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THE BULLETIN OF THE CATHOLIC LAYMEN’S ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA
K. OF C. JUNIOR BRANCH FOR CATHOLIC
BOYS VOTED AT NATIONAL CONVENTION
Continued from Page One.
find the principles of true American
ism.
Other supreme directors elected in
cluded John E. Reddin of Colorado,
William C. Prout of Boston, John
F. O’Neill of Jersey City, George H.
Boivin of Quebec, and William D.
Dwyer of St. Paul.
FOURTH ‘R’ IN EDUCATION
Baptist Minister Would Add
Religion to Other Three.
AGRICULTURALISTS OF
CANADA IMPRESSED BY
FARMING OF TRAPP1STS
Archbishop Glennon of St. Louis
made a notable address to the Con
vention. He spoke in part as fol
lows :
‘ There come to societies, as to in
dividuals, turning points in their
histories, crises in their lives. There
arc days of pqace, calm, progress—
days of excitement, contention, hys
teria. There are days that are bright
with victory; times of trial and
times that are black with defeat.
The Knights of Columbus have seen
them all, hut they have been par
ticularly fortunate in that they have
weathered the storms and continued
to achieve with almost uninterrupt
ed success. You have wrought with
fervor and constancy in the begin
ning. During the war you reached
the bights, where your service, pa
triotism and helpfulness brought
you the admiration of the world.
Finally you have entered the period
of reconstruction with the purpose
still to serve your country and your
fellow man.
“Yet the truth stands that today
you must write anew your program
of action. The war is past, and re
construction is but now a question
of liquidation. Your order has con
sequently to take counsel and see
what now and in the immediate fu
ture the Knights of Columbus are
to do.
Work Ahead.
“So that the crisis of today for
you, as for so much else, if I may
so call it, is a rebirth. You cannot
live on memories. The past is past
however splendid it may have been.
So that the supreme question for
you is, what is your to do today?
“You may answer, the task of tell
ing rightly the story of America.
Now to relate historic truth is at all
time a noble work; at present even
a necessary one, when we speak of
that history which is recorded in
the English tongue. A great work
it is, I say, to write the truth of
history; and America deserves that
such a work be done conscientiously
*^nd well; yet you must realize that
for the writing of history you must
have the writers fitted for the task
They must have the time and the
disposition to work. You may not
hurry them; and to enthuse them
is to spoil them; and you must he,
as they are, patient and deliberate.
A great and fitting work it is for
a society, yet not enough to absorb
the dynamic force of the Knights
of Columbus. Further work you
have to do—other tasks which will
appeal and demand the service of
living as well as learned men.
“It is scarcely more than a year
ago when, standing by the tomb of
your friend of other days, Cardinal
Gibbons, we were bold enough to
pledge the support of Catholic Ame
rica—and I had in mind the Knights
of Columbus—to the cause he loved
—that we would not break faith with
him, but sustain that cause, namely,
the Catholic University.
“The Catholic interested either in
faith or country must notice that to
day there are in evidence two move
ments—one making against the
church and the other against our
country; and both of these by cer
tain process become day by day
more threatening and apparently
nearer to success.
“Against the church, for instance,
you hear from every part of the
country that there is the gathering
of the class and the organizing of
states and the voluminous anti-Cath-
olic press, the appeal to passion, race
and prejudice, the declarations from
behind closed doors proclaming their
friendship or their opposition.
Through it all a propaganda at once
insidious and deadly.
Now it appears to me that while
we have the utmost confidence in
the promises of the blessed Master—-
the promise of an undying church,
yet we are lacking in human 'wis
dom and also in obedience to His
will if we fail to preach and teach
in season and out of season—if we
fail to propagate in word and work
the truths of the gospel—yea more,
to organize so that this work may
be more effectively done. And this
means ‘propaganda’ and effective
propaganda at that; and this is a
work worthy of the Knights of Co
lumbus.
The Knights of Columbus claim
to be a patriotic society, which
means that they love their country—
with means that they shall serve
their country wisely—which means
also that they shall take the best
means of promoting the welfare of
the country, which means that they
seek to set right their fellow citizens
where their agitation makes for dan
ger to their country or community.
