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"Leave Bullying to Totalitarian States"

"Fair Play for Our Schools" Pleads Sunderland Jesuit—
SUNDERLAND.
Front Our OW11 Correspondent " it the country can afford all the improved education for the rest of the children, it can afford ii for Catholics as well," said Fr. S. Somerville, Si., in an address last week to the Sunderland District C.W.L. Parallel with his well-balanced statement upon rights and stronp,s in the education question Lancashire reports a resounding victory won by a handful of Accrington Catholic Trade Unionsits who stood out boldly from the first against the T.U.C.'s Illackpool Resolulution. Their courage has resulted finally In the rejection by 60,000 Lancashire Trade Unionists of the Blackpool Resolution. From Hoyland and Gateshead also tome accounts of deliberate Catholic measures.
" Cease to penalise the biggest minority in the country—leave the oppression of minorities to the totalitarian States, whose methods we are all fighting against in this war," said Fr. C Somerville, S.J., addressing Sunderland District C.W.L. last week on the subject of education,
" What are we to say about the new plans for better educational facilities for all?" he asked. " We don't want oter children to have less education than non-Catholics; we want the same level in the matter of schools, staffing, equipment. and other things as are granted to others.
" If the country can afford all the Unproved education for the rest of the children, it can afford it for Catholics as well?'
Our job, said Fr. Somerville, was to press our case on all fair-minded people, to see that we get our due share of money for our schools, schools in which we can bring up our children as Catholics.
A CHRISTIAN ENGLAND—OR NOT?
One question which should be put to the people is, " Do we want this country to be Christian or not'?" If so, then real Christianity must be put into the schools.
Again, does the country want to make the most of every one of its children by making it easy for them to have the best training that can be given, or does it want to handicap every child whose parents will not surrender their Christian principles and their natural rights over their children's education?
The cry is for equality of opportunity in education for all. Does that mean for all except those with religious convict inn ?
" Oive us schools as you give them to others, we say. but do not make a condition of the equal treatment what we cannot in conscience accept—the surrender of Catholic teachers for Catholic children."
The choice for parents was simply this: to have the State help them get the necessary education for their children which they believe in, or hand them over to the Government or Council to give the upbringing they believe in. The latter is seen in Germany. Do the English people want to end up as an army of robots regimented by the State?




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