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A DISTINGUISHED ASSEMBLAGE

of Church Dignitaries for the Peace Triduum at Lourdes

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THE C A R D I N A L L E G A T E (CARD. PACELLI ) AS THE C E N T R A L FIGURE.

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at Mukah, Sarawak. Group of orphans, under the charge of the Sisters at

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In vain will you found missions and build

schools, if you are not able to wield the J

offensive and defensive weapon of a loyal

Catholic Press.—Pope Pius X .

Mala-

The power and influence of the Catholic Press are so great that even seemingly insignificant activity in its favour is of great importance. Anything fou do for the Catholic Press I will consider done for me personally.—Pope Pius X L

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International Press Exhibition in Vatican City A P R I L T O O C T O B E R , 1936.

Every Catholic knows the particular attention which has, of late, been bestowed upon the press by the Sovereign Pontiffs. The press is the most powerful means at our disposal for the spreading of our Holy Faith, and the maintenance of its morals. At the same time it proves to be the most effectual defensive weapon against the attacks of our enemies.

In their Encyclicals and Briefs, in their audiences to the thou­sands of pilgrims who flock to Rome every year, Popes with un­tiring perseverance pressed upon the faithful the duty of support­ing a "loyal Catholic Press" whenever it existed and of creating it in the countries which were still without any Official Catholic Organ.

Such is the importance attached by Our present Pope, His Holiness Pius XI. , to the Catholic Press that he went so far as to say: "Anything you do for the Catholic Press, I will consider done for me personally."

His Holiness is well aware of the magnificent effort made in Mission-fields for the organization of a Catholic Press. His will is that it should succeed and thrive. With this object in view, Our Pope has decided that a Universal Exhibition of the Catholic Press would be held in the Vatican City, next year, from Apri l to October.

For the enlightenment of oiir readers, we publish in extenso an article from "Lumen Agency" in which is clearly laid down the scheme of the projected Exhibition.

Rev. Fr . R. Cardon has been appointed by H. Exc. Bishop De­vals Correspondent of the Committee for the Vatican Catholic Press Exhibition. Plans for Vatican International

Catholic Press Exhibit Completed Vatican City.—The Organizing

Commitee has drawn up and pub­lished complete plans for the In­ternational Exposition of the Ca­tholic Press to be held here from April to October 1936.

The exhibition is to be a univer­sal review of the Catholic Aposto­late in the field of the periodical press. It will have a three-fold aim; to make the importance of a periodical press better understood; secondly, to draw attention to the best initiatives and most fruitful realizations in this field; thirdly, to stimulate further endeavours. It will illustrate all the vital <pro-jplems of i : ethics, organization, technique, %tc. of interest to Catho- ;

lies in the field of the Press. This result is to be reached i>y means of photographic views* graphic demonstrations, statisti&r pictur­es, object lessons, and films.

The Exposition will comprise three principal sections; (1) The General Section; (2) The Section

of National Departments; and (3) The Systematic Section.

The General Section. This will exhibit the historical

development of the periodical press in its technique, its ever­growing potentiality, and its in­creased social functions. It will make known the present state of the press all over the world and illustrate the daily and periodical press. The conditions under which Catholic journalists work to-day will be shown. Special promi­nence will be given to efforts for the training of journalists.

In this section the public will also be able to examine all the "cog-wheels" which constitute the mechanism of a newspaper. A film' is being prepared which will illustrate in all its details the organization and life of a great modern journal.

The Section of National Departments.

Each nation is to have its de­partment under the direction of a

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co-ordination centre constituted in the respective country. These na« tional centres wiH be free £ql choose ^nd order the exhifcis within the general? limits of the plan of the Exposition. With the object of facilitating their work, the Central Organizing Commit­tee has prepared a series of sug­gestions embracing the chief points to be illustrated. They are (a) the progressive development of the national Catholic Press and a documentation of the principal press campaign carried on in each country in defense of the Church and her institutions, the family, schools, the social order, etc.; (b) the present state of the Catholic press of the country, with statis­tical data drawn up in such a way as to define the actual situation; (c) the initiatives, however modest, of a typical and characteristic na­ture worthy of study aftd imita­tion; (d) the services the Catholic press renders the Church, Catho­

lic life, and the cause of intellec­tual^ moral, civil and social prog­ress in each country. *

la- these national departments samples of periodicals and news­papers will be exhibited in as far as they serVfe to reconstruct the general picture starting the his­torical development and present state of the Catholic press in any given country.

A special part of the Secofcd Section will be dedicated to Mis­sion Countries, for which, under the direction of the Sacred Congre­gation bf Propaganda, are being collected characteristic and origi­nal materials which will be a sur­prise to many, since they will bring to light problems not gener­ally appreciated. In this Section will also be found place for special pavilions exhibiting individual journalistic undertakings of note and prfefcs institutions of excep­tional importance.

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T H E P R O T E S T A N T A S S O C I A T I O N O F T H E A L L I N D I A C O N F E R E N C E O F I N D I A N C H R I S T I A N S U R G E S

C O O P E R A T I O N B E T W E E N C A T H O L I C S A N D P R O T E S T A N T S .

H . E x c . Archbishop Kierkels , Apostolic Delegate i n India Promotes this Cooperation.

"Madras (India).—Delegates at the l&ui session of the All-India Conference of Indian Christians, a Protestant asso­ciation, have drawn up a resolution urg­ing co-operation between Catholics and Protestants in facing problems which affect the entire Christian community. The resolution a'so contains an expres­sion of thanks to His Excellency Arch­bishop Leo Kierkels, Apostolic Delegate in India, for what he has done to pro­mote this co-operation. The text of the resolution is as follows.

"This Conference appreciates the ef­forts which have been made to bring: together the Catholic and Protestant sections of the Indian Christian commu­nity for the consideration of the prob­lems facing the entire community. This Conference feels that the same measure of co-operation between the two ssctions of the Indian Christian community should be made possible as obtains in the case of the Europeans and Anglo-Indians. This Conference is, therefore grateful to His Excellency the Apostolic Delegate to India for the kind considera­tion. As a first step towards such co­operation this Conference suggests the appointment of a Committee of four­teen, seven representing the Catholic section of the community, and seven representing this Conference, to deal with such civic and other matters as

aiiect the interests of the Indian Chris-nan community as a whole. The ideal would be a joint conference of both sec-lions of the community for the con­sideration of questions of common in­terest. This Conference hopes that this would become possible in the near luture."

The position of Catholics in regard to such co-operation between Catholics and non-Catholics was clearly enunciated at a conference of the South Indian Bishops in 1917 when it was established that "it is not expedient that Catholics should join as members of any Protestant as­sociation, or other organizations, of whatever denomination, even if the ob­ject of the association is only concerned with social and political questions. If, in particular cases, it is found that the joinnt action of Protestants and Catholics is desirable the Hierarchy will be glad to appoint Catholic Delegates to meet Pro­testant delegates with a view of coming to a common understanding on the mat­ters proposed."

In political questions the Government has always looked upon Christians of all denominations, no matter how widely their teachings might differ, as one body, and it is said that the case of Indian Christians may suffer unless they pre­sent a united front on such questions as representation in the legislature and public services. (Fides).

W A S H I N G T O N L E T T E R — M E X I C A N I S S U E M O R E A H E A D I N U . S .

P R E S S I N G

Despite M a n y Domestic Problems, Demand for some Ac t ion on Persecution Holds Lead ing Place i n Washington.

Washington.—In spite of the fact that domestic problems are absorbing the attention of official Washington, the pro­blem of Mexico still casts a shadow on the Administration horizon. Outwardly no cognizance is taken of it in official quarters. The resolutions calling for an inquiry into the conditions in that coun­try as they affect the United States repose in congressional pigeon holes. It is apparent that a studied effort is being made to convey the impression that there is no occasion for such an investigation. But the storm has not by any means blown itself out.

This was forcefully indicated by a review of the whole Mexican problem by Representative Fenerty of Pennsylvania in the House of Representatives. In circumstantial detail, he presented evi-dednce to support his assertion that communism is growing under the guise of the so-called revolutionary govern­ment of Mexico, that fundamental politi­cal rights are being violated, that pro­perty is being confiscated, that plunder­ing and murdering have characterized the anti-religious persecutions.

Picturing Calles as the "Red Czar of the Montezumas," the " Stalin of Mexico/' lie asserted that he had become a-multi-millionaire by seizing the pro­perty of others. Of him he said:

'This is the power behind the presi­dential chair in Mexico City, a man who, lifted into power through the subser­vience of v a n American administration, is sustained by the continued.,, sanction ; of our present Government." '*.,^J

Representative Fenerty also ''pointed*J

oui.that t b £ anti-relftyious persecution is not confined to-Qatholics. He cited docu­mentary evidence to show that Baptist missions have b&en closed and the pro­perty of o the¥ protestant denominations has been taken over by the Mexican government. It is apparent, too, he asserted, that anti-Semitism is raisin? its ugly head with the benediction and approval of the Mexican Government.

The speaker also levelled his shafts of criticism at the Ambassador of the United States. Josephus Daniels.

Criticizing the President also for his failure to act, Mr. Fenertv declared that it was not the purpose "of any American to seek intervention.w He asserted, hovr-•ever, that i £ the -Unii?4 States -eo«44 insist upon the observance of the rigrht of freedom of religious worship for "Americans in Russia, it would be con­sistent to demand similar assurances from Mexico.

The .underlying motive for the paean activities of the revolutionary govern­

ment of Mexico, he said, is essentially communistic. He concluded:

Mr. Chairman, behind all the per­secution m Mexico is 'red' Russia, offer­ing help if Mexico will set up from the Rio Grande to the Panama Canal an association of radical republics. It was not without reason that delegates have been sent by the Mexican dictator to study in Moscow the Russian principles and methods of government. Com­munism looks across the seas, and observes that here the western world stands open. Why strain at the cross-crowned portals of Poland, Christian and warrior for a thousand years, when Mexico, already subdued by an irreligious and illiterate military clique, is ready at hand, and just beyond, the sroal of all Soviet ambition—America, and American riches? The dark forces of the ancient gods, throwing out their vanguards from the battle ground of the Ural Mountains, have carried the ^ar to us. The forces of pagan darkness, or reversalism, of communist animalism are arrayed ag­ainst reason, against America, against the Christian culture of the new world. The fight is not now on the blood-stained steppes of Siberia, it is at our own door — the fight to save America from the de­gradation of Russia, a degradation that reduces man to the level of a soulless animal, a communized, high-powered beast. It is the old warfare between the power of light and the powers of darkness, the, struggle of freedom acra^nst t}xe. .red. czar of Mexico and the Russian Soviet* in their mad endeavor td'r crucify' Christian civilfeatVm upon the crimson cross of communism!"

The Mexican Governments propa­ganda efforts to counteract unfavourable opinion in the UTni^d States, wh^ch, by the way, are not restrained apparently by international amenities, have en­countered difficulties. The Federal Com­munications Commsission is now investi­gating the circumstances of a broadcast of March 21 to which exception has been taken on the ground of indecency. The charge is based on a poem recited to music.

Sixteen members. Democratic and Re­publicans, of the House of Represent­atives signed a petition addressed to the Communication Commission as^khrg that the license of all the stations trans­mitting the broadcast be revoked.

This blunder has a parallel in that of the Mexican consul in California who published an advertisement urging Mexi­cans not to participate in a religious celebration

G E N E R A L JOTTINGS. (Contd. from page 17)

PROF. THOMAS A N D WORLD ECONOMICS.

Professor P. Thomas, Professor of Economics at the Madras Uni­versity and a Catholic, addressed the Oxford University Catholic Club on "What is wrong with World Economy ?"

* * * * WEDDING IN I R E L A N D .

O'Connell—Deasy. The marriage took place in May

in the Church of the Immaculate Conception, Terryglass, Co. Tip-perary, Ireland, of Mr. Basil O'Connell, Asst. Commissioner of the F.M.S. Police, youngest son of the late Sir Morgan Ross O'Con-neii, Br., and Lady O'Connell, of Lakeview, Killarney, Co. Kerry, Ireland, and Miss Lucila Deasy, youngest daughter of Major H . Deasy, late 16th Lancers, and Mrs. Deasy, of Cnoc na Faire, Carriga-horig, Co. Offaly, Ireland.

Father Hickie, uncle of the bride and bridegroom, performed the ceremony and imparted'the Papal blessing.

* * * * GERMANY'S PET PASTIME CURRENCY L A W VICTIMS. The Ejominican Provincial in

Germany has been in prison for 3 wreeks and remains there on one of the charges of currency miscon­duct now- so common in Germany.

* * * * LORD SEMPILL, CHAIRMAN

L.C.C. Lord Sempill a Catholic who was

in Malaya a few months ago re­turned to London in May after a flying tour to the Far East and Australia. He is chairman of the London Chamber of Commerce.

* * * * BUNGLING HISTORICAL

FACTS. Cigarette cards • in the "Kings

and Queens of England" series of Messrs. Carreras bear examples of false history. Henry II is the sub­let , and the canard says that he 'created his Chancellor, Thomas a Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury, but Becket soon abandoned his King's service for the Pope's." The error lies in the fact that Thomas ,\ Becket persistently refused th'3 offer to be made Archbishop, re­marking that such a position will lead to a cleavage in their friend­ship. As a churchman Becket re­solutely opposed the whimsical will of the king who thought that an Archbishop of his making will be more amenable to his fancies. The upright prelate would not yield to. the king on matters of principle and upheld his precedence of homage to the Sovereign Pon­tiff at Rome. Hence the quarrel which culminated in the murder of the prelate. vi

* * * * , MGR. MACGUIGAN R E V E A L S

BREADTH OF VISION IN NOTABLE SPEECH.

The Archbishop of Toronto, Canada, Mgr. MacGuigan, was giv­en an extraordinary reeeotion bv 20,000 Catholics at his'installa­tion. In the course of his reply the Archbishop made a reference to his mother, who was present, and this created a great impres­sion. In a notable passage the Archbishop said: "As Catholic hearts are anxious to throb with the nation's pulse, so Catholics claim equality in everything civic with all sections of our fellow countrymen. And though we may walk apart in our religious beliefs

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and practices, we should and must nnite in the soirit of a common fraternity, each class respecting as inviolably sacred the reli<nou? convictions of the other, while working together in perfect har­mony in all that pertains to civic virtue, the social betterment of our people and the upbuilding of the glorious heritage which our forefathers have bequeathed us." * * * * *

INSPECTOR S U L L I V A N ON L E A V E .

Inspector C. F. Sullivan of the S.S. Police who is a Catholic has pro­ceeded home on eight month's fur­lough. He was last attached to the "Weights and Measures" Branch. We wish him,a very plea-:

sarrt holiday. ' ' ! '*

SILVER J U B I L E E MEDALLISTS OF SOUTH INDIA.

Catholic Educationalists Honoured. Unlike Malaya the Government

of India has presented the King's Silver Jubilee Medals to a number of catholic educationalists in India. Among them we note with pleasure the names of the follow­ing:

His Lordship the Right Rev. P. F. Rossillon, Bishop of Vizagapa-tam: The Rev. Fr. F. Bertram. S. J. Madras: Rev. Fr. C. Leigh. S.J. Trichinopolv: Rev. Fr. A. Ambruz-zi, S.J. Mangalore; Rev. Fr. San-danam Joseph. S.C. Vellore: R^v-Mother Augustine Madras: Dr. Louis Mathias. S.C. Archbishop-elect of Madras.

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THE V E N E R A B L E B E D E .

To a casual visitor unacquainted with history, Jarrow-on-Tyne is not, at first sight, an attractive place. Dull streets, poor surround­ings, shipyards reflecting a depres­sion in that industry—these things all help to deepen, for the stranger, a sense of Jarrow's aloofness from interest, still more from glory. Yet the Tyneside town is actually one of England's most ancient and richly-stored centres, a piace in which just now there is so much attraction, on historical and ecclesi­astical grounds, that both Catholics and Anglicans are making it a centre of celebration. The reason is found in the circumstance that we are celebrating over here the twelfth centenary of the Vener­able Bede; and it was the monas­tery at Jarrow which sheltered, during the best part of his life, that great monk and historian. Into that monastery Bede went, as a young man, to complete his education; there he wrote his famous Ecclesiastical History of the English Nation; and there he died, in 735 of our era.

This preliminary note will ex­plain the significance of a Catholic spectacle of devotion witnessed in Jarrow-on-Tyne a few evenings ago; also it forms the historical groundwork, by anticipation, for a much larger spectacle, a demon­stration on the grand scale, which is to take the Archbishop of West­minster and a number of other English Bishops, to Jarrow for a further and more official comme­moration of the centenary a few days hence. Five thousand Catho­lics, it is estimated, took part in the smaller gathering, an open-air service for Venerable Bede's feast-day. From the Catholic church, which has St. Bede for its patron, a great procession marched through the town. Thousands up­on thousands of non-Catholics lined the sidewalks, watching with in­terest and admiration the long, picturesque line which marched from the church to the open ground where the service was held. The Right Rev. Dr. Thorman, Bishop of Hexham and Newcastle, was the chief officiating prelate. The pro­cession was a magnificient sight, and the service at the open-air altar deeply impressive.

It is expected that at the cen-fenary celebration, of which the Leader will have an account in due course, more than fifty thousand Catholics will converge upon Jar­row. An immense fleet of omni­buses has been arranged for to help in the transport of the pilgrims, and the town meanwhile is getting ready for the invasion:

Among the Protestants, too, es­pecially the " High " Protestants— Anglo-Catholics is their own name for themselves—St. Bede the Venerable is having honour for his twelfth centenary. A special play has been wrritten and performed for the occasion, and^ there are Angli­can celebrations both at Jarrc^v, the monastic seat, and at Durham, where Bede's relics repose ,in a tomb in the Galilee chapel of the famous Cathedral. Here and there, too, one notices an inclination among members of the Establish­ment to speak and write of St. Bede as if he were a great light o f that body! They emphasise his

" Englishry " of race; they draw a veil over the " Romanism " of his religious allegiance. Bede was an illustrious son of the Church in England; but these perfervid An­glicans wrould like to regard him as a son of the Church of England. If only the Catholics of the country had the means to circulate, all over the land, marked copies of the Ecclesiastical History, the nation would learn of the uncompromising loyalty of the great scholar of Jar-rcwr to the successor of St. Peter, and his unswerving adhesion to the Catholic faith.

A NEW BISHOP.

In the famous chapel of Oscott College, near Birmingham, the chapel in which Newman preached his great sermon on the Second Spring, a widely revered prelate is being consecrated to the episco­pate. The rector of the college, the Right Rev. Monsignor Dey, D.S.O., is to succeed the late Bishop Keatinge, C.M.G., as Catho­lic Army Bishop, a post temporari­ly filled by the Bishop of Lamus, the Right Rev. Dr. Myers. The ceremony of the consecration is being performed by the Archbishop of Westminster, assisted by the Archbishop of Birmingham and the Bishop of Shrewsbury. This will be Dr. Hinsley's first visit to Birmingham since his appoint­ment to the Westminster Arch­bishopric.

The new Bishop will have a con­genial task in his higher office, for he has already had many years' experience, up till his retirement a few years ago, of work as an Army chaplain. In the Great War he did valuable service; he was mentioned in despatches and was honoured with the Distinguished Service Order. For a long time he was Vicar-General to Bishop Keatinge. Altogether, therefore, a happy choice has been made in his selec­tion to be Army Bishop for the very many Catholic troops in the service.

THE QUETTA DISASTER.

Full details of the terrible earth­quake calamity in India have not yet been published at the time these lines must be despatched; but already there is news enough to show a terrible picture of tragedy and suffering. In face of a dis­aster of this kind, questions of religious distinction are not in the mind: the overmastering thought is of the many souls called to their account, and the nation's sympathy goes out to all, in sorrow for the suffering survivors and in mourn­ing for the dead. But naturally Catholics feel a particular concern, over and above this sincere and deeply-felt general sympathy, as to the measure in which their own co-religionists may have been stri­cken by the earthquake terror, whether by the destruction of mis­sion property or by the loss of in­dividual Catholic workers. What­ever facts and figures the awaited further details may have to reveal, this at any rate can be set down at once, that England has heard the news of the disaster with a

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THE CATHOLIC PRESS EXHIBITION.

Great Britain will be represented by an extensive display at the In­ternational Catholic Press Exhibi­tion to be held next year in the Vatican City; and since the exhibi­tion is to include, of course, periodi­cals from every country where the Church is represented .in print, the. Malaya Catholic Leader will doubt­less have a place among the newer of our active periodicals. Some years &go, £t the National Catholic Congress, the Catholic Truth Soci­ety organized a British exhibition of as many Catholic periodical pub­lications, ranging from important reviews down to modest little parish magazines, as they could get together at short notice, in English, irrespective of the country of origin. The result was an astoni­shingly large and interesting dis­play, p. revelation to those with little or no knowledge of the extent of the Catholic Press within the Empire. The exhibition ran into hundreds of separate publications, and even so was far from complete.

The C.T.S. has now been asked by the Archbishop of Westminster

to organize the exhibits for the Vatican Exhibition from England and Wales. It will be a formidable task if it is to cover the entire field. When it is remembered that alto­gether the Catholic periodicals published, in Great Britain alone, run into hundreds, they supply only a very small proportion of the Ca­tholic Press of the whole world, some idea can be formed of the wonderfully varied survey which the entire exhibition will present to visitors next year. A full cata­logue of the publications should it* self be a substantial volume! Every race in Christendom will send its papers, and- very many different tongues will procliam, in print, the unity of faith and allegi­ance which binds the Catholic world together. The faithful in Malaya will no doubt organize, in due course, their own particular contribution to the display.

* * * * PALLOTTINE C E N T E N A R Y . The Pious Society of Missions,

founded by the Venerable Father Pallotti, is being celebrated in Lon­don with special rejoicing by the Fathers of that Congregation. Their chief centre in the metropolis is in the heart of the Italian

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T H E P R O T E S T A N T A S S O C I A T I O N O F T H E A L L I N D I A C O N F E R E N C E O F I N D I A N C H R I S T I A N S U R G E S

C O O P E R A T I O N B E T W E E N C A T H O L I C S A N D P R O T E S T A N T S .

H . E x c . Archbishop Kierkels , Apostolic Delegate i n India Promotes this Cooperation.

"Madras (India).—Delegates at the l&ui session of the All-India Conference of Indian Christians, a Protestant asso­ciation, have drawn up a resolution urg­ing co-operation between Catholics and Protestants in facing problems which affect the entire Christian community. The resolution a'so contains an expres­sion of thanks to His Excellency Arch­bishop Leo Kierkels, Apostolic Delegate in India, for what he has done to pro­mote this co-operation. The text of the resolution is as follows.

"This Conference appreciates the ef­forts which have been made to bring: together the Catholic and Protestant sections of the Indian Christian commu­nity for the consideration of the prob­lems facing the entire community. This Conference feels that the same measure of co-operation between the two ssctions of the Indian Christian community should be made possible as obtains in the case of the Europeans and Anglo-Indians. This Conference is, therefore grateful to His Excellency the Apostolic Delegate to India for the kind considera­tion. As a first step towards such co­operation this Conference suggests the appointment of a Committee of four­teen, seven representing the Catholic section of the community, and seven representing this Conference, to deal with such civic and other matters as

aiiect the interests of the Indian Chris-nan community as a whole. The ideal would be a joint conference of both sec-lions of the community for the con­sideration of questions of common in­terest. This Conference hopes that this would become possible in the near luture."

The position of Catholics in regard to such co-operation between Catholics and non-Catholics was clearly enunciated at a conference of the South Indian Bishops in 1917 when it was established that "it is not expedient that Catholics should join as members of any Protestant as­sociation, or other organizations, of whatever denomination, even if the ob­ject of the association is only concerned with social and political questions. If, in particular cases, it is found that the joinnt action of Protestants and Catholics is desirable the Hierarchy will be glad to appoint Catholic Delegates to meet Pro­testant delegates with a view of coming to a common understanding on the mat­ters proposed."

In political questions the Government has always looked upon Christians of all denominations, no matter how widely their teachings might differ, as one body, and it is said that the case of Indian Christians may suffer unless they pre­sent a united front on such questions as representation in the legislature and public services. (Fides).

W A S H I N G T O N L E T T E R — M E X I C A N I S S U E M O R E A H E A D I N U . S .

P R E S S I N G

Despite M a n y Domestic Problems, Demand for some Ac t ion on Persecution Holds Lead ing Place i n Washington.

Washington.—In spite of the fact that domestic problems are absorbing the attention of official Washington, the pro­blem of Mexico still casts a shadow on the Administration horizon. Outwardly no cognizance is taken of it in official quarters. The resolutions calling for an inquiry into the conditions in that coun­try as they affect the United States repose in congressional pigeon holes. It is apparent that a studied effort is being made to convey the impression that there is no occasion for such an investigation. But the storm has not by any means blown itself out.

This was forcefully indicated by a review of the whole Mexican problem by Representative Fenerty of Pennsylvania in the House of Representatives. In circumstantial detail, he presented evi-dednce to support his assertion that communism is growing under the guise of the so-called revolutionary govern­ment of Mexico, that fundamental politi­cal rights are being violated, that pro­perty is being confiscated, that plunder­ing and murdering have characterized the anti-religious persecutions.

Picturing Calles as the "Red Czar of the Montezumas," the " Stalin of Mexico/' lie asserted that he had become a-multi-millionaire by seizing the pro­perty of others. Of him he said:

'This is the power behind the presi­dential chair in Mexico City, a man who, lifted into power through the subser­vience of v a n American administration, is sustained by the continued.,, sanction ; of our present Government." '*.,^J

Representative Fenerty also ''pointed*J

oui.that t b £ anti-relftyious persecution is not confined to-Qatholics. He cited docu­mentary evidence to show that Baptist missions have b&en closed and the pro­perty of o the¥ protestant denominations has been taken over by the Mexican government. It is apparent, too, he asserted, that anti-Semitism is raisin? its ugly head with the benediction and approval of the Mexican Government.

The speaker also levelled his shafts of criticism at the Ambassador of the United States. Josephus Daniels.

Criticizing the President also for his failure to act, Mr. Fenertv declared that it was not the purpose "of any American to seek intervention.w He asserted, hovr-•ever, that i £ the -Unii?4 States -eo«44 insist upon the observance of the rigrht of freedom of religious worship for "Americans in Russia, it would be con­sistent to demand similar assurances from Mexico.

The .underlying motive for the paean activities of the revolutionary govern­

ment of Mexico, he said, is essentially communistic. He concluded:

Mr. Chairman, behind all the per­secution m Mexico is 'red' Russia, offer­ing help if Mexico will set up from the Rio Grande to the Panama Canal an association of radical republics. It was not without reason that delegates have been sent by the Mexican dictator to study in Moscow the Russian principles and methods of government. Com­munism looks across the seas, and observes that here the western world stands open. Why strain at the cross-crowned portals of Poland, Christian and warrior for a thousand years, when Mexico, already subdued by an irreligious and illiterate military clique, is ready at hand, and just beyond, the sroal of all Soviet ambition—America, and American riches? The dark forces of the ancient gods, throwing out their vanguards from the battle ground of the Ural Mountains, have carried the ^ar to us. The forces of pagan darkness, or reversalism, of communist animalism are arrayed ag­ainst reason, against America, against the Christian culture of the new world. The fight is not now on the blood-stained steppes of Siberia, it is at our own door — the fight to save America from the de­gradation of Russia, a degradation that reduces man to the level of a soulless animal, a communized, high-powered beast. It is the old warfare between the power of light and the powers of darkness, the, struggle of freedom acra^nst t}xe. .red. czar of Mexico and the Russian Soviet* in their mad endeavor td'r crucify' Christian civilfeatVm upon the crimson cross of communism!"

The Mexican Governments propa­ganda efforts to counteract unfavourable opinion in the UTni^d States, wh^ch, by the way, are not restrained apparently by international amenities, have en­countered difficulties. The Federal Com­munications Commsission is now investi­gating the circumstances of a broadcast of March 21 to which exception has been taken on the ground of indecency. The charge is based on a poem recited to music.

Sixteen members. Democratic and Re­publicans, of the House of Represent­atives signed a petition addressed to the Communication Commission as^khrg that the license of all the stations trans­mitting the broadcast be revoked.

This blunder has a parallel in that of the Mexican consul in California who published an advertisement urging Mexi­cans not to participate in a religious celebration

G E N E R A L JOTTINGS. (Contd. from page 17)

PROF. THOMAS A N D WORLD ECONOMICS.

Professor P. Thomas, Professor of Economics at the Madras Uni­versity and a Catholic, addressed the Oxford University Catholic Club on "What is wrong with World Economy ?"

* * * * WEDDING IN I R E L A N D .

O'Connell—Deasy. The marriage took place in May

in the Church of the Immaculate Conception, Terryglass, Co. Tip-perary, Ireland, of Mr. Basil O'Connell, Asst. Commissioner of the F.M.S. Police, youngest son of the late Sir Morgan Ross O'Con-neii, Br., and Lady O'Connell, of Lakeview, Killarney, Co. Kerry, Ireland, and Miss Lucila Deasy, youngest daughter of Major H . Deasy, late 16th Lancers, and Mrs. Deasy, of Cnoc na Faire, Carriga-horig, Co. Offaly, Ireland.

Father Hickie, uncle of the bride and bridegroom, performed the ceremony and imparted'the Papal blessing.

* * * * GERMANY'S PET PASTIME CURRENCY L A W VICTIMS. The Ejominican Provincial in

Germany has been in prison for 3 wreeks and remains there on one of the charges of currency miscon­duct now- so common in Germany.

* * * * LORD SEMPILL, CHAIRMAN

L.C.C. Lord Sempill a Catholic who was

in Malaya a few months ago re­turned to London in May after a flying tour to the Far East and Australia. He is chairman of the London Chamber of Commerce.

* * * * BUNGLING HISTORICAL

FACTS. Cigarette cards • in the "Kings

and Queens of England" series of Messrs. Carreras bear examples of false history. Henry II is the sub­let , and the canard says that he 'created his Chancellor, Thomas a Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury, but Becket soon abandoned his King's service for the Pope's." The error lies in the fact that Thomas ,\ Becket persistently refused th'3 offer to be made Archbishop, re­marking that such a position will lead to a cleavage in their friend­ship. As a churchman Becket re­solutely opposed the whimsical will of the king who thought that an Archbishop of his making will be more amenable to his fancies. The upright prelate would not yield to. the king on matters of principle and upheld his precedence of homage to the Sovereign Pon­tiff at Rome. Hence the quarrel which culminated in the murder of the prelate. vi

* * * * , MGR. MACGUIGAN R E V E A L S

BREADTH OF VISION IN NOTABLE SPEECH.

The Archbishop of Toronto, Canada, Mgr. MacGuigan, was giv­en an extraordinary reeeotion bv 20,000 Catholics at his'installa­tion. In the course of his reply the Archbishop made a reference to his mother, who was present, and this created a great impres­sion. In a notable passage the Archbishop said: "As Catholic hearts are anxious to throb with the nation's pulse, so Catholics claim equality in everything civic with all sections of our fellow countrymen. And though we may walk apart in our religious beliefs

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and practices, we should and must nnite in the soirit of a common fraternity, each class respecting as inviolably sacred the reli<nou? convictions of the other, while working together in perfect har­mony in all that pertains to civic virtue, the social betterment of our people and the upbuilding of the glorious heritage which our forefathers have bequeathed us." * * * * *

INSPECTOR S U L L I V A N ON L E A V E .

Inspector C. F. Sullivan of the S.S. Police who is a Catholic has pro­ceeded home on eight month's fur­lough. He was last attached to the "Weights and Measures" Branch. We wish him,a very plea-:

sarrt holiday. ' ' ! '*

SILVER J U B I L E E MEDALLISTS OF SOUTH INDIA.

Catholic Educationalists Honoured. Unlike Malaya the Government

of India has presented the King's Silver Jubilee Medals to a number of catholic educationalists in India. Among them we note with pleasure the names of the follow­ing:

His Lordship the Right Rev. P. F. Rossillon, Bishop of Vizagapa-tam: The Rev. Fr. F. Bertram. S. J. Madras: Rev. Fr. C. Leigh. S.J. Trichinopolv: Rev. Fr. A. Ambruz-zi, S.J. Mangalore; Rev. Fr. San-danam Joseph. S.C. Vellore: R^v-Mother Augustine Madras: Dr. Louis Mathias. S.C. Archbishop-elect of Madras.

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On ^Putgs from . A l b i o n (FROM OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT)

THE V E N E R A B L E B E D E .

To a casual visitor unacquainted with history, Jarrow-on-Tyne is not, at first sight, an attractive place. Dull streets, poor surround­ings, shipyards reflecting a depres­sion in that industry—these things all help to deepen, for the stranger, a sense of Jarrow's aloofness from interest, still more from glory. Yet the Tyneside town is actually one of England's most ancient and richly-stored centres, a piace in which just now there is so much attraction, on historical and ecclesi­astical grounds, that both Catholics and Anglicans are making it a centre of celebration. The reason is found in the circumstance that we are celebrating over here the twelfth centenary of the Vener­able Bede; and it was the monas­tery at Jarrow which sheltered, during the best part of his life, that great monk and historian. Into that monastery Bede went, as a young man, to complete his education; there he wrote his famous Ecclesiastical History of the English Nation; and there he died, in 735 of our era.

This preliminary note will ex­plain the significance of a Catholic spectacle of devotion witnessed in Jarrow-on-Tyne a few evenings ago; also it forms the historical groundwork, by anticipation, for a much larger spectacle, a demon­stration on the grand scale, which is to take the Archbishop of West­minster and a number of other English Bishops, to Jarrow for a further and more official comme­moration of the centenary a few days hence. Five thousand Catho­lics, it is estimated, took part in the smaller gathering, an open-air service for Venerable Bede's feast-day. From the Catholic church, which has St. Bede for its patron, a great procession marched through the town. Thousands up­on thousands of non-Catholics lined the sidewalks, watching with in­terest and admiration the long, picturesque line which marched from the church to the open ground where the service was held. The Right Rev. Dr. Thorman, Bishop of Hexham and Newcastle, was the chief officiating prelate. The pro­cession was a magnificient sight, and the service at the open-air altar deeply impressive.

It is expected that at the cen-fenary celebration, of which the Leader will have an account in due course, more than fifty thousand Catholics will converge upon Jar­row. An immense fleet of omni­buses has been arranged for to help in the transport of the pilgrims, and the town meanwhile is getting ready for the invasion:

Among the Protestants, too, es­pecially the " High " Protestants— Anglo-Catholics is their own name for themselves—St. Bede the Venerable is having honour for his twelfth centenary. A special play has been wrritten and performed for the occasion, and^ there are Angli­can celebrations both at Jarrc^v, the monastic seat, and at Durham, where Bede's relics repose ,in a tomb in the Galilee chapel of the famous Cathedral. Here and there, too, one notices an inclination among members of the Establish­ment to speak and write of St. Bede as if he were a great light o f that body! They emphasise his

" Englishry " of race; they draw a veil over the " Romanism " of his religious allegiance. Bede was an illustrious son of the Church in England; but these perfervid An­glicans wrould like to regard him as a son of the Church of England. If only the Catholics of the country had the means to circulate, all over the land, marked copies of the Ecclesiastical History, the nation would learn of the uncompromising loyalty of the great scholar of Jar-rcwr to the successor of St. Peter, and his unswerving adhesion to the Catholic faith.

A NEW BISHOP.

In the famous chapel of Oscott College, near Birmingham, the chapel in which Newman preached his great sermon on the Second Spring, a widely revered prelate is being consecrated to the episco­pate. The rector of the college, the Right Rev. Monsignor Dey, D.S.O., is to succeed the late Bishop Keatinge, C.M.G., as Catho­lic Army Bishop, a post temporari­ly filled by the Bishop of Lamus, the Right Rev. Dr. Myers. The ceremony of the consecration is being performed by the Archbishop of Westminster, assisted by the Archbishop of Birmingham and the Bishop of Shrewsbury. This will be Dr. Hinsley's first visit to Birmingham since his appoint­ment to the Westminster Arch­bishopric.

The new Bishop will have a con­genial task in his higher office, for he has already had many years' experience, up till his retirement a few years ago, of work as an Army chaplain. In the Great War he did valuable service; he was mentioned in despatches and was honoured with the Distinguished Service Order. For a long time he was Vicar-General to Bishop Keatinge. Altogether, therefore, a happy choice has been made in his selec­tion to be Army Bishop for the very many Catholic troops in the service.

THE QUETTA DISASTER.

Full details of the terrible earth­quake calamity in India have not yet been published at the time these lines must be despatched; but already there is news enough to show a terrible picture of tragedy and suffering. In face of a dis­aster of this kind, questions of religious distinction are not in the mind: the overmastering thought is of the many souls called to their account, and the nation's sympathy goes out to all, in sorrow for the suffering survivors and in mourn­ing for the dead. But naturally Catholics feel a particular concern, over and above this sincere and deeply-felt general sympathy, as to the measure in which their own co-religionists may have been stri­cken by the earthquake terror, whether by the destruction of mis­sion property or by the loss of in­dividual Catholic workers. What­ever facts and figures the awaited further details may have to reveal, this at any rate can be set down at once, that England has heard the news of the disaster with a

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THE CATHOLIC PRESS EXHIBITION.

Great Britain will be represented by an extensive display at the In­ternational Catholic Press Exhibi­tion to be held next year in the Vatican City; and since the exhibi­tion is to include, of course, periodi­cals from every country where the Church is represented .in print, the. Malaya Catholic Leader will doubt­less have a place among the newer of our active periodicals. Some years &go, £t the National Catholic Congress, the Catholic Truth Soci­ety organized a British exhibition of as many Catholic periodical pub­lications, ranging from important reviews down to modest little parish magazines, as they could get together at short notice, in English, irrespective of the country of origin. The result was an astoni­shingly large and interesting dis­play, p. revelation to those with little or no knowledge of the extent of the Catholic Press within the Empire. The exhibition ran into hundreds of separate publications, and even so was far from complete.

