Evening Star Newspaper, January 23, 1926, Page 4

4 * CARDINAL MERCIER | WONHONOR HERE Visit in 1919 Marked by| Warm Reception on Part of High Officials. THE BURBANK ADMITS HE 15 AN INFIDEL All Religion on Tottering Basis—None Convincing, He Declares. EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., SATURDAY, JANUARY = SALHSASWFE SPEEDEDPTALS Millicent Also Paid Honey- moon Expenses, Count Avers, in Suit. 23, 1926. marriage at the Munlcipal Building two years ago, avers the petition At that time Miss Rogers was afrald her parents might force on her a marriagoe that would be distasteful to her, he claims. Moreover, he says, the fact that he had been seen the day before lunching with Mrs. Grace Coffin, a former flancee, had nothing to do with the haste of the marriage. The countess was aware of this previous & ment, the affidavit continues, and knew it was broken off by mutual nsent Moreover, it was not the count who was responsible for the financial diffi culties that followed the mar; ., he claims, as Countess Salm knew he had no substantial vested interest in any property and could not support her as her father did. Accepted $1,000 From Wife. He was compelled to accept $4,000 ) from her and she disapproved of his reiurning to motion piciures to earn a | living. Other lines were barred to him hecause people were afraid to risk the | a disapproval of her father, H. H. Rog- | f; ers, the affidavit declares. | . W To balance the $4,000 he borrowed, |in Ameri he gave his wife family jewels worth was v $30,000, which are now in the hands of her attorney, states Count Salm The petition quotes the Salm famil Tenth Vesper Concert. Arranged by Ruby Smith Stahl, at the First Congregatlonal Church, tomorrow afternoon at 445 o'clock, Howard Uni- versity Chorus, Miss Lulu Vere Childers, director; R. W. Tibbs, organist. Organ prelude. selected Chorus, _“Surely Hath Borne Our Griefs” (“The Mes- slah"). Solo, “It With All Your Hearts Ye Truly Seek Him” (“Elifah") Helen Heartwell “Hear My Drayer,” Mendelssohn ounod GOODYEAR TIRE CO. PRESIDENT DIE George M. Straddelman, 54.3 i Was Pioneer in American |- Rubber Business. Chorus, Choru ‘Gallla™. . Solo, “Were You There, Burleigh Anola Miller. ‘Hallelujah'" (“The Mes- By the Associated Press. SAN FR: ISCO, January 23.— Declaring all religlons on a totter- ing foundation, Luther Burbank, the | t horticulturist, admits he Is an \er whose death oc- several days in his visit 1o this 1ed his 1 the i pre. red lere » was not by his rirchy ring his atic and By the Assoc AKRON dde By the Associated Press. W YORK, January 23.—Count Ludwig Salm con Hoogstraeten's ver- | sion of his married life with the for- mer Millicent Rogers, heiress to $40 100,000 of Standard Ofl mon reve: that he was forced to borrow money from her for their boneymoon and {that he blames her for thelr hasty | | marriage. An afidavit in support of his suit for separation and his demand that his in- fant son be restored to him to be raised In the Roman Catholic faith is on file, to be heard Monday by Su-|history from the Almanach de Got preme Court Justice O'Malle to prove that his soclal positfon and| s It was his wealthy flancee, and not |record of accomplishments were at|been agg he, who urged secrecy in thelr hasty!least equal to those of his wife. | home Wlpodmard & Lothrop nvite You to An Exclusive Showing of Americana Prints (Silks By Noted Ametican Artists Ralph Barton, Katharine Sturges, Charles B, Falls, Clayton Knight and Rene ¢ spent Chorus sfah”). Organ postlude.........Selected rence | which con Gen. Benjamin Lockwood Dies. DETROIT, Mich., January 23 () Brig. Gen. Benjamin C. L S. A., retired, died here t after a short illness. He was 82 years old and had an Army career of 40 which began with the 6th Kentucky Infantry during the Civil War. He retired December 1903 In a statement thought to have been caused by the comment of his friend, Henry For and religion Mr. Burbank s 11 religlons of the | past and p Il of the future will sooner or later become petrified forms instead of living helps to man- kind. As a sclentist, I cannot help but "l that all religions are on a totter- ng {xlwmx(.((imx, None is perfect or in- | pired. 'he idea that a good God wmllfll send people to a burning hell {s utterly damnable to me. I don't want to have anything to do with such a God. Admits His Skepticism. “I do not believe what has been served me to believe. 