Show HEARING IN SCHOOL TROUBLES IN FRANCE France Prance Jan 21 Cardinal 21 Cardinal Lucon appeared before the bar in his own behalf today at the continuation of the suit instituted against him by the public school schoolteachers schoolteachers teachers charging that in signing the episcopal letter leter warning Catholic schools h he parents against the public I had designed to destroy the authority of the teachers The cardinal read earl a statement in which explaining that he lie would leave tae tho the discussion of his legal responsibility to his bis counsel counsEl he declared for his spiritual spir spiritual spit spit- ministry except to God he owed r responsibility only to the tho b bead ar of the church chuch Ho He Ho denied J tho the episcopal letter political consider considerations consid consid- had been inspired by er cr ad adding ing tons Its sole purpose was to warn war Catholic Catholic Cath Cath- Is to the faith olic parents of the danger and the tho morals of their children incurred in- in in in- cured in the th uso use of certain text books and the n methods of instruction in the public schools To 10 complain that th the public schools arc are becoming an instrument of de de- does dots not constitute an attack atack upon the tho political polica regime of ol France rance |