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The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1918-10-08
NATIONWIDE
FIGHT AGAINST
. GERMAN PAPERS
National Security League Starts
Crusade for Their Elimination,
Toaetier With the Teach
ing of German.

A vigorous campaign to bring about
the elimination of the teaching Of Ger
man in the public schools Of the coun.
try and to obtain the discontinuance
of the publication Of newspapers print
al in German has been launched By
the National Security League. 10 or
EaniZe it's effort for these ends the
League has formed a Committee on
Foreign Lan.~uu@e and Foreign Press,
which will carry the fight into every
nook and corner of the United States.
The Committee is composed of Col.
Charles e. Lydecker, member of the
Board Of Trustees of the College Of
the City Of New York and Chairman
of the National Security Leagues
Board Of Directors; Edward H. Clark,
Treasurer of the Security League;
Ernest c. Brown, well known New
York editor and publisher, and DR..
Robert Nj. McElroy, Educational direc-
tor Of the National Security League
under leave Of absence from Princeton
University, where he is head of the
Department of History and Politics.
Stop Advertising.
The principal basis of the Commit
tees campaign against German news
papers will be the obtaining of the dis
continuance of advertising in them.
Col. Lydecker's committee has laid
the following plan of campaign before
the Chairmen and Secretaries of all
the 2S1 branches Of the Security
League:
There is TO Immediate need to
have laws enacted to suppress the
foreign language dailies. In towns
where there is strong patriotic senti-
ment hostile minority should be per
suased by clear and forceful expires.
sion of the views of the ma iorty tina,
ours must be, from this time forward
one language nation
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1918-10-08

PEARS FOR SALE-ANY QU-
antity. Write II. E. Kennedy.
Scotland Neck, n. c.. 1O-6t
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-12-28
BOOKS AND GUM
NATION OF ILLITERATEs, sEcRE.
TARY LANES REPORT DE-
CLARES.

Secretary Lane in his annual report
to President Wilson declares that the
country spends twice as much for
chewing gum as for school books. He
also states that the draft disclosed an
alarming percentage of adults in the
United States who were unable to
speak the English language or to read
or write any language. Of the first
100000 men drafted there were 200,-
900 individuals who could not read
their orders or understand them when
delivered to them, or read the letters
sent them from home.
Mr.. Lanes reconstruction program
submitted in his report, is divided in
two parts. The first is proposal fol
the development Of arid, swamp and
cutover lands, to provide farms fol
returning soldiers. The second is the
improvement of public school systems
| to provide for Americanization of for
eign-born citizens, and the education
of illiterate mountain white popula
ton and negroes. The public schools
Mr. Lane thinks, should lay more EN-
phasis on teaching trades,
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-12-28

played upon by royal whim and
caprice.
America long since has solidi-
fed her position. The world said
we could not fight. Let the an
swer roll down the corridors of
Time: Cantigny, au-Thierry,
Argonne, St. MihieI the Second
Marine. We love peace SO much
that we are willing to fight, yes,
and to die for it. Rome had it's
Pretorian Guards, Constantinople
its Janizaries, but America has
her fighting Marines.
Today the whole world gives
thanks that America lives. Even
the conquered peoples are seeing
the light, and the Stars and
Stripes are waving beyond the
Rhine. All the countries of earth
look to us for leadership. The old
nations look up to the giant of
the West for guidance and
strength.
Our duty is to instill correct
principles Of liberty into the new
peoples that have but recently
found themselves. We are called
upon to inject new life into the
diseased political bodies of Eu
rope, Asia and Africa.
Let our own duty to ourselves
be to beware of false theories
from abroad. Bolshevism, I. W
w. ism, and other perverted forms
of moral degeneracy, have cast
their blighting pail over the ma
lions. Let every citizen, worthy
of this dignity, take it upon him
self to stamp out as far as indi
vidually possible this foreign ser
pent that would enter the fail
garden of American statehood anC
Epoison the very flowers of liberty
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-12-28
To Plead For Erin
GATHERING IN ST. PAUL AR
RANGED IN INTEREST OF IRE
LANDS INDEPENDENCE.

