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THE BULLETIN OF THE CATHOLIC LAYIHBWB ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA
AUGUST 30, 1924.
CHARLESTON’S NEWMAN
CLUB TWO YEARS OLD
Organization of Catholic
College Students Accom
plishes Much in Short Time.
(Continued from page 3.)
Club frequently arranges literary
programs and occasionally extemp
oraneous debates.
The Club promotes fellowship be
tween non-Catholics and their Cath
olic fellow-students. The quarters
are open to all, and non-Catholic
students are frequently guests at
Newman Club informal suppers.
When quarters are not available to
entertain the members of the Wil
liam and Mary College debating
team, the Newman Club turned its
quarters over to the entertainment
committee. At the entertainment
of the visiting debators were the
members of the three literary soci-
ietie at the College, the Newman
Club and several members of the
faculty, including President and Mrs.
Harrison Randolph.
At the closing of the second year
of the Club’s existence, it cannot
but feel satisfied with its record. It
has drawn the members of the Club
closer together, and been responsi
ble for their closer co-operaticm
with their fellow-students in stud
ent activities. It has co-operated
also with the other Catholic organ
izations of the city. Above all the
Newman Club has fostered the
Catholic spirit of its members and
impressed upon them the need of
higher education for Southern Cath
olic youth. It has made them ap
preciate more fully the precious
heritage of the faith and the mean
ing of the “kindly light” which led
into the Church one of its most il
lustrious Cardinals, one of the great
est writers and stylists in the his
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School Law Compilation Reveals
Numerous Supervisory Measures
Flood of School Legislation S tarted in Recent Years, N. C.
W. 0. Monograph on Subje ct Shows—Work Available
for Use of All Citizens—S urvey Complete.
(N. C. W. C. News -Service.)
Washington, D. C.—The much
mooted questions of private schools
and their legal status, and of Bible
reading in the schools questions
which are agitating half a dozen
states at present and bid fair to
spread rapidly to others—are can
vassed authoritatively arid complete
ly for the first time in a volume to
appear shortly, entitled “Private
Schools and the Law.”
The monograph is the work of
Charles N. Lisctika, of the depart
ment of education, National Catholic
Welfare Conference. Mr. Lischka
has been doing research work for
the department for three years and
has worked on his difficult compil
ation thoughout that time. With
the increasing importance of the
questions into which he was exam
ining, he has spent virtually all his
time in the last four months com
pleting it.
Perhaps a proper appellation for
the new work would be a “readable
compilation.” It is distinctive for
the facts that it contains no com
ment, opinion or author’s construc
tion of the laws concerning which
it treats, yet each case is lucid, so
that the average layman may read
ily read and comprehend the legal
phase of the private school question.
For this latter purpose, there are
ample notes and cross-refetences.
State Legislation Compiled. '
Mr. Lischka has brought into one
work of 250 pages a compilation of
all the state legislation concerning
private schools, and all the stautes
governing BiblC-reading • in the
schools. In addition, he has in
cluded about twenty-five Federal
and state cases involving fundamen
tal issues, together with some speci
mens of decisions by State superin
tendents.
When he undertook the task he
says he found an amazing amount
of such legislation had been passed.
There were literally massfcs of it.
to be gone through and sorted and
winnowed down. A still more sig
nificant revelation was the fact that
virtually all of this great volume of
laws had been passed only in the
last few years. The flood of it be
gan, he found, in 1919, and it’s in
crease in more recent years indicates
clearly that there is every probabil
ity ,it will grow immensely in the
next few years.
In setting down the cases in the
courts which have grown from this
great volume of legislation, Mr.
Lischka has carefully given all the
facts, both of the bases on which
the suits were brought and of the
opinions. He has included ample
excerpts from the opinions them
selves. But he has weeded out all
the tedious, heavy, legal sections not
pertinent to his subject, so that the
book becomes practical for the lay
man. At the same time, he has re
tained the body of the opinions,
wherever they apply, so that it may
be regarded as a scientific and com
plete source book in its field.
It is possible from this work for
the parent to ascertain his legal
rights and those ot his children in
the matter of schools,-both locally
and nationally. He may determine,
for example, whether inspection and
supervision of private schools is
compulsory in his State, and what
conditions the state exacts from
those who conduct the parochial
school which his children attend,
what are the language requirements
trie qualifications demanded of
teachers, etc.
