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The Washington times., 1919-02-21
URGES Sl,5OOPER :
FOR D. C. TEACHERS

a minimum salary OF $500 a year
for school teachers throughout the
country within the next ten years Is
urged by DR.. P p. CIaxton. United
States Commissioner OF Education.
who advocates the doubling Of sal
aries within hve years and then add
ing another 90 per cent within 1--WE
more years.
1T Is only BY very large increases
IN pay OF teachers" said DR., Claxtnn.
that we may hope q, Improve our
schools appreciably. Small Increases
OF 5, 10 OF 20 per cent win not avail,
for they will not be sufficient to hold
In the schools men and women OF su-
perior ability.
Salaries Inadequate.
Teachers are now paid less for
their work than any other class og
workers, and the increase in their
pay in the last few years has in
nowise been In keepiRg with the in
crease in pay OF other workers, or
with the increase in the cost OG liV-
ing While the cost OF living has In
creased approximately so per cent;
food, S5 per cent: clothing, log per
cont: drugs 100 per cent: fuel, So
per cent, and house furnishing goods.
IS per cent, the salaries of teachers
have increased only about II per cent
The purchasing power Of the salary
OF the teacher in our public schools
is. therefore. only about So per cent
OF what II was four years ago.
Are Leaving schools.
Many OF the better teachers are
leaving the schools and their places
are taken 6y men and women OF less
native ability. less education and cul-
ture. and less training and expert
ence. Many OF the places are not
filled at all. As an inevitable result
the character OF the schools Is beiEg
lowered just at a time when 10 ought
to be raised to a much higher stan
dard.
students now entering the normal
schools TO prepare for teaching arc
not OF as good quality as they were
formerly, which means that the STAN
dards OF the schools must continue %
fall. In soma normal schools the en-
rollment is Tar less than in former
years"
The Washington times., 1919-02-21
j. s. FOOD GUARDS
IN BERLIN HOTEL

CoPENHAGEN, Feb. 21-The troops
sent into Berlin to insure the safety
Of American food supplies have been
IN a hotel insthat city, said
a Berlin dispatch to the Extra6ladt
today.
The Washington times., 1919-02-21

II yOu think an income tax pincheS.
remember that SOme OF our returned
soldiers would be glad to pay IL.
The Washington times., 1919-02-21

Buy War Savings stamps today and
provide for your future.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1919-03-29

ment will deed to the fund grounds in
the environs of Rheims on which a
great American hospital will be
erected.
The sum of 100000 for the purpose
has already been granted by the
American fund organization in the
United States. What remains to be
accomplished is the raising Of an en-
dowment fund for the hospital. This
will be achieved by perpetual en-
dowments of memorial beds by indi-
viduals. Offers of money for such
beds are already reaching headquar-
tiers of the fund from Americans at
home and in France. Mrs. BENJAMIN
G. LathrOp, the president of the Or
ganization, will sail soon for the
United States in pursuance of it's
plans.
The American hospital at Rheims
will not only constitute a monument
to the thousands of American soldiers
lying buried throughout the battle
areas OF France, but is intended also
to be an enduring reminder that
America had brought relief to France,
even before the American armies ar
rived.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1919-03-29
PRIESTS AND TEACHERS
WE'RE SINGLED OUT BY BULGAR
IANS FOR SPECIALLY BAR
RAROUS TREATMENT.

The International Commission,
which was appointed to inquire on
and report as to the treatment of the
Serbian people by the Bulgarians dur
ing their occupation OF Serbia, began
its work Oh December /, and has now
completed its Investigations. The
Commission has arrived in Belgrade,
after having visited a wide extent OF
country between Prilep and Nish in
Guiding the districts of Uskub, Vrania,
Prokuplie, Kurshunlie, Leskovatz and
SurdulitZ. Among the members Of
the Commission are Mr. Drayton, an
American, who is at present serving
with the Serbian Army.
1t was found. states the Commits
SIGN, that priests and school teachers
were singled out by the Bulgarians
for specially barbarous treatment On
account Of their loyalty and patriot
ism their immediate fate seems to
have been either instant execution or
deportation. Few, if any, of the clergy
or school teachers except those who
managed to escape to Albania or
Greek Macedonia, now survive, for on
account of the hardships of the jour
ney, deportation in most cases even
tually meant death.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1919-03-29
PEACE CONGRESSES
CARDINAL CONSALVI REPRE-
SCENTED THE POPE AT THE
CONFERENCE HAS NO PAPAL
REPRESENTATIVE.

