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The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1919-09-27
MARINE DAY"
CARDINAL LUcON OFFICIATES AT
CELEBRATION OF ANNIVER-
SARY.

Immense throngs attended religious
ceremonies at the Cathedral in Meaux,
France, on September 6, in celebra-
tion of the anniversary of the Battle
of the Marne. Cardinal Lucon, Arch
bishop of Rheims, officiated. Presi-
dent Poincare and representative of
all the allied governments were pres
ent at the ceremonies. '"4
Later procession marched to
Chambray, where Joseph j.: B. E. Nou-
lens, the minister of provisions, re.
called the details of the Battle of the
Marne, when the future of the world
was decided through the gallantry, pa.
triotism and tenacity of our leaders
and soldiers and the ability of Marshal
Joffre to surmount all difficulties
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1919-09-27
THE VATICAN CHO|RS
DEEP IMPRESSION MADE IN NEW
YORK BY NOUS ROMAN
SINGERS A SACRED iNsPiRA-
TION.

The wonderful Vatican choirs from
| the famous Roman basilcas, under
| the mastery direction of Monsignor
Raffaele Casimiro Casimiri, began the
North American tour on Thursday
| night, September IS, at Carnegie Hall,
New York city.
This brief announcement marks a
turn in the musical history of the new
world. No event in a decade in New
YORK has created one-half the pro-
found impression that was registered
by the brilliant choir under the in
spired leadership of Maestro Casimiri
Carnegie Hall was filled to overflow
ing with thoroughly cosmopolitan
and representative audience. AS one
newspaper observed, the audience was
literally sprinkled with representa-
t1ves of officialdom and Church digni-
taries along with people of the social
and artistic world. Jews and Gentiles
Japanese and Negroes were observed
IN the great throng And when the
choir responded in perfect technique
to the first call of the Maestro and
the astonishing clearness and purity
OF the tone quality swept through the
hall a thrill was felt such as had
never been known at an event of this
kind before
When His Grace, Archbishop Pat
rick j. Hayes, arrived at the box of
honor, which was suitably decorated
for the concert, the entire audience
arose and remained standing while the
Archbishop in his official robes en-
tered the box and took his seat. Mon
signor Casimiri. quick to appreciate
the honor and dignity of this gracious
recognition, brought the choir to their
feet and sang a salute in impressive
style.
Early in the evening, after the end
| of the first half of the concert, Mayor
John F. Hylan of New York and a SUD-
porting body of city officials walked
upon the stage, and in few carefully
CHOSEN words his honor expressed the
appreciation of the people of New
York for the privilege of hearing the
opening concert of the great choirs,
ana presented Monsignor Casimiri and
the choirs with beautiful silken flag
OF the City of New York. The Macs
tro was so deeply moved he reveren-
TALLY kissed the silken banner and
then the smallest boy in the choir
came forward and also kissed the flag,
after which the choir rose and sang
Casimiris Hymn of Praise to Ameri-
ca composed for the visit to this
country.
AS for the concert itself, one of the
foremost of the metropolitan critics
tersely summed it up in the following
paragraph:
is was festival of the most ex-
alted Interpretation Of music, a sacred
inspiration and a most digniied in
auguration of the newly-awakened mu-
sical season."
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1919-09-27
TREATY AMENDMENTS
SENATE COMMITTEE SEEKS TO
PRESERVE AMERICAN RIGHTS
AND INDEPENDENCE.

