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The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-08-17
DOMAIN OF TEMPERANCE
ALCOHOL HINDERs IMMUNITY.

Professor Woodhead has clearly
shown that alcohol prevents the estab-
lishment of immunity. A word OF eX-
PLANTATION may be necessary. When
child is attacked by diphtheria in the
midst of family of children, health
officer comes and administers anti
toxin to the stricken child. And not
only the sick child is treated with the
anti-toxin, but the we'll children also,
it having been found that If the anti
toxin is administered to those who
have not yet contracted the disease,
a condition of immunity-that is, pro-
lection against the attack of the dlph-
iberia germ-may be established
against lockjaw, hydrophob1a ana
other fatal disorders.
According to Woodhead, expert
ments have been made with various
animals which demonstrate that i'm
munity cannot be established in an
animal which is under the influence
of alcohol The reason for this is
because alcohol not only lessons the
resistance of the body, but also
destroys it's power to fortify it.
self against the attacks of germs
and germ poisons. Sir Thomas
Barlow, of London, England, calls
attention to the fact that the
| conditions produced by the frequent
administration of alcohol to fever pa
tients are precisely the same as those
produced by the "nipping of an in
ohrio TO Tn OF 40
fever patient is made drunk, and in
this cor.lition the ability of the body
cells to fight against the invading
germs that produce the fever is les
sened, and the mortality is necessarily
| increased.
One of the most important means
| by which the body defends itself
against infection is the action of the
white cells of the blood which capture
| and destroy the invading organisms.
After infection occurs, these cells rap
| idly increase in number and the re-
sistance set up by the body is chiefly
measured by the rate at which the
white cells increase.
| Alcohol Increases Mortality in Fever.
The death rate under the old meth
| cd of treating typhoid fever and pneu-
| monia was from twenty to thirty per
| cent. That is, twenty to thirty out of
every hundred died. Since the use of
alcohol has been lessened and water
and other physiologic remedies have
| been substituted, the mortality from
| typhoid fever has been reduced to
| three to five per cent. In fact, an
eminent German physician has report
| ed a series of one thousand cases of
| typhoid fever treated by the new meth
cd without single death; and in a
series of twelve thousand cases the
mortality was scarcely three per cent.
| Think of alcohol, In twelve thou
| sand cases at least two thousand
more would have died if the old meth
Cd had been pursued. In this country
| the number of deaths from typhoid
| fever each year is about seventy-three
| thousand. II alcohol were dispensed
| with how many thousand might be
saved. In view of these facts no in
telligent physician can be justified in
| prescribing alcohol as a remedy for
tebrlle diseases j. II. KeRo. o, D.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-08-17

self, and only religion has made
obedience to law sacred to the in
dividual who lives where men are
free. -
The spirit Of war seems to have
loosened the principle of law OBJ
servance i'll various places. Pa
triotism often has been invoked to
eXculpate violators of the plain
law of God and man. SO far had
this state of affairs progressed
that in his statement on July p
President Wilson declared:
Il say plainly that every Ameri-
can who takes part in the action
Of mob or gives any sort of
countenance is no true son of this
great democracy, but it's betrayer,
and does more to discredit her by
that single disloyalty to her stand
ards of law and right than the
words of her statesmen or the
sacrifices of her heroic boys in the
trenches can do to make suffering
peoples believe her to be their
savior How shall we commend
democracy to the acceptance of
other peoples if we disgrace our
own by proving that it is, after
all, no protection to the weak"
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-08-17
MISSIONARY TO CHINA
REV. BERNARD MEYER OF
STUART, A MARYKNOLL MIS-
sIONARY, GOES TO ORIENT.

