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June 16, 1926 THE COMMONWEAL 143 Constitution, and...
...Compromise bestrength to offset the attacks of a malignant disease...
...This who are themselves too simple to unite in their hearts doctrine is the whole truth, the boundaries of which the story of Christ and the critical portrait which are not limited to revealed dogmas but extend to the has been fashioned by the sceptical...
...This school, formally approved of stability...
...evidences that under its professions to be a league for The idea of employing groups of citizens to report free and open discussion, it is really a league for con- upon and, where necessary, condemn theatrical offertrol...
...There is much justice in the ported at the end of last year upon a congress of the contention of the big South American sister that, un- National Catholic Federation, in which ten people lostl less and until the United States enters the League, their lives, they have just directed the municipality to hers will be the only voice to speak for the Western furnish compensation, totaling half a million francs, Hemisphere at the permanent Council board...
...The opposition to covers with obloquy whole communities, and by imSpain is not difficult to understand...
...The unreasonable the varied experiments in living which have been tried things children do to us are exactly like the hard enthusiastically by the American mind...
...They are unusually notepiece of carelessness over the date of issue of The worthy because, all equalizing theories to the contrary Castle of Otranto, and not upon the evidence which, notwithstanding, they were unusually important...
...and that the material reprinted is more imminent by familiarizing the youth of the counto be selected with a view to its timeliness and intel- try with the handling of arms...
...which gave Mrs...
...The new censorship has its and art of Europe...
...Phelps sarcastically Assistant Editors foresees a time when some new constitutional amendTHOMAS WALSH HELEN WALKER ment may speed up legislative processes by making it HENRY LONGAN STUART GEORGE N. SHUSTER so...
...Phelan's interest in orphaned children is, though historical dates and data...
...very, very careful how they venture henceforth on Mr...
...One fancies that no particular juicy details of what are considered the younger gen- paean of thankfulness on the part of normally coneration's wanderings off the path of righteousness, it stituted boys and young men will greet a compromise is a pleasure to turn to the following random thoughts, which accords them full permission to hang their equipfound in the dressing-table of a woman who some years ment on a hickory limb but never, in the interests of back was glad to give up the honor of being America's international peace, to venture near the water...
...Great importance has come to attach to the the nations of the world to a birdseye view of all the views he chooses to enunciate upon any question at nice things Americans have-reduced taxes, collected any time...
...That separation of diluting with water a medicine which needed its full alone can bring Christian unity...
...A separation between the "that a city chemist should entertain the barbarous idea two is the crying need of the hour...
...them with the imprimatur of, at least, some British reviewers, and with the unqualified commendation of ONE aspect of the life of the early Church which a legal luminary whose business in life has largely still awaits adequate study and description, is the part been detecting discrepancies in evidence, is all to the played by Roman patricians who, having been atcredit of native scholarship...
...it comes from an active worker in the party to which Borah is ostensibly affiliated will hardly unsettle a man A WORLD of this stamp will find us fairly good whose political allegiance has always been uncertain...
...The Digest, which need not be denied the youth of high school and college is...
...When for them...
...ing a constitutional danger in the proposed referen- The more hungry the spectators, the more merrily dum upon the workings of the Volstead Act, consti- they must have joined in the applause which a great tuted himself the guardian of the Constitution, unde- people, through its representative, showered upon itfiled and unquestioned, it was not to be expected that self...
...that ing out the pacifist argument to its logical conclusion it expects to deal preeminently with topics of interest is typical of the groups which believe that war is made to all the churches...
...A quarter of a plication, the men and women who belong to them, century ago, the then British Prime Minister, Lord is a safe, and presumably profitable occupation...
...For years, the gradual only type that can be sung well in the average parish drift toward modernism, as illustrated so well in the choir...
...A religious faith canmerchant of poisons...
...Demonstrations at all Gregorian classes religion and naturalism would, among the liberals, beby boys and girls will aid the students in their study come so slight as to be imperceptible...
...Yes, the precocious children of illuminati appear before the utmost patience...
...been rendered possible by an agreement with the Actors' Equity Association to abide loyally by the deTWO news items reported by our enterprising con- cisions taken, and apparently, to judge from the statetemporary, The Universe, of London, bear out the ment attributed to one of the managers whose persaying that where religious matters are at stake, it is formance was condemned, it may be rendered nugatory pretty safe to expect the unexpected in news from by a withdrawal from that body...
...Failing this one fatal "slip- man like Mr...
...Hence when the Senator from Idaho, scent- war debts, peace, freedom, and bouncing dinner pails...
...company and need not even fear what we may say behind its back...
...will become a natural part of education...
