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The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1919-02-01
FATHER WIEMANN DEAD
ASSISTANT PRIEST AT ST. BON
lFAcE CHURCH, MINNEAPOLIS,
DIED SUDDENLY LAST WEEK.

Rev. Claude Wiemann, O. S. B., as
sistant pastor of St. Boniface Church,
Minneapolis, and son of Mr.. and Mrs.
Theodore Wiemann, 107 West Tenth
street, st. Paul, died suddenly at mid
night, Friday, January "a, at the parish
house. Heart disease is said to have
caused his death. He received Ex-
treme Unction and the final absolu-
ton, after making his confession. The
congested state Of his lungs prevented
his receiving the Holy Viaticum.
Father Wiemann was born in st.
Paul, June 5, 1878, and was educated
at ST. Johns University, Collegeville,
Mimi He was ordained to the priest
hood in 1903. He was appointed at
once professor OF mathematics at his
Alma Mater, and then became procur
ator at st. Johns College. In 1911
he became assistant at the Church of
ST. Boniface in Minneapolis. During
the influenza epidemic last November
he contracted the disease while at
tending the sick This resulted in a
weakened heart which caused his
death.
The body lay in state at the Church
Of st. Boniface last Sunday and Mon
day afternoon, and then was removed
to st. Johns abbey at Collegeville.
Solemn requiem High Mass was
celebrated at the Church of st. Bon
iface at 8 A. VI. Monday. Rev Hugo
Tell, O.. S. B., was the celebrant
A solemn requiem High Mass was cele-
brated at st. Johns at Collegeville
Tuesday morning at which the Right
Reverend Abbot Peter Engel, O. S. B.,
pontifcated. Father Wiemann was
buried in the abbey ground at Col
legeville. Besides his parents, Father
Wiemann is survived by four sisters,
Catherine, Gertrude, Mary, and Mrs.
Anna Reimringer, and by a brother,
Matthew.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1919-02-01
DEATH OF FATHER zAHNER
WiNoNA PRIEST succuMRS TO
iNFLUENZA-HAD BEEN A STU
DENT AT ST. PAUL SEMINARY.

Rev. Joseph Zahner, pastor Of the
Immaculate Conception Church, Con-
ception, and ST. Joseph's Church,
Theilman, Mimi, died in ST. Elizabeths
Hospital, Wabasha, January %. The
cause of death was influenza followed
by pneumonia. The funeral was held
from st. Felix Church, Wabasha, Fri
day morning, January "a. In accord
ance with Father Zahner's expressed
wish, the remains were laid at rest in
the little cemetery near the hospital.
Father Zahner was born December
3, 1877, at Saukville, Wis He made
his classical studies at ST. Francis
Seminary, Milwaukee, and ST. Johns
University, Collegeville, Mimi. His
course in philosophy was completed
at the ST. Paul Seminary He studied
theology at st. Meinrad, Ind, for three
years. He was ordained at ST. Meinrad
Seminary June 1, 1901, by Right Rev.
erend Denis O'Donoghue, present
Bishop of Louisville, KY, for the Di-
ocese of Winona
Father Zahner was assistant priest
at Fairmont, Minn., for year, and
was pastor at Lismore, Mimi, from
1902 to 1905. He was then transferred
to Woodstock, where he remained un.
til 1911. In that year he was appointed
to Conception, with the mission OF
Theilman, where he remained until his
death.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1919-02-01
CARDINAL HARTMANN PROTESTS.
IN THE NAME OF THE PRUS-
SIAN BIsHoPs-ThE CENTRUM"
TO BE ORGANIZED AS A CHRIS
TiAN DEMOCRATIC" PARTY.

