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THE BULLETIN OF THE CATHOLIC LAYMEN’S ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA
5
Around the World With Father
Mathis, Catholic Missionary
Second of a Series of Letters from a Catholic University
Priest Who is Circling Globe.
By REV. MICHAE L MATHIS, C. S. C.
Belmont Abbey College
Senior’s Outing at King's
Mountain--Other Activities.
Special to The Bulletin
Belmont, N. C.,—Tlic boys of the
senior division of Belmont Abbey
College recently enjoyed an outing
at King’s Mountain. They left the
college in the morning and arrived
at King’s Mountain at an early hour
after a pleasant trip over in a spec
ial car from Belmont. The boys ex
plored every nook and corner of the
mountain. The dinner was served in
camp fashion around a blazinz fire,
“Whitcy” Boeliling and “Buster”
Hendricks eating something in the
neighborhood of three pies each
after dinner. “Tip” Copperidge, of
Roanoka, Va., and John L. Hiller, of
Columbia, S. C., proved to be the
champion mountain climbers.
On November 19th the senior di
vision enjoyed a big weinnie roast in
the woods back of the college. The
entire afternoon was spent in ex
ploring this beautiful section of
North Carolina.
The arrangement of these affairs
is in the hands of the entertaining
committee, Jack Fuss, chairman; Ed
win J. Door, John J. Driscoll, Thomas
Sabastinc Lundy, Jr., and Vincent
Almarlc Waters, under the direction
of Rev. Norbert McGowen, O. S. B.,
the Senior Prefect.
The junior division has also been
enjoying outings, Fr. Stephens, 0. S.
B., led it to King’s Mountain on
Thanksgiving Day. On the same day
a number of seniors went to Greens
boro, N. C., and were guests at the
Hotel O’Henry.
Soccer, under the direction of one
of the Seminarians, is becoming a
popular sport at the college. Many
of the students arc becoming expert
in the game.
A senior unit of the Student Mis
sion Crusade is being organized at
the college. There is one already in
the Seminnry. A junior branch has
also been organized in the college.
The officers of the Catholic Mission
Crusade at the Abbey high school
are: president, John J. Fuss; vice-
president, Thomas P. Doris, Jr.;
secretary, John J. Driscoll; treasurer,
Edwin J. Dorr.
The basket ball schedule of the
high school will be announced in a
few days by Manager Edwin J.
Dorr.
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Honolulu.—'Missionary work in the
Hawaiian Islands is under the direc
tion of the Congregation of the
Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary of
Belgium. The principal educational
institution, St. Louis University, is
under the direction of the Society
of Mary in Paris and is under the
direct jurisdiction of the provin
cial house at Dayton* Ohio. There
are about one thousand pupils.
We were not able to visit St. Louis
University—a fact deeply regretted
by Monsignor MsGlinchcy, Father
Delauney and myself—due to cir
cumstance that we had only seven
hours in which to see Hawaii.
We were but a few minutes in
Father Stephen’s Chervolct however
before we drove up to the mission
compound, which has been the
center of Catholic activity on the
islands for ninety-five years, or
since the Prefecture-Apostolic of the
Hawaiian Islands was established in
1827. The mission compound com
prises a very devotional church built
of coral, a roomy welcoming home
for Bishop Bocynaems and liis mis
sionaries and a boarding and day
school for girls in charge of the
Sisters of the Sacred Heart, which
has 555 pupils. There are at pres
ent 39 missionnrp priests in the five
inhabited islands, 41 churches and
65 chapels.
The Catholic population of the
Vicariate Apostolic, which was cre
ated in 1847, after the islands had
remained a Perfecture Apostolic for
thirteen years and was then a part
oi tne Vicariate Apostolic of Oce-
anica for seven years more, is now
65,000. The total enrollment in
Catholic schools is 4,300. There
are four academies, one conducted
by the Franciscan Sisters from
Syracuse, New York, and nine pa
rochial schools.
A Visit to Waikiki.
We felt peculiarly at home in the
company of the twelve cheerful mis
sionaries who gathered around the
community table, at which Bishop
Boeynaems presided like au indulg
ent father. The predominance of
native* pineapples and bananas gave
the lunch a fine tropical flavor and
after lunch we set out for the fam
ous beach at Waikiki.
The road lay along King Street,
the principal highway of the city.
It gave us a chance to size up Hono
lulu. Frequent sight of Uncle
Sam’s soldier boys, names of places
of business, familiar automobiles
and the ubiquitous Ford gave a de
cidedly American tone to the city,
while the number of Chinese, Japan
ese, Portuguese and Filipinos gave
a cosmopolitan and oriental touch
to the picture. We were not sur
prised to learn that there are 20,000
Americans and 120,000 Japanese—al
most one-half the total population
—on the islands. One of the can
didates for governor is of Japanese
Paris—Woman suffrage was re
jected by the French Senate by a
majority of 22 votes. M. Poincare
and the cabinet voted in favor of the
measure, as did the great majority
of the Catholic senators. The oppo
sition came from the Center, which
is always opposed to any kind of
change, and from the radical sena
tors who fear that women would
vote against them if granted suf-
rage. Several of the radical sena
tors declared that they did not wish
to grant suffrage to women and
thereby “expose the Republic to the
danger of falling into the hands of
the clericals.”
