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July 21, 1926 THE COMMONWEAL 277 the friends of Senor...
...Perhaps a novelist dramatists brought to as high a point: as, for example, like Dickens who revived the memory of Catholic at Yale University...
...The disaster comes at the end of a fairly long remarks to terms common on such occasions...
...could never get the djinn back into the non-refillable The report of Mr...
...In the first AS one of the founders of the Calvert Associates, case, the catastrophe, however deplorable, must be Mr...
...Rubber Conference of a severe struggle to arr.end the educa- could, perhaps, be produced at a far smaller hazard tional laws of Austria in conformity with socialistic in certain portions of Africa or even in Cuba which desires...
...Plato said long ago that the artistic genius which, he finds, "now seems to occupy a privileged is not the best model for a young man who wishes to position...
...The battle was launched at a Favorable time, has enjoyed superior injections of enlightenment...
...WEEK BY WEEK THE defile of the legless, armless, sightless, and T HE incredible stupidity of the Mexican govern- disfigured victims of France, has taken place over ment was, we believe, enough of a platitude not the very ground covered seven years ago by the trito require the additional proof furnished by its treat- umphal reentry of the allied troops into her capital, ment of Monsignor Caruana, the off:cial papal dele- and has been marked with no incident to justify the gate...
...While waiting for an oping family life will arouse other communities to action...
...And plays Orders has not been a literary sacrament...
...Some that the Filipino was being prepared for self-govern- inherent flaw must be present in a management that ment-that through legislative and civic experience of can neither assure a living wage to its employees nor many sorts he would be associated with the United efficient service to its patrons...
...During the past week the newly appointed vowed to God can need...
...Here is where we find the much personal dictatorship has been exercised by those great opportunity of our universities and dramatic who for one reason or another have earned a place clubs...
...But he records his honest embarrassment attain wisdom...
...drama through- ing modesty and not to assume that a certain mastery out all our schools...
...In fact, judged by this norm the dramatist himself...
...The second case is rather difThe Commonweal happily has no need to confine its ferent...
...but the real trouble with me now beginning to give it something like adequate at- is a breakdown in will-power-the last thing a woman tention...
...But perhaps they taught Mexican rulers something about "photostatic evidence...
...Here is expressed better Housing Commission of New York State has begun than anyone else could say it the spirit in which this work which, judging from the character of the per- constantly courageous, and therefore representatively sons appointed to do it, will be practical and per- American, woman undertook the task of caring for manently beneficent...
...It prevalent feeling that in all monetary settlements to may be observed, however, that even if the roads come, every consideration compatible with justice be facilitate the marketing of rubber and other comshown to the special nature of France's sufferings...
...but gradually Rosary Hill Home and the instiexperience and the good will so characteristic of the tutions affiliated with it grew into oases apart from community it serves...
...and post-war period would put into his book...
...But being imponderable is a very, very giving lessons in English and political economy of the different thing from being negligible...
...Every finds it masquing as a pastoral letter...
...Nor would a raticnal mortal suppose that the Church could gain the slightest advan- I N the first place those must be indeed unobservant tage through a delegate circulating arrnong the people who fail to notice a certain uneasiness among the incognito, after the manner of the genial king in governors, whenever the sentiments which served their Scott's poetic masterpiece...
...In these words, which con- ought to be, it seems to us, to intensify the liturgical ceal a genteel regret, M. Albert Thibaudet concludes life of those who write, so that their work will bear certain remarks anent the novel, which appeared in a testimony to the purity and sincerity which result from recent issue of La Nouvelle Revue...
...They should picture events These remarks in which aloofness is combined with in dramatic sequence, and leave the comment to the courtesy deserve attention...
...Such is the fact that while Catholicism is clerical in organievents and such lives are never accorrpanied by self- zation, the new literature is the product of laymen...
...its repercussion seems likely to be safe from any unIn the first place, he is a well-known roan and his ap- fortunate misunderstanding, it is interesting to conpointment to Mexico was given full publicity...
...charity was, for all his doctrinal ignorance, more essentially Catholic than some poseur who introduces the THE AMBITIONS OF FICTION devil for the sake of effect...
...conscious comments...
...once and for all...
...They do not mentioning religious matters or by stressing morals see that whatever it teaches must be brought out in- which, though recommended by the Church, were dear directly-like the lessons taught by great sea disasters, even to the hearts of men like Aristotle...
...His interest in Catholic cul- inconvenience...
...Ferrer's documents Subscription Rates Yearly: $10.00 Single Copies: $0.20 have never been answered...
...Some of these have baffled analysis and others are tangent to the general char- A WEEK in which the bodies of the officers and acter of industrial life...
