Communications
COMMUNICATIONS MINORITIES IN CZECHO-SLOVAKIA New Haven, Conn. TO the Editor:-Your correspondent, Stephen J. Palickar, who has been writing to some of the American and Slovak newspapers on the...
...5. It is not so certain that where the Greek differs from the Vulgate it is in possession of the better readings...
...Slovak, De cember 8, 1929...
...what we are willing to concede to the most favored nation we must stand ready to concede to every other nation...
...Tuka's defense...
...Ryan...
...The desupernaturalization of Christian precepts and the fitting of them into utilitarianism, is the concept underlying the Committee's Report...
...Vaticanus or Sinaiticus lack a number of passages (so-called...
...That it is a pagan ideal goes without saying...
...TO the Editor:-According to the constitution the President has sole power to negotiate treaties...
...On account of justice" is added in D 47 a b c g1 k. "Men" is added before "shall revile you" in dub lich c med rush wel steph cent...
...1. Which Greek text is to be the basis...
...Seton Watson, the greatest friend the Czechs have, confesses that at the time of the revolt against Rome, the non-Catholic Slovaks took over the Bible from the Czechs and conducted their religious services in that language...
...U. F. MUELLER, C. P. P. S., Professor of Sacred Scripture, Saint Charles's Seminary...
...During the trial of Dr...
...Or Nestle's, which is probably the best of non-Catholic texts but is not free from bias...
...The Douay-Rheims, with alternate (better) readings in the margin would be sufficient...
...And the result of this individualist right is the frugality of the strict puritan teaching of the eighteenth century, which "inculcated unremitting thrift . . . and discouraged every kind of self-indulgence and extravagance...
...REV...
...That it has been unmerciful in its application must be seen all around us...
...And does it make for happiness or success...
...Such a translation is worthless...
...It is a historical fact that the Slovaks and the Slovenes of Jugoslavia were united and formed one nation up to the time of the Hungarian invasion...
...Some critics have called it a "splendidum peccalun...
...Which...
...TO the Editor:-I do not see any reason for the plea of charity expressed by Dr...
...It is the method of approaching peace, or parity, which is here discussed, not the declared purpose...
...JOSEPH A. SKODA-SCRIBNER...
...He knows Greek enough to do his own trans lating and will not always bow to the translation of another...
...Palickar has a fondness for the word "melodrama...
...Does it seem charitable to allow him now the encouragement to go to Ireland and to Germany and down into the southern states to produce cheaper, and thus defeat the better living conditions labor has, with awful price, brought to existence in this country...
...The "insatiable wants" is the lowest form of production stimulant, and in a nation that calls itself Christian, is unbelievable...
...No translation of the Greek will ever become popu lar, since the Vulgate is the official text...
...John A. Ryan in his second article on unemployment in the October 23 issue of The Commonweal...
...It won't work...
...And Monsignor Hlinka's Slovak informs its readers that Dr...
...V: ii-Blessed are ye when they shall revile you, and persecute you and speak all that is evil against you, untruly, for my sake...
...May I ask which of the Greek translations should follow...
...or English Polyglot...
...Or either of the two Catholic attempts: Brandsheid's...
...I am sure that he does not mean that the Slovaks and the Czechs are one nation...
...4. It is even doubtful whether a new translation of the Vulgate will ever make its way to general adoption...
...Word" is added after "evil" in C, E, K, M, S, U, VTAT g, syr (both) Or Const...
...As there is no Russo-Poland nation because the Poles are not Russians and the Russians are not Poles, so there is no such monstrosity as a Czecho-Slovak nation...
...The American Slovaks do not care what happens abroad and the European Slovaks are interested more in the Slovak Free State movement than in autonomy...
...What George Russell says is true...
...Tuka this summer, Ivanko-the government's leading witness-stupidly confessed that, if the Slovaks were granted autonomy, they would immediately declare their independence, and this is a good description of the situation in that republic...
...His right to choose his own consultors is beyond question...
...Quite frequently it has the better readings, as is well known to every critical student...
...The Jednota seems to hint that there was another reason...
...Much smaller navies than those contemplated by the London conference are attainable, but probably not by any movement having for its background-"peace by force...
...And what is more, even Mr...
...Maas's Saint Matthew is a model for this...
...The brotherhood of nations is a true concept of the various separate governments: a genuine universal outlook...
...CHRISTOPHER I. FITZGERALD...
...The Textus receptus (Continental...
...The dif ference from the Greek could be put under the text with the principal Manuscripts that have them...
...The Czechs do not recognize it...
...THE NEW CATHOLIC BIBLE Carthagena, O. TO the Editor:-Your stressing the need of a new trans-lation of the New Testament would find more favor if you were not pleading for a translation from the Greek...
...Western interpolations, but are they...
...If the Committee's Report is so far off the correct economic perspective, if it is nothing but a series of results rather than of causes, why does our eminent Catholic social expert try to smooth over that Committee's statements...
...It is the individualistic theory as against the brotherhood...
...That is news...
...For my sake" is omitted in fuld...
...Husek is one of the signers of the Pittsburgh Agreement...
...The Council of Trent prescribes for preaching and teaching the Vulgate...
...It is true that Professor Masaryk, when he held the chair of Slav history at the University of London, did teach something of the kind but that is not historical...
...A government of balanced powers is threatened when its foundations are undermined upon the pretext that the end justifies the means, or under the bolder and much more dangerous assault of ridicule and question: "What's the constitution among friends...
