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The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1919-11-08
OIL ON THE WATERS.

The world has united in pro
claiming Cardinal MERCER not
only the hero of Belgium but the
great figure Of the terrible con,
tlict. He is not only a hero, he is q
Christian of the highest type. He
came among us for a moment, and
now he is gone. He is gone to his
little nation to encourage and
cheer them, to help them get on
their feet, to tell them Of the Won
ders wrought here in America by
grit and courage.
Cardinal MERCER was welcomed
in our land by all classes irrespec-
tive of creed or politics. To Cath
olics he was the ideal churchman
to all was he the apostle of good
cheer. His abiding among us
marked a forward step in the rela-
tons that should exist among all
Christian peoples. Realizing the
debt his country owed to Ameri-
can generosity and courage, the
noble prelate poured forth his
gratitude to all our citizens no1
brought in invidious distinctions
of creed or race.
AS he took his departure from
our shores the Belgian Cardinal
carried with him perhaps more tes-
tlmonlals of good will than ever
before were showered upon one
man. Institutions of learning of
nearly every denomination. and OF
none at all, honored themselves by
comforting upon him their highest
and choicest laurels. The Episco-
pallan convention rendered him
the most spontaneous ovation in
the history OF their assemblage
Officials of state We'd with one an.
other in extending him hospitality
In a word, America recognized a
truly great and a really good man
and America did herself proud in
every way.
1t may be said without danger
OF successful denial that the two
forces that have tended more than
anything else to bring all our PEG.
pie together and to tear down the
artificial barriers of prejudice, are
Cardinal MERCER of Belgium and
the knights of Columbus-and the
Cardinal himself is a Knight OF
Columbus.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1919-11-08
MONS|GNOR KOLENS
CLERIC WHO FORMED NEITHER
LANDS CABINET COMES HERE
AS DELEGATE TO INTERNAL
TIONAL LABOR CONGRESS IN
WASHINGTON.

Chief among the delegates to the
International Labor Conference at
Washington last week was Mgr. DR..
w. II. Nolens of Holland. He has the
distinction of being the only cleric to
have formed a cabinet, which he did
for the Netherlands government in
August, 1918, refusing TO accept the
post of premier, which, ordinarily,
would automatically go with the cab
inet's formation, because he was a
churchman.
Having formed the cabinet in the
difficult political days in Holland last
year, the Monsignor turned the pre-
miership over to Rugs de Berenbroek
and again retired to his parish.
Il am indeed glad to be in the
United States and at the head of SO
important body as the Netherlands
delegation to the International La
Dor Conference" he said. Labor is
the great question before the world to-
day, as it has never been before. a
solution to the present unrest through
out the world must be found, and it is
gratifying thing that men Of so
many diversified views are to be gath
cred together, from all parts of the
civilized world, to discuss laborS prob
lens and to effect, if possible, a
scheme whereby peace between en-
ployed and employer can again be
brought about
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1919-11-08

tations. Scarcely had the foe fallen
PROSTATE on the field OF defeat
when the other powers, like raven
Gus vultures, swooped down upon
the defenceless little peoples and
magnanimously annexed them.
The cries of the downtrodden
were drowned out by the noisy
bowling of the big hypocrites as
they prayed to their god, Nam
mon. 1t was not commercial
war, we were told; yet every one
OF the big powers of the world,
with the exception of our own
country, grasped at that and moth
ing more. Hypocrisy in the midi
vidual is contemplate: in a nation
it is internal both in origin and
in effect.
Whatever claims may be ad-
vanced to the contrary, History
will tell that the end of the war
was brought about by America.
1t is folly to speak otherwise. The
allies had their backs to the wall,
yea, and their faces toward GER
tain defeat, when the young giant
of the West turned the tide of
battle, and the game was over.
America, the most generous Of
all the combatants, must now lead
the rest Of the world in unselfsh
service to all mankind. 1t is folly
to hope this from the other ma
tons, even from the allies. They
have already shown their grasping
hand i'll quarreling for the spoils
of war. "When the United States
of Europe become as good as the
United States of America, the
United States of America will join
them in the United States of the
World"
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1919-11-08
FOLLOW THE LEADER.

