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THE SILVER JUBILEE of the accession of King George V will be celebrated on Monday, 6th inst. The public mind throughout the Empire and the world will recall with renewed interest the part which the King has taken in the events of that quarter of the century. The photograph shows:â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Their Majesties in the stately procession of the Order of the Garter, at Windsor, 1913. (See page 5).

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Catechumens and Catechumenates. By Rev. Thomas V. Kiernan, M. M, (CONCLUDED

CATECHUMENATES. T h e catechumenates are simply the gathering together of a group of converts for instruction. There are generally two kinds, one conducted at the central mission station, where the men and ^ women live apart, nourished by the mission, and instructed by catechists and missioners the live-long day. T h i s is the ideal type, where it is possible, but i n South China i t is the exception to the rule. The usual catechumenate takes place i n the village, where a m i n i m u m of twenty or t h i r t y catechumens obtain instruction. They gather for morning prayers i n common i n a large room and then go to t h e i r work. We strive to have the younger children study for several hours during the day, to leave the evenings free for the older people. S h o r t l y after dusk they gather again for the study of the prayers, catechism and to hear the daily instruction delivered by the head catechist. In a l l , this consumes two to"* three hours. A woman catechist can instruct about 15 women, a man catechist nearly ....... that . . . _ Individual attwice number. tention and constant repetition, coupled w i t h the patience of Job must ™ a b l y be given to each person. Where drcumstances warrant it, the more intelligent converts help i n the instruction of t h e i r less favoured k i n , thus rel i e v i n g the catechists from the burden of close supervision o f the entire number, freeing t h e m for attention to those who learn less readily. W h e n the catechumenate first opens, the catechists search h i g h and low for all signs of concealed superstitions, soul tablets, idols, scrolls and the k i n d . These are destroyed and a picture of the Sacred Heart, our Mother or the H o l y F a m i l y hung i n the principal room of each family. The catechist, during the course of the catechumenate must investigate the regularity of all marriages, lest men with concubines or women h a v i n g several successive husbands slip through to baptism. The people of our section are so poor that concubinage and opium smoking are beyond the limits of their finances. Opium smokers when found among the catechumens must be dealt w i t h separately and they must show evidence of solid reformation or complete abandonment of the drug before being permitted to receive baptism. One is not apt to be favorably impressed on his first view o f a country catechumenate i n action. Bedlam and Babel are the best words for description. Groups of six or seven are crowded around the common square eating-tables, a small flickering oil lamp in the center, each lustily shouting the character or phrase under study for the moment. One is shouting " W h y did you enter the Church ?", and its answer. The next one is demanding to know " How many Gods there a r e ? " While a t h i r d m a y be repeating the L o r d ' s P r a y e r or the Angelus. Some elderly chap with a squeaky voice is t r y i n g to memorize the Ten Commandments, while perhaps a precocious child nearby is r a t t l i n g off the entire set of morning prayers without a n " error. This goes on night after night, for at least four months. The essential :

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ans i f the priest is not available, winning pagans at the very threshold o i eternity to baptism, reporting severe illness so that the missioner may administer the Sacraments in due season, s i n g of proposed marriages, settling disputes* and in general i t u t i » g for the missioner . Region, like many that are good, is often best S e a t e d bv a habit and the pre* « < * ^ the catechist makes for

P E R H A P S it is because womsn compete w i t h men i n so many fields where cut-throat methods have destroyed a l l courtesy and much honour. P E R H A P S it is because the stage so often treats women as bait for the unpleasant-minded. P E R H A P S it is because some silly women will do anything, wear anything, say a n y t h i n g to win a date or a dance or a none-toocomplimantary smile. B U T W H A T E V E R I T IS, O U R S&^i ' A G E IS R A P I D L Y L O S I N G ITS the faith to the people, who for R E S P E C T F O R W O M E N . M E N A R E L O S I N G IT. the best part are too illiterate or The fact that men let women hardworked to study them alone. N o r is the spiritual life of the stand i n a crowded street car and catechist neglected when he is con- elbow t h e m savagely i n crowds is B U T IT ducting the catechumenate. Once relatively unimportant. a month on scheduled days the IS I M P O R T A N T that girls are entire body of catechists must re- laughed at by college comic paexposed t u r n to the central mission station pers; that women are wv.^.*-. ~ ~ . • -i shamelessly on stage and magafor a day's retreat, during wnicn zine covers; that they are expectthey makereceive their the reports to the ed to pay with precious privileges missioner, Sacraments, listen to his counsel and instruc- for the parties they attend, the tions. A symposium is held for dinners given them, the dates a n hour or two i n which the cate- which some man casually gives chists take turns i n preaching and t h e m ; that pure women are instructing their efforts at the end sneered at and that feminine n ructlI * r ??> +1 at trie end virtue is frankly doubted. MANY BOYS A N D M E N 5 ^ e S ^ ^ < S S A RTOO E C O M I N G T O T A K E IT 2 o ^ ^ S ^ h ^ doctrine are assigned for study by~ F O R G R A N T E D that girls and women w i l l allow promiscuous thc catechists i n their leisure • " hours, and on these monthly re- liberties, and they class the girl collection days they are examined who indignantly refuses as an old i n these subjects. This policy fogey, and the woman who decmakes for a gradual increase in lines as a foolish prude. W O M E N A R E L O S I N G IT. the store of knowledge of all concerned. Added to this, texts of-- ~ The harsh and bitter struggle COMMERthe Scriptures are to be memorized into which modern w hich are useful i n preaching and C I A L I S M has t h r o w n them is i n the refutation of objections, es- t r y i n g enough, but it is frightenpecially those which apply to P r o - i n g when women begin to accept STANDARDS testanstism. So during the cate- C O A R S E M E N ' S chumenate the catechists have of dress and manner. If the women take i t for grantlittle occasion to be entirely idle when PRIVILEGES are although their teaching activities ed, m a y be confined to a few hours demanded, that is the price they must pay for p o p u l a r i t y ; i f they daily. The catechumenate very fre- laugh at an unclean P L A Y for quently makes for considerable fear that they w i l l be frowned on inconvenienc to the new catechu- by their 'escort; i f d u r i n g the mens, for space is at a premium i n R E V U E OR T H E M O V I E they the ordinary Chinese household. sit calmly while t h e i r sisters are It is common to have inner doors required to sing filthy songs and removed from their hinges to serve disport themselves shamelessly, as bed boards, the use of the they have lost respect for their f a m i l y hearth by the catechists own womanhood. incommodes the people not a little, L i k e it or not, our age, which for the catechists must " eat them- uses woman's F I G U R E A N D selves " as the expression goes for F R A I L T Y to advertise its wares, getting one's, own meals and sup- run up its magazine circulations, p l y i n g one's own victuals. The j a m its theatres, popularise sin on catechist must furnish his own our city streets, is losing, i f it has bedding, firewood and water, and not already lost, its respect for do his own laundry. So a multi- won'en. tude of little sacrifices on the part AND T H E RESPECT WITH of both the catechumens and W H I C H T H E C H U R C H FOR catechists makes for harmonv i n C E N T U R I E S H A S S U R R O U N D the catechumenate. The result of E D W O M E N IS T H E O N E the whole—catechists, catechu- T H I N G T H A T H A S K E P T T H E M mens and catechumenates—being F R O M B E I N G T H E P R E Y O F the increase of the harvest of T H E B E A S T I N M E N A N D souls.—March 18. 1935. THE BEAST IN THEMSELVES. HERE IS A CRUSADE R E A D Y FOR US TO T A K E UP. Followers of the spotless Mary, by every woman who disgraces children of the V i r g i n Mother, herself and by every man who respect women! disgraces a woman. Respect woIf one is a man, he will respect men for the sake of our own every woman, even women who mothers. Respect women for the do not respect themselves. sake of future mothers, future If one is a woman, she will renuns, future wives. Respect wo- spect 'every woman, and most of men for the sake of the frail, who all she will respect herself. will fall i f between them and Respect women because of the their own weakness is not the fairest of women, who is disgraced steadying influence of noble men and pure women. (Contd: at foot of Col.,3.)

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prayers are learned first, then the reguiar set of prayers for use i n tne family, the commandments, the Rosary and so on. A f t e r suffieient proficiency is attained by most, the study of the various catechisms is undertaken, first the catecmsm o i essential doctrine, then those o i baptism, contession ™ ° * " f t \ 1£ pract.ce, the efficacy of which is l ^ T ' . l " 0

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superstitions, worship of idols and ancestors. They examine i n detail the local superstitious practices and point out their h a r m and senselessness, offsetting these with the correct worship of the One True God. Instructions on the meaning of the Church, the reason why foreign priests corne to China

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nghteousnesh and the errors of the old Chinese philosophers, Tften the catechumens are introduced'to the meaning of each of the prayers they are required to memorize, the meaning of each question and answer of the catechisms, and finally a systematic course of instructions on the creed, the Commandments of God and the Church, the Sacraments, Sacramentals and ceremonies is given. If a catechist is conscientious there is little time f o r h i m to idle. He must prepare his discourses and the answers to objections that arise i n the general conversation of the catechumenate. When neighbours and relatives visit the catechumenate he attempts to i n sert the wedge of f a i t h in the minds of his chance acquaintances. T h i s frequently results i n the enrollment and final conversion of these people. When the newly baptised have been admitted to confession and Communion, it is desirable to leave at least one man and one woman catechist i n their midst to direct them i n the ways of the Christian life. L a t e r on, depending upon circumstances a catechumenate for the reception of Confirmation is held in the same manner, during which the catechisms of the other Sacraments are studied, especially Confirmation, Matrimony, and E x treme Unction. A review of the first three catechisms and prayers is always made first before proceeding further. A f t e r the reception of Confirmation, the new Christians cannot be safely left to themselves, for the priest can visit them only about three times a year to administer the Sacraments. A yearly mission of two or three weeks by a priest or catechist is the best way of following up. A g a i n , the catechist is called into action. D u r i n g the day he m a y be a teacher in a little primary school in the village, but at any rate he resides there and acts as their spiritual leader in the law of fast and abstinence, baptising the children of Christi-

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Between F r . Kent and the Pacific there was an anscestral link. His great-grand father was the Captain W i l l i a m Kent who discovered and named Port St. V i n cent, New Caledonia. H i s father, Charles Kent, was a man widely known and a great friend of Charles Dickens. F r . Kent himself may be said to have known the English classics from A to Z . The range of his learning was immense. Although he produced no published book, the aggregate of his writings in the principal Catholic reviews in Great B r i t a i n , Ireland, and America, during nearly half a century, was immense.

General to Bishop Keatinge. He served in German E a s t Africa as Holy Week is a time when, i n senior Catholic chaplain to the relation to Catholic activities, there Forces and later became principal is in one sense "nothing d o i n g ; " Catholic chaplain i n the Royal A i r from but in another and much more i m - Force. On his retirement portant sense, everything is doing. the A r m y , in 1929, M g r . Dey took The devotional duties and solemn up work at Oscott and has since functions of the period fill the days • ruled that famous college with to the exclusion of mundane mat- great success. ters such as demonstrations and social events. In England, as i n F r . Kent has died in his seventyother lands, there is thus little to eighth year. H a d he lived until record of these lesser happenings. A G R E A T PRIEST-LINGUIST. next year he would then have But the functions of Holy Week reached his diamond jubilee as an On Good F r i d a y the death took Oblate of St. Charles, the Congreitself: these must have filled many non-Catholics w i t h amazement. place of Father W i l l i a m Henry gation introduced into E n g l a n d by To take London alone as an ex- Kent, D . D . , O.S.C., a venerable .Cardinal Manning, who ordained ample—and these words are being priest whose name will be long re- him in 1881. penned from London—the Holy membered among the country's Exactly how Week attendances at Westminster greatest linguists. FATHER DAMIEN A Cathedral have been such that not many languages he understood is only has that great building been perhaps a debateable question; i t PROTESTANT! crowded to the doors, but at times has been remarked that he did not Yes, it has come to that. The it has seemed as though not many know their number himself! B u t more persons could find even it was said that he admitted a great Apostle of the Lepers is standing room. Protestant v i s i - working knowledge of about thirty claimed as a member of the tors, with their knowledge of half- different tongues. H e understood Church of E n g l a n d ! In more empty churches except i n the cases many Eastern languages, as well than one E n g l i s h newspaper a letof a few fashionable centres, have as still more of those of the West, ter has appeared from a nonMoreover, the Catholic clergyman, the Rev J . marvelled that so much religious including Gaelic. responsiveness is still to be found knowledge was not merely super- Bacon Phillips, referring symin the capital. A n d what is true ficial. He had made many trans- pathetically to the coming canoniof Westminster Cathedral is true lations of hymns from Armenian, zation of B B . John F i s h e r and B u t the Rev. also of most of the other Catholic Coptic, and Syriac. Father Kent Thomas .More. was a profound scholar and critic. gentleman then goes on to say churches in the metropolis. A pathetic feature of the spec- U p till a few years ago he wrote "The day, I believe, is not far distacle in the Cathedral this year copiously on l i t e r a r y subjects. tant w hen I hope the Church of was the empty throne i n the sanc- Deafness was a handicap which England will honour her sons and tuary. In previous years the threw him largely into the work of d a u g h t e r s w i t h canonization. beloved figure of the late Cardinal study and authorship, and he A m o n g them would be F a t h e r DaArchbishop presided, until illness would spend many hours at a time mien, General Gordon, Sister Dora, and Bishop Bannington." Prolaid H i s Eminence l o w ; and the at his desk. vacant place this week has been a melancholy reminder of the loss so recently sustained. Before the THE KING'S JUBILEE. close of this month another disService of Thanksgiving to be held in a l l the Churches tinguished prelate will occupy the of the Diocese. Westminster throne, as the fifth Archbishop of the See. On the occasion of the Silver Jubilee of H i s Majesty K i n g George V , on Monday, M a y 6th, there will be i n all the churches of the diocese a solemn Benedict on of the Blessed Sacrament with BISHOP O'GORMAN. a " Te Deum " of Thanksgiving. Death has claimed one of the A s arrangements for the ce!ebration~are~ not uniform and Empire's notable missionary worvary in each place, it is left to the Parish Priest to fix the time for kers, the R t . Rev. Bishop John the service in accord with the local authorities and to inform the O'Gorman, C.S.Sp., who until tv/o faithful i n due course. years ago was Vicar-Apostolic of The faithful are reminded of their duty to attend this service Sierra Leone. In that West A f r i as a token of gratitude for the friendly and impartial attitude of the can colony D r . O'Gorman laboured K i n g towards H i s Catholic subjects and to beseech God's blessings with conspicuous success. When upon the Royal F a m i l y and the Whole B r i t i s h E m p i r e . his health broke down he set out on the long journey homeward to his t A. DEVALS, native country, Ireland. H e was Bishop of Malacca. so i l l that he had to be taken from the liner at Marseilles, for a long period of nursing. A t the time of his death the Bishop was living i n Switzerland, i n the hope of there regaining, i f God so willed, his lost W H A T I T I N D I C A T E S I F Y O U DO N O T T A K E strength. Before going to Sierra A CATHOLIC P A P E R . Leone, his lordship was for some time teaching in the U . S . A . at the Holy Ghost Father's novitiate near L That you have not been asked to do so. Philadelphia. 2. That you have little i f any interest in Catholic affairs. 3. That you prefer not to be bothered with religious reading 4. That it is merely neglect. Y c u haven't thought of it. A N E W A R M Y BISHOP. 5. That you "take so manv papers" you must economize by cutting off the best and most necessary of them. Another name is added to the 6. That you will let the other fellow defend your religion. episcopate in Great Britain. It is announced that Monsignor James 7. That you differed once with an editor and can't forgive Dey, D.S.O.. rector of Oscott, is to him, although you agreed with him in ninety-nine other instances. be consecrated as Bishop of Sebas8. That such money as y o i pay for papers, you give to topolis on his appointment to be dailies which occasionally insult your religion, refer to your Church Catholic A r m y Bishop in succes2S "the Romish C h u r c h " and brin • ye-Iow immorality and scandal sion to the late Bishop Keatinge. into your family. Monsignor Dey is a distinguished Now, reader, i f you are not a subscriber to a Catholic paper retired Chaplain who served w i t h and belong to the first, fourth, fi'th, seventh or eighth class, you gallantry during the European will subscribe at once. But i f yo i belong to the second, third or W a r ; he was mentioned in despatsixth, we can do nothing for you ches and was honoured with the D.S:0. F o r a time he was V i c a r T

