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May 19, 1926 THE COMMONWEAL ...
...By simplicity...
...The Senator had been frowned upon Bradford, governor of New Plymouth Colony, letby almost everybody of official importance in Wash- ters in `French' and in Dutch, and that his secretary, ington...
...He re- mighty and lingering one...
...of towns in every part of the country similarly to find and cherish the sources from which their life came...
...The rest, Father, together with the apostolic benediction...
...It is high schools...
...In short, the • measure is viciously nationality of Peter Minuit, the first governor of narrow and serviceable to the worst purposes of fan- Manhattan, is debated...
...And that happens to be a defeat pleasing to deport aliens who, within ten years after their arrival, nobody so thoroughly as to those insurgents who, a could be labeled with a minor prison sentence...
...the model of those heard at Cologne...
...what is alleged against the Illinois parole system Comment on such a case as Talbot's is bound to be proves to be true, the Governor and his associates something in the nature of an anticlimax, but one obwill stand before their fellow-citizens in a spiritual servation may be permitted...
...But when one remembers that 4,000,000 markable to think of citizenship in the universe 1 Tertiaries observe the rule of the Third Order while going quietly about their business, the significance of THE Federated Junior Newman Clubs of New York what they are doing comes home...
...Even without the dissatisfac- tells us that Minuit was a Walloon-that his family, tion of the farm bloc and the middle-western resent- during the persecutions in the southern provinces, had ment of overtures toward Geneva, the imprint of the taken refuge in Wesel, where Minuit was a deacon of administration upon the national consciousness is far the Walloon church at the time of his appointment less incisive and sure than it used to be...
...members are concerned...
...recognition of such service to nation and Church...
...tribute the small legalized quota equitably...
...He also officiated in the cadence that left one breathless, at a music hall...
...The Belof bludgeons and pikestaves...
...He's a jolly good fellow" was the prevailing melody wherever mention THE problem of relating higher education to reof "Jim" Watson, his addresses and his deeds, was ligion remains, as we have all learned from long conmade...
...The organization is for Catholic Merwin's account of his ten years' stay in Old Con- teachers and pupils in the public and other secular cord, as issued in the May Century magazine...
...But not that the Church will ever give her than half of the prospective candidates for nationalcountenance to an effort to break it by violent means ization...
...Nor, to con- dents in other sections of the dominion have been, tinue the mournful tale, are affairs more promising however, less fortunately circumstanced...
...This is no faubourg with a cosmic urge...
...The object of the clubs, we are informed by their bot very much flesh and blood, though the blood was chairman, "is not to bring sectarian instruction into impoverished by vigils and fastings, and chains were the public schools, nor to be a fraternity or a proselyembedded in the flesh...
...and the noble in Iowa, where the Republicans were foolhardy effort to aid them is described as follows by a religMay 19, 1926 THE COMMONWEAL 33 ious educator who speaks with authority: "Since the garb of sepia beyond comparison with even the worst million English-speaking Catholics of Canada are no- of recorded political villainies...
...No matdent in the recent presentation of The House of ter how many harsh things Spenser was ready to Wisdom at the Pius X Hall in New York City...
...But Baltimore Cathedral, and in Saint Patrick's Church, Mr...
...But the afterpossible in musical instruction when it is carried out effects, as we judge from a spirited paper on the subby such teachers as Mother Stevens and her coad- ject, contributed by Edward A. Maginty to the curjutors in the Pius X School...
...Similarly, the elegance and perfect sonalized history, every person who serves long in the design of the illustrations make it a gem of exquisite community (and I have perhaps made it clear that it art...
...Such Dominion of Canada...
...And perhaps there is no one some years ago by Catholic teachers and pupils, and who could explain half so well as Mr...
...and we might rough-and-tumble world of unskilled labor...
...The things are taken more or less for granted, but in the results have been eminently satisfactory...
...Daugherty threatens to prove a profit from the accumulated mistakes of the past...
...and it is out of that income creator of the series of Franciscan paintings which that the original indebtedness is being paid off...
