The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1957-04-05


regulations the Eucarc fast with the words
Modern Communion Communion which is the receiving of
the Christ and Man. the Blessed Eucharist
something label with the tags of fashion Holy Com
munion and has been the since its ins
tuition nearly two thousand years ago.
What is modern in the sense of recent is the regulation
which changes the order East from solids and liquids from mid
night on Fast from solids for three hours and from liquids
who receive Holy Communion not Holy Communion Itself
This is not quibbe For pert descriptive phrases used
important things ought above all else to be accurate
language in labelling raites indicates ooseness
of thought it also who read
the And when the reality loosely named or
tagged sacred the naming is not only loose but mpuden
Fippancy and gbness have place in
religious nomenclature than they have place scientific
definitions and descriptions.
But for reviews bent
being ppan let the fall where they The bustng re-
porter cannot give Cabinet member his right title as
Secretary of the Interior Secretary of Labor Secretary OF
Agriculture but pery labels him Interior Secretary Labor Sec
they accuracy ought to be the first and ind
pensable principle of every agency OF information
The Secretary the accurately described
being himself interior Doubtless he exterior any two
legged of Adam An interior secretary might be secretary
devoted what called the interior fe he might be given TO
quiet and solitude and deep meditation upon matters OF mind
interior might be Kept indoors
for his cretang while of exterior secretaries does the
misleading; has right to place
in public The fact that is brief and convenient does
not justify its USE
Why possible especially modern" speakers and
writer's precisely what they and not something
really they do mean Why quotation usually mis-
quoaton Why must reporter play upon words and phrases
incompetent vioinst plays composition that is with con-
shapng and attng not called for by the music as written!
these questions Perhaps the nepess comes from
which its pernerator to be bsknes
and dash and ceverness Perhaps from the fact that our
reporters educated despite full college
and academic degrees
For Nicholas Murray Butler was right when he declared
the the ability his native
tongue with And who lacks the first
mark an may parade the second
and the third mark may not edu
Gated man. old Doctor Johnson used lis the
end ont"
Very recently bald and gentleman appeared
guest program TV He represented national
organization engneernot the kind that get their training
locomotive roundhoue but the splitter class which comes
of universities The gentleman had message Tor PIAs
and schooboards and educators generally ha strange and
mysterious species of bengs He said that all these potent social
should to it that the mathematical subjects are
"eached" in high schools Believe it not that precisely
what he said
that this gentleman product of university train
ing not educated Slips of language ana pronunciation
ineyable is perfect master of speech B" man
who thinks that the tense of ordinary verb like teach
word familiar to be lped by infants in their cradles
teached-wel that man has merely made slip in pro-
nuncaton exhibited And such ignorance
unforgvabe in person of this mans position ana petenohs
AS to accuracy in quoting consider Herbert Clark
Hoover President the United States wrote letter to
in February of 1928 Writing of the
Eighteenth Amendment dhe Prohibition law he said Our coun
try deliberately undertaken great social and economic ex
pertinent noble in motive and far reaching purpose mat
precisely what Hoover wrote And at all the ppan news
men cried to world that the President had
called Prohibition law "a noble experiment OF course he
pertinent He reserved the word noble for the
experiment and wisely did not apply it to the experiment ITSELF
Here no example of loose language which gives
general effect the actual words of Mr. Hoover No. here
Justification of those actual words Here we have mis-
information doed bsky the latest Thus with slap
ping labels and tagging of captions and smaraecy
compressions titles the agencies of instruction
befudde misead And the who dares raise
voice protest promptly labeled by those agencies
pedant crank
Language vehicle thought? Maybe. But In our
skest nobbiest magazines the vehicle often
so amshce broken down that its burden of thought
shaken into meaningless
ter kingdom of Cod greatness of the gift of super