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The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1919-10-11

Zion Cash and Garry Meat Market
The Only One of Its Kind in the World
NO LARD NO PORK NO OYSTERS
But good line of Shortening Bacon Sausage Choice Beef
Mutton, Veal
We striving to give good service to all.
We buy all kinds of Poultry Ship every Tuesday and Wednesday,
We making Shortening
SPECIAL: White Cloud Shortening SIC h.
20 lbs and Soc h.
Phone 81
The Catholic bulletin., 1919-10-25
AUSTRIA HARD PRESSED
AUSTRIA TO SELL HER ART
TREASURES FOR FUNDS.

The Government announces that de-
spite various protests it will sell the
Government art treasures, including
the famous Gobelin and Flemish tap
estries from the royal castles, which
are now being listed and appraised.
These are the only assets available
outside of the food credits. 49,.
The fuel situation again is SO acute
that the government has limited the
running of street cars to two hours
on weekday mornings, and there is a
rigid enforcement of the s o'clock res
taurant and 9 o'clock cafe and theater
closings. The restaurants, cafes and
theaters up to the present have been
kept open with the use of carbide
lamps, but carbide now must be con-
served, owing to the possible total
failure to give gas and electricity.
The Catholic bulletin., 1919-10-25
DOMAIN OF TEMPERANCE
A THRILLING INCIDENT.

At temperance meeting some years
ago a learned clergyman spoke in Ia
vor of wine as drink, proving it quite
to his own satisfaction to be scrip
tural, gentlemanly and healthful.
When the clergyman sat down, plain
elderly man rose and asked the lib
erty of saying a few words. "a young
friend of mine," said he, "who had
long been Incorporate, was at last pre-
vailed upon, to the great JOY OF MS
friends, to take the pledge of entire
abstinence from all that could intoX1-
cate. He kept the pledge faithfully
for some time, though the struggle
with his habit was fearful, till one
evening at a social gathering glasses
of wine were handed round. They
came to the clergyman present, who
took a glass, saying few words in
vindication of his practice. Well
thought the young man, if clergy
man can take wine and justify himself
so WELL why not ~ So he also took a
glass. 1t instantly rekindled his fiery
and slumbering appetite; and after a
downward course, he died of delirium
tremens-a raving madman."
The old man paused for utterance,
and was just able to add: "That
young man was my ONLY son, and
the clergyman was the reverend doc
tor who has just addressed the assem-
bly," -Boo,ey or reu,e,onco
The Catholic bulletin., 1919-10-25
CHURCH IN MEXICO
URGE REVISION OF MEXICAN CON
STITUTION CATHOLICS CON.
QUOTING CAMPAIGN TO REPEAL
OBNOXIOUS LAW.

Father Eugene Sugranes, c. M. F.,
of San Antonio, Texas, an authority
on Mexican affairs, reports that an
active campaign is being conducted by
the Catholics of Mexico to secure the
abrogation of iniquitous provisions of
the constitution designed to suppress
the Catholic Church in the Southern
Republic.
The campaign was launched by the
Young Mems Catholic Association of
Mexico and has attained nationwide
proportions. 1t is conducted in bus
iness-like way. The daily press and
periodicals are being used freely to
advertise the movement, to give pub
licity to it's various activities and to
explain its objects to the reading pub.
lie. Conferences and lecture tours are
being conducted, posters and free liter
ature distributed broadcast; meetings
are conducted everywhere in order to
bring more efticaciously and more
forcefully to the people the Importance
and necessity of such a campaign.
Earnest petitions and vigorous pro
tests, backed up by thousands of sig
natures, are being sent daily to the
Government from all parts of the Re-
public.
That this campaign is proving sue.
cessful is indicated by the fact that a
prominent official of the National Sen
ate has just issued a program announc,
ing amendments to the constitution
which would restore the rights of the
Church.
Under the present constitution the
Church is not allowed to acquire prop
erty, while the confiscation of al
churches and religious institutions is
provided for; religious instruction is
prescribed in all schools, both public
and private; the Church is deprived
of all means of support and prohibited
from engaging in charitable work.
The Catholic bulletin., 1919-10-25
G0NzAGA UNIVERSITY
HUMBLE BEGINNINGS OF NOW
FAMOUS WESTERN SCHOOL,
CAMPAIGN FOR FUNDS.

