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The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1919-08-02
GERMAN MISSIONARIES
BELGIAN PRELATE ON GERMAN
M S ON MGR. y OTTO OF
NO T n kAUSU DENOUNCES
PERSEC UTlON OF GERMAN
PRIESTS IN CHINA.

Bishop Otto, Vicar Apostolic of
North Kausu, China, native of Bel
GUM, has protested against the de-
portation of Catholic missionaries of
German birth from China. In a let
ter to the editor of Catholic Missions,
Mgr. Otto says:
Being the senior Bishop of the sec
ond region of China in which are To-
Gated the German missions of Shan
tung, | pray you to publish in Cath
Ollie Missions my heartfelt protest
against the measures of expulsion of
which some missionaries have recent
ly been the victims. They were eX-
PEELED, although no accusation was
brought against them; on the con-
trary, they have been always admired
for their zeal in propagating the
faith and their charity toward all.
Z 81 would have never though such a
thing possible when the most grave
questions are being discussed for the
conclusion of peace. Being a Belgian
I need not say that my sympathies
are with the Allies, but I cannot re-
sist proclaiming loudly that such
petty persecution is unworthy of
them, that such odious measures hurt
the cause we are pursuing in com
mon, and that to deprive her of the
help of the Catholics of Germany is to
do harm to the Church.
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EDUCATION IN CHINA
THE "AMERICAN" COLLEG E-
NEEDS OF CATHOLICS,
The Christian Herald saws:

Inc CHRISTIAN Herald says:
plans are on foot to expand the
work of the Canton Christian College
at Canton, China, until it's students
shall receive the equivalent of an
American education The idea is to
make the Canton College the 'Colum-
bia of the Far East
Five million dollars will be re-
quired to carry out the plans, which
were recently discussed by trustees
and supporters of the college.
This institution was Incorporated
in New York state in 1893, and is I'M
UNCONVENTIONAL. Its faculty includes
about seventy persons, half of whom
are Chinese, and there are upward of
400 native students.
1T is said that the present work
done is excellent and that students
receive good education at very
small cost
When will Catholics gather their
energies and establish similar institu-
lions? Education is held in the high
est esteem in China and at present
higher education that is at all worth
while is identified in the Chinese
mind with American Professionalism.
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WILL FRANCE HELP I?
IRELAND ASKS FOR HER PLACE
IN cONFERENCE-R OF
THE REPUBLICS CHOSEN DELE
GATES Is HANDED TO PRESI-
DENT CLEMENCEAU.

A communication defining the atti-
tude Of the government of the Irish
Republic toward the League of Ma
lions, and asking that the Irish dele
gates to the Peace Conference have
opportunity to take part in it's further
discussions, was presented last week
to M. Clemenceau, president of the
Peace Conference.
The document, which was dated
from the Mansion House, Dublin, was
signed by Eamonn de Valera, Arthur
Griffith and Count Plunkett, the
elected Irish delegates to the confer.
ence. 1t was presented by George
Gavan Duffy and John r. O'Kelly, the
Paris Representatives Of the Irish re-
public. 1t read in part:
eve are ready and willing to take
part in any conversation and discus.
sion which may be properly laid be.
fore us, and we ask the Peace Com
missioners to provide us with an op-
portunity for doing so.
League Must Recognize IreIand's
Claim.
apart from the general grounds of
right, the Irish nation has a special
and peculiar interest in the league as
at present proposed In the form in
which the covenant is now drawn up
it threatens to confirm Ireland in the
slavery against which she has persist
emily struggled since the English
first invaded her shores and to n1edge
the rest of the civilized world, which
has hitherto done us no wrong, to dis
cOuntenance in the future our just
endeavors to free ourselves from the
regime Of implacable and brutal OPP,
preston under which we have suf-
fered so long.
ireland is a distinct and separate
nation, with individual and inalienable
rights which any league of nations
founded on justice is bound to recog-
niZe"
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1919-08-02
ABSTINENCE AND MORTALITY.

