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The casting director of a new film telephoned an unemployed but wellknown star at his lodgings and offered him £150 a week to play the lead ' Not on your life," replied the star I'II not look at it under £200 a week'' Come along to my office and let's talk it over,'' urged the film director "What!'' replied the star, "and get locked out of my room!' i le Mrs Brown found her maid in tears Why, Mary, what's wrong?" she asked "I've just een jilted by the milkman, mum ' Oh I shouldn't let that worry you Mary '' Mrs Brown said, to comfort her You know that both the coalman and the sweep are in love with vou " "Yes mum, but two blacks don't make up for a white"
k k k He had passed all the tests, and was before the recruiting sergeant giving particulars
Married or single?'' he was asked Married"
"Any children?"
" Eleven " Sorry, chum Too expensive We could get a couple of generals for that money"
'I've just been congratulating Colonel Blaze,'' said a guest at a banquet "[He's been appointed governor of a prison.' "Really?" asked his pretty neighbour 'Now, for a job like that does one need influence or does ne just start as a convict and rise from the ranks?"
A little girl having lunch with her parents had been served with a chicken wing After trying to eat it for some time she said: Mother, do you mind if I have something else besides the hinges?"
* * * Highland regiment held the line in a position knee-deep in mud It was so bad that the colonel decided to ask the men if they would prefer to wear trousers Such a tradition-shattering decision required a ballot, and the sergeantmajor duly reported the result Onlv two men vote for the kilt sir" he asid 'Who are they?'' asked the colonel Privates Murphy and Wolfenstein sir."
k k t country doctor was also a keen shot Often on his rounds he took his gun with him in case he might get a shot at a rabbit or pigeon One day carrying his gun, he met a farmer, who eyed the gun and asked: ''Who are you going to see doctor?"
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Have vou no other name? ' he was asked
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Well you see doctor we have been having a big party in the Mess, and I'm terribly worried about Major Twuggle,'' came from the other end of the wire
Why bother me? Is he seeing elephants or something?'' the doctor asked, very annoyed
Thats the trouble, sir,' was the reply the room is full of them and he can't see a single one k k k k
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The clerk turned to him
Did you say you had a train te catch?"
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Well," continued the clerk quietly 'it's a railway station you wnt' k k k k
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A few weeks later he apnroached his friend again, requesting another loan
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The senses of animals and birds," explained the teacher to the class, "are usually more fully developed than in man Can vou, Smith minor, name a creature which sees better than a man?'
An eagle sir."
Correct And you, Jones, name an animal which hears better than a man.''
A dog, sir-" "Quite right And now Wilkins name something that smells better than a man "
A rose, sir."
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Oh ay'' came the reply, "but I stopped thinking.''
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Converts Penalised
Specialist, Sydney·
I am not a Catholic, but would like you to comment upon my observations prompted by certain facts related to me by the Matron of a Sydney private hospital which I attended I will do so; but I cannot help thinking that my remarks will seem to be dealing with the obvi0us
Some time ago a nurse at the hospital became a convert to your religion
The Catholic religion is not my religion in the sense that it belongs to me I belong to it i say that merely to bring out the iact that the Catholic religion is objectively and in itself the true religion founded by Christ, independently of other people's subjective persuasions concerning it Those who receive the grace to perceive its truth and to embrace it have received a great favour from God, on behalf of which no sacrifice is too great
Since her conversion to the Catholic Church life has been made very hard for her by her friends and relatives
That is not to their credit Most non-Catholics profess to believe that one religion s as good as another, and that people should be free to choose for themselves whatever religion appeals to them That i not a Catholic principle where religion is concerned; it is a non-Catholic principle Those non-Catholics are not consistent who permit one to join any other type of religion without protest, or even to drop religion altogether, and yet yield to bitterness and intolerance the moment one mention the idea of becoming a Catholic When people say they believe in :ach one thinking for himself, they lose the right to protest when others sav· "Well, we think Ca tholicism true and we intend to become Catholics " Fair-minded Protestants, while doubtless disagreeing with the nurse's views, would respect her convictions and admire her courage in following them
When the nurse announced that she had become a Catholic, the Matron told her that she must either leave th Catholic Church or resign her position I hope you protested against the Matron's intolerance
The nurse promptly resigned, thus forfeiting a very good position
Every fair-minded person must admire the fidelity of that nurse to her conscience And the Matron should have had sense enough to realise that a girl who refuses to count the cost where it is a question of fidelity to principle is just the type of girl she could not afford to lose k k k k
The Attraction of Rome
I have heard that this nurse has greatly changed, and, instead of dancing and enjoying amusements in the company of young men, she has become a bookworm forever reading and studying Catholicism
If one discovers that the Catholic religion is the true religion, directlv revealed by God, it hardly is surprising that it should prove more interesting than young men, who are comparatively normal events in daily life
You may remember the parable of Our Lord, concerning the man who discovered a treasure and sold all he had to obtain it Then, too, Christ said: "My peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, do I give unto you." When the satisfaction of soul that Christ
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alone can give first comes within one's experience in all its fuless, the glamour of this world necessarily begins to fade somewhat Don't you think there is something radically wrong with a young woman interesting herself in such matters?
No Ii any human being, man or woman, young or old, finds that God has revealed certain information vital to our eternal weliare and taught authoritatively bv the Catholic Church, there would be something radically
Catholic, Neutral Bay: In itself no But not everything that is not morally wrong is to be recommended indiscriminately to everybody
Is it a sin to break the pledge made at the time of Confirma· tion to abstain from alcoholic drink?
No Usually it is pointed out that the pledge taken at Confirmation does not bind under pain of sin But to break such a promise to God would be a dishonour, as it would be dishonorable to break a promise made to a
though legitimate in itself, has led many souls from the path of virtue If a Catholic has to work on a Sunday and cannot attend Mass, is it necessary to tell the priest when he goes to confession?
Strictly speaking, one is obliged to tell grave sins only in confession. When it is impossible to go to Mass, it is not sin to miss Mass and, therefore, there s no obligation to confess one's absence from Mass on Sunday However, it would be well to
wrong with that person if he or she did not take an interest in the matter
My opinion is that her romantic disposition has just been carried away by the glamour that surrounds the Catholic religion
One who is not a Catholic naturally finds it difficult to comprehend the real position, and would instinctively attempt to account for it by purely natural factors
When the Matron asked her what attracted her most, she said: "Everything is so exquisitely beautiful and real "
I cannot quarrel with that reply But I admit that it might not sound convincing to one who lacks a similar knowledge of, and a iaith in, the Catholic Church; just as the descriptions of a beautiful stained-glass window by one within a Cathedral might fail to impress one who sees it nly from the outside I suppose she was referring to the images, pictures, and the aroma of incense, etc I am afraid your supposition is groundless and, as an explanation of the nurse's conduct, quite inept After all, the one who is attracted bv the Catholic Church is the one who should be allowed to state why Were you to put the same question to the nurse, I am quite sure she would not attribute the appeal of the Catholic Church to images, pictures, or incense k k t k Happy or Unhappy?
How would you explain such zeal in clinging to her belief despite the ruin of all her hopes of happiness
I would simply say that being convinced of the truth of the Catholic religion as the guaranteed revelation of God, she finds therein a happiness and consolation which more than compensates her for the loss of any happiness this world can offer her But why do you assume that she is not happy? Surely, you do not confuse happiness with pleasure
The girl must have lost much which she held very dear
That is quite probable But then, with St Paul, she s prepared to count all else as rubbish, in order to gain Christ Having found the way by which Christ declares people should come to Him, she is simply following that way, not counting the cost Had she chosen to follow anv other re ligion or had she ceased to bother about any religion, no similar price would have been demanded of her The fact that the Catholic religion alone inherits the promise of Christ: 'You shall be hated by all men for my name's sake," should give cause for deep thought to the seriously minded
friend Some people make their word their bond and regard a promise as a thing not to be broken under anv circumstances God will certainly bless those who are faithful to the pledge they make at Confirmation who for love of Him renounce something which
Joan of Arc Slandered
Ken MacC., Cremorne:
I enclose an article from the first issue of the A B C Wireless Journal. It is unsigned, and deals with Joan of Arc
The article can only be described as a distortion of historical fact, a gratuitous insult to every Catholic reader of the paper, and an invitation to Catholics at least to secure their wireless informatien elsewhere
I do not belong to your Church, for I am a Presbyterian But in my opinion the writer has shown bias and prejudice; and it seems curious that the people's money should be used to publish such rubbish in the first issue of the Commission's offcial journal
Your opinion was shared by manv others, and I am glad to learn from vour letter that the cheap, irreligious sneers of the \ B C writer were resented by Protestants as well as bv Catholics.
Does not your Church make very searching enquiries into the character of one who is declared to be a Saint?
It does
Might I ask that you broadcast your Church's views on St Joan of Arc as contrasted with the bias and prejudice of the A B C weekly?
Part of the article explains Bernard Shaw's estimate of St Joan of Arc; part of it contains the illchosen comments of the \ B C writer I shall comment on the passages underlined, making it clear whose is the responsibility for the opinion expressed
The A B C writer says that when Shaw's play, "St Joan," was written Joan the Maid had been Joan the Saint for three years It is true that Joan of Arc was canonised as a saint some three years before Shaw wrote his play· But she was not a saint for three vears only She was a saint all along She was not a saint because she was canonised; she was canonised because she was a saint However that is a point of accuracy which could scarcely be expected of the superficial writer in the A B C paper
"Her statue" says the A B C writer, "cluttered up churches, cathedrals and civic centres "
That is absolutelv untrue A single statue of-St Joan in such individual churches, or cathedrals, or civic centres as desired to do her honour, does not justify the sneering reference to the "clutterng up?of those places k k k Mvsticism or Hysteria
During the four centuries she had be ccme surrounded by an aura of mysmention the matter in confession, and to ask advice as to whether the work is really urgent enough to excuse one irom the obligation, or concerning the possibilities of other employment where the necessitv of missing Mass on Sundays will not arise
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ticism and hysteria, until the real Joan, the human phenomenon, was lost For the benefit of the AB C writer it might be mentioned that mysticism and hysteria do not go together The mystic is not hysterical; hysterical people are not mysties They are rather the unbelieving rationalists, who scoff at any idea of the supernatural and the truly 'spiritual; who wish to associate mvsticism with hvsteria and thus explain away any suggestion of the work of God's grace Again, the real Joan was not a merely human phenomenon to be explained in terms of the natural only nor was she such as Bernard Shaw would have her to be in his play Shaw is a cheerful pagan, who does not even profess to be a Christian As such, he is the least fitted to understand a Christian saint One might just as well ask a color-blind person to describe a rainbow as to ask an unbeliever to give a true estimate of a saint In fact, the real Joan of Historv is lost the moment one tries to reduce her to a purely human phenomenon "Sickly pictures of an idealistic Joan in shining armour leading the soldiers of France to victory" appeared Having no belief whatever that Joan was a saint, the ABC writer regards that view as no more than an idealisation Any pictures, therefore, which portray Joan as a saint must be a sickly thing But, f a sickly picture of Joan were required, the ABC writer would be just the man to provide it for there is nothing more sickly than the distorted and travestied picture of one of History's heroines which he presents to usa typical product of the 'wishful thinking'' of the prejudiced rationalist Shaw, realist and iconoclast, has overturned the witch's cauldron of raging romance in which she has been drowned'' In other words, the ABC writer regards the Catholic view of St Joan as superstitious moonshine According to him, ernard Shaw in trying to smash that view, has presented the real Joan by reducing her to the purely natural evel Here, Shaw is certainly an iconoclast in much the same sense that the ancient barbarians were iconoclasts: ruthless destroyers of things they did not understand To what extent he is a realist will be seen presently His Joan is a country girl, bossy, hardy, and no beauty-whose common sense and logic, tremendous self-confidence and sense of humour made her a live person
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If that be Bernard Shaw's estimatu, it is a strange mixture of truth and falsehood, and completely mistaken as a whole No one would denv th t Joan was a hardy country girl full of common sense and ogic h·ther or not she possessed great physical beauty, nobodv cares two hoots But there is no historical warrant 'whatever for saying that she was "bossy" and supremelv self-confident On the contrarv, though she possessed the strength of character so pronounced in all the saints, she was extremely diffident of herself and placed all her confidence in God But, of course, a rationalist who has swallowed the irrational prejudice that the supernatural cannot happen could not be expected to understand that "Her youth and inexperience gave her a one-eyed naivete which led to her downfall." That ill ccords with the statement previously made that Joan was a hardy country girl with common sense and logic and a sense of humor Perhaps the ABC writer will condescend to explain how a common-sense logical girl with a sense of humour, came to adopt the one-eyed views of a simpleton In point of fact t was the treachery and evil dispositions of some of her own countrv-men that led to her downfall k k t Atheist Romance
'Inability to understand that stupid people hate to be shown up kept her treading the lonely road which led to her death by burning." It is suggested that if Joan had understood, she would have deviated from her God-given mission in order to avoid unpleasant consequences? If so the suggestion is miles from the truth Joan did, in fact, understand that her mission would make bitter enemies Not inabilitv to understand the hatred of others, but confidence in God and fervent prayer kept her constant even to martyrdom It is Ber ard Shaw who does the romancing and who gives the unhistorical and distorted view of Joan of Are which so appeals to the A B C writer
"By her suicidal insistence that, as God's mouth-piece, she needed no Archbishop's permission for her acts, she became one of the first Protestant martyrs A sop to Protestants, but sheer nonsense, nevertheless! The idea that the Church would canonise as a saint one of the first rebels against her is too grotesque to be entertained for a moent God speaks to men in two
Thursday, March 28 1940
ways Ordinarily, He speaks to souls through the Church; by way of excep- tion, He speaks directly to specially hosen individuals within the Church it may suit Bernard Shaw to call one way the Catholic way and the other the Protestant way The truth is that both ways are Catholic ways St Joan never dreamt of wavering in her Catholic faith, and there was nothing specifically Protestant about her T nterpret the events of one century in :he light of the events of a later and very different century is neither good historical method nor good sense. When Joan of Are realised that she was not receiving justice from Bishop Cauchon of Beauvais, she appealed directly to the authority of the Pope- a thing no Protestant would dream of doing The Bishop calmly replied that the Pope was too far away and did not send her appeal to Rome He thus violated the laws of the Church, and sold her to her political enemies k k k k Nailing the Lie
'The Church was against her" declares the anti-Catholic writer in the A.B C
That is another disgraceful distortion of historical fact The Church was not against her, nor was she against the Church An unworthy Bishop in the pay of her enemies was against her and she appealed to the Pope against his abuse of authority, as Canon Law gave her the right to do Shaw's Bishop of Beauvais says: She is a heretic because she acts as if she herselt is the Church The Pope at his proudest dare not presume as this woman presumes"
That Shaw says so is no guarantee of the historical accuracy of what he st.ys Playwrights usually make their characters say whatever suits their theme But even did the Bishop use such words, they would simply rank wi h his other false charges against St Joan of Are Besides the reference to the Pope which Shaw attributes to the Bishop expresses the attitude of George Bernard Shaw rather th. n that of a Medieval Bishop St Joan of Are is one of the noblest women of history and a canonised saint of the Catholic Church Shaw's attempt to rob her of her supernatural grace and transcendent holiness., reducing her to the merely human vel is a travesty of historical fact But the ABC writer's sneering reference: to her statue as cluttering up churches, his attempt to identify mysticism with hysteria, his remarks about sickly pictures and his jibes at Catholic devo tion as maginative superstitionthese things are a positive insult and are typical of the methods adopted by the enemies of religion in the absence t rational argument You are as ight n terming it bias and prejudice as you ure in resenting the publication of such an article in the A BC Wkly, which s printed at public expense out o the wireless fees of isteners If the A. stands for that sort of irreligious ubish the sooner it ceases publication he better for responsible and decent Journalism The fact that you are a Presbvteri n and not a Catholic will nak Catholics the more gratefu to you
The Holy Ghost The Comforter
OUR BURDEN
ABy REV. P SULLIVAN SJ
S it is the duty of each one of u
to praise, reyerenl � and ::;en e Goad and as it is the part of the Church to direct us that we may ettectively carry out that duty, it is necessary that She as a wise Mother should point out to us periodically our obligations towards God and the punishments which are to be meted out to those who neglecting to fulfil them die unrepentant
We are reminded at times of the necessity of leading pure and honest lives, of showing due respect to our parents and of being submissive to the voice of the Church We hear of the great commandment of Charity and how we are to apply it by a love of our fellow men for the love of God, how we are to act towards our friends and towards our enemies, towards our employer or towards our employees towards the people of our own country and towards those of other nations We are told of the heinousness of sin and we see its terrible effects in the past and in the present We hear of the judgment to come and we are warned to make use of our time and to work while it is yet day
This aggregation of doctrines, while making us alive to the fact that serious obligations have to be fulfilled by us in this life, may perhaps dismay us Our past infidelitie, our own weaknesses already weigh heavily upon our shoulders as we triv t support the burden of duty and follow the narrow way which leads to life But the doctrines of the Church are not merely concerned with our bligations towards God They are for ur cnsolation as well as for our guidance On of th most comforting and n: ling doctrines oi the Church her dctrin of the Holy Spirit
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As the H! Gh st, th spirit of God, God omnipotent, i with his Church giving life to it, s to the Holy Ghost is with us, within ur uls giving u life as long a: w do not banish Him by remaininy n th st: te of mortal sin
'If you love mu, kup my commandhents And I will ask the Father and He shall giv v u another Paraclete that he may bide with you forever The spirit f truth, whom the world cannot reev because it seeth him not, nor knoweth him but you shall know him becaus he shall abide with vou and hall b vou." (St John XIV, 15-17
If we find th.t th faith within us is sterile and does nut bring frth good works if our lov of Gd and the love of our neighb ur have grown cold and there remain but a few glimmerings of hope luring ts on to the heights ot sanctity then let us not lose heart but come confident!v to the Holy Ghost that He may assit us "Come, Holy Ghost fill the hearts of thy faithful and enkindle therein the fire of thy divine love Send orth thy Spirit, O Lord and thev shall b 'reated and thou shalt renew the face f the earth''
WORK OF THE HOLY SPIRIT.
