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tered from what they now are, and with the farmers and farmers' wives, sons and daughters taking a greater interest in elections of public officials and measures affecting taxation, life on the farm can be made the most independent of any existence upon Earth.
Low Ratio of Illegitimacy.
It is a fact creditable to the morality of the parish that there is in all probability no parish anywhere where the Baptismal Register of which records a lower percentage of baptisms of illegitimate children than that of St. Augustine, although the mother parish of St. Michael, Loretto, is equally free from this taint.
A Plea for a Parochial School in the Near Future.
One great necessity of the parish of St. Augustine is that of a parochial school. Heretofore, the scattered settlement of the parish and often the almost impassable condition of the country roads precluded the possibility of the attainment of this great need for the Christian education of the youth of the community; but now that motor vehicles are fast coming into common use; with the improvement of highways and the removal of fences from alongside highways thereby very considerably removing the danger of their being blockaded with snow-drifts in winter time, it would appear that the time is fast approaching for the realization of this much desired object.
Never before in the history of the world was the need for the moral and religious training of youth so much felt as it is at the present time. Many of the secular educators in schools and colleges throughout the world, are men who do not believe in Christianity and some even deny the existence of God, and lose no opportunity to instil their pernicious doctrines into the minds of youth. They would teach morality, forsooth, by imparting sex knowledge, which is not within their province to do; they would obliterate the belief in the existence of the souls of men, by the conjectures of evolution - that man is descended from the ape - that everything existing has been evolved from nuclei and nucleosi of matter, and other equally absurd and blasphemous fallacies.
It has often been a cause of wonder to the writer that Catholic parents often send their children to schools and colleges of alleged higher education under the fallacious
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