Week by Week

...1 HE manifestations at which we have glanced may or may not have lain in the mind of Mr...

...Who shall say how many similar notions, brilliantly set forth with the help of charming styles and scintillant wits, have deceived crowds into giving an ignominious allegiance...

...Courses in organ music, in singing, in education, will all be presided over by teachers of prominence...

...Very much, he tells us, remains to be brought to light in subterranean Rome, and recent discoveries only give a hint of the historical treasure still awaiting the pious historian...

...The effect upon the imagination made by any large body of men who have converged upon a single spot in space and time must always depend upon the view we take of the impulse that has brought them together...

...The most important of these was certainly the well-informed and refreshingly earnest address given by Bishop McDevitt, who is always interested in and ready to cooperate with cultural activity...

...The Canadian Collector of the Port at Windsor) has declared that he would need an army to survey the enterprise and arrange for its repression...

...This is at once so simple and so effective that one wonders why it has not been put into practice long since...

...This institution has now become so well known and so helpful to students that it invites chronicle rather than compliments...

...r OR some years past we have been noticing the excellence of the summer courses in liturgical melody offered by the Pius X School, New York City...

...Fancy what a commercial collapse would ensue if, owing to no necessity to display a difference of opinion with Mr...

...The Catacombs," concludes Monslgnor Battlfol, "are a book of which many pages have been destroyed, but a great deal remains upon which the last word ha§ not been spoken...

...The Atlantic is crossed swiftly enough as things are...

...That is now all changed...

...There is no recipe of prevention, no principle of medicinal treatment...

...Our imaginations recoil from the mere notion of a fellow-being chillily plotting the extermination of little children, thinking of vengeance in terms of innocence...

...In some respects progress could be reported, to everybody's gratification...

...THE annual convention of the Catholic Press Association, held in Savannah, Georgia, emphasized once more the many things which Catholic journalists share in common...

...Long since associated with the masterly work of the Benedictine Order in reviving the traditional but forgotten modes of religious music, Dom Ferretti was consultor to the Sacred Congregation at the time when the Motu Proprio was formulated...

...It became a welcome witness that in these difficult days our own civilization is not left without the salt wherewith it must be salted unless it is to decay into the materialism and paganism where other civilizations have perished before it C A N A D A ' S Royal commission on Customs bears no exciting name, but its exploits make thrilling history...

...The "feature" of this summer's work will be the courses offered by Dom Ferretti, president of the Pontifical Institute of Sacred Music...

...Among the most Interesting of these last was the buryingplace of the Acllli, a noted Christian patrician family contemporary with the Flavii, and a tomb bearing the single name Ampliatus, which some authorities believe commemorates a very early convert mentioned by Saint Paul in his Epistle to the Romans, "Greet Amplias, my beloved In the Lord...

...During the past weeks it has listened to news about the relief of United States thirst which must have made it doubt the prevalence of law-abiding citizens and conclude that the prosperous country across its border was in a feverish condition...

...Both of these are journalists of that fine, alert type which Catholic writing needs if it is to realize its magnificent opportunities in this country...

...Surely half of humanity's magisterial individualisms have proceeded from impulses as insane as that which drove our gruesome Michigan farmer to his experiments with dynamite...

...One is glad the victor was an American, but that really isn't the important point...

...In the immense gathering of men from New...

...A derouted, maniacal intelligence, abandoning the conduct of normal men, is capable of deeds which no wild beast would undertake...

...It is a pleasure to record that the success of these summer sessions is more marked each year...

...Roberts distributes blame pretty equally between bench, bar, and public, finding in the first a "frequent display of lack of dignity and firmness," in the second "a frequent lack of ethical attitude and professional pride," and in the third, taking juries as its representative, "a lack of seriousness ; . . . they often seemed more interested in the combat between counsel than in the merits of the case...

...One is happy to agree that this spirit of amity and urbanity does—almost—exist...

...Never before have delegates come away from one of these conventions more firmly convinced of the accuracy of the word "advance" as applied to news and comment essayed under* the shadow of the Church...