Men and women of Minnesota inter
ested in Irish independence will be
urged to attend a mass meeting at
the st. Paul Auditorium Sunday even
ing, December 20, when Ireland's
place in the approaching peace con-
ference will be discussed.
The particular object of the meet
ing, it is said, is part of movement
to gain for Ireland the benefit of
one of President Wilson'S fourteen
points, namely the right, of small ma
tions to determine for themselves the
kind of government they shall have,
1t is planned to have speakers rep:
resenting various racesfanda religions.
Mayor Hodgson. Rabbi l. l.. Rypins,
G. ID. O'Brien and d. w. LaWler, are
among the men who are expected to
make addresses. Invitations also
have been sent to Catholic and Prot
estant clergymen in the state.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-12-28
Pan-Denominational
WAS THE MESSAGE SENT TO
PRESIDENT WILSON.


Of the four who signed cable
message sent to President Wilson last
week by the trustees of the Church
Peace Union are two from Baltimore
Cardinal Gibbons and Bishop Luther
B. Wilson, according to- dispatch
from New York. The other signers
of the cablegram include Hamilton
Holt and John r. Mott.
The message expressed the hope
that President Wilson, together with
the statesmen of the nations with
which the United States is associated,
may succeed in the noble effort to es-
tablish world peace on righteous
basis, which will be guaranteed by a
league Of free nations to make pos
sible a new world order of justice and
good will among men"
1t was also stated in the message
that he would be sustained by the
Catholic, Jewish and Protestant consci-
|ence Of the American people
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-12-28
POPE AND PROFESSOR
BENEDICT XIV. AND A CATHOLIC
LEADER CONFER.

Three or four months ago the Holy
Father was making the round of a
large number of Catholics in the Con-
sistorial Hall, whom he was receiving
in collective audience. AS His Holt
ness passed along the line, giving each
one his ring to kiss, and saying a
word or two to some of them, he came
to an old gentleman and opened his
eyes with JOY and surprise. wait
after the Others" said Pope Benedict
XIV, laying his hand on his aged Wis
itor's head. AS the people passed out
of the audience chamber they saw the
Supreme Pontiff lead the old gentle
man into his private study, and they
wondered who could be the person
singled out for so much honor and
attention at the hands of the Vicar of
Christ. 1t was no other than the vet
eran Catholic leader, who was on the
point of, finishing his fiftieth year. as
a professor in the University, of Pisa,
Professor Toniolo, a name to conjure
with in Italy. Sea 49, soss.,s
A few days later came news to the
Vatican of the death of the great old
man whose long life has been spent
in serving the Holy See in the educa-
tional, the political, the literary fields.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-12-28
A CHRISTMAS LETTER
written for The Catholic Bulletin by
DR.. James Henderson,


"a Christmas letter, what does it, cost ?
A three.cent. stamp-and moment
lost? a1is @9yff,a <agaH@4 g
Pen and ink and perhaps, a blot,
And a little grumbling like ,as not;
And, when tits addressed, in its slick.
h est coat h!8ts@ az th.. ar 81
Off in the mail and away to float,
IT'S a little bit of our time well
spent,
A bearer of cheer and hearts con
tent.
Some hands tumble the coin all year,
Others whose fingers but wipe a
tear;
There are those who think others
do not,
Others whose lives are a dreary lot
But, the year one day holds hope for
all
And, Christmas letter big OF
small,
Short or long, we expect it here;
The letter that fingers thro' all the
year.
And. Christmas Day is that one day
We, somehow hunger, for those
away;
That we, somehow call from the misty
Gail viii. our hearts. call with oul
tears.
And, just a letter, should they moi
come
Eases the pang of our waiting some
Have you sent it yet? Do you NEAR
to scrawl
The Christmas letter that softens
all?
God! how the boys 'yond seas shall
thrill
To hear from the lone and loved
ones still;
From some little home by a country
way
In Freedoms Land, on Christmas
Day,
Bringing it's cheer and its blessing too
Saying. 20 son, to the flag be true!'
The Christmas letter, 90 write it now
For all hearts hunger for it some
how,
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-12-28
THE END OF THE TRAIL.

