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The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1919-04-26
DENATURED DRINKS.

Give me whiskey," said the red
faced man, rushing up to the Thrift
Stamp booth in the hallway of d big
New York Office building and throw
ing down quarter.
The girl in charge smiled reco3ni-
ton, handed out Thrift Stamp and
swept the quarter into her box.
why did he ask for Il whiskey?"
inquired a grinning bystander who
had overheard the request.
1T really isn't funny" RESPONDED
the girl gravely. That man, so the
elevator starter tells me, has been in
the habit of dropping into the cafe
across the hall five or six times day
for a drink. Now, whenever the cray
ing gets so strong that he can't stay
at his desk, he comes downstairs and
buys Thrift Stamp. 1t will be time
enough for the rest of us to laugh at
him when we can show sand enough
to give up our pet weaknesses for
Uncle Sam"
You're right, Miss" said the
abashed inquirer, hauling out a So
bill. LET me have bottle of cham
payne
The National Adpocats.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1919-04-26
X. OF G. AND Y. M. G. A.

Ever since America entered the
world war much has been written
Of the activities of the Knights of
Columbus. Praise has been loud
and sincere and extended in re-
gard to the material and spiritual
assistance afforded the various
fighting units by the unselfish eff
forts of those who act under the
inspiration of their great patron,
Christopher Columbus. Doubtless,
the Knights deserve all the en-
comiums showered upon them !:
and more. For this, however,
they have not wrought, but for the
glory of God and the welfare of
their fellowman.
One thing in their favor, how
ever, seems to have been overlook
ed. 1t is this. Other organiza-
tions than the Knights Of Column
bus were in the field, extending
help and succor, each in it's own
way, to the men who were risking
all for liberty. With all their
clever management the various
organizations were, after all, but
human, exposed to the danger of
mistakes, either through misguid-
ed zeal or by reason Of defections
among individuals.
The agency that appears to
have suffered most from lnisman-
agement and personal deficiency
would appear to have been the Y
NJ. c. A. At least, many charges
were hurled in their direction
from various sources. A perfect
storm Of protests assailed the
work and the methods of the
"9." During it all we did not
notice one Catholic paper in the
whole country come out and make
use Of these charges to attack al
organization that was trying tt
do it's best. The general tone o.
all our Catholic papers indicated
all admirable spirit of restraint.
Now, in view of the universe
plaudits heaped upon the Knight
Iof Columbus for their splendid
work; in view, especially, of tn
complete approval Of the fighter
themselves-the best judges in tn
matter-not once did the X. of c
utter a single word that might b
interpreted as sign Of self-satis
faction over their own success o
of superiority over a fellow agen
cy that had been attacked. Oh
the contrary, K. of c. secretaries
when interviewed in the matter
invariably praised the Y. NJ. {
| A., thanked them for their &C
operation, and mentioned variou
| incidents where they had bee
mutually helpful. This fact 9
magnificent forbearance on tn
part Of the Knights of Golumbu
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WHAT rs WRONG WITH THE
PUBLISHERS?

From time to time we are called
upon to listen to the threnodies
Of woe that issue from the offices
of Catholic publishers. We are
assured that our people do not
buy Catholic books, much less
read them. Every one knows the
power Of the written word to en-
terrain, amuse, instruct and edify.
And yet our people neglect this
great source of mental and moral
Improvement.
The actual fault is with the
publishers themselves. In the first
place, they seldom advertise Cath
Ollie books, or they confne their
advertisement to a slender, cheap
announcement. 1t does not re-
quire great depth Of logic to show
that Catholic papers and maya
zines are read for the most part,
by Catholics, the very people
whom the publishers desire to
reach.
Again, every Catholic publica-
ton, practically speaking, has a
book review department. In this
column are advertised, free of
charge, the various publications,
Catholic or secular, that are sent
in for review. 1t is a noteworthy
fact that for the past year or two,
if not more, our Catholic weeklies
present but very few such reviews
proof positive that the publish
ers are negelecting the very best
means, and one that costs them
nothing. to make known the most
recent books Of interest to Catho-
lies. This negligence, or want OF
business acumen, is responsible
for the comparatively few sales OF
Catholic books, and at the same
time for the fact that our Catho.
lie people are better acquainted
with inferior work along every
other line than they would be did
the publishers of Catholic books
take the pains to make known
their wares in businesslike man
nar
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1919-04-26
DIAMOND JUBILEE
NEW YORK CHURCH WILL SOON
CELEBRATE.

