Evening star., 1938-09-16
PRESS TRIBUTES
TO CARDINAL HAYES
Catholic Prelate Remembered for
Charities and for Service With
American Army Abroad.

Death Of Patrick Joseph Cardinal
Hayes Of New York leads many Ameri-
cans to pay strong tribute to his quail
ties as church leader and as a citizen.
He was known as the Cardinal of Charity
because Of his outstanding position as
a friend Of the people. He is also re-
membered by those who served in the
American Army in the World War, be-
cause Of his efficient service among the
chaplains.
HE was pre- -eminently an American
prelate," states the New York Herald
Tribune, land when, few years after
he had performed the duties of Bishop
Ordinary over all Catholic chaplains in
the American armed forces, both he
and Archbishop Mundelein were simul-
taneously created cardinals, it was gen.
orally regarded as a recognition Of the
Catholic community. It placed him in
position whose responsibilities were
not easy to meet with success; but he
did so by the modesty, sincerity and fore
sight that were characteristic. He would
aspire, he said, to be neither cardinal
statesman nor cardinal scholar; he
would be a cardinal shepherd over the
vast flock whose spiritual welfare had
been intrusted to him. and it was that
resolve which stamped every aspect OF
his episcopate."
"He receives" according to the Roa-
noke (Va.) Times, "the sincerest tribute
that can be paid to any churchman. He
is mourned by the poor. For his great
work in co-ordihating the Catholic chari-
ties of New York has extended beyond
the bounds Of church. A devoted church,
man, he found nothing incompatible in
joining with Rabbi Wise, Russell Bowie
of the Episcopal Church. Henry Sloane
Coffin Of the Presbyterian Church and
others, in movements for ameliorating
the condition Of the less fortunate of
New York's citizens"
THE archdiocese of which he had
charge In New York is the richest in
the world" says the Charlotte IN. c.
News. while the Pittsburgh Post Gazette
refers to his career as another stirring
chapter in the story Of American op-
portunity and achievement"
las prelate," declares the Providence
Journal, "he exerted an immense power
for good but, even more significant than
this perhaps. was the manner in which
he was looked upon with affection rather
than awe by SO many men, women and
children. AS an American who did not
hesitate to fight for decency in govern
ment or on the stage. his principal con-
tribution to the Nation he loved so we'll
was his insistance that there can be no
social security without spiritual security.
This Cardinal OF Charity inspired charity
because his entire life was guided by
love of God and all mankind"
THE world is poorer" says the Miami
Daily News, when death calls a person
to whom circumstances gave such posi-
tions with unparalleled opportunities for
doing good" The Columbus (Ohio) Dis
patch believes he was "foreordained for
the service OF the church," and the New
York Times suggests that "the sincerest
tribute that can be paid to the memory
OF any man is that he shall be mourned
by the pooU The New Haven Journal
Courier pays the tribute: He was one of
the great Americans elevated to the car
dinal dignity, and he had presided with
Christian fortitude over one of Catholi-
cism's greatest sees in time as critical
and trying as any In history to the
church. as to other instruments of sta
bility and faith"