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Show NOT SO WITH CATHOLIC PRIESTS The latest dispatches from Washington Washing-ton tells us that many of the army chaplains detailed last week for service ser-vice in the Philippines have been exerting ex-erting themselves extraordinarily in obtaining ob-taining a revocation of orders. The newly appointed seem to look with disfavor dis-favor upon foreign service. The officials offi-cials of the war department express no surprise at this apparent unwillingness to serve the Lord except in a comfort- able and pleasant way, for as they ob-J ob-J serve the truly anxious chaplains for service in Manila volunteered early and have been on duty steadily since the j opening of the spring campaign, j Of the ten selected to report to Gen-! Gen-! eral Otis, not one has reported for duty in the Philippines being on leave, waiting or detached service. In two cases. Chaplains O. J. Nave and Sewell N. Pitehard, through personal and political po-litical appeals to the military authorities, authori-ties, have succeeded in obtaining a revocation re-vocation of orders, while another John S. Seibold has secured a delay in his departure until the communications of some influential friend shall be sub-j sub-j mitted to the war department. All this j is precisely as we have pointed out .heretofore. It is the money and the j honor of the office which the average chaplain covets, and now at the first! j opportunity that offers for doing a lit- J tie good he would sneak away from his duty for the sole reason that it is on- erous and therefore irksome to him. , The two or three Catholic priests do-jing do-jing duty in the Philippines have not sought reasons to shirk their duty simply sim-ply because it was arduous, but have cheerfully and courageously performed their priestly offices ministering alike to well and wounded in camp and field. There are many of their American coworkers co-workers who would gladly and most willingly accept similar positions with our troops. Various requests have been made from time to time by Catholic speakers and editors that more Catholic Cath-olic chaplains be appointed in our army and navy, but they have all been practically prac-tically unheeded. We venture to suggest sug-gest that if the newly appointed ten had been Catholic priests they would now be joyfully on their way to our religiously re-ligiously neglected soldiers in the Philippines. Phil-ippines. . |