The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1922-11-04
Editorial Pickings

deeply rooted in man. 1t is hereditary
weakness handed down to his poster
ity by the disobedient father of the
race. 1t manifests itself in the child
even long before it has attained toHhe
years of discretion, and then it is that
it's unruliness must be checked
and the little one made to ap-
preciate the necessity of obedience.
Thus with proper training and neces-
sary restriction this tendency towards
so-called independence may be so
moulded and modified as to enable the
child to appreciate the advantages and
the necessity of laws restraint One
of the greatest of our national needs
is the reassertion of parental author
ity accompanied by sanction strong
enough to demand, if needs be, re-
spect by inspiring fear. With au-
thority respected in the home and in
the school the problem of it's being
respected in the State will be of easy
solution. Waterman est.
L0uisJ.
Great as are the sacrifices which our
| people have made to build and main
tain parish schools, we should not for
get that it is our teaching Sisterhoods
and Brotherhoods who have made the
parish school possible and effective
| Without their readiness to teach in re-
| turn for a mere pittance, our people
would have been SO heavily taxed for
| lay teachers salaries that the parish
schools would have to close their
doors. In the teaching orders of men
| and women the Church has at her dis
posal consecrated service such as no
other educational system can duplicate.
| When you rightly take pride in the
| parochial schools, do not forget this
self-denying service which alone has
made them possible.-CathoIic Ad-
Udnce (WichitG, Kan.).
The right of free men to work.
| promises to become as much of a shib-
| boleth in our century as Liberty,
Equality, and Fraternity" were in the
eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
Politicians have new phrase upon
which they can play their euphonious
inanities. The right to work has a
correlative-the opportunity to work.
Industrial society throughout the
| Western world has not yet been able
to provide that sufficiently and regu-
larly. Until it does, 1.-THE right of free
men to work" will remain an empty
phrase.-Echo buffalo, N. ~.
| Many parents, who themselves are
very considerate of the interests and
comforts of others, are painfully sur,
! prised at the selfshness of their chill.
dren when they have reached the age
| of maturity. Yet the parents are the
ones who have encouraged and nurtur.
ed this ugly human trait by catering to
every whim and fancy of their chill
dren and by studiously planning for
their ease and comfort. A child sur
| rounded by the fond care of dotine
parents is likely to grow into very
selfish creature. 1t takes courage and
sometimes requires drastic measures
to eradicate selfishness from the hui
man heart. Parents, who coward1y
shrink from exacting consideration
and thoughtfulness for others from
their growing children, need not won
der when the latter learn only to con
Isider themselves.-St STANDARD and Times
| Philadelphia, Pa.
! The employment of thousands Of
Germans laborers in French repara
ton work will do more to heal the
breach between the two peoples thar
a dozen leagues of nations While the
new agreement does not directly in
volve the French government, we
may be quite certain that it has no
been done with official French
support. The effect will be the same
as if it were a government move
ment. This may be proof again tina
| it is a good thing to get acquainted
with your neighbor-you might like
him.-Cdthoic Register (KGnsaI
| city,.
The admitted increase in iuvenil,
delinquency may necessitate the recall
of corporal punishment AS RENE
dial measure under parental authorit,
this is not the degrading evil tina
sentimentalist would have it. t,
chastise wisely should not become Z
I lost art. Standard and Times Phil
Gdelphia, Pa.
Ii there is to be change in on
public system of education AMI
. there ought to be; if it is desired tina
religion and secular training go hant
in hand-and it should be-let tn,
change be such as respects the equa
religious and civil rights of all citi
zens. Let us have system of pub
! lie education for all, not for secular
lists alone; a system free through tn
support of general taxation, but
| system which is not as now mega
ton of religious liberty and freedom
of conscience. Above all, however
let us not add to- the evils Of tina
which we have by the introduction O
; Bible reading in our public schools
1t is in violation of the Fundamental
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