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The Washington times., 1920-06-26
ALLEGED ASSAILANT OF
GIRL IN MARLBORO JAIL

UPPER MARLBORO. Md. June Is.
States Attorney ]. Wilson Ryon in
a few days will interview Ellen Mer-
kle, fourteen years old. and her little
brother to get the girls side of the
story in connection with the alleged
assault upon here Thursday morning
by James Griffin. colored, eighteen
years old. not Abraham Giles, as was
enormously reported yesterday. Grit
fin is now in Jail here. Griffin admits
that he met the girl and her little
brother on a road leading to the
Patuxent river, and that he threw a
coat at her. knocking her hat of.
According to Griffin. the girl In at
tempting to recover her hat fell over
his foot. knocking Griffin down near
her. At this point the girls brother
screamed. and Griffin is alleged to
have fed.
The scene of the alleged assault is
near the spot where George Peters.
Bowie farmer, was murdered by
George Cummings, colored. for which
crime the latter was hanged several
months ago.
James Sheidman. ninety years old.
a long time resident of Prince Georges
county. died a few days ago at the
Bennett, Upper Marlboro. He con-
Quoted a blacksmith's shop at Upper
Marlboro until i'll health nccessitated
his retiring a few years ago. Be-
sides Mrs. Bennett, of this place, he
leaves another daughter. Mrs. John
Vermillion, of Halls Station. The
funeral was held from Trinity Church,
Upper Marbolo, the Rev. +. E. Nc
manus, officiating. Burial was in the
Episcopal Cemetery here.
Petitioners have given notice that
they will soon appear before the
county commissioners and ask that
a new road be opehed from Jenkins
Corner. in Surratts district. on the
state highway, near Clinton post
office, westerly to the road known as
Possom pike, a distance of about ono
and a quarter miles. The petitioners
are w. r. Pyles, Mrs. Nellie Proctor.
George Sellner, Millard Odgen, Mrs.
Annie Soper. and Alfred Allen.
The Rev. w. J. Ripley, canon of the
cathedral at Kingston, Jamaica, is
officiating, temporarily. at st. Barna-
bas'' Church. Iceland.
The Washington times., 1920-06-26
Real Estate Happenings

ONE of the first bungalows built at Decatur "eights
by the Washington Potomac Industrial Corporation
which is today nauguratng of the largest lot sales
ever held in Washington. ~.
The Washington times., 1920-06-26

Mrs. Kate Waller Barrett. head OF
the Florence crittenton Home and
Help Mission, 10 10 deliver the address
ing service tomorrow. according to
announcement today.
The pastor. Rev. II. ". johnson, 10
The Washington times., 1920-06-26

in Buffalo, N. Y, in attendance on the
Northern Baptist Convention. His
pulpit at the morning service tomor-
row will be occupied by Rev. Thomas
b. Harrison, known as "the boy even>
gelist"
The Washington times., 1920-06-26
Reformed.

GRACE-Isth and o Ste. n. w
HENRY n. RANCK, ID. D., Pss,
p:to-Sunday school
II and t-Hoiy communion
The Washington times., 1920-06-26

Bondage in Babylon will be the
topic of the evening with the choir,
at the Fifth Baptist Church toner
row. according to announcement of
The Washington times., 1920-06-26

J. II. Thomas will address the Met
ropolitan Presbyterian Christian En-
deavor society tomorrow.
The Washington times., 1920-06-26

national service school last season,
therefore Mason House Is htting
place for the wedding. Miss Charlotte
Bell will be the brides only attendant,
and only relatives and the most init
mate friends viii be present. The
future home of the bride and BRIDE
groom will be In Chicago.
The Washington times., 1920-06-26

"A Life Struggle" will be the sub
ject OF the morning sermon by the
Rev. George A. Miller at the Ninth
street Christian Church tomorrow. In
.he evening he will speak on "An
Hour at Jacobs Well"
The Washington times., 1920-06-26
HAPPENINGS In SOCIETY
ROmanos Leave TOwn-Dinner Dance at ashingtOn
Barracks-Weddings and Engagements

