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The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1920-11-06
De VALERA ON IRELAND
PRESIDENT OF IRISH REPUBLIC
TAKES OCCASION OF MAC sWI.
NEY's DEATH TO ASK AMERI-
CAN MORAL AID FOR IRELAND.

President Eamon De Valera of the
Republic of Ireland has made the
death of MacSwiney the occasion for
an appeal ito the conscience of the
United States for Intervention in Ire
lands behalf. President De Valera's
statement says, in part:
De valera's Statement.
'"The principles that Mayor Mac
Swiney, like his comrade, Fitzgerald,
has given up his life to -uphold-the
principles for which the ten remain
ing comrades are giving up their lives
similarly in British jails-are the prin-
ciples of the American Declaration of
Independence and President Wilson's
war aims-the inalienable right to lib
erty, the privilege of men everywhere
to choose their own way of life and
obedience
'As the people of Britain have
grown callous through the centuries of
wrongdoing, there is only one nation
left in the world that can end their
brutal crushing of right by might
these horrors of protracted death
through seventy days of torture ito
vindicate the most fundamental right
Of human beings-these horrors of
nightly raids in which men like the
previous Lord Mayor of Cork, Mayor
McCurtain, are dragged from their
beds and shot; women like Mayor Nc
Curtains wife, about to be mothers,
prematurely confined of still-born in
fants; whole towns and villages
burned and innocent families every
where rendered destitute, and homes
that would have been happy made
desolate.
I'm the war America poured out it's
blood and it's treasure that mankind
might have a peace which would Sc
cure them forever against organized
savagery such as that of England
against Ireland America saved Eng
land when England's back was to the
wall, and because of Americas aid
England feels now that she is strong
enough to f1out the conscience of man.
kind.
ireland is now the last white ma.
tion that is deprived of it's liberty
England asked sAraerica's material
aid; America gave it, and because OF
that aid alone England is strong. Ire
land asks only Americas moral sup.
port; and the fair-minded, liberty-lov.
ing people of the United States who
sent their own sons across the sea on
a crusade for right will, trust, not
deny it,
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1920-11-06
NEEDS $4,000 BARRELS
(By N. C. w. c.. News Service

(By N. CIV. C. News Service.)
Each of the $4,000 cement dealers in
the United States will be asked to con-
tribute barrel of cement or it's equiv
alent in money, for the building of the
foundation and crypt of the National
Shrine of the Immaculate Conception
at the Catholic University. This
unique appeal will be made by the
Rev. Bernard A. McKenna, secretary
to the Rt. Rev. Thomas J. Shahan.
Father McKenna has been advised
that approximately $4,000 barrels Of
cement will be needed to finish the
foundation and crypt, and when he dis
covered that there were just about
that number of cement dealers in the
United States he determined to invite
them to help out.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1920-11-06
THE FAITH OF POLAND

alone there are 10000 orphans Half
a million children are being given
American food; but there are million
and a half in need of it,
The misery of the little children of
Poland, according to DR.. Whiteside's
description, is terrible There are
100000 children in Poland in need Of
surgical and medical aid Thirty-fve
per cent of the child population is or
phaned. Twenty per cent of the chill
dren of Poland are defective, deformed
or tubercular from malnutrition," he
declares. "Orthopedic surgery, through
lack of supplies, has practically dis
appeared from the land The whole
future of the Polish nation, as repre-
sented' in her unfortunate children, is
at stake
Dr. Whiteside has nothing but the
warmest praise for the work of the
| Catholic charitable institutions of Po-
land. "Over 80 per cent of the insti-
| tutional relief given by the American
Red Cross in Poland goes to Catholic
homes, orphanages, etc." he says, $50
we are well able to judge the work of
| Catholic charities here. I would need
to be poet or an orator. he went
on, ito pay the tribute due the Polish
| religious orders for their work for the
poor, the sick, the aged, the orphans
Noble Service of Sisterhoods.
words can never tell the story oil
the Catholic sisterhoods of this coun
ing themselves in order to save fooi
for the children in their charge. Theil
order and cleanliness have become
proverbs among us Americans here
| Their empty cupboards and bare floor.
| are invariably scrubbed white as snow
They may have no blankets on thei
beds, but the beds are always nea
and tidy. Their windows may be bare
but they shine. And always there i
: their little. shrine of Christ or tn
Virgin Mother, before which they an
the children pray for us Americans i
the same breath that they pray fo
their own beloved country! VIII
could resist such faith and love a
these Poles have!
Poland faces the most terrible VIII
,, ter in her history. She is the bulwar
of civilization against the Red horde
of the East If she is to be saved, sh
must be saved now. And while, {
course, it is inevitable that the pal
: played by the Catholic faith in FORTH,
: ing these people against the wreckag
!, of revolution and Bolshevism be re
!. ognized, still we must remember tn;
!. sick, hungry or dead Catholics cannt
do much to keep a country going
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1920-11-06
A MODEL PARISH
COLORED PEOPLE HAVE MADE A
HIGH RECORD.

