An important function to celebrate the ninetieth birthday of His Grace the Most Rev ML Kelly, D D., Archbishop cf Sydney, has been arranged under the direction of the Vicar-General of the Archdiocese of Sydney, the Right Rev Monsignor T Phelan, P.P, V.G. and will take place on Tuesday, February 13, in Sydney Town Hall
Invitations in the name of the VicarGeneral, will be issued to all the provincial Bishops, as well as to the clergv of the Archdioceseboth secular and regular Representatives of the Ca tholic laity, Diocesan benefactors and many prominent citizens will also be invited
A combined Festival Choir, under the direction of Mr W J Caspers, Director of Music at St Mary's Cathedral will sing "Ecce, Sacerdos Magnus'' as His Grace the Archbishop enters the hall Mr H B Dawkins the Cathedral organist, will preside at the grand organ, and the Westmead Boys' Band will also be in attendance
The Right Rev Monsignor T Phelan, P.P., VG, will read, and then present, the occasional address, and Mr E P Hollingdale PC., as the repreesntative of the Catholic laity, will inform His Grace that as a ninetieth birthday gift full responsibility will be assumed for the £50,000 debt on St Mary's Cathedral
The debt has been assumed by the united parishes and within five years the total amount of it will be liquidated
A list will then be read of major subscribers to the Cathedral Appeal for the last six months, amounting to a sum f some thousands of pounds, as an evidence of the sincerity of the effort
g PRELATE CALLS FOR REFORM OF WORLD FINANCE.E Nottingham B
In a message to the people of Nottingham, Bishop McNultyE writes: "It is our hope and prayer that the year 1940 will bring a f just and lasting peace E "True peace must be based on justice and not on ambition;~ and our eyes should be open to the fact that social injustice is a fruitful source of discord Radical readjustment of world finance i is essential if there is to be a more equitable distribution of the l world's goods" E
Congratulatory speeches will follow from prominent citizens, and an unique feature will be the appearance of ninety little children, each representing one vear of His Grace's life
His Grace will then reply to the felicitations and congratulations, and give his blessing to all present
The Vicar-General hopes for an outtanding response on this historic occasion-an united tribute of love and affection for one who has served God, the hurch and his own Archdiocese on and sn well
TWO
Through the blackness of the night, the warden plodded on his rounds
Stumbling up and down kerbs and round corners he suddenly realised he was lost.
But, hold, there was a gleam of light in the darknessin that house across the street a strong glimmer shone from an upstairs window
Groping his way across the road, he knocked on the door It was opened by some invisible person
"One of your bed-room lights is showing" he said sternly; "please put it out, and"
A voice he knew interruped him
"Come in and put it out vourself idiot! You left it on!" '
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Two little rabbits went out for a walk in the country After they had been walking some time they sat down to rest
Presently a skunk came and sat down beside them
After a while one little rabbit sniffed Then the other sniffed and whispered:
"I say, bld man, don't you think someone ought to tell him?"
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Out of his kindness of heart a famous comedian went to entertain the patients in a big hospital After giving an hour's show he declared he must dash away to get ready for his evening performance
Oh, come!" said the senior surgeon.
You've been very good to us You must have some refreshment.'
"Afraid I haven't time' Then a whisky-and-soda or a cigar?'
"No, thanks, really!"
"Oh, hang it, man, you must have something with us! Have a leg off?"
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Descending the stairs, Willie's mother entered the sitting-room where her son was still eating breakfast,
"Did you wash yourself this morning, Willie?" she asked Willie gave a hurried gulp as he tried to hide his hands under the table
cloth
"Yes o' course I did, mother,'' he replied
" Well, how is it you didn't find this?"
She held out a folded slip of paper
Written outside was: "For Willie for the pictures;" inside was sixpence Wh-where was it?" gasped Willie
"Under the soap in the bath-room''
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With eager eyes the little crowd on the beach watched the bottle bobbing shorewards Most of them had romantic visions of a message-perhaps the last despairing cry from a shipwreeked crew
At last it was within grasp Eager hands broke the seal and drew out the stained paper., Amid a breathless silence this message from, the great unknown was read
"Please send this bottle to my brother, Jock McNab, of Sporran Street, Glasgow and tell him to return it to the Green Duck as there's twopence on it"
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Three maiden ladies were out exercising their dog Suddenly, to their horror, the litle pet dashed through the swing-doors of a public-house
· What could they do? All a-twitter, they lingered near, not daring to enter such a place At last one had a braicwave as a kind-looking workman came out of the place of public refreshment
'Excuse me," she said, "would vou mind fetching our dog ut from the public-house?"
'Certainly not," said the man,
"Which bar was you in, ma'am?"
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This was the third applicant for the post and quite the most likely The mistress of the house put question after question all of which were quite sat-
isfactorily answered, » Now, about references,' she said "Who was your last mistress?" 'Well, you remember that Miss White who died mysterious-like?"
Yes, but-
"Well I did for her!"
k k k r For a long time the kitchen elock had been hanging from an uncertain nail So when Sandy came home [rcm work, he was greeted with the news that the 'clock had fallen at last
And what's more'' said his wife had it come down a meenute sooner, it would have crashed right on my dear mithers head as she sat in that chair!'
"Oh, ay!' Sandy replied. That clock was ay slow!"
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The young artilleryman had grown very tired of polishing his spurs So when he went home on leave he gave them to his brother who worked in a motor factory, and had them chromium-plated
On his return to barracks he went on parade as usual. The officer on duty presently noticed his spurs
"Just returned from leave?'
"Yessir!"
"Birmingham?"
"Yessir!"
Humphwell, next time you go along take one of the eighteen-pounders with you!"
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After a nightand what a night! two gallant soldiers were returning to their billets
At the corner if the street one produced some tired-looking cigarettes and asked the,other for a match
After several efforts, they got a match out of the box One bent to pick up those they dropped, when the other exclaimed: "Shay ol' man, this match won't tight!"
Whasha the matter with it?"
"Dunnoit lit all right just now!"
k k k k Sam had just passed through a hairraising experience He'd just seen a ghost!
"Yes, suh," the negro said Ah jes' come outer the cowshed with a pail o' milk in mah hand Den Ah hears a noise an' de ghost rushes out''
Was you skeered?" asked one of his listeners 'Did vou shake with iright?"
'Ah don't know what Ah shook with,'' replied Sam solemnly "Ah cain't say I shook at all; but when Ah got in de house, there warn't no milk in de pail only two pounds o' butter!"
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Among those called up was a young plumber For a trade test, he was told to make a joint in a lead pipe
When he had finished the examiner wrote on the man's report:
Joint very nicely done"
A few davs later the recruit found himself posted as head cook in the offcers' mess
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Arriving at a strange hotel a fussy woman thought she'd better know where the fire-escape was She she started exploring
During her tour, she opened a door and found herself in a bath-room occupied bvan elderly gentleman
"Oh, I'm orry!" she twittered, T was ooking for the fire-escape"
Continuing her search, presently she heard the pad of bare feet behind her and shout made her turn It was the elderly man, clad in a bath-towel
''Wait a min te!" he gasped Where's the fire?"
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As the artistic ady strolled along the country lane she came across a hefty old man cutting back the hedge
"Ah!" she sighed 'What a delightful sceneso quiet and rural So far removed from the hectic rush and bustle of town So definitely old England May I talk with you my good man? I'd love to hear your rural dinlet"
And the old man beamed at her as he replied: "That's OK by me, baby!"
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With a hopeful glint in his watery eye the tramp approached the man in uniform
Scuse me, corporal," he began, "T ain't had a square meal for a week, If you could spare me a bob"
The corporal slipped a hand into his pocket and produced a few coppers
'Sorrv chum that's a!I Ive got" he replied ''Bah!" snorted th tramp. "T'«e been getting nothing but hard-luck stories al! dav!'
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Last evening again I listened to your broadcast I am happy to number you amongst my listeners
How can you expect our people to become united when you have such a one-sided view of life in general?
The only hope to get people united in one religion is gradually to get those who think the Catholic view one-sided to realise that it is all-sided, and the full complete truth it may be that I seem to vou to dwell on matter you do not yet understan or believe And your first thought is that they must be wrong but t s not very helpful to tell you things you already know It is to help people to ougrow one-sided ideas rhat I put beiorc them new aspects for their consideration
You remind me of the manager of a store who tells his staff, the customer is always right"
Surely that cannot e so Yca yourself have gained the mpression from my sessions that the customer is sometimes wrong
You do not realise that there arc many paths I realise that only too well But I realise also that paths leading in opposite directions cannot all be the right path For example, the path that declares worship of God through the sacrifice of the Mass cannot be equally right with the path which declares the Mass to be blasphemous idolatry
All lead to the one Golden Gate, to those who have the faith to show them the way.
All may equally desire to reach heaven But with that desire I am not at present concerned. The real problem concerns the nature of the faith they possess, and whether it is capable of showing them the wav God wants them to take And it is certain that if your faith is right, mine is wrong In fact, you are telling me that it is wrong despite your trying to justify all forms of faith on the score that all roads lead the on> way
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Why Catholicism Only?
Why do you think your road is the only way?
On our own principles I could ask you why you think all other roads right ways, and the Catholic road only the wrong way?
Such arrogance is not the teaching of the Bible
Arrogance is a proud and dominating self-assurance But one who does not explain opinions of his own devising, but who explains the teachings of the Church Christ established and to which he himself is subject, cannot be accused of proud self-assurance
Nor is there any question of domineering Every man is free to decide as to whether he also desires to submit to the God-given religious authority of the Catholice Church or not As regards the teaching of the Bible, of course at present we differ. There it is clearly taught that Christ established one Church only, and commanded men to hear and obey that one Church in His name One who believes in the Bible has the duty to find and belong to that Church And I maintain that that Church is the Catholic Church
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Help For AII
Would it not be far better to give a helping hand to anyone enquiring the way?
That is precisely what I do It would not be very helpful to say, Take any road you please It is really of no importance as to which is the right way" The only real help to one enquiring the wav is to indicate the Catholic way
You say the Catholic Church is the only true Church
I do
I understand that Catholic means universal Correct
Then it means all are included
It means that all who profess the one faith are included of whatever nation thev mav be It does not mean that all are included whatever religion they choose to profess It is impossible to sav that the Plymouth Brother the Chrisadelphian, the Anglican, the Seventh Day Adventist, and others almost indefinitely, have one and the same fa1th, and belong to the one Catholic Church, '' k t k "Fixed Doctrines"
Your fixed doctrines have been added and altered according to the times
If subject to alteration they can scarcely be called "fixed" But letting that go, will you say that the Church to which I belong at least is not right? In that case, will vou denv that we at least belong to the universal Church? If so, we find a strange position arising All the nonCatholic Churches are the Catholic Church, and the Catholic Church is the only one that is not the Catholic Church
The doctrine "Love one another" has not changed
I agree We must all keep that law in the Christian sense of the word. But that does not touch
the problem created by other doctrines upon which we differ, and which are the very ones therefore that require discussion, if we are ever to attain unitv in faith We Catholics have an irrevocable faith in our Church You appar-
ently have no particular faith in any particular Church All we can say is that, if you study the Catholic Faith and become convinced of its truth, vou will no longer have to complain that we differ from your views
British-Israel Theory
RJ, Punchbowl:
Christians could not hope to suc-
Recently I heard you condemn a ceed without paying occasional body of people for whom I have tribute to Christianity When, a great respect, namely the Bri- however, we discuss the question tish Israelites as to whether British Israelism I condemned their teachings as exalts one nation rather than anmistaken and positively danger- we do not select passages which have no bearing on that topic, but 0us You said that they were a new passages that have such reference
sect
I did
Will you answer this question without using the word ''comparative" Have they, as they claim, been in existence for more than a hundred years?
Apparently you do not wish me to declare the sect "comparatively new'' If they have been in existence for more than a hundred years they have been very quiet about it They have come into prominence by active propaganda onlv since the last war their theories finding a fruitful soil, with so manv other mental aberrations in the disturbed state of the postwar decades
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You said that they exalted one particular rae to the exclusion of others, and by so doing rejected Christ
I did Thev insist that the Anglo-Saxon race is the continuation of Israel bv blood descent the inheritor of the promises God made to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and the possesor of Israel's guarantees and immunities That is a rejection of Christianity which abstracts from racial considerations religiously, and in which no special advantages are possessed by any members by virtue of national origin
An article in their weekly paper dated 13-9-39 says, "Those in Christ are one, but that does not mean that all belong to one nation Forinstance an Italian Pope or a British Archbishop may both be one in Christ The hall-mark of a Christian is: Love one another" Does that sound like an exaltation of Anglo-Saxondom, and the, rejection of Christ?
Those particular words do not But a movement which wants to secure recruits from amongst
And the very effort to prove that Anglo-Saxons are the special inheritors of the promises to Abraham by their supposed blood descent from Israel is opposed absolutely to the religion of Christ "Men of Learning"
You said that no man of learning held the views of these people
I did not say that I said that no real scholars in relevant subjects accepted their system, or the arguments they adduce on its behali It is useless to say that articles in their magazines are written by men who are proficient in subjects other than that on which they write Now I cannot go through the balance of your letter Enquiries are limited to one page, and you have sent three pages The "Encyclopae-
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I ask these questions, not as one who condemns the Roman Catholic people, but as one who honestly would like to know what is right. In your letter you have quoted
GrattanGuinness with approval
Now in his book "Light for the Last Days," Grattan Guinness declares that he bases his interpretation on the "fact'' that the o man Catholic Church is Babylon, and the Papacy the Beast, together with Mohammedanism, t you have not confidence enough in Grattan Guinness to share his basic principle that Roman Catholicism is utterly evil, why have you confidence in the conclusions he claims to derive from such premises? I do not know whether you have any confidence in the advice you ask of me But I can assure you that, if you honestly want to know what is right, yon won't find it in British Israelism In conclusion I would recommend you to get and read a book called "British Israel Theory" by Dr H L Goudge - b an Anglican scholar It sells at 2/6, and can be obtained or ordered through Angus and Roberston's, or any other bookseller
Case of Teresa Neumann
"Listener," Turramurra:
Would you please give me some facts concerning Teresa Neumann.
I am afraid I cannot deal at length with biographical details during this session However I will do what I can for vou in the brief time at my disposal Teresa Neumann was born mn Konnersreuth, a small village in Bavaria near what used to be the CzechoSlovakian border, in the year 898 In 1918, at the age of 20 she became an invalid, and has led a life of extreme suffering ever since But a peculiar feature of her sufferings is their identification with the sufferings ot Cl 1:-, r1st on the Cross Wounds have appeared on her hands and feet, which bleed on Fridavs Her head, too, is wounded as if it had been crowned with thorns, and those wounds also bleed on Good Friday She has had nothing to eat or drink since 1927, except for the reception of Holy Communion She is wholly devoted to prayer; and has a wonderful gift of insight into the lives of others, revealing to them past events, their present state, and future experiences k k # t
Prophetic Gifts
Has she uttered any prophecies?
If so, what are some of them?
So far as I know she has made no prophecies of general and world significance She herself denies that she has ever made any predictions, whether directly or indirectly, of a political character All her manifestations have to do with the spiritual state of souls, and their future welfare She predicted to a sceptical professor who went to see her that he would meet with an accident, and an hour after his departure his car smashed into a tree and was completely wrecked She recognised instantly that another visitor was leading an evil life, called her aside, told her so, and warned her against it She rightly informed one man who visited her that his only motive was to see whether he could make monev out of the event When Bishop Schrembs, of Cleveland.
U S A , visited her in 1928, she re vealed to him many things of s life which were known onlv to God and himself described in detail the priests of his American diocese, though she had never been there and predicted many of the Bishop's future activities and experiences Bat I cannot go fully into these matters here For furt'er details I must refer von to published books on tle subject
Available Information
Did she predict disasters in Aus tralia in 1940?
No Some wild rumour to that effect became current out here; but enquiries sent to Konners reuth met with a complete denial that Teresa Neumann had made any such predictions concerning Australia
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Where is she at present?
So far as I know she is still liing at Konnersreuth Some time ago it was reported in English papers that she had died, but American cable agencies contradicted that report, and declared that she is still alive Has a book on her life been pubished recently?