THE italian Ambassador and
Baroness Romano and their
i daughter, Miss Yolanda Ro-
mano, will leave today for Newport.
where they have taken a cottage for
the season.
The japanese Ambassador and Nine.
shidehara, who are In New York for
few days, will be among the guests
OF Mr.. and Mrs. Frank A. vanderliI
at Scarborough -on- II udson this aft
ernoon, when they entertain the mem
bers OF the Japan Society. A play,
"Urashima," will be presented by
Japanese students at Columbia Uni
yersity.
Cen. John J. Pershing will be the
guest OF honor at the dinner dance
which the officers OF the general
staff college are giving tonight at
the Officers Club, Washington Bar
racks. This function Is to be the
last OF a very successful and delight
ful series.
BURLEsONs TO ENTERTAIN.
Mrs. A. S. Burieson will enter
tain a party Tuesday evening at
the Central High School Auditorium.
when the Washington Players will
give three one-act plays, and have
as their guests OF the evening the
members OF the Arts Club.
The Washington times., 1920-06-26

The Junior Christian Endeavor rally
held at the First Congregational
Sunday was attended by
about 800 young people. Junior su-
perlntendent OF Maryland smith
made the address. The Junior Shield
for the year was awarded TO the
Park View society.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1920-09-18

1t was at Antwerp, and the
Olympic games were on, says the
Northwest Chronicle. The re-
'doubtable Jack Kelly of the Yes
per Boat Club of Philadelphia,
Americas champion, won both
the single and double sculls at the
Olympic meet there that after
noon. First Kelly defeated j.
Beresford, Jr., the famous British
sculler, in the final Of the single
sculls after a thrilling and hard
fought race. An hour after this
wel-earned victory the American
appeared on the water, this time
with j. Costello, his cousin, aud
won the final of the doubles by de-
feating the Italian entry by five
lengths. If these men go back to
Philadelphia and run for alder
men, they will be spoken Of as
Irish. politicians, but when they
win fame for us abroad, whether
at Marathon or Chateau-Thierry,
they are Americans.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1920-09-18
THE coNQUER1NG CROSS.

"Thou hast conquered, o Cali
lean exclaimed the apostate en-
peror Julian as an enemy shaft
pierced his heart in battle. Thou
hast conquered, are the words so
many other apostates and persecu-
tors of the Church of Christ have
uttered throughout the ages. Down
in their very hearts the Scrlbes
and Pharisees must have felt the
force at least Of such an express
sion, when they witnessed the
people gather around the Messia
to drink in the words Of wisdom
and the doctrine Of salvation.
The victories Of the Cross OF
Christ, recalled by the festival of
last Tuesday, are past the posi-
bility of enumeration. Time after
time has the Church been en-
quilted in the maelstrom Of terrific
storms; butfeted from without,
shaken by false leaders from with
in, scorned by the world, aban-
doned by the tepid and almost
doubted by the just; and yet
when the fury Of the hurricane
died down there was the Cross of
Christ, resplendent and glorious,
raised over PROSTATE world,
mercy and love and forgiveness
pouring from it's every ray down
into the hearts of mankind.
In many ages heresy has swept
the world, and the Church gazed
about to find the nations now
Arian, now atheist, now Protes-
tant. But ever the Cross has
shone forth with undimmed radi-
ance. The chosen people were but
a handful among the hordes Of an
cient times; the Apostles were but
twelve among the millions of pa
CANS, and the children of the
Church are a fraction of mankind.
And the Cross is raised over all
saint and sinner falls beneath its
genial shining, and the good for
tune Of the minority is accentuat-
ed by the multitude Of unbeliev-
ers.
The greatest triumphs of the
Cross are won at the bedsides of
the dying. A life of sin and de-
spair, of wickedness and unbelief,
comes face to face with the thorn.
entwined glory Of the Cross, and
in accents of contrite affection the
sinner exclaims: "Thou hast con-
quered, O Galilean! Thy mercy
has overcome my ingratitude, thy
power to forgive surpasses my
ability to sin. The MONDAY splen-
dor Of the world is as Egyptian
darkness compared to the bright,
ness Of thy divine effulgence. Yes,
O Galilean, truly hast Thou con-
quered my sinful SOUL"
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1920-09-18
THAT LEAGUE.

