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THE BULLETIN OF THE CATHOLIC LAYMEN’S ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA
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Chicago Catholic Charities Plan
Commended By Civic Publication
Official Organ of Chicago Association of Commerce Says
Methods May Be Universally Adopted—Tribute Paid
Sisters of the Good Shepherd.
PROTESTANTS DEMAND
RELIGION IN SCHOOLS
Chicago, 111.—Commendation of
the work of the Associated Catholic
Charities, and of the Archdiocese of
Chicago, and prediction that its plan
will be adopted generally in Catholic
charity all over the county is con
tained in an editorial in Chicago
Commerce, the official publication
of the Chicago Association of Com
merce, an organization of some
GO,000 industrial, financial and com
mercial concerns of the city.
The association maintains a de
partment of Subscription Investi
gation, which passes upon all sub
scription soliciting bodies of the city.
The editorial is based on the find
ings and report of Henry Stewart,
the head of that department. Mr.
Stewart’s report last year of the con
duct of the House of the Good Shep
herd here, was published in the N.
C. W. C. News Servise, and was one
of the most telling rebukes to the at
tacks made by Senator Watson.
An Expert’s Tribute.
Under the captain “Administration
of Catholic Charities.” Chicago Com
merce says editorially:
“Organization of the Catholic
charities of Chicago receives an inter
esling exposition by Henry Stewart,
secretary of the Subscriptions In
vestigating Department of the As
sociation of Commerce, who comes to
the conclusion that the Catholic
charities plan of this city bids fair
to become adopted by followers of
that church everywhere.
“The Associated Catholic Charities
of the archdiocese of Chicago, was
formed December 24, 1917. There are
369 directors and an executive com
mittee of 58 prominent business men.
This committee makes systematic
visits to the beneficiary institutions
of the archdioces, and because the
members of this committee are busi
ness men there administrative stand
ards are those of economy and ef
ficiency, and by encouragement of
Archbishop Mundelin they feel the
utmost freedom in suggesting in
stitutional improvements. To extend
practically the policies of the or
ganization there are 700 priests and
128 conferences of the society of
St. Vincent de Paul. There are also
other relief societies, and the ag
gregate of workers on the problems
of poverty is about 2,500. A central
charities bureau relates the parish
priests to the various institutions.
“It is the observation of Mr.
Stewart, then whom nobody is better
informed on charity organization in
this city, that the Catholics have
worked out a method whereby coll
ections of sickness and distress are
very quickly registered in the central
organizations, and that the vast
knowledge and experience of the
priests working in their parishes
constitute one of the chief assets of
the general plan. It is the predic
tion of this observer that In the next
twenty years Catholic charity will,
not only as now, be efficient in suc
cor and relief, but will have made
important progress in preventive ac
tivities.
Children taught to Understand Work
It is noteworthy that the children
in Chicago’s Catholic schools are be
ing educated to appreciate the sacri
fice service of their church in be
half of the needy, and this is evi
denced by the fact that 80,000 chil
dren have written says on the dif
ferent phases of relief work in which
is engaged the Associated Catholic
Charities. Mr. Stewart says that the
official annuel report of the direc
tors of this great organization is a
business man’s document setting
forth fundamental methods and
achievements.”
CATHOLIC CHAPLAIN TO
BLESS A. E. F. GRAVES
Over 10,000 Catholic Men
Who Died in Battle are
Buried in France.
Washington, D. C.—The Rev. Jean
B. Frigon, O. M. I„ who was a volun
teer chaplain during the war, will
leave for France on July 26 to super
vise the blessing of graves in which
approximately ten thousand Cath
olic men from the United States are
buried.
Father Fripon will represent the
National Catholic War Council, the
Department of Historical Records
of which will furnish a list of Cath
olics buried in the eight foreign
cemeteries which he is expected to
visit. These include the cemeteries
of Suresnes, near Paris; Mcuse-Ar-
gonne, at Romagne; Aisne-Marne, at
Bclleau Woods; Somme, at Bony;
St. Mihiel, at Thiaucourt; Oise-
Aisne, at Seringes-es-Ncsles and the
cemeteries of Waerenghem in Bel
gium and Brookwood in England.
