Communications

...A. A. NOVAJOVSKY...

...T MARK TWAIN PRIZE Webster Groves, Mo...

...In my answer I proved that Mr...

...If our enemies in this country cannot injure us as much as they would like, they will try to make up for it abroad, and we should stand shoulder to shoulder with our fellow-Catholics of that new world which Columbus gave to Castile and Leon...

...Fisa---s~Ided The Commonweal for its alleged inaccurate statements concerning conditions in Czecho-Slovakia...

...JOSEPH DWIGHT...

...When these two over-rated and over-advertised personages are put aslde--and this is very likely to happen in the coming elections--then perhaps there will be a change for the better...

...The Catholic Church has in all ages defended the indissolubility of the married couple...

...O the Editor :--Mr...

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...Unhappily, however, such is not the case...

...RAYMO~CD VI~RNIMONT...

...Take, for instance, those who amiably advise Protestants that their "Our Father" is the "same as ours," never taking into consideration that it is a paraphrase of the prayer taught us by Jesus Christ Himself...

...May The Commonweal and the entire Catholic press do everything pin their power to wipe out this shame...

...T ACCURACY AND CZECHO-SLOVAKIA Tarrytown, N. Y. O the Editor:~Mr...

...T THE COURSE OF CONVERSION Newark, N. J. O the Edltor:~In his paper entitled, The Course of Con- version, Mr...

...I am inclined thoroughly to agree with him...

...T O the Editor :--The Commonweal of January 26 has an editorial on page 3t3 which begins thus: "The business of divorce was never so prosperous as now...

...I think your investigation will show that the decision of the Supreme Court stated that a fair return was 7 percent of the investment...

...G. J. W~uNGER...

...O the Editor :--Is not the Reverend John A. Ryan mis- quoted in the article appearing on page 340 of The Com- monweal of February 2 ? The writer is not an attorney and does not have record of Supreme Court decisions readily at hand, but several trade journals gave considerable prominence to the decision in question...

...Obvi-ously, this is wit out of its element...

...They should be mailed to the Mark Twain Society, 37 Gray Avenue, Webster Groves, Missouri...

...4Io THE COMMONWEAL February I6, I927 COMMUNICATIONS T THE RAILROAD QUESTION Pittsburgh, Pa...

...Only recently, a member of one of our largest Catholic societies called upon an apostate of my acquaintance, soliciting funds for some cause or another, and told the latter that if he contributed the sum of $25.oo he would get to heaven...

...Catholics should make a strong attempt to stem this source of divorces...

...O the Editor of The Commonweal:--The Mark Twain Society is offering a prize of $IO.OO for the best short letter on the subject: Why I Like Mark Twain...

...The Fortnightly Review of January I5, copies words from the Catholic Citizen which might be helpful: "The Dublin correspondent of The Universe (London) states that 'a mixed marriage in any part of Ireland is an extremely rare thing.' " If a third of the marriages were, as here, mixed marriages, the Irish bishops would devote all their Lenten pastorals to the subject...

...Mr...

...A person who offers his services to furnish any "authentic" material concerning the present political and religious condi- tions in Czecho-Slovakia should not depend upon "bona fide" nor upon "some of the Czecho-Slovakian newspapers in New York" for such "authentic" material...

...Fisa, secretary of the Czecho-Slovakian legation at Washington--in his last letter plain Mr...

...Letters should not exceed 300 words in length and must reach us by August I of this year...

...One fruitful cause of these tragedies is mixed marriages, which lead toward godlessness...

...Sands's idea of a Pan-American Catholic college looks in the right direction...

...You may not be aware of the fact, but in I926 the railroads operating west of the Mississippi River did not earn 4 percent of their investment while few eastern roads were able to earn the 5 and three-fourths percent that is sug- gested but not guaranteed under the provisions of the Esch- Cummins Law...

...Why condemn Mormonism when the nation is steeped in it...

...But are not mixed marriages of fre- quent occurrence among Catholics, especially among those who have high-school and college educations...

...I firmly believe that the present government, notwithstand- ing the addition of a Catholic or two in the cabinet, is still in control of Masaryk and Benes, both of whom have often be- trayed their Hussite, anti-Catholic spirit...

...The railroad question has too long been a political football...

...T A PAN-AMERICAN COLLEGE Brookline, Mass...

...The Commonweal invites its readers to send in communica- tions expressing individual views on all topics that are of public interest, regardless o/ whether or not such topics have been previously discussed in its columns.--The Editors...

...CYRIL Ct.EMENS...

...G. K. Chesterton tells us that it is not the propaganda spread by the enemies of the Church that scares the neophyte, but Catholics themselves...

...Fisa is not quite logical when he says he is not author- ized to pronounce himself about the present relations between Czecho-Slovakia and the Holy See, because in his first letter he offers his services to furnish "any" authentic material, re-ligious or political...

...Is there no way of restraining these cosmopolites of religion who go about apologizing for their faith and selling heaven ? ELSIE A. GALIK...

...THE BUSINESS OF DIVORCE Denton, Texas...

...If the American transportation system is to be maintained on its efficient basis and if new capital is to be secured, a fair return must be given to the stockholders...

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...Her help never was more needed in these United States than today...

...Fisa was not quite accurate him- self...

...They would have no trouble marketing their securities if the yield of 30 percent could be maintained...