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The Sign Magazine

Contents 1934


Volume 13                   January 1934             #6



This Month's Menu... Harold Purcell, C.P.  

Current Fact and Comment: 

 -The Vatican Still Remains Anti Solviet

 -Russian Recognition A Threefold Curse

 -Spain Swings to the Right

 -Aftermath of the Spanish Elections

 -Judge Callahan's Brand of Justice

 -For Ebolishin the Electorial College

 -Mass Murders or Civilized Society?

 -Jews Producers of Nazi Propaganda

 -Protestant Leadership Stages a Revolt

 -Germany and the Vatican: A Question of Morality

 -Toasts Within the Month.

Categorica... N.M. Law

Sex and Property... G.K. Chesterton

Why Worry?

A Prayer... Sister M. Eulalia

Where is Recovery?... Gherhard Hirschfeld

Italy's Plan for Social Reconstruction... Dennis Gwynn

Leader of the White Army... Gabriel Francis Powers

Red Versus