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September 22, 1926 THE COMMONWEAL 45 ...
...A copy of the at present being given "popular" treatment in manuals English translation, made by Francis Hawkins, him- which compete upon the publishers' lists with bestself a Jesuit, was the one from which George Wash- selling fiction...
...THE American Library Association, which dates from 1876, will hold its fiftieth anniversary celebraPERHAPS the most amazing incident is the holding tion at Atlantic City, New Jersey, in October, 1926...
...In fact, all the world aids in the propagation few-the names of whom both prudence and modesty of knowledge through the medium of the printed page...
...As a mat- gods avert 1) we should begin by dismissing from our ter of fact, Mr...
...This is true of the book-trade, the script in the waste-basket as an example to other publishers' business, the paper, pulp, and straw indus- writers...
...Recent statistics, est doctors of medicine who ever lived, and more or overwhelming in their impact, lead one to believe that less the founder of modern diagnosis...
...A tablet, given by the kindliness, culture-a subdivision of the plot which Anaconda Copper Company, and unveiled in Helena, began with Ignatius Loyola, and is still ramifying Montana, at Saint Mary's Mission, which was founded throughout the world...
...science was whole-hearted...
...The county sheriff (unnamed), asked for some before he had reached the age of sixteen...
...The boast that "as I have abolished price-fixing that will save the consumer from all tempstrikes, so I shall abolish this sort of thing by the tation of benefiting his own domestic budget at the restoration of capital punishment," reeks of a mega- expense of the manufacturer's, which, being far more lomania that we have grown unused to associating elaborate ' and costly, naturally has a prior claim to with political sanity...
...But latest wail concerns the practice of chain and departour congratulations to the Duce at having escaped the ment stores who buy in colossal quantities and believe bomb thrown at his car recently, do not reconcile us that, having purchased at his price, they are free to to the unfortunate tone of the remarks uttered in the sell at their own...
...The one bright spot hero-worship had given place to a better-grounded in the discreditable chapter of bigotry and cowardice understanding of the firmness and high quality of is the chorus of condemnation that has come from the Washington's character, it was assumed that he himreputable southern press and public...
...For we know of no evidence which would FACED with this flagrant and futile outrage upon seem to prove that Klansmen ever read any books a man of culture and character, the attitude of both above the level of such productions as Maria Monkcounty and state officials has been so incredibly lax and still less that they are addicted to rules of civility, and disingenuous that it is hard to see how anything even those composed by the first President...
...His child- man binds himself to the sacred enterprise, he is hood was passed in days when religion was banished likely to leap up and run off at the first clear sign that from France...
...But such, indeed, would seem to be the case...
...Washington's but less courageous...
...After all, the best monastic Chair of Clinical Medicine at the College de France foundations are those which frankly strove to reprowas commemorated, The Commonweal sought to give duce the atmosphere of the home, though on a loftier some appreciation of the life of this wonderful man level-Monte Cassino being, not merely closer to the whose religious faith was as simple as his devotion to heavens in a physical sense, but nearer also to God...
...Father Warren was taken away division of the Library of Congress, for George in an automobile, questioned at length, and finally left, Washington's -Rules of Civility, recently published by without physical harm, on a lonely road through the Houghton Mifflin Company, it is hardly likely that swamp-lands about Princess Anne Court-House...
...It is a Young set up his crinolined zenana in the Utah zoological fact that cobras (also a hooded order) hiss mountains eighty odd years ago...
...Only a few days ago the Klan, in I T probably would be sad news for any of the whitenoticeably diminished ranks, with the white masks robed Klansmen who marched through the city of lifted from honest Nordic faces, and red skull-caps on Washington last week, if they had learned that the Nordic skulls, paraded the streets of the nation's capi- Father of His Country became involved in a Jesuit tal between rows of admiring citizenry, upon the sur-e face of whose merchandising their arrival had createdplot as a boy, and willingly promoted it...
...stands convicted anew of being the darkest blot that America's civilization has had to endure since Brigham LEOPARDS do not change their spots...
...As this revelation, however, has not yet been for a brief precis of the incident...
...Some day a public that has been thoroughly of the state...
...But they are an answer which the worldly, unless victims of what THE familiarity of the public with the free libraries a great mystic has termed "the terrible need to do that have come to the United States through the without God," best understand and appreciate...
...Moore's researches prove that these consciousness any evidence whatsoever obtained after maxims were composed originally and published in twelve hours' questioning by detectives "in relays...
...Charles Moore, head of the manuscript are not in dispute...
...without warrant and "grilling" of two witnesses, a But the library movement in the United States is man and a young girl, for twelve and a half consecu- really much older : two signers of the Declaration of tive hours, by detectives in relays...