The C.T.S. has now been asked by the Archbishop of Westminster

to organize the exhibits for the Vatican Exhibition from England and Wales. It will be a formidable task if it is to cover the entire field. When it is remembered that alto­gether the Catholic periodicals published, in Great Britain alone, run into hundreds, they supply only a very small proportion of the Ca­tholic Press of the whole world, some idea can be formed of the wonderfully varied survey which the entire exhibition will present to visitors next year. A full cata­logue of the publications should it* self be a substantial volume! Every race in Christendom will send its papers, and- very many different tongues will procliam, in print, the unity of faith and allegi­ance which binds the Catholic world together. The faithful in Malaya will no doubt organize, in due course, their own particular contribution to the display.

* * * * PALLOTTINE C E N T E N A R Y . The Pious Society of Missions,

founded by the Venerable Father Pallotti, is being celebrated in Lon­don with special rejoicing by the Fathers of that Congregation. Their chief centre in the metropolis is in the heart of the Italian

(Continued on page 13)

M A L A Y A CATHOLIC L E A D E B , S A T U R D A Y , 15th J U N E , 1835-

• w - ^ i • A n d assumipg the aiiswer to be in

Y o u n g P e o p l e ' s P a g e i t t t ^ S w i God, a saint/'—N. Z. Tablet.

Marie : A True Story A N E P I S O D E F R O M T H E F R A N C O - P R U S S I A N

W A R I N 1870,

This story happened about sixty years ago, when there was a war between Germany and France in 1870. The Germans had brought their large armies into France gnd many battles were fought tl^^re.

One night when the (Jermans were near a village called pijon they sent scouts on t$ s$y that their soldiers would rest in that village for the night, and would sleep in the church, wlpch was the only large building there. *

When the people of the village heard this they were .in great dis­tress. The priest was not at home and many of these soldiers were wicked men, and it would not have been right to leave Our Lord in the tabernacle of the church where the soldiers might insult Him. Yet they could not prevent the Germans from doing what they said they would do.

Now you know that no one but a priest or deacon should take the Blessed Sacrament in his hands except in cases of necessity. No one should touch the qborium or sacred vessel in which It is kept without special perrnissioji. But when soldiers were going to sleep in the church it was of course "'a case of necessity/' Yet not one of the villagers dared to take the ciborium away. First they asked the sacristan who cleaned the Church, but he said " No." Then they asked one man after the other, but each was afraid, or s^id he was not worthy. What was to be done? Soon it wQuJ4 °e too late.

A t last one of the men said: " I know what to do. My little daughter Marie is fp,ur years old. She is good and innocent, just like an angel. I will take her up to the altar. She} shall take Our Lord from tne tabernacle, and then we will carry her to the priest's house, while she holds the ciborium in her baby hands."

A l l were very pleased with this idea. So Marie was sent for. Her mother dressed her in pure white while she explained to her the great honour she was to have,; Marie seemed quite to understands Since she was a , tiny baby her mother had talosn her to visit little Jesus in the tapernacle, and many a time she Ji£<| blown Him kisses from the church door. Now she was to carry Him in her little arms.

Slowly and reverently her father carried her up the altar steps, and unlocked the tabernacle door. Lovingly Marie drew out the ciborium which held her dear Jesus and pressed it to her breast. Her little heart beat fast while she whispered to Jesus how pleased she was to have Him in her arms. Tighter and tighter she clasped the white silk veil which covered Our LorxTs little golden house. Tighter and tighter her father held his little girl in his arms, for was she not h i r i n g ip her ui% hands the Lord and God who bears us all in the hoitew of His Hand, and yet

loyes us so much that He hides Himself in the Blessed Sacrament ju$t to be always with us wrhen we need Him?

After Marie's father walked all the villagers, making quite a long procession, until they came to the priest's house. There Our Lord remained safely all night, the good villagers taking it in turns to kneel on guard in front of Him.

Now you will want to know why Marie was chosen instead of one of the men for this great honour. It was because she was so innocent and pure: she had never committed any sin and so had never offended dear Jesus. It is into pure and in­nocent hearts like hers that Jesus loves to come in Holy Communion.

When the priest returned, and the villagers told him all that they had done, he wras very Pleased, and told Marie that she must always remember what a great honour she had had, and that she must begin to prepare her heart to become a home for the same dear Jesus whom she had carried in her little hands.

T H E N A I V E T E OF YOUTH.

Most of the serious evencs in life possess their intensely human, and sometimes humorous sides. This is revealed by an incident associated with the recent cano­nisation at Easter of the two English martyrs. Blessed Thomas More and Blessed John Fisher. The boys of St. Michael's College, Leeds, England, were encouraged to write letters to the Pope solicit­ing his consideration for the cano­nisations.

The letters written by lads bet­ween the ages of 12 and 15 years, produced some delightfully naive passages. One boy began: "His Holiness, may I be permitted to draw your attention to two mar­tyrs who have not been canoniz­ed yet . . . " Another concludes "Hoping sincerely that by God's grace your poliness is in the best of, ^health, both physically and spiritually." A boy named Fisher, doing his best to convince the Holy Father [that he was impar­tial, declared; ,T f"With "regard to Blessed John Fisner, I do not ask for him to be canonized just be­cause I have the same surname as he." "The fact that Englishmen are not, as a rule, given to great holiness, there being probably fewer English saints than any other," moved another young cor­respondent to ask the Holy Father to give special consideration to the claims of More and Fisher. The writer of the following is evident­ly a budding attorney: "Consider also how he could have been feed­ing luxuriously on that terrible morning, instead of being led to the block. Don't you think a man like that, who gave up his life and his riehes, should be rewarded?"

THE GOOD SHEPHERD. (JOHN X, 11-16)

O Christ, Pastor of Thy Father's sheep—

Most loving and most kind: What dangers lie beyond the

mountains edge Silly we have not in mind.

0 Christ, Pastor of Thy Father's sheep—

Most gentle and most mild: Thou watchest for Thou knowest

that beyond There's death to feet that slip.

0 Christ, Pastor of Thy Father's shep—

Ever thoughtful for Thine: The lost sheep Thou seekest

crying the while "I am the Good Shepherd; I

know mine." 0 Christ, Pastor of Thy Father's

sheep— Yet many know Thee not:

Wherefore, Lord, Thy promise, keep

"And there shall be one fold; one Shepherd."

P. P. J . E S P E C K E R M A N .

A N A M E FOR THE B A B Y . Baby was being exhibited, and,

of course, admired, when the question of his name cropped up.

"We dunno what to call 'im," sighed the proud mother.

"What about Halbert, or Har-thur, or Half red?" suggested somebody, helpfully.

"Ho, no," responded the parent; "we don't want nothing with a haspirate; people halways goes and drops it."

A P L E A S A N T SURPRISE.

"My dear," said the newly-married man to his wife, "where did all these books on astronomy come from? They are not ours."

" A pleasant little surprise for you," remarked his wife. "You know, my dear, you said this morning that we ought to study astronomy; and so I went to the bookseller's and bought everything I could on the subject."

It was some minutes before he spoke. "I said study economy," he explained sadly.

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First young lady (excavating the depths of wrist bag): "Non­sense, I have it right here. And you paid it last, you know."

Second young lady: "I'm sure I didn't. It was you, don't you re­member? The reason I know is because we were going to Lottie's tea."

First young lady: "Oh, yes, and I wore my pink crepe de chine. But that wasn't the last time we went out together. We were going to the matinee, and I am sure you paid the fare."

Second young lady (triumphant­ly taking out a purse): "Well, it doesn't make any difference. I'll just pay it again/'

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First young lady (indignantly, also producing purse): "It does make a difference, too! Do you think I am going out and have you pay "my fare everywhere we go? Here, I have it." ' F 1 H

Second, young lady: "Don't be so silly. -Here I have it."

First young lady: "My dear, I insist."

Second young lady: "Agnes, I shall be downright offended with you in a moment, I shall pay the fare."

Conductor: "I don't care who pays it, but I don't want to stand here all day."

First young lady (with dig­nity): "You are a rude person and I shall report you. My uncle is one of the principal stockhold­ers, and I shall report your be­haviour to him. Here take this money. I'm sure you only had to wait a second or two." 9

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Ont; missionaries was Dunn who was responsible lor uic conversion of the Dyak native tribes of Sarawak. To lay open the invisible treasures of our Faith and to convince the simple-minded ignorant children of nature who were and are still submerged in gross materialism and superstition wculd have been an almost im­possible task without the guiding hand of our great and merciful Cod.

The First Neophytes. I quote below an incident des­

cribed in the Sixteenth Annual Report for the year 1885 by Mgr. Dunn when a few Dyak Cate­chumens were baptized.

"Our first Neophytes were bap­tized in the month of June when five Dyak families received that grace. These together with many others, still under instruction, be­gan their conversion by requesting me to bless their farms, promising as a condition, that they would desist from their superstitious practices, and attend the Cate-chumenate for instruction on Sun­days. The wooden altars erected to the demons, about their farms were then torn down and cast into the river, wooden crosses being planted in thear stead, On the eve of the baptism of these, our first adult converts, an incident occurred which it may be well to narrate here. I had directed these Neophytes to bring to the Mission Station all the charms and super­stitious signs they had used as heathens, that they might burn them before Baptism, as a public testimony of their sincerity in the solemn renunciation they were about to make. When it became generally known what was about to take place our Neophytes were surrounded by their heathen re­lations and friends who used every argument to dissuade them from the commission of what they call­ed so mad and foolish an act. They drew vivid* pictures of the ruin the devil would bring upon them and

meet rep<*. Majesty of G o u , shame and greater despair to infernal enemy, marking as it did the release of souls from his grasp through the power of the cross of Jesus."

Such wrere the miraculous hap­penings in the early, yet not dis­tant days, when the Spirit of God descended on this dark corner of the earth through His most pious and zealous workers in his vine­yard. I hope to give a few more interesting narratives in connection with the pioneer Catholic Missionaries of this place in my future letters.

Sandakan Catholic Association. Yesterday an important Com­

mittee Meeting of the Sandakan Catholic Association was held at the premises of the Association, the Rev. Fr. B. J . Davis, presid­ing. As the majority of the Catholics here seem to be still be­hind the Catholic Spirit of the times it was decided to work in the cause of the Catholic Action with the help of the "Leader' by push­ing on its sales.

St. Mary's School. We have had a full holiday to­

day, being His Majesty's Birthday. Yesterday there was a practice of the St. Mary's Blue Band and i t is very encouraging to see how the boys of Borneo are taking an in­terest in music. We are proud to state that we have at present at least one twelve-year-old budding musical prodigy who is a Catholic and is the son of the Assistant Commissioner of Customs.

Boxing too is fast finding its adherents and it is only a fort­night ago since we held a success­ful boxing exhibition in the school. To-day the St. Mary's Masters' Majong League starts and I hope to send you the results in a few weeks' time.

M A L A Y A CATHOLIC L E A D E B , S A T U R D A Y , 15th J U N E , 1835-

• w - ^ i • A n d assumipg the aiiswer to be in

Y o u n g P e o p l e ' s P a g e i t t t ^ S w i God, a saint/'—N. Z. Tablet.

Marie : A True Story A N E P I S O D E F R O M T H E F R A N C O - P R U S S I A N

W A R I N 1870,

This story happened about sixty years ago, when there was a war between Germany and France in 1870. The Germans had brought their large armies into France gnd many battles were fought tl^^re.

One night when the (Jermans were near a village called pijon they sent scouts on t$ s$y that their soldiers would rest in that village for the night, and would sleep in the church, wlpch was the only large building there. *

When the people of the village heard this they were .in great dis­tress. The priest was not at home and many of these soldiers were wicked men, and it would not have been right to leave Our Lord in the tabernacle of the church where the soldiers might insult Him. Yet they could not prevent the Germans from doing what they said they would do.

Now you know that no one but a priest or deacon should take the Blessed Sacrament in his hands except in cases of necessity. No one should touch the qborium or sacred vessel in which It is kept without special perrnissioji. But when soldiers were going to sleep in the church it was of course "'a case of necessity/' Yet not one of the villagers dared to take the ciborium away. First they asked the sacristan who cleaned the Church, but he said " No." Then they asked one man after the other, but each was afraid, or s^id he was not worthy. What was to be done? Soon it wQuJ4 °e too late.

A t last one of the men said: " I know what to do. My little daughter Marie is fp,ur years old. She is good and innocent, just like an angel. I will take her up to the altar. She} shall take Our Lord from tne tabernacle, and then we will carry her to the priest's house, while she holds the ciborium in her baby hands."

A l l were very pleased with this idea. So Marie was sent for. Her mother dressed her in pure white while she explained to her the great honour she was to have,; Marie seemed quite to understands Since she was a , tiny baby her mother had talosn her to visit little Jesus in the tapernacle, and many a time she Ji£<| blown Him kisses from the church door. Now she was to carry Him in her little arms.

Slowly and reverently her father carried her up the altar steps, and unlocked the tabernacle door. Lovingly Marie drew out the ciborium which held her dear Jesus and pressed it to her breast. Her little heart beat fast while she whispered to Jesus how pleased she was to have Him in her arms. Tighter and tighter she clasped the white silk veil which covered Our LorxTs little golden house. Tighter and tighter her father held his little girl in his arms, for was she not h i r i n g ip her ui% hands the Lord and God who bears us all in the hoitew of His Hand, and yet

loyes us so much that He hides Himself in the Blessed Sacrament ju$t to be always with us wrhen we need Him?

After Marie's father walked all the villagers, making quite a long procession, until they came to the priest's house. There Our Lord remained safely all night, the good villagers taking it in turns to kneel on guard in front of Him.

Now you will want to know why Marie was chosen instead of one of the men for this great honour. It was because she was so innocent and pure: she had never committed any sin and so had never offended dear Jesus. It is into pure and in­nocent hearts like hers that Jesus loves to come in Holy Communion.

When the priest returned, and the villagers told him all that they had done, he wras very Pleased, and told Marie that she must always remember what a great honour she had had, and that she must begin to prepare her heart to become a home for the same dear Jesus whom she had carried in her little hands.

T H E N A I V E T E OF YOUTH.

Most of the serious evencs in life possess their intensely human, and sometimes humorous sides. This is revealed by an incident associated with the recent cano­nisation at Easter of the two English martyrs. Blessed Thomas More and Blessed John Fisher. The boys of St. Michael's College, Leeds, England, were encouraged to write letters to the Pope solicit­ing his consideration for the cano­nisations.

The letters written by lads bet­ween the ages of 12 and 15 years, produced some delightfully naive passages. One boy began: "His Holiness, may I be permitted to draw your attention to two mar­tyrs who have not been canoniz­ed yet . . . " Another concludes "Hoping sincerely that by God's grace your poliness is in the best of, ^health, both physically and spiritually." A boy named Fisher, doing his best to convince the Holy Father [that he was impar­tial, declared; ,T f"With "regard to Blessed John Fisner, I do not ask for him to be canonized just be­cause I have the same surname as he." "The fact that Englishmen are not, as a rule, given to great holiness, there being probably fewer English saints than any other," moved another young cor­respondent to ask the Holy Father to give special consideration to the claims of More and Fisher. The writer of the following is evident­ly a budding attorney: "Consider also how he could have been feed­ing luxuriously on that terrible morning, instead of being led to the block. Don't you think a man like that, who gave up his life and his riehes, should be rewarded?"

THE GOOD SHEPHERD. (JOHN X, 11-16)

O Christ, Pastor of Thy Father's sheep—

Most loving and most kind: What dangers lie beyond the

mountains edge Silly we have not in mind.

0 Christ, Pastor of Thy Father's sheep—

Most gentle and most mild: Thou watchest for Thou knowest

that beyond There's death to feet that slip.

0 Christ, Pastor of Thy Father's shep—

Ever thoughtful for Thine: The lost sheep Thou seekest

crying the while "I am the Good Shepherd; I

know mine." 0 Christ, Pastor of Thy Father's

sheep— Yet many know Thee not:

Wherefore, Lord, Thy promise, keep

"And there shall be one fold; one Shepherd."

P. P. J . E S P E C K E R M A N .

A N A M E FOR THE B A B Y . Baby was being exhibited, and,

of course, admired, when the question of his name cropped up.

"We dunno what to call 'im," sighed the proud mother.

"What about Halbert, or Har-thur, or Half red?" suggested somebody, helpfully.

"Ho, no," responded the parent; "we don't want nothing with a haspirate; people halways goes and drops it."

A P L E A S A N T SURPRISE.

"My dear," said the newly-married man to his wife, "where did all these books on astronomy come from? They are not ours."

" A pleasant little surprise for you," remarked his wife. "You know, my dear, you said this morning that we ought to study astronomy; and so I went to the bookseller's and bought everything I could on the subject."

It was some minutes before he spoke. "I said study economy," he explained sadly.

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First young lady: "My dear, I insist."

Second young lady: "Agnes, I shall be downright offended with you in a moment, I shall pay the fare."

Conductor: "I don't care who pays it, but I don't want to stand here all day."

First young lady (with dig­nity): "You are a rude person and I shall report you. My uncle is one of the principal stockhold­ers, and I shall report your be­haviour to him. Here take this money. I'm sure you only had to wait a second or two." 9

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Ont; missionaries was Dunn who was responsible lor uic conversion of the Dyak native tribes of Sarawak. To lay open the invisible treasures of our Faith and to convince the simple-minded ignorant children of nature who were and are still submerged in gross materialism and superstition wculd have been an almost im­possible task without the guiding hand of our great and merciful Cod.

The First Neophytes. I quote below an incident des­

cribed in the Sixteenth Annual Report for the year 1885 by Mgr. Dunn when a few Dyak Cate­chumens were baptized.

"Our first Neophytes were bap­tized in the month of June when five Dyak families received that grace. These together with many others, still under instruction, be­gan their conversion by requesting me to bless their farms, promising as a condition, that they would desist from their superstitious practices, and attend the Cate-chumenate for instruction on Sun­days. The wooden altars erected to the demons, about their farms were then torn down and cast into the river, wooden crosses being planted in thear stead, On the eve of the baptism of these, our first adult converts, an incident occurred which it may be well to narrate here. I had directed these Neophytes to bring to the Mission Station all the charms and super­stitious signs they had used as heathens, that they might burn them before Baptism, as a public testimony of their sincerity in the solemn renunciation they were about to make. When it became generally known what was about to take place our Neophytes were surrounded by their heathen re­lations and friends who used every argument to dissuade them from the commission of what they call­ed so mad and foolish an act. They drew vivid* pictures of the ruin the devil would bring upon them and

meet rep<*. Majesty of G o u , shame and greater despair to infernal enemy, marking as it did the release of souls from his grasp through the power of the cross of Jesus."

Such wrere the miraculous hap­penings in the early, yet not dis­tant days, when the Spirit of God descended on this dark corner of the earth through His most pious and zealous workers in his vine­yard. I hope to give a few more interesting narratives in connection with the pioneer Catholic Missionaries of this place in my future letters.

Sandakan Catholic Association. Yesterday an important Com­

mittee Meeting of the Sandakan Catholic Association was held at the premises of the Association, the Rev. Fr. B. J . Davis, presid­ing. As the majority of the Catholics here seem to be still be­hind the Catholic Spirit of the times it was decided to work in the cause of the Catholic Action with the help of the "Leader' by push­ing on its sales.

St. Mary's School. We have had a full holiday to­

day, being His Majesty's Birthday. Yesterday there was a practice of the St. Mary's Blue Band and i t is very encouraging to see how the boys of Borneo are taking an in­terest in music. We are proud to state that we have at present at least one twelve-year-old budding musical prodigy who is a Catholic and is the son of the Assistant Commissioner of Customs.

Boxing too is fast finding its adherents and it is only a fort­night ago since we held a success­ful boxing exhibition in the school. To-day the St. Mary's Masters' Majong League starts and I hope to send you the results in a few weeks' time.

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,— ^nflawir is given is a catch question something similar to the question, Tlave you stopped beat­ing your wife yet?' If I answer 'Yes/ I am stating an untruth. If I answer *no/ the inference is forced that neither I nor the Church agrees with Father Cough-fin. The truth is the 'imprimatur' is the right to print, the sanction to print. It so happens in the case of Father Coughlin's addresses that I not only find in them noth­ing against faith and morals, but I . do most heartily approve their content. It is a content based on the very truths, the moral truths, found in the Old Testament; the truths taught by Christ, taught down through the centuries, and recently incorporated in the Ency­clicals qt the Popes which I have directed"'him to preach. ; "It wilF.be understood that the ^imprimatur' is given in the diocese ^ i f i which the writings o r i g i n a l " It will be further un­derstood that once yiven, the Imprimatur* permits the circula­tion of Sle printed wTord freely throughout the Catholic w^orld. I grant taP^Pather Coughlin the ^Imprimatur* on the written word «f • his addresses. Thus, they are permitted •« to circulate f r e e l y throughout the world. It is grant­ed here because Father Coughlin is subject to mry jurisdiction.

HIH respect to the spoken word, m respect to his addresses deliver­ed over the radio, I give my ap­proval here in this diocese for him to speak. Through the wonders * f radio, his voice is disseminated throughout many dioceses. His discourses have my approval, an Episcopal approval, at the point of OTigrin.

Law of Printed Word. "Such approval follows naturally

and logically the only law yet laid down which is the law of the writ­ten wonTHHaving the right to

. nie riierarcny. It is myself.

"Question number four: Does Father Coughlin represent the Ca­tholic Church?

"Answer: In the sense that the Head of the Church has singled him out as the only teacher of eco­nomic and social science in its relationship to moral law—why of course not. Every priest in the world has his identical instructions through his Bishop from the Holy See.

"In the sense that he is an authorized priest of the Catholic Church, yes, Father Coughlin does represent the Catholic Church. He was ordained to preach the Word of God and its interpretation as found in the Pope's letters. Father Coughlin offends many be­cause he is a representative of the Catholic Church and like Paul of old has received the right hand of fellowship' with the injunction that he 'be mindful of the poor which he is always careful to do.'

"As a representative of the Church, he speaks in the name of the Church. He knows one of the signs of Christ's mission, namely, 'the poor have the gospel preached to them.'

"I know this question comes from timid souls who fear Father Ccughlin's identity with the Church.

"Let no Catholic worthy of the name seek to dissociate Father C o u g h l i n from the Catholic Church. If persecution come, it will come from atheistic commu­nism or from unbridled individua­lism, or from immoral capitalism, not from social justice. It is this justice that Father Coughlin re­presents.

"Question number five: Is not Father Coughlin's work personal? Are not his opinions and interpre­tations of Papal documents his own?

Individual Opinions. "Answer: Once more such

ouestions are tricky, unsympathe­tic, or openly hostile by their very implications. Father Coughlin's work, in a sense, is personal. The

it i a

.pt to nation's

,ith or to st on mort-

^nse, I may >n. Father oonal. Per-

. that he has xiiand of the Holy

.... , o XIII, and 'thrown into the conflict all the energy of his mind and all the strength of his endurance.' He is distinguished, I believe, in this. His work is individual, distinctly individual, for he has gone far into the social and economic fields. He has 'charged the rich of this world not to be high minded, nor to trust in un­certainty of riches, but in the liv­ing God (who giveth us abundantly all things to enjoy.' ( Tim. 11 ;17; 18).

"His interpretations of Papal documents are his own. He has prepared himself for this work by amassing facts, facts of our work-a-day world, facts on poverty, facts on wealth, facts on the mal­distribution of wealth.

"He has taken, however, the Encyclicals of the Pooes, written in language clear as the noon-day sun, written for the average priest to read and immediately under­stand; written, not to obscure metaphor or parable, but as he who runs may read; written to be privately interpreted in each na­tion of the world by the faithful of that nation. For example, when the Holy Father states that wealth is concentrated into the hands of the few, does private opinion vary this fact?

"Let me develop this point for a moment. Let me take one spe­cific example, the example of the concentration of wealth into the hands of the few and the evils which grow from this concentra­tion. May I quote for you St. James, who. in speaking on this subject, indicts the rich in the following words:

"Your riches are corrupted and ycur garments are moth eaten, your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be for a testimony against you,—

" 'You stored up to yourself wrath against the last day:

" 'Behold the hire of the labour­ers who have reaped down your fields, which by fraud has been kept back by you, crieth; and the cry of them hath entered into the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth.'

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" 'Not alone is wealth accumu­lated, but immense power and despotic economic domination are concentrated in the hands of the few, and that those few are fre­quently not the owners, but only the trustees and directors of in­vested funds, who administer them at their good pleasure.

" 'This power becomes particu­larly irresistable when exercised by those who, because they hold and control money, are able also to govern credit and determine its allotment, for that reason supply­ing, so to speak, the lifeblood to the entire economic body, and grasping, as it were, in their hands, the very soul of production so that no one dare breathe against their will. '

" By the way, credit as you un­derstand, constitutes about 95 per cent of all modern money. This 95 per cent of all our money is al­most totally controlled by a little handful of private individual citi­zens. When they please they can demand of a sudden that all deb­tors pay their bills. By recalling credit they bring on a depression and destroy the prices of farm:. of

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M A L A Y A CATHOLIC LEADER, SATURDAY. 13*h JUNE, 1935.

T H E C H U R C H I N J A P A N .

(Fides Service.)

Rome.—Prayers for the Imperi­al Family and for the prosperity of the nation were offered in the Cathedral of Tokyo and in Catho­lic churches throughout Japan February 11, the 2,595th anniver­sary of the foundation of the Em­pire. Japanese Catholics hope that by giving such periodical proofs of their loyality to the fa­therland they will eventually suc­ceed in proving the falsity of the charges levelled at them by their slanderers wrho say that as Catho­lics they cannot be patriotic Japa­nese.

Catholics in Japan, who have had to bear this sort of persecu­tion for a long time, would like to impress upon their non-Catholic fellow countrymen the same fact that the Bishop of Treves told the peonle of the Rhineland recently. Addressing a missionary congress at Treves February 12, Bishop Bornewasser said, "In the univer­sal Church of Rome every nation retains its own citizenship and de­velops its own national individu­ality. In the Church Universal the German remains fully German, the Italian fully Italian, the Spa­niard fully Spanish. God himself has desired this individual charac­ter of every single nation, but God has also willed that each national individuality should find in the Church Universal the increase wrhich springs from the superna­tural fountains of grace." Catho­lics in Japan likewise wish to per­suade their fellow citizens that their religion is from above, not from abroad, that love of father­land, which includes devotion to its welfare and loyalty in its de­fense, is an essential part of Catholic doctrine.

It is sad to note that the present Catholic body of Japan is only ore-tenth of what it was 300 years a<ro. At the beginning of the 17th century there were one mil­lion Catholics in the country, but persecution followed, and this number was reduced to a few thousand.

This persecution came as a re­sult of the fear that, with Catho­licism .earning ground, the Empire was threatened with a foreign foe within its own dominions. The present Government, in confor-

Three Li t t le Reasons:—that should help w i n your interest in the conversion of Japan to Chr is t .

mity with the Constitution which grants absolute liberty to every religious group, treats Shintoism, Buddhism and the Christian reli­gion with equal tolerance and per­fect justice.

At the end of June 1934 there were 250,747 Catholics in the Japanese Empire, that is, 103,271 in Japan proper, and 147,476 in Korea, Formosa and the mandated islands of the Pacific.

It is consoling, therefore, to note that in recent years the Church's growth in Japan, though not great, has been steady. During the 12 month period which closed last June there were 1.690 baptisms of adults in the Empire and the total number of Catholics increas­ed by 2.780. In Japan proper the Catholic bodv has increased from 87,581 in 1927 to 103.271 in 1934.

It is easy to understand the Pope's solicitude for the welfare of the faith in this land, which has risen so rapidly to a place of im­portance among the great powers of the world and whose future, doubtless, will be great. The peo­

ple are awake, enterprising, and the race is growing by leaps and bounds; it is estimated that by 1965 Japan's population will be 108,000,000.

"The Church in Japan faces the future with confidence," says Archbishop Edward Mooney, B i ­shop of Rochester, former Apo­stolic Delegate at Tokyo. "Japa­nese Catholics are striving ear­nestly to share their spiritual pri­vileges with their fellow citizens, and the Japanese clergy, well trained and rapidly increasing, gives assurance for the future of the Church in this land for which the future seems to hold so high a destiny."

KING'S BIRTHDAY RECEPTION AT CARCOSA.

The Hon. Mr. Marcus Rex and Mrs. Rex entertained at Carcosa on the occasion of the King's Birthday over 350 distinguished people. The inclement weather changed and helped to make the function a success.

TWO MILION SPENT FOR RE­LIEF OF DISTRESS IN

C E Y L O N . Nearly two million rupees have

already been spent from relief funds for the relief of distress due to malaria and drought.

A classified statement of the ex­penditure from all sources up to the end of April, issued by* the commissioner for Relief, gives the following details of the approxi­mate expenditure under different heads:—

Relief Works, Rs. 964,986; Foodstuffs, purchase, transport and distribution, Rs. 759,993; School feeding Rs. 121,812; Grants to temporary hospitals and con­valescent homes, Rs. 43,182; Me­dical Treatment, Rs. 7,834; Relief of Destitute owing to shortage of food, Rs. 2,203; other Rs. 38,110.

The following are the Districts where the expenditure has been heavv: Kurunegala (Rs. 501,633); Colombo (Rs. 451,147); Kegalla (Rs. 350,043); Kandv (Rs. 224,-326); Puttalam and Chilaw (Rs. 106,543) ; Anuradhapura (Rs. 93,571).

It is notable that by now a mil­lion rupees have been spent on re­lief works, which are still continu­ing and must continue for some months in certain Districts until crops are reaped.— (The Ceylon Catholic Messenger, May, 21.)

CONVERSION OF JEWS. Intention of Quebec's Final Holy

Year Rites. (By N.C.W.C. News Service.) Quebec.—Among the religious

ceremonies which marked the close of the Jubilee Year of the Redemption in Canada were the perpetual adoration services in the parishes of the Archdiocese of Quebec, sponsored by the Cana­dian League of Catholic Women, under the auspices of His Emi­nence Rodrigue Cardinal V i l -leneuve, Archbishop of Quebec, and a spiritual bouquet "for the return of Israel to its Messiah" offered by the school children of Canada.

The Mother Superior of the Convent of Notre Dame de Sion, Prince Albert. Saskatchewan, in­vited all convents and schools to take part in a novena, May 31— June 8, during which period pupils heard Mass and received Holy Com­munion for the special intention of the conversion of the Jews. More than 80,000 Masses and 60,000 Communions were assured for the spiritual bouquet. "//

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,— ^nflawir is given is a catch question something similar to the question, Tlave you stopped beat­ing your wife yet?' If I answer 'Yes/ I am stating an untruth. If I answer *no/ the inference is forced that neither I nor the Church agrees with Father Cough-fin. The truth is the 'imprimatur' is the right to print, the sanction to print. It so happens in the case of Father Coughlin's addresses that I not only find in them noth­ing against faith and morals, but I . do most heartily approve their content. It is a content based on the very truths, the moral truths, found in the Old Testament; the truths taught by Christ, taught down through the centuries, and recently incorporated in the Ency­clicals qt the Popes which I have directed"'him to preach. ; "It wilF.be understood that the ^imprimatur' is given in the diocese ^ i f i which the writings o r i g i n a l " It will be further un­derstood that once yiven, the Imprimatur* permits the circula­tion of Sle printed wTord freely throughout the Catholic w^orld. I grant taP^Pather Coughlin the ^Imprimatur* on the written word «f • his addresses. Thus, they are permitted •« to circulate f r e e l y throughout the world. It is grant­ed here because Father Coughlin is subject to mry jurisdiction.

HIH respect to the spoken word, m respect to his addresses deliver­ed over the radio, I give my ap­proval here in this diocese for him to speak. Through the wonders * f radio, his voice is disseminated throughout many dioceses. His discourses have my approval, an Episcopal approval, at the point of OTigrin.

Law of Printed Word. "Such approval follows naturally

and logically the only law yet laid down which is the law of the writ­ten wonTHHaving the right to

. nie riierarcny. It is myself.

"Question number four: Does Father Coughlin represent the Ca­tholic Church?

"Answer: In the sense that the Head of the Church has singled him out as the only teacher of eco­nomic and social science in its relationship to moral law—why of course not. Every priest in the world has his identical instructions through his Bishop from the Holy See.

"In the sense that he is an authorized priest of the Catholic Church, yes, Father Coughlin does represent the Catholic Church. He was ordained to preach the Word of God and its interpretation as found in the Pope's letters. Father Coughlin offends many be­cause he is a representative of the Catholic Church and like Paul of old has received the right hand of fellowship' with the injunction that he 'be mindful of the poor which he is always careful to do.'

"As a representative of the Church, he speaks in the name of the Church. He knows one of the signs of Christ's mission, namely, 'the poor have the gospel preached to them.'

"I know this question comes from timid souls who fear Father Ccughlin's identity with the Church.

"Let no Catholic worthy of the name seek to dissociate Father C o u g h l i n from the Catholic Church. If persecution come, it will come from atheistic commu­nism or from unbridled individua­lism, or from immoral capitalism, not from social justice. It is this justice that Father Coughlin re­presents.

"Question number five: Is not Father Coughlin's work personal? Are not his opinions and interpre­tations of Papal documents his own?

Individual Opinions. "Answer: Once more such

ouestions are tricky, unsympathe­tic, or openly hostile by their very implications. Father Coughlin's work, in a sense, is personal. The

it i a

.pt to nation's

,ith or to st on mort-

^nse, I may >n. Father oonal. Per-

. that he has xiiand of the Holy

.... , o XIII, and 'thrown into the conflict all the energy of his mind and all the strength of his endurance.' He is distinguished, I believe, in this. His work is individual, distinctly individual, for he has gone far into the social and economic fields. He has 'charged the rich of this world not to be high minded, nor to trust in un­certainty of riches, but in the liv­ing God (who giveth us abundantly all things to enjoy.' ( Tim. 11 ;17; 18).

"His interpretations of Papal documents are his own. He has prepared himself for this work by amassing facts, facts of our work-a-day world, facts on poverty, facts on wealth, facts on the mal­distribution of wealth.

"He has taken, however, the Encyclicals of the Pooes, written in language clear as the noon-day sun, written for the average priest to read and immediately under­stand; written, not to obscure metaphor or parable, but as he who runs may read; written to be privately interpreted in each na­tion of the world by the faithful of that nation. For example, when the Holy Father states that wealth is concentrated into the hands of the few, does private opinion vary this fact?

"Let me develop this point for a moment. Let me take one spe­cific example, the example of the concentration of wealth into the hands of the few and the evils which grow from this concentra­tion. May I quote for you St. James, who. in speaking on this subject, indicts the rich in the following words:

"Your riches are corrupted and ycur garments are moth eaten, your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be for a testimony against you,—

" 'You stored up to yourself wrath against the last day:

" 'Behold the hire of the labour­ers who have reaped down your fields, which by fraud has been kept back by you, crieth; and the cry of them hath entered into the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth.'

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" 'Not alone is wealth accumu­lated, but immense power and despotic economic domination are concentrated in the hands of the few, and that those few are fre­quently not the owners, but only the trustees and directors of in­vested funds, who administer them at their good pleasure.

" 'This power becomes particu­larly irresistable when exercised by those who, because they hold and control money, are able also to govern credit and determine its allotment, for that reason supply­ing, so to speak, the lifeblood to the entire economic body, and grasping, as it were, in their hands, the very soul of production so that no one dare breathe against their will. '

" By the way, credit as you un­derstand, constitutes about 95 per cent of all modern money. This 95 per cent of all our money is al­most totally controlled by a little handful of private individual citi­zens. When they please they can demand of a sudden that all deb­tors pay their bills. By recalling credit they bring on a depression and destroy the prices of farm:. of

(Continued on page 11. *

M A L A Y A CATHOLIC LEADER, SATURDAY. 13*h JUNE, 1935.

T H E C H U R C H I N J A P A N .

(Fides Service.)

Rome.—Prayers for the Imperi­al Family and for the prosperity of the nation were offered in the Cathedral of Tokyo and in Catho­lic churches throughout Japan February 11, the 2,595th anniver­sary of the foundation of the Em­pire. Japanese Catholics hope that by giving such periodical proofs of their loyality to the fa­therland they will eventually suc­ceed in proving the falsity of the charges levelled at them by their slanderers wrho say that as Catho­lics they cannot be patriotic Japa­nese.

Catholics in Japan, who have had to bear this sort of persecu­tion for a long time, would like to impress upon their non-Catholic fellow countrymen the same fact that the Bishop of Treves told the peonle of the Rhineland recently. Addressing a missionary congress at Treves February 12, Bishop Bornewasser said, "In the univer­sal Church of Rome every nation retains its own citizenship and de­velops its own national individu­ality. In the Church Universal the German remains fully German, the Italian fully Italian, the Spa­niard fully Spanish. God himself has desired this individual charac­ter of every single nation, but God has also willed that each national individuality should find in the Church Universal the increase wrhich springs from the superna­tural fountains of grace." Catho­lics in Japan likewise wish to per­suade their fellow citizens that their religion is from above, not from abroad, that love of father­land, which includes devotion to its welfare and loyalty in its de­fense, is an essential part of Catholic doctrine.

It is sad to note that the present Catholic body of Japan is only ore-tenth of what it was 300 years a<ro. At the beginning of the 17th century there were one mil­lion Catholics in the country, but persecution followed, and this number was reduced to a few thousand.

This persecution came as a re­sult of the fear that, with Catho­licism .earning ground, the Empire was threatened with a foreign foe within its own dominions. The present Government, in confor-

Three Li t t le Reasons:—that should help w i n your interest in the conversion of Japan to Chr is t .

mity with the Constitution which grants absolute liberty to every religious group, treats Shintoism, Buddhism and the Christian reli­gion with equal tolerance and per­fect justice.