There are four different bio graphical, medical, and psycho'o gical studies of the case of Teresa Neumann at the Southern Cross Library, 543 George-street, Svdnev available to members Catholic booksellers are able to supply them to those who wish to purchase them These books are ,all fairlv recent but the most recent books on the subject are pub lished in foreign languages, and have not vet found their wav in to English translations
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ning thi� article with the personal pronoun, because the subject is one about which I feel with extreme personal intensity, and I would like to write even more strongly than I expect to The article is a passionate appeal, in the name of Our Lady, for the Poles You will observe that I do not even say "Poland,' because I wish to pocket my very opinions-though not my principles-while making this plea on behalfof a sufferingnation, in the name of Mary and her Son, who are above all nationalities
Enough that I plead, here, for a people in agony
An authority on Poland-well, I can't help using that name, dear to me, and expressive of a reality, after all!-has estimated that one million and a half of Poles within Poland are doomed to die oi cold and starvation during this winter This, we are told, cannot be prevented They will be allowed enough food to prevent, maybe, epidemics; but you will probably remember the state of Austria after the last war-which we dare no more call the great'' one-when the disease popularly called "liquefaction of the bones" prevailed to a ghastly extent; where doctors could no more so much as buy medical journals to keep knowledge up to date, not even anaesthetics; where semin ary student (as in Germany) had to work in mines to earn the next term's keep I don't much object to that) and girls had to sell choclates to the "rich'' and sing in the streets in order to help the aged to survive--girls often fresh from cloisters and doomed to God knows what
Even I, staying on a Styrian mountain side, being an honoured guest, was given an egg to amplify theturnips and apples which made the rest of my day's repasts (I like to remember that Catholic universitv students sent a vast numberof sacks of clothes to Germanv, east and west, and Austria) But worst still is the immediate future of that vast peasant population of Poland, which endeared itself so intimately to me
Let us at once base all we hope to do upon prayer, offered through the intercession of Our Lady of Czestochowa whose shrine stands upon Jasna Gora, the clear or shining hill-possibly so-called at first because n thatflatland itis very visible, but by now radiant with centuries of love and devotion I need not give details of its history, if only because I have not studied it critcally, and do not ike to suggest what may be only legendary
At any rate the picture of Our Lady there preserved was very ancient when brought from the East in the thirteenth centurv It was placed at Czestochowa and entrusted to the care of the Hermits of St Paul There is has remained ever since, witnessing many a siege, hacked at by hostile swords, becoming a lodestone for the people
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My companion and I went there from Warsaw In our railway carriage was a Jewish rabbi, who seemed delighted that that was our destination, so Polish" was he in sentiment We arrived at about 2 a m, in all but pitch dark
·Outside the station we met a peasant, and used the universal languagewe made the Sign of the Cross and said: "Maria?" He
pointed right, then left Up a street, up a hill, through a tunnel ot trees, aware of a growing murmur which was not that only of the leaves, we emerged upon the vast bare hilltop Bare, that is ot forest, but covered with dense crowding humanity waiting for the shrine to be opened
There they knelt, sometimes upright and rigid in prayer, sometimes, women crouched, covered wtn enormous cloaks The endless whisper of the rosary went hovering around us I have hrard nothing quite like that save in ireland-not even at Lourdes wnere the whole atmosphere, somehow, is different From 1me to time a hymn was intoned, hoarse and rugged, immemorial in its cadences and doubtless its words, seeming in that darkness :o rise from the very heart of the Polish earth
You felt as if all those thousands had struck root in that earth; they were like a gnarled ind huddled vegetation mndwelt y a soul: yes; you were encoun:ering something oithe very soul of Poland: you knew it was like nothing else: you knew that it ad sutfered and felt sure that it was somehow destined to little out suffering, yet that no sufferng imaginable could kill it I uad met much that amused, enchanted, stimulated me in Ioand: but on that hilltop, I knew Iwas meeting Poland, and surrendered myself to its indigenous civilisation, its manifold culture; In a word, to its soul
High above us burned a solitary crimson spark. Afterward, we ound out that this was the iamp shining before the vast exterior icon of Our Lady, corresponding to where the holy picure was within Gradually the ky greyed: a dead black silhouette of turrets and spires One spire soaring high above the rest detached itself on the steely heavens
Wepressed our way up toward enormous bastions, terraces, arcades, which gradually took shape and revealed themselves as the accumulation of masonrv that had been piled up by the centuries We reached a'sort of chasm between heavy walls, with vast wooden doors at the end of it We waited there till about 5 o'clock I thmk
The doors swung open: the crowd spouted like a torrent into the black aperture We were swept through ancient vaulted corridors, under echoing arches into a huge church which we had not time to glance at-anyhow, the little flickering lamps or torches would not have shown us much And then, left into another great chapel, and forward till we passed a grille and found ourselves directly under the veiled icon of Our Lady, and about a dozen rows awav from the altar
Already almost exhausted, I could notice but vaguely the astounding roroco decoration of the apse and reredos, all seemingly of silver; crowns of king after king; coats of arms; swords; fluttering angels; and in the middle, thetall golden shield that covered the picture Ihad a moment of panic: suppose one fainted; or even, if someone died How move? How not be suffocated if somehow one's knees gave way and one did manage to sink? But Our Ladv would not allow that!
At 6 o'clock, I think trumpets sounded Slowly the gold veil moved, and the Picture was seen
The joy of that population was glorious Cries, sobs, cheering, ecstatic welcome to the Mother and Queen of Poland ,able at last to look down upon her children and be seen by them They say chat her expression changes according to the mood of the onlooker Certainly mv mood was a weary one: but I don't think it was to that, only, was due Our Lady's expression of extreme exhaustion, as it appeared to me
It was as though for centuries she had been listening to the same prayers, watching the same sorrows, aware of the self-same sins and knew that for very long she still must do so But never would her attention waver, her effort flag; always would her hope endure There was all the dignity of a Queen; all the tenderness of a Mother: but also dare not say the grimness of a woman who foresaw and accepted an everlasting martyrdom destined to herself and her sons, but what would have been that had not Mary's soul been caught up into the vision of Eternal Life Mass succeeded Mass, and l almost despaired of ever saying mine At last, after 10 o'clock, I threw my letter of introduction to the General of the Hermits of St Paul, over the intervening heads and it fell into the sanctuary The astonished server collected it: it disappeared: a messenger came out after some time, and miraculously we made our way into the enormous sacristy. Kindly priests welcomed me, and asked if I could hear confessions n Polish, and indeed bench after bench was occupied with waiting penitents, manifestly overhearing one another's confessions, but no one minding anv more than thev did at Buenos Aires or do in Ir land
Well, I couldn't; so I said my Mass and was given a glass of tea After that we went on to the great terrace beneath which we had been last night High Mass was going on beneath the exterior icon; the hill now was a mass of colour because of the vivid shawls, skirts and aprons of the women
After this I think we had dinner, but I was much too tired to
swallow much; then we were shown over the monastery, and in particular the library which, please God, survives In the evening, we went down to the town and to the station, to entrain for Budapest But they said that no train went to Budapest In desperation, we got Into the next train that did arrive, feeling that it would probably go somewhere and to the rack we tied the icon of Our Ladv of Czestochowa which we had bought and which is before me as I write We said: "Our Lady! see to it "
She did They unhitched that one carriage, and off it went straight to Budapest Moreover, when at the frontier the customs officer came in, he saw the icon, smiled, saluted, and let us alone Pleasing little miracle, which we remember half ruefullv when we are asking such enormous ones from Our Lady
In this article, we have not spoken of what those enormous miracles are, nor whv we are sure that nothing else can save for the Church the future of Poland and very much more
What we do ask is that no one should venture to breathe one word to the detriment of the Polish people, its civilisation, its ideals and its spirit: no one has failed to admire how like is the best in the Polish temperament to the best in the Irish one
Transcending all political considerations, the loftiest sympathy between thoe two nations should exist And we ask too that prayer may be offered without ceasing for Poland and her children wherever they are, not least, if you will, through the inter'ession of Our Lady of Poland, of whose shrine we have written
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How I Became
Religious Odyssey ofSon of Zionist Pioneer
Mr. Hans Herzl, son of the man who originated Zionism for the recovery of Palestine as the national home of the Hebrew race once more, has issued this account of his conversion It should interest readers keenly "I came from a home in which, though it was not identified with any particular creed, religion was properly respected Ii I can make such a distinction atall, therewas on my mother's side a leaning towards religion, while my father's mind conformed rather to the habits of Freethought in vogue amongst theJewish world of writers and journalists in Vienna
My sisters and I weretaught only two or three simple and short prayers (morning and night as well as grace before dinner) which we said in German We also received some tuition in Hebrew, which was a compulsory subject for Jews at school Our resident governesses were Christians-Protestants in all cases that I can remember Our Father nculcated in us a sense of pridein being Jews; but after his death (which took place when a was thirteen) I remember my mother telling me that when we were small children our father had at times considered having us baptised nto the Christian Church That standpoint must date back to a period before the inception of the Zionist movement; but while I cannot ever remember having heard him express such views there are diaries which tend to support my mother's statement Certainly there is no explicit condemnation of baptism in so far as Jews are concerned, in any of published writngs, whatever views he may have privately come to hold
Removes to England
Soon after his death the guardians to whom we had been entrusted brought me to England, the intention being that I should conform to Jewish practice, follow an accepted course of study and embrace a recognised career My family did not migrate with me, and I lost my mother soon after, when I was seventeen
My removal to England I hold to have been unwise It definitely put an end to our home life, and I verv much fear that it broke mv mother's heart For having disregarded her wishes I am very much to blame, and I was punished with great unhappiness One half of my nature was ever harking back to the world of my childhood; the other half was trving to conform to the ways and aspirations of my new environment For several vears I outwardly observed- the principal Jewish customs, while I lost whatever inward religion I possessed I do not wish to speak of my subsequent years at an English Public School and University up to the outbreak of the war It was, in tlfe main, a futile existence
The war completed my estrangement from my family Then, slowly, I began to grope my way back towards human fellowship I, who had so long been apathetic in the matter of religion, began to look round for some definite creed In England I had been vaguely attracted to the National Church I now attended spiritualistic meetings and theosophical lectures, and tried to take an interest in hooks embodying theseand similar tendencies, but without lasting effect Then I began to frequent the
meetings of the open-air Catholic Evidence Guild in Hyde Park. Those meetings I soon attended regularly, staying on sometimes for several hours on end Here at last was fooa and drink Only did not yet cornect all this with my own case Forone thing, I felt unworthy of being a Catholic Further, there was the old principle which the guardians appointed by my father and, I suppose, he himself, during the last years of his life had enjoined on me: that it was not manly for a Jew to leave his people Meets Jewish Converts to Christianity In Vienna, where I held an appointment for several months as English correspondent to a bank, I came into touch with one or two Jewish converts to Christianity I was surprised at finding them with a strong Jewishness'' combined with loyalty and reverence for Christianity; they cherished my father's name It was one of these men who first suggested thatI, too, might become a Christian Then Hope began to blossom About that time I had been told of a small sect of good, fervent Christians, the Baptist community of Vienna, whose lives were ruled and inspired by the Gospels I came to frequent their simple and beautiful services Above all, their preacher, Pastor Georg Saare a native cf Esthonia, made a deep impression on me My need, just then, was for the word of the Gospels The Baptists gave it to me True, I had meanwhile made the acquaintance of two Catholic priests But I had not yet realised that the Church, as the custodian of the Christian Faith, must be accepted along with that Faith My desire for Holy Baptism was imperious, and accordingly I was baptised by Pastor Saare on July 20th My own intention, expressed to them, had been to enter, through baptism, into the larger community of Christians This I already felt I could not unequivocally do save by becoming a Catholic I returned to England and told a kinsman and friend of what had happened to me in Vienna Though not a Catholic himself, he thought that everything pointed to the necessity of my becoming a Catholic It was he who put me into touch with Father Day, and after thatall was "plain sailing" To Father Day and to her whom I regard as my second mother I owe more than I can sav On October I9th, in the Chape? of Our Ladv of Sion I was received by the priest who had instructed me, into the Church; a good numberofprominentJewish converts being present who welcomed me as a new found brother It was in the same chapel that I received my First Communion May the Archangel who restored sight to Tobias enlighten me too and guide me safely on my journey
Cardinal Newman Social Justice
By COVELLF NEWCOMB
John Henry Newman was a modest man His natural reticence prevented him from conducting crusades publicly against social and economic evils in the way, for example, that Cardinal Manning influenced the social thought of the day Newman's interest in the masses was the kind of interest which is related to Romantic thought-an interest which not only concerned itself with a man's bread and labour, but which exalted the life and simple emotions of the common man as well
Newman's concern for the masses was essentially personal and subjective He sincerely admired Cardinal Manning's achievements, as llustrated by his letter of rejoicing and congratulation to Manning on the prelate's successful arbitration between masters and men in the great London dock strike But n spite of his respect for Manning's sound opinions and brilliant strategy in behalf of labour, Newman could not, like Manning by reason of his temperament, direct his own ideals and energies into channels of Manning-like diplomacy and system
Considering his nature and his sequestered life it seems unfair to take some of the sharp criticisms which have been directed towards him without making some attempt to vindicate him
One writer has written that Newman's "all-but-total unconcern for social justice has been a scandal to me Perhaps he felt he could leave it all to Manning Perhaps-and this is more likely -he never reallv got away from the aristocratic atmosphere of Oxford He carried it with him as an aura to the end of his davs
Once an Oxonian always an Oxonian, and your typical Oxonan to this day holds aloof from the social problem as if it were something too vulgar for a gentleman and a scholar''
Actually, Newman was as vitally concerned with social justice as was Manning, though, as should be expected of him, inevitably true to his temperament he sought for the expression of it in the idealistic sphere that claimed almost all of his thoughtand passion, namely that of religion He encountered as much social in' justice in the suspicions and bitter dislikes amounting even to hatred of English Protestants for their Catholic neighbours as Carlyle found among the sufferers of unjust labour laws Newman's volume of lectures, "The Present Position of Catholics in England,'' was fundamentally as much a protest against social nJustice as anything Carlyle had written against the injustice whose victims were in the mills and factories
With an acute perception of human value Newman realised that men can be hurt as much or more by being ostracised from society as by allowing them to become the slaves of industrial masters His "Present Position" made this attitude verv clear The lectures were as potent, as charged with emotion, as Impetuous in their expression (despite their calmer exterior) as any spirited page in Carlyle Through them Newman used the only weapon natural to him in an endeavour to combat some cf the rampant anti-Catholic feeling which biased the religious thought of the day and prevented amiable relations between the
andtwo religious factions
He deplored a national prejudice which elevated one rank of men and maligned another; which thought of Elizabeth's reign as golden" but Catholic Mary's as "bloody;" the Church of England as pure and Apostolic" the Reformers as "judicious," but the Pope as synonymous with pagan, devil and pretender The anti-Cathelic rancor,'' he cried, "is carried into your marts oi commerce London is burned down and forthwith your greatest architect is instructed to set up a tall pillar to perpetuate the lie that Papists were the incendiaries
Here is the tradition of the Court and of the Law, and of Society and Literature, strong in themselves, and acting on each other, and acting on a willing people and the willing people acting on them ° '
There is little doubt that Newman's struggle was fought primarily in the interests of social justice in religion, but his efforts were not restricted to sermons
Whenever he could he took personal action in the situation as in the case of the Catlolic factorv women, who, employed in an organisation conducted by members of the Society of Friends, were forbidden by their pastor to attend the daily services of that group Only few months before his death, aged and ill, he went himself to the directors to intercede for the Catholic workers, and succeeded in having provision made for them to spend the hour at their own devotions When told of the arrangement he said: "Ii I can but do work such as that, I am happy and content to ive on" Theprivilege which he secured for them is still held by Catholic factory women n England to-day
Newman's angle of the social question was chiefly one of a religious viewpoint Even so, it in no way prevailed against the interest in other aspects of the Cause, and he never failed to emphasise the nobility and dignity of the poor His treatment of them was ot business-like He never commended them to an aid society for sympathy and help but gave itpersonally without for a moment losing sight of the humanity in the humble
In his "Lectures on Anglican Difficulties" he bitingly criticised the lack of consideration for the poor, especially as shown by the corrupt condition of certain state institutions "Look at your poorhouses, hospitals, and prisons"' he cries "Yes they have all the world can give, all but life; all but a heart " "They are," he protests as decent, and bright and calm as what Our Lord seems to name them, dead men's sepulchres" "And," he continues, "look at vour conduct towards criminals and honestly say whether you expect a power which claims to be divine, to turn coypist of you?"
It was his romantic belief that societv and the individual in caring sympathetically for the poor and afflicted would come to feel the ''mvsterious connection between real advancement and selfabasement The way to mount up is to go down'' he preached, "and if vou minister to the humble and despised, if you feed the hungry, tend the sick, succour the distressed, render good for evil vou are, as bv a divine charm getting power over the
world and rising among creatures"
Newman saw the essence of the spiritual and poetical in the realism associated with the poor Like the romantic St Francis, he extolled menial labour because he believed it to possess a spiritual seed, which, if nurtured blossomed into a spiritual value and elevated labour to a dignity and ideal He had a poet's veneration for "the ordinarv lowlv toil the homelv life, and the simple amusements of the good and faithful"
An irresistible sympathy drew him to "venerate the spot'' on which thev labour "as if the patriarch's ladder rested upon it, and angels were thither descending and thence ascendingbetween earth and heaven." The poor were for Newman "those multitudes who pass their days in con strained suffering,'' but who, "by the stern persuasion of that suffering, are looking out for Him But we, who are in easy circumstances, or n a whirl of business or in the pursuits of science or literature alas, we are the very men who are likely to have no regard, no hunger, no thirst no relish for the true bread of heaven and the living water"
Throughout Newman's writings there are allusions to the poor, the labourer, and the spiritual and social conditions under which they exist, reflecting his personal feelings towards them From Italy he wrote of the poor countrv-folk" who were so strong and handsome-so neat and clean," and who always gave him a very pleasant impression ' In his novel, "Callista," he attaches a poetic significance to the character of Chione, the slavegirl, romantically portraying her as but a living memory in the mind of the heroine, implanting every virtue in her, and permitting her, as a slave, to act as a romantic and virtuous influence in Callista's life Callista repeatedly refers to the goodness of Chione and the beautv of her soul and thinks of her as "crowned with flowers, so dazzling that thev might be the stars of heaven in Asia."
In the same novel he expresses
his bitterness towards the oppressors of the poor as when they threaten the farmers with ejection for not having sent in their rated portions of corn to the Romans, notwithstanding the fact that locusts had eaten up "'every stack and granary" Again his contempt for the masters is obvious when the drunken legionary humiliates the field-workers bv calling to them: "Vile double~tongued mongrels, what are you fit for but to gather the fruits of the earth for your owners and lords?"
In his other novel, "Loss and Gain," Newman again takes occasion to exalt the poor, suggesting that the life-energy of the Catholic Church springs largely from the attachment to her of little children-and old men and simple labourers"
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Not onlv bv literarv works but through his personal correspondence he shows a constant concern n the problems of persons n humbler stations of life than himself In his letters he gave counsel, encouraged the despondent, mourned with friends and servants over personal losses, asked to be sent for in times of need because "it grieves me when I cannot help" The romantic (Continued on Page8.) RESTRING WE
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By GREGORY MACDONALD
THERE is something awe-inspiring in the sight of an apoplectic League of Nations arising from its death-bed to kick the heir-apparent out of the front door The excitement, it is commonly surmised, will prove too much for the invalid nor is Geneva likely to receive more sympathy than is given to the victim of any other confidence trick once he has discovered the fraud
Only a certain delicacy of feeling, or it may have been flu, or instructions from Stalin-saved the Council from beginning its deliberations under the presidency of Maisky And perhaps there were ringing in the ears of the diplomats, while they debated the invasion of Finland, such striking phrases from the Litvinov period as 'Peace is indivisible." and "the Peace Front against aggression" No generation in history, at least since the days of the Golden Calf and the Tower of Babel has ever been fooled as ours has been fooled And no doubt we shall be punished for following false gods The League Makes Amends
Yet this war-time is a period of reconciliation also, when inveterate enemies come together (not always for a good purpose), and when old dislikes are moderated, Hitler, for example, may be watching with a certain uneasiness the manner in which Poles, Czechs, Lithuanians and Ukrainians are patching up the old feuds which balkanised Eastern Europe Stalin, whose dominant political trait has always been fearhence the constant advice to his subordinates to "keep out of range of artillery fire''-may be equally disturbed to notice that he has against him the opinion of the mass of ordinarv men, whatever may be said of the more acrobatic freethinkers And just as the idealogical quarrel has been blunted by the Nazi-Soviet Pact, so one mav confess at the last to an unexpected admiration for the League of Nations because in defence of Finland it
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These possible reconciliations are important for just as the Church christianised the pagan rites so Christendom may in the end take over and sanctify the secular institutions which the materialist politicians fostered for very opposite purposes We are living after all in times when a French Prime Minister can praise a Papal Encyclical and when a Norwegian statesman can suggest the holding of a peace conference in Rome At least the old League died recently, and if a new one is not yet born there were signs of an intention among the nations to save the realities, and not the appearances, of civilisation Lakeside Diplomacy.
