Communications
COMMUNICATIONS SEMINAR ON MEXICO New York, N. Y. TO the Editor:-The Annual Seminar in Mexico holds its fifth session in Mexico City July 5 to 25. The Seminar affords an opportunity to a group of...
...Anthony Traboulsee...
...Writers in the secular press, through fear of the criticism of an unsympathetic public, prevent this news from gaining prominence...
...Possibly, Father O'Toole does not know of our Catholic daily...
...A Catholic daily would be absolutely free from such restrictive fear...
...Brooklyn, N. Y. TO the Editor:-Senator Capper of Kansas and Representative Robinson of Kentucky have addressed a letter to their "fellow-countrymen" in which they ask them to call to the attention of their churches, lodges or societies the bill introduced in the Senate and the House by these gentlemen, which provides for the establishment of a national Department of Public Education with its secretary participating as a member of the President's Cabinet...
...Hence in these provinces the dominion legislation is urgently needed, although as I said above, it has not yet been adopted by all of them...
...The program includes lectures by the leaders of Mexican life, educational, artistic, governmental...
...In Quebec the old concept of the family still persists, not only as a tradition, but also formally, that is legally...
...LONG SKIRTS Newark, N. J. TO the Editor:-Not so long ago, when Pope Pius XI declared, against the growing tendency toward indecency in feminine fashions, he was either ignored or denounced as a Puritan...
...Of the various comments passed by scientists on Mr...
...Howard W. Toner...
...What is that among 20,000,000 Catholics...
...It is the business of the school and the college to teach students how to correlate the curriculum subjects with the reading of Catholic newspapers and magazines, thereby helping them to form sound opinions, and to answer attacks against Catholic doctrine as they appear in books and periodicals...
...From this it follows that the aged dependents are considered a burden, not on society at large, but on members of their family who are able to support them...
...What else is to be gathered from the survey of recent British army maneuvers which taught military experts that tanks are no longer a menace and airplanes practically useless for observing closely settled country, but that cavalry is absolutely indispensable...
...Sister M. Agatha...
...Elsie A. Galik...
...AMERICA AND THE AGED St...
...The members of the Seminar are given the opportunity to visit typical schools, villages and archeological monuments...
...Tate further to disclose his method, two other English experimenters objected that the discovery is nothing new, and in illuminating phrases declared that aluminum can be kept in the air by an alternating current field, the suspension being due to alternating repulsions and attractions of the current...
...DOM PERIGNON New York, N. Y. TO the Editor:-Whoever wrote the editorial on Dom Perignon in The Commonweal of February 5, made his description of the bubbling nectar so inebriating that it made me break into the following rhyme: Toast to Dom Perignon For the light of the sun and its warmth, That he haloed with crystal brim, We drink this diamond draught As a toast of thanks to him Who blessed the sparkling cup That lifts our Spirits Up, Up, Up, That lifts Our spirits Up...
...When our schools, colleges and universities devote one-half of the time now spent in developing physical athletes, to training for mental culture, our future home-makers will have so exercised their instinct for things Catholic, that the Catholic daily will be regarded as a necessity, rather than as a luxury...
...There is reason in this indifference...
...Only recently two appreciative subscribers contributed $500 and $50 respectively to what they called the noblest of causes: the Catholic Daily Tribune...
...Elizabeth McTeigue...
...Father O'Toole holds that were the Catholic daily to do no more than teach our Catholic people to think correctly, to inject Catholic principles into everyday life, its justification would be established...
...Now, however, Dame Style decrees that women shall wear trailing skirts and she is quickly obeyed...
...All this is interesting and, as old Hoosiers used to say, "conclusive of something...
...Without waiting for Mr...
...It has met with some mild opposition from all the provinces, and up to the time of writing, it has not been adopted by all of them, even excluding Quebec...
...One thing is certain, the Catholic daily must grow in service and in power, or it must cease to exist...
...Paul U. Kellogg of the Survey...
...Let me say first that this act has been opposed by more than the "largest Catholic group...
...The Committee on Cultural Relations with Latin America, 112 East Nineteenth Street, New York City, will be glad to hear from persons who are interested in international relations, and whose professional or business connections give them an opportunity to influence public opinion...
...Delaage, officer of the Legion of Honor and a distinguished surgeon of the world war, writes that the Peres du Saint Eprit missionaries at Libreville, Gabun, West Africa, are in great need of supplies for their infirmary...
...The Seminar is planned as an objective study of the moving forces in Mexico, and is committed to no creedal, economic or political point of view...
...During the past four years it has been attended by educators, journalists, clergymen (Jewish, Protestant and Catholic) lawyers and business men...
...The Seminar affords an opportunity to a group of representative citizens of the United States to study the life and culture of the Mexican people...
...Delaage at the same address, for information as to the needs...
...The way of the Brownsons is hard...
...And in America, Dr...
...The bill is opposed by President Hoover, Secretary of the Interior Wilbur, Senator Borah, President Hibben of Princeton University, Bishop Candler of the Methodist Episcopal Church South and others of equal rank...
...These devoted souls are doing a wonderful work under Dr...
...The modern machinery of war tends to neutralize itself...