At the end of June 1934 there were 250,747 Catholics in the Japanese Empire, that is, 103,271 in Japan proper, and 147,476 in Korea, Formosa and the mandated islands of the Pacific.

It is consoling, therefore, to note that in recent years the Church's growth in Japan, though not great, has been steady. During the 12 month period which closed last June there were 1.690 baptisms of adults in the Empire and the total number of Catholics increas­ed by 2.780. In Japan proper the Catholic bodv has increased from 87,581 in 1927 to 103.271 in 1934.

It is easy to understand the Pope's solicitude for the welfare of the faith in this land, which has risen so rapidly to a place of im­portance among the great powers of the world and whose future, doubtless, will be great. The peo­

ple are awake, enterprising, and the race is growing by leaps and bounds; it is estimated that by 1965 Japan's population will be 108,000,000.

"The Church in Japan faces the future with confidence," says Archbishop Edward Mooney, B i ­shop of Rochester, former Apo­stolic Delegate at Tokyo. "Japa­nese Catholics are striving ear­nestly to share their spiritual pri­vileges with their fellow citizens, and the Japanese clergy, well trained and rapidly increasing, gives assurance for the future of the Church in this land for which the future seems to hold so high a destiny."

KING'S BIRTHDAY RECEPTION AT CARCOSA.

The Hon. Mr. Marcus Rex and Mrs. Rex entertained at Carcosa on the occasion of the King's Birthday over 350 distinguished people. The inclement weather changed and helped to make the function a success.

TWO MILION SPENT FOR RE­LIEF OF DISTRESS IN

C E Y L O N . Nearly two million rupees have

already been spent from relief funds for the relief of distress due to malaria and drought.

A classified statement of the ex­penditure from all sources up to the end of April, issued by* the commissioner for Relief, gives the following details of the approxi­mate expenditure under different heads:—

Relief Works, Rs. 964,986; Foodstuffs, purchase, transport and distribution, Rs. 759,993; School feeding Rs. 121,812; Grants to temporary hospitals and con­valescent homes, Rs. 43,182; Me­dical Treatment, Rs. 7,834; Relief of Destitute owing to shortage of food, Rs. 2,203; other Rs. 38,110.

The following are the Districts where the expenditure has been heavv: Kurunegala (Rs. 501,633); Colombo (Rs. 451,147); Kegalla (Rs. 350,043); Kandv (Rs. 224,-326); Puttalam and Chilaw (Rs. 106,543) ; Anuradhapura (Rs. 93,571).

It is notable that by now a mil­lion rupees have been spent on re­lief works, which are still continu­ing and must continue for some months in certain Districts until crops are reaped.— (The Ceylon Catholic Messenger, May, 21.)

CONVERSION OF JEWS. Intention of Quebec's Final Holy

Year Rites. (By N.C.W.C. News Service.) Quebec.—Among the religious

ceremonies which marked the close of the Jubilee Year of the Redemption in Canada were the perpetual adoration services in the parishes of the Archdiocese of Quebec, sponsored by the Cana­dian League of Catholic Women, under the auspices of His Emi­nence Rodrigue Cardinal V i l -leneuve, Archbishop of Quebec, and a spiritual bouquet "for the return of Israel to its Messiah" offered by the school children of Canada.

The Mother Superior of the Convent of Notre Dame de Sion, Prince Albert. Saskatchewan, in­vited all convents and schools to take part in a novena, May 31— June 8, during which period pupils heard Mass and received Holy Com­munion for the special intention of the conversion of the Jews. More than 80,000 Masses and 60,000 Communions were assured for the spiritual bouquet. "//

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Woman's Page Making a Real Home

Happy is the mother whose children come home to a real " home," and who can bring their friends with them or have their friends visit them. Young people must have companions. It is not right to expect 19-year old Marie to find complete recreation in a conversation largely made up of Uncle Joe's experiences. Nor to expect young John aged 20 to find daily amusement listening to Aunt Rose's plans for the running of her household.

Both Marie and John must asso­ciate with companions of their own age; if they may not do it at home, they will do it away from home. Of course, visitors, even odd callers on the various members of a family entail extra work, but it is worth the extra trouble; indeed, it is worth far more extra trouble than such visitors ever give, to be able to know the children's asso­ciates.

Some may say that servants would object to such an open house as the receiving of friends of sons and daughters would mean, but if we are ruled to such an extent by those we •employ* it is surely time to sever the connection. Besides, servants are not really unreason­able when they see that Marie and John, and even little Dot, all help with the extra work, they will en­ter into the spirit of the thing.

Naturally, it is not always con­venient to a man or woman of middle years to have the house inundated with young people and their noise and upsets, but it is a self-sacrifice which will bring its own reward!

Young people have a desire for the company of the opposite sex, and this is most natural and right, and should not be either ridiculed or blamed. It should be openly en­couraged in the right environment —The Home.. .the Catholic Home. For, i f they do not get what they require at home, they will go else­where to get it! And then parents will not know with whom they are becoming intimate, and if the day comes when they come home with the newrs of an engagement to the wrong person, you will only have yourself $0 blame.

Many and many a mother has had a painful shock on finding Marie or John engaged to be mar­ried to a complete stranger and even to a non-Catholic. Whose fault is it that such shocks occur? The mother of a family has it in her power to make her children love and appreciate their home, and such children invariably bring or attract new friends to their home so that the mother has a chance to use that marvellous God-given influence which a mother alone possesses.

The children must have com­panions, and those mothers who value their children's happiness, to say nothing of their own, must make it their business to become friends of their children's friends.

" I was often on the point of giving up," he told his mother that evening, "but something cheered me on and on, until at last the shore was reached."

" What was it that kept up your courage?" she asked.

"The thought of you, Mother," was the simple answer.

That same saving thought of mother has saved many another soul, shipwrecked in the more deadly sea of sin. Years may have flown since God called her away, but the tender influence of her memory still exerts its wonderful force, reclaiming at times the broken life almost on the edge of everlasting ruin.

Women would do well to reflect upon the part they may play in the world of spiritual life and progress, if, keeping a sane balance amid the foibles of our age, they serve God as He intended in the exalted role of wife and mother.

" E v e r y c h i l d

n e e d s m i l k

e v e r y d a y . "

MILKMAID MILK

A N UNBLESSED HOUSE. It is narrated that St. Jerome

and a friend were invited to dine with a nobleman. While seated at table the companion remarked on the nobleman's talented family, and the host launched into a des­cription of his good fortune— health, prosperity, love at home, friendships at court, not an enemy, not a trouble in the world—till St. Jerome, interrupting him, arose, touched his companion, and to the astonishment of all exclaimed:

"Ar ise! We must leave this house that God has never visited with the blessing of sorrow!"

MOTHER'S I N F L U E N C E . A former governor of one of our

large States, often recalls an in-cident -of-tts venturesome boyhoods He was sailing alone one day when a nasty squall hit and capsized his little boat. The lad was a fair swimmer, but land was almost a mile away, and the task seemed hopeless, burdened as he was with his clothes.

HOUSEHOLD HINTS. Disposal of Refuse.

In keeping a house clean and healthy one of the great points is the disposal of refuse and waste which of necessity arises in every house. The methods of removing rubbish are so different for those living in towTis and those in isolated houses that they will be each treated separately. 1. House­holders in towns have got the water carriage system and the buckets or bins which are emptied b y the town corporation. It is most important when taking a house to make sure that the drains are in good condition, and if ever you have the slightest suspicion that they are in any way out of order, do not hesitate to get them examined and rectified at once. Many of the worst diseases are caused by bad drainage, and even a slight escape of sewer gas will so weaken the constitution as to leave it an easy prey to disease. For this reason also the housewife should see it is cared for properly. The rules are as follows:—(1) Flush the drains well every time they are used. (2) Keep the pans thorough­ly cleansed, and have each washed w i t h carbolic soap and warm water once a week. (3) Be careful not to allow matches, pieces of hair, or such matter to go down the drains, as they catch in the bends of the pipes and stop them up. 44^ —-Now—and again pour down some disinfectant to keep t h e m fresh, but remember that the dangers of a bad gas are not re­moved by doing a w a y w i t h the smell.

The sinks should also be kept perfectly clean, and no solid mat­

ter should be allowed down the pipe. A perforated sink basket is useful for holding such matter until it can be otherwise disposed of. Once a day the sink should be flushed with boiling water to which a little washing soda is added. This helps to dissolve the grease which would otherwise solidify on the sides of the pipe. Once a week pour down some disinfectant. Buy at a chemist's a few ounces of per­manganate of potash and dissolve a level teaspoon of this in a gallon of water, and pour slowly dowoi.

Outside the house see that the traps (that is the part under the grating) are also regularly clean­ed. Pull up the grating and with your hand or a scraper remove any solid that may have accumulated there. Some traps have a small bucket arrangement which pulls up cor cleansing, and which is very convenient. The flushing of the sink ought to be sufficient for the trap immediately under it, but any others should be treated separate­ly.

With regard to the solid waste. t>urn whatever possible. It is the cleanest and most economical me­thod. For instance, dried potato skins are excellent for lighting a fire, and also are orange skins, peelings of turnips, etc. In burn­ing such refuse close all the doors of the range and pull out the dampers so that no offensive smell goes up through the house.

The ashpit or corporation bucket should only hold ashes (from which the cinders have been sift­ed), broken crockery and empty tins, and nothing damp should ever be put in, or otherwise the deeay which takes place gives rise to offensive smells and dangerous germs.

In the country or in houses which have no drainage system— (1) Burn whatever possible. (2) Remove all other waste as far as possible from the house and have a regular receptacle for it. (3) Do not throw, even clean water, just outside the house. Keap the part of the yard or garden just around the door perfectly clean and dry. The muddy pools or mucky ground caused by emptying buckets or dishes outside the door are not only means of bringing dirt into the house and ugly to look at, but the stagnant water is most unhealthy, and also a great deal of it sinks into the ground and gradually soaks into the walls of the house, mak-ing them damp, which dampness is almost certain to "ultimately give the inhabitants rheumatism or lung complaints. Few respectable houses are now without a closet (an earth one can be built for about £1), and th?<e should be re-

(Contd. on next Col.)

RECIPES. POTATO S A L A D .

Cut some cooked cold potatoes into cubes or slices and put them in a salad bowl. Sprinkle with a teaspoonful of grated onion or a few chopped chives.

Mix two tablespoonfuls of salad oil with a teaspoonful of made mustard, half a teaspoonful of salt, and a quarter of a teaspoon­ful of pepper. Add one table-spoonful of chili vinegar, pour over the potatoes just before serv­ing. Mix well and sprinkle thick­ly with chopped parsley.

A N O V E L S A L A D . ' M i x together one and a half

cupfuls each of diced fresh or tinned pineapple and finely-diced apple, adding two tablespoonfuls of mixed pimento and two or three hearts of celery, diced. ~\Just before serving, moisten liberally with mayonnaise to which a little whipped cream has been added, and serve in nests of white lettuce.

P R U N E NUT PUDDING. One pound of prunes, three-

quarters of a pound of sugar, half a teaspoonful of cinnamon, quar­ter of a teaspoonful of powdered cloves, four teaspoonfuls of corn­flour, the juice of an orange and of half a lemon, half a cupful of chopped nuts, and two egg whites.

Soak and cook the prunes and remove the stones. Simmer them for five minutes in two cups of the water in which they have been cooked, with the sugar and spices. Add the cornflour blended with cold water, and the orange and lemon juice. Cook, stirring for fifteen minutes. Mix in the chop­ped nuts, let cool a little, then fold in the stiffly beaten egg whites. Turn into a mould and chill.

APRICOTS AND RICE. Stone some fairly ripe apricots

and cook them in the oven (with water to cover and sugar to swee­ten) till soft. Put four ounces of washed rice in a double saucepan with a pint of creamy milk and an ounce and a half of sugar; cook till the rice is soft, stirring at intervals, and then leave to be­come cold.

To serve, pile up the rice in the centre of a dish and put the apri­cots and juice round it.

gularly emptied turf mould or have any water into them.

sprinkled with sawdust, and never

lops poured or

M A L A Y A CATHOLIC L E A D E R , SATURDAY, 15th J U N E , 1935. 9

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The Situation In Germany. Hitler has never accorded to

religion generally, or to the Catho­lic Church in particular, that re­cognition of its separate juridical existence, apart from the State, which was recognised by Musso­lini, in faltering phrases, from the beginning.

Hence the German dictator has never been able to check the unification movement, essential to the totalitarian State, in its en­deavours to include religion. Pro­testants were first subjected to the "squeeze," with results so far disappointing to the Nazis.

German unifiers recognize that the Catholic Church is the supreme obstacle to religious unification, on the basis of State-worship, race-worship, or Rosenbergianism with its stupid nationalism.

They are, therefore, moving against the Church with more subtlety and caution than inspired their attacks on, Protestantism. Some of the leaders, how many of them is not known, are undoubted­ly bent on the destruction of the Church, and so far the Fuhrer has not checked them.

He is obviously waiting to see whether he can get all he wants by other means before resorting to an open breach and violence.

The Nazi Underlings. Interpreting the mind of their

leaders the Nazi underlings are doing everything in their power to discredit Church organisations, priests, monks and nuns. Every rash pulpit statement, every pro­ved violation of the strict civil law, is ventilated and advertised as widely as possible, so as to bring the Church into discredit by de­faming her ministers and servants.

Unfortunately, a few priests and nuns have acted imprudently, especially with regard to the currency laws. It is strictly for­bidden to export German marks without a licence, which is very grudgingly given, and that has made it difficult for some com­munities to repay their debts to foreign houses of their orders.

For a long time, too, there was difficulty about sending out alms collected in aid of the foreign missions. One can easily imagine the concern of German Catholics for their brethren in the mission fields dependent upon alms collect­ed in Germany.

Nevertheless "the law is the law," and it was risky to evade it in any way. Those who were caught have compromised the whole Catholic community.

Recent Arrests In Germany. The difficulties regarding foreign

mission alms were eased by an agreement with the Catholic auth­orities, but the Nazis have refused to make arrangements for the repayment of private loans ad­vanced to German Catholics by other Catholics abroad.

Considerable hardship has thus been inflicted on the least wealthy °f Germany's creditors, though 'industrial magnates have been allowed to repay their foreign

loans made by wealthy banks and corporations.

The Week before last, and last week, were notable for the arrest of priests and nuns, after raids on their monasteries and institutions by Nazi agents. They have been tried on the charge of violating the currency laws, found guilty, fined and imprisoned.

The Nazis are making a great shout about the way previous ser­vices to the country were taken into account to reduce the fines and sentences, but the whole affair illustrates again that hostility to­wards the Church which has marked the regime from the beg­inning.

If the Nazis had the slightest goodwill towards the Church they would have made arrangements for the repayment of loans binding in conscience long ago. But every appear to them has failed.

(Catholic Times, 31st May)

Eugenists Rebuffed. It is a pleasure to record that

the Pope's strong protest against the inclusion of the subject of sterilisation and eugenics in the agenda of the fourth International Hospitals Congress in Rome pro­duced a quick result. It was de­cided at the final plenary session of the Congress that the offending item, which had been deferred to a future Congress, should be ex­cluded from the next agenda. Dutch delegates proposed a motion protesting against the action of two German doctors who were accused of having taken advantage of their position as delegates to conduct propaganda on behalf of German, ideas about sterilisation, and asking that the topic should be excluded from the programme of the next Congress. They were strongly supported by the Spanish and French representatives, and the motion was accepted.

The Pope's Rebuke. Before this the Pope had re­

ceived 400 delegates to the Inter­national Hospitals Congress and, while paying warm tribute to a profession whose members were devoted to the science of healing, he administered a gentle, but firm, rebuke to those who advocated practices repugnant to Christian teaching. He recalled how much the Church had done to help the sick and how Christian charity renewed a pagan world whicji, in spite of its art, its learning, its poetry and its architecture was, in the telling phrase of St. Paul, sine affectione, sine misericordia. Then he spoke to them as a father in the exercise of his mission. He reminded them that, just as he had told a Congress of astronomers that it was no business of theirs to discuss the date of Easter or to busy themselves with a possible change in what regulated the liturgical or ecclesiastical year, so he would tell them that the ques­tion of sterilisation should not appear on their agenda.

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Woman's Page Making a Real Home

Happy is the mother whose children come home to a real " home," and who can bring their friends with them or have their friends visit them. Young people must have companions. It is not right to expect 19-year old Marie to find complete recreation in a conversation largely made up of Uncle Joe's experiences. Nor to expect young John aged 20 to find daily amusement listening to Aunt Rose's plans for the running of her household.

Both Marie and John must asso­ciate with companions of their own age; if they may not do it at home, they will do it away from home. Of course, visitors, even odd callers on the various members of a family entail extra work, but it is worth the extra trouble; indeed, it is worth far more extra trouble than such visitors ever give, to be able to know the children's asso­ciates.

Some may say that servants would object to such an open house as the receiving of friends of sons and daughters would mean, but if we are ruled to such an extent by those we •employ* it is surely time to sever the connection. Besides, servants are not really unreason­able when they see that Marie and John, and even little Dot, all help with the extra work, they will en­ter into the spirit of the thing.

Naturally, it is not always con­venient to a man or woman of middle years to have the house inundated with young people and their noise and upsets, but it is a self-sacrifice which will bring its own reward!

Young people have a desire for the company of the opposite sex, and this is most natural and right, and should not be either ridiculed or blamed. It should be openly en­couraged in the right environment —The Home.. .the Catholic Home. For, i f they do not get what they require at home, they will go else­where to get it! And then parents will not know with whom they are becoming intimate, and if the day comes when they come home with the newrs of an engagement to the wrong person, you will only have yourself $0 blame.

Many and many a mother has had a painful shock on finding Marie or John engaged to be mar­ried to a complete stranger and even to a non-Catholic. Whose fault is it that such shocks occur? The mother of a family has it in her power to make her children love and appreciate their home, and such children invariably bring or attract new friends to their home so that the mother has a chance to use that marvellous God-given influence which a mother alone possesses.

The children must have com­panions, and those mothers who value their children's happiness, to say nothing of their own, must make it their business to become friends of their children's friends.

" I was often on the point of giving up," he told his mother that evening, "but something cheered me on and on, until at last the shore was reached."

" What was it that kept up your courage?" she asked.

"The thought of you, Mother," was the simple answer.

That same saving thought of mother has saved many another soul, shipwrecked in the more deadly sea of sin. Years may have flown since God called her away, but the tender influence of her memory still exerts its wonderful force, reclaiming at times the broken life almost on the edge of everlasting ruin.

Women would do well to reflect upon the part they may play in the world of spiritual life and progress, if, keeping a sane balance amid the foibles of our age, they serve God as He intended in the exalted role of wife and mother.

" E v e r y c h i l d

n e e d s m i l k

e v e r y d a y . "

MILKMAID MILK

A N UNBLESSED HOUSE. It is narrated that St. Jerome

and a friend were invited to dine with a nobleman. While seated at table the companion remarked on the nobleman's talented family, and the host launched into a des­cription of his good fortune— health, prosperity, love at home, friendships at court, not an enemy, not a trouble in the world—till St. Jerome, interrupting him, arose, touched his companion, and to the astonishment of all exclaimed:

"Ar ise! We must leave this house that God has never visited with the blessing of sorrow!"

MOTHER'S I N F L U E N C E . A former governor of one of our

large States, often recalls an in-cident -of-tts venturesome boyhoods He was sailing alone one day when a nasty squall hit and capsized his little boat. The lad was a fair swimmer, but land was almost a mile away, and the task seemed hopeless, burdened as he was with his clothes.

HOUSEHOLD HINTS. Disposal of Refuse.

In keeping a house clean and healthy one of the great points is the disposal of refuse and waste which of necessity arises in every house. The methods of removing rubbish are so different for those living in towTis and those in isolated houses that they will be each treated separately. 1. House­holders in towns have got the water carriage system and the buckets or bins which are emptied b y the town corporation. It is most important when taking a house to make sure that the drains are in good condition, and if ever you have the slightest suspicion that they are in any way out of order, do not hesitate to get them examined and rectified at once. Many of the worst diseases are caused by bad drainage, and even a slight escape of sewer gas will so weaken the constitution as to leave it an easy prey to disease. For this reason also the housewife should see it is cared for properly. The rules are as follows:—(1) Flush the drains well every time they are used. (2) Keep the pans thorough­ly cleansed, and have each washed w i t h carbolic soap and warm water once a week. (3) Be careful not to allow matches, pieces of hair, or such matter to go down the drains, as they catch in the bends of the pipes and stop them up. 44^ —-Now—and again pour down some disinfectant to keep t h e m fresh, but remember that the dangers of a bad gas are not re­moved by doing a w a y w i t h the smell.

The sinks should also be kept perfectly clean, and no solid mat­

ter should be allowed down the pipe. A perforated sink basket is useful for holding such matter until it can be otherwise disposed of. Once a day the sink should be flushed with boiling water to which a little washing soda is added. This helps to dissolve the grease which would otherwise solidify on the sides of the pipe. Once a week pour down some disinfectant. Buy at a chemist's a few ounces of per­manganate of potash and dissolve a level teaspoon of this in a gallon of water, and pour slowly dowoi.

Outside the house see that the traps (that is the part under the grating) are also regularly clean­ed. Pull up the grating and with your hand or a scraper remove any solid that may have accumulated there. Some traps have a small bucket arrangement which pulls up cor cleansing, and which is very convenient. The flushing of the sink ought to be sufficient for the trap immediately under it, but any others should be treated separate­ly.

With regard to the solid waste. t>urn whatever possible. It is the cleanest and most economical me­thod. For instance, dried potato skins are excellent for lighting a fire, and also are orange skins, peelings of turnips, etc. In burn­ing such refuse close all the doors of the range and pull out the dampers so that no offensive smell goes up through the house.

The ashpit or corporation bucket should only hold ashes (from which the cinders have been sift­ed), broken crockery and empty tins, and nothing damp should ever be put in, or otherwise the deeay which takes place gives rise to offensive smells and dangerous germs.

In the country or in houses which have no drainage system— (1) Burn whatever possible. (2) Remove all other waste as far as possible from the house and have a regular receptacle for it. (3) Do not throw, even clean water, just outside the house. Keap the part of the yard or garden just around the door perfectly clean and dry. The muddy pools or mucky ground caused by emptying buckets or dishes outside the door are not only means of bringing dirt into the house and ugly to look at, but the stagnant water is most unhealthy, and also a great deal of it sinks into the ground and gradually soaks into the walls of the house, mak-ing them damp, which dampness is almost certain to "ultimately give the inhabitants rheumatism or lung complaints. Few respectable houses are now without a closet (an earth one can be built for about £1), and th?<e should be re-

(Contd. on next Col.)

RECIPES. POTATO S A L A D .

Cut some cooked cold potatoes into cubes or slices and put them in a salad bowl. Sprinkle with a teaspoonful of grated onion or a few chopped chives.

Mix two tablespoonfuls of salad oil with a teaspoonful of made mustard, half a teaspoonful of salt, and a quarter of a teaspoon­ful of pepper. Add one table-spoonful of chili vinegar, pour over the potatoes just before serv­ing. Mix well and sprinkle thick­ly with chopped parsley.

A N O V E L S A L A D . ' M i x together one and a half

cupfuls each of diced fresh or tinned pineapple and finely-diced apple, adding two tablespoonfuls of mixed pimento and two or three hearts of celery, diced. ~\Just before serving, moisten liberally with mayonnaise to which a little whipped cream has been added, and serve in nests of white lettuce.

P R U N E NUT PUDDING. One pound of prunes, three-

quarters of a pound of sugar, half a teaspoonful of cinnamon, quar­ter of a teaspoonful of powdered cloves, four teaspoonfuls of corn­flour, the juice of an orange and of half a lemon, half a cupful of chopped nuts, and two egg whites.

Soak and cook the prunes and remove the stones. Simmer them for five minutes in two cups of the water in which they have been cooked, with the sugar and spices. Add the cornflour blended with cold water, and the orange and lemon juice. Cook, stirring for fifteen minutes. Mix in the chop­ped nuts, let cool a little, then fold in the stiffly beaten egg whites. Turn into a mould and chill.

APRICOTS AND RICE. Stone some fairly ripe apricots

and cook them in the oven (with water to cover and sugar to swee­ten) till soft. Put four ounces of washed rice in a double saucepan with a pint of creamy milk and an ounce and a half of sugar; cook till the rice is soft, stirring at intervals, and then leave to be­come cold.

To serve, pile up the rice in the centre of a dish and put the apri­cots and juice round it.

gularly emptied turf mould or have any water into them.

sprinkled with sawdust, and never

lops poured or

M A L A Y A CATHOLIC L E A D E R , SATURDAY, 15th J U N E , 1935. 9

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The Situation In Germany. Hitler has never accorded to

religion generally, or to the Catho­lic Church in particular, that re­cognition of its separate juridical existence, apart from the State, which was recognised by Musso­lini, in faltering phrases, from the beginning.

Hence the German dictator has never been able to check the unification movement, essential to the totalitarian State, in its en­deavours to include religion. Pro­testants were first subjected to the "squeeze," with results so far disappointing to the Nazis.

German unifiers recognize that the Catholic Church is the supreme obstacle to religious unification, on the basis of State-worship, race-worship, or Rosenbergianism with its stupid nationalism.

They are, therefore, moving against the Church with more subtlety and caution than inspired their attacks on, Protestantism. Some of the leaders, how many of them is not known, are undoubted­ly bent on the destruction of the Church, and so far the Fuhrer has not checked them.

He is obviously waiting to see whether he can get all he wants by other means before resorting to an open breach and violence.

The Nazi Underlings. Interpreting the mind of their

leaders the Nazi underlings are doing everything in their power to discredit Church organisations, priests, monks and nuns. Every rash pulpit statement, every pro­ved violation of the strict civil law, is ventilated and advertised as widely as possible, so as to bring the Church into discredit by de­faming her ministers and servants.

Unfortunately, a few priests and nuns have acted imprudently, especially with regard to the currency laws. It is strictly for­bidden to export German marks without a licence, which is very grudgingly given, and that has made it difficult for some com­munities to repay their debts to foreign houses of their orders.

For a long time, too, there was difficulty about sending out alms collected in aid of the foreign missions. One can easily imagine the concern of German Catholics for their brethren in the mission fields dependent upon alms collect­ed in Germany.

Nevertheless "the law is the law," and it was risky to evade it in any way. Those who were caught have compromised the whole Catholic community.

Recent Arrests In Germany. The difficulties regarding foreign

mission alms were eased by an agreement with the Catholic auth­orities, but the Nazis have refused to make arrangements for the repayment of private loans ad­vanced to German Catholics by other Catholics abroad.

Considerable hardship has thus been inflicted on the least wealthy °f Germany's creditors, though 'industrial magnates have been allowed to repay their foreign

loans made by wealthy banks and corporations.

The Week before last, and last week, were notable for the arrest of priests and nuns, after raids on their monasteries and institutions by Nazi agents. They have been tried on the charge of violating the currency laws, found guilty, fined and imprisoned.

The Nazis are making a great shout about the way previous ser­vices to the country were taken into account to reduce the fines and sentences, but the whole affair illustrates again that hostility to­wards the Church which has marked the regime from the beg­inning.

If the Nazis had the slightest goodwill towards the Church they would have made arrangements for the repayment of loans binding in conscience long ago. But every appear to them has failed.

(Catholic Times, 31st May)

Eugenists Rebuffed. It is a pleasure to record that

the Pope's strong protest against the inclusion of the subject of sterilisation and eugenics in the agenda of the fourth International Hospitals Congress in Rome pro­duced a quick result. It was de­cided at the final plenary session of the Congress that the offending item, which had been deferred to a future Congress, should be ex­cluded from the next agenda. Dutch delegates proposed a motion protesting against the action of two German doctors who were accused of having taken advantage of their position as delegates to conduct propaganda on behalf of German, ideas about sterilisation, and asking that the topic should be excluded from the programme of the next Congress. They were strongly supported by the Spanish and French representatives, and the motion was accepted.

The Pope's Rebuke. Before this the Pope had re­

ceived 400 delegates to the Inter­national Hospitals Congress and, while paying warm tribute to a profession whose members were devoted to the science of healing, he administered a gentle, but firm, rebuke to those who advocated practices repugnant to Christian teaching. He recalled how much the Church had done to help the sick and how Christian charity renewed a pagan world whicji, in spite of its art, its learning, its poetry and its architecture was, in the telling phrase of St. Paul, sine affectione, sine misericordia. Then he spoke to them as a father in the exercise of his mission. He reminded them that, just as he had told a Congress of astronomers that it was no business of theirs to discuss the date of Easter or to busy themselves with a possible change in what regulated the liturgical or ecclesiastical year, so he would tell them that the ques­tion of sterilisation should not appear on their agenda.

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H I G H E R P O S T S F O R

T H E L O C A L - B O R N .

It is gratifying to note that the Municipal Commissioners have ap^ pointed a committee to report on the advisability of throwing open certain higher posts to local-born men with suitable qualifications. The municipality as a public utility corporation which absorbs a good percentage of our youth in the various departments of its establishment is to be cornpli-mented on the generous gesture it has made in this direction. The main features of the scheme have not been made known as yet, as a second committee has been ap­pointed to scrutinise in detail and report more exhaustively on the main recommendations adumbrat­ed by the first committee. It is Roped that the findings of this committee will be set out in a more concrete and definite form in the course of a few months.

There has been a general feel­ing of dissatisfaction in this colony over the question of admitting locally domiciled persons to more responsible posts in the public services. This feeling has happily been abated by the recent imple­menting of a Straits Settlements Civ i l Service which is gradually indrafting suitable candidates for the higher rungs of Government service. The accepted British colonial policy of installing na­tives of the place in positions of trust and responsibility, when fit candidates are available to fill such posts with probity and efficiency, has to be altered in some degree in the case of British Malaya where the presence of a hetero­genous population causes peculiar difficulties. Attempts in the past, to define and discriminate the term * native,' as applied to this part of the world, have given rise to conflicting views from squea­mish critics. It is therefore futile to revive any such discus­sion that is likely to lead us nowhere.

Granting for the moment that there are reasonable obstacles in the way to admitting local-born men to administrative appoint­ments in the Civ i l Service, as is the practice in other sister colo­nies, yet there are the technical branches in the Government and *>f..~:^;«^1,>xr the medical and

education services which wil l offer a wider field for higher ap­pointments. The College of Medicine and Raffles College are annually turning out graduates who find no inlet to positions that are consonant with the standard of training the professors claim to have given. If these graduates are permitted to swell the num­bers of the unemployed in com­mon with clerks and artisans, one naturally begins to wonder whe­ther the prevailing state of affairs justifies the enormous expenditure entailed in training graduates at these two colleges. If the pro­ducts of these colleges cannot be utilised in a manner as would redound to the benefit of the country and tax-payers, then the logical conclusion would be that an unwarranted drain on the Public purse has been fruitlessly .imposed.

M r . C . J . Smith, the retired Colonial Surgeon, and Professor of Surgery whose valedictory speech was misunderstood, declar­ed at the farewell dinner given him by the Alumni of the College of Medicine, that all what he said or meant to say was in the in­terests of the graduates them­selves. H e denied having made any disparaging remarks about the standard of medical education here, but repeated the necessity of past-graduate work in Europe or America to fit local graduates for specialist appointments. He also suggested that the c Alumni As­sociation of the Medical College ' should plan out schemes to establish an endowment fund which should finance intending post-graduate candidates to fur­ther their studies abroad, hypothe­cated by insurance policies against the sums so advanced. It appears to us as a fairly workable scheme which wi l l result in a collective enchancement of the efficiency of the Medical profession out here. The body of graduate teachers may also do well to consider a like policy to assist promising members of their profession. The govern­ment, by its generous aid in many directions, has come to be regard­ed as an over-indulgent parent by some who believe that every form of financial aid should necessarily come from the State Treasury.

There is another aspect of responsible public posts, apart from mere academic attainments. We refer to the higher manly virtues of honesty, sympathy, sincerity, civility and fair-play. These should form the outstand­ing features of those holding posi­tions of consequence. Broadly speaking, it has often been re­marked by observers that the heads of departments in public offices manifest more civility and sympathy in dealing with mem­bers of the general public, than some of their underlings whose attitude and conduct are not quite in keeping with their status as c public servants.' Such hector­ing attitude in some, springs from an ignorant misconception of their actual position in relation to

the public at large. Courtesy and affability should form the * hall­mark ' of every aspirant to any public position of trust, and it is yet to be desired that our educa­tional systems may not lose sight of these human virtues.

N O T E S A N D C O M M E N T S . THE J U B I L E E FUND

There is not a soul in Malaya who did not hail His Excellency's decision of commemorating the Silver Jubilee of His Majesty the King by the creation of a Jubilee Fund in aid of the poor . A l l over the Colony His Excellency's appeal has been answered and a certain sum of money already collected. Yet the amount subscribed up to now is still far below the mark when we consider the distress which calls for relief.

Through unemployment and low wages, hundreds of families of the middle class which, in better times, would be well off, now live from hand to mouth or, still worse, have fallen into the clutches of petty usurers . The duty of the well-to-do is, therefore, to stretch out a helping hand to that poverty-stricken class, the more so, as their present misery is not of their own seeking.

More pressing than ever is God's Commandment: Thou shalt love they neighbour like thyself. So intimately blended together are the love of God and the love of our neighbour that the first cannot exist without the other. A Chris­tian, therefore, who neglects to assist his fellow-man in need, yet pretends to love God, in fact gives himself the lie direct.

Pre-eminently Christian is His Excellency's appeal as, in the use of the Fund, no " distinctio Judaei et Graeci" shall be made. Every poor member of the community will be given a share of the Jubilee Fund.

Let us then be open-handed; lat us, for God's sake, give accord­ing to our circumstances, and thus, come to the aid of our less fortu­nate brethren.

* * * *

Hard nowadays, very hard indeed is life with its fierce struggle. That hundreds and thousands of our fellow-men should suffer and perish for the well-being of a few cannot be accepted as a matter of course and suffered to be passed over without any consideration as if it were a necessary social evil. So terrible is the actual economic de­pression that it has made havoc in nearly all the civilised world and a mess of the world's trade.

And yet, day in and day out, we are told in all seriousness that things are improving, that com­merce is recovering, that un­employment is on the' decline, that we have turned the corner. Why then, if it be so, are there so many people who still seek for a job and find none? Governments have ex­perimented with various schemes and methods to remedy such ah awful state of things but without any enduring success. "Plus Ca va, plus e'est la meme chose" 'The more it changes, the more it is the same thing."

To cure a disease one must get to its root; to do away with an evil one must supDress its cause.

One of the main causes of the actual worldwide depression is the greed and avarice of a handful of

exploiters who bear to the riches and pleasures of this world an in­satiable love and who have made their rule that nohting would stand in their way of heaping up riches " INDIVIDUALISM " has been the ruin of the economic and industrial world.

A few individuals have amassed for their own selfish use land and money without giving a care nor a thought to the common good. Their own satisfaction is all that they have been seeking after, and that only.

* * * *

Under a " laissez-faire " system a few men, not only have accumu­lated vast fortunes to the detri­ment of the poor, but have used their wealth exclusively for their own benefit by investing it in pro­fitable business and speculations, giving their employees wages hardly sufficient to meet adequate­ly ordinary domestic needs. The pretext given as a justification of this system is that the bigger the profit for the capitalist, the more can be expended on incresaed pro­duction.

The policy of keeping wages low while profits go up is a mistaken policy and it has been condemned by the Church as immoral.

In his famous letter on the Con­ditions of Labour, Pope Leo XIII. wrote: " There is a dictate of nature more imperious and more ancient than any bargain between man and man, that the remun­eration must be enough to support the wage-earner in reasonable and frugal COMFORT. If, through necessity or fear of a worse evil the workman accepts harder condi­tions because an employer or contractor will give him no better, he is the victim of force and injustice."

This fall of wages to the level of bare subsistence, introduced as an economical law since the be­ginning of the last century, has been justly branded by Karl Marx as " the Iron Law." because it reduces workmen to an intolerable servitude.

Economic Depression, then, is the result of this immoral policy. On one hand we have magnates of the industry who produce with excess and at the lowest expense; on th£ other workmen living on low wages and therefore deprived of the pur­chasing power: money. Or in other words, we have a market saturated with industrial products for the benefit of a few customers only.

" This depression, said Senator Borah, is not due to any scarcity of the things which people want, there are plenty of these things. Nor is it due to any less desire upon the part of tha consumers to have these things. If the desires of the people could be reasonably satisfied, the depression would be over The whole trouble rests upon the proposition that the would-be consumers have lost their purchasing power. Not only their desires but THEIR NECESSITIES must go unsatisfied, hence hunger and misery. Anything that stands in the way of restoration of pur-chasing power stands in the way of recovery. You may restore purchasing nower to the few, but that does little good in the way of restoring prosperity. PUR­CHASING POWER MUST BE RESTORED TO T H ^ GREAT MASS OF THE PEOPLE."

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DIOCESE OF M A L A C C A .

Calendar for the Week.

June 16. Sunday—1st Sunday After Pentecost. Trinity Sunday. Mass and vespers of the Feast. The Paschal Time for Communion closes to-dav.

June 17. Monday—Of the Feria. June 18. Tuesday—St. Ephrem,

C. and D. June 19. Wednesday—St. Juliana

Falconeri, V . Double.—III. June 20. Thursday — Corpus

Christi. Double of the 1st Class with Octave.

June 21. Friday—Of the Octave. Semid.

June 22. Saturday—Of the Octave. Semid. Vigil of St. John the Baptist.

BISHOP G A L L A G H E R LAUDS RADIO T A L K S OF

FR. COUGHLIN.

(Contd. from page 6)

homes, of factories as well as paralyze business. Then, after they buy the homes and fac­tories and farms at bargain prices, once more they re-issue credit, having gained a firmer grasp on the properties of the nafion.