Yet habits die hard No doubt, while Finland struggled for its life, and while the people of Poland suffered under the twin oppression, Geneva was considered more than usually valuable as neutral ground where intrigues, soundings, pourparlers and espionage could be carried on to heart's content and where every one of the belligerents could hope to discover from cafe gossip the real intentions of its adversaries
Cafe gossip is as good a guide as any other, for if stories are deliberately circulated the enemy's motive in circulating them may be deduced
From the purely diplomatic point of view the tangle in which the world has placed itself can be seen in China's reluctance to condemn Russian aggression because she counts on Russia's aid against aggression (save the mark!) or in Italy's final departure from the League at a moment when she agrees with League policy and when Britain and France are forced to show themselves in earnest so that the Left Wing drive against Italy in 1935 will not appear to have been hypocritical,
The Allies still do not want to declare war on Russia, but they do want to convince Italy of their good faith,
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Watching the Genevan stage only one might imagine that the European War was a side-issue, but for all that the European War has taken on clearer outlines The Finns, outnumbered and short of munitions, but favoured by geography and by weather conditions have proved that the Red Army in itself is not a good fighting instrument
On the other hand, Stalin is irrevocably committed to military adventure, in which he can still use masses of men and large supplies of armaments, and so the honours between him and Hitler are about even Stalin drew Hitler into an alliance (as General Krivitsky explained to David Low in the Evening Standard") but Hitler drew Stalin into war Henceforward Russia and such adjoining territories as Scandinavia, Persia and India may be taken as a field for German strategy Rumours of German Aid No clear evidence has appeared that Germany and Kussia are anywhere near coming into collision, tor now they need one another too much Ihe stories of German aid given to the ±inns, and of Italian aeroplanes retueiuing in Germany on their way to inland may be taken as cafe gossip put about to conceal the real intentons ot partners in crime It is true that Germany is going to have a tremendous task in organising or in utilisIng the Bolshevik disoraer, but Germany's own resources, and her military and air forces, are practically untouched he has it in her power to decide where the next blow will be struck, or even to decide whether she will use for a time the psychological weapon ot peace rumours, Presumably the importance of the present phase s that the Allies have taled to provoke Germany into an oftensive in the West, despite the fact that the First Lord of the Admiralty recently goaded the Nazis and General Gamelin has recently declared that they are afraid to take action This passivity is not necessarily a sign of German weakness, though it is only reasonable to suppose that the accord with Communism and the Russian advance in the Baltic have created discords among the German military and naval leaders On the other hand, Berlin has equally failed to goad us into wasting manpower on the Western Wall, or into enlarging the immediate hostilities by a declaration against Russia Allied grand strategy has been sound, because t has forced a clarification of Germany's and Russia's real aims in the sight of the world, thereby consolidating Great Britain, France, and other countries internally but the Allies still retain liberty of diplomatic or military action, and in particular they hold strong cards in the Mediterranean and in the Near and Middle East where the full conflict may be expected Italy and Turkey (like Sweden and Denmark, or like Holland and Belgium) continue to make colourless statements of "non-belligerency,'' but there is little doubt where their sympathies or their interests lie
BISHOPS OF US SAY CIVILISAION OF WESTERN WORLD IS MENACED BY THE FALL OF POLAND
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The Committee of Bishops for Polish Relief has sent a letter to all the Archbishops and Bishops of the United States which says:
(Continued from Page 7) strain in him personalises the cares and moods of others and enables him to identify himself with their experience "I too have known what self-torture is,'' he writes "I am not above youwe have the same things to overcome " He was truly interested in the "ten thousand little etails and complications of daily ife,'' and the simple feelings of the common man whose lot they are Aside from his daily contacts with these people, whether in person or in writing, he carried his same exaltation of the simple into his veneration for the humble beginnings of Christianity in the Western world and especially for the early monks and saints who helped plant and develop it
The men of this remote past presented a challenge to his psychoiogical insight, and his interest fastened itself not only on their minds but more especially on their emotions, their fears, yearnngs and inner moral conflicts What he wants to understand is the way in which they met crises when confronted by them In them he seems to look for a justification of the idealism he fostered for humble men In them his romantic magination recognises beginnings, the force of tradition, legend and folk-lore, and the poetry of a pure, unquestioned faith
They were men who could make worlds of their own without 'pomp and pretence" Theirs was a life of labour-farming, harvesting, and building "They could plough and reap, they could bridge and ditch, they could drain, they could lop, they could carpenter they could thatch, they could bridge a torrent" It was a life which Newman described as "the poetry of hard work and hard fare, unselfish hearts and charitable hands"
This same elevation of service and love of humble humanity practised by the early monks as well by Newman's model saint, Philip Neri, who "caressed the poor equally with the rich,'' triumphed in Newman's romantic soul and acted as a spiritual leaven in a temperament which drew, by its sympathy, the care and tragedy of others to itself It determined him to a great decision namely, "deliberately" to settle down with his fellow-Oratorians "in a populous district, unknown to the great world," and commence, "as Saint Philip did, by ministering chiefly to the poor and lowly''
The populous district" was Birmingham, England, where Newman founded his Oratory, organised according to the rule of St Philip We have gone," he continued, "where we could get no reward from society for our deeds, nor admiration from the learned for our words'' -"The Sign"
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"The committee asks people and priests and Bishops to pray that Almighty God may add His comfort to this stricken people and that He may ward off from the western world the threat to its civilisation now the guardian of its gateway is fallen"
Stressing the urgency of the need of relief for Poland, the committee says that there is no time to build a collecting organisation" It asks the Bishops to make their own arrangements for collecting funds
The money will be sent direct to Cardinal Hlond Primate of Polandnow in Romethe committee leaving it to His Eminence to find agents to use it "for food and clothing and shelter fot his despairing fellow-countrymen and our owf brethren in the Househoid of the Faith"
The letter is signed by nine Bishops, including the new Archbishop of Chicago Mgr Stritch
Spain is at peace, and England is at war And so some two hundred ot the children of the Basques who had been transported to England, for preservation or for propaganda, were returned to their homes in time for Christmas The little ones surrendered their gas-masks to the English authorities and are relieved of the fear of enemy bombers over England
As all the refugee children have been welcomed back in Spain, even during the war and in the immediate period of reconstructions, as they have been gently nurtured and tended so will these little ones of the Basques There remain in England, however, anothe: few hundred refugee children Spain wants these also though their parents opposed the Nationalist cause The children sent to France and to England have fared not too badly
But thousands of true Spanish children have been lost in Russia, and many have been retained in Mexico They are the victims sacrificed during the war in Spain,
Thursday, February 8, 1940
IALGJES CF WCUTH
"O drat this," said Paul Trout impatiently tossing a magazine nto a bed of cannas n His Majesty's Botanical Gardens "I'm fed up to the teeth and I don't know why Why O Daniel, should Catholic--who has everything deriving both from natural reason and from revelation to make life tolerable-get the jitters and find life a blob"
As his friend Fontaine did not appear to be treating the matter with lue gravity, Trout emphasised his remarks with a well directed kick Fontaine vawned and rose leisurely from the grass
"What's biting you?' he in quired callously "Another attack of the heeheejecbees? Haven't you realised that the mere fact of being a Catholic should n itself tend to make a chap sober if not actually sad I fancy this arises from a greater consciousness of sin than the pagans have A fellow becomes more and more conscious of his own weakness and inconstancv and in modern times it's hard to escape some sense of responsibility and reparation for the malice or folly of the world Of course, this can be exaggerated and develop nto an acute nervous tension or even that horrid spiritual disease of scruples"
O K " said Trout "that's well enough as far as the diagnosis goes How about the treatment? Shall I take pink pills or lavender water tinged with blue?"
Fontaine laughed "Caritas non conturbat me," he quoted "If you nsist on taking something medicinally I would suggest prussic acid or powdered glass But if we are talking about human remedies then I would suggest you are suffering from spiritual desolation This might arise from a varietv of causes It might be your liver: it might be lack of constancv or devotion n prayer; or it might be a gift from God." " ° •
"A gift from God" echoed Trout, his eyes popping with as tonishment "Why its like giving a bloke an earache for his birthday !"
Yes, yes, you benighted pagan You've got to see it as part of the general problem of pain But certain t is that God does send these 'nights of the soul ' as St John of the Cross called them If a chap were all the time receiving sweetmeats from the hand of God they would grow cloysome, would give him a series of spiritual tummy aches, and he would finally end up fat and soft of sou' It's only through adversity that a man becomes spiritually strong and most of us are so nervous about undertaking voluntarv mortifications that it is really very kind indeed of God to send us these gifts willy-nilly to save us from ourselves "
"Ye-es,' said Trout, reluctantly, "that makes sense even if it's not very consoling A chap does often feel an actual repugnance towards prayer or virtue gener ally, or going to confession It becomes quite obvious after a while that you can't let your feelngs run your life for vou It is undoubtedly the will that counts Now I suppose a chap should have realised it long ago from merely hearing about the Passion And He began to grow sorrowful and be sad and He prayed the third time, saying the self
same words""
That's better, you old mutt," said Fontaine, with offensive heartiness "But perhaps spiritual desolation isn't your trouble
As I said, there are hundreds of courses Have you been overworking?' Is your stomach in order? Are you worried about money matters? Do you get any exercise?"
Which one would you like me to answer first?" inquired Trout, rudely "And since when have you been my ghostly father?"
"Well, dammit all," said Fon taine, "you did ask me"
"I know, I know," said Trout, petulantly, but all I wanted from you was the theoretical blurb I didn't intend vou to descend to cases, and particularly my own case I'm not paying for a complete course in psychoanalysis'
Easy does it, old scout," Fontaine replied affectionately, taking his arm I don't mean to obtrude, but it gives me the dithers to see you in the blues, I tell you what I'II do III give you a piece of practical advice that will be wholly acceptable \ conscientious Catholic needs, and can afford to take, more creature comforts than the rest of the world"
"Now youre talking" Trout said, brightening visibly "But," his face clouded again, "here's Lent on top of us again and I fancy moreover that all Christian teaching and even a considerable amount of pre-Christian philosophy taught that happiness lay in detachment from material things The happy man is he of fewest needs"
"That's quite true'' assented Fontaine, but it is an ideal and therefore of its nature unattainable Those who approximate most nearly to it we call Saints I should sav that the average chap in modern times does his whack of mortification in the avoidance of modern temptations, and in the faithful observance of those obligations which the Church lays upon him If the Church thought that more was necessary for the average man She would not hesitate to prescribe it I am against works of supererogation in the matter of external discipline The letter killeth but the spirit quickeneth"
Trout laughed indecisively. "What you say may be true, but it smells a little of heresy to my orthodox nostril, On the other hand it suits me too much to quarrel with "
Could you stop for a quick one:" interrupted Fontaine as they neared the saloon bar of the Brindisi Inn
"Don't mind if I do," said his friend, amiablv
Nothing more was said till two foaming schooners stood before them rot took a generous draught and returned to the fray "Before I forget Phil," he began, provocatively, you talk a lot about the condition of the stomach and the need of exercise, but I never notice you doing anything about it vourself Isnt that rather inconsistent?"
"Touche'" assented Fontaine readilv
"It is undoubtedly a general rule that one should have some exercise and that the soul functions best when the body is in good trim, but the exceptions are startling Think of the holy follies of the Saints No, I don't put myself in the same class" he disclaimed, catching the grin on Trout's face ''but I don't think it inconsistent to do without exercise if one can manage well enough without it As I've said, the average fellow can't, The fact that I can doesn't prove I'm super normal but may indicate that I'm subnormal I'm not explaining it; I'm merely making a statement of fact'
Trout was still smiling broadly What I specially love about you Phil, old man ' he said, is that you're always right It seems a pity you will never run for the Papacy"
'You sneering little lop-sided skip.jack" spluttered Fontaine in the midst of his quotation For the love of snakes buy something to put in that open cavern of yours, because it's not that which goeth into a man which defileth him but that which cometh out "
ANOTHER PAPER DEBUNKS' HER
Another article about Madame Genevieve Tabouis (of "L'Oeuvre") has been added to the number of those recently published with the purpose of showing her up for the ridiculous imposter that she is It is worth mentioning because it reveals that this woman whose opinions and prophesies have been quoted with such respect by British and Australian papers (not excepting our local daily press) is by no means taken so serious!r In her own country, or for that matter even by her own paper The article appears in 'Time," the American magazme "Time" says that if a citizen of Paris wants to know what Hitler and Stalin are going to do next, he reads what "Aunty Genevieve" has to say and then waits for the exact opposite to happen
She is, says Time,' one of the most readable and unreliable reporters of secret political manoeuvres and bhind-the-scenes diplomacy in all Eu rope
Recently Tabouis announced with her usual omnipotent air that a peaoeful settlement would be made between Finland and Soviet Russia Next dav the Red Army crossed the frontier of Finland and Soviet planes dropped bombs on Helsinki In August Tabouis wrote: The Reich Army will join Hungary's General Staff in a cormon ofiensive against Rumania" Teo weeks later, when Germany invaded Poland, Hungary was neutral Two days before Stalin signed a trade agreement with Hitler Tabouis said: "Foreign observers in Berlin learned last night that a basis for agreement has been reached in Moscow bv France, England, Russia, Poland, RKmania and Turkey"
Madame Tabouis is knwn various!lv to Parisians as "Aunt Genevieve," "The Pythoness,' and sometimes, The Wastepaper Basket of Europe' Madame acquired a taste for the vague generalities of political conversation at the house of her uncle, Jules Cambon, at one time French Ambassador to Berlin After the war she took to visiting the sessions of the League of Nations at Geneva She eventually met the editor of La Petite Cironde' at a luncheon and persuaded him to let her write some articles Because of their chatty style the articles ecame popular, and bfore long she became foreign news editor of "L'Oeuvre" an anaemic liberal organ of the Radical-Social-
Tabouis
ist Party Now Tabouis wore 7lg hours a day at her home, calling the Embassies in London Rome and the Balkans by phone and studiously writing down whatever they tell her It would seem that she is the victim of a rather gigantic leg pull" on the part of the Embassy officers and would be quite harmless if her influence were confined to France for the amusement of Frenchmen She has only become dangerous because her wordsare taken as gospel by thousands of readers in British and Australian newspapers, who are more accustomed to believe avthing f it is printed She had a great deal to do with the formation of antiFranco opinion during the Spanish war Last year 'The Tablet,'' the London Catholic review, which was the first paper to debunk Madame Tabouis, called her "one of the gravest of contemporary international dangers.' "There is no era of history and no country of the world upon which she is not incompetent to write,' said the "Tablet" "There can indeed be few living writers who are as ignorant of anything as Madame Tabouis is oi everything."
Her most amused reader s the staff artist of L'Oeuvre," Georges de la Fouchardiere, who pillories her constantly in his humorous cartoons A contemporary once remarked: Fouchardiere daily executes on pae two the dangerous maniac wlo operates on page three,"
Only once has Madame Tabouis admitted an error or recanted one of her statements Last year on he eve of the visit to Paris of Mr Nev'lle Clamberlain and Lord Hai!fax, she wrote that they had decided to give Germny the French island of Madagascar oif the south-east coast of Africa Next day she retracted the statement an l to the retraction the editors out a footote in heavy capitals to t'is effect: It is desirable that French public opinion should not let itself be troubled by rumours springing entirely from pure fantasy"
From the fact that Madare has not been mentioned in the Press lately, it would appear that she has suffered an eclipse at least locally Not that the papers worried about the sheer nonsense of her reports so long as it suited them to publish them But even they could hardly be expected to continue gyal when her own paper !abe!s her predictions as fantasy Still, you never know she may bob up again
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Thursday, February 8, 1940
SOUTH
SEA ISLANDERS PRAY FOR PEACE ALO, Fatuna Island
Wallis and Futuna Islands are a couple of lonely palmfringed specks of land on the 'vast sun-lit surface of the South Pacific Ocean Less than a century ago they were contacted only very occasionally by slow moving sailing ships Today both islands, which are under the French flag, arc linked up with the outside world bf radio
The fact that war had broken out in Europe made a deep impression on the islanders They now come every evening to the Mission to hear the latest news, pray most fervently for peace and ask for Masses to be said so that the "maveu-maveu," as they call it, may cease in Europe
On Futuna Island a monumenmental statue of Our Lady crowns a hill-top near the village of Taoa Here, on September 8th, a vast concourse of people amongst whom were the King of the Island and the Vicar Apostolic, the Most Rev Alexander Poncet, of the Marist Society, besought the Queen of Heaven to spare and protect Falani-that is France Similar scenes have since been witnessed near Poi, at the spot where Blessed Feter Chanel was martyred
APOSTOLIC DELEGATE HONOURED BY CHINESE GOVERNMENT
Peking
As a mark of appreciation of his services in organising relief work n war-stricken China, the Chang Kai-shek Government has awarded Archbishop Mario Zanin, the Apostolic Delegate, the high decoration of the Brilliant Jade with Blue Ribbon The same decoration, with White Red and Blue Ribbon was conferred on Father Jacquinot, S J
DISASTROUS
FLOODS IN NORTH
CHINA
Rome
As a result of heavy rains this summer, half of the territory of Kaifeng Vicariate, Honan Province, is once more under water It will be remembered that vast areas were flooded only a vear ago, after retreating Chinese soldiers had cut the Yellow River dvkes to stem the advance of the Japanese army This year, as last, the floods have destroyed the harvest The homeless may be counted bv thousands Italian priests of the Milan Mission Society together with American Benedictines and Sisters working here, are doing their utmost to succour the destitute
In the Onkwo Vicariate, Hopeh Province, after a prolonged period of drought, torrential rains which began this summer have caused the worst floods this district has known for over 20 vears Eight-tenths of the territory is submerged The harvest has been lost and prices of food stuffs are sky-rocketting The Vicentians in charge of the Vicariate are doing ther best to help the poor people
Shanghai
The situation herehas not altered appreciably Those sceptical of a final victory over Japan and in favour of coming to terms with the invader have not yet been able to create a new Chinese Government It would appear that a sharp division of opinion still exists between the Chinese and Japanese as to the territorial jurisdiction that should be accorded to such a government Partisans of the Chungking National Government, on the other hand, show no signs of giving up the struggle By unbending resistance and tactics of guerrilla warfare, they hope in time to wear down the Japanese army I will in all probability be a long time yet before peace in any shape returns to this distracted country
There is little change to report in regard to the conditions under which mission work is being carried on. The care of refugees an l war victims still absorbs--and will long continue to occupymuch of the time of the mission aries In the coastal districts, under Japanese control, conditionhave slightly improved An ndi cation of this is provided by the fact that several Catholic Secon dary schools re-opened their doors at the beginning of the new scholastic vear Classes are being given, for instance, at Ricci College, Nanking Pupils a St Ignatius College, Zikawei, to tal 800, and at the new Chinese College opened by the Marists 750 Aurora University, Shanghai, has over 14,000 students oi whom 560 are attending univer sity grade lectures The remainder are engaged in preparatory studies
A photographic exposition was recently organised at Aurora Universitv to commemorate the centenary of the invention of photography by Daguerre The exhibits of Mr Chin San-long who has won several nternation al prizes for his photographic work, attracted special attention
CREE INDIANS PEOPLE NEW CANADIAN VICARIATE.