One naturally associates the war
with the enormous number of those
killed in action. Consequently it is
with somewhat of surprise and
shock that we read the mortality fig
ures which the New York Life Insur-
once Company gives of it's policy-hold-
ers in Germany during the four years
of war from August 1, 1914, to July
81, 1918. These figures have just been
compiled by the company's chief &C.
tuary and show that the mortality, in
Guiding deaths on the battlefield, was
II per cent less for the war period of
four years than for the eleven years
of peace Immediately preceding. The
company's chief actuary says: at is
probable that this has been the result
of restriction in diet, limitation in the
consumption of alcoholic beverages,
and large amount of exercise which
the Germans of middle life, the bulk
of our insured, have had to stand"
Then he adds that these facts point
way to longer life for the average
man, to-wit: restricted diet, total alb
stinence from alcoholic drinks, proper
exercise"
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Selfshness is probably the great
est curse Of the human race. The
selfishness of youth is due to
thoughtlessness. The selfishness
Of middle age is due to heartless-
ness. The selfshness Of old age is
due to carelessness. But it's just
plain selfshness in every case, no
matter what be the cause: abso-
Lutte disregard for the well-being of
friends and neighbors and the ex-
altation Of self. The thing that
makes us love and honor others is
the complete absence of selfish
ness, says contemporary. There
is no surer sign Of greatness than
the willingness to take the hum
blest place. 1t is an infallible sign
Of a small soul to be always clam
oring for the front seat.
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THAT SCHOOL.

The time is drawing nigh when
parents and guardians must make
the final decision as to what
school they will select for their
children. Some Of the little ones
are just about to be introduced to
school for the first time. Will
their first impression be CLEANED
from surroundings that breathe
the spirit and the atmosphere of
Christianity, of God and religion.
School is to prepare them for life,
and life is influenced and swayed
to a great extent by the force of
religious training or it's absence.
The grade schools have sent
forth their graduates during the
past months. Some Of these
former pupils contemplate enter
ing high school and pursuing their
education along higher lines. Will
their knowledge of history and
civics and of other branches, be
drawn from sources that ignore
God in the scheme of creation
Will their viewpoint Of life and it's
object be weakened by a lack of
clearness due to an utter disre-
gard Of the teachings Of their
religious belief, or will it take
deeper root from a sympathetic
grasp of the beauty and splendor
Of our glorious faith?
What about the young men and
women who 60 to higher institu-
lions of learning in order to pre-
pare themselves for the profess
sions or to imbibe the elements of
true literary and intellectual cul-
ture. Will their philosophy of
life be shaped by the distorted
notions Of God and the world,
ideas that are put forth every day
in our great state institutions by
atheistic and infdel professors
1t is a known and admitted fact
that the American state universe.
ties, as a rule, make but little pre-.
tense to give to God the place
which He rightfully holds in the
history Of the race. On the con
trary, science is presented as di
vorced entirely from the existence
of a First Cause; psychology
degenerates into mere study OF
physiology and animal traits; bio
logy stops short at the end OF
material life, and the human will
is exalted into an absolutely ire.
sponsible agent Of the individual
/ The above statements are al
based on admitted facts. What
are you Catholic parents going te
do about it, 1t is useless to argue
THAT your children are different
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1919-08-02
THE NEGRO PROBLEM.

During the past two years the
negro problem in the United
States has taken on a new aspect.
Hitherto lynching and other forms
Of violence, in which negroes have
been concerned, have been to a
great extent confined to the
Southern States. The era Of the
war, however, and the high wages
paid to labor have been respons-
ible for the migration Of the negro
in large numbers to the North.
The increased opportunities for
the colored man, as well as a
greater respect shown him in the
North, have tended to give him a
different idea Of himself. The
race riots in Washington and Chi
cago are but the expression Of re-
sentiment on the part of white peo-
pie and of mistaken ideas on the
part of the negroes.
History repeats itself. When a
people is enslaved and held down
by a foreign power uprisings are
sure to occur. This is true Of a
prosecuted nation as well as Of a
people fused into another people.
The negro possesses many adj
mirable traits; he is affectionate,
docile, humble and easily led.
With all our Wanted liberality
America has never given the
negro a square deal. To be sure,
he was given liberty and a few
advantages, and then turned
adrift. But the color Of his skin
has ever been held as line Of
separation between him and his
white fellow countrymen. On
practically every occasion he has
been made, directly or indirectly,
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1919-08-02
DOMAIN OF TEMPERANCE
WHAT SCIENTIFIC TESTS PROVE.