Rev. Bernard Meyer of Stuart, Ia,
a priest of the Catholic Foreign Mis-
sion Society of America, will leave
September 6, for San Francisco, set
ting sail there for China, where he eX-
poets to complete his life work in the
Chinese missions.
Father Meyer has the distinction of
being the first member from Iowa of
this young but apostolic society estab-
lished at Maryknoll, Ossining, N. Y.
He was educated at st. Ambrose Col
lege from which he graduated with
high honors. His theological studies
he made at st. Mary's Seminary, Bal
timore, going to Maryknoll several
years ago to make preparation for the
foreign missions. He was ordained
at Maryknoll, December, 1916, by the
Bishop of the Des Moines diocese, Rt.
Rev Austin Bowling.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-08-17

Archbishop Mundelein says Of
the Catholic newspaper: A Cath
Ollie newspaper or journal is today
a necessity in the crowded centers
like our cities. as well as IN the
sparsely settled country districts.
1t is a necessary supplement to
the Catholic pulpit and to the
Catholic school. It is the one
means Of publicity we have for
correcting erroneous reports and
doctrines, for conveying needed
information on important topics
and events to our people and
through them to their non-Cath-
Ollie neighbors. 1t is the written
word of the Catholic press that
supports the spoken word from
the altar.
The editor of a Catholic paper
is in reality participating in a di-
vine mission, for he is sharing in
the priest s mission of teaching
even as the religious teaching the
little ones in the classroom, he is
teaching the grown-ups in their
homes and in their places of bust
ness, where his paper enters; he
helps to separate truth from error,
to bring light into dark places, to
champion the cause Of righteous
ness against its traducers.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-08-17
Received Their Commissions

Rev. George Tyson of Brooklyn, N
Y, has been commissioned and as
signed, as chaplain, to the National
Army Camp Wheeler, Ga.
Rev James w. Fitzpatrick of Hazel,
ton, Pa, assigned to Camp Wheeler
Ga.
Rev. Eugene l.. Sands, of Tusca-
loosa, Ala, to Camp Wheeler, Ga.
Rev. John H. Cotter, S. j., of Wash
ington, D. c., to Camp Humphreys
Va
Rev. Peter F. Egan of Jersey City
N. j., to Camp Colt, Gettysburg, Pa.
Rev. John S. Cuddy of Taneytown
Md, to Camp Meade.
Rev. VIM Stinson, S. j., of Philadel-
phia, to the SIND Pioneer Infantry
Camp Wadsworth, S. c..
Rev. VIM. T. McKenna of New York
to Camp Humphreys, Va.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-08-17
PRAYING FOR PEACE.

Now that the present war has
passed the fourth milestone, the
nations are beginning to realize
that wars, like scourges, cease on
ly through the mercy Of God. Re-
Gently the fourth anniversary Of
the great struggle was comment
GRATED in many parts OF the world
by the offering of prayers and
supplications to the Almighty.
France and Italy flocked about
their various shrines. Even Prot
estant England recognized the
need of divine mercy, and people
of all denominations offered fer
vent prayers for the restoration
of peace.
In America custom has been
introduced in many places which
seems to be founded on Catho-
lie practice, that of reciting the
Angelus. Each community has in
stituted it's own peculiar practice.
Thus, in Greenville, South Caro-
lima, every night at nine o'clock
the electric lights of the city are
flashed off for one minute as a
reminder Of the war situation, and
as call to prayer for victory of
our arms. In the National Capital
a siren at noon calls all the citi-
Zens to a few moments prayer
for the same purpose. In some
countries the custom has been in
troduced throughout the nation
of having all the people pause at
a certain fixed moment to pray
for victory and for the safety of
their fighting men.
Surely is it time that the ma
tions began to realize the true
nature Of war. These death-deal-
ing struggles are caused by the
perversity of men. Almighty God
then makes use Of them in order
to punish the peoples of the earth
for transgressions against His
divine law. st. Augustine says
that God uses a tyrant to punish
the sins of His people much in the
same way that father makes use
of switch to chastise a refractory
child When the Christening
process is completed, the tyrant,
like the switch, is cast aside and
destroyed. Much in the same way
does war serve the purpose of
Divine Justice: when this Justice
has been sufficiently appeased war
will cease. The. only known posi-
tive means for Fastening such a
consummation, devoutly to be
hoped for, is prayer, penance and
,supplicatiQn to the Divine Mercy.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-08-17

In Germany itself the Catholics
are still having their troubles.
The notorious German eX-Jesuit
and anti-Catholic Count Won
Hoensbroech has published a
pamphlet violently attacking the
German Chancellor Count Won
Hertling, whom he declares to be
unfit for his office in consequence
of being a Catholic and Center
Party Deputy. The leading Cath
Ollie paper of Bavaria, the Augs-
burger Postzeitumg, warns its
readers and the Catholics of Ger
many as a whole not to place too
much trust in the party-truce and
not to believe too willingly that
the spirit of persecution is dead.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-08-17
FROM A MAN WHO HAS HELD AND
LOST SIXTY-ONE JOBS.

