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SATURDAY, JUNE 27, 1914.
The ITolv Father has appointed
llis Eminence Cardinal tie Lai.
Papal legate to the International
Eucharistic Congress at Lourdes.
We have received so many com
plimentary notices regarding our
Pro-Cathedral Edition that it is
impossible to reply to each one
individually. Many of onr Cath
olic exchanges have spoken of it
in very flattering terms. To one
and all we tender sincere thanks
and the assurance that we appre
ciate the kindly interest in the
progress of The Catholic Bulle
tin which prompted these compli
mentary references.
It is pleasing to note that the
Right Reverend Bishop Kennedy.
Rector of the American College
in Rome, has passed the crisis of
a serious illness which brought
him almost to death's door and
necessitated the administration of
the last Sacraments as a precau
tionary measure. So grave was
his condition that his sisters wen
sent for and they are now with
their distinguished brother who
is convalescing in the Blue Nuns'
Hospital, Rome.
Here is a picture of religion in
Belfast. It is not the comment
of a Catholic writer, but of Har
old Begbie, who is decidedly non
Catholic: "My charge is that
the religion of Belfast as a whole
is not the religion founded by
Christ. The ministers of religion
spend their time in denouncing
Roman Catholics and in boasting
of their city's prosperity. There
is excessive religion in Belfast,
but declare that it bears little
resemblance to that of Christ.
The religion is hard, repellant
and pharisaical. It breeds bigotry,
self-esteem and a violent intoler
ance."
Prance has a premier and a
ministry once more. Last week
Rene Viviani succeeded in form
ing a cabinet that withstood the
test of parliamentary attacks, for
the time being at least—a task
which proved too much for such
distinguished statesman as Des
chanel, Delcasse and Ribot—all
of whom failed in the attempt.
Of the four, Viviani is the least
desirable at the head of the
French ministry. He is an athe
ist and a socialist. Whether or
not he will succeed in holding the
reins of government any length
of time remains to be seen. For
the present at least he occupies
the responsible position of adviser
to President Poiucare.
The anti-clerical forces went
down to defeat in the recent Ital
ian elections, both communal and
provincial. The only exception
was in Milan where the social
ists gained a victory. Prince
Colonna and his Catholic follow
ers headed the polls and utterly
routed ex-Mayor Nathan's co
horts. Nathan himself was re
elected to the Municipal Council,
but his followers number riot more
than twenty out of the eighty
members of that body. It would
seem as if the real Romans had
at length awakened to the respon
sibilities of their position and in
sured the emancipation of their
civic affairs from the control of
an element which has shown it
self hostile to the best interest of
Rome, as well as of the Holy See.
The American Association for
Labor Legislation, which is en
gaged in studying the problems of
unemployment throughout the
country, has requested Reverend
E.
V. O'Hara of Portland, Oregon,
to take charge' of the investiga
tion in that state. The object of
the inquiry will be to determine
•what kind of public work can be
carried on during the winter
months when so many men are
thrown out of employment. Fa
ther O'Hara is organizing a branch
of the Association to study the
question from every angle, anil
suggest a remedy. It is probable
that his brother. Dr. Frank
O'Hara, of the Catholic Univer
sity will be commissioned by the
American Association of Labor to
go to Oregon and make a report
on the condition affecting unem
ployment in that state.
Some time ago R. Kopelka,
postmaster and bank president of
(iresham, Wis., made serious
charges reflecting on the moral
character of the Rev. L. C.
Becker of Shawano, Wis. Father
Becker immediately instituted
legal proceedings and when Ko
pelka was called upon to prove
the truth of his allegations he
was unable to do so, and wrote a
letter of apology in which he re
tracted the charges, authorized
the publication of his letter and
paid the costs of the suit which the
priest had incurred. In his letter
Kopelka declares, that there is
not, and never was, a scintilla of
evidence to sustain any such
charges that the character of the
priest is, and always was, above
reproach. Thus, one by one, the
detainers of the priesthood are be
ginning to realize that it is a very
serious matter to make unfounded
charges in regard to an individu
al priest.
RETREAT FOR WOMEN.
The second annual retreat for
women held at St. Joseph's Acad
emy last week proved quite as
successful as its predecessor.
