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Pontiff Resumes Desk Work After 4 Montks Dhess Opposition To REVISION OF SCHOOL AID MEASURE IS URGED The Kegister Has the International Newe Service (Wire and Mail), the N. C. W. C. Mews Service (Including Badios and Cables), GAIN SHOWN Its Own Special Service, Lumen Service of China, International Illustrated News, and N. C. W. 0. Picture Service. DEFECTS IN L o c 9.1 Local Our visit to the Orient left Edition Edition us amazed at the feat of BY ORDER IN PROPOSED BILL American civilization in pro­ THE viding so high a scale of liv­ ing for our people. Our NEGRO WORK ARE OUTLINED houses are as far superior to those of the average Filipino, Chinese, or Japanese as they Annual Report Reveals Josephite Fathers N.C.W.C. Official Tells House Committee are to the log cabins or sod Are Now Caring for 70,472 REGISTER(Name Registered in the U. S. Patent OflBce) Federal Help Should Go to Private as huts of our pioneers. Our Well as State Institutions wage scale is five to ten Colored Catholics VOL. XIII No. 15 DENVER, COLO., SUNDAY, APRIL 11, 1937 TWO CENTS times, in many instances, what theirs is (as measured Baltimore.— According to the annual report for St. Washington.— At the direction of the Administrative by our dollar). If you do Joseph’s Society of the Sacred Heart, issued here by the board of the National Catholic Welfare Conference, the not appreciate what it means superior general of the Josephite Fathers, the Most Rev. France Honors Our Scientists Very Rev. Msgr. Michael J. Ready, general secretary of the to be an American, travel in Louis B. Pastorelli, S.S.J., there are now 70,472 Negro Pontiff Resumes N.C.W.C., appeared before the House of Representatives _ the Orient and you will soon Catholics being cared for by the members of that society. committee on education in opposition to the Harrison-BIack- ' learn. This represents an increase of 1,568 over the figure of last Fletcher bill as at present vyritten. Monsignor Ready year. urged revisions of the proposed measure. This measure Most of the Filipinos live The figures given in the report are the largest ever Desk Work After would begin by appropriating $100,000,000 in aid of the in dwellings as lightly built achieved by the Josephites and public schools in the several states show gains in every department and would increase this amount by as the summer cabins we of missionary endeavor. Baptisms $50,000,000 a year until $300,- erect in the mountains or numbered 3,449, converts (adult), 4 Montks Dhess 000,000 would be appropriated an­ nually. It would apportion the Opposition to along our rivers. In U. S. 1,089, and those under instruction terms, the material is worth for Baptism, 494. money to the states on the basis just about a tenth or a twen­ The Josephite school enrollment Vatican City.— (NCWC Cable) of the number of children between has gone up to 13,463, which ne­ — His Holiness, Pope Pius XI, the ages of 5 and 20 years residing tieth of what we put into our cessitates an increase in teaching left his private apartment and re­ in each state. School Aid Bill ordinary dwellings. In China, personnel to 226 sisters and 71 sumed his place at his desk in Calling the committee’s atten­ the vast majority of the peo­ lay teachers in the 66 mission his official apartment after exact­ tion particularly to the numerous ple live in straw and mud schools of the society. ly four months’ absence due to schools, among them a large num­ The Josephite Fathers now num­ illness. For the present, the Holy ber of parochial schools, “ organ­ huts, not half so substantial ber 122 priests caring for 58 mis­ Father will limit his audiences to ized and operated by voluntary Voiced hy Bishop as the adobe dwellings of sions with resident priests and 36 the reception of official person­ associations of citizens exercising our Mexicans and utterly out-missions. They are aided by ages, but will gradually extend a right which the family has in Louisville.— Opposition to the devoid of the artistic beauty sisters from 12 different religious them to receiye other prominent American law to direct the educa­ communities of nuns. persons and groups of visitors. tion of its child,” Monsignor Ready Harrison-Black-Fletcher bill, now of the adobe houses in our •There are 126 students, novices, Pope Pius inaugurated his au­ eaid that “ to discriminate against pending in congress, as offering Southwest. In Japan, every­ and seminarians preparing for the diences in the official apartment a child for the reason of his at­ “no constructive program of thing except the newer pub­ work of the Colored missions as with the reception of Eugenio tendance at such a school would school improvement,” was voiced lic buildings is of wood. The