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HER MAJESTY THE LATE QUEEN OF BELGIUM WITH

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PRINCE BAUD0UIN, DUKE OF BRABANT, HEIR TO

THE THRONE AND PRINCESS CHARLOTTE.

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PRIMATE B L A M E S A U T H O R I T I E S Dublin.—That the "July Twelfth" outbreaks which happen in

Belfast with monotonous regularity were more violent than usual this year is due partly to a repercussion from the recent events of a similar nature in Edinburgh, and partly to clashes which have occurred with some frequency in the North since the celebration of the King's Jubilee, in which, of course, the opposition did not participate and consequently were marked down.

Moreover, t h e N o r t h e r n Government had th rea tened , in t h e cause of peace, to place a n embargo on all public processions, a prohibition which exaspera ted t h e Orangemen, who, in public speeches, defied the Government t o s top the July procession fortified by the certain knowledge t h a t t h e y ran no risks from Government intervention.

That all t h e d i sorder h a s no t been on one s ide is painfully t rue , but the indiscr iminate wrecking and firing of Catholic homes h a s exceeded in violence a n y previous records in Belfast. T h a t underlying political mot ive canno t be divorced from t h e rel igious aspect of what has been a ver i tab le pogrom, and some see t h e promot ion of re ligious differences a s an effort to further the cause of Communism. Deprecated by a P r o t e s t a n t Paper .

An editorial ent i t led "Belfas t ' s Shame" which has appeared in t h e Irish Times a s a r esu l t of t h i s year's d is turbances , is held to mark a great advance in t h a t P r o testant paper 's a t t i t u d e toward the July 12 celebrat ions.

"Once again ," t h e editorial Points out, " t h e ceremonies in Belfast in connection wi th t h e Twelfth of Ju ly h a v e been mar red

by d isplays of hooliganism, which, on t h i s occasion, h a v e resu l ted in the loss of several l ives a n d a formidable catalogue of o t h e r casualt ies . . Y e a r a f t e r y e a r t h e s a m e g ruesome s to ry is told. T h e T w e l f t h ' seems to inflame all t h e worst passions in both P r o t e s t a n t s and Roman Catholics in Belfast , and a s t ime progresses t h e b i t t e r ness between t h e t w o s ides seems to b e g rowing more and m o r e int ense . "

"Belfas t , " t h e editorial cont inues , "is vir tual ly t h e only c i ty in t h e world in which P r o t e s t a n t s and Roman Catholics cannot live as fr iends, side by side, and, although the Nor the rn Government is t a k i n g drast ic s teps t o r e s to re order, some, a t least , of i t s m e m bers canno t be absolved a l toge ther from responsibil i ty for t h e r e cur ren t dis turbances . F a r too often responsible Minis ters a r e inclined t o d r a g religion in to the i r political speeches, t h u s encouraging t h e ignorant mob to give rein to i t s bigoted passions. T h e Orange Order m a y be an admi ra ble organizat ion in m a n y w a y s ; but m a n y of i ts members t a k e advan t age of t h e T w e l f t h ' t o ven t thei r feelings aga ins t t h e Roman Catholic Church.

(Continued at foot of col. 3.)

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A COLOSSAL STATUE OF CHRIST.

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Miss Grace Milne reputed to be a "globe-trotter" and one who has taken a special interest in statuary, and made a careful study of the statues of the world, declares "there are none comparable with the colossal edifice at RiO de Janeiro." It is a representation of Christ, and stands on a mountain

hign above the city with its gigantic arms outspread.

POPE'S ADDRESS TO EX-SOLDIERS.

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P E A C E MAY Y E T P R E V A I L .

Rome, 7th Sept.—Addressing 15,000, I ta l ian, F r ench and o ther exsoldiers, H i s Holiness t h e Pope said apparen t ly a rainbow was forming on t h e horizon and we h a v e prayed for peace.

The desires a n d aspi ra t ions of a j g r e a t people m u s t be satisfied b u t

wi th just ice, peace and honour

"A foul word is spoken, a blow is struck, or a shot is fired—and then Belfast goes mad . Surely it is high t i m e t h a t t h i s sor t of th ing should cease. Ireland boasts t h a t she is a Chr is t ian c o u n t r y ; ye t t ime a f t e r t ime t h e Pro tes t a n t s and Roman Caholics of t h e N o r t h act in a m a n n e r of which Bashibazouks would be ashamed. In an admirable sermon recently t h e Bishop of Down, Connor and Dromore m a d e a s t r ong appeal for religious peace in h i s diocese. Roman Catholic p r i es t s also have been urging t he i r flocks to ref ra in from violence, wha teve r may be t h e provocation. T h e Churches , however, a r e a lmost helpless.

Si tuat ion Held Grave . "Awful thincrs have been done

in Belfast d u r ' n g t h e las t few davs in t h e n a m e of reiicrion, and, unless and unt i l t h e political lead-

(Continued on page 3)

Vatican City, 4th Sept .—It is expected t h a t Monsignor Hinsley, Archbishop of Wes tmins te r , wttl be among the new Cardinals which His Holiness the Pope will c rea te du r ing the nex t consis tory in October . There a re now only 49 cardinals instead of the usual 72.

Reuter .

because against jus t i ce t h e r e is only sin which makes peoples mise rable.

W e wan t peace because it m e a n s an avoidance of all t h e evils which w a r involves. Peace is t h e preli-. m ina ry to all well-beings:—Reuter .

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A CASE FOR THE MEXICAN GOVERNMENT BY JOSEPH McSORLEY OF THE PAULIST FATHERS.

(FROM THE CATHOLIC WORLD). SECOND I N S T A L M E N T . The r i se and fall of education in

Mexico real ly m a k e s an amaz ing s to ry all in f avour of t h e Catholic Church . Sho r t l y a f t e r t h e landing of t h e S p a n i a r d s in 1521, a law was m a d e t h a t a school should be a t t a c h e d t o eve ry pa r i sh church and t o eve ry pr incipal convent . Some of t h e schools contained a t h o u s a n d pupi ls and t h e curr iculum included t o g e t h e r wi th Religion, Reading , W r i t i n g , Ar i thmet ic , A r t s , C ra f t s a n d La t in . Before 1550 twelve women teachers had come ou t f rom Spain and six schools for g i r l s h a d been s t a r t ed . T h e f amous College of San ta Cruz was founded in 1534 and t h e Pontifical Un ive r s i t y of Mexico in 1553. T h e Unive r s i ty gave cour T

ses in Theology, Scr ip ture , Law, Ar t s , Rhe tor ic , Greek and Mathemat ics . I t enjoyed t h e same academic pr ivi leges a s t h e Univers i ty of Sa l amanca and dur ing t h e 222 years of i t s exis tence bestowed Bacca laurea te on near ly 30,000 s tuden t s . Beni tez l is ts t h e names of i t s f a m o u s g r adua t e s , some of whom occupied Cha i r s in t h e facult ies of E u r o p e a n univers i t ies . An unusual ly capable observer, t h e d is t inguished Von Humbol t , who visi ted Mexico in 1803 and published h i s impress ion of conditions the re , s a y s : " T h e capital and o the r cit ies h a v e scientific es tabl ish m e n t s wTiich will b e a r comparison wi th t hose of E u r o p e . "

To sum i t up , ' one may say t h a t Mexico conta ined so m a n y schools f c r boys and gir ls before t h e Revolution g o t t o Work in 1810 t h a t , in B i shop Kelley 's words , " t h e r e had never been a count ry on t h e face of t h e e a r t h t h a t in so shor t a t i m e h a d done so much in an educaticmal w a y . " To be su re t h e work e s t educat ion had not been carr ied on equally well a t all t imes and in all p laces , nor w a s i t accomplished w i thou t a cer ta in a m o u n t of opposition and in ter ference on t h e p a r t of t h e civil au tho r i t i e s . T h e y somet imes took t h e a t t i t u d e t h a t t h e Indians were be ing ove reduca ted ; and t h e y m a d e t h i s t h e g round of complaint t o t h e Crown a s ear ly as 1570. B u t d u r i n g t h e Colonial Per iod t h e Church , on t h e whole, received encouragemen t a n d suppor t f rom t h e Government . Af te r Independence, i t w a s a n o t h e r s to ry .

To u n d e r s t a n d t h e s i tua t ion, we m u s t recall a few his tor ical detai ls . In 1833 a l i t t le more t h a n t e n yea r s a f t e r t h e separa t ion from Spain, t h e Mexican Government began t o appropr i a t e Church lands, bui ldings, and endowment funds . In 1857 t h e to ta l p roper ty of t h e Church , a m o u n t i n g to 50,000,000 Mexican dollars (one-half t h a t a m o u n t in U.S . money) , was confiscated. U n d e r Diaz (1876-1911) t h e r e w a s a resp i te , b u t in 1914, Church p rope r ty to t h e amoun t of $10,000,000 was t a k e n away. Th i s m e a n t t h e impover i shment of t h e schools and asy lums which had been suppor ted by the Church . In m a n y l ib ra r i e s—the N e w York Publ ic L i b r a r y for example—you will find records g iv ing t h e name, place a n d d a t e of public ins t i tut ions , founded and mainta ined for y e a r s b y t h e Catholic Church, bu t evieatoidly des t royed by t h e Mexi-cafa Government.

As a typfcal case t a k e t h e Asylum for t h e Poor in Mexico City, founded in 1763 and supported by t h e Archbishop. A t t h e school connected wi th t h i s inst i tut ion, t h e children were t a u g h t useful c raf t s . T h e Government confiscated the endowment and t h e school had to be abandoned in 1863

T h e outline of t h e t rag ic s to ry t can be discerned by a t t en t ive rea -I de rs even in t h e accounts wr i t t en I by " revo lu t ionary" au tho r s . One j comes upon such s t a t emen t s a s j t h e s e : "Meanwhi le individuals I g rowing more imperious because

Government was less stable, produced innumerable political effects reaching on educat ion T h e missions former ly so useful among t h e indigenous population degener a t ed likewise because t h e religious fervour cooled down to such a degree t h a t t h e Government was obliged t o suppor t t h e m T h e ins t i tu t ions founded by pr iva te ini t iat ive decayed because t he i r funds began to pass in to

— t o establish. W h e n every th ing is summed up, t he Government , in spi te of alL i ts fine, ta lk, is down on t h e records as t h e assassin of a living school sy s t em which was a blessing to Mexico.

I I . I pass on now to ano ther consi

derat ion, namely, t h a t Senor Gil's whole volume is really an a t t e m p t to ge t away from t h e main issue.

In almost any a rgumen t , it is difficult to keep a t t en t ion focussed

| on t h e main point. This is espe-d a i l y t r u e when, a s in Mexican af-

l fairs , t he re are several in teres t ing ! side issues which tend to ga the r

around and obscure t h e main issue. I say, " tend to g a t h e r around,"

| but perhaps in t h i s case i f would be more correct to say "when they a r e deliberately introduced to lead us away from t h e principal ques-I t ion ." Obviously t h e big issue ! here , is t he r igh t of t h e Mexican

Government to a c t a s it has been j ac t ing towards t h e b ishops , pr ies ts j and people of t h e Catholic Church. ; The re a r e many contr ibut ions b y | Government sympath ize r s on all i so r t s of more or less i r re levant or ! minor points, b u t not once have I i come upon a s t a t e m e n t by or for l t h e Government , which frankly

ULCAIH THE IIEST WATCH

t h e hands of t h e Government j p resen ts the ma in question, and a l though t h i s acknowledged j t h e in te res t s i t was hardly ever able to pay t h e m . "

In plain Engl i sh th i s means t h a t I t h e funds accumulated by t h e Church for educat ion were appropr ia ted by t h e revolut ionary gove r n m e n t ; and t h e schools were ruined. And t h a t tells where h i s to ry will place t h e responsibil i ty for Mexican i l l i teracy—squarely on t he shoulders of t h e Government .

With t he se t h i n g s in mind, t h e his tor ian Cuevas r eg i s t e r s his conviction t h a t i t would have been fo r tuna te if Mexico had separa ted from Spain in t h e middle of t h e e ighteenth c e n t u r y . F o r t h e las t half of t h a t c en tu ry b r o u g h t a series of mis for tunes , such as t h e influx of t h e Swiss and German mercenar ies in t h e new s t and ing a rmy , t h e expulsion of t h e Je su i t s (1767), t h e in t roduct ion of revolut ionary ideas, t h e flooding of t h e country w i th undesi rable immigr a n t s who wished to live "sin Dios, sin rey y sin ley ." (without God, king and law.) Observing men foresaw d isas te r . As early a s 1761, four of t h e bishops of New Spain addressed a vigorous p ro tes t to the K i n g u r g i n g curat ive and prevent ive m e a s u r e s . T h e i r protes t was bold b u t ineffectual; and t h e gradual ly demoralized coun t ry was able to oppose l i t t le res is tance to t he des t ruc t ive forces which took possession of i t in 1821 and made a s t r a n g e r to peace and norm a 1 development for more t h a n a hundred yea r s .

These a r e t h e facts which cannot be explained away by any number of theor ies , or promises, or accusat ions. No sane or honest man who knows t h e m would blame t h e Catholic Church for t h e illiteracy of t h e Mexican people a t t h e p resen t day. Let us not be bamboozled by official p r o p a g a n d a ; by pictures of t h e new Lib ra ry in Mexico C i t y ; by descript ions of t h e Calles' Indus t r ia l School, or t he up-to-date Rodriguez ' Marke t , established, by t h e way, in a building which was formerly a J e su i t College; no r by speeches about t h e nat ion-wide modern rura l school system which t h e Government p romises—mark t h e word, promises

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proceeds to consider the argumen t s pro and con.

It is necessary therefore , to keep reminding ourselves and others of the chief i s sue—the issue which has finally a t t r ac t ed t he a t tent ion of t h e whole civilized world, t h e issue which, if it can be kept in focus long enough, will win away from t h e side of t h e Mexican Government everyone except t h e equivalent Communis ts .

Le t us r e s t a t e t h e issue h e r e : T h e Government , according to i ts own declaration, h a s under taken to des t roy t h e Catholic Church in Mexico. In pursu i t of t h a t end it ha s deprived thousands of Catholics not only of fundamenta l r i gh t s commonly recognized by civilized na t ions , but also of the i r const i tut ional r igh t s a s Mexican citizens. To be specific, t h e Government h a s done t h e following t h i n g s : — 1. I t has pu t citizens to death

wi thout t r ia l . 2. I t has banished pr ies ts entirely

from an area inhabi ted by approximately six million Catholics.

3 . I t has disfranchised all clergymen.

4. I t ha s forced all school teachers t o join t h e dominant political p a r t y and to make definite s t a t ement s about religion under penal ty of dismissal .

5. I t has forcibly imposed "relig ious" ins t ruct ion of a prescribed form on all t h e children of t h e nat ion.

6. I t has , in wholesale fashion, violated freedom of t h e press , freedom of speech, freedom of correspondence and t h e r igh t of petit ion.

7. I t has affirmed t h a t Mexicans possess no r i gh t s save those g ran ted in a Const i tut ion voted upon only by members of the pa r ty in power. Accused by witnesses so nume

rous and so var ied t h a t the i r tes t i mony cannot be ignored, t he Mexican Government is now under indic tment befort t h e court of world opinion. I t is charged with having violated fundamental human r igh t s . The quest ion of i ts guil t or innocence is to be decided wi th t h e help of all available evidence.

(To be continued)

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P R I E S T A S K E D TO DRAFT P L A N F O R COOPERATIVE WORK IN SOUTH AFRICA.

Sal isbury, Southern Rhodesia.— T h e Rev. Bernard Huss , of the Mariannhi l l Missionaries, who for m a n y yea r s ha s been engaged in social work among t h e natives of Sou th Africa, has been proposed a s an a u t h o r i t y to d r a w up a survey of t h e conditions and possibil i t ies of cooperative organization in South Africa. The proposal was expressed in a resolution passed at t h e In ter - te r r i tor ia l Conference on Afr ican Village Development and Educat ion , held at Salisbury.

T h e cha i rman of t h e conference, Dr. C. T. Loram, Professor of Educat ion a t Yale Universi ty, formerly Chief Inspector of Native Education in Nata l and for ten years a member of the Nat ive Affairs Commission of South Africa, said t h a t F a t h e r Huss ' s efforts to improve t h e economic position of the South Afr ican Bantu were well

I known in America. He also said t h a t P ro t e s t an t missionaries

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On Wm$$ from Albion (FROM OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT)

ANOTHER NEW BISHOP. The most in te res t ing ecclesiasti

cal appointment to record th i s week from Grea t Br i t a in re la tes to Scotland. F o r upwards of twen ty-one years t h e Bishop of Galloway, Dr. James William McCar thy , has ruled t h a t diocese, a t e r r i to ry which covers t h e whole of t h r e e Scots counties and a good p a r t of another. H i s Lordship is not f a r short of e ighty- three , ye t so far he has done his work single-handed. The Holy See has now given him a Coadjutor, wi th r i g h t of succession, and t h e appoin tment is one t h a t is likely to be hailed wi th wide sat isfact ion. T h e Bishop-elect, Canon William Mellon, comes from the diocese of S t . Andrews and Ed inburgh and is a t p resen t parish pr ies t of one of Ed inbu rgh ' s busy centra l par i shes . He will take to Galloway a r ipe experience of parochial w o r k ; for he has been connected wi th several impor tan t centres, and for long per iods. His consecration will br ing t h e number of t h e Scot t ish Archbishops and Bishops to eight .

* * * * * THE BELGIAN TRAGEDY.

In all t h e Catholic Churches here in London—and the s ame is t rue , of course, of o ther places a lso— prayerful s y m p a t h y is being evoked for Belgium, s t r icken by t h e tragedy which has bereaved her of her Queen. B u t t h e r e is one church in par t icular whe re th i s lamentable dea th has b rough t special grief—Catholic Belgium's own church in London, t h e Church of Our Lady of Hal in Camden Town. There t h e congregat ion recall t h e gracious lady, a convert to t h e Faith, who m a d e so m a n y fr iends during he r visi t to Eng land not long ago. T h e dea th of Queen Astrid leaves only one re igning Catholic queen in Europe , t h e Queen of I ta ly, since Spain is no longer a monarchy . Belgium's r e presentatives in London a re to be present a t a solemn requiem in t h e Camden Town church.

* * * * * PLEASANT NEWS FROM

YORKSHIRE. In Leeds, Yorkshi re , a Catholic

Church is to be rebuilt , and for t h e next twelve mon ths t h e congregation mus t worship elsewhere. They will not, however, be wi thout a place of worship d u r i n g t h a t time. The Vicar of an Anglican church in t h e district , a s a ges tu re of Christ ian kindliness and cooperation, has placed his par i sh nail at the disposal of t h e Catholics for Sunday Mass, and while the i r own church is building they will therefore go for the Holv Sacrifice to this Church of Eng land build-*ng. The Vicar 's action has brought him many pra ises from all sorts and conditions of men.

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OUR GROWING SCHOOLS. The annual report of t h e Board

°f Education, a Government publication, once more makes good reading in t he m a t t e r of Catholic educational progress . Dur ing t h e J*ar ending March 31st, 1934 ( the report comes no neare r t h a n t h a t ) catholic Schools increased by eight, in cont ras t to t h i s s t a t e of t n i n g s , Church of England schools

decreased by 116. Our Catholic schools ten years ago numbered 1,136; dur ing t h e ten years t h a t number has advanced by jus t upon eighty. A t th i s r a t e of progress it will not be very long before t h e r e a re 1,300 Catholic pr imary schools in England and Wales.

* * * * * A NOTABLE VISITOR.

One of Europe ' s most dis t inguished theologians, t he Rev. Professor Garr igou-Lagrange, O.P., is a t present paying England a visit in order to preach re t r ea t s a t Oxford and to give a lecture in London. Pe re Garr igou-Lagrange is world-famous: his conferences in Par i s drew s tudents from many lands. He is t he au thor of a number of deep and important theological and devotional books. This !

famous Dominican is a Professor a t the Collegio Angelico in Rome.

* * * * * AT HARVINGTON HALL.

Near Kidderminster , in the E n g lish Midlands, is an ancient, moat -surrounded mansion, Harv ing ton ; Hall, wi th many Catholic associations. The house was a place of refuge, and a centre of Catholic devotion, du r ing t h e dark period of the penal t imes . "Pr ies t s ' -ho les" and o the r secret hiding-places a re to be found in it, and among o the r j hallowed memories connected wi th Harv ing ton is t h a t of one of t he I English M a r t y r s , Blessed John Wall.

In t h e cour tyard of Harv ing ton Hall, a few days ago, t h e r £ was a moving and very beautiful spectacle—a pagean t play based on t h e j life of t h e m a r t y r . The play was wri t ten by t h e present pa r i sh priest , F a t h e r Pa t r ick Moore. He himself took t h e p a r t of Blessed John W a l l ; o the r Catholics sustained t h e remain ing roles- The j play was introduced by a famous j Catholic lady who, many years ago, was one of t he idols of t he j Brit ish s t a g e : Madame de Na- ;

varro, nee Mary Anderson. Great j in teres t was taken in the Harv ing- (

ton play, which had several i performances . Not t he least con-soling c i rcumstance about it was t h a t it took place on what is now a Catholic p roper ty in perpetui ty , for j Harvington Hall has become a possession of the Archdiocese of Bi rmingham and is being well i cared for. Every year a pilgrimage, in which hundreds of 1

Catholics par t ic ipate , is organized to the Hall, t h e pilgrims coming j from all p a r t s of the Archdiocese, j * * * * *

ANOTHER OUTPOST.

Bit by bit, t he Fa i th is being restored to the English countryside. The work is gradual, and in places s low; bu t it is sure . A small Suffolk village, Hollesiey. supplies the latest instance. By the kindness of a local lady, room in 2 f a rmhouse was made available for t h e offering of Holy Mass. Fifteen persons at tended t h e first celebration. The i r numbers will grow. The priest who said the the Mass, F a t h e r Ernes t Sheb-beare, is a convert from the minis t ry of t he Church of England.

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(Continued from page 1) ers de termine t h a t a hal t shall be called, t he miserable business will be likely to continue. Who will t ake t h e first s t ep? Viscount Craigavon is a m a n of high personal charac ter and of uncommon courage. In common with several of his colleagues he has been influenced in t h e pas t by the political power of t h e Orange Lodges, and has made foolish s ta tements , which, we do not doubt, he regre t ted a f te rwards . If he would come boldly into t h e open and denounce religious bigotry, as it ought to be denounced, he would make an enormous impression, not only on his own people in t h e Nor th , but also on t he Roman Catholic minority, which is labouring under a sense of grievance, and tends to go to viol e n t ex t remes . The situation is so grave tha t no responsible Government cculd afford to t rea t it lightly. Nor thern Ireland has so much of which to be proud t h a t its rubers ought not to rest until they have got rid of one really black spot on the Province's escutcheon."

The paper takes the position that nothing could be more futile in connection with t he recent disturbances " than an a rgument as to 'who began i t ? ' " It also contends

t h a t " the re is very little t o choose between t h e two mobs in Belfast ," except t h a t "one is la rger t h a n t h e other ."

Author i t ies Blamed. His Eminence Josejph Cardinal

MacRory, Archbishop of A r m a g h , is quoted as b laming t h e au thor i ties for t h e original d is turbances on July 12. H i s Eminence, t h e r e port s ta tes , declared t h a t t h e au-

I thori t ies should not have pe rmi t -I ted the Orangemen 's parade from I which resulted t h e anti-Catholic j ou tburs ts in Belfast.

' T h e t rouble ," t h e repor t quotes the Cardinal as saying, " w a s due part ly to inci tement to bigotry more than once shamelessly given hy prominent members of t h e Nor- ' t h e m government , and p a r t l y to the neglect by t he Government t o do i ts duty prompt ly in repress ing violence, but mostly t o the i r cowardly fai lure t o forbid all par ty demons t ra t ions which sad experience h a s shown a r e productive almost every v e a r of r iot and bloodshed."

Meanwhile in th i s city, Government officials vigorously condemned re ta l i a to ry ou tbu r s t s which have manifes ted themselves a t several points in t h e Ir ish F ree Sta te , and have given it to be known t h a t all disorders will be dealt wi th vi?~**ous!y.

4 MALAYA CATHOLIC LEADER, SATURDAY, U t b September, 1985.

Y o u n g P e o p l e ' s P a g e

THE COURAGE OF A REAL SOLDIER. o

(A True Story). I n t h e flourishing re ign of Louis

XIV, a n Ind ian boy was s e n t t o F r a n c e t h a t h e m i g h t h a v e full o p p o r t u n i t y t o p r e p a r e himself t o ru l e h i s own people. Being of noble b i r t h , h e w a s m a d e a m e m b e r of t h e F r e n c h Cour t a n d a special i n s t r u c t o r w a s appointed t o develop h i m physical ly , menta l ly and sp i r i t ual ly.

H e w a s a s t r o n g buil t lad, p a r t i cular ly adep t in h i s s tudies , a n d seemed to be specially in t e re s t ed in m a t t e r s of religion. T h r e e y e a r s passed , a n d i t was almost t i m e for h i m t o r e t u r n t o h i s na t ive land. Thctagh qu i t e young, he w a s per m i t t e d t o se rve t i m e in t h e a r m y , so t h a t h e m i g h t be fitted to lead t h e soldiers of h is own count ry .

One day, for very li t t le reason, a n older soldier, du r ing a n a r g u men t , insul ted h im by word, and t hen s t r u c k h im a blow on t h e face. T h e ga l lan t you th never so m u c h a s r e sen ted it . Those s t and ing by were m o r e t h a n amazed. One, w h o claimed t o be h i s friend, took t h e occasion t o ta lk wi th h i m t h a t evening alone upon his behaviour , which h e told h im was t a m e a n d especially wrong in a soldier. -

" H e insul ted you," sa id t h e fr iend w i th some anger .

" Y e s , " was t h e calm a n s w e r of t h e Ind ian lad.

" H e s t ruck you," t h e fr iend cont inued .

" H e did," t h e boy confirmed. " A n d a f t e rwards h e spoke abou t

you i n a disrespectful w a y . " : " W h i t did he s a y ? "

"Oh, h e said you were a coward, t h a t you hadn ' t t h e cou rage t o fight."

" I s i t cowardice to do w h a t one t h i n k s is r i g h t . "

"No , i t is not cowardice t o do w h a t i s r i g h t . "

" T h a t is w h a t I t h ink I h a v e done . "

" B u t you haven ' t . * A soldier = —«—• *_j m u s t neve r allow anyone t o insu l t

h i m wi thou t showing s igns of r e s e n t m e n t and anger . You will be t h e l augh ing s tock of t h e camp. Word will be carr ied t o y o u r c o u n t r y about y o u r weakness . H e r e and t h e r e you will be l a u g h e d a* a n d scorned."

" I a m doing a s I h a v e been t a u g h t . "

" A s you h a v e been t a u g h t ? " " A s I was ins t ruc ted t o d o . " " T h e n you h a v e had a poor

t eache r . " " I do not th ink so ." " W h y n o t ? " " T h e good pr ies t who t a u g h t me

" he s t a r t ed t o explain. "Wil l fit you for a m o n a s t e r y by

h i s lessons, b u t never for t h e a r m y a n d t h e cour t . "

" W h e n I was in India t h e r e were m a n y t h i n g s I did not unde r s t and . "

" A n d do not unde r s t and ye t . You m u s t fight t h a t fellow a duel ."

" T h e r e in Ind ia I t r ied t o learn w h a t m y good f a t h e r a lways t a u g h t me . T o be a good ru ler one m u s t « * — 4 . fhp welfare of h i s

people one m u s t be t r u e to his rel ig ion; one m u s t be b r a v e . "

"And since you h a v e come here —you have forgot ten all t h a t f a t h e r t a u g h t you."

"No . I have learned sti l l more ." " W h a t , fo r i n s t ance?" " I have become a Cathol ic ." "You!" "Yes . I have s tudied the . Catho

lic religion, and I believe in followi n g out w h a t i t t eaches me . I t is b r ave not t o resen t a n insu l t ; i t t a k e s more courage not t o light

T O Y O U N G M E N .

IF YOU ARE WELL BRED You will be kind. You will not use slang. You will try to make others happy. You will not be shy or self-

conscious. You will never indulge in ill-natured

gossip. You will never forget the respect

due to age. You will not swagger or boast of

your achievements. You will think of others before you

think of yourself. You will be scrupulous in your

regard for the rights of others. You will not measure your civility

by people's bank accounts. You will not forget engagements,

promises or obligations of any kind. In conversation you will not be

argumentative or contradictory. You will never make fun of the

peculiarities or idiosyncrasies of others. You will not bore people by con

stantly talking of yourself and your affairs.

You will never under any circumstances cause another pain, if you can help it.

You will not think that " good intentions99 compensate for rude or gruff manners.

You will not sulk or feel neglected if others receive more attention than you do.

You will not hav'e two sets of manners, one for " company 99 and one for home use.

You will be as agreeable to your in ferrors as to your equals and superiors.

You will never remind a cripple of his deformity or probe the sore spots of a sensitive soul.

You will let a refined manner and superior intelligence show that you have travelled, instead of constantly talking of the different countries you have visited.

You will not remark while a 'guest that you do not like the food which has been served to you.

You will not attract attention by either your loud talk or laughter, or show your egotism by trying to absorb conversation.

t h a n to e n t e r a duel . If t h i s had happened in India, I would h a v e been unhappy unt i l I had my r e venge. I would have followed t h a t fellow unt i l I killed h im or h e killed me, bu t I would show all m y count rymen t h a t I wasi a b rave soldier and wor thy to be the i r ru ler ."

"And now, w h a t will you d o ? "

J O K E S .

FADING AWAY. In a village there lived a middle-aged

man who was looked upon by all the inhabitants to be brainless. Many of the local people employed him, but he proved useless at work. His relatives could not send him for a message, as he did not seem to know the value of coins.

After some months a new landowner bought a farm and dwelling-house, and became friendly with the local farmers. One morning, as he was chatting, the idiot passed, and the landowner was told the story.

A few days later the landowner decided to test the fool.

He called him, and placing a florin in-the fool's hand, told him to get sweets. He watched him strolling away and saw him climbing into a field. Deciding to find out the reason, he entered the adjoining field, and peered through the

i hedge. He saw the fool cutting a small j sod and speaking as follows to the florin;

"I will place you underneath here and I will call to-morrow at 11a.m. to see you."

Next morning the landowner took away the florin and placed a five shilling piece m the hole, to hear the remarks.

The fool lifted the sod and was delighted. He said to the coin, "My

I lovely fellow, you have grown much | larger since yesterday, I will leave you

there for another day." The following day the landowner un

able to place a larger coin in the hole, j put a sovereign there and tone away the I silver coin.

The fool arrived and on seeing the I sovereign exclaimed!

"My poor little fellow, you grew bigger and bigger during the past two days,

| but now, I notice you have t'aded away | and became sickly looking, I am afraid i you may die, I will take you home.

* * * * * * A STRONG HINT.

A musician, while playing, was very much annoyed by an amateur, who leant over him, and almost thrust his nose in his face. To get rid of him, the musician hastily drew out his handkerchief and took hold of his neighbour's nose, and then, as if discovering his mistake, he said, "I beg pardon; your nose was so near my eyes that I really mistook it for my own."

* * * * * * TRUTHFUL.

A canvasser who was doing his daily rounds from house to house came across a small boy standing on a door-step.

j " I s your mother in, sonny?" he I asked. | "Yes," replied the boy.

After kno king at the door four time3 i and g e t t n g no reply, he turned to the I boy and said, "I thought you said your mother was in."

' S o she is," said the boy, "but we don't live here."

* * * * * * " I will s t and for w h a t I t h ink is

r i gh t . " "And you will not fight t he

I due l ? " ! " I will no t . " j T h e decision of t h e young Indian I and t h e reasons for i t we re carr ied i t o t h e c a m p by h i s fr iend. The j scldiers were a t first as tonished a t j his s tand, t h e n they agreed he had j set t h e example which t h e y should

have given. Tha t s ame n i g h t t h e offender came to t h e Indian lad, begged his pardon, and in a public way offered reparat ion.

" I did i t because I had been called a coward," he said; "and was I not lacking in courage in insul t ing a mere boy, though I am bu t a yea r j older and t h e son of a noblemen as I well."

But th roughou t t h e camp r a n g t h e pra ises of an Indian lad, who not .only believed in t h e Fa i th , b u t alsd* pract ised it.