In a letter to the Colored Mission
Board, Rev. l.. P. Castel, of Our Lady
of the Lake Parish, Delcambre, La
a parish of 100 families-writes:
'Religiously speaking, the colored
people here are the best in the world.
1 have yet to find man and woman
living together who are not married
by priest AS far as l know, they
all make their Easter duties. In the
memory of the oldest inhabitant there
never was case of burglary in the
parish. Therefore, very few people
here lock their houses at night
If there is another parish that can
come up to this, we would like to
hear about it.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1920-11-06
CITY OF BOGOTA Is SOUTH
AMERICAS CATHOLIC CENTER
DR.. THOMAS WALSH, JUST RE.
TURNED, GIVES INTERESTING
IMPRESSIONS.
(By C. N. w. C. News Service. }


Bogota, the capital city of our Sister
Republic of Colombia, in the opinion
OF DR.. Thomas Walsh, who has just
returned from a several months visit
to that remote city, is the most Cath
olic Of any Of the greater centers of
North and South America, and, with
the possible exception of Dublin, is
more practically Catholic than any
city whatever in Europe.
In an interview DR.. Walsh states
that Bogota is the one capital where
there remains a union of Church and
State. Conditions in the religious and
social world he found to be exceed
ingly good. Religion is fourishing on
every side. Beautiful churches, old
and new, are crowded daily with
fervent worshippers; services are well
conducted, and highly intelligent SER
| mons are preached in all the churches.
Religion is an actuality, said Dr.
Walsh, in way surprising even to a
Catholic from lands where Protestant
ism is greatly in the air; there is a
constancy in prayer and alteration
such as characterizes a monastery
The people believe in the Real Pres.
ence in. the Blessed Sacrament and
rule their daily lives in accordance
visiting the churches, making cease
less novenas and triduums, with a
| constant celebration of feast days, pro
claimed in the press and by placards
on the city walls. Religion is the
chief industry of the citizens" said a
visiting American, with a touch o1
scorn. 1t is true, and Catholics should
be very proud of it. 49,.
Citizens Frequent Communicates.
The citizen of Bogota is frequent
communicate. More than sixty pei
| cent of the inhabitants, men and
women, receive Communion at least
| once a month The daily communi
cants are very numerous.
| The clergy are admirable in a re
markable way. Their stipends are
very small and there can be no com
plant against them on this score
They are scholars and decent and hon
| orable in every way from their most
| determined opponents there is never
the slightest hint at a scandal OF
charges of any irregularity in theil
conduct. There is some criticism as
to the influence they have exerted il
politics in past years; but at present
certainly, there is no foundation fol
charges of this kind against them II
short, they are at once the admirable
product and the root of the admirable
conditions of health and strength char
| acterizing Colombia today.
| They have to their credit the produc
tion in their midst of scholars ant
literateurs of high achievement. Mon
signor Rafael Carrasquilla, Rector o
the Colegio del Rosario, an institution
dating from early in the sixteenth cen
tury, pointed out to me that his col
lege had educated practically all th
Presidents of Colombia, good, bad an
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1920-11-06
NOVEMBER IA is MADE ARMS
TICE SUNDAY--WAR MEMORIAL
DAY-PREsIDENT ASKS FOR MA
TIoN-WIDE CHURCH SERVICES
FOR WAR HEROES.

