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MAY 31, 1929 THE BULLETIN OF THE CATHOLIC LAYMEN'S ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA 5 Secretary Wilbur Opposes Federal Education Department Cabinet Member Centralization Declares Dangerous Secretary of Interior Tells American Council of Educa tion That He Regards St andardization in Education as Distinct Menace and B low at States’ Self-Respect r ; i (By N. C. W. C. News Service.) WASHINGTON, D.C.—Definite dec laration that a Federal Department of Education is opposed by the Hoover administration was made by Secre tary of the Interior Ray Lyman Wil bur in an address at the annual meet ing- of the American Council on Edu cation, held at the National Research Council here. An adequate position for education within one of the es tablished departments, of the govern ment and with sufficient financial support for its research, survey and other work is all that is needed, Sec retary Wilbur said. The .educational functions of the government, Secretary Wilbur said, were to develop methods, ideals and procedures. A Department of Edu cation similar to other departments of the government, he emphasized, is oot required. “I have often wished,” Secretary Wilbur said, ‘‘that I might have had the spleasure of sitting in at the dis cussions when the basic principles underlying the organization of the United States of America were being thought out loud by men like Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin. It seems to me that the wisest and shrewdest thing that was done was to encourage universal public educa tion as the basis upon which citizen ship should rest. The schoolhouse and the church have been the earliest community enterprise throughout the history of our gradual conquest of a great continent. They came just as soon as sustenance and defense had been mastered. In themselves, they were most significant because they brought local self-government and self-control into play. ♦‘There has been a unique distribu tion of the taxing power so that the majority of the expenditures for tax ation have been raised and spent in the local districts and only a modest percentage outside of those for war and its after effects has come from the central government in Washing ton. This, together with the organ ization of the State governments, has permitted of a wide range of develop ment in the public schools. Fortunate ly, too, there were no national uni verities and the State universities fol lowed a prolonged period of privately operated and later privately endowed institutions of higher learning. When the State universities appeared they were under the constant stimulation of private and independent institu tions of equal rank. This kept the hand of centralized government large ly off of the school teacher and the school room. "Of course, there have been mark ed inadequacies in districts without a proper sense of self-government, without natural organizing power, and without financial strength. Some ol those who have looked over our edu cational system have noticed only these dark spots and have thought that a national mechanism should be devised that would be nation-wide in scope and would bring these w r eaker or dark spots at least up to the aver age level of the country. Correction of abuses is a poor method of de veloping proper administration. It seems to me that there is a distinct menace in the centralization in the national government of any large educational scheme with extensive financial resources available. Abnor mal power to mould and standardize and crystallize education which would go with the dollars, ( would be more damaging to local government, local aspiration and self-respect, and to State government and State self-re spect than any assistance that might come from the funds. “We can not rise higher than our source. That source in government with us is local. The family and the local community must be the places where citizenship is built and where the fiber of the nation is strengthened and its forces recruited. Too much help from afar is harmful to the initiative and self-reliance re quisite for character in a community. “The place of the national govern ment is not that of supplying funds in large amounts for carrying on the administrative functions of education in the communities, but to develop methods, ideals and procedures, and to present them, to be taken on their merits. The national government, too, can give widespread information on procedures, can report on what is act ually going on in different parts of the country and in the world, and can unify to some extent .the objects of those in the field of education inso far as unification is desirable. There is a distinct place for this sort of thing in the administrative side of the natonal government, but it shodJd not be recognized as an administra tive position with large funds at its disposal. “A Department of Education simi lar to the other departments of the government, Is not required. An adequate position for education with in a department and with sufficient financial support for its research, sur vey and other work, is all that is l needed. “Great gains are possible in our whole educational scheme through na tional leadership provided in this way. Education is preparation for the fu