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THE BULLETIN OF THE CATHOLIC LAYMEN’S ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA
Seventy-Two Orphans Thus
Placed by Illinois State
Council Legally Adopted.
Chicago—How the total from the
price of a package of cigarettes, a
good cigar, an ice-cream soda, or
aticket to a movie show, tossed into
a state fund by the 80,000 Knights
of Columbus in Illinois last year, re
sulted in the rescuing of 140 orphan
children from dependency, is the
Story told in the annual report of
the Catholic Home Finding Associ
ation of Illinois.
This story may be read between
the lines of the rescue of the year’s
work made at the annual meeting of
the directors last Sunday when the
records submitted showed that de
spite adverse industrial conditions
and great unemploymen, 140 child
ren had been taken from the orphan
ages and dependency courts and
placed in CathoV? homes through
out the state. Seventy-two child
ren thus placed have been adopted
by their foster parents, given a le
gal status in the family and remov
ed forever from public dependency.
This work was done by the effi
cient and economic handling of a
fifteen cent per capita tax paid by
the Illinois Knights.
Rt. Rev. P. J. Muldoon, Bishop of
Rockford, State Chaplain of. the
Knights of Cfpumbus and Chair
man of the S#;ial Action Depart
ment of the National Catholic Wel
fare Council, whose thought gave
birth to the Home Finding work,
gave this epitome of the year’s ac
tivities:
“This is a day of welfare work,
and this result is the finest example
of welfare work,” said Bishop Mul
doon. “On a conservative estimate,
the removing of these one hundred
and forty children from dependency
has saved the Catholics of Illinois
$40,000. But this item, important as
it is, is but a minor factor in the
work. If it were announced that
esom welfare organization had un
dertaken the care of 140 Chinese or
Japanese'children we would consid
er it a wonderful work of charity.
But this work is even greater and
better than that.
WAIFS GIVEN CHANCE
“Every one of these waifs is now
given an opportunity to become a
good Catholic and a good citizen
and an independent self-sustaining
man or woman. In addition to this,
and just as important, if not more
so, every home admitting one of
these children is made more com
plete, more united, and a stronger
fortress of faith and loyalty bc-
; cause of the presence of that child,
l “Divorces between couples where
\ there are children in tlft homes are
'.comparatively few. It is impossible
! to measure the good both to the
'.child and the foster parents that
this work is doing. We may only
Estimate the spiritual good by the
temporal. If God so regarded V m-
Pjoral charity as to promise His
bflcssing to the cretature who gave
a glass of water in His name, how
lmVch more highly must He regard
tlie^ work that the Knights of Colum
bus are doing by means of home
f hulling.”
The business meeting follow:^ a
luncheon given to the directors who
represent the five dioceses of the
State.y The report of placements and
adoptions was made by State Dep
uty and Supreme Director Edward
Iloulihtan of the Knights of Colum
bus, wlho is also Superintendent of
Home Finding work. Incidentally
the rSpkqds showed that girls are
slightly\ more popular than boys,
there being seventy-one of the gent
ler sex .placer as compared to six
ty-nine bioys. There Were ten more
girls thaii boys amongvthe number
adopted. In the placements, child
ren under one year made up sixty-
nine of tine number and children
between or\e and three years, twen
ty-six; hi the adoptions, however,■
thirty-eight <>t ;,ie entire number
were between one and three years.
EDUCATORS. OPPOSED /J:
TO FEDERALIZATION
OF PUBLIC SCHOOLS
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Continued from Page§ One.
“Education is a function of the
state and not of the nation. The
principles of our government and
the teachings of our history estab
lish that fact. Any attempt to trans
fer or limit this peculiar state func
tion cannot fail to impair rather
than improve the effectiveness and
thoroughness of education. How
ever great the need may he for
more uniform opportunities and
standards of education throughout
the nation, however lofty and pat
riotic the motive of those who may
advocate it any plan either by di
rection or indirection to establish
and control educational standards
and policies from AVashington will
be destructive of sound government
al and education principles and
policy.
“Any state willing to surrender its
sovereign power and responsibility
in education for a financial consid
eration, should be degraded to the
territorial status. But grants of
vasts tracts of land and large sums
of money have been made from time
to time by the federal government
to the states for the encouragement
of education without such conditions
as impaired the educational author
ity and responsibility of the States
accepting such grants. In so far
as certain features of the Smith-
Lever and the Smith-Hughes acts
may violate this principle we call
upon Congress to amend or repeal
them.
“Believing that the Towner-Ster
ling hill now before Congress recog
nizes and embodies the policy of
the undivided responsibility and au
thority of the state in matters of
education, we reaffirm our approval
of the principles of that bill.”
Signs of disintegration of the
forces favoring the Towner-Steriing
bill became apparent in the early
sessions of the N. E. A., and an open
breach between the proponents and
the opponents of the measure had
come before th clos of the first
day.
I’ROF. INGLIS ATTACK
Th principal if not the initial at
tack on the bill during Monday’s
sessions came from Professor Ing
lis in the evening. He was tak
ing part in a symposium on the bill,
George D. Strayer, professor of edu
cational administration, Teachers’
College, Columbia University, ac
cepted the gage of battle, but other
speakers either were non-committal
or weakly in accord with Professor
Strayer.