The senators of the Right, notably
M. Francois Saint-Maur, professor
of law at the Catholic University of
Augers, and M. Buisson-Billaut, for
mer head of the Paris Bar, were
among the warmest advocates of wo
man suffrage.
“The right to vote,” said M- Fran
cois Saint-Maur, “will not cause wo
men to abandon the care of their
homes as much as the movies do. It
will introduce no dissensions into
the home, for women already discuss
politics with their husbands, the
more ardently as, at present, this is
her only means of action. As for
blood, although of course an Amer
ican citizen.
Everywhere brightening the
sweeping lawns of the rich and fes
tooning the humbler patches of the
poor, there was a riot of tropical
trees and strange shrubbery with
many-colored blossoms. The beach
itself is surrounded, with such mod
ernity that it differs little from the
beaches the world over. But it was
thrilling to see the Hawaiians, pre
cariously perched on their narrow
six-foot boards, racing shoreward
at forty miles an hour on the -foam
ing mane of a roaring breaker.
St. Augustine’s Church on the
beach was for us the most tangible
evidence that we were in the trop
ics. The approach is a long avenue
of royal pal-ms, ending in a spread
ing banyan tree which forms a kind
of outdoor vestibule for the church.
The structure, wooden, is painted
with a fine mixture of cement and
sand. This gives it the solid ap
pearance of stone and at the same
time saves the. wood from the de
vouring ants of this region. Deli
cately wrought lattice work covers
the open spaces which are ordin
arily filled with windows in our
colder climates. The condition of
the pews and the woodwork shows
that the climate is gentle indeed.
A visit to Sacred Heart Church,
which is frequented largely by the
Portuguese and which represents
things Catholic on the very thresh-
hold of century-old Protestant mis
sionary compound, gave us an op
portunity to meet at close range the
splendid types of bright school
children who we saw in so many
sections of Honolulu.
A Glimpse of Molokai
We got one glimpse of the dim
outlines of Molokai, where Father
Damien lived an heroic life and
died a martyr’s death In the serv
ice of the lepers. This was from
the precipitous side of a hill from
which we also had a bird’s-eye view
of Honolulu and the United States
forts. The view of the leper island
was given added interest because of
the explanation of our guides, who
themselves liad nursed the lepers at
Molokai.
We were all disappointed that we
did not have an opportunity to hear
the Hawaiians sing, for we learned
afterwards that both their songs
and dances are grossly misrepre
sented by the so-called Hawaiian
music published in the United
States. Many of them have beauti
ful traditoins back of them. “Aloha”
the most popular and haunting of
all Hawaiian sings, for example, is
in reality a hymn sung only at the
heart-rending departure ceremony
of the lepers for Molokai.
But seven hours Is a short time
and we felt when we were finally
compelled to make for our ship that
we had learned a great deal about
these outposts of America in the
Pacific.
the religious objection, it is a won
derful tribute to the Catholic faith
of our French women. But because
one party may not profit by a re
form, is that a reason to declare it
unjust and useless?”
As the Chamber of Deputies has
already passed the woman suffrage,
the question will certainly come up
before the Senate again, and will
probably triumph sooner or later,
but it is practically certain that wo
men will not be able to vote in the
general elections of 1924.
TRAIN KILLS JESUITS.
St. Louis, Mo.—The Rev. Thomas
McNeivc, S. J., of St. Mary’s parish
of St. Mary’s, Kansas, was killed
and William Ryan, a lay brother of
St. Mary’s College, was fatally in
jured when an automobile in which
they were driving, was struck by
a Rock Island passenger train north
of Topeka, Kan. Father McNeive,
who was formerly a member of the
faculty of St. Louis University, was
60 years old. Brother Ryan, who
was head of St. Mary’s farm, died
three hours aftfcr the accident in a
Topeka Hospital. Both were na
tives of St. Louis, Father McNeive
having been ordained in this city.
TWENTY CATHOLICS IN
ENGLISH PARLIAMENT
London.—The newly elected par
liament contains more Catholics
elected from English constituencies
than any other parliament since the
Catholic Emancipation act. In all,
there are now twenty Catholic mem
bers in the lower house as compared
with twelve in the previous house-
Eight -Catholic members were re
elected after the downfall of the
Lloyd George ministry. Unionists,
Liberals, Laboritcs and one Nation
alist are included in the Catholic
representation of Westminister.
The Catholic members are: Lt.
