John Carroll University Carroll Collected The rC oss and the Plough Special Collections Journals 1938 The rC oss & the Plough, V. 4, No. 3, 1938 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. 4, No. 3, 1938" (1938). The Cross and the Plough. 2. http://collected.jcu.edu/the_cross_and_the_plough/2 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]. The OrSdn of the Gttholk Ltnd. Associations of fngldnd. d1td Wctks. QUARTERLY. TWOPENCE. .LADYDAY 1938. ENLARGED TO TWENTY PAGES. PRINCIPAL · CONTENTS INDUSTRIAL EXPANSION :: :: :: Philip Hagreen. STIGMATA •••• •••• •••• •••• •••• ..•• .. •• C. S . B:... .. d. PLAIN LEITERS FOR PLAIN MEN. · PRELUDE TO ACTION :: ..•• ••.. K. L. Kenrick, M.A. BACK TO THE LAND :: ..•• . ..'I• :: M. Beaf:rice Field. ¥!~~0US SACRIFICE. Tim .tAXTON COMMUNITY FARM . ·AND ASSOCIATION NOTES. Vol. 4. THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS still less appreciated, is the serious lowering of IT IS CLEAR FROM THE RE­ the "water platform" under England). With MARKABLE RESULTS OBTAI ED char:~cteristic meanness, our urban rulers re­ BY SEVERAL FRIE DS OF THE fuse to accept full liability for this watershed MOVEME T WHO HAVE DIS­ of mammon by paying for the extensive TRIBUTED COPIES OF THIS MAG ­ works to banks and dykes which it has made AZINE, THAT IN MANY QUAR­ necess:uy. TERS IT HAS ONLY TO BE KNOWN TO BE SUPPORTED. HUSBANDRY! 'Shun!! WE MAKE A SPECIAL APPEAL After a generation in which everybody FOR OUR SUPPORTERS TO DIS­ was encouraged to shun agriculture, the pol­ TRIBUTE COPIES A MO G THEIR iticians are now suggesting thar agriculture FRIE OS AND ACQUAI TA CES. may have to 'shun with the rest of us. Con­ A POST CARD TO THE EDITOR scription of the land in time of war is freely WILL BRING YOU AS MA Y talked of. It is a melancholy satisfaction to COMPLIMENTARY COPIES AS reflect that even a War Cabinet cannot reduce YOU WISH. the period of gestation, or the time necessary THE GREAT NEED IS MORE for wheat to grow, or the years for the land SUBSCRIBERS. I to be restored to a good heart. The proper 1 I time to prepare for maximum production of food in war is ten years before w:u is declared. WHO OWNS THE LAND? THE PASTEURISING PLANT. The Times has been conducting one of The British Medical Association lost a its opportune discussions, on the subject of r:ood deal of prestige a few years ago, when Death Duties. As compared with the levies it endorsed a fantastically low assessment of on fluid industrial and financial capital, those the food necessary for health. It is unlikely on landed estates are undoubtedly harsh. But to regain it by the recent advertising cam­ no-one emphasised that the sguirearchy is paign for milk pasteurisation. Both expert dead already. The land of England is now and general opinion on the merits of this owned largely by Banks, Insurance Compan­ process is sharply divided, and the motives of ies and the Crown, which do not die. Doubt­ some of the interests concerned are deeplv less it is deemed necessary to prepare the suspect. Pasteurisation in bulk demands com­ ground for altern ative forms of taxation. plicated and expensive plant, and therefore DELUGE. cuts out the small man. A parallel is illumin­ Every year the Fens, and low-lying lands :l ting. In New York, which is supplied al­ elsewhere, are subjected to increasingly serious most entirely by hrge Combines, fresh un­ floods. It is a mark of the urban despotism treated milk costs 2) cents a qu:Jrt, where:~~ that the real reason for these worsening floods pasteuri ed milk can be bought for II cenrs. is rarely or never mentioned. Yet it can be It i~ rroposed to do better in En!!land bv stated in one word-TARMAC. Until thirty m::tking pasteurisation comoulsorv. We should years ago, rain falling on En,gland s:1n~. to 1 he better employer! in calling a halt on over­ !!reat extent, into the ground wherever It fell. bred stock. to check the resultant tendency to The general use of paving materials imper­ tuberculosis. vious to moisture has led to the shedding of a HOME TO ROOST. much greater part of the rainfall into the The devastating poultry epidemics have streams and rivers. One result of this is in­ been mentioned frequently in these columns. creased strain on banks and dvkes. (Another, The Report of the Committee set up by the 1 Government to investigate the desperate posi­ DEATH A SWERS THE BELL. WHILE ROME BUR S. THE KEY POINT. tion has received