...If a fractional part of pray for nearly three hours with arms outstretched...
...The Irish Free State, for its part, will be which leave ruin and misery in their wake...
...The following year saw his appointment to the he says, "is the part played almost everywhere by the pastorate of the Church of Saint Charles Borromeo children...
...They are settled in so far as its charge will be made for admission to the conferences...
...The mutter when the thought of "Rome" obsessed him, he House of Wisdom is a cantata written by Theodore was as fond of cloisters and holy singing as is that Heinroth, one of the instructors at the Pius X Insti- contemporary bandit of beauty, Mr...
...The ambition and no desire to uphold the belief that this country is greed of men would be kept within bounds by this merely a full-grown thirteen colonies...
...In this attitude, it is to be feared, both capital and labor are reflecting only too faithfully the trend of the age...
...Wesel, so near the whelming victory of Senator James E. Watson in the border of the Belgian provinces, had been a `city of Indiana primaries is, for instance, a proof that local refuge' in the days of religious persecution...
...We quote from The Belatics...
...Though emotions were tense and intimates declare, he never took what would be called bitterness unavoidable, far less desire to kill was notice- a square meal...
...Resiperate national campaigns in its history...
...These details of how a community has its lofty inspiration which makes of the book a work solved the question of enjoyment come home to many of high spirituality and raises it above so many current of us who dwell in ambitious hamlets with all the productions in which the author easily descends to sharp melancholy of envy...
...It organized worker-to many thinkers slavery under appears, however, from estimates supplied by the ofanother guise-may come to be just as unthinkable...
...of which percent blunder when born...
...tizing agency...
...Their first duty States Senate...
...brought against it in criticism...
...From evidence already presented, it ap- covered upon his body when it was stripped for burial pears that the prosecution of gangsters has been in the hospital, had never been suspected by his mates, brought to a complete standstill for reasons which with whom he bore the name of a "wiry" and active include inability to fasten the crime upon men who worker...
...It does not desire to exclude anyone, not everyone who can dwell for more than a week close but refuses in the American spirit of toleration to to Chester French's Minute Man and the quiet riches force its religious views on anyone...
...Whatever be the record of the Anglican church in the past, that section of it, at least, I N an article upon some of the more general aspects which is nearest to traditional Catholic thought, has of the great strike, now happily over by mutual con- identified itself so thoroughly in recent years with the cession, The Commonweal has referred to a remark- cause of the dispossessed that the misleading charge able book published by a Catholic scholar of Oxford, of being infected with actual socialism is sometimes Mr...
...When the President signed in producing a condition of Christian conscience to the amendment to the Johnson immigration bill, which which the idea of slavery was intolerable, Mr...
...Pise was also a poet of considerable ability, and whose rule imposes as a special obligation the sanctify- his song, The American Flag, should be in the memory ing of home life...
...Imagine the celebrations seems to prove that Republicanism has lost its battle which might be staged in a righteous and self-loving against middle-western particularism all along the community were the law endowed with the might to line...
...THOMAS WALSH HELEN WALKER HENRY LONGAN STUART GEORGE N. SHUSTER I N excluding the appeal made by the head of the JOHN F. MCCORMICK, Business Manager state church from the columns of the state "newsEditorial Council paper," the government, no doubt, acted within T. LAWRASON RIGGS JAMES J. WALSH its functions...
...charming personality...
...Perhaps the grand jury now sitting in Chicago, while making the Stations of the Cross on bare knees as the result of a machine-gun volley which incidentally he contrived to cover his legs with a long overcoat, caused the death of an assistant district-attorney, will which he wore, for that purpose, winter and summer get at some of the causes which underlie this appalling alike...
...The recent escape of seven eventually, please God, dot this land...
...Her work entitled to only 8,830 passports-about twice as many is to restore "moral sanctions," the old Thomistic as Russia...
...And these-to voice a common Westphalia, Germany, but many historians claim him conviction-already have more than a normal supply to be a Belgian, or of Belgian parentage...
