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ECONDARY SCHOOL ENROLLMENT INCREASES There’ s little news in Contents Copyrighted by the Catholic Press Society, Inc,, 1939— Permission to Reproduce, Excepting Qirls Are Qood Talkers. that statement, if the on Articles Otherwise Marked, Given After 12 M. Friday Following Issue venerable joke about woman’s volubility is true. But the three girls I Registorialsj show-n below really have something to talk about. They helped St. Students in Grades Francis de Sales’ school win, by a narrow margin, over Cathedral school !--a ■■ ------ ' ■■I and other contestants in the annual speech conference at Cathedral high, Denver, Feb. 4. There were 185 students taking part. Pictured below AN REVIVAL HARD x 6 PUSH; are Patricia Weadick, top; Alma Walsh, lower left, and Pauline Hanks. Less Than in High ,IGHT ON GEORGE SELDES See story on page 7. Efforts to revive the Ku Klux rVER CATHOLIC an in Colorado are not meeting; ith much success. Following is In Some Instances note sent to us from Canon City, here the K.R.K. once held high ,‘jiway: Emphasis Being Placed on Advanced Studies; i, “ All recent attempts to revive the Primary Attendance Still Growing Klan here have been abortive. An REGISTER prganizer by the name o f Kelley In Deliver Diocese called several meetings, but the The National Catholic Welfare Conference News Service Supplies The Denver Catholic Register. We Have ^largest attendance at any one of Also the International News Service (Wire and Mail), a Large Special Service, and Seven Smaller Services. (ThiB arliclt deals only with parochial high Bcboola. not actdnniat eonduet«d by Nthem was 11. The new Kleagle reliRiouB communities). r admits that the solid people who The growth ot secondary education in the diocese is eould make the Klan go here are VOL. XXXIV. No. 25. DENVER, COLO., THURSDAY, FEB. 9, 1939. $2 PER YEAR indicated in statistics contained in the Official Catholic Direc not in the least Intdresled. The tory for 1939, soon to be published. According to the directory sentiment is overwhelmingly against revival. The old Klan cost the there are now 2,500 pupils in the parochial high schools of members too much '.in business, Denver Jesuit to Review Pontiff's Career the state. This is an increase of more than 200 pupils over money, and friends' and about last year’s record and an increase of moreithan 1^000 in a ‘killed’ the town. Nearly every ten-year period. The importance of the secondary school body talks about Klan' affairs here, 'and there seems to b f little or no Pope Suffers Heart Attacks system is indicated* by the fact that the high school pupils .’secrecy about it.’’ We guarantee outnumber those in the grade .{the authenticity o f this note.« We school at Cathedral school, Den had the situation thjoroughly in ver, and St. Patrick’s, Pueblo, and vestigated through oUr news serv- nearly equal the gi*ade school en As Anniversary Approaches rollment at Holy Family and St. i'ice connections and this was the resulting report. ' Joseph’s schools in Denver. As plans were being made in recitation of a million Rosaries for After the attack, the Pontiff Cathedral leads all the high schools of the diocese with an en As the Denver Caltfolic Register Denver and in Rome for celebra the Holy .Father’s intentions. was unconscious for half an hour, litold last week, a henchman of Pope Unconscious for Half Hour it was said. Late in the afternoon rollment of 390. The number of tion this weekend of the tenth pupils in the other parochial sec SIFFEBS SFIFBF “Judge” Rutherford’s Witnesses of The first heart attack occurred he was reported to be sleeping. An !*Jehovah wrote a pamphlet that was anniversary of the Lateran treaty at 4:45 p. m. while the Pontiff was injection ‘of adrenalin, a powerful ondary schools of Denver is as follows: Annunciation, 190; Holy t seemingly p r in t^ in New York and the 17th anniversary of Pope in bed recovering from a cold that heart stimulant, was resorted to. -MorRanti PneUj. I'.but was mailed in Denver to all apparently had been taking its Family, 238; Sacred Heart, 73; Pius XI’s coronation, it was re A battery of physicians was St. Francis de Sales’, 274, and St. fthe members of the Colorado legis normal course before the setback. summoned to attend the Pope, and l l l j y R l 1 0 LFO ported Thursday by International Joseph’s, 261. lature. It viciously attacked the Previously Pope Pius had received a short while later the Papal ^’Catholic Church, the main part of News service that the Pontiff had his niece, the Marchesa Persichetti An increase of 143 pupils is Secretary of State, Cardinal Pa- noted by the directory in the sec ^its argument being devoted to suffered two heart