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SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1917.
Lent is y season of sense-repres
sion, that is its essential nature
and object. Apply this principle
to that particular sense-exuber
anee which usually causes your
lapses from ^rac-e.
"Why not invite some non-Cath
olic friend to attend the Lenten
services, and especially a course
of sermons on some subject that
may tend to remove prejudice or
to enlighten the mind.
On your bed of death how will
you look upon the little ambitions
and the petty schemes, the realiza
tion of which brought you tem
porary satisfaction at the expense
of charity, llave you already re
ceived vour reward:
War has ever been looked upon
as one of the scourges of _iod.
Any other view is distorted, and
is contrary to the Christian con
ception of Divine Providence.
"War develops patriotism, and this
in its turn serves to recall men to
God, thus evolving good out oi:
evil.
The Mexico-American farce is
about ended. Surely the vast
audience—the whole world—has
received its money's worth in be
holding the humiliation of Uncle
8am and the desecration of re
ligion. Truly, a Koman holiday
at its worst, with the Christians
to the lions.
It might be well to remind our
Catholics that in the year 1917,
the world, the flesh, and the devil,
are just as strong, as' enticing,
alluring, and dangerous, as they
ever have been in the past. The
same weapons must be used to
day as were used by the saints,
namely, watchfulness, fasting and
prayer.
During the past year many mil
lions of dollars have been expend
ed by the Church in this country
for the advancement of religion
On every hand new churches,
schools, hospitals, institutions o
various kinds have been called
into being by the charity ot' the
faithful and the zealous directin
energy ot' the episcopate.
In times past the horrors of a
widespread or prolonged war
served to bring the nations to
their knees. The late Lord Hob
erts emphasized this when lie ob
served that his country had the
men and the munitions, and that
all they needed was a nation 011
its knees. The greater a man the
nearer he approaches to the divine
view of things.
A very good suggestion for Lent
is that a mite box for foreign mis
sions be placed in each home. The
small change saved during Lent
through abstinence from candy
cigars, movies, etc., might
placed in this box and be devoted
to helping the foreign missions
A small bank may be had by ap
plying to l\ev. James A. Byrnes.
St. Paid Seminary, diocesan di
rector of the lloly Childhood.
To use an alliteration, the busy
Bishop Burt is extremely busy
these days. Our readers may re
call hiui as the Methodist wizard
of acrobatic tendencies who was
so ingloriously discomfited several
years ago when, at the Methodist
Conference in Minneapolis, he
dared to attack the Catholic
Church. This Methodist Bishop
is now busily engaged in the pro
motion of the Grand Lodge of the
Federation of Protestant Associa
tions of New York State. The ob
jeet of this organization, as is
evident from Burt's connection
,f
therewith, is to fight the Catholic
Church.
A wave of convent-inspection
mania seems to have swept over
the land. Many state legislatures
have introduced, or are preparing,
bills to enable them to enter the
sacred portals of our convents
and homes for the unfortunate.
Perhaps, after all, this may pro
duce fruit, as such an inspection
has often shown investigators
how wonderfully our institutions
are managed. It is reported that
Georgia is preparing to.repeal its
inspection law.
Intelligent Catholics will not be
misled, when reading of the scan
dals perpetrated by the so-called
"bishop" in Winnipeg, Canada.
The "Holy Apostolic Catholic
Church," of Winnipeg, is a schis
matic aggregation, and the so
called bishop owes his appoint
ment to 110 other authority but
his own: in other words, he is a
self-appointed leader of schis
matics. The Catholic ordinary of
Winnipeg is Most Rev. Alfred A.
Sinnott, recently installed.
The Sacred Heart Review says:
Some months ago a report was
circulated widely that Lf Yuan
llung. President of China, was a
Catholic. A later report asserted
that he was a Protestant. Pri
vate information of undoubted
authority, lately received from
China, enables us to state that the
President of that country is
neither a Catholic nor a Prot
estant. nor does he seem to be a
fanatic—Buddhist or Confucian
ist". lie is tolerant and well-mean
ing to all, and believes iu open,
sincere dealing with everybody
he is also accessible and affable.
MONSIGNOR PLUT.