My career as a whisky drinker be-
gan when | was about tWenty-three.
Today, at thirty-eight years of age,
me, mentally, morally, and physically:
Every position which | have at
tempted to hold since leaving college
has been lost through booze: 1t may
challenge belief, but it is a fact that
from 1903 up to the present year [
have held and lost just sixty-one diff
ferent connections, an average of
slightly over four per year, for an
average duration of three months for
each position. This average may be
considerably lessened when it is con-
sidered that of these fourteen years
two were spent in sanitariums, at an
average of six months in each, not to
speak of the periods during which |
made drinking a business which abb
sorbed my entire time and energy.
At the beginning of my acquain-
lance with booze | was an amateur
athlete of ability, my morals were
correspondence clean, and my men,
tally was dUONS IuC dNcIdSG. "llIC
it is not essential to eXpatiate on the
moral decadence which was almost a
necessary corollary of my continued
indulgence in alcohol, it will be suf-
ficient for my purpose to say that to-
day my physical condition is that of
my intellectual processes continually
conscious of a working strain which
makes painful even the slight effort
of writing this brief history.
At this moment, October 10, 1917,
have been without alcohol in any form
for just eighteen months; previously,
since 1903 my longest period of absti
nence covered period of eight months
in 1907. But perhaps the greatest
hurt which | have suffered from this
long period of servitude to John Bar
leycorn has been the slow but GER
tain disintegration of my powers of
resistance-the atrophy of will.
If you may understand it without
having had the experience, the very
realization of this fact established it
more firmly as condition which APP
peared irremediable. Thus, | can only
explain my abstemiousness of the past
eighteen months either as miracle or
as draft upon some unguessed re-
serve of power within me.
What | have seen booze do, then,
has been not only to retard and prac-
tically to stifle my intellectual and
physical development, but for nearly
fifteen years of my life to make me
stranger to the real meaning of liy-
ing-the mere puppet of bad dream
which only today appears to me in
it's true significance. -BHc
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-08-17

Public prayer for victory for
the Allies was said throughout
France on the occasion of the
fourth anniversary of the declara
ton of war. In London the fourth
anniversary of the beginning Of
the war was observed. not only as
a day Of prayer and remembrance
in churches of all denominations,
but also as a day of thanksgiving
and hope. The news of the
glorious triumph of the allied
arms at the front sent thrill
through the whole country. In
Hyde Park. as elsewhere through
out England, shrines were erected,
where thousands placed flowers in
memory Of the dead.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-08-17

He's over there, says the Brook
Ign Tablet. pointing the way to
victory at the Marne,-NIangin,-
as Irish as though his name had
been not French misspelled-Man-
gan! He s over there. as Irish as
any Marechal McMahon. His
ancestors went over there when
Britain released so many Irish
fighters to France. And. Irish
like, he's blazing the way to free
dom-for other people. And Fon-
tenoy again-just north Of Sois-
sons, the pivotal point of present
day fighting! Is it not strange?
Or is it The Irish are in the war,
as they have been in every war,
fighting for the freedom Of an
other country that is not their
own. Out Of the dust and blood
of victory will step Mangin, hero
of the Marine, French Irishman.
And Ireland still waits for its own
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-08-17
POPE AND AMERICA.

