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The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1920-07-17
MEETING PROVIDES FOR
VOCATIONAL TRAINING AND
COMMUNITY SCHOOLS SEVEN
TY-THREE NIGHT SCHOOLS REP.
RESENTED - NO DRIVE FOR
FUNDS.

The first exclusively night school
convention to be held in the United
States was that of the Knights of
Columbus in Chicago on July 3 and f.
when the K. of c. made definite plans
for the expenditure of the $7,0OO,0OO
balance of their war fund on vocation
al training for former service men and
women and the institution of commu-
nifty schools.
Martin H. Carmody of Grand Rap
ids, Mich, Deputy Supreme Knight of
the K. of c., in his closing remarks at
the end of the convention, stated that
it was the final object of the X. of c.
to provide training for whoever desired
it in skilled manual callings. "The
Knights of Columbus,' he stated,
have demonstrated that practical edu-
cation, devoid of red tape, can be
shall continue to do our utmost for the
former service men, but with the in
creasing remoteness of the war we
must look to the time when the K. Of
G. schools will be permanent assets to
the communities where they are estab-
lished."
In the three days sessions the three
hundred educators who represented
73 K. of C. night schools at the con-
vention were given ample opportunity
to exchange their experiences in found
ing and maintaining schools. They
were addressed by DR.. Edward A. Pace
of the Catholic University, and M. J.
Downey, Americanization expert, who
brought out the interesting fact that
more than sixty per cent of the $4,000
soldiers and sailors graduated from
K. of c. night schools were foreign,
born or the immediate descendants of
the foreign-born. The honesty of the
ex-service men and women was attest
ed by the fact that of 250,000 text
books used in K of C. schools not one
was lost during the ten months OF
school operation.
William ]. Mckinley of New York
Supreme Secretary of the Knights Of
Columbus, announced that the K. o.
C. would not make any drive for funds
to support their educational work mex
year, having an ample balance for thai
purpose.
James A. Flaherty, of Philadelphia
Supreme knight, declared that educa
tion would be the chief work of the
X. of G. in the future and predicted
| that the number of K. of G.. school:
would be more than doubled within thu
next twelve months. He announced
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1920-07-17
DEATH Of NOTED NUN
MADAME GARDNER OF SACRED
HEART CAME OF DISTIN-
GUISHED FAMILY-A CONVERT
TO THE FAITH.

Madame Eleanor Emerson Gardner,
Religious of the Sacred Heart, died at
the Convent of the Sacred Heart,
Clifton, Cincinnati, on July 8, and
was buried at st. Josephs Cemetery,
Price Hill. She was born near Bos-
ton on April II, 1888. She was of
Mayflower stock and lineal descend
ant of John Hancock, signer of the
Declaration of Independence. Her
parents were married by Ralph Waldo
Emerson, who named their little
daughter after EmersOn's wife. She
was kinswoman of the late Eliza
Allen Starr and of DR.. George Allen
Professor of Greek in the University
of Pennsylvania. 1t was while visit
ing her Catholic cousin, DR.. Allen, in
Philadelphia, that Miss Gardner be
came convinced of the claims of the
Catholic Church and was baptized
while there.
into the Church she Joined the Re
ligious of the Sacred Heart of which
she was a member over forty years
the greater portion spent at the Cliff
ton Convent. She was highly cul
tured woman-a brilliant musician
mathematician and Latin scholar
even composing verses in classica
Latin. She was contributor o
verse to the Irish Monthly, and deal
friend of the late Father Matthew
Russell, S. j., it's editor. She was
also friend of Miss Anna G. Minogue
Her death is a great loss to the Com
| munity of which she was so distin
guished a member.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1920-07-17
THE RETREAT MOVEMENT
tality and the joyousness of Catholic
What A Retreat Is.

