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tfarii THE OFFICIAL CATHOLIC PAPER OF KANSAS AND OKLAHOMA VOL. XX. NO. 17. FIVE CENTS PER COPY 12.00 PER YEAR WICHITA, KANSAS, JANUARY 24, As Current Events Eternal If 'I tt 1 iV 4 5 i.v; to? I'-'A 1914 Honors For Catholic Members Hon.

J. Curley and Hon. M. Connelly Receive Special Honors at Beginning of New Year. Honorable James M.

Curley, who represents the 12th district of Massachusetts in the House of Representatives who was elected Mayor of Boston, on Tuesday, January 13th, for a term of four years, has had a remarkable public career, and is a good example, that the way to the highest position is open to all. Mr. Curley was born in Boston on November 20, 1874, and his education was obtained in the grammar school and the evening high school and afterwards he engaged in the real estate and insurance business. Showing a liking for politics, he became very active, and was elected a member of the Boston Common Council in 1900 and 1901; the Massachusetts House of Representatives, 1902 and 1903; and the Boston Board of Aldermen 1904 to 1911; was elected to the 62nd and re-elected to the 63rd Congress. Mr.

Curley is a member of the important House Committee on Foreign Affairs, and is known as one of the best debaters and extemporaneous speakers, in Congress. On behalf of the National-German-American Alii ance of the United States of Amer ica, Mr. Curley presented a bill which had been ratified by thousands of members of the organization for the regulation of the immigration of aliens and for the amendment of ex isting laws, and his speech in the House of Representatives in opposi tion to the passage of the immigra tion bill, requiring a literacy test, was one of his greatest efforts and was the main cause for its defeat. Representative Curley, despite the demands of his legislative duties, found time to actively aid in keep ing alive interest in all that pertains to the welfare of Irish where his services as a speaker were constantly in demand. He has been an active member of the G.

A. R. for nineteen years and is ever a welcome figure at national and state conven tions of the order. As mayor of Boston, Mr. Curley will receive an annual salary of $10, 000, which is the same as that of the Governor of Massachusetts.

He succeeds another Catholic, Hon orable John F. Fitzgerald, as mayor Speaker Clark of the House of Rep resentatives has announced the ap pointment of Representative Maurice Connolly of Iowa, as a member of the board of regents of the Smithsonian nstitution at Washington. Mr. Con nelly takes the place made vacant by the death of Representative Irvin S. epper, of Iowa.

Honorable Edward D. White, Chief Justice of the United States, is chancellor of the Institution. Mr. Connolly is one of the best edu cated and learned men at the Capitol, being a graduate of Cornell Univer sity with the degree of A. B.

1897; received the degree of L. B. cum laude, at the New York Law School in 1898, and was admitted at the age of 21, to the bar of Iowa; took post graduate course at Balliol College, Oxford University, England, and at the Univer- Appear in the City The Catholic Advance) be had for a few francs) would suit excellently until such time as the edition coming at Easter would be ready. The Easter edition will not contain the feasts of several of the saints and angels which have been suppressed. It will have but few saints! feasts on a Sunday.

And so much of the old breviary has been struck off that assurance has been given the writer the new edition could be published in two instead of four parts without inconvenience to the priest who carries his breviary about with him. Very likely this paper will be able to be of material aid in supplying priests early with copies. Safe at Home. From ecclesiastical politics one turns to a lighter subject, one more congenial to the air of the New Year while the Roman Congregations are still on vacation. It must have been with a sigh of relief Italy restored to Paris the stolen Gioconda, for never yet has any lady been better guarded during her wanderings than the famous Mona Lisa! In Florence the picture was shown to the citizens under the eyes of half a dozen gendarmes.

Under similar circumstances Rome viewed the curious smile which Leonardo da Vinci took three years to paint. And on the arrival of Mena Lisa she was guarded by 144 soldiers, 34 gendar mes, 6 detectives and nobody knows how many officials scattered through the crowd, all to see the good Floren tine dame should not taken off a second time! To many it would be interesting to know what ground there is for the claim that the Gherardini of Florence from which the original of Da Vinci's masterpiece sprang, belong to the same stock as the warlike Geraldines of Ireland. We have a reference to it in the lines. The Geraldines, those Geraldines 'Tis full a thousand years. Since mid the Tuscan vineyards Outflashed their battle spears." The author of these lines contends the Geraldines of Leinster came originally from Tuscany.