1 am a doubter, @ questioner, a skeptic. When it can be proved to me that there is immor- | tality, that there is resurrection be- yond the gates of death, then will I believe. Until then, no." Mr. Burbank's statement was con- ed in a copyrighted article in the and friend s 54 years | wood HER BURBANK st n was known to Belgians as “the tall oLt riest,” as he stood well over six feet | il Gibbons of|in helght. His mental endowment at Catholic] proved to be on a par with his physt ter bestowed | cal appearance, hence it was not by before he attracted the attentlor inary | influential persons in the hierarchy | the church. Eventually, when it was | decided 1o create an institute of TCe; philosophy in connection with the Ly, €X-| University of Louvain, Pope Leo XI1IT e Belgian|recognized the capabilities of the a had taken| young Abbe Mercier and had hin d sod a|placed in charge of the organization ) €ross | \work. expressing the cople Lot th+ | tnat coun- | last but dec! i 1y of the bles vears, re, Doctrine Liberal. Great surprise was occasloned later, wever, when it was noted that the teachings were in direct op- | position to doctrines of the more con- |t L fve element in the Holy See. He|San F o Bulletin yesterday, wught that Catholic dogma “did not| M ently outlined his be- onstitute an ideal which it was for- ;”""‘ on life and religion in an inter- naltEnat Ioeento e a | view in a national migazine. The mo- Uefining the activities and|foF car manufacturer’s conception, as s of the mind | expressed by a person closely in touch Summoned to Rome by his adver-| With him, Is that we are put in this saries, then constituting a world to gain experience, so that this in the College of ( experlence will aid us in the future, his case so convincingly because life does not begin here or Leo decided the controversy in his|end here, and that what we call faith | favor, and Soon afterward appointed ;!8 merely lost knowledge of how we him Bishop of Malines. He was made | C&me to be here and where the spirit a cardinal in 1907 by Pope Pius X 8 after death. nd then dropped from sight, so far | Life goes on continually and this s the world at large was concerncd, |arth may be just a clearing house until the Germans entered Belglum 8Mmong the great planets of the uni- in 1013, verse, he believe: Modest, humble, seeking no person- | r. Burbank contends that “the unt- al honors, the Prelate of Belgium |Verse is not big enough to contain per- spent the declining vears of his life|Petually all the human souls and the 4s he had spent the yvears hefore the |Other living ba t have been war—visiting his priests and congre. |here for their short span. A theory of gatlons, discussing their troubles, con- | Personal resurrection or reincarnation soling them in sorrow and preaching | Of the individual is untenable when we to them humility In succ |but pause to consider the magnitude | Visited U. S. After W, gt . S. After War. | . Following the war, in September,| . Thinks Spirit Survives. 1919, Cardinal Mercier paid a visit to On_the jcontrary, I _must_ ibelievs the United States. AS his ship docked | that, rather than the survival of all, o New York Lt we \ | we must look for survival only in the Pershing, who we |spirit of the good we have done in name of the Am Cough, and throughout his tour of the ¢ “I do recognize the existence of a T4y he Teoutvail many hosots universal power, a power which cant 2 begin to comprehend | ces. At the time of his dep: o eald d might as well not attempt to. Tt! “Tf inder the pressars 6ty ay be a conscious mind and it may not. I don’t know. As a scientist for Gther remsons, I have ¢ aiish v e in BesT should ltke to know, but man willlng to spend my last davs ir AmEDboL so yitally concerusd Pt e i o As for Christ—well, He has been ¢ to come here and ously belled. His follow- abad S e o garbled His words that many of them no to present life. Christ n infidel of his day, be- se he rebelled against the prevall- and government. r of Christ as a man or Jlomatie Co! - reside \is here, s then on his tour in | the night of Mr. and Mrs. t Ouk Ridge h the late Cardinal tinal Mercier returned to the next day and left for Ryan Gibhons, Wa Philade CARDINAL MERCIER, HEROIC FIGURE OF WORLD WAR, DIES | Page.) it Americana Prints, designed by these famous American