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JULY 26, 1924.
THE BULLETIN OF THE CATHOLIC LAYMEN’S ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA
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HERRIOT STAND AGAINST
CONCILIATION RESENTED
Peace in France, Born Dur
ing Days of War, Imperiled
by New Premier’s Attitude.
By M. Massiani.
(Paris Correspondent, N. C. W. C.
News Service.)
Paris.—It was with actual stupe
faction, that French Catholic opin
ion has watched M. Herrit, immedi
ately after his rise to power, write
into his program projects which ap
pear to menace the religious peace
of the nation; the suppression of
the Vatican embassy, the strict ap
plication of the laws on religious
orders, the introduction in Alsace-
Lorraine of the regime of the sepa
ration and of French laws with
drawing from public schools the
character of private denominational
schools. '
It was well known that the par
ties comprising the Left Bloc were
not favorali^g to the policy of con
ciliation of church and state car
ried out by the National Bloc. It
was known that they would not
continue this policy and would
grant no further satisfaction to the
Catholics. But the general opinion
was that Catholics would not be
deprived of the advantages they
had obtained during the past few
years.
On the one hand, the atmosphere
of strife which had poisoned all
public lifp in the days of Combism
seemed to have vanished and - it
was reasonable to think that no
man. of coiymon sense would revive
it at a time when the thought of
those in charge of the government
of the nation are preoccupied by
so many matters of vital impor
tance. And then, there was the
touching lesson of fraternity taught
by the war, the sacred union, as it
was called. The memory of relig
ious dissension was, apparently,
held in abhorrence and no party
had had the imprudence to insert
in its platform anything which
would revive it. In short it was
admitted that the religious ques
tion had not been raised.
Furthermore, moderation seemed
the mpre necessary as the winners
in the elections of May 11 had won
a very hard victory. While they
won more than 100 seats, this was
due solely to the peculiarity and
faultiness of the electoral law. The
defeat of the National Bloc, if one
considers the number of votes cast,
was not overwhelming. It polled
iil.780 Votes in 1919 when it had e.
majority, and it polled 30,420,000
this year, which means that it lost
only one twentieth of its votes.
AT MASS DAILY FOR FIFTY YEARS
Miss Julia Glancy who has died
at Ncnaugh, Tipperary County, had
made a remarkable record. She had
attended daily mass in the parish
Church for fifty years.
Priest-Scientist Finds Primitive
Races in India Believe in Diety
Tribes of Dwarfs Discovered in Pathless Jungles, Out of
Touch With Civilization, Ha ve Monotheistic Religion and
Practice Monogamy—Explorers Suffer Great Hardships
w.
By Dr. Frederick Funder
(Vienna Correspondent N. C.
Servic.)
Vienna.—The Mission House of St.
Gabriel near Vienna, which is under
the direction of the Society of the
Divine Word, has put at the dis
posal of the N. C. W. News Service
correspondents a letter of leather
Paul Schebesta. S. V. D., a member
of the staff of the distinguished
periodical “Anthropos,” which has
been received from further India.
Father Schebesta belongs to the
group of ethnological explorers
whom the the well-known scientist,
Father Wilhelm Schmidt has rallied
round himself and to whom are
"due the important discoveries of a
religious and scientific character a-
mong the aborigines of the Tierra
del Fuego archipelago. The learned
missionary is at jrresent on a tour
of exploration which has led him
to the dwarf tribes who live in the
primeval forests of the Indian
province of IJcrak. Little has been
known so far of these races of
difficult accessibility, and nothing
definite of their religious notions.
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Experience With Dwarf Tribes
In Father Schcbesta’s letter which
has been shown to me, he reports
on his experience with the dwarf
tribe of the “Sakai," a harmless,
shy clan, living in forests difficult
to approach. Their civilization is
primitive.
“The Sakai,” Father Schebesta
writes, “do not know the art of
pottery. They boil the rice in tubes
of bamboo, but their ordinary food
consists of fruits or roots which are
dug out with pointed sticks, pared
off, and roasted on fire. They seem
to eat little meat. The dwarfs are
very clever in using the blow-gun
with which they hunt small animals
and birds. They seldom use the
bow and arrow.
