Oechtering previously sent McMaster the annual school report and asked him to publish it, but he has not seen it in print as yet. He concludes that it must not have reached the paper or must have been misplaced in favor of more urgent news. He asks him again that the enclosed lines not present be published since the report has created quite an interest in schools both within and outside of the diocese. It will encourage many priests who despair of having schools in their small congregations, when they see how some zealous priests have started schools with only 30 or 40 pupils. There is no congregation of respectable size in the diocese that has no school. Some priests in parishes of but 40 families are boarding the teachers at their own houses and making many sacrifices to provide a Christian education. If school-boards and annual reports were used, schools would rise everywhere and order would result. From his own experience Oechtering credits school boards with the success of the German and Belgian schools. Systematic administration has made such schools flourish. :: I-2-c A.L.S. 2pp. 12mo.