...Both the singing of the choir ner suggested to Cardinal Manning that the great and the playing of the little orchestra, most of whose blunder had been to permit sung Masses in churches members are still in their early 'teens, would have where musical ambition was anything but a virtue...
...yard at a wage that never exceeded $5.oo a week, Talbot, by a dietary that just kept body and soul toAN American of these times will be impressed by gether, succeeded in saving all but $1.5o weekly, no aspect of the recent British industrial disturbance which sum he contributed to the education of priests so much as by the respect for human life manifested for the Chinese mission-field...
...The career of this cultivated gentleman was to convert the Mass into a matinee musicale, at of the past illustrates the success of a brilliant and which the best procurable musicians should assist...
...able in all England than in a single normal large American city...
...The very modern country club, even, makes no effort to rival similar neighbor- WE cannot refrain from communicating to our ing organizations...
...And if the alities took in the development of the colony...
...Meetings are supernights...
...A letter from Cardinal professional is a recognized master teacher, and the Gasparri conveys to the artist the thanks of the Holy meals are well cooked...
...And how could the neighbors be anything but tinued discussion, dependent upon given cultural and loyal to a man who had resolutely gone fishing when- economic circumstances...
...lence...
...THE extraordinary work which is being accomplished CHURCH MUSIC IN BRITAIN by Mother Stevens at the College of the Sacred Heart in the musical training of children was splendidly evi- T HE English mind is enamored of ritual...
...he had even been denounced by Albert J. Isaac de Rasieres, was a Walloon...
...Pise was born at The grip of these masters of profane melody was a Annapolis, Maryland, on November 22, 18o1...
...In some of the 8oo missions where they can in Sydney Place in Brooklyn, where he served religion have a Mass to themselves they sing folk-Masses, after with the highest dignity and virtue until his death...
...Anything from bibbling a THE Manhattan tercentenary observances, extended glass of sherry to shaking a fist at the constable would comment on which has been published here and elsebe enough justification for shooing an Irishman or Ital- where, are of added interest because they arouse so ian out of the country, and, incidentally, for exposing many questions about the share which various nationhis family to hardships of the grossest sort...
...The only good that could possibly come of it gians, by Henry G. Bayer, which will be reviewed would be its usefulness as a club in the hands of liquor- in a later issue: "Peter Minuit came from Wesel, enforcement officials...
...Most astonishing of all tions, the plank bed, wooden pillow, and single blanket...
...They have removed where grouped in a solid mass but are everywhere from custody dozens of the ultimately degenerate, scattered, as a minority, over a country nigh four who paid for the privilege of freedom for the purpose thousand miles wide, it is not possible at present to of recouping their fortunes in beer rings and through establish that claim of Catholic universities that will lucrative assassinations...
...Merwin is ready with the answer: "In a of the soul and true spirit of Saint Francis," says the village that is itself an institution with a curiously per- Cardinal's letter...
...It is sixty years ago 34 THE COMMONWEAL May i9, 1926 since M. Victor Hugo, in giving the ascetic spirit the religion and education, it is felt that many who do not benefit of his tremendous mind, declared that in order belong to the federation-either because of their own to exorcise it in our midst today, nothing more drastic religious affiliations or for some other reason-will was necessary than to "spell the date...
...While Church, the restoration of men to be brethren be- these estimates are admittedly subject to revision, the cause elevated to be sons of a common Father, would relative permanence of the figures supplied will uninspire the minds of men and act as leaven through- doubtedly be assured by the law...
...Scandinavian countries, from which many conception of a "trusteeship" of wealth...
...are the extrajuridical enterprises which function in the practice of rising at two o'clock every morning to behalf of the law-breaker...
...It is interpolitical machinery can run smoothly without a na- esting to note that in 1627, Minuit wrote to William tional lubricant...
...vised by teachers and the clergy, and are held outside "Everything is considered in purely Concord terms...