artists arc smart and modernistic in feeling, because they express our restles~ and vigorous civilization in design and color. Dashing, exciting energetic lines—not unrelated, but in definite form and style—vital in brilliant yellows, hard blues, flam boyant reds, harsh greens, fierce magentas; unnatural colors, striking colors, vivid colors — used only as America dares and can. (Continued from ¥ nerals who led the allied tory plaved by £t Cardinal Mer- tures riled These textile designs place modern American Art at the Mentloned for Papacs. disposal of the American woman. rdinals met to select Pope Benedict XV {t was reported that the French representa tives fave 1 Mercler, but it a 1 i wa latter entertained | And His works and all things that help no hopes 23 hur ¥, but, nevertheless, just as In conferring th s vt doctoric! n infidel then, I am an infidel {laws of the Univer: Louvain | upon Secretary of S e e a G Vi | GIRLS DISCOVER FIRE AND HOME IS SAVED ed pr n of America’s se the war “Belgium and ‘ Hyattsville Peace Justice’s Daugh- | ter Slightly Burned as Another, Iil, Finds Safety. ! the secretar ebt of deep | Spectal Dispatch to The Star. | gratitude, because If the United States HYATTSVILLE, Md., January 23.— | saved them, every one knows that it was because her entry into the war Discovery of fire upon thelr arrival | home about 8:30 o'clock last night by | was due in a large part to your clear- Misses Ruth and Helen Moffat prob- sightedness, your tenacity and r courage.” ibly prevented destruction of thelir| home. [ GLORIED IN ‘The mother, Mrs. Herbert J. Moffat, wife of the justice of the peace, and a | BR S, January 23 (®).—Dr. Vanhee of the staff of attending phy- | sister, Miss Annle Moffat, were in the | | home, unaware of the fire, which had | siclans and Brother Hubert of theiy.,ueh out in the attic. Miss Annie | Community of Mercy shared the task | Mofrat was 1l but upon belng warned, of watching at the cardinai’'s bedsid: im.u!r her way out of the building and | v and night during his last Gays.| srs summoned flremen. Miss It was Brother Hubert who un- vas blistered about the face in | dertook the duty of nursing the car-|removing embers from a heater, which | dinal throughout the night, for the|was believed responsible for the fire. primate refused to turh the eisters| Firemen prevented spread of the of the clinic. flames and the damage was not more Dr. Vanhee told the Assoctated |than $1,000. Pr shortly before the cardinal's —_— MRS. F. E. HIGGINS DIES. death: “The cardinal is a model of patience, modesty and Christian self- New York Resident Expires at Home of Daughter Here. denial. Far from complaining when he suffers, his eminence is happy to endure physical pain, at h times, as_he says himself, he nearest Christ, whose sufferings ar alvay . s mi Mrs. Florence E. Higgins, 65 years always| present: in his mind. old. dled at the residence of her daugh- Slept on Straw Mattress. ter, Mrs. Harry Gusack, 1434 Harvard “The cardinal alwavs has lived the ! street, early today after an illness of life of a saint of old. His private one week. Her home was in Akron, apartment at the Malines Archepis-| N. Y., but she had been passing the copal Palace was never heated. His| Winters in Washington for the past eminence’s bed was a straw mattre: several years. Sna his first question on arriving at| She leaves her husband, Charles F. Higgins; the daughter, who is the wife of Harry Gusack; three sisters, Mrs. Archie Higgins, Mrs. J. A. Stapleton and Mrs. Fred Keltenberg, and a tened bac preliminari . exhorted his people nvasion es to and prece ol resist the strength ne of the mo thorns in the es, who o desti- | ) the best | he told n to the s the five | ment, eve - ind coerc seaking violence and Bissiug, [ of Bel- the little king- sed in a end to SUFFERING. T hand inc: ed in t at his master had been annered disciple of ade up in glory and the fortunes of war had tha power of Cardinal Felt “Nearest to Christ” in | Hours of Pain. ter of Decem- “atholic church led one of the 1ents of the Ger. en. The letter 1d priest de- the German suppress it ched day and nd his staff, that a of the a forth t night ove the Ins ‘ter conta 108t violent from every land on N were deterr costs, 2 ng condemnations ure was to be T c church in the r day, 1915. Thev o forestall it at all was read despite thelr efforts, an