...It is an CARLTON J. H. HAYES R. DANA SKINNER interesting study in human complaisance to remember BERTRAM C. A. WINDLE the comments uttered upon Mussolini when Fascism Subscription Rates Yearly : $10.00 Single Copies : $0.20 was still a political theory struggling for life, and to compare it with the rich respect that invests each reference to the Duce today, even in America...
...The governWere we a juryman on any criminal case (which the ment bought Jefferson's private collection of books for 460 THE COMMONWEAL September 22, 1926 $16,Soo...
...It was largely siderable proportion of his earnings because it "builds owing to the harborage given them by foreign powers, bulkier babies," because "she adores the aroma," or 458 THE COMMONWEAL September 22, 192 because "Milady," over acres of wood and wall, smiles effort . . . is needed to clear up the stains which Virher satisfaction at the silken sleaziness of her feet and ginians have recently been smearing on the reputation ankles...
...His the skill of the menaced power can associate it...
...When, largely upon which such procedure was abolished, has however, the British burned Washington, D. C., in been that after hours of torture (physical or moral 1812, these valuable papers, pamphlets, and books does not matter a whit) "persons" either say anything were destroyed...
...the matter has as yet reached the inner councils of the Klan...
...When one realizes that But to Father de Smet and his companion, Father the whole affair, after being featured, commented on, Ravalli, the history of Catholicism in Montana as we and unofficially tried on the front page of our big know it, owes its start...
...which is causing the civil powers grave concern, is the obvious answer to Mussolini's ill-considered words...
...The material which Jefferson col- which holds that an increasing familiarity with the oblected while abroad, came from France, for Spain scure forces which govern life induces, as its inevitable guarded her resources as data for the Vatican...
...Their lives are passed by any modern engineering...
...There was a time when a library meant a place for only literary people and scholars, but now it is the PATIENCE AT THE FIRESIDE workingman's laboratory-the recreational delight of the tired laborer as well as the small child-and the "~ HE fourth step of humility is reached," says the stimulus for the ambitious and eager immigrant...
...At present, we pretty tall order...
...It was, in- effort in the western half of the United States will deed, a Jesuit plot of the usual kind-namely, an effort be given the world in some colorful manual worthy to influence the mind of the world toward courtesy, of its intense human interest...
...has been the ministry of the Church...
...We select the American colonies, where George Washington became text of the New York World, an organ not noted for either its ringleader, or else the dupe of some terrible any marked complaisance to Catholics or Catholicism, Jesuit...
...WITHOUT being impertinent, one may be perInsisting that circumambient nations shall keep their mitted to ask exactly what the general public, in other frontiers open to Italy's overflowing population, and at words that poor "boob," the ultimate consumer, is the same time laying upon them the task of watching going to get out of the deal when producer and disover the political sentiments of the expatriated, is a tributor have settled their differences...
...Every effort, we Independence are forever linked with its incipiency, are told (and can well believe) was used to prevent...
...and strike even after their fangs and poison sacks have been extirpated...
...patronage of Andrew Carnegie, need not be stressed here, but it is worth while saying that the annual ex- SIR GILBERT PARKER, who, as the New York penditure for library maintenance in this country World reminds us, is the author of many books which amounts to $37,000,000, and that the vast propaga- have appeared, and of at least another one which has tion of knowledge through these channels would not not yet been published, declares that there are far too be possible even then, were it not for the cooperation many books...
...The facts ten by Mr...
...his first appointment was as surgeon to all in his daily routine is not "sweetness and light...
...Some months ago, The eastern dailies for four weeks, is still far from the Commonweal, in commenting upon the saintly Mother shape in which it can be taken before a jury of plain Amadeus, recalled the veneration in which she was citizens, and that some fresh theory, opening out an held by the Indians of the Blackfeet nation for her entirely new line of attack and defense is delivered tireless advocacy of their cause in war and peace...
...As the Helena Diocesan Council of Catholic Women, was we read, we rub our eyes at seeing methods that an ancient war-chant, intoned by the descendants of smack of the Inquisition (as popularly conceived) or the braves of Little Big Horn, to which Christian the infamous Chambre Ardente, resorted to by the words and sentiments had been set...
...own valuable library for this purpose...
...Jefferson also longed for a federal librarypersons two or three days, they finally break down and while in Europe, he collected from the aftermath and tell what they know," was the casual official ex- of the French Revolution all the data possible relative planation...
...Then it happily occurred to the Sage they think is wanted of them to end the ordeal, or go of Monticello to replace their loss by substituting his to pieces and no longer know what they are saying...
...One is explanation of his inertness, bluntly replied, "that's devoted to mathematics, and part of the second is nay business...
