The Catholic bulletin., 1919-02-22
NEW WORLD ITEMS

Christmas Gifts to Marshal Foch.
The students of Mt. st. Joseph
Academy, at Brighton, Boston, sent
Marshal Foch as Christmas gift an
offering of prayers, Masses and gooo
works. He graciously sent them his
acknowledgements.
Church Thief Convicted.-A con-
victed pickpocket, who confessed
stealing a woman's purse in st. Mary S
Cathedral, Covington, KY, has been
fined 500 and costs and sentenced TO
sixty days hard labor in Judge Man
sons court.
Professor-Chaplan Gets Medal
For excellent services during the
Spanish influenza epidemic in france,
Lieut.. E. P. Murphy, Chaplain with
the American Army in France ana
former professor at the University or
Notre Dame, was recommended for
the DISTINGUISHED service medal.
Men Receive Honors.-The nine
students at Georgetown University
Army Training Corps at the lnstltu-
ton, who were sent to Camp Zacnary
TayIor last November, have all been
commissioned second lieutenants in
the Coast Artillery Corps. All the
men will return to school and resume
their studies.
ARGENTINA Religious Education
From authentic statistics in the CRU
zado we learn that the Catholic prl-
vate schools for primary education in
Argentina count no less than LISP es-
tablishments The most important
centers are in the capital, Buenos
Aires, 395 schools, and in the prov
inces of Buenos Aires, 800; CordoVo,
1S9: Entire Rios, 1877, and Santa Fe,
247-all Catholic free schools.
Philip Gibbs a Catholic.-Phlhp
Gibbs, the famous war correspondent,
whose daily descriptive stories OF the
fighting in which the British armies
participated, and particularly the big
shows" were followed by thousands
OF readers, both in America and Great
Britain, was passenger aboard the
Cunard liner Carmania, which has ar
rived in New York. Mr.. Gibbs is COM
ing to the United States to lecture
and will endeavor to tell the Ameri-
cans what the British people have
suffered during the last four years.
He expects to be in the United States
about two months. He is Catholic.
Bishop at FuneraI.-Military honors
were given at the funeral of Henry
Steinbach. a prominent stockman of
Stearns, Mont, which took place Jan
uary 80 with Requiem High Mass in
the Cathedral at Helena. Steinbach
was a member of the United States
marines, and died at Bremerton
Wash, while in the service of his
country. The funeral was attended
by state, county, and city officials
Bishop Carroll preached over the re
mains.
Feast Brings New SodaIists.-That
nearly five hundred new members
were added to the Diocesan Union Of
Sodalities, on the Feast of the Puri
fication, is but another proof that the
sodality movement, organized las
summer by Rt. Rev. Bishop Canevin
is steadily progressing in Pittsburg
Pastors in many parishes are begin
ming to realize that the little extra
time and labor spent in conducting
sodalities of the Blessed Virgin ir
their parishes, is proving to be a goot
investment in more ways than one
and, above all, stimulates and in
creases piety and devotion, and the
regular reception of the Sacraments
among the younger members of theil
parishes.
Proof From Japan.-A japanese
Catholic in New York was highl!
amused at an incident which hap
pened in the Cathedral. He had com
fortably placed himself in a pew be
hind a pillar to make visit to the
Blessed Sacrament when he was dis
turbed by the remark of woman be
hind him: Look at the Chinama1
Sdy IllS SlS. lO you luluh liz
is a Catholic or is he only makins
believer" In repeating the story tht
Japanese said: why, my people
have been Catholic since ST. Franci!
Xaviers time, perhaps longer thar
many of the people who go to Mass il
st. Patrick's Cathedral"
Catholic Returns $1,000 Necklace
A Catholic mailman of Denver re
Gently found $1,000 necklace Die
he keep it? He has a Catholic con
science. Therefore, the Capitol Hill
society lady who lost it in a mud pud
die near her home got it back, but sh,
wrote out a check for 500 and hand
ed it to the postman, Matt Butler, o
Annunciation parish, as a reward fo
his honesty. On Saturday morning
servant of the woman told Mr.. Butte
of the loss, having no idea that h,
had found the necklace. He imme
diately turned it over. He did no
know how valuable the necklace was
but realized that it must be worth
great deal, for it contained 70 pearl!
and large diamond