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VOL. 27—NO. +40.
FIVE CENTS
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TAU. COWENTION
bute to Lecel Urion for Splen-
did Programme Arranged
His Eminence, Cardinal Dougherty,
Presides at Mass in Cathedral
Tuesday Morning ney
At its fitty~ Aest t general convention,
ja in this elty, the Catholic Total
vock the declarations ledges of
the little bana of eighteen mea wh
selves in this -city on
against, the use of in-
as far
ten
the opening session on Tuesday in the
school, Eighteenth and
‘award J. Cat-
{Wood streets, and’ DF: Edw
the Philadelphia, Chamber of
. Bernard's Church, . Easton,
Philadelphia
Union delivered a learned sermon at
the Mass on Tuesday morning in which
he get forth the principles of, Catholic
mo’ a
t 8
formerly president of the
total abstinence gainst
legal methods, of attaining 4 abstinence
from alcoholic figuors
. Father
Sermon
her McCann, ater tracing back
the ‘ot abstinence movement through
showing how femly its
imbedded in fhe firm soil
or the Scriptures, said in
Aw Catholics, therefore, we need 1
Her vision is
Man may
wegttons ‘as divorce, labor and educa-
or
‘History and all, human experience
attest, that strong, drink haa been
bused, | Men se
fort of regulation is. tot te Mestrable
but’ even necessar; The Scriptures
on passages denouncing. such
abuse;
8 explanations for crime:
ehiginn denien that such abuse Is
sinful. The atholic Total Abstinence
refore inspired by the
thought of this sinfulnesm. Tt gazes on
the vision of the Man of Sorrows.
ponders on the sacred words, “I thirst.’
It proposes them thers,
No
this motive and
seek -to lessen the drink
the approbation of successive, Roman
Pont ntfs. So Jong ae man has free will
pecan scarcely hope to procure ‘by
man enactment, what the 1 ‘Ten Com-
mandments have-tailed to
Divine. By mand pervonal equas
tion in ever rise to plague
af example rather than force of enacts
ly spiritual.
Many eyes will be turned upon us
the course of our deliberations:
Must maintain our usual stead-
BK allow oer, |i
dtr
Mhning alliances
in n conclusion, let me concratujate
re blladeiphia’ Union on herr nets
jest work and endeavor in
a sent Jeremias
v and to prove the
Rechabites and subse-
to commend them and their
ce to the consideration of His
You have obeyed
‘con-
highest “represen
al 1s Eminence: the
nat Archbishop of this archdio-
your feliow-laborers in
I btinence cause to this freat
archdlocese. doing
hae pubtioly vnonianded your
and lessea your efforts and has
for an instruction, and
ite You and your work ‘to
Cathoile people, but particu-
Sur young men’ who are sur
many temptations, eape-
mitations. ton intemperance
on have ‘saved" xo many tniti-
ene,
meinen
Cathe a
_an " indestribable
7 erit to hear faite the
t mins snoken he Rech-
¢ weniy-five hundred years ag0!
, (Continued on ‘Seventh Page)
public records offer the fact of] Ue
eure: by| magne ai
nee we
orage and dritt” on the reets or ot
‘GELEDBATED GREY NUNS |
REAFFIRMS PRINCIPLES) GORE TO THIS DIOCESE,
Resclutions Adopted Include Tri- Magnificent Melrose Property Ace
quized as Motherhouse, Novitiate
- ‘and Young Ladies’ Academy
MAYOR GREETS DELEGATES FRONTS ON OLD YORK ROAD
Circles. Will Open New Institue.
tion for Fall Semester
splendid Yerk road
mi
evidence iven arkable de
velopm
* the‘name of the new in
Community Famous in Educational
With the estabtisnment here, in the
na
ent of religion and education in
ne
an finely situated. "opposite
nd
2
5
ae
S
x
a
a
oF
5,
es
ee
ae
ee
oe
ce
ae
is Malvern Preparatory ‘School « and Academy
ori ai
rot Melrose avenue, the. pro
extends back : to Jad and
Bee
nificent
three- sitery stone structure, with nu
merous large airy .rooms | and. -widi
staircases and corridors, which will be
remodeled at once to accommodate the
tung und postulants, together. wee the
scholars of Melro,
buildings: Include '@ caretakers
stable and carriage house: and =
For years th
ion.
hou,
bar
‘and ° tret
invigorating ' pines,”
Bad productive frute
Th a
mmeatowlana “and a .