ture and there must be constant change to keep in step with the ad vances made. Our conceptions re garding the mental make-up of chil dren are shifting and the require ments of life are changing with a civilzation which is being revamped by the practical applications of sci ence and invention. The object of those of us who seek the greatest possible advantages for all from edu cation can, it seems to me, be accom plished without disturbing the initia tive and responsibilty of local end State units of government.” Fr. Sdiwitalla Heads Hospital Association Re-elected at Catholic Medi cal Convention in Chicago (By N. C. W. C. News Serv’. :■>.) CHICAGO—The Rev. Alphonse M. Schwitalla, S. J., dean of the School of Medicine of St. Louis University, St. Louis, Mo., was re flected president of the Catholic Hospital Association of the United States and Canada at its four teenth annual convention which closed here May tenth. Other officers elected are: The Rev. Maurice Griffin of Cleveland, Ohio, vice-president, and I Sister M. Irene, secretary-treasurer. Sister Helen Jarrell of St. Ber nard’s Hospital, Chicago; Sister M. Rose of Mercy Hospital, Pitts burg, Pa.; Sister M. Leonissa of St. Elizabeth’s Hospital, LaFayette, Ind-; Mother Allaire of the Grey Nunnery, Montreal, Canada; Sis ter M. Therese of Mercy Hospital. Chicago; and Mother Marie of the Immaculate Conception of St. Mary’s Hospital, Green Bay, Wis., were elected members of the execu tjve board of directors. An important resolution dealing ’with the purposes of hospitals adopted by the convention reads as follows: ’’While this association views with approval and sympathy the efforts now being made for the reduction of hospital and medical costs, and the new emphasis upon the social functions of the hospital, it still hereby re-affirms the funda mental principle that in all such efforts the primary consideration must even remain the physical ana spiritual good of the patient.” Fr. Clarkson Speaks at Graduation Exercises | (Special to The Bulletin) Macon, Ga.—Rev. Felix J. Clark son, S. J., pastor of St. Joseph’s Church, delivered the commence ment address at the recent grad uation exercises of the local City Hospital Training School for Nurses. PAUL HAID, ’04, HEADS N. Y. BELMONT ALUMNI (Special to The Bulletin) BELMONT, N. C. — Paul Haid, 04, of the Continental Fire Insur ance Company, New York, and nephew of the late Bishop Haid, was elected president of the Bel mont Abbey New York Alumni As sociation at a recent dinner at the Biltmoro there. The meeting was addressed by Rt. Rev. Vincent Tay lor, O. S. B., D. D., Abbot-Ordinary of Belmont, and was the largest the New York body has ever held. Mother’s Day was observed here with a special Mass in the grotto of Our Lady of Lourdes. Rev. F. Norbert McGowan, O. S. B., has been appointed dean of dis cipline. Stanley Fragge, of Asheville, is the new president of the Piedmont Club, Paul Campbell is vice-presi dent. Edward Mansfield, secretary and Carl Fuchs, treasurer. “The Haunted House” was pre sented at the Abbey early in May by the Piedmont Players of the Abbey and was one of the greatest triumphs ever staged here.. Fr. Cuthbert Alien, O, S. B., was di rector; in addition to the student body, those present at the perform ance included the seniors of Bel mont, Charlotte, Mt. Holley and Gastonia High schools and Sacred Heart Academy. Rev. Louis Haas. O. S. B., pre fect of studies at St. Vincent Archabbey, Beaty, Pa., and a brother of Rev. Bernard Haas. O. 5. B., was a recent visitor here. Bishop Gerow Addresses Alumnae of Mississippi (Special to The Bulletin) GULRPORT, Miss.—A banquet at which the principal address was delivered by Rt. Rev. Richard O Gerow,, D. D„ Bishop of Natchez, followed by a concert closed the tenth annual convention of the In ternational Federated Catholic Alumnae here Vicksburg was selected as the meeting place for next year. Miss Jane Lang, Pass Christian, is president, elected last year for a two-year term. Ten cities of Mississippi in which con vents of the Sisters of Mercy are located were represented by more than CO delegates. Rev. H. A Spengler, pastor of St. John’s Church, delivered the sermon at the opening Mass. NEWS BRIEFS Columnist Praises Way Georgia Catholics Meet Objections to Church Answering an unsigned, anti- Catholic communication to The Macon Telegraph criticizing the “Struts ahd Frets” department con ducted by Ben B. Johnston, Mr. Johnston writes in the May 12 issue: “It amazes a large crowd, says Nameless, to ponder the hold they have on the press. “This sentence contains a de plorable lapse of grammar. The pronoun ’they’ has no antecedent. However, I assume that Nameless means to say the hold the Katho- lics have on the press. "I a«r going to do Nameless a favor. I am going to tell him how the Catholics got such a hold on the press as he thinks they have. “They got it by intelligent hand ling of controversial matters in the neutral press—that is, in the papers that are neither violently anti- Catholics or radically anti-Protest ant. They got i^ by abandoning the practice of calling their critics foul names and making threats. They got it by answering rabid op ponents calmly and with good hu mor. They got it by stopping as far as possible anonymous and un authorized Vox Popping from the Catholic