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The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1919-10-04
GOING TO CHINA
AMERICAN MISSIONARIES OF THE
SOCIETY OF DIVINE WORD WILL
SAIL FOR CHINA OCTOBER IS.

The Society Of the Divine Word.
Techny, ILL.,, will send it's first Ameri-
can missionaries to South Shantung
on October Is. Rev. Fred Gruhn, S.
V. D., accompanied by the Venerable
Scholastics, Robert b. Clark, S. V. D.,
of Brooklyn, N Y, and Clifford J.
King, S. V. d., of Houghton, Mich.
will sail from San Francisco, on a jap
anese steamer.
Father Gruhn has for many years
been professor at st. Mary's Mission
House, Techny, and he has also spent
some time in the negro missions of
Mississippi, and Arkansas Clark and
King have been among the pioneer
students of the Mission House.
The ceremonies of departure will
take place Wednesday, October Is.
There will be a Solemn Pontifical
High Mass; a sermon will be preached
by the Most Rev. George w. Munde-
lein, Archbishop of Chicago. His
Grace will present the mission cross
to the youthful apostles.
OllO Tic CbI0IIlO0lGS, 1dfe-
well celebration and entertainment
will be held. The great needs of the
South Shantung mission demand i'm
mediate assistance from American
The mission of the So
ciety of the Divine Word is one of the
most fiourishing in all China, having
upwards of 100000 Christians and CO.
600 catechumens. Owing to the pre-
carious position of the missionaries.
Right Rev. Augustine Henninghaus, S.
V. D., sent an urgent appeal for Amer
lean men to take up the work. The
society in America has nobly re-
sponded
The three missionaries will reside
in Yenchowfu, under the direction of
Bishop Henninghaus. Messrs. King
and Clark will continue their theologi-
cal studies, and be ordained next fall
in the far East. They will probably
be the first American priests ordained
in China.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1919-10-04
SOCIETY REORGANIZED.

In the fall of 1916 a little band of
Catholic Total Abstrainers, residents
of Germantown, Pa, and vicinity, Or
ganiZed the IriSh-American ASSocia-
ton of Germantown. The object Of
this association was to promote social
intercourse among the neighbOrs and
friends, free from the use of intoxi-
eating beverages of every description.
When the entrance of the United
States of America into the great
World War compelled this little asso-
citation of seventy members, by rea-
son of so many enlistments from it's
ranks, to cease activities, no meetings
were held for more than year and
the only evidence that the Irish-Amer-
lean Association ever existed was an
account of two hundred dollars in it's
treasury.
The return of many of the members
from France brought back renewed
life to the society and meeting was
held recently at which the entire
treasury was dedicated to the cause of
freedom for the land that gave the
great apostle of Total Abstinence, the
Rev. Theobald Mathew.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1919-10-04
BISHOP CARNEY
ALTOONA PRELATE CELEBRATES
GOLDEN SACERDOTAL JU-
BILEE

On Monday, September %, the
Right Rev. Eugene A. Garvey, Bishop
of the Altoona, Pa, Diocese, quietly
observed the fiftieth anniversary of his
ordination as a priest. The only rec
ognition of the event was in the Holy
Mass, celebrated by the Bishop in st.
Johns PrOCathedral at s o'clock that
morning. AT the venerable Bishops
request, the only other departure in
honor of the day was the declaration
OF a holiday for the parochial school
children of the city. The considera-
ton for the children is very charac-
teristic of Bishop Garvey, whose life
as priest and prelate has been spe-
ciallX devoted to charity and to the
welfare of the little ones. He found
ed and for years has been the guild
ing influence of the orphanage homes
for boys and girls, at Cresson, where
hundreds of the children of the do
cese have been provided with an ideal
home under his paternal direction
Bishop Garvey is enjoying good
health when his advanced age is con-
sidered, and despite his years is as
Jealous and energetic as young
man. He was born in Carbonate, Pa.
in 1915,
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1919-10-04
FATHER PRICE DEAD
WAS SUPERIOR OF AMERICAN
MISSION IN CHINA.