On Monday of this week there
passed away from earth one of
the most picturesque and patriar
chal figures among the clergy of
the Diocese of St. Paul. As re
ards length of service, Right
Reverend Mousignor PI tit, pastor
of St. Mark's Church. Shakopce,
Minn.. Mas the dean of the clergy
in the Diocese.
.Mousignor Plut was well known
throughout the Diocese and was
always greatly loved and highlv
respected by all those who knew
him. By means of his thoroughly
priestly life, the nobleness of his
character, and his always digni
fied bearing he ever commanded
the esteem of all those with whom
he came in contact. Throughout
his long life of seventy-six years,
more than fifty-one of which were
spent in the priesthood, he was
ever known for his strict punc
tuality in every detail of duty.
For this reason he was always en
tirely trusted by his ecclesiastical
superiors in evtry work and
priestly labor to which he was as
signed. For this reason, also, was
he often a member of the Diocesan
Council* and, finally, airirremov
able rector and a Domestic
Prelate.
Perhaps the characteristic trait
of Monsignor Plut wras his
genuine broadiiiindedness. Everv
thing small, mean, or narrow, was
foreign to the viewpoint of this
large minded and generous man
Iu his dealings with others this
trait made him kind and gentle,
sympathetic and appreciative, and
enabled him easily to obtain the
assent of all persons to whatso
ever he proposed for the indi
vidual or general welfare. His
large and comprehensive mind
designated him as a man of high
intelligence, well read, thoroughly
informed, and highly interested in
all things that tended to promote
the welfare of the Church or of
the country at large. At the
golden jubilee of his priesthood,
celebrated but a short time ago in
Shakopce, there were present
large numbers of priests from all
parts of the Diocese, as well as of
the laity from the various parishes
which at different times iu his
long career he. had administered
The remembrance of the lovable
character which inspired the
words and deeds of Monsignor
Plut with all classes of people will
long remain as a testimony to the
deep impression which that char
acteristic trait has made. It is
the fervent wish and trustful hope
of the whole Diocese of St. Paul
that Monsignor Plut has already
heard the divine commendation
''well done, thou good and faith
ful servant."
GENUINE CHARITY.
St. Paul, the ardent, impetuous
tireless Apostle of the Gentiles
speaks, probably, more frequently
of the virtue of charity than of
any other one Christian virtue
lie recognized this distinctive
mark of the Christian, he incul
cated it on every occasion, and lie
endeavored to make it a practical
part of the .every day life of the
early faithful. He even insists
that martyrdom—"If I give my
body to be burned"—is valueless
without this saving'characteristic
of the true religion.
During the Lenten season Chris
iUk
tians are warned to put in order
the house of the soul. This is a
time of spiritual preparedness.
The wary are loath to wait until
the enemy is at the door, with one
foot perchance over the threshold,
before preparing for a sudden in
vasion. The best form of spir
itual preparedness is without
doubt a constant and persistent
cultivation of the great virtue
which St. Paul places over and
above all others.
Many Christians place & theo
retic valuation 011 their faith:
they consider it in the light of a
luxury, not a necessity. It gives
tone and form to their relations
with other Christians. It is a
badge of presumed morality,, and
serves as a passport into those
circles whereiu Christians pre
dominate. But such persons very
often miss the real nature of their
faith, because they know not
charity: and faith without charity
is a mockery.
The usual pretexts for a viola
tion or disregard of this virtue are
social or business necessity, or the
imaginary demands of religion.
But true religion thrives no£ on
the wreck of that which is at the
foundation of all genuine relig
iousness. The chief and real
cause for such violation is to be
found by probing beneath the
surface, and there the basic reason
for the disregard of charity is
seen to be self-interest, pure and
simple. Iu other words, the in
ordinate desire for self-exaltation
must be gratified even at the ex
pense of charity, the rights of
others, the good of the family, or
even the welfare of religion. One
of the most interesting revelations
011 the day of judgment will be
the disclosing of the real motives
that lay behind many deeds that
were performed on earth, and
that appeared to be prompted by
the love of family, religion or
society, but whose mainspring
was plain self-interest. They
have already received their re
ward.
MAKING ONE'S WILL.
The past year has shown a great
increase in the number of bequests
made by Catholics to our institu
tions. Every week sees a list of
legacies bequeathed in their wills
by Catholics to some charitable
cause. The awakening 011 the
part of our people is most grati
fying and at the same time is in
dicative of a renewed realization
011 their part of the valirc of
suffrage for the dead.
