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The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1922-08-19
A STAGGERING SUM.

The Christian Standard, organ of the
Disciples of Christ, says in it's current
issue:
"Our Sunday Visitor reports that
the sixteen Catholic universities in the
United States have 1892 students en-
rolled, and that fifty-one seminaries
are training 6,667 students for the
priesthood. The 1852 Catholic high
schools have 156,S53 students, and the
6,551 parochial schools, 1,795,673 pu-
pills. The bill for so stupendous an
educational organization must be a
staggering sum-
Yes, dear contemporary, it is "a
staggering sum-" but we Catholics re-
gard religious training as an abso-
lutely necessary branch of education,
and, therefore, we make sacrifices to
obtain it, says commentator. Our
Divine Lord staggered under the
weight of the Cross for the Redemp-
ton of mankind; we are willing to
stagger under the expense of our edu-
cational system in order that the pur-
pose of the Redemption may be
realized in the lives of ourselves and
our children. The aim of our schools
is to make good Christians as well as
useful citizens.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1922-08-19
Praises School Board For Stand
Against Religious Bigotry.

The majority of the board of educa-
ton in Atlanta has refused to reject
the nominations of teachers in the
city schools because of their member
ships in the Roman Catholic church.
In doing so they upheld the thir-
teenth paragraph of the Bill of
Rights of the Constitution of Georgia,
which declares that mo inhabitants
of this state shall be molested in per-
son or property, or prohibited from
holding any public office, or trust, on
account of his religious opinions" etc.
First Amendment.
Strangely, however, states Sam
Small in the Atlanta Constitution, in
making the federal constitution it's
authors went no further than to say
Cart vi. Sec. 3 that mo religious
test shall ever be required as qualif-
cation to any Office or public trust un-
der the United States
The omission of a guaranty of re-
ligiOuS freedom caused heated oppo-
sition to the document in the conven-
tions of several of the states, and
ratification of the constitution was
finally achieved by pledges from it's
cured by immediate amendment
Hence came the first amendment,
that Congress shall make no law re-
specting an establishment of religion
or prohibiting the free exercise there
Of" etc.
That prohibition, of course, affect
ed only the national congress and
did not bind any one of the states.
But in the constitution of 1889 Geor-
gia declared Cart. iv. Sec. ~; "All
of religion" etc. Nine years later,
in 1898, new state constitution was
adopted and in it was the provision
nor shall any person be denied the
enjoyment of any civil right merely
on account OF his religious prin-
ciples.' Equally strong and specific
declarations of religious freedom
were written into the subsequent
state constitutions, in 1861, 1866, 1868
and 1877. So Georgia has always, as
free state, been openly committed
to the policy of religious liberty; and
hence the marvel that in this year of
grace, 1922, there should spring up
among us any flames of intolerance.
am a Protestant, continues the
writer, of the strictest and straightest
sect, born of Covenanter stock and
could not imagine myself being a
Romanist proselyte in a million years.
But if believe there is drop of bigot-
ed religious prejudice in my blood |
| would pop lancet into one of my
| viens and let the dirty stuff out of my
| system.
For thirty-seven years l have been
going all over America as an evan
! gelist and preacher of the Methodist
interpretations of the gospel of Christ
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1922-08-19