principles.
What A Retreat Is.
A retreat is a pause, casting an
chor in the deep waters, to take our
latitude by the fixed stars. The wa
ters ebb and flow and roll and seethe.
The stars are serene. Life is a trOu-
bled mass, and may become seeth-
ing mass, if the star of faith is ne
elected. Drifting gets us on the rocks.
The driving force without chart or
compass spells disaster. Worldliness
is the urge which tempts the captain
from the bridge and makes him for
get, in alluring pleasures, the stern
voice of Gods eldest daughter, Duty.
Retreat is the bell that summons him
back to his post.
These are days of reconstruction.
The war was the wages of sin.
Peace in a. sinful world is a dream.
There is no peace possible among
men who spurn peace with God. Prof
iteers of high and low degree, have
suspended, as far as in them lies, the
seventh commandment The Social
/
name is legion, have annulled the first
commandment. The viola ton of one
kicks the props of divine authority
from all the laws. Christians today
are in danger of being ground between
the upper and the neither milestone
of greed and ungodlinesss. One class
denies. us the good things of this
ho 9TH III fob
from us the wealth of the world to
come. - saMs
A league of nations, mostly slaves
or slave state where man is a cog
| in the state wheel-only that and
| nothing more is offered by the upper
| ten and the submerged tenth.
UngodIness in the World.
| listened for two hours the other
evening to Mr.. Bryan. He spun fam
tastic commentaries on biblical texts.
Words, words, words. He spared his
fire and rhetorical skill for lightning
| flashes of scathing invective on the
| dull heads of the ingrates who fail
to appreciate the colossal and godly
| (sicD efforts of the Anti-saloon
league. The prophets are prophesy-
ing lies, dumb dogs not able to bark.
Meantime the powers that be are
weaving whips to scourge Christ out
of the schools and out of the world
4 II came that you may have peace
He said to the nations as to the in.
dividuals. In other words, without Me
you can't have peace, personal, ma
tional or International. And the su
ipermen shout: Let us make the Eng
Continued on page 81
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1920-07-17
K. of {. Educational Convention

the first week in September as the
The report of the educational conven-
ton will be submitted to the supreme
convention of the X. of G.. for ratifca-
tion at the international meeting in
New York, August 8, 4, 5.
constructive educational work is
the only cure for unrest" said Mr..
Flaherty. "Hysterics are no antidote
for Bolshevism The aim of the
Knights of Columbus is to get the
young manhood of the country to
capitalize its spare time, and we shall
not stop until there is X. of C. free
night school in every center of popula-
tion.'
John J. Cummings of Boston, the
executive secretary of the educa-
tional system, reported that the
Knights now had seventy-three
schools in operation and had gradual
ed more than $4,000 former service
men during the past ten months. Will
liam J. mckinley, the Supreme Score
tary, stated that not one of the five
hundred former service men to whom
the Knights are giving college cduca-
ton had defaulted in the years col
back in the fall
The principal addresses of the first
days session were by William Bishop
Own, principal of the Chicago Nor
NAL college, and DR.. James J. Walsh
of New York, who stated that the K.
of c. had given to the nation it's first
concrete program of reconstruction by
demonstrating that free education
could be made a substitute for indis-
criminate pleasures.
Peter w. Collins, director of recon
struction, who returned to Chicago
after covering 10000 miles in six
months delivering anti-Bolshevism lee
lures in $50 cities, presented a plan
whereby the Knights of Columbus
could give courses in industrial diplo-
macy with a view to creating an en-
tente between employers and en-
ployees.
Individual reports from the heads of
| Lne SeVentV-tnfeo SCnOOlS showed that
eX-service men of twenty different ma
tionalities were pupils, fifteen nation
alities being represented in the Chi
cago schools. Refore tie night session
ended messages were received from
twelve cities by Supreme Secretary
Mckinley asking that K. of c. schools
be established in them next Septem-
Der. State Deputy Edward J. Houli-
han of Illinois stated that more than
1000 eX-service men had applied for
re-admission to the Chicago X. of C.
schools in the autumn.
The 300 educators attending the
convention assisted at Mass in a body
Sunday morning, July 4, at st. Mary's S
Church.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1920-07-17
The Democratic Plank.