The champion bush league Of
the international circuit is the
league of nations. Conceived in
nobility Of purpose, it came into
the world with a prenatal ten
dency to corruption and death. 1t
was marked at birth with the can
GER sign of Article x, and the
medico-legal fraternity has con-
fessed itself powerless to effect a
cure. Only a major operation,
the excision of the cancerous
growth, offers a hope Of recovery.
America in her magnanimity
posed in Paris as the worldwide
Lady Bountiful; ready at a mo-
ment's notice to fly to the utter
most bounds Of the earth and
there to quell any disturbance
that might arise to threaten the
equilibrium of the peoples. Sober
second thought, however,, easily
disclosed the fact that America
must needs possess the gifts of
ubiquity and bilocation in order
to stifle the outbreaks Of many I'M
ruly peoples throughout the
world.
The so-called allies witnessed
the threatened destruction of
European civilization by the un-
couth hordes from Russia. Po-
land as Of old stood forth the
champion of Western life and in
situations. The League re-
fused to send help even to safe
guard it's own frontiers. In vain
did Poland cry out in her misery
and plight for aid and assistance;
the League heard not. So soon,
however, as valiant Poland
stemmed the torrent, the League
at once ordered her to close her
door and to pay no heed to the
myriads that still menaced her
house. If the inmates Of Bedlam
had held serious consultation in
such a crisis they scarcely could
have come to a more ridiculous
decision. The 'Little White Fa.
Their" in Washington also cried
out peevishly, ''Cease, ceasep!
And they ceased not.
Truly, the rulers of this nun.
dane sphere seem to have entirely
locked up all reason and judg-
ment and to have given the reins
to fancy and imagination.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1920-09-18

The Manchester Guardian does
not think that religion has gained
anything by the World War
"Look where you WILL" says our
contemporary, "there is no sign
among the masses of the people
that the religious idea has advanc,
ed one foot during and since the
war. The war, which, according
to some ingenious minds, was to
re-establish religion in the peo-
pies mind, has left no change of
heart, no spiritual impetus, nc
new generous aspirations. 1t has
left religion where it was, but sur.
rounded by a great public apa,
thy A glance at the current wal
literature confirms this pessimis-
tic view, thinks the Fortnightly
The human race has not drawn
from the war the lessons evidently
intended by Divine Providence
and hence there is reason to fea1
that greater Establishments are in
store.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1920-09-18
MAS0NS AND SCHOOLS
FRATERNITY WOULD LIKE TO SEE
PAROCHIAL SCHOOLS ELIMINATE
ED.

THE National Masonic Research
Society" on page ZIG, column two,
reproduces report of the Grand
Lodge of North Dakota this report
having been adopted by the Grand
Lodge of that state on July II, 1920,
says the Northwest Review. The Sec
ond of the proposition to the "pro-
mitigation" of which the Grand Lodge
was urged Ito commit ITSELF" reads:
That this government is based up
on a loyal and intelligent citizenship,
and, therefore, it must control the
agencies which train that citizenship,
i. e., the elementary public school,"
The sense in which this statement
is regarded by the proponents of the
resolution is evident from the follow
ing equally significant. declaration:
Third: 1--WE much prefer the elm
ination of the private and parochial
schools since the one makes for class
distinction and the other for religious
intolerance; but if such elimination is
found inexpedient at this time, we re-
commend that such schools be under
the supervision of the public school
officials of the state and nation and
that they be compelled to maintain
the same standards required by the
public schools"
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Join Hands With Asino.
CHRISTIAN MEMORIALS

(By N. C. w. G.: News Seryice)
Ruins of the ancient basilica erected
in honor of the Blessed Virgin by St.
Nicaise in 401, together with sacred
statues of ivory strangely and beauti-
fully carved, have been discovered
beneath the foundations of the great
Cathedral of Rheims by workmen.
The nave of the primitive building,
regarding the character of which rec
ords leave little doubt, has been dis
closed, supported by three Roman
arches in good condition. Archaeolo-
gists have made careful Investigations
of the sandy floor of the ancient edi-
flee and these Investigations resulted
in finding the lost art treasures.
1t is apparent that the monks of the
period had buried the images to save
them from some barbarian invasion of
that time
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1920-09-18
MAcSW|NEY
written for The Catholic Bulletin by
Helen Hughes Hielscher.)

