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New Zealand Tablet, 1 August 1918, Page 29

OUR SOLDIERS THE ANSWER. Catholic education in the home, the school, the parish church is the mother of the sturdy virtues we need to-day in the great struggle which the United States has so unselfishly entered (says America). That education teaches purity, discipline, the spirit of sacrifice and self-control. These are the virtues needed in the camp, in the trenches, on the battle field. We have been attacked again and again because in our schools it was said we did not make good citizens, loyal and devoted Americans. We were untrue to American ideals, it was repeated we were strangers to the thoughts and the inspirations of our countrymen. Our Catholic soldiers have given their answer. They have met the supreme test. Every Catholic soldier that holds a rifle in his hands on the frontier of freedom, every Catholic boy who crimsons with his blood the fields of France, is a refutation of the charge. Our ideals have stood the test. Our of Catholic education has not failed. When pure and strong men were needed for the country’s honor and the country’s need Catholic schools marshalled them in an unbroken phalanx under her flag. At all costs those Catholic boys and young men will do their country’s just bidding.