Professor Inglis contended that
although the states and communities
have neglected many educational
needs, it did not follow that they
would continue their indifference.
Ihe situation, lie declared has not
been carefully considered by those
who would “cut tne Gordian knot
of education with federal subsidy.”
“Lest ’there be any doubt concern
ing my attitude toward federal sub
sidies for public-school education.”
said Professor Inglis, “let me state
at the outset that I am totally op
posed to any participation by the
federal government in the support
and direction of our public schools,
not only because I believe it in
volves policies subversive to our en
tire theory of government, hut also
because I believe that it involves
policies which in the Jong run are
hound to be bad for education it
self. 1 believe that the policy of
granting federal aid in support of
public-school education is fundamen
tally unsound as a pcflicy of govern
ment, that is essentially unfair.
“The practice of granting federal
subsidies for education is bad gov
ernmental policy. The moment
anyone supports such practice he
is forced to choose between the
two horns of a vicious dilemma;
either he must advocate a policy of
granting subsidies without provis
ion for their supervisioh, accounting
and control; or, he must advocate
some control over their uses. In
the one cose he contemplates the 1
expenditure of public funds witli lit
tle or no assurance that they shall
actually he expended so as to ac
complish the cuds designed; in the
ASSETS $11,422,(025.
Haven, 'Conner-Exclusive of
toft held ia I tfrufct by. the
Knigliis of Columbus,. the order’s
$ssets over and above liabilities' ate
$11,422,025.63, according to the of
ficial report of the Connecticut
State] insurAnce department, -wluflj;
has just ‘Completed an exhaiistnOe
examination of the organization’s
affairs. The Knights of Columbus
is chartered by the state of Con
necticut.
ternalism in any form inevitably
generates a sense of practice of
dependence.
FEDERAL AID FOR EDUCATION
BAD
“The practice of granting federal
subsidies for education is not only
bad government policy and had edu
cational policy; it is also bad econo
my policy. It would seem to he a
principle of practical finance that
wastefulness in the expenditure of
public funds is in direct proportion
to the remoteness of the appropria-
ting agency from the source of sup
ply. On the whole communities
are less wasteful than counties,
counties less wasteful than states,
and states far less wasteful than
the federal government. People can
see the uses to which is put money
taken from them for expenditures
within the community; but they lose
all sense of responsibility and some
times all conscience when it comes
to the matter of federal funds. The
wastefulness of the federal govern
ment, even in matters with which
it is primarily concerned and in
which acts directly, has become pro
verbial.
“Finally it may be stated that
most federal subsidies for educa
tion are essentially unfair—unfair
not because they operate to equalize
the burdens of educational support,
but because they fail utterly to ac
complish that cud or even to at
tempt it. In the past federal sub
sidies have had no relation to as
certained needs of the several states
nor to the extent to which states
have exerted themselves to provide
for educational development.”
BOSTON COLLEGE WINS
HOCKEY CHAMPIONSHIP
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Boston.—The Boston College
hockey team has come through
its season victorious in every
game against college rivals. It
can claim the unofficial colle
giate championship—unofficial,
because of the failure to arrange
a game with the Harvard team,
as such.
The B. C. hoys defeated Yale
on its own rink at New Haven.
Massachusetts Institute of Tech
nology was taken into camp twice.
So were other college sextets that
came its way.
It wanted a game with Harvard
but is was out of the question.
Then came an announcement
that tiic Crimson Ramblers would
meet the Boston Eagles. It didn’t
mean much until the line-up was
read. The ramblers were Har
vard men—the Eagles the B. C.
Sextets.
Harvard did not put all of lie?
first-string men into the play
and there are those unkind
enough to say that it was a good
thing she didn’t. Having a few
of the regular missing gave an
excellent excuse for a 4 to. 6 de
feat.
800 BABIES BLESSED
Philadelphia—More than 800 L
.bies, boys and girls, were blessed
(lie Gesu church here this wi_
Mothers from every part of the cl
[took their little ones to the chul
to receive the special blessing. i’J
babies, a boy and a girl, were pll
ed on the altar as the represeijj
fives of the several hundreds
others, when the benediction
imparted.
Rev. Charles J. McIntyre, S.
who had conducted a mission at tl|
church, officiated at the blessing
the children. He was assisted
Rev. Albert G. Brown, S. J.. Ikfl.
Benedict Smith, S. ,T.. Rev. Robert
.1. Tracy, S. J., and Rev. William
McFadden, S. J.
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MSGR. KALVELAGED VICAR GEN
ERAL.
Rockford, 111.—Right Rev. Mon
signor C. Kalvelage, pastor of St.
Joseph’s Church, Freeport, has been
appointed vicar general of the
Rockford diocese to succeed the late
Bight Rev. Monsiguor J. J. Bennett,
of Aurora. Monsignor Kalvelage
has been pastor of St. Joseph’s
church for about fifty years.
OiJli'S—Qjse he contemplates inter-j
fercocc in the coi'iircl of education ,
by those primarily responsible for
its administration in the several
states—and that at long distance.
“It is always possible to give a
temporary stimulus to any enter
prise by means of a special sub
sidy and education in any .locality
can always be raised temporarily to
a higher level by means of aid
from without—at least as far as the
special object of the subsidy is con
cerned. The inherent defect of out
side aid is that it operates to sap
Hu- vigor of local responsibility. Pa-
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