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The Irish standard., 1919-06-28
The Coming National
hibernian Convention

San Francisco is preparing for the
coming National Convention of the
Ancient Order of Hibernians and
Ladies' Auxiliary to be held there be-
ginning July 16. The Exposition Au-
ditorium has been secured for the ses.
sions, and the st. Francis Hotel as the
headquarters for the delegates.
In view of the fact that the coming
convention will mark the first time
that the national meeting of the HI
bernians has been held in the Far
West, San Francisco officials of the
great Irish organization are deter.
mined that the event shall prove the
most memorable in the remarkable
career of Hibernians in this country.
Weekly meetings to be held Wednes-
day nights in Hibernian Hall, with
P. B. Mahoney, San Francisco County
President Of the A. o. H., in the chair,
attended by the members of the ways
and means committee, have been pro-
ductive of much enthusiasm and
progress.
Communications received from all
parts Of the United States and Canada
by p. ]. Mahoney, secretary of the
ways and means committee, indicate
that more than 1000 delegates and
5000 visitors will come to San Fran
cisco for the convention. The stimu-
lation being given to Irish freedom by
the development of world events gives
promise Of an even greater crowd Of
visitors.
Already many Of the national off,
GERS of the A. o. H. and the Ladies'
Auxiliary have wired to the st. Fran
cis Hotel for suites during the con,
vention period, and Indications are
that several hundred of the visitors
will arrive a week before the conven-s
tion opens.
An entertainment committee. head
ed by Warren Shannon. is planning =
series Of social affairs, receptions,
banquets and Sightseeing trips for the
visitors, among whom viii be scores
Of the most brilliant minds Of the Irish
race in America. Many Of the nota-
BILE figures who have been leading the
fight for Irish freedom IN this conn.
try win come for the conclave.
The Irish standard., 1919-06-28
CARDINAL o'coNNELL Ap.
DRESSES 10000 At BOSTON

Boston, June ia warning to Eng
land not to trife with America on the
Irish question was voiced by Cardinal
O'Connellsat an Irish demonstration,
attended by more than 10000 persons
at Mechanics Hall last night
Until Ireland has been finally freed
from an age-long yoke" the Cardinal
said, a yoke infinitely more CALLING
than that which any other land has
been compelled to wear, the war cry
of America will still resound through
out the earth. Let them who hear it
beware not longer to defy it, but while
still there is time to recognize 1t, &C.
knowledge it and obey it. The time
has passed forever now when England
can say to America:
"The question of Ireland is our af-
fair"
From America to England: ut was
your affair for centuries and what have
you done with it?"
/ Judge Cohalan, of New York, and
M. j. Ryan, of Philadelphia, also
spoke.
The Irish standard., 1919-06-28
u. S. Senate Takes
Up Iri;X@;:,.'s;s. il. : .estion


to be heard" Senator Borah replied.
."That principle was the right of self.
determination. It was upon that theory
that these hearings were granted, and
upon which the recognitions were
made in the first instance.
Lloyd George Principles Cited.
1T was repeated over and over again
by Mr.. Lloyd George that this peace
should be adjusted upon such princi.
pies that all peoples should have the
right to invoke and enjoy the princi.
pies of self-determination, and that no
people should be disposed of through
force of superior power.
Il am unable to distinguish between
the cause of Ireland and the cause of
a dozen other nationalities, or peo-
pies, who might be mentioned, who
have had a hearing at the peace con-
ference. The acid test in the settle
ment at Versailles is not the adjust.
ment Of conditions for the subject ma.
tionalities of the conquered nations,
but what rights will be granted to the
subject nationalities of the victorious
nations.
Wilson Blocked, Borah Believes.
II am not criticising the president
for what he failed to do; am rather
saying that in my judgment he was
prevented from doing that which he
would have done by reason of the i'm.
perialistic purposes and designs of
those with whom he had to contend {;
but there can be no doubt that the
presidents policy and the sentiment
of America included Ireland just as
much as Poland and just as much as
Rumania. I believe that Ireland
should have been heard. think that
Korea should have been heard. Korea
is in a, state of serfdom today.
"You may build your navies; you
may organize your armies, you may
enlarge your fighting force; you may
burden the world with armaments; but
until you learn and have written il
into the treaty Of peace that peo
ple's spirit Of nationality cannot be
crushed out by force, you will never
proceed upon any program which will
insure permanent peace"
Senator Walsh took Senator Thomas
to task for making statements which
he insisted reflected upon the loyalty
of those who supported the Irish revo
luton. After quoting from q recent
speech by Senator Thomas, Senator
Walsh said:
"These words have been construed
as suggesting that the great element
Of the people in this country of Irish
blood were not loyal and faithful to
the country. I want to say to the
senator that there never has been 9
time in my life when I have seen q
race Of people so united, so earnest
so sincere and so devoted to great
principle as the people of Irish blood
in America are today"
Senator Thomas said he had no in
tention of rejecting upon the great
body Of loyal Irish in America, but
was merely referring to the reports
Of the Irish republic.
The Irish standard., 1919-06-28
Senator sorah's Able Discussion of the
irish Resolution. ireland Should
Have Self-Determlnation Of Gov.
ornment.

