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...If they cannot solve that was worn by old and young fifty years ago...

...Most the laboring man...

...Funeral services for Rudolph Valen- erected than one basilica...

...The men who for if one solution is dearly against some teaching of the went through the war brought back new ideas and more in- Church, such as that defrauding the laborer of his wages is dependence, but, if sometimes touched by socialism, they were a very grievous sin, he cannot take it without incurring the promptly reconquered by the familiar atmosphere of home...

...Although for them...

...But the difficulty which the ordinary employer and on the basis of the facts given, point out clearly and conmeets in reading such attacks is, briefly, "what can I do about cretely what this man must do so as not to violate the prinit...

...We have been told of August 23 carried two items that, if true, are an indictment that recently he built a church in one of the poorest quarters of Catholicity . . . in . . . your city...

...THE POPE AND THE POOR THE VALENTINO FUNERAL Denton, Texas...

...Frost saw on the faces of all the tation but that of the constitution," which gives it exactly no assembled prelates-above all their racial inheritances-the value at all ; any succeeding administration would walk on "seal of the Church Paternal...

...Yet, since the Catholic Washington, D. C. Church is not a national institution and so likewise not inter- O the Editor:-Marie Regine Madden has, in the curnational but rather supra-national-above and outside the con- rent issue of the Jesuit quarterly, Thought, a masterly fines of all nations and all tribes as the infallible religion of essay on the Mexican constitutions...

...Then from the melting-pot of America The essay in Thought should go far to clarify the minds of there might issue a civil type of face-retaining racial traits of all who are honestly seeking light on Mexico and is an excelthe culture of every older nation-bearing the seal of brotherly lent starting point for the study so strongly recommended by love, a fraternalism maintained by equality before the civil law...

...He volved, so that this employer, reading these proposed solu- would have found that, although the culture of our America tions, can determine what is the course which he is in con- is indeed Protestant, the genius of our America is Catholic472 THE COMMONWEAL September 22, 1926 so broad as to embrace universal mankind...

...ciples of justice to the workingman...

...The fact that the death of Thus it was that our civil society was given so deep a base Valentino occurred at this time in no way influenced him in that no Christian sect has been able to overrule the religious the selection of his subject...

...change that has nothing tragical about it, but that lovers of The aim of this presentation is to try to find out just what local customs regret, is the disappearance of the snowy "coiffe" the living-wage enthusiasts believe in...

...Go tell John that the poor have the Gospel Catholic Church, 239 West Forty-ninth Street, at the eleven preached to them...

...and he would have preached the freedom secured to us by the Declaration of Independence...

...Is the employer justiployer who would not try literally to put in practice all of fied in passing on some of the loss due to market conditions the principles therein enunciated, provided he is the sole judge to his employees...

...This may be, but from A certain manufacturer has a plant located in a small comthe standpoint of tradition, and becomingness, the vanishing munity of about a thousand people...

...A penalty for all such sins...

...But unhappily, though resolutely, at home is the pletely, in its organization, with the Mexican concept of equalChurch where her hierarchy is mounting the hill toward ity...

...all would be well...

...We are referred constantly to Pope Leo's encyclical...

...EDWARD F. LEONARD...

...Now, alas, the An- will be more inclined to get all the facts about that industry gevin coiffe, -that varies slightly in every village, only crowns before attempting a solution, rather than merely those which grey or white heads...

...Our nation can make but small progress in civilization, the sermon was suggested by his death.' " as long as there are so many without their own reasonably comFirst of all, I did not celebrate the actors' Mass that day fortable homes...

...nor did I preach...

...Who is more in need of the stated : `More than five hundred members of the theatrical ministrations of God's Church than those who live in the slums profession filled the Actors' Chapel of Saint Malachy's Roman and byways...

...The start must be made in the home...

...The Reverend Edward F. other proof of his solicitude for the poor by building homes Leonard, pastor of the church, preached on love...

...In particular, the Catholic Church dashes comsphere...

...It month's issue of The Forum, to the basic principles upon is given below in detail...

...It was not rights coming from God...

...Now the Vicar of Christ gives antino are to be held there today...

...RAYMOND VERNIMONT...

...WILLIAM FRANKLIN SANDS...

...This is putting the matter plainly, generations of devout and right-thinking people...

...At the risk of seeming Almighty God must necessarily be-she is equally at home with- ill-natured and even uncharitable, I must emphasize the superiin every nation under the sun...

...What is he going T THE SEAL OF THE CHURCH PATERNAL to do about it ? Medford, Mass...

...of his flock is the seal of spiritual authority indelibly stamped...

...The basic principles upon which our America rests should Due to the fact that the feast of Saint Genesius was celeshow that the fathers of this republic had ploughed the mental brated on that Sunday, the subject matter of the sermon was ground deep for a universal theism-the belief in inalienable selected in accordance with the spirit of the feast...

...Not there only but upon the very delicate ground in attempting to consider it a binding forehead of the Holy Father down to the humblest shepherd pledge...

...The case is as hats and declare that the washing and ironing of the local follows head-dress was an expensive business...

...poet, Joachim du Bellay, attached to the household of a French The product he manufactures has fallen in price during the cardinal, confesses his homesickness for it among the splendors past three years, until practically every firm manufacturing of the Roman palaces and churches...

...STEPHEN Du BRVL...

...In the this man's problem and cannot convict him of sin in accepting region of which I write it was singularly becoming...

...The "douceur Angevine" it has lost money during the past year...

...If he does not cut wages, he is Anyone who will refer to the proceedings of the Catholic fairly certain of having great difficulty in holding his organiconference on Industrial Problems held in Pittsburgh several zation intact...

