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AUGUSTA, GEORGIA, JANUARY 18, 1930
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PAPACY’S AID TO
PEACE DESCRIBED
Dr. Corrigan of Boston Col
lege Recalls Cases Where
Vatican Was Arbitrator
)BY N. C. W. C. News Service)
BOSTON. — The role of the Popes
in promoting and maintaining world
peace was discussed by the Rev.
Jones I. Corrigan, S. J., Professor of
Sociology at Boston College, in a
talk before 1,000 members of the
League of Catholic Women, meeting
at Notre Dame Academy here.
“With the new freedom which will
flow from the Lateran Treaties and
the openly accepted sovereignty of
the Holy See, Vatican City will
gather a diplomatic corps composed
of men not immersed in the intrigues
and bargainings of a mataerialisttc
world, but devoted to the promotion
of international peace, based on in
ternational co-operation and not on
international rivalry,” said Father
Corrigan.
“The supra-national character of
the Holy See, subject to no nation,
yet keenly interested in the well-be
ing of all. is the reason for the con
fidence of the nations in the impar
tiality of the Popes in adjusting in
ternational disputes.
“Nowhere in all the world is there
to be found an atmosphere in which
the spirit of conciliation between na
tions will thrive as in the atmos
phere of Vatican City. As a place
where controversies may be brought
with confidence that here the dis
putants will be free in their discus
sion. able to find in the Holy Father
a friend worthy of their trust, emi
nently fitted to reconcile divergent
views, and aid them in the just so
lution of their differences, it is with
out a peer.”
Father Corrigan gave an interest
ing summary of the part the Vatican
has played in international concilia
tion in the past. Beginning with
“the Peace of God” and “the Truce
of God” in feudal times, he explain
ed the mediations of Popes in the
Hundred Years War, as well as the
work of Nicholas V in offering his
arbitration to France, England, Hun
gary,! P.oumania, Lithuania, Albania
and the Italian powers.
“These few cases of Papal arbi
tration. picked from a host of
others.” he said, “show clearly that
though the Popes during the later
mediaeval centuries were unable to
enforce peace, they were looked up
on as natural mediators between
warring Christian powers.
Three Catholic Institutions
Aided by the Hubert Fund,
GERMANY REGRETS™
MUM’S TRANSFER
Officiates at
Eoyal Marriage
Successor of Cardinal Cas-
parri Honored in Berlin
By DR. WILLY ELMENDORFF
(Berlin Correspondent, N. C. W. C.
News Service)
BERLIN — Germans of every rank
and denomination sow Msgr. Eugenio
Pacelli depart from Berlin with great
regret, although they knew greax
honors awaited him in Vatican City.
For twelve years he has lived in
Germany, first as Apostolic Delegate
to Bavaria and then as Nuncio at
Berlin, sharing the tribulations as
well as the pleasures of the people,
mingling with them freely, which he
could do all the better because of
his perfect knowledge of their lan
guage.
When on December ,9 Msgr. Pa
celli presented his resignation to
President von Hindenburg, he was
received at the president’s palace
with military honors and was shown
the same token of respect upon his
departure. In presenting his resig
nation, he thanked the elderly presi
dent of the Reich for his cooperation
and courtesy, paid tribute to the de
ceased Dr. Stresemann and expressed
great hopes for the future of the
German Republic under the Presi
dency of von Hindenburg.
In the presence of Dr. Curtuis, Dr.
Stresemann’s successor as Minister of
Foreign Affairs, and Her von Schu
bert Secretary of State, the German
President replied that he was very
sorry to see Msgr. Pacelli depart from
his post in Berlin which he had oc
cupied for nine years. He also spoke
of his hopes for the establishment
Selected Among 3 3 Schools
and Agencies Named by
Coolidge, Smith, Rosenwald
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
NEW YORK.—Three Catholic in
stitutions are among the 33 schools
and welfare agencies named by for
mer President Coolidge, former Gov
ernor Alfred E. Smith and Julius [
Rosenwald as beneficiaries of a SG,-
000,000 to $8,000,000 fund provided by
the will of Conrad Hubert.
St. Vincent’s Hospital, New York ,
City, is named to receive $500,000, pay- |
able from the funds on hand.
The Catholic University of Am
erica, Washington, D. C.. is named to
receive $50,000, payable from the first
$1,000,000 of the residuary estate.
The Madonna Day Nursery, New
York City, is named with nine other
institutions to share the remainder
of the residuary estate, which, it is
estimated, is between $400,000 and $2 -
400,000.