- My friends, do you not see that the Holy Father in our day is in­dicting concentrated wealth as did St. James in Apostolic Days? The Holy Father recognizes that the long train of centuries has brought with it the same old moral evil, but he puts the finger on the con­trol of money and credit. He tells us there are certain forms of pro­perty too valuable to be left in private hands and he mentions among all the forms of property that there are in the world two forms; money, meaning currency, and credit, with its allotment.

"Father Coughlin addresses the millions in the audience. He fol­lows the scriptural indictment ex­pressed by St. James. He follows the Doctrine specifically laid down for him to preach by Pius X I . He goes further with the instructions he has received. He actively supports the nationalizing of the control of money and credit which, by the way, is in accord with the doctrine laid down by the Father of his Country who guided the writing of the Constitution of the United States of America.

His Right and Duty. "To interpret privately and to

apply the language of the Ency­clical is the right and duty of Fa­ther Coughlin as he fulfils his obligations as citizen and priest in attempting to correct the evils of a privately-owned, centralized ban­king system. Nor is he entering into politics. The right to correct an evil is neither Democratic nor Republican, Moreover, Father Coughlin is accused of stirring class against class, in truth, he speaks for simple justice. He pleads that it be extended to the poor to whom it has been so gross­ly denied. He knows that it is the duty of government to govern on behalf of the poor because, in this same Encyclical to which I have referred so many times to­day, the Doctrine which Father Coughlin preaches is laid down, namely, that government should be solicitous for the poor because, as it is witnessed, the rich have ample means to protect themselves.

G O S P E L TRINITY, SUNDAY (Matt. XXVIII , 18-20).

And Jesus coming, spoke to them, saying, A l l power is given to me in heaven and in earth. Going; therefore, teach ye all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost; teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you alldays, even to the consummation of the world.

COMMENTARY.

To-day is "Trinity Sunday" a feast which celebrates the deep­est mystery of Religion. The Catechism has told us that "there is only one God" and that "there are three persons in God: God the Father, God the Son, God the Holy Ghost" and at the same time that "the three persons are not three Gods, but one and the same God." Three in One or One in Three?

Catholics do not believe that one God and three Gods are just the same or that 1=3 or 3=1. That would be absurd, against reason which is itself a gift from God. What they most firmly be­lieve is that there is only ONE God, or ONE Divine Substance, and that in God or in this Divine Substance there are T H R E E Per­sons. A few explanations appear to be necessary. Catholics say that there is only one divine sub­stance or essence. Now, essence of a thing is that by which it is what it is. The essence, for instance, of a ball, is that im­material and subtle idea by which a ball is indeed a ball and is not an egg. And yet both are round, both may be white, both may have the same size. Still, there will be always an abstract item by which a ball is a ball and an egg is an egg. This "whatness of a thing"

t then is called its "essence."

Substance is the essence of be­ing but in actual existence. A stone is a substance, because it exists, and a stone's essence is that by which it is what it is. From this, we imply that there is a vast difference between essence and substance. Essence is hypo­thetical in being. Substance necessarily exists. Essence is, in the order of thought, an abstrac­tion. Substance is a reality. Person is a spiritual and subsistent substance.

One Substance—Three Persons.

From these definitions we now come to the "Trinitarian Proces­sus." God is wholly ACTION. God is Intelligence and, therefore, His action is to know. God wills and loves. God's infinite Intelli­gence has an object before itself, an object worthy of its scope. This object is the same God. God knows Himself, God knows God. This deep knowledge does not re­main unfruitful: God, knowing Himself, produces, if we are allow­ed to use such a term, an Image which is equal to God Himself. God's Action is not only KNOW­LEDGE, but also Love, born of His WILL. God loves. God is love. Being infinitely perfect God could not love any object else but

HIMSELF. This Love, again, does not remain unfruitful. He expresses His love in the Third Person who is called the "Holy Ghost."

God therefore is Self-Know­ledge, Self-Expression and Self-Love, or put in common words, God is Father, Son and Holy Ghost.

How does this happen? Here lies the mystery. Says St. Augus­tine in his letter to Count Pas-centius:—"Our faith is to believe and confess that the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost are one, only God. Yet we say that the Son is not the Father, and that the Holy Ghost is neither Father nor Son. For by these names we signify the relations by which the Persons are referred to each other, and not the substance, by which they are One. When we say father, we mean simply the father of a son; similarly the word son indicates relation to a father, and spirit, so far as it refers to an­other, is simply the breath (spiritus) of him who breathes (spirans) while the latter is call­ed "spirans" of the spirit he emits."

The three Persons of the Bless­ed Trinity are therefore the out­come of existing Relations in God. Relation, as we are told by Philo­sophy, is "a certain order set up ! between two things, both uniting and distinguishing them from a certain point of view." There is j a certain relation between "father and son" which is called paternity. This relation unites father and son by a common tie and at the same time distinguishes them.

Theology tells us that there are Relations in God and it is from these relations that we gather the Three Persons of the Blessed Tri­nity. These relations are the foundation of the mystery. Each divine Person is a subsistent rela­tion, that is, a relation that exists by itself. Yet they have the same common substance, each Person is God, although each is distinct, not different, from the others. "The Father, so runs the Florentine Decree for the Jacobites, alone of His substance begat the Son, the Son alone was begotten only of the Father, the Holy Ghost alone pro­ceeds equally from the Father and the Son. These three Persons are one God and not three gods, be- j cause of the Three there j ^ ; one substance, one essence, one nature, one divinity, one immensity, one eternity, and all things are one, except when opposing relations are a bar to identity."

DIOCESE OF MACAO. CHURCH OF ST. JOSEPH.

Calendar for the week. June 16. Sunday—Trinity Sunday.

White vestments. A t the Blessing of the Congregation the Antiphon " Asperges me " is again sung, instead of the Paschal "Vidi aquam." Proper of the Mass in the "Small Mis­sal" p. 184. Solemn High Mass celebrating the Feast of St. Anthony of Lisbon at 8 a.m. Al l the collections at the three Masses will be for the Poor dependent on St. Anthony's Bread Fund. Vespers of the Sunday at 5 p.m.

June 17. Monday—St. Anthony of Lisbon, Double of the second class.

June 18. Tuesdav—St. Fphrem, double.

June 19. Wednesday—St. Juliana of Falconeris, Virgin, Double.

June 20. Thursday—The Feast of Corpus Christi. Double of the first class with octave.

June 21. Friday—Of the octave. Semi-double. Abstinence. Evening service at 5.30.

June 22. Saturday — O f tire octave. Semi-double.

PRESS GLEANINGS. (Contd. from page 9).

Natural Right. The question of sterilisation, as

the Pope pointed out to the visiting doctors, has been dealt with in his Encyclical . He said he had consi­dered it in the name of humanity as well as of religion, in the name of the most powerful minds in the v^3ritf~and of the authorities best qi^lified to understand and dis­cuss the question. "There are not wanting explicit declarations on eugenics and on the manner of applying that science." It con­cerned humanity, the common good. It concerned the duty of not depriving anyone, above all in relation to the sacrosanct good of the family, for eugenic or other reasons, of that to which he has a natural right. The Pope con­cluded with the hope that they would not bear him ill-will at the sincerity with which he had re­vealed his mind and his senti­ments. The sequel, to which we have referred above, seems to con-

j firm that the Holy Father's words were as effect vie as they were

j timely. ("The Standard" Dublin 31st May)

A U S T R A L I A N P R E M I E R G R A N T E D F R E E D O M O F T H E C I T Y A T E D I N B U R G H .

"Of rjld the cry went up from certain high priests at Jerusalem: Tt is better that one man die in order that the people may live.' I am not comparing this priest to Christ, let no man mistake. But

I am saying that the same spirit that animates the hearts of eccle­siastical critics worked well when nineteen centuries ago they laid Christ in his tomb.

FUNCTION M A R R E D B Y ANTI-CATHOLIC ROWDYISM.

London, 11-6-35. Noisy protests against the con­

ferment of the freedom of the city on Mr. Lyons, Prime Minister of Australia, on the grounds that he is a Roman Catholic were made at the ceremony held at Usher Hall, Edinburg. Large crowds gathered outside the Hall and greeted all entering with cries of " N o Popery

The proceedings inside were interrupted by male and female members of the protestant action society. The noise was so great that the Lord Provost, Sir William Thomson, sat down and the organist played amid shouts of "We are loyal people." " Down with Pa­pists."

The police twice ejected a num­ber of the demonstrators.

The Lord Provost apologised for the unseemly conduct of a few citizens who did not represent the solid opinion of the right people of Edinburgh.—Reuter.

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T H E L O C A L - B O R N .

It is gratifying to note that the Municipal Commissioners have ap^ pointed a committee to report on the advisability of throwing open certain higher posts to local-born men with suitable qualifications. The municipality as a public utility corporation which absorbs a good percentage of our youth in the various departments of its establishment is to be cornpli-mented on the generous gesture it has made in this direction. The main features of the scheme have not been made known as yet, as a second committee has been ap­pointed to scrutinise in detail and report more exhaustively on the main recommendations adumbrat­ed by the first committee. It is Roped that the findings of this committee will be set out in a more concrete and definite form in the course of a few months.

There has been a general feel­ing of dissatisfaction in this colony over the question of admitting locally domiciled persons to more responsible posts in the public services. This feeling has happily been abated by the recent imple­menting of a Straits Settlements Civ i l Service which is gradually indrafting suitable candidates for the higher rungs of Government service. The accepted British colonial policy of installing na­tives of the place in positions of trust and responsibility, when fit candidates are available to fill such posts with probity and efficiency, has to be altered in some degree in the case of British Malaya where the presence of a hetero­genous population causes peculiar difficulties. Attempts in the past, to define and discriminate the term * native,' as applied to this part of the world, have given rise to conflicting views from squea­mish critics. It is therefore futile to revive any such discus­sion that is likely to lead us nowhere.

Granting for the moment that there are reasonable obstacles in the way to admitting local-born men to administrative appoint­ments in the Civ i l Service, as is the practice in other sister colo­nies, yet there are the technical branches in the Government and *>f..~:^;«^1,>xr the medical and

education services which wil l offer a wider field for higher ap­pointments. The College of Medicine and Raffles College are annually turning out graduates who find no inlet to positions that are consonant with the standard of training the professors claim to have given. If these graduates are permitted to swell the num­bers of the unemployed in com­mon with clerks and artisans, one naturally begins to wonder whe­ther the prevailing state of affairs justifies the enormous expenditure entailed in training graduates at these two colleges. If the pro­ducts of these colleges cannot be utilised in a manner as would redound to the benefit of the country and tax-payers, then the logical conclusion would be that an unwarranted drain on the Public purse has been fruitlessly .imposed.

M r . C . J . Smith, the retired Colonial Surgeon, and Professor of Surgery whose valedictory speech was misunderstood, declar­ed at the farewell dinner given him by the Alumni of the College of Medicine, that all what he said or meant to say was in the in­terests of the graduates them­selves. H e denied having made any disparaging remarks about the standard of medical education here, but repeated the necessity of past-graduate work in Europe or America to fit local graduates for specialist appointments. He also suggested that the c Alumni As­sociation of the Medical College ' should plan out schemes to establish an endowment fund which should finance intending post-graduate candidates to fur­ther their studies abroad, hypothe­cated by insurance policies against the sums so advanced. It appears to us as a fairly workable scheme which wi l l result in a collective enchancement of the efficiency of the Medical profession out here. The body of graduate teachers may also do well to consider a like policy to assist promising members of their profession. The govern­ment, by its generous aid in many directions, has come to be regard­ed as an over-indulgent parent by some who believe that every form of financial aid should necessarily come from the State Treasury.

There is another aspect of responsible public posts, apart from mere academic attainments. We refer to the higher manly virtues of honesty, sympathy, sincerity, civility and fair-play. These should form the outstand­ing features of those holding posi­tions of consequence. Broadly speaking, it has often been re­marked by observers that the heads of departments in public offices manifest more civility and sympathy in dealing with mem­bers of the general public, than some of their underlings whose attitude and conduct are not quite in keeping with their status as c public servants.' Such hector­ing attitude in some, springs from an ignorant misconception of their actual position in relation to

the public at large. Courtesy and affability should form the * hall­mark ' of every aspirant to any public position of trust, and it is yet to be desired that our educa­tional systems may not lose sight of these human virtues.

N O T E S A N D C O M M E N T S . THE J U B I L E E FUND

There is not a soul in Malaya who did not hail His Excellency's decision of commemorating the Silver Jubilee of His Majesty the King by the creation of a Jubilee Fund in aid of the poor . A l l over the Colony His Excellency's appeal has been answered and a certain sum of money already collected. Yet the amount subscribed up to now is still far below the mark when we consider the distress which calls for relief.

Through unemployment and low wages, hundreds of families of the middle class which, in better times, would be well off, now live from hand to mouth or, still worse, have fallen into the clutches of petty usurers . The duty of the well-to-do is, therefore, to stretch out a helping hand to that poverty-stricken class, the more so, as their present misery is not of their own seeking.

More pressing than ever is God's Commandment: Thou shalt love they neighbour like thyself. So intimately blended together are the love of God and the love of our neighbour that the first cannot exist without the other. A Chris­tian, therefore, who neglects to assist his fellow-man in need, yet pretends to love God, in fact gives himself the lie direct.

Pre-eminently Christian is His Excellency's appeal as, in the use of the Fund, no " distinctio Judaei et Graeci" shall be made. Every poor member of the community will be given a share of the Jubilee Fund.

Let us then be open-handed; lat us, for God's sake, give accord­ing to our circumstances, and thus, come to the aid of our less fortu­nate brethren.

* * * *

Hard nowadays, very hard indeed is life with its fierce struggle. That hundreds and thousands of our fellow-men should suffer and perish for the well-being of a few cannot be accepted as a matter of course and suffered to be passed over without any consideration as if it were a necessary social evil. So terrible is the actual economic de­pression that it has made havoc in nearly all the civilised world and a mess of the world's trade.

And yet, day in and day out, we are told in all seriousness that things are improving, that com­merce is recovering, that un­employment is on the' decline, that we have turned the corner. Why then, if it be so, are there so many people who still seek for a job and find none? Governments have ex­perimented with various schemes and methods to remedy such ah awful state of things but without any enduring success. "Plus Ca va, plus e'est la meme chose" 'The more it changes, the more it is the same thing."

To cure a disease one must get to its root; to do away with an evil one must supDress its cause.

One of the main causes of the actual worldwide depression is the greed and avarice of a handful of

exploiters who bear to the riches and pleasures of this world an in­satiable love and who have made their rule that nohting would stand in their way of heaping up riches " INDIVIDUALISM " has been the ruin of the economic and industrial world.

A few individuals have amassed for their own selfish use land and money without giving a care nor a thought to the common good. Their own satisfaction is all that they have been seeking after, and that only.

* * * *

Under a " laissez-faire " system a few men, not only have accumu­lated vast fortunes to the detri­ment of the poor, but have used their wealth exclusively for their own benefit by investing it in pro­fitable business and speculations, giving their employees wages hardly sufficient to meet adequate­ly ordinary domestic needs. The pretext given as a justification of this system is that the bigger the profit for the capitalist, the more can be expended on incresaed pro­duction.

The policy of keeping wages low while profits go up is a mistaken policy and it has been condemned by the Church as immoral.

In his famous letter on the Con­ditions of Labour, Pope Leo XIII. wrote: " There is a dictate of nature more imperious and more ancient than any bargain between man and man, that the remun­eration must be enough to support the wage-earner in reasonable and frugal COMFORT. If, through necessity or fear of a worse evil the workman accepts harder condi­tions because an employer or contractor will give him no better, he is the victim of force and injustice."

This fall of wages to the level of bare subsistence, introduced as an economical law since the be­ginning of the last century, has been justly branded by Karl Marx as " the Iron Law." because it reduces workmen to an intolerable servitude.

Economic Depression, then, is the result of this immoral policy. On one hand we have magnates of the industry who produce with excess and at the lowest expense; on th£ other workmen living on low wages and therefore deprived of the pur­chasing power: money. Or in other words, we have a market saturated with industrial products for the benefit of a few customers only.

" This depression, said Senator Borah, is not due to any scarcity of the things which people want, there are plenty of these things. Nor is it due to any less desire upon the part of tha consumers to have these things. If the desires of the people could be reasonably satisfied, the depression would be over The whole trouble rests upon the proposition that the would-be consumers have lost their purchasing power. Not only their desires but THEIR NECESSITIES must go unsatisfied, hence hunger and misery. Anything that stands in the way of restoration of pur-chasing power stands in the way of recovery. You may restore purchasing nower to the few, but that does little good in the way of restoring prosperity. PUR­CHASING POWER MUST BE RESTORED TO T H ^ GREAT MASS OF THE PEOPLE."

(Continued on page 12)

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DIOCESE OF M A L A C C A .

Calendar for the Week.

June 16. Sunday—1st Sunday After Pentecost. Trinity Sunday. Mass and vespers of the Feast. The Paschal Time for Communion closes to-dav.

June 17. Monday—Of the Feria. June 18. Tuesday—St. Ephrem,

C. and D. June 19. Wednesday—St. Juliana

Falconeri, V . Double.—III. June 20. Thursday — Corpus

Christi. Double of the 1st Class with Octave.

June 21. Friday—Of the Octave. Semid.

June 22. Saturday—Of the Octave. Semid. Vigil of St. John the Baptist.

BISHOP G A L L A G H E R LAUDS RADIO T A L K S OF

FR. COUGHLIN.

(Contd. from page 6)

homes, of factories as well as paralyze business. Then, after they buy the homes and fac­tories and farms at bargain prices, once more they re-issue credit, having gained a firmer grasp on the properties of the nafion.

- My friends, do you not see that the Holy Father in our day is in­dicting concentrated wealth as did St. James in Apostolic Days? The Holy Father recognizes that the long train of centuries has brought with it the same old moral evil, but he puts the finger on the con­trol of money and credit. He tells us there are certain forms of pro­perty too valuable to be left in private hands and he mentions among all the forms of property that there are in the world two forms; money, meaning currency, and credit, with its allotment.

"Father Coughlin addresses the millions in the audience. He fol­lows the scriptural indictment ex­pressed by St. James. He follows the Doctrine specifically laid down for him to preach by Pius X I . He goes further with the instructions he has received. He actively supports the nationalizing of the control of money and credit which, by the way, is in accord with the doctrine laid down by the Father of his Country who guided the writing of the Constitution of the United States of America.

His Right and Duty. "To interpret privately and to

apply the language of the Ency­clical is the right and duty of Fa­ther Coughlin as he fulfils his obligations as citizen and priest in attempting to correct the evils of a privately-owned, centralized ban­king system. Nor is he entering into politics. The right to correct an evil is neither Democratic nor Republican, Moreover, Father Coughlin is accused of stirring class against class, in truth, he speaks for simple justice. He pleads that it be extended to the poor to whom it has been so gross­ly denied. He knows that it is the duty of government to govern on behalf of the poor because, in this same Encyclical to which I have referred so many times to­day, the Doctrine which Father Coughlin preaches is laid down, namely, that government should be solicitous for the poor because, as it is witnessed, the rich have ample means to protect themselves.

G O S P E L TRINITY, SUNDAY (Matt. XXVIII , 18-20).

And Jesus coming, spoke to them, saying, A l l power is given to me in heaven and in earth. Going; therefore, teach ye all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost; teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you alldays, even to the consummation of the world.

COMMENTARY.

To-day is "Trinity Sunday" a feast which celebrates the deep­est mystery of Religion. The Catechism has told us that "there is only one God" and that "there are three persons in God: God the Father, God the Son, God the Holy Ghost" and at the same time that "the three persons are not three Gods, but one and the same God." Three in One or One in Three?

Catholics do not believe that one God and three Gods are just the same or that 1=3 or 3=1. That would be absurd, against reason which is itself a gift from God. What they most firmly be­lieve is that there is only ONE God, or ONE Divine Substance, and that in God or in this Divine Substance there are T H R E E Per­sons. A few explanations appear to be necessary. Catholics say that there is only one divine sub­stance or essence. Now, essence of a thing is that by which it is what it is. The essence, for instance, of a ball, is that im­material and subtle idea by which a ball is indeed a ball and is not an egg. And yet both are round, both may be white, both may have the same size. Still, there will be always an abstract item by which a ball is a ball and an egg is an egg. This "whatness of a thing"

t then is called its "essence."

Substance is the essence of be­ing but in actual existence. A stone is a substance, because it exists, and a stone's essence is that by which it is what it is. From this, we imply that there is a vast difference between essence and substance. Essence is hypo­thetical in being. Substance necessarily exists. Essence is, in the order of thought, an abstrac­tion. Substance is a reality. Person is a spiritual and subsistent substance.

One Substance—Three Persons.

From these definitions we now come to the "Trinitarian Proces­sus." God is wholly ACTION. God is Intelligence and, therefore, His action is to know. God wills and loves. God's infinite Intelli­gence has an object before itself, an object worthy of its scope. This object is the same God. God knows Himself, God knows God. This deep knowledge does not re­main unfruitful: God, knowing Himself, produces, if we are allow­ed to use such a term, an Image which is equal to God Himself. God's Action is not only KNOW­LEDGE, but also Love, born of His WILL. God loves. God is love. Being infinitely perfect God could not love any object else but

HIMSELF. This Love, again, does not remain unfruitful. He expresses His love in the Third Person who is called the "Holy Ghost."

God therefore is Self-Know­ledge, Self-Expression and Self-Love, or put in common words, God is Father, Son and Holy Ghost.

How does this happen? Here lies the mystery. Says St. Augus­tine in his letter to Count Pas-centius:—"Our faith is to believe and confess that the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost are one, only God. Yet we say that the Son is not the Father, and that the Holy Ghost is neither Father nor Son. For by these names we signify the relations by which the Persons are referred to each other, and not the substance, by which they are One. When we say father, we mean simply the father of a son; similarly the word son indicates relation to a father, and spirit, so far as it refers to an­other, is simply the breath (spiritus) of him who breathes (spirans) while the latter is call­ed "spirans" of the spirit he emits."

The three Persons of the Bless­ed Trinity are therefore the out­come of existing Relations in God. Relation, as we are told by Philo­sophy, is "a certain order set up ! between two things, both uniting and distinguishing them from a certain point of view." There is j a certain relation between "father and son" which is called paternity. This relation unites father and son by a common tie and at the same time distinguishes them.

Theology tells us that there are Relations in God and it is from these relations that we gather the Three Persons of the Blessed Tri­nity. These relations are the foundation of the mystery. Each divine Person is a subsistent rela­tion, that is, a relation that exists by itself. Yet they have the same common substance, each Person is God, although each is distinct, not different, from the others. "The Father, so runs the Florentine Decree for the Jacobites, alone of His substance begat the Son, the Son alone was begotten only of the Father, the Holy Ghost alone pro­ceeds equally from the Father and the Son. These three Persons are one God and not three gods, be- j cause of the Three there j ^ ; one substance, one essence, one nature, one divinity, one immensity, one eternity, and all things are one, except when opposing relations are a bar to identity."

DIOCESE OF MACAO. CHURCH OF ST. JOSEPH.

Calendar for the week. June 16. Sunday—Trinity Sunday.

White vestments. A t the Blessing of the Congregation the Antiphon " Asperges me " is again sung, instead of the Paschal "Vidi aquam." Proper of the Mass in the "Small Mis­sal" p. 184. Solemn High Mass celebrating the Feast of St. Anthony of Lisbon at 8 a.m. Al l the collections at the three Masses will be for the Poor dependent on St. Anthony's Bread Fund. Vespers of the Sunday at 5 p.m.

June 17. Monday—St. Anthony of Lisbon, Double of the second class.

June 18. Tuesdav—St. Fphrem, double.

June 19. Wednesday—St. Juliana of Falconeris, Virgin, Double.

June 20. Thursday—The Feast of Corpus Christi. Double of the first class with octave.

June 21. Friday—Of the octave. Semi-double. Abstinence. Evening service at 5.30.

June 22. Saturday — O f tire octave. Semi-double.

PRESS GLEANINGS. (Contd. from page 9).

Natural Right. The question of sterilisation, as

the Pope pointed out to the visiting doctors, has been dealt with in his Encyclical . He said he had consi­dered it in the name of humanity as well as of religion, in the name of the most powerful minds in the v^3ritf~and of the authorities best qi^lified to understand and dis­cuss the question. "There are not wanting explicit declarations on eugenics and on the manner of applying that science." It con­cerned humanity, the common good. It concerned the duty of not depriving anyone, above all in relation to the sacrosanct good of the family, for eugenic or other reasons, of that to which he has a natural right. The Pope con­cluded with the hope that they would not bear him ill-will at the sincerity with which he had re­vealed his mind and his senti­ments. The sequel, to which we have referred above, seems to con-

j firm that the Holy Father's words were as effect vie as they were

j timely. ("The Standard" Dublin 31st May)

A U S T R A L I A N P R E M I E R G R A N T E D F R E E D O M O F T H E C I T Y A T E D I N B U R G H .

"Of rjld the cry went up from certain high priests at Jerusalem: Tt is better that one man die in order that the people may live.' I am not comparing this priest to Christ, let no man mistake. But

I am saying that the same spirit that animates the hearts of eccle­siastical critics worked well when nineteen centuries ago they laid Christ in his tomb.

FUNCTION M A R R E D B Y ANTI-CATHOLIC ROWDYISM.

London, 11-6-35. Noisy protests against the con­

ferment of the freedom of the city on Mr. Lyons, Prime Minister of Australia, on the grounds that he is a Roman Catholic were made at the ceremony held at Usher Hall, Edinburg. Large crowds gathered outside the Hall and greeted all entering with cries of " N o Popery

The proceedings inside were interrupted by male and female members of the protestant action society. The noise was so great that the Lord Provost, Sir William Thomson, sat down and the organist played amid shouts of "We are loyal people." " Down with Pa­pists."

The police twice ejected a num­ber of the demonstrators.

The Lord Provost apologised for the unseemly conduct of a few citizens who did not represent the solid opinion of the right people of Edinburgh.—Reuter.

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NOTES A N D COMMENTS. (Contd. from page 10)

The economic restoration of the world is a task which devolves on the State, It is the duty of the State to see that its subjects should have the capacity to secure for themselves the necessaries and the ordinary amenities of life, no less than it is the duty and the right of the State to prevent the monopolizing of money and pro­perty by a minority at the expense of the majority.

"Whenever the general interest or any particular class suffers, or is threatened with evils, WHICH C A N IN NO OTHER W A Y B E MET, the public authority must step in to meet them." (Leo XIII.)

It to the State alone is devolved the task of making laws by which economic life can be set again to a normal condition, the duty of every citizen is, meanwhile, to con­tribute by generous charities to the lessening of the public distress.

St. Thomas Aquinas, the great Catholic Doctor, teaches us that we ought not to consider outward possessions as absolutely our own, "but as common to all, so as to share them without difficulty when others are in need." According to a Catholic [author of the X V . century, "all that the rich man hath, passing his honest living after the degree of his dispensa­tion, it is other men's, not his, and he shall give hard reckoning there­of at the day of doom." This teaching is not socialism but

genuine CHRISTIANISM.

Untruths and Half-truths. On Friday, 31st May, Mr. Song

Ong Siang, M.A., L . L . M . , C.B.E., V.D. , President of the Chinese Christian Association, delivered a lecture on "The Jubilee—ancient and modern,—and its signifi­cance."

The learned lecturer availed himself of this occasion to give a short historical sketch of the Ju­bilee year in the "Roman" Catho­lic Church.

In a letter to the Editor, a read­er of the Malaya Catholic Leader objects to the following sentence of Mr. Song Ong Siang: " I n 1389, Pope Urban VI. , who was badly in need of money, reduced the inter­val (between Jubilee Years) still further to 33 years.":—"It would imply, says our correspondent, that to gain the Plenary Indulgence

for the Jubilee Year, the faithful liad to pay some money to the Pope. This would make a bad im­pression on those who do not un­derstand our Holy Religion."

This is quite true, as the sen­tence of Mr. Song Ong Siang,—if correctly reproduced by The Ma­laya Tribune would suggest that Pope Urban VI., being in pressing need of money, sold indulgences.

Mr. Song Ong Siang is quite correct when he fixes the institu­tion of the Jubilee to the year 1300. Some time after, about the middle of the century, petitions were made by the Faithful—among them St. Bridget of Sweden and the poet Petrarch,—to Clement VI., that he should curtail the fixed term of 100 years, on the ground that the average span of life was so short that too many would not see any Jubilee in their own generation. Clement assented and, according­ly, held a Jubilee in the year 1350. In 13S9, Pope Urbain VI., for the very same reason still reduced the interval between the Jubilees to 33 years, so that the next Jubilee was celebrated in 1590. But he did not live to open i t ; he died the year be­fore.

* * * * Urban VI., as Mr. Song Ong

Siang points out, "was badly in need of money" owing to the wrars he had to wage for the defence of the Pontifical States. Yet to affirm, and even to say, that a pressing need of money was the motive which induced him to shorten the intervals between Jubilees, is rather preposterous and contrary to historical methods of criticism.

In his "Ordinance" for the Ju­bilee of 1390 Urban gives his rea­sons for holding a Jubilee every 33 years, which are that this period of time represents the period of the sojourn of Christ up­on earth and also the average span of human life.

Thirty three years after (1423), another Jubilee was proclaimed by Martin V . ; but, in 1540, N i ­cholas V. reverted to the quin-quagesimal period while, finally, Pope Paul II. decreed that the Ju­bilee should be celebrated every 25 years. This has been the normal rule since. (Cf. Catholic Encyclo­paedia: Jubilee.)

* * * * During the Middle Ages, there

have been abuses in the administ­ration of indulgences; nobody, even Catholics, would deny it. There is nothing too sacred to be free from abuse, but the abuse of a good thing affords no argument against its proper use. As for the abuses connected with the preach­ing of the indulgence granted by Pope Leo X . to aid in the complet­ing of St. Peter's Church in Rome, they wTere committed contrary to the explicit instructions of ecclesi­astical superiors and were con-

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demned in that day, as they are condemned to-day, by all right-minded Catholics. This indul­gence was to be gained, partly on the usual condition that the Faith­ful would go to confession, receive Holy Communion and fast. More­over, rich people were to add an alms for the completion of the church of St. Peter, whilst the poor were to say extra prayers instead. The indulgence thus obtained could be transferred to the souls in pur­gatory.

Of course no one can say whe­ther or how much any particular soul is benefited by such acts.

Some preachers. however, whose heart was set upon large money returns, pretended that a plenary indulgence applied to a particular soul was certain to re­lease it from purgatory. That this opinion, held by a few theologians, was exploited, at least by some and to a certain extent, we must admit as an historical fact. But, we say it again, no abuse connect­ed with indulgences in the XVI . century—or indeed in any age,— ever met with the approval of the Church. Quite the contrary, such abuses were visited with express condemnation from the Popes.

"Yet," writes Fr. Hil l , "it was such accidental abuses, which never had Church's approval, thst furnished a pretext for the un­speakable scandal of a revolt against the Church itself by the founder of Protestantism. Efforts to correct the abuses in question had been made before Lu­ther's time. The Church ultimate­ly succeeded, as only the true Church can succeed, in ridding it­self of any such ugly "excrescence" without being shattered to pieces.

"The real difference between our Protestant friends and ourselves" says again Fr. Hil l , "is that we have discarded the abuses but clung to the old Faith, whilst they have rejected all in the lump."

To accuse the Popes of trading in indulgences, when they happened to be badly in need of money is no less than to prefer a baseless imputation dictated either by ignorance or prejudice. And when Protestants fling out this accusa­tion at our face, their only pur­pose is to shame us of our Catho­lic ancestors.

Have they forgotten, peradven-ture, that our Catholic ancestors are their own as well ?

INTERNATIONAL PRESS EXHIBITION.

(Contd. from page 1) The Systematic Section.

This will consist of special cate­gories of newspapers and periodic­als grouped according to their character and contents. The place of honour will be reserved for publications of Catholic Action and of Missionary Propaganda. Under the auspices of the Sacred Congre­gation for the Oriental Church will be brought together and exhi­bited for the first time all perio­dical publications of Catholics of the various Oriental Rites. The Sacred Congregation of Seminari­es and Universities and that of Religious Orders and Congrega­tions will display periodicals pro­per to their spheres. Theological, philosophical, historical, scientific, literary and artiestie reviews will also apnear in this Section.

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M A L A Y A CATHOLIC L E A D E R , SATURDAY, 15th J U N E , 1935. 13

S. X. I. Annual Athletic Sports Penang. The annual athletic sports of the

St: Xavier Institution were held in ideal weather on the 18th May on the school ground before a large number of guests and pupils. The sports repre­sented the final stage of the Jubilee celebrations of the Institution.

The various events were contested in a very keen manner and several exciting finishes in the running items were witnessed in the course of the evening. The ground, however, was soft and not conducive to good times. The B. Divi­sion of the seniors carried most of the events before them while the I± 'Division were easily first among the competing groups in the junior class. The cham­pion athlete of the day was Christopher Thomas with Cheah Wat Yen a .good second.

The boys were divided into two divi­sion, seniors and the juniors, while the primary class pupils, the infants, had three events to themselves. Sack Football.

The teachers were not left out of the programme. They had their share and split themselves into two teams, indulg­ing in a game of sack football much to the amusement of the spectators. Mr. F . Reutens led one team and Mr. A . Reutens captained the other. Play veered from one end to the other and several exciting melees were seen in the goal­mouths. The score sheet was blank when the final whistle was blown and so the team decided on a toss. Mr. A . Reuten's team won.

The cadets and scouts also partici­pated in one event each. In the cadet's dressing race, it was fun to watch the competitors, with only one boot on dashing to various points round the field where the remaining parts of their uniform were depositejd. The scouts enjoyed themselves with the knot tying race. They were divided into TOUT patrols and each scout had to tie a knot. The last member of the patrol tied a bowline around his waist. Tribute to Resident Councillor.

A t the conclusion of the sports, the Very Rev: Bro. James, O.B.E. , said that he wished to express on behalf of the St: Xavier's Institution his best thanks to all the ladies and gentlemen who had come that afternoon. The evening's sports represented the final stage of the Jubilee celebrations of the 3.X.I. and he seized the opportunity of expressing his appreciation for the work put in by the staff and pupils. Penang has lived up to its motto "Let Penang lead." He thought all would join him in congra­tulating the Resident Councillor, Mr. Arthur, for the success of the local Jubilee celebrations. The manner in which Mr. Arthur had given support was evidence that the new Resident Council­lor had won the hearts of all classes and communities in Penang.

He also thanked the Mu/iidpal Commissioners and Mr. Black for the services of the band, and concluded by thanking all who had come and made the sports a success, and also Mrs. B. W. Allen who had kindly consented to give away the prizes. Resident Councillor's Reply.

The Hon: Mr. Arthur said "I must thank Bro. James for the kind words in which he referred to me this afternoon. It is my duty on behalf of the guests to say that it is a great pleasure to come and witness the sports."

He was most interested in the sack football and he felt it would have given him great pleasure if his own teachers could have played such football as he saw that evening. He congratulated the S.X.I, on their celebration of the Jubilee.

The Rev: Bro. Paul, Director of the Institution, also spoke a few words be­fore calling upon Mrs. Allen to give away the prizes.

The Sports Secretary, Mr. F. Reutens, called for three cheers for Mrs. Allen and Mr. Arthur.

Among those present were:—The Hon. the Resident Councillor, Mr. J . S. W. Arthur. Mr. and Mrs. B. W. Allen, the Hon. Mr. Palgrave Simpson, the Hon. M r . E . Newbold, the Hon. Mr. Khoo sian Ewe, the Hon. Mr. H . H . Abdoolcader, Rev. Keppel Garrier, Mr. F . H . Grum-mitt, Mr. and Mrs. R. J . Curtis, Mr. B. G. H . Johnson, Mr. and Mrs. J . P. Biddulph, Mr. T. A . O. Sullivon, Mr. M . J . Thorpe, Capt. and Mrs D. G. B. Ridout, Mr. R. H . McCleland, Mr. J . G. O'Reilly, Dr. J . E . Smith, Messrs. H . McNeice, M . B. Lynch, J . M . Barron, Chee Wor Lock, M r . and Mrs. M . Saravanamuttu, Dr. N . K . Menon, Mr. V . Lunberg, Mr. G. R. Evans, and Dr. and Mrs. de Cruz.

The following is a list of the results:— 50 Yards Relay—Juniors:—

1 Division D. 2 Division E . 3 Division F .

100 Yards—Seniors:— 1 Cheah Wat Yen (C). 2 Chung Chang Loong (B). S H . Stewart Time: 11 2-5 sees.

440 Yards—Seniors:— 1 J . Read (A) . 2 Khaw Bian Hwai (B). 8 L . Remedios (C). Time: 59 sees.

Cadets Race:— 1 A . Forest. 2 S. D'Orville. 3 Ooi Chuan Hoe.

Half Mile Relay—Seniors:— 1 Division A . 2 Division B. 3 Division C. Time: 1 min. 15 sees.

Finding the Coin—Infants:— 1 Division F . 2 Division F . 3 Division D.

Tug of War—Juniors:—Division E . Tug of War—Seniors:—Division C.

220 Yards—Seniors:— 1 Khaw Bian Hwai. 2 Chung Chang Loong. 3 Cheah Wat Yen. Time: 26 sees.

Putting the Weight—Seniors:— 1 C. Thomas B. 2 Chong Barnabas C. 3 Yeih Gim Seng A . Distance: 28 ft. 3 ins.

Hurdles Relay—Juniors:— 1 Division D. 2 Division F . 3 Division E .

Hurdles—Seniors:— 1 Nai Som Boon B. 2 Yap Cheng Eng C. 3 L . Remedios C. Time: 17 4-5 sees.

Tug of War—Juniors Final:—Division D.

Tug of War—Seniors Final:—Division B.

880 Yards—Seniors:— 1 C. Thomas B. 2 Veerasingam C. 3 Cheah Chong Kee A . Time: 2 mins. 22 3-5 sees.

Bali Relay—Juniors:— 1 Division E . 2 Division D. 3 Division F .