and have encountered no alarming
signs that Romanism is an institution
| OF treason, stratagems and spoils, y
or swelling menace to the rights,
liberties and religious immunities of
the vast Protestant maiorities that
dominate our nation.
Attended Catholic Academy.
When my father, in 1865, for bust
ness reasons, removed his family
from Macon to New Orleans, he had
to choose between putting his chill
dren into public schools with negroes,
or into the Catholic schools, where
white children were protected from
bi-racial contact and conflict. So for
several years I attended a Catholic
academy. One of my teachers was
the famous Father Ryan and another
was the afterwards Governor Blanch-
ard. None of my teachers tried to
convert me to Catholicism, or con-
strained me to follow Catholic devo-
of ten prizes offered in the course, not
one of the books given as prizes was
Catholic volume. / came out of that
school as free and unaffected Pro-
testant as when 1 went into it, but
brought away a profound respect for
the fairness, kindness and devotion Of
my teachers and associates.
Since then, tor thirty-fiVe years, I
have known and had a genuine af-
lection for many good and great Cath
olics. What nobler soul would any
man want to know and love than
Bishop Kelley of Georgia? or Arch
bishop John Ireland of ST. Paul? And
what finer citizens has Atlanta ever
had than John Flynn, Martin Dooley
and John Stephens?
And who ever carried the banner
Of Georgia over the nation more gal
lantly and famously than Captain Joe
Burke at the head of the old Gate
City guards? Why, he became so cele-
brated for his success as commander
of that unrivaled organization that
when it was proposed to send it to
Europe in 1887, the British govern
ment refused to let it come upon Eng
lish soil because Captain Burke is an
Irish Catholic? What do you think of
that?
Also, fellows, l have been in yellow
fever epidemics in towns wherefrom
all the Protestant preachers went
fioOey-God knows where-and only
the Catholic nrinctS and Cictprc of
Charity remained to nurse the sick
and bury the dead, and most of them
persisted at their posts of duty to God
and man.
That, too, is why I am no anti
Catholic bigot!
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1922-06-22
P u bile Convenience
and Necessity Does
Not Exist, Ruling
Eastern Maine and Mattawam.
keag Roads Sought to Build
Line from HoultOn to Bangor
Would Have Cost $780,
000-Question Method Of FL
nancing

Washington, June 81 - Applica-
tons Of the Eastern Maine railroad
and the Mattawamkeag and Eastern
Railroad companies to build line Of
railroad from Houlton to Bangor,
Me, with a branch line in Orient
in Aroostook county, the
length of the new line estimated to be
12S miles, were denied today by the
Interstate Commerce commission.
A certificate of public convenience
and necessity required for railroad
construction was refused the appli-
cants by the commission on the
ground that it was unable to find
that the present or future public
convenience and necessity require or
will require the construction of the
lines of railroad proposed"
The Maine public service commits
sion heard the applicants case jointly
with the federal commission. The
cost of the entire projected system
would have been s5,500,OO0 and the
decision today said that the plan of
financing adopted by the corporation
lis not such as can commend itself"
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1922-06-22
Boys Off Today for
Bay State City-Game to be
Played Friday-Lynn Bust
ness Men Finance Undertake
ing-City on Edge for Con-
test-Brennan, Cony's Ace
Hurler to Work in Box

The Cony High school baseball
team, claimants of State champion
ship honors, will leave Augusta this
morning for Lynn, Mass, where on
friday they will meet the victorious
Lynn English High team which
claims the titular honors in the Bay
State.
The invitation from the Lynn team
is in the nature of a return date, the
two teams having been originally
scheduled to play in Augusta last
Saturday. Continued rain finally
forced cancellation of the game and
the visitors went home after being
royalty entertained by the Cony stu
dent body over the weekend.
Coach Thompson announced last
night that IL players would make
the trip. Manager Stiles and the
coach will go and possibly Principal
Quimby. The lineup for the game
Friday will be as follows: Earring
ton, If; Stafford, list; Ellis, end; Aus
tin, c; Brennan, p; Hughes, RI; Abb
son, CT; Bush 3rd; Roderick short;
Continued on Page 8-Col. y
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1922-06-22
GROUPS PLAN TO
END STRIKE IN
RHODE ISLAND

Wexford, r. l., June 21.-Plans to
end the Rhode Island textile strike,
now in its Esd week, and to bring about
general inquiry into the situation
prevailing in the cotton manufacturing
industry throughout the United
States, will be discussed at a meeting
in Grace church, Providence, Friday
afternoon between heads of the indus
trial section Ct the National Confer
ence of Social Work and the National
Conference of Episcopal Church So
cial Workers.
The meeting was proposed at the
session Of the latter body here today
by Rev. A. NJ. Milliker, rector of
Christ Episcopal church in Lonsdale.
where one of the large textile plants
whose employees are on strike is locat-
cd. Mr.. Milliker told the conference
that plans were being made to ask
Congress to make an investigation Of
the cotton industry north and south,
with production of books, in order
that it might be possible to get to the
heart of the issues involved in the
New England textile strikes.
After an appeal to churchmen earlier
in the day by Bishop Perry of Rhode
Island for an impartial investigation
of the strike the conference heard an
address by c. L. A. Thurber of Man
chester, n. H, an official of the Inter-
national Cigar Makers Union. He de-
clared that labor was looking to the
church to provide the meeting ground
upon which capital and labor might ne
gotiate lasting peace"
Miss Mary Van kleek, investigator
of the department of industrial rela-
lions, Russell Sage Foundation, urged
the conference to take up seriously
the plan of educating the people of the
church, through the various diocesan
organizations, on the conditions exist
ing in industries and the relation of
both capital and labor to these condi-
lions. Such education, she said, would
be the means Of paving the way to in
dustrial peace.
NO strike is a thing of today" Miss
Van Keek said. "All strikes have their
beginnings in long existing conditions
which can only be dealt with by gen
eral education Ct all classes"
The conference adopted resolutions
urging the enactment of a federal child
labor law which would conform to the
constitutional limitations laid down in
q recent decision of the United States
supreme court.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1922-06-22
Promoters Held
On Complaint
Portland Man