There have been false leaders in
Church and State from time i'm
memorial. They were self-consti-
tuted, pompous, dictatorial indi-
vlduals: men who aspired to the
honors and prestige of leadership
without valuing the responsible
ties thereof. The Catholic Church,
however, quickly elected from her
ranks such blind leaders, self
seeking and importunate. They
drifted into smaller worlds where
their Unsuitable craving for the
applause Of men caused them to
found sects of their own. Or they
simply went through the world
with the brand of Lucifer and his
pride marking them as things
apart.
When such leaders arise in the
State, usually they succeeded in
forming a party, a clique, a fol
lowing that, sooner or later, de-
tecting their guile, deposed OF
slaughtered them. For it must be
that the multitude have leaders.
Woe betide them, however, when
these coryphei succeed in leading
the people into paths Of perdition.
The way back to sanity and safety
is long and arduous, painful and
costly.
The Catholic Church stands ever
| for the rights of the common man,
the rights of labor. Her history,
the DEGREES of her councils, the
acts OF her pontiffs, the words and
deeds OF her Bishops all point to
the championship of the welfare
of the people. This does not
mean, however, that so-called Cap
ital has no rights: such doctrine
would be pure socialism. II
means that the abuse of power
(which sometimes comes from the
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1919-11-08
AFTER ClEMENCEAU
FREEMASONS WILL BAG OLD
TIGER, PARIS HEARS.

An amusing incident has happened
recently in Paris. The usual meeting
of the Masonic Convert, as it is called,
has been taking place; and all
Brothers present were circularized to
the effect that the strictest secrecy
must mark the proceedings, which no
journal would be allowed to chroni-
Gle.
Despite all this secrecy, a Catholic
newspaper, La Libre Parole" has
found means Of publishing from day
to day an account of the doings, and
has created some sensation by an
nouncing that the Freemasons have
resolved that all Masons worthy of
the name will make every effort to
have the Minister Clemenceau re-
placed at the earliest possible mo-
ment!
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1919-11-08
DOMAIN OF TEMPERANCE
ALCOHOL TO KEEP OUT THE
COLD.

1t was snappy cold morning. The
milkman, with frost on his eyebrows,
slapped his hands and said he had al
ready taken two or three drinks to
warm himself up and added: 1--WE
just have to drink, else we couldn't
do our hard work and keep from freez-
ing and SO like many thousands of
Workmen, he believed and acted upon
the fallacy that alcohol prevents suffer
ing and danger from cold.
If there were more. such clear cut
comparisons between drinkers and
abstainers as the following, workmen
| in general might sooner discover how
false the impression is.
On one occasion at the Washington
International Hygiene Congress dis
cussion of the fact that drinkers suf-
| fer more severely from cold than alb
stainers brought out striking con-
firmation from very intelligent fire.
man detailed for service in the exhibit
/ ton building. He said:
! Il saw proof of that myself not long
ago. AS often happens, the most ter
rible fire occurred on the coolest day
of the winter and our company was
| called out for fire so dreadful that
we worked like tiends for about ten
! hours before we got it under control
! In few minutes we were wet to the
! skin and our clothes were frozen stiff
! SO that we suffered intensely from
| both cold and fatigue.
'Shivering with cold, the men
! thought some whiskey would warm
them up and keep them from catching
cold. So, although it was strictly
against the rules to drink while on
duty, the men began to pass the bot
tie from one to another every little
while. | had decided long ago that
it is bad thing to use liquor, so |
did not take any; but it seemed at
the time that those who did take the
Whlskey did not suffer as much as |
did
Finally the fire was out and we has
tened back to food and dry, warm
clothing. Scarcely had we done so
when a second fire as bad as the first
called us out again, and again most
of the men warmed 60 themselves up
with whiskey while l shivered through
the long hours without it.
at last the welcome signal all out
sent us back to quarters. We put on
dry clothes, ate big meal and went
to bed, where |, for one, was so eX-
hausted that | slept tWenty-four hours
But when | was rested | was as good
as new and had taken no harm what
ever from the fearful exhaustion and
exposure of nearly twenty-four hours.
But how the men who had taken the
whiskey to keep them warm suffered.
Truly they were so badly off that a
number of them were not fit to be out
for week or two. They reported for
duty but not to do it; they almost took
their lives in their hands.
ut certainly paid me to SILVER
few hours in order to save weeks
Sickness
Exchange.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1919-11-08

