Sacred Heart Academy - Atrian Yearbook (Klamath Falls, OR)

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CHRISTIAN EDUCATION In recent years men of the stamp of Paul Blan shard and G Bromley Oxnam ably assxsted by the propaganda machinery of the National Education Association have amplrfredalong muted drscordant note on the Amerrcan scene They have charged that the Catholic school and the Catholrc system of educatron constitutes a drvlsrve factor rn this democracy that It tends to create a system of caste where there should exist only unity They hold that all Amerxcan children should be forced into through and out of the same educatronal mold In so teaching they are actually propostng that thts free nation adopt one of the surest means of destroyrng its freedom For All who have med1 rated on the art of governrng mankind have been convrnced that the fate of empires depends upon SUPT OF SCHOOLS BAKER DIOCESE the educatron of youth Education may be used elther for freedom or for enslavement REV W S STONE The Amerrcan public school system has effected a major achlevment in its effort to educate an ever mcreastng number of both chrldren and adults to understand that under our system of government they enjoy the rtghts of free speech free press free dom of relxgron a free voice 1n selection of public offrcials and that wrth such freedoms they rnherrt the responsibility to prepare themselves effectrvely to meet and deal w1th social economtc and polmcal problems With this achlevment we have no quarrel We must insrst however that what the public school system has done or can do is not enough to guarantee for an indefinite peuod of trme the securrty of these freedoms An outstandmg citizen of thts country has defined good c1t1zensh1p as follows A good citrzen is a man who loyally puts every thmg he has tn htm into the job to which he rs dedrcated a man who loves his country and keeps 1ts laws a man who loves and serves hrs nerghbor A good crtrzen adores and serves God and denves the right to do so not from the Constitution not from the government not from the w1l1 of themajorrty BUT FROM GOD HIMSELF No power on earth can justly take this r1ght away and any force seektng to inject blgotry hatred intolerance and un Amerrcanrsm mto our Amerrcan way of lrfe rs contrary to the splrrt not only of the Declaratron of Independence but of the Constrtutron rtself We may justly conclude that the American way of lrfe cannot functron wlthout rellgion and morality We may further aver that the publxc school system does not and cannot make provrston for relrgron and moralrty We proudly assert therefore that the Cathollc school rather than causing drsunity rn the fabrrc of th1s free soctety acutally stands vrrtually alone tn the frght to preserve the American way of lrfe and rts freedom The principles and convtcttons whrch have led the Catholtcs of this nat1on to marntaln at the cost of double taxatron schools whrch they hope will bulld better men and women for citrzenshrp in a mor ally suonger Amerrca do not by themselves justrfy the exxstence of these schools It is your respon Slbillly expectally you who are about to graduate to prove by your lrves that these prrncrples are true You cannot do thrs merely by leadrng what rs often called a good Catholrc 11fe You must apply your carhouclsm 1n all your soclal activmes You must reveal xt at home rn school rn bust ness in t.he professrons rn your nelghborhood in your crty and rn everythmg you do our fellow crtrzens wtll see ln the flesh what we try to preach tn the pulpit that the Umted States of Amertca far from having to fear us can rely on us to practrce the vutures of justtce and charity and civic concern on which the very extstence of our democracy depends 0 1 - - s ' v . - - I . ,g , f . ' vs ... .f ' ' ' ' - I . ' , 1 1 1 - 1 . ,, . . , ' . . . . - 1- 1 1 ' . 1 1 ' 1 1 1 1 . 1 1 1 1 . . . . . ,, . 1 , . 1 1 1 , . 1 1 1 1 ' . . . . . ,, . . 1 1 1 1 1 1 u 1 1 ' ' 1 1 . . . ,, , . ,, . . ' 1 1 ' 1 1 1 1 1 ' P 1 1