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To be a perfect timepiece, a watch has to be beautiful and accurate. Now, everyone can say whether a watch is to one's liking or not, but it is difficult to estimate the quality. Only experts can judge, the finish and precision of a mechanism as delicate as that of a watch. There remains for those who love accuracy a means of eliminating disappointment-choose a VULCAIN watch, acknowledged the best by thousands of people all over the world. With a VULCAIN you have the satisfaction of knowing that you possess a timepiece of unequalled accuracy and refined beauty. bably by this time thousands o f newspaper readers, knowing no better, will have got it into their heads that the great priest who" lived and died for the lepers on Molokai belonged to the Protestant Establishment. The interest being taken by many Anglicans i n the approachi n g canonizations is very great. A note in the Glocester Citizen, for instance, has the following: "It is indicative of the widespread interest aroused by the forthcomi n g canonization of Bishop Fisher and S i r Thomas More that a number of prominent people of the Anglican faith are, I understand, to go to Rome to witness the . ceremnoy." * * * * T H E KING'S S I L V E R J U B I L E E . The Catholic Cathedrals arid other churches througout England and Wales will mark the silver jubilee of H i s Majesty's reign by a Mass of thanksgiving followed by^a solemn Te Deum, throughout the country. In most places the Mass will be offered on the jubilee day, M a y 6. A t the thanksgiving service which the K i n g and Queen w i l l attend i n St. Paul's Cathedral, the L o r d Mayor of London, S i r Stephen K i l l i k , who is a Catholic w i l l be present. There is no religious inconsistency in this. While C a tholic Mayors and Councillors generally are not permitted by the Bishops to attend non-Catholic services, the Bishop of Southwark has made it clear that "a Catholic who is a servant of the State may attend an Anglican church when he is attending upon a Sovereign. Accordingly, no question arises as to the presence of the L o r d Mayor at the Royal Jubilee service. While the K i n g is i n St. Paul's, a c. reat Catholic Cathedral service will be in progress in the north of England on a spot where as yet there is very little Cathedral; the site of the great building lately begun at Liverpool. H i s Grace the Archbishop of Liverpool has decided that the thanksgiving Mass shall be celebrated in the open, on Brownlow H i l l ; thus there will be opportunity for thousands to assist who could not hope to find accommodation in the Pro-Cathedral. r

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A triangle is a three-cornered square. A pessimist is a man who is never happy unless he is miserable and even then he is not pleased. A buttress is a female goat. A giraffe needs a long neck because its head is so far away from its body. The earth makes a resolution every twenty-four hours. A circle is a line w i t h no depth running round a dot for ever. The plural of penny is twopence. A contimetre is an insect with a hundred legs. . Two straight lines cannot •enclose a space unless they are crooked. The feminine of Czar is Sardine. Artificial respiration is what you make a person alive w i t h after he is just dead. A cat is a quadruped, the legs as usual being at the corners. L i p t o n is the capital of Ceylon A singlet is a young swan. A n oboe is an American tramp. A polygon is a dead parrot. A magnet is a t h i n g you find in bad apples. Quadruped has no singular. A t sunrise, l o ! the church bell Y o u cannot have a horse w i t h was tolling the knell o f someone dead, and they sent i n great haste only one leg. A quotation is an answer to a to enquire who i t was. A n d the answer came t h a t i t was a poor division sum. A conjunction is where two old blind beggar-man, who h a d been often seen,more than half railway lines meet. Aladdin was a m a n who had a naked at the roadside, asking a l m s ; and who, although he re- magic lamp, and evey time he ceived something from others, yet rubbed i t a guinness sprang out never received a n y t h i n g from the of the ground. A Soviet is a cloth used b y r i c h nobleman, h i s neighbour. A n d when the nobleman heard of i t , he waiters i n hotels. s a i d : " I knew well that the wickA metaphor is a thing y o u ed old fellow w a s a cheat and i m - shout through. postor, and, as he has left neither Two crochets make a Quaker. children nor relations, as I a m the Mandolines are h i g h officials i n lord of the territory, to me be- China. longs, b y the l a w of the land, a l l A n optimist is a man, who, o f the wealth of t h e old dog." two evils, chooses neither! The inhabitants of Moscow are So they sent and minutely caJfed Mosquitoes. searched the house, and i n i t they found nothing but a truss of straw and a bolster o f rushes, and the old man dead upon t h e m ; and i n A B A D SHOT. the house there was neither food, nor drink, nor fire, nor clothes as A t last the young actor had rea protection from cold; and i t was ceived a speaking part. It conseen that i t was from hunger and sisted of four words: "Hark, a cold that the old hermit h a d pistol shot!" died. A n d , from seeing this, However, at the last moment the wealthy old lord became exceedingly sorrowful, and took stage fright got the upper hand, it greatly to heart; and after and rushing on to the stage he sorrowing for a great many days, yelled: " H a r k , a shistol pot! N o n a postol shoot." Then, desand praying to God, i t came to his no, recollection t h a t "Blessed are the perately, he shouted: " H a n g i t a l l , poor i n spirit, f o r theirs is the did you hear that bang?" K i n g d o m of Heaven." A n d thenceforward, he became a relgious man, giving alms, and practising charity, and performing every godly and moral act to the end of NOTHING TO DO. his l i f e ; endowing religious houses, and churches, and alms houses, and hospitals, and schools; and Poor little, bored little Dorothy True! relieving from every poverty and want he saw o r heard o f ; and he A sad little maiden with nothing to do. died a devout saint. A n d i n his last hour his words were these: " I There's a room to be dusted, a bed to be made, shall go to m y betters; I shall go to the old h e r m i t ; and blessed Some eggs to be poached, and a table to be laid, shall I be in that, though I be litter under his feet." A t the hour i n There's a wee little boy in the nursery near, w h i c h he died, there were heard the voices o f angels singing the Who's sobbing and crying with no one to hear. welcome of happiness to h i m . A n d he was buried, according to his But poor little, bored little Dorot h y True desire, i n the old hermit's grave. Still sits and laments that she's nothing to do.

In times past there lived i n a certain parish a great and wealthy l o r d ; and he was the richest i n possession o f houses and lands, of gold and silver, and of every worldly property, as well as w i t h regard to office a n d honour, of a n y in h i s district. A n d one morning, at the break o f dawn, after the t h i r d crowing o f the cock, there was a voice heard distinctly proclaiming three times i n this mann e r : "To-night, this very night, shall the greatest and richest m a n i n this parish d i e / ' A n d i t was told the nobleman how such a spir i t u a l voice was heard, as i t were, from heaven; a n d when he heard of i t he was exceedingly troubled, a n d sent f o r the best of physicians far and near, who watched b y h i s bed unceasingly, ministering to him every medicine they could b r i n g to their mind and knowledge, and every support of life that they could discover b y learni n g and deep study. A n d the night wore away, although i t appeared to the nobleman as long as a man's life, and the d a w n broke, and the nobleman and h i s friends rejoiced exceedingly that he was alive.

Not long ago a little girl asked her mother: " W h e n you kneel down at the altar rails, mother, before the Blessed Sacrament, what do you say to God ? " Her mother thought for a moment, and then smilingly replied, " Well, dear, perhaps I can explain better by telling you a story of the Blessed Cure of A r s . " S a i n t Jean Vianney, you must know, was, as a young priest, appointed Cure of the little F r e n c h village of A r s , where the people were mostly very poor and ignorant, and, of course, he much wanted to awaken their souls; and his constant charity to them, his preaching and his prayers, soon made them feel that here was one who loved them, sc they began to think more about God. " N o w , the Cure's great wish was to have i n his church the perpetual adoration of the Blessed Sacrament, and gradually he gathered together some of his parishioners to join h i m i n this. " One of these was a poor old peasant, who never failed to go into the church to adore Our L o r d every day, both on his way to work and coming home from i t . " The Cure often noticed the old man kneeling before the Tabernacle, and wondered much what he said to Our L o r d as he knelt. " So one day, as the aged peasant came out, the Cure asked h i m what were the prayers he usually said while on his knees at the altar r a i l . " ' W h a t prayers, F a t h e r ? ' asked the old man, i n a puzzled voice. " ' Y e s , ' smiled the Cure, ' f o r give me, but I wondered what prayers you said, that is a l l . ' "But I don't say anything, Father,' said the old man gently. ' O h , n o ! I say nothing. B u t I look at H i m , and H e looks at m e . ' "

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A m o n g the most remarkable of the members of the feathered family is the adjutant or marabout, a tall Indian bird of the stork species, which when feeding swallows the whole carcase of a hare or cat. It stands five feet high, and the expanse of wings is nearly fifteen feet.

L E E B I / C U I T / LI? — : " T h i s is a wonderful suit I'm wearing." — : " It looks very ordinary." — : " B u t the wool came from A u s t r a l i a , E n g l i s h merchants sold ic to an Irish factory, i t was woven in Cork, made into a suit i n Dublin — " — : " N o t h i n g wonderful about that." — : " N o , the wonder is that so many people can get a l i v i n g out of something I've never paid for."

"We had a lovely time at the party," said Tommy when he and his younger brother were telling mother all about i t . " W e kept on saying ' N o , thank you,' all the time just as you told us." " Y o u mustn't have eaten much, then!" " 0 , yes, we did, m a m m y ; we said 'No, thank you,' every time they asked us i f we h a d enough." A little boy was saying his night prayers for his mother. He began to whisper them. "I can't hear you, Danny," said his mother. The reply was unexpected: "I wasn't speaking to you, Mammy."

A small boy was sent to town w i t h his father's donkey and cart, but got into difficulties i n the main street when the ass refused to move. A crowd collected and * * * * * made w i t t y remarks. A t last a W i f e : " J o h n , the clock fell off dandy cried out: " I say, boy, will you sell the donkey?" The boy the wall, and i f i t had been a was vexed: "Better ask your minute sooner i t would have hit mother first," he retorted, " i f she poor mother." H u b b y : " T h e r e , I always said can afford to keep two." that tire ctock^was-islowT^ "She's a wonder, that quiet little woman over there." " W h y , what has she d o n e ? " " I told y o u ; she is Quiet."

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view of the fact that King had fortunately been paved by George's eldest son Prince E d w a r d Queen Victoria and K i n g E d w a r d was then not (16) his consort, VII. Thus the Throne became the Queen Mary was at once nomicentral and unifying national and nated regent i n the event of a imperial force above all party i n demise of the Crown while the heir t o ests. B y coming into personal to the throne was yet a minor. contact w i t h different classes o f A new civil list fixed at £470,000 a society T h e i r Majesties readily year, was approved by parliament jmn_Ah_e ^sympathies of all alike in 1910. The King's declaration and evinced their keeness in 'taking of accession was in the following, upon themselves new opportunities modified form by act of parlia- of service. ment :— THE W A R YEARS.

Albert, was born at White Lodge, Richmond, on June 23, 1894. Prince Albert Frederick George was born at Sandringham on George Frederick Earnest A l December 14, 1895; Princess V i c bert, second son of K i n g E d w a r d toria Alexandra Alice M a r y on VII, K i n g of Great B r i t a i n and A p r i l 25, 1897. Prince Henry Ireland and of the B r i t i s h D o m i " I do solemnly and sincerely William Frederick Albert on M a r c h nions beyond the Seas, Emperor in the presence of God profess, of India, was born on June 3, 1865 31, 1900; Prince George E d w a r d testify and declare, that I am a Alexander Edmund on December at Marlborough House London. faithful Protestant and that I 20, 1902; and Prince John Charles will, according to the true intent EARLY CAREER. Francis on July 12, 1905 (died of the enactments which secure the Protestant succession to the January 18, 1919). The Duke and When hardly 7 years old he and his eldest brother, Prince A l b e r t HOJHIII!IUO!IHIH!lliHHI!HII!IIOM Victor, two years his senior, were placed under the tutorship o f John Neale Dalton, then curate of SandTROOPING THE COLOUR. ringham. I n 1877 the two princes became naval cadets on the " B r i t a n n i a " at Spithead where tkey passed through the ordinary curriculum, and i n 1879 they joined H . M . S . " Bacchante " under the command of Capt. L o r d Charles Scott, m a k i n g a voyage to the West Indies, i n the course of which they were rated midshipmen. In 1880 they made a second and more circuitous cruise i n the same vessel, v i s i t i n g South A m e r i c a , South A f r i c a , Australia, Japan, Ceylon, E g y p t and Palestine. Prince George who remained longer than his brother i n the Navy was appointed to H . M . S . " Canada " under the command of Captain Durant. While serving in this ship at the West Indian station, he was promoted sublieutenant. On leaving this ship, he entered the Royal N a v a l College at Greenwich, where he creditably completed the gunnery and torpedo courses and was promoted lieutenant in 1885. A year later he was appointed to H . M . S . " Thunderer " His Majesty THE KING photographed with the PRINCE OF WALES on their way of the Mediterranean Squadron, to the Horse Guards Parade for the Trooping the Colour and was later transferred to H.M.S. "Dreadnought" and H . M . S . Alexandra." In 1889 he joined ijnHmHmsouuwifHBniimuinntiim^ the flagship of the Channel Squadron, H . M . S . " Northumberland," throne of my Realm, uphold and and in that year was i n command « Duchess of York visited Ireland i n maintain the said enactments to 1899, and it had been arranged of torpedo boat N o . 79 f o r the the best of m y power according Naval Manoeuvres. In 1890 hei before the death of Queen Victoria to law." that they should make a tour i n was put i n command of the gunthe Colonies. On the accession of boat H . M . S . " Thrush " for service CORONATION. on the N o r t h American and W est K i n g Edward V I I (1901) this plan Indian Station. On the death of was confirmed. They sailed i n The coronation at Westminster his brother Albert Victor, the the " O p h i r " on March 16, 1901 duke of Clarence, in January 1892, travelling by the ordinary route, Abbey, on June 22, 1911, was atho relinquished his naval comand landed af Melbourne in M a y , tended by representatives from a l l mand, to devote himself to such where they opened the first parlia- parts of . the Empire and other duties as he was called upon to ment of the Commonwealth. They countries and, in order to complete perform as eventual heir to the then proceeded to N e w Zealand, the public assumption of royal throne. H e was however promoreturning by way of South A f r i c a authority throughout the United Kingdom, the K i n g and Queen, ted captain i n 1893, rear-Admiral and Canada. A n official account in 1901, and vice-admiral i n 1903. of the tour was published by S i r with the Prince of Wales and Donald Mackenzie Wallace as ' The Princess M a r y , made State visits MARRIAGE. Web of E m p i r e ' (1902). In t o . Ireland, Wales and Scotland November 1901 the Duke was during July. Later i n the year He was created Duke of Y o r k , Their Majesties visited India, and created Prince of Wales. Earl of Inverness and B a r o n K i l Coronation ceremonies took place larney i n 1892, and on J u l y 6, 1893 at the ancient capital of Delhi SUCCESSION TO T H R O N E . he married Princess V i c t o r i a M a r y (December 12, 1911). F r o m the (born M a y 26, 1867) daughter of He succeeded to the throne on very first K i n g George and Queen Francis, Duke of Teck, and the death of h i s father K i n g Mary endeared themselves b y their Princess M a r y Adelaide, Duchess Edward V I I , on M a y 6, 1910. B y kind and solicitous actions to a l l of Teck. daughter of Adolphus The path for the Regency Act, 1910 (a tempor- their subjects. Frederick, Duke of Cambridge. smooth and orderly government ary constitutional expedient i n Their eldest son, Prince E d w a r d T

F r o m the start of the W o r l d War i n A u g u s t 1914 the K i n g and Queen jointly and severally set themselves to make the royal i n fluence an encouragement to every form of national activity i n a i d of the fighting forces. The K i n g and Queen regularly went i n state to prorogue and open parliament in successive sessions and on frequent occasions during the w a r royal visits were made to important factories, workshops and other institutions engaged i n w a r work of one kind or another. The king made personal visits to shipbuilding yards, munition factories and victualling centres. Periodical visits were also made by h i m to the Grand Fleet. In 1917 Queen M a r y accompanied the K i n g to France. T h e K i n g visited frequently the French and Belgian fronts. A f t e r the Armistice, the king's final visit to Paris and to the battlefields, November 27— December 10. 1918 met w i t h a n enthusiastic reception i n the French Capital. Even i n other respects the K i n g and Royal F a m i l y were models i n setting the example of self-denial during the stressful years of war. The K i n g attended in person at the following notable ceremonies:—The funeral services at S t . Paul's for L o r d Roberts (Nov. 19, 1914) and f o r L o r d Kitchener (June 13, 1916); the commemoration service on the entry of the U . S . A . into the w a r (April 20, 1917); the thanksgiving at St. Paul's on Their Majesties' silver wedding (July 6, 1918) the presentation to the K i n g at B u c k ingham Palace by the special Japanese mission of the sword and badge of a Japanese field-Marshal (Oct. 29, 1918); and other events. It is of interest to record that on the occasion o f T h e i r Majesties' silver wedding, the K i n g and Queen were received at the G u i l d hall (July 6, 1918) and were presented with a cheque for £53,000, subscribed by the citizens of London to be devoted to charities after Their Majesties' wish. O n the same occasion the K i n g and Oueen were also presented w i t h a silver tankard once owned by Charles II. On July 17, 1917 i t was announced that K i n g George V had abandoned all German titles for himself and h i s family. A proclamation was issued to the effect that henceforth T h e Royal House of Great B r i t a i n and Ireland would be known, not as the House o f Saxe—Coburg—Gotha, but as the House of Windsor. (Continued on page 17)

