Week by Week
July ,14, 1926 THE COMMONWEAL 257 universal...
...The passage of the Mellon financial ditions in this country...
...But-and the point is worthy program with some changes is evident proof of the of the most careful attention-the Verein has not influence of the Secretary of the Treasury with the been content with theoretical achievement only...
...The aiding of immigrants, particularly Mexiand it is not unlikely that the eminently cautious for- cans in the southwest...
...Thus but we can never owe it a greater debt than we do no finality can be attached to the work of more or less at the present moment...
...the care of was also partly his discovery...
...To of guiding and directing the entertainment purveyors say that the glory of the angelic chant was apparent whose slogan has not greatly changed since Louis to all who listened, is merely to repeat an old truth Veuillot summed it up as "Never too much gold : and about the work done at the Pius X School...
...Military operations having been curtailed tionally timely resolution...
...Louis, as well as its subsidiary units, has portioning the income-tax in the manner he considered carried out excellent practical work in a number of suitable, but also in settling the major foreign debts...
...erly organist once described a choir as "a gathering of those who serve the Lord by doing violence unto themTHE famous Foreign Legion of France has bulked selves...
...verge of their return...
...France took tragic reality of the truth...
...We have all York World, usually so alert to defend legitimate hesitated to request official action by the United States liberty, can calmly comment on the Mexican situation in a matter so likely to be termed special pleading...
...and the singing children were gathered from Exchange as: "0 Lord, keep us straight 1" The task various schools in and near the city of New York...
...We are not inter- the right to say that "the results of the session have ested in trying to shove Mr...
...These were matters mothers and orphans...
...At the present moment all difficulaloofness from movements to establish amity between ties have not been removed, but the French commisnations has been a. grave mistake on the part of those sioner was able to accept the conditions laid down by whose active religion is governed by the rule of the provisional government and to proceed with the charity...
...An eldone besides the wolves chooses the sheep-dog...
...world...
...An ample host of the columns of the press, might well stop on the hither the clergy was gathered round the altar, including side of morals...
...It all argued that at least a sizable American mob could be knocked MAKING all allowances for poetic license, there are completely loose from everything like sanity...
...but even those who bear in mind that their petitions are laid at the feet of the Prince of Peace will know that it is not asked of them supinely to bear scurrilous indignities...
...The New constitution, against which we as a people protested York World is still sitting on the fence, where Ameriand must continue to protest, will inevitably lead to cans have all hoped they might abide ' peacefully...
...the music was Westminster, once translated the motto, "Domine directed by a Canadian authority, the Reverend J. E. Dirige Nos" inscribed under the city arms on the Royal Ronan...
...No human circumstance so distinguishes the cerelines whose connection with ethics is not clear, of monials of the Church as does universality-sameness attaching individuals to themselves by a retaining fee, in all climes and among all peoples, the umbrage of the whose probity or good citizenship has been aired in single saving sacrifice on Calvary...
...And many parallels that justify the simile...
...Doubtless the purely partisan squaball Americans must be prepared...
...July ,14, 1926 THE COMMONWEAL 257 universal Church, and by others whom the nefarious THE COMMONWEAL excesses of the Calles regime have spurred to vehement protest...
...conscience, still sluggish and poorly informed, The facts are plentiful and unmistakable...
...Calles versus religion is no Senor Calles's political mission, however, is to push longer an issue in which only Catholics are interested...
...He said very frankly that with the rebels...
...During the next ten years we shall underqueries were satisfactorily taken into account opens stand more fully the value of such an organization, the way for future epic contests in the arena...
...Citizens of THOMAS WALSH HELEN WALKER the United States, however, see in it an obvious reason HENRY LONGAN STUART GEORGE N. SHUSTER for making a choice-a choice between proponents of JOHN F. MCCoRMICK, Business Manager religious liberty, devoted to the ideal of stable governEditorial Council ment and international amity, and the subterranean T. LAWRASON RIGGS JAMES J. WALSH hangmen of revolutionary dictatorship who are true to CAELTON J. H. HAYES R. DANA SKINNER the antinomian instincts which gave them birth...
...and he "promises" to succeed...
...It is interesting which had then been arresting the American public...
...Sumner, of the Society for the Suppression of questions l Commenting on M. Morand's happy exVice...
...noble decency of law must resent as a violation of the But it is evident that the enforcement of an intolerant oldest thing for which men have fought...
...The story of such an organization cannot prove a comfortable or uneventful one: its MICHAEL WILLIAMS, Editor leaders will be hounded down and the worst excesses Assistant Editors of autocracy will be wreaked against it...
...Kellogg into action...
...the end of the road...
