Life — September 19, 1912 — page 26: what you’re looking at

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We Are Constantly in Receipt of Important Letters Which Are Too Long for Our Limited Space. “To See Bad in Ourselves” Epitox or Lire: As a sincere Protestant, I regretted very much to read in your number of August 8 the words of Mr. L. M, Handy that 75 per cent. of the criminals in the United States are members of or were born in the Catholic faith, The state- ment combines ignorance and malice with bigotry. It seems as if this “handy” man got from some A. P, A. literature. It is something that Catholi are not tolerated in England, Does not everybody know that John Redmond, the leader of the Irish Nationalists and a Catholic, is the real ruler of England at the present time? It appears strange that Christian should uphold acts of the ring of atheist politicians who rule France, Italy and Portugal now. Can any true Christian admire a government like France, which drives out of their native land helpless Sisters of Charity whose offense is that they have given their lives to helping the poor and the needy, and which on the other hand licenses harlots and en- courages the vilest. scum of the earth? What right had the so-called French Republic to rob the Catholics of their convents, schools and churches, the larger part of the proceeds of which went into the pockets of those in pow- cr? This certainly is the greatest steal of the twentieth century. Mr. Hani must have forgotten that there is a com mandment, “Thou shalt not stea Why should we Protestants bother our selves about such internal affairs of the Church of Rome as the creation of threc American Cardinals? We would be ertainly his statistics hear new to any sole Brevity is Absolutely Essential to Publication justly indignant if some outsider held the religion we hold dear up to scorn and ridicule. When Socrates was asked what was the hardest thing in the world to do he “To see bad in our- selves,” and when asked what was. the casiest thing in the world to do he an- swered, “To sce good in others.” Have not Catholi sacrifices built all over the country pitals and) orphan asyhy they can justly be proud? sake, let us stop criti said, by enormous schools, hos- of which ‘or heaven's ing our Roman Catholic fellow citizens until we as well as they have done. 1 Mr. Reed that it would be toward our fellow Christians in the spir it of the Master, “with charity toward all and malice toward: none.” Yours truly, Gro Salt Lake City, Utah, August 12, 1912. Lighting the Path Eprrox Lire, My Drak Ste: T never realized until last week that there are few places on this globe that fail to bring you a wel- come copy of your delightful paper. Upon the occasion of a walk through Glacier National Park, given partly as a demonstration, under the courtesy of the Great Northern Railway, to test the practicability and comfort of foot passengers through the park, from the castern entrance of the park, Mid- vale, to the western gate, Lake MeDon- ald and Belton, a distance of something over 110 miles, all of which, with the exception of lifts of about 25 miles by autos, was walked by the party of nine, of which T was a member; within ten or can do gree Ww better to act F. Mexrprrit. recent twenty feet of the summit of Gunsight Pass, at an altitude of something over 8,000 feet, where the waters of the Pa- cific and Atlantic divide, snugly tucked in a rift in a large boulder on the side of the trail and protected by a large piece of shelving rock, I found a copy of Lire, and, oddly enough, the opening fold disclosed tha “ Some- where the sun’s not shining,” by J. K. Bangs. Inasmuch as we had been with out sun all morning, and with the cool, Lracing air from the glaciers, my sym pathy went out to the sufferers in the heated cities. After a five minutes’ rest and perusal of Lire I returned it to its resting place and I have no doubt that during the rest of the scason it will fur- nish additional comfort and pleasure to many a weary traveler, Yours very truly * PL ArKINsN. inimitable August 18, 1912. Some Questions Eprtor Lire: Dear Six: The recent appointment of an outsider as Superintendent of the Boston Public Schools has called forth a bitter lament from the Boston Pilot, Cardinal O'Connell’s paper. The Pilot is wailing and gnashing its tecth hecause the qualifications of sev- eral Catholic Public School teachers of Boston were apparently ignored. ‘The article says in parts“. We demand that our Catholic men be not discriminated against simply because they are Catholics.” Why not? Rather, why should Cath- olics be chosen? It would interest us mightily 10 know hy what moral right Catholics demand a voice in the management of schools which they publicly denounce, and to which they are forbidden to send their children, under pain of excommunication Why should the open and avowed enemies of the Public School be ap- pointed to positions of trust and re- sponsibility in these schools? (Continued on page 1823) TME EVOLUTION OF THE WIFE comicboo!