The report Of the Senate Foreign
Relations Committee says:
There is no must about it (the
ervdttu1lJ.
Must is not a word to be used
by foreign nations or domestic Off
cials to the American people or their
representatives"
Equally uniting is the attempt to
frighten the unthinking by suggest
ing that if the Senate adopts amend.
ments or reservations the United
States may be excluded from the
league.
This is the one thing that certain
ly will not happen. ..
The other; nations know we'll that
there is no threat of retaliation pos
sible with the United States because
we have asked nothing for ourselves
and have received nothing.
I'VE seek no guarantees, no terri
tory, no commercial benefits or ad-
|Vantages.
THE other nations will take us on
our own terms, for without us their
league is wreck and all their gains
from a victorious peace are imperiled
We exact nothing selfish for our.
selves, but we insist that we shall be
the judges and the only judges as to
the preservation of our rights, our
sovereignty, our safety and our indie.
pendence
"At this moment the United States
is free from any entanglements OF
obligations, which legally, or in the
| name of honor. would compel her to
| do anything contrary to the dictates
| of conscience Or to the freedom and
the interests of the American people
This is the hour when we can say
precisely what we will do, and exactly
what we will not do, and no man can
ever question our good faith, if we
speak now.
when we are once caught in the
meshes of a treaty of alliance or a
league of nations composed of twenty
| six other powers our freedom of ac
| ton is gone
ITO preserve American independ
ence and American sovereignty ano
thereby best serve the welfare of man
kind, the committee propose these
amendments and reservations
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1919-09-27
X. 900 SERVICE MEN BENEFIT BY
EDUCATIONAL PROGRAM-cAMP
SCHOOLS WILL GIVE WEAPON
TO SOLDIER "To CARRY ON" IN
THE WORk-A-DAY-LIFE

Following an exhaustive survey OF
the industrial field and of its needs
in the way of workmen, the Knights
of Columbus have put into operation
an educational plan for soldiers which
will enable $4,000 men to qualify with
in a period of three Or four months as
automobile mechanics and in other
profitable mechanical trades The X.
of c. Investigators have found that
there is a scarcity of men with the
technical knowledge and mechanical
skill required to fill positions in au-
tomobile factories, garages and as
chauffeur mechanics for owners OF mo-
tor cars who can afford to pay com
Portable salaries for a man who knows
how to repair a car as we'll as drive
one.
Instruction also is being given to a
large number of men in the operation
of motion picture machines, another
field which promises future employ
ment to thousands of capable men.
At Camp Upton there are classes
now in full swing, learning everything
from radio telegraphy to blacksmith
ing and including in between acety-
lene Welding, blacksmithing, plumbing,
tinsmithing, carpentry, stenography
and course in English.
In the school of the Knights of
Columbus at Camp Dix, Major General
Hale is one Of the enrolled students.
In all more than $4,000 men are TAX
ing instruction.
The army is welcoming the efforts
of the Order At Camp Devens, the
commander issued an official booklet
in which he stated that the K. OF &.
had full charge of all educational
work in that large camp, and in which
he urged the men to take full adVan-
tage of the opportunities offered them
Books and Trades.
When the soldiers began to return
from Europe their first impulse was
to seek education along bookish lines
That was natural, but in many indi
vidual cases it was not practical. Pro
fessor G. Nj. Hayes OF. New. York, SUI
pervised the school work of the or
ganization in the Eastern camps and
added the wage-earning trade courses
to the teaching of English, typewrit
ing, bookkeeping and the other Office
pursuits which we're first instituted.
However, it was found that there
was demand also for higher education
in some of the camps. To meet that
demand, there were established
classes in commercial law, real estate
law and international law at several
camps, notably those in the South
At Kelley Field instruction has beer
given in analytical law, including spe
cial study Of the IRISH question 1t i:
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1919-09-27
POPE BENEDICT XIV WRITES SPE-
ClAL ADVICE AND CONGRATU-
LATiONS TO THE C. CENT r A l.
VERElN-ASKS HELP FOR CON-
QUERED PEOPLE RECON-
MENOS CHARITY AND UNITY.