The work of the Holy Spirit stands out as a monument before our eyes to be seen bv us if we will but turn our attention to it It was by the power and operation of the Holy Ghost that Our Blessed Ladv became the Mothe of God When Gabriel appeared to Mary and announced that she w:s to be the Mother of the Christ Mary replied 'How shall this be done because I know not man? And the angel answering said to her: The Holy Ghost shall come upon thee, and the power of the Most High shall overshadow thee And therefore the Holy which shall be born of thee shall be called the Son of God (St Luke 1 34-5.)
Perhaps one of the most striking ex amples of the activity and power of the Holy Spirit s the change wrought by Him in the Apostles As we know the men whom Our Lord chose when founding His Church were made of very ordinarv clav Peter, the Prince of the Apostles, was a fisherman of Galilee He understood very little ot the deposit of truth which was to be spread to every nation of the earth As was shown when his divine Master was apprehended by the Jews he was yet very faint hearted When he was pointed out as a follower of Christ his courage was not enough for the occaS1on. He a newly ordained priest enied his faith in Christ. But these men, very faint hearted and irreceptive of the truths Christ had endeavoured to mpress upon them were to become
the enlightened and intrepid champions of the Church of Christ And this was to be brought about by the advent ot the Holy Spirit as Our Lord Himself had foretold "These th1ags have I spoken to you abiding with you But the Paraclete, the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he will teach you all things, and bring al things to your mind whatsoever I shall have said to you" (St John XIV, 25-6+ On the first Pentecost Sunday these words were fulfilled
"And when the days of the Pentecost were accomplished, they were all together in one place: And suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of a mighty wind coming, and it filled the whole house where they were sitting And there appeared to them parted tongues as it were of fire, and it sat upon every one of them: And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and they began to speak wIth divers tongues, according as the Holy Ghost gave them to speak'' (The Acts II, 1-4) St Peter on that day rose up and told the people in plain terms that they by the hands of wicked men had slain the Christ of whose resurrection the Apostles were witnesses He told them of the coming of the Holy Ghost to whose action he attributed the very words he was speaking He then exhorted them to receive the Sacrament of Baptism that they might also receive the gift of the Holy Ghost "Do, penance and be baptised, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ, for the remission f your sins: and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost For the promise is to you and to your children and to all that are afar off, whomsoever the Lord Our God shall cal" (The Acts II, 38.9) In our souls, too, the Holy Ghost has been working By Baptism the merits of Christ are applied to our souls. Ve then become children of God and heirs t His kingdom. The Holy Spirit dwells within us giving us a new life Faith, Hope and Charity
This 'ife of th: soul which is given to it by the H Ay Ghost is something very real When we speak of the fe i a plant r f an animal we' refer to th power which it has of moving itself, the power of growth and activity The ife of the soul which the Holy Spirit gives to us is the power to exercise the n tural faculties of the soul in a ew wav n a way which is above their nature
The natural life of the soul is to think and to will When for example we think of the stars and their beauty, of the immensity of the deep blue ocean, when we admire the mountains with thir forests of massive gums and green undergrowth, we are using the natural powers of the soul, or again, when we desire to see the beauty of the world and plan to take a trip across the seas or out into the country The soul using its natural powers can know and love God, but after it has received Baptism the soul is endowed with a new life It receives the power to know as true that which is bevond its natural capacity to know and consequent to this knowledge it is enabled to desire eternal life and to love in a new way the good God who has created and redeemed it
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led to think that it was purely the nftural reasoning of St Peter that enabled him to make this clear and bold statement of truth He had witnessed the miracles of Christ He had heard His teaching But as Our Lord Himself declared it was by more than a natural power that he was induced to proclaim Our Lord as the Son of God Jesus, answering, said to him: Blessed art thou Simon Bar-Jona: because flesh and blood hath not revealed it to thee, by my Father who is in heaven (St Matthew XVI, 13-17.)
It is through faith that we are led on to the virtues of hope and charity. We must believe in eternal life before we can desire it We must know of the right means to obtain that life before we can hope to use them If we have a lively faith and a firm hope we shall be filed with confidence in God The man who believes that his work will bring him large returns cares little for the labour which he has to under go and is little daunted by the opposi- tion he receives We Catholics who believe in God, in His goodness, in a life to come and in the efficacy of observing the Commandments of God and of His Church, should be filled with unbounded confidence This confidence is necessary if we are to spread Our Faith over the length and breadth of our land We should not be afraid of showing forth in our actions the gift of faith that is ours Did not our divine Lord say: Let your light shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father who is in heaven" (St Matthew V 16) We should be proud to be Catholics and sons of God
Among the graces of the Holy Ghost the greatest is charity St Paul, comparing our present life with the life to come said: 'We see now through a glass in a dark manner; but then face to face Now I know in part; but then I shall know even as I am known And now there remain faith, hope, and charity, these three: but the greatest of these is charity " (1 Corinthians XIII 12-13) The gift of faith prepares us for the gift of charity We see by faith the great goodness of God. We see more what He has done for us raising us who have made ourselves His enemies to the dignity of sons We have the guiding voice of revelation teaching us to do that which our enlightened powers are already impelling us to do Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with thy whole heart, and with thy whole soul,, and with all thv strength, and with all thy mind: and thy neighbour as thyself. (St Luke X 27 ) Our love of God is shown by our love for our neighbour Ii through selfishness or through weakness, or through failure of one kind or another our love for our neighbour has weakened let us turn to the Holy Spirit and earnestly ask Him to assist us "Come, Holy Ghost, fill the hearts of thy faithful and enkindle therein the fire of thy divine love" St Paul places tremendous importance on this gift of charity He says: "I I should have prophecy (that is the gifts of ex pounding the mysteries of faith) and should know all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I should have all faith so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing" This charity should show itself especially in our love for neigh- bour For St Paul, describing the effects of charity, goes on to say: "Charty is patient, is kind: charitv envieth not, dealeth not perversely; is not puffed up" (1 Corinthians XIII, 4) To whom are we to be patient and kind? Is it towards God? No It is towards those whom God has placed around us towards those of our own family, towards our employers or our employees, towards our fellow workHIS GIFTS
Besides the gifts of faith, hope and charity, the Holy Ghost has seven spe- cial gifts to give us These gifts are the result of faith, hope and charity They are wisdom understanding, counsel, knowledge, fortitude; piety and fear of the Lord. The first four are gifts of the intellect and the remainng three are gifts of the will Fear of the Lord, which s a gift of the will, is no craven fear, is not the fear of the slave for his master It is not even that salutary fear of everlasting punishment It is rather a fear of offending God who is so good to us Pear of the Lord means a horror of sin, a horror of that for which Our Saviour suffered so cruel a death. Fear of the Lord should not only make us avoid sin but also the proximate occasions of sin
The gift of piety is the gift of the love of God showing itself in the external recognition of that love so beau tifully and effectively fulflled in the liturgy of the Church, showing itself in obedience to the Commandments of God and of His Church, and in our love for our neighbour If we are harsh and unkind and impatient to those about us, if the other members of our family find our presence a torment, or if we are given to anger, then we have
March
1940 not got this gift of piety in a very high degree But God is bountiful with His gifts, and we have only to ask hum bly for them Our big city emporiums will give you service and quality, but you have to pay for them The gifts of the Holy Spirit of God are ours for the asking. The Holy Ghost will make us courageous It has often been said that where there is a will there is a way This is all the more true if the Holy Ghost is strengthening our wills ii order that we may carry out what is pleasing to him We Catholics have all been called upon to carry on the work of the Apostles to supplement the work of the bishops and priests Many of us have the ability to do some work of Catholic Action something even con genial to us, yet we have not the cour age to act Let us remember that courage is a gift of the Holy Spirit We have only to ask and it cannot be re fused us 'Ask, and it shall be given you seek and you shall find: knock and it shall be opened to you" (St Matthew VII, 7) The Holy Spirit of God will assist us by His grace We shall, as it were, hear those words of Scripture sounding in our ears Act like a man, and take courage, and do: fear not and be not dismayed: for the Lord my God will be with thee, and will not eave thee, nor forsake thee, till thou hast finished all the work for the service of the house of the Lord (' Paralipomenon XXVIII, 20) In the words of the Imitation of Christ, Ii we strove like men to stand in battle we should see the Lord from heaven as sisting us. For He is ready to help them that fight, trusting in His grace who Himself provideth us occasions to fight in order that we may overcome" But as will be rightly said, to be strengthened in will is not enough. We must know how to please God And this need will be supplied by the gifts of the intellect By being devout to wards the Holy Ghost we will come in time to learn the ways of God By the gift of knowledge we will know what is a sin and what is not sin We will not unduly condemn those things which are innocent and harmless, and we will not pass over as insignificant that which is sinful By the gift of counsel we will know how to follw more closely in the footsteps of Christ Our Lord and to take even joyfully the rebuffs that a loyal follower is sure to receive It is with these gifts and with clearer knowledge and His per- fections that we will acquire wisdom That is the gift by which we see that God is our greatest good and love him with our whole heart
We Forget This doctrine of the Holy Spirit dwelling within us is perhaps more for gotten and more neglected by us than any of the other doctrines of the Church How far removed from truth does such a doctrine seem when we are one of a vast crowd in a busy cit street, how unreal and unpractical the presence of the Holy Spirit We are surrounded by highly coloured displays in shop windows A few paper boys are looking up enquiringly at the passing crowds as they shout the name of the latest issue of the daily news Ladies are passing, decked out in their latest costumes, some with their children trailing on either side of them Yet while we forget it amid these throngs who have received their life from God, the Holy Spirit is dwelling and He s there in a special way in the souls of those who have been regenerated bv Baptism and are in the state of grace But even removed from the bustle f every-day life when we have a few mo ments to raise our minds to God n prayer how many of us are there who truly appreciate the fact that the Holy Ghost dwells in a special manner within our souls, not merely as a spectator, but as a consoler and a comforter? It we come to know well and appreciate the presence of the Holy Spirit within our souls, we will be induced to exclaim in some such words as Jacob used after He had seen a vision of God and His angels "Indeed the Lord is n this place, and I knew it not How terrible is this place! This is no other but the house of God and the gate of heaven" (Genesis XXVIII , 16-i7 ) OUR PART.
We have seen the place of this doctrine of the Hol Spirit among the doctrines of the Church We have observed the working of the Holy Spirit in bringing about the Incarnation and how by the action of the Holy Spirit the Apostles were transformed We have seen the variety of wavs in which the Holy Spirit can work in our souls Should we not then appreciate the value of this devotion and practice it in some measure Let us then make a practice of saying some prayer each day in His honour There is the sequence of the Mass of Pentecost There is also the praver well known as the 'Veni Creator Spiritus"' But if these prove too long we could choose some shorter prayer Let us do something that will in time make us more familiar with this divine guest dwelling within our souls
Thursday, March 28, 1940
Communism
The Rock," monthly magazine ublished by the Jesuit Fathers in jg Kong, has the following comment in the February issue, just to hand:
VERY sincere friend of China
Amust be anxious if not positiveIv alarmed, at the growing power of Communism in China and the seriousness of its threat to national unity There can no longer be any doubt as to the seriousness of this menace and ts gravity is not lessened by the fact that it is viewed with complais nce by the greater part of the Chinese press in Hong Kong
It is becoming only too clear that there is being enacted in China a parallel to what happened in Poland when Soviet Russia took advantage of Germanv's attack on it to enter in seize a large part of its territory, and Bol shevise it In China the second army of aggressors was not Russia's Red a'tt China's Red army While Japan was overrunning part of the country and bombing and pillaging it, just as Germany did in Poland, the Communist forces were occupying another part and setting up their own government there, As in Poland, the first aggressor connivs at this, for it is weakening China's power of resistance and making its own task much easier
There are now in China "Communist occupied areas'' and though the rulers of the former pretend to be one with the National Government in fighting a war of resistance, they claim to exercise sovereign control over the area they hold, and they are far more concerned with consolidating their own power than with resisting an invader
The political manoeuvring of the Chinese Communist: is patent to anyone who has watched it parallel in other countries, for it flows exactly the same lines, yet we are asked to believe that Communits now are different in China to what they were before and to what they are in an other counthy and the nation is asked to give them a blank cheque and judge them by their words rather than by their actions The thing is preposterous, yet the press keeps up the farce and the countrv is being betraved
When the present war began in China the Communist forces were de feated The Rd armv had run farther than any .rm; in history, and it was reduced to an impotent rabble But ts propagandists tried to cover up its disgrace by ranting more loudly than ever They clamoured for warjust as the French Communists, who are now deserters and the English Communists, who are now ardent pacifists, did last summer They wanted war against Japan and they promised the National Government their aid, thoroughly useless though it had been proved to be if they would declare war Japan's action saved Communism from disappearing as an armed force in China.
When the war began the Communists hastened to press a United Front programme In September, 1937, a voice spoke from the facade The 'Central Executive Committee of the Chinese Communist Partv" issued a manifesto. It announced the adop tion of a ew policy, It pledged support to Dr Sun Yat Sen's Three Principles declared its abandonment of all measures aimed at the overthrow of the Kuomintang Government by force, of propagation of Communist doctrines a9d of the policy of forcible expropriation of land It proclaimed the disso lution of the 'Soviet Republic of China" and of the Red Army and pro mised instead to support a democratic form of Government with a view to unifying the administrative authority of China, and to put its armv under the comm:nd of the National Government The National Government met this gesture of apparent patriotism with one of unquestioning friendship Everything was against the possibility that the offer of the Communists wa: a genuine one, and against the hope that ts pledge would be honourably kept, but t was a moment of national crisis and the one hope was that there was enough patriotism left in the hearts of the Communists to make them put nation above party and throw their eight into the fight for the common cause The hope was not realised Incap- a�Ie of actin� honottrabh, in China as [;;"where, and completely true to type, Pe Communists seized the hour of naonal peril to turn it to their own ad-
Menaces
vantage and never since deviated from the path of dishonour They raised an army, the Eighth Route Army, and published its praises in the same way, and often with the same phrases, as the Red Army of Russia which has now failed when confronted by one of the smallest armies in Europe The Chinese Red Army has never failed in the same way-for it has yet to be tested Its battles have been fought not with rifles and machine guns, but with fountainpens and typewriters
On paper no army in the East has ever engaged in: such heroic deeds, and no army in the present war has with such success repulsed such fierce onslaughts but unfortunately the sole witnesses to these great events 'were the correspondents of the Red press
While their papers told of resounding victories there is no evidence of anything but minor skirmishes of trifling importance Its army, which remains the Red Army in spite of all promises and assurances, enlists great numbers of young men and trains themin pro° paganda The only effective way in which it used its army was to ensure the complete reversal of what it promised, to bring under its sway an ever growing area in which the writ of the National Government does not run
While the National armv of China was defending the country on many fronts the Communist army was advancing like the Russian army in Po land and setting up its "Border Government''in one province after another Now a large part of five provinces is "Communist occupied area" and lost to China for all practical purposes
It was possible to engage brazenly n this campaign of treachery because t was realised that China could not tight a civil war and a war of defence at the same time, and it was carried in security behind the paper wall of propaganda. Red sympathisers in ther countries have commended the "able tactics" of the hinese Communists and have co-operated with them with equal duplicity by sending them money under the guise of relief funds and by sending Communist propagandists to other places under the guise of medical assistants and industrial or ganisers And all the time the deeds f the Eighth Route Army and of the new Fourth Route Army have been glorified in the press far above the deeds of the armies that were bearing the brunt of the actual fighting
When Soviet Russia joined as an aggressor in the European war a new stage was reached and a new line had to be followed
It was not necessary for Chinese mmunrsts t readjust their views when they saw Soviet Russia joining with the power that was hitherto condemned as the arch-enemy of freedom because for Communists in China as in ther countries there is one fixed principle that never changes: Whatever Russia does is right They had only to change the tone of their propaganda, and the line which they follow now is a most ingenious one It is that which is pursued by practically all the Chinese papers in Hong Kong. Russia, they say, in invading Poland was doIng a service to it for it was saving a latge part of it from German domination. That they were looting and murdering and destroying churches and suppresing religion, they did not mind, for salvation by tryranny and murder s a commonplace of Communist method.