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CONCLUDED. ganism, but properly handled it THE ABSTRACT. should encourage loyalty and the The power of abstract reasoning team spirit. T h e child who forrarely matures before the age of gets himself i n playing for his thirteen or so although f r o m his team, who cheerfully stands down makes in favour of a better player, who earliest years the child simple abstractions. Thus when can bear up when he loses and rehe recognizes that the p u r r i n g frain from " I told you so " when softness on the mat, the picture of he wins—such a child is learning "puss" i n his book, and the yellow the b i g lesson of self-control. marauder on the garden w a l l are all cats, he has formed an "idea" THE DAY DREAM. of what a cat is, and an " i d e a " is The child is peculiarly liable to an abstraction—that is the recog- day dreams because for the child nition of the essential elements of the line between fancy and reality similar objects. B u t the child is not too clearly drawn. Every prefers the concrete to the abs- child sits down occasionally to hug tract, and t i l l he is fairly well ad- his knees and gain fame by scoring vanced his teachers and parents the winning goal, or saving the should see that no time is wasted detective just as the desperado was using abstract phrases where the about to shop his head off. The concrete object would serve better. day dream i n moderation is perThus instead of telling h i m that fectly normal. The child must there are eight pints i n a gallon practise his power of imagination give h i m a pint measure and make j u s t as he practises his other h i m fill a gallon can w i t h water. powers. The day dream also acts Y o u will then have used not an ab- as a spur to ambition. There is a stract meaningless phrase, but famous picture called the " B o y something the child can see and hood of Raleigh." It shows the handle. Y o u have let h i m "learn future as a small blue-eyed boy by doing." The concrete attracts listening to the wonderful stories the c h i l d : the abstract repels h i m of an old sailor and looking wistand should not be used t i l l his fully out to sea. T h i s is one view powers of reasoning are more of the day dream—the seed that developed. grows into action. Sometimes, however, the day THE CHILD A T P L A Y . dream is neither healthy nor normal. Persistent day-dreaming or P l a y is an important factor i n "wool g a t h e r i n g " m a y mean that education, and modern educational the child's resources cannot keep methods make much use of i t . I n pace w i t h his tremendous mental play the child is learning the use and physical development, and that of his limbs and voice, the extent he needs a tonic or a holiday—or and the limitations of his strength both. Sometimes it means just and power. Proper play exercises pure laziness, and sometimes somethe r i g h t muscles i n the r i g h t way. t h i n g more subtle. A child plays instinctively—all young animals do. T h e child who T H E E S C A P E F R O M R E A L I T Y . makes no attempt to play is deciEveryone dreams of success. To dedly abnormal. do so is an incentive to work and, Toys are useful but not essen- in small doses, a solace i n disaptial. They should be b i g and pointment. B u t the person who coarse rather than fine and deli- continually flies to the day-dream cate, and their numbers should be as an escape from the realities of strictly limited. A profusion of life is f o r m i n g very bad habit. toys leaves nothing to the child's The habit seldom makes much imagination, and proper p l a y headway i n school because the should give full scope to t h a t i m - watchful teacher soon detects it, portant faculty. Children delight but it can easily grow, unperceived, i n make-believe and are notorious- in the home. Dreams have their ly inclined to mud-pies. They place in life, but they don't build may grow tired of a clockwork character. The parent who sees t r a i n , but never of a complete r a i l - that his child (I have already apoway system w i t h wall or footpath logised for using 'his' so often—it for station, and puffing two-legged stands for 'his or her') becoming engines. They are especially fond a habitual day-dreamer should of a n y t h i n g on wheels, and w i l l make sure that the child does not soon contrast a vehicle o f sorts dodge the unpleasant little tasks from a soap-box and an old peram- that should fall to all c h i l d r e n bulator. going distasteful errands, washing Parents sometimes force their his hands before tea, doing his children to play alone. T h i s is a exercises, and performing various mistake. P l a y should be a social little routine jobs. activity, and for normal developThe desire to escape from reality ment the child needs companions. is just another phase of the conH a y w i t h other boys teaches the flict over the realization of the child unselfishness, and introduces Self-Ideal mentioned by the Amehim to the social obligations. O u r rican psychologist from whom I relations w i t h other people affect have already quoted. The boy our whole lives and we cannot be- who cannot reconcile himself to come used to them too early. the facts of life, and who tries to live in a dream world of his own making, needs now and again "to T H E G A N G INSTINCT. be brought back to e a r t h " and The man has his club or his set taught to take life for what it is. of companions, the boy has his POSTLUDE. " g a n g . " Psychologists call this The science of Education pro"the herd instinct." A l l those concerned w i t h the bringing-up of vides a happy-hunting-ground for children should recognize that this the crank and the faddist. Some, instinct has m a n y possibilities. It like Rousseau, say that the child may easily cause b u l l y i n g or hooli- should be left to develop i n his own

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is compelled to be present at all the meetings and demonstrations of his P a r t y . To miss any of these is dangerous, as he might be suspected of counter-revolutionary leanings or slackness. The rulers of Russia know that idle ness breeds discontent, so every moment of the people is occupied. There are meetings for the old. sport for the young: however tired the workman may be after his work, he has to go to his meeting or lecture, or march in procession, after which he is so exhausted that sleep is all he wants.

If such is the position of the " p r i v i l e g e d " class, that of other The life of the average working classes is naturally much worse, man in the U.S.S.R. is a hard one. particularly that of professional The usual salary of a factory- and office workers. A hospital worker ranges from 250 to 300 nurse, for instance, receives only roubles per month. Out of this, 90 roubles per month which, owvarious compulsory loans, subscrip- ing to the high cost of living, is tions, taxes and insurances are quite insufficient. In order to earn paid; these amount to about one- enough to make both ends meet, third of the salary, so that some the professional classes have to 170 to 200 roubles remain for take two jobs, working sixrent, clothing, food and other ex- teen hours per day. This tells uppenses. It is true that lodgings are on the quality of their work, cheap: they are rated on the w h i c h becomes very inferior. salary. Generally speaking they There are even people who receive cost from live to six roubles for only 12 roubles a month—invalids, each person, but there is no p r i - old-age pensioners, etc. How they vacy whatever, for each person is live is beyond understanding, allotted so many square feet, and their food consisting of any reif the room is larger, another per- mnant they pick up i n the streets. son may be billeted i n it, besides Of course there are the "Torgthe members of one family, or else s i n ' shops: these are for foreignextra money is charged at a high- ers possessing foreign currency, er rate. In many factories there or for those Russians who receive exist common kitchens where cheques from friends and relatives workers, may obtain dinners at abroad. In these shops, prices are reasonable prices. The life o:T~ much lower than i n the "commerthose who cannot obtain dinners c i a l " shops, but they are actually at these kitchens is much harder, gold prices. Moreover, for a Rusas food is very expensive. To sian citizen i t is even dangerous illustrate the prices, it will be to purchase anything i n such sufficient to say that butter in the shops, unless he can present a .so-called "commercial" (Govern- cheque from abroad. If he proment) shops i n which no ration- duces a foreign note or a gold coin, cards are required, cost last or even a gold object, his name is autumn from 35 to 45 roubles per immediately taken down b y the kilo (2\A> lb.) It is obvious that manager, and reported to the G . P . a man who has to live on 170 to U . (secret police). N o citizen of 200 roubles per month cannot pur- the U.S.S.R. is allowed to possess chase butter at such prices, and either of these valuables, and i f he the absence of fats i n general tells is seen to handle one gold coin, he badly on the whole population. is suspected of having more. So The eight-hours working day is the G . P . U . (secret police) puts fixed by law. Y e t a worker can- him to torture i n order to extract not dispose of his free time. He from him (women are not spared —

Tablet.) either) a confession as to where his other valuables are hidden. This torture mostly consists in placing the victim i n the "standing" room, which is so tightly packed with people that they cannot even sit down, but are compelled to stand for days. M y i n formant knew an old man of 85 who was forced to stand for three days. He died shortly after his release. A woman was kept standing sixteen days: her feet were swollen that the skin burst. Worst of all, perhaps, is the fate of the unfortunate who have been deprived of the right of residence in the capital and larger cities. W h e n the passport system was again introduced, thousands of people were refused passports and summarily packed into trains for deportation. Penniless, they were transferred to minor towns of the Union, in many cases into r u r a l districts, but, as the local authorities refused to care for them, the majority were entrained again, and transported to some other destination, and so on, until most of them perished from hunger and exhaustion.

L i k e no other towns in the world, Leningrad and Moscow have two distinct aspects. One— the smart and beautiful—is seen by foreigners, shepherded by guides supplied by the "Intourist" Government agency. The tourists are shown the fine palaces of old Russia, some impressive new factories, a model school or two, a creche, even a model p r i s o n ; and they are driven i n motor-coaches through streets where houses are kept i n good order. B u t were they to glimpse the back of these same streets, they would see misery unparalleled in any other modern city. Were they to walk the streets at night, they would see them swarming w i t h homeless children who live like rats in sewers or dugouts on the outskirts of the towns where refuse is dumped. ^Fhere they live unmolested in the day time, for even the m i l i t i a (police) dreads them. Many times the Government has attempted to remove them from the larger cities, but. always driven by the hunger in their villages and by a spirit of adventure, other children

arrive to replace those who have been deported. B y night, they constitute a real danger to passers-by, whom they attack and rob. Many are armed w i t h razor-blades fixed on to handles, and as they attack i n bands, the m i l i t i a dare not take any action against them. The morals of these young hooligans are bestial, and it is by no means rare to find boys of twelve living with "wives" aged nine! But even generally speaking the moral standard in the Soviet U n i o n is very low. T h i s can be gauged by the enormous number of abortions, the hospitals being crammed with such cases. When we broached the subject of religion, my informant asserted that the churches were full, though, he added, this may be due to the fact that such a great number have been destroyed. In L e n i n grad, even the little t i m b e r church on the Neva, religiously preserved as the first church built i n St. Petersburg, has not been spared; nor has the lovely modern gem built i n commemoration of the disaster of Tsushima, whilst the two impressive cathedrals of St. Issac's and Our L a d y of K a z a n have been converted into antireligious museums. In Moscow, besides the impressive cathedral of Christ the Saviour and Donskoy monastery with its church, many parish churches have been pulled down, including the chapel of O u r L a d y of Iberia near the K r e m l i n . . M y informant had not visited the South d u r i n g 1933-34, b u t t e r corroborated the reports upon the awful famine which had devastated the richest agricultural regions of the Ukraine. I spare the reader some of the data he gave me. It is too terrible for print. Suffice it to say that he has first-hand information as to actual cases of cannibalism. Before taking leave of h i m I asked whether he would return to Russia. " N o ; I have had quite enough of i t , " he replied.

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The soul of a child is like a Is not a mother's love our very melodious instrument and the synonym for true and unselfish mother is the musician. H e r tenderness, for a love that can sur- voice is the song that accompanies vive toils and pains and wrongs her p l a y i n g ; i t must be attuned and absence a n d neglect and f o r - to the sweetness of the instrument. How much the product of the i n getfulness and a broken heart? Simple First A i d . B u t love demands love. I f a strument depends upon the player! mother's love be such, what ought The mother's rule must be ever to to be a son's and daughter's r e t u r n bring out the traits i n her child. Diarrhoea has many causes. To do this she must have con- These belong t o one o r other o f of love? If a mother plays a mother's fidence in her children and give the following groups; (1) i r r i t a part i n the life of her children, them the benefit of the doubt; she tion of the bowel b y its contents w i t h God as h e r guide • and M a r y must attribute good motives to being abnormal; 2. irritation of as her beacon light, them and above all never shame the nervous system; 3. irritation Angels w i l l whisper to one t h e m ; she should be f o r them not of the skin b y a chill. Group 1. only a Mother, but a tried and includes the causes of most i m another A n d point her out as a model trusty Friend. Such a Mother w i l l portance to u s ; they are errors i n Mother. enjoy harmony i n h e r home, she diet, intestinal worms, hard faecal Children w i t h their sensitive lov- will be t r u l y the " V a l i a n t Woman lumps due to previous constipation, ing natures are easily pleased, a n d who speaks of Victories," and she and certain poisons. Group 2. i n easily made unhappy too. B y will continually reflect God's love cludes fright or other painful emogentle discipline i n loving words and tenderness, and become a fit- tion. Group 3. explains itself. and acts, mothers may bind t h e i r t i n g musician to instruments o f In addition, to these, diarrhoea Divine Love. She w i l l be worthy may result from disease o f the children to their hearts. Y o u n g children love companion- to lead her little ones to Our Divine bowel—e.g. cancer or tuberculosis in it—or from some general ship, and can seldom enjoy them- L o r d and listen to the - Angels whispering to one disease, such as typhoid fever or selves a l o n e . ^ _ T h e y L _ y e a r i L f o r another blood poisoning. sympathy and tenderness. That There goes the virtuous Godw h i c h they enjoy, they think w i l l like Mother.' please their mother also; and i t is natural f o r them to go to h e r w i t h The first t h i n g t o do i n the " T h e true home s p i r i t ; the love treatment o f diarrhoea is to take all their little joys and sorrows. The mother should not wound t h e i r and reverence o f children for their the temperature, and i f this is sensitive little hearts by treating parents, the perfect love that casts either above or below normal w i t h indifference, matters that, out fear, and which can never be whatever the age of the sufferer, though very trifling, are of great enjoyed by fathers and mothers a doctor i s required at once. O r who have been harsh and hasty o r i f blood be present i n the motions, importance to them. Sympathy and approval are pre- selfish; the friendship between a doctor is required also. I n cases cious for all, but a Mother's ap- brothers and sisters which makes of diarrhoea w i t h a normal temproving glance, or word o f en- each happy i n the other's com- perature, treatment for a few couragement will be like sunshine pany; the pleasant free-and-easy hours can be safely attempted. in children's hearts, often m a k i n g intercourse i n which every one can F i r s t consider the cause. Is there speak his or her own mind without 1. an irritant to cause it, such as the whole day happy. offence—these are the those given above; o r 2. has there Instead of sending her children giving things which go to make a l l feel been a f r i g h t ; or 3. a chill very from her, that she may not be a n noyed by their noise or troubled that," " b e it ever so humble, recently? I f the answer is 1. the removal o f the irritant is to be by their little wants, let the mother there's no place like home." attempted; nature is already doplan amusement or light work to ing so b y diarrhoea; we must a i d employ the active hands and minds. nature b y a suitable purge. This B y entering into their feelings and directing their amusements a n d FOOD V A L U E OF B A N A N A S . must not be o f an i r r i t a t i n g character, as there is some irritaemployments, the mother w i l l gain A l t h o u g h the banana, when tion already. T h e safest is castor the confidence of her children, a n d eaten unripe often causes digesoil. I f v o m i t t i n g is present, the she can more effectually correct tive troubles, yet i n the ripe state best is grey powder for a child, or w r o n g doings, o r check the mani- it is a fruit easy to digest and rehalf-grain doses of calomel given festations of selfishness or passion. markable for its h i g h food value. hourly f o r four to s i x hours for A word of caution or reproof W r i t i n g of the banana, Prof. S. C . an adult. I f there is much gripspoken at the right time w i l l be Prescott of Massachusetts s a y s : " ing, i n the case of adults, i t will of great value. B y patient watch- The ripe banana contains a l l the be safe to add to the castor oil ten ful love, she can turn the minds classes of food materials required minims o f laudanum. The appliof the children i n the r i g h t direc- for the human body. Although cation o f fomentations to the tion, cultivating i n them beautiful the amounts of protein and fat are abdomen w i l l also be grateful. A n and attractive traits of character. slightly too low to constitute a enema o f half a pint of warm Mothers should guard against perfectly balanced ration, the com- olive o i l m a y be tried. Collis t r a i n i n g their children to be depen- bination of bananas w i t h milk, or Brown's Chlorodyne is also very dent and self-absorbed. Never its utilisation to supplement a diet good for simple diarrhoea. lead them to think that they are containing a small amount of T H E O N E and that everything meat will produce a ration which In later life the diet should be must revolve around them. Some is ample to take care of the body spare—e.g. sodawater, toast mothers give much time and atten- needs." arrowroot and jelly. It is wise to tion to amusing their children, but put the patient to bed. I f diarchildren should be trained to rhoea is thought due to cause 2, amuse themselves, to exercise t h e i r own ingenuity and skill. to bed w i t h hot bottles, hot i f the patient be put to bed it will T h u s they w i l l learn to be content fomentations, o r bran poultices or soon be well. If, on the other w i t h very simple pleasures. T h e y turpentine to the abdomen. H e hand, cause 3 is regarded as fchouTd be taught to bear bravely should have a spare diet and some responsible, the sufferer should go t h e i r little disappointments and brandy. I f i n the course of a few t r i a l s . Instead o f calling attention sary. (Contd: at foot of col. 2.)

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There'll Be Room She was a little old woman, very plainly dressed i n black bombazine that had seen much careful wear; her bonnet was very old-fashioned, and people stared at her tottering up the aisle of the church, evidently bent on securing one of the best seats, for a great man preached that day. The house was filled w i t h splendidly dressed people who had heard of the fame of the preacher, of his learning his intellect and goodness, and they wondered at the presumption of the poor old woman. She must have been i n her dotage, for she picked out the pew of the richest and proudest member of the church and took a seat. The three ladies who were seated there beckoned to the sexton, who bent over the intruder and whispered something, but she was hard of hearing, and smiled a little withered smile, as she said, gently: "Oh, I ' m quite comfortable here, quite comfortable."