In 1866 little log cabin was erect
ed on Peone prairie adjacent to the
frontier hamlet that was then SpO-
kane, Wash. This rude structure was
the genesis of Gonzaga university, now
a splendid institution of learning with
imposing buildings, a faculty of recog.
nized worth, highly creditable his
tory, and a brilliant future.
Rev. Joseph Cataldo, a pioneer
priest, was responsible for the loca'
ton of the institution within the city
walls of Spokane, and it's record has
been one of continuous progress. To
day Gonzaga has 563 students in ac
tual attendance of whom 274 board
within the institution. In 1916 its
postgraduate department was moved
to a new home, ST. Michaers hall, with
a faculty and student body aggregat
ing 125. To take care of lower classes
formerly held in the university, paro
chial school was opened in 1915 and
this has an attendance of 135. In 1915
another parochial school was opened
to house juniors who were over-croWd
ing the university. This branch insti
tution-St. Aloysius-noW registers
$50 pupils.
Gonzaga gave 1000 men to the ma
tion's service. Seventeen made the su
preme sacrifice.
The university has now reached the
| point where further expansion is es
| sential. and the alumni of the institu
| tion have undertaken to raise 100000
to provide the features necessary fol
its proper development The city is
! growing consistently, its position az
the commercial center of wide ares
known as the Inland Empire necessi
tates that it's status as an educationa
center be maintained, and the grateful
alumni of Gonzaga have entered thu
lists to secure the financial 'solidit.
necessary to pave the way for the de
syelopment OF their alma mater.
The Catholic bulletin., 1919-10-25
EVERYMAN'S CLUB.

The National Catholic War
Council will soon open club in
Minneapolis. 1t will be known as
Eyeryman,s club; as its name in
dicates, it will be a center for all
men without distinction Of creed
or condition: provided that man
be unalloyed American.
The Council has decided to open
large number of these centers
in the various cities Of the coun-
try. Some centers are already in
operation and report fattering
success.
This is not a new venture for
the Catholic Church. In the mid
die ages such centers ON large
scale were in evidence throughout
Europe. Whole communities re
cognized the monastery or the
parish church as the center of all
activities as well as of charity and
hospitality. A return to this old
idea on the part of our Catholic
leaders of thought and action is a
sign of healthy interest, and ii
presages not only closer contact
with the man-about-town, but a
stronger hold on the citizen who
The Catholic bulletin., 1919-10-25
DE VALERA MADE CHIEF
CHIPPEWA INDIANS AT RESERVE,
WIS.,, ADOPT IRISH LEADER
INTO TRlBE-GUEsT OF FATHER
GORDON.

Final details for the reception and
entertainment of Eamon De Valera,
president of the Irish Republic, at Re-
serve, Wis, were completed at a meet
ing of the Lac Court Oreilles Indians
Sunday, October II. The president
was met at the reservation line by
mounted Indian soldiers and three of
the head chiefs and escorted to the
indian village, Saturday morning, Oc-
tober 49, About quarter of mile
from the church, the Catholic societies
of men and women both in holiday
attire, met the president and together
with about eighty soldier boys in uni
form paraded to the Catholic mission
where the president assisted at Low
Mass read for the Indian soldier boys
buried overseas. Rev. Philip Gordon,
noted Chippewa missionary priest,
read this Mass. Father O'Mahoney of
Spooner preached. Rev. Philip Cor
don then entertained the Irish party
at luncheon of venison, muscallonge,
Indian, wild rice, maple sugar and
other distinctive Indian foods. Father
Teuwisse of Brentwood had charge of
a luncheon served by the Catholic
ladies of three parishes.
Immediately following the luncheon,
the President was welcomed in In
dian speeches, after which he was
asked to address the Indians, which
he did. President De Valera was then
adopted into the Chippewa tribe, the
Oldest of Indian tribes and the most
numerous at present, with exception
of the Cherokee The President was
presented with various pieces Of In.
| dian bead-work, and finally was seated
in the circle of Chippewa Chieftains
and there smoked the Peace Pipe
which was handed from hand to hand
He was named Chief Ney-ney-ong-a-be
| that is, Chief Dressing Feather
| Billy Boy, famous orator, was master
of ceremonies. Following the initia'
! ton, the Indians gave various dances
the War and Squaw dances, while a
| few of the older men played some OF
| the Indian games, such as the mecca
sin game and the shell game. The
| President was then taken out for a
ride around the little Lac Court Ore
| lille, lake famous for the muskie
Two of the best Indian guides &C
companied him.
The Presidentsdeparted for Spoonel
at p. m. to catch the Twilight Limit
ed for st. Paul, and was also &C
commanded by some ChiDDeWa chief
| tains
The Catholic bulletin., 1919-10-25
FOR ARMISTICE DAY.