...about 50 percent of the Catholic population of British India, are one of the most astounding proofs of how a religion can survive in face of persecution, schism and inevitable neglect, to be found in history...

...According to a treaty signed two years ago, the Canadian government was obliged to supply "information" concerning any rum that might trickle over the boundary dikes...

...How many such maniacs are actually abroad no one can tell...

...at Travancore he was received by its first Christian "Dewan" or ruler, Maurizio Watts...

...Simon A. Baldus, was able to declare that there existed "a better spirit and feeling...

...The Malabar Christians, who are said to include...

...Roberts's suggestions for improvement are somewhat vaguer than his charges...

...But a deeper meaning in the gathering must have gone home to Christians even outside the Catholic communion who were witness to it...

...He himself feels that trans-Atlantic commercial aviation is not yet possible...

...General Summerall tells us, "are sufficiently interested to continue to the point where they qualify for commissions in the Officers Reserve Corps," deserve a better fate than to find themselves, should some supreme national emergency break out, a little knot of over-worked instructors in an ocean of brave but undisciplined manhood...

...qualms in certain bosoms regarding the tenor of their private prejudices that are so often interpreted as the norms of perfection in fair play and equity...

...The Commonweal, which claims to be behind no organ existing in its desire for peace, has always been a little hard put to understand the outbursts of indignation in which certain of its liberal brethren indulge when some disgruntled freshman or sophomore, asked to absent himself awhile from the felicities of movie-hall or parkway for the sake of practising squads right, raises the dejected issue of personal liberty...

...A first step toward realizing it is, one feels, annulment of the Eighteenth Amendment...

...Roberts's eminence declares that "the fundamental and more far-reaching reform needed is a public sentiment toward the enforcement of criminal justice," even his admission that the question has become "hackneyed" should not be allowed to stand in the way of a hearing...

...Nor are their actions always homicidal, physically destructive...

...This recommendation has been received by the Storting, or Senate, which is to act upon it sometime during the present session...

...Rossi, the best known and most authoritative of modern explorers, consulted documents compiled by pilgrims of the seventh century, and using them as a clue, was enabled not only to verify many tombs that had become tradition, but to identify several unsuspected ones...

...Society's only safeguard against such unfortunates is detection before havoc is done...

...Every month, as one of the speakers did not fail to remind his vast audience, the rule of their society requires of its mem bers that the issues of time be examined in the light of eternity...

...Justin McGrath's summary of statistics indicated that the service is now nearer the point where it may be considered self-sustaining than it has ever previously been...

...Lars Eskeland is well known as the author of several scholarly works, about which we hope to present a fuller account in a future issue of The Commonweal...

...People are a little more averse to discipline than they should be, and the spectacle of a man who wins out over odds through determination and a vast expenditure of care makes them take notice in a very salutary manner...

...That borne in mind, it is really useless to discuss at great lengths the practical value of the Lindbergh exploit...

...It would be unwise, however, not to weigh carefully the difficulties and obstacles that still exist...

...GHASTLY Incidents like the wholesale massacre which has buried the town: of Bath, Michigan, in grief cannot be laid at the door of human nature...

...Certainly the United States was fully as ready to give poor Nungesser and Coli a record welcome as France was to shake the hand of Captain Lindbergh...

...They include, as might be expected, propaganda that shall arouse "a real interest in the vital matter of the sound administration of the law...

...The rest of the Pius X School program is also on a high level of interest and artistic merit...

...According to other reports, the work calls for the services of every able-bodied citizen...

...He has showered doubloons upon us all—treasures of joy, cordiality and unselfish admiration, all good for the soul...

...The suggestion is this: let all loyal United States subjects refrain from drinking intoxicants...

...It is apparent that the news service released from Washington has gained in popularity and efficiency...

...An authority so distinguished ought to meet with a cordial welcome in the United States, particularly since he purposes to deal with the comparatively untouched problem of the relations between Greek and Gregorian music...