Rome
The splendid work the Oblate Missionaries have been doing ever smce about the middle of the last century among the Eskimoand Indians in the extreme north ot the Domimon of Canada is well known Recently the Holy See created in this part of the world a new Vicariate, covering both shores of James Bay, of which the Most Rev Henry Belleau, O M I , a native of Ottawa, was named Vicar Apostolic Bishop Belleau, has a flock composed almost entirely of Cree Indians A group of Catholic AIgonquins live just outside his territory but have their hunting grounds within its boundaries Owing to the nomadic habits oi these people the missionaries are obliged to travel constantly up and down the district. The mission personnel consists of seven Oblate priests and 12 lay brothers They are assisted by 17 Grey Sisters, in charge of two schools and two hospitals Out of a total population of about 7750 Indians some 2,500 are Catholics
CATHOLIC TENNIS ASSOCIATION
By "RON " Summer Shield.
Following were the positions of teams at the end of the round:-
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LABOUR AND BIRTH CONTROL.
{A little over two months ago a deputation from the Metropolitan Council of the Australian Labour Party waited on the Minister for Health with the request for the establishment of free Birth-Control Clinics at the Perth and Fremantle Hospitals
The request was unequivocally rejected by the Minister and presumably by way of softening the blow, he pointed out the constructive solution of child-endowment which is portion of the sixth point in Labour's fighting platform.
21 12
St Kevin's 6 3 44 52 6
st Joachim's 6 2 45 35 4
Theresian 6 1 12 52 2
Undefeated teams have the right to challenge Semi-finals will be played on Sunday February 11
Visit to Bunbury
An nvitation has been received from St Patricks Club, Bunbury, inviting members of the Association to visit Bunbury on the week-end, February z4-25 inst The party will leave Perth at 2 p.m by train, arrivingat Bunbury at approximately 7 pm The fare, including accommodation, entertainment, ete, will cost 25s The members ot St Brigids Club, Collie, will also be visiting Bunbury on this occasion, so an enjoyabe holiday is assured for everyone participating Intending members making the trip are advised to notify Mr J T. Edwards (B8616) before Friday, February 16 so that reservations may be booked
School Tennis
Messrs. A E Heagney and D A McGillivray represented the Association at a me ·ting of the sport mistresses held in conjunction with the Teachers' Conference at Victoria Square on Monday January 29 The matter of introducing competitive tennis among the schools was debated, and it was decided to inaugurate a competition among the secondary scaoos first The following resolutions were passed: (1) That a tournament be held for girls (both Catholic and non-Catholic) attending the various schools (2) That singles and doubles be played (3) The tournament be divided into three divisions, namely open, under 15, under 12 (4) The tournament to be commenced on or about Friday April 12
Nine schools have intimated their intention to take part and have offered their courts for use A competition for the primary schools will be held later in the year Presentation.
At St Joachim's Club on last Friday ·evening, the social committee conducted an enjoyable merry-chain tournament During the evening the president of the committee, Mr Jack Edwards took the opportunity of making a presentation to a well-known Association ientity in Mr Tom Power, on the eve of his marriage Messrs. A. E Heagney and D A, MeGillivray Spoke of the wonderful work and help that Tom had given whilst a member of the committee, and wished him and his wife-to-be (Miss Olive Northey) the best of happiness in their future life Council Meeting.
Members of the Council of the As·sociation are reminded that their usual monthly meeting takes place next Friday, I6th inst-, at the new headquarters in Baton House, Hay-street Affiliation Fees
Secretaries of all clubs are hereby reminded that clubaffliation fees and capitation fees, together with a list of members must be in the hands of the hon, secretary by March 1
Tit-Bits of Interest.
Members, don't forget the annual general meeting of the Association to be held in the Perth Town Hall on Friday, February 23.
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The deputationists were subsequently led to agree with him (according to the newspaper report) but certain luminaries in the Metropolitan Council know better than their deputationists or the Minister They have returned to the charge and will seek to enlist the support of district councils
The secretary of the council outlining this procedure to the Press, made the extraordinary statement that its realisation would minimise "the enormous amount of ill-health resulting from interference with the laws of nature which was allegedly prevalent among the people" Presumably this was a reference to abortion, the incidence of which in Australia is indeed alarming But by what process of reasoning abortion can be called "interference with the laws of nature'' and birth-control not so called, but rather eulogised as being in the best interests of the working class, is by no means clear
Indeed, that is the chief ground of objection to the practice It is unnatural and therefore immoral
This is sufficiently indicated by the fact that civilised communities do not practise birth control as a matter of course; it only occurs where there s national decline Even then it has to be articially engendered by propaganda, and as far as the health question is concerned there is an impressive weight of medical testimony that the ill-health arising from the practice of birth-control, particularly in the direction of neurotic diseases and sterility, should give the misguided zealots in the Metropolitan Council occasion to pause and study the situation, which they have apparently not done, Though it would be unfair to criticise the entire Labour movement because of a local group, it has sadly to be confessed that there are indications that the movement as a whole has fallen away from the high idealism and dynamism that characterised its origins and its youth
The advocacy of sheerly pagan practices is becoming more and more common, and this without any apparent advertence to the fact that they spell death to the Labour movement and death to the nation
Hitherto Labour has been the only party in Australian politics with any really constructive programme to offer, but it seems as if the movement is now about to go the way of all flesh
Such a proposal as it recently made has both the terms and the tone of defeat It denotes fatigue and flabbiness and a desire to shirk the real issues at stake Labour's solution to the population problem and to the
economic needs of the poor is clearly stated in its fighting platform to be achieved by child endowment Yet not a single gesture has been made by the Metropolitan Council to implement this principle through the members of Parliament "under the jurisdiction of the Council."
* EURALIANS"'
On the 28th ult, in Broome, a new recreation hall for natives was opened by His Lordship Bishop Raible of the Kimberleys In the course of his address, His Lordship made reference to the half-caste population of Port Hedland, the members of which had formed themselves into a progressive organisation with the appropriate and happy designation of Euralians"
During the same week the annual census results concerning aborigines was released from Canberra This showed that the number of half-castes in Australia has increased to. 25,12.
The Commonwealth Statistician pointed out that since 1901 the halfcastes have more than trebled their numbers and have been increasing at a consistently higher average annual rate than the white population This means that while we, as Australians, have been concerned with the refugee problem which is largely the result of racial problems in Europe and while we have meddled often impertinently, anid with little knowledge qf the facts of the racial problems of other countries, there has been growing up in our own household a racial problem of the first magnitude Our white population is declining while the half-castes marry and multiply at a normal rate
These unfortunate people belong neither to one culture nor another They are acceptable neither to the whites nor to the full-blooded aborigines Often their children are excluded from schools which white chi!dren attend They are huddled into Government reserve and receive Gov ernment rations
In the northern part of this State at least their labour is exploited and their rights often outraged, What is to become of this minority without rights and without adequate protection? Is there any reason why they should not be absorbed by marriage into our own culture? It is certain that they areofa very different mental standard from the aborigines themselves Further, is there any reason why they should not enjoy full civic rights? So far as their economic welfare is concerned it is perhaps too much to hope that the Government will protect them adequately against exploitation and assure them of the living wage seeing that it is unable or unwilling to do so in the case of the arge mass of our own people
No serious effort has as yet been made to face this problem on the part of the Government, but all the while the proportions of the problem are growing so that presently it will be exceedingly difficult to handle
It is, of course, not the exclusive concern of the temporal power Too often Australians forget half-castesare men made n the image of God exact-
ly as is the white popultion They have souls to save and the redemptive faith of Christ must be preached to them While a considerable amount of attention is now being devoted by Australian Catholics to the evangelisation of the vanishing full-blood aborigines, little or no effort has yet been directed towards the spiritual welfare of the half-castes Admittedly it is a question which bristles with difficulties and will probably involve quite a novel missionary technique
But the Church has always proved herself equal to the most delicate difficulties in the mission field and there is no reason why the half-caste problem cannot be faced and solved
the anniversary of whose election as Bishop of Geraldton on February 11 1930, occurs next Sunday Dr O'Collins was born in Melbourne in 1892 He will be one of the co-consecrating prelates prior tothe enthronement of His Grace Most Re M Beovich, Archbihop-Elect of Adelaide, on April 7
St Vincent de Paul
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PERTH THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 8 1940
Modesty on the Beaches
The intemperance of the weather provides a seasonable oppor tunity for a review of at least one of the natural virtues which in modern times has fallen into discard, and that is the question of modesty The decay of a Christian civilisation is indicated not so much by the decline of the specifically Christian virtues as by the <lenial of the natural virtues which are their foundation If, for instance, the moderns were downrightly negativing the necessity for the desirability of charity, one would have no need for alarm Put when they commence to hymn humanitarianism, philanthropy, and "service" as substitutes for it, then one experiences disillusion and disgust. Similarly in the matter of modesty The old time Puritan was not a really dangerous enemy, because he was at least honest and even aggressive in his errors But the new sophist is an unfathomed peril precisely because he is subtle and tolerant and fair-seeming A thousand such examples could be adduced in illustration, the seasonable one is that of the beaches The fullblooded pagan of the past might in his decadence have sneered at modesty in dress because he quite frankly despised chastity as a curb on his desires But the moderns have other tactics They do not sneer at modesty; they try to pretend there is no such thing In the matter of beach costumes they recognise only two attitudes One is mock modesty, which leads people to the extreme of neck to knee attire, white the other leans towards nudism and is supposed to be a very modern blend of common sense and a thirst for libertyThis is a matter on which the traditional Catholic hunger for the use of reason might be pressed Does it really correspond to reality to claim that our beaches are commandeered by these two mutually exclusive schools-the prudes and the libertines? Does the principle of the Excluded Middle apply to bathing costumes? Must we choose between the neck-to-knee advocate and the gentleman or lady who would tread our sands clothed only in the smile of emancipation from the Christian decencies The solution of this difficulty lies in the frank recognition of the very obvious fact of ori ginal sin on which the virtue,of modesty depends In itself the human body is not evil, but to the impaired faculties of fallen man it is a potential danger With the incorporation of lust as a na-° tional pastime there is every urgency for the preservation of whatever modesty remains, for modesty has always been the watch-dog at the gate of chastity Everybody who bothers to think must admit that the extraordinary impetus to sexualism during these post-war years has derived in some measure from co-education and the overfree mingling of the sexes Mixed bathing has also made its contribution It is advanced by some that the sight of immodest attire has ceased to shock the consciences of most people To some extent this is probably true, but even were it wholly true it would not spell the obliteration of the virtue of modesty It simply points to the fact that the conscience tends to harden whenever an evil practice becomes a matter of habit So far from being the subject of boasting or an indication of greater spiritual balance, it should prove a matter of alarm, and should serve to stir Christian people to a refinement of conscience The prevalence of undesirable habits and lack of popular reaction to them in no way argues the validity of the habits or a reason for their continuance It must also be stressed that there is definitely a middle way between licence and suppression It would be silly to imagine that the Church has some morbid dread of water There is even a scriptural text which would serve not irreverently as a pun in the matter, and that is that a man is born into the Church by water and the Holy Ghost, but the Church certainly does not believe that the water of the surf of itself washes out original sin or its effects on human nature Indeed at the moment it would seem that the sea is being permitted to engulf the outposts of the Christian life The practice of mixed bathing will continue and the most that can be hoped for is that the civil authorities will not pander to the cant of the libertines and will ensure that the least possible offence is offered to Christian people who enjoy the surf
Thursday, February 8, 1940
Dastardly Belfast Plot Foiled
FRANCE AND USA. MAKE BRITAIN ACT
Five years ago in Belfast there was a bloody pogrom in which a number of Catholics lost their lives; others were seriously injured, and many homes were destroyed There was a strange absence of protection for Catholics by the police or soldiery of the Six Counties when lawless life-takers inflamed by anti-Catholic fanaticism, did their murderous work. Damning indeed is the report of an independent tribunal on these foul deeds, upon which the authorities in Belfast looked with what might have appeared to be indifference, if it were not indeed collusion
Only a few weeks ago, certain elements in Belfast planned an even more murderous pogrom of Catholics in that city The outrages credited to the Irish Republican Army provided a.n excuse
In preparation for the pogrom the Orange ascendancy brought about the dismissal of Catholics from shipyards and aircraft factories English and Scottish, as well as Irish Catholics were terrorised
Nothing appeared of this almost unbelievable outrage in Australian newspapers, which, however, never fail to chronicle persecution of say Jews, no matter in what country it takes place
These newspapers were silent about this foul preparation for the slaughter
of innocent people almost in the heart of the Empire A strange silence indeed!
To the Boston "Pilot," the sober official organ of the Archdiocese of Eoston, USA, we are indebted for these facts, and for this arresting information:
The facts in this little-advertised pogrom were placed before the heads of three nations, England, France and the United States Just what was said is unknown But the event is that the men who quit under threat have been asked to return Assurances which satisfied them were given that no harm would befall them or their families
Now, what transpired? What pressure was brought to bear on the "Northern Government," as it is called, to make it give a protection deniedbefore to those members of the Catholic minority whose employment was torn from them, and whose lives were to be taken?
What a piece of contemporary history!
What a sidelight on administration: north of "the Border"
What a suggestion that Britain is at last realising that the civilised nations of the world will not tolerate Orange fanaticism and its promoted pogroms. in Belfast any longer!
We would here write, "Australian daily newspapers, please copy," if we thought it would do any good
New Archbishop of Chicago was Consecrated at age of 34
Mgr Samuel Alphonsus Stritch Archbishop of Milwaukee, ho became a Bishcp at 34, has been appointed by the Holy Father to succeed the late Cardinal Mundelein as Archbishop of Chicago He is now 52 The new Archbishop is a cousin of the Mother Superior of St Brigid's Convent, West Perth, Rev Mother Ignatius The appointment to the vacant see has been unusually rapid Cardinal Mundelein died on October 22 Archbishop Stritch s an Irish-American His father, Garrett Stritch, was born in Ireland, and his mother was of Irish descent, her maiden name being Malley Stritch is an old Norman name Stritches emigrated to. Ireland in the 12th century Last November Mgr Stritch was appointed chairman of the Administrative Board of the National Catholic Welfare Conference the organisation through which the American Hierarchy deal with national and international affairs
mm:mammrmama¢E ii [oovass or LEN i = SERMONS i ! s = ii "God, the Church and Man," = i The following is the list ot Especial sermons to be preached ii !by Rev E Dwyer, CS.R, in Si Mary's caihedrai dirig i 7 swam {
iv Loyalty to Christ and is i iv~ mwmommwrmum •
Quarterly Conference of the Archbishop's Engagements Priests of the Metropolitan FEBRUARY 14th: Celebrate area, at the Chapter Hall, VicMass at the Training College,FEBRUARY 18th: Canonical Goderich Street, on the occa- Visitation at St Mary's, Leedsion of the opening of the Col- erville lege FEBRUARY 25th: Bless and oitoria Square ficially open extensions to LorLE; T " 1 Tod ls
As already announced, the consecration and enthronement of His Grace Most Rev M Beovich ArchbishopElect of Adelaide, will take place ia St Francis Xavier's Cathedral on Sunday, April 7 The consecrating Pre late will be His Excellency the Apostolic Delegate (Most Rev J Panic, STD), and the co-consecrating Prelates Most Rev Dr Gilroy Coadjutor Archbishop of Sydney and Most Rev. Dr O'Collins, Bishop of Geraldton, Pontifical High Mass will be celebrated and the ceremony will commence at 9 am, In the evening Pontifical Vespers will be held, and on the following day Monday, Archbishop Beovich will celebrate Mass at the Cathedral, when the school children of the Archdiocese 11 } 4
Rare Degree.
Mgr Stritch was born at Nashville Tennessee, on August 17, 1887 Educated for the priesthood at the North American College in Rome, he took a degree n philosophy and at the early age of 23 secured the rare degree of Doctor of Sacred Theology At the same age he was ordained priest After serving as a curate for a few years he became secretary to the Bishop of Nashville, chancellor of the diocese and diocesan superintendent of schools. He was still only 27 At 33 he was created a Domestic Prelate to His Holiness and at 34 he was appointed Bishop of Toledo Ohio During his nine years' tenure of the see he built a new cathedral in Toledo He was appointed Archbishop r Milwaukee a few days after his 43rd birthday
Many of Archbishop Stritch's public speeches have attracted nation-wide attention, notably those dealing with social welfare work;Above all he stresses personal sanctification as the cure for modern social ills
Recently by cable from Ireland came the sad news of the death of Mrs Esther Grogan, mother of Sister M Gabriel (Subiaco), Sister M Gerard (Mullewa), Sister M Malachy (Geraldton), Sister M Brendan (Bunbury) Sister M Baptist (Greenough), MesdamesJ O'Neill, J Brett, M Hally, and William and Pat (Eire) R.IP
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The Rev Father B Baldwin, M S C., the pioneer of the Catholic Mission in the Trobriand Islands in Eastern Papua, has returned to Australia for a short rest after six years of missionary activity During the week he was in Perth on his return journey Father Baldwin is' a native of this State, and was educated at St Ildephonsus' College New Norcia
The prompt action of Father Brian Bolton saved St Ambrose's Church, Newmarket, from destruction by fire early on Tuesday evening, states a telegraphed report from Brisbane After having been flung 10 feet by an electric shock, Father Bolton switched off the electric main when the switchboard had burst into flames which spread to the front wall of the church Then he played a garden hose on the wall, keeping the fames in check until the fire brigade arrived The body of ex-Inspector Daniel Power late of the police force at Maryborough, was lying in the church at the time in readiness for the funeral in the morning Father Bolton said he went over to the church to switch on the lights in case anyone wanted to view the body. He stood on a form to reach the main switch, and as he pushed over the contact there was a blinding flash and he was thrown back On recovering he noticed smoke issuing from behind the board
Thursday, February 8, 1940
Ceremony of Profession
ST JOHN OF GOD CONVENT, SUBIACO
On February 2, the Feast of the Purifcation, a religious ceremony was held at the Convent of St John of God Subiaco, when at the 7 o'clock Mass, four Sisters made the temporary vows of Profession
Very Reverend Dr Kennedy, Adm, assisted by Rev Father Lyne, the Convent Chaplain, celebrated the Mass, the music of which was rendered by the Convent Choir The Rev Father Quigley, SJ preached the occasional sermon
Taking his text from the 4th chapter of the lst verse of the Epistle of St Paul to the Ephesians: I therefore, a prisoner in the Lord beseech that you walk worthy of the vocation in which you are called,'' the reverend preacher addressed the Sisters as follows:
My dear Sisters in Christ, on this great feast of Our Lady, the feast of the Purification, you are to take your vows in religion On this feast not only a feast of Our Lady, but the feast of Our Lord's Presentation in the temple, you are going to consecrate yourselves to God by poverty chastity and obedience On this day Christ Himself made His first entry into the Temple, the Palace of His Eternal Father He then offered Himself to God as an oblation of sacrifice to the Father a living sacrifice and so you may to-day offer yourselves to God Almighty as a living sacrifice; for today you have no longer anything of your own left to yourselves By poverty you have set aside worldly wealth and all that wealth implies of comfort and honour, for you are with Christpoor You have not even kept to yourselves your bodies, because by chastity you have become the spouses of Christ You have no longer your liberty or free will, because by obedience you say with Christ: "Those things which are pleasing to the Father, I do always" ENIGMA.
