Communications

...T H E CASE OF LARS ESKELAND Vermilion, S. D. TO the Editor:—You commented in your issue of June I on the case of Lars Eskeland, principal of the People's High School ("folke hoiskole") at Voss, Norway, and the controversy over his recent conversion to the Catholic Church...

...One incident of the situation which I believe will interest you is told in the Norway correspondence in the Minneapolis Tidende of June 9. A majority of the Committee on Church and Schools of Parliament ("Storthing") has voted to recommend the discontinuance of state aid to the school if Eskeland retains his connection with it...

...FRANCIS VENABLES...

...The whole English-speaking world has cause for pride in their history...

...KIN OF T H E MARTYRS Gates Mills, Ohio...

...Give a Protestant Challoner's Missionary Priests, or Dom Bede Camm's Tyburn and the English Martyrs to read, and he can never be quite so "protesting" again...

...they are related to martyrs and saints...

...The majority members belong to the Right and the Left (Conservative and Liberal parties...

...A minority of the committee has presented a dissenting report, affirming that the "Voss People's High School is still carrying on school work of such general educational nature as entitles it to receive state aid...

...With the forgiveness of ancient wrongs is coming enthusiasm for the extension of the Faith to our separated brethren...

...They undoubtedly voice the attitude of their political group...

...The martyrs are ours as well as Canada's, Ireland's, Australia's...

...ALBERT N . GILBERTSON...

...They have converted thousands in England...

...Neither in the Constitution and the laws nor in the rules for schools of youth can the minority find anything that prohibits the granting of state aid because the principal acknowledges a religious faith other than the public religion of the state...

...Their names should be rallying cries to all who long for understanding and friendship between all Catholics who use the English tongue...

...TO the Editor:—May 4, the Feast of the English Martyrs, received very little comment in our Catholic press, but I note an ever-increasing interest in the heroes amongst Catholic students, and particularly converts...

...Why should we not extend the splendid work of the Guild of Our Lady of Ransom to America...

...Shall we not invoke their aid, tell their story, wherever English is spoken...

...This is the sort of thing which I think Father Ryan of Washington (with many others) is very much interested in...

...I find that descendants of these families, whether Puritan or Anglican in origin, take vast pride in a Catholic heritage, once the facts of Tudor and Stuart history are pointed out...

...The last phrase is the Constitution's characterization of Evangelical Lutheranism.] The minority therefore moves that state aid be given to this s'chool as to other schools of youth...

...If old-stock Americans are to know the Church, it is specially desirable that they learn what Catholics of their own blood were enduring throughout the colonial period...

...How many members of the American clans of Davenport, Thwing, Lockwood, Barlow, to name only a few, know that...

...An interesting and, I believe, significant thing is that the two members—Moan and Steinness are their names—^who make up this minority of the committee are representatives in Parliament of the Norwegian Labor party...