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Splendid Processional March Through the City Friday, the 17th., brought from the white and gold, and St. Anne's Convent suburbs to the city crowds of the Gael School, Belmont, came next in the or der of procession. The Belmont school and those who are in sympathy with had a picturesque tableau, representthe aspirations of the Irish people for a full national life, to take part in the ing "Ireland's future at home and her The influenee abroad among the nations." St. Patrick's Day Celebrations. streets were thronged along the route St. Joseph's, Queen's Park, was also represented by a patriotic tableau-a Celof march, and one of the most attractive festal processions yet witnessed tic Cross, with the words, "Justice, It was expected that Freedom, Brotherhood." and the lines, was recorded. "Behold at last our Dark Rosaleen enthe celebration of the national feast this year would be invested with great- throned once more a teaching Queen." McMahon's Concert Band followed er enthusiasm than in other years, and that "The Day" would be one of great 'vith a stirring marching tune. rejoicing following the recent proclama- The pupils from St Joseph's, Victoria Square, in white and pale blue, carried tion of a Treaty of Peace between England and Ireland. after centuries of a nice banner, with the motto, "Irea Nation," and were accompanied for land people Irish bitter warfare by the the restoration of their national rights. by a well mounted riding party in In a considerable measure the expecta- pretty blue cloaks and riding dress. and nice, 'I hey looked exceedingly Green, white and tion was realised. St. marched with a swinging stride. gold favours were prominent everywell was Perth, West where along the line of march, foal Brigid's School, in contingent a strong by their had represented houses business prominent green, white and gold, and were also windows dressed to suit the occasion. in green party riding a by favoured, accompanied The "bit of green" was most The and. "Patrick's Crosses" and "Harps" coats and white riding dresses. were as plentiful as the smiling faces Subiaco Convent School and the Girls' made Both through followed. Band went he nrphenage that met one wherever display. The Orphanage the city. There was certainly no lack a fine members and the band of friendship and good feeling among girls cheers of encouragement given nationality. were and creed citizens of every of The historic event which adds to the along the route of march. Members the Star of the Sea Branch of Hiber list of nations "The Irish Free State" gen- nians followed with their banner, and vas perhaps the reason for such the Christian eral urbanity, where previously suspi- next came the boys ofFremantle.MidBrothers' High School, cion and a thinly veiled unfriendliness THE SPIRIT OF THE DAY,
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220 Yards Handicap: C. Monnock, 1; rear of the procession is. a long line of motor' cars and vehicles. The gen- T. McCart, 2: P. W. Lynskey, 3. C.B.C. Perth and Fremantle 440 eral public were unfortunate enough to Yards Handicap (under 16 years J be cut off by the head of the proces1: V. Daly, 2. Shine, sion crossing their march on its way Catholic Schools' and Colleges' Chamto the station before they were able to pionship, 120 yards (under 14 years): pass. No time was lost in getting the T. Dawson 1; P. Giles, 2; T. Rodrichildren entrained for Claremont Show Grounds. We doubt, however, if the quez, 3. Motor Cycle Race, 2 Miles: Davis, 1: general public were as well catered for by the railway authorities as in pre- Frew, 2: Riley, 3. Motor Cycle Race, One Mile: Frew, vic.ais years when trains ran more freI Miller, 2; Davis, 3. quently. There was not that patronSt. Patrick's Day Handicap, 120 Claremont as age given to the sports at Yards: J. Love, 1; R. Leahy, 2: G. was canfidently anticipated by the Monnock, 3. committee. The, gates did not record 440 Yards Handicap: P. W. Lynskey, takyear s as large a gathering as last 1; T. McCart, 2: T. Mvssonske, 3. Unfortunately the ings represented. St. Patrick's Boys' School Handicap: least fell upon a day which prevented the majority of the Irish and Catholic J. Topliss, 1; E Doherty, 2; F. Casey, I
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labouring community from taking part in the precession. it was their weekly- pay day, and ;r,, was also shopping day. Consequentiv the Show Grounds were net so well patronised as they might have been had the celebration of on Saturthe feast been held display on day. The children's Grounds was a Show the Claremont delightful exhibtion of the wealth of Catholic and the our schools Church in the West. There, indeed, was the evidencp of what Cataolicity ie doing for the State. Bleak down the antagoWsai to Catulie ex The Irish War-Pipe Band, headed by the Vicar -General (Monsignor Verling) and Sreridan Father P. Band pans'. -n, and the citizenship of the futthe of founder tre and Father T. Crowley, ure need have no anxiety in C01111CCothers of the clergy followed. don with those problems which are inpredominated. A notable feature of the land Junction and Guildford Convent teresting and worrying *hose old dame Guildford West followed. Schools order the splendid was celebration social reformers who talk their eummaintained by the marshals. Nut one Convent School sent its representation exclusive and bug to commissions and ugly incident happened to mar the dressed in white, with chocolate tabby eat circles. Mr. James. 