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THE BULLETIN OF THE CATHOLIC LAYMEN’S ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA
AUGUST 16, 1924.
Morale of Germany People Broken
Nation Divided, Msgr. Noll Finds
Second of Series of Articles Wherein Editor of The Sun
day Visitor Records His Impressions of Europe Af
ter Five Month Trip
ORANGE LODGES PRAISE
FAIRNESS OF CATHOLICS
Protestant Deputation Re
ceived Courteously in South
Ireland But Not in Belfast.
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
Dublin.—There were two satisfac
tory features of this year’s celebra
tion of the Twelfth of July by the
Orangemen in the North of Ireland.
One was the absence of the disor-
dery scenes which have often mark
ed the celebration in the past; and
the other was the tribute paid by
Orangemen in the Twenty-six south
ern counties to the liberty and tol
eration they enjoy.
The members of the Orange Lod
ges in the counties of Caven and
Monaghan were especially outspoken
in their praise of their Catholic
neighbors.
At the Monaghan meeting a reso
lution was passed recognizing the
determination of Southern Ireland to
bring peace and prosperity to the
country. At the same meeting Mr.
M. E. Knight, County Grand Mas
ter of the Monaghan Orangemen;
said that the rights and liberties of
minorities were being respected in
the twenty-six Southern counties and
Orangemen had nothing to fear so
long as they met in a law abiding
manner. The government, he add
ed, had given practical proof of its
desire for fair-play. Orangemen, he
went on. should not be slow to ap
preciate this. He believed the spirit
displayed towards them had already
borne fruit.
A Contrast In Courtesy.
At the same meeting the Rev. Mr.
Magee stated that a Protestant
Church deputation had been badly re
ceived by the Belfast government
but courteously received by the
Southern government.
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By RT. REV. MSGR. JOHN F. NOLL,
LL. D.
(N. C. W. C. News Service)
Whatever may be said about Ger
many’s ability or inability to pay,
the fact is that the morale of the
German people has been seriously
broken, and the population been
terribly disunited since the close
of the war. Prior to the recent
elections, this disunity was the sub
ject of much comment on the part
of those who have the interests of
the Fatherland at heart.
The Australian ballot was used
for the first time, and there were
twenty-three different sets of candi
dates running for the same offices;
in other words, Germany’s popula
tion was divided among that many
different political groups. Women
having the suffrage in Germany,
there were nearly 30,000,000 votes
cast, and fully half of them were
for the enthronement of com
munism. socialism and a kind of
K. K. K. nationalism. Germany is
sane at heart, but in their discon
tented state her people were will
ing to go the limit for something
new.
The antics of the mark last fall
were enough to drive (he people
mad. There was no incentive to
work, much less to save. Those
who did work made haste to con
vert their money into some com
modity at once, for fear the mark
would have less than one-half to
day’s value on the morrow. Hence
the poor people,' the working people
generally, were necessarily desti
tute. The middle class had become
poor by the loss of all interest on
whatever investments it had made,
and by losing at least 75 per cent
of the principal because no one ex
pects to recover more than 25 per
cent of pre-war invested capital.
Misconduct by Wealthy
Many rich became richer, just as
they did in this country by war
time profiteering and the knowl
edge of it only contributed toward
the spread of communism in Ger
many. During the last year, the
wealthy have been investing con
siderable money in other than Ger
man securities, and have been doing
lots of traveling, particularly in
Italy, and thus inviting criticism,
which is illogically directed against
the Germans generally.
The Rhineland, the most beautiful
part of Germany, is in the so-called
occupied zone, and the inhabitants
thereof have a too-vivid daily re
minder of the frightful war to be
happy and contented, even if busi
ness were good. However, business
is not good anywhere in Germany
and principally, because there is in
sufficient money in circulation.
The stabilization of money and
prices by the introduction of the
Rentenmark was the greatest
achievement of the government
since the war. and would itself have
given great impetus to business if
the quantity of Rentenmarks in
circulation were greater. The banks
haven’t them to loan, and big busi
ness cannot borrow' them. Cardinal
Schulte, of Cologne, told the writer
that the German chancellor Mr.