New York, June 21-Berlin lost
the prospect Of having a large mod
ern hotel built on the site of Prince
Albrecht's palace today when promo
tiers of the scheme, Morris A. Jacobs
of Boston and Samuel Lewis of the
Bronx We're arrested as fugitives
from justice in Boston.
They are wanted in the New Eng
land city to answer a complaint filed
by George Gehring of Portland, Me-,
who charges them with converting to
their own uses $4,000 in securities
and $4,000 in cash, which he gave
them to buy stock of the New Eng
land Oil company.
In the New York offices where
they were arrested, elaborate pros
pectuses We're found urging holders
of German stocks and German r-:.rks
to change their holdings into Amer
lean money and invest with then in
the scheme to build the proposed no.
tel in Berlin.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1922-06-22
Conferees Agree
On $4,000 Officers
For Army i'm 1922

Washington, June 21-House and
Senate conferees on the army appro-
priation bill agreed late today on a
maxim of $4,000 officers as the per-
manent strength for the army for the
next II months. The House had pro-
vided for only 1000 while the SEN
ate amended the bill to provide an
average of 1850 for the coming
year.
The agreement leaves only one
question Of importance to be decided,
the committees already having set
tied ON an enlisted strength Of 10000
for the next year.
Methods of reducing the number of
officers for the present number of
more than $4,000 to that prescribed
by the bill, have proved a stumbling
block and it was said after today's
meeting that in all probability the
Senate amendment covering the re-
duction would have to be rewritten
before it would be acceptable to the
House delegation. Several members
of the conference felt however that
another day or two would result in an
agreement on that feature.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1922-06-22
Mrs. Quimby W.C.T.U.
Head Degree NJ. A.
Bates Commencement

Lewiston. Me, June 21.-Four hon
orary degrees and los Bachelor Of
Arts and Science degrees were granted
by the president and trustees at the
seth commencement at Bates College
today.
Upon John 7. Stevens. now in Man
churia, president of the Interallied
Technical Board in charge of super
vision of the Siberian and Chinese
Eastern Railways, the degree of Doctor
of Laws was conferred Gin absentia).
Mrs. Althea G. Quimby of Turner.
president of the Maine Woman's Chris
tan Temperance Union, was granted
the degree of Master of -.rts. Willi' m
B. Stevens, bishop-coadjutor of Les
Angeles, was given the degree OF Doc
TOR of Divinity. He is Bates grad
uate and know as one of the young.
est bishops of tine Cpiscopalian churc"-
Loring w. M sser. for S5 years sec
retary of the Chicago Y. NJ. c. A re-
ceived the degree of Decor of Laws.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1922-06-22
RAPS BANKERS
FOR ATTITUDEON
SOLDIERS BONUS
Senator Ladd Saws
Powerful Group Out
to Delay it
Would Destroy Character and
Blacken Honor of Service
Manufactures Senate Can
not Afford to COuntenance-
Would Tax Banks to Pay
Bonus