CO-ODerative Federal assistance to
the states is Immediately required
for the removal of illiteracy, for the
increase of teachers salaries and
the instruction in citizenship of both
native and foreign-born; (and) in
creased appropriations for vocation
al training in home economics.
While the Smith Towner bill was
pending in Congress all during the
special session and the regular session
from May, 1919, to March, 192O-its
friends urged Representatives and
Senators to pass it. Apparently, mem
bers of both Houses declined to under
take such a mOmentOus departure
without waiting for an expression OF
views from the people, or at least from
the big parties, and except for the
hearings before committees, no action
was taken.
Now that the two political parties
have withheld approval of the scheme
for erecting great Federal depart
ment to dominate education in the
forty-eight states, it's promoters Will
have a very difficult task in convlnc-
ing a majority of the House and Sen
ate that they should ignore the decla-
rations-and omissiOns-Of the TWO
poIitical conventions There is no
gainsaying that strong influences are
at work for the bill. Not the least
poworful agencies active in its behalf
is the United States Bureau of Educa-
tion, at the head of which is Philan-
der p. Claxton, commissioner of edu-
cation. Mr.. Claxton has been making
liberal use of his official position and
of public funds to obtain support for
the project.
The National Education Association
is also a vigorous and persistent cham
pion of all that the Smith-IoWner Dill
contemplates. 1t has enlisted the In
terest and activity of teachers in the
public schools by representing to them
that they may confidently count on
greater compensation and hlghel
professional standing if the Fedora
Government is made a partner IN the
country's system of public education.
At its latest convention in Salt Lake
Citv the National Education Associa
tion received from committee re
port declaring for the Smith-ToWnel
bill and describing it as a proposal L
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1920-07-17
PROPOSAL TO CENTRALlZE AU-
THoRITY OVER EDUCATION NOT
ENDORSED AT REPUBLICAN
AND DEMOCRATIC cow VEN
TIONS-cATHOLlC OPPOSITION.

In view of the fact that both the big
political parties have refused to ap-
prove the scheme for federalizing and
CentraliZing education, the advocates
of the Smith-Towner bill, which would
create this bureaucracy with mem
ber of the Presidents Cabinet at its
head, will have to continue their fight
in the face Of this double reputation.
1t is fully expected that, notWith-
standing the repulse which the lobby
lists and propagandists for the pro-
gram of CCntralizatiOn met at the Re-
publican and Democratic conventions,
they will subject congressman to
further pressure.
Numerous champions of the bill ap-
pCared before the resolutions commit
tee of the Republican National Con
vcntion and made clamOrous and in
SiStCnt arguments in behalf Of Il plank
that would commit the party 20 their
bureaucratic plan. Despite all the elO-
uuCnCC and efforts of these advocates,
the resolutions committee rejected
their project, and adopted the follow
ing plank:
The Republican Plank.
We endorse the principles Of Fed
eral aid to the states for the pur'
poses of vocational and educational
training.
Wherever Federal money is deVOt-
cd to education, such education must
be so directed as to awaken in the
youth the spirit Of America, and
sense of patriotic duty to the United
States.
A thorough system Of physical ed
uCatiOn for all children up to the
age of nineteen, including adequate
health supervision and instruction,
would remedy conditions revealed
hv tho draft and would add to the
economic and industrial strength OF
the nation. National leadership and
stimulation will be necessary to in
duce the states to wise system OF
physical training.
The public health activities of the
Federal Government are GU
through numerous departments and
bureaus, resulting in inetficlency,
duplicatiOn and extravaganza. We
advocate d greater Capitalization OF
the Federal functions, and in addl-
tiOn urge the better coordination OF
the work of the Federal, State and
local health agencies.
Disappointed, but by no means dis
couraged. the lobby moved on to San
Francisco to obtain from the Demo-
cratic National Convention what they
had failed to get from the Republl-
cans. The appeal for recognition OF
the Smith-TOwner proposal was ad-
dressed with additional emphasis to
the Democratic resolutions committee.
What the Democrats gave was far
short of the demands of these propo-
ncnts of Capitalization.
The Democratic plank which came
as a response to the propaganda, was
this
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1920-11-15
RICH CANADIAN LANDS
TO BE OPENED UP
(By International News Service)

