The evening world. Newspaper, October 12, 1918, Page 9

X as Fifty Years a Cardinal Gibbons Talks On Our Part in the War Gives a Message to the People of America—Dis- cusses Effect of War on Development of Religious Feeling and Upon the United States | as a Nation—Points Out Germany’s Mistake—\ : SATUKDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1918 Bishop, Tells Why It Was Necessary for Us to Enter the Conflict—Outlines the Part We Should Play in Its Settlement and Defines American Cit By Mazie E. Clemens Copyright, 1018, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York Pvening World), “To the Catholics and people generally of the United| ; States, I send my cordial greetings and hope that God may bless us, individually and as a nation.” AMES CARDINAL GIBBONS, Archbishop gf Baltimore, thus dismissed me after an audience of some forty minutes, which those closest to him say is one of the longest newspaper interviews to which he has ever submitted. For the Cardinal, with all his years and all his honors, {s a@ very busy man and a man who takes his duties seriously, very seriously. But this is a most unusual occasion in his interesting life, and I had gone from New York especially to see him and get his greeting to the American, people as a feature of the expected celebration, Oct. 20, of the golden Jubilee of his elevation to the episcopacy. Cardinal Gibbons has been a Bishop of the Roman Catholic Church for | fifty years, a most unusual record of longevity. This year also marks the fortieth anniversary of his promotion to the Archbishopric. It 1s) {” fAfty-seven years since he was made a priest, the date of his ardination bo ing June 20, 1861, He 1s @ native of Baltimore, having been born July 13,! ¢ 1834 He was ordained in Baltimore, and later was called to the Cathodral ‘and made Archbishop Spalding’s secretary. On Ang. 16, 1868, he was con-| secrated a Bishop, and in 1877 he was made condjutor to Archbishop Bayley, ° of Baltimore, and in October of that year, on the latter's death, he was made an Archbishop. He was created a Cardinal in June, 1886, and made titular pastor of the Church of Santa Marla in Trastevere, in Rome. While the actual date of the Car- @inal'p elevation to the mitre was Avg. 16, 1868, the celobratton of the event was deferred until Oct. 20 for various reasons. One was that it ts Tether hot in Balttmore in mid- August, and the physical strain on ‘the hosts of prelates who desired to partictpate tn honoring the senior American Cardinal would have been more severe than many of those most advanced tn years could have borne. Further,there were dignitaries coming from various parts of the world— England, France, Mexico, Canada, Virgin Island, &c.—to join tn the cel- ebration, and travel from foreign | parts in these days is slow and diff-| cam, So Oct. 20 was selected as the! day of celebration, and Baltimore on that day would havo witnessed the most impressive ecclesiastical pageant that was ever organized in the United States had not the Cardinal himself} decided that it should not be held be- ‘cause of the influenza epidemic now raging there. The celebration wil now be a private one I had called at the archiep!scopal residence on Charles Street at 10.30 jn the morning. It was the second time I had interviewed His Eminence, and he is tho sixth Cardinal with whom I have been accorded inter- views of The World. I had been weated in the reception room but a short time before I heard a quick step coming down the stairs. It was the Cardinal, and he entered the room ‘with the vigor of a man of fifty rather than of one in his elghty-fifth year, He wore his house cassock of blac k, ptped in cardinal red, his “guchetto,” the Cardinal red scull cap, symbolic of his dignity, episcopal pumps and car- dina} red hose. His Pontifical ring bears a beautiful emerald in an un- usually large setting, and bis pesivral cross is of gold, with an emerald cen- tre, and at the end of each bar a ruby surrounded by three small diamonds. His vigor of movement, his firmnes of tone, the vast amount of work he gets over, and his strenuous walks should suggest a volume to a writer ‘on the simple life, for the Cardinal's dafly life is simplicity itself, Ho ts @ remarkably light eater, an early riser and goes to bed every night at] 10 o'clock. Ho still takes his daily walk of one hour around the streets