After every war 1nvOIving several
nations, there has been Peace Con-
gress. There was one in Westphalia
beginning in 1911, and lasting some
years. The Peace of Utrecht was
signed in Ills. Exactly one century
later GS15) the wars of Napoleon
led to the Congress of Vienna and
now in 1919, we have the Congress
Of Paris. 1t is no small task to in
duce Europe to break away from it's
deeply rooted habit of periodic wars.
In an article on the subject in the
Review of Reviews, Talcott Williams
makes this extraordinary statement:
''Ecciesiastics were few at Utrecht.
At Vienna the nearest approach tt
the Episcopate was the Bishop of Au-
tun, Talleyrand"
This is ignorance. At the Congress
of Vienna the Pope was represented
by Cardinal Consalvi.
Cardinal Consalvi had proved his
fitness in many ways, but especially
by coping successfully in diplomacy
with Napoleon. Count Metternick
was Austria's representative at the
Congress. In a letter to him the
Cardinal had occasion to discuss
point often raised during the war
which ended a few months ago. He
wrote:
Your Highness must know. that
the Holy Father refused to adopt
hostile measures against non-Catholic
nations, even at the risk of losing his
Temporal Power, SO as to avoid injur
ing his relations with the Catholic
subjects Of those powers. Much less
can he adopt such measures against
France to the surer detriment of relig
ion in that country"
Here he refers especially to the or
ders of Napoleon to adopt hostile
measures against England The Pope
refused,
The Cardinals letter continues:
'The relations which the Holy See
is obliged to maintain with all gov
ernments forbid a hostile attitude
towards any government"
In other words, the Pope is neutral
as between belligerent States.
In the Congress there were some
keen debates between the Cardinal
and Talleyrand. The latter insisted
that the restoration of the States of
the Church was in reality gift from
the Congress, not case of restitu-
ton.
do you acknowledge this?" asked
Talleyrand.
I'VE accept Them" replied the Car
dinal
Eyes, but do you consider them as
a gift"
We'll, it would be a novel kind of
tyranny to force even our thoughts"
This raised laugh, and Talley-
hand had to desist
Consalvi was recognized in his day
as a holy as well as very able man.
His hobbies in the way of recreation
were music and the cultivation of
flowers.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1919-03-29
CARDINALS REPRESENTATIVE
REV. DR.. PAscHAL ROBINSON, O..
r. M, TO GREET FOREIGN PRE-
LATEs-oN U. S. EDUCATIONAL
MISSION.

Returning the graceful and frater-
nal compliment paid by the British,
the French and the Belgian Episco-
pate on the occasion of his episcopal
jubilee, Cardinal Gibbons has sent a
special message of appreciation and
greeting, to Cardinal Bourne, Arch
bishop Of Westminster; Cardinal
Annette, Archbishop of Paris, and Car
dinal MERCER, Archbishop Of Malines,
Belgium. The representative selected
by Cardinal Gibbons for this mission
is the Rev. Paschal Robinson, o. F.
NJ, S. T. D., professor of medieval
history at the Catholic University,
Washington, D. c.
After his visits of ceremony to the
three Cardinals. Father Paschal Rob-
inson will join in Paris the educa-
tional and economic mission, sent by
the United States government to the
peace conference at Versailles. This
American commission is made up of
a number of university professors and
economists.
During their stay of sixty days in
France the members of the commits
sion will visit and inspect the prin-
cipal educational and economic estab-
lishments in different districts. A
written report of their findings and
recommendations will be published
under the direction of the United
States government.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1919-03-29
HORRORS IN RUSSIA
ORTHODOX PRELATES APPEAL
TO POPE AND ARCHRISHoPS OF
PARIS, LONDON, AND NEW
YORK.