Then when Soviet Russia invaded Finland it was an example of armed defenc blesed phrase It was Finland's folly not to be "r sonable" like Ethonia and Latvia The papers justified Russia's action in these countries, in grabbing part of their territory and putting in garrisons there by pointing out that imperialist countries have done this constantly-forgetting, however, thtt they have always condemned imperialist countries for doing it And they justified the ruthless attack on Finland because it was "necessary" for Russia to have a 'friendlv" country on its frontier, even if 'friendship" meant the destruction of the other's liberty or if it had to be imposed with ruthless bloodshed- a doctrine against which they wished to make the world believe thev were fighting in China This is the defence of the Soviet and the revelation of Communist mentality and Communist morality that is being given daily for the past four months in the Chinese press of Hong Kong
At the same time the tone adopted bv the Communist leaders in Chin changed
China
They felt that their position was different since war had begun in Europe
Now the only country on which China could depend for munitions was Russia and this fact gave them they believed, the whip hand Before the Sixth Plenary Session of the Kuomintang met last November there was talk of "demands" being made by the Communists on the National Government, completely at variance with the pledges given two years before, and it cleared the air when the Secretary-General of the Kuomintang came out openly and accused the Communists of having broken their promises,especially in relation to the abolition of the border regional governments, and declaring that a halt had to be called to their improper activities which had been overlooked for so long in order to preserve harmony within the country
Since that time, since Soviet Russia has thrown aside pretences and come out into the open as an aggressor and a tyrannical champion of brute force there has been a continued campaign in all the Red and pink Chinese papers -which include the majority of those published in Hong Kong in favour of close co-operation between China and Soviet Russia
The line of argument, sometimes veiled sometimes openly expressed, is always the same: The war in Europe is a war of capitalists, or imperialists, against the people The phase of the allies' war against Germany is only a phase, and an unimportant phase, of it, This war will have one of two results Either it will end in a series of revolutions in Europe,and this will be the triumph of Communism, or elso Germny will collapse and the Allies will join with the "imperialist'' elements in Germany to fight against Russia and then the real war between imperialism and democracy will be fought -"democracy" being represented by Russia In either of these contingencies, the argument goes the victory is sure to be with Russia therefore China should join with Russia now and be on the right side in time
Thisis the line of argument, in all its cynicism and in all its dishonesty that is being put before the Chinese people day after day by the ommunists and their supporters of all shades in the press
What is more, with all the effrontery that is habitul with Communists they are putting it forward abroad as the authentic view of China so that already many foreign papers that have
no wish to be unjust are entirely misled by it, and are describing General Chiang Kai Shek as a puppet of Soviet Russia while in reality the Generalissimo is the strongest barrier against 'Communism in China The pressure put upon him is enormous A "Reuter'' message of January 19 mentioned that the Soviet Government still recognises the Government of Generalissimo Chiang Kai Shel"and that is as far as it goes
The Communists are waiting for the suitable moment to stab the nation in the beck, just as they did before, after they had given their promise to Dr Sun Yat Sen Their threat to the peace and progress of China is greater than that of any invader The tragedv that rent Poland in two threatens China unless the danger is faced before it is too late
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Ninth Country Tennis
ST. FRANCIS XAVIER CLUB, GERALDTON, WINS ARCHBISHOP'S ·CUP
The ninth annual Country Carnival, conducted by the WA C LT A for affiiated country clubs, was held during the Easter holidays and was an outstanding success Eleven teams (six men's and five women's) participated, comprising Boulder, Bunbury, Kalgoorlie and Geraldton clubs
After an exciting competition in which the destiny of the cup was in doubt till the final set, St Francis Xavier Club, Geraldton, was successful in securing the Archbishop's Cup, which had previously been held by St Mary's, Cub Kalgoorlie
St Francis Xavier Club Geraldton were also successful in winning the shield for the men's division, whilst St Mary's Kalgoorlie, finished on top in the women's section St Patrick's Bunbury, once again made a strong bid for the Cup but just could not make the grade, and finished runners-up in both the men's and women's divisions
This year the matches were played at Gemmell's Courts, Kitchener Park, Subiacc, and the standard of play revealed was on par with, or a little better, than that of previous years
Geraldton, 8 sets 73 games, beat Kalgoorlie No 1 8 sets 8 games
Fifth Round:
Geraldton, 14 sets 90 games, beat Kalgoorlie No 2 2sets 30 games
Kalgoorlie No 1 beat Boulder forfeit
Final Percentages Kalgoorlie No. I, 73: Geraldton 62.5; Bunbury 60.8
• COUNTRY DINNER
In the Stirling Social Rooms on Easter Sunday evening was held the annual countrv dinner and dance The president of the Association Mr A E Heagney) presided over the gathering, which included among its guests Rev Father Rafferty (representing His Grace the Archbishop) Rev Father McGillicuddv Rev Father Hussey and Miss Joyce Wood (junior girls' singles and doubles champion of Australia and a leading player of the VCL.T.A)
The toast list included: The Archbishop and Clergy'proposed by Mr lack Edwards and responded to bv Re Father Rafferty; "The Association,' proposed by Mr W Skipworth and responded to by Mr D A MeG:! livrav; "The Country Clubs,'' proposed by Mr J W Wall, and responded to by Messrs T Pauley (Boulder), J King Bunbury) J Graham (Gerald> and W Skipworth (Kalgoorlie); "Mis: Joyce Wood,' proposed by,Mr A E Heagney and responded to by Miss Wood "The Chairman" proposed by Mr I Tully, and responded to by Mr A E Heagney and reTaylor's Trade in your, old Racket ceive 20/- allowance at Ted Sports Store, London Court
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Carnival
PORTUGAL IS MODEL FOR NEW EUROPE, SAYS CAR DINAL London
The Portuguese State established by Dr Salazar should be the model on which Europe should rebuild itself after the war, Cardinal Verdier Archbishop of Paris, says n an inter· view 'It is half-wav between totalitarianism and democracy It links authority with libertythe authority of the State and the respect for individual liberty n a much more perfect way than we do," said the Cardinal
Thursday, March 28, 1940
IRISH PRIEST SAYS DR. SALAZAR BUILDS ON ENCYCLICALS
London
Dr Salazar had given now for 12 vears solvency to a State- Portugalwhich had not known real solvency for a centurv, said Father P J Gannon, $5 J , speaking at the Dublin Mansion House during the Catholic Social Week held there under the auspices of the CY M S of Ireland
In the Papal Encyclicals, he said, they had the social principles which Salazar had made the basis of his programme
He showed the wisdom of Salazar's policy of giving the Church liberty and equality before the law to let it build from the base on newer and better foundations than any statesman could give it by setting it up as a State de partment
The Dole An Evil.
They had had 22 years' experience of the dole in Ireland, said Father M P Cleary, O P , and as unemployment had increased it was time their Government, aided by their expert officers, should earnestly enquire whether'any better way of meeting the situation was feasible The dole was economically disastrous in the long run, for it meant the spending of money withut any profitable return
How much richer Ireland would be he went on if more men made bread than made furniture You can live without a sofa, but you cannot ive without a loaf."
Child of Capitalism"
ommunism is the monster child of Capitalism, said Prof J M Sullivan T D
He traced the family resemblances between the two systems, the cncentration of wealth in the hands of the ew the elimination of the peasant proprietor and the essential godlessnss of both systems when puhl to a logical conclusion
A GROWING MENACE
Soil erosion costs Victoria about £900,000 a year, according to an estimate prepared by the State Rivers and Water Supply Commission
About 10,000,000 acres of land in Victoria were affected by erosion
Abusing Mountain Country Mr Hanslow, a member of the Water Commission, drew attention to the evil of short time grazing leases in mountain country Under such cnditions the lessee tried to get as much out of the land in as little time as possible Mountain country should be
"GO BROKE" TO SUCCEED
THE AMERICAN WAY.
Life Insurance Company's Method
When farm produce prices collapsed in the "economic blizzard'' of 1930, the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company was foreclosing on as many as 2,500 farms a year even though foreclosure was the last resort.
Almost every foreclosed farm was well on the way to ruin because owners had loaded their land with crops in an effort to be:t the mortgage," and had allowed buildings to fall into ruins because they had no cash to keep them in repeir Wha' was to be done to cut what looked ike an enormous loss to the Company?
Saving the Farms
The Company farm-loan manager deeided to hire former country agents and soil experts as field representatives teach man to supervise 80 farms), survev each farm, take inventory of its improvements, and put the soil to laboratorv tests
Soil analysis complete, a huge army of workmen rebuilt houses and barns (at a cost of £1 850 000) dumped thousands of tons of fertiliser on perishing soils, stopped erosion, exterminated weeds, and estab'ished crop rotation (fithin six years the scheme was so successful that other companies began t follow suit And Saving the Farmers. For years the fixed rent system in parts of the South had led to abject poverty for nine out of ten tenants because of the back-breaking load of debt built up in years of crop failure
So a new system was adopted under which the tenant pays only a share of hat he actually makes
To-day more than 90 per cent of the company's farms in the South operate on this svstem and there is a long ist of applicants waiting for farms Part of this eagerness to get on the company's farms is due to the building of hundreds of comfortable new homes of four and eight rooms costing from £300 to £750, and so practical they have been widely copied
let on long term leases, with regulation f the number of stock. If we in Victoria are ever going to grapple with this problem it will be necessary to pass a soil conservation act and appoint a body with administrative powers to administer the act," Mr Hanslow said Sanity by Legislation! Government Boards are often x,ellent bodies, and one to co-ordinate such work of national important may I neessarv Yet the fact remains that legislation to enforce what commonsense should ensure is a srry re: flection on the landowner' ol the State Rural Life."
Sir George Schuster one of London's leading bankers and a Director of the Bank of New Z-land in London stated that the cost of the war to Great Britain was going to be £3,000,000,000 a vear 'It would be necessary,'he said "for the British Government to raise £1,500,000.000 by way of lans £1 200,000,000 by way of taxation." The gap would be filled by small investors'' who would take out Defense Bonds' at 3 per cent repayable in seven years and in "National Saving Certificates" at 15s each repayable n ten years at 20/6d PAY USFOR DEFENDING US!"
In the Evening Post" of February I the Financial olumns contained the following information
So you see, the British Government, for fulfilling its duty to protect the lives and property of its citizens against the enemy, has to borrow at interest from the money lords of England
There was a time, when sanity was characteristic of Catholic Merrie Eng land, and when if war had to be waged, the property owners of England struck levies upon themselves to furnish the King with an army and equipment They never dreamed of charging the King, or the nation, usury for this The thing is monstrous 'NZ Tab let."
AGE OF MARTYRDOM. Ne York
There have been more religious per° secutions with martyrdoms in our gen eration than in any other ten genera° tions" declared Bishop Kelley, of Oklahoma City-Tulsa, when he spoke at St John's University, Brooklyn
PIANO TUNING.
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Thursday, March 28, 1940
Holy Name Society Annual General Meeting DiocesanUnion Oicers
Re-elected Unopposed
The annual general meeting of the Diocesan Union of the Holy Name Societv was held in the Cathedral Hall on Tuesdayevening March 19 and offcers were elected for the ensuing 12 months Delegates were present from most of the branches of the metropoli tan area and Fremantle district and also from several of the country centres
The meeting opened with the usual prayers and the spiritual director then addressed a few words to the delegates, remarking that it was very pleasing to see so many of the spiritual directors of the branches present, When the spiritual directors took such an active interest the continued success of the society was assured he said
The secretary, Mr M Foley, read his annual report and the treasurer'sfinaneial report followed The president, Mr E Le B Henderson, then submitted the resignation of the executive and the election of officers ensued, resulting n the return of all ast year's officers unopposed.
In vacating the chair Mr Henderson paid a tribute to the efficiency and untiring energy of the secretary His tribute was supported by enthusiastic applause from the delegates Mr Henderson also spoke appreciatively of the help and support the society had always been able to rely upon receiving from its spiritual director (Rev Father H Kearin)
There was considerable discussion lateras to the advisability of cancelling the usual quarterly meetings of theDiocesan Union in favour f one annual meeting, but a motion to that effect was defeated
tr THE SECRETARY'S REPORT
Presenting his report of the year's activities, the secretary Mr M Foley) said:
My second ear as secretary is now completed, and, th nks to the interest displayed by His Grace the Archbishop, his priests and you also, gentlemen I hav pleasure in reporting that since our ast annual meeting on March 21, 1939, our society has progressed considerably
During the past year the Diocesan Union has met quarterly, Representation from the metropolitan branches has left a lot to be desired Country branches are notified of all these meetings, so that if anv of their members should be in Perth they could attend
On one occasion Bunbury was represented and on two occasions Northam sent representatives specially for these meetings The metropolitan branches in some cases have failed to be represented at all and in most cases were seldom represented by the number to which they were entitled
At one of these meetings we had the pleasure of a talk by Rev Father Hussey, on what he had seen of the Holy Name Societv in the East The: talk proved to be very nteresting ad had it been possible I would have arranged more talks of a similar nature
Your executives have met monthty, and I am pleased to be able to tell you that they have proved very reliable in the matter of attendances
During the year the first secretary of this Diocesan Union Mr E Brown found it necessary to resign from the position of recording secretary His retirement was due to business duties, and your executives regretted losing his services
Several visits were made during the year to various branches, both to meetngs and to Holy Name functions ,ur executive visited Subiaco, qunas College, Midland Junction South Perth, and Bayswater and representatives attended Communion breakfasts at Leederville, West Perth, and Highgate, and were present at Social evenings in Victoria Park and Nedlands This vear we were not able to accept Northam's invitation on ac° count of other branch functions falling on the same day
Last November Rev Dr Sullivan represented our Archdiocese at a conterence of Spiritual Directors in Melourne, and he reported on the conference at the Diocesan Unions last quarterly meeting This report was ct to everv branch, town and cour'
try, so that you gentlemen present know the recommendations carried there, as you have already discussed them in your own branches
At Aquinas College in October last, there was another large gathering of Holy Name men, and it was interesting to learn of the large representation from the country branches Several country branches arranged transport and made the trip, travellin very many miles It will be the duty of the officers elected to-night to help to make this year's rally even better
During the year the society has lost 26 members by death May their souls rest in peace
Branches were all circularised and were asked to pray for the repose of their souls All branches alsoreceived a small supply of bereavement cards from branches to relativesshowing on them the date that Mass was being said for the repose of their souls Their names were shown in "The Record" and were included in the In Memoriam list published each month in the Holy Name Monthly
In this matter I have some complaints to make about the branch secretaries Mention was made at these meetings that these In Memoriam cards would be sent each month to all branches, and that secretaries, as soon as a death occurred of one of the members of their branch would write immediately and notify me Some secretaries have responded and have been most reliable, but when I tell you that, if I had not seen the death notices of severa! members in the columns of the daily newspaper I would never have been able to have had their souls prayed for in all branches, you can see that there will need to be some improvement in this matter this coming year I hope delegates will take this matter back to their branches, as it is an important part of our society's work, Perhaps several branch secretaries will say they did not know of my request. If they attended these meetings they would have known If they did not attend their delegates should have reported the business of these meetings
The system of transferring members has not functioned at all well This is due to several reasons The main reason is that members just leave a branch and reside in another parish and fail to notify their prefect When that occurs, of course, it is difficult to send a transfer form In some cases transfers have been sent out and the branch concerned has failed to bother about locating their new member and introducing him to their members For tunately that has not happened very often However, in an effort to overcome these difficulties, I have taken over the exchange of transfers This is the procedure adopted: If a member leaves a branch the secretary forwards me a transfer form I record the transfer and forward it on to the banch concerned and ask him to notify me when he has met the member, so that I can confirm it. With a few exceptions this seems to be working well, The few exceptions are when I fail to get a reply to my letter
To do this, it became necessary to compile a Diocesan Register, and branches were asked bv November last to supply me with a ist of their members' names and addresses So far about 20 branches need to comply with my request and I can then endeavour to complete the Diocesan Register I mention these matters to-night because it is our annual meeting, and because, if this society is to progress, I feel it is certain that there will need to be more attention paid to the administrative work of the societv so that there will be absolute co-operation between all concerned If that is attained, I feel that our societv will never lookback
In March, 1939 our membership was as follows: Metropolitan, 2,120: goldfelds, 228; country, 359a total of 2,707 members Today they are: Metropolitan, 2,158; goldfelds, 256; country 513a total of 2,927 members In the Archdiocese of Perth there were 27 metropolitan branches and 11 goldfelds and country branches, 38 in ell To-dav thev are as follow,· 31 [ metropolitaj and,I go"f Ms'-a try, 4 in p'I e is-se in
membership, you might say, is not in proportion to the increase in branches
The reason is that branches have found that several members have failed to comply with the conditions of the society Their fervour has not proved lasting, and they, of course, are no longer members Several, in fact verv many, members have transferred to parishes outside the Archdiocese These members of course are no longer included in this Diocesan Union Again, many members have gone to parishes where there are no Holy Name branches, and, of course, many of our members have joined the Air Force and the Second AIF Summed up, I feel sure that our membership has kept up very well
Twelve months ago, the attendance figures given to you were: Hly Communion 722 per cent; evening meeting 54 per cent Tonight they are somewhat similar Over the past year our average attendances were: Holy Communion, 72 per cent; evening meeting, 51 per cent Somehow I hoped there would have been an improvement, but that will be something to look forward to in the future
Once again I have to complain about the apathy of branch secretaries in this matter Time and time again I have asked for some co-operation in this matter, and I have not yet received it Many of the secretaries have been most prompt and very regular, and I thank them for their courtesv., M work as your secretarv has become very heavy, and as more branches are formed it will become heavier I do not object to that, but when the apathy of some branch secretaries makes the work harder in as much as working on a monthly basis I have my records kept incomplete month after month, I consider I have every-right to protest My calls on branch secretaries are very, very small, and I reel very disappointed that my continuous appeals in this direction have not produced better results
In conclusion, I would ike to thank our Diocesan Spiritual Director Rev
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Father Kearin, for his ever readv assistance and advice which he has always given me To our president Mr E Le B Henderson I am very much indebted for his kindness and assistance so frequently given Day and night Mr Henderson has always attended to any matter that I found necessary to refer to him He has always been ready to make executive visits when called upon, and has always placed his car at our disposal when visiting branches
To "The Record'' and the staff our society owes a debt of gratitude, They have through their columns assisted us greatly and have been most generous in this manner
To the Holy Name Monthly and Rev Father McEvoy, our National Spiritual Director, we are indebted greatly also The Holy Name Monthly publishes a lot of WA news and Father McEvoy takes a verv keen interest in our society here
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PAPAL NUNCIO MAY GO TO GERMAN POLAND TO REPORT ON SITUATION
London It is now confirmed in well-informed Vatican circles, says "The Times," that the reason for the two conversations which Archbishop Orsenigo, Papal Nuncio in Berlin, has had with the Director-General of the German Ministry of Foreign Affairs was to endeavour to arrange a visit of the Nuncio to German-occupied Poland in order that he might personally investigate the situation of the Catholic Church there.
