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Subjects include the following: IN The Mail Bag Catholics and Jews N a letter bearing the caption "A Patriotic Jew Replies to Don Seitz," which appeared in your issue of December 23, the writer expresses his righteous indignation at the humiliating treatment, born of hatred, to which he and his fellow-Jews are alleged to be subjected in our country. In the end he ingeniously links the Catholic with the Jew, as if the Catholic likewise had a grievance on the same score. The Catholic, however, has no such grievance. Catholics, I blush to say, are every whit as prejudiced against the Jew as their Protestant brethren. Unlike the Jew, however, they do not belong at once to a race and a religion; they are members of a religion only, and that religion, as the word Catholic implies, being more or less universal in practice among all races, remains the most dominant creed of Christendom. The Catholic certainly suffers no social ostracism because of his faith. On the contrary, the Catholic, next to and along with the Episcopalian, generally predominates in what is called society in nearly all our centers of culture outside of New England. The trouble is that in discussing what some are pleased to call the Catholic question in America one hears too much of the Irish, as if all Catholics were of that race. Universally considered, the Irish are little more than a bubble in the ever-enlarging whirlpool of Catholicity, and in the United States as a race they fall numerically behind Catholics of either Italian or of South Germanic stock. Moreover, one would suppose from the way some anti-Catholics talk that there are no real American Catholics -that is to say, Catholics of colonial descent. 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Copyright, 1926, by The Outlook Company. By subscription $5.00 a year for the United States and Canada. Single copies 15 cents each. Foreign subscription to countries in the postal Union, $6.56. HAROLD T. PULSIFER, President and Managing Editor NATHAN T. PULSIFER, Vice-President ERNEST HAMLIN ABBOTT, Editor-in-Chief and Secretary ARTHUR E. CARPENTER, Advertising Manager LAWRENCE F. ABBOTT, Contributing Editor THE OUTLOOK, February 3, 1926. Volume 142, Number 5. Published weekly by The Outlook Company at 120 East 16th Street, New York, N. Y. Subscription price $5.00 a year. Entered as second-class matter, July 21, 1893, at the Post Office at New York, under the Act of March 3, 1879. descending to admit that she is a great spiritual force in the world entirely worthy of her divine mission. As for the Ku Klux Klan, I mean no offense when I say that it is on the whole far from representing the better elements among Protestants. Anyhow, the fact is significant that never has the Catholic Church in our country shown more marked progress or greater strength than since the launching and activities of that secret organization, as the reports from every Catholic diocese in the land confirm. So that the Klan is actually defeating its own objectives, having had the effect of unifying and solidifying the Catholics more strongly than they have hitherto been united and solidified, and even of bringing the wayward and the lukewarm back into the fold. The Catholic Church, therefore, appears to thrive on just the kind of opposition that the Klan puts forth. What the enemies of my Church call the Catholic menace in this country is nothing but a myth. The poll conducted by the Methodist Church several months ago to ascertain the religious complexion of the present Congress reveals that the Catholic membership in both houses talls in percentage far below what it would be if the Catholics were represented in proportion to their population. Moreover, there is not a single Catholic in the Cabinet, and hasn't been since Charles F. Bonaparte served as Roosevelt's Attorney-General. On the Supreme Bench there is now only one Catholic, Mr. Justice Butler. But if the Catholics do not fare well in any of the three departments of our National Government, what of the capturing of the lucrative municipal offices by the Irish in New York and Boston? Well, my answer to that is that the Irish have a natural genius and love for politics; this is true of the Protestant Irish as well. The Irish as a race may vote solidly the Democratic ticket in certain large cities back East wherein they may have a foothold. Out here they are as a rule Republicans. 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PROCTER & GAMBLE Guest IVORY For the face and hands As fine as soap can be 9944/100% Pure 5¢ It Floats opyright 1926, by The Procter & Gamble Co., Cincinnati E Volume 142 The Punishment of Colonel Mitchell T HE President sustains the courtmartial sentence of Colonel Will iam Mitchell in so far as suspension from the Army for five years is concerned. He modifies, by substituting a half-pay basis, that portion of it which deprived Mitchell of all pay during the period of suspension. The President's action conforms exactly to the recommendations of the Secretary of War, but goes somewhat beyond those of the Judge-Advocate General. The President received the record from the Secretary of War in the middle of the morning. He acted upon it before leaving his office that afternoon. His promptness, together with the vigor of the President's language in reviewing the offenses of Colonel Mitchell, indicate that the seriousness of the air officer's offense has not been minimized and that there will be no lightening of his load of punishment. The President can of course revise his own ruling whenever he sees fit to do so, and it is made clear that the half-pay allowance may be revoked at pleasure. Colonel Mitchell himself declined to comment on the President's action until he had time to examine the record, but his chief civilian counsel, Representative Reid, of Illinois, promptly issued a bitter statement in which he assailed the action of the President as un-American. Wolf! Wolf! L IEUTENANT-COLONEL WILLIAM N. HASKELL, of the United States Army, was chief of operations in the St. Mihiel offensive. After the war he was detailed as head of the relief administration in Rumania, Armenia, and the Caucasus; and in 1921 was appointed by Herbert Hoover as chief of the American Relief Mission to Russia. Once on a time a boy was left in charge of a flock of sheep. While the shepherds were away some distance he cried "Wolf! Wolf!" and brought them on a run to the rescue. When they came, they found no wolf. Having done this repeatedly, the boy saw at last a wolf approaching. He raised his cry; but the Thereupon Richard A. Charles, Execu- shepherds took it for another needless Recently Governor Smith, of New York, appointed Lieutenant-Colonel Haskell as Major-General to command the New York National Guard. Number 5 alarm; and the wolf was allowed to feast on his prey unmolested. A Universal Draft Law for War Time То o write, in the form of a universal draft law, a National insurance policy against war is the avowed purpose of Senator Capper and Representative Royal Johnson, who, with the backing of the American Legion, have introduced identical bills in the two houses of Congress. If the Capper-Johnson Bill becomes law, a declaration of war would clothe the Government with authority to conscript laborers and workers of every kind, to pay them military wages, and to take over all manufacturing plants and compensate their owners within the discretion of the Government. It is claimed by advocates of the bill that when wealth knows it will not be permitted to profiteer, but that it must serve at soldier wages, the country will think much more deliberately than it commonly has done before permitting itself to go to war. The theory, false though it may be, is held by men in both houses of Congress that the lure of war profits reconciles those who may receive the profits to the thought of war, that war is more likely to occur because money may be made out of it. The men who do the fighting, they say, remain poor, while everybody else makes money. This is said to be the impelling reason for the American Legion's support of the measure. It is declared that President Coolidge, in his speech at the Omaha meeting of the Legion, committed himself to the principle of the Capper-Johnson Bill. However that may be, the bill came as a surprise to the greater part of official Washington. It was known that such a measure was under consideration, but nobody looked for it to take a prominent place in the proceedings of Congress. Suddenly it appeared, full grown, and proceeded to elbow out of its way bills. older and having more prestige. The fight is certain to be vigorous. |