The Buffalo Echo suggests that
there is a growing inclination in
favor of the United States having
a representative at the Holy See.
Our contemporary discusses the
subject as follows in a recent edi-
torial:
China has appointed a minister
to the Holy See and Japan is en-
tertaining the project of establish
ing at least temporary diplomatic
relations with the Vatican. In
view of the fact that even the
pagan nations Of the Far East find
it eXpedient to be automatically
represented at the Vatican, it is
rather singular that three belliger-
ent nations are still without such
representation. namely, Italy,
France and the United States.
Since the war, Protestant England
and Protestant Holland have eS-
tablished temporary legations in
Rome.
Italy has no representative at
the Vatican, because a large part
of its territory, including Rome
itself, consists of what were
formerly known as the Papal
States. The forces Of the first
Victor Emanuel seized the
Church's domains by force of
arms. The Pope has not surren-
dered his claim to the temporal
power that was wrested from him
diplomatic relations with the
reigning house Of Italy are thus
out Of the question.
A breach of diplomatic relations
was precipitated between France
and the Holy See in 1905, when
the anti-clerical forces in power
passed the Law of Separation of
Church and State and began their
ruthless warfare against the
Church. Since the war a reaction
Of feeling has set in, and even
ProtestantS are urging that
France follow Portugal's example
in resuming diplomatic relations
with the Vatican.
Italy s and France s failure to
be represented at the Vatican can
thus be accounted for in the light
of past arrangements; however,
there is no reason why the United
States should not establish tenn
porary legations. at the Vatican
just as England and Holland have
done. If it was to the advantage
OF the latter countries to take this
step, like consideration ought to
apply in the case of our country.
Perhaps the suggestion of estab-
fishing at least temporary rela-
tons with the Vatican has to CON
tend with the popular, but
erroneous, belief that thereby the
United States would be breaking
all presidents. AS a matter of
fact, we were represented at the
Vatican by two charge d 'affaires
and four commissioned ministers
III the period between the years
184S and 1868, during the admins
tration Of Presidents Polk, Tyler
Fillmore, Pierce, Buchanan, Lin.
coin and Johnson. When the tenn.
poral power Of the Pope was
usurped by Victor Emanuel the
United States legation lapsed
After the Spanish-American wal
eX-President Taft, who was Judge
at the time, lived in Rome as Ell.
voy extraordinary from the United
States to the Holy See to settle
the politico-ecclesiastical Difficult
ties arising from the transfer OF
the Philippine Islands from Spain
to the United States.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-08-17

We quote from the far-seeing
FortnightIy Review: Referring
to the steadily growing tendency
of forcing all children into the
State schools and keeping them
there until the age of sixteen or
seventeen, the Toledo Record says
that this prospect BODIES no good
for our Catholic youth. Many a
vocation will disappear from the
minds of youths who are obliged
to attend (the public school until
they are young men and young
women. Strange views Of life will
take the place Of the normal. "
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-08-17

From an authentic source it is
learned that, at present, studying
in American colleges are 1,400
Chinese, 1000 from Japan, 200
from Korea. 300 from the Philip
pines, and $50 from India. These
young students will eventually re-
turn to their native lands con-
WINGED of the benefits Of Christian
ity, but will it be Catholic or Prot
eStamt? 1t is safe to say that not
l per cent of this group is i'll Cath
Ollie colleges.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-08-17

survived during the given term OF
years.
The golden cycle of years, how
ever, which closes this week is
replete with sublime virtues and
great deeds wrought by the emil
nent prelate for God and country.
The Church in America has grown
wonderfully in the past fifty
years. God has blessed it with
wonderful prelates, Jealous clergy
and devoted laity. 1t is, perhaps,
not too much to say that Cardinal
Gibbons stands forth as America S
First Catholic.
From the time when as Vicar
Apostolic he set out to organize
the scattered missions of North
Carolina down to the present day,
Cardinal Gibbons has been fore
most in every great work that re-
echoed religion or patriotism. His
writings on religious subjects are
as widely read throughout the
English-speaking world as those
of any living author. God alone
knows the large number Of con-
verts who have come into the
Church through the reading of his
"Faith of Our Fathers. He is
the last living Father of the Vati-
can Council, and is thus a con-
Meeting link between the Church
of the past and that of the pres
ent.
The broadminded fairness of
the great Cardinal has not only
drawn down upon himself the adj
miration of all classes, but also
has it placed the Church which he
represents in a more acceptable
light before the American people
than it ever enjoyed before. It
has been Cardinal Gibbons good
fortune on every occasion to have
struck the proper note on all ques-
tons. Clear sighted and broad
visioned, he has ever been opposed
to rigorism in it's every form. I'm
bued with genuine Christian
charity, his views. while firm
have ever been marked with mod
Grafton. So great is the con-
fdence which his fellow citizens
place in his judgment as an
American that whenever the emf
nent Cardinal speaks on public
questions the whole country, ir-
respective of creed or political
affiliations, becomes his respectful
audience.
From the beginning of the pres,
ent war Cardinal Gibbons has
taken a strong stand for right and
order. Since America entered the
conflict no man amongst us has
been more outspoken and patri,
otto in his utterances, more firm
in his convictions, and more loyal
to the national administration
than James Cardinal Gibbons.
1t is the hope and the earnest
wish Of all classes of citizens in
this Republic that Cardinal Glib
bons may be spared for many
years of activity in promoting the
welfare Of the State. The fervent
prayers of all Catholics rise to
heaven that the venerable prelate
may long continue to exert the
wonderful influence of his exam
pie and personality for the Church
Of God in this country.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-08-17

