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The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-08-17

may be found in the varied walks of
life, in the settled or uncultivated re-
gions, in the hut or in the palace, the
models are to be discovered that shall
serve humanity as pattern of heav-
emily eligibility.
We beg to discern, possibly some
difference between the idea enter
tanned by the Christ-mind and the
rooted convictions concerning the edu-
cation of the young which possess the
soul of certain contemporary author
tiles who dictate policies a2 school
development. In these days of dem
ocratic trend one would least look to
find any plan of human progress run
ming counter to the dominant prepos-
sessions. Where the cry of equality
rings down the corridors of the
world, so important an issue, and
one so freighted with human well-be-
ing as educational cultivation could
hardly be thought immune to the
sentiments which everywhere appear
to prevail. But even to the casual
student it must be evident that in
educational circles, more particularly
in the recent experience of our own
country, there seems to be a growing
inclination, in spite of fair verbal pro-
testations to the contrary, to question
the democratic claims and to urge
some hesitation in the acceptance of
the belief that there need be no
human classifcations along funda-
mental lines. This is neither the time
nor the place to drift deeply into the
examination of certain schemes that
self-interested men have recently at
tempted to foist, and in places with
success, upon the educators of the ma
ton. Starting with the thoroughly n-
democratic prejudice that there must
be masters and serfs, the while they
urge others on to battle for an equal
ity in which they have never believed,
they espouse educational suggestions,
that never emanated from minds sym
pathetic to the American gospel of an
equal chance for all. They would see
to it that children should be trained
according to the conditions into which
they have been fitted by the DEGREES
of these masters of mortal destiny.
The son of a slave must not be free; ;
the daughter of domestic must not
aspire beyond the ambitions of her
mother: the scholar must be broken
to the yoke afterwards to be borne,
and any opposition to such proposals
are ranked with heresies by the in
spirers of the educational doctrine
now widely held.
IF, In the Guardian.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-08-17
RECOLLECTIONS OF SISTER
CLAIRE.

News was recently received at
Maryknoll of the death of humble
mission Sister in China, a member of
the English nobility, who had sacri-
feed her life as a martyr of charity
in caring for the pestilence-stricken
refugees of the inundation at Client
ing-fu. The Superior of Maryknoll
the Very Rev. James A. Walsh, sends
the following interesting recollections
of her to America:
On a recent journey through China
from Peking to Hankow, the writer
stopped over at walled city called
Chenting-fu. This city is about a
mile from station and is reached
either by foot or by springless cart
across trackless land. 1t has just
emerged from the flood, and inside
the gate mud and water made difficult
our passage through the narrow
streets, lined with novels and filled
with thousands of staring Chinese.
Away from the crowds, though yet
within the walls, was the Catholic
mission compound, stone-encircled
also, and in one corner of the COM
pound some white-cornetted Sisters of
Charity were struggling successfully
to meet the many needs of those whom
God sent to them.
I had expected to find at Chenting-
fu, among these Sisters of Charity, a
Sister Claire, with whom | had had
occasional correspondence covering a
period of fifteen years, but | learned
that she had been recently transferred
to a point much further south. Sister
Claire had left behind her, however,
some aching hearts and a void that
! that every one seemed to feel. But
que voulez vouz ?-There was a spe-
cial need elsewhere and Sister Claire
had to fill it whether she liked it or
no and whether others liked it or no
| Those, then, who were left shrugged
their shoulders slightly when | spoke
of Sister Claire and said, "Ah, she
was so lovable-we miss her very
much, but-Gods will you know"
A few weeks later | met Sister
Claire on the border of the Yangtse
River, at Kin Kiang, where | was for.
tunate enough in passing by boat from
Hankow to Shanghai, to have chance
to remain a few hours. She was at
the hospital, large establishment fo1
Europeans and Chinese, that would
look hardly out of place in any of our
American cities, and as she entered
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-08-17

turtles earlier had given to their an
cestors as distinctive marks of the
true priest of Jesus Christ-sacer-
dotal virginity, worship of Mary,
obedience to the Pope.
ION Friday, March II, 1865, about
half an hour after noon, fifteen per-
sons arrived at the entrance of the
opened the preceding month by the
Fathers of the Foreign Missions from
Paris. The poor people seemed per.
picked. They were gazing at the
cross and wished to see the interior
of the church. Father Petitjean
afterwards the first Bishop of Maya
saki, opened the door and let them
enter, and then went himself to kneel
before the tabernacle.
HE had not said an Our Father
when three old women came and knelt
beside him, and one of them, with heI
hand upon her breast, said:
"'Our heart is the same as yours
Really exclaimed the Father
Where do you come FROM?
1--WE come from Urakami. At IRA
kami almost all have the same heart
as we.'
Then she added this question
whose every syllable deserves to be
repeated without any change:
Santa Maria no go 20 wa doko'
Where is the image of the Holy Mary ?
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-08-17