side. There is, in this state, a man whose duty it is to answer criticisms of the Catholic church which appear in Georgia newspapers, especially criticisms which grow out of a misunder standing of Catholic creed and practice. His replies to such criti cisms are always intelligent and always temperate. He always signs his name. I assume that there are others like him in other states. "If the Katholics have a hold on the press, Nameless, that . Is how they got it. Right or wrong, they have learned that intelligence is more effective in argument than violent language and that an authorized spokesman gets a bet ter hearing than an anonymous howler. “Really, Nameless, if your con science is reasonably clear, it re quires no more courage to conduct your affairs in the open than it does to skulk, and it’s Immensely more effective. You ought to know this, for I threw away several ol •your postcards before this one broke into print.” Fake Agents Target at C, P. A. Convention Catholic Editors Taking’ Vigorous Action Against Them to Clean Up Field (By N. C. W. C. News Service) Cincinnati.—Th/e plague of the dishonest subscription agent for Catholic publications was dealt a severe blow in the last year and bids fair to be wiped out summar ily in the near future, it was as sured on the opening day here of the Nineteenth Annual Convention of the Catholic Press Association. Three definite indications were given that the day of the dishonest agent is passing rapidly; first, the delegates were told of a militant and effective year’s campaigning by the association to this end, involv ing the elimination of no fewer than 61 undesirable agents and the pros ecution and conviction of several. Second, numerous editors applaud ed the campaign and pledged con tinued support. Third, editors of three important Catholic magazines which heretofore have not cooper ated financially in the association’s effort annouunced from the floor that hereafter their publications will do so. With these optimistio signs, it was predicted that soon parish priests and laity may feel they have thorough protection against fraud and are in a position to wel come canvassers for Catholic pub lications. Considerable progress al ready has been made in thus re viving confidence, it was reported. . Father Francis P. LeBuffe, S, J., business manager of America, New York, and chairman of the associa tion’s circulation committee, re ported on the year’s activities. Sev enteen additional publications not ■ employing professional agents have joined the campaign, besides sev eral which do use such agents, he told the convention. In the last year, through the committee's central office in charge of C. J. Lillig, 459 investigations were made, an increase of 153 over last year, with resultant elimina tion of the 61 undesirables. The committee now has listed 543 sales men who are either irregular or delinquent, and against whom it is protecting the Catholic public and editors. As a result of these ac tivities, said Father LeBuffe, dis honest agents Ifave developed a wholesome fear. (Continued from Page 1) grimage of 250 people from his Archdiocese. SEATTLE, Wash.—Robert Cor- lcery, a student at Gonzagra High School, Spokane, has just won the oratorical championship for high schools in the State of Washing ton. BROCKTON COUNCIL TABLES ANTI-HEFLIN ORDER BROCKTON, Mass.—City Coun cil here has tabled an order sug gesting that the city marshal de termine whether Senator Heflin had not broken the Sunday laws of the state .when he lectured here March 17. The order provided that should it be shown that Senator Heflin spoke without a permit a warrant for his arrest should be is sued. It is this meeting and the dis turbances occasioned by it that have been the subject of the Ala baman's continuous speeches in the Senate. SAN FRANCISCO—Three of the quadruplets born to Mrs. Veto Mauro at St. Mary Help Hospital here early in May survive. The sur vivors are two girls and a boy and are gaining in weight and strength. The girl, five pounds and fifteen ounces at birth, was the largest. AUSTIN. Texas—Tom Kilday, star fullback on the St. Edwards University eleven, who will receiye his Bachelor of Arts degree in June, has received an appointment as a cadet at West Point from Con gressman James P. Buchanan, and expects to report at West Point July 1. NATIVE OF BROOKLYN PRELATE IN CHINA NEW YORK, N. Y.—Rt. Rev. Msgr. Francis X. Ford, A. F. M., a native of Brooklyn and an alumnus of Cathedral College here, and the first student to enter the newly LOYOLA PRESENTED $300,000 LIBRARY BY E. A. CUDAHY (By N. C. W. C. News Service.) CHICAGO—The gift of a library building to Loyola Uni versity, here, by E. A. Cudahy has just been announced by the Rev. Robert M. Kelly, S. J., president. The building to be erected on the lake shore camp us of the university, will cost $300,000 and will be a memorial to Mr. Cudahy’s wife. Designed by A. N. Rebori, architect, the library will be of imposing appearance, its lines being classic with evi dence of Spanish influence. The exterior walks will be of lime stone. Work on the library builc.ng will start within a month. Mr. Cudahy, the donor, is chairman of the board of direc tors of the Cudahj* Packing Company. ^ Pope Honors Couple on Golden Anniversary Parents of Rev. Charles C. Conaty Fifty Years Married . (By. N. C. W. C. News Service) LOS ANGELES.