Washington, June 26.-With "Prest.
dent" De Valera Of the Irish Repub.
lic' in America protecting the cause
of Irish independence and Irish dele
gates still cooling their heels at the
door of the Paris peace conference.
Americas relation to this issue of
ominous import became the subject of
heated debate in the senate.
Senator Medill Mccormick of Illinois
took the American peace delegation to
task for failing to comply with and
ignoring the senate resolution of June
6 requesting the president to procure
hearing for the Irish representatives.
Self Determination Principle Ignored.
Senator Walsh of Massachusetts,
democrat, asserted that If the Ameri-
can delegation failed to ask a hearing
of the Irish representations by the
peace conference, American sincerity
of belief in the presidents principle
Of self-determination fairly would be
challenged.
Senator W. E. Borah, author of the
senate resolution, charged that the
self-determination principle had been
sacrificed to the imperialistic ambi'
tions Of European nations.
II say it with the utmost sincerity
that the treaty Of peace is guaranty
Of war;" exclaimed Senator Borah in
the heat of the discussion.
Ireland's Rights Defended.
The debate began when Senator G.
8. Thomas Of Colorado read to the
senate copy Of a letter he had writ.
ten in reply to criticisms expressed
by some of his constituents of his atti.
tude on the Irish resolution. Senator
Thomas contention was that the con.
ference could not properly give the
Irish delegation hearing because 1t
did not represent an Independent ma
tion.
II myself do not know any reason
why a hearing should be granted to
nationalities such as Poland and Ru.
mania without giving hearings to a
people who have been struggling for
20 years to establish their right of self
government and independence" Sena.
tor Borah said.
There is no possible grounds, in my
view of it, by which we can distinguish
between the rights of these other ma.
tfons or peoples who have been heard,
and the right Of Ireland to be heard
II may be in error" Senator Thomas
interrupted, "but I perceive the dis.
tinction to be this, that the two coun,
tries which the senator mentioned
have received the political recognition
Of other autonomous governments and
were members Of the peace conference
since its inception. They we're not Civ
en- hearings, but they constituted com
ponent parts Of the meetings as inde
pendent nations. My own view is that
countries like Korea, India, Egypt and
Ireland, not having the autonomous
recognition, fall outside Of the class
which the senator mentioned"
The Irish standard., 1919-06-28
Irish Societies Of San Francisco.

Irish Societies of San Francisco.
Supervisor Gallagher pointed out to
Chairman Cummings. that President
Wilson to date had been specific in
the application Of the principle of SELF
determination to many small nations,
but that he had never taken a stand
in connection with applying his prin-
ciple of selfdetermination to Ireland.
The delegation left the hotel with
the promise of Cummings that he
would communicate any response he
may receive to his cable message to
the President. Among the delegation
were many well known Democrats
who reported to Cummings that there
was little hope Of the Democratic par
ty carrying California in the next
Presidential election unless President
Wilson insisted upon the application
Of self to Ireland.
The Irish standard., 1919-06-28