"The astounded missionary, master
ing his emotion and joy with difficulty,
led them to a statue of Our Lady.
The pilgrims recognized it immedi-
ately, and, filled with Joy, they fell
upon their knees and murmured, Holy
Mary! Her worshipful Son, Jesus!'
Is this not says the present ven
cradle Bishop of Nagasaki, a touch
ing verification in fact of faith in the
Blessed Virgin as the Mother of Di-
vine Grace? 1t was she who made
Jesus known to- these poor abandoned
people. (The statue spoken of in
this account now stands in the Cattle
dral of Nagasaki, and is known as La
Verge de la Trouvaille (The Virgin
of the Discovery, because, as Father
Mertens says, 1T was through it that
the Christians of the seventeenth
century recognized the Catholic mis-
sionaries of the nineteenth"
Queens Work
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-08-17
CATECHtSTS IN AFRICA GIVE SAT-.
ISFAcTIoN.

Father Dantin, La Salette mission
airy and Project Apostolic of Betafo,
says he believes in reaching the blacks
increased his school of catechists in
order to take a dozen or SO more
each year. 1t is thought that these
native teachers will make excellent
substitutes for the missionaries who
have been called away. The, cate
chists chosen for the work are Sc
lected from thousand applicants and
are young men showing aptitude for
study and great piety. Most Of them
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-08-17

are daily communicates. They pray
also for those benefactors whose boun-
ty gives them each day their daily
rice. 1t is thanks to such outside help
that the work is pursued.
New Britain herald., 1918-01-07
KEEILER WESLEYAN CAPTAIN.
Winner of 'W'' in Four Sports Chosen
 Basketball Leader.

Middletown, Jan. 7.-Richard J. Keeler of Wayzata, Minn., has been elected captain of the Wesleyan bas- ketball team. He is a junior and member of the Chi Psi fraternity. He won his letter at forward on the tea m last year. ell was last fall varsity football quarterback. keeler has won his letter in four sports-track, ten his. basketball and football.
 No other Wesleyan athlete has won four letters in different sports since Arthur E. Dearborn, 1906, who was the discus thrower for the American team at the Olympic games in Ath- ems, gained the distinction. Dearborn is now in France with Pershing's army.
New Britain herald., 1918-01-07
BARS BASEBALL GOODS
Bats and Balls Are Considered "Use- less Toys" by Italian OfficiaIS-Am- bassador Page Appeared to.

Rome, Jan. 7.-Baseballs and bats are useless toys" is the dictum pro- nounced by the Italian customs au- thorities in placing a ban on the inn portation of these articles for Amer jeans in Italy. Recently the Amer jeans purchased the few bascballs available here, and then ordered more from the United States. There also is a shortage of bats, not one now in use being unbroken.
 Thomas N. Page, the American am bassador, has been petitioned to se- cure an exemption of baseball equip ment from the recent law against the importation of all luxuries or un- necessary articles. It is claimed the game is necessary to maintain the health of the Americans.
New Britain herald., 1918-01-07
STORM PREVENTS MEETING
Baseball Magnates Unable to Reach Cincinnati on Account of BliZzarG- Will Convene Tomorrow.

Chicago, Jan. 7.-The meeting of the National Baseball Commission set for today at Cincinnati was postponed last night until Tuesday, because of a severe snow storm which prevented the prompt arrival of club owners and commission members, it was an- nounced by B. B. Johnson.
 MT. Johnson and Charles Weegh- man, president of the National league club, were unable last night to get transportation to Cincinnati.
 The schedule committee of both or ganizations will convene just before the meeting tomorrow. Secretary John A. Heydler and Barney Dreyfuss of Pittsburgh will arrange the Ma tional league dates. while President Ban Johnson and Secretary William Harridge will take care of the Amerl- can league end of the schedule.
New Britain herald., 1918-01-07