One of the teachings of the
Catholic Church is that prayers
and alms offered in a spirit of
charity for the departed avail for
their spiritual happiness in the
future life. The average Catholic
understands his duty, and readily
discharges it, in praying and per
forming good works for the soul
of his departed friends and rela
tives. He lias Masses said for that
purpose, he offers up prayers, un
dergoes penance, and devotes his
charitable deeds towards reliev
ing the sufferings of those who
have gone before him.
Is it not strange, in view of this
pious belief, that so few Catholics
in making their wills add a provi
sion that will ensure for them in
the next life solace and relief. Is
it not strange that in making their
wills Catholics will not add at
least a few small donations to the
various works of mercy fostered
by the Church. A few hundred,
a thousand, or even a few thou
sand dollars judiciously distribut
ed would to some extent material
ly assist many charitable causes,
and would thus bring down on the
soul of the donor the prayers and
blessings of the institutions there
by benefited. If Catholics gener
ally would thus make provisions
in their wills, even for small
amounts, to their parish church or
school, 01* to some other pious
cause, the work of supporting our
parishes and other institutions
would be considerably lightened.
Very few there are who could not
spare at least one hundred dollars
to such a cause.
SECRETS OP CONFESSIONAL.
The London correspondent of
the Associated Press recently be
gan an article with this para
graph: "There are no secrets
from the state in war time. Law
yers, doctors, priests in confes
sional, all are included in the
phrase, 'person or persons of any
class or description,' must tell 011
demand under the British Defence
of the Realm act.*' Sir William
Bull, one of the leading legal
lights of the House of Commons,
is then quoted: "Doctors and
priests are under exactly the same
obligation 'as lawyers, to give in
formation to the competent mili
tary authority who demands it."
,• It is scarcely necessary to re
mind Catholics that Hie above
statement, if true, can not possibly
have any bearing 011 the Catholic
doctrine of the confessional.
Every Catholic knows that the
secrets conveyed to the priest in
the sacred tribunal of penance are
sealed with an irrevocable seal
which no human power is able to
break. The history of the Church
y i ^pvvf
rrHE CATHOLIC BULLETIN, FEBRUARY 24, 1917
is replete with instances tending
to show that her priests have al
ways looked upon the obligation
of maintaining inviolable the seal
of confession as a supremely di
vine command. Doctors and
lawyers enjoy in civilized coun
tries a professional privilege
which exempts them from disclos
ing secrets conveyed to them pro
fessionally bv patients or clients.
Over and above this professional
privilege the Catholic priest has
the divine command to maintain
that secrecy inviolable and intact
at the cost of every sacrifice, in
spite of any defence of the Realm
act, nay, at the cost of his own
life. There cannot be even
imagined a case wThere any neces
sity, material or moral, personal
or national, would oblige or even
permit the priest to disclose by so
much as a glance or a nod the
secrets conveyed to him by the
confidence of his penitent in the
august tribunal of penance.
The above quotation is but
another illustration of the unre
liability of newspaper reports
when they touch upon the Catho
lic Church and her teachings.
Priests have gone to the stake,
they have been drowned as were
several saints, have suffered every
torture rather than wilfully vio
late their obligation in this re
gard. War may be imperative,
but the will of God is more im
perative.
REFORMING A MAN.
An exchange tells us that a young
English woman came to Amer
ica to marry the man to whom
she was engaged two years be
fore. While making her weddiu
outfit she was shocked and pained
at his coming to see her one even
ing after lie had just been drink
ing enough to be foolish. Learn
ing for the first time that he was
in the habit of drinking frequent
ly to excess, she immediately told
him that their engagement was at
an end. She could not marry him
He protested that she would drive
him*to distraction, and lie prom
ised never to drink another drop
"No," she said. "I dare not trust
my future happiness to a man who
has formed such a ha hit. I came
three thousand miles to marry the
man I loved, and now, rather
than marry a drunkard, I will go
three thousand miles back." And
she went.
There can be little doubt that
in a case like the above the heart
of the woman must have (been
not only shocked but torn asunder
with disappointment and sorrow.