...and when the chancellor, interruption of its daily life is on, and which, in this Dr...
...It will appear next week solvent, but also inefficient...
...Vast tracts of large share of his activities to the social mission whose waste land, with ample water-frontage, exist in this two-fold nature is only dawning upon the conscious- country, where the government may fence off reserves ness of so many of our people...
...their way, or go under, to let more practical managers Fortunately, The Commonweal secured f:-om the great step into their shoes...
...The official publicity agent of Calles flaunted of American veterans, indeed, made no apology for the fake with a jubilation which seems to have been lending their countenance to the parade and for marchfounded on the conviction that peop e north of the ing shoulder to shoulder with those whom they reRio Grande are the last word in gullibility...
...The archives of the ex-governor of YucaJOHN F. MCCORMicK, Business Manager tan, Felipe Carrillo Puerto, will demonstrate not only Editorial Council the career of this official and of Obregon and Calles, T. LAwa soH RIGGS JAMES J. WALSH but will also reveal the series of little political tricks CA<ON J. H. HAYES R. DANA SKINNER and of reprehensible acts which these persons employed BERTRAM C. A. WINDLE to get themselves in power...
...shares the contemporary disrepute of everything that The system of education could be further standardized cannot be handled, weighed or made matter for bal- and extended, even with the help of radio lecturers ance sheets...
...New Yorker, fresh from his experiences in London, Paris, and Berlin, or even Boston, fails to be struck THE future of the Phillipines, according to Colonel afresh with its confusion, congestion, unreliability, and Thompson, the special commissioner appointed by the the insult to human dignity and decency that must President, will bear all the ear-marks of a model be borne by those who have no other means of getfarm supervised by a particularly pushing drummer...
...portunity to pay a more extended tribute to Mother Surprisingly little attention has been paid to the mat- Alphonsa's achievement, we express the hope that the ter, considering what vast collective energies have been very great many who respected her because she was devoted to other attempted reforms...
...for which Catholics owe an accounting to society, should be carried beyond the limits of our own com- CONSIDERABLE breath and ink have been spent munion, has been made clear again and again by wise recently in discussing the possibilities of education advice and unfailing interest whenever either was through drama...
...They stimulate comment in- Since Massillon stepped from the pulpit, he says, Holy directly-editorials, poems, biographies...
...The opportunity to grow rubber has In the second place, what might be called the senti- appeared on the horizon, and awaits only the feeling mental theory in international relations has fallen on of security which capital must possess before it tries evil days...
...The real object day a new one appears...
...FREDERICK FUNDER, editor of the Vienna veloped will be agreeably productive...
...Like Frankenstein, who raised a monster he nature nor statements could survive the simple tests could not lay, or the Arab fisherman, whose incantations to which they were submitted by handwriting experts...
...matic spirits ill conceal their impatience when they discover that men and women exist, in appreciable WHAT explains the sudden interest of the Mexican masses, who do not share their pragmatism, and who propagandists in photostatic evidence...
...It will do no harm to aver now that before the problem of determining precisely what is the new Fathers of the Church will hardly appear, in this variety of novel...
...But in extending him its ing, the fighting services are bound, from time to time, warmest congratulations upon his recent elevation to to find themselves faced with conditions reproducing the rank of Knight Commander of Saint Gregory, the dangers of war...
...But we have still to see the integrale"-the whole truth, as combined in the destudy of drama and the creation of a new school of posit of tradition or civilization...
...and ask yourself what and whom anybody the next pastoral letter of our hierarchy appeared in who wished to write a continuation of it to cover our the guise of fiction, embellished with dialogue...
...America Mr...
...Fordham University is doing a of style and narrative method is an authorization to splendid work along this line, including not only prac- deal with Catholic life "originally" or, to use a now tice in playwriting but in acting, directing, and the- very common word, "profoundly...
...The whole project was dropped...
...At almost the ;;ame time, Mayor those in whom the world at large took no interestDever of Chicago appointed a similar commission as the cancerous poor, recruited from hidden and lonely authorized by the municipal council...
...should do the same thing...
...In the new knight of obtaining real drama through education...
...Recall the three vol'imes of Politiques trine...
...It seems almost time to cry the need sought by the editors of this paper...
...A considerable contingent dence...
...This little book is not listed among the items of reading endorsed by the existing Mexican government...
...Adolfo Ferrer from THE COMMONWEAL the archives of the government of Yucatan, and Published weekly and copyrighted 1925, in the United States by printed in June, 1924, under the title, El Archivo de the Calvert Publishing Corporation, 25 Vanderbilt Avenue, New York City, N. Y. Felipe Carrillo-El Callismo...
