National Sharecropper Week {March 3-10) THE MORE one studies the plight of the cotton tenant farmer the more one realizes how closely it is bound up with other major factors in our national...
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ON THE tenth of February, 1940, on the feast of her Benedictine sister, Saint Scholastica, died Ellen Gates Starr, O.S.B. (Oblate of Saint Benedict), at the Convent of the Holy Child in Suffern,...
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ONE OF the great and highly educative adventures of this war will be that it will force England to get down to economic bedrock. I am not one of those who believe that the war will necessarily...
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YOU PROBABLY think of yourself as a "good buyer." Most of us do, whether we admit it or not. But just how much do you really know about the articles you buy? By way of testing yourself, can you...
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The swan kneels upon the waters, Breast most proud against the, lake, The question curving proudly and the tall eyes remote: That is how the human dream can move— The swan glows along the black...
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IN THIS COLUMN in our issue of March i, I quoted Dorothy Thompson's quotation from an article by John Chamberlain in The New Republic dealing with American youth as a text for a few remarks, and...
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PROBLEMS OF CATHOLIC EDiUCATION New York, N. Y. TO the Editors: There is a type of reasoning current in some Catholic educational writing today that must be disturbing to those of us who teach...
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Leave Her to Heaven IT IS always good to welcome back from Hollj'wood a star of former days, and when that star has been away for a good fifteen years she is doubly welcome. Ruth Chatterton was...
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Men and Women against Death I t T T I G I L IN THE NIGHT," based on A. J. CroV nin's novel, is at disadvantage by being released at the same time as Pare Lorentz's documentary film, "The Fight...
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Big Shakespeare Book The Art and Life of William Shakespeare. Hazelton Spencer. Harcourt. $3.00. SINCE the time the average modern reader of Shakespeare went to college, the mass of...
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RECORDED organ music used to be woolly, amorphous stufJE—or pure Roxy. In one of the really inspired accomplishments of modern recording, Musicraft Records has made it possible to hear the...
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OUT of the 2i,2a6 priests in mission countries throughout the world about one-third are native priests. About 85 percent of these arc proteges of the Society of St. Peter the Apostle for Native...
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