dthe wrath of the powerful Von Rissing was heaped upon Cardinal Marcier for his deflance. s the I e Kept Prisoner in Home. Under rom the general's office, he w a prisoner in his s while Von Bissing ng pressure to force his A mere verbal admt the prelate had no intention of the clinic in Brussels was an inquiry whether that mattress had been for- gotten. “On his way to the operating table ion ming the population yastoral letter would have sat- the governor general, it was . but_no such admission ever was sacured » Cardinal Mercler. Another pastoral letter, sent out the ing of Lent in 1915, gain 1ght persecution from von al conviction of our final vie- tory s more deeply anchored in my soul than ever' the letter sald in part. “Wa will win, do not ever it. but we have not reached the end of our sufferings. Prepare vour plans, place vour batteries, co- ordin r movements. Remem ber, man proposes but God disposes Von Blssing flew into a towering rage when he read the letter. which he avowed was “an invocation of the cardinal to God for the extermi- natlon of the German armies.” Purple with Indignation and on the verze of an apoplectic attack, he threw his helmet on the floor, trampled and ked it into an un- recognizable mass, then sent every orderly In his_ headquarters for Baron von der Lancken and Count flarrach, his advisers. Cardinal Mercier must retract, he told them. They must secure an apology to Germany and all the resources of the German empire were at their disposal to get ft. Never Made Apology. Etill, no apology ever came from Malines. A little village not far Waterloo-Briane d’Alleud was the birthplace of Cardinal Mercier In 1851. The family was a distinguished religlous one, several other members having rec ed high honors from the | Catholic urch. Belleving that he was destined for career other than church. the cardinal prepared for the medical profession and upon his graduation from college studied surgery under Prof. Charcot at Paris. Inborn love of the priesthood. how- ever, soon caused him to abandon his ‘medical stndies and seek seclusion in a seminary, where he prepared him- self to take the cloth. Before he was referred to as “the from s future the cardinal, whose age did not permlt the use of chloroform, and who under- went the operation under a local anes thetic, insisted that the anestheti should be limited strictly to the nec sitles of his case, to be spared the least part of the suf- ferings inherent in such an operation. Accepted Stimulant. “For similar reasons the Cardinal objected to subcutaneous stimulants, and it was only after the visit of Viscount Halifax on Thursday, which | left him, as he himself admitted, very satisfled but tired, that it was! possible to persuade the Cardinal, who wanted strength to do some writing, to accept the necessary | stimulant. i “This explalns why his eminence's | condition was announced on Thur: day evening and Friday morning as | having somewhat improved, and this | was what enabled him to receive the | Visit of Prince Leopold, whom he was very anxious to see, on Friday.” Pope Deeply Affected. ROME, January 23 (#).—Pope Pius recelved the news of Cardinal Me cler's death as he was re-entering the | apostolic palace this afternoon after | his usual walk in the Vatican gardens. His holiness was deeply affected. He retired to his private chapel, where he | prayed for the repose of him whor | he called “one of the greatest ec- clestastics of this century.” Support McFadden Bill. NEW ORLEANS, La., January 23 (#).—Members of the executive coun- cil of the State bank division of the American Bankers' Association in session here yesterday pledged their support to the McFadden banking bill, now before Congress, which con- tains a compromise clause intended to check the spread of branch banking. The 12,000 members of the div will be asked to co-operate in hav the McFadden bill adopted. e e American shipping through the Suez Canal 18 now more than one hundred Great Cardinal,” the Abbe Mercler fimel that of 1913, s he was unwilling brother, Asa Thayer. The body will be taken to Akron tomorrow morning. s One method of government ald to afrplane lines in Central Europe is to gasoline_for_airplanes. Insurance Building 15th & Eye Several Single One Suite 4 Rooms Moderate Rent Apply at building W. H. 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