Col. Martin Archer-Shcc, Unionist;
Finsbury; R. Mitchell Banks, K. C.,
Unionist, Swindon; F. N. Blundell,
Unionist, Ormskirk; Councillor Pat
Collins, Liberal, Walsall; Lord Col-
urn Chichton-Stuart, Unionist, North-
wich; N. Grattan Doyle, Unionist,
Newcastle-on-Tyne, N.; T. Gavan
Duffy, Labor, Whitehaven; P. J.
Hannon, Unionist, Mosely, Birming
ham; E. A. St- Aubyn Harney, K. C.,
Liberal, South Shields; Major Geo.
Hennesby, Unionist, South Totten
ham; Charles J. Mathew, K. C., La
bor, Whitechapel; Major L. G. S.
Molloy, Unionist, Blackpool; II. Mur-
nin, Labor, Stirling and Falkirk; T.
P. O’Connor, Nationalist, Scotland,
Liverpool; James O’Grady, Labor, S.
E. Leeds; James Sexton, Labor, St.
Helens; J. Sullivan, Labor, N- Lan
ark; Bailie J. Wheatley, Labor, Shet-
tlcston, Glasgow.
CARUSO CANDLE
To Burn In Italy For Eighteen
Centuries.
New York.—The memorial candle
which will burn for Enrico Caruso
in the Church of Our Lady of Pom
peii in Italy, and which is said to be
the largest candle in the world, has
been completed at the studios of
Antonio Ajello and will he shipped
to Italy next week.
The candle is sixteen feet high,
five feet in circumference at the
base and weighs a ton. It tapers
to eighteen inches at the top. In
design it is antique Greek, with Ro
man renaissance relief work. It re
quired the labor of five men for four
months. The candle cost $3,700 and
was made at the order of a New
York orphanage, to which Caruso
contributed $10,000 a year.
On the suggestion of Cardinal
VanuteUi, the candle will be burned
only once a year and that on All
Souls Day. It is estimated that it
will last eighteen centuries.
RELIEF IN RUSSIA
To Be Extended By Order of
Pope.
Moscow—(By Cable)—Dr. Edmund
Walsh, head of the Catholic mis
sion which has been co-operating
for some months with American Re
lief Administration in its feeding
operations in Russia, was notified
today by Cardinal Gasparri, papal
secretary of state in Rome, that
Pope Pius XI has acceded to the
request of the soviet government
for a Catholic mission to conduct
feeding in Orenburg province.
Dr. Walsh has arranged for a
feeding program caring for 20,000
persons in the Orenburg district,
which will be started as soon as
possible.
The cablegram to Dr. Walsh also
stated that the Pope has made a
personal gift of a million lira for
medical supplies with which the
Catholic mission will co-operate in
the A. R. A. program of medical as
sistance and inoculation against the
spread of epidemic diseases.
NOTED FRENCH SCIENTIST DEAD
Paris—M. Georges Lemoinc, for
mer president of the Academy of
Sciences, inspector general of
bridges and highways and doctor
honoris causa of the University of
Louvain, has just died in Paris at
the age of 71 years.
A fervent Catholic, M. Lemoine
was professor of chemistry at the
Catholic University of Paris from
1875 to 1881. He was the author of
numerous works on chemistry, and
had done some remarkable research
work in connection with phosphor
ous, and on the chemical action of
light as compared with that of heat.
He had also studied the possibility
of predicting floods, particularly on
the Ohio river.
M. Lemoine was president of the
Scientific Society of Brussels, and
in 1903 was made a member of the
Pontifical Academy of the Nuovi
Himel.
PASTEUR CENTENARY
To Be Observed By Ameri
can Scientists.
Philadelphia, Pa.—The centcnnary
of the birth of Louis Pasteur was
observed in this city on the birth
day of the eminent scientist, Dec.
27, when a civic celebration was
held at the Academy of Music in
the afternoon, followed by a com
memorative banquet in the evening.
Speakers at the gathering in the
Academy of Music will include Dr.
RusseU II. Chittenden of Yale, Dr.
Vernon Kellogg, secretary of the
National Research Council, Dr. John
B. Denver, professor emeritus of
surgery at the University of Penn
sylvania ; Surgeon General Hugh S.
Gumming and M. Jules Jusserand,
the* French ambassador. At the ban
quet, the toastmaster was Dr. Er
nest Laplace, a pupil of Pasteur,
and the principal speaker was M.
Brunet, director of the Pasteur In
stitute at Tunis, who appeared as
the special representative of the
French government. Other speak
ers at the evening function were
Dr. Robert Abbe, of New York; Dr.
H. C. Pritchett, president of the
Carnegie Fonndation; Dr. Lonis S.
McMurty, of the University of Louis
ville. and Dr. Hobart A. Hare, of
Phalidelphia, all of whom are known
for their studies of the work' of
Pastuer.
Dr. Laplace, chief of staff of the
Misericordia Hospital here, was dec
orated by the French government
for medical services during the war.
He possesses one of the original
flasks of bouillon prepared by Pas
teur to demonstrate Ids theories in
regard to putrefaction and fermen
tation.
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