President Wilson has directed that
on Sunday, November IA, the Ameri-
can flag be displayed at half-mast up
on all public buildings and naval and
military posts "as taken of the ma
tion's participation in the memorial
services held for the heroic American
soldiers, sailors, marines and others
who gave their lives to their country
in the world war;
In connection with the order, the
president authorized this statement:
Presidents Statement.
"There has been transmitted to me
suggestion that name Sunday,
November IA, as Armistice Sunday in
order that the religious services held
throughout the country on that day
may be given an especial note of re-
membrance for the heroic services
and sacrifices Of those who died for
America in the world war.
"The selection Of formal day
which shall annually be set aside tG
1 COUlIueIuOTdt0 Jul Pal itlClpdtlOA ~
the world war will some day doubt
less be effected through legislation
and already memorial day, rich ir
heroic memories, has acquired addi
ltional significance as being appropri
ate also to the commemoration of thu
heroes Of the world war. I am, how
ever, so heartily in favor of the sug
gestion that has been made that
| take this occasion te-express publicl,
| my approval Of the idea.
i s.November II, 1918, will always b
/ memorable as the beginning Of tn
| end OF the most terrible and destrut
tive of all wars. Our beloved conntr
| took noble part in Fastening the a.
rival of the day hailed by the Who'll
world as the dawn Of peace, but clos
upon the day of victory followed rea
ization Of loss and the anniversary wi
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1920-11-06
At WEST POINT
MONUMENT RAISED TO MON
sIGNoR o'kEEFE.
(By N. C. w. C. News Service)

(By N. G. w. C. News Service)
A new monument Of interest to
Catholics stands in the military ceme-
terry at West Point, N. Y. 1t is dedi-
Gated to the late Mgr. Cornelius Q.
OKeefe, who was builder of the West
Point Catholic chapel and whose mem
ory is .revered by thousands of gradu-
ates of the institution. Officers, cadets
and enlisted men OF the post formed
procession with the Knights of Co
lumbus and members Of the Holy
Name Society of Highland Falls for
the dedication exercises. The Rev.
Francis P. Duffy, chaplain of the old
Sixty-ninth, delivered the Grafton, and
the Rt. Rev. Mgr. Joseph F. Mooney
vicar-general of the archdiocese OF
New York, blessed the monument. A
bronze tablet was also unveiled in the
chapel built by Mgr. O'Keefe.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1920-11-06
RETURNS SHOW CONTINUED IN
TEREST - SOUTH ST. PAUL
HOLDS INDIVIDUAL RECORD
MINNEAPOLIS WAS LEADING
ST. PAUL LAST WEDNESDAY
MORNING.

Last Sunday the campaign for $5,-
100000 for the Archbishop Ireland
Educational Fund passed the confines
of the Twin Cities and opened in the
various parishes of the second dis
trict This comprises the towns and
cities in the northeast part Of the
diocese.
The enthusiasm and loyalty mani
tested by our people in the first dis
trict, which comprises the Twin Cit
les with North and South st. Paul,
seems to have infected their co-relig-
ionists throughout the second district.
1t is safe to say that this spirit will
be carried throughout each of the four
remaining districts of the Diocese, and
that the goal set by the managers of
the campaign will be reached.
Minneapolis in Lead.
Reports from the campaign head
quarters last Wednesday morning: as
we went to press, show that total
of $1,700,566.3S had been subscribed.
- This represents the complete sub
scriptions from the parishes of the
Twin Cities. South st. Paul still
maintained its splendid quota averag-
ing close to $3.50 a person. On We'd
nesday Minneapolis had again taken
the lead, having subscribed $S53,293
the st. Paul total amounting to $S47,-
273.3S.
The campaign will continue in the
Twin Cities until the members of all
parishes have been asked to subscribe
to the fund.
The reports from the parishes of
the second district, although mcom>
plete last Wednesday,, indicate a re-
sponse as generous as that of the
Twin Cities.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1920-11-06
FRENCH WAR cHAPLA|Ns

The French War Office publishes in
Le Journal Officiel the following IN
formation as regards priests who
served in the French army as chap
lains. The total number modified was
s555, Of whom 6S were killed, 131 en-
rolled in the Legion Of Honor, IA re-
ceiyed the Medaille Militaire, and 134
were mentioned in army orders. One
hundred twelve Protestant and 33
Jewish chaplains were mobilized, six
Of the former and three Of the latter
being killed.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1920-11-06
NOT FOR CATHOLICS
JEWISH TEACHERS GIVEN LEAVE
ON THEIR HOLY
DAYS.
(By N. C. w. C. News Service. J


