Kentucky Irish American. (Louisville, Ky.) 1898-1968, 1911-07-01
CATHOLIC
Educational Congress Attended
by Several Thousand
Delegates.
ScathiDg Arraignment Of Car
negie Foundation by Jesuit
Father.
Big Fund to Enlist Sympathy
in Favor of Irreligious
Schools.
MANY NUNS IN ATTENDANCE

One of the greatest, If not the
greatest, gatherings of the Catholic
church ever held in the United
States for purely educational discus
sion took place in Chicago on Tues
day, Wednesday and Thursday. II
was the eighth annual congress of
the National Catholic Educational
Association. All the business SEES
sions were held at the De Paul
University. More than 5000 dele
gates were in attendance. Many Of
them were teaching nuns. Besides
the delegates many Chicago teachers
were present at one or more of the
sessions; in fact more than 1000
nuns from that city attended the va
rious sessions of the parochial school
department. The Rev. Father Henry
Spalding, s. j., was in charge of the
parochial school section.
The Very Rev. Edward Dwyer.
s. j., presided over the deliberations
of the seminary section, which dealt
with the preparation of young men
for the priesthood alone. The Off
GERS of the National Catholic Educa-
tional Association are: Honorary
President, Cardinal Gibbons; Presi-
dent General, Right Rev. Thomas ].
Shahan, d. D., President of the
Catholic University at Washington,
D. c.; Secretary General, Rev.
Francis w. Howard, Columbus,
Ohio.
The topics discussed at the differ
ent sessions and in various sections
related almost entirely to Catholic
educational institutions. The object
of these congresses is to unity sys-
tens of education in parochial
schools, colleges, academies and
seminaries. The only topic that APP
preached a discussion of matters
outside the Catholic church was the
paper read by the Rev. Timothy
S. j., President of 10y
ola College, Baltimore.
Father Brosnahan made his ad-
dress at the opening session of the |
congress on Tuesday. 1t was a scath-
ing attack on the aims and alleged |
of the Carnegie Founda- |
ton. His views were supplemented |
by a general discussion led by the
Notre Dame, Ind.
Father Brosnahan said in part:
"a fund of SIS, 100000 in bonds
Of the United States Steel Corpora
ton providing retaining allowances
for certain excepted institutions will |
enlist the interest of influential per-
sonages in the stability of the Pitts |
burg millionaire's industrial BARN.
"These we may reasonably sup
pose would scarcely look impartially |
on legislative inquiries or enact
ments that would imperil the value
Of their securities. The result Of
investing the United States Steel
bonds in the foundation
could scarcely have escaped the
acumen of so astute business man.
1.-The Carnegie Foundation affords
motive to university and college
Presidents for discharging profess
,ors when they have reached the
lead line. Personal or financial
'easons may make the professors re-
irement desirable to the university
affording a way for pro-
notion to some younger man.
IL tue CNIo VI hCopONAohA /
tore for us should We permit mon
poly of education by the Govern
nent, which, after all, with us can
,e called to account, what may we
xpect from a private, permanent,
corporation backed
" millions of dollars and irresponsi-
lie to the public, whose one aim is
o bring into disrepute schools under
efinite religious control; to bond
oaether non-sectarian schools
elected mostly for their actual or
Prospective strength; through them
o get control of the higher educa-
ion of the country and finally to
stablish educational unity and
oherency by an educational system
yhich is necessarily hostile and skep-
Ical in its attitude toward religious
ruth?"