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South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1918-10-03

How Gene Debs does crave martyrdom. And We
rather guess he'll be accommodated.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1918-12-19
REASONS ARE GIVEN
BurIeson Declares for Ownership
of Wire Systems.
Representative Moon Told That Eco
nomic Importance Of Proposition
10 Foremost.

Washington, Dec. 17.--Ownership by
the government of the telegraph and
telephone systems OF the nation was
characterized as imperative" by Post
master General Burleson in a letter to
Representative Moon, chairman Of the
House committee on postolfices and
postrOads.
Mr. Burleson said the systems can
be acquired without the appropria-
ton of dollar from the public treas.
ury," bv applying to an amortization
fund for rs years the savings made
under government ownership through
elimination of Implications in plants
and operating expenses.
AS justification for the permanent
taking over of the wire systems. Mr..
Burleson said: ITO establish and main.
tain means OF communication is as
much the function of the government
as is the provision for national de.
Tense. Moreover it is essential to
the development of the country and
to the progress and prosperity of its
people. 1t is a defense of the national
interests as much in peace as In war.
Extension OF the wire service should
be determined by public needs, not
the opportunity for private gain"
The Postmaster General said he be-
lieved that an effective plan could be
worked out by which the waste of COM
petition can be eliminated and the ad-
vantage of private initiative in re-
search. investigation and experimental.
ton not be lost.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1918-12-19
DISORDERS IN BERLIN
G0vrnment Seems PoWerIess to
Preserve Quiet.
Committees Of All Kinds Publish Con
Trajectory Orders and Practice
Biackmail.

Paris, Dec. 17-According to q cor
respondent of the Journal, who has re-
turned from hurried visit to Berlin.
the Berlin central government Is pow
erless to maintain order and deserters
from the army terrorize the inhabi-
tants.
kohheries and attacks follow one
another rapidly and apartments and
shops are robbed In midday Commit
tees OF all kinds, he continues, pub.
fish contradictory orders and practice
blackmail.
Red flags are flying all over the
city, but business Is going on as usual.
The war has caused a great rush of
women into public services.
The theaters. the correspondent
adds. are open and the restaurants are
crowded The population Is we'll
dressed. he said but in artificial ma
terials
There is scarcity OF bread. but.
ter, milk and potatoes and spectators
are reported to be holding their re.
serves of foodstuffs, An ordinary meal
costs Is to 30 marks, and an order
OF soup Is 3 marks
Berlin is dark at night and providers
occupy the streets,
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1918-12-19
MONUMENTS

Charles s Beard Of the Yer
mont Monument Co., will be in
Askov about the middle of JAN
uary to take orders for monu-
ments.
1t takes about three months
from time of placing order until
the stone arrives, so if you are
contemplating the erection of a
monument in the spring, you
should book your orders now.
If you are interested in this
line write, phone or call at the
Askov American office for an ap-
pointment with Mr.. Beard in
January. Mr.. Beard will have a
complete line of illustrations
and will be pleased to show
same to you. 1927
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1918-12-19
Aslxov

Mrs. A. r. Buck has been quite
i'll. but is much improved again
Miss Esther Jensen left Friday
for Minneapolis, where she has
secured employment.
Remember the Red Cross sew.
ing Monday, Dec. 30, at 100 p
M. at the school house.
Remember that your War Saw.
ings pledges are due before Jan
lst. The pledges are at the local
post-office, where same may be
paid.
VIM. Jensen, who has been en-
ployed in the shop of the Gener,
al Light & Power Co., at Cloquet,
returned home Sunday; he does
not expect to return to Cloquet
until after the holidays and only
then if there is work in the shop.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1918-12-19
Insignia For Air Pilots.

Washington. Dec. 16.-Instructors
OF fliers in the air service OF the army
have been authorized by the war de-
partment to wear on the left arm
sleeve decoration consisting of gilt
wings the same size as those In the
insignia on the collar decoration. This
award. 1t Is announced. rs made In
appreciation OF the services of the sew
eral hundred niers who have been
kept at home for use on the flying
fields Of this country in turning out
the quota OF pilots asked for By the
allies."
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1918-12-19
Red Group Makes New Demands.

