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The banquet given in honor of
Avchbishop Bowling under the aus
pices of the Hennepin Minneapolis
Knights of Columbus, on Tuesday eve
ning at the Donaldson tea rooms,
proved to be a delightful social func
tion as well as an inspiring call to
new and broader fields of service for
the KnightB and similar societies.' It
was the initial greeting of Minneapo
lis in a social sense to the new pre
late, woo was'installed as successor
to the late Archbishop Ireland in
March. As Archbishop Dowling en
tered the banquet room all the guests
remained standing and applauded for
several minutes, while he smilingly
and with beaming countenance
showed bis appreciation of the hearty
greeting. It was quite evident that he
is a quick friendmaker and the spirit
of democracy is a basic quality of his
f\ magnetic personality.
When the time for speech-making
arrived Judge William C. Leary, the
toastmaster of the evening, pledged
,_r tile, co-operation and loyalty of all in.
the plans and objectives of the new
administration.
Rev. Francis T. J. Burns, in a short
*f but cogent address, by way of Intro
I hi" (taction of Archbishop Dowling, re
viewed some of his experiences as a
chaplain In the war welfare work,
pointing out. some of the pressing so
i- cial and religions needs of the day as
he had observed them.
Summary of Archbishop Dowling's
'sr Address.
Starting with'a l(rief reference to
the war work of the Knights, Arch
bishop Dowling proceeded to say:
'The war work' of the Knights of
Columbus was so *ell performed that
the. organization, and the church It
represents, must continue to do public
service and extend it to other fields.'
"Recently we have taken up the
challenge of the times and accepted
an obligation that we have discharged
well indeed, We/must now go on with
this work and take ip our task in a
new field.
"Our point of view has changed dur
ing the last 50 years. Poverty is now
being studied as a disease, as a dis
ease that can be remedied. Catholics
possess the high ideals, the doctrines,
the philosophy, but we have lacked the
organization to do the good we might
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Rale Act May
Be ley Is Pease Table
Admission of Irish Delegates on Its
8trength Not Unlikely. Much
Abused Act May 8erve a
Good Purpose.
The special Paris correspondent of
the "Irish independent," says regard
ing the Irish cast at the Peace con
ference: "As to a self-governing
country, a French diplomat gave it
as his opinion to me that as there is
jKnr on the British Statute Book an
.which, at any rate, makes pre
tense of giving self-government to
Lrebaid, that country must necessarily
come within the scope of the Pteace
conference. The new draft, if cor
rectly interpreted, 1b decidedly an im
provement from the Irish point of
•lew, for, as pointed out in Mr. O'Kel
Jey*s letter to Mr„Clemenceau, Article
10, if adopted as iC originally stood,
would have precluded the possibility
of Ireland entering the League. The
pew draft makes it clear that shells
eligible to become a constituent m«n
her of the projected assembly."
"Irish News," Belfast, com
a Die statement by the Paris
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Guest at K. of C. Banquet
THE NEW -V.-
An Inspiring Address On the Great Problems Qf the Day—Archbishop
Pleads (or a Christianity without Race or Class Distinctions—
The Dissensions and Hatreds of European Nations Should Be
Avoided—Snobbishness of Caste and Unrestrained Liberty
Twin Evils Demanding Attention—Knights Urged to Lead in
Social Activities—*-Rev. Francis T. J. Burns, William D. Dwyer
of K. C. War Work Committee, Colonel William H. Donahue,
and George Benson Hewetson, the Well-Known Lecturer and
Writer on the List of Speakers—Judge William C. Leary Was
Toastmaster.
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PRELATE A DELIGHTFUL FUNCTION
Vol. XIV. No. 27 Minneapolis, Minn., Saturday, June 7 1919
is ilonor
do. The success of the Knights of
Columbus in their first effort compels
them to take up this new duty.""
An "excess of liberty," andd "caste
snobbishness" were pointed out as
some of the evils demanding attention.
"We must become the interpreters of
a Christianity that knows neither Jew
nor Gentile, rich nor poor. The need
of the hour presents a pressing oppor
tunity that will not come again.
"We must be.apostles of good order
in the community. Men who h.ave
time—and if they have not time they
must make time—must study the prob
lems of modern life and prepare to
be leaders in the social life of the
community. We are not exerting the
influence we should exert as citizens.
