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RADIO TALK EXPLAINS
One Million People From All
Parts of World Coming to
Chicago Msgr. Quille Says.
Chicago.—The radio was used for
the first time February 14, in broad
casting the purpose and plans of the
International Eucharistic Congress
to be held in Chicago, June 20 to 24.
'Hie lit Rev. Msgr. C. J. Quille,
General Secretary for the Congress,
spoke for more than twenty minutes
over Westinghouse Station KYW
from the Chicago Evening American
studio, under the ausices of the Chi
cago Chapter, Knights of Columbus.
His adress was in a setting of sacred
music by the St. Philip Henri men
and ana' hoys’ choir.
“Midnight Mass in all of the Cath
olic churches in Chicago and suburbs
on the morning of June 20 will usher
in the Congress,” Monsignor Quille
told the radio audience. "However,
the activites of the Congress will
start as early as dune 17, with the
reception of llie early coming dele
gates.
“There will come to Chicago par
ties of fifty and of hundreds-from
all over the world. His Eminence,
George Cardinal Mundelein, has sent
invitations to the entire hierarchy
of the Catholic Church, including
Cardinals arc hi hi shops, bishops,
monsignoric of the United Sta.es,
Canada, Mexico, South America, Eu
rope, Asia and Africa. Can Chicago
take care of all of these pilgrims?
“Sixteen years ago Montreal, with
only two great railroads entering
in ttie city, took care of 750,000. Chi
cago,-the great railroad center of
the world, can easily take care of the
4,000,000 or more who will come
here.
' We have organized twenty-three
committees with a membership of
250 to provide for the lodging and
entertainment of our guests. More
than 12,000 hotels and lodging
houses, and countless private citi
zens of every creed have promised
aid of caring for our visitors.
Prosperity Flows From Church and
School President Coolidge Says
Chief Executive 111 Address Before National Educational
Leaders Quotes Washington’s Declaration That Reli
gion and Morality Are Basis of Prosperity.
“The people in Chicago have
agreed to open their homes, and we
have a commissary department
which lias arranged with hotels, res
taurants, and homes for abundance
of food.
“The spiritual meaning of tlie Eu
charistic Congress is honoring the
Real Presence of Christ in The Holy
Eucharist. We hope to bring hack
some of tlie stray sheep to the fold
of the Church, and also to he a
blessing to all who attend our ser
vices of prayer and devotion.
“We will make no charge for ad
mittance to any of onr meetings.
We have refused outside agencies
Who wanted to finance us We
hope to make the Congress the
greatest agency for spiritual help
the country lias ever experienced.
“Because: of the enormous crowds,
we have decided to begin our meet
ings on Thursday, June 17 On June
18 we will have a civic demonstra
tion. The Masses will open at mid
night Saturday, something unprece
dented.
“Sunday morning, June 20 there
wiil he Solemn High Mass in the
Cathedral and in every o'her Catho
lic church. On Monday 50 000 chil
dren will sing at Soldiers’ Field,
(Continued on page 10-
((By N. C. W. G. News Service.)
Washington. — George Washing
ton’s high regard for the impor
tance of religion and education and
the role of these two factors in the
development of the United States,
were the points emphasized in Pres
ident Coolidge’s address here Feb
ruary 22 before the Department of
Superintendence of the National
Education Association.
Recalling the religious affiliations
of the first president. President
Coolidge said: “In religion he con
formed to the practice of his time. It
is related the he baptized when two
mpnths old and probably attended
church regularly until he was 18.
From that time until 1759 he was
largely engaged in expeditions. Af
ter his marriage and settlement at
Mount Vernon he was made vestry
man in two parishes, for one of
which he was instrumental in erect
ing a building. While lie was not
a constant church atendant, he was
a constant contributor and always
gave respectful consideration to the
religious beliefs of others. He was
tolerant in all things.
“The mature opinion of Washing
ton upon the importance of the in
tellectual, moral, and religious
forces of the Nation is not only re
vealed by his actions, but is clear
ly set forth in his statements. He
looked upon these attributes as the
foundation which supported the in
stitutions of our Republic. This
opinion was most forcibly expressed
in his farewell address, where lie
said:
“ ‘Of all the dispositions and hab
its which lead to political prosper
ity, religion and morality are iudis-
■ (Continued on Page Flight.)
