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THE TEMPORAL POWER

hampered in any way in his spiritual
he owes civic allegiance to any world
ly government He should be free to
govern the Church from a capital in
which he is the sovereign ruler In
other words, he should have a free
District of Columbia, just as the
United States has such a district.
The trainers of the American con-
stitution provided their government
with an independent district No one
state should exercise undue influence.
that it harbored the national capital
within it's confines. Now, if District
of Columbia is relatively necessary
for the free government of the United
States, why should not such a dis
trict, the small "Papal States," be.
considered similarly necessary for the
free government of the Catholic
Church?
The Italian usurpation of the Papal
States seems to constitute curse to
all Europe. The Russian Radicals re-
Gently published the text of secret
agreement by the Allies to ignore the
Pope and his rights in any future
negotiations for peace. This probably
accounts for their failure to answer
his famous peace proposal of August
1, 1917. President Wilson, however,
not only sent a courteous answer, but
also, in recent declarations on our war
aims, practically repeated the Popes
general principles and concrete sug-
gestions for peace.
Let US hope that the Allies will not
have to learn by bitter experience that
God Himself finally avenges the un-
just treatment of His chief visible
representative on earth. That He does
SO is a fact we'll attested by the his
tory of the POpes. The French knew
this fact so well that they often give
expression to it in an old, we'll known
proverb: "Qui mango du pape, en-
meurt,' meaning "One who eats pope,
dies of it."
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CATHOLICS In CHILL
NO ANTl-CATHoLlC PARTY, AS
SERTS AMERICAN AMBAS-
SADOR.

United States Ambassador Joseph
H. Shea has returned to Indianapolis
on a short vacation from his post in
Santiago de Chill, where he has been
since he. was appointed by President
Wilson in March, 1916. Judge Shea
had much to say about Chilli and par
ticularly much matter of interest to
Catholics; shown a report from one
of the daily papers that "the anti
clericals had triimphed in the recent
elections" Judge Shea said:
''I can't imagine what that means.
There is no anti-clerical party in
Chill and there has been no such issue
up in the elections. They are practi-
cally all Catholics down there and
the Catholic schools, colleges and the
universities are the leading institu-
tions. The Church has no trouble
whatever there and there is no move
ment against the Church such as we
often hear of in other countries.
There are, of course, progressiyes and
conservatives in the politics of that
country as elsewhere, but there is no
anti-clerical movement such as has
been hjnted at In the dispatched
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AN AFFECTIVE PROTEST
STATEMENT CALLS FORTH IMME-
date DENIAL-SLUR ON
JEWS WITHDRAWN.

In a manual of instructions for medi-
cal boards, working in conjunction
with local draft boards, which was
lately issued by the War Department,
occurred this sentences:
"The foreign born, and especially
the Jews, are more apt to malinger
than the native born"
Instantly the Jews all over the coun-
try began to make the telegraph wires
hot with protests. Letters, too, came
pouring into Washington. AS soon as
his attention was called to the mat
ter, President Wilson wrote to the
Acting Secretary of War this letter:
Il am very much distressed that the
sentence, quoted in the enclosed tele-
gram, should have been contained in
the draft instructions to the medical
advisory boards. They, of course, rep
resent a view absolutely contrary to
that of the Administration, and ex-
press a. prejudice, which ought never
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AFFAIRS In SPAIN
KING ALFoNso'S GOVERNMENT A
GREAT SUCCESS.

In Spain, King Alfonso's chosen
government is proving an immense
success so far. 1t is called the "Gov-
ernment of Talent" It's shining light
is the great Catholic statesman, Senior
Maura, who is president of the cabinet,
and whose power and prestige con-
tinue to grow. After five years of
retirement, entered into as a protest
against the corruption of succeeding
governments, Senor Maura is now at
the helm in the most difficult days of
Spain's history. That the people love
the king and are ready to do their
best is shown by the manner in which
they have acclaimed the new Govern
ment, and by the manner in which
the various elements and contending
forces have been brought to sit round
the same table solely through the in
fiuence of King Alfonso.
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NON-CHURCH GOERS
ONLY 42,o44,ss4 PEOPLE IN THE
UNITED STATES ARE CLASSI-
FLED AS CHURCH MEMBERS.