While Ithe attendance was not so
large as it might, and, indeed,
should have been, in view of the
spiritual benefits to be derived
therefrom, still the promoters of
the movement- are well pleased
with the results. The women who
attended are enthusiastic about
the benefits accruing from a few
days of voluntary retirement from
the distractions of everyday life
coupled with salutary meditation
on the great truths of religion
under the direction of such a com
petent. and experienced retreat
master as Father O'Hearn, C. S.
P., of the Apostolic Mission House,
Washington. He described the
larger duties and more onerous
responsibilities which the world
of modern life imposes upon intel
ligent Catholic women and point
ed out to them new avenues of
activity on behalf of their less
favored brethren in the Church, as
well as of those without its pale.
The general sentiment among the
retreatants was that the time had
been AVCII spent and that provision
should be made for a similar
series of spiritual exercises next
year. The Sisters of St. Joseph
deserve the thanks of the commun
ity for placing their Academy at
the disposal of the Catholic women
of St. Paul and of the Northwest
who desire to follow the exercises
of a retreat of the kind.
HOME RULE AMENDMENT.
The crisis in connection with
the granting of Home Rule to Ire
land entered another stage on
June 23, when the Marquis of
Crewe, liberal leader in the House
of Lords, introduced a bill to
amend the Irish Home Rule bill.
By the new bill the parliamen
tary electors of each county in
Ulster are to be allowed to decide
by vote whether the county shall
be excluded from the provisions
of the Home Rule bill for a period
of six years from the first meet
ing of the new Irish parliament.
The terms of the amending bill
are identical with those offered
on March by Premier Asquith
and contemptuously refused by
Sir Edward Carson, the Irish
unionist leader, who described the
Premier's proposal as a "hypo
critical sham.''
The situation has never been
paralleled in parliamentary pro
cedure in the British Isles. Never
before has a bill been presented
to parliament to amend a measure
not yet on the statute book. This
was, however, the only means of
overcoming the deadlock, as the
House of Lords refused to consid
er the main bill until the full pro
posals of the government were be
fore it.
In introducing the amending
bill the Marquis of Crewe dwelt
much on the religious difficulties
surrounding the question of Ul
ster, but, while, he admitted the
necessity for some form of exclu
sion for those who deemed them
selves affected by the Home Rule
bill, he contended that the exclu
sion of the entire province of Ul
ster would involve great injus
tice. The government conse
quently. he said, had reiterated in
the amending bill Premier As
quith 's proposal of exclusion by
counties from the operation of the
Home Rule measure.
The Marquis of Crewe made it
quite clear, however, that the
amending bill was not necessarily
the government 's last word.
"The bill gives the widest pos
sible latitude for an amendment,"
he said, adding that, under it, the
civil government in the excluded
areas would be administered bv
the Lord Lieutenant, through offi
cers to be appointed by him.
SPECIAL
MISSION
OF CATHO­
LIC
WOMEN.
In his addresses at tie com
mencement exercises of several of
the Catholic convents in St. Paid
and Minneapolis, the Most Rever
end Archbishop emphasized the
special duty imposed on Catholic
women by the extravagances of
modern fashion. He alluded in
particular to the danees now in
vogue which offend against mod
esty, and to the mutilated gar
ments worn by women who wish to
be considered in the social swim.
Respectable people who have
witnessed the physical contortions
and unseemly gyrations which
pass for dancing among the de
votees of fashion and those who
ape their ways, are outspoken in
their condemnation of the want
on manner in which the modern
dances, so-called, outrage the
canons of modesty and the con
ventions of polite society. They
brand them as immodest and sug
gestive, if not openly indecent
and so well founded is their ver
dict, that no woman who makes
any pretentions to good breeding
and lady-like conduct will so far
forget the respect due to her
womanhood as to make the ball
room a theatre for the lascivious
display of her physical charms.
The modern faddish dance is an
insult to virtue and a direct chal
lenge to temptation and sin.
In the appeal which it makes to
the baser passions it is in the same
category as the garb which the
dictates of fashion prescribe for
its votaries. No self-respecting
woman should wear or tolerate
in her home the dresses which
are nowadays so much affected by
women who.would be considered
leaders of society—costumes
heretofore associated with the
street walker whose purpose is to
parade her supposed charms, and
with the denizens of the under-,
world who make it the badge of
their nefarious traffic. Whenever
a woman's garb is so loud or so
unusual as to attraet the attention
of the passerby to such an ex
tent that the thing worn is no
ticed rather than the wearer,
there is something wrong and it
is time for those who have at
heart the social well-being of the
community to call a halt and de
mand that the requirements of
decency be not publicly violated.