of Baltimore, and this seems task to one unused to their sharp grades and slopes, SIMPLICITY KEYNOTE OF CAR- DINAL’S MANNER OF LIVING, The Cardinal's simplicity of man- ner is reflec perfectly inh mode of living. He hates ostenta- tion, He doesn't own an automobile ge. He is passion or even a car ately fond of walki On entering the dinal one finds it plain abode for suc mo of the Car- y 4 surpris' an exalted dig nitary. ‘The floors are uncarpeted, |‘ 3 cove the furniture wears cany over its cardinal covered silk holstery. It was an interview optimistic in the extreme in matters ¢ bristling with Amc and direct and forceful in i sion of his v to get a general expression from the famous churchman as to h on the effect of the war upon the de- velopment of religious fevting and the probuble growth of more cordial and friendly co-operation of the vari- qmm religious organizations and de- 8 expres s opin! try. What is p | this revivificat spirit, of the recognition of Alm God and his power and love is als tianity , y upon the ne ws, 1 wished primarily | nominations fn efforts tn behalf of the public welfare. My first question His Pm!-| nence answered, “but that the war! has brought both Goverr Peoples into closer recogn. igion and a n overruling Pt as been a marked 1m- | Provement in the spread of this | bepedia’l ‘ feeling, y in our own coun- asing to me ts that n of the religious opparent in France, Our sister Re- public, formerly known as the fair- ushter of the church, has ar, and France is the only overnment which omits any recog jon of God in its offic AWN S a % . SW em! y) Cardinal Gibbons as He Is To-D yD 50 YEARS AGO WHEN HE W (on "AS MADE A BISHOP zenship. | cme BisMeP iN tions. But the deep sp: whic has been in- and that which Gover OUR NATION RECOGNIZES RULE OF DIVINE PROVIDENCE, always, since we became a| the rule of Divine President wo ef Magistr tzens t ffice would dare fo before tha| theist. He might but h is not © fact © heart tiful sentiment “And wha ther beautif the ma WAR WILL PROFIT U. S, SPIRITU- ALLY AND NATIONALLY, THE SARDINELS f° GROE NIGER -ProrTe ‘She shall rise; ene | tion by our entrance Into the world] section of the country have brought rm of the Gov of our country philosophy that the only thin, enlightened; while ure those ton and of human desi n German Government decried as aru the Catholic of huinan construc of the Lord |erni down by @ thousand thir it has been relieve 8 than Was ever before pos- whose enmity to our has been fostered teaching will find out, and are what the Cath- nis and what a grand in is our Church, x8 of which | Catho! “Deplorable as is the war and the i ment of events which made it y for us to go into it, the war will in the end inure to the profit of|injured, it never could have enlisted} alr e United States, both spiritually and things spiritual fetal and therefore is torn to pic work of man ady finding out, Jacious because without the | fi ad very thoroughly throughout many and into France and 1g land and even int ed than that of the trenches, eve of and during innermost | doctrine young men turn to| aside spirittal things and it ia then the] put religions training ¢ sper impress pirituality than wa er pos=| forts of th do in &/anthroy they have tak rring crises Wa theirs as a enough to take GERMANY MUST LEARN PRINCI- r distinet church or- rance is firmly estab. to chureh” tn the as always means going to the and governed bY | Army and Navy D) “Germany must learn t y was able to get so quick- ind to meet the needy of ent 80 promptly organization of “ y to whom to or assistance,” BIG GROWTH +|WAR WILL CAUS OF CHRISTIANITY. after the war]; y growth of religious we are a mere| ra and braggarts| 2 per cent, horeaiccnpiiad 9 Hin Jomtnence nunity has al- | \ WORK OF MERCY WILL DESTROY PREJUDICE, wered thoux Kighteousness exalteth an but sinisar 'T ‘atholiclsm grow out e soldiers cc , of course, conti n, and 1 hope we do, hout opposition we are in dan- The faith thrives on peace 1s not far off ing of peace neant death, the chureh ew until it became the nant foree in the world, that one reason Ireland o firm in the faith has been terness with which © eulogy of Gen f ly to reat do in this country ef the vulgn of falsehood with us been assailed soul of this |‘ irt us most, threatens any of constitutional alty of its pa- est can do the church more harm| the solemn