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The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-09-28
A PARISH POUNDS A RURsE IN A
CHINESE SEMINARY.

A few weeks ago we had the agree
able surprise of receiving check for
one thousand dollars for the education
a native clergy in the Far East, says
Mgr. Freri The sum had been col
lected in the parish of ST. Eloi, Client,
Mimi. archdiocese of st. Paul., un-
der the direction Of its jealous pastor,
the Rev. Fl. v. Van Walleghem. 1t
will constitute foundation, the an
nual interest of which will provide
for the needs Of a native seminarian
during one school var, and thus every
few years a new priest will be placed
at the Altar through the generous as
sistance of the parishioners of st.
Eloi.
The assignment Of the burse was
left entirely to the Society for the
Propagation of the Faith, but knowing
that Father Van Walleghem and most
of his generous parishioners are Bel
gian or of Belgian descent, we thought
it would be pleasing to the donors
to place it at the disposal of a Belgian
Bishop. Consequently it was sent to
Mgr. Van Dyck, who, with his valiant
missionaries, all members of the Bel
gian Society of Scheut, eyangelize the
province Of Mongolia, China. Although
the seminary, is Of recent foundation
it has already given three priests to
the mission, and there are five other
natives preparing for the priesthood.
st. Eloi is a small country parish
and it's members are not overbur-
dened with the goods of this world;
furthermore, they are probably help,
ing the victims Of the war in their
dear motherland Nevertheless they
raised this considerable sum in order
to give a priest to the Church. Such
charity, the worthiness of which it is
difficult to exaggerate at the present
time, will have it's reward Blessed
are We poor, for yours is the kingdom
of God!"
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-09-28
JAPAN's NORTHERN ISLANDS.

For many years now Japan has
who have afterwards written about
the beautiful things they have seen.
Most of these tourists, however, have
described the same places-Tokyo,
hippo, Nara-and from their stories
people have gained the impression
that Japan is a country of flowers,
soft silks and sunny fields.
But all Japan is not so balmy as
these spots, for there is Japan which
recalls wildly the coolest part of the
North American continent, and which
has snow to the depth of four or six
feet and an intense cold for five
months of year. This region, so little
known to the outer world, comprises
the islands of Hokkaido and Karafuto,
which together form the Prefecture
Apostolic of Sapporo.
The Island of Hokkaido has been
colonized by Japan only about fifty
years, for the half-hundredth anniver-
sary was celebrated at Sapporoa only
this year. The native population is
very much scattered, and at present
numbers only about twelve or fifteen
thousand. Evidently it will entirely
disappear.
But Hokkaido, which is about the
same size as Ireland, has about three
million Japanese gathered from. all
parts of the Empire of the Rising Sun,
and each year the number of immi-
grants becomes larger and larger.
Therefore, the large cities possess
railroads and all sorts of modern con-
yeniences. Notwithstanding this fact,
there are vast plains which are not
yet settled, but which are very fertile.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-09-28

erty is not to, be pleaded as a reason
for withholding the means of educa-
ton, but rather as a reason for sup
plying them in larger proportion
Priceless Rewards Of Education.
While Professor Ellis devotes the
-entire bulletin to demonstrating that
national wealth and power are deter
mined by education, his first para
graph points out what is the real
priceless reward of education. He says
it beautifully in these words: .fThe
most valuable result Of right educa-
ton is the broadening, deepening and
refining Of human life This result
can no more be measured by dollars
and cents than truth, self-sacrifce and
love can be made out of pork and pota-
toes" Doesn't that express. it SPLEEN
didly? Before the war, people in this
country were rapidly drifting into the
rankest kind of materialism. They
were inclined to measure everything
in the terms of dollars and cents.
They believed that money ruled the
universe, that the dollar could buy
anything even love, happiness, health
prosperity. They were of the opinion
that the finer things of life should be
left to a few bespectacled professors
while they devoted their efforts to an
accumulation Of the dollars with
which they could buy periodical bits of
o,11 f11r a, ~ -
tion of good music, solid literature, in
spring poetry, beautiful thoughts, re-
ligion, etc., cannot be bought; this can
only be possible through the right edu-
cation mentioned by Professor Ellis
But the frightful catastrophe into
which the world was plunged in that
fateful August four years ago has
entirely blasted the theory that the
dollar is almighty and that money
rules the universe. Although in the
last forty years, commercial relations
between all the nations of the world
were so closely intertwined that ma
tions like Germany, Austria, France
and England had millions of dollars of
capital invested in each others indus
tries, the prospectiveA1oss of these did
not for day stop the war. Germany
had millions invested in the United
States, had other millions of dollars
worth of ships tied UP in our harbors,
yet she deliberately forced us into the
war. Can you go to grocery store
today with a bag of dollars and buy
more than two pounds of sugar? If
you are a registered young man, can
you go to the Selective Service Board
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-09-28
PRAY FOR GENERAL FocH.

