The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, November 15, 1928, Page 3

A (THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1928 LOCAL MASONS “CONFER DEGREE}: Conferring of Rose Croix Chap- ter Will Feature Bismarck- Mandan Reunion Masons gathered at Bismarck for the Mandan-Bismarck Reunion to- day were making ready for the fea- ture event of the occasion—confer- ting of degrees of the Missouri Slope Rose Croix chapter. Four degrees, conferred solely by Bismarck members of the lodge, will jake up the work. Starting with & fifteenth degree at 1:30 p.m., the work will progress through the sixteenth and seventeenth degrees before dinner tonight, and the eigh- teenth degree, the largest of the bpur; will be conferred after the din- ner. Approximately 90 candidates are expected for the four degrees, Gil- bert S. Haugen, secretary of the Bis- marck lodge, said today. George Dullam, Bismarck, will have the leading part in conferring the eighteenth degree. The Fargo members of the Knights Kadosh will take over the work of conferring the degrees to- morrow night. They will confer the | degrees to and including the thir- tieth. The last degree will be con- ferred Friday evening. Linton, Bismarck and Mandan Ma- tons engaged in the work of con- ferring the degrees at the Masonic sone yesterday. The Linton lodge “@nferred the fourth degree, Bis- marck to the ninth, and Mandan members the ninth and tenth. In the afternoon the Bismarck lodge con- ferred degrees from the tenth to the fourteenth and finished the work shortly after the lodge dinner last night. Wea | People’s Forum e Bismarck, N. Dak., Nov. 14, 1928. Editor, The Bismarck Tribune: This article has come to my notice and as a subscriber to your paper I am asking you te publish it. I have just returned from a six weeks tour of the east and south. The following article gives the facts as they exist —Religious Intolerance. Ly ROSE M. LA ROSE. - A POLL OF PREJUDICE “No soothsayer is needed to find #+he meaning of what happened in the esidential election. The immense tide of popular feeling that swept Governor Smith to defeat has but one explanation, fear of and hatred for the Catholic church. In the face of such numbers it is idle to talk of prohibition and prosperity as con- trolling factors. These and all other campaign tags prove to have been mere irrelevancies. There was just one overmastering issue in the minds of the great majority of the Protes- tant people, north, south, east and west. It was religion. “The day before the election some- body sent to us in a plain envelope @ little church paper published by a Lutheran minister in St. Paul for the members of his congregation. At the end of -his leading article, on *Rome and Religious Liberty,’ were quoted these words of Martin Luther, ‘God fill us with hatred against the pope.’ We speak of this trifling in- cident simply because it is symp+ tomatic of what ails the country. Protestantism was born of hate for the Catholic church and the ancient animosity persists to this day in the sects, consciously or unconsciously motivating the thoughts and actions of otherwise sensible and well-me: ing men and women. It is a deep- seated and stubborn state of mind that seems utterly closed to reason. “So when the silent millions, about whome political speculation had been rife, swarmed to the polls on Tues- @y it was not to choose Mr. Hoover or to reject Governor Smith, but to smite the church of which Governor Smith is a member. The Demo- cratic candidate has by all odds the Mhost persuasive personality in American public life. Everywhere he went during a strenuous cam- paign he evoked demonstrations of Smith might, a defeated by the normal ascendancy if there had been no question of his reli ‘ion, but that is side the point. hat we are alone concerned with is the tremendous vote against him that is accountable for only on the score of enmity to his religion. As it happens, this vote would probably have elected Mr. Hoover if he had spent the summer in seclusion at Palo Alto without making a single speech, and if the Republican National committee had saved its campaign millions, and if its less scrupulous members had re- frained from carrying on a vile under-cover anti-Catholic drive. “Well, we have always known of this current of hostility to the church in this country. We are not facing something new. The poll of the people this year does reveal for the first time how wide and strong the under-current is. It should stimu- late rather than discourage us. - We must recognize this senseless fear and undeserved suspicion and un- worthy hate as a challenge to all that is best in us as Catholic citi- zens. Governor Smith has given his country an example of public service, courage and uncompromising devo- tion to both his religious and polit- ical convictions that it cannot forget. Each of us in his own humble fash- , ion must do the same. Time will do the rest. “The Catholic church is America’s noblest possession, as it is the world’s. Sooner or later America will awaken to the importance of this fact. Since Columbus found these shores, since the first mission- aries planted the seeds of Christian faith here, since Carroll, the Catholic, signed the Declaration of Independ- ence, the history of the church has been written in the long, stainless Tecord of great deeds, solid virtue, charity, industry and unfailing pa- triotism. This record is our heritage and we shall be worthy of it in the degree to which we now faithfully practice our religion and begin anew to show our watching neighbors by our words and actions the high standard of good citizenship that the teachings. of the Catholic church exact from its members. “When the angry passions of our enemies have subsided they will real- ize as cooler heads did long ago that the church has not lifted a finger to further the political fortunes of one of its members. The attitude of our Bishops and priests has been beyond reproach. Speaking of the campaign just before the election, the New York Times said: ‘With-| out going back now to its unpleasing | and humiliating aspects it may be said thankfully that it has been | spared one thing which would have made it far more angry and repuls- ive. We refer to the fact that Cath- olics have exhibited such wonderful restraint under attacks upon their church. They have kept silent even in the face of notorious misrepre- sentation and calumny.’ To this we might add the words of Mr. Ellery Sedgwick, editor of The Atlantic Monthly, ‘I doubt whether our his- From New York Jan. 22: 10g days South America- Africa Cruise West Indies, South America, South Africa, East Africa, Eneone: Management by e travel sys tean,Dachessof Atholl(new). As low as $1500. Booties irom Casein: .» . Pacific Apply to local steamship agent or Canadian Pacific—611 Second Ave. South, Minneapolis, Minn. ve been | to Republican | an urging the girls to “keep tab” their expenditures and has furnished them printed books on which to affords an instance of a large cohesive body of men who, un- der the bitterest provocation, have better kept their self-control and self-respect.’” Telephone Girls Take Up Personal Budgets The “hello girls” are taking up the Personal budget idea in all serious- ness and it has been proving worth, according to Miss Hazel C. Duncan, traffic correspondent for Northwestern Bell Telephone: com- Peay, with headquarters at Fargo. ie its telephone compsny has been on THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE mark down their earnings and the amount gpent. Miss Duncan herself is “sold” on the idea, and quotes several other North Dakota girls who have found the budget system one of much sat- isfaction. Among them are Miss Helen J. 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Phipps, Cooperstown, and Helge Zethren, Max, editor’ and business manager, respectively, of the Dakota Student, campus news- aper at the University »f North akota, left yesterday for Lafayette, | Ind., where they will attend the con- vention of the National Collegiate Editors. Phipps will continue on to Chi- cago, where he will attend the na- tional convention of Sigma Delta Chi, national professional journalism fraternity. He will be joined there by Victor Rose, Donnybrook, and Charles Andrus, Hazelton, who will attend the sessions as delegates from the university chapter. Arthur Brisbane, phone company. 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