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(From N. C. W. C. News' Service)
SALEM, Mass.—D enunciation
the work of vandals who cverturn-
one hundred v-.onuments in St.
Jary's Catholic Cemetery here
ptember 8th has been voiced by
classes of citizens. The Salem
'Jews, the Boston Pest and other
publications have deplored the out
rages editorially. The police have
been able to make no arrests thus
far.
WASHINGTON, D. C.—A commis
sion of Bishops under the presidency
of Cardinal Hayes has been formed
to supply Catholic chaplains to the
army and navy whenever vacancies
for a Catholic chaplain exist. There
are 29 priest chaplains in the Army,
—ten in the Navy; there are two
Catholic vacancies in the Army, four
in the Navy.
1 MEXICO CITY—The appearance
at a public banquet in Puebla of
the Archbishop of Puebla and the
Bishop of Papantla as guests along
with state officials and the military
is regarded as significant of the
progress of religious peace in the
country.
NEW YORK, N. Y.—A plea for deaf
mutes was broadcast here Septem
ber 10th by Rev. M. A. Purtell, S. J„
pastor of the Catholic Deaf Mutes of
New York. Four of the fifteen Ca
tholic schools for deaf mutes are in
New York states, and Father Pur
tell pleaded for additional facilities
throughout the country.
LOS ANGELES, Cal.—Rev. Victor
J. Follen and Rev. C. C. Conaty, pas
tors of St. Gregory’s and Immaculate
Conception parishes respectively, left
recently for the Orient and a trip
around the world. ( Father Conaty
was chaplain at Camp Hancock, Au
gusta. Ga., and in France during the
World War. Ed The Bulletin.)
LA TROBE, Pa.—Rt. Rev. Aurelius
Stehle, O. S. B., Archbishop of St.
Vincent's, has just returned from
Rome, where he was received twice
in private audience with the Pope
to discuss the Catholic University in
China.
LOS ANGELES, Cal.—Rev. R. P.
Shuler, anti-Catholic lecturer, must
stand trial for criminal libel for
published statements in his anti-
Catholic magazine in which he by
insinuation charged former Mayor
Cryer. a non-Cathlic, with graft.
Judge Shaw of the superior court,
ruled that the anti-Catholc minister
must s and trial.
OAKLAND, Cal.—St. Elizabeth’s
parish herp has just launched a novel
campaign to raise $10,000. Instead of
holding the customary bazaar, the
adult members of the family have
been asked to set aside ten cents a
day for one hundred days; remit
tances are to be. made every ten
day.s Children ‘will contribute a
penny a day.
PARIS—The Sulpician Fathers, fa
mous for theif seminaries in the
United States, Canada and France,
are to open a jeminary for natives of
Indo-China in Hanoi there this fall.
NEWTON, N. J.—Very Rev. Michael
O. S. B.. prior of Little Flower
Monastery, has just announced plans
for a new shrine church and Bene
dictine novitiate. The tower of the
shrine will be started first, with the
nave to follow.
BUFFALO, N. Y.—Nine members of
the Burke Brothers baseball team
of this city, which won the national
championship of Ameican Legion’s
Junior World Series at Louisville
September 6th, are Catholics and
students of St. Joseph’s Collegiate In
stitute here.
Daughter of Connie
Mack to Become Nun
Miss McGillicuddy to Enter
Pliiladelohia Convent
"GOING, THEREFORE,
TEACH ALL NATIONS’
Several Bands of Priests
and Nuns Leave to Do Mis
sionary Work in Orient
Tolerance in South America
Commended by Irvin Cobb
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Mary Cornelia McGillicuddy,
(y N. C. W. C. News Service)
BHILADELPHIA — Miss Mary
Cornelia McGillicuddy, eldest
daughter of Cornelius McGillicuddy,
or Connie Mack as he is known the
country over in beseball circles is
to become a postulant of the Sisters
of St. Joseph at Chestnut Hills, su
burb of Philadelphia. Her father
is about to enter the World Series.
Miss McGillicuddy has always tak
en enthusiastic interest in the game
and in the fortunes of her fatner’s
team. Indeed it has jestingly been re
marked by some that she oiten knew
more about Connie Mack’s signals
than did the players who watched
for them. All the family, for that
matter, have long been keen root
ers for the Athletics; one of Mr.