Washington, June 21-An attack
Of the big bankers Of the country
was made today in the senate by
Senator Ladd, republican, North Da-
kota, in the course of an address in
support of his plan to tax the banks
to pay the veterans of the world war
a cash bonus.
1--WE have small coterie of bank
ers that are patiently more powerful
than the government" declared Sem
ator Ladd. "They control the finan-
cial situation.
how much of the treasury obliga-
tons they will buy: they can finance
new railway enterprises and new in
duStrial combinations that meet the
stamp Of heir approval; they can
even finance foreign ventures and the
rate of exchange seems to affect them
but little in so doing"
Asserting that while the soldiers
were sacrificing during the war the
bankers were piling up surplus and
distributing dividends, Senator Ladd
declared that "it is one of the great
est crimes of the age that we have
not used the strong arm of this gov
eminent to reach into the gold lad
en- Golfers of these war profteers and
compel them to divide, in "a cquit-
able manner, their outrageous prof
it's" with the former service men.
THE big banks emerged from the
war in the most commanding posi-
ton of power of any institutions in
the history of the world" continued
the North Dakota senator.
THE American soldier emerged
broken, without money, with the flu
ture gloomy and prosperity far be-
yond the horizon. Millions of them
were literally turned loose upon the
country with nothing to do. The banks
were not satisfied. To add to the
desperateness of t.leir condition they
inaugurated their policy of drastic
delation that not only destroyed
jobs, but threw out of employment
thousands of others who could be
IOfceu 10 lace these conditions with
them. The bankers made their con-
dition worse by debating every OPP
portunity they had to rehabitulate
themselves.
1T is the same old story of the
fighting man being lauded so long
as the emergency lasts a. d being
discarded and neglected when no
longer needed to wade through blood
and protect national sovereignty and
honor. Even now they are not salts
fed, but because an ungratcful con-
gress has compelled the soldier to
ask for a just compensation these
same bankers would destroy his
character and blacken his honor,
simply to prevent a measure that
would retard their plans for forging
the chains of economic servitude up
on the producers and toilers of free
America. 1t is one of the greatest
crimes of the age, and the American
senate cannot afford to be a party to
H.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1922-06-22
Miller Escapes jail
Was Held on Larceny
Charge for Grand Jury

Skowhegan, June 21-(Snecial)
Wednesday afternoon several of the
prisoners at the ty Jail in charge
of one of the officials were set Il
word taking wood from the yard into
the Jail workhouse. When II bear
to rain heavily the men were taN"r
back into the Jail, when it was four @
that one man was missing. He waa
Delmar Miller, youth of about IS
wears, of Boston, who is awaiting the
action of the grand jury at the SEN
TENDER term of the Supreme JuNf
cial court. on a charge of larccn'
which was committed some wee
ago in. Canaan. Search was imre-
diately made for the missing prisoner
on several roads leading from SHOW
hogan: but because the travelin" IVES
so bad the search was abandon"1
before dark.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1922-06-22
Il TO 10 KILLED
IN LABOR CLASH
AT ILLINOIS MINE
COLLECTOR GIVES
FIGURES ON TAX
RETURNS FOR 1920

The number OF federal personal in
come tax returns for the calendar year
ended Dec. 81. 1870. filed in Maine,
was 47.717, representing net incomes
amounting to S143.455,545 and tax
(normal tax and sur tax of $4,S92,-
419 according to statement made
Tuesday by Hon. Frank j. Ham, the
collector of internal revenue.
AS compared with 1919, the figures
show a growth of 1879 in returns
filed, as well as an increase in the to-
tai net income amounting to $30,S93,-
$423,543.
The proportion of the population of
the United States who filed personal
income tax returns for the calendar
year ended Dec. 81, 1920, was 6.S5 per
cent; whereas the proportion of the
population Of Maine fling returns
vas 6.21 per cent. The average net
income per return for the United
States was S3,269.40; whereas for
Maine it was s3,0063S; and the aver
age amount of the proposed income
tax per return in the United States
was s14s.os, while for Maine it was
$10253.
Returns were filed by 1859 persons
in the State of Maine for the year
1920 on incomes between $1,000 and
$4,000; 16,447 between $4,000 and
$4,000; 5,734 between $4,000 and s4,-
600; 3,059 between $4,000 and $4,000:
1929 between $500 and $4,000; SIS
between $4,000 and $1,000; AL between
$1,000 and $4,000; PSI between $4,000
and $4,000; 213 between $4,000 and
$4,000; III between $4,000 and SILL
600; 1876 between $1,000 and 1000:
IS between $4,000 and $4,000: 246
between $4,000 and $4,000; 246 be-
tween $4,000 and $4,000: III be-
tween $4,000 and $4,000: rs between
$4,000 and 100000: SO between $780,
900 and $4,000; 80 between $4,000
and $4,000; p between $4,000 and
100000: 10 between 100000 and s70,-
900; eight between $4,000 and $780,
900: five between $4,000 and $780,
coo; four between 100000 and $780,
600; and s250,0o0: one between $780,
coo and 100000, and two between
$500, 900 and s75O,0O0.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1922-06-22
BAXTER NAMED
HEAD Of PHI BETA
KAPPA FRATERNITY
Especial to Kennebec Journal)