General Foch is not only a
scientific soldier and keen analyst,
but devout. Catholic, with a touch of
the mystic. History may ask in vain
whether the great strategist. ascribes
the German defeat between the .Aisne
and the Marine more to his own plans
and dispositions and the yalor of his
troops, or to prayers offered by, thou
sands of young girls in France and
England, who have scarcely heard his
name or comprehend the war.
Last Sunday "a mysterious message
was whispered by the priests in thou
sands of parishes to the girl com
municants under their charge. They
were asked: Pray for the intentions
of General Foch.' Without under
standing the meaning of the message
any more than did the priests who
gave it to them, the children prayed,
and one of the great defensive sue
cesses of the war was quickly fol
lowed by a brilliant attack There is
no direct confirmation of the infer
ence. that General Foch himself asked
the prayers of the children, but no
other explanation seems to fit the
facts.
{. The use. Of the word Intentions
which seems to have been universal In
the message given to- the children.
now is seen to refer to the secretly
planned Franco American offensive
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-09-28
CARDINAL GIBBONS.

For more than fifty years the Car
dinal has had his fingers on the ma
tional pulse of America And he has
never failed to count and interpret
that pulse correctly. No single per-
son in this country has done more to
unity and give form to our sense of
nationalism thanahe. No leader, re
ligious or political, has understood SO
clearly for so long period our dire
need ofhunity of ideals, nor has for SO
long and SO sanely, expressed these
ideals.
Practically single handed he com
bated and defeated Germany, years
ago, when Germany would, through a
diabolically clever scheme, have dena-
tionalized American Catholics. He is
a deep scholar, a man of profound re-
ligious conviction and an American
who knows what it means to be an
American
The Delinedt0Y.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-09-28
DEFENDS ROME.

Referring to Babylon, described in
the Book of Revelations as an evil
power, DR.. Kirk Said Many of our
good people have seriously believed
that Babylon refers to the Roman
Catholic Church, and they base their
belief on the corruption of the Church
as it existed in the. Middle Ages. Such
corruption undoubtedly did exist, but
it was not peculiar to the Catholic
Church. + has existed i'm the Prot
estant Church as well. The reference
to Babylon is plainly a reference OF
the Roman Empire, the greatest
enemy of the Church in it's time. The
Roman Catholic Church is great re-
ligious body made up of good people. .
DR. e. II. Kirk tDresbD}
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-09-28
NOW is THE TIME.

The summer is as good as any sea
son to join the Society of the Propa-
cation of the Faith. The offering for
a perpetual membership is forty dol
lars. 1t entities the individual en-
rolled to all the spiritual privileges of
the Society for the Propagation of
the Faith, in life and death, The
plenary and partial indulgences
granted to benefactors are many.
More than fifteen thousand Masses
are annually celebrated for the living
and deceased members of the Society.
The offering for perpetual men,
bership may be made at one time or
should, otherwise, be made within one
year, at the convenience of the donor
This is the best investment that can
be made, because it insures for life
and eternity.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-09-28
STRANGE ADVENTURES IN
HANGcHoW.

