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The Record-courier. [volume] (Gardnerville, Nev.) 1904-current, 1919-01-31
+. 4 A. NJ.

r.. N n. vi.
Special Communication OF
Carson Valley Lodge, f. 4
A. NJ. will be held at Odd
Fellows hall, Tuesday eve
ming, February 4th, at s
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1919-07-12
CHINESE MISSION RECRUITS
800 VOLUNTEERS IN IRELAND
ALONE FOR MISSION SOCIETY
ESTABLISHED FROM MAY
NoOTH-AMERIcA HEADQUAR-
TIERS IN OMAHA.

The number of vocations to the
priesthood has shown marked in
crease in Ireland during the past few
years. At present all the Irish semi
naries are over-crowded. Maynooth
College, which usually has slightly
over 500 students, has now over 600.
The Chinese Mission Society estab-
lished two years ago from Maynooth,
has received this year over 800 appli-
cations from students for it's new col
lege near Galway, and the Society is
now making an appeal in the United
States for help to educate so large a
number.
The headquarters of the Society in
this country is at Omaha, Nebr., where
Rev. Edward j. Mccarthy is Superior.
Father Mccarthy is one of the orig
inal founders of the Society and came
to the United States last October to
help establish the Society in this
country So far he and his confreres
have met with very remarkable
success. Many American priests have
become members of the new Society
and in the future it hopes to include
many others.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1919-07-12
REQUESTS FOR MASS LEGAL
HOUSE OF LORDS REvERSES DE-
cisIoNs DATING BACK TO
STUART PERIOD.

The English House of Lords has
decided by majority of five judges
to one, that bequests for the celebra-
tion of Masses for the repose of souls
are legal and valid in England. In a
long line of decided cases, extending
from the Stuart period down to the
reign of Queen Victoria, English
courts had held that such bequests
were void, as being for superstitious
use. AS lately as 1861, the English
equity court so decided. The pres
ent decision displaces all former ones:
for the House of Lords (by which we
mean the judicial court of the House
of Lords, consisting of judges or those
who have served as judges), is the
highest court of appeal for Great
Britain and Ireland, except in mat
ters of ecclesiastical law pertaining
to the Church of England in which
appeals go to the Priyy Council. The
appeal arose from bequest of Edward
Egan to both the Westminster Cathe-
dral and the Jesuit Fathers. The first
judge hearing the argument pro-
nounced the gifts as void in law. That
judgment has now been reversed The
Lord Chancellor claims that the vari-
GUS Acts of Emancipation have taken
away the illegality of such bequests.
The legal effect of this decision is
worth noting. 1t is not based on any
new statute or the repeal of any stat
ute; it is merely a revised interpreta-
tion of the same law on which all prior
decisions had been given adversely to
Catholics. This means that the law
never did invalidate bequests for
Masses for the souls of the dead. 1t
means that all the prior decisions to
that effect were wrong.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1919-07-12
POPE HOLDS CONSISTORY

Discussing the mission of Arch
bishop Cerretti to the peace confer
ence, the Pope said:
I'VE sent to Paris the most distin-
guished prelate of the Roman Curia to
look after the interests of the Catholic
missions. Now, | am very happy to
inform you that owing to the spirit of
fairness shown by the personages at
the peace conference our requests in
greater part have been satisfied. 1
nope these same personages will be
guided by the same spirit of fairness
IN putting into execution the provi-
sions which have been adopted con-
cerning Catholic missions not only in
the interests of religion but also in
the interest of humanity and civiliza-
ton.
AS hostilities now finally are ended,
we implore the Divine Benevolence to
grant our wishes-namely, that the
blockade which caused so much fam
inc and distress be raised Immediate
ly, that all prisoners be repatriated as
soon as possible, and, last, that all
peoples and nations shall reunite in
bonds of Christian charity, spirit we
have never ceased to inculcate and
without which any treaty of peace will
be valueless.'
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1919-07-12
PRAISE FOR KNIGHTS

And once each week after that he
drove 35 kilos out of his way to drop
the papers-and other things. (You
know what we mean by the other
things Expect you have package
of them in your pocket now.) Got SO
we could hear the coughing of his
broken-backed Ford at least three vii
lagos away And sometimes an escort
of honor waded five or six kilos
through the mud to welcome him.
General Pershing has compliment.
ed them highly. We are glad of that
We rather think they deserve a few
words. We like those chaps of the
K of c. They have done much to
make us feel at home everywhere we
have been over here. And they've
never crowded religion down our
throats-though religious consolation
was theirs for the asking But they
have handed out big fistfuls of friend
ship-and after all, that is what
counts.
There's a line in the Bible which
we like to apply to an organization
when We try to judge of the good it is
doing-'By their works We shall know
them We know the Knights of Co
lumbus. And we who write these
lines are not Catholic either-but Prot
estant by faith, and shouting Metho
dist at that
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1919-07-12
HEADS CREIGHTON COLLEGE
FATHER MCCORMICK Is TRANS
FERRED FROM CINCINNATI
TO OMAHA.

