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right to without being pen
allied, without being Disseminated
against.
1.-THE natural law endows the
parent with the right to educate
his child-the State is the servant
of the parent. This is a democracy.
All else is dictatorship. Catholic
parents want all studies to be
shown in their relationship to God
the Author and the End of all
knowledge.
Finally, Catholics want what ev-
cry sincere citizen of BIC. instinc-
lively desires-harmony and peace
among all subjects-not bitterness
toward any political party, any ra-
cial group, any religious creed.
But there can be no harmony,
no peace, where one group is pen
allied with the alternative of Ell
ther sending their children to a
Public School system which is
against the conscience Of the par
ents or being forced to pay for the
support of the Public School sys-
tenn and then out of their own
funds to erect and support school
system which is in keeping with
their conscience"
Here is what Catholics do not
want, in the Prospector's opinion:
First, Catholics do not want one
red cent of Protestant money.
Catholics heartily agree with
Protestants that it would be a
grave injustice to take any part
of Protestant tax money and use
it for the support of Catholic Pub
lie Schools.
Second, Catholics do not want
to attack the public school system.
Catholics respect the God-given
right of every Protestant to send
his child to the school which is in
keeping with his religious belief
the Public School. Catholics be-
lieve that just as the man who
holds the highest office in our
country is a product of the Cath
olic Public School System (Canadi-
an Prime Minister Louis st. Laur-
ent), so many great statesmen and
scholars have come from the Pub
lie School.
Third, Catholics do not want
necessarily an integration in the
public school system-this was a
mere proposal. Catholics already
follow the course of studies laid
down by the Department of Educa-
ton"
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ticians' needs, or the orders of a Sc
cret police.
In this chapter there are the US
uaI large number of footnotes, but
they document chiefly only: ID
Catholic criticism of Catholic edu-
cation, informed and constructive
if reported in context, and p such
colorless statements as those on
the number of pupils in Catholic
schools, the value of school prop
erty, etc. This technique of prov
ing that which needs no proof and
assuming that which should be
proved is one of Mr.. Blanshard's S
basic argumentative methods.
He writes about Catholic schools
" dividing the children into
competing and even hostile groups,
conscious of their own differences
and suspicious of each others way
of life This divisive pattern
this separatiSm is particularly
harmful"
None of the implications of all
the harsh language is supported
by evidence or citations.
Mr.. Blanshard quotes the ancient
canon law and the DEGREES of the
Council of Baltimore to the effect
that all Catholic children must be
educated in Catholic schools. He
makes no attempt to explain how
these statements are interpreted
applied by responsible Catholic au-
thorities in America. But he writes:
"The majority of American Cath
olics> have always voted against
segregated schools in the only way
in which they could, by sending
their children to the public
schools"
This assumes inaccurately that
all Catholic children in public
schools are there by refusal of the
parents to send them to the paroch-
ial schools-which contradicts his
position expressed earlier: mo
Catholic parent, as we have seen, is
allowed freely to choose a non
Catholic school for his children. In
practice it is clear that the doctrine
of the primacy of parents is simply
a device for asserting the suprem-
acy of a priest as against the pow
er of a democratic government"
The truth is that in discussing
Catholic teaching and practice
we should remember that in the
matter of education, as in many
other matters, the Catholic Church
is a teacher. The Church has no po-
lice force, no sheriffs, no army, or
navy to force anyone to do any
thing. The church teaches. Anyone
who accepts its teaching does just
that. Anyone who refuses its teach
ing naturally ceases to be Cathol-
ic-and takes the consequences,
which are, of course, substantially
nil if the Church is not depend
able teacher.
Anyone who has ever had any
interest in finding the truth OF
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May They Rest. In Peace