Arithmetic Race—Infants:— 1 Lye Kum Cheong. 2 R. Lourdsamy. 3 L . Siew Kiew.

High Jump—Seniors:— 1 Tan Boon Teik B. 2 Yap Cheng Eng C. 3 Lam Yeow Kee A. Height: 4 ft. 11 ins.

Sack Football—Teachers:— A. Reuten's Team beat F. Reuten's

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Quarter Relay—Seniors:— 1 Division B. 2 Division C. 3 Division A . Time: 51 sees.

Scouts Race:— 1 Rattlesnake Patrol. 2 Owl Patrol.

One Mile—Relay—Seniors:— 1 Division B. 2 Division C. 3 Division A . Time: 4 mins. 13 sees.

Shoe Race—Infants:— 1 Division D. 2 Division F . 3 Division D.

Quarter Mile Team—Seniors:— 1 Division A . 2 Division C. 3 Division B.

Band Race:— 1 Chendan Singh. 2 L . M . Aeria. 3 Md. Azim.

Bicvcle Race—Seniors:— 1 M . G. Foley B. 2 H . Reed. 3 C. Bulow A .

440 Yards—Old Boys—(Handicap):-1 M . Scully. 2 R. Aeria. 3 M . Reyes. Time: 51% sees.

Championship Group—Seniors:— Division B.

Championship—Group—Juniors:— Division E .

Championship Athelete:— C. Thomas.

P E N A N G . TOPICS OF T H E W E E K .

Balik Pulau Fruits.

Most of the parishioners of the Church of the Holy Name of Jesus, Balik Pulau, are smallholders own­ing plantations on the hill-slopes surrounding the little township of Balik Pulau and its outskirts. In these plantations are to be found coconut, arecanut, nutmeg, clove, rubber and fruit trees of various descriptions.

Now that the fruit season is in full swing, these plantation-owners are kept very busy collecting and selling fruit.

A visit to the house of almost every one of the Catholic house­holds dotted here and there among the hills, will reveal the fact that every member of the household, young or old, man or woman, is occupied with some congenial work of tile season. On the floor are to be seen luscious fruits of all kinds—"durians, chempedaks, langsats, mangosteens, rambutans and mangoes''—collected into groups ready to be taken to the village market for sale. The ear­liest bird gets the choicest worm and those who are earliest at the market with their produce obtain the best prices for the day.

Friday, May 24, was Empire Day. This day was celebrated in St. George's School, Balik Pulau, in the usual manner. After a short address on the significance of the day the headmaster read out Earl Jellicoe's message to the children. The National Anthem was then sung together by the children after which school closed for a half-holiday.

On Saturday, May 25, the Asst. District Commissioner Khoo Sim Teong, accompanied by the Scout­master of the 2nd. Penang (A.C.S.) Scout Troop, paid the St. George's School Scout Troop a visit of inspection. Before the visitors, the scouts under Acting

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quarter, near Hatton Garden. There they have charge of the handsome Italin church in Clerken-well Road, close to which fine build­ing are a number of streets and tenements which, on account of their national complexion, are known as " Little Italy." As Father Pallotti was an Italian, it will easily be understood that the Clerkenwell Road church is attract­ing just now many Italians from dll parts of London. The church itself, in the erection of which the founder took great interest, dates from 1863.

RECEPTION TO MRS. LYONS.

Mrs. Lyons, wife of the Prime Minister of Australia, has been honoured in London, at two func­tions, by her fellow-Catholic sisters in faith. More than four hundred distinguished women attended a reception given in her honour, at the Dorchester Hotel, by the Ca­tholic Women's League. The second function was a banquet organized by the St. Joan's Social and Political Alliance, a Catholic feminist society. Wherever she goes, Mrs. Lyons, like her dis­tinguished husband, wins golden opinions. She will return to Aus­tralia with a host of new friends in memory; and when she sails she will seem to leave a gap, for she is one of the most popular Catholic women in England at the present time.

Scoutmaster T. K. Kooi, went through a varied programme in­cluding semaphore signalling and first aid work. The visitors who appeared to be favourably im­pressed by the keenness displayed by the scouts, were then enter­tained to some "buboh kachang" prepared by the scouts.

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NOTES A N D COMMENTS. (Contd. from page 10)

The economic restoration of the world is a task which devolves on the State, It is the duty of the State to see that its subjects should have the capacity to secure for themselves the necessaries and the ordinary amenities of life, no less than it is the duty and the right of the State to prevent the monopolizing of money and pro­perty by a minority at the expense of the majority.

"Whenever the general interest or any particular class suffers, or is threatened with evils, WHICH C A N IN NO OTHER W A Y B E MET, the public authority must step in to meet them." (Leo XIII.)

It to the State alone is devolved the task of making laws by which economic life can be set again to a normal condition, the duty of every citizen is, meanwhile, to con­tribute by generous charities to the lessening of the public distress.

St. Thomas Aquinas, the great Catholic Doctor, teaches us that we ought not to consider outward possessions as absolutely our own, "but as common to all, so as to share them without difficulty when others are in need." According to a Catholic [author of the X V . century, "all that the rich man hath, passing his honest living after the degree of his dispensa­tion, it is other men's, not his, and he shall give hard reckoning there­of at the day of doom." This teaching is not socialism but

genuine CHRISTIANISM.

Untruths and Half-truths. On Friday, 31st May, Mr. Song

Ong Siang, M.A., L . L . M . , C.B.E., V.D. , President of the Chinese Christian Association, delivered a lecture on "The Jubilee—ancient and modern,—and its signifi­cance."

The learned lecturer availed himself of this occasion to give a short historical sketch of the Ju­bilee year in the "Roman" Catho­lic Church.

In a letter to the Editor, a read­er of the Malaya Catholic Leader objects to the following sentence of Mr. Song Ong Siang: " I n 1389, Pope Urban VI. , who was badly in need of money, reduced the inter­val (between Jubilee Years) still further to 33 years.":—"It would imply, says our correspondent, that to gain the Plenary Indulgence

for the Jubilee Year, the faithful liad to pay some money to the Pope. This would make a bad im­pression on those who do not un­derstand our Holy Religion."

This is quite true, as the sen­tence of Mr. Song Ong Siang,—if correctly reproduced by The Ma­laya Tribune would suggest that Pope Urban VI., being in pressing need of money, sold indulgences.

Mr. Song Ong Siang is quite correct when he fixes the institu­tion of the Jubilee to the year 1300. Some time after, about the middle of the century, petitions were made by the Faithful—among them St. Bridget of Sweden and the poet Petrarch,—to Clement VI., that he should curtail the fixed term of 100 years, on the ground that the average span of life was so short that too many would not see any Jubilee in their own generation. Clement assented and, according­ly, held a Jubilee in the year 1350. In 13S9, Pope Urbain VI., for the very same reason still reduced the interval between the Jubilees to 33 years, so that the next Jubilee was celebrated in 1590. But he did not live to open i t ; he died the year be­fore.

* * * * Urban VI., as Mr. Song Ong

Siang points out, "was badly in need of money" owing to the wrars he had to wage for the defence of the Pontifical States. Yet to affirm, and even to say, that a pressing need of money was the motive which induced him to shorten the intervals between Jubilees, is rather preposterous and contrary to historical methods of criticism.

In his "Ordinance" for the Ju­bilee of 1390 Urban gives his rea­sons for holding a Jubilee every 33 years, which are that this period of time represents the period of the sojourn of Christ up­on earth and also the average span of human life.

Thirty three years after (1423), another Jubilee was proclaimed by Martin V . ; but, in 1540, N i ­cholas V. reverted to the quin-quagesimal period while, finally, Pope Paul II. decreed that the Ju­bilee should be celebrated every 25 years. This has been the normal rule since. (Cf. Catholic Encyclo­paedia: Jubilee.)

* * * * During the Middle Ages, there

have been abuses in the administ­ration of indulgences; nobody, even Catholics, would deny it. There is nothing too sacred to be free from abuse, but the abuse of a good thing affords no argument against its proper use. As for the abuses connected with the preach­ing of the indulgence granted by Pope Leo X . to aid in the complet­ing of St. Peter's Church in Rome, they wTere committed contrary to the explicit instructions of ecclesi­astical superiors and were con-

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demned in that day, as they are condemned to-day, by all right-minded Catholics. This indul­gence was to be gained, partly on the usual condition that the Faith­ful would go to confession, receive Holy Communion and fast. More­over, rich people were to add an alms for the completion of the church of St. Peter, whilst the poor were to say extra prayers instead. The indulgence thus obtained could be transferred to the souls in pur­gatory.

Of course no one can say whe­ther or how much any particular soul is benefited by such acts.

Some preachers. however, whose heart was set upon large money returns, pretended that a plenary indulgence applied to a particular soul was certain to re­lease it from purgatory. That this opinion, held by a few theologians, was exploited, at least by some and to a certain extent, we must admit as an historical fact. But, we say it again, no abuse connect­ed with indulgences in the XVI . century—or indeed in any age,— ever met with the approval of the Church. Quite the contrary, such abuses were visited with express condemnation from the Popes.

"Yet," writes Fr. Hil l , "it was such accidental abuses, which never had Church's approval, thst furnished a pretext for the un­speakable scandal of a revolt against the Church itself by the founder of Protestantism. Efforts to correct the abuses in question had been made before Lu­ther's time. The Church ultimate­ly succeeded, as only the true Church can succeed, in ridding it­self of any such ugly "excrescence" without being shattered to pieces.

"The real difference between our Protestant friends and ourselves" says again Fr. Hil l , "is that we have discarded the abuses but clung to the old Faith, whilst they have rejected all in the lump."

To accuse the Popes of trading in indulgences, when they happened to be badly in need of money is no less than to prefer a baseless imputation dictated either by ignorance or prejudice. And when Protestants fling out this accusa­tion at our face, their only pur­pose is to shame us of our Catho­lic ancestors.

Have they forgotten, peradven-ture, that our Catholic ancestors are their own as well ?

INTERNATIONAL PRESS EXHIBITION.

(Contd. from page 1) The Systematic Section.

This will consist of special cate­gories of newspapers and periodic­als grouped according to their character and contents. The place of honour will be reserved for publications of Catholic Action and of Missionary Propaganda. Under the auspices of the Sacred Congre­gation for the Oriental Church will be brought together and exhi­bited for the first time all perio­dical publications of Catholics of the various Oriental Rites. The Sacred Congregation of Seminari­es and Universities and that of Religious Orders and Congrega­tions will display periodicals pro­per to their spheres. Theological, philosophical, historical, scientific, literary and artiestie reviews will also apnear in this Section.

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M A L A Y A CATHOLIC L E A D E R , SATURDAY, 15th J U N E , 1935. 13

S. X. I. Annual Athletic Sports Penang. The annual athletic sports of the

St: Xavier Institution were held in ideal weather on the 18th May on the school ground before a large number of guests and pupils. The sports repre­sented the final stage of the Jubilee celebrations of the Institution.

The various events were contested in a very keen manner and several exciting finishes in the running items were witnessed in the course of the evening. The ground, however, was soft and not conducive to good times. The B. Divi­sion of the seniors carried most of the events before them while the I± 'Division were easily first among the competing groups in the junior class. The cham­pion athlete of the day was Christopher Thomas with Cheah Wat Yen a .good second.

The boys were divided into two divi­sion, seniors and the juniors, while the primary class pupils, the infants, had three events to themselves. Sack Football.

The teachers were not left out of the programme. They had their share and split themselves into two teams, indulg­ing in a game of sack football much to the amusement of the spectators. Mr. F . Reutens led one team and Mr. A . Reutens captained the other. Play veered from one end to the other and several exciting melees were seen in the goal­mouths. The score sheet was blank when the final whistle was blown and so the team decided on a toss. Mr. A . Reuten's team won.

The cadets and scouts also partici­pated in one event each. In the cadet's dressing race, it was fun to watch the competitors, with only one boot on dashing to various points round the field where the remaining parts of their uniform were depositejd. The scouts enjoyed themselves with the knot tying race. They were divided into TOUT patrols and each scout had to tie a knot. The last member of the patrol tied a bowline around his waist. Tribute to Resident Councillor.

A t the conclusion of the sports, the Very Rev: Bro. James, O.B.E. , said that he wished to express on behalf of the St: Xavier's Institution his best thanks to all the ladies and gentlemen who had come that afternoon. The evening's sports represented the final stage of the Jubilee celebrations of the 3.X.I. and he seized the opportunity of expressing his appreciation for the work put in by the staff and pupils. Penang has lived up to its motto "Let Penang lead." He thought all would join him in congra­tulating the Resident Councillor, Mr. Arthur, for the success of the local Jubilee celebrations. The manner in which Mr. Arthur had given support was evidence that the new Resident Council­lor had won the hearts of all classes and communities in Penang.

He also thanked the Mu/iidpal Commissioners and Mr. Black for the services of the band, and concluded by thanking all who had come and made the sports a success, and also Mrs. B. W. Allen who had kindly consented to give away the prizes. Resident Councillor's Reply.

The Hon: Mr. Arthur said "I must thank Bro. James for the kind words in which he referred to me this afternoon. It is my duty on behalf of the guests to say that it is a great pleasure to come and witness the sports."

He was most interested in the sack football and he felt it would have given him great pleasure if his own teachers could have played such football as he saw that evening. He congratulated the S.X.I, on their celebration of the Jubilee.

The Rev: Bro. Paul, Director of the Institution, also spoke a few words be­fore calling upon Mrs. Allen to give away the prizes.

The Sports Secretary, Mr. F. Reutens, called for three cheers for Mrs. Allen and Mr. Arthur.

Among those present were:—The Hon. the Resident Councillor, Mr. J . S. W. Arthur. Mr. and Mrs. B. W. Allen, the Hon. Mr. Palgrave Simpson, the Hon. M r . E . Newbold, the Hon. Mr. Khoo sian Ewe, the Hon. Mr. H . H . Abdoolcader, Rev. Keppel Garrier, Mr. F . H . Grum-mitt, Mr. and Mrs. R. J . Curtis, Mr. B. G. H . Johnson, Mr. and Mrs. J . P. Biddulph, Mr. T. A . O. Sullivon, Mr. M . J . Thorpe, Capt. and Mrs D. G. B. Ridout, Mr. R. H . McCleland, Mr. J . G. O'Reilly, Dr. J . E . Smith, Messrs. H . McNeice, M . B. Lynch, J . M . Barron, Chee Wor Lock, M r . and Mrs. M . Saravanamuttu, Dr. N . K . Menon, Mr. V . Lunberg, Mr. G. R. Evans, and Dr. and Mrs. de Cruz.

The following is a list of the results:— 50 Yards Relay—Juniors:—

1 Division D. 2 Division E . 3 Division F .

100 Yards—Seniors:— 1 Cheah Wat Yen (C). 2 Chung Chang Loong (B). S H . Stewart Time: 11 2-5 sees.

440 Yards—Seniors:— 1 J . Read (A) . 2 Khaw Bian Hwai (B). 8 L . Remedios (C). Time: 59 sees.

Cadets Race:— 1 A . Forest. 2 S. D'Orville. 3 Ooi Chuan Hoe.

Half Mile Relay—Seniors:— 1 Division A . 2 Division B. 3 Division C. Time: 1 min. 15 sees.

Finding the Coin—Infants:— 1 Division F . 2 Division F . 3 Division D.

Tug of War—Juniors:—Division E . Tug of War—Seniors:—Division C.

220 Yards—Seniors:— 1 Khaw Bian Hwai. 2 Chung Chang Loong. 3 Cheah Wat Yen. Time: 26 sees.

Putting the Weight—Seniors:— 1 C. Thomas B. 2 Chong Barnabas C. 3 Yeih Gim Seng A . Distance: 28 ft. 3 ins.

Hurdles Relay—Juniors:— 1 Division D. 2 Division F . 3 Division E .

Hurdles—Seniors:— 1 Nai Som Boon B. 2 Yap Cheng Eng C. 3 L . Remedios C. Time: 17 4-5 sees.

Tug of War—Juniors Final:—Division D.

Tug of War—Seniors Final:—Division B.

880 Yards—Seniors:— 1 C. Thomas B. 2 Veerasingam C. 3 Cheah Chong Kee A . Time: 2 mins. 22 3-5 sees.

Bali Relay—Juniors:— 1 Division E . 2 Division D. 3 Division F .

Arithmetic Race—Infants:— 1 Lye Kum Cheong. 2 R. Lourdsamy. 3 L . Siew Kiew.

High Jump—Seniors:— 1 Tan Boon Teik B. 2 Yap Cheng Eng C. 3 Lam Yeow Kee A. Height: 4 ft. 11 ins.

Sack Football—Teachers:— A. Reuten's Team beat F. Reuten's

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Long Jump—Seniors:— 1 Ooi Seang Hoon C. 2 Yap Cheng Eng C. 3 Cooke. Distance: 18 ft. Zhb ins.

Quarter Relay—Seniors:— 1 Division B. 2 Division C. 3 Division A . Time: 51 sees.

Scouts Race:— 1 Rattlesnake Patrol. 2 Owl Patrol.

One Mile—Relay—Seniors:— 1 Division B. 2 Division C. 3 Division A . Time: 4 mins. 13 sees.

Shoe Race—Infants:— 1 Division D. 2 Division F . 3 Division D.

Quarter Mile Team—Seniors:— 1 Division A . 2 Division C. 3 Division B.

Band Race:— 1 Chendan Singh. 2 L . M . Aeria. 3 Md. Azim.

Bicvcle Race—Seniors:— 1 M . G. Foley B. 2 H . Reed. 3 C. Bulow A .

440 Yards—Old Boys—(Handicap):-1 M . Scully. 2 R. Aeria. 3 M . Reyes. Time: 51% sees.

Championship Group—Seniors:— Division B.

Championship—Group—Juniors:— Division E .

Championship Athelete:— C. Thomas.

P E N A N G . TOPICS OF T H E W E E K .

Balik Pulau Fruits.

Most of the parishioners of the Church of the Holy Name of Jesus, Balik Pulau, are smallholders own­ing plantations on the hill-slopes surrounding the little township of Balik Pulau and its outskirts. In these plantations are to be found coconut, arecanut, nutmeg, clove, rubber and fruit trees of various descriptions.

Now that the fruit season is in full swing, these plantation-owners are kept very busy collecting and selling fruit.

A visit to the house of almost every one of the Catholic house­holds dotted here and there among the hills, will reveal the fact that every member of the household, young or old, man or woman, is occupied with some congenial work of tile season. On the floor are to be seen luscious fruits of all kinds—"durians, chempedaks, langsats, mangosteens, rambutans and mangoes''—collected into groups ready to be taken to the village market for sale. The ear­liest bird gets the choicest worm and those who are earliest at the market with their produce obtain the best prices for the day.

Friday, May 24, was Empire Day. This day was celebrated in St. George's School, Balik Pulau, in the usual manner. After a short address on the significance of the day the headmaster read out Earl Jellicoe's message to the children. The National Anthem was then sung together by the children after which school closed for a half-holiday.

On Saturday, May 25, the Asst. District Commissioner Khoo Sim Teong, accompanied by the Scout­master of the 2nd. Penang (A.C.S.) Scout Troop, paid the St. George's School Scout Troop a visit of inspection. Before the visitors, the scouts under Acting

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(Continued from page 3).

quarter, near Hatton Garden. There they have charge of the handsome Italin church in Clerken-well Road, close to which fine build­ing are a number of streets and tenements which, on account of their national complexion, are known as " Little Italy." As Father Pallotti was an Italian, it will easily be understood that the Clerkenwell Road church is attract­ing just now many Italians from dll parts of London. The church itself, in the erection of which the founder took great interest, dates from 1863.

RECEPTION TO MRS. LYONS.

Mrs. Lyons, wife of the Prime Minister of Australia, has been honoured in London, at two func­tions, by her fellow-Catholic sisters in faith. More than four hundred distinguished women attended a reception given in her honour, at the Dorchester Hotel, by the Ca­tholic Women's League. The second function was a banquet organized by the St. Joan's Social and Political Alliance, a Catholic feminist society. Wherever she goes, Mrs. Lyons, like her dis­tinguished husband, wins golden opinions. She will return to Aus­tralia with a host of new friends in memory; and when she sails she will seem to leave a gap, for she is one of the most popular Catholic women in England at the present time.

Scoutmaster T. K. Kooi, went through a varied programme in­cluding semaphore signalling and first aid work. The visitors who appeared to be favourably im­pressed by the keenness displayed by the scouts, were then enter­tained to some "buboh kachang" prepared by the scouts.

14 M A L A Y A CATHOLIC L E A D E R , SATURDAY, 13th JUNE, 1935.

Catholic Affairs from Far and Near A S I A .

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A N C I E N T T R A D I T I O N A L PROCESSION, R E V I V E D ,

IS H E L D IN J E R U S A L E M . By Dr. Alexander Mom belli.

Jerusalem.—On Apri l 9, 1933, opening of the Jubilee of the Redemp­tion, there was revived in Jerusalem, zfter a forced suspension of about four centuries, the solemn Palm Procession, which in ancient times followed the route taken by Our Lord when, depart­ing from Bethphage, on the Moun-, of Olives, He made his triumphal entry into the Temple.

The impressive manifestation was this year held on Palm Sunday to celebrate the closing of the Jubilee. This year the procession attained its greatest splendour.

The procession descended from the Mcunt of Olives, passed along the garden of Gethsemani and went UD to Bezetha, where it ended in the Church of St. Anne. The colourful procession was en­hanced by songs and prayers in different languages.

The men, girls, and women, friars, Sisters, notables and prelates in the procession bore palim or olive branches in they* hands.

Among the prelates participating was the new Apostolic Delegate to Pales­tine, the Most Rev. Gustavo Teota. (N.C.W.C.)

Dr. William Schmidt, S.V.D. Member of the Royal Anthropolo­

gical Institute of Great Britain and Ireland Arrives in Peiping.

Peiping, May 18. Rev. Dr. William Schmidt, S.V.D.,

internationally known in the field of ethnology, anthropology, comparative re­ligion and linguistics, arrived in Peiping this morning. He was welcomed at the station by Msgr. Joseph Comisso, Sec­retary of the Apostolic Delegation, by members of the Synodal Commission and by a large representation from the Catholic University of Peking, which Dr. Schmidt will make his headquarters during his sojourn of several months in China.

Dr. Schmidt is a member of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Bri ­tain and Ireland, an honour which he shares with less than half a hundred European savants. He is also a member of the Akademie der Wissenchaften of Vienna and twice received the Volney prize from the Academy of Sciences of Paris. A few years ago the Holy F a ­ther appointed Father Schmidt Director of the Lateran Mission Museum in Rome. (Lumen).

Cross as a Memorial of the Jubilee Year and of the Persecution of the

Catholics of Canara under Tippu Sahib.

Mangalore (India).—A Memorial Cross ;n reinforced concrete, 52ft. high, erected on Mount Calvary, Kadri Pla­teau, near Mangalore, was blessed Apri l 28 by the Most Rev. Victor R. Fernandes, Bishop of Mangalore. Besides being a memorial of the Jubilee Year, the Cross commemorates the persecution of the Catholics cf Kanara under Tippu Sultan and their exiie to Seringapatam. (Fides)

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H . E . Bishop V. R. Fernandez of Mangalore Celebrates Silver Jubli^e

of Ordination. Mangalere (India).—The Most Rev.

Victor R. 'Fernandes, who became Bishop of Mangalore, India, in May 1931, ob­served the Silver Jubilee of his ordina­tion March 19. Bishop Fernandes was born in Mangalore in 1881 and was or­dained in that city in 1910.

A purse presented to him by the clergy at the Jubilee celebrations was immediately set aside by the Bishop for the education of a clerical student of the diocese in Rome. The laity of the dio­cese also took up a collection for him.

Since his appointment less than four years ago Bishop Fernandes has blessed 18 new churches in the Diocese of Man-galore, he has" established" a - rest house for disabled members of the clergy and he has founded a community of iay brothers, the Brothers of Olivet. A dio­cesan board of education has been insti­tuted, and two high schools, one for boys and one for girls, have been opened. During this period 42 priests have been ordained. (Fides).

A M E R I C A H O L Y N A M E M E N S C O R E U S E O F U.S. M A I L S FOR M E X I C A N P R O P A G A N D A

Washington.—President Roosevelt and other Government officials were called upon to check the sending of anti-religious propaganda of the Mexican Government through the United States mails in a resolution adopted by repre­sentatives of 42,000 members of the Holy Name Society in the Archdiocese of Baltimore. Five hundred delegates at­tended the meeting held here.

The resolution called attention to the distressed condition of Catholics in Mexico and scored the use of "franking" privileges in the dissemination of Mexi-

, can propaganda in this country. Adoption of the resolution followed an

address by the Rt. Rev. Msgr. Peter L . Ireton, spiritual director of the Areh-diocesan Union. ( N . C . W . C ) .

C U R R E N T SPIRIT O F W A R A S S A I L E D B Y C A R D I N A L

IN C H A R I T I E S P A S T O R A L . New York.—Condemning the current

war spirit in the world, His Eminence Patrick Cardinal Hayes, Archbishop of New YBrk, in a pastoral issued yester­day regarding the annual appeal for the Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese, declares that "justice—social, economic, legal, international—is the cry of the hour."

His Eminence said that a decisive con­flict must be fought between Christia­nity and communism, declaring that "communism by its very nature hates the Church preaching its gospel of charity." "The widow's mite, the cup of cold water given in God's Name, alms­giving, the care of the poor and the afflicted, the love of neighbour, the forgiveness of injury and charity to all." hp adds, "are more potent to bless mankind with wisdom, hanpiness, and joy of life here and hereafter than the forging of armament? that breed hatred avarice, injustice and mass destruction of human life." ( N . C . W . C ) .

* * * * G E O R G E T O W N T O C O N F E R

H O N O U R ON DISTINGUISHED E N G L I S H J E S U I T S A V A N T .

Washington.—The Rev. Martin Cyril * D'Arcy, S.J., noted philosopher and

master of Campion Hall, Oxford Univer­sity, England, will receive the honorary degree, Doctor of Laws, from George­town University shortly on the occasion of a visit to Washington.

Following exercises in the afternoon, the Very Rev. W. Coleman Neviis, S.J., president of Georgetown, will give a reception and dinner in honour of the English educator. Sir Ronald Lindsay, Ambassador of Great Britain, will be the ranking guest.

Father Neviis will confer the degree at a special convocation attended by prominent Washingtonians and officials. Dr. James Brown Scott, professor of international law and secretary of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, will read the charter. Dr. E d ­mund A. Walsh, S.J., vice-president cf Georgetown and regent of the School of Foreign Service, will make the presen­tation address.

Father D'Arcy is lecturer in philoso­phy at Oxford University and also is examiner for higher degrees at Oxford, London and Leeds Universities. He was appointed master of Campion Hall in

; 1933. This is the official Jesuit hall at ' Oxford, the oldest of the three perma­

nent private halls at the famous univer­sity and the first Catholic institution founded there since the Reformation.

Father D'Arcy, who is 47 years old. at Oxford won first class honours in Humanities 'and the Charles Oldham Prize in 1915, the John Locke Scholar­ship in 1918 and the Green Moral Philo­sophy Prize in 1923. At Oxford also he received the M.A. degree. Studying theology at the Gregorian University in Rome he was ordained in 1923.

(N.C.W.C)

EUROPE. P E R S E C U T I O N A N D P A G A N I S M C A T H O L I C C H A R I T Y S T O P P E D .

M U N I C H P O L I C E H A L T C A M P A I G N FOR SUBSCRIPTIONS

Munich.—Police here recently for­ced a Catholic charitable organization known as "Caritas" to close their campaign for subscriptions. The order followed several demonstrations.

Prior to the police decree, members of the young Hitlerites picketed places where collections were received, brand­ishing copies of the "Voelkischer Be-obachter" which, in huge headliness, carried the story of "Contraband Cur­rency Carried on by Catholic Priests," with reference to the sentencing recent­ly of Sister Werna to five years in prison for having illegally transferred money abroad from Germany. As a result, a large crowd gathered, crying, "Don't give a cent to the currency smugglers!"

Police made several arrests, but these persons were released later. In the interim, the streets of Munich were crowded with irate crowds. (Havas.)

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In April the German Catholic youths were received in audience bv the Holy Father. When the first party of these boys, on their return from Rome, crossed the Swiss frontier near Basle, they were attacked bv Brown shirts who stripped off their uniforms and deprived them of

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A N T I - C A T H O L I C A T T A C K BRINGS C O N V I C T I O N O F

MINISTER. • E X - M O N K . ' on-reai.—r>y nis arxacK on me ~

tholic Church, "the bad faith of the accused was most manifest," Chief Judge Gustave Perrault stated in con­victing the Rev. Victor Rahard, rector of the French Anglican Church of the Redeemer here, of blasphemous libel. He was fined $100 with a month in jai! as the alternative.

Rehard was formerly a Catholic priest and eight years ago became a Protestant, joining the United Church. Subsequent­ly he joined the Anglican denomination. A few persons still attend his church.

The minister, arrested some time ago, was charged with publishing a blasphe­mous libel in a placard displayed before his church. The placard attacked the Catholic priesthood, denounced the Mass as "selling Christ," compared the priest to Judas and alleged that the Catholic Church had "commandments of her own for the satisfaction of her ambition and the prosperity of her boutique (shop)."

Judge Perrault, in his decision, pointed out that the case did not present a ques­tion of religious doctrine but solely one of law-the application of section 198 of the Canadian Criminal Code. He cited several English and Canadian precedents and concluded that he found the language used had been scurrilous in the extreme.

"I say that these are terms offensive and injurious to Catholics and of such nature as might lead to breach of the peace." he asserted. "Where can on<̂ find, in the terms cited, an argument 'expressed in good faith and in decent language? "

The bad faith of the accused was manifest, the Judge added, because the notice had been posted in a district pre­

dominantly French-Canadian and Catho­lic and had been headed bv the words: "Sermon bv a Former Monk."

(N.C.W.C)

N E W S I N B R I E F . The Rev. W. L . Murray, pastor of the

Church of St. John the Evangelist, Campbell's 3ay. Quebec, who. as a chaplain with the Canadian forces dur­ing the World War, received the Military Cross for distinguished service overseas, had a new honour conferred on him re­cently. He was elected chief of the town's volunteer fire department and as such will direct operations at future" fires.

The boys of St. Thomas Aquinas School, Billings' Bridge, ait Ottawa suburb, saved their church from destruc­tion by fire by forming a bucket brigade. The flames caused heavy damage, in the sacristy.

* * * * Mrs. Mary Adelman, who celebrate!

her 106th birthday in Chicago recently, is, despite hev years, most active in the practice of her religion. Besides hear­ing Mass on Sundays, she also attended Mass and Lenten devotions on weekdays.

* * * * A special Good Friday programme wa<

hro?:-rast over nationwide hookup in the I'nited States as a special feature of the "Catholic Hour" on April 19. It con­sisted of original meditations on the Seven Last Words written and delivered by the Very Rev. Msgr. Fulton J . Sheen, with musics! interludes furnished by the Pat list Choristers under th.p direction of Father William J . Finn. C S . P .

A Warning To Women— Health Not As Good

As It Should Be. Speaking at a gymnastic display

by the National Council of Girls' Clubs at the Albert Hall, London. Sir George Newman, chief medical officer to the Ministry of Health, said, "The health of the women of England is not as good as it should be—there is too much preventable anaemia in girls and women."

Woiucn should heed such a warn­ing, lor anaemia is the root cause of much ill-health. If you are anaemic your urgent need to restore health and strength is a tonic capable of creating new, rich, red blood in abundance, and many thousands of sufferers "from anaemia have found just this tonic in Dr. Williams' Pink Pills.

By rapidly increasing the number of red corpuscles in the blood Dr. Wiiiiams' Pink Pills quickly revitalize the whole system, strengthen the nerves, restore colour to faded cheeks, bring lustre to tired eyes.

the religious emblems they had brought back from the centre of Christianity. And then they were brought to a con­

centration camp. Their offence? They had cheered the Pope in His Vatican Palace.

The Palatine Guard of Honour. Vatican City.—L'Osservatore Romano

has published a regulation changing the organization of the Palatine Guard of Honour. Heretofore, the Guard has con­sisted of a battalion composed of 4 companies of 80 to 100 men and depend­ing directly upon the Cardinal Secretary of State. By virtue of the new regula­tion, the Guard will still comprise a bat­talion of 4 companies but will total 500 men and will be commanded by a colonel. It will have a staff, a quartermaster company and a band.

Founded by Cardinal Antoneili in December, 1850, the Palatine Guards added in 1892 the title "of honour," which was conferred upon them by Pope Leo XIII in recognition of their fidelity. Their patron is St. Peter. Those desir­ing to enter the Guards must be between 18 and -10 years old and must live at Rome.

The Palatine Guard of Honour follows immediately after the Noble Guard and the Swiss Guard. Its special duty is to assure the protection of and render honorarv service to the person of the Pope. (Lumen-NCWC).

The Holy Fa r her recently received in audience 200 Ursuline nuns who had at­tended an educational Congress in Rome organized in commemoration of the 4th centenary of the founding of their ins­titute by Saint Angela Merici.

* * * * H. Em. Cardinal Pacelli, who succeed­

ed the late Cardinal Gasparri as Vatican Secretary of State. ha> also been chosen •o succeed him as Carnerlengo. In this latter capacity he would preside over the College of Cardinals, should the Holy See become vacant.

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Mme. Auguste Gillet, mother of the Very Rev. Martin Gillet, faster General of the Dominican 'Older, died' recently at the age of 86 years. •

* * * * * Priests who celebrated Mass afteTTrr<i-

day. when taking part in the three-day ceremony at Lourdes recently, were re­quired to fast only four hours before beginning Mass, according to a decision of the Holy Office and the Sacred Penitentiary.

'The President of Rumanian Cat no Action, Mr. Valerius Pop. is Minister State in the nresent Rumanian Gover ment. This is- the third time he .i heen selected as a member of t Ministry. .

Toungoo, (Burma)—The Sawbwa Yawnghwe, the chief of one of native states of eastern Burma, has P-raised to erect a wing of the new :ep p?\luni in the Catholic Mission Toungoo. The building will be given memory of his wife who died in Mai < Fides).

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T H E RAPID G R O W T H O F T H E PROPAGATION O F T H E F A I T H IN

T H E B E L G I A N CONGO. Leopoldville (Belgian Congo, Central

Africa).—His Excellency Archbishop Joseph Dellepiane, Apostolic Delegate and President of the Pontifical Associa­tion for the Propagation of the Faith in the Belgian Congo, reports extraordi­nary progress in the organization of mission-aid activities throughout the Congo and the Belgian mandates of Ruanda and Urundi. In this section, despite increasing poverty and hard times, 143,203 francs were collected last year, a gain of 17,988 francs upon the total receipts of last year.

Gifts in kind come from natives who are too poor to contribute money. The seminarists at Baudoinville cultivate a field of tobacco and donate the profits to the work. Days and weeks of manual labour are also given, and at Banziville. a young lad went to the missionary and offered him his sun helmet with the ex­planation that he had no funds and that he would buy back the hat when he should earn enough money, and the missionary could then send the money to the Holy Father.

2n many missions the prayers pres­cribed for members of the Association are recited in common. Thousands of persons, especially young people, offer days of prayer and sacrifice for the Propagation* of the Faith. Mission Sun­day of the Sick has been organized. Many Christians travelled dozens of miles over mountains and through forests to be present for the Mission Sunday celebrations and to give their offerings for the Propagation of the Faith.

These and many other such instances testify to the enthusiasm of these new Christians in promoting the Propagation of the Faith, or what thev call, "the Work of the Pope," "the Gift of the Pope," "the Work for the Pope's Pagans," the "Work of Believers for Unbelievers," and "the Work of the Catholic Church." (Fidos).

* * * * F R E N C H G O V E R N M E N T F I X E S T H E PRICE T O B E P A I D FOR A W I F E IN-

F R E N C H C A M E R O O N . Douala (French Cameroon, West

Africa).—Another step in regulating marriage customs among the natives of French Cameroon was made February 11 when the Commissioner, M . Repiquet, issued a decree fixing the amount of the "dowry" to be paid fo** a wife. The sum to be paid to the bride's father or guardian has hitherto been decided upon by the two interested parties and has varied from 2,000 to 10,000 francs. The new decree fixes this payment at 500 francs in the richer sections of the country and half this amount in the poorer sections.

More than a year ago, M . Bonnecar-rere, French Commissioner in the Came­roon at that time, published a decree which laid particular stress on the necessity of the bride's consent for the validity of the marriage. Missionaries look forward to the time when # man will no longer purchase a wife as he would a goat or a suit of clothes.

(Fides) * * * * *

C E L E B R A T I O N O F S I L V E R J U B I L E E O F K I N G G E O R G E

IN T H E C A T H O L I C C A T H E D R A L O F K H A R T O U M .

Khartoum Anglo-Egyptian Sudan).— A solemn celebration of the Silver Jubilee of King George was held by the Catholics of Khartoum in the Cathedral of St. Matthew May 12. Rev. C. J . Winstanley, Catholic chaplain of the British troops in the Sudan Celebrated Mass and preached a sermon. The ceremony closed with a solemn Te Deum of thanksgiving, after which Colonel E L . Petre, Chief Staff Officer of the Sudan Defence Force reviewed the troops.

Among those attending the ceremony were 100 Catholic soldiers of the Second Battalion Cameroon Highlanders. Ca­tholic troops from other units serving at Khartoum, and Catholic members of the ^ritish and foreign colony. During the Mass the students of Comhoni College sang hymns in English. (Fides).

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ORDINATION O F T H E FIRST E I G H T N A T I V E S U B D E A C O N S

IN F R E N C H C A M E R O O N . Douala (French Cameroon, West

Africa).—The first eight native sub-oeacons 0 f French Cameroon were ordained on Easter Mondav, April 22. by ^ h o p Francis X. Vogt. of the Holy

Fields Ghost Fathers, Vicar Apostolic of Yaounde. They will receive the diaco-nate on the feast of St. Lawrence, August 10.