George L. Duval, of New York City,
philanthropist and founder of the
chair Of the Immaculate Conception
in the Catholic University of Ameri-
ca, has been awarded the 1919 Laetare
Medal.
The Irish standard., 1919-06-28
SYSTEM DEVISED FOR
ADMINISTRATION OF DEPARTMENTS

Ambassadors Be Countries
MISREPRESENTATION of New York Voted Distinguished
Visitor by Aldermen-De Valera Will Tour the
United States in the Interest of Erin.
The Irish standard., 1919-06-28
President De Valera in America

Head Of the Republic american Recognition
Nation-Announces Program for Political and Business
Development-Loan of $5,poo0 900 Proposed to
Finance the Government, Part of Which
Is Be Raised in America
New-York tribune., 1919-03-02

fcryent, and possessed Of wonderful, quiet
energy He s not preacher but lay
man, though graduate Of Il divinity
school But he refused TO be ordained and
wished TO go abroad az lay missionary
wish which never has been realized because
Of family conditions. He was first IA
physical director in The y NJ c. A.. and
in those days became intimately associated
with John r. Mott, who is chairman Of an
executive committee Of fifteen from the
Committee Of One Hundred. The two have
remained very close to each other
To look over what the Methodists plan
to do with the original $S0,0000o0 of the
Methodist Church in the North viii, per
haps, give as good an idea Of the scope OF
this movement over the world as one could
get. This sum was divided equally between
work on this continent and in the lands
under the Stars and Stripes and the work
in foreign countries. Nearly $1,000 900
goes to work among the polyglot masses in
downtown New York and in other cities
to establish dormitories by way of solving
the lodging house problem, clinics and day
nurseries. social parlors, community lauu-
dries and classes in English, hygiene and
vocational instruction, so as to make the
church n centre for Americanizing in
fuences and training in citizenship
A similar sum goes to work among indus
trial groups in cities, often polyglot
as well, along lines which are to be en-
bodied in the new constitution which the
British government s considering at the
instance Of the British Labor party. Still
another sum close to $7,000,o 900 Will be ap-
piled to work in "strategic city and subur-
ban fields" which means, in the first case,
New-York tribune., 1919-03-02

strong things. ! wonder if you'd take this
from wet who really believes in what
the Methodist Church is now attempting"
and he handed over $500
But this ISN'T telling of tho widow,
mite. is it, Very we'll. In one church.
which has total membership Of i26. tn.
pastors indefati gable work resulted in lss
pledges. and in another church with Oh
members 75 subscribed \ mechanic. who
Is tithcr, with five children. a sick wife
and mothcr-in.law to support, pledged
40 cents week above his tithe. His
mother-in-law has always been opposed To
his giving money to the church, but since
ne became a tither his pay has been in
creased four times.
subscriptions came in by telegraph. tcle-
phone and mail. ono from as rar awsv a.
Los Angeles Three Roman Ca holicS con-
tributed a total of $675, and two Christian
Scientists joined in
In one family Of seven children The fs
ther and mother are in for so cents
week each, and their seventeen -year-old
son. who IS working. pledges Ike sum.
An eight-year- old boy pledged 10 cents =
week, and his Willingness TO earn this doing
odd jobs so impressed his father and
mother that they increased their own 500
subscription to S40o.
woman who recently inherited $4,000
from relative who never gave anything
to religious or charitable causes has
pledged 1.-THE of this sum. and will give
the income from the rest to be used for
work among women in India. God never
got his share from Mr.. - before, but He
will now that Mr.. - is dead" she re
marked
New-York tribune., 1919-03-02
Is the Church Sufficiently So to ilior
TO World ide Servic

