THE TABLET
A W e e k ly 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 INCCEPTIS VESTRIS CONSTANTER MANE AT IS
From, the Brief o f His Holiness Pius IX to The Tablet, June 4,1870.
V o l . 160. No. 4,818. L o n d o n , Septem b er i o , 1932.
Six p e n c e .
Registered at the General Post Office as a Newspaper.
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News and No t e s ................. 325 The Forty-Hours Week . . . 329 The Bogus u Peace ” Con
gress . ............. . . . 330 Next Week’s “ Tablet ” and
After
332
Reviews :
Penology ............................ 333 Scotland’s Other Margaret 333 Outstanding Novels ... 334 Les Anglais Outre-Manche 334 The Raccolta Up-to-Date 334
CONTENTS
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Books Received ................. 335 New Books and Music . . . 336 Parental Duty iq. Educa
tion ....................................... 337 New Dominican Provincial 337 Education in England ... 338 The East Anglia Pilgrimage 339 From The Tablet of Ninety
Years Ago 339 Correspondence :
Rome (Our Own Corre
spondent’s Weekly Letter from) . . . ... ... 341
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The Eucharistic Congress 342 Obituary ............................ 343 Coming Events ............. 343 Catholic Education Notes . . . 343 W ilds 344 Serious Accident to a Jesuit 344 Ch e s s ............................... 345 Et Ce t e r a .................... 346 Orbis Terrarum:
England ............................ 347 Ireland ............................ 348 Scotland ............................ 348 Austria ............................ 348
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Orbis Terrarum ( Gontd.) Belgium .............. . . . 348 Czechoslovakia ................. 348 Denmark ............................ 349 France ............................ 349 Germany . . ; 350 Holland ............................ 350 Russia ............................ 350 Spain ............................ 352 Switzerland 352 U.S.A............................... 352 Canon W. Murnane . . . 352 Social and Personal ... 352
N O T A N D A A city which became fo r the time being “ one immense Temple o f God.” The H o ly Father’s congratulations to the Archbishop o f Dublin on the success o f the Eucharistic Congress (p. 342).
Education in England. The Archbishop o f L iverp ool’s important speech at Bootle (p. 338).
Italy’s proposal fo r a Forty-hours W eek as a remedy fo r Unemployment. A Tablet leader-writer discusses the consequent problem o f leisure (p. 329).
“ Idle Hands.” W h y cannot they be busied in the improvement o f Walsall? (p. 326).
Bogus Pacifism. A useful list o f Britons who have helped M oscow ’ s game (p. 332).
Some Notes on the British A ssociation’s meetings at Y o rk (pp. 325-6).
The cause o f foot-and-m outh disease. Another N ote fo r Sir Thomas Inskip, Attorney-General (p. 327).
Dr. G. G. Coulton again; also Dr. W . R. Inge. Vulgarity at Bristol (p. 328).
NEWS AND NOTES 'C 'O REMOST among those items in this week’s
Tablet which nobody must miss, we name the Archbishop o f L iverpool’s important speech on Education in England. The end o f the discourse, as communicated to us, is so summary that we may hope soon to find His Grace expanding and elaborating i t ; but all the rest is so clear and readable and tim ely that it will interest even those readers who usually skip articles and speeches on Education. Not only has the secular Press o f our own country taken note o f Dr. D ow ney’s remarks, but we have already found a summary o f them in a French newspaper. Surely, therefore, we may fairly expect English Catholics to study the Archbishop’s words and to pass them on.
N ew S eries. Vol. CXXVIII. No. 4,217.
There are signs o f industrial and commercial revival in many countries. The Bourses are more cheerful and com m odity prices are rising. But over Lancashire the skies are as dark as ever. This is the second week o f a ruinous cotton strike ; and we do not perceive any strong disposition on either side to arrive at a speedy settlement. His Majesty’s Ministers are being sharply blamed for not having made peace between the employers and the operatives. We fear, however, that the factors essential to successful intervention have been almost wholly lacking ; and good citizens know that more harm than good is done when a Government’s peacemaking efforts are premature and ineffectual. The action taken by Sir Henry Betterton, Minister for Labour, has been criticized as forceless and vague ; but we ourselves prefer to regard it as prudent and long-sighted. When the moment com es for an arbitrator or umpire to end the Strike, the Government will have the advantage o f not having taken one side or the other. But neither Lancashire nor the country at large can afford a prolongation o f the dispute. It is the duty o f employers and employed alike to end it without waiting for tardy conferences and long-drawn negotiations o f a mainly face-saving character. And let none o f us forget that delays are abnormally dangerous just now ; because Moscow’s many agents in England are paid to turn industrial trouble into the channel o f Red Revolution.
Certain preachers last Sunday took an illaudable line concerning that trite theme, Religion and Science. Quoting some words uttered three days earlier b y the President o f the British Association, they exulted in a supposed humiliation o f Science. They would have spoken better if they had simply praised Sir Alfred Ewing’s dignified rebuke to “ those spokesmen o f Science— never, indeed, the greatest— who used to display a cocksureness which is curiously out o f keeping with the spirit o f to -day.” Science is never more wise than when, like Socrates, she confesses the lim itations o f her knowledge.