The Redemptorist Church Of the
Most Holy Redeemer in New York
will celebrate it's diamond jubilee or
seventy-fifth anniversary on Sunday,
May 4. Most Rev. Patrick J. Hayes
will preside on throne within the
sanctuary at the Solemn High Mass
Of Thanksgiving, at which the Most
Rev. John Bonzano, the Apostolic Dele
gate, will be the celebrant. AT the
Mass the choir of 100 voices will be
assisted by the Metropolitan orches-
ira, under the direction of Alphonse
J. Weiss, who has been organist of
the Redemptorist Church for the past
thirty years.
On Sunday evening there will be
Solemn Vespers, at which the Right
Rev. Joseph Schrembs, D. D., Bishop
of Toledo, will deliver the sermon.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1919-04-26
CATHOLIC COLLEGES
COMPLAINT MADE THAT FEW
STUDENTS TAKE REGULAR
COLLEGE COURSE.

Word went out some time ago from
st. Louis University, the headquar
tiers of the Missouri Province of the
Society of Jesus, announcing a meet
ing of the presidents and vice presi-
dents of the twelve colleges and uni
versities conducted by the Missouri
Province Jesuits, to be held last week
at Campion College, Prairie du Chen,
Wis.
One of the prime objects of the con-
vention of these representative Jesuit
educators was to discuss and adopt
means to awaken Catholics to a great
er interest in collegiate studies and a
wider appreciation for the college
course, i. e., as distinct from the high
school and professional departments,
such as the Schools of Medicine, Law,
etc. Anyone cOnversant with the
status of our Catholic secondary edu-
cational institutes knows what a poor
and sickly numerical representation
this department usually presents. In
fact, but few Catholic colleges in the
country have a collegiate roster, whose
numbers extend into the hundreds !;
and even these are considered by the
great non-sectarian universities as
small colleges
The present attitude towards these
four years of college training seems to
be that it is merely detour on the
road to immediate success and an I'M
necessary adjunct to a practical man.
We need eminent Catholics; and this
means we must have more college
trained Catholics. Are we going to
get them? How? The Jesuit presi
dents and vice presidents have met to
work out some practical answers tc
these important questions.
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DOMAIN OF TEMPERANCE
ENFORCED PROHIBITION OR
FREE-WiLLED ABSTI-
NFNCE

Men and women who have not been
identified with the total abstinence
movement, yet who felicitate them
selves upon their habitual temper
ance, which does not go beyond one
glass of claret at dinner, or one glass
of champagne on festive occasions
say, half dozen times in a year
are now faced with the possibility
the robability-that they must be-
come total abstainers perforce.
"Perforce''-that is a word to Gre
ate revolt in any atmosphere where
freedom of choice is priced. The self
pledged total abstainer becomes so by
an act of free WILL compulsion plays
no part in his asceticism. Confronted
with the prospect of national prohibi-
ton, people-temperate or intemper-
ate-whO have never pledged them
selves to refrain from every form of
distilled and fermented beverages,
have now the choice of voluntary alb
stinence or enforced abstinence.
There is a world of difference be-
tween the voluntary poverty of st.
| Francis Of Assist and the whining
mendicancy of the street beggar, be-
| tween the dedicated industry of
Benedictine or Trappist and the
rock-pile and treadmill labor of the
felon. The Little Poor Man, renOunc-
ing inherited wealth, chose poverty
for his portion; the monks made free
choice between leisurely and laboriOus
| life. SO did st. Francis glorify Lady
| Poverty; so did ST. Benedict eXalt
common toll: IabOrare est orare. Ad-
herent circumstance or inherent weak
ness condemned the beggar to abject,
sordid, shamed poverty; the law of
the land condemned the criminal to
the penalty of hard labor. In either
case, want of choice degraded condi-
tiOns, SO that what might have been
chosen as link with heaven becomes,
''perforce," CALLING earthly bondage.
Our voluntary service God requires,
Not our neceSsitated.'
These two brief lines from Para
disc Lost contain in a nutshell the
difference between chosen abstinence
and enforced prohibition.
Honor Walsh.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1919-04-26
RELIGIOUS FREEDOM GIVEN
HUNGARIAN SOVIET GOVERN
MENT ALSO TO LET FAMILY
ALONE.

