Western World, The (Newspaper) - September 5, 1918, Des Moines, Iowa AN ATTEMPT TO POPE German Suctions To Spain Said To Hive Been Sanctioned by tile Holy Fatter The America of York in ils issue of August L contains an article by J L entitled More Mid JJ Summer The author il contends lhal Iho agitation carried f on against the Holy Father Is not i only continuous but il Is conducted In i a careful manner Innuendo nnd veiled I1 Insinuations usually taking tbe place of open K Since Ihls article appeared lional evidence of lhc con In an has be sent by an unnamed correspondent m Spam via Havana to tlie New York Herald Company and copyright ed by lhal Papers re service of thai agency havo copied nnd ono ot them The Globe Democrat or SI has grimed It under headlines Crafty Huns Beguile Spanish In Effort lo Decry V K Propaganda Work Dono among Dons Who Are Non Awaking to Insincerity of Germans The of the article is struck in the sentences lest he knowing reader might miss It one ot the first paragraphs reading inns As Hie most important of the Cath 01 o nol yel aligned willi for the peac aled in Je sanction of the ending of hostilities by 1 or compromise before Germany anil Austria can be crushed Into by their foes i No proof Is advanced that the Vat I can has ostensibly sanctioned such peace propaganda nnd tbe fact that Ibe correspondent nol named does nol permit the reader to place Iho re to ne with any ono Tbc statement IB a nojd assertion pure and simple and al that one designed to cast on the Pope who Is represented lions with China and Japan in this way the Vatican Is already in official rotation with various nations repre all of principal religions ot the world negotiations are BloDd lo be under way between ine Vatican and Switzerland for nn ex change of representatives Official that such an been reached may be expected at any moment One of Hie dearest projects along this line which his holiness Is de clared in competent circles to have at hear is lu see the apostolic dele eato at Washington raised lo the po sition of a papal nuncio or papal am At present lime no olli exist between the States and the Vatican Tho Ulc ut Washington is mere ly lo watch over t American Catholics Precedent Is Set Should lhc United states consent I lining lids to o 1 nunciature this would provide to i regular exchange of rot other Protestant to say OUR WEEKLY ROME LETTER Pope Royalty Workmen Pray For Royal Gift to Cardinal Rome Homo July be a great leveler Hut tie Is t r has till ot SB ind knelt before the Most become a focal point of those peace offensives win the ostensible 7 i ic say nothing of nnd stales Li VS mil m SBO make this on lhc part of the suites It is pointed out any toms Previous cus is or less nbi Hy of eventual resumption ol diplomatic France nnd steps arc I Progress all time and it I 1 ls ir lat cerlain lhal ih There seems el the end of the i in a positi develop into official je that at the Vatican will Ils Influence on o OM j In an official anil manner to ward establishment of n permanent world of v that lh ice nnd loward humanitarian questions the war period fa ecr nii is represented as I favoring tho Central Powers II only to the of endeavoring o securo for an acceptable peace I thus being crushed into humility by their foes There can be no doubt thai Ihls ar as won as the Instances referred j to by the Americas contributor ir 1 product ot that propaganda which conducted tar yours for Iho ing the Papacy It is i or secret wilh the nations of fact dial r societies In Eurpoe every effort la Iho Church nnd stop al no means wh ch appear suitable to their onds And those who know iho lac pursued by these of the I Church wll realize that the of entire to t nil American is but another lo a poisoned arrow J through the press into the minds M Americans lo convey lo ini HuU the Pope o 1 the war alms of onr country Tho certainly have advanced proof of his contention that Pope hae tnt peace ot lhc C Hut he merely lells us that Press Association of lerman has thanked tbe Spanish press for the in ravo of tbo of between tbo nations on the principles by Pope ho can say lhal Pope Is lo any notion by advocating such a I of a world peace t then lies the I Jone t The launching or lhc Ilie i in American papers us European channels tor the lain to bring CARDINAL FARLEY BETTER May out or C rered in Rome ror Hi Recovery The ot Cardinal John 11 Farley archbishop of Now York who 1 with lias Improved so steadily in lew that his secretary Msg cir roll said Saturday the paS wn non apparently out ol danger unless he Buffered a relapse egale to Washington i send daily on of Cardinal Parley Hy order of Holy father irs were offered In the messed Sacrament to ask heaven to srim lo lhc world tile dressings of peace Princely hends of the most ancient Konian families and workmen fresh from their toll knell side by side from p m lo a in to tho prayers