Seton Hall University eRepository @ Seton Hall The aC tholic Advocate Archives and Special Collections 3-16-1961 The Advocate - March, 16, 1961 Catholic Church Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarship.shu.edu/catholic-advocate Part of the Catholic Studies Commons, and the Missions and World Christianity Commons Recommended Citation Catholic Church, "The Advocate - March, 16, 1961" (1961). The Catholic Advocate. 175. https://scholarship.shu.edu/catholic-advocate/175 Hears Case The Advocate Congress Official Publication of the Archdiocese of Newark, N. J., and Diocese of Paterson, N. J. Vol. 10, No, 12 THURSDAY, MARCH 16, 1961 PRICE: TEN CENTS For Loans to Schools WASHINGTON (NC) Con- National Catholic Welfare Con- merce. Then came Baptist, Uni- the basis that private education the fruitful service of this gress weaved and bobbed in dis ference responded that it rated tarian and Masonic coun- groups. is vital to the nation. Hayes de- cussing the proposal to lend long-term, interest-bearing loans Among try,” he said. the last to fended the No Bar testify of "We one to to and and it Is Sees to are Aid money education constitu- constitutionality private parochial people private as were spokesmen for the Cath- such loans. in our schools, but days of sparring left tional. The board to nu- olic national interest that both pointed point of view, headed by Msgr. Hnchwalt the outcome argued that systems make their full uncertain. merous precedents for this. Msgr. Frederick G. contribu- Hochwalt, if were to The first nondecisivc round took At his next Congress grant fed- tion in the service of chil- press conference, director of the NCWC our Depart- eral assistance to only part of dren. place in the subcommittee on President Kennedy said he ment of Education. Any other attitude would To the American educational ef- education of the Senate Labor be Private and meant in his earlier remarks that On the second of the extremely shortsighted and Schools sub- day fort, the other Public Welfare Committee. not parts would he self-defeating.” Dur- direct grants, loans, to pri- committee's hearings, Senator denied a chance to grow. ing testimony on federal aid to vate and parochial schools were Morse Catholic contentions that 1. announced he would There is no clear constitu- which is an incidental to aiding public op- “The federal government,” he HAYES, WHO IS dean of the education, the issue of pa- unconstitutional. He added that pose low-interest loans to tional any private school loan law at long-term, prohibition against fed- a church,” such as aid to edu- said in his prepared faculty the Loyola Uni- rochial schools came up often. he also believed “across-the- amendment to the testimony, non-public schools -would be eral aid to parochial schools; cation. administra- ought not to take versity School of Law, But the action wasn’t confined board" loans would be unconsti- tion’s bill. any steps Chicago, within the 2. The matter, he said, ilso favored framework of the If Congress passed a law to the Senate which would force the private long-term, low-inter- hearing room. The tutional, but conceded this was a ought to come as a Constitution received support such there would THERE WOULD BE up separate schools out of est loans. providing aid, no chairman of the House Education debatable matter and deserved business, or, in piece of legislation, as President "I from an unexpected source this be no way to it before way, he to bring effect, to to would urge such action,” bring practical said, Committee, Rep. Adam Clayton the consideration of Congress. deny parents the Kennedy had suggested. to he said, “on the week. the U. S. Supreme Court for a such a law before the Supreme Powell of New right choose their kind of basic principle York, held a press Senator Prof. E. Sutherland of constitutional decision. Court. An Morse, who last year school.” that the federal government, to Arthyr ordinary taxpayer conference in advance of the THE FIRST Congressional himself sponsored an unsuccess- the to Harvard University, an expert The Harvard law professor could not bring suit against Turning to proposals for inter- extent which it deems it House hearings on education. He hearing was held under Sen. ful effort to provide construction to on constitutional law, author of cited Article Section 8 of the such a law because his involve- est-bearing loans to private and necessary aid public schools 1, said he personally favored loans. Wayne Morse of Oregon, chair- loans to private several the in too schools, said he church - related should also extend to parochial law school textbooks Constitution on powers of ment the case would be In addition, individual Senators man of the nine-member Senate still believes schools, Msgr. loans are constitu- schools and an said there funds. "diluted.” Hochwalt “we have