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H -Jy% Arm ST 31st Year, No. 31. Rochwter, N. *., Vrld.y, April 3», 1931 Is Excoriated By Prelate Says Indecency of Female Attire Appals FRENCH WOMEN ACT Following Cardinal Amette's Condemnation They Adopt Resolutions American Catholic Social Platform Justice Stafford a Convert (By N. C. W. C. Service) Baltimore, Md., April 26*— An- nouncement of the reception of Justice Wendel Philip Stafford, of the Supreme Court of the Dis- trict of Columbia, into the Cath- olic Church has been made by Cardinal Gibbons. * Justice Stafford was born in Barre, Vt„ in 1861 and has been a justice of the District of Colum- bia's Supreme Court since 1904, previdus to which he was a judge of the Supreme Court of Ver- mont He was president of the Vermont Bar Association in 1898 and is the author of several books of both prose and poetry. Includ- ed among these are\North Flow- ers,\ a book of poems published in 1902; \Voices a Dramatic Ode,\ 1915; \The Land We Love,\ poems, 1916, and \War Poems,\ 1917. (By N. C. W. C, News Service; New York, April 26.-Edward Eyre, chairman of the Catholic Federation of England, arrived here yesterday from London and reports that Catholic social recon struction work is being taken up with the greatest enthusiasm there. Eyre, who was her,e a year ago and took back with him the Cath olic Social Platform drawn up by the Rev. Joseph fiusslein, S. J of New York, declares that it has been approved by Cardinal Bourne as a practical contribution to- wards the solution of British as well.as American problems. The Westminster * Federation, the Catholic Social Guild and the Catholic Confederation, by direc- tion of Cardinal Bourne, have adopted Father Husslein's plat- form as a plan of action. At a mass meeting held in Lon don on April 9, the platform was made the subject of a lecture by Somerville, secretary of Guild. The meeting, which was most enthu siaatic, directed that the follow- ing telegram be sent the author: \London April 9,1920. Large public meeting last night, Bishop of Nottingham pre- siding, pissed you cordial vote of thanks for platform.\ Mr. Eyre reports that a group of ten workingmen lecturers have started a tour of England explaining and advocating the adoption of the platform. [By N. C. W. C. News Service] Washington, D. C.,'April 26.- Immodest and unseemly feminine fashions in dress have recently been the subject v of censure by Catholic prelates and priests in this country and abroad, and, in consequence, the movement among- Catholic women to work a rejforam in this direction has gain edagood deal of impetus. It is expected to gather additional momentum from the drastic act- ion taken by Rev. Father P. No- vatus of Phoenix, Arizona, .wholHenry last Sunday caused netice£to be|the Catholic Social poeted at the entrances of St Mawy's Church in that city to warn women wearing low-necked dresses ihat they were forbidden to enter. Archbishop J. W. Shaw of New Orleans declared in a recent pas- toral letter that \we have serious- ly debated with ourselves wheth- er \we are not bound in conscience to exclude auch women (those in decorously clad) from the House •f God whose Vicar on earth would not tolerate their presence for a moment\ French Catholic Women Act Following scathing condemna- tion of objectionable fashions and questionable dances by Cardinal Amette of Paris, a meeting 4 of the Paris Diocesan Congress unani mously adopted resolutions pro- posed by Madame la Marquise de Monstiers pledging Catholic women to oppose the evil which the venerable French Archbishop had denounced* The resolutions, -copies of which reached Wash- ington this week, urged: That women's dress, while fol- lowing the fluctuations of fashion and taste, conform to decency, and That there be a protest against illustrations in certain advertise- ments and certain exhibitions in shop windows. Cardinal Amette is reported to be much, gratified at the results -which are already apparent and hopeful that the influence of Catholic women will bring even greater improvement. In many communities of the United States Catholic Women's organizations have taken formal action to discourage by word and example the adoption of immod- est fashions, In some instances Catholic dressmakers have re- fused to make immodest gar ments for their customers. Arohblsnbp Shaw's Excoriation Archbishop Shaw's excoriation of the abuse is the severest that any Catholic prelate in this coun- try has yet uttered. He-said: \While we are neither pre- sumptiodis nor foofteh enough to discuss'colors, forms and fash- ions» r yet we are deeply concerned with the morals of dress in the interest of Christian purity and modesty. The present shocking disregard in modern female at tiie for the elementary principles of ordinary decency is simply ap- palling. It is a question whether a licentious woman of the degen- erate Roman Empire surpassed (Continued-on page 8) To Be An Issue In Michigan Bishop of Grand Rapids Denounces Proposed Amendment WILL BE* FOUGHT Would Banish God Frost Society- Similar Bill ]» New York torate, at large, that the elementff f * * f|£ If «• ^ behind this amendment is play UQIOD VI POuOHS ing with Are when it seeks to de (By N. C. W. a News Service) Washington, D. C, April 26.