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The Cross & the Plough, V. 15, No. 3, 1948 John Carroll University Carroll Collected The rC oss and the Plough Special Collections Journals 1948 The rC oss & the Plough, V. 15, No. 3, 1948 Catholic Land Federation of England and Wales Follow this and additional works at: http://collected.jcu.edu/the_cross_and_the_plough Recommended Citation Catholic Land Federation of England and Wales, "The rC oss & the Plough, V. 15, No. 3, 1948" (1948). The Cross and the Plough. 32. http://collected.jcu.edu/the_cross_and_the_plough/32 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the Special Collections Journals at Carroll Collected. It has been accepted for inclusion in The Cross and the Plough by an authorized administrator of Carroll Collected. For more information, please contact [email protected]. b~Cross~ ltbe ~tgan of tbe atbolic 1anb mo9ement of £nglanb anb 'UU\alee QUARTERLY TWOPENCE. MICHAELMAS ' 1948 CONTENTS THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS 2 ORGANIC FARMING AND GARDENING: by H. R. Broadbent 3 THE POPE ON PROPERTY: Translated by Walter Shewting • 4 THE UNCONSCIOUS SIXTH COLUMN: by John Boak 5 A PRAYER - 7 THE LAST OF THE ·REALISTS: G. K. C~ESTERTON AND HIS WORK: Part 3: by Harold Robbins - 8 ORDER OF BATnE, X':'XIV: The Curate's Egg - 24 IN ARMED MEN • 24 Vol. 15 No. 3 <tross anb ltbe Plougb "we ca n supply from this country enough So fa r, s o good. But the Ministry con­ food for 32,ooo,ooo people." fines its warnings to gross cases. It does not .ft_:_LftaC..ecf by the Catholic Laal Federa1ieo of England and Wales In view of the characteristic caution of seem to warn us against more subtle and slow ruuu-u at Wceford Cottage, H~ Sutton Coldfield this m an and this Union, 32,ooo,ooo m ay be poisons which are beyond the range of the taken in future as the minimum limit fo r t he chemist but are bad because they are contrary 1he direction and writing of The Cross and The Plough are 'entirely honorary. disc ussion of possibilities. to right reason. Contributed. ciclo are on the sole responsibility of their authors MORE REINFORCEME T From the same cautious Union comes the p..miy. s.bmiption: One Shilling a YNr statement, in its Information Service for A LIMERICK August, 1948 (p. 135) that there is a relation­ There was a fa natic named Cripps, ship between the size and the productivity of Woo was badly mixed up by the Whips, pasture field s. "There is a decided fa lling ofi With Astor and Laski, ..,.. ,.-..a.,OUGH THE LOOKING GLASS in the output per acre as fie lds gro w larger. " Giving Butler a task he THE WOOD AND THE TREES Much r elished in stopping all N ips. The Ministry of Agric ulLure has zn­ -H.R. nounced in M.A.F. 2166 that " Investigations have shown that certain substances applied t o " I expect," said D are, "that some ass--" the soil can be taken up by plants, and will "Psychologist," suggested Windove r. make t he plants so treated poisonous.. "The same thing, old man, " was the retort. This is dangerous, beca use selenium com­ -From The N ight Club, pounds are' insidious poisons to man." by Herbert Jenkins. ORGANIC FARMING AND GARDENING By H . R. BROADBENT ADVICE on the technique of or ganic for the American public the principles of Sir farming a nd gardening has been, in the Albert Howard's s ystem. He publishes a main, confined to accounts of individual magazine, Organic Gardening, and had Sir experience. The information, for instance, Albert Howard as co-editor. The two together which appeared in Soil and H ealth has given formed a strong team, a nd, due a great d ea l an impression of particular examples, islands to their influence, the number of people using of trial. The magazine was a centre for organic methods has grown with great speed. exchange of information and, of its nature, We a re now receivi ng the benefit o f their could not avoid an effect of haphazard col­ enthusiastic work in the form of a series of lection. It was only in major works, such as paper-backed booklets under such titles as Farming a nd Gardenin g for H ealth or Compost and How to Make It (2/ 3), Ques­ Disease, that the broader inclusive picture tions a nd A nswers on Compost (1 /9), Our became apparent. Friend the Earthworm (s/-), Leaves and what they do (1/9), Three Crops (2/3)• . We still lack in this country a Press The prices of individual brochures are capable