The Archbishop of Omsk, Sylves-
Church in the regions, delivered from
the domination of the Bolsheviks,
have addressed to the Holy Father
and the Catholic Archbishops of Paris,
London and New York, to the Metro
politans Of Belgrade, Bucharest and
Athens, and to all the Patriarchs of
the East the following message:
THE Bolsheviks, having usurped
the power in Russia in 1917, are car
rying on work of destruction towards
society and civilization. They perse-
cute religion and the clergy, devastate
the churches and sanctuaries, venerat-
ed by the Russian people. The his
toric sacristies and the patriarchal
libraries at Petrograd and Moscow
have been pillaged. The Metropolitan
of Kieff, Vladimir; twenty bishops
and hundreds of priests have been as
sassinated, buried alive, or mutiiated.
At Toula and at Karkoff religious pro-
cessions have been dispersed with
guns. Where the Bolsheviks rule, the
Christian churches are prosecuted
with more cruelty than in the early
days of Christianity. The Bolsheviks
commit religious infamies, and pro-
claim that women are to be common
property, processing the most licen-
tlOuS manners. Everywhere there
is death and famine; the population
worn out by it's harsh trials If a few
survive, many succumb. Only Siberia
and the Ural, delivered from the Boil
shevists, are beginning to re-establish
their lives on the sound principles of
law.
1T is with profound sorrow that we
tell you of these miseries of the popu-
lation of Russia's millions. In the
name of solidarity, of mercy, of Chris
tan charity, we hope to count on your
compassion as representatives of the
Christian Church. May your flocks be
Informed of these SORROWS; and may
they address to Him, on Whom de-
Ponds life and death, ardent prayers
for those in the north of Europe"
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1919-03-29
PETA|N A CATHOLIC
c A ION CABANEL CONFIRMS
STATEMENT IN THIS PAPER.

Some time ago we stated that Mar
shall Petain of the French army is a
Catholic. A number Of papers af-
firmed that he is an agnostic Canon
e. b. Cabanel makes the following
statement which claims Petain for
the Church:
Permit me to say that the state
ment about Marshal Petain's being an
agnostic is unfounded. I have been
OF late painfully surprised to notice in
certain newspapers a very decided
trend to belittle nearly all the glories
Of France, and I think that RESPONSE
bic editors should accept only with
great reserve rumors which are
spread everywhere by thoughtless peo-
pie who seem unable to realize the
harm they do.
AS head chaplain of the Goth Divi-
sion Of Alpine Chasseurs, as member
OF the French High Commission in the
United States, l deem it my duty to
protest against the above assertion.
knew General Petain at "Chemin
des Danes | learned from one of
his staff officers that the general is.
and always was, staunch and prac-
tical Catholic, and that he attended
Holy Mass every Sunday.
Marshal Petain is not an unworthy
companion Of Foch, de Castlenau,
Mangin, GouTaud, de Maudhuy, Fran
Chef d'Esperey, Debeney, and so many
other great generals who are the idols
OF France and OF the French army.
All OF them gave to our soldiers, in
the tragic hours Of the war, the high
example of purest and liveliest faith
CANON G. B. CABANEL
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1919-03-29
TO THE CARDINAL
BEAUTIFUL TRIBUTE TO THE
PRIMATE OF BELGIUM.

The Stars and Stripes, published by
the American army abroad, has the fol
lowing tribute to Cardinal MERCER:
At the moment when the Belgian
bands, leading the rejoicing columns
of troops back into their homeland
are sounding forth that great anthem
which tells how the Belgian, arising
from his tomb, has reconquered by his
courage his name, his rights and his
flag" we of the Allies who have known
and watched him, and through doing
so have grown to love and revere him,
stand with barred and bowed heads in
honor of Cardinal MERCER.
Truly he was and is, as the poet
said:
One who never turned his back, but
marched abreast forward,
Never doubted clouds would break
Never dreamed, the right were worst
ed, wrong would triumph,
Held we fall to rise, are baffled to
fight better, sleep to wake.
In the days when the hosts Of dark
ness strobe roughshod over his coun-
try, when the whole world stood
aghast at the enormity of the German
crime, his voice was the first to be
lifted in righteous, indignant, stirring
protest, regardless of the conse-
quences to himself. For more than four
long and weary years he has been, in
the best sense of the world, a,pastor to
his people, the comforter of his flock,
ready and willing to lay down his life
for them if the conquerors made that
the price of his zeal in their behalf
With strong and comforting words he
has heartened his nations soldiers and
the armies Of it's befrienders, telling
them that those who lost their lives
in combating the enemy would find
them again, that by dying they would
be saved.
A great priest, a great patriot, a
great Christian-above all, great
soul is he; such a man as all the
Allies, regardless of race or creed, de-
light to honor, and are better in mind
and spirit for having honored-M MERCER
of Belgium.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1919-03-29
COLLEGE IS DESTROYED
ST. THOMAS COLLEGE, AT CHAT.
HAM, N. g., BURNED TO THE
GROUND.