Work will be started immediately on
putting the: entire ‘property: in’ first:
class cont ‘
‘Academy to Open in r September *
“thé” famous” Grey
aie’ by” Leg! XIII:
‘The
new unity now. ers “one
hundred and fifty” retigious thirty. of
The superior ‘general of the’ Grey
Nuns of the’ Sacred: Heart of. Phila~
detphia, ts Rev. Mother Mary
tine.” Rev, Mother Anne is ‘assistant
Eoncral Sis rt Mary Agnes, formerly
jean of the ‘clehnted. D’Youville Col
principal
wo in Lowell. Mass. and one in Jack:
son Heights, Long’ Island.
'on| FIRST BISHOP CONSECRATED.
® IN HISTORIC CATHEDRAL
Cologne, Say 2 For ‘ne ‘neat ‘ume
in history: a_ Bishop
Becrated. In ‘the Cathedral Of Aix
c
ind the scene of the ‘coronation
of a long series of German kings.
Dr. ‘Stracter,, who ts to be Provost
of Aix-la-Chapelle and auxillary to
the Archbishop of Cologne. has the
distinction ‘of: being the first Bishop
evated: to. that high: ra the
eaince, his” con on ae titular
Bishop of Cavgaropells having taken
the hands of Car
r. Straeter was. born. In Aix-la-
Chapelle, in the suburb of Forst,-Fol~
lowing his consecration he was in-
stalled as Provost of the Pathedral by
emperors were
between §13
The precious relics obtained
by Charlemagne and Otho IIT. for the
imperil chapel were the objects of
great pilgrimages in the Middle Ages.
>| WORK ON RESTORATION
: OF
RHEIMS CATHEDRAL »
W. C. News Servic
Re
spect the estoration of the cathedral.
Cardinal Lucon Informed him that
If all goes well, he hopes. within three
yearanto “restore for worship t
aves up to the transe
ia architect. Mt. Deneux, bas
esiabished a museum in
n placed all the fragment:
testute or, interesting pieces of seulp:
ruins,
ken ‘advantage of
nthe alte of which the pre!
velo! man erected
AGAIN APPOINT PRIEST.
ON PUBLIC SCHOOL BOARD
, Aug. 5A apiendia, gxhle
bition | ot he aptele of 0 a co-
oneration,.existing” be ‘ath:
Slice ond. Prot:stants va Westbury, To
a Biven on last Taesday evening
hn J. Moran, the re
Tehily ‘appointed. pastor of ‘st Brita
Church, ‘Westbury, was elected to the
Westbury Public ue
seed th
D. . Da Pr
ational” Gatholte ‘Truth , Soctety ‘and
editor-in-chief of “Truth,
zone. ‘The property,
most sixty acres, Was for years the
residence of the Inte Richard J. Dob-
bin: a was acquires ‘estate.
=? ie Mansion “and. “Grounds
fronting on road, at the -cor-
obbins estate was
Hes
-Wiatinet : order,
BLESSES FLOATING CHAPEL.
FOR BOATMEN OF PARIS).
Monsignor ° Plateau» Labored on
> Rivers and Canals for 25 Years. .
~ Received Montyon Prize ©
awe oA
(By ews Service.)
Paris, he new floating
chapel, ae Star
just: been ‘hésaed on the ‘cine ‘at the
foot of the street on. which’ 4s. the
Cathedral "of Notre Dama of, Paris,
The new seamen’s chapel was’ fori
erly a passenger boat wiving Between
Paris and St. Germain.
July
he
a has completed
the vinstaliation and changes required
Melrose , Academy," which ' willbe /f9 transform the former excursion boat
fashioned. it is announced, ma ng the | into a chapel, .-
f the famous D'Youville College | The canal boat used for a chapel
ralo, up to the present was purchasod: sec-
fond hand ‘by -Monsignor. Plateau at
the end of the ‘war to replace ithe first
“Brolle du Matin” : Morning. Star)
which was destroyed by, bembard
at" Dinaut-ourssieuse In. August, ath
mahile tt was anchored’ ajong, the “au
of the town...
t Devotes Self to Boatmen
“For , twenty-five “years , Monsignor
Plateau haa devoted himscit to Tis=
slonary work among the boatmen. Son
Rhom will come to Melton: ant ince {of a teacher who had a school along
ave held in the highest esteens in, caus {RE Bank “ofa, canal in Northern
cational. cireies. for “the - remarkable France, he was ‘early «struck: by’ the
achievements of thelr pupite, fact that the boatmen’s children could
not'g0 either to school or to church,
(He entered the priesthood with the
intention of devoting himself especially
to, these children. and was permitted
He founded the Boatmen's
Society at St. Quentin, and has visited
by wat
Fra
y
&nd™ religious omees at the halting
points “He has made, personel, visits |
5,000 canal boats in order to
00
fn touch with the boatmen and their
-| familles.
