March 17, 1934.
THE TABLET ¿ 4 W e ek 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 MANEATIS
From the Brief of His Holiness Pius IX to The Tablet, June 4,1870.
Vol. 163. No. 4897.
London, March 17, 1934.
Sixpence.
R eg is tered at t iie General P ost Off ic e as a New s pape r .
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New s and No t e s ...................3 21 Gratias Deo Super Inen
arrabili Dono Ejus . . . 325 The Future of Federalism 325 The Red “ Women’s D a y ” 326 R e v ie w s :
“ Guidance ” 328 The Most Grecian Greek 328 “ ------- and Abysm of
Time” ............................ 329 Syon’s Odyssey .................329 Old Concord ................. 330 Books Received ................. 330 New Books and Music . . . 331
CONTENTS
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L en ten P astorals :
Leeds ......................... 332 Northampton ................. 332 The A.P.F. Missionary Ex
hibition ......................... 333 Sermons for the Times . . . 334 Society of Our Lady of
Lourdes ......................... 335 For Passion Sunday . . . 335 1790-92. The Church and the French Revolution . . . 335 Correspondence :
Rome ( Our Own Corre
spondent’s Weekly Letter from) ......................... 337
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E t Ce t e r a ...................... 339 Ob it u ary ...............................340 Catholic Education Notes . . . 341 Notes for Musicians . . . 342 L etters to th e E d i t o r :
The Distress in A u s tr ia ... 342 BB. Thomas More and
John Fisher ................. 342 “ The Nazi at Close
Quarters ” .................... 342 Coming Events ...................3 43 Or b i s T errarum :
England ............................ 344 Scotland ............................344
Or b is T errarum ( Oontd.)
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Ireland ......................... 344 Belgian Congo .............. 344 British West Indies 346 Danzig ......................... 346 France ......................... 346 Germany ......................... 346 Gran Chaco .............. 346 I t a l y .................................... 346 Monaco 348 The Suez C a n a l .............. 348 U.S.A.................................... 348 From The Tablet of Ninety
Years A g o ......................... 348 So c ia l and P ersonal . . . 348 Ch e s s ........................... 348
NOTANDA
Lent’s Last Fortnight. The Sovereign Pontiff’s call for adoration and thanksgiving (p. 325).
Passion Sunday. A Sermon by a Passionist Father and a meditation in verse (pp. 334, 335). The Passion considered in a Lenten pastoral by the Bishop o f Northampton (p. 332).
Cardinal Bourne’ s appeal fo r the relief o f Austria. Reasons why it should be generously heard (pp. 323, 342).
Greater London’s Council Election. Some Notes on the figures and their lessons (p. 321).
The Future o f Federalism. Is Totalitarianism a sufficiently promising principle to ju s tify disintegration o f federated autonomies? (p. 325).
Father Louis o f Lavagna. A n anniversary note on a famous Capuchin worker in England and Wales (p. 339).
H ow M oscow pilfers roubles even from small purses. The sending o f help to her imprisoned priests in the U .S .S .R . (pp. 323-4). Red bait for England’ s women workers (p. 326).
Spain. H ow the Expected has N o t Happened. A plain word to British journalists (p. 323).
NEWS AND NOTES TN the speech o f to-day, " u p l i f t ” is an oft-*■ heard word. Its most frequent users are those well-meaning men and women who seem to believe that books, lectures and meetings can raise a Perfectible Humanity to its acme. They seldom practise that individual uplift of which the Book o f Ecclesiastes says : “ Woe to him that is alone, for when he falleth he hath none to lift him up.” Believing, as we have always done, that brotherly uplifting is o f the very essence o f Religion, we print this week a sermon by a Passionist Father in which it is beautifully shown that— inasmuch as what we do to His brethren we do to Our Lord— we are ministering to the Jesus who stumbled and fell on the way to Calvary whenever we lift up our fallen brother or sister. Our Master, said Simeon, was “ set for the fall and the raising-up again of many.” Men fall through their own sin or weakness ; and when our hands lovingly raise them up again we are so truly one with Christ as to become Saviours.
“ Greater London ” is territorially Big, but it is not morally Great. Last week, its inhabitants enjoyed their triennial privilege of electing the minor parliament known as the London County Council, a body which administers an area o f more than one hundred square miles and has an annual budget exceeding ¿30,000,000. The men and women who are entitled to vote at these triennial elections number very nearly 2,000,000. But when polling day came only about 650,000 went into the booths. It is true that there were a few divisions in which Conservatives (called Municipal Reformers in this connection) had been elected without opposition ; but, even when allowance has been made for the voters who had no chance of voting, it is fair to say that only one-third of the electors exercised the suffrage. So long as there is this indifference to public affairs on the part of the vast majority, we shall have to go on preferring the word Big to the word Great.
In the Ages that are so comically called Dark by this generation, the civic consciousness of Smaller London was lively and noble. In their Guilds the members of the various trades and crafts took pride in their respective callings and were vigilant in the interests o f the general public as well as of their own “ mystery.” Stately churches and charitable foundations graced the little City, some o f which are living forces and influences even in our own day. Happily our so-called Greater London includes among its millions of people some hundreds of thousands who do truly care about the general welfare ; but they are outnumbered by Londoners
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