McGillicuddy’s sons, Earl, is one of
the assistant coaches of the team.
The daughter’s interest in sports
has not been confined to baseball.
At Mt. St. Joseph’s Academy, from
which she was graduated in June,
she was captain of the championhip
basketball team which last season
won the pennant in Catholic Girls’
League of Philadelphia. She also
stood high in her . studies and was
connected with the school paper.
Her parents, both ardent Catholics,
have evinced satisfaction at their
daughter's choice of the religious
life.
MISSIONERS TO MANCHURIA
(By N. C. W. C. News Service.)
NEW YORK—The Maryknoll Mis
sion in southeastern Manchuria will
receive its first group of American
Sisters this autumn. Those who have
been chosen are: Sr. M. Eunice
Tolan, of Arlington, Mass.( Supr.)
Sr. M. Gemma Shea, of Roslindale,
Mass.; M. Angelica O’Leary, of
Newsome, Idaho; Sr. M. Juliana
Bedier, of Salt Lake Ciy, and Sr.
M. Coronata Sheehan of Springfield,
Mass.
The Sisters will go to the large city
of Dairen, where a convent has been
prepared for them by the Maryknoll
pastor, the Rev. Leopold H. Tibesar
of Quincy, 111. Father Tibesar was
the first Catholic priest to reside
permanently in this city of over
one hundred thousand souls. An
other Maryknoll priest, the Rev.
Francis E. Mullen, of Pittston, Pa.,
has recently begun work among the
Chinese of Dairen.
LEAVE FOR ORIENT
(By N. C. W. C. News Service.)
SAN FRANCISCO—Sixteen Amer
ican College Girls who have become
nuns of Maryknoll. the American Ca
tholic Foreign Missionary Society,
sailed from San Francisco September
13th.
To Hongkong, Sr. M. Xavera Witt-
man, Erie, Pa.; Sr. M. Marcella Hag
gerty, Ambridge, Pa.; Sr. M. Cole
man. Wilkes-Barre. Pa.; Sr. M.
Brigida Keily. Brooklyn, N. Y., and
Sr. M. Redempta Coffey, Glen Falls,
N. Y. To Hawaii, Sr. M. Rosemary
Defelica, New Haven, Conn.; Sr. M.
Bridgettine Mills, Dickson, Neb.; Sr.
M. Daniel Young. Butler. Pa.; Sr. M.
Consuelo Laindecker, Pittsburgh, Pa.;
(Continued on Page Six)
Noted Priest Editor
and Novelist Dies
Absence of Bigotry There
Is in Refreshing Contrast
to Situation in Some Parts
of U. S., He Says in Article
“There exists in the Catholic coun
tries of South America 'a tolerance
in religious issues which is a re
freshing contract to the sentiment
prevalent in some sections of our own
country.” Irvin S. Cobb, noted au
thor, declares in an article on the
Southern Republics in the Septem
ber issue of the Cosmopolitan ma
gazine.
“To begin with, the well-bred
South American is not to be drawn
into a controversy with you merely
because you happen to differ with
him on any item oT dogmatic faith,
be it social, or moral, political or
spiritual,” writes Mr. Cobb, who is
a native of Kentucky and not a Ca
tholic. “He leaves you to your opin
ion, no matter how erroneous he
privately may think that opinion is.
In short, he doesn’t set himself up
to be his brother’s keeper—and that,
I think, is a beautiful virtue common
in this land and, by contrast, exceed
ingly rare in a certain land which
I might mention, but won’t.
The Rev. Cornelius F. Donovan
of Chicago, Catholic Editor and
novelist, whose death took place
recently.. Father Donovan, who
before entering the priesthood,
was a newspaper man. had
been connected with “The New
World” of Chicago for years. He
was the author of two novels
and many short stories
Catholic Training of Youth
Superior,Educator Declares
“In the second place, there is a
fine something about the South Am
erican temperament which saves its
owner from manifesting prejudices
against another man’s conscientious
convictions. Without surrendering
his own beliefs, he nevertheless has
an inquiring mind for any good
which may hide in the stranger's
church. More than anything else,
this, I think, helps to explain the
agreeable phenomena which are met
with here and there, and, as you
might say. everywhere down there.
