Communications
COMMUNICATIONS BRETHREN IN THE LORD Chicago, 111. TO the Editor:-A few weeks ago a Russian priest, Father Chubaroff, of Factoryville, Pennsylvania, wrote in the Communications department of The...
...Anthony Traboulsee...
...Seitz rather overstresses the economic factors which compelled the Quebec and Ontario governments to repeal their dry laws and substitute therefor a government control system...
...George Schmidt, Austrian Consul...
...Why, you have even misquoted the title of our publication...
...I am quite willing to allow the difference to be attributed to the appetites of American tourists but this leaves the same drain as before...
...As a Canadian I had rather hoped that our visitors came for purposes other than the purchase of liquor...
...The veriest tyro in economic study knows that taxes are secured from the incomes of the taxpayers, i.e., the people of Quebec...
...I hope that for the sake of fairness you will publish these lines...
...Americans should not forget the life and sacrifice of this splendid Russian nobleman, Dimetrius Gallitzen, in listening at the present time to that ringing appeal from the Vatican, "that all Christendom join in a ceremony imploring Divine intervention in the persecution of Christians by Bolshevisks...
...that the annexation amounted to a change in legal status only and that the only other alternative would have been to give back to Turkey these provinces which she had administered for thirty years efficiently and justly...
...This atheistic campaign has not been a thing of recent experience, but the world seems only just now awakening to it: this antireligious offensive has been going on for ten complete years in the heart of Russia...
...they had never harmed anyone...
...A CLOUD FROM CANADA Madison, Wis...
...For Mr...
...she would ask, her eyes full of tears...
...It is equally true, however, that Austria's budget has been balanced for years, that every cent required for interest and sinking fund for outstanding Austrian loans is being paid...
...She showed me one day a letter she had just received from a young friend in Moscow where he still had to live and he told her of the indignity he had been forced to suffer by being obliged to witness a theatrical performance, indecent and revolting...
...Many of her friends, both English and American, who had heard the young Countess Elisabetta H- tell how her father who had endowed monasteries, had given generously to the poor, who had lived like a saint-thought she was exaggerating when she said he had died a holy martyr's death, for he was put in prison, starved and done away with by the Bolsheveki because he would not give up his religion...
...a very palpable hit...
...Rev...
...The reduction in liquor importations, implied by Mr...
...Upon reading the article I could find nothing therein that would justify this heading...
...See article, Prince and Priest, by Ella Flick...
...90,000,000 per capita United States...
...Specific, actual instances are the only facts that are readily believed...
...If we of the great western body, pride ourselves on our tolerance and our great catholicity why can we not be generous in trying to understand the soul of these eastern peoples in learning to love their virtues, forgetting to overemphasize their shortcomings, and give them the understanding and sympathy that their heroism now deserves...
...It may prove of interest to quote from a letter just received from a Russian exile living in England, which gives an insight into the true Russian soul-not the Russian of the dramatist as we know Russia here in America nor the Russian of a propagandist literature: "Our task is by no means an easy one...
...New York, N. Y. TO the Editor:-I should like to express my sympathies with Mr...
...When twenty-five years ago we began the compilation of the Catholic Encyclopedia, the story was common property among encyclopedists, but they were never so unwary as to attribute it specifically to the editors of any encyclopedic work...
...Her two brothers had been slain before her mother's eyes, and for what reason...
...we are merely sowing with tears what we pray and hope others will some day reap with joy...
...John J. Wynne, S.J...
...TO the Editor:-As a Canadian I was interested in reading an article in The Commonweal of March 5 entitled A Cloud from Canada...
...Father Chubaroff seemed like an echoing voice from that state where a hero-priest, a Russian and a former prince, a convert from Orthodoxy, had struggled to keep the Catholic faith in the sparse Catholic colonies of Pennsylvania in the early days of the Church there...
...Does this indicate Austria's insolvency...
...Other factors were responsible and these are exactly the factors which will compel our federal government sooner or later to repeal the Volstead Act and to submit the question of the repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment to the states...
...Verily, it is in our wretched country that we see the men with the seal of the beast...
...THE FLOOD Washington, D. C. TO the Editor:-A hit...
...Noah is treated in its place, under Noe...
...According to press reports, it will mean a loss in revenue to the dominion government amounting to something like $20,000,000 annually...
...nor yet again, as the classical story runs, did they cross-reference Noah to Zoology...
...Neither shall it be denied that Austria's economic and financial struggle is still going on as it could not be otherwise considering the situation in which the war and the Treaty of St...
...In 1922 Canada imported liquors to the value of $24,-500,000 and in 1929 to the value of $48,800,000...
...Germain left her...
...TO the Editor:-A few weeks ago a Russian priest, Father Chubaroff, of Factoryville, Pennsylvania, wrote in the Communications department of The Commonweal a very significant letter...
...The apathy of the so-called Christian world is inexplicable...
...True, at the recent Hague conference Austria was freed from the obligation to pay reparations largely because even her former adversaries realized the impossibility of collecting an unlimited political debt which had been forced upon her by the peace treaty over the protest that its payment would always be impossible...
...I met the Countess when she was working in a small dress shop in a little French town: she was then the sole support of her mother who was ill and prematurely old...
...In my opinion the overstressing of the economic motive rather distorts the picture...
...I cite an instance of a family actually persecuted for their faith...
...Unfortunately I have been unable to see Professor Boyd-Carpenter's other documents...
...As my janitor puts it-"you can't trust nobody nowadays...
...DRANG NOCH OSTEN" Baltimore, Md...
...nor did they cross-reference Flood to Noah...
...What a talking point this would make in the forthcoming federal election...
