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October 6, 1926 THE COMMONWEAL 51 things. The...
...He is as comfortable as a horse-hair Though at present the conclusions attested to by the seated chair on a hot night would be to a man clad information amassed cannot be stated with mathe- in summer-weight pyjamas...
...For "to be, or not to be...
...During the would appear to be the first war memorial in which coming months, it will offer the public a series of lecthe new nationhood of Ireland is fully and frankly tures on topics connected with Irish studies...
...is the question," he suggests the jazz age would prefer: Saint Enda's School, appropriately situated at North "Yer for it, or yer ain't...
...that our ancestors lived primitively in their fog- and bad citizenship...
...But this very advance is threatening to put it for men through the seven [let the number, offered beyond the means of a class who are too proud to without any extenuation, be noted] Christ-ordained take gratuitous treatment and too poor to pay the sacraments of the Holy Catholic Church...
...Pro- fails to bring him up, sooner or later, under the beetfessor Cooley says : "The educational system has been ling walls of Saint Peter, and it is with no surprise partly at fault...
...The past is when they are honestly handled, is so great, that to large and great, but the future is a field of life or try and enforce a moral from the statistical mass which death...
...We the 1914 level, than it has in the former wet states...
...Govern- a terribly poignant and difficult one...
...But if with American national politics (we hardly imagine the the church is really the true custodian of morality, it Dean is referring to affairs of cities and wards) knows is rather appalling to observe the gap between what that upon major issues the Catholics in this country October 6, 1926 THE COMMONWEAL 515 are not only not organized as a unit, but very recal- is more grateful to recognize is the hunger for sacracitrant to any efforts made to organize them...
...Newman, "of the Americans, but one cannot doubt that such an interest man who would try to render Shakespeare acceptable would be beneficial and commendable...
...The recognized...
...most important...
...This is well put, and worth pondering...
...We will remember only that a body of our to 14, it is hard to believe that we are not looking citizens, which includes some of the finest and most forward to an event, comment upon which by Catholics luminous minds of the country, is wending its way should partake of an intimate and domestic nature...
...Amid a great deal of money and is the idol of the country all the cenotaphs, obelisks, and blocks of stone which a in which most of the money is made...
...This foundation, sup- hunters who set their sad seal upon American Protported and superintended by His Eminence, Cardinal estantism 300 years ago, and whose religion, having Hayes, has already merited the recognition of jurists been made a quite personal quarrel with a personal and educators for its success in reclaiming numerous devil, is having some difficulty in surviving the disindividuals from criminal lives...
...The directors are consecrated to this beautiful has chosen...
...Paul Whiteman a debt over again with their blood which their ancesthat jazz music be admitted to an honored place among tors in French service discharged long ago...
...It is typical of the mishave the satisfaction of knowing they have been conceptions and trifling acquaintance with American on the right road...
...It is even possible that the vice of sitting on the safety-valve...
...Under the daily breaking down the defenses of life...
...ther...
...It suggests nothing so centre of the earth, and had believed that there was much as a heel stamped upon a national habit that given to it, for an indefinite period of time, the mis- had become almost second nature through long usage...
...Catho- the system of national education...
...The causes of crime are OLIVER CROMWELL, a footnote to history tells studied with close interest by every section of the us, once tried to emigrate to Massachusetts, and was American public, but they are of particular impor- prevented from setting foot aboard ship by zealous tance for those who conceive of human life as essen- crown officials who must, later on, have dearly retially an affair of the soul...
...Today, we are once more whose ears are deaf to any suggestion of a remedy, painfully, even pessimistically, aware of all these cannot escape the sight of the mounting disorder, espe514 THE COMMONWEAL October 6, 1926 cially when it is marshaled in such a national tempera- needs to be done and the means with which it is, preture chart as the Moderation League has made public...
...of churchmen, severed twice from the parent stem, can call themselves a "Catholic Congress...
...As we READING over the program for the second an- catch the chant of the Milwaukee procession next week, nual "Catholic Congress" of the Episcopal Church in we will readily forget the borrowed cassocks and America, to be held at Milwaukee from October 12 birettas...
...Williard B. Sperry, in the current number upon a category of beliefs was unthinkable...
...The problem facing patriotic Irishmen ther attempt to lower them might well mean its dis- when the call to arms arrived in August, 1914, was appearance save as a "vocational" calling...
...Any fur- Cremona...
...No man exists more forward than the Dean the bureau under the most exacting scientific condi- in raising bogies, or more expert in outfitting them tions...
...It is European activity...
...high fees which render skilled aid possible...
...The Catholic Congress," we are told in an The advance in medical science and hospital treatexplanatory pamphlet, "stands for the Nicene Faith ment during the last five decades is prodigious...
