The Penn's Grove record., 1923-12-07
RUSSIA'S RED
REVOLUTION, EVOLUTION
Faith In God And Fcalty To Church
Believed The Remedy

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of st. Joseph's College, was laid with
/ imposing cermony by Roman Catholic
clergy and prelates. ~.
Joseph P. Gaffney, the next City
Solicitor, gave the Grafton.
/ By request is published Mr.. Calf
news address as it was in Philadel-
/ phia paper.
! In his address, Mr.. Gaffney placed
special emphasis on the need, OF los
/ tering education to train the heart as
well as the intellect of young man
hood, and the dedication OF 81
Joseph's new high school came oppor-
tunely, he said, at the beginning of the
week promulgated by President Cool
idge as Educational Week, and only
a week away from the celebration OF
Armistice Day. These two events have
special relevancy, he said.
Mr.. Gaffney recalled the fact that
when news came on Monday morning,
November II, 1918, that war was over,
the whole world rejoiced and gave
thanks to the God of Peace.
Great hopes were entertained, he
said. when the Peace Conference as
sembled that it would evolve plan to
bring the world back to God-given
principles of honesty and justice; but,
although the peacemakers labored a
year and brought forth a document,
which, it was hoped, make war forever
impossible, the ink was scarcely dry
on the treaty before danger arose as
great as before.
This danger, he said, was the Red
Menace" which not only assumed gov
ernmental form in Russia, but prepar-
ed by military efforts to extend itself
everywhere, the first point of attack
being neighboring Poland.
This Red horde, he said, adopted as
its slogan, Down with God" and its
progress into Poland to bring that
land under its baneful control was at
first marked by victory, but after the
temporary setback, Poland became en-
battled, and standing as a barrier for
liberty and Christian civilization, and
following a banner with the inscrip-
ton. "For God and with God, checked
the flood tide of Red invasion and
turned it back again into Russia.
Poland's victory did not daunt the
Red rulers, said Mr.. Gaffney. They
then adopted a plan to send out ennis
saries and spread their menaclng doc
trines and principles.
In their campaign" he said, they
have overlooked America. In fact,
they view our soil as most fertile for
planting their poisonous seeds and to
keep alive, accentuate and intensity the
strife between capital and labor is the
untiring task of their propagandists.
the medium they hope in time
to organize and then array in force,
all the vicious and dissatisfied ele-
ments in America against the splendid
institutions of this Republic.
He said the red element is being
helped in this country by so called
cultured or intellectual class, which
has decreed that Chrictianity is old
fashioned and out of style, although it
has given comfort to the world for
nearly 1000 years and is being helped
also by the slow but sure process of
swapping the virility of the nation by
family-limiting and family-stopping
and by organizations which grow into
existance over night with strange
names and regila, and grow corpulent
on bigotry and attempt to break down
that splendid Americanism eXempli-
fled and glorfied in the world war,
when Protestant, Catholic and Jewish
boys left farm and factory, store or
office, and marched shoulder to shoul-
der in answer to their country's call.
The only way to bring lasting
peace, he said, is to develop God-fear-
ing and God-loving men like Marshal
Foch, whose faith in God is never un-
shaken in victory or in defeat.
"Where are such leaders to be train
ed ?" he. asked. "In institutions SINH
lar to this we are dedicating today,
for Foch was a Jesuit boy. Not only
did he attend St. Clements Coeglle, a
Jesuit institution, but he made his
post graduate studies under the Jes-
uits, and his brother is a Jesuit preist
"John Carroll, signer of the Dec
laration of independence, and Arch
bishop Carroll, the first member of the
American hierarchy, were educated in
a school conducted by Jesuit Fathers,
at Bohemia Manor, prior to the found
ing of Georgetown College.
'But, at the time more than now has
there been such a need for Catholic
high schools, colleges and universi-
ties. Philadelphia has its opportunity.
Today it welcomes st. Joseph's High
School, and in a short time will vel
come new St. Joseph's College, at
Fifty-fourth Street and City Line, to
be followed let us hope in our time, by
the University of st. Joseph. To make
this great achievement possible. the
support, cooperation and financial aid
of the Catholic people of Philadelphia
is absolutely necessary. If it is ac-
complished its glory will be ours, and
if it fails the loss will be upon our
children"