Church members in the United
States numbered 42,044,384 at the
close of 1916, according to the ten
year religious census announced by
the Government last week The fig
ures showed an increase of 6,976,316
or 1919 per cent over 1906.
The report says: "Of the total,
15,742,262 were claimed by the Roman
Catholic Church against 14,210,577 in
1906. Eight other denominations
claimed more than 100000 each"
While in most Protestant bodies,'
the Census Bureau reported, the
term member is limited to communi-
cants or confirmed members, in the
Roman Catholic Church it includes all
baptized persons"
Jewish bodies reported a member
ship of 359,99S against 1O1, ,457 in
1906, but it was pointed out that the
membership comprised heads of fam
lilies only.
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face with danger and death. The pic
ture Of the Irish Chaplain standing out
side the camp fire, and giving general
absolution to the assembled troops
before an attack, is one long to be
remembered.
lie Ven. Jean Claude Colin. BY A.
Cothenet. Published by Pierre
Tequi, Paris.
This brief work is a review of the
life of the Venerable Colin, a French
priest and founder of the Marists. He
was born in 1890, and died in 1875.
Although the idea of q religious So
ciety dedicated to the Blessed Virgin
originated with a group Of seminari-
ans, Colin became the real founder.
He and a few companions, after Ordi-
nation, began to preach missions in
the neglected parts of the Diocese
During the eighteen years of his ad-
ministration he founded many mis-
sionary houses and colleges of the
Society Of Mary, both in France and
abroad. The cause of his beatifica-
tion is now before Rome.
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THE BOMBARDED CHURCH

ciple of construction utterly at vari,
ance with the ancient SYSTEM, erect
ing Greek portico against church
designed in the Pointed style.
Victor Hugo noted this portico,
whose style, in the fashion of it's
day, he declared spoiled the effect
of the building.
Through the same influences, altera-
tions were made in the Gothic tower
on the north.
Whatever the corrections made
on the exterior, the lines of the nave
and the transepts were preserved in
the traditions of the older national
ideals, so that the interior was as fine
a specimen of Gothic architecture as
was to be found in Paris.
Parts have been preserved of glori-
Gus windows by Jean Cousin, master
in the designing of stained glass.
In a chapel of the choir was a fine
window by Robert Pinaigrier (153)
which may have escaped injury.
The vaulting was remarkable for
a great crown, six feet in diameter,
which hung. high overhead, suspended
and secured by the ingenious masons
of Francis l.
A Symbol of Triumph.
Decorated with the emblems of
the Tower and the Star, it was a
symbol of the triumph of Notre Dame,
Patroness of Paris.
Many notable men, the Chancellor.
Michael lie Teller; his son an Arch
bishop OF Rheims; the painter, Phil
ippe of Champagne; the philosopher,
Ducange; the poet, Scarron, and
others had their last resting places
within the walls-tombs destroyed by
the tides of revolution.
In 1894, st. Gervais was an espe-
cially chosen place for a Feast of
Reason" when the revolutionaries,
and the dregs from the terrible depths
of the city, held carousal
Beside the gray walls, stood a
house, now pulled down, the resi-
dence for many years of Voltaire.
A step in any direction from the
SIuIS1I1 anu VIC 16N1N0 lH6ulOEl6S OI
historic days and names; hereabouts
lived the Constable Of Montmorency,
and the Cardinal de Bourbon: there
Hughes Aubryiot, Mayor of Paris in
1870, who built the Bastille; in that
church, nearby, Bourdaloue preached
and Ravaillas met a fellow plotter;
and what tales cluster about these old
noblemen's houses of the days of
"cape and sword"
The open space before st. Ger
vais was the scene of many terrible
executions and royal vengeances in
the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries,
and thence bore the name of Place du
Martroy, or the Place of Martyrdom.
In keeping with it's record of
change and tragedy is the chapter
added by the German monster gun
to the story of St. Gervais.
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The latest victim among the monu'
ments of France is the Church of ST.
Gervais in Paris, the scene of the dis
aster of Good Friday, writes CORE
spondent in the Catholic Transcript.
The recent reports tell of the ruin
made by the shell which, entering
high up, and well 20 the front OF
the church. brought down in it's eX-
plosion columns and masonry upon
the crowded people-a croWning act
of savagery in the attacks on Paris.
Every lover of France, and of her
ancient Faith and civilization, will
keep the memories of the men, women
and children, victims of that morning,
and will know that they did not die
in vain.
The Church of st. Gervais and st.
Protais, to give the full name, was
typical among the ancient churches
of the city, for, always renewing
and changing, every phase of the
life of Paris had contributed to it's
building and decorating.
1t was a record of the ages it had
passed through-none Of them in
juring it as our own has done-and
with it are connected traditions
running back to the earliest times of
Christianity in Gaul.
It was dedicated in the sixth cen
tury, in the reign of Childebert, son
of the great Clovis.
Before it's altar once worshipped
men who had fought the Germans and
Visigoths at Vouille and Tolliacum,
the victories that established the ma
ton.
st. Gervais stands in one of the
old and picturesque quarters of Paris,
where remains of the homes and
properties of sixteenth century mobiles
still exist, and every street holds
memories of the Revolution and of the
Commune.
AS 1t Stood On Good Friday.
The church building as it stood
Good Friday morning, dated largely
from the sixteenth century, when it
was altered and added to by the archi-
tect Solomon de Brosse, constructor of
the Luxembourg Palace, who served
the Good King Henry w and the
newcomers of the House of Medici
Inspired by the ideals of the
Renaissance, and monuments of Flor
ence dear to the memory of the
new queen, de Brosse attempted, in
the words of the historian Henry
Martin, to marry the three combined
orders of Greek architecture to prin.
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PRIEST, WAR HERO
ANOTHER CHAPLAIN DECORATED
AT THE FRONT.

