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VOL. III. NO. 5.
AUGUSTA, GA., MARCH .25, 1922.
Department of Superintend
ence of National Education
al Association Qualifies
Previous. Endorsement.
AMENDMENTS DEMANDED
IN NEW RESOLUTIONS
Representatives of 8,000
Public School Heads De
clare State Should ot Ac
cept Proposed National Aid.
Chicago.—Qualifying a previous
indorsement of the Sterling-Towner
bill providing for the creation of a
federal department of education and
the appropriation of $100,000,000 by
the National Govenment for annual
subsidies to the States, the De
partment of Superintendents, one of
the big organizations of the National
Education Association in session
here this week, adopted a new de
claration opposing federal control
of .State schools. The Department
of Superintendence represents a
membership of 8,000 men and women
at the head of municipal and county
schools. The new resolutions de
clared that the State which courts
federal control with the object of
obtaining financial support from
the National Government “should
be degraded to a territorial status.”
Amendment or repeal of the Smith
Lever and the Smith-Hughes acts
which concern vocational education
financed in part by the Federal Gov
ernment) is demanded in the reso
lution because, it is contended, they
violate the principle of state con
trol of education.
DECIDED CHANGE OF
SENTIMENT
This change of attitude on the
part of the Department of Superin
tcndcnce with respect to-the Sterl
ing-Towner bill was not the only
blow given to the scheme for feder
nlization of education. There were
several attacks on the policy by in
dividual speakers, and a change of
sentiment was apparent among many
delegates to the convention of the
National Education Association,
which heretofore has given the Ster
ling-Towner bill its approval and
advocacy.
Alexander Inglis, professor of edu
cation at Harvard University, was
one pf those who made vigorous at
tacks on the measure. Professor
Inglis declared that “all acts pro
viding for federal subsidies in aid
of education carry with them the
dynamite of federal participation in
the control of education and the de
termination of educational policies.”
“When the bomb explodes,” Pro
fessor Inglis continued, “it will be
of little service to have their advo
cates protest that they did not know
their measures were loaded. The
‘fifty-fifty’ pblicy is one of the most
subtly dangerous inventions of mod
ern politics, at least as far as edu
cation is concerned.”
The indorsement of the “principle”
| of the Sterling-Towner bill couplied
. with a denunciation of the practice
| proposed in the measure, it, it is
understood, the best the proponents
: of federalization and centralization
of educational control could obtain
I from the N. E. A., in the face of the
(stubborn fight made against the
whole scheme by leading educat-
iors.
Tlie declaration of the Depart-
pnent of Superintendence on the
Question of federal aid suggests the
|>ced of liberal aid from the dis-
county, state and nation, and
Ben continues:
pUCATION FUNCTION OF STATE
“ill declaring for federal leader-
ip and appropriations, it is neecs-
(Y to restate and redefine the rc-
nsibility and authority of nation
(State in the establishment and
of public education.
Georgia Entertains
James A. Flaherty,
Lzader of Knights
ARCHBISHOP OF BALTIMORE FROWNS
ON EVEN THOUGHT OF A CATHOLIC
POLITICAL PARTY IN UNITED STATES
JAMES A. FLAHERTY
£d on Pago Three.
Savannah, Ga.—.lames A. Flaherty,
K. C. S. G., Supreme Knight of the
Knights of Columbus, was Savan
nah’s guest the evening of March 8
and the following morning, and ad
dressed a large meeting of the local
council as well as a public gathering
the night of his arrival.
Mr. Flaherty was greeted as he
stepped from the train by a large
delegation of Knights of Columbus,
headed by State Deputy John B. Mc-
Callum, of Atlanta. Among the
members of the delegation were
Past State Deputy P. H. Bice, K. S.
G. , of Augusta, president of the
Catholic Laymen’s Association of
Georgia; Past State Deputy Thomas
F. Walsh, Jr., of Savannah; Grand
Knight Leo A. Morrissey, of Savan
nah; District Deputy W. A. Books,
of Savannah; State Secretary Rich
ard Beid, of Augusta; Rev. Charles
C. Conaty, of Augusta, and the fol
lowing officials and members of the
Savannah Council: W. A. Saund
ers, John M. Jones, W. P. Powers,
.1. J. Fogarty, W. .1. Dempsey, E.
W. Barrett, John M. Power, J. H
Kelley, J. A. Sweeney, J. T. McCul
lough, J. J. Doolan, T. J. O’Brien,
J. M. Alvarez, Andrew Aprea, J. B.
McDonald, J. J. Dinan, ,1. H. Cronk,
H. A. Persee, M. J. Du Franke and
J. J. Heagarty.
When Mr. Flaherty alighted from
the train he was introduced to Im
perial Potentate E. A. Cutis, head
of the Mystic Shriners of America,
who happened to be present. Mr.
