The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1922-11-11
Editorial Pickings

Our nation needs badly today the
good Catholic layman, the man who
lives up to his religion, or manfuHy
strives to do so. Such a man is needed
in the public service of the commun-
ity, where the dictates of common
morality and the Commandments of
God are too often set aside for private
gain and to the detriment of the
rights, the progress and the happiness
of the people.-The Southern Mes
senger, San Antonio.
To those who miss the Question
Box column, carried by so many of
our Catholic publications, we will say
that although such queries seem to
Indicate a great and growing senti-
ment in favor of doctrine and custom
OF the Church, yet we cannot refrain
but dwell for a moment upon the
thought that ones own pastor can
clear up these questions in a much
more speedy and effectual manner.
Such method of procedure has it's
advantages, and serves to put a per-
sonal touch on the matter impossible
to gain from the printed pages
Really some of the questions we note
are superfiuous, and if you have real
obstacle to overcome, or the qualms of
doubt assail you, we would advise you
to consult your pastor Immediately.
Do not get ''cold feet when within
| the pastors yard, for, remember, he
| is very much human like the rest of
us, and he certainly will not bite you
The Colored Claim, (E. st. LOUIS.
Home is the foundation of the ma
| ton, the hope of the Church, the ante
room of Heaven. Strengthen the home
| and you will renew, the face of the
earth, sanctify the home and you will
regenerate a decadent world. "The
nation that rests on the foundation of
| family life says Deyas in his Key to
| the Worlds Progress, has within it.
self an ever renewed foundation of
recovery The roof tree may crumble
to dust, the walls may be ground to
powder, the hearth may burn to ashes,
but phoenix like the home will rise
again if it be true to the ideals enun-
ciated and practised by the Founder
OF Christianity. Better homes in the
material sense is consummation long
desired, but better homes in the spir-
itual sense is an infinitely greater one.
The Christian family must look to the
Holy Family for the true ideal of the
better home.-Boston Pilot.
DIR. A. Lawrence Lowell, president
of Harvard University, in a recent
address makes it plain that in his
opinion schools were made for the
child and not as laboratories for ipeda-
gogic experimentation on children. He
opposed educational methods of inject
ing smattering of as many varieties
OF knowledge as possible into the
mind of the pupil.
Such methods, however, as DR.. Low
ell explains, are not chargeable solely
to education, and the chief contribut-
ing cause is the decline of general
reading habits of boys and girls. For
this parents are largely to blame. The
family reading circle seems to be a
thing of the past and the pursuit of
pleasure has extinguished the student
lamp. Culture, which was once the
happiness and obligation of home, is
left largely to schools. Children and
L he crix, n he L.
lightful pleasure to be gotten from
books. They know of the master.
pieces of literature, history or poetry
as something to be studied at school,
but not to be read solely for the pleas
ure of reading. The books read when
lone is young become, SO to speak
assets available throughout future
years.
In the present temper of the com
mon people it is likely that If proper
inheritance tax is not imposed, with
a view to decentralize large fortunes
laws will eventually be passed directly
limiting the amount of property thai
can be held by any individual. Many
Suggestions have been made for limit
ing wealth and thereby meeting the
serious danger arising from the con
Icentration of enormous fortunes in the
hands of a few-dangerous not only K
!; the individual, since, as st. Jane.
says. the rich Cypress the poor b.
might, but dangerous also to society
because so many rich men nowadays
employ their wealth to establish mon
opolies, obtain excessive profits, de
fraud their fellowmen, purchase politi
cal power, etc.
II 1t is interesting to note that tn,
Illegal limitation Of fortunes, which j
! a more radical and more perilou
! measure than the imposition of ade
:quate inheritance taxes, also has IT