Science has been testing this ques-
ton of moderate drinking, and it's
conclusions are becoming more and
more emphatic; and, curiously, some
of the whimsical reasons given by the
ancients have been found to have
been shreWd approximations Of actual
facts as they are now just beginning
to be recognized.
The theory so confidently asserted
in many quarters, and believed to be
beyond question, namely, that alcohol
in small doses has a tonic action on
| the body, giving it additional strength
and vigor, has no support in modern
research; rather, on the contrary, it's
so-called good effects are found to be
due to it's narcotic, soporific proper
ties. For example:
A man, temperate and well, is care
fully measured from day to day, to de-
termine the capacity of his senses Of
sight, hearing, taste, and touch; also
his muscular power, fatigue sense,
rapidity Of thought, memory, and ca
pacity of endurance The averages
of many days examinations consti-
tute basis of comparison; and then
the man is given, say, half-ounce of
spirits, usually ethylic alcohol in wa
ter, for the reason that this is the pur-
est and most uniform of all spirituous
drinks. One hour later he is subjected
to the tests, when it is found that all
| his functions are depressed and the
senses are diminished in acuteness
and capacity. And this can be ex-
pressed in figures. Thus, the eyesight
and hearing are diminished in acute
ness to the extent of so many inches
or feet. The muscular output is low
cred by so many pounds, and the
fatigue point is increased showing
diminished capacity for eXertion and
endurance. The brain has lost it's
quickness and moves more slowly,
and this is measurable in seconds
The power of comparing one thing
with another is diminished, and the
percentage of mistakes in memory
tests has increased to nearly double.
And so on with every function of the
body. The hearts action has first
been raised, but then has fallen as far
below the normal as it had been
forced above.
The conclusion is, that alcohol is
not tonic, does not impart new pow
er and strength, is not stimulant
capable of rousing up latent energies
and enabling one to do greater work;
but, rather, that its effects are the
| in oyprv inctaooo ond 11p6or oil
conditions, namely, depressing and
sleep-producing
| r. D. Crothers NJ D.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1919-08-02
STORY OF sHANTUNG.

The question of ceding Shantung
in China to the japanese has
some interest for Catholics. The
origin of the controversy may be
traced to an event in modern
Catholic missionary activity.
What is the story of Shantung
In November, 1897, two German
missionaries, Fathers Francis Xa-
vier Mes and Richard Henley,
were attacked by Chinese and
massacred in the village of Chang
kia-Chwang. On November IA,
1897, the German fleet occupied
Kiao-Chau. The kaiser backed up
this occupation by sending an
army to China. 1t was on this
occasion that he gave the cele-
brated "Hun' speech, telling his
soldiers that they had been called
Huns and to act the part in fright
fitness against the Chinese, OBJ
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A SWISS FESTIVAL
QUAINT RELIGIOUS PROCESSION
TAKES PLACE IN THE SEQUES-
TERED LOETSCHENTAL VAL
LEY, SWITZERLAND, ON COR
PUS CHRISTI OK EVERY YEAR.
written for The Catholic Bulletin by
Marie Widmer)