—A solemn high Mass of Thanksgiving, celebrated by their son the Very Rev. Msgr. Francis J. Conaty, and personal blessings from Pope Pius XI, cabled from Rome, were among the honors accorded Air, and Airs. Francis P. Conaty here early in Alay, upon the celebration of their golden wed ding anniversary. The Rt. Rev. John J. Cantwell, Bishop of Los Angeles, presided at the Alass and more than a hundred monsignori and priests were in at tendance. Another son of the jubilarians, the Rev. Charles C. Conaty, assisted his brother at the Alass as deacon and the Rev. Wil liam E. Cort, a cousin was sub deacon. Air. and Airs. Francis P. Conaty were married at Taunton, Mass., Alay 17, 1879 by Air. Conaty's brother, the late Bishop Thomas James Conaty of Los Angeles. (Father Charles C. Conaty was a chaplain at Camp Hancock, Au gusta, during the war, has contri buted to The Bulletin frequently, and has visited Georgia often and is well known here, as are his par ents.—Ed. The Bulletin.) Father Fay, C. P., Gives South Georgia Missions ALBANY, Ga.—Rev. Richard Fay, C. P., of the Passionlst Fathers, Union City, N. J., and widely known missionary, conducted mis sions early in May in the South founded Alaryknoll semiqary in 1912, has been named the first Pre fect Apostolic of the Alaryknoll Kaying Alission in Northeastern Kwangtung Province, South China. Monsignor Ford was ordained in 1917, and has Since labored in China. SYRACUSE, N. Y—At the invi tation of the West Groton Congre gational Church and with the ap proval of Bishop O'Hern, of Roch ester, Rev. Thomas AI. O’Connor, pastor at West Groton, has deliv ered a series of lectures in th« community hall here on the princi pal articles of doctrine of the Cath olic Church. Four hundred men and women attended the lectures. BOSTON, Alass.—Boston College will open a school of law in Sep tember, Very Rev. James H, Dolan, S. J., president, has announced. Rev. John B. Creeden, S. J., for mer president of Georgetown Uni versity, will be regent and Dennis A. Dooley, dean. Two years of work in an approved college will be a requirement for admission. BROTHER LEO OFFERED POST AT CATHOLIC U. SAN FRANCISCO—Brother Leo, of St. Alary’s College, noted schol ar, writer and lecturer, has been offered the post of head of the English Department at the Catho lic University of America, Wash ington. D. C., but has not been able to accept because of the expansion plans at St. Alary’s. Ten years ago St. Alary’s College, which is con ducted by the Christian Brothers, had 60 students; now it has COO, enrolled in its new $3,000,000 col lege. ST. MARY'S, Kans— St. Mary’* College here, conducted by the Jesuit Fathers, loses Steve O’Rourke, its baseball coach, who will retire at the end of the pres ent scholastic year. St. Alary's has annexed the Kansas College Con ference baseball title every year since Coach O’Rourke came here _ 15 years ag<c Bishop Confirms 130 in Savannah Cathedral (Special to The Bulle-tin) SAVANNAH, Ga.—Rt. Rev. AD- chael J. Keyes, D. D„ Bishop of Savannah,’confirmed a class of 100 children and thirty adults at the Cathedral Pentecost Sunday; the adults came from Cathedral, St. Patrick's and Sacred Heart parish es. Rev. Herman Diernel, since his ordination a yeaj- ago assigned to the Cathedra], has been named as sistant to Very Rev.. T. A. Foley, V. G., pastor of Blessed Sacrament Church, and he is succeeded at the Cathedral by Rev. John Kennedy. The orphans from St. Alary’s were guests of Air. ahd Airs. John F. Gleason and Air. and Mrs. Charles Hogan at their Pine Harbor sum mer home fifty miles from Savan nah; they were carried to Pine Harbor in a special bus. St. Vincent’s P.-T. A. entertain ed with a successful dance at Bar bee’s May 23; the Georgia Five fur nished music. The Ladies Auxiliary, A. O. H., gave an all-day party at Eenedic- tine camp Alay 28, and conducted a card party May 24 for the bene fit of the tornado sufferers. The annual picnic for the grad uates of Sacred Heart School, spon sored by the school P.-T. A., was held Alay 28, with Airs. N. A. Ruane as chairman. Alay processions were held in all the parishes of the city during the month, and were even more beau tiful than usual. The pupils of Sacred Heart and Marist Schools presented a splen did vaudeville and minstrel show at the Alunicipal Auditorium Alay 17; it was a gratifying success. Rev. Fr. Stanislaus, O. S. B., was the speaker at the May meeting of the Eucharistic League of Sacred Heart Church. Rev. T. J. Knox, of the Cathedral, addressed the Alay meeting of the Catholic Woman’s Club. There will be no election of officers this year, as they were elected last year for two years. The funeral of Sergt. James Leonard, Confederate veteran and retired police officer, was held early in Alay from Sacred Heart Church, with interment in fcatholic Ceme tery. Flags of the police depart ment and in the Confederate Me morial Hall were at half mast dur ing the funeral. Georgia missions, of which Rev. Leo Al. Keenan, is pastor. The missions were splendidly attended by non-Catholics as well as Cath olics, many coming great distances for the services. At Bainbridge and Fitzgerald Father Fay was assist ed by Rev. Thomas A. Brennan, as sistant to Father Keenan, and in charge of these missions.