Federal Education Bill Is Opposed
By Noted American Educators
President Lowell of Harvard, Former President Hadley
of Yale, Bishop Candler, Chancellor of Emory, and Pres
ident Mullins of Baptist Seminary Among Its Critics.
(By N C. W. C. News Service)
Washington.—Hearings , .on .the
Curtis-Reed hill to federalize educa
tion through creation of a Depart-
/ment of Education with a Cah.net
officer at its head were closed here
February 2f> by the Congressional
Committee which for three days has
heard the measure alternately laud
ed and condemned.
Eech side having had one day, the
day was divided between proponents
and opponents. In the morning the
Seotisli Rite Masons a Labor group,
a former N. E A. president and
numerous members of the N. E. A.
lobby which has stormed Washing
ton with pleas for the measure
worked feverishly to rebut the argu
ments by its foes yesterday. 1 lie
hear ng closed in the evening with
the National Catholic Welfare Con
ference; the Knights of Columbus,
representing 800,01)0 voters; the
powerful National Grange, largest
farmers’ organization in the coun
try; tlie National Council of Catho
lic Men; the National Council of
Catholic Women; Constitutional
groups; the Nutional Catholic
Alumni Federation, representing 50,-
000 college men; and the Interna
tional Federation of Catholic Alum
nae, representing 60,000 women,
vigorously registering their opposi
tion.
sure absolutely as un-American.
There were also introduced state
ments from a Cabinet officer, two
Governors and two powerful Pro
testant church leaders expressing
firm opposition.
These statements, introduced with
a view to establishing the fact that
the great figures ih American educa
tion arc arrayed against the hill
and that its opposition is non
sectarian, came, among others, from
President Lowell of Havard, former
President Hadley of Yale Presiden:
Emeritus Judson of the Universi
ty of Chicago, President Hopkins o:
Dartmouth, President Sills of Bow
doin. President Church of the, Car
negie Institute. Provost Pcnniman
of the University of Pennsylvania
Dean Albers of the Boston Univer
sity Law STiool and President Pen
rose of Whitman. Other opposing
statements inserted were from Presi
dent Cloud of St. Louis University
and President McLaughlin of Seton
Hall.
Charles E. Hughes Assails
Religious Prejudice
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
New York.—Charles Evans
Hughes, former Secretary of
state, assailed religious bigotry,
at a kosher .dinner given here
February 23 by the Federal Coun
cil of Churches of Christ of
America.
The luncheon was given by
the Federal Council to promi
nent rabbis, Jewish laymen and
civic leaders.
“It is a strange thing indeed,”
Mr. Hughes said, “that in this
twentieth century wc should see
the beast of religious bigotry
raise its hateful head and do it
in the very name of the Amer
icanism which it soils by its vi
cious influences. It is time for
us to go back to the true Amer
icanism of our fathers, the
fathers, the Americanism of re
ligious freedom. We can’t ex
pect to seek international peace
on a substantial footing until
we have created good will in our
own midst.”
KANSAS CITI PRIEST IS
[ FEB. B
Fr. Hagedorn of Cathedral
Mysteriously Disappeared
After Leaving On Sick Call
HEROIC POLISH PRELATE
Archbishop Cieplak, Whom
Reds Once Condemned to
Death, 111 But a Week
((Bv N. C. W. C. News Service.)
Passaic, N. J.—The Most Rev. John
Cieplak, Archbishop of Vilna and
storm center of the notorious Bol
shevik anti-religious trials at Mos
cow in 1923, died here February 17,
in St. Mary’s Hospital after a week’s
illness from pneumonia. He was
sixty-nine years old. Ilis death
came on the eve of his projected
departure for Poland to take posses
ion of liis See of Vilna to which he.
was appointed after he had arrived
in the United States last November.
He had been visiting with the
Rev. Stanislaus Kruevek, pastor of
Holy Rosary Catholic church here,
who had been the Archbishop s
traveling companion in the United
States.
Once confusion threatened
big caucus room when spectators
hissed Dr. Morgan, editor of the N
E. A. Journal, as he spoke con
temptuously of the educational ex
perience of those who opposed the
bill. Shortly afterward letters were
introduced from the presidents of
a dozen of the country’s leading
universities condemning the mea-
Ohio City Honors Native Son, First
x American to Be Apostolic Delegate
Tlie Rt. Rev. Warren A. Candler,
Bishop of Atlanta and Chancellor
of Emory University, Atlanta, rank
ing Methodist Episcopal bishop of
the South, said:
“I am quite as much opposed to
.. the Curtis-Reed bill as I was to the
Uie mith-Towner Bill. * * I hope
the bui will not pass.”
