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PAGE EIGHTr— SUNDAY, JANUARY 22, 1922. THE PUEBLO CHIEFTAIN POPE BENEDICT XV BEGAN PONTIFICATE SEPT. 6,1914 of* to the prolate* ofi • thru Ills efforts n huge fund wns col- Pope Benedict. XV. the 269th succes- A notable promotion onto to him on Hi* voice wa* raised in approval ' personally appealed to among lected and distributed to tn 0 supreme head of the 16. Pope the alms of tho Washington confer- the church promote amity eh lido sor of St. Peter ns December 1907 when Plus X. unrest of Germany. Hungary began pon- on the limitation nr armament tho nations and deplored tho I>> Austria. Poland. 1 toman Catholic church, his appointed della Chiesa ne Archbishop ence war. Ho 6, 1914, soon after and in a letter to President Harding, Kuropo which had fouowed the and Czooho-Slovnkia. also m.o tificate on September of the important th© to for Europe entered upon its four years ot See of Bologna to suc- the pope commended his In Ho issued numerous appeals for large contributions funds initiatlvo and for relief of and Chinese ;o war. Bpon many occasions during the ceed the late Cardinal Svampn. Ills ad- calling it. His efforts on behalf of poor children of central Europe Russians and Russia nnd the international Hod Cross. war he endeavored to bring the belll- ministration of this office for seven war prisoners were unremitting and he the famine sufferers of gerent to a peace agreement nations years was characterised, by and tints to maintain the title which it Is said prudence and diplomacy. His conse- had been affectionately bestowed up- of his com- cration as an Archbishop was perform- on him by a high dignitary by Plus ' messenger God sent to ed himself in tho Sistine munion as a Chapel, nn honor bring peace.•' so unusual that It Italy and Austria, attracted world-wide attention. Arch- The war between bishop della Chiesa In both of which peoples of the Gatho- was made ft Cardi- nal in May 1914. leas than months -11" religion predominate, was part’.’i:- six larly a great sorrow to the Pi pe. Those before mounting the throne of St. near to lion said he deprecated the Ger- Peter’s. man violation of Belgium. When the He took his ecclesiastical title from Pope Benedict Lusitania war > tilth he telegraphed to XIV. one of the ablest the then Emperor William his abhor- pontiffs of the churen. who was horn Bologna rence of a deed which had shocked the in on March 31. 167)7 and did world. on May ?>. 177.8. The successor of Piux X was said Bonedist XV* personal appearance tj have combined the statesmanship ha* been described as follow*: "A man of Pope Geo XIII with the grace of Ills physically ill-favored but gifted with immediate predecessor, lie endeavor- great Intelligence: short of stature, ed. it is raid, to carry out t tic ideals ascetlcally thin, with the right shoulder and policies of tho»" two great church- raised above the left, and giving one men. Rut th** world war, which broke the impression of extreme nervousness the heart of Flux X, saddened the first and weakness. But when he raised his four years of his pontificate and pre- head th" visitors instinctively felt the vented the fulfillment of some of his they were In the presence of a man aspiration*'. equipped with exceptional intellectual One of the incidents of his* pontifical powers and energy. TTe reminded one career was the visit which President o, the noted poet. Leopardi. With an Wilson paid • January 4, 1919 unpie brow, surrounded by coal black when the president went to Rom-’ prior 'air, black eyes, lively and ponetrat- to the. (opening of the Peace Confer- ng. a large mouth with thin lips full ence at Paris. Social and treaty ques- f expression, tho pope convoyed the were It is during Impression tions discussed. «iid. of a man of few friendships —— the private audience at the conclusion but these most sincere, devoted and a " of which Pope Benedict presented to lAKtlng." hlg guc.-t a handsome mosaic reproduc- Pope heavy peace .. Benedict’s efforts toward |» Cold weather with its sleet and snow means ing Guido i: m'.s famous picture of wei> thus summed up by Cardinal Saint, r.’tcr, valued at $40,900. Bogus: *\ and slow going. That is when a powerful quick ex- one of th" smallest men physically "During the late war every effort A// \IW up to St. / ploding fuel like Blue Ribbon Gasoline will measure ever elected to the chair of Peter, wn* made to induce the pope f,. s!d" \ I the former Cardinal della Chiesa never with one belligerent or another, but \ your highest expectations. It is the ideal winter time expected to I--- thus honored by the ho went straight as nn arrow. Ho because it is a straight run, high test, unblend- Sacred < ’ollege and is said to have mnde Justice and right triumph over J motor fuel, wept w hen apprised of his. election. oppression. There / gasoline. gives power and more miles per said, was not .