Tommy and I (verse)

...By the side of some richly clad dame from the "Gold Coast," sat a poor Mexican woman from South Chicago...

...informed the world the purpose of his Pontificate would be We like the brilliant colors to bring the peace of Christ to Christ's kingdom...

...When will wellcate would be to make the world safe for our children and intentioned but ill-informed non-Romanists try to appreciate theirs, perhaps the world would have listened and acknowl- the Catholic standpoint...

...Who can forget the multi- of your weekly to read the letters of Mr...

...of the bleachers...

...momentum is evidenced by the fact that during the last three Nations and classes more and more antagonistic, the ethics years it has received the hearty approval of national conventions of authority a lost art-no longer does government exist that of labor unions, and has caused the appointment by the man may be protected in his rights...

...He who runs may read...

...The congregation of all the faith- After reading the essays, one realized that excellence is the ful" is the Church's definition of herself...

...is of more importance to the educational world, here is a literal It needs no divinely inspired prophet to warn us of the iminterpretation of the theory of Saint Benedict, Booker T. pending danger...

...Were that so, well might we When I go downtown despair-but we know there is a remedy, and only one...

...And I talk to him-out loud...

...it stares us in the face...

...I always take Tommy with me...

...undertaken by American labor unionism is Katonah College, TO the Editor:-Some ten years since, a distracted world Katonah, New York...

...the principle by which the The immediate help that can be given toward the purpose Catholic and Roman Church energizes in the world is another...

...The editor, in common with other Catholics knows no hold aloof...

...It looked as if the world had ing against Catholics...

...RAYMOND VERNIMONT...

...Catholics, Roman Catholics, world's loss through Christianity having been rent asunder...

...REV...

...The magnitude of the task demands that there shall be no slackers...

...for them there can be no discord...

...ing may be wanting as far as Catholics are concerned toward And when he gets cold his attaining under Divine Providence the precious goal he He begins to cry has set for himself...

...He observes a renaissance of re- to be done in these United States, which boasts of its enlightenligion, and in the foreground he sees the Catholic Church...

...Will it see to it that heartless employers must horizon, sinister and threatening...

...Will In contrast to his outlook is the viewpoint of Dean Inge, it see to it that Negroes must be treated as human beings whose vision of "future Christianity" is through the smoked created after God's image and likeness...

...PETER MORAN...

...Well can we imagine the echoes of the world's purposes...

...EDWARD EYRE...

...Some years ago The Catholic World turned Catholic...

...absolute acceptance of Christ's teaching not edited to suit human pride, but in all its fulness, as He confided it to His We look at all the fancy ladies Church, can safety be attained ? And the debonair gentlemen Hardly had Pius XI been raised to the Papacy when he In the shop windows...

...Then everyone on the street Looks at me and laughs...

...There The principle animating Protestantism, in all its various is no time to lose...

...Will the League find work abroad, and while abroad...

...True, the League, for years, work for the abolishment of slavery, the crowd was courteous-but the crowd was great...

...The question is, shall we hasten to avail of that remedy Tommy's little hand here and now, or shall we wait until the world is again plunged Is hot in mine in anarchy, again drenched in our children's blood-when perAnd his eyes are big haps a remnant of humanity may at last realize that in the When he looks in the store windows...

...Sands disclaimtude...

...We also know that His commandments bind the Corfu, N. Y. nations as the individual ; finally, that the world can only T O the Editor:-Editors, I take it, need no defense from have peace when there is sufficient influence in the world to their readers...

...ger, discord reigns supreme.-Tot homines quot sententiae...

...pression of the Congress...

...Well, only through doom...

...phases and bodies, is one thing...

...Does that, however, mean that all is lost that it is impossible to check the false policies hastening to destruction what is left of our 2'ommy and I much vaunted civilization...

...You know, Sir, quite as well as I do, that the Protestantism of Since what the Holy Father, as head of the greatest moral the Anglican churches differs in degree from that of the Chrispower in the world, aims at is for the world's welfare, should tian bodies the word generally connotes...

...a sensual, greedy, materialissimply to furnish labor with trained, liberally educated members...

...It is intended exclusively for men and women who assured...

...We, of course, know that Christ's peace depends, not indeed RAYMOND KRESENSKY...

...The interests of truth are not furthered, nor this is not difficult of attainment, for they live under authority, is unity helped unless this is recognized...

...on armaments, but on the acceptance of His teaching and July 28, 1926 THE COMMONWEAL 307 upon our giving practical effect to that teaching in our own UNITY IN PROTESTANTISM hearts...

...Perhaps the arch enemy of our race may himself have pete with Katonah in cheapness of tuition and living...

...Therefore, And the noisy fanfaronade for those who owe allegiance to Peter's successor, the Holy Of the State Street shops...

...That is the very those whom that welfare concerns as much as it does Catholics, point...

...of Pius XI's Pontificate is by the universal formation of an The varying colors of Protestantism, high, low, liberal or educated opinion, based on Christian ethics, as to what shall fundamentalist, all derive from one source and display a combe the relations between nations and classes...

...The recollection of the Eucharistic Con- O the Editor:-It is a great satisfaction to the readers gress shall not die out in a day...

...tic, intolerant world lost little time in laughing our cherished The handwork expected of all students and professors has two slogan to scorn...