The Associated Press correspondent
with the American Army in France,
cabled on April % that, on that day,
l22 soldiers from Massachusetts were
decorated with the French war cross
for distinguished bravery in battle A
good many of them are Catholics.
Their chaplain, Rev. John B. Des
Valles, was decorated with them The
citation in his case in the army orders
for the award was as follows:
Chaplain John B. Des Wales; ''With
extraordinary heroism and exceptional
devotedness to duty, under uninter-
rupted fire and at the constant risk of
his life, he did not cease to tender aid
to the wounded, and he encouraged to
renewed efforts the men who were
weakened in hard fighting. :"
Another chaplain, Rev. Walton S.
Donker, was similarly rewarded for
his bravery and devotedness in attend
ing to the wounded.
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YOUNG MEMS SOCIETY
MEETING DISCUSSES WORK-NA-
TIoNAL BODY WILL BE FORMED
TO PROMOTE WELFARE OF
YOUTH.

The third of a series Of meetings
of the representatives of the various
Catholic young mems societies in the
United States, which had for their
purpose the formation of a national
organization to parallel and offset the
Y. M. C. A., was held in Philadelphia
last week.
The first of these meetings was held
in Chicago in April of last year, at
which the views of the several repre-
sentatives were exchanged as to the
advfsability of the formation of such
an organization; the second meeting
was held in June in st. Louis, at which
a tentative constitution was drawn
up to be submitted to the several eX-
listing young mems societies. The
conventions of these bodies were held
later in the year, and not only ap-
proved the project, but selected repre-
sentatives to carry the work through.
The meeting last week was the first
conference held following these con-
ventions.
The name selected for the new or
ganization is the Catholic Young Men S
Association. 1t is not to be feder-
alton of societies, but a new and inde-
pendent national body that will have
for it's purpose the promotion of the
material, intellectual, spiritual, moral
and social welfare Of the Catholic
young men of the United States.
Recognizing that the appreciation
of the hierarchy of the United States
| is essential for the success of the as
sociation, the president was directed
to write letter to the Bishops and
Archbishops of the country and to
the Cardinals, setting forth the prog
ress made in the work, and respect
fully asking their judgment concern
ing the appointment of representatives
to discuss the steps to be taken in the
| formation of this great movement.
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to have been expressed or entertained.
In all this l am sure you will agree
with me; and I hope that you will
be kind enough to make an immediate
excision of these sentences, and in
struct the medical advisory boards
accordingly, letting it be known, if
you will be kind enough, to the senders
of the enclosed kilograms that you
have done so. I am making this re-
quest with all the greater confidence,
because 1 am sure you will sympathize
with my point Of view in the matter" 3"
The $4,000 pamphlets, Of 100 pages
each, containing the instructions, will
be recalled and amended. More than
10000 kilograms have been sent to
medical advisory boards advising them
that the instructions have been
changed
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Christians of Rome: Il issue to you
Cat Rome) no commands like Peter
and Paul." Dionysius of Corinth, Ire
naeus of Lyons, Clement of Alexan-
dria-all of the second century give
testimony to the fact that st. Peter
lived and taught and died in Rome;
in the beginning of the third century,
the historian, Caius, could point to
the trophies of the Apostles, that is,
their tombs--Peter in the Vatican and
Paul on the road to Ostia. All the
early catalogues of the bishops of
Rome begin with the name of ST..
Peter. But why multiply testimonies? :?
All reputable historians, Protestant
pagans, infdel, as well as Catholic,
are agreed that st. Peter lived in
Rome.
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port that this was being done.

