The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1932-04-18

have a way Of attracting attention
they do not deserve"
1.-THE Catholic church" thu
Cardinal said, us q tremendousl.
serious organization. It deals ii
human souls. You can't begir
speaking about the rich or max
ing sensational accusations agains
hanks and bankers. or utterint
demogogic stuff to the poor.
You can't do it for the church
is for ALL"
when a parish priest tries Il
direct the affairs of a neighborins
parish, he Is very soon called t.
order by the bishop. But the radio
IT. is new and has brought new
problems. Now individual priest.
try to speak to the whole world
That is al wrong. Let him speak t.
his own parish, his own people.
THE individual in Michigan
takes it into, his head to talk to
the world. To whom is he respon-
sible? Some people prefer to tall
rhetoric instead of facts. But WV
of the. church are careful about
that"
Father Coughlin. spoke on I'M
employment over the Columbia
Broadcasting System, on January
IL, 1881. After a one-week post
ponement. The system had asked
the spastor to temper and re-
strain" his remarks. r
4 Fnr his speech;s Father Coughlir
blamed unemployment on uncur-
tailed mass production, the export.
alton of American gold to build UP
foreign enterprises and the Yer
sailles peace treaty.
"Since 1872 he said, I'VE have
Keen led to believe that the .Ver-
saiiies treaty made peaGe, s0he reas
Il, has done little more than to per-
petuate hostility"
In another speech at the COM
munions breakfast Of the New
York Fire Department on April
27. 1881, Father Coughlin decried
the rise of individualism and the
spread of mass production. which
he SAID threatened to deprive more
men of chances for employment.
"Our country has not gone to
the dogs entirely" he said.
But there Is an insidious pro.
raganda being erected by these
holier-t han-thou people in oui
midst. You know there has al
ways been a bugaboo about Rus
SLAMS with long boards and greasy
hands But long since he has gone
"a school and learned his A B C's
Those who have studied the his
tory Of communism know that the
thing to be feared above all is the
wolf in sleeps clothing.
No Detroit Comment
Detroit, Mich, April 1S-(U. P.)
There was no comment in the
Detroit diocese of the Catholic
church to-day on the attack made
in Boston last night by William
Cardinal O'Connell, archbishop OF
Boston, on the Rev Charles F.
Coughlin. -.
Father Coughlin, his Sunday
addresses discontinued until next
fall, was reported enroute ~
steamer from New York to Cali
fornia. The Rev Michael j. Cal
lagher, his bishop, was in the
south. No one in Detroit pre-
sumed to speak for either.
Attacks on Father .Coughlin
since he began his weekly nation
vide addresses in 1925 have been
made, but this is the first time
ranking member OF his own
church has spoken publicly in
criticism
A frank, vigorous opponent Of
prohibition, Father Coughlin ha,
drawn the attention of the dry
leaders. Efforts reputedly were
made to temper his remarks. Be-
SIDES prohibition, he has fiayed
banking interests, the Versailles
Treaty and both domestic and in
ternational economic problems.
Unable to buy time on National
chains last fall. Father Coughlin
arranged his own net work Of
twenty stations, from Minnesota
and Missouri on the west to the
Atlantic Ocean.
The Shrine Of the Little Flower
has drawn thousands of persons,
Tourists included it in their itin-
erary. sunday there was not room
In the littel thatch rooted church
to accommodate those who came
to hear him preach.
His church serves part of the
city of Royal Oak. suburb of
10000 population between Detroit
and Pontiac. he was assigned in
1925, at which time there were but
s6 families in the parish. There
was no money for improvements.
To-day his church would be
classed as wealthy. The beautiful
marble shrine Is nearing compile
ton, the result Of free with dona.
tons
Father Coughlin was born in
Hamilton, Ont. In 1891. He was
educated at Toronto University.
and was ordained In 1916. He first
was stationed In border Canadian
towns but was brought to- Mich
igan In 1922. and sent TO q small
parish In Kalamazoo, he played
football In college and still gets
out for a game OF baseball with
some OF tho workers at his church.
lie plays bridge enthusiastically.
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