One of the most interesting of the
many beautiful Swiss Alpine Valleys
is undoubtedly the Loetschental, tiny
stretch of land, only 26 KIN. long, ris-
ing from the Village of Gampel, 2 100
feet above sea level, on the right
shore of the river Rhine, up to the
cradle of the tempestuous mountain
above sea level.
While Nature has showered her
choicest gifts on this diminutive noun
tain vale, she has made it practically
imperative for it's inhabitants to
chiefly depend on their own resources
and to adhere to the simple life-to
dairying and farming on a modest
scale, such as the soil of that high
region would permit. AS the general
use of ploughs and carts is out Of
question, the fields are simply hoed
over and everything that has to be
brought to and fro is carried.
The usual events in human life,
christenings, courtings, weddings and
funerals naturally assume consider
able Importance in the otherwise I'M
eventful life of the natives, but aside
of these happenings it is religion
which plays the most prominent part
in the devoutly Catholic Loetschen
Valley.
The principal festive days are con-
sequently religious ones and among
these the day of Corpus Christi and
the Sunday following the same are
observed with particular pomp.
All the men of military age have
which takes place after Mass and
which is led by bearers of flags and
crucifix. The uniform of these men
consists of white trousers, red coat
with yellow and black decorations.
White leather bands cross the breast
and shoulders and a military hat
with feathers form the headgear.
About 80 to 100 men appear in this
attire and almost every family pos
sesses such uniform which is only
worn on special occasions; some even
wear the old officers uniforms of the
French or Neapolitan Swiss regi-
ments.
Crucifx and flag bearers are fol-
lowed by maidens in long, flowing
white wells, then come the brother
hoods in white robes, after them the
military contingent, then little girls
in white, choir singers, priests, ETC.,
and finally the various village officials,
the schoolboys and the congregations
in general.
The procession winds it's way from
Kippel, the principal village of the
Valley, to the meadows near by
where it stops before a wayside cross
to invoke the divine blessing upon
the place, it's inhabitants and the
products of the fields.
The recent Corpus Christi festival
on June 10 was celebrated with par
ticular fervor and devotion and addi-
tional prayers of thanks were offered
in view of the termination of the
world war which kept Switzerland's
men of military age on frontier duty
to a great extent of their time.
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that a particular teacher or school

that particular teacher or school
is noted for fair mindedness, or
that social advantages are to be
preferred to religious training.
The bald fact remains incontest-
ible that the leakage in the Church
in this country is directly trace
able to two main causes: divorce
and Goddess education. Like the
two rocks, Scylla and Charybdis,
these twin evils stand in the way
of perfect progress for Church
and State. To avoid the one and
then dash up against the other is
to court shipwreck and disaster.
Give your children a Catholic
education and training, and the
lists of Catholics in the divorce
courts will be materially dimin-
iShed. E'oi
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to feel that after all he is only a

negro.
This is not the attitude Of the
Catholic Church. She numbers
her saints and children among the
sons Of Africa and the members
OF the yellow race, as well as
among the more favored members
whose skin is white. Priests and
other religious workers are at this
very moment giving their life and
their energy for the benefit of the
colored man. Discrimination
against him on account of his
color is both n-Christian and un-
American. If we did not want
the negro is this country we
should have ousted him and not
given him freedom. Now, how
ever, that he is a citizen, he is en-
titled before the law to respect
and to fairness on the part of all
citizens. If he is at times trouble
some and irresponsible, do not
blame the negro; blame rather
the conditions which have failed
to correct these qualities in his
nature.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1919-08-02

At the Paris Conference France
gained Alsace-Lorraine, $15, OOO,-
100000 and the eternal hatred OF
Germany, says an exchange. Ger
man hatred may be something
negligible at the present moment.
But Germany has 100000 in
habitants; France, 100000. The
eighty may take a notion to make
a descent on the forty, and then,
indeed, will Mr.. Roosevelt's taunt
take on a new meaning, we will
be fighting the wars Of France be-
cause France has committed high
treason against the Creator. And
we will have to fight whether we
will or not.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1919-08-02

In the course Of a letter ad-
ministering a much too mild re-
buke to one Of New York s British
organs, the Evening Post" Mr..
John d. Moore, the well known
citizen and friend Of Irish free
dom, says: The recognition of
Ireland at the Peace Conference
might, indeed, be a "preposter-
Gus demand" if President Will
son had not recognized the
Czecho-Slovak republic at a NOM
ent when it's good President was
5000 miles west Of his country,
it's army 1000 miles east thereof
and the country itself so domi-
mated by the Teutonic allies that it
probably knew nothing of it's free
dom, its army, or it's President.
There is something almost comic
in according the honors Of nation
hood to a people known only to
ethnologists and denying them to
race that has struggled for lib
erty in the plain sight of the world
for more than 700 years.
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NOTHING BUT EVIL RESULTS

Says DR.. Silas Hall of Vincennes,
Ind: I'm a practice of thirty-six
years I have never used alcohol at all,
but l have been a keen observer of it's
effects as used by others, both in the
profession and out of it, and l have
never seen anything but evil come of
it. Up to few years ago alcohol was
the favorite remedy in wasting dis
eases, such as typhoid fever, tubercu-
losis, cancer. Clinical observation
has amply proven that in all such
cases it not only retards recovery, but
often hastens death. Beer, while not
possessing so large a per cent of al
cohol as Whiskey, is more insidious in
it's action, but none the less certain of
evil results"
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CATHOLIC SOCIAL SERVICE
N. c. w. C.. SCHOOL IN WASHING-
TON BEGINS FOURTH SEES
SION.