The outcome of the onversations is understood to have been satisfactory and it is believed that the departure of the Nuncio for Poland will not be long delayed
The decision of the Vatican to approach the Reich Government about the religious situation in Poland was taken at a recent meeting of the Congregation of Extraordinary Ecclesiastical Affairs, adds "The Times"
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PERTH THURSDAY, MARCH 28 1940
Repression or Reform?
The Easter Conference of the New South Wales State Labour movement has galvanised political circles in Australia by its resolutons regarding "hands off Russia" and its anti-war policy The rime Minister, in strong condemnation of these opinions, said that it was a tragic thing that the history of the Australian Labour Party's war policy had een one of steady disintegration: He might have said with truth that it was an even sadder thing that the Labour movement itself was in process of disintegration When war broke out our eaders very piously said that we were at war with the German people in as much as they had permitted themselves to be subjugated by the Nazi regime But in our own midst the Labour movement which alone has ever had a genuine interest in the economic and political rights of the masses, has permitted itself to e dominated by a militant minority clique directly controlled from Moscow But even more execrable has been the calamitous policy of such governments as Mr Menzies', who while claiming to represent national interests have concentrated exclusively on the protection of the anonymous financial lords, and have permitted the growth of subversive movements like a cancer in the heart of the nation.
The Labour movement has been undermined chiefly through the Trade Unions, where Communists (either oficially incorporated into the Party, or in open sympathy with it) have succeeded in capturing the key positions in all the important unions And almost of equal importance is the betrayal of Labour by its intellectuals It was a sad day for Labour when its directive and energising power passed from the robust working-class leaders of the pre-war period to the anaemic intellectuals of to-day, drawn n most part from the sons of pioneers but enervated by all the pernicious features of higher education and by ambitions to compete in the white-collar jobs So in the schools, the Universities, and what ever passes for cultural circles, the workers have been sold for thirty pieces or less of Russian gold The noble if misguided, idealism of the early socialists has been replaced with a feverish fanaticism which amounts in practice to a snivelling adoration of the Soviet and all its works It s rightly called fanaticism, because it manifests all that disregard of reason and right judgment in regard to the most patent historical facts of the inhumanity of domestic affairs within Russia, and still more of the Godless crusade against every divin'e and human element in Western civilisation
The blighting effects of such leadership on the thought and judgment of the masses was most painfully evinced by the way in which they were duped by that unique conspiracy of all historythe Spanish War For years they had been prepared by their acquiescence in a hundred and one Communist stunts They cried out vigorously against War and Fascism, and as the party line changed they were in the front ranks bellowing for Peace and Democracy They fell for the Trojan horse, for the outstretched hand, for the Popular Front Of course, all their instincts should have warned them when they saw their intellectuals in alliance with the Capitalist press over events n Spain, but always they were more sinned against than sinning However, despite the number and enormity of errors of judgment in recent years the heart of the Labour movement is sound and the rude shock that has come from the New South Wales movement mav serve to awaken the rank and file to the traitors within The disconcerting feature of the eagerness for a purge lies in the query, "Is it too late?" The same may be said of the attitude of the Federal Cabinet, which in the shock of the moment can think only of negative and repressive measures Their culpability and that of the nterests for which they stand (which are certainly not national interests) s double-dyed. Firstly, because they have been in a position to know the true facts, and secondly, to take effective action in time They have failed the people miserablv And the horror of it all is that the blood will not be on their heads alone but on those of their children
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In all this welter of error and gross omission the Catholic Press of this country has the consolation of knowing that it has not failed either in a religious or n a national sense For years past t has warned the people of Australia of the nature of Communism, and of its impenetration into the national life t has been a thankless task for, even from our own anks, we have been accused of obsessional preoccupation in the matter, and even of witch-hunting. The initiative, of course, was not ours, ut came from the vigilant Father of Christendom It is small satisfaction, however, that events have proved our justification, if that realisation has come too late In any case, we repeat that no repressive mneasure of itself will eliminate the Red scourge for, however wrong Commurism s, its origin, its growth, and its strength are due entirely to the iniquities and injustices of the Capitalist system Men become Red because they are hungry or workless Hence we will eliminate Communism only by eliminating social injustice and oppression But, unhappily, of this radical approach to the prob'em there is not the slightest evidence on the part of our politicians Indeed, the motto which the Prime Minister gave the nation on the outbreak of war was "Business as usual! Ii this is the cause for which we fight we are beaten before we begin Social justice must be restored primarily through the immediate alleviation of the poor and the unemployed, the improvement of wages and conditions f work, and ultimately, if we seek national stability and great@ess, the restoration of property
Thursday, March 28, 1940
Objectionable Illustrations
The patrons of wireless in this State must have been shocked and pained immeasurably by certain illustratirs which appeared in the wireless programme for Good Friday as published by "The Broadcaster" of March 16-23 It is apparently customary in this publication to illustrate various features by appropriate illustrations These are usually of a humorous turn and are well executed But it is indeed a perverted sense of humour which caused the Crucifixion music of Sir John Stainer to be illustrated by a most objectionable caricature of a clergyman with his hand upraised in a gesture always associated in Catholic minds with the blessing of the Holy Father In progressive profanity and bad taste was the illus tration accompanying the Passion A Hollywood embrace was the epitome of an egregiously distorted sense of humour, nd, if the person responsible were a Christian, might have been hailed as approaching the blasphemous Again, the item "When I survey he wondrous Cross" had above it a man peering through a telescope One might readily believe that one of these illustrations had crept in inadvertently, and was in the nature of a fill-up, and one would hesitate to read into the event more than it might have actually been intended to contain, but three such instancs indicate something more than a co-incidence, and are extremely objectionable to Chri tians of all denominations We feel it is not asking too much of "The Broadcaster' to offer the public some adequate explanation of this extraordinary exhibitionism
The Rev J J Rafferty has been appointed Diocesan Director of the Pontifical Mission \id Societies
Rev E McBride has been appointed locum tenens to the Bedford Park-Bayswater parish during the absence of Rev E Sullivan, D D , D Ph who will be leaving shortly for overseas as chaplain to the Convalescent Depot of the 2nd A I F
Apostolic
Programme
Archbishop's Engagements
March 31: 8 a m , celebrate Mass at St Mary's Cathedral, for members of the Newman octy
730 p m : Dedicate new Chapel at Rdemptorist Monastery, North Perth.
\pril 7: Bless extension to Christian Brothers' School Kalgoorlie
\pril 14: Apostolic Delegate's visit
April 21: Canonical visita ion and Confirmation at St columba's South Perth
Delegate's Visit
in His Excellency's Honour
His Excellency the Apostolic Delegate Most Rev John Panico, S T D , will visit this State in April Following his return from New Zealand, he will go to Adelaide for the consecration of the new Archbishop of that See, and will then come on to Perth to pay the Archdiocese the visit which he was to have made last year
Below is the programme which has been arranged in his honour:
Programme
Saturday, April 133Evening: Ar- Monday, April 1510 a m Solrive Perth by air emn High Mass for children in Sunday, April 141l am : Litur- St Mary's Cathedral His Exgcal Reception n St Mary's cellency the Apostolic DeleCathedral Pontifical High gate will preside and deliver-a Mass, at which His Excellency short address to the children the Apostolic Delegate will pre- 2 p m : Leave for New Norcia side by car 7 30 p m : Holy Name Men's At the express desire of His ExDemonstration n St Mary's cellency, no public or civil funcCathedral Solemn Pontifical tion will mark his visit Owing to Compline Sermon by Rev the gravity of the times, the Apos° Father McLoughlin, C SS R tolic Delegate wishes that only Pontifical Benediction y the liturgical celebrations shall be Apostolic Delegate held
Cathedral Parish
Catholic Women's League (Cathedral Branch)
Members are requested to keep the first Monday of each month free to attend the branch meetings
Our next meeting will be at 8 o'clock at the Cathedral Hall, on April 1 Will all members and intending members endeavour to be present, There are several items of important business including the nominations for officers to the general council which must be finalised on that night
The president and committee appeal to the women of the Cathedral Parish,
old and young rich and poor, to join our branch As Catholic women it is your opportunity to exercise you influence 1r welfare, social and national affairs (subject to ecclesiastical direc tion), nd you know "Unity is Strength,'' and there is work in some capacity in which each can take a part
After the business meeting a social evening cards, games and compet: tions will take place
In our annual report, which was read at our last meeting, the following is recorded: 'The thanks of the branch are due to the personnel of The Record for publishing items connected with the branch'
Official Organ of the Archdiocese of Perth
Thursday, March 28, 1940
HOLY WEEK AT THE CATHEDRAL
Full Liturgical Ceremonies
CHE week before Ea::iter, nu\\ commonly called l Holy Week, is not only the most sacred time of the year liturgically; it also forms an exception to the normal course of Church functions in many ways In fact these great days stand out from all the rest oi the year, with their rites unlike anything we are accustomed to see in church It is true that some of the services as for instance, Mass on Palm Sunday and Maundy Thursday are not very different from Mass on other days, but even they have noticeable peculiarities; other services, such as those on Good Friday and Holy Saturday morning, are quite unlike anything else To the student of liturgy those days, above all others, were full of interest
Holy Week is part of the same feast as Easter Week following The whole fortnight from Palm Sunday to Low Sunday must be regarded as one event It makes up the "paschala solemnia" in which we remember each year our redemption by the Passion, Deati and Resurrection of Christ Yet MAUNDY THURSDAY
some of the most beautiful, as was instanced by the singing of the Tenebrae Factae Sunt" by St Cecilia's hoir on the three nights of Tenebrae, and by the chanting of the psalms and the responses
spread one linen cloth upon the stripped altar The priest then rose, mounted to the altar, and the ceremonies proceeded The main functions of the ceremonies are the singing of the Passion, adoration of the Cross, and the consuming of the Sacred Host which is brought in procession from the Altar of Repose
A most impressive part of the cere mony was the singing of the reproaches during the veneration of the Cross by the clergy
The words of the reproaches present the grief of Our Lord as if spoken by Himself The responses were sung by the bovs of the Cathedral Choir and St Cecilia's Choir singing alterntely, one in Latin and the other in Greek, to represent all the Christians of the world, Loth the Western and the Eastern Church The choirs were placed in the Sacred Heart Chapel and the St Therese Chapel, respectively In the afternoon many devout Catholics attended the St: tions of the Cross in the Cathe-
PALM SUNDAY
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Of Hole ly ena dral, and the urgical obse plaintive bea greatly heig the central who were monies commence Church cor Christ ro Jerusalem poignant called as walked in of the Ca palms an closed doo Gospel st Jews wele Palm Sun of the Cro which is minds of chanting ing to St rapidly on t nesdav, whe chanted bv
Tenebrae is a rem r whi though it is merly the public r tion of Matins anl Lauds for the lowing day whih the priest y in private everv dav and strictly ench sed Orders chant in choir at various times during the night, it is strange in the eyes of most lay people. The strange ness of the ceremonv s associated with
the gradual darkening of the lights, leaving the church at last in total darkness though the two weeks are one event they are directly opposite to one another in feeling Holy Week s the time of mourning, the saddest week f the year; tie Easter octave th me st joyful �
The actual origin and purpose of this ancient ceremony is unknown and some commentators believe that it was originally merely a practical expedient; that as Lauds were chanted just before dawn, th Church would have gradually become lighter and the candles were extinguished, one by ne as thev ceased to be necessary
Whatever the origin, the darkness has now come to be an expression of mournng-
For the rest, the Office of Tenebrae wes simple, and vet one of the most dignified and moving ceremonies of the Church the musi associated with it,
Th ceremonies of Maundy Thursday received their name from the Mandatum the ceremony f washing the feet, whose first antiphon begins Manda tum novun vobis"
The cere began with the solemn :. Tis Grace the Archbishop. of the vestments was white ugh in the middle of ti nourning, the Church cannot f at this was the day on whic toly Eucharist was given to a festal Mass and yet the dav was mournful and he rmembrance of the be la. fical High Mass His Holy Oils At ere consecrated, d in a 'second the Altar of
Rep ·e after the Mass, there to remaun until th Mass of the Pre-Sanctified on G »d Friday The Proper and the Ordinary f the Mass were sung by the Priests' hoir, and as on Holy Saturdav the bells were rung while the celebrant recited the Gloria, which was hen sung by the boys of the Cathedral hoir accompanied by the organ This w the only occasion in Holy Week when the organ was played, except during the procession to the Altar of Repose, and for the antiphons during the procession of the Holy Oils
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GOOD FRIDAY
In the solemn functions of Good Friday, and especially in the Mass of the Pre-Sanctified, the very strangeness of the rites utterly unlike any others conveved at once the feeling that this was a dav different from any other day
Those present in the Cathedral on Good Friday morning must have realised that probably at no+other moment in the Church's year does She succeed in producing the right impression so perfectly as She does in this ceremony
The procession coming to the altar in dead silence the prostration before the altar then the Lessons the series of Collects with their strange chant, all tend to produce a sense of desolation, of mourning, such a's no other service in the year approaches Whoever entered a Catholic Church on that morning no matter how ignorant of ts doctrines and ceremonies, could not fail to understand that this was indeed a day of mourning, or the reason for that mourning The celebrant deacon and sub-deacon, wearing black vestments and with out the festal accompaniments of lights or incense, approached the altar' and prostrated themselves in silent prayer pon the steps. Meanwhile an acolyte
dral. The Stations were preached by Rev Father Weldon, 0 M I, and at the conclusion of the Stations the veneration of the 'ross was conducted
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HOLY SATURDAY
The service of H y Saturda morn ing was originally compsed to be held during the night between Saturday and Sundav It is probably the fact that ur Holy Saturday Offie ends with Mass that has caused it t be pushed back that it is now clbrated about twelve hours before the proper time
In this service we have the one remaining example of the old vigils that Christians kept before great feasts. The long service, longer than any that is usually seen in the Cathlic hurch, was divided into five main parts, the blessing of the Easter Fire outside the church doors and of the Paschal Candle, the chanting of the prophecies, the Blessing of the Font, the Litanies, and the First Ester Mass
There is no office f' th hurch now existing hich preserves such clear traces of antiquity as does this The whole of this ceremony was sung in liturgical chant • D-jests' Choir After the celebrant intoned the first Gloria of Easter, the organ pealed, the church bells were rung, and thus was nnounced the end of Lent and the beginning of the festive seasn
EASTER SUNDAY
The anticipatory joy of the Church over the Resurrection of Christ Her Divine Spouse, which breaks forth in the Mass of Holy Saturday, reaches its full-tide in the Solemn Pontifical Mass of Easter Sundav The bare altar of Good Friday is now lavishly decked
The Archbishop and clergy entered the Cathedral in procession in splendid vestments, to the accompaniment of Perosis magnificent 'Ecce Sacerdos Magnus," in six parts exquisitely rendered bv St Cecilia's Choir and the Cathedral Boys' Choir AI the beauty and pomp of the Roman rite was employed in the ceremonial to impress upon the minds of the people that this vas indeed the day which the Lord has made The stately dignified action of the Mass was heightened by the nobilitv and reverence of Perosi's 'Missa Pontificalis" 1 and at the Offertory was recalled the part of Our Lady in the Redemptive Sacrifice of her Son Queen of Heaven," sings the choir, Rejoice, rejoice For He whom thou wast meet to bear has as He said risen from the dead Alleluia°'
Again in the evening was Pontifical Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament, givn by His Grace the Archbishop The beautiful Easter hymn the Benediction music by Perosi, and from the traditional French melodies, culminating in the final rapture of Handel's Hallelujah Chorus, filled the heart and the mind with the wonder and joy the gre. test thing in the history of mankind and in the 'hurch's undying memorv of it all
DEATHS
MALONE -On March 14 1940, at En nistymon, Co. Clare, Ireland, Mary beloved wife of Martin Malone, loving mother of Mrs. Wise (Kalgoorlie' Mrs Whitely (Perth) Ellie (deeas D» Bill and Annie (Ireland) Let prpetual light shine upon her, and may she rest in peace
PERRET-On March 17, at St. John ' God Hospital, Belmont, Auguste, ving brother of Colonel and Inspector Perret, of France RIP with iragrant flowers and myriad lights
IN MEMORIAM
ASEY In loving memory of our dear husband and father, who passed away April 2, 1938 R I.P Sacred Heart of Jesus have mercy on his soul, Inserted by his loving wife and son
ONDUN-Sacred to the memory of a loving husband and father, Stephen Condon, who died on March 28, 1939 Sweet Jesus have mercy on his soul Inserted by his loved ones
THORNTON Of your charity, pray for the repose of the soul of Ellen Lydia Thornton who died on March 31 1937 On whose soul Sweet Jesus have mercy Inserted by her loving husband and family, Boulder City
Social Justice Sunday Founded
ANNUAL OBSERVANCE THROUGHOUT AUSTRALIA
Acting on the suggestion of the Episcopal Sub-Committee of Catholic Action, and with the cordial approval of His Excellency the Apostolic Delegate, the Hierarchy of Australia and New Zealand- -ever anxious to promote Catholic Action and Social Justice-have decided to set aside a Sunday in each year on which the principles of Catholic Social Reform will be brought directly before the people of these countries
' The precise form of the observance »f Social Justice Snnday in the various dioceses will depend on the Bishop
In the Archdiocese of Perth it has been decided to observe Social Justice Sunday on May 5, the Sunday before Labour Day
Full details concerning the manner in which the Sunday will be observed in the Archdiocese will be announced in a ':ter issue of The Record " The dea of Social Justice Sunday has been welcomed with great enthusiasm by Catholic workers, while Catholic Actionists engaged in the social apostolate see in it the beginnings oi the Semaine Sociale which has done so much to spread the light of Catholic social teaching in France and Belgium
ST. PATRICK'S CONCERT.
