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THE TRIBUNE —FRIDAY, MAY 26th, 1933.
THE TRIBUNE
The Only Catholic semi-weekly (English) of the South
Published every Tuesday and Friday by the Mulec Bros.
Publishing Co., 108 Texana St., Hallettsville, Texas
Editor.--
Walter Malec.
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Contributing Editors: Very Rev. L. P. Netardus, Rev. P.
P. Kaspar, Rev. J. C. Kune, Rev. J. Toujas, Rev. T. Vo-
patek, and Hon. S. Kulawik
Subscription rates $1.50 a year; $1.00 eight months; 50o
four months
Entered as second-class mail matter Jan. 7, 1932, at the
post office at "Hallettsville, Texas, under the Act of Mar.
8, 1879.
The House of Morgan
According to his own testimony before the
senate committee, J. P. Morgan, Jr., and his
nineteen or more partners in the firm did not pay
any federal income tax since the year 1930 when
their total income tax amounted to only 48 thou-
sand dollars.
“The testimony startled the thronged room,
and senators---”, says the Washington dis-
patch. There will, no doubt, be a similar ef-
fect thruout the country. Before the same se-
nate committee a few weeks ago another big ban-
ker testified. It was Charles E. Mitchell, chair-
man of the board of the National City Bank of
New York, compelled to admissions which caus-
ed him to resign and to face trial on the charge
of evading income tax payments amounting to
858,000 in 1929 and 1930.
This is an interesting spectacle especially
for those farmers who lost their farms for not
being able to meet their taxes, or who had to
borrow to pay them, to see how the big bank-
ers were trying to evade paying the taxes out of
plenty of profits, and nothing was done about it,
until this senate investigation brought it to the
light.
The Beer Tangle
On one hand the federal collector of internal
revenue at Austin is issuing the licenses for sale
of 3.2 per cent beer in this state, and on the oth-
er hand the federal dist. attorney, as well as
our state attorney, is strongly objecting against
the legality of such permits to sell 3.2% beer in
the “dry” territory. Some arrests were made
in the same cases where the beer permits were
issued. The 3.2% beer is not supposed to be
intoxicating at all, unless you go into too great
excesses. Yet congress made a further pro-
vision to protect dry states which forbids the sale
even of this not intoxicating beer in dry terri-
tories of the United States. If such is the law
and it is not legal to sell 3.2% beer in dry stat-
es, then the federal government should not issue
licenses to sell the beer in these states. In o-
ther words, they ought to know what they are
doing.
Should measuies now pending in Congress become
law, certain railroads and insurance companies will be
relieved of heavy burdens. One of these bills provides
that no insurance company which borrows money from
the Reconstruction Finance Corporation may pay its
president a salary higher than $17,500. A larger limit
is permitted the rairload. It may pay $25,000.
These restrictions will affect very few companies di-
rectly, but among these are some of our largest corpora-
tions. Thus the president of the Pennsylvania Railroad,
a borrower from the Government, now receives a salary
of $109,000. This is a small sum, however, when com-
pared with the stipends of other corporation officials.
No one knows precisely what Bethlehem Steel pays its
chief executive, but a committee of stockholders esti-
mates that $7,000,000 in the last 6 years is the correct
figure. But as Bethlehem Steel has borrowed no money
fom the Government, it will not be affected by the new
legislation.
The insurance companies have long been liberal with
their higher officials, but within the last few years they
have been almost prodigal. Speaking in the Senate a few
weeks ago, Senator Robinson, of Indiana, asked how they
could afford, at a time when they were complaining that
the value of their securities was depreciating, to increase
presidential salaries. The salary of the president of the
Metropolitan Life rose from $175,000 in 1929 to $200,-
000 in 1933. A vice president of this company saw his'
salary swell in that same period from $66,875 to $125,-
000. The Mutual Life is not so ambitious, 'since in three
years the president’s salary has risen from $100,000 to
only $125,000, and the Prudential has kept its president
at the level of $125,000. To balance this, however, the
New York life recently advanced the salary of its pre-
sident form $100,000 to $125,000.