The academy,-a few years ago, re-
warded him by’ giving him the Mont-
ss PRESBYTERIAN NA NATION AL
' TEMPLE IS PROPOSED
(By Nu CW. C, News Servic
Washington, Aug. ‘7.—Erection. here
gift from the members o!
terian Church (North) to tho capital
city
0 the Inte John M. Harlan, former
Justice of the Supreme Cou
United States, has been accrued the
ieetime, it fs sal
endeavors to bring about the ful-
aeal, Since the death
Chcouraged by his friend. 8
nator. the Rev. Wallace Radelifte, for-
er Moderator the - Presbyt@
Ge eral. Asem! iy a nd pastor emeritos
the New York Avenue Presbyteri
Ginureh
'MONSIGNOR BAUDRILLART
_ TO LECTURE IN ARGENTINE
rews Service.)
—Monsignor Baudrit-
) Academ’
France, and M. Charles Le Goffic,
dent Of the, Society of Men of Letters,
have left, for Sou on an
dne'eathonien ne
tome "eathetis ® of the Argentine Re:
public and Ur trip comes
Muait of negotiations: between
Monsignor de Andrea, head of the
tholie Popular: Union of Argentin
ministrator ot
a. th
Contain the reanone for
succes achieved in "veance. bs
Canadian beok, “Marin Chapdelaine."
ARCHBISHOP BONZANO WILL.
MAKE APOSTOLIC. VISITATION
July“ "Acta Apostolicae ‘Sedis "An-
nounces » His Appointment « as)
\/Visitor by Holy Father
According to the.“Acta, Apostolicae
sue, a letter dated June: 1i, signed by
Cardinal De Lai, Secretary of the Con
gregation named, addressed to'-the
rehishons of Boston and Philadel
phia, as Cardinals, and the other Arch-
and ishopw. of Soar country,
Visitation Car:
indly_re-
advising them of th
inal pe Lal beapeak
ception for the wiser; t
jormaltty of. tritroduc
his, fine sense of*justice, as as
hia knowledge of ‘persone and condl-
mentioned in the, letter as
Qualifications fitting him ina special
hand.
me!
‘ard designates the Tove
ofthe Tig Father for tno constantly
growing Church in the U.-S. as the
motive of His Holiness in desiring the
isitation, and expresses the hope that
roi
zano'has-already ente rea ‘upon bis tour
of visitation to the varlous gptscopal
PAPAL RELIEF if/SSION
“DISPATCHED TO RUSSIA
Party to Distribute Food and Medi-
cine Through Pontiff’s Charity
and Search for Prisoners °
‘ay N.C. W. C, Spectal Cable.)
asian ane ore of
te i
Stations ‘designated for the distribu
tion of relief, These stations were
fixed by Father Walsh of Georgetown
University, repr tive of the
a rt
Natlonal Catholic Welfare Council, ac-
nding to instructions received dur~
n fine hiss e four weeks
and whieh formally” ‘confirmed “charity
to the sole aim of the fon,
thereby luding . any of
political or religions propaganda.
| Permission has been given to search
for dispersed ers in Russia.
PERSHING’S PORTRAIT GIFT
TO FRENCH ART MINISTRY
York, August 8.—"It typifies the
American spirit is Marshal
and Fech's verdict on the $3,090
Kiighta of Columbus nortrale of Gen-
eral John J. Pershing, painted by Mlle.
Micheline Rescoe, now in this country.
The French Teneraieimo’ opinion of
was contained in a letter
Gotu nd, comtetal
the pleture
received by.
national Cc. maga:
Marcel kneeht, former Theniber ‘ot ine
Freneh, igh Commission to
us
‘Tho picture of General Pershing bas
deen vrenented ° ee French Ministry
of Fine Arts by the K. of C, tozether
ye exits Feprewenting the N s
C. wu front for the
‘ma "construction wot Tor
turned veterans. Gel rshing has
freee the Rescor. alt as the
oe wage of him wate, “Meescor, who
25 yer age, Was sates
chief.
7a eS Ss s .
eos
ae
WILL OPEN x stHOOL
FOR BOYS AT WALVERN
Institution to Be Conducted Under
Direction of Augustinian Fathers.