Some Drastic Statutes.
In this connection, the book re
cords some drastic supervisory sta
tutes—notably in Kansas, Nebraska,
and Michigan. In Kansas, the State
Board may close any school where
the law regarding the use of English
and the teaching of civil government
is not observed.' In Michigan, the
Superintendent of Public Instruction
or his agents may “investigate and
examine” private schools as to
“sanitary conditions, courses of
study and qualification of teachers.”
If the conditions are not complied
with, they may close the school and
compel the pupils to attend a public
school or an approved private school.
In Nebraska, county and city super
intendents must inspect private
schools at least twice a year with
respect to such subjects as American
ization and courses of study, and
the penalties in the state for viola
tions in this regard are heavy.
Bible-reading in the schools has
become a vital question of late.
Laws regarding it are piling up.
Here again Mr. Lischka gives, for
the first time, a canvass of every
statute yet enacted on the subject,
together with the bases on which
decisions were made. Good reason
ing for compelling Bible-reading,
and bad reasoning are given, and
such matters as school use for
sectarian purposes, • religion in the
schools and kindred questions are
discussed in authoritative terms by
legislators.
Among the headings in the com
pilation of representative decisions
of Federal and State courts on fun
damental school issues are:
“Compulsory Education,” “The
Parental Right to Determine Educa
tion,” Exemption of Private School
Property From Taxation,” “Public
Funds for Sectarian Purposes,” “The
Wearing of Religious Garb in Pub
lic Schools,” and ‘Absence From
Public Schools on Holy Days.”
The decisions by State superin-
tentent bear on equally pertinent
school questions.
New York Catholic
Remembers Nine Charities in
His Will.
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
New York.—Five prominent Cath
olic charitable organizations of
Brooklyn will receive a large part
of the half-million dollar estate left
by John F. Morrisey, who for more
than thirty years conducted a drug
store in Brooklyn. The will was ad
mitted to probate by Surrogate
George A. Wingate on Saturday.
Besides the special bequests to
Catholic charities, the will also pro-
vide'd that large sums of money be
given to two non-sectarian charities
and to the Hebrew Orphan Asylum.
A bequest also was made to the
Catholic Church Extension Society
of America.
The document gives a son, Frank
.1. Morrisey, all his father’s jewelry
and walking cane's. The residue of
the estate, conservatively appraised
by the family at $500,000 is left in
a trust fund to the widow, Mrs.
Maria J. Morrisey. On her death,
it will be divided into two equal
parts. One part will go to the son,
and the other will form a trust fund
which will pass in equal shares to
charity.
FATHER OF SUPERIOR
Of Maryknoll Missions Dies at 91.
Boston.—At the advanced age of
31 years, Mr. James Walsh, a well
known resident of Cambridge, Mass,
died last week at bis home in that
city. Mr. Walsh was a native of
Ireland and came to the United
States in 1855. He retired* from
business some twenty-years ago,
but was active until within a few
days of his death.
He was the father of the Very
Rev. James A. Walsh, Superior of
the American Foreign Missions of
Maryknoll, and of Mr. Timothy
Walsh,'the well known ecclesiastical
architect who is associated with Mr.
Chas. D. Maginnis. Both Father
Walsh and his brother are natives
of Boston.
American Seminarian
Speaks at Open Air Meeting
in London
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
London.—An American seminary
student addressed two crowded audi
ences in the open air in London
today and yesterday. He is proba
bly the first American to speak
under the auspices of the Catholic
Evidence Guild.
Edward A. Freking, who is a
third year theologian of Mount Si.
Mary’s Seminary of the West, Nor
wood, Cincinnati, and is prominent
ly associated with the Catholic
Students’ Mission Crusade, came to
London a few days ago to study the
outdoor apostolate whiv’i has made
big strides^ in this country.
He attended a meeting of the
Guild and passed the strict test to
which all speakers are submitted
here before they are allowed to
speak from a public platform in the
name of the Church.
Yesterday Mr. Freking occupied a
platform at Hyde Park, and today
he faced the hecklers at Hempstead.
