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New Zealand Tablet, 11 August 1910, Page 1272

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Rival Attractions Our contemporary the San Francisco Monitor mentions that in a California daily paper besides the old notice ' Births, Marriages, and Deaths/ there now appears the added heading '.Divorces.' The whole thing is coming to be looked upon as quite a matter of course. Under the heading ' Rival Attractions,' the following story appeared in the jokers' column of an American paper the other day: 'First Child —"We've got a new baby at our house." Second Child (contemptuously)—" We've got a new pa at ours." ' Something Like ■*• The other day, in a North Island district, half a dozen Catholic young fellows tired of seeing so many tirades against their Church in the columns of the local papers banded themselves together for the purpose of replying to such attacks. Already one bigoted journal has had such a warm time of it that it was glad to close down the controversy which it had itself originated and in the columns of another paper, a rash Rationalist who had uttered some rhodomontade about the Accession Oath, received such a

broadside as has effectually silenced him. These young fellows enter the fields of controversy in no spirit of looking for fight,' but in a quiet, modest way, with the sole desire of explaining and defending Catholic practices and beliefs. More power to their elbow; and may the good example they have set be widely followed.