out by the Vicar of 1 never realized the beauty of Ibe Allies Prayer fur Peace until 1 heard It read on of the of June In lhc silence of S Peters by him who composed it Benedict XV himself kneeling before Ibe Heal Pres once said one of the priests present The visit of His Holiness to the urn containing the ashes of St Peter the Messing of the sacred palliums for distribution among archbishops in every clime tlie presence ot tho Arch confraternity of Nocturnal Adoration i the Messed headed by scieT ta LIFF IN TUP India ho returns shortly Al IH lilt tlie celebrations held In Turin in connection with the Golden Jubilee of Albero and of lhc consecration or Our Lady or Help ot Christians In Ihls city al which Cardinal another son of Don Dosco Cardinal 15 Bishops anil numerous priests Falbor and a Salesian seminarist from tbe Archdiocese of Madras re India Notes H was stated some months Ko and on good authority which un wittingly erred that tbe body of st Anthony of Padua had been removed lo Home from tho resting place ot in Padua Tills re port has recently been ln accordance with custom lhc So ciety for Catholic ot Ihls city presented a silver at the lomb of St Peter on the till Up o tbe year this gift was given by Hie Homan Senate Durinc the celebrations on tile fearl the chal ice slood upon tho Papal over reason lo think lhat for the of the t at of tlie He US president Ilona ade C i ae a r to lhc vigil before the Divine f enee of Pope and people Thai night ono son relli lo bis Vicar i e of Christ and State in ll anal to the condition e n e o last fnr the reco ordinal The tended or th colony ai Holy Father ceil not as have leei lion of th or vears be led a stray by n HELP TOWARD PEACE Diplo M Hopes to Establish Relations With reparation foi LT task of r the nf many By being In and con I tact with nil the leading ot world Die Vatican hopes lo he la position to lend aid and to of the states and who with the close it the war will Lin to the wa any reference lo th F mentioned policy r were r allona were resumed inK land and the Vatican anil a papal nun clo was accepted nt Constant by the Ottoman empire and to enter Into rola ol Ills POPES GIFT TO CARDINAL Topaz of Ran Value Exquisite Beau ty and Historical Associations Given Cardinal Gaspare On a recent occasion before Ills Mol Iness jad descended lo SI Peters be performed an act of Which the service of his chief ser vant 1 the ruling o the Church made lo him Indeed namely that of tn Cardinal bis Sec of State a girt of tho or a Pope and lhal ot a Prince r tho Church This is a topaz o rare value anil ot associations lhat make it doubly welcome The topaz is of extra ordinary dimensions H has incised on It figures or tie messed Virgin and the Infant Jesus surrounded wilh bril liants emeralds and rubles This prec belonged lo another great Papal Secretary of Stale Cardinal Ils value from an intrinsic joint or view 1s described by experts very great i and state in Iho ot after seven years ol complete separation Bishops driven from their native land are re turning to their dioceses to ir parishes and their bisters lo convents for laws that were contrary to the w of the Portugese people aro now r And any day nt all may si Ibe arrival of a Portuguese Amboss dor to the as well of 1 apal Nuncio at Lisbon So Portugal has fallen Into with England In re dl relations with Holy Se a tad that will not be forgotten I After the Holy u between Iho Tiber ar coadjutors Secretariat of Mote Lerre 1 whose experience gained i America and Australia prove now untold value to Ilio Holy Sae Secretary ie Secret Cypher What io Pope sent Cardinal Caspar rl on the eve of his name day Fca or a 1 one ot Ilie rarest stone u world the famous lhil belonged to secretary of stul A word on mis famous It I fancy the of Ils kind In On it ia incised the the Mother of and es ither the that Pope Innocent X or Ml will be made to verify MEDAL OF QUEEN Is upon Superior of Sister of Charily of our Lady of Mercy minister Dr Mon the to tbe Superior Rev surn FOR VICTORIOUS PEACE Name Society of SI Louis WSI Have Freld Mass In at Forest Park vie lo ill peace in Park ls under lln of Catlio Hc Union of he Hilly Name 3 religious ceremony viU lie slmi in character to III military mass 1 an on lhc i of St Asylum r Archbishop nnd C K or Half will Hid bearing a note Id i el exl ene or his chief In Hie Vat I Uu otb The e again lls In un of Kilii This hils Hi nail POPES REPLY TO KAISER ic Holy Reply to Sent by Grossly Mi6 understood to plat lo tl ne hail Invoke the wor Tho Oiservatore clears up tho misunderstanding that has arisen Her the telegram sent hy tho r of Germany to Pope on he of Holiness name day no of the Holy Fathers to the telegram lhat fur in Iho newspapers in Holland nl lhal on d lhal the had called blessings upon Iho What Pope his reply eally was h he thanked the crman for greeting and ae lell liy a certain early in it