"Every child needs milk every day."

M I L K M A I D

M I L K

MUSIC A N D APPETITE, Some g r e a t composers have al

most s t a r v e d for lack of means tc feed themse lves properly. Other

; g rea t composers have been famous j gou rmands . I Ross ini i s said t o have presented ! a p o r t r a i t t o a provision merchant j wi th t h e s e words wr i t t en on i t : j "To m y s t o m a c h ' s best friend." ! Dussek w a s so h u g e an eater tha t

he some t t i e s was provided bv his pa t ron w i t h t h r e e sea t s a t table.

Handel , too, w a s a man of appet i te . H e is said to have ordered a t a n inn d inner for th ree . After wa i t ing awhile , he asked why it was no t b rough t . The wai ter ans w e r e d : " W e a r e wai t ing, sir, till t he company a r r i v e s . " And Handel rep l ied : " B r i n g up de dinner pres t iss imo. I a m de gompany."

T H E V A L U E O F A SUNNY SOUL.

T h e world is too full of sadness and sor row, m i se ry and sickness; it needs m o r e s u n s h i n e ; i t needs cheerful l ives which rad ia te gladness ; i t needs encouragers who will lift a n d n o t discourage. Who can e s t i m a t e t h e va lue of a sunny soul who s c a t t e r s gladness and good cheer w h e r e v e r h e goes, instead of gloom a n d s a d n e s s ? Everybody is a t t r a c t e d t o t h e s e cheerful faces and s u n n y lives, and repelled by t h e gloomy, t h e morose, and the sad. W e envy people who radiate cheer w h e r e v e r t h e y go, and fling oa t g ladness f rom every pore. Money, houses , a n d lands look contempt ib le beside such a disposition. The ab i l i ty t o r a d i a t e sunshine is a g r e a t e r power t h a n beauty or t h a n m e r e menta l accomplishm e n t s .

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Press Gleanings The Pope And Peace

Mr. George Lansbury ' s suggestion t ha t t h e Pope should be appealed to in order t h a t he migh t summon a "congress of Chr is tendom" was dealt wi th in a l e t t e r addressed by t h e Archbishop of Westminster to The Times.

His Grace pointed to the numerous occasions on which t h e Pope had exerted himself to exorcise t h e spirit of war . Those efforts have been seemingly in vain. "Sti l l ," wrote t h e Archbishop, "he continues to th i s day working, s t r iv ing, praying for peace. Of this I have direct personal knowledge."

I t might be recalled in th i s connection t h a t His Holiness while acting as Apostolic Visi tor in Poland, saw war a t close q u a r t e r s and t h a t t h e subjec t of h is first Encyclical, when he became Pope, was " T h e Peace of Chris t to be sought in t h e Kingdom of Chr i s t . "

"Peace ," he wrote , "was indeed signed between t h e bell igerents, but it was wr i t t en in public documents, not in t h e h e a r t s of m e n ; the spir i t of wa r r ages t he re still, bring ng ever- increasing h a r m to society."

How t rue those words were subsequent events have amply proved. It is not likely t h a t t h e Pontiff who wrote t h e m has forgot ten t hem or tha t he has ceased to labour for the cause which he then advocated.

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of t h a t first Encyclical a re par t i cularly significant in t h e present connection. " T h e peace of Chr is t " does not s tand by itself as an isolated ethical and social ideal. I t belongs to a divine order—the Kingdom of Chr i s t—and can be realised only in t h a t order.

I t is unfor tuna te t h a t some fail to see th is and c lamour for any kind of peace under any conditions and a t any price. W h a t t h a t may mean t h e T r e a t y of Versailles should have t a u g h t us .

Mr. Lansbury ' s appeal for a "solemn convocation" representat ive of all creeds indicates t ha t he does not appreciate t h e sole condition under which a t ru ly Chris t ian peace could be concluded. Such a peace requires the ent i re Christ ian context . It mus t be set in a world-order consistent with the ideals of peace.

The pacifist, generally speaking, is a specialist and fails to see t h a t w a r is merely t he symptom of a disease which has a t tacked every phase of human life. Treated as an isolated phenomenon, it will continue to plague us.

* * * * * * Compton Mackenzie And The

Modern Novel A little while ago Sir Seymour j

Hicks was allowed t h e use of i ts columns by t h e Daily Mail to de- ! fend what a r e now regarded as old fashioned ideals of mar r iage . Las t week t h e same paper gave prominent space to an article by Mr. Compton Mackenzie entitled, "Give Us Cleaner Novels ." T h e conclusion of his indictment of cer ta in types of "best-sel lers" is t ha t t h e m a t t e r should be dealt wi th by the Society of Authors .

This is a wise and practical suggest ion. J u s t as doctors and law- j yers look af ter w h a t they conceive ! to be t h e honour of the i r profes- j sion and as, in t he Middle Ages, j t h e guilds did t h e same for various j craf ts and t rades , so migh t those j whose business is t h a t of wri t ing j assume responsibili ty for safe- I guard ing i t s repu ta t ion for de- j cency.

The t rouble is t h a t , without any recognised s t anda rd of l i terary ! ethics, it would be difficult to se- ) cure unanimity . Nevertheless, it is a sane proposal t h a t t h e l i terary profession should be i ts own c e n s o r ^ - J Emigration

We referred in our Notes last J week to Mr. Lyons ' optimistic j views concerning t h e reopening of j Aust ra l ia to immigran t s . But t h e importance of t h e subject compels j us to mention t h e m a t t e r once more. We do so in order to quote a wr i t e r in The Times who dist inguishes between two differing policies as r egards emigrat ion.

The first is t h a t usually followed. I t regards t h e emigran t as a possible cus tomer for the Old Country 's products . Assisted to migra te , he set t les in Canada, Aust ra l ia or some o ther colony and, in course of t me , r epays his debt by increasing t h e purchases made by the colony from us. A well-populated colony being a commercial asse t to t h e Mother Country, it is to our interest to see t h a t our sur plus population is draf ted overseas.

T h a t was t he common view of the mat te r , and, as will be seen, it was based on t h e old system of |

LUXEMBURG N U N S RISE TO A N OCCASION IN H U N A N .

Taohsien, Hunan .—An example | of t h e splendid opportuni t ies for j service t h a t lie open t o nuns on I t h e missions came t o l ight recently j in t h e nearby dis t r ic t of Kiyang, ! whe re t h e Franciscan S i s te r s of j Char i ty of Luxemburg r u n a <fis-| pensary , a school and an orphan-| age . Fo r the pa s t two mon ths j t h e y have spent many hours daily ! min is te r ing to the needs of a j famished population. Poor t hem-; selves wi th few resources , t hey | have done heroic work in car ing ; for t h e sick where t h e y were pre-I vented by lack of funds from ; providing food for thousands of j t h e s t raving, as they would have I wished to do.

L a s t year ' s rice crop had been j a failure. The supply runn ing

shor t , t he price had tr ipled by Apri l . The helpless poor swelled

' t h e a r m y of beggars—soon t h e r e were 30,000 of them. Conditions became so bad by June , t h a t t h e |

[ local author i t ies were forced to under take active relief. They secured a large sh ipment of rice | wi th funds collected among t h e j wealthier families. They ga the red . toge ther t h e famine sufferers in | camps outside t h e city and ra t ioned j t h e m twice daily.

In t h e camps, disease was prevalent , t he mor ta l i ty being pa r t i - j cularly high among t h e children, i The Sis ters offered the i r services | to t h e Distr ic t M a g i s t r a t e , who accepted . them and a r r anged a daily visit for t h e m to t h r e e diffe ren t camps where t h e y m i g h t dispense medical aid.

Happy to be "Sis te rs of C h a r i t y " j in deed as well as name , t h e nuns I circulated wi th several a s s i s t an t s j a m o n g t h e many sick, dispensing I medicine and advice, and dress ing | innumerable sores. On m a n y an I occasion, as dea th hovered over a

pa t ien t , they were able to speak words of comfort and b a t h e the g!owing forehead wi th fresh, cool w a t e r . . . The var ious functionaries proved kind and eager to r ender ass is tance .

As the Sis ters passed th rough t h e city from one camp to another , t h e y were frequently en t rea ted to drop in a t t he bedside of t h e sick in the i r homes, for news of t he i r efficient minis t ra t ions had quickly passed around. They have earned a well-merited recognition.

The emergency will soon be over for a new and for once bountiful ha rves t is about to be reaped. The Sis te rs share t h e joy of t h e people a t t h e prospect of b e t t e r t imes . A n d they have the addit ional joy of an occasion met, good work accomplished, and a hos t of new fr iends as t h e unlooked for reward of the i r willing self-sacrifice.

(Luman)

economics which emphasised" t he impor tance of expor ts and imports . T h a t system has broken down. Wi th immense areas still uncultivated, our colonies find it impossible to invite more immigran t s since those already t h e r e a re unable to make a decent living.

* * * * * * Prudishness And Pru r i ency

Mr. Compton Mackenzie, in t h e ar t ic le referred to, makes a s t rong point when he s a y s : " P r u d e r y always induces an ugly react ion, and it is significant t h a t t h e d i r t ies t i novels of all come from a count ry where prudery lingered in i t s sickliest form." The reference to American publication which he italicised is fully borne ou t by t h e facts .

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America has swung to t he o ther . It is obvious, therefore , t h a t

j Pur i t an i sm, in i ts New Eng land j form, so fa r from being a remedy , I acts a s a provocative influence. | A react ion from modern licentious

ness to a prudish and bloodless i conception of l i t e ra tu re would be

d isas t rous . I t i s possible, as Sigrid Undse t

has shown, to wr i te f rankly and realistically, ye t in a manne r which

I upholds Christ ian s t anda rds of | conduct. There is such a th ing as i sacrificing robustness to wha t may | be described as a form of infanti le ! para lys is .

The difference to be noted seems to lie between the wr i t e r who exploits d i r t for its own sake and t h e one who, like the f a r m e r and the navy, comes across i t in t h e course of his work b u t does not s tay to contemplate it.

* * * * * * Totalitarianism And Radio

The policy advocated in t h e report of t h e Trades Union Congress concerning the fu ture of t h e B .B .C would place what is now a semi-pr iva te company ent irely under t h e Government , t h e view being t a k e n t ha t t h i s would ensure g rea t e r impar t ia l i ty in t he discussion of political issues. But t h e ease w i t h which t h i s powerful means of con-troDing public opinion could be utilised by a s t rong Government for imposing its own views would, in a crisis , prove an irresist ible tempta t ion .

I t is such mechanical efficiency as t h a t presented by the rad io which makes t h e Tota l i ta r ian S ta te a possibility. Wi thou t t h e means we possess for rapid and universal propaganda i t would be scarcely practicable to s tandard ise popular opinion as , in some countries, i t is s tandardised to-day.

The abundant m e a n s a t our disposal for imposing d ic ta torsh ips account in p a r t for t h e existence of d ic ta torships . F r o m th i s point of view, i t would be correct to say t h a t i t is applied science which de te rmines t h e cha rac t e r of ou r political inst i tut ions. T h e problem is how man is to prove himself m a s t e r of applied science ins tead of becoming i ts helpless slave.

(Catholic Times 30th Augus t . )

4 MALAYA CATHOLIC LEADER, SATURDAY, U t b September, 1985.

Y o u n g P e o p l e ' s P a g e

THE COURAGE OF A REAL SOLDIER. o

(A True Story). I n t h e flourishing re ign of Louis

XIV, a n Ind ian boy was s e n t t o F r a n c e t h a t h e m i g h t h a v e full o p p o r t u n i t y t o p r e p a r e himself t o ru l e h i s own people. Being of noble b i r t h , h e w a s m a d e a m e m b e r of t h e F r e n c h Cour t a n d a special i n s t r u c t o r w a s appointed t o develop h i m physical ly , menta l ly and sp i r i t ual ly.

H e w a s a s t r o n g buil t lad, p a r t i cular ly adep t in h i s s tudies , a n d seemed to be specially in t e re s t ed in m a t t e r s of religion. T h r e e y e a r s passed , a n d i t was almost t i m e for h i m t o r e t u r n t o h i s na t ive land. Thctagh qu i t e young, he w a s per m i t t e d t o se rve t i m e in t h e a r m y , so t h a t h e m i g h t be fitted to lead t h e soldiers of h is own count ry .

One day, for very li t t le reason, a n older soldier, du r ing a n a r g u men t , insul ted h im by word, and t hen s t r u c k h im a blow on t h e face. T h e ga l lan t you th never so m u c h a s r e sen ted it . Those s t and ing by were m o r e t h a n amazed. One, w h o claimed t o be h i s friend, took t h e occasion t o ta lk wi th h i m t h a t evening alone upon his behaviour , which h e told h im was t a m e a n d especially wrong in a soldier. -

" H e insul ted you," sa id t h e fr iend w i th some anger .

" Y e s , " was t h e calm a n s w e r of t h e Ind ian lad.

" H e s t ruck you," t h e fr iend cont inued .

" H e did," t h e boy confirmed. " A n d a f t e rwards h e spoke abou t

you i n a disrespectful w a y . " : " W h i t did he s a y ? "

"Oh, h e said you were a coward, t h a t you hadn ' t t h e cou rage t o fight."

" I s i t cowardice to do w h a t one t h i n k s is r i g h t . "

"No , i t is not cowardice t o do w h a t i s r i g h t . "

" T h a t is w h a t I t h ink I h a v e done . "

" B u t you haven ' t . * A soldier = —«—• *_j m u s t neve r allow anyone t o insu l t

h i m wi thou t showing s igns of r e s e n t m e n t and anger . You will be t h e l augh ing s tock of t h e camp. Word will be carr ied t o y o u r c o u n t r y about y o u r weakness . H e r e and t h e r e you will be l a u g h e d a* a n d scorned."

" I a m doing a s I h a v e been t a u g h t . "

" A s you h a v e been t a u g h t ? " " A s I was ins t ruc ted t o d o . " " T h e n you h a v e had a poor

t eache r . " " I do not th ink so ." " W h y n o t ? " " T h e good pr ies t who t a u g h t me

" he s t a r t ed t o explain. "Wil l fit you for a m o n a s t e r y by

h i s lessons, b u t never for t h e a r m y a n d t h e cour t . "

" W h e n I was in India t h e r e were m a n y t h i n g s I did not unde r s t and . "

" A n d do not unde r s t and ye t . You m u s t fight t h a t fellow a duel ."

" T h e r e in Ind ia I t r ied t o learn w h a t m y good f a t h e r a lways t a u g h t me . T o be a good ru ler one m u s t « * — 4 . fhp welfare of h i s

people one m u s t be t r u e to his rel ig ion; one m u s t be b r a v e . "

"And since you h a v e come here —you have forgot ten all t h a t f a t h e r t a u g h t you."

"No . I have learned sti l l more ." " W h a t , fo r i n s t ance?" " I have become a Cathol ic ." "You!" "Yes . I have s tudied the . Catho

lic religion, and I believe in followi n g out w h a t i t t eaches me . I t is b r ave not t o resen t a n insu l t ; i t t a k e s more courage not t o light

T O Y O U N G M E N .

IF YOU ARE WELL BRED You will be kind. You will not use slang. You will try to make others happy. You will not be shy or self-

conscious. You will never indulge in ill-natured

gossip. You will never forget the respect

due to age. You will not swagger or boast of

your achievements. You will think of others before you

think of yourself. You will be scrupulous in your

regard for the rights of others. You will not measure your civility

by people's bank accounts. You will not forget engagements,

promises or obligations of any kind. In conversation you will not be

argumentative or contradictory. You will never make fun of the

peculiarities or idiosyncrasies of others. You will not bore people by con

stantly talking of yourself and your affairs.

You will never under any circumstances cause another pain, if you can help it.

You will not think that " good intentions99 compensate for rude or gruff manners.

You will not sulk or feel neglected if others receive more attention than you do.

You will not hav'e two sets of manners, one for " company 99 and one for home use.

You will be as agreeable to your in ferrors as to your equals and superiors.

You will never remind a cripple of his deformity or probe the sore spots of a sensitive soul.

You will let a refined manner and superior intelligence show that you have travelled, instead of constantly talking of the different countries you have visited.

You will not remark while a 'guest that you do not like the food which has been served to you.

You will not attract attention by either your loud talk or laughter, or show your egotism by trying to absorb conversation.

t h a n to e n t e r a duel . If t h i s had happened in India, I would h a v e been unhappy unt i l I had my r e venge. I would have followed t h a t fellow unt i l I killed h im or h e killed me, bu t I would show all m y count rymen t h a t I wasi a b rave soldier and wor thy to be the i r ru ler ."

"And now, w h a t will you d o ? "

J O K E S .

FADING AWAY. In a village there lived a middle-aged

man who was looked upon by all the inhabitants to be brainless. Many of the local people employed him, but he proved useless at work. His relatives could not send him for a message, as he did not seem to know the value of coins.

After some months a new landowner bought a farm and dwelling-house, and became friendly with the local farmers. One morning, as he was chatting, the idiot passed, and the landowner was told the story.

A few days later the landowner decided to test the fool.

He called him, and placing a florin in-the fool's hand, told him to get sweets. He watched him strolling away and saw him climbing into a field. Deciding to find out the reason, he entered the adjoining field, and peered through the

i hedge. He saw the fool cutting a small j sod and speaking as follows to the florin;

"I will place you underneath here and I will call to-morrow at 11a.m. to see you."

Next morning the landowner took away the florin and placed a five shilling piece m the hole, to hear the remarks.

The fool lifted the sod and was delighted. He said to the coin, "My

I lovely fellow, you have grown much | larger since yesterday, I will leave you

there for another day." The following day the landowner un

able to place a larger coin in the hole, j put a sovereign there and tone away the I silver coin.

The fool arrived and on seeing the I sovereign exclaimed!

"My poor little fellow, you grew bigger and bigger during the past two days,

| but now, I notice you have t'aded away | and became sickly looking, I am afraid i you may die, I will take you home.

* * * * * * A STRONG HINT.

A musician, while playing, was very much annoyed by an amateur, who leant over him, and almost thrust his nose in his face. To get rid of him, the musician hastily drew out his handkerchief and took hold of his neighbour's nose, and then, as if discovering his mistake, he said, "I beg pardon; your nose was so near my eyes that I really mistook it for my own."

* * * * * * TRUTHFUL.

A canvasser who was doing his daily rounds from house to house came across a small boy standing on a door-step.

j " I s your mother in, sonny?" he I asked. | "Yes," replied the boy.

After kno king at the door four time3 i and g e t t n g no reply, he turned to the I boy and said, "I thought you said your mother was in."

' S o she is," said the boy, "but we don't live here."

* * * * * * " I will s t and for w h a t I t h ink is

r i gh t . " "And you will not fight t he

I due l ? " ! " I will no t . " j T h e decision of t h e young Indian I and t h e reasons for i t we re carr ied i t o t h e c a m p by h i s fr iend. The j scldiers were a t first as tonished a t j his s tand, t h e n they agreed he had j set t h e example which t h e y should

have given. Tha t s ame n i g h t t h e offender came to t h e Indian lad, begged his pardon, and in a public way offered reparat ion.

" I did i t because I had been called a coward," he said; "and was I not lacking in courage in insul t ing a mere boy, though I am bu t a yea r j older and t h e son of a noblemen as I well."

But th roughou t t h e camp r a n g t h e pra ises of an Indian lad, who not .only believed in t h e Fa i th , b u t alsd* pract ised it.

"Every child needs milk every day."

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MUSIC A N D APPETITE, Some g r e a t composers have al

most s t a r v e d for lack of means tc feed themse lves properly. Other

; g rea t composers have been famous j gou rmands . I Ross ini i s said t o have presented ! a p o r t r a i t t o a provision merchant j wi th t h e s e words wr i t t en on i t : j "To m y s t o m a c h ' s best friend." ! Dussek w a s so h u g e an eater tha t

he some t t i e s was provided bv his pa t ron w i t h t h r e e sea t s a t table.

Handel , too, w a s a man of appet i te . H e is said to have ordered a t a n inn d inner for th ree . After wa i t ing awhile , he asked why it was no t b rough t . The wai ter ans w e r e d : " W e a r e wai t ing, sir, till t he company a r r i v e s . " And Handel rep l ied : " B r i n g up de dinner pres t iss imo. I a m de gompany."

T H E V A L U E O F A SUNNY SOUL.

T h e world is too full of sadness and sor row, m i se r y and sickness; it needs m o r e s u n s h i n e ; i t needs cheerful l ives which rad ia te gladness ; i t needs encouragers who will lift a n d n o t discourage. Who can e s t i m a t e t h e va lue of a sunny soul who s c a t t e r s gladness and good cheer w h e r e v e r h e goes, instead of gloom a n d s a d n e s s ? Everybody is a t t r a c t e d t o t h e s e cheerful faces and s u n n y lives, and repelled by t h e gloomy, t h e morose, and the sad. W e envy people who radiate cheer w h e r e v e r t h e y go, and fling oa t g ladness f rom every pore. Money, houses , a n d lands look contempt ib le beside such a disposition. The ab i l i ty t o r a d i a t e sunshine is a g r e a t e r power t h a n beauty or t h a n m e r e menta l accomplishm e n t s .

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Press Gleanings The Pope And Peace

Mr. George Lansbury ' s suggestion t ha t t h e Pope should be appealed to in order t h a t he migh t summon a "congress of Chr is tendom" was dealt wi th in a l e t t e r addressed by t h e Archbishop of Westminster to The Times.

His Grace pointed to the numerous occasions on which t h e Pope had exerted himself to exorcise t h e spirit of war . Those efforts have been seemingly in vain. "Sti l l ," wrote t h e Archbishop, "he continues to th i s day working, s t r iv ing, praying for peace. Of this I have direct personal knowledge."

I t might be recalled in th i s connection t h a t His Holiness while acting as Apostolic Visi tor in Poland, saw war a t close q u a r t e r s and t h a t t h e subjec t of h is first Encyclical, when he became Pope, was " T h e Peace of Chris t to be sought in t h e Kingdom of Chr i s t . "

"Peace ," he wrote , "was indeed signed between t h e bell igerents, but it was wr i t t en in public documents, not in t h e h e a r t s of m e n ; the spir i t of wa r r ages t he re still, bring ng ever- increasing h a r m to society."

How t rue those words were subsequent events have amply proved. It is not likely t h a t t h e Pontiff who wrote t h e m has forgot ten t hem or tha t he has ceased to labour for the cause which he then advocated.

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of t h a t first Encyclical a re par t i cularly significant in t h e present connection. " T h e peace of Chr is t " does not s tand by itself as an isolated ethical and social ideal. I t belongs to a divine order—the Kingdom of Chr i s t—and can be realised only in t h a t order.

I t is unfor tuna te t h a t some fail to see th is and c lamour for any kind of peace under any conditions and a t any price. W h a t t h a t may mean t h e T r e a t y of Versailles should have t a u g h t us .

Mr. Lansbury ' s appeal for a "solemn convocation" representat ive of all creeds indicates t ha t he does not appreciate t h e sole condition under which a t ru ly Chris t ian peace could be concluded. Such a peace requires the ent i re Christ ian context . It mus t be set in a world-order consistent with the ideals of peace.

The pacifist, generally speaking, is a specialist and fails to see t h a t w a r is merely t he symptom of a disease which has a t tacked every phase of human life. Treated as an isolated phenomenon, it will continue to plague us.

* * * * * * Compton Mackenzie And The

Modern Novel A little while ago Sir Seymour j

Hicks was allowed t h e use of i ts columns by t h e Daily Mail to de- ! fend what a r e now regarded as old fashioned ideals of mar r iage . Las t week t h e same paper gave prominent space to an article by Mr. Compton Mackenzie entitled, "Give Us Cleaner Novels ." T h e conclusion of his indictment of cer ta in types of "best-sel lers" is t ha t t h e m a t t e r should be dealt wi th by the Society of Authors .

This is a wise and practical suggest ion. J u s t as doctors and law- j yers look af ter w h a t they conceive ! to be t h e honour of the i r profes- j sion and as, in t he Middle Ages, j t h e guilds did t h e same for various j craf ts and t rades , so migh t those j whose business is t h a t of wri t ing j assume responsibili ty for safe- I guard ing i t s repu ta t ion for de- j cency.

The t rouble is t h a t , without any recognised s t anda rd of l i terary ! ethics, it would be difficult to se- ) cure unanimity . Nevertheless, it is a sane proposal t h a t t h e l i terary profession should be i ts own c e n s o r ^ - J Emigration

We referred in our Notes last J week to Mr. Lyons ' optimistic j views concerning t h e reopening of j Aust ra l ia to immigran t s . But t h e importance of t h e subject compels j us to mention t h e m a t t e r once more. We do so in order to quote a wr i t e r in The Times who dist inguishes between two differing policies as r egards emigrat ion.

The first is t h a t usually followed. I t regards t h e emigran t as a possible cus tomer for the Old Country 's products . Assisted to migra te , he set t les in Canada, Aust ra l ia or some o ther colony and, in course of t me , r epays his debt by increasing t h e purchases made by the colony from us. A well-populated colony being a commercial asse t to t h e Mother Country, it is to our interest to see t h a t our sur plus population is draf ted overseas.

T h a t was t he common view of the mat te r , and, as will be seen, it was based on t h e old system of |

LUXEMBURG N U N S RISE TO A N OCCASION IN H U N A N .

Taohsien, Hunan .—An example | of t h e splendid opportuni t ies for j service t h a t lie open t o nuns on I t h e missions came t o l ight recently j in t h e nearby dis t r ic t of Kiyang, ! whe re t h e Franciscan S i s te r s of j Char i ty of Luxemburg r u n a <fis-| pensary , a school and an orphan-| age . Fo r the pa s t two mon ths j t h e y have spent many hours daily ! min is te r ing to the needs of a j famished population. Poor t hem-; selves wi th few resources , t hey | have done heroic work in car ing ; for t h e sick where t h e y were pre-I vented by lack of funds from ; providing food for thousands of j t h e s t raving, as they would have I wished to do.

L a s t year ' s rice crop had been j a failure. The supply runn ing

shor t , t he price had tr ipled by Apri l . The helpless poor swelled

' t h e a r m y of beggars—soon t h e r e were 30,000 of them. Conditions became so bad by June , t h a t t h e |

[ local author i t ies were forced to under take active relief. They secured a large sh ipment of rice | wi th funds collected among t h e j wealthier families. They ga the red . toge ther t h e famine sufferers in | camps outside t h e city and ra t ioned j t h e m twice daily.

In t h e camps, disease was prevalent , t he mor ta l i ty being pa r t i - j cularly high among t h e children, i The Sis ters offered the i r services | to t h e Distr ic t M a g i s t r a t e , who accepted . them and a r r anged a daily visit for t h e m to t h r e e diffe ren t camps where t h e y m i g h t dispense medical aid.

Happy to be "Sis te rs of C h a r i t y " j in deed as well as name , t h e nuns I circulated wi th several a s s i s t an t s j a m o n g t h e many sick, dispensing I medicine and advice, and dress ing | innumerable sores. On m a n y an I occasion, as dea th hovered over a

pa t ien t , they were able to speak words of comfort and b a t h e the g!owing forehead wi th fresh, cool w a t e r . . . The var ious functionaries proved kind and eager to r ender ass is tance .

As the Sis ters passed th rough t h e city from one camp to another , t h e y were frequently en t rea ted to drop in a t t he bedside of t h e sick in the i r homes, for news of t he i r efficient minis t ra t ions had quickly passed around. They have earned a well-merited recognition.

The emergency will soon be over for a new and for once bountiful ha rves t is about to be reaped. The Sis te rs share t h e joy of t h e people a t t h e prospect of b e t t e r t imes . A n d they have the addit ional joy of an occasion met, good work accomplished, and a hos t of new fr iends as t h e unlooked for reward of the i r willing self-sacrifice.

(Luman)

economics which emphasised" t he impor tance of expor ts and imports . T h a t system has broken down. Wi th immense areas still uncultivated, our colonies find it impossible to invite more immigran t s since those already t h e r e a re unable to make a decent living.

* * * * * * Prudishness And Pru r i ency

Mr. Compton Mackenzie, in t h e ar t ic le referred to, makes a s t rong point when he s a y s : " P r u d e r y alw a y s induces an ugly react ion, and it is significant t h a t t h e d i r t ies t i novels of all come from a count ry where prudery lingered in i t s sickliest form." The reference to American publication which he italicised is fully borne ou t by t h e facts .

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America has swung to t he o ther . It is obvious, therefore , t h a t

j Pur i t an i sm, in i ts New Eng land j form, so fa r from being a remedy , I acts a s a provocative influence. | A react ion from modern licentious

ness to a prudish and bloodless i conception of l i t e ra tu re would be

d isas t rous . I t i s possible, as Sigrid Undse t

has shown, to wr i te f rankly and realistically, ye t in a manne r which

I upholds Christ ian s t anda rds of | conduct. There is such a th ing as i sacrificing robustness to wha t may | be described as a form of infanti le ! para lys is .

The difference to be noted seems to lie between the wr i t e r who exploits d i r t for its own sake and t h e one who, like the f a r m e r and the navy, comes across i t in t h e course of his work b u t does not s tay to contemplate it.

* * * * * * Totalitarianism And Radio

The policy advocated in t h e report of t h e Trades Union Congress concerning the fu ture of t h e B .B .C would place what is now a semi-pr iva te company ent irely under t h e Government , t h e view being t a k e n t ha t t h i s would ensure g rea t e r impar t ia l i ty in t he discussion of political issues. But t h e ease w i t h which t h i s powerful means of con-troDing public opinion could be utilised by a s t rong Government for imposing its own views would, in a crisis , prove an irresist ible tempta t ion .

I t is such mechanical efficiency as t h a t presented by the rad io which makes t h e Tota l i ta r ian S ta te a possibility. Wi thou t t h e means we possess for rapid and universal propaganda i t would be scarcely practicable to s tandard ise popular opinion as , in some countries, i t is s tandardised to-day.

The abundant m e a n s a t our disposal for imposing d ic ta torsh ips account in p a r t for t h e existence of d ic ta torships . F r o m th i s point of view, i t would be correct to say t h a t i t is applied science which de te rmines t h e cha rac t e r of ou r political inst i tut ions. T h e problem is how man is to prove himself m a s t e r of applied science ins tead of becoming i ts helpless slave.

(Catholic Times 30th Augus t . )

6 MALAYA CATHOLIC LEADER, SATURDAY, 14th S e B t e m b ^ J g S S .

A CITY WITHOUT A PRIEST ( J . Dee in 'America . ' )

A n eighty-year-old p r i es t r i sked impr i sonment and possible d e a t h t h a t Sunday m o r n i n g w h e n he c a m e to say Mass in a small house on t h e ou t sk i r t s of t h e c i ty of Ch ihuahua , Mexico. In t h i s c h a r m ing ci ty t h e r e a r e five small , b u t beautiful , churches and one m a g n i ficent ca thedra l . Since a day in t h e l a t t e r p a r t of l a s t Sep tember , w h e n t h e Gove rnmen t o rde rs wen t i n to effect, t h e s e man i f e s t a t i ons of Catholic fa i th h a v e been wi thou t e i t h e r pr ies t or S a c r a m e n t . T h e | g r e a t ma jo r i ty of t h e people of j C h i h u a h u a have t h u s been deprived of t h e i r religious pr ivi leges .

B u t a l though t h e Governor ' s decree of las t Sep tember caused all Church p r o p e r t y to be t u r n e d over t o t h e S t a t e and forbade t h e presence of a n y p r i e s t s or n u n s in t h e province, t h e Mexican people whose religious fidelity h a s been handed down a n d s t r eng thened t h r o u g h t h e genera t ions since t h e i r conversion by t h e i r Catholic conquero r s in 1524 sti l l flock t o t h e churches a t t h e accus tomed t ime . B u t if you a r e a m o n g t h e t r u s t e d few you will be conversant wi th t h e fact t h a t in t h e worsh ipp ing congregat ion i s a p r ies t who is leading t h e people in t h e p raye r . So do t h e la rge n u m b e r s of t h e Mexican masses a t t e m p t to live up t o the i r religion.