The present condition of affairs in
Germany is one that is exercising the
minds Of German Catholics to con-
siderable degree. Herr Adolph Hoff-
mann, the new Minister of Worship,
is the representative of group of
freethinkers who for some years have
urged the separation of Church and
State, and the present design of the
new minister is not only to effect this
separation, but also to confiscate the
property of the Church for the bene-
fit OF the State. 1t is, in short, pro-
posal to bring into effect conditions
that are at present not unknown in
Mexico.
This decree, which would include
the secularization Of the property of
religious orders, it is proposed to
bring into effect as from April first
next. That there is some serious in
tention OF passing such measure is
evident from the strong protest of the
Archbishop of Cologne.
Cardinal Hartmann's Protest.
Cardinal Won Hartmann, Archbishop
of Cologne, has addressed the fol-
lowing protest to the government in
Berlin:
L am reliably informed that the
present government intends in the
course of some days to issue a de-
cree for the separation of Church and
State on April /, 1919 Against this
proposal l enter the following solemn
protest in the name of all the Bishops
of Prussia, for the intended measure
| is a fragrant act of illegality, because
1. The present government is only
| provisional one, which is empow
cred, at the most, to make the neces
sary arrangements in the interest o.
| public peace and order; it cannot be
regarded as authorized to abolish per
manent laws.
2. Through the intended separation
| not only will a whole series of laws
that are in force but also the con
| stitution itself be violated.
| ). BY the separation the Catholic
Church will be robbed of many we'll
earned rights which were assured tx
her by laws on the strength of con
tracts legally binding and, by way O
restitution for property taken from
her by the power of the State
4. If the design is to effect this sep
aration by means of a mere decret
and not by legislation, that is not
legal measure, but an act of arbitrar.
| power.
But although Catholics will offer
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1919-02-01
MAY TAX CHURCHES
PROPOSAL IN NEW YORK TO
COVER DEFICIT CAUSED IN
STATE FUNDS.

The Tax Committees of the New
York State Legislature have proposed
a tax on all church property to cover
the deficit caused largely by prohibit
ton legislation. The State this year
faces deficit of about $12 100000, ac-
-cording to Senator Frederick M. Dav-
export and Assemb1yman Frank w.
JudsOn, chairmen OF the tax commit
tees, who issued an analysis of the
taxation problems, as well as sugges-
tions to remedy the condition. Among
these latter is the suggestion ''to stop
all exemption on real property, with
the exception of the property of the
State, making all fraternal, educa-
tional, philanthropic, religious and
charitable institutions bear their
equal proportion with other real prop
erty."
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1919-02-01
SPEAKS At WARSAW
FATHER IcIEk CONVEYS WISHES
OF UNITED STATES POLES
FOR SUCCESS.

According to a Warsaw dispatch re-
ceived in Paris, January II, by the
National Polish committee, great
meeting has been held in the large
hall of the Warsaw Philharmonic So
ciety to discuss the question of the de-
fense of the Polish border lands. Ig-
mace Jan Paderewslli, the Polish
premier, was present, as also were
American representative and British
and Italian delegates.
The Rev. S. A. Iciek of Duluth, Min
nesota, speaking on behalf of the Poles
of the United States, conveyed their
wishes for the complete success Of the
Polish cause He added that the Poles
in America had collected $2,500,000 for
the relief of Poland.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1919-02-01
lnfidels Start War On Religion

strong opposition to this measure, it
the freethinkers form large and
powerful body.
The Center party is, however, pre-
pairing to face the new conditions,
and, accordingly, its members in the
Reichstag, together with those in the
two houses of the Landtag, have pub
hshed the following appeal, in collab-
Grafton with the leading members of
the Rhenish and Westphalian Zen
trumspresse," the Christian Social
Workers Organization, the PEOPLES
Union for Catholic Germany, the
members of the peasants associa-
tions, and representatives of the Cath
olic Women's Leagues
"A new Center party must and will
arise during the changes of these
present days. Unreserved adherence
to the democratic republic, opposition
to every kind of class domination,
freedom with law and order, the cul-
tiVation of those ideals which alone
can heal people and state-these are
the fundamentals of it's revival as a
Christian-Democratic popular party.
protesting these principles, and on
them seeking election to the Constit-
uent Assembly. In readiness for this
election a provisional program has
been drawn up with suggested names
Of candidates. The latter demand that
peace be speedily concluded, that
preliminary peace be negotiated at
once, that the inter-relations of ma
tions and states be governed by right
and not by might, that a League Of
| Nations be created embodying uni
versal disarmament, the protection of
national minorities in every state,
complete restoration of foreign rela-
| tions, the abolition of all secret di-
| plomacy, the entire independence of
the Holy See, economic equality for
all nations, freedom of the seas, in
ternational control of the workers
| question, the creation of colonial ter
ritory commensurate with Germany s
needs"
In the realm of internal politics a
demand is put forward for the imme-
diate assembly of the National Coun.
Gil, the union of the German peoples
into one true German republic, equal
franchise with proportional represen-
tation, national and municipal fran
chfse for women, an independent gov.
ernment at the head of the kingdom
and the states, with huge majority
supported by the peoples representa-
tives; the forming Of a constitution
by the Constituent Assembly, free
dom of the press, freedom of assem-
bly,, freedom of association. With re,
gard to economic and social policy
they demand the upholding of the
principle of private ownership, even
of means of production, and the sub.
stitution of popular control for pri
vate capitalist monopolies.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1919-02-01
NOTED WRITER COMING
JOHN AYScCuGH WILL VISIT
UNITED STATES.

