The Wind (verse)

...The complexities of this side of her mission have varied, of course, with the characteristics of different ages and nations...

...and in this era, and in the United States especially, she is dealing with problems of citizenship foreshadowed, indeed, in other commonweals and centuries, but never on such a scale or with such world-wide implications...

...Arriving daily at the port, they must be guided and protected until they have found their parish home, and have learned to clothe their ancient traditions in new American forms without loss of faith or of religious fervor...

...Then a question may arise how far the will can be executed compatibly with the laws of Virginia and Maryland, which regard with jeal- ousy the education of that description of persons [Negroes] to the extent provided for by the will...

...BORGHILD LUNDBERG LEE...

...By ANNA McCLURE SHOLL T HE Church's task of training humanity for celes- tial citizenship has always had an intimate bearing --since human nature is not constructed in bulkheads --on the adaptation of men to the social life of their day, to their commercial development and international understanding and good will...

...His successor, the time of whose appointment is not clear from the records, was Louis Johnson, who submitted a final accounting in t853, showing a balance of $5,6oI...

...Jefferson's predictions that the execution of the trust would take a longer time than he had to live, were more than verified...

...WHITHER THE CHILD...

...At the meet- ing of the Archdiocesan Council at the Hotel Plaza on December 6, the fact was brought sharply into prominence that in New York City the Catholic immi- grants necessarily form the pivot of welfare work...

...His Eminence Cardinal Hayes, who honored the meeting with his presence, was attending what has been the direct outgrowth of his singular zeal for the relief of the poor and unfortunate...

...The entire matter was ultimately transferred to the Orphans' Court in the District of Columbia, and the records are now preserved in the clerk's office at the Supreme Court of the district...

...The wind is a terrible lover, Old trees remember much...

...and following the spirit of the National Catholic Welfare Conference, one of whose admirable works is the Civics Catechism for the incoming foreigner, which is of such a high order of excellence and so impartial and detached in its state- meats that it has been adopted by several non-Catholic religious organizations in their welfare work...

...The statements submitted from time to time disclose that when Lear's administration began on January x6, x 823, the estate amounted to $I7,o99...

...The reports of the county directors at this meeting wthere are seven counties in the diocese, besides the three which cover .New York City--bear witness to the widening Catholic interest here and in the rural districts in the study clubs for the better education of the laity in Church history and doctrine...

...The National Council of Catholic Women has as-sumed as its foremost task the training of good Amer- ican citizens, fashioning them largely from the immi- grants and their children...

...To what purpose the courts decided to devote all the funds of Kosciuszko's estate, or into whose hands the money finally found its way, it is difficult to de-termine...

...The next administrator appointed was George Bumford, whose final accounting on June 7, I847, showed a balance of $47,oo...

...We do know, however, that in I826 a school for Negroes, known as the Kosciuszko School, was established in Newark, New Jersey, at an initial cost of $13000...

...These are so complicated that no clear evidence as to the purpose to which the proceeds of Kosciuszko's estate were devoted can be obtained from them...

...If the will should be defeated on such ground, the funds would probably be subject to a law Of Maryland which provides that all funds remaining in the hands of executors or administra- tors and which cannot be appropriated legally to any other purpose, shall go . . for the support of schools...

...The tr The wind is a tender lover, Young trees quiver under its touch...

...dear to Poland, and to every other nation where the highest type of gentleman and friend of liberty is revered...

...Upon their proper introduction to their coun- try depends much of the civic and national soundness of their social and political future...

...The importance of this work is obvious, particularly in its bearing on the relations of Protestants and Catholics in the rural districts, where religious tolera...

...Kosciuszko was indeed a man of great heart and noble character, whose memory is dear, not only to his own countrymen of Lithuania, but dear, as Jefferson said, "to the people of the United States...

...for the protection of the immigrant...

...and for the spiritual education of the children, especially the children of the foreign-born, and of those children in the public schools whose intellectual training is practically severed from religion...

...In a long letter to Jefferson, Lear wrote : I shall place the funds far enough out of my own reach to avoid the embarrassment above mentioned, and what is scarcely less dangerous, in these peculiar days of im- moral influences, the temptation which no one ought to encounter unnecessarily, since we have seen how many strong men have yielded...

...His final accounting, on December 7, 1838, showed the fund to have in-creased to $45,575...

...Among the units of the National Council, the New York Archdiocese has peculiar problems to deal with upon whose successful solution may depend much of the city's future strength and prosperity...

...December 29, 1926 T H E C O M M O N W E A L 209 administrator, Benjamin L. Lear, of Washington, evi- dently an attorney, to whom he sent a statement of Kosciuszko's estate in this country, amounting to $I7,- o99...