It cannot be denied that Chris
tian modesty is suffering, to say
the least, as a result of the
modern fashions in dance and
dress and as a result, private and
public morality are being gradu
ally undermined by the assaults
made upon them from these
sources. It is unfortunate that
so many women cannot resist the
appeal made by fashion, no mat
ter how fully they may be con
vinced of the dangers that fol
low in its wake.
The last to yield to this deplor
able tendency of modern society
are Catholic women, thefdaughters
of the Virgin of Nazareth, who
should never lower the standard
of Christian modesty. It is to be
regretted that some of them—for
tunately, the number is not large
—have failed to measure up to
the high ideal of purity which the
Church sets for them. They would
like to be regarded as leaders of
society and must, perforce, bow
to its ever-changing fashions in
dance and dress. As a general
rule, however, our Catholic wo
men recognize their duty in a
matter of such importance and
strive to set a good example for
others.
Among those who should ex
cel in this regard are the
alumnae, or graduates, of our
convent schools and other institu
tions of learning conducted by the
Catholic Sisterhoods. These young
women are fortunate, indeed, to
have received such a training and
are naturally looked up to by
their less-favored sisters. During
their school days they have had
before their eyes, in the persons
of the Sisters, concrete examples
of true Christian modesty and
lady-like demeanor. Consequent
ly, they have learned how to keep
aloof from all that would offend
against the strictest canons of
maidenly reserve and conduct.
The purpose of these schools is
to train their pupils in Christian
virtue, to form their characters
along the lines laid down by re
ligion. The salutary influence of
the gospel teaching is made the
foundation of the appeal which
they make to the best that is in
their pupils. They train the
child in such a way that she be
comes habituated to the practice
of virtue in thought and word and
deed. Contact with these teach
ers should fill the minds of their
pupils with thoughts of purity and
with a high resolve to guard
maidenly modesty against the
seductions of a fashion-crazed
world. Under such circumstances
the graduates can scarcely fail
to be imbued with a high and
reverent regard for soul and body
and a proper appreciation of their
duty to carry into their respective
communities the refining influence
of, and the high regard for Chris
tian modesty which should be the
richest fruitage of their convent
training. It would be a calamity,
if the graduates of our convent
schools were not found in the
THE CATHOLIC BULLETIN, JUNE 27, 1914.
front rank of those who exempli
fy in daily life and conduct the
choicest blossoming of Christian
virtue. It would be strange,
indeed, if the alumnae of these in
stitutions did not oppose an ef
fective barrier to the mad rush
for worldly enjoyment which
characterizes those who would
barter Christian modesty for so
cial pre-eminence and who look
upon th$ dictates of fashion as
more binding than the teaching of
religion.
The alumnae of our Catholic
schools have a sacred duty to per
form in every community in
which they live. It is theirs to
plead by word and example for
a high and holy regard for Chris
tian ideals- of life and conduct
theirs to combat the suggestive
influence of modern fads and
fashions by conforming them
selves, in deportment and dress,
to what religion prescribes as a
safeguard against the allure
ments of modern society that make
for spiritual shipwreck. And
only in so far as the graduates
of convent schools live up to the
ideals of maidenly conduct incul
cated in these homes of Chris
tian education, only in that far
will they realize the hopes for
their future usefulness which
their teachers cherish and show
themselves valiant defenders of
the standard of Christian modesty
which the Church ever holds up
before the eyes of her children.
A VALUABLE PAMPHLET.
We have received from the
"Toledo Record" a brochure of
sixty-eight pages containing four
lectures delivered by Bishop
Schrembs of Toledo, in his Cathe
dral during the Lenten season of
1914, in answer to the slanderous
charges made against the Church
by anti-Catholic bigots. These
lectures show how unfounded are
the assertions made by the vilifiers
of the Church in the systematic
campaign of misrepresentation
which they are carrying on
throughout the length and breadth
of the land. Bishop Schrembs
sums up these charges under four
heads: 1, the entire system of
Catholic faith, morals and prac
tice, is so essentially corrupt and
immoral that it necessarily begets
moral corruption and wickedness
in its adherents 2, the Catholic
clergy as a body is addicted to
every form of immorality because
of the discipline of celibacy and
the practice of the confessional,
which are essentially and neces
sarily productive of immorality
3, convents are breeding-places
and veritable cesspools of every
form of licentiousness and profli
gacy: 4, the Catholic Church in
America is a "foreign" institu
tion, yielding civil allegiance to
a "foreign potentate," and there
fore a menace to our free institu
tions.
