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The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-07-13
Priest Remembers Charities
WILL OF MGR. O'REILLY OF BROOK
LYN DIsPoSEs OF LARGE
ESTATE.

The will of Very Rev. Mgr. Thomas
S. O'Reilly, who was for forty years
| rector of the Church of the Holy Name
in Brooklyn, was filed last Monday
for probate in the Surrogates Court
and reveals substantial bequests for
charitable purposes.
Mgr. O'Reilly set aside $4,000, the
interest of which is to provide free
books for the parochial school children
of the Holy Name parish in South
Brooklyn. The will gives the church
possession of all moneys belonging to
Mgr. O'Reilly and being lin the church
or in the church bank account or due
me from the church,, and the property
at 5O5 Prospect Avenue.
The will bequeaths $1,50O to the St.
Vincent de Paul Society of the parish
for the sole benefit of the poor" The
Daughters of Wisdom of Port Jeffer-
son, L. l., receive $4,000. and these
institutions $1,000 each: st. Anthony
Consumptive hospital, St. Peter r. C.
hospital, Sisters of the Infant Jesus,
Monastery of Our Lady of Mount Car
mel, Bureau of R. C. Indian Missions,
Washington, d. C.
Institutions receiving $500 each are
st. John hospital, Long Island City;
st. Joseph hospital, Far Rockaway;
Ursuline Nuns, Alaska.
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100 FREE SCHOLARSHIPS
NOTRE DAME UNIVERSITY AN
NoUNCES MAGNIFICENT OF
FER OF BUSINESS MEN.

Announcement is made this week of
the establishment of over one hundred
free scholarships in the new school of
agriculture at the University of Notre
Dame. Ninety-six of these scholar
ships are donated by the Oliver and
the Studebaker corporations of South
Bend, Ind, and the others by certain
bankers, whose names are not yet
made public because the list is not
yet complete. The oliver and Stude-
baker companies have given forty
eight scholarships each-one for every
state in the Union.
The scholarships are for the full
course of four years, which leads to a
degree in agriculture. They cover tut
ton, but not board. With them, how
ever, goes promise of position with
one of these companies to any holder
of a scholarship who is graduated
creditably
These scholarships will be awarded
by competition, and will go to the
young men in every state writing the
best article on certain subjects per-
tanning to agriculture. A list of these
subjects, from which the candidate
may choose, may be had by applica-
ton to the university. The competi-
ton is open now. It will close on
August Is. Two subjects already an
nounced are: Food Production" and
War Savings"
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able bodied men over eighteen years
OF age voluntarily enlist for military
instruction. Students enrolled in
these units will be regarded as mem
bers Of the Army of the United States.
At the call of the President they will
be liable to active duty, but, urgent
military need apart, they will not be
summoned to active service until they
have reached tWenty-one. To these
training units students under eighteen
years of age will also be eligible.
The wisdom of this measure is
pulse that is hurrying into various
branches of the service thousands of
young men immature in years and in
training. 1t stems the indiscriminate
volunteering which is emptying the
Colleges without comforting any COM
measurable advantages on the Army
or Navy. 1t ensures military training
which the young men of the nation
so ardently desire. 1t guarantees to
the Army steady stream of officers
whose intellectual training has gone
hand in hand with their military
training. 1t ensures the Colleges an
which will enable them to
carry on their work without the dis
location, and furnish the country with
the trained men who will be needed
during the war, and, just as urgently,
when the war is over.
If the carefully matured plan of the
Secretary of War is to bear fruit it
must receive the support of the
Churches, the schools, and the press.
Without the cooperation of these
forces the disintegration of the Col
leges of the country will go on with
rapidity. Clergymen through their
churches and church papers, superin-
tendents and principals of high
schools with their knowledge Of the
on which Colleges de-
pend, and editors with the machinery
of moulding public opinion always to
hand, can, in the words of President
urge upon young people who
are leaving our high schools that as
many of them as can do so avail them
selves this year of the opportunities
offered by the colleges and technical
schools to the end that the country
may not lack an adequate supply of
trained men and women"
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MINNEAPOLIS RED CROSS