DIEHL, Mrs. Elizabeth, 81, 167
Haldy avenue, Columbus, May "a,
st. AloySius church. Survivor: her
father.
SEIPEL, Mrs. Mary, 79, 453 S.
Ohio avenue, Columbus, May %,
st. John the Evangelist church.
Survivors: her husband, Andrew;
a daughter, sister and brother.
TOOMEY, Miss Catherine, 79,
Newark, May "a, st. Francis de
Sales church. Survivors: one bro
ther and a sister.
ECKARDT, Mrs. Elizabeth, ID,
$50 S. Front street, Columbus, May
26, st. Mary church.
BONNER, Mrs. Rosa, 88, 453 S.
Garfield avenue, Columbus, May
81, st. John the Evangelist church.
Survivors: two sons, two daugh-
ters, and a brother.
DUNKLE, Carl, rs, 231 Madison
street, GAINESVILLE, May 10, st.
Thomas church.
DeBERRIENNE, Leftie, 81, 511
Second street, Portsmouth, May 81,
St Mary church. Survivors: his
wife, Hattie, one brother.
COFFEY, James, II, Marion,
May 20, st. Mary church. Survivors:
four children, one brother, and two
sisters.
HOFHERR, Mrs. Mary, SO, 1872
w. Church street, Newark, May %,
st. Francis de Sales church. Sur
vivors: three daughters and a son.
HANNON, Miss Honora, 70, 2541
N. High street, Columbus, May 81,
Holy Name church.
HARE, Sebastian, 81, New Phila-
delphia, Sacred Heart church.
Survivors: one daughter and five
sons.
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Fourth OF A Series

the matter must know that a Ca
tholic who is capable of thinking
follows the teaching of the Church
because he believes in it and is
exercising his right to believe
what he thinks is true and to do
what he thinks is right.
In the area of education Mr..
Blanshard seems to be disturbed by
the fact that many millions of his
fellow citizens believe things that
he does not believe and practices
things of which he does not ap-
prove. He would like to have the
Catholic parents Of America forced
by the government to have the
freedom to send their children only
to the public schools.
Mr.. Blanshard reports the follow
ing, with no evidence or documen-
tation, about the Catholic school
system, VERY few non-Catholics
know anything about it and Cath
olic laymen get their overall pic
ture from the self-serving declara-
tions of their hierarchy" How is it
possible for Catholic parents not to
know about the schools their chill
dren attend? What the "self-serv-
ing declarations" of the hierarchy
are, Mr.. Blanshard does not tell
us.
Almost any sincere non-Catholic
can find out anything he wants to
know about Catholic schools. Mr..
Blanshard cites no cases of any
inquirer who was not courteously
received, in fact welcomed, and
given any information he sought
about the school.
Mr.. Blanshard disapproveS of the
teaching sisterhoods. He seems al
most to assume that they are pris-
oners: when American newspa-
pers talk about teachers wages and
teachers incentives, these 10000
nuns are not included their
unhygenic costumes and their
medieval rules of conduct establish
a barrier between themselves and
the outside world Even the
names of the $50 religious orders
for women in the United States
reflect medieval attitude of piety
and female subordination i. they
do not acquire occupational tenure
they are forced to live in con-
vents
These statements were well COM
mented upon by Father George
Dunno: "The total Incompetent
sion of things Catholic which dis
qualities Blanshard as an objec-
tive critic is nowhere more in evi-
dence (here) Blanshard seems
unable to understand that nuns
are not paid wages because they
do not want wages. They have free
ly and deliberately embraced life
of religious poverty in which ev-
erything is owned in common and
nothing is owned personally. The
nuns have entered religious orders
because they desired to follow this
rule of life. 1t is one of his curious
blind spots that Blanshard, who ap-
parently has considerable sympathy
for the idea of socialism, is total.
ly unable to understand people vol
UNFAIRLY embracing the ideal of
communal living from motives OF
Christian idealism."
Next week: Catholics and Gen.
sorship.m
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Canadian Catholics Score
Double Charges For Schools