...compromise many conflicting interests which are lost sight of when such a question as a "living wage" is mentioned...

...If he is not, what remedy shall he take to of those conditions, and is not hampered with possibly a hard- save his investment and his own income...

...REV...

...necessary to make it complete...

...of them are not so situated...

...The purpose of presenting it here which our country was established, he would have found the is to ask all or anyone interested in this man's problem to solid ground upon which rests the standards for judgment please come forward and solve it for him, analyzing the vari- necessary to an appreciation of whether or not the piety in ous interests, both economic and ethical, which may be in- Chicago at the Eucharistic Congress were native or alien...

...notoriously low, and in his case complicated by the fact that FT O the Editor:-It seems to be the customary practice of most of the men working for him are married...

...The Mass was offered an agreeable place in which to pay the tribute of public worship for their welfare and many of them received Holy Communion to the Eucharistic King of all mankind...

...September 22, 1926 THE COMMONWEAL 4711 basis of religious faith and social discipline inherited from science bound to follow...

...His volume of outof which he speaks in the famous sonnet, has become a by-word, put has been very nearly to capacity, but because of the low for it characterizes the moral and material aspect of Anjou...

...plants, but all in other lines of manufacturing than his...

...Failing to step back upon solid American ground, Mr...

...groups in the United States...

...I do not know of a single honest Catholic em- under these circumstances be unjust...

...Jefferson had studied the deep-down relations of a free church Father McKenna, knowing that it would be his turn to and a free state as set forth by those masters of things Catho- celebrate the actors' Mass and to preach on that Sunday had lic-Ballarmine and Saurez...

...That Protestant Secondly, my curate, Reverend Joseph McKenna preached a influence is waning Mr...

...same sermon whether Valentino was living or dead...

...So he has to may receive...

...very carefully guarantees religious liberty "subject to no limiA keen observer, Mr...

...What a blessing if American millionaires did the he did not mention Valentino by name, it was understood that same...

...years ago, will find plenty of evidence of this claim, and cur- This is the problem, and I assure you, while it may be a rent issues of our Catholic papers quite often illustrate the particularly aggravated one, it contains about all the elements same state of mind...

...at that Mass in honor of Saint Genesius...

...The attitude thus demonstrated is critical...

...Frost dearly sees, it being evident very instructive sermon on Saint Genesius, patron saint of that prior to some ten years ago Chicago would not have been actors and members of the profession...

...There are three other coiffe is to be regretted...

...price, he too, has lost money...

...The first of Rome...

...Frost REV...

...Because most of his competitors are larger than he, they have lower unit costs, and he cannot reduce his costs any further without increasing his capacity, COMMUNICATIONS which will only make the price situation in his industry worse AN ECONOMIC CHALLENGE than ever...

...rightly maintains that the Catholic Church is alien to Protestant culture that has, in fact, dominated the sentiment of our T THE MEXICAN CONSTITUTION national life well-night up to date...

...The Commonweal...

...Will someone come forward That is well...

...Will a cut in wages Very well...

...Here Peter and Caesar dwell in reasonable concord, the spir- Religious liberty is, in fact, not recognized in the Mexican itual and the civil governments each being supreme in its own Constitution...

...prepared his sermon beforehand...

...He is faced with the alternative of cutting wages or of serious financial difficulty...

...Pius XI prefers to see many small chapels o'clock Mass yesterday...

...To make the problem clearer, I have taken a typical case O the Editor:-If Stanley Frost had pushed back, in this of an employer who has a serious problem of this nature...

...The young women and girls sport cheap clearly prove that a living wage is not paid...

...For long years Benjamin Franklin a sermon on love nor was it suggested by the death of had oriented this objective in Poor Richard's Almanac while Valentino...

...His Anjou holds its children fast: in the seventeenth century a payroll constitutes about one-third of the community's income...

...hearted partner or some other influence just as powerful but I shall await with much interest any replies which the Editor none the more lenient toward their employees...

...If he cuts certain sociologists, editors, and others, interested in "the wages further, many of them will be in dire poverty with ondition of labor," to regularly make depreciating remarks no other employment available in their community and no about employers as a class (as though they were all united prospect of any in their particular trade if they are so forunder a common standard with the class-slogan, "down with tunately situated that they can move their families away...

...Is he mistaken...

...Wages in his industry are Jackson, Ohio...

...The "Arredondo pledge" to the Wilson administration Calvary as is just now the case in Mexico...

...it came any solution for it, one will be inclined to think that rather to a point on the forehead, Marie Stuart fashion-its wings than classifying employers as a group, and treating them as were edged with delicate lace and the whole helped to soften such, and saying that it is a social injustice in this or that and refine even aged faces, reminding one of the elderly Dutch- industry where a living wage is not paid for certain work, they women that Rembrandt loved to paint...

...That the Mexican Constitution was falsely conceived If only the multitudinous man were to respond to Christ's and is unworkable has long been plain to Mexicans and to invitation and go to the priest for the cure of his sin-sick soul some Americans who have had occasion to study the matter...

...Happily so here under Old ority of this method of approaching the Mexican situation Glory where the civil power recognizes the right of every over that chosen by the Knights of Columbus and other Catholic man to worship God in the open without let or hindrance...

...Pius XI on more than one occasion has given proof that he A Reverend E. F. Reilly writes: "The New York Times has the spirit of his Master, Jesus Christ...

...Suppose his men don't make a living wage...

...New York, N. Y. TO the Editor:-"Pope Will Build Houses for Workers," T O the Editor :-A letter in your issue of September 15 is a heading on the front page of The Tablet, August 7. contains untrue statements about our church services...

...MARTHA MOORE AVERY...