Communications
Dewey, Ernest A. & COYLE, REV. JEREMIAH F. & O'TOOLE, REv. GEORGE W. & LUCKEY, REV. ARTHUR J. & GRAY, D. BEDE & WARD, JUSTINE B.
COMMUNICATIONS PATENTED PROSPERITY Ambler, Pa. To the Editor:-Would you kindly allow me to make a few observations anent Patented Prosperity, an editorial article in The Commonweal of February...
...Editor, we were told in the Fall of 1928 that Mr...
...Serene apology...
...Catholics the world over must develop the press to the limit...
...Is it not in the ultimate analysis the poorly paid workman and the unemployed, the victims of the present calamity, who make the issue...
...The statement "There is ten times as much drinking in Kansas today as there was ten years ago, and consumption is increasing rather than diminishing," should have been credited to Paul A. Jones, editor of the Lyons Daily News, another prominent and courageous Kansas editor...
...True...
...Rev...
...Immoderate use of wine is a notable obstacle to the use of reason: wherefore sobriety is specially prescribed to the old, in whom reason should be vigorous in instructing others: to bishops and all ministers of the Church, who should fulfil their spiritual duties with a devout mind...
...At every turning-point of history, in the Christian era, the Church has met and overcome the chief obstacle...
...President of The Mocquereau Schola Cantorum Foundation, Incorporated...
...And why the hurry, as implied in your "at once...
...Hoover has an unparalleled opportunity to become a leader in actual fact by renouncing all title to being a leader in patented political magic...
...In short, in the secular press and magazines, with few exceptions, God and the devil are given equal rights...
...What is first wanted is a general righteous indignation not upon the part of the rank and file of the people, but among educated Catholics...
...Editor, did you not ever hear of a man by the name of Mussolini, whose government any fair-minded critic must admit, saved Italy from conditions that obtain in Russia today...
...Rev...
...OUR NEED OF A DAILY PRESS Pakenham, Ont...
...and to kings who should rule their subjects with wisdom...
...and those who during the presidential campaign of 1928 flaunted in our faces cheap circulars that pictured and described so hopeful and palatable a condition, are finding that ghost to be a ghastly real entity...
...Its work is general, and is not limited to any educational institution or other body or group...
...Justine B. Ward...
...Yet it may become unlawful accidentally...
...In discussing the prohibition conditions with a Hollander in Amsterdam last year he remarked to me that he had read much on the subject, but he was not sure whether the American people were just trying to make others believe that they are a little better than the rest of the world, or whether they are so weak that the government must protect them to keep them sober...
...TO the Editor:-Since publication of my article, Cocktails in Kansas, in The Commonweal of February 5, my attention has been called to a misquotation...
...Sobriety is most requisite in the young and in women, because concupiscence of pleasure thrives in the young on account of the heat of youth, while in women there is not sufficient strength of mind to resist concupiscence...
...Surely, to renounce title to being a leader in patented political magic would be so much easier for him to do than further to renounce all title to being a leader in the government...
...While the French, the Poles, the Germans and people of other tongues are publishing daily papers under Catholic control we see our English-speaking Catholic youth perverted by the paganism preached by the modern mouthpiece of mammon-the secular press, and their Catholicity stifled...
...This correction might be construed to add strength to an article already able to stand on its own feet, so to speak, but it should be made in the interest of absolute accuracy...
...Ernest A. Dewey...
...More ghosts...
...TO the Editor:-I have read statements in the Kansas City Star describing conditions around Hutchinson, Kansas, which verify the article, Cocktails in Kansas, in The Commonweal of February 5. I am inclined to believe that the conditions around Hutchinson are quite common over the state...
...George W. O' Toole, D. D. COCKTAILS IN KANSAS Hutchinson, Kan...
...Meeting the prohibition-law snoopers coming up the gangplank as I went down on arriving in New York, I too wondered whether we are a nation of hypocrites or of weaklings...
...The secular papers are much like garbage cans, with good, bad and indifferent stuff all mixed together...
...Rev...
...For after all, who makes the political issue in this case...
...The Morgan editorial then discussed the increase in drinking and the reasons for the increase...
...Arthur J. Luckey...
...Why, Mr...
...They would remove the roost from their own backyard, if that were possible...
...Many, very many of them have awakened from the disillusionment of the "chicken in every pot...
...Not a word from them about the soup-lines that are today replacing the much vaunted "chicken in every pot...