(Continued on Page Three)
NOTRf DAME ELEVEN
DECLARED CHAMPION
“The most famous case of Papal
arbitration in modern times, Father
Corrigan declared, “was when Bis
marck appealed to Leo XIII in 1885,
to arbitrate Germany’s dispute with
Spain over the Caroline Islands. The
Pope succeeded perfectly in adjust
ing the rival claims.
“The Papacy has always seized up
on any favorable opportunity of
exercising her good influence in the
cause of justice, peace and amity
between all nations. The League of
Nations and the Kellogg Peace Pact
have brought us a long way towards
peace, but the one is political, the
other a convention that will hardly
stand the test of heated national pas<
sion.
“The world needs some great mor
al force to guide and uphold it amid
the ambitions of sovereigns and
statesmen, to protect men against
their own cruel and rapacious in
stincts, and to set a higher tone of
n u m a n sympathy and fraternity
among men generally. The new
Papacy supplies just this moral force.
World peace has a powerful ally of
far-reaching influence in the New
Vatican State.”
Committee
Writers
of
Make
Leading
Award
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
NOTRE DAME, Ind. — Notre Dame
University’s 1929 football team has
been named champion of the United
States by a committee of leading
American sports writers, who made
known their choice in a ballot spon
sored by Albert Russell Erskine, au
tomobile manufacturer. The result
was announced New Year’s day by
W. O. McGeehan, of The New York
Herald Tribune, chairman of the com
mittee of award.
The Rockne team received 179 voles
on the final ballot. Second was Pitts
burgh with 41, and Purdue rated
third with two votes. The vote of the
committee of award itself gave Notre
Dame eleven additional votes, bring
ing that university's total up to 190.
None of the other teams received a
vote from the committee of award.
Among those voting was Governor
Theodore Roosevelt, who cabled his
ballot from Porto Rico through the
War Department.
The Notre Dame team will receive
a huge silver cup, to be held for one
year, signifying it as champion. At
the presentation ceremony, Knute
Rockne, famous coach of Notre
Dame, will be presented with an
eight-cylinder automobile by Mr.
Erskine.
The Bankers Trust Company, of
this city, and C. Bertram Plante, as
executors and trustees of Mr. Hubert’s
will, selected former President Cool
idge, former Governor Smith and Mr.
Rosenwald as a committee to select
the institutions to receive awards un
der the will. The schools, institu
tions and agencies named by the com
mittee were decided upon following
more than a dozen conferences in
which more than 500 institutions were
considered. Mr. Plante said that 1.-
600 requests for aid from persons all
over the country had been received
and immediately rejected since the
committee was formed.
1 Former Governor Smith said that
the committee had tried to the best of
its ability to make the money produce
more money for charity, a like
amount or as much more as possible.
“The principle which has guided US
in all the selections,” he said, “has
been to aid the institutions which
have planned new construction or
permanent improvements, or needed
additional funds for the extension of
charitable work already started.
‘'Jake St. Vincent’s Hospital. For
half a century the New York Hos
pital on Fifteenth Street has had an
obstetrical ward at St. Vincent’s.
Now that ward is being moved to the
Cornell University Medical Center,
leaving the whole lower half of Man-
hattan without an obstetrical ward.
The hospital had the land on Seventh
Avenue but needed the money for
the building. So we decided to give
it $500,000.’”
Former Governor Smith also said
that Mr. Hubert, the originator of the
pocket flashlight, had, during his life
time, made generous contributions to
many worthy causes. The committee,
he said, did the most it could to fol-’
low in his footsteps. It received re
ports from every institution to which
he contributed, and “followed him
where we found that there was still a
real need.”
Alabama Fire Renders 150
Holy Trinity Nuns Homeless
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
HOLY TRINITY, Ala.—The Mother
house and Novitiate of the Mission
ary Servants of the Blessed Trinity
was completely destroyed by fire of
undetermined origin January 2, with
damage variously estimated at from
$100,000 to $150,000.
About 150 Sisters, sleeping in the
building when the fire broke out,
were endangered and barely escaped
with their lives.
The Blessed Sacrament was rescued
at the risk of his life by the Rev.
Thomas Judge, C. M., founder of the
Holy Trinity congregation here.
The most serious loss to the Sis
ters, who have worked tirelessly in
the face of apparently insurmount
able obstacles to make the mother-
house a success, was the destruction
of records. All documents of the
group were destroyed, among them
the mailing list of the Holy Ghost
Magazine, which the Sisters pub
lished.