Catholic teachers in the New York
public schools were not excused, with
pay, to attend religious services on
All Saints Day, nor will they be ex-
cused on the Feast of the immaculate
Conception, according to decision of
the Board of Education. Recently the
Board took action whereby Jewish
teachers were permitted to absent
themselves from their classes, with
pay, on the Feast of the Atonement
and on Jewish New Year. A resolu-
tion that similar privileges be ac-
corded Catholic. teachers on their holy
days was introduced by Arthur S.
Somers. President Prall declared his
regret that the board had taken the
action it did on the Jewish holiday
question. There was no general agi
tation on the part of Catholic teachers
for holiday on the feasts designated
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1920-11-06
HELPED" THE MOMs|GNoR
GOOD SAMARITAN" RELIEVES
PRELATE OF vALUABLEs.
(By N. G. w. G. News service)

(By N. 9. w. G. News Service)
Posing as good Samaritan, George
n. Maurad is charged by the police
with stealing cruciix and gold
watch and chain from the pockets of
Mgr. K. H. Stephens, pastor of the
Church of Our Lady of Lebanon, New
York City.
Mgr Stephens was returning from
a sick call when he was struck by an
automobile. Maurad offered to assist
the priest, whom he said he knew, to
the rectory. He helped Mgr Stephens
to bed and carried his clothes to an
adjoining room, leaving shortly after
ward. The Monsignor's loss was not
discovered until later The arrest OF
Maurad followed the locating of the
missing articles In a pawnshop.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1920-11-06
IA REAL CATHOLIC CITY

Indifferent, from the foundation of the
Republic. The Jesuits in their ancient
national College de San Bartholome
and in their modern school of La Mer-
ced also accomplish wonders in the
way of elementary and higher educa-
tion. The Christian Brothers are par
ticularly powerful in Bogota, possess
ing a very fine College La Sale and
numerous subsidiary schools. In the
procession on the feast of Corpus
Christi their pupils distinctly outnum.
bered those Of all the other institu-
tiOns.
The press of Bogota, as in the rest
OF the world is inclined to be slightly
critical of the religious authorities.
This creates a friction that at a little
distance does not seem of great i'm
portance, although several of the daily
newspapers have been placed under
interdict by the Bishops. There is an
official daily known as Catolicismo
which is largely confined to church
bulletins and news Of strictly Catho-
lie character. There does not seem
to be any journal of general news that
is satisfactory to the strictest views in
Bogota.
With conditions in so healthy and
sane a state, it is unfortunate that
among ColOmbians there is not a bet
ter realization of the practical identity
OF our Catholicity of North and South
There was shown at the largest thea
ter the American film, "The Secret of
the Confessional and it was really
difficult to persuade these Catholic
people that the priests in their Ameri-
can street dress were really priests
of their own Church. They needed to
be reminded of this fact over and over
again.
Protestant Missionaries Not En-
couraged.
The missionaries of the Protestant
| Church have been able to accomplish
practically nothing with the Colom-
bians at home. There is a school
which calls itself "The American
School for Girls but this, as well as
a sort of union chapel of Methodist
Presbyterian complexion, is badly at
tended and not prosperous. The only
danger seems to be in the habit that
Colombians recently are affecting very
| stronghold sending their sons to non
| Catholic and anti-Catholic schools in
the United States, many of them of
an agricultural variety-where they
seem to be enormously impressed
| that there is no Catholicism in North
America, and rapidly surrender the
| principles of their fathers and moth
| ers, for very dubious notions regard
| ing progress and modernity On their
return to Colombia, for some few of
them do return to the homes they
| have forgotten, they join the small
body of malcontents who groan over
the Catholicity-the proudest feature
of their country-and talk in superior
attitudes about religion in North
America, without knowing anything
Whatever of our real conditions.
! A closer union-of information, and
| OF cooperation in Catholic matters of
mutual interest-between Colombians
and other South American countries,
and the Catholics of the United States
is greatly to be desired
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1920-11-06
To the Memory Of the Men
Who Won Victory from
Defeat

/ shall not die but Hve-Psalm III
The tyrant's work has failed,
Shame bows his head;
Whom he sought to enslave
Are free, being dead.
o King, on your proud, high throne.
Had they leave from thee?
Stoop, from your jailer take
The useless key.
Take your bolts and bars,
Your shackles for foot and hand;
You may need them again, O King,
For the men Of that land.
Your fetters why should you waste
On this fieshless bone?
The spirits you aimed to crush
From your bonds are flown.
They live with the deathless dead.
s An echo they stirred that saith,
IA for me, give me liberty
or give me DEATH"
= Hslsn HaeAss H1sischsr.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1920-11-06
HERE'S SOMETHING new
CHURCH MOVED WHILE MASS
WAS BEING CELEBRATED.
(By N. C. w. G. News Service J