...Slightly less formal and instituwill be found somewhere else than in the grunts, tional in character is the School of Irish Studies, 6 snarls, and yells of the Equatorial forest, scored by East Fifteenth Street, New York City, which is rightly the beat of the Congo drum...
...In days that are not very long past, the general practitioner was THE attitude The Commonweal has chosen to take called in at the outset of sickness, and the patient lived toward the activities of what might be called the sac- or died according to his lights and the will of God...
...Classes for the exceptional upon which his imagination sees the curtain about to pupil, school clinics, specialists in the problems of rise...
...Less well known is covery that the devil is nerves and sin more or less the survey of more than 2,8oo delinquents made by starch...
...sion of being the leader and model of industrial life a few months of apparent submission, followed by a among the Caucasian peoples...
...Joseph Campbell, a poet of exquisite abilory of 50,000 Irish soldiers who fell upon the Somme, ity, the school has done much fine work...
...All this now so great that the Roman Catholic Church is points to an educational program the complexity of acquiring great political influence, intimidating journalwhich is not readily imaginable, and to the need for ists and politicians, and threatening to interfere with greater harmony among educators themselves...
...that acter, but united in the service of a common cause...
...Some mentalism-the refusal to be satisfied any longer with deplore the fact-others would have things no differ- the dessicated fare that has satisfied its children since ent...
...searing answer of Mr...
...sumably, to be accomplished...
...as one aspect of a universality, surviving from the days when all men believed alike, and when any division As Mr...
...It was the major arts, is a portent of the mad age in which the last time, one confidently hopes, that Irish soldiers we live...
...Whiteman's pretensions, 0 NE may doubt that there is any widespread deep should give that gentleman food for a little thought...
...Where hundreds of millions arming, the shooting affair on the Dublin quays, had are not grudged for the nation's defense against in- convinced the most optimistic that England once more vasion that we trust will never come, it is hard to see was on the point of repudiating her promise, and that how a few millions can be denied for the more im- a struggle was at hand for which Ireland would have perative purpose of combatting an invasion that is need of all her manhood on her own soil...
...It concerns the chances of Canada remaining IT needs to be noted that one of the important effects an entity of the British empire, which appear slim to of the great redemptive effort sponsored by Cardinal the Dean...
...circumstances, it is little less than wonderful that so many Irishmen remembered the old friendship and paid THE demand made through Mr...
...ramental wing of the Episcopal Church, has never Today, the thought that a dear one has been let die been the facile one of ridicule or flippant comment...
...History does not tell us system is supported in the conviction that sound habits whether a scion of the Inge family was among others of character can be formed in growing boys and girls by who postponed their sailing about the same time and good teaching and example, are therefore increasingly for the same reasons-but we like to think he was...
...Its purpose is to phase of advance on which civilization can congratupropagate and defend the religion of the Incarnation late itself whole-heartedly and without any reservaof the Son of God, as that religion is made available tions...
...termed the first serious attempt to establish an Irish cultural centre in the United States...
...This roseate optimism steady and resolute refusal to comply, mounting in was combined with a mental illusion which permitted volume as the methods of enforcement grew more the long cycles of Asiatic or North-African culture to stringent...
...One sympa- political problems upon which writers across the thizes with, even if one hardly understands, the effort Atlantic are content to base their sweeping obiter dicta...
...and its efforts to raise the entire body to which it remains attached is hampered by another, loaded down AS a result, it is not an uncommon thing to find the with prejudices, traditions, and revolts which may be savings of years dissipated by a few months of obscure deplored, but cannot be disowned...
...and also the provision of cheaper and less resentatives, evidence a full recognition that the debt highly qualified nursing...
...The school must abandon the policy that we find Catholics and the Catholic Church in of mass education and adapt its methods to the needs Canada made the villains of the annexation drama of the individual child...
...To restore something est in their own spiritual message by making creed of the sacramental fulness that is the spiritual birtha racial and party label...
...It without every specialized resource of diagnosis and is easy to point out the fact that, strong and increas- treatment having been tried, is unbearable to the suringly active as is this wing, it remains but a single one, vivors who mourn their loss...
...Like many an- government that shrinks from a public expression of other thing that is rich, powerful, and popular, it dis- Christianity has chosen for its war memorials, the likes having its disreputable origins recalled, and its Irish cross at Guillemont stands as a testimony to devotees are naturally angry when authentic musicians staunch Irish faith, Irish gallantry, and Irish fidelity refuse to admit the parvenu to their company...
...What ing of certain things which are what the French term 516 THE COMMONWEAL October 6, 1926 the "apparatus" of medical science rather than its to have been the tactful absence of British official repessentials...