Marx, who, by the way, is not only
a fine type of Catholic, hut a daily
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
St. Francis, S. D.—Cardinal Hayes,
archbishop of New York, and the
Rt. Rev. Francis J. Beckman, bishop
of Lincoln, have new titles as the
result of the annual congress of
the Catholic Sioux Indians of South
Dakota held here this week. The
Cardinal has been officially named
Wah-ah-Wan-Glad-Kah Wan - Kah-
Ta-Yah, which, translated, is “Shep
herd of High Rank.” The Indians
wished to show their appreciation
of the Cardinal’s labors on their
behalf in his capacity as a muraber
of the Board of Catholic Indian
Missions. Another resolution ex
pressing the thanks of the Indians
to the Pope for having elevated
Cardinal Hayes to the Sacred Col
lege were also adopted.
Bishop Beckman’s new title is
Nah-Wic-Ak-Cij-In, which means
“The Defending Eagle.” The bishop
attended the congress in person and
administered the sacrament of con
firmation to a class of 234 In
dians. It was the first time he has
administered this sacrament since
his consecration as bishop on last
May. It was regarded as appro-
communicant, said to him in May
that if, by a loan or some other
method, more of the Rentenmarks
could he placed in circulation, he
would he ashamed to have the
people of Germany accept any
charity after a period of eight or
nine months.
People Are Divided
The political agitators have done
much to divide the people of Ger
many, and there, as in any other
country, it is a case of “divided we
fall.” In Bavaria the monarchistic
spirit is very dominant, while in
Russia the people arc not only for
monarchy, but are to a great degree
communistic. The Bavarians, who,
left to themselves, would be quite
placid and religious, have been
stirred up by. Hittler and Ludcn-
dorff. Ludendorff, the Prussian, the
anti-Catholic, unwelcome in his own
home, has moved into the heart of
Bavaria, which is Catholic, and
there has launched hitter attacks
against the Catholic Church and her
cardinal at their very door. We
wonder what would liappsn to a
Catholic Bavarian if he went into
Prussia to insult Protestants 1
On last New Year’s Day, the cardi
nal at Munich preached a sermon in
behalf of peace and forgiveness. In
his sermon he declared that “even
the Jews should have justice,” and
“the sinking of the Lusitania was
unfortunate in its effect.’ Then
Ludendorff and his followers were
quick to charge the cardinal with
saying something entirely different.
They accused him of defending the
Jew, against whom there is con
siderable feeling, and of criticising
the war policy of the government.
In an anti-Catholic campaign Luden
dorff and Hittler are united, though
they are otherwise promoters of
different programs. Ludendorff is
working for the return of the
Hohenzollerns to power, while Hit-
tier has a Nationalist patriotic pro
gram of the American Ku Ivlux
Klan type.
Bavarians Want a King
The Bavarians would welcome a
local king, because they lived and
prospered under the rule of King
Ludwig III. They care little who is
at the head of Germany as a whole.
The Catholics of the other provinces
of Germany criticise the Catholcis
of Bavaria for being more interest
ed in their local than in the na
tional government and their failing
to join their brethren in a more
definite united front against radi*
calisrm
Protestantism has gone to pieces
in Germany, and Ludendorff has the
backing of its scattered pieces be-
caluse his anti-Catholic program is
only one side of his pro-Lutheran
zeal. This anti-Catholic propaganda
prevents the people from seeing
what would otherwise be so patent
to any unprejudiced observer, name
ly that the Catholic Church alone
can save Germany. Today Ger
many’s Reichstag would be social
istic were it no for the balance of
power which the Center, or Catholic,
party exerts, and no one other than
Chancellor Marx, whose practical
Catholicity makes him an ardent
German patriot, could have formed
a working cabinet out of the dis
sonant members of which the new
parliament group is composed.
priate that the bishop as head of
the five thousand members of the
Catholic Students Mission Grounds
who are pledged to prayer and sac
rifice for the mission cause, shpuld
administer confirmation for the
first time to a class at an Indian
mission.
