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...Her idea is that music, being basic, must not be reserved for the gifted few, but must be brought easily within the grasp of every child...

...A RECENT letter in the London Tablet from Lady Winefrede Elwes, testifies that the Plus X School of Liturgical Music, founded by Mrs...

...The restoration of the Gregorian chant as the fitting expression of the Divine praises is Mrs...

...Of course, there are other proofs of the magnitude of the national hoard...

...To accomplish this she embodied her method into a system which reduces the teaching of music to a re-markable degree of simplicity and efficiency...

...If he returns with new overtures, he does so with some- thing not far removed from a threat...

...But it is really deplorable that the judiciary, upon which the administration of right and wrong directly depends, can in practice be made the sport of senatorial princes, irate over one another's pet schemes, to the point which makes government house- holding precarious...

...THE Senate filibuster has so seriously affected various departments of the government that future requests for new rules to regulate senatorial procedure are likely to have a decided official ring...

...There should be a school like that of the Sacred Heart in every diocese through- out the length and breadth of America...

...The sums paid us," remarks that letter, "will not come from taxation, but will be more than met by the payments to be exacted from Germany...

...5.00 Foreign: $6.00 Canada : 5.50 Single Copies : .10 WEEK BY WEEK A NNOUNCEMENT by the Canadian prime minis- ter that the present government of the dominion favors a policy of reciprocal trade agreements with the United States, has not met with any cordial re-sponse in Washington...

...One of the fundamental planks of its philosophy of work is that in trying to mend broken homes, it realizes there is nothing more important for its workers to do than strengthen the spiritual life of its clients...

...Louis, Missouri, has stood for some years at the head of the Catholic critics of letters and poetry in America...

...Beebe approaches the matter is peculiar and interesting...

...If arrangements for trade cannot be made which shall be mutually sat- isfactory, and it is to be a case of each country looking out for itself, there can be no question that Canada will demand that trade barriers be erected against the United States, and in place of a reciprocal exchange of concessions there will be trade war...

...The rosary has taught the children of generations "how" to pray, and it has been the treasure, even the last resource, of saints...

...The only difference between reverie and meditation is that one represents uncon-trolled thought, while the other stands for controlled and directed thought, out of which some permanent good may come...

...But the astounding tide of American prosperity has swept over them all with very little difficulty...

...and it is not good American principle to cast darkness abroad by means of a subterfuge...

...LADY ELWES heard the Plus X Choir when Mother Stevens brought it to Boston for its concert under the auspices of Cardinal O'Connell...

...During the first six weeks of I927 over one billion dollars in new bond issues were absorbed by American buyers without seriously impair- ing the value of extant flotations...

...Beebe and his friends are going to take up the practice of the rosary, it behooves them to look over the ground very carefully...

...Her work in the literary journals showed from the beginning a very fine perception of stylistic and humanistic values, and it was greeted by immediate recognition from the best critics and authorities...

...but there is every reason why a careful examination should be made by each country of the ground on which to build a memorial to the common sense of both...

...This letter has the approval of His Eminence Cardinal Bourne...

...If they decide upon a rosary merely as an instrument to aid meditation, they will be accepting a psychotechnical aid from oriental mysticism, and not from Christianity...

...This has been reaffirmed on the appearance of a later series of essays published under the title of Poets and Pilgrims, and dealing with the leading figures in Catholic poetry in recent English and French letters...

...Is the financial relationship between the peo...

...It is a great pleasure to find her conservative culture and fine literary acumen recog-nized by the scholarly judges of the Dante contest...

...Immediately, the tactics of the opposition changed...

...DISCUSSIONof the debt problem seems to have narrowed down to what is, after all, the important point...

...Great vitality, rare gifts of scholarship and literary grace, a generous tact in recognizing the achievements of others--these and other virtues distin- guished the mart whose later years were devoted to building up the press department of the National Cath- olic Welfare Conference...

...Sec-ondly, the Allied peoples are paying off their debts, not because they borrowed, but because they won...

...ples who were involved in the great war to be this: one debtor nation--Germany--destined to pay off during an indefinite number of years all the cost of the war...

...The energetic reformer has everything that a headliner on the "big time" should possess--person- ality, wonderful advance advertising and, as Heywood Broun pointed out a few days ago, a most alluring name for the electric light display over the entrance...

...This opinion is certainly quite cor- rect psychologically, and yet it does not cover all the things which characterize Catholic use of the rosary...

...but in the case of filibusters like the last, a real opportunity for reform presents itself...

...Beebe and his friends will be able to accept it quite as it stands--Marian devotion, mysteries of the Faith, indulgences--and act accordingly...

...Public opinion had de- manded light on diverse shadowy situations...

...Things are bad enough when the legislative power gets in its own way, by pulling fuses in the elaborate system by which the energy of federal rule is distributed...