Brunswick, Me. June Ex-Governor
Percival p. Baxter '9S of Portland was
today elected president of the Phi
Beta Kappa fraternity Alpha of Maine,
at its annual meeting today. Other
officers elected were as follows: Pro-
fessor William A. Moody SO of Bruins
wick, vice president; Gerald G.. Wilder
'04 of Brunswick, sccretary-trcasurer;
Professor Williams w. Lawrence '9S
of New York, Hon. Frederick A. Fisher
81 of Lowell, Mass, Henry S. Chap
| man 81 of Boston, George E. Carmi-
chael '97 of Greenwich, Conn, and
Professor Eugene L. Bradford '12 CT
Syracuse, \. Y, literary committee
The following students were admitted
to membership from 1922: Ralph B.
knight of North Waterford. James Z.
Mitchell of Bangor, George B. Welch of
Biddeford, Robley c. Wilson of San
ford. From 1928, William 3. Jacob of
Amesbury. Mass, Scott H. Stackhouse
of Springfield, O., and Frederick X.
Turgeon Of Auburn.
The General Alumni Association at
its annual meeting elected Donald C.
White '05 of Lewiston, Lyman A. Cous-
ems '02 of Portland, DR.. Joseph B.
Drummond '07 of Portland. Luther
Dana '03 OF Westbrook, and Donald F.
Snow '01 of Bangor, members of the
Athletic Council. Gerald G. Wilder
04 of Brunswick resigned as secretary
of the association. and Austin II. Mac
Cormick Is, the alumni secretary of
the college, to his position.
Upon recommendation Of the Alumni
Council the association voted to ap-
prove A suggestion to hold an alumni
day sometime during the midwintcr
season.
Announcement was made that as a
result Of the ballot by mail Luther
Dana '01 Of Westbrook, John w Frost
'05 Of New York. Frank H. Swan '9S
Of Providence, r. l.. and Emery Q.
Beane '04 of Augusta were elected
members of the Alumni Council for
three years, AMI Hon. Charles F. John
son 20 of Portland. Ellis Spear Jr. '9S
of Boston, and William w. Thomas "a
of Portland. were recommended for APP
pointment as director of the alumni
funds. President and Mrs. Kenneth
c. NJ. Sills held their annual recep-
ton in the Walker Art building this
afternoon. being assisted in receiving
by Prof. and Mrs. Charles c. Hutch
ms. The reception was to have been
held on the steps of the building, but
on account of the downpour of rain
had to be held indoors.
The band concert which was to have
been held on the campus this after
noon, and several of the class reunions
which were to have taken place at
nearby seashore resorts, had to be cam
oellcd on account of the storm.
The trustees today announced the
election Of Henry +. Pierce '96 of New
York to that body to fill the vacancy
caused by the Gcath of Hon. Edwin L.
Curtis of Boston.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1922-06-22
Over Six Millions
In Gifts to Yale
During Past Year

New Haven, Conn, June o1-Gifts
and pledges to Yale University in the
past year aggregated more than &c.
100000, President James r. Angel
told the Yale graduates at the annual
Alumni luncheon this afternoon.
From the Alumni university fund the
university received S444,406.
The principal gift of the year was
Pledges and gifts from more than
zoo graduates will add 100000 for
general endowment to meet the con-
ditions of the Hardness fund.
President Angel spoke briefly of
athlatics in addressing the Alumni
he said:
"Our athletics have been more or
less under fire both on the inside and
the outside. The university is MAX
ing steps in a new and constructive
policy. I hope YOU will feel that our
athletic board is open minded to
constructive criticism
The drenching rain today which
prevented the traditional commence
ment procession for the first time in
many years, recalled an incident of
the day when President Emeritus
Arthur 7. Hadley assumed the lead
ership of Yale. Walking in the pro-
cession with the retiring president,
the late Timothy Dwight. DR.. Hadley
attempted to raise his umbrella as
the rain SpatterSd Not vet" in.
terrupted President Dwight, "this is
my rain: your reign does not begin
until tomorrow"