Fire totally destroyed st. Thomas
College at Chatham, n. b., Canada,
on March -. Two priests, Father
Passcho and O'DOnnell, were injured.
All the seventy-fve students es-
capped in perfect safety, due to excel
lent discipline. The fire, which was
discovered at one O'Clock il the morn
ing, is supposed to have originated
from defective wiring.
St. Thomas College was founded
eight years ago by the Basilian Fa-
theirs, and its present head is Very
Rev. William T. Roach, G. S. b. The
building was a large wooden struc-
tUre, four stories high, and covered
the site OF the former PrO-Cathedral
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1919-03-29
GRANDFATHER OF WILSON
FOUGHT WITH WOLFE TONE IN
THE 1898 Observation-Disclosures
IRISH REBEL.

A speaker at an amnesty meeting
in the town of Roscommon, Ireland
suggested that President Wilson
should be elected for one of the two
seats won by DeValera at the General
Election. He said he was present in
New York when President Wilson
lrishmen there. The president told
them that his grandfather had fought
with Wolfe Tone in the Rebellion OF
NinCty-eight. President Wilson S
grandfather was a journeyman printer
in Strabane in the county of Tyrone
before he emigrated to the United
States His mother was a native of
Carlisle, England.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1919-03-29
CATHOLIC GENERAL HONORED
GENERAL JOHNSTON RECEIVES
CROlx De GUERRE FROM
BELGIAN KING.

Word>has been received ir st. Louis
by Miss Geneviove Johnston that her
father, Maj. Gen. William II. John
ston, who is Catholic, 81 years old,
has been awarded the Belgian CroiA
de Guerre by King Albert. This deco
ration was presented to Gen. John
ston personally by the King following
his capture OF the town of Andenade,
Belgium.
Gen. Johnston was in command Of
the 91st Division, which saw some Of
the heaviest fighting in the Argonne
section, and was also awarded the
Distinguished Service Cross for the
eratiOns of his division.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1919-03-29

attribute real powers of reading the
future to such cup-readers or card
fortune tellers.
2. A person is always obliged to
look for the proprietor Of an article
found, and it is only after she has
exhausted all means of finding the
proprietor that she may keep it.
,. A person troubled over past con-
LESSONS should lay her doubts and
misgivings before father confessor,
and follow his advice.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1919-03-29
POPE SENDS BLESSING
ANSWERS NEW YORK X. C. GREET
ING ON ARCHRISHOP'S
APPOINTMENT

The Apostolic blessing from Pope
Benedict XIV was contained in cable
gram received on March % by the
New York chapter of the Knights OF
Columbus in response to message of
thanks for the appointment of Arch
bishop Hayes as head of the New York
archdiocese.
The cablegram, signed by Cardinal
Gasparri, papal secretary Of state,
added that the Pope wished to express
admiration for the relief work which
the Knights are SO ably conducting
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1919-03-29
AMERICANS IN ROME
U. S. SOLDIERS ASK AUDIENCE
WITH POPE.

Large numbers of the American Elk
peditionary Forces on leave are seiz-
ing the opportunity to visit Rome,
and corresponding numbers are seek
ing the privilege of an audience with
the Pope. AS many as two hundred
presented themselves on one occasion
last week for admission to the Holy
Father.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1919-03-29
U. S. MEMORIALS AT RHEIMS
GREAT HOSPITAL WILL CONSTI-
TUTE MONUMENT TO AMERl-
CANS WHO FELL IN FRANCE.