American Visitors in Rome. For several years Rome has not held such a concourse of foreigners, largely American, as she has done this past Christmas. Among the more notable of the clerical visitors were the Very Rev. John T. O'Connell, Vicar General of Toledo, Ohio, and Very Rev.

Thos. C. O'Reilly, D.D., Chancel- or of Cleveland, Ohio, both of whom were honored guests at the American and Irish centers in the Eternal City? Both Father O'Connell and Dr. O' Reilly, the latter a former bril- iant student of the North American College, leave Rome these days for lorence and Switzerland. They sail on the 27th inst, from Cherbourgh for the United States.

The Monarchs' Greeting to the Pope. Amid the many expressions of ven eration and friendship sent from Princes of Church and State, Bishops, re- igious bodies and countless individ uals on New Year's morning to the Holy Father, it is pleasant to find the sovereigns of Europe never fail in Mr. Connolly has been president of a college fraternity and the Iowa State Association, and the. Benevolent Protective Order of Elks. He is an authority on college life and custom, and has a wealth of reminiscences and amusing incidents of his progress through the lecture halls, laboratories and the campus at these institutions of learning.

He has the distinction of being the first democrat and the first native born and youngest man to represent the "Money Wrench District" in the National Legislature. REQUESTS DUTY AMONG MEXICAN REFUGEES. Out of the distressing news from the horrors of the Mexican situation, comes the information that one of our Catholic Chaplains of the United States. Army, Rev. Francis P.

Joyce, 4th Field Artillery, now stationed at Texas City, Texas, has requested the Secretary of War to detail him on temporary duty, with some 4,000 refugees on the Mexican border. These refugees are men, women and children who have escaped across the border with nothing but their lives; numbers of. them are Catholics in need of advice and words of consolation at this trying time, and it is hoped that Father Joyce will have his request granted, and be given the opportunity to do God's work among these unfortunates. Chaplain Joyce is a New Yorker and was born on Saint Patrick's Day in 1875. He was appointed from Kansas an Army Chaplain on March 21, 1905, and has served with the 14tl and 5th regiments of Cavalry, and was then transferred to the 4th Regiment of Field Artillery.

On March 21, 1912, he was promoted to the rank of Captain. Another Catholic Chaplain on the Mexican border who is seeing much of the insurrection, is Father Francis B. Doherty, 3rd Cavalry, at Fort Mcin tosh, Laredo, Texas. After the battle across the stream early in the New Year, in which the casulties, killed and wounded, were perhaps 1,000, about 125 wounded were brought to Laredo, and Father Doherty has been visiting them regularly. A branch of the Red Cross has been established there and Colonel Blocksom and Father Doherty have been placed on the committee.

PERMITTED TO CELEBRATE MASS SITTING DOWN. On Christmas Day the Rev. Salva dor Persone, S.J., of Trinidad, observed the eightieth anniversary of hisx birth. Father Persone went West in 1871, making part of the way over- and by stage. He did missionary work among the Indians in New Mexico, and erected a college at Las Ve gas, which in 1 8R8 removed to Denver.

He was sent to Trinidad in 1892, where he has since remained. On account of rheumatism he is unable to take any active part In par ish work, but has been granted by the Holy Father the privilege of say ing mass sitting down. On Cim- mas Day he was assisted to the pul pit and addressed the congregation in Spanish and Italian. He is beloved not only by the Catholics of all races, but by the Protestants and Jews of Trinidad as well. their duty in this respect, 'no-matter to what religious persuasion the king belongs On the 1st, telegrams for "a happy New Year" reached Piux from the Emperor William of Germany, Emperor Franz Josef of Australia, Sultan Mahomet of Turkey.

Czar Nicholas II of Russia, King Al-phonsus XIII of Spain, King Frederick of Saxony, King 'Nicholas I of Montenegro, King Ludwig III of Ba-var'a, Her Majesty Queen Amelia of Portugal, King Manoel II of Portugal, King Haakon VII of Norway, King Gustavus of Sweden. The Surviving Officers of the Papal Army. But there were other greetings of a tenderer nature for Pius X. They were the salutations of the surviving officers of the old Pontifical Army who never fail to be received by the Pope on the eve of the New Year. That magnificent old man with the long flowing beard, Count Blumenstihl Colonel of the disbanded army, is not so active as he was seventy years ago when he first took his stand under the Pontifical flag.