Amsterdam, Dec. IT. Sweeping de-
mands in Berlin have been made BY
the Spartacus group. dispatches print.
ed In the Handleblad declares. The
group has demanded for safe guard,
ing the revolution" immediate dis
armament OF police officers. ruling
classes. non-proletarian soldiers. the
confiscation by the workmen and sol
dfers' councils OF all arms. munition
and munition factories. the arming OF
adult proletariat and the formation oil
workmen's militia and Of Red Guard
abolition OF officers.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1918-12-19
Bars German Uniform.

American Army Of Occupation. Dec
l7.-Men In German military uni.
forms are not to be allowed within
the American area OF occupation after
Dec. Is unless they are on duty and
are provided with written permission
Of the American military authorities.
according to proclamation issued
by Col. J. C. Rhea. chairman of the
American Bridgehead commission.
Assemhlages for purposes Of political
toned by the American military an.
thorities.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1918-12-19
PREDICTS BUILDING BOOM

National Association Of 6uilder,' Ex-
changes 10 Optimistic.
Columbus. Ohio, Dec 17.-That the
nation Is about to enter upon one OF
the greatest periods of building in it's
history 10 the belief OF members OF
the board of control Of the National
Association OF Builders' Exchanges.
in session here.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1918-12-19
FINLAND SELECTS REGENT
General Mannerheim Wants lndepend.
ence RECOGNIZED.

Helsingfors, Dec 1.-THE Finnish
diet has elected General Msnnerheim
regent of Finland.
General Mannerheim started from
Newcastle, Eng. last Saturday for Fin.
land. He said his policy was to pro-
cure recognition Of the complete indie
pendence OF Finland by all the powers
and establish definite form of gov
eminent there, based on the co-opera-
ton OF all political parties.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1918-12-19
EIGHT MORE VESSELS SAIL
Large Number Of American Soldiers
Are Cominu Home.


Are Coming Home.
Washington, Dec. 1.-THE War de-
partment announced the sailing from
France of the transports Manchuria.
Persia Maru. Garlic and Baltic with
returning American troops.
The Baltic. sailing from Liverpool
Dec. IA for New York. carried seven
casual companies Of about 100 men
each, three officers. number of medi.
cal casuals and sick and wounded.
Later the War department an
nounced the saiAng from France OF
four additional transports--the Gen.
eral Gorgas, the Saxonia. the Cedric
and the Mongolia. Z. r. S.ettinius,
special representative of Secretary
Baker in France. is returning aboard
the Cedric.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1918-12-19
FOUR A!RMEN ARE KILLED
One Plane Gets Out Of Control and
Crashes Into Another.

0HS F'a"c 1ctS Out OF CoHtrol ana
Crashes Into Another.
West Point. Miss. Dec 17.--Four
men were killed in an airplane COLI
sion near here. They are Lieuts. AL.
win w. Splane, Of Oil City, Pa, and
Fred Synnestvdt. OF Pittsburg. flying
instructors OF Payne field, and Pri-
Yates Fred p. James. of Litchfield, Ill,
and. Guy c. Wells, of Reynoldsville.
Ill.,. of Bowen field.
The men are said to have been fly.
ing from Bowen to Payne field at the
time of the accident. One of the air.
planes flying about 100 feet over the
other. got out OF control. it Is said,
and plunged into the second. All four
men we're instantly killed.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-07-13
Golden Jubilee of Rector
MGR. JAMES F. MAckIN, RECTOR
OF WASHINGTON CHURCH, Is
HIGHLY RONoRED.

High dignitaries of the Church,
from far and near, joined in the cele-
bration Tuesday, July 2, of the golden
jubilee of Mgr. James F. Mackin, rec
tor of st. Paul's Church, Washington.
Mgr. Mackin celebrated solemn High
Mass at 10 o'clock, when Cardinal
Gibbons and the Most Rev. John Bon
zano, Apostolic Delegate, occupied
thrones in the sanctuary.
Mgr. Maclzin is 80 years old, having
been born in Baltimore on June 20,
1888. He was educated at st. Charles
College and ordained to the priesthood
by the Most Rev. Archbishop Spaul-
ding. He received special honors
from Pope Plus X for his work in
establishing the first male choir for
liturgical chant in the United States
in 1908, and late that year was
elevated by His Holiness to the rank
of domestic prelate to the Papal
household.
Mgr Mackin performed the mar
riage ceremony for Admiral Dewey
and Mrs Hazen, shortly after the Ad-
miral's return to Washington as the
hero of Manila Bay.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-07-13
DANES RECEPTIVE TO CATHOLIC
DOCTRINES - INTELLECTUAL
AWAkENlNG-GRoWTH OF THE
CHURCH.