The commissary OF education OF
Hungary, according to dispatch, has
instructed the clergy to declare from
pulpits during the next three Sundays
that the soviet government guaran-
tees full religious freedom to all.
There will be no interference with
the clergy or churches or other re-
ligious buildings, it is announced, and
the soviet will not change the present
order OF family life, nor communiZc
women.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1919-04-26

took st. Paul and his words as
their example: all things to all
men. In this spirit they became
not only representatives OF the
Most High: they were counselors,
friends, brothers, nurses, real COM
panions and comrades to the men.
All things to all meant infusing
new life into the ordinary actions
of the soldiers. 1t meant not
descending to the level Of the in
different, but raising the negligent
to the spiritual plane upon which
life and death appear in far diff
ferent colors and proportions.
The Chaplains did not simply
remain at base hospitals to receive
the wounded and afford them
spiritual consultations. Our Cath
Ollie priests had been trained to
enter the novels Of misery, to meet
the wild men of the forest III their
native haunts, to tend the plague
stricken, and to face the most
savage tribes. Hence, the new
arena i'll which they appeared
the bloody amphitheater Of war-
was but one more variation to
their already varied careers
Some of them were wounded
while at the front with the troops :;
few were killed; all without eX-
ception exposed themselves with
a holy recklessness to assist their
fellowmen, obliyious to personal
danger, since they were to be all
things to all men. No wonder
General Pershing pleaded for more
chaplains, affirming that their in
t1uence over the morale and the
spirit Of the men was Of the very
highest order.
The Catholic Church may well
be proud Of the heroic roles en-
acted by her priests on every
battlefield and in every post of
peril. In the history Of the war
a large share of the victory must
be accorded to the self-sacrifcine
devotion Of the Catholic Chaplain
who so we'll upheld the traditions
Of the old Church. When the
glorious 151st Field Artillery
every one a hero-comes march
ing down st. Paul's thoroughfares
within few days, not the least
glorious of the unit will be its
heroic and idolized Chaplain
Reverend William J. Harrington
priest Of st. Paul.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1919-04-26
BOOZE PILLS.

London chemists are experimenting
on the production of pellets which
would be, in effect, concentrated
booze, says news dispatch. During
the war much progress was made in
condensing food into tabloid form and
it is now thought that alcoholic bever-
ages will lend themselves to similar
methods of concentration
If success should attend these eX-
periments, we shall not be surprised
to see in the windows of some of our
drug stores, at some future date, Il
sign like this:
For all your ills
Try whiskcy pills.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1919-04-26
CATHOLIC WORKERS SAIL
CHARLES |. DENECHAUD TAKES
THIRTY WOMEN TO FRANCE.

Charles ]. Denechaud of New Or
leans, overseas commissioner for the
National Catholic War council, sailed
for France on the steamship Megan-
tic on April IS, with the second unit
abroad from the national Catholic
service school in Washington. Mr..
Denechaud, who is a former president
of the Catholic Federation, is return
ing to France to extend the system of
service clubs and~hotels to all Ameri-
can army centers abroad.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1919-04-26
THE PRICE OF VICTORY.

Several years ago the whole
country was burning under the
sting of disgrace and shame over
the outrages perpetrated against
the honor Of the nation. Mr.. Viii
son had been elected, because "He
kept us out of war; There is,
however, limit to all human and
national endurance. When that
limit was reached, the nation
clamored for vindication OF the
country's honor. The President
warned the people that the price
of war and victory would be
great, would be serious. In spite
of all arguments to the contrary,
the Republic demanded that the
name Of this country be upheld
at any and every cost.
On this ground we entered the
fray. Ignoring the handicaps CT
unpreparedness III every line
men, arms, munitions, ships-the
American people girded itself to
demonstrate to the world that
Yankee pluck was more than a
boast: it was source of success
and victory where success and
victory seemed impossible. The
result soon astonished the world
and ourselves. The whole ma
ton was at once divided into two
immense classes: actual fighters
and actual home workers. The
soldiers and sailors gave their all,
topping it with the reckless eX-
posture of life itself. Those who
remained at home promised to
supply the sinews Of war and
triumph. Thus working and CO.
operating. the combined forces at
home and abroad made possible
the glorious victories at Cantigny,
Chateau Thierry. st. Mihiel, the
Argonne, and other imperishable
triumphs that, taken together,
brought victory to the allied
powers and, incidentally, turned
the tide of foreign invasion from
our own shores.
The fighting men have paid
their share in full: it remains
only that those who were not
privileged to fight. but who
pledged their fortunes and pos
sessions, now step forward and
liquidate the debt they contracted
in purchasing the means of vic
tory. This is a legitimate debt,
nor can it be ignored by a single
person who now enjoys the pro
lection of the American flag. AS
well might one refuse to pay his
lawful taxes, his grocer or other
tradesman as to shirk this obliga-
ton which has been assumed by
each and every person living I'M
der the Stars and Stripes.
There is the reason why every
American is bound to help out in
the present effort to enable the
government to meet the obliga-
lions which it contracted not in
it's own cause but in the name of
it's citizens. All enjoy liberty and
safety: all should now buy bonds.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1919-04-26