...Yet one after another the so-called Christian countries are opening the doors to the enemy...
...INSOLVENT AUSTRIA New York, N. Y. TO the Editor:-On February 12 you published an article headed Insolvent Austria...
...Seitz is that the provincial income of the province of Quebec was insufficient to support certain necessary developments but that the government found that if the people were encouraged to consume liquor upon which a heavy tax is levied the provincial income is at once greatly increased...
...It is interesting to note that Prime Minister McKenzie King proposes to submit a bill to the present session of the Canadian Parliament having for its purpose the refusing of clearance papers to any shipmaster suspected of smuggling liquor into the United States from Canada...
...It would be fine to call a crusade for the menace is great...
...Fourteen days after this letter was written the Holy Father in the issue of Osservatore Romano of February 8, announced his intention of a crusade of prayer beginning March 19 and stated furthermore: "If the suggestion [demanding freedom of religious worship and respect for church property as a condition for diplomatic recognition of Soviet Russia at the Genoa conference, 1922] had been accepted many evils would have been spared Russia and the whole world...
...Tourist Expenditures American expenditures in Canada...
...TO the Editor:-In his article, A Cloud from Canada, in the issue of March 5, Mr...
...He asked for prayers from the whole Roman Catholic world for the people of the Orthodox or Eastern Churches for union...
...I fail to see how the documents published in Professor Boyd-Carpenter's reply can substantiate his statement or disprove mine...
...Let us look at the figures in the case...
...Failing this formal step, the people will soon nullify the iniquitous and meddlesome legislation by ignoring it...
...240,000,000 Canadian expenditures in the United States...
...9.00 If Americans go to Canada solely for the purpose of defeating the Eighteenth Amendment why do Canadians come here ? And if a per capita trade of $2.00 is going to ruin the United States how is Canada going to survive with a trade of $9.00...
...This bill manifests a rather fine gesture in international amity and accord, but it is nevertheless quixotic...
...On the contrary, before the title Deluge was to be written the editors had an article on Antediluvians, and another on Ark of Noah...
...Perhaps some Catholic friend did narrate it to him as an incident in the making of the Catholic Encyclopedia: if so, my sympathies to the Catholic friend...
...And is it not more surprising still that he should not have thought of verifying its rehearsal by his good Catholic friend by examining an Encyclopedia...
...The Catholic World, July, 1929...
...They were young, fifteen and eighteen...
...It also seems that a danger of "cash flowing ever away" is avoided...
...Johnson's further information, let me assure him that although modernism was rampant at the time of the publication of the Encyclopedia, the editors never thought of sidestepping any critical question but faced every one of them fearlessly as it came up for treatment, knowing that their collaborators were in every instance scholars, sane and scientific...
...My contention is that Austria was forced to this procedure by circumstances over which she had no control...
...The article in your magazine mentions that "a second national loan has been decided upon for purely productive purposes amounting to $100,000,000 for the extension and improvements of railroads, postal and telegraph service...
...Karl F. Herzfeld...
...Allen Johnson may be more wary in future of some of his good Catholic friends, the editors of the Catholic Encyclopedia did not cross-reference Deluge to Flood...
...A. S. Whiteley...
...If he succeeds, he will have "digged" his political grave...
...Allen Johnson...
...It is only within one fold that-according to us-Russia will find salvation...
...Let us examine these suggestive premises...
...One knows now the seriousness of the situation which the Holy Father is denouncing: "The organizers of the atheist campaign and authors of the antireligious offensive wish, above all, to pervert youth, taking advantage of its ingenuousness and ignorance...
...That was nearly three years ago...
...A great many Americans-and others-have been fooled by the wrong kind of Russian, the so-called Russian nobility who wallow in comfort, a variety who pose as ci-devant aristocracy whom one often finds as gigolos on the Riveria, and as various public adventurers who use bogus titles as a claim for publicity...
...TO the Editor:-I have read with great interest in The Commonweal of January 15, 1930, Professor Boyd-Car-penter's reply to my criticism...
...Now to the problem of the United States which "cannot endure eternally the economic drain" of the tourists' expenditures in Canada and other foreign countries...
...But the genuine Russian aristocrat, in nine cases out of ten, is absolutely ruined, obliged to earn a living as best he can, living quietly, unostentatiously, foregoing all titles and degrees...
...Such an intention of prayers has been the desire of the Holy Father and is expressed in his encyclical, Rerum Ori-entalium...
...So that Mr...
...It was, of course, easy to levy a tax upon goods but the same result could have been secured by taxes on other goods or even directly upon the incomes of the people...
...Cecilia Mary Young...
...Deluge is treated in its proper alphabetical order, and the Flood is cross-referenced to Deluge...
...But be that as it may...
...Professor Boyd-Carpenter's original statement which I criticized was in the main that the annexation of Bosnia and Herzegovina through Austria, was motivated by the German "Drang nach Osten...
...She and her mother and her sister escaped in disguise going from one place to another when they could get work teaching languages...
...But I had my information on high authority-as I supposed...
...The argument of Mr...
...Allen Johnson who, at the dinner to the editors of the Encyclopedia of Social Sciences told as new a story about the Flood that is quite as old as the Flood...
...Is it not surprising that the editor of an Encyclopedia of American Biography should not have heard this story, at least fifty years ago...
...The road to prosperity, which your contributor outlined, seems to be founded on a quicksand of economic fallacies...
...It is to the credit of the United States that they never shook hands with murder...
...Seitz, is false...
...How did they increase their incomes by consuming alcoholic beverages...
...2.00 per capita Canada...
...You have caught me neatly...
Vol. 11 • March 1930 • No. 21
