October 5, 1935

THE TABLET y i Weekly Newspaper a n d Review

DUM YOBIS GRATULAMUR ANIMOS ET IAM ADDIM US 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.

Vol. 166. No. 4978.

L o n d o n , O c t o b e r 5, 1935.

S i x p e n c e .

Reg is t er ed at ti-ie General P ost Of f ic e as a New spa per .

News and No t e s ................. 4 i7 A Square Meal ................... 421 The P a tro n a l F east . . . 422 The October Rosary . . . 423 The Leavings and the Left 423 R eview s :

“ The L and of the Dark

Faced Men ”

“ I Waked, She Fled, and

425

Day B ro u g h t Back My N igh t ” 426 From D r. L e e n ................... 426 The B eda’s Magazine . . . 427

CONTENTS

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Books Received ................... 427 New Books and Music . . . 428 Sermons fo r the Times . . . 428 The Peace Note of B enedict

XV ............................................ 430 F rom The Tablet of Long

A g o ............................................ 431 Correspondence :

Rome (O u r Own Corre­

spondent’s Weekly Letter from ) ................................43 3 The Children of M ary . . . 434 The Catholic L and F edera­

tion ............................................ 435 E t C.e t e r a ............................. 436

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Obituary .......................... 437 The B ishop-Coadjutor for

Galloway ............................ 438 D r . M cG ra th ’s F i r s t Pontificai M a s s ................ . . . 438 Coming Events ... . . . 438 Orbis Terrarum:

England ................ . . . 438 Scotland ................ . . . 439 I r e la n d ................ . . . 439 A u s tr ia ................ . . . 439 C anada ................ . . . 440 F ran ce ................ . . . 440

Orb is Terrarum ( Gontd.) :

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Germany ........................ 440 Holland ...........................4 40 I t a l y ................................ 441 L i th u an ia .......................... 441 The Philippine Is la nds . . . 442 P o la nd ...........................44 2 Syria ....................... 442 U .S .A . ...........................44 2 Y u g o s l a v i a ....................... 444 The B eda Association . . . 444 Social and P ersonal . . . 444 Ch e s s ................................ 444

NOTANDA Feeding the world’s children. A petition from the Commonwealth of Australia to the Holy Father (p. 421).

Abyssinia. A word to Signor Mussolini on Mobilisations, avowed and unavowed. Mr. Farago’s remarkable book (pp. 418, 425).

Counsel to the Ransomers. The sermon preached by the Archbishop of Westminster for the Guild’s festival day (p. 428).

The origin and development of the Holy Rosary. A timely article for Rosary Sunday (p. 423).

More about the cheating book 662 Priests Leave the Church o f Rome. An analysis and an exposure by “ James the Least ” (p. 423).

Patronal Feasts. A Tablet leader-writer’s plea for “ open house ” (p. 422).

Is the Cross a symbol of our Faith? A denial from Scotland (p. 420).

Canons of Westminster. An honour for two well known priests in the Archdiocese (p. 444).

The Children of Mary’s great London rally. Last Tuesday’s enthusiastic gathering in the Royal Albert Hall (p. 434).

NEWS AND NOTES A NOTE-WRITER for a weekly review feels,

just now, like one of those long-neck’d, twoheaded men or monsters in the well-known advertisement who cry out breathlessly “ That’s Shell, that was.” Hardly has some new political event loomed up on our right before it flashes past us and is lost in the near dust on our left. This week has been a swirl of major happenings. British answers to France, followed by British questions, declarations by Cabinets in three or four capitals, edicts by an Emperor here and a Duce there, mobilizations on a colossal scale, meetings of big Parties, resignations

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or threats to resign from leaders, are only some of the events on which comments will be expected in these “ News and Notes.” But we renounce the t a s k ; not because of its difficulty so much as of its futility. Before we are many days older, a crisis which has lasted too long for Europe’s nerves is likely to be ended for good or evil. From the ensuing light or darkness it will be both possible and necessary to discuss the deliverance or the plight of Christian civilization. Writing on Thursday, we fear th a t the darkness will prevail.

“ Government by Newspaper ” is nearly always an ev i l; but it becomes worse than usual at a time when, as we have been saying for weeks in these pages, the management of desperately important affairs ought to be left to those responsible statesmen who enjoy the confidence of their respective countries. The Daily Mail is taking an urgent vote of its readers on four points. These are concerned with (i) economic, and (ii) military “ sanctions ” against I t a l y ; with (iii) continuance in the League of Nations; and with (iv) re-armament. To be a Mail voter you must be also a purchaser of the paper, using a printed form which is to be cut out ; but the Mail pays the postage. In a leading article explaining the ballot, the Editor claims that it will reveal “ the real feeling of the country in the Abyssinian dispute,” and that it “ will remove the doubt which exists as to whether the majority of Great Britain’s thinking population is for or against a policy which may involve the British Empire in extreme measures.”

There is a fallacy here. The Mail’s implicit syllogism seems to be :

Many Britons read the Daily Mail. A majority of these readers want to keep out of the Abyssinian trouble. Therefore the majority of Britons want to keep out of the Abyssinian trouble. Even schoolboys in their first term at Logic know the name for this naïve fallacy. Yet it can do enormous harm. Let us assume that a majority of the Mail’s