THE TABLET y 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
DLTM V OBIS GRATULAMUR ANIMOS ETIAM ADDIMUS UT IN INCCEPTIS VESTR IS CONSTANTER MANEATIS
From the Brief o f His Holiness Pius IX to The Tablet, June 4,1870
Vol. 162. No. 4870. L ondon, Septem ber 9, 1933.
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News and No t e s ................. 321 A Nudist Rejoinder................. 325 Back to Work ................. 326 Our Lady of Sudbury . . . 327 Our Rightful Name of
“ Catholics ”
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R eview s :
The Great Sunset................. 330 Old-World Books in the
New ............................ 332 Where Honour is Due . . . 332 Men Who Reached the
Goal ............................ 332 Books Received ................. 333
CONTENTS
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New Books and Music . . . 334 Letters to the Ed it o r :
The “ Venera-bile ” . . . 334 Sir Stafford Cripps and
Dictatorship ................. 334 Obituary ............................ 335 From The Tablet of Ninety
Years A g o ............................ 335 Ch e s s ....................................... 335 Correspondence :
Rome (Our Own Corre
spondent’s Weekly Letter from) 337 The Bishop of Bradford and
The T a b l e t ............................ 338
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Padley Chapel. A Discovery 338 K.S.C. The Edinburgh
C on feren ce............................ 338 Et C.e t e r a ............................ 339 Catholic Education Notes . . . 340 Orbis Terrarum :
England ............................ 341 Ireland ............................ 341 A r g e n t i n a .............. . . . 342 Austria ............................ 342 Belgian Congo ................. 342 Belgium ............................ 342 Brazil ............................ 342 Ceylon ............................ 342 China . . . .............. 343
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Orbis Terrarum ( Contd.) :
France
Germany
India
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Kenya Colony .............. 344 Manchuria .............. 344 Mexico .............. 344 Ranmania ... .............. 346 South Africa .............. 346 Spain .............. 346 U.S.A. . . . 348 Coming Events ...............348 “ Malta Day ” in London... 348 Social and Personal.............. 348
NOTANDA Home from the Holidays. H ow the world looks to Britain fo r leadership and example (p. 326).
The Protestant Bishop o f B radford’s unworthy decision. A statement fo r which “ news ” is not le mot ju ste (p. 338).
M ore Notes, and a leading article, on Nudism in Britain. Strange arguments from the other side (pp. 323, 325).
A plot exposed. H ow High Anglicans have worked to rob us o f our old name o f “ Catholics ” (p. 328).
A statue at Sudbury. The story, with illustrations, o f a long-buried figure o f the Madonna and Child which again has honour at Catholic hands (p. 327).
H ow the ancient altar-stone o f Padley Chapel was preserved during dark times and has once more come to light (p. 338).
Losses from the Episcopate. Obituary tidings from several lands (pp. 342, 343, 348).
The persecution o f the Church in Mexico. An account, from a special correspondent, o f some o f the first martyrdoms (p. 344).
NEWS AND NOTES T HERE is another shrinkage in Unemployment. Since last New Year’s Day, 648,000 then workless persons have found wage-earning jobs. But none o f us may decently cease from taking a keen interest in this matter. In round figures, Great Britain has 12,500,000 employable inhabitants; and less than 10,000,000 of these are in regular work. That is to say, one out of every five potential workers is without a job. About half a million men, women, youths and maidens who are reckoned among the employables have been continuously workless for a year or
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more. Some of them, to their shame, would dodge work if it were found for them ; but the grievous fact remains that hundreds of thousands honestly and most earnestly wish to earn their living and are compelled to eat the bread of idleness.
Wrexham, where the Catholic Bishop o f Menevia has his episcopal seat, would be awarded a medal or a laurel-wreath if it were in a less stolid country than ours. While other towns are discussing how and when to set about a practical response to the Ministry of Health’s appeal for “ Slum Clearance by the Year 1938,” Wrexham is in the proud position of having brought its re-housing scheme practically to completion. The lucky tenants of the Council in that Denbighshire town pay only three shillings a week for a small flat and four shillings for a little house with three bedrooms.
Another borough where Slum Clearance has gone forward with rapid yet firm strides is Bermondsey. For the sake o f foreign readers, we ought to explain that Bermondsey is on the Surrey side— in this case the very poor side— of London Bridge and that its inhabitants are almost exclusively riverside, railway and factory workers who cannot afford to live outside London in any of the dormitory towns. Hundreds o f the worn-out, insanitary houses in which they have lived were pre-Victorian. In scheming out a re-housing plan the Council was hampered by the fact that there were in Bermondsey no big old houses with large gardens such as are obtainable in most boroughs whence the so-called “ better ” people have gone a-field. With fine pluck, the Council has turned Bermondsey’s illfortunes to good account and has taken over the sites o f some factories which had been closed through bad trade. Nearly 400 foul, and old tenementhouses have already been demolished and 1,000 more will soon come down. The Council’s flats all have baths ; and the old slum-dwellers are responding well to their new surroundings.