o Erin, mother of sorrow,
Thorn-crowned with bleeding feet,
You come down history's pages
Mocked at, stoned in the street;
Now goaded beyond all bearing,
A cry to heaven you send,
Better to end in horror
Than horror without end"
Thy sons stand still in the highways,
Stand still in the crowded mart,
The scourge and the goad defying,
High of head and proud of heart.
Let the tyrant rage and trample,
None to his lash shall bend
Better an end in horror
Than horror without end.'
The son of the house of McSwiney
Young and brave keeps tryst with
Death,
His free soul scorns mans prison
He prays with his failing breath
That God may spare the people
And grant them their chains to rend,
And he offers his death of horror
That horror may have an end.
In his frame the soul still fingers
Pitiful skin-clad bones
Far off seems the COO of his baby
And his young wife's smothered
means.
He sees in his mind his comrades
In filthy prisons penned,
Welcome the horrors of hunger,
If this may their horrors end.
BY his prison bedside there hover
The ghosts of the millions dead
In Ireland, India, Egypt,
Where men died for want of bread.
His soul is master of Hunger,
He turns to Death as a friend.
Oh God! must he drain the chalice
That these horrors may have an end
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1920-09-18
FATHER SIMON DEAD
FORMER PROFESSOR OF MUSIC
HERE DIED LAST MONTH
IN FRANCE.

Rev. Louis Arthur Simon, formerly
professor of music in St. Paul Semi
nary in this city, died August II, in
France.
Father Simon was born at St. Mar
tin de Gresne, Ain, France, October
26, 1864. He made his classical
course at Belley College, Ain, and
studied philosophy at Brau Seminary,
Bourg- en-Bresse, France. Coming to
st. Paul in 1891, he entered St.
Thomas Seminary, where he studied
for three years, completing his course
in the newly erected st. Paul Semi
nary He was ordained at the St.
Paul Seminary, June s, 1895, by Arch
bishop Ireland for the Diocese of St.
Paul.
Several months after his ordination
Father Simon was made professor of
ecclesiastical music in st. Paul Semi
nary, and he is remembered with deep
regard by his former classmates, as
we'll as by his pupils.
In 1896 he was appointed assistant
the following year became pastor of
the Church of st. Clotilde, now st.
AIMS, Minneapolis. In 1898 he was
appointed pastor at Osseo, and then
transferred in 1908, to Maple Lake
and Chatham. He retired a few years
ago and went to France
Father Simon mad been ill for the
past two years, suffering from paraly-
sis He died in the Maison de
was buried in the priests lot in the
cemetery of that town.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1920-09-18
CEMETERY SUNDAY

AS is we'll known, it is custo-
mary in. the Archdiocese Of St.
Paul to make special commemora-
ton Of the dead on the third Sun
day of September. On this day
every good Catholic will, if pos
sible, repair to the local cemetery
and there join with the faithful in
offering prayer and supplication
for the repose of the departed.
This usage is equivalent in a way
to the custom of commemorative
all the faithful on All Souls Day.
In the whirl and hustle Of fever
ish modern life it is well to pause
on occasions and to raise one s
thoughts to the hereafter. The
impetuosity Of the present is not
always promoter Of good
thoughts and Of religious duties.
The Specter of Death is independ-
ent of all the changes of life: he
hovers in the midst Of the most
highly cultured and the learned, as
we'll as among the novels of the
savage or the illiterate.
Hence it is a most salutary prac-
tice on an occasion like this to go
to the field Of the dead, to gaze
upon all that remains even of the
great ones in Church or State, and
to utter prayer for their eter-
nal happiness. Such visit will
be as beneficial to the living as it
is helpful to the dead.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1920-09-18
VENT SETTEMBRE.

When the Piedmontese battered
their way into the City Of the
Popes on September 20, 1870, they
placed new expression on the
pages Of history. VENT Settembre
September 20-has gone down
in history as the day on which the
Italians outrivaled the Huns Of
old. For when Pope Leo the
Great appeared at the gates of the
Holy City and commanded Attila
the Scourge Of God to lay not
hands on the City Of Peter, the
ruthless leader withdrew his saw
age hordes to the North.
VENT Settembre also marks the
Papal triumph of failure. While
the sanity Plus TX lost his posi-
ton before the world as a tenn
poral sovereign, he stood forth as
the valiant champion Of eternal
justice and moral right.
In these fifty years Of unjust
occupation OF the City Of Rome
by the Italian government the Pa
pacy has gained Unreasonable
prestige. Bismarck once said,
I'VE shall not go to Canossa, y
referring to the forced submission
OF another great German, Henry
", who was subdued by Pope
Gregory VII. Yet Bismarck went
to Canossa. France is preparing
even now little trip to Canossa,
and England herself is inquiring
about the train schedules. There
is not the least doubt but that the
Italian government itself will soon
be IN Canossa, unless it is drivea
into oblivion.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1920-09-18
SYON ABBEY
FAMOUS ENGLISH CONVENT HAS
SURVIVED FOR 500 YEARS
UNIQUE RECORD IN ENGLISH
HISTORY,
(By N. G.. w. c.. News Service.)

