The Record Newspaper 06 June 1940

Full of his own importance, the sergeant-major was addressing a batch of new recruits

"Drill's important " he san "It develops the body Look at me!" he added, with a smirk 'Not so long ago I was said to have the finest chest of any man in the British Army!''

"And now it's slipped" sighed a voice from the bask of th group k k it

Hot words led t blows and-crah!

one man went flat on his back fror a straight left As he tried to get up, he was sent down again to the pave ment with a blow from a beer bottle

· Ere, wot's all this?" demanded policeman sternly

'E 'it me wiv a bottle " yelled the man on the ground 'Ow I never!" protested the other "I thought 'e'd fainted an' so I was fannin' im wiv the bottle when suddenlike e bobbed up!"

k • As he approached the barrack gte, the general stopped suddenly in front of the guard, I say, my man,''he said, "did I see you smoking?"

No, sir!"

I could have swrn I did!''

"That's all right, sir The last offcer who passed here swore he saw me sitting on a white elephant!''

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My husband plays the orgyan, you know ''

"Well, if things don't improve my husband will have to get one, too ke te #e

The little man who was the meek escort of the big woman in her ramble through the shopping establishment had fainted

"Is he subject to this sort of thing?' asked a shopwalker, as he rendered first-aid and motioned the crowd to stand back

"Not exactly '' replied the w man "He's a little nervous sometimes I tried to buy it without him eeing me, but he heard me give the order."

'Buy what?" asked the shopwalker suspiciously

A rolling-pin," said the woman k k The Scotsman staying on the twelfth floor of an American skyscraper looked out of the window and saw what he thou:ht was a threepenny-bit He ran down to the next floor and it looked like a sixpence On the next floor it seemed to be a shilling, and on the next half-rown

He took th lift to the ground floor ran out and found a dustbin lid

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Yes Mrs Jones, it's true my hus band has left his job in the bank, He thought it was his duty to enlist Anyway, he's burnt his bridges."

Oh, well, I shouldn't worry about that They I provide him with a uniform " k k k k

Sambo had found a job for the week with a railway gang, and was taking leave of his family when his wife came to the door

Come back. Sam You hasn't cut a stick of wood fo' de stoveand you'll be gone fo' a week!"

Sam turned and looked aggrieved

Honey " he said n a tone of injured innocence_ 'whot's de mattah? You talks as tiorh Ah was takin' d axe with me.'

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Slap n the stream of traffic, the baby car struck work, After fiddling about under the bonnet, the owner started cranking up all hot and bothered

Viciously, he turned the starting handle round and round Still nothing happened At last the patience of the next driver in line a lorrymangave out " 'Ere, guv'nor ' he said loudly, "why don't you buy ne of those eightday ones?"

"At twenty-six you left the fanm and came to the city And for thirty years you have been working like the dickens What for?

· To get enough mone to live in the country " k k k k

Mrs Brown met her former maid, now a married woman, and stopped for a chat "And how is your husband, May?"

she asked "It's like this," was the reply "He was on the PA C Then he joined the A R P , and now he s in the R A.S C. with the B E F trying to get the vC or the D CM and I've just been to the GPO to draw his ±sd.''

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She had just come over from Ire land, and a London mistress engaged her A bell hung in her room and the morning after her arrival her mistress rang it to awaken her

But the maid did not get up, though the bell rang repeatedly {

Finally the mistress rose herself and slipping on a dressing-gown, hastened to the new domestic's room There, wide awake, lay the maid, shaking with laughter What on earth are you laughing ot, Norah?" said the mistress "Faith, mum," answered Norah, "I'm laughin' at that bell As shure as I live I haven't touched it an'-just see -it's waggin' yet!"

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"I've just come from the beauty parlour Too bad they were closed" # #k The last time I was in pantomime, the people could be hard laughing a mile away" Really! What was going on there?"

t It's funny the way my plane rash ed. I got int an ai: pocket,' Ah and there was a hole in it?"

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The Scottish express was about to start when an old lady ran on to the platform in breathless haste The guard pounced upon her in a trice fairly lifted her into a carriage, and as he slammed the door the train moved out of the station

The first stopping-place was sixty miles down the line, and when the train arrived the guard saw the old lady getting out of her carrag> in a state of indignation, You almost missed it, ma'am,' h said 'Missed it!" burst out the td lady I only wanted to post a letter in the late-fee box in the train and no you've brought me here

t t Old Lady: "So vou're a mine-sweeper, are you? And where do you sweep the mines?"

Cautious Sailor "Oh, just round th top of them, la where the dust set ties."

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Boarding a bus in the black-out a woman found to her disgust that he was sitting next to a man evidently the worse, for drink She said in a loud voice: Do they allow drunken people to travel on these buses?"

The man roused himself and said ·'Not as a rule, lady, but if you sit there and keep quiet nobody'II notice."

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A doctor met two children in th street and asked them how they were "I don't think we'd better tell you," replied one child

"Why not?" asked the doctor "Father told us that when you called last month and asked how we were it cost him two guineas!"

k t A Chinese entered a jeweller's in Liverpool and asked to be shown some "welly good watches." The proprietor, a Jew, being absent the prospective customer was attended to by his daughter, who got out three watches, marked respectively £5, S4, and 3 10s The Chinese, after lookin: t tl:em closely, called the attention of the Jewess to a watch on a shelf behind her

As she turned to reach for it he placed the highest-priced watch in the place of the lowest-priced one, and, not caring for the watch now shown him said: "Me no likee; I takee cheap one,"paid £3 10s and left. Soon the girl discovered the deception, and told her father on his return "Never mind '' said he with a smile; ''dose vatches cost all de same bricetwo pound; but vat a scoundrel dat man must be!"

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Thursday, June 6, 1940

Religion is

Fundamental.

Perplexed," Lindfeld, NS W.

Would you kindly comment on the enclosed article?

The article is entitled "Pure Religion," and comes from the pen of the Rev J M Sands, B A ; I shall comment briefly on those portions of the article which seem best to express the author's point of view The remainder of the questions will be quotations from the article "Religion is of perennial interest Attempts are made to discredit it or destroy it, but without avail, Man, it is said is incurably religious " Correct Man is incurably religious because he is incurably rational "But his religion takes different forms according to the degree of his enlightenment, varying from the crudest ideas and simplest ceremonies to the most refined conceptions and elaborate ritual."

As it stands, that statement is ambiguous and true only in part If it means that religion itself is simply a matter of degrees of enlightenment so that the religion of the more enlightened will necess rily differ as a religion from that of the less enlightened, the statement involves the denial of all objective religion true in itself, independently of the varying degrees of knowledge which men may have of it In this sense the statement is false and has no foundation other than the irrational theories of Modernism Logicallv it leads to the denial of 'hritian revelation nd to the denial of the xisten i God If, however, it mean that not all the religions of men are equally true; that not all men have an equal understanding o the religion which is true, then it i entirelv reasonable

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What Is Religion?

"But what is pare religion? St, James says: 'Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction and to keep himself unspotted from the world " That i rther startling example of the selective u of a text with complete disr ;ard of it context, both in the Epistle o St. Jam and the whole teaching of the New Testament St James teach that belief without good work dead but he does not anywhere sug; st that belief is unnecessary, or that good works are a substitute r belief Nor does he teach that ritual worship is superfluous. On the contrarv he writes in Ch. V f his Epistle "Is there any man sick among you? Let him bring in the priest of the Church and let them pr: over him anointing him with oil in the n·me of the Lord. An the prayer of faith shall save the sick man: and the Lord shall raise him up and if he be in sins they shall be forgiven him'' (v 13-15) Our Lord Himself taught that belief in His whole teaching was necessary for salvation, Preach the Gospel to every creature" He said, "he that believeth and is baptised shall be saved; he that believeth not shall be condemned" (Mark xvi 15-16) He also taught that Faith, though necessary, was not sufficient: "Not evervone that saveth to Me Lord, Lord, shall be saved; but he that doth the will of My Father who is in heaven" (Matt vii, 21)

The earlier Protestants taught that good works were not ecessary; that faith alone was sufficient· the Modernists teach that what we believe does not matter; that good works are all that is required Christ Our Lord taught that both faith and good works were necessary for salvation; that it was necessary to believe and accept His whole teaching as objective and undiluted truth; and to obey His whole law Religion, then, consists not only in doing good to our fellow men; it consists in the recognition of God, in the recognition and fulfilment of our duties to God, to our fellow men for the sake ofGod, and to our own persons Given a Divine Revelation, it includes full acceptance of all that God has taught and the faithful observance of His law

Finally, it may be observed that the very text quoted by Mr Sands is meaningless without belief in a per- nal God, the recognitionof the fact that man has a duty to God, the recognition of the fact of sin and the luty to keep oneself free from it That is a luminous truth shining by its own light"

It s a most important truth, but it does not shine by its own light, for it is quite devoid of rational foundation unless one already accepts the existence of God, recognises a duty to God-a duty which includes the service of one's fellows but it is not restricted to such ["e: the Divinity of Christ and the evelation given to the world by Christ

Religion and Theology-

'It is necessary to distinguish between religion and theology "

Correct Religion is the link binding us to God, It is the sum total of our relations with God our Creator Redeemer, Sanctifier and Awarder It is the most fundamental of all the duties of man Theology is the scientific study of religion, both natural and revealed

connection is to decide which doctrines are essential and which are not Without an infallible teaching authority, founded and guaranteed by Christ Himself, the task would be a hopeless one, and it would be presumptuous of any private individual to attempt it We have such an infallible teaching author ity in the Catholic Church • # k k "No Theology!"

It arises largely from the failure to distinguish between religion and theology" In the Catholic Church there is none of the confusion of which Mr Sands

THREE theory of a Church, if Christ had remained on earth for an indefinite time, trying to induce men to love one another, He would have found it necessary to have some tests some methods, some way of distinguishing betweer tendencies that would ruin love and tendencies that would restore it You cannot make a success of anything, even loving entirely without thinking All this is so obvious that it would seem unnecessary to repeat it, and yet it is necessary to repeat it, for t is the flat contradiction of what is now incessantly repeated" ('The Thing," ch vii)

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Theology is a complex and ever-changing thing."

It is certainly complex-most sciences arebut Catholic Theology at any rate, is not an "ever changing thing'' in the sense that it is constantly changing its content; it changes only in the sense that it effects a wider and a deeper understanding of the same content

"Religion is simple"

That is a half-truth Religion is imple in the sense that the last and the least of men can and should practise religion, and are capable of a real though imperfect, understanding of the fundamental truths of religion, But if anyone imagines that all the truths taught by Our Lord are simple or that the full understanding of His 'w and its pplie tion to practical circumstance!: are always a simple matter he would be well advised to t ke up tbe New Testament and read it; fo- therein he will find a complete refat. t:on f his views k #

Some HalfTruths

complains, and the Catholic Church holds Theology in high esteem as the scientific study of revealed Truth Furthermore, it is really difficult to understand how the systematic study of the truths revealed bv God can lead to confusion On the contrary, Theology which is really Theology tends to eliminate confusion It would seem, then, that the real cause of confusion is elsewhere, namely, in the absence of any authoritative and infallible Guide in matters of religion and morals Beming Theology for the confusion in religion seems to me to be as foolish as blaming the study of law for the confusion that would follow in a country if the law courts were abolished and each citizen told to interpret the law for himself

Modernist Religion.

"The dispute between the fundamentalist and the modernist is not about religion, but about theology.''

'Religion is trust in God and love towards God"

Love of God and trust in Him, to be rational, or even possible, presuppose the firm nviction of the existence of God. We can scarcely love or trust in something which does not exist, or of whose existence we are doubtful Furthermore since God has in fact given a Revelation to the world, it is utle to speak of love of God and trust in Him, unless one firmly and unhesitatingly accepts the full doctrinal content of tht Revelation, for only then will love of God and trut in Him have a rational foundation, a meaning and a purpose; and only then will that love and trust be what God wishes it to be ''That does not change That was religion for Noah and Abraham, and is religion for men to-day It is the Faith delivered to the saints, and is the same yesterday, today and forever"

That is quite true as regards personal fidelity to, and practice of, religion The religious man is always one who really loves and obeys God But it is miles from the truth as regards religion in the objective sense of the term -the ensemble of truth to be believed and the laws to be obeyed For we possess what Noah and Abraham did not possess, namely, the fulness of the Divine Revelation brought to us by Our Lord Jesus Christ, Christ made known to us many truths which were unknown to Noah and Abraham; He completed and perfected the Old Law; and told men what they must believe and do in order to obtain salvation We are therefore bound to believe the full Revelation of Christ and to be faithful to the full law of Christ It is futile to speak of true religion and genuine love of God if we refuse to do so.

Scissors and Paste

There is a good deal of confusion in regard to what is essential and what is not "

The teaching of Jesus Christ is Divine Truth in its every detail and, therefore, any distinction between what is essential and what is not essential in the teaching of Christ would be quite unwarranted and an insult to Christ Himself, if it means that we are free to accept some of His teachings as essential and to reject others as of no great value It is true that some doctrines are more important than others in the sense that thev are the key" doctrines and provide the explanation of the others The doctrines of the Fall and the Redemption are instances in point It is also true that not all the teachings, laws and counsels of Our Lord are equally necessary for salvation. But that does not give any man the right to discard one iota of them Moreover, the great difficulty in this *

Speaking of the modern outcry against Creed and Theology the late G K Chesterton wrote: It is exactly as if someone were to sav about the science of medicine, 'AII I ask is Health; what would be simpler than the beautiful gift of Health? Why not be content to enjoy forever the glow of youth and the fresh enjoyment of being fit? Why study dry and dismal sciences of anatomy and physiology why enquire about the whereabouts of obscure organs of the human body? Why pedanically distinguish beetween what is labelled a poison and what is labelled an antidote Away with your priestly apparatus of stethoscopes and clinical thermometers, with your ritualistic mummery of feeling pulses, putting out tongues, examining teeth and the rest!" There mav be and there has been pedantry in the medical profesion There may be and there has been theology that was thin or dry or without consolation for men But to talk as if it were possible for any science to attack any problem, without developing a technical language and a method always methodical and often minute, merely means that you are a tool and have never really attacked a problem at all Quite apart from the

That statement is itself one of the conclusions of Modernist theology,'' and it is not true The Fundamentalist and the Modernist disagree radically about the very notion of religion For the Fundamentalist, as for practically the whole of Christendom until the advent of Modernism at the beginning of this century, religion is the recognition, love and worship of a personal God, present in us, but also external to us, and transcending us Immeasurably by the very infinity of His Being The Fundamentalist admits the existence of an external Revelation given to the world by Jesus Christ For the Modernist, on the other hand, religion is simply a manifestation of life; it is an inner sense of the heart,'' a vague something welling up within us from the fathomless depths of the subconcious This something, which is called the "Divine," is the reality of God (and of the universe) making immediate contact with our consiousness in the inner sense of the heart." It is fundamentally the same in all men, according to the Modernists; but men, in striving to give expression to their inner religious experience, ve rise to the various religions, creeds and theologies of the world A rding t the Modernist Christ was a mere man; He did not give us any Revelation of God objectively and in itself true; He simply gave us the expression of His own outstanding "religiou: experience I do not think it necssary then t comment further on the article vou submit, While it contains much that is true and of great value, it is viti ted as a whole bv the theories f M. dernism Modernism is simply th applicationof irrational and ob lete agnostic and pantheistic ideas to Christianity It leads directly to the destruction of Christianity and of all religion, which is really religion and not simplv a "funnv internal feeling;' and ultimately to atheism

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]A Warning

"Apostle of the Redeemer," Sydney "This is my last warning: Join Jehovah's Witnesses" I am afraid your warning hts fallen on deaf ears for I hope to retain some degree of common sense and sanity for yet many years Are you not convinced that Armageddon is near? No. Judge" Rutheriord's prophecies have so often failed to eventuate that one can be pardoned for being a little sceptical Jehovah's Witnesses are not against Catholics but are merely exposing the Catholic clergy, priests and priestcraft, Fascism and Catholic Actionists "

Nor are Catholics against Jehovah's Witnesses" They are merely exposing 'Judge" Rutherford and his rather fanatical dupes; ignorance, superstition, sectarian venom, scurrilous lying, and propaganda subversive of all law and order k k t # A Sidelight on Nuns

"Nuns are female black-hooded vultures."