The famous Carlisle Indian
School at Carlisle, Pa, has been
abandoned and turned over to the
War Department for hospital pur-
poses and the rehabilitation and
education Of wounded soldiers.
The buildings of the school were
originally used as an army bar
racks and later assigned to the
Interior Department. Cato Sells,
Commissioner of Indian Affairs,
has announced that the school
would cease to exist and its zoo
students would be transferred to
other Indian schools. There were
$50 Catholic pupils in the school
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-08-17
A Hohenzollern Catholic

Her Royal Highness, Princess Anne
of Prussia, Landgravine of Hess, the
oldest member of the Prussian House
of Hohenzollern, and convert to the
Church, died the other day at the
age of 80. She was a niece Of EN-
peror William |, sister of Prince
Frederick Charles of Prussia and an
aunt of the late British Duchess of
Connaught. Her son, the ruling Land
grave of Hesse, married Princess Mar
garet, sister Of the present German
Kaiser. Princess Anne hated the
Junker Party and roundly scored her
imperial relative for his outrageous
treatment of the Belgians.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-08-17

The war has caused the bellig-
erent countries Of Europe the loss
of not fewer than Il, 100000 pO-
tentiaI lives because of the de-
crease in the number of births re
sulting from the war, says Sir Ber-
nard MaIlet, Registrar General of
Great Britain. That country, he
asserts, has lost in these potential
lives $4,000 children. He believes
that other belligerent countries
have suffered more in this respect
than has Great Britain.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-08-17
Notre Dame Fallen

In the presence of the entire stu
dent body attending the summer
school at the University of Notre
Dame, the Rev. DR.. Bernard Ill, c. S.
c., officiated at Requiem Mass for the
repose of the eight soldiers, former
students at the University of Notre
Dame, who have died while in action
upon the battlefields of France, fight
ing for the principle Of justice and
humanity.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-08-17

1t is a good idea to leave Cath
Ollie papers and publications lying
around depots and public places
where they will be picked up by
some one casually, says The Cath
Ollie Herald. Often it is through
what we call an accident" that
God works most wonderful re-
suits, and your picked-up paper
may lead soul to Christ.
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stated. demand a radical change
in the habits of consumers, and
the War Industries Board has
asked the cooperation of the press
in spreading the conservation
propaganda, as the Government S
needs for chemicals and other ma
terials make it necessary to con
serve as much as possible.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-08-17

Lord NorthcIitfe is evidently
disappointed at his failure to pro-
woke d persecution of Catholicism
in the British Isles. He seems to
have thought that there were no
limits to his journalistic influence
and 50 takes every opportunity
now to create a public feeling hos
tile to the Catholic Church.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-08-17
SATURDAY, AUGUST II, 1918.

The fifty men who made the
heroic stand in the streets of
Sergy were members of the One
Hundred and SiXty-ffth Infantry
the old "Fighting SiXty-Ninth
of New York. How those few
words will stir old memories!
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-08-17

In his personal "reminiscences of
the late Archbishop keane, the
Very Rev. Walter Elliott, says:
While Rector of the Catholic
University, it was his custom
every month, when he received his
salary, to 90 about Washington
incognito and distribute the money
among the needy whom he knew. "
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-08-17

A general publicity campaign
will be launched shortly by the
war Industries Board, having for
IFS aim the education of the pub
lie Ia the Importance Of conserva-
lion Of paper Of all kinds as a war
measure War conditions, il was