I t is t h e pr ivi lege of only a few dozen of these u n f o r t u n a t e people to hea r Mass on a S u n d a y m o r n ing. W e were enabled t h r o u g h our connections, t o be a m o n g t h i s privileged few. I t is not possible to tell he re how .Americans go t in to the Catholic circles of C h i h u a h u a and how we were invi ted to a t t e n d Mass . (I m igh t s a y h e r e t h a t t ime , places, and descr ip t ions m u s t of necessi ty be v a g u e in t h e i n t e r e s t of sa feguard ing t h e people who were so kind to u s in Ch ihuahua . )

But , in due course , we were notified t h r o u g h t h e s e channels ? to be a t a specific h o u s e a t a q u a r t e r t o s ix on Sunday morn ing , t o a r r i ve t h e r e as caut ious ly and unob t ru sively a s possible, and to walk in wi thou t wa i t ing t o b e admi t t ed . W e were told t o t r u s t no one, not even: t h e people wi th whom we were s tay ing , ^wfth—this information, v Consequent ly , in order to be sure of d ivulg ing not t h e s l ightest detai ls of t h e plan and ye t be cer ta in of a r r i v i n g on t ime , we took t u r n s r e m a i n i n g a w a k e all t h r o u g h t h e n igh t .

Finally five o'clock came. Shaved and dressed we were on our way downsta i rs by t w e n t y a f te r . By

.grea t good fo r tune , we got out of t h e house w i t h o u t be ing seen, t h e only person a b o u t be ing t h e hall boy who was curled up asleep on t h e sofa. Once on t h e s t r ee t , t h e distance to t h e house which normally would h a v e t aken only five minu tes to t r a v e r s e took us twen ty -five by t h e devious rou te which we chose. Two moun ted police pa t rolling t h e s t r e e t s in t h e early dawn passed u s by wi th only a glance.

A t las t we a r r i ved a t t h e front door which w e opened wi thout wa i t ing for an a n s w e r to our knock. Ins ide we w e r e gree ted by Mrs .—, t h e lady of t h e house , who led us down t h e hall in to a room which

opened on our r igh t . I t was t h e dining* room, bu t as we entered, a g r o u p of ladies were a r r ang ing it for t h e service.

All t h e windows were shu t t e red ami bar red . The dining table was moved to one end of t h e room, and a lace cloth was placed upon it. Then a large crucifix which was p a r t of a shr ine in Mrs. "s bedroom was b rough t out and pu t on t h e table. I t took quite a few minu tes to produce t h e ves tments from the i r h iding place.

"They m u s t be kep t securely "as we a r e hidden," said Mrs

searched from cellar t o a t t ic often. I t happened to me only recent ly."

A t a few minutes before six t h e front door opened aga in . A li t t le old m a n wi th all t he appearance of a typical Mexican house se rvan t entered. Wi th him was a small boy. They were t h e e ighty-year-old pr ies t and t h e boy who was to serve his Mass . Finally, when t h e candles had been l ighted, the door closed and bolted, and the pr ies t had exchanged his s t r e e t c lothing for t h e ves tments , Mass began.

I will never forget t h a t Mass as long a s I live. I h a d read in t h e newspapers and magazines of t h e religious s i tuat ion in Mexico, bu t it was only now when I was forced t") h e a r Mass behind shu t t e red windows and locked doors t h a t I vaguely began to realize w h a t religious persecut ion could mean . My first face-to-face meet ing wi th religious intolerance had been on the day before when we had gone ou t t o see a g roup .of Sis ters of Perpe tua l Adorat ion.

These S is te rs once had had a convent of the i r own and also owned and operated an o rphanage and a school. But las t September t he se were t aken a w a y from t h e m by t h e Government and they were ordered to leave. They were obliged to comply wi th t h e Governm e n t ' s decree, but six of t h e m r e t u r n e d singly and ga the red t o ca r ry on the i r work as best t h e y m i g h t from t h e hide-out to which we were t aken . ,

T h e front of t he house is a small I shop , and a lady is t he re to wa i t ! on anyone who en t e r s . However, ! if t h e lady knows you, she will t a k e | you into a back room and out t o a j pat io . He re you go down a walk to j an open door which you enter . You

now find yourself in a little chapel wi th a small a l t a r on which t h e

! Blessed Sacrament is always ex-I posed. Two Sis te rs and t h r e e lay i ladies a r e t he r e kneel ing and p ray -I ing. You m a y now enter a door | on t h e left and find yourselves in i one of t h e two rooms used by t h e | six Sis ters for l iving qua r t e r s .

| He re we met t he Mother ; Superior . She was a shor t , r a t h e r j s tou t person wi th a small round \ face who enjoyed t r y i n g her scan ty I knowledge of Engl ish out on us . : F r o m our conversat ion we ga the red

t h a t for people over whom t h e penal ty of detection was imprisonm e n t or dea th , t he se Sis ters were a very happy group .

Before we left, t he Mother Super ior procured for me some propaganda put ou t by the Governmen t aga ins t t h e Church in Mexico.

BISHOP OF MUNSTER'S APT RETORT TO HERR

ROSENBERG.

The Bishop of Munster , Germany, Mgr. Count von Galen, ha s made a spir i ted reply to t h e a t t ack on him bv H e r r Rosenberg, t he Nazi " Cultural " chief.

" T h e a t t a cks on me ," said t he j Bishop of Muns te r was deterred by | words which sounded like t h r ea t s . I have never ye t heard t h a t a Bishop of Muns te r was deterred by t h r e a t s from doing and saying w h a t he regarded as his duty.

I know t h a t 60 years ago a Bishop of Muns te r was a r res ted and led from here to prison because he had fought for Divine jus t ice and t h e freedom of the church. Should God's providence give me a s imilar fa te I hope I shall be g r an t ed t h e resolution to | endure a n y t h i n g r a t h e r t h a n weaken from t h e oa th of my duty . I

And as we were going out the door she asked m e th i s last question, j " W h a t will t h e Uni ted S ta tes d o ? "

As I knel t t h e r e a t Mass, I won- j dered about t h a t question along wi th some o the rs . Should t h e | Uni ted S t a t e s in tervene ? I t h o u g h t of t he 30,000 Catholics in t he city t h a t Sunday w h o could not a t t end Mass, had no t been able to do so since last September . Would the i r fa i th hold? Would yours or mine under like c i rcumstances? W h a t about t h e s t a n d a r d s of t h e Catholic family ? Would t hey necessari ly be lowered? Already t h e r e a r e hundreds of cases where Catholic couples have been forced to live to ge the r wi thou t t h e Sacrament of Marr iage , because t h e y could not secure t h e services of a pr ies t . H e r e is one case in par t icular t h a t was told to us .

The d a u g h t e r of one of t he riches t and mos t devout men in Chih u a h u a was going to be marr ied . And because of he r f a the r ' s influence she had been able to secure t h e services of t h e pr ies t who was say ing our Mass to officiate a t t h e ceremony. B u t t h e girl was not mar r ied by t h e pr iest . In he r joy she had told too m a n y people, and a s a , r e su l t on t h e day of t h e wedding, he r house was closely watched. A friend warned t h e pr iest not t o appear . Still, to-day t h e girl is living wi th her husband.

I There a r e hundreds of such mar r i age cases,

j [I t is well known, of course, t h a t | if it is foreseen t h a t a pr iest will ! not be available wi thin t h i r t y days

a couple can, under Canon Law, perform the i r mar r i age wi thout a pr ies t bu t in t h e presence of witnesses, and t h a t t h i s mar r i age is a valid Sacrament . As soon as a pr ies t is available t h e couple mus t duly receive t he blessing. Editor's Note.'] .

My t h o u g h t s were brought back to my presen t surroundings by t h e

I r inging of t h e little breakfas t bell t h a t t h e a l t a r boy was using to announce t h e Sanctus , and I followed t h e pr ies t closely until he had finished t h e Consecration and had s t a r t ed say ing t h e p rayers for t he dead. One of t h e th ings most often prayed for by a Catholic is t h a t he

j may not die wi thout the services I of a pr iest . Yet in th i s ci ty, t he r e j are 30,000 Catholics wi thout a

pr ies t who dares to move freely am&ng t h e m . . . . Will dea th wi thout t h e Sacraments become so common as to weaken the fa i th of the people to t h e point where they no longer feel t h e need for t h e m ?

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The priest finished the prayer for t h e dead and s t a r t ed t he Pater Nos te r . In t h e p ropaganda material which the Mother Superior had given me the day before was a paper called t h e Periodical of Action, published in Mexico City. In t h e magazine was t h e "Pater Nos te r of the Socialists ." It said:

"Oh, our Socialism who art on ear th , blessed by t h y n a m e ; let us come to thy k ingdom. Thy wishes be done in t h e ci ty a s in the count r y . Give us our daily r ights and forgive us not if we forgive, those who exploit us . Le t us not fall into t h e hands of t h e clergy, our eternal enemies, and deliver us from all evil."

FAR EASTERN MUSIC SCHOOL

l -A, K i r k Terrace (Off Dhoby Ghau t )

S I N G A P O R E .

T h e only and oldest institution of i ts kind in Singapore with up-to-date equipment . Had gained a series of successes in t h e Tr ini ty College Examinat ions in t h e pas t . No age rest r ic t ion. W r i t e for part iculars.

M. ANCIANO, Principal.

In ano ther of t h e magazines, I Chr is t The King , (published every j Sa tu rday "God willing or not will-j i n g " ) , and devoted mostly to ! obscene car ica tures of God and the i Church, were pr in ted these re-| m a r k s purpor ted to have been I spoken by Colonel L indbergh : "The | cr ime commit ted aga ins t his first-l born was not t h e work of an | a theis t , not a P ro tes t an t , neither I of a Jew nor of a Mohammedan but I probably of a Roman Catholic."

The little old pr ies t finished Mass and prepared t o leave. The answer to my question, would the faith of

! t he 30,000 Catholics in Chihuahua ; wi ths tand such a tes t , was much j more clear in m y mind. However, ' I still t hough t of myself in the : same position and wondered what \ I would do. Could I keep my faith ?

The door closed behind the "peasan t " who was on his way to say Mass again t h a t morning in the "City wi thout a Pr ies t . " And as I, too took m y depar tu re I realized t h a t it would t a k e a long while to dislodge these Mexicans from their fa i th , as long a s t he propaganda which is be ing spread by the Government a long such lines as have been ment ioned and by such s t a t emen t s a s : "God does not exist. I t is impossible to imagine the existence of a n y t h i n g (or God) immater ia l . The re is nothing immater ia l . Then wha t is God? L i e s ! A bus iness ! " is being counteracted and overcome by the whole-hearted zeal of such workers in t he in te res t s of Christ .

MALAYA CATHOLIC LEADER, SATURDAY, 14th September, 1935-

A BISHOP'S FUNERAL BV MALABAR. A CORTEGE OF BOATS FIVE

MILES LONG.

THE BELLS OF ASSISI.

(By F I D E S Changanacher ry , (South India)

—Approximately 400,000 persons from all p a r t s of Travancore , j mostly Catholics, a r e said to have j witnessed a s t r ik ing procession through t h e lagoons of picturesque | Lake Vembanad Ju ly 25 when t h e I body of t h e l a t e Bishop of Chang- J anacherry w a s b rough t by launch to Changanacher ry to be in ter red j in the Cathedra l . A line of boats , | five miles long, made up t h e funeral cortege.

Bishop T h o m a s Kur ia lacher ry , Syro-Malabar Bishop of Changanacherry, died in Rome in 1925 while mak ing his ad l imina visi t . He was bur ied in t h e m o r t u a r y j chapel of t h e Sacred Congregat ion of p ropaganda Fide a t t h e Campo ! Santo in Rome. T h e Most Rev. ; James Kalacher ry , t h e presen t j Bishop of Changanacher ry , who was in Rome th i s year , m a d e a r rangements for t h e t r ans fe r of ; the body of his predecessor to India.

The coffin was b rough t by s t eamer f rom Italy to Cochin and j from the re was conveyed by j launch to Chambakulam, t h e b i r th - I place of t h e deceased prela te , j where it l ay in s t a t e for four days . People came in large groups day j and night to p ray in t he chapel | where t he body lay.

SERVICE. ) On July 25, a f t e r a Solemn Re

quiem Mass and t h e Office of the Dead according to t h e ancient Syro-Malabar Rite , t h e coffin was placed aboard a motor- launch and escorted th rough t h e beautiful wate r -ways of t h e Malabar l i t toral to St . Mary ' s Cathedral , Changanacher ry , a distance of 12 miles. T h e r procassion was made up of 100 launches and motor-boats , 25 gigant ic "snake boa t s "—a type of local gondola propelled by 100 oars and innumerable kalivalloms and smaller craft . F r o m the landing s t age to t he Cathedral t he coffin was borne under a whi te canopy erected by the people and profusely decorated wi th nat ive plants and evergreens.

The Archbishop of Tr ivandrum and t h e Bishops of Changanacherry, Ko t t ayam and Tiruvella, and representa t ives f rom the o ther Catholic dioceses of Malabar were presen t when the coffin was deposited in the place prepared for it in t h e sanc tuary of t h e Cathedral .

I t is es t imated t h a t a t least 75,000 Catholics were in the funeral procession. Changanacher ry is t h e centre of Catholic Malabar, and every impor tan t religious demons t ra t ion is charac ter i sed by t h e splendour and g randeur usually associated wi th ceremonies in Rome.

MUSSULMAN CONVERT OF MOROCCO O R D A I N E D .

Par is .—A Mussulman convert , Mohammed Ben ad El Jalil , a na tive of Fez, in Morocco, h a s j u s t received a t Lille, a t t h e hands of Cardinal L ienar t , h is ordinat ion a s a priest. H e came to Par i s t o celebrate h i s first Mass a t t h e Pet i t Seminary of t h e Franc iscan Fa the r s of Fontenay-sous-Bois .

Mohammed Ben ad El Jalil , who will hencefor th be known as F a ther Jean, came to know Chris t in Morocco t h r o u g h t h e tes t imony t o Him given in t h a t count ry by t h e Franciscan Missionaries, and ho has come t o F r a n c e to en te r t he i r ranks.

The Bishop of Morocco came all the way across t h e Medi te r ranean to assist a t t h e ceremonies-

At a d inner given he re following the observances, t h e new pr ies t recalled t h a t Marsha l Lyau tey h a d encouraged h im to become a convert. (N.C.W.C.)

T H E 'MISSION O F BLOOD' BECOMES A 'MISSION OF

W A T E R /

MEDICAL MISSION BOARD'S AID.

Large World Map As Guide. New York.—An unusual decora

tion is being pu t on t h e wall of a large hall a t t h e headquar t e r s of the Catholic Medical Mission Board in the f o r r ^ o f a huge m a p of t h e world according to Mercator ' s projection.

To begin wi th , about 1,000 s t a r s will be placed a t des ignated points representing t h e mission s ta t ions hitherto served by t h e Board. As further cons ignments of medical supplies go out to these and other mission s ta t ions more s t a r s will be added.

The map is designed to be a graphic lesson in mission geography and has t he advan tage of showing re la t ive dis tances and •areas i n correct proport ions .

(Lumen-N.C.W.C.)

Ichang, (Hupeh Province, C h i n a ) — A f t e r several days of cont inuous downpour t h e dis t r ic t about I tu, Hupeh Province, a t t h e

I confluence of t h e Yangtsze and j Ts inkiang Rivers , was covered by

a swir l ing mass of d i r ty w a t e r reaching a depth which surpassed all previous records. I tu is in t h e sou thern pa r t of t h e Vicar ia te of

| I chang which is often referred to as t h e "Mission of Blood" owing

I to t h e large number of i ts mission-| a r ies killed by out laws. I t has | now become literally a "Mission of ! W a t e r . "

Bishop Noel Gubbels, Belgian j j Franciscan, head of t he Vicariate | of Ichang, who was in t h e dis tr ict

when the s torm broke, describes | t h e disaster . " F r o m July 3 to 7

tor rent ia l rains fell almost wi thout I in te r rupt ion causing both r ivers to j bu r s t the i r banks . E n t i r e villages j j were caugh t unaware and isolated j by t h e floods. Terrified people j | lied to the housetops or took re- • j fuge in t h e h ighe r branches of j I t rees . Houses collapsed and were ! carr ied swiftly downst ream. The I people were so dazed by the cala-! mi ty t h a t no-one seemed to th ink i of render ing ass is tance to t h e more

unfor tuna te . Though all hea r t s i were filled with pity, they were ; I paralyzed into inact ion."

The Bishop formed a flood-relief ; commit tee and was immediately ! seconded by the local Commandant

and the Civil Magis t ra te . People were rescued from treetops and from the roofs of buildings which had withstood t h e onrush of water . They were housed in the various school buildings and the sick were cared for by one of the missionar ies who had medical experience. Unfor tunate ly , hundreds of per-

(Continued at foot of CoL 4)

(From "THE T h e musical tolling of St . F r a n

cis ' bells a t daybreak and sunset du r ing t h e week of September , sounds like a farewell to summer heralding the advent of au tumn

• which spreads over the country-' side of Assisi , character is t ical ly

coloured wi th t h e silver of t h e I olive t r ees and the saffron of t h e

vine leaves. T h e memory of t h e Saint is for

cibly recalled a t t he approach of a u t u m n over all t h e hills of Um-bria and more so over those around

| t h e town of Assisi where t h e larks, so dear to t h e Champion of Poverty , a r e hea rd s inging t h roughou t

' t h e shor tened days. The tolling i of t h e evening bells con t ras t s w i th | t h e sound of motor cars climbing ! up t h e hills leading to t h e town. ; Long lines of f r iars h u r r y th rough

i ts medieval s t ree t s , which are already crowded wi th tour i s t s from every count ry stroll ing w i th guide-

| books in the i r hands . T h e l ight of t he waning day, preluding dusk

| and darkness , l ingers long-"on t h e las t blood-red ge ran iums adorning

j t h e windows of almost every house. ! Ass is i celebrates t h e feast of i ts j g r e a t sa int on t h e 4 th October. On I r each ing t h e luminous arcaded ! square , one crosses t h e graceful | port ico by Baccio Pontelli and en-j t e r s t h e basilica. The ogival vaul t

ing is lost in mystic and deep shadow and the mys te r ious feeling of devotion is more impressive

i t h a n usual , probably owing to t h e approach ing solemnities of t h e Franc i scan October.

The low and slow chan t ing of t h e f r iars , seated in t h e choir-stal ls carved by the Mas te r of Ripa t ransone , is wafted up from the crypt , where t h e remains of St . F ranc i s a r e buried, and echoes fa int ly in t h e middle church where t h e golden allegories pa in ted by

j Giot to and his pupils a re only dimly seen. The feast of St . Francis

SCRIP" London). j is celebrated on 4th October. T h e | church is then adorned with t h e | gorgeous decorat ions of inest ima-| ble ar t is t ic and historical value.

The valets of t he Commune, in | medieval cos tumes and with silver

t rumpets , su r round the high a l t a r which almost assumes the same as pect represented in the frescoes covering t h e vaulted ceiling and walls. T h e deep devotion of t h e crowded congregat ion is changed into feeling of exaltat ion when t h e luminous upper basilica is visited with its blue ceiling gli t tering wi th s t a r s and i ts frescoed walls t h a t render it a marvellous monument of a r t and glory. From the dazzl-

j ing splendour of the church one | sees the silent sunlit square out-• side and hea r s t he joyous pealing

of bells from the high tower. The wide road from the church

I leads up t h e main square of t h e town where a cosmopolitan crowd is ga thered. But even here t h e

j g rea t Saint is remembered because | from the medieval tower erected

near the graceful ancient Temple of Minerva, t h e 'Angelus," ins t i tuted by St. F ranc i s is rung a t day-

! break and sunset , while every j s t reet opening from it re ta ins un-I chanced its medieval aspect wi th ! prey houses relieved by the b r igh t

flowers in t h e i r windows and t h e ; high Castle dominat ing the back

ground, recalls t he warlike h i s tory of the town now hallowed b y t h e best loved Sa in t in the world.

sons clinging to t rees and house-: tops were forced by fatigue or un

consciousness to relinquish the i r hold and fall into the water before they codld be rescued.

The crops a r e under several feet of water , in many dis tr ic ts t h e harves t is a to ta l loss; and t h e out-

; look for t h e winter is not b r igh t . (Fides.)

E Ft G E R

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Woman 's Page I BLAMING THE PARENTS.

O Their Many Mistakes.

Most l ec tu re r s love t o a r o u s e cont roversy b y denounc ing some old belief.

The t ime-honoured t r a d i t i o n t h a t chi ldren owe a deb t of g r a t i t u d e to t h e i r p a r e n t s finds a n opponen t in Dr . R. Lee Miller. Speaking t o a g r o u p of m e m b e r s of t h e Amer i can Associa t ion , h e said i t could no t be told un t i l t h e child w a s g r o w n a n d a t t e m p t i n g to m a k e h i s own w a y in t h e world w h e t h e r h e owed h i s p a r e n t s such a debt .

Dr . Miller spoke on " P a r e n t a l Behaviour Which H a n d i c a p s Child ren ."

" T h e child," sa id D r . Miller, "does no t even owe t h e p a r e n t love unless t h e p a r e n t is lovable ." T h e pa ren t s , however , owe t h e child eve ry th ing .

" N o t t h e t h i n g s t h a t money can buy , " h e explained, " n o r money left a t dea th , bu t a n emot ional s tabi l i ty t h a t will equip h im to really l ive ."

"Most bad r e a r i n g , " believes Dr. Miller, " i s unconscious on t h e p a r e n t s ' p a r t , and is due t o t h e i r own childhood repress ions and t h e i r mis in t e rp re t a t ions of childhood experiences, w i t h o u t p a r e n t s themselves , to help t h e m ou t . "

Mother Ge t s B lame . " I t h i n k t h e m o t h e r g e t s mos t

of t h e b lame for bad r e a r i n g , " h e said, "s ince s h e is m o r e d i rec t ly in contact w i t h t h e child d u r i n g t h e impor t an t yea r s . Indi rec t ly , t h e f a t h e r is j u s t a s m u c h t o b lame. A good husband h a s a lo t t o do wi th m a k i n g a good m o t h e r .

"One of t h e g r e a t e s t m i s t a k e s pa r en t s make , especially t h e s e d a y s , " h e continued, " i s a n over i n t en t des i re to m a k e good a t r e a r ing ; their chi ldren, t h e r e s u l t of fear t h a t t h e y will fail . I would much r a t h e r see a child completely neglected t h a n over -a t t ended .

"Over -paren ta l love a n d pa ren t a l selfishness is some t imes m i s taken for love, m a y inh ib i t t h e na tu ra l p rogres s of love life of t h e child t o a g r e a t e r o r less ex t en t .

" T h e r e a r e four s t a g e s of love life," explained Dr . Miller, " a n d normally t h e child p rog res ses natura l ly f rom one t o t h e o t h e r .

" T h e first s t age is mother- love . She is t h e first one t h e child loves and all t h e comfort h e knows comes f rom her . T h e second is t h e love of t h e child for himself and h i s o w n body.

" T h i r d is t h e i n t e r e s t in t h e s t a g e of 'girl c ru shes ' a n d boy ' p a l s / T h e fou r th is t h e love of male for female ."

F i r s t Know N o r m a l Conduct . " T h e m o s t i m p o r t a n t t h i n g in

r ea r ing chi ldren ," declared Dr . Miller, " i s t h a t t h e p a r e n t s under s t and w h a t is normal conduct in each of t h e four s t ages .

" T h e m o s t des i rable t h i n g par e n t s can h a v e , " h e added, " i s t h e respect of t h e i r child, a n d t h e y won ' t g e t i t unless t h e y a r e ent i t led t o i t . T h e child is m u c h s m a r t e r , m a n y t imes , t h a n t h e p a r e n t s because h e h a s n o t y e t begun to conform to social l aws . "

T u r n i n g to t h e emot ional development of chi ldren, Dr . Miller s a id—"Li fe is s imply a b a t t l e be

tween t h e o rgan i sm and i t s environment , and t h a t envi ronment changes momentar i ly . Hence t h e organism m u s t be in a cons tan t s t a t e of ad jus tmen t .

" A child developes in t h r e e ways—menta l ly , physically and emotionally. Rules can be laid down for men ta l and physical development . E a c h child i s somew h a t a law un to himself. Hea l th , cer ta inly , is ve ry desirable, bu t a powerful body can have behind i t ve ry pathological emotions . T h e world is full of people who a r e adul ts in mind and body, b u t a r e chi ldren emotionally.

ST. FRANCIS BEFORE THE CRIB.

St. Francis gazed on the Christ Child's brow

As yet no thorns were there, But he knew they were waiting sharp

and long And he vowed the thorns to share And Pride of Life went from his

mind For Lowliness came there.

St. Francis looked on the Christ Child's hands

As yet so white and fair But he knew that the nails awaited

them And he vowed the nails to share And Worldliness went from his soul For Solitude came there.

St. Francis gazed on the Christ Child's feet

So small for Calvary's stair But he saw the Way of Sorrows

marked And he vowed the Way to share And Vanity went from his life For Suffering came there.

St. Francis looked on the Christ Child's heart

The wound was not yet there But he knew that the lance in

readiness stood And he vowed the wound to share And All of Self went from his heart For Christ came there!

Miss M. McDonnell* BothwelL

'Every child

needs milk

every day"

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R E C I P E S .

Carbon Copies Not Wanted. " T h e h u m a n being emotional ly

equipped to ad jus t himself rapidly will be t h e happy individual . E a c h child h a s some th ing in common wi th t h e species, t h a t m a k e s of h im a h u m a n being. H e h a s s o m e t h i n g in common w i t h the fami ly h e came from, t h a t identifies h im wi th t h a t family . T h e n h e h a s t r a i t s and cha rac te r i s t i c s in common wi th no th ing and nobody, t h a t m a k e of h i m an individual .

" T h e s e las t t r a i t s , " said Dr . Miller, " a r e t h e ones t h a t m u s t be hand led carefully. I t is t hese t r a i t s t h a t p a r e n t s t r y to change in o rder t o selfishly and egotist ically m a k e of t h e child a carbon copy of t h e m selves.

Dr . Miller concluded wi th a quot a t i on from Ellen Key, " A m o t h e r w h o devotes all her t i m e t o h e r chi ldren is seldom a good companion to those chi ldren."

S ink .—It is mos t impor tan t t h a t t h e k i tchen s ink should be kep t perfect ly clean. This is helped by keeping in i t a wire s ink baske t which p reven t s solid mate r ia l f rom choking up t h e pipes. Clean w i th soda and boil ing wate r , and if ve ry greasy , r u b over w i th a n old cloth dipped in paraffin. Th i s dissolves t h e g r ea se quickly, bu t t he s ink m u s t be well flushed a n d r insed a f t e rwards to p reven t a n y smell of oil r emain ing .

Sponges should be steeped overn igh t in bu t t e rmi lk or v inegar and water , and t h e n be boiled in sal t wa te r . T h i s will give t h e m a good colour a n d will r emove all soapy slime.

Steel can be cleaned wi th e m e r y paper o r w i th a p a s t e made of powdered ba thbr ick and linseed oil, me thy l a t ed spi r i t s , or paraffin oil. If s teel is not to be used for some t ime , cover i t w i th g rease or vaseline so t h a t it will not r u s t .

T ins .—Put into a l a rge po t of w a t e r w i t h soda and boil for half an hour . Then dry well and clean wi th w h i t i n g or ba thbr ick and w a t e r and polish wi th a soft cloth.

Ti les .—Stains can be easily r e moved from glazed t i les by rub b ing wi th a cut lemon.

Varn ished Wood is bes t cleaned by rubb ing wi th a cloth on which is a few drops of a m i x t u r e of equal p a r t s of v inegar and wa te r . Polish d r y wi th a soft leather .

Wal lpaper .—Dust well down | wi th clean dus t e r s t ied over a soft I broom, and t h e n remove s ta ins by \ rubbing gent ly wi th pieces of | clean s ta le bread. Grease spots I can be removed by covering wi th i a piece of b lo t t ing paper and lay-i ing a w a r m iron over t ha t .

Windows.—To clean windows I first dus t well and t h e n wash over ! wi th a piece of chamois dipped in j water . Polish off wi th a soft d ry i cloth o r wi th t i ssue paper. If ; t hey h a v e got very dir ty, clean I wi th w h i t i n g and w a t e r and polish I wi th chamois .

NO CHANCE OF IT. The opinionative youne: man who had

I stayed ra ther late playing bridere a t a | house was ^iven a lift to the station in ! his host 's car.

" I hope," he said to the chauffeur, " th»t I won't miss the last train."

"You won't, sir." replied the driver, significantly. "The boss told me he'd give me the sack if T brought vou back "

NOT I N T I J E S T E D . Mrs. Smith was rWnicularlv fond of

• reminding her husband tha t the silver j was hers, the piano was hers, and the | fnrr i ture was hers. Smith was se t t ing

tired of her continual claims.

RICE MOULD AND STEWED FRUIT. Wash three ounces of rice, put it into

a pan with half-pint of water and a salt, let i t s immer until the water is soaked up ; add half a pint of milk and three ounces of sugar, and simmer until the milk is soaked up also; turn into a wet mould. When cold turn out, and put the stewed fruit round.

SNOW BALL (FOR CHILDREN). Pick the husks, &c , from six ounces

of rice, put i t in water , and rub it between the hands; then pour the water off, put more in, s t i r it about and let the rice settle, and then drain the water off. Pu t the rice in a two-quart stew-pan with a quar t of water or milk, cover the pan, and let it boil gently for one hour, s t i rr ing frequently, until the water or milk is all absorbed. Dip some teacups into cold water, fill them with the boiled rice, and press it to their shape; then turn out on a dish, and serve with but te r and sugar.

PAN CAKES. Mix eight ounces of our with one egg

and a little salt , add a pint of milk gradually, beat well. F ry in hot fa t Take up, sprinkle with sugar and lemon-juice, and roll up .

MINCE MEAT. Mix together half-pound currants

(cleaned), half-pound raisins (stoned and minced), one and a half pound apples (minced), half-pound sugar, quarter pound suet (finely chopped), puarter-pound candied peel (finely chopped), one teasnoonful mixed spices, half a teaspoonful of salt , and the rind and juice of one lemon. Pack closely down in a stone jar.

SWEET SAUCE. Place in a pan one teaspoonful of

flour, one tablespoonful of sugar, half an ounce of butter, a pinch of salt, and half pint of cold water . Stir well until it boils. Boil for three minutes.

In the middle of the night Mrs. Smith was awakened b y noises downstairs. She shook her husband.

"Henry," she said, in a hoarse whisper, "Henry, get up! There are burglars downstairs."

Burglars ," echoed Smith, wearily, but not making the least effort to get out of bed. "Well, let 'em burgle. There's nothing of mine down there."

ITS BRIGHT SIDE. An insurance agent called a t a farm

house and said to the woman who answered his knock:

" I ga ther t ha t in this par t of the country you have many people who suffer from a g u e ? "

"Yes; tha t is so," was the renlv. " I t must be a great drawback, for

such an affliction generally unfits a man for work entirely," continued *he agent.

"Yes, generally it does," said the woman. "Still there are cases where it has its bright side."

"Whv, how's t h a t ? " was the auery. "Well, you see, when my man Pat has

a hard fit of the shakes we fasten the but ter chum to him and he works up the but ter inside fifteen minutes."

* * * * * * A veterau soldier went into a public

l ibrary and told the at tendant: "I want an encyclopedia."

Attendant : "Wh^'ch encyclopedia and v.hat volume, S i r ? "

Soldier; I don't knaw. You see. i t s HW J this. I've nromis ed to address a liferarv society on 'Current Events* and I'd ra ther like to read up the subject brfore hand."

MALAYA CATHOLIC LEADER, SATURDAY, 14th September, 1935.

THE ANTI-GOD FRONT OF BOLSHEVISM PERSECUTION O F CHRISTIANS

I N CHINA.

RUMOURS B A S E D ON SUPERSTITION.

Siwantze, (Chahar, Mongolia). — T h e rumour of an approaching persecution of t h e Chr i s t i ans in China h a s caused a wave of indifference a m o n g t h e people of Chahar who till recent ly seemed anxious t o become Chr i s t i ans . The rumour is based on a supers t i t ious fear t h a t since t h e Boxer uprising of 1900 occurred in t h e 26 th year of Emperor K u a n g H s u ' s reign, so also next year , which will be the -26th of t h e Chinese Republic, is the t ime fixed by f a t e for a f resh outbreak aga ins t Chr i s t i ans .