front-lined pads, 681 2x2 wipes, 58S
applicators. Sc swivel bandages. Av-
erage workers, 45, producing 1890
pieces.
Incarnation center: 80 pair hand
knit socks, / hand-knit sweater; in
gauze, 524 11x12 front-lined pads, 8S3
2X2 wipes.
st. Lawrence center: 300 comfort
bags, 300 housewives" SO pair hand
knit socks, 70 pair hand-fnished ma
chine-knit socks, hand-knit afghan,
l hand-knit sweater.
st. Joseph center: II pajama suits,
3 hand-knit sweaters, 40 pair hand
knit socks; in gauze, 1860 tampons,
1000 2x2 wipes, 300 1x1S packings.
Number of workers, IS.
st. Stephens center: 36 bath robes,
36 pajama suits, 36 helpless case shirts,
"a under shirts, Sc hand-knit socks, "a
hand-fnished machine-knit socks in
the gauze section, 5000 tampons and
ESQ 11x12 pads.
st. Thomas center: 300 comfort
bags, 800 housewives" II pajama
suits, AZ pair hand-knit socks, 2 hand
knit sweaters; in gauze: 1900 tam
pons, 4,050 SKA congresses, $50 2x2
wipes, 70 packings. Number of work
ers, 317, hours of work, "a.
Robbinsdale: 36 bed shirts, IL pa
jana suits, 20 pair hand-knit socks.
Number of workers, 20.
st. Clements center has been work
ing steadily but we have been unable
to secure report for this issue
A few of the centers were able to
resume their work during the month
of May and the reports at hand for
that month, are as follows:
The Pro-Cathedral center: 1878
11x12 pads, 1870 1x18 packings, 1850
2x2 wipes, 5,811 SKA congresses, 1904
tampons.
st. Thomas center: 8,782 SKI COM
presses, 1855 tampons, "a scultetus,
"a helpless case shirts. There were
429 workers, with the hours of work,
48.
The Incarnation center: In gauze
SOULFUL, o04 1IAl1 swivel pdQS, Z4I
AKA congresses, 234 SKA congresses,
500 2x2 wipes; in the sewing depart
ment, 48 bed jackets, 4S operating
gowns lac andeS shirts. SO haud-knit
socks. This center closed May IA so
that the articles produced represent
the work of two weeks only. All allot-
ments for June we're too light to match
the patriotic zeal of the women. For
example, the gauze workers of the st.
Stephens unit completed their allot-
ment by June 13, and many of them
joined with the other sections to work
on the knitted articles and other gar
ments.
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theological seminaries to men of wide
They will see hard service, and the
physical examination which they are
obliged to pass is as strict as that OF
the men.
Great Britain has a method Of in
structing her Chaplains, but it is not
a regular school, with schedule of
duties of hours and duties like that
in this country. The instruction is
given in England by one expedienced
Chaplain, who supervises the new
Chaplains who are \already at work in
the cantOnments and barracks.
1t is because America has been SO
little of military nation that so much
military training is required. With
the reorganization of the army, regi!
ments being enlarged from approX-
mately 1900 men to a regiment to
$500, more Chaplains are needed for
regiment. One Chaplain was pro-
vided for the smaller regiment and he
could not well serve the nearly tripled
number of men. The National Cath
olic War Council and the Federal
Council of Churches of America,
which represents all Protestant de-
nominations, took action in this mat
ter, petitioned for an increase in the
number of Chaplains, suggesting bill
for restoring the proportion. It was
only on May 27 that the President
affixed his signature to this important
measure.
Even with that increase in the num-
Der of its Chaplains the United States
will have a smaller number than Great
Britain, which allows one Chaplain
for every 500 men, and does not con-
slider this enough in cavalry regi-
ments.
Never before has such emphasis
been laid upon the morale of an army
as factor in achieving victory, and
never before has the spiritual welfare
of the soldiers received SO much at
tention. These things have all been
important in bringing about school
for Chaplains which, taking men of
breadth and character in the first
place, will develop them to fill the re-
| quirements made upon them.
As with the rockies" the Chaplain
! in, his training camp turns out of bed
when the bugle blows reveille at G:15
o'clock. He takes a half hours set
| ting-up drill and lines up with cup
and plate, at Gas for tho regular
army mess. Class work, after mess,
includes instruction in military law.
military customs, international law,
French, military hygiene, first aid and
general lectures on recreational and
amusement work. In the afternoon
there is military drill and instruction
in horsemanship.
| Gq0Rtipued % Page 50
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Pope Thanks Hierarchy