November IL this year will be
a day OF great rejoicing and of
lawful pride on the part of mil
lions OF people throughout the
world. In fact, it may be said that
the whole world will take part in
the general feeling Of relief that
began one year ago when the hor-
rors of war were brought to a
final close for suffering humanity.
It would be a splendid idea if
Catholics everywhere would make
this day an occasion of thanksgiv-
ing to the God of armies Who
,mercifully drew to a close the
greatest tragedy in human annals.
There should not be a Catholic
soldier, or the family Of a Catho-
lie soldier, who did not receive
Holy Communion on the first an
.niversary Of this momentous
event. Thanksgiving and graft
.tude for the living: prayerful re-
.membrance for the fallen: these
are the motives that will exclude
absolutely no one from participant
ing in the observance of the day.
The Catholic bulletin., 1919-10-25

strong fight made for the propos-
ed law shows a sound view exist
ing in that Church, although a ma
jority seem still to cling to the
idea that marriage is not as seri-
Gus a matter as Christianity ever
has considered it. If the various
denominations that call them
selves Christian were to take a
firm stand on the matter of the
remarriage of divorced persons, it
would go far towards elevating
the now fallen status of the fam
lily, and would tend to restore
those standards Of morality that
even now are partly shattered
throughout the world. Let us
hope that our separated brethren
will come to see the light. This
alone would put new strength and
life into their already dwindling
congregations.
The Catholic bulletin., 1919-10-25
BISHOP MULDOON
GREAT WAR WORK BEHIND THE
LINES-CHAIRMAN OF WAR
AID TO GOVERNMENT.

While General John J. Pershing was
leading two million fighters at the
front, Bishop Peter j. Muldoon, chair.
man of the Administrative Committee
of the National Catholic War Council,
was directing the war work behind the
lines of at least as many men and
women. With the three other Bishops
representing the hierarchy of the
Catholic Church in this country, this
vigorous Bishop of Rockford was re-
spOnsible for the coordination, control
and efficiency of all the organized ac.
tivities for Uncle Sam of all the Cath.
olic workers in this land and over.
seas from beginning to end of our part
in the world war. And all the time
he was planning to turn his welfare
army into fighting forces for true
AmericanizatiOn and real reconstruc.
ton at the return of peace. Incident
ally, it may be added that he was
also administering just as effectively
as ever, the affairs of his diocese out
at Rockford, Ill.
When he reported to the conference
of the hierarchy of his Church, that
was called last month in Washington
to consider the work, past and future
of the National Catholic War Council
Bishop Muldoon related striking
chapter in the history of American
war work and outlined future pros
pect of continuing to aid the govern
ment through the trying times ahead
This is what he has to say about the
work of his organization:
''The National Catholic War Council
represents the patriotic effort of 9
great Church. We Catholics believe
with all the intensity of our nature
that nowhere in the wide world has
the Church such freedom and oppor
tunity as under the Stars and Stripes
and consequently we feel that we can
not do too much to express our graft
tude and patriotism. We felt it was
not enough that the sons and daugh
ters should individually serve and suf
fer that our flag might be kept or
high. Our Church wishes to go further
and to put into the field an organiza
ton ready to give assistance at al
times to our government
The Catholic bulletin., 1919-10-25
GOOD DOCTRINE.

Eamon De Valera gave utter
ance recently to some sound Amer
lean doctrine. He said:
Il have been frequently asked:
What can America do?' | have
been accused by recent arrival
here { Lord Decies) from the coun-
try that holds our country in the
grip of militarism as tight as that
in which Germany held Belgium,
of being an extremist who came to
stir up trouble between this coun-
try and England. I came for no
such purpose. | came to ask you
to recognize the principle for
which you went to war, the prin-
ciple Of self-determination. [ do
not ask that America should take
any positive hostile step against
Great Britain. We are ready to
persevere in the fight in the fu-
ture, but | will say if the Ameri-
can people will it they can set
Ireland free, for where this coun-
try leads the world will follow.
If you recognize the Irish Repub-
lie the world will recognize the in-
dependence Of Ireland. There is
no country in the world that does
not want to see Ireland free.
Nothing keeps Ireland in subjec-
tion except military rule and an
immoral international code. The
first step is to set up new inter
national code that will give an ex-
plicit recognition to the principle
Of self-determination the nations
must recognize. Therefore in ask
ing you to recognize the Irish Re-
public we are asking you not
merely to emancipate Ireland, for
by that recognition you are going
to emancipate the world.'
The Catholic bulletin., 1919-10-25