Catholicism in the northern coun.
tries is still but a tiny force, so com
pletely had it been stamped out, but
there are signs of renascence, particIl-
larly in Denmark. Some light upon
these reaches us through the confess
sions of well-known Dane recently
converted to the old Faith-Peter
SCHNEIDER Our contemporary, Revue
des Jeunes, tells the story, and it's
main point is to show the tug that
Catholicism makes at the heart
strings of the Danes.
The Danish temperament is natu-
rally receptive of what this writer
calls French thought, and he shows
that at successive epochs in it's his
tory Denmark has come under this
influence. NJ. Schindler's story of his
own childhood-of the pathetic recoil.
ing from the realities of life to the
things that appeared to him to be
dreams--iS given to show the innate
craving for the birthright of which
LutheraniSm has robbed them which
is felt by the lands of the north He
tells OF his discovery of Johannes Jor.
gensen, the convert poet. Jorgensen
showed him the Land of Promise in
actual existence, and when in due
course the reader of that wonderful
authors Catholic works had recon.
ciled the theolOgian with the poet in
himself, he also was received into the
Catholic Church. Once converted, the
apostle asserted himself in the young
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-07-13

Michaels Episcopal Church, Marble
head, Mass. Chaplain Rollins was the
recipient of the CroiX de Guerre. He
says of his regiment: There are re-
ligious ministrations to every man in
the organization, Catholic, Protestant
and Jewish. Ali are regular in their
attendance at services, and their
moral conduct is of the very highest
The military authorities are doing
everything possible to safeguard the
men, and these respond readily and
eagerly"
Both Chaplain Doherty and Chap
lain Rollins spoke enthusiastically OF
the altogether admirable spirit of fra.
ternity existing between those who
are ministering to our soldiers The
Catholic chaplains, they say, are not
merely looking to the good of the
Catholic boys, nor the Protestant to
that of the Protestant boys. Each is
working for the best interests of every
man.
Accompanying the chaplains is Pri-
Vate Adalbert Bresnehan who captured
the first German prisoner and who
was rewarded with the Croix de
Guerre. They have left Washington
to visit some of the larger cities. On
the completion of their mission they
will return to the front.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-07-13
IN DENMARK

Dane, who was fired with zeal to con.
vert his friends, the learned socie.
ties and Denmark in its entirety.
1t is to France-to the new young
spirit that is so evident thereto the
land of HuySmans, Brunetiere, Coppee
and other convert bards and seers,
that this Danish poet appeals for an
infusion of that religious spirit to
which the soul of Denmark makes so
ready a response. God grant" he
says, that your spirit, young Catho
lies of France, may penetrate our land
that our journals may propagate your
social ideas, your poetry, bearing the
imprint of your faith, and your art
that the echo of your words may re-
main in the halls of our colleges and
universities" He finally appeals for
a revival of the ancient order of ST.
Bridget which is already being re-
stored in England and at Rome, and
which may yet be the salvation of
Denmark.
The Hon. Maurice Francis Egan, the
Well-known Catholic writer of fiction
and belle lettres, who has just re-
turned home on short leave from Co.
penhagen, where he is the United
States minister, speaking recently to
representative of the American
Press, bears testimony TO the reality
of the Catholic awakening in Den
mark. There are continual CONVEX
sions, he says, among the aristocracy
and among the very poor Since 1849
there has been complete political and
religious liberty for Catholics. At
present, according to Orbis Catholi-
Gus, the Catholic population is but a
little under 10000 out of three mil
lions, with forty-eight churches, sixty
one clergy and 498 religious women.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-07-13
DRYBURGH Able Y