Nuns are women of good families who have consecrated themselves to God by the three vows of poverty, chastity and obedience They spend their lives in prayer in the education of children, in the care of the sick, the orphans, the social outcasts, the poor and the needy without looking for or receiving any earthly reward Your description of them is typical of the mean-spirited and malignant slanders that pour in such volume from the mouths of "Judge" Rutherford and his kind

"Are nuns as good as they are made out to be?"

That is rather a foolish question to ask after the charming description you have already given of them But even you should be able to judge the tree from its fruits or at least make an attempt to do so Visit the schools, the orphanages, the magdalen homes, the hospitals, the leper asylums, the homes for foundlings and the aged poor; think of the pioneering work of founding a Christian civilisation amongst the savages of the South Sea Islands and other uncivilised regions of the world See for yourself the lives of heroic self-sacrifice which these women lead If you have a shred of decency in you, you will blush with shame at the remembrance of the slanders which vou have uttered against them # "Judge" Rutherford's Absurdities'' "Are not all religions of the devil and formed by imperfect man?'

On Friday, March 29, according to newspaper reports, one of Jehovah's Witnesses" Charlie Barron Ennor was refused exemption from compulsory military training He claimed exemption on the ground that he was a 'minister of the Church of Jehovah." Now you cannot have it both ways: If all religions are "of the Devil and formed by imperfect man,'' then the Church of Jehovah" is of the devil and formed by mperfect man- a man so imperfect that he was forced by the United States Government to refund money he had swindled from unsuspecting American farmers, If the so-called 'Church of Jehovah" is not a religion, then its adherents have no right to claim exemption from military service on the grounds that they are ministers of religion Think it overSome Samples Your have submitted a number of questions which do not require an answer I shall content myself with reading some of them, and allow readers to form their own conclusions

(1) Is it not a fact that the Protestant and the Roman religions are only rackets, combined with politics and commerce?"

(2) "Who formed that other racket, the Presbyterian Church?"

(3) 'Are not all Presbyterian Churches only shacks?"

(4) "That scoundrel Dr Cosmo Lang the Archbishop of Canterbury, should he not be shot the same as the Pope?"

(5) "Are not Anglican Bishops black crows' in sheep's clothing?"

(6) "Why does not Archbishop Mowll become a Jehovah Witness and a true follower of God and the Theocracy? Is it too much pride?"

(7) "AII religionists are bad eggs' and black crows' and shall never be resurrected" "Religion is the 'theology' of the devil"

(8) "Does not President Roosevelt receive his orders from the Vatican?

(9) "Is not Chamberlain a rogue, and has he not a secret alliance with Hitler and the Pope?"

(10) "The Pope should be hanged drawn and quartered, as he will be and his 'College of Cardinals' and Jesuits at Armageddon,"

(11) "The Allies will lose this war Rome rules already," (12) "In one way I am glad that Capitalist England is to suffer" (13) "A1l the Lords Kings and Queens should be shot'' etc, etc, ete. People like 'Apostle of the Redeemer'' should be pitied rather than condemned But what is to be said of the men who take advantage of ignorant or unbalanced persons to fill their minds with such slanderous and sub versive rubbish for commencial or other purposes? In the main, Apostle of the Redeemer'' has merely repeat ed the anarchial and pernicious drivel of an American ex-convict and bogus judge which is blared forth from loud speakers in the streets, or broadcast over the air, and hawked from door to door by importunate peddlers

STATISTICS

CATHOLICS IN U S A NOW 21,403,000

Catholics in the United States, including Alaska and the Hawaiian Islands, now number 21,403,136, according to the newly-issued official Catholic Directory for 1940

Catholics are, therefore, almost a seventh of the total population of 137,000,000 They are the largest religious section of the community, the Baptists coming secondwitha[ittieover 8,000,000

Despite 73,677converts in the past year, the Catholic figure remains almost the same as theprevious year's (21,406,507) It is nearly 4,000.000 bigger than the 1920total (17735.553)

Clergy Total 33,900

Biggest Catholic centre is Chicago (1,400,000), but both Boston and New York top the million At the other end of the scale is the ecclesiastical territory of Belmont Abbey, North Carolina,under the jurisdictionof Abbot Taylor, 0 S B It has 686 Catholics

The archdioceses still number 19 butthedioceses have increasedby oneto 97. Active Cardinals, Archbishopsand Bishops total 134

The United States has 33,912 priests, an increase of372on the previousyear There are 18,733 parishes and missions

Seminariesnumber202;seminarians 17,087; universities colleges and high schools number 2237: students, 480,483; while there are 7,597 parish schools withmorethan2,000,000students EAST CANADIAN TROOPS 60 PER CENT CATHOLIC Catholics number 60 per cent of the dozen regiments from Montreal, according to Major C L Laurin, of Military District No 4 About 50 per cent of the soldiers are French Canadian CHINA'S CATHOLICS SHOW 28 PER CENT INCREASE IN TEN YEARS

Rome

During the ten vears ending June30, 1939 the Catholic population of China increased from 2,486,841 to 3,182,950, states the 1940 "Statistical Yearbook," publishedbytheJesuitsofShanghai There has also been a more than 50 per cent increase of mission forces

The numberof Chinesepriests hasgrownduringtheperiodfrom 1 369 to 2 026 and that of Chinese Sisters from 2,641 to 3,852 Great expansionhasalso taken place in themedicalandeducationalfields

100 PARISHES IN NAZ! "PROTECTORATE" HAVE NO PRIESTS

The Vatican radio stated on Tuesday night, May 14, that the German "protectorates" of Bohemia and Moravia are feeling "one of the most terrible effects of war -scarcity of priests " In one diocese 100 parishes have no priests

Thursday, June 6, 1940

THE RECORD

Mr. Chesterton Entertains TheImmortals

ASUDDEN, unusual and constraining silence had fallen on the whole company assembled in the celestial parlour of "The Sign of the Seven Stars,'' so that persons customarily gay now looked as solemn as owls and persons customarily solemn as owls now seemed lugubrious A few fidgeted Cervantes twitched his nose industriously at which Confucius stared in slant-eyed astonishment; Aristotle was jerking his head about as if he had water in his ears; Magnus O'Domhnaill appeared to be assiduously hypnotising a celestial fly that twinkled along the polished surface of the table; and Dr Johnson was slowly but surely working himself into an olympian, ursine wrath There was considerable cause for the constraint A gentleman, describing himself as s surrealist poet, a late arrival among the company, had sat down in prim triumph after delivering himself of one of the more famous of his compositions and the final words still echoed unhappily in the parlour of "The Sign of the Seven Stars": Magic lanterns and skinned microbes Revolving in gyres with tandems, Whereby involute hiccups Cross the Alps in state, And policemen chortling Tannhauser Ha! Ha! Just like that All along the ribbon-road Ding-dong! Poor pussy!

The poet was awaiting judgment fortunately on his poem only. At the door a bulky, rotund figure stood in lively meditation, blue eyes dancing behind pince-nez above an ancient Saxon moutache, and the leonine hair lifting gently n a breeze from the everlastingly unlit elysian fields

'Bless my soul," sighed Thomas Aquinas at the table, and he shook his head "Hve I heard aright"

"Bless my soul too, also nevertheless, likewise and therefore,'' growled Rabelais loudly and corsely, for I'm puzzled, perplexed, confused, confounded bewilderd befogged, obfuscated mystified and-"

"In a wrd," interrupted Magnus O'Domhnaill, 'you're moithered I am myself"

"Sir" bellowed Dr Johnson, addressing the shrinking poet, "your masterpiece is as original as my understanding is perfect It is nonsense.'

The figure at the door moved towards the table, at which space was cleared for him on two chairs, and drawling plet santly humming and hawing, he said: 'I agree, dear Doc tor, but- humfar be it from me to suggest that-hawnonsense cannot be a sign of intelligence It is as difficult to devise complete nonsense without a hint of meaning as it is to speak with consumm te sense without a hint of nonsenseunless of course ''

"As for the first part," cut in Aquinas, concedo As for the second part, negro, my dear Chesterton"

" unless, of course" drawled Chesterton blandly, "one possess an impeccable mind like our friend Thomas' "Ha,"' rapped out Cicero, "argumentum ad hominem"

"Free verse " Chesterton rolled on, 'is like free love: a contradiction in terms" He chuckled, and then blinking rapidly settled down to it in earnest while the surrealist, slumped in his chair between the protecting forms of nodding Homer and brisk Geoffrey Chaucer, wondered whether it was he really who had brought it all on "It is thought right," said the giant figure, "to discourage numbers of prosaic people trying to be-hum-poetical; but I think it much more of a borehaw-to watch numbers of poetical people trying to be prosaic I have always had the fancy that if a man were reallv free. he would talk in rhythm, and-hum-even in rhvme''

"If," said Aquinas, "I may quote our friend, Aristotle"

"You were always quoting me" said the Greek, with a quick side-glance

"I I may quote, I think I can understand You mean that since rhvthm and even rhvme are laws and since laws are the rule of reason, that man, being really free or completely controlled by reason, would-"

"Yes," chuckled Chesterton, continuing to cite some of his own essays, 'his most hurried postcard would be a sonnet; and his most hasty wires like harp-strings He would bre. the a song into the telephone; a song which would be a lyric or an epic, according to the time involved in awaiting the call; or In his inevitable altercation with the telephone girl, the duel would also be a duet If Mr Yeats can say, in exquisite verse, the exact number of bean rows he would like on his plantation, whv not the number of beans he would like on his plate? Ii he can issue a rhymed request to procure the honey-bee, why not pass the honey?"

By FRANCIS MacMANUS

"It makes poetry a bit vulgar, dosn't it," piped up the surrealist, before either Chaucer or Homer could restrain him

'True,'' said Yeats, arising as if from sleep and waving a stiff, admonitory forefinger "The poet descends low He forsakes the parnassian assembly"

Parnassian cliques!' barked Johnson You and thisthisthis vocabulary here, you all moved in cliques'

"Even God descended low," murmured John of the Cross

"This,'' said Chesterton, still quoting his own works, 'this is the paradox of the clique; that it consists of those who understand something and do not wish it to be understood; do not really wish it to be understandable But such a group must in its nature be small, and its tendency is to make the range or realm of culture smaller It consists of those who happen to be near enough to some unique or perverse mentality to guess that a man means something that as yet he cannot really say; just as a detective might be legitimately proud of having extracted some sort of valuable evidence from a lunatic who was deaf and dumb, But this does not make for the enlargement of the poet's power of expression or the public's power of appreciation The ideal condition is that the poet should put his meaning more and more into the language of the people, and that the people should enjoy more and more the meaning of the poet"

"Cliques," said Augustine of Hippo reflectively "pervert philosophy certainly They make it the privilege of the few, the secret mysterious possesion of the learned"'

"Cliques produce heresy,'' murmured Pascal no doubt recalling Port Royal

"Still'' conutered Goethe "cliques get work done By their unity their more or less common aim, they are enabled to leave a deeper impress than any of their contemporaries"

"What kind of an impress?" questioned Jerome of the Vulgate sharply They impress by deforming or exaggerating The Romanticists, I'm told, disembodied human love and even mingled with it a hate of the flesh Now »

'Manichees" muttered Aquinas remembering ancient debates and vietories in Paris of the schools

"And the realists," added Petrarch, "become childish barbarian bores by emphasising details that nobody is very much interested in about the colour of a lady's eyes and the exact size of her shoe-leather"

"I never did like the realists," remarked Ambrose of Milan 'I preferred the real Realism is a mere fashion

"Perhaps,'' shrilled Chesterton-and they all knew that he was launching out and therefore they set their chairs and elbows for comfort"perhaps what we call realistic descriptions are bound to be conventional because they are bound to be fashionable They are bound-humto emphasise exactly the points which the next period would think unimportant Hence we have the paradox thathaw-the noblest compliments to women have not beenhaw-direct descriptions, but indirect descriptions.''

'Your diction lapsed," said Johnson Hush," said Homer "Even I nodded."

'The direct compliment-humwould deal with all the details that pass; the indirect compliment with the -hawimpresion which does not pass"

'Bravo, Signor Chesterton," called Dante from the farthest end of the table

"Archaeologists have worked outhuma complete theory of the costume of Helen of Troy, which seems to have consisted of a straw sun-bonnet, a Zouave jacket, and high-heeled shoes If Homer-"

"What's that?" asked Homer

'If Homer had written a realistic description, it would have seemed to us a rather vulgar description The dress of the fourteenth century was more dignified, but not more natural; and if Dante-haw-had described Beatrice in the exact garb she wore it might have seemed to us at once extravagant and stiff Butages shall pass and c'vi lisations shall perish, and time shall never turn the keen edge of that great indirect compliment, that older and wiser fashion of describing the effect and not the external instruments As when Dante, seeing his lady upon the height felt only like the legendary monster whom the taste of a strange

food had turned into a god Or Homer was content to let us listen to the grumbling of the Trojans against the cause of the Trojan War, and then to that great sudden silence that fell

The Ven Joaquina Vedruna De Mas, ioundress of the Spanish Carmelites of Charity, who was proclaimed Blessed in St Peter's on Trinity Sunday, wished as a girl to become a nun, was rejected and was married to a young man who wanted to become a Franciscan

It was only after many vicissitudes that she was able to found her community, which developed into the first religious order established in Spain for the education of girls

At the age of 12 she knocked at the door of a convent She was turned away as an over-enthusiastic girl She waited; but when she had reached the age at which she thought her request would be granted her parents arranged a marriage for her

Her bridegroom, Don Teodoro de Mas, unknown to her, had aspired to the religious life However, being the heir to a nobleman and to a great estate, he yielded to his parents' desire that he should marrv

Thie marriage failed to bring them happiness, though they had several children and four of their daughters became nuns Throughout they both retained their vocations

upon them, full of light and understanding when Helen came forth upon the wall"

And such a silence, in which men sat still, fell upon the assembled company of "The Sign of the Seven Stars;" and even the surrealist poet was disc vering that there must have been something out of the ordinary in the poem that had brought the celestial house upon him-"The Irish Monthly."

NEW BEATA, FOUNDRESS, HAD BEEN REJECTED BY CONVENT

When Dona Joaquina was 33 her husband died He had been away irom home fighting the French invader, and had returned broken in health and financially ruined

Dona Joaquina was now free to enter the religious life, but before doing so she saw to it that her children's futures were assured, and in the meantime carried on work for the sick and dying

Discouraging Start

Her order started discouragingly; of her first nine postulants five failed to meet the requirements Once the communitv were forced to flee to France bv persecution in Spain

By degrees, however, the order came through its infancy triumphant The schools founded in Spain were extended to all Spanish-speaking countrnes

Her daughters were not members of her order, but it was in a convent of which one of them was superior that she died in 1854 at the age of 70 Cholera had broken out and manv victims were taken to this convent Mother Joaquina, who had gone there to rest, contracted the disease and succumbed to it

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Perhaps it would be even more interesting if the rules of the game did not bar anachronisms For example: what would have happened if Napoleon instead of Vercingetorix had met Julius Caesar's legions, when they came

By REV JAMES M GILLIS, CS P

the privilege of reading a manuscript lately in which the writer, William T Walsh, indulges in an imagary conversation with the shade of Orestes Brownson He tells that magnificent old campaigner, "We have twenty million Catholics now " And the ghost answers, "Is that all?"