But unlike many another person
this young woman was strongly
convinced of the truth of ex
perience that it is foolish, nay
more, it is suicidal, to marry
man to reform him. Gushing
fervor, youthful ardor, and pure
love may sometimes impel a gir
to overlook serious defects .in the
character of him whom she desires
to take as a companion and
protector for life. But an uncon
trolled taste for strong drink, as
well as other serious tendencies
usually are so imbedded in the
nature of a man that for the prac
tical purposes of married life he
may immediately be put down as
incurable. True it is that during
the poetic period of the so-callec.
honeymoon stage he may hold his
proclivities in leash but as soon
as the married couple divest them
selves of ^assumed qualities, and
sett le down to their normal mode
of living and conduct, it is almost
certain that such vices as those
mentioned above will reappear on
the surface and will form a part
of the everyday life that both per
sons must live. Many a girl, nn
fortunately, has foolishly married
a man to reform him, only to find
out before long that she has failed
in the attempted reformation, but
has succeeded wonderfully in
ruining her own life for all time
to come.
ST. PATRICK'S DAY
AMPHION CLUB OF THE PRO
CATHEDRAL OF MINNEAPOLIS
WILL PROVIDE EXCEPTIONAL
ENTERTAINMENT.
On March 17, In the Minneapolis
auditorium, the Amphion Club of the
Pro-Cathedral of St. Mary will present
their annual dramatic offering. The
choice fell upon Sol Smith Russell's
play which has starred for consecu
tive seasons, entitled, "A Bachelor's
Romance." Sol Smith Russell was an
eminent Minneapolitan and had a host,
of admirers here as well as iu Eastern
cities. His comedy is especially
adopted to please the taste'of theatri
cal epicureans.
The six boxes tor the occasion have
been disposed of by the spiritual di
rector, at $50 each. The names of
the box patrons are as follows: Mr.
and Mrs. J. D. Barrett, Mrs. W. L.
Hixon, Mrs. Jerry Couglilin, the Mur
ray Brothers—Frank, Edward and
Charles with their families, Miss
Elizabeth Quinlan of the Young
Quinlan Company, and Mrs. C. E.
Wales.
The dramatic program will be sup
plemented by a program of Irish
music and song.
An overture at the pipe-organ -will
be rendered by a prominent musician
not yet officially designated. Mrs.
Frances Vincent Coveny will render
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a group of Irish songs. Choice melo
dies will be given by Mrs. William
Hurley, soprano soloist of the Pro
Cathedral choir.
Tickets for this entertainment may
be procured from members of the cast
or from Mr. Edward Covenv, chairman
of the publicity committee, or from
the Cable Piano Company. The execu
tive committee, under the spiritual
director of the club, Reverend Frank
Burns, promises this year to eclipse
all former efforts in brilliancy and to
enlist an exceptionally large clientele
to do honor to Ireland's universal
saint.
Report of the Director
OF THE SOCIETY FOR THE PROPA
GATION OF THE FAITH OF THE
DIOCESE OF SAINT PAUL.
The gross receipts of the Diocesan
Office of the Society for the Propaga
tion of the Faith have all but reached
the $-1,000.00 mark during the past six
months. These ligures, with an elo
quence peculiar to themselves, pro
claim the success of a movement in
augurated in the early fall, to stimu
late interest among the Catholics of
this Diocese in the cause of#Foreign
Missions. The task of spreading en
lightment concerning the present dis
tressful condition of Catholic foreign
mission works and of organizin
means of assistance has been intrust
ed to Rev. James A. Byrnes of St. Paul
Seminary. Under his direction, the
mission message has already been car
ried to upwards of forty parishes of
the Diocese, and in each parish
local branch of the Society lor the
Propagation of the Faith has been
established with its. parochial secre
tary in charge, and a corps of assist
ants called promoters. There are
about 1200 promoters of the Society
in the Diocese at the present time
The duties of the promoter are: first
to form a band of ten members sec
ond. to receive dues for membership
third, to circulate such foreign mis
sion literature as may be placed at
his disposal. Simple though these
duties be, the success of the Society
depends iu a very large measure upon
their careful fulfillment. That those
who have assumed the responsibilities
of promotership have been faithful to
their pledges is attested by the fact
that about $2,000.00 of the total sum
received represents ordinary member
ship dues. Special offerings have
been made to the amount of $1,300.00
while about $600.00 has been received
in payment of special and perpetual
memberships.