According to available records
there were 77,158 American soldiers
dead overseas at the close of the
war. Of these A. E. F. dead, 45,931
have been returned to the United
States and the bodies of 585 men
were sent to relatives in foreign
countries. The bodies of 30,393
men will remain permanently in
Europe.
The names of all Catholic soldiers
who died overseas as well as their
state, rank, regiment, division, date
of death and grave location will be
supplied to Father Frigon. This in
formation, according to the present
plans, will be incised upon the head
stones of each soldier’s resting
place by the Graves’ Registration
Bureau of the U. S. War Depart
ment.
It is a singular fact that the
United States now has only two
thousand bodies of battlefield vic
tims unidentified, a very small per
centage compared to the unidentified
battle dead of France and Great
Britain which runs to between forty
and fifty per cent of the total of
those who fell in the field.
The Most Rev. Patrick J. Hayes,
Archbishop of New York and bishop
ordinary of Catholic chaplains in
the United States Army and Navy,
has approved Father Frigon’s ap
pointment to bless the graves of
CatholicfiaSuried overseas.
Benson Urges American
Catholics To Organize
Civic Responsibilities Can Be
Fulfilled in No Other Way
Admiral Says.
Seattle, Wash.,—One of the largest
meetings ever held in Cathedral Hall
was that arranged by the Holy Name
Societies of the diocese last Wednes
day in honor of Rear Admiral Wil
liam S. Benson, who had been invited
by Bishop O’Dea to address the
Catholic men of Seattle. Letters an
nouncing the gathering had been
sent to every priest in the diocese
and a large number of Catholics
front outside points helped to crowd
the hall beyond seating capacity.
Many Catholics, declared the Ad
miral, were too self-centered in their
devotions and in their parchial and
devotions and in their parochial and
this was was quite natural; but con
ditions have changed, the forces of
bigotry and irreligion are active and
successes achieved by them in any
part of the coutnry are apt to be
carried to other parts.
“Against these insidious foes who
menace the very Constitution of the
Republic and in the interest of the
State as well as of Religion, it is
necessary,” said Admiral Benson,
“for us to realize that we have civic
responsibilities and mutual interests,
and the only way we can meet these
obligations and safeguard our rights
is by organization.
“With a definite program, and
with about, 5,000,000 of our more
than 20,000,000 Catholics organized
and presenting a united front in the
interests of common justice and
Christian morality, we can rest as
sured that all God-fearing and sin
cere Protestants will stand with us
shoulder to shoulder. We must not
forget that^. many Protestants are
sincere—some of them even more
sincere than some of those who call
themselves Catholics.”
Bishop O’Dea followed with a
speech in which he thanked the men
of the diocese for responding in
such large numbers to the invitation
to hear Admiral Benson and an
nounced that in the near future he
would call them together again to
carry into effect the principal sug
gestions made by the guest of the
evening in his address.
Swiss City Prebiscite Favors
It By Vote of Almost Two
to One.
NEW BASILICA GRACES
ST.ANNEDEBEAUPRE
Basel, Switzerland.—An interesting
plebescite has been held here on the
question of religious instruction.
The canton of Basel City is social
ist and. Protestant. The grand coun
cil is composed mainly of socialists.
In 1921 this majority attempted the
suppression of religious instruction
in the schools. A popular plebis
cite decided to maintain religious
instruction, but the socialistic local
administration made an effort to
counteract this decision by order
ing that religious instruction should
not be given during school hours,
but during time deducted from, the
recreation periods or the Wednes
day afternoon half-holiday, thus
rendering it unattractive to the chil
dren.
