Cardinal's own' school opens in East End

"TIHE Cardinal's own" school— London's newest and most imposing Catholic secondary modern school, costing. L150,000—was formally opened by His Eminence last week on the Lansbury Estate in the East End.
"You have got the most wonderful buildings," the Cardinal told the boys and girls. "I might add that they have cost a most wonderful sum of money.'
Seventy-five per cent. of the cost is being met out of public funds.
The Cardinal urged the childr. A to make the Cardinal Griffin School "an example to the whole diocese, indeed, an example to the whole country."
With a headmaster and 7' assistant teachers, the school has already been in use for 10 months. taking its boys and girls from Catholic schools in Poplar, Millwall, Limehouse and Bow.
A great crowd gave His Eminence a tremendous welcome when he arrived for the opening ceremony with Mr. Kenneth Pickthorne, Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Education, civic leaders of East End boroughs, and members of the London County Council.
Mrs. I. Phillips. a member of the L.C.C., said: "This school is an example of the extreme interest taken by the L.C.C. in church schools. This is not generally believed and it is important that I should say it.
"It is our sincere pledge that in the school programme we shall find a ration each year for several church schools.
"What a comparison—do parents realise it?—between the days of persecution of Elizabeth I and the religious tolerance in the reign of Elizabeth II."
Headmaster attacks the 'comics'
THE headmaster of the Cardinal Griffin School, Mr. J. R. Doyle, in a speech at the opening ceremony, attacked violent "comics" and certain kinds of film programmes.
Some of the "comics" he has confiscated, said Mr. Doyle, "were not fit for adults, let alone children."
On the same day Sir Hugh LucasTooth. Under-Secretary to tat. Home Office, was telling the Commons that the Home Office and the Minister of Education think that the best solution to the problem of the "comics" is for parents and teachers to discourage children from reading them and to direct their attention to more suitable reading matter.
He added that there was no evidence that the reading of these publications had helped to cause juvenile delinquency.
Biggest problem
Mr. Doyle told THE CATHOLIC HERALD later that some of the "comics" which had fallen into his hands were "studded with sex and violence" set out in such a way as to "catch the eyes of the young,"
"I am sure that the reading of such trash does undermine the moral grip of individual children. There have been recent examples of it in my own experience."
In his school repart Mr. Doyle said that the school's "biggest problem of all" is that it is not a parish school and that many children, divorced from their parish, are already drifting away from the Church.
"This," he said, "calls for all-out effort a n d cooparation between priests, teachers and parents—most of all parents."