NELSON, B. c. - (NC) - Brit
ish Columbia Catholics want a fair
share of Catholic taxes to support
their own schools. They do not
want one red cent of Protestant
money.
This flat statement of What We
Want" and What We Do Not
Want" was made by The Prospec-
tor, Catholic weekly newspaper
published here. In a front-page ar
ticle the paper gave what it said
were the views of the PROVINCES
Catholics in response to many
questions received on the contro-
versial education issue.
Catholics in the Canadian prov
ince have objected strenuously to
paying taxes which go entirely to
the public schools while they must
also support their own schools.
This double taxation" exists no.
where else in Canada, although it
is the rule in the United States.
The B.C. Catholic Education AS
sociation is opposing "any political
party which denies minority rights
in education" in the provincial
elections June IL.
Here is what British Columbia
Catholics want, according to the
Prospector:
First, Catholics want their fair
share of Catholic taxes.
I'VE do not want the Govern
ment to force Catholics to support
a school system which in con-
science only Protestants can at
tend. Just as we do not want one
red cent of Protestant money, we
feel Protestants have too great a
sense of justice to want our Cath
olic money for the support of their
schools.
Second, Catholics do want the
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1952-05-30
|Vogeler Commends
Hungary Catholics
For Opposing Reds

SAN FRANCISCO, Calif-NC)-
Hungary's Reds moved very slowly
in building up their attack against
the Catholic Church because they
knew that men who take their
Faith seriously don't give 1t up
easily"
That tribute to Hungarian Cath
olics was paid by Robert A. Voge-
Ter who has a first-hand knowledge
of communist methods. The Amer
ican was tried for espionage and
imprisoned in the Iron Curtain ma
ton. Mr.. Vogeler is an Episcopal
ian, but his Austrian wife Is q
Catholic.
1.-THE Reds aimed to show up the
Church as the peoples enemy" Mr..
Vogeler said in an interview here,
land the idea didn't quite appeal
to the Hungarians, who had always
known it as their friend, especially
in the person of such champions as
Cardinal Mindszenty."
The American business executive
once met the Cardinal at a recep-
ton, and remembers him as man
of powerful intelligence whose
deep patriotism shone in his per-
sonality.
He described the Cardinals trial
as "show designed to carry for
ward the Reds plan of attack on
the Church"
Cardinal Mindszenty has been
imprisoned in Hungary since 1948.
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most courageousIy for personal
tolerance" Mr.. BIanshard proceeds
to write 90 pages exhibiting, in the
words of a Jewish commentator,
Mr. Will Herberg: Vulgar anti
Catholicism on almost every page. -"
Mr.. Blanshard asks four ques-
tions: "Are the Catholic schools
worthy of national support? Are
they democratic? DO they teach
responsible freedom? Do they
teach tolerance and national solid
arity? Non-Catholics have a right
to ask these questions not only be-
cause the Catholic schools are
training nearly 100000 future
citizens in more than 1000 tax ex-
empt institutions, but also because
the people have accepted the Cath
olic schools as substitutes for pub
lie education under the state COM
pulsory-education laws"
Note than BlanShard does not
say what sort of aid, or how much,
he means by national supporter
what kind or how much any Cath
Ollie spokesmen are asking for, or
would accept if it were offered to
them.
BY democratic" and by "respon-
sible freedom" we can, | suppose,
infer from his position given
throughout the chapter that he
means such freedom as is "respon-
sible" to whatever rules or princi-
Piles have been established by those
chosen by vote of the peoples
government"
If Mr. Blanshard is familiar with
education, public or private, in
this country, he knows that there
is not professionally respectable
faculty in any school, college or
university in America that will sub
NIT to serving sucf an objective.
They all owe first loyalty to
truth, as they see it, and to hon.
eSty and other types of morality,
according to proper professional
standards as educators and the die
tates of the individual conscience,
and not to the school boards ideas,
the legislatures decisions, the poll
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RUGGLES, Mrs. Magdalen, so,
904 King avenue, Columbus, May
26, st. Christopher church. Sur
vivors: two sons, a daughter, and
her mother.
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ERNAKULAM, India - NC) :
Joseph Vithayathil, Judge of the
Travancore-Cochin high court, has
been invested in the order of the
Knights of st. Gregory by His Holi.
ness Pope Plus XII.
Mr.. Vithayathil, the only Catho.
lie in the Travancore-Cochin High
Court, is president of the st. Vim.
cent De Paul Conference in Erna.
kulam.
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This is the fourth IN a series of
sir articles taken from the net0
book, Catholicism and American
Freedom" by James M. O'Neitl,
copyright 1852, by Harper and
Brothers. $3.50.
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Archbishop Visits Reich