FIR. Tisserand, c. M, of Hangchow,
w. Che Kiang, relates the story of
one family he baptized who became
converted on account of the persecu-
tons of the devil; clothes, money and
other articles disappeared, but the
thief remained invisible.
Acting on directions from his
bishop, Mgr. Faveau, FIR. Tisserand
went to the haunted dwelling and read
the exorcism Of the ritual against the
apostate angels, displaying PROMINENT
ly at the same time a picture of the
Sacred Heart. The depredations
ceased, but a great stone fell into the
house through the roof, which never
theless had no opening. In China the
Evil One does much to torment his
subjects, especially when he feels they
are about to escape his tolls.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-09-28
THE POPE.


''The Popes attitude naturally and
inevitably has been that of peace
maker from the wars beginning, and
the President himself, in his reply to
the Pope, paid to his Holiness a just
tribute that is echoed throughout the
world. The President. wrote: Every
heart that has not been blinded and
hardened by this terrible war must be
touched by this moving appeal Of his
Holiness the Pope, must feel the dig
nifty and force of the humane and
generous motives which prompted it
and must fervently wish that we
might take the path of peace he SO
persuasiyely points out
-WashfnOton, D. C. Times.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-09-28
MONEY VALUE OF A COLLEGE
EDUCATION.

When the annals of this war are
written and the final statistics have
been gathered in such shape and form
that the different factors which con-.
tributed towards a victorious con-
.clusion of the conflict can lie clearly
recognized and different iated, it will
be found that the college graduate has
played brilliant part. AS soon as
war was declared, there was a spon-
taneous rush to the training camps
of college men, some of them barely
started on their various careers,
others already successful in various
professions. These men wanted to be
leaders and to help their country in
the manner for which their training
had peculiarly qualified them, writes
Arthur G. kneisel Because of the
value of education in the prompt solv-
ing of difficulties, in the acquisition Of
further knowledge and in giving men
that observation-disclosures so necessary
to the officer in our great American
army, few of these college men had
any difficulty in obtaining commits
sions. On the other hand, many a
man who had the chance in his
younger days to acquire such an edu-
cation is daily bewailing the stupidity
that caused him to allow the golden
opportunity to slip from his grasp. At
this time of the year when many
young men who have acquired high
school education are seriously consid-
ering dropping their studies and en-
barking at once on their brilliant f?)
career of commercial conquest which
is to bring them wealth and prosper
ity, perhaps it would be very timely
to consider the wisdom of this step.
/ If it is true that the college gradu-
ate has a much bigger chance of be-
coming successful in business, in a
profession, in politics, in statesman.
ship, in the factory, would it not be
the rankest folly to quit your studies
and say in effect: "A bird in hand is
worth two. in the bush'-I would
rather make SIS week now and take
the smaller chance that the unedu-
Gated have of getting more later on,
than to wait few years more to join
the rank of those college men who get
SO much more out of life"
"The Money Value of Education"
This is the title of Bulletin No. %
issued by the Department of the In
terror, Bureau of Education, Washing
ton. 1t is written by A. Caswell Ellis
professor of the philosophy of edu,
cation at the University Of Texas. In
his letter of transmittal, p. P. Claxton
commissioner, states. THE people
themselves and their Representatives
in tax-levying bodies need to be shown
that no other form Of Investment
yields so large dividends in material
wealth. as 10 investments Ill popular
education, and that comparative poY
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-09-28
1918 A BAD YEAR IN LANG SON

FIR. Cothonay says that when neither
floods nor droughts interfered, there
are two good crops in Tonkin every
year. But very often this happens,
and 1917 brought an inundation and
1918 a dry spell that completely de-
stroyed the harvest Wherever he
goes he meets afflicted natives, who
cry out, Father, have pity on us; we
are seeking work everywhere, i'm order
to get the price of some food But
we cannot find work and are dying OF
hunger. We have heard yon aIe
founding new parishes; il you will
receive US. we viii be wholly yours
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-09-28
A NEW CAUSE.

