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BISHOPS AID CATHOLIC PRESS
Charity Here Basis of Missionary GENERAL INTEREST IN
Efforts Elsewhere President Says
All Who Go Out From Christian to Non-Christian Com
munities Should Carry Spirit of True Christianity He
Tells 3,500 Protestant Foreign Mission Workers.
$10,000,600 RESEARCH
PLANT FOR GEORGETOWN
Unique Chemo-Medical In
stitute to Study Disease
and Evolve Cures Planned.
(By N. C. W. C. News Service.)
Washintgon,—Georgetown, oldest
Catholic university in the country,
this week launched one of, the most
impressive humanitarian projects yet
undertaken in this country. It pro
poses to build and organize a Chemo-
Med cal iieseach institute for a
“fundamental attack on the problem
of the more successful preservation
of health and cure of disease,” an
institution which, special committee
of the American Chemical Society
has shown, would have almost limit
less possibilities in solving problems
of the human ^body.
The Institute will be the only one
of its kind in the country.
Such a project, the committee of
experts estimated, would require an
endowment of $10,400,000. George
town, with grounds and hospital for
clincical school of the highest stand
ing, and with the voluntary services
of the university management, pro
poses to make a beginning with an
estimated endowment of $3,680,000.
Already 25,000 copies of a pro
spectus have been sent to person
who, it is believed, would be interest,
ed in such a huge humanitaian un
dertaking. Next week the Rev.
George L. Coyle, S. J-, Professor of
Chemtry at Georgetown in active
charge of the project, starts a series
of field tours in its interest that
will take him the breadth of the
country.
In the meantime, such enthusiastic
encouragement has come to the un
iversity that it feels the needed en
dowment will be raised within a year
or possibly by Chrismas. Plans are
even now being gone over for the
first building of the Institute.
Recently the Rev. Charles Y. Ly
ons. newly inducted president of
Georgetown, announced that a gen
eral building program would begin
at the univers : ty in the Spring, when
the first of three structures will be
erected. This is the second an
nouncement , of Georgetown expan-
son within a few weeks. The Chemo-
Medical Institute project, however,
will be entirely distinct from other
college endowment and building.
The a : m of the new Institute will
be to study disease and its preven
tion at the foundations, and by evol
ving preventive measures and cures
to cut off suffering, poverty and
economic loss at the source of the
evil. For this purpose it will father
together a corps of the most emin
ent specialists, chosen only for their
Utility and performance in their
fields, with no religious or other lim
itations. There will b e six chiefs
of divisions, for Organic Cehmistry,
Bio-chemistry, Physical and Inor
ganic Chemistry, Pharmacology, Bac
teriology and Pathology. In addition,
there will be twelve assistants, twelve
fellows and twenty laborator help
ers, besides the administrative per
sonnel.
These em'nent men, free of the
burden of teaching and in the se
curity of a comfortable living, will
attack the great problem of the hu
man body in concert.
John Burke Comes Back
John Burke, one of the most
widely known Catholics in
American public life, one time
Governor of North Dakota,
formerly treasurer of the
United States, was recently nam
ed a member of the Supreme
Court of North Dakota, elected
as a Democrat when everything
was going Republican.
FRENCH VOTE T0CL0SE
EMBASSY AT VATICAN
Herriot Attempts to Pacify
Opponents by Maintaining
Diplomatic Agent Instead.
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
Paris, France—By a vote of 314
to 250 the chamber of deputies has
sustained the Herriot government in
its policy of suppressing the French
embassy at the Vatican through the
device of refusing to grant credits
with which to sustain the embassy.
Tile vote was a strict division along
party lines and ten days of fervid
oratory on both sides preceding the
division failed to change the atti
tude of a single deputy. In its re
sult the vote marked the triumph
of the program mapped out by Pre
mier Herriot when the radical gov
ernment came into power last May.
Before it becomes legally binding
the chamber’s action must be rati
fied by the senate, but this is a
mere formality because the lower
house alone has the power to ini
tiate an appropriation measure.
Premier Herriot made an attempt
to pacify the Alsace Lorraine depu
ties by promising that a diplomatic
agent will be maintained at the Vati
can to represent those provinces un
der the terms of the Napoleonic
concordant. The credits needed for
this representative at Rome ' were
passed by a vote of 317 to 246, after
a stormy debate, thus technically
keeping up the attitude of a sever
ance of diplomatic relations be
tween France and the Vatican.
ALDERMAN KNIGHTED
(By N. C. W. C. News Service.V
London—Just back from a business
visit to the United States, Alderman
T. O. Williams, Deputy Lord Mayor
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
Washington.—“The foundation of
all missionary effort abroad must
be tolera tion and brotherhood at
home,” President Coolidge declared
in his address to 3,500 delegates to
the interdenaminatiOnal Protestant
foreign missions conference here
during the past week. The Presi
dent' advocated sending only the
highest type of workers into for
eign mission fields.