The disaster leaves the nuns home
less and penniless in a country where
very few Catholics live. The mother-
house was established about twelve
years ago and the path of progress
until the fire had been a most diffi
cult one. Improvements to the prop
erty have been made at great sacri
fice, and the blaze in one short night,
wiped out the evidences of more than
a decade of unremitting toil.
The building group destroyed, val
ued alone at about $50,000, consisted
of a main building flanked by two
wings. The former, 300 feet in length,
was the utility building, housing,
among other things, the offices of the
Holy Ghost.
The wings, each 150 feet in length,
contained a chapel, auditorium,
schoolrooms, and on the second floors,
dormitories and cells.
The structure was built in 1924.
Only recently a heating system was
installed at great cost, and work of
reboarding the building and con
structing a portico in front of it, was
halted by the fire.
Efforts to raise funds for recon
struction of the mother house already
have been begun by the Rev. Mother
Boniface, who is in charge of the
mother house.
DEVELOP CHARACTER
AS CURE FOR CRIME
Christ, Not Caesar, Can
Remedy Evils, Archbishop
Curley Declares in Sermon
GOVERNOR SMITH
DISCUSSES DUTY
OF CITIZENSHIP
In Talk Over WLWL, New
York, He Deplores Lack of
Interest in Government
His Eminence Pietro Cardinal
Maffi, Archbishop of Pisa, who
officiated at the marriage of
Crown Prince Humbert of Italy
and Princess Marie Jose of Bel
gium. in Rome. His Eminence,
on the day of the wedding, was
decorated by both King Victor
Emanuel of Italy and King Al
bert of Belgium.
Pope Says Jubilee
Mass at St. John's
Goes Forth to Italian Soil to
Officiate in Church Where
He Said His First Mass
)BY N. C. W. C. News Service)
BALTIMORE.— A plea for the de
velopment of Christian character ra
ther than additional laws was made
here January 5 by the Most Rev.
Michael J. Curley, Archbishop of
Baltimore, who delivered his New
Year's sermon in the Cathedral. At
the same time, the Rev. Francis X.
Talbot. S. J., speaking of St. Ignat
ius’ Church, condemned legislation
as a means Of fighting the spread of
obscene literature.
The ills of the country, Arch
bishop Curley said, are due to "the
spirit of great church bodies which
have given up appealing to Jesus
Christ and turned their appeals to
Caesar.”
(By Rev. John J. Cogsidine, M. M.)
ROME—“His Holiness has come
forth from Vatican soil, not only to
Rome but to the world.” It was a
prelate who spoke as he trailed in the
small group accompanying the Pope
through the Lateran Missionary Mu
seum. We were passing through the
Halls of China; we had left be
hind the Balkan countries, the Near
East, Mesopotamia, India, Siam,
Indo-China, Japan, and had before
us Oceania, Africa, and the Ameri
cas. It was still the small hours of
the morning of December 20th. to be
another memorable day of 1929, for
His Holiness had just finished Mass
in the church where 50 years ago
this morning he had been raised to
the priesthood.
What a mark of the man in this act
of the Vicar of Christ! Except for
the formal .procession of the blessed
Sacrament in the Piazza of St. Peter
last July, this the first journey of
a Pope beyond Vatican territory since
1870, was to the “Mother of the
Churches of the World,” St. John
Lateran’s, to say Mass in secret and
then to pass an hour luxuriating
amid the exhibits of the lands of the
world apostolate in a mission mu
seum of his own creation.
The system of multiplying laws
(Continued on page seven)
Son of Anti-Clerical
Leader Is Baptized
BY MSGR. ENRICO PUCCI
(Rome Correspondent N. C. W. C.
News Service)
ROME. — Two unusually interest
ing incidents that were direct de
velopments of the settlement of the
Roman Question have just come to
light. One is the conversion of Dr.
Aldo Mezzabotta son of Ernest Mez-
zabotta, who was an extremely pop
ular and bitterly anticlerical novel
ist. The other was the successful
invocation of a recent Italian law
to change the given name of a man
who declared that it was the choice
of his anticlerical father, and caused
him “moral suffering.”
After a visit to the Blessed Sacre-
(Continued on page seven)
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
NEW YORK. — Former Governor
Alfred E. Smith delivered a radio ad
dress for the first time in nearly a
year January G. when he spoke’on
“The Duties of Citizenship” over sta
tion WLWL. broadcasting agency of
the Paulist Fathers in New York.’
