Week by Week
647 WEEK BY WEEK NOTHING decisive has happened in Mexico, but there are numerous indications of weakness in the Calles front. The official report that no agreement had been arrived at...
...It is probably true, as Sir Auckland remarks, that young Chinamen coming to this country to study, and mixing, as he is careful to note, with its "middle and lower classes," do not imbibe the enthusiasm that breaks out into oratorical periods at banquet* given by class-conscious and race-conscious Pilgrims...
...There have been two unsuccessful attempts since Pasteur to upset his findings, one by Dr...
...His original place of work was in Salford (which is the Catholic diocese of Manchester) where Bishop—afterward Cardinal—Vaughan came in contact with him...
...Pankhurst says nothing of the kind...
...They need the addition of opinion-forming agencies, however, and the commission is a step in the right direction impressively taken...
...But it leaves us with the realization that we are bound to surrender the services of a singularly energetic and highly endowed young woman...
...Examined in the cool blood that Americans can afford, the incident does not read very much like a "casus belli...
...On the other hand, it is hardly the best way to keep Irish alive to let it be understood that men and women are to be paid for speaking it...
...But it is not too much to say that the new company is fully equal to any of the traveling groups which cater to the musical needs of smaller cities...
...Certainly the new organization has a place in this age of publicity...
...but the generosity of Mr...
...Undoubtedly also the campaign of propaganda has cost the Calles regime a great deal of money...
...In so far as the debate envisaged the great issue of liquor legislation, however, it is significant and creative of public opinion...
...From the blue plains of his ancestral Flanders...
...True, the proposal is not new...
...It can help greatly to promote "better understanding...
...George Eastman made it possible...
...The talk of a Gaelic ascendency might be left to the readers of the Irish Times...
...According to the newest school of philologists, all languages are equally ancient and equally modern, and the work that any language does can be done equally well by any other...
...The whole of the canning industry and the whole of aseptic surgery depend on these fundamental directions which, traced back, are a legacy from Francesco Redi...
...Meanwhile, general protests against governmental injustice have multiplied...
...and already there are signs that faith and charity have accomplished what belligerence could never achieve...
...These men have for their purpose, declares the announcement, the making of opinion...
...But now, when the women are pressing for fulfilment of the promises, fear stalks from Land's End to John O'Groats...
...The official report that no agreement had been arrived at concerning the future position of the Church proves, at least, that a serious effort to reach a compromise was made...
...and his last recorded words: "I can hear bells...
...Perhaps...
...To which it might be expected that Mrs...
...THE appearance of an article in Scientia on Francesco Redi, whose tercentenary occurred last year, is a reminder of a man whose name should never be forgotten by Catholics...
...In short, the effect of the discussion has been to dissipate a great deal of misunderstanding, to silence calumniators, and to establish the fact that persecution is the real activity of Calles...
...After all, however, human nature is considerably older and more dependable than any form of legislative enactment...
...It is quite evident that they carry back with them a sentiment that western life, as glimpsed in these United States, will be more helpful in solving their problems than the western life their own treaty-ports have shown them...
...And really it is time that the Senator learned that there is no meaning in his pet phrase, "A bronze age language for a bronze age mentality...
...General Mulcahy's report, embodying no less than eighty recommendations, makes a bulky and informing document...
...It recommends the establishment of factories for the production of certain government supplies, the development of cottage industries, the development of the fisheries through better boats, to be supplied by the government on easy terms to the fishermen, and the creation of training colleges in the Irish-speaking districts so that an element that has Irish natively can be drawn upon for the staffing of the new bilingual schools...
...It seems a little difficult to reconcile these facts with the popular doctrine of the enmity that is alleged to exist between science and the children of the Catholic Church...
...Important officials who remain aloof from the interests of religion—General Obregon is a prominent example—see that the cabal in power cannot hold the entire people at arm's length for very long...
...Now, however, after a row of performances in New York City, one must speak of these young and ably schooled artists seriously no less than optimistically...
...She also is controlled by the fear complex when brought face to face with something that has never been done before, and remarks sententiously that "to extend the franchise to 649 girls of twenty-one is a very serious step to take...
...THE attempt to put into action the report of the Gaeltacht Commission is making for interesting developments in Ireland...
