The Sign Magazine
Contents 1932
Volume 11 January 1932 #6 Special Attention Invited... Harold Purcell, C.P. Current Fact and Comment: For Beatification and Canonization -The Venerable Gemma Galgani -With Quite a Few Districts Still -The Needs of Some Gold Star Mothers -The "Patriarch of Mexico" Repents -New York's Mayor and Tom Mooney -And Once More Parents Attention! -Black Criminals and White Women -Baby Butsch Who is no. 1500 -League of Nations and Disarmaments -One Hundred and Eighty Millions of Them -The Eucharistic Congress, Dublin in 1932 -Did We Loose a Half Million?-Toasts within the Month. Categorica... N.M. Law Santo Stefano... Gabriel Francis Powers Shooting the Good Old Taurus... E.S.Schwegler The Canonization of Father Dan... Enid Dinnis Non Voyage... Richard Reid To One Unfaithful... John Gilland Brunini Clement VII... Hilaire Belloc The Golden Book of Gael... J. Carson Miller A Rebauff and a Miricle... Daniel B. Pulsford The Impediments to Marriage... Adrian Lynch, C.P. The Wooden Madonna... James Grattan The Sign Post. Questions: Answers: Communications Porous Plasters and Wooden Legs... Ig Nikilis Famous Writers from Large Families... August J. App, Ph. D. Knight of the Perfect Heart... Frances Shannon The Guests... Marion Pharo Hilliard The Angel and the Donkey... Cray Conventry Mr. Hiram's Lucky Day... John Gibbions Notes on New Books The Passionists in China From a Chinese Paper... Jerimiah McNamara, C.P. Wearing Out the Missionary... William Westhoven, C.P. Belated Chatechumens... Dunstan Thomas, C.P. Gemma's League of Prayer Volume 11 February 1932 #7 Lux Verutatis: A Summary Current Fact and Comment: George Washington and the Bicentennial -The Pope Plea and two Episcopalians -Colombia Protects Her Uncivilized Natives -Unconstitutionality of Mexican Persecution -Promised Benefits and Actual Facts -Guidelines for an Individual Apostolate -Used Clothing and Worn Footwear -Nineteen Thirty-Two Will be Ireland's Own Year -China Roll of Honor for 1931 -Capitalized Dirt for an Unshamed Market -Julius Rosenwald a Great Hearted Jew-Toasts with the Month. Categorica... N.M. Law Subraco of Today... Saunders-Anson The Kiss... Frederick Reynolds Thomas Cranmer... Hilaire Belloc The Penny Chatechism Detectives... Michael Earls, S.J. To Saul of Tarsus... Clifford J. LAube A Fatal Choice... Daniel B. Pulsford There is so Little... Millicent Claire McNicholl The Form of Marriage... Adrian Lynch, C.P. Three Lost Arts... A Longfellow Fiske A Recipie For Health and Happiness... Albert F. Kaiser, C. PP. S. The Vital Force... John Gibbions To Dennis A. McCarthy... Annette S. Driscoll The Sign Post-Questions: Answers: Communications Are So Called Little Nuances to be Accepted?... Mary E. McGill Loss and Gain... Hugh F. Blunt, LL. D. City Hospital:Woman's Ward... Joan Lee Back to the Good Old Cherry Tree... G.K. Chesterton Relativism: A Modern Plague... John Julian Ryan Notes on New Books Porous Plasters and Wooden Legs... Ig Nikilis The Passionists in China A Rat Raid Plus... Edward J. McCarthy, C.P. The Missionary Smiles... Anthony Maloney, C.P. Celebrating Royalty at Luki... Leo Berard, C.P. Gemma's League of Prayer Volume 11 March 1932 #8 Justice and Charity... The Apostolic Delegate Current Fact and Comment: Ireland:The Nation With a Soul -A Situation that Must be Faced -A Clarion Call for Enlistment -The Counsel of Extreme Caution -No Compromise With Evil-Chance for a Body Blow -Two Catholic Laymen Give the Example -World Security and Rome -Catholic Baiting:A Masonic Program-Disarmament Within Safety Bounds -Toasts Within the Month. Categorica... N.M. Law The Legion of Our Lady... Leonard Maccabe St. Patrick's Altar Stone... Cathal O'Byrne The Pleasant Gateway... Neil Boyton, S.J. Mary Tudor... Hilaire Belloc Before My Crucifix... Mary Caroline Lyons Painters of the Sacred Passion... Norman Kelly, C.P. The Tolerance of Catholicism... Theodore Maynard Forsaken... Hugh F. Blunt, LL.D. Science Needs a New First Cause... John O'Hara Cosgrave The Sign Post Brother Bartholomew's Besom... Enid Dinnis "Love Blossoms in Splendor"... J. Carson Miller The Courage that Comes With a Crisis... Daniel B. Pulsford Annunciation... Charles J. Quirk, S.J. Porous Plasters and Wooden Legs... Ig Nikilis Effects and Obligations of Marriage... Adrian Lynch, C.P. "Mass for Georgie"... Katherine Burton Notes on New Books The Passionists in China Gemma's League of Prayer The Passing of Wang Peter... Leo Berard, C.P. Starting Anew At Lungtan... Ernest Cunningham, C.P. A Lone Missionary's Christmas... Nicholas Schneiders, C.P. In The Willow Forest Village... Dunstan Thomas, C.P. Volume 11 April 1932 #9 Our Advertising Creed... Harold Purcell, C.P. Current Fact and Comment: The Program of Pope Benedict XV -The Leadership of Pope Pius XI -The Holy See and Disarmaments -An Urgent Plea From Austria -New Items of the Eucharistic Congress -Indulgences of the Way of the Cross -Toasts Within the Month. Categorica... N.M. Law Mussolini Goes to the Pope... Gabriel Francis Powers The Gift... J. Carson Miller Queen Elizabeth... Hilaire Belloc Philosophic Coroners at the Papal Corpse... Hugh T. Henry, itt. D. At Grips With the Doubter... W.J. Blyton Empty Arms... Theodora Bates Cogswell The Chivalry of a Virgin Heart... Daniel B. Pulsford It Is Consummated... Hugh F. Blunt, LL. D. The Rite of Marriage... Adrian Lynch, C.P. Sign or Wonder... Enid Dinnis Porous Plaster and Wooden Legs... Ig Nikilis The Sign Post. Questions: Answers: Communications A Pilgrimage to Camaldoli... Saunders-Anson Alfred Percival Graves... Michalel Earls, S.J. On Educating Our Masters... G.K. Chesterton Dollars and the Catholic Press... Mary E. McGill Via Crucis... B. Baden Whispering Will Makes a Medal... Nicholas Jay Notes on New Books The Passionists in China Gemma's League of Prayer Restless Ghosts and Pagan Charms... Dunstan Thomas, C.P. Missionary Compensations... Nicholas Schneiders, C.P. One of China's Choice Spirits... Arthur Benson, C.P. In Praise of Lady Lung Volume 11 May 1932 #10 May: The Legion of Mary... Harold Purcell, C.P. Current Fact and Comment: A Stateman's Profession of Faith -Europe's Obligations to the United States -Not an Institution, but a Contingency-Toasts Within the Month. Categorica... N.M.Law Our Lady of Fatima... Christopher Curd On Writing an Essay... John Bunker The Chesterbelloc... Shandy Howe Mary Stuart... Hilaire Belloc The Returning Multitude... Daniel B. Pulsford Ruins of an Old Parish Church... Sister M. Eulalia The Swish of the Curtain... Enid Dinnis Shall We Recognize Russia?... Frank E. Downs The Christian Handclasp... Edward F. Murphy The Separation of Married Partners... Adrian Lynch Heart Hungary... Frances Marie Shannon The Sign Post Poppy: Flower of Death... T. Wayne Mallon Porous Plaster and Wooden Legs... Ig Nikilis A Poet of the Gutter... James B. Yealnts I Know a Man... Brother Cajetan, C.F.X. I Find My God...R.H. Karl Water Lilly... John Gilliand Brunini Annointing for Life's Ending... Michael Kenny, S.J. Tabloida Catholica... Francis E. Benz Notes on New Books The Passionists in China The Lungtan Mission in Ashes... Theophane