The Fad of Motion
90 THE COMMONWEAL June 2, 1926 parents-back to the Divine source of strength. At $15,000,ooo. Of course,...
...The importance we A few years ago, our great cities carried on without have attributed to the machinery of movement is monu- automobiles, and today Berlin, for example, with mental...
...It was the centre or backpublished its estimate that this country's automo- ground for fetes, pageants, games, fairs, town-meetbile bill, including cost of cars, insurance, upkeep, ings, and all sorts of community activities...
...Indeed, the work is towns with a cathedral as expensive as the one menheavy and often disappointing...
...this one is so peculiarly ours that it tells a good delight in nature are better served by being whisked deal about us, and may serve as a standard of com- along a crowded highway than they are by a walk in parison between ourselves and people of other times...
...The work of building and furnishing the cathedrals THE Cardinal-Archbishop of Boston occupies a provided the best of training and experience for stoneposition sufficiently prominent to attract the attention masons, stone-cutters, sculptors, carpenters, woodof all Americans...
...To the ployed being machine-tenders, doing routine work letters and addresses of felicitation which reached which gives little or no scope for human interest or Cardinal O'Connell in such large numbers on that day, development...
...encouragement of all, and interested help from every- The cathedral, under ordinary conditions, should be one who can be of assistance...
...this year's crop of automobiles will be rust...
...Nothing at all like it has happened in human 4,000,000 people and vast business, uses very few of history...
...One must confess to a doubt that interest and asms...
...It is said that in the Ford plants the we wish to add our own word of gratitude for his usual workman is expected to learn in a week, or less, manly enthusiasm for the arts, the work of literature all that he needs to know about his job...
...The prerogatives iron, slate, leather, etc...
...his interest in the nobler forms of civic and religious The work of making automobiles is done chiefly by endeavor...
...It needs the constant tioned for what we spend on automobiles in one year...
...Can it be that about seventh in size of all the churches in the world, we are paying so much for rapid movement, to get and its cost will be between $10,000,000 and the illusion that we are going somewhere...
...ing to pay so dearly...
...It stimulated and nourished moral growth, spiritual exaltation, THE FAD OF MOTION aesthetic delight, religious consolation, civic pride...
...all the people of the communities concerned, and in- Can it be that what the automobile provides is an volved a huge expenditure of effort and treasure, escape from the necessity of facing the problem of which some have considered wasteful...
...It touched, to a greater or lesser extent, rather a fad, followed because others are following it...
...During the past year, their work has been European cathedrals were built, but, even at present extended to more families, and preventive care has costs, we could provide each of a thousand cities and kept 630 cases out of court...
...It represented and expressed his thoughts and kindly toward those who have tried, in whatever feelings about his place in time and in eternity, his fashion, to make civilization more worthy of humanity...
...normal use of our city streets...
...It touched intimately the sacred matters of birth, youth, T HE Bureau of Industrial Technology recently marriage, sorrow, death...
...gasoline, etc., amounts to more than $14,000,000,000 What are the important special enrichments that a year...
...Of course, building of this sort is far present, 757 children are under the care of the Big more expensive now than it was when most of the Sisters...
...and journalism, and the whole of what one may term The cathedral had to do with man's deepest intertraditional Christian culture...
...Men have always had their special enthusi- them...
...Twenty years from now, might well be a model for similar bodies elsewhere...
...90 THE COMMONWEAL June 2, 1926 parents-back to the Divine source of strength...
...The money cost does not, by any means, rep- the automobile brings us, and for which we are willresent all that we pay for the privilege of motoring...
...No man has been more ests...
...the woods...
...and the work of a large proof office cannot, however, account for the affection of portion of these required personal thought, taste, and a very personal sort which is felt toward him by the skill of a high order...
...New York's organization good for a thousand years...
...From time to time, he has taken carvers, painters, organ-builders, glass-workers, weavadvantage of this authoritative eminence to give coun- ers, dyers, tapestry-makers, embroiderers, illuminators, sel about the affairs of the nation, and to strengthen jewelers, and craftsmen in gold, silver, bronze, lead, the prestige of the Catholic body...
...Fittingly enough, the recent occasion of machinery devised and controlled by a number of comhis twenty-fifth anniversary as a bishop was graced by paratively insignificant persons, the bulk of those ema universal and spontaneous tribute of love...
...It was work in which a normal citizens of his diocese and by all who have appreciated human being might well take interest and find pleasure...
...There was, for example, the enthusiasm for cathe- Can it be that this huge movement is not an intellidral building which marked the twelfth and thirteenth gent effort to achieve a profoundly desired end, but centuries...
...There is now existence, of making up our minds what life is about, being built in this country a cathedral which will stand and how we are getting on with it...
...The mere matter of carrying We sacrificed more than twelve thousand lives to the people and goods from place to place is surely not automobile last year, and every day we sacrifice the important enough to bulk so large in our economy...
...ultimate destiny, his supreme loyalty...
Vol. 4 • June 1926 • No. 4
