U. S. HAS PHYSICAL GIAHTS, SPIRITUAL PYGMIES Th« a i* Ui* latfraatioaat Ntwt Seryic* (Wlr* aiX Hail), th« N. C. WvC. Nawa Same* (laela4ia< lUdio* aa4 Cablai). Bishop Schlarman Exposes Ita OwB SaaaU] Sarrica. Lamaa Saraica at Chiaa, latarnatiaaal IUaatrata4 Nawi, aa< K. C- W, C. Pictara Sarrica. SCHOOLS ARE L ocal L ocal Propaganda Trick of Reds E d ition THE E d ition ATTACKED BY Writing Contest Is Scheme to Further Read­ NEW YORK MAN Listening In ing of Communistic, Anti-Catholic Literature ‘Biggest Blot Upon Last Generation’ Is Neg-^ A group of Protestant Peoria,. 111.— (Special)—To revive interest of y o u ^ lect of Higher Values, Secular rlcrgymeii not long ago at- REG(.Name Registered ISTER fn the U. S. Patent‘Office). leiifled a retreat held at the Americans in a discredited and dying cause, the Leftist Educator Declares Trappist monastery in St. League of American Writers, in co-operation with the VOL. XIV. No. 23 DENVER, COLO., SUNDAY, JUNE S, 1938 TWO CENTS iNorl>ert, IMaiiitoba. After- American Student union and the Friends of the Abraham New York.—“Physical giants and spiritual pygmies”,' %vards, a Baptist layman wrote Lincoln Battalion, is offering $1,000 in prizes to college are being produced by the materialistic education system^ and high school students for the best manuscripts on “The D. Ur- to the Winnipeg daily papers This Is the Home of the ‘Qypsy Priest,’ brings the com­ of America, Joachim R. Scoppa, public school superin­ protesting that they had par­ Anti-Fascist Struggle in Spain.” Bishop Joseph H. Schlar­ forts of religion to the spiritually neglected people in a 5,000-square-mile area of the Brazos river tendent and president of the Bronx Borowide Association ticipated in a Communion man, in a letter to all priests of the Diocese of Peoria, valley in Texas, Padre Francisco has been at this job for a year and wouldn’t give it up for anything; of Teachers, told a meeting of the Teachers’ alliance^, exposes the contest as a scheme bus he finds a nomad’s life trying. He constructed the trailer chapel shown below largely by himself. service held by the monks. to get .our young people to read in New York, Mr. Scoppa said that “the biggest blot upon- The editor of the Free Press Eastern Court pro-Red and anti-Franco (which V the last generation has been the neglect of mental, moral, attached a note to the letter, to them means anti-Catholic) lit­ •• . • and spiritual values,” saying he had been reliably erature. It is an attempt to sabo­ “They tell us to turn out a so­ tage the martyrdom of Christian­ cially conscious product,” he informed that two Commun­ Rules Against ity in Red Spain.” ion services were held, one declared. “It is impossible to Posters advertising the contest turn out a socially conscious hu­ Mayor Orders . (iatholic and one Anglican, are being displayed in public li­ man being unless we turn our at­ and the Protestants partici­ Birth Control braries and in schools the country tention to the spiritual make-up pated in the Anglican one. oyer, along with a list of sug­ of the human being.” ' ' Bus Service Needless to say. Communion Boston.—The full bench of the gested reading from Communist :-y. The educator decried the in­ and other Leftist sources. After was not distributed at all. It is supreme court of Massachusetts troduction of treacherous slogans has ruled it illegal in this stater- consultatior with Bishop Schlir- A and “trick words” in a profession Despite Court interesting to note that the even for physicians, to prescribe man, the commander of the local where individual temperaments monks were eulogized in a American Legion post had the cir­ AVj, or disseminate birth preventives. t * are concerned. There has beep so New York.—Following a court' radio broadcast and in a num­ The court, in a long-awaited opin­ cular removed from the Peoria much emphasis on such phrases Public library. J of appeals’ decision that the New ber of non-Catholic sermons ion on the so-called “Salem birth ag “the maximum of self-expres­ control case” involving four so- , All three groups sponsoring the ■-L sion” and “individual rights,” he Yotk law authorizing free trans­ as a result of what the preach­ cially-prominent women, held con­ contest are Communistically in­ said, that the child has not been ers experienced at the abbey. portation of pupils is unconsti­ stitutional a Massachusetts law spired organizations which have taught that he has certain funda­ tutional, Mayor Fiorello H. La- prohibiting distribution of birth long been in the strugfgle to whip mental obligations. Permitting Guardia ordered continuation of Father Thomas J. Wheeler, prevention material or' literature up American sympathy and con­ children to criticize without