Rev. John Mccormick, S. J., for
some years Professor of Philosophy at
st. Xavier College. Cincinnati, Ohio,
has been promoted TO the presidency
of Creighton College, Omaha, Neb
Father Mccormick is one of the best
known educators of the Jesuit Order.
and his departure from Cincinnati
will be greatly regretted by the fac
ulty and students of ST. Xavier. His
lectures on Philosophy before the
Catholic Womens Study Glass and
the teaching Orders of nuns have been
brilliant discourses of great value.
Father Mccormick, who is forty-five
years old, was born in Chicago and
made his high school and college
studies at St. Ignatius College in that
city. Entering the Society of Jesus
in 1891, he made his philosophical
and theological studies at ST. Louis
University.
In 1898 he was assigned as in
structor to st. Louis University and
in 1900 went to ST. Marys College in
the same capacity.
Since his ordination IN 1906 Father
Mccormick has been vice president
and director of studies in st. Ignatius'
College, Cleveland, and Marquette Uni
versity, Milwaukee.
In 1911 he went to Cincinnati to be-
come professor of philosophy in st.
Xavier College, a position he has held
up to the time of his appointment as
head of Creighton.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1919-07-12
new IRISH BISHOP
yo'1ossERTY APPOINTED
BISHOP OF cLoNFERT - HAS
HAD A DISTINGUISHED CAREER
IN MAYNOOTH YOUNGEST
BISHOP IN IRELAND IF NOT IN
THE WORLD.

The election of Very Rev. Thomas
Canon O'Doherty, Dean of st. Patrick's
College, Maynooth, to the See of Clon-
fert Tin succession to Most Rev. DR..
Gilmartin) is the fifth appointment to
the episcopacy direct from the May
nooth staff within recent years, and
the new Bishop-elect of Clonfert will
also create an interesting record, as
he will be the youngest Bishop in Ire
land, and probably the youngest in the
whole Catholic Church at the present
time, having been born on November
Roscommon. From 1891 he studied in
Srmmerhill College, Sligo, until 1895,
when he entered Maynooth, where he
was ordained in 1902. A few months
later he was appointed as professor in
Summerhill College, where he lectured,
amongst other subjects, on Greek.
In 1910 he was appointed Dean Of
st. Patrick's College, Maynooth, and
Professor of Liturgy. By an interest
ing coincidence he succeeded Most
Rev. DR.. Gilmartin as Dean in May
nooth, and now will also succeed him
as Bishop of Clonfert. In 1913 he was
appointed Canon Theologian of the
Diocese of Elphin. While in May
nooth he conducted the liturgical de-
partment of the Irish Ecclesiastical
Record" and is admittedly one of the
foremost Irish authorities on Liturgy.
He has been frequent contributor to
the Record" on various subjects and
has now ready for immediate publica-
tion a completely revised edition of
l"O'Kane's Rubrics of the Roman Rit-
ual," to which he has added some i'm
portant new chapters. An excellent
musician, he takes an especially deep
interest in Irish traditional music, and
since Father Bewerunge's departure
has filled that eminent teachers place
in Maynooth with marked ability
Canon O'Doherty has always been a
consistent advocate of the Irish Ian
guage, and is a fluent Gaelic writer
and speaker. The Clonfert Diocese
includes portions of the three counties
of Roscommon, Kings, and Galway.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1919-07-12
"OLD GLORY"ON THE RHINE