From the Vatican, July IS, 1919
Department of State of His Holiness
To the Most Rev. George William Nun
delein, Archbishop of Chicago.
Most Rev. Archbishop:
The information has come to the
Holy Father that the Central Verein
after the long interruption caused by
the war, will soon meet again in the
city of Chicago.
This information has been received
with the greatest satisfaction by the
Sovereign Pontiff, who is we'll aC-
quaintcd with the splendid merits OF
its work At the same time he is
no longer with you your worthy
President, Mr.. Frey, whom it has
pleased Almighty God to call to his
eternal reward.
And now that the Central Verein
takes up it's labors anew, the Sover-
eign Pontiff desires to pay it the trib-
ute of praise it has well earned by
the work it has SO successfully accom-
pliShed in the past, and also to send
to it's members his fatherly greetings
as harbinger of an even happier fu-
ture.
His Holiness has no doubt whatever
that such q bright future is in store
for them, because of those remark
able qualities which the German
Americans have given proof of on
every occasion, and particularly dur
ing the recent war. While keeping
alive the love they bore for the land
of their fathers, yet this has not him
dered them from, doing their full duty
towards their adopted country, and
nobly indeed have they responded to
it's different calls, pouring out for it
lavishly, their money, their service
and their lives.
But now that the war has at last
come to an end, there is offered an
even more promising field for their
beneficent zeal. 1t is, alas, only too
true that this cruel war which had so
completely divided the human race
into two opposite camps, has left be-
hind it trail of hate among the ma
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1919-09-27
K. OF c. Center
DENVER KNIGHTS TO ESTABLISH
SOCIAL UNIT.

The Denver knights of Columbus
have decided to buy a large property
on Capitol Hill, where they will es.
tablish a Catholic social center. The
purchase price will be $4,000. The
property in question, known as the
Hearn estate, consists of large man.
sion, a big stone barn and ten lots
within easy walking distance of the
State Capitol and Cathedral. 1t is
proposed to put gymnasium in it at
once, and to install a swimming pool
after a short time. In time other
structures will be put up, in order to
care for the vast educational work
to be started in Denver this winter by
the Knights, under the auspices of the
national officers.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1919-09-27

On their way to the Eternal City
they paid visit to Cardinal Manning
IN London, who was known to be an
ardent advocate of the rights of labor,
and besought his assistance in the
mission which they had undertaken.
AS soon as they had explained to him
the objects of the knights of Labor
Cardinal Manning unhesitatingly
pledged the two American prelates his
cordial support; and thus strongly re-
enforced, they went to Rome confident
in the success of their cause. which
was based upon the principle of JUS
tice to the toiling masses. Cardinal
Gibbons, with the active aid of Arch
bishop Ireland, who was also a sim
cere friend Of organized labor, had
drawn up a statement which he pre-
sented to the Sacred College of the
Propaganda, under whose jurisdiction
the Church in the United States then
was.
How the Victory Was Won.
The result of the visit of Cardinal
Gibbons and Archbishop Ireland to
Rome is thus summarized in a letter
to Cardinal Manning written at the
time by an American Bishop who was
then in Rome and who also took the
side of the Knights of Labor: THE
clear, strong, wise words of Your
Eminence's letter will be a bulwark
to the truth, and a rebuke to mischief
makers. The impression produced
here seems to be excellent Now our
victory is already won Cardinal
Taschereau has gone home with direc-
tions from the Holy Office to grant
absolution to all the thousands of poor
fellows who have been cut off from
the sacraments by the condemnation
in Canada, and there does not seem
to be any danger now of condemna-
ton for America. Deo gratias."
Previously Cardinal Gibbons had
written Cardinal Manning:
God grant that the Church of
America may escape the dire calamity
of condemnation which would be dis
astrous to the future of religion
among u.s."
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1919-09-27
K. OF G. Vocational Education

at Kelley Field that the Knights have
progressed to the point where they
award diplomas, and that school now
numbers two hundred and fifty grad
yates, of whom seventy-fve were
army officers.
The K of c. schools at Camp
Devens, Camp Dix and Camp Upton
now rank with some of the best busi-
ness and technical institutions in the
country.
While the time VIII come when the
army schools will dwindle by reason
Of demobiiization, they will be kept up
as long as there is work to be done.
Even more important for the future
is the K of C.. educational program
along general lines, for boys and girls,
men and women, with classes every
where throughout the country, and
with these classes open to all per-
sons of good character without regard
to their religious creeds.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1919-09-27
POPE ON DEMOCRACY
HOLY FATHER EXPLAINS ISSUES
IN LETTER TO FRENCH CAR
DiNAL.