...Providence and geography T HE case of Senator William E. Borah is typical have placed them within states that have legislatures of a tendency that has not received the attention and legislators of their own, quite capable of dealing it deserves at the hands of those who study the strange with their peculiar problems...
...But is found so often a lonely protestant against what he placed the nation into the first role with a deftness, he considers the unwisdom of his fellows in the Senate an exactness, and a triumphant gusto which are, in and country that gradually he has become a national their way, quite inimitable...
...T. LAwRASON RIGGs JAMES J. WALSH Meantime, his active interference in New York State CARLTON J. H. HAYES R. DANA SKINNER politics is something which every citizen of the EmBERTRAM C. A. WINDLE pire City or State is within his rights in resenting...
...No man can go north Would this man be less a criminal than the professed and south at the same time...
...Although Abbot Ferretti, the eminent THESE authoritative remarks imply that a knowlauthority on Gregorian chant, will not be able to super- edge of sound sociological doctrine, combined with a vise the courses this year, the faculty will neverthe...
...to theological authority for guidance and light, and Shall we dilute the medicine of saving doctrine...
...The present vigorous firm of offenders is not going to confer immunity...
...The following are some of the conclusions, set down here without further comment: "Bring- N the American tradition of the Catholic layman, ing up my children is, to me, symbolical in a very real Orestes Brownson remains an individual and a way of the religion of Christ...
...Children simply can't understand why and live on a high level and with exceptional vigor...
...The fact that The Commonweal is case, the Reverend Sidney L. Gulick, secretary of the among the journals from which the Digest garners its Commission on International Justice and Good Will, material suggests once more the value of effective is at some pains to make it plain that the committee's Catholic journalism-a value which is really inestim- objection to military training does not extend to the able when one remembers that outside good will is old-fashioned exercises upon the drill-ground, but to often earned quite as much by justness of temper and "the highly technical and systematic training, includcalmness of mind as by cogency of argument...
...the answer in that tremendous word-faith-which in Nothing is so deplorable about contemporary culturn we teach our children through constant affection tural life as the failure to codify experience...
...Strangely enough, they seem to have A local branch of the Association of Combatant noticed the presence of a miniature tempest which Priests, formed of clerics who saw service at the front, lasted during a trifling period of four years...
...Directors and organists will find the training career of Dr...
...Many readers Mass, at which the Auxiliary Bishop of New York ought to find it a serviceable introduction to the study will pontificate...
...On the to the families of the victims...
...And that is why a peans, would have been ruggedly opposed...
...June 16, 1926 THE COMMONWEAL 143 Constitution, and the competence of a citizen outside of that state, no matter how prominent or eminent, THE COMMONWEAL to interfere actively in its affairs...
...But he did actually write, think, goes on living...
...The action of void-so many evidences of the love of the carping Pope Pius XI, in conferring upon Mr...
...The other is the compromise, on topics of a political or social character, naturalistic and agnostic modernism opposed at every with erroneous doctrine...
...We judge from the initial known as the R. O. T. C. movement, is not a very number of the Religious Press Digest that its plan convincing document...
...Thus, in the present lectual value...
...they have to do certain things-accept certain eventu- Of him it may be said-a rare tribute-that he was alities...
...But as we grow older we find satisfied with nothing less than sincerity...
...But it will not wear a pleasanter face last year, where it has actually got to work...
...Proof that elements ing alive and her insistence upon the prestige of the exist in France which inspire hope and confidence in living, may well prove distasteful to powers who, a just issue are always coming to hand...
...Meanwhile, the bowels of society have become the prey of a terrible existing relatively hypocritical compromise endangers malady which can cause social death...
...As a sequel to the savage attack reless easy to understand...
...which has never welcomed the love of the Master...
...We are the the confidence of thousands who look trustingly physicians who have been summoned to the bedside...
...1 not be balanced...
...This may be defined as concen- old firm may plume itself, in honest pride and satistration on the comparatively few instances where eru- faction in a trust fulfilled and a great work accomdition and art were employed to dubious purpose, with plished for the good of religion, for American thought wholesale indulgence for thinly veiled pornography and culture...
...As Mr...
...been contributed to masterfully by spiritual scholars and the men's choir of the Pius X School will supply even in the modern era...
...But it is interesting to tracted to the Faith, devoted much of the power of note that the authenticity of the headlong adventures their minds and wealth to the defense and the chariof the Young Lady of Fashion crumbled on a mere ties of the brotherhood...
...The slander took' United States during the nineteenth century were, in the ridiculous, but what one unaware of the peculiarithe final analysis, the difficulty of adjusting conflicting ties of French jurisprudence would consider the very national and racial interests and the continuous bother safe, form of asserting that "Catholic priests are of budgets, private and domestic, which simply would criminals and the real authors of the war in 1914...