An article by Bishop Candler in
a Methodist publication, also filed
with the committee, read in part:
“It would receive large annual ap
propriations for distribution among
the states, and the Secretary, by
disbursing these large sums upon
certain conditions, could, and would
color and control the education of
the youth of the notion. * * *. It
proposes for the United States o
thoroughly Prussianized system of
education. The creation of a De
partment of Religion, with a Secre
tary in the President’s Cabinet
would be scarcely more injurious or
(By N. C. W. C. News Service.)
Youngstown.—Twenty-four hours
after he had arrived in New York
from Rome, Archbishop Edward A.
Mooney, recently appointed Apos
tolic Delegate to the East Indies,
was hack in his home city. His
coming here was made the occasion
of a civic demonstration and non-
Catholic as well as Catholic throng
ed the station area and tlie down
town streets to participate in the
welcome.
Dr. Mooney will spent several
weeks in this vicinity prior to his
return to Rome for final instruc
tions from the Vatican before going
to Bangalore, India, scene of his
new la hoi's;
As the train hearing Dr Mooney
nnd his companions on the journey
from New York came into this city
whistles in every factory and hells
in every church that lias them be
gan to shriek and ring out a wel
come. „
Greets His Family.
Dr. Mooney went from the train
(By N. C. W. C. News Service.)
Kansas City, Mo.—Tlie mystery
surrounding the disappearaff’.e Feb
ruary 6 of the Rev. F. E. Hagedorn,
assistant at the Cathedral of the Im
maculate Conception here is still un
solved. Father Hagedorn left the
Cathedral recory about seven o clock
Saturday night to make a sick cail
and has not been seen since. His
prayer book, empty hill fold, and a
eather case for carry holy oils, were
round the day after his disappear
ance in an alley five blocks from the
Cathedral.
Bank records have' revealed that
lie priest drew $170 Saturday and
Brother Vincent of De Le Salle Aca-
lemy has reported seeing the priest
using a public telephone shortly lie-
ore he drew the money Father
lagedorn vislsed the office of the
Catholic R gister” here Saturday
morning and nothing unusual was
notice^ about liis appearance at that ,Tjjsliops
It has been ascertained that a let
ter written-to his mother at Pierce
City that day stated that lie was ill
and suffered from a severe head
ache. The letter also said the priest
would visit* his mother soon. A
brother of the missing priest was
here Wednesday to see Bishop Lillis
but had no information other than
that already revealed.
Commenting on Father Hagedorn's
disappearance Bishop Lillis said:
‘I considered him possessed of an
unusually bright mind, an even dis
position,’ and a kind manner in his
lealings with parishioners. He had
no personal enemies; no reason can
'be assigned for violence. We are
baSfled by his going and there is
nothing but mystery so far”
more un-American.
’ They
claim the teachers of America are
favorable to it As a matter of fact
an overwhelming majority .of the
teachers of the United States have
never given it d thought. If they
had. they would oppose it as an un
warranted and hurtful interference
•by the Federal Government with the
ij’ork of their noble profession."
to Ilia..mother’s home and there
greeted her and several brothers
and sisters, all assembled again for
the occasion. At the train Dr.
Mooney was welcomed on behalf of
the city by Mayor C. F Scheible
and by Rev. Edward A. Kirby, pas
tor of the Sacred Heart parish on
behalf of the fellow priests of the
archhisliop. Each delivered a brief
address of felicitation.
After greeting Archbishop Mooney
Mayor Scheible said “It is with the
greatest satisfaction that I, repre
senting the city of Youngstown, of
fer greetings and extend the keys of two highest positions in tlie*gift of
the Baptist Church, said;
this—your own city. ’
Cleveland.—A dinner attended by
several hundred priests was given
Archbishop Mooney, the new Apos
tolic Delegate to the East Indies, in
Hotel Cleveland February 25, Bishop
Sclirembs. Chancellor James A. Mc-
Fadden and Rev Carl E. Frey, spir
itual director of tlie diocesan semi
nary, spoke. The guest of honor al
so spoke informally.