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"But you are not wanted here," said the sexton, pompously; "there is not room. Come with me, m y good woman; I will see that you have a seat." "Not room," said the old woman, looking at her shrunken proportions, and then at the fine ladies. " W h y , I'm not crowded a bit. I rode ten miles to hear the sermon to-day because—" But here the sexton took her by the a r m , shook her roughly i n a polite underhand way, and then she took the hint. Her faded old eyes filled with tears, her chin quivered; but she rose meekly and left the pew. T u r n i n g quietly to the ladies, who were spreading The Origin and Development of their rich dresses over the space sfte left vacant, she said gently: R o m a n L i t u r g i c a l Vestments, by_ "I hope, m y dears, there'll be R a y m u n d James (Catholic Records room i n heaven for us a l l . " Then Press, 2s. 6d.), is a reprint " r e she followed the pompous sexton vised and a u g m e n t e d " of t h e to the rear of the church where, in articles which appeared i n Pax the last pew% she was seated bet- some eight years ago, before the ween a threadbare girl and a author had joined the P r i n k n a s h shabby old man. community. T h e little work is a "She must be crazy," said one of careful, scholarly treatise on a the ladies i n the pew which she subject about which i t is not easy had first occupied. " W h a t can an to obtain accurate information i n ignorant old woman like her want a handy form, and i t puts the case to hear Dr.—preach for? She for a return to the ancient, full would not be able to understand a pattern for liturgical vestments very well. word he said." It is a pity, however, that the "Those people are so persistent! The idea of h e r forcing herself i n - author has not managed wholly to to our pew. Isn't that voluntarily avoid the rather shrill note which lovely! There's D r . —coming out is so frequent i n matters of eccleof the vestry. Is he not grand?" siastical controversy, even when, "Splendid! W l i a t a stately man! as i n this case, i t is unlikely to aid You know he has promised to dine the cause which the publication is meant to urge. The statement (on with us while he is here." He w a s a commanding looking p. 24) " that the mutilation of the man, and as the organ voluntarily chasuble" and other vestments stopped, and he looked over the " w a s carried out almost entirely great crowd of worshippers g a t h - by those professional vestment ered i n the vast church, he seem- makers w h o . . . . were desirous only ed to scan every face. H i s hand -of- making the largest possible was on the Bible when suddenly profit and t h e r e f o r e . . . . o f cutting he leaned over the reading desk down the amount o f material to and beckoned to the sexton, who the m i n i m u m , " while no doubt i t obsequiously mounted the steps to contains a considerable element of receive a mysterious message. A n d truth, seems to need qualification. then the three ladies i n the grand A n o t h e r reason f o r this curtailpew were electrified to see him ment may be found i n the influence take his w a y the whole length of of climate. Thus the monks who the church to return w i t h the old were sent out to B r a z i l some forty woman, when he placed her i n the years ago, to revive the Benedicfront pew of all, its other occu- tine Congregation of that country, pants m a k i n g willing room for found the full Gothic vestments her. The great preacher looked at they took out w i t h them intolerher w i t h a smile of recognition, able i n the heat of the tropics, and and then the services proceeded, so discontinued their use. It is and he preached a sermon that likely that, i n southern Europe and elsew*here a similar influence playstruck fire from every heart. "Who was she?" asked the la- ed i t s part i n producing the modidies who could not make room for fication of form which Dom James her. as they passed the sexton at condemns so heartily, but for which, on the practical side, there the door. "The preacher's mother," was is something to be said after a l l . ~(C.T.S.). the reply.

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m u c h unpleasant delving into a organised efforts for relieving the needy have not quite got into disreputable phase o f history. It t h e i r stride. The poor and needy Post Free, Local and Aoroad: is inconceivable h o w the man who are always w i t h us, and thev 12 Months . . . $6.00 found rigid, religious discipline have a moral claim to our help 6 Months . . . $3.00 irksome, and yielded to his p r u - i n their distress, if we would 3 Months . . . $1.50 rient desires, could be identified only pause to view the matter in a true C h r i s t i a n light. L e t us nave w i t h an} thing ' spiritual.' All correspondence and litcrap before our mind's eye the selfT o say that Christendom is imposed mendicity of Our Lord contributions should be addressed H i s mission as a M a y fair meloW e readily grant that bereft of true spiritual leaders and and ponder a while on the spirit o ' io The Managing Editor, Rev. drama? P r a y e r alone the bellicose mentality of C h r i s - that it is floundering i n a mire o f Christian charity. R. Car don 7 3 , Bras Basah Road, tian Europe to-day is far f r o m suspicion and fear' is too coloured w i l l not save us without charity and good works and the age old Singapore. keeping w i t h the essential ingre- and bold an assertion. It is ceradage 'charity covers a multitude Tel. 7376, Singapore. dients of C h r i s t i a n i t y namely tainly true that C h r i s t i a n nations of sins' is no idle saying. love, h u m i l i t y , peace and sacrifice. are not living u p to the ideals o f If we In the face of these disconcerting the religion they profess. Importunate though our plea strife and social disorder facts, we need have no cause to find despair of the infinite m e r c y of rampant in,the civilised countries, may be for intensifying tins; the Saturday, M a y 4th, 1935. H i m who was not shocked at the it is no reason for true Christians feature of Catholic A c t i o n urgency of proffering aid to the perfidy of Judas, the denial of to fear that C h r i s t i a n i t y is on its poor and unemployed emboldens Peter and the i n c r e d u l i t y of last legs, when we have the u n - us to make this appeal. We feel MALACCA GUARDIAN AND Thomas. T h e tone and attitude failing promise of O u r L o r d to confident that Catholics in possesCHRISTIANITY. o f our contemporary i n discussing guide and be w i t h us i n spirit u n - sion of billets will certainly contriC h r i s t i a n i t y ' are decidedly c o n - t i l the end of time. Furthermore, bute something monthly, accordi n g to their means i f they are apfusing. H e has apparently the every Christian knows f u l l well proached by authorised Catholic Our Malacca contemporary sects i n view and that the promise o f peace sung by 'Actionists. There are some who Protestant while expatiating editorially o n the * C h r i s t i a n i t y ' as they c o n - the herald angels, on Bethlehem's are loth to undertake work of this Easter Thoughts i n the issue ceive it. H e has designedly or slopes was meant essentially for nature. Perhaps they feel that it of 22nd A p r i l , displays rare unwittingly left the C a t h o l i c f goodwill.' These trials is a form o f 'mendicity' i a stretch o f imagination. We p r o men o and.fear that their own perstige C h u r c h out and tribulations, wars and famines may come down. To beg for the r e c k o n i n g i n repose to analyse the views of this ferrim are all blessings i n disguise to needy is certainly an ennobling C h r i s t i a n i t y ' and to article piecemeal as the w r i t e r service and will not impair the appears to b l o w hot or cold i n "social value of a right-thinking places according as his imaginaperson. H i s Holiness the Pope in PEACE TRIDUUM A T LOURDES t i o n freshens u p or fades away. a Recent interview he gave to a I n order to drive home our c o n of 'menial workers,' proudly TERMINATES WITH IMPOSING PROCESSION class tention against the views expressed mentioned that one of his titles was 'servus servorum' (servant of i n the editorial under review, we serva nts) t h ereby e m ph asis \ n % must perforce quote excerpts C A R D I N A L P A C E L L F S STIRRING SERMON. the dignity attached 'to the service here and there for w h i c h we make of the lowly. no apology. * * * * Lourdes A p r i l 28.—The three days of continuous Masses for T h e learned disquisition comes Britain and Soviet R u s s i a : — A l l peace were attended by thousands of pilgrims from all over the off the reel w i t h the f o l l o w i n g eyes are turned to Moscow now in world and culminated i n an imposing procession to the miraculous introduction:— connection with the visit of the Grotto headed by Cardinal Pacelli, the Papal Legate, w i t h boys and L o r d P r i v y Seal. Entertainments " Yesterday was Easter, a day girls c a r r y i n g a vine, wheatsheaf and olive tree, the latter sent by on a lavish scale have been given the Pope as a symbol of peace. o f great significance to C h r i s t in honour of the B r i t i s h diplomat Cardinal Pacelli i n his closing sermon denounced those who ree n d o m . M o s t Christians reand probably he has been wisked jected the idea of redemption " W h e t h e r they disguise this rejection gard the resurrection day as o f around in a swell car and shown under some form of social revolution or whether they are inspired those special attractive sections of more importance than X ' m a s . by a false conception of life being possessed by superstitution of the city, that are partieuteHv I t is, o f course, a matter o f race or blood, their philosophy rests on principles fundamentally opmaintained to serve as an 'eyeopinion Easter denotes posed to the C h r i s t i a n faith and over which the Church refuses to wash' for distinguished foreign bargain w i t h them at any price."—Reuter. the consummation of that visitors. In all probability, i f the gospel and r e l i g i o n . " astute diplomat insisted on doing H a d he k n o w n dous stupidity ' as it would entail a tour of the city on his own T h e above excerpt suggests that ' C h r i s t e n d o m . ' without having to be piloted Christians may p l u m p for either the rudiments of history, he enable m a n to t u r n anew to his about, he would assuredly be in a X ' m a s or Easter a c c o r d i n g to the w o u l d certainly have t u m b l e d to creator for mercy and guidance. better position to assess the dictates o f their personal fad or the fact that the C a t h o l i c C h u r c h A s the rust-covered steel becomes political, social, economic and fancy. I f J a c k were given the stands out pre-eminently as the burnished when passed through moral status of a Socialist GovernA city is but viewed imchoice he w o u l d certainly have o n l y appointed C h u r c h o f C h r i s t fire, so shall the C h u r c h of Christ ment. perfectly unless you have seen both the Christmas p u d d i n g and o n earth w h i c h enjoys that divine emerge glorious and resplendent both its 'glamour' and 'squalor.' the Easter egg. W e may re- charter given to St. Peter, and through the persecutions to w h i c h * * * * m i n d o u r learned w r i t e r that the handed d o w n through an u n - she is subjected. W e w o u l d n o r m a l l y have a l The official statement issued fove o f choosing certain dogmas b r o k e n succession i n the See of lowed 'pet view s' on any other after the visit says that ' t h e r e is or mysteries o f Christ's life and R o m e . H e r e is another misleading ex- subject to pass for what they are at present no conflict of interest ones interpreting them after between the two Governments on private judgment are typical of tract that is replete w i t h p a i n f u l w o r t h but, a subject such as this, any of the main issues of intercomes w i t h i n our natural p u r v i e w national policy," and that "this the sectarian by-products of i g n o r a n c e : — C h r i s t e n d o m is sorely i n as a C a t h o l i c o r g a n ; and as such, fact provides a firm foundation for original Christianity.---it—is obneed of a new teacher, one w h o it is incumbent o n us to point out the development of fruitful collavious that the G u a r d i a n is u n c o u l d drive home the truths of any mistatement of facts w h i c h boration between them i n the guardedly h o l d i n g them up as cause of peace." This statement a great religion, a L u t h e r or a may be accepted b y the less dis- apparently applies to the political paragons o f the C h r i s t i a n Faith. Wesley or some such spiritual cerning readers as reliable. There side of the relations A n o d d i n g acquaintance w i t h the between g iant." is however one consolation i n the B r i t a i n and the U . S . S . R . ; but we elementary tenets of C h r i s t i a n i t y T h i s sounds very m u c h like the fact that this misleading article do not think it implies any condow i l l show that the N a t i v i t y of impression gained by the ' b l i n d appears in a paper that excercises nation of religious persecution or O u r L o r d , H i s c r u c i f i x i o n , death other social malpractices "hat and resurrection are essential phe- m e n o f H i n d u s t a n ' w h o went to merely a parochial influence by have been officially sponsored in nomena to the fulfilment of H i s see an elephant, or runs i close reason of its limited c i r c u l a t i o n . Russia. The 'Godless Regime' prevailing in Russia and Mexico mundane mission as G o d — M a n . parallel to D o n Quixote's laudable to-day will not conduce in any A g a i n , to say that Easter denotes efforts at social justice. E v e n to NOTES AND COMMENTS. reasonable measure for anv selfthe consummation o f that gospel use the m i l d language of the State to effect a Relief for the Needy:—There respecting and religion ' is quite wide of the meek-mannered, little m a n school- seems to be a slight flagging genuinely friendly rapprochem a r k . Easter signifies the f u l f i l - ed under the chastening influence down of interest in the Catholic ment with countries professing m e n t o f C h r i s t ' s promise to re- o f a r o l l i n g - p i n , it w o u l d be the Action Movement in our parishes socialistic doctrines that are decida standing menace to deem m a n k i n d at the price of H i s height of folly to describe L u t h e r from a practical view-point. While edly The padadmitting that the Catholic Action Christian civilisation. p u r i f y i n g as a spiritual giant or a o w n precious blood, whereby man Societies of certain parishes are ding is yet i n the making and the W e m a y rewas assured o f an everlasting force o f religion* engaged in corporal works of proof of it lies of course i n the frain f r o m refuting such ' s t u p e n - mercy, yet it may be observed that eating. s p i r i t u a l life. R A T E S OF S U B S C R I P T I O N

Resurrection was the final act o f C h r i s t on earth." This sentence is decidedly hideous to a discriminating Christian ear. Does the uninitiated w r i t e r attempt to depict O u r L o r d as an actor or a performer o f feats and

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C A T H E D R A L O F T H E GOOD SHEPHERD, SINGAPORE. * Calendar for the Week. May 5- Sunday—2nd Sunday after Easter. Semid. — Solemnity of the Good Shepherd. Double of :he 1st CI.—Every Mass and Vespers of the Most Holy Redeemer. May (>. Monday—St. John before the L a t i n Gate. Greater Double. May 7. Tuesday—St. Stanislas, B . and M . Double. May 8. Wednesday—Solemnity of St. Joseph, Spouse of the B . V . Mary, and Patron of the universal Church. Double of the 1st Class with Octave.—III. May 9. Thursday — St. Gregory. X a z h n z e n , B . & D . Double. Mav 10. F r i d a y — St. Antoninus, B. and C. Double. May I I . S a t u r d a y — Octave D a y of the Good Shepherd.

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RECALLED. Loyal to the Crown & Loyal to God. (Words pronounced by the Holy Father in His address at the reading of the Decree " Tuto " for the Canonization of B B . More and Fisher.) * In every part of the B r i t i s h Empire there are Catholics, children of the Common F a t h e r ; and what a consolation was it not for Us to hear from the lips of their beloved Sovereign when he came to visit U s here in Rome (in 1923) that these Catholics were ever among his most faithful subjects. A t present the whole B r i t i s h world is preparing to celebrate the auspicious event of the 25th anniversary of the accession to the throne of its revered Sovereign. Here again we see the working of Divine Providence and the light of the martyrs. We have a quarter century of a kingship and the 4th centenary of a martyrdom. N o t h i n g in this was arranged by human minds. These two events fell i n together by the disposition of Providence and these two great and glorious martyrs (Blessed F i s h e r , and More) have invited themselves to this celebration in order to reaffirm the old Catholic F a i t h of England in order to repeat their words from the scaffold that they died loyal to the Crown and loyal to God. In the life of the Church great heroes have never at any time been wanting, and they are raised by God not only for our admiration but also for our imitation. It might even seem at first <%ht that their very greatness would exclude the possibility of imitation; but it is not so. Here we may recall the thought of St. Augustine who speaks of martyrdom not of the classic martyrdom alone—and says that every martyrdom is an exhortation to martyrdom. Not by the martyrdom of blood alone, but by many other ways we may arrive ^ the palm. There is the a

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5. Sunday—Second Sunday after Easter. White vestments. Semi-double. Proper of the Mass in the " Small .Missal " p. 165. Second collect of St. Pius the F i f t h . Evening at 7,. In Malacca: Feast of " Santa Cruz." M a v 6. Monday—St. John before the L a t i n Gate. Thanksgiving Service for the Jubilee of His Majesty the K i n g at 11 a.m. .Mav 7. Tuesday—St. Stanislaus. Double. M a v 8. W'day—The Solemnity of St. Joseph. Double of the 1st class with octave. 9. Thursday—St. Gregory Nazianzen, B . C. D . Double. 10. Friday—St Arthnny, 31aj Abbot. Abstinence. May 11. Saturday—Of the octave. Semi-double. May