1./wyer Pipers' Crowley's Father facings. blue to his pain cause or to pleasure People's latest Irish and his assistant secretary, Mi. W. Grace the Archbishop, whose gaily Band followed with the radiant in Webb, :worked hard and zealously to Looking Free State airs. dressed car led the procession. make a good day lot the people. The Prior to a start being made, Ho'y their instinctive colours, red and white, valuable _ommittee reolered came the children of the Sacred Heart sports Mass was celebrated at the Cathedral, aid, and seconded the efforts of the were Following Highgate. School. panegyric The which was thronged. ?'i.e day passed off the children of the Maylands School, two secretaries. of the Saint was preached by Father pleasantly, ard the children were Immediately after- and next to them the boys of St. Pat- very McMahon. M.A for by ladies from Catered and, like splendidly wards the procession was got in order rick's School in full force, Mrs. McDcwell, in excellent the various parishes College, the of boys the O'Brien. B. C. Mr. marshal, chief word by the Their purple and s I lItt,stieet, deserves a special and his assistant marshals, Messrs. :I-arching order. in eIsetectign sy_rk her tar of praise trimmings the to variety added National white (Irish Walsh and Keating and Os- with the catering r the boys of the Foresters), R. E. Walsh and t)oheny of the procession. Leederville She trade thein were well repre- Ciontarf Orphanage (Young Ireland Society), J. J.O'Far- borne Park Schools J. Moloney, on a her e:penal interest. end with nor asFather and and sented, Society' .C.B. H.A ( rell and Crogan a riding party sistants made the day a memorable one Fitzgerald, Long, and Hughes (general jet black charger, led for the boys. Following his Grace's car of youths in white and green, accompublic). During the afternoon his Grace the panied by a contingent' of adult horsecame the Venerable i3ishop Gibney Archbishop visited the grounds. Claremont, Park. and several of the clergy. The proces- men from Osborne North The following are the results of the Fremantle and sion left the Hibernian Hall punctual Cottesloe, Subiaco Band sports events:The The followed. time. Schools starting advertised the to and gave inSPORTS RESITLTS. battalions of the schools were seeming- kept the music flowing, of the Perth in spiration to the members ly stronger and mere beautiful than Boys' Race (under 16 years), 75 Ireland. Young the and admiran Society were C.Y.N. They years. A. Brockman, 1; J. previous The Irish National Yards' Handicap: able body of young Catholic Austra- ers who followed. St. Patrick's Hiber- Hannan. 2; T. Dawson, 3. rothe a and was Foresters lians, and their appearance Girls' Race (under 16 years), 75 their beautiful banbust, wholesome and excellent tribute nian members, with representation, Handicap: M. Hooper, 1; A. Yards' were strong Church a ners end to the teaching Orders of the Maynard, 2; Katie Higgins, 3. procession. the of order suburbs. the its in and last city the working in Bicycle Race, One Mile Handicap: Members of the Celtic Club followed, W Smith, I; Haddow .2; Congdon, 3. It was a most encouraging and pleasing the up brought public citiCatholic general the and eight to watch our young zens-to-be, alert, smiling and confident, THE TABLEAU. stepping out to the national music of the bands-a finer body of youngsters could not be found anywhere in AusWest. tralia than our young folk of thedisplay and no one will deny. after the schools Catholic our that 17th, on the bold a good proportion of the West's Over 2.000 of youth and beauty. fully them were in the procession, and the Claremont 4,000 were present on Show Grounds. by the The procession, enlivened and music, passed down Murray-street -by turned into Barrack-street. then William was' of Wellington -street, into again then street, and Hay -street, the staBarrack -street on its way to -
tion. tinThe Clontarf Boys Brass' Band, O'Neill. der the direction af Bandmaster clergy. followed the Archbishop and by The boys of the C.B.C., marshalled a Rev Bros. Deane and Blake, made they In full strength fine showing. their lads, of body mustered a splendid marching was excellent. and undoubtoily they are a credit to the College. The children of Fremantle Convent St. Joachim's, VicSchool followed. Park, Convent School, in green,
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sang sweetly a number of beautiful hymns, adding considerably to the devotion burning within the Irish hearts of the people assembled below. After the Communion and to the accompaniment of bugle calls, drum beats and martial Irish music played by the various bands at the head of their units, forming into processional line around Victoria Square, which so uniquely encloses the Cathedral, the celebrant preached the occasional ser-
