The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1928-12-17
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OF Congress-; it was one of the great
CAROLS of Maryland who was a
founder of our first railroad Bishop
Mullock of Newfoundland was the
first man to propose the Atlantic
cable And it is difficult to express
anything of the modern science Of
electricity without using the names
of those Catholic scientists who form
ulated its first laws, Galvani, Volta
and Ampere.
Right down to those veritable flap
pers of science, radio and aviation,
one cannot escape the names of
Catholics-Marconi. Montgomery and
Moloney. John j. Montgomery, pro-
fessor in the Jesuit College at Santa
Clara, Cal, first designed a heavier
than air machine that would carry a
man IN flight. Daniel Moloney, his
pilot, glided in such machine COW
ering eight miles in twenty minutes
on April 20, 1905.
Kosciusko. the Polish Catholic pa
triOt who came to the aid of Wash
ington, was the founder of the Mill
tary Academy at West Point; John
Barry, likewise intimate of Washing
ton, was the father of the American
Navy; and Ensign Ward. the first Of
ficer killed in the Civil War and a
Catholic, was one of the founders OF
the Naval Academy at Annapolis.
Speaking of war. 1t was st. Camillus
of Lellis who first alleviated its hor-
rorS under the symbol Of the Red
Cross. Holland. inventor Of the first
practical submarine, was an Ameri
can Catholic.
Among the greatest names In mod
ern medicine and surgery, one finds
Pasteur, who discovered germs and
the way to fight them; Jenner who
developed vaccinations; Morgagni, the
anatomist, Laennec. inventor of the
stethoscope, and Roentgen, discov-
erer of the X-ray. Harvey, who dis
covered the circulation Of the blood,
made his studies in the Catholic uni
versities Of Italy; and Chauliac is as
often called the father of modern
surgery as the late John b. Murphy
Of Chicago is called one of its most
distinguished practitioners. All OF
these were Catholics.
Lavoisier is the father of modern
chemistry and Valentine of it's analyt-
ical branch. Stensen is the father
of modern geology. No naturalist can
ignore the vast work of that humble
and patient and poetic French Cath
olic, Henri Fabre, any more than
the modern biologist can carry on
those explorations into the laws of
life from which modern science cX-
poets SO much in the future without
following the laws first formulated
by the abbot of Catholic monastery
in Austria, the great Gregor Mendel
SouthernerS need not go back to
Dante for poetic inspiration when
the author of their own great hymn
Maryland, My Maryland" was the
Catholic John r. Randall; and the
pen which wrote THE Conquered
Banner" to make proud and to con-
sole so many gallant Southern hearts
was in the hand of the Catholic
priest. Father Abram Ryan.
II. too, the city of Washington and
Its noble buildings are to be taken
as the formal expression of our
American civilization, we must again
look to Catholic hands, minds and
hearts for their creation. Daniel Car
roll, another of the famous Mary
land family, was one Of the three men
who chose the site of the national
city. The Capitol itself stands upon
ground once part of the Carroll estate
and given to the nation by Cath
olic, and a Catholic, Francis Pope,
owned the grounds devoted to the
White House, while another Catholic,
John Hoban. was its architect. The
majestic plan of the city itself, with
Its sweeping avenues, circles and
parks, came from the brain of a
Catholic, Major General Charlie
LEnfant, and its first mayor was
another Catholic, Robert Brent.
II, as historians assert, our civiliza-
ton Is what it is and not a Spanish
civilization, because of the defeat OF
the Spanish Armada in Elizabeth'S
day, 1t was the Catholic Lord Howard,
who commanded Elizabeth's fleet in
It's battle against the fleet of the
Catholic King of Spain. incidentally,
tnat might be cited as pretty good
proof that patriotism and not the
church controls the allegiance of
Lord Towards co-believers.
OF course these lines would never
meet the eye of a modern civilized
American were 1t not for the inven-
ton OF an almost medieval Catholic.
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