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Show CATHOLIC OPINION. A romantic couple waited through the night into the early morning hours for a marriage license recently at Clayton. Other nights will come to them when the waiting will not be so pleasant. Such marriages usually run through two short chapters honeymoon honey-moon and divorce. Catholic Progress. The exodus of young girls from'Hun-gary from'Hun-gary has assumed such alarming proportions pro-portions that the government has taken steps, to check it. Come oh, girls. We shall welcome you with new brooms ! and clean kitchens. -We are tired doing, our own housework and disgusted with our own cookery. Western Watchman. 6 Judge Burns of South Dakota never tackled a more hopeless case than when he attempted to defend his state's scandalous scan-dalous divorce record against Cardinal Gibbons' criticism; The South Dakota divorce industry 'is simply indefensible from a social or' ethical viewpoint. It is a national Vtlsgrace; a' horrible ulcer; a stench in the-nostrils of decency; a crime against Christian civilization. And yet South Dakota is not really mucn worse in this respect than many other states. The Monitor. . 's- The Catholic Citizen of Milwaukee has this, very pertinent comment on ! the' partial and sectarian character of nearly all of the "gifts" made by Mr. Carnegie and Mr. Rockefeller to educational edu-cational institutions: "People of all creeds buy steel. People of all creeds use oil. Therefore these wealthy men, in making a. sort of public restitution, ought to consider the creeds of all the population." Pittsburg Observer. "This Is really the happiest day of my life!" So the Holy Father is said to have exclaimed on reaching the years of Peter. as pope. And hundreds of millions mil-lions of Catholics shared his joy. Catholic .Columbian. ' ' ' Professor Loeb of Chicago announces that he has found a cure for nervous prostration. This will be glad news for the rich. Poor folks cannot afford to have that accommodating disease The Pilot. ' Just now Chicago seems affected by a sudden spasm of fear because of the existence of hospitals within the city limits. Sensitive people, it is claimed, shudder at the thought of living near one of them and move away. This may be truf. of course. ' Yet in other cities we have known such people to move off and locate next door to an all-night saloon, bowling-alley or sanctified meeting house. It is a wonder that some people will. enter a hospital when they get ill. New World. "Mr. Dooley" also has Tiis say on .the question of small families. "The American Amer-ican people is becoming .as unfruitful as an ash heap." is his sententious judgment. But he has no fear of the race's-dying out, so long as "a man with tin dollars a week will have tin childher, a man with wan hundhred will have 'five, and a man with a million will buy an automobile." The selfish rich may die out, but the poor will taker their places, and the country will be all the better for the change. The Pilot. Our Methodist neighbor, the California Califor-nia Christian Advocate, unable to "make good" its efforts to disfranchise Senator-elect Smoot. loses its temper and-proceeds to say false and foolish things abctit the Catholic priesthood Any hoodlum can profanely aspnrse the fair name of good people out of hearing of his voice. That proves nothing against anybody but the cowardly tra-ducer tra-ducer himself. When the Advocate editor ed-itor makes sweeping charges against the moral character of the Catholic priesthood "in some countries" not : named, he imitates the blackguardism of the social outcast who recklessly be- I smirches his reputable neighbor with- ( out cause. The Advocate asserts what ' is not true, and what, we suspect it ! knows to be untrue. We do our neigh-u neigh-u lmVr?dltl however, to believe that it win be ashamed of the performance 1 11 recovers from its present acute attack of Smootphobia.-The Monitor |