These ligures indicate only the
amounts received at the local office
of the Society for the Propagation of
the Faith. They by no means repre
sent the total offering of the Diocese
to foreign mission works. To this
sum is to be added a portion of the
general missionary collection taken
up in the parishes during the Lenten
Season, as well as sums forwarded
directly to the National Office of the
Society by persons not in correspond
ence with the local Diocesan organiza
tion.
The following parishes have regu
larlv established branches of the So
ciety for the Propagation of the Faith
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Minneapolis, Minn.
Pro-Catlicdrul of St. Mary, St
Stephen's, St. Thomas', Notre Dame
de Lourdes, St. Lawrence, St. Anthony
of Padua, St. Ann, Holy Rosary, St
Clement's, Incarnation.
St. Paul, Minn.
Cathedral of St. Paul, St. Mark's
St. Michael's, St. John's, St. Paul
Seminary, St. Catherine's College, St
Joseph's Academy.
Outside the Cities.
Auoka, St. Stephens Beardsley, St
Mary's Bird Island, St. Mary's Cen
terville, St. Genevieve's Clara City
St. Clara's Dayton, St. John the
Baptist Eden Valley, St. Peter's
Mission—Mauaunah, Minn., Church of
Our Lady Farmington, St. Michael's
Green Isle, St. Brendan's Hamel, St
Ann's Hugo, St. John the Baptist
Kilkenny, St. Canice's Maple -Lake
St. Timothy's Mission Chatham
Minh., St. Charles' New Canada, St
John's Osseo, St. Vincent's Ren
ville, Holy Redeemer Rosemount
St. Joseph's Slmkopee, St. Mark's
Stillwater, St. Joseph's St. Peter, St
Peter's St. Peter, Immaculate Con
eeption White Bear, St. Mary's
the Lake.
of
Director's Annual Report
THE HOLY CHILDHOOD ASSOCIA
TION OF THE DIOCESE OF
ST. PAUL.
Not to be outdone by their eldqrs
in foreign mission activity, the paro
chial school children of the Diocese o
St. Paul are responding with great
zeal to the cry of distress which
reaches America these days from
heathen and pagan lands. Through
the generous co-operation of the vari
ous Sisterhoods some twenty branches
of the Holy Childhood Association
the juvenile missionary aid society,
have been established under the same
direction as the Society for the Propa
gation of the Faith. About o,500 chil
dren have been enrolled in the Asso
ciation during the past six months,
and the membership dues (a penny
a month) already total a little less
than $600.00. Surely pennies are
young dollars!
But the children are not limiting
their interest in the missiqps to the
payment of ordinary membership
dues. Many have chosen to make
greater sacrifices, and are dropping
some part of their "candy money"
into mite boxes placed in the school
rooms. When five dollars has been
saved In this way a heathen child is
"parchased," with the privilege of se
lecting the name to be given in bap
tism and two sponsors. This method
of assisting the missions makes strong
appeal to the children, and thirty-four
heathen iufunlH have already" been
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iven baptism through their zealous
fforts. To St. Michael's School,
Madison, Minn., goes the honor of
purchasing the first heathen child
since the opening of the school year.
I11 the city of St. Paul the same dis
tinction belongs to the Seventh grade
pupils of St. Vincent's School. St.
Mark's School, this city, has out
classed all competitors in the number
of pui-cliases made the pupils of this
school have eleven infants to their
credit in the foreign field—a remark
able record!
Branches of the Holy Childhood
Association hare been established in
the following schools:
City of St. Paul: Sacred Heart, St.
Mark's St. Vincent's, St. Luke's, St.
John's, St. Mary's, Visitation Convent,
St. James', St. Michael's, St. Patrick's,
St. Bernard's, Cretin High School.
Minneapolis: Notre Dame de Lourdes.
Outside the Cities: Anoka, St. Ann's
Waverly, St. Mary's St. Michael. St.
Michael's Winsted, Holy Trinity Bird
Island, St. Mary's Albertville, St.
Albert's Stillwater. St. Michael's St.
Leo, St. Leo's Watkins, St. An
thony's Madison, St. Michael's White
Bear, St. Mary's Le Sueur, St. Ana's.