This ordination means another step forward in the establishment of a native ciergy in this section of Africa where, m less than a half century, missionaries have built up a flourishing Catholic com­munity of more than 160,000 members.

(Fides). * * * * *

PROGRESS O F C A T H O L I C ACTION IN N O R T H E R N RHODESIA.

Cilubula (Northern Rhodesia, Africa) —Catholic Action associations were organized in nine missions of the Vica­riate of Bangueolo, Northern Rhodesia, during the first quarter of 1935. There are now more than 100 groups of men and 23 women's groups well established. The members of each group were chosen by the Catholic communities of their respective villages to be counsellors and leaders in the struggle against paganism, immorality and anti-Catholic propa­ganda. (Fides).

* * * * G R O W T H O F T H E C A T H O L I C

C H U R C H IN BRITISH E A S T A F R I C A

1,271,087 F A I T H F U L . An article in The Southern Cross of

Capetown draws attention to the growth of the Catholic Church last year in British East Africa where Catholics increased by 88,569. The Catholic popu­lation is now 1,271,087.

The figures are for Kenya Colony, Tanganyika Territory, Zanzibar, Uganda, Nyasaland, Northern Rhodesia, Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, Mauritius and Sey­chelles.

The missionary personnel in this area in 1934 consisted of 913 Europeon priests and 96 African priests, 421 European and 39 African brothers, 997 European and 623 African sisters, and 10,972 catechists. There are 1,115 boys pre­paring for the priesthood in the minor seminaries and 230 students in the major seminaries.

At present 336,832 catechumens are preparing for Baptism. Eleven organiz­ed parishes have been handed over to the care of 36 native priests. (Fides).

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F O U R G R O U P S O F C A T H O L I C A C T I O N SOCIETIES IN T H E

V I C A R I A T E O F B A S U T O L A N D . Rome. (Basutoland, South Africa).—

Catholic Action Societies have been founded in the Vicariate of Basutoland by Bishop Joseph Bonhomme, O.M.I. Basutoland, lying north of the Cape Province, between Natal and the Orange Free State, has a population of approxi­mately 500,000, almost entirely native. European settlement is limited to tra­ders, Government officials and mission­aries. The complete Catholic Action organization started by Bishop Bon-h o m m e consists of four separate associations, one for men, another for young men, a third for women and the fourth for voung women. (Fides)

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BISHOP O N E O F 17 C H I L D R E N . The recently appointed Vicar Apostolic

of Nyassa, Africa, Mgr. Julien, who was born in Canada, is one of 17 children. Three of his brothers became priests and two sisters became nuns.

* * * * * J U B I L E E CROSS. 28 F E E T HIGH,

T O B E E R E C T E D BY A F R I C A N C H I E F A N D HIS

P E O P L E . Moshi. British East Africa.—The

Native Chief and the people of Kilema, Tanganyika Territory, have set anart a portion of the summit of Fumba Hill for a public garden, in the centre of which they will erect a Cross to commemorate the Jubilee Year of the Redemption. Fumba Hill is a prominent elevation on the northeastern side of Kilimanjaro Mountain.

The Cross and pedestal will be 28 feet high and the corpus in bronze will be life-size. Brother Cere, C.S.Sp.. who has been a missionary in East Africa for more than half a century, has designed the monument and is directing the work.

The Vicariate of Kilimanjaro is ad­ministered by American Holv Ghost Fathers under the direction of Bishop Joseph Bv*ne. who was formerly Supe-vi 0 r of the Holy Ghost Seminarv at Femdale, Connecticut. (Lumen-Fides).

station here which provides food and shelter to about a hundred starving women monthly. According to the newspapers the proposal has been favourably received. The same group spend an hour .daily in a similar institu­tion for the relief of boys in extreme poverty. (Lumen).

Abroad ASIA

Bishop Witnesses Trial by * Polished Rice" in Eastern

Burma.

Kengtung ( Burmah).—A curious m eh tod of administering justice was discovered recently by Msgr. Herman Bonetta, Prefect Apostolic of Kengtung, when he entered the village of Mong Sat in eastern Burma in time to witness a trial by polished rice." The local tax-collector accused a member of the Musho tribe of being in arrears. The man said that he paid the tax to the village chief, but the chief denied it. Since neither side could produce witnesses it was decided to try the ease in another way.

Each of the litigants was given a bowl of hard uncooked rice and told to chew the rice and then spit it into the bowl. He who should succeed in chewing the rice thoroughly without making his gums bleed would win the case. The defendant lost and was required to pay the tax plus a fine of 60 rupees and two pigs.

"I was in the right," the poor tax-payer told Msgr. Bonetta afterwards, "I paid the tax, but the collector be­witched me and the great spirit helped him to chew the rice." The Mission­aries of Milan have opened a mission station in Mong Sat, a village of about 200 families. (Fides).

* * * * * 10,000 Telugu Catholics Attend. Nellore (India).—It is estimated that

more than 10,000 Catholics from the Telugu district of South India attended the Eucharistic Triduum at the Shrine of Our Lady of Lourdes on Phirangi-puram Hill April 25 to 28. The shrine is in the Dioces of Nellore. a* mission­ary territorv staffed by the Mill Hil l Fathers and the Indian secular clergv. (Fides).

* * * * * Serious Decrease of Students in Protestant Seminaries in China, Peking.—The decreasing enrollment in

14 Protestant seminaries in China was given serious consideration at the meet­ing of the National Christian Council at the end of April . In 1922 there were 96 students in the superior courses and 391 in the secondary courses; in 1934 the figures had dropped to 14 and 269 respectively. The decrease is more im­portant in view of the fact that during the same period members of Protestant denominations- increased by 17 and the number of pupils in Protestant schools has become four times greater. (Fides).

* * * * Co-Education Prohibited In

Primary and Secondary Schools of Peking.

Peking.—A decree issued by the Mayor of Peking prohibits co-education in pri­mary and secondary schools of his juris­diction. This rule, which has been advo­cated for a long time by many residents of Peking, was finally secured after a young lady student in a public school shot one of her rivals. It is to be noted that the Catholic schools of Peking have never permitted co-education. (Fides).

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Msgr. Bernard F. Meyer, M.M. Appointed Apostolic Prefect of New Mission in Kwangsi.

Wuchow, Si .—An event hitherto rare­ly witnessed in the Province of Kwangsi, which until recent years was a single ecclesiastical area of vast dimensions, will be the investiture ceremony of the recently appointed Prefect Apostolic, Msgr. Bernard F . Meyer, M.M. This is to take place on June 29, Anniversary of the Foundation of the Maryknoll Society, of which Msgr. Meyer is one of the pioneers.

H . E . Bishop James E. Walsh, M.M. , Vicar Apostolic of Kongmoon, Kwang-tung, and Msgr. Francis X. Ford, M . M . , Prefect Apostolic of Kaying, Kwang-tung, have signified their intention of being present. In that event the cere­mony will bring together once again the three surviving members of the first group of Maryknoll missioners to arrive in China. The leader of the contingent, the saintly Father Frederick Price, co-founder of the Society, died in 1919, just one year after his arrival in the Orient.

Msgr. Meyer, in collaboration with his secretary, Brother Theodore F . Wempe, M.M. , recently published a Cantonese-English Dictionary which filled an im­portant need and gained wide praise. Always a keen student of the language, he has also produced various valuable Bids for young missioners eng&^ed in language study. (Lumen).

No More News of Two Missionaries Captured by the Reds.

Anking, Anhwei.— While a glimmer of hope remains that Fathers Avito and Lopez may yet be alive, the weight of evidence* obtainable after prolonged in­vestigations inclines to the belief that they have perished. Such, at any rate, is the conclusion of their Superiors here, who without further delay have ordered prayers and suffrages for their souls.

Father Avito is believed to have been killed at Tsingkiangtu, in Sinchanghsien, Szechwan, toward the end of 1933; and there is good reason to suppose that Father Lopez was killed by Communists near Loshan, Honan.

Father Ismael Gutierrez Avito was born in Castro-Urdiales, in the Province and diocese of Santander, Spain, February 4, 1895. He entered the Society of Jesus June 4, 1911, and arrived in China November 1, 1927. For one year he was assistant to the pastor of Hofei, Anhwei. Shortly after his transfer to Hwoshan, he was taken captive by Communists on May 1, 1930.

Father Dositeo Lopez was born February 18, 1899, in the Province of Lugo, Spain. He entered the Society of Jesus September 3, 1927, and arrived in China December 3, 1932. He also was assistant for a year at Hofei and was then appointed to Mitosze. in the Taihu Prefecture. It was there that the Com­munists made him a prisoner on October 21. 1934.

The coincidence that botn Father Avito and Father Lopez were stationed their f̂ rst year at Hofei is rather strik­ing.

Since the capture and disappearance of these two priests, a great change has come over the district in which they formerly laboured. Both in number and in fervour, the Christians there are among the best in the entire vicariate, whereas previously they left much to be desired in each of these respects. There is also a wide-spread movement toward the Church among non-Christians in those parts. The two priests in charge are unequal to the occasion and not a few prospective converts have to be kept waiting. (Lumen).

* * * * Prefect Apostolic of Chuchow says

that the Day of Communism in China Has Gone.

Ottawa, Canada.—Monsignor W. C. McGrath, Prefect Apostolic of Chuchow, Chekiang, China, visiting here, said that the day of communism in China has gone. Monsignor McGrath, one of Canada's leading missionaries in the Far East, will return to China next Septem­ber/taking back with him another group of Canadian missionaries.

The once powerful Red army which controlled Kiangsi has been broken up, he said in an interview, and the Chinese Nationalist forces will not rest until they have exterminated the bands of marauders into which the Red army has developed. He assailed what he called alarmist reports of prT^KenrTconditions in the Chinese Republic.

* * * * Catholics of Shantung Promised to

Aid their German Pastors De­prived of Funds from

their Fatherland by Nazi Government.

Tsinan, Shantung.—About ten years ago a Chinese priest, Father John B. L i , built a mountain shrine dedicated to St. Joseph at Paiyunyu in the Pingyin Dis­trict, Shantung. The sanctuary was erected almost exclusively with dona­tions from the local Christians.

On the recent feast of St. Joseph, a large number of pilgrims from the Pingyin and Tungping Districts gather­ed with banners and music at Paiyunyu and slowly made their way to the sum­mit of the mountain, a climb of approximately one kilometer, saying the Stations en route. Arrived at the shrine, they prayed in common* for the present needs of the Church and renew­ed their pledge of fidelity to Her. In view of the insurmountable difficulties encountered this year by their German missionary pastors in securing funds from their homeland, the assembled community promised aid to the limit of their abilitv in propagating the Faith both materially and by personal service. In particular many Catholic Action as­sociates declared themselves prepared to carry on gratis much work hitherto done by paid catechists.

This trvst on the mountain top is fur­ther proof, if proof is necessary, of the loyalty of Chinese Catholics to their Church and of their readiness to make sacrifices for their Faith, when occasion demands. (Lumen).

* * * * News in Brief

Catholic Action Group succors the Needy—Anking, Anhwei. — The local Catholic Action Association has offered to take charge of a provincial relief

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Catholic Affairs from Far and Near A S I A .

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A N C I E N T T R A D I T I O N A L PROCESSION, R E V I V E D ,

IS H E L D IN J E R U S A L E M . By Dr. Alexander Mom belli.

Jerusalem.—On Apri l 9, 1933, opening of the Jubilee of the Redemp­tion, there was revived in Jerusalem, zfter a forced suspension of about four centuries, the solemn Palm Procession, which in ancient times followed the route taken by Our Lord when, depart­ing from Bethphage, on the Moun-, of Olives, He made his triumphal entry into the Temple.

The impressive manifestation was this year held on Palm Sunday to celebrate the closing of the Jubilee. This year the procession attained its greatest splendour.

The procession descended from the Mcunt of Olives, passed along the garden of Gethsemani and went UD to Bezetha, where it ended in the Church of St. Anne. The colourful procession was en­hanced by songs and prayers in different languages.

The men, girls, and women, friars, Sisters, notables and prelates in the procession bore palim or olive branches in they* hands.

Among the prelates participating was the new Apostolic Delegate to Pales­tine, the Most Rev. Gustavo Teota. (N.C.W.C.)

Dr. William Schmidt, S.V.D. Member of the Royal Anthropolo­

gical Institute of Great Britain and Ireland Arrives in Peiping.

Peiping, May 18. Rev. Dr. William Schmidt, S.V.D.,

internationally known in the field of ethnology, anthropology, comparative re­ligion and linguistics, arrived in Peiping this morning. He was welcomed at the station by Msgr. Joseph Comisso, Sec­retary of the Apostolic Delegation, by members of the Synodal Commission and by a large representation from the Catholic University of Peking, which Dr. Schmidt will make his headquarters during his sojourn of several months in China.

Dr. Schmidt is a member of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Bri ­tain and Ireland, an honour which he shares with less than half a hundred European savants. He is also a member of the Akademie der Wissenchaften of Vienna and twice received the Volney prize from the Academy of Sciences of Paris. A few years ago the Holy F a ­ther appointed Father Schmidt Director of the Lateran Mission Museum in Rome. (Lumen).

Cross as a Memorial of the Jubilee Year and of the Persecution of the

Catholics of Canara under Tippu Sahib.

Mangalore (India).—A Memorial Cross ;n reinforced concrete, 52ft. high, erected on Mount Calvary, Kadri Pla­teau, near Mangalore, was blessed Apri l 28 by the Most Rev. Victor R. Fernandes, Bishop of Mangalore. Besides being a memorial of the Jubilee Year, the Cross commemorates the persecution of the Catholics cf Kanara under Tippu Sultan and their exiie to Seringapatam. (Fides)

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H . E . Bishop V. R. Fernandez of Mangalore Celebrates Silver Jubli^e

of Ordination. Mangalere (India).—The Most Rev.

Victor R. 'Fernandes, who became Bishop of Mangalore, India, in May 1931, ob­served the Silver Jubilee of his ordina­tion March 19. Bishop Fernandes was born in Mangalore in 1881 and was or­dained in that city in 1910.

A purse presented to him by the clergy at the Jubilee celebrations was immediately set aside by the Bishop for the education of a clerical student of the diocese in Rome. The laity of the dio­cese also took up a collection for him.

Since his appointment less than four years ago Bishop Fernandes has blessed 18 new churches in the Diocese of Man-galore, he has" established" a - rest house for disabled members of the clergy and he has founded a community of iay brothers, the Brothers of Olivet. A dio­cesan board of education has been insti­tuted, and two high schools, one for boys and one for girls, have been opened. During this period 42 priests have been ordained. (Fides).

A M E R I C A H O L Y N A M E M E N S C O R E U S E O F U.S. M A I L S FOR M E X I C A N P R O P A G A N D A

Washington.—President Roosevelt and other Government officials were called upon to check the sending of anti-religious propaganda of the Mexican Government through the United States mails in a resolution adopted by repre­sentatives of 42,000 members of the Holy Name Society in the Archdiocese of Baltimore. Five hundred delegates at­tended the meeting held here.

The resolution called attention to the distressed condition of Catholics in Mexico and scored the use of "franking" privileges in the dissemination of Mexi-

, can propaganda in this country. Adoption of the resolution followed an

address by the Rt. Rev. Msgr. Peter L . Ireton, spiritual director of the Areh-diocesan Union. ( N . C . W . C ) .

C U R R E N T SPIRIT O F W A R A S S A I L E D B Y C A R D I N A L

IN C H A R I T I E S P A S T O R A L . New York.—Condemning the current

war spirit in the world, His Eminence Patrick Cardinal Hayes, Archbishop of New YBrk, in a pastoral issued yester­day regarding the annual appeal for the Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese, declares that "justice—social, economic, legal, international—is the cry of the hour."

His Eminence said that a decisive con­flict must be fought between Christia­nity and communism, declaring that "communism by its very nature hates the Church preaching its gospel of charity." "The widow's mite, the cup of cold water given in God's Name, alms­giving, the care of the poor and the afflicted, the love of neighbour, the forgiveness of injury and charity to all." hp adds, "are more potent to bless mankind with wisdom, hanpiness, and joy of life here and hereafter than the forging of armament? that breed hatred avarice, injustice and mass destruction of human life." ( N . C . W . C ) .

* * * * G E O R G E T O W N T O C O N F E R

H O N O U R ON DISTINGUISHED E N G L I S H J E S U I T S A V A N T .

Washington.—The Rev. Martin Cyril * D'Arcy, S.J., noted philosopher and

master of Campion Hall, Oxford Univer­sity, England, will receive the honorary degree, Doctor of Laws, from George­town University shortly on the occasion of a visit to Washington.

Following exercises in the afternoon, the Very Rev. W. Coleman Neviis, S.J., president of Georgetown, will give a reception and dinner in honour of the English educator. Sir Ronald Lindsay, Ambassador of Great Britain, will be the ranking guest.

Father Neviis will confer the degree at a special convocation attended by prominent Washingtonians and officials. Dr. James Brown Scott, professor of international law and secretary of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, will read the charter. Dr. E d ­mund A. Walsh, S.J., vice-president cf Georgetown and regent of the School of Foreign Service, will make the presen­tation address.

Father D'Arcy is lecturer in philoso­phy at Oxford University and also is examiner for higher degrees at Oxford, London and Leeds Universities. He was appointed master of Campion Hall in

; 1933. This is the official Jesuit hall at ' Oxford, the oldest of the three perma­

nent private halls at the famous univer­sity and the first Catholic institution founded there since the Reformation.

Father D'Arcy, who is 47 years old. at Oxford won first class honours in Humanities 'and the Charles Oldham Prize in 1915, the John Locke Scholar­ship in 1918 and the Green Moral Philo­sophy Prize in 1923. At Oxford also he received the M.A. degree. Studying theology at the Gregorian University in Rome he was ordained in 1923.

(N.C.W.C)

EUROPE. P E R S E C U T I O N A N D P A G A N I S M C A T H O L I C C H A R I T Y S T O P P E D .

M U N I C H P O L I C E H A L T C A M P A I G N FOR SUBSCRIPTIONS

Munich.—Police here recently for­ced a Catholic charitable organization known as "Caritas" to close their campaign for subscriptions. The order followed several demonstrations.

Prior to the police decree, members of the young Hitlerites picketed places where collections were received, brand­ishing copies of the "Voelkischer Be-obachter" which, in huge headliness, carried the story of "Contraband Cur­rency Carried on by Catholic Priests," with reference to the sentencing recent­ly of Sister Werna to five years in prison for having illegally transferred money abroad from Germany. As a result, a large crowd gathered, crying, "Don't give a cent to the currency smugglers!"

Police made several arrests, but these persons were released later. In the interim, the streets of Munich were crowded with irate crowds. (Havas.)

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In April the German Catholic youths were received in audience bv the Holy Father. When the first party of these boys, on their return from Rome, crossed the Swiss frontier near Basle, they were attacked bv Brown shirts who stripped off their uniforms and deprived them of

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A N T I - C A T H O L I C A T T A C K BRINGS C O N V I C T I O N O F

MINISTER. • E X - M O N K . ' on-reai.—r>y nis arxacK on me ~

tholic Church, "the bad faith of the accused was most manifest," Chief Judge Gustave Perrault stated in con­victing the Rev. Victor Rahard, rector of the French Anglican Church of the Redeemer here, of blasphemous libel. He was fined $100 with a month in jai! as the alternative.

Rehard was formerly a Catholic priest and eight years ago became a Protestant, joining the United Church. Subsequent­ly he joined the Anglican denomination. A few persons still attend his church.

The minister, arrested some time ago, was charged with publishing a blasphe­mous libel in a placard displayed before his church. The placard attacked the Catholic priesthood, denounced the Mass as "selling Christ," compared the priest to Judas and alleged that the Catholic Church had "commandments of her own for the satisfaction of her ambition and the prosperity of her boutique (shop)."

Judge Perrault, in his decision, pointed out that the case did not present a ques­tion of religious doctrine but solely one of law-the application of section 198 of the Canadian Criminal Code. He cited several English and Canadian precedents and concluded that he found the language used had been scurrilous in the extreme.

"I say that these are terms offensive and injurious to Catholics and of such nature as might lead to breach of the peace." he asserted. "Where can on<̂ find, in the terms cited, an argument 'expressed in good faith and in decent language? "

The bad faith of the accused was manifest, the Judge added, because the notice had been posted in a district pre­

dominantly French-Canadian and Catho­lic and had been headed bv the words: "Sermon bv a Former Monk."

(N.C.W.C)

N E W S I N B R I E F . The Rev. W. L . Murray, pastor of the

Church of St. John the Evangelist, Campbell's 3ay. Quebec, who. as a chaplain with the Canadian forces dur­ing the World War, received the Military Cross for distinguished service overseas, had a new honour conferred on him re­cently. He was elected chief of the town's volunteer fire department and as such will direct operations at future" fires.

The boys of St. Thomas Aquinas School, Billings' Bridge, ait Ottawa suburb, saved their church from destruc­tion by fire by forming a bucket brigade. The flames caused heavy damage, in the sacristy.

* * * * Mrs. Mary Adelman, who celebrate!

her 106th birthday in Chicago recently, is, despite hev years, most active in the practice of her religion. Besides hear­ing Mass on Sundays, she also attended Mass and Lenten devotions on weekdays.

* * * * A special Good Friday programme wa<

hro?:-rast over nationwide hookup in the I'nited States as a special feature of the "Catholic Hour" on April 19. It con­sisted of original meditations on the Seven Last Words written and delivered by the Very Rev. Msgr. Fulton J . Sheen, with musics! interludes furnished by the Pat list Choristers under th.p direction of Father William J . Finn. C S . P .

A Warning To Women— Health Not As Good

As It Should Be. Speaking at a gymnastic display

by the National Council of Girls' Clubs at the Albert Hall, London. Sir George Newman, chief medical officer to the Ministry of Health, said, "The health of the women of England is not as good as it should be—there is too much preventable anaemia in girls and women."

Woiucn should heed such a warn­ing, lor anaemia is the root cause of much ill-health. If you are anaemic your urgent need to restore health and strength is a tonic capable of creating new, rich, red blood in abundance, and many thousands of sufferers "from anaemia have found just this tonic in Dr. Williams' Pink Pills.

By rapidly increasing the number of red corpuscles in the blood Dr. Wiiiiams' Pink Pills quickly revitalize the whole system, strengthen the nerves, restore colour to faded cheeks, bring lustre to tired eyes.

the religious emblems they had brought back from the centre of Christianity. And then they were brought to a con­

centration camp. Their offence? They had cheered the Pope in His Vatican Palace.

The Palatine Guard of Honour. Vatican City.—L'Osservatore Romano

has published a regulation changing the organization of the Palatine Guard of Honour. Heretofore, the Guard has con­sisted of a battalion composed of 4 companies of 80 to 100 men and depend­ing directly upon the Cardinal Secretary of State. By virtue of the new regula­tion, the Guard will still comprise a bat­talion of 4 companies but will total 500 men and will be commanded by a colonel. It will have a staff, a quartermaster company and a band.

Founded by Cardinal Antoneili in December, 1850, the Palatine Guards added in 1892 the title "of honour," which was conferred upon them by Pope Leo XIII in recognition of their fidelity. Their patron is St. Peter. Those desir­ing to enter the Guards must be between 18 and -10 years old and must live at Rome.

The Palatine Guard of Honour follows immediately after the Noble Guard and the Swiss Guard. Its special duty is to assure the protection of and render honorarv service to the person of the Pope. (Lumen-NCWC).

The Holy Fa r her recently received in audience 200 Ursuline nuns who had at­tended an educational Congress in Rome organized in commemoration of the 4th centenary of the founding of their ins­titute by Saint Angela Merici.

* * * * H. Em. Cardinal Pacelli, who succeed­

ed the late Cardinal Gasparri as Vatican Secretary of State. ha> also been chosen •o succeed him as Carnerlengo. In this latter capacity he would preside over the College of Cardinals, should the Holy See become vacant.

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Mme. Auguste Gillet, mother of the Very Rev. Martin Gillet, faster General of the Dominican 'Older, died' recently at the age of 86 years. •

* * * * * Priests who celebrated Mass afteTTrr<i-

day. when taking part in the three-day ceremony at Lourdes recently, were re­quired to fast only four hours before beginning Mass, according to a decision of the Holy Office and the Sacred Penitentiary.

'The President of Rumanian Cat no Action, Mr. Valerius Pop. is Minister State in the nresent Rumanian Gover ment. This is- the third time he .i heen selected as a member of t Ministry. .

Toungoo, (Burma)—The Sawbwa Yawnghwe, the chief of one of native states of eastern Burma, has P-raised to erect a wing of the new :ep p?\luni in the Catholic Mission Toungoo. The building will be given memory of his wife who died in Mai < Fides).

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T H E RAPID G R O W T H O F T H E PROPAGATION O F T H E F A I T H IN

T H E B E L G I A N CONGO. Leopoldville (Belgian Congo, Central

Africa).—His Excellency Archbishop Joseph Dellepiane, Apostolic Delegate and President of the Pontifical Associa­tion for the Propagation of the Faith in the Belgian Congo, reports extraordi­nary progress in the organization of mission-aid activities throughout the Congo and the Belgian mandates of Ruanda and Urundi. In this section, despite increasing poverty and hard times, 143,203 francs were collected last year, a gain of 17,988 francs upon the total receipts of last year.

Gifts in kind come from natives who are too poor to contribute money. The seminarists at Baudoinville cultivate a field of tobacco and donate the profits to the work. Days and weeks of manual labour are also given, and at Banziville. a young lad went to the missionary and offered him his sun helmet with the ex­planation that he had no funds and that he would buy back the hat when he should earn enough money, and the missionary could then send the money to the Holy Father.

2n many missions the prayers pres­cribed for members of the Association are recited in common. Thousands of persons, especially young people, offer days of prayer and sacrifice for the Propagation* of the Faith. Mission Sun­day of the Sick has been organized. Many Christians travelled dozens of miles over mountains and through forests to be present for the Mission Sunday celebrations and to give their offerings for the Propagation of the Faith.

These and many other such instances testify to the enthusiasm of these new Christians in promoting the Propagation of the Faith, or what thev call, "the Work of the Pope," "the Gift of the Pope," "the Work for the Pope's Pagans," the "Work of Believers for Unbelievers," and "the Work of the Catholic Church." (Fidos).

* * * * F R E N C H G O V E R N M E N T F I X E S T H E PRICE T O B E P A I D FOR A W I F E IN-

F R E N C H C A M E R O O N . Douala (French Cameroon, West

Africa).—Another step in regulating marriage customs among the natives of French Cameroon was made February 11 when the Commissioner, M . Repiquet, issued a decree fixing the amount of the "dowry" to be paid fo** a wife. The sum to be paid to the bride's father or guardian has hitherto been decided upon by the two interested parties and has varied from 2,000 to 10,000 francs. The new decree fixes this payment at 500 francs in the richer sections of the country and half this amount in the poorer sections.

More than a year ago, M . Bonnecar-rere, French Commissioner in the Came­roon at that time, published a decree which laid particular stress on the necessity of the bride's consent for the validity of the marriage. Missionaries look forward to the time when # man will no longer purchase a wife as he would a goat or a suit of clothes.

(Fides) * * * * *

C E L E B R A T I O N O F S I L V E R J U B I L E E O F K I N G G E O R G E

IN T H E C A T H O L I C C A T H E D R A L O F K H A R T O U M .

Khartoum Anglo-Egyptian Sudan).— A solemn celebration of the Silver Jubilee of King George was held by the Catholics of Khartoum in the Cathedral of St. Matthew May 12. Rev. C. J . Winstanley, Catholic chaplain of the British troops in the Sudan Celebrated Mass and preached a sermon. The ceremony closed with a solemn Te Deum of thanksgiving, after which Colonel E L . Petre, Chief Staff Officer of the Sudan Defence Force reviewed the troops.

Among those attending the ceremony were 100 Catholic soldiers of the Second Battalion Cameroon Highlanders. Ca­tholic troops from other units serving at Khartoum, and Catholic members of the ^ritish and foreign colony. During the Mass the students of Comhoni College sang hymns in English. (Fides).

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ORDINATION O F T H E FIRST E I G H T N A T I V E S U B D E A C O N S

IN F R E N C H C A M E R O O N . Douala (French Cameroon, West

Africa).—The first eight native sub-oeacons 0 f French Cameroon were ordained on Easter Mondav, April 22. by ^ h o p Francis X. Vogt. of the Holy

Fields Ghost Fathers, Vicar Apostolic of Yaounde. They will receive the diaco-nate on the feast of St. Lawrence, August 10.

This ordination means another step forward in the establishment of a native ciergy in this section of Africa where, m less than a half century, missionaries have built up a flourishing Catholic com­munity of more than 160,000 members.

(Fides). * * * * *

PROGRESS O F C A T H O L I C ACTION IN N O R T H E R N RHODESIA.

Cilubula (Northern Rhodesia, Africa) —Catholic Action associations were organized in nine missions of the Vica­riate of Bangueolo, Northern Rhodesia, during the first quarter of 1935. There are now more than 100 groups of men and 23 women's groups well established. The members of each group were chosen by the Catholic communities of their respective villages to be counsellors and leaders in the struggle against paganism, immorality and anti-Catholic propa­ganda. (Fides).

* * * * G R O W T H O F T H E C A T H O L I C

C H U R C H IN BRITISH E A S T A F R I C A

1,271,087 F A I T H F U L . An article in The Southern Cross of

Capetown draws attention to the growth of the Catholic Church last year in British East Africa where Catholics increased by 88,569. The Catholic popu­lation is now 1,271,087.

The figures are for Kenya Colony, Tanganyika Territory, Zanzibar, Uganda, Nyasaland, Northern Rhodesia, Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, Mauritius and Sey­chelles.

The missionary personnel in this area in 1934 consisted of 913 Europeon priests and 96 African priests, 421 European and 39 African brothers, 997 European and 623 African sisters, and 10,972 catechists. There are 1,115 boys pre­paring for the priesthood in the minor seminaries and 230 students in the major seminaries.

At present 336,832 catechumens are preparing for Baptism. Eleven organiz­ed parishes have been handed over to the care of 36 native priests. (Fides).

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F O U R G R O U P S O F C A T H O L I C A C T I O N SOCIETIES IN T H E

V I C A R I A T E O F B A S U T O L A N D . Rome. (Basutoland, South Africa).—

Catholic Action Societies have been founded in the Vicariate of Basutoland by Bishop Joseph Bonhomme, O.M.I. Basutoland, lying north of the Cape Province, between Natal and the Orange Free State, has a population of approxi­mately 500,000, almost entirely native. European settlement is limited to tra­ders, Government officials and mission­aries. The complete Catholic Action organization started by Bishop Bon-h o m m e consists of four separate associations, one for men, another for young men, a third for women and the fourth for voung women. (Fides)

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BISHOP O N E O F 17 C H I L D R E N . The recently appointed Vicar Apostolic

of Nyassa, Africa, Mgr. Julien, who was born in Canada, is one of 17 children. Three of his brothers became priests and two sisters became nuns.

* * * * * J U B I L E E CROSS. 28 F E E T HIGH,

T O B E E R E C T E D BY A F R I C A N C H I E F A N D HIS

P E O P L E . Moshi. British East Africa.—The

Native Chief and the people of Kilema, Tanganyika Territory, have set anart a portion of the summit of Fumba Hill for a public garden, in the centre of which they will erect a Cross to commemorate the Jubilee Year of the Redemption. Fumba Hill is a prominent elevation on the northeastern side of Kilimanjaro Mountain.

The Cross and pedestal will be 28 feet high and the corpus in bronze will be life-size. Brother Cere, C.S.Sp.. who has been a missionary in East Africa for more than half a century, has designed the monument and is directing the work.

The Vicariate of Kilimanjaro is ad­ministered by American Holv Ghost Fathers under the direction of Bishop Joseph Bv*ne. who was formerly Supe-vi 0 r of the Holy Ghost Seminarv at Femdale, Connecticut. (Lumen-Fides).

station here which provides food and shelter to about a hundred starving women monthly. According to the newspapers the proposal has been favourably received. The same group spend an hour .daily in a similar institu­tion for the relief of boys in extreme poverty. (Lumen).

Abroad ASIA

Bishop Witnesses Trial by * Polished Rice" in Eastern

Burma.

Kengtung ( Burmah).—A curious m eh tod of administering justice was discovered recently by Msgr. Herman Bonetta, Prefect Apostolic of Kengtung, when he entered the village of Mong Sat in eastern Burma in time to witness a trial by polished rice." The local tax-collector accused a member of the Musho tribe of being in arrears. The man said that he paid the tax to the village chief, but the chief denied it. Since neither side could produce witnesses it was decided to try the ease in another way.

Each of the litigants was given a bowl of hard uncooked rice and told to chew the rice and then spit it into the bowl. He who should succeed in chewing the rice thoroughly without making his gums bleed would win the case. The defendant lost and was required to pay the tax plus a fine of 60 rupees and two pigs.

"I was in the right," the poor tax-payer told Msgr. Bonetta afterwards, "I paid the tax, but the collector be­witched me and the great spirit helped him to chew the rice." The Mission­aries of Milan have opened a mission station in Mong Sat, a village of about 200 families. (Fides).

* * * * * 10,000 Telugu Catholics Attend. Nellore (India).—It is estimated that

more than 10,000 Catholics from the Telugu district of South India attended the Eucharistic Triduum at the Shrine of Our Lady of Lourdes on Phirangi-puram Hill April 25 to 28. The shrine is in the Dioces of Nellore. a* mission­ary territorv staffed by the Mill Hil l Fathers and the Indian secular clergv. (Fides).

* * * * * Serious Decrease of Students in Protestant Seminaries in China, Peking.—The decreasing enrollment in

14 Protestant seminaries in China was given serious consideration at the meet­ing of the National Christian Council at the end of April . In 1922 there were 96 students in the superior courses and 391 in the secondary courses; in 1934 the figures had dropped to 14 and 269 respectively. The decrease is more im­portant in view of the fact that during the same period members of Protestant denominations- increased by 17 and the number of pupils in Protestant schools has become four times greater. (Fides).

* * * * Co-Education Prohibited In

Primary and Secondary Schools of Peking.

Peking.—A decree issued by the Mayor of Peking prohibits co-education in pri­mary and secondary schools of his juris­diction. This rule, which has been advo­cated for a long time by many residents of Peking, was finally secured after a young lady student in a public school shot one of her rivals. It is to be noted that the Catholic schools of Peking have never permitted co-education. (Fides).

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Msgr. Bernard F. Meyer, M.M. Appointed Apostolic Prefect of New Mission in Kwangsi.

Wuchow, Si .—An event hitherto rare­ly witnessed in the Province of Kwangsi, which until recent years was a single ecclesiastical area of vast dimensions, will be the investiture ceremony of the recently appointed Prefect Apostolic, Msgr. Bernard F . Meyer, M.M. This is to take place on June 29, Anniversary of the Foundation of the Maryknoll Society, of which Msgr. Meyer is one of the pioneers.

H . E . Bishop James E. Walsh, M.M. , Vicar Apostolic of Kongmoon, Kwang-tung, and Msgr. Francis X. Ford, M . M . , Prefect Apostolic of Kaying, Kwang-tung, have signified their intention of being present. In that event the cere­mony will bring together once again the three surviving members of the first group of Maryknoll missioners to arrive in China. The leader of the contingent, the saintly Father Frederick Price, co-founder of the Society, died in 1919, just one year after his arrival in the Orient.

Msgr. Meyer, in collaboration with his secretary, Brother Theodore F . Wempe, M.M. , recently published a Cantonese-English Dictionary which filled an im­portant need and gained wide praise. Always a keen student of the language, he has also produced various valuable Bids for young missioners eng&^ed in language study. (Lumen).

No More News of Two Missionaries Captured by the Reds.

Anking, Anhwei.— While a glimmer of hope remains that Fathers Avito and Lopez may yet be alive, the weight of evidence* obtainable after prolonged in­vestigations inclines to the belief that they have perished. Such, at any rate, is the conclusion of their Superiors here, who without further delay have ordered prayers and suffrages for their souls.

Father Avito is believed to have been killed at Tsingkiangtu, in Sinchanghsien, Szechwan, toward the end of 1933; and there is good reason to suppose that Father Lopez was killed by Communists near Loshan, Honan.

Father Ismael Gutierrez Avito was born in Castro-Urdiales, in the Province and diocese of Santander, Spain, February 4, 1895. He entered the Society of Jesus June 4, 1911, and arrived in China November 1, 1927. For one year he was assistant to the pastor of Hofei, Anhwei. Shortly after his transfer to Hwoshan, he was taken captive by Communists on May 1, 1930.

Father Dositeo Lopez was born February 18, 1899, in the Province of Lugo, Spain. He entered the Society of Jesus September 3, 1927, and arrived in China December 3, 1932. He also was assistant for a year at Hofei and was then appointed to Mitosze. in the Taihu Prefecture. It was there that the Com­munists made him a prisoner on October 21. 1934.

The coincidence that botn Father Avito and Father Lopez were stationed their f̂ rst year at Hofei is rather strik­ing.

Since the capture and disappearance of these two priests, a great change has come over the district in which they formerly laboured. Both in number and in fervour, the Christians there are among the best in the entire vicariate, whereas previously they left much to be desired in each of these respects. There is also a wide-spread movement toward the Church among non-Christians in those parts. The two priests in charge are unequal to the occasion and not a few prospective converts have to be kept waiting. (Lumen).

* * * * Prefect Apostolic of Chuchow says

that the Day of Communism in China Has Gone.

Ottawa, Canada.—Monsignor W. C. McGrath, Prefect Apostolic of Chuchow, Chekiang, China, visiting here, said that the day of communism in China has gone. Monsignor McGrath, one of Canada's leading missionaries in the Far East, will return to China next Septem­ber/taking back with him another group of Canadian missionaries.