Ralph Strobe, the friend of Chaucer
and opponent of Wycliffe, and with
Chaucer himself, who lived there for
a time. Later it fell on evil days,
being held in commendam during that
fatal last century before the Reforma-
ton when simony and sacrilege were
swallowing up the Church in Scotland.
1t had suffered in the Border Wars of
the fourteenth century, notably in
1922, and it's final ruin came at the
hands of the English. In 1915 Henry
VIII, annoyed at the rejection of his
plan for marrying the young heiress
of the Scottish Crown to his son Ed
ward, sent raiding forces into the
LoWlands to burn and destroy every
thing they encountered. Three knights
of approved valor and distinction"
Sir Ralph Evers, Sir George Bowes,
and Sir Bryan Layton, having already
burned Dryburgh town and laid waste
the surrounding country, repeated
their raid at the head of three thou
sand German and Spanish mercena-
rieS, 1900 English foot, and seven
hundred assured" Scotsmen-that is,
disaffected Borderers in the pay of the
English Crown. This force swept
through Tweed-dale and Teyiot-dale,
burning Melrose, Kelso, Dryburgh,
many other monasteries, castles,
churches, and scores of villages, driv-
ing off the cattle and bringing in hun
dreds of prisoners. But retribution
awaited the bandits at Ancrum Moor
where the Earl of Angus and Sir Wal
poet, fell upon them and almost ami
hilated them. Evers and Layton were
slain on the field in sight of the sane
tuaries they had ruined. 1t was, un-
happily, too late to prevent or even
repair the effects of the sacrilege, and
thus we may regard the ruin of Mel
rose and Dryburgh as an epilogue to
the Dissolution OF the Monasteries
Attached to the gift is stipulation
made by the present owner that 1.-The
privilege of holding an annual service
within the Abbey walls may be SON
tinued." This, of course, was to be
expected; but the Catholic student
may be pardoned if, in his minds eye,
he sometimes sees those majestic
ruins thronged with the ghostly forms
OF the White Canons engaged in offer
ing sacrifice that is not to be found
in the Book of Common Prayer.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-07-13
Continued from page H.
Canadian Missionary Dead

diocese are indebted to his zeal and
enterprise"
During Father Leduc's long mission
airy career what wonderful changes
have taken place in the Canadian
Northwest! The war-like Redman, I'M
der the influence of religion, has been
transformed into peaceful, law
abiding citizen; the uncultivated
prairie, once the home of the Indian
and the buffalo, has been made to
yield sustenance for the teeming popu-
lation that cultiVates it: twin bands
of steel have replaced the Old-time
trails; the iron horse has superseded
the OK team; cities, towns and villages
dot the plains where, a few years ago,
the wigWam was the only evidence Of
huma1 habitation; the hum of industry
in mine and mill is heard where for
merly the deep silence of the primeval
forest and wind-swept plain were
broken only by the football of the mis-
missions have developed into episco-
pal sees; and religion and civilization
have builded a new empire that
reaches from the American border al
most to the Arctic region. In this
transformation Father Leduc played a
not unimportant part. He was almost
the last of the pioneer missionaries
who connect the present with the past.
May the Divine Master Whom he
served so faithfully grant him the
reward which he craved during his
prieStly career,
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-07-13
HISTORICAL MEMORIES CLUSTER
ABOUT NOTED MONASTERY-
WAS FOUNDED BY SCOTTISH
kINGS-SiR WALTER SCOTT
LIES BURIED THERE.

The recent gift of Dryburgh Abbey
by it's owner Lord Glenconner to the
English nation has passed almost un
noticed amid the grave issues of the
time, yet is not without interest fol
Catholics for whom the wonderful
past of the Church in Great Britain Is
not dead and forgotten.
Dryburgh Abbey, now "a monastic
ruin" and to be henceforth Ma
tional Monument" is one of the -four
Tweed that owe their existence to the
piety and munificence of Scotland's
best Kings, ST. David, Alexander Ill
and Robert the Bruce, and that consti
tute in themselves complete archi
tectural history from st. David to the
Bruce, a period of two hundred and
fifty years. KelSo was all Norman
half-church, halffortress; Jedburgh is
early transitional Gothic, with west
front that has some haunting likeness
fuller and later-it was founded in
1150-is Dryburgh, the subject of this
notice, which leads on to the rich and
full-bloWn beauties of Melrose, Sc
famous in history and in legend.
The Premonstratensian monastery
of Dryburgh is linked with Cistercian
Melrose, not only by the geographical
propinquity and the patronage of the
same royal benefactor, but also by the
double association of the two houses
in the love and reverence of Sir Wal
ter Scott, who lies buried in a transept
chapel of Dryburgh. But that is not
its chief interest. The far-Spread Or.
der of Pr6montr6 had some thirty-five
houses in England, where the White
Canons, as they were called were re
noWned rather for their high and eX
acting standard of scholarship and
observance than for their architec
tural genius; they were in this respect
hardly rivals at all to their brilliant
contemporaries of the Order OF
CiteauX.
Dryburgh is associated with other
poets and men of, letters, among them
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-07-13
SEMINARY Is CLOSED