comparable constitu- Episcopalian, Congress to approrpiaie and Representatives cranked out subcommittee on education and tional. But said, the they do not belong as tional aid.” is no constitutional in- "Congress spend “Let’s look at it this courageous of govern- problem can money way,” their opinions on sponsor of the administration’s example mimeograph an amendment to a program volved of ment aid to our By “comparable," he said he in federal aid to paro- on anything it wants,” he said, Professor Sutherland said. machines. And religious proposal. colleges without groups, grants for public schools, he said. discrimination.” means “aid comparable in kind chial schools. it is for the “You cannot have a court test and “provided ‘general notably Baptist Jewish, re- Originally scheduled to spend He cautioned against what and he He was degree to that aid offered lie gave his views at Cam- welfare’ and docs not conflict without someone being hurt and peated their traditional four days gathering testimony, referring to the Feder- opposi- called the “great mistake” to the of al College Housing Loan public schools, to the ex- bridge, Mass., in a statement with any other constitutional bringing suit. Now whose toes tion to to the Morse subcommittee ex- Pro- any federal aid private opposing the administration’s bill tent to which it to gram. This has lent millions to is constitutionally the press issued after Presi- provision." are being stepped on if the and schools. (See panded this time by the addi- parochial addi- because it docs not include permissible.” dent at pri- public and private to Kennedy a press con- U. S. government gives aid to tional stories on federal aid to tion of more witnesses as the vate colleges schools. He to The ference had declared that THE ONLY OTHER provi- exclusion appealed help finance construction of dor- federal government, he in private and church schools? education below and on 2 controversy over of Catholics to pages support a separate based his low- sion with which it might con- schools also mitories and other revenue-pro- continued, on its concern opinion even long-term, Only the taxpayer whose mon- and 3.) private enlarged. measure flict, he added, is the First to aid private schools. ducing facilities. with the basic right of parent interest loans would be it is. Another factor was the sub- uncon- ey Witnesses before his and child Amendment to the Constitution CONGRESS’ dilemma not committee President in his to control their educa- stitutional if provided on an was committee’s request that Abra- included Kennedy, pro- “But the Supreme Court has William G. Carr, execu- tion, not “across-the-board” basis. which reads, in part: “Con- of its own making. President Ken- ham Secretary of the posal for federal aid to colleges, ought unnecessarily take long since established the Ribicoff, tive secretary. National prin- sent Educa- has Recommended any action which would The President’s comments gress shall make no law re- nedy the lawmakers his pro- Department of Health, Education tion expanding this imperil ciple that a federal taxpayer Association, who criticized "the establishment posals to $2.3 program and a twin healthy existence and de- also evoked new statements specting an of re- grant billion in and Welfare, briefs ex- adding pro- by has no court to prepare efforts to add loans to the free standing in three to the stales for the Ken- gram to aid in build- velopment of parochial schools Catholic leaders, including Car- ligion, or prohibiting years plaining the administration’s view bill. colleges challenge the constitutionality either construction nedy So did Dr. Edgar Full- ing classrooms. through the operation of econom- dinal Spellman of New exercise thereof ...” of public on the constitutionality of gen- York, of a federal statute.” er executive secretary, Council ic pressures.” to schools grade or schools Msgr. Hochwalt urged that Cardinal Ritter of St. Louis and Aid parochial high or for eral federal aid to education and of Chief The State School Officers. think in Parochial schools might well be would not "prohibit the free ex- ruling against taxpayer teachers’ salaries. also on the constitutionality of legislators "balanced Cardinal Mclntyre of Los An- Both to supported grants public terms” impaired if federal aid were con- ercise of he suits on constitutionality dates The President made a to of the country’s educa- geles. anyone’s religion," point federal aid religious schools. schools. fined back to 1923 tion to public schools, he said. And the phrase on “es- a Supreme Court in his explanatory message to problems. said^ Parochial schools must IN HIS STATEMENT, Suth- tablishment of religion" would decision, he said, and that case Congress about his exclusion of THE* FIRST witnesses before “If federal aid is necessary; keep' IN TIIE MEANTIME, Sen.