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We have the radio But we haven't St Paul Perhaps that's the way God would have it He seems not interested in making things too easy He sends the man and not the machine, or the machine and not the man But I certainly would like to see that apostolic tornada St Paul back again and in front of a microphone At least, there's no law against imagining it However, even though we have no St Paul, we have a miraculous instrumentality for apostolic work Consider the Catholic Hour, with ninety-four radio stations in fortyone States of the Union, besides the District of Columbia and Hawaii Add a short-wave station (in Schenectady), which sends the message around the world It's enough to make St Paul sav, "I wish I were back again! Just let me at it!" But what about all of us imitation St Pauls? Why don't we get results? Don't we get results? Yes, of course we do, but I mean results proportionate to the advantage of that incredible mechanical miracle, the radio and the world-wide hook-up I had i

It's the "follow up" that counts We should have a staff of priests (priests, because the auestions that come in are largely theological) and with that staff a small cohort of secretaries and stenographers, research workers and others We should be able to send out not merely little pamphlets, but books gratis to any hearer who asks for them

The speeches in the studio are intended to be only the beginning of the work If we could follow them up, we might convert the world, even without St Paul

But the "If" that fascinates me is this: what would the Apostles have done-and especially St Paul-if they had had radio? Imagine a poor preacher going out to convert the world on foot and with no instrumentality except his voice and a quill pen Imagine, on the other hand, St Paul addressing forty or fifty million citizens of the Roman Empire instead of a couple of dozen on the Areopagus! All that bothered St Paul was that he hadn't time to get around Even the little time he had was curtailed because they put him in gaol so often And think of the tiny auditoriums in which he had to speak, synagogues in Philippi or Derbe, or Thessalonica or Lystra, to say nothing of smaller places not mentioned in the Acts of the Apostles But if he could have had a radio

EDITOR OF THE VATICAN NEWSPAPER.

Count dalla Torre

The small letter "t" is the only signature Count dalla Torre puts to his articles in the "Osservatore Romano "

But there is nothing small about the editor of the Vatican newspaper personally, either in his physical make-up or his moral courage In his middle fifties, he is on the tall side and very sturdy, and though in private he is gentle and courteous, he is always forceful both as writer and orator The little "t" has been making the minoritv of anti-clerical Fascists exceedingly wrathful

The "Osservatore" is not the official organ of the Vatican, any more than, say, the "Universe" is the official organ of the Hierarchy in England or "La Croix" that of the Hierarchy in France

There is no doubt, however, that Count dalla Torre always faithfully reflects the attitude of the Holy See towards international problems

LONDON PASSIONIST

ELECTROCUTED AT AN EVACUATION CENTRE.

London

Bro Abdon De Raet, member of the St Joseph's Retreat, Highgate, London, community for more than 20 years, was electrocuted while coiling up a broken telephone wire at Wisbech Cambs, where part of the St Aloysius' School has been evacuated He was 39 and came from Belgium

An inquest was held at Derby, where a verdict of death by mis° adventure was passed Solemn Requiem Masses were offered in the Wisbech church and at St Joseph's Retreat, both of which were attended by boys from the school The body was hrought to London for burial.

THE FACT OF CHRIST"

Broadcast Cathedral Fr Lalor's St. Mary's

THERE i� a lot of talk to-day about this war being a defence of our very civilisation itself-I think that is true, very true, and in this fateful hour when our armies are fighting grimly desperately against great odds and when every man and woman of the Empire has been called to share, too, in the defence of that civilisation, let us not forget that now, above all times, first things come first

We have been plunged almost overnight into a titanic struggle of life and death; into a war fought with diabolieal ferocity and ruthlessness, and the fate of our Empire and of the world order as we know t sways with the battlefront in Europe

Whatever the causes of this war the issue is clear enough nor is it against men alone that we fight, but against the Prince of this world and the Powers of Darkness The late Pope Pius XI before he died solemnly warned the world that that was the issue Our Western culture, Christian in its origin is being challenged by this Satanic pagan thing And the challenge to our Christian culture is a challenge to Christ

I have said that our Western civilisation is Christian n its origin-and all that we hold dear we owe to Christ. Our value, our standards, principles, morality, our very instinct is Christian Repudiate Christianity and you repudiate all that you hold dear; repudiate Christianity and you repudiate Christ; and the challenge to-day to our civilisation is in essence a challenge to Christ Ii that is the is sue of this present convulsive struggle so that too was its cause The conflict of ideologies has but brought to a terrific climax the disintegration of our Christian European culture a disintegration that began to blight our public and private life long years ago Men rejected Christ, and Christianity became but a name, a body without a vivifying soul whether in the sphere of public and private morality or in the sphere of social justice

Nor has our own young nation been immune t the devastating effects of this malaie However odious totali tarian regime: and dictatorships may be to our democratic sense, they owe their origin, their growth, and their strength entirely to the injustices and iniquities of a capitalistic system and its neo-pay;an culture that had itself long ago rejected Christian principles, and which is in practice in many aspects the very antithesis of Christianity Make no mistake about it-there is no alliance between the Catholic Church and a system which tolerates in the words of Pius XI, the injustice of a teeming mass of propertyless workers and poor on one hand and the superabundant riches of the few on the other, And just as strongly does the Catholic Church condemn those subversive movements whose aim is the overthrow of our democratic order and revolt against established authority There is still an alternative to the status quo that does not require the violent destruction of our democratic system, much less by forces in the pay of and under the direction of a foreign power

The Catholic Church has outlined this programme of social reform for all fair minded men to judge, and not content wIth merely condemning the abuses and injustices of the present order she has offered concrete positive suggestions as an alternative to Communism, the only other concrete solution proposed to-day

But if Christ and His teaching have been driven from the world of social justice they have been driven too from the sphere of public morality Is it Christian that a section of any Press should seem to live on the sordidness of life fling the minds of youth with the filth that is brought to light in the public courts? Is it Christian that the sacredness of marriage should be pilloried before them in a mvriad subtle ways? Is there a Christian homelife in any nation that has such an alarming problem of juvenile delinquency? What has happened to the public conscience of Christian countries that they tolerate to such an extent pornographic literature, indecent films, and advertisements? Yes, what Is the matter? there is no place or Christ in public life.

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And how often does He enter into our private life? How many homes have a crucifix in any room? Yet isn't the sign of the Christian the sign of the Cross

There is one fact in history that no man can deny the fact of Christ The fact that He lived and died, crucified, and rose from the dead again, that His life was and is the central fact of this great drama of human history All subsequent history has even been dated from the day He was born, History is His story Yet blindly closing their eyes to the fact of Christ men have denied Him And since our civilisation has been built up on what He taught and on His principles, when you deny Him and cease to practise His teaching can you wonder that satanic forces should challenge this soulless culture, this whited sepulchre that our Christian civilisation has become That is why if we would save our civilisation we must not only be prepared to defend our countryfor patriotism is a Christian virtuebut we must learn to live our Christianity once again, giving Christ the place in our public and private life that is His due, putting His teachings of Justice Justice! and of Love into practicefor in doing that alone will we revivify our Christian civilisation

And as if in answer to your resolve in future to put first things first, you have the words of Christ Himself to St John on the island of Patmos: "I am the First-and the Last!" And may we remember in this fateful hour His words to the Emperor Constantine on the field of battle: "In this sign thou shalt conquer" the sign of the Cross!

Recent Additions to the Central Catholic Library

Biography:

"AI This and Heaven Too" (Rachel Field)

"Tales oi an Empty Cabin' (Grey owl Travel:

"Broken Pledges' (Philip Gibbs)

Fiction: The Commander Shall' (Humfrey Jordan) Take Courage" (Phyllis Bentley)

Cypher 'K' ("Taffrail") Te Lonely Bungalow" ("Taffrail")

"AII This and Heaven Too" (Rachel Field)

Here is a novel in the grand tradition of story-telling It tells the story of a woman's life and the strange events 1n which she innocently becomes involved

It is the story of a young French governess who through no fault of her own is involved in a great scandal in the household of the Duc and Duchesse de Praslinin whose service she is engaged-and then in the murder of the Duchesse, a murder case which rocked French society and echoed throughout the world

From an everyday governess Henriette Desportes becomes one of the most notorious figures in France During the trial in which she is accused of being an accomplice of the Duc she showed such unflinching courage and integrity that she finally defeated her prosecutors After the trial she went to America, where she married the Reverend Henry Field a preacher, editor and writer The story of their life as told by her great-nieceRachal Fieldis based on fact and family legend

The book is very well written and holds the interest of the reader throughout It s said that truth is stranger than fiction and one is ready to believe this saying after reading Rachel Field's latest publication-M P R

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Miracles and AutoSuggestion

The central concept of modern medical psychology is that of the unconscious and its influence on conscious activities It aims at influencing conscious life through the unconscious This may be done by the method of avowed suggestion either "hetero" or auto" The best-known modern exponent of this method is Baudouin, of whom the late lamented Emile Coue was the charming and enthusiastic apostle According to the various schools of analytical psychology, treatment should consist not of suggestions by the conscious mind to the unconscious, but of a resolution of the conflicts which exist in the latter

Now the central idea of Christian Science in this connection is that disease does not exist except as an illusion of mortal mind The sufferer is not ill; he believes he is When he has rid himself of this illusion the cure is effected

On Mrs Eddy's hypothesis, failure is simply an nability to see the truth To those who reject that hypothesisincluding, obviously, all philosophical realists, the whole of the medical profession and most people who have ever had toothachethe cure has to be explained in another way

We mav sav that while it is not true that disease is unreal, it mav be true that the maladv of any particular person has its origin in the imagination and may find its cure in the same quarter

That would be a perfectly orthodox answer from the point of view of a suggestionist Alternatively we may say that, although the patient was ill, the powerful imaginative suggestion of a state of health has been sufcient to substitute that condition for the preceding one of illness What is clear is that an essential feature of any cure which is to be compared with those recorded in the literature of Christian Science in a denial of illness

But this is precisely the opposite of what happens at Lourdes Those who have assisted at the Benediction of the Sick will know with what emphasis in all languages the priests declare: "Lord, he whom Thou lovest is sick" Not for a moment is the pilgrim allowed to deceive himself into the belief that he is well, that his malady is a delusion The Christian Scientist must renounce the materialist science of the medical profession, but the pilgrim to Lourdes is encouraged to have the most precise definition of his malady by the physician before he sets out

To imagine a medical bureau in a Christian Science centre is to perceive at once the incompatibility of the two things we are discussing However we are to explain Lourdes it cannot be brought under the same heading as Christian Science

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IMPRESSIVE SCENES AT HIGHGATE.

The Quarant Ore devotions, which commenced in Highgate at the conclusion of the Sacred Heart Novena, were brought to an impressive close on Sunday afternoon, when a very large crowd attended the annual Eucharistic procession morning, and in the evening, before the Blessed Sacrament exposed on the altar, Rev Father Wallace, Adm., renewed the consecration of the parish to the Sacred Heart Special prayers for peace were offered during the Novena Forty Hours' Adoration

On the Friday morning, the Forty Hours' Adoration commenced with Solemn High Mass sung by Rev Father Wallace On Saturday morning the Missa Cantata was sung by Rev Father Lalor

On Sunday the Solemn High Mass at ten oclock was sung by Rev Father Hussey Throughout the Fortv Hours a constant stream of adults and children came to pay homage to their Eucharistic King enthroned on the altar, which was beautifully decorated by the Sisters

The music at the three Masses was Gregorian, and beautifully rendered by the girls and boys from the schools in the parish, with Miss Isobel O'Dwyer as organist Many of the children came from distant homes, and they and their teachers are to be congratulated on their splendid achievement Procession

The final ceremonies began at 330 on Sunday afternoon, with the annual procession of which the Highgate parishioners are so justly proud Long before the appointed time, the church was crowded with the Children of Mary and the members of the women's Sacred Heart Coniraternitv

The front seats were reserved forthe Holy Angels,who actedas flower-strewers They presented a beautiful sight-eighty-five of the smaller girls from the schools dressed in white, with white veils and red cloaks

The Holy Name men and the boys from the Christian Brothers' school assembled in the grounds outside the church and formed a guard of honour for thearrival of His Grace the Archbishop

Punctually at 330 pm , the head of the procession moved off from the front gates of the church The Christian Brothers' bovs and the convent school children were followed bv several hundred members of the Sacred Heart Confraternity The Holy Name men came next, marching in fours and reciting the Rosary together Behind the men came the Children of Mary,whose singing was a feature of the procession Then camethe Holy Angels, and after them the priests, who were immediately in front of the canopy, which was carried by prefects of the Holy Name Societv The altar boys formed a guard on each side of the canopy.

His Grace the Archbishop carried the Blessed Sacrament, and was attended by Rev Father Cahill CSSR deacon and Rev ] Rafferty, sub-deacon Other priests present were Rev Fathers Duffy, CSSR, Collins, Lyne, Lynch, McGillicuddy, Brosnan, and Murrav

The procession proceeded down Mary-street and into the Convent grounds In the' school pavilion an altar had been beautifully prepared by the Sisters and children The large crowd knelt reverently as His Grace carried the Blessed Sacrament into the pavilion, where Benediction was given The Sisters and the Children of Mary combined to sing the Benediction music and then all joined in a hvmn in honour of the Blessed Sacrament as the procession moved into Harold-street, on the return to the church The Holy Name men again formed a guard oi honour in the church grounds and sang "Faith of Our Fathers" as the Blessed Sacrament was borne aloft through their midst and into the church The concluding prayers of the Forty Hours' Adoration and Benediction brought the ceremonies to a close

An outstanding feature of the procession was the reverent and devotional fervour with which the hymns were sung and the prayers recited along the entire route

Thursday, June 6, 1940

Catholic Women's League

ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING

The annual meeting of the Catholic Women's League was held in the Cathedral Hall on Tuesday, May 28 His Grace the Archbishop, accompanied by Ver Rev Father Haugh, OM I , presided over a gathering of about 90 members 1After HisGrace had recited the opening prayers, the minutes of the last annual meeting were read by Mrs Jenkin The President thanked His Grace for his presence there that even ing and for the interest he had taken n the League, She also expressed her gratitude to the Chaplain, Very Rev Father Haugh, for his help and advice; to 'The Record'' for the manner in which it had published all League notes, to Miss Dunne and the staff at the Church Office, for the assistance at all times given, and to Very Rev Dr Kennedy, ior the use of the Cathedral Hall for monthly meetings Lastly, she thanked the members of all the branches for their loyalty to the executive Mrs Maxwell said she was pleased with the progress of the League during the vear She reminded critics that the members were the 'Marthas" of the organisations of the Archdiocese and she hoped that the "Marys'' were praying for them Before concluding she detailed the work for the coming week She then asked the secretary (Mrs Noonan) to read the year's report

Secretary's Report

It has been most gratifying to peruse the ist of the activities of the Catholic Women's League during the past twelve months and the following re port will, I hope, satisfy all members that the progress of this young organisation ha: been substantial

During the year the executive has met in the League Rooms on the first Monday of each month The attendance has been good The general meeting has been held on the fourth Wednesdy of the month We have been greatly hampered by not having a room lars enough to accommodate the increasing membership, We have been forced to hire a room, which is a strain on our slender resources. We wish to express our gratitude to our chaplin, Very Rev Father Haugh, for his attendance and advice to us at the meetings

Two members, Mesdames T F, Davies and R A Davidson have resigned from the executive, and our untiring worker Mrs Conway, has passed to her eternal reward

Mesdames Maxwell and Hunt have represented the League on the National Council of Women, and Mrs Keenan on the Womens Service Guild. Our President, too, has been our representative on a great many occasions when the women's organisations have been summoned to deal with matters pertaining t. the civic welare

New branches have been opened at Kalgoorlie, Leederville Nedlands, Queen s Park, Victoria Park, end Guildford We are indebted to His Grace for the financial assistance given us in the opening of the Kalgoorlie Branch

The League now has a membership of 00 and 16 branches Most of the branches have worked earnestly during the year, and have given the greatest Support to every movement sponsored by the executive A few only have suffered from inertia.