And finally in regard to the fu
ture of your society, it means, 1 feel
assured, that it is your immediate
duty to rewrite your program and
give to it an added consecration.
“There is an inspiration which
wells up in the patriot’s heart
promting him to do great things for
liis country in the days of its trial;
but the true patriot finds always in
spiration and reason to serve. For
him the patriotism of peace is equal
ly as compelling as the patriotism
of war.
“Indeed today with the return of
the reign of greed and materialism
it appears as if our country must
again be saved, not from a foreign
foe, but from the domination of this
class or that, who by powers of mon
ey or numbers seeks to tyrannize
over the people to the destruction
of a peace and progress that is guar
anteed them both by the constitu
tional and ntural law.
“I have a vision before me of your
Society looming up as a great uni
versity of Catholic knighthood, with
every council as a center, while
your eight hundred thousand stu
dents would move forward daily in
the quest of knighthood's goal where
above its portals would be inscribed
truth and justice, honor and faith
and God above all.”
Boston,—The need for a re
ligious training of the young
people of America a fourth R. he
called it; reading, writing, ‘ritli-
mctic and religion—was empha
sized by Rev. Newton C. Fetter,
Jr., a well know Baptist clergy
man of this city in his sermon
last Sunday.
Dr. Fetter quoted President
Willian H. P. Faunce of Brown
University as having said “I am
not interested in the education
that is apart from Christian
training.” And President Kinley
of the University of Illinois, said
Dr. Fettef, had said that “no
cause can be set apart from the
religious training,” and President
Marion Burton of the University
of Michigan had asserted that
“the ultimate test of the schools
is the moral and religious char
acter of its graduates. The State
and the schools deal with the
facts and the mind, but the
church must educate the heart.”
Washington Orphanage
Closes School Year
PRIESTS’ WAR RECORD
PRAISED BY MILLERAND
French President Expresses
His High Esteeiff for Catho
lic Clergy.
NAME NOTED CATHOLICS
FOR FRENCH ACADEMY
Paris.—The election of Pierre
Noliiac and Georges Goyau as mem
bers of the French Academy has
been acclaimed with great entlmsi-
sara by the Catholics of France.
These two authors rank among the
most popular as well as the mSst
learned supporters of tradition and
of the Church in France. Both were
students under the direction of the
late Monsignor Duchesne in the
French School of Rome.
The distinction won by these two
Catholic authors was the more not
able because it is understood that
no less than eighteen ambitious
authors, an unprecedented number,
were aspirants for the places va
cated. The forty immortals will
meet again in January when they
will vote to fill the seat of the late
Paul Deschanel, historian and for
mer president of France and that of
the late Monsignor Duchesne, who
gained place as an author.
PARIS GRAND PRIZE
FOR SAINTS STATUE
Paris—President Millerand, stop
ping at La Rochelle on his way to
Morocco, lias made a speech in
which he expressed his esteem for
the Catholic clergy and asked for
the collaboration in the work of the
government.
During his stay in La Rochelle,
Msgr. Eyssautier, bishop of La Ro
chelle, accompanied by his vicar
general, called on the President to
pay his respects and offer the prom
ise of prayers for him.
M. Millerand thanked the prelate
the warmest terms, and added
a statement which has just been
published in .the “Bulletin lleli-
gieux.”
During the war, the French clergy
did their duty brilliantly like all
good Frenchmen, both at the front
and in the rear. It is only justice
to recognize that in both places the
clergy was an artisan of victory
and national unity. The sacred un-
was, indeed, the principal
Paris, France.-—The grand med
al of gold of the Paris Salon
was awarded this year to a re
ligious work, a statue of Saint
Francis de Sales by the sculptor
Descatoire. This statue was se
lected by the judges over 820
works exhibited.
The monument will later he
placed on the shore of Lake An-
nency by the town of Annecy,
where the remains of the illus
trious bishop are guarded.
POPE’S PARK PLEASURE RESORT
Rome—The site of tile Etruscan
city of Fregenc, which flourished 20
centuries ago on the shores of the
Mediterranean and near which a vir
gin forest of Homan pine was plant
ed in 1678 by Pope Innocent XL is
to be made an immense pleasure re
sort for French, English and Ameri
can visitors, according to an an
nouncement made here on behalf of
American, England and Italian capi-
t&Uits.