Somewhat more than four years
ago the god of war leaped into a
peaceful world. He was fully and
fiercely armed, as BELTS such a
belligerent, and his steed stepped
forth caparisoned in full panoply
of armor and trappings. The evil
god marked him a trail across the
fields Of humanity. Athwart the
smiling and prosperous lands of
the world he rode desperately and
with insolence. The atmosphere
re-echoed his imprecations, the
trail grew brighter, while peoples
on either hand covered in fright
and terror.
This bellicose deity Of the neither
regions was the emissary of his
twin sovereigns: Greed and Am
bition. Him had they armed and
urged forward that the sons of
man might be brought to naught,
and the reign of injustice in
augurated with flaming torch and
destroying brand. The sudden
ness Of his advent into the peace
full haunts of men threw the ma
tons into confusion and sorrow.
His march was marked by blood
and violence. Virtue he scoffed
at, Right was outlawed, and JUS
tice hung her head, the while she
looked about with questioning
gaze and yearning heart: eager to
see her reign Of equality and fair
ness restored.
The downtrodden peoples crosse
sobbing from the soil. " They
gathered in bands and in groups
to stay, or at least, to hamper the
onward progress of the demon
War. Onward, ever onward, he
surged. Glutted with the crimson
food of human life, he rocked not
of the waning of his strength. The
peoples of earth, wary and strong
in their fealty to Justice, Waylald
him. His steed was halted in the
midst of restless pirouetting; he
himself was hurled to the ground
trampled upon, tortured, finally
dispatched, and abandoned in the
welter of his own putrid blood
He had reached the end of the
trail there, instead of the sunset
glow which he thought had
beckoned him on, he met the light
ning's flash; his end was incinera
ton, even as his going forth had
been in a flame of ambition. Jus.
tice but smiled, the peoples rose
up and sang and danced, the
hated minion of Greed and Ambi
ton passed into oblivion, and the
world once more turned quietly
and calmly on it's appointed
rounds.
AS nations, so individuals.
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TALK TO STUDENTS
REAL SPIRIT OF CHRISTMAS. PoR-
TRAYED BY ARCHBISHOP IRE
LAND.
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tor)

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tory
AS Christmas approaches you must
fill your minds with it's mysteries.
Through love for us God becomes in
carnate and the Infinite brings down
from heaven supernatural graces to
defy man. On that first Christmas
night in Bethlehem God Himself de-
scended upon earth out of love for
mankind. There He showed forth di-
vine virtues. He was not born in the
palace of the Caesars as He might
have been, and might have had under
His command 1egions of angels. mo.
He was born in7a9stable and the first
to adore Him were poor, simple shepr
herds. Behold His humility, His self
sacrifice, His spirit of poverty. All
this He did for love of us. How our
hearts should go out to meet that
| love.
Christmas must spread over the
earth the fire brought down from
heaven and kindled by Christ. The
true Christian should be filled with
| the spirit of Christ. Christ, as it were,
should become incarnate in him. I'm
less you are Christ's and filled with
His spirit, thinking the same thoughts
and actuated by the same motives,
your lives will be sterile.
The best way to learn the spirit
of Christ is to read the record of His
thoughts, acts and motives in the gos-
pels. Know the Life of Christ by
heart by reading a chapter of the
gospels every day.
1t is not enough to study the extrin-
sic facts of Christ's life. Anybody can
do that. You must go deeper and
absorb the spirit of the gospel Read
through the letter to the spirit. Be
/ imbued with Christ's spirit and mo-
tives. Then Christ will act and
speak in your lives. A partial trans
formation into Christ's spirit may be
able to save ones soul, but the sin
cere Christian who aims at sanctity
must endeavor to be completely trans
formed into another Christ.
Put we on the Lord Jesus Christ,
says st. John. He has given us an
example of this incarnation of the
spirit of Jesus Christ The love OF
Christ is the magnet that draws souls
to Him. On Christmas morning espe
cially when you receive the Infant
Christ in Holy Communion, your SOU
should warm with love towards Ou1
Lord and be filled with that spirit
which is in Christ Jesus.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-12-28
AMERICAS MISSION.

