The Catholic bulletin., 1919-12-27
NEW WORLD ITEMS

Generous Catholc.-The Catholics
of Argentine, South America, are
magnificent, spontaneous and 9ener-
Gus in answering appeals for money.
At a recent drive" one gave mil
lion dollars.
Affiliated to niversity.-Aftiliated
TO the Catholic University, Washing
ton, are now 1S4 of our leading Cath
ollie academies and high schools. The
University had, up to this academic
year. examined $4,000 papers sent
from academies, colleges and schools.
Laval Federation.-The students OF
Laval University at Quebec are falling
in with the movement of federation
and closer unity Recently they form
ed a federation of all the faculties OF
the University, and created supreme
council, with officers elected for the
1919-1920 term.
University Shrine.-Plans for the
erection of $5,000000 church on the
grounds of the Catholic University in
Washington next spring, as a memo
rial to Catholics who gave their lives
in the war. were approved December 9
by the board of trustees of the Uni
versity.
Memorial to War Veterans.-Paw-
tucketville, Mass, gave a reception
and dinner to the men and women
who served in the world war from the
home town The list of 362 names of
war veterans, almost without excep-
tion contains French and Irish names.
A Knight of Columbus was chairman
and a priest the principal speaker. A
memorial is to be erected in the town
park.
Indians Confirmed.-At Cajon, not
far from San Diego, California, on
December 8, there was dedicated a
new Catholic church. And on the
same occasion sixty Indian children
and adults from the reservations OF
Campo, Laguna and Santa Ysabel re-
ceived the Sacrament of Confirmation
One of these, named Yellow Sky, who
received the name Of Pablo (PauD in
confirmation, is said to be more than
a hundred years old.
X. of C. Lecture.-Under the pat
of Df
York, the Knights of Columbus ex
hibited reconstruction pictures of the
battlefelds of Europe in an illustrat
ed lecture by William P. Larkin
Overseas Director of the knights
The lecture was given at the Commo
dore Hotel in New York on December
"A, the proceeds going to the New
York League of Catholic Women
Calvert Hall Heroes Honored.-The
Alumni Association of Calvert Hal
College, Baltimore, recently dedicated
marble tablet to the thirteen stu
dents who died in the world war. The
tablet was unveiled in the college as
sembly room in the presence Of 6
distinguished gathering of Church dig
nitaries, including Cardinal Gibbons
and men prominent in civic and ma
tional affairs. Addresses were made
by Cardinal Gibbons, Judge Warrer
Gard, of Dayton, and Arthur G. De
Walt, of Pennsylvania
Sisters ColIege.-The Catholic Sis
ters' College at the Catholic Univer
sity, Washington, now enters upon it:
ninth year. 1t is the College for the
Catholic Sisterhoods of America. 81
far it has instructed 200 lay women
1900 Sisters from Isl distinct relig
ious congregations, representing prac
tically every state in the Union Or
the same terms as the Catholic Uni
versity students, 341 academic de
grees have been conferred, of which
PA were Bachelors of Arts, 115 Mas
ters of Arts, and II received the de
gree of Doctor of Philosophy.
Outrages in Mexico.-The finding:
of the Fall Committee reveal an aw
full condition of things in Mexico. Ii
Mexico City there are 10000 home
less children. Bandits are carryinE
off women, children are on the street!
Clotheless; they are meeting awfu
fates, girls are sold to ruffians, littl,
ones are eating garbage, cOntinuou!
bloodshed, outrage after outrage
atrocity after atrocity, and like de
monry seems to be the state of tina
unhappy country. In Mexico, afte
one raid of Carranzistas, eighteel
Sisters of Charity were found dead.
Jesuits Make AppeaI.-The Yer!
Rev. joseph II. Rockwell, S. j., Pro
vincial of the Maryland-New Yorl
Province of the Society of Jesus, ha.
issued an appeal in aid of Woodstock
College for funds to supply the cal
made upon it for trained Jesuits. Fol
lack of funds the great Woodstock
Seminary is facing crisis. The in
stitution is taxed to it's utmost capac
ity of accommodation. Father Rock
well, the Provincial, says: "The Jes
uits are poor poor with the poverty
of their Master, and there is nothing
SO unfounded and so untrue as the
impression, more or less common il
the minds of those who do not know