home. But flag there must be, and
he started out to get one.
That night and all the next forenoon
he searched but without success. But
at noon of the 18th, when the game
seemed almost hopeless, he found his
flag. 1t was in the bottom of the
trunk of Secretary NJ Driscoll, an
other K. C. man, in charge of the X.
c. warehouse. That particular flag.
however, was treasured keepsake of
Secretary Driscoll, one that he had
carried with him through the fights at
Chateau-Thierry and Soissons and up
to the last chapter of the kaiser's
story at Sedan. He didn't think he
could part with a war souvenir like
that until he learned what use it was
to be put to- Then he gave it up with
a regular old soldiers shout. Ten
minutes afterwards Phillips, on foot.
was sweating his way up the steep
climb to the top of Ehrenbreitstein,
with the coveted colors tucked under
his arm. He had scarcely wind
enough left when he reached regi-
mental headquarters to tell his story;
he couldn't have made presentation
speech" then if his life depended on
it; but he managed to formally pre-
sent the flag to Colonel McCabe in
time to have it raised on Lincoln
Day.
An hour later, with the regimental
band playing the national anthem and
the regiment drawn up in full force on
the parade ground, Old Glory mounted
the staff over Ehrenbreitstein, where
the imperial colors of the Hohenzol-
lerns had so recently Haunted the
winds. From that day to this our
colors have flown above the historic
fortress, the inspiration of every
American eye for miles around, what
ever they may mean to the Germans
promise or threat.
The flag presented to the 18th F.
A. by the K. C. man has since been
replaced by a giant garrison stand
ard, 20x30 feet in size, while the origi-
nal is being sent to Secretary of War
Baker for preservation in the U. S.
archives at Washington.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1919-07-12
ERS ASSIST DRIVE FOR TEN
MILLION DOLLARS.

Another onslaught on the Christian
faith of the French people is to be
made by the Y. NJ c. A, backed up
by wives and daughters of members of
our present Federal government, says
the Pittsburgh Observer Preliminary
steps for it have been taken at a meet
ing addressed by Wesleyan bishop,
who explained the purpose to which
the sum of $10,000,000, that is now
being raised, is to be devoted:
1--WE are going to restore these shat
tered homes, these great churches,
these great cathedrals in France, in
world ideals. 1t is not doors, and walls
and windows that we intend to re-
place The stones of France are not
crying out for windows and doors.
What we will do, what the stones of
France are crying out to us to do, is
the replacing of Christ, that He might
occupy the place where the Prophet
stood" In other words, as he subse-
quent1y explained, this other drive
on Catholic France is to be made in
order that she may be lifted out OF
the darkness of Rome" and placed in
the refulgence emanating from the
leading lights" of American ''evan,
gelism"
DR.. Mott, head of the Y. M. c. A..
whom President Wilson SO much ad
mires that he offered him, a few
years ago, the post of American am
bassador to China, was there too; and
he made these significant remarks
These are testing times. | never saw
straighter, never was my mind more
convinced, my vision more thorough
than when President Wilson wired
the Y. NJ. c. A. that the United States
needed 1t in the war. Before | pait
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1919-07-12
WHAT CASEY" DID FOR THE
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES OF
A "sHoUTlNG" METHODIST.

Doughboys usually express their
optnions-favorable or otherwise
anything in brisk, snappy phrases.
Here's an unusual opinion by SOL
der. He wrote it as an editorial in
"Ou'est-ce que cest,' the newspaper
published weekly by the American stu
dents at the University of Toulouse,
France, in the issue of June 4, 1919.
1t is a unique document, and will be
treasured in K of G. archives as
testimonial of excellence. It's good
for any and every American citizen to
read-this plain tale of doughboy graf
itude.
The Knights of Columbus.
1T was in the training camp on the
plains of the great West that we first
came into intimate contact with them
the Knights of Columbus. They had
q hut" where a man could go for
few moments each day and read in
quiet and peace, away from the 40,oOO
other men in the cantonment.
"At a small unknown port on the
Atlantic seaboard they bade us bon
VOYAGE with hot coffee and cakes and
cigarettes when we started over-in
year which now seems ages ago; next
we saw their familiar sign in rest
camp in England, and when we landed
in France they were at the dock with
more smokes and the little things
which we learned to value so highly
in an existence which had returned
to the primitive.
1T was in the Argonne drive that
some one dubbed them 'Casey-those
chaDs who wore the X. of c. bras
sard: and because they were general
Nv around when one was 'smoke-hun-
gry'. The call was taken up by all
ranks-'Keep Coming, Casey And If
wa remember rightly-and we do
they did keep coming.
when chap was 'broke'-or may
be had a pay voucher in his pocket
which wasn't worth sou because
there wasn't bank within fifty kilos
If was the men of the X. of c.. who
furnished the little things which we
now know to be the big things, when
one is out of touch with civilization.
.One could generally find K. of G
h,r,, somewhere near the front; and Il
not--why generally someone wearing
their insignia found us. We well re
member those long winter days when
we were stuck in a demolished French
village on the other side of the Ar
gonne, when it seemed that Spring
would never come and the drizzie
would never cease.
There wasn't even BlDle 10 reao
some unregenerate scamp months
before had used the tissue pages OF
our volume for cigarette paper. Bu1
came a day when a K. OF G. man dis
covered we were there-seemingly
the world forgetting, by the Worle
forgot
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1919-07-12
LAVAL UNIVERSITY
MONTREAL BRANCH OF QUEBEC
INSTITUTION MADE lNDE-
PENDENT.