Nineteen hundred years ago was
it said, Peace ON earth to men OF
good will. During the course of
the ages men of good will heard
these gracious tidings and were
glad: men of evil will, of wicked
intent and design, heard and
laughed to scorn. Ever and anon
tyranny and oppression raised
their head: in fact, nineteen cen
turtles have witnessed almost a
continued lack of peace, for few
men of good will were found IN
high places.
Tyranny has sat enthroned
upon the twin foundations of i'm
position and false assumption.
Tyranny has assumed that the
subjects of each existing govern
ment were intended by God and
Nature as mere tools for the exal-
tation and perpetuation of tyran-
ny itself, Of the mental and moral
nondescripts who frequently sat
in judgment upon their fellow
men. So reasoned Rome, and
mighty Rome fell with crash the
echoes Of which still linger in the
immensities Of space. 1t took the
world many ages to grasp the
Christian ideal, founded upon
Reason itself, that all men are
equal; all are entitled to equal
rights as men; no man has the
right, inherent or acquired, to lay
the hand of oppression upon his
fellowmen from a. mere love OF
personal glorifcation. s sg..ss
F The Almighty finally chose
America to demonstrate 1.-THE
feasibility Of human comradeshiI
among the nations. To achieve
this self-assertion America did moi
hurl a monarch from his throne
she did not slaughter her fellow
citizens; nor did she barricadt
cities to expel the good. She went
forth before the nations with the
lplea for recognition as free peo
pie. She backed this demand with
the sword for six long years. She
drove the unjust oppressor from
her shores forever. Her actor
opened up a new field of thought
for tyrants. The people came into
their own. Human beings were
Hooked upon thenceforth al
human, rational beings, not al
lmere puppets to be moved anS
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-12-28
ANOTHER MILEPOST.

The close of the year just
elapsed marks a new milestone in
the history of the Church. Abroad,
the Spouse of Christ has suffered
much. Poland, France, Belgium,
Italy, Germany and Austria have
seen a great lessening of the num-
bers of the faithful. Outrages In
Armenia, Mexico, and other lands,
have added to the poignancy of
the world grief. David prayed
that his prosecutors might be ami
hilated: that was the spirit Of the
Old Testament. Christian peoples
pray that their oppressors might
be converted and live: the spirit
Of Christianity. Justice, however,
should be meted out to the guilty,
whether individuals or govern
ments, for Justice sits supreme
over both the Old Law and the
New Justice should be served,
whatsoever the consequences.
The Church in America has been
bereaved of some of her most
valued members. Great prelates,
Blenk, Keane, Farley and Ireland,
have stepped from the stage of
life, and left the conduct of af-
fairs to younger and less expert
enced hands. Other prelates,
great before God if not in the eyes
Of the world, have also been called
hence. The Church herself, how
ever, is above the need of particu-
lar individual members. She de-
ponds for her continuity not upon
an Augustine, Aquinas or Leo, but
upon the vital spirit that animates
her being. Noble sons do much
to perpetuate her truth and to de-
fend, her interests: no one is es-
sential, since it is God alone Who
gives the increase. Custodians OF
the gardep may expend time and
effort upon the tender growth OF
spirituality: God only can effect
the life giving vitality that flows
from Him independent of human
agencies. Still, the loss to the
Church in the calling Of her noble
leaders is a distinct and q
grievous loss.
The past year has seen the de.
velopment and Towering of new
leaders, in Church as well as il
State. They are men who placeo
before the necessity of unWontec
action, have risen to the heights
and have given proof of the ole
spirit that never dies in the folC
of Christianity. In them the
Church gIories as chieftains in is
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-12-28

That ancient firebrand of Irish
Professionalism, Professor Mahaffy,
took occasion, at the High Sher-
ifs dinner at Dublin last week,
to deliver himself as follows: i
should advise President Wilson
that, even if he is infallible, he
had better not use his infallibility
too freely, but initiate the Pope,
the only infallible person IN the
world, by not using it at all. "
DR.. Mahaffy no doubt was
quite pleased with himself at being
able to get into one sentence two
gross and gratuitous insults
against two of the most respected
men in the world. His audience
probably considered that the in
suit to the American president
was compensated by the insult to
the Holy Father.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-12-28
Father O'Flaherty
TESTIMONY OF HEROlSM OF
SOUTH DAKOTA WAR CHAPLAIN
KILLED IN ACTION.