Maguire, C.P. A Missionary Muses Mules... Anthony Maloney, C.P. The Curse of China... Timmothy McDermott, C.P. Gemma's League of Prayer Volume 11 June 1932 #11 Across this Editor's Desk... Harold Purcell, C.P. Current Fact and Comment: An American Industry Vested and Powerful -Two Hundred of Them, and Only a Beginning -The Methodists go in for Liturgy -The Centennial of the Oxford Movement -Present Position of the Church in Sweden -The Lay Teacher on the Street Corner -Prince Von Buelow Justifies Pope Benedict XV -"Major General of the Pie Brigade" -Wall Street Must Clean House Quick -Toasts Within the Month. Categorica... N.M. Law Will Power Versus Lust... Frank H. Spearman The Oldest Catholic Republic... Neil McBrearty, C.P. Trith and Sincerity... Albert F. Kaiser, C.PP. S. Song... Florence Harrison The Miracle... Gabriel Francis Powers Before a Crucifix... Lillian Any Powers William Cecil... Hilaire Belloc The Prescence... Sister Miriam Teresa of the Child of Jesus... Gerald E. Ward Second Marriages... Adrian Lynch, C.P. A Strange Candidate for Sainthood... John M. Ducey Seeing and Believing... Ferdinand Valentine, O.P. Friend... John Bunker The Sign Post Questions: Answers: Communications The Divine Craftsman... Charles F. Ferguson Legend... Dorothy Fenwick The Place of the Sinner... Daniel B. Pulsford Our Gaelic Strain... Daniel M. O'Connell, S.J. Porous Plasters and Wooden Legs... Ig Nikilis A Sack of Potatoes... Enid Dinnis Notes on New Books The Passionists in China Gemma's League of Prayer Bowling Acquaintance With a Bonzess... Michael A Campbell, C.P. A Pagan Sidelight on Death... Edward J. McCarthy, C.P. The First Baptism at Ngan Kiang... Gregory McEtterick, C.P. Volume 11 July 1932 #12 The Charity of Christ... Harold Purcell, C.P. Current Fact and Comment: -Excerpts from Caritate Christi Impulsi: Universality of the Economic Crisis -Greed at the Root Cause -Human Hatred vs Divine Law - "A Wall for the House of Israel" -To the individual and the Nation -The Need of Humble and Preserving Prayer -For Peace Among Men -The Practice of Christian Penance -A Chief Error of Our Own Day -Called to Make a Definite Choice -The Moral Must Triumph. Categorica... N.M. Law Glendalough and the Rock of Cashel... Peter F. Anson Machine Age Justice... George S. Brady Stephen Gardiner... Hilaire Belloc The Stop Gap... M.B. From Kruger to Kreuger... G.K. Chesterton Mad Dog... Aileen M. Clegg David Laments Absalom... Katherine Burton The National Catholic School of Social Service...P.W.Browne,Ph.D. Tabernacle... Kenneth Leslie Declarations of Nullity... Adrian Lynch, C.P. When Granny Went to Splashton... Enid Dinnis The Quarry... John Gilliand Brunini The Sign Post- Questions; Answers; Communications The Irrationalists... Irving T. MacDonald Porous Plasters and Wooden Legs... Ig Nikilis The Longbeard's Jest... Daniel B. Pulsford The Allen... Theodore Le Berthon Vigilis... T.M. Howard The World's Wickedist City... John Gibbions Notes on New Books The Passionists in China From our Hankow Diary... Alfred Cagney, C.P. Rita Brings a Soul... William Westhoven, C.P. A Bandit Victim as Patron... Antoine DeGroeve, C.P. A Modern Entry by Ancient Trails... Jeremiah McNamara, C.P. Gemma's League of Prayer Volume 12 August 1932 #1 The Church and Disarmament... Harold Purcell, C.P. Current Fact and Comment: -The Irish President to the Papal Legate -Not Cathedrals but the Faith -Vast Growth of the Church in India -Juvenile Crime and the Irreligious Home -A Compliment and a Commendation -American Citizens:Canonized or Not? -What Hitlerism Stands For -The Darkness is not Without Light -The Return to Domestic Work-Toasts Within the Month. Categorica... N.M. Law Lewis: A Haberdasher Turned Theologian... E.S. Schwegler Between Ourselves... Abbie Hargrave A Magic Circle... Enid Dinnis The Shadow of the Cross... Daniel B. Pulsford Turn for Turn... Edmund Hill, C.P. In "Medieval" Pittsburgh... John J. Gorrell Playing With Names... Hugh T. Henry, Litt.D. Woman and Naturalism... Albert F. Kiaser, C.PP.S. The Sign Post: Questions and Communications Nine Rules for Dealing With the Poor... Hilaire Belloc Third Thoughts are the Best... G.K. Charleson The Holy Mass... Alexander MacDonald Wealth of Poverty... Frances Marie Shannon The Burning of Abbot Spiridion... William Canton Nurse Twilight... Charles j. Quirk, S.J. The Safety Post... John Gibbions A Catholic Child's Alphabet... Shanby Howe Porous Plasters and Wooden Legs... Ig Nikilis Catholic Youth Gets into Action... Francis P. LeBuffe, S.J. Just Ireland... Robert Petrock Notes on New Books The Passionists in China Siters Loose Their Homes... Leo Berard, C.P. Vacationing in Hunan... Nicholas Schneiders, C.P. Told to a Troubled Flock... Dunstan Thomas, C.P. Gemma's League of Prayer Volume 12 September 1932 #2 Looking Over This Issue... Harold Purcell, C.P. Current Fact and Comment: Devota:One Worthy of the Name -Russia's Gain: America's Loss -Soviet Interest in the American Negro -Jason Joy: the Joyous Colonel -A Catholic Physician States His Convictions -A Slanderous Charge Promptly Refuted -Our Dry Friends and the President-Toasts Within the Month. Categorica... N.M. Law Mar Ivanios in Rome... Gabriel Francis Powers Compensation... Anne Banville Levity- or Levitation... G.K. Chesterton Dusky Justice... Edward F. Murphy, S.S.J. In Justice to St. James the Just... Helen Walker Homan Articulate Catholic Laymen... William E. Kerrich Tragedy of the Mixed Marriage... Frank H. Spearman A Boon Lady!... Frances Marie Shannon Just a Candle... Enid Dinnis The Standard... John Bunker Porous Plaster Wooden Legs... Ig Nikilis Playing With Family Names... Hugh T. Henry, Litt. D. The Second Station... Matthew Richardson The Sign Post: Questions and Communications Fordham's School of Sociology... James J. Walsh, M.D. Wanted: More Highbrows!... Doyle Hennessey Some Economic Fallacies... Gerhard Hirschfeld The Guest Denied... John Richard Moreland Cradle and Cross... Daniel B. Pulsford Nostalgia... Benjamin Musser Ignatz Seipel... Denis Gwynn Notes on New Books The Passionists in China Gemma's League of Prayer Some Opium Victims... Francis Flaherty, C.P. St. Jude Aids a Missionary... Timmothy McDremott, C.P. Bridge Folk of Yuanchow... Edward McCarthy, C.P. Volume 12 October 1932 #3 In This Issue... Harold Purcell, C.P. Current Fact and Comment: Liquor Control Under State Supervision -China's Bandit Spirit In The Japanese Military -Fellow Citizens With the Saints -It Surely is in the Raw -The Evangilicals Turn to Liturgy -The Future: One View of America's Curse -"A.G. Everett's" Plan to Refinance Church Debts -Toasts Within the Month. Categorica... N.M. Law In Exile From Lourdes... Aileen Mary Clegg The Mysteries of the Rosary... Charles J. Quirk, S.J. The Tide has Turned... Hilaire Belloc Adventures for God... Alice Lee Williams In a XIII Century Gallery... Frank J. Wiles Sanjurjo's Revolt in Spain... Denis Gwynn Some Puzzling Names... Hugh T. Henry, Litt, D. With Mar Invanos at the Catacomb of Domitilla... Gabriel Francis Powers Sympathy... Abbie Hargrave Porous Plasters and Wooden Legs... Ig Nikilis William Cardinal Allen... G.C. Heseltine