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fied cases. Here is where the man with the CathoHc con- 

 science and Catholic teaching can find an ample field for his 

 study, devotion and abilities. 



Our public schools have been accused of being inefficient. 

 It is true that Catholics have long since said that they were 

 deficient, in that they omitted to teach the science of sciences, 

 that of the heart and soul, but they have not accused them so 

 far of being ineffective in the subjects which they undertook 

 to teach. Now, however, their own advocates, their own par- 

 tisans, say that the results attained by the schools are not what 

 they rightly should be, and that they represent a great waste 

 of money and effort in their present ineffective condition, to 

 say nothing of hints that the moral and civic material they pro- 

 duce of any grade is something to be ashamed of. Here, then, 

 is a field which Catholics may inquire into and seek to remedy, 

 for they are taxpayers, employers and neighbors, and should 

 seek the best results for money and effort expended. 



The catalogue might be made longer, but space forbids. 

 There is abundant work in every line surrounding our civic 

 life, and we should equip ourselves for it, and equip ourselves 

 so fully and so admirably that our abilities will be recognized. 

 When we consider what we have already done in the century 

 past, how it stands as a bulwark for hope and righteousness 

 to-day and as an incentive for further and better work in the 

 future, we should rejoice and be glad. 