According to DR.. Hamilton Holt
and the Rev. Sidney l.. Gulick,
who have just returned from
Paris, the proposal guaranteeing
religious freedom has been side
tracked in the compromises and
bargaining of the Peace Council.
The religious liberty clause is be-
licved TO have been presented by
the American delegation with the
consent of President Wilson.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1919-04-26

towards and sycophants ever
and always flop before the throne
with them principle is nothing,
self-interest, everything. Hence,
it is little wonder to see the
changed front exhibited by the
Mexican scoundrels towards the
United States. A peace-loving
man does not always fight, but
when he is aroused he is well nigh
irresistible For particulars as to
American ability, Mexico might
with profit consult the central
powers.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1919-04-26
DRY BITS.

Whiskey is said to be good for
bites. The position OF
keepers in the snake departments of
our geological gardens is being eager
ly sought by many to begin July /,
1919.
A doctor once prescribed for an aged
man who had weak eyes q wash OF
brandy, but the poor old man coul
never get his hand higher than his
mouth, and so had weak eyes till the
day of his death.
A principal of a school in PasSac.
New Jersey, has found that two hun
dred of her pupils come to school in
stupid and sleepy condition. She
gave herself to the problem and found
that the parents and some saloon
keepers were responsible for the back
ward and degenerate condition Of
these two hundred.
-Ptcarcss.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1919-04-26

The mills Of God have ground
slowly, but they have ground ex-
rceding small. Millions Of human
beings have returned to mother
earth, while their spirit was
flashed into eternity. Innocent
and guilty suffered alike, but
their present states leave little
room for conjecture.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1919-04-26
SATURDAY, APRIL 26, 1919.

Nearly every great war has pro-
duced poems and music Of endur-
ing quality, The struggle just
ended seems to have struck so
deep into men s souls as to BATTLE
adequate expression in terms of
suitable poetry or melody.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1919-04-26

\ humorous comment is often
the best reply to a cynical remark
Thus, when the skcptic pro-
claimed, Sir, | am a self-made
man." the preacher replied
THAT, sir, relieves the Almighty
Of Il grievous responsibility
When Lincoln was told that Sew
ard did not believe in the Bible,
he remarked: "No wonder. He
didn t write it himSelf!'
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1919-04-26
\ contemporary gives this col

\ contemporary gives this con-
crete example of the careless
method Of some home instructors
Jimmy Nash's morning prayer
Jimmy is eight years Of age) (:
Name Father Son Holy Ghost,
Amen. Our Father wart in heav-
en- hollow be Thy name Thy King
dom come now and the hour your
death Amen. Name Father Son
Holy Ghost Amen. Ma is breakfast
ready?"
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1919-04-26
If * said that a certain class =

1t is said that a certain class of
beetles is so ferocious that they
destroy one another, thus wiping
out whole colonies. Something
similar seems to be taking place
III Mexico where arch brigands,
sometimes called generals, are en-
gagged i'll a war of determination
of their kind. The quicker the
work is done the better for the
peaceful AIeXicans and for stran-
gers.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1919-04-26
DECORATION FOR BENSON

Admiral William S. Benson has
been awarded the Navy Distinguished
Service medal by direction of Presi-
dent Wilson Admiral Benson is now
at Paris and presentation probably
will not be made until his return to
the United States. The admiral, who
is convert, is 4 most devoted Cath
olic,
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1919-04-26

stands out as beautiful symbol,
nay, as concrete evidence of the
spirit Of real charity and Chris
tian kindness that actuated the
Knights in. their great work for
God and country.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1919-04-26

Next Thursday will be the first
day of May, the month dedicated
to the honor Of the Blessed
Mother Of God. Americans
should be particularly devout
towards this great Mother, since
our country is placed under her
special protection.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1919-04-26

If the new republics of the
world grant religious liberation
and protection such as we enjoy
in this country. there is small
doubt but that in few years the
Church Of God will behold an era
Of mhoped for spiritual pros
pcrity.
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Ihaya acabado la Conferencia, en-
lcontrarase ante una situaci6n
Imuy complicada. Una Camara
de los Comunes, donde las dere-
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