subsequent article in your issue of August, 1915, on the same subject by the same writer. You have since published the first article in a separate pamphlet. Your writer describes certain conditions, as he sees them, in the public secondary schools of New York City, conditions which to his mind constitute the "Serious Problem." The particular school to which he refers happens to be the one in which we serve as teachers, and because your writer makes unwarranted charges and aspersions both against the vast majority of our pupils and against a large number of our colleagues, we deem it our duty to refute those charges and denounce the aspersions. We regret that the articles and pamphlet were not sooner called to our attention, but we trust it is never too late to satisfy the demands of justice. Your writer deplores the fact that the public High Schools contain so few Catholic pupils. We desire to assure you that we should likewise welcome an increase in the High School population of this city from all creeds and races, since we believe that the welfare of the community, which these schools serve, will be advanced not only by the higher efficiency which education brings, but also by the liberalizing influence which contact with different races, creeds and classes has upon the individual, an influence without which American democracy must be a failure. Moreover, we have no quarrel with those who seek to enhance the position of their particular creed, race or party, provided they do so to worthy ends and by proper means. We cannot, however, countenance a method which seeks to elevate one sect by calumniating another. Such a method is not only dangerous to our communal welfare, but is wholly unnecessary. Now, your writer is guilty of having used this very method. For, while he deplores the fact that there are few Catholic pupils in our High Schools, he considers it necessary to point to the large number of Jewish pupils in those schools, and to make against the Jewish pupils a number of grave and false charges the whole done in a spirit of intolerance unworthy of a publication which voices the sentiments of the Catholics of America. It may be true that ninety per cent of the pupils of our school are Jewish: then ninety per cent of the pupils of our school have been misrepresented and libelled. Says your writer: "In oral discussion on such topics as 'Is Lying Justifiable?' or 'Is It Wrong to Cheat?' their words constantly show that they (the Jewish pupils) recognize no code of morals and are governed by no motives higher than those originating from fear of detection and consequent loss in money." We, teachers of those boys, denounce that statement as false. We declare that such a statement can originate only in igorance or prejudice or both. We, who know our pupils, declare them to be at least the equals in moral conduct of any group of boys to be found anywhere. What can be the object of one who circulates such statements against all the members of a race? We do not intend to linger on the charge that "in overwhelming numbers these students are Socialists or Socialists in the making." We know that this statement also does not, in point of fact, represent the truth. But, while it is your writer's privilege to consider Socialism an unqualified evil, just as it is the privilege of some of our colleagues to consider it an unqualified good, we cannot pass over the charge contained in the following sentence: "Is it not foolish to try to combat Socialism and other attendant evils when we sit back and allow the positions which carry the greatest influence for good or evil to be filled by men who do not scruple at the dissemination of false doctrines?" The positions here referred to are those of teachers, and the men are the Non-Catholic teachers. Whether by design or accident, the words: "do not scruple at the dissemination of false doctrines" contain a double in nuendo. They may imply, first, that our colleagues take advantage of their position to propagate their individual doctrines, and, second, that the doctrines they "disseminate" they themselves know to be false. Whether your writer's intention was to convey the one meaning, or the other, or both, we repudiate the charge that our colleagues "do not scruple at the dissemination of false doctrines," and denounce it as a calumny. In his attempt in THE CATHOLIC WORLD for August, 1915, further to elucidate his position, your writer emphasizes the fact that his original article was intended to rouse the Catholics to the necessity of sending their children to the High Schools. This purpose we heartily endorse. He says, furthermore, in this second article: "This problem, which is essentially a Catholic one, arises not from the fact that the Jewish boys are attending our city High Schools, but because our Catholic boys are not." If that is the problem, then what occasion is there to complain, as he does, that "although the Jewish people are in a minority, their children possess an overwhelming majority in our High Schools?" If that is the problem, then why should he devote his energies, as he does, to an attempt to hold up the Jewish boys in our schools as a future menace to society, as those who, as a result of education, will be endowed "with greater capacities for evil?" If that is the problem then what need is there to quote a "prominent authority" who “remarked" that "within twenty years these people (the Jews) will be in control of our public education?" What need is there to speak of the Non-Catholic or Jewish teachers, as he does, as men who do not scruple at the dissemination of false doctrines?" In brief, if the problem is, as your writer says it is, "not that the Jewish boys are attending our city High Schools, but that our Catholic boys are not," then why bring the Jewish boys into the discussion of that problem? It may be true, as he seems to believe in his second article, that those Jewish boys constitute a Jewish problem, but is it his intention, as a Catholic interested in Catholic problems, to take up Jewish problems also? It is our belief that the interests of our community, in the welfare of which both Jew and Gentile are equally concerned, will not be served by the propagation of such sentiments as are expressed in the article in question. We regret that you saw fit to publish it. We regret still more that you have seen fit to reprint it in a pamphlet which is still being circulated. 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