“Their religion seems to be a sort
of crude monotheism. They wor
ship some supreme being called
Karei. In one instance I got a
very interesting answer to my ques
tion what Karei was. Always T had
heard the same answer, that he
was thunder or the sun' or that he
was living on high. In this par
ticular intance, however, a young
chieftain gave me the answer that
Karei was like a pengulu (chieftain)
or rada (prince). He was living on
high and had made everything:
men, trees, stones, etc. He some
times thundered and demanded
blood.
“During heavy thunderstorms,
blood is actually offered to Karei.
This is done only by women. They
slightly cut their shin, take water
in their hollow hands, mix it with
blood and throw it up.
region one case only is known of
Sakai who had more than one
wife and this one has adopted Ma
layan customs to a great extent.”
Interesting is the description the
missionary explorer gives of the
country which is the home of these
tribes: “There are no roads lead
ing through the forests, only path
ways trodden out by men and
elephants. As rain pours down
every afternoon, one can travel in
the forenoon. The climate is not
so hot here as in Africa (Father
Schebesta has been living as mis
sionary and explorer in Portuguese
South Africa for seven years) but
much damper, so that you are con
tinually wet either from perspiration
or rain or the waters of the rivers,
for you get too tired to take off
your clothes when passing again
and again through the many brooks
and rivers.
‘The tiger is to be found in these
fores's but is not feared as much
as the elephant, which in some
regions appear in large herds.
Poisonous snakes are numerous.
One day our raft was chased by an
enormous water snake swimming
at a great speed. We could keep,
it off only by the use of big poles.
The Terrible Leeches
“But the most terrible thing for
the traveler are the leches which
are thin qnd have a length of one
and one-lialf to two inches. Some
times the roads are covered with
these ugly animals. They jump on
to the feet of the traveler. If not
pulled off they will not fall before
they have sucked their fill of
blood. The wounds they make
bleed heavily. It is really disgust
ing to have to touch these pests,
but it cannot be helped. Some-
French Architects Thank
Rockefeller f orDonation
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
Paris.—The associations of
French architects, meeting at
Rheims for their general as
sembly, passed a resolution de
claring that “deeply impressed
by their visit to the cathedral,
the architects send a tribute of
gratitude to the great American
philanthropist, Roc k e feller”
through whose generosity to the
French committee on historical
monuments, the sum of' five
million francs is to be devoted
to the restoration of the cathe
dral. The donation will be de
voted especially to the roof and
the reconstruction of the
“angel’s’s tower.”
Council of Catholic Women
Holds Notable State Gather
ing at Los Angeles.
Dwarfs Monogamists
“The dwarfs of Jeram and Jahai
bury their dead, but those of Bukit
do not; they leave them unburied
and run awny for fear of diseases.
The dwarfs are nomads and wander
about with their camps as their
need of food may dictate. Each
family has a hut of its own. Mono
gamy is practiced generally. In this
times I had them all over my
body. They even got into my
boots. Only when my socks were
soaked with blood was I aware
of their presence. They are the
greatest nuisance to the traveler.
“I now plan”, F’ather Schebesta
goes on, an exploration of the i
dwarf tribes living in adjacent
Siam and as soon as I shall have
sufficient information, intend to
settle for some length of time in
a suitable place to study the lang
uage, customs and ideas of these
sympathetic tiny people.”
Atheistic Science Discredited
Even the results so far attained
by this priest-explorer, corroborate
the old experience namely that
all primitive peoples have a mono
theistic religion. This truth has
been established at the price of
great hardships by Catholic scien
tists, who, by their explorations a-
mong the primitives, have made a
real contribution to religious his
tory. 'The claim of atheistic science
that religion was not coincident
with man’s creation, but an inven
tion of a much later period, has
been demonstrated by these self-
saeificing Catholic scientists to be
wholly at variance with the tradi
tions of the still primitive peoples
of the world, who without contact
with civilization are found to have
now and probably always to have
had, belief in a Supreme Being.
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
Los Angeles., Cal.—The first an
nual convention of the Los Angeles
and San Diego Council, National
Council of the Catholic Women
held here, proved to be the most
notable gathering of Catholic wo
men the West Coast has yet seen.
Its reports indicated strides toward
complete organization in the last
two. years that were almost start
ling, and brought to the city wel
fare workers and others of nation
al prominence.
• Representatives of eight counties
and of six orders of Sisters attend
ed. Within the two weeks preceding
the convention, it was reported,
forty organizations in Southern Cali
fornia had joined the Council. The
organization has gone on with the
encouragement of Bishop Cantwell,
who has pushed the movement at
every possible point.