The reply of Bishop Schrembs
presented to the public in this per
manent form is designed to meet
the issue squarely and, by docu
mentary evidence, indisputable
fact and irrefutable argument, to
prove the absolute untenableness
and absurdity of the charges, as
well as to lay bare the utter irre
sponsibility, moral degeneracy and
malice of the men and women en
gaged in this unholy' warfare.
In communities where this attack
on the Church, her doctrines and
practices is being carried on, this
pamphlet can be used with good
effect by Catholics and merits a
wide distribution.
EUGENICS A TRAGIC
BLUNDER.
Bishop Warren A. Candler, of
the Methodist Episcopal Church
speaking at Atlanta, Ga., last
month, assailed the theory of
eugenics as a tragic blunder, and
said it engendered a moral men
dicancy. He said the system
sought to improve the race on the
assumption that men were similar
to so many brutes.
"This huge scheme of eugenics
is a tragic blundering with sacred
things," he said. *4Already it has
yielded a corrupting bulk of sala
cious talk about 'sex hygiene' and
'sex instruction in the public
schools.' The magazines overflow
with the vile current of demoraliz
ing slush, the theaters are playing
to the 'sex motive,' and there is
such an accentuation of the fact
of sex as to defile the minds of a
generation of young people.
"The whole disgusting move
ment rests on the assumption of
man's sameness with the brutes.
It leaves entirely out of account
man's freedom of will, by which
divine characteristic he is lifted
infinitively above any and all
brutes. It thus degrades the true
spirit of many by ignoring it.
"It is time to tell these preten
tious mechanicians to stand aside.
Let them keep their hands off our
public schools and school children,
at least. Our publie schools were
not founded to furnish clinical op
portunities for sex-mad fanatics."
Say not it is for love of the poor
that thou heapest up treasure for
thou knowest that the widow of the
Gospel purchased Heaven with two
little pieces of money.—Fe*. Louis of
Grenada,
NAMED
AFTER SAINTS
CITIES, TOWNS, PLAINS, LAKES,
RIVERS, ETC., IN AMERICA BEAR
NAMES OF SAINTS—EARLY EX­
PLORERS AND MISSIONARIES
WERE CATHOLICS
The names of saints are very promi
nent upon the map of the United
States, writes Stuart Stone in the
"Ave Maria." Thriving cities, tower
ing peaks, broad, rich counties, and
cool green lakes bear the designations
of the heroes and heroines of the early
Church. This is due largely to the
fact that the first explorers of Amer
ica were i:i the main Catholics and
these devout and hardy pioneers were
wont to name the object of their dis
coveries for their patron saints or for
the saint upon whose day the dis
covery was made. The origin of these
names has been traced by the United
States Geological Survey, with the as
sistance of the various state historical
societies.
St. Albans, Vermont, was named for
Alban, the first martyr in Britain.
St. Anthony Falls, in the Missis
sippi River, at Minneapolis, was so
called by a French missionary because
"of the many favors received through
the intercession of that saint."
St. Augustine, the old Florida town,
received the name because the first
landing of its settlers was made on
his feast-day. Santa Rosa county, in
the same state, was named for St.
Rose, taking the Spanish form. St.
John's River, also in Florida, was
called by the Spanish discoverers San
Juan Baptista, because upon this
saint's day it was discovered.
A parish, or county, in Louisiana
was named by the French for St. Ber
nard, for the same reason. St. Martin
parish, in the same state, took the
name of St. Martin, Bishop of Tours
about the year 400. Another Louisi
ana parish was named for St. Helena
and still another has the name of St.
James while St. Landry parish, or
county, owes its name to §t. Landri,
Bishop of Paris in 651.
St. Charles' county and city, Mis
souri, were so named because it was
the purpose of the Vicar of Pontoise
to establish there, in honor of that
saint, a seminary where tlia Indians
should be educated.
