Show 1 a POSITION 13 DEFINED Catholics Present Their Side of thc Educational Question Chicago April 12A declaration of 1 the Catholic position on education In the United States was adopted today at tho closing session of the national conference of the Association of Catholic Cath-olic Collegoa The resolutions comprising compris-ing the declaration received the unanimous unani-mous assent of the icpresontatlvcs of the seventy different colleges prao I I tlcally the entire college system of the j l Catholic church In America The dcc I I Jaratlon follows > r First That this Association of Catholic Colleges requests Its president l Rt Rev Thomas 1 Conaty to respectfully respect-fully call the attention of the bishops I of the United States at their annual I meeting to tho work of this conference I Jn regard to our collegiate Institutions especially to the Importance of the I I high school movement SecondThat the tendency of edu I cnLIonal legislation toiccs Us to Warn our Catholic people of the pysternatlo and wclldcOncd effort In certain quur tors threatening and crippling all private I pri-vate educational effort thus depriving large class of the citizens of the liberty lib-erty of maintaining schools In which their religion shall be made an essential I essen-tial clement l Third That we remind legislators I of the rights of conscience guaranteed to us by our American citizenship and call their attention to the system of iHhools which our people have maintained main-tained at great expense and sacrifice Fourth That we protest against the unfair and unjust dIscriminations resulting from much of the educational legislation and we appeal to thQ fair mindedness and sense of Justice of the American people to protect us from such illlberallty Fifth That this conference of Catholic colleges convinces us that we are JustLQed In asserting that our college col-lege system deserves thc generous cooperation I co-operation of all Interested In higher Catholic education and we pledge ourselves our-selves to use every effort to perfect still more our collegiate conditions Sixth That we call upon all Catho lies to recognize the Jmporatlve need of a more peifect organization of our educational system and we assure them that with a fuller development of the Catholic high school we shall have a complete system with Its headship head-ship In the university and thus lye shall continue Vo maintain a high collegIate col-legIate standard |