...This time the national agitation is caused by fear that the government will carry out its announced intention of permitting women to vote at the age of twenty-one years instead of at thirty—thus enfranchising another 5,000,000 young women...
...Should Ireland make such a subsidy...
...If this be treason, we must let the tetchier Anglo-Saxons in both countries make the most of it...
...whether the innumerable aspiring poets to whom she sent personal missives of encouragement will have to go without their graceful little bouquets of praise— all this remains to be seen...
...Of course, it would prove much more effective if it were supplemented by local community organizations of the same kind...
...but when his shyness wore off, he was always found to be a delightful companion with a vast well of information that was ever open for any man's bucket to dip hopefully into...
...647 WEEK BY WEEK NOTHING decisive has happened in Mexico, but there are numerous indications of weakness in the Calles front...
...In manner, he was reserved, one might almost say ultra-English...
...The problem of the Irish-speaking districts, as General Mulcahy's report shows, is grave as well as complex...
...Their company is not merely "hoping to be something some day...
...These districts are being denuded by emigration...
...Neither politics nor new movements are to engage the attention of this new body...
...We feel that The Commonweal may see in her coming another sign that its hope to develop an organ for the expression of intelligent Catholic opinion is being fulfilled...
...and quite as obviously it cannot stand for change, some of its leaders being frankly dry...
...It founded and reared splendid mediaeval churches, established charitable organizations, places of refuge, and gave to the impoverished Indian population a primary education which it could obtain from no other source...
...He showed that maggots, which had been a staple argument for spontaneous generation, would not appear if meat were protected by gauze...
...Dominique Homan, in so far as it points to her own future happiness, must elicit hearty rejoicing from us all...
...648 THE Butler-Borah debate on prohibition, as it stirred Boston recently and is likely to be remembered in history, was really a G. O. P. house-party...
...But Senator Gogarty's gibes in the Senate ill become an Irish Senator with a Celtic name...
...THE long-expected American opera company seems to have come into being in Rochester, New York...
...More open-air discussion is sure to follow, great names will be pitted against one another on many platforms, and the Eighteenth Amendment is going to creep out of its constitutional morgue...
...El Universal denounced editorially "a situation which is little less than a reign of terror, and which is maintained under pretext of vigilance and the suppression of disorder...
...A sufficient rejoinder to Sir Auckland would be that, in the education of her own ambitious young East-Indians, Britain, till very lately, has had no little rivalry from younger nations to contend with...
...Surely none can overlook the value of words like these, included in Diplomatic Episodes in Mexico, Belgium and Chile, a book just published by Mr...
...Incidents like that which forms part of the recent history of Dayton, Ohio, where a large library is to be erected at the Catholic University of Dayton through the generosity of Mr...
...Pasteur's method may be summed up in the two words, sterilize and isolate...
...An Irishman, born in Scotland but reared near Coleraine, he obtained his clerical education in France and Rome...
...The Catholic Church, winning its long, difficult but pacific struggle against oppression, will prove itself unmistakably the religion of popular choice and the greatest agency of spiritual and social culture in the land...
...The scientific world is agreed today that there is no evidence for spontaneous generation...
...A European thinker dedared recently that the outstanding weakness of current political thought was its tendency to forget that, ultimately, it is Providence which rules history...
...When the future Cardinal moved to Westminster, Moyes accompanied him and ever afterward was attached to the Cathedral establishment...
...An exacerbated sensitiveness concerning Anglo-American relations and an instant resentment when anything threatens to disturb them is very much the order of the day in official and business Britain...
...The patience with which the Church in Mexico has submitted to the Divine Will cannot go unrewarded...
...and we do not doubt that she will be just as important and quite as agreeable in the future she is to help make...
...THE recent death of Monsignor Moyes, after a long illness, deprives the Church of a very distinguished writer who will be much missed on account of his erudition and his facile pen...
...Another matter of interest may be mentioned here...
...In fact, the spirit of its ensemble singing is a very rare and beautiful thing...
...Meanwhile, one comfort we take is derived from the fact that Miss Mary Kolars has been added to the editorial staff...