...All three he traces to a general "unhealthy state of public opinion toward crime, criminals and punishment for crime...

...oOME of the best news is of the sort that travels slowly...

...The Norwegian despatch published in the Nordisk Tidende reads as follows: "The Committee on Schools recommends that the Voss Folk High School receive government subsidy on condition that the school's Catholic principal, Mr...

...During a journey of several days, the delegate visited all the sees of the district, being received everywhere with the utmost enthusiasm and loyalty...

...In point of conduct alone, the bottom seems indeed to have been reached in this latest of our criminal sensations...

...There are a hundred reasons why a victory of this sort should stir the world's heart...

...Among the others one remembers especially the fine papers read by Mr...

...Certainly no dreamer of aeronautic glories could have imagined a more exciting or spectacular situation...

...and instructor...

...Claiming, with evidence that has never been refuted, to be the descendants of a people evangelized by the Apostle Saint Thomas, and to possess his tomb at Mylapur, they were isolated from the centres of Christianity for fifteen centuries, had no written records prior to the coming of the Portuguese, and only the testimony of travelers (Marco Polo, who claimed to have touched the relics of the Apostle, is the best known) and their remains of former greatness, save their story from being classed as fable...

...o PEAKING before the South Carolina Confederate Veterans recently, upon the National Defense Act, Major General Charles P. Summerall put thei extent of the incubus that military and naval preparedness imposes on our citizenry into equivalents the meanest imagination can seize when he told them that "a stick of chewing gum each week-day will pay your share of the military establishment: a soft drink on Sundays will pay for your naval establishment...

...The president of the association, Mr...

...But it...

...The "very small proportion" of trained students who...

...Nor can the innovation of permitting zealous reporters to collect daily bulletins from those entrusted with the spiritual health of the condemned, be omitted from an overflowing budget of execrable taste...

...o NLY the exigencies attendant on weekly publication compel us to be slightly behindhand in adding our own comments to those of the major portion of the respectable press on the incidents that attended the aftermath of the unsavory Snyder case...

...At present one might be excused for thinking that public interest is not only being aroused but stimulated and over-stimulated by the wrong parties and from the wrong angle...

...The same cannot be said for the scandal on the day of the removal of the condemned prisoners to Sing Sing, when two aldermanic cars with women and children riding in them are reported to have careened toward the lead of the parade, apparently with the compliance of those whose business was the carrying out of the sad formalities of law with decency and dignity...

...But who is not glad that Lindbergh refused to bide the moment of absolute safety...

...ARCHAEOLOGISTS and historical students the world over will be interested In details given by the Osservatore Romano regarding the new Institute of Christian Archaeology, founded by the reigning Pontiff, one of whose objects is further exploration of the Catacombs In Rome...

...Nevertheless, comparable to natural cataclysms though they are, they lead to earnest reflections about human nature...

...a "quantity of beer is always waiting to fill any orders placed over the telephone...

...It is now in a position to make good its promise in wholesale fashion...

...The general impression that these old-time burylng-places, within whose twilight the early Church carried on its worship and to whose recesses the broken bodies of its martyrs were borne, have been thoroughly examined and catalogued is not borne out by the article which Monslgnor Pierre Battifol, a member of the Pontifical Commission, publishes in a recent issue of the papal organ...

...Perhaps it never will be realized...

...and at Quilon he proclaimed the Feast of Christ the King before representatives of both the Latin and old SlroMalabar rites...

...We can wait and see...

...There was a time," he added, "when Catholic editors habitually thundered against each other...

...Richard Reid and Miss Mary Synon...

...1 HERE is so much talk about nations advanced in modern civilization, religious tolerance and the brotherhood of mankind, that the following clipping translated from the Nordisk Tidende (Brooklyn, May 19, 1927) may arouse...

...National boundaries seem to be vague above ground, as was noticed even during the war, when armies honored hostile aviators with an impressive willingness to overlook the damage they had done...

...and the canny merchants were able to buy almost any kind of official help when they needed it...

