The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1922-12-02
NEW WORLD ITEMS

the Notre Dame football team, who
has built up from what looked like
smoking ruins and chaos machine
that is one of the sensations of the
season, will have his likeness pre-
served forever and a day on the Notre
Dame campus. Carl Nose, the Chi
cago sculptor. has just finished a bust
of Rockne and miniature casts have
been made which are being sold by
the thousands to admirers of the
Notre Dame miracle man"
$50 Acres of National Park For De-
VotionaI Uses.-Three hundred and
fifty acres in Holy Cross national for
est in Western Colorado have been
set aside for devotional purposes for
all denominations by order of Secre-
tary Wallace of the Department of
Agricultural The tract gives a full
view of the huge snow cross on Holy
Cross mountain, which is formed by
two large assures in the mountain side
which are perpetually filled with
snow. The cross, from which the
mountain and the park receive their
name, is six hundred feet long.
Supreme Knight Sets Governor of
Kansas Right.-Supreme knight James
A. Flaherty of the Knights of Column
bus objects to linking the name of the
Knights of Columbus with that of the
Ku Klux Khan. He has replied to the
statement of Governor Henry J. Allen
of Kansas, who declared recently that
he would join neither the Khan nor
the Knights of Columbus, by pointing
out that there is no ground for COM
parison of the two organizations. SUI
that the K. of c.. are organized solely
for fraternal progress and patriotic
service"
Presbyterians Plan Seven-Story
Church.-Plans for sevenstory struc-
ture to be erected by the Fifth Avenue
Presbyterian church in. West Fifty
fifth street at cost of $1,000,000 were
revealed here today when it was an
nounced that Mrs. Stephen Hardness
has promised to give $750,000 for the
project, conditional upon other mem
bers of the congregation donating
$250,000. Those who are supporting
the movement declare that it is ex-
pected to. make the new ediice the
most ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS home for in.
stitutional work of any church in the
world. Mrs. Hardness is the widow
of one of the early partners of John
ID. Rockefeller.
kIansmen May Again Appear Mask
ed in Public Parades.-Knights of the
Ku KluX Khan are expected to be free
to wear hoods and masks in public
parades again in Georgia, as result
of victories of men supported by the
Khan in recent elections. An order
has been issued from headquarters
announcing that the ban placed by
Imperial Wizard Edward Young
Clarke on the wearing of masks except
in lodge rooms has been lifted The
order was issued by Clarke during the
primary fight for the governorship
when Governor Hardwick, who was
opposing Clifford Walker, attacked the
ing feature. The influence of the
Khan was felt when Walker defeated
Hardwick and again when Hardwicb
went down to defeat in his race with
Judge Walter George for the United
States Senate. DIR. Caleb Ridley
chaplain of the Khan, made speeches
against Hardwick.
Statues in Private Houses Destroy
ed by Sectaries.-Considera in
dignation has been aroused in some
parts of Peru by the action of Prot
estant propagandists who, inspired b!
hatred of sacred images and statues
which they call instruments d
idolatry, have gone to the point of en-
tering private residences and break
ing the statues of the saints belonging
ing to violence. They informed the
TO the occupants. More recently al
attempt was made by various repre-
sentatives of one of the Protestant
sects to give a lecture in the house o.
one Jose Isabel Torres, in Conatrana
The neighbors,. however, remembering
some of the acts of vandalism of the
preachers, prepared to drive then
away with stones. Fortunately, at this
juncture, a group of Catholic young
men came up who were able to per
suade the people to allow the
propagandists to leave without resort
latter that their presence in the town
was most unwelcome and that it would
be best for them to leave peaceably
and not seek to evangelize Christian
population.
Aid in Collecting Diocesan Wal
Records.-Two Catholic newspapers
of Illinois have inaugurated campaigns
to send their diocese "over the top
in official records of Catholic partici
patton in the World War. The
Western Catholic, of which the Rev
NJ. j. Foley of Quincy is editor, has
started the practice of publishing q
service record blank in it's columns
and is receiving a favorable response
The New World of Chicago, edited by
the Rev. c. F. Donovan, also has insti
tuted campaign, with the assistance
of the Holy Name Society, and hopes
to exceed the quota for the archdio
cese of Chicago. The action was
prompted by the recent disclosure by
the N. G. w. G. News Service, of the