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The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1921-05-07
Bulbs and Self Expression

Kathleen means well, and l sup
pose she's right in thinking her
friends will think more Of her
flowers, because she's raised them all
herself from bulbs, but, do you know,
Ann since Kathleen's taken to read
ing all that poetry and nonsense about
self-expression, think we've had very
small chance for peace or quiet in
the house" Mrs. Butler scrutinized
a salad fork, found its polish salts
factory, and added it to the silver
spread out on AIMS snowy kitchen
table. @
Ann, who occupied successfully the
positions of cook, overseer of the ever
changing laundress, guardian of FIVE
year old Phil during the tumultuous
hours in which he was not safe in
kindergarten, and reservoir of all the
family joys and sorrows since Rosa
munde's babyhood, sighed and beat
the whites of five eggs more vehe-
mently.
Il thought the place would come
down about our ears the day last
month when Jerry came home from
High Schol and found his traps
packed away in the preserve closet,
because Kathleen had decided that the
old case in the front basement was
just sunny enough and warm enough
for growing place, after her bulbs
were brought out to the light, How
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naughty fellow, covered as he is with
that tangle of hair, it certainly was
felt in his petted little soul Phil came
along, unfortunately, as he was hold
ing forth, and just in time to meet
him, flying away from Kathleen's
brandished umbrella Oh, of course,
she wouldn't have touched the little
thing with that, but she wanted to get
it out of the room before any damag,,
was done to her everlasting flowers
"And suppose Phil thought she was
beating his pet,' interrupted Ann.
Exactly, and he screamed and
slammed the door upon her, without
waiting to hear anything but Bobs'
yelps. Really, don't feel as if ever
want to see another flower"
Where is she now?" asked Ann.
Gone out to try for paler yellow
and a deeper green ribbon than those
that Rosamund sent up yesterday
There won't be anything in CIark's.
She might just as well have saved her.
self the trouble of looking. What
does a shade of color more OF. less
matter, anyway"
Not bit,'' declared Ann. ibid
she. find the rolls of crepe paper
where 1 laid them in her top drawer.
when was cleaning her room, yes
terday?"
ttOh, yes, told her about them
the first thing this morning. Well,
there can be only one Easter in
year, so suppose we ought to be
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yard. She stood for a few moments,
looking up and down the alley. Mrs.
Butler watched her from the window.
Perhaps I had better go see what
they've all been up to- she said when
Ann, shiyering a little, re-entered the
warm kitchen and closed the door.
Don't bother with the spoons; I'll
finish Them"
L won't lay hand to them. I've
got enough to do with these pies
cried Ann. Easter Saturday dinner,
without one of AIMS inimitable lemon
cream pies, would have been deemed
an impossible situation. In the height
of her frosting Ann typified her joy in
the fact that Lent, with it's slim des.
serts, was past. She cast an anxious
glance at the frothy contents of the old
china platter. To cease beating her
whites" had been a sin against good
cookery, but even pies stood aside
when Phil was in question.
Il guess it didn't fall" she answered
Mrs. Buffers worried glance. "And
you needn't think but what Phil will
come back, and the dog, too, for the
matter of that, as soon as they feel
the wind. It's cold for Easter" She
shivered again
The second and last of the artist
cally Drowned CONNECTIONS was out of
the oven when Mrs. Butler returned
to the kitchen.
1T was the bulbs again! We might
have guessed as much She poured
out the water, which had cooled, and
drew another and warmer painful.
''Kathie had been writing the, cards
in her. room and only left it for a
second while she telephoned some
message to Natalie. When she came
back poor little Bobss was in the
room 81
HE didn't destroy her fowersg'
Ann was aghast.
Thank goodness, no! He was
smiling them. Mrs. Buffers laugh
bordered close on hysteria. Kathleen
acknowledged that she slapped him,
and, though It probably didn't hurt the
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1921-05-07

of calling priests Fathers has come
from Ireland
In this country, where the Irish
were among the first larger groups
or Catholics, the usage is older than in
England. though even here up to fifty
or sixty years ago priests were more
often referred to as Mr." than ia
ther" We gather from several let
,ters published by The Tablet that
some English Catholics regard the
custom as silly. That is probably due
to anti-Irish prejudice. To us 1t
seems entirely fitting and proper to
call him Father who is the spiritual
progenitor of his flock and is charged
with the care of their souls before God
and men. True. calling priests "Fa-
Their" sometimes gives non-Catholics
an occasion for slurs; but what of it?
There are many other fine things in
our faith and discipline which are
made the butt of jokes and taunts by
infidels and Professionals. but which
we would not dream Of giving up for
that reason.
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CLUSTERED ARTISTS.