The Seminary of Saint Philip Neri,
Castroville, Texas, established by
the Catholic Church Extension So
ciety of the United States for the pur-
pose of saving the vocations threat
ened by revolution when the semi
naries of Mexico were looted, ceased
it's existence a few days ago. Only
eighteen of the students have not been
ordained Some of these will finish
their studies in Mexico; others will
enter American seminaries. Nearly all
are in their last year. The seminary
has an alumni association of over
eighty priests who went back to min
lister to their afflicted people in the
name Of Church still more afflicted
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-07-13
Continued from page ~
School for Making Army
Chaplains

A month is short period to be
grounded in these lines of work. and
physical exercises, particularly, are
more or less hard on the men. How
ever, they have the right spirit. The
instructor in riding urges the men to
realize that they were on army
chargers which have dash and go.
The third term of the school is now
in session. The school was opened the
first of March with seventy-five stu
dents, and the second session, and the
third, which opened June 8, had each
ninety men. Men are taken in numer-
iCally according to the size of their
respective denominations in this coun-
try. Regular army recruits now are
asked what religious denomination
they belong to and the War Depart
merit has a survey of the religious
denominations of the country, though
this has been said to be tentative and
it has not been given out.
To keep this denominational balance
there will be call sometimes for men
from one denomination, and then for
a certain number from another.
Chaplains rank as LieutenantS and
wear the regular uniform, the only
difference being that where the Lieu
tenant in The ranks wears his insig,
MIA on his collar the Chaplain wears
simple cross. Major is the highest
rank that can be taken, and there can
be only limited number of that rank
among the Chaplains. 1t takes sew
eral years before a Chaplain Lieuten,
ant rise above that rank Some dis.
satisfaction has been expressed at
this ranking of the men.
1t is the Chaplain who is the last
to see the men when they go over
the top" and the first when they re,
turn. 1t is not the position of a
Stacker. Two Chaplains who have
gone to the front recently have been
retired wounded in ten days
This Chaplains' school is for men of
the army only. Navy Chaplains get
their positions more simply and there
is no training. Chaplain John B
Frazier has been detailed by Secre-
tary of the Navy Daniels to see to the
navy Chaplains. They also have a
careful physical examination, and
Chaplain Frazier sees them person
ally, the personal equation having
much to do in both army and navy in
the choice of these religious advisers.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-07-13
Young Catholic Officer
ENSIGN HERMAN is YOUNGEST
OFFICER EVER GRADUATED
FROM ANNAPOLIS-IS NINETEEN
YEARS OLD.

James E. Herman, who has just
passed his nineteenth birthday, is the
youngest man who ever won an off.
GERS uniform at Annapolis. Not only
does he enjoy the honor of having en-
tered Annapolis at an earlier age than
any other embryo officer, but he has
made a remarkable record as a stu
dent. He now becomes the youngest
officer in the United States Navy.
Ensign Herman is an orphan He is
a protege of the Rev. r. ]. Keefe OF
st. Johns Church, White Plains, n. Y,
who is his guardian. Herman attend,
ed st. Johns School in White Plains.
He then entered the White Plains high
school, where he became a leader in
his class.
Proud of his scholastic record, Kier-
mans parents. seconded his desire to
enter Annapolis. Just as he finished
his studies Kiernan's mother and faith.
er died, and his brothers and sisters
scattered among relatives and friends
Father Keefe became. the guardian
of the young man. He attempted to
get him into Annapolis. He had pass.
ed the necessary examinations when
he was only fifteen years old En-,
trance was refused because of the
boys youth. James A. O'Gorman,
former United States senator, was ap,
pealed TO. He interested himself in
the case, and finally notified the young
man that he would be admitted when
he had passed his sixteenth birthday
He entered Annapolis on June S, three
weeks after his sixteenth birthday
At Annapolis Herman again distin.
guished himself in the classroom, and
always was at or near the top
At no time did Father Keefe, as his
guardian, ever receive a rating in any
study below excellent. The gradua.
tion likewise was one of distinction
Ensign Herman received fourth place
in class of 1877 members.