strength of Capital should not be
exercised towards those whose
only safety lies in their united
force.
Now the force which results
from a union of many members in
society may be subject to abuse
as well as the force which flows
from financial power. Each force
may be used by INSCRIPTIONS
leaders for their own selfish pur-
poses. And here precisely is the
imminent danger that menaces
Labor. The union is the working
man S best protection; but the
union directed by the wrong lead
er has always in the past and ever
will prove the undoing Of the
workingman himself. There have
been many such leaders in our So
clal life, and doubtless some of
them are now misleading their
followers.
1T Is incorrect to state that all
our social and labor troubles are
caused by the foreign elements.
The fact is that these foreign la
borers, unaccustomed to our man.
ners and social usages, unac-
qualnted with our tongue, often
TALL easy victims to any heartless
demagogue who prcys upon their
credulity.
The sooner our people awaken
to the dangers within our gates
the more interest will they take in
the Americanization Of those same
foreigners. Twenty years ago
foreign laborers, who made usually
twenty or twenty-five cents a day
for hard labor in their native
country, came here and in the
mines OF Colorado drew from four
to seven dollars a day. Yet these
same men were on strike a great
part of each year, even with their
vastly increased wages. They
were misled by vicious scoundrels
who imposed upon their ignorance
OF our customs and made them be-
lleve that they were being de-
frauded.
When Labor and Capital realize
the need which each has for the
other-an imperative and absolute
need-when the workingman is
willing to contribute a full day S
labor for a just recompense, then
it will be possible for society to
live in harmony. Until that day
arrives, the body social and polite
will continue to be disturbed by
the dlslntegrating elements Of dis
order, rapine and injustice.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1919-11-08

Very Rev. P. E. Magennis, Gen
eral of the Carmelites, writes
The American people are uncon
sciously heaping up for themselves
wrath in the days to come by then
insane hatred of all things Ger
man. The Italian has no such dis
like to things German. No, not
even the English that I met are
so insanely hostile to things Ger
man. Women and men of the Jay
type should be put in an asylum
or, should that be too respectable
a place, there should be a concen
tration camp for them. They
bring contempt and opprobrium
on the whole Republic.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1919-11-08

Just now the Methodists are
making plans to dispense eight
million dollars within a compare
lively short time in Mexico. A
solemn conference Of the various
Protestant foreign mission boards
operating from the United States
was recently held at Mexico City.
y plan was drawn up and ac-
reptcd, according to which all the
evangelical churches united
one program which so apportions
the entire country of Mexico that
the work of one denomination will
not overlap that of any other. The
territory assigned to each sect is
mapped out i'll The most minute
detail.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1919-11-08
SENTENCED FOR BLASPHEMY
CONVICTION OF LECTURER ON
THIS CHARGE FIRST CASE OF
ITS KIND IN STATE OF MAINE.

Michael Moschkus, convicted Of
blasphemy in lectures he delivered at
Rumford Maine, recently was SEN
fenced to serve from one to two years
in states prison by the supreme court
at South Paris, Me. The case will go
to the law court on exceptions. Mean
time, Moschkus was admitted to $500
bail.
Moschkus was arrested on the
charge of publicly disappearing in
three lectures before the Liberal Soci-
ETY. at Rumford Hall. He was alleged
to have ridiculed views of the Cruel
fixion, the Holy Trinity, and other re-
lgious beliefs. During his trial he
said he did not believe in God and
that religion did not appeal to him.
1t was the only case of it's kind tried
in Maine in many years.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1919-11-08