My dear Sisters in Christ, you are to the Jew a stumbling block and to the Gentile foolishness To the outsider, to the non-Catholic your work of nursing the sick is visible, and they admire and appreciate what you do for the sick They see something of the devotedness to the sick of the Sisters of St John of God, yet they cannot appreciate the fullness of the devotedness They see that you are indeed kind and devoted nurses, and some of them realise that you are more than nurses -but there their eyes are held. But to the children of the faith all is clear To them you are indeed wonderful in the work which you do in your exercise of the corporal work of mercy To us, to the children of the faith, it is a wonderful work; but it is in our eyes the least part of your life though it may occupy the most of your hours by day and bynight For to those of the faith, as to yourselves, you are not nurses, but virgins of Jesus Christ, His close followers, To you as to the faithful, you are those who have left your father's home have given up all things in order to follow Christ "FOLLOW ME."
Across the centuries the murmur of a Voice has been heard saying in your heart Come, follow Me" It is the murmur of voice of Christ as we read in St John's Gospel, when He said to St Peter, 'Come, follow Me" We look upon the Church and we be lieve without the shadow of a doubt that the Church is indeed Jesus Christ Himself-Christ the Head, the Church the body of one self-same divine Personality, mystical not physical, on earth
We are fullv convinced that the Church is one with Christ; we have not the least doubt because we see that the thoughts of the Church, its activities, its idealsall it is interested in is one with the work and mind of Jesus Christ When we hear the Church speak we hear the very words of Christ; when the Church speaks on any of the essentials, her accents are the accents of Jesus Christ, yesterday, to-day, and the same forever So today, my dear Sisters in Christ, when you truly with the Church's approval when your publicly plight your troth to Christ in poverty, chastity, and obedience we hear the answer being given to the self-same call of Christ: Come follow Me "
The Church to-day gives her approval toyour sacrifice to God Almighty She gives her approval so that you pubicly take your vows, and do so in the sight of God and men; not that hospitals mav be filled with Catholic nurses but that vou mav be enabled to parry on the mission of Jesus Christ
to follow the call which was given to St Peter and the Apostles To do the work of Christ means to sanctify not the bodies of men, but the souls of men, your own soul and the souls of your neighbour; and to do it by the exercise of the corporal work of mercy -the nursing of the sick And on this feast day when you take your vows, there is nothing better nothing holier, that you can give than to make your own the law of your vocation the law which Christ Our Lord made known and clear in His examination of Peter, the law which is so much forgotten to-day: "Simon, son of John, lovest thou Me" CHARITY.
This is the first Commandment "Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with thy whole heart and with all thy strength" It is in keeping this commandment to the degree and in the spirit of your vocation that you will realise the prayer of St Paul that you shall walk worthy of your vocation
If, my dear Sisters in Christ, you spend yourselves in keeping that first and greatest commandment in the heroic degree which the religious life demands and which is ALL that religious life means and can mean; if you do keep that commandment, then you will keep in all fullness the second commandment Thou shalt love thv neighbour as thyself for God's sake' If indeed you give yourselves to the keeping of the spirit of your vocation, the law of all charity, the law of all spirituality, the law of the very being of God Himself, the day will come, my dear Sisters in Christ, and perhaps not too far distant when you shall hear Jesus Christ Himself say to you as long as von did it to one of my brethren you did it to Me" Amen
The names of the Sisters privileged to be thus addressed are:
Sister M Kiernan Regan, Co Roscommon, Eire
Sister M Maiella Corbett Co Galway
Sister M Alban Lucey Kerry
Sister M Idus Cuddihy, Kilkenny
The ceremony closed with the singing of the Te Deum by the choir
The monthly meeting of the Third Order of St Francis was held at St Mary's Cathedral last Sunday, and was fairly well attended, some members being still away on holidays and some away through illness
The spiritual director, Rev Alan Johnston, spoke to the tertiaries and reminded them that the approaching Holy Season of Lent was the appropriate time for them to renew in their daily lives the spirit of the Third Order, it being essentially on Order of penance and sacrifice
Prayers were asked and Mass arranged for the soul of Sr Margaret Flynn, who died on January 13; also for Pop Arthur, a lately deceased friend of the Third Order Prayers were also asked for Bro Carr, who is ill in hospital
A short reading on the Life of St Francis was given, and the meeting ended with Benediction of the Most Blessed Sacrament Several sisters and brothers were professed and some new members received
Very Rev John English D D
DCL who has been Administrator of St Stephen's Cathedral (Brisbane) for four years, has been appointed parish priest of Clayfield in succession to the late Father Francis O'Connell Announcing the appointment, His Grace Archbishop Duhig said that besides carrying out his duties as parish priest Dr English would act as a second VicarGeneral Mgr Molony, parish priest of Gympie, who has held the office alone up to the present would continue as senior VicarGeneral Dr English would also carry out the duties of Diocesan Chancellor and Canonist and would as far as possible continue his interest in the Catholic organisations which he had directed and helped so efficiently in the past
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On Sunday, March 31, His Lordship Bishop Henschke will be enthroned in the Cathedral at Wagga as second Bishop in the See which was rendered vacant by the death of Bishop Dwyer in October last. His Excellency the Apostolic Delegate will preside at the ceremony
Annual
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St. Kevin's Branch.
The annual picnic will be held on Sunday, I8th, inst Bro Nelligan reported that the river trip held on January 19 had been very successful both socially and vnancially During the evening it was decided to purchase a new table-tennis top- The next meeting, on Thursday, 15th inst, will be quarter night,
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Nedlands Social.
The Nedlands branch of the society held its first social in the School Hall on Wednesday night, 3lst. ult Between fifty and sixty took part but a large number of these were visitors, the branch itself being only fairly represented Members of the Diocesan Union ,including the president (Mr E Le B Henderson), attended, together with representatives of other branches of the society Very Rev E Moss (spiritual director) and Rev Father O'Reilly were present.
Several toasts were honoured during the evening and entertaining items were provided by members of the branch
St. Gertrude's Ex-Collegians' Association
On Sunday, January 28, St Gertrude's Ex-Collegians' Association held their annual re-union and high tea at the South Perth Convent, and it was particularly well attended by the "old girls" and also the St Joseph girls.
A pianoforte solo by Miss M Morgan and solos by Mrs. J Burke and Miss D Taylor, were well applauded, After that games were played and prizes were given to the lucky ones
The visitors and new members werb given a hearty welcome, and we hope that they will all come again not only to the high tea' but to our social functions during the year
A vote of thanks and appreciation was tendered to the Sisters for their hospitality and assistance to us during the year
Among those present were: Mesdames J Hegney J Ryan J Burke M Cassellas, A Bateman, A McGregor, N, McIntyre, C Prior, J Smith, P Hunt M Burns, J Lang; Misses P Williamson (president) M Cullen hon secretary), A ONeill, U Stephens, I O'Rourke, M Hurley, N Bateman, K Bendon, D Taylor, M Cantwell, N Spillane, N Moore, D Schuts, N Joyce, M Orr E Walker, M Scullv, J Hilet, Mary Morgan, N Petroff, P Ingram, M Morgan, M Paterson, U Harvey, J Scully, M Walker, T Scull T. Carr, H Toohey A Lindley, C Rvalis, E Gaunt, A Patterson, D Roberts J Orr '
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DEATHS
DUFFYOf your charity, pray for the repose of the soul of Ruth Gertrude the beloved wife of William Vincent Duffy, of 47 Nicholson-road Subiaco, mother of Sister M As sumpta, St, John of God Convent, Anselm Victoria and Kevin John, Subiaco R.I P
KELLY-Of your charity, pray for the repose of the soul of Bernard Kelly, beloved husband of Mary Kelly, father of Hugh (Canning Bridge) and Ima (Mrs P M Bungert), Leederville, who died at Cottesloe on January 26, 1940 RIP IN MEMORIAM
[ARDAGH -In loving memory of my dear wife and our mother, Maria Ardagh, who departed this life at Boulder on February 4, 1937 Most Sacred Heart of Jesus have mercy on her soul. Inserted by her loving husband and family
DUNKEL,In loving memory of my dear mother Hanora Dunkel who passed away on February 9, 1939. Holy Mary pray for her Not just to-day but every day I remember Inserted by her loving daughter, Nellie
QUAIN -Of your charity, pray for the repose of the soul of Mary Quain, the anniversary of whose death oecurs on February 8 RIP -Inserted by her sorrowing husband, children and brother
QUAIN -In loving memory of our dear mother, Mary Quain, who departed this ife on February 8, 1937. Sacred Heart of Jesus have mercy on her soul -Inserted by her loving daughter and son-in-law, Agatha and 'Horace Rushton
QUAIN, Mary -In loving memory of our dear mother, who passed away on February 8, 1937 R IP -Inserted by her fond daughter Kitty, son-in-law Joe, and grandchildren Redmond and Mary Kinsella WEBB In loving memory of Prancis Joseph passed away February 11, 1937.
Sweet Heart of Jesus have mercy on his soul ' -Inserted by his loving ''mother Bill and Bet
SCOTT In loving memory iof our darling Mollie, whom God' called home on February 8, 1937 'j "Nothing in my hands I tiring ' Simply to the Cross I cling." --Inserted by her loving mother, brothers and Sisters. } ' Rest in Peace
JOSEPH CHARLES, AUCTIONEER, SWORN VALUER, LAND & ESTATE AGENT
Has Purchased THE OLDESTABLISHED PERTH BUSINESS Of LEARMONTH DUFFY & CO
AUCTIONEERS, SWORN VALU RS LAND & ESTATE AGENTS
Messrs Learmonth Duffy and Co was established in Perth 38 years ago, and is the oldest name in the Real Es tate business in Western Australis
The new firm will undertake Auetioneering, Valuations, Rent Collections Insurances Loans on properties, etc., and the general management of Real Estate business in the City and CountrvJoseph Charles has been actively associated with the Real Estate business in this State for the past 29 years [gnd has disposed of £2,33700 orth of City Suburban, Station an! Farming properties over that per?d
Messrs J, P Lercnth and J S Duffy will continue to carry on their valuation work, and mav be consulted at the new address on all matters relative to Real Estate The new firm will be accommodated in a suite of offices in West Australian Chambers (next Palace Hotel) St Georges Terrace, Perth and will trade
JOSEPH CHARLES,
LEARMONTH DUFFY & CO, AUCTIONEERS SWORN VALUERS, LAND & ESTATE AGENTS, WEST AUSTRALIAN CHAMBERS ST GEORGES TERRACE BERTH
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Picnic, Keane's Point, Sunday, 18th. inst Valkyrie and Valdana
Thursday, February 8, 1940
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Soldiers' Reception Committee
Mrs Maxwell is the League's representative on the above committee, and our work is to provide a light meal for a certain number of soldiers during their stay in Perth All members who are willing to give help at this time are requested to leave their names and addresses at the League headquarters immediately
Monthly General Meeting
The monthly general meeting will be held in the Cathedral Hall on Wednesday, February 28, at 8 pm All members are cordially invited to be present
Obituary
The death occurred on Friday last, at St John of God Hospital, of Mrs Conway' a most zealous member of the executive and an untiring worker for the Church and the League May her soul rest in peace,
The Sacred Heart and Children of Mary Sodalities attended their general Holy Communion last Sunday in very good numbers, a great improvement on the past month or two The Holy Hour was fairly well attended Rev Father Farrelly carried the Blessed Sacrament in procession and Rt Rev Monsignor Hayes acted as master of ceremonies
On Tuesday morning at 9 o'clock, Mass of the Holy Ghost was said for the opening of the school year and was attended by children, from the Bunbury and South Bunbury Schools
On Sunday January 28 we were privileged to hear Rev Father Hussey, from Highgate, explain briefly what Catholic Action in Australia is doing He addressed the people at both Masses and at evening devotions
St Patrick's Day Ball
An early start has been made for the organising of this function, which must be as great a success as usual
St. Patrick's Church.
Sunday Masses: 7 and 9.30 am Australind Sundav Mass: 8.30 am
Shenton Park
Bereavement
The hand of death has fallen heavy upon the parish during the first month of 1940 No less than three parishioners all from Nicholson-road, were called to eternity during January These were: Mrs IO'Halloran, Mrs Stapleton and Mrs Duffy To the bereaved relatives of these deceased their fellowparishioners extend their prayerful sympathy
Messrs Frank and George Cole of Burwood-street, suffered the loss of their mother during the week Mrs Cole was a resident of Leederville parish. To these parishioners and to their sister Nellie the people of Shenton Park extend their sympathy A special message of condolence goes out to Frank and George from St Aloy -sius' Tennis Club, Frank being our captain Wedding Bells
Mr Keith Quigley and Miss Estelle Carter were married in St Alovsius' on Saturday, January 27 Pest wishes for future happines'! Mr and Mrs Quigley have sett'ed n Stanmorestreet, Shenton Park Visiting Friends
Visitors to Scarborough Beach from Dumbleyung include Messrs A Rankin and E Cronin, accompanied by their wives This party made an interested inspection of the Shenton Park parish during the week, We were also favoured with a visit from Mr W Kelly, also of Dumbleyung We regret, however, to state that Mr Kelly had to undergo an operation in St, John's' on Wednesday last, but join his many friends in wishing him a complete and speedy recovery
Wagin
MASS TIME TABLE
February I1: Kukerin, 9 am : Dumbleyung, l am February 18: Newdegate 9 am; Lake Grace, ll am February 25: Dumbleyung, 9 a.m; Wagin, I1 a.m " March 3: Wagin 8 am; Wegdearrup 10 a m March 10: Wagin, 8 am; DumbleYung, 10 am March 17: Lake Grace 9 am; Kukerin 1l am March 24: Dumbleyung, 9. am; Wagin, 11 am March 31: Wagin, 8 am; DumbleYung, 10 am April 7: Wagin, 8 am; Wedgecarrup, 10 am, April 14: Wagin 8 am; DumbleYung, 10 am April 21: Lake Grace, 9 a.m; Kukerin, H am April 28: Dumbleyung, 9 am: Wagin, 11 am
Hibernian Annual Picnic, Keane's Foint, Sunday, 18th inst Valkyrie end Valdana leave Perth at 11 a.m Tickets, 1/6 single, family 4/- Sprts Hot waterfree.
r YOUNG MEN'S CLUB NOTES
A large number of members were present at the meeting hall on Monday last, when the third annual general meeting of the Club took place The following officebearers were elected: President, Mr B L Ryan; vice-president Mr T Forristal; hon secretary Mr J WWall; hon treasurer, ir D OLeary, hon assistant secretary, Mr F O'Mahony; press correspondent Mr R A Morris; committee, Messrs L Ge, F O'Leary, R A Morris, G Gee, and E O'Mahony; hon auditors, Messrs. K Donaldson and K Sheridan Marathon.
Members are now freely discussing the annual Marathon against Fremantle CY MS Within the next few weeks preliminary arrangements re the race will be made Jottings
The committee will hold its first meeting of the year on Monday at 8 pm There will be no club meeting but the rooms will be open to those who wish to participate in various gemes etc The committee have received a donation of several books for the new club librarv Arrangements are being made re the procuring of a book-case It is the intention of the Club to form a Catholic Young Men's Athletic Club in the near future and to take part in competitive sports ;
Racing Selections By "The Hawk «v000ov«0oD-0«Do-
WATC RED CROSS MEETING Saturday, February 10, 1940 (Before Acceptances )
Maiden Handicap: Figo 1; Harihara, 2; Spring Flower, 3 Aidfu!l Handicap: Muffitt, 1; Sir Ag rion, 2; Romanette, 3 Chamberlain Handicap: Dawnlist, 1; Seranto, 2; Agrionette, 3. Red Cross Handicap: Jiggle, 1; Botanic, 2; Galerius, 3 Victory Welter: Samoan Clipper, 1; Charming Wave, 2; Great Treat, 3 Maginot Handicap: Cresting, 1; Ragtime, 2; Eastdel, 3
Trotting Selections
GLOUCESTER PARK Saturday, February 10, 1940
Patrons' Handicap: Wilna's Gift, 1; Lee Derby, 2; LutanA, 3 Members' Handicap: Last Choice, 1; Louis Braden, 2; Casatar, 3, Association Handicap: Real Lou, 1; Arabian Shiek, 2; Spot Dance, 3 Mile and a Half Championship (First Division): Globe Dorell, 1; Logan Derby 2; Burley Vin, 3 Mile and a Helf Championship (Second Division): Uenuku, 1; WiIf o' the Wisp 2; Our Globe 3 Mile and a Halt Championship (Third Division): Icevus 1; Grand Mogul, 2; Main Derby, 3.
The annual Hibernian Picnic will be held at Keane's Point on Sunday, 18th inst, and the Valkyrie and Valdana will leave Barrack-street Jetty at 11 o'clock, and return at 7.30 pm An attractive programme of sports has been arranged and there will be special novelties for the children Hot water free at the tearooms Tickets are at attractive prices
JUST IN TIME It's all right to be just in time, but it's a pity to be late and find one's self left out Doubly a pity if through being left out one misses a first prize of $6,000 Get your tickets in the No 85 Charities Consultation now It will be closing soon
Hibernian Annual Pienie, E.e% Point, Sunday 18th inst Valkyrie and Valdana leave Perth at 11 a m Tickets, 1/6 single, family 4/- Sports Hot water free.
