02-03-1961 - E-Research

Archbishop Alter Protests
Federal Grants To Schools
CINCINNATI (NO — Archbishop
Karl J. Alter of Cincinnati
has added his voice to protests
against massive Federal
aid to^ education that ignores
private schools.
The prelate charged that
professional educators push
big Federal aid programs because
they want to take control
of public schools from
citizens and local school
boards. -
He said exclusion of Catholic
schools from Federal aid proposals
will result in "injustice,
discrimination and increased
hardships." '
INCREASED COSTS
He indicated that increased
costs may force curtailment of
the lower grades in Catholic
schools and might mean elimination
of the first grade in all
new parochial schools in this
archdiocese of 472,000 Catholics.
The Archbishop came out in
favor of long-term Federal
loans at low interest for all
schools, public and private.
Declaring that he does not
want direct subsidy from the
government for religion or religious
instruction, the Archbishop
said: "But we do ask for
auxiliary services, including bus
transportation, medical services,
textbooks at our option."
SPOKE TO LAYMEN
Archbishop Alter's remarks
in a speech to 2,500 men attending
the annual dinner of the
Men of Milford Retreat League
followed by 12 days a statement
by Francis Cardinal Spelt
man, Archbishop of New York.
Cardinal Spellman charged
that a proposal by a "task
force" of President Kennedy
that $5.8 billion be granted
exclusively to public grade
and high schools was a program
of discrimination that
would penalize parents of private
and parochial school pupils
for exercising their constitutional
right to send their
children to nonpublic schools.
Archbishop Alter said the alleged
needs of schools are
"greatly exaggerated." He
charged that adding from two
to six billion dollars in Federal
aid to the U.S. budget would be
"economically disastrous."
has turned up in Washington to
appeal for it.
The school lobby maintains
that a big amount of tax money
is needed for new construction
or replacement and for an increase
of teacher's salaries, the
prelate said. It also claims the
funds must come from the Federal
government because states
and local school districts are
impoverished and cannot raise
the taxes, the Archbishop said.
"Both answers are false in
whole or in part," declared
the Archbishop. Figures on
school needs have been "ex-,
aggerated and manipulated,"
he said.
Education costs have increased
74 times since 1900, he
pointed out, while the total national
income has increased
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N. C. Photos
PRESIDENT KENNEDY was among the many leaders, jurists,
ambassadors and congressmen who attended the annual Red
Mass in St. Matthew Cathedral, Washington, D.C. The President
is shown with Dr. Charles A, Hufnagle, president of the John
Carroll Society.
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Others there included Chief
Justice Earl Warren; Associate
Justice William J. Brennan,
Jr.; Speaker of the
House Sam Rayburn of Texas;
House Majority Leader
John McCormack of Massachusetts;
Secretary of Labor
Arthur Goldberg; many Senators
and Congressmen; numerous
judges and attorneys;
and one of the largest groups
of. diplomatic corps members
ever to attend the observance.
A Red Mass is a Votive Mass
of the Holy Spirit offered to invoke
God's blessing on judges,
lawyers and public officials.
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ek, Feb. 7-13
nell of Little Flower Church,
Hollywood; North Dade, Father
Joseph Brunner of St.
John the Apostle Church in
Hialeah; South Dade, Father
Lawrence Con way of St. Brendan
Church in Miami; West
Coast, Father Bernard Me-
Grenahan of St. Ann Church
in Naples.
The lay committeemen named
thus far include: East Coast
Deanery, Daniel Gorham, West
Palm Beach, chairman; Jesse
Green Sr., Edward Gilbert,
Louis Johnson, Stephen Kovacs
Jr., all of West Palm Beach;
John Foster, John Easterbrook,
John Szymanski, all of Lake
Worth, and Vincent Gorham
Jr., Fort Pierce.
TO PRESENT AWARDS
The North Dade committee includes
Harold Guittard, Miami,
chairman; Thomas Gato and
Joseph Ludick, North Miami;
Richard Snowberger, Miami
Shores, and Hugh McGaffigan,
Miami.
In South Dade, Joseph A.
Eisenhart Jr., of Miami, is
chairnrav, ard the other members
are Robert Esslinger
Jr., Louis Kreider and Edward
J. Atkins, Miami, and
Harold Korth, Coral Gables.
Dominican Republic Regime
Drops War Against Church
N.C.W.C NEWS SERVICE
The Trujillo regime in the
Dominican Republic is now presenting
itself to the world as the
stanch supporter and benefactor
of the Catholic Church, according
to reports reaching the United
States.
The new era of sweetness
and light dawned only a
month after the regime announced
that it was expelling
from the country about 150
Sisters who had been in
charge of government hospitals,
and that it planned
prompt elimination of all religious
instruction for Catholic
children in primary and
secondary schools.
Church authorities in the taation
now appear, however, to accept
General Trujillo's words,of
peace and friendship at face
value, according to the reporter.
NEW ERA PROCLAIMED
The new era was proclaimed
to the world in paid advertisements
in major U. S. newspapers:
"The Government of the
Dominican Republic and the Roman
Catholic Church Reaffirm
Their Close Co-operation."
The paid announcements
said that Generalissimo Rafael
Leonidas Trujillo Molina
had appropriated $4 million
for a projected university to
be conducted by the Jesuits
in Higuey, and $1,500,000 for
the completion of the national
Marian shrine at Higuey.
The advertisements also gave
-a translation of what appeared
to be an address by Bishop Juan
Felix Pepen of Higuey heaping
Tru-
praise on Generalissir
jillo.
The great ceremony of reconciliation
in Higuey — witnessed,
according to the government
announcement, by 50,000 persons
— came only four days after a
meeting in the capital at which
the Bishops of the Dominican
Republic had presented Generalissimo
Trujillo a letter asking
him to intervene to "end the
current anti-Catholic campaign
by press and radio;" to have
"the bills and measures against
religious education and Catholic
schools" withdrawn, and to stop
barring the entry of missionary
priests and Religibtts.^' •
Generalissimo Trujillo replied
the next day in a letter signed
by himself and President Joaquin
Belaguer. They pledged to
maintain religious education,
and to lift the barriers against
the immigration of priests and
Religious.
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