Welfare committees are operating in practically every parish where a branch has been formed Mrs, Ballard, the general president of this movement, has done admirable work in the formation of the committees, and we regret that she finds it necessary to resign her position Under her direction many poor and needy families in town, suburbs, and country have been supplied with clothing boots and food A few have been assisted financiallv When called upon, either by the St Vincent de Paul Society, or by the Social Service Department of the Perth Hospital, or by the Police Department the Wel fare Committee has rendered invaluable assistance We are indebted to Mrs Keenan for the gift of a sewing machine for use in the League Rooms

The Perth Hospital is visited every week by a member of the League, and on one afternoon each fortnight a faithful band dispense afternoon tea there under the auspices of the Red Cross So ciety The Home of Peace is visited weekly and at Christmas time the League provided gifts of cigarettes, handkerchiefs, soap and sweets for every inmate A member is responsible also for reading to the aged blind at Victorid Park on one afternoon each week

The sewing circle has sent to Clontarf Orphanage during the year 84 shirts, to Castledare one dozen pairs of knitted

socks, and to the Foundling Home parcels of baby clothing Castledare Gift Day was organised by the League and the result was a financial success

The bridge circle has continued its activities during the year, and every Tuesday evening there are excellent teachers present to coach the would-be players

The League has pursued its policy of helping every organisation which, like itself is working ter the amelioration of the suffering of humanity, irrespective of race or creed This work has made us take an active part in the street colI-ctuns, and we have to cu credit the raising in this way of over £150

Since the outbreak of war the League has come to the fore in its efforts to help in every movement of a patriotic nature, and the response of the members has been really marvellous By signing the Women's Voluntary Register for National Service, a great number of members have pledged themselves to service that will extend to any national emergency Mesdames Maxwell and Noonan represent the League on the Department of Information, which has been formed for the dissemination of factual matter regarding the war,

Last December we raised £50 4s 10d for the Lady Gowrie Red Cross Fund

We were also responsible for the furnishing of the chap'ein's room at the Nortam hut

We are aiding the Citizens' Reception Committee with the entertaining of solicrs going overseas. Our depot is at the Cathedral Hal, kindly lent us free of charge by the Ax bishop, and here we provide refresh:aent: and entertainrent for the men, We have already cat red for ov»r 600 soldiers in this manner, and have assisted at the Soldiers' Buffet at Anzac House, and when called upon will take our place again in the roster arranged for catering for the soldiers who are stationed in the metropolitan camps.

A committee has been formed with Mrs Ryan as convener, for the providing of camp comforts for the soldiers A bridge party organised by Mrs J J Farrell recently raised £5 12s tor this purpose

During the year we have realised how imperative it is that we should have a arge room in a central position in town for our meetings, and we hope that in the very near future our funds will permit of this

The members of the executive by their personal efforts this year have raised £27 for the League

I cannot conclude this report without a word of appreciation for our worthy President Ever at her post, she has staunchly upheld our motto, Charity Work, Loyalty " Our thanks too, are due to the office-bearers and members of the various branches, who have co-operated with the executive and h. ve done so much to lighten their work

This much we have accomplished, but in the days that lie ahead of us we know we will be called upon to face many grave and difficult problems and I am sure the Catholic Women's Leaue of Western Australia will not flinch before the task, but will be an inspiration to all in its loyalty and devotion to Church State and Empire

The Treasurer, Mrs A Davies, read the balance sheet for the year Archbishop's Address

His Grace the Archbishop then addressed the meeting He was delighted with the report of the secretary, and with the treasurer's statement of accounts He was most anxious that the membership of the League would increase, and intended taking steps to assist in such en increase He hoped that Father Haugh would make the opening of branches in the country districts a plank on his missionary platform To Father Haugh he was deeply grateful for the interest and attention he had paid to the League during the vear His Grace congratulated the executive on its many activities, especiallv mentioning his pleasure in the activities of a patriotic nature and in the work connected with the Home of Peace He was delighted at the progress of the Welfare Committees for this part of the work was very dear to his heart-the work that had been so ablv done bv the St Vincent de Paul Women's Society in former years He understood well the handicap the League was under in not having larger rooms and hoped that it would soon be able to secure more convenient quarters Lastly he paid a tribute to the zeal and energy of Mrs Maxwell and of the executive The League had made extraordinary progress since its (Continued on Page 8, Column 1 )

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Official Organ of the Archdiocese of Perth. Established 1874

PERTH, THURSDAY, JUNE 6, 1940

RETURNING TO GOD

Last week a National Day of Prayer was observed throughout the Commonwealth, and the leaders of all religious denominations report that the response was generous to the point of surprise So much so, that the practice is to be continued during the present month Since that time the fortunes of war have weighed heavily against the Allied causeand the speech of the British Prime Minister indicates that the hour of peril s very real We can at least be thank'ul that no responsible person has attempted to minimise the gravity of the present situation But the difficulty arises as to how the people at large can be told the whole truth and yet preserve their courage and morale, and it is here precisely that the Churches and not the politicians will find their sphere of influence, for without unreasonable pessimism there s a duty upon the Christian Church to preparethe people spiritually for a possibility of defeat,and the only practical way of doing this is toattempt to show our materialistic civilisation that our destinies are shaped by something greater and more abiding than men or machines or money God is not less supreme because men are prosperous or complacent or just sheerly ignorant God holds our race in the hollow of His hand and His Will shall be done, be it positively or permissively

In times of universal stress or of impending calamity t is quite usual to find a mass revival which turns towards God But the experience of the past warns us against receiving these manifestations as evidenceof agenuinefundamental change of heart and still less of a permanent religious awakening Indeed in one sense it is a craven attitude which impels men to turn towards God only when everything human has failed It is little more than spiritual opportunism that seeks favours from a neglected God only in the hour of trouble and when self interest is threatened Yet at such a time and in such a mood, the beginnings of the Christian revolution may be made The very fact that peopledo turn towards God at all is most striking evidence that religion is a fundamental necessity of human nature, that deep down men realise they are not sufficient unto themselves, and that ultimately in the testing hour all the paganism and materialism in which our civilisation is steeped has failed to bring about a permanent apostasy on the part of the masses The inevitable reaction to war and to defeat, real or imminent, s one of spiritual bankruptcy and moral anarchy It is a time of abandon when the things of the spirit are jettisoned precisely because many lack any religious certainty whatever, while many again, even of those who profess the Christian Faith to some extent or other, have not that vividness of conviction sufficient to withstand the fundamental test of death and final disaster

Now, and in the aftermath of this war, then, is a time of immense and immeasurable opportunity for Catholic Action Never before did the riches of Catholic Truth stand out in such relief as against the absolute spiritual pauperism of a world in which the Church must work Thespirit ofabandon can be checked only by those who can offer men strong religious certainties and who can discern a Divine pattern and plan even among the ruins of civilisation It will not be possible,of course, to win theassent of all men to the full truth of the Catholic Faith, but it should be possible largely to restore those fundamental notions which are essential to the sanityof man, to the savingof him from despair, and to his reconciliation with God These are, briefly belief in the existence of God, in His providence over the world,and His Commandments; some knowledge of the life of Jesus Christ, of His Divinity, of the significance of His Death; of repentance for sin; and of the efficacy of prayer The artificial separation moreover of religion from the rest of human activity must cease We must bring God back nto all our ways, firstly nto the lives of individuals, and of families, and so ultimately into the whole character of society, of government, and of world affairs Whatever be the proximate causes of this or of any war the ultimate diagnosis points to the universal fact of sin and the rejection of God, and the task of world reconstruction will not come about through blind evolutionary forces, but only through the efforts of men of good will who have recognised the Sovereignty of God and the Kingshfp of Christ

DIOCESAN HYMN CARD

With the object of promoting congregational singing, particularly at Benediction, a new hymn card has been prepared for use in the Archdiocese

The need for this card arose when it was discovered that the Cathedral congregation was not only ready to sing all the hymns and other material necessary at the Sunday evening devotions, but that they did so with enthusiasm This has been particularly the case at the Holy Hour when the singing of the large congregation is most impressive

It soon became apparent that the few hymns that are known to all would be insufficient and as a result this new card was drawn up It contains all the hymns best known to everybody, plus others sufficiently well known to sing if the words are available and a number of others that, while new, are easy to sing and suitable to our day

There is sufficient material to cover most activities for the different times

Very Rev John Meagher, SJ., Provincial of the Jesuit Fathers is at present visiting Perth He is the guest of the Rector and staff at St Louis College, Claremont k te » In the home of Mrs C Cripps, of Ogilvie, on May I2, a very sucessful house party was organised by Mesdames Martin and Cripps for the purpose of helping the Red Cross Funds and the C.WO, Comforts Funds As a result the half share (£2 6s 3d) has been forwarded to the CW O through Rev Father Langmead To this is added the sum of 1/9 by a "Friend" irom Ogilvie # #k st k Additional donations to the Capel Church extensions list, published last week include £5 from Miss Cohelli and £2 2s from W H Glendon kt k Solemn Requiem Mass for the repose of the soul of Rev Dr J T McMahon's mother, who died on May 22 at Lehinch, Eire, will be celebrated in St Columba's Church, South Perth, on Saturday, June 8 at 930 a m

u uu,1111uo u,u 1 11 • uuuuuu,, � t i i PRAYERS FOR AIN ; :

f In view of the urgent neces- i i sity oft rain in the country dis- i tricts, His Grace the Arch- j [ bishop has ordered the prayer ; j "ad petendam pluviam" to be ; j said in the Mass as an Oratio i j Imperata tamquam pro re ; i gravi Priests are requested to j i exhort the faithful to include i ; this intention in their private i [ vo@om j

SUNDAY, JUNE 9, AT ST MARY'S CATHEDRAL

Masses will be celebrated at 7 8, 9, 10 with Missa Cantata at I1 a.m, at which St Mary's Cathedral Choir, under the direction of Rev A Lynch, will render the "Missa Patriarchalis' of Monsignor Perosi, The Motet at the Offertory will be "Ave Maria," by Victoria

CANADA'S FIRST SHRINE IS ONCE MORE IN JESUIT HANDS

Toronto

Canada's oldest shrine and the oldest permanent historic monument in Ontario, Fort Sainte Marie at Martyrs' Shrine, near Midland, is once again in Jesuit possess1on

It was from this fort that Jesuit missionaries went out to receive martvrdom from the Red Indians It was made a pilgrimage centre by Urban VIII in the first Papal Brief to Canada issued in 1644

The fort at one time included a cas1on of the annual Festa in honour church, hospital, school, and reof St Anthony, treat house It became Crown June 16: Canonical Visitation and Con- property when the Jesuits were firmation at Shenton Park expelled in 1800 and now after June 1923: Attend Jubilee Celebrations years of effort has been brought at Beagle Bay Mision back It s to be reconstructed.

of the year, plus a few necessary Latin hymns: the Adeste, the Stabat Mater, and, of course, the O Salutaris, Tantum Ergo etc In short all that is necessary for all sodalities and general purposes may be found on one folded card. The accompaniments for all these hymns will be issued separately

The schools will also find that the card will satisfy an essential demnd of the scheme ior equipping the children to take their part in the Church's devotions Best of all it will eventually bring about uniformity throughout the Archdiocese in hymn-singing, and thus always ensure inspiring singing at any big demonstrations of faith that are held

Owing to the large number of cards being printed the cost willbe very low, so that every church and school will have no difficulty in equipping themselves with these hymn-cards and the accompaniment

SIGRID UNDSET, NORWEGIAN WRITEK, ESCAPES

Mme Sigrid Undset, the wellknown Norwegian Catholic writer and Nobel Prizewinner for literature, arrived at Stockholm on Wednesday, 8th ult., after escaping from her home at Lillehammer, Norway

She had an adventurous journey to Sweden, partly on skis

BELGIUM HAD ITS HOLY BLOOD PROCESSION

The annual Procession of the Holy Blood took placeas usual at Bruges, Belgium, on Monday, May 6, four days before the German invasion The town was on holiday and the gaily decorated streets were crowded with visitors for the occasion

Archbishop Micara, Papal Nuncio in Brussels, officiated at openair Benediction in the market place

BEREAVEMENT

Mrs E M Shine and family desires to THANK all kind friends for offering of Masses, letters, cards and personal expressions of sympathy in their recent bereavement

DEATH

SHINE-Of your charity, pray for the soul of Bartholomew Shine who departed this life on May 12 1940 May his soul and all the faithful departed rest in peace IN MEMORIAM

GAYNOR In loving memory of our dear wife, mother, and sister, Catherine who departed this lifeon June 10 1939 R I P Eternal rest grant to her, O Lord. Inserted by her loving husband, John, son, Ed, and Elsie, and sisters Johanna (Kalgoorlie) and Annie (Melbourne)

FRANCI-In loving memory of my nephew, Denis John, who departed this life on May 30, 1939, at the age of 15 R.IP -Inserted by B Croxton

QUARANT ORE

JUNE

Sunday 2nd Claremont: One Day of Exposition 3rd Merredin: One Day of Exposition

4th Collie: One Day of Exposition.

5th Osborne Park· Fort H r" Praver (28th -30th)

The Very Rev. Father E. Moss Celebrates His Silver Jubilee

On Sunday, June 2, His Grace the Archbishop presided at Solemn High Mass in the Church of the Holy Rosar, Nedlands, the occasion being the liturgical celebrations of the sacerdotal silver jubilee of Very Rev Father E Moss His Grace was assisted by Rev Father J Fahey, D S O., and Very Rev, A Kelly, S J The celebrant of the Mass was Rev Father Moss; deacon, Rev Dr J McMahon; sub-deacon, Rev Father OReilly

The choir, under the direction of the Loreto Sisters was composed of pupils of Loreto Convent, Webster-street, and oi St, Therese's School, Tyrell-street

We cannot allow this occasion to pass without offering to the Sisters of Loreto our most sincere thanks and to the members of the choir our congratulations for their finished nd beautiful siaging of the Plain Chant and in particular for their very excellent and liturgical rendering of the Proper of the Mass The occasional sermon was preached by Rev Dr McMahon, who took for his text: Designated by God as High Priest"St Paul's Epistle to the Hebrews, ch v verse 10

The catechism asks "How did Christ redeem us?" And it answers: "He redeemed us by His sufferings and death on the Cross" At the Last Supper, Our Blessed Lord offered His life to His Eternal Father, and that life was accepted, and that offer was ratified, when He poured His Precious Blood on the Cross where He experienced not merely the physical sufferings, but something far more terriblethe mental anguish, the desolation by His Father Who looked upon His Body hanging upon the Cross as the standard bearer of sin, and therefore It was accursed in His sight That suffering of the mind drew from Our Blessed Lord that piteous cry: "My God, My God, why hast Thou forsaken Me?" That was the ransom paid not with gold and silver, but with the Precious Blood of Jesus Christ.