...James J. Phelan, of Boston, realizes the up," in a matter of months, it is to be feared that all opportunity he has been given to aid the mercies and the accumulated authority of men who have made the principles of Christendom, there is every reason why history and literature of two centuries ago their special we should rejoice in the good he can do and applaud study, would have been so many voices shouting in the him with such honors as we can give...
...The letter which Assemblyman Phelps Phelps, friendship of the United States, remarked the Presiof the Tenth Manhattan District, has seen fit to ad- dent, is expected to live up to a code of conduct which dress to the western legislator is not likely to abate is: harmonious dwelling side by side with its neighthe enthusiasm of these admirers, and the fact that bors, balanced budgets, faithful paying of its debts...
...No man was paradoxical rewards of affection, as for instance, ever more thoroughly an American, coming as he did `Blessed are they who suffer.' The more love one de- from the stock which may be termed the human root votes to either, the more love also does one receive- of our culture, and living out in an energetic fashion though sometimes in disguise...
...It is to the general world when resentment has been grati- interesting to note that its functioning now has only fied to the extent of cutting off a nose...
...The advisory board has disciplinary powers and ings, was first mooted some six years ago, and though may adopt the New York World's genial suggestion the plan has been constantly aired in the press and and give Madrid and Rio Janeiro the option of "back- upon platforms ever since, this is the first instance, if ing down before October, or of being summarily we except a report on three plays of a serious nature backed out...
...BEFORE delivering his Arlington address, President Elected to represent the opinions, or, if you will, the Coolidge apparently did not refresh his memory on prejudices, of a single state in the union, Mr...
...Phelps very Published weekly and copyrighted 1925, in the United States by convincingly puts the case: "If Idaho has a state referthe Calvert Publishing Corporation, 25 Vanderbilt Avenue, New York City, N. Y. endum, my hope is that the moderates win...
...Phelan the "high-brow" for picking holes in the literature which distinction of a Knight Commander of the Order of the great public likes served and seasoned to its taste...
...as a philosopher he may your child, for whom you work hour after hour, will have sacrificed eclectic cogency to intuitive depth...
...to anyone acquainted with the turns of thought and Though the time is now quite different, standards of phrasing of the eighteenth century, was apparent upon human value have not changed...
...in the field of applied sociology has been wide and deserving of the honoring attention it has received, THE summer session, which will extend from June presents a mass of reliable data skilfully organized 28 to August 7, is to open with an impressive Field in conformity with the best methods...
...From its beginning are quite like soldiers who surrender outlying defenses it has profited by the Benedictine scholarship and piety and open the citadel to attack...
...But this machine is not the United States Senate...
...entire body of teaching which serves, protects, and defends these dogmas, just as the fortifications of a THE publication of the Religious Press Digest, city serve, protect, and defend it...
...The demand DEPLORABLE as the condition of affairs in Presfor courses in Gregorian chant, we are told, is increas- byterian theological circles may be, nothing could be ing rapidly each year, because it is recognized as the gained by an attempt to gloss over difficulties and base and model of all true liturgical music and as the assume that harmony exists...
...Three thousand children from schools of the abidingly valuable literature on the subject-a in which the Justine Ward method is an integral part literature which, contrary to widespread opinion, has of the curriculum, are to sing the Mass of the Angels...
...The story of Kenedy and Sons reveals the and suggestiveness so long as it wore the mask of in- dependence of our earlier days upon the literature eptitude and vulgarity...
...Doubtless the intellectual substructure of June 16, 1926 THE COMMONWEAL 14 one's loyalty to a spiritual creed is less likely to be home without children in it, is, to me, like a home mere routine inheritance than was formerly the case...
...A world which wishes to enjoy the side...
...It was so easy to invite figure...
...as tell you a lie or steal from you-just as it is difficult a man he probably was often furious where he should and baffling to see a dear friend die while an imbecile have been urbane...
...and those who forget this thought...
...Neither can we...
...umny applied nearer home to some of the disreputable sheets which make wholesale defamation and scurTHE reported withdrawal of Brazil from the rility the meat of their ill-printed columns...
...Let us suppose," he writes, point to the Christian faith...
...Senator Borah already has the right to challenge JOHN F. MCCORMICK, Business Manager the constitutionality of the referendum-and the ConEditorial Council stitution provides a way and means for him to do it...
...We need to feel the vast re- the world as connoisseurs of cosmopolitan fuzz at the sponsibility of the job, and realize that we shall go tender age of twelve, there is little hope that what on living in our children, almost in the same way as we is honest and indigenous in the national tradition shall live eternally in the spirit of Christ's charity...