"It Might Have Been You"
By Collie Knox
Few journalists can boast a life of such extraordinary interest as Collie Knox He was in the Air Force during the Great War suffered a frightful accident, and was invalided home, where he was appointed to the staff of the Air Defences in London. At the age of 21 he went to India as AD C to Lord Lloyd He was in Ireland during the Revolution, and later went to Uganda as ADC to Sir Geoffrey Archer While there he had many interesting experiences and met many notable people When Sir Geoffrey Archer was appointed Governor General of the Sudan in 1925, his A DC accompanied him He was at Khartoum at the end of 1925 when the Duke and Duchess of York passed through on their tour of Central Africa At the age of 29 he started a new careerjournalism It was an uphill struggle for many years, but he was determined to succeed On the staff of the "Daily Expres" for six years, he ater became attached to the Daily Mail"' for which paper he still writes He became f mus through his articles attacking the abuses of the British Broadcasting Commission. "It Might Have Been You" is something more than just a recital of the author's experiences Written as it is n an attractive, personal style (his frankness at times is rather astonishing), it becomes more of a revelation of character One cannot he!p but feel a liking for this sensitive, rather nervous, man, and a deep admiration for his courage and sincerity He is giftel with a power of vivid description One recalls to mind the elephant hunt with Samarki," the prince of elephant hunters and how (so vivid was his description) one w rs conscious of a certain degree of thankfulness that it was Collie Knox and not "You" who figured in the most thrilling but rather terrifying, adventure, Definitely a book worth reading M W
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"Koonwarra"' By
Charles Barrett
This is a very readable tale of a naturalist's wanderings up and down Australia which should prove interestng to all, no matter how little thev wot of the bush The title is takenfrom an aboriginal term for "black-swan" but the subject matter ranges over much of the little-known flora and fauna of our continent An account is given of a fascinating expedition to islands in the barrier reef among other areas, and another through Central Australia, Almost the only districts which do not come in for much mention are the wheat belts an4 Nor'-Test pastoral areas He probably regarded them as so dry as to be unable to harbour anything much in the way of natural curiosities
It is therefore with regret that we find no mention of the "Why-did-youget-drunk Bird.' that staunch companion of shearer and out-camp worker We cannot call to mind the scientific name of this interesting specimen but we can bear witness to the exasperating effect of its reiterated callparticularly during recuperative perrods However as this is not Charles Barrett's onlv book bv anv means, we may hope that he has dealt more fullv with Western Australia elsewhere, Th> ourneys recounted in this book are certainly very cheery and interesting affairs--R M. B
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Anchor Comes Back " Bv H Jordan
When BiIl Inch. first mate in the service of the Ocean Transport Company "Swallows the Anchor" and mar-
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ries wealthy Ann Siles, he and Sandy Lindsay a chief engineer in the same line, together with John Dalesman, timber expert in the Forrestry De partment of Burma, set out to put th blackwood of the Thaung-lon Peninsula on the world market
The story opens four years after the inauguration of the venture, when, by careful management and improvisation they have succeeded in placing their small company in a fairly secure position Their hopes, however, are shattered bv the news that the Eastern Corporation (the largest timber dealers in the world) have decided to enter the blackwood market.
Subsequent events culminate in the Eastern Corporation absorbing the Thaung-lon Company, and Bill Inch and Sandy Lindsay are discharged through inexperience in tle timber trade
The outlook is black when fate brings the "Burma Princess" to Thaung-lon with the crew stricken by plague Inch, his wife, and Lindsay salvage the ship and by this means Inch and Lindsay return to the sea thus providing the title "Anchor Comes Back "
The book is extremely well written with very colourful descriptions and should prove of great interest to the majority of readers-P 'M R k k k k • "Fountain Inn."
'Fountain Inn," by Victor Canning fa Hodder and Stoughton publication of last year) provides good entertainment for the reader of good light novels For quite a long time one is left wondering whether the book is fiction of a romantic humorous or detective variety, and the suspense adds considerable interest and is not at all boring
The personalities of the main characters are portrayed in ? natural and straightforward way as if the people themselves are ordinarv humn beings who come up against a few rather extraordinarv circumstances in the course of their lives As ordinary people will they rise to the occasion admirably and do their duty in a competent and natural wav Indeed the light naturalness of the characters is one of the big appealing features of the book: all the more so because Victor Canning
made them natural without being stodgy or uninteresting
The story is mainly concerned with Fountain Inn, a block of professional and semi-professional offices in Londot Here Ben and Helen Brown set up the business of General Factotums,' to help other people in small ways by meeting trains for them going messages acting as chaperon to small chi!dren or maiden aunts, etc, Grace Kirkstall loses her job in another office and is taken on by them The story continues with her struggle to break through the almost impenetrable reserve of George Crane, a young architect whom she admires and who admires her in return, but whose native Scotch caution is somewhat of a handicap in matters matrimonial The connections of all four with the Society for Progressive Rehabilitation cu!minates in a denouement startling an interesting on an island off the coast of Wales
Congratulations too to Hodder and Stoughton on a well-printed and nicely got-up book -J J 0'M
"CATHOLIC WORKER"
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Crisis
i "A Malady of the Spirit"
In an address to the National Assembly, on October 9, Dr Oli-' Neira, Salazar, the Saviour of Por-' tugal, declared that the actual' ,crisis in Europe comes from "a ialady of the spirit" Because; morals, laws, and social organisa-' tion have their only foundation on force, force no longer en-' sures peace but begets war" Progressively the omnipotence of th: state has annihilated human dignity and liberty which are essential to the civilised life of Europe • Ii, therefore, Europe wants to reconquer peace, it is not by usihg fictitious. creations. of polities that she will succeed n this object, because "peace is above all, a fruit of the spirit the outcome of a conscience which can distinguish and respect the dividing line between its own rights and those of others"
The actual European crisis is "a crisis of civilisation" It seems as if there were no longer room for 'Truth, Honour, Justice, the legitimacy of · Right," among Powers
"Anyhow, Russia, who has given up "the Latin Chrstian Civlisation the moral heritage which is ours,' is not the country ndicate} to restore sound conditions n Western Europe
The great Catholic statesman concludes by a tribute of sympathy and admiration to Poland and expresses his readiness n cooperating to the restoration in Europe of conditions "making for security and justice''
The Real Crisis
The real crisis in Europe is -tl e inability to maintain peace within herself," said Dr Salazar "She s still paramount n the
sciences, in literature, in the arts; she command all the technical secrets; she knows not how to organise labour; but she knows not how to keep peace The source of her illness 1s not to be looked for in the density of her population, the exhaustion of her soil or mineral resources, or n constricted frontiers It is rather a malady of the spirit Like ancient Rome at a certain stage of her decadence, she seems now to be able to bear neither her sickness nor the remedy thereof'
Force which is essential to the life of a society is no longer the ultimate ration; t has now be come the first argument; morals, laws, and social organisation are based on force and therefore force no longer ensures peace but begets war In order to wage war or to arm herself for conflict, Europe in spite of enormous hard work and severe restrictions, is growing exceedingly poor; one can follow the gradual formation of a proletariat society, for in view of the numbing omnipotence of the State, who on the ground of collective defence concentrates n tself all riches and power, men are getting into the habit of expecting n exchange for servile labour, a bare sufficiency for the fundamental needs of ife Under these extreme conditions that quantum of human dignity and hiberty which we persist in believing essential to civilised ife s rapidly disappearing
The gradual decay of economic strength, together with the moral enfeeblement of Europeans, place Europe n a position of great risk in place of certain possibilities which perhaps are not purely imaginary The strength of States is
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fragile and precarious; let those excited spirits who go into raptures over victories nd conquests weigh this fact seriously Their orce does depend on the varyng changes of war; but beyond that what really counts is the organisation of life and the moral esstance oi peopies, that is, if those qualities do survive the aforesaid principles of destruction
In order to have peace it • not sutficient to distribute peop'es accordmg to races, to enter into economic agreements, to have irontiers which are a natural protection Equally futile for the maintenance of peace are diplomatic moves which are not ased on real common interests the fictitious creations of politics, the obstinacy of upholding against the pressure of life what neither history nor geography have cared to sustain Peace is, above all, a fruit of the spirit, the outcome of a force that can limit tseli, that is, of a conscience which can distinguish and respect the dividing line between its own rights and those of others, and even to sacrifice its own interest for a greater, though alien, good Latin Christian Civilisation
Thus a spiritual crisis engenders a European crisis; a crisis oi civilisation which was superficially her own-the Latin Christian civilisation It was in this culture that all the States of Europe an America were formed, and its rays shed a beneficial iight on the development of many countries ir various parts of the world. Ii that moral heritage which is ours contains eternal principles of truth and of social values, we believe it is our duty to proclam our fidelity to those principles, particularly when they are forgotten or violated; and with greater cause when he world is alarmed and the conscience of peoples is so perplexed enquiring whether amid this downfall there can yet be room for Truth, Honour, Justice, the legitimacy oi Right, the common welfare of men and nations Nor can we believe -and we have stated it several times-that a countrv like Russia who has denied those very principles, is fitted for th task of Good Samaritan
I shall make two exceptions, however; n the first place I wish to address our profound sympathv to the Polish nation, to whom we desire to render the tribute due to her heroic sacrifice and her patriotism; secondly I will say that not content with aiding the cause of peace by means of our own peace, we shall work for it and give our aid to others who strive for the same end whenever we feel convinced of the usefulness of our efforts, so that conditions making for security and justice may be established in Europe
There are from eight to ten times as many Catffolic chaplains with the British Expeditionary Force as there were with the force that went to France in 1914 states the Bishop in Ordinary tu H M, Forces, the Most Rev James Dey, DD, DSO Bishop Dey says that in the present force every military unit of any apprciable size has a Catholic chaplain at tached to it, whether it be at the front on the lines of communication, or at the base
Every chaplain carries a Mass kit, and he is permitted to say Mass for his soldier flock in any place at any time of the day or night When the World War started the only chaplains available were those a!readv commissioned who chanced to b serving at home in 1914 But be.fore this war started a chaplains' reserve had been established
The total of Catholic chaplains with the British Army to-day, Bishop Dey says, is somewhat above 200
Thursday, February 8, 1940
Switzerland's Dr. Motta
The death, at the age of 69 years, of Dr Giuseppe Motta, the Foreign Min ister of Switzerland, removes from the international scene the ablest and most influential figure in Swiss political life at a time when his wisdom and ex perience are vitally needed
For more than half a century writes "Sulla, in the "Advocate" he has been a force in a democracy which is not only unique in the modern world but has no parallel in history; for ii Switzerland three great European cultures mixItalian, French, and Germanyet, despite the clash of tongues, religions, and characteristics, the Swiss possess a unity, a liberty, and a Gov ernment by the people for the people which is unique in Europe
The most convincing proof of how in Switzerland minorities and majorities work together in complete under-. standing is the life of Dr Motta He was a devout Catholic in a country mostly German; partly of French tongue; politically he belonged to a small mmonty party Yet he was a Minis ter in the Federal Cabinet for more than twenty-five years Since 1922 he has been uninterruptedly the leader of its foreign policy, and five times, in the meantime, the President of the State
Dr Motta led the Swiss delegation to the League of Nations Assembly trom 1920 to 1925 and was President of the League Assembly in 1924, He was the dominating factor in bringing the Swiss into the League He regarded the League as a means of pre- paring the way for the establishment of a permanent Court of Arbitration
It was Dr Motta who fiercely op- posed the admission of Russia into the League of Nations in 1934 In a far cus speech he denounced Communism as the most radical negation of every- thing vital to existence
CATHOLIC DEMOCRAT
,Dr Motta was born at Airolo; son of the concessionaire of mail coaches down St Gotthard As a boy of nine years, young Giuseppe went to Ascona to the college which St Borromeo ha built three centuries before, between the forests, the mountain slopes, and the mirror of the upper reaches of the Lago Maggiore, From there he went to the Catholic University of Fribourg in French-speaking Switzerland and finally, to that most famous of all Ger man seats of learning, Heidelberg where he secured his promotion as dottor of law with the highest distinction
Hence though Italian was his mother tongue, he could switch over into the German of a Cabinet meeting at Berne or to the French of a League of N tions speech in Geneva without being o much as aware of it! As a young man of twenty-four he returned home, settled down as lawyer and became deputy to the local Parliament of his canton
The rest of his life has become the history of our own times No one has fought more convincingly for a better European collaboration, so necessary if we are not to sink together In failure which Europe so far must ruefully record Swiss independence and neutrality have become even more in dispensable than ever
Motta was a born Democrat and a convinced Catholic-hence a real Swiss and consequently a real European
As he testified once himself: 'For a Catholic to be a patriot and a citizen of the world at the same time is amatter of course."
He remained also an idealist. because, as he put it: "I believe in God in humanity, and in mv fatherland.''
The father of ten children he was a model of a Christian parent He was very simple in his tastes; only a golden wrist-watch broke the monotonv of black coat and striped trousers and the white stiffness of his shirt-front Such was Switzerland's Grey Excellency a man of understanding loyalty, and peace-those typical characteristics of the staunch Swiss nation, heart and bulwark of Europe He has found his peace at last
DEATH OF SIR EDWARD ELGAR'S SISTER
Mother Mary Reginald Elgar siste of the late Sir Edward Elgar , 0 M., famous musician and composer, and for six years Superior-General of the Dominican Sisters of the Congregation of St Rose of Lima, has died at St Rose's Convent Stroud Glos England Mother Reginald was 75 She entered St Rose's Convent 37 years ago, and was elected Prioress in 1913 and again in 1916 She was Superior-Gemeral for the six years from 1919 Her brother used often to visit her and to talk to her about his compositions
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IS THERE A MONEY MONOPOLY?
(By W H Reynor in The Catholic Times, Johannesburg)
According to Mr Hilaire Belloc, the late G K Chesterton, Mr Gregory MacDonald, and other writers of the same school, the power of International Finance has a strangehold upon the European world, and has long threatened to bring our civilisation into ruin
The fact that Italy, Portugal, Ireland and he Spain oi Franco have revolted against this power and set up "internal economies designed to keep them out ot debt and the consequent payment of usury, was a most hopeiul sign that at length the international dictators would be overthrown and a new economic order in Europe begun Moreover, the Prussian power whilst once more threatening to destroy Christianity, had also turned its guns against the money-lenders 8'2; :h who had financed them
But the Money Monoply, which, whilst peace lasted was thus fighting for its life, has, with the outbreak of war, been temporarily saved Christian Europe is agam compelled to challenge the nvading armies of barbarism It has lost the first round in the east where our centuries-old bulwark against the barbarian has been overrun and dismembered. Everything now depends upon the armies mn France, which have so often in the past saved Europe In this struggle against the Prussian the Financial Power is, in its own interest, upon the side of civilisation
Strengthening the Money Power
The defeat of Prussianism in the Great War was accomplished with the aid of International Finance. which later undid the victory The impoverishment of nations bv war, and the threat of war, are the principal circumstances which enable the banks to lend money and exact a tribute of usury Trade depressions, which the banks can cause at will, are another means of strengthening their power
The defeat of the Prussian in the last war enabled the banks, especially the Bank of England, to lend vast sums to Berlin at a • highly lucrative rate of usury, and to assist Berlin the better to pay this tribute, the repudiation of reparations (a matter concernng only the pockets of the taxpayer) was condoned
Prussianism now called Nazism, was resurrected by the Bank of England But the Prussian debt to the Money Power will never be paid: those who recognise no moral obligations to civilisation are not likely to flfl financial obligations to usurers
BANK OF ENGLAND
According to Mr A N Field, editor of the New Zealand Examiner, who, in a supplement to his work entitled "Facts About the Bank of England," has pieced together certain evidence given before the MacMillan Commission of 1929, Mr Montagu Norman admitted that the greater part of his time since the Great War had been devoted to establishing central banks in foreign countries, and to the rehabilitation of the ex-enemy countries
The evidence as analysed bv Mr Field shows that the shareholders of the Bank of England are kept a secret, but the Court of Directors are drawn from the merchant banks (also called is-
suing or acceptance houses), who appear to have permanently reserved seats in the Court
Sir Robert M. Kindersley, a director of one of these banks, is said to have admitted to the Commission that they are mostly "of foreign origin "
They bear such names as Goschen, Hambro, Kleinwort Lazard, etc Indeed, in 1914, it was found that the head of one of these houses, Baron Brun von Schroeder, had overlooked the simple matter oi naturalisation and "according to statements bv Lord Wittenham in the House of Lords on July 26, 1918 had to be naturalised after war was declared in order to save the solvency of the Citv of London!
Mr Montagu Norman, who was appointed Governor of the Bank of England n 1920 was himself a director of the international banking house, Brown. Shipley and Co London end of Brown Brothers New York
Lord Cunliffe, who had been Governor prior to 1920, was a partner in the international lendine house Goshens and Cunliffe.
The Bank of England, whose directorate is drawn from merchant banks mostly "of foreign origin " is legally independent of the British Treasurv but at the same time it has complete control of the financial life of Britain and the Empire!
The British public however believes that it is a hundred per cent English institution Artificial Depression.
The "patriotic' nature of Engish banking is revealed by Mr. Field
The Cunliffe Commission of 1918 with Lord Cunliffe abovementioned as Chairman, recommended to the Government that the British pound should be restored to its pre-war value This recommendation was officially adopted in 1920, and the Bank of England at once began the process of making money scarce Unemployment increased in one vear from 348,000 to 1 506,000 and bankruptcies followed on a scale never before known The cash withdrawn from circulation was estimated as sufficient to support seven hundred million pounds of bank credit
Britain had borrowed heavilv from the banks during the inflation period of the war, and thus by increasing the value of the pound in terms of gold, th British debt to the monev-lenders was considerably enhance! at a stroke of the pen!
INTERNATIONALS
In 1929 when the great world depression was begmnuing the Bark of England set up a Securities Management Trust to buy p control of industrial concerns This was later broadened ont into the Bankers' Industrial Development Company, with Sir Guy Granet at its heal This gentleman was partner in the banking house Higginson and Company, and in association with ee, Higginson and Co, »f Boston The former profited immensely from loating the famous Kreuger securities in England, and the latter by floating them in America
One of the merchant banking hovses operating in London is Kuhn, Loeb and Co, said to be Dart ci the Bleichroeder-Mendelss:ia group in ivalry with the lschild soup on the ContInent Regarding the house of Mendelsshon, it will be recalled that Julius Mannheimer recently died leaving it in certain difficulties which, like all the details of the Money Monopoly, are being kept secret.
The Irish Annuities Regarding Kuhn Loe!l and Co , one of the partners in this firm was a certain Otto H Kahn who wrote a book, "Reflections of a Financier" The foreword to this book was written bv the Labour leader, J H Thomas who later became Secretarv of State for the Dominions and figured in the breach with Ireland over the "Annuities" tribute
Concerning the Annuities it is interesting in the light of the foregoing, to note what Mr Belloc wrote: " that tribute the bankers are determined to get out of the Irish goes to the bankers as interest on the monev they have lent on the Land Stock: hence Thomas "
Another partner in the firm Kuhn, Loeb and Co was Joseph Schniff who s said to have given some 12 million dollars towards the Bolshevik revolution of 1917 Schniff's son-in-law Max War° burger head of Bank Max Warburger and Co, and chief shareholder in the Hamburg-America Line, is also said to have supplied Trotsky with funds Was Russia's entrv into the League of Nations effected by the money-lenders?
