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 XEKTtrOKY 435 KETCHAM

Charities and Correction. — ^In 1020 a state in the State. For Catholic statistics see Louisville, board of charities and corrections for the manage- Diocese of; Covington, Diocese of.

ment of »>«^e^olent cwrcctw^^^^ n?lShrTl,i^>i^ilr ^«»y»' Vicariate Apostolic of (cf . C. E., VIII- tionswas created. ^^ ^^ «o°^P°8e;? o^J*f ^J ^f °^^^^^ 616c). in the East African Protectorate, ituated appointed by t*^e governor and has for its agent between 36** 6' and 37^ 6' E. long, and 0' and 1' 2' a commissioner <>^J"bhc iMtituti^^^^ g j^^ ^ ^^^^ -^^ ^ vicariate 12 July. 1909,

reform for boys and girls was established at Pme ^^ ^-^^^^ ^^ ^^^ Missionaries of the Coilsolata Ulutt m l»l». q£ Turin. The vicariate has a population of 1,000,-

Lboislation Directly AFPBcriNa Reuoion^— oOO. There are 14 stations served by 60 priests. Clergymen are not required to serve on petit juries, Brothers, and Sisters, with a school in each station, though they may do so; there is no such exemp- The Fathers have a large industrial establishment tion from services on grand Junes. In actual prac- at Tusu, 4 orphanages, a college of catechists, a tice militia service is, of course, purelv voluntary, seminary with 60 native students, and a farm at but clergymen are not exempt in the event of port Nyere. The present vicar apostolic is Rt. enforced enlistment. An appropriation of $300, to Rev. Filippo Perlo, titular Bishop of Maronia, b. be distributed by the chief clerks of the Houses of 1873, ordained 1895, elected and consecrated 1909. the Legislature, is made for all those who open __ __. . . _, e r% ^

the sessions of the House and Senate with prayer. „5?'5?l Archdiocbsb op (Chbr^sis; of. C. E., By recent legislation, Columbus Day (12 October) y™-^26c), a Chaldean Uniat archdiocese, in Asia and Lincoln's Birthday (12 February) have been Mmor. The present archbidhop is Very Rev. Hor- made hoHdays. misdas Stephen Djibn, b. 1870, ordamed 1^3, vicar

-D «»«.«,». T-.r„«, *«„,« ri^.^r^a Tk^ rl/^«,af;f«,^;/^«l geneHU of the patriarchate m 1900, elected to the Recent Legislative CHANOiffl.-The Constiti^tion f .^, ^ j^ -j^. . ^^^ promoted to Kerkuk

has been recently amended (1) to permit a county. j^^^ succeeding Veiy Rev.'^Messaieh, who died

^"^ IT'f^/^'^W^l^rnTH^^^^^^ 26 May, 1917. tL archbishop has alsi the title

wealth for oublic roads; ^^IJ^JP^^'Jl^^^^'lJ-^ of Archbishop of Suleimanieh. There are in the

annual tex for government expen^^^ (3) to make archdiocese 6000 Catholic Chaldeans of Assyrian

peace officers bable to prosecution in lynching. • numerous schismatics and mussulmans, 15

cases; (4) to prohibit the sale and manufacture i;i*i"L " jpofB ^ rpffiilar nri^ta Q churched 7

of liquor for any other than sacramental, medical, f„«i ^/if 5' .iL^^J^ Jwi^' Jh1l?'S^ scientific, or mechanical pur^ included the establishment Banking, a Department Board of Forestry (1912),

emplo3rment, the organization of the State Militia, Kerry and Aghadoe, Diocese of (Eerriensis et

ana the establishment of a State Board of Charities Aghadoensis; cf. C. E., VIII-627b), suffragan of

(1920). Cashel, Ireland. The present bishop is Most Rev.

Wills and Testaments.— A collateral inheritance Charles O'Sullivan, elected 10 November, 1917, suc- tax was imposed in 1906, but this law was amended ceedmg Most Rev. John Mangan, who died 1 July, by Act of 1916, providing for a progressive tax on 1^17. Rehgious orders m the diocese are: Francis- direct and collateral ii£eritances. There are 5 cans of the Irish province, Dominicans, Presenta- degrees of relationship, with 5 rates for each, 1, 2, tion Brothers, Christian Brothers, Presentation 3, 4, 6% on inheritances not over $25,000. Exemp- Nuns, Sisters of Mercy, Bon Secours Sisters, and tions vary from $10,000 to $500. On large inheri- Sistere of the Holy Infant Jesus. There are 62 tances the tax is multiplied from 1 to 3 times. parishes, 50 parish priests, 3 administrators, 72

Recent History.— A vexing problem in 1915 had curates and others, 99 churches, 2 fnaries, 5 mon-

to do with the "night-riders," who terrorized the asteries, 18 convents, 1 industrial school, 1 mental

western part of the State under the guise of hun- hospital. 8 convents in workhoiwes. The population

ters, whKming men and women, and killing one o^ the diocese in 1911 was 173,861, of whom 169,427

negro. Their purpose was "to repilate conduct," were Cathohcs and 4434 non-Catholics,

to replace the blacks with whites m labor, and to Eetdbam, William Hbnrt, director of the

fix the prices in the stores of western Kentucky. Bureau of Catholic Indian Missions, b. 1868 in

On 6 November, 1917, the United States Supreme Summer, Iowa; d. 14 November, 1921, in Tucker,

Court declared mvalid a race aegrepjation ordinance, Mississippi. Of Puritan ancestry, he became a con-

forbiddine either the blacks or whites from moving vert in 1885, while a student at St. Charles College,

into resident blocks in which the majority were of Grand Coteau, Louisiana. After graduation, in

the opnosing color. This had the effect of nullify- 1888, he entered the theological seminary of Mount

ing ordinances of a similar kind m other States, gt. Mary's of the West, Cincinnati, and in 1892

In 1918 women were admitted to the bar. A State ^as ordained priest. He had the happiness ©f bap-

tubereulosis sanatarium was provided for in 1920, tiding his mother and sister who followed him into

and the employment of convict labor on roads was the Church. Father Ketcham's work for the Indian

allowed. Kentucky was the third State to ratify missions began with his appointment as missionary

the prohibition amendment, 14 January, 1918; the to the Creek and Cherokee tribes, and the Quapaw

woman's suffrage amendment was adopted 6 Jan- Agency in what" was then Indian Territory. In

uary, 1919. 1897 he extended his missions to the eastern part

KentuclQr's contribution to the United States of the Choctaw tribes, building churches, and estab-

Army during the European War was 75,043 men, lishing mission centers and boarding schools for

or 2jOO per cent of the foree. A summary of boys and girls. After laboring with untiring zeal

casualties among the Kentucky members of the for ten years amongst the various tribes, baptizing

American Expeditionary Force included: deceased, hundreds of Indians, he was appointed Director of

43 officers and 1393 men; prisoners, 2 officers ana the Bureau of Catholic Indian Missions, Washing-

58 men; wounded, 94 officers and 3790 men. The ton, D. C. He established cordial co-operation

z:i&loniy of Kentucky men belonged to the 38th between the missionaries and the United States

s^ivision, quartered at Camp Shelby, Mississippi, Government officials, and secured the abolition of

>r to the 84th Division at Camp Zachary Taylor, the Browning rule whereby the choice of a school