...This laid the first foundationstone of the future series of experiments: isolate 1 A century later, in the controversy on the subject between two Catholic priests, Tuberville Needham and Lazzaro Spallanzani, the latter added the second foundation-stone, namely, sterilize...
...but Redi, an Italian, a poet and a physician, knocked the bottom out of one of the leading arguments in the seventeenth century...
...Victor Emanuel, a Jewish alumnus, do very much to dissipate local prejudice and to destroy barbaric animosities...
...Butler Burke...
...Whence did the sound of those bells come...
...Obviously, Republicanism cannot identify itself with prohibition, several of its important leaders being frankly wet...
...MEANWHILE, public opinion in the United States has learned a great deal about Mexico...
...Already there is a great deal too much paternalism in the management of these districts, which are also the congested districts—it is actually possible to find in them men who believe that the government should pay them for cultivating their own little fields...
...Charlton Bastian, the other by Mr...
...But Mrs...
...Then, when the time is ripe, the people of the United States will decide whether the law is to remain or whether it is to perish as all mistaken experiments do...
...whether the Quiet Corner capers, which were for the most part her doing, can keep their agility and truly feminine pertness...
...If mutual affection developed as a result of this long and unimpaired opportunity, the world has yet to hear of it...
...THE American Hebrew announces the formation of what it terms the Permanent Commission on Better Understanding...
...Maybe they rang in that future of which God Himself is the Architect and Master...
...both Liberal and Labour parties have long advocated equality in voting age for men and women, and three years ago Premier Baldwin announced that the Conservatives also favored the change...
...For centuries, belief in spontaneous generation—that is, the doctrine that living things came from dead matter—had been universal...
...CONSERVATIVE England is again "viewing with alarm...
...The new opera company is able to carry on because it is good...
...The other six represent Hebrew and Protestant groups...
...This would put the men in a minority in most of the constituencies in Great Britain...
...Of the nine men selected three are Catholics—Reverend Francis P. Duffy, Honorable Martin Conboy, and Honorable Victor J. Dowling...
...Beyond all this, Monsignor Moyes was the author of numerous articles, signed and also, as was generally believed, unsigned, in the Tablet, on theological and inter-creedal questions...
...and after the conquest the rule of the Roman Catholic Church in Mexico was generally benevolent and uplifting...
...This commission, under the chairmanship of General Mulcahy, was appointed to study the problems of the Irish-speaking districts and to make recommendations as to how the population can best be conserved in its native culture and its economic life...
...But maybe they did not come from the melancholy past at all...
...This is an important gain, though it cannot be immediately weighed or measured...
...We priests," concluded Pere Lhande, "who are God's witnesses on earth, know that to great sufferers on the point of death, God sometimes reveals perspectives where eternity impinges upon time...
...Senator Borah's plea for twentyfive years in which to give the Eighteenth Amendment a fair trial is almost sure to be granted...
...The Dublin Review at that time belonged to the Cardinal, and Moyes edited it with much ability for ten years...
...Whether or not the typography of our paper, over which she presided as faithfully as ever Portia did over the prophetic caskets, can survive the strain...
...Yet another hundred years, and the controversybetweenPouchetand Pasteur settled the matter as far as a negative can be settled...
...It takes that long to overcome the peculiar resistance generated by constitutional action...
...THE change which has removed Miss Helen Walker from a busy desk in this office to her new life as Mrs...
...Says Samuel Samuel, M.P., with deep solemnity: "What does the young woman of twenty-one know about politics or voting, or what is good for the country...
...Six of them are names of Catholics...
...WHILE the echoes of the Beethoven centenary are dying away, it is perhaps not too late for a word upon the great master's religious belief, evidenced not only by his devout death, but throughout his sad and laborious life...
...When the commission has investigated painstakingly, when it has spoken after careful and unbiased deliberation, the whole nation will listen and accept its pronouncement as the enlightened voice of the Protestant, Catholic, and Jewish population, on the ground of American humanity...
...Miss Walker, who came from varied journalistic enterprises to The Commonweal at the very moment when its first issue was being sent to the printer, will always keep her place in the history of the magazine...
...If only the very complex problem of drink morality had been settled becomingly in the first place, it would be vastly more exhilarating to regard Senator Borah's projected twenty-five years...