The Mystical Body of Christ So redemption was won Now that act of sacrifice lasted but a few hours but, my dear people, the sanctification of man must last as long as time lasts To have brought us back is not enough We must be sanctified if we are to be saved And so Our Blessed Lord, the Great High Priest remains with us still invisible, yes, but with us still until the world is sanctified He works that sanctification through that glorious and consoling doctrine preached by the Apostle Paul which we know as tho 3Mystical Body of Christ St Paul likens the Mystical Body of Christ to the union which exists between the head and the bodv and its members Now we know quite well that we cannot lift our hand without direction from the head We know that if any part of our body suffers, the rest of the healthy parts of the body rush to ease rt and to sympathise with it Our Blessed Lord spoke of the Mystical Body thus: "I am the vine. vou are the branches" We have watched a branch of the vine as the buds come first, then the blossoms. then the fruit Al] that is possible because the life-giving sap flows from the parent stem out to the branches Christ is the Head, the Church is the Body, we are the members. The work of sanctification will not be complete until each one of us has reached the stage of salvation, and so the priesthood of Christ is perpetuated It continues as He works through the visible priesthood He looks upon the visible priesthood as representing Him You have heard vour priest at the baptismal font say, "I baptise" You have listed to his consoling words in the secret of the confessional when he avs: I absolve," and sometimes the whispered words of the Consecration reach you when he saves: "This is Mv Bodv, This is My Blood." Christ. the Invisible Priest, is standing there with him Nay the Invisible Priest uses the lips of is visible priest on earth to pronounce those sentences-the sentence of cleansIng us from sin and the sentence that brings down upon the Altar the Living God under the appearance of bread and wine

Such, my dear people, is the dignity o1 priesthood The priest is, as it "ere another Christ He represents hrist The priests are here visibly, but it is the Great High Priest who works through them, using them to bring that sanctifiration to all men I t1 • sing them to complete the Mvstical ods of Christ.

Congratulations to Father Moss

For twenty-five years, my dear people of Nedlands, your beloved pastor, Father Moss, has stood at the altar, and in obedience to the command of Christ to all priests of His Last Supper, he has pronounced those words which have brought the Living God down upon the altar under the appearance of Bread and Wine

During this last week many tributes have been paid to him You have thanked him for his zeal within your parish You have thanked him for that great big human heart that he has, that expresses itself in sympathy, in the encouraging word, in doing the silent good deed You are grateful to him for many things, but let me assure you, my dear people of Nedlands, that Father Moss' greatest service to you is when representing the Great High Priet, he stands at the altar each morning, and pronounces those terrible words that compel the God of Heaven to come upon the altar and there he builds bridge for his people, between his people and their God, and his remembrance of you that his prayers have made at that moment are his greatest service to you

And while congratulating him on his twenty-five years of priesthood, may I from him, express a word of thanks for the enthusiastic way you have received the news and celebrated his Silver Jubilee and may I, from him, ask also that you remember him in yourprayers The priest of God has great prerogatives, but oh. he has terrible responsibility He builds the bridge between God and man but if through any fault of his any one of his parish does not climb that bridge that leads to God, God will hold him responsible. So in your goodness and in your charity remember him and remember all your priests because the dignity is great but the responsibility is much greater Amen

SOCIAL

On Wednesday evening, May 29, Nedlands parishioners organised a social function in St Therese's Hall Tyrellstreet, to mark the occasion His Grace the Archbishop attended, together with many of the metropolitan clergy A bright programme of entertainment was provided by Messrs John Sullivan, G, McCarthy, F Burke and C. Dudley (under the capable direction of the latter) and Rev Fathers Slowey and O'Reilly obliged with pianoforte and vocal items, respectively At the conclusion of the concert programme His Grace Father Moss and members of the organising committee ascended the stage platform, where a number of congratulatory speeches were made under the chairmanship of Mr F F Anderson

His Grace

His Grace expressed his pleasure at receiving an invitation to be present and to take part in such an important parish occasion as the celebration of Father Moss's silver jubilee He spoke of Father Moss's career first as Administrator of the Cathedral and later of the Kalgoorlie parish He was still remembered with affection by the people of Kalgoorlie for the wonderful work he had done in that parish said His Grace Nine years ago he had been transferred to Nedlands The task which faced him was a heavy one, but he did not shirk his duty At that time there was no school and no presbytery The evidence of his labours was present to-day in the beautiful Church of the Holy Rosary, in the school, and the presbytery

There had been times during his nine years at Nedlands when the calls made upon his parishioners by Father Moss had been necessarily heavy, but he knew that the parishioners understood the necessity and that Father Moss had their sympathy, and he hoped that that would always be the case In conclusion, His Grace asked the people to remember Father Moss in their prayers He hoped that God would spare him for many years to carry on with his good work

Mr G Hannah then said a few words on behalf of the pioneer members of the parish. He himself had settled in Nedlands in 1915, the very vear of Father Moss's ordination Mr Hannah recalled the names of early parishioners, and traced the growth of

the Church over a quarter of a century Mass was once celebrated in the Fitzpatrick home, but as the numbers grew a hall was requisitioned, then the Broadway Theatre, until the building of Holy Rosary Church commenced With the coming of Father Moss the parish had progressed considerably, and they now had an edifice comparable to any n the Archdiocese He wised Father Moss ad multos annos" in which he might accomplish the work to which he had set his hand

Representing Father Moss's former parishioners of the Goldfields, Mr J Morris paid a warm tribute to his labours in Kalgoorlie and Boulder, where he was greatly missed There many grateful hearts remembered him Father Moss was then presented with a beautiful address which was read on behalf of parishioners by Mr T Halpin Parishioners also made the jubilarian the giit of a gold chalice while on behalf of the altar boys Master Leo Anderson presented him with a cigarette case suitably inscribed Rev Father Moss

In replying to the many generous words of congratulation, Father Moss expressed his deep gratitude for their sentiments He especially appreciated the honour bestowed on him by His Grace by his presence that evening At all times His Grace had been sympathetic and had ever found time to help He wished to thank members of the committee for organising such a successful social function, and the artists for providing such absorbing entertainment Finally, he thanked parishioners for their presence and promised them a frequent remembrance at the altar, He would always use their beautiful gift nothing could have been more appropriate, and in doing so would remember them Many kind words had been said of his ministry, but he knew that without the cooperation of his parishioners all would have been in vain They had always been most patient and generous. He thanked all for the many tokens of esteem which had been showered on him within the past few days and his hope was that he might be able to return some of the many kindnesses, expressions of loyalty and brotherly love Sustained applause followed, and Mr J Dolan then moved a vote of thanks to His Grace expressing the gratitude of parishioners for his fatherly interest. They renewed, he said, their pledge of unswerving loyalty to him, and prayed that he might be spared many years to lead the Church in Western Australia

Following the singing of the National Anthem, supper was served by the ladies of the parish

BELGIUM'S NEW BASILICA IS IN CENTRE OF FIGHTING AT SEDAN

The abbey church of Orval, Belgian Luxemburg, erected as a minor basilica on May 2 by Archbishop Micara, Papal Nuncio in Brussels, lies close to the French frontier between Sedan and Longwy, spearhead of the Ger-man thrust into France

Dating back to 1131, and destroyed during the French Revolution, the Cistercian Abbey of Orval had been rebuilt only since the last war The new abbey and church were opened a year ago and consecrated by Cardinal Van Roey; Primate of Belgium

That occasion was celebrated throughout Belgium Special stamps were issued and the ceremonv at the abbey was attended by the most famous leaders in the country

The erection of the church into a minor basilica this month was also attended by the country's leaders and by great crowds of the public France and the Grand Duchy of Luxemburg were represented.

Surf Hero an Ex-C.B.C.

TO RECEIVE GOLD MEDAL

It is proposed to present a gold medal to H (Bert) Clear, who was the central figure in a remarkable rescue at City Beach some weeks ago A recommendation that the Lor Mayor (Dr Meagher), on behalf of the council, shall present a gold medal to Clear has been made to the Perth City Council

A design for a special medal suitably engraved will be submitted to the council.

Canoe Was Flooded. -

Bert Clear is an ex-student of the Christian Brothers' College, St. George's Terrace and was junior champion swimmer for 1938 He is the son of the late Sergeant Bert Clear, of the oriignal Ith Battalion and grandson of the late Sergeant C W Clear of the 2nd Stationery Hospital

Clear is a junior member of the City of Perth Surf Life Saving Club and on Saturday April 13, with J Power, P Catlin, and s Jacks, he was instrumental in rescuing two young men who were in difficulties about 00 yards from shore

With the intention of going fishing the two young men had left the beach in a canoe with outrigger early in the morning When seas flooded the canoe the youths clung to the outrigger and were noticed floating in the water about three hours later

When it was found impossible to get the surf club's boat into the water, Clear took his surf ski with belt and line attached through the heavy surf to the men in the water

After tying the men to the belt, Clear stood by with his ski until the patients had been pulled to the shore bv the linesmen In addition to the proposal to pre sent the medal to Clear it is recommended that letters of congratulation be sent to the other three who took part in the rescue

TWO BROTHERS MARRY TWO SISTERS TO TWO BROTHERS

In St Walburga's Church, Shipley, Yorks, on Saturday, 4th ult two sisters married two brothers and two brothers of the two sisters officiated

And both the brides became Mrs L Wensworth

Miss Hilda Abberton married Mr Laurence Wensworth and Miss Agnes Abberton married Mr Leonard Wensworth

The officiating priests were Father Francis Abberton and Father Thomas Abberton, who were ordained together in Leeds Cathedral on Low Sunday

June:

Friday, 14: Santa Maria First Annual Concert, Anzac House Wednesday, 19: Midland Junction Annual Catholic Ball.

St Joseph's Ex-Students' Annual Ball, Fremantle Town Hall, Friday, 21: S H H S., Highgate, Annual Entertainment, His Majesty's Theatre

Old Ionians' Annual Ball, Anzac House, 8.30 pm Wednesday 26: Annual Catholic Ball, Government House Ballroom

July: Monday, 15: Neman Ball Embassy

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(Mention in this column will be made only of those functions advertised elsewhere in this issue )

COLLEGE

Three

GARTLANDFARRELL WEDDING

A very pretty wedding was solemnised with Nuptial Mass at the Church of the Holy Rosary Nedlands, on Saturday, June 1, 1940, the contracting parties being Margaret Clare, second daughter of Mr and Mrs J J Farrell, 21 Goldsmith-road Claremont and Cedric Francis, eldest son of Mr and Mrs B P Gartland, of Victoria Park The ceremony was performed by Rev Father Moss The high altar and Our Lady's altar had been becomingly decorated by the Loreto Sisters

The bride, who was given away by her father, was a very charming and youthful figure n a frock of cream embossed satin taffeta with rucked bodice and fashionable bustle effect on the full trained skirt Her Brussels net veil was held in place by a top-not of water lilies and tuberroses and she carried a shower bouquet of cream water lilies, tuberroses and cactus dahlias She wore the blue cloak of the Children of Mary Sodality during the wedding ceremony after which the president +Miss D Ryan) removed it and placed it on Our Lady's Altar » Bridesmaids were Misses Monica Gartland (sister of the groom) and Helen Farrell (sister of the bride) They were frocked alike in ce blue moire taffeta made on similar lines to that of the bride, and wore felt halo hats to match Gold mittens and bouquets of golden gladioli and cactus dahlias provided a pleasing contrast Mr Bernard Farrell (brother of the bride) was best man and Mr Kevin Gartland (brother of the groom) was groomsman

Appropriate organ solos were played by Mrs G Hannah

The reception was held at the Hotel Adelphi, where Mrs Farrell received the guests, wearing a frock of grotto blue wool crepe with black accessories and carrying a bouquet of gold roses She was assisted by Mrs Gartland, who wore a navy blue wool ensemble with navy accessories and carried a bouquet of red roses The customary toasts wee honoured and congratulatory telegram. wer read Later in th mornng the young couple left for a honeymoon tour of the South Coast The bride wore a travelling frock of dahlia

Religious Holiday School, Dalwallinu

On May 19 last, Trinity Sunday, the first "Bushies' ' School held at Dalwalinu terminated wi h fifteen children making their First Holy Communion

The chidren, who had been gathered from over a hundred miles of territory, had been for the previous ten days under the care of the Sisters, who instructed them in the mysteries of our holy religion

Parishioners were very much impressed at the scene and, no doubt, the heart

The president, Miss Dorothy Tangney, has very kindly offered the use of her home t2 Mount-stret Claremont) for a house party on Saturday evening, June 15

The committee re busy making preparations for the Newman Ball, to be held in the Embassy on July 15 Intending debutantes who have not yet done so, are asked to get in touch with Mis Betty M Donough U1969) or Miss Moya Smith, 18 Leake-street N rth Perth

of their pastor thrilled with holy joy and thanksgiving when he gave the God of all Glory to be Guest of these-the far away children of his flock

The parish priest and Sisters desire to thank all who so kindly helped towards this good work, and feel assured that, with this ssme generous assistance they will be able to make this "Bush ies''' School a yearly occurrence in the parish

On the morning of May 3 last, His the candlesticks on the ame level, and Grace the Archbishop blessed the the whole altar is surmounted by a proch: pel of St Vincent's Junior Orphan- jecting canopy of red velvet The cru-

Castledare, and celebrated Mass cifix is suspended from the altar curfor the Brothers and boys, tain The benches for the boys are In the past few years the number of lso of Tasmanian oak and tho Comboys has increased to such an extent munity is provided with stalls of the that it was found necessary to extend same wood the chapel in order to meet the need

St Kevin's Tennis Club

On Wednesday evening next, June

12 the St Kevin's Tennis Club will hold ts second annual dinner This function will take place in St Joseph's Ha and will commence at 7 15 p.m During the evening the presentation of trophies won in the recent club tourn ments will be made, The price of admission t the dinner is 3s each, and t is expected there will be a large attendanee of members and their friends, YOUNG MENS CLUB NOTES. On Monday evening June 10 the Subiaco Catholic Young Men's Club will conduct another of its delightful tunctions in aid of the Popular Child Competition At our last entertainment the attendance was very gratifying to the committee who are looking forward to an even better house on this occa ion. The admision price is well within the reach of all while our supporting feature! will be as good as ever Athletic Club

Plans re the athletic club are proresing favourably, and if our many intending athletes join up we will have a strong club in the WAAA Association Arrangements are now being made re the obtaining of a suitable ground for training, etc Any Catholic athletes interested are requested to get in touch with the committee

Pinjarra

MASS TIME TABLE

June 9· Jarrahdale, 8 a m; Pinjarra, 10 am June 16: Serpentine 830 a m; Pinjarr 10 a.m June 23: Mandurah, 8 a.m,; Pinjarra, 10 am June 30: Dwellingup, 8 am ; No 2 Mill, 10 am

Harvey

MASS TIME TABLE

Another pleasing feature of the for further accommodation The new chapel is the set of Stations of the chapel has fulfilled that need, but it is Crossthe colouring is light and soft, of particular interest since its arrange- and the general effect is very realistic ment is on liturgical lines and the This new chapel is a model of good whole effect is most pleasing taste and dignity and cannot but raise A visit to the chapel convinces one the minds of the little boys who claim June 9: Waroona, 830 a m ; Harvey, that adherence to the requirements of Castledare as their home, to the beauty I0 a m the liturgy gives also beauty in the gen- and dignity of our worship The altar June 16: Yarloop 8 am; Harvey 10 eral effect The altar is of simple de- and its Eucharistic Guest are made am sign, executed in Tasmanian oak; on the centre of the whole chapel, and June 2: Harvey, 8 a.m; Waroona the plain table of the altar stands a cir- everything draws the attention of the 10 am ular tabernacle of steel and bronze worshipper to that fundamental teach- June 30: rarvey, 8 a m ; Yarloop, completely veiled; on each side stand ing of our Holy Faith 10 am, 1'1llllUlliiiiDDl1C1!lllllllRlllmlmllllllllmmont0!llllllUDlllitnflRIIIIDll-111111111111CDm!Dfflllllllllllllmnnm11111a1Um111mnnwm1mc111w111111n11111111UIICIHllllllllttmRfllHllllllllllllllOIIIUllllllltlOlllllllllllllUIUIMltlUIIIDIIIIICOIIHnnnrnrmnmDD7

