T H E T A B L E T
s i W e e k l y N e w s p a p e r a n d R e v i e w DUM VOBIS GRATULAMUR ANIMOS ETIAM ADDIMUS UT IN INCCEFTIS VESTR IS CONSTANTER MANEATIS
From the Brief o f His Holiness Pius IX to The Tablet, June 4,1810.
V o l . 158. No. 4,774.
L o n d o n , N o v e m b e r 7 , 1931.
S i x p e n c e .
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CONTENTS
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New s and No t e s ................ 589 1 Labour at the Crossways 593 Dr. Cadoux Once More . . . 594 Reviews :
Apologetics in Two
Tongues ............................ 597 The Philosophy of St.
Thomas ............................ 598 Horatio, Viscount Nelson 598 From Three Pens . . . 598 Labour Problems in India 599 The Confusion of Tongues 599 Books Received ................. 600
New Books and Music . Catholic Education Notes . Coming E vents L etters to the Ed it o r :
Page . 600 . 601 . 602
The New Franciscan
Friary at Oxford 602 From Dr. Cadoux . . . 602 The Last Supper, Calvary and the Mass ................. 603 Correspondence :
Rome (Our Own Corre
spondent’s Weekly Letter from) ............................ 605
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From The Tablet of Ninety
Years Ago
Father Cuthbert’s Jubilee 606 ET CiETERA ............... 607 The Catholic Guild of
Israel .............. 608 Armistice Day 608 Ob it u ary ................ 608 The League of National
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Life ......................... 608 Chess ........................... 609 Orb is T errarum :
England, Scotland and W ales .............. 610
Or b is Terrarum ( Gontd. Page :
Ireland ,
Australia
Canada
Czechoslovakia
France
Germany
Jamaica
Mexico
Siam
Solomon Islands
Spain
U.S.A.
So c ia l and P ersonal .. 616
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N O T ANDA Armistice Day. Westminster Cathedral’s changed time-table (pp. 590, 608).
St. Robert Bellarmine proclaimed a Doctor o f the Church (p. 605).
Crucial days for British Labour. W ill the Party’s nominal Socialism harden into an intolerable fact? (p. 593).
Gifts to the Nation. A Tablet note-writer suggests an outlet fo r the Llcq'd George Political Fund (p. 590).
Dr. Cadoux once more. Ih e context o f his quotation from Bernardinus de Bustis. A challenge accepted (pp. 594, 602).
Catholics in the new Parliament. An enlargement o f the list (p. 607).
A jubilee celebration at Assisi. H ow Father Cuthbert, O.S.F.C., kept his fiftieth anniversary in the Franciscan Order (p. 606).
Our daily bread and daily butter. Up-to-date particulars o f imports from a land o f dearth (p. 591).
The Catholic Foreign Missions. To-m orrow ’ s great demonstration at Birmingham (p. 607).
NEWS AND NOTES S OUND schemes of national retrenchment and reconstruction can be obstructed and even frustrated when local Councils are both theoretically and practically opposed to the central Government. The electors o f England were alive to this danger last Monday, when thousands of municipal councillors were chosen by ballot. Gloomy seers had prophesied that, after last week’s national excitements, it would not be possible to draw many voters to the polling-booths for merely local contests. They undervalued the quickened sense of civic responsibility now happily prevailing. Speaking broadly, the result of last Monday’s vote was to assimilate local to national politics. This means that the National Government, though faced with obstruction in certain intransigent centres, will enjoy an exceptional measure o f local co-operation.
Of course we must see to it— “ we,” in this connection means all Christian and right-spirited men and women— that Retrenchment does not bring about a return to the days when we met barefoot children in the streets and when starvation was the common lot of thousands. By ceasing to supply wilfully idle persons not only with maintenance, but with entertainment-money (which has been the case with many conscienceless dole-drawing families) and by getting some kind of work out of all able-bodied adults, the State will be able to keep the wolves of misery away from the doorsteps of her children ; but only with goodwill on the part of local communities.
So close at hand is Winter that neither the National Government nor its local coadjutors will have time to set going remedial measures commensurate with the sum-total of poverty. Therefore private charity will be required on a large scale. Most of all will it be needed in cases of “ black-coat poverty.” The most bitter misery to-day is concealed behind the still genteel façades of suburban villas. Sales of cherished possessions and humiliating loans from relatives have kept many o f the blackcoats going ; but they cannot hold on much longer. Here, more perhaps than anywhere else, are the opportunities for Tablet readers to comply with our Holy Father’s loving summons in the Encyclical Nova impendet. The black-coat sufferers are the last to be reached by Public Assistance ; and therefore they are the first to require private benevolence. Not in a spirit of Pharisaism, but for the practical guidance of inexpert philanthropists, we will add some illustrative details. From the tiny funds— now, alas, exhausted— which charitable Catholics have entrusted to us, we have been able to trans
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