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June 30, 1926 THE COMMONWEAL 199 BUT though...
...Howard, "is just now met a severe test conservatively, with an excellent in peril of being exploited by those who have not understanding of the fit course of national conduct...
...and and the endless throng which eddied in the streets...
...He seems to hope for a fusion of three tinued: "It is a question of whether the foreign eleparties in a ministry that, whatever it may lack in ments entering into the life of America, and finding inner coherence, will at least be stable enough to re- here a freedom such as they have never before ensist parliamentary interference...
...But it is to be regretted consciousness that expropriation would lighten the that the International Association for its celebraweight of taxation, the ease with which the issue might tion, with headquarters at St...
...to the upbuilding of the country are not discouraged at the start...
...The secular education to overlook it...
...In spite of heroic economy of every sort, the college lost in one year the interest on a hypothetical endowment MICHAEL WILLIAMS, Editor of $300,000...
...Wholly unmindful of the laws with mirrors and ash-trays bearing the image of the which had been established against vice, they made a Saint...
...But in this very hope joyed, and failing to appreciate the great change in lies a confession that such interference, such constant their advantages, are turning that liberty into license...
...is nothing inherently wrong in the working of a law of supply to meet the demand of pious wayfarers for THE magnificent encyclical which Pope Pius XI has some souvenir of their visit to a shrine of their devoted to the centenary of the Poverello, soon to predilection, however much one may share the disbecome the central theme of the world's religious taste of artists like Eric Gill for objects that are too meditation, contains many passages which one should often platitudinous, sentimental, and smeared over like to set forth for especial attention, and it is hard with the commercialization of the age...
...And why...
...Even absent from the ranks of those who should most where this base precipitancy in exploiting a revered scrupulously have guarded themselves against it, al- name cannot be charged, it may be said that everythough many of the clergy were distinguished for the thing is rich and nothing beautiful...
...And before the school can make the Assistant Editors progress it hopes to, this same endowment would have THOMAS WALSH HELEN WALKER to be increased at least tenfold...
...In the first place, the charge, so often helm finds him more highly respected and more power- heard, that men of what our Anglo-Saxon propaganful than ever before...
...Speaking at the Fifth Avenue Preshabit of republican rule while it was being harassed byterian Church recently, the Reverend Henry by the twin extremes of restoration and sovietism...
...This little instance HENRY LONGAN STUART GEORGE N. SHUSTER affords an illuminating insight into the nature of a JOHN F. MCCORMICK, Business Manager problem which needs to be dealt with firmly and coEditorial Council operatively...
...Until this disproportion can be theless, the thoughtful Frenchman may, some fine day, proved, what the Presbyterian pastor terms the "disgrow bitterly impatient with mere tact...
...There of it nine years ago...
...spired with the beauty she loved, and consonant with Against these powers of darkness, in an age when her own moral physiognomy and prodigious destiny...
...And, that no doubt THE varied adventures of M. Briand have led to whatever might remain in his hearers' minds as to the another victory, the exact complexion of which is still inference he wished them to draw, the pastor conin doubt...
...The ambitious did law, to be smitten with the same plague...
...To say this is not to repudiate the idea of Apart from the question of principle involved, recog- popular government...
...All that one can do is to hope trade in public offices and emoluments, by interfering -and act...
...zoo THE COMMONWEAL June 30, 1926 THE German people sagaciously avoided a bad midst of genuine difficulties have proved the feebleblunder by refusing to support the referendum ness of French parliamentarism as an agency of modauthorizing the expropriation of royal property...
...This, he says, "has not yet His name is, for all the ignorance and indifference achieved the high success we hope for it...
...The freedom view it with equanimity ought now to see that it has of this great republic," said Dr...
...These figures tell their own story...
...Upon the hallowed name that is a symbol of proud display of their riches at wild orgies...
...Never- to be unjustified...
...possibly it is its very obviousness which has caused But all this splendid outward shew was merely like some who are frightened at the technical progress of a toast, sublime yet perfunctory, after the feast...
...Neverthepoverty, is of particular significance because the de- less, in the cold-blooded estimate of such items as scription might well apply to certain aspects of the "objects of piety," or "five francs for a chair for the contemporary world : "Sad, indeed, was the fate of night," there is something that shocks and disgusts...
...the common people, because the relations between the owners of land and the peasants, the greater and the M. GAETAN BERNOVILLE, the latest, and perlesser as they were called, had nothing in common haps the worthiest, of the biographers of the little with the spirit of human kindness...