THIRTEEN

By "RON"'

METROPOLITAN COUNCIL

President's Report for Year 1939-1940

Social--During the year the social aetivities were successful, all receiving better patronage from members than previously, thus a better financial aspect resulted than for the previous vear All functions were very enjoyable and all who patronised the various forms of entertainments thoroughly enjoyed themselves The outstanding social was that given at St, Mary's, Leederville, in honour of Bros Hynes and Edwards, for their long service on the District Board. Several very complimentary speeches were made and both these brothers were presented with a very nice gift, showing the esteem in which they were held by the whole society Other socials, bus and river trips were held during the year and were very enjoyable, all being well attended A farewell dinner was given to Sister K Whitely on the eve of her departure for Canberra, which was a very pleasant way of showing the council's esteem and thanks for her services as assistant secretary Annual Picnic-This outing held at Keane's Point, was an outstanding success socially, but owing to the high cost of transport was not the success finaneially that it should have been There were over 800 present, and all the sporting events were keenly contested The senior relay race was won by Victoria Park East No I team the same branch filling second and third places The juvenile relay race was won by Subiaco All who went to Keane's Point for the picnic had a very enjoyable day Competitions. The competitions were held as usual during the winter months and were very keenly contested, After a keen tussle East Victoria Park won the shield and Leederville won the cup The standard of both the quoits and table tennis shows a great improvement Debates-The competition for the Colleen shield has been brought to a close Highgate, winning three times now have won the trophy outright Annual Communion and Breakfast

This function took place as usual and was an outstanding success, there being a very large attendance of members from all branches The breakfast was also well attended The speeches were of a very high order especially that of Brother Hynes. Retreats-These were fairly well attended The ladies', again held at the Highgate Convent, the men's at the Monastery All retreatants expressed their gratitude for the hospitality extended to them

This report would not be complete if I did not extend to the officers and delegates my sincere thanks for the work and energy put into all the undertakings of this council, making them so successful I earnestly hope that the same measur f enthusiasm will be repeated this coming year, ensuring another successful year

St. Joachim's Branch

We extend our sincere sympathy to Bro Ted Walsh in his bereavement

Members are reminded to attend the social to be tendered to Sr P Williamson on June20 Election of officers resuited: President, Bro G Keogh; vicepresident, Bro J L Kelly; secretary, Bro T P Murphy: treasurer, Sr F. M Murphy: warden, Sr N Daly; guardian, Sr R Twvcross; auditor, Bro A E Heagney; assist secretary, Sr, M Brennan. Next meeting is on June 10 St Lawrence O'Toole's Branch, Maylands On Wednesday May 29, officers for the next six months were elected A report was received on the second annual Communion Breakfast which was held on Sunday, May26 and which was very successful The District Board was represented at the breakfast by five of its members Members were reminded of the social at St. Joseph's Hall, Subiaco, on June 20

Entertainment for Camp Comforts Fund.

On Priday, June 14, at 8 pm, in the Cathedral Hall, Miss O Grave will present a Magic Lantern Slide Entertainment in aid of the Camp Comforts Funds Admission is Is His Grace the Archbishop has kindly given the hall free of charge and has donated £1 to the fund.

Appeal Day

On Friday July 12 there is to be a street appeal for comforts for the French Fighting Forces All members are asked to assist Removal of Headquarters

We are pleased to announce that a more spacious room has been secured at Nestles' House, St, Georges Terrace Before the end of the week we hope to have moved into our new quarters

Monthly Meeting

The monthly meeting will be held in the League Rooms, Nestles' House, on Wednesday, June 19, at 8 pm It is hoped that there will be a good attendance

Jumble Sale

Mrs Maxwell is preparing for a jumble sale, to be held in the near future All those who are able to assist or to give donations of goods, are asked to communicate with her

Cathedral Branch

On Wednesday, June 19, at Stirling Social Rooms (Mrs, O'Connell's), a card party is being organised Tickets 2s Reservations may be made by ringing B4254 "

Re Father Johnston spoke on the work of the Children's Court and Youth Deli-.auency and its Remedy at our ast meeting It was very instructive nd much appreciated by those present Catholic women who are not vet members of the League, do not realse what they are missing Each meeting is of special value in Catholic activities

Mass Time Table June 9: Wagin, 8 am: Dumbleyung, I0 a.m June I6: Lake Grace, 9 am; Kukerin ll a.m

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Members are requested to support the card evening to be conducted by the social committee in Bacton House on Friday, June 28. This function is being held in an endeavour to collect funds to furnish the Association rooms, and with this object in mind there is no reason why we should not have a 'full house" on the 28th. The price of admission will be 1/6 gents, ls adies Special prizes will be given to the winners of the various card games Wedding Bells.

Two weddings of interest to Association members took place last Saturday At the Church of the Holy Rosary Nedlands, two well known members of the Association, in Miss Margaret Farrell and Mr Cedric Gartland, were united in Holv Matrimonv and at the Star of the Sea Church,Cottesloe, Miss M Mu}cahy and Mr T O'Loughlin Congratulations are extended to all Tit-Bits of Interest,

Members of the social committee will meet on Wednesday, June 19, in Bacton House All are requested to attend and to bring others with them

The cards for the stop-watch competition will be available shortly It is hoped that every member will do their share in selling them

That catching epidemic, known as the German measles,' is around again Several well-known Association members have alreadv been in its clutches

A number of members made the long journey to Kalgoorlie and Boulder over last week-end "An enjoyable time" was the verdict of all who participated All Hallows' Club, Boulder

Last week-end the following members of the Perth Catholic Association visited the Goldfields: Misses E EIlery, K Hardisty K Gabbedy, N Mooney and N Quinn; Messrs L Toole, J Eastcott and R English On Sunday evening a combined social and dance was arranged bv our club and St Mary's in the RSL Hall, Boulder, in their honour A big crowd attended

Our visitors took their departure by the 5 l5 pm express on Monday It is hoped another visit may be arranged during November by the Perth executive

The Goldfelds tennis tournaments were concluded last Monday, and proved most successful The following members of our club were congratulated on winning the following events: Messrs J Lowry and V Chalker deCATHOLIC TENNIS ASSOCIATION

feated Goss and Dick, 60, 62, winning the B" doubles championship; L Moore and A Tavlor won the "B"' doubles handicap, and T Ardagh defeated I Watson, of St, Mary's Club, for the B" championship singles, winning 8-6, 6-3

The presentation dance was held in the Boulder Town Hall on Monday night Next Sunday the fifth round of mixed pennants will be continued

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Thursday, June 6, 1940

Catholic Action College to Go On

THE QUEST BEGINS IN

JULY

The National Secretariat of Catholic Action advises that after discussions with the Ladies of the Grail and with the direct approval of His Grace Most Rev Dr D Mannix DD the Catholic Action College for Girls to be conducted at Tay Creggan,'' will go on as original ly planned-despite the death of the late Miss Judith Bouwman

All those who realise the tremendous importance of a vigorous and joyful Catholic Action Movement for our girlsembracing the whole of their interests and preparing them, not only for their vocation as Catholic Actionists, but as the future wives and mothers of Catholic familieswill be delighted to hear this news They realise full well the debt which the whole Catholic community owes to the Ladies of the Grail, who -despite mmense difficulties of every kind-have refused to let this valuable work be interrupted by the death o their great leader

The College will open on July 15, and the course will be on the lines originally planned and announced in our previous issues The fee for each girl taking part will be $40, and the course will last at least until Christmas Those who join will live at "Tay Creggan" in a happy and invigorating community life together with the Ladies of the Grail, and will receive a first class preparation for their future work Final plans have been settled for the erection of the necessary buildings and providng the furniture and other equipment

The growth of Catholic Action among ur girls has been steady and reassuring during these last two years, In cooperation with the Nation I Secretariat and under the direction of the various Diocesan Organisers of Catholic Action, groups of girls have been formed throughout Australia and New Zealand, working generally on programmes provid ! either bv th N tional Svcretaria or bv th Ladies on the Grail n Melbourne alone there are nearly twenty groups of girls in the Girls' Catholic Action Movement whoon their own nitiativehave formed discussion groups and have laid a solid foundation of spirituality and knowledge-often under extremely difficult circumstances Now that they have the Ladies f the Grail at hand to give them guidance, they themselves have drawn up and embarked on a new programme by which they are fitting themselves in practical ways to be the leaders of parochial movements Members of various groups are making a definite study of the technique of folk-dancing, community singing dramaticsand probably cooking and dressmaking-so that they will be able, at the end of the vear, to take in large numbers of girls from the different parishes and set up movements which will help to provide for them a complete and healthy Catholic lie

Already nearly thirty girls have managed to overcome all obstacles and have applied to join the College It seems fairly certain that the Dioceses of Aucknt, Welling ton Christchurch Dunedin, Brisbane, Wagga, Sydney and Melbourne will be represented among the girls

Thev themselves understand that the time is clearly ripe for a systematic formation of leaders; and that, without that systematic formation, the task of forming large movements in \Australia and New Zealand (with the immense distances between big centres) will be extremely onerous

With trained leaders success is certain because the existing members have already proved their loyalty to the Bis'hops their keen love of the Mass, and their desire to develop their own spiritual personality to the utmost The difficult early period has nearly finished

and they are ready for considerable expansion and development, The Ladies of the Grail have given to this Catholic Action College an attractive title They describe it as 'The Quest-Catholic Young Women in Search of the Full Catholic Life " Many of the Bishops to whom an outne of the course has been sent have praised the fine sense of reality and balance which characterises the programme Here is something concerned not merely with one fragment of life but with the Holy Fa her's dictum that "Catholic Action is Catholic Life"

There are still some twenty vacancies left There have not been lacking those pessimistic critics who emphasise the difficulties of many girls in finding the sum of ±40 and giving up six months of their time to preparation for Catholic Action. Miss Bouwman, herself, thoroughly realised the difficultis which some people were prepared to call

possibilities, Her reply used to be: There is a difference between difficulties and impossibilities Difficulties take some time to overcome; impossibilities take a little longer ''

This is the spirit which has characterised the Grail Ladies themselvesin fact all the great achievements of the Church-and so long as it persists, we en eave the critics to go on criticising while the real work is done Nevertheless there are these vacancies; and they would not be there except that many people just cannot find the time and the money and, at the moment cannot see a solution

This article then is directed to YOU -a normal, healthy Catholic girl between the ages of 16 and 26, What we ask is:

"Are YOU quite certain that you cannot go to the Catholic Action College? You have perhaps thought it over and wondered whether it might be possiblebut have you made any real effort? Is the sacrifice involvel quite outside your capacity? If you tried really hard might it be possible to find a way around the obstacles? You realise the glorious vocation that such a training opens up to you, the amazing opportunities for the apostolate to win people to Christ in factories and shops and families You see around you priests, religious brothers, nuns, who have made very heavy sacrifices and not counted the cost Is it then quite so impossible as you think-or are you merely making excuses n order to remain comfortably situated?

"And if it is quite impossible for you personally, can you do anything at all to help some OTHER girl to go? You are probably a member of some Catholie society-a Children of Mary Society, a Legion of Mary Praesidium, a Past Pupils' Association Perhaps there is some member of your society who would profit immensely by this Grail training, but who cannot possibly manage the financial part Could you personally or could your society-by means of a sm ll weekly contribution help to provide a kind of scholarship for her?

"Again it may involve a sacrifice, but if you consider the state of the modern world, the break up of family life through ignorance and stupidty and prejudice the utter destruction which seems to threaten the whole Catholic way of living, perhaps you will be more prepared to go ahead and organise some kind of joint effort from yourself and your colleagues which may send this girl to "Tay Creggan " It might mean a night less at the pictures, a smaller consumption of sweets walking instead of using your car or the tram But has not the time arrived for reallv serious sacrifices when we see the state of the world?"

The lesson is always that Catholics are caught unprepared because they have not been willing to make sacri-

Crowning of the "Queen ol May"

Ceremony at West Perth

On the evening of Sunday, May 26, St Brigid s Church was filled to more than overtlowing with a congregation that had come from near and far to witness an event which has become renowned both within the parish confines and withoutthe annual crowning of the st tue of the Blessed Virgin, an act symbolical of the homage and devotion due to her who is so justly titled our Heavenly Queen What enhances and renders the ceremony so supremely beautiful and edifyng is the fact that children are the central characters in the drama This year the role of Queen Regent was taken by little Frances Hagarty, second daughter of Mr and Mrs B C, Hagarty The part of Queen Dowager was entrusted to Elaine Boucher, eldest daughter of Mr and Mrs George Boucher, of North Perth Six small boys as heralds of the coronation a number of little maids of honour and two trainbearers for each Queen completed the processional group All consorted themselves with appropriate decorum and with quite proper regal dignity befitting the occasion.

As a prelude to the actual coronation the two Queens and their attendants formed a procession, proceeding up and down the aisles to the accompaniment of suitable hymns, rendered by the Children o Mary The climax of the ceremony was the placing of the crown by the Queen Regent on the statue of Our Lady The beauty of this act was heightened by the church being darkened, while one spotlight was focussed on the Queen as she performed the crowning Many an eye kindled and many a heart was surely moved as Innocence paid sweet tribute to Her, whom we in these dark days particular y should invoke incessantly as the Queen of Peace

SATURDAY

CLIMAX OF THE CEREMONY

The Queen Regent places the Crown on the

MENTAL DARKNESS.

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Four young French soldiers have been ordained by Bishop Ruch, of Strasbourg, in the crypt ot hrs cathedral which is less than three miles from the enemy front line

fices to train their leaders and to build up organisations to meet the crisis We have an advantage shared by few countries in the world in the presence of a Community of the Ladies of the Grail That has been provided for us by the foresight and initiative of our Bishops It provides us with a unique opportunity to bring about the Christianisation of Family Life We-particularly Catholic women and girls will be responsible to some extent if this opportunity is not used Back from "The Quest" these fifty girls will gobringing new vigour new ideas, to thousands of their friends in parishes all over the Continent Who can foretell what results may follow?

The crowning ceremony was preceded by an eloquent and inspiring sermon on the Blessed Virgin delivered by Rev Father Cahill, CSSR,, and concluded with Solemn Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament, given by Rev Father Val entine assisted by Rev Father Conway, OM I, and Rev Father Cahill C.SSR -7°

€egii see:cseweesis JUNE 8th, 1940 R. N. PERCIVAL Secretary

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Racing Selections

By"The Hawk

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Saturday, June 8, 1940

Rivervale Plate: Ebb Tide, 1; Godlee, 2; Kerlion, 3 Maiden Handicap: Yedrion, 1; Hant hara, 2; Mullewa Maid, 3 Rivervale Purse: Amatol, 1; Mount Etna, 2; Sarge 3 W.A. Breeders' Handicap: Red Crest, 1; Supper, 2; Busy Girl, 3. Goodwood Handicap: Madam Altair 1; Silvarra, 2; Gold Tips, 3 Welter Handicap: Aran, 1; Mylopia, 2; Charming Wave 3

Trotting Selections

RICHMOND PARK

Saturday, June 8, 1940

WA. Breeders' Handicap: Percy's Lad 1; Black Yamma, 2; Fay Winwood 3

British Handicap: Siam's Beauty, 1% Maud Pointer, 2; Burmuce, 3 French Handicap: Thebes, 1; Sunstretta, 2; Realm Queen, 3, Allied Handicap: Gold Vale, 1; Emerald Pride, 2; Don Sebastian, 3. Saiilors' Handicap: Rawhitiroa, % Med Alto, 2; Black Yamma, 3 Soldiers' Handicap: Red Bay, 1; Lelaine, 2; Prince Yamma, 3

Thursday, June 6, 1940.