The former Governor’s speech was
devoted exclusively to the duties de
volving upon all citizens, and their
debt to the commonwealth. He em
phasized the importance of the vote,
and criticized those voters who rib-
main dormant in the four-year
period between presidential elec
tions.
“It is essential to understand and
to feel the close relationship of the
government to every home and there
fore to the life and welfare of the
family,” Mr. Smith said. “The gov
ernment and its affairs concern every
family. You have only to reflect on
some of the things which government
does for you and this becomes imme
diately apparent.”
The various phases of government
—health department, labor laws;
taxation and regulation of transpor
tation—were discussed by the speaker,
who pointed out their relations to the
family and its well-being.
“First of all,” the former Governor
continued, “people have the right to
express their choice of candidates for
the various offices to be filled on
every election day. No office is too
small or too unimportant to warrant
a faithful citizen in remaining away
from the polls. In the State of New
York hundreds of thousands of peo
ple only vote at presidential elections.
How can they claim to have any in
terest in the government of the state
or its civil divisions when for three
out of four years they refuse to par
ticipate in the elections?
“People who are not sufficiently in
terested to cast a ballot certainly can
not be interested in any operation of
the government. If such a feeling
were general and widespread
throughout all the states, democratic
representative government, so far as
the commonwealths of the country are
concerned, could not be said to b«
much of a success.
“Casting a ballot is only the begin
ning of what people ought to know
about their government. Democratic
representative government is-based on
the theory that those elected to the
law making bodies of the state are
the direct representatives of the peo
ple residing in the districts in which
they are elected. A pure democracy
in the place in the state for the pur
pose of making laws. Obviously that
is impossible. We therefore rest the
future success of the state upon rep
resentative democracy. There should
be as much interest in the election
of the representatives who make our
laws as we would take in our own
activities upon proposed statutes
were it possible for us all to be pre
sent and vote.
“It follows naturally that if repre
sentative government is to be a suc
cess a citizen should make it his
business to communicate his wishes
to his representatives. How many
people know the name of the senator
or the assemblyman representing the
district in which they reside? That
applies not only to the state legisla
tors but to the national legislature
and just as much to members of the
Board of the alderman. Lack of in
terest in public questions on the part
(Continued on page seven)
Ireland Receives Its First
Papa! Nuncio Since 1645
BY J. J. MOONEY
(Dublin Correspondent, N. C. W. C.
News Service.)
DUBLIN—The reception of Arch
bishop Robinson, Papal Nuncio, in
Dublin, provides a strong contrast to
the manner in which the last Nuncio
to Ireland was received. While Arch
bishop Robinson was received at the
chief port of Ireland, and escorted
to his residence by the Head of the
State, the Nuncio Rinuccini, Arch
bishop of Fermo, who landed in Ire
land in 1645, was obliged to take
shelter in a shepherd’s hut, which he
shared with domestic animals for
two days.
At the time of Archbishop Rinuc-
cini’s arrival, Ireland. though she
possessed a federal parliament of her
own, was in the throes of bitter civil
war, which was to be followed a
few years later by Cromwell's bar
barous massacres.
In order to reach by the shortest
and safest overland route, the City
of Kilkenney, where the Federal
Parliament was seated. Archbishop
Rinuccini landed at Kenmare, Kerry,
on October 21st. Many parts of the
province of Munster were then in
the hands of the English Ally, the fa
mous Inchiquin, and it was from
this protagonist of the anti-Irish
forces, that the Archbishop took re
fuge with a shepherd.
Having with difficulty and in dan
ger reached Kilkenny. Archbishop
Rinuccini was received by the Bishop
of Ossorf in Saint Patrick’s Cathedral
now known as the Protestant Cathe
dral of Saint Canice.
In this Church, a few years later,
Cromwell’s troopers stabled their
horses.
After his reception in the Cathe
dral, the Nuncio was received by the
Supreme Council of the Parliament,
and by the Archbishops of Dublin
and Cashel, who were in Kilkenny
specially for that nurpose. The Arcli-
biship of Armagh, Hugh O’Reilley,
was in Ulster with troops protecting
the Catholic cause, while the Arch
bishopric of Tuam was vacant, its
late occupant having just been killed
by anti-Catholic troops in Sligo, and
there buried in an unknown grace.
Archbishop Robinson was formerly
an American Francijcan and prelate,