that comparison -BcSS12
 5the official earned run ratingNs
 The value of rating pitchers on tho
 latter system is again demonstrated. #Basing the effectiveness of a pitcher
 solely on games won and lost, it would &show the champion New Torks head J #ing the list with three r1en-Schupp, &Sallce and Perxi1t--and in addition two more of it's pitchers among the first ten. The carncd-run records, Hhowercr. show in good measure the eff &fecti veness of other pitchers, reE1lrd~ Hess of where their respective clubs #fiDished in the race. Schneider, of #Cincinnati. for illustration, barely won #Tnore games than he lost; yet IS rated fourth in the official standing with an # #earned-run ayerag ge of 1.97. As far as Y figures can tell. he suffered hy reason of poor fielding support at critical # stages of some of his games; for 53 & of the 12S runs scored off him were & made after chances had been offered
 to retire the side. An opposite case
 was that of Meadows, of St. Louis,
 ya+ed Sth in games won and lost and
 o6th in the oficial-all due to the fact that 91 of the 99 runs scored off him during the season were earned. Phil DougIaS. of Chicago, pitched in the greatest number of games-51. #-fOl!0wcd hv Barnes of Boston. With 30 Alexander scored most shut-OutS (S). and he also led in complete games 8 pitched with 35. Alexander led the I right flanders in strike-outs with 20t out of 1,531 batsmen facing him. Vaughn, of Chicago, led the left-hand CTS with the higher percentage of 195 strike outs out of 1,216 chances. In consecutive victories, Sallee and Schneider tied with a run of nine < games each, the former making his record from June 30th to August | 9th, and the latter during the winning
 streak of Cincinnati from June 9th to < July 26th.
 Two victories in one afternoon were scored July 1st by Toney. of Cincin-
 nati, against Pittsburgh; on September Sd, by Alexander, of Philadelphia, against Brooklyn: and on September 18th, by Doak. of St. Louis, also against Brooklyn.
 The outstanding pitching feature of the 1917 Season--if not of modern baseball histOry-was the game played in Chicago May 2d. when Toney, of Cincinnati, and Vaughn, of Chicago, went nine innings without allowing a esafe hit to either side. Tn the tenth
 Vaughn allowed two hits, losing the
 game 1 to O. Toney, however, con- tinued unhitable and pitched the only no-hit game of the Nationals 1917 season.
New Britain herald., 1918-01-07
FOOTBALL STARS TO FLY.
Fifteen Newport Naval Reserves Have
 Gone Into Aviation.

Newport R.. l.. Jan. 7.-Fifteen mem bers of the Second Naval District football squad-Cupid Blacks famous aggregation of pigskin chaserS-have gone into the aviation serVlce ana are at present learning to fly. They are Gardner, McAllister, Pennock, Hito, Green, Sweetland, Higgenbo- tham, Haas, Flward O'Keefe, Quig- ley, Hutchinson, Callahan, Purdy and Murphy.
 Of the others who composed the souad Barrett and Cherrish have earned commissions as ensigns and have left Newport; Black and Trier are in the merchant marine officers school and Schlichter, J. Dunn. w. Dunn and Burns are in the school for officers.
New Britain herald., 1918-01-07
PLANNING MORE DEALS.
weeehmans Next Will Eclipse Others
 Is Claim of Mitchell

Chicago. Jan. 7.-The deals which brought Alexander and Killifer from Philadelphia and Tyler from Boston to the Chicago Nationals will be eclipsed by one President Weeghman now is planning, acOrding to Mana ger Mitchell. Mitchell says the $250,- poo with which Weeghman started out to buy a championship team is not nearly exhausted and that the biggest trade of the season will be announced In a few days.
 While he would not indicate who was concerned, it was intimated that negotiations for Roger HOrnSby, ghortstop of the St. Louis Nationals, were still under way.
New Britain herald., 1918-01-07
vENTRES CONQUERS {
 NORWEGIAN CHAMP
Berlin Blacksmith Gets Revenge for Recent Defeat by Peterson

