Communications
306 THE COMMONWEAL July 28, 1926 Frenchman long ago said, "Every young man who is not...
...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...
...It is intended exclusively for men and women who assured...
...Therefore, And the noisy fanfaronade for those who owe allegiance to Peter's successor, the Holy Of the State Street shops...
...on armaments, but on the acceptance of His teaching and...
...And I talk to him-out loud...
...The monstrous treaty of peace that terin it a very large element of real muscular labor...
...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...
...I always take Tommy with me...
...Perhaps the arch enemy of our race may himself have pete with Katonah in cheapness of tuition and living...
...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...
...Were that so, well might we When I go downtown despair-but we know there is a remedy, and only one...
...a sensual, greedy, materialissimply to furnish labor with trained, liberally educated members...
...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...
...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...
...But what repeated: "Safe for democracy-the fools...
...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...
...it stares us in the face...
...The experiment there being tried out was cheered by the slogan, "safe for democracy...
...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...
...undertaken by American labor unionism is Katonah College, TO the Editor:-Some ten years since, a distracted world Katonah, New York...
...Then everyone on the street Looks at me and laughs...
...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...
...We, of course, know that Christ's peace depends, not indeed RAYMOND KRESENSKY...
...that the Holy Father's intention may be realized...
...minated the late war planted abundantly the seeds of those That the labor college movement has - gained genuine to come...
...Our Holy Father leads-we must not lag behind...
...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...
...Well can we imagine the echoes of the world's purposes...
...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...
...Some may ultimately have a profound effect upon higher education in of us, in our idealistic simplicity, laid the flattering unction this country...
...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...
...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...
...are to be union workers, but, avoiding propaganda, it strives Our illusion was short-lived...
...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...
...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...
...it is good for the soul, and it cuts down expenses...
...Father's declaration of his intention is an invitation to cooperate...
...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...
...The magnitude of the task demands that there shall be no slackers...
...tic, intolerant world lost little time in laughing our cherished The handwork expected of all students and professors has two slogan to scorn...
...PAX CHRISTI IN REGNO CHRISTI Doubtless the most radical project in education thus far London, England...
...laughter reverberating through the caverns of the infernal In fact, probably no other college in the United States can com- regions...
...leaving to the rising and following generations...
...rather that he shall be American Federation of Labor, not only of a national committee deprived of them...
Vol. 4 • July 1926 • No. 12