port that this was being done.
1T was even worse than l had ever
dreamed" continued Mr. Miller. "The
customs officials said that they caught
but few of the sn1ugglers who entered
the United States with these valuable
paintings and religious articles. In
the curio shops of San Antonio may
be purchased everything from a vest
ment to a statue. Religious paintings
of all kinds and chalices of every de-
scription and value are offered for
sale. These, for the most part, have
been bought at public auction at the
customs house. The pictures are cut
out of the frames. with knives and are
in rolls, some as big as a table top.
The most valuable paintings rarely
bring price over $3.50; whole group
of paintings in one lot may not realize
an average Of SO apiece.
"The customs officials say there is
no alternative but that they must sell
these goods at public auction They
are labeled contraband stuff because
they are taken from smugglers, and
when no one comes to claim them
after certain period, they are sold
at public auction
Mr.. Miller believes that some kind
of an organization should be formed
to buy as many of these articles as
possible, and keep them in the Cath
olic churches of this country until the
rightful owners can later be found in
Mexico after that unfortunate country
has been restored to a normal condi-
ton.
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DIES A CATHOLIC
NOTED INVENTOR RECEIVED INTO
THE CHURCH ON DEATHBED.

Frank Shuman, of Tacony, who
gained international prominence when
lhe built a motor operated by power
from the suns rays, died at his home
in Philadelphia recently. He had the
happiness in his last moments of be-
ing received into the Church by Rev.
P. F. Fogerty, rector of st. Leo, and
of being fortified by the sacraments.
Mr.. Shuman's principal activity in
developing power from the heat of
the sun was in Egypt, where plant
was erected and put into operation.
He also devised a machine for mer-
cerizing cotton yarn and another for
Decreasing wool. Wire glass was one
of his inventions. Among his other
discoveries was a method for con-
structing concrete piling. His honors
included the award of two medals by
the Franklin Institute.
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Thrift Stamp Campaign
PAROcHIAL SCHOOLS MAKE A
WORTHY SHOWING - SEVEN
CATHOLIC SCHOOLS IN ST. PAUL
ARE 100 PER CENT.

st. Paul school children and college
students have bought more thrift and
war savings stamps than those of any
other city in the United States, accord
ing to T. F. Chapman, who is in
charge of Thrift Stamp sales in edu-
cational institutions.
A total of $200,000 in War Stamp
purchases has been pledged by June
Is, and Mr. Chapman said $4,000 of
this amount remains to be raised The
total raised is Sal, ITO.
Four public schools, seven parochial
schools and one private school are in
the 100 per cent class as to purchases,
the report for the week ending May 10
shows.
The report for the parochial schools
iS aS follows.
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GENEROUS RED CROSS.
FATHER BRADY, THE RED CROSS
AND ToBAcco-PERFECT HAIR
MoNY BETWEEN RED CROSS
AND OTHER AGENCIES.

One day Father Brady blew into
that is the exact expression, and the
only one that fits-Red Cross head
quarters in Paris. He sought out his
friend, Father Hemmeck, writes G.. p.
Connolly. He was in distress. He
must have some tobacco, some cocoa,
and some soup cubes for his boys.
He might just as well have asked
Father Hemmick to turn over all the
art treasures of Paris. He might pos
sib1y help him out on the tobacco
how much did he need? A hundred
pounds?
Il think we can use five hundred
pounds" said Father Brady.
81 think you can," replied Father
Hemmick, ''but where are you going
to get it?"
That's up to you" replied the
undaunted Father Brady, knowing
that about anything the Red Cross
had Father Hemmick could get, and
all the while determined. that he would
not return to his Sammies without
the spoils that he had come to Paris
to get, if he hao to face martial law
to get them.
Father Hemmick introduced his
friend to Major Perkins, in charge
of Red Cross affairs in Paris, and. 10!
and behold, Father Brady got his
five hundred pounds of tobacco with
out the loss of an eye-lash, and gratis.
Not only that, but Major Perkins
sends him regularly supplies of cocoa
and soup cubes, and Father Brady
has little smokers and social sessions
and conversations for his boys, which
keep them from running around the
4esxryva Z, :, ts,, o. q. A., As,s.salalu
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Belgian Orphans Coming