...day," where he urged with words to which all of Germany listened the necessity for using the authority of THE passing of Emile Coue naturally draws attenChrist to render impossible the idea of a future Euro- tion not so much to what the man was as to what pean war catastrophe...
...The New York Herald an attitude toward foreigners which jeopardizes rights Tribune, as the official administration newspaper, has freely and lawfully contracted for...
...Crowds of more than relatively younger intellectuals in France (and in America) hysterical people hurrying to get under the spell of arousing much comment by referring in an article his magic eye, to accept the much-heralded formula as printed in the Nouvelle Revue Francaise, to the Trapa fetish, to kiss, when opportunity was kind, the reach- pist order as "the Foreign Legion of God...
...Its sumnever too many girls," is on the scale popularly de- mer session gives every indication of being a pleasant scribed as "man-size...
...And like the Legion-it asks no Mr...
...Paul Knabenshue's report to the State Desembled in Springfield, Illinois, was honored both by partment, delivered in his capacity as American consul, the presence of the most important delegates to the is optimistic concerning the progress made by M. de Eucharistic Congress and by the adoption of an excep- Jouvenel...
...But the really important the history which has followed 1840, will wish that thing about it is that it happens to be virulently wrong anything but friendly living side by side is to be the -wrong in a manner which anyone who respects the definition of our national purpose as concerns Mexico...
...Few thoughtful persons, reading through might even term it inevitable...
...One relations...
...So far as anybody has more than eighteen years, this organization of Ger- been able to find out, he studiously avoided calling man-American Catholics has been notable for the sin- himself a scientist, a miracle-man, or the harbinger of cerity with which it has approached the study and a new dispensation...
...He really thought he amounted solution of moral and social problems...
...His intellect is not of a giant order, and though pression the Vie Catholique has this to say: "His his intentions are good, the combination of heart and phrase comes to us at a moment when many people brain in all he has undertaken to do hitherto, has been are feeling the need of some `foreign legion' to fulfil of a unilateral order that makes agreement or dis- the profounder aspirations of the soul...
...BERTRAM C. A. WINDLE Subscription Rates Yearly : $10.00 Single Copies : $0.20 I T is wholly within the province of Senor Elias, the official Mexican propagandist resident in the United States, to publish any material he sees fit to issue...
...the organization of confermula devised for participation in the World Court ences on problems incident to rural life...
...In a non-political way, Mexican Catholics are to be banded together, under the leadership of the Archbishop of Mexico City, in the League of Religious Defense...
...Like the famous thereby Coue demonstrated the power of literature- Legion the order attracts to its ranks two categories not so much through the magic of his own roseate sen- of men-those whom the world has misused and tence, but through the distorted thing he became when those who from the beginning have no use for the the day's journalism had had its way...
...fields...
...Work like that which Mother Stevens and largely of late both in romantic fiction and in memoirs those associated with her are doing through the medihardly distinguishable from fiction...
...Sydney Smith, the witty dean of priests of many different nationalities...
...and the cupied the intelligent attention of the Verein and its fact that neither the farm demands nor the prohibition leaders...
...All this is indeed likely...
...Other starving in Central Europe-all these things have ocproblems found it baffled or purposively inert...
...but gone a long way to reestablish the credit previously it becomes apparent that Mr...
...Kellogg or his successor lost with the country by narrow-mindedness and ultrawill have to act, and this is an eventuality for which partisanship...
...Marred though it was by filibusters and random debates, by whole- ALTHOUGH the French nation's fiscal problems sale displays of ignorance and sectional prejudice, the seem to outweigh in importance the grave responsiCongress proved that the tempo of our parliamentary bilities of its colonial empire, these continue to absorb life is still relatively normal...
...But when Coue arrived of valor and devotion, before whose drastic discipline in this country he was news-news that could be cor- prince and beggar are equal, and in whose tragic related, by writing fellows more dapper but less con- anonymity so many a ruined and branded life takes cise than he, with the movies, the mystical panaceas, refuge to pay for its bread with its blood and to earn and even the modernist-fundamentalist controversies a soldier's grave as its final reward...
...There is something that him tranquilly at his own modest evaluation and made acts as a challenge to imagination in this melting pot little fuss about the matter...
...The papal letter ordering a day of prayer Published weekly and copyrighted 1925, in the United States by the Calvert Publishing Corporation, 25 Vanderbilt Avenue, for the speedy cessation of persecution will be folNew York City, N. Y. lowed obediently by millions of the faithful...
...industrious popular representatives...
...But WEEK BY WEEK without being peculiar, to say the least, American I T IS more imperative than ever that the American minds cannot accept his statements at their par value...