A protest was immediately made,
but not from the quarters where the
socialist expected it. Numerous
fathers of families, indignant at the
subterfuge, demanded that the fol
lowing proposals be submitted to a
new plebiscite:
1. That the maintenance of reli
gious instruction be guaranteed by
law as one of the most necessary
and indispensable means of educa
tion.
2. That at least two hours a week
be reserved for such instruction, by
law.
3. That said two hours should not
be given in the evening when the
child’s brain is tired, or during re
creations, which would make the in
struction seem like a punishment,
but that the time should be fixed
by law and form an integral part
of the school program.
4. That the execution of these pro
posals should not be left to the haz
ard of circumstances or the judg
ment of local authorities, but that
it be determined by law.
5. That religious instruction be
protected legally as the supreme
good of humanity and peoples.
The socialists and communists op
posed these claims, but agreed to a
popular vote. The plebiscite, by
11,484 votes to 6,295, answered every
question in the affirmative.
Commenting on the outcome of
the plebiscite, one of the large radi
cal papers of Basel remarked how
strong religious feeling is among the
people, even among the working
classes who have apparently been
won over to socialism.
U. S. STUDENTS’ VACATION.
Philadelphia.— Arrangements for
an audience with Pope Pius XI have
been made by the committee in
charge of the party of twenty-five
American college students who left
last Thursday to make a tour of
Italy extending over a period of two
months as guests of the Order Sons
of Italy and the Italian Chamber of
Commerce. The trip is the first of
a series to be made annually under
Hie auspices of these organizations
for the purpose of cementing bet
ter relations between Italy and the
United States.
Temporary Shrine, Although
Smaller Than One Burned,
An Imposing Edifice.
St. Anne de Beaupre, Quebec.—
Although a goodly number of Cath
olic pilgrims and summer tourists
are visiting the famous shrine this
summer, the usual great flow of vis
itors has not developed, and the Re-
demptorist Father who are in charge
of the miraculous relics of “Good
St. Anne,” have issued a special plea
to the clients of the wonder-work
ing shrine of Canada.
“We are repeatedly informed that
there is still a general impression in
the Catholic World that at St. Anne’s
there is nothing now hut a heap of
ruins and ashes” said the spokes
man for the Redemptorist Fathers
to the correspondents for the N. C.
W. C. “and I feel sure that the Cath
olic newspapers of the United Slates
can do a great deal to counteract
this false impression.
“Although, of course, the new ba
silica can not be compared for splen
dor to the former georgeous and
costly edifice which was destroyed
by fire last March, nevertheless it
is commodious, and indeed, most in
spiring and devotional. Recently a
Canadian Bishop who visited our
new church could not help saying:
‘I wish that all the churches of my
diocese were as commodious and
pious as your temporary shrine.’”
The most striking feature in the
interior of the new church is its
large galleries, which, together with
the auditorium, give the new shrine
a seatifrg capacity of about 1,500, or
300 more than the old church. As in
the old basilica, there arc side chap
els with confessionals and altars.
The office for general information
and for receiving subscriptions to
the Annals of St. Anne and to the
perpetual Mass, is situated behind
the altar dedicated to the Blessed
Virgin.
In th main aisle stands the mira
culous statue of St. Anne which has
rescude from the burning basilica.
Moreover, in the sacristy r are pre-
serve4 all the valuables saved from
the flames, such as the great relic
of St. Anne, many' votive offerings,
and the miraculous painting of Leb
run.
CAROLINA KNIGHTS
To Observe Twentieth Anni
versary in October.
Special to The Bulletin.
Charleston, S. C.—The Carolina
Knight, the publication of the South
Carolina State Council, Knights of
Columbus, announces in its current
number that the twentieth anniver
sary of Columbianism in this state
will be observed October 11 and 12
in Charleston. An ambitious pro
gram is being prepared, special rates
will be given by railroads to Charles
ton from the Carolinas, Georgia and
Florida for the celebration and those
in charge of the observance hope
to make it one of the most success
ful Knights of Columbus affairs
ever held in the South.
Victor Markwalter
Certified Public Accountant.
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