MOSCOW-NEW YORK AXIS
It would seem that the people who lend money at usurv are equally at home in all the cities of the world, but Finance Headquarters are in New York At anv rate Mr Belloc has cited New York as dictating to the Bank of England, and Mr Gregory Macdonald speaks of the
Moscow-New York Axis
Bearing in mind the sources from which the Court of the Bank of England are drawn, and he hrms Lee, Higginson and Co and Kuhn, Loeb and Co, abovementioned, it is enlightening to turn to the report of the Punjo Commission set up in 1912 by the United States Congress
This Commission reported the existence of a Money Trust in the United States, concerning which it said: 'The powerful grip of these gentlemen is on the throttle that controls the wheels of credit, and on their signal those wheels turn or stop"
The Commission found that the inner ring of this Trust were the following money-lending houses, sometimes called the Big Five; J P Morgan and Co, The National City Bank of New York, Kidder Peabody and Co, Lee, Higginson and C., Kuhn, Loeb and Co
Questions Unanswered
The public will never understand the power of the moneylenders until the following questions have been properly ventilated and answered:
How far are politicians, especially the "front benchers," and the peerage, dependent upon psitions as directors of industrial concerns?
How far is the daily Press dependent on advertisements from these concerns; and what proportion of the daily Press is owned by them?
How far are these concerns combined under the control of the banks?
Who supplies the funds of the political parties that monopolise the parliamentary system?
Reference to such matters is only allowed in a number of Catholic journals and in a few independent publications like "The Weekly Review" Some of these sources of nformation have recently made extraordinary progress in influence and circulation, but to most men they are still unknown
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Wrestling
: There are more varieties of wrestling than of any other sport, and the oldest of all is the all-in' style that usually seen in Australia You can wrestle on the Lancashire style (catchas-catch-can) Welsh Irish German Graeco-Roman and so on
In English-speaking countries, the catch-as-catch-cn type, with a few rules, which professionals do not bother bout observing, is almost universal, but on the Continent, the GraecoRoman style, which incidentally bears no resemblance at all whatever to either the Greekor Roman wrestling, is most popular,
We all know how the all-in' wrestler, with his aeroplane spins," dumps, headlock, ,'rabbit-killers and so on, goes about the job but in the GraecoRoman stye below the waist are allowed Legs must not be caught hold of in any way Immense bulk is at a premium in this kind of wrestling, which came into being about the midale of last century.
In the Laneashir~ style, you may break your opponent's fingers or arms, arid still win provided you did not "desire to act unfairly !"
No one seems to know how old wrestling actually is There are numerous wrestling scenes in the temple tombs along the Nile Practically every modern hold and means of getting falls are shown in these carvings made 4000 B.C Sumo, the wrestling of Japan, is centuries old and the wrestlers trained from the age of four or five, are freqAently giants, of more than 6ft, who weigh 20 stone Belts are worn in some countries and from these all holds must be made
Billiards
sometimes you come across, if you are just an ordinary cue-wielder, the chap who is prepared to play you on · ' ~ ten-break,' and you class him as something outstanding Well what about our world's champion, Walter Lindrum » He is at present engaged in a game of 18 sessions, in wheh he is giving a start of 12,000, nd playing on " 1,000 break.", To win, he must make l5 breaks ot 1.000 each, unless of course, he does one of 2,00 or more'
Recently Lindrum was successful in conceding l2 leading Victorian players, 24 000 points in ten days' play, with 222 sessions
By "RECORDER"
Cricket
First Grade Results
North Perth 150, v Claremont, 2 for 37
Subiaco, 5 for 336 (dee), v Freman tle NE Fremantle 90 v East Perth 3 for 39 West Perth 8 for 180 (dec.) v Mt Lawley
Noteworthy Performances.
Batting: K Jeffreys (5 ) 103 not out; Briggs (S) 64 not out; A Jetfireys (S,), 60; Clements (W P ), 53
Bowling: A Evans (EP), 3 for 7, A Gardiner (EP) 3 for 23; Halcombe tC), 3 for 19; Eyres (C1 ), 3 for 23.
Brieflets.
The top-liner of Saturdays play was Keith Jeffreys, who batted brilliant'; for 103 not out in 83 minutes for Su biaco against North erth Earlier batsmen had taken much of the sting out of the bowling, and Keith acted wisely in going tor the bowling Ineluded in his score were two sixers an eleven 4's It was easily the best Innings of the season
S1 Briggs (64 not out), Allan Jeffrey (60), Gerald Arthur (44) were all in very good form, and Ielped to swell Subiaco's total to 336 for the loss of five wickets
Who is the WACIA veteran player? My nomination is Allan Evans of East Perth, whom I remember as a playing member of North Perth "A' Grade as far back as 1917 He is still going strong and on Saturday captured 3 for 7 against N E Fremantle Clements, of Wests, is proving himself a verv useful member of that club His wicket-keeping has been consistently good, and on a number of occasions has proved himself a useful batsman He top-scored for Wests against Mt Lawley with a neatly compiled 53 W.A. v South Australia
the Sheffield Shield competition by defeating Victoria outright, in the last match of the series
Each game of the competition was productive of thrills, and throughout Australia the games were followed with great interest, second only to that which is shown when England plays Australia
The cricket has been very bright the rate of scoring being appreciably higher than that of any season for a number of years past
During the season Clarrie Grimmett passed the 500 mark in the matter ot wickets secured, and Bill O'Reilly passed the 200 mark, The only other bowlers to secure more than 300 in Shield games are Ernest Jones and Fleetwood Smith
Don Bradman made over 1,000 runs during the competition, thus equalling the feat twice performed by Bill Ponsford In first-class cricket he has batted 265 times, 34 times 'not out,' highest score 452 not out, 22,432 runs for an average of 97 • Bil O'Reilly took 51 wickets Clarrie Grimmett 49 while the record s held by Fleetwood Smith, 62 New South Wales has won the Shield 22 times Victoria 16 South Australia 6, Queensland nil
Racing
On Saturdav the WATC will hold a meeting at Headquarters in aid of Red Cross funds
The events and an early (before the weights) both-ways" tip for each event are:
Maiden Handicap: Harihara April Handicap: AII Lingo Chamberlain Handican· Mylop1a Red Cross Handicap: Pantaga Victor Welter: Gusto Maginot Handicap: Spanish Burn EASTERN RACING
HOW TO JUDGE CORRECTLY
(Concluded)
Fancy footwork and continually running away from an opponent is not clevernessbut making a "boxer' fight or a 'fighter'' box is considered very clever A boxer who blocks or ducks leads, and connects with counter punches, also secures plenty of points but simply making leads miss without connecting with a counter punch gains no points and credit goes to the attacker for trying to fight
The value of a knock-down varies, as a one punch knock-down, that ns the boxer badly dazed when he rises after a count gains more marks than one caused by a series of blovs that do not do a great deal of damage A boxer may take "nine'' on the canvas and still not be hurt as a good ringgeneral will always take full advantage of the count and completely clear his head before returning to the affray Ii a boxer is knocked down, takes a long count, and then comes back to outscore his opponent with clean punching, it only stands to reason that he does not lose many points on account of the knock-down When a clean punch knocks a man down, and he has no defenc for plenty of punishment on arising the knock-down then wins the knocker-down all of that round in which it is delivered
With the No Foul'' rule functioning, boxing contests cannot be decided on fouls. although a foul fighter should be awarded the decision if he is badly hurt that he cannot continue The fouls in boxing are: low punches, kidney punch rabbit punch, hitting with the open glove, rubbing the palm of the glove across an opponent's face, holding in clinches, hitting an opponent while he is down, going down without being hit, and holding and hitting.
Ferrier has been ranked as one of th three greatest amateurs in the w4rld Golf
The first WA v South Australia match will commence at the WACA at 12 noon on Saturday The visitors are a strong team lead by famous Don Bradman Its batting is far more impressive than its bowling and if our men can manage to withstand the wilv deliveries of Clarrie Grimmet they should put up a tolerably good score
, [Shortly we'll all be interested in oiersea..: golf, for it has been announce that Jim Ferrier, Australian \mater open champion will leave nex mbnth for America, where he will compdte in the American amateur and open clampionships
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All will hope that Don Bradman gets going, He has made a century on the WAC4A., but on that occasion his batting was not comparable with that of Stan McCabe, It will be a great occasion if Don plays one of his best innings Then those. who saw Trumper at his best will be led into more arguments
All will be interested in the doings of the younger men among the visitors Each is spoken of as being a player of exceptional promise
The appointment of Mervyn Inverarity as captain of the State XI (Row lands was not available owing to a broken finger) is popular He first represented the State as far back as 1925, and has always given of his best in big games He is a good leader, and popular with the men who will play under him
The non-selection of Charlie Puckett has caused a deal of comment He earned his place without any shadow of doubt, and his rejection savours of bad selection He may not be as good a bowler as his figures might suggest, but he has done everything a candidate for selection can do, yet he is passed over Ron Halcombe may get wickets but what's the use when he is not considered a good selection when the team goes East, His selection will I fear prove unpopular with the visitors not because of his pace but because of the doubt about his delivervIt is interesting to note tat one of the umpires for the first match s Mark Trov in his dav a famous fast bowler for 'Christians'now Aquinas TheSheffield Shield.
After the most successful Sheffield Shield competition within the ken of most of us, New South Wales has won
The Queensland horse Graceful Mover has won his wavy to the hearts of Victorian racegoers on two performances He is now a popular fancy for the Oakleigh Plate Globe" Which is the fastest horse n AustraliaUnishak, Chatsbury, Trimmer, Graceful Mover Operativ or Manrico?
The Oakleigh Plate will decide The horses I have mentioned have claims to the honour and probably they will meet in the Caulfield sprint race which takes place on Saturday, February 17 - Ascot
Should all go well with Rivette n the meantime, the dual Cups winner will most likely make her reappearance in the St George Stakes wfa at Caulfield on Oakleigh Plate dav J M Rohan
Although there has been any amount of criticism of the erth Cup winner Tomito at Caulfield, he looks a useful type and I feel certain that he will win races in Me!borne. 'fanv people seem to think he is too scraggy and hasn't the appearance of a good horse That is not C T Godby s opinion He is satisfied Tomito mav play a big part in the AutumnNorlen"
Trimmer, an Oakleigh Plate and Newmarket candidate, gave a rare display of galloping over six furlongs in the Kurnell Handicap at Rand'wick, With Darby Munro in the saddle, Trimmer who was favourite at 5 to 2, immediatelv ran into the lead and won in easiest possible manner from the stablemates Denis and Adios, --"The CTubman'
Trotting
The Inter-Dominion Champions.s will be continued on Saturday 1ae event down for that night is the 1± mile championship On Wednesday, February 14, the Two Mile Championship will be decided
See "The Hawk's" Selections £or Racing and Trotting elsewhere in this issue.
If a low blow, or any other foul is unintentional, and does no damage at all, it should not be counted against the offender but a deliberate foul loses the offender all of that round and he should certainly lose the fight ff the receiver is badly hurt. If an accidental foul so handicaps the fouled fighter that he cannot afterwards do his best, this should be taken into consideration when adding up the points Points should be taken away for holding in clinches, hitting with the open glove, unusual roughness or too passive defence,
Thorough study of points outlined and an understanding of what points are given for or taken away -should cnable every spectator, with aid of a score card, to arrive at "The Perfect Decision'
The Kidney Punch Rough-house fighters lay over an opponent's shoulder bearing him downwards with the weight of his body, and then choppig downwards with the side of the fist n the soft and unprotected potion of the back which covers the kidneys • fight in which this punch was used was that between Gentleman George Dawson and "Shadow'' Maber, in 1890 It was not barred in those days and George used itnot the crude and unlovely thing that came intovogue years later, but a truly scientific blow, cruel and punishing in its effect
Idle Talk
Not many days ago I heard a certain woman being discussed by two or three of her so-called friends, and I was amazed, not to say surprised, to note the ease with which the most belittling things were said about an absent person, supposed to be the friend of those who were doing the talking
What a lot of time most of us spend in idle talk-talk of this or that this person or that person, all chatter, leading nowhere True it is we cannot forever be discussing serious matters; that we know, but it does seem as if we could find something more enriching to do than to spend our leisure discussing the failings of others There is not one of us that is blameless in this, I suppose, for most of us speak of others m the course of our day, and unfortunately very few of us stop to consider that what we say shall only be in praise or commendation
All too frequently we find ourselves discussing things that concern us not at all, and arranging the business of other people for them We find ourselves telling other people what so-and-so should do with her or his time, or in certain circumstances, when the matter has nothing to do with us at all Others amongst us are avid for every bit of gossip or talk that can be told of friends, acquaintances, and even people whom we know only by sight or hearsav
Men Culprits, Too
Women are not the only, or, indeed, the chief culprits in this art of gossip! Men can do their share, and continue to do it with the self-satisfied air of those who believe that no one could point the finger of accusation at them
This habit of idle chatter is such an easy one to get into, and once acquired it is hard to break; so we should watch ourselves that we do not let it take root within us, for verv often certain people will tend to make us indulge n chatter, or certain circumstances, such as social occasions, when, for want of something to say to others whom we know but slightly, we enter into discussions that are definitely injurious to men and women who are not there to defend themselves against the talk that is directed against them
Snowball Talk
Most of us might make a habit of testing ourselves by considerIng whether what we have said of another during the day we would be prepared to say befor~ their face; whether we have had grounds for what was said. and whether what was said is in line with our so-called friendships! Let us remember that what we say seldom rests where we said it and seldom remains just what we said; it had something added to it, until at length, if it came back to us, we probably would not recognise it as the tale we started or repeated.
I wonder why the affairs of our neighbour are of so much interest to us? Is it that we do not interest ourselves in matters of real worth, so that talk when It takes place can be of some substance, without being so heavy that it is boring? Is it that we do not read enough and so find ourselves with empty minds for want of mental nourishment?
We Catholics have so much to read and discuss that we can never hope to do all we would like to do, for the more we know the more we want to know and
the more problems present themselves for our consideration the keener becomes the hunt Can there be anything more satisyfing than friendly discussion of books with people who stimulate us mentally, or the discussion of some problem or theory that interests us mutually?
Bad Example
We as Catholic parents should be careful that we do not give bad example to our children by letting them hear us discussing the doings and faults of our neighbours! Sometimes we are aptt forget this aspect of family chatter and idle talk But it is just such moments as these that help to form a habit-let us not have to accuse ourselves of having taught our children to gossip Let us rather teach them that fascinating game of drawing a red herring across the trail of chatter-a game that has surprising results sometimes Married or single, young or old, man or woman, we should all join in a crusade against idle talk and each one of us should take definite action when the reputation of anyone is being torn to shreds in our presence Very often a few pertinent questions will stop malicious gossipand if we are true Catholics we must ever remember that charity takes more than one form - Thie Trine"
CATHOLICS, PROTESTANTS AND JEWS
BUILDING A CARDINAL'S MEMORIAL
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Catholics Protestants and Jews have united to build a high school for Negroes in memory of the late Cardinal Mundelein. It is costing 1,000,000 dollars
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The Vatican authorities have decided to increase the strength of their fire brigade and plain clothes police as a result of the fire which badly damaged the old Church of San Lorenzo and the Apostolic Chancellery
The Vatican is also overhauling its fire-fighting organisation
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Vatican City
At the beginning of the Great War there were two ambassadors and 1l ministers accredited to the Holy See To-dav there are 13 ambassadors and 23 ministers
A similar notable increase is seen in the comparative totals of Nuncios and Apostolic Delegates in various countries
In 1914 there were 13 diplomatic representatives of the Holy ee in foreign countries Now there are 38
The number of Apostolic Deegates was 13 To-day they number 23
The class was not particularly bright that afternoon, and when teacher had given an explanation of the meaning of the word miracle," she asked if it had been understood It hadn't, at least not bv little Willie With weary patience she started all over again
Suppose a man fell a thousand feet and wasn't hurt, what would that be?" she asked A fluke miss," replied Willie "And if he did it again?" asked teacher hopefully "Another fluke," said Wilie, briskly
And if he did it a third time, what would it be then?"
" Abit," said Wilie, firmly
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OBITUARY
THE LATE MISS STEPHANIE CARTER
In the little Church at Narrogin on Sunday morning, 28th ult a troup of YA L bovs knelt with bowed heads On the altr. another old Leaguer, Father John Russell, was celebrating Mass for the repose of the soul of the late Stephanie Carter who died in St John of God Hospital the previous Thursdav
Protestant knelt alongside Catho lics in the spirit of brotherhood and comradeship that is the symbol of the League Among them was young John Carter brother of the dead girl The boys were on tour, and the Catholics among them had been asked to attend Mass To the amazement and appreciation of the priest himself, every lad of the party, irrespective of creed insisted upon going to church
They were not only paying their last respects to a dead girl: they were saying 'au revoir' to a spirit of life, vigour and youthfulness which had temporarily, been plucked from their midst They were helping to shoulder a young comrade's sorrow, Stephanie Carter was gone; and because she had known and so loved clean and healthv life her going was all the more tragic But to those of her pals who remember her on the Loreto playground; those who met her and prided themselves on her friendship ofter she returned from England several years ago she was more alive than we who tread the earth
Stephanie Carter was iust an Australian girl, Born in Northam 22 years ago she schooled at Loreto and went to England with her parents at the age of 12, returning to Perth in 1936 From then on she quicklv established herself as a leader of Perth's younger set; but t is for the interest she took in the younger Y AL lads, and the outings she organised into the hilis
This increase is all the more re markable in view of the fact that at the beginning of September, when the cellars of the building were still flooded, it was doubted whether it would be possible to resume normal educational work
In the university section students in the Industrial Department total 232, in the Commerci:. Department 129, and in the La Department, opened for the first time this year, 17 Of these students 185 are boarders
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0 Did the "Pater Noster'' always occupy its present position?
