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August 4, 1926 THE COMMONWEAL 317 I N welcome...
...He happened to be right, as leries, for the moral training of youth...
...and for a mausoleum with stock in trade of Shavian success has been informality...
...It will cona threatened nationality entrenched itself, and en- tinue to avert them, we must suppose, until the intrenched itself successfully, it persists today as a power evitable bankruptcy of human institutions which do that must seriously be reckoned with at each and every not seek first the things of the spirit (or, dare we say, crisis of social and political life...
...And one might add that the re- we give primitive commercial minds the right to stunt lation between the author of Bleak House and the the mentality and undermine the morals of people author of Heartbreak House is just as close as the with a doubtful journalism, which in turn is rounded relation between Cobbett and Karl Marx...
...reasons why a visit to Montreal, Quebec, and the Frank Oliver Call, has this to remark: homes of the "habitant" should be felt as a relief to "Two mere facts, first, that this privileged church a certain aridity, which, when all our blessings have should have satisfied most legitimate demands for been counted, at times induces a mood of aesthetic three whole centuries-half British and half Frenchdepression among some citizens of the great republic and satisfied these demands so well that no repealing that lies to the south of them...
...The letter concerns plans now under way for building How surprised many "anti-traditionalists" of yestera mortuary chapel under the high altar of the Cathe- day would be at the remarks made recently by Prodral of Malines, to which the body of the dead pre- fessor James Henry Breasted before the National late would be removed from its present position in a Academy of Sciences must be left to the imagination...
...To hear this triumphant and every kind of ready cooperation...
...where else save in the Eternal City itself...
...The fourSuch a policy is now supported by experience and by teenth century was a repulsive age, in which the cockatwo exhaustive investigations of the financial situation, trice that was to devastate Europe a century later and the more recent of which-that drawn up by the com- shatter the community of nations was already hatchmittee of experts-will very likely be viewed with ing...
...For the daily in his private chapel...
...termination of the Socialists to gain full control of the government, this time with a policy that, in plain THE report on standardization in Catholic colleges, language, can mean nothing else but raiding the as submitted to the recent Louisville convention of the Banque de France...
...by side in apparent harmony...
...Its tradi- French Canada, as it exists today, and as it may tions are imperishably bound up with a national and piously be hoped, it will exist for generations to come, racial ideal...
...The chairman, Miss Mary McCandless, teachers who have earned higher degrees is relatively has not yet made public the program of events at the the same, though the secular colleges have somewhat convention, but if we may judge from what has been more definitely lived up to the rule that all instructors accomplished in the past, the week of assemblage will shall have attained a master's standing...
...pandering...
...Inand Shaw...
...A hundred and thirty years ago the great orator ly visitor today as they enforced it upon the alien Burke told the British Commons that "the cheap deconqueror 16o years ago...
...Perhaps the most beautiful number of done better under religious auspices than elsewhere...
...It is, perhaps, more helpful to pause at cidentally, this storm brought a healthy amount of this stage of the famous Irishman's and consider, quite thundering statistics...
...Stake for much hope for longevity...
...At any rate, Father Maguire's record Saint Mary's College, Notre Dame, Indiana, has been of sixty-nine standard colleges indicates that they have designated as the meeting place...
...It is true that some- And again: "The stranger who visits Montreal is thing of this contrast is to be observed in big cities sometimes struck by the great number of large buildnearer home, where many a tall, gaunt building, whose ings belonging to religious orders...
...American Catholic Educational Association by the com318 THE COMMONWEAL August 4, 1926 mittee chairman, Reverend John W. Maguire, is an THE week beginning September 4 will see the biabsorbing proof of how earnestly many of these col- ennial convention of the International Federation of leges have struggled to conform with the demands of Catholic Alumnae, for which extensive preparations modern educational practice...
...abductions, 19 ; seducmuch different, after all, from the achievement of tions, 22...
...the teaching sisterhoods with excessively heavy schedules or large classes, al- are directly represented...
...Has not the time come for us to make a vantage of his birthday feast to decline the title of serious effort to remedy this defect...
...History is full of unforeseen accidents...
...They feel that repeated exactions of the parting services was the extreme beauty and render their work more difficult at the very time when appropriateness of the music, by the famous girls' they are looking everywhere for assistance...
...But naturally his leavetaking resity for the supervisory work undertaken by the Educa- newed the sorrow of the first goodbye...
...It is just one of the strange sarcasms of destiny...
...One need not say that the Federation about the soundness of these demands, which ordain itself has been growing steadily in numbers and imthat teachers shall be equipped through at least a brief portance: more than 6o,ooo women, drawn from soo period of superior study and shall not be burdened schools, are active members...