Ava Fentres proved to the satis- iactlon of about 200 wrestling en- IhuSlaStS Saturday evening in Turner ! nall, that he is one of the best mid- dleWelght mat performers in this sec- uon or the country, by decisiveN beating Albert Peterson, for several years. champion of Norway, and grappler of the first water variety The bout the third one in which both
 men had participated in this city, was a WhirWlnd affair from start to finish. At times both men resorted to rough tactics. When Referee Bacon called the men together in the center of the ring, for instructions. Peterson announced his weight at 157 pounds and Ventres at 132 pounds very little fOrmality was indulged in by the s1ai piers, and after the first minute could be seen that a long hard fought battle was bound to ensue. Time and again, each wrestler Woud find him. felf caught in what appeared to be unbreakable holds, but in some manner they would manage to oxtricate them- selves. Finally after 33 minutes had elapsed, FentTcs in releasing himself from a bad position secured on Peter son a deadly toe hold, and in order to prevent himself from serious in JIIN, tlS -N(IN NcS ian ShDtHllled IO lHe first fall. II was several minutes be- fCre he was able to resume wrestling. During the rest in the dressing room. Peterson proclaimed Fentres as one If the best middleweight wrestlers be has ever encountered. and predicted a bright future for him. Peterson started off On the aggressive when the3' match was resumed. but Ventres proved just a trifle better, and man. aged to place both shoulders to the mat in 1850 with a head lock ands1 crotch hold. The victor was rendered sj an ovation as he left the ring. m
 Marry Mamas of Hartford, billed to meet Jack Raymond, failed to put in an appearance, and Marvin Reed Of Middletown was substituted only to be downed in 7.51 with a body scissors
 Gustave Chovey of Hartford was unable to keep his date with Pat Mccarthy, due to a previous call from Uncle Sam and in his stead "Kid19 Benjamin of Plainville went on. The PlainVille boy was beaten, but not be- fore he had demonstrated that he rs able to give a good account of hln-i self A friend at the ringside volun- teered the information that Benjamin had only left a sick bed Saturday morning, after an attack of ptomaine5 poisoning In view of this it may be said that the Kid is one gamer little fellow. A full Nelson won for Mccarthy the first fall in 14 minutes while head hold proved BenjaniRs 4 undoing in the second fall, after 6 minut as wrestling.
 The curtain raiser was between Charles Gruve of New Haven and Giovanni Caslingo of Kensington, protege of Ventres. The Elm city lad scored first blood in minutes and the Kensington boy the second in z min- utes and 10 seconds. The bout re- suited in draw.
New Britain herald., 1918-01-07
STATE CHAMPIONS COMING
Middlctown Quinet to Meet Y. M. c. \. Team in This City Tomorrow Night-Dancing to Follow.

The crack Middletown basketball five will furnish the attraction at the Y. M. C. A. tomorrow evening, when they line up against the association team at 8:30 o'clock. The visitors are unquestionably one of the fastest teams in this part of the country and have the honor of capturing the state cham pionship in 1916-17. In the line up of the visitors will be found such celebrities as, Ahern, McConochie, the Spear brothers, Salmonson, Schultz At the close of the contest dancing will be enjoyed There will be no prelim- mary game.
New Britain herald., 1918-01-07
PREPARING BOXING BILL.

New York, Jan. "A bill to legal ize boxing will be introduced in the Legislature of New York State early next week Assemblyman Martin C.. McCue today was busily engaged in sitting numerous SuGgeStoiOnS sub mitted to him for incorporation in a bill and he expects to have in hand q rouh draft of measure by next Fri day. He then will cal a meeting of those interested in the sport for the purpose of reducing the best ideas to concrete form.
New Britain herald., 1918-01-07
SAILORS WANT GAMES.

The United States Naval Reserves stationed at the Yale BoathOuse, New Haven, have organized a strong bas- ketball team and are anviOus to ar range games with fast teams in the state. Some of the leading High school and college stars of the past I:a.vc won places on the squad. All communications may be addressed to Manager Dieckmann, P. o. Drawer 30, Now Haven, Conn.
New Britain herald., 1918-01-07
TABERSkI STILL CHAMPION

Milwaukee, Wis, Jan. 7.-Franll Taberski successfully defended his title as pocket billiard champion of the world by defeating Ralph Greenleaf. 45O to 355, in a match here Saturday night. Greenleaf won last night $ block, 162 to 143, but could not over come Taberski's lead. Taberski now becomes Taberski's permanent owner of the pocket billiard emblem
New Britain herald., 1918-01-07
ADOPTS WAR SPORTS

Harvard Plans to Put Competitive
 Bayonet and Hand Grenade Teams
 in Field.
 Cambridge. Jan. 7.-HarVard adopt ed a wartime sport yesterday with the announcement that a bayonet team would be placed in the field this season and would meet Yale, Colum- bia and other colleges. Jules Leslabay, fencing coach, is to have charge of the new team which meets tomorrow at 3 o'clock for or ganizatOn. Ordinary rifles, wands and spring bayonets will be used in the practice sessions.
 If the intercollegiate outdoor track meet this spring includes a hand gre made throwing event, Harvard will start the organization of a team in each of these sports.
New Britain herald., 1918-01-07
TOO COLD TO PLAY CHESS.

