Show FA TS GIVEN ON DISPUTE 1 I BY TARDIEU TARDE IR I R Rule u I 1 e Against Catholic Instruction In Govern Govern- Government Government Government ment Schools Cause m- m A Dnn A T r Ir french High Commission lon cr CT Ki tn u the United lI I Copyright 1825 1925 by The Tho Consoli Consoli- Consolidated Consolidated Consolidated dated Press Association A For the Iho first time in Im genera genera- generations lion the French people are sharply divided over a reU religious issue Isue Premier Herrot precipitated tal cd the quarrel by hy Instituting Inter Inter Inter-d schools In Lorraine Alsace which In effect wiped out Catholic instruction iii 11 li O schools pi prohibited I In Prance A prote protest t strike b by pupils and parents re- re reI re resulted suited C Catholic leaders all fill over o r Prance reJect rejected eel the tho premier premiers s I plan a as a mote moe mo mo o e toward to purely secular school i J In an on illuminating despatch toda today en In Ins the background back back- background ground round or of o the quarrel Andre dieu Tar Tar- Tardieu dieu aJ says s Trance Prance Is I on the time serge or of a sa savage age religIous duel PARIS PAnIS March larch 21 The 21 The religIous religious religious ious the tho ro 1 lor ot of which was as referred to by tho the writer last month has Just resulted in sittings siftings of the chamber of or deputies dep- dep dep deputies one on of them ending in n a disgraceful undignified scene The fact must seem ab o to an American whoso re- re religIon re ligIon is entirely separate from politics and where hel the bitter bitler theological the the- theological the differences of or eArl e rl colon colon- colonIal colonial colonial ial days lays are forgotten and congress con con- congress cress con gress noer net nc er touches the tho ho subject In Prance church cl and state stale are separated s but religion and are arc still closely intertwined as a result of or old habits of thought which it Is to bo be feared will ill re- re remain remain re remain main part ln and l pal parcel cel of or 1 ench for Cor many ears car This is 19 a n rent great reat pity for con con- conducting conducting con ducting religious quarrels in po- po political political po political form Is contrary to the tho principles of tho modern world orld and poisons polson progress s BOTH nOTH U U PROMISING It Is undeniable that Catholic Catholic- Catholicism Catholicism ism In Europe though not In the United States takes t kes an Uncompromising uncompromising promising attitude as was as shown sho n in the tho recent proclamation of or the French h cardinals cardInal Quite noticeably this idea meets meet equally uncompromising uncompromising promising opposition but th tint t Is no reason why hy both sides should f summon their political political cal troops to mobilize Though Thought the tho concordat at no longer exists the Left Lett parties deny Teny the cardinals right to speak their convictions And though the th car car- cardinals cardinals car cardinals disclaim nay any political pur- pur purpose purpose pur purpose pose their proclamation Imme immedi- immedi immediately l- l atol arouses the reactionary po- po political po political forces particularly In north northwestern stein n France Fiance FI ance Immediate Immediate- Immediately ly Iy then the quarrel passes from the tho doctrinal arena orena to the political political political cal and thence to the th social 0 ov 01 or 01 DUrr DUrL Schools are ar drawn into the fight again an and as ILS there tirre will be municipal elections In t two 0 months th l results of or which will hate haic a direct influence on the forth forth- forthcoming forthcoming coming senate elections it Is plain that Franco is on tho the verge vergo vero of n a savage religious duel In which some somo will lose loso and some somo will win In but in which France as a Q nation can in no wise arise Ise profit All this can be explained b by history Last wee week Iok the WI welter Iter reproached tho the United States for scrapping the tha past too quickly Quick Today he roust must remark that ranee has the th fault ot of worshippIng antiquity too much In such affairs as this Only a few oats eais ago aeo the French church was as justly sus- sus suspected us of ot o playing an unworthy un orthy role because it linked Its Us fortunes with those thos ot or deposed monarch monarch- monarchIal monarchial monarch ill Ial regImes while the th young oung re- re republic republic re republic public was wa still veale v cak and vulnerable vulnerable able ahle But today fear tears fears of or anything or of the kind are baseless s All Nance except a handful of royal rpyal- royalIsts royalists is republican and can not imagine any other form of or gov- gov government COT than that under which It has 11 od ll od for ES 58 ears ear This filet fact gives give an nn excellent ity Ily opportunity now to make mak a real between religion and lud nd politics T ARDC OR r ron When peace came after aCter the tho world orld war W all nil Franco France believed this internal peace was coming also but today s events vents show the nation le Ie I tar far from front that realization realization realization tion and ond not only are both sIdes as ardent ardnt for tor as s ever but they thoy have havo h vo thrown Into the th bal bal- balance balance bal balance ance the lery tery national existence or of Alesco Alsace Lorraine Lorca which M said In 1921 should bo hel held above France Franc s Internal squabbles ag agIt It must mu t bo ald that tho 80 called so-called called secularists often show themselves to be lie more mor In their zeal against the th church than n the tho church itself sho shows how s on their sid side Anyhow they are ir hr fir from that neutrality which would bring everybody Into agreement But the Catholics Catholic themselves I who were In tho the majority In the tho former chamber chambor chamb r are cr largely to blame lawsIn for not Ing the laws toI I In such uch IL a ay w ay ILS as a to satisfy their own legitimate Interests and at the athe he same ain Urn time harmonize the I country Tho The r or of o all this I li Is Q a a pro pro- pro found profound disturbance dl over an anti pro pro-I antiquated issue 1110 In a country which needs d internal ponce pence and harmony fOr its lIs it future futuro progress |