A new sect of fana t ics is said to be ga in ing numbers . T h e members go t h r o u g h secre t magic r i t es to render themselves invulnerable in t ime of bat t le , a s t h e Boxers were said to have done in 1900. With so m a n y rumour s abroad and so much uncer ta in ty in t h e air , t he people, t h e women especially, a r e afraid to go any g r e a t distance from the i r homes and hence keep away from t h e ca techumenates , places where t h e people congregate to s tudy Chr is t ian doctr ine.

Many non-Chr is t ians of t h e region came t o know about the -Church dur ing t h e t roubled t imes of recent years , and l a rge numbers of them asked t o be ins t ruc ted in the Catholic religion. Th i s unexpected t u rn of even ts , therefore, h a s been a keen disappointment for the miss ionar ies . They expected to have severa l thousand conver t s t h i s year , b u t only 600 were ready for Bapt i sm. {Fides) .

NUMEROUS CONVERSIONS AMONG T H E T R I B E S O F

E A S T E R N BURMA.

Kengtung, (Burma) .—L a r g e numbers of Animis t s and Buddhists in t h e eas t e rn section of Burma, near t h e borders of China and Indo-China, a r e be ing received into the Church by t h e pr ies ts of the Foreign Missions of Milan working in t h e P re fec tu re Apostolic of Kengtung . D u r i n g t h e past 12 months approximate ly 500 adult Shans of t he Mong J o n g district and 160 families of the Wa, Musho, Lahusci and L a t r ibes were converted by t h e miss ionar ies .

The Shans, t h e domina t ing race of Kengtung, dwell in t h e lowlands and are practical ly all Buddhis ts . The hill t r ibes a r e most ly animists .

Very little in t h e w a y of evangelization has been done in t h e s ta te of Marlun, t h e n o r t h e r n pa r t of the mission. The people a re still in great pa r t savage, and cases of human sacrifice a r e still reported. The Government , f ea r ing t h a t the presence of fore igners m i g h t provoke an upris ing, is loa the to permit any serious a t t e m p t a t missionary work in t h a t region.

In Kengtung, on t h e o ther hand, the missionaries have 11 stat ions ^ i t h chapels, schools, dispensaries, A c They also h a v e a hospital and & leper asylum. Twelve priests . 15 sisters, one b r o t h e r and 92 cate-chists, or nat ive t eachers , «taff the missions and have built uo a community of 3,000 Catholics.

(Fides) .

WAR ON GOD «> CHRISTIAN IDEALS.

BY REV. FR. A. GOODMAN MS.C. [From Catholic Leader, Brisbane.^

J T h e acts of Communis ts towards j religion aga ins t which almost | worldwide cur ren t protes t pre-\ vailed early in 1930 normally

expressed t h e doctrinal n a t u r e and p rog ramme of Communism,

j "Religion and Communism a re in-| compatible both theoretically and | pract ical ly." (A.B.C., of Commun-i i s m ) . The same au thor i ty , which j is used by Communis ts for world

wide ins t ruct ion in t h e principles | of Communism, s t a t e s definitely | " t h a t many week-kneed Commun

ists, reason as follows: 'religion does not prevent me from being a

| Communis t . I believe in God and : in Communism. My fa i th in God | does not h inder me from fighting I for t h e cause of t h e p ro le t a r i a t /

This t r a in of t hough t is radically \ fa lse ." (Quoted from Colton I X.Y.Z. of Communism, page 273) .

I S l augh te r of Bishops and P r i e s t s . T h e a t t ack on religion began

w i th a violent and bloody persecution. Between 1918 ,and 1920 twenty-s ix bishops arid 6,775 pr ies t s of t h e Or thodox Church were put t o dea th . T h e Archbishop of P e r m was bur ied alive, a f t e r hav ing h i s eyes pu t out and h is face bruta l ly s lashed. The Archbishop of Tobolsk, a f t e r suffe r ing two m o n t h s of penal servi tude , was t h rown in to a dam and drowned. T h e Bishop of Belgarod was t h r o w n into quickl ime. The Bishop of Youriew had h i s nose and ears cu t off, was re peatedly s tabbed wi th a bayonet , and finally cut t o pieces. The Archbishop of Varone je was hanged before t h e a l t a r of t h e Church of t h e Monas tery of St . Mitrofan. In t h e Government of Cherson t h r e e pr ies ts were crucified. A t Tcherdin , in t h e cold of t h e Russian winter , a pr ies t was s t r ipped naked and then sprinkled wi th w a t e r until he became a pillar of ice.

Impossible, some will s a y ! exaggera ted , t h e Communis ts will dec la re ! Bu t t h e war proceeds, and Communis t s t h e world over a re pledged t o wage a relent less fight aga ins t Chr is t ian i ty and all t he ideals for which it s t ands . There is available evidence, and a mult it u d e of witnesses from Communis ts and the i r wr i t ings by which we can t e s t t he t r u t h of th is s t a t emen t . I t is a basic doctrine of Communism t h a t religion mus t be destroyed. The leaders of Communism make th i s qui te clear.

Lenin 's Anti-God Campaign. Lenin in 1909 w r o t e : "To draw

a ha rd and fas t line between the theoret ical propagation of Atheism between breaking down the religious beliefs of certain sections of t he prole tar ia t and the effect, t he development, t he general implicat ions of the class-struggle of these sections, is to reason non-dialecti-cal ly; to t r ans form a variable, re la t ive boundary into an absolute o r e .

"Religion is one of t h e forms of spir i tual oppression which everywhere weigh upon the masses . "

"Eve ry kind of religious organisation is an in s t rumen t of t h a t

bourgeois reaction whose aim is to defend the exploitation of t he workers . "

"The fight against r e l i g i o n . . . mus t be linked up with t h e prac t i cal concrete class-movement."

"The Marxis t mus t fight aga ins t religion not by abs t rac t p ropaganda but concretely on the bas i s of t h e class-struggle actually proceeding."

" I t is essential t o give t h e masses t he g rea tes t va r i e ty of a the is t propaganda m a t e r i a l . . . every way of approach to t hem mus t be tr ied in order t o in te res t them, to rouse them from the i r religious slumber, to s h a k e t hem up by t h e most varied m e a n s . "

"All religious ideas a r e an unspeakable abominat ion." "Religion is opium t o d rug and s tupefy t h e people into submission to t he capital is t . Religion m u s t be des t royed wi th t h e capi ta l is t ."

"Religion is t he opium of t h e people." (Lenin on Religion, vol. vii of t h e Lit t le Lenin L ib ra ry , 1932) . T h u s speaks Lenin , t h e h igh pr ies t of Communism and t h e god of t h e godless.

The Minister for Educa t ion . Lunacharsky , Commissar of Pub

lic Ins t ruct ion, wrote t o t h e a the i s t popular journal 'Bezbojnik ' (The Godless O n e ) : "Wi th all m y h e a r t I wish t h e Bazbojnik every success in i ts war fa re agains t t h e revol t ing spectre of God, who th roughou t t h e whole of his tory has caused such diabolic evil to mankind . "

"We mus t know how to ha te , for only a t th i s price can we conquer t h e u n i v e r s e . . . t he anti-rel igious campaign must not be res t r ic ted to Russ i a ; it should be carr ied on th roughou t t he world."

" W e m u s t smite all gods , a t t ack all churches , destroy all forms of religious worship ."

" W e h a t e Chr is t ian i ty and Chr i s t i a n s ; even the best of t h e m m u s t be looked upon a s our wors t enemies . They preach t h e love of our ne ighbour and mercy, which is con t ra ry to our principles. Christ ian love is an obstacle to t he development of t h e revolution. Down with the love of our neighb o u r s ; wha t we want is ha t red . We m u s t learn how to ha t e , and it is only then t h a t we shall conquer t h e world." (Lunacharsky , Commissa r for Education, from 1917 to 1929).

Zinoviev: "We will grapple with God in due season. We shall vanquish Him in His h ighes t heaven, and wherever He seeks refuge, we shall subdue Him for ever . "

League of The Godless. Yaroslavsky, who was t he leader

of the godless and president of t he "League of the Godless in his book. "Religion in the U.S.S.R." published in 1932, s t a t e s :

' T o Communists, religion is a t t he best a delusion; a t t he worst a vice or even a disease."

"Proletar ian freethinking, as cult ivated by the 'League of t h e Godless, is essentially pa r t and parcel of the mil i tant workers ' class struggle, basically political and revolutionary from the s t a r t . "

' T h e conception of t he world from the religious s tandpoint is incorrect, it is a muti la ted unders tanding of t he world and of t he mutua l relat ionship of men. A person cannot act correctly, cannot act in an organised manne r as a Communist , as a Leninist , if his bra in is poisoned by re l ig ion . . . We mus t convince t h e masses t h a t

! Communism and religion cannot go j t o g e t h e r . . . I t is impossible t o be

a Communis t and a t the same t ime to go to Church ."

"Every Communist , every class-conscious worker and peasant mus t be able to explain why a Communis t cannot suppor t religion; why Communis t s fight against religion. Churches a r e centres of counterrevolut ionary propaganda."

Christianity and Bolshevism Cannot Mix.

I t is perfectly clear from t h e above s t a t emen t s of Lenin, Lunacharsky, £inoviev, and Yaro-

j slavsky, four of t he g rea tes t leaders j of Bolshevism, t h a t Chr i s t i an i ty

and Communism are irreconcili-able, and t h a t Communism is inevitably a universal and anti-God theory to be imposed by force.

I t has been put forward not in-j f requently by Aust ra l ian Commun-j is ts t h a t Communism is compatible

with religion. These apologists | for a mild form of Communism ; s t a t e t h a t religion is a p r iva te ! affair, a m a t t e r of t h e hea r t , a I direction and orientat ion of life \ towards a supermundane power ; ! whereas Communism deals with : land, factories, food and w a g e s ; I they t h u s occupy distinct spheres

and contact or conflict between


l -A, Kirk Ternw^ (Off Dhoby Ghau t )

S INGAPORE. The only and oldest ins t i tu

tion of i ts kind in S ingapore wi th up-to-date equipment . Had gained a series of successes in the Tr in i ty College E x a m i n a t ions in t h e pas t . No age res tr ict ion. Wr i t e for par t icu lars .

M. ANCIANO, ^Principal.

them is impossible. They admi t t h a t in Russia Bolshevism h a s taken on an anti-religious b ias and t h a t it is int imately associated with a the ism and a the is t s , b u t t h e y wish to a s su re us t h a t t h i s close connection is a mere local his tor ic accident ; it does not flow from t h e essential basis of Communi sm; in o ther countr ies it migh t well be t h a t Communism would be friendly to and even embrace in i ts fold sincerely religious people. They a tgue , fur ther , t h a t in t h e pas t i t often happened t h a t religion was bound up with a monarchical s t a te , the a l ta r res ted on t h e th rone , and republicans who were in rebellion, e i ther act ive or la tent , aga ins t t h e form of government were accused of being aga ins t rel igion—and th i s accusation would be s t r eng thened into a conviction amongs t ignorant i)eople if most of t h e republican leaders were irreligious men. But we know th i s is false reasoning, and a powerful deceit of t h e devil. Many a r e received by th i s clever sophis t ry .

8

Woman 's Page I BLAMING THE PARENTS.

O Their Many Mistakes.

Most l ec tu re r s love t o a r o u s e cont roversy b y denounc ing some old belief.

The t ime-honoured t r a d i t i o n t h a t chi ldren owe a deb t of g r a t i t u d e to t h e i r p a r e n t s finds a n opponen t in Dr . R. Lee Miller. Speaking t o a g r o u p of m e m b e r s of t h e Amer i can Associa t ion , h e said i t could no t be told un t i l t h e child w a s g r o w n a n d a t t e m p t i n g to m a k e h i s own w a y in t h e world w h e t h e r h e owed h i s p a r e n t s such a debt .

Dr . Miller spoke on " P a r e n t a l Behaviour Which H a n d i c a p s Child ren ."

" T h e child," sa id D r . Miller, "does no t even owe t h e p a r e n t love unless t h e p a r e n t is lovable ." T h e pa ren t s , however , owe t h e child eve ry th ing .

" N o t t h e t h i n g s t h a t money can buy , " h e explained, " n o r money left a t dea th , bu t a n emot ional s tabi l i ty t h a t will equip h im to really l ive ."

"Most bad r e a r i n g , " believes Dr. Miller, " i s unconscious on t h e p a r e n t s ' p a r t , and is due t o t h e i r own childhood repress ions and t h e i r mis in t e rp re t a t ions of childhood experiences, w i t h o u t p a r e n t s themselves , to help t h e m ou t . "

Mother Ge t s B lame . " I t h i n k t h e m o t h e r g e t s mos t

of t h e b lame for bad r e a r i n g , " h e said, "s ince s h e is m o r e d i rec t ly in contact w i t h t h e child d u r i n g t h e impor t an t yea r s . Indi rec t ly , t h e f a t h e r is j u s t a s m u c h t o b lame. A good husband h a s a lo t t o do wi th m a k i n g a good m o t h e r .

"One of t h e g r e a t e s t m i s t a k e s pa r en t s make , especially t h e s e d a y s , " h e continued, " i s a n over i n t en t des i re to m a k e good a t r e a r ing ; their chi ldren, t h e r e s u l t of fear t h a t t h e y will fail . I would much r a t h e r see a child completely neglected t h a n over -a t t ended .

"Over -paren ta l love a n d pa ren t a l selfishness is some t imes m i s taken for love, m a y inh ib i t t h e na tu ra l p rogres s of love life of t h e child t o a g r e a t e r o r less ex t en t .

" T h e r e a r e four s t a g e s of love life," explained Dr . Miller, " a n d normally t h e child p rog res ses natura l ly f rom one t o t h e o t h e r .

" T h e first s t age is mother- love . She is t h e first one t h e child loves and all t h e comfort h e knows comes f rom her . T h e second is t h e love of t h e child for himself and h i s o w n body.

" T h i r d is t h e i n t e r e s t in t h e s t a g e of 'girl c ru shes ' a n d boy ' p a l s / T h e fou r th is t h e love of male for female ."

F i r s t Know N o r m a l Conduct . " T h e m o s t i m p o r t a n t t h i n g in

r ea r ing chi ldren ," declared Dr . Miller, " i s t h a t t h e p a r e n t s under s t and w h a t is normal conduct in each of t h e four s t ages .

" T h e m o s t des i rable t h i n g par e n t s can h a v e , " h e added, " i s t h e respect of t h e i r child, a n d t h e y won ' t g e t i t unless t h e y a r e ent i t led t o i t . T h e child is m u c h s m a r t e r , m a n y t imes , t h a n t h e p a r e n t s because h e h a s n o t y e t begun to conform to social l aws . "

T u r n i n g to t h e emot ional development of chi ldren, Dr . Miller s a id—"Li fe is s imply a b a t t l e be

tween t h e o rgan i sm and i t s environment , and t h a t envi ronment changes momentar i ly . Hence t h e organism m u s t be in a cons tan t s t a t e of ad jus tmen t .

" A child developes in t h r e e ways—menta l ly , physically and emotionally. Rules can be laid down for men ta l and physical development . E a c h child i s somew h a t a law un to himself. Hea l th , cer ta inly , is ve ry desirable, bu t a powerful body can have behind i t ve ry pathological emotions . T h e world is full of people who a r e adul ts in mind and body, b u t a r e chi ldren emotionally.

ST. FRANCIS BEFORE THE CRIB.

St. Francis gazed on the Christ Child's brow

As yet no thorns were there, But he knew they were waiting sharp

and long And he vowed the thorns to share And Pride of Life went from his

mind For Lowliness came there.

St. Francis looked on the Christ Child's hands

As yet so white and fair But he knew that the nails awaited

them And he vowed the nails to share And Worldliness went from his soul For Solitude came there.

St. Francis gazed on the Christ Child's feet

So small for Calvary's stair But he saw the Way of Sorrows

marked And he vowed the Way to share And Vanity went from his life For Suffering came there.

St. Francis looked on the Christ Child's heart

The wound was not yet there But he knew that the lance in

readiness stood And he vowed the wound to share And All of Self went from his heart For Christ came there!

Miss M. McDonnell* BothwelL

'Every child

needs milk

every day"

"MILKMAID" MILK HOUSEHOLD HINTS.

H O W T O CLEAN.

R E C I P E S .

Carbon Copies Not Wanted. " T h e h u m a n being emotional ly

equipped to ad jus t himself rapidly will be t h e happy individual . E a c h child h a s some th ing in common wi th t h e species, t h a t m a k e s of h im a h u m a n being. H e h a s s o m e t h i n g in common w i t h the fami ly h e came from, t h a t identifies h im wi th t h a t family . T h e n h e h a s t r a i t s and cha rac te r i s t i c s in common wi th no th ing and nobody, t h a t m a k e of h i m an individual .

" T h e s e las t t r a i t s , " said Dr . Miller, " a r e t h e ones t h a t m u s t be hand led carefully. I t is t hese t r a i t s t h a t p a r e n t s t r y to change in o rder t o selfishly and egotist ically m a k e of t h e child a carbon copy of t h e m selves.

Dr . Miller concluded wi th a quot a t i on from Ellen Key, " A m o t h e r w h o devotes all her t i m e t o h e r chi ldren is seldom a good companion to those chi ldren."

S ink .—It is mos t impor tan t t h a t t h e k i tchen s ink should be kep t perfect ly clean. This is helped by keeping in i t a wire s ink baske t which p reven t s solid mate r ia l f rom choking up t h e pipes. Clean w i th soda and boil ing wate r , and if ve ry greasy , r u b over w i th a n old cloth dipped in paraffin. Th i s dissolves t h e g r ea se quickly, bu t t he s ink m u s t be well flushed a n d r insed a f t e rwards to p reven t a n y smell of oil r emain ing .

Sponges should be steeped overn igh t in bu t t e rmi lk or v inegar and water , and t h e n be boiled in sal t wa te r . T h i s will give t h e m a good colour a n d will r emove all soapy slime.

Steel can be cleaned wi th e m e r y paper o r w i th a p a s t e made of powdered ba thbr ick and linseed oil, me thy l a t ed spi r i t s , or paraffin oil. If s teel is not to be used for some t ime , cover i t w i th g rease or vaseline so t h a t it will not r u s t .

T ins .—Put into a l a rge po t of w a t e r w i t h soda and boil for half an hour . Then dry well and clean wi th w h i t i n g or ba thbr ick and w a t e r and polish wi th a soft cloth.

Ti les .—Stains can be easily r e moved from glazed t i les by rub b ing wi th a cut lemon.

Varn ished Wood is bes t cleaned by rubb ing wi th a cloth on which is a few drops of a m i x t u r e of equal p a r t s of v inegar and wa te r . Polish d r y wi th a soft leather .

Wal lpaper .—Dust well down | wi th clean dus t e r s t ied over a soft I broom, and t h e n remove s ta ins by \ rubbing gent ly wi th pieces of | clean s ta le bread. Grease spots I can be removed by covering wi th i a piece of b lo t t ing paper and lay-i ing a w a r m iron over t ha t .

Windows.—To clean windows I first dus t well and t h e n wash over ! wi th a piece of chamois dipped in j water . Polish off wi th a soft d ry i cloth o r wi th t i ssue paper. If ; t hey h a v e got very dir ty, clean I wi th w h i t i n g and w a t e r and polish I wi th chamois .

NO CHANCE OF IT. The opinionative youne: man who had

I stayed ra ther late playing bridere a t a | house was ^iven a lift to the station in ! his host 's car.

" I hope," he said to the chauffeur, " th»t I won't miss the last train."

"You won't, sir." replied the driver, significantly. "The boss told me he'd give me the sack if T brought vou back "

NOT I N T I J E S T E D . Mrs. Smith was rWnicularlv fond of

• reminding her husband tha t the silver j was hers, the piano was hers, and the | fnrr i ture was hers. Smith was se t t ing

tired of her continual claims.

RICE MOULD AND STEWED FRUIT. Wash three ounces of rice, put it into

a pan with half-pint of water and a salt, let i t s immer until the water is soaked up ; add half a pint of milk and three ounces of sugar, and simmer until the milk is soaked up also; turn into a wet mould. When cold turn out, and put the stewed fruit round.

SNOW BALL (FOR CHILDREN). Pick the husks, &c , from six ounces

of rice, put i t in water , and rub it between the hands; then pour the water off, put more in, s t i r it about and let the rice settle, and then drain the water off. Pu t the rice in a two-quart stew-pan with a quar t of water or milk, cover the pan, and let it boil gently for one hour, s t i rr ing frequently, until the water or milk is all absorbed. Dip some teacups into cold water, fill them with the boiled rice, and press it to their shape; then turn out on a dish, and serve with but te r and sugar.

PAN CAKES. Mix eight ounces of our with one egg

and a little salt , add a pint of milk gradually, beat well. F ry in hot fa t Take up, sprinkle with sugar and lemon-juice, and roll up .

MINCE MEAT. Mix together half-pound currants

(cleaned), half-pound raisins (stoned and minced), one and a half pound apples (minced), half-pound sugar, quarter pound suet (finely chopped), puarter-pound candied peel (finely chopped), one teasnoonful mixed spices, half a teaspoonful of salt , and the rind and juice of one lemon. Pack closely down in a stone jar.

SWEET SAUCE. Place in a pan one teaspoonful of

flour, one tablespoonful of sugar, half an ounce of butter , a pinch of salt, and half pint of cold water . Stir well until it boils. Boil for three minutes.

In the middle of the night Mrs. Smith was awakened b y noises downstairs. She shook her husband.

"Henry," she said, in a hoarse whisper, "Henry, get up! There are burglars downstairs."

Burglars ," echoed Smith, wearily, but not making the least effort to get out of bed. "Well, let 'em burgle. There's nothing of mine down there."

ITS BRIGHT SIDE. An insurance agent called a t a farm

house and said to the woman who answered his knock:

" I ga ther t ha t in this par t of the country you have many people who suffer from a g u e ? "

"Yes; tha t is so," was the renlv. " I t must be a great drawback, for

such an affliction generally unfits a man for work entirely," continued *he agent.

"Yes, generally it does," said the woman. "Still there are cases where it has its bright side."

"Whv, how's t h a t ? " was the auery. "Well, you see, when my man Pat has

a hard fit of the shakes we fasten the but ter chum to him and he works up the but ter inside fifteen minutes."

* * * * * * A veterau soldier went into a public

l ibrary and told the at tendant: "I want an encyclopedia."

Attendant : "Wh^'ch encyclopedia and v.hat volume, S i r ? "

Soldier; I don't knaw. You see. i t s HW J this. I've nromis ed to address a liferarv society on 'Current Events* and I'd ra ther like to read up the subject brfore hand."

MALAYA CATHOLIC LEADER, SATURDAY, 14th September, 1935.

THE ANTI-GOD FRONT OF BOLSHEVISM PERSECUTION O F CHRISTIANS

I N CHINA.

RUMOURS B A S E D ON SUPERSTITION.

Siwantze, (Chahar, Mongolia). — T h e rumour of an approaching persecution of t h e Chr i s t i ans in China h a s caused a wave of indifference a m o n g t h e people of Chahar who till recent ly seemed anxious t o become Chr i s t i ans . The rumour is based on a supers t i t ious fear t h a t since t h e Boxer uprising of 1900 occurred in t h e 26 th year of Emperor K u a n g H s u ' s reign, so also next year , which will be the -26th of t h e Chinese Republic, is the t ime fixed by f a t e for a f resh outbreak aga ins t Chr i s t i ans .

A new sect of fana t ics is said to be ga in ing numbers . T h e members go t h r o u g h secre t magic r i t es to render themselves invulnerable in t ime of bat t le , a s t h e Boxers were said to have done in 1900. With so m a n y rumour s abroad and so much uncer ta in ty in t h e air , t he people, t h e women especially, a r e afraid to go any g r e a t distance from the i r homes and hence keep away from t h e ca techumenates , places where t h e people congregate to s tudy Chr is t ian doctr ine.

Many non-Chr is t ians of t h e region came t o know about the -Church dur ing t h e t roubled t imes of recent years , and l a rge numbers of them asked t o be ins t ruc ted in the Catholic religion. Th i s unexpected t u rn of even ts , therefore, h a s been a keen disappointment for the miss ionar ies . They expected to have severa l thousand conver t s t h i s year , b u t only 600 were ready for Bapt i sm. {Fides) .

NUMEROUS CONVERSIONS AMONG T H E T R I B E S O F

E A S T E R N BURMA.

Kengtung, (Burma) .—L a r g e numbers of Animis t s and Buddhists in t h e eas t e rn section of Burma, near t h e borders of China and Indo-China, a r e be ing received into the Church by t h e pr ies ts of the Foreign Missions of Milan working in t h e P re fec tu re Apostolic of Kengtung . D u r i n g t h e past 12 months approximate ly 500 adult Shans of t he Mong J o n g district and 160 families of the Wa, Musho, Lahusci and L a t r ibes were converted by t h e miss ionar ies .

The Shans, t h e domina t ing race of Kengtung, dwell in t h e lowlands and are practical ly all Buddhis ts . The hill t r ibes a r e most ly animists .

Very little in t h e w a y of evangelization has been done in t h e s ta te of Marlun, t h e n o r t h e r n pa r t of the mission. The people a re still in great pa r t savage, and cases of human sacrifice a r e still reported. The Government , f ea r ing t h a t the presence of fore igners m i g h t provoke an upris ing, is loa the to permit any serious a t t e m p t a t missionary work in t h a t region.

In Kengtung, on t h e o ther hand, the missionaries have 11 stat ions ^ i t h chapels, schools, dispensaries, A c They also h a v e a hospital and & leper asylum. Twelve priests . 15 sisters, one b r o t h e r and 92 cate-chists, or nat ive t eachers , «taff the missions and have built uo a community of 3,000 Catholics.

(Fides) .

WAR ON GOD «> CHRISTIAN IDEALS.

BY REV. FR. A. GOODMAN MS.C. [From Catholic Leader, Brisbane.^

J T h e acts of Communis ts towards j religion aga ins t which almost | worldwide cur ren t protes t pre-\ vailed early in 1930 normally

expressed t h e doctrinal n a t u r e and p rog ramme of Communism,

j "Religion and Communism a re in-| compatible both theoretically and | pract ical ly." (A.B.C., of Commun-i i s m ) . The same au thor i ty , which j is used by Communis ts for world

wide ins t ruct ion in t h e principles | of Communism, s t a t e s definitely | " t h a t many week-kneed Commun

ists, reason as follows: 'religion does not prevent me from being a

| Communis t . I believe in God and : in Communism. My fa i th in God | does not h inder me from fighting I for t h e cause of t h e p ro le t a r i a t /

This t r a in of t hough t is radically \ fa lse ." (Quoted from Colton I X.Y.Z. of Communism, page 273) .

I S l augh te r of Bishops and P r i e s t s . T h e a t t ack on religion began

w i th a violent and bloody persecution. Between 1918 ,and 1920 twenty-s ix bishops arid 6,775 pr ies t s of t h e Or thodox Church were put t o dea th . T h e Archbishop of P e r m was bur ied alive, a f t e r hav ing h i s eyes pu t out and h is face bruta l ly s lashed. The Archbishop of Tobolsk, a f t e r suffe r ing two m o n t h s of penal servi tude , was t h rown in to a dam and drowned. T h e Bishop of Belgarod was t h r o w n into quickl ime. The Bishop of Youriew had h i s nose and ears cu t off, was re peatedly s tabbed wi th a bayonet , and finally cut t o pieces. The Archbishop of Varone je was hanged before t h e a l t a r of t h e Church of t h e Monas tery of St . Mitrofan. In t h e Government of Cherson t h r e e pr ies ts were crucified. A t Tcherdin , in t h e cold of t h e Russian winter , a pr ies t was s t r ipped naked and then sprinkled wi th w a t e r until he became a pillar of ice.

Impossible, some will s a y ! exaggera ted , t h e Communis ts will dec la re ! Bu t t h e war proceeds, and Communis t s t h e world over a re pledged t o wage a relent less fight aga ins t Chr is t ian i ty and all t he ideals for which it s t ands . There is available evidence, and a mult it u d e of witnesses from Communis ts and the i r wr i t ings by which we can t e s t t he t r u t h of th is s t a t emen t . I t is a basic doctrine of Communism t h a t religion mus t be destroyed. The leaders of Communism make th i s qui te clear.

Lenin 's Anti-God Campaign. Lenin in 1909 w r o t e : "To draw

a ha rd and fas t line between the theoret ical propagation of Atheism between breaking down the religious beliefs of certain sections of t he prole tar ia t and the effect, t he development, t he general implicat ions of the class-struggle of these sections, is to reason non-dialecti-cal ly; to t r ans form a variable, re la t ive boundary into an absolute o r e .

"Religion is one of t h e forms of spir i tual oppression which everywhere weigh upon the masses . "

"Eve ry kind of religious organisation is an in s t rumen t of t h a t

bourgeois reaction whose aim is to defend the exploitation of t he workers . "

"The fight against r e l i g i o n . . . mus t be linked up with t h e prac t i cal concrete class-movement."

"The Marxis t mus t fight aga ins t religion not by abs t rac t p ropaganda but concretely on the bas i s of t h e class-struggle actually proceeding."

" I t is essential t o give t h e masses t he g rea tes t va r i e ty of a the is t propaganda m a t e r i a l . . . every way of approach to t hem mus t be tr ied in order t o in te res t them, to rouse them from the i r religious slumber, to s h a k e t hem up by t h e most varied m e a n s . "

"All religious ideas a r e an unspeakable abominat ion." "Religion is opium t o d rug and s tupefy t h e people into submission to t he capital is t . Religion m u s t be des t royed wi th t h e capi ta l is t ."

"Religion is t he opium of t h e people." (Lenin on Religion, vol. vii of t h e Lit t le Lenin L ib ra ry , 1932) . T h u s speaks Lenin , t h e h igh pr ies t of Communism and t h e god of t h e godless.

The Minister for Educa t ion . Lunacharsky , Commissar of Pub

lic Ins t ruct ion, wrote t o t h e a the i s t popular journal 'Bezbojnik ' (The Godless O n e ) : "Wi th all m y h e a r t I wish t h e Bazbojnik every success in i ts war fa re agains t t h e revol t ing spectre of God, who th roughou t t h e whole of his tory has caused such diabolic evil to mankind . "

"We mus t know how to ha te , for only a t th i s price can we conquer t h e u n i v e r s e . . . t he anti-rel igious campaign must not be res t r ic ted to Russ i a ; it should be carr ied on th roughou t t he world."

" W e m u s t smite all gods , a t t ack all churches , destroy all forms of religious worship ."

" W e h a t e Chr is t ian i ty and Chr i s t i a n s ; even the best of t h e m m u s t be looked upon a s our wors t enemies . They preach t h e love of our ne ighbour and mercy, which is con t ra ry to our principles. Christ ian love is an obstacle to t he development of t h e revolution. Down with the love of our neighb o u r s ; wha t we want is ha t red . We m u s t learn how to ha t e , and it is only then t h a t we shall conquer t h e world." (Lunacharsky , Commissa r for Education, from 1917 to 1929).

Zinoviev: "We will grapple with God in due season. We shall vanquish Him in His h ighes t heaven, and wherever He seeks refuge, we shall subdue Him for ever . "

League of The Godless. Yaroslavsky, who was t he leader

of the godless and president of t he "League of the Godless in his book. "Religion in the U.S.S.R." published in 1932, s t a t e s :

' T o Communists, religion is a t t he best a delusion; a t t he worst a vice or even a disease."

"Proletar ian freethinking, as cult ivated by the 'League of t h e Godless, is essentially pa r t and parcel of the mil i tant workers ' class struggle, basically political and revolutionary from the s t a r t . "

' T h e conception of t he world from the religious s tandpoint is incorrect, it is a muti la ted unders tanding of t he world and of t he mutua l relat ionship of men. A person cannot act correctly, cannot act in an organised manne r as a Communist , as a Leninist , if his bra in is poisoned by re l ig ion . . . We mus t convince t h e masses t h a t

! Communism and religion cannot go j t o g e t h e r . . . I t is impossible t o be

a Communis t and a t the same t ime to go to Church ."

"Every Communist , every class-conscious worker and peasant mus t be able to explain why a Communis t cannot suppor t religion; why Communis t s fight against religion. Churches a r e centres of counterrevolut ionary propaganda."

Christianity and Bolshevism Cannot Mix.

I t is perfectly clear from t h e above s t a t emen t s of Lenin, Lunacharsky, £inoviev, and Yaro-

j slavsky, four of t he g rea tes t leaders j of Bolshevism, t h a t Chr i s t i an i ty

and Communism are irreconcili-able, and t h a t Communism is inevitably a universal and anti-God theory to be imposed by force.