VANCOUVER, B. c., Nov. ID
The Pacific and Great Western Rail-
way will be operating into Prince
George from Squamish within a year,
according to the Hon. George Oliver,
Premier of British Columbia, who has
rturned from tour of the central
and northern parts of the province
and the Peace River Valley.
The road which has been under
construction for several years, he de-
clared, will greatly stimulate devel-
opment and settlement in central
British Columbia and will make
Prince George a commercial and
railway center of Importance. Prince
George stands at the junction of the
Fraser and Nechako rivers. 1t is
connected by the Grand Trunk Pa
cific Railway with a Pacific Ocean
port at Price Rupert and the new
road will connect it with the ports
of Vancouvre and Victoria in the
southern part of the province. 1t is
the natural business center of an
agricultural, timber and mining reg
ion.
Under present plans the Pacific and
Great Western Railway will be ex-
tended northward from st. George
into the Peace River country and will
furnish that rich agricultural valley
with short line outlet to the sea.
The Peace River Valley at present
ships its products over the Edmon-
ton, Dunvegan & British Columbia
Railway to Edmonton as a distribut-
ing center.
Engineers" said Premier Oliver,
"are now in the field working out
routes for the Pacific & Great West
ern road to Peace River. I do not
know what route the road will take,
but 1t will be one that will open up
the greatest amount of territory and
hold out the largest promise of
freight"
Premier Oliver said that one or
more large wood pulp mills will be
established in Prince George. Rival
interests, he declared, have already
secured water power rights and have
their agents out negotiating for pulp
wood leases.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1920-11-15
ANOTHER IDAHO NEWSPAPER FINDS
DAILY PUBLICATION LOSING VENTURE

1t is reported that the Wood River
Times-News- Miner has suspended
publication of it's daily and gone back
to a weekly edition. This is one of
the several very old newspapers of
Idaho and it has operated as a daily
for some fifteen or twenty years. It's
going back to publication of less
frequency at this time is very signi-
ficant and brings in many interest
ing circumstances.
A few years ago there were two
daily papers in the little town HALEY
and two weekly papers at the village
of Bellevue, four miles away. In the
past few years both of the Bellevue
papers have failed. The Times con-
tinued to be published as daily
as did also the News-Miner in HALEY,
but under the stress of the high
prices and scarcity of labor and print
paper, few months ago the two
dailies consolidated in an effort to
save themselves but the move was
made too late.
There has always been question
among publishers as to how these two
dailies could exist in a little town
like HALEY unless they subsisted up
on something besides legitimate COM
mercial business. In the past few
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1920-11-15

years since the county political situa-
ton has been cleaned up, some graf
tiers sent to the penitentiary or got
ten out of the country by them jump
ing their bonds, the county govern
ment seems to have gotten down to
legitimate and proper administration
OF the peoples affairs, there are not
SO many final proofs being made thru
the land office to supply rich legal
publications for newspaper, the
cost of producing newspapers has
doubled and trebled and now comes
the suspension, first of one daily and
then of the other one
Judgment has often been passed by
newspaper men to the effect that
HALEY might support one daily paper
If they would clean up the situation
and modernize their plant. They con-
solidated but they did not modern
lze. They have continued to operate
with the obsolete materials and on
plans that are out of date to great
extent, and now in the days of high
prices and scarcity of labor they
could not master the situation and
keep the daily af1oat at all. The pro-
per solution of the matter was to
modernize all the time, keep the
plant in fine working condition all
the time and thereby avoid the crash.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1920-11-15
TWO THOUSAND PEOPLE
LIVING IN ONE CITY BLOCK

OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES William S.
Kenyon of the senate committee on
housing Investigating conditions in
Chicago, told the committee today he
had found the cause of unrest and
bolshevism among the working peo-
pie. He made the statement after an
early morning tour of Chicago's tene-
meht district.
The senator had started at one af-
ter hasty breakfast in a cafe.
II am half hour late," he ex-
planned when he entered the commit
tee room "but / have learned more
in an hour than could have learned
in a week sitting here.
The senator had been through one
small block where 1000 people were
cuddled in ramshackle buildings.
Ten and fifteen people living in two
or three rooms.
Virginia Kodek and Pohnnie Mike,
the girl ten and the boy six, were
getting their breakfast from a trash
can, nearby walls were covered with
vile writings and crude vulgar pic
lures. A spit of snow" was in the
air but the little girl was barefooted.
go to school, Virginia? ?" asked the
senator, as Johnnie crowded close.
mo ! quit school," Virginia an
swered proudly. II stay home and
take care of the two babies. l wash
'em and dress 'em and clean the
house. I'm too big to go to school,"
Poor little Virginia. said the
senator. "Such bravery and pride of
accomplishment and suffering with
out complaint desc rves at least a
decent home to develop in.
mo wonder that unrest and dis
satisfaction and bolshevistic tenden-
cies prevail. These conditions could
not be worse"
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1920-11-15
SENATOR SMOOT HAS REORGANIZATION
MEASURE FOR CONGRESS TO CONSIDER

of comparison. In case estimated
revenues are inadequate to meet the
estimated expenditures the president
must make recommendation for new
taxes or loans TO meet the deficiency.
lhe bill also provides for the crea-
ton of a budget bureau under the
control of the president to supervise
the budget estimates. A general ac-
counting office is also provided for in
order to standardize public book
keeping and reports.
Tariff Proposals
There is no likelihood that the tar
if question will be taken up at the
coming session of congress. The num-
Der of tariff bills on the calendars,
however, indicate that there is a very
wide spread interest in the subject
and that it will be taken up early in
the session following the Inaugural
ton of the new administration
Among the bills which have been in
troduced and upon which favorab BILE
action of some kind has been taken
in the house are: a bill by Represen-
tatiVe Osborne OF California for
protective tariff on beans; one by
Representative Longworth of Ohio
for a protective tariff on dyestuffs;
one by Representative Bacharach of
New Jersey for protection on labora-
tory glassware; one by Representa-
tive Hadley of Washington for
duty on magnesite; one by Repres
entative Green of Iowa for triff
on buttons; one by Representative
Timberlake of Colorado for an import
duty on tungsten; and one by
Representative Mcpherson of Mis-
souri, for a duty on zinc. In view of
the urgent demand in the south for
a duty on peanuts, wool and vege-
table oils it is apparent that the tar
if question will receive early con-
sideration even though legislation
may be deferred.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1920-11-15
CHALLENGING THEIR
JUDGMENT.

The Democratic caIhpaigners said
that we should have hard times in
America until we sign the league of
nations and in that manner put an
end to the war. President Wilson
said that if we did not do it that way
it would break the heart of the world.
Now comes hard-hearted Repub-
lican administration and declares
that it will do neither one. Having
accepted the Democratic challenge t.,
refer the whole question to great
referendum of the people at the polls,
the people have spoken, and the Re-
publican administration proposes to
junk the league of nations docu-
ments, make a separate peace with
Germany, disregard the broken heart
of the world, enact some good stiff
tariff laws and commence doing bust
ness.
Besides all that, they propose tah-
ing some very definite steps to pre-.
serve the peace of the world. They
don't propose to go to Versailles, nor
to Geneva, nor to The Hague to at
tend to it. They propose to call con-
ference Of peace delegates to meet in
Washington D. c., U. S. A. About
sixty countries or nations will be in
.vited to send their delegates to sit
down and form a great agreement,
proposed chiefly by American states
men, whereby the peace of the world
can be better preserved than it has
ever been preserved before.
All these things the Republican
administration proposes to do after
having been solemnly advised by
Democracy that the other plan is the
only feasible and practical plan.
So, if the world comes up with a
broken heart; if times continue to be
hard for the next few years; If peo-
pie do not respond to our invitation
to come to Washington to settle the
world S troubles; if there continues
to be wars and rumors of wars; then
we shall hold another election to con-
slider what had better be done.