July 13,1935

THE TABLET y l W e e k ly N e w s p a p e r a n d R e v i e w

DUM V O B IS GRATULAM U R A N IM 0 S F.TTAM A DD IM U S UT IN INCCEPTIS V E S T R IS CONSTANTER MANEATIS

From the Brief of His Holiness Pius IX to The Tablet, June 4,1870.

V o l . i66. No. 4966.

L o n d o n , J u l y 13 , 1935.

S i x p e n c e .

R eo is tehed a t the Genekal P o st Of f ic e a s a New s p a f b b .

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New s and No t e s ................ 33 A rm - in -A rm ......................... 37 “ Animals’ Year ” .............. 37 The Other Unemployed . . . 38 Destitute Children and the

Faith ............................ 38 R e v ie w s :

“ The First American ” ... 39 The Abbé Dimnet’s

Reminiscences .............. 40 England’s Future . . . 40 A Mother Damien . . . 41 Books Received .............. 41 New Books and Music . . . 42

CONTENTS

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St. John of Rochester . . . 42 On the Dane J o h n ............. 44 The Calvert Associates . . . 44 A Threat to the Schools . . . 46 The Rosminian Centenary 47 Correspondence :

Rome (Our Own Corre­

spondent’s Weekly Letter from) ................... 49 A Liverpool Jubilee . . . 50 E t Ce t e r a ......................... 51 L e tters to the E d it o r :

The Canonization.............. 52 Look to Your Votes . . . 52

L etters ( Contd.) :

International Holiday

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Student Exchange .52 The Crusade of Rescue ... 52 Ob it u ary ............................ 53 From The Tablet of Long

A g o .................................... 53 Coming E vents ............... 53 The Riverway Pilgrimage 53 The Universities Catholic

Education B o a r d .............. 54 Or b is Terr arum :

England ......................... 54 Ireland ......................... 56 Algiers ......................... 56

Or b i s T errarum ( Gontd.) :

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Basutoland 56 Belgium ......................... 56 Brazil ......................... 56 British East Africa ... 56 China ......................... 56 Czechoslovakia .............. 58 France ......................... 58 Germany ......................... 58 I t a l y .............................. 58 Spain ......................... 58 Y u g o s la v ia ................... 59 Ch e s s ........................ ••• 60 The Catholic Record Society 60 So c ia l and P ersonal . . . 60

NOTANDA

The Archbishop o f Westminster on AngloAmerican collaboration. A Tablet leader-writer recalls words uttered by a Senator 140 years ago (PP- 37, 44).

The story o f St. John o f Rochester, re-told by the Archbishop o f Liverpool (p. 42).

Dangers to the Faith o f Catholic schoolchildren. A fighting speech by the Archbishop o f Westminster (p. 46), and a demand fo r justice fo r our children in certified schools (p. 38).

Unemployment. The neglected evil o f Blackcoat Poverty (p. 38).

The F ox and the Asparagus. A peep down into “ abysmal vulgarity ” (p. 33).

A centenary celebration at Ratcliffe College. The Fathers o f Charity commemorate Father Gentili and his work fo r England (p. 47).

The Catholic Church and Animal Welfare. A project fo r Study Circles (p. 37).

A day o f high religious festival at Canterbury. The pilgrimage briefly described (p. 44).

Procedure in the English divorce-courts. A nonCatholic journalist’ s plain words (p. 36).

NEW S AND NOTES “ TJ'OX, F ox , Leathery F o x ,” was the inscru-

table refrain o f a drinking-song which German students used to sing in the days o f our Wanderjahr. One strepitous night in Alt Heidelberg, fo r ty years ago, we tried to find out whether the Leathery F ox meant a freshman, who is still called a Fuchs in German universities ; but linguistic deficiencies on both sides frustrated question and answer. This paragraph, however, is about a Fox, leathery or not-leathery, im wunderschönen M ona t M a i o f this very year. On the twenty-first evening o f that month, tw o events

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com peted for the attention o f a Heidelberg students-corps known as the Saxo-Borussia. A Fox was to be initiated on the very night when a speech by the Führer in the Reichstag was to be broadcast throughout the Fatherland. It has come out that instead o f drinking-in the sacrosanct message from Berlin, the Saxo-Borussians in Heidelberg preferred other potations, including Rheinwein, Pfalzwein, Moselwein, Saarwein and Sekt. Worse still, they were evidently impenitent. On May 26, five days after the effects of the grape-juice should have passed away, they got up an Asparagus-Night (Spargelnacht ?) at which they discussed the Führer’s way o f eating that delicious vegetable. This was too much. As Herr Baldur von Schirach, Youthleader o f the whole Reich, has expressed it in his wrath and shame, the Saxo-Borussia clique, in their depravity, have not called a halt even before the sacred person o f the Führer ! They “ stand outside the people’s community and are enemies o f the Socialist nation.” Their doings “ give a frightful picture o f brutalisation, dissoluteness and abysmal vulgarity.” Herr Baldur von Schirach calls for drastic measures against those who “ brawl and booze while Germany w orks.” In fairness, we admit that England’s universities as well as Germany’s are disfigured b y both men and women students whose worthlessness and silliness o f life cannot be excused on the plea that young shoulders rarely carry old heads. But this admission does not deprive us o f our right to deplore the two standards which exist in Nazi officialdom. The Führer’s favourite Julius Streicher can publish vile things against nuns, priests and even Princes o f the Church ; but a boisterous youth cannot make a little joke about the Führer’s stick o f asparagus without being accused o f going beyond majestätsbeleidigung and committing blasphemy against a “ sacred person.”

More grave than the storm in the coffee-cups and wine-glasses o f the students’ corps in Germany