...pranks which human nature so often plays with the wisest and most fool-proof of political institutions...
...And took the vicious statement up, and the result has been we are informed-possibly it escaped the President's vindication to the tune of a prison sentence and a, attention-that they missed in the official American fine of 2,000 francs...
...And so the publication of Practical Social attendance will be large and promising, that the work Science, by Dr...
...Now then, we see that the not deny and affirm simultaneously...
...To this habit To do one's best for these little ones is therefore really Brownson, however attentively he studied the Euroto gain a foretaste of immortality...
...Even while men who normally gave little thought to traditional Christianity are driven, by more or less THE protest issued by the administration committee pragmatic reasons, to affirm the usefulness of religious of the Federal Council of Churches regarding milifaith, the controversy about tenets of belief grows tary training in high schools and colleges, popularly steadily more strenuous...
...As a writer knocks we get in life...
...Upon the score of politi- in the midst of their compunction and self-searching, cal good manners, it raises the entire question of the a few of the spectator nations seem to have been rights which a state still possesses under the original bothered by a few consequential details...
...educational work will proceed according to a schedule of courses exceptionally rich and varied...
...Another is that the size and weight of tural maintenance...
...He knew...
...Which is admirable advice on the BUT one point which the New York man makes is whole-a splendid constitution for a new age l But worth considering by itself...
...Subscription Rates Yearly: $10.00 Single Copies: $0.20 Legislators from the South or West who make metropolitan morals their personal charge, need to be reminded that mere size does not avail to make big cities WEEK BY WEEK a federal responsibility...
...issued in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, ought to prove a age, but the very interesting and intricate manoeuvres valuable addition to American religious journalism...
...It is believed that the faith...
...A certain hesitation in followstresses the largest possible amount of eclecticism...
...In a word, the from non-Catholic sources appealed to us as helpful, drudgery of "squads right" and "right front into line," sincerely moral, and illuminating...
...Justine Ward her inspiration and equipment...
...but I would do nothing to bring such a condition about, regarding the matter as one for the men and women of Idaho to settle for themselves...
...Perhaps Dr.-J...
...face of it, one would have looked for a warm welcome, in any capacity, to a power so respectable and THERE is an element of drama in the suddenness so eminently qualified to speak impartially and dis- with which the "play juries," whose very existence was passionately in a crisis...
...tween directions is impossible...
...The sourness to Brazil's pretensions is the struggle...
...the one hundredth anniversary of the foundation of the Catholic publishing firm of P. J. Kenedy and WHILE liturgical music is being emphasized in an Sons...
...We ing combat drill, such as is provided in units of the might add that a great deal of the comment reprinted Reserve Officers Training Corps...
...John A. Lapp (New York : The Macaccomplished will be memorable, and that another step millan Company) is a literary event of more than will have been taken in the direction of promoting ordinary importance...
...Borah the parable of the Pharisee and the Publican...
...which give them a meaning and incidentally an excellent chance to acquire habits of mental and physical alertWHILE several investigators are adding up the ness, are to be taboo...
...Her tenacity in remain- sometimes contending angles...
...The system of checks and balances under which we live, does, it is true, provide a machine whose function it is to decide in cases where state and federal rights clash...
...Meantime, the nature of June 16, 1926 THE COMMONWEAL 145 the entertainment attacked by the play juries at least he spoke of the fact that the good things endure, and marks a happy departure from the procedure followed the really poor and weak things perish...
...Far less is it the unassisted judgment of any one senator, howMICHAEL WILLIAMS, Editor ever distinguished, though Mr...
...best feminine golfer for the sake of a relatively large amount of original investigation into the subject of THE FRIENDS OF BROWNSON childhood...
...France...
...That much of cur- whose first number appeared during May, is perrent sociological doctrine is irreconcilable with this haps a sign of the increasing interest in religious body of teaching is obvious...
...It is a task that requires patience...
...But it will make the hoaxers standing fashion, "kindly and generous to the poor...
...Pius IX, is therefore exceptionally appropriate...
...The Salisbury, made the graceful gesture of referring to fight for religious freedom in France has been aired the old country of the Cid and the Conquistadores as a good deal lately in these columns from various and one of "the dying nations...
...With the new era, there has reputation still to make, but in its present action there come an added reliance upon purely American literary are two extremely hopeful signs...
...It would be interesting to see' hortatory remarks a quality which, in their ignorant, the French view of responsibility for corporate calantiquated vocabulary, is usually termed common sense...