much publicity. Quite char­ The analysis of vital statistics which ap­ The emotions registered by exponents of acteri stically, the real po! nt has b~en m1ssed. peared under this title in The Cross and The the Catholic Social Guild when disc ussing The chief cause assigned 1s the rap1d sp:ead of Plough eighteen months ago, is supplemented Distributism have always been re markable for poultry farming since the war, le a dm ~ t_o and reinforced by Mr. E. R . Roper Power in their unconscious self-revelation. WORK SHOULD BE THE NORMAL undue demands on stockbreeders. Th1s IS four recent Mr. J. R. Kirwan, right out of his class MEA S OF SERVI G GOD, NOT, AS plainly nonsense. articles in The Tablet. His final The hen ~ as almost astron­ but running true to form, has been cri ticising omical powers of reproduction. She lays conclusion is that "The Catholic statistics IT SO OFTE IS, A POSITIVE OB­ at Father Witcutt's The Dying Lands. We need least 150 eggs justify neither complace ncy nor apathy." ST ACLE TO HIS SERVICE. a yea r, and her progeny can be not intervene on either the matter or the man­ bred from with safety in less than twelve Unhappily, he advanced no radical rem­ ner of his review, but one remark should hr months. The relatively modest expansion can­ NO CATHOLIC, THEREFORE, CAN edies, and none which ca n h ave any major placed on record here. Mr. Kirwan ~avs, not be a primary cause of enfeeb_led sto~k._ effect. Family Allowances, for insta nce, ap­ :-~nswerinr; one of his critics, · R EGA RD WITH I DIFFERE NCE A The real trouble is commemal speoahsa­ pear to be having little effect on the birth rate. " I do deny, emphatically, that self­ STATE OF AFFAIRS I WHICH WORK tion. Breeders threw overboard all safeguards Their main utility, up to the present, is that IS CONSIDERED AS A COMMODITY in order to achieve higher and higher egg­ sufficiency is desirable." A D THE WORKER MERELY AS A layi ng capacity. The co~stant egg-laying they are an open admission of the bankruptcy St. Thomas AC]uinas. on the other hand, says "HA D." A D NOT. AS HE PRIM­ trials became the conventiOnal standard of of industrialism. "A society will be the more perfe ct ARILY IS. A IMMORTAL SOUL. success. Stamina disappeared. When the Mr. Power mentions Land Settlement the more it is sufficient unto HE MUST WANT THOSE CO DITIONS chicks arrived at their destination, they found on! y to reject it. " We have seen tlwt the large itself to procure the necessities of themselves normally on specialised poultry towns have a depressing effect on fertility, and life." TO RE CHANGED INTO SOMETHI G fa rms. Every farmer knows how quickly l~nd it would therefore seem that attempts should Rut Tohn P. CHRISTIAN, AND HE MUST DO becomes "fowl-sick," and the wretched b1r?s be made to arrest the continued drift to the Robinson he WHAT HE CA TO BRING ABOUT added to a hopeless heredity a hopeless envir­ larger towns. This, of course, cannot be Says that sort of thing's an exploded ida. THE CHA GE. HE MUST NOT onment. achieved by schemes for land settlement APATHETICALLY ACQUIESCE IN Poultry are properly a sideline of general Nearly a generation ago, a friendly critic alone." He advocates decentralisation of in­ THEM . .. farming. aturally, a committee. of ~own­ asked "When is the Catholic Social Guile! clustry. garden cities, and satellite towns. They minded experts does not include this pnmary going to grow up?" An even close r analysis :-~re quite useless. It is urban mentality, quite WE HAVE IMPLIED ABOVE THAT fact in either its analysis or its recommenda­ of all the components of its title has become as much as urban environment, which pro­ tions. The Minister of Agriculture, at the necessa ry in the present crisis of our civilisa­ THE POSSESSION OF AN IMMORTAL cluces sterility, and the vital statistics of sev­ moment of writing, is threatening a statutory tion. SOUL GIVES ALL GOD'S CREATURES eral counties which are under urhan inAuence commission to control both breeding and mar­ AND f:HILDRE CERTAIN RIGHTS­ :1 re among the lowest in the country. He en­ --u-- keting. W e hope all the pace-forcers will like THE RIGHT TO LIVE AS RATIONAL dorses a plea for a social and religious revolu­ it. The principles stated here apply equallv RFT TGS. THF RIGHT TO SERVE tion without implementing it, and seems un­ STIGMATA. to all farm stock. emesis is taking rather aware of the case for the crafts as rounding off THETR MAKER.