The Catholic Claims

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXV, Issue 47, 21 November 1907, Page 9

The Catholic Claims

jp&wier roiana (.says the ' S.H. Review ') puts the case of the Catholic schools and their supporters in the following way : 'If there was a city shoe tax that supported a city shoe shop, that turned out shoes for city taxpayers— two pairs of shoes a year, gratis ; and if the city shoe shop should turn out nothing but number tens year after year, and "your number was eleven, what would you d 6 for shoes 1 Would you hobble about in tens ? Or would you, even after being forced to pay your shoe tax, go and pay a second price for a ,pair tliat would fit you ? We think you would do the latter. That is just what the Catholics are doing for an. education. They pay the education tax, but the education they get is not good enough for them. So they pay a second price, to have what is, good enough for them. The price they pay, and do not profit by, goes to diminish the expenses of those who are satisfied with the common education. ' And yet we hear some these people whose school bills, the Catholics are' ''helping to pay, we hear thenf. abusing the Catholics as the ■ great- enemies, of education-. If »a man- paid your shoe^taill Jas well as his own, would you say that he -" hated l shoes,.? '_ . ' . " *~j / ~ * .>• - Mendel's Laws - v > s . Now, more perhaps than ever, is he a benefactor of our race who teaches the world how to grow two

grains of wheat— or their equivalent— where only one grew- before. A few days ago, the ' Ashfourton Guardian ', 'dealing, with the imp r overrents in wheats, stated., that ' toty" the careful application of the recently discovered. Mendelian laws, a number of new varieties have been produced and have been fixed". In the next following issue of the ' Guardian', the Very Rev. Dean O'Donnell had' the following 'illuminating coirment, which will . 'be . perused with interest v by our readers : ' '; Judged by present day standards, Mendel's discoveries are not of recent date. Lrregor Johann Mendel was an Auigustinian< monk, and conducted the experiments from -which he" Seduced the laws named after him, in the KoenigenEloster monastery, at Altrbruhn, in^LJpper Austria, from the year 1853 to 1568. He published' his discoveries and formulated his theory In a paper read on February 8., 1865, before the Brunn Society of Naturalists, Father Mendel at that time occupying the dual position of president of that Society and Abbot of the K^enlgenkloster monastery/ Men-dels laws have only begun to attract attention since 1900,. when they were rediscovered by De Vries, Correns, and Tscherxnak, working independently. Perhaps it is. not generally •known to "your readers that Mendel's theory is the absolute contradictory of Darwin's, -and " that the acceptance of Mendel's by scientific n-en means the rejection of the Darwinian theory.'