The Catholic Foreign Mission So
reports a cablegram just received from
the Right Rev. Bishop de Guebriant Of
Canton, China, announcing the recent
death, from appendicitis, of Rev.
Thomas F. Price, Superior of the
Maryknoll Mission in Kwangtung.
Born in North Carolina, So years
ago, Father Price entered st. Charles
Preparatory College at EllicOtt City,
Md, and completed his theological
studies at ST. Mary's Seminary, Balti-
more, Md, being ordained in 1866.
Returning to North Carolina, he la
bored there for 81 years, dCVOting
every effort to his peoples welfare.
During this period he established d
reth, n. c., and became the founder of
Truth" an apologetic monthly now
widely circulated.
Convinced Of the imperative need of
priests for foreign missions, Father
Price, in company with Rev. James A
Walsh of Boston, authorized by the
American hierarchy, went to Rome in
1911 to get the approval of the Holy
Father, Plus X, for their enterprise:
the establishing of the Catholic For
eign Mission Society of America.
When the first missioners of the Wig
orous young society set out for their
field in China year ago, Father Price
accompanied them.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1919-10-04
GOOD SPORTSMANSHIP.

One of the prime rules of good
craftsmanship is that when a con-
test is finished the contestants
should lay aside all animosity
that may have actuated them in
the heat Of the struggle. 1t is not
always possible for nations to
come together as quickly after a
war as it is for individual COM
petitors to resume friendly rela-
lions after a bitter struggle. Still,
it is good policy and, besides, it
is the teaching of Christianity.
The commercial barriers are
even now breaking down, and the
allied nations are seeking to some
extent an interchange with Ger
many in the field of commerce.
Before the war American scien-
fists and thinkers Of all shades
never tired Of praising and ex-
tolling the achievements of Ger
man intellect. Then came the
war, and those same thinkers
seemed to have discovered some
thing internal and devilish in
everything German. Now, how
ever, it is time to strike an in
tellectual balance, to admit good
where it exists, even in spite Of
defects.
During the war the people of
German extraction in this country
were frequently subjected to
taunts and insults but i'll de-
served. True, there were not
lacking those who endeavored to
assist the fatherland, even at the
cost Of harming their adopted
country. At the same time, the
various drives and campaigns
showed conclusively that a large
percentage were true to this coun-
try. Hence it should now be time
to lay aside all i'll feeling, and to
show our fellow countrymen Of
German descent that America is
big enough to harbor all who are
willing to abide by her laws,
whatever may have been their
land of origin.
1t is noteworthy that the
opinions brought back by the re-
turned soldiers, with regard to
Germany, are not nearly so bitter
as the propagandists during the
war tried to foster here. The
opprobrious epithets used SO free
ly here by our press are seldom
found in the mouths Of the boys
who actually met the enemy.
Hence, while not seeking to ex-
cuse the foe for his crimes and
-cruelties, real or fancied, it is
high time to lay aside rancor and
hatred, and to endeayor to con-
solidate all our people in one vast
and closely knit democracy. This
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1919-10-04
DOMAIN OF TEMPERANCE
TEMPERANCE AS AN EDUCA-
TIONAL FORCE.

The more one reads about the work
of the Father Mathew Total Absti-
nence Association of Dublin the more
one admires it. This association takes
no narrow view of temperance, but,
following the example of Father
Mathew himself, endeavors to make it
touch the life of the people in many
places. Every year the association
holds Feis, or Irish festival, which
serves as an intellectual, social and
artistic stimulus to those who take
part in, or witness it.
Such festivals always appealed to
temperance workers and appealed very
strongly to Father Mathew himself and
his contemporaries. In support of
this contention may be quoted the fol-
lowing words from a speech by the
late Charles Gavan Duffy, at BAN
quet in Newry at which the Bishop of
Dromore and Father Mathew were
present:
when total abstinence ends in re-
deeming man from the vice of in
toXication it stops far short of the
point it is capable of reaching. We
have not only appetites to restrain,
but great faculties to cultivate, and
the latter is not the least important
portion of our duties; for the man
whose heart and imagination are not
opened and exalted by education is
no more the creature God intended
him to be than if eyes and hands were
wanting to his physical organization
You, Father Mathew, have taken from
the people a sensual, material stimu-
liant; ought you not to replace it by
moral stimulant? You have
quenched one thirst; ought you not
to excite anOther-a thirst which is
not to be slaked in the whisky shop,
but in the library or lecture room-a
thirst for knowledge?
THE human mind is never idle,
least of all will it be idle when a
healthful action is no longer impeded
by the paroXysms and depression of
| intemperance. 1t is your duty, sub
nit, to find it employment which will
make it wiser, happier, and better.
The teetotal societies should
fusion of total abstinence principles,
but for improving the morals and cul-
tivating the understanding of the peo-
pie.
why should not every teetOtal So
ciety have it's lecture room, where the
artisan might be taught the principles
of mechanics, the farmer the latest i'm
proVements in agriculture, and every
one something that would make him
better man and a better citizen?
Let the teetotaller come to be recog-
nized, not only by his fulfilling lifes
duties, but by enjoying life's virtuous
pleasure, till the very senSualist is
forced to confess that the way to
happiness is not through indulgenccs
of our passions, but their regulation
and restriction"
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1919-10-04
A PRACTICAL PASTOR
SUPPORTS PAPER INSTEAD OF
BUYING STATUE-ENTlRE CON-
IRRIGATION BECOME SUBSCRIBE
ERS.

