Evening star., 1925-09-15
THREE CARDINALS
TOCONFER HERE
Princes Of Church Will Con-
slider Entarging American
College at Rome.

The building of a new American col
lege at Rome will be the principal
question before the American hier-
archy of the Catholic Church, who will
open their annual meeting at Catholic
University tomorrow.
This Will be brought TO the attention
OF the assembled archbishops and
bishops by Cardinal O'Connen of Bos-
ton, the senior American cardinal, who
VIII preside. The present college has
become inadequate. Land for a new
building has been obtained on a hill
just back of st. Peters, but funds are
not at present available to build
This is a college for the education Of
priests training for special work as
professors, chancellors and Wears gen
eral. Mgr. Burke, the present rector
viii be present to explain the project.
Cardinal O'Connell was rector of the
college from 1895 to 1901, when he was
consecrated bishop Of Portland.
From so to go archbishops and
bishops will attend the meeting. Most
OF them were in Washington TODAY
Tor the annual meeting of the trustees
OF catholic University in Caldwell
Hall, at which various proposed
changes in the constitution of the in
stitution were dealt with
Three Cardinals to Attend.
Cardinal OConneH Will preside at
both meetings. 1t is expected that
Cardinals Hayes of New York and
Mundelein of Chicago also will be
present. Cardinal O'Conneu, accom-
panied by his secretary, Mgr. Richard
j. Haberlein, arrived in Washington
Yesterday and is a guest of the House
or Studies OF the Oblate Fathers in
Brookland. The cardinal and his
secretary will be luncheon guests OF
President and Mrs. Coolidge at the
White House tomorrow.
Among the other questions to come
before the hierarchy tomorrow will
be how best to obtain and distribute
funds to improve and develop the
home missions, especially for welfare
work among the negroes and Indians
and in poorer parishes.
Cardinal O'Connell today paid trib-
ute to President Coolidge, with whom
he previously has been acquainted as
Governor of Massachusetts,.
1T is evident from the feeling every
where" said Cardinal O'Connell, that
President Coolidge has won the con
fidence of all the Nation. His sobrietv
of speech, his modesty in point of view.
his we'll balanced judgment in civic af-
fairs, has won the trust of the people,
believe.
Can Talk When Necessary.
If anybody thought that because he
isn't talking all the time he can't
talk, he has been very much mistaken.
The President can talk, and to the
point, and knows when to talk. The
people have learned this. The country
is very fortunate TO have in the White
House a man so quietly, earnestly, and
| ,r11,. al
fare"
Cardinal O'ConneIl first made this
statement without any thought of its
publication and consented to it's use
only when it was urged upon him that
the statement had public interest and
that his infiexible rule of ahstention
from political statements is well un-
derstood.
His eminence also spoke with cor
dial approval of a speech made Sunday
night before the National Conference
Of Catholic Charities here by Gov.
Ritchie of Maryland, who declared that
special welfare work, as a rule, can
best be accomplished by private rather !.
than Government agencies. State ac-
tivities along these lines, he said, can
best be confined to promoting the
health of children. protecting them
from labor which is harmful or inter
feres with their educational needs and
prescribing educational standards for
public schools, leaving proper denomi-
national schools unmolested. Gov
Ritchie attacked bureaucracy in gov
ernment and condemned the child Ia
Dor amendment as an attempt to in
crease this and develop Government
interference with individual rights.
Indorses Ritchie Views.
Il was not present at this meet
ing" said Cardinal O'Conneu, but
was very glad to read his condemna-
ton of legislation which conflicts with
the rights of the family and of the
individual. I was glad to observe his
frankness in rightly saying that much
of the agitation for this class of leg
islation comes from those who are
looking for places. 1t was also pleas
ing to read what he said about the
child labor amendment. concerning
which, 1 think, my position is well
known"
Cardinal O'Connell said he had been
informed that no State Legislature
had acted favorably on the child labor
amendment since the large popular
majority returned against it in Massa-
chusetts last year. He regarded the
Massachusetts result as very impor-
tant, he added, as it had definitely
turned back the tide of legislation to
provide for further governmental reg
ulation of the lives of individuals. This
tide is now receding, and the tendency
is the other way, in his opinion.