...To them, repeated Ayes were not merely so many services rendered to Our Lady, but also little "word pictures" which recalled her to mind and drew attention to the great mysteries in which she had been a central figure...

...Too...

...Ward is bound to have a deep effect both in London and the provinces...

...On the publication of her first collection of essays, The Poets' Chantry, she ob- tained an ample tribute of appreciation from English as well as American critics...

...and the series will close with an address by Dr...

...But what is this about the suggested engagement of the Reverend Billy Sunday as co-star...

...This is not surprising, but at the same time, it is scarcely fair to ascribe the feeling at Washington entirely to the fact that the Republi- can party-leaders will not allow a finger to be placed on the tarii~ as it now stands...

...A second annual bulletin, just published, recownts the pro- ceedings of the convention held last November, and gives a wealth of information concerning the organi- zation, its purposes, and its personnel...

...We trust that in the end, Dr...

...Reverend Peter Hoey, of the Paulist Fathers, set forth the point of view of the Catholic Church in the first of two talks...

...Finally, a very real source of the agitation which resulted in bringing the debt problem to the fore in American poli- tics was resentment against the Allies and latent friend- ship for Germany...

...She is the daughter of the late Honorable F. Amedie Br~gy, Judge of the Circuit Court of Pennsylvania...

...Iv, THEREFORE, Dr...

...A program so dis-cerning deserves and will receive the approbation of all Catholics and Protestants familiar with social service...

...THE National Catholic Alumni Federation (as we have said upon numerous occasions in the past) can accomplish a vast amount of good in this land when everybody who should do so, rallies to its support...

...At that time, when Sir Wilfrid Laurier went to the country on a platform whose chief plank was the ratification of the agreement, there was little thought that the pre- mier who had held office for eighteen years was court- ing defeat...

...John S. Leahy of St...

...Coming to the see of Charleston in x916, he was the successor of two of the greatest and most interesting prelates in American history--Bishops England and Lynch--and, like them, he was a force in changing the attitude of the South toward a Church little known and understood there...

...We quote the following words by Mr...

...He has been a constant be-liever in reciprocity, but he is not looking for trouble...

...The obvious fact that this power is to a large extent in the hands of small investors indicates that the average citizen has been able to save far more than he could ten or twenty years ago and still keep up with a stand- ard of living which has improved steadily...

...and to my joy my wish has suddenly been realized...

...This is not fair to either of the distinguished performers...

...THAT Aim& Semple McPherson should have been offered the leadership in a proposed $Ioo,ooo,ooo evangelistic tabernacle circuit, patterned on the Keith chain of vaudeville theatres, is as appropriate as it was inevitable...

...The cotton industry, for instance, has recovered tem- porarily owing to the drop in the price of the raw prod- uct...

...It was the United States, under a Republican President, which made the last overtures for reciprocity between the two countries...

...His Maryland, the Land of Sanctuary, the standard popular exposition of Calvert history, was also to a large extent the documentary background of the Cal- vert Associates...

...We Ameri- cans may well be proud that it is to an American woman and an American school that English Catholics are turning for the reform of their church music...

...Bankers report that even now there exists a tremendous reserve buying power, which is interested in purchasing bonds that offer a fairly high rate of return on sound security...

...Later on, when the project of a soldiers' bonus became a topic of conversation, even more mournful prophecies of financial downfall made themselves heard...

...More-over, a saving of millions in interest will materially re- duce the burden carried by the Treasury...

...Moreover, the suggestion smacks of thoughtlessness in that it would altogether rob "Ma" Sunday of her share of the spotlight...

...Through this operation bonds now due will be called in, and the entire issue will have been redeemed long before the date of maturity...

...THE COMMONWEAL l~2blished weekly and copyrighted 1927, in the United States by Calvert Publish~n~ Corporation, Grand Central Terminal, New York, N. Y. MICHAEL W~A~S, Editor Assistant Editors T~o~As WALSH HELEN WALKEIt HE,-mY LONe;AN STUART GEORGE N. SHUSTEll JOHN F. ]~CCOR]~[ICK, Business Nlanager Editorial Council T. LAvo~so~ RaGGS JAMES J. WALSH C~LTON J. H. HAYES R. DANA SKINNE2 BmTaAM C. A. WXNm.E United States...

...She says of this experience in the Tablet letter: "Young girls, mostly under high-school age, and in no way naturally superior to others, sang ancient polyphonic music and liturgical chants with a gradation of tone and accuracy of intonation which was astounding...

...In conclusion, Lady Elwes writes: "Miss Honiss will give an inaugural address to explain the system on Sat- urday, March 5, and all your readers who are inter-ested in music are cordially invited to come...

...That Senator Reed's investigating committee is badly handicapped in its ef- forts to get" at important facts must be deplored, whether or not one feels that the committee's tactics and personnel are exemplary...

