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10 THE BULLETIN OF THE CATHOLIC LAYMEN'S ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA THE CATHEDRAL MISSIONARY SOCIETY On February 18th, last, The Catholic Missionary Society of Georgia was organized in the Cathedral basement at Savannah. With no capital but the Holy Faith, and a boundless enthusiasm, measures were at once discussed and adopted for dividing the city into districts in such a manner that every Catholic would have an opportunity to contribute. With an excep tionally f\ne corps of collectors, so splendid has been the response of the people that in less than six months over $600 has been distributed to the four missions of the State. A committee provides altar linens for mission churches when needed. Another committee mails, each week, such Catholic papers as are given by the people to the end that our isolated brethren may keep abreast of current Catholic thought. About twelve dozen pieces of mail are sent out monthly. Parish Schools Help. Too much praise can not be given to the Sisters and Brothers of the Cathedral Parish Schools for their hearty co-operation. Through their zeal mite boxes were placed in each classroom to receive the spare pennies of the children. In this way a very substantial sum was added to the treasury, and the spirit of sacrifice inculcated in these young hearts. Over and above all material help, however, is the hope and encouragement brought to the life of the struggling Missionary that the cities, spiritually so rich, have now awakened to the needs of others, and are willing to extend a helping hand to those not so fortunate. United Effort. From its incipiency the movement has enjoyed the indorsement and active co-operation of the Catholic Women’s Club. The Ladies’ Auxiliary to the Ancient Order of Hibernians, Our Lady’s Aid Society, and The Parva Club. Welded together by the Missionary Spirit, their members hope to present a united front to the wave of prejudice now unhappily sweeping our beloved State. The officers are: President, Miss Joanna E. Walsh; Vice-President, Miss Nellie M. O’Brien; Secretary and Treasurer, Miss Ernestine Walsh; Chaplain, Very Rev. Joseph D. Mitchell, Rector of the Cathedral. Ad visory Board: Mrs. John W. Gleason, Mrs. Joseph Kelly, Mrs. T. M. Dreyer, Mrs. Hannah McDonough, Miss Mannie Judge, and Miss Kate Latham. THE CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOLS; SCOPE AND EQUIPMENT (B. E. D. A.), It were a truism to assert that within the memory of men now living, wonderful strides have been made in every species of human activity. In no line of en deavor is this progress more manifest than in the do main of the experimental sciences. As these sciences are closely allied to the Department of Education, we must not be greatly surprised to be told that corre sponding advances are discovered along all lines of educational development. Scarcely has a half century run its course since the late President Garfield paid a delicate tribute to the president of his Alma Mater, when he made this statement: “A log with a student at one end and Mark Hopkins at the other would constitute an ideal college.” Since the enunciation of that beautiful compliment so delicately expressed we haye made such giant strides on the high road of prbgress and ad vancement, that now we would as readily return to the curriculum pursued in the old-time hedge school, which educated our ancestors, as we would to commit the slightest interest of our dear ones to the tender mercies of the aromatic log of gnarled pine, even though such uncouth environment might satisfy the lofty ambitions of such geniuses as Presidents Gar field and Seth Hopkins. Far from us were any in tention to belittle the curriculum of the old-time hedge school; it was, for its time, the best that could be provided, and it educated many a worthy man, who, otherwise, would be compelled to go through life illiterate, because of arbitrary enactments enforced by tyrannical despots. We have learned to appre ciate the paramount importance of a thorough educa tion, and we are determined to afford to our dear ones now being equipped to shoulder life’s respon sibilities, every advantage within our control that they may become men of character—leaders in all honorable careers of life whether professional or mer cantile instead of exposing them to become hewers of wood and drawers of water for others more highly gifted with worldly advantages. The very best at our disposal is what our children demand as their right; it is also what we owe to them and are in duty bound to bestow according to our ability, that they may have wherewith to realize their aspirations, and if possible, to become leaders in social, civic and religious affairs. That education may be real and may accomplish the worthy object it must develop and educate the whole man, soul and body, mind and heart, conscience and will—hence it must embrace physical, intellectual and moral education. If any one of these powers be allowed to remain fallow the train ing imparted does not ring true to standard quality; it is merely gilded, not gold. It may not be deemed unwise or untimely to throw out a few observations covering the scope of the high school and the advantages it is intended to afford, to gether with its needful equipment. Our educational system, as now constituted, places much stress on the high school course, and it doe3 so with good reason. The object of the high school is two-fold:—to review the past and to prepare for the future. It continues and rounds out the element-