Must the Musician Starve?
THE COMMONWEAL November ±6, 1924. in 1919, a joint pastoral letter, where their views were ...
...As for those who in face of the evidence choose to believe that some sixteen million American Catholics, directed by their bishops, are so fantastically foolish as to be secretly plotting to control the educational institutions of some ninety millions of non-Catholic Americans— why, there seems to be nothing to say that's worth the saying...
...Barber shops began to pass when they started to imitate the pallid operating rooms of a painfully hygienic hospital...
...Sensible people do not ~vaste much time resenting the first or combatting the second...
...in 1919, a joint pastoral letter, where their views were plainly set forth...
...That sounds like a high-flown statement but it is true...
...That the police should have as wide powers as is consistent with justice to deal with the increasing horde of robbers and highwaymen is unquestionably desirable...
...If a police chief and his force cannot prevent crime, or run down criminals after the act, without resorting to usurped power and tyrannous measures, let them be turned out of office and competent servants of the public peace put in their place...
...THE determination of the City Music League of New York to extend its activities to a national scale is thoroughly commendable...
...THE president of the "chirotonsors" did not explain why he included tailors in the same unethical group as the bootleggers...
...What MARK TWAIN used to call the effusion of soul butter is the favorite oblation to this deity...
...Even the newspaper account of its last rneeeting, which said that the League was, out "to stabilIze,, the, unusual industry and put it on a business basis," can not fully dampen our...
...The adoption of "chirotonsor" is only a further step in the direction of a general devotion to- the great modern god, Blahblah...
...In Chicago, the police have decided to deal with criminals even more drastically...
...Plenty of judges, even, are falling into the same perilous habit by assuming more and more the right to inflict all sorts of arbitrary, unusual, and sometimes fantastic penalties upon those found guilty by them of various infractions of the law...
...The scraping of chins and the cutting of hair is becoming too sordid...
...ALL this is symptomatic of a dangerous habit fast being adopted in the United States of ignoring the orderly procedure of constituted authority and setting up a system of private and personal administration of so-called "justice...
...Police bodies and judges should not imitate them...
...It is the extension of lynch law and Ku Kiuxism on the part of the very bodies, like the police, that should be sternly denied any such infringement upon the powers of superior authority and the rights of the people...
...Without a code of ethics we can have no higher position than tailors or bootleggers...
...Our function," said the President of the association, "is to beautify and mobilize the human countenance, to make it truly the window of the human soul...
...ChAPMAN or any one else who desires to know exactly what the Catholic Church has to say about education...
...The "dead line," be it remarked in passing for the benefit of those not familiar with the subject, is an arbitrarily defined area of the city within which the police claim and exercise the right to arrest on sight and without evidence of actual wrong doing any known criminal...
...MUST THE MUSICIAN STARVE...
...THE ancient and honorable craft of barbering may soon disappear, sublimated by the vaporous onrush of the Uplift...
...Mere insults should only be ignored...
...The next step apparently is to transform them into temples of a new kind of priesthood, in which faces are to be cleansed not merely for the sake of cleanliness (which once we thought to be next to godliness itself) but also in a ritual fashion that will make them become shining beacons of the soul...
...Hallucinations must be left to run their own course...
...They propose to mete out punishment, presumably with revolvers and night sticks, without waiting for any form of court action, to all criminals caught in the act of lawbreaking...
...THE COMMONWEAL will gladly send copies of these documents to Mr...
...THE recent extension of what is called the police "deadline" in New York may seem to the casual reader of the newspapers to be only a matter of local interest...
...In A Catechism of Catholic Education, issued by the Bureau of Education of the National Catholic Welfare Council, which is the authorized organization of the bishops, the teachings of the Church on all educational questions is plainly and simply digested and expressed...
...Such practices on the pare of private individuals as lynching parties, tar and feather gangs, are intolerably bad...
...For the representatives of 3,000 barbers assembled in solemn convention in Chicago have decided to change their venerable name to the new-fangled title of "chirotonsor...
...Mortitians," and "realtors," and "cosmeticians," are further examples of the prevalent romantic tendency to give certain quite necessary and honest tasks titles that will enable those whose duty it is to perform them to share the pleasant illusion animating Christian Science and New Thought teachers that words change realities...
...The canning of this soul butter in the form of idealistic speeches to be peddled among the orators at such conventions as that of the barbers, is a recognized department of the business side of the worship of Blahblah...
...for the modern wielders of the razor and scissors...
...They should be checked in such practices as those of the "dead line," and of inflicting at their own capricious will all sorts of irritating, undignified, and humiliating penalties...
...Possibly he had recently been doing business with specimens of both classes...
...We must have a high plane of understanding...
Vol. 1 • November 1924 • No. 3