I t has been put forward not in-j f requently by Aust ra l ian Commun-j is ts t h a t Communism is compatible

with religion. These apologists | for a mild form of Communism ; s t a t e t h a t religion is a p r iva te ! affair, a m a t t e r of t h e hea r t , a I direction and orientat ion of life \ towards a supermundane power ; ! whereas Communism deals with : land, factories, food and w a g e s ; I they t h u s occupy distinct spheres

and contact or conflict between


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them is impossible. They admi t t h a t in Russia Bolshevism h a s taken on an anti-religious b ias and t h a t it is int imately associated with a the ism and a the is t s , b u t t h e y wish to a s su re us t h a t t h i s close connection is a mere local his tor ic accident ; it does not flow from t h e essential basis of Communi sm; in o ther countr ies it migh t well be t h a t Communism would be friendly to and even embrace in i ts fold sincerely religious people. They a tgue , fur ther , t h a t in t h e pas t i t often happened t h a t religion was bound up with a monarchical s t a te , the a l ta r res ted on t h e th rone , and republicans who were in rebellion, e i ther act ive or la tent , aga ins t t h e form of government were accused of being aga ins t rel igion—and th i s accusation would be s t r eng thened into a conviction amongs t ignorant i)eople if most of t h e republican leaders were irreligious men. But we know th i s is false reasoning, and a powerful deceit of t h e devil. Many a r e received by th i s clever sophis t ry .

MALAYA CATHOLIC LEADER, SATURDAY, 14th September , 1 9 3 ^

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Jt talag* CaiJttxlb ^pett&ej: Saturday, 14th September, 1935.

T H E HEALING H A N D

OF THE C H U R C H .

Glancing back along the tracks left by the Great War, one is bewildered to find them littered with the bones of * dead theories/ propounded by our modern , T thinkers9 9 who have been engaged for nearly two decades in finding wanton expedients to off-set the social and economic ills of the time. The wasting of untold wealth in the demolishing of both the sources and the products thereof, is of little account, when compared with the shattering of the foundations of belief and morality on which ordered society should normally rest. A renowned scientist or a sectarian dignitary who advances plausible reasons for refusing to believe in the Old Testament account of the Creation of man, or of the Flood, or in the New Testament account of the miracles of Christ, or of His Resurrection, has his jaundiced views splashed with startling headliness in the press. Radicals and revolutionaries who, without any warrantable reason, pull down stable governments are held as saviours of their country. Again, the so called * industrial magnates' who destroy coffee, cotton, wheat, and other necessaries of life without any qualms of conscience, just because they cannot get the price they desire, are described as being endowed with rare * business acumen/

Developments in machinery, triumphs of men's mastery over | matter, which ought to be bles-sings to the community, are allowed instead to throw our in- I dustrial system out of gear, and j to increase the number of the J unemployed. Russia in attempt- i ing to deify the machine, has made a dual attack on*Christianity and capitalism, but the constructive work she has accom- | plished withal is just trifling when j compared with the colossal destruction she is guilty of.

Now turning to the sphere of doctrine and morals, when once man has begun to ignore or to set aside the doctrine and principles taught by Christ, there is a complete absence of guiding princi

ple, and no one is capable of | forming positive standards by

which we may judge and estimate the problems facing us. Confining our arguments and instances to Christendom alone, there is admittedly some let or snag in the Protestant view of religion, against a unified, collective, and vigorous expression of Christianity in which alone lies the hitherto undiscovered panacea for all our social, political and economic travails. The sectarian view of religion treats it as a private, personal affair. Private judgement being the ultimate authority, it

! rejects the idea of a church with a central teaching authority. The result is that, outside the Catholic Church, there is no Christian religious body that can declare authoritatively what it believes and what it requires its ministers to teach.

Since there is no infallible teaching authority, the same j hopeless division amongst teachers j appears when moral questions are at stake. Some permit divorce as | English law allows it, some encourage birth-prevention by artificial means, some advocate sterilization of the unfit, some desire the legalization of abortion, some even propose the killing of the incurable or the hopelessly insane. The absence of definite principles in these denominational bodies makes it difficult to decide these questions satisfactorily. Note the modern tendency when deciding questions of moral importance, or even more when deciding political, social or economic questions. The rule, invariably is to leave religion and its teachings out of reckoning entirely. It is often typical of our statesmen when justifying a good treaty or blaming a bad one, to leave God and His commands out of the issue. Our men of commerce do not submit to the guidance of Christian principles; no matter what Christian teaching may say, their cardinal aim is to buy cheap and sell dear; and to this end they employ men and machines. Take our educational systems. They aim at well-trained minds and shapely physique, but they ignore or even oppose the reminder of Christ that the gain of the whole world will not compensate for the loss of a soul.

The ? Political Catholicism ' of which we are wantonly being accused by the Nazis, is merely a crafty effort to gloss over the blasphemous attempt of Hitler and his aides to subordinate God and the things that are His, to their own pagan monstrosities, j It must be admitted, however : that the forces of religion in Europe and America have been on the side of capitalism (in its \ original and well-accepted sense) and on the side of the rulers, so long as the spirit of capitalism and the conduct of state affairs j

P t t l F S T S AND POLITICS—THE PRINCIPLES OF CATHOLIC ACTION-DISTRESSING CONDITIONS OF

UNEMPLOYMENT VICTIMS.

Pr i e s t s and Poli t ics . In discussing w h e t h e r pr ies ts

may have a hand in politics or not, it is best to define clearly t h e scope and significance of politics in t he generally accepted sense. The re is however one t ype of politics, in which t h e clergy m a y not dabble wi th a dignity a s becomes the i r sacred vocation, and t h a t is par t i san politics. I t would certainly be injudicious for p r i e s t s to identify themselves wi th a n y par t icular political pa r ty to elect candidates to office to f u r t h e r any definite legislative or execut ive p rogramme. A p a r t from th i s , t h e Church has never precluded t h e teaching of t h e principles t h a t underl ie quest ions of political consequence. Even in th is , c e r t a in l imits have been demarcated. T h e clergy may not come forward a s representat ives in the direct application of political doctr ines. This mus t be delegated to t h e Catholic laymen, to evolve practical schemes , where in Chr is t ian social-political views may find expression.

* * * * Catholic Action.

H. E . Mgr. Kierkels , in a recent address in Ceylon, re fer red to t he objects and scope of Catholic Action, which have often been misconstrued by non-Catholic communi t ies . His Excellency sa id : "A communi ty lives not for itself a lone ; i ts fo r tunes a r e bound up wi th t he welfare of all communit i e s ; all communi t ies should work toge the r for t h e u l t ima te prosperi ty of the whole na t ion ." These

have" been in keeping with real Christian principles. But when a deviation from these fixed principles was observed, the Catholic Church was the first to voice aloud Her disapproval of such un-Christian methods. The Labour demagogues of the proletariat party in communistic or socialistic countries have foully accused the Church of being an ally of capitalism (in its disreputable sense). Perhaps these malicious critics and avowed enemies of the Church expect ' rough and ready methods,' best known to them, to be employed, to convince them in a spectacular manner, that Religion is no partisan of unconscionable capitalism. Just as Our Lord declined to work a miracle to gratify the idle curiosity of an unbelieving people, so shall His Apostolic Church refrain from doing things merely to satiate the vulgar fancies of mistrusting maniacs. The destinies of mankind depend on deciding this pressing question: " Are you for God or against God?" Once this is answered aright, it will soon be realised that the unity of mankind finds sufficient guarantee in the Catholic Church, wherein lies the real and lasting foundation of the commonwealth of all races, as Christ Himself had intended.

words should help to obviate any prejudice or misunders tanding of t h e purpose and function of Catholic Action. Catholic act ion is not to be regarded a s a 'Society' or 'Associat ion' which is engaged in giving effect to any subt le designs to foster t he par t icu lar interests of Catholics a t t h e expense of o ther religionists. I t is in fact a lay apostolate which is meant to be a potent adjunct to t h e spiritual and apostolic min i s t ry of the Clergy under t he direct ion of the Ordinar ies . To quote our Catholic contemporary of Colombo, "Catholic Action is as fa r above politics, understood in t h e popular sense, as spir i t is above m a t t e r . " In shor t t he mot to of every Catholic Actionist is to ' leave t h e world be t t e r t h a n he found i t ' , and this a ims a t universal brotherhood and ha rmony as the Chr i s t i an ' sum-m u m b o n u m ' where in a vivacious application of Our Lord ' s doctrines a re implied.

• Aid for t h e Unemployed. Mr. John Lay cock makes the

following observation in a letter to t h e 'S t ra i t s Times ' of 9 th Sept.— "The response to your appeal, for t h e Ro ta ry Club In t e r im Relief

j F u n d has been g ra t i fy ing . But it ! is by no means sufficient. $1,000 j a mon th is probably about a third

(a t t he most ) of w h a t is required/ ' This repor t cer tainly sounds very d is t ress ing to t h e ea r s of all who really know t h e woeful s ta te of th ings prevail ing among the jobless here . We have had painful occasions to listen to tear fu l tales from s ta rv ing , emaciated individuals, who, to our personal knowledge, have t r amped t h e s t r e e t s of Singapore for mon ths on end to secure any odd job to keep body and soul toge ther , but wi th no result . Apart t rom a class of w a s t e r s and idlers who have made mendic i ty a means of eking out an effortless existence, i t mus t be admi t t ed however t h a t t h e r e are very m a n y deserving cases who have become the vict ims of unemployment in these days . Mr. Laycock fur ther rem a r k s , "So fa r t h e subscribers appear to be confined to Strai ts-born and a n u m b e r of European firms and individuals together wi th some Indian firms and individuals and a very few Euras i ans . None of the big mercant i le firms o r institutions have ye t given a n y ass is tance." It \? really disconcert ing to note tha t t h e big mercant i le firms have failed to realise t h a t i t is morally incumbent on t h e m t o contribute in some measure to t h e relief of t he poor unemployed who were re t renched from the i r service owing to the s t ressful t imes. We make an earnest appeal to all communi t ies to come forwrard and help th i s wor thy cause. A s Mr. Lay-cock who is labour ing in a very noble cause says, t h e Rotary Relief Fund is merely to provide 'breathing space ' till i t is subst i tuted by a more efficient and permanent form of relief. We feel anxious to know when the Jubilee Fund will be made available for the purpose it is intended. The position obta ining at t h e moment is very urgent indeed, and temporising in> m a t t e r s oi' exigency will, we tear, be f r augh t wi th more doleful consequences.

MALAYA CATHOLIC L E A D E R , SATURDAY, 14lh September, 1935. I I

CANADIAN CATHOLIC WOMEN HOLD CONGRESS.

HIGH STATE OFFICIALS A T T E N D .

Ot tawa.—Represent ing 30,000 Catholic women of Canada, 900 delegates met h e r e for t he 15th annual convention of t h e Catholic Women's League of Canada.

"A peaceful ba t t a l ion of women workers for God and Canada" was the description of t h e League given by the Most Rev. J a m e s G. Forbes, Archbishop of O t t awa , who said the organization was one of t he prime factors in Catholic Action.

The Secre tary of S ta t e declared in his address t h a t t h e chari table work of t h e League was grea t ly appreciated by t h e Government and had been in s t rumen ta l in alleviating economic d is t ress .

Mayor Nolan of Ot tawa, praising the work of t h e o rgan iza t ion stated t h a t t h e Catholic Church was in his opinion t h e grea tes t bulwark aga ins t communist ic and bolshevistic ideas.

The Pres ident of t he League, Mrs. J . Coffey, of Montreal , re ported t h a t t h e League is now established in 31 dioceses in Canada and tha t , since i ts inception 15 years ago, it ha s ra ised $2,112,982. Many char i table under tak ings had been supported. S tudy clubs and girl guide companies had been formed.

In view of t h e fact t ha t Catholics const i tute 42 cent of Canada 's population, a resolution wras passed recommending to t h e Government the appointment of a Catholic woman to the Sena te . (Lumen-N.C.W.C.)

SOUTH S H A N T U N G MISSION.

Distressing Flood Conditions.

Tsaochowfu, Shantung.—10,000 Christians and catechumens of this Vicariate a r e involved directly in the flood d isas te r .

In the no r the rn p a r t Kuyeh Distr ic t and also Chuancheng Dis t r ic t the River is grooving itself a channel as it flows th rough great breach n e a r Linputs i .

of t h e in t h e Yellow a new

t h e A t

present t he w id th of th is new stream is 12 li f rom bank to b a n k !

When the L inpu t s i dyke gave way, Chuancheng Dis t r ic t received the first full impe tus of t he rushing waters . A t once 2,000 persons were helplessly submerged and 400 villages total ly destroyed. Many o ther vi l lages which" a t first remained pa r t l y above water , like so many is lands of an inland sea, have since been completely covered also.

In a single day some 5,000 refugees sought she l te r and safety in the city of Kuyeh .

Many pa ren t s a r e said to have thrown the i r i n fan t s into t he r iver so as t o spare t h e m the slow torture of dea th from s tarva t ion and want. Othe r persons a re said to have hanged themselves in despair. Grea t numbers have emigrated eas tward toward Tsin-}B£ and Yenchowfu, or wes tward into Shansi.

.In t h e Yuncheng Distr ict 551 v*Hages have been among them 45 Christians.

Driven by wan t , many of t h e Poor^are selling t h e i r live-stock for a pittance. A medium-sized cow with her calf was recently sold for x ' dollars.

B o t h in Kuyeh and in Hochih,

G O S P E L for

F O U R T E E N T H SUNDAY A F T E R P E N T E C O S T .

(MATT. VI, 24-33).

At t h a t t ime, J e s u s said to his disciples, No m a n can se rve two m a s t e r s ; for e i the r he will h a t e the one and love t h e other, or he will sus ta in the one despise t h e o ther . You cannot serve God and mammon. Therefore I say to you, be not solicitous for your life, wha t you shall eat , nor for your body, wha t you shall put on. Is not t he life more t h a n t h e meat , and the body m o r e t han the ra i men t? Behold the b i rds of t h e a i r ; for they ne i the r sow, nor do they reap, nor ga the r into barns , and your heavenly F a t h e r feedeth them. Are not you of much more value then t h e y ? And which of you, by t a k i n g thought , can add to his s t a t u r e one cubi t? And for ra iment w h y a re you solicitous? Consider t h e lilies of t he field, how they g r o w ; they labour not, ne i the r do t hey sp in ; bu t I say to you, t ha t not even Solomon in all h is glory w a s a r r ayed a s one of these . Now, if God so clothe t h e g ra s s of t h e field, which is to-day, and to-morrow is cast in to t h e oven, how much more you, O ye of !Utle fa i th ! Be not solicitous, therefore , saying, W h a t shall we eat , or what shall we drink, or wherewi th shal l we be clothed? for af ter all these t h i n g s do t h e hea thens seek. Fo r your F a t h e r knoweth t h a t you have need of all these th ings . Seek ye therefore t h e kingdom of God and h is jus t i ce ; and all these th ings shall be added unto you.

COMMENTARY. Jesus places before us a dilem- : and clothe

i m a : we cannot serve God and ! Mammon a t the same t ime, for ! e i ther we will love God and h a t e | Mammon, or we will susta in Mam-Jmon and despise God. The words i used by Je sus could not be be t t e r J chosen. He does not say t h a t if jwe love Mammon we shall despise God. He says t h a t if we sus ta in Mammon, we shall despise Him all t he same. Mammon represen ts t h e world and the devil. Only a demoniacal soul would be able to confess t h a t he loves t h e devil. I in the "Bank of Providence" onlv. Yet he shall sus ta in h im, he shall j We know t h a t t h e y a re main ta ined tolerate h i s power, h is supremacy jby t h a t Bank. Still we feel un-

| equal to t h e fulfilment of t h e condition. And, in all humil i ty , we a r e bound to confess, aga in s t J e s u s ' a r g u m e n t , t h a t both t h e birds of t he a i r and the lilies of t h e fields a r e of much more value t h a n w e ? The necessary condition to have a

claim upon Providence. The condition i s : "seek ye

therefore t h e kingdom of God and His jus t i ce . " We have not done

DIOCESE OF MALACCA.

Calendar for t h e week.

September 15. SUNDAY — 14th Sunday a f t e r Pentecost . The VII Sorrows of t h e B.V.M. Double of t h e 2nd Class. Mass and Vespers of t h e Feas t .

| September 16. Monday — Ss. Cornelius, P. and Cyprian, B., Mm. Semid.

September 17. Tuesday—The Holy S t igmata of St . F ranc i s , C.

September 18. Wednesday — S t Joseph of Cupert ino, C.

September 19. Thursday—Ss . Janu-ar ius and Comp., Mm.

September 20. F r iday—Ss . Eustace and Comp., Mm. Vigil of S t

I Mat thew, Apostle . September 2 1 . Sa tu rday — ST.

M A T T H E W , APOS. & EVANG.

DIOCESE OF MACAO.

CHURCH O F ST. J O S E P H .

Calendar for t h e week.

us as He does to t h e ^ birds of t h e a i r and the lilies of j | t h e field. We cannot , by r igh t , 1 call upon His Divine Providence to bu look a f te r us , and we know t h a t . § And on account of th is we shall | j be a lways "men of little fa i th . " ij We know the lives of thousands [ of sa in ts who lived on God's P r o vidence, and who had a claim upon it. W e know of t h e existence of several convents and monas ter ies which have no funds of the i r own. and who have a cur ren t account

l o v e r his whole being. This will § j be enough to despise God. On t h e | o ther hand , who loves God above g every th ing ha tes t h e world and a t he devil. I t is a logical sequence, j The promises of Jesus , j J e sus t akes as g r a n t e d t h a t we a* want t o love God and to us He §D says , "be not solicitous for your j | life." He lays s t ress on th i s point,

on the political economy, so to say, of our spir i tual life. He a rgues | with us He takes us by t h e h a n d th is . We know it, we acknowledge and invites-us to consider t h e birds ^ p o r > o therwise of the a i r and the lilies of t he field who depend entirely on God's loving Providence. Why shouldn ' t we be so dependent too? W h y shouldn' t we look a t God as our F a t h e r , a most loving F a t h e r who "knows t h a t we have need of all these t h i n g s " ? A careful reading of th i s Gospel will show at once t h a t Je sus meant every word which He said. He wanted to persuade us, to con-

^ vince us. He calls us men "of i little f a i t h " and aga in he repea ts

be not solicitous." Y e t . . . ,

all these t h ings would be added un to us . " The re a re a few, however, who a r e so blind t h a t they do not want to see th i s reason of t h e i r s t a tus in t h i s life. They sus ta in Mammon t h e y ask of themselves , "what shall they eat , wha t shall they dr ink on t h e mor row" and a t t he same t ime they c ry aga ins t God, they da re to j doubt His goodness, His Providence, if Mammon does not help them as much a s they wanted. They a re t h e r ich who in t h e i r hea r t s deny God's mercy, because, they see t h a t t h e i r riches do not

September 15. SUNDAY—Fourteen th Sunday a f t e r Pentecost . Feas t of t h e Seven Dolours of

| t h e B.V.M. Double of the 2nd c l Whi te ves tmen t s . Proper of t he Mass in t h e "Small M i s s a r p. 305, second collect of the Sunday, p . 217, t h i rd of S t Nicomedes. Preface of Our Lady. Vespers of t h e F e a s t Collections on t h i s day a t all services a r e for t h e o rphans of St . A n t h o n y ' s Convent .

September 16. Monday—Sts . Cornelius and Cypr ian , Mar ty r s . Semi-double.

September 17. Tuesday—The Stigm a t a of St . F ranc i s . Double.

September 18. Wednesday — S t Joseph Cuper t ino. Double. Em-

I ber day. September 19. Thursday—St . Ja-

nuar ius and Comp. Martyrs . I Double. September 20. F r iday—St . Eusta-

chius and Comp. Mar ty r s . Abst inence. E m b e r day. Evening Service a t 5.30.

September 2 1 . Sa tu rday—St . Matthew, Apost le and E v a n g e l i s t Double of t h e second class.

SENATOR D E N O U N C E S LADY ASTOR'S V I E W S ON BIRTH CONTROL.

Yet J e sus has only convinced a br ing t hem the coveted happiness , few. The condition which he pu ts They have tons of gold, but t he i r to the in tegra l fulfilment of His hea r t s a re longing for something promises has not been followed up else. They are t h e poor who have to the point and we persis t in placed all t he i r hopes in this world, !j th inking of the morrow, because in Mammon, to find in the end t h a t Ji our conscience tells us t h a t we j they have been neglected, t hey " have not been fair to Jesus ' a rgu- j have been overlooked. At th i s oc-ment. We still ask our ourselves casion then t hey tu rn t h e i r

what shall we eat, and wha t shall t hough t s to God. bu t only to m u r -we drink, and wherewith shall we I m u r and grumble .

^ be clothed" because we know t h a t Have we not done this ^God will not feel bound to feed sionally? occa- §

inundated, inhabited by

where conditions a r e similar, the Dis t r ic t Magis t ra tes have sef up refugee camps which unfor tunate ly were filled in a very shor t t ime, leaving thousands to seek relief elsewhere.

Hundreds of the refugees a re being housed and cared for in Catholic Mission buildings th roug-out the Vicar ia te . (Lumen.)

BRITISH MINISTER TO T H E HOLY S E E .

Mr. Francis D 'Arcy Osborne, C.M.G., minis ter a t Washington , has been appointed minis ter Pleni potent ia ry to t h e Holy See. H e is cousin and hei r presumpt ive to the Duke of Leeds and is 51 y e a r s of age.

Wash ing ton .—The repor t t ha t j Lady Astor , American-born mem-; ber of Eng land ' s par l iament , openly , advocated b i r t h control and de-J clared t h a t chi ldren two years old a re be t t e r cared for a t ins t i tu t ions than by the i r mo the r s , yesterday-drew a s h a r p cr i t ic ism from Senator Freder ick V a n N u y s of Indiana.

Sena tor V a n N u y s sa id : "I th ink t h i s t h e most repre

hensible s t a t emen t f rom a public official in recent h i s to ry . England is welcome to he r unsexed and expa t r ia ted Lady As to r and all of her ilk.

"In address ing an assembly of teachers she said t h a t one of her

I sons recent ly complained she failed | to t ake in te res t in h im before he I was seven y e a r s old.

" 'If I 'd known as much then as I do now, I shouldn ' t have had you a t all,' Lady A s t o r replied,

i "She f u r t h e r a s se r t ed t h a t the old theory of a m o t h e r being the best person to b r i n g up a child was out of da te and advocated sending every child to a nu r se ry school a t the age of two.

"Someone once said t h a t before he dould send us a Chr is t , God first

; gave us m o t h e r s . Cer ta in it is t ha t mo the r love m o r e near ly approaches all t h a t is holy and divine than all o the r worldly experiences. '

(N.C.W.C.)

1 2

Civilization's Debt to Italy EXCAVATIONS I N P A L E S T I N E

Jericho found t o be Oldest C i t y .

(By Dr. Alexander Mombelli)

Jerusa l em—In a communica t ion t o t h e F r e n c h Academie des Inscriptions e t Belles Lettres, P ro fes sor G a r s t a n g , d i rec tor of t h e Je r i cho E x c a v a t i o n s , h a s s u m m e d u p t h e r e su l t s of his r e sea rches . **The object ive of t h e fifth expedit ion, wh ich has j u s t been completed," h e wr i t e s , " w a s t h e explorat ion of t h e lowest levels of t h e Bronze A g e , p e r t a i n i n g t o t h e mil lennium preceding t h e t r ad i t iona l era of t h e P a t r i a r c h A b r a h a m (2000-3000 B .C . ) . T h e accompl ishment of t h i s t a s k took t h e e x c a v a t o r s down 21 fee t below t h e su r f ace , w h e r e lay a chalcoli-thic depos i t such a s h a s h i t h e r t o been r ega rded a s m a r k i n g t h e or ig ins of civilization in Pa les t ine . A se r ies of f u r t h e r discoveries, however , car r ied t h e excavat ions down a n addi t ional 25 fee t to levels ! r e p r e s e n t m g a long period of civili- 1

zat ion comparable w i t h t h e Neolith ic per iod in Eu rope . J e r i c h o appears fo r t h e t i m e being t o m a r k the s i t e of t h e oldest city of Pa les t ine and one of t h e ear l ies t se t t led communi t ies in t h e N e a r E a s t . "

(N.C.W.€. )

FIFTEENTH A N N I V E R S A R Y OBSERVED B Y ' T H E SIGN.'

LARGER SHARE TERRITORY.

THE ARCHBISHOP COMMENTS ON STRIFE AMONG NATIONS.

GIFTS FOR THE BISHOPS OF JOHANNESBURG FROM NATI

V E S OF THE TRANSVAAL.

A few weeks ago he^fad received a l e t t e r f rom an Anglican clergyman in New South Wales, enclosing a copy of a newspaper from h i s diocese, which asked w h y t h e Pope did no t in tervene in m a k i n g peace between I t a ly and Abyssinia, added His Grace. Before he had h a d t ime t o reply , a cablegram h a d s t a t ed t h a t t h e Holy F a t h e r w a s on t h e s ide of peace. A t t h e t i m e of t h e G r e a t War , t h e la te P o p e Benedi t X V had called on t h e n a t ions t o m a k e peace, a n d had w r i t t en a magnificent encyclical l e t t e r call ing upon t h e m t o cease w a r a n d save t h e millions of lives t h a t w e r e a f t e rwa rds sacrificed in t h e w a r , a n d t o leajl Europe and t h e whole world back t o t h e ord inary way of living. N o Anglican c le rgyman had w r i t t e n t o h im then . T h e Pope w a s not l is tened to , and t h e na t ions cont inued t h e w a r w i t h resu l t s t h e y all knew.

P r e s s Comment. There w a s a g r e a t deal of p r e s s

comment on t h e p re sen t war , a n d h e would like to give a h i n t to t h e daily p r e s s not t o car ica ture M u s solini. T h e Aus t ra l i an p res s h a d no r i gh t wha tsoever t o ge t into t h e l imelight in t h a t way, and he hoped i t would no t t a k e sides, a s had t h e p ress in o t h e r p a r t s .

H e claimed t o know someth ing of I t a ly in h is tory , and he sa id wi thou t f ea r of contradict ion t h a t no na t ion in t h e world had been less ambi t ious , less p reda to ry in t h e way of e x t e n d i n g h e r dominions t h a n I ta ly . I ta ly had been a land of cul ture , which had laid t h e na t ions of t h e world under a jrreat debt of g r a t i t ude t o h e r ; and I ta ly deserved a much la rger s h a r e of t h e t e r r i t o r y of t h e world t h a n was in h e r possession to-day. I t seemed t o h im t h a t i t was t h e s a m e wi th na t ions as wi th individuals. T h e individual who did least for cul ture , refinement, and h u m a n progress seemed to ge t t he g r e a t e r par t of t h e spoils. I t a ly had done m o r e probably t h a n any other nation for cul ture , a r t , and science, and to-day I ta ly was as g rea t as ever she had been. Marconi stood peerless among scient is ts , and fearlessly pract ised h i s Catholic F a i t h . (Applause.)

Amer ica and Peace. "Le t t h e nat ion which has clean

hands t h r o w t h e first s tone a t I ta ly ," Hi s Grace added. " I have no s y m p a t h y wi th w a r and hope w a r will not t a k e place, but I had t o smile a t Amer ica sending an ambassador t o make peace, p a r t i cularly w h e n we remember t h a t

Union Ci ty , N . J . — W i t h t h e A u g u s t number , The S ign , na t ional Catholic magaz ine publ ished by t h e Passionisfc F a t h e r s , obse rves t h e fifteenth ann ive r sa ry of i t s first i ssue . W i t h i n t h e pages of t h i s i s sue The Sign p resen t s a n a r r a y of l ead ing w r i t e r s of A m e r i c a and Eng land , mos t of whom h a v e been r e g u l a r con t r ibu to r s t o t h e maga zine. I n the l ist a r e G. K. Ches te r ton, Hi ia i re Belloc a n d Denis Gwyim of E n g l a n d ; t h e Rev . J a m e s H. Giffis, C .S .P . , E d i t o r of The Catholic World: t h e Rev . Wilfffd P a r s o n s , S X , of A m e r i c a ; Pa t r i ck Scanlan of The Brooklyn Tablet; George S h u s t e r of The Commonweal; Daniel Sa rgen t , R . Dana Skinner , H e l e n Walker H o m a n and o the r o u t s t a n d i n g w r i t e r s .

T h e p r e s e n t edi tor is t h e Rev. Theophane Magui re , C P . , who af te r several yea r s s p e n t on t h e missions in C h i n a r e t u r n e d t o th i s coun t ry and to t h e pos t of Business M a n a g e r and Mission P r o c u r a t o r of The Sign. On his accession to t h e ed i torsh ip he announced h i s in ten t ion t o continue t o p re sen t t o t h e r e a d e r s of The Sign t h a t same qua l i ty of l i t e ra ry , re l ig ious and economic in t e r e s t which h a s made The Sign so widely acceptable t o a hos t of r eade r s .

A l e t t e r of commendat ion on t h e occasion of t h e jubi lee from His Excel lency t h e Most R e v . Amleto Giovanni Cicognani , Apostolic Del ega t e t o the Uni ted S t a t e s , also confer red A r c h b i s h o p Cicognanfs b less ing :—N.C.W.C.

(CATHOLIC LEADER, BRISBANE) " I s av without fear of contradiction that no nation in the world

h a s been less ambitious, less predatory in t h e way of extending her dominions, than Italy. Italy has been a land of culture, which has laid the nations of the world under a great debt of gratitude t o her; and Italv deserves a much larger share of t l ie territory «f the world t h a n is in her nossession to-day. Let the nation which h a s d e a n hands in these matters throw the first stone at Italy," declared His Grace the Archbishop (the Most Rev. J. Dtthig, D.D.) , speaking t o Holy Name men at New Farm recently.

America, wi thou t one qualm of re gret, drove Spain out of t h e Philippines. Spain ha s been one of t h e grea tes t benefactors of t h e h u m a n race. Af te r t h e Spanish-American war , t h e Spanish culture, t h a t t h e people h a d held for hundreds of years , w a s dr iven out of t h e islands. Le t us a s k those w h o a re ta lk ing abou t I ta ly wha t did I ta ly get out of t h e Great W a r ? She fought very nobly in i t , a n d while she was fighting she w a s being penalised by the o ther Allies, who charged he r exo rb i t an t pr ices for coal and muni t ions . We might ask the League of Nat ions w h e n is t h e redis t r ibut ion of those manda ted te r r i tor ies t aken from G e r m a n y to t ake place? If jus t ice is t o be done, let i t be done all round. T h e r e is n o t a nat ion t h a t can point a finger a t I t a ly to-day and say t h a t I t a ly in t h e pas t h a s been rapac ious ; i t s tands out as one country t h a t h a s been qu i te t he cont ra ry . I ta ly h a s become a g rea t na t ion , and mus t be l istened to by t h e nat ions of t h e world."

Empty Continents. They m i g h t ask t h e League of

Nat ions w h a t of those countr ies holding immense te r r i to r ies and empty cont inents? They had an empty cont inent in Australia, bu t followed a "dog- in- the-manger" policy. T h e Federal Government would no t allow immigran t s . The League of Nat ions ought to keep silent in t h e m a t t e r of u rg ing I ta ly t o do no th ing to extend he r colonies and find a place for h e r ever growing population. They all desired peace, bu t t he g r e a t obstacle in t h e way of peace was t h a t t he na t ions could no t agree amongs t themselves. They had no common F a t h e r as when Chris tendom was one, and when t he Pope had a say in those m a t t e r s and was called in b y t h e nat ions as arbi ter . To-day the re was no h igher t r ibunal t han t h e nat ions themselves . Wi th every nat ion

j i ts own arbi ter , a n y t h i n g migh t i happen. They could no t look for

perpetual peace until t h e nat ions | were prepared to look to a h igher J t r ibunal t h a n a secular t r ibunal t o

sett le t h e i r differences.

"We see how easy i t is to misjudge a nat ion," His Grace added. "I ta ly , because of t h e splendid work she h a s done in h u m a n society in culture, a r t , and l i te ra ture , deserves a g rea te r place in t h e world t h a n she has got today, and whe the r she g e t s Abyssinia o r some o the r place, we hope she s e t s a bigger place."