The once powerful Red army which controlled Kiangsi has been broken up, he said in an interview, and the Chinese Nationalist forces will not rest until they have exterminated the bands of marauders into which the Red army has developed. He assailed what he called alarmist reports of prT^KenrTconditions in the Chinese Republic.

* * * * Catholics of Shantung Promised to

Aid their German Pastors De­prived of Funds from

their Fatherland by Nazi Government.

Tsinan, Shantung.—About ten years ago a Chinese priest, Father John B. L i , built a mountain shrine dedicated to St. Joseph at Paiyunyu in the Pingyin Dis­trict, Shantung. The sanctuary was erected almost exclusively with dona­tions from the local Christians.

On the recent feast of St. Joseph, a large number of pilgrims from the Pingyin and Tungping Districts gather­ed with banners and music at Paiyunyu and slowly made their way to the sum­mit of the mountain, a climb of approximately one kilometer, saying the Stations en route. Arrived at the shrine, they prayed in common* for the present needs of the Church and renew­ed their pledge of fidelity to Her. In view of the insurmountable difficulties encountered this year by their German missionary pastors in securing funds from their homeland, the assembled community promised aid to the limit of their abilitv in propagating the Faith both materially and by personal service. In particular many Catholic Action as­sociates declared themselves prepared to carry on gratis much work hitherto done by paid catechists.

This trvst on the mountain top is fur­ther proof, if proof is necessary, of the loyalty of Chinese Catholics to their Church and of their readiness to make sacrifices for their Faith, when occasion demands. (Lumen).

* * * * News in Brief

Catholic Action Group succors the Needy—Anking, Anhwei. — The local Catholic Action Association has offered to take charge of a provincial relief

(Contd. on Col. 2.)

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SPORTS NOTES C A T H O L I C S I N T H E L I M E L I G H T

(By Our Own Correspondent.)

CRICKET.

Young S. Minjoot of St. Joseph's Institution took 6 wickets for 7 runs for jthe School against the Malay Football Association on Monday last. The Malays were dismissed for a total of 15 runs, perhaps the lowest score that any side has put up this season. Of course it must be admitted in fair­ness to the losers that they fielded a weak side. In the same game A . Pennefather captured 3 wickets for 2 runs. The school won by 37 runs.

Penang beat Selangor by 94 runs at Kuala Lumpur last week end. Dionysius of Selangor took 4 wickets for 41 runs in 17 overs.

Aaidres captured only 1, Selangor wicket for 29 runs in the 1st and 2nd for 56 in the 2nd innings.

The Colony cricket side defeated the F.M.S. X I by 31 runs.

P. d'Almeida compiled a useful 37 for the winners, Irving Leijssius was sent in first wicket down although being essentially a force­ful batsman and succumbed for a single run. Carlo Pereira helped to secure victory for the Colony with an admirable 21 runs and Tom Sta Maria put the issue toeyond doubt by making 33 runs not out.

L . de Silva took 1 for 31 only and compiled 37 runs.

Patsy Hedren playing in his benefit match for Middlesex against Sussex at Lords amassed 84 runs.

In the Negri's first innings against Singapore last Saturday, Sunday and Monday on the S.C.C. padang, N . Sullivan took 1 wicket but caught out three other bats­men. He bowled unchanged for 25 overs, 11 of which were maidens and gave away 43 runs. Chapman was well held after making 2 runs and Felix de Silva was run out after batting splendidly for 5 runs. H . Boon scored 51 runs before being bowled in an effort to force the pace and Balhetchet made 15 in Singapore's 1st innings. Sullivan again caught Chapman out splen­didly. F . de Silva compiled 13 runs not out when on of Jansen's deli­veries hurt him badly and forced him to retire from the game. The Negri were beaten by an innings and 27 runs, thanks a great deal to an inspired spell of bowling 6flr Balhetchet who claimed 4 wickets for 22 runs.

Great praise must be given to Nicky Sullivan of the S.R.C. for capturing three European wickets and thus bring­ing victory to the Rest team when a draw was very much apparent.

It is not often that one disagrees with the very capable Sports Editor of the Straits Times whose contributions are always delightful to read. But when he declares that " Ross was by a long way the best batsman in the Rest XI " one cannot help thinking that generosity rather than justice prompted the good Leighton to express the above opinion. Leighton must be thanked for invariably giving all youngsters a square deal, and by so doing has done yeoman service to local cricket. He has incidentally brought the sports department of the Straits Times to a remarkable degree of efficiency never previously attained.

SOCCER.

The Selangor P.W.D. Soccer team defeated the Colony by 1 goal to nil at the Junior Civil Service ground.

For the losers I. Leijssius goalie, T. Sta Maria full back; C. Valberg and P. de Costa halves, and P. d'Almeida forward were the Catholics. L . de Silva and Sequerah were the Malay States Catholics representing their side.

Singapore defeated the Negri at Soccer by 2 goals to 1 at Seremban, on Saturday last on a very wet ground. This was a Malaya Cup fixture. For Singapore Chia Keng Hock obtained the first goal and was responsible for the second point by means of a perfect pass to his inside man who scored.

N . Hay was his usual capable self and frustrated many a gallant Negri attack. It was a pity George Valberg was kept on the reserve because he is certainly a more dangerous forward than Dollah who was preferred. Pinto for the home side was often in the picture and had hard luck with several shots.

BOXING.

Ignacio Fernandez although giv­ing away six and a half pounds defeated Rocky Montanes last Friday but by a very narrow mar­gin. Both Filipinos gave the crowd a tremendous thrill.

The main event between Raphael, the Frenchman, and Frisco, from Manila, was comparatively disap­pointing. Frisco had reduced him­self to actual welter weight but he clearly should give up this idea. Raphael was given the verdict, which, however was again a very close one. It appears that these four star boxers are Catholics.

Jack Petersen, heavyweight boxing champion of great Britain and the Empire, will meet Walter Neusel of Germany in a return contest at Wembley arena this month. Neusel won the first bout but Petersen will be all out to win, and as the injury to his eye, which was the chief cause of his defeat, has healed very well, he should turn the tables on the German.

A N N U A L A T H L E T I C M E E T S O F P.W.D. A N D C O - O P E R A ­

T I V E U N I O N .

TIGERS SPOUT

C. Valberg Wins Swettenham Cup Other Good Performers.

C. Valberg of Singapore won the Swettenham Cup for the individual Championship of the Malayan Public Works Department's Sixth Annual Athletic Sports Meeting held at the Victoria Bridge School ground. 84 Competitors from Singapore, Penang, Johore, Perak, Malacca and Selangor participated. Valberg was first in the Long Jump (19' 4"), in the High Jump (5' 6") and 120 yards Hurdles (18%"). J . Maddox (Singapore) was second in the Long Jump, third in the Hurdles Race, and first in the Shot Putt (30 1%"). G. L . Klass came second in the 75 yards Race for boys under 14. The S.R.C. Team won the 880 yards Relay open to Clubs and Schools: R. Aeria of Penang was 3rd in the 440 yards Race. G. Hendrick of Penang won the one mile handicap Cycle Race. Irving Leijssius (Singapore) secured second in the High Jump but won premier place in the Shot Put, and third place honours in the Pole Vault (8' 9"). V . B. Minjoot of Malacca was runner-up in the Consolation Race.

H . Rozario and J . de Souza romped home as winners of the Three Legged Race. A . Pestana, Singapore, could only manage to win third place in the Shot Putt.

DI/TSHBUTOR/

T I G E R B E E R FRA/Cftfr

fltAVt LT? The Co-operative Union of Singapore

held its Annual Athletic Sports on Raffles School ground on Saturday in poor weather. John Then (Municipality) earned 3rd place in the 100 yards dash. P. H . de Souza (Municipality) was 3rd in the 220 yards race. In the 100 yards handicap M . Klyne was 2nd. The Girls' 50 yards handicap was won by Marie Gaudart, with Maureen Sullivan runner-up, and Gracie Mathews third. Miss N . Sullivan secured first place in the Ladies' 100 yards fiat. Ivy Taye was second. Miss Taye also won the Thread and Needle Race. In the Consolation Race for Ladies L . de Silva and N . Sullivan were second and third respec­tively. Miss N . Sullivan also won the 100 yards for Ladies with Miss F . Taye runner-up.

O L D M I C H A E L I A N S ' B A D M I N T O N

R A L L Y .

The O.M.A. (Ipoh) held their Second Annual Badminton Rally on June 3rd, on their own grounds. Ideal weather greeted the large gathering of members who thoroughly enjoyed the games, last­ing from 7 a.m. to noon.

The players were paired oif by casting lots with amusing results—three pairs being made up of brothers. The tourna­ment was played on the knock-out sys­tem and resulted in Messrs. Keng Guan and Seng Onn being the winners and the two Ng brothers the runners-up.

Enjoyable as were the games, there were other things which made the Rally a very pleasant affair. A first-class Radio-Gramophone combination, kindly

lent by Messrs. The Radio and General Trading Co., supplied music to enliven still more the proceedings of the day.

Tiffin over, the winners and runners-up in the morning's tournament were presented by M r . Ho Kok Yew, vice-President of the Association, with hampers of chocolates and sweets. Valuable prizes in the form of Badmin­ton rackets, presented by Messrs. Cheng-Phor & Co., were given to the winners in the Annual Badminton Tournament— Messrs. Chan Loy Fook and Kok Kit Yoong in the first division and Master Loke Choong Shee and Foo Chee Kai in the second being the happy recipients.

It was announced that Towkay L * 6

Swee Hoe, J .P. , had consented to offer a cup for competition among the mem­bers.

Mr. Lim Kean Hooi, Hon. Sports Secretary, in a speech after tiffin, con­gratulated Mr. Tan Cheng Phor (Cap­tain) and M r . Lim Guan Choe (Vice-Captain) on the successful running ot the Badminton section of the Associa­tion and in view of the fact that tne section was self-supporting, suggested the appointment of a President, a Secretary and Treasurer, a Captain ana a vice-Caotain to look after its affairs. The Meeting was in favour of the sug­gestion and elected the following office­bearers*:—

President: M r . Tan Cheng Phor.

Secretary-Treasurer: Mr. Lim Guan Choe.

Captain: Mr. R. E . James.

Vice-Captain: Mr. Quah Keng Guan.

M A L A Y A CATHOLIC L E A S E R , SATURDAY, 15tk JUNE, 1*35* 17

General Jottings of the Week.

Chips and Chops from Everywhere.

BLESSED OLIVER P L U N K E T .

The Irish Bishops have appoint­ed a priest in every diocese to be director of the League of Prayer for the Canonisation of Blessed Oliver Plunket, Archbishop of Armagh, Martyred at Tyburn, 1681.

FIVE CATHOLICS IN SPANISH CABINET.

In the latest Spanish Cabinet, the Catholics have 5 portfolios, thus placing them in the position they sought when they provoked the crisis a month or two ago.

Senor Gil Robles, the most in­teresting and promising states­man in Spain, has become War Minister.

This is an important step. Robles is Leader of the Catholic Party.

* * * * AFFORESTATION IN P A L E S ­TINE AS J U B I L E E SOUVENIR.

A forest of over a million trees and covering 1,500 acres on the hills above Nazareth in Palestine is to be planted and known as the King George V Jubilee Fqrjest.

* * * * M A L A C C A CHRISTIAN BRO­

THERS' A L U M N I DINNER. On the lawn in front of the Ma­

lacca Rest House last week the Old Boys of the Brothers' Schools held an al fresco reunion dinner. Tables were arranged in horse­shoe fashion. Among those pre­sent were Rev. Bro. Dominic and Rev. Bro. Justin, Director and Sub-Director, respectively of St. Francis's Institution, Rev. Fathers B. Ashness, Vendargon, and de Silva, Mr. Neave, Mr. Holgate, Inspector of Schools, the Editor of the Malacca Guardian, and old boys of the various Brothers' Schools throughout the peninsula. The Gomes Band played selections. After the loyal toasts Mr. H . M . de Souza, the chairman proposed the health of the Christian Bro­thers. Rev. Bro Dominic replying briefly outlined the origin and history of the De La Salle order. Mr. (A. G. Mahindasa, proposed "The Old School." Mr. B. Rich­ards proposed 'the guests" to which Mr. Holgate replied con­gratulating the Association on the Spirit of loyalty shown by the bid boys who had turned up in such large numbers to be present at the reunion. Rev. Fr. Bertin Ashness also spoke.

JUBILEE F U N D DONATION. The Staffs of St. Joseph's and

St. Patrick's Institutions donated S90 and $37 respectively to the Jubilee Fund.

The Staff of the Holy Innocents School, Serangoon, donated $30.80 to the Jubilee Fund.

* * * * MR. & MRS. B R A D N E Y A T

F A R E W E L L DINNER. Nearly 200 members of the Se­

langor Government Servants' Co­operative Thrift and Loan Society attended the dinner last week in honour of Mr . tG. P . Bradney, Auditor General, S.S. and F.M.S. and Mrs. Bradney, at the Hotel Majestic, on the eve of their re­tirement from Malaya.

The British Resident and M r s -Barron, the Federal Treasur-e^ the Inspector of Schools were among

those present. Mrs. Bradney was presented with a bouquet and Mr. Bradney was garlanded. * * * * * MR. C. MARCUS JOINS MUNICI­

P A L ACCOUNTS DEPT. Carl Marcus, eldest son of Mr.

and Mrs. M . R. Marcus of Geylang who has recently returned from England, where he qualified credit­ably in Accountancy, has been ac­cepted by the local Municipality in the Consolidated Accounts Depart­ment. His future prospects are very rosy indeed.

* * * * * J A P A N E S E AMBASSADOR TO

THE YATJCAN? Japan is to appoint an Ambas­

sador to the Holy See. The pre­sent apostolic delegate at Tokyo will be raised to |the rank of nuncio.

* * * * * MR. ERIC GILL'S SCULPTURAL

SKILL IN DEMAND. Mr. Eric Gill, famous Catholic

Sculptor, will probably be invited to execute the design which Great Britain is presenting to the new headquarters of the League of Nations at Geneva.

* * * * * OUR CONGRATULATIONS TO

R E V . W. M U R R A Y . This paper offers its sincere con­

gratulations, to Rev. W. Murray of the Singapore Presbyterian Church on his being awarded the o.b.e. in the Birthday Honours. * * * * * CARD. ROSSI TO B E PONENT

IN BEATIFICATION CAUSE. The Holy Father has appointed

Cardinal Rossi to be the Ponent of the beatification cause of Matt Talbot, the Saintly Dublin la­bourer.

Talbot died 10 years ago. He collapsed in a Dublin Street on his way to Mass, on June 7th, 1925. Until his death the manner of his life was known to very few. Now his life, written by Sir Joseph Glynn, has been translated into 11 languages.

When his body was being pre­pared for burial a cart chain was found bound round it. His legs and arms were bound with chains and cord which had sunk deep into the flesh.

Every day until his last illness he rose at 2 a.m. spent 3 hours on his knees. At night again on his knees he used to spend four hours in prayer. On Sundays he remain­ed in Church hearing Masses and attending Benediction for 8 hours. His bed was made of planks hidden under a sheet. He gave £30 a year to the Chinese Missions although drawing 19 s. a week. * * * * *

NEW YORK CATHOLIC CHARITIES ON THE MOUNT. Receipts of the Catholic Chari­

ties of the New York archdiocese last year amounted to £1,279,575 and the disbursements £1,255,257.

* * * * REMAINS OF MOTHER CONNELLY E X H U M E D

AND REINTERRED. The body of Mother Cornelia

Connelly, who died in 1879, has been exhumed at Mayfield, Sussex,

—hr the pro&ence-oiL a representative of the Bishop of Southwark, several nuns, a doctor an<| a Home Office representative. The body was reinterred near the altar of the Convent Chapel in a State of preservation. She was the found­ress of the Society of the Holy Child Jesus.

HE WILL IE WHAT YOi WANT HIM TO BE ON GQW AND 6ATE A complete F o o d made i n a m o m e n t by the mere add i t ion of hot water .

In guaranteed 'and da t ed a i r t ight contgyieca,

For Be Her Babies Agents for South Malaya, B .N. Borneo & Sarawak:

JACKSON & CO., LTD., 55, Robinson Road, Singapore.

ARCHBISHOP CLINGS TO ABSTINENCE F A R E A T

STATE BANQUET. When the Archbishop of Simla

and his Chaplain attended the Viceroy of India's State Banquet in honour of the Royal Jubliee, they were kindly supplied with abstinence fare as the day was a Friday.

* * * * PERSECUTION F E V E R

P E R V A D E S TRAVANCORE, In Travancore, South India, per­

secution on a large scale has been in progress for the last 2 years. Christian officials were persecuted, and Bishops were insulted. There are 1,600,000 Catholics among the 5 millions in the State and they were increasing in numbers at the rate of 37 % per decade, but there are only 3,000 churches.

* * * * LORD RUSSELL DEPLORES

A B S E N C E OF ENGLISH JURISTS A T CANONISATION

OF ST. THOMAS MORE. Lord Russell of Killowen a Lord

of appeal in England, presiding over a great demonstration in honour of St. Thomas More, dep­lored the fact that no member of the English judiciary was present at the canonization ceremony in Rome. The proper authorities were approached but with no result. In spite of hundreds of requests, the B.B.C. refused to relay even part of the Vatican con-onization ceremonies.

* * * * CHRISTIAN BROTHERS' MOTHERHOUSE TO B E

T R A N S L A T E D TO V A T I C A N CITY?

The Motherhouse. of the Chris­tian Bothers may be transferred from Belgium to the* Vatican City. A new £200,000 building mav be built i f thje Supreme Board of the Order decides to remove. His Holiness the Pope has indicated that a tract of land within the Vatican City will be available. This news comes from the Balti­more Catholic Review.

* * * * A MIRACULOUS STATUE.

An ecclesiastical enquiry has been opened following reports of a miraculous statue in the village of

TTateTfibrentino, Hear Floience,-Italy.

A marble statue of St. Verdiana, patron Saint of the district, housed in a Httl« chapel, has been noticed to weep, and that when the tears are wiped away others appear.

HOLY FATHER RECEIVES 2,400 G E R M A N YOUTHS.

The audience granted by the Holy Father to 2,400 German Youths who have been camping outside Rome, lasted over two hours. His Holiness gave his ring to every lad to be kissed. During their visit, the young pilgrims presented the pope with a motor car for the missions.

CARMELITES A R R I V E IN COLOMBO.

Carmelite nuns from the Con­vent at Cholet, France, arrived in Colombo last month, to open the first Carmelite monastery in Cey­lon. The event was given much space in the local newspapers there, Protestant, Buddhist as well as Catholic. A Carmelite convent will soon be established in Trinco-malee by a group of French nuns.

* * * * PROPAGATION OF FAITH

FUND. In spite of the grave difficulties

of the times, caused by the univer­sal crisis, the offerings, for the Propagation of the Faith from almost every nation, has increased.

* * * * T A B L E T ' L A U D S R O Y A L

VIRTUES A S MODEL. The Tablet' of London, com­

menting upon the Silver Jubilee of Their Majesties the King and Queen of England, has written these very charming thqughts. "While the world, the flesh and the devil have been winning easy successes in all othgr grades of English society, our King and Queei have steadily maintained the Highest standards of modesty and virtue. Not of this Georgian reign will historians be able to write their oft-used phrases about a scandalous and Corrupt society imitating the vices of a court."

* * * *

PRIEST SAVANTS ' L E A R N E D ADDRESSES A T OXFORD.

Fr. C. C. Martindale S.J. preach­ed on the first of the series of con­ferences to be given during Tri­nity Terirt to Catholic members of Oxford university. The subject was "Self Control." Other special preachers were Father R. Knox, chaplain, on "The Indisolubility of Marriage"; Fr. T. Flynn on "Birth Prevention"; Fr. H . Carpenter on "Marriage and Morals," and Fr . B. McElligott on "Decency."

(Contd: on page 2.)

16

SPORTS NOTES C A T H O L I C S I N T H E L I M E L I G H T

(By Our Own Correspondent.)

CRICKET.

Young S. Minjoot of St. Joseph's Institution took 6 wickets for 7 runs for jthe School against the Malay Football Association on Monday last. The Malays were dismissed for a total of 15 runs, perhaps the lowest score that any side has put up this season. Of course it must be admitted in fair­ness to the losers that they fielded a weak side. In the same game A . Pennefather captured 3 wickets for 2 runs. The school won by 37 runs.

Penang beat Selangor by 94 runs at Kuala Lumpur last week end. Dionysius of Selangor took 4 wickets for 41 runs in 17 overs.

Aaidres captured only 1, Selangor wicket for 29 runs in the 1st and 2nd for 56 in the 2nd innings.

The Colony cricket side defeated the F.M.S. X I by 31 runs.

P. d'Almeida compiled a useful 37 for the winners, Irving Leijssius was sent in first wicket down although being essentially a force­ful batsman and succumbed for a single run. Carlo Pereira helped to secure victory for the Colony with an admirable 21 runs and Tom Sta Maria put the issue toeyond doubt by making 33 runs not out.

L . de Silva took 1 for 31 only and compiled 37 runs.

Patsy Hedren playing in his benefit match for Middlesex against Sussex at Lords amassed 84 runs.

In the Negri's first innings against Singapore last Saturday, Sunday and Monday on the S.C.C. padang, N . Sullivan took 1 wicket but caught out three other bats­men. He bowled unchanged for 25 overs, 11 of which were maidens and gave away 43 runs. Chapman was well held after making 2 runs and Felix de Silva was run out after batting splendidly for 5 runs. H . Boon scored 51 runs before being bowled in an effort to force the pace and Balhetchet made 15 in Singapore's 1st innings. Sullivan again caught Chapman out splen­didly. F . de Silva compiled 13 runs not out when on of Jansen's deli­veries hurt him badly and forced him to retire from the game. The Negri were beaten by an innings and 27 runs, thanks a great deal to an inspired spell of bowling 6flr Balhetchet who claimed 4 wickets for 22 runs.

Great praise must be given to Nicky Sullivan of the S.R.C. for capturing three European wickets and thus bring­ing victory to the Rest team when a draw was very much apparent.

It is not often that one disagrees with the very capable Sports Editor of the Straits Times whose contributions are always delightful to read. But when he declares that " Ross was by a long way the best batsman in the Rest XI " one cannot help thinking that generosity rather than justice prompted the good Leighton to express the above opinion. Leighton must be thanked for invariably giving all youngsters a square deal, and by so doing has done yeoman service to local cricket. He has incidentally brought the sports department of the Straits Times to a remarkable degree of efficiency never previously attained.

SOCCER.

The Selangor P.W.D. Soccer team defeated the Colony by 1 goal to nil at the Junior Civil Service ground.

For the losers I. Leijssius goalie, T. Sta Maria full back; C. Valberg and P. de Costa halves, and P. d'Almeida forward were the Catholics. L . de Silva and Sequerah were the Malay States Catholics representing their side.

Singapore defeated the Negri at Soccer by 2 goals to 1 at Seremban, on Saturday last on a very wet ground. This was a Malaya Cup fixture. For Singapore Chia Keng Hock obtained the first goal and was responsible for the second point by means of a perfect pass to his inside man who scored.

N . Hay was his usual capable self and frustrated many a gallant Negri attack. It was a pity George Valberg was kept on the reserve because he is certainly a more dangerous forward than Dollah who was preferred. Pinto for the home side was often in the picture and had hard luck with several shots.

BOXING.

Ignacio Fernandez although giv­ing away six and a half pounds defeated Rocky Montanes last Friday but by a very narrow mar­gin. Both Filipinos gave the crowd a tremendous thrill.

The main event between Raphael, the Frenchman, and Frisco, from Manila, was comparatively disap­pointing. Frisco had reduced him­self to actual welter weight but he clearly should give up this idea. Raphael was given the verdict, which, however was again a very close one. It appears that these four star boxers are Catholics.

Jack Petersen, heavyweight boxing champion of great Britain and the Empire, will meet Walter Neusel of Germany in a return contest at Wembley arena this month. Neusel won the first bout but Petersen will be all out to win, and as the injury to his eye, which was the chief cause of his defeat, has healed very well, he should turn the tables on the German.

A N N U A L A T H L E T I C M E E T S O F P.W.D. A N D C O - O P E R A ­

T I V E U N I O N .

TIGERS SPOUT

C. Valberg Wins Swettenham Cup Other Good Performers.

C. Valberg of Singapore won the Swettenham Cup for the individual Championship of the Malayan Public Works Department's Sixth Annual Athletic Sports Meeting held at the Victoria Bridge School ground. 84 Competitors from Singapore, Penang, Johore, Perak, Malacca and Selangor participated. Valberg was first in the Long Jump (19' 4"), in the High Jump (5' 6") and 120 yards Hurdles (18%"). J . Maddox (Singapore) was second in the Long Jump, third in the Hurdles Race, and first in the Shot Putt (30 1%"). G. L . Klass came second in the 75 yards Race for boys under 14. The S.R.C. Team won the 880 yards Relay open to Clubs and Schools: R. Aeria of Penang was 3rd in the 440 yards Race. G. Hendrick of Penang won the one mile handicap Cycle Race. Irving Leijssius (Singapore) secured second in the High Jump but won premier place in the Shot Put, and third place honours in the Pole Vault (8' 9"). V . B. Minjoot of Malacca was runner-up in the Consolation Race.

H . Rozario and J . de Souza romped home as winners of the Three Legged Race. A . Pestana, Singapore, could only manage to win third place in the Shot Putt.

DI/TSHBUTOR/

T I G E R B E E R FRA/Cftfr

fltAVt LT? The Co-operative Union of Singapore

held its Annual Athletic Sports on Raffles School ground on Saturday in poor weather. John Then (Municipality) earned 3rd place in the 100 yards dash. P. H . de Souza (Municipality) was 3rd in the 220 yards race. In the 100 yards handicap M . Klyne was 2nd. The Girls' 50 yards handicap was won by Marie Gaudart, with Maureen Sullivan runner-up, and Gracie Mathews third. Miss N . Sullivan secured first place in the Ladies' 100 yards fiat. Ivy Taye was second. Miss Taye also won the Thread and Needle Race. In the Consolation Race for Ladies L . de Silva and N . Sullivan were second and third respec­tively. Miss N . Sullivan also won the 100 yards for Ladies with Miss F . Taye runner-up.

O L D M I C H A E L I A N S ' B A D M I N T O N

R A L L Y .

The O.M.A. (Ipoh) held their Second Annual Badminton Rally on June 3rd, on their own grounds. Ideal weather greeted the large gathering of members who thoroughly enjoyed the games, last­ing from 7 a.m. to noon.

The players were paired oif by casting lots with amusing results—three pairs being made up of brothers. The tourna­ment was played on the knock-out sys­tem and resulted in Messrs. Keng Guan and Seng Onn being the winners and the two Ng brothers the runners-up.

Enjoyable as were the games, there were other things which made the Rally a very pleasant affair. A first-class Radio-Gramophone combination, kindly

lent by Messrs. The Radio and General Trading Co., supplied music to enliven still more the proceedings of the day.

Tiffin over, the winners and runners-up in the morning's tournament were presented by M r . Ho Kok Yew, vice-President of the Association, with hampers of chocolates and sweets. Valuable prizes in the form of Badmin­ton rackets, presented by Messrs. Cheng-Phor & Co., were given to the winners in the Annual Badminton Tournament— Messrs. Chan Loy Fook and Kok Kit Yoong in the first division and Master Loke Choong Shee and Foo Chee Kai in the second being the happy recipients.

It was announced that Towkay L * 6

Swee Hoe, J .P. , had consented to offer a cup for competition among the mem­bers.

Mr. Lim Kean Hooi, Hon. Sports Secretary, in a speech after tiffin, con­gratulated Mr. Tan Cheng Phor (Cap­tain) and M r . Lim Guan Choe (Vice-Captain) on the successful running ot the Badminton section of the Associa­tion and in view of the fact that tne section was self-supporting, suggested the appointment of a President, a Secretary and Treasurer, a Captain ana a vice-Caotain to look after its affairs. The Meeting was in favour of the sug­gestion and elected the following office­bearers*:—

President: M r . Tan Cheng Phor.

Secretary-Treasurer: Mr. Lim Guan Choe.

Captain: Mr. R. E . James.

Vice-Captain: Mr. Quah Keng Guan.

M A L A Y A CATHOLIC L E A S E R , SATURDAY, 15tk JUNE, 1*35* 17

General Jottings of the Week.

Chips and Chops from Everywhere.

BLESSED OLIVER P L U N K E T .

The Irish Bishops have appoint­ed a priest in every diocese to be director of the League of Prayer for the Canonisation of Blessed Oliver Plunket, Archbishop of Armagh, Martyred at Tyburn, 1681.

FIVE CATHOLICS IN SPANISH CABINET.

In the latest Spanish Cabinet, the Catholics have 5 portfolios, thus placing them in the position they sought when they provoked the crisis a month or two ago.

Senor Gil Robles, the most in­teresting and promising states­man in Spain, has become War Minister.

This is an important step. Robles is Leader of the Catholic Party.

* * * * AFFORESTATION IN P A L E S ­TINE AS J U B I L E E SOUVENIR.

A forest of over a million trees and covering 1,500 acres on the hills above Nazareth in Palestine is to be planted and known as the King George V Jubilee Fqrjest.

* * * * M A L A C C A CHRISTIAN BRO­

THERS' A L U M N I DINNER. On the lawn in front of the Ma­

lacca Rest House last week the Old Boys of the Brothers' Schools held an al fresco reunion dinner. Tables were arranged in horse­shoe fashion. Among those pre­sent were Rev. Bro. Dominic and Rev. Bro. Justin, Director and Sub-Director, respectively of St. Francis's Institution, Rev. Fathers B. Ashness, Vendargon, and de Silva, Mr. Neave, Mr. Holgate, Inspector of Schools, the Editor of the Malacca Guardian, and old boys of the various Brothers' Schools throughout the peninsula. The Gomes Band played selections. After the loyal toasts Mr. H . M . de Souza, the chairman proposed the health of the Christian Bro­thers. Rev. Bro Dominic replying briefly outlined the origin and history of the De La Salle order. Mr. (A. G. Mahindasa, proposed "The Old School." Mr. B. Rich­ards proposed 'the guests" to which Mr. Holgate replied con­gratulating the Association on the Spirit of loyalty shown by the bid boys who had turned up in such large numbers to be present at the reunion. Rev. Fr. Bertin Ashness also spoke.

JUBILEE F U N D DONATION. The Staffs of St. Joseph's and

St. Patrick's Institutions donated S90 and $37 respectively to the Jubilee Fund.

The Staff of the Holy Innocents School, Serangoon, donated $30.80 to the Jubilee Fund.

* * * * MR. & MRS. B R A D N E Y A T

F A R E W E L L DINNER. Nearly 200 members of the Se­

langor Government Servants' Co­operative Thrift and Loan Society attended the dinner last week in honour of Mr . tG. P . Bradney, Auditor General, S.S. and F.M.S. and Mrs. Bradney, at the Hotel Majestic, on the eve of their re­tirement from Malaya.

The British Resident and M r s -Barron, the Federal Treasur-e^ the Inspector of Schools were among

those present. Mrs. Bradney was presented with a bouquet and Mr. Bradney was garlanded. * * * * * MR. C. MARCUS JOINS MUNICI­

P A L ACCOUNTS DEPT. Carl Marcus, eldest son of Mr.

and Mrs. M . R. Marcus of Geylang who has recently returned from England, where he qualified credit­ably in Accountancy, has been ac­cepted by the local Municipality in the Consolidated Accounts Depart­ment. His future prospects are very rosy indeed.

* * * * * J A P A N E S E AMBASSADOR TO

THE YATJCAN? Japan is to appoint an Ambas­

sador to the Holy See. The pre­sent apostolic delegate at Tokyo will be raised to |the rank of nuncio.

* * * * * MR. ERIC GILL'S SCULPTURAL

SKILL IN DEMAND. Mr. Eric Gill, famous Catholic

Sculptor, will probably be invited to execute the design which Great Britain is presenting to the new headquarters of the League of Nations at Geneva.

* * * * * OUR CONGRATULATIONS TO

R E V . W. M U R R A Y . This paper offers its sincere con­

gratulations, to Rev. W. Murray of the Singapore Presbyterian Church on his being awarded the o.b.e. in the Birthday Honours. * * * * * CARD. ROSSI TO B E PONENT

IN BEATIFICATION CAUSE. The Holy Father has appointed

Cardinal Rossi to be the Ponent of the beatification cause of Matt Talbot, the Saintly Dublin la­bourer.

Talbot died 10 years ago. He collapsed in a Dublin Street on his way to Mass, on June 7th, 1925. Until his death the manner of his life was known to very few. Now his life, written by Sir Joseph Glynn, has been translated into 11 languages.

When his body was being pre­pared for burial a cart chain was found bound round it. His legs and arms were bound with chains and cord which had sunk deep into the flesh.

Every day until his last illness he rose at 2 a.m. spent 3 hours on his knees. At night again on his knees he used to spend four hours in prayer. On Sundays he remain­ed in Church hearing Masses and attending Benediction for 8 hours. His bed was made of planks hidden under a sheet. He gave £30 a year to the Chinese Missions although drawing 19 s. a week. * * * * *

NEW YORK CATHOLIC CHARITIES ON THE MOUNT. Receipts of the Catholic Chari­

ties of the New York archdiocese last year amounted to £1,279,575 and the disbursements £1,255,257.

* * * * REMAINS OF MOTHER CONNELLY E X H U M E D

AND REINTERRED. The body of Mother Cornelia

Connelly, who died in 1879, has been exhumed at Mayfield, Sussex,

—hr the pro&ence-oiL a representative of the Bishop of Southwark, several nuns, a doctor an<| a Home Office representative. The body was reinterred near the altar of the Convent Chapel in a State of preservation. She was the found­ress of the Society of the Holy Child Jesus.

HE WILL IE WHAT YOi WANT HIM TO BE ON GQW AND 6ATE A complete F o o d made i n a m o m e n t by the mere add i t ion of hot water .

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For Be Her Babies Agents for South Malaya, B .N. Borneo & Sarawak:

JACKSON & CO., LTD., 55, Robinson Road, Singapore.

ARCHBISHOP CLINGS TO ABSTINENCE F A R E A T

STATE BANQUET. When the Archbishop of Simla

and his Chaplain attended the Viceroy of India's State Banquet in honour of the Royal Jubliee, they were kindly supplied with abstinence fare as the day was a Friday.

* * * * PERSECUTION F E V E R

P E R V A D E S TRAVANCORE, In Travancore, South India, per­

secution on a large scale has been in progress for the last 2 years. Christian officials were persecuted, and Bishops were insulted. There are 1,600,000 Catholics among the 5 millions in the State and they were increasing in numbers at the rate of 37 % per decade, but there are only 3,000 churches.

* * * * LORD RUSSELL DEPLORES

A B S E N C E OF ENGLISH JURISTS A T CANONISATION

OF ST. THOMAS MORE. Lord Russell of Killowen a Lord

of appeal in England, presiding over a great demonstration in honour of St. Thomas More, dep­lored the fact that no member of the English judiciary was present at the canonization ceremony in Rome. The proper authorities were approached but with no result. In spite of hundreds of requests, the B.B.C. refused to relay even part of the Vatican con-onization ceremonies.

* * * * CHRISTIAN BROTHERS' MOTHERHOUSE TO B E

T R A N S L A T E D TO V A T I C A N CITY?

The Motherhouse. of the Chris­tian Bothers may be transferred from Belgium to the* Vatican City. A new £200,000 building mav be built i f thje Supreme Board of the Order decides to remove. His Holiness the Pope has indicated that a tract of land within the Vatican City will be available. This news comes from the Balti­more Catholic Review.

* * * * A MIRACULOUS STATUE.

An ecclesiastical enquiry has been opened following reports of a miraculous statue in the village of

TTateTfibrentino, Hear Floience,-Italy.

A marble statue of St. Verdiana, patron Saint of the district, housed in a Httl« chapel, has been noticed to weep, and that when the tears are wiped away others appear.

HOLY FATHER RECEIVES 2,400 G E R M A N YOUTHS.

The audience granted by the Holy Father to 2,400 German Youths who have been camping outside Rome, lasted over two hours. His Holiness gave his ring to every lad to be kissed. During their visit, the young pilgrims presented the pope with a motor car for the missions.

CARMELITES A R R I V E IN COLOMBO.

Carmelite nuns from the Con­vent at Cholet, France, arrived in Colombo last month, to open the first Carmelite monastery in Cey­lon. The event was given much space in the local newspapers there, Protestant, Buddhist as well as Catholic. A Carmelite convent will soon be established in Trinco-malee by a group of French nuns.

* * * * PROPAGATION OF FAITH

FUND. In spite of the grave difficulties

of the times, caused by the univer­sal crisis, the offerings, for the Propagation of the Faith from almost every nation, has increased.

* * * * T A B L E T ' L A U D S R O Y A L

VIRTUES A S MODEL. The Tablet' of London, com­

menting upon the Silver Jubilee of Their Majesties the King and Queen of England, has written these very charming thqughts. "While the world, the flesh and the devil have been winning easy successes in all othgr grades of English society, our King and Queei have steadily maintained the Highest standards of modesty and virtue. Not of this Georgian reign will historians be able to write their oft-used phrases about a scandalous and Corrupt society imitating the vices of a court."

* * * *

PRIEST SAVANTS ' L E A R N E D ADDRESSES A T OXFORD.

Fr. C. C. Martindale S.J. preach­ed on the first of the series of con­ferences to be given during Tri­nity Terirt to Catholic members of Oxford university. The subject was "Self Control." Other special preachers were Father R. Knox, chaplain, on "The Indisolubility of Marriage"; Fr. T. Flynn on "Birth Prevention"; Fr. H . Carpenter on "Marriage and Morals," and Fr . B. McElligott on "Decency."

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A R O U N D T H E P A R I S H E S ST. JOSEPH'S CHURCH.