...G. K. Chesterton still refuses to call anything save Bohemia, is a particularly complicated one, T HE effect of Poincare's return to power has ap- whose delicacy is not always appreciated as it deserves...
...on the other, Dickens was right...
...The instances adduced in support of this Canada...
...greatness, has nevertheless arrived at the stage of August 4, 1926 THE COMMONWEAL 319 "grand old man...
...Naturally the prospect of seeing was complicated and envenomed by the callous selfone's currency depreciate constantly le I to investments seeking of the time...
...heard in Saint Patrick's Cathedral on July 24, when Cardinal Bonzano took a final farewell of the Catholics OBVIOUSLY, this good showing is the result of of America before sailing for Italy...
...Other attempts to found fense of nations" is best secured by leaving undisturbed the Kingdom of God upon earth have been driven those primal loyalties which have nothing to do with by all-pervading materialism into the recesses of the written constitutions...
...On the one hand, era...
...parently been a revival of the national confidence...
...But the editor of Mr...
...a social phenomenon may base a not uninteresting The product is nobler than the materials...
...that The Commonweal believes it deserves mention in other than the columns usually devoted to book A HAPPY ANOMALY reviews...
...It is pervasive as no- left to the government, would cost millions...
...Of other out nicely with a legally protected system of picture and equally grave matters there is no time to talk here...
...The contrast suggested here is worthy But though Mr...
...A recent film, manufactured by the Moscow government, and "treated" to show the rise of Bolshevism P EOPLE in the habit of indulging in such pastimes in a resplendent light, was shown regularly until a might elaborate the symbolism of names like Marx storm of censorious protest was raised against it...
...Shaw has never really said much join in a tribute to Cardinal Mercier must be conmore about the socialist doctrine than he reiterated siderable, and it is sufficient to indicate that Canon in the festival speech-"Karl Marx made a man out Dessain, of Malines, secretary to the late Cardinal of me...
...lations of the beauty and dramatic power of Gregorian in fact, its whole significance as a system lies in its music, rendered by those instructed in its stark yet belief that the work it has specifically to do will be subtle art...
...If the THOMAS WALSH HELEN WALKER seal of the Church's approval cannot by any stretch HENRY LONGAN STUART GEOLGE N. SHUSTER of the imagination be considered as set upon the day JOHN F. MCCORMicx, Business Manager which the new republic has chosen as its national fete, Editorial Council at least a means has been afforded by which the many T. LAWRASON RIGGS JAM:ZS J. WALSH thousands of loyal Catholics in Czecho-Slovakia may CARLTON J. H. HAYES R. DANA SKINNER take part in so much of it as is legitimate self-conBERTRAM C. A. WINDLE gratulation for autonomy achieved...
...A special note tional Association...
...Shaw has done the same thing, with the differ- a thoughtful Vienna journal is moved to remark: ence that he utilized the prominence given to social dis- "The spiritual indifference of contemporary society cussion by the great Victorians and the drift of the produces inestimable consequences...
...The "Huss flag" was not hoisted over the presidential residence, his name was not officially mentioned in the parade, and a silence which strikes one as more than usually golden replaced the offensive address to which many Catholics were forced to listen last year...
...He is also someshrouded windows are like so many meditative lids times inclined to criticize the government that allows closed upon the glare and swirl of the street, tell of such valuable properties to exist for the most part lives lived within that do not take this world into free of taxation...
...chivalry riding eastward 300 years earlier...
...One examiner of 250 popular apart from a desire to be studiously critical, the nature films reported the following list of ethical subjects of the thing he has managed to do...
...Perhaps the only inevitable note of sobriety is present when a demonimportant difference is that the number of instructors stration of faith, so ardently looked forward to who give part of their time to secondary education is through months and even years as the Eucharistic Congreater in Catholic schools-the reason being that the gress, takes its place in the irretrievable past...
...Poincare means, at least for the Procopius, and who sacked castles and monasteries to time being, an energetic and determined government...
...However cohesive and evidences which reveal to us the past career of man homogenous French Canada may be, it is not all on earth...
...But let him withhold his criticism much account...
...But, in the province of conduct of its domestic life might lie along the same Quebec, largely owing to the fact that under Provi- lines is a possibility from which the contemporary dence the Church became a rallying point round which world rather stubbornly averts its eyes...
...or of the great aviator who declares that a youthful habit of climbing THOSE who view Hollywood and its products as trees prepared the way for a triumph over atmosphere...
...Frequently Sheridan...
...small and overcrowded vault, where it rests upon "Not credulity but historical method demands that the ground side by side with the remains of thirteen we now recognize," said Dr...
...less favor...
...That an efficient and economical individual mind and will...
