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PLATFORM OF BISHOPS 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 Victor Markwalter Certified Public. Accountant. 324 MASONiC BUILDING. Phone 377. AUGUSTA, GA. Lackay & Lackay Dealers in Family Groceries, Dry Goods and Notions Phones 2223-3867 1502 Broadway, Macon, Ga. 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. Cecil Morgan. Jas. E. Morgan MORGAN & MORGAN, Insurance FIRE—All Kinds. AUTO—All Kinds. 601 Bibb Bldg., Macon Ga Phone 4147. COMPLETE PLANS FOR N. C. C. M. CONVENTION 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 tives of more than twelve hundred ^ ^ lenl their word and is now in 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. Macon and Central Georgia COLLINS GROCERY CO. Agents Sanitarium Foods prepar ed at Battle Creek, Mich., by DR. KELLOGG Specializing Blue Ribbon Coffee, Ferris Bacon. Phones 116-117-118 454 First St. Macon, Ga. Boston. 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. ST. MARY’S OF LORETTO ACADEMY Montgomery, Ala. A popular Boarding and Day School for girls. 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