which Iho Into of Norfolk d i ipii nn were prec o then un Hie point of Tlir ling ho 11 fur benem or Maceil Hoinan lo be passed oil lo x This la n of history that not be Single Hekels No l he mono by consuls n Ilie cnse of traveler over e o return mull arier tiie war One or Ibe lucky ones I understand is Mann or lhc College of Ven Hede bas ror The last or r American Colleg Tbc has In Lut liev Mother ot the sisters o Charity of Our lady of Mercy which has branch houses In tic and Conn 20th Juno Ie orm you lhat G u the has been graciously pleased lo upon you the Medaille de It JLsabelh In recognition of the kind help and valuable assistance you have personally given to the Kian and the eol ulers during the war The insignia of this medal will bo forwarded to you in due course the intermediary ot this e Yours sincerely UK Minister ROMAN SUMMER Rome Center ol The Official Ecclesiastical Holiday and Tint of TLe Pope Home September is well in sight the do not con sider tho very hot weather lias come Hut for some weeks belore hand lhc animal exodus has taken place The Conscript have already lett bants of the Tiller for coun try hoary old villas lv ing amid vines flowers and trees that have been n tn some instances for well a thousand years The most Interesting of cosmopolitan Home the semina Ists ot tho foreign colleges have kl city July 15 traditions dote for lie opening of vacation The Propagandists lo their fine villa near longn of Macau eys Lays the Irish to all Tibus which Horaco wrole o so often years ago None of u yet allowed the mental cobweb lo obscure in our memories that amns ing of frankness oc m his epistle lo AIM vanus when writing from Tivoli in summer Hme he refers lo a mental who wish when at Home to be at and when ot Tibur lo he at Rome Th Scots are at Marino surrounded li their own beautiful vineyards The are at In luce of Perugia which ha small army of ecclesiastics em Ployed on Sacred Unman Nations It now on and ends of During this Cardinal ot various degrees simple anil he laymen lawyers scribes elc to these Departments of tho Church which Iho ot Christ the affairs ot tbe Divine Vineyard all over the world are scattered all over some al holiday resorts oilers In their native towns ami village Only one priest in the Eternal city has lu do without n ou n i 111 Hie Vatican Warde in nan e of his prelate Is taken FOR London Organizes a Service lo Aid Tbe Cardinal Mercier Fund for Refugees A service w s organized last the Oratory of Cardinal Herders for Belgians Na was nd ic assistant lo Cardinal Mer cier officiated al en h Preached in military ami has mud 1 great t an a ami has now been chaplain to King Albert de eloquent panegyric lo their own houee sc redolent of memories of the Cardinal Duke ot York and an many other at Monte be Ing wilh poor refugees The Americans are at ian dolfo In Iho spacious villa acquired during his by now Cardinal OConnell twenty years ago from Prince Tho late Archbishop Kennedy more Iban Hie house room and in other ways vastly Improved this summer re officials Congregations and the good ordinary run of Roman people are left on ths Seven Hills Well we must only make Hie best of the long hot Koulan summer and bo thankful for short snatches of holidays later on The Reign of Sol bo far as extent and population goes city of Homo is no more than a provincial own In comparison with New or wilh London Hut in in In seneral Interest in learn ing there is I believe no to com pare with that on her hills Leaving Tor Iho e cannot govern vitli cry morning before the sun sains strength and perhaps another In tho is lie sum total of Ilie holf y amusement ol Pope Benedict xv As tar as possible the Cardinal Sec of Slate remains all the sum mer beside Papal throne I he sixteen years passed by Iho late Cardinal as Secretary of Male to Leo Kill His tb Ehl Apostolic The ot State is the only one ot tho Cardinals w n o ho lies in the Vatican Ami lur ins the Coan years by Cardl nU Merry del Val as Male o Plus X he look only a V days of vacation iti the old Papal 1 ace at Costen in he slept in a villa which Con an ased survivor of I Pontifical placed at His disposal on Monte Mario ECHOES FROM THE NATIONAL CAPITAL L A A O H War Service Questionnaire Maia Out fit Fund Irish Mothers Message to Ireland By Auxili H of Chl of the Ladles to the Order of s has a la to bo the e to live I a lery yea i forget Rome is the seat of tv un Mario ery morning Cardinal motored Iho minutes bis days work Vo grander record of devotion I master can be adduced Life in Rome And so runs a small chapler Pim of life In Ron of cilles In v firmly convinced tiery cast In normal times Hie best ai most famous men nnd women ot th five pass through it city In Home Is tru abtorblng Is the remark which mo ot the Bishops mako when they con fi 1 kt d aro correct For 1 lite redolent of tho movements c ho hour for associations with tn Pst for