Cutts welcomed the Supreme Knight
to the city in the name of the Sa
vannah Shriners and chatted with
Mr. Flaherty for some moments, both
at Union Station and at the De Soto
Hotel, where they met again.
After an'automobile tour of the
city, the Supreme Knight was the
guest of honor at a dinner at Ban-
non’s at Thunderbolt. The public
meeting in the evening was held at
C. L. A. hall, Grand Knight Leo A.
Morrissey presiding, with about 800
present.
The Knights of Columbus, their
aims and objects, and what they
have done—this wa^the subject of
Mr. Flaherty’s address. He told
of thd work of the order along the
Mexican border, in the World War,
after the war, its efforts in behalf of
education and its hopes for the
future. The extent of the organi
zation, with its 800,000 members,
was emphasized by Mr. Flaherty’s
statement that if he were to visit
a different Knights of Columbus
Council every evening, at the end
of six years he would not have visit
ed them all.
The pilgrimage of the Knights of
Columbus to Europe was described
by Mr. Flaherty, and in referring to
the conferring of Knightship in the
Order of St. Gregory the Great on
him by the late Pope, Benedict XV,
he paid a tribute to President P. H.
Rice, K. S. G., of the Catholic Lay-
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PROTESTANTS AND JEWS HEAR ARCHBISHOP
CURLEY’S EARNEST PLEA FOR TOLERATION
Baltimore, —With a Protestant minister and a Jewish layman
as fellow guests at a dinner given by the Charles Street Assoica-
tion, Most Rev. Michael J. Curley, Archbishop of Baltimore, in
whose honor thfc affair was held, addressed the members of the
organization, deploring religious animosities and pleading for co
operation between citizens of all creeps and political parties.
“Religious bigotry, intolerance and hate are the greatest men
ace to civic and national growth, and are really the beginnings of
decadence in any community which encourages or suffers them”
Archbishop Curley said.
“When men are allowed to operate against other men because
of their religious beliefs, that day means the beginning of de
cadence in their civic life. I have seen speciments of it in Florida
and Georgia, where hatred was so rampant that the best citizens
moved away and good ones could not be attracted.”
Archbishop Curley .noted that he was placed at the same table
with a Protestant and a Jew and commented on this fact in his
address.
‘I am a Catholic,” be said, “and Hint is my business. Others
differ from me; that is their business. We must forget that we
are of different religious denominations, of opposite political be
liefs, and work together for the common good. One man cannot
do it as a unit. We must find a mutual ground for good.”
Rev. Arthur IL Kinsolving, of St. Paul’s (Episocpal) Church
spoke for the churchmen of Charles Street, recalling anecdotes’
of Cardinal Gibbons. The Cardinal was the first visitor at the
rectory of St. Paul’s Church, after Dr. Kinsolving’s arrival in
Baltimore, the latter said.
But He Advises Rigid Resist
ance to All Attempts to In
ject Religious Discrimina
tion Into American Life.
URGES CATHOLIC LAYMEN
TO PROTECT CITIZENSHIP
Say They Should Not Permit
Rights as Americans to Be
Disregarded—P light of
South Explained.
Secular Papers Formely Bit
terly Opposed to Papacy
Now Laud Pontiff’s Person
ality and Position.
London.—If the secular press of
England had been directed by Catho
lics as a distinctly Catholic press
it could hardly have given much
nTore space to the election of Pope
Pius XI, and from the leading
articles of some of the greater dail
ies it is possible to see that a great
change has set in with regard to the
Papacy.
The fact that the Holy Father gave
his first public blessing from the
outer loggia of the Vitican Basilica
seems to have conveyed a meaning
of striking significance to the edi
torial writers, though it must be
admitted that perhaps more has
been read into this incident than
it calls for.
A Soverign Pontiff,” says the
London Times, whicli is not exactly
a pro-Papal journal, “under the in
fluence of the Italian Government
would necessarily lose the confi
dence of the Catholic peoples—and
still more of the non-Catholic gov
ernments—out of Italy. With what-,
ever wisdom and impartiality he
might act, lie would be suspected
of complaisance towards the secular
rulers of the Italian State.”
II is rather a curious attitude to
find taken by the Times, which is
intensified further on by the same
journal approving the pride of all
Italians, except the extreme social
ists, in the Papacy, and deprecating
anything that might give color to
the assertion that the Pope was un
der the thumb of the Italian secular
Government.
But the most striking statement
of all, in the long editorial article
with which the Times greets the
accession of Pius XI, is one that im
plies the fullest recognition of the
independence and sovereignty of the
Holy Father. “The Pope,” the Times
goes on to say, “can never he an
Italian subject or an Italian citizen.