We have not played the part we should
play in shaping the public thought
and public opinion of our country.
"We must prepare ourselves against
discontent and disorder. We must be
apostles of good order in. the com
munity. Poverty, hatred, .dissensions
and disunion hold Europe in their
sway. There, is an enormous ..tempta
tion to the thought and practices of
destruction.
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national committee for war work of
the Knights of Columbus was the first
speaker, he described the war ,work of
the Knight of Columbus at home.
Colonel William H. Donahue, formerly
with the 151st field artillery, described
the same work overseas. George Ben
son Hewetson, the third speaker, dis
cussed the universality of the church
and its peculiar fitness to meet the
problems of reconstruction, arising out
of that universality.
The committee in charge included
John J. Regan, chairman Morris Mc
Donald, John A. McDonald, Patrick J.
Kennedy, Francis .A. Gross, Dr. John
C. Crowley, Michael C. Kelly, Judge
Mathias Baldwin, Walter T. McDon
ald, William P. Devereaux, Thomas E.
Sands, Patrick J. ttownes, C. Paul
Tracy, Col. William H. Donahue, Louis
P. Chute, Hubert Kelly and John C.
Sheehan.
correspondent of the "Independent"
about the Home Rule Act, says: "So,
'at the heel of the hunt,' Ireland's
last hope for a 'hearing' at^the Peace
conference—for the hearing was to
have been granted- without an in
stant's hesitation if Sinn Fein M. P.'s
were elected all over the country—
depends upon the existence pf the self
same Home Rule Act that has been
the target of stupidity, recklessness,
ignorance, calumny and ribaldry dur
ing the past four years! If Ireland's
voice is to be heard at Paris, it will
be heard not because of anything,
that has-happened through the agency
of Sinn Fein-r-it will be heard because
the reviled and derided Home' Rule
Act was placed upon the Statute
Book by the late John Redmond and
his colleagues in the face of .the most
powerful opposition that ever con
fronted the passage of a Parliamen
tary measure in any country. We
have a hope—but not a certainty by
any melius—that the plea based *on
the existence of the Home Rule Act
will prevail in Paris. The men who
won that Act builded well for Ireland.
The pity and tragedy of the situation
is that so much has been done to un
dermine and destroy the ffcbric they
raised.. And 'the present policy' of
the anti-Irish Government is a policy
of injustice and reaction founded upon
the destruction wrought hy Irish
"The success iof the Knights of Co
lumbus in their first effort compels formed. Spacious quarters were se
them to take up this new duty. An ex- jcured
cess bf liberty and caste snobbishness *6'000
are two of the evils demanding atten-'
Other 8peakers also an assembly room where lectures,
William D. Dwyer, a member of the'concerts'
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Mrs. Rose D. Rittman Resigns
National Presidency
of W. C. 0. F.
Twin City Courts Hold Reception
Her Honor.
Mrs. Rose D. Rittman, former na
tional president of Women's Catholic
Order of Foresters, spent a few days
visiting relatives in Minneapolis on
her way to Portland, Oregon, where
she will make her home. Mrs. Ritt
man resigned her position as nation
al president owing to failing health.
Receptions were tendered her in Chi
cago and Milwaukee, where the mem
bers assembled to express their re
gret at her departure and to voice
their appreciation of her eleven years
of service as chief executive of the
order.
During her stay here the Foresters
of the Twin Cities held social ses
sions of thejr courts to wish her God
speed. Father Cullen of the Pro-Ca
thedral delivered the farewell address
in Minneapolis vand Father Lawrence
Ryan, pastor of the Cathedral, paying
a similar tribute in- St. Paul. Mrs.
Rittman is succeeded as national pres
ident by Miss 'Mary L. Downes of
Chicago, who has served two terms^as
vice president. Miss Downes is a
woman of great ability and many
years' experience in the insurance
field. The vacancy created on the
board of directors by Miss Downes'
promotion has been filled by Mrs. J.
R. Miller of Minneapolis, who will rep
resent the state of Minnesota. The
growth in membership and the splen
did financial condition of the order
bear testimony to Mrs. Rittman's ca
pacity in the executive department of
the order.
