The call of the North. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1923-1924, 1923-09-21


again why schools should be free and obligation
democratic principles without the public school This fact
should be Impressed upon all peoples who live the
should tolerate movements organizations institutions
that weaken public Let all Americans unshea
the sword of constructive interest from the rusty sabbard of
Indifference
Our foreahes understood the necessity the public schools
America Let the founders of this Republic speak
again As why schools should be free and obligation
popular government:
Franklin: ITO supply succeeding ages with qualified to
the public" j.
Washington: "To enlighten public opinion"
John Adams: ITO instruct the people in knowledge useful in
the practice of the moral duties man and citizen"
Monroe ITO qualify society every district to discharge
with credit and effect those great duties of citizens which free
government rests"
Madison "To with power of knowledge great people
who to be their governors"
jefferson: ITO enable the people to understand what going
in the world and keep their part of it going right"
An effective public school system demands that O other
system of education shall be permitted do work of nstruc
the elements of knowledge O only those teachers shall
be employed who believe in the public school and properly
trained chren 81 rigid enforced
compel the attendance of all children between the
public school unless the work of the eighth grade
Completed az nothing in the of unmerican
raganda tolerated the public school, O sufficient funds be
available efficient work. (6 law be enacted
by Congress like the erSterng bill; CD of study
thoroughly organized to meet the needs of America be adopted
individuals and organized groups of individuals
that opposed present form of and still
groups that opposed to the public school system
Out their mouths may learn and understand
duty.
There u.s. always difference between those
educated according the mind of the church and those educated
according the mind Of the world The first trained for
eternity latter for the ckeres of tmeThe Rosary
Magazine.
'"Two thousand members of the Catholic Federation
pauded the Rev. Thomas Coaky secretary of Bishops
Pittsburgh when the Pittsburgh priest demanded that the
Catholic church be reimbursed by the state at the of $36OOO
year, the education of the Catholic people,
Pittsburgh Dispatch.
The population of the Archdiocese of St. Paul nn) being
argey rural Congregations cannot easily organize paro
ca schools such congregations is there special
need of parocha schools teachers in the State or District
usually Catholic and due provision otherwise made
for the religious instruction of the pupils Catholic d.
rectory.
eve bring home to the conscences Catholics that it is
duty continue deserving all secular schools and
building own, until public opinion itself undermine what
contains the of its DOWNFALL and we be relieved OF
Unjust xes."-Judges of Faith; Page 3.
"And Catholics will continue building schools their own
grounds UNTIL like the many deserted sectaran temples which
legally acquired by importing children of the church, the
future statechoo buildings left empty by Catholics deserving
te and becoming practically disguised with the
unrepubican and uChrstan system shall also be lawfully
lued and occupied by denomination Judges of
Faith; Page g.
Excerpts rhe Right of Our Little ones First Prin
cples Education Catecheca FORM by Rev. James Conway
s. J. Cansus College, Buffalo, N. Y.
by Benznger Brothers, PA W. Monroe St. Chicago
printers to the Holy Apostolic See.
Page 2Question 40. docs Education Lie Within the
Scope of Civil Authority"
"Education within the scope of civil authority
cannot without violating higher and hoier
rights usurp right discharge the duty of educating the
young"
Page Question Al. What Rights Does the State Violate
by Usurping the Work of Educaton?"
"y usurpng the of education the State not only
thwarts the intent of the Creator, but also violates
a. The Personal Right of the child to enjoy the education
intended by the Creator
The Domestic Right of the parents to educate their off,
spring in the way it seems best to them;
c. AS we see, the Divine Right of the Church to dis
charge the educational mission ntsted to her by her Divine
Founder"
Page 2Question what gave rise to the state monop
DIV of education so common in modern times?"
'Ths modern policy State education, that has recently
grown favor had it's origin in those countries where the
ecclesiastical institutions robbed of their eporaes by
Protestant eadence of education followed
this wholesale the Church that the gadu
ally found necessary erect public schools at the public
pense which institutions they considered themselves justified in
exclusively controlling"
what the results OF this system