Beautiful Lake St. Clair, between
Michigan and Canada, is said to have
been so named because it was discov
ered by the French upon that saint's
feast-day.
Mount St. Elias, in Alaska, one of
the loftiest summits in North Amer
ica, was named for the saint upon
whose day it was discovered.
The St. Francis River, in Minnesota,
and St. Francis and St. Francois coun
ties in Missouri and Arkansas, owe
their names to the gentle founder of
the Franciscan Order.
A Missouri county and city have the
name of the French saint, Genevieve.
The St. Joseph River, in Michigan,
was named by the early French explor
ers for the spouse of the Blessed Vir
gin.
The Gulf of St. Lawrence was so
named because discovered upon the
feast-day of that saint. St. Lawrence
River got its name from the Gulf.
The St. Louis River, in Minnesota,
was probably so named by the ex
plorer, Verendrye, in 1749, in memory
of the Cross of St. Louis conferred
upon him shortly before his death by
the King of France while St. Paul, in
the same state, derived its name from
a church which was built by an early
Catholic missionary.
San Francisco, California, is said by
some to have been named for the old
Spanish mission of San Francisco de
Assisi by others, to have been named
for the founder of the Order to which
Father Junipero, the discoverer of San
Francisco Bay, belonged. San Benito
County, in the same state, has the
Spanish name for St. Benedict San
Bernardino county and city were
named for an old Spanish mission
San Diego, for St. Iago, the patron
saint of Spain.—the name having been
corrupted San Jose derived its name
from the patron saint of Mexico
Santa Ana city and Santa Barbara and
Santa Clara counties and cities were
named for old Spanish missions Santa
Monica, for the mother of St. Augus
tine San Mateo county has the Span
ish name-form for St. Matthew while
San Luis Obispo (St. Louis, bishop)
county and city were named for an old
Spanish mission.
San Juan counties in Colorado and
New Mexico, and San Juan River in
Utah, have the Spanish name for St.
John.
Counties In Colorado and New Mex
ico bear the name San Miguel, the
Spanish form for St. Michael.
San Patricio county, in Texas, was
settled by Irish colonists, and named
by them for the patron saint of Ire
land, of which the present name is
the Spanish form. San Antonio, in
the same state, was named for the
historic Catholic mission, San Antonio
de Velero, otherwise the Alamo San
Augustine county was called after the
British saint of that name.
A great number of lesser known
places scattered over the country have
the names of different saints, male
and female—St. George, St. Anne, etc.
SC10ICE AND
mm
WHAT NOTED SCIENTISTS SAY
ABOUT GOD AND RELIGlOf*.
Professor Lankester: It is not true
that there is an essential antagonism
between the scientific spirit and what
is called the religious sentiment. Men
of science seek in all reverence to dis
cover the Almighty. They claim sym
pathy and friendship with those who
like themselves have turned away from
the most material struggle of human
life and have set their hearts and
minds on the knowledge of the Eter
naL (Speech, August, 1906).
Doctor Eric Wasmann: Christianity,
the old Christian theory of the uni
verse, which Is now so often denied,
furnishes us with the only true mon
ism, the only true doctrine of unity.
There is one infinite and eternal God
whose creative power produced all
finite creatures and preserves them in
existence. There can be no real an
tagonism between knowledge and faith
because there is only one truth which
cannot contradict itself. Therefore
cling with loyalty to your ancient
Christian faith! (Mod. Biology, p. 521,
1910).
Professor Virchow: There cannot
be any issue between faith and
science because each excludes the
other not in the sense that one ren
ders the other impossible, but rather
that faith begins where science leaves
off. The business of science is, not
to destroy faith, but to define the
boundaries of knowledge and their ex
tent, and within these to establish a
uniform system. (Unity, p. 649. 1877).
Professor Huxley: The Christian
definition of Theism is nearer the
truth than the creed of some agnostics
who conceive of no unifying principle
in the world. Physical science is as
little atheistic as it is materialistic. I
have visited Maynooth and discussed
religion and science with the profes
sors there, and I found them men who
knowing their own business, listened
to the arguments of other men. I
heartily respect an organization which
meets its opponents in this way and
wish that all ecclesiastical organiza
tions were in as effective a condition.
The army of "liberal thought" is at
present in very loose order, and many
a modern free-thinker makes use of
his freedom to vent much nonsense.