Brooklyn, N. Y, Jan. 7.-Shortage of coal in Brooklyn caused the post ponement of the league chess match between Staten Island and Ocean Hill at the Boys Welcome hall, which was not heated. The teams agreed to meet at Stapleton next Saturday.
New Britain herald., 1918-01-07
ROGERS SHOOTS ACCURATELY

New York, Jan. 7.-Zachariah Rog- CTS equalled the club record or the New Rochelle Yacht club when he broke q straight string of 97 'p1rds' before he missed in the club $ week ly trap shoot yesterday. me per- for1nance was on a par Wlth Ihat oi A. l.. Burns, who set the marx LnlA season.
New Britain herald., 1918-01-07
INDIANS TRAINING PDaNS

Cleveland, Jan. 7.--James c. Dunn, president of the Cleveland baseball team. and Business Manager l.. s. Barnard have arranged. it was said Saturday for the Cleveland team to leave here Marci, 16 for their regular training grounds at New Orleans.
New Britain herald., 1918-01-07
Y. N. (. 4. ATHLETICS
First of Season AllArOund Events Held This Afternoon at Association Gymnasium.
Gymnasium.

The first of the all-around athletic cham pionship games at the Y. M. c. A. were staged this afternoon in the gymnasium with the High school boys class as the contenders. This evening the boys of the employed class A. will be the contestants, The events con- sist of the Hap run and the run ming high jump. On Friday evening the members of the employed class E will contest and on Saturday after noon the junior class will compete.
New Britain herald., 1918-01-07
SATURDAY NIGHT GAMES
Scnccas and Nut1negs Have Little Diff
 ficuity Downing the RamblerS and
 Kamels in Opening League Games.
By Briggs

The first games in the Saturday night Basketball league, were played Saturday evening at the Y. NJ. C. A. The curtain raiser brough together, the SenecaS and the RamblerS, with cery damagin results to the latter five, score A to s. kopf was the big scorer for the victors, tallying Y points. A Peterson scored six of the points for the losers.
 The "big'' game of the evening was between the Nutmegs and the Kamels, the former quintet being victorious, score "A to 15. Kallfiren at center for the Nutmegs put up a stellar game.
 The lineups and sumaries follow: SENECAS IRA MBLE RS NOrfeldt .. A. Peterson
New Britain herald., 1918-01-07
HFINTE ZIM SIGNS.

New York, Jan. 7.-Heinie Zimm er- man, third baseman of the New York National League club, Saturday signed a contract for the 1918 season.
New Britain herald., 1918-01-07

A fair skater playing tennis on ice skates at the rink of the Hotel Bilt- more, N. Y. Ice tennis is fast becom- ing popular. The players wear skates with spiked edges enabling them to stop quickly.
 A regulation tennis court is laid out upon the ice and the lines are marked with paint which does not affect the equilibrium of the players as they skate over them.
New Britain herald., 1918-01-07

Score, Nutmegs A, Kamels 15: goals from field, Reynolds, Miller 4, Kall- gren 5, Stepanian, Hannon 3, Jones }, Donnelly, Ginsburg; goals from foul, Miller, Stepanian, Jones; referee, Slater; scorer, Sandberg: timer, Olson
New Britain herald., 1918-01-07
 Y QUINTET HERE TOMORROW WAR
BOWLING STANDINGS
Office and Drill Room Teams of Skin- ner Chuck Company Tied For First PIacc-StanICY Works Standing.

The statistics of the Skinner Chuck company and the Stanley Works bowl ing leagues at the close of the past week arc as follows:
New Britain herald., 1918-01-07
Skinner Chuck League.

BOWerS-334. Tool RoOm-345. Tool ROOnl-S91.
 A Irn H~n rnca
New Britain herald., 1918-01-07

Score, Senecas 23, Rambers &; goals from field, Kopf Norfeldt, Abrahamson, Kelley 2, A. Peterson, Banner; goals from fouls, Kopf }, Norfeldt, A. Peterson 4. NUTTMEGS KAMEJ $ Reynolds ................ Hannon
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