J o h a n n e s b u r g , (South Africa). — A beaut i fu l synthet ic marble a l t a r for a new church at Village Main w a s presented to Bishop David O ' L e a r y , Vicar Apostolic of t h e T r a n s v a a l , on t he 25th anniv e r s a r y of h i s ordination July 10. T h e a l t a r w a s paid for exclusively w i t h cont r ibu t ions t o t h e Silver Jubi lee F u n d m a d e by the Natives of t h e Transvaa l . The Natives also asked t h e Bishop to accept a purse of £90 a s a token of appreciation.

T h e Apostolic Delegate, seven Bishops , four Prefec ts Apostolic and c lergy a n d lai ty from all par ts of t h e Union ga the red a t Johannesburg d u r i n g t h e week of July 7 to ce lebra te Bishop O'Leary 's Jubilee. T h e Cathol ics of t h e Transvaal r a i sed a fund of £2,755 for him. H i s p r i e s t s gave h im a golden cro-ziec, a n d o t h e r gif ts eame from the Cathol ic men , Catholic Women, chi ldren a n d t h e Nat ive , Coloured a n d Ind ian Communit ies .

Bishop O 'Leary is a member of t h e M a r y Immacu la t e . He was born in Kimberley, South Africa, A u g u s t 19, 1880, ordained in 1910, and n a m e d Vicar Apostolic and T i tu l a r Bishop of Fes«°i May 13, 1985. <Fid*s) .

B 9 L Y CROSS SOCIETY MISSIONARIES TO SAIL FOR

SERVICE IN INDIA.

Washington.—The Rev. Francis P . GoodaH, CS.C-, Director of the Holy Cross Fore ign Mission Society , announces t h a t t h e United S t a t e s Prov ince of t h e Congregat ion of Holy Cross, Not re Dame, Ind iana , will send four missionaries t o India t h i s fall. Three missiona r y p r i e s t s , t h e Rev. D. R. Patrick, C.S.C. of P lymouth , Ind . ; t he Rev. Lawrence Bauer , C.S.C. of Brooklyn, Mich., a n d t h e Rev. Francis Weber , C.S.C., of Detroi t , will be accompanied by Bro the r Bernar-dine, C.S.C. All will go to the Diocese of Dacca in the Province of Bengal , India .

T h e first yea r in India of the new miss ionar ies will be a continua t ion in t h e mission field of t h e s tud ies which t h e y followed a t t h e Fo re ign Mission Seminary, Wash ing ton , D.C., namely, the l anguage of Bengal , t h e customs and h i s to ry of t h e people of Dacca mission a n d t h e method of miss ionary approach.

Two S i s t e r s of t h e Holy Cross, S i s te r Augus t i ne Marie and Sister F rance l i a , also have been assigned t o go t o Ind ia t h i s fall. The S i s t e r s of t h e Holy Cross have two convents in t h e diocese of Dacca. A n in t e r e s t i ng development of the work of t h e Sis ters of Holy Cross in India is t h e special task of Sister Rose B e r n a r d in t r a in ing a comm u n i t y of na t ive Sisters- Seven young women have been admitted to t h e novi t ia te of this native C o m m u n i t y called t h e Associates of t h e Apost les , a n d five more are a w a i t i n g admission t o the novit i a t e .

Two S is te r s a re re tu rn ing from Bengal soon, Sis ter Olga, of San Francisco , w h o h a s been in the mission e igh t years , and Sister Helen Xavier , of St . Louis, who h a s h a d t h r e e years of missionary exper ience in India.

According to present plans the miss ionar ies who a r e to go to Benga l t h i s y e a r will sail from New .York on October. 23 (N.GW.C.)

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THE CHURCH O F ABYSSINIA

Its Breach With Catholicism.

Q. W h a t i s t h e Abyssinian Church? (S .T . ) .

A. The Abyss in ian or E th io pian Church is one of five which profess t h e Monophysi te heresy, the o ther four be ing t h e Copts ( = n a t i o n a l Church of E g y p t ) , t h e Jacobites ( = S y r i a and Mesopotamia) , Malabar Chr i s t i ans and Armenians .

Though dis t inct f rom t h e Coptic Monophysite Church of E g y p t , t h e Abyssinian Church is nominally under t h e P a t r i a r c h of Alexandria , from whom t h e abuna , or res ident head, receives his inves t i tu re .

Chr i s t ian i ty was introduced into Ethiopia in t h e four th cen tury by St. F rumen t iu s and St . Aedisius, the former being appointed bishop by St . Athanas ius , t h e n Pa t r i a r ch of Alexandria.

In t h e seventh cen tu ry , a f te r t he conqeust of E g y p t by t h e Caliph Omar, t he Church in Abyss in ia was cut off from communica t ion wTith Rome, and in sp i t e of heroic a t tempts by miss ionar ies to preserve the t r ue faith, and a temporal reunion in t he seven teen th cen tury , heresy prevailed, a n d t h e persecution of Catholic miss ionar ies continued until 1889.

* * * * * Q. Wha t a r e t h e dis t inct ive

doctrines of t h e A b y s s i n i a n Church? (S .T . ) .

A. The Abyss in ian or Ethiopian Church, which is bo th heret ical and schismatical, holds wi th t he other Monophysites t h a t t h e divine and the human a r e fused in t he person of Chris t , W h o h a s the re fore but one na tu re , not two. This heresy was condemned in 451 by the Council of Chalcedon.

Certain peculiar doctr ines a re also held, as, for example , t r adu -cianism, by which t h e pa ren t s a re held to t r a n s m i t t h e soul to the i r children. The fa i th of t h e pa ren t s is considered sufficient to ensure the salvation of a n y child who dies unbaptised.

Certain of t he ear ly Chr is t ian practices stM pers is t , such as baptism by immersion, communion to children under t h e species of wine, abstinence from t h e flesh and blood of animals which have been w a n g l e d , and the celebrat ion of the Agape.

Relics of Jewish cus toms also remain, as for ins tance circumcision, which t a k e s place some l ^ e before bap t i sm, and observance of t h e Sabba th .

* * * * * Q. What is t h e p resen t position

( ^ T ) 6 C a t h o K c s i n A b y s s i n i a ?

A. Since t h e foundat ion of t h e j^han colony of E r i t r ea , t he r e

ave been th ree miss ionarv a reas . i n e Vicariate of Abyssinia , in

u « * r g e of the Lazar i s t s , contained

only about 4,000 Catholics in prewar days . The Prefec ture of Er i t r ea , under the I tal ian Capuchins, had some 14,000 Catholics, and t h e Vicar iate of the Gallas* some 18,000 Catholics, chiefly under t h e French Capuchins.

Thus , before t h e Great War , Catholics numbered about 36,000, as compared with 200,000 Mussulmans , 100,000 Pagans , 50,000 Jews, and 380 Pro te s t an t s , t h e last being under the influence of the Swedish National Society.

The to ta l population was variously es t imated from five to eight millions.

(Catholic Times, 30th Aug . ) .

L A T E S T OUTBURST A T B E L F A S T .

The la tes t outburs t of bigotry in Belfast manifested a t t h e meet ing in t h a t city of t h e E a s t Belfast P r o t e s t a n t Associat ion—a body for which t h e crea tors of " a Prot e s t a n t Par l iament for a Pro tes t a n t people" a re too slow—should a t leas t give a fillip to t h e fund in aid of t h e victims of the recent ou t r ages which was inaugura ted by his Lordsh ip the Bishop of Down and Connor, Most Rev. Dr . Ma-geean. The E a s t Belfast firebrands called on a Minis ter and t h e Police Chief to res ign. Bu t have not Minis ters of S t a t e in t h e Six Counties , whose sworn du ty i t is to admin i s t e r jus t ice equi tably t o all, been guil ty of u t t e rances ha rd ly less inf lammatory? If persons who appoin t themselves spokesmen for a section of t h e P r o t e s t a n t ma jo r i t y feel themselves free t o voice w h a t a re really inci tements to violence agains t t h e Catholic minor i ty t hey probably feel they can do so wi th t h e tac i t endorsement of government a s it is understood in Belfast. If Lord Craigavon and his Cabinet were of a mind to safeguard order and • h u m a n r igh t s , t he savage persecution of defenceless Catholics in the area t h e y adminis ter would long since have ceased.

* * * * * * T H E K U L T U R K A M P F OF T H E

NAZIS.

FOR T H E CATHOLIC W I F E . Ideal Motherhood. By Doctor Mary Kidd (B.O. & W. Ltd. , pp. 101,

Cloth 2s. 6d., paper I s . 6d.) j We have no hesi ta t ion in saying j t h a t we would like to see a copy I of th i s wonderful booklet in the

hands of every young Catholic wife. So much practical common-sense and really useful advice are ; ra re ly found in so small a compass, j and more impor tan t still t h e Ca- | tholic ideal is ever to t h e fore.

Doctor Mary Kidd speaks from t h e abundance of he r wide personal j experience in London ante-natal j clinics, and in popular language j describes wi th due delicacy the I na tu ra l function of child-bearing, t h e demands of t h e unborn child, j t h e rules of heal th for expectant j mo the r s , special symptoms , safe- i gua rds , diet, and even dress .

Such a t rea t i se should inspire confidence and a t t h e same t ime help to correct t h e growing tendency to exaggera te difficulties and to regard motherhood as a dangerous occupation ins tead of a noble vocation in accordance with t h e designs of God.

J .H. (The Catholic Gazet te ) . * * * * * *

DEVOTIONAL. Abbot Anscar Vonier ' s new book, T h e Victory of Chris t (B.O. & W., 5s . ) , t r ea t s , of course, of t h a t victo ry of which t h e Church sings in t h e E x u l t e t : "Chr i s t having broken the bonds of dea th rose victor ious from t h e dead." No t t h a t t h e book is a t r ea t i se on t h e Resur rec t ion ; r a t h e r is i t an exposit ion of t he change t he Resurrect ion w r o u g h t upon t h e prospects of fallen man. The m a t t e r , a s we should expect, is very well handled, and is punctuated wi th per t inent c i ta t ions from the Scr iptures , the F a t h e r s , and t h e theologians of more modern t imes . The volume may, indeed, be described as a call t o a r m s agains t t he too sentimental spir i tual i ty of our days , with it* ~ ^ H ; T > T P V cult Sa in ts and Beati

for "Chr i s t , " says St . Thomas Aquinas , "is t he tota l weal th of t h e C h u r c h ; He Himself wi th t h e o the r elect is no g r e a t e r t han He Himself alone." And Abbot Vom e r ' s comment on th i s should be placarded in every c h u r c h : " W h a t is of t h e u tmost impor tance for t he Church is this, t h a t he r Chr i s t should be w h a t He i s : He is t h e to ta l i ty of he r goodness, t h e sa in t s do no t add to Him but receive from Him. So wha t really m a t t e r s is our knowledge of w h a t Our Lord has achieved." (C. T. S.)

D E L E G A T E ' S DISCOURSES ON CATHOLIC ACTION BROUGHT

T O G E T H E R IN N E W BOOK. Pe ip ing .—The Cent ra l Head

q u a r t e r s of Catholic Action in Ch ina have collected, in a new Chinese book ju s t published, t h e var ious discourses of Archbishop Zanin on Catholic Act ion since his a r r iva l in China as Apostolic Delega t e . Several excerpts r e fe r r ing to Catholic Action h a v e been culled from his pastoral l e t t e r s and included in t h e collection. Al toge the r t h e r e a r e 26 dist inct ent r ies covering 118 pages .

Most of these discourses were rendered into Chinese by t h e Rev. Dr. Pau l Yu Pin, Nat ional Direc tor of Catholic Action, w h o also supervised the i r publication.

T h e designation of t h e book on i ts cover as a " F i r s t Fasc ic le" gives promise of a ser ies of s imilar volumes in future .

Catholic Action in China is still in i t s infancy. A collection of a u t h o r i t a t i v e pronouncements on t h e na tu re , scope, a ims, methods , mani fes ta t ions , prerequis i tes and var ious o the r fea tu res and phases of Catholic Action is a valuable contr ibut ion to t h e g rowth and hea l t hy development of t h e Movem e n t in China and will a t t he s a m e t i m e be a safe and sure guide in the hands of all associated wi th it.

(Continued at foot of col. 2~)

GCIDEN | A t t h e t ime of wr i t ing details ! of t h e meet ing of t h e Bishops of ! Ge rmany a t Fulda had not reached

us, bu t we know t h a t they had to consider t h e g raves t problems t h a t have confronted t h e spiri tual guides of Catholic Germany since the days of Bismarck 's Kul tur -kampf. To say t h a t t h e t r ea tmen t of Catholic pr ies ts and members of Religious Orders, men and women, and of Catholic organisat ions , bv the Nazis is vindictive is to pu t i t mildly. New offences under the law a r e manufactured by decree— t h e Cardinal Archbishoo of Cologne and o t h e r Bishops have not escaped persecut ion—but a courageous people cannot be stampeded into sur render , and we are confident t h e Catholics of the Reich emerge from the i r ordeal, under t h e wise guidance of the i r Bishops, as devoted as ever to the i r reli-

j gious fa i th and as good Germans j as t h e v have alwavs been.

(Dublin S tandard . 30th Auor.)

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Civilization's Debt to Italy EXCAVATIONS I N P A L E S T I N E

Jericho found t o be Oldest C i t y .

(By Dr. Alexander Mombelli)

Jerusa l em—In a communica t ion t o t h e F r e n c h Academie des Inscriptions e t Belles Lettres, P ro fes sor G a r s t a n g , d i rec tor of t h e Je r i cho E x c a v a t i o n s , h a s s u m m e d u p t h e r e su l t s of his r e sea rches . **The object ive of t h e fifth expedit ion, wh ich has j u s t been completed," h e wr i t e s , " w a s t h e explorat ion of t h e lowest levels of t h e Bronze A g e , p e r t a i n i n g t o t h e mil lennium preceding t h e t r ad i t iona l era of t h e P a t r i a r c h A b r a h a m (2000-3000 B .C . ) . T h e accompl ishment of t h i s t a s k took t h e e x c a v a t o r s down 21 fee t below t h e su r f ace , w h e r e lay a chalcoli-thic depos i t such a s h a s h i t h e r t o been r ega rded a s m a r k i n g t h e or ig ins of civilization in Pa les t ine . A se r ies of f u r t h e r discoveries, however , car r ied t h e excavat ions down a n addi t ional 25 fee t to levels ! r e p r e s e n t m g a long period of civili- 1

zat ion comparable w i t h t h e Neolith ic per iod in Eu rope . J e r i c h o appears fo r t h e t i m e being t o m a r k the s i t e of t h e oldest city of Pa les t ine and one of t h e ear l ies t se t t led communi t ies in t h e N e a r E a s t . "

(N.C.W.€. )

FIFTEENTH A N N I V E R S A R Y OBSERVED B Y ' T H E SIGN.'

LARGER SHARE TERRITORY.

THE ARCHBISHOP COMMENTS ON STRIFE AMONG NATIONS.

GIFTS FOR THE BISHOPS OF JOHANNESBURG FROM NATI

V E S OF THE TRANSVAAL.

A few weeks ago he^fad received a l e t t e r f rom an Anglican clergyman in New South Wales, enclosing a copy of a newspaper from h i s diocese, which asked w h y t h e Pope did no t in tervene in m a k i n g peace between I t a ly and Abyssinia, added His Grace. Before he had h a d t ime t o reply , a cablegram h a d s t a t ed t h a t t h e Holy F a t h e r w a s on t h e s ide of peace. A t t h e t i m e of t h e G r e a t War , t h e la te P o p e Benedi t X V had called on t h e n a t ions t o m a k e peace, a n d had w r i t t en a magnificent encyclical l e t t e r call ing upon t h e m t o cease w a r a n d save t h e millions of lives t h a t w e r e a f t e rwa rds sacrificed in t h e w a r , a n d t o leajl Europe and t h e whole world back t o t h e ord inary way of living. N o Anglican c le rgyman had w r i t t e n t o h im then . T h e Pope w a s not l is tened to , and t h e na t ions cont inued t h e w a r w i t h resu l t s t h e y all knew.

P r e s s Comment. There w a s a g r e a t deal of p r e s s

comment on t h e p re sen t war , a n d h e would like to give a h i n t to t h e daily p r e s s not t o car ica ture M u s solini. T h e Aus t ra l i an p res s h a d no r i gh t wha tsoever t o ge t into t h e l imelight in t h a t way, and he hoped i t would no t t a k e sides, a s had t h e p ress in o t h e r p a r t s .

H e claimed t o know someth ing of I t a ly in h is tory , and he sa id wi thou t f ea r of contradict ion t h a t no na t ion in t h e world had been less ambi t ious , less p reda to ry in t h e way of e x t e n d i n g h e r dominions t h a n I ta ly . I ta ly had been a land of cul ture , which had laid t h e na t ions of t h e world under a jrreat debt of g r a t i t ude t o h e r ; and I ta ly deserved a much la rger s h a r e of t h e t e r r i t o r y of t h e world t h a n was in h e r possession to-day. I t seemed t o h im t h a t i t was t h e s a m e wi th na t ions as wi th individuals. T h e individual who did least for cul ture , refinement, and h u m a n progress seemed to ge t t he g r e a t e r par t of t h e spoils. I t a ly had done m o r e probably t h a n any other nation for cul ture , a r t , and science, and to-day I ta ly was as g rea t as ever she had been. Marconi stood peerless among scient is ts , and fearlessly pract ised h i s Catholic F a i t h . (Applause.)

Amer ica and Peace. "Le t t h e nat ion which has clean

hands t h r o w t h e first s tone a t I ta ly ," Hi s Grace added. " I have no s y m p a t h y wi th w a r and hope w a r will not t a k e place, but I had t o smile a t Amer ica sending an ambassador t o make peace, p a r t i cularly w h e n we remember t h a t

Union Ci ty , N . J . — W i t h t h e A u g u s t number , The S ign , na t ional Catholic magaz ine publ ished by t h e Passionisfc F a t h e r s , obse rves t h e fifteenth ann ive r sa ry of i t s first i ssue . W i t h i n t h e pages of t h i s i s sue The Sign p resen t s a n a r r a y of l ead ing w r i t e r s of A m e r i c a and Eng land , mos t of whom h a v e been r e g u l a r con t r ibu to rs t o t h e maga zine. I n the l ist a r e G. K. Ches te r ton, Hi ia i re Belloc a n d Denis Gwyim of E n g l a n d ; t h e Rev . J a m e s H. Giffis, C .S .P . , E d i t o r of The Catholic World: t h e Rev . Wilfffd P a r s o n s , S X , of A m e r i c a ; Pa t r i ck Scanlan of The Brooklyn Tablet; George S h u s t e r of The Commonweal; Daniel Sa rgen t , R . Dana Skinner , H e l e n Walker H o m a n and o the r o u t s t a n d i n g w r i t e r s .

T h e p r e s e n t edi tor is t h e Rev. Theophane Magui re , C P . , who af te r several yea r s s p e n t on t h e missions in C h i n a r e t u r n e d t o th i s coun t ry and to t h e pos t of Business M a n a g e r and Mission P r o c u r a t o r of The Sign. On his accession to t h e ed i torsh ip he announced h i s in ten t ion t o continue t o p re sen t t o t h e r e a d e r s of The Sign t h a t same qua l i ty of l i t e ra ry , re l ig ious and economic in t e r e s t which h a s made The Sign so widely acceptable t o a hos t of r eade r s .

A l e t t e r of commendat ion on t h e occasion of t h e jubi lee from His Excel lency t h e Most R e v . Amleto Giovanni Cicognani , Apostolic Del ega t e t o the Uni ted S t a t e s , also confer red A r c h b i s h o p Cicognanfs b less ing :—N.C.W.C.

(CATHOLIC LEADER, BRISBANE) " I s av without fear of contradiction that no nation in the world

h a s been less ambitious, less predatory in t h e way of extending her dominions, than Italy. Italy has been a land of culture, which has laid the nations of the world under a great debt of gratitude t o her; and Italv deserves a much larger share of t l ie territory «f the world t h a n is in her nossession to-day. Let the nation which h a s d e a n hands in these matters throw the first stone at Italy," declared His Grace the Archbishop (the Most Rev. J. Dtthig, D.D.) , speaking t o Holy Name men at New Farm recently.

America, wi thou t one qualm of re gret, drove Spain out of t h e Philippines. Spain ha s been one of t h e grea tes t benefactors of t h e h u m a n race. Af te r t h e Spanish-American war , t h e Spanish culture, t h a t t h e people h a d held for hundreds of years , w a s dr iven out of t h e islands. Le t us a s k those w h o a re ta lk ing abou t I ta ly wha t did I ta ly get out of t h e Great W a r ? She fought very nobly in i t , a n d while she was fighting she w a s being penalised by the o ther Allies, who charged he r exo rb i t an t pr ices for coal and muni t ions . We might ask the League of Nat ions w h e n is t h e redis t r ibut ion of those manda ted te r r i tor ies t aken from G e r m a n y to t ake place? If jus t ice is t o be done, let i t be done all round. T h e r e is n o t a nat ion t h a t can point a finger a t I t a ly to-day and say t h a t I t a ly in t h e pas t h a s been rapac ious ; i t s tands out as one country t h a t h a s been qu i te t he cont ra ry . I ta ly h a s become a g rea t na t ion , and mus t be l istened to by t h e nat ions of t h e world."

Empty Continents. They m i g h t ask t h e League of

Nat ions w h a t of those countr ies holding immense te r r i to r ies and empty cont inents? They had an empty cont inent in Australia, bu t followed a "dog- in- the-manger" policy. T h e Federal Government would no t allow immigran t s . The League of Nat ions ought to keep silent in t h e m a t t e r of u rg ing I ta ly t o do no th ing to extend he r colonies and find a place for h e r ever growing population. They all desired peace, bu t t he g r e a t obstacle in t h e way of peace was t h a t t he na t ions could no t agree amongs t themselves. They had no common F a t h e r as when Chris tendom was one, and when t he Pope had a say in those m a t t e r s and was called in b y t h e nat ions as arbi ter . To-day the re was no h igher t r ibunal t han t h e nat ions themselves . Wi th every nat ion

j i ts own arbi ter , a n y t h i n g migh t i happen. They could no t look for

perpetual peace until t h e nat ions | were prepared to look to a h igher J t r ibunal t h a n a secular t r ibunal t o

sett le t h e i r differences.

"We see how easy i t is to misjudge a nat ion," His Grace added. "I ta ly , because of t h e splendid work she h a s done in h u m a n society in culture, a r t , and l i te ra ture , deserves a g rea te r place in t h e world t h a n she has got today, and whe the r she g e t s Abyssinia o r some o the r place, we hope she s e t s a bigger place."

J o h a n n e s b u r g , (South Africa). — A beaut i fu l synthet ic marble a l t a r for a new church at Village Main w a s presented to Bishop David O ' L e a r y , Vicar Apostolic of t h e T r a n s v a a l , on t he 25th anniv e r s a r y of h i s ordination July 10. T h e a l t a r w a s paid for exclusively w i t h cont r ibu t ions t o t h e Silver Jubi lee F u n d m a d e by the Natives of t h e Transvaa l . The Natives also asked t h e Bishop to accept a purse of £90 a s a token of appreciation.

T h e Apostolic Delegate, seven Bishops , four Prefec ts Apostolic and c lergy a n d lai ty from all par ts of t h e Union ga the red a t Johannesburg d u r i n g t h e week of July 7 to ce lebra te Bishop O'Leary 's Jubilee. T h e Cathol ics of t h e Transvaal r a i sed a fund of £2,755 for him. H i s p r i e s t s gave h im a golden cro-ziec, a n d o t h e r gif ts eame from the Cathol ic men , Catholic Women, chi ldren a n d t h e Nat ive , Coloured a n d Ind ian Communit ies .

Bishop O 'Leary is a member of t h e M a r y Immacu la t e . He was born in Kimberley, South Africa, A u g u s t 19, 1880, ordained in 1910, and n a m e d Vicar Apostolic and T i tu l a r Bishop of Fes«°i May 13, 1985. <Fid*s) .

B 9 L Y CROSS SOCIETY MISSIONARIES TO SAIL FOR

SERVICE IN INDIA.

Washington.—The Rev. Francis P . GoodaH, CS.C-, Director of the Holy Cross Fore ign Mission Society , announces t h a t t h e United S t a t e s Prov ince of t h e Congregat ion of Holy Cross, Not re Dame, Ind iana , will send four missionaries t o India t h i s fall. Three missiona r y p r i e s t s , t h e Rev. D. R. Patrick, C.S.C. of P lymouth , Ind . ; t he Rev. Lawrence Bauer , C.S.C. of Brooklyn, Mich., a n d t h e Rev. Francis Weber , C.S.C., of Detroi t , will be accompanied by Bro the r Bernar-dine, C.S.C. All will go to the Diocese of Dacca in the Province of Bengal , India .

T h e first yea r in India of the new miss ionar ies will be a continua t ion in t h e mission field of t h e s tud ies which t h e y followed a t t h e Fo re ign Mission Seminary, Wash ing ton , D.C., namely, the l anguage of Bengal , t h e customs and h i s to ry of t h e people of Dacca mission a n d t h e method of miss ionary approach.

Two S i s t e r s of t h e Holy Cross, S i s te r Augus t i ne Marie and Sister F rance l i a , also have been assigned t o go t o Ind ia t h i s fall. The S i s t e r s of t h e Holy Cross have two convents in t h e diocese of Dacca. A n in t e r e s t i ng development of the work of t h e Sis ters of Holy Cross in India is t h e special task of Sister Rose B e r n a r d in t r a in ing a comm u n i t y of na t ive Sisters- Seven young women have been admitted to t h e novi t ia te of this native C o m m u n i t y called t h e Associates of t h e Apost les , a n d five more are a w a i t i n g admission t o the novit i a t e .

Two S is te r s a re re tu rn ing from Bengal soon, Sis ter Olga, of San Francisco , w h o h a s been in the mission e igh t years , and Sister Helen Xavier , of St . Louis, who h a s h a d t h r e e years of missionary exper ience in India.

According to present plans the miss ionar ies who a r e to go to Benga l t h i s y e a r will sail from New .York on October. 23 (N.GW.C.)


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THE CHURCH O F ABYSSINIA

Its Breach With Catholicism.

Q. W h a t i s t h e Abyssinian Church? (S .T . ) .

A. The Abyss in ian or E th io pian Church is one of five which profess t h e Monophysi te heresy, the o ther four be ing t h e Copts ( = n a t i o n a l Church of E g y p t ) , t h e Jacobites ( = S y r i a and Mesopotamia) , Malabar Chr i s t i ans and Armenians .

Though dis t inct f rom t h e Coptic Monophysite Church of E g y p t , t h e Abyssinian Church is nominally under t h e P a t r i a r c h of Alexandria , from whom t h e abuna , or res ident head, receives his inves t i tu re .

Chr i s t ian i ty was introduced into Ethiopia in t h e four th cen tury by St. F rumen t iu s and St . Aedisius, the former being appointed bishop by St . Athanas ius , t h e n Pa t r i a r ch of Alexandria.

In t h e seventh cen tu ry , a f te r t he conqeust of E g y p t by t h e Caliph Omar, t he Church in Abyss in ia was cut off from communica t ion wTith Rome, and in sp i t e of heroic a t tempts by miss ionar ies to preserve the t r ue faith, and a temporal reunion in t he seven teen th cen tury , heresy prevailed, a n d t h e persecution of Catholic miss ionar ies continued until 1889.

* * * * * Q. Wha t a r e t h e dis t inct ive

doctrines of t h e A b y s s i n i a n Church? (S .T . ) .

A. The Abyss in ian or Ethiopian Church, which is bo th heret ical and schismatical, holds wi th t he other Monophysites t h a t t h e divine and the human a r e fused in t he person of Chris t , W h o h a s the re fore but one na tu re , not two. This heresy was condemned in 451 by the Council of Chalcedon.

Certain peculiar doctr ines a re also held, as, for example , t r adu -cianism, by which t h e pa ren t s a re held to t r a n s m i t t h e soul to the i r children. The fa i th of t h e pa ren t s is considered sufficient to ensure the salvation of a n y child who dies unbaptised.

Certain of t he ear ly Chr is t ian practices stM pers is t , such as baptism by immersion, communion to children under t h e species of wine, abstinence from t h e flesh and blood of animals which have been w a n g l e d , and the celebrat ion of the Agape.

Relics of Jewish cus toms also remain, as for ins tance circumcision, which t a k e s place some l ^ e before bap t i sm, and observance of t h e Sabba th .

* * * * * Q. What is t h e p resen t position

( ^ T ) 6 C a t h o K c s i n A b y s s i n i a ?

A. Since t h e foundat ion of t h e j^han colony of E r i t r ea , t he r e

ave been th ree miss ionarv a reas . i n e Vicariate of Abyssinia , in

u « * r g e of the Lazar i s t s , contained

only about 4,000 Catholics in prewar days . The Prefec ture of Er i t r ea , under the I tal ian Capuchins, had some 14,000 Catholics, and t h e Vicar iate of the Gallas* some 18,000 Catholics, chiefly under t h e French Capuchins.

Thus , before t h e Great War , Catholics numbered about 36,000, as compared with 200,000 Mussulmans , 100,000 Pagans , 50,000 Jews, and 380 Pro te s t an t s , t h e last being under the influence of the Swedish National Society.

The to ta l population was variously es t imated from five to eight millions.

(Catholic Times, 30th Aug . ) .

L A T E S T OUTBURST A T B E L F A S T .

The la tes t outburs t of bigotry in Belfast manifested a t t h e meet ing in t h a t city of t h e E a s t Belfast P r o t e s t a n t Associat ion—a body for which t h e crea tors of " a Prot e s t a n t Par l iament for a Pro tes t a n t people" a re too slow—should a t leas t give a fillip to t h e fund in aid of t h e victims of the recent ou t r ages which was inaugura ted by his Lordsh ip the Bishop of Down and Connor, Most Rev. Dr . Ma-geean. The E a s t Belfast firebrands called on a Minis ter and t h e Police Chief to res ign. Bu t have not Minis ters of S t a t e in t h e Six Counties , whose sworn du ty i t is to admin i s t e r jus t ice equi tably t o all, been guil ty of u t t e rances ha rd ly less inf lammatory? If persons who appoin t themselves spokesmen for a section of t h e P r o t e s t a n t ma jo r i t y feel themselves free t o voice w h a t a re really inci tements to violence agains t t h e Catholic minor i ty t hey probably feel they can do so wi th t h e tac i t endorsement of government a s it is understood in Belfast. If Lord Craigavon and his Cabinet were of a mind to safeguard order and • h u m a n r igh t s , t he savage persecution of defenceless Catholics in the area t h e y adminis ter would long since have ceased.

* * * * * * T H E K U L T U R K A M P F OF T H E

NAZIS.

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hands of every young Catholic wife. So much practical common-sense and really useful advice are ; ra re ly found in so small a compass, j and more impor tan t still t h e Ca- | tholic ideal is ever to t h e fore.

Doctor Mary Kidd speaks from t h e abundance of he r wide personal j experience in London ante-natal j clinics, and in popular language j describes wi th due delicacy the I na tu ra l function of child-bearing, t h e demands of t h e unborn child, j t h e rules of heal th for expectant j mo the r s , special symptoms , safe- i gua rds , diet, and even dress .

Such a t rea t i se should inspire confidence and a t t h e same t ime help to correct t h e growing tendency to exaggera te difficulties and to regard motherhood as a dangerous occupation ins tead of a noble vocation in accordance with t h e designs of God.

J .H. (The Catholic Gazet te ) . * * * * * *

DEVOTIONAL. Abbot Anscar Vonier ' s new book, T h e Victory of Chris t (B.O. & W., 5s . ) , t r ea t s , of course, of t h a t victo ry of which t h e Church sings in t h e E x u l t e t : "Chr i s t having broken the bonds of dea th rose victor ious from t h e dead." No t t h a t t h e book is a t r ea t i se on t h e Resur rec t ion ; r a t h e r is i t an exposit ion of t he change t he Resurrect ion w r o u g h t upon t h e prospects of fallen man. The m a t t e r , a s we should expect, is very well handled, and is punctuated wi th per t inent c i ta t ions from the Scr iptures , the F a t h e r s , and t h e theologians of more modern t imes . The volume may, indeed, be described as a call t o a r m s agains t t he too sentimental spir i tual i ty of our days , with it* ~ ^ H ; T > T P V cult Sa in ts and Beati

for "Chr i s t , " says St . Thomas Aquinas , "is t he tota l weal th of t h e C h u r c h ; He Himself wi th t h e o the r elect is no g r e a t e r t han He Himself alone." And Abbot Vom e r ' s comment on th i s should be placarded in every c h u r c h : " W h a t is of t h e u tmost impor tance for t he Church is this, t h a t he r Chr i s t should be w h a t He i s : He is t h e to ta l i ty of he r goodness, t h e sa in t s do no t add to Him but receive from Him. So wha t really m a t t e r s is our knowledge of w h a t Our Lord has achieved." (C. T. S.)

