The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-08-31

he nodded understandingly as We re-
ferred back to the ineradicable i'm
preston which His Holiness gave me
of a man sitting sorrowing upon a hill
watching the warning world and
worrying in keen agony because of all
its errors and unhappiness; he spoke
in confirmation of the thought that
the great religious leader seemed to
accept his position as one forbidding
2artisanship while, at the same time,
he was acutely anxious that right
should win and wrong should lose, that
from the awful textbook of the war all
humanity should learn how to love
peace; he listened with keen interest
as I told him that even while that
conversation went on in the Vatican
the Austrians were breaking down the
Italian line at Udi.e SO terribly that
panic stricken ones felt that Rome
itself was threatened, yet said no word
about the matter, despite the fact that
nutterings against the Vatican itself
we're common on the streets of Rome.
And particularly he questioned me
with regard to my statement that the
Pope failed to speak with approval of
internationalism in any of it's various
suggested forms, but instead urged
patriotism, begged of each individual
love OF his individual country as he
legged of every individual love Of his
Individual home and demanded of each
individual the love of God.
The urgings Of the great old, kind
old Cardinal are quite the same,
though happily spoken at a time when
humanity Cor most Of it) has passed
out of the wars agony and seeks a
way to permanent peace. His Holt
! less the Pope hoped above everything
that somehow man would find the way
to bring great good out of the great
evn OF the war; His Eminence the
Cardinal feels that In the United
States we may find It by intensifying
love Of country and perfecting gen.
eral knowledge Of its institutions.
GIorfes OF American Constitution.
The first words that he spoke for
direct quotation concerned this, calling
attention to the potential good In the
general celebration OF the American
Constitutions birthday, September II
chose at hand.
Perhaps. In the United States" said
his Eminence, "at a time when we SC
generally are discussing internationa,
topics. we fail in general appreciation,
or even may forget, the glories of that
great document which is the firm
/ foundation upon which our nation has
been built.
give thought to these great national
achievements Of our past If we hope
to prove our worthiness Of them in
present and in future.
I'VE all talk glibly enough of the
Constitution of the United States, but
not all of us are really familiar with
that which we thus discuss. Indeed,
few of US know as much about 1t as
all good American citizens should.
We require some knowledge of 1t in
| the minds of those who would be
naturalized as citizens: there are too
many among our native born who
would benefit by study of It. The
movement toward correction OF this
Ignorance 10 worthy of every en-
couragement
ESPECIALLY at this time 1t is to be
hoped that every effort will be made
by all thoughtful citizens to re-em-
phasize in the minds OF the informed
who may have forgotten and to teach
those among US who never have had
an opportunity to learn-and of these
there are many thousands-the rea-
sonableness, the completeness, the
grandeur Of the Constitution of the
United States.
THE great war has been followed