The Rev. V. Pilon, pastor at St
Albert, Ont, has sent $1,127 to the
French Catholic daily newspaper, lie
Droit, of Ottawa, with the following
letter:
Your request for subscriptions
reached us just as we were debating
the erection of a statue to the Sacred
Heart. This plan pleased our people
greatly because they all desire tho
Sacred Heart of Jesus to reign visibly
among them. But your paper, which
has for the past six years valiantly
championed our faith and our race, is
also beloved in the parish of st. AL
bert. We could not shut our ears to
your appeal. Let me tell you how my
parishioners showed both their love
for the Sacred Heart of Jesus and
their attachment to lie Droit. Instead
OF erecting monument of stone, they
decided to take up a collection in
honor of the Sacred Heart for your
good Catholic paper.
Practically every member of the
congregation subscribed for LIE Droit,
and not few added a donation to
their subscription. AS pastor | am
well satisfied with my parishioners.
and Jesus, too, is sure to be pleased,
because journal like yours, which
honors the Sacred Heart even i'm its
printing shop, where a lamp is con
stantly burning before It's image, is
a monument which breaches not only
to the faithful of one parish, but to
thousands of readers. May your pa
per prosper and find many generous
supporters"
Plus X, we are sure, would have
applauded this letter, and recon-
mended it as worthy of imitation. saws
The Toronto Catholic Register. In
matter of fact, an efficient Catholic
press today is of greater Importance
than monuments of stone.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1919-10-04
FATHER FEENEY.

1t was a source of deep sorrow
to many priests in the Northwest
when the word went round last
Monday, Father Feeney is dead.
On account of his advanced age
and failing health his sudden de-
parture might have been expect
ed, and yet the actual news of his
going caused painful surprise and
regret.
Father Feeney, in his capacity
Of spiritual director Of the young
men in our diocesan seminary for
fifteen years, endeared himself to
all by his profound piety, common
sense, and deeply spiritual nature
What is more, he left an indelible
impress upon the souls and the
hearts of the future priests that
has served to strengthen their
character and to aid them in the
discharge of their priestly duties
The long years Of experience, the
wide range of clerical activities,
the success that attended his eff
forts along many lines, all com
bined to make Father Feeney a
most valuable guide and an I'M
erring director in the field Of the
spiritual life.
AS a scholar Father Feeney was
well read, a clear thinker and pos
sessed Of that solid intellectual
balance that made his writings
not only interesting but at the
same time a valuable asset to the
priest or to the intelligent lay
man.
The late Archbishop Ireland
placed a high estimate OIL his
close friendship with Father Fee
ney, and during the long illness
Of the venerable prclate, Father
Feeney was Il frequent and wei
come visitor at the bedside of the
churchman.
In the death Of Father Fecney
the Diocese Of St. Paul loses a
priest of the old school, a gentle
man refined, learned, intensely re-
ligious, always and everywhere
the thorough priest Of God.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1919-10-04
AIDED FIRE FIGHTERS
PRIESTS AND PEOPLE DISPLAY
GENUINE KINDNESS.