The Sign Post: Questions and Communications The Impatient Reformer... Frank H. Spearman Values... S.M.B. The Enlarged Work of Lligouri... Thomas J. Sanderson, C.SS.R. Peace... John Murray The Ladies Liked You, Saint Philip!... Helen Walker Homan A Prayer at Dawning... Joseph Conway Guinan Romance Awaits Around the Corner... John Gibbions Thunder... T.A. Roche The Woes of One Church Goer... Patricia MacCathmhaoil The Voices of Prophecy... Daniel B. Pulsford Notes on New Books The Passionists in China Five Face the East... Theophane Maguire, C.P. The Voice of Prophecy... William Westhoven, C.P. As The Chinese Do It... Edward McCarthy, C.P. Gemma's League of Prayer Volume 12 November 1932 #4 This IS Christian Marriage... Harold Purcell, C.P. Current Fact and Comment: -A "Pernicious Foreigner" Serving a "Foreign Power" -The Reids Recognize Their Strongest Enemy -A Protesting Voice From Switzerland -Bigotry:Bought and Paid For -Black Man's Burden Along the Mississippi -Even In Hollywood Wisdom May be Learned -The Little Pope of American Atheism -Toasts Within the Month. Categorica... N.M. Law "The Holy Valley"... Gabriel Francis Powers The Real Situation in Germany... Denis Gwynn Saint Paul and Bruce Barton... John C.Callahan Where the Dutch Lead... Alice Curtayne Calix Salutis Perpetuae... Edward James Schuster The Old Adam and The New Eve... Hugh T. Henry, Litt. D. God's Testament... Walter Seton Schmidt Porous Plasters and Wooden Legs... Ig Nikilis A Step Sideways... Enid Dinnis The Great Quarrel... Hilaire Belloc A Human Document... Dorothy Day The Third Situation... Matthew Richardson The Sign Post: Questions and Communications An Old Challenge Newly Met... Edward F. Murphy, S.S.J. Psalm: 1932... John Gilliand Brunini The Divine Incendiary... Daniel B. Pulsford I Join Nicodemus... Francis McNaught Hilton A Seeing Eye, Lord!... Frances Marie Shannon The Story... Carl J. Wileshal The Gay Cavalcade... John J. O'Connor Notes on New Books The Passionists in China Cholera Claims Sister Devota... Jeremiah McNamara, C.P. T'Ang Joseph's First Born... Nicholas Schneiders, C.P. I Reach My New Mission... Timothy McDermott, C.P. Gemma's League of Prayer Volume 12 December 1932 #5 Greetings... Harold Purcell, C.P. Current Fact and Comment: -The Anti-God Campaign of the Spanish Government -The Case of Tom Mooney and Warren Billings -England Sets a Sultry Example -One Hundred Divorce Cases in Pennsylvania -Toasts Within the Month -Not Solely a Matter of Partisan Politics. Categorica... N.M. Law Poggio Bustone: La Foresta... Gabriel Francis Powers "Come to Me"... John Murray The Disaster of the Reformation... Hilaire Belloc The Catholic Instinct in Names... Hugh T. Henry, Litt. D. Sanctissimae Virgini... Edward James Schuster A Burning Topic... Daniel B. Pulsford Life-Line... Jessie Edgerly A Child's Meditation... S.M.B. The Sign Post: Questions and Communications The Passionists in China Rice and a Golden Book... Michael A. Campbell, C.P. Tongue Training in Chinese... Cyprian Frank, C.P. The Mind of a Mission Boy... Theophane Maguire, C.P. The King's Foster Mother... Enid Dinnis Motherhood... Abbie Hargrave Ten Years of Mussolini... Denis Gwynn Porous Plasters and Wooden Legs... Ig Nikilis Christmas in Lisieux... T.W.C. Curd Si Scires Donum Dei... Frances Marie Shannon Spell of the Midnight Mass... Edythe Helen Browne Truce... Clifford J. Laube Cure': Padre: Soggarth... Michael Earl, S.J. Were You a Match Maker, Saint Andrew?... Helen Walker Honan No Room... Richard A. Welfle, S.J. Notes on New Books Gemma's League of Prayer