...June 30, 1926 THE COMMONWEAL 199 BUT though one may well plead, with Father Burke, THE COMMONWEAL for larger grants of money to aid the noble work of education, it is obvious that this petition alone will Published weekly and copyrighted 1925, in the United States by the Calvert Publishing Corporation, 25 Vanderbilt Avenue, never succeed in removing the obstacles to educational New York City, N. Y. progress...
...A million universities which are supported by liberal grants of people crowding, their sins forgiven, toward the sacred money every year, and with highly endowed private Banquet may make an impression...
...Very definitely this is the root of the prob- not the purpose they have primarily in mind...
...Tact has brightened many a dark hour...
...Father Burke the multitude with twelve loaves transcendently muldistinguishes between essential and non-essential char- tiplied is recalled by the act with which the Eucharistic acteristics of religious education, and finds that the Congress opened-the reception of the Divine Sacrabasic matter "is the religious atmosphere of the ment by a million penitents, thronging the churches school, the religious environment of the student...
...The vulnot shirk sinful ways of gaining riches, being some- garity, the stupidity, the hunger for gain and ignorance times violent extortioners of money and sometimes of what is really fine will never be eliminated from usurers...
...the purchase will impose a tax upon people already heavily burdened under the provisions of the Dawes COMMEMORATIONS are worthy things, and alplan, the sums required will mean a kind of premium though the timeliness of Magna Charta day, scheduled for the guarantee of credit and property...
...They are required to compete with state hastened in from the corners of the earth...
...ern rule...
...All our shrines austerity of their lives...
...We may take it as a matter of "Very few Catholic universities and colleges have an course...
...The marvelous giving of the he is intelligently aware of the difficulties which con- Saviour's Self in the multiplied loaves consecrated in front Catholic practice...
...Perhaps for June 12, was a little indeterminate (713 years, by the radical demand for confiscation was inspired less close reckoning, have passed since the precious docuby hostility to the royal persons-or memories-con- ment was wrested from King John) nothing but good cerned than by a desire to gain greater leverage for can be accomplished by attracting public attention the communistic idea...
...More es lem of the lay-professor who, though he often makes sential .by far than that, more essential indeed than anygreat sacrifices to aid the cause of religious training, thing else on the earth, is their own humble reception should not be expected to submerge his family and his of That which shall go with them, as their own hearts own development under the burden of an ideal...
...neglect this fact...
...it is rather to express the obvious nition of the legality of the monarchial titles was help- conclusion that government must be something more ful to the continued stability of the republic...
...How this can best be done, happily, is THE indignation aroused in France by the formation the concern of many active and sympathetic bodies of a company to exploit the cult and memory of Saint and individuals...
...This is more than a third of the income...
...But possibly the following sentences, even try to see a wish fulfilled that would not have which describe the social conditions under which the been very far from so simple and childlike a heart as Saint approached his beautiful crusade for purity and that of Saint Therese of the Infant Jesus...
...But though Father difference is not a matter dependent upon faith, or Burke refuses to compromise on the supreme issue, attitude of mind...
...lic auspices than that given, in a recent address, by the Reverend Joseph Burke, C.S.C., president of THE significance of the miracle by which Christ fed Saint Edward's College, Austin, Texas...
...We may standards and we have fallen in line...
...Howard, who is a native of London and a recent resiToday the government of Von Hindenburg is wedded dent in the United States, had a word to say to his to a more safely constituted authority than has existed fellow Nordics which we sincerely trust will not set in Germany since the war...
...He may be able to push through dists are agreed between them to call "foreign" stock, a program of reform which, even if not ideally per- are responsible for a volume of crime out of proporfect, will be practicable in a situation quite as des- tion to their numbers in any given city or district has perate as any that has confronted a nation since the been examined time and again, and as often discovered war...
...We may need to be aroused imaginatively by adequate endowment," he specifies, "and most of them the breathless ceremonial of a gathering which has have none...
...Later the day grew That only teachers consecrated to the service of their brilliant with services made beautiful through the pomp profession by sacred vows can preserve the fealty of of scarlet and gold, of music and incense, eloquence the college to spiritual principle seems obvious...
...That, however, is schools...
...At the prevalent, the central reality of life...
...juggling of majorities in the Chambre, has nearly wrecked the financial and political stability of the DR...
...But it has been to his thesis that it can be circumvented by means of made public and one or two comments upon it become diplomatic manoeuvering...
...Many added to their patrimony by illicit human nature...
...We do not believe him in need of that In the second place, the statement that immigrants extreme form of dictatorship now exercised in Italy from.abroad really find when they land "a freedom and recommended by a constantly increasing number such as they have never before enjoyed" would bear of his fellow-citizens...
...like a host of invited guests...