...The official visit paid last October by Monsignor Edward Mooney, the American apostolic delegate in India to the Christians of the Malabar coast, wasl reported at the time...

...Editors in particular come to realize, from manuscripts catapulted into their offices, how many erratic notions have taken hold of men and women, galvanizing them into self-supposed heralds of millennia...

...For the Name these 70,000 representatives of the nation's manhood bared their heads in unison to honor is one that Is not only blasphemed by the thoughtless but denied by the material-minded many times in the course of a single day...

...He used figures no less significant when he told them that "the veterans of the world war are dying at the rate of one veteran every thirty minutes, or forty-eight per day, or 17,500 per year...

...And yet it required only one fatal twist of the switch which unlooses monomania to plunge Andrew Kehoe into unparalleled crime...

...Perhaps success lies with craft o^ thei Los Angeles type...

...York State and City who two Sundays ago packed the arena of the Yankee Stadium to capacity to honor the Holy Name, different people will see varying significance...

...transportation of all sorts has been used nearly everywhere...

...But when a lawyer of Mr...

...It is required that he resign both as principal...

...is only quite recently and through the medium of a Carmelite review, II Carmelo e le sue Missioni all'Estero, that full details of his mission have reached us...

...We came up," he says, "out of slumps and slouches...

...With this thought in mind, the vast host who had gathered to bear witness to its acceptance as a rule of life took on an impressiveness quite apart from its numbers and perfect organization...

...It is satisfactory to know that since a bull of Leo XIII gave a definite status and a native episcopate to this ancient daughter of the Church, the ravages of schism have ceased, and the visit of the apostolic delegate constitutes one proof the more of the paternal indulgence of Rome to claims of continuity when duly authenticated, and to submission when wholeheartedly made...

...Merely regarded as a demonstration of loyal citizenship it was impossible, remembering the civic ideals to which the organization is dedicated by its constitution, not to be encouraged and heartened...

...It is a despatch from Norway regarding the results of an agitation backed by the Lutheran forces of the State Church to dislodge from his office a great scholar and pedagogue who has had the fortune to displease the majority of his countrymen by declaring his conversion to the Universal Church...

...A very practical young officer, not afraid of many things but still fully aware of the hazards of flying, set off alone in an unpretentious little ship, met his share of luck, and sauntered to victory as neatly as a triumphant runner breasts the tape...

...Some sort of reticence that would check the handing over of a process in law as a free present to circulation builders and near-literary exhibitionists might not be a bad starting-point toward reform...

...In prosecuting his researches, we are told...

...Wayne B. Wheeler, no cargo of orders should come In...

...IMPRESSIVE" is a word that has grown vague and hackneyed through over-use...

...The tendency to turn legal proceedings into a raree-show—to pack a courthouse with special writers picked from the best-selling fiction list, and sensation-hunters smuggled in on the strength of cards bearing influential names, may be an abuse Inseparable from the publicity in which our people, not altogether unwisely, have decided that criminal trials shall be held...

...Purely mental monomaniacs flourish everywhere...

...In the face of the very slight burden, in time or money, that national defense imposes upon American citizens...

...Owen J. Roberts, who is special counsel for the government in its suit to recover leases on naval oil reserve lands, during his remarks to the annual meeting of the American Law Institute, which was held recently at Washington...

...A short-cut to success has been suggested...

...One of the best of these has been defined in Heywood Broun'si diction as a magnificent alteration in the mere aspect of the earth...

...Its continued development, together with the development of other commendable qualities, is assured by the temper of some of the excellent addresses to which the convention listened...

...The object of their reparation is not only its efficacy when invoked to save but its import in every act of work and recreation...

...At Cochin he was the guest of the Maharajah...

...The information collected seems to establish the reliability of three conclusions: persons interested in catering to the United States trade have done a business that is known to be worth $15,000,000 annually and may be ten times more...

...The president of the Walkerville Brewery is reported to have said that by agreement with a Detroit magnate...

...Lars .Eskeland, retires on pension...