But his ninety-two odd years never became him better than when he knelt at the feet of the Pope last Thursday. Prince Lancellotti, Count Macchi and other aged officers knelt beside the old colonel. And with them was Archbishop Lazzareschi, Titular of Icomio and Canon of St. Peter's, who is not so young as he was half a cen tury aero the Papal soldiers used to admire their interpid young chaplain. But this matters little.

He is the idol of. the Roman clergy and has been a trusted friend of three Popes. SPECIOUS REASONING. we nnd in the issue a good example of the specious reasoning of the average Socialist, says the Ave Maria. The editor of that excellent weekly having quoted Bebel in sup port of the statement that Socialism leads to atheism, a Boston Socialist "Why do you not quote Jeffer son the agnostic to prove that the Democratic party is agnostic; or In gersoll, to prove the same of the Re publican party? Such an argument would be as logical as quoting the personal opinions of men like Bebel." "Personal opinions about what?" retorts the Live Issue.

"About athe ism or Socialism? If Bebel said, am an it would be unfair to draw the conclusion that because Be bel the Socialist is an atheist, Social ism as a movement and system is atheistic. This is not our argument however. Bebel does not say, 'I am personally an but he does maintain 'Socialism leads to atheism. We are not so much concerned with what Bebel is personally as with what he says. Bebel, as the recognized eader of Socialism in Germany, ought to know what the doctrines of Socialism- are.

If I want to know something about Socialism, I go to the authorities. I come to the conclusion that the doctrines of Socialism are atheistic because the recognized authorities and leaders of Socialism say so, and also give the reasons why." There is nothing illogical about that argument, but there are both illogicality and impertinence in an individual Socialist's denying, for campaign purposes, doctrines (such as the enmity of Socialism to the Church) which the most authoritative spokesmen of his party now frankly avow. (Correspondence of Rome, Jan. 3, 1913. Consistory in March.

Again reports of a Papal Consistory fill the Roman air. This time; Dame Rumor is, I fancy quite correct in surmising the March winds will bring with them the long expected ceremony, since the thinning of the ranks of the Sacred College during the year that has just rolled by will scarcely fail to induce the Holy to summon a Consistory. During the ten and a half years of his life in the Vatican Pius the Tenth has never displayed any partiality for these great meetings that mean so much to nations as well as to individuals. But the need of chief officers for the Roman Congregations supersedes all views one way or the other, and it is not forgotten this last year has seen the deaths in Rome alone of Cardinal Respighi, Cardinal Vives Tuto, Cardinal Oreglia and Cardinal Rampolla. Why are not more names mentioned as likely to be inscribed next March on the Golden Book? So far report speaks of two creations.

One Is that of Mgr. Delia Chiesa, Arch pishop of Bologna, who spent years in ifptem'atic "Service of the Church chiefly as lieutenant in Spain to Car dinal Rampolla. The other creation is that of a German Bishop, but no par ticular name is mentioned. We can now make a pretty shrewd guess at the purpose of the recent brief visit made to Rome by the Prince Bishop of Breslau, the confidential friend of the Emperor of Germany. At present the German Empire has but one Cardinal His health has not been of late the very best.

Indeed, with' his usual frankness, Cardinal Kopp made no attempt here in Rome six. weeks ago to conceal his apprehension of this being his last visit to the banks of Tiber So Germany wishes another Cardinal and all things considered she merits it. The Latest Form of the Roman Brev iary. As clerical circles in Rome keep the publishers busy answering questions as to the latest edition of the Breviary it is interesting to give in this col umn what details are now at" hand At the present hour hundreds of ar tists are busy in their printing of fices, for the new edition of the Breviary will be ready by Easter. So four teen weeks hence priests throughout the world will have in their hands the four parts containing the changes made by the S.

Congregation of Rites last October. Its characteristics will be brevity and, clearness two notes the busy ecclesiastic loves to see struck, in everything, but especially in the book to which he must give an hour and a quarter every day of his life. Soon after Piux reformed the Breviary some two years ago an edition was prepared in accordance with the rules laid down. In this column a hint was given, if the writer is not mistaken, that the last change had not come yet, that it would be well to wait awhile before purchasing and that the old Breviary used with the psalter in its new form (which could ity of Heidelberg, Germany..