Property Contains Big Acreage
Under the direction ot the Augus:
tinlan: Fathers, a. preparatory. school
and select academy. for on will open
on. Sentember, 20, at. Ma The
John A, McErlain, 0,
Islands, where be attained great suc-
tee in the ‘caucational fleld, will be
in charg.
‘The Malvern School, ae it wi
est
the Lincoln Highway. Naif. mite. from
jalvern and ..two miles from Paoli
win fine, train service‘ from this city.
nh
pp
rooms,’ baths and large shower ech
clectrieity throughout, gas, and vepo
a Holise, surrounded by. old trees,
der the supervision of & matron.
ruction at present. are ath-
der const
dette. ced, running track rand tennis
ther -Mckriain, yho is well known
to Phitadelphinn
io from the Philippine lelands, wher
he labored for fifteen years, In’ Mania
as in charge of St. Rita's Hall,
ich had four hundred students, and
he was also rector of the Cathedral.
EVICTED BY BISMARCK,
ORDER FLOURI FLOURISHES HERE
News Serv! “
—Sister Vi eranica,
instructor and
oe
7.
© ordes 8 of
ihe Most precious Blood in the tented
‘The motherhouse: ts now located ‘at
St. Clair county,
Between East St Louis nnd Bellevite
@ order was evicted from German:
by Bismarck and tte original founders
fy yes
St.
Bele Concordi:
Joseph and: Wichita,
se to 400 in number,
hoola, two academies,
heapiaia and one orphanage, and
ucting nearly 7.000 puptis.
MONSIGNOR SEIPEL SEEKS - .
TO REHABILITATE. AUSTRIA
C. News Service
whic oh Austria has fe
hope, often | with despair, » con-
Tinttes even now, with the prospect of
Imlgation stil dim and distant. ‘The
French refusal to reduce German
reparations, with ‘the consequent de:
cline of the mark and a Sencomban
fall of the ‘ucrian crown,
nitie faulties. Which, vexisted
a
has jaust Tetarned. from the Pniiippine
id
vention.
CORNER-STONE [5 LAID
Imposing : Exercises Attend Cere-
~ mony in Parish of Our Mother.
. of Sorrows
THOUSANDS IN.. ATTENDANCE
Right. Rev. Monsignor Nevin F.
-Fisher,.V, G.; Officiates~Sermon
~ by Rev. John E. Flood, LL. D.
Leroi and imposing ceremonies
tting that formed a pert
rector, the Right Rev. Monsignor Nevin
Ke V. G., on last: Sund:
ternoon: at. 4 o'clock.
Lo fore the hour set for the
throngs gathered on the
the park fn anticipation
rae to mark another
progress
of the West Palla “varie school,
which was these columns
lant week.
palon of -pricats “and ” acolytes
y down Forty-eighth
street, Monsignor Fisher, was att ended
John Ci
parochial actodl, was sub-deacon, The
sermon was delivered by the Rev,
Fi *D., “diocesan superin-
tendent- of parochlal sch Oth)
members of the clergy attending the
exercises were: The Right Rev. Mon-
nors Henry T. Drumgoole, D.
LL: D, and Michael J, Donovan, and
i D
Joseph 2. * Hannigan
South Africa, Denis A. Corbett
.. Wheeler, Joseph E. Marie!
F; Gorman and John B, “itednea
At Forty-eignth stree ni
avenue, the proce sioncwan joned.
de of various nocleties, headed
phan ‘Asylum, with, their band.
he parade accompanied the clergy
io the plactorna, which had béen <aste-
oorated with the National. and
ole Standard ‘Tim
newspapers, a fo
placed. inthe atone. wh
blessed~ bys, Monsignor .Fisher.
gregational “singing: a!
beautiful -note, to. the:
» Fatl
ther Flood. Preac!
as, his subject,
stone rejected by the bullders,
Flood described
said jee resumed in
of history,
ionttnuea e on Third Page!
PEACE MEMORIAL CHURCH
>». TO RISE SE IN ETERNA\ L CITY |
(By iW! ©. News Service.)
ome, August.1—Plans have been
drawn up for a-peace memoria church
monument
z
z
just rising to. emi-
ence. who is said to be a master of
the Renaissance style,
‘The projected church will be dedi-
cated to St. James, the patron of Pope
Benedict. and the four Evangelists. It
will occupy @ site in the quarter of
the Partoll beyond the Villa Borghese.
nd the grea fice, circular in
form," wit be approached from. the
front through an imposing colonnade.
