Communications
COMMUNICATIONS PROPOSAL FOR A COMMISSION Somerville, Mass. TO the Editor:—In view of the probable advancement in price of commodities entering into the cost of living, provided the tariff...
...The food product could be standardized...
...He is also right as to the legal title of the Orthodox Greek Catholic Church...
...A PLEA FOR PARACHUTES * " Juneau, Alaska...
...The seven original Christian Churches of Asia, which antedated the Roman Catholic Church, by many years, was Catholic but not Roman...
...Foods of better quality at cheaper prices could be sold...
...TO the Editor:—In the issue of The Commonweal of May 28, the editor of the Homiletic Review, George W. Gilmore, commenting on the title of the Roman Catholic Church, rightly designates the Church as Roman Catholic...
...Yes, there are many Catholic Churches that are not Roman...
...With municipal restaurants the business could be highly standardized by the use of machinery too expensive for ordinary restaurants...
...Labor could be on a six-hour schedule and paid a living wage...
...Hyman Water...
...One of these items includes the purchase of two parachutes or "life-savers of the air," one for the passenger-priest I may carry, and the other for myself...
...Although I have for some time held a commercial pilot's license, I have had great difficulty in raising any funds for the airplane...
...The historic fact is that Pope Pius IV promulgating the decrees of the Council of Trent, November 13, 1564, solemnly designated his Church as the Holy Catholic and Apostolic Roman Church...
...THE KING'S RELIGION Brooklyn, N. Y. TO the Editor:—After reading Denis Gwynn's article on The King's Religion I turned to the New York Herald Tribune of June 8 and read an account of the present status of the Irish Free State by Edward F. Roberts...
...The cost of food to the customer could be reduced...
...Rev...
...Prohibitive prices in comparison to low wages or a degree of unemployment will further create the inclination toward criminal tendencies which in this age of unsettled conditions is rather to be discouraged...
...Pure food, sanitary services, better wages and reduced expenses and a shorter work day for employees, these should be the standards of municipal restaurants...
...ROMAN CATHOLIC" Boston, Mass...
...So let us practise in fact the spirit of the Golden Rule, by affording the necessary protection to our cosmopolitan people, in accordance with our constitution, by establishing a Necessaries of Life Commission to prevent unreasonable advances in living costs...
...not to speak of the Church of England...
...This is a health precaution...
...Poor people sometimes pay 50 percent of their salary as a budget for food...
...Each parachute retails at $350...
...The Commonweal requests its subscribers to communicate any changes of address two weeks in advance, to ensure the receipt of all issues...
...TO the Editor:—I am a secular priest of the VicariateApostolic of Alaska, and last fall was commissioned by Bishop Crimont to enter training in aviation and to raise sufficient funds for the purchase of a plane for our mission in the far North...
...If any reader or readers of The Commonweal will donate or aid towards the donation of one or both of these, I shall certainly appreciate their cooperation in this holy project for the glory of God and the salvation of souls...
...The commissary would be at big buildings where the baking and food preparation could be done on a big scale...
...The present labor job with a twelve-hour day is too hard for many people...
...H. Bastion...
...The shattering of that belief by the tolerant and statesmanlike conduct of the Free State government has done more to win it the confidence and respect of the former Unionists than any other single fact...
...MUNICIPAL RESTAURANTS New York, N. Y. TO the Editor:—To enable restaurant customers to eat better food at cheaper prices why not establish municipal restaurants ? The amount of business handled by the restaurants is enormous...
...I cannot understand why our good Catholic friends should object to their Church being referred to as Roman Catholic...
...The Free State party is overwhelmingly Catholic in its official membership but one of its most powerful leaders, Ernest Blythe, Minister of Finance, is a Presbyterian, and by birth a northerner...
...No one should be allowed to work in a restaurant without a health card...
...So the term "Roman" is ecumenical and coming from the head of the Church should be official...
...His Eminence Cardinal Hayes and Bishop Molloy have contributed generously towards the fund, and I hope by many small contributions to be able to raise the remainder...
...Roberts mentions how the Unionist party in Ireland opposed the establishment of the Free State and goes on to say that "the Unionists were almost entirely Protestant and unhappily the religious issue was always in evidence...
...John R. Cody...
...There is less discrimination against men because of their religious beliefs in Ireland today than there is in the United States, and on all sides there is a manifest desire to remove the ancient religious hostilities which wrought such incalculable harm in the past...
...Howard W. Toner...
...TO the Editor:—In view of the probable advancement in price of commodities entering into the cost of living, provided the tariff bill becomes a law, and this increase being entirely out of proportion to the advance in rates, may I venture the suggestion of establishing in each state a Necessaries of Life Commission, with power to regulate prohibitive or exhorbitant prices, due to manipulation by commission agencies, or interests controlling the purchase and distribution of commodities...
...The suggestion is not offered in a spirit of controversy, or for the purpose of criticizing legitimate business or an effort to obtain a profit consistent with a fair return on an investment, but rather to prevent speculative tendencies which will react on our element of people who can ill afford to pay speculative prices for the necessaries of life...
...George H. Woodley...
...With pure food guaranteed by the city, the health saving might be enormous, thus reducing doctor and hospital bills...
...One belief which kept their ranks militantly closed was that victory for the Nationalist party would mean the exclusion of Protestants from every post of trust or responsibility and the passage of discriminating and oppressive legislation against them...
...also the Coptic and the ancient Armenian Churches are Catholic...
Vol. 12 • July 1930 • No. 9