John Ayscough, whose novels,
"Monksbridge, Grace Church." and
others having for their theme Eng
lish life, have had wide reading in
this country, will come to the United
States in March on a lecture tour
that will also embrace Canada. AT
terwards he expects to embody his
impressions OF America in a book.
This will be his first visit on this side
of the Atlantic, although he has re.
ceived the degree of LII. D. from two
American universities. In private life
he is Mgr. Bickerstaffe-Drew
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1919-02-01
BELLS FROM CANNON
ITALIANS SUGGEST THAT
CHURCH BELLS BE MADE FROM
AUSTRIAN CANNON.

The Holy Father has sent his apos-
tolic blessing, with words of encour-
agement and praise, to members of the
Society for the Reconstruction of
Churches in the devastated districts
of Italy. High prelates and noble
ladies have undertaken to collect
money for priestly vestments, altar
pieces, etc., with view to reestab-
fishing as soon as possible the Catho-
lie worship in those provinces.
Many persons suggest that the mill
tary authorities should give a number
of Austrian cannon, captured by the
Italians, to make church bells, the old
ones having been taken away by the
enemy.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1919-02-01
THE HOLY NAME
NEW YORK POLICE HAVE HOLY
NAME SOCIETY.

The recent meeting of the Holy
Name Society of the Police Depart
ment in the Cathedral College Hall,
New York, was the largest and most
successful ever held, fully 500 dele
gates and members being present.
The date selected for the annual
Communion Mass and breakfast is Pas
sion Sunday, April 6, at a. M, in st.
Patrick's Cathedral Breakfast will
be served at one of the large hotels
charge.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1919-02-01
CATHOLIC WAR COUM-
GIL HAS TAKEN UP PROBLEM IN
A PRACTICAL WAY-STATE
AGENCIES STABLISHED-MR.
HANLEy TO ORGANIZE MINNIE
sofa.

The problem of re-inducting into
civil employment three million sol
diers and five to six million munitions
workers will impose severe test. on
the resources of the country. High
prices and uncertainty in regard to
market conditions prevent employers
from engaging in new enterprises, and
the winter months have practically
brought building operations to stand
STILL
In face of the serious situation
which is threatening us, every organ
ization in America should busy itself
in finding positions for the demoblized
soldiers and munition workers, and all
employers should look upon it as a
patriotic duty to make room for them.
The Reconstruction Committee of
the National Catholic War Council, to
which the Administrative Committee
of Bishops has entrusted all recon
struction problems, has taken up the
employment problem in cooperation
with the other war welfare organiZa-
tions and the United States Employ
ment Service of the Department of
Labor Fifteen field agents are already
at work in the different states Organiz-
ing Catholic committees to find EN-.
ployment for the discharged from the
service. --.s.l .a.-
So far, excellent results have been
attained in New York, Massachusetts
and Pennsylvania. The agent of the
Council in New York, Mr.. Edward
Arnold, has established ten Catholic
Employment agencies. Seven Of these
are being operated by Knights of Col
umbus secretaries and three by agent:
of the Committee on Special War Ac
tivities. The Administrator of tht
Archdiocese of New York is sendin:
a letter to all Catholic pastors witt
the request that they bring the matte
before their parishioners,, and appoin
special parish committees.
The work of Mr. John FL. O'Gormal
in Pennsylvania and Mr.. Francis Z
Slattery in Massachusetts has wol
the highest approval of the official
of the U. s. Department of Labol
i Mr.. O'Gorman has done excellent wor
in organizing the different catholi
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1919-02-01
ABOUT SOLDIERS EMPLOYMENT