. . . In" South America, it would ap
pear that one may be non-Protestant
without being anti-Prctestant. and
vice-versa, which is pleasant for all
concerned.
M. I. T. Professor Tells Na
tional Business Conference
'Catholic Youth Is Com
petent in Social Ethics
Mexico Repudiates
Anti-Clerical Law
Chemistry Threatens
War, Garvan Asserts
Expresses View on Re
ceiving Chemistry Award
Franciscan Magazine
Editor Dies in Texas
..Minneapolis — The “dread possibi
lities" of modern chemistry in com
bination with aeronautics have made
war impossible, a paper written .by
Francis P. Garvin, noted Catholic
philanthropist, and read September 11
at the session of the American Chem
ical Society, declared... The society
presented to Mr. Garvan its highest
award, the Priestly Medal for dis
tinguished services in chemistry
.. The medal was accepted. for Mr.
Garvan l>y Professor Julius Sticglitz
of the University of Chicago.. Mr.
Garvan is recuperating in New York
from, a nervous, breakdown.. The
award was decided upon six months
ago and was made in tribute to Mr.
Garvan's services to chemistry after
he was. appointed. Alien Property
Custodian by President Wilson dur
ing the war, and. learned how the
German and. Austrian dye. patents,
which the government placed in his
care, had served to. dominate tire
chemical industry in America.
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
..Chicago — The. Rev. Faustin. E.
Hack, O. F. M., for ten years con
nected with. Franciscan Herald,, a
magazine published in Chicago by the
Franciscan Fathers, of the. middle
west, died at San Antonio, Texas,
September 6 after a lingering illness
of more than a year.. Father Hack
was ordained nineteen years ago and
spent the early years of his priestly
life doing parochial work in Illinois,
Missouri, Michigan and Minnesota. .
.. Ten years ago Father Hack was as
signed to Franciscan Herald in the
capacity of assistant’ director, and a
few years later he was appointed
general, director of. the publication.
Under his direction Franciscan Her
ald became nationally knon.. He was
a native of Cleveland.
Actress Aids Cancer
Home by Her Will
(ByN . C. W. C. News Service.)
NEW YORK—The Sisters’ Home
for Cancer at Hawthorne, ..N. Y.,
will receive a half share in the
residuary estate. of Mrs. Edna
Macauley Lewisohn, noted actress of
a generation ago, according to the
terms of her will just fileR for pro
bate. Mrs. Fox left an estate of
$400,000. After distribution of speci
fic bequests, the estate will be shared
by the Sisters’ Home with the Henry
Street Settlement. Visiting Nurses’
Association of New York City.
WELLESLEY HILLS, Mass. — The
Catholic youth of the nation is far
better trained and intellectually more
competent in matters of religion and
social ethics than the Protestant, Rob
ert E. Rogers, associate professor of
English at the Massachusetts Insti
tute of Technology, declared in an
address in which he pointed out
faults in the national education sys
tem, September 7. before the Nation
al Business Conference here.
Of the Protestant youth of the na
tion, Professor Rogers said:
“Our American Protestan boys and
girls are as little interested in ideas
of religion and social ethics as they
are in politics and science. They
seem to have no ideas on which to
build. They have received no train
ing on these matters in school and,
apparently, none in their churches.
So far as I can see the religion of
the educated, intelligent Protestant
youth of the future will be Christ
ian only in the looser sense. The
God of their future will be the ex
perimental evolutionary God of natu
ral science. That is unless our Prot
estant church gets together and does
some competent creative thinking.”
Most of the young people, he, said,
no longer believe that matters of con
duct have anything to do with re
ligion. Excessive drinking, he as
serted, they do not regard as a sin.
If they avoid it, he said, it is be
cause they think it socially wrong.
Professor Regers ' differed from the
views of those who say “our young
peoole are irreligious,” asserting:
“They have no intellectual training
which enables them to settle their re
ligious problems adequately. The
Catholic boy or girl seems to me
far better trained and intellectually
more competent in matters of relig
ious and social ethics than the Prot
estant. The Hebrew young people.
Professor Rogers added, also are far
more wide-awake than many of the
Protestant youth.”