Art is coming into it's own again
among us. We seem to be coming to
realize that it does not belong solely
in art galleries and in the palaces of
the rich, but in everyday things used
by everyday people.
We have to hang our heads and adj
nit that our art, and especially our
architecture, is as yet, in general, al
most nothing in comparison with the
Medieval Catholic cathedrals and
churches and their contents. And yet
it seems impossible to discover the
names of the architects who con-
ceived the plans of some of these
awe-inspiring edifices. We see the
results of their. wonderful genius; we
should like to achieve something
family resembling them; but we do
not easily see the workings of the
minds and hands which fashioned
them. e
!. We view with wonder some of the
remnants which remain of the ex-
quisite Illuminated manuscripts of the
Ages of Faith. They seem to our
modern eyes almost too beautiful to
be used for practical purposes, but
we7see that they fitted into beautiful
scheme of things in which almost
everything which was used appears
to have been beautiful in useful
way. We do not see, however, the
quiet monk in his cloister at work on
one of these gems of the illuminator's
art. His identity was probably buried
in the unity of the community of which
he was a member. Both he and his
superiors seem to have taken it for
granted that things should be done
as beautifully at possible, and that
whatever time was necessary for the
process should be devoted to it.
I We see the results of the great
spread of Christianity in it's first
ages. But we do not see the patient
fervor Which nurtured the budding
plant of the Faith, in the Catacombs,
during the prosecutions. We see the
results of the great civilizing in
fuences which the Church sent out
into the rude society of her early
ages. But we do not see the quiet
toll of the monks and religious men
and women who taught and worked
to that end among others.
-Pfnsbuy0 Obseyper.
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a pretty Easter card does not Tex.
press her. (as she says) has reacted
on the rest of us. l won't have mo-
ment Of peace, now, until they are out
of the house."
And that'H be in another hour,
suppose comforted Ann. Leave her
alone, by next year she'll have tired
of taking all that trouble, when she
could easier go out to the florist and
buy as good, near, as them she's fret
ted us all with"
Let's hope So Mrs. Butler count
ed the forks with a detached air. Al
scream, a series of staccato banks,
followed by querulous yelping and
the slamming of a door, broke in upon
the quiet of the kitchen. Kathleen's
mother jumped to her feet, but Ann,
with dripping egg-beater, reached the
door before her. Down the polished
steps fluffy-haired black dog Of tiny
proportions slid and tumbIed. Ignor-
ing the protesting cries of the chubby
boy. a dozen steps behind him, the
frightened and angry little dog dashed
down the hall, passed the women in
the doorway, and disappeared by way
of the open door into the yard.
oh why didn't you catch him?
He'll get all losted!" screamed the
chubby boy.
What in the world is the matter,
Phil?" His mother laid soothing
hand on his arm It failed, however,
either to soothe or restrain the child
ASK Kathie She knows what she
did; SO she does! I've got to get
Bobs." he yelled and fled, too, into
the back yard. His mother put her
hand to her head YEARLY. Ann ran to
the door.
Don't you be going far away with
out your sweater" she screamed, but
the child was out of sight, if not
hearing.
There, now; I cautioned the milk
man to latch that gate when he was
going out. Instead, he left 1t open.
Dear, dear, that child win take his
death of cold if he goes running after
that dog The rest Of AIMS lamen-
tation was lost as she threw her apron
over her head and made her way to
the open gate at the end Of the long
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CHURCH IN NEW ZEALAND.

