The menace. [volume] (Aurora, Mo.) 1911-1920, 1918-03-16
PASADENA WANTS NO
NON-CATHOLIC HOME
Commission DisapprovesAcc epting,
as a Trust, $25,OOO Home for
Aged Non-CathOlics

A considerate and benevolent old
Protestant by the name of Nelson
departed from this mundane sphere
not long since and the Pasadena
Star-NetUS issue for February 26th
records that he bequeathed former
hotel site to the city (probable
value $25,000) to be utilized in pro-
viding the comforts of home to aged
Protestants, and to be known as the
&c. A. Nelson Old Folks Home"
1t was committed in trust to the
city. But this venerable old gentle
man who wished to aid those unable
to help themselves must have either
aroused the enmity Of, or have had
some bitter experience with Rome,
for somewhere in his will there
seems to be a statement to the ef-
feet that Roman Catholics may not
be admitted. The StGr-News says
"No Catholics are to be admitted as
residents"
The bequest Of this home for
aged persons was not the only. man /
'ner in which the old gentleman
showed a desire to serve humanity
with his remaining wealth for he
made two other gifts of 81, 900 each,
one to aid the temperance cause and
the other to provide cash prizes in !
oratorical contests at the Pasadena
public high school. We are in
debted to the Star-News for the in
formation that Undoubtedly the
last two bequests will be accepted
with thanks, but from opinions ex-l
pressed by the commissioners after
the meeting it would seem unlikely
the commission will desire to execute
q trust which excludes a portion of
the people from its benefits"
How very consideratel If these
gentlemen only knew the real atti-
tude of Rome toward institutions
not under papal control they would
have little fear that it would ever
be necessary to deny admittance to
papists.
On the same theory that she de-
nounces public schools as goddess"
Rome contemptuously calls non
Catholic hospitals animal houses"
and no home for the aged would be
patronized by a papist so long as
that person had o dollar that could
be extracted to better advantage in
a priest-controlled institution.
In Cincinnati, Ohio, they have a
priest who is able to run his parish
at a profit after all disbursements
through Rome's many channels have
been met and this man is as frank
as he is prosperous. This priest,
Louis A. Tieman, publishes an al
manac for 1918 in which he says,
on page 80:
. The Catholic hospital omits moth
ing sanctioned by genuine science,
but they who conduct it, premise that
the patient is something more than a
e valuable animal. Therefore, unless
e forced to other action, Catholics
should always make use Of Catholic
i, hospitals. The sick need spiritual
) ministries. Even in the best nom
Catholic hospitals these ministries
e are not always regarded with sympa-
s thetic eye, and it has not been un-
D known that through indifference or
! bigotry dying Catholics have been de-
= prived of the Last Sacraments.
0 Catholic social Uorkers in particlt-
: lar should not e1pose the defenseless
!. poor to the possibility Of illegal and
h immoral practices too common todda
4 IN non-CGtholic clinics and hospitals,
Il Hence, whatever the necessity, these
facilities should not be used unless il
i is certain that nothing will be done
h contrary to Catholic principles anc
q morality. Choose hospital for youl
! sick, not an animal house.
: : 1t is not at all improbable that
poor old Mr.. Nelson was thoroughly
4 cognizant Of how Rome SANDERS oul
: public schools, hospitals, and al.
i things that are not under the dom,
n nance of, (or super-tolerant of thu
a managers Of popery and he may
= have believed that the best way t
J. avoid erecting home that NIGH
IS eventually be controlled by Rom,
; was to stipulate that no papist b
,e admitted to it and in such a casI
IS his bequest should be received witt
v deal more thanks than reluctance
l. There is no call for commission st
re soft as the Pasadena folk seem Il
be. Rome doesn't use the soft pedal
If and unless the commission is papa
it should be informed of its mis-
q take. If it is papal the matte
se should be re-considered-after a nev
III commission has been appointed
There would have been little oppo
J.? sition to a Catholic leaving a simi
10 lar trust for the benefit of his kind
IS, and surely some way can be founl
,u to carry out the wishes Of this Oh
be and respected citizen Of the "a