- Catholics in all parts of the coun- try are watching with intense and anxious interest the efforts of the Wayne County Civic Associa tion, an anti-Catholic organiza- tion of Michigan, to win popular schools compulsory. M support for a proposed amend- '\• T ; — merit to the State constitution re- quiring the attendance of all chil dren between the ages of 5 and 16 years at public schools. The amendment is to be submitted at the general election nextNovem ber. Bishop Kelly's Protest The recent pastoral letter o ffi«\»^.70U13-wms given in Bishop E. D. Kelly, of Grand Rapids, in which this attempt of the bigots is denounced and an appeal made to fair-minded hon Catholics to prevent its success is being circulated in Michigan. The \Catholic Leaflet'' is -being published ac regular intervals to acquaint .Catholic citizens and others with the purpose of the proposed amendment and. to mo bilize opposition to it. Bishop Kelly is among the conspicuous and the property of Mr. Martin Melvin, was released leaders of the fight, in which he for the first time, it is of no or- has the support of Bishop Mich- ael J. Gallagher, of Detroit, and the clergy throughout the State. In addressing both Catholics and non-Catholics of .his diocese, Bishop Kelly points out that the familiar to any pilgrim who has visited that wonderful shrine, are depicted, fresh interest add color being lent to them by the pres enceof many distinguished sol- success of the proposed amend ment would mean theauppression, not only of religious schools and orphanages, but would banish God New York Catholic Knighted [ByN. C. W. C. News Service] New York, April 24.—George J. Gillespie of this city, chair- man of the committee of laymen conducting the campaign for en- rollment in the Catholic charities of the archdiocese, has been in- vested with the title of Knights Commander of the Order pf the Crown of Belgium by order of King Albert. The decoration was bestowed by Baron E. deCartier, Belgian Ambassador, and is in recognition of Mr. Gillespie's ser- vices as head of the St. Vincent de Paul societies of the United States in raising* funds for the poor of northern Trance and Bel- gium. London, April 25.—Ireland's desire to have Lord Granard, a Catholic, as Viceroy will neces- sitate a special bill, as there is a legal inhibition against the ap- pointment of a Catholic. ., Sir Mark Sykes, a Catholic traveler and diplomat, ia urging that Great Britain colonize Pales- tine for the Jews. warrant to constitutional and a travesty on democratic government,\ Bishop Kelly de- clares. He says further : \Here is a wanton assault up on the rights of citizenship. Were the Catholic schools of Michigan, against which! the measure isdi- sected, not proven by* every stan- dard of education and citizenship; were they failing in the thorough- ness of their Americanism; were they lacking in any qualification desired in those institutions which cradle the hopes of America of tomorrow, the amendment would be intelligible on the ground of public policy. But there is no such refuge.\ Bishop Kelly challenges the promoters of the amendment to furnish the least proof that the Catholic schools of his diocese or in Michigan at large are not wholly American and at least as efficient as those conducted by the State. He points to the recent) successes of the pupils of Catholic schools in the national compe- tition-for the best essay on the value of army training; to the record of patriotic service ren- dered by the parochial schools and their- graduates in the war; to the names of men who fought in the great battles of France, and says the enemies of Catholic schools cannot Meet the challenge. He concludes: Playing With Fire With all solemnity we warn, Inot only oar people, bat the dec stroy our Catholic school system, No specious appeal of theirs to the will of the majority can make right that which-is inherently wrong..... No majority is em^ powered to abrogate a Divine law or destroy a natural aright...., We make no threat. We make no declaration at the present time other than that to affirm, with all the emphasis possible, that we Catholics as an integral factor in the Commonwealth of Michigan, protect against this unreasoning invasion of our rights, and ap- peal to our fellow citizens as they value their own liberties to be tolerant of the liberties of their neighbors.\ A constitutional amendment also has been introduced in the legislature of New York making elementary education, \in public Address Read at Great ganirauon^t! In a sub-heading and in one of the first paragraphs of an articli which appeared in last week's ia sue of the N. C. W. C, (tfeve Sheet it was erroneously stated that 17,000,000 children were at- tending the parochial schools of the United States, The correct the last paragraph of the article. MotK>n Pkt^e, of Lourdes In London. » (By N. C W. C. H<sw» Strricf.l London, April 15.