...act has even been debated . . . are proof that this In the first place, there is the stimulus of contrast, uniquely privileged church has used, but not abused, which comes from the sight of two worlds living side its quite peculiar powers...
...There is no question are being made...
...evidence is hampered by the very processes of evidence...
...Just as it did not encourage the commission of crime as vigorcleverly-the comparison does not envisage details- ously as one might have expected...
...GEORGE BERNARD SHAW, who took adscholars...
...The percent- deserve the attention of all American college women...
...until he has had time to learn something of the great But Catholicism in French Canada is something that work performed by these institutions-work which, if every year makes more unique...
...Shaw has profited by his modernisms, of note, if only to reinforce the truth that contemporary it is not unlikely these will be shoddy when old...
...The progress of his conquest of of his predecessors in the Belgian see...
...There is no reason to believe in stable alien money and to the progressive impover- that the peasants who gathered in the mountains under ishment of credit...
...The earlier man was content to hammer enough, this edifying subject-matter was clearly indiaway at the social pretensions and insincerities of a cated in the titles, which ranged from The Devil's polite world-to establish the fact that a man, content Dance to The Lightnings of Love...
...age of students lost before the senior year is about the same in both cases, and observance of a "human" RECESSIONALS need not be sad things, but an hour-schedule does not vary greatly...
...This year, appropriately enough, investigation...
...The offensive incidents which last year attended the celebration of "Huss Day" in Prague have been abandoned...
...adulteries, 51...
...God) forces them upon its attention...
...is merely reminiscent of the master...
...social government is not Christian, but Manichaean...
...whether the ministry can get support for the fiscal On the other hand, there is just as little reason to program it is soon to bring before the Chamber...
...On the other hand, it may strengthen the de- a "Huss Day," as a Czecho-Slovakian Fourth of July...
...One of the In a country like France, a great deal depends upon most tragic brought it about that the supreme manithe willingness manifested by the average citizen to festation of Czech patriotism and genius for war not deposit his savings in banks and to support the gov- only took place ostensibly on behalf of a schism, but ernment bond issues...
...In a certain sense, to be merely himself, is immeasurably superior to a all of this must have been very stupid, and possibly person trying hard to be somebody else...
...the beat of Ziska's legendary drum, were animated The maintenance of that will depend however, upon with patriotism that would assay loo percent today...
...But the sad truth remains that, regardless of The Sacerdos et Pontifex which welcomed the disameliorated standards, American education is still tinguished prelate on his entrance, the antiphon, In quantitatively rather than qualitatively successful...
...Cardinal Bonvery commendable effort and sacrifice, in which, as zano holds a very special place in the hearts of the the report indicates, the standardization committee people of this country, Catholic and non-Catholic has shared notably...
...He made the point-which was also their point we expend huge sums for the church and its work, for -that an unjust steward who appropriates respecta- schools and universities, for museums and picture galbility is a comic sight...
...Viam Patris, intoned by the men's choir, and the BeneCatholic training cannot afford to be swamped by dictus for blended male and female voices, were revenumbers any more than any other kind of training...
...Its spacious new maintained the average tempo of the North Central dormitories will provide ample room for guests, and Association, which includes most of the important secu- its religious will be the first to act as hostesses to the lar schools in the Middle-West...
...More and more proof is given by our scholarly in- It is because a recent very charming and pleasantly vestigation of the past that the poets of antiquity were written book of travel, The Spell of Canada, by an historians rather than fiction writers...
...It is easy choir and the pupils who have been attending the sumto sympathize with this point of view even while re- mer session of the Pius X School of Liturgical Music membering that discretion is the officer in charge of at the College of the Sacred Heart, Manhattanville...
...and officials chosen by delethough it is usually admitted that they are imposed gates in convention are prominent in a variety of forms by formula rather than by concrete and particularized of social work...
...A LETTER from a correspondent of Northampton, THE eye-glasses which figure in the ordinary likeness Massachusetts, published in the Atlantic Monthly for of the scholar seem to represent near-sightedness of August, will awaken a response in the breasts of many two kinds...
...It would appear that a number alike, by reason of his twelve years at Washington...
...As the letter published punctiliously and firmly the varied dicta of Marxism, by our contemporary in Boston very reasonably ashave sometimes found audiences, but they have never sumes, the number of Americans who would be glad to avoided dust...
...Poincare in the saddle once stake, and pyre for pyre, one may prefer that of Saint again, may mean a steady drift to a Right ministry, Joan...
...Subscription Rates Yearly : $10.00 Sirgle Copies : $0.20 THE religious and national situation in the land WEEK BY WEEK which Mr...