The fourth session of the Clifton
School, the Social Service School of
the National Catholic War Council,
in Washington, has opened.
There were registered twenty-one
students, representing as many states.
Many of these students have been
sent by the Bishops of their dioceses
to take the course as a preparation
for work in the community houses
and with the girls club of their re-
spective sections.
The staff of the school is as fol-
lows: Dean, Miss Maude Cavanaugh
of Chicago, in charge of Americaniza-
ton work; Miss Maria Ewing of New
York, in charge of domestic science:
Miss Helen Cronin of Boston, and
recreation leader, Miss Angela Conner
of Wilmington, ILL.,
The fifth session of the school will
open in September.
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Z. E -
A striking advertisement ap-
peared in the leading newspapers
of London: "The League OF Ma
tions, to be successful must In
clude all, so must the Kingdom OF
God-even South America. Send
funds for the protestant mission
to South America - South Amer
lea, taken as a whole, is one of
the most Catholic portions of the
globe, yet these propagandists
treat a highly civilized commun-
ity of Christians as though they
were so many savages waiting on
their bounty to become useful
members of society.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1919-08-02

The Berlin Catholic daily, Ger.
mania, makes the following com.
ment on the signing Of the peace
treaty: eve reject all blood,
thirsty screaming for revenge
The German people must again
come to its senses and manifest
its solidarity, and first and fore
most by the care and practice of
real culture"
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QUITE COMMON NOW
VICTORY FOR PAROCHIAL
SCHOOLS.

On Tuesday of last week Elmer
Flynn, son of Mr.. and Mrs. Flynn of
Lorain, Ohio, received his appoint
ment to a cadetship at the West
Point Military Academy, and win en-
ter the great United States school on
the Hudson river in the fall.
The cadetship was the prize offered
in a recent contest, open to the pupils
Of all schools, public and parochial,
valedictorian of the graduating class
of ST. Mary's school, Lorain, won the
coveted honor with a percentage of
ninety-tWo, his nearest competitor at
tanning only siXty-six
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ARCHBISHOP TO RETURN

Preparations are being made in
Morelia, Mexico, for a fiesta in honor
of Monsignor Leopoldo Ruiz, arch
bishop of Michoacan, who it is an
nounced will resume his duties there
after an enforced absence in the
United States He has been living in
San Antonio, Texas. President Car
rama, according to newspaper reports,
acted fayorably on a petition that the
archbishop be allowed to return to
Mexico.
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HEARN IS HONORED

William P. Larkin of New York
has received word from the Paris
headquarters of the K. of G. that
Edward L. Hearn of New York, Over
seas Commissioner for the Knights,
has received the Cross of the Legion
of Honor from the French govern
ment. This is in recognition of his
individual services as a war worker
and of the services of the K. of c.
towards winning the war and the
establishment of reconstruction work
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Judge Dunno has been Mayor
Of Chicago and Governor of Hi
noiS. AS an Irish-American dele
gate, he made very little impress
sion when he was introduced as
Governor" Dunno, for the gov
errors over there run only pri-
sons; but when he was brought
out as a "former lord mayor of
Chicago" he was the only mem
Der they wished to hear.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1919-08-02

The Internal Revenue Depart
ment has rescinded the regulation
allowing a priest to order sacra-
mental wine for no longer a pc.
riod than three months, according
to Father George Zurcher OF
North Evans, N. Y, a staunch aid
yocate Of prohibition for many
years, who returned from Wash
ington few days ago. Father
Zurcher says that priests may
order a years supply of wine al
one time, if they desire to do SO.