pleads for us to use that influence
in favor of his downtrodden coun-
try: he asks no favors: simple
justice is all he would beg. France
heard our plea: shall we be deaf
to another little people placed in
our former position? Great
Britain may not like this; can she
sincerely and logically refuse
Germany, Russia and Austria re-
fused Poland and Bohemia, and
justice won out in the end.
With nations as with individ-
uals Almighty God has way of
dealing that inspires us with a
complete submission to Divine
Providence. Macaulay s prophecy
anent the broken arches of Lon
don bridge may not be so far from
fulfillment as some persons sup
pose. An act Of justice on the
part of Great Britain now might
prove Of great benefit even to the
empire in the day when the hordes
from the East begin to swoop
down on the nations of Europe.
That day also may not be so far
distant as the world imagines.
The human race moves swiftly at
times, and world history may be
made in a few months. Let the
past be a lesson for correct con-
duct in the present and the future.
The Catholic bulletin., 1919-10-25
CHAPLA|NS IN WAR
AN AFTER IMPRESSION OF THE
cHAPLAINS AND X. OF c. WORK.
ERS-MORALE KEPT AT HIGH
STANDARD.
(By an American Doughboy)

(By an American Doughboy)
The courageous work of the Cath
olic chaplains in France has not been
in vain!
This comforting assertion is borne
out in the reports from all parts of
the United States regarding the atti-
tude of the thousands of returned sol
dier men toward the church. The SOL
diers and sailors have gone back to
their homes unstinting in their praise
of the chaplains and their lay co-Work-
ers, the Knights of Columbus seCre-
taries. The functioning of the priest
during the times when critical move
ment was underway; the solace which
the soldiers were enabled to receive
at the most momentous period, when
going over the top was but few
hours ahead-when confessions were
heard on small shell-scarred road
with death dealing contraptions from
from the enemy Whirring on all sides
have left an impression and stead
fastness of purpose in thousands Of
the men who before the war were
considerably lukewarm toward their
church duties. How illustrious role
the Catholic chaplains played in the
theater of the World war.
Long before the American nation
struck against the Germans, we heard
of Cardinal Mercier. Today We see
| this gigantic figure of the Belgium of
1914-15-16-17 feted and acclaimed IL
| respective of religious tenets. How
proud all the Catholic World is of this
| heroic prelate, the mainstay in the
war ravaged towns and cities of the
| Belgians The French army chaplans
were ''the bravest of the brave.
They fought, performed their duties
to dying soldiers and were liberally
decorated with all the honors which
the French Republic could give.
| No propaganda or victory in the a.
E. F. could have ever implanted the
morale, and tenderly developed it to
the days of the armistice at Sedan,
! that the Catholic chaplains and
Knights of Columbus workers gave
| to our soldiers. From the priest in
his khaki uniform the boys received
the consolation which only the church
could give. They made the men mar
vel at their bravery. They crawlcd
across gnarled ground and behind
shrubbery which was being withered
by machine gun bullets and CAV,
spiritual consolation to our wounded
men; repaired them physically anc
mentally to the extent that they knew
they were prepared for death.
Close behind the priest came thu
Knights of Columbus man, ready Il
carry this man to dressing station
to give the soldier cigarette, to taks
down the last words of a mere boy
who in his hallucinations from thu
wounds and strain of the battle, real
lied that Casey" could be relied upor
to fetch that story home to mother
whether he was Catholic, Protestant
Tor Jew.
The Catholic bulletin., 1919-10-25
UNIQUE CONFIRMATION
1O5-YEAR-oLD MAN CHANGES RE-
LIGiON.

Truno Roland, aged los, who has
been living at the Sacred Heart hos
pital in Eau Claire, Wis. for the last
six years, was confirmed recently by
Bishop Schwebach of La Crosse after
he had confirmed class at st. Pat
rick's Church and another class at
the Sacred Heart Church, according
to announcement. The Bishop made
a special trip to the hospital to ad-
minister the sacrament of confirma-
tion. Roland, who is Yankee by
birth and who spent most of his life
in Alabama, became a convert to the
Catholic Church at the age of SO. He
is undoubtedly the oldest person ever
confirmed in the United States. Con
sidering his years he is fairly active
and spry.
The Catholic bulletin., 1919-10-25
THE PRE- SENT ATTIT u D E
TOWARD STRONG DRINK.