A delightful programme of Irish airs rendered by leading goldfields artists and pupils of Christian Brothers' Col lege St Joseph's Convent St Mary's Convent, and Convent of Merey, was enthusiastically received by a crowded house at the annual St Patricks concert held in the Boulder Town Hall Striking tableaux presented by St Joseph's and St Mary's Convents were outstanding features of the concert Colourful and deeply symbolic, the spiritual and artistic values of the tableaux were appreciated by the audience
The outstanding item of th evening was Miss Teresa Brennan's sympathetic rendering of The Green Fields of Ireland"' and The Pipe Over the Way," which earned tumultuous applause A vocal quartet Messrs J Redpath, E Bray Mrs M Coombes and Miss M Everett, revealed delicate shades of harmony in singing "Hail, Smiling Morn" and Going Home" Other outstanding items were a duet by Miss M Everett and Mr J Redpath "In the Merry Month of May;" Mr A Wad dell singing "Sweet Asthore" in a rich tenor; a duet, "Kathleen Mavourneen'' sweetly rendered by Miss Madge Stinson and Mr F Stinson, and violin solos by Mr Curtiss and Miss L Burwash Popular Irish airs presented by the Convent of Mercy Orchestra and the CB C Choir were well received Miss D White struck a chord of sympathy when she delightfully recited "The Bush Christening" Miss K Sullivan's rendering of "When Irish Eyes Are Smiling'' and Mr F Ardagh's Colleen awn '' earned well merited applause
The items rendered by our youthful artists, Masters J Teahan and J McGinty were very much appreciated St Patrick's Day Celebration Committee wish to thank very sincerely all the artists and workers who made the sports and concert this year an undoubted success They thank also all those vho patronised these functions All Hallows' Tennis Club Members are reminded that the Goldfields pennants competition will start on Sunday, April 7. New playersjoining our club recently include Misses O Ruane, D Keane C Robinson, M Robinson. and N Bell
J0SEP EDWARDS FBAS SECRETARY land, Estate and General Commission Agent Agent for Absentees and Investors Mortgages Arranged, Rents and Interest Collected Secretarial Work Undertaken MISS MARY EDWARDS, For Typing and Duplicating West Astrelin Chambers, (First Floor) St George's Terrace Next to Palace Hotel) Tel: B7804
St Patrick's Ball was held on March 14 (Bunbury Cup night) at the Bedford Hall Incidentallv it was the hottest night of the year In spite of this good patronage was extended to the function, and it was gratifying to see a larger proportion of Catholice than are usually present The ladies' committee spored no pains in their duties and were well rewarded with the compliments of those patrons who saw ani partook of the delectable supper so tastefully aid and provided The see° retary and organiser Mr Ted Brown, saw to the smooth and efficient running of the programme in the dancing hall Although the intense heat affected the attendance, a very enjoyable evening's dancing eventuated More than three hundred people were present, thus ensuring a satisfactory financial result
St Patrick's Tennis Club
The club celebrated St Patrick's Day by holding their first general Communion and breakfast Rt Rev Monsignor Hayes complimented the members on their attendance This was the first time to his knowledge that a Communion breakfast had been held by any club of the Association, and he hoped that'it would become an annual event He also thanked the president Mr J King for the very enthusiastic way he had worked for the club during the season
Sunday Masses St Patrick's Church 7 and 930 am
HARVEY
MASS TIME TABLE.
March 31· Harvey 8 am ; Waroona 10 a m ' April 7· Harvey, 8 a m ; Yarloop 10 am April I4: Waroona, 8 30 am; Harvey 10 am
April 21 Yarloop am: Harvey, 10 am
April 28: Harvey 8 am: Waroona, 10 am
NARROGIN
MASS TIME TABLE
March 31: Narrogin 8 am.: Wandering 10 30 am
April 7: Narrogin, 8 am ; Yearling, l a m April 14: Wickepin, 8 30 am; Narrogin, 10 30 am April 21: Narrogin 8 am; Yilliminning 9 30 a m April 28 Cuballing, 8.30 am; Narrogin, 10 30 am
Pinjarra Mass Time-Table
March 31: Dwellingup 8 am; No 2 Mill, 10 am
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Brigid, Farmer
ALICE CURTAYNE, Noted Irish
Biographer of 'Mary of the Gael,'' says in this delightful article: "Every Irish farm i: in a sense, her Shrine"
B0TH legemb and authentic Lives of Saint Brigid are marked by the. charming pastoral character She 1 clways represented with the open sky and the fields as her unchanging background Cattle and sheep foxes and wild fowl also were her familiars
The Irish Life, preserved in the "Leabar Breae,'' describing how Saint Brendan, the Navigator, visited her, draws in one line a picture of Arcadian beauty and simplicity: She came from her sheep to welcome Brendan''
It is remarkable that both in her girlhood and throughout her career as Mother Abbess of all the nuns of Ireland, she was never dissociated from farm work
CATHOLIC TENNIS ASSOCIATION
By "RON St
Shield Competitions
The inter-club shield competitions will commence on April 20 and 21, respectively, and will continue three-weekly In the womens section he teams will play in two divisions, the A and C grade on one Saturday, and the and D the following week All matches this year will be of 16 sets The number of teams entering together with entry fees and club's grading lists, must be in the hands of the secretary (Mr J T Edwards) by Monday April ], at 5 pm
Association Ball. This year's Association Ball will take place at Anzac House on Friday; June
The price of admission will be 6s each Further details will be available later
Social Evening Association members are urged to keep Friday, May I7, free, for on that evening the social committee will conduet a dance in the Stirling Social Rooms Many details are now being arranged and these will be announcd later
Jottings
It was pleasing to note that our Assceiation was well represented in the st:te tennis championships recently conducted at King's Park Miss Joyce Wood, the leading' woman player in the Victorian Catho!ic Tennis Association, and Australian junior girls' singles and doubles champion, is at present with us in Perth She per formed creditably in the State championships at King's Park, capturing the womens singles and doubles titles and was runner-up in the mixed doubles
The WACLTA congratulates Miss Wood on these successes, and wishes her further success n her ruture contests
The next meeting of the social cmmittee will be held in Bacton House on Friday, April 12
The assertion of her fminine leader ship made no difference to her in that respect: she was an outdoor woman from first to last When Saint Bren dan called on her, she was at the pinnacle of her fame, yet she still had the same preoccupations with sheep and ambs with milking cows and making butter and cheese
When the harvest was being gathr ed in off the fields around her convert settlement she supervised the reapers from dawn to sunset; she remained out under downpours and came in gaily with her grments saturated; truant sunbeams frolic around her veiled head; the colourful are of the rainbow is behind her
Saint of the Irish Farm.
Thus she is supremely the saint of agricultural life Every Irish farm ; in a certain sense her shrine She s the presiding genius of rural homesteads; the tutelary spirit of meadows and gardens
But she is a stranger within the iron gates of industrial cities, and rural peo ple who have voluntarily entered that stifling imprisonment give her a nostalgice worship as part of their abandoned inheritance
Her feast-day then is fitly placed at the opening of the sowing season, at the return of spring with its unvarying message of patience and hope Two thoughts came to me recently when remembering with gratitude the strong emphasis placed on husbandry by our national saint
In the Book of Lismore
One is a statement about her in the Book of Lismore"which superficial readers of to-day might consider contradictory "For the comradeship of the world's sons of reading is with Brigid" In seeing her at her farm work one must remember that she was also the chief 'intellectual'' nspiration of her day, the leader of a recognised school of mystics joint ruler of a famous school tireless promoter of art and learning, who fostered culture with the same ardour that she applied to pastoral purstuts
The second thought arises 'rom that rather well-worn story of the bouring boy, Owen Roe O'Sullivan, who threw down his spade in order to explain a Greek passage to his master': son, who was baffled by it although but jut re turned from a, French college
The Gaelic tradition derived dr ly from Celtic Christianity thus insisted that culture might be literally n ce ed in cowsheds and that the rayplastered ploughman s not necessarily a lout. Brigid persistently asociated words that have since been falsely dissevered in the artificial language of industrialism She was the shepherdess with learning, the cowherd with culture, the field-labourer with a passionate interest in art and letters the dairvmaid who was an intellectual guide
The Gateway of Our History
She stands at the opening of all our history Her dominant figure cannot be evaded And yet how the great tradition she gave us is persistently betrayed to-day by some of the most eager promoters of Gelic and Christian practice !
Was there ever an age when the land of Ireland was rendered so much lip-service, while being at the same time so persistently disparaged, so tactly ignored except as a convenient source of taxation?
St Joachim's Branch
At the meeting held on March 18, Bro G Keogh presided and nitiated one ew member We extend our sinere sympathy to Bro. J Whitely and family in their sad bereavement Members are reminded that the card cm petition will commence after the next meeting on Rpril 1
Chesterton Club
LECTURES ARRANGED.
April 3: Mr Fred Burke will speak on Irish Music
April 10: Mr John Antoine will present a film evening
CHINA'S WANDERING SEMINARISTS
Sianyang, China.
The Sino-Japanese war has caused Chinese seminarists to become wanderers Several have been forced to c rate their sminaries Sianyang's tu:dents whose major seminary is in lank w have moved three times
Agriculture is despised to-day by this country's legislation and relegated to a position of inferiority by nearly two decades of governmental policy
Men engaged in the mad dance of industrial expansion or absorbed in maintaining a colossal civil service machine, or blowing patriotic bubbles, shed crocodile tears over the flight from the land, but when the last remnant of the battered army of land-workers ask for the bread of freedom to save themselves, they offer them instead the stone of "scientific instruction"!
From men's ignorance, folly and blindness, Saint Brigid deliver us! May she lead us back to her own truth, her simplicity and her peace -The Stan dard"
Thursday, March 28, 1940.
eAt Length Comes Recognition of World's <Debt to Eire
ASSOCIATION
Easter Day Commemoration
Are We Tending to Think Less of Our Inheritance ?
FOR(Contributed to "The Southern Cross" by a well-known scholar and educationist the following article is both timely and provocative): and is itself tinged by individual, local and national colouring Hence it Is that each nation has its own religious traditions
nineteen hundred years the Catholic Church has been battling every conceivable foe Sometimes the enemy came from within, from people in high places entrusted with her most sacred treasures, sometimes from without from people equipped with the most powerful material resources. (en turv after century, age after age, saw her apparently dead and buried. How often has her epitaph been wntten'
Yet in some strange unseen way the guards placed around her tomb were startled by an apparition and she rose up again glorious and immortal, her bodv transfigured with a ne life and her raiment shining white as snow
When during the last war in Europe scoffers had insinuated that the Catholic Church had ben tried and found wanting a lesson was taught them that ought not t be forgtten Freemasonry and pseudo-science had instilled into the minds of the French vouth that the atholie hurch was their enemy
But who lined th ches? Who show d the greatest courage n France's hour 1? Who won the greatest prais an atheistical and hostile pre it not the exiled clergy and the Nuns who had been banished by 'ombs, Viviani, and their brotner infidels wh had boasted that the had put ut the lights of Heaven
When the t ri had been reached, when 'ver nerv was strained to the utmost, when th destinies of France were hanging in the balance, the French and allied armies experienced the strange n: ·tion of being placed n the abs lute control of a general who was t be seen morning after morning receiving Holy C mmunion, and who told th little children that he required their prayers for his success Lying propaandists have tried to chloroform p pi int forgetting this alutarv lesson
To-dav when th tocsin f war has again sounded, when the strength courage and patriotism f ·very zen are needed r victorv w again our front trnche lined by Ca° tholic bovs and men, ur warships in charge of Catholic cmmanders who are not ash:med t profess openly their faith in Christ and in His Church; we find the first knighthood of the war being bestowd on a Catholic, Sir Henry Harwo1, K.C M. for the 'incredible audacity he displayed in leading three British ·ruisers against the German po ket attle ship, Graf Spee Here, then, i: mething t make our hearts beat faster mthing to strike the chord divine within us, to make us feel a glorious pr: ·tical pride in our religion, in our hurch
And to whom d we owe it that we are member o1 the Mystical Body of Christ? Who has preserved for us through the ages of fierce persecution this glorious Faith, which makes us susceptible t the divinest radio messages ever heard? Who has carried this Faith to the ends of the earth?