The Catholic Protectory conducted
at Lackawanna, New York, by Rev
Nelson Baker is prepared to receive
and care for 900 and more Belgian
orphans when the United States Gov.
ernment finds it possible to bring them
over. Recently the Government asked
Father Baker concerning the number
of Belgian children he could provide
for. The Catholic Protectory at pres
ent cares for 1,600 children.
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Priest Lost at Sea

In the list of those who lost their
lives when the steamship City of
Athens, bound from New York to Sa-
Varfhah, Ca, was rammed by French
cruiser and sunk, was that of REV. J.
P. Reynolds, New York City," The
reverend gentleman proves to have
been Rev. J. P. Reynolds, o. M. l., who
for some years had been stationed at
Edmonton, Canada.
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SP0MS OF REVOLUTION
MExlCANS BARTER RELIGIOUS
GOODS - VANDALS PLUMBER
CATHOLIC CHURCHES AND
SELL SACRED ARTICLES FOR
WHATEVER THEY CAN GET.

"A squalid and pitiful sequel to the
looting OF Mexican churches is wit
messed frequently in the customs
house at San Antonio, Tex, when
numbers of religious paintings, gold
and silver chalices, religious vessels
OF many kinds, and even vestments
are disposed of at public auction by
the United States government said
Jozach Miller III, who returned to
Kansas City last week from a busi-
ness trip to that city. Mr.. Miller
made Ii q point to look into the ~.
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French Sent to Ireland

Field Marshal Viscount French has
been appointed lord lieutenant of Ire
land. Lord French succeeds Baron
Wimborne, who was appointed lord
lieutenant of Ireland in 1915, serving
to May, 1916, and reappointed the fol-
lowing August to that post after the
Dublin revolt.
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mnrln nf BnnkH
Brief Reviews and Notices
Les Croyances Fondamentales: By
Right Reverend Bishop Tissier.
Drhlicbod bu pinrro Tnori paris

Les Croyances FondamentaIes: By
Right Reverend Bishop Tissier.
Published by Pierre Tequi, Paris.
The author of the above work is
Bishop of Chalons-sur-Marne in
France. The idea which he carries
out in a most learned, and at the same
time simple and readable style, is to
be found in the preface. He says that
the experience cleaned in this war
shows that ordinary people are not so
much irreligious as just ignorant of
the most elementary truths of religion.
Hence it is that the learned writer,
who has many works to his credit,
presents the chief religious questions
that are found to be discussed so fre-
quently today. Two chapters are of
special interest. They deal with the
possibility of miracles and myteries,
and also with the fact that miracles
clearly can be proved from reason.
Trench Pictures From France: By
Major VIM. Redmond, M. P. Pub
lished by George H. Doran Company,
New York.
The lamented Major Redmond,
brother of the late Irish leader, was
killed in action last June Up to that
time he had contributed number of
articles to the London Daily Chron-
icle. These short sketches, written
rapidly and on the ground of the
scenes which they describe are clear
and vivid. They give lifelike touch
to the horrors Of war, lighted up by
those intimate glimpses which show
human nature at It's best when face to-
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II Is NOW KNOWN THAT THE
TRAGEDY OF GOOD FRIDAY
OCCURRED IN CHURCH OF ST.
GERVAiS, PARIS-DESCRIPTloN
OF THIS OLD SCENE OF cATHo-
Lie WORSHlP-MANY HISTORI-
CAL MEMORIES.
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FOR SALE-Ideal home near new
Cathedral. All modern conveniences.
Arranged for private home and room
ers if desired. Walking distance. De-
sirable neighborhood Reasonable
terms. A personal inquiry and inspec-
ton is suggested. Apply 227 Iglehart
avenue, st. Paul.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1918-11-14
Idaho County Needs
Only 5000 More for
United War Chest
MONEY IN CHEST WILL CARE FOR
GREATER PART OF THE
QUOTA.

With a quota of $l0,5o0 for the united
war work fund, and with $4,000 in the
war chest, Idaho county has to raise
only 5000 to meet its minimum allot,
ment in the campaign that is being car
ried on all over the country this week,
Since six school districts in the county
have made no report on the war chest
drive, an effort will be made to pro-
cure from these districts the deficiency
of $780, If such is impossible, the re-
mainder win be raised by popular sub
seription. The appeal is made for seven
organizations, the Y. M. G. A, Y. w. @.
A., National Catholic War Council and
Knights of Columbus, Jewish Welfare
board, War Camp Community service,
American Library association and the
Salvation army.