MARRIAGE. June 10. Christopher Andrew

* Joseph D'Cotta, bachelor, son of Francis Emmanuel D'Cotta and of Leonie Marie Allan to Evelyn Irene Lopez, spinster daughter of Henry Lopez and of Martinha Pereira. Wit­nesses: — Michael Rodrigues and Helen Rodrigues.

D E A T H .

June 9. Eva Ess, aged 34, Marri­ed, daughter of Louis de Rosa and of Martinha de Rosa.

KING T H A N K S J U B L I E E WISHERS.

Mr.J. Klyne of the Asiatic Petro­leum Company. Singapore, and Mrs. Klyne sent Jubilee wishes to the King. They have received a reply of thanks from Buckingham Palace.

ST. ANTHONY D E P A D U A . The collections to be made in

the Church of St. Joseph at all Masses and at the Evening Service on Sunday the 16th June will be for the Poor dependent on St. An­thony's Bread Fund.

* * * * CHURCH OF OUR L A D Y OF

LOURDES. M A R R I A G E .

A quiet wedding was solemnised at the Church of Our Lady of Lourdes on Monday the 3rd inst., between Mr. Francis Periannan and Miss Rosalia The bridegroom is a recent convert to the Faith and was baptised by Rev. Fath. L . Burgoffer.

CATHOLIC ACTION M O N T H L Y MEETING.

At the monthly meeting of the C. A . Society held on last Sunday Mr. Thetheravoosamy has been appointed Honorary Treasurer in place of Mr. R. David resigned owing to pressure of work.

H . E . Mgr. A . Faisandier.

R E V . FR. CORDEIRO'S VISIT H E R E .

Rev. Fr. Cordeiro of St. Joseph's Church, Batu Gajah paid a visit to the Church of SS. Peter & Paul, Singapore, on Monday 3rd June. The parishioners were overjoyed to see him as he was once attached to thev parish, and it was alfphe more Measurable as,the visit was whollyiune3g)ected. J§£e paid calls on his family ai^ftfri£hds and spent a day at Ponggo} with the other priests. He iSfeson Thursday 6th inst. for his parish. The parish­ioners of SS. Peter & Paul would miss his cheerful personality again, but they were thankful to him for even this brief visit.

CATHOLIC QUEEN'S SCHOLAR ' TO T A K E S I L K ' IN E N G L A N D .

Mr. Benedict Ponniah of St. John's Institution, K. Lumpur, will proceed by the P. & O. Rawalpindi on August 3rd to England where he will join St. John's College, Cambridge, and study law with a view to joining the Ceylon Civil Service. He is winner of the 1934 F.M.S. Queen Scholarship.

D 1 A T H OF DR. A . FAISANDIER S J .

Bishop of Trichinopoly. Al l catholics hailing from South

India, w?ll be much grieved to learn the death of Dr. A . Faisan­dier S.J., on 25th of last month at Shembaganur in South India.

His Lordship who had been in charge of the Diocese of Trichi­nopoly for well over 25 years, re­cently resigned his See owing to illness and old age but continued to be Administrator of the Diocese pending the appointment of a suc­cessor. Only in June of last year he celebrated his episcopal Silver Jubilee.

During the tenure of His Lord­ship great progress was made in catholic organisations and educa­tional institutions. A very notable thing that happened during his. ad­ministration is the establishment of the First Indian Bishopric of the Latin rite.

At the time of his death His Lordship was 82 years of age and said to be the oldest bishop in India. A record period of mis-misionary service for more than 45 years in India goes to his credit.

A M A L A C C A , J.P. Mr. Francis Albert de Witt, a

well-known figure in Malacca, and a cousin of Mr. R. Tessensohn, J.P. of Singapore has been appointed a Justice of the Peace for the Settlement of Malacca.

* * * * M A L A C C A NOTES.—(By Rio.)

We offer our heartiest congratu­lations to Mr. A. S. Pinto Com­pany Sergeant Major " D " Eura­sian Company M.V.C. who was one of the recipients of the Jubilee Medal at the King's Birthday Pa­rade on June 3rd.

C.S.M., A . S. Pinto has had twelve years continued service in the Corps.

* * * * BAPTISMS.

The following Baptisms took place in the Church of St. Francis Xavier, Malacca.

Gertrude Fernandez, daughter of Stephen Fernandez and Evelyn Theseira born on May 14th, Bap­tised on May 15th. God-parents Dominic and Margaret Theseira.

Victoria Pereira. daughter of Patrick Pereira and Lily Rodrigu­es. born on May 24th. God­parents Alexander Danker and Irene de Silva.

* * * * WEDDING.

The Church of St. Francis Xavier was the scene of a pretty wedding on Saturday, June 1st. The contracting parties being Mr. James Hope and Dolphine de Costa, both of Malacca. Dolphine was one of the daughters of Mr. and Mrs. J . De Costa, Medical De­partment F.M.S. pensioner, and will be remembered bv their many friends in the Federal Capital.

The reception was held at Praya Lane, Malacca.

Rev. Father Francois officiated.

N O T I C E T O S U B S C R I B E R S .

Subscribers are kindly reminded that their subscriptions for the next quarter fall due at the end of June. Subscriptions may be forwarded to the Secretaries of Press Sections or sent direct to the Managing Editor, Malaya Catholic Leader, 73. Bras Basah Road, Singapore.

or, an3 4% mained lost forgotten things reader sprung t | our pleasant stE

CAUGHT NAPPING?

A lady correspondent refers us to the 'Challenge' in our issue of Jan: 5th wherein an award of $5— is offered to the first reader who points out the same joke appearing repeatedly in our issue. The glove,

led, .was thrown iou^ by mir pre-should » v e re-the limbo of

&ad not o\ff astute ii§*£laim gp u | to

e. A * vm do not claim to possess a ' legal mind ' in the matter, we are doubtful as to whether the claim is still tenable or voidable. Anyway, we hasten to congratulate the claimant for the persevering scrutiny she has made of our columns and for hav­ing caught us napping.

—Ed. M.C.L.

DR. A . C. DUTTA, C.H. Our congratulations to Dr. A. C.

Dutta of Malacca who was a reci­pient of the order of the Compa­nion of Honour in the recent Honours List.

OUR CATHOLIC VOLUNTEERS.

At the M.V.C. annual athletic sports which took place on the High School ground, Khoon Cheng Road Malacca, on last Saturday af­ternoon our Catholic members an­nexed both the individual and inter-company championships. The piece do resistance was the sa^k-football (Skippered by R. de Rozario, the well-known Selangor State outside left wizard) decisive­ly defeated the " B " Company by three to nil.

We congratulate the following who contributed to the success of the " D " Company.

Individual Champion Athlete Pte. Clive Rodrigues; 2 L t : H . M . de Souza: A. Fernandez; W. B. Minjoot; 0. Carvalho; C. Carval-ho; R. de Rozario; Stanley Min­joot; G. Baptist; J. Sequerah; Allan Sta Maria; and others.

PERSONALIA. Rev. Father Lourenco, of St.

Peter's Church, Bunga Raya, Ma­lacca, left for Singapore on Mav 31st. and will in all probability stay there for a month.

We extend our congratulations to Messrs. P. F . de Souza, P. J. Loo, R. P. Leon, our Catholic members, who represented Malac­ca against the Combined Service. We also note the good display by the first named who was also the best of the quintette.

* * * * We are glad to learn from our

correspondent that Mr. M. Boyle, inspite of his official duties in the Police Department, could devote h;s leisure time to the training of the Malacca State X L Mr. Boyle is a parishioner of the French Mission, Malacca.

* * * * The members of the Girls

Sports Club, Malacca, was "at home" at a Social on Monday June 10th. Rev. Father Ashness addressed the gathering.

* * * * * R I F L E SHOOTING.

We offer our congratulations to the following Catholic Members who were successful in the May sroon sh,oot:— Sergeant B. W. Frois 92.22

"Class A " H'cap. Private G. Bantist 64

"Class B " Nett. June 8th and June 30th have

been fixed for June Shoot. We hope and expect our members to win again.

* * * * * CHURCH A T TAMPIN.

A most unique event in our Church History took place on Sunday June 2nd when the Church of St. Philomena, was blessed by the Right Reverend A. Devals. D.D.

At the divine service, which be­gan at 8 a.m. His Lordship the Bishop was assisted by Rev. Father Vendargon, and by a special choir from the Church of St. Francis Xavier, Malacca. The large and representative laity in­cluded also those from Seremban, Malacca and other out-stations.

The congregation then proceed­ed to the compound for refresh­ments in the course of which Mr. B Bias. Chief Clerk, Tampin read the following address: To

The Right Reverend, A . Devals, D.D. Bishop of Malacca.

May it please Your Excellency, We, the Catholics of Tampin, feel sin­

cerely happy to offer Your Excellency, a most hear'.y welcome to day on the occasion of the Blessing and Dedication of Saint Philomena's Church at Your Excellency's hands.

We are indeed very grateful and thankful to Your Excellency for having come all the way from Singapore to perform the august ceremony for the love of G o i , and we pray that under your reg:me more Churches will be built as need demsnds. We ?hall be extreme­ly happy if Your Excel'en-y will accept this Church of St. Philomena as our humble offering to you.

The want of a place of worship m Tampin was,keenly felt for a'long time and through the unt'ring energy and

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CHRONO­METERS

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in" all the Countries.

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perseverance of Reverend Father Finian de Silva, we are at last blessed with one. Proposal to erect a Church was on foot as long back as 1923; and but for the world-wide trade depression the proposal would have materialised long ago.

Handsome donations were promised but were mostly not realised and Reverend Father de Silva indefatigably toiled till his efforts were crowned with success. Wre pray that his good work will be rewarded by God, the Almighty.

We are deeply indebted to the Govern­ment of Negri Sembilan for their bene­volence in alloting us a piece of land for the erection of this Church. We also thank the Distict Officer, the Executive Engineer and the Health Officer Tampin, for their kind assistance and advice given and also those who have liberally and ungrudgingly contributed their mite to­wards this good cause.

In conclusion we once again affection­ately thank Your Excellency for your gracious presence here to bless this Church.

That God bless Your Excellency with long life and bestow on you all graces and you, in turn, shower your blessings on us, is the earnest and fervent prayer of

Your Excellency's obedient and faithful Children,

The CatKolics of Tampin.

His Lordship the Bishop very suitably replied.

T E L U K ANSON. BIRTH.

May 30, Donald Peter, born on the 30th May, son of Marie An­thony Herbert Wyatt of Singapore and of Norah Eliza­beth. God-parents: Joseph Ryan and Marie Antoinette Wyatt.

Mr. P. C. B A P T I S T .

it is with the greatest pleasure we

iearn that Mr. P. C. Baptist of the Har­

bour Board, Teluk Anson, is one of the

recipients of the King's Silver Jubilee

Medal. The Parishioners of St.

Anthony's Church, T. Anson heartily

congratulate Mr. P. C. Baptist on the

honour conferred on him in recognition

of his extraordinary service to the

Government.

i Mr. | \ r . Baptist is among the oldest

residents of our little town, and is greatly esteemed by all. The parish since its inception owes much to his generosity, and, by his handsome dona­tions whenever the hat is sent round, he has always been a source of great encouragement.

CHURCH OF ST. ANTHONY, K . L . The Titular feast cf the above church will be celebrated

on Sunday, 16th June, 1935. Rev. Father A . Francis will preach during the Triduum. On Sunday, 16th June. Rev. Father A . D. Vendargon will

preach Sermon.

K U A L A L U M P U R ST. JOSEPH'S CHURCH C E N T R A L WORKSHOP

WEDDING.

St. Joseph's ^Church Central Workshops was fthe scene of a pretty wedding Jon Whit Monday the 10th inst. when Mr. Santhos Rayer, of Stores Superintendent's Office, F. M . S. Railways Kuala Lumpur, son of Mr. & Mrs. A. Ananda Rayer of Kuala Lumpur, was married to Miss Alangara Mary, daughter of Mr. & Mrs. G. Savarimuthu Nayager of Kuala Lumpur.

The bride looked charming- in a very richly embroidered saree and carried a bouquet of roses and lilies. The Nuptial Mass was officiated by Rev. Father V. Hermann. Imme­diately after Mass, photo was faken, after which the newly wed­ded couple proceeded to St. Ann's Girls School, where "Sehai" and re­ception were held. There was a large gathering both at the church and at the reception.

ST. ANTHONY'S CHURCH CATHOLIC ACTION MEETING.

A meeting of the Catholic Action Society of St. Anthony's Church Kuala Lumpur was held on 1st June 1935, at St. Anthony's School at 5.30 p.m. with Mr. S. Anthony-samy Pillai, the President in the chair.

The President in a few well chosen words explained the objects of the Society and impressed that meetings should be held monthly in future and solicited the House tol fix a date for the meeting.

Mr. M. Benedict, the Vice-presi­dent, suggested that these meet­ings be held on First Saturdays of every month before the Sodality Meeting, which was unanimously agreed and the time was fixed to 4.30 p.m.

S E R E M B A N . EXTENSION TO S E R E M B A N

CHURCH NEARING COMPLETION.

Great progress has already been rr|ade with the extension to the Catholic Church in Seremban. The Catholics there will soon possess a splendid edifice and for this their able parish priest, Rev. Fr. George Auguin, must be thank­ed. Readers of the Malayan Catholic Leader willing to give the good Father further financial assistance may do so.

* * * * Obituary.

The death took place of Mrs. S. J. Arulnathen, wife of Mr. Arul-nathen, Indian Interpreter, Serem­ban, at Chingleput, South India on 8th June, 1935, after undergoing a major abdominal operation for in-flamation of intestines.

* * * * MRS. S. P A S L E Y ENTER­

TAINED. Function at Balik Pulau.

On the occasion of the transfer oi Mrs. S. Pasley, Health Nurse

in charge of Infant Welfare, Balik Pulau, a large and representative gathering of friends and well-wishers sat down to dinner on Saturday evening, June 1, at the Balik Pulau Recreation Club.

At the end of the dinner, Mr. A . H. M. Hussain, the Asst. Collector of Land Revenue, proposed the toast of the guest of honour. In a short speech he outlined Mrs. S. Pasley's work in Balik Pulau as Health Nurse, cited a few instances of )jer social activities in the district and ended by wish­ing her health and happiness in carrying on her work in Tanjong Tokong to which place she would be transferred.

Mr. P. A. Das on being called upon to speak, said that Mrs. Pasley had rendered a good deal of help to Balik Pulau mothers* especially to the Catholic mothers in the way of practical advice con­cerning the care of babies. Rev. Father Lee was unable to be pre­sent there that evening and he (the speaker) was requested to convey the Rev. Father's apologies for his absence as well as to ex­press his keen regret at her de­parture. The Sisters in charge of the Catholic Orphanage attached to the Church of the Holy Name of Jesus greatly appreciated her thoughtfulness in organising the Orphans' Annual Christmas Tree for the last few years. In spite of her numerous activities, she had always found time to help St. George'* School, (B. Pulau), in various ways. She had always graced the School Concerts and Sports Meetings with her pre­sence. In conclusion, Mr. Das wished her every success in her future undertakings.

In reply, Mrs. Pasley expressed her warmest thanks to all her friends for all the nice things they had said about her. She had been in Balik Pulau for nearly five years and a half and had grown to like the place. However, as Tan­jong Tokong was not quite distant from Balik Pub/a, she would al­ways feel as though she were only next door to them. In thanking the gathering once more for their good wishes, she said she was certain that her successor. Miss J. S. Kee would receive their help and co-operation in working for the welfare of the people.

Prominent among those present were Mr. A. H . M . Hussain, Mr. and Mrs. L. J . Rozells, Mr and Mrs. P. D. Mitchell, Mr. and Mrs. N . M . Noordin, Miss J . S. Kee, Mrs. Chee Swee Hoe, Messrs. Mu-thian, Quah Kean Earn, L . Guan Cheng, Quah Sin Keng, Chee Swee Ee, K. S. Sivalingam, G. S. Denis, A. C. David, Yoong Voon Ngean, Moey Kok Foo, and many others.

Seated:—Mrs. S. Pasley (centre); Mr. A. H . M. Hussain (right); Mr. P. A . Das (left).

Standing:—Mr. N . M. Noordin (left); Mr. G. S. Denis (centre); Mr. P. D. Mitchell (right).

18 " M A L A Y A CATHOLIC L E A D E R , S A T U R D A Y , loth June, 1935.

A R O U N D T H E P A R I S H E S ST. JOSEPH'S CHURCH.

MARRIAGE. June 10. Christopher Andrew

* Joseph D'Cotta, bachelor, son of Francis Emmanuel D'Cotta and of Leonie Marie Allan to Evelyn Irene Lopez, spinster daughter of Henry Lopez and of Martinha Pereira. Wit­nesses: — Michael Rodrigues and Helen Rodrigues.

D E A T H .

June 9. Eva Ess, aged 34, Marri­ed, daughter of Louis de Rosa and of Martinha de Rosa.

KING T H A N K S J U B L I E E WISHERS.

Mr.J. Klyne of the Asiatic Petro­leum Company. Singapore, and Mrs. Klyne sent Jubilee wishes to the King. They have received a reply of thanks from Buckingham Palace.

ST. ANTHONY D E P A D U A . The collections to be made in

the Church of St. Joseph at all Masses and at the Evening Service on Sunday the 16th June will be for the Poor dependent on St. An­thony's Bread Fund.

* * * * CHURCH OF OUR L A D Y OF

LOURDES. M A R R I A G E .

A quiet wedding was solemnised at the Church of Our Lady of Lourdes on Monday the 3rd inst., between Mr. Francis Periannan and Miss Rosalia The bridegroom is a recent convert to the Faith and was baptised by Rev. Fath. L . Burgoffer.

CATHOLIC ACTION M O N T H L Y MEETING.

At the monthly meeting of the C. A . Society held on last Sunday Mr. Thetheravoosamy has been appointed Honorary Treasurer in place of Mr. R. David resigned owing to pressure of work.

H . E . Mgr. A . Faisandier.

R E V . FR. CORDEIRO'S VISIT H E R E .

Rev. Fr. Cordeiro of St. Joseph's Church, Batu Gajah paid a visit to the Church of SS. Peter & Paul, Singapore, on Monday 3rd June. The parishioners were overjoyed to see him as he was once attached to thev parish, and it was alfphe more Measurable as,the visit was whollyiune3g)ected. J§£e paid calls on his family ai^ftfri£hds and spent a day at Ponggo} with the other priests. He iSfeson Thursday 6th inst. for his parish. The parish­ioners of SS. Peter & Paul would miss his cheerful personality again, but they were thankful to him for even this brief visit.

CATHOLIC QUEEN'S SCHOLAR ' TO T A K E S I L K ' IN E N G L A N D .

Mr. Benedict Ponniah of St. John's Institution, K. Lumpur, will proceed by the P. & O. Rawalpindi on August 3rd to England where he will join St. John's College, Cambridge, and study law with a view to joining the Ceylon Civil Service. He is winner of the 1934 F.M.S. Queen Scholarship.

D 1 A T H OF DR. A . FAISANDIER S J .

Bishop of Trichinopoly. Al l catholics hailing from South

India, w?ll be much grieved to learn the death of Dr. A . Faisan­dier S.J., on 25th of last month at Shembaganur in South India.

His Lordship who had been in charge of the Diocese of Trichi­nopoly for well over 25 years, re­cently resigned his See owing to illness and old age but continued to be Administrator of the Diocese pending the appointment of a suc­cessor. Only in June of last year he celebrated his episcopal Silver Jubilee.

During the tenure of His Lord­ship great progress was made in catholic organisations and educa­tional institutions. A very notable thing that happened during his. ad­ministration is the establishment of the First Indian Bishopric of the Latin rite.

At the time of his death His Lordship was 82 years of age and said to be the oldest bishop in India. A record period of mis-misionary service for more than 45 years in India goes to his credit.

A M A L A C C A , J.P. Mr. Francis Albert de Witt, a

well-known figure in Malacca, and a cousin of Mr. R. Tessensohn, J.P. of Singapore has been appointed a Justice of the Peace for the Settlement of Malacca.

* * * * M A L A C C A NOTES.—(By Rio.)

We offer our heartiest congratu­lations to Mr. A. S. Pinto Com­pany Sergeant Major " D " Eura­sian Company M.V.C. who was one of the recipients of the Jubilee Medal at the King's Birthday Pa­rade on June 3rd.

C.S.M., A . S. Pinto has had twelve years continued service in the Corps.

* * * * BAPTISMS.

The following Baptisms took place in the Church of St. Francis Xavier, Malacca.

Gertrude Fernandez, daughter of Stephen Fernandez and Evelyn Theseira born on May 14th, Bap­tised on May 15th. God-parents Dominic and Margaret Theseira.

Victoria Pereira. daughter of Patrick Pereira and Lily Rodrigu­es. born on May 24th. God­parents Alexander Danker and Irene de Silva.

* * * * WEDDING.

The Church of St. Francis Xavier was the scene of a pretty wedding on Saturday, June 1st. The contracting parties being Mr. James Hope and Dolphine de Costa, both of Malacca. Dolphine was one of the daughters of Mr. and Mrs. J . De Costa, Medical De­partment F.M.S. pensioner, and will be remembered bv their many friends in the Federal Capital.

The reception was held at Praya Lane, Malacca.

Rev. Father Francois officiated.

N O T I C E T O S U B S C R I B E R S .

Subscribers are kindly reminded that their subscriptions for the next quarter fall due at the end of June. Subscriptions may be forwarded to the Secretaries of Press Sections or sent direct to the Managing Editor, Malaya Catholic Leader, 73. Bras Basah Road, Singapore.

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CAUGHT NAPPING?

A lady correspondent refers us to the 'Challenge' in our issue of Jan: 5th wherein an award of $5— is offered to the first reader who points out the same joke appearing repeatedly in our issue. The glove,

led, .was thrown iou^ by mir pre-should » v e re-the limbo of

&ad not o\ff astute ii§*£laim gp u | to

e. A * vm do not claim to possess a ' legal mind ' in the matter, we are doubtful as to whether the claim is still tenable or voidable. Anyway, we hasten to congratulate the claimant for the persevering scrutiny she has made of our columns and for hav­ing caught us napping.

—Ed. M.C.L.

DR. A . C. DUTTA, C.H. Our congratulations to Dr. A. C.

Dutta of Malacca who was a reci­pient of the order of the Compa­nion of Honour in the recent Honours List.

OUR CATHOLIC VOLUNTEERS.

At the M.V.C. annual athletic sports which took place on the High School ground, Khoon Cheng Road Malacca, on last Saturday af­ternoon our Catholic members an­nexed both the individual and inter-company championships. The piece do resistance was the sa^k-football (Skippered by R. de Rozario, the well-known Selangor State outside left wizard) decisive­ly defeated the " B " Company by three to nil.

We congratulate the following who contributed to the success of the " D " Company.

Individual Champion Athlete Pte. Clive Rodrigues; 2 L t : H . M . de Souza: A. Fernandez; W. B. Minjoot; 0. Carvalho; C. Carval-ho; R. de Rozario; Stanley Min­joot; G. Baptist; J. Sequerah; Allan Sta Maria; and others.

PERSONALIA. Rev. Father Lourenco, of St.

Peter's Church, Bunga Raya, Ma­lacca, left for Singapore on Mav 31st. and will in all probability stay there for a month.

We extend our congratulations to Messrs. P. F . de Souza, P. J. Loo, R. P. Leon, our Catholic members, who represented Malac­ca against the Combined Service. We also note the good display by the first named who was also the best of the quintette.

* * * * We are glad to learn from our

correspondent that Mr. M. Boyle, inspite of his official duties in the Police Department, could devote h;s leisure time to the training of the Malacca State X L Mr. Boyle is a parishioner of the French Mission, Malacca.

* * * * The members of the Girls

Sports Club, Malacca, was "at home" at a Social on Monday June 10th. Rev. Father Ashness addressed the gathering.

* * * * * R I F L E SHOOTING.

We offer our congratulations to the following Catholic Members who were successful in the May sroon sh,oot:— Sergeant B. W. Frois 92.22

"Class A " H'cap. Private G. Bantist 64

"Class B " Nett. June 8th and June 30th have

been fixed for June Shoot. We hope and expect our members to win again.

* * * * * CHURCH A T TAMPIN.

A most unique event in our Church History took place on Sunday June 2nd when the Church of St. Philomena, was blessed by the Right Reverend A. Devals. D.D.

At the divine service, which be­gan at 8 a.m. His Lordship the Bishop was assisted by Rev. Father Vendargon, and by a special choir from the Church of St. Francis Xavier, Malacca. The large and representative laity in­cluded also those from Seremban, Malacca and other out-stations.

The congregation then proceed­ed to the compound for refresh­ments in the course of which Mr. B Bias. Chief Clerk, Tampin read the following address: To

The Right Reverend, A . Devals, D.D. Bishop of Malacca.

May it please Your Excellency, We, the Catholics of Tampin, feel sin­

cerely happy to offer Your Excellency, a most hear'.y welcome to day on the occasion of the Blessing and Dedication of Saint Philomena's Church at Your Excellency's hands.

We are indeed very grateful and thankful to Your Excellency for having come all the way from Singapore to perform the august ceremony for the love of G o i , and we pray that under your reg:me more Churches will be built as need demsnds. We ?hall be extreme­ly happy if Your Excel'en-y will accept this Church of St. Philomena as our humble offering to you.

The want of a place of worship m Tampin was,keenly felt for a'long time and through the unt'ring energy and

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perseverance of Reverend Father Finian de Silva, we are at last blessed with one. Proposal to erect a Church was on foot as long back as 1923; and but for the world-wide trade depression the proposal would have materialised long ago.

Handsome donations were promised but were mostly not realised and Reverend Father de Silva indefatigably toiled till his efforts were crowned with success. Wre pray that his good work will be rewarded by God, the Almighty.

We are deeply indebted to the Govern­ment of Negri Sembilan for their bene­volence in alloting us a piece of land for the erection of this Church. We also thank the Distict Officer, the Executive Engineer and the Health Officer Tampin, for their kind assistance and advice given and also those who have liberally and ungrudgingly contributed their mite to­wards this good cause.

In conclusion we once again affection­ately thank Your Excellency for your gracious presence here to bless this Church.

That God bless Your Excellency with long life and bestow on you all graces and you, in turn, shower your blessings on us, is the earnest and fervent prayer of

Your Excellency's obedient and faithful Children,

The CatKolics of Tampin.

His Lordship the Bishop very suitably replied.

T E L U K ANSON. BIRTH.

May 30, Donald Peter, born on the 30th May, son of Marie An­thony Herbert Wyatt of Singapore and of Norah Eliza­beth. God-parents: Joseph Ryan and Marie Antoinette Wyatt.

Mr. P. C. B A P T I S T .

it is with the greatest pleasure we

iearn that Mr. P. C. Baptist of the Har­

bour Board, Teluk Anson, is one of the

recipients of the King's Silver Jubilee

Medal. The Parishioners of St.

Anthony's Church, T. Anson heartily

congratulate Mr. P. C. Baptist on the

honour conferred on him in recognition

of his extraordinary service to the

Government.

i Mr. | \ r . Baptist is among the oldest

residents of our little town, and is greatly esteemed by all. The parish since its inception owes much to his generosity, and, by his handsome dona­tions whenever the hat is sent round, he has always been a source of great encouragement.

CHURCH OF ST. ANTHONY, K . L . The Titular feast cf the above church will be celebrated

on Sunday, 16th June, 1935. Rev. Father A . Francis will preach during the Triduum. On Sunday, 16th June. Rev. Father A . D. Vendargon will

preach Sermon.

K U A L A L U M P U R ST. JOSEPH'S CHURCH C E N T R A L WORKSHOP

WEDDING.

St. Joseph's ^Church Central Workshops was fthe scene of a pretty wedding Jon Whit Monday the 10th inst. when Mr. Santhos Rayer, of Stores Superintendent's Office, F. M . S. Railways Kuala Lumpur, son of Mr. & Mrs. A. Ananda Rayer of Kuala Lumpur, was married to Miss Alangara Mary, daughter of Mr. & Mrs. G. Savarimuthu Nayager of Kuala Lumpur.

The bride looked charming- in a very richly embroidered saree and carried a bouquet of roses and lilies. The Nuptial Mass was officiated by Rev. Father V. Hermann. Imme­diately after Mass, photo was faken, after which the newly wed­ded couple proceeded to St. Ann's Girls School, where "Sehai" and re­ception were held. There was a large gathering both at the church and at the reception.

ST. ANTHONY'S CHURCH CATHOLIC ACTION MEETING.

A meeting of the Catholic Action Society of St. Anthony's Church Kuala Lumpur was held on 1st June 1935, at St. Anthony's School at 5.30 p.m. with Mr. S. Anthony-samy Pillai, the President in the chair.

The President in a few well chosen words explained the objects of the Society and impressed that meetings should be held monthly in future and solicited the House tol fix a date for the meeting.

Mr. M. Benedict, the Vice-presi­dent, suggested that these meet­ings be held on First Saturdays of every month before the Sodality Meeting, which was unanimously agreed and the time was fixed to 4.30 p.m.

S E R E M B A N . EXTENSION TO S E R E M B A N

CHURCH NEARING COMPLETION.

Great progress has already been rr|ade with the extension to the Catholic Church in Seremban. The Catholics there will soon possess a splendid edifice and for this their able parish priest, Rev. Fr. George Auguin, must be thank­ed. Readers of the Malayan Catholic Leader willing to give the good Father further financial assistance may do so.

* * * * Obituary.

The death took place of Mrs. S. J. Arulnathen, wife of Mr. Arul-nathen, Indian Interpreter, Serem­ban, at Chingleput, South India on 8th June, 1935, after undergoing a major abdominal operation for in-flamation of intestines.

* * * * MRS. S. P A S L E Y ENTER­

TAINED. Function at Balik Pulau.

On the occasion of the transfer oi Mrs. S. Pasley, Health Nurse

in charge of Infant Welfare, Balik Pulau, a large and representative gathering of friends and well-wishers sat down to dinner on Saturday evening, June 1, at the Balik Pulau Recreation Club.

At the end of the dinner, Mr. A . H. M. Hussain, the Asst. Collector of Land Revenue, proposed the toast of the guest of honour. In a short speech he outlined Mrs. S. Pasley's work in Balik Pulau as Health Nurse, cited a few instances of )jer social activities in the district and ended by wish­ing her health and happiness in carrying on her work in Tanjong Tokong to which place she would be transferred.

Mr. P. A. Das on being called upon to speak, said that Mrs. Pasley had rendered a good deal of help to Balik Pulau mothers* especially to the Catholic mothers in the way of practical advice con­cerning the care of babies. Rev. Father Lee was unable to be pre­sent there that evening and he (the speaker) was requested to convey the Rev. Father's apologies for his absence as well as to ex­press his keen regret at her de­parture. The Sisters in charge of the Catholic Orphanage attached to the Church of the Holy Name of Jesus greatly appreciated her thoughtfulness in organising the Orphans' Annual Christmas Tree for the last few years. In spite of her numerous activities, she had always found time to help St. George'* School, (B. Pulau), in various ways. She had always graced the School Concerts and Sports Meetings with her pre­sence. In conclusion, Mr. Das wished her every success in her future undertakings.

In reply, Mrs. Pasley expressed her warmest thanks to all her friends for all the nice things they had said about her. She had been in Balik Pulau for nearly five years and a half and had grown to like the place. However, as Tan­jong Tokong was not quite distant from Balik Pub/a, she would al­ways feel as though she were only next door to them. In thanking the gathering once more for their good wishes, she said she was certain that her successor. Miss J. S. Kee would receive their help and co-operation in working for the welfare of the people.

Prominent among those present were Mr. A. H . M . Hussain, Mr. and Mrs. L. J . Rozells, Mr and Mrs. P. D. Mitchell, Mr. and Mrs. N . M . Noordin, Miss J . S. Kee, Mrs. Chee Swee Hoe, Messrs. Mu-thian, Quah Kean Earn, L . Guan Cheng, Quah Sin Keng, Chee Swee Ee, K. S. Sivalingam, G. S. Denis, A. C. David, Yoong Voon Ngean, Moey Kok Foo, and many others.

Seated:—Mrs. S. Pasley (centre); Mr. A. H . M. Hussain (right); Mr. P. A . Das (left).

Standing:—Mr. N . M. Noordin (left); Mr. G. S. Denis (centre); Mr. P. D. Mitchell (right).

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20 Pages. No. 24. SINGAPORE SATURDAY, 15th JUNE,1935. 10 Cents.

Dedication of St. Philomena's Church Tampin, by the Bishop of Malacca, The Right Reverend A. Devals,

on the 2nd June, 1935.

Setted fr&m left to right:— ^ * Pathtr D. Vendmrgon; Mfv A . S. Litis; Father J. Francois;

His Excellency Dr. A. Devds, Bishop of Malacca; Mrs. J. E. *<* ? Coroado; Mr. R. H. Dias.

Mr. R. Lindsey Smith; Father F. de Silva; Pepper; Mr. J. E. Pepper, D.O.; Father

S T . P H I L O M E N A ' S C H U R C H , T A M P I N . Ecclesiastically, Tainpin has grown in importance by the erection of a Catholic Church there. St. Philomefia

was chosen as its Patroness, The Blessing and Dedication on June 2nd by His Lordship, Rt. Rev. A . Devals, was soon followed by Mass which was attended by the District Officer, Tampin, Mr. J . E . Pepper and Mrs. Pepper, Rev. Fathers Coroado, Francois, de Silva and Vendargon, Mr. R. Lindsey-Sihith of Kru Estate (M.R.P.) and many representatives of the Tamil, Eurasian and Chinese Communities. The Church was crowded to the door. The address to His Lordship was afterwards read by Mr. R. H . Dias, Chief Clerk, District Office, Tampin. Refreshments were then Served to all.

Since 1912 Mass was said at the Railway Quarters, from 1923 for three years at the home of Mr. A . S. Luis aitd up to the present at the Club. But numbers grew and a separate place of worship was deefhed necessary. Father F. de SitVa, through his many zealous adjutants, collected just enough to assure some profit to the contractor, but much has still to be received so as to relieve the Church of the remaining debt. He wishes tb thank all for their kind donations which he known had meant a sacrifice. But he feels that St. Philtfthena who brought so many graces to the Cure of Ars for his sacrifices and devotion, will bless theih likewise f6r their cdtttiriued sacrifice and growing devotion* Knowing what St. Philomena has done for others, he feds the words of His Lordship that *St. Miiloihena's Church. Tampin, would become a place of pilgrimage9 equivalent to a prophecy.

Petitions for favours from St. Philomena should be placed in envelopes Addressed to—Rev. St. Francis Church, Malacca. F. de Silva,

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Greetings To Papal Legate Evidence Cordiality Between France And Vatican

Official Reception Of Card : Pacelli

H I S J O U R N E Y T H R O U G H F R A N C E A M I D S T G E N U I N E G A L L I C G A I E T Y .

By M . MASSIANI (Paris Correspondent N.C.W.C. News Service.)

Paris.—The extent of the cordial relations that now exist between the French Government and the Vatican was emphasized by the unusual honours conferred upon His Eminence Eugenio Cardinal Pacelli, Papal Secretary of State and Legate a latere to the Lourdes Triduum. Not for more than a century has a Prince of the Church received such homage on French soil.

A Minister of State, M . Louis Marin, was sent in the name of the Republic to receive His Eminence upon his arrival at the Franco-Italian frontier. In the station at Ventimiglia the Italian Government had arranged for civil authorities to bid farewell to the Cardinal Legate while troops from the garrison presented arms.

Minister Marin was accompanied by a French diplomat, Ambas­sador Dard, selected for this honour because he had been Minister at Munich when the present Papal Secretary of State was Nuncio to Bavaria.

Station Decorated At Nice.

The station at Nice was sump­tuously decorated with tapestries, banners and potted rhododendrons in flower. The highest authorities, not only of Nice but of all south­eastern France, came to bow be­fore the Legate as he descended from the train. Among them were the Municipal Council of Nice, the former Minister of Foreign Af­fairs Gabriel Hanotaux as repre­sentative of the Academic Fran-caise, the commanding general of the army corps who had come from Marseille for the occa­sion, the admiral commanding the sea front from Toulon, the superior commandant of air forces from Lyons, the rector of the Academy and the president of the Court of Appeals both of whom came from Aix-en-Provence.

When His Eminence appeared on the station platform surround­ed by his distinguished hosts, he received a great ovation from 50,000 persons who filled the squ-

His Excellency Monsignor Gerlie

Bishop of Tarbcs and Lourdes.

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are and overflowed into the neigh­bouring streets. A regiment ren­dered military honours. Snappy commands were heard, bugles sounded, the military band played the pontifical hymn.

Minister Marin then conducted His Eminence to a platform where, facing the crowd he wel­comed him officially, declaring his arrival to be an event of the high­est importance in the secular his­tory of the relations between the Church and France. At the same time that he offered felicitation and best wishes with regard to the dis­tinguished mission of Cardinal Pacelli, he expressed in the name of the entire nation the sympathy it felt for His Eminence in the af­fliction caused him by the recent death of his brother. He spoke with emotion of the consolation which the Cardinal Legate would find in his illustrious pilgrimage to Lourdes where unforgetable spectacles awaited him.

The crowd then knelt and His Eminence gave his blessing before he departed. Following the de­parture from Nice, Minister Marin was host to the Cardinal and his suite at a dinner. Minister Marin expressed his profound respect for the Sovereign Pontiff and his envoy. He assured His Eminence that the words of the Holy Father on devotion to peace had found the most resounding echo in French hearts.

Cardinal's Response. In expressing his appreciation

for the honours rendered him by the leaders of the nation, the Car­dinal Legate affirmed his confi­dence that the celebration at Lourdes would contribute to the general awakening of wills and consciences, the principal guaran­tee of concord and peace.

A l l along the line, even in those stations where the train did not stop, crowds were assembled to

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