S E C O N D S U N D A Y A F T E R E A S T E R (St. John. X , 11—16). At that time. Jesus said to the Pharisees, I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd giveth his life for the sheep. But the hireling, and he that is not the shepherd, whose o\vn the sheep are net, seeth the wolf coming, and leaveth the sheep, and fiieth; and the wolf catcheth and scattereth the sheep: and the hireling fiieth. because he is a hireling and he hath no care for the sheen. I am the good shepherd; and I know mine, and mine know me. A s the Father knoweth me, and I know the Father; and I lay down my life for my sheep. A n d other sheep I have, that are not cf this fold: them also 1 must bring, and they shall hear my voice and there shall be one fold and one shepherd. COMMENTARY. This Gospel has been known for busy every day in satisfying themages as the " Gospel of the Good selves and they do not feel much Shepherd." Jesus calls himself inclination to spend their time " the pood shepherd." A n d H e around the shepherds—They love liked the comparison, because he him from far. They fear him. repeats: " I am the good shepThe bad sheep, on the other herd." hand,* are always on the look out We know indeed that Jesus is to evade the shepherd's attention. | the good shepherd. But we do They run after anything that mav not know i f we are good sheep. attract their sight. They do not Good Shepherd versus Bad Sheep. think of dangers, of steep precipices, of w olves or of other wild Our life is a continuous struggle animals. They would like to see between ourselves — bad sheep — them rather. A morbid curiosity and the good shepherd. Three leads them always far away from kinds of sheep may be considered the flock, and the shepherd knows in any Sock:—(a) sheep whose that he must be very attentive on pleasure lie i n running about and account of them. Some of them round the shepherd; (b) sheep are lost occasionally by sauntering who do not mind the shepherd and on the brink of certain places. who content themselves to be i n Some of them are eaten up by the midst of the flock, without too wolves, i n spite of the shepherd's | much familiarity with the shepcourage and resolution. The shei h e r d ; (c) sheep who long for pherd is always on the watch and liberty out of the flock, and whose ready to sacrifice everything for ambition is to walk and run these^sheep. through the most dangerous paths Providential Suffering for and ways, lulled, as it would apbad sheep. pear, by a certain feeling of restiesness. Sometimes the shepherd m a y The good shepherd loves them get tired of his attempts to keep all. NaturarJry he pets those who such sheep w i t h i n the fold. W h e n cling to him and calls them by they t r y to run away from the I heir sweet names. Now and then flock he might throw at them a the shepherd may even carry one stone or two. A n d the stones of them, in turns, on his shoulders. which shepherds throw always This mutual " affection grows reach their .marks. A n d the sheep stronger and stronger with every thus shot at come back to the flock, day past, w i t h every circumstance bleating for pain, running l i m p i r e over, with every pasture served. ly. They are bound to be with the They sense the shepherd every others. They search for the shemorning when he opens for them pherd then, and their tender the day's freedom, and their ten- bleats soften his heart at once. der bleats are the first sound to He carries them on his shoulders reach the shepherd's ears. He and is glad to have them with h i m . greets them good-morning and Jesus. The Good Shepherd. late in the evening it is with a Jesus is indeed the Good Shegentle pat on their woolly backs pherd. He does everything that a that he wishes them good-night. good shepherd does towards his He caresses them, he The indifferent sheep (we may sheep. be allowed to call them such) are punishes them, when necessary. glad to see the shepherd every Is not our lite a proof of this asmorning. They obey him in all sertion? Do we not feel that our b"g issues of their lives. present suffering is but a stone • They have their friends. They thrown at us by Jesus, in order to have material thoughts about have us closer to His Divine pastures and flowers. They get Heart?

CARDINAL HINSLEY ENTHRONED ARCHBISHOP OF W E S T M I N S T E R .

martyrdom of our sufferings in many forms of martyrdom; behold the ways of G o d : the martyrdom the Wessons that these two marof the difficulty of doing our duty; tyrs of fidelity to the Faith of the martyrdom of persevering Rome teach us. fidelity in little things of everyday life, the daily cross which L A W OF CONTRAST. Jesus tells us we must take up Do not be too sad nor too g l a d ; if we are to be H i s followers: the opposite martyrdom of living as good the Night sta Christians in the midst of adverse Day, Joy stands opposite Sorrow, circumstances at a time when the the sun does not always shine, neither can the vain go on for world seems to have lost all sense ever. Preserve, if possible, the of what is really good—of all that happy mean, that calmly acceptis pure and of all that is imma- ing all those joys or sorrows culate. ~~ ^ which come to you knowing that Yet another martyrdom is the by the law of contrast, each must hard struggle for existence in the make way for the other, as life difficult conditions of the world a* for death in the end.—Lady the present moment. Behold the Townshend,

B r i n g s Messages of Moment from the Pope. London, May 1.—With ancient sacred rights, the R i g h t Reverend A r t h u r Hinsley was enthroned Archbishop of Westminster in succession to the late Cardinal Bourne in Westminster Cathedral. The nave, galleries and side chapels were crowded. The new Archbishop, in the course of his allocution, said the message he brought from Rome was an impassioned appeal for peace in a world torn by international jealousies. W ith regard to the King's Jubilee the Archbishop referred with j c y to the attachment of E n g l i s h Catholics to the Throne.— (Reuter) 7

THE TRUE

PRIEST.

It behoves us all to keep ever before the mind what it means to be a true priest of A l m i g h t y God. It is of the highest importance for the priest himself never to lose sight of his sublime dignity that he may never do anything unworthy of it. It is of the highest importance that the people have a right idea of what a true priest ought to be that they may respect his sacred character. On this point a Catholic w r i t e r says: " The Christian priest, true to the trust that Heaven has given him and faithful in its discharge to poor, weak, fallen man, is the noblest specimen of humanity that walks the earth. Praise does not lender him haughty, nor blame make him dejected. The greater the confidence placed in him the weightier he feels his obligations. The more heart-rending the sorrow he meets the greater the sympathy he extend-. The more dangerous" and contagious the disease, the sooner and the more constantly is he by the bedside, the more degraded the criminal the greater is his mercy, and by that inner light of Divine grace, as he sees in every man a soul for whom Christ died, he becomes a brother for whom Christ's V i c a r must make sacrifice."

M A L A Y A C A T H O L I C L E A D E R , S A T U R D A Y , M A Y 4th. 1935.

SOLEMN

There is something solemn and awful in the thought that there is not an act done or a word uttered by a human being but carries w i t h it a train of consequences, the end of which we may never trace. N o one but, to a certain extent, gives a colour to our life, and insensibly influences the lives of those about us. The good deed or word will live, even though we may not see it fructify, but so will the bad; and no person* is so insignificant as to be sure that his example will not do good on the one hand or evil on the other. The spirits of men do not die. . . It was a fine and a true thought uttered by M r . Disraeli i n the House of Commons on the death of Richard Cobden, that "he was one of those men who, though not present, were still members of that House, who were independent^f-dissolutions, of the caprices of constituencies, and even of the course of time." There is, indeed, an essence of immortality i n the life of man even i n this world. N o individual in the universe stands alone; he is a com-

T H O U G H T ponent part of a system of mutual dependencies, and by his several acts he either increases or diminishes the sum of human good now and for ever. A s the present is rooted in the past, and the lives and examples of our forefathers still to a great extent influence us: so are we by our daily acts contributing to form the condition and character of the future. M a n is a fruit . . ripened by the culture of all the foregoing centuries: and the living generation continues the magnetic current of action and example destined to bind the remotest past with the most distant future. N o man's acts die utterly; and though his body may resolve into dust and air, his good or his bad deeds will still be bringing forth fruit after their kind, and influencing future generations for all time to come.—Samuel Smiles.

If we had an ardent faith in the Real Presence of Our L o r d i n the Eucharist, is there anything on earth that could keep us away from daily Communion?

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LEGION OF DECENCY. To the Editor, Malaya Catholic Leader. Sir, In the issue of 20th A p r i l some comments were made *on Don Carle Gillette's article which appeared on the above sutyiect i n the "Straits Times" of 8th inst. But not the least surprising part of the article is that Signor Don Carle Gillette does not hesitate to call the leaders of various other religious bodies also insincere and dishonest men for espousing the decency movement started by the Catholcs; for, according to him, "Protestants, Episcopalians, L u t h erans and Jews (note the wrong use of the word Protestant) all joined hands with the Roman Catholics in the 'war on the movies • not because of convictions in regard to the necessity of any reforms in the moral standard of the films, but because cf the ambition of these leaders to 99

share with the Catholics " i n the front page of publicity!" This is a very good instance of how the "spineless" critics "ballyhoo" when 'saner elements of the public" get up in a body and make a " v i r i l e " move to get r i d of the films that give "insults to the intelligence" and degrade the moral standard of the public. Yours etc., FRUTEX. A

CONTEMPORARY'S PRAISESome very nice things were said in the Singapore Free Press of the 29th instant about Cardinal Bourne's successor, M g r . A r t h u r Hinsley. He is mentioned as 'a ripe scholar, a fine preacher and a splendid organiser,' besides being 'a man of great social charm' with 'the grit of a born Y o r k s h i r e m a n / He will Convey the Pope's message of goodwill for the King's Silver Jubilee. Adversity is a revealerfainters as well as fighters. A d versity leads some men to God. Happy are they whose defeat teaches them the lesson St. Augustine learned—" 0 God, Thou hast made us for Thyself, and restless are our hearts until they find rest in T h e e ! ' Happy are they who are broken and bruised in the battle, if the pain and anguish but lead them to G o d !

M A L A Y A CATHOLIC L E A D E R ,

The

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S A T U R D A Y , M A Y 4th,

BY THE RT. HON. SIR PHILIP CUNLIFFE-LISTER, G.B.E., M.C., MP., Secretary of State for the Colonies. -I think it is impossible to exaggerate the importance of our economic policy. It is not only that the trade which every Colony is able to do depends on having a sound economic policy: the trade they do w i t h us, the trade we are able to do w i t h them, the whole financial position of a Colony depends very largely upon the extent to which it can market its products, and as its financial position depends on that, so does every social service i n the Colony. I have some time been told I take too much interest i n the economic policy of the Colonies, and not enough i n their social services. I take, I hope, an equally keen interest i n their social services which I have seen in many places for myself. B u t i f we cannot trade our way bur whole financial position deteriorates and our social services cannot be maintained. Therefore, it is because everything depends on a sound economic policy that I think it is so enormously important; the problems are those of production and markets and prices.

position of being given a free hand to deal with any matter here. I found no difficulty i n persuading my colleagues that, not only in the interests of the Colonies, but also in the interests of this country to whom their trade is so valuable, and which in the last resort has got to foot the bill i f there is a deficit, it is not only good sentiment but good common sense and good business to extend the policy of Preference, as was done by the first Finance A c t w h i c h M r . Neville Chamberlain introduced.

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for many of these articles, this security helps when you consider the amount of trade involved. E v e n i n those cases—perhaps most of those cases—where competition is keen, we have a market for the Colonies here. We have worked it out with great care. One interesting development was the sugar preference. I do not think it is too much to say that but for the extra" preference which the Chancellor agreed to propose for the Colonies, Colonial sugar, would be i n a very bad way to-day. Originally, when I was introducing that preference I wanted to get an extra 2s. a cwt. I thought that i f one added Is. to the flat rate that would make it approximately equal to the Canadian preference— rather less than Canadian preference with Canadian exchange at par at a premium—and we would get no diversion of trade. We deliberately adopted the certificate system for the other shilling in order that extra advantage should not result in any diversion of trade. It was rather a leap in the dark. The certificate system has, however, worked perfectly. A n y Colony which wishes can sell sugar married to a certificate or it sells a certificate to a colony which wants to sell to this country. The certificate preference worked, but the flat rate for the Colonies did not work so well for various reasons, including, among others, the fact that the Canadian refiners did not pass on the whole of the benefit to the sugar seller, as the refiner in England does. Owing to that, among other reasons, the price became more favourable i n the United Kingdom, and we found there was a growing diversion of trade. Sugar which would ordinarily have gone to Canada was now coming here. We have now corrected t h a t : the Chancellor has dealt generously w i t h it. We have converted the whole of that sugar preference on to the certificate basis, and the sugar Colonies benefit to the extent of £1,080,000 a year, which is not bad. Y o u got security for your principal crop, but you got something more than that, you got an encouragement to establish alternative crops, or to develop them. It is something of a nightmare i n a Colony to be dependent almost entirely on a single crop. Y o u may have a hurricane, or the crop may almost fail, or there may be a great slump in price, or there may be overproduction, as in the case of ground-nuts. Therefore, it is so important to be able to develop an alternative export crop. T h i s preference has given us that facility and we are taking advantage of it.

The first Finance A c t gave us in the Colonies a wide range of preference for the great majority of our products, and that was the first step. But at that time hardly any part of the rest of the E m pire was giving a general preference to the Colonies. Canada had a Canadian-West Indian Agreement; New Zealand, I think, gave some preferences; A u s t r a l i a n had, I think, one very limited transaction w i t h F i j i , but that was all and there was no idea of the principle: indeed I do not t h i n k it had ever been proposed that you should make your preference to and from Those are questions which have become increasingly urgent and the Calories Empire-wide. That increasingly difficult with the glut was the job I had to do at Ottawa. of world production, w i t h the The result of the Ottawa Conferslump i n prices, land w i t h the ence has been that—apart from a policy of economic nationalism, or number of special Agreements economic self-sufficiency, which so which I was able to negotiate and many countries are pursuing, and which are of considerable value, L with the restriction in trade which hope, to particular Colonies and for one reason or another—are Dominions—we established for all being put on more and more all the Dominions and for India the Principle that Colonial preferences over the world. should be given by the whole of the Dominions and India given, not If you are to have an economic policy—and without it all your only to those Colonies which could planning is pure " hit or m i s s " reciprocate, but equally to Colonies —it has to be, as your policy is to- which were debarred by treaty day, four fold: first to secure a from giving a preference and to preferential market for the Colo- the mandated Territories as well. nies in the E m p i r e , and for the I think that really was great adEmpire i n the Colonies; secondly vance, and we could never have got to attempt by international agree- that done except at an Imperial ments to get a balance between Economic Conference; and we production and consumption and could never have got it done unless so to raise the price level of the someone—obviously the Secretary primary products; thirdly, to get of State was in a position to negoefficient production and efficient tiate for the Colonial E m p i r e as a marketing and to make the best whole. In the helpful atmosphere use of the research going on all the of an Imperial Conference of that time, and, lastly, to have what I kind you can sweep i n a certain may call an adequate intelligent amount which you could not get system, so that the experience by direct negotiation. More than which you get i n one Colony may one of the advantages which I was be put at the disposal of the others able to negotiate was got for partiand so that every Colony may have cular Colonies, not because that a proper appreciation of the trend Colony had anything to give to the of prices of production and the particular Dominion, but because possibility of markets, data which one was often able to say, " Y o u no Colony can get for itself, which have negotiated w i t h the United can only be got by close and con- K i n g d o m : let us for this purpose stant contact at the centre with bring the Colony into it. They those who are best qualified to are not able to give you a quid pro Of course you find, very often, judge not only of the present posi-. quo; don't let us weigh that but that what is a principal crop in let us make it as complete as we tion but of future demands. one Colony is a very useful subcan." sidiary in another. Take for i n stance, bananas—the great staple We have tried in these last two We are therefore now i n the in Jamaica. One of the things and a half years to make that Policy, i n its fourfold aspect, as position that we have got for the done in Ottawa was to convert a Colonies Empire-wide preference: ten per cent, ad valorem duty into complete as we can. equally we give to the E m p i r e a a firm preference of 2s. 6d. a cwt. If the price drops the preference F i r s t of all, Preference. U n t i l Colony-wide preference. becomes more valuable. It is a this Parliament, Preference was What has preference done? business proposition and one tries only given over a very limited range of products. The United F i r s t and foremost it has given to handle it in a businesslike way. Kingdom to certain extent had a sense of security at a time when It is giving Jamaica an effective followed suit i n the adoption of a security of market is everything. preference here for a great crop. policy which I think we in this It has given security of Market for We are pretty good at eating country ought never to forget, had our principle crops, sugar, tea, bananas in this country and there been introduced in the past by the cocoa, coffee, tobacco, ground nuts, is room for mo*e-than the Jamaica Colonies of their own free-will for oil-seeds, timber, fruits and so on. crop. There is now an incentive the benefit of B r i t i s h goods. For- You have got this security of mar- to Trinidad and other West Indian Colonies to develop a new crop for tunately we found ourselves in the ket, and though prices may be bad

Empire which there is a steady export market. Or take oranges which are the principal crop of Palestine. The existence of a preference has now made it profitable to grow this crop in Cyprus. I could go on w i t h other examples. Y o u get not only the chance of developing as a second string some well-known crop, you get wholly new opening which, but for preference, no one would have looked for, or indeed thought of. When a manufacturer or merchant in this country knows that i f he is importing a foreign product, he has to pay a substantial duty, he goes out on the hunt of an Empire source of supply. We find that as regards timber in Nigeria. A ten per cent, c.i.f. duty was put on timber. It was a substantial duty and i m mediately it was put on the timber merchants became very m u c h i n terested in seeing whether they could get what they wanted from Colonial sources, and the result is that we are developing a very good timber trade. Tannin used to be entirely extracted from foreign bark. A duty free import was wanted here and it was found that wattle was a perfectly good substitute. The result is that the native i n K e n y a is making about £70,000 a year out of selling wattle. It was merely a scrub bush but has now become a valuable and very useful addition to his income. P y r e t h r u m from Japan and Albania, fcavender from various places including Germany^ other essential oils from various places, were free from serious competition from Colonial producers. *Now a very useful industry has developed i n essential oils i n East Africa, because one of the great E n g l i s h houses has thought "this is good business." Y o u have a partnership growing up between the farmer and the manufacturing and dealing houses here to get duty free material of a good quality. These are good examples which show you we have got security for the great basic crops and the smaller subsidiaries. It is plain, I think, that to-day and i n the future the United Kingdom and the Colonies are going to be increasingly important to one another. That is fully realised in the Colonies. They have always given preference, but it has been greatly increased recently, and the last step has been to meet, throughout the Colonial E m p i r e , Japanese competition in textiles by an effective quota system. The readiness w i t h which that policy has been accepted i n the Colonies shows how much they appreciate the value of the preferences which they are be- • ing given here. (Continued on page 17)