D E L E G A T E ' S DISCOURSES ON CATHOLIC ACTION BROUGHT

T O G E T H E R IN N E W BOOK. Pe ip ing .—The Cent ra l Head

q u a r t e r s of Catholic Action in Ch ina have collected, in a new Chinese book ju s t published, t h e var ious discourses of Archbishop Zanin on Catholic Act ion since his a r r iva l in China as Apostolic Delega t e . Several excerpts r e fe r r ing to Catholic Action h a v e been culled from his pastoral l e t t e r s and included in t h e collection. Al toge the r t h e r e a r e 26 dist inct ent r ies covering 118 pages .

Most of these discourses were rendered into Chinese by t h e Rev. Dr. Pau l Yu Pin, Nat ional Direc tor of Catholic Action, w h o also supervised the i r publication.

T h e designation of t h e book on i ts cover as a " F i r s t Fasc ic le" gives promise of a ser ies of s imilar volumes in future .

Catholic Action in China is still in i t s infancy. A collection of a u t h o r i t a t i v e pronouncements on t h e na tu re , scope, a ims, methods , mani fes ta t ions , prerequis i tes and var ious o the r fea tu res and phases of Catholic Action is a valuable contr ibut ion to t h e g rowth and hea l t hy development of t h e Movem e n t in China and will a t t he s a m e t i m e be a safe and sure guide in the hands of all associated wi th it.

(Continued at foot of col. 2~)

GCIDEN | A t t h e t ime of wr i t ing details ! of t h e meet ing of t h e Bishops of ! Ge rmany a t Fulda had not reached

us, bu t we know t h a t they had to consider t h e g raves t problems t h a t have confronted t h e spiri tual guides of Catholic Germany since the days of Bismarck 's Kul tur -kampf. To say t h a t t h e t r ea tmen t of Catholic pr ies ts and members of Religious Orders, men and women, and of Catholic organisat ions , bv the Nazis is vindictive is to pu t i t mildly. New offences under the law a r e manufactured by decree— t h e Cardinal Archbishoo of Cologne and o t h e r Bishops have not escaped persecut ion—but a courageous people cannot be stampeded into sur render , and we are confident t h e Catholics of the Reich emerge from the i r ordeal, under t h e wise guidance of the i r Bishops, as devoted as ever to the i r reli-

j gious fa i th and as good Germans j as t h e v have alwavs been.

(Dublin S tandard . 30th Auor.)

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14 MALAYA CATHOLIC LEADER, SATURDAY, 14th September, 1935.

Europe Suffering From Land Hunger DR. MOON ON UNHOLY TRINITY OF IMPERIALISM,

NATIONALISM, AND MILITARISM. (By N . C W . C . N E W S S E R V I C E . ) |

F E D E R A L YOUTH C H I E F P R A I S E S CATHOLIC WORK.

Cleve land .—"Europe today is suffering, in eve ry count ry , f r igh t fu l p a n g s of land hunge r , a t e r r i b l e disease w h i c h I like t o call 'map i t i s , ' o r inf lamat ion of t h e m a p , i t s economics and politics involved in a v ic ious circle which i s rol l ing o n w a r d towards w a r , " D r . P a r k e r T. Moon professor of i n t e rna t iona l r e la t ions of Columbia Un ive r s i ty , said in address ing t h e I n s t i t u t e on C u r r e n t Affairs of t h e S u m m e r Sess ion of W e s t e r n Res e r v e Un ive r s i ty .

" T h e Naz i s , " h e said, " a r e not s u r e Ge rmany los t t h e war . Hi t l e r i s go ing t o let F r a n c e keep Alsace-L o r r a i n e , bu t h e w a n t s back t h e

• G e r m a n colonies a n d Eng land and F r a n c e m i g h t r e t u r n t h e m — a t l e a s t Eng land would let F r a n c e r e t u r n h e r s arid vice versa . Danz ig , a t r u e G e r m a n ci ty , and t h e Polish co r r ido r a r e real g r i evances , so i s Memal, and j whi le t h e r e is l i t t le danger of Hi t l e r ' s r e t a k i n g Memal, you m a y see i t in t h e n e w s .

Would D e s t r o y Maps . " T h e r e a r e t h r e e or four million

G e r m a n s in Czecho-Slovakia, b u t H i t l e r can do n o t h i n g about t h a t w i thou t offending Mussol in i ; two h u n d r e d t h o u s a n d of t h e m in t h e S o u t h e r n Tyrol , now a p a r t of I t a ly , b u t Mussolini h a s said he

, will not to le ra te b r eak ing t h e line oi t h e Alps .

"Aus t r i a , a s l a r g e a s Ohio, w i th t h ree - fou r ths of Ohio 's population, i3 German . I t is rocked by Nazi i sm, bu t t h e l i t t le E n t e n t e would fight t o t h e dea th before A u s t r i a would g o to Germany .

"Hi t l e r ' s r ea l yea rn ings a re tow a r d t h e U k r a i n e , a f an tas t i c idea, b u t t a k e n ser ious ly by Russ ia bu t

; h e will h a r d l y indulge t h e m till h i s a i r forces a r e s t r eng thened . Actual ly , land hunge r , rooted in na t ional i sm, h a s reached a fever p i tch in G e r m a n y , opposed by F i a n c e , Po land and I ta ly . H i t l e r will not for long be satisfied wi th out a w a r which will rock Europe f rom end t o end, wi th repercussions over he r e .

"Peace efforts m a y do someth ing " t o p reven t i t . The real r emedy would be to abol ish all t eache r s of geog raphy a n d t o des t roy all t h e m a p s in t h e wor ld . "

"If ou r onlyjhppe were to r e d r a w t h e m a p of E u r o p e , peace would be an u n a t t a i n a b l e U t o p i a / ' Dr . Moon said in a second lecture a t the I n s t i t u t e .

Na t iona l i sm Scored. "Our hope is t o t r y to do away

wi th t h e idea of chang ing it by force, t o pe r suade peoples not to g r ip t h e sword as they ask for t h i n g s . To s t r e n g t h e n t h e ma-chinery of peace, by intellectual , • sp i r i tua l me thods , by peace pro- | p a g a n d a to t e ach t h e difference be tween pa t r io t i sm, which is really good c i t izenship and the desire to h a v e our c o u n t r y s tand for decency, and na t iona l i sm, whicj? is t h e g a n g s t e r idea in in te rna t iona l re la t ions .

' T h e a n c i e n t s worshiped Mars , t h e w a r god, a n d today w e worsh ip j a n unholy t r i n i t y , imper ia l i sm,

PROTESTANT BISHOP ON RELIGIOUS INTOLER

ANCE IN NORTH IRELAND.

D E P L O R E S RIOTING A N D BLOODSHED.

Dubl in .—Protes tan t i sm h a s a t last voiced a protes t in t h e person of Dr . MacNeece, P r o t e s t a n t Bishop of Down and Connor, aga ins t t h e religious intolerance t h a t h a s existed so long in t h e N o r t h of Ireland a n d h a s recently t aken t h e form of violence in which lives have been t aken .

T h e an tagonisms of factions in N o r t h e r n Ireland h a v e been cons is tent ly deplored by m e n of goodwill on all sides and t h e Governmen t h a s been condemned for s t and ing idly b y when s te rn measures migh t p reven t t h e b ru ta l i ty and bloodshed t h a t f requent ly occur.

Address ing the congregat ion in t h e Church of St. T h o m a s , Belfast, Dr . MacNeece sa id : " I t would be easy to accentua te ex i s t ing differences, bu t t h e t i m e s demand an appeal t o both sides t o remember t h a t t h e y a r e b r o t h e r s . P ro tes t a n t s and Catholics a r e side by side in a small country , no t t o des t roy b u t to help one a n o t h e r . I t would be well t o r emember t h e good and forget t h e s tory of old feuds, animosi t ies , t r i u m p h s and humilia t ions . "

This address w a s hailed w i th joy a s a movement t owards las t ing peace bu t unfor tuna te ly t h e r e have been deplorable events . A t t h e Ju ly Twelfth O r a n g e celebrat ions, two persons w e r e t i l l ed and 18 wounded in a r io t t h a t occurred in t h e York S t ree t a r e a of Belfast . These casualties m u s t be charged to t h e violence of ex t remis t s , for t h e speeches from t h e Orange platforms were milder t h a n ever before. The Ir ish Independent in a leading art icle s a y s : " In t h e m a i n t h e speeches were s ingular ly f ree from incitement of passion aga ins t Catholics. A few speakers were sufficiently courageous to plead for to lera t ion and ne ighbour ly feeling towards t h e minor i ty in t h e Nor th eas t . This is a welcome change of h e a r t . "

SHORTAGE O F P R I E S T S I N BURMA.

Rangoon, B u r m a . — A n article in a recent issue of t h e Rangoon Voice d raws a t t e n t i o n to t h e ser ious shor t age of clergy in Bur ma. A t t h e annual r e t r e a t for t h e European clergy of Upper B u r m a only 13 of t he 21 pr ies t s of t h e v icar ia te were p r e s e n t ; t h e o the r s were ill or were unable to leave t he i r s ta t ions. In Lower Burma , one par i sh with a thousand Catholics cannot be given a res ident pr ies t , many smal le r par ishes a r e j in t h e same predicament , and m a n y promis ing oppor tuni t ies mus t be let pass because of insufficient mis s ionary personnel.

Bu rma , with a to ta l population of 14,600,000, h a s 122,991 Catholics. There a re 99 European and 68 nat ive pr ies ts in t h e country , 36 European and 24 na t ive Bro thers , a n d 212 European and 200 na t ive S is te rs . (N.C.W.C.)

FAMILY COMES F I R S T IN M A T T E R S OF R E L I E F .

Washington .—Aubrey Will iams, Execut ive Director of t h e National Youth Adminis t ra t ion , address ing the Youth Ins t i tu t e here th i s week a t t he National Catholic School of Social Service, sponsored by the N.C.W.C. told t h e Ins t i t u t e t h a t h e has "a very deep respec t" for t h e work of Catholic groups in dealing with problems of t h e leisure side of life, saying t h a t "Catholic groups a re usually p r e t t y wise and p re t t y intel l igent" in mee t ing these problems. "I do not know how sweeping y o u r work! has become," he continued. "You; probably have a g rea t m a n y very] fine a r r angemen t s , which I hope; can be co-ordinated, and perhaps ass is ted by t h e th ings we m a v be able to do."

Fami ly Comes F i r s t . In t h e concentrat ion of t h e pow

ers of Government for t h e alleviation of conditions caused by the depression, Mr. Williams said, "we have had to t ake care of the fami ly—have always said t h a t thej family came first in m a t t e r s of re-i lief." " T h a t meant , " he added, " t he very young and pa ren t s got considerable help, and in between, despite our sympathies , t h e r e were very m a n y who got very l i t t le. The family h a s been mainta ined in America, b u t th is pa r t i cu la r pa r t of i t h a d probably suffered most— t h e boys between 16 and 20 years of age . The girls have no t suffer-, ed so calamitously. They have been able t o s tay wi th in t h e confines of t h e homes ."

Mr . Will iams declared t h a t the 700,000 you ths reported to be roaming about t he country , "simply do not exist ." He said t h a t they have had only 56,000 youths come to t h e government agencies; for shel ter and care th roughout ; t h e Uni ted Sta tes . Of th i s num-i ber h e es t imated t h a t 1,200 toj 1,400 were girls .

A m o n g some of t h e th ings in which t h e National Youth Admin is t ra t ion is interested, Mr. Will iams listed continuation of t he work done by t h e National Commi t t ee on Apprent iceships under t h e N.R.A. codes; provision of | work projects from which youths can benefit, including t h e develop- | m e n t of you th centers which will j embrace athlet ic , hotel , clubroom and social facil i t ies; education, including t h e extension of s tudent aid to 125,000 college you ths th i s yea r as compared wi th 100.000 las t year , and the inaugurat ion of a s imilar project for high school s tudent aid, and vocational guidance.

Contribution of Youth . Declaring t h a t he is th inking in

t e r m s of people, r a t h e r t h a n institu t ions^ Mr. Williams said t h a t "if we a r e . g o i n g to do t h i n g s worthwhile, it is going to ,be because we a r e able to br ing toge ther people who haVe something t o contr ibute, and t h e capacity to cont r ibu te . " We ' re t ry ing , " he added, " to ge t young people into a position of j economic and social secur i ty . We'll 1

probably have to give t hem some as is tance and some guidance, bu t each youth mus t contr ibute t h a t final something t h a t will make for t he i r social and economic security. I know we can expect and will re ceive from you every possible assis tance. We ' re going to t r y to

A Woman's Message From Manitoba.

4tf wish from my heart," writes Mrs. Louie Mitchell, of Oak Point, Manitoba, "I could persuade every person who is run-down to give Dr. Williams' Pink Pills a trial. About a year ago I was suffering from a run-down system. Any little exertion would cause my legs to tremble and my heart to throb violently. I could not do a little housework or walk fifty feet without being exhausted.

-Then I began Dr. Williams' Pink Pills, and after taking only six boxes I am now as well and strong as ever/'

For climatic reasons Dr. Williams' Pink Pills are sold throughout the Far East in hermetically sealed jrlass bottles. Of chemists everywhere.

MORE F R E E D O M FOR CHRIST I A N S I N TRAVANCORE.

Changanache r ry , (South India). — A recent decision of the Travan-core High Court to t h e effect that cemeter ies m a y be established wi thou t t h e previous sanction of t h e Government has been secured for Chr i s t i an inhab i tan t s of that s t a t e a l iber ty in burying their dead h i t h e r t o not enjoyed. The decision is considered another step in t he Chr i s t i an emancipation of Hindu India .

Though Chr i s t i ans and Hindus have been l iving side by side in India for centur ies , and although Chr i s t ian places of worship have at t imes been erected near Hindu temples, a Royal Proclamation promulga ted in t h e Na t ive State of Travancore about 1829, the year of Catholic Emancipa t ion in Great Br i ta in , decreed t h e erection of places of public worship to be illegal unless t h e previous approval of t he Government had been secured. Th i s decree w a s later interpreted to include cemeteries.

A recent d ispute over a burial place in Tiruvel la ended in the Travancore High Court . The Catholic pa r i sh pr ies t was called to defend h i s case, and the absurdity of t h e content ion t h a t cemeteries a r e places of public worship was b rough t h o m e to t h e High Court so convincingly t h a t t h e judges were unan imous in deciding t h e case in favour of t h e defence- (Fides).

F E A S T OF ' T H E BAGANDA MARTYRS. '

K A M P A L A — ( U g a n d a , ) .—More t h a n 2,000 persons gathered at Namugongo , Uganda , June 30 t o celebrate t h e feast of the B a g a n d a M a r t y r s . The occasion t h i s y e a r was of special interest because a Solemn High Mass was celebrated by t h r e e newly ordained Afr ican p r i e s t s of the same race a s t h e m a r t y r s . A sermon in L u g a n d a was preached by one of t h e young pr ies ts .

Twenty- two Chris t ians were pu t t o dea th a t Namugongo June 3, 1880, some of them being mere children. Most of them were bu rn t t o dea th in one big bonfire. Thei r venera t ion was approved by t h e Church in 1912, and on June 6, 1920 t h e y were declared Blessed. (Fides) (The Youthftd Martyrs referred to uere the pages of the African Ruler and preferred to face death than renounce

their faith)

cont r ibu te t h a t small d.ffe.ence be tween w h a t you need and w » you have now. How can join ou forces w i t h y o u r s ? "

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MALAYA CATHOLIC LEADER, SATURDAY, 14th September, 1935. 1 5

SPORTS NOTES C A T H O L I C S IN T H E LIMELIGHT.

(By Our Own Correspondent . )

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BADMINTON.

Vr E. J. VASS TO CONTINUE IN THE GAME.

Malayan Badminton fans who were recently somewhat perturbed at the new? that Mr. E. J. Vass, of the Diehard | Badminton Party was retiring from the same and would not in consequence be available for the State team for inter state matches will now be pleased to hear that yielding to the entreaties of his friends he has finally decided on continuing to play Badminton at least for this year. He will not only be singles player No. 1 for his party which has entered for the Singapore Badminton Association Inter Club Championship but will also be available to take part in the forth coming inter state matches with Selangor aid Perak towards the end of the year.

CRICKET.

SELANGOR RANGERS WIN STONOR SHIELD.'

The Selangor Rangers have won the STOXOR Cricket Shield by defeating j the Selangor Indians by 8 wickets last j Saturday.

The Indians made 48 in their first innings and 65 in their second, in spite of having the redoubtable Lall Singh in their team.

The Rangers replied with 57 and 57 for 2.

Lawrence de Silva. hero of the recent \ F.M.S.—Colony cricket game, captured j 6 wickets for 20 runs, and later 5 for 26. A. N. Shepherds also took 3 for 11.

Clement de Silva, his cousin, scored 25 not out. Well done the Rangers.

* * • * * * WEARNE BROS. BEAT Y.M.C.A. Wearne Brothers scored another credi

table win at cricket on Saturday against the Y.M.C.A. Junior Department, thanks in large measure to L. Sullivan's 30, and the bowling of Sullivan and Milne.

* * * * * * TURN BULL IN SPLENDID FORM.

Maurice Turnbull, Glamorgan's Ca- j tholic Cricket Skipper, was in Merry | Mood against somerset recently.

The first three balls that he received I from J. C. White, an England bowler of a few seasons back, were hit for succes-sive sixes a most creditable performance indeed.

BOXING. AL CANTE OUTCLASSED.

Al Cante, victor of more than 150 fights, was out classed by Aide at the New World Stadium last Friday.

He was also disqualified in the 8th round for fouling.

Montanes outpointed Amino. Pablo Nerva, an old pupil of St.

Joseph's, Singapore, beat Joe Summers in a very thrilling fight.

* * * * * * LOCAL BOUTS.

Young Frisco, the Phillipino boxing star, will have met Gunboat Jack by the time these notes will be read, for the Middleweight Chamoionship title of the Orient. On the 19th instant Frisco leaves for Manila where he intends settling some family affairs and then he will proceed to Australia where he hopes to make good in the ring.

Should the Gunboat defeat him however his plans may be shattered, but the young challenger is quite confident of success, and is the big favourite. May the better man win!

* * * * Ventura Marauez, from Mexico, will

be meeting, Webber of Penang in the featherweight class, and is expected to do very well here in Singapore.

The public is lucky indeed to be able to see so much talent of late. Catholics can be proud of the fact that most of the best boxers in the world at present and in the past are and have been members of the Catholic Church.

* * * * - * * KUALA LUMPUR.

An Amateur Boxing Contest is proposed to be held in Kuala Lumpur, on Friday, 4th. October 1935—all weights— and those who would like to participate in the Contest should communicate with Mr. Walter. Gideon c/o W. de Rozario, P.O. Box No. 367. Kuala Lumpur, for entry forms etc. A percentage of the nett proceeds is promised to the Selangor Jubilee Fund, and it is hoped that many Amateur Boxers will turn up for this competition. It is the duty of every Amateur boxer to strive for the betterment of the Amateur Boxing and in this way benefit himself.

* * * * * * BRADDOCK'S INTERESTING

CAREER. James Braddock, continuing to describe

his boxing Career in the Sunday Chronicle, declares that he had to borrow £20 in order to meet Camera's sparring partner,.Briffin, exactly 12 months and a

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day before he won the world championship.

The fight was actually preliminary to the main attraction—the Camera—Baer battle.

No one seemed to notice Braddock or G:ifnn till the former floored his opponent in the second round for the count of 9 : and repeated the success twice fn the third round, when the refree stopped the fight. The winner received £50 only.

Braddock was then matched with a Negro, John Henry Lewis, whom he defeated. This victory brought in £150. Ait Lasky was his next opponent and Braddock beat him easily. As a matter of fact he says that Lasky did not hurt him once. The purse he netted was £800. Out of this he paid back the amount he had drawn- in unemployment relief.

Not long afterwards Braddock signed to meet Max Baer. The promoter, wanted to see Baer beaten because He considered him to be "the worst cham-pici we've ever had." He seemed sure of Braddock beating him easily. Baer has been an unpopular champion in America. This was how Braddock spent his time while training for the world championship contest.

7 a.m. Reveille. Brush teeth and rinse eyes with cold water. Drink a glass of hot water and lemon.

7.30 a.m. Five miles of hard road work paced by trainer.

8.30 a.m. Bath, first hot and then cold, 15 minutes, followed by a rub down.

9.30. a.m. Breakfast. Orange juice, cereal, ham or bacon, eggs, | toast, and coffee or tea.

10.45 a.m. Long, quiet stroll alone along country roads.

12.50 p.m. Light lunch, soup and a cup of tea.

1.10 Another walk. 1.45 A nap. 3. In ring togs. Punching the light

bag, shadow boxing, sparring six or eight rounds, some physical jerks, followed by shower and rub down.

4.30 Leisure. 5.15 A big meal, beginning with

celery, spring oions, lettuce, tomato, a small dish of pineapple, either steak or chops, peas green beans asparagus, fine Slices of toast, two large glasses of milk, and a cup of coffee.

5.55 Another country stroll. 6.55 A film in the hotel. 8.30 Reading, talking, listening to

the radio, or joining in a sing song.

10. Sharp—Bed. In a week of such training Braddock

reduced from 210 to 203 pounds. Some ring experts say that the new

champion left-handed Baer out of the .title as decisively as Tunney did Demp-sey.

One day while training, not long before the battle for the crown while tossing the medicine ball, he was injured very severely and the doctor found "a deep indurated swelling, over the region of the 8th and 9th ribs in the mid axillary line on the left side."

It hurt very much. Just one week before meeting Baer Braddock had a bad left rib, but would not postpone the contest.

(From The Sunday Chronicle)


SKILLS OF SS. COSMAS AND DAMIAN. PRESERVED IN MADRID MONASTERY.

BY REV. MANUEL GRANA. (Madrid Correspondent, N.C.W.C. News Service) .

Miuirid.—The a u t h e n t i c skulls of the A r a b phys i c i ans , SS. Cosmas a n d Damian, a r e in t h e Monas tery of the Descalzas Reales (Clar issas) of Madrid. D r s . Gr inda a n d Sanchez de Rive ra , Cathol ic phys i c ians , have g i v e n before a n assembly of t h e B r o t h e r s of SS. Cosmas and D a m i a n , a n associat ion of Cathol ic phys ic ians and pha rmac i s t s , a complete a n d documen ted r e p o r t of t h e i r invest igat ions i n t h e M o n a s t e r y ' s Rel iquary. Abou t 1,300 m e m b e r s a t t ended this m e e t i n g held a t Valencia.

T h e B r o t h e r s of SS . Cosmas and D a m i a n a r e organ ized in several ci t ies of Spa in . New groups are be ing fo rmed a n d t h e organizat ion of a Na t iona l Confederat ion is unde r considerat ion.

T h e document s , p h o t o g r a p h s and ocular inves t iga t ions of t h e Madr id doctors caused g r e a t surpr ise a t t h e m e e t i n g a n d occasioned a g r e a t ce lebrat ion.

M a r t y r e d in Cilicia. T h e skulls of SS . Cosmas and

Damian , w h o suffered mar ty rdom a t Aegea in Cilicia in 287, accordi ng t o t h e Bol landis tas , were taken t o Munich a n d Dlaced in t h e Jesui t Church of S t . Michael. F r o m the t i m e of e i t he r St . Gregory VII or of Fel ix IV, t h e relics were preserved a t R o m e in t h e basilica constructed express ly for t h i s purpose by t h e l a t t e r Pontiff. Bishop Ada ldago b r o u g h t t h e heads t o B r e m e n , t h e E m p e r o r S t . H e n r y l a t e r removed t h e m to B a m b e r g a n d f rom t h e r e t h e y were t a k e n to Munich .

The d o c u m e n t s s tud ied and \ copied by D r . Gr inda show t h a t in 1581 t h e E m p r e s s Mar ia , widow of Maximilian I t a n d d a u g h t e r of Carlos V, b r o u g h t t he se and other .relics t o Madr id . A t first i t was believed t h a t t h e s e were relics of t h e Eleven T h o u s a n d Vi rg ins of Cologne. H o w e v e r Donna Maria , d a u g h t e r of t h e E m p r e s s , ordered a n inves t iga t ion be m a d e by ecclesiast ical a n d civil au thor i t i e s of tiie relics w h i c h h a d been placed

in t h e Monas te ry of t h e Descalzas Reales .

T h e notar ia l ac t of th i s invest iga t ion has been published in facsimi le by Dr. Gr inda who is physi c ian of t h e convent . He communica ted h is discovery to Dr . Sanchez de Rivera and Dr. B a r r a d a s w h o verified t h e discovery. T h e t w o skulls were in a small chest and agreed wi th t h e specifications of t h e documents . They took m e a s u r e m e n t s , made pho tographs a n d consulted o t h e r documents and eve ry th ing a t t e s t ed t h e au then t i c i ty of t he relics.

Th i s discovery is of u tmos t int e r e s t to Spanish physicians. Unti l now i t was t h o u g h t t h a t t h e skulls of t h e pa t ron S a i n t s of physicians we re a t Munich. T h e Greek inscr ipt ions on t h e si lver bands which encircle t h e skulls a r e declared to leave no room for doubt. T h e documents a r e convincing.

Medical Societies in Spain. Medical societies bear ing t h e

n a m e s of SS. Cosmas and Damian have long existed in Spain. Fal len in to decay in t h e las t century, t h e y h a v e taken on new life in th i s . Na tu ra l ly those of Madrid and Barcelona a r e t h e mos t flourishing.

Members of t h e Bro the r s of SS. Cosmas and Damian a re inspired in t h e exercise of the i r profession by holy love of neighbour and t h e y s t r i ve to p romote t h e professional and moral in t e res t s of the i r assoc ia tes .

A s t h e resu l t of t h e en thus iasm caused by t h e discovery of t h e relics of SS. Cosmas and Damian, a series of fes t ivals will be held which will h a v e in ternat ional int e r e s t . T h e ancient Monas te ry of t h e Descalzas Reales will be t h e object of p i lgr images and s tudies by physicians from all over Europe .

T h e casket in which t h e precious relics a r e preserved is of s t r o n g wood reinforced w i th silver corn e r s and bands of t h e same meta l . T h e skulls a r e wrapped in embroidered damask , and res t on a fine cushion of silk and silver brocade.

CHINA'A FLOOD AREA.

American and Irish Missionaries in the centre.

Hankow, (Hupeh , Ch ina ) — The Bureau of Publ ic Sa fe ty a t H a n kow e s t i m a t e s a t 200,000 the number of lives los t in t h e flooded a rea of Hupeh Prov ince . T h e wate r -level of t h e Yang t sze River h a s been falling s teadi ly , and i t is now possible to m a k e a su rvey of t h e loss of life a n d d a m a g e t o proper ty .

A t least 70 pe r cent , of t h e P ro vince is u n d e r wa t e r , and 221,000 persons a r e homeless . More than 125,000 refugees have been herded in to W u c h a n g and H a n y a n g , t h e former a mis s iona ry cen t re of t h e American Province of t h e Franc is cans , and t h e l a t t e r t h e centra l s ta t ion of t h e St . Columban F a t h e r s . M a n y thousands a re also harboured in Hankow where t h e r e is a well developed miss ionarv organizat ion u n d e r t h e I ta l ian F r a n ciscans.

F o u r y e a r s ago when t h e people of t h i s region were suffering from t h e in roads of band i t s and t h e devas t a t ion of floods. Catholic miss ionar ies she l te red thousands of r e fugees . Since t h a t t ime t h e people h a v e been coming into t h e C h u r c h in l a r g e n u m b e r s . (F ides ) .

A N C I E N T CITY OF T A N G A N Y K A .

INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT THE HOME OF THOMAS a' KEMP1S.

AUTHOR OF THE IMITATION OF CHRIST.

Ministered by American Holy Ghost F a t h e r s .

Nairobi (Br i t i sh E a s t Africa) — The ancient c i ty which has been discovered n e a r Nguruka , in Tangany ika Te r r i to ry , is wi th in t h e bounds of t h e Vicar ia te Apostolic of Ki l imanjaro, a mission en t rus t ed to t h e Amer ican Province of t h e Congregat ion of t h e Holy Ghost . Bishop Joseph Byrne , formerly head of t h e seminary a t Fernda le , Connecticut , is t he super ior of t h e mission.

The ci ty is not more t h a n five centur ies old and was probably inhabi ted by a n advanced African t r ibe , according to the description given by Commander Nino del Grande who has visited the ru ins . T h e City is four and a half miles long by one and a half wide, cons t ruc ted te r racewise on a s teep slope known a s t h e Grea t Rift Wall . T h e r e are" r emains of about 4,000 houses wi th s tone walls four feet thick.

Bishop B y r n e says t h a t t h e re por ted s i te i s in a bare plain, wild and sandy all around. A nat ive t r ibe , t h e Wambulu , l iving about 50 miles from t h e spot, a re said to be descended from t h e inhabi tan ts of t he ancient ci ty. (F ides ) .

(By A. V. M. ARTHUR, B.A.) When one realises, or attempts to

realise, the extraordinary popularity of the "Imitation of Christ," book ranked for centuries as only next in appeal to the Bible itself, and which has been translated into almost all known languages, one marvels at the small number

man? Again, who can tell? Leaving the tomb, the monument and

pictures, and seeking out the actual place where he dwelt, one is at first filled with a certain measure of disappointment, for a "Reformation" which destroyed so many religious houses in Holland long:

of visitors to Holland who seek out the ago, was responsible also for the destruc-scene of Thomas a Kempis' labours at jtion of the home of Thomas and his Arnichem, where he spent his days in 'peaceful brethren. the monastery of St. Anges among the "Poor Brethren of the Brotherhood of Common Life."

The town of Zwolle, where his body

Strange to think of such fierce hatred in an atmosphere which still breathes peace! For now one has left the dear old town behind, has passed along old

lies, is somewhat off the beaten track, jroads and by canals, passed three old and the fact that the Church was unable to number him among her canonized

windmills and trodden a road shaded on either side by trees, crossed a bridge and

saints may account in some measure for gone through fields, by a cemetery, and the fact that few save local lovers of his : a t last reached the path which leads to work visit his tomb in the Church of St. ithe Agnietenberg itself. And here in Michael in that peaceful old town. ithe midst of ploughed fields, one finds

Learned men may strive to prove to [ w } i a t is little more than a mound at the us that the question of the authorship of jcrest of a very modest hill, a mound the "Imitation" is fraught with doubt, ; surrounded by so inoffensive a barbed but in the country round the Agnieten- wiro fence that one can pass through berg, where he dwelt and laboured, the L^th ease, and surmounted by a simple people cling to the belief that the author was surely their Thomas, who has been honoured and loved there. A striking monument over his tomb represents Thomas kneeling by the road which leads to Calvary, offering to Ovr Lord the book which has helped so many the wide world over to bear their cross also

'monument bearing the words:— Here lived Thomas a Kempis in the

service of the Lord and wrote his "Following of Christ."

