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Extract from Catholic Out
line Text of Senator Town
send’s Speech.
Detroit.—The closing rally in Or
chestra Hall in the campaign of
United States Senator Charles E.
Townsend for renomination was the
occasion of an address by the Sena
tor in which that portion of the
Bishops’ Program on social Recon
struction relating to cooperation and
co-partnership was used as a text
for the discussion by the candidate
of the relations of capital and labor.
At the outset of his speech the
senator rend the following extract
from the document submitted by the
administrative committee of the
National Catholic War Council:
“Nevertheless, the full possibili
ties of increased production will not
be realized as long as the majority
of the workers remain mere wage-
earners. The majority must some
how become owners, or at least in
part, of the instruments of produc
tion. They can be enabled to reach
this stage gradually through co
operative productive societies and
co-partnership arrangements. In the
former, the workers own and man
age the Industries themselves; in the
latter they own a substantial part
of the corporate stock and exercise
a reasonable share in the manage
ment. However slow the attain
ment of these ends, they will have
to be reached before we can have
a thoroughly efficient system of
production, or an industrial and
social order that will be secure from
the danger of revolution. It is to
be noted that this particular modifi
cation of the existing order, though
far-reaching and involving to a great
extent the abolition of the wage
system, would not mean the aboli
tion of private ownership. The in
struments of production would still
be owned by individuals, not by the
state.”
The senator said he desired to
recommend the most earnest con
sideration of this proposal by both
capital and labor. After exhaustive
ly discussing the proposition the
senator quoted the late Franklin K,
Lane’s assertion that “revolutions
come from great land holdings.”
“Similarly in modern civilization”,
commented Senator Townsend, “rev
olutions springing from great hold
ings of industrial capital, may be
expected to occur unless the inher
ent desire in every human being for
ownership or part proprietorship is
satisfied. To fulfill this desire; to
encourage habits of thrift which
warrant the fulfillment of the de
sire, and to cultivate all the virtues
that accompany the development of
a stronger, higher citizenship, should
be the purpose of every business
man who possesses any progressive
spirit at all.”
The Americanism of the future,
the senator said, must be the com
plete answer to bolshevism and so
cialism.
“In my humble opinion”, he con
cluded, “the grandest manifestation
of Americanism will come with the
advent of industrial justice founded
on copartnership between those who
now own and manage business and
those who now are wage-earners.
With this missing link supplied, pri
vate enterprise will go triumphantly
forward to greater rewards than
have ever come in the past.”
CATHOLIC PRESS
Zeal of Church for Her Schools
Explained by Montana Prelate
Catholic Schools are Needed Today to Answer Modern Un
belief and Indifference and to Save the Home from Utter
Extinction, Bishop Carroll Asserts.
Organizes' in India to Pro
mote Its Interests.
Calcutta—A Catholic Press Asso-
ciaton has been organized to pro
mote the reading of Catholic litera
ture in India, and plans for a Press
Sunday are being discussed.
The organization meeting, held in
Columbia, was attended by priests
and laymen from many parts of Cey
lon, and among the questions to the
front were the circulation of Catho
lic newspapers, and the establish
ment of free libraries and reading
circles.
FIGHT CATHOLIC EDUCATOR
Cumberland, Md.—Religious preju
dice is said to be the motive behind
a petition asking for the removal
of James G. Carroll, a world war vet
eran and a Catholic, as principal of
La Vale School of Alleghany County.
No specific complaints are made in
the petition, but 4 is admitted by
some of those interested in having
Mr. Carroll removed that they do
not want him in the position be
cause of his religion. Herman D.
Billmer, a Protestant and a membyr
of the board has voiced his vigorous
opposition to the program to re
move Mr. Carroll.
Missoula, Mont.—An exposition of
the duty of the Church to foster
education together with a resume of
the history of religious education in
the Uniled States and Europe was
contained in the sermon delivered
by the Rt. Rev. John P. Carroll, Bis
hop of Helena at the dedication
ceremonies of St. Anthony’s Church
and school here. St. Anthony’s is
the new parish in Missoula and in
cludes all of the territory south of
the Missoula River formerly attend
ed from St. Francis’ parish. The
school has been placed in charge of
the Sisters of Charity of Dubuque.
In his sermon Bishop Carroll said:
“The dedication of such a plant to
day emphasizes once more the zeal
of the Church for the religious edu
cation of her children. It is some
times asked why the Church both
ers about education, why she does
not leave all teaching to the state.
This would be like asking why a
lawyer practices law, or a physician
practices medicine. The Divine
Founder of the Church was the
Teacher by excellence. With the
Apostles the Christian world calls
Him “The Master.” When He es
tablished His Church to continue
the work He had commenced, He
gave her to understand that teaching
is to be her principal office. This
is His commission to the Apostles:
‘Going, therefore, teach ye all na
tions . . . teaching them to observe
all things whatsoever I have com
manded you.’ (Matt, xxviii, 19.20).