Rev. George A. Metzger, Rector of
ST. Alphonsus Church, Brooklyn, n.
Y, won many more friends and adj
mirers by his interchangeable work in
aiding the firemen and policemen at
the recent fire in the Stone and Elem
ing Oil Works in Greenpoint. Headed
by Father MetZger, band of parish
toner's from st. Alphonsus went
through the fire lines early in the
evening and were the first to serve
coffee and sandwiches to the tired fire
fighters. Father Metzger and his as
sistant, Rev. Herman J. Pfeifer, were
in the thickest of the fight against the
flames, carrying refreshments to the
firemen on the piers, almost under the
blazing bridge. They continued their
work all through the night, using the
st. Alphonsus Catholic Club as head
quarters.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1919-10-04

the Alaskan stations, but their need
is infinitely greater than in many other
parts of the world
Free Movie Built.
For instance, at Fl. William Sew
ard there are never more than 200
men. But they hadn't one single re-
source-not one-to help them spend
the time off duty. Half a mile away
is the little town of Haynes, and here
we built a movie theater, admission
to which is free, in conformity with
the Knights of Columbus war work
plan everywhere.
we built it there rather than at
the post because we find that the men
enjoy it much more J they go else
where for it. And we've sent I'D all
our reels and other equipment for the
year, for shipment to Alaska is some
thing that can't be accomplished on
the spur of the moment.
tackles Cheered Also.
Another point at which we're estab-
lished is Fl. GibbOn, at the mouth of
the Tanana river We got to juneau
in time to send photograph and a
lot of records out to the U. S. S. Vicks-
burg, which, with two destroyers, was
in the harbor at Juneau on the watch
for fish pirates. And next year we
expect to have considerable amuse-
ment facilities established for the use
of sailors on this duty. They have
unlimited shore leave-and nothing to
do with it.
"a change Of plan in our Alaskan
campaign made it possible for us to
turn over to an orphanage in Nome
all the material we were to have used
in putting up movie theater in that
section.
This orphanage, by the way, has
1000 little Indians in it, the result of
last years flu epidemic up there"
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1919-10-04
REMEMBER YOUR PRELATEs.

It is a holy and a wholesome
thought to remember the dead
whether they be preiates, clergy
or laity. The law of God applies
with equal effectiveness in this
life to all alike: the justice of
God is measured out by the same
standard to all in the life to come.
For this reason the Church bids
us pray for our departed irrespec-
tive of their earthly station. We
owe special debt Of gratitude
and Of mercy towards our friends
and relatives: a particular obi
cation towards those who have
led us on the way to eternal hap
piness.
Writing to the Hebrews, st.
Paul admonishes all: Remember
your prelates who have spoken
the word of God to you: whose
faith follow, considering the end
Of their conversion. -
Just a year ago Almighty God
counted out the days Of one of
His great prelates, and Arch
bishop Ireland was summoned to
the realm whence there is no re-
turning. Truly Of him may it be
said, "Whose faith follow For
surely seldom has a prelate, in our
day at least, given bigger proofs
of the faith that animated him.
Faith with him was truly a divine
thing, a powerful glass that re-
vealed the hand of God running
through the scrolls Of the future
a magic current that charged with
vital energy all his actions; a
loadstone that tended to draw all
men to the kingdom of God.
In spite of his herculean labors
for the cause of God the soul of
Archbishop Ireland was hidden
stand before the throne of the
just Judge, and the standard OF
the sanctuary, exact and exact
ing, was applied to him as to other
mortals. Timely even now, per
chance, is the admonition Of the
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1919-10-04

The endorsement recently given
democracy by the head of the
Catholic Church is both a sign Of
the times and an aid to the spread
of democracy, says William Jen-
nings Bryan. 1t is a recognition
of the progress made by popular
government and a call to the men,
bers Of the largest branch Of the
Christian Church. Democracy
grows. And the attention given
to the education Of ''the prole-
tariat" naturally follows. When
the people rule they must be edu-
Gated. That is one virtue Of pop
ular government; it ties society
together and makes each class
feel an interest in every other.
His Holiness has rendered a real
service by his clarion appeal for
democracy and universal educa-
ton, and he properly adds a word
in favor Of cooperation among all
classes,
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1919-10-04

No matter what the nation, the
state and city Of New York may
do i'll his honor, it is safe to say
that nothing which Cardinal Mer-
cier takes back to his glorious
little country will be more priced
by him than the certificate of the
honorary Doctors degree con-
ferred on him by Princeton Uni
versity. Princeton is so true the
oretically to what st. Thomas
Aquinas would call her "pietistic
traditions" that she always cele-
brates a victory on the gridiron
by singing the long measure dox-
ology, "Praise God, from whom
all blessings flow" To what an
extent her chagrin under defeat
is soothed by her belief in predes-
tination it is hard to say, says the
New York Herald. But, be that
as it may, last Monday for the
first time in history the most i'm
pOrtant Presbyterian seat of
learning in the world placed, with
all reverence and enthusiasm, the
scarlet hood of one of her highest
degrees upon the shoulders of a
living saint and soldier of the
Catholic Church.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1919-10-04
MASS At FANEU|L HALL