Pope Benedict has written to Cardi-
nal Bello, the Patriarch of Lisbon, and
the Bishops of Portugal praising their
constancy and devotion during the
trials and sufferings which have talien
to their lot in recent years, and con-
graduating them on the present pros
poets of better times in the near fu-
ture. The Spanish Nuncio, who is
now i'll Lisbon on special mission,
has paid visit to the president of the
republic, who expressed his gratitude
for the continued goodwill manifested
towards Portugal by the Holy See.
The Nuncio also gave expression to a
desire that the Portuguese govern
ment should renew diplomatic rela-
tions with the Vatican.
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FOR CATHOLIC FLIERS
BRITISH AIRMEN INVOKE PRoTEc.
TIoN OF ST. MICHAEL.

The Guild of st. Michael, recently
founded under the auspices OF Cardi-
nal Bourne, is a guild for Catholic air.
men of every branch of the British
royal air force. Members of the new
guild wear the medal of st. Michael.
and promise to invoke the great Arch
angel every day and especially before
flying. One of the duties recommend
ed is the recitation of the beautiful
prayer said daily after low Mass:
Holy Michael Archangel, defend US
in the day of battle" AS the men,
bership of the guild increases there
is some probability that American air.
men who are Catholics will be invited
to become members.
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WORK OF CATHOLIC PARISHES
NTINUES-REPORT FOR JUNE
SHOWS. SUSTAINED INTEREST,"
RECORD OF EACH PARISH.

The Catholic Red Cross of Mime
apolis, in it's report for the month of
June, reveals the persevering zeal
with which the workers continue their
patriotic tasks. After the long delay
caused by the scarcity of materials
the various units reorganized with
many new members and, with the
same steady industry as in mid-winter,
resumed their labors of love. In the
knitting section, 651 pieces were
made; in the garment section, 1910
pieces, and in the gauze section, 60,651
pieces.
The Pro-Cathedral center reports for
June in the knitting section, 13 hand
knit sweaters, lis pairs hand-knit
socks; in the gauze section, 1,O12
11x12 front-lined pads, 6,755 SKA COM
presses, 1915 tampons, 1915 2x2
wipes. The number of workers in
this section was $50 and the number
of pieces produced, 1857.
st. Anthony's center: In the knit
ting section, II pair hand-knit socks;
in the garment section, go bath robes;
in the gauze section, 1900 2x2 wipes,
5000 AKA congresses. The average
number of workers was 68.
Ascension center: Gauze section,
5000 tampons, 5000 2x2 wipes, 1000
applicators; in knitting section, so
pair hand-knit socks. Average num-
ber of workers, 70.
st. Boniface center: Gauze section,
2,200 SKA congresses; in knitting, Sc
pair hand-knit socks. Average num-
ber of workers, so.
st. Bridget center: So pair hand
knit socks.
st. Elizabeth center: 20 pajama
suits. Number of workers, 15
The French parishes: 40 pajama
suits; in gauze section, 800 11x12 alb
sorbent pads; 2,775 applicators, 100
AKA wipes, 2,450 2x2 wipes. Average
number of workers, so.
Holy Cross center: 60 pajama suits.
Average number of workers, 20.
holy Name center: SO pajama
suits, 4S comfort kits, Il hand-knit
socks.
Holy Rosary: 36 helpless kits, "a
pajama suits, II hospital shirts, II
bed shirts, II pair hand-knit socks;
in gauze, 2,7O5 2x2 wipes, 1876 11x12
front-lined pads, 80 swivel bandages.
Average workers, "a, producing 1882
pieces.
st. Helena center: "a bath robes,
% pajama suits; in gauze, 35 11x12
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-07-13
Wayside Crosses in England