...The minister of strike and its repercussion in the columns of our own education," writes Dr...
...ting to their homes at rush hours...
...Roads also have been neglected, and from Paris dealing with the parade of the mutilated, the New York Times remarks that "they are essential conjecture what will be the effect in America when if the barriers of language and custom which still the filmed record of the sad procession appears in our separate the peoples of the Phillipines are to be broken theatres...
...We should all feel very strange if to Renan...
...Osborn, "It was not signed by bottle out of which he had been conjured, these pragMonsignor Caruana," is frank and convincing...
...It is disliked because it is out of harmony imperial industrial roulette...
...prelate, during his visit to the United States, an article which succinctly outlines the character oil the cultural NOT only is it, in the strict sense of the word, instruggle now in progress...
...We are assured that the with the positivistic and mechanistic theory that is so Filipino is, for his part, aching to grow rubber...
...One is a Catholic must mix religion and business, it makes a deal of in the measure that one leads a spiritual existence difference which one you pour into the other...
...We believe that it will only accentuate a down and a national consciousness developed...
...The Filipino Reichspost, informs the National Catholic Welfare is, after all, above the supine Oriental level...
...As changes and promptly announced that he could not the New York World very cogently pointed out when approve the plan...
...His theme was constant communion with the sources of Catholic actually the now interesting one of the Catholic novel strength...
...The present contingency seems to be a good emplar of the Catholic citizen which lay very much one to lift the matter out of politics and catch-words within its imagination when the phrase "resurgent and remove what has become a positive civic reproach force" was chosen as its device and battle cry...
...Griffin has chosen to devote his leisure and a is not in the case of congested Europe...
...But such an argument cannot seriously ture, his conviction that this culture, as a possession be considered as offsetting so fearful a danger...
...In short, the Catholic novel seldom will or ought "~ HERE is no longer any such thing as political to be an authoritative statement of theological docliterature...
...But so tion, but the right to issue a code of inviolable literary far we have provided training only for lawyers and rules does not follow as an immediate consequence...
...Finally, :he "photostat turn so well show signs of persistence among the govcopy" was so clumsily manufactured teat neither sig- erned...
...July 21, 1926 THE COMMONWEAL 277 the friends of Senor Calles could learn about it from the collection reproduced by Dr...
...Now a novel which does sets out to educate the public on some t:reme...
...modities for the time being, they are no positive guarantee that the "national consciousness" when fully deDR...
...The difof Saint Gregory The Commonweal ,salutes an ex- ference is not unlike the apt phrase once placarded 280 THE COMMONWEAL July 21, 1926 outside of a Boston church to the effect that "if you of the sacraments," he believes...
...This body is beds of suffering...
...A bril- and horrible series of similar mishaps, and it is to liant and successful alumnus of Yale, closely associated be hoped that the competent authority will take such at an early age with the major activities of finance, steps as shall render its recurrence unlikely...
...Did it really hope to convince the citizens of apprehensions of the government, which our ambassathese United States with a photostat copy of testi- dor in Paris seems to have shared, that American susmony no court would dream of admitting as evi- ceptibilities would suffer...
...ress despatches approved sort...
...His position as one of any extent it desires for the storing or handling of the directors of the Post-Graduate Hospital of of explosives...
...the strike came to a head, the entire subway system It is clear, however, that the issue has not been per- of New York has become an anachronism in a world manently disposed of, and that the return of Mon- where those who direct business concerns either pay signor Seipel to Austria is needed and greatly desired...
...Perhaps she first undertook the expected to carry on what is virtually a pioneer en- work because her own rock-like will wanted it to be deavor in the Middle-West with the caution born of done...
...It is time to extend education ir...
...when the absence of the incumbent chancellor as well as of Monsignor Ignaz Seipel deprived the conserva- AFTER the dramatic incident of the British general tive parties of precious leadership...
...Some initial misIt used to be asserted with a tinge of reasonableness take seems to have presided over its planning...
...Funder, "yielded to the storm press, the New York subway strike comes very much and without consulting the Christian-Social leaders or with the muted fracas of a safe-and-sane firework...
...Editors possibly the normal man feels just as queer when he have discontinued political series which ruined them, begins to read through a novelist's latest work and and have embarked upon religious collections...
...Few regulated and nourished by the sacraments, especially things are more tedious than the average play that Penance and the Eucharist...
...Now the outlook utility as travel from home to work and from work July 21, 1926 THE COMMONWEAL 279 to home...
...William V. Griffin is, in a very marked sense, regarded as inevitable...
...To begin with, far too audiences and the critics...
...And there was much tered in the moment of danger or deliverance, are 278 THE COMMONWEAL July 21, 1926 paper money, to be redeemed at sweeping discount...