groups in Philadelphia, Pittsburgh,
Scranton, Erie and other cities in
Pennsylvania The work of Mr.. Slat-
terry in Boston and other important
cities in Massachusetts has been equal
ly successful. In Illinois, the Catholic
agencies are being organized under
the direction of Mr. Edward Houlihan,
State Deputy of the knights of Col
umbus. Mr.. Houlihan is being assisted
by Mr.. James Fitzgerald, Secretary
of the Loyola School of Sociology.
The work in Michigan is being direct
ed by Mr.. Ernest A. O'Brien, State
Deputy of the Knights of Columbus.
Work in Minnesota.
The Committee on Reconstruction
has secured the services of Mr. P. J.
Hanley, of Portland, Oregon. who for
a number of years has been in charge
of one of the most efficient private
employment agencies in America. Mr..
Hanley will organize the Catholic
agencies in Oregon, Washington,
Montana, North Dakota, and Mime
sota. Secretaries will be appointed in
all the large cities in these states to
work under Mr.. Hanley's direction.
Within the next few days, Catholic
organizers will be appointed in Mis-
souri,, New Jersey and California Lat
er, the work will be extended to other
States. @
OF almost equal Importance to the
employment problem, is that of car
ing for the wounded men who are be-
ing returned from France every day.
The Federation Board for Vocational
Education is charged with the reha-
bilitation of these men. After they
are discharged from the reconstruction
| hospitals, the Board is prepared to
place them in schools or colleges
where they will be educated at Gov
ernment expense. In addition TO a
| free education, the men will receive a
minimum of $65.O0 month while in
school or college. Being handicapped
| by lack of funds and men to do this
/ work, the Federal Board for Voca-
tion Education appealed to the
| National Catholic War Council
/ and other war welfare organiza-
tions to come to its aid. The
War Council Immediately volunteered
to-secure the services of one hundred
vocational experts. These men were
4 secured and most Of them are now al
. work in the reconstruction hospitals
The sum OF s125,000 was appropriated
fr the payment of the salaries oi
\ these vocational advisers.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1919-02-01
PAPAL PEACE MEDAL

A pontifca1 medal to commemorate
the coming of peace has been struck.
On the diverse side the medal bears
the figure of Pope Benedict, with the
inscription, "Benedictus XIV. Principis
Pacis Vicarius,'' Benedict XIV. Vicar
of the Prince of Peace.
On the reverse side is an image
of the Redeemer, with angels on
either side representing Justice and
Peace.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1919-02-01
Catholic Community Centers

it means only the binding together of
what heretofore have been separate,
and the providing of what heretofore
have been missing; it means the
strength of unity and the efficiency OF
plan. It is time Catholic charities
should cease to be described as all
right as far as they go, but they are
not comprehensive enough, and they
do not go far enough They shall be
all right and they shall go all the
way.
Neither does the community center
idea, applied to the large city or the
small, mean an attempt at the impos-
sible Rather after our experiences
with the confusion of our present free
for-all, go-as-you-please charities, it
seems almost suspiciously simple.
There needs to be formed a Cath
olic League which shall embrace every
Catholic family in the community in
it's membership. There needs to be
appointed by this, committee an execu-
tive committee small enough to be
able to act and accomplish something,
and there should be appointed at the
head of this executive committee a
director who shall be so free that he
or she can be held directly respOn-
sible for his actions. The headquar-
ters of this Catholic League shall be
the Community Center. Once each
I, 81 hn T ,I1ol
be asked to contribute to the general
fund.- part Of which shall be disbursed
by the Executive Committee proper
tionately to the different specific eX-
isting agencies, but always a surplus
maintained to provide for the creation
of new agencies to meet needs not
now taken care of.
For an instance of how we fail be-
cause of lack of a central organiza-
ton whose business it is to make and
to act upon a survey of the whole
field: How little of the work of Amer
icanization have we done in the past
or are we ready to do in the future
The Catholic immigrant comes into
our city and there is no Catholic
agency to teach him his civic and
state rights and obligations or to &C
quaint him with the scheme of ou1
politics. He does find these services
in other organizations
Again here we are face to face with
all the problems, many of them new
OF reconstruction after the war. In
your community is there any Catholic
social service body that you can look
to as responsible for the planning and
putting into motion agencies to meet
| these problems? Thirty-fve per cen1
OF our victorious army of liberty is
! Catholic. They will come back tc
their own community and what plans
have been made or upon whom rests
the responsibility to make plans tC
meet them? Not so did the Catholic
| soldiers of the Middle Ages return tc
| their community. There was a re
sponsible agency to plan for them anC
receive them and help them; it was
the monastery, the community center
And they did not have to look all ove1
! town for it.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1919-02-01
Must Ee Advertised.