Nations like individuals have their own tempermonts, their own characters. their own outlook on life Religion enters more r less largely into the complxity of life both of the individual and of the nation It tinges
ARTHUR J PURSLOWE G
With the recent improvement in historical research, and coincident with the destruction of the paper wall that shrouded the truth, the world of thught stands in amazement at the wonderful achievements of the Catholie Church in Ireland. That small little island hidden away in the Western ocean, is at last beginning to get tardy recognition of the immense debt due t her bv every nation in Europe
When the Roman Empire was destroved, when the invading hordes of uncultured savages had devastated practically every vestige of civilisation in Western Europe when Hun and Vandal and Goth and Vizigoth had obliterated almost every trace of learning and religion, it was Irisn monks and Irish teachers that rekindled the light of faith and carried the torch of knowledge into Fran and Belgium and Germany and Switzerland and Italv
There is scarcely an altar in those countries that does not enshrine a relic cf an Irish saint
When Augustine had failed to civilise the savage inhabitants of England Irish monks had to tke the difficult task in hand Nt nly did they preach and teach them in their own land, but they gnerously set aside in mt f thir monasteries in Ireland a ertain portion to b ocupied by the Saxon: where thev res ved free lodgings, free books, and fre education We al' know how the debt was paid Moist us Catholi Australia are the d vcendants » those who belonged to a nation famous in history
The Irish Association of W A held their annual St Patrick's celebrations in their rooms 90 Kingstreet Perth n Saturday, March 16 The rooms suitably decorated by the lady members of the Association, were crowded with a representative gathering of the Irish people of Perth and surrounding districts, who, in common with other members of the Irish race in every part of the civilised world, unite in paying tribute to Ireland's Patron Saint The programme, which was confined to vocal and instrumental items and Irish step dancing, was thoroughly appreciated by all those present B Dohertv was heard t advantage in his rendering oi The West's Awake " Mr Evans was loudly applauded in that old Irish favourite "Little Town in the Ould Countv Down" and gave as an encore "The Roe of Tralee" Miss Mulcahy, who has won prizes in several Irish step dancing competitions charmed the audience with an Irish jig and hornpipe The pupils of Miss Peggy Esler well known teacher of step dancing gave a brilliant exhibition of an Irish eight-hand ree Other artists who contributed to the success of the evening were Master Mulcahy in vocal items, and Mr U Tomsett with violin solos. The rest of the evening was devoted to dancing, Mrs Mulcahy and Mr B Barnard providing the music
During th interval the president M" Devine, gave an address on St Patrick that great ap stle wh intrudueed 'hristianity to Ireland in the 5th entury Religion and culture were imparted to the people of Ireland by St Patrick the seat: of learning established there attracted students irom all ver Eurpe, wh returning to their native land, were instrumental in giving t Ireland the name The Island f Saints and Scholars." Not only was he responsible for introducing the Christian faith in Ireland, but through the Irish people, who lung to their aith through vears ppression and when forcd t le ve their nativ shores, spread that faith in the land of their adoption, he an justly be lled the Apostle of the World
BABY PRINCESS GIVEN NINE NAMES AT BAPTISM
Rome
Let us earn of the debt Europe owes to Ireldnd; let us read the wonderful stor· f Columbanus setting out across France founding monastery after mon A very enjoyable evening was brought astery, settling down in Luxeuil, at- to a close by the singing of A Soltracting rich and poor to what was dier's Song' ormerly a howling wilderness, fighting for principle leaving his favourit monasterv rather than, bend or compromise, setting out for Switzerland placing St Gall in charge of a new sch ! there, trudging along his w~ary iournev to the Alps, clearing the way n the mountain side for a ew school nd founding his famous Bobbio.
Let us learn of Virgilius, who was the first astronomer to teach the sphericity of the earth; let us follow St Brendan in his little boat from Kerry across the wild Atlantic; let us walk in the footsteps of the Irish saint who travelled along banks of the Nile, reached as far as the Pvramids of Egypt and returned to Europe with most exact scientific knowledge Let us go in spirit to the University of Paris, stand in an audience listening to an Irish teacher, and be proud of the fact that he and he alone in all France can translate a Greek book which the King of France has received as a present
When we hear of Cambridge examinations let us not forget that it was an old Irish monk that built a school en the banks of the River Cana and laid the foundations of Cambridge University
Let us remember the well-established fact that in the I0th. century everyone who was recognised as a Greek scholar was either an Irishman or the Cheapest in WA for all Hardware pupil of an Irish teacher and Paints. Hassel!'s Stores, 559 Wel Are we tending to be less proud of lington Street, Peth our Irish ancestry? Sometimes we forget that we are the descendants of those who had to suffer persecution for justice sake We must be gratefully proud of our Catholic Faith. We must studv it, defend it. We should be patriotically proud of our Irish blood, It ran n the veins of God's nobility- Irish monks and Irish teachers We must nourish it nd strengthen it rMl
Nine names were given to the infant daughter f Prince Umberto and Princess Maria Jose at her baptism in the Roval Palace at Naples-Maria Gabriella Josephine AMdogonda Adelaide Marhite Ludanica F·lisita Garmara
The names Maria Gabriella were chosen in honour of the Annunciation of Or Blessed Lady This is the traditicnal devotion ot the House of Savoy The Order of the Santissima Annunziata is the highest order in the gift of the Kings of Italy
The baptism was performed by Cardinal Ascalesi, Archbishop of Naples
The water was brought from the famus Church f St Francis de Paolo, op posite the Royal Palace The Cardinal afterwards placed a gold medal of Our Ladv and gold chain round the neck f the Princess
Wine C Spirit Merchant ST PATRICK'S NIGHT.
B4735
To commemorate the men of Easter Week the Irish Association of W A and their friends assembled in their rooms, 90 King-street, Perth, on Easter Sunday
Every year at Easter the thoughts of all true Irishmen go back to that memorable Easter Monday of 1916, to that gallant band of patriots, led by Padraic Pearse and James C mnnolly who without hope of personal gain, bu filled with an ardent desire to bring about the emancipation of thei: belov ed land, issued that historic proclamation irom the steps of the GPO 1n Dublin in 1916
The proceedings opened with the singing of God Save Ireland," led by Mr W Ginivan Members and friends joined in the chorus
The president of the Irish Association officiated as chairman and gave a brief address on the significance of the ccasion
The first toast of the evening "Ire° land a Nation," was proposed by Mr Keating who outlined Ireland's chequered history since the AngloNorman invasion, and drew a mental picture of United Ireland, under the flag f the Irish Republic. This was ollowed by 'A Nation Once Again, rendered by Mr W Ginivan Mr Gralton propsing the next toast "The Men of Easter Week" spoke of their unselfish patriotism and the great struggle during that eventful week, and the supreme sacrifice which those men willingly made for love of Ireland Their memory will always be an inspiration to the people of the Irish natin. Ir proposing the toast of Dr Douglas Hvde the President of the Irish Re public Mr Coonan paid a fitting tribute to this illustrious Irishman \ brilliant Irish scholar and an ardent worker n the cause Irish nd nee his appointment to thi imp rtant position gives the lie dire t to those who would have us believe that a Pr testant minority would be unjustl treated by a Catholic majority "The Land We Live In," the adopted h me of numbers f the Irish rat f whom are taking a not.b! development of this gret untr proposed by Mr. McAloon Musca items throughout the evening were rendered by Mrs. Mulcahy t the pino) Messrs Ginivan, Conan, Healy, Tomsett, McAloon, Flanagan, Stanley, Moronev and Gralton The evenmg was brought to a close with the singing of "A Soldier's Song''
FILM OF THE LIFE OF OUR LADY, "QUEEN OF QUEENS."'
Los Angeles
"Queen of Queens" a flm of the life of Our Lady will not be b used on the play, "Family Portrait"says Mr Cecil B de Mille, the producer, in re spnse to hundreds f letters he has ceived from Catholics wh regard th play as a travesty on the Holy Family
Mr de Mille declares that the film will be founded upon the four Gospels and the Apocrypha and that Paramount has bought Family Portrait so that it might not be produced by a rival company and released at the same time as "Queen of Queens" "King of Kings," a film on the if of Our Lord, was produced by Mr de Mi!le in 1927
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Thursday, March 28, 1940
The welcome to freshers will take the form of a dance, to be held in the Uni versity Refectory on Monday, April 8, at 8 pm Do come and bring your friends
Loreto Convent Swimming Sports
Ideal weather conditions prevailed for the Inter-House Swimming Sports, which were held on Tuesday afternoon
There was a large and representative gathering of parents and friends Mr Fred Curran acted as adjudicator Margaret Scott (St Raphael's), who won the open championship (119 yards), and under I6 section (90 yards), holds the title of school champion Jacqueline Wittenoom won the under 14 championship Among the junior swimmers outstanding performances were put up by Alice Ethel Curran, who won the under 12 championship, and by 9-year-od Paddy Curran, who was defeated by a narrow margin in the under 14 breaststroke House points were as follows: St Raphael's 87 points; St Gabriel's 66 points; St Michael's 21 points
At the conclusion of the sports afternoon tea was served after which tro: phies were presented by Mr Fred Curran. In his concluding speech, Mr Curran congratulated Margaret Scott on her ability as a swimmer her style, and her sporting spirit A vote of thanks was passed to the following who donated trophies: Misses M Donovan, S Stack, and Mr Fred Curran
Results were: Open Championship, 116 Yards: M Scott, l; J Barker, 2 Under 16, 90 Yards: M Scott, 1; M Turner, 2: M Stokes, 3 Under 14, 60 Yards: J Wittenoom, 1; J Carter, 2: D Kelly, 3 Under 12, 30 Yards: A E Curran, I M Bell, 2; E Hayman, 3 Under 10, 30 Yards: J Nolan I; I B Swain, 2: J Curran, 3 Under 8 Balloon Race: D Liddy 1; M Byrne, 2; M. Webster, 3 Open Breaststroke Championship: J Barker, 1; Ph Gull, 2; M Scott, 3 Junior 'Breaststroke· D Kelly, 1, J Wittenoom, 2; P Curran, 3 Open Neat Dive: M Turner, I; D Kelly, 2; M Scott, 3 Open Fancy Dive: A E Curran, 1; M Scott 2: M Turner 3. School Relay Race: St Raphael's I; st. Gabriel's 2, St Michael's 3
Swayed by Propaganda Only Corrective of Doctrines That Lead to
The following statement has appeared in "The Catholic Times," The Catholic Herald," and the "Universe," of England Its application to the Australian scene is equally true
N•E\'ER befure did the world stand so much in need of a strong Catholic Press Torn and distracted by power politics, class strife and war, civilisation at times appears rudderless and due to e wrecked on the rocks of chaos
Men's minds are swayed by propaganda Propaganda is the keynote of modern life With sufficient money for propaganda a nation can be moved. to give its adhesion to almost any plausible cause
Propaganda to-day is for the most part, based on false philosophies How is the man n the street, the man in the workshop, to find his way through the fog when so many contradictory guides try to ead him? Where in any case, have these guides in the press in books and on street cornersled this country?
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At Crossroads of History
Now, with the British Empire and the world at the cross-roads of history is the time to take stock
The Catholic Press has been Britain's sure guide The Catholic Press alone n this country has given a clear, unswerving lead on the matters which have eached their climax n this war
Unfettered by political bias or party ties the Catholic Press has based its policy on Truth. Echoing the words of the Supreme Pontiff, the Catholic Press alone has shown the road to true peace
Right About Spain and Russia
Consider this record:
The Catholic Press alone consistently told the truth about Spain The Catholic Press stood firm in its resistance to a pact with Russia When other newspapers were demanding an alliance with the Godless government of that country, the Catholic Press proclaimed the militarv and economic futility of such a pact Finland corroborates what we have taught for years and what this country might have lecrnt from the tragedy of Spain
Alone the Catholic Press has opposed the satelite heretical doctrines of the great false ideology Materialism Such heresies are: contraception, abortion, the worship of the State the deprivation of ndividual rights Now war is here War is a time when falsehoods flourish and when morals tend to relax Under the cloak of war bureaucrats are giving official recognition to the "unmarried wives' of soldiers to the detriment of lawful wives War paves the way to revolution, to chaos, to enarchy War, then, has increased the need of a strong Catholic Press which thinks consistently and which is not swayed by political expediency
There is no appeal for money It is merely a strong appeal for your interest In one of a dozen different ways you might be able to help In your parish you might be asked to serve on a press committee, If no press com mittee should materialise in your parsh you might enlist the support of a friend or two and consult your parish priest as to what t might be possible to do to spread the influence of Cathoic papers
'Most Versatile of Living Prose Writers'
If you can do none of these things you might at least be able to get a nes reeder for a Catholic paper, or per- suade someone who through indiffer ence has ceased to buy a Catholic paper
Chaos Catholic Press Manifesto
Your Catholic paper might not be all you would like it to be You might not agree with all its writers Sometimes you might catch it out in an error of fact or of tesie But Catholic papers have vlways been ready to admit their. mistakes Antidote to Moral Poison
For your own sake, for your chil dren's sake, for the countrys sake rea lise vividly that false doctrines and pagan ideas are being conveyed every where, very subtly-in books maga- zines newspapers, fashions, advertise ments the theatre and cinema and by • 1 wreess
They are absorbed without being observed, like germs that enter the body unseen, untasted and unsmelt
The medicine that cures in illness is taken in full knowledge but es curative work is quiet and unseen
In the same way, the mind must be given a medicine to counteract the germs that find their way in, AIL around us the air s polluted: let us take our medicine deliberately, consciously in a desire to avoid the mental illness which otherwise will come on us
The Catholic Press relies upon you to extend its work
Are the Allies Fighting a Holy War ?
ARCHBISHOP MANNIX'S VIEW
In the course of an address at the Irish National Club n Wellington during the National Eucharistic Cngress of New Zealand, His Grace Archbishop Mannix made a sober and illuminating comment on the nature of the present war His Grace said: We are in a big struggle now, and Britain is fighting for her life and France is fighting for her life. We do not know when or how it is going to end, but they are fighting not merely they say, for their own existence, but they are fighting also for Austria and Czechoslovakia and partitioned Poland I hope they are, They certainly ought to be Some people of course, will ask you to believe that we are engaged n e crusade, a holy war Still, I am afraid I cannot subscribe to that thought. My sympathies, of course in this struggle, are altogether with France and altogether with England, as Ireland's sympathies also are; but I am not prepared to say that this is a holv war, or that it is a crusade. or that it is a war to end war or that it is to make these nations fit places for her oes to live in We heard all these things before If they are anxius to enrage in a holy war for the defence of Christian civilisation, where was Franc and where was England while Spain was being tortured? We should be on our guard against the propagand of the present We happen to be on the right side, I think, and I hope the right side s going to win; but that does not mean we should consider ourselves crusaders or people engaged in a holy war
Here is an interesting extract from a review by Mr Arthur Bryant the historian, of The Last Rally " Hilaire Belloc's recently published work on Charles II : Mr Belioc is the most versatile f all living English prose writers Now that Hardy Kipling Galsworthy and Chesterton are dead he is unquestionably one of the three or four greatest But unlike Mr Wells and Mr Shaw he has always taken the unpopular view of the problems of his age In his lifetime it has been his loss His readers have probably
never been a tenth ous as Mr Wells' death the reverse come true ' "Like Chesterton," con'inues Mr Bryant, "he may come to be remembered as a prophet and a man in advance of his age while Mr Wells though the greatest English humorist since Dickens will almost certainly be neglected for having been so peculiarlv well attuned to the intellectual and social fashions of the own day For these, like all their forerunners, will presently be outmoded and ;% pass
as numerAfter his may be-
"But why does Ireland stand out, if, as I say-and I think I ·m correct Ireland's sympathies, like vour svmpathies ar~ with Britain and with France? It is just because, though a great deal has happened and much has been done, it has all been done in spite of England, and all of it is not done vet As long as that partition line runs across the corner of Ireland, so long will there be people in Irelandenough of them to prevent Ireland from taking her place bv the side of Britain and France in a war like this"
NUPTIAL MASS POPULAR.
It s pleasing to remark that weddings with Nuptial Mass are rapidly becoming popular throughout the Archdiocese In St Mary's Cathedral on Easter Monday no fewer than four Nuptial Masses were celebrated
This practice is, of course, a revival rather than an innovation. In a normal Catholic community the Nuptial Mass is the rule and not the exception The ""evening'' wdding is fast becoming a retrograde affair according as Catholies realise that the Church at best merely tolerates such functions The fulness of the Church's blessing s given at the Nuptial Mass which is also the best auspices under which a Catholic couple can begin their married life
Thursday, March 28, 1940
CONSIDERATION FOR GERMAN MISSIONARIES IN SOUTH AFRICA.