-no of cd It more 11• would have preferred, he to President fourteen points that a at Wilson’s remain simple priest or. most. was not Included tho pontiffs peace /■ I gallon. Archbishop Bologna. in Cardinal and of conditions." J “A tankful will tell. On the day of his* election ho spoke The pope was deeply grieved bv the *’ o'' the burden of responsibility thrust 1• conflict which resulted from efforts to upon “one frail brain" and expressed obtain Ireland's Ho of the freedom. was np- hi« horror world conflict then be- ’’CiHed to Intervene In behalf of the ing waged and hi* hope that It would Irifch republican CO. VV movement, but ArMi- /# GOLDEN RULE REFINING coro- qtiiekly end. One week after his hishop Hayes on returning from the j nation. when the Fisherman's 1-ting Vatican in 1921 said that j WICHITA. KANSAS. was placed upon finger, issued he was follow- his he ing the policy ' of neutrality and lm- I ZZZJ Oasolln* i* sold at our filing i. vi nn Encyclical to the episcopacy of the partiality. He Plu* Ribbon \\V 'a. condemned crime in A and Ssnta In b or any ' XT's, world in which rulers were exhorted Ireland by corner Bth Main 7th A K" Pu- to either sld* and repeatedly ! put aside dissensions and to "enter expressed place vou fe tho Bbio Ribbon Sign. \ the hope that then* N V I V Into a council of peace with all speed.*' would end. violenco I Grocolone oil. n fit team . \ The appeal fell on stony ground, how- Blue Ribbon In a letter to Logue t,h* for ever. later, 1914, cardinal C H V and on December 12. pope appealed fn both i|.*h inollne Bluo Ribbon ffNyj the authorities announced that Ens and Irish powof. m Vatican POPE BENEDICT XV to abandon violence and proposed innko* M the Pope's plan for a Christmas truce that the question be settled by body was failing "because of the opposition on behalf of the oppressed nationali- Ordained to the prlisthood In 1978 he Irish a selected by tho Irish nation o a -•••rtnin power." Reports were that soon attracted the attention of Cardi- whole rninto ties and latter committed tho church M hen the Anglo-Irish Russia and Turkey had refused to nal Rampolla, who under Pop* Leo agreement final- ly was reached, he expressed groat acquiesce. Along a thousand mile* of of which ho was the head to "do all was sat- XIII the Papal Secretary of State. isfaction and sent a message battlcfront. th-- following Christmas In ita power to support the decision* ;He accompanied Rampolla to Madrid t«> the day. at Dali Elreann rejoicing over the pen--* thousands of cannon thundered an of the delegates Versailles." In I in 1882, when his patron was Nuncio, agreement answer to Benedict's appeal to “lay all of his messages and addresses he which made Ireland a free | remaining there until 1887 when he re- state. down voter arms." expresed the hope that peace would turned t<» Romo upon the elevation of Pope upon In comment on the*« new relations, it Again on January 18,1915. Bene- be based Christian principles. Rampolla to tho Cnrdlnalntp. pointed was out in many quarter* dict took up the task of bringing peace Giacomo della chiesa. the spiritual In 1901. after having served four th't during the years when Benedict XV to a war-torn world, decreeing that on head of 300,000,000 t’atholics, whs born years as Secretary of the In February Nunciature hnd directed the policy of church ; 7. priest* and laity of the of noble line at PegU. Italy, on Novem- Spain, he was appointed Secretary of there the Catholic church throughout world 187.4. Cypher. had heen an Increasing Influence the ber 21 Hi* father was the Mar- the This position gave Its by the should unit-- in services and prayers ches della Chiesa. (pronounced Vatican on the public opinion of incumbent considerable authority and the world. I Wlj for the restoration or amity Keoaza.) at year Mgr. GASOLINE universal He received his the same della Chiesa was •nd good will. The education next occasion tho Capronican College and later at- named a* Consultor of the Holy Of- Benedict exercised hi* humane prero- tended the Academy of Ecclesiastic*., fice. gative was on July I*B. 1917., the first SBBBSSS ■■■■■■■ - anniversary of the war. when lie is- ■ ——■ sued an appeal to all rulers, declaring that "Mossed he he who first extends the olive branch and tenders.his hand to the enemy in offering hi* reason- able condition.* of peace.” ELABORATE PROGRAM FOR In March.