A Papal letter addressed to Cardi-
nal Lucon, and made public in con
nection with participation of French
Catholics in the coming parliamentary
elections, lays down a definite policy.
The Vatican program contains four
definite planks for establishment of
social peace They comprise:
Cooperation of all classes
Coalition of all classes against Boil
shevism
Acceptance of democracy.
Education of the proletariat.
In his letter to Cardinal Lucon, the
Pope said in part:
THE great outstanding fact in the
world today is the ever Strengthening
current everywhere toward democ-
racy. The proletariat classes, as they
are called, having taken the prepon-
derant part in the war, desire in every
country to derive therefrom the max
imum advantage.
Unfortunately, this is often pushed
to excess. They would oyerturn the
social order, which human nature rem
ders necessary, to the detriment of
everybody.
THE Catholic Church has. always
loved those who suffer and has always
taught that public powers established
for the common good must work es-
pecially to- improve conditions of
those who suffer.
THAT is why the Catholic clergy
must not oppose the proletarian re-
vindieations,f but must favor them,
provided they remain within the limits
| OF honesty and Justice"
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1919-09-27
MONS|GNOR O'R|ORDAN
HOLY r A TIL ER AFFECTED AT
DEATH OF IRISH RECTOR.

A few months ago an Irish priest
was in private audience with the Holy
Father. The subject of the illness OF
Monsignor O'Riordan, rector of the
Irish College, who died on August 27,
was being discussed. He was a man
who by reason of his being represent
ative of the Bishops of Ireland and the
Bishops of Australasia, had been
brought into personal contact with the
Pope these fourteen years. Scarcely
a month passed without seeing him in
private audience with the Vicar of
Christ
Benedict XIV questioned his visitor
about the dying lrishman.
Does he take any further interest
in the college or in the students?'
mo, Holy Father, he lies in bed
with closed eyes all day long," replied
the visitor
Does he take an interest even in
public affairs?" asked the Pope.
No, Holy Father, no longer" was
the answer
A moment of silence followed. The
visitor looked up at the Pontiff's face
and to his astOnishment beheld tears
rolling down his cheeks
Il have seen a good deal of Mon
signor O'Riordan these four years.
explained Pope Benedict, 'and so
naturally feel his loss
This little incident sufficiently ex-
plains the Pope's gratitude towards
one whose word he could implicitly
rely upon during these very trying
years for him who wears the tiara.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1919-09-27
SHOCKED BY DEATH

Stricken with apoplexy at the rec
tory, the Rev. Peter E. Reilly, pastor
of st. Henry's Church, Bayonne, N. j.,
died Thursday night, September Is.
John F. .Dooley, an undertaken. and a
close friend of the priest, who was
summoned to care for the remains,
was SO shocked1when he saw the body
that he was stricken with heart dis.
ease and died soon after in an ad.
joining room.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1919-09-27
ON HIGH SEAS
BELGIAN RULERS HAVE SAILED
FOR UNITED STATES.

King Albert, Queen Elizabeth and
Grown Prince Leopold of Belgium are
on the high seas on their voyage to
the United States.
The steamer George Washington,
which had been at anchor near Calais.
left her moorings shortly after the
royal couple went on board from the
United States destroyer Ingraham,
which took the sovereigns out of
Ostend shortly before noon last Tues
day.
The royal party we're given an en-
thusiastic send-off when the Ingraham
passed out toward the English chan
mel.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1919-09-27

