Communications
408 THE COMMONWEAL September 1, 1926 COMMUNICATIONS T A...
...hard-boiled gentleman ought to be admitted to the dignity of the laboring class, with whom, in truth, he has many things Oklahoma City, Okla...
...If his blood pressure is raised by constant straining it dear that language is no adequate test of a rite, and that for paradoxes, then it is lowered by his sanity and even temper...
...I confess to a weakness for him, but realize that 4. Especially, he wishes to know if it is to be interpreted as his...
...O the Editor:-What ails Catholic critical journalism...
...Bryan, refused to allow our treatment of Mexico Futility, in bold-faced type, is written all over these organs...
...If cerebral callosities and shirt-sleeves interpreted as a criticism of Wilson's treatment of Mexico...
...temporary novel, wherein is satirized the type of journal that The meaning of an article of this kind should be so plain attempts to sound a note of authority only to the extent of as to prohibit misunderstanding...
...D. T. POWELL...
...One is indicated in a con- August 4, is exceedingly interesting...
...gentle art of ditch-digging, totally oblivious to the fact that A most careful reading of the above leads to the conclusion gratuitous aid, consisting solely of advice, has been withdrawn...
...prose style, in anyone else's hands, is likely to degenerate a criticism of the late President Wilson's treatment of Mexico, into sophomoric sarcasms and egregious epithets...
...cism has grown up by growing down in the sense that he TO the Editor:-Mr...
...Then notice the hand that steals toward his watch and stickpin...
...the Roman rite is canonically distinct from other rites used One gathers many quiet smiles from him...
...assistant, Mr...
...from the caverns of Catholicophobia, without brandishing broad-axes before them...
...and this, in the days in the Latin Church...
...RT...
...Thus, form, is most refreshing medicine for the spirit...
...Where lies the road to more stimulat- Mexico ; consequently, the paper by the Right Reverend ing criticism ? Francis C. Kelley, D.D., published in The Commonweal of Certain by-paths confront it...
...The draft wit, when it becomes less self-consciously virtuous...
...and its optional use in any part of the country...
...Oxford, Conn...
...Moreover, sufficient difficulty My answer is that the paragraph is both a criticism of Mr...
...The laborer, in they were right, and our present policy does not prove them whose manifold woes they have been interested so deeply, con- wrong...
...If Catholic claims needed defense by broad-axe, T O the Editor:-Mr...
...Palmer asks me to explain a parano one on the . present scene would serve so well as Mr...
...H. L. Mencken...
...L. Maynard Gray's communication has descended into the dark ages to find much enlightenment, on Uniats and Their Rites in your issue of July 14, makes indeed...
...It may not be generally known that when almost everyone has forsaken individual for social re- the language of the Roman rite is not always Latin...
...The one, that President Wilson and his accompanied by pick and shovel, miss readable prose...
...is experienced now in coaxing otherwise amiable gentlemen Wilson's treatment of Mexico and of American investors...
...The American investor in Mexico was as welcome in tinues to occupy himself with the more abstruse aspects of the the State Department under Bryan, as he was in the street...
...Chesterton's criti- London, England...
...FRANCIS C. KELLEY, Bishop of Oklahoma...
...or the Bishop's remark could be Mr...
...It would of the new concordat which is being negotiated between the seem that the road to more stimulating criticism is an earthy Holy See and the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes, way, a road of wine, song, and merry mirth, where good fel- contains a special clause relating to the Slavonic Roman ritual lows tread together, and a frown means a hanging...
...Yet it states: registering mild complaints about the ills of the world, until "To persecute the Catholic Church, they think, is to please he (or she) who pays for the faultfinding, either gets tired the poor, foolish `Gringo.' When he is pleased he will not of writing checks or bored with his (or her) hobby...
...G. K. Chesterton, who writes tedious books with one hand, and edits and partially writes a thor- UNIATS AND THEIR RITES oughly lively review with the other...
...It will recover from its Slav race...
...408 THE COMMONWEAL September 1, 1926 COMMUNICATIONS T A WORD TO THE CRITICS PLAIN TRUTH ABOUT MEXICO Norwalk, Conn...
...It will recover from its want of Glagolitic liturgy as used in the Latin Church...
...It will recover from its lack of of Monsignor Professor Joseph Vajs, of Prague Universityurbanity in the proportion that it loses its sense of inferiority, one of the greatest living authorities on the Old Slavonic or conscious or subconscious...
...graph in my article on Mexico which appeared on August Mencken...
...Outside of the republic, Catholic criticism has come of age in the weekly of Mr...
...A. CHRISTITCH...
...might be welcomed by hardened hands and overalls, then this WILLIAM R. PALMER...
...Catholic or a criticism of his treatment of investors in Mexican properties tradition is too old for either...
...A new edition of the Missale Romanum Slavondullness when it exchanges feminine nagging and scolding for icum is now on the Vatican press under the able supervision affirmative masculinity...
...in certain parts of Jugoslavia, Mass is celebrated according What ails Catholic criticism is that it has become emas- to the Roman rite, but in Old Slavonic, instead of Latin...
...to be influenced by the fact that large sums of money were and it is with a distinct sense of relief that one turns into an- invested in Mexican properties by citizens of the United States other by-path, well worn by an exponent of personal criticism as well as other countries...
...T 0 the Editor:-Every American, regardless of his faith, Will it eventually recover from its dullness, lack of urban- must be interested in the conditions now existing in ity, and want of wit...
...that the reference to the Wilson administration can be interThose who were born or trained to arts less essential than that preted in two ways...
...the nice young editors stop rearranging the cosmic order to The policy of the Wilson administration was the proof that their complete satisfaction and go to work...
...The culated, that it has fallen into the hands of old women and same occurs in Czecho-Slovakia on feast days of saints of the old men who write like old women...
...in common...
Vol. 4 • September 1926 • No. 17