More than 2,000 Catholic Sioux
from South Dakota and delegations
from tribes in surrounding states
attended the congress, which com
bined the features of an ordinary
parish mission with those of con
ventions of Catholic societies. Much
of the time was taken up with dis
cussions of problems affecting the
moral welfare and spiritual advance
ment of the Idians and In promot
ing their loyalty to the church. Be
sides the confirmation class r
red to, 1,550 confessions were heard
and 2 200 communions distributed.
Six converts were baptized and
seven marriages were solemnized.
A new Bible history written in
to the convention. The author is
the Sioux language was presented
the Rev. Eugene Buechel, S. .J.
Motion pictures were taken of
many of the processions and gath
erings held during the congress.
The pictures will he shown through
out the country and will form a
part of the exhibits at the mis
sionary congress in Rome next
year. It was decided to hold next
year’s meeting at Wakpala, S. I)., on
the Cheyenne river reservation.
Cardinal Archivist of the
Vatican Gets $2 a Month
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
London. — Cardinal Gasquet’s
salary as Archivist of the Vati
can is $2 a month. Actually it
is 100 lire, which even before the
currency depreciated amounted
to only $20 a month.
The Cardinal mentioned his
salary laughingly at a meeting
of the Catholic Record Society
this week. He regards it as a
good joke,, and says he finds it
very useful when his assistants
ask for an increase in salary,
for he can assure them that they
are getting infinitely more than
their chief.
The assistants are drawing $5
a month.
Cardinal Gasquet, who is 78
years of age, is planning to be
gin the translation of a six
teenth century volume of Latin
letters which he has discovered.
It contains 160 letters, three-
fourths of them addressed to^
scholars in England between
the years 1520-1531.
CAPUCHIN PROVINCE
Of St. Augustine’s Elects Father
Henry.
Lawrenceville, Pa.—Father Henry,
O. M. Cap., was elected head of St.
Augustine’s Province of the Capu
chin Fathers, at the triennial pro
vincial meeting just held here. He
will serv.e for three years. Fathers
Anselm, Thomas, Fidelis and Sigis-
mund were chosen definitors for the
province for a like period.
Five States and the District of
Columbia were represented at the
meeting, which was attended by
twenty-three members of the order
from the monasteries and schools
in St. Augustine’s Province. The
province includes Ohio, Pennsyl
vania, West Virginia, Maryland, the
District of Columbia and Kansas,
and has 170 members. '
STATUE OF SHERIDAN IS"
UNVEILED IN CHICAGO
Gutzen Borglum Its Sculptor
—Widow of General Views
Monument.
Chicago, III.—“Sheridan’s Ride,” a
bronze statue of the famous Civil
War general and his horse, was un
veiled Wednesday in a ceremonial
in which leaders of the church, the
eity and the State took part.
The equestrian statue, of heroic
size, done in bronze by Gutzon
Borglum, who was the sculptor of
the Sheridan monument in Wash
ington, stands at the head of the'
Lincoln Park, at the junction of the
North Shore motor ways, one of
the most impressive and prominent
sites in the city.
The Rt. Rev. Monsignor M. J. Fitz
simmons, rector of Holy Name Ca
thedral, gave the invocation, and
the curtain which has enshrouded
the figure of the great general since
the statue’s erection several weeks
ago was drawn aside by Miss Mary
Sheridan, a daughter of the late
general while his widow looked on.
Bands played and guns boomed in
salute.
Addresses eulogizing the career of
the Catholic general were made by
representatives of city and State,
and of the U. S. Army.
The unveiling of the statue is the
culmination of fifteen years’ effoft
on the part of M. J. Faharty, for
mer commissioner of public works.
The $50,000 which the statue cost
was paid half by state appropria
tion, and half by funds raised by
Mr. Faharty and his associates.
MARSHAL FOCH’S SISTER DEAD
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
Toulouse, France—Marshal Foeh’s
eldest sister. Mile. Foch, died in
July at the family home in the De
partment of Haute Garopne, at the
age of eighty-two. She passed all*
her life at the mansion, which is
known as Valentine.
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