...Tate's announcement, I like best that of Dr...
...Having spent millions on magnificent churches, hospitals, seminaries and educational institutions, we are gradually emerging from the brick-and-mortar stage of development into a higher degree of progression...
...Louis, Mo...
...Catholics are unaware of Catholic undertakings and achievements unless, day by day, these are set before them in a publication which focuses upon Catholic interests...
...TO the Editor:-The Commonweal for January 1, has a communication by Reverend George W. O'Toole on Our Need of a Daily Press...
...Grace, first because he refuses to say a derogatory word before the young Englishman discloses his principles, but chiefly because he is pleasant enough to admit "We do not know what gravity is...
...The support of a Catholic daily depends upon the sympathetic attitude of the clergy and the laity toward Catholic action as interpreted by the Catholic press...
...If the Catholic press is recognized as an educational factor in Catholic life, why is it not represented as a department of the Catholic Educational Association...
...R. H. Tate, a young English scientist, has discovered a method of overcoming gravity, using a metal "hitherto unknown, but in appearance much like aluminum...
...In the other provinces, however, where the common law - system is in effect, individualism is rampant, the integrity of the family is disrupted upon majority, and legally the son or daughter ceases to be responsible for the support of or amenable to the discipline of parents...
...Carleton Beals of Mexico, Dr...
...According to the new Catholic dictionary our only Catholic daily has a subscription list of 18,022...
...Ann Onimus...
...Now that Catholic Press Month is upon us, any discussion of a Catholic daily would help to clarify the Catholic position on this vital point...
...All persons who are willing to help in any way may write to the bishop of Gabun, Libreville, West Africa, or to Dr...
...Convent Station, N. J. TO the Editor:-I believe with the Reverend George W. O'Toole in the necessity of a Catholic daily paper...
...If such a gas can be made, another can be found to dispel it...
...The Seminar is a cooperative, non-profit undertaking...
...THE WEAPONS OF WAR New York, N. Y. TO the Editor:-Very little attention has been paid in the press to despatches from Berlin reporting that German chemists have made a gas capable of forming a cloud screen large enough and heavy enough to hide an entire countryside...
...The critical discussion centers in the round-table groups which will be led this year by Professor J. Fred Rippy of Duke, Professor Chester Lloyd Jones of Wisconsin, Mr...
...Then, too, it would seem that great diocesan dailies have far more to recommend them to the intelligent than the multitude of local journals...
...A MISSIONARY INFIRMARY Pelham, N. Y. TO the Editor:-My friend, Dr...
...They do not ask money, but only what is necessary for their work...
...Sherman's letter-toward the Old Pensions Act, enacted in 1927 by the dominion government and made optional for the provinces...
...Why did the Senator from Kansas and the Representative from Kentucky select the Klan as the medium through which to gather at least ten million of these signatures advocating the passage of the bill...
...OUR NEED OF A DAILY PRESS Wilmington, Del...
...TO the Editor:-I have no intention of entering into the Hayes-Sherman controversy regarding old-age relief either as a combatant or peace-maker, but I wish to correct a misunderstanding regarding the attitude of the province of Quebec -referred to as "the largest Catholic group" in Mr...
...Those who receive this letter are asked in it to have petitions in favor of the bill signed, and to forward them to Washington to the Fellowship Forum, the organ of the Ku Klux Klan, so that they may be presented to Congress early in January...
...WHY THE KLAN...
...Delaage's splendid record of humanitarian achievement, I am sure that the infirmary will make the most of what is given it...
...Hubert C. Herring...
...Josephine A. H. Cameron...
...Sergius P. Grace of the Bell Telephone Laboratories demonstrated that a super-magnetized bar of cobalt steel will float in the air more lightly than a feather if placed with its positive pole above that of a similar bar on the ground...
...One cannot help agreeing with our constructive critics that bankbooks and skyscrapers are responsible for our indifference to the Catholic press...
...Delaage's direction in combating sicknesses prevalent in the country...
...Apparently, we shall have to concede the Pontiff a moral victory...
...Seemingly they are fairly well taken care of, thus the problem is more or less solved and the necessity for the dominion scheme is not so urgent...
...Controversial questions are presented by spokesmen for opposing views...
...J. S. Clego...
...CONCLUSIVE OF SOMETHING New York, N. Y. TO the Editor:-Have you not overlooked the chance to comment on the announcement that Mr...
...Ernest Gruen-ing of Portland, Dr...
...All this raillery at the laity for their apathy toward Catholic journalism is wide of the mark...
...This article should arrest the attention, and elicit the cooperation of all who are sincerely committed to what Pius X called an "offensive and defensive weapon," a "loyal Catholic press...
...Knowing Dr...
...Trips to outlying sections of Mexico are arranged for those who can remain for an additional week or two...
...However, the chief reason that this legislation is being opposed in the Catholic province is one having its origin in the Quebec Civil Code-as distinguished from the Common Law in force in the other provinces...
...Helen D. McHugh...
...John A. Lapp of Marquette, and Mr...
...It is time that we begin to regard the intellectual forms of Catholic culture with which a well-educated Catholic should identify himself: the literary forms...
Vol. 11 • February 1930 • No. 16