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From the pulpit Father McMahon delivered a tellii.1; panegyric on the great Saint, the theme of which was insistent that Patrick was a man of "Prayer," the preacher said, prayer. "was the principal characteristic in the Saint's life." Continuing, Father McMahon gave a brief history of the escapades of the Saint, who "as a youth herded swine in the wind-swept fields of the North of Ireland, whose heart yearned for his home and country. Su consumed was he by the burning fervour of prayer that in his letters he tea us he prayed a hundred times by day and a hundred times by night. As he awakened during the night he ruse and prayed. Escaping from bondage on a pirate boat, he ever encountered As a youthful refugee, difficulties. Patrick always found solace in prayer. At home he prays as he goes through He was known his colleagiate course. Ordained as the prayerful student. he conBishop priest and consecrated stantly prays. It was during his of the voice lIe the heard prayers that people of that land he had learned to to rehim on calling love as a slave turn and walk amongst them again. CommisRome's with armed At length, sion to go back to Ireland, he mounts the hill of Tara and there prays for his people-the spirit that marks his whole misionary career. At the evening of his life, his work accomplished, and with the weight of years pressing hen. down, he ascends that mount in Mayo known since as Croagh Patrick, and from its summit he intends to bless the four provinces of Eire. There he prayed, and how constant was his perseverance is shown by the story of It is his retreat on Cruagh Patrick. told that his request on that occasion, that Ireland should never lose the Faith he brought it, was not immeThe Saint persisted diately granted. in his prayer, accompanied by the ringing of a bell, until it was made kaown to him that his faith and persevering prayer had trained his request. Prayer was one of the big things in It was the music of Patrick's life. his undying faith in Christ crucified. "Such is the request we want especiilly from Patrick-to intercede for us for that gift of prayer in all our necessities, to help us to pray with such confidence, such faith and such perseHis children at home have verance. demonstrated that inherited trait from Patrick as a spectacle for the world to gaze and wonder at. In the darkest moments of her struggle, the soul of Ireland comforted itself in prayer to The tragic gatherings outside God. the prison gates of Mountjoy. where her youngest and hest were fertilising the cause of Ireland free and Catholic with their hearts' blood, the waiting anguished mother and sisters hid their grief, replenished their courage in the prayer-the prayer par excellenceof the Opel. Mary's Rosary. Such has
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MISS ALICE COWLEY (Age 17 years), Pupil of Ladies' College, Convent of Mercy, Victoria Square. Winner of University Exhibition (f.180), for Mathematics and Applied Mathematics (1921). Leaving Certificate, English Literature, French (distinction), Latin, Mathematics (distinction.), Applied Mathematics (dis-
Junior Certificate (1919), English Literature, French, Latin. Arithmetic, Algebra, Geometry. English History, Geography, Physics. b Li uggie bcen nee solace and her comfort in the ,1 6.1) ,......1VJWAtAaott4 g los tutueiT14111.1,11.1. L.11%.11 C cusuy wuri Ale! or cat crisis tit Ireland's recent his. nut .inotoer i,u.c a0o...1. csenounees world fury. An unbelieving IA la cut.w.a4 turieo win., wt.. it as superstition, but we know it is wittnof ,ospire. sue :#(101.4: a oe rechildren-the to his ine gilt in Patrick tw Ulan re.II). ow.kikni .ivy_ priceless inheritance of a teal' that , 'UDT4111., but peupie uy CO act as it freedares, to show itseli publicly in spite of wait Liue gut ul a iew, whose uuni sneers and jibes. minds seem so warped that they would Need of Religion To-Day. wnose only to otners torteci oxygen f.t1StiallilliS nave cause to recrime wouiu seem to be love of their tiael. the us clay national native land. joice on the Aotwitnatanding these anomalies in ou are the' spiritual children tit in our mast, in nunoury at. isatricka Patrick. Patrick planted tne seed What inere was a Lay dawned hopes ally. iretand in the filth century. mission in course at toe Cathedral, and seed has taken root, and has grown nunareas of people were early at mass into a mighty tree with blanches the new --in tact, at dawn 01 aay, and again overshaaue mg the old and cultivated iii large numbers at nine o clock. Father Patrick's suns have world. to aplearned so nave xocne, delivered a telling adtnat seea, aiiu dress on the axe and example ot St. preciate its worth that they have they Patrick, anti the tangible lessons ready urougnt it with them wherever