...Then Pres- ident Taft made a thoughtless remark which some Canadians felt reflected on the dignity of their country...

...By using the rosary we would have definite symbols from which visual pic- tures could be taken, holding the mind to the medita- tion at hand," he said...

...Those in touch with educational policy in France, more especially with the post-war syllabus of the Ecole Normale, so scathingly exposed by M. Maur- ice Brillant in his recent book, Quelques Sacristains de la Chapelle Laique, will be less inclined to wonder at the sums which governors committed to the seculariza- tion of the growing generation, are content to write off as overhead, and which the governed are, appar-ently, content to pay for anti-clerical insurance...

...He is to be followed by representatives of various Prot- estant denominations...

...Lady Elwes states that Miss Honiss, a pupil of Mrs...

...Justine Ward at the New York Convent of the Sacred Heart, is rap- idly attaining an international significance...

...Edward S. Dore, president of the federation, in the hope that they will attract attention, not merely to themselves, but also to the work on behalf of which they were spoken : "Consider the futility of gathering young men together for four years and then permitting them to be scattered during the whole of the remainder of their lives...

...Realizing how little is known by many workers who enter the field, of the significance of the Christian religion in history and human life, the society has appointed a committee whose business it is to encourage knowledge of the churches and their prin- ciples...

...Ward's re-cently arrived from New York, has already started a course in liturgical singing at the Convent of the Holy Child, Cavendish Square, and is about to organize an- other at the Assumption Convent, Kensington Square...

...How shall the continuous growth in the graduate's education and loyalty to his alma mater be achieved...

...Lady Elwes, the widow of Gervase Elwes the well-known singer, is herself one of the most distinguished English Catholics, and her enthusiastic commendation of the work instituted by Mrs...

...It is to be hoped that teachers of music will come to learn from her, so that they may propagate the work in schools throughout the country...

...The first did something to encourage wide-spread thrift, and the second succeeded in fore- stalling all question of pensions, at least for a long while to come...

...The addresses delivered by various prominent men stress questions of academic and general social interest to which every edu- cated Catholic ought to give some attention...

...She then continued her studies in Eng- lish literature and classics at the University of Penn- sylvania...

...Mediaeval Christian minds relied upon visual representation to an extent which would have seemed bizarre to the Orient...

...I could not help longing that England might share with Amer- ica the great advantages of being able to learn this wonderful method, so that our churches should also resound with beautiful liturgical singing...

...Our workers do not try to influence their clients' beliefs, but they are concerned that they should vigorously cleave to some belief if their lives are to be stabilized...

...and one creditor nationuthe United States---fa- vored to receive, through one source or another, every- thing that is paid during the same number of years...

...The Catholic rosary, which has had a long and fascinating develop- ment, adds a formal element--incorporating first of all a nearly complete statement of the fundamental tenets of the Faith, and adding in the second place those purely practical advantages which are attendant upon reiterated prayer...

...The fantastic situation, which in this case seems to have been due to the exist- ence of parochial schools nearby, is not confined to one country...

...The Charity Organization Society," says its spokesman, "is non-sectarian...

...Who can better represent the college ? The untrained undergrad- uate on whom the college has not yet deigned to set the seal of its approval ? Or the alumnus who is literally the 'fostered' and 'nurtured' product on whom the col...

...lege has placed the stamp of its approbation...

...In less official ways, many writers and students throughout the United States discovered that in Bishop Russell they had an interested, sympa- thetic spectator...

...He drew attention to a form of devotion which countless mil- lions of Catholics during many centuries have used with profit and delight...

...To every bead there is attached a "benefit," or even an indulgence...

...Now if it be true that Germany is to shoulder the sums loaned by the United States, a most peculiar complexion is put upon the whole transaction...

...During an attack on inflated educational sta- tistics at a recent session of the French Senate, the case of a mixed school in the department of Maine et Loire was reported, in which the government school-master has a single pupil, and the government school-mistress none at all...

...There is no reason why Canada should be given a lot for nothing...

...The warm commendation which this plan has received in banking circles is probably due to the proof it affords that the national debt is decreasing steadily and that rates of taxation may soon be lowered again...

...Even so, however, it is likely enough that over-production by the mills will induce congestion and the evils of a shut-down throughout the industry...

...The editors of The Com-monweal found in him a sturdy friend and counselor...

...They composed part songs on the blackboard without hesitation to any theme that was given to them, and read in parts with the utmost ease...

...When the vari- ous war-time loans were raised, they were considered a serious test of the nation's ability to pay...

...Each of them is versatile, but also each is distinctly individualistic...

...We must not allow them to outdo us in the success with which they put into practice the musical counsels set forth in the Motu Proprio...

...Banners appeared bearing the slogan, No Truck or Trade with the Yankees, and Laurier was deposed...