For the second time in his career the venerable Vicar Apostolic of Eshowe, Natal the Most Rev Thomas Spreiter of the Benedictines of St Ottilia faces the problem of war Bishop Spreiter was 75 years old ast December 28th , and has laboured n this section of the Union of South Africa since 1921
His African missionary career began, however, long before Some forty years ago he came to East Africa, where, on March 13, 1906, he was appointed Vicar Apostolic Of Zano-uebar-now Dar-cs-Sa2laamin succession to Bishop Kassian, murdered by natives in 1905 Bishop Spreiter reckons as the bitterest day of his life the one on which he and his German missionaries were obliged during the last World War to leave the Mission that had become home to them and return to their native land
To-day the situation arising from the war is more comforting One of the Benedictine missionaries writes: "Due to the kindly consideration of the Dominion authorities, our mission work can continue practically unhindered and we trust with God's help to be able to carry on."
MISSIONARY PIONEERS IN ETHIOPA COMMEMORATED AT ADDIS ABEBA
Under the presidency of His Excellency Archbishop John M E Castellani O F M Apostolic Delegate to Italian East Africa and Vicar Apostolic of Addis Abeba, all Heads of Missions in this Territory assembled from January 21 to 28 to commemorate the third centenarv of the martyrdom of Gondar of Blessed Agatangelo and Cassiano, the fiftieth anniversary of the death of Cardinal Massaia, apostle of the Galla tribes, the first centenary of the beginning of regular mission work in Ethiopia by Blessed Justin de Jacobis and the first anniversary of his beatification
Throughout the week the Apostolic Delegate preached to large congregations that filled the pro-Cathedral On three successive davs the Rt Rev Constance Borgna, Prefect Apostolic of Dossie the Most Rev Leo Ossola, Vicar Apostolic of Harrar and His Excellencv the Apostolic Delegate spoke also in the hall of the parish theatre. takIng as their respective subjects the martvrs of Gondar Cardinal Massaia and Blessed de Jacobis. The festivities closed with a solemn religious function during which Archbishop Castollani once more addressed the vast throng of worshippers "
SECRETARY OF RELIGION
SUGGESTED IN U.S.A.
London
RT�� suggestion that a Secretary of eligion be appointed in the Presidents Cabinet has been made by Dr Edwin McNeil Poteat. of the Euclidavenue Baptist Church
It would be the concern of the Secretary of Religion he said to promote and cultivate spiritual life throughout the countrv Political leaders, he remarked, have Se to realise that democracy cannot e saved without the help of religion, yet they do little to halt the wave of Secularism in this country
We say that a State Church is a hateful thing, but we need also to say that an rreligious State is a dangerous , thing "
WORK OF THE WHITE FATHERS
In North and West Africa, and in the region of the Great Lakes of Central Africa, the White Fathers are in charge of 23 ecclesiastical territories On another, the recently created Vicariate of Masake, Uganda, while staffed by native secular clergy, is ruled by a member of the White Fthers H E Bishop Joseph Kiwanuka, the first Negro Bishop of modern times
During the past year the total of priests belonging to the Society has risen from 876 to 910, of Brothers from 255 to 269 and of Sisters from 676 to 721 The individual mission stations controlled by the Society have increased from 288 to 309.
Assisted by I7I native secular priests, the White Fathers have built up Christian communities totalling approximately 1,600,000 souls This figure indicates an increase of some 100,000 over last year's statistics Some 400000 catechumens are now preparing for baptism Were the postulants still undergoing a two years' period of trial and instruction to be added, the last figure would have to be doubled During 1939 adult baptisms totalled 63540 The Mission heading the list is Urundi with 20,141 adult baptisms, followed by Ruanda and Ruwenzori with 11 215 and 4244, respectively The greatest obstacles tto conversion are encountered as might be expected n Mahommedan districts
The profound influence of the White Fathers on the black races of Airica is revealed bv further statistics In the territories under consideration there are now, besides the native priests mentioned, 99 native Brothers 546 native Sisters and a total of 400 native Seminarists. in six major seminaries The rising generation of the Bantu race evidentlv possesses sufficient spiritual depth for the more advanced stages of Christian perfection The missionaries, however are not simply engaged in forming an elite of privileged souls; they are spiritualising the lives of the mass of the people, as shown by the fact that during the past year 500,000 confessions were heard and 20,000,000 Communions distributed During the last twelve months the White Fathers also taught in some 7,000 schools a total of 400.000 children and gave medical attention in hospitals and dispensaries to some 5,000,000 sick persons
NAVY SHIP HAS 400 CATHOLICS
London
Some 400 Catholies are serving in one Navy ship, according to a chaplain writing in the 'Vine and the Branches," magazine of the Apostolate of Christ the Worker
The chaplain's ship, with a total complement of about 750 has more than 100 Catholics
'There must have been quite 300 men at my second Mass this morning,' he writes
They came on board from three other cruisers and some destroyers, some of them fasting for Holy Communion at 10 o'clock, although they'd been up early and working and had to get there by boat
we ad t sake me ages so«t D'ARCY'S SELECT DANCES in the shipthe marine mess deck "
Submarine Convert
Writing of a Sunday, the chaplain says: Mass at 9 am for the submarines and one lot of small ships Thenagain at 1030 for cruisers and destroyers, with confessions settling up marriages, etc "One fine stoker going out in his submarine on patrol I received into the Church immediately ' The Polish submarine which, hunted, bombed, and depth-charged and without any charts escaped from Estonia to Britain has a permanent shrine of Our Lady and a plaque of St Christopher says the chaplain
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WACA FIRST GRADE PREMIERSHIP West Perth, 296 and 114 lost to Suiaco, 359 and 2 for 52 by eight wiekets
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Jack McNamara's innings of 10t is the best he has played to date He was very good all the way Morgan Herbert was brilliant for 88 He was on top of the bowling all the way, but with the century in sight foolishlv ran himself out
Two other fine batting efforts were those of Barres 83) and Keith Jeffreys (162, the latter giving a brilliant exhibition
Polo: Mingenew won the Charles Championship Cup and the Gooch Handicap Cup
Swimming: C Ramshaw won the Swim Through Geraldton ' Fastest time was secured by Hutchinson19min 50see
Tennis: The Archbishop Clune Cup for the 9th Annual CL TA Countrv Carnivel was won by Geraldton, who also won the men's division and shield while Kalgoorlie No 1 won the women's shield The carnival was an outstanding success
Tennis State Championships Men's ingles final: Colin Long, of Victoria, deteated Max Bonner, of this State, 63, 6-2, 6-2 Men's doubles· Bonner and McDermott (W A ) beat Ford and Stephen (W A 1, 6-3, 6-4, 7 5
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Old CBC boys were prominent :n this game These were Jack Shea, Syd Briggs Alan Edwards and Morgan Herbert- all college captains in their day- Gerald Arthur all from Aquinas; Jack McNamara is an old b of C B C Adelaide while Mark Troy who was umpire, also claims Aquinas as his Alma M ter He was a brilli: nt fast bowler when in the college XI # k k k DARLOT CUP COMPETITION Aquinas College had a very easy win over Scotch College at Claremont Scotch batted first and was dismissed for 53 Dease bowled very ably for Aquinas to secure 4 for 3 In reply, Aquinas compiled the big score of 394 or the loss of four wickets Allan Edwards made another century ( 108), bringing his Darlot Cup aggregate to 1 40-a record Bill Alderman also reached the three-figure mark (104) and batted very well Bert Rigg who opened the nnings was unlucky to miss his century as he was dismissed for 84 His younger brother Basil showed excellent promise with 35 not out, Aquinas is now the only undefeated team, and has very bright prospects of winning the Cup, something it has not done since 1931 Matches for Wednesday, April 3, are: Guildford v Aquinas, at Guildford; Scotch v Hale, at Scotch
After a great contest, the Stawell G ft was won by Reid, of Port Augusta, by half a yard from Jim Smith, of this State Onlv once has a Westralian won this event, and that happened 40 years ago Smith went very close, out the winner had the best finishing power and just got there
It is worth noting that "The Gift'' has never been won twice by the same runner.
Monday, May 6, has been decided on as the date of the "Head of the River" event Old boys and friends of Aquinas College will be glad to know that the crew is doing well at training Mr C Wroblewski, the hon coach, says the members have worked grandly, and Y provided there are no unforseen cir cumstances to upset calculations, the prospects of 'The Headmasters' Cup' coming back to Aquinas are very bright
It is interesting to note that the Cup has been won on sixteen occasions by Aquinas fourteen by Scot h, eight by Hale and three by Guildford Aquinas has a record run of six wins to its credit- -1926-31, On each occasion the successful coach was Mr C Wroblewski Scotch College also had a very good run of five wins 1934-1938
The Cup is at present held by Hale School who won after the most evenly contested race for years Hale just eat Scotch by a canvas with Aquinas very close n third place
Athletics: The Moora Gift, 130 yards, was won bv A Brewer, well known as a Subiaco footballer Motor Raving: The Albany Grand Prix wa wn by W Smallwood, of Victoria J Wittenoom (W A ) was econd, and D Ord (WA), 3
The junior TT was won by F Mussett, f Vietori, and that rider also won the senior TT championship
That the world rec voming pigeon flight i: a journe 7,200 miles The bird in question arrived at its de tinatin just 24 days after its take-of?
That Den Bradman nc hit o ff an over in a first-class m tch, Au tralia v An English I, at Folkestone in 1934
This s how he did it: 4 6, 6, 4 6, 4 The bowler was Tich Freeman That Laurie Nash well known Victorian footballer and cricketer, is the first to be selected in an England v Australia Test without first plaving in a Sheffield Shield match?
Baseball
Soon it will be the time for the baseballer to go into action, and so some information about this game may be interesting
The foundations of baseba were taken to America by emigrants from England It was first known in America as "Four-old cat"
Modern baseball in America was founded bv Colonel Doubledav in 1839No major changes in the gam have been made since that year
The first ode cf rules was drawn up • by the Knickerbocker Club in 1845 and clubs were first systematically organsed and professional introduced shortly after the American Civil War Cincinnati, which made a coast to coast tour in 1839 was the first all-professronal club
World tours bv American clubs were made in 1880 and 1913, and baseball is now played in many countries, with Japan making the most progress-America excepted
The "World Series" between the two leading American clubs «f ear year begun in 1905, and attendarices have exceeded 289,000 fe: seven gan es, with receipts amounting to £50,000, of which amount 50 per cent goes to clubs and players
There are nine players a side An innings is completed when three players are out, while a match comprises nine nnings
Baseball s the best paying game in the world 'Babe" Ruth, at the height of his fame, received £20,000 a vear The record transfer fee is £50 000 and another player for Jo° Cronin Umpires do well also, the top-notchers receiving as much as £2,000 a season
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It is said that it tock eighteen months it's all over to bring Paddy Slavin and Peter Jack- "Here, referee," he yelled to that offon together Another pair that it was eial now making for an exit "come A;tcult to match was Jim Driscoll and back and tell the people who won the Owen Moran Finally the pair were fight.' matched and the fight tookplace in But the referee heeded not, but kept 1913after four years of arguing about nTwalking he reporters interviewed MeVea terms, etc
Driscoll had stated that it would be You want to know why I quit It his last fight for he seemingly tired of was bcause I was fouled He hit me the fight game although when he en- lbw-he always does" tered the ring for this fight he ap- Then the pressmen went to Langpeared to be in perfect fighting trim ford's room. He was dressed and was It cannot be said that the fight was a smoking an enormous cigar Below brilliant one, but it gripped the huge his right eye was a lump almost as crowd because of the tenacity that was big as a hens egg in it It was expected that Moran "What round did you collect that would decide on "allin'' tactics that in?' asked a scribe he would be intent on rushing and "Oh," he said, grinning crashing So it was a surprise when count the rounds" he opened up to watch him cleverly Told the gist of McVea's charge sparring Langford went on smoking his cigar
So far as speed and generalship were After an interval for reflection, he reconcerned it seemed any odds on Dris moved the cigar and said, very slowly: coll who was well ahead on points That fellow has a yellow streak as when half the distance had been cov. bro@d as a sharks back!" ered This was not just to McVea, who cerMoran had to take a succession of tainly was not lacking mn courage as straight lefts but right through he he showed in two great fights with Jack proved that he could "take it" and Johnson, Joe Jeanette, whom he fougn that he was a great counter puncher for 2± hours in Paris, and his fights He was strong on his feet all through, with Langford himself Who rememand at the end of ·ach round he would bers that queer fight at the old Skating actuall sprint to his corner Rink?
The I7th round aw Driscoll take heavy punishment He was forced round the ring, and was received-ingeneral for practically the full round.
In the concluding three rounds, Driscoll perceptibly wakened, n sharp contrast to Moran, who finished each session supremely c fident Then over the concluding tages Moran fought viciously, as all thought he would do throughout, and twice he nearly had Driscoll down
Certainly Driscoll was very tired, and he seemed to have lost confidence, but Moran could nt rob him of the stoutness of his fighting heart, nor take away from him his instinct for fighting Jim Driscoll survived the dying moments of what had ben a relentless but not a brilliant contest between two great fighters At the close the refer gave it "a draw" Many thought that Moran bad won, but th verdict was favourzbly received k ste st THE TWO "SAMS "
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For eleven runds they gave an excellent display but iust before the round ended M Va ·topped fighting and walked to corner muttering something t. h; second Peter Felix. The other Sam ked puzzled for a moment, and then startd to follow MeVea The referee stpped between them, mumbled mething unintelligble to the crowd, and hurriedlv left the ing That w round about 1911
Trotting
At Gloucester Park on Saturday a most successful Eester Carnival will be bought to a conclusion
The programme consists of a Divided Handicap of 13 furlongs, of £600 (four races) for horses who started in Easter Cup Divisions and handicapped 2.20 and better
There will also be a State Handicap, I miles, for hors bred in this State and handicapped 221 and better
See "The Hawk's" Selections for Racing and Trotting elsewhere in this issue
The Easter Carnival of the WATC will be concluded at Headquarters on Saturdav
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·You're teeing off in front of the mark" "Buzz of" said the player "Also have a heart I'm playing my third stroke"
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On January 2 26 boys and girls from he surrounding districts attended the Summer School of Religious Instrueton t St Joseph's Convent Sixteen made thcir first Holy Communion nine girls and seven boys) to the spiritual delight f the children
After a fortnight's instruction with recreation of various kinds interspered, all returned home perfectly happy in
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A It occupies the place of the former second Mass of Easer day The first Mass at midnight or early dawn which is now the Mass of Holy Saturday, was intended for the neophytes, the second Mass in broad daylight applied rather to the general faithful
Q Is there any special feature in the Mass and the Mass of the Octave?
A The Sequence the "Victimae Paschali''one of five preserved in the Roman Missal
Q Who s the author of this Sequence?
A The authorship, which is not quite definitely established is generally attributed to Wipo 1050), court chaplain to the Emperors Conrad II and Henry III
Q What important truth does it imply?
A That the active participation in the Mass effects the· loving communion of all the faithful in Christ and with one another
Q When does the Octave end?
A It ends with the canonical hour of None on Saturday
Q Enumerate some of the popular practices adopted at Easter time
A The Blessing of meat and of eggs which were forbidden during the Lent The Blessing of the Paschal Lamb is the most familiar example
Q What is the liturgical name for the First Sunday after Easter?
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A, What is so much insisted upon that the Passion, Death and Resurrection of Our Saviour constitute one whole the Christian Pasch: "Together death and life In a strange conflict strive; The Prince of life Who died Now ives and reigns.''
Q What is to be noted about the Post-Communion of the Easter Sunday Mass?
A During the whole Eastertide it replaces the "Deus qui nobis sub sacramento mirabili' when Holv Commun ion is administered in the church out: side the Mass
A Dominica in Albis (depositis), ie the Sunday on which the white garments were discarded The Neophytes doffed their white garments on Saturday at the clase of the Octave and appeared in church on Low Sunday in their ordinary dress It is also called "Quasimodo" Sunday from the first two words of the Introit
Q What is its most familiar name?