(By N. C. w. C. News Service)
One of the most remarkable exam
pies of the perpetuity of the Catholic
faith in England is the story of the
English Bridgettine nuns of Syon Alb
hey, writes Rev. DR.. Guilday. 1t is the
only religious house out of all the hun
dreds that covered the land in the
days of the great iconoclast, Henry
VIII, that has survived the Reforma-
ton. During five hundred years
1420-1920) this community of English
nuns has constantly and entirely been
recruited from English subjects.
despite it's long exile from England of
three hundred years 1559-1S6D.
Syon House, still one of the show
places of England, was dedicated in
1920. 1t was suppressed by order of
Henry VIII in 1889, and twenty years
later the remaining members of the
community were permitted to leave the
country with the retiring Spanish Am
bassador, the Duke of Feria After
several years of wandering from one
convent to another in Belgium, the
nuns went to Lisbon. The community
soon began to increase in numbers
and the convent became one of tho
largest in the Portuguese capital. n
1861, the Bridgettines returned to
England, and in 1887, they took up
their abode in the present Syon Abbey,
at Khudleigh.
1t is interesting to note that each
year at Khudleigh Requiem Mass is
said for the soul of William the Cor
queror, part of whose lands were made
over to the Abbey in 1920 on this, con-
dition.
This record of half thousand years
is unique in English Catholic annals
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1920-09-18

"Ouija" is sending them to st
Elizabeth, the national hospital
for the insane, by the score. AT
the Washington Asylum hospital
fifteen devotees of the spook board
are now being watched by the
ahenists. eff Washington resi-,
dents continue to monkey with
Occult Ouija," said one of the
physicians, eve will have to have
an addition to the local staff. "
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1920-09-18
TO PROTECT CHURCH ART
(Bv N, C.. w. c.. News Service.)

(By N. C.. w. c.. News Service)
The Bishop of Lille has instituted
a diocesan committee which will have
for it's purpose the examination and
approving of all projects for the con-
struction, restoration and embellishing
of the churches of the diocese. No
such project will be permitted to be
carried out unless it is first sanctioned
by this commission, which will have
the right of inspecting and controlling
permanently the ornamentation of the
churches. Objects of art belonging to
particular churches will not be per-
mitted to be removed without the
authorization of the committee.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1920-09-18

The full moral force of organic
ed labor in Great Britain was
placed behind the hunger striking
mayor by the conference at Ports
mouth Of the labor congress rep
resenting 100000 workers. The
congress passed a resolution read
ing: eve view with horror and
Indignation the decision to allow
Lord Mayor MacSwiney to die.
The whole of organized labor
will hold the government respons-
ible for the death. Such blind
stupidity will render the reconcil-
iation of England and Ireland al
most impossible. -
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1920-09-18
CARDINAL AND SUFFRAGE

"Now that women have been given
the vote they should exercise this
privilege, not only as a right but as
a duty" Cardinal Gibbons said last
Monday.
while l always have been opposed
to woman suffrage, because felt that
suffrage would withdraw them from
the more delicate and more sacred
pursuits of home" said the Cardinal,
NOW that they have been given the
vote, l urge upon all of them the ex-
ercise of that suffrage not only as a
right but as a duty. They should ex-
ercise that duty intelligently.
ut is their duty both to register
and vote, and especially in the coming
presidential election. They should
vote for the candidate who will, il
their opinion, contribute best to the
material and social progress of the
state
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1920-09-18

It is refreshing news for all
Catholics to learn that our ode
parted brethren" are little by lit
tie coming back to the old Mother
Church, says an exchange. Thus,
for instance, we are told that the
American Presbyterians have de-
cided to pronounce ban on secret
societies; that the Anglican
church, taught by the terrible les
sons of war, has re-established All
Souls day and prayer for the dead
that in London there was held a
great demonstration in the Thea
ire Royal to protest against di-
vorce and spiritism, and inviting
in a resolution to vote against any
candidate for Parliament who fav-
ors divorce (not vapory plank in
the platform, this y ; in our own
United States, at least, a society in
defense of Christian marriage has
been started by non-Catholic
clergymen, to get an amendment
to the Constitution prohibiting di-
vorce, the most calamitous dis
grace of this free country.