(Wilfrid Ward, Problems and Per
sons, p. 235).
Sir Charles Lyell, Geologist: In
whatever direction we pursue our re
searches, whether in time or space,
we discover everywhere the clear
proofs of a creative intelligence and
of His foresight, wisdom and power.
To assume that the beginning of so
vast a scheme (as that of Creation)
lies within reach of our philosophical
enquiries, or even of our speculations,
appears to be inconsistent with a just
estimate of the relations which sub
sist between the finite powers of man
and the attributes of an Infinite and
Eternal Being. (Principles of Geology
pp. G20-1).
Professor Geikie: One grand object
of science is to link the present with
the past and learning ever
more and more of that marvelous plan
after which this world has been fram
ed to gain a deeper insight into the
harmony and beauty of creation with
a yet profounder reverence for Him,
who made and who upholds it all.
(Phys. Geog. p. 381).
Professor Dawson: No system of
the universe can dispense with a First
Cause, eternal and self-existent and
that First Cause must necessarily be
the living God whose will is the ulti
mate force and the origin of natural
law. Our knowledge of God cannot be
immediate, but must be mediate, either
through His works as Creator, or
through such Revelation as He may
have made of Himself to the human
mind. (Mod. Ideas, p. 241).
Sir Robert Ball: To the question as
to whence the stars came, Science
really gives no answer. To me the
very circumstances of the heavens
seem to bear written on them the im
press of the fact that they cannot have
gone on from all time as they are
now. There must at some time have
been an intervention of force and ac
tion such as Science is not able to
take cognizance of and which postu
lates the operation of some Higher
Power-than anything man's intellect
can comprehend. (Astronomy).
Lord Kelvin: If you think strongly
enough you will be forced by science
to belief in God which is the founda
tion of all religion. You will find
science not antagonistic but helpful to
religion. Science positively affirms
creating and directing power which
she compels us to accept as an article
of belief. (Life of Lord Kelvin, vol.
ii. p. 1009).
Professor Lodge: We are beginning
to realize that the whole scheme, so
magnificent, so enormous, so immense,
demands in a real sense a manager, a
controller, accessible to prayer, able
and willing to help in His own way
and in His own time, but still always
able and willing. (Speech, 1903).
Professor Windle: Between science,
properly so-called, and religion proper
ly understood, there can be nt kind of
dispute or dissension. Do not be wor
ried theories come and go, but God
remains for ever, and there can be no
possible ultimate contradiction or dif
ference between the tenets of His
Church and the laws of His er
eat
ion.
(Scientific Facts, p. 15).
Lord Avebury (Lubbock): The true
student stands on an eminence from
which he looks back on the universe
of God and forward over the genera
tions of men. Religion should be a
strength, guide and comfort, not a
source of intellectual anxiety, or angry
argument. (Pleasures of Life, p. 210).
Dr. Mivart: Reason demands an
Absolute Cause for- the universe—an
all-perfect Being who has set before
each man the task of conforming his
conduct to right reason. (Nature and
Thought, p. 219).
Pasteur: My many researches are
precisely the reason why I believe as
a Breton peasant, and there is no
doubt that if I studied more I would
believe even as a Breton peasant's
wife. (To a pupil).
Prof. Max Muller: Nothing exists
in nature by accident. Religion is
not a new invention. It is at least as
old as the world we know. The oldest
literary documents are almost every
where religious. Our earth (as Herder
says) owes the seeds of all higher
culture to a religious tradition, wheth
er literary or oral. (Lectures on Re
ligion, pp. 4, 7).
Pope Leo XIII: When it Is said
that the Church is jealous of modern
political systems, and that she repu
diates the discoveries of modern re
search, the charge is a groundless and
ridiculous calumny. The Church but
labors to prevent man's intellect and
industry from turning him away from
God and heavenly things, (Encyc.
Immortal* Dei, p. 93).
DOMAIN OF TEMPERANCE.
A GOOD PROPOSITION.