tor adaptation irom such a me and its The Irish Church has been fergo. of example. hie denneated the saintly tilised by seven hundred years emfile and read the almost interininable Wood and persecution. She has erged from her night of darkness as lum- list of canonised saints who throughout the centuries unitatea Pt. Patrick, inous and radiant as the early Church price f.nd won the everlasting crown of glory arose from the Catacombs. Theinherial Heaven and perpetuity of reanemthat Erin has paid for Patrick's urance on earth. At one o'clock there lance will never permit her to !use that was a scene tit liveliness and enthusigem. Nay, it compels the children to asm m tne school grounds which plaintollow the Master's voice and become an exile for Christ that others might ly snowea that the memory o1 St. Pat That explains rick was a potent and compellisig facpartake of their gift. in tor of life there. The new church is that exodus from Erin which began dedicated to St. Patrick. The ConPatrick's lifetime and continued down sons vent is aeciteated ..; him. Why should to our time. It was Patrick's your nut tne people, la and religious, enand daughters who came into midst and brought a branch of that thuse on the day when Lhe memory of tree with them, planted it on your their patron saint was publicly demonstrated/ "Iwere unworthy; of them shores, and by which Australians have And even though the to look cold, churlish or unmoved benetitted. Kingwhen toe iascinating story of the saint garb of the pioneers of Christ's arrow dom might have the degrading seed- seemed pointed on shamrock, emerald ribbon and eloquent scroll. The lormark of shame on it, still the ries in readiness for the tableaux were they planted has grown and matured there to time. Deft and clever hands until we have to -day a Church inequal the soon transformed them with bunting in vigour and fertility to any and chastening binding into luxurious new world. and inheritance, Patrick's apartments, wherein was read tne his"Treasure tory of ancient and modern Erin. Each see that ydu guard it zealously. Auslorry contained an epoch of ancient tralia's own sons and daughters are now in and modern history. God knows-the answering the call, and are coming the in work to nations of tne world know-that her numbers increasing That is the nistory, like that of Poland, has been Vineyard of the Lord. is seed Patrick's that sign a history of "dungeon, fire and sword" healthiest flourishing. But let us not forget the and exile; but her exiles wake up when pioneers who have gone before, and in the anniversary of lab° years ago calla them! There were some 3.50 children, whose tracks others came. Remember that to be Irish is to be Catholic, and as well as their parents There were the adults, and there were not a few there is no shame on either. and where Irish sympathy exists there also Ca- of the native born !rig's -nett why stood in proud phalanx around the Sinn Fein tholicism flourishes. For Australia At a glance you could see the they must be inseparably united in flag. Mahers (3!, Doherty, Doonan, Dalton, thought and deed. "My wish, then, to you this morning Fitzgerald, Dillon, Milligan and the is: May the dowry of Patrick to the rest-but where were the other ten Irish race be his Feast -day gift to you thousand? -a heart glowing and warm with the The Sinn Fein flag, carried by 'runs Celtic Faith, ever nourished and nur- Maher, led the procession, Mr. Thad tured by a spirit of prayer." Banting, mounted on a grey charger, being marshal, while the Archdeacon AT BIINBURY. headed the whole procession in his motor car. And what a consequential The feast of the national apostle of thing the procession seemed to be. Busicelewas year Ireland on March 17 this ness /was quite suspended, all hands apbrated in circumstances which were the pearing at the doors, and at the varihappiest since the present mode of cele- ous street intersections there was quite bration was established by Archdeacon a crowd. Constable Martin looked Smyth seven years ago. The sun, busy on his bicycle as he sped from which had been intolerably hot, beat street to street to see that everything down with mellow glow, chastened in was as it should be. Mr. Jim Shanaits intensity by a mild zephyr, which han, the well-known and thoroughly apmeant comfort and joy for the hun- preciated herald of the Labour cause, dreds of participants and spectators. was our secretary, and he seemed to Much was expected this year. Ireland be everywhere-at the gate, on the rewas and is officially a free State withground, among the processioncreation serfdom of chains Its in the Empire. ists, looking to order and harmony and Her were constitutionally broken. There was not a hitch in propriety. British of the leaders the and leaders All arrived on the the procession. Empire are reputed friends. The lib- ground in good time and spirit. Then have earth the of nations -loving erty for all and sundry. races the began been saluting her as a sister, and con(Continued on Page 4.) gratulating her in the historic and gen-