A In\Apostolic times it was said as the immediate preparation for Communion after the Breaking of the Bread, but towards the end of the &th century Pope St Gregory the Great placed it immediately after the Canon prefixing to it a preface (or introduction) and adding to it an embolism (the Libera)
Q What special fitness does the Pater Noster" possess as a liturgical prayer of preparation for Holy Communion
A It is the model of all prayers, taught us by Our Divine Lord Himself In the "Our Father" which constitutes "a summary of Gospel teaching," we pray for the glory of God, for the fulfilment of His Will on earth, and for the grace to overcome the obstacles to the fulfilment of that Will The fourth petition as well, from earliest times was considered to refer not merely to the daily food for the body, but to the heavenly bread for the soul The "Our Father'' is a sacramental and
Thursday, February 8, 1940
obtains pardon for venial sins in the degree of love we possess It brings home to us the true brotherhood of men for we are all children of the one family of which God is the Father It thus helps to purify the soul and to strengthen the bonds of fraternal charity
Q How should the "Pater Noster" be said at Mass?
A The Pater Noster with Preface is said aloud (at the High Mass sung) by the priest; the faithful, who should follow the priest in quiet utterance cnswer in the person of the server sed libera nos a malo (but deliver us from evil) The priest says the Amen in quiet voice
0 What purpose does the preface or introduction to the Pater Noster serve?
A The introduction is calcalated to fill us with reverence for that unique prayer taught by Our Lord Himself, and to inspire us with confidence as it is in obedience to Divine command that we "dare" to address God as Our Father (Pater Noster)
OF THE REGULATIONS FOR FAST ANL ABSTINENCE
1 On FAST davs those bound to fast are allowed one full meal at mid-day or n the evening In addition, they are allowed two light meals-one of about eight ounces, and the other of two or three ounces Any kind of food, and hence even flesh meat, may be used at all three meals provided, at the two small meals, the limit of eight and two or three ounces respectively be not exceeded
2. On ABSTINENCE days, flesh meat and meat soup are forbidden
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3 Lard and dripping may be used on days of abstinence, provided they be used merely as a condiment or seasoning
4 Friday, unless it be a Holiday of Obligation, is a day of abstinence.
5 Ash Wednesday and the Fridays in Lent and Ember weeks are days of fast and abstinence,
6 Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays in Lent, and the Wednesdays and Saturdays in Quarter Tense are days of fast without abstinence
7 There is no fast or abstinence on Sundays or Holidays of obligation
8 St Patrick's Day is exempt irom fast; if it falls on a Friday, it s not exempt from the abstinence
9 Those who have completed their seventh year are bound by the law of abstinence
10 Those who have completed their twenty-first year are ound by the law of fasting; they cease to be bound by it when they have begun their sixtieth year
1I Those who are in delicate health or who are engaged n exhausting work, are not bound to fast Of course, those who are seriously ill are not bound by either fast or abstinence
12 On the days mentioned in No. 6, those who are not bound to fast are not limited by the law either as to the quality or quantity of the food they wish to take
13 The Lenten Fast and Abstinence cease at noon on Holy Saturday
Archbishop of Perth
With the despatch of an Expeditionary Force from Australia many reatives and friends will be wondering how best to send parcels to the troops, Thos Cook and Sons advise that their Head Office in London organised a free service for the assistance of the public in Great Britain in the matter of despatching parcels to the British Forces, and this service has been definitely extended to apply to the Australian troops There are
The service of buying, packing, declaring to Customs, despatching and insurance of parcels, will be providel free by their Head Office in London to whom the orders will be transmitted by them
The prices of the goods are the actual English retail prices plus postage, and this service offers the Australian public an exceptionally easy way to send acceptable parcels to relatives or friends who are serving with the Expeditionary Force, as all that is necessary is to fill up a form specifying the Number Rank Name Unit and Regiment of the recipient, and value of the parcel desired, pay Cooks' the Australian equivalent and they will do the rest
The Busbies'
Dear Cornerites,I've come back from my holidays all sunburnt and brown, but I had a great tire an1 I knew Sandy would look after the Corner in a very capable manner He was able to give me ±8 when I returned and that was really very good, for if we can raise that much each month the £100 objective will b out of danger Meanwhile there are piles and piles of Prick Cards waitin; to be claimed and now that school has started again work must be begun in more directions than one If you have not yet taken a prick card for the 1940 appeal write for one now I would also be pleased to receive back those prick cards from the 1939 appeal which have not yet been returned
Of course you know that Lent has begun in real earnest, and while the Lemonade Bottle looks forward to receiving all the spare pennies that will be saved from sweets during the next few weeks, we must not forget th' Lent s a time of penance At home you will notice that the grown-ups have to fast, but that only the law of abstinence binds those under 21 According to the new regulations Wednesdays in Lent are not days of abstinence, except Ash Wednesday and Ember days, and if you look at your Calendars you will notice that next Wednesday, February 14, is an Ember Day, so that means no meat for anyone who is a Catholic UNT BESSY
Dear Aunt Bessy-Please find post l note for 5s for the Bushies
Dear Aunt Bessy, If you send the name of a Catholic family I will sen Catholic literature
D B
Dear D B -I was only too delight ed to send you a name of one of the Bushies Sandy tells me that there have been great demands for names while I have been nway, and that is indeed good news
A PATRON OF ST JUDE
Dear Patron of St Jude,You do indeed choose the best means possible to honour your patron The work of the Bushies is a necessary and urgent task in which everyone should help, for in this wide land of ours there are many many little children who depend on us for their religious instruction
AUNT BESSY Perth
Dear Aunt Bessy,Please send a Bushie's name and address to enclosed address, and a friend of mine has promised to send her "The Reco' weekly Thanking you and wishing you every success
E MeINERNEY
Dear Mr Mcinerney, Thank you very much for asking on behalf of your friend We need many more kind benefactors to take up this good work, and there are still several good long lists of names and addresses waiting to be claimed
AUNT BESSY
SANDY'S MAILBAG
Dear Sandy Please find enclosed a f w pennies from an admirer at Roebourne M E B
Dear M E B Thanks ever so much for your kind donation The sixty pennies added a little on to my Januarv effort and I was able to include it in the sum total that I handed over to 1AB when she came home Roebourne, of course, struck a special chord in my heart, for I touched at that spot on my way to Darwin and I think I can recall just who MEB really is:
SANDY
Dear Sandy,I have a money-box and I am saving up some pennies for you I will send them in when it is full and that should be soon now After that I will help you to fill in some prick cards Uncle Ted said he will help me a lot and he has already given me a good few pennies for you I am going back to school on Monday and I hope I will e put up into third standard
SANDY
Dear Sandy,Enclosed please find a few dozen stamps for the Bushies' Fund I have been saving them for some time and didn't know what to do with them till I saw your appeal in 'The Record."
J B T
Dear J B T, Thanks ever so much for the stamps, which I was very pleased to get, as there have been very few coming in lately They form quite a respectable part of the fund and are alwavs verv welcome
SANDY
Dear Sandy,-Enclosed 3s, in thanksgiving to St Anthony for favour received R V G Dear R V G ,Thank you very much for your donation, which, of course was added to my January appeal, St Anthony is also one of my favourite Saints, and it gave me great pleasure to see him so honoured
DOUGLAS McGILLIVRAY
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AUNT BESSY
Our Lord loved us so much He died to open the gates of Heaven for us If we love Him in return surely we will make many willing sacrifices for Him during Lent Perth
ting me out of tight corners However, he's gone back to join the rest of the McDougall clan in the Highlands, otherwise I'd have him leading the Cardboard Brigade for me Yo: are a good little boy to help the Bushies along, and now that Lent is here I'm sure the money box will fill quicker than ever I still have tons and tons of prick cards that no one has claimed yet SANDY
Dear Sandy,We came home from Bunbury on Saturday last, because school starts on Monday I am going to a new school called St Louis, at Claremont and Daddy said I should get on very well there I hope the Bushies' fund will be a big one this year JOHN DAVIS
ear John,St Louis is one of the best schools in Australia, and I'm sure you'll love it from the first day Quite a lot of my Cornerites go there, so you should feel quite at home SANDY
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Culliney Miss E Shanley, Victoria R V A
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The formation of the 1940 Cardboard Brigade has now been begun All former members and new recruits please apply to headquarters nonde-plume may be used for letters to the Corner but al applications for Prick Cards must be accompanied by full name and address
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TERESA AUDREY CHIDLOW, aged 14 years, elder daughter of Mr and Mrs A S Chidlow, a pupil of St Joseph's Convent Northam who secured the following seven subjects in the recent Junior Examination: English, French Italian, Geography, History, Mths A, and Music
Amongst other successes achieved by this pupil during the past year were a pass in Grade III Alliance Francaise; First Prize for the Essay on "The Value of Local Products" (Senior Grade), Convent Schools, Northam; and in the Northam Inter-Schools' Competition open) on the same subject
Audrev secured second place and ninth place in the Country Scholarship Examinations conducted bv the City Commercial College
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New Zealand Celebrates Centenary with National Eucharistic Congress 20,000 Attend Final Benediction
The Pope broadcasts in English from
The National Eucharistic Congress which opened last Thursday in Wellington, is probably unique among Eucharistic Congresses in that a special site was prepared for the occasion For many months workmen were engaged in preparing the huge area fronting St Patrick's College A number of houses were demolished and many thousands of cubic yards of soil removed, thus giving a new frontage to the college grounds of 164 feet and a depth of 353 feet The area accommodated over 10,000 people
PAPAL FLAG
The ship which bore His Excellency Archbishop Panico, Papal Legate to the Congress, and his suite from Australia to
flotilla of boats flying the Papal flag-Wellington's first welcome to the personal representative of Pius XII"
At the opening ceremony, His Grace Archbishop O'Shea, host to the CongTress, accorded a warm welcome te the visitors.
Repiying Archbishop Panico said that he would inform the Pope of the Congress affirmations of fim allegiance, which would give him great solace in these difficult days He paid a tribute to the development of the Church, with its schools, hospitals and other institutions during New Zealand's 100 years of history All these were monuments to the saintly labours of past and present generations He offered his heartfelt congratulations on these great achievements Arch-
bishop Panico read a letter of congratulation from the Pope
BROADCAST BY THE POPE
A feature of the ceremony was a broadcast by the Pope who spoke in English from his study at the Vatican "I rejoice with you in celebrating the first century of the Catholic Church in New Zealand with this Congress,' said His Holiness "I pray that Gd's peace may descend upon you in common life and mercifully protect you from the horrors of war'' He emphasised the virtues of faith, prayer and sacrifice and urged his hearers to live as God-fearing, earnest Catholics He hoped that Christ would rule over the whole life of the nation and invoked special blessings upon the Maoris, urging an increase in religious work among them so that the second century would make one great family of God
CHILDREN URGEDTOPRAY FOR PEACE.
On Friday thousands of children, the girls all in white frocks and the boys in white shirts and dark pants made a spectacular sight when they assembled for the Children's Day Archbishop Gleeson, of Maitland, officiated at a special Children's Mass. Addressing the gathering Father Spillane appealed to the children to adopt the Pope's words and pray without ceasing for peace among the nations
With the object of securing a better defence of religion and the presentation of the Catholic view on current problems, the South Pacific Catholic Writers' Guild has been formed. The president is Rev Father Moynihan, of Melbourne
CONCLUDING PROCESSION.
The Congress concluded on Sunday with a series of notable demonstrations of the Catholic faith A feature of the Women's Day was a large assembly of Grail girls from Australia and New Zealand.
The "Daily Express" correspondent in Belgrade reports that when Herr von Papen German Ambassador to Ankara, was staying in Belgrade recently after missing a train connection, he "made the best of the forced delay In the morning gnoring Hitler's persecution of the Catholics in Germany, he attended Mass.' Unlike many Nazi leaders, Herr von Papen has never ceased to practise his religion, says The Universe" Herr Hitler was baptised a Catholic, but is now said to be a freethinker Dr Goebbels owes at least part of' his education to religious Herr Hess Hitler's deputy, is reputed to have been a Catholic at one time He does not practise as a Catholic now Herr Henlein Nazi leader of the Sudeten Germans, was a Catholic; the Catholic authorities before the war, however, ordered that no children at their bap tism should be named after him
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ARCHBISHOP PANICO
New Zealand flew the Papal flag at the masthead, a circumstance hitherto unrecorded in New Zealand The emblem of the Papal State also decorated the front of the Legate's car, and was flown above the residence when he was in attendance there It was struck each time the same way as the Union Jack is struck when the Governor-General leaves Government House
Greetings to the people of New Zealand were conveyed in a special message delivered by His Excellencv on his arrival in Wellington
'T am delighted," His Excel lency said, "to be again in New Zealand and to enjoy once more the well-known hospitality of the New Zealand people
'The Catholic celebrations will be a cordial participation in the commemoration of the Centennial and I am sure that they will be among the outstanding features of the historic event
"As the ship which brought me from Australia, with the flag of His Holiness at her masthead, steamed down Wellington Harbour, I was really enchanted with the scenic beauty which surrounded me and all seemed a happy augury of the new century alreadv at the dawn for this fine Dominion. I noted with pleasure
ARCHBISHOP O'SHEA.
Archbishop Mannix, of Melbourne, was the celebrant of the Men's Mass which was attended by 4,000 persons Addressing the men, Father Vincent Ryan, of Melbourne, urged the fidelity of men to Jesus The nations to-day he said, were locked in a death struggle which might spell the end of the present civilisation, all because the name of God and God's authority had been rejected from public affairs The sole solution was a return to Christ's rule and the fear of God Later 13,000 people attended Solemn Pontifical Mass
In the presence of nearly 20000 people, the final ceremony, Solemn Pontifical Benediction, was held in the afternoon after an inspiring Eucharistie Procession through the city streets with the Papal Legate carrying the Blessed Sacrament,
SUMMER SCHOOL FOR GRAIL LEADERS
The 1940 Summer School at Grail Headquarters, Greenwich Sydney, from January 13-20, was attended by some sixty girls from all parts of New Sou th Wales and Queensland The peasant costume is a feature of all
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bishop Panico read a letter of congratulation from the Pope
BROADCAST BY THE POPE
A feature of the ceremony was a broadcast by the Pope, who spoke in English from his study at the Vatican
The New Zealand Celebrates Centenary with National Eucharistic Congress 20,000 Attend Final Benediction
Pope broadcasts in English from
Vatican
The National Eucharistic Congress which opened last Thursday in Wellington, is probably unique among Eucharistic Congresses in that a special site was prepared for the occasion For many months workmen were engaged in preparing the huge area fronting St. Patrick's College A number of houses were demolished and many thousands of cubic yards of soil removed, thus giving a new frontage to the college grounds of 164 feet and a depth of 353 feet The area accommodated over 10,000 people
PAPAL FLAG
The ship which bore His Excellency Archbishop Panico, Papal Legate to the Congress, and his suite from Australia to
flotilla of boats flying the Papal flagWellington's first welcome to the personal representative of Pius XII "
At the opening ceremony, His Grace Archbishop O'Shea, host to the Congress accorded a warm welcome tc the visitors
Replying Archbishop Panico said that he would inform the Pope of the Congress affirmations of fin allegiance, which would give him great solace in these difficult days He paid a tribute to the development of the Church, with its schools, hospitals and other institutions, during New Zea land's 100 years of history All these were monuments to the saintly labours of past and present generations He offered his heartfelt congratulations on these great achievements Arch-
"I rejoice with you in celebrating the first century of the Catholic Church in New Zealand with this Congress,' said His Holiness "I pray that Gd's peace may descend upon you in common life and mercifully protect you from the horrors of war" He emphasised the virtues of faith, prayer and sacrifice, and urged his hearers to live as God-fearing, earnest Catholics He hoped that Christ would rule over the whole life of the nation, and invoked special blessings upon the Maoris urging an increase in religious work among them so that the second century would make one great family of God
CHILDREN URGED TO PRAY FOR PEACE.
On Friday thousands of children, the girls all in white frocks and the boys in white shirts and dark pants made a spectacular sight when they assembled for the Children's Day Archbishop Gleeson, of Maitland, officiated at a special Children's Mass Addressing the gathering, Father Spillane appealed to the children to adopt the Pope's words and pray without ceasing for peace among the nations
With the object of securing a better defence of religion and the presentation of the Catholic view on current problems, the South Pacific Catholic Writers' Guild has been formed The president is Rev Father Moynihan of Melbourne
CONCLUDING PROCESSION
The Congress concluded on Sunday with a series of notable demonstrations of the Catholic faith 'A feature of the Women's Day was a large assembly of Grail girls from Australia and New Zealand.
The "Daily Express" correspondent in Belgrade reports that when Herr von Papen, German Ambassador to Ankara, was staying in Belgrade recently after missing a train connection, he "made the best of the forced delay In the morning ignoring Hitler's persecution of the Catholics in Germany, he attended Mass " Unlike many Nazi leaders, Herr von Papen has never ceased to practise his religion, says 'The Universe" Herr Hitler was baptised a Catholic, but is now said to be a freethinker Dr Goebbels owes at least part of his education to religious Herr Hess Hitler's deputy, is reputed to have been a Catholic at one time He does not practise as a Catholic now Herr Henlein, Nazi leader of the Sudeten Germans was a Catholie; the Catholic authorities before the war, however, ordered that no children at their bap tism should be named after him
ARCHBISHOP PANICO.
New Zealand flew the Papal flag at the masthead, a circumstance hitherto unrecorded in New Zealand The emblem of the Papal State also decorated the front of the Legate's car, and was flown above the residence when he was in attendance there It was struck each time the same way as the Union Jack is struck when the Governor-General leaves Government House.
Greetings to the people of New Zealand were conveyed in a special message delivered by His Excellency on his arrival in Wellington
"I am delighted,"' His Excel lency said, "to be again in New Zealand and to enjoy once more the well-known hospitality of the New Zealand people
'The Catholic celebrations will be a cordial participation in the commemoration of the Centennial and I am sure that they will be among the outstanding features of the historic event
"As the ship which brought me from Australia, with the flag of His Holiness at her masthead, steamed down Wellington Harbour, I was really enchanted with the scenic beauty which surrounded me and all seemed a happy augurv of the new century alred at the dawn for this fine Dominion I noted with pleasure the presence of a gaily-decorated
ARCHBISHOP O'SHEA.
Archbishop Mannix, of Melbourne, was the celebrant of the Men's Mass, which was attended by 4,000 persons Addressing the men, Father Vincent Ryan, of Melbourne, urged the fidelity of men to Jesus The nations to-day, he said were locked in a death struggle which might spell the end of the present civilisation, all because the name of God and God's authority had been rejected from public affairs The sole solution was a return to Christ's rule and the fear of God Later 13,000 people attended Solemn Pontifical Mass
In the presence of nearly 20,000 people the final ceremony Solemn Pontifical Benediction, was held in the afternoon after an inspiring Eucharistic Procession through the city streets with the Papal Legate carrying the Blessed Sacrament,
SUMMER SCHOOL FOR GRAIL LEADERS.
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from January 13-20,
Headquarters,
Grail
Greenwich. Sydney,
was attended by some sixty girls from all parts of New Sou th Wales and Queensland The peasant costume is a feature of all Grail gatherings