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In compliance with* Archbishop
Mundelein's request to the Foresters
that the order should do something
for the young girls employeu in the
loop district of Chicago, a club now
in' its third year of usefulness was
rooms and class rooms ard provided,
etc-
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for whfch an annual rental of
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Pa,d- There ^wholesome food
is served at a nominal cost. Rest
are g,ven tor the
war
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work done, by the Foresters
wa8 not eQualled by any other
an'8 0r8an'zatI°n
wom"
in Chicago,
Paris, June 2,—Former Governor E.
F. Dunne, Frank P. Walsh and Thom
as Ryan have engaged bookings to
sail from France, June 7, according to
press dispatches. They have given up
all hope of obtaining a hearing for the
Irish republic delegates before the
peace conference. Mr. Dunne believes
the Irish subject will come up eventu
ally before the League of Nations, un
less the Irish by means of a revolution
decide matters without outside aid.
-According to the present plans the
Irish republic will request' that it be
placed upon the calendar for the ini
tial meeting of the League of Nations,
demanding that its case be the first one
taken up, as Ireland .is the only one
of the small nations the aspirations of
which have not been heard.
Students of the situation here see
the first open indication of differences
existing among the members of the
American peace commission through
Henry White's letter, which states any
thing that Secretary Robert Lansing
did was without Mr. White's knowl
edge..
Three Delegates Discontented.
It has long been suspected that Mr.
White and General T. H. Bliss were
not entirely satisfied with the way
they have been left out in the cold, and
for a long time, it is understood, Sec
retary Lapsing, too, was somewhat
dissatisfied. All three are under the
impression President Wilson was do
ing the work of the entire commission
and handing the unfinished jobs to
Colonel E. M. House.
Mr. Dunne, Mr. Walsh and Mr. Ryan
agree with Thomas O'Kelly, the Irish
delegate already here, that it is more
than likeljr the revolution will, break
out in Ireland as |oon as the Irish
people see peace signed without the
Irish question settled.
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Ireland to Demand
First League Hearing
German Counter Proposal Asks
For Pope's Admission
to League
President Wilson May Be Urged to
Favor the Plan.
Dr. E. J. Dillon in Public Ledger
Cable Dispatch.
Paris, June 4.—I am informed tlitft
Monsignor Cerretti, assistant secre
tary of state at the Vatican, who is
now in Paris, is preparing a note for
President Wilson, urging the accept
ance of the clause in Germany's coun
ter proposals relative to the admission
bf the Pope as a member of the league
of nations.. Among the grounds relied
upon with certainty is that the Pope's
membership would suffice to insure
the success of the league, which would
be upheld by all the Catholics through
out the world.
In some circles it is asserted that
the prelate's visit to Paris is connect
ed with a conjectured early resump
tion of diplomatic relations between
the Vatican and the French govern
ment others assert that Monsignor
Cerretti is Jooking after the interests
of the Catholic missions in the Orient,
while a few believe he will endeavor
to influence the arrangements pend
ing on Alsaca-Lorraine.
I am enabled to state that while a
desire to see diplomatic relations re
sumed with the Vatican on the basis
of new concordant is of widespread
interest in France, neither the present
cabinet nor chamber is capable of tak
ing such. an important decision.
Therefore that conjecture respecting
Monsignor Cerretti's mission is ex
cluded.
FAVORABLE REPORT ON IRISH
RESOLUTION IN SENATE.
Washington, June 4.—The senate
foreign relations committee today {a
vorably reported Senator W. E. Bor
ah's resolution urging the peace con
ferehce to give a hearing to the Irish
delegates. The committee amended
the resolution by eliminating a refer
ence to "the Irish republic" on the
ground it might constitute a recogni
tidh of the republican government.
The resolution calls on the American1
peace commission to lay before the
peace conference the request of Count
Plunkett, Arthur Griffith and Edward
De Valera, Irish peace delegates, that
they be permitted to present their
claims for Irish self-determination.
The British have between 100,000
and 200,000 troops in Ireland, with
many aviation detachments, field artil
lery, artnored cars and tanks. Mr.
Dunne, Mr. Walsh and Mr.' Ryan be
lieve it will be a massacre when the
Irish people rise again, as the English
are reported to have made all prepara
tions tQ deal with them with'a mailed
fist.
