stood the test Of years.
It is sold by all druggists on it's merit and
it should help you. No other kidney medi-
cine has so many friends.
Be sure to get Swamp-Root and start
treatment at once.
However, if you wish first to test this
great preparation send ten cents to DR..
Kilmer & Co., Binghamton, N. Y, for a
sample bottle When writing be sure and
mention this paper.-Adv.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1918-04-19
War and the Weather.

The Almighty makes the weather,
not man, and if the weather doesn't
suit us, we have to wait. The farm
err knows what a days rain will do in
the way of upsetting plans. One can't
pillow in the mud and cutting of hay
or wheat may be damaged or ruined
by one nights downpour.
The war department, too, is up
against the weather in France. Three
inches rainfall may make the country
impossible for half a million men and
horses and motortrucks and ruin the
chances Of victory or bring defeat.