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Charnel chaos, forgotten by the outside world, was Hawaii's leper settlement on Molokai Island when in 1873 a young Belgian named Father Damien (Joseph De Veuster) begged his bishop to send him there. Father Damien worked like a beaver to improve the place, made himself and it famous. One Sunday in 1885 he opened his sermon not with the customary "Brethren" but simply: "We lepers...
Father Damien lived on with his afflicted flock until 1889. Three years before he died he was joined by "Brother Joseph" (Ira Barnes Dutton), a Vermont-born Civil War hero who had been converted and gone to Molokai because he wished to expiate youthful frivolities. In 44 years Brother Joseph left Molokai only once, to have his eyes treated in Honolulu. He died two years ago at 87, but not of leprosy (TIME, April 6, 1931). Last week the world had word of one of Brother Joseph's successors. Father Peter d'Orgueval...
...Molokai eight years ago went Father d'Orgueval, 53, descendant of an aristocratic French family, scholar and orator, friend of the late Novelist Rene Bazin. A Wartime chaplain, much-decorated, he lost his voice from gassing, volunteered thereupon to work at Molokai for the Congregation of Picpus* which has charge of it. Within the past year Father d'Orgueval has been visited by Father Joseph A. Sweeney of the Maryknoll Fathers in Ossining, N. Y. Last week it was learned, by letter from Maryknoll Sisters in Honolulu, that Father d'Orgueval, too, may now begin his sermons...
...lepers on Molokai gazed out to sea one day last week and beheld a long smoky line of ships smudging the Pacific horizon. Cut off from the world, few of the lepers knew that they were sighting the U. S. Scouting Force, assembled in Hawaiian waters to begin the Navy's annual war games. Normally based on the Atlantic seaboard, the armada was in Pacific waters for the second successive year. Economy had been the Navy's explanation for not sending the Scouting Force home. Japan urbanely ignored any darker reason...
Brother Joseph Dutton, 87, Trappist lay brother, Vermont-born Civil War veteran (private to captain in the 13th Wisconsin infantry), onetime Tennessee businessman, left his priestly post at the leper settlement on Molokai Island, Hawaii, for the first time in 44 years, went by boat to Honolulu for eye treatment. Though bent with age and practically blind, brother Joseph planned to return to Molokai by airplane. Said he: "Everything goes like a whiz these days, doesn't it? Just like a whiz. No, I regret nothing but the evil in the world and leprosy. A cure for that? I doubt...