The fiftieth anniversary of the land
ing of Right Rev. Patrick Moran, the
first Bishop of Dunedin, New Zealand,
was observed recently.
The occasion commemorated the
historic event which occurred when,
80 years ago, Bishop Moran sailed in
between the Otago Heads, landed at
Port Chalmers, and made his entry
into the beautiful little city which was
to be his home for a quarter of a
century, and in which, in ripe age, he
was to lay his mortal remains.
The Diocese of Dunedin comprised
the provincial district of Otaso, in
Guiding the Otaso part, Southland, and
Stewart Island, as well as other ada
cent islands. The diocese contained
some of the most picturesque lake and
ford scenery in New Zealand From
1S4S to 1869 the territory later com.
prised in the Diocese of Dunedin was
included in the episcopal See of We'll
lington. In the latter year the Diocese
of Dunedin was established
Right Rev. Patrick Moran was it's
first Bishop He was translated thith-
er from the Cape of Good Hope on
December 8, 1869.
In 1910 Dr. Pompallier, with Fa-
theirs Comte and Pezant, visited and
instructed the native villagers and a
few white Catholic whalers at Otakou
and Moeraki. Up to 1859 there was
no Catholic Church or school or resi-
dent priest in the southern province,
and only about 80 scattered Catholics,
who were visited periodically, on foot,
by the sanity Marist, Father Petit
jean.
AT an early period in the gold-rush
of the sixties, another Marist mission
airy, Father Moreau, was made resi-
dent priest in Dunedin, with charge of
the whole province At Dunedin he
built the first Catholic Church and
presbytery in that part of New Zea-
land
| Shortly after the arrival of Bishop
Moran, in 1871, Father Moreau and a
few of his fellow religious, who for
| some time had been laboring in Otago,
We're recalled to the Diocese of Wei
lington The Dominican Nuns and the
| secular clergy were introduced by the
new Bishop in 1871, and the Christian
Brothers in 1874 The New Zealand
Tablet was established in 1873; and
strenuous work was done in extending
the facilities for religion and educa-
| ton.
The extension Of the external organ.
ization Of religion has more than kept
pace with the increase in the Catholic
| population, and Dunedin is one of the
best equipped of the smalfer dioceses
of Australia
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ST. ANTHONY.

ST.. Anthony! Two nations claim
The glory of thy line
Lisbon, thy Graded infancy,
Fair Padua, thy shrine.
Two hemispheres forever ring
With praise of thy great name
The old world and the new are still
Resembling with thy fame.
Two words thy power acknowledge
earth
And Heavens proclaim thee blest;
Earth's children call to thee; anG
Heaven
Responds to thy behest.
Dear Saint, while thou thy Infant
Lord
Dost hold in sweet embrace,
Ask Him within that other world
7, To keep for me place.
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block our way ahead. We may have
and difficulties with
out number-but what of that?
iRRELlelous SOCIAL WORKERS.

Ont in Oregon the Legislature has
passed bill requiring an examination
into the health and mental fitness of
all applicants for a marriage license
and providing that no license shall
issue to the physically orr mentally
subnormal until one orsbOth of the ap-
-plieants have been rendered sterile.
Before the bin can heeome.=a law 1t
must have the endorsement Of the
electorate. The principal sponsor for
the wicked transference. of, this page
from the stud farm book to the States
matrimonial statutes is medical hag
whose years of uselessness are said to
have gone beyond the four.score mark.
In letter to the legislators. she made
this Ubiquitous plea:
Every husband and wife should
have the privilege of deciding. the
number of children that should come
into their home. Such children are
love children and will bring blessings
with them child we'll born will be
an asset of great worth to his couf-
try, fthe other a curse. When the call
to arms came, your sons and the sons
of other normal men rushed to the call
and passed the test; the subnOrmal
failed. The ''boobs," as the soldiers
dubbed them, were allowed to go home
and propagate their kind The unfit
should not be allowed to propagate"
The noint we wish to make is that
social workers outside the Church are
for the most part without any relig
ious bearings and therefore morally
painless. For that reason their ten
dency is to diagnose the ills Of indi-
vidnals and ssociety in terms of ami
NAL well-being only Accordingly they
'besmirch the soul in attempting to
rub dust speck off the body, They
expel for the nonce one early-morn-
ing devil and he goes forth to fetch
presently legion of MONDAY tempt
ers. So by occasion of the clumsy eX
orcism man and society are tenfold
worse off now than they were before
the advent of the goddess social work
ers 4 p
Marital prostitution as a fine art
seems to be the thing these misguided
and vicious people are bent on i'm
planting among the laboring classes.
They conduct themselves under hon.
est guises; hence they avoid the OPP
probium which naturally attaches to
the underworld. But their guilt be-
fore heaven is greater than that of
the poor prostitute.
Western Wdfchman.
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THOUGHTS FOR WAKING HOURS