THE

RECORD

Spiritual Power-House

In Inner Mongolia

Little more than a distant haven of refuge for Chinese Christians in former days of bitter persecution, Inner Mongolia during the past hundred years has witnessed an astounding increase in Catholie population In 1840 Catholics there totalled barely 3,000; bv the close of 1939 their number had swelled to 210,000 without taking into consideration 30,000 atechumens who are preparing for baptism Missionaries in this area now number 400, of whom 162 are Chinese born

To the above figures may be added those of the Tatungfu Vicariate, Shansi, situated near the Mongolian border and likewise entrusted to the care of the Scheut Missionary Fathers Catholics there total 10,000, and missionaries 24

The six vicariates of Mongolia and that of Tatungfu send their ecclesiastical students to the Tatung Regional Seminary, the founding of which was decreed in January, 1921, by the Bishops of Mongolia meeting at Siwantze under the presidency of the then Superior General of the Scheut Missionary Society, Father Rutten.

In the autumn of the following year-when in Mongolia there were still no more than 50 native prieststhe first contingent of 19 students reached Tatungfu Some oi them came from minor seminaries, others from the major seminaries of Siwantze and Jehol

While the new building was rising on a site outside the city walls, this first group of students was lodged in the mission residence within the town By the time their new quarters were ready, in the autumn of 1924 their number had swelled to 36 In 1925 a house was supplied for :he members of the teaching staff This building was subsequently destroyed by fire Servants' quarters were completed by 1926 The main chapel was opened mn 1928 Another chapel wes provided a conple of years later for the convenience of the servants and use of local Christians Thas over a period of ten years a fine seminary with accommodation for 80 students was completed During this time 52 of the students had reached the priesthood

Thanks to the Pontifical Society of St Peter, Apostle for Native Clergy, and to several European and Chinese benefactors, all debts were cleared by the time the seminary was completed

As the number of seminarists continued steadily to grow, it was decided in 1935 to open a regional seminary for courses in philosophy at Suiyuan, reserving the Tatung Seminary solely for students of theology This buildIng was completed by the autumn of 1936, without need for further recourse to the Pontifical Society of St Peter

During the past fourteen years the Tatungfu Regional Seminary has given 124 native priests to the Church in Inner Mongolia A further seven have been ordained in Rome This seminary provides a splendid example of the providential character of the great

Jesuit Educators Lauded

Ricci Hall, named after the famous seventeenth-century Jesuit Missionary in China Father Matteo Ricci, is a flourishing Catholic Hostel, under Jesuit management, for students attending the Hong Kong Government University At the invitation of the Warden, Father B C Kelly, SJ , a goodly company of Hong Kong educationists and professional men met early this year in the spacious buildings of the Hostel to celebrate the first decade of its foundation

Dr D J Sloss, Vice-Chancellor of the University, in an afterdinner speech, referred t the fine educational work accomplished by members of the Society of Jesus n India, with which he had been brought into close touch when formerly stationed at Trichinopoly On his arrival in Hong Kong he had been advised by the then Governor, Sir William Hornell, that in any plans for expanding the University he could alwavs count on invaluable aid from the Jesuits He welcomed the opportunity of publicly thanking them for their services in this connection and, in particular, of congratulating Ricci Hall on the completion of the first decade of its highly useful existence

A 'BURNE-JONES'

IS FOUND DEDICATED TO APOSTLE OF LEPERS

Honolulu

A painting by the great English artist, Sir Edward Burne-Jones, dedicated to Father Damien, Apostle of the Lepers, has been discovered at St Francis's Convent here It is a water-colour from a pencil sketch, dated 1887, and signed "E.B J " Madeline Dinchere, who found it, has discovered that the work was sent from London by special messenger to Father Damien, who reecived it four months before his death

METHODISTS WILL RESIST FORMAL U S DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS WITH PAPACY

Atlantic City

Unalterable opposition "to any establishment of diplomatic relations between the Vatican and the United States" is expressed in a message which the Council of Bishops hav: addressed to the general conferace of the Methodist Church in this city

They say: "We are ready to join with the Catholic Church and with all other religieus or secular organisations to promote world peace '

But add:"We must deplore and must firmly resist any union of Church and State and are and will be unalter l!y opposed to anv establishment of diplomatic relations between the Vatican and the United rates'

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Truscott (SP) 26

Gardiner (E P ) 24 Saturday's Games

East Perth v East Fremantle, at Subiaco.

South Fremantle v Subiaco at Fre mantle, Claremont v Perth, at Claremont

Swans v. West Perth, at Bassendean

'Recorder" selects East Perth South Fremantle, Claremont and West Perth to win, Brieflets

Truscott gave a brilliant display for Souths He was reported to be sick before the match What is going to happenwhenhe is really fit His kicking of ten goals whileroving is a very rare feat

Tyson got some really fine goals There is no doubting this chap's brilliancy at shooting for goal

A class footballer is N Lwington, and little behind him is his brother

This pair, with Jenkins at the pivot, made an unbeatable centre line for Souths against Wests

The honours at Bassendean were divided between two imports, Bunton and Hardiman The former kicked six goals and generally played well while Hardiman marked well and forwarded accurately

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Reid has played some great games for Claremont, but it is doubtful if he ever played so effectively as he did lastweek against East Perth He was brilliancy personified, and did much to establish Claremont's absolute superiority over the Royal Blues

Gook again starred at the pivot in the Perth-Old Easts game He did everything well, and played cleverly throughout

George Doig bids fair to reach the three-figure mark in goals kicked this season He has kicked 100 or more in every season that he has played League footballan Australian record

A Great GoalKeeper

Many of the best judges will say, without hesitation, that Vie Thorp, who was here with Victoria's Carnival team in 1921, was the greatest of all time He tells of a sensational ineident in his brilliant career: "The habit of fighting my way through a crush to get to the ball has not been with serious consequences both to myself and team-mates On one occasion at the grandstand end of Richmond Oval all I could see was the ball being driven at the goal Ijumped for the markwithoutcarefor opponent or myself As I was rising I saw the behind post looming up in front of me I tried to avoid it, butseemed by some instinct toswing my head out of the road I hit the post straight down my chest and snapped it off a foot from the ground!

"When I landed I had the mark and the post The game was held up for some minutes while they replaced the post"

"Charging."

How often does one hear the cry 'charge," whena player has been bowled over, How few really understand what a charge" is The definition i quite clear It is "rushing at and pushing a player when he is standing still, not in posession of the ball, or in the air It iswell toremember tht thi should be clearly understood in order that many misunderstandings my be removed The definition of a charge given above should be read in conjunction withlaws 19 and 20, which read:

19 A player when running with the ball, or standing still with the ball, my be fairly met by an opponent and brought down, by the use of the hip, shoulder chest arm open hands ot arms crossed with open palms''

20 "A player when standing still may legitimately be pushed in the chest or the side by an opponent, if the ball is not more than five yards away in the air or on the ground.''

These laws through not being intelligently understood or interpreted, re the cause of much trouble

Boxing

Jimmy Britt

"Battling Nelson v Jimmy Britt," that was a sign displayed very often about 35 years ago,and from theirfive or six fights Battling Nelson emerged with the honours

One of the greatest lightweights the world has known, although henever actuallywon the title, Jimmy Britt died a few months ago

"Your diagnosis is all wrong, Doc Im Jimmy Britt the fighter."

"What!" exclaimed the Doctor, as he almost collapsed

Yes, Doctor, I'm Britt, and I think I've done too much exercising and that's why I'm stale"

The Doctor was flabbergasted He looked at Britt and according to Jimmy's story, said:

'Well what you need is agood rest Stop exercising foracouple ofweeks!"

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When his fighting days were over, he turned to the stage, where he was recognised as a good actor and a good monologue artist

This was hisplan of action Having traced the connection between the curbstone scraps of his childhood and his debut as a professional pugilist Britt would then keep his audience n hileriousmood,by relating humorousexperienceswhich came to himwhile in training for his ring contests One of these hzd for its butt a doctor Jimmy, it seemed, felt stale from working too hard, and so he went to this doctor ' Young man" said the doctor, after feeling Jimmy's pulse, what you want is exercise ,and plenty of it" 'But," said Jimmy, "my busmncss"

Before Jimmy could finish, the doctor interrupted: "Never mind our business Let vour business take care of itself You need lots of walking and that kind of thing Go to a gymnasium Flay a lot of handball Punch the bag-do anything that's strenuous "

When Jimmy fr.ally found an opening, he said:

The house invariably came through with a roar of laughter when Jimmy Britt told that one, He hasstated that after thefight and all throughthe years since, that he had found amusement in the verbal pictures that have been drawnof his physical and mentalconditon while on the floor Quite generally he had been described a "in utter collapse, brainbefogged, eyes glazed, legs collapsed, rms like leaden weightsa complete

GeneTunney is oneof the few who made big money in the ring and used it wisely Incidentally, I told you re cently of "The Battle of the Long Count " but I didn't tell you Tunnev's version of it ·

wreck "

Gene ,in reply to this, say: "It is rather strange that those, who described me asbeing in such condition never took note of the fact that my houlders never quite touched the floor, The man 'in utter collapse' would never have the strength to sit up, as I did Nor would hehaveenough wits to look round and locate Dempsey and establih his own position and plan what he would do the exact second he was back on hisfeet

"The answer to the debate a to whether I was, as I say, in full possession of my faculties while on thefloor, and was calmly plotting my course, or whether I was 'befogged ' seems to be found in what transpired when I came back on my feet I had hardly assumed full boxing position before Dempsey came leaping swirling to the attack He fairly catapulated himself at meand I side-stepped him, with 'paralysed' legs

Dempsey turned whirled upon me, and I moved backward faster than he, the man who had become famous through the speedofhislegs On and on came Dempsey, and back and back, around and around I went, Backwardssideways -always retreating from the assault, with Dempsey moving forward

"Dempsey, with legs of mighty muscle Dempsey, with legs like springsteel Dempsey moving at me, and I moving backwards and sideways faster n retreat than the man in attack

'And then Dempsey, admitting defeat in the chase Dempsey slowing his rush, Dempsey standing still, eyes narrowed, in the fury that comes with failure Dempsey putting both hands in front of me, beckoning Come in close and fight ' And then the bell, ending that 7th round without Dempsey'seven putting a glove on me after I had arisen from the knock-down"

Now you have had both sides of the question

Correct name of Gene is Joseph Eugene Tunney, born in New York, May 15,1898, of Irish parents To-day he is a millionaire He is a BankDirector, and a director of several large business concerns He is an ardent follower of amateur boxing, and seldom misses a big title fight among the "pros."

Gene Tunney is an active worker for the Catholic Youth Movement He travels all over America, lecturing to boys on boxing and clean living

ARMY BOXING CHAMPIONSHIPS At Hollywood Stadium on Friday there will be a night of thrilling boxing, when theArmy Boxing Championshipswill be held These championships are well organised by Warrant Officer Quirk, and patrons of the fight game should not miss them The first bout willcommence at 8 p.m

Thursday, June 6, 1940

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A full programme ofmatches was not played, on account of the holding of Country Week , the premiership of which was a draw ewe«

A2 Grade Old Aquinians showed good form to beat Perth, 31 The winners goals were hit by Cooper (2) and O'Sullivan, while Duke scored for the losers In the BI Grade Old Haleians overwhelmed Old Aquinians, 11-0 The goal-hitters were Grey (4), Mount (3) Kelly (2), Tracey and Hale

STRANGE, BUT TRUE.

On New Year's Day, 1935, Walter Morgan, of Ballarat, was playing bowls, and in the course of an ordinary draw shot ran his bowl over a sparrow and killed it A player on the Brighton (Vic) Green noticed a sparrow hopping along in an unconcerned manner in front of his bowl As the bowl was about to overtake the bird, instead of its flying away, it turned broadside on and the bowl rolled over it, crushing its life out

Such a queer incident has happened three times in New Zealand A sparrop which visited a green at Thorndon in successive days went once too often, for on the third day a bowl struck it and it took the full count

And here's a tale about a tail Recently at Balham in England, aplayer's bowl ran over one of several sparrows which were busily engaged in cleaning up a colony of ants, The bowl took the tail right out of the place where sparrows wear them The bowler stuck the feathers in his hat declaring that they should stay there until that sparrow grew another tail, but a tail-less sparrow still visits the green

Racing

Racing will be at Goodwood on Saturday Below is the programme with an early (before the weights) "bothways"' tip for each event:

Maiden Hndicap: Yedrion Breeders': Nicarat

Goodwood Handicap: The Laird Plate: Dollator Purse: Amplaid Welter Aran

See "The Hawk's'' Selections for Racing and Trotting elsewhere in this issue

FROMEASTERNSCRIBES.

My early double for the Grand National Hurdle and Steeple is EI Banado and Mustella Having studied the weights closely, I think that those above 110 in the Hurdle Race and round about that mark have been set too big a task by the cting handicapper (Mr C H Davis) and that the winner will come from lower down as has been the case in recent years

I did not expect Cheery Jack to be given 117. I realise that he is a great Jumper and that he is probably better now than 12 months ago With this weight he will need to be great, and unless the field falls below average standard, I do not think he can win.-Ascot Ten-vear-old Dark David showed the first glimpse of National form that we have seen this season when he won the Federal Hurdle Race verv comfortably, from Exmoor and North Cape, at Moonee Valley Dark David's jumping was noticeably Improved. His performance was not without error, but at no stage did he seem likely to come to grief-Ascot

Trotting

Richmond Park. Premantle. will be h ' }Pe venue of trotting enthusiasts on aturday Patrons are informed that special trains and trams will be provided for their convenience A special motor car service will operate fcem St George's Terrace and as the acceptances are big an unusually interesting meeting can be confidentlv anticipated

There will be six events, each over the 1 mile 5 furlongs distance the programme opening with the Breeders' Handicap, for which 22 have been al lotted marks, There are four races for the222 class and one for the 216 class

This last mentioned event is the Allied Handicap and eighteen of our fastest horses have been handicapped Out m front on scratch are Gold Vale, Talismo, Broadland, Simla Derby, Bronette, gd Emerald's Pride. To these Grand Mogul has to concede 120 yards, the nearest to him being Kay Francis, 84 yards behind. •

The Ist XVIII's ofScotch and CBC met on the Claremont Oval last Wednesday A good exhibition of open, fast football was given by both sides and although much lighter than their opponents, CBC led at three-quarter time by 5 points However, weight then began to tell, and Scotch ran out winners by 13 goals 6 behinds to 7 goals 18 behinds

Best players for CBC, were Mattison tcapt ), Dermer, Gimblett, Brown, McLinden and Ryan while their goalkickers were Mattison (4), Gimblett, Blatchford and Hawkins

Matches have also been arranged against Aquinas, Christ Church, and CBC, Perth

In the Saturday afternoon Temperance League Competition, played as curtain-raisers to the League games, CBC, although debarred by age conditions from using some of its best players, has won two out of its three games played By their systematic clever football, the boys are delighting the numerous League spectators, their best players so far being McLinden, Hawkins, Townsend, and Murray In the "Junior Down" CBC. competition, CBC has lost its only match played that against St Patrick's, but has greathopeof victory over Highgate next week, and over St Patrick's in the return match In the "Under 13" competition CBC hasbeaten East Fremantleand lost toSt Patrick's Though very light this team plays really good football, and should come out premiers In addition to the above competitions the 'House" games were commenced last week on the spacious Fremantle Park in front of the College There are four housesNewman Campion Fisher and Moore, Per medium of all the above competitions practically every boy of the 400 attending the College is enabled to take part in competitive football every week

MUNICH JESUIT IS ARRESTED BY NAZIS FOR THE THIRD TIME.