In the last fifteen years, social, sci
entifc and moral forces, as in no pre-
vious period, have combined in the
struggle against alcohol. Business de-
mands have been added to educational
and moral motives requiring total abb
stinence; statesmen no longer find it
necessary, or desirable to offer a
drink to finish sale; the desire for
efficiency" and safety first" has
raised the total abstinence require
ments in many industries, and in
transportation and commerce, higher
and higher; many large manufactur-
ers, such as steel and iron mills, place
of men; life insurance and almost all
large business establishments take
this factor into account. The rail-
roads have passed strong resolutions
against it's use. Hundreds of towns
have gone dry" in order to remove
this source of trouble from both en-
l'ployee and employer. Thousands of
small communities and whole states
have taken on a more prosperous ap
pearance when the saloon has been
banished.
The workingman himself, in many
central and Western states, has fought
booze" as the enemy that tends to
keep his fellows weak, hurts wages,
Injuries him as a man, and prevents
good home life. Labor unions in COM
munities that banished the saloon, as
in Colorado, take strong stand for
prohibition. The contrast in the SEN
timent of one hundred years ago and
today is indeed marvellous.
The Catholic bulletin., 1919-10-25
ENCOURAGING DIVORCE.

During the past few years the
question of divorce has become one
of the most vital problems in our
social life. Tandem polygamy,
as it has been called, is the source
Of manifold evils in the life Of the
nation as we'll as within the sacred
precincts Of the family circle The
Catholic Church alone has stood
like adamant against the flood of
misery that follows from this per-
version of human relations, and
has resolutely refused to sanction
the vile practice.
Several years ago the general
convention Of the Protestant Epis-
copal church seemed inclined to
consider the matter in a sense
that would afford some encourage
ment for the better. The ques-
ton at that time was laid over for
the consideration Of the conven-
tion held this month in Detroit.
In this general meeting it was
proposed to forbid an Episcopal
clergyman from performing the
service of marriage for a person
who has another spouse living. In
spite of desperate efforts Oh the
part Of some members to have this
enacted into law, the proposal
was defeated. Apparently the
Episcopal church has failed to live
up to its efforts at bettering the
condition of society from the
standpoint of marriage.
! This is all very regrettable. The
The Catholic bulletin., 1919-10-25
A SPLENDID GIFT

Right Reverend Bishop Rhode of
Green Bay has recently announced the
gift of 100000 from the Misses Sarah
and Amelia Mccormick, to be used
for the erection of an old people S
home under Catholic auspices. The
ladies several years ago acquired a
suitable piece of property for the same
purpose. Building will begin soon.
The Catholic bulletin., 1919-10-25
FRENCH PRAISE K. OF c.

High French executive, military and
church officials, including NJ. Mile
rand, general commissioner of the
republic in Alsace-Lorraine; Gen.
Maudhuy, governor of Metz, and Mgr.
Peltier, bishop of Metz, and represen-
tatives of the municipal government,
have sent the Knights of Columbus a
dispatch thanking them for their gen.
erous initiative in erecting a montI-
ment at Metz symboIizing French and
American friendship.
The Catholic bulletin., 1919-10-25
ENLIGHTENED ALABAMA
TWO ANTl-CATHOLlC BILLS
PASSED.

Two anti-Catholic bills have been
passed by the Alabama legislature.
The senate bill abolishes Columbus
Day as state holiday, and was passed
ed by vote of AZ to 81. The other
bill, providing for inspection by the
state of converts, asylums and hospi
tails, was passed over amendments to
eliminate the word sconventS."
The Catholic bulletin., 1919-10-25

The visit of Mr.. De Valera to
the Twin Cities has stirred things
up a bit. 1t has served to show
that there are many fair minds
here who appreciate just pres
entation of the Irish question,
even if professor and a few 9TH
ers are offended" Too bad the
professor was not in Minneapolis
Monday evening to hear the an
SWer to his childish TRADE.
The Catholic bulletin., 1919-10-25

The Detroit News, secular
publication, says: ''The program
of the National Catholic War
Council, on the essentials of a just
reconstruction of society, has
awakened leaders of Professionalism
to the fact that the Catholic
Church in America is in the van
guard of the struggle for the prac-
teal establishment of the Christ
Mind in the new social struc-
turc.
The Catholic bulletin., 1919-10-25
A. 0. H. CAMPAIGN
SAN FRANCISCO A. 0. H. STAGE
MEMBERSHIP DRIVE.

The fifth week of the membership
drive of the nine San Francisco di-
visions of the Ancient Order of Hi
bernians in America showed more
than 5000 new members enrolled. Ten
thousand new members is the goal
aimed at in the drive