...heroism and sacrifice, a ridiculous diminutive has been inflicted, while posters upon the walls announce "YES, this lust for wealth and pleasure was not even `Teresette' as a liqueur of superexcellence...
...Those who did not belong to the un- tells us that at Lisieux today "a frightful commerfortunate plebs, permitted themselves to become agents cialization rages everywhere, filling shop-windows of egotism and greed, being motivated by an insatiable with gaudy statues, with rose garlands in plaster, desire for wealth...
...to devise a practicable remedial scheme...
...As a result of this generosity there was this June a deficit of approximately $15,ooo in the treasury...
...Doubtless his return to the in order...
...But the referendum decision afresh to what is still the basis of the political liberwas also a victory for the government...
...He himself observes that the college under his direction "granted, during the present year, over $40,000 in employment and in the reduction of rates to help worthy students...
...We do not know how to solve it...
...M. Briand recognizes the danger...
...But ten years of trial in the examination...
...and power...
...Prevalent also was the cus- of pilgrimage," adds M. Bernoville, regretfully, tom of monopolizing the sources of wealth and of "seem, as though by the workings of some mysterious building up vast private fortunes...
...Paul, Minnesota, should, be made to seem part of the democratic program-all apparently of set purpose, be narrowing its appeal in these were successfully lived down by a nation which, this country and endowing it with a racial and secduring the past ten years, has striven to acquire the tarian tincture...
...Perhaps some little group of authentic with the administration of justice, and even by pro- artists will, in time, give us images of the saint incuring for criminals immunity from punishment...
...Today a careful and Protestant profession of faith are not the prime reading of the encyclical will suggest that now as well prerequisities for citizenship, is to abridge this critical as in the thirteenth century there is, as William James period of apprenticeship, and to see to it that men once remarked, a deep need for the same spirit and who have so much to contribute, in brawn and brain, the same vows...
...They have set the the human being assumes resplendent dignity...
...Those who were Saint, puts the matter very cogently in the last chapter powerful misused and oppressed the lowly and the of his Sainte Therese de I'Enfant Jesus, when he peace-loving...
...Through this present day, leadership in education is largely in the virility is given for the soul, and unworthily enough hands of those outside the Church...
...Those who hesitated to the key for future self-congratulations...
...HOWARD'S plea was uttered with all the country...
...But it can safely be said that about Therese de Lisieux, and the publication by its prothe worst way to set about it is to establish, even in moters of a prospectus, reckoning in round terms of the interests of so worthy a memory as Magna Charta, the depreciated franc the profits to be derived, will be shibboleths of creed and blood, and to represent men shared by many lovers of the Little Flower in this as "exploiting" the privileges of American citizenship country who are by no means thin-skinned in such matfor evil ends who are sometimes pathetically anxious ters nor apt to take scandal from what has always to earn it and were certainly not found slack defenders been an inevitable corollary to popular piety...
...been assimilated in thought and action with the spirit of its traditions of freedom...
...In the prosto commend too highly the enlightened enterprise of perity their sale diffuses over the region in which her the New York Times in giving the entire text of it in religious life was spent one may, with a little tolerance, a leading article...
...In many respects, notably in civic reguJune 30, 1926 THE COMMONWEAL 201 lations, they find themselves faced with restraints to the official voice of the Church was disregarded even which they have been unaccustomed, and a great part by emperors, Francis rose, wrapped in poverty so of the problem before those to whom Nordic blood bright that he seemed an angel...
...The Bread is multiplied that they may live...
...and, perhaps, to enlist the enthusiastic help of laymen who, because WEEK BY WEEK their lives have not brought them into intimate perJT would be difficult to find a more pertinent state- sonal contact with Catholic higher education, minimize ment of the case for higher education under Catho- its importance and its harrowing burden...
...Though than merely popular...
...go...
...The passions ties shared by the English-speaking race in all counwhich rose to the surface during the campaign, the tries where it has taken foot...
...Seeing round quieting" encroachment of license upon liberty, so far about him countries which have regained stability as it affects the character of the foreign born or dethrough the exercise of authority, he may finally set scended, is merely a statistical accident due to the comabout giving his government something like cogency position of the population in the area under survey...
...and one diffidence of one who feels that American domestic cannot help admiring the tenacity with which he clings affairs are "none of his business...
...But T. LAwRASON RIGGS JAMES J. WALSH one suggestion comes to mind-the formation of a CARLTON J. H. HAYES R. DANA SKINNER group of religious university executives who, like BERTRAM C. A. WIN= Father Burke, know the situation, to deal at first hand Subscription Rates Yearly : $10.00 Single Copies : $0.10 with the difficulty as with a common danger...
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