Deprived of County Aid
PETITION IS GRANTED IN CHI
CAGO RESTRAINING THE COUN
TY OF COOK FROM PAYING
CATHOLIC INSTITUTION FOR
SUPPORJ OF ORPHANS.
Last week Judge Jesse A. Baldwin,
Chicago, granted the petition of W. H.
Dunn, restraining the County of Cook
from paying the sum of $4,151 to the
Chicago Industrial School for Girls.
Judge Baldwin acted simply in accord
ance with the laws of the state. Mr.
Dunn, however, was actuated by fear
of papal domination in this country.
Tlfe decision strikes a blow at the
aid which is being granted by the
state to our institutions which have
taken care of orphans and wayward
and delinquent children. This deci
sion throws the entire burden of sup
port upon our Catholic people. An elo
quent plea for the orphans was sent
out by Archbishop Mundelein to all the
churches and the citizens of Chicago,
and met with a quick and generous
promise of support.
It is well to note that in announcing
his decision Judge Baldwin made use
of these telling words:
"In reaching this conclusion, I am
not unmindful of the devotion and
self-saci'ifice evidenced by those in
charge of this school, nor underesti
mating at all the efficiency of its man
agement. As previously indicated in
this opinion, it is my belief that in a
large majority of cases, work of this
kind is more economically and ef
ficiently done in institutions con
trolled, managed, and supported by re
ligious and sectarian organizations
than when administered by the state."
CHAPEL OF ST. PATRICK
During the past week the Catholic
Bulletin has received through Father
Cremin, the following donations for
the Chapel of St. Patrick in the new
Cathedral:
Sisters of St. Joseph's Acad
emy, St. Paul $100.00
A Friend, St. Paul 2.00
The Weather and the War
(Written for The Catholic Bulletin, by
James C. Nolan.)
You and 1 are getting cranky,
Some fine day we'll lose our heads,
And we'll both be sorry for it
'Twill disturb us in our beds,
Where the spooky shapes are
ning,
(That the night is noted for)—
Let us talk about the weather
Never mind about the war.
And suppose, as seems quite likely,
Every nation in the world
May be swirling in the vortex
Where the bolts of Jove are hurled,
It may be we have it coming
Just to even up the score,—
Let us talk about the avgather
Never mind about the war.
There's Mexico, there's birth control,
And "Guardians" spewing bate,
All are urgent invitations
To the wrath of God, irate:
Yea, that dread baptism of fire
Is what we may be in for—
Let us talk about the weather
Never mind about the Avar.
NOTRE DAME BUYS
ANCIENT RECORD
CYLINDRICAL RECORD UNCOV
ERED AT BABYLON GIVES HIS­
TORY OF NEBUCHADNEZZAR
REIGN.
A cylindrical record, uncovered in
Babylon and giving the history of
Nebuchadnezzar from 605 to 562 B. C.,
was purchased by the University of
Notre Dame and will be put on display
in the new Notre Dame library. It is
one of four of its kind the British
Museum contains one. another bearin
the same inscription is at Yale Univer
sity, and another is in the Toledo Art
Museum. They were found by Arabs
digging in ruins for bricks to build
huts and were recovered by Dr. Edgar
J. Banks. The one at Notre Dame is
of liard*burned yellow clay, nine inch
es in height and eighteen inches in
circumference. Running around the
cylinder are three columns of a total
of 145 lines of characters.
Avas
grin
What we know about the matter
Might be Avrit on our thumb nails,
What Ave think we know, if printed,
Would be apt to swamp the mails
So suppose we sit and listen
While the wise ones peace restore,—
Or, we'll talk about the weather
Never mind about the war.
'V-:»
DOMAIN OF TEMPERANCE
WOMEN AND DRINK.
Margaret Wintringer, Secretary of
the National Good Citizenship Move
ment of Chicago, has written in the
Sunday School Times a series of
articles on the alcohol question in
Europe. Speaking of the part which
woman plays in the drink evil, she
says:
"While abroad, I made special in
vestigation of drinking among women,
visiting public houses and cafes. In
Great Britain I was given access to
official reports of investigations in
various areas under the Central Board
of Control of the Liquor Traffic.
Some of the figures are truly startling.