His Holiness has authorized the in
PRODUCTION of the cause of Rev.
jacques Laval, a Holy Ghost mission
airy, who died in 1864 in Maurice
Island, Indian Ocean His labors are
said to have renewed among the
Blacks some of the wonders wrought
by st. Peter Clayer. During his TWEEN
ty-eight years of apostolic life he bap-
tized more than $1,000 slaves and free
Africans. Fourteen thousands per-
sons attended his funeral and thou
place, where they receive extraordi-
nary favors.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-09-28
THE FOUR CPS"

Catholic schools have always en-
joyed the special patronage of the
rank and Gle of the Church, says the
Catholic Telegraph. They have been
rightly regarded as essential to- the
preservation and spread of our holy.
religion. They are the nurseries, upon
which depend the growth, intelligence,
and devotion of our people. In spite
of opposition from without; in the
face of some indifference from within;
notwithstanding the. expense and
sacrifice involved, we have maintained
our schools, until time and experience
have fully justified our attitude not
only to those within the Fold, but
also to many of the thoughtful among
our separated brethren. 1t is with
great qualification that we bring the
following editorial from The Herald
and Presbyter to the attention of our
readers:
Writers on education often speak
of the three RS Reading, 'Riting
and 'Rithmetic! but the three are not
enough. A fourth is needed to COM
plete the curriculum, and that fourth
is Religion.
We believe in our public school
system, but do not shut our eyes to
its one weakness. 1t can not teach re-
ligion. Professor c. H. Henderson
says: Judged by their fruits, the
public schools of America have not
been successful; and think it is just
because they have failed to lay their
foundations in that most profound
region of the human spirit, it's re-
ligion. The remedy offered is voca-
tional education; but the defect is
much deeper. 1t is that the public
school fails to turn out moral
product"
What is true Of common schools is
true also of higher schools and uni
versities. In some cases, wise teach
ers, grounded in the Scriptures, can,
without violating any rule or law, ex-
ercise a religious influence, and give
a certain amount of instructions; but
the proportion of such teachers is
small.
There are schools and colleges. es-
tablished and equipped and Differed
to furnish education, not only physi-
cal and intellectual, but moral and
spiritual. A recent educational docu-
ment approves the establishment of
such institutions, but adds: "This
should be done in no spirit of sec
tarianism and not with any prose-
lyting in mind; but with a view to
securing the best result in character
building possible for ALL"
1t must be noted, however, that,
usually, people, interested enough in
their fellows to establish schools,
have definite religious opinions, and
are members of churches having
creeds. Naturally, these schools have
teachers of the same religious faith.
For such schools to teach religion
and morals along lines in harmony
with their UNCONVENTIONAL connections
is not sectarianism, not PROSECUTING,
but is right and their duty..- &
Moreover, it is right for parents,
in choosing schools for their children,
to choose those known to be in SYM
pathy and harmony with their own
religious faith.
The Herald and Presbyter, pub
lished in Cincinnati, is one of the lead
ing Presbyterian papers of the United
States.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-09-28

Had General Foch only desired pray
ers that the German offensive might
be stopped, heahardly would have used
this word. VI
'Fraternization between French and
American troops, always good, is now
perfect among these troops who
fought together. l have seen coming
back, an American with a leg wound,
with his arm over the shoulder of a
Frenchman with an arm wound. There
is no question of nationality in giving
aid, either by other wounded men or
in dressing stations and hospitals. !"
-1flDaukes Journal
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-09-28
, PAGAN RIGHTS.