PARIS - (NC) - Archbishop
Maurice Feltin of Paris, who has
charge of French army chaplains,
has left for tour of the French
Zone of Germany.
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United States" and that this
"anti-Catholic sentiment is
not an offensive against the
Church so much as a broad
defensive movement against
a new educational aggreS-
sivenesS on the part of the
hierarchy"
Then with an advance alibi dis
claiming bigotry as the basis of the
current anti-Catholicism and pre-
sentation to himself and his CO.
workers of the honorary citation of
liberals who have always stood
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REPLY TO BLANSHARD
REPLY TO BLANSHARD Fourth q
Catholics And Education

In his book American Freedom and Catholic Power !"
Paul Blanshard introduces chapter entitled Education
and the Catholic Mind with the statement that "a tremen-
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1952-05-30

The Columbus pictured above, H. King left
and John r. Tracy Ohio
Catholic War Veterans when the organization held its meet
ing in Akron recently
King has Commander Lady Of Fafima
983 elected
Tracy Father Faer 1885, Welfare
Officer of the State
active organizing the cWv in Columbus
and central Ohio
One of the hshshts Of the Akron convention the form
tion of State cWV auxiliary department.
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Stignatic's Brother Wins

MUNICH - NC) - Ferdinand
Neumann, brother of Therese
Neumann, stigmatic of Konners-
reuth, Bavaria, has been reelected
"Landrat" provincial governor) of
the district of Kenmath. He is q
member of the Christian Social
Union and was opposed by Alois
Sticht, a member of the Bavarian
marty
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1952-05-02
Attacks To Be Expected

Mary McLead Bethune who second Mrs. Roosevelt is
high in the of millions of Americans barred from
speaking Eastern city because charged that she
member of group the aOrneygenerals subversve
list Here you have the result of the superduper witch hunts
which have been smearing good Americans right and left
There hardly Negro Of prominence in this nation who
time other has addressed groups the
called Red lists This of when groups particularly
friendly Russia popular in the USA with everybody
especially during that period when Russia holding Hitler
No responsible group in this country is going to believe
for minute that any attack Mrs Behune in justfabe
Her record has been in the best tradition of Amercan
She preached and paced democracy and good Amereans
for all Of the years of her life,
OF She all other Negro leaders has protested
the restrictive conditions under which Negroes every
where have had to live This protest often loud and effective
is usually enough have of the professional witch hun
ters label Negro subversve.
We don't know single Negro of prominence in this
try local national who has not at time been labeled
communistic. To of white brothers any who
complains about segregation discrimination and restriction
based race is a Red
The attack Mrs Bethune symptomatic of the
under which living We surprised that such
tacks have been long coming who has been
spoken Ma Bethune Negro leaders and their white fellow
citizens who stand with them expect more such attacks
the foes of true democracy in America lose ground
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1952-05-02
Dynomite Rides Again
BY Victor RieseI for Labor Reports

Only the praying temporary quarters
Israel Northsde Jewish Temple that placid bamy 95
morning in Miami knew that the sh whining piercing the
that the congregation being shot by
rieman No hurt The prayers they
for thousands of years amid whine
Not heard bullet thuddng a
blasting of the handmade bomb carefully
placed the woodwork Harry in an
isolated Minis some hundreds
eight months after the attack on the temple
Which unfortunaefor the country decency
CT kid crawling the frozen sides hills
Unfortunate because there have been almost bombngs
dynamite paintings burnngs, kidnappngs garden
variety destruction of religious property since that day when the
Norhde quiet marked only by the prayer
Unfortunate because nation excited by that bullet might have
saved the life only Harry
from hamlet the land who sthered against
Sovezed Chinese troops made fanatcal
Moscow each of these depredaons
mnorie in this land of So the bombngs only
Of interest to who 'nuty" the subject
part Of battlefield vital statistics
They most vital weapon propaganda war
against designed to the impression
Africa that the Asatc the brutal of goba
white supremacy subugae all coored races
Radio Moscow, montoed by day, swiftly
enough that the ereh Israel shooting followed by bombg
of two public schools Ku Khan
which conempuouy heaved smoking PHOSPHORUS front
of a Miami police station while the xxx paraded
Radio Moscow-and therefore the military
Asatc world which must berend enough
a e partly completed Itereh Israel NorthSde Jewish
was blown by dynamite September %
Carver Village building blasted keep Negro families
mat on october there further terror and
so on on October g. October IS November
right up to December &c when Harry
More swiftly than learned our propa
ganda enemies knew of effort destroy Railway
diesel as warning against
lines December % On December 70 vna
mite went off on the front of Rome
Georgia. crusaders home bombed Crove
Alabama dynamite in Atlanta Georgia on January
another crusaders home hit by explosives January in
Phoenix Aabamaand his feet the
conclusion Brave men, those night riders
And OnJanuary January January January 70 and
January l3hady day dropping of
dynamite the and private
homes The dynamite fad NAV
catch on and other problems expIosonn each
community by members majority Then we'll all Ios
here and those icefeds Of Korea
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1952-05-02
Chicago Papers Vicious Slanting

