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Dector Fine adds char: “poorly tretwed, ancom pe. feat ana, te sow? test, ewotionally wartele mee and women, withow! the dightert ieterest ia edu. tation, bave veplaced worthy teachers who beve left the peoferion, Main bulwark of the demo. evatic way of fife, the schools deve deteriorated glaringly since Pret Necker, Teacher words h iat the lower! it bes ever dren... . Public conf. dence in the sebools bay dropped sharply. As a re. galt, poreets ave turning dx increasing eambers Ip private, perocbigl, ead religions schools te the Rope of getting a decent vducation for iheiz citdres. While the peblic schools deve been going down. bill, abe petvate and tudependent sebools beve gaiend ia stafare, Mawy pareats, ihe country aver, ave pending their childven to won publir schools. They give the single yet adequate ree- sen: "Tbe public school ix oar aeighborbood dom wad offer my child a good education’ ™ Deemer ef Witkdeewel Ve this waforranate trend does no move thar make ws -anug and seshed wich our ows educa- sionst advantages, chen we will not only be lack- ing in Christian chancy, but we will Keewiee be gkpoting ourselves to the same nafertanate mistake chat many Germis Catholics made in the early stages af Nusiem. Instead of bringing cher own sound values ince the mainacream of German edu- gation, they withdrew farther and farther sway frome ix, Feaving the field almwer entindy at the daposal of Hitler who saw che glaeroom as 6 pow- erful enedium for the spread of his fatal doctrine. Engulfed by this retreat, Hevle did these Cath- glicy reslize chat this retirement from the arena, inatead of protacting them, would erenrually over: . whela: them, too, What 2 diferent and far bsp- pies story thers might have been if those whe knew berver--dong before chey were caught in the fogging the fruth ty chemucleey—taed poseseed the foresight and daring vo phingt invo the key Lt ™, channels of German Ife with God's rina Bock. spe could have stood up against them must seicher overlook mar with menly caving ooneives, Now moore chan ever before have we she serious duty gud extvace- dixery privilege of dhowing & eolicitade for all Americans .«. of being truly Catholic, by tnelud- ing all and excluding nooe. Beer ta Time al War During the recent war, American Catholics were anusuatly generous in the defenae of their country. Scatistics show that they provided nearly one-thicd nf the armed ercvices, or almost 4 million out of the 14 million Americans in the various branches of service, despite the fect shat Catholics in chit eountry number les thas 3 million cat of every 14 million peross ia the satios, Hur, ready and willing as we see in tmmer of emergency, we tase admit we make t rather poor showing during prace time. If we diplayed half as much enathucan in protecting the foundasions of mut country as others chow in wrecking them, the whole world pice might be much beighrer Bux the record chows clearly that the vere ana- jority of us American Catholics and mest. ochers who acknowledge # Supreme Being cond to Bre in por owe Here worlds and leave the ronzing of the big world co those whe are agsinst God. Far from doing our share in providing leaders in the great spheres of influence, despite qur proven capscity for leadership, stativdics demonstrate that we are lagging behind is every field. Wich our beck~ with the strong sense of duty acd responsibility which hax been inseilled in ua from the cradle on, . 7