CHURCH 8b0 YEARS OLD
BURNS
Tours.—One of France’s priceless
national historical monuments was
lost May 20 when fire destroyed
the twelfth century Catholic church
near here. The physical damage is
estimated at $25,000. and is irrepara
ble. Ancient wall paintings of the
greatest value were destroyed.
SISTERS HELD AT ELLIS
ISLAND ARE ADMITTED
Immigration Bureau Rules
Nurses Should Not Be De
nied Admission to Country.
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
New York.—Twenty-eight Catholic
Sisters, who came to this country
to become nurses in hospitals con
ducted by their orders and who had
been held at Ellis Island three
weeks as in excess of the quotas of
their respective countries, were ad
mitted Monday, on orders from the
Immigration Bureau, Department of
Labor, at Washington.
The admission of the compara
tively large number of Nuns clears
up a perplexing situation created
by 'differing interpretations of the
immigration laws of the United
States. Recently there have been
several such incidents, but the legal
technical problems now having been
threshed out, this, it is confidently
expected, will be the last.
The group that has just been ad
mitted included three parties, all
of which arrived about June 2d..
One party included fourteen German
Nuns who came to the “Guiseppe
Verdi” from their mother house in
Rome and were on tlicir way to
the convent of the Sisters of the
Sorrowful Mother at Marshfield,
Wis. In the party were six Sis
ters and eight postulants. They
purposed to complete their studies
as nurses in this country.
A second party came on the “Bre
men,” and included nine German
Sisters of the Poor, bound for St.
Elizabeth’s Hospital, Lafayette,'Ind.
All had had training as nurses ex
cept one, who was a teacher. The
third group was made up of five
Irish Nuns, members of the Sisters
of Nazareth Orfer. They arrived
on the “Berengaria” and were going
to San Diego. They will teach and
nurse orphans and aged persons.
ENGLISH CHURCH CONSECRATED
London.—Eighty years ago it was
planned that Cardinal Wiseman,
archbishop of Westminster, shou d
consecra e the church at Brewood.
Staffordshire. The arrangement
was, however, never carried out and
the church remained unconsecrated
until this week, when Wiseman’s
successor. Cardinal Bourne, visited
the church immediately after its
consecration by the archbishop of
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New York.—An earnest protest a-
gainst those debased persons who
use the great name and prestige
of Abraham Lincoln to circulate lies
crediting to him attacks on the
Catholic Church and other institu
tions which he never uttered, is
voiced in the July quarterly issue
of “The American Historical Review"
just published. It appears under the
department of Notes and _ Sug
gestions, with the caption “Lincoln
and Catholicism. ’ and is signed by
Carl Russell Fish, Professor of
American History at the University
of Wisconsin. Professor Fish says:
“In ‘An American Protestant
Protest against the Defilement of
True Art by Roman Catholicism,’
recently circulated by the million.
Abraham Lincoln is quoted as say
ing.
“Unfortunately, I feel more and
more every day, that it is not
against the Americans of the South
alone I am fighting. It is more
against the Pope of Rome, his per
fidious Jesuits, and their blind and
bloodthirsty slaves . . . that we
have to defend ourselves. ... It is
to popery that we owe this terri
ble war. I would have laughted at
the man who would have told me
that before I became President.
. . . Now I see the mystery.’
“Students are perfectly well aware
that no such quotation is to be
found in the works of Lincoln, they
know that the spirit of the quota
tion is contrary to the whole char
acter of Lincoln’s thought and ex
pression, they are familiar with the
fact that on its face it is not less
absurd to attribute such a state
ment to Lincoln than it is to ac
cuse the papacy of such a position.
Arc they equally conscious of the
danger that lies in the fabrication
of such forgeries? All men of
prominence after death are liable to
such misrepresentation. At the
present time, however, and in the
United States, Lincoln is the chief
victim. Many similar inventions
are being continually circulated un
der his name, in order to attach
his great prestige to this cause or
that, and the general public is not
in a position to tell the true from
the false.
“Is it not the duty of historians
to meet this current falsification?
It is not easy to see how such a
duty can ordinarily be performed.
In the case of so invaluable a na
tional asset as Lincoln, would it not
be possible to establish a pure gos
pel, and bring out a definitive edi
tion of his writings and sayings?’
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