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Show THE GERMANS KNOW. The convention of the New York German Ger-man Catholic State Federation held in this city the. past week demonstrated that now as-ever, the German Catholics Catho-lics are fully alive to the dangers that menace the Church and that they know the wav to combat them. The resolutions resolu-tions adopted cover the ground completely, com-pletely, dealing as they do with rehtr-ious rehtr-ious education. Sunday desecration, socialism and support of the Catholic prcs On the latter topic the convention conven-tion spoke in no uncertain terms. "The press in this twentieth century." say the resolutions, "is a powerful instrument instru-ment for good. We, therefore, recommend recom-mend that a better support be given to our Catholic press in this country. No family calling themselves Catholic should be without at least one Catholic paper 'or periodical." No one knows better than the German Catholic the immense aid the Catholic press is to the Church In the Fatherland an able and well-supported Catholic press had a large share in freeing German Catholics Cath-olics from the intolerable persecution of the Talk laws. Catholic .News.. . |