A day is short and, when the time
for it's setting has come, no power on
earth can prolong it one moment. 1t
would be fearful thing for us, were
the acceptable day to end, and we had
not availed of it for salvation, says
The Pilot
There is no creature so little and
so contemplate as not to manifest the
goodness of God.
Love of God will show Us that we'll
filled barns or bank accounts may be
the possession of the fool whose soul
will be required in the night.
The worker is the royal man, with
the dignity which comes from the
consciousness of service done to- God
and man. In the new heaven and the
new earth, of which he is pioneer,
he will take his place among the
citizens of the kingdom of God
For every good deed of ours the
world will be better always And,
perhaps, no day does man walk
down the. street cheerfully and like
a child of God, without some passers
unknown to himself, catching from his
look a something of religion
We are making habits, good habits,
bad habits, all our lives. In our child
hood we are taught habits, and as
we grow older, we make them for our,
selves. If, our parents have been wise
and taught us habits of tidiness, con-
troll of temper, and how to be kindly
and considerate to others, while we
are still children we shall find our
selves launched out in life with a
good capital.
Vacations to- the religious state
ought to receive every announcement
from priests and parents. How happy
the families with daughters dedicated
to Gods service! A great saint said:
Virgins who have the happiness of
dedicating themselves to the love of
Jesus Christ by consecrating to Him
the lily of their purity, are as dear to
God as His Angels" Does not Our
Lord say: They shall be like the
angels in heaven"
Nothing can discourage the man
who persists in remaining undiscOnr-
aged. Discouragement is not mat
ter of the circumstances which sur
round us--the failures that line our
path In the rear and the obstacles that
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he stormed. And her father had never
uttered a sound, though it was dis
couraging to him to see all the screens
scattered around, down there. He had
spent good deal of time marking
them and packing them away under
the steps-but that dark corner was
the one place in all the world that
would suit Kathie while the bulbs
were getting roots, SO out went the
screens and in went her boxes. I'm
afraid, between us all, we've utterly
spoiled the child said her mother.
well, ma'am, Jerry was bad
enough. but / could have doubled ev-
cry word he gave her." Ann declared,
when saw them things (oh, the
depth of horror in AIMS "things")
settin' up close to my peaches and
cherries and pineapple! And what
could do, with poor Jerry ready to
break his heart at the creatures being
moved? Not a thing at all, but bring
him down that little old what-not out
OF my own room and help him put
iAA'' Jul dHo UOlllCo Ou .LAC oiiCIVOs
OF that back in the front room again.
Indeed, don't know what we'd
Go without you, Ann. Anyone else
would have given us up as a poor
investment long ago."
ooh, yes, Kathleen means well,
Ann chose to ignore the praise, 4'but
she has mighty poor way of show
ing it. Where has she carried the
bulbs to, now? They looked Just beau
tiful last evening when / was seeing
were all the windows locked below.
up into her own room. helped
her carry them. That's why was
glad to come out here and sit down
with this silver. She said the sun
from that south window will just
finish them off. Dear me, had hoped
that we would not be bothered again,
after Easter, when she cried herself
sick over a dozen of frost-bitten daft
fodils. | intended to be firm and
never let her put another bulb in the
earth! Yet, what could one do when
she came home, perfectly radiant, be-
cause her arms were filed with some
unusual varieties. hope, everything
will go all right this year. You can't
tell how this Idea Of the childss that
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WHY PRIESTS ARE CALLED
"FATHER.v

1t is interesting to see, from re-
cent correspondence in the London
Tablet, that the use of the term "Fa-
Their" in addressing members of the
reverend clergy, is not English, but
was brought to England and to Amer
lea by the Irish, says the Belleville
Messenger.
Some forty years ago." says one
writer, mo English Catholic ever
thought of calling his priest Father
unless he was member of one of the
religious orders. The modern custom
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FAITH AND WORKS.