Papan nations have as much right
to the love and friendship Of Christ
as we have. and as a matter OF duty
those who have the blessings of faith
should make a great sacrifice to give
them a full share Of them. The So
.ciety for the Propagation Of the Faith,
stretches forth its hands to all. black
or white, irrespective of race or color,
knowing no favorite, yet fayoring all.
1T reaches out across the seas. lpene-
trates hitherto unknown regions, Civ.
ing comfort and consolation to hun
dreds Of thousands Of poor benighted
creatures.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-09-28

and buy your release from the draft
with the dollars you thought enough
of to abandon an education? Money
cannot buy us release from the
heart-rending results of this war, but
if the finer things of the spirit should
ever seep through the craniums of
those who lust for power, fame and
conquest, the war would be over.
Right education" by which Catholics
mean a solid, Christian education, such
as any of our Catholic universities can
give will bestow these finer things. of
the spirit, while money, no matter how
much, never did, never can and never
will. ss 81 faf
National Wealth Determined by
Education. &C.
However, for the benefit Of those
young men and for those parents who
are not convinced that the finer things
of the, spirit are worth the time and
the expense of a higher education, let
me briefly give, you the contents of
the bulletin issued by the Department
Of the Interior While the higher
things. of the soul, says Professor
Ellis, are priceless rewards which true
education brings, they are not its only
result. Education promotes industrial
efficiency and increases material
wealth. Quoting from President Van
derlip of the powerful National City
Bank of New York, the bulletin states:
I'm the group of great industrial
nations there has come forward in re-
cent years one that has taken a place
in the very front rank among indus
trial competitors. That nation is Ger
many Her people have lacked the
peculiar inventive ingenuity, which in
many fields of industry has been the
sole basis of our achievements. Her
artisans have almost none of the deli
cate sense which makes the French
handiwork superior to the Instructions
of all tariff walls. But amidst this
poverty of natural resources, and
from among a people not signally
gifted with inventive ability or artistic
temperament, there. has in genera.
ton emerged an Industrial nation
which stands forth as marvel OF
economic development.
Il have had a somewhat unusual
opportunity, to study the underlying
causes Of the economic success of Ger
many, and am firmly convinced that
the explanation of that progress car
be encompassed in a single word, the
'schoolmaster.' y
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-09-28

and will do exactly as you direct.
Save us before we perish"
Whole families come to the mission
seeking shelter. I have built about a
dozen huts for them, but need hun
dred or more. But a shelter is not
enough, the men need work, SO that
they can support their families.
Times, then, are hard in Lang Son,
and our only hope is that Providence
will not wholly forsake us, but will
renew the fruits of the soil and per-
nit us to secure the means of exist
ence.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-09-28
THE WISH or a MISSIONARY.

May the souls that our benefactors
help to save be as so many shining
pearls which will adorn their ever
lasting crown in Heaven. May these
souls also repay them hundred fold
i'm this world by granting them sue
cess and prosperity In All their under.
takings,'
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-09-28

We all. wish to be loved. We may
not confess it, but it is true. and it is
nothing to be ashamed Of Well, then,
let us be worthy of being loved, and
let us love. This is the secret of win
ming souls into the kingdom
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-02-27
Says Acid Stomach
Causes INDIGESTION
Excess Of hydroehlorie acid
sours the food and forms
cases.


Undigested food delayed in the
stomach decays, or rather, ferments,
the same as food left in the open air,
says a noted authority. He also tells
US that Indigestion is caused by Hy-
per-acidity. meaning, there Is an ex-
cess of hydro-chloric acid in the stom-
ach which prevents complete digestion
and starts food mentation. Thus
everything eaten sours in the stomach
much like garbage sours In a can.
forming acrid fluids and gases which
initiate the stomach like toy balloon
Then we feel a heavy, lumpy misery
in the chest, we beich up gas. we eruc-
tate sour food or have heartburn, fat
ulence, waterbrash or nausea
He tells us to lay aside all d1ges-
tive aids and instead, get from any
pharmacy four ounces Of Jad Salts and
take tablespoonful in glass Of
water before breakfast and drink while
it is effervescing, and furthermore. to
continue this for week While relief
follows the first dose. it is important
to nuetralize the acidity. remove the
gas-making mass, start the liver, slim
ulate the kidneys aud thus promote a
free flow of pure digestive juices.
Jad Salts is inexpensive and is made
from the acid of grapes and lemon
juice, combined with lithia and sodium
phosphate. This harmless salts is
used by thousands Of people for stom.
ach trouble with excellent results
Adv.