...PRODUCTIVE FORTUNE T HE excellent financial condition of the country is evidenced by the Treasury plan to refund the Sec- ond Liberty Loan through an issue of 3~ percent five-year notes...

...AMONG social welfare organizations which see clearly the vast implications of their work, the Charity Organization Society of New York City occupies a prominent position...

...and Canada which rejected the proposals...

...But if Germany is the one real debtor, this resentment has acted blindly and against its own actual purpose...

...There are other aspects of the plan which will require careful consideration if it is to be carried out successfully, as for instance, the matter of guarantees...

...But the point of view from which Dr...

...Other aspects of his personality were no less marked...

...In other words, the source of every cent to be received by us is the war itself, and not the era of pacification and reconstructionmthe war which must cease in practice as well as in historical chronicle if western civilization, to mention only one thing, is to endure...

...RECENT issues of the New York press featured the strange case of a public grade school in one of our western states which was conducted for over a year for the sole benefit of one scholar, the daughter of a rail- road section-hand nearby, and which, owing to the transference of this employee to another section, sud- denly found itself scholarless...

...First, it actually looks as if (though of course the truth lies elsewhere) we had entered the war in order to guarantee repayment of obligations which a German victory would have jeopardized...

...As secretary to Cardinal Gibbons, as historian of the Archdiocese of Baltimore, as an army chaplain, and as the sponsor of the annual "Pan-Amer- ican Mass" in Washington, he identified himself closely with the recent progress of the Church in the United States...

...The one answer is that some form of that continuing contact with minds trained as his, must be provided in the life after college...

...She was born in Philadelphia, and was graduated from the Philadelphia Seminary in June, 1899...

...The belief that all that is needed to evan- gelize America is the raising of $Ioo,ooo,ooo and the employment of Aim& Semple McPherson as evan-gelist-in chief ismand will have to be--touching...

...Now it is not to be thought that the present pre- mier of Canada, who lost his seat at that election, has forgotten the episode...

...Juries cannot be paid, judges and court attendants must wait for their salaries, cases of various kinds must hang fire-- all because the nation's trusted servants could not agree to make provision...

...Citizens should always hesitate to modify federal custom, even though it be merely con- vention, for such custom does guard-duty round about necessary principle...

...ALTHOUGH death came to Bishop William T. Russell, D.D., of Charleston, South Carolina, at a comparatively advanced age, one cannot help feeling that an exceptionally able man has been cut down in his prime...

...Richard Cabot, of Harvard Univer-sity...

...More important, however, is the news that because of insufficient funds the fed- eral courts must subject themselves to an embarrassing and troublesome regimen of economy...

...MISSKatherine Marie Cornelia Br~gy, who has been selected as the winner of the Dante Prize of $i,ooo, awarded by The Commonweal, and donated by Mr...

...Various oriental religions also employed strings of beads, or ropes with knots tied in them, as devices to aid meditation and prevent distraction...

...Ward's life work, and her method of teaching music is a means to that end...

...that is to say, the alumni must somehow be brought together and kept together...

...A situation something like this was conceded, perhaps unconsciously, by Secretary Mellon's open letter to President Hibben, of Princeton University...

...One must, therefore, at least face the conclusion that a readjustment of the whole debt problem may be the great beneficent "Locarno of the future," which will bring the whole episode of the great war to a practical and abiding close...

...On March 17, there opened a series of meet- ings at which the visiting staff of the society will be addressed by clergymen of various creeds...

...Working from this beginning, the masters of the Catholic soul, from the Popes downward, added other elements and blessings until the rosary of today is not only marvelously use- ful, but wonderfully complex...

...He had built up a powerful machine, his personal popularity was immense, and the issue which he had chosen, and which a then young cabinet minis- ter, W. L. Mackenzie King, so ably presented, seemed logically sound...

...Neverthe-less, there is grave danger in the circumstance that money, which must bear fruit if it is to maintain its value, is being directed into industral channels already bearing very nearly the maximum productive cargo...

...In 19o4, she responded to the spiritual call and entered the Catholic Church, with which her fam- ily had possessed long ancestral affiliations...

...IN RECOMMENDING the use of the rosary to Protestants, President James A. Beebe, of Allegheny College, acted courageously and helpfully...

...In commenting upon the incident, the Journal des D6bats rather naively contrasts the pitiful results reaped by the Department of Education with the swollen proportions of the budget they present to a hard-pressed nation--two billion francs having been appropriated for the current year for primary educa- tion alone...

...In some ways, both the loans and the bonus have turned out to be distinct advantages...

...Moreover, history proves that in this sense, the rosary was confined almost exclusively to monastic circles, its popularity beginning when definite prayers were at-tached to it...

...The opposition could not satisfactor- ily answer the arguments advanced, and there was every indication of another Laurier sweep...