News comes from London that
Protestant "Wayside Cross Society"
has been organized, with Lord Shaftes-
bury as its president to set UP cruel
fixes throughout England, to revive the
faith and cheer the spirit of the peo-
pie in the midst of their sorrows and
sufferings due to the great war. The
shrines to be found on highways
throughout France and Belgium, and
the consolation derived by the faith
full who openly pray there for Divine
help and grace, have made a profound
impression on the soldiers from Great
Britain.
England once had such crossroads
crucifixes That was when all its in
habitants were Catholics.
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A document of the graveSt impor
tance to all who are interested in say.
ing higher education in the present
crisis and in securing for the service
of the country men of greatest value
to the Army and Navy has recently
been issued by the Secretary of War.
1t calls attention to the alarming de-
pletion of Colleges by the indiscrimi-
nate volunteering of students under
military age, and warns against the
disastrous consequences that must
accrue from it. So rapid and ex-
haustfve is this depletion that unless
1T is promptly checked it will cripple
the machinery of higher education
throughout the country and work
serious detriment to every department
of public life, professional, industrial
and military, The Army will be the
first to suffer, because it is in the
Colleges the Government has found
the thousands of young men whose
training constituted them it's most
valuable military asset. 1t is of the
utmost Importance to the Government
and to the country at large that the
Colleges should continue to supply in
growing numbers young men whose
education renders them fit for leader
ship. If consequences of the most
serious import to the vital interests
of the country are to be averted, it is
imperative that public opinion should
be awakened to the dangers resulting
from the dislocation Of higher educa-
ton.
In order to stem the exodus from
Colleges, and to encourage young men
to prepare themselves by higher edu-
cation for the duties and opportunities
of service created by the war, the
Secretary of War has proposed to
establish military training units in all
Colleges in which at least one hundred
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-07-13
Gift to the Missions
RESIDENT OF MAPLE LAKE, MINI,
MAKES GENEROUS OFFERING.

Mr.. Owen Daily, pioneer of Mime
sofa and resident of Maple Lake,
Wright county, for over fifty-five years,
this week made an Offering of one
thousand dollars to the work of the
Society for the Propagation of the
Faith. The gift of Mr.. Daily, consist
ing of two Liberty bonds of the first
issue, will constitute fund for the
education of native priests in mission
countries. The interest on the founda-
tion will pay the yearly expenses of
a candidate for the holy Priesthood
in any of the seminaries of the Far
East
1t is hoped that the action of this
generous Catholic man, in coming to
the assistance of the missions in their
hour of great distress, will inspire 9th.
er Catholics of means with desire
to do likewise. This latest founda-
tion will be known as the Owen Daily
Burse.
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of priests from different parts of the
Northwest.
Father Leduc was born at Evron,
France, on April 80, 1912. At the age
of eighteen he joined the Oblates of
Mary Immaculate and two years later
made his religious profession. He
was then sent to Canada, where he
was ordained at Ottawa on December
2, 1864. After year spent among the
lumbermen on the upper Ottawa
River he left Montreal, on April 25,
1865, for st. Boniface, going thence to
Pembina, n. D., where he remained
until the spring of 1867, when, accom-
panied by Father Tissot, he set out for
the missions of the Northwest and
arrived in st. Albert in the winter of
1868. When Father Tissot was called
to st. Boniface by Bishop Tache, Fa-
ther Leduc took charge of the mission
and had the happiness of welcoming
it's first Bishop, Right Reverend Vital
]. Grandin, O. M. l., who took posses
sion of the See in 1871. Father Leduc
was appointed a COnsultor and
Procurator under the new regime.
From 1874 to 1877, Father Leduc was
stationed at Lac La Biche as Superior
and Procurator of the District of Mac
kenzie At the end of the term he
was named Superior of the Com
munity at st. Albert and was a dele
gate to the General Chapter of the
Oblate Order in France in 1879. In
1888, he was appointed Vicar General
of the Diocese of st. Albert and re-
tanned the Office during Bishop Gran
din's lifetime, as well as under his
successor, the present Archbishop of
Edmonton.
In 1885, Father Leduc was placed
in charge of the District of Calgary
where he built St. Mary's Church, the
present Cathedral. On his appoint
ment, in 1896, to the pastorate of the
then parish of Edmonton, he began
| the erection of st. Joachim's Church
of which he retained charge until
1904, when he returned to st. Albert
to reside with the Bishop. When the
See of st. Albert was raised to the
archiepiscopal dignity in 1912, and
transferred to Edmonton, with Bishop
Legal as first Metropolitan, Father
Leduc still continued to act as Vicar
| General and Procurator and in these
positions continued to give evidence
of that executive ability which made
him SO valuable an assistant to the
| Bishops whom he served so faithfully
in the administration of the diocese.
In the History of the Catholic
Church in Central Alberta" written a
few years ago, we find the following
tribute to Father Leduc: :" Father
Leduc, the same alert, shrewd, vigor
Gus organizer as ever still planning
with bold, mastery conception, yet
with all a fine grasp of details, and
managing, as he has done for forty
years, the financial affairs of the dio
cese as. its honored Vicar General. Te
his skillful administration the mission
and town of st. Albert stand today &
lasting memorial. and who shall say
how much Edmonton and so many
| more of the various missions OF the
i Continued on page S..
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The American Army Chaplain must
know his Manual of Tactics as we'll
as his theology. He must be able to
sit a horse and to undergo the eX-
posure and strain of trench life. He
must be soldier as we'll as an evan
gel and spiritual counselor; and so
there has been established at Camp
Zachary Taylor, Louisville, KY, the
only educational institution of it's kind
in the world, SO far as can be learned
"a school for Chaplains. It's pupils
represent eighteen denominations, and
they are hale and hearty lot.
In addition to the Catholics, the
Presbyterians, the Baptists, the Meth
odists and representatives of other
better-known Protestant creeds, there
are a. few Latter Day Saints and mem
bers of the Christian (Campbellite)
Church; and there are three negroes,
an Episcopalian, Methodist, and a
Congregational preacher.
Graduates of this school and all the
Chaplains of the army are now to be
under one general head-Bishop
Charles Henry Brent of the Protes-
tant Episcopal Church of the diocese
of Western New York, having recent
ly been appointed to that Office. The
appointment of Bishop Brent to this
position is the latest development in
the work of organizing the Chaplains
of the army He has under him two
assistants, one Protestant and one
Catholic, the Rev. Paul Dwight Moody,
Chaplain of the 1O3d Infantry, who is
a son of the late Dwight l.. Moody,
and the Rev. Father Francis B. Do
herty, Chaplain of the Sd Cavalry.
The head of the school at Camp Zach,
ary Taylor is Major A. A. Pruden
Chaplain of the Coast Artillery
Corps, formerly at Fort Monroe, and
who has seen service at Hawaii
There have been 5000 volunteers
for the service of Chaplain since the
United States went into the war, ant
now the men arc selected by what i,
called the hand-picking process. ThcJ
come in through recommendation By
their denominations. and man whC
is apparently fitted for the army worl
but may feel that his home duties are
too Important to leave has arrange
mems made to relieve him. The me1
must be under AS years of age, ant
they range from recent graduates Q
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SISTERS ALTER GARB
CATHOLIC HOSPITAL SISTERS
MAKE CHANGE in GOWNS.