...One of the speakers at the dinner tendered by the reigning Pontiff and placed under the patronthe P. J. Kenedy and Sons firm at the Hotel Astor age of His Eminence, Cardinal Hayes, combines inin New York on June 5, touched a vital spot when struction in melodic art with study of the sacred 146 THE COMMONWEAL June 16, 1926 liturgy as a part of Christian life...
...There is the additional disadvantage that pleasant results, anonymous blanket slander which the blow is self-administered...
...At Tours, a judge and jury have just imposed a sentence of fine and imprisonment upon an anti- I N other words, law has yet to speak the deciding clerical lecturer for a libel, uttered by him in a lec- word upon the system of purification inaugurated by ture, not upon any particular party or parties, but District-Attorney Banton...
...But the compunction and self-searching with the powerful bodies who are responsible for the Eigh- which they hearkened to good advice concerning their teenth Amendment would try to conceal their satisfac- own misdemeanors was really the important aspect of tion in finding so very redoubtable a champion on their the occasion...
...It is hard to understand why he probably lacked style...
...Publishers come and go like the autumn leaves, impressive manner at the Eucharistic Congress and and he who reads the annals of the American pub- at the Sesquicentennial, where the Catholic choirs of lishing world, the names on the older books and maga- Philadelphia will present a distinguished program, atzines, will search in vain for the firms that produced tention is directed once again to the pedagogy of rethem and in many cases find it impossible to trace the ligious music as formulated by the Pius X School of histories of their rise and fall...
...One is that it is effort, a recognition that in scholarship, letters, and being undertaken in cooperation with actors, actresses, the arts we are coming of age and are no longer supand managers who have the best interests of their art pliant to France, Germany, and England for our culat heart...
...reasoned acquaintance with social facts, is largely inless be complete in every way and will derive lustre dispensable to those who would properly combine the from the presence of a successful Canadian liturgist, performance of civic duty with the practice of religious the Reverend J. E. Ronan...
...After this ad- to help out wonderfully in the classrooms where the mirable illustration of the goal to be achieved, the student is invited to prepare for charitable living...
...Apparently 144 THE COMMONWEAL June 16, 1926 they recalled that the causes of the migration to the upon the Catholic body generally...
...When a successful every page of the book...
...One is the great redemptive Billot has emphasized the danger of attempting to religion known as Christianity...
...No The swoon of the Young Lady of Fashion as she is other American has received this distinction, which as faced by detection will not, it is to be feared, set a a rule indicates that the recipient has been, in an outperiod to her imitators...
...Raymond Fosdick, has made inevitable in Gregorian chant and correlated subjects of practi- a time when the difference between dogmatic revealed cal value...
...not widely known, magnanimous and redemptive...
...sirable ideal leader should be...
...Nothing continues to discredit only revealed on the eve of action, have struck at the the League in American eyes more than the recurrent evil of suggestiveness and indecency upon the stage...
...The author, whose experience adequate religious art in the United States...
...An addi while asserting that their ends are peace, continue to tional instance that deserves mention is the action of: conceive and assess authority on potentialities for dis- the courts at Marseilles, one of the storm centres of turbing it...
...Lapp's book ought also the chant of the proper of the Mass...
...A publishing house Liturgical Music at the College of the Sacred Heart existing one hundred years is an admirable example in New York City...
...Kenedy's envisages the new century with the powerful background of its fine traditions, and will do much THE acumen displayed by native literary critics in to further a literary development both Catholic and detecting the Cleone Knox hoax, after it had reached American in the best sense...
...One hundred by similar movements in the field of literature, which years of growth, slow, sure, and healthy is something has earned for them the reproach that the major evil to be proud of and something upon which this fine was being shirked...
...Because he is also a director of the Calvert Associates, AMONG the centennial celebrations of the year, we here share in a particular way the noble honor there are few that strike the thoughtful heart as does with which he has been endowed...
...But he is clearly right when he says: "The plain fact is that two mutually I N a recent paper written to honor the work of exclusive religions are contending for the control of Giovanni Fossa, a prominent sociologist, Cardinal the Presbyterian Church...
...of Gregorian principles and give them opportunity Gresham Machen, the keystone of the conservative to observe the result of choir training based on a thor- arch, may be less tactful and diplomatic than the deough musical foundation...
...Both are rich in the force, a personality and a program...
...League of Nations and the reduction of her participation by Spain to the mere presence of a junior diplo- 0 NE of the weaknesses of the law of libel, as it mat with a watching and reporting brief, is a heavy is administered in Anglo-Saxon countries is that, while blow to the harmony and authority of the body at to asperse individuals by name brings speedy and un Geneva...
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