In normal times these sums mtfy .conceivably, be fair-
ly earned. But a well-regulated industry will reduce the
salaries in the higher brackets before it reduces either
dividends, or the wage of the employes in the lower
brackets. In a Federal bankruptcy proceeding two weeks
ago, involving the Missouri Pacific Railroad, Judge Faris
ordered the president to continue, in office, but at a sa-
lary reduced from $85,416 to $40,000, At the same time,
the salary of the “senior vice president” was reduced i
Seven Pilgrimages From England
Are Received by Pope.
London. — (NC) — In the first
month of the Holy Year tiie Sove-
reign Pontiff received seven Jubilee
pilgrimages from England.
Within the next four month's there
is every prospect that there will be
no fewer than three pilgrimages each
month.
In addition to the organized groups
many English pilgrems are going to
Rome individually.
The climax will come when the na-
tional pilgrimage reaches Rome early
in October. The pilgrims will prob-
ably number about 1,000.
1,500 Chicago Police to Receive Com-
munion at St. Jude Shrine.
Chicago, May 19. — More than 1,-
500 members of the Policemen
Branch of St .Jude’s-league will re-
ceive Holy Communion at 9 a.m., Sun
day, May 28, at the National Shrine
of St. Jude, 9049 Brandon avenue.
The service will be held on the last
day of a solemn novena in honor of
St. Jude that begins next Saturday.
Spain Places Ban on All Teachers of
Religious Orders. ’
Madrid, May 18. —(INS)— More
than 500,000 Spani'sh children today
faced deprivation of a Catholic edu-
cation following passage by the cor-
tes of a measure prohibiting mem-
bers of religious orders, both male
and female, to engage in teaching
activities. By an overwhelming vote
of 278 to 50, republicans in the legte
lature gagged all opposition to force
through their program embodying re
strictlons of Church activity. 80,000
members of religious orders will be
ousted as teachers before the end of
this year.
Property and treasures of the
Church, valued at $500,000,000, are
seized by the government under the
measure, which claps a ban on reli-
gious orders by forbidding them to
from $40,000 to $19,200, and other officials were obliged j function
, . . ... . .... ___. The Catholic teachers are
to take cuts ranging from twenty-five to fifty per cent. ... . . . .
without lawful religious activity,
The wage rate of the other employe's was not changed.
left
There is a strong and healthy principle underlying
the proposal that Congress shall regulate the wage scale
in industries that are of their nature inter-State. It is
preferable, of course, as Leo XIII teaches, that this and
other conditions should be settled by private agreement.
Cut where that agreement cannot be reached, the civil
authority not only may but should intervene, to the
end that the rights of all be safeguarded.
Example of Spain
The religious orders in Spain are eliminated
from all teaching activities by the new legisla-
tion just passed by the cortes — the parliament
of Spain. Eighty thousand members of reli-
gious orders will be ousted as teachers before the
end of the year, as the dispatch says. Under the
same law, the government is seizing all property
and treasures of the Church, valued at 500 mil-
lion dollars. To these ends the Catholicity of
this Latin country — the most Catholic at one
time — is coming. It’s not because the Church
disappeared from Spain. It’s not that the reli-
gion is there no more. In fact, the Catholics
in Spain are today probably just as numerous
as they ever were. But the mere numbers do
not count, unless there is a wide-awake and ac-
tive spirit behind them.
These conditions are possible in the formerly
most Catholic country just like in Mexico be-
cause the Catholics failed to develop and main-
tain their strength in the public life for pro-
tection of their own rights — civic as well as re-
ligious — they failed to build the press and or-
ganization — they slept while the enemy was ac-
tive, and woke up till it was too late. The ex-
ample of both countries — Mexico and Spain —
should serve as a serious warning that the price
of liberty is continuous watchfulness — the Ac-
tion.
Popular Music
The new law leaves no chance for
evasion.
Walter Damre'sch has just passed in hi's quiet way
the most severe criticism on modem or so-called “popu-
lar” music it has received by saying that it is like a jig-
saw 'puzzle made by cutting up a cheap picture; it is
not worth the time and effort requited to put it toge-
ther. Popular music is not worth the effort of trying
to make out what it is all about.
Has he not spoken the truth?