The Stars and Stripes, a newspaper
published by the soldiers abroad, has
the following article on Rev. c. E.
O'Flaherty. This priest, who was pas
tor at Mitchell, South Dakota, was
killed in action recently. The paper
says:
When the 2Sth Infantry came out of
the line in Argonne to sprawl in we'll
earned rest any visitor to. the candle
lit billets or to the little October
campfires was. sure, sooner or later,
to hear the talk reach the name of
their lost friend and priest, Father
O'Flaherty of Mitchell, South Dakota
Chaplain G. E. O'Flaherty was killed
in action at Very, France, October,
1918.
Then is the time to get at the truth
about a man, because after such a
battle death seems far too common a
thing for anyone to have pretty moth.
ings said about him just because he
is dead.
One night, when the fog dimmed the
light of the full moon, they were talk
ing about Father O'Flaherty = a
chance miscellany of officers and men,
gathered around sunken fire, where
on sizzling griddle, someone was
turning the flapiacks made from a sup.
ply of recently-acquired German -four
81 was with him when he was
killed-or not more than 20 feet
away" a young lieutenant said. "All
that morning he had been burying
German dead. Then at noon, when
shell struck truck at Very-at
the crossroads which used to be Very
and when everyone scattered to the
four winds, Father O'Flaherty hot
footed it to the place to see who
was hurt and what could be done
about it. The second shell got him
killed him outright"
Merry guy, he was" the cook OBJ
served. "The doughboys tell me he
went over the top with them at
every fight since scissors"
"Sure he did. / can see him now
with that big cane of his parading
along through the mud. l remember
how he used to point this way and
that with it. Once, when he was try
ing to show a bunch of German
prisoners at ST. Mihiel the way to the
nearest lookup, he had to do all his
talking with the cane. They thought
he was going to hit them and yelled
'Kamerad,' till he most died laugh
ing"
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-12-28

rael; to them she looks with hope
and confidence for prosperous
future. Thus, loss and gain are
balanced OH the books Of the
spiritual life. 1t were mgracious
to say that the Church has gained
also it may be untrue. But the
bark of Christianity glides along
unhampered and unimpaired, in
spite of the frequent change Of
pilots. Thus, while we say, all
honor to the memory of the de-
parted, we quickly add, more
power and glory to their success.
sors, since the honor and the glory
both belong to God, from Whom
all blessings flow.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-12-28
Freedom For Ireland

Immediate action by the House For
eign Affairs Committee on resolu-
ton providing that American dele
gates to the peace conference be re-
quested to support the right Of free
dom, independence and self-determi-
nation of Ireland, was urged last week
by 81 delegations representing Irish
organizations from all sections Of the
country.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-12-28

A plain answer to a plain ques-
ton was thus given in the Cath
olic Citizen" of Milwaukee: A
reader at Bancroft, Iowa, inquiries
how much money the Catholic
parochial schools save the public
every year. The matter is easily
figured out. Place the cost, per
capita, of public school education
at 500 per annum. There are
100000 children in the Catholic
schools. The saving to the public
treasury is, therefore, $32, 100000
per year.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-12-28
IT'S AN ILL WIND.

Here's Danny coming down the
street;
Say do you know my man?
He's working now six days week;
Now beat that if you can!
His eyes are clear and bright: his
face
Is tanned ruddy brown.
My, he is like different man
Since Spanish flu struck town!
Each week he hands me out his pay
And never asks a cent!
I've paid the grocer, bought bond
Bought coal, and paid the rent.
I've bought the children shoes and
hats; .1i2 .>- sRs'if
Myself a decent gown.
Say, home is like. different place
Since Spanish flu struck town!
They say tbs but an i'll wind that
( Blows no one any good!
Dan spends his evenings home now, as
A, decent. husband should.
When Uncle Sam sent out the word,
The grog-shops all closed down.
My Dan can't get drop to drink
Since Spanish flu struck town.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-12-28

The London Times medical cor
respondent says that it seems rea-
sonable to believe that throughout
the world about 100000 persons
persisted from influenza and pneu-
monia in the past three months.
Never since the black death has
such a plague swept over the
world, he says, adding that the
need of a new survey Of public
health measures has never been
more forcibly illustrated.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-12-28

Commissioner P. p. Claxton, OF
the Bureau Of Education, has
written a letter to the Chief Elk
ecutive of the Boy Scouts against
the use of offensive nicknames.
"The use Of nicknames and names
of derision as applied to the for
eign-born of America is consid-
cradle obstacle in the way OF
Americanization, he writes. $50
long as the foreign-born person
feels that we do not respect him,
he does not want to join America,
learn English or become an Amer
lean citizen"