At the time the commission was
given for the pla was estimated
Shar the proposed eteucture sould cost
30,000,000 lire and would tm
posing addition to the Christian archi-
fecture of the Eternal City. It ta prob:
ble, however, that it will not be pos-
sible to start work on the structure
for some time ‘to? conn
* PRIEST ‘AND NUN NAMED
©. ON INDIA’S HONOR LIST
(By N.C. W.C. News Servtce
Calcutta, J: mper
birthday TBonoe Net in india vnsiden
the names of a religious, the Rev.
Father ‘Bertra + late Sesnelpat of
the St. Joseph's College ‘Trichunapoly
‘and the Rev. Mother Naomi of Naga-
of the Sisters of
Father Bertram’ activities in con-
ection the sed Catholic
University College are well known, He
has been awarded the gold medal of
the “Katser-1-Hind,” while the silver
1 of
medal of fhe. same order in bestowed
upon the pore nun, whose works
ob charity and self-sacrifice are well
to Catholics and sof
known
Central India.
*|SUCCEEDS ADMIRAL BENSON -
IN DISTRICT..MEN'S COUNCIL
«Ry, wc.
Washington, D.C, Aug. oma!
J. n was eteeted president of the
Wamington District Councht of the Na
nal Council of Catholle Men to suc-
Geed Rear Admiral William &. Benson,
resigned, gt the annual district con
jonovan was formerly
fret vice Srenitent and han Reninted in
the formation nteen ° district
Newn Service.)
dim to accept and them to concur.” ~
* Prompthzvat’ the: appointed time, the
7 i sai
stl Ne wa -/CY. MLN. U, CONVENTION.
CLOSES IN WILMINGTON
Four Hundred Delegates in Attend-
cance at Forty-eighth Annual
Sessions
OFFICERS. ARE — ELECTED
In Stirring Address Former Judge
W. B. Cunningham Urges Educa-
tion as Foe of Foe of Bigotry
education was urged as the
holic Young
nion to a close.
by 200 delegates
e local Catholic socie
Former Judge Cunningham | stpoke ot
that an effort 0 win to the
faith. the 11,000,000 Negroes of the
country
‘The speaker said that in the South
there were 9,000,000 Negroes
five missionary priests jen °
work among them. He sald that he
was not urging. political
equality and_condem:
and only
ttery, re-elected presi-
raion, pledged hia wntir=
ing efforts during the ensuing, year and
hos-
a for the welfare of the Catholic
‘king,
president
ber:
Resotutions brought forward during its
. a Penn Extoiled,
_ Michael J. McEnery, prominent Phil-
atiioation give the schools
ite finest support.
orn Rev, daha
the Benevelent Pioneer dite
w
Connelly, chaplain
ry As-
ation. paid a warm | the
wor the young me!
In wi Harton
(Of the ‘union
he conven-,
>
of Phi indetnnla Sith "33. paints:
Shanahan Cathatic Club, of Philadel
| nhia,
}clun, york, tae 2 ‘pointe and
e lin Lyceum, of Brooklyn
fourth, 16 points. All of the events
on the programme were evenly con-
tested. St. Anselm's held the lead for
the first five events, and then Enter-
prise and Shanahan fought it out be-
tween them and 1 sult was in
doubt until the last event the national
one mile was run, wh ana~
e
In the evening the aintetes, dele
gates and visitors were entertained at
Samoker at ihe New, Century Chul.
The feature of the
BD
the boxer, were a ‘brought before ‘him.
ut stil he was looking for a man.
Hie found him et last inthe graduate
of Catholic education. The playlet wa
set to music and was generously res
ceived by an audience that taxed the
eapactty of
he convention was formally opened
witha a Solemn High Fi
lawn of
Church. "The celebrant. w
J. A. Baisnee of the Sulpician Sem-
inary, Washington, D.
with the Se’
the French jost
at the battle of Ypres. The deacon
the Rev. William J. Munster,
sburgh, chaplain, Three Hundred
Srenth Field Actillery. and sub-
lin,
Hundred and. Flixeenth “fnuaners,
by
on was
Francie Tuc Wilmington. chaplain,
One Hu and ‘Third Wield aa
ry. The Riga Kev. John J. Mo
hop of
the
nd, Lyn
e delegates wore treuted to 4 70
mile ‘automobile aiaht-neeing tin
ernoon, visiting points of his-
forte Intereat in the State of Delaware
souneile.
(Continued on Seventh Page)