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Catholic ASIA, Madras (India).—The Bishops of Nellore and Vizagapatam have written articles, which have been published i n the Catholic Leader of Madras, supporting the proposal to establish a fund of one million rupees to be devoted exclusively to missionary work i n India. B o t h Bishops emphasize the importance of Indians t a k i n g more interest i n the conversion of their fellow countrymen. In these diocese there is a mass movement towards the Church, but i t has been necessary to refuse many villages a s k i n g for instruction because there has been no means of p a y i n g teachers. During the last 15 years the Catholic population of Vizagapatam has increased from 6,000 to 20,000. d u r i n g the last five years there have been almost 10,000 conversions i n the Diocese of Nellore, and at present 5,000 persons are going through the period of instruction and probation before receiving baptism. Sixteen priests have been ordained f o r the Diocese of Vizagapatam since 1924. ( F i d e s ) . * * * * P a t n a (India).—The number of non-Christians, Moslem and H i n d u , attending the K h r i s t R a j a H i g h School at B e t t i a h , N o r t h India, conducted by Jesuit missionaries of the Chicago P r o vince, has doubled d u r i n g the past year i n spite of the fact that the missionaries insist on Catholic instruction for a l l students. The non-Christians, now i n the majority, are v e r y favourably disposed towards the Catholic Church. Several of t h e m are known to have baptized d y i n g members of their families after the required instruction, and there is reason to hope t h a t some of them will become Catholics and that all of them w i l l help the missionaries i n the difficult task of m a k i n g conversions i n Moslem and H i n d u village. (Fides). * . * * * Patna (India).—A boarding school for children of Christian aborigines maintained by the American Jesuit missionaries at Rajagon, N o r t h India, has proved to be an important means for the consolidation of progress made among these people during the Similar schools last few years. w i l l be opened i n other parts of the district inhabited b y the aborigines. P r o m i s i n g children will be given a thorough Catholic education so that they may be the leaven for the jungle tribes and castes; some of these children will be catechists of the future, and, very likely, others will be priests and religious. ( F i d e s ) . Madras (India).—Sir John A n derson, Governor of Bengal, unveiled a tablet at Calcutta M a r c h 30 to the memory of the late M r . B . E . Burge, a Catholic, District Magistrate of Midnapore, who was shot by terrorists i n September 1933. The Governor spoke of the sterling C h r i s t i a n character of the murdered magistrate. " I f the spirit of M r . B u r g e could give utterance i n the midst of this company to-day," he said, "I, who knew h i m , have little doubt that our ears would catch the echo of the words uttered 2,000 years ago, ' F a t h e r forgive them for they k n o w not what they do. " (Fides) * * • Hanoi (Indo-China). — Ten bridges and more than 200 miles

C A T H O L I C L E A D E R , S A T U R D A Y , M A Y 4th, 1935.

Affairs

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of roads have been constructed in the Yunnan Marches, China, near the Tibetan frontier, under the direction of F a t h e r George Andre, a priest of the Foreign Missions Society of P a r i s who has a little mission at Changputong. These highways have helped to bring material prosperity to the district. On a recent visit to Hanoi, IndoChina, F a t h e r A n d r e brought w i t h him three Tibetans who had never seen railways, aeroplanes, electrical appliances and other modern conveniences. A f t e r eight days of which included, sight-seeing among other wonders, a flight over the city of Hanoi, they exclaimed, "Heaven must be like this !" There is a flourishing Catholic life in many parts of Tonkin, which F a t h e r A n d r e took care to impress upon his companions hoping that they would t r y to persuade their friends and relatives of the advantages which such life would b r i n g to their own Tibet. A f t e r a journey of three days by railway and 40 days on horseback they reached their home i n the mountains of central A s i a . (Fides).

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congregation of S . V . D . nuns established i n 1889 by the founder o f the Society, F a t h e r Arnold Janssen. Not long ago two Sister Servants from Yenchowfu, Shantung, visited Peiping in order to make preliminary* arrangements for the transfer, which is to take place at the end of the scholastic year i n June. It is now learned that the six American Benedictine Sisters from St. Joseph, Minnesota, who have been i n charge of the Girls' Middle School since its inception three years ago, are t o remain i n China. K n o w i n g that they were to be recalled to America t h i s summer, H . E . Bishop Tacconi, V i c a r A p o stolic of Kaifeng, Honan, expressed to their superiors i n the U . S . the desire of securing their services for educational work i n Kaifeng. A telegram received by the Benedictine Sisters on M a r c h 24 from their motherhouse i n America announced that the petition had been granted and that the. Sisters were to repair to Kaifeng after the conclusion of the present semester. This news will be received w i t h general satisfaction i n China, since, w i t h the exception of some German nuns i n K i r i n , the Benedictine Sisters of Peiping are the only daughters of the great and ancient family of St. Scholastica in the Celestial Republic. A l l of them have degrees from American universities, one of them an M . A . [Lumen].

Hanoi (Indo-China). — E i g h t y Catholic prisoners and 14 new converts, who are preparing for bapt i s m in the prison of Hanoi, made the visits prescribed for gaining the jubilee indulgence i n the reception room of the prison recently. There is no chapel i n the j a i l , but festoons and garlands of fresh flowers helped to transform the drab walls of the visitors' room into a n attractive little chapel. Catholic Propaganda Corps The prisoners went through the ceremonies under the direction of Organized i n Shantung Father Dronet, a priest of the Mission. Foreign Missions Society of Paris, who has been making weekly W i t h the approval of the M i s visits to the prison for the past sion Superior of Weihaiwei, the 35 years. (Fides). V e r y Rev. Prosper Durand, O . F . M . , * * * * a Chinese priest of Wenteng, ?Ibkyo.—A proposal for adopt- Shantung, the Rev. Father Peter ing Kataoriku Shimbuh, a L i u , decided to organize an itinerCatholic newspaper printed i n ant propaganda corps the better Tokyo, as the official organ of C a - to b r i n g Catholic teaching to the tholics throughout Japan, was-dis- attention of the^people i n his discussed at a meeting of the trict. H e opened a preparatory Japanese Catholic A c t i o n Com- course for the t r a i n i n g of volunmittee which was held at Tokyo teers i n the fall of 1934 and, M a r c h 14. T h i s Committee was during the ensuing winter, the formed last year by H i s E x c e l - group took definite form. Under lency Archbishop Paul Marella, the leadership of F a t h e r L i u h i m Apostolic Delegate, and consists of self, a band of 15 persons, commembers of the Japanese secular p r i s i n g catechists and musicians, clergy, priests of the F o r e i g n and t a k i n g along a phonograph as Missions Society of Paris, Jesuit, Franciscan, Dominican and Sale- well, circulated among the villages sian missionaries. The Com- of the Wenteng district. T h e i r mittee's proposals w i l l be placed plan of action was as follows: before the Bishops of Japan at The district was divided into seven sectors and three days were to be their next meeting. (Fides). devoted to each sector. In each sector a principal village was choOsaka (Japan).—A monastry of sen as a base, a suitable place to Trappistine nuns will be opened i n hold meetings was found, and this May near the city of H i m e j i , i n was decorated for the occasion the Diocese of Osaka, Japan. The with lanterns and streamers. Trappistines have been i n the Lectures on Catholic truths were Diocese of Hakodate since 1898, given here at night. During the and there are at present more than 100 members i n the com- day the party, splitting into smalmunity, offering prayers and sac- ler groups, visited various villages rifice for the spread of the C h u r c h roundabout, giving talks on Cathoin Japan. T h i r t y nuns will go lic doctrine and distributing pamfrom Hakodate to the new founda- phlets and, on occasion, some simple remedies for children's tion at H i m e j i . (Fides). ailments. * This unique propaganda group PEIPING BENEDICTINE NUNS spent more than a month on tour TO R E M A I N I N C H I N A . prior to returning to Wenteng. Peiping, M a r c h 31. — Some 28 villages with their surrounding months ago i t was decided for territory were covered during the various reasons to t u r n over the itinerary and everywhere the corps direction of the G i r l s ' Middle was well received. A t times the School affiliated w i t h the Catholic number of their auditors came to University of P e k i n g to the Sister six or seven hundred persons. Servants of the H o l y Ghost, a [ L u m e n ] .

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Activities of the Catholic Students at Tokio.—Recently some t h i r t y students held meetings in the Great Seminary of Tokio to attend a series of lectures on things of the day considered i n the Catholic point of view. The Apostolic Delegate, H . E . Mgr. Marella honoured the last meeting by his presence. Actually, the students of the Catholic U n i v e r s i t y of Tokyo assist about 1,000 poor families in the slums of M i k a w a s h i m a . The members of the Catholic University Sophia and of the various Societies of St. Vincent de P a u l and of St. E l i z a b e t h pay regular visits to poor homes. (Lumen-A.U.C.).

Shanghai Orphanage Teaches 850 Boys Useful Trades—Shanghai.— F i f t y tons of paper are used an nn Y)« i ^n t h e - p r m * ti_i •n g J L. nually department of the T'ou-se-we Orphanage, Zikawei, near Shanghai. Sixty books i n Chinese, yielding a yearly average of 300,000 copies, and 50 European works, approximating 50,000 volumes, are printed here each year. The orphanage is directed by the Jesuits. The institution was founded in 1849 but closed i n 1860 during the Taiping Rebellion, after the Director, Father Massa, S.J. had been killed. It was opened again in 1864. A t present 650 boys are housed and trained in some useful craft. Besides the printing-shop there is an elementary school, a foundry, a goldsmith's shop, an electro-plating laboratory, a school of carving, a stained-glass factory, a carpentry-shop and a studio for sculptors. ( L u m e n - F i d e s ) . A

Catholic Y o u t h Association of fit Jen U n i v e r s i t y Holds Meeting. Peiping.—More t h a n fifty members were present at a r>essio i of the Catholic Y o u n g Men's Association of the Catholic U n i v e r s i t y of P e k i n g held M a r c h 19. D r . Joseph M u r p h y , the Rector of the University, and various clerical and lay professors assisted the meeting. A m o n g the business transacted was, the election of officers for the year. A President, Vice-President, Secretary, and 8 councillors were chosen. [ L u m e n ] .

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ASIA. (Continued.) Details of the Torture and Death of Father Stephen F a n g of Shensi. Details of the fate of R e v . Stephen F a n g , Chinese priest k i d napped by communist bandits last October and murdered i n the mountains of northern Shensi, have been received at the F r a n ciscan mission headquarters at Yennanfu. On October 15, a band of Communists attacked the priest's house at Chunbu and dragged h i m off to their l a i r i n the mountains, abusing h i m on the way. H e was confined w i t h 20 other prisoners and a demand for a heavy ransom w as sent to his superiors. H i s captors meantime tortured h i m daily, hanging h i m by the arms from an overhead beam and beating h i m with whips and cudgels. They i n sulted h i m and threatened h i m with death. On November 1, thirteen member sof the band, including the chief, were captured. The leader was sentenced to death and the others were imprisoned at Louchwan. In retaliation the other b r i gands shot F a t h e r F a n g three days later. H e was 33 years old and had been a priest 10 years. (Lumen-Fides). r

L o n g - F e l t Need of Haimen V i c a r i a t e Met T h r o u g h C h a r i t y of F a i t h f u l . A long-cherished desire of Bishop Simon T s u , V i c a r Apostolic of H a i m e n , K i a n g s u , was recently fulfilled when the first Home f o r the A g e d to be erected in the V i c a r i a t e was completed at Paochen i n the Tsungming D i s trict. The project was realized through the initiative of a prominent Catholic who undertook the solicitation of the necessaryfunds, which w i t h the cooperation o f M r . Lo Pa-hong of Shanghai were promptly secured. T h e inauguration ceremony took place February 24. 40 aged~ women, 20 of them non-Christians, are now being cared for. The Catholic gentleman i n question, M r . W a n g Tan-kwei, and M r . L q suggested the possibility of likewise providing a building for aged men. O n the day of opening the Women's Home, promises for more t h a n 5,000 dollars were secured, which far surpassed expectations. The Men's Home w i l l thus become a reality soon. [Lumen]. Tonga.—The " S t a r of the Sea " is the name of the little homemade sailboat used by the M a r i s t Missionaries of the Friendly (or Tonga) Islands, i n the southern Pacific Ocean. The boat is an absolute necessity i n this part of the Pacific where the priests must minister to little groups of natives scattered here and there on t i n y islands which are sometimes at great distances from one another. (Fides.) * * * * Delegate General of Franciscans in C h i n a on Canonical Visitation. The V e r y Rev. Alphonse Schnusenberg, O . F . M . , Delegate General for C h i n a of the Franciscan F r i a r s Minor, who has been making a

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visitation of the Franciscan M i s sions, reached Kichow, Hupeh, M a r c h 18. A f t e r spending several days there, he was to proceed to the larger stations of the Prethe fecture where others of Fathers were gathering to meet him. Before returning to Hankow, he will visit various missions along the Yangtze. [ L u m e n ] . * * * * Solemn Funeral Rites of Bishop Gendreau, V . A p . of H a n o i . Hanoi.—A Solemn Requiem Mass for Bishop Gendreau was celebrated i n the Cathedral here on February 9, by Archbishop C o l umban Dreyer, Apostolic Delegate. H . E . M . Robin, Governor-General of French Indo-China assisted at the obsequies and all the bishops of T o n k i n g were present. In the throng which passed through the chapel where the Bishop lay i n state was the leader of the Buddhist bonzes of Tonking. Following the example of the Christians, he sprinkled a few drops of H o l y later on the body and lighted two candles which he himself had brought. H e left a card for Bishop Chaize, Bishop Gendreau's successor, on which he wrote: " I pray." Bishop Gendreau died February 6 at the age of 84. H e had been a missionary i n Indo-China 61 years and was a venerable figure that commanded wide respect and esteem. W h e n he took over the direction of the V i c a r i a t e of Hanoi in 1892, he found only three churches i n which the Blessed Sacrement could be kept. H e left 160 churches to his succesor, not counting those in the daughte*vicariates separated from Hanoi after his accession. W h e n he was named V i c a r Apostolic the V i c a r i ate of Hanoi comprised 220,000 Catholics. The same t e r r i t o r y at the present time counts more than 350,000. [Lumen-Fides].

AFRICA. Two S . V . D . Ethnologists Return f r o m Study of MamOuti Race i n Africa. B u n i a (Lake Albert, Belgian Congo).—The two A u s t r i a n scientists, Fathers Schebesta and Gusinde, editors of the review Anthropos, who went to the B e l gian Congo i n M a y 1934 to study the pygmies of Ituri, have completed their task and are returning to Europe w i t h a rich store of information about the social condition, native beliefs, language and physical characteristics of the M a m buti race. The two priests, who are members of the Society of the Divine Word, lived i n the forests between Beni and Stanleyville, the most interesting region of A f r i c a for the ethnologist. They extended their researches to other races living i n the vicinity, Bantus, semiBantus, Soudanese, and Nilotics. W o r k i n g with the priests was M . Jadin, a doctor sent by the Belgian Government to study the diseases peculiar to pygmies i n the hope of preserving this race which at the moment tends to decrease. Father Schebesta has had experience i n this line of research, having studied the Semang pygmies i n Malaysia. F a t h e r Gusinde has made similar studies among the aborigines of T i e r r a del Fuego. (Fides).

EUROPE. Rome.—The V e r y Rev. A d r i a n Brocken, who was Superior-General of the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart of Issoudun from 1920 to 1932, died A p r i l 13 at Tilburg, Holland, at the age of 62. The Missionaries of the Sacred Heart were founded i n 1855, and the society began missionary work among the islanders of the Pacific Ocean i n 1882.- There are at present 2,000 members i n the society stationed i n Europe, South America, Australia. A f r i c a , China, Oceania and Netherland East Indies. (Fides.)

Rome.—The Superior Councils of the Pontifical Association of the Propagation of the F a i t h and of St. Peter Apostte for the N a t i v e Clergy will begin their General Assembly at Rome A p r i l 30. The meetings will be held i n the Palace of Propaganda and w i l l be opened by H i s Eminence Cardinal F u masoni Biondi, Prefect of the Sacred Congregation of Propaganda Fide. The National Directors of the Pontifical Association from abroad and the members of the Superior Council residing i n Rome w i l l attend the sessions which w i l l consist of the reading and discussion of reports for the past year, distribution of subsidies for Catholic missions throughout the world and the formation of a programme for the coming year. (Fides.)