This, of course, means that the di
rect objects of the Church’s teach
ing are the things commanded by
Christ, the truths of divine revela
tion. But it means also that the
Church is indirectly obliged to teach
the things of human reason and ex
perienced, the so called secular
branches, namely, whenever and
wherever these are taught without
reference to revelation, or in sur
roundings that endanger faith and
morality. For she must safeguard
the deposit of revelation from cor
ruption and the false interpretations
of human reason and protect the
faith and morality of her children.
This is the rationale of the Catholic
school. Hence, in the early ages of
Christianity there arose the Cathe
dral schools to give the answer of
the Church to the false philosophy
of paganism, and in the Middle
Ages the Monastic Schools to give
the moral training which was neces
sary to establish the Christian
home. So today the Catholic school
is needed to give the answer of the
Church to modern unbelief and in-
diffentism and in a time of loose
family ties to inculcate the virtues
which will save the home from ut
ter extinction.
‘Up to 1840 all the public schools
of America were religious. It was
not opposition to religion that then
caused its elimination, but merely
the practical difficulty of providing
suitable religious instruction f chil
dren of different denominations.
Catholics met the difficulty by es
tablishing schools of their own.
Most of the Protestant churches ac
cepted the non-religious school and
attempted to provide for the reli
gious instruction of their children
in the home and the Sunday school.
The home and the Sunday school
having failed adequately to do the
work expected of them. Protestants
are now quite generally trying to
put religion back into the public
school from which they see it was
unwisely banished. Moreover, the
fact that, according to a recent re
ligious census, about two-thirds of
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the American people are not affili
ated with, any church is admitted by
all to be due in some measure, if not
in great part, to the absence of re
ligion from the public schools. Un
til some plan can be agreed upon
by which all the children of the Re
public will receive the religious in
struction of their choice in the
schools of the state, Catholics, while
loyally contributing towards the sup
port of state schools, will continue
to make the sacrifices which the
maintenance of a separate system of
schools entails.
“The Church has other works be
sides the school, but in her estima
tion the school occupies the fore
most place. "Her institutions of
charity and mercy for the sick, the
poor, the aged, the orphan and the
outcast are indeed most potent
means of drawing to her bosom the
children of unbelief, just as the
miracles of the Master in behalf of
suffering humanity created faith in
His divinity. But even as it was the
truth taught by Christ and burned
into the minds and heart of His
Apostles by the fire of the Holy
Ghost that converted the world and
created Christian civilization, so it
is the Catholic school with her di
vine philosophy of life and her sac
ramental training that develops
those bands of Christian men and
women who foster and maintain all
the Church’s works of charity and
mercy. The school is the most con
structive institution of the Church.
It is the condition and basis of all
her other activities.
“The mind of the Church is ga
thered from her legislation. Her
canon law recognizes no parish as
complete without a school and re
gards no pastor as worthy of the
dignity of immoveable rector unless
he have a school in his parish.”
CUBIST’S CONCEPTION
OF CHRIST IS BARRED
Munich—The grotesque cubist con
ception of Christ has been removed
from the Munich “Dombauhuette”
exhibition of models of churches and
sacred art, and the exhibition has
been allowed to reopen. It was closed
to the public after vigorous protest
against the showing of the statue
had been made by religious and civic
authorities. The statue itself was
carved in wood by Ludwig Gies, and
is so weird in execution that it is
said to bear little resemblance to
the human form.
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Archbishop Curley to Cele
brate Pontifical High Mass
Which Opens It.
FRENCH PRIEST VISITS
26th DIVISION TROOPS
Boston.—Rev. Louis Guige of
France urged by the boys of the
103rd Hospital Corps, 26th Division,
with whom he served in war, to
Washington, D. C.—Represents- “ come over and visit us” has taken
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laymen’s organizations are expected
to attend the second annual con
vention of the National Council of
Catholic Men, which will be held in
the Knights of Columbus Auditor
ium on September 28, 29, and 30.
The meeting will be coincident with
the meeting of the Hierarchy of the
United States which meets at the
Catholic University September 27
and 28, and many members of the
Hierarchy will attend and speak
at the convention sessions.
The Most Rev. Michael J. Curley,
Archbishop of Baltimore, will cele
brate the Pontificial High Mass
which will formally open the con
vention at St. Patrick’s Church. The
Right Rev. August J. Schwertncr,
Bishop of Wichita, will preach the
sermon at this Mass.
The Right Rev. Michael J. Galla
gher, Bishop of Detroit, will be one
of the principal speakers at the
public mass meeting which will be
held in the Catholic University gym
nasium on Thursday night, and the
Hon. Henry F. Ashurst, U. S. Sena
tor from Arizona, has been invited
to speak from the same platform
as Bishop Gallagher.
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Father Guige was given a warm
welcome. At a reception and din
ner in his honor at the University
Club he was presented with a well-
filled purse; and is being enter
tained by members of the outfit
in their homes. leather Guige was
assigned to service with the Hos
pital Corps when it landed at Ba-
ziolles, France; and served as an in
terpreter until after the armis
tice.
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