Simple, yet eloquent. Simple as his works and his teaching. One can picture him sitting here five hundred years

and follow after Him. A woman, repre- a n d ™ 0 T e > with just such a view of senting Mother Church, stands near by, £ e e * , and ploughed fields, among the sorrowing in the Master's sorrow and Brothers whom he loved. One can al-approving the gift. ™ s t *»? voice as he reads aôud to

One wonders if perhaps, in his great jthem from his chapter "Or. the Wonder-humility, the writer had wished so to N P ^ t f Divine Love. A wondsr-offer all his works solely to his D i m e M » I o v e ' a m l ^ h t V g ° ° f i 7 Master, and to refuse the glory, even of l*>r love alone makes every burden light, being known among men as a saint, even >and endures with calmness all the rough-of being the undisputed author of the | n e s s °* t h e world. For it bears a burden srift he so humblv and lovingly offers. | w i t b o u t being burdened, and makes all Whc can tell? "He that has true and ! t h a t i s Mtter, sweet and delicious perfect charity," he wrote, "seeks him- l a t h i n g is sweeter than love, nothing self in nothing, but wishes only to work j stronger, nothing loftier, nothing wider, out the glory of God in everything." ;nothing pleasanter nothing richer or

A picture on the wall of the council ihetter, in heaven or on earth because chamber in the government offices shows $ O V € * s b o r n °f G o d > a n < ! c a n fin<* * t s r e s t

him seated among his brethren offering j i n £ o d a I o n e > a b o v e a1* created things." to them first of all the wisdom which j And lest one should feel a tinge of was later to be made known to all who sadness to think of them now long dead wish to read it, and another picture— jand their beloved home destroyed, one this one very old, shows him seated along jturns away end crosses the littfe ferry on the Agnietenberg (only in level ;but a few yards away, on the other side Holland could this be called a hill!) |of which one may see another h a b i t -writing on his tablets. This picture the white and black robe of St. Dominic, was restored at the expense of one for the Dominican Fathers of Zwolle Paster Arnoldus, who had a potrait of Tiave^n recent years established a rest hinêlf, preaching from his pulpit, house at a peaceful farm by the stream, painted in a corner of the original pic- ! One must ever after connect the neigh-ture. Vanity, perhaps? Or was it that, Ix-urhood with Peace, and the very his picture being on a very small scale, atmosphere seems still to hold the he wished to show himself as a humble happiness of the Brethren who lived exponent of the teachings of the greater there long ago.

TROPICAL MEDICINE FOR CATHOLIC MISSIONARIES.

Seventy-two a t t end Summer Course.

Dublin — Seventy-two mission- | ar ies , r epresen t ing 12 religious in- j s t i tu tes , a t t ended the Summer ; Course in Tropical Medicine for Catholic Missionaries which h a s i j u s t come to close a t Univers i ty I College, Dublin. The course was \ organized by t h e Ir ish Branch of the Pontifical Asociation for t he Propagat ion of t he Fa i th .

Most of the lecturers lived in tropical countr ies for many years , | and t he i r conferences were based on personal first-hand experience. The subjects were practically t he j same a s those t r ea ted a t s imilar courses held in recent years a t Louvain, Wurzburg , Lille, P a r m a , j Rot te rdam, Fr ibourg , Washington j and Pa r i s . (Fides)

MR. H E R S H E Y GIVES $20,000 TO CATHOLIC CHURCH.

On Independence Day Mr. Her-shey, the* multi-millionaire Candy manufac tu re r made a gift of 820,000 to t he Catholic Church a t Hershey , U.S.A. The gift was made to free t h e church of indebtedness.

A SYMBOL ft is difficult to express the reverent Jove w e feel for those w h o are gone. A funeral here and a Symbol of remembrance aid and

comfort the bereaved.

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G enera I Jottings of the MêeL

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FORMER H E A V Y W E I G H T BOXER.

James Joseph (Gene) Tunney, the worlds ' champion heavy weight boxer w h o defeated J a c k Dempsey twice and t h e n re t i r ed is in t h e Phil l ipines on holiday.

He became, Demsey ' s conqueror by s tudy ing t h e films of Demp-sey's fights a n d t h u s prepared a scheme of b a t t l e of h is own which succeeded admirab ly .

Tunney h a d a g r e a t left hand in his fighting days . T o day b e is 37 years of age and still in t h e p ink of condition.

He we ighs 195 pounds and is a very keen j u d g e of boxing. B u t he does no t r e g r e t hav ing g iven up the r i n g for h is chief i n t e re s t s now a re h i s family and bus iness . Gene has t w o sons, Gene and J o h n .

SIR ALDO CASTELLANI . o _

FOR I T A L I A N MEDICAL ORGANISATION.

THE HON MR. LAI T E T L O R E ' S VIEWS ON EDUCATION.

The Hon. Mr. Lai Tet Loke unofficial member of t h e Selangor Sta te Council, a t las t week's meet ing, made a s t r o n g appeal*for more facilities for p r i m a r y educat ion. He s tated t h a t " p r i m a r y educat ion must s t a n d a h e a d of T r a d e Schools." H e was aga ins t t h e entrust ing of t h e Maxwell Road School a f W i ts closing down t o "a party of" s lump superannua ted teachers will be a mis take ."

OUR CONGRATULATIONS TO H.H. T H E S U L T A N O F

SELANGOR-

Mr. George Grossmith , t h e 61 year old Catholic Comedian, who died recently left e s t a t e valued a t £14,945.

In his will h e s t a t ed " I des i re that a doctor m a k e absolute assurance t h a t dea th h a s t a k e n place, ar.d t ha t I be bur ied according t o tho rites of t h e Catholic Church . May God forgive m y s ins ." H e left all h is p roper ty , t o h is wife for life, and t h e n half t o h i s son Georgre and half be tween h i s daughters E n a and Rosa. Gros-sfinth was one of t h e g r e a t e s t actors of h is day.

Mrs . E . Minjoot, wife of Captain A. J . Minjoot, M.B.E., Rura l Board Secretary, Malacca, is in t h e General Hospital , Malacca, suffering from pneumonia.

CROSS MARKS P L A C E OF TRAGIC ACCIDENT.

HON. MR. C. C. BROWN TO PROCEED ON HOME L E A V E .

The Malaya Catholic Leader tenders to His Highness t h e Su l t an of Selangor ve ry happy B i r t h d a y greetings. T h i s enl ightened pr ince is now 72 y e a r s of age b u t in splendid hea l th .

In Selangor m a n y thousands of his subjects a r e Catholics.

LOST E X P L O R E R LOCATED.

Rev. F a t h e r Pa t r i ck Molloy, a Catholic Miss ionary in Brazil , asserts t h a t Col. Percy Fawce t t , t h e 68 year old Br i t i sh explorer, who has been lost for 10 yea r s in Braz i lian jungles , w a s in t h e Zinqui River dis t r ic t , n o r t h of t h e Cordil-lears, between t h e Amazon and j Parana r ivers . H e also declared that the miss ing explorer will r e turn to civilisation wi th in six months.

CATHOLIC COMEDIAN'S W I L L .

The Hon. Mr. C. C. Brown, Br i t i sh Resident of P a h a n g , has been g ran ted special leave on urgent pr iva te affairs and will proceed home soon.

D E A T H O F DR. E D M U N D G A R D N E R .

Dr. Edmund Gardner , Professor of I ta l ian in t h e Univers i ty of London, from 1923 to 1934, and in t h e Univers i ty of Manches ter before t h a t , died in London a t the age of 66.

Sir Aldo Castel lani g rea tes t tropical physician, and head of the London Hospital for Tropical Diseases, is proceeding to Ital ian Somaliland t o t a k e cha rge of the heal th organisa t ion of t h e Italian forces the re . His d a u g h t e r is the wife of Sir Miles Lampson, Bri t ish High Commissioner in t h e Soudan.

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E N T E R T A I N E D BY E U R A S I A N ASSOCIATION.

The author i t ies of Kuessnacht , 1

Switzerland whe re Queen Astr id j was killed, have erected a Cross at i t h e place where t h e accident occurred. Representa t ives from the j Government have deposited wreat h s a t t h e foot of t h e Cross.

The r igh t s ide of t h e King 's car j is completely des t royed and the ! s teer ing wheel badly damaged.

Mr. J . R. San ta Maria, of t he !

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Negr i Sembilan Secretar ia t , was ;

en ter ta ined on September 7 th j by t he N. S. Euras ian Association j a t t h e St . Paul ' s Old Boys Club, J in honour of his hav ing been awarded t h e Jubilee Medal.

The Chai r was taken by Mr. A. j G- Lopez.

DOMINICAN N U N S T R A I N . U N E M P L O Y E D GIRLS.

T h e Government, express ing the i r sat isfact ion wi th t h e work, have sanctioned t h e cont inuance for ano the r year of t h e g r a n t made to St . Mary ' s T ra in ing Cent re

A t t h i s Cent re Dominican nuns give free t r a in ing to unemployed girls . Board and lodging a re also provided free and t h e girls a re even given pocket-money.

More, t h a n 1006 gir ls have successfully passed t h r o u g h S t . Mary ' s and have been placed in domestic employment, for Domestic Workers , London.

CAESAR—CHANCE. A m a r r i a g e has been a r r a n g e d

between Captain Jul ius H. Caesar . M.C., of t he Shropshire L igh t In fant ry , P r iva t e Secretary t o H i s Excellency t he Governor of t h e Central Provinces of Ind;.a, Son of t h e la te Dr. Jul ius Caeâr F.R.C.S. I. and El izabeth , th i rd daugh te r of t he la te Sir A r t h u r Chance a n d of Lady Chance. Malayans m a y still r emember Dr. Chance formerly of t h e Malayan Medical Service, w h o is a b ro the r of t h e bride.

* * * * * WILIAMS—OLLERDESSEN.

On September 6th a t the Ca thedral of t h e Good Shenherd. Singapore, Mr. Er ic Llewellyn Will iams of Renfrewshire , Scotland, was marr ied to Miss Maude Ollerdes-sen, of Shanghai , China.

Rev. F a t h e r Maury officiated. * * * * •

WILBY—de SOUZA

A R E C E N T CONVERT.

A very dist inguished recent convert is Mr. R. D. LafFan, Fellow j and T u t o r of Queen's College, Cambridge.

The mar r i age took place a t St . Saviour 's Coalville, England las t month of Miss Nes ta Agnes de Souza, only daugh te r of Dr . and Mrs. H. C. de Souza of Huecrles-cote, and Mr. F . Kenneth Wilby, only son of Mr. and Mrs. Wilby of Leicester. The Bishop of N o t t i n g ham officiated and the Papal Bless ing was given.

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A group photo of the Catholk Actionistg of the Church of Our Lady of Lourdes, Singapore, with Rev. Fr. L. Burghoffer, their spiritual director, as the central figure.


AROUND i"HE PARISHES SINGAPORE, MALACCA, IPOH, BATU G A J A H .

SINGAPORE

CATHEDRAL OF THE GOOD SHEPHERD.

PATRONAL F E A S T OF H. E . BISHOP A. D E V A L S .

Presentation of Address by Catholic Actionists.

T h e Bishop ' s House w a s t h e venue of a r ep resen ta t ive g a t h e r i n g on S u n d a y las t , 8 th Sep tember , t h e occasion be ing t h e P a t r o n a l F e a s t Day of H i s Excellency Dr . A. Devals , Bishop of Malacca. Member s of t h e Catholic Act ion of t h e C a t h e d r a l , " Par i sh ioners of t h e Ca thed ra l and of t h e K a t d n g C h u r c h a n d Members of t h e Singapore Cathol ic Club including m a n y ladies we re present t o offer cong r a t u l a t i o n s t o His Excellency.

Reve rend F a t h e r N . M a u r y and Reve rend F a t h e r R. Dubois were also p re sen t .

T h e following Address read by Mr . W . F . Mosbergen w a s presen ted t o His Excellency by t h e Members of t h e Catholic Act ion of t h e Ca thedra l .

ADDRESS. To

His Excellency the Right Reverend ADRIEN DEVALS, D.D.

Bishop of Malacca, SINGAPORE.

May It Please Your Excellency, We, the Catholic Actionists of the

Cathedral of the "Good Shepherd," Singapore, respectfully beg to offer our best congratulations to Your Excellency on this your Patronal Feast Day.

The inauguration of the Catholic Action in all the Parishes under your spiritual guidance is ample proof of your earnest desire to promote the welfare of the Catholics in the Diocese of Malacca.

It is a tribute to your activity and zeal that we have in our midst to-day Redemptorists permanently stationed in Malaya to help in ministering: to our spiritual needs and in the Propagation of the Faith.

The Parishioners of the Cathedral of the "Good Shepherd" and of the Katong Church and the Members of the Singapore Catholic Club respectfully desire to associate themselves in the greetings extended to Your Excellency on this happy day.

We avail ourselves of this opportunity to express our deep sense of appreciation and gratitude for your fatherly interest in our well-being and we pray that the Almighty will pour His richest blessings on Your Excellency and grant you your heart's desires.

We remain, Your Excellency's dutiful children

in Christ, THE MEMBERS OF THE

CATHOLIC ACTION CATHEDRAL OF THE "GOOD

SHEPHERD," SINGAPORE. Singapore, 8th September, 1935.

His Excellency rep ly ing thanked those p resen t for t h e i r good wishes. He was pleased t o say t h a t t h e Catholic Act ionis t s of Malaya have done very good work.

In connection wi th t h e Propaga t ion of the F a i t h His Excellency said, t h a t in t h e Diocese of Malacca there were more Bapt i s m s du r ing the pas t y e a r t h a n in a n y previous year .

H e h a d invited t h e Redemptor i s t s t o co-operate wi th t h e clergy of t h e Diocese in t h e i r work and s t a t e d t h a t he has in hand undert a k i n g s of o ther Catholic organisa t ions for t h e nea r fu tu re .

T h e function concluded with t h r e e h e a r t y cheers for His Excellency.

C H U R C H OF ST. J O S E P H .

Bapt i sm. Sep tember 9 th — Robert Joseph

Nooh, born on the 22nd Augus t , 1935, son of Appelles Nooh and of Florence Nooh. God-paren ts : —Wil l iam D'Rozario and Mary Magdalene de Rozario.

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Marr iages . Sep tember 7 th—John Longue, son

of Michael Edward Longue and of F reder i ca Pereira, t o Alice Sudin, d a u g h t e r of John Sudin a n d of Dorothy Sudin.

Sep tember 11th — Harold Cyril Monteiro , son of Henry Mon-te i ro and of Maria do Rozario, to Virg in ia Longue, daugh te r of J o h n Longue and of Alice Sudhi .

CHURCH OF ST. T E R E S A .

Nevena in honour of P a t r o n Saint . The Novena will commence on

t h e 28 th of September. F r o m t h a t day till t h e 5 th of October t h e r e will be special services in t h e above Church . In t he m o r n i n g t h e Novena Masses will begin a t 7 a.m. a f t e r which Novena p r a y e r s will be reci ted. Novena leaflets will be d i s t r ibu ted . In t h e evening a t 5.15 p .m. t h e r e will be Benediction of t h e Blessed Sacrament preceded by a s e rmon and Novena p raye r s . On t h e 28th , 29th, 30th of September t h e se rmons will be in Tamil by t h e Reverend F a t h e r L. Burghoffer . On t h e 1st 2nd, 3rd of October t h e sermons will be in E n g l i s h by t h e Reverend F a t h e r B r e n n a n , C.SS.R. On t h e 4 t h and 5 t h of October t h e sermons will be in Chinese. On t h e 6th of October, t h e Solemnity of Saint Te re sa and pa t rona l feas t of t he Church t h e r e will be Pontifical High Mass by His Excellency Bishop A. Devals. T h e n roses will be blessed and dist r i bu t ed . In t h e evening a t 5 p.m. t h e Sac ramen t of Cinfirmation will be adminis te red by His Lordship .

! D u r i n g t h e procession t h e s t a tue of St . Teresa will be borne round t h e Church and Solemn Benediction will end t h e Novena. The Novena Masses can be applied t o individual intent ions on applicat ion. Pet i t ions can also be sent in d u r i n g t h e Novena and they will be placed a t the fee t of t he S t a t u e a t t h e main Al ta r . All covered offerings will be se t aside for t h e construction of the Carmel i te Convent on Buki t Teresa .

Special hymns in honour of the Sa in t will be sung in La t in and E r g l i s h dur ing the Procession. All Clients of Saint Teresa a r e request ed to join. Fo r th is purpose a prac t ice will be held every Sunday a f t e r Mass.

CHURCH OF OUR L A D Y OF LOURDES.

Baptism. Aloysius :—born on Wednesday

t h e 28th Augus t , 1935, second son of Mr. & Mrs . S. Doura isamy. Bapt ised a t the Cathedral of the Good Shepherd by Rev. F r . R. Dubois on Monday 9th September

& Mrs. A.

The Church of the Visitation, Seremban, which was recently extended by Rev. Fr. Geo. Auguin, will be blessed by His Excellency Bishop A. Devals on the 22nd inst.

CHURCH O F SS. P E T E R A N D P A U L .

REV. FR. B U R G H O F F E R IN HOSPITAL.

Rev. F a t h e r Becheras , vicar of t he Church and Act ing Vicar-General, is in Cameron Highlands . He will be away for two weeks . In h i s absence, Rev. F r . L a u r e n t is ac t ing a s vicar of t h e Pa r i sh .

* * * * * Rev. F a t h e r J . Chin of S a r a w a k

s tayed h e r e a few days last week before proceeding to Fuchow. He will r e t u r n home about the end of th i s yea r .

We regre t t o announce t h a t Rev* F r . L. Burghoffer, Vicar, Church

I of Our Lady of Lourdes was | admi t t ed to t h e General Hospital I on Monday, 9 t h inst . The Rev. • F a t h e r has been in poor health j recent ly , and i t is earnest ly hoped 1 t h a t he will soon recover from his

illness. The p r a y e r s of his parishioners apd o t h e r members of the Fai thfu l a re solicited for his speedy

| recovery.

HONOUR FOR CATHOLIC

Commissioner. Mr. Reginald Tessensohn M.CH.

A few days ago Mr. Reginald Tessensohn, Municipal Commission-

MR. A N D MRS. C. DA SILVA L E A V E F O R E U R O P E .

Mr. and Mrs . Claude da Silva, of St . Michaels ' and Mar t ia Roads, left on Tuesday for Europe on

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT. His Excellency Bishop A . Devals h a s kindly directed t h e Malaya Catholic Leader to convey h is gra te fu l t h a n k s to all those who sent h im messages of g ree t ings on t h e occasion of his Pat ronal F e a s t . His Lordship f u r t h e r r eg r e t s t h a t owing to his absence f rom Singapore he is unable t o extend his thankfu l acknowledge

m e n t directly.

j God-parents Mr. I Savar ina then .

er was t h e recipient of a well deserved honour from Government . He was awarded t h e Malayan Certificate of Honour in recognition of h i s long and devoted public services. Mr. Tessensohn who is a well known member of t h e E u r a s i a n Communi ty succeeded his f a t h e r on t he Municipal Commission near ly ten years ago and has served wi thout (break on var ious Commit tees since t he date of his appoin tment . Walking in t h e foots teps of his f a the r who had himself left his name behind, Mr. v

Tessensohn was noted for t h e zeal and devotion with which he worked, in t h e public interest . He has been for m a n y yea r s pas t—and still i s—a Warden of the Cathedral of t h e Good Shepherd and is a p rominen t figure in local Catholic circles.

We join his numerous well-wishers in offering Mr. Tessensohn our hea r t fe l t congratula t ions .

furlough. T h e y intend to spend much of t he i r holiday in Switzerland and on t h e Riviera.

Mr. da Silva is the well-known advocate and solicitor of Raffles Place.

C Y M A t h e Countr ies .

W A T C H E S and

CHRONOM E T E R S

acknowledged t h e B E S T

in all Agent:

R E N E ULLMANN,

SINGAPORF.

MALAYA CATHOLIC LEADER, SATURDAY, 14th September, 1935. ]9

AROUND THE PARISHES MALACCA only in fine weather , as t h e dam

aged roof offers no she l te r aga ins t ra in .

To repa i r th is damaged building is was t e of money. Af te r long considerat ion it was decided to build a chapel of 50 ft. by 20 wi th p lanks and a corrugated iron roof. Th is building will serve also as a School and i ts e s t ima t td cost is alout $350. Then conies t h e

~~ OBITUARY. Mrs. Isobella Nonis, aged 56, be

loved wife of Mr. Francisco Nonis w h o was ailing for four days died at her residence a t 12.30 p.m. on Saturday, A u g u s t 31st- The funeral took place t h e following evening a t 4 p.m. Revd. F r Lourenco conducted t h e ceremon- | ies both a t t he church and a t t h e ! q u e s t i o n of t h e site. Considering cemetry. The deceased leaves be- t ^ e f u tu r e welfare and progress , i t hind 2 sons, 4 daugh te r s and J i s t h o u g h t best to build the chapel several g rand children. P . L P . ! o n t h e roadside near t h e village.

There is a piece of rubber land of about t h r e e acres obtainable for $750. Hence a sum of $1,100 is requi red for th i s New Par i sh . As a fa i thful client of St . Phi lomena h a s given $100 and ano the r client $20, I have decided t o dedicate t he chapel to St . Philomena.

H a v i n g buil t an Orphanage in Ba tu Gajah and having extended t h e Gir ls ' schools and as t he par i sh ioners of Batu Gajah have cont r ibu ted all they could for these two funds, I have not t h e courage to ove r t ax them. I therefore make a genera l appeal to t he devoted cl ients of St . Phi lomena and also to t h e Chr is t ians for financial help. A n y s u m no ma t t e r however small it m a y be will be grateful ly received. Kindly send all donat ions to t h e Par i sh Pr ies t of Ba tu j Gajah .

" Engagemen t . The engagement is announced

and the mar r i age will shor t ly take place between Mr. Jacob N. de Souza, pensioner of t h e F.M.S. Medical service and Miss Susan Adams late of t h e Convent of the Sacred Hear t , Malacca.

Bap t i sm. Emilia Agnes , daugh te r of

George J- Hendroff and Wilhemina Hendroff nee Wilhemina Sta Maria, born on September 3rd, and baptised by Revd. F r . Coroado at the Church of St . Pe te r .

BATU GAJAH CHAPEL OF ST. PHILOMENA.

A Y E R R U N N I N G . Aver Kunning is a small growing

district s i tua ted a t t he 8 th milestone of t h e De Gong Road which runs from Karnpar to Telok Anson. Though the village is small yet it seems to be blessed by God and destined for t h e propagat ion of the Holy Fai th . F o r t h e first seeds of evangelization sowed by my zealous predecessor, Rev. F a t h e r Dupoirieux, have fallen on fertile ground and t h e seedlings are gradually spreading the i r branches .

It would be of in teres t t o note how the par ish of Ayer Kunning was founded: A few yea r s back a band of about 50 Chinese (about 30 of whom a re Catholics) were compelled by pover ty t o teave China and earn t h e i r livelihood" in Malaya. They happened to ge t from the Government, a piece of land fn the interior of t h e village for cultivation. Be ing very poor and ignorant they a lways remained in that little se t t lement . One day one of them fell sick and was taken to the Kampar hospital and when the catechist of t h e K a m p a r Church was m a k i n g h i s usual rounds this pa t i en t told h im about the Chris t ians in t h a t distr ict . With the necessary financial help from Rev. F a t h e r Dupoirieux, the Christians themselves bui l t a nice chapel which is now a l i t t le more than three y e a r s old. A s days passed by and a s t imes w e r e becoming worse in China, more refugees were coming to Malaya and now the n u m b e r of Catholics has risen to about 80. Owing to the want of sufficient w a t e r and also due to t h e rubber and cocoa-nut restriction t h e Chr i s t i ans a re compelled to leave t h e land and stay with the i r fr iends n e a r e r the v ^ a g e . In addi t ion to these disappointments ano the r m i s h a p has f a l l e n them. One day while the Poorer among t h e m who still regain there were bu rn ing some cut ^ a s s during t h e sunny days of J u i y ; a violent breeze came and <*rned some spa rks on t o the patched roof of t he i r much es-

n r t ? h a p e I a n d s e t 1 1 a b l a z e -/ n e Christians a t once set t o work ^ p r o t e c t th i s t r ea su re and their w r t a saved t h e chapel from corn-rate destruction. The present

1 6 o f the chapel pe rmi t s worship

tha+ the extension should be carr ied cut a t once and completed before the end of t h e year so as to cope with t h e expected increase in the number of pupils next year.

Collectors were appointed to go round a m o n g Catholics for donations for the purpose. It is hoped before long t h e required amount , between $1,200 and $1,500, will have been realized. The Par i sh has shown, in view of t h e bad t imes , r emark able generosi ty in subscribing over $1,200 towards t h e pre l iminary expenses and between $80 and $70 per mon th towards t h e runn ing expenses of t h e School.

* * * * * * S.F.X.S. and Relief for the Poor.

Subscript ion lists for t h e St . Francis Xavier ' s Society a re out. The response has been very g ra t i fying. Equally gra t i fy ing is t he response to t h e appeal for relief for t h e poor. In fact Ipoh Catholics as a body have never shown j such tangible appreciat ion of our j Lord's advice to lay up t r e a su re "where nei ther rus t nor moth doth consume, and where thieves do not break t h r o u g h and s teal ."

* * * * * A Redemptor is t F a t h e r ' s Visi t .

F a t h e r Gallagher, C. SS. R., of Manila, who has preached a r e t r ea t to t h e nuns of t he Ipoh Convent, gave an impressive sermon in Church last Sunday—the

The wedding of Mr. Joseph Philip of the Drainage and Irrigation Dept., Kuala Lumpur, with Miss Antoniamal, daughter of Mr. Sinniah, contractor, Ipoh, was solemnised at the Church of Our Lady of Lourdes, Ipoh, on 23rd Aug., 1935.

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feast of the Nat iv i ty of our Lady. In t h e evening he addressed the Children of Mary of St . Michael 's Ins t i tu t ion and the Convent before Benediction.

F'ather Gallagher will proceed to t he Cameron Highlands where he will preach t h e annual r e t r e a t of mencing on t h e 16th Jns t . t h e F a t h e r s of the Diocese, com-

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Another Cinema for Ipoh. Ipoh is wi tness ing fresh act ivi ty

in t h e commercial aspect of amusemen t . T he m a n in t he s t r ee t views th i s a s a s ign of t h e r e t u r n of prosper i ty , b u t thought fu l people r a t h e r deplore all t h i s commercialization of amusement .

Though equipped wi th an amusement pa rk and five thea t res , Ipoh is to have ye t ano the r cinema hall, which is going to be a modern, luxur ious and commodious building, to be built along Cowan Street , and not, as erroneously repor ted by some newspapers , along Brewster Road.

Your correspondent unders tands t h a t ft was t h e original proposal t o build i t a long Brewste r Road in a spat next to t he cemetery of St. Michael 's Church and very close to t h e Convent. The Town Planning Commit tee acted wisely in rejecting t h e plan for the chosen spof is t h e most unsuitable s i te imaginable for a c inema hall.

There would be g rea t danger to t h e children a t t end ing t h e Convent School bo th on account of the' n a t u r e of the road a t th i s point and t h e consequent increased traffic. Then how i t would h u r t one 's feeling of regard for our beloved dead to have a cinema v i t i a t ing the solemn a tmosphere of t he i r hallowed g r a v e s !

The Sam Tet Catholic Chinese Public School has made such prog r e s s since i ts inception a t t h e beginning of th i s y e a r t h a t an extension to i ts present premises is impera t ive . A t presen t t h e enro lment is over 80, of whom between 20 and 30 a re non-Catholic chi ldren. I t is ant icipated t h a t nex t y e a r will see a g r ea t e r enro lment .

P l ans for t h e proposed extension have been prepared and approved by t h e Town Board.

On Sunday last, a general meeting of t he Par i sh was held, a t which t h e School Commi t t ee explained to those presen t the posit ion of t he School. T h e meeting was unanimously of t he opinion

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DEMAND FOR INQUIRY INTO NAZI ATTACK ON RELIGION

WHITE HOUSE ADHERES TO ' G O O D N E I G H B O U R "

POLICY

Calling t h e a t t en t ion of t h e House to t h e r epo r t s t h a t "ne gotiations a r e now unde r way for a reciprocal t r a d e ag reemen t w i th the government of Germany, Representative Dickste in declared that t he "bigoted d ic ta tor of t h e Reich ha s given ample evidence that he is not to be t rus t ed in affairs which involve h u m a n rights, and we m a y properly a s sume he is not to be t rus t ed in trade agreements t h a t a re about to be entered in to between t h i s Government and t h e Government ot Ge rmany / '

"I believe," Represen ta t ive Dickstein continued, " t h e Uni ted States has a mos t unusual opportunity during t h e course of negotiations on th i s proposed reciprocal trade agreement , t o t a k e to itself

t h e leadership a m o n g t h e governments of t h e world, and compel principle individual and religious and racial freedom of cit izens of other nat ions who m a y be in Germany for t h e t ransac t ion of business, t r ade , s tudy, pleasure , or travel and sflso t h e principle of non-discrimination of German-born people residing in Ge rmany re gardless of religion or racial origin. This should be a cardinal-reciprocal agreement on t h e p a r t of Hi t le r in any t r ade ag reemen t now wi th t h e United States*. I t r u s t t h e Secretary of S t a t e will reach th i s same conclusion before concluding any agreements . "

Representa t ive Thomas L. Blan-ton of Texas immediately followed Representat ive Dickstein on t h e floor and declared t h a t "we have a S ta te Depa r tmen t t o handfe our business wi th foreign governm e n t s " and t h a t "no member of the House of Representa t ives has any voice whatever , in pass ing on treat ies or any kind of ag reemen t s with foreign countr ies ." " A s one member of th is House," he added, "I want t he foreign governments th roughout t he world to unders tand t h a t t h e gent leman from

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(BY N.C.W.C. NEWS SERVICE). Washington.—Demands for an investigation of anti-Catholic

and anti-Semitic drives on the part of the Nazi Government in Germany, following on the heels of similar demands for an investigation of religious persecution in Mexico have not shaken the Administration's determination to adhere to the so-called "good neighbour" policy in the international field. The inquiry in to German condi

tions was proposed by Sena tor King of U tah . A pro tes t aga ins t "the reign of t e r r o r " was tiled wi th the S ta te D e p a r t m e n t .on behalf of a number of Jewish organizations. In t h e House, Representative Dickstein went a s tep f a r t h e r by demanding t h a t assurance of freedom of religious worship be incorporated in t h e reciprocal t r ade treaties now being negot ia ted.

Dr. Orchard Ordained At Westminster

Dr. William E. Orchard, former minister of the King's Weigh House Chapel, London, who was received into the Church in Rome in 1932, was ordained to the priesthood by-Archbishop Hinsley in His Grace's private chapel at Westminster recently.

Dr. Orchard received the Tonsure and minor orders, Subdiaconate, and Dia-conate on three successive days and was ordained priest on the fourth day, a Sunday.

Rev. Dr. J. P. Arendzen, of the Catholic Missionary Society, assisted the new priest and Mgr. J. P. Collings was Master oi Ceremonies.

Following the Ceremony Father Orchard returned to Seaford, Sussex, where he has been living for the past few months.

ATTACK ON CATHOLICISM NOTED SECULAR EDITOR WARNS

HITLER.

Emppria , Kan.—Warning to Chancellor Adolf Hit ler of Germ a n y to " S t o p ! Look! L i s t en ! " be lore he continues his campaign agains t t he Catholic Church is given by William Allen Whi te , editor of t he Emporia Gazette, in an editorial appear ing in t h a t paper.

"The world," t he -editorial says , "i;-> watching Germany with cynical anticipation of calamity. Hi t le r in t h e ar rogance of his t y r a n n y has tackled the Catholic Church. F o r nearly 2,000 years t h e Catholic Church in Western JSurope has justified itself by i ts works. No less too in the moderfc world t h a n in t he days of Constar*tine."

"The Church," t he editorial adds, "still ever-present refuge for weak yet aspir ing humani ty is a terr ible responsibil i ty—a responsibility t h a t so far in 2,000 yes r s pf his tory has brought vain and ignominious failure to everyone who has tr ied.

"In ages past o ther t y r an t s have beaten futilely upon the rock whereon Jesus founded the inst i tutional side of His philosophy. These t y r a n t s a re remembered in h is tory only for the i r futility. The Church still s tands . Hi t ler in another century may be vaguely recalled as ano ther ups ta r t who se t out to bat t le wi th human na tu re . When he wrest led with pa t r io t i sm

he conquered. Whan he ba t t led with race still he won. But when he cast himself aga ins t t h e rock of St . P e t e r he was sha t t e red and fell.

"The world is watch ing a contes t between a mad, ru th l e s s t y r a n t eorroded by h is pwn sense of power and t h e eternal ver i t ies which a r e tYP^d by t h e Church of Rome and a re embodied in t h e Chr is t ian religion. Before i t is t^o Jate Hi t le r sboijld hee4 t h e warn ing a t t h e crossroads—stop, look, l i s ten ." (N.C.W.C.)

WE N E E D YOUR SUPPORT TO CARRY ON THIS GOOD WORK.

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