MARQUETTE MONUMENT
DEDICATED IN ILLINOIS
CHICAGO—A seven-foot cross of
stone, a monument to Pere Marquette,
erected at a snot in Grafton, where
the Jesuit expforer is believed first
to have entered the State of Illinois,
has just been dedicated with appro
priate ceremonies. The Rt. Rev.
James A. Griffin. Bishop of Spring-
field, 111., presided.
Governor Louis Emmerson received
the statue on behalf of the people of
Illinois. The Rev. Frederic J. Sieden-
burg. S. J.. dean of Loyola University
School of Sociology, also spoke.
Tells State of Tabasco Rule
That Priests Must Marry Is
Unconstitutional
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
San Antonio, Tex., — A circular to
all State governments in Mexico, call
ing to their attention that, the con
stitution of that country does not
give to State authorities any pow
er in religious matters other than
the right to fix the maximum num
ber of priests, has just been issued
by the Secretary of Gobernacion, ac
cording to a dispatch in La Prensa,
Mexican newspaper issued here..
The circular declares that the Fed
eral Government has direct control
ever the Church buildings, the dis
patch states, and the States are in
formed that they may not fix the
number of Bishops nor may they by
law fix the qualifications of either
Bishops or priests.
In the same communication, the
Secretary of Gobernacion declared
unconstitutional the law in the State
of Tobasco which requires members
of the clergy to marry.
“I found out that, taking us by
and large, we here in North America
know far too little and think too
little about those people in South
America—our ignorance touching on
their culture and their institutions
and their possessions is as collossal
as it is criminal. Buenos Aires is
not only one of the largest cities in
the world, but one of the handsomest,
and one of the cleanest, and one of
the most modern.
“Rio, in Brazil, is incomparably the
most beautiful city in the world—
the single city familiar to me where
man has neither marred nor destroy
ed the natural gorgeousness of the
setting, but has. by the work of hi3
hands, enhanced and adorned it.
“Santiago, in Chile, is the magnifi
cent capital of what potentially, and
in certain respects actully. is one
of the most promising countries any
where.
“South America has developed a
real and distinctive literature and is
rapidly developing a worth-while art
to march along with it.
“The Argentine Republic and Chile
have dealt on sane grounds with the
immigration question, which we so
sadly bungled. In those two coun
tries rational inducements for colon
ization are offered to the selected and
specified stocks of certain favored
European countries, and rational
barriers are interposed against the
suspect and the unfit. The newcomer,
who is willing to work the lanR
has governmental aid from the hour
of his landing until he becomes self-
sustaining. By a wisely administer
ed screening process the doors are
closed on the other kind.”
The Chicago Tribune recently ear-
continued on Page Six)
Holland Protestants and i
Catholics Own Same Radio
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
MAASTRICT, Holland. —The
Catholics of Holland do their own
broadcasting as they teach their own
schools and run their own press.
For their own state supported schools
they fought a hard fight for over
half a century; for their own daily
press, second to none in the land,
now, their struggle was even harder
and of longer duration; but for the
Catholic radio broadcasting, they
came into their own after a short
and well conducted crusade led by a
son of St. Dominic, the Rev. Father
L. H. Perquin. To his clearsignted-
ness, decision and' zeal, they owe
the enviable place they hold in the
land’s world of radiophony.
There is room in Holland for only
two stations. They crowd the air
when operating at the same time. It
was. therefore, deemed more practi
cal for Catholics :o come to an agree
ment with their Protestant brethren.
The Dutch radio listeners could
not be satisfied with the so-called
neutral broadcasting advocated by
“liberal” politicians. The majority
indeed consider neutrality at best as
a camouflaged presentation of con
ceptions hardly ever to be accepted
by the self-thinking who adhere to
their own creeds—whether political
or religious. Wherefore, the Cath
olics, the orthodox Protestants, the
Liberal political party and the So
cialists founded each a broadcasting
association. At first all four used the
Hilversum station. Then the Cath
olics and the Orthodox Protestants
decided upon the erection of a plant
of their own. At it, the Catholic As
sociation disposes of fifty hours a
week to send out upon the air, for
its listeners. Bible readings; eathe-
chetical instructions; devotional and
comforting instructions for the sick;
apologetic lectures; courses ou
church history, on church Latin, on
the modern languages; devotional
and church music, recreative music,
etc.