The Alaska daily empire., 1921-03-24
FAMOUS PRELATE,
 AGED 85, PASSES. } ]: ]: TO FINAL REWARD.
End Comes Peacefully at Home in Baltimore After
 Prolonged Illness.
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AOioAAs9Na AA'ANs' Continued from Page one.) | whom had been friends for years, in Expeditionary Forces. On June 30, 1919, he observed his 33rd anniver- sary as Cardinal Archbishop and the 60th. year of his priesthood. Car dinal Mercier, the heroic primate Of Belgium, visited him on this Occas- ion.
 1 The Cardinals views on political, economic and sociologist questions were frequently sought by newspa- pers. In interviews he endorsed the plan for the establishment of the Jewish Homeland in Palestine. he opposed the government ownership of public utilities, maintained that prohibition meant the invasion of home and sacramental practices condemned divorce, praised the work of the Salvation Army in France, favored American military training, importuned the clergy to fight Bol- shevism. demanded that the Turk should be driven from Europe. and appealed to the public to support American entrance into the League of Nation. At a convention of Irish Nationalists in Philadelphia he ex- pressed the hope that the Paris Peace Conference would make it pos sible "to free Ireland He was one of the advocates of Neighbor Day, for stimulating fraternity and com munity spirit among Americans In proclamation he designated June 12 for this observance.
 Tribute From Taft
 At the celebration, in 1911, of the twenty-fifth anniversary of his eleva, tion to the Cardinalate, His Emi hence, out of all the tributes paid him, expressed himself as most af fected by that from William Howard Taft his intimate friend, and then : President, who said:
 l: Through his long and useful life Cardinal Gibbons has spared no eff : fort in the cause of good citizenship and the uplifting of fellew-men." You have portrayed your subject not. I fear, as he is, but as he should be-" responded the Cardinal "One merit only can I claim, and that is an ardent love for my native country and her political institutions. con sider the republic of the United States one of the most precious heir looms ever bestowed on mankind down the ages. It is the duty and should be the delight of every citi- zen to strengthen and perpetuate our government by observance of it's laws and by the integrity of the public life"
 Born m Baltimore l Born in Baltimore, Md, of Irish percentage July IF, 1884, James Gib- bons spent his youth in Ireland. but when he was a lad of 14 years his family returned to America settled in New Orleans where he acted as ''punctual grocer's boy"
 "I look back on those early days of hard work with pride" he said in speaking of his boyhood "I am a firm believer in the school of hard and honest labor"
 His ambition for the priesthood be- gan in those early days. At 21 he began preparations for his service to the Roman Catholic Church. Grad uating with distinguished honors from Historic St. Charles College in Mary land, he pursued his studies at the Seminary of St. Sulphice and St. Mary's University in Baltimore.
 At the close of the Civil War, Father Gibbons became private sec retary of Archbishop Spalding and was appointed chancellor of the dio- cese. Through strength of character he rapidly won his way He was elected assistant chancellor to the second Plenary Council at Baltimore in 1866. Two years later, by a bull of Pope Piux K, tne young priest was translated to North Car oiina where he served ds titular bishop and first vicarapostolic
 Becomes Arch Bishop
 The hard working bishop was sent to Richmond in 1872. He built and enlarged schools, asylums. and churches in Richmond Petersburg and Portsmouth. His untirjng labor extracted the attention of Bishop Bayley, Of the Baltimore Diocese Through his inf1uence BishOD Cib- bons became his coadiutor A few months later Archbishop Bayley died. Bishop Gibons-42 years of age-became Archbishop of the dio- cese, then the highest dignitary Of the Roman Catholic Church in the United States.
 As Archbishop, he headed the delegation of American prelates to Rome in 1883. He outlined their plans for the third plenary council to be held the next year. Pope