“Not everything that the men of
Christian countries have carried to
the other peoples of the world - has
been good and helpful to those who
have received it,” the President said.
“Our civilization is yet far from per
fect. Its aims are liable to much
distortion when it comes in contact
with peoples not yet equipped
through generations of race experi
ence to absorb, to understand, to ap
preciate it. One of the greatest
things that a missionary movement
could do for the less favored com-
By Dr. Frederic Funder.
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
Vienna.—Turkey, long the pro
tagonist and chief defender of Mo
hammedanism, is making a deliber
ate effort under Kemal Pasha to
wipe out the Islamic > religion of
the Prophet and substitute therefor
a state controlled religion, the chief
characteristic of which is to be an
intense nationalism. Such, in sub
stance, is the startling report of
the meaning of recent events in the
Near East brought back by a dis
tinguished diplomat who has held
important posts in Turkey and other
parts of the Levant for more than
twenty years. This diplomat, whose
name, could it be mentioned, would
be recognized as a famous Orienta
list, in a recent interview Vi th the
N. C. W. C. News Service representa
tive said:
“The opinion of the present re
formers of Turkey is that the Mo
hammedan religion is to be blamed
for all the misfortunes and losses
of the Turkish Empire. “The fa
talism of this religion,’ said a mem
ber of Kemal Pasha’s Cabinet to
me, ‘is the reason of the backward
ness and lack of energy of our
people. We cannot make our nation
a nation in the sense and with the
civilization of Western countries, un
less we remove these religious ob-
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munities would be to assure that all
who go out from the Christian to
the non-Christian communities
should carry with them the spirit,
the aims, the purposes of true Chris
tianity.
“We know that they have not al
ways done this. We know that the
missionary movements have repeat
edly been hampered and at times
been frustrated because some cal
ling themselves Christians and as
suming to represent Christian civili
zation have been actuated by un-
Christian motives. Those who have
been willing to carry the vices of
our civilization among the weaker
peoples and into file darker places
have often been more successful
than those who have sought to
implant the virtues.”
the conference addressed by Presi
dent Coolidge is said to have been
the largest assemblage of mission
workers of the various Protestants
sects since 1888.
stacles. We must eject Islamism
from the fatal position it has hither
to occupied in our life and, out of
a union of Mohammedans, form a
Turkish nation. Not religion, but
love of country shall in the future
be the determining test of patriot
ism for the Turks.’
‘It is of much significance, how
ever, that the new Turkish state is
trying to establish what might be
called a Turkish National church. An
alteration of religion and religious
exercises is being' httempted. The
daily ablutions now prescribed for
Mohammedans are to be done away
with, church-going restricted, the
Koran schools, formerly maintained
by the larger mosques for the train
ing of the lower Islamic clergy, have
been suppressed and the students of
theology are now assembled in a
General Seminary at Constantinople
in which doctrines dictated by the
state are taught. A revision and
reform of th e Koran and the teach
ings of Mohammed compiled by Abu
Bekr, first Caliph of the seventh
century, is now in progress. The
‘Vakuf’ or Mohammedan church
property has been confiscated and
the income diverted to the civil au
thority. Mosques and priests for
merly supported by this property
are now dependent upon the mercy
of the state. Methods identical with
those employed by the absolutist
rulers of Europe in their efforts
to control the church in the eight
eenth century are being employed
in Turkey today.”
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
New York.—The Association of
Catholic Teachers in the Public
Schools, known as the Chapter Theta
Pi Alpha, an organization consist
ing of about three thousand teach
ers of the public schools in this
city, held their annual public meet
ing at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel
here on Sunday afternoon. Cardinal
Hayes was the principal speaker at
the meeting which was by far the
most enthusiastic ever held by the
association.
The Rev. David De Sola Pool,
of the Spanish-Portuguese Synago
gue, representing the Jewish faith,
and the Rev. Dr. Walter M. Howlett,
Secretary of Religious Education of
the New York Federation of
Churches, representing the Protest
ant churches, made addresses sup
porting the movement to have every
child in the public schools receive
PRESS CAMPAIGN ASKED
Bishop McDevitt, Episcopal
Chairman, Suggests Ways
of Making It a Success.
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
Washington.—Bt. Rev. Philip B.
McDevitt, Bishop of Harrisburg and
Chairman of the Department of
Publicity, Press and Literature of
the National Catholic Welfare Con
ference, has sent to the Press Month
Committee of the Catholic Press As
sociation the following letter re'eom-
meding that “ all those having at
heart the development of the Cath
olic Press make its promotion a mat
ter of special consideration during
the month of February”:
“At the meeting of the Hierarchy,
September, 1923, the following reso
lution was adopted:
That the Sunday immediately pre
ceding the Feast of St. Francis de
Sales, proclaimed by the Holy Fath
er Patron of the Catholic Publicity
and Press throughout the world, be
accepted and approved as Press Sun
day in every Catholic church in the
United States of America.