"In Birmingham, sixty-four public
houses were investigated between the
hours of 8 and 10 for three successive
nights, the watchers devoting one
hour per night to each public house.
By actual count 15,933 persons visited
these public houses during these
periods of investigation. Of these,
6,329 were women.
"Manchester reports, which were
furnished me by a member of the
Central Board of Control, are equally
alarming. In eighteen public houses
investigated, the women outnumbered
the men at the bar by from ten to
two hundred per cent. "Thirty of the
women looked like young school girls.'
'Astonished to see the number of
young girls,' are excerpts from the re
port. The figures compiled by the
British Women's Total Abstinence
Union were still more startling. Five
hundred and ninety-seven women,
many of them very young, entered a
North London public house iu a single,
hour. In the course of an hour 107
women were observed to go, after
receiving their war allowances from
the post office, to one licensed public
house.
"Innocent children are sufferers
from this awful vice. The official re
ports complain that 'very young chil
dren are left outside the public house
for periods of from twenty to fifty
minutes, between the hours of 9 and
10 o'clock at night, while their moth
ers are patronizing the bar.'
"The beginning of the war saw an
increase of drinking among the wom
en of France, but the meager war al
lowance kept it at the minimum. The
economic necessity which reduced
Germany's output of beer and spirits
to half saved her from the humiliation
of an experience similar to that of
Great Britain. Russia's prohibition
ukase forestalled such misfortune."
DRINK NO CURSE TO JEWS.
The Brooklyn Bureau of Charities
in a study" that is being conducted in
several large cities has made a sur
vey of intemperance in Brooklyn. It
found that
Avith
a total population of
approximately 1,800,000 people, there
were 2,253 licensed saloons on Octo
ber 6, or nearly one saloon for every
eight hundred men,
Avomen,
and
children. In addition to these, sa
loons 429 other liquor tax certificates
had been issued, as folloAvs-: 227 for
selling liquor in quantities of less than
five
gallons, not to be drunk on the
premises! 157 for duly licensed phar
macists, upon prescription five for
trafficking in alcohol between 7 a. m.
and 7 p. m. in quantities of less than
five gallons, except on Sundays 261
for trafficking in liquor at hotels.
There were 8,064 families aided by
the Brooklyn Bureau of Charities dur
ing the year ending May 1, 1916, and
in one thousand of them intemperance
a factor, or, putting it another
Avay,
in a little more than twelve per
cent of all the families dealt
Avith,
in­
temperance was one of the factors
which made charitable aid necessary.
A contrast is afforded by the record
of the United Jewish Aid Society.
They report that they assisted 1,800
IlebreAV families, representing nine
thousand individuals, and in
110
case
Avas intemperance a factor. It was
also reported by them that there has
been only one case during the past
three years where the family's de
pendence and distress Avas either
Avholly or in part brought about by
the drunkenness of the bread-winner.
ONLY WORLD FAVORING AL
COHOL.
"There's only one world in favor of
alcohol, that's the under-Avorld," is the
declaration of Charles F. Whitcomb,
President of the Michigan State Gid
eons.
That the Gideons, commercial trav
elers, throughout the United States,
are emphatic in favor of prohibition
is evidenced by the pronounced stand
of President Whitcomb. Mr. Whit
comb is a special agent connected
with Coats & Burchard Company,
public appraisers, of Chicago, and
when he voices his sentiments, it is
evident that he reflects the seutiments
of the rank and file of the members
of the organization of which he is
the head.
Here is what President Whitcomb
says of alcohol:
"There is only one world in favor
of alcohol, and that's the under
world.
"The business world is against it,
the military world is'against it, the
religious world is against it, the phy
sicians are against it, and the Gideons,
commercial traveling men, are
against it."
ST. PAUL ON TEMPERANCE.
Temperance has the hearty ap
proval of St. Paul, notwithstanding
the oft-quoted advice to Timothy.
He says: "Let the women be sober."
To Titus he says: "Speak thou the
things that become sound doctrine
that the aged men be sober the aged
Avomen in like manner, that they may
teach the young women to be sober.
Young men in like manner ex
hort that they be sober." And as if
to embrace all mankind iu the cause
of Temperance, he adds: "For the
grace of God our Saviour hath ap«:
peared to all men, instructing us that
we nbould live soberly." xv