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...photogenetic first floor, which reviewed the camera's art from the days of Civil War Photographer Mathew Brady's menacing portrait of a Victorian lady (Miss Edwards in Front of Indian Rock, Lookout Mt.) to Ansel Adams' magical Moonrise, New Mexico, Edward Weston's claims to be the Ingres of modern photography, and Walker Evans' deceptively simple-seeming studies of Main Street...
Said Philadelphia's Dennis Cardinal Dougherty, spiritual director of the Union: "If it were possible for Father Theobald Mathew to give the pledge to about 600,000 Catholics when we were comparatively few in this country, why cannot the pledge be given to 25,000,000 today...
Tosspot Teetotaler. The Father Mathew to whom the Cardinal Archbishop referred was a whisky-drinking priest turned teetotaler. He has been dead 86 years, but to many a Catholic in Ireland, England, the U.S., the name of the "Apostle of Temperance" is still as green as his native Eire...
Born in 1790, Mathew went to Ireland's famed Maynooth seminary, got expelled for his convivial ways. He joined the poverty-praising Franciscans, later got a parish in poverty-ridden Cork. Unlike most priests of his time, Father Mathew gladly worked with Protestants ("We should bear with each other as God bears with us all"). On one civic committee he sat with a Quaker, William Martin. When ever the evils of liquor were discussed Quaker Martin would say: "Ah, Theobald Mathew, if thou wouldst take the matter up." One day Father Mathew swore off whisky punch, signed a total...
Within eight months 150,000 people of Cork and nearby areas had taken the pledge. Soon Father Mathew was drying up Irishmen by the thousand. Within six years Ireland's annual consumption of whiskey fell from twelve and a quarter million to five and a half million gallons...