Of the thousands of popularpieces now being turned
out every month will there be a dozen living and appre-
ciated 25 years from now? We hope not. This is
not to say that music must be ilassical, as that term is
generally used to get a hold on the people A recital
of the names of pieces that are generations old, and are
loved and played and sung still, disproves that. —Co-
lumbus Dispatch.
On Hearir* St. Peter’s Choir
Across the trackless mountains of the sea
Where tempest watches like a cormorant,
Outroding lightning, the sky’s majesty,
Falls the proud chorus of the Sistine chant.
Above the discord of a heedless city,
Music is builded in a jeweled dome:
Anguish and triumph, erstacy and pity.
Drifting down like incense from distant Rome.
If 1, so deafened by the world, can hear
St. Peter’s choir across uncharted space,
Maybe in a resplendent hour of grace
I shall hear God from His celestial sphere.
Maybe my small and timid bird of pra'yer
Will find a nest within His bosom there.
Florence Ripley Mastin, in N. Y. Times.
Dr. Hruening Declines to Leave His
Country Amid Ills for Oxford Chair
Berlin, May 22. — (NC) — It is
officially denied that former Chancel-
lor Dr. Heinrich Rruening has de-
rided to accept a chair of economics
at lOxford University.
Dr. Buening, in refusing the invi-
tation, said that he would not pos-
sibly leave his country in such diffi-
cult times.
His deefsion is rendered doubly
noteworthy since after leaving the
chancellorship, Dr. Bruennig has been
without any income other than the
small remuneration he receives as a
former mayor of Detroit and now
governor general, of the Philippine
islands, was received into the Third
Order of St. Francis Saturday, May
13, at St. Bona venture monastery.
The Rev. Com ad Link, 9. F. M.,
guardian of Duns Scotus college, of-
ficiated at the ceremony. Among
the clergy present were the Very
Rev. Benno Aichinger, O. M. Cap.,
provincial at the monastery, the Rev.
Sebastian Schaff, O. M. Cap., and
the Rev. Reginald Lutomski, O. F. M.
The Third Order of St. Francis
was instituted seven centuries ago
for the laity. The members pledge
themselves to wear the 'scapular and
cord and to recite daily 12 times the
Our Father, the Hail Mary and the
Glory be to the Father, etc. They
are expected to lead an exemplary
life and to assist in charitable works.
They may enjoy innocent amuse-
ments but are exhorted to practice
moderation in all things.
Many of the greatest statesmen,
scientists, composers, writers and
scholars as welt - as Popes and car-
dinals during past centuries have been
members of the order. Among them
were Volta, Galvani, Gounod, Liszt,
Murillo, Michaelangelo, Dante, Cer-
avntes, Aubrey de Vere, Francis
Thompson, Windthorst. Ozanam, Co-
lumbus, and Cardinals Newman and
Manning.
PERKINS TURNS PRO
First Woman Editor
of U. of C. Papers
Cincinnati, O. — An unusual dis-
tincition has been given a Catholic
student at the University of Cin-
cinnati in the selection by the facul-
ty and the publication advisors of
Jean Hennegan as editor of the Uni-
versity News and the Bear Cat. The
honor is greater because she is the
first woman selected for the respon-
sible office.
Miss Hennegan, who is president
of^the- Uatholic sorority, -Theta Phi
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T. Phillip Perkins, 1928 British ama-
;teur champion and who tied ?or second
In the 1032 United States open chatn-j
jPionship, began his first Job as a pro-)
.fessionnl when he took up his dutlea]
as head pro at the KIrtland Country!
club, near Cleveland, Ohio.
VARIETY
Alpha, and vice president of the Stu-
dents’ Council, is the daughter of
Paul M. Hennegan, Francis Lane.
Bishop to Confer Order of St.
Gregory on Galveston Judge
While there is no royal road to
cleverness, the real raod, such as it
is, frequently is traveled by royal
feet. In these days the functions of
royalty are not of a nature that is
likely to develop merry dispositions.
Rich i nsly humo was the reply of
Henry IV of France, who one day
reached Amiens after a prolonged
journey. A local orator was deput-
ed to harangue him, and commenced
with a lengthy string of epithets:
“Very great sovereign, very good,
very merciful, very magnanimous—”
“Add also,” interrupted the weary
monarch, “very tired.”