...interest in the Gaelic language and literature among "What should we say," asks Mr...
...These, echoing the famous cry drenched woods, while existence was adorned with un- of the French Convention, can exclaim: "Let civic heard-of luxury and gorgeous splendor in Babylon and order perish rather than a principle...
...in in its fulness, as against every denial on the part of fact, when a summing-up is made, it is about the only Protestantism and rationalism...
...the sake of providing their boys and girls with a sound religious training, may contemplate the requirements THE grotesque statement strikes us as important of tomorrow with some misgivings, but will, at least, from only one point of view...
...Sugwhere state and church are separate, remains bound gestions offered at Atlantic City include the eliminatnone the less by the intentions of its founders...
...But as The Commonweal due is one from France to Ireland, just as truly as it pointed out in previous comment, the tenuous wages ever was in old days when the flower of her youth too common in the nursing profession are already dan- fought and fell under the fleur-de-lis at Fontenoy or gerously reducing the supply of candidates...
...Americans exist in considerable numbers educational maxim of Padraig Pearse : "The precise sufficiently instructed to know that jazz bears about aim of education is `to foster.' Not to inform, to inthe same proportion to true music that "whack, folde- doctrinate, to conduct through a course of studies, but, riddle-di-do" bears to, shall we say, the chorus from first and last, to `foster' the elements of character Atalanta in Calydon...
...No road which his thought follows ever Hayes must be felt in the educational system...
...This T. LAWRASON RIGGS JAMES J. WALSH survey also makes a distinction that apparently has not CARLTON J. H. HAYES R. DANA SKINNER been used so often as it deserves-by taking account BERTRAM C. A. WINDLE separately of the states in which prohibition, tempered Subscription Rates Yearly: $10.00 Single Copies: $0.20 with a certain amount of leniency, had been in vogue before the Baptist-Methodist bloc summoned the djinn of bone-dryness from his oriental jar...
...As a result, WEEK BY WEEK the figures and graphs in which it sums up its disPREMIER POINCARE'S St...
...The quesPublished weekly and copyrighted 1925, in the United States by the Calvert Publishing Corporation, 25 Vanderbilt Avenue, tion of importance now is, not the domination of New York City, N. Y. Europe by any single power, but the place which the ~ s`t1.1 ~~ continent as a whole is to occupy in the affairs of the world...
...The French Catholics who have shouldered heavy financial burdens for lics would now have nothing to fear from absorption...
...There are even some, though native to a soul, to help to bring these to their full our aesthetic Negrophiles would cause one to doubt perfection rather than to implant exotic excellencies...
...fully, to some result from the recent meeting of the Our initial amazement is not lightened by the synop- American Hospital Association at Atlantic City, which sis of the aims which the congress is convened to fur- will relieve the hard lot of the "middle-class" patient...
...But under the circumstances, right of all Christian men and women, and of which to say that the French-Canadian Catholics, who have the English-speaking race was robbed anew when the evolved a very strong, autonomous, and congenial heavy hand of Puritanism fell on its first hesitant reprovincial government of their own, have "nothing turn in the seventeenth century, is an object so worthy to fear" from absorption is a gross misstatement, and that, for its sake, Catholics willingly consent to overwe fancy there are those, even outside Montreal and look the ignoring of ecclesiastical history, the obliquity Quebec, who will not be backward in letting the Nor- to known truth, which must take place before a group diculous Dean know it...
...Germain address, coveries may be considered a fair gauge of what hapdemanding as it did that Germany avow guilt in pens to the national temper when the attempt is made having brought about the world war, is likely enough to raise a steamhead of righteousness by the crude deto enkindle controversy...
...concede that, historically, the problem of responsibility To employ a French proverb, once again "the better for the events which followed the summer of 1914 is has proved the enemy of the good...
...Under the direcTHE Celtic cross erected at Guillemont to the mem- tion of Mr...
...It is being to the masses by rewriting him in the language of a promoted, at present, by institutions diverse in charNew York East-sider...
...contributed to this issue of The Commonweal by Professor Edwin J. Cooley...
...The MICHAEL WILLIAMS, Editor figures which it furnishes have once again been obtained by the extremely practical device of communiAssistant Editors THOMAS WALSH HELEN WALKER cating with the police department of every city in the HENRY LONGAN STUART GEORGE, N. SHUSTER Union, asking for figures on arrests for drunkenness JoHN F. McCORMicK, Business Manager during 1925, and collating the answers received with Editorial Council figures obtained last year in the same fashion...
...The bitter need of Europe can be met, apart THE COMMONWEAL from measures incident to domestic industrial politics, only by fostering the sense of solidarity...