...by saying : "As in France some twenty years ago, and to this hesitation there have been sacrificed the there promises to be in Mexico, for a period at least, interests of fellow-citizens resident in Mexico, the the same bitter controversy over the state's exercise liberty of Catholic and Protestant ministers of re- of power and some show of resistance to the enforcligion, and the continued tranquillity of Pan-American ment of the law...
...Calles versus religion means a Mexico in continued turmoil, characterized by the use of persecuting force, WHAT mark for deportment should be given to by the maintenance of an authority which citizens can- the Congress just adjourned will be a subject of connot legitimately recognize, and by the assumption of troversy until next fall...
...them off...
...The official reason given for his refusal is that his attachment to the Ziegfeld enterprises in the role of WITH the visiting German bishop of Speyer acting domestic censor would bring "undesirable publicity" as celebrant, the field Mass which opened the work upon his head, but from other reported statements of the summer at the Pius X School of Liturgical it is possible to credit him with sounder motives...
...the attention of political observers...
...In so far as the Syrian situation is concerned, it is a pleasure to see THIS year's convention of the Central Verein, as- that Mr...
...When he came to America, Coue was a modest and beneficent little WE cannot refrain from adding here an inadequate Frenchman who had found a practical formula for tribute to the work of the Central Verein...
...In adding as he did that the impetus to formation of the Lebanese republic, as stipulated by Catholic international action ought to come from the the mandate...
...Flo Zieg- themselves furthest from Him are often on the very feld, leaves him considerably higher in our esteem...
...It is its timeagreement with him alike an ungrateful task...
...Like the Legion, it covers rank and station with the mask of a name, none the less matriculated IT is difficult to be unreservedly enthusiastic about because it is saintly...
...and in the should speak out against the disorderly conduct of face of them one wonders how the editors of the New the neighboring Mexican government...
...the giving of charity to the which Republicanism was prepared to handle...
...Its conven- to something as a popular phrase-maker who could tions and periodicals have disseminated the tenets of corral into a few simple words a generally usable a sound civic doctrine which, for all their indebted- amount of a psychic force which neither he nor his July 14, 1926 THE COMMONWEAL 259 scientific superiors knew much about...
...His words success, but the recent election of a new president by were reinforced by a short and earnest tribute to the the Lebanese assembly proved to anyone's satisfaction American spirit from Cardinal Faulhaber, whose ap- how much he has done to redeem the honor of France, pearance on the platform must have recalled the noble that had been squandered so ruthlessly by the brutal grandeur of his address at the last Munich "Catholic boor who preceded him...
...Those who think by that zealot for dramatic decorum, Mr...
...bles were not so evident as they might have been-as, indeed, the party platforms of the last presidential THE Catholic aspects of the situation have nat- election year were documents far more alike than disurally been emphasized by those who speak for the similar...
...So far liness, quite as much as its picturesqueness, which acas common sense is concerned, however, his recent re- counts for the success of M. Morand's saying...
...For, fusal to become chairman of a play jury appointed with God, who is a foreigner...
...able portions of his pantaloons...
...Monsignor Seipel, re- to the minimum required to cope with the rebellion, nowned no less for his integrity as a man than for M. de Jouvenel appointed a notable Moslem resident his acumen in rescuing Austria from financial catas- as President of the State of Syria, "authorizing him trophe, urged the Verein to realize a heartfelt wish to form a cabinet and take over the responsibility of of Pope Benedict XV and begin a world-wide move- the provisional government and, if possible, make peace ment for universal peace...
...During optimistic auto-suggestion...
...But as good a means of en- and fruitful one, interesting as it does an exceptionally suring that it shall mean something more than white- large number of those who are entrusted with the wash is to see to it that, if we are to have him, some- teaching and direction of ecclesiastical music...
...The Music assumed an appropriately international characfashion of commercial enterprises conducted along ter...
...therefore, to find M. Paul Morand, that idol of the And the result...
...But it is probable um of the Pius X School of Liturgical Music removes that nothing which has been said of it exceeds the both the violence and the self...
...The hope for a definitive settlement United States, Monsignor Seipel spoke as a man who seems to be based upon solid facts and assumptions...
...It realizes from practical experience how deeply rooted may be too early to predict M. de Jouvenel's complete in circumstance is continental discord...
...Its administration: he was successful, not only in reap- bureau in St...
...But when one attempts to list the congres258 THE COMMONWEAL July 14, 1926 sional achievements for the year, apart from minor ness to the great forward-looking prelates and scholars legislation, the political situation becomes quite as of the old world, are immediately applicable to conclear as a haze...
...modernity variously took him for...
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