10y IN. ". w. news service.
Mass was said and large number
of people prayed in the Church Of st.
Mary of Mercy, Pittsburgh, Pa, while
a score of Workmen we're moving the
building along Third avenue to new
site. The building is of stone and was
erected in 1892.
The task of moving the building
was begun about two months ago and
was completed only last week. On
week days, even while the church was
in motion, the congregation attended
Mass. This is the third time that the
place of worship of st. Mary d
Mercy's parish has been moved since
Colonial days.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1920-11-06
RED CROSS CHIEF ADMITS FAITH
is SAVING POLAND-LIEUT.c col.
G. D. WHlTEsIDE PAYS TRIBUTE
TO CATHOLIC CHURCH..
(By n. c. w. c. News Service)

IBy N. X. w \. NEWS o6INlC6J
ct was the Catholic religion that
made Poland democracy in the be-
ginning-and it is the Catholic relig
ion that is saving Poland today from
Bolshevism."
The speaker was Lieut.. Col. George
d. Whiteside, American Red Cross
Commissioner to Poland, the man who
headed the great American relief or
ganization through the Polish crisis of
the past three months, and who is
now busy perfecting plans for it's work
during the coming winter, writes Cap
tain Phillips from Warsaw.
Dr. Whiteside, who knows Poland
and the Poles as do few Americans, is
enthusiastic over the new Republic
and believes that, in spite of all its
present hardships and sufferings, it
will come out on top" and be yet one
of the first nations of Europe. His
knowledge of Polish life and character
has been gained first. hand through
long connection with the Polish popu-
lation of southern Wisconsin during
Ills SERVICE DIS a luSLuDSl VI luC LCSio-
lature of that State.
"The Poles,'' Dr. Whiteside declares,
"have qualities that insure their win
ming in the end, and one of those
qualities which cannot be lost sight
of, and which shines out now like a
light against the dark red of anarchy
riven Russia, is their Catholic faith.
Tribute to Catholic Faith.
81 am not a Catholic" said DR.
Whiteside in touching on this phase
of Polish character But | would bt
blind indeed not to see what the Cath
olic religion has done for Poland ant
the Poles. We know, of course, from
history, that it was the introduction
of the Latin faith into Poland tha
saved this people to Western civiliza
tion in the beginning. Well, in m.
opinion, it is the same faith that i
saving the Poles today from goini
Bolshevik. These people are anchore
firmly in sound, reasonable fait
from which all the wild horses of tn
Red armies cannot take them
DIR. Whiteside is native of Newark
N. j., but for the past fifteen year
has been a resident of Stevens Poin
Wis. After finishing his medics
course at the University of Vernon
some years ago, he devoted much tim
to the study of public health problem
and naturally takes special interes
in the medical phase of the work ca
ried on by the American Red Cros
in Poland. Before coming to Polan
he served in the Red Cross comml
sions of both France and Belgium.
100000 Get American Aid.
Never, in any other country, hoy
ever" he says, "have seen such di
tress and misery as there is in Polar
at the present time. There are
least 100000 homeless refugees to
cared for, and among these groul
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1920-11-06
MI. ST. MARY's DRIVE
lRv N. @. w ceNews seryicel

(By N. C. w. CssNews Service)
Plans for campaign fara q fund Of
100000 for the extension Y Mount
st. Mary's College, Emmits rg, Md,
will be made at meeting Of the
graduates of that institution to- be
held in Washington on November Il.
Washington and the State of Virginia
will be asked to raise $4,000.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1920-11-06
ATHEISM CAUSES STRIKE
(By N. C. w. C. News Service)

In a public school in the region OF
Paris, a certain school mistress up
braided those of the children who
went to church. The parents, as a
protest, decided on a fifteen days
strike, during which period the chill
dren are to keep away from school
They hope that in the meantime the
school mistress will have been re
moved
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1920-11-06
100000 Get American Aid.

Never, in any other country, how
ever" he says, 'have seen such dis
tress and misery as there is in Poland
at the present time. There. are at
least 100000 homeless refugees to be
cared for, and among these groups
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1920-11-06
Archbishop Ireland
Educational Fund

The actual work of solicitation for
funds win begin next Sunday in the
third district, which comprises all the
parishes in the west central part OF
the Diocese.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-08-05

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