of g ivin g information on m ethods of somewhat higher than are usual for a similar organic farming a nd gardening in booklet quality of production in this country, but form of the type which i s issued on v arious that is the penalty we must pay for our branches and details of branches by the Mi n­ present lack. There is a great deal to be istry of Agriculture. It may be claimed that learnt from the publications of what the other much knowledge on the s ubjects is still ex­ man h as been doing a nd can do. perimental, but nevertheless the g rouping of In the coll apse of our se mi-scientifi c age knowledge ava il able would help. W e must the writings will hel p to indicate the direction be grateful to the Rodale Press of America fo r in w hich we m ay grow again . providi ng us w ith examples of what can be done in this di cection . J . I. Rod ale is • F ull particulars from The B lotechnic Press the Ltd. M onomark address: BCM/ Biotechnlc, author of Pay Dirt (15/-)*, which expounds London, W.C.l. 3 THE POPE TO THE LAWYERS nations, healthy forces seem to be reviving, doubtless continue to give their support. Most DISCOURSE OF 20th MAY, 1948 gaining strength and encouraging hope. One sincerely th€n We declare once more the token of this renewal is, in Our eyes, the per­ hopeful interest We take in this TRANSLATED BY WALTER SHEWRING anniversary, sistency and perseverance of this very Insti­ \vhile We call down on you, on your families ELCOME; it is a real joy for Us to see ~en's .complex ~elationships with each other, tute of yours, to which many States and and dear ones, the abundance of God's graces bl d here for the twentieth mcludmg W espeCially the realm of property organisations have already given and will and blessings. you assefmthee International Institute for and of mutual services? Only if one refuses anmversary o f · h · d' 'd 1 h' if . h L of Personal Rights. A ter to see m t e m IV! ua anyt mg more than Un ymg t e ;w nsparing toil your jubilee a mere unit, one among an indefinite number THE UNCONSCIOUS twednty yeka:s dol ugleam throug' h the dense of equally anonymous units, a mere element SIXTH sen s a !11 y . h I 1 . 1 h t nshrouds mankmd to-day op- m a s ape ess mass or cong omer:J.t10n which g oom t a e d ' · h · f k · f COLUMN ressing our western civilisation an over- 1s t e very opposite o . any md 0 society- ph d ·ng the whole realm of law. Be only then can one chensh the fond illusion of By JOHN BOAK S a OWl ) . )) h . not unnatural but too exclusive pre- assured that none feels this more deeply than re~ atwg a . uman relatiOnshtps on the THE as claimed, were entitled to this living wage occupation of many teachers of Catholic the Ch urch, since with whether they earned it or not, and even good reas?n she re- b~sts ofbl publbc ll'akw ?lone-!not to mention social doctrine with the special case of the d herself as the mother of tillS western t at pu tc aw 1 ·ewtse co lapses when once whether or not there was the wherewithal to industrial worker has led them into two gross g:ar. 1.s tion whose impact has passed beyond the human person with all his attributes provide it. There can, of course, be no C!Vl !Sa h b 'd d h b . errors, which are fraught with lamentable the nations of Europe and America to t ose ceases to. e c.o ns1 ere t e egm ning a nd end quarrel with the underlying suggestion that consequences. The first is to assume the an economic system which left masses of the whole world. of all soctall!fe. of men pet manence of industrialism, not as saying, as in hunger and You will understand then the !J vely These _r e A ec tiO~s bear specwll y on th ose distress was to be forthrightly we were so often told, "industrialism has condemned; but that is not what he appears interest that We have taken in the account of t:e-al quest1ons wh1ch ~o ~ ce rn the personal come to stay," but as saying, by implication, to have said, and it is certainly not how he our Institute's activities hitherto. T?e work n ght to. property. T .hts ts the ce ntral and that it has come to stay in the same place. was interpreted. If there is to be any sort has indeed been arduous, doing credit to the focal po.mt around your work is bound wh~c.h The second is the attendant belief that since of meaning in logic it was interpreted, and intelligence, learning and indus~ry of those to gravttate.
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