Evening star., 1924-09-21
LOYALTY PLEDGED
TO IDEALS OF us.
Thousands of Holy Name
Members Pay Homage at
Tomb of Washington.

Tomb of Washington.
highest ideals of freedom and justice
were Solemnly pledged at the tomD
of George Washington, at Mount YER
non yesterday, by many thousands OF
Holy Name men and their guests. who
stood reverently about the tomb while
Very Rev. Peter Guilday,. Ph. ID,
professor of church history at the
Catholic University, emphasized the
crusade that is being waged by the
Holy Name Society for God and
country.
Coupled with the homage paid the
day before TO these in the silent city
of the hero dead at Arlington, who
gave their lives and sacrificed their
all that the Nation might live, the
Holy Name men have by these two
pilgrimages attested at two of the
Nations most sacred shrines their
patriotic zeal.
Cardinal Places Wreath.
At the tomb of Washington. as he
did the day before at the tomb of
the Unknown Dead" in Arlington
National Cemetery, Cardinal O'Con-
nell acting as personal representa- :
tive OF Pope Plus Nj and for all OF
the federated Holy Name bands. laid
a floral wreath.
AT the tomb of the father of his
country. as at the tomb of the IN
known Dead. and as again today at
the foot of the Monument. the Holy
Name men and their guests renewed
fervently with barred heads the Holy
Name pledge and sang The Star
Spangled Banner"
Loyalty Is Stressed.
Holy Name convention delegates in
a pilgrimage to Mount Vernon yes
terday were urged to pledge their
fealty anew to the Nation by DR..
Guilday, when he sounded a warning
that the very structure of our Gov
ernment is in graVer danger today
than at any time in history. Even in
the days before and during the Civil
War, he said. the Nation was never so
pregnant with the causes of deStruc-
tion to the unity of country as it is
today.
1T is not enough for thern to visit
Arlington and kneel at the shrine of
the Unknown, or to pray for the pres
ervation of the Republic. or TO pay
homage at the Tomb of Washington. g"
Father Guilday said, for when all
this is done, your work as men of the
Holy Name is but begun. You are to
take out of these precious days of
pilgrimage renewed faith in America S
providential place in the historic evo-
luton of the human race and renewed
realization that where the vision of
God and of Gods law is being lost by
so many millions of our fellow citizens,
the Nation must undoubtedly perish"
NO student of American life" he
continued, can question the fact that
the very structure of our Govern
ment is in graver danger today than
at any other time in our history.
Obedience to law comes more and
more reluctantly from the hearts of
our citizens. Rights are being over
estimated; duties undervalued and
forgotten. Any Indictment of Ameri-
can life today, based upon a just and
equitable comparison with the funda-
mental traditions of our past cannot
but be a terrible one to those who
stand affrighted before the gross
mechanistic conception of life which
dominates the vigor of our manhood
and the unfeashed energy of our
youth.
Sees Waning OF Faith.
1.-The thoughtful few who from time
to time sound this warning are as
one crying in the Wilderness Their
voices are lost in the roar of this
mechanistic civilization. OF the few
who seem to care, many are fatallstS,
who. having filled their own granaries
with material abundance, compla-
Gently say, with Louis Nv, After me,
the deluge.'
The words from the lips of the
Solicitor General of the United States
must give pause to every man who
loves the Republic, for millions of our
fellow citizens, as is only too evident
in the most recent political move
ment in American life, are fast losing
all faith in America and America
future. Fearlessly should it be ac-
knowledged in the quietude of this
place where once Washington found
peace and contentment that the land
is ripe for rebellion, if not for civil
war
Religion and mortality-the very
words seem a prophecy for the ful-
fiIment of this day of homage to the
Father of Our Country. For how bet
ter could the purpose of the Holy
Name Society or the meaning of this
great convention be epitomized. You
are a bulwark of belief in Jesus
Christ, a bulwark of morality set up
against the invading forces of pa
ganism, an ever-increaSing force OF
Catholic men whose sole reason for
rallying themselves together is to
give glory to God by their lives and
to keep sacred the traditions of the
past
Pledge to America.
America may we'll be proud of
such a society. America may well
thank God in the crisis of the present
day that within the Catholic Church
this vast body of men is ever renew
ing at the spring of faith and patriot
ism its strength for the assaults
malice and jealousy, unrest and re-
bellion will ever make upon her Sc
curity.
There remains then your solemn
act of fealty to the Founder of Our
Country. The eyes of twenty mil
lions Catholics are upon you at this
sacred moment. In the name of these
millions whose hearts beat with the
same patriotic impulse as do your
own, whose faith in Almighty God is
your faith, whose prayer for His
providence over the nation is your
prayer, whose cherished idealism fol
Americas future is the same as yours
it is meet and just that you, theil
representatives, should voice that
sacrament of allegiance to which they
all mutually pledge their lives, thell
fortunes, and their sacred honor