tncse agitators, strange as it may seem In
ono East Side Methodist church in New
FORK CITY there are more than eighty ex
anarchists, and three of them are prcpar-
ing for the ministry. Trotzky frequently
attended this church when living here in
obscurity
"iio~ much that may have had to do
with the fact that the Methodist Church s
the only ono in rctrograd which has not
been closed | don't know. however, DR.
Taylor continued. "When the Bolshevik
came into power 1t looked for some time
as though II would be closed with the rest.
but when the labor programme Of the
Methodist Church WAS studied by Lcrinc
ana lrotzky they placed the church under
the protection of their government
This labor programme, adopted six years
ago, not only asserts the right of workers
10 employment and to living wage, but
to the highest wage industry can afford to
pay 1T demands not only justice, as do the
labor unions, but it goes further than they
could IN demanding that the problems Of
employer and employed be worked out ac
cording to the principles of Christian fell
iowship. And in this great church move
ment we mean to see to it that they are"
concluded this man Of much quiet force
This is, perhaps, the most critical time
in the history of Christianity. There is
an opportunity, unmatched in all the cen
turies. to help reconstruct the world on
a truly Christian democratic basis. but
unless the church can come into close hu-
man touch with the masses, who will have
the final say as to the social and political
programme of the future, the church is
lost"
A modest man, this DR.. Taylor but
New-York tribune., 1919-03-02

try Practically every church in the con
Ierence exceeded its allotment and the
whole conference went far over the top.
over twelve thousand Methodists in that
conference signed tho tithlng pledge which
commits them 10 devote to the Lords work
as His stewards only Of such worldly wealth
as falls to Them, the Biblical tithe Of one
tenth of all their income.
The general effort for the raising Of the
fund has really not started yet Prepara-
tory work has been going on since the first
Of the year and the stewardship campaign
is on now, but the intensive campaign to
bring every member Of the church into the
tithing does not come until April. The
Central New York Conference was per-
mitted to do it's financial work ahead OF
the rest Of the country as a demonstration
Of what could be done and largely because
Geneva, n. y and the Rev Ralph s. Cush-
man are in that conference. will tell you
about them in minute.
There are men over the country who
couldn't wait, and large gifts and small
have been coming in; one man in St. Louis
has pledged himself to give 500 day for
five years, another up the state has given a
great hotel property as a rest house for
returning missionaries, somebody has given
the churc6 4 sanatorium at Attleboro. Mass,
and somebody else resort hotel in Flor
ida. but we go to the Central New York
Conference to see what all this really
means to the individual church member
The conference, in which Syracuse is the
largest city, raised million dollars in
twenty days! The widows mite and the
laborer's dollar make it up, not the gift of
New-York tribune., 1919-03-02

S25o0,00o, while Malaysia Will get more
than million. Mexico and the Philippines
arc we'll taken care Of and the proportion
fer South America and Centrul America
amounts to more than $5,5OOOO0 I'm South
America not over 20 per ccNt oil the Indian
population reach maturity and in Chile -
per cent Of the babies die before they are
two years old, which gives an idea Of the
medical work which the church finds to do
in the southern portion Of this hemisphere.
When the world survey is made and the
estimatca are in 1T is safe to say that these
sums will be increased ten times over in
the amounts to be spent by the inter-dc-
nomlnationai movement To spend S70,000,-
coo among the polyglot masses in down
town New York and other large centres in
this country that would mean something.
eh? Or to spend $65,0o00 600, say. in China?
Can you see what America Will mean to
the rest of the world after the church has
practised what it breaches for a time.
backed by the enormous fund 1t is going
to raise?
New-York tribune., 1919-03-02
Another of Wars Oddities-The Papier-Mache Leg

it. There are no feet, so they just taper
down at the end There was Serbian in
London who took his off at the theatre-just
got tired of wearing it and started pulling
It out 1t created quite bit of excitement,
as you can imagine. They said no one but
a Serbian would have thought of doing
such thing"
Are the legs hard to make" | asked
her.
"Oh, no; quite easy. IF you work quick
ly you can make one long one or two short
in day. Some one has to 20 to the
hospital and measure the soldier, and then
the leg is made to order. In our factory Lady
Marjorie Dalrympe was the head of things,
and it was she who went to the hospitals
and measured the men. Then at night you
would see her in her with five or six
legs standing around going to the hospitals
to deliver them. Every one laughed about
Lady Mar rjores legs Every woman who
worked in the factory was supposed TO have
her own private automobile and go around
the hospitals il it was necessary. Private
cars were the only means Of delivering
New-York tribune., 1919-03-02
Divers Among
The Poor