His mind and his attitude must be
Catholic in the first sense of the
word, hut as he is, and must remain
the Pope of Rome, lie can do much
to mould iilioii the principles of
order and of right the people who
arc of his blood, among whom he
Surgeon General Hugh S.
Cumming of Public Health
Service Pays Them High
Tribute.
Baltimore.—With no design or
thought of forming a political party,
hut with the single purpose of serv
ing God and country, CaTholie lay
men must organize to protect their
rights as American citizens, Most
Rev. Michael J. Curley, Archbishop
of Baltimore, told a gathering of
more than a thousand at the meet
ing of the District Council of the
National Council of Catholic Men
here recently.
“Such a thing as a political party
of Catholics shall never he—must
never be,” Archbishop Curley de
clared, and his words were received
with signs of warm approval. Ad
miral W. S. Benson, president of
the National Council of Catholic
Men, who was present, was among
those who applauded most vigor
ously.
Catholics do not want politics in
jected into religion, nor do they
want religion injected into politics,
the Archbishop said. In making
that point unmistakable, it must be
understood that Catholics should not
permit any interest or organization
to trample on their rights or citi
zens.
Chicago, III.—American and Can
adian hospitals, of which those con
ducted by the Catholic Sisters arc
recognized as among the leaders, are
giyen high praise in their fight
against disease in a letter to Sur
geon General Hugh S. Cumming, of
the United States Fublic Health Ser
vice, to Matthew O. Foley, executive
secretary of the national hospital
day committee, 637 S. Dearborn St.,
Chicago. Rev. P. J. Mahan, S. J.,
of Chicago, active vice-president of
the Hospital Day Association and
of the Catholic hospital association
hospital day, May 12, which has for
its object the education of the peo
ple concerning hospitals and hospi
tal service.
These hospitals are called the
“bases of attack” and described as
fortresses in the war of wars—the
war for health and life and against
disease. Surgeon General Cumming,
after giving his hearty approval of
National Hospital Day, says;
“Familiarity with hospital work is
rapidly becoming of more impor
tance than was foreseen a year ago.
The world war has for a time at
least ended wars of destruction—
and it is apparent that the great
war to be waged during the next
half century is to be one to eradi
cate disease, to conserve health and
to lengthen life.
“This war has indeed already be
gun and has not a few triumphs to
its credit. Some of these are well
reflected in the annual death rate
in tire United States, which during
the last 20 years has dropped per
hundred thousand of the population,
for typhoid fever from 35.9 to 9.2;
for measles from 12.5 to 3.9; for
scarlet fever from 10.2 to 2.8; for
diphtheria from 43.3 to 14.7; ” for
tuberculosis from 201.9 to 125.6;
for pneumonia from 180.5 to 123.6;
and for all causes from 1755.0 to
1238.0. Incidentally, yellow fever
has bee eradicated, and smallpox,
plague and typhus are being held at
bay.
Hospitals Instrumental.
“The hospital of course did not
bring uuout these great life-saving
MUST INSIST ON RIGHTS.
“We Catholics are not asking for
any favors,” declared the Archbish
op, “hut we demand and will con
tinue for our rights. The day of
apologizing for our right to be
treated as American citizens has
passed. We do not have to give
an excuse for living anywhere in
this country, much less here in
Maryland, Some of you may think
that I exaggerate. Some of you
may think that I ought not to lie
so strong in my expression of our
rights as American citizens.
“Do you know, men, that from
New York City in the last few days
letters have gone out to various
business associations in this coun
try and to various leaders in busi
ness asking them to unite in attack
ing the baneful influence Rome is
exercising in this country? That
letter was signed by leaders in five
of the best known organizations out
side of the Catholic Church. Men,
don’t be ostriches. Don’t hide your
heads in the sand and wait for the
storm to pass over. In Alabama
one of the noblest priests in the
country, one of my friends from
boyhood days, 1 was shot down like
a dog. In Florida, while I was
stationed there, the Catholic people
who constituted only four per cent
of the population, were treated as
outcasts because they dared to be
Catholics.”
In referring to Florida, Archbishop
Curley told how Catholic Sisters
were arrested \jn that State because
by teaching colored children they
were violating a law of the State.
That law was passed as a measure of
persecution against the Catholics.
The Archbishop described how he
succeeded in having the law declared
unconstitutional. The audience ap
plauded him.
SOUTHERN CATHOLICS
NEED AID.
“Yes, you applaud me now,” said
His Grace. “Men applauded me in
those days. 1 received telegrams
from all over the country, from
Catholic societies telling me what a
wonderful thing I had done and con
gratulating me. Oh, the Bishop -,f
St. Augustine was a great
wait let me tel) nm mmrr
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