For the first time in history Mass
was celebrated Sunday, September q
in historic Faneuil Hall, Boston, when
Rev. j. w. Culhane, of the Holy Cross
Cathedral, conducted services for the
Catholic members of the State guard
policing Boston. The hall was filled
with guardsmen, and they were given
good, sound advice regarding their
duty to God and country by Father
Culhane in his short sermon.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1919-10-04

How many Bible readers have
We? This was a recent headline
in The Literary Digest. If you
want to get a definite answer,
visit some public high school and
inquire among the students, says
a writer. The number you can
find who don't know anything at
all about religion, except the
Catholics and Jews, will be likely
to startle you. The writer has
tried it, so he knows Of what he
is talking. Most Protestant chill
dren today do not even know
what the essential differences be-
tween Catholicity and Protestant
ism are. They are not Protestants
themselves; they are nothing.
They are not even able, many
times, to give a definition Of
God" unless it might be some
silly meaningless thing such as
the great Architect Of the uni
verse" Ask them to explain this
definition and they are helpless.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1919-10-04

Said the Rev. John Roach STRAIT
ton, pastor of Calvary Baptist
Church of New York: "Women
are complaining of the double
standard of morals, and they do
right to complain. But, in
heavens name, let them be con-
sistent, and not, by their mode
OF dressing, unconsciously foster
the very double standard of
morals which they so righteously
denomce." Are these extremes
of fashion really the work of
women or the decree of Hebrew
fashion arbiters at Paris?
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1919-10-04

to injlwe the dignity (?) and the
sovereignty of the nation. These
caues are: (D the conditions that
prevail on the border between
Mexico and the United States;
(2) the indemnities claimed for
foreign properties destroyed dur
ing the revolution; (3) the indem-
mites also for the murders Of for
eign citizens or subjects; (4) and
some laws necessary to forward
the ideals CD Of the revolution.
One may wonder what more ideals
this man Carranza may have up
his sleeves.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1919-10-04

1t was General Wood who said.
We have made it hard for Amer
leans of German Descent" and it
was General Pershing who stated
that the American casualty lists
read in places like the city direc-
tory Of Berlin. In view of the
sacrifices which they have made,
commandments have a right
to demand of their government
that the nation remain true to the
high ideals for which it entered
the war; that now that a war
waged avowedly against German
Imperialism and militarism has
victoriously terminated, the Ger
man people be not oppressed and
degraded, but assisted and ele-
waited.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1919-10-04
MEMORIAL CHIMES

AS a loving tribute to the memory
of the late pastor, Rev. William J.
Murphy, who died several months ago,
set Of chimes was recently placed
in st. John Church, North Cambridge,
Mass. The chimes, which represent
a voluntary offering of more than
$4,000 were presented by the many
friends of Father Murphy in Cam
bridge, to commemorate his long
years of service as a priest, and his
high attachments as a musician.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1919-10-04
BOY SCOUTS
GOES TO BRITAIN TO
STUDY FOREIGN METHODS.

Among the passengers who sailed on
was Rev. Richard Have, ScOutmaster
of Troop No. 10 of Dubuque, Iowa.
Father Have, an effective worker
among the Catholic Scouts, will study
scouting in England and Ireland, max
ing a careful survey of the situation
there and bringing back a fund of in
formation which will be used in con-
nection with his own work in this
country.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1919-10-04

Among the various Catholic
Almanacs issued each year that
one published at Techny, Illinois,
is worthy Of perusal. ST. Michael S
Almanac contains a goodly variety
of Catholic reading that should be
welcome in every family, and it
costs but twenty-five cents.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1919-10-04

The Italian government has
called upon Allied governments
to aid i'll suppressing D'Annunzio,
the erratic Italian Jew. If it will
end the career of this opera bouffe
hero the world will be better.
His erotic poetry has been a dis
grace to the land that produced a
Dante and a Petrarch, a Tasso
and an Alfieri.