Now, about DR.. Cushman and the Geneva
Tithers' Association. His Is the only Meth
odist church in a community of soma
10000. 1t is a church Of working peonls
without single member of means. Eight
or nine years ago it dedicated a $4,000
church property a fine edifcc. but with
debt of $4,000 on it when the tthing story
opened in 1915. There was also consider
able indebtedness on current expenses from
back years and budget Of $4,000 for the
current year, of which only a third was
in sight
DR.. Cushmnn found the answer. after
prayer. in Leviticus xvii: 20: And all the
tlthe is the Lords" He preached
from this text and wound up by saying
God shows rs here how defeat NAV be
turned into victory. II is our only hone
VIII you make the conservation ." One hun
dred and twenty-five members Of Tint
church came forward and sikucd the cove
nant under which they would bring eaeb
week ono tenth Of all their income to tho
treasurer Of the Tithcrs' Association, to be
divided among the financial needs Of the
church.
The ncSt night Monday night Dr. Cush
man and the district presiding elder or
superintendent. az they now call him in
TINT church mot with the church officers
and tithng was officially declared to be the
chief financial system OF The church. This
was ~ bcecmbcr 1915 In the May fol
lowing NJ tho close of SECOND tithinc
campaign 2oo mcmbor- mad signed the
covenant
Al the close Of that church year instcad
Of $4,000, 10000 had been rniscd and paid
no. thrce-qnariers Of 10 hy the tithcrs. The
nest year moro than $4,000 was raised to
apply on the debt o addition to tho run
nlng eNpenses. Since then, also. outsiders
in Geneva have recognized the pluck and
energy Of this church by raising 100000
to help save the church.
From April y to May II the Methodists
over the country viii condu,v~sa.n evert
member canvass. and at the close Of il
very LARGE percentage of the membership Or
the church viii be pledged to give the tenth
OF his income. given the proper ratio
IN the Bible to The work Of the church TIE
interdenominational campaign VIII include
a similar tithing canvass Of the rest Of the
25,000,o00 church members in North Amer
ica. Oh, yes, they viii raise that billion
and q half
New-York tribune., 1919-03-02

which re found to be extraordinarily rest
full ii turned out to be her own writing
room, planned by her and furnished in
queer shade of blue and green and gold, in
order to give just that particular atmos-
phere Of restful quiet conducive to writing.
In the United States almost no one Of
the Williamson books has created more
interest than the one in which she used
the King of Spain TO bring together nor
hero and heroine. In Speaking OF the book
she told me that she had not lived IN Spain.
though she had motored all about the coun-
try and found "the worst roads in the
world"
ave wondered whether the King would
like being used in the book. but he did
like it, and the Queens brothers loved the
book. He's very good little King. think.
and So she added refectively "is the King
of Italy. | liked him"
Was it. | wondered. straight fctionai
prophecy, or was her mind unconsciouslv
playing with the fctional possibilities of n
monarch who had so often risked his life
and been so frequently under FIRE,
New-York tribune., 1919-03-02
By ]. Olin Howe

1%O RAISE an estimated 100000 900
year for five years, total Of
81 10000 900. and TO raise it not
in great gifts or large subscrip-
,ons from the wealthy but mainly from
Individual members in ,thcs. after the rnrn-
rer Of tho Biblical tenth, and to disbursc
this immense fund over the globe so as to
make the church in fact. as it is in theory,
the moral and spiritual agency upon which
Christian civilization rests and in the do
,nc Of u TO rcvvify the membership Of
Protestant churches on this continent and
csvanise it into living, vital force in
world affairs such is the programme OF
the biggest church movement in the two
thousand years since Christ walked in
Gslilec.
But for the war, which taught US to think
big ard pull together. this change from the
static to the dynamic wouldn't have been
possible Though there are 25,ooO,ooo COM
municants OF Protestant churches in North
America and 2oooo,ooO Sunday school
pupils in the zoo 900 churches.
The Inter-Church World Movement of
North America, they call it. Thirty differ
cnt denominations are in it. Cyrus H. Nc
Cornick, Of Chicago is its leader as chair
man Of the Committee of One Hundred,
and Dr. S. Earl Taylor, executive secretary
Of the centenary committee of the Metho-
dist Church, is chief executive officer, with
the title Of general secretary.