On each occasion he spoke of “De
votion of the Blessed Virgin.”
MOTHER OF JESUITS DEAD
Brothers Celebrate Funeral Mass for
Mrs. Brockman.
(By N. C. W. C. News Service.)
Cincinnati, Ohio.— Mrs. Lisette
Brockman, 82, mother of Rev.
Hubert F. and Henry A. Brockman
of the Society of Jesus died here
recently. The funeral was held at
St. Xavier Church, with Rev. Hubert
Brockman as celebrant. Father H.
A. Brockman and three other Jesuit
priests, Fathers Corcoran, O Connell
and Daly were celebrants at the
side altars. Besides her sons, three
married daughters survive. A sis
ter is Sister Mary Angelique of the
Notre Dame Order.
Always interested in Catholic ed
ucation Mrs. Brockman added to her
husband’s foundation of scholar
ships at Xavier’s college.
Herriott, Anticlerical,
Reared in Priest’s Home
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
Paris.—M. Herriot, the hew
President of the Council, went
a short time ago for a visit to
Troyes, the city where he was
bora, and to the village of Saint
Pouange, where he spent his
childhood in the village rectory.
For M. Herriot, in whom the
anti-clericals today place all
their hopes, was reared by the
pastor of Saint Pouange, Abbe
Collin, who was his great uncle.
M. Herriot expressed the de
sire to visit the rectory. The
present pastor of the church in
vited him to visit the church
also, and M. Herriot consented.
Observing the cruets near the
altar, the Premier went up and
examined them. “They are the
same ones,” he said. “This one
is cracked, I did that one day
when I was serving Mass.”
India’s Catholic Schools
Lead Those of Other Denom
inations.
Calcutta, India.—Catholic educa
tional institutions are by far in the
majority among the denominational
schools of India, it is shown by the
eighth quinquennial review of the
progress of education in the Empire,
recently published.-
There are at present in India, the
review shows. 41,782 European and
Anglo-Indian students in 444 Euro
pean schools. A little more* than
thirteen rupees is expended on rill
these higher schools put together.
In Bombay, forty-five European
schools are* conducted by Catholics,
sixteen by Angelicans, five by other
protestant missions and one by the
Jews. In Bengal, forty-tWo institu
tions are maintained by Catholics,
twenty by the Y. M. C. A. and fif
teen by Angelicans.
Another interesting thing shown
by the review is that among the
Catholic teachers, 170 are unpaid,
being members of religious orders,
while among the protestant teachers,
only four are unpaid, and they are
women.
AMERICAN ORGANISTS
RECEIVED AT VATICi
Maestro Peter Yon of Ne
York Plays in the Basilii
on Feast of St. Peter.
By MSGR. ENRICO PUCCI
(Rome Correspondent, N. C. W. i
News Service.)
Rome—Mastro Peter Yon, organ
of the choir of St. Ignatius in N.
York and director of a school f
organists in that city, was receiy^^
recently by Pope Pius XI and IMS
been made an honorary organist of
the Vatican Basilica. He played oil
the organs in the Basilica on the
Feast of St. Peter and his perform-]
ance drew praise from many notq
musicians.
The Pope received the Americj
organists with the greatest cordia
ity. At the request of His HolineJ
Maestro Yon gave a brief accorj
of his activities in the field of ml
sic in America. The Pope listen-*
with interest and congratulated tlj
organist upon and his party.
Maestro Yon and his party we>|
also received with honors at tF3
Pontifical High School of Sacrccl
Music and at the Academy of Stl
Cecelia. At the former he was we! 4
corned by the president, Abbot Paul
of the Benedictine Order; Monsigj
nor Manari. professor of Organ Muj
sic; and Monsignor Casmiri, direct
tor of the Lateraneuse Chapel.
Cardinal Merry del Val, Archpriesl
of the Vatican Basilica, who is him!
self a musician of note, also receiv|
ed the American musician.
Several of Maestro Yon's pupil 4
from America are accompanying hinj
on his visit to Italy. They include f
Messrs. W. Chenoweth and R. Por
ter Campbell, both of whom wer
accorded the honor of playing oi|
the organ in St. Peter’s; Mr, Bra
der and Miss J. Russell. The p2
will remain in Italy during the s]
mer.
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