The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-02-17
Catholic Thought And Opinion
By REV. JOSEPH F. DONNELLY

in the past have raised the above cry in reference to Catholic in- stitutions of education. If Ford ham university were taxed, Father Cannon stated, the tax bill would be $270,000, enough to make Ford ham close its doors. The 5000 stu dents now being educated at Ford ham would seek education in muni- cipal institutions and the expense to the city, based on the current educational cost, would be $3,OOO,- 900 year.
 Furthermore, besides Fordham and faced with a similar choice would be St. Johns university Manhattan, St. Francis, Mount St Vincent's, New York Marymount and Manhattanville. For these thousands, too, the city would be forced to provide at the cost ot additional millions to the taxpay- CTS. And all these, with the 200,- 900 children in New York's par ochial schools and the tens of thousands in the Catholic high schools and academies, add up to the conclusion that a tax on Cath olic educational institutions would be not only transgression on a fundamental American right, but most absurd economies.
 SABOTAGE IN AUSTRALIA
 In Australia, the Catholic Chem ists' Guild, of Sydney, has direct ed the attention of the New South Wales government to the fact that birth control from 1922 to 1888 cost Australia 130,000 men. Today criti- cally handicapped by lack of man. power, Australia estimates that this subverSive movement has deprived her of mine whole divisions of men to defend her snores." Too late has Australia found that an enemy within has unbarred the gates to the foe.
 But is this sabotage to America? Here is what one young m Il writes "a senior in college and about to take his place in the de fense of his country.
 Tt makes ones blood boil in time of war, when a good percentage of our defenders IS recruited from large families-a good example is a man from our locality who has fur nished five sons and is ready to furnish another son - to see the birth-controllers preach and pub licize their doctrines throughout the nation. We are not getting our soldiers and sailors from the birCh- controlled clinics, ard if the birth controllers have their way, we shall be hard put to it for defenders in the not-too-distant future"
 A THOUGHT ON WASHINGTON
 The flight of years brings new tributes to the greatness of Wash ington. To him we owe the in- dependence of our country. With out him the Constitutional Conven- ton would have dissolved in dis pair It is to him that we owe the successful operation of that Con- stitution in those first uncertain years.
 Toay we are faced with the grave q ue st on: Will the foundation which Washington helped to con- struct endure as blessing to our posterity?" Engaged in the tremen- dous struggle topreserve that foun- dation, we may fittingly observe the day dedicated to, his memory not in pompous celebration, but rather in thoughtful meditation on the virtues, "a firm adherence to justice, moderation, temperance and frugality," without which he said the blessings of liberty would not endure.
 On that day too, as Americans and as Christians, we should be- come acquainted or reacquainted with the counse.s of his Farewell Address. Properly has that docu- ment been called "the Rosary of the Nation, every thought a pearl, and every. pearl prayer" For a century cnd a half we have count- ed them one by one. Today we have come to the Cross,