A, Low Sunday The word "lowarrived at by the clipping of the initial etter of the word elose''-comes from the Latin clausum in the phrase Pascha clausum (the close of the Pasch) But it is more likely that the popular nam has arisen from the contrast be tween the joys of Easter and the first return to ordinary Sunday services
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HERE is much wisdom in old sayings; indeed, perhaps more than in a good many heavily elaborated pretentious philosophies Almost always as I hear or read the news of the day I find myself wondering how long it will take some people and some teachers of the people to catch up with the common sense embodied in sayings that have come down from the days when man first began to think For example Better late than never;' and "It's never too late to mend" These two ancient adages rose to the surface of my mind when I read in the New York papers on two successive days of a movement to correct the catastrophic blunder of attempting to educate American youth without religion At a meeting of two thousand six hundred members of Theta Pi Alpha, an organisation of public school teachers who give religious instruction to Catholic children after school,'' Dr John S Middleton made a plea that time be allotted for religious education within and not after the regular school day He made the point that hundreds of thousa ds ofchildren are spiritually starving, and that it is high time that the tragic condition be recognised and reme lied The proposition is not so novel or starting as it may seem to tlose whoe information on the subject is tot up to date Several boards of elucation in New York State, outside tle metropolis, have inaugurated the plan of release time' for religious edaca ion; and in th· United States at larg there are one hundred and fifty centres where the plan is in operation Dr Harold Campbell, president of the New York City Board of Education, not of our Faith, but favourable to our principles said that "in order to keep our national ideals and traditions we cannot have religious training in th~ public schools," but expressed himself as well pleased that the Theta Pi Alpha and other such associations were giving the religious training that the public schools could not give There is a fine chance for debate as to the idealism of that "national ideal'' and the age of those traditions But of that, another time The very next day came a remarkable and most welcome reinforcement of Dr Middleton's views A luncheon was held n a New York hotel at which was launched a crusade for religious education in the public schools Fortyone Protestant denominations and thirty State interdenominational councils were represented The principal speaker was Dr James Rowland Angell president emeritus of Yale University, educational adviser for the Na tional Broadcasting Company His statements on the menace of non-religious education were quite as strong as those of Dr Middleton Indeed he spoke with even more forcefulness than
a Catholic priest would permit himself on that ticklish subject He said that if something were not done to "train children in spiritual values" w might expect catastrophe not only for our own country and for our own religion but for civilisation and humanity itself and he continued: 'In the last two decades we have been moving into a rather cheap, superficial, mechanisti materialism, advocated by peop who like to be considered intelle ·tual, which includes many of our outstanding scientists of note. I wish we could return towards Plato's thinking that spiritual reality is very definite part of the cosmos"
Rather good but not perfect It would be better to advocate return to Christ than to Plato. That ancient disciple of Socrates and rival of Aristotle was doubtless a good philosopher But neither his ethics nor his theolorv are on the same plane with that of Our Saviour Also "spiritual realitv a definite part of the cosmos'' is a vague phrase. A more specific statement is called for in the crisis But let that pass Dr Angell's main idea i substantially the sme as our own and we are glad to have his confirmation of our conviction that religion mu.t be taught to all American youth
One mistake made bv the more uninformed part of the public is to imagine that this plea for a reconsideration of religion as an integral elementif not the dominant element-in American education is a kind of "complex" that afflicts only Catholics People who labour under that misunderstanding might do well to read the names of hundreds upon hundreds of enlightened non-Catholics who feel and speak as we do about the danger-say rather the crime-of denying religion to youth. Soon there will be a preponderance of authoritative public opinion on what we like to ·all ou side, and then something will be done "Better late than never;" "Never too late to mend'' But pray God it may come soon enough not to be too late !
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Dear Cornerites, Now that Easter has passed I trust l will all write to me and tell me you had 1 what a marvellous time you a uring the holidays And more important still I hope some of last year's little helpers will write in for prick cards
I have a huge stack on the table before me and very few have asked for them as yet Last year the prick cards formed one of our main sources of revenue, and I do hope that you aren't going to let the Bushies' Cause down by allowing them to stay on my hands I know the holidays and the beaches have claimed your attention during the hot summer months, but now s the time to rally round the Lemonade Bottle if we are going to attain our objective of £100 for the year If you think you can find someone to give you the necessary pennies I will be only too pleased to post out the cards, for though the year has started well, I would not like, in the coming months, to see the efforts to raise the objective diminish and fade If you look at your calendars you will notice that Monday begins the new month of April Make a good start then and write for a prick card
AUNT BESSY
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Dear Aunt Bessy, Please find en closed 5s for the Bushies, in honour of Our Lady of Lourdes, for favour received AN OLD BUSHIE
Dear Old Bushie, Welcome back to the fold I am so glad you remembered the Bushies in your thanksgiving, and I am sure Our Blessed Lady will grant vou many more favours for honouring her in such a practical way.
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Dear Aunt Bessy,-Please find enclosed postal note for ten shillings for the Bushies in honour of the Little Flower A GRATEFUL MOTHER
Dear Grateful Mother,-Very many thanks indeed for your generous donation You are honouring the Little Flower in just the way she would wish to be honoured for the Missions were verv dear to her when she was on earth, and surely ur own Australian children have first claim on our missionary endeavour
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Dear Aunt Bessy, I am writing to ask f I can be one of your Cornerites I am twelve years of age and I go to school up here I think I will be coming down to Perth to a college next year, and then I will be able to help the Bushies more than ever Mother is going to send you a surprise soon because she got a favour from St Anthony, and she always acknowledged it this way
LORNA BROPHY
Dear Lorna,Of course you may be one of the Cornerites. There is always plenty of room for new comers. When you come down to Perth I shall look forward to your letters more than ever especially as the Bushies will benefit thereby Your mother is very good to think of the Bushies and I hope I will soon be able to acknowledge the surprise The Bushies' fund for this year is doing very well so far, but a good deal more effort is needed if the Lemonade Bottle is to overflow by the end of the year AUNT BESSY
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I am having I go fishing in the river near here and go for long walks in the bush It is very beautiful down here with the big green trees and the miles and miles of land attached to the farms It is my first visit to the bush since I was small as I live in Perth I will write again when I come home DENIS BRUCE
Dear Denis,Manjimup used to be a regular hive of industry where the Bushies' cause was concerned, but this year I haven't heard from any of my Cornerites down that way If you see them, give them a reminder as I am sure they wouldn't let the Bushies down if they thought about it
AUNT BESSY
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Dear Aunt Bessy, It is such a long time since I wrote to you last that I suppose you have forgotten me I live at North Beach now as you will see by the postmark I love the beach down here because it is very rough, and I always liked a rough beach''The weather over the Easter holidays was very good for swimming and I spent most of the time on the beach We will soon be going back to live in Nedlands, as we only live here for four months every year I am sending a good selection of foreign stamps for the Bushies and hope you will find them useful JIM DONAGHY
Dear Jim What a lucky boy you are to live at the beach all through the summer months I am glad you had such a good time at Easter The stamps were very useful for they are old and the money is put into the Lemonade Bottle It all helps to fill the Lemonade Bottle, so thank you very much for sending them along AUNT BESSY
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Bowler Takes AI Ten Wickets
On Easter Sunday afternoon a tean mposed of visitors at the Hostel play ed a cricket match against the College and was defeated by 132 runs The main feature of the match was the fine bowling of E Hinchliffe, who captured I0 wickets for 21 runs off nearly 10
overs The Hostel team went in first and Hinchliff soon had most of the bats men baffled. P Lanigan with 32 and J lune, with 18, were the only Hoste players to reach double figures The former batted well The team man eged 73 runs I Brown was out early in the Col ge innings but W, Patterson and E Hinchliffe scored freely, the former making 51 When Hinchliffe was dis missed for 19 Brother Charles came in, and by very hard hitting scored 72 B Lardi also gave a good display The last wicket fell at 205, K Lanigan capturing four of the wickets Scores: Hostel, 73 (P Lanigan 32, J Clune 18+ Bowling: E Hinchliffe, 10 for 21
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I Brown b G, Clune
I Hay, run out
W Patterson, b H AIbon
E Hinchliffe, st V Clune, b H Albon
Bro Charles, st. V Clune, b K Hallgan
O Santich, run out
D Read, c and b K Halligan
Dear Aunt Bessy, I am down here for a holiday, so I thought I'd write
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W Fornero, b K Halligan
B Lardi, b K Halligan
I Hogg, b P Lanigan · 'I Prosser, not out Sundries
Total 205
Bowling: K Halligan 4 for 37; H Albon, 2 for 21
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How War was Averted In South America at Easter, 1 900
The Holy Father in an audience granted to the Argentine Military Mission when yisiting Rome, expressed the hope that Europe may have a statue of Our Lord raised upon one of its highest peaks as a symbol of true peace
The statue of Christ standing on the summit of the Andes recalls and blesses your pact of friendship with neighbouring nations," said His Holiness "It is a symbol of real peace May God will that we soon see one raised upon one of the highest peaks n Europe '
The Holy Father was referring to the famous bronze statue of Christ of the Andes on a summit between 13,000 and 14,000 feet high on the boundary between Argentina and Chile
Just 40 years ago the two nations were on the brink of war In consequence of boundary disputes, armaments had been piled up and the two countries were suffering severely from heavy taxes to pay for the preparation of hostilities
On Easter Day in 1900 an Argentine Bishop, Mgr Benevante, in Buenos Aires, preached a sermon in which he made a passionate appeal for peace 1mn the name of Christ His message went across the Andes and was taken up by a Chilean Bishop The two Bishops set out on a country-wide tour of the towns and villages preaching peace
Eventually, after successful adjudiea: tion by King Edward VII, the two na tions in 1902 signed an unconditional treaty of arbitration
Statue Made From Guns
They disarmed themselves to the minimum required for police purposes, and the frontier guns were melted down to make the figure of Our Lord
The statue was drawn up the mountain side on gun carriages, and when this mode of transport was no longer possible, sailors and soldiers dragged it the rest of the wav to the summit with ropes
On March 13, 1904, in the presence of a huge concourse of civilians and sol diers and with the firing of guns and martial music the statue was solemnly dedicated
South America has another immense statue of Our Lord, on the summit of Mount Corcovado (2 300 feet), overlooking Rio de Janeiro
Pope Pius XII has himself seen this statue.
When, after presiding at the International Eucharistic Congress at Buenos Aires in 1934, His Holiness then Cardinal Pacelli-visited Brazil, ascended to the summit of Mount Corcovado and standing under the statue in the name of Pope Pius XI blessed the Brazilian nation
Times of Trial-"
'My-blessing which is the blessing of the Common Father and Vicar of Christ, descends," said His Holiness, ''on the heads of all rulers and people great and small rich and poor; on the happy and the unhappy, on the sick and the suffering, on young and old; those who are entering upon life and those who are departing; on all those who desire it and need it "Mav it bring down the Divine grace and defend vou from evil in these times of trial and adversity"
With the Pope on that occasion were the Brazilian Foreign Minister and 50 of Brazil's 71 Bishops Europe's highest mountain is Mont Blanc, 15,700 feet.
POLISH CARMELITES CARRY ON AMIDST CONVENT RUINS
In the ruins of the Lobzowska Carmel at Cracow seven Carmelite nuns are continuing their life of prayer and sacrifice, says a message received by the Universe" from Mother Agnes of Jesus, sister of St Teresa, of the Lisieux Carmel
The Carmelites have suffered much in Poland Some monasteries are in German territory, others in Red territory, while the Vilna Carmel, subjected to heavy bombardment and bombed, is now in Lithuanian territory
At Vina during the bombardment the Mother Prioress carried the Blessed Sacrament to the cellar where the Sisters gathered round, praying incessantly The cellar escaped damage It s believed that two priests or two nuns have been allowed to remain in the houses in Soviet territorv
Mother Agnes appeals for prayers and Masses
HOW SOVIETS FIGHT THE CHURCH IN POLAND
Public Worship Allowed, But Made Impossible Rome.
The Vatican Radio reported the position of the Catholic Church in Lwow Stanislawow and Tarnapolin Soviet-occupied Poland-on Tuesday night 5th inst
As soon as the Soviets occupied the territory all Church land was confiscated An excessive tax of from four to eight roubles per square metre was imposed for the maintenance of all large buildingsmost of them churches Since in manv cases the villages could not pay this tax, the local church was promptly closed Monasteries and convents are being closed
The population, both Polish and Ukranian, however, remains loyal to the Church For instance-on the Feast of the Epiphanyin defiance of the ban processions were held in several towns The Soviet authorities did not interfere
But it is no uncommon thing for° priests and nuns taking part in processions to be deported into the interior of the Soviet Union
GERMANS FROM POLAND TO SIT IN REICHSTAG.
Rome
Dr Casimir Papee, Polish Ambassador at the Vatican, has presented a note to the Vatican protesting against the German decree which stipulates that deputies elected from among Germans living in Polish occupied territory shall sit at the next meeting of the Reichstag
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Peace
Statue
LEADING INDIAN CATHOLIC ON LOST PLANE
CHRIST OF THE ANDES
Made from the melted down frontier guns of Argentina and Chile, this famous statue commemorates a lasting peace
ITALY'S CATHOLIC PRESS ATTACKS GERMANY
condemnation of the German persecution of Catholics in Poland has been made by "Italia," the Catholic daily newspaper of Milan
This is the first time that the Catholic Press in Italy has definitely referred to this persecution, it is believed
"The news from the occupied territory leads us to ask ourselves if really the world has given up all humanity," the "Italia savs 'The most sacred of human liberties-that of freedom for the individual, his faith, his goods, his house and even of his children has been completely suppressed Facts Irrefutable.
"Even the priest is no longer permitted to be the consoler of the people He is treated as a common outlaw The land is again steeped in blood Homes are wrecked children snatched from their mothers "
BULLS NAMING BISHOP IN U.S FLOWN ACROSS ATLANTIC BY CLIPPER
The Papal Bulls naming Mgr Christian H Winkelmann, Bishop of Wichita U SA were flown to the United States aboard the Atlantic Clipper Bishop Winkelm nn was installed at Wichita early this month
Charges by the official German news agency that the Poles murdered 58,000 members of the German minority in Poland at the begnning of the war are refuted by the 'Osservatore Romano''
The first figure given was 5,000, the "Osservatore" points out Now the Germans actually give the number as 12857 and add another 45.000 as missing. No documentarv evidence as to the fate of these 12,857 is given Nor is it stated in which region they were living
It is possible that such a number of Germans may have been killed if they had been living in the areas where the
Sir Arogyaswami T A Pannir Selvam, leading Catholic layman in India was one of the four passengers on the missing Imperial Airways liner Hannibal which disappeared on its way from Karachi to England
Sir Pannir Selvam was in January appointed adviser to Lord Zetland, Secretary of State for India' He was coming to this country to take up his ap- pointment
He came to London in 1930 as a delegate to the India Round Table Confer ence and was nominated in the follow ing year to serve as a representative of British India on the Minorities Committee on behalf of Indian Catholics
Sir Pannir Selvam was a barrister For some time public prosecutor at Tanjore, he later became a member of the Legislative Council of Madras and a member of the executive cuncil of the Governor of Madras since 1934
He was President of the Al!India Catholic Conference at Mangalore in 1930.
Before he left India Sir Pannir Selvam attended a public meeting of the 'atholic and non-Catholic societies at Tanjore to receive their congratulations upon his appointment
He told them he would be able to give much advice to the Secretary of State on the question of the Christian minority in India, and asked them to pray for the success of his work
FRENCH AIRMAN, PRIEST, GIVES LIFE FOR BROTHER PILOT, FATHER OF THREE Paris
A young Dominican priest, with a brilliant career ahead, has sacrificed his life, as a Lieutenant inthe French Air Force, for a brother officer who was married and the father of three children
The priest, Father Bernard Geffroy, aged 39, begged to be allowed to take the other airman's place in a particularly dangerous mission He did not return
Father Geffroy was the son of a general He was serving in the air force when he suddenly decided to become a priest in 1924 He studied in Rome, became a Professor in Paris, and was so brilliant in his studies that when recalled at the beginning of the war he was offered a diplomatic position He refused it London
CRUSADE OF HOLY COMMUNIONS
London
The head teacher of a school in the Midlands writes that the "Universe' Crusade of Holy Communions for the intentions of General Gamelin 'has caused a revival of fervour amongst the children, after the deadening effect of the war and the closing of the schools' From all over the countrv come reports of vast numbers of Holy Communions offered or promised Recently the total registered at the "Universe" office was 90,343; an increase of 30,000 in one week
VATICAN PAPER REFUTES GERMAN CHARGES AGAINST POLES
battles of the campaign were fought But in such a case they would have been victims of the general shelling and bombing of towns, railwav stations and roads
Manv Poles and Germans were killed in this wav Manv others were killed in the course of their light before the German army
The "Osservatore" adds that it is al leged that many of the German minor itv activelv assisted the German invaders If they did so they were rebels of the Polish State whom the Poles were entitled to suppress Of the 45000 missing there cannot possibly exist any evidence of their having been massacred until their bodies are found