...Father's declaration of his intention is an invitation to cooperate...

...There one saw the democracy of the Church...

...Morally, politically, Washington, and other educational thinkers-that no educa- economically, and socially, as the decades pass, conditions are tional course should consist only of brain work but should have everywhere worse...

...Presumptuous and intolerant minorities or board on this type of higher education, but also of an officer assume the functions of authority so that their will shall be somewhat similar to a commissioner of education to devote his imposed on the community...

...Now and always, the laboring men receive sufficient wages for the decent support of "Gloomy Dean" sees the Catholic Church as a spectre on the their families...

...attention...

...The monstrous treaty of peace that terin it a very large element of real muscular labor...

...He writes: at least with indifference...

...It is a happy policy, therefore, that intention of being offensive, as being outside the Faith, the The Commonweal opens its pages to those ardent souls whose Holy Father's declaration of his purpose will receive but scant one wish, betimes, is to rush into print...

...The multitude might have trod upon his toes...

...if you will, do not know that there is any difference in degree or Had the Holy Father stated that the purpose of his Pontifi- kind among the various Protestant bodies...

...published two articles, one written by Agnes Repplier, the That the future of Christianity is assured is the lasting im- other by Louise Guiney, refuting that time-worn statement...

...Through the patriarchs, archbishops, bishops, and priests, we Perhaps I had better not take of the laity shall be informed of what is expected of us, so Tommy with me any more...

...minated the late war planted abundantly the seeds of those That the labor college movement has - gained genuine to come...

...are to be union workers, but, avoiding propaganda, it strives Our illusion was short-lived...

...Golden words...

...something and cannot because the editors control what is to To those to whom we Catholics refer, without the slightest be read in their papers...

...which is so rampant in our country and in others...

...Some may ultimately have a profound effect upon higher education in of us, in our idealistic simplicity, laid the flattering unction this country...

...entire time to increasing the number of such schools, expanding Well may our conscience chide us for the legacy we are their curriculum, and enlarging their usefulness in general...

...only test, not religion...

...rather that he shall be American Federation of Labor, not only of a national committee deprived of them...

...ment, its democracy and good will to the entire world...

...The experiment there being tried out was cheered by the slogan, "safe for democracy...

...The school is entirely cooperative, every professor to our souls that the carnage of a war of unprecedented magnias well as every student working a certain number of hours tude had operated a change in the human heart, and that the each day with his hands as well as with his brain...

...The Dean would not have remove their heels from the necks of their employees, and treat needed spectacles had he pilgrimaged to the Eucharistic Con- them as their Father in Heaven wants them treated...

...that the Holy Father's intention may be realized...

...Not until the proverbial crack of edged that that at least interested them...

...Our Holy Father leads-we must not lag behind...

...Seabright, N. J. What impressed Chicago and the world most was not prelates, but people...

...Will it see to it that spectacles of his dark Protestantism...

...For Catholics mon working...

...To our loss and dan- REV...

...Well may we exclaim how fearful has been the such thing...

...Christ's peace can the safety of our children be secured...

...The people in their magnetic strength suggested the ing the unjust repetition by many, regarding the prejudice existmighty strength of the Church...

...PAX CHRISTI IN REGNO CHRISTI Doubtless the most radical project in education thus far London, England...

...HENRY B. SHAW...

...it is good for the soul, and it cuts down expenses...

...May gress...

...Rather, through an inherited mental attitude, what I wish to defend the editor from the bold statement of the emanates from Rome must be regarded, if not with hostility, Reverend Latta Griswold in the issue of June 16...

...leaving to the rising and following generations...

...T THE MIRACLE OF THE MULTITUDE T O the Editor:-The Commonweal of June 9 contained an New York, N. Y. article, The Problem of Slavery, which ends thus: "The League should try to see that all laborers, whether white or O the Editor:-America's foremost educator, Nicholas colored, should be given the same civil rights-if it wants to Murray Butler, who talks always to the point, and often materialize its ideal of `changing servile labor into free labor the point is a thrust, talked lately of his impressions made over the world...

...laughter reverberating through the caverns of the infernal In fact, probably no other college in the United States can com- regions...

...But what repeated: "Safe for democracy-the fools...

...ALICE WARREN...

...THE PROBLEM OF SLAVERY Denton, Texas...

...Every new slogan implied an universal determination that injustice member of this unique institution, whether pupil or instructor, should no longer prevail, that determination being, as we must take his "turn" in the kitchen, out in the garden, inside the knew, the only means by which the world's safety could be workshop...

...And among TEXCELLENCE THE ONLY TEST the men, plug hats counted no more than last year's derbys...

...Tommy's not a real boy at all Catholic solidarity demands, therefore, that Pius's spiritual But he always laughs children shall feel it incumbent upon them to render the conAt the things we see- tribution of their services in this new campaign, so that nothAnd that makes me very happy...

...Gratis asseritur, etc...

...so that what is strictly of faith and morals admits of no exception...

...However, the readers often want to say demand and insist that injustice shall not be done...

...May the The vision of the stadium in Soldiers' Field was like a sight day of tyrants soon end...

...306 THE COMMONWEAL July 28, 1926 Frenchman long ago said, "Every young man who is not a COMMUNICATIONS radical is a rascal and every old man who is not a conservative is a fool...