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Brussels.—This summer two congresses of interest to Catholics w i l l be held in this city within a few days of each other and simultaneously with the Brussels World Exhibition. F r o m J u l y 28 to 31, the fifth Catholic International Conference of Social Service w i l l be convened under the auspices of the International Catholic Social Service Union. The Congress will meet under the honorary presidency of H . E m . Joseph Cardinal V a n Roey, Archbishop of Malines and Primate of Belgium. A s soon as the Social Service Conference closes, the International Congress on Family Education will begin and will continue until August 4. T h i s Congress will be held under the patronage of the Belgian Government and representatives of outstanding C a tholic institutions will participate in the program. [Lumen N C W C ]

London.—Catholics of India will celebrate the King's Jubilee M a y 6 when in a l l the Cathedrals of the Empire a Solemn H i g h Mass will be sung and special prayers will be offered for the K i n g and the Royal F a m i l y . (Fides).

A n information bureau for missionaries w i t h vegetable and flower gardens is announced by the C a tholic A g r i c u l t u r a l School, Heerenstraas, 22, Wageningen, Holland. Directions for the cultivation of European plants i n the tropics, the manner of c u r i n g plant d i s eases, and the cultivation of i n digenous products are a l l explained gratis. There is also a fund set aside to assist missionaries i n buying seeds, fertilizer and remedies. Y o u n g missionaries are offered a short course on the elements of horticulture and the principles of cultivating native flora. [LumenCB].

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CATHOLICS I N SPORT, CRICKET. F . Chopard, opening batsman and wicket keeper of the Nondescripts Cricket Club who is also the club's most consistent batsman performed well behind the stumps against the S.C.C. last Saturday. On Sunday against the Indians he made an unbeaten 42 rus. H e is a wicket keeper—batsman who could be given a t r i a l .

Carlo Pereira, the nondescripts cricket skipper took 7 wickets for 29 runs against the S.C.C. on Saturday and 7 for 40 against the Indians on Sunday.

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Maurice Valberg, Cricket Captain of Raffles Institution this season. G. Tessensohn, and R . Milne of the S.R.C. were the most successful batsmen against the S.C.C. on Saturday on the Padang. Against the Johore Cricket Club on Sunday D . D ' C o t t a (27), H . N . Balhetchet (18), N . Sullivan (20), and G. Valberg (48) helped the S.R.C. to amass the huge total of 202 runs. For Johore young Barthelot scored 44. Sullivan (2 for 20) and Balhetchet (2 f o r 15) were among the bowling successes.

SOCCER. W h e n the S . C . F . A . met the Malays i n a League fixture at A n son Road on Saturday J o h n Then and C h i a K e n g Hock turned out for the former side who won by 6 goals to 2. Then has not fully recovered from his ankle trouble but played quite a sound game. C h i a K e n g Hock, i n spite of a bad cough and two head wounds, notched two very brilliant goals. In this game one noticed the referee t a k i n g far too much advice from the line judges. The crowd T r T t h e pavilion nearer the sea did misbehave itself by shouting in abusive language at players and officials. There is certainly a more decent method of barracking.

BOXING. In the Amateur B o x i n g Tournament held at the New W o r l d last Saturday night Det de Cruz defeated L . A . C. Lashbrook i n the Bantam weight class. M . B r u y n s registered a T. K . 0 . against A . Sanny. It may interest Catholics to know that the great majority of the world's best boxers are Catholics ! In Singapore too Catholics are among the most successful pugilists. Our Mistake. One of the experiences that is probably common to most of us is to look back over a period of five or ten years and wonder how we could have been so foolish as to do things and say things on certain occasions which we too keenly remember. To-day, as we recall the circumstances, we bitterly reproach ourselves that we could have been so fatuous and shortsighted. But probably five or ten years hence we shall look back upon these periods with much the same feeling. W e are going to continue to do foolish things to the end of the chapter. B y divine grace one may largely overcome tendencies, but there seems to be no help for unwisdom and poor judgment and inability to adjust one's self to circumstances but t h e bitter discipline of experience. There is one ray of light, however, upon this course of reflection, and that is the fact that our recognition of mistakes i n the past is the best sort of reason for believing that we are improving. Yes, we have our eyes opened to some things, and though we shall probably make mistakes i n the future just as i n the past, they w i l l not be the same ones. A n d then, too, we should not blame ourselves too severely for these errors. In the nature of the case there were times when we made these mistakes that we could not know as we know now. The man who is standing on the mountain top and sees the path winding up should be charitable to the man down i n the valley who is losing his way i n the thickets.

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A R E A S O N A B L E DEVOTION. The devotion to the Mother o f God is just as strong, beautiful and attractive as it was i n the old days. W h y should not this devotion increase i n volume, in strength, as the years roll on? If you seek the origin of this devotion you must go back to the i n fant Church. The outside world ridicules i t more or less, but in these days its attitude towards the - M o t h e r of God is changing. E v e r y where, even i n Europe, -this devotion is attracting attention. Can anything be more reasonable than devotion to the Mother of God ? Do away w i t h the Mother of Christ and you do away with Christ. The love, respect and veneration down deep i n our hearts for our mothers, time and place shall not eradicate. Hence, i f we truly love Christ, w h y should we not love H i s M o t h e r ? I f from her He assumed human nature, is it not reasonable that we should love and honour her, whom He so loved and honoured? W e love, respect and venerate the Mother of Christ. We love, worship and adore Christ. —Rev. Joseph F . Delaney. Markss " T h a t new member seems pretty green for a man who claims to be a college graduate/' Parks: * Probably i t was an agricultural college."

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King George V . (Contd: from page 5.) Post-War Events. THE ECONOMIC POLICY OF The return o l peace brought THE COLONIAL EMPIRE. normal activities o i court l u e . (Contd: from page 13.) boon alter tne A r m i s t i c e m i y ± 8 , The next aspect of our policy tne K i n g and Queen on successive has been to t r y and get agreements maae popular progress to balance production and to raise aays tniough cutterent quarters i n L o n - prices. I believe myself that the don meeting w i t h spiendid ovations cause of the slump i n world export wnerever tney went. O n N o v . 12, trade is due more to the fall i n the li)l8 Their Majesties' attended a price level of primary products thanksgiving service at St. Paul's. than to anything else. It is due On Dec. 27 a banquet was given i n to exchange restrictions and barhonour of President Wilson at r i e r s ; these things are consequenBuckingham Palace, where he and ces not causes. People put them Mrs. Wilson were s t a y i n g with the on, not for fun, but because they find they have not got the purchasKing and Queen. On Jtfne 22, 1921, the K i n g and ing jpower i n their country, and Queen visited Belfast, where his that their exchange will be knockMajesty inaugurated the new par- ed to pieces i f they allow unrestricliament of N o r t h e r n Ireland. The ted buying. That blocks export K i n g in his speech on that occa- trade: that is why ships are sion, made a touching appeal to all empty. I suppose fifty or sixty Irishmen to pause and stretch out per cent, of the manufactured the hand of forbearance, to for- goods are i n normal times taken give and forget and to make for by the primary producer. I f he is the land they loved a new era of making no money he cannot of peace, contentment and good-will. course, buy, and our export trade contracts, and we get these resThe K i n g was greatly gratified trictions. If we could only get the when an agreement was at last level of the primary commodities reached w i t h Irish F r e e State. to a f a i r price it would do more On February 28, 1922 the King's than anything to restore export only daughter Princess M a r y , was trade, and that is why I have conmarried i n Westminster Abbey to sistently preached, this doctrine— Viscount Lascelles, eldest son of at first to sceptical people, but now the E a r l of Harewood. The K i n g to very w i l l i n g ears. Indeed, the and Queen paid a state visit to one t h i n g on which the W o r l d Belgium on M a y 8. A f t e r the Economic Conference agreed was visit to Brussels the K i n g made a that i n difficult times we have got pilgrimage to the cemeteries i n to t r y and get this balanced proFrance and Belgium. duction, and to m y surprise and On A p r i l 26, 1923 the Duke of modest gratification, I found York was married to L a d y E l i z a - seven commandments, w h i c h I had beth Bowes-Lyon, fourth daughter tentatively laid down i n a speech of the E a r l of Strathmore and opening the discussion, accepted Kingrhorne. On M a y 5, T h e i r by the Conference i n a resolution Majesties made a state visit to the as commandments which ought TCing and Queen of Italy, remain- certainly to be carried out. ing in Rome for some days. They Of course, it is no use having a were received by the Pope at the scheme which does not cover Vatican on M a y 9. and on M a y 12 enough ground: you must cover the K i n g visited MonteccMo to all the areas of production. The inspect the graves of B r i t i s h Stevenson Rubber Scheme failed because it left out one of the soldiers, who had fallen in Italy. greatest producers in the world Recent Events and Prospect. The outstanding event of 1924 whose production expanded exactwas the opening by the K i n g on ly in proportion as ours contracted. must have everybody i n ; A p r i l 23 of the B r i t i s h E m p i r e You Exhibition at Wembley. The everybody must be broadly agK i n g and Queen of Rumania and reeable to the proposal; and it the K i n g and Queen of Italy made must be administratively practistate visits to London i n M a y j m d cable and elastic, so that your scheme, or control attended the B r i t i s h E m p i r e E x - restriction scheme, can respond rapidly to any hibition i n company w i t h Their increase in market demands. Majesties. Finally, you must make it fair to The close of 1928 was darkened the consumer. I have discussed by the serious illness of the K i n g these agreements with great concausing the gravest anxiety for suming countries. Provided they more than two months. H i s were satisfied they were not going Majesty had however reached a to be exploited, they said, they convalescent stage by the grace of would much rather have a stable G°d. A l l over the E m p i r e his sub- price. We have made a certain jects manifested their love and amount of progress, and I think it concern by offering prayers and will lead to more. (The B r i t i s h special services i n Churches for Industries). the speedy recovery of the K i n g . A cursory review of a reign that replete with multifarious achiMO'OI C H I N evements of unprecedented success cannot be crowded into a few RESTAURANT columns. 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and shrewd mind of a l l that is connected w i t h the customs, laws, beliefs, religion, arts and crafts and national life of the many coloured people who settled i n the Golden Chersonese, and of their commercial and political activities as well. A s a first contribution to the Journal of the R . A . S., i n 1905, Dr. Winstedt gave a translation of " S o m e Mouse-deer Tales," collected from a Malacca M a l a y ; today, he closes the series of his works by publishing " A * History of M a l a y a , " the first complete work of its kind. Intentionally w r i t t e n w i t h conciseness, this masterly summary will prove itself an unfailing guide to the historians who, until now, were more or less lost i n the labyrinth of complicated episodes and nearly drowned i n despair by the regular jumble of dates and names which had made the history of this country a veritable Corsican thicket. For more documentation one may refer to the series of historical books which, at short intervals were lately published by D r . Winstedt, the first i n date (1932) being " A History of Johore," Arabic and E n g l i s h texts. Among the other publications for which we are indebted to D r . Winstedt, let us mention his well known book " M a l a y a , " his study on Malay superstitions " Shaman, Saiva and Sufi " and finally, i n the Papers on Malay Subjects, his researches on " L i t e r a t u r e of Malay Folklore," on " The Circumstances of Malay L i f e , " and on " Life and Customs and A r t s and Crafts, together with his E n g l i s h Malay Dictionary." Dr. Winstedt leaves behind him, in Malaya, the repute of a highly gifted and hard working man whose name will long remain a familiar one to those interested in the Malay annals. H i s work stands on par with Raffles " Hist o r y of J a v a " and Marsden's " History of Sumatra," only to quote these two of his most conspicuous precursors.

His publications have won D r . Winstedt a prominent place among One writers on Malay subjects. has only to run through the the collection of the Journal of the R o y a l Asiatic Society, Singapore, to realize the share taken by h i m in furthering our knowledge on Those who have had the opportthings Malay. There are no less than some eighty contributions unity of approaching, D r . Winsfrom his learned and versatile pen tedt will readily treasure up the relating to Prehistory, Folklore, memory of his geniality in their written Literature, Ethnology, hearts; for this great scholar and History of the Malay Penin- showed always but kindness in dealings and readiness to sula and neighbouring countries. his N o t h i n g has been left untouch- satisfy any enquirer, who had ed, as it were, by this inquisitive recourse to his wide knowledge. ,

M A L A Y A CATHOLIC L E A D E R , S A T U R D A Y , M A Y 4th,

AROUND SINGAPORE. C H U R C H OF ST JOSEPH. Baptisms. A p r i l 27. George de Paiva, son of Samsofi de P a i v a and of Huech Choon, born i n Singapore on the 16th December, 1932. God-parents:—Jeronimo Lobo and M a r i a Sibelia. A p r i l 27. Peter de Paiva, son of Samson de P a i v a and of Hueh Choon, born i n Singapore on the 20th February, 1935. God-parents:—Francis Lucas Pinto and Henrietta Pinto. A p r i l 28. Maurice E d w a r d R o berts, son of John Roberts and of Nancy Rodrigues, born on the 13th A p r i l . God-parents: George Minjoot and M r s . Irene de Silva. Marriages. M a y 4. Robert Rodrigues, bachelor, son of J o h n Buxton Rodrigues and of Rosalina de Silva, to E v e l y n de Silva, Spinster, daughter of V a l e n tine de Silva and of Caroline Danker. M a y 11. Charles Abescrombe Marsh, bachelor, son of George W i l l i a m M a r s h and of Jane Palmer, to P a t r i c i a Josephine Oliveiro, spinster, daughter of Charles Ferdinand Oliveiro and of Josephine Lousie M o n teiro. Witnesses: Nelson de Silva and Nellie de Silva.

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he has earned such popularity, for working for such a length of time among his parishioners could have meant only one thing, and that his endearment to them. That he will be missed by therji goes without saying. Y e t they can hardly begrudge him the rest he has well merited, especially in his none-toohealthy condition. It is patent to not a few of his parishioners that recently he has been as hardworked as a priest can be. A t no time was this more evidenced than during the Christmas season, when he had to tackle singlehanded on Christmas eve all the work in the confessional, the tediousness of which at such a time none but a priest can quite understand, besides officiating at the Midnight Mass, with H i s Lordship, the Bishop, indisposed at the time. Without doubt. H i s Lordship has been among the first to realise that Father Ruaudel needed rest and needed it badly, which the all-too-little respite he had had on the Cameron Highlands "barely sufficed to provide. } To return to the tea party. M r . W . F . Mosbergen as Honorary Secretary of the Singapore Catholic Club, after the partaking of tea had been for some time i n progress, addressed the gathering, in the course of which he said: M y Lord, R i g h t Reverend F a ther Ruaudel, Reverend Fathers, Ladies and Gentlemen.

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A pleasant duty has fallen to The R t . Rev. P . Ruaudel, V i c a r - me to say a few words on this ocGeneral, Cathedral of the Good casion. Shepherd, Rev. F r . D . Perrisoud, T h i s Entertainment for Father V i c a r , Church of St. John, K u a l a L u m p u r and Rev. F r . P . Piffaut, Ruaudel has been arranged by the Director, College General, Pulo Singapore Catholic Club to be Tikus, Penang left for France on held i n the D r i l l H a l l because the 30 A p r i l on a much needed fur- H a l l affords better accommodalough. We wish them cordially tion, a;s we were inviting all the ' B o n Voyage' and 'Godspeed' and parishioners. earnestly hope that they w i l l reI have no doubt F a t h e r Ruaudel t u r n to their respective fields of is very pleased w i t h the attendlabour w i t h renewed vigour and ance, for a very large number of energy. his parishioners have come to meet h i m . * * * *

FAREWELL TEA PARTY. T o The R t . Revd. P . Ruaudel, V . G . If the presence of the large gathering at the S.V.C. D r i l l H a l l on Monday afternoon were any criterion of his popularity, then the R t . Revd. F a t h e r P . Ruaudel proved himself t r u l y popular among his parishioners. F o r on t h a t occasion quite a good many o f the parishioners of the Cathedral of the " G o o d Shepherd" attended a Tea P a r t y given i n his honour on the eve of his departure f o r Europe on a year's holiday. Held under the auspices of the Singapore Catholic Club, the Tea P a r t y , brought together the no insignificant number of nearly two hundred and fifty people, parishioners alb save for a sprinkling <rf the Catholic clergy. Besides the guest of honour, there were present of the clergv the R i g h t Revd. D r . A . Devals, Bishop of Malacca, and the Revd. Fathers R . Cardon, D . Perrissoud, N . Deredec, J . Sy and R . Dubois. Those of the laitv included the wardens of the Cathedral, officials of the various Catholic organisations and others who come under the categ o r y of 'just parishioners.' F a t h e r Ruaudel has held office as parish priest of the Cathedral f o r no less than two decades, besides being V i c a r General of the See of Malacca for a number of years- N o small wonder then that k

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F a t h e r Ruaudel has been our P a r i s h Priest for 20 years and Vicar-General for many years. In both capacities he has rendered excellent service. He has Worked strenuously for the Church and has taken a lively interest i n C a tholic organizations of the parish. I understand from Father Ruaudel that he is going to the Grotto at Lourdes. W e would ask h i m , when he is there, to say a prayer for us, his parishioners. Ladies and gentlemen, Father Ruaudel will leave us i n a dav or two but don't you be sorry. He is going on a holiday and will return to us with renewed vigour to work again for us in our parish. The R t . Revd. F a t h e r Ruaudel then replied, thanking the Honorary Secretary of the Singapore Catholic Club for his remarks. He could not say that he had been taken by surprise for he had known of the affair of the T e a P a r t y ' beforehand. It was a matter of much pleasure to him that H i s Lordship was present, as H i s Lordship had the welfare of the missionaries at heart and was doing much for them for whicjj they were grateful. W ith regard to what had been said about his rendering excellent service, it was his duty as parish priest to see to the welfare of his parishioners. He had, perhaps his short-ccmT

ings, for no man could be said to be perfect, but i f in the performance of his duties any of his actions had been taken exception to by any, he remarked that he had not been actuated by any personal feelings but rather did what he thought it was his duty to do. A s parish priest he had an affection for his parishioners, by which he was led to do what he . could for them and in their interests. W i t h regard to his intended visit to Lourdes, he certainly would pray for each and every one of his parishioners to our Lady when he had occasion to visit that sacred place. He thanked them all for coming that afternoon and hoped to be with them again after his short, yet long, holiday. M r . Lambert De Souza then called for three cheers for Father Ruaudel which were heartily given. Father Ruaudel afterwards made it a point of going round to each one present and shaking hands with them all. H i s Lordship likewise walked around and came into personal contact with those present.