...It is quite in the vein of the self-made in- and to his successor, Monsignor van Roey, is in charge dustrialist who says-"Pulling thistles out of the corn- of the collection of funds for the worthy project...
...The cryptpublic opinion has now reached the point where it chapel would be accessible to the public, and the may be viewed with something like the ease with which scheme provides for an altar, to be an exact replica one studies the development of John, Junior, as re- of that before which the great Cardinal said Mass flected in a series of informal photographs...
...Not to mention the affair of race and religion, there is a certain body of astonishment caused by Schliemann's demonstration of opinion, very moderate and reasonable on the face the reality of Troy, there are such matters as the of its arguments, which regards the Church in Quebec real existence of the Egyptian king, Menes-long as an "imperium in imperio"-a venerable but tireconsidered mythical but now proved quite historical some anomaly in an age when the state, having evoby a gold bar in the possession of the Chicago Uni- luted to its possible limit in the direction of popular versity-and the marvelous water-clock according to control, has entered upon its final stage of absorbing all which King Tutankhamen regulated his daily existence...
...Special attention confident celebration of the reign of Christ ringing should be directed to these words from Father out again after 1,100 years of storm and sunshine, Maguire's report: "Recent discussion has brought out was to be spiritually and even physically a participant in the fact that however excellent the teaching in Catholic the eternal communion of the saints...
...The number of Federation...
...suicides, 4; and robberies, 176...
...of institutions, burdened no doubt with a great many His return for a brief visit as Papal Delegate has reserious maintenance problems, do not realize the neces- newed many ties...
...human functions and gathering them within its polity...
...colleges of the country may be, they have failed to produce a proper proportion of noted and constructive MR...
...Leaving aside elements whose hostility is an conclusion are often interesting...
...It is to be hoped that events will permit that at the very time France had a burnt saint as the the relative stability of the new government, even if emblem of its national resistance, Bohemia and the its political complexion is too apoplectic to subsidize Czechs should have had a burnt heresiarch...
...Perhaps their American writer apparently not of Catholic faith, mythological systems were guesses in the direction of takes the trouble to examine these grievances seriously a philosophy of the human story...
...Most MICHAEL WILLIAMS, Editor striking of all, a Mass offered for the national intenAssistant Editors tion was one of the principal events of the day...
...Breasted, "traditions, 320 THE COMMONWEAL August 4, 1926 or the nucleus of fact to be drawn from them, as a To imagine that this unique position of privilege is body of sources now to be restored to their proper accepted gratefully and graciously by every Canadian chronological position in the succession of surviving would be too much to expect...
...Its very four-square bulk-the complete- is both a challenge and a needed lesson for the worldly ness of its achievement, compel respect from the world- mind...
...all, however, was the jubilant Christus Vincit, a tradiTherefore, the work courageously undertaken by the tional paean of praise that has come down to us from committee ought to be continued with the help of the eighth century...
...field turned me into what I am...
...the disciple comparison upon cinema conditions in Central Europe...
...But the memory of both or either should render with emphasis upon the idea of "union sacree" and us indulgent when the superimposition of new nationthe elimination of issues destructive of the national alism on ancient history brings about the incongruity of will...
...Dealing with the commonest form that discontent takes-namely the existence of a church that T HE attraction of French Canada for the American enjoys "rights without responsibilities," and the freewho is blessed with the gifts of imagination and dom of religious property from taxation, which leaves sympathy seems to be perennial, and books that record large tracts of "unimproved" (i.e., coveted) property it are both frequent and popular...
...De- believe that the Emperor Sigismund and his Saxon tails of this are not yet determinable even though it nobles who swarmed in on the interdicted land, were seems probable that Poincare will revert to his old filled with the crusading spirit that sent European suggestion of creating a surplus by increased taxation...
...a recumbent effigy in bronze of the great churchman The numberless serious individuals who have treated and advocate of church unity...
...If physical vision is impaired by continued Commonweal readers, to whom the passing of Car- bookish curiosity, the readiness of the mind to accept dinal Mercier still comes home as a very real loss...
...What progress of higher education in these schools has been might be considered the last echo of the Congress was the growth of the college out of the academy...
...valor...
...Has it been very murders, 97...
...There are many in the business districts of large cities, its author, Mr...
...August 4, 1926 THE COMMONWEAL 317 I N welcome contrast to the steady darkening of THE COMMONWEAL the religious situation in hapless Mexico, news comes from Czecho-Slovakia which indicates that the clash Published weekly and copyrighted 1925, in the United States by the Calvert Publishing Corporation, 25 Vanderbilt Avenue, between Church and state, which showed signs only New York City, N. Y. a year ago of becoming an impasse, is giving place to something approaching a modus vivendi...
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