Messrs. Dunne and Walsh say they
do not see any political meaning be
hind Mr. White's refusal to have any
part in the Irish problem now, as they
state neither the republican nor demo
cratic party ft the United States dares
to repudiate Ireland's right to be heard
regarding its independence.—Copy
right, 1919.
BISHOP OPPOSES
SIRBAY
Bishop John J., Nilan of Hartford,
is supporting Governor Marcus H.
Holcomb of
Connecticut {q
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the latter's
opposition to. Sunday moving picture
shows. Following the Governor's
veto of the legislative bill which gives
to towns local option on the holding
of shows of this kind, and which bill
the Legislature passed over the Gov
ernor's veto, Bishop Nilan has sound
ed the keynote of what promises to be
a determined campaign against the
proposed Sunday entertainments in
theaters. Addressing an audience in
West Haven, Msgr. Nilan not only de
hounced the showing of moving pic
tures on Sunday but stated that in his
opinion such shows should not be at
tended by parents also that they
should not allow their children to at
tend them either unaccompanied or
accompanied by older people.
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Congress Will Give Full Hearing to
the Cause.
Popular Subject of Debate
Schools and Colleges.
Widespread Interest Is Seen as Ac
tion on Covenant Is to Be Taken.
Washington, May 26.—The open
ing of Congress, together with the
efforts of the Irish- American commit
tee in Europe to secure a hearing for
the representatives of the Irish people
before the Peace Conference, has
quickened interest in the Irish inde
pendence movement and held out the
prospect of extended discussion of the
subject in both Houses. It will come
up in two ways. One, probably sev
eral, resolutions will be offered in the
House, intended to express the sym
pathy of Congress with the Irish peo
ple in their struggle to secure recogni
tion of the principle of self-determina
tion, formulated by President Wilson
and ostensibly recognized by the
Peace Conference. The subject will
also come up for discussion in con
nection with the League of Nations
Covenant.
The personnel of the newly organ
ized Committee on Foreign Relations
of the senate and Commitee on For
eign Affairs of the House is such that
the problem of Irish independence is
certain to be given sympathetic con
sideration. On the committees are
Senators and Representatives who are
not only of the opinion that the Irish
people should, as a matter of right,
have an opportunity to shape their
own political destiny, but that it is a
question for the legitimate considera
tion of Congress, inasmuch as this
Government is to be called upon to
approve a political world readjustment
professedly made in accordance with
the principle of self-determination.
In the face of this declaration,
which reflects the point of view of a
considerable number of Senators, it is
not probable that the time-worn Brit
ish defense that Ireland is a domestic
question will be of much avail. The
Poles, the Czecho-Slovaks, the Jugo
slavs are to have their Independence
guaranteed. Senator Lodge, the chair
jnain of the Committee on Foreign Re
lations, even submitted to tlye Senate
a resolution signed by 20,000 Protest
ant rectors and ministers and Catholic
priests in favor of the Integral inde
pendence of Armenia.
Ireland will have a hearing, too, but
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Topic at Washington, D.
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The situation, with which Congress
is confronted, was admirably outlined
by Senator Sherman of Illinois, in the
Senate, on May 23, in a debate, which
may be regarded aB a prelude to the
storm, which will break when the full
treaty is taken up for consideration.
He said of Article of the League
of Nations Covenant:
"We undertake to defend and pre
serve the borders of every member
nation as fixed at the time of the
adoption of the league and the peace
treaty. When France joined with the
American colonies in the Revolution,
if this league had existed, it would
have forbidden the sword of Lafayette
to be drawn with Washington's, and
would have crushed the infant repub
lic beneath the armies of George III
and Louis XVI. It announces in sub
stance to mankind that the period of
successful revolution has drawn to a
close in the world's history. It has
closed the book of human experience
and written the last chapter in- the
evolution of human government. It
is the knell of revolt against arbitrary
power. It offers a premium on bad
government, however intolerable, by
shutting the door of. hope on the op
pressed, and warning external pow
ers to leave the tyrant alone with his
victim, sanctified by the holy cove
nants of this eternal league. May not
the future mothers of mankind gaze
in mute despair upon the starless
night of races, bound for ages in the
changeless dominion forged in these
mighty powers? Might they not pray
to be smitten with a sterile curse,
that their offspring might escape the
doom of perpetual bondage, pro
nounced in this infamous covenant,
malign and sinister to all the future
sons of men?