...Was it not his leadership that lifted the red flags which were to be seen flying everywhere in the cities of Italy before his coming...
...It is a corporation organized under the laws of the state of New York for the advancement of Gregorian chant and liturgical music, according to the Motu Proprio of Pope Pius X. It was not founded at the Catholic University of America, at Washington, D. C, and has no connection therewith...
...Markoe would use the secular press, as people use the taxi...
...And do you dare say it is unfair and unfortunate for them to howl calamity as a political issue...
...It would seem that before such papers can be established, some barriers to correct thinking on the matter must be removed...
...In the first letter, I inadvertently omitted to mention the Catholic American Tribune, of which I have been a subscriber since its first issue -ten years ago...
...They prefer not to mention the legend of the "chicken in every pot...
...Had your editorial article been written upon some such subject as Patented Leadership, giving us historical instances of real leadership in government, it might have been more fortunate...
...TO the Editor:-In your issue of January 29, Mr...
...And last but not least: "Mr...
...After following closely the work of this excellent and only Catholic daily in the English language, the undersigned cannot see why, if the Tribune could keep in existence so long in spite of the comparatively small Catholic population of the district in which it is published, a Catholic paper in the larger centres should not have a better chance...
...Let us make it clear, at once, that we do not consider the health or malaise of business as in any way traceable to the government...
...D. Bede Gray, Obl., O. S. B. THE SCHOLA CANTORUM Dobbs Ferry, N. Y. TO the Editor:-The Dom Mocquereau Schola Cantorum Foundation, Incorporated, wished to correct an error...
...So long as well-meaning but unthinking Catholics are flattered by the little notices which these papers, for the sake of their circulation, pay to their little personal and society activities, just so much longer will we be without papers under Catholic control...
...Markoe's culture and learning are satisfied with the secular dailies, it will be easily seen how difficult it will be to convince the man in the street of the necessity of Catholic daily papers...
...There are often in the same issue and on the same page, divine praises and blasphemies, high moral principles and immoral pictures and stories, sound philosophy and sophistry, panegyrics of the great and noble and laudations of divorced people, criminals and adulterers, apologies for Christ and attacks on the Virgin Birth...
...Jeremiah F. Coyle...
...These are the first who must grasp the importance and the necessity of a Catholic daily press...
...Noi ci siamo stati...
...Hoover was a leader...
...It is just as unfair and unfortunate to howl calamity as a political issue today as it was unfair and unwise to patent the chicken in the pot as a byword in the last campaign...
...Manhattan, Kan...
...SAINT THOMAS AND TEMPERANCE Brooklyn, N. Y. TO the Editor:-Your quotation in The Commonweal of February 5, 1930, on page 382, of Saint Thomas with reference to wine ought to be considered in connection with Summa Theologica, IIa, Ilae, Question 149: "No meat or drink, considered in itself, is unlawful, according to Matthew XV, 11, 'Not that which goeth into the mouth defileth man.' Wherefore it is not unlawful to drink wine as such...
...William Markoe contributes a criticism of a previous letter of mine on the subject, A Catholic Daily Press...
...So long as Catholic writers and other leaders take such a lenient view of these papers, so much the longer must we wait for the overdue Catholic dailies...
...Is it into this mixture of good and bad, truth and error, moral principles and immoral that the people of English-speaking America are to continue to go, to pick out from the mess the little good they might get, or must they continue to live indefinitely on mental garbage, with poison mixed with food...
...For, Mr...
...This is sometimes owing to a circumstance on the part of the drinker, either because he is easily the worse for taking wine, or because he is bound by a vow not to drink wine: sometimes it results from the mode of drinking, because to wit he exceeds the measure in drinking: and sometimes it is on account of others who are scandalized thereby...
...Hence, according to Valerius Maximus (ii I, number 3) among the ancient Romans women drank no wine...
...The statement of W. Y. Morgan, editor of the Hutchinson News, should have read: "Prohibition is not as well enforced in Kansas now as it was ten years ago...
...It is a deplorable condition...
...The so-called education they receive is about enough to permit them to read the debauching newspapers...
...When, for instance, men of Mr...
...Yes, but then respectable people do not drive around in taxis with all sorts of characters...
...You say: "The ghost of the famous 'chicken in every pot' has, unhappily, come back to roost...
...To the Editor:-Would you kindly allow me to make a few observations anent Patented Prosperity, an editorial article in The Commonweal of February 19...
...The press today is the chief foe with which she must contend...
Vol. 11 • March 1930 • No. 19