Members of the Catholic Hospital
Association, including 500 mothers
general and mothers superior, repre-
senting half the hospital capacity of
the United States and Canada, at their
convention in Chicago, voted to adopt
washable uniform with a curtailed
veil when attending the sick instead
of the cloth gown now worn by the
Sisters. While washable gowns are
worn by Sisters at present in clinical
work, the wells attached to these uni
forms have been declared by surgeons
to be undesirable. The change in
gowns will be made subject to sane
tion of ecclesiastical authorities. They
are to be in keeping with the spirit
and traditions of the various orders
and congregations.
The association pledges itself to
urge all surgeons connected with Cath
olic hospitals to qualify as soon as
possible for membership in the Ameri-
can College of Surgeons
Another resolution adopted called
on all members of the association to
become registered nurses and to es-
tablish training schools wherever pos
sible. The Sisters pledged themselves
to extend the system Of case records,
to improve laboratories and ito bring
about as soon as possible the scientific
training of our Sisters as technicians
of all kinds of anaesthetics, dietitians,
record keepers and social service ex-
perts."
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$l75,OOO Gift for School

The trustees and faculty of Mary
mount School at TarrytoWn, n. Y,
conducted by the religious of the Sa-
cred Heart of Mary, have been so en-
corraged by the marked success of
their educational system that they
have decided to develop still further
in a college course the distinctive
methods which have characterized
their principles of teaching.
Mr.. James Butler, to whom Mary
mount owes her existence, has made
this possible by the additional gift of
an adjoining property on the Castle
Ridge Section of Tarrytown, compris.
ing three buildings and over twenty
acres, costing $175,O00.
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New Episcopal Residence

The archdiocese of st. Paul has pur-
chased new episcopal residence at
226 Summit avenue, opposite the new
Cathedral The house was originally
the home of Amherst H. Wilder, the
st. Paul philanthropist. The residence
was obtained from the A. H. Wilder
estate for the consideration of $50, 900.
The Most Reverend Archbishop ex-
poets to move into the new home in
the very near future.