According to the Universal
Service" report from Geneva,
High Austrian, Hungarian and
Bavarian politicians now in Swift
zerland have been comforting for
some time, it is disclosed, to devise
a basis for creating Catholic
state in central Europe, which
would comprise German Austria,
Hungary and Bavaria. \ report
is current the Allies would grant
Bavaria considerable economic
concessions if she broke away
from Germany, but there is said
to be strong opposition to the plan
among the Bavarian people.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1919-11-08

Having taken an oath twenty,
three separate times to defend the
constitution, Representative Can,
non, former speaker of the house
finds he cannot contribute to q
fund to create sentiment that
would force senator's to ignore
their oaths in voting mreservedly
for ratification of the peace
treaty" mo man can serve two
masters" Cannon wrote, land
having sworn undivided allcgi
ance to the constitution [ cannot,
in the closing days Of my life, di.
vide it with the league of nations
which would pool the interests OF
the United States with every for
eign nation"
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1919-11-08
NOVEMBER II.

TO the list Of historical dates
that every person of education
retains fresh in memory must be
added November II. On that day
last year modern science con-
fessed that even its terrific powers
of destruction were unavailing to
blot out whole nations in warfare.
On that fateful day materialism
admitted that even its best efforts
could not effect the humiliation
Of whole peoples, And OH that
day the mills of God that had
ground so long and so thoroughly,
began to slow down, Signalling
the end of the awful carnage that
had been wrought by their grind
ing. God had proclaimed the law
of Christian charity: man had
scorned the law: five years of
tremendous suffering throughout
the ranks of mankind has been
Gods silent answer.
The governments OF the world
were loud III their protestations
of innocence when the flood came.
Each one claimed the right Of self
defence against an unruly neigh
Dor. With unholy horror they
protested the insinuation that they
desired the possessions of their
|neighbors. One among all the
great powers, the United States Of
America, was sincere in its protcs-
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1919-11-08

One OF the prettiest things we
have heard for Il long time came
to us i'll a letter from a heart
broken widow, who had Just
buried her husband with whom
she had lived for many years, says
The Tablet. 1t is an indication
of the sweet romance and loyalty
III the soul of the Irish race-we
read it i'll the poetry of the race
and hear it in their songs, but this
is the way it came spontaneously
in that letter of last week: "Now
| feel better, and if you can't read
this don't blame it on my hand
but ON my eyes for the tears would
not stay back. | hope your father
and mother are well. 1t is so nice
for them to be old together. The
Irish couples could 60 on loving
each other for ever and ever" A
letter ending like that is an an.
swer to the question, why God
loves the Irish.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1919-11-08
AUSTRALIAN CHAPLAIN
JAILED BY THE ENGLISH FOR
PRAiSING THE IRISH RE-
PUBLIC.

The Kings Bench court. Dublin,
ireland, has refused a writ of habeas
corpus to Father O'Donnell, the Tas.
manian chaplain who was arrested
October Is and confined in the Rich
mond barracks. The Crown charged
that Father O'Donnell was guilty of
disloyal language at Killarney, he hay.
ing praised the Irish people for estab-
fishing a Republic, and requested that
being subject to military control. he
be turned over to the Australian mill:
itary authorities,
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1919-11-08

"Out in Chicago" says the New
York Tribune, ''where they have
enough divorces to know some
thing about the science of happi-
ness and unhappincss in marriage,
two much experienced judges have
delivered their opinions and adj
vice. They agree substantially in
backing the girl who comes from
IA family in moderate circum-
stances to make the most success
full wife. "
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1919-11-08

Au exchange says: Touching
the question of Irish bravery, a
Wisconsin reader sends us some
pages from the Confederate Gray
book (l9l2), which might interest
Senator Williams. These pages
show a picture of a monument
erected to the memory Of Dick
Bowling and forty-three other
lrishmen who defeated $4,000
troops at Sabine Pass, Texas Sep
tcmber 8, 1863. They took 429
prisoners, deed without parallel
IN ancient or modern war; says
Davis (p. 299), in his Rise and
Fall of Confederate States. We
have mailed this letter to Senator
Williams for use Ill future out
bursts"
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1919-11-08
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1919.

