Hartford chronicle., 1946-10-05
Weekend Briefs
By J. B. S.

tunity offered by the state spon' sored Hartford Engineering Instl- tute. Those who qualify may 1T two years become qualified electri- cal, mechanical and refrigeration engineers. An intensive two year course will be given chosen stu dents. All of the essentials of a four year college course will be included under close guidance of the faculty.
 There is in this state a long standing need for junior and as- sistant engineers. Students inter- ested in the course can apply at the State Trade School now or la ter at the Walter Camp School where the institute will locate per manently after renovations have been made.
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 Until it has been proven to be untrue, we're willing to believe that the city charter in it's pres ent form assures a certain element of the population no longer poli- tically powerful means of con- trolling the city government.
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 One of our leading citizens who in our mind is actually civic mind ed, bemoans the fact that our city is no longer beautiful. Could he have been thinking of the South End Dump, the east side, and north end slums or was it because there are not more broad acres of well kept parks? Again we must repeat line from an earlier col umn. No city is beautiful unless its citizens are healthy, well fed, and comfortable. Perhaps some of our people would have the city become another ancient Rome.
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 General Mark Clark urges our country to spend 150 million dol lars to rehabilitate Austria. Will someone please explain to us just how that will take care of the un- derfed, under-privileged minority groups of this nation?
 We're also attempting to figure out why a general who led thous- ands of our young men to an early untimely and unreasonable death would not have his first thoughts built around some of the needs of the many young men who fought under him only to return home and learn that most veterans have to fight for decent place to live
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 On October 7, at the state office building, there will be held a pub. lie meeting to reconsider wages and huors in the beauty shop in. dustry. State Labor Commissioner John J. Egan, has appointed a Beauty Shop Board composed ot three persons representing employ CTS, three representing employees and three representing the public to study a revised minimum wage order.
 The Barbar Shop and Beauty Parlor industry is quite large among the Negroes, yet there are none represented in any of MT Egan's appointments.
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 We quote some excerpts from articles sent to this paper by John Gavin Religious News Service o1 Chicago.
 "What we Catholics did in this country, how we regulated oul lives, how closely we lived up to the teaching of the church, how we treated our neighbor and practiced justice and charity, used to be oul own affair. Today whether we like it or not, it is the affair of the whole world" Father John La- Farge, editor of the national Cath olic Weekly America.
 "There are 511 priests working with 100000 Catholic Negroes ir this country and 1900 Nuns teach ing some 60,000 children in Negro parochial schools and many more in parochial schools which are com pletely inter-racial.
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 The Catholic Inter-racial move ment has declared unremitting war on prejudice and discrimination ir the educational field, the field ot employment in all that concerns the human family, it's welfare and upon all customs and institutions all forms of conduct which are based upon prejudice and discrim. ination.
 The Bishop of the Grand Rapids Michigan diocese the Most Rev Francis J. Haas, who is first chair. man of the FEPC, strikes at the very care of race prejudice in in. dustry. In his address to the Cath