by giving them the benefit of a higher education under Catholic influences.  The Governments of the various Western Provinces made several attempts to equip the Ruthenian schools with Ruthenian teachers.  With a few exceptions, these embryo teachers proved to be a failure and from a Catholic view-point a real calamity.  We remember personally how in a certain normal school the special Ruthenian class was nothing but a hot-bed of infidelity and anarchy.  The students were collaborating with the worst subversive elements in the country.  Therefore, our practical suggestion would be to encourage the recent foundation of the Christian Brothers by contributing liberally to its support and to the extension of the work of which it will become a natural centre.  Could there not be a bureau in the East for the recruiting of teachers?  A campaign of education to this effect, in the Catholic press, would be in season.

Community work is without doubt a deciding factor in our civic life.  Considered from a Christian angle it is nothing else but the practice of charity.  When animated by mere philanthropy it may play havoc with souls, particularly among our foreign element.  The Church in the United States has realized its importance and has outlined a social service programme for Catholic agencies.  They have field-secretaries and instructors—­often Knights of Columbus—­throughout the country, carrying on this welfare work.  I would refer the reader to the monthly Bulletin of the National Catholic Welfare Council for an idea of the extensive work of their Catholic social activities.  It is simply wonderful.  As times change our activities also have to be modified.  New questions call for new treatment.  The initiation of the Ruthenian people to Canadian life should be our work.  Being Catholics they are our wards in this new country and it is our sacred duty to see that they receive true ideals of Canadian citizenship without losing the higher ideal of their Catholic life.  At times Canadian liberty has proved to be to some extent too strong a tonic.  It is through a sound, intelligent, local government exercised in the school district and our municipal life that the new Canadians can learn best to play their part in the greater life of Provincial and Federal politics.  If any one desires more details on this subject we refer him to the National Catholic Welfare Council’s Reconstruction pamphlets No. 5 and 7.

Who has not followed with pride the launching of the great educational programme of the Knights of Columbus, particularly their nation-wide scheme of supplementary schools for the explanation of the “American Constitution” to foreigners?  It is an open challenge to radicalism.  To educate a citizen in the chart that governs his country, in the right use of his franchise, is an act of real patriotism and real Catholicism.  Picture to yourself the results of the Ruthenian vote on an issue in which the Church is involved.  Eventually time will bring such issues.