...done credit to any of the established choral and orches- The Motu Proprio of Pope Pius X was a blow felt, tral institutions, and was a superb example of what is equally as much in Salisbury as in Paris...
...and, especially ever, which the Dublin correspondent of the National in mathematics and natural science, the pupils have Catholic Welfare Conference communicates to the made use of certain university lectures...
...But it bides no good to the party which and higher religious training carefully adapted to the may soon be face to face with one,of the most des- needs of its relatively homogeneous population...
...To the press, is positively startling in its evidence of the perdiocesan Ursuline community, a member of the Ursu- sistence of the ascetic spirit in unsuspected quarters, line family, which is the oldest religious order in the and all the more so because the details brought to Catholic Church founded for the education of women, light have occurred, not in any cloister where such the Bishop of London entrusted this college...
...the first endeavor of which should be to brand political venality with a mark it can never forget...
...A worker in a lumberof the arts and the fostering of religious conviction...
...It would be so simple for a throng classic it deserves to be...
...of Saint Peter's Church on Barclay Street, New York "The most healthy liturgical feature of our time," City...
...Thus, lence...
...be bigger or better known...
...Once this of our best mechanics have come during recent years, should prevail: "That basic doctrine of the Catholic are reduced to a total quota of about 7,000...
...boomerang which will not only deprive the veteran Senator Cummins of his railroad fare to Washington, THE Holaday bill, however, as reported in the but may figure as a weapon of the greatest importance House, cannot profit from anything...
...Pope Leo XIII once remarked: (1845) Saint Ignatius and His First Companions "My reform is the Third Order...
...The over- as director of New Netherland...
...The importation of ethical, New York City, N. Y. not to say dogmatic, issues, was either resented or dismissed as so many perfunctory gestures, meritorious enough in their futile fashion, but quite immaterial to the question involved...
...It will pay those who are interested of every student of our Catholic institutions...
...These words of encomium ought to help toward is difficult to live here without serving) tends to become making Subercaseaux's great achievement the spiritual an institution too...
...The case of "Matt Talbot," howstituent and yet autonomous college...
...Later and bells attachments of the thoroughly up-to-thehe taught at Mount Saint Mary's College, where John minute organ going full force-to a sonorous and Hughes, who became the great Archbishop of New full-throated Gounod, with that addition of coloratura York, was among his pupils...
...Everything for use...
...We ourselves have miceived his education in Georgetown College,and was grated from a nasal Gounod in church-with the banjo for a while a member of the Society of Jesus...
...Charles while away the tedium of a Sunday morning by means Constantine Pise, the only priest of the Church in all of compositions which were, as they were meant to our history to fill the post of chaplain to the United be, in a twofold sense, distractions...
...What is the reason why vulgarity or to strangeness of conception, this publicaConcord can do these things-can have these things...
...But antagonuniversally recognized authority, to spurn which ism might well bear in mind how difficult it is to diswould be to incur the censure of Christendom...
...AN anniversary that should be important to every "Famous as they may be as the idols of the tonal American interested in the history of Catholic culture in craft, the men of the Viennese school, Weber and his our country occurs on May 26, the sixtieth anniversary ilk, belonged to that race of spiritual court-jesters emof the passing away in 1866 of "the founder of ployed by the richer princelings of the continent to Catholic literature in America," with Dr...
...The effect will beout our national life, precisely as it leavened and and manifestly ought to be-a vigorous and continued purified, without destroying, Roman society in the protest from elements in the population which have early Christian centuries...
...Of these facts the Hoosier at the ballot- career of this sort invites historical speculation...
...Only the evidence of his sister, who kept move behind one of the most elaborately constructed house for him, has brought to light other mortificasmoke-screens in the world...
...The that the lives of the saints record for our edification Catholic Women's Arts College was, founded at once...
...gian historian, Baron de Borchgrave, says that he was the scion of a Flemish family which had taken refuge THE margins of Coolidge Republicanism are becom- at Wesel, while the American historian, Charles Baird, ing increasingly ragged...