...Here, as in so atrical management as well...
...is changed...
...neat dust covers, to be consumed on the train and "The substance of Catholic life consists in the use after the Epicurean delights of a dinner...
...Ramek, returned from Geneva, where he had particular case, will certainly pay in added taxation been attending a meeting of the League of Nations, if what are generally conceded to be the just demands he immediately examined the proposel educational of the men for a living wage, are granted them...
...Another or great railroad wrecks, or the more constructive difficulty which engages the attention of M. Thibaudet parables of high patriotism and heroic sanctity...
...He striking a sequel to the great upheaval...
...Gen- which pays in added stress of living while such an eral indignation followed...
...the Catholic representatives, opened negotiations with But because the issue is a local one there is no reason the Socialists and finally concluded an agreement for why the merits of the case should escape a public a new curriculum based on Socialist principles...
...Like all the would ache more, however, if the advantages of imponderables whose refuge is the soul of man, it modern civilization were gently applied to his skin...
...That fuse to consider other than comrades in perpetuity, Monsignor Caruana would sign a document proclaim- attached to themselves by the memory of blood shed ing himself a "married man" and a "Protestant" is and danger shared in common and for a common an assumption so preposterous as to rank its enter- cause...
...In such not emphasize the use of the sacraments, how can it cases, it is not the public that needs the education but be termed Catholic...
...Housing is intimately cor- will see to it that the endeavor is not brought to a related with a great variety of social, economic, and halt by the lack of indispensable financial means...
...A LETTER received in this office from Mother M. HOUSING the moderately circumstanced man and Alphonsa Lathrop during the week preceding her his family is a basic social problem and it is encourag- death, contained these characteristic words: "I have ing to note that state and municipal authorities are been ill a great deal...
...actly what he was...
...A paris z dramatic union many other departments of lay activity, it might be such as that conducted by Monsignor McMahon in well to connect with a point of view like that of M. upper New York is doing an exceedingly constructive Thibaudet, the old and abiding notion of "la verite work in a different field...
...The compiler, a Mexican citizen whose integrity was attested to by our own government, said in his preface: "Every citizen who casts his vote in favor of Calles during the coming farcical election, imposed by Obregon by the force of arms no less American than Mexican in character, will be a traitor to his country and will help to estabMICHAEL WIL iAMs, Editor lish a new dictatorship like that of General Diaz, but Assistant Editors characterized in addition by its vulgarization of the THOMAS WALSH HELEN WALKER national honor in the worst fashion and with alien HENRY LONGAN STUART GEORGE N. SFTcSTFR assistance...
...Every- sider just what lay back of the fears which all but body knew he was coming and everybody knew ex- led to a governmental injunction at the last moment...
...temperamental conditions...
...In doctors and have assumed that playwrights simply the second place, it behooves all to preserve a becomgrow...
...No doubt s zch metropolitan the world, where only the desire of God was fulefforts to wrestle with the difficulties now surround- filled as best it might be...
...Hardly a home-coming and is, incidentally, a message to the American people...
...And the shame of it is that most of the stories which have presumed to the title so many people who have important things to say justify their claim only by a habit of rather casually lack precisely this kind of education...
...There is no more reason why right-minded as Catholic creative writers...
...The best that can be hoped the crew of the ill-fated S-51 were landed for interfor-that which every citizen will hope for-is the ment, and in which a terrible explosion carried death gradual elimination of cases in which honest, hard- and mutilation within a radius of miles certainly enworking parents are victimized by circumstances...
...Now that the incident is history, and that tainer with the most advanced of erratic visionaries...
...No doubt the distance from sources of New York is evidence of his concern in the alleviation commercial supply will be bound to entail expense and of material suffering...
...In the course of their trainone of our own household...
...It is useful to Hawthorne's daughter and had proved the nobility bear in mind, however, that success cannot be hoped of her ancestry through a great imaginative charity, for within a few weeks...
...forces the lesson that preparedness does not wait upon actual war to take its toll of human life...
...The public is longStates as a kind of island patriot not averse to giving suffering, but sooner or later demands an accounting room for the garrisons which remain needed, if en- from those in whose hands it has placed so vital a dangered, outposts in the Far East...
...Undoubtedly will not understand, once for all, that speeches utit is good stuff when genuine...
...Its genetic definition does not envisage any such et Moralistes by Faguet, that chain of French po- character, and its literary limitations almost preclude litical doctrines which reaches from .ioseph de Maistre such a character...
...It is all very well to be men should not become playwrights than that we a realist or a prose-poet, if one has a bent in that direcshould never find a moral doctor or lawyer...
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