...Though it has remained unalterably opposed to war, considering that synonymous with the designs of imperialism in Latin America, it has gradually come round to the knowledge that Catholicism in the country from which Junipero Serra walked on foot toward his Californian missions is not a political party, not an aggrandizing corporation, but a spiritual society with a magnificent record of service and martyrdom...
...so there is good reason for holding his name in esteem...
...Charity to all men—malice toward none" are the watchwords best suited to Anglo-American cooperation anywhere...
...Prejudice is generally a "home town" rather than a national affair...
...It would be a grave impropriety on our part to suggest an answer...
...and it seems to us that President Butler was quite right in resting his case upon that nature, which is hard to diagnose by statistics but which does prove nearly as constant as any other "nature...
...But a very helpful point can be made—the point that, granted support such as that which, for centuries, has helped to develop European creative endeavor, enough gifted persons exist in the United States to give creditable native ex650 pression to beauty and ideas...
...Emmeline Pankhurst, heroine of many a hairpin-strewn battlefield on which the "votes for women" banners were planted a little farther in advance, might be expected to retort: "She knows at least as much as the young flanneled fools at the wickets and the muddied oafs in the goals whom you send to the polls at twenty-one...
...Seven names thus appear in this recital...
...The question at stake was not so much the general validity of the Eighteenth Amendment as the proper attitude of the Republican party in 1928...
...William Harvey, the discoverer of the circulation of the blood, was the first to throw doubt on this theory...
...He was a pioneer in a subject of the very first importance...
...SlR AUCKLAND GEDDES'S momentary outburst of bad manners anent American influence in China may be safely left to his own countrymen to correct...
...It is full-grown, technically competent and genuinely enthusiastic...
...Henry Lane Wilson, former United States Ambassador: "Christianity was a benevolent substitute for Aztec barbarism...
...Irish is no more a bronze age language than any other...
...Since not even an autocrat can summon coin of the realm out of nothing, the result must be a waste of national funds calamitous to a country so financially unstable as Mexico...
...No one would, of course, expect to hear voices as glorious as the best of those recruited from the whole world by such institutions as the Metropolitan Opera Company...
...From the steeple of the church at Bonn where Ludwig was organist at thirteen years of age...
...To inquire how much is affection and how much policy would only be returning unmannerliness for unmannerliness...
...Years of service in education, a great deal of varied and brilliant work for the better New York periodicals, have earned for her genuine recognition...
...OF COURSE, the recommendations made in the report mean a subsidy from an Irish government...
...On the one hand, she is bound to do so by ancient pieties and by the sentiment expressed by President Cosgrave in his letter to General Mulcahy, when he declared that the Saorstat government was the trustee of the national language...
...A few months ago it was still possible to take with relative cynicism the news that prima donnas and bassos of stellar magnitude were graduating from the Eastman School of Music and would bow to the public...
...His great learning led to his appointment in 1895 to the Papal Commission on Anglican Orders, which was destined to come to so momentous a decision...
...Small wonder that there is talk of "a grave cabinet crisis," and much searching of masculine hearts...
...We must pray—and pray again...
...as well as the two phrases written in the margin of the Missa Solemnis: "It came from the heart . . . may it reach the heart...
...Perhaps one should avoid concluding banally that America has now "come of age" artistically...
...Shall there be a frank pronouncement on the subject—one way or another— or shall the party platform compromise gracefully with a phrase...
...their economic condition has always been not only bad, but wretchedly bad, and their people are the remnants of the population condemned by Oliver Cromwell to "hell or Connacht...
...Preaching at the solemn memorial Mass in his honor held at Notre Dame, Paris, on March 17, Pere Lhande, the celebrated Catholic orator, recalled the greeting of the dying composer to the priest bringing him the viaticum: "Monsieur le cure, you bring me consolation...
...But when ideas calculated to inflame the people of the United States against some one of the religious groups concerned, when bogies like the Knights of Columbus oath or the "Protocols of the Elders of Zion" stalk abroad, the commission—being representative of all groups— can examine the matter and express an opinion with authority and persuasiveness...
...The example invites judicious imitation...
Vol. 5 • April 1927 • No. 24