| said a few minutes ago that
community center that is not known
is no community center. 1t must be
made matter of common knowledge
that there is a Catholic community
center in every town, and certain
definite building or Office in every
town must be we'll known as the Cath
olic community center and as easy to
find as the Catholic Church In every
railroad station in every town there
should be hung conspicuously a plac
ard giving directions as to how the
Catholic community center may be
reached and inviting the stranger to
its shelter. In every boys or girls
court, court of domestic relations or
morals court there must be a social
service worker from the Catholic COM
munity center every hospital and jail
must know them as regular visitors.
Of course, these things cannot be
done in a day or month or a year,
but the point is they cannot ever be
done at all unless there is a central
responsible agency working accord
ing to unified plan. That is the
meaning of the community center idea.
That is the one thing we have lost
from the Catholic social service of
| the past. The charity that is love and
| the generosity and sacrifice that love
| inspires, we have not forgotten; not
| less than the sane and sanity social
servants of the past. We are con
cerned more with the rehabilitation
of families than with the reports
/ thereon, more with the feeding of the
poor than with statistics about pow
erty, but we have forgotten the medi
eval-community center idea, in oul
! social work. We need only to remem
Der it, and to put it again into eff
feet, to make Catholic social service
| again what it once was; the socia
service of love and efficiency-the rea
social service.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1919-02-01
MRS. CATHAR|NE huff REQUESTS

Charitable bequests under the will
of Mrs. Catharine Huff of Washing
ton, d. c., include $500 to St. AIMS
Infant asylum, $500 to st. A1oysius'
Church, $500 to the pastor of st.
Mary's Church, Ardee, Ireland; $500
to the Sisters Of Mercy of the same
place, 5000 to Woodstock College in
Maryland, $3.50 to the College Sisters
at Eighth and @ streets northwest,
and $25 to the Franciscan Monastery.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1919-02-01
GIFT TO CHURCH

The Church of the Holy Comforter
of Charlottesville, Va, has just been
favored with a munificent gift of
100000. The donor of the money is
Mr.. Thomas Fortune Ryan of New
York. The only condition attaching
to the gift is that the parish itself
raise $4,000.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1919-02-01
MEMORIAL TO SOLDIERS

At meeting of the members of
st. Boniface parish, Lafayette, Indi-
ana, held January 10, it was decided to
erect handsome memorial to the five
boys of the parish who made the SUI.
preme sacrifice in the war The me-
mortal will take the form of vault
and chapel in st. Boniface Cemetery.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1919-02-01
CHAPEL FOR HEROES

Archbishop Glennon of st. Louis has
announced his intention to erect the
fourth chapel in the Cathedral of st.
Louis, as yet unsubscribed, in memory
of soldiers and sailors who have given
their lives in the service of their
country.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1919-02-01

SOCIAL SERVICE is AN OLD lNSTl-
TUITION IN CHURCH-IDEA is
TO HAVE A CLEARING HOUSE
FOR ALL ILLS-SuCA A CENTER
MUST BE KNOWN AND ADVER-
TISED-PRESENT NEEDS OF
SUCH A WORK.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1919-02-01
Uniting All Agencies.

The establishment Of the community
center idea entails no disruption or
encouragement of existing agencies;
Evening star., 1919-04-03
FOR ELECTION BY PEOPLE.
Change in Naming Board of Educa'
tion Will Be Sought.

The schools committee of the Board
of Trade will work for legislation at
the next session of Congress empow-
ering the people of Washington to
elect the members of the board Of ed
ucation. instead of having them ap-
pointed by the judges of the District
Supreme Court.
Roy c. Claflin, chairman. has called
meeting of the schools committee to
meet in the rooms of the organiza ton
at 4:3o o'clock tomorrow afternoon to
discuss this and other school matters
on which action will be sought at the
next session Of Congress.
The fight for higher pay for teach
ers and other school employees will be
renewed as soon as the House and
Senate convene. Mr.. Clafin believes
that failure of this legislation at the
last session was due to the fact that
too many wage schedules were sub
mittcd to Congress. He is of the opin-
ion that if all interested organiza-
tions will agree upon one schedule
and unite in working for that sched-
ule Congress will grant 1t.