NEW BUILDING FOR LOYOLA
Baltimore, Md.—Ground will he
broken for the new 8150,000 Science
Building at Loyola College here at
the annual commencement exercises
today. The first spade of earth
will be turned by Archbishop Cur
ley. The commencement will be
the first held at Evergreen, the new
home of Loyola and will be the
first outdoor commencement exer
cises in the history of the institu
tion.
A contemporary which published
last week a Christmas story and an
article on the evolution of the carol,
seems to have made up its mind that
no competitor is going to get ahead
of it
strength of militant and victorious
France, and the clergy had a great
part in it. This should not remain
purely a historical souvenir. The
war over and victory won, it is the
duty of all citizens to strengthen
ties which united them in that tra
gic and glorious work, and which
will permit them to insure and in
crease the benefits of peace. The
collaboration of the clergy can do
much in this regard, and it is the
designs of the Government and Hie
wishes of the President of the lie-
public that this colloboration should
be free and efficacious.
As President of the Council of
Ministers it was I who introduced
a Dill which brought about the re
establishment of relations between
the Republic and the Holy See, and
I feel no embarrassment in saying
that while at that time I considered
above all the precious advantages
which such an act of justice would
secure for the foreign policy of
France, I did not discount the ef
fects, desirable in every way, on re
ligious pacification at home.
Over the French lands in North
ern Africa, which I am going to
visit, hovers the figure of a Cardi
nal-Archbishop of Algiers who was
at the same time a great church
man and a great patriot. (Cardinal
Lavigerie, who urged the Catholics
to rally to the Republic.) I do not
forget that he seconded with great
energy the magnificent efforts of
the illustrious Pope Leo XIII, and
that together they desired to estab
lish the union of French Catholics
and legitimate authority and insti
tutions—a just and notable under
taking which the memories of the
war, the causes of victory and the
needs of peace today render more
necessary still.
I thank you, Monsignor, for the
just and delicate thoughts to which
you have 'given expression. They
do not surprise me coming from
you. Kindly believe that they find
a sympathetic echo in my own feel
ings.
Msgr. Eyssautier, deeply moved,
could not refrain from saying: “Mr.
President, we shall preserve in our
hearts, with deep gratitude, the
memory of your uohle words.”
Montreal, Canada—How the relig
ious spirit of the old world is be
ing coupled with modern scientific
methods in the development of ag
riculture was impressed upon mem
bers of the Canadian Society of
Technical- Agriculturists who were
guests of the Trappist Fathers of
the Order of Citeaux at their mon
astery farm in Oka during their re
cent convention here.
The agricultural institute is part
of the Abbey of Notre Dame at Lac
at Oka and there more than one
hundred students are studying the
latest devices for farming and cat
tle raising.
The visitors were met by Father
Leopold, O. C. R., the director of
the Institute and were taken on a
complete tour of inspection, in
cluding in their survey the barns
the track farm, and poultry house.
As these are all within the monas
tery precincts ladies were politely
waved back and only the male mem
bers of the society were able to view
the work being carried on.
Animal husbandry experts in the
party were warm in their commen
dation of the excellent results ob
tained by the monks in breeding
dairy cattle suitable for the climate,
commenting especially on the uni
formity of size.
The celebrated Oka melon, a ten-
pound fruit with a salmon-colored
pulp which is considered one of the
most delicious products of the farm
was the principal object of interest
in the truck farm and the manner
in which this prize was developed
by selection extending over a period
of many years was described to the
visitors. Experiments to produce a
breed of Canadian Chantecler, ex
tending over a period of 15 years,
were described when the experts
visited the poultry yard.
Father Leopold mystified some of
the visitors when he produced a
number of skins which he described
as those of the silver fox, hut which
proved to be those of a special breed
of rabbits raised on the farm. Many
of these skins had been carefully
dressed and dried and resembled
those of the expensive variety.
Following the tour the guests
were invited to luncheon “a la Oka”
everything on the table being pro
vided by the farm, including the fa
mous Oka cheese and the pleasant
wine of the Oka vineyards.