"It obliges the United States to take
up arms, to draft its men and tax its
people to support the boundary lines
of Great Britain, France' or any other
member country, possessed of colon
ial dependencies wherever found."
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what Congress will or will not do de
pends in large measure upon the
effectiveness with which the idea is
brought home to members of Congress
that millions of American citizens,
native and Irish-born as well as
others, will not see without protest
the United States committed to a
policy which shuts and locks the door
of opportunity to Ireland.
The Republican membership on the
Foreign Relations Committee of the
Senate includes some Senators who
are avowedly sympathetic with the
Irish struggle for independence. The
same is true of the House committee
without regard to politics. When the
time comes many voices will be raised
to protest against the ratification of
a past which holds out the promise
ot' self-determination to Armenia and
denies it to Ireland but the effective
ness of the protest will depend upon
the measure in which it reflects the
opinion of the people of the United
States.
There is no doubt that the Irish
question is becoming popular in the
capital. It is being made the topic
for school and college debates and
it' is apparent, from the inquiries ad
dressed to the Irish National Bureau,
that many persons are eager for in
formation, awakening to the desire of
knowing what it is all about. The
religious bias, too, is rapidly disap
pearing. At a recent meeting, held at
Norfolk, Va., in the interest of Irish
independence, one of the speakers
was a distinguished clergyman, who
was neither Irish nor a Catholic^^The
question is being considered in a
purely political light, whether the
United States shall commit itself to
upholding an international polfcy
which shall deny to an enlightened
people the right to select its own form
of government.
Arrangements have been made by
the United States Irish societies of
Washington to decorate the graves of
the Irish patriots in Mt. Olivet ceme
tery on Decoration Day. The cere
mony, which will be of impressive
character, is evidence of the awaken
ing of general Interest in the long
Btruggle carried on fruitlessly by
many valiant Irishmen of the genera
tion that is gone. Rev. Patrick J.
Healy, of the Catholic University of
America, and Representative Gallivan
of Massachusetts, will deliver ad
dresses.
Chaplains' Labor Recognized
By Freqnent|Promotions
War Department Issues Ldng List of
Catholic Priests Given Added
Rank—Two Made Majors.
Washington, D. C., May 28, 1919.—
By order of the secretary of war, the
following named priests of the United
States army have been promoted, viz.
To be majors—Rev. George J. War-
ing, who was born in England, ap
pointed a chaplain from Iowa January
24, 1905, being made a captain Febru
ary 10, 1918. *^$5
Rev. James F. Houlihan, who is a
native of Pennsylvania, and appointed
a chaplain from that state January 10,
1910, reaching the grade of captain
January 31, 1917.
Only two other active Catholic chap
lains in the army have reached the"
grade of major—namely, Father Tim
othy O. O'Keefe, a native of Kansas,
who was appointed on February 2,^^|
1901, and reached his present grade^mjpi
March 22, 1912 and' Father Francis Ipfep
P. Doherty, a member of the Paulist^^M
Community, and a native of Massa
chusetts, but appointed from Califor
nia March 13, 1902, and made a major ...^
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To be captain—Rev. Wm. R. Ar- fS
nold, Rev. Ignatius Fealy, Rev. Thos.
Dempsey, Rev. Wm. J. Keane, Rev
Edward T. McNally, Rev. Francis C. sg
Renter, Rev* Ward G. Meehan, Rev...
Elmer C. McFadden, Rev. Humphrey:*
V. Darley, Rev. Geo. B. Ford, Rev.%
Joseph McSorley, Rev. Philip E.
han, Rev. Francis A. Murray,
Charles L. Foley, Rev. Stephen
Dowd, Rev. Regis Barrett, Rev.
Arthur MacLeod,- Rev. James •J. S.S
Trot, Rev. Geo. B. O'Toole, Rev. Frank
A. Seifert, Rev. James J. O'Brien, Rev.fi||f
Johto F. Conoley, Rev. Thomas A*
Canty, Rev. John F. B. Campbell, Rev,
Wm. J. Lillis and Rev. John J. Feat& jJ
erston. ...
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