F A R E W E L L D I N N E R TO RT. R E V . P . R U A U D E L V . G. B y the Wardens and Committee Members of the Cathedral of the Good Shepherd.

On last Saturday night the R t . Rev. P . Ruaudel was the guest of honour at a dinner given by the Wardens and Committee Members of the "Good Shepherd" Cathedral. H . E . Bishop Devals and F r s . Deredec and Dubois were also present. H i s Lordship in proposing F r . RuaudePs health said that F r . . Ruaudel fully deserved the long leave granted as this was only the second leave taken by him after 35 years hard work i n the Missions and he hoped that F r . Ruaudel would return to the East fully refreshed. M r . L . J . Shepherdson, the senior warden, said that he had been in constant touch w i t h F r . Ruaudel since the Father's arrival in Singapore over 20 years ago in connection w i t h the St. Vincent de Paul's Society. F r . Ruaudel took the greatest interest i n the Society and evinced the most active svmpathy for the poor. He said that F r . Ruaudel will be re-attachas the Vicar-General of the Mission spoke for the great wisdom on the part of Bishop Devals as he (the speaker) thought that the mantle could not have fallen on more worthy shoulders. M r . R. Tessensohn spoke of F r . Ruaudel's good qualities and said that F r . Ruaudel was always approachable by all alike and to know h i m was to love him. M r . Tessensohn also said that the parishioners would be glad to welcome h i m back to their midst. In fact they pray that F r . Ruaudel will be reattached to the "Good Shepherd" on his return from leave. F r . Ruaudel replied in very feeling terms and thanked all present for the very kind words expressed. K e remarked that he had heard it said that some people thought he was too old for this P a r i s h . He hoped, however, that on his return from leave the ashes would have dispersed and the smouldering fire would burst into flame again.

Chinese Catholic Action Society. Members of the above Society w i l l please note that the usual monthly meeting is to be held at the premises of the A c t i o n on Sunday 5th M a y after H i g h Mass. The General Communion for members will also be held during the Service. A g e n d a :— 1. T o confirm the minutes of the previous meeting. 2. To consider the celebration of the Silver Jubilee of the Sacred H e a r t Church. 3. General. 4. Refreshment. IN MEMORIAM. To-day, one month ago Rose Agnes Reutens breathed her last at the General Hospital at 12.45 a.m. on A p r i l 5th. I love her, I need her; but A l m i g h t y God called and she had to go. T h y W i l l Be Done. Please pray for the repose of her soul, dear relations and friends. KLANG. OUR L A D Y OF LOURDES CHURCH. Baptisms. A p r i l , 28. Edmond, son of H e n r y A . Pereira and Mary Rose Pereira. God-Parents.—Mr. and M r s . J . D . P e r e i r a of Kapar Estate, K l a n g . A p r i l , 28. Annacloetta, daugter of J . A . Gomez and Jassetha Gomez of Subang Estate, Batu T i g a , K l a n g . God-Parents.—Miss M a r y Gertrude Gomez, G . J . Gomez of Singapore. * * * * A n n u a l Picnic. The dawn of Easter Monday saw the parish priest R e v : E . M . Belet, the members of choir and the altar boys of the Church of Our Lady of Lourdes, Klang, and prominent members of the Catholic Action Society enjoy themselves at the annual picnic at Morib, a seaside health resort. W i t h the lovely weather that prevailed, the splendid housing accommodation placed at their disposal at H i s Highness the Sultan of Selangor's bungalow at the seaside—the good fare prepared by M r . Nonis the president of the K l a n g Catholic A c t i o n Society, and the cash prizes that were given away at the sports organised impromptu by the R e v : E . M . Belet, the picnic were a complete success. The party returned to Klang at about 9 p.m. after spending an enjoyable day.

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PENANG. ASSUMPTION CHURCH. Baptism. Leonard Christopher Peterson, son of Mildred Rosaline and George Aloysius Peterson, of Prai River Dock. God-parents M r . A . L . Rodrigues and M r s . E . M . Rodrigues. R e v . F r : J . B . Souhait officiated on 28th A p r i l , 1935. MARRIAGES. Two fashionable weddings took place at the Church of the A s sumption on E a s t e r Monday morning, one at 8 a.m. and another at 9 a.m. B e i n g well-known and popular members of the Eurasian community large gatherings were present at both weddings. *

The first contracting parties were M r . Frederic E . Peterson, of Kuala L u m p u r , and Miss Marie A . Bruyns, elder daughter of the late Mr. Arnold A . and M r s . G . Bruyns. Rev. F r . Piffaut, of the College of the "Missions Etrangeres," officiated. M r . C. 0 . Rodrigues, of Singapore, gave away the bride. M r . L . O. Rodrigues, of Penang, and Mrs. C. O. Rodrigues, of Singapore, were the sponsors.

PERSONALIA. M r . E . Valberg, the President of the Catholic Action Society, A s sumption Branch, left Penang w i t h his wife by car for Singapore on Easter Sunday, 21st A p r i l , 1935. A s they are spending their vacation i n Singapore for about a month, they will have the opportunity of enjoying the celebrations of H . M . the K i n g ' s Silver Jubilee. M r . H . A . Robless, the Treasurer of the Press Committee, Assumption Branch, left Penang by the P . & 0 . mail s.s. "Ranpura" on the 25th A p r i l , 1935, accompanied by his wife. They are visiting Singapore to enjoy the celebrations of the Silver Jubilee of H . M . the K i n g and also to recuperate their health.

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Obituary. We much regret to announce the death of M r s . L i m Teow Chong, a pious and respected lady. The deceased passed away, fortified by the rites of the Church, at her residence in Swettenham Road on Sunday, the 28th A p r i l , after a prolonged illness. She leaves behind her husband, 10 children, 20 grandchildren and a great grandson to mourn her loss. The Rev. F r . R. Girard conducted the funeral services, which were choral, in the Church of the Holy Rosary and at the B i r c h Road cemetery. Chief mourners were her children: Messrs. L i m Hock H y e , L i m Hock Soon, L i m Hock Siang, L i m Hock Guan, L i m Hock K i a t , M r s . Foo Wha Cheng, Mrs. Loke Y a i k Yeow, M r s . Lauw Yeo Wee, M r s . Chin Swee Onn and Miss Rose Mary L i m .

and ended it on Sunday evening the 14th A p r i l . On Sunday evening before sermon a group photograph was taken with F a t h e r Bulliard as the central figure, immediately after a heavy shower. After sermon the parishioners retreated to the school hall where M r . Dorai R a j garlanded F a t h e r Bulliard after which M r . A r u l on behalf of the parishioners spoke in eloquent Tamil expressing gratitude and thanks for having come all the way from India to preach the words of God to them and in conclusion wished him Bon Voyage. K e was then presented a purse by M r . Dorai R a j i n commemoration of his visit to this parish. F a t h e r Bulliard replied suitably and assured that he will always carry with him pleasant memories and after blessing all those who were

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Miss Doris Bruyns, sister of the bride, acted as bridesmaid. The pages were M a s t e r A v e Rodrigues and Miss Gloria A e r i a . The bridegroom was supported by M r . W . Myler as bestman. M r . A . A . de Cruz, the Assistant Choir Master, presided at the organ. After the ceremony a reception was held at the Elysee Hotel where there was a large gathering of friends. A s the bride's mother is a teacher of the Penang Convent, a good number of Convent girls were present at the wedding. * * * * The second contracting parties were Mr. Edward Augustus D'Souza, second son of the late M r . Matthew P . D'Souza and M r s . D'Souza of Singapore, and Miss Dulcie E . de Cruz, second daughter of Dr. and M r s . E d w i n de Cruz, of Penang and formerly of Singapore. Rev. F r . Souhait, the parish Priest, celebrated the wedding ceremony. T h e bridegroom, who is attached to the Education Office, Singapore, was attended by M r . Stanley D'Souza as bestman. D r . J . E . Smith and M r s . S m i t h were the sponsors. The bride, who was attended by eight bridesmaids, was given away by her father D r . de Cruz. Misses Gloria Quintal, lisme and E n i d Smith and M y r t l e de Cruz were the flower girls. M r . Ben de Cruz, the Choir Master, was at the organ. Following the ceremony a reception was held at the residence of Dr. and M r s . J . E . Smith, N o . 9 Logan Road. D r . Smith proposed the health of the bride and bridegroom and the latter suitably replied. The health of the bridesmaids was proposed by the bridegroom and M r . S. D'Souza, the bestman, responded. *

In the afternoon another marriage between Miss Adriene M . Reutens, sister-in-law of D r . da Silva of the General Hospital, and Mr. E i g i l Orla Knudsen, an engineer in the workshop of Messrs. Borneo Motors L t d . , was celebrated by Rev. F r . Souhait in the Assumption Church.

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KUALA LUMPUR MARRIAGE. Fitzpatrickâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Martin. On Tuesday 23rd A p r i l 1935 at the Church of St. John the E v a n gelist, K u a l a L u m p u r the m a r r i age was solemnised between Hariette Alexandra, daughter of M r . and M r s . C. R . M a r t i n of K u a l a L u m p u r and Henry Walter Price, son of M r s . L . Fitzpatrick and the late M r . Fitzpatrick. Rev. F r . D . Perrisoud officiated at the H i g h Mass. M r s . Fernando and M r . Herbert Daly were the Sponsors, A reception was held at the Masonic H a l l , Damansara Road where a large gathering of friends were present. In a w i t t y speech D r . L . S, Perera proposed the health of the bride and bridegroom to which the bridegroom suitably replied, at the same time proposing the health of the bridesmaid, Miss M a r t i n , on whose behalf the bestman M r . J . R . Buxton responded. M r . and M r s . C. R. M a r t i n are very well known Eurasians of K u a l a Lumpur, while M r . Fitzpatrick the Bridegroom is the Chairman of the Sports and Socials Committee of the Selangor Eurasian Association.

Among the very large attendance of friends and sympathisers were the Hon'ble M r . L a i Tet Loke, M . F . C . , M.S.C., M r . K o k F a i Y i n , M r . San A h W i n g , J . P . , M r . L . Y . Swee, J.P., D r . N g Bow Huah, D r . J . S. Goonting, and the grave was covered by a profusion of floral tributes, m a r k i n g the popularity and esteem i n which the deceased was held. A Requiem H i g h Mass was said for the repose of her soul on Wednesday, 1st May, 1935. T E L U K ANSON. Visit of Rev. F r . Bulliard, St. Anthony's Church. F o r the first time since this present church was built about 16 years ago, Mass was said here on Palm Sunday this year. Usually Mass was said at Tapah for the benefit of the parishioners there who will not be able to hear Mass on Easter Sunday. A s Rev. F a ther was here holding his mission these few davs, the opportunity was taken to say Mass w i t h all the ceremonies of a Palm Sunday. Rev. Father Bulliard opened his mission here the last place in M a laya for h i m to preach, on Wednesday (10th) .evening at 6 o'clock

assembled there, the gathering dispersed. In spite of heavy rains all these days there were large crowds a l l the days when the sermon was preached. A t midnight on that Sunday F a t h e r Bulliard accompanied by F a t h e r Aloysius left Teluk Anson by car for Sungkai where he caught the night mail for Kuala L u m p u r . R E V . F R . B O N A M Y VISITS FORMER PARISH. Rev. Father Bonamy, the former parish priest of this place who is at present posted at Sungei P a t a n i paid a visit to this place last M o n day and returned on Wednesday. The people here were glad to see him as he was very popular w i t h the parishioners and liked by one and all. The St. Anthony's School owes its existence to F a t h e r Bonamy's zeal and forethought. ROYAL JUBILEE THANKSGIVING. On the occasion of the Silver Jubilee of H i s Majesty K i n g George V , on Monday, M a y 6th, there will be a solemn Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament w i t h "Te Deum" of Thanksgiving at 11.30 a.m. at St. Anthony's C h u r c h Teluk Anson.

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GLOWING TRIBUTE TO CATHOLIC ACTION THE MOST REV. DR. FOSS WESTCOTT, THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND BISHOP OF CALCUTTA, METROPOLITAN OF INDIA, BURMA AND CEYLON URGES UNITED EFFORTS TO PURGE CINEMA INDUSTRY OF ITS EVILS. [The following account will doubtless ennable our sapient 'armchair critics' to know more facts about the Catholic Legion of Decency, instead of vapouring ab)ut their ears and conniving at truth. Ed. M.C.L.] (From "The HeraH "—April 14, 1935). Calcutta.—Under the auspices of the Bengal Welfare Association, a meeting was held on Monday, at the Overtown H a l l , ( Y . M . C . A . College Branch) Calcutta, to consider the demoralising effect of undesirable and unhealthy cinema films, posters, etc. The Most Rev. D r . Foss Westcott, the C h u r c h of E n g l a n d Bishop of Calcutta and Metropolitan of India, B u r m a and Ceylon, presided. A crowded hall listened w i t h rapt attention to the several speakers many of whom emphasised the great work done by the Catholic Church under the Legion of Deceney both i n A m e r i c a and India. Part Played by "The Herald." R a i R a m Dev. Chokani Bahadur, the well-known M a r w a r i leader, traced the work done i n India i n the fight for clean films and explained what had been achieved in Calcutta, Bombay, Madras and Lucknow. H e referred to the success which had resulted f r o m the work of the Legion of Decency i n A m e r i c a and drew the attention of the meeting to the fact that Catholics i n India had also been organized under a Legion of Decency to carry on the campaign against bad films i n this country. In this connexion the Rai Bahadur commended the part played by in starting the "The Herald Decency Campaign in India and in its work of keeping Catholics informed of the progress of the campaign. 99

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presidential chair to D r . W . S. Urquhart, Principal of Scottish Church College, but before leaving he asked to address a few words to the meeting. , — There were three points D r . Westcott said he would like to particularly mention and the first was that they were not opposed to the cinema industry as such as the cinema could well be a great power for good. W h a t they opposed was the cinema as a power for evil. He said i t had to be admitted that there were several good pictures exhibited to the public and it should be their purpose to encourage such pictures while they different opposed those of a character. The second point he said was the principle on which films were supplied to show houses. H e understood that there was a contract system by which producers supplied to an exhibitor during a given period three or four films of a very high grade and 16 or 17 films which were of an indifferent, mediocre, or even objectionable type. It was necessary for them to influence the producers so that the show-houses should be delivered from a system which almost made it compulsory that some of their films should be of a less desirable character. Another thing; which was necessary was that definite principles and definite standards should be laid down by which a l l films should be tested and by which their approval should be^ secured. Tribute to Catholic Work. F i n a l l y D r . Westcott paid a glowing tribute to the work of the Catholic Church i n g i v i n g the lead

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in the fight against unclean films. " Credit where credit is due," said D r . Westcott. He said that the Legion of Decency in America had been a real power for good and the Legion of Decency in India started by " The Herald " was also to be commended. He urged all communities and interests irrespective of caste and creed to unite their efforts with the work of the Legion of Decency so that the cinema industry may be purged of its evils which was a matter of common concern to all. Among the other speakers, many of whom addressed the meeting i n Bengalee, were:— Sir P . C. Roy, M r . Surendra Nath Sen, S j . Ramananda C h a terjee, K h a n Bahadur Ashaduz Zaman, Swami Satyananda, M a ulvi Tamizuddin K h a n , M r . C . A . Newberry and D r . Urquhart. Dr. U r q u h a r t in concluding the meeting said it would be unfortunate i f the idea got abroad that the meeting had been called by

" killjoys " to secure the destruction of all kinds of entertainment. Their object was not to destory healthy amusement, but to elevate it. The meeting unanimously passed several resolutions which i n cluded : 1. The censoring of films depicting (a) Sex scenes and (b) H o r r o r scenes. 2. Censoring of cinema posters and for this purpose a stricter standard than i n the case of films to be adopted. 3. Cinema proprietors be compelled to exhibit once a week a special show for children. 4. A committee be appointed by Government to inquire i n to the effect of present day films on the. mind and morality of the public. A f t e r the meeting The Herald representative was asked by the Secretary, Bengal Welfare Association, to furnish particulars of the work of the Legion of Decency and he was assured the Association in its work for clean films would co-operate with Catholics.

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