p 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 t