...A series of disment subvention of health and a frank recognition that creditable and ominous incidents, the officers' mutiny all the poverty is not in tenement dwellings, must at the Curragh, the brazen connivance at Ulster's come sooner or later...
...We forgot that during whole idle to expect that they will appeal to men whose epochs the western world lay in the sleep of child- sensibilities are immune to this growing mass of crime hood...
...Episcopal clergymen who will take part in the procession are "expected" to make their affiliation quite WE look forward, though perhaps not too hopeclear by bringing "cassocks, surplices, and birettas...
...D'jer get me, kid...
...The to old, old bonds of friendship...
...Personally, we believe that it is to be accepted Laud and Herbert made their last and futile gesture...
...Jazz is popular, jazz is powerful, jazz makes will ever fight under any flag but their own...
...An immense, and in the present status of social with a due proportion of hooves, horns, and tails...
...nowhere...
...The number of Irish, Italians, and Poles in childhood, visiting teachers and probation officers must the United States," the gloomy dignitary notes, "is all be provided in the school of the future...
...Ernest Newman, the eminent British musical critic, to Mr...
...along a road they have themselves chosen, and toward "Solemn pontifical High Mass," we are informed, is a conviction where, in God's good time, we look forto be sung on Wednesday, the second day of the con- ward to meeting them in full brotherhood and a gress, and there is the rather naive corollary that truly restored communion...
...Catholics, whose school gretted their officiousness...
...Such as of the Yale Review significantly remarks, it is the it is, it calls for a constant watchfulness and defense "deliberate initial omissions" of Protestantism in against the sinister policies of ambitious men outside America which have "created the present religious it who strive to supply for the waning public inter- problems of American life...
...The moment has definitely come to reconsider the whole educational alignWE would draw the attention of our readers to the ment, and to give the religious school a better public review of two books dealing with juvenile delinquency, chance than it has ever had before...
...it, who believe that jazz is not American at all, and It is a worthy aim to which we hope that Irish Ameriwho think that the American contribution to music cans will take kindly...
...i j r 1~ THE report just issued by the Moderation League of New York upon the workings of prohibition, and which covers the eleven years from 1914 to 1925, deserves to be singled out from the mass of propaganda pro and con for one very excellent reason...
...In the former effect of the rather brilliant but uncompromising words dry states," the survey concludes, "the drunkenness has may be to suspend the delicate negotiations incident reached a considerably higher point with reference to to the proposed new Franco-German agreement...
...October 6, 1926 THE COMMONWEAL 51 things...
...of many creeds to combine some religious instruc- Everyone who has had even a passing acquaintance tion with the regular public school curriculum...
...These observations by a competent European the industry of the Moderation League has collected, spectator are worthy of more attention than they are would be an anti-climax...
...Barnstead, New Hampshire, is a preparatory school Newman need not be afraid that American suscepti- for boys who would grow up in a truly Celtic environbilities will be greatly ruffled by the comparison he ment...
...As study, an indispensable, collection of data was gathered an inexhaustible well of sorrowful vaticination, the by workers who approached offenders against the law Dean is like Eclipse-with the rest of the field in an open spirit, with no preconceptions or theories...
...It is easy to re- or lingering illness, or a sufferer returned to very probmind our separated brethren that the Episcopal Church lematic health from the operating table with the imin America, exceptional as is its opportunity in a land mediate need for work staring him in the face...
...matical certainty, Professor Cooley is certain that the future will be less impressed with the theory of "men- THE latest jeremiad from Dean's Yard reaches us tal disease" and more aware of the part played by in a bright little book entitled England, contributed disintegrated homes and corruptive social influences...
...How about others...
...But the present necessary pacification of Europe depends upon the will to overlook, for the THE appeal of figures to the popular imagination, time, the question of that responsibility...
...But even those on the banks of the Nile...
...The statistics made public by the society shrink into almost nothing because the events of recent are addressed to the common sense of the country, centuries loomed so large in the periphery of modern and not to that sorry thing, the closed mind...
...The very form the ascendlikely to receive: "Both naive and sophisticated Euro- ing graphs take, which tell the story at a glance, is pean pride had long seen in our little continent the significant and picturesque...
...All the incidents attending it, the unveil- names of the lecturers and the spirit in which they ing by a French marshal, the blessing by a French have been banded together will be apparent to anyone bishop, the presentation of a replica of the battle- who examines the program that has been arranged standard carried by the old Irish Brigade, what seems by the officials of the school...
...from the decanal study to a series called The Modern World...
...interested in the work Professor Cooley himself is Every fresh utterance of the tenebrous Dean shows doing as director of the Catholic Charities Probation him to us a spiritual blood-brother of the grim witchBureau, of New York City...
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