“In pursuance of this resolution,
the Catholic Press Association has
for the past two years named Feb
ruary as Press Month in the United
States and Canada. At last year’s
meeting of the Catholic Press Associ
ation, a resolution was adopted sug
gesting that the Chairman of the
Department of Publicity, Press and
Literature of the National Catholic
Welfare Conference issue a call for
Press Month. Following out this
recommendation, I hereby call upon
all those who have at heart the
development of the Catholic Press
to make its promotion a matter of
special consideration dtlring the
month of February.
“At its meeting in'September, 1923,
the Hierarchy also adopted a reso
lution strongly urging all Catholic
periodicals to become affiliated, as
pay subscribers, to the N. C. W. C.
Press Service, and all pastors to use
in their parishes, schools and soc
ieties the various periodicals issues
by the N. C. W. C. Press Department.
I renew this recommendation.
“It has been especially gratifying
to learn that the Knights of Colum
bus, the National Council of Cath
olic Men, and other Catholic organi
zations have manifested their inter
est in the progress of the Catholic
Press by calling upon their member
ship during the month of February
to e(insider by what means this pro
gress can best be promoted. The
suggestion of Admiral Benson of
the National Council of Catholic
Men to the various branches of the
council and to its affiliated organi
zations in all about one thousand,
to set aside one or more evenings
during the month as Catholic Press
Nights should receive the strongest
endorsement. Splendid results will
follow the carrying out of this sug
gestion, not only by the branches of
th# Council of Catholic Men and
their affiliated organizations, but
also by all other Catholic societies.
“The Catholic Press deserves the
enthusiastic and generous help of
all Catholics. Their support should
go beyond the mere subscription to
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religious instruction in their regular
course of studies. Both speakers
told of the crying need of religious
training for the children to build
up the future manhood and woman
hood of this city by giving them the
vision of God and that they must
be taught that their greater respon
sibilities were to their Creator,
which would make all of them better
and nobler citizens of this Republic.
The Rev. Dr. Howlett paid a
fitting tribute to His Eminence, to
whom he referred as “Our Cardinal.”
“I am so" glad this meeting is pre
sided over by His Eminence, our
Cardinal,” Dr. Howlett said. “I say
‘our’ Cardinal, because I wish to
take this opportunity to declare that
Cardinal Hayes is not only highly
respected but that he also is revered
by those outside the Catholic faith
in the city. We find that we can
trust him as a Christian and a noble
man.”
“G. G.” GRXTEST WRITER of Birmingham, took part in the an-
(By N. : C. W. C. News Service.) nual reunion of the parishes of Birm-
London—A letter addressed: “Mr. lingham and learned publicly from
G. K. Chesterton, England’s Greatest
Writer,” was duly delivered by the
postal authorities.
Bishop Glancey that the Pope had
created him a Knight Commander
of St. Gregory.
Ideal Hospital” Plan of N. Y.
Priest-Million Dollars Available
(By N. C. W. C. News Service.)
Milwaukee. W i s.,—More than 100
eminent medical and hospital author
ities and hospital architects from all
over the country gathered here Tues
day and Wednesday for the unique
purpose of planning “the ideal hos
pital.” The conference was called by
the Rev. Charles B. Moul nier, S. J.,
president of the Catholic Hospital as
sociation of the United States and
Canada, at the request of the Rev.
Thomas A. Nummey, of Jamaica, N.
Y.. who already has collected a mil
lion dollars for the erection of the
hospital.
As a result, Father Nummey is
returning to Jamaica with plans for
his hospital which have undergone
the scrutiny of the greatest experts
of the country. The building of the
new institution, which will be known
as the Mary Immaculate Hospital,
will be undertaken at Jamaica this
year.
The conference was held at Mar-
/quette University, with the Mtir-
quette Hospital College, the first in
stitution of its kind in the countrq
as host. Father Moulinier, in ad
dition to being president of the
Catholic Hdspital Association, also
is head of the college. Father Num
mey brought his own architect with
him from New York, that he might
hear the discussions and suggestions,
In addition to hospital authorities,
leading 'medical bodies of the coun
try sent members of their staffs and
many institutions planning hospital
buildings also sent officials and ar
chitects, so that the conference as
sumed national importance.
The Jamaica hosiptal is to be as
ideal as the counsel of the country’s”
experts can make it, and Father
Nummey hopes to have it classed as
one of the greatest institutions of
its kind in the world. It will have a
capacity of 600 beds when completed,
and the first wing, to include ten
floors, will have 300 beds.
Turkey to ReplaceMohammedanism
By State Religion Says Diplomat
Kemal Pasha and His Gover nment Reported Establishing
a Turkish National Church—Backwardness of Nation
Attributed by Turkish Leaders to Fatalism of Islamism.
Cardinal Hayes “Our Cardinal”
N. Y. Minister Says in Address