Communications
S $4 THE COMMONWEAL October 20, 1926 and Alexander Neckham, abbot of Cirencester, wrote...
...Leaving the unsaid words . . . and the old unrest...
...pels employers, as a necessary condition of existence, to pay less With the suppression of the monasteries, the monks' gardens were destroyed wholesale...
...O the Editor:-Mr...
...Open your And the moment will soon arrive when you must go, eyes and see...
...any other crime, all right opinion would oppose it, and Catholic while as early as 1300, there was so much produce raised in opinion would be unanimous...
...Every serious student of these and statues...
...I Shall Try to Pretend T O the Editor:-A Catholic missionary in Alaska uttered these ponderous words : "I guess the Lord loved me too I shall try to pretend there are thousands of years ahead much to give me the trouble of caring for gold...
...Are there not And we'll be together every hour of them all, many Americans who will call that self-sacrificing missionary a So I need not fear lest something should go unsaid, fool...
...GOD AND MAMMON Denton, Texas...
...The case he instances is not or Abingdon Abbey, show that within the monastery walls an indictment of the critics of the existing economic order, there were other small gardens besides those for the cloister but it is a very serious indictment of prevailing economic conand the visitors...
...to the roses and lilies of an earlier day...
...Nom B. CUNNINGHAM...
...Is he a fool...
...An economic system which does not enable (two pence) woodruff and lavender for Saint Barnabas day...
...Why is it so difficult to There will be time for laughter and lazy talk, procure peace...
...The world does not serve God, That the time is shortening fast, that was brief at best, but Mammon today...
...The mystery is why Mr...
...eight feet of land between the wall of the church and the One thing he usually does and that is, defends the existing wall of the cloyster, to sett certain trees and flowers behovable economic order which is forcing him in the supposed case to and convenient for the services of the same church...
...sadly in need of reform...
...Du Brul insists upon defending the present centor, the infirmarian, and the sacristan, all had separate gar- economic system as he has done so eloquently and forcefully Jens, for which they paid a small rent to the gardinarius...
...Would it not be better to advocate industrial purely ornamental plots of Parkinson and Rea-took the place democracy or some other improvement of the existing order...
...RAYMOND VERNIMONT...
...If at any rate, there could have been no difficulty in buying we had a social or political system which, as a necessary condiflowers, for Saint Thomas a Becket's clerk, Fitzstephen, wrote tion of existence, at times compelled men to murder or commit that the citizens of London had fair and pleasant gardens...
...tans' gardens...
...Henry VI, founder of Eton College, left "thirty- for not paying living wages, says, "What can I do about it...
...or to garland the clerics who were to walk in the problems recognizes, of course, that the average employer is processions, so that flowers often had to be bought...
...Yet, upon Mr...
...What are the consequences...
...S $4 THE COMMONWEAL October 20, 1926 and Alexander Neckham, abbot of Cirencester, wrote about COMMUNICATIONS plants-the first in relation to medicine...
...Soon after, the promoters of the than a living wage which is, without any question, a sin of Reformation discouraged the lavish use of flowers in church, injustice...
...Indeed, Mammon is the most cruel tyrant...
...Let the world be disloyal to Mammon and loyal to Godthen all will be well...
...while Neckham included a list of plants suitable for a "noble garden," still prin- TAN ECONOMIC CHALLENGE cipally herbs, though peonies, daffodils, and violets were added Bourbonnais, Ill...
...REV...
...The dollar is god, not only in this country, but Sharing of wind and sun and rain as we walk, the world over...
...a necessary industry to pay living wages to the workers is by The prices do not seem to have been exorbitant, but in London, that very fact convicted of inadequacy and incompetence...
...He has quite unsurplus cider or verjuice (raw grape juice) and kept accounts...
...Parish church and private chapel frequently had these sacris- No doubt, the ordinary employer, when he meets attacks...
...commit an act of injustice by paying less than living wages, But for a great feast day, sacristans were not always able and frequently opposes legislative measures for the ameliorato grow enough flowers to adorn the altars, shrines, candles, tion of the working-classes...
...The on so many occasions, it is his business to crack the economic infirmarian grew medicinal herbs in his plot near the hospital, nut he has found, not those who think the present system is while the sacristan raised flowers for the altar...
...When will the world believe the words of Christ, "You cannot -I shall try to pretend . . . but all the while I shall know serve God and Mammon...
...and less decorative, yet dedicated for centuries to the glory of God and the service of man...
...Certain just as much a victim of an unsound and irrational economic flowers were popular for certain days-red roses for the feast system as the working-man...
...of those of sacristan and infirmarian which had been humbler REV...
...Du Brul's own London that the gardeners meeting to sell their wares near confession, we have an economic system which at times comSaint Paul's were a nuisance to the churchgoers...
...The abbot or prior, the treasurer, the pre- ditions...
...Sharing of hopes and fears and of joys and griefs...
...consciously put into concrete terms the arguments that they The accounts of a large monastery, such as Norwich Priory have been using for many years...
...J. W. R. MAGUIRE, C.S.V...
...Why, then, should Catholic employers defend such and a new sort of garden, the "garden of pleasure"-the a system...
...Can the world be more chaotic than it is today...
...If Mr...
...Martin Brul and the average employer think it necessary to defend Outwich) broom for Easter (one pence) palm on Palm Sunday such a system...
...Is it not because the world is crushed by the And passionate baring of all our intense beliefs, Golden Calf...
...What is the main cause of the discontent Nor snatch at the moment's power, lest a dearth befall...
...and unhappiness in the world today...
...Stephen Du Brul, in the issue of As to the actual management of the grounds, all the gardens, The Commonweal of September 22, evidently thinks vineyards, orchards, moats, and fish-ponds, were under the care he has issued a challenge to Catholic thinkers on economic of an officer-the gardinarius or hortulanus-who arranged and social problems, who are not satisfied with the existing for labor, bought any necessary cuttings or seeds, sold the economic order, which they cannot meet...
...Du of Corpus Christi (in 1524 they cost six pence at St...
Vol. 4 • October 1926 • No. 24