The Holy See has granted Laval
University, Montreal, Can, complete
autonomy, so that it becomes by that
fact an independent Catholic univer-
sity The great progress of the Arch
diocese of Montreal made this result
inevitable. In 1852 the Bishops of
Quebec at a provincial meeting asked
that a Catholic and ench-Canadian
university be founded, and in Decem-
Der of that year royal charter was
granted, the following year Plus TX
according powers to give theological
and canonical degrees. In 1876 Laval,
of Montreal, was founded, but with
definite connection with Laval Univer-
sity of Quebec. These conditions re-
NAMED until 1889 when certain modi-
fications were deemed necessary. This
year Benedict XIV finally granted indie
pendence.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1919-07-12
HELD ON JULY 3-POPE BENE-
DICT REFERRED TO CHANGES
MADE IN PEACE TREATY IN
THE INTEREST OF CATHOLIC
MISSIONS.

At the Consistory held on July 3,
Pope Benedict delivered a short allo-
cution to the members of the Sacred
College regarding steps taken for the
protection of Catholic missions, espe-
cially in former German colonies.
More than twenty Cardinals, many
Archbishops, Bishops, and other high
dignitaries of the Church attended the
consistory. Mgr. BonZano, Apostolic
Delegate to the United States, was
also present
At the consistory the Pope appointed
Cardinal Boschi Bishop of Frascati
and Mgr. Cadi Patriarch of Antioch in
the Greek Melchite Rite.
The Pope said that as soon as it
was realized that some clauses of the
peace treaty infringed upon the rights
and interests of Catholic missions, he
wrote to delegates at the peace con-
ference asking them to make some
provision to modify those clauses, in
spirit Of justice.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1919-07-12
Addition to House of Good Shepherd

and bath rooms The third floor is
devoted entirely to sleeping apart
ments There are five large dormito-
ries and four smaller bed rooms with
bath and toilet accommodations. The
fourth floor, or attic, will serve as a
store room. The floors are of hard
wood with the exception of that of
the basement, which is of concrete.
The building will be heated from the
main power house with which it is to
be connected by a tunnel for the steam
pipes.
The new home for the Magdalens
will afford them much needed accom-
modation. For many years the quar-
ters which they now occupy have
been uncomfortably crowded; and
for more than twenty years it has
been their daily prayer that God
would raise up benefactor who, out
of the superabundance of his worldly
goods, would donate sufficient funds
to provide them with a community
house of their own. One can imagine
their joy at the prospect of soon oc-
cupying quarters which will afford
them the modest accommodation re-
quired by their rule of life. The
rooms now occupied by the Magdalens
will, later on, afford the Sisters them
selves much needed accommodation
in the way of dormitory space for the
congestion that prevails in the portion
of the building devoted to the Mag
dalens is general throughout the
house.
Mr. Foley's gifts to the Archdiocese
of ST. Paul for religious purposes are
noteworthy. During the past year he
set apart the sum of 100000 for the
erection of a preparatory seminary,
and during the past few months he
has undertaken the construction of
combination church and school for
the parish of st. Andrew at a cost of
about 100000 Last September the new
parochial school which he built for the
parish of the Blessed Sacrament at
Hazel Park was opened 1t cost about
$60,000
About year ago Mr.. Foley was
honored by His Holiness Pope Bene-
dict XIV, who made him a Knight of
ST. Gregory in recognition of his ben
efactions to religion and charity. The
insignia Of this Papal distinction was
bestowed upon him in May by the Most
Reverend Archbishop Bowling.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1919-07-12
''Y" TO EVANGELIZE FRANCE