—An interest ing departure in Catholic props ganda was made this week when film of a Lourdes^pilgrimage, prepared under Catholic auspices Catholic, \H Is Christian Idea Says Card. Amette thei edhrlhf\J|j Meeting in Parii Sorbonne tersofWaahi, campaign Wbh Eipmsed that Learit Previes WlSJ (By N*C.3.e. KewfIbrrietf Pa*is # Apdl 1& Hfi* $m ^Wlrf-S of a great meeting held a short f *•* time ago in the Paris Sorbonne in favp* of the Society of Nations -w. ^ and alter speeches by Mr. Boar- **E™lm geois and Mr. Poincare, thiaim- ™W£l sortaht atatemant of CUrdinair B W*** ,mmk%0p Sftrfef^ •T T^rO*^^ j\^**' * m$f$? Amette was read bjr the ^ApdMapw- iary Bishop, Mgr. Roland-<}osee»-f 0 W: ini \The inspiration of th« Sodety|_ of Nations is eeseotially ChrM Wl dan, ibr the Christian doa*rin« that all tamn are brothsvs, created by the same God, «f4 called by God to the nal destiny.Issued frota th4 Father, men. as they w a^w^ ea^^H^p saw -ea a SSTW •j)^a>ssss^pe^^^sBsa fc %s>^ii#WW§ fsvU V •Wsfwa*,^s/ VplB^SMiWHi^pai these different grtop* mwt remain stranftra and still leas, hostile to one another. • j* fc , In the designs of lfow1denoa7?£ narrower arethe boods^ W ^O°SK» J MflaiiA 4BK A imi m Mi*L • • • M ASF .^ Sm^**ittmdf JdS« W^S*SJSSS)< iwsara*, PiiW« > |^ft •*&&&*. :\\ unite the memibars of a fajmily or iaM*'] 1 •™^^*- 1 of a nation, bat just al namlBai JJ cannot remain isolated, so mast^ nations be united. Sach unkw, however, mast be founded on tsro dinaryLourdespilgrimaw.either>^ : J Mtf ^*^ < * i ^^^ but the great pilgrimage of the allied armies in thanksgiving for the close of the war. The usual'scenes of Lourdes, from society and destroy thediers and dignatariea of the Church. \The passage of the proposed amendment would mean a death Baths, the procession of the Ble*. proclaims to the people u *ell to the individuals r 'Render to men their does,* Charity adds: 'Love one another.' Sach awe the necessary foundations of a genu- ine'society of nations. Let justice first of) all reign amongst nations threagh the re- spect of every one's rights, and] through the reparatk»s of th^^ Church* The scenes^bottt ttofW^^.^V.^Ij*--U|av% Grotto are shown, those at the]!****' police justicehast seee assured, let charity* let onatoal rights gtd Sacrament on the great EJs- **& wiU bind natioa to nation planade, the torchlight procession at night, the stations of the cross, those magnificent bronze groups up the mountains and the ser- vices in the vast Rosary Church. The crowds demonstrate in their complete unconsciousness of pose the extraordinary spirit of faith which fills the atmos- phere of this place. Mr. MeWin declares his incention of keeping the film and hiring it out, placing the proceeds to build a permanent hotel at Lourdes for pilgrims. they bind man to man, On conditiona the world will enjoy peace. \Th* Catholic Church, a vaartl^\^ society of nations establisbed by to^g,, Christ, destined, suits name in-^^ dicates, to spread all oVcT ^GreatasT world,badsoi»ght in theMttdleirS^- Mrs. McWhorter Goes to Roue Chicago, April 26.-Mrs. Mary F, McWhorter of this city, nation al'president of the Ladies\ Aux iliaryof the Ancient Order .of Hibernians, will sail for Rome on May 12. Mrs. McWhorter has been the leadiug spirit in the national drive being conducted by the organization to double its membership during 1920, and which is meeting With great suc- cess. More than 70,00O members are now eih*olled. Word baa been received in Lon- don that Cardinal Bourne's con- dition is much improved. The Brit- as been decided, will be cen tinued. It is untrue that the Vatican will send a representative to the San Berne {conference. fr&z&i\ didataa the case \laay mm^m ^r^^. •5 Ages to realize this the peoples which professed its and obeyed its laws. It was in Christendom. Nowadays t h e Jog^JiJ not enjoy : -'\••-'• ••-=»-• ••— indigent|of Faith, yet there j reoaain nwrall principles unanimously recognis- to gomii ed by all civilized peopies. It is a - A noble and praiseworthy tindertak ing to aim at founding on ^esi common principles a corenantl^ that may guarantee the P** 4 * 0 * Daughters.. the world and preserve it from ft^rttotf. • tfrj soaked it inbfocd- ThelCburch ,^ w ,.^X^ can but wish heartily the sixcceasj of this project \Since the men working for iU m & realization have called upon mo from for an expression of my thought otwiot in this solemn gathering, noay | ^^ be permitted to formulate the ^M wish that the future Society of Natiens provide a place worthy of Him for the Supreme Repr* senUtive of the highest moral ish Embasay at the Vatican, authority thatexbteojteirgl^ that authority which, speaking God's name, 1MU»\4M^ power to bring men to tice of mutual justice Imutual leve,' r \••' 'fa.\;'* ••\•' ' S*-/-T3'»v- :<: .-''-« ,, j.- ^w^pirfe Li \~ffa . { M^SU^h accums i WH&F $mm>% ^W0^W^M M> \.*V' / •/:• ./: n « ; ^&siMis •fv.V« iBPK