On page of this edition there proof how import
American daily newspaper viciousy magns its Negro
readers by emphasis and Identification by
columns.
The paper the Chicago DAILY TRIBUNE, has refused
repeated requests by responsible Chicago organizations
the discriminatory racial Identification
which it visits only upon the Negro community.
No matter how many crimes Chicago whites commit the
nationality of the alleged criminal is made part
the story in the TRIBUNE and other daily papers
The TRIBUNE, as many other daieS racially identify
only Negroes in their columns The other nation
atty groups not identified This discriminatory practice
harmful to good human relations.
Since American dailies do not. today cover
fully the of the Negro-Amercan community out
five items about Negroes in daie off police
boerS BY this millions of American whites given
distorted picture of the Negroes who live in their
by the racial Identification method
Realizing the njuStccS visited upon a community by this
practice many the daily newspapers discontinued
the practice of racial Identification unless such
Identification is important the story. Minneapolis and
Paul daies the first papers the end the racial
tag practice twelve years
The powerful Chicago TRIBUNE which perhaps has 10000
Negro subscribers blaanty continues its discriminatory
santng policy. This newspaper doesn't blame the TRIBUNE
much does Chicagos half million Negroes could
bring Col Robert Mccormick paper time Chicago Negroes
do not have buy the Chicago Tribune As of
the why the TRIBUNE arroganty continues daily
cruelty the Negro community because Chicago Negroes
tinue pour their dollars into TRIBUNE Golfers II
Chicago Negroes decided that they tired of
they receive from the TRIBUNE and then decided
to stop buying the TRIBUNE for few weeks Col Robert Ne
COmck would decide that the Negro community deserved
cent treatment in its columns We blaming
TRIBUNE, repeat, nearly much do Chicago>
Negroes.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1952-05-02

technique home owners trying to get them
dispose Immediately of their property usually at sacrifice
Responsible realtors through the Minneapolis Real Estate board
should police this situation that the home will
be vcmzed and the real profession will be given
a black eye.
Persons who have homes in that ought to call the
Housing and RedeveOpment authority before dsposng of
their property The Stun clearance and housing program
long program and people who buying homes
ought not take snap judgement dsposng of their
because of the of real statesmen whose
only interest is TO make quick buck
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1952-05-02
Good News
From April Crisis Magazine

Mayor Peirce of New Bedford
Mass, has appointed Mrs. Jane c
Waters 10 the local school plan,
ming committee. She is the first
Negro woman in New Bedford "a
receive this honor
Charles A. Baker was sworn in
in February as deputy commits
sioner Of property IN Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania This IS a very i'm
portant municipal post in Phila-
dclphia.
Walter +. Harris. Prnnsylvan-
las first and only Negro certified
public accountant. has been added
to the staff Of the City Con-
trollers office. where he will work
under deputy controller Robert
Leonard. Mr.. Harris lives in Phil
adelphia.
The Cleveland district Of the
Ohio state Nurses association has
admitted its first Negro to men,
bership in the person Of nurse
Rose PEBBLES. Her admission Is the
outcome OF a two-year fight
waged by the local NAACP, the
Community Relations Board, the
local Urban League, the Cali and
Post and other bodies.
Jackie Robinson became the
first Negro executive in radio
when he signed a contract with
NBC on February 4. He will
broadcast and aid in programming
for youth, with emphasis on