Poor Richard says: What keeps up
one vice would rear two children. Or
put it this way, by way of shading it
down a little, sugar-coating it, so to
say: What keeps up two habits
would educate one boy. Now, it is
periodically published to the world by
part of the Catholic press that there
is a dearth of vocations to the priest
hood and religious life, fit course,
it is not true—God gives a super
abundance of germs of these vocations
—but what is true is, that they are
allowed to languish and die in too
many instances for lack of nourish
ment and cultivation. Suppose that
instead of wasting—well, put it this
way, for the teachings of Christ are
positive—suppose that what you could
save by abstaining from tobacco, drink
and poker were expended on the germs
of vocations which God provides, it
would develop one of them, and edu
cate the boy for the priesthood. Then
you would have a representative in
the sanctuary to remember you in the
Holy Sacrifice, and to continue the
good work of providing priests which
you had begun. Would it not prove
a better investment and a more satis
factory one than spending time and
money for tobacco, drink, and poker?
What do you think of the proposi
tion? Is it not a good one and worth
your trying? There is no better work
than the multiplication of the. priest
hpod, to garner the harvest that is
wasting for lack of reapers.
—Father Lambing.
A RE-ASSURING NOTICE.
The following notice in railway din
ing cars is causing much satisfaction.
It is surely a sign of the times and
the trains will run no less securely
for having sober passengers as well
as a sober crew.
"Won't Sell Liquor on Trains."
"The New York, New Haven and
Hartford Railroad has decided, ef
fective March 1st, to disoontinue the
sale of liquor on its trains throughout
its entire territory.
"The New Haven takes this action
in the belief that, however custom
may have sanctioned the practice, the
sale of liquor on its trains in the
states of Massachusetts, Rhode Island,
and Connecticut is not permitted by
the laws of these States, which make
no provision for state licensing. No
liquor has been sold in New York
state because the distance traversed
there was believed to be too Short to
warrant taking out a state license for
each car, such as the laws of that
state permit.
"In regard to the sale of liquor on
trains, the position of the New Haven
in the past has been that it had no
desire to sell liquor but that it did
so in response to the demand of its
patrons. However, it is the policy
of the company to conduct its busi
ness strictly in conformity with the
laws of the state In which it operates,
and upon an investigation of the sub
ject it feels that as the law in these
three states does not provide for li
quor selling on trains it should be
stopped.
"In taking this action on discontinu
ing liquor selling the New Haven is
following a rule which many other
large railroads have adopted in differ
ent parts of the country. In Illinois
recently twenty-flve railroads under a
rule adopted by the General Managers'
Association of Chicago agreed to dis
continue the sale of liquor with or
without meals in that state, and other
railroads have done the sam« else
where."
THEY "MUST" ABSTAIN.
An article in a late educational
journal says that those who find the
use of intoxicants means for them
their abuse, should practice total ab
stinence. "Should" is too weak they
"must" abstain. The abuse of intoxi
cants is a sin, and sin must be avoid
ed. But that is not the point I wish
to make. How are they to find out
whether the use means for them the
abuse? By experience. Seek and you
shall find. Seeking a gas leak with a
lighted match is not to be recom
mended, but not less so than seeking
by experience whether one can use
intoxicants without abusing them.
Then, too, what constitutes abuse?
Is a man drunk only when he cannot
lie on a ten-acre field, or asks the
gate to be closed so he don't catch
cold? What is more common than to
hear: Don't worry about me I'm in
no danger. I can take a drink or
leave it alone? A man is not compe
tent to judge his own case, particu
larly when it is one of drinking too
much or not. The professor's test for
agarici comes to mind: Eat them if
you survive they were mushrooms
if they kill you, they were toadstools.
Hut the old Irish pastor's reply to the
girl who, thinking about taking les
sons in dancing, came to ask whether
it was a sin to dance, wa£ more to
the purpose: "My child, if you do not
learn to dance, you will not commit
sin by dancing." When one has used
drink to such an extent that its use
means for him its abuse, he is usually
so deteriorated as not to recognize
the abuse or so hopelessly enslaved as
to be unable or unwilling to give it
up. As it is almost universally admit
ted that intoxicating beverages are
wholly unnecessary and their use ex
tremely dangerous, the proper course
is to leave them entirely alone, and
dissuade others from their use.
—Father Lambing.
THE WORKINGMAN AND DRINK.
The workmen who spend the least
on drink have the best homes, are
most regularly employed, and are bet
ter prepared to resist encroachments
on their wages. Drink prevents yoti
from walking quickly, boldly, and firm
ly, the narrow path that individuals,
classes and nations must tread if they,
wish to reach the goal of personal
health, social happiness, communal^
and national greatness.