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Show ARCHBISHOP O'CONNELL TO BECOME CARDINAL Boston, Jan. 18. Catholic le.nler3 believe that when Archbishop O'Con-nell O'Con-nell returns from Rome this summer ho will become Boston's firat cardinal. The archbishop will leave for Japan early In January' and goes to tho court of the mikado on a diplomatic mission. mis-sion. The task assigned to Archbishop Arch-bishop O'Onnell is the re-establish-ment of Catholic schools, colleges aud universities, with protection for Catholic Cath-olic missionaries working In the empire. em-pire. He Is not expected, to return to Boston beforo June. A papal consistory will be held In Mayt when It Is regarded as certain that' at least one cardinal's red hat will be bestowed In the Unltei State?, and it Is generally believed among Ileal Il-eal Catholics that this is coming to Boston. Born in Massachusetts and receiving his early education in Bostou, Arch- . bishop O Connell Is thoroughly imbued with every Instinct and attribute cf the patriotic American. His later training In Europe gave to his mind an international broadening and culture, cul-ture, to which hU quick lnUiiect actively ac-tively responded. Thu3 equipped, ho de eloped early in his caree- lhoo qualities of statesmanship and - diplomacy diplo-macy which have sinco marked Mm as one of the "mos: proremivu Catholic Cath-olic ecclesiastics of the duv. Sprung from the democracy. -ie knows lie needs, the hopes, the Just claims of the great masses of uls people, ind bo ho is able to kep in cMso touo v ith their every movuinai; and where he feels it necessary and wise, to take his place as director and leader. |