re­ and upheld the women’s convic­ tributions for the Red government, straint has produced a generation free bus service to parish school- pastor of the Shrine of the tion. of Spain. The contest is open to of ignorant critics, he added. Mr. children at least for the rest c4 Little Flower, Baltimore, who “The terms of the law are plain, undergraduates of American and Scoppa ridiculed the educational the 1937-38 term. unequivocal, and peremptory and Canadian universities, colleges, trends that would leave the child celebrated his silver jubilee The court held that “there must in the priesthood May .30, had they contain no exceptions,” the and secondary schools. A first to make his own ideals without court ruled. “They are sweeping, prize of $500 and other awards of profiting by the knowledge of be a complete severance between- a unique distinction. He was absolute, and devoid of ambiguity. $250, $126, $75, and $50 are of­ ideals that have been formed by denominational or sectarian' ordained at the same cere­ They are directed with undeviat­ fered. Entries may be poetry or Plants Faith Among Spiritually Neglected People generations. schools . and public common ing explicitness against the pre­ prose, film or radio script, fiction, schools. Free transportation of mony as his brother, the late “I cannot believe,” Mr. Scoppa pupils induces attendance at Father John David Wheeler, vention of conception by any of drama, or essay telling of "the sai<L “that American education is the means specified. It would be anti-Fascist struggle in Spain to­ schools. The purpose of the trans­ S.J., who died in 1935 at go trothy, bereft of all reason, portation is none other than tor difficult to select appropriate leg­ day and its relation to the general ^Qypsy Priesf in Homemade Trailer that we, as a people, would set up Holy Cross college, Worcester, islative words to express the welfare of the American citizen of promote the interests of the pri*. a system to develop physical vate school op religious or sec­ Mass. Four priests came thought with greater emphasis.” tomorrow.” The contest closes giants and spiritual pygmies.” The opinion, prepared by Chief July 4. tarian institution that controls and from the family, three of The Teachers’ alliance, formed directs it.” them Jesuits. Two of the Justice Arthur Prentice Rugg, The suggested reading list con­ Serves 5,000'Square'Mile District by a dozen high school instruc­ apparently was upanimous. tains most of the pro-Ked books tors, made its appearance as a city­ A dissenting opinion by Judge Jesuits are still living— Father The four women, whose convic­ and news reports published in this Bryan, Tex.—(Special)—Padre Mexioans of the Brazos valley. rear end of the trailer contains a wide teachers’ organization in Crane contended that the statute does not provide for maintenance Ferdinand of Woodstock col tions were upheld, are Dr. Lucille country since the beginning of the Francisco, the “Gypsy Priest” of With his own small bit of cash, small altar and all the equipment March; in April it had enrolled lege and Father Louis, in re­ Losd-Heinstein, a physician; Mrs. Spanish war. Not one book' by a' his hands, and the help of a few necessary for Divine services. more than 1,100 members. One of of or aid to private and religious the Brazos River valley, wouldn’t schools, but merely assists the chil­ treat work in New York city. Flora Rand, a nurse; Mrs. Standish Catholic or by an opponent of the friends, he rigged up his two Packed into the rest of the trailer its aims is “the expression of a Bradford, executive chairman of Spanish Reds is included. Earl change places with any other “white elephants” and his two and the truck are two tents, 80 sane attitude on those profes­ dren, who are legally attending the North Shore Mothers’ Health Browder, head of the-American priest in the whole Diocese of tents. The “white elephants” are folding canvas chairs, a couple of sional matters about which teach­ such schools, to spend the required The New W orld of Chicago office in Salem, and Parmelia Fer­ Communist party; C. £). H, Cole, Galveston. The Official Catholic the . truck and trailer in which he small oil sto\e8„ a folding con­ ers are more concerned and better time in attendance upon instruc­ heads an editorial, the “Y.W ris, wife of a Salem physician. Malcolm Cowley, Joseph Lash, Directory lists him this way: hauls his equipment over the fessional, the padre’s belongings, informed than other citizens.” Its tion as demanded by the law of “Missionary for Mexicans in Dio­ compulsory education. C.A.‘€lets Belligerent,” when The decision is generally re­ Herbert Matthews, and Elliot Paul bumpy roads of his territory; he and his sleeping quarters.