du pend upon @ true love of God. Let ua apply those words of the Prophet Isaiah, which I un an army of proselytizers, » peace} ade! vanced @ view war in its relationship to re. gion which has not beca suggested “The great teacher of Germany ts pirlt of co-oper burch and State ation between war it iM our part to we that the acts of the peace conference be governed by the ried, let alor Not only the organizations, but the active soldier- have taken as my text, to the future the great crisis forced upon our Na-jing by the young men from every |Nietasche,” declared the Cardinal, “His, same high ideal- ven its own justification in we entered and proseouted the war,” SATURDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1918 Eight Months at the Front With the American Army — SOLDIERS’ PETS AT THE FRONT American Soldiers Have Accumulated Motley Col- lection of Tame Boars, Cats, Turtles, Goats, Birds, &c., Which They Will Bring Home With Them as Pets, but Dogs Are in the Big Majority, Dogs of Every Breed, Size and Weight, Who Follow Their Masters to Battle, and Back to Billets Again. By Martin Green (Staff Correspondent of The Evening World) Copyright, 101%, by The Press Publishing Co, (Tha New York Frening Worl) LED Ararat, the favorite pets more to pets than do the British, al though the Australians are strong on s. ‘The favorite pet dog in the re whieh French Any 13 is very smart, easily carried and easily fed. The American apparently plays no favorites, Any olf kind of a dog that catches his fancy does for a pet. In one artillery regiment which has travelled extensively in France since landing there about a year ago there are fox terriers, dachshunds, all kinds of bird dogs and poodles, several bulldogs, obtained in way: mysterious and never revealed, nu merous plain yellow dogs of breed- Ing which might be called miscel- jlancous, a greyhound, # collection of big Belgian police dogs and an as- sortment of terriers, The men of the regiment have lost many of their pets by accident and the hardships of warfare, but the supply ts kept up. “We were passing through @ little jtown one Sunday morning,” sald a gunner, “when we saw two French- men going hunting. Say, they were a scream, ‘They were dressed up with all the hunting togs imaginabdle, and one of them was leading the dogs to be used in the hunt, There were five dogs in the collection, a nicl a St. Bernard, a terrter, @ poodle and a beagle, ‘The French- men atopped in an inn, leaving the dogs, all tled together, in the care of a small boy outside, While they in the inn we moved out of we ltown and in some way those dogs just wouldn't stay with that boy and ' \ came along with us, and we've got some of them yet" Many pet dogs are picked up by the soldiers tn devastated territory evacuated by the Germans and the ivic population, Doge found under those circumstances are very grate- ful and affectionate to the men who k them up and adopt them. The loves human compantonship, and his relief at the sight of friendly men fter ho hag been alone in a shell »pt village or farmhouse for many drendful hours ts pathetic, Pe. dogs get fat and lazy when the men who own them are tn billets or lresting in camp. ‘They lay around and sun themselves when the sun hines or cuddle up on blankets and "| snooze when it is raining, But there is a great difference when the orders ome to move, ‘The dogs know as goon as the men that action ts coming, and the chorus of yelps and barks that goes up is distracting to persons not familiar with military life in the fleld, If an nfantry unit is moving the dogs of the doughboye tramp along with them are afoot, When a dog gets tired he ts carried or put on Ja truck or supply wagon, How the |dogs manage to find thelr masters y life, but soldiers say they get r pets back more often than they jose them. A regiment is a large body }/of men, but the men got to know the general way, and besides 6 dogs wear identification ike those worn by the men, Jogs in moat of tase, Just are pretty much altke, Iturried movement, especially at | night, rouses the dog pets of the army |to a frensy of excitement. I was awakened from @ sound sleep in @ {am and the same firmness with which | Hotel in Soissons one night last spring following soldiers about after the or any anima! or f. ifler hours and sometimes days of paration is one of the wonders of uded around