attacks that Ugolini. celli, and other Vatican officials Parish Students to Have ondary schools outside of the city The Rev. Julian Layton, C.M., j reproduction of charges of Fas- may prevent him from partici were called to the Pontiff’s bed of Denver. The total enrollment vice president of St. Thomas’ semi- . lircistic attacks on liberty planned side. It was reported that Car pating in the events scheduled for for these schools this year is 996, nary, Denver, is rfeported to be Iby the Catholic Hierarchy. George dinal Schuster of Milan had hur as compared with 853 last school ISeldes, who used to be a noted Saturday and Sunday. ried to Rome. making satisfactory progress fol Health and Safety Course year. Pueblo Catholic high school I journalist but has been, on the The Pope rallied immediately lowing an operation at St. Joseph’s Dr. Giovanni Rocchi, the noted has the largest enrollment of any •downgrade in the profession in re-' under stimulants and obtained sev urologist who has been treating hospital recently. Father Layton Parochial grade school children of an audiometer to test the hear out-of-Denver school, with 203 Icent years, wrote the original the Pope in the absence through severed the quadraceps tendon im in the diocese will be given a prac ing of all parochial pupils, and the eral hours’ rest. pupils. Other high schools outside rarticle, which appeared in the The principal Denver event illness of Dr. Aminta Milani, his mediately above his knee in a fall [Marxistic /Vetr Republic. The legis- tical course in health and safety existence of free clinics, for chil of the see city that have a large at the seminary Jan. 25. Owing to regular physician, sent an -urgent number of pupils are the follow [lators paid scant attention to it. beginning with the school year in dren too poor to pay for medical planned for the jubilees is an FOR ROtS WILL the severity of the injury it was September. A textbook committee attention. call for Dr. Chesabianchi Bona- ing: St. Mary’s, Colorado Springs, A letter we have just received illustrated lecture on the career nome. necessary to remove fascia from directed by the diocesan superin Several texts are under consid 155; St. Mary’s, Walsenburg, 183, the venerable priest’s thigh in or Ifrom Frank Gannett, famous head eration for the course. The com of the Pontiff, with special em Well-informed sources were in and Holy Trinity, Trinidad, 124. ■of (he Gannett newspapers, throws tendent of schools, the Rev. Hubert' der to bind the severed tendons. Newell, is now working on the se mittee that is examining the books phasis on the Roman question, to clined to regard the Pope’s condi The increase of out-of^Denver llight on George Seldes. Gannett He will be requited to keep the leg lection of suitable texts for the has been provided with the latest be given at Regis college Saturday tion a^^extremely grave.” high school pupils in a ten-year in a cast for a month. Despite the land Secretary Ickes debated Jan. works on health and safety pro afternoon at 3 by the Rev. E. A. His remarkable powers of re period is 399. |12 on the radio program, Toicn courses. seriousness of the injury, it is “ It has long been known,” grams. Those that are best suited Conway, S.J. Oxj Sunday the faith Canon City.— (Camp Holy Cross) cuperation were recalled, however, ■Ehe trend to an increase in sec hoped that no permanent crippling feeling of the Air. Seldes recently Father Newell said this week, to the needs of the schools will be ful in Colorado will join w^ith Cath —The Abbey school faculty at and it was stressed that on several ondary school enrollment is evi ■wrote a poorly constructed book effects will result. “ that a course which effects health selected in the near future. olics of the entire’ nation in the Canon City will again conduct its occasions in the past year he has:, dent throughout the country, but (Turn to Page ,4 — Column 1) Father Layton is perhaps the and safety practices in the daily summer camp for boys between the rallied from attacks that doubtless the increase has usually been at priest best .known and beloved by ( ‘...................... life of the children is essential. The ages of 8 and 14. Instead of one would have killed a less hardy man. the expense of the number of pri the clergy of the diocese and by safety aspects of the course are Six-week period as has been the Well-informed sources of Inter mary pupil.s. This is not the case all the alumni of the seminary. In iishop to Attend vital at this time because the paro case in the past three years, national News service within the in the Diocese of Denver, the the 30 years he has bqen stationed De Valera Visit In Denver Vatican, which revealed his heart directory shows.