Overlooking the $4,000 roofess
houses of Rheims, and overshadowed
by it's battered Cathedral, will stand
the first great memorial to the Amer
lean dead in France. This seems as
sured by the official advices that have
reached the Paris headquarters of the
American fund for French wounded,
to the effect that the French govern
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1919-03-29
FLAG PRESENTED

A large American flag, 30X20 feet.
valued at 1920, has been presented to
st. Joseph's Orphan Asylum, at Erie,
by the munition workers in plant &C"
Of the American Brake Shoe and
Foundry Company.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1919-03-29
TO Be EXILED AGAIN?
STARTS PROCESS
THAT INDICATES OLD MALI
SEEKS MONKS EXPULSION IN
ALSACE-LORRAlNE

Unhappily Signs are not wanting
proposes to renew, at no distant date,
the persecution OF the Religious Or
ders, which many thought the war
had made a thing OF the past The
Minister Of the Interior, Mons. Faure,
has written to the Project of Tarn de-
handing to know if a certain mission
airy, advertised to preach at church
in Abb, is not concealing, under the
title Diocesan Missionary, that he is
a member of the, dissolved Order Of
the Regular Tertians of st. Francis
Of Assist. He states these existed at
Arbialot, Tarn, in 1901, and he asks
the Project to discover if there are
members of this dissolved congrega-
ton about.
A Paris advocate has also stated
that he has in hand processes against
several religious, accused of recon-
stituting their congregations.
This would be fine return for the
valor OF the religious, who, though
exiled, rushed from all parts of the
world at the first call Of France in dis
tress. Are those. who survive, their
breasts covered with decorations and
their bodies SCARED with wounds, to
take again the hard road Of exile, now
that their patriotic work is done?
Yet, according to the letter of Mons.
Faure, late head of Mons. Combes'
cabinet this great act of ingratitude
is already in process OF being put into
execution.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1919-03-29
Alsace-L Lorraine.

In Alsace-Lorraine there is also dis
quieting news of a similar character.
The hopes of Lorrainers, raised by
the robust optimism of Canon Collin,
were based on the solemn declaration
of Marechal Joffre, of the government
and of Mons. Poincare. But now the
causes not renewed hopes but alarnl
and dismay. M. Debierre, leading
Freemason, who has been charged
with the task of studying the cultural
question, has declared that the time
has arrived for the separation of
Church and State and the laicisation
Of the schools and their personnel in
both the recovered provinces.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1919-03-29

Does three hundred days indulgence
mean that we will spend three hun
dred days less in Purgatory?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-11-28
Capt. Gredler Named
Assistant to Musser
by Railways Company

Announcement of the appointment
OF Captain j. G.. Gredler as an as
sistant to the president of the Har-
risburg Railways Company, was
made to-day by Frank E. Musser,
president of the company Captain
Gredler will look after details of the
companys accounting business and
public affairs. C. F. Crane, who was
named as an assistant to President
Musser some time ago, was placed
In charge of the operation end of the
company business.
Large amounts of detailed work
In the future which will result from
planned improvements of the com
pany's system, necessitated the ap-
pointment of men who will look
after the deails.
Captain Gredler. until the end of
last month, was a captain in the
army and was assistant to the depot
officer and administrative officer at
the resolve depot at New Cumber-
land. His home is in Maukesha.
Wis. For twenty years he was in
the banking business and later was
O salesmanager and carried on a
life insurance business. In his home
town he was active in civic improve
ments and developments and took
an active part in Chamber of Com
merce work.
Captain Gredler will begin his new
duties with the railways company
Immediately.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-11-28
MINERS FIRM IN
REFUSAL TO GO
BACK TO WORK
Vote Down Efforts to Make
Compromise Effective and
Lose Own Proposal
SCORE THE MINE OWNERS
Hold Out For 81 Per Cent. In
crease Proposed by Sec
retary Wilson

An abrupt end came late yester-
day to all attempts to settle the ma
tion-wide coal strike by peaceful
agreement.
Miners and operat ors spent bleak
Thanksgiving afternoon in embitter-
ed debate over the government pro-
posal for a IA per cent. wage in
crease, made Wednesday night by
Fuel Administrator Garfield, reject
ed it and every other proposal that
was forthcoming, and then dissolved,
sine die.
All Sides Silent
Participants went home. Where
the break left coal strike conditions
no one of them, miner or operator,
would say. Likewise, in official quar-
ters, there was silence.
Acting President John l.. Lewis.
of the mine workers, though refus-
ing to say one word as to the strike
itself, which theoretically was called
Off in obedience to Federal court
injunction holding it violation of
the Lever act for wartime food and
fuel control, scored the government
roundly at the conclusion of the
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