Dr. F. C. Harrison, principal of
MacDonald College, the agricultural
offspring of McGill University, paid
high tribute to the work being done
by the monks. It reminded him, he
said of some of the old monastic
institutions of England and France,
joining as it did the past with the
future in a way that was unique
Surely such a spirit, he said, must
be exalted, and must have its ef
fect upon the students who labored
under the care of the Trappist Fa
thers.
Special to The Bulletin.
Washington, Ga.—Closing exer
cises at St. Joseph’s Orphanage in
this city, conducted by the Sisters
of St. Joseph, completed a very
successful year. Gold class pins
were awarded in the following man
ner: James Walsh for highest year
ly average: Joseph Vignaux for
good conduct; Charles Thomas and
James Massart for catechism and
spelling; Edward Wickham for gen
eral excellence.
To appreciate the work St. Jos
eph’s Orphanage is doing one must
be present and witness the work
of the institution. Sister Gertrude
is a mother to the boys at the or
phanage, and her assistants are no
less zealous. Under their direc
tion and that of Father Schadcwell,
who is tireless when the interests
of his boys are concerned, they made
during the past year progress that
is remarkable. Father Schadewell
died in New Haven, Conn., since the
dosing exercises were staged.
The evening’s program follows:
Hymn to the Sacred Heart, Choir
Boys; Opening Address, Pat McDev-
itt; Reading, “Boy’s Rights,” Jas.
Morrell; Composition, “On Animals,”
Austin Buckley; Reading, “Remem
ber, Boys Make Men,” Parks New-
some ; Reading, “Little Boy Blue,”
Second Grade; Reading, “Something
Great,” Jas. Massart; Reading, Little
Phil,” Fred Norrell; Reading, “Rail
road Clocks,” Robt. Tumblesome;
Reading, “St. Martin’s Cloak,” Aloy-
sius Buckley; “Reading, “Our Flag,”
Fourth Grade; Composition, “The
Converted Indian,” Jno. Mercer;
Reading, “The Vision of the Brouds,”
Golden Gette; Reading, “The Eagle’s
Rock,” Victor McNally; Heading,
“What the Little Girl Said,” Edward
Wickham; Song, “Old Folks at
Home”; Play, “Trusty and True,”
with the following characters: Mr.
Soule, a Merchant, Jas. Walsh;
Frank Gray, Fred Norrell; Jno. Rus
sell, Chas. Thomas; Amiasa Drew,
Victor McNally.
Since the above notice was writ
ten, word comes from New Haven
of the sudden death of Father Schad
ewell.
RELIGIOUS ORDER RECALLED.
Paris.—Like the Municipal Coun
cil of Moulins, the Municipal Coun
cil of the town of Bastia has re
cently adopted a resolution favora
ble to the return of a religious or
der. Recently the Society of Mis
sionaries of the Levant solicited the
approval of the council fjor the es
tablishment of a center to train mis
sionaries for Syria, Mesopotamia and
Asia Minor. A favorable answer was
given by unanimous vote.
It is not a little strange to find
hard-headed business men clinging
to childish supersitions. I know a
millionaire who lives in a rented
bouse rather than build himself a
new one. There is a superstitious
belief that when a man builds him
self a house he will die. This man
would deny that he is superstitious
but somehow he can’t bring himself
to the point of proving his denial.
Oliver Wendell Holmes wrote of this
strange characteristic: “We are
all tattooed in our cradles with the
beliefs of our tribe; the record may
seem superficial, but it is indelible.
You canot educate a man wholly out
of the superstitious fears which were
implanted in the imagination, no
matter how utterly his reason may
reject them.”
LIVE WIRE KILLS PRIEST.
St. Louis.—The Rev. John .1. Jcr-
main. pastor of St. Marj - ’s Church
at Milan, Sullivan County, was kill
ed when he came in contact with
charged wires which were torn down
by a storm which swept through
Missouri last week. Marmaduke
Pyle, a student of the University of
Missouri also lost his life from the
same storm.
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ST. MARY’S COLLEGE AND ACADEMY
NOTRE DAME, INDIANA
FOUNDED 1845
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Litt B Degrees. Four-year and two-year courses in Education lead
ing to Teachers’ High School and Elementary Certificates.
Commissioned High School: Classical, English-Scientillc, and English-
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Accredited by the Catholic Educational Association, the Indiana
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