...The scholar...
...Let us have a new Rheims Testament with some marginal corrections and the most important Greek variants and especially a good but short Commentary...
...The Missal and breviary are Vulgate...
...I am not going to be charitable in the sense requested, as such charity ceases to be a virtue when doctrines are taught inimical to truth...
...A parlor caucus in London, an out-door meeting of "two men on a log"-the open air but the closed agreement...
...Or any of the new critical texts...
...2. I am more than surprised to learn that Dr...
...People bought to such an extent that they and their children are mortgaged for fifty years...
...Nor would it seem necessary...
...M. D. ASHE, Financial Secretary, Mission Council, Knights of Columbus...
...Religion and Progress...
...They cannot do so because the whole theory of unemployment and of economic changes is based on the pagan-puritanical philosophy of life...
...Not a little of the artifice of the "old diplomacy" is used in the new...
...The vast majority of the Slovaks know nothing of it...
...Why do we Catholics defend the statements of the Committee on Recent Economic Changes...
...THE EXPERTS LOOK AT UNEMPLOYMENT San Francisco, Cal...
...Redaktorovi Samostatnosti, Jednota, January i, 1930...
...Husek confesses that the "myslienka samostatneho Slovenska" (thought of free Slovakia) pleases him much and Mr...
...I think it is, in the words of the late Father Yorke, nothing more than catering to our enemies...
...I regret very much that the numerous "assumptions" for squaring away the Committee's Report seemed to be essential for Dr...
...It is "not an alliance," merely a "cooperation," or, if you prefer, an "inclination," and so we get two additions to some half-dozen weasel words, betraying a purpose to conceal an idea-playing favorites...
...and differ rather widely from the Vulgate...
...DIPLOMACY OLD AND NEW Allston, Mass...
...Or von Soden's, of which it has been said: "Parturiunt montes nascetur ridiculus mus...
...The Pitts burgh Agreement is a farce...
...Ryan's theory...
...Vogel's...
...It is the life of the industrialists of the United States, and of all the states of the world...
...Tuka was not a Hun garian spy, was no traitor, but had become involved in some Catholic action...
...3. Mr...
...TO the Editor:-Your correspondent, Stephen J. Palickar, who has been writing to some of the American and Slovak newspapers on the question of the Slovak problem within the Czecho-Slovak republic, and has now brought up the question in your periodical, must not be offended if I venture to make a few remarks touching the matter which he deals with in his latest correspondence...
...Ludevit Bazovsky, a member of the Slovak Evangelist Synod, was excommuni cated by that Synod for daring to come to Dr...
...It is the result of the teachings of the man who put psychology into salesmanship...
...We would like your readers to know that the American edition was published by the Irish Book Shop, New York, N. Y. LEO J. FEARON...
...Untruly" or "lying" is omitted in D 6 g1 h k m Or Lisf Hel...
...The statements were made, were written, were put out for public consumption, and they must stand the test of honest criticism...
...I endorse the ideas of the Irish statesman quoted by Dr...
...Historically the Czechs and the Slovaks were never united...
...Who is to decide...
...Tuka is in prison because he was an autonomist...
...Jednota, January i, 1930...
...Thus grew up . . . men who spared neither themselves nor their employees...
...It may be that no law forbids two senators to act as subalterns of the chief executive, but what becomes of their right afterward to pass judgment on their own handiwork ? Certain newspaper comments praise the choice as shrewdly calculated to remove obstruction in the Senate...
...Must we always invoke the Biblical Com mission...
...What will it help a preacher to have a translation of the Greek text, if he must preach on the Vulgate text and use it for arguments...
...GAELIC LITERATURE SURVEYED New York, N. Y. TO the Editor:-The review of Aodh de Blacam's Gaelic Literature Surveyed, published in The Commonweal, gave the Talbot Press, Dublin, as the publisher...
...not so his wisdom in the choice...
...There has been for the past quarter-century, and there is today, a most perverse attempt on the part of the producers to expand the maw of the public to unlimited consumption...
...I have noticed that he frequently makes use of it...
...difference in about 70 places...
...I can see no reason for feeling charitable to the teachers of such...
...Of course not all passages show so many variants and for ordinary readers part of the critical apparatus might be omitted...
...The Committee ought to know that the very principle on which the producer has been working is the thing that has led him to the condition in which he finds himself...
...The reason why Dr...
...Tuka is in prison is because he is an out standing Catholic and will not be corrupted...
...And I can tell you the differences are by no means always slight...
...Or perhaps one of the Manuscript texts...
...Which...
...3. Who would have use for a translation from the Greek...
...very good, but who guarantees that it is always the original reading...
...The constitution grants to the Senate the power to obstruct any treaty which may be submitted by the President: the power even contains the duty, at times...
...To act up to that idea, what we grant to one must not be hurtful to another...
...The Jednota quotes a certain Slovak Evangelist Lutheran preacher, Razus by name, who claims that Dr...
...2. But granted we could get Catholics to agree to some text, say for instance, Vogel's, it would still not be the official text of the Church...
...What the Committee wants it is obvious...
...when we incline to one we repulse another...
...1. What does he mean by "the Czecho-Slovak nation...
...Westcott and Hort...
...More than this he does not claim...
...good though antiquated...
Vol. 11 • January 1930 • No. 12