...A Assistant Editors THOMAS WALSH HELEN WALKER pragmatic world that is prepared to hand in its adHENRY LONGAN STUART GEORGE N. SHUSTER hesion to power, however attained, and from which JOHN F. MCCORMICK, Business Manager respect for the liberal principle of government is seeping away year by year, is not a world that deserves Editorial Council T. LAWRASON RIGGS JAMES J. WALSH ceremonious treatment, or is likely to get it...
...It never of trade-marked goods, for whose benefit slogans split settles anything...
...We heartily concur with the World...
...But the case does something It is interesting that one of the most striking features more than throw a spotlight upon the away-from-home- of the dedication exercises, held under the auspices of life after dark of the New Brunswick burgesses...
...authorities with a complete absence of any sense that civil liberties are being set at nought...
...The plot in quesan appreciable ripple...
...The Baltimore self composed the maxims...
...They were quickly translated into Latin, Bohemian, Ger- PHILOSOPHY, bacteriology, and anthropology are man, Spanish, and even into English...
...We present this evidence of in 1840 by the heroic Jesuit, Father J. de Smet, is a George Washington's involvement in this particular reminder of how coeval with our pioneering history conspiracy, with our compliments, to the Klansmen...
...It is a satisfaction to Sun declares that the story of the kidnapping is find that his consideration for others," says Mr...
...period of preliminary acquaintance, just as courtship wisely antedates the matrimonial tie...
...Probably Mass was first said in Montana, a hundred years earlier, A CORPORATE and communal reluctance of pos- by one of the priests who accompanied the expedition sible witnesses to divulge the nature of their activities sent from Montreal in 174o by the French, those inafter sundown, continues to be the feature of the defatigable ones who sowed that others might reap...
...an army whose campaign was waged quite as much One must not carry the parallel too far...
...From vision of "the knowable"-turn so many unstable this most valuable nucleus grew the Congressional souls to disbelief and spiritual vertigo, and from that Library-which originally was intended primarily for day until his untimely death, his life passed in a rhythm the benefit of Congress, but has since far outgrown of prayer, study, and charity...
...And the implication of France protection, is what is asked with no uncertain voice...
...A "The manufacturer of trade-marked, advertised telegram from the Paris correspondent of the New goods, claims the merchant also buys his name and York Times, representing the French government as good will, a market and waiting customers," says Sena-4 only too anxious that the bars against Italian immi- for Capper, who is sponsoring the producer's hard gration should be raised on the hither side, and a case...
...His return to relieved from poverty the author of the Declaration religious practices took place when he was twenty-two, of Independence in his declining years, and enabled him at the very age when the horizons of science-the to dwell at Monticello for the rest of his life...
...For these reasons, the manufacturers demand check put to the wholesale influx of Italian nationals the right of price control...
...France by a Jesuit priest, about the year 1595...
...and though this was a paltry sum, yet it against religion as against royalism...
...The experience of the world, and one to early American voyageurs and settlements...
...In an early this is an excellent maxim, not only for Benedictines, issue, at the time the centenary of his election to the but also for benedicts...
...Benjamin Franklin having founded the first circulatthis sinister proceeding from coming to the ears of ing library in America, while Stephen Hopkins, the the reporters on the case, and "long periods of silence" Rhode Island signer, was the first to establish a free punctuated the grilling...
...Through the columns of the biographers have recorded these maxims as formaWinchester Star, of which he is proprietor, he excuses tive influences in the development of his character...
...Some comprehensive system of heat of escape...
...Its net result is always to strengthen the welkin, billboards hide the scenery, and aeroplanes the hands of reaction and to cast discredit upon any scribble smoke across the sky, is still complaining that cause, however meritorious and innoceht, with which the deal he gets leaves something to be desired...
...its sudden dropping...
...and they got round the problem primarily by measurably to the lesson which his life offers to a insisting that the monastic life was to be considered a world in which, too often, the only faith left is faith permanent affair...
...The protests raised from time to time by a Published weekly and copyrighted 1925, in the United States by the Calvert Publishing - Corporation, 25 Vanderbilt Avenue, de facto power which happened to be Bourbon, CathoNew York City, N. Y. lic and unpopular, were treated with a contempt that amounted to complicity, and it is still a very open question whether Garibaldi's final landing in the Romagna was not covered by a British cruiser...
...his spinelessness by pleading a meticulous regard "for As Mr...
...believe that what he gets in nine cases out of ten, is exactly what his grandfather got out of some anonyFROM no country, indeed, does the charge of in- mous sack, barrel, container, canister, or bolt of cloth, dulgence to political refugees come with such a bad with the additional satisfaction of paying away a congrace and so little logic as from Italy...