Iho presence of people c whom read In the Press the Clt FOR OF HEROISM American SIMers of Saint Jos fom French Government News has come to the Sisters o St Joseph of New Orleans Ui seventeen members of their onj I a vo been with Var gov The Ie that of the mightiest which the world has e anil that of low then does Home pass tin when King Sol reigns from I r lu seven in the Thai very I n n lett behind i the bree heights fifteen Cardinal wh had symbolic ti r which Del ltd tbe od Urit Ho fo So a ay in Knv Jo and lev Wilfrid Moe Southwark And next week J ltv Tn Aberdeen take their tie Also llev Peter Missionary or Don who ban ion tho ot Philosophy In tne fi n had suffered ami law and the Tin allies or the was very full f a si ond s left the he orcan playe ths SWORD OF HONOR FOR FOCH The Municipal of Park has agreed o present with a of Ills in chief f CROSS CHAPLAINS INSIGNIA to Substitute Shepherds Crook or Cross Abandoned Catholic Federation is ic War Department has Plan to a Shepherds k or the Cross ns Army chap ins insignia This made lasl week at tho monthly or the committee or of Catholl Societies Hie in a leller rom Ibe or the War Council it ivas staled thil the Ilion was broached Iho Committee on War Activities Hie of Six of ren of all ns had tho plan and the protest had been heeded FOR VICTORIOUS PEACE Holy Name Society of St Louis Will Have Field Mass In Earty October A Mass for n victorious will bo celebrated Forest Park Kl Sunday H under 111 aus pice of Un nil ft the Name The re ceremony will ho similar In character to tho Mass said an on f St Joseph Asylum July in Archbishop nnd c K of the Tex Home Long roij and conIdi liy the BOV The are In th of present liy over their c to wen upon the Held or to the wounded and in aels of am if their clle is to to by every Division President In stales the Order may compile valuable Information and render untold service to the Govern ment in the great International cris Tho answers will deal wilh the num jer ot relatives ot the members of he Order serving in each arm ot the service the number of graduate es and those who arc to train nice and every phase of war vorK m the various sections is cover ed and the amount or Liberty and Savings Slumps thai nave been purchased Is When all ot Iho have been returned to National President they will be turned over to Miss Ada K Gannon of Iowa lhc National chairman of Irish history to whom has been assigned he pleasing task of tho Jils lory ot Ibe War Service rendered for Cod and by the members of 10 Ladles Auxiliary A 0 H In the of United Stales of America and In tbe Dominion of Can ada during great war that wilt go down In history as the one that made tho world safo for democracy The President In part The lhal will tell to generations he caliber ot Iho women who held membership In Iho ranks of the Ladles Auxiliary A o stirring years commencing wilh Good Friday and extending over the duration of tho present war will be our Ht if those who come after us will locality in the United States and Can ada one hears of splendid service giv en generously lo every en thai will ensure onr beloved country success In Ibe most for human liberly which has ver taken the dawn of by Iho good ladles of the auxiliary The of accomplished liy onr that have come to lhc knowl ideh has s the blood ot Iris her veins The ladies are noble service to their loo busy to lake tin lo ro such deeds hence something st be done lo preserve them in turn or recon of the S 0 I from the Im f a deeke run thence to he hospitals FOR LEGION OF HONOR Chaplain of Rec for French Dec oration lurks Sivly ported lo have lain of for th IU li field franc i of Ilo work iho day among hilT une can forget these hill very cradle of European hUilo An a leaves coup hours for he Kll nVal the of me coot Quo mentions when anil laki Hie imperial Mimmer by the sea Ir to Nel where the Saracens landed in o il lr anil lefi a part of Hii eond for apu the of the just like thai isj b four centuries i discover America are Ib lr UK hills ml pa COMMUNION AT MIGHT Soldiers Approach Sacraments belo Rushins into Battle Line Som 1 Letter of the date or u states hal il is tin of the hoard with October Isl mis create in onr Treasury i Fund The s tn lu sun 0 Kurt president Is i is of tile it ill Iw i In A hi th da Into ih huk lrs he and tl i ight nyj gil I io the sent Us K he in o Mil U Ih practical In all Mil I l anil of Homo Writ ing to he says Aml Ibal you may know whai 111 of Is Ne uu huto Ie valo i kn mi of Cu en has forth lier fruit or a full horn The Official A few ago a ew ago a was madi In Iho dalts of tip official learning of tin at n was eil 01 11 1s the lei t last nnd n mm Futher to o MM ot our III ml wln lot be iec is nie cal h Km after to Join nils jiny mull ih Miss Outfit Fund i lias inn hj I Sti hi hi il h splendid T Ul draft linst find m Ill a our Arm of no off In your to iia Marn Oium Ku 1 fund