...When religion has been a snubbed and cold-shouldered guest in the ordered house of life, it is not likely it will find itself welcome when the house has been thrown into violent MICHAEL WILLIAMS, Editor disarray, particularly as what it has to say is not Assistant Editors likely to make good propaganda for either wing...
...After pointing out that the Catholic Church never pronounced slavery in set terms to be an infraction THE-battle for race purity is a persistent and not of moral law, but nevertheless did gradually succeed always unstrategic affray...
...Samuel ical, or social cloak...
...Now the It may be that the formula finally agreed upon will indictment of Mr...
...May 19, 1926 THE COMMONWEAL 3 W HAT marked out the present from past indusTHE COMMONWEAL trial conflicts was not only its scale, but the insistence Published weekly and copyrighted 1925, in the United States by of both parties that it be regarded as an entirely secuthe Calvert Publishing Corporation, 25 Vanderbilt Avenue, lar and economic affair...
...The rope, chain, and cords which were disholocaust...
...Eustace Dudley, upon National Resurrection...
...Far be it from Barat, the foundress of the Society of the Sacred us to repeat the irate commentaries on Victorian Heart, and was performed under the composer's direc- Established services supplied by so many of the judition by the students of the College of the Sacred Heart cious and notable, when the struggling Catholic manand the Pius X School...
...The work is one of great charm...
...box apparently remained careless...
...and therefore it does not hide under a literary, historical, geographWE have enjoyed more than we can say Mr...
...The questions of Church, New York City, will be followed by Com- modesty in dress, vulgar plays, and intemperance have munion and breakfast on the morning of May i6...
...A toll of more than twelve thousand HIS austerities were secret and he seems to have lives a year is the price we pay for unrestrained vio- taken pains to have them pass as eccentricities...
...Sarah Brownson...
...Elsewhere they...
...all been included among the things against which the In accordance with the spirit of the organization, no Third Order stands...
...Spelling out be-glad to accept the cordial invitation extended to "nineteen hundred and twenty-five" leaves Matt Tal- all...
...Meanwhile America will was distinguished and forceful...
...Quebec, as a French-speaking fidelity to one's political first love is touching and Catholic province, has developed a system of secondary profitable...
...There year ago, stood shivering in the victor's cortege...
...THE thought that the modern world is permeated Perhaps this very ease is responsible for the neglect with the influence of Saint Francis may at first seem of local community living: it seems so much more re- paradoxical...
...The building is modest but charm- readers the honor which has been conferred upon the ing...
...and for one year, 1848, he was pastor unhappy things, is pleasantly hopeful...
...There local . chamber of commerce began to sniff the awful is reason to believe, for instance, that had it not been odor of communism on the outskirts of a strike, the for the vast migration into Holland of Belgians durtrain service would probably break down under the ing the century of religious turmoil, sufficiently numerstrain of immigrant laborers headed back to shores ous colonists for the Dutch West India Company's from which the chamber itself emanated a paltry sum purpose would not have been available...
...carried out in the midst of lowly and anonymous The university governors and senate have facilitated lives, and unknown of men until the accident of death in every way the successful functioning of this con- discovered them...
...It was started of Emerson's library...
...ficial statisticians that under the new law Great Britain Individualistic capitalism, he admits, stands con- and North Ireland are empowered to furnish more demned...
...Briefly stated, the character of the re- are now under way, should assume for its especial purtreat is this : a series of three conferences, to be de- pose the idea that the simple, basic rules posited by the livered by the Reverend James M. Gillis, C.S.P., on Poverello are our most helpful remedies for the ills the evenings of May 13, 14, and i 5, at Saint Paul's which inflict modern mankind...
...Sooner or later- (1845) and Christianity and the Church (185o) . As who knows?-the world may come to agree with the a general contributor to the magazines of his time he great, far-seeing Pontiff...
...Merwin does has for the past two years enjoyed the approval of the effects of the long, well-filled village days and His Eminence, Cardinal Hayes...
...defense of the former Attorney-General...