...Anyhow, it 'is unlikely that a speech uttered under trying circumstances and coming from a quarter where urbanity MICHAEL WILLIAMS, Editor and dignity are no longer expected, is going to give rise to anything approaching a diplomatic incident...
...There was established, of course, a in material science...
...Moore tells us, during the days before mere the principles of home rule...
...Among the proffers of sympathy and debunked may awake to the fact that the "service" help that have come to Father Warren, inside and so lavishly advertised is simply the working of a law outside of Virginia, are several from Protestant pasof supply and demand which has always been going tors, owning that they are "shocked and sickened...
...Those anxious for full information on the subject may be referred to a monograph by the Chevalier Clery on the subject, published some twenty years ago...
...grotesque Hall murder case...
...Strenutries, and the leather manufacturies...
...Sometimes, by questioning library...
...Governor Byrd, as befits the bearer occupied by no "Rules of Civility and Decent Beof an honored and historic name, is more courteous, haviour in Company and Conversation...
...is as unfortunate as, we are sure, it is undeserved...
...It is to be hoped that the day is not ington, as a boy, copied the maxims upon which he far distant when the amazing story of early Catholic acted so consistently throughout his life...
...not the final answer-which lies deeper far...
...rule of Saint Benedict, "when anyone, . . . patiently and with a quiet mind, bears all that is inOFFICIAL and Catholic France has just been ob- flicted on him, things contrary to nature, and even at serving the hundredth anniversary of the death of times unjust, and in suffering all these he neither Rene Theophile Hyacinthe Laennec, one of the great- wearies nor gives over the work...
...But the great LAENNEC, M. Cornilleau reminds us, grew to organizing monks knew perfectly well that unless a manhood in an absolutely pagan world...
...A timely interest therefore, is tion originated in France, spread through Spain, lent to the most recent escapade of the hooded order Bohemia, and Germany to England, and thence to the in Princess Anne County, Virginia...
...September 22, 1926 THE COMMONWEAL 45 notably France and England, during the stormy period THE COMMONWEAL of the risorgimento that United Italy became a reality...
...WEEK BY WEEK ASSASSINATION is the most futile, as it is the THAT spoiled child of industry, the manufacturer most fearful, of all political weapons...
...But there...
...restrain us from printing...
...Chemistry, for ously opposed as a journal of our affiliations needs instance, has lightened the industry, making wood- must be to birth control, we are strongly in favor of pulp rank with rags and straw in the manufacture of book control on the part of all authors save a very paper...
...A few details, however, in Obviously, they have reckoned with human nature an article by Robert Cornilleau, in La Vie Catholique, quite as cautiously as a marriageable young woman deserve a passing word, if only because they add im- should...
...as regularly as morning milk, a sort of vertigo seizes This Christian charity was only a continuance by a upon the imagination that is following its develop- great-hearted woman of a policy that had already ments-a sense of beng involved in some legal night- been firmly established by the earlier missionaries, who mare from which the only possible awakening will be knew no distinction of color or race in their ministry...
...Moore, "enough to make the blood of any decent man boil...
...In Princess Anne published (so far as we know) in the Fellowship County, Virginia, twenty-eight men, robed and masked, Forum, or any other of the various organs of bigotry seized the Reverend Vincent D. Warren, pastor of a that are the favorite reading of Klansmen, but has Catholic church, while a Negro boys' band in which been merely dealt with in the introductory essay writhe was interested was giving a concert...
...on, and would go on in any case, and that the gold On the eve of a celebration which seemed designed to which nimble brains spin out of their whimsies, is gold prove that its activities are daylight ones, the Klan sweated from its own hard-gained pay-roll...
...his respect for and deference to those deserving such The Virginian Pilot, nearer home, after recounting a treatment, his care of his own body and tongue, and series of outrages of which Father Warren's kidnap- even his reverence for his Maker, were all early inping is only the last, believes that "more than local culcated in him by precepts which were the common September 22, 1926 THE COMMONWEAL 459 practice in decent society the world over...
...The strange theory such boundaries...
...The World, in agreeing with Sir Gilbert, of various departments of commerce that lessen the suggests that the English author throw his own manucost of production...
...except an immediate recall of both can satisfy the offended sentiment of a community which feels that AMONG the hundreds of volumes of Washington a stain rests upon the reputation of one of the most manuscripts in the Library of Congress, two contain chivalrous and most honorably known states in the the school exercises of George Washington, written union...
...The corollary, a waning belief in the Power which set them wonderful maps and geologic surveys of the early ex- in motion, has never been able to reconcile the enigma plorers, who were mostly Jesuits, have never been sur- of such men as Laennec or Pasteur...
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