Dr. Edgar Young Mullins, presi
dent of the Baptist World Alliance,
President since 1899 of the South
ern Baptist Theological Seminary
President of tlie Southern Baptist
Convention and said to hold the
Centralized, bureaucratic etluca
tion proved its deadly power under
tlie recently deceived German Im
perial Government. It standardized
tlie life out of the education system
itself, and in due time out of the
Government. The genius of Ameri
can government and institutions
calls for the free play ol' indivluai-
(Continued on Page 3)
It was in the spring of 1923 that
the name of Archbishop Cieplak
llaslred around the world in the news
reports of the farcial trial through
which he and other Catholic eccle
siastics were convicted by a Red tri
bunal in Moscow of having conspir
ed against the Revolutionary Gov
ernment But at that time lie was
already sixty-six years old and had
devoted more than an ordinary life
time to the service of his Church.
The Archbishop was born in 1857
in Dombrova, in the diocese of
Kielcc. He became Titular Bishop
of Kvnria in 1908 and in 1919 was
appointed Auxiliary of the Archdio
cese of Mohilew, and promoted to
the Titular Arcliepiscopal See of A-r-
rida. When Archbishop De Itopp
of Mohilew was forced to leave Rus
sia due to Bolshevist persecution,
Archbishop Cieplak became the head
of the Catholic Hierarchy in Russia.
Then came the scries of perscu-
tions of th Church, confiscation of
Church treasures, prohibition of in
struction of children in religion, and
other acts of the atheist Moscow- au
thorities. The persecution culminat
ed in March, 1823, when Archbishop
Cieplak and a group of his fellow
Catholic ecclesiastics were herded
before a Bolshevist tribunal in Mos
cow and after a mockery of a trial
convicted of having conspired
against the Revolution. Tlie Arch
bishop and his Vicar-General, Mon
signor Budiewifccz, were condemned
to death.
The cry of horror from the civiliz
ed world and the flood of protests
from heads of states and private in
dividuals and organizations through
out tlie world caused tlie Red au
thorities to pause before the sen
tences were executed. The Arcli-
sentcncc was commuted to
ten years’ imprisonment in the
Butirka prison- at the time consid
ered equivalent to a death sentence
for a man of his years. Mousignor
Budkiewiecz, notwithstanding all ef
forts on his lichalf, was murdered
by Soviet officials.
PARlSIONEItS BUILD CHURCH.
London- A church built by the lo
cal Catholic men in their leiure
hours, from material salvaged in tlie
demolition of an old house, was
opened this week at Penilebury, near
Manchester The new Bishop of Sal
ford (Msgr. Henshaw) who was asso
ciated with the district as a boy,
was present at the High Mass which
marked the inauguration of the
church.
Fifteen National Shrine Altars I
Installed--! rotestant Gives One
((By N. C. W. C. News Service.)
Washington.—EVeryone of tlie fif
teen exquisite altars now being in
stalled in tlie Crypt of tlie National
Shrine of the Immaculate Concep
tion here has now been subscribed,
it was announced this week by ttie
Rev. Dr. Bernard McKenna, who is
directing the work. At the same
time Dr. McKenna announced the
names of the donors.
Besides ttie altars there also have
been subscribed all the wonderful
artistic settings of the fifteen chap
els, save one. In most of the cases
pious persons have provided chapels
complete, including the altars for
which the donation was $10,000. This
comprehends, in addition to the al
tar which is of Algerian onyx deli
cately chiseled and inlaid with cer
amics. the lovely lunette window,
with its slender images in stained
glass'; the blue-and-gold mosaic sof-
fett, the whole marble setting of the
chapel wjtli its rich mosaic inlay, the
three mosaic panels with their fig
ures of saints which form the hack
and sides, and the two great marble
colunmns which stand at the entrance
of each chapel.
AH that now remains to be sub
scribed to make the chapels com
plete is tlie soffett, tlie marble sot
ting, the panels and columns in tlie
chapel of St. Agatiia.
Donors of Chapels.
Donors of these chapels, the gems
of tlie crypt, as announced liy Dr.
McKenna, include. Chapel of SS. Pev-
petua and Felicias—Mrs Peter Car-
roll of Charleston, \V. Va., donor of
altar; Chapel of St. Margaret of
Cappadocia—Hugh Lynch of Chatta
nooga. Tc-nn.. in memory of liis
daughter, Catherine Mary Lynch.
It is notable that one of the com
plete chapels is given by a non-
Catliolic. It is that of St. Suzanna
of Rome, and is donated by Mrs. Fay
in memory of her son, Sigourney
Fay, who became a Catholic a priest
and a monsignor and attained wide
prominence for bis literary work.