...For forty years, his by the contestants...
...rent Dublin Review, are more than relatively estimable...
...George Grey tute of Liturgical Music, to the words of Mother Barnard...
...tion offers a contribution of the first rank to the study And Mr...
...It was a 100 in the conduct of the next campaign...
...But the The Commonweal was the first to present to lovers of golf-course and tennis-courts are really good, the golf art in the United States...
...The facts add that, together with their kindred college, Saint of Talbot's life have been published in a book of which Michael's, in the University of Toronto, these insti- 15,000 copies have already been sold and can only tutions have done work of the first order in the culture be briefly referred to here...
...are plenty of penal offenses which carry a penalty of at least one year in jail...
...Obviously, divorce and and because the subject is the relationship between materialistic conception of marriage, now so prevalent, May 19, 1926 THE COMMONWEAL 3S are discountenanced in the lives of the Tertiar ies, Dr...
...It is therefore City, whose chairman is Mr...
...The dues were only recently raised from South American artist, Signor Pedro Subercaseaux, $20.00 to $30.00 a year...
...But the nineteenth-century Englishman was really It was written in honor of Saint Madeleine Sophie a clumsy ritualist in practice...
...the school buildings with the knowledge and consent I have been unable to detect the slightest impulse to of the Board of Education...
...It would seem only have had the opportunity to observe the nobility of the fitting that some of our Catholic societies and authors' Franciscan ideal and to see something of its effect upon guilds should unite in erecting a public monument in millions of ordinary, struggling, busy folk...
...Obviously, a Beveridge...
...The pres32 THE COMMONWEAL May i9, 1926 ent measure rectifies some errors in the older immi- enough to unseat Senator Brookhart by resorting to a gration scheme, even while making others of its own...
...Its purpose is religious...
...IT was with all these principles before his eyes that Bishop Fallon, of London, Ontario, after having ex- TWICE within the eighteen months of its publicaplored all the educational possibilities of the province, tion, The Commonweal has had to record instances of decided on the policy of establishing Catholic arts heroic sanctity and mortification-rivaling anything colleges in the University of Western Ontario...
...Frank D. Whalen, an- fitting that the Second National Convention of the nounce a retreat for Catholic teachers in the public Third Order of Saint Francis, preparations for which high schools...
...There is a valuable lesson in ever a dankerous national issue appeared, and who the experience of a country to which we do not turn always returned an hour ahead of time upon days frequently enough for counsel and example-the when the affairs of Hoosierdom were at stake...
...Here once again is a case present moment to obtain the advantages of university where the citizenry must exercise eternal vigilanceeducation and thoroughly Catholic intellectual culture...
...He in social reform, regardless of their religious affilia- wrote, in five volumes, a History of the Catholic tions, to observe the convention attentively when it Church (1829) and Father Rowland (1829) Aletheia meets in October...
...Maginty, though savory in his recollection of old, Washington...
...But labor will be very foolish if it folCARLTON J. H. HAYES BERTRAM C. A. WINDLE R. )DANA SKINNER lows this grudging example and despises the moral support to its just grievances which the churches can Subscription Rates Yearly: $10.00 Single Copies: $0.20 lend, simply because their support rises above the level of partisanship: The Catholic Church in Britain has been, and still remains, the church of the worker WEEK BY WEEK and of the poor...
...Meanwhile it desperados from a "non-leakable" penitentiary, where rests with each individual bishop to solve, with the they had murdered a warden and overcome the guard, concurrence of the Holy See, the higher educational is more lurid but not more ominous than the freeing problem of his diocese in such a manner as local con- of dozens of others through the orderly channels of ditions may require to enable his diocesans at this executive government...
...Even the of years earlier...
...Dudley based the annual quotas on ancestry or national origin, assigns very accurately the limits within which she he probably did not realize how completely the can do her work today in producing a state of mind measure would put into practice certain ideas affecto which the haplessness and dependence of the un- tionately entertained by indigenous Anglo-Saxons...
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