any attention to athletics, to educa-
tional work, / proceeded to form a
committee of evangelical work among
the churches. Week by week, this
committee met, and the result was the
evolution of religious program.
The Providence Visitor" tells us
some of the incidents that attended
the working out of this program when
it says: 'The spectacle of mixing
religious service with social entertain
ments and thus forcing the attendance
of our Catholic men deserved censure
war or no war; One incident came
under our notice where several Cath
olic sailors received public rebuff be-
cause they refused to hit the trail'
in a Y. M. C. A. hut in this state.
Charity does not demand us to be
silent about this nor about the efforts
of the Y. M C. A., to compel the
Knights of Columbus to change their
policy of free distribution nor the at
tempts to keep the K of C. huts from
being built in Camps
DR.. Mott went on to say: "When
the story of the war is written if the
Y. M. c. A., yes, and the Y. w. C. A.,
are not on record as the identified
Evangelical Church of America, then
i, and many others, will hand in our
designations, for the " will have lost
its interest. There never was a time
when $1O,00O,OO0, to be given, gath
iered, used, was more timely, more
potential, more highly multiplied in
prospect, than the $4,000 900 we have
started to gather tonight
Sectarians who profess to be very
much opposed to any semblance of
connection between Church and State
ought to note-and Catholics also
should pay attention to this fact-that
this Y. NJ. C. A, movement is being
|aotively supported by many officials
connected with the government.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1919-07-12
STORY OF THE FIRST STARS AND
STRIPES THAT FLOATED OVER
A GERMAN FORTRESS ON THE
RHINE.

Through the courtesy of Fred. "
Milan, one of the K. of C. secretaries
with the Army of Occupation in Ger
many, we have received a copy of
''The Amaroc News published at
,Coblenz, and dated February IA, which
gives the story of the first American
Flag flung to the breeze on the banks
of the Rhine:
The celebration today of our first
Flag Day on the Rhine brings to
mind the interesting story of the first
Stars and Stripes that were ever dis
played from a German fortress 'uber
dem Rhine" The honor of flying that
flag belongs to Col E. R. w. McCabe
Of the 18th Field Artillery.
The fortress was Ehrenbreitstein,
the famous Gibraltar of Germany
and the date was Lincoln's birthday,
February u. Shortly before that day,
when the artillery of the Second Di-
vision moved into the fortress, it was
discovered that no national standard,
available for the giant flag staff that
surmounts the garrison, was to be had
Col E. R. w. McCabe, the command
ing officer of the 18th, preparing for
the celebration of Lincoln's birthday,
had ordered that flag be flown. But
fate seemed to be against the order
Not only was there no flag in the reg
iment and time was too short to Sc
cure one from G. H. c., but there were
no American flags in Coblenz, and Ger
man dealers were prohibited at that
time to either manufacture or sell the
colorS.
The Knights of Columbus secretary
attached to the 18th F. A., Charles
Phillips, an American journalist and
playwright, hearing on the night of
February II of the need of flag, vol
unteered to find one, although, as he
said later, he had no more idea of
where it was to come from than
buck private has of when he is going
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1919-07-12
CATHOLIC DEAF MUTES
10000 IN AMERICA - 5000 ARE
UNDER CATHOLIC INFLUENCE
PRIESTS SHOULD LEARN SIGN
LANGUAGE.

Father Moeller, S. j. of Kansas City
champion of the deaf mute cause
urged the clergy attending the recent
Catholic Educational Association con-
vention in st. Louis to learn the mute
sign language and to perfect them
selves in it as an adjunct to their care
of souls.
In making his appeal Father Noel
Ter cited the existence of 10000 Cath
olic deaf mutes in the United States,
of whom only 5000 were under Catho-
lie influences.
He declared only 1,40O of the 5000
deaf mute children of the Catholic
Catholic schools, and called attention
to the work of Massachusetts and New
York Catholic agencies that were TAX
ing care of 1000 of these, to show the
vast possibilities that existed in other
parts of the United States for priests
who understood and could converse in
the deaf mute sign language.
This deplorable condition, Father
Moeller asserted, rose in great part
from the fact that the teaching agen-
cies of the Catholic Church were back
ward in undertaking work among
these people, only few sisterhoods
specializing in deaf mute ministra-
tions He pleaded with the superior
esses of the religious orders present
at the meeting, asking them to see
that some of their nuns qualify them
selves to properly assist in the educa-
tion of the large number of deaf mutes
who stand in need of Christian and
Catholic instruction.
Father Moeller reported that the
deaf mute section of the association
accomplished tangible work last
year when it completed and published
deaf mute dictionary of signs relat-
ing to Catholic subjects.