their necks by the ition tape. But unmarked dogs | and found regularly, and {t ts the more remarkable because in our an-shaven army all soldiers look our soldiers come home from France they will bring ashore the largest and most diversified collection of dogs that has ever deen landed in any country in the history of the world. They will also bring in cats, turtles, tame boars, parrots, captive meadow larks, trapped in the flelds and woods behind and along the battle front, many goats and sheep—in short it will be about the biggest landing of nondescript elements in the animal, bird and reptile kingdom since Noah made port on Mount All soldiers accumulate pets and cooties and they sharo the cooties with the pets. Dogs are, of course, because they are easy to get, ere gratefully responsive to kind treatment and faithful to their friends and they like the movement and excitement of warfare. But there are many queer characters in the army whose taste in pets runs to the bizarre. We heard In the Toul sector last winter of a soldier who had captured half a dozen trench rats—enormous, feroqjous rodents—tamed them and taught them a number of tricks, We never found the soldier and bis performing trench rats, but we met many soldiers and officers who sald they had seen thém and they might have been telling the truth. American and French soldiers run @—————————————————— nr was terrifically clamorous, I went to the window and saw, passing along the narrow at h soldiers, in ni thdwhe, ducrying tip Olse which the Germans were approaching in their March offensive The dogs made as much noise as the rumbling of wheels on the rough stone pavement and the sound of the engines of the trucks. Not a Nght showed in the long caravan—whieh passed thropgh the city all night, ®y the way—but out of the indistinct moving mass came the voices of the soldiers’ pets raised in uncenscious, | but none the leas sincere, tribute te tho charm of tho life of a soldier, Tho dogs are not allowed to bark though when they are close to the enemy, or when a surprise attack is in preparation. They appear to know the necessity for silence when thelr Masters tell them to keep quiet. Often &s @ measure of precaution they are buried away under a pile of blankets #o that even though they bark the sound shall not be hoard, Of course there are many fights among tho pets and great tales are told of the prowess of certain dogs, and @ometimes the owner of one fighting dog will casually take his pet to the vicinity of th np of another soldier who is reputed to own a fight~ ing dog. When the men go into ee- tion the dogs are left behind and many a pet watches with anxiety in his eyes for days and days for his soldier master who patted him on the head and went away and did not return, There are few eats among tho army bets, probably because men don't care much about cats. Certainly there are plenty of stray cate in France. Goats are fairly plentiful, Vrance being a country abundantly supplied with goats, which are net always carefully protected. There fa always a perceptible th ng out of the goat population after a regiment busses through a village, but all the woats do not become pets, Many vf them become the foundation for @ savory stew The soldier w a as @ peta Boat, a chicken, a goose, a little boar, which is eatable, for bim~ self. He has to waten his pet oon- Uinually, If ho relaxes his vigilance the pet disappears and is speedily converted into an addition to the rege ular army ration The forests picks out @ lot of nee, back of the even between the sectors which bave three yoars abound im our soldiers, when not on active duty a uly ask. ing for leave to go hunting. There is excitement and adventure in hunt. ing full grown wild b big, active female boar which has been killed, ‘Phe little animals are easily tamed and they will fc ldier whe 18 kind to them with ingloness fidelity shown by a d but somehow or other @ pet boar doesn’t last very long. When he is young his flesh ts juicy and tende 1 flavored by the nuts and berries und wild fruits he has eaten in the woods, As be grows older and becomes addicted to army chow he is not so pleasing to the palate, which accounts for the abrupt disappearance of so many young be p Lut there are still many of them in the army and the United States will see plenty of them battle lines battle lines | wild boar an and dar