Josephites. Last year, the largest Cardinal Pacelli, Papal Secretary violate the best traditions of our by the Most Rev. John B. Peter­ class in the history of St. Joseph’s of State. Later he reemved Msgr. country,” and asked that, “ to safe­ son, Bishop of Manchester, in his dwellings, even the temples, seminary, Washington, D. C., was Domenico Tardini, substitute Sec­ guard ag;ainst discrimination in the address as president general to are all of wood, and for the reported with the ordination of 13 retary of State, and then Pietro use of federal funds,” the bill be the 34th annual meeting of th e' most part are left unpainted. priests. Cardinal Fumasoni-Biondi, pre­ made to define the terms “ public National Catholic Educational as­ Picturesque tile roofs gener­ In spite of the depression and fect of the Sacred Congregation education,” “ public school,” and sociation. Bishop Peterson is also its attendant restriction of finan­ for the Propagation of the Faith; “ population group” as used in its Episcopal chairman of the Depart­ ally save the Japanese Domenico (lardina! Mariani, and section 3. ment of Education of the National cial resources, considerable expan­ Catholic Welfare Conference. houses from sheer ugliness. sion is reported. In Texas, new Charles de Fontnouvelle, coniul general for France at New York Father Bottini, a Dominican at­ "To make certain that there be no discrimination under this bill, “ ‘Knowledge is power,’ in­ Inside, these dwellings are missions were opened at Tyler, city, ii shown at he presented the decoration of the French Legion of tached to the Holy Office. if it is enacted,” he continued, “ it deed,” Bishop Peterson said. “ But pleasing enough, but the par­ Orange, and Crosby with the erec­ Honor to two American icientiata in recognition of their contribution should be amended by having in­ who dares gainsay that it is a titions are often of only light tion of new churches. The mission to fever apparatus for relief of human suffering. At the left is Dr. school at Ames, Tex., was practi­ Americans’ Nanking serted into it a clause which guar­ power as well for evil as for good? Walter H. Simpson, then Dr. Charles F. Kettering, and M. de In this age of annlied science we wood and paper. Fire is a cally rebuilt. Fontnouvelle. antees that no provision of the act demon constantly feared in In Louisiana, further expansion Project Progresses will ever be interpreted as pre­ enjoy abundantly the comforts Japan. Even some of the was made by the opening of new venting the state government from which science has provided; but extending the full benefits of the we live in a growing terror of its Royal palaces are chiefly of missions at Reserve, Plaquemine, Meet ‘Fibber McGee and Molly* and New Orleans. The church at Nanking, China.— (Lumen Serv­ act to all school children irrespec­ destructive might. The gas- ■ wood. Baton Rouge was replaced by a ice)— Work is to commence on the tive of the particular school or masked baby in its mother-sparing John C. Kelly, president of the new and larger one, which is to be Radio Stars Seen building of the Nanking institute type of school attended so long as ‘pram’ tells pitiably the story that the worth of science depends upon Literally millions of the New York , advertising firm of enlarged still further. A new rec- projected by the American Jesuits the school is operated within the of the California province. The laws of the state and recognized how it is used and who uses it, Chinese live in boats, not in Kelly, Nason, and Winsten, has tory was built at St. Raymond’s been appointed a Knight of St. church. New Orleans. As Model Parents Rev. James F.. Kearney, S.J., has locally as fulfilling the standards a'nd with what good or evil in his houses. Their streams are Gregory the Great by His Holiness, In Delaware, a new mission was secured government approval and. and requirements of compulsory soul. often so crowded with these Pope Pius XI. The message of opened in Wilmington and a new is waiting for the final acceptance (Turn to Page 2 — Column S) (Turn to Page 2 — Colum n 6) little vessels in the cities that the appointment was transmitted rectory built at Belvedere, The world knows them as “ Fib­ grams besides the leading char­ of the plans and specifications on the part of the city government. one wonders how it is ever through the Archdiocese of New ber McGee and Molly.” Their acters they have made famous. neighbors know, them as Jim and Building operations will begin just V ^ . Prelate Meets Old Friend in C h in a possible for a boat to get in Y ojjkby Eugenio CardinabP^celli, I* Tfc X neigiiDors Know tnem as jim and Mojly wants- it understood that PapM "Secretary o7” 'State.
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