You go into the church to obtain
mercy; first, show mercy, says St
John Chrysostom. Make God your
debtor, and then you may ask of Him,
and receive with usury. We are not
heard barely for the lifting up of our
hands. Stretch forth your hands, not
only to heaven but to the poor. If
you stretch out your hands to the
poor, you touch the height of heaven;
for He that sits there receives your
aims. But if you lift up barren hands,
it prOfiteth nothing.
New Ulm review., 1921-04-06

case could be made for them, because
they have done more than their share
of the most difficult work that has
made America what it is today. Over
SO per cent of our iron and steel work
ers are foreign-born. The labor of the
shoe factory, the mine, the road build-
ing, the cotton mill, the clothing in
dustry, is over SO per cent foreign
born. And who was it. that made
Minnesota and North Dakota prairies
civilized states but the people who had
the enterprise to come to us for greater
opportunity? One of Minnesota S
best governors was born in Sweden.
If we can show our Americanism
only by casting slures at these people;
only by denying them the honest mans
right to an opinion and respect, then
We choose to be poor on Americanism.
The brotherhood of man and good will
for all honest folk is worth more to us;
on the other hand, we are not among
those who can find pride in the accident
of birth.
New Ulm review., 1921-04-06
Official paper Of New Ulm, MINI.
The Many Steam Roller.

Il ftC iSouS oCCbHt llVtCCf.
The Navy Department will make
no compromise with the sincere fools"
who are talking disarmament. When
the Colorado, our newest $4,000 ton
dreadnought, slid into the water, re-
Gently, at Camden, Assistent Secretary
Theodore Roosevelt voiced his view
of disarmament advocates thus: Some
of these people are perfectly sincere
pacifists, some of them are perfectly
sincere fools, and, incidentally, they
are the same thing" Next day,
President Harding told delegation of
Philadelphia Quakers that the United
States, could not make naval reductions
without the cooperation of other
powers.
These are no words without deeds.
After session of the council of the
Secretary of the Navy on March 16,
Secretary Denby announced that the
department would ask Congress to
adopt the naval appropriation bill as
and killed by Senators Borah and King.
What this means the country does not
realize. The senate bill adds $780,
100000 to the 1896, 100000 carried
by the House bill. 1t provides for
10000 men instead of 100000. 1t
carries $90,000,000 for the continua-
tion of the 1916 program and adds to
it two airplane carriers at cost of
$26, 10000 each. 1t makes the initial
appropriations for great naval develop
ments in the Pacific, notably new
naval base at Alameda, which will cost
$100,000,00O by the time it is done.
Senator King declares that it will re-
quire billion to complete the 1916
program and another half billion for
the necessary yards and docks. His
estimate for annual maintenance is at
least 100000.
There is sharp intimation that the
navy is to be concentrated in the
Pacific. Not only does this mean
further expense; it is definite threat
to Japan. Naval officers are talking
in their usual mischievous way of war
with that country within three years.
The naval policy of the administra-
tion is already clear. Nothing but
Congress stands between the people
and the proposed orgy of spending.
which will surely culminate in waa
Imperialistic business drives the navy
steam roller steadily forward. Only
a great popular movement can hurl the
driver from his seat and reverse the
machine. There are signs of such a
movement.
New Ulm review., 1921-04-06
Mrs. Nordide and daughter, Minnie,
i Lamberton were recent visitors here

Mrs. Nordide and daughter, Minnie,
OF Lamberton were recent visitors here.
julius Neumann is guest at the
farm home of his son, Hubert, near
Lamberton.
The 10-year-old son Of Adolph
Schroeder, residing south Of Lamber-
ton, underwent a successful operation
for appendicitis at local hospital, re-
Gently.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Kaatz have re-
turned to their home at Lamberton,
after brief visit with the latter's
mother, who is a patient at local
hospital I'D
Miss Joyce Sills of Lamberton spent
a few days, recently, visiting her
mother, who is convalescing nicely
from the effects of serious operation,
which was performed upon her at a
local hospital few weeks ago.
The license fee for operating pool
halls in Springfield was doubled at a
recent meeting Of the village council
The fee this year is $50 for each table,
compared to SIS last year. The
salary of Recorder John Schmelz was
increased from SIS to $125 per month,
while the stipend of Treasurer C. HI.
Ash was fixed at $40 and that of
Village Attorney A. G. Loomis at SIS
per month. A few ordinances were
changed by vote of the council and
number of other business matter
disposed Of. z