Norwich bulletin., 1918-09-16
DANIE.LSON

 hibition as national policy was de- iivered from the. altar at St. James church Sunday morning by the pastor, Rev. M. J. Ginet, M. $. '1t is con demned by faith and by reason said Father Ginet in the course of an an nouncement Of the fact that Father | Jacquenent, O. P, of Fall River, is to be here next Saturday for a conference with members of the parish and that the visiting priest will deliver the ser mon at the I0.30 o'clock mass next | Sunday morning.
 Father Jacquement is one of the | foremost temperance workers of any denomination actively engaged in the New England states, and the bless | ings of his activities along the lines | of temperance have been appreciated l in not few homes here in Daniekon, where he occasionally has preached. | perance eloquently, effectively and with untiring zeal through many year, but. Father Ginet explained, in announcing his coming to Danielson. l there is a vast difference between a nation wide prohibition and either | temperance or total abstinence.
 When interviewed Sunday relative to 1 his announcements at the masses, par ticularly as regarded his comment rel ative to national prohibition, Father Ginet reiterated in 8 general way what l he had said from the altar and further 1 stated that national prohibition, in prospect, is little less than tyranny. l Tn some western states" Father Ginet said, Roman Catholic bishops
 already have forbidden the use of halls ! or other church property for the hold 1 ing of meetings in the interest of pro- hibition. National prohibition is against reason. It is tyranny. It is l anything that can be said of it. Fully enforced, prohibition might mean
 that a priest would be in pail instead Sunday morning."
 This latter remark was directed at
 an arrangement under national prohi- bition that would so surround the se- curing of wine for sacramenta1 pur- poses with such difficulties as to make Ia priest liable for it's use at a mass &nd in line with the letter addressed by a Brooklyn, N. Y., resident to the editor of one of the great daily papers of New York in which the writer
 says:
 T wonder how the Episcopal, Lu- theran and Roman Catholic clergy of this country will regard the situation
 when they find themselves, if America
 adopts national prohibition, compelled to order wine for their services
 through state prohibition comrnis-
 sioner who might be 8 graduate of
 that politico- ministerial band-the
 Anti-Saloon League of America?
 Tn West Virginia the prohibition
 commissioner is Rev. T. J. Peters, a
 former superintendent of the Anti
 Saloon League of America. His sal ary is $3,500 a year. He has plenty of 1 2 I,i- AIo af
 business is shocking around to see that
 no one breaks the states prohibitory
 laws. Clergymen of all denominations
 must give an account of the wine they
 order to the prohibition commissioner
 A pretty picture, indeedi"
 T Father Ginet is bitter opponent of
 the saloon, which he regards as a
 vicious institution, and has preached
 here for years against saloons and the
 voting of license that has made them
 possible. He is as firmly set against
 national prohibition, which can be
 made possible only by an amendment
 to the constitution, and if the consti-
 tuition is to be brought out for tinker
 ing, why will there not be other pro 1 posed changes in it, he inquiries, point
 ing out also that only two steps are
 required for the establishment of a
 state religion-amendment of the con
 6titution and of the gospel
 Father Ginet's stand against nation
 al prohibition in his announcements
 Sunday created g, profound impression among the members of his congrega- | tion, which numbers well toward 300C
 souls. No one who heard what he said
 would mistake his firm stand with the
 temperance interests as against those who stand for all the wickedness and evil that follows in the trail of the , immoderate use of intoxicants, nor the
 less misunderstood his positive de- nunciation of proposed national prohi- bition.
 Members of the Ninth separate com pany under the command of Captaif F. Q. ArlGfngton, spent Sunday at tht rife range, south of Danielson, en-
 gagged at target practice, and the sharI crack of the rifles with which tho members of the company are armed
 resounded' in the neighbornoot throughout the afternoon.
 The command left the armory at 1t
 o'clock. Mess kits were taken alone
 and the meals of the day served by the company cooks.
 Indoor rife practice has been muct indulged in by members of the com. pany for months past, and some O them have come to be good shots.
 Lieut.. Oscar cowen, D Battery, 56tl artillery, reported in Sundays cas- 7 ualty lists as killed in action Aug 21 } was an officer of the command il
 which are the majority of the Daniel l son boys who went out from here il : July of last year, and his death indi
 cates that the battery has been in ac g tion, following so closely upon the an
 nouncement that Sergt. Percy Browl of this place has been wounded. Ii the battery are young men iron 2 Brooklyn, Central Village, Plainf1el6 : Putnam and the various villages 6 g the town of KillingIy to the numbe l of nearly 100. Lieutenant Cowen wa '. assigned to D battery after Lieut.. Irr : A. Warren of this place was trahs n ferred to B battery of the same artil e lery regiment. As 8 former officer an !. member of the Seventh company [. Coast Artillery corps, Connecticut, h 7. was well known to Capt. E. L. Darbi
 and other men known here who wer 5 members of the coast artillery two c /, three years ago.
 . Chief Michael Grimshaw has bee q engaged the past two days in an ef u fort to locate any men who may hay l. failed to register last Thursday. Up n Sunday no wilful evader of the dra1 ' had been found, but number of bit of information relative to differer IL men remained to be investigated an l. this will be done this week.
 Lieut.. Provost and Mrs. Provost = Spring gfeld, Mass, were guests Sun q day of MT and Mrs. George
 Heneault of Maple street. Lieut.. Pro Is vost is an officer of the United Stats s- guards and is stationed at Springfiel > with the arsenal guard
 > Gasoline slackers who drove the Id cars Sunday were so few as to Y marks for uuenviable continent