Luxemburg

It is confirmed here that Father Rupert Mayer, eminent Jesuit preacher of Munich, has been arrested for a third time by the Nazis

Chaplain with the German armv in the last war, Father Mayer lost a leg at the front, and received the Iron Cross He was arrested in 1937, but high German army officers gained his release because of his service record

But he was forbidden to preach, and when he did so in January, 1938, he was again arrested.

FRENCH CHAPLAIN

OFFERS FIRST MASS IN 700 YEARS AT CRUSADE CASTLE

Canon Quenet, French army chaplain in the Near East, has offered the first Mass for 700 years in the great castle at Kraq, built by French Crusaders in the Syrian desert

The Mass was offered on the ramparts in the presence of many soldiers and officers, who afterwards took part in a procession round the castle

NEW GERMAN COLLEGE IN ROME STARTED

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Cardinal Pizzardo, Prefect of the S Congregation of Studies, has laid the foundation-stone of the new German College in Rome

It will stand on the site of the old college, but will be much higher and longer

All the German prelates in Rome were present at the ceremony The stone had previouslv been taken to the Vatican and blessed by the Holy Father

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Corpus Christi set apart as a special

A To adore the Sacred Heart of feast in honour of My Heart" Jesus in recognition of His love and The feast was successively etablishin reparation of our own and others' in ed in different dioceses, and in 1856 at gratitude, more particularly in repara the request of the Bishops of Prance, tion of the coldness and ngratitude it was extended to the Universal shown to Him present in the Sacra Church and raised to the dignity of a ment of Love The spread of the de secondary double of the first class by votion to the Sacred Heart," said Pius Pope Leo XIII in 1889. XI in his Encyclical, Quas primas,"

Q What is the main theme of the "was due to a reaction against the sad Mass "Miserebitur" of the Feast? and gloomy austerity of Jansenism, 'A The Mass is full of the thought which had deterred men from the love of Jesus suffering and dying; for His of God and trust in salvation'' dying upon the Cross was the highest proof of the love of the Sacred Heart

Q What is the origin of the present for us, and the bitter agony of His Feast of the Sacred Heart? death is most calculated to awaken our love, our gratitude and our spirit of reparation

A The request made by Our Divine Lord when He appeared to St Margaret Mary within the Octave of Corpus Christi in the year 1675 Disclosing His Sacred Heart to her, He said: "Behold this Heart which has loved men so much, and which receives in return, for the most part, nothing but ingratitude, contempt, irreverence and sacrilege I ask you therefore to

"Who would not love in return one, loving him? who redeemed, would not live (Him) and choose in that Heart an everlasting dwelling" (Hymn of Lauds of the Feast)

Q What is the next outstanding feast of Our Lord?

A The Feast of the Kingship of Our Lord Jesus Christ established by Pope Pius XI, on 12th December, 1925, and celebrated on the last Sunday of October, the Sunday before the Feast of All Saints

Q Against what specific evils of our time s the establishment of this new feast mainly directed?

A, 1 The denial of Christ's authority to rule all nations,

2 The denial of the right of the Church to teach the human race to make laws to rule over peoples unto their eternal salvation

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3 The putting of the religion of Christ on a footing with false religions

4. The putting of the religion of Christ under civil authority

5 The setting up of a natural religion in place of the Divine religion

6. Impiety and neglect of God, with their attendant evils of enmities and rivalries between nations, of insatiable greed under the disguise of public spirit and ptriotism, of discord and division between citizen of blind unr trained self-love, which makes private gain and private advantage its one aim and universal standard, of unhappines in homes through neglect of dome ·tic rsponsibilities of the loss of tability of family life- ·all leading to the total destruction of human society (Encyclical Quas Primas)

Q What, in brief, i the object of the F st?

A To stamp out the plgue of anticlerialism and secularism which infest: modern society, to bring men back to Christ and thereby to estabLish "the peace of Christ in the Kingdom of Christ," the ideal the Holy Father vet, before the world

Q Why is a new fat of Christ's Kinghip established in addition to other feast: in whih His Kingly Dignity is signified and celebrated (eg the Feast of the Epiphany)?

A Although in all the feasts of Our Lord the m:terial object of worship is Chrit, nevertheless their formal object is something entirely distinct from His royal title and dignity

Q Why is a Sunday chosen for the feast?

A. In order that not only the clergy may perform their duty by saying Mass nd reciting the Office, but that the laity, too, free from their daily occupations, may in a spirit of holy joy give ample testimony of their obedience and subjection to Christ

Q Why is th lat Sunday of October chosen?

A Because t occurs toward. the close of th liurgical year, and thus the Feast of the Kingship of Christ becomes a fitting completion and consummation of the mysteries of the life of Christ already commemorated during the year, and before celebrating the triumph of All the Saints we proclaim and extol the glory of Him who triumphs in all the saints and in all the elect

In the Gospel, Pilate asks: Are You the King of the Jew ?" and Christ replie: 'My Kingdom is not of this world" Pilate again asks: "Art thou a king then?" Christ replies: Thou say· t I am a king Evryone that is the truth heareth my voice" n the Preface we return t, to nal God, Who ·dst il of gladne: T' lyr Lord Jesu. ist, universal .ing that on the altar or th ate and pacifi Vie complish the mysnption; and, subHis rule might undless Majety al Kin;dom, th d of life, the nd of grace, the of lv and of

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Q What will be the fruits of that conviction of Christ's Kingship to which the annual celebration of this feast will lead?

A The conviction that to Christ, as King is given all power in heaven and on earth will make Christ reign in our minds, which should adhere with perfect submission and firm unwavering belief to the revealed truths and to the doctrines of Christ; will make Christ reign in our wills which should obey the laws and precepts of God; will make Christ reign in our hearts to the exclusion of all inordinate desires; will make Christ reign in our bodies and in our members which should serve as instruments towards the interior sanctification of our souls, or as the Apostle Paul says: "as instruments f iustice unto God" (Rom vi. 13)

Q How does the Mass "Dignus"' express the idea of the Kingship of Chri.t?

A In the Collect we pray that the whole world be subject to the most gentle sway of Christ, the King of the Universe

\ Countess of Feria who becameaPoorClarewascalled,on accountof her long and frequent visits, the"Spouseofthe Blessed Sacrament" Someone asked her what shedid all the time before the altar "Oh, I could stay there for ever! What do I do? What does a beggar do when he is with a rich man? What does a sick man do when he goes to ee his doctor? What does a thirsty man do ata cool spring? What does a starving man do at atable loaded withgoodthings?"

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Thursday, June 6, 1940

The Bushies' Corner

Dear Cornerites,

The 7th June is marked off in the calendar withavery appropriate motto: The Sacred Heart for the world, the world for the Sacred Heart.'' This is the aim of Catholic Action of which you have all heard so much in recent times It is the striving to bring all peoples to a proper realisation of their duty to God, to make Christ reign in the hearts of men and in the councils of nations If we could accomplish this, if we could bring the principles of justice and charity to every country's government, there would be no injustices in peace time and no wars as a result of them St Margaretof Scotland,whosefeast occurs on Monday, could not rest till she saw the laws of God and His Church observed throughout her realm She was a model Queen, for though she spent her life amidst the luxury of a royal court in the llth century she lived a ife of great sanctity, built churches and monasteries, yet did not neglect her duties in the world She had her family to care for as well as her realm She spared no pains in the education of her eight children Never was there a better queen She laboured incessantly for the material mprovement of Scotland St Louis of France was another monarch who did so much to further the cause of Christ in the country over which he reigned, and these two sovereigns are models which the modern world should follow if it wishes for a

asting peace

AUNT BESSY

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Dear Aunt Bessy,-I am enclosing ls in stamps for your Lemonade Bottle also some used stamps Wishingyour objective every success

GRATEFUL CLIENT OF ST ANTHONY

Dear Grateful Client oi St Anthony,Your welcome contribution came to hand safelv, and I was very glad to receiveboth the money and the stamps, which are playinga bigpart in helping us to gain our objective this year AUNT BESSY

CARDBOARD BRIGADE

Volunteers are badly needed for the 1939 Brigade Letters may be written to the Corner under an assumed name, but all volunteers must also supply their real name and full address, so that a Pinkie may be sent on In this way they may gather thirty bronies for the Bushies, a small amount in itself, but quite sufficient if all will help 4 44444444

Mary's Mount, Kalamunda

Dear Aunt Bessy,I am enclosing the money from all the Johns which theJohn from Wembley forgot to put in the letter I am little John and my home is in Big Bell I am eight years old and have been at Mary's Mount one year and three months It was my firstschool,and I am now In the Third Standard I have an uncle Luke in Perth I think you know him Nearly everyone does He was up to see me a few weeks ago Aunt Bessy, have you been to Mary's Mount? It is a lovely place and you should seeourlovely bigplay-groundand football field We had Mr Ed-

mondson the Inspector here last week, and he was very pleased with the boys, and we like him too The work he gave us was nice All the boys send their love We have four Kevins five Bobs and nine Johns

JOHN PRICE

Dear John,-Now that two of the Johns have written to me, don't you think you could persuade some of the Kevins and Bobs to write too? Though I have never been to Marv's Mount I do love receiving letters from there telling me all the news I hope someone will write to me every week By the way, will youask the Wembley John if he is going to send me the photo of all the Johns? I suppose you found Mary's Mount quite a different place to Big Bell when you first came there Big Bell is hot and dusty, isn't it? Thank all the Johns who sent along the 10s for the Bushies, and tell the other John he is entirely iorgiven for forgetting it, so he needn't be afraid to write to me again

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Dear Aunt Bessy,-I must apologise for my long absence from vour Corner I am almost too ashamed to write after neglecting

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you so long,but asyouwill seeby my above address, I no longer reside in Campden Town, but have recently brought my wife to stay with me in the fair city of Portsmouth Although I am further away,I can still takeagreatinterest in your activities I am enclosing a few pence to cheer the LB Effie sends kind regards Mv best love to Princess Elizabeth and yourself

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Dear Wilkins,-You must have been absent from the Corner for a good many years, as there has been a changeover in the Corner Princess Elizabeth has entirely disappeared I don't quite know where but I have an idea she went to the Sahara with the Wet Blanket The Wet Blanket came back, but Princess Elizabeth did not What do vou think ofthat?

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Dear Aunt Bessy,I have not written to vou for long time I am sending you some stamps for the Bushies I have not been able to save enough to buy an album for the stamps, because it all went to the lollie shop, and if I tried to keep the stamps they would all get lost

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Dear Tommy,Your letter has a note of penitence in it and you seem to regret the lollie shop I think that perhaps toothache has something to do with it Is that so? However I was ever so pleased to receive the stamps, as every little helps the Bushies to receive a religious education during their holidays

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The Holy Father, in messages to King Leopold and the Queen of the Netherlands, denounced the German invasion of Belgium and Holland as against the will and rights of the people His Holiness also sent a message of sympathy to the Grand Duchess of Luxemburg

The messages read:

TO KING LEOPOLD:

'When, for the second time, against their will and rights, the Belgian people sees its territory exposed to the cruelties of war, we, profoundly moved, send your Majesty and all your beloved nation the assurances of our paternal affection Praying Almighty God that this hard trial results in the re-establishment of full liberty and the independence of Belgium, we accord with all our heart to your Majesty and to your people our Apostolic Benediction '

TO QUEEN WILHELMINA:

We learn with great emotion that your Majesty's efforts for peace have not been able to preserve your noble people from becoming, against their will and their rights, the theatre of war We ray to God, the Supreme Arbiter of the destinies of nations, to hasten with His Almighty help the re-establishment of justice and liberty."

TO THE GRAND DUCHESS:

"In this sad moment, in which the people of Luxemburg, despite their love of peace, find themselves involved in a tempest of war, our heart is close to them, and we implore from Heaven aid and protection so that they may live in liberty and independence, and we accord to your Royal Highness and to your faithful subjects our Apostolic Benediction"

Messages Were Spontaneous When Belgium was invaded in 1914 attempts were made to secure a condemnation of the German aggression by Pope Benedict XV The Pope, in view of the charges made against the Allies by Germany, did not at that time

go beyond a general condemnation of wrongdoing by either side or both sides

Now, however, Pope Pius XII denounces the invader before any request is made to him The three messages were sent from the Vatican on the day of the invasion King Leopold sent a telegram asking for the Holy Father's moral support in the war but it did not arrive until the Saturday morning

The King's telegram reals

"In spite of repeated formal engagements to respect he neutrality of Belgium, in spite of our attitude of absolute loyalty, Germany has brutally attacked Belgium without warning-

My country, respectful of her honour and faithful to her word, is defending herself with all her force

"Permit me to intercede with Your Holiness, the Head of Catholicism, to sustain with your high moral authorrty the cause for which we are fighting with indomitable will"

Having received the Pope's message, King Leopold sent this telegram to His Holiness:

"I have been deeply moved by the telegram which Your Holiness has been gracious enough to send me after the brutal aggression of which my country has become the victim

"I express to you my own and the Belgian people's profound gratitude''

Queen Wilhelmina replied:

"I thank Your Holiness sincerely for your sympathetic message and for your prayers for the reestablishment of justice and liberty

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"Putting their faith in God, my people are firmly determined to utilise all their strength in order to achieve a final victory " "

On Saturday morning, 11th ult, the Pope received successivey in private audience Mr Myron C Taylor, President Roosevelt's peace envoy to the Holy See; M Adrien Nieuwenhuys, Belgian Ambassador to the Holy See, and the British Minister, Mr Francis D'Arcy Osborne

On the Monday the Holy Father received Signor Alfieri, Italian Ambassador to the Holy See This audience apparently had no reference to the new situation: Signor Alfieri was recently nominated to Berlin and was being grented a arewell audience

The "Osservatore Romano" has denounced the new German aggression as "a pitiless war of extermination which is being conducted in defiance of the laws of war"

Several diplomats accredited to the Holy See called on the Friday at the office of Cardinal Maglione, Papal Secretary of State They included the Belgian Ambassador, the French Ambassador, M Chares Roux, and representatives of Portugal, Hungary and Poland ATTACKS ON "OSSERVATORE ROMANO " Damage to Italy

An authoritative "Universe' correspondent writes:

"It has been generally recognised that the "Osservatore Romano' has from the outbreak of the war maintained a calm and objective tone

"It is pointed out in circles in touch with the Vatican that recent measures taken by the Fascist Party have rendered the distribution of the paper impossible

"These measures were coincident with the messages of the Holy Father to the Sovereigns of Belgium, Luxemburg, and Holland, and have been accompanied by innumerable incidents, acts of discourtesy, and even of violence

The suppression of the distribution of the paper cannot but damage the religious well-being of Italy "

VATICAN RADIO COMMENT

The Holy Father's initiative in sending messages to the three sovereigns without waiting for any requests from them was doubly emphasised in the English broadcast from the Vatican radio station

Those who would like the Pope to make solemn pronouncements against this or that beligerent, said the speaker, forgot his diffcult and painful position He is the father not of one nation but of all nations

Nevertheless, he said, the Holy Father has now spoken: and he went on to emphasise that although His Holiness hadreceived a request from King Leopold, the request did not reach the Vatican until the morning after the Pope had telegraphed to the three sovereigns

The radio speaker also described some of the scenes in St Peter's during last Sunday's beatification ceremonv The Holv Father smiled in response to the acclamations of the great congregation, but between the smiles his face showed his agony of heart caused by the events of the past few days

Another point made by the Vatican speaker-at a time when newspapers are reporting numer ous bellicose demonstrations in Italy-was that throughout Italy the people, in response to the Holy Father's appeal, are praying in their churches to the Queen of Peace

The Italian newspapers did not publish the Holy Father's messages to the three sovereignsTheir example was followed by some important newspapers n Spain

Numerous incidents are being reported from Rome'of the burning of copies of the "Osservatore Romano'' and the seizure of copies from newspaper stalls and even trom the hands of readers

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