Numbers % Of the Catholic His
torical Review are at hand. As
usual it contains list Of timely
aud interesting articles on notable
Catholic pioneers Of this country.
a valuable paper is that which
treats of the Church in Greenland
during the Middle Ages. There is
also a sketch of Paul de Saint
Pierre, the first German-American
priest Of the West.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1919-11-08

\ dollar today is worth in pur-
chasing power only thirty-five
cents of the money of 1896, DR..
Irving FISCHER of Yale University
told the members Of the American
Bankers Association at their an
nual convention, The price level
IT the United States is now three
fold the level of 1896, he said, and
IN modern slang, we may say
almost literally that, as compared
with the biggest dollar we ever
had, our present dollar looks like
thirty cents.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1919-11-08

There is a shortage of teachers
i'll the United States. The Nation.
al Educational Association reports
Il shortage Of $4,000 teachers, and
the employment Of $4,000 incom
petcnt ones. \ prominent edu.
Gator in Washington declares this
shortage is appalling when the
general lowering of educational
morale Of the youth of this coun.
try is couSidercd-a condition re.
sultant from the easily earned
wages during the emergencies OF
war.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1919-11-08

Says Father Irwin: The most
popular little woman in the world
today is Catholic girl called
Mary Pickford, known to millions
of movie fans" and deservedly
so. All of her pictures are clean
and wholesome and not spoiled by
the filth Of the sex problems that
dctace so many Of the films that
respectable people 50 frequently
are forced to sit through when
seeking an evening Of recreation
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1919-11-08

The new Federal Child Labor
law went into effect May l. 1t
was designed to end the 11-hour
day for 12-year-old children in
North Carolina cotton mills; to
stop night work for little boys in
West Virginia s glass factories /;
to free more than 10000 children
under 16 from the grind Of fac
tory, mill, cannery, coal mine and
breaker. But until this law,
which has been declared unconsti-
tutional by a Federal District
Court Judge Of North Carolina, is
upheld by the United States Su-
preme Court, the protection Of
these children is not assured.
There are 1,S50,0O0 child work
ers 10 to Is years of age who are
not reached by this new Federal
law even if it is upheld. They are
working in tenement homes, on
the big city streets, in the stores,
IN the huge sugar-beet and onion
fields. They need protection, too.
1t must be brought through their
state legislatures.
The National Child Labor Com
mittee is the only national body
charged with the responsibility of
securing to this big army of chill
dren their right to schooling until
the age Of 16; to an 8-hour day
and to daytime hours Of work-to
a bigger, better childhood. Hence
the Importance of the work Of this
devoted body of men and women
One Southern state had Tag
Day last spring to raise money to
teach $4,000 men of the state in
their national army cantonment
to read and write! At canton
ments near great industrial cen
ters i'll the North the first step in
the training Of whole regiments
of American soldiers was to teach
them enough English to under
stand military commands!
Twenty-nine per cent of our
men drafted for war service were
rejected as physically unfit. The
nation realizes now the value OF
it's man-power. This appreciation
must be crystallized into perma-
nent good by definite action for
safeguarding child health.
The Child Labor Committee,
through it's affiliation with the
l"Child Health Organization" is
carrying out a nationwide pro-
gram toward this end.
In the exceptional cases where
a family would have no other in
come than child's earnings, the
child should not be penalized for
being poor. More than any other
that child needs schooling, to be-
come civic and industrial asset,
not burden.
The committee is working to
extend and perfect the Mothers
Pension plan, and is spreading
scholarship help for children
where Mothers Pensions have not
yet developed.
Child labor and school stand.
ards differ radically among the
states, and even within the indi-
vidual states. For instance, one
state allows girls to stop school at
Il, hnt they NAV not work until
l6. Such inequalities lead to con
fusion and work against the best
Interests Of the child. This year
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1919-11-08
GIVE S175,OOO FOR SCHOOL

The six Fisher brothers of Detroit,
Michigan, all members Of the Fisher
Auto Body Co., have given $4,000 to
ST. Paul's parish for the building of
an 11-room parochial school. They
formerly lived in NorWalk, Ohio.