In the course of an interview which.
with his customary urbanity and gra-
clousness, he accorded to a journalist
recently, Cardinal Gibbons, the illus
trious and universally loved prelate of
the Church in the United States, said:
"Thirty-three years ago l contended
in my feeble way in behalf of labor
when | saw it threatened with oppres-
sion and condemnation"
Most of those who read that SEN
tence will doubtless wonder what it
means. 1t refers to a crisis in the
now defunct workmen's organization,
the Knights of Labor, which a genera
ton ago had a million members. 1t
had an extreme and socialistic minor
ity, which was rapidly growing strong
er, and which advocated methods
which were the reverse of wise.
Journeyed to Rome With the Late
Archbishop Ireland.
AS very large proportion of the
total membership was made up of
Catholics, several Bishops began to
deem it advisable to ask the Pope to
give them authority to condemn it
publicly as a menace to religion and
social order. After some of them had
actually appealed to the Holy Father
for such authority, and when Cardinal
Taschereau, Archbishop of Quebec
Canada, the head of the Church in
that country, had set out for Rome to
procure the sanction of His Holiness
in the Dominion, Cardinal Gibbons
and the late Archbishop Ireland made
a journey to Rome for the purpose of
dissuading the Supreme Pontiff from
acceding to these appeals.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1919-09-27
Fifteen VARIETIES OF BAPTISTS
IN GEORGIA ILLITE ACY
FLOURlSHES - TIL OU AN D S
NEVER HAD BIBLE INSTRUc-
TIoN, YET BAPTiSTs WANT TO
RAISE MILLIONS TO CONVERT
FRENCH AND BELGiANS.

The Right Rev. Benjamin J. Kelley,
Bishop of. Savannah, who never fails
to see the humorous side of things,
even amid the serious duties of his
life as missionary bishop, writes in
terestingly of some of his experiences
in Georgia. In q recent number of
The Missionary the Bishop says:
Georgia really reserves the active
sympathy of all charitably disposed
people. If you will only recall that
this poor state has, within a short
time, been compelled to suffer the boil
Baptist convention; and remember
that lynching innocent colored people
is yet kind of casual pastime, and
that Georgia ranks very high in the
statistics of the Interior Department
of the United States Government in
the matter of illiteracy, you will, am
positive, extend to us your sympathy.
But, after all, there are some COM
pensations affording occasion of inno-
cent amusement. / had been making
a Confirmation visit, and on the train
one day / met friend residing in a
country mission where they have Mass
only once month, and l was asking
him of conditions in his part of the
state. From him I got this story,
which, may add, was fully confirmed
by the priest who attends the mis-
sion.
Fifteen Varieties of Baptists in
Georgia.
There were two churches in the
little settlement, one a Baptist and the
other a Methodist | don't know which
one of the fifteen Baptist vagaries
was represented there, but from all
accounts the shepherd of the flock
had rather violent attack of evan
gelical fever, and thumped the preach
er's stand with vigorous and resound-
ing echo each Sunday as he dispensed
the Baptist Gospel to the Crackers.
In the Methodist church the Baptist
Boanerges found a worthy object of
turned upside-down and emptied the
yials of his wrath upon John Wesley's
followers, particularly on account of
their criminal delusiop on the subject
of infant baptism. Of course it is
known of all men that Mr. Wesley
grew very tired of the worldliness of
that particular sect, the Church of
England as by law established, of
whose origin Lord Macaulay said that
it was begun by Henry, the murderer
of his brother, and completed by Eliz-
abeth, the murderer of her guest
and so he founded Methodism.
Gas Attacks OF Baptists.
The good Methodists suffered
greatly from the gas attacks of the
Baptist preacher, and they seized upon
an effort on the part of the few Cath
Eolies in and about the. place tosbuild a
church there, as a help in their fight
against the enemy They knew thai
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1919-09-27
JAPANESE CONVERT

NJ. Imas Shinasch, first secretary of
the Japanese embassy at Rome, has
embraced the Catholic religion. He
has been baptized by the Most Rev.
Archbishop Cerretti, under secretary
of state.