The same king, who appears to
have been a constant sufferer from
the stupid orations of these wordy
windbags, was listening to a speech
in a 'small country town, when an
ass brayed at a distance.
“Pardon me, gentlemen,” said thi
witty sovereign; “one at a time',
Galveston, May 24. — Judge Char- i please.”
les J. Stubbs, prominent Galveston j Henry’s minister, Sully, was a Pro-
attorney, who was made a Knight | testant, and happening to hear that
of St. Gregory by Pope Pius will j a famous physician had quitted Cal-
have the honor conferred upon him | vinism for Catholicism, the king said
at 11 A. M. Sunday in St. Mary’s
Cathedral, Galveston, Bishop Bymo
announced Wednesday.
Judge Stubbs will accompany tho
clergy into the sanctuary. The dec-
oration of the Knight of St. Greg-
ory will be pinned on his breast by |
Bishop Byrne. The Bishop also will
bless the ‘swoid of the knight, and
strike Judge Stubbs lightly on the
shoulder with the sword, thereby
to him:
“My friend, your religion is in a
bad way—the doctors give it up.”
member of the reichtsag. While dubbing him a knight of the order
chancellor, Dr. Bruening devoted all of St. Gregory,
of his salary to Catholic and other
charities.
, Ceremonies of knighthood for Har-
He owns no property and ry Phelan of Beaumont, recently
has no government pension.
! made a knight of St. Gregory, will
Dr. Bruening is still serving in an j not be held until Mr. Phelan and his
honorary capactiy as a member of | family return from Europe, Bishop
the steering committee of the Con-1 Byrne stated.
ter party. i The orders of knighth >od were con
ferred upon these two by the pope in
New Governor of Philippine
recognition of distinguished service
Islands Joins Third Order' they rendered the church and their
Detroit, Mich. — Frank Murphy, communities.
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The London Universe recently published the follow-
ing interesting comments on the condition's in RpaH
“The well-known B. B. C. commentator on foreign
affairs, Mr.Vemon Bartlett, has lately been in Spain,
and foretells some considerable tenure for the present
regime. But he has this interesting comment: ‘There
is only one point on which the present Government
seems in real danger of antagonizing public opinion —
are going very far indeed in "vdr camnuign a-
gainst the Roman Catholic Church. If it had too
much control over education in the old days, it has now
too little. That is to say, a great number of
technical and elementary 'schools that were run by the
Church have been closed down, and even the diplomas
they issued, technical diplomas that should rank as
high as any in Spain, are being treated as scraps of pap-
er. The Government may have built between 7,000 and
10,000 new schools, hut teachers are still lacking and,
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George Ill’s Ready Wit.
George III was the author of many
clever sayings. Meeting Lord Kenyon
at a levee soon after the eminent
justice had been guilty of an extra-
ordinary explosion of ill-humor in the
Court of King’s Bench, the king re-
marked to him:
“My Lord Chief Justice, I hear that
you have lost your temper ,and from
my great regard for you I am glad
to hear of it, for I hope you will find
a better one.”
Having knighted a gentleman nam
ed Day at a lev4e held on the 29th
of September, his Majesty said,
“Now I know that I am a king, for
I have turned Day into Knight, and
have made Lady Day at Michaelm-
as."
On another occassion, when com-
ing out of the House of Lords after
opening the session, he said to the
Lord Chancellor:
“Did I deliver the 'speech well?”
“Very well, indeed,” was the reply.
"I am glad of that,” said the king,
“for there was nothing in it.”
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WEIMAR. — An eight-foot rat-
tlesnake with 13 rattlers was cap-
tured single-handed Sunday four mil-
es west of here by Purvy Mayes, ne-
gro farmer. Mayes, who worked
formerly for an animal show, out-
witted the snake with a forked stick.
After its capture, the negro drag-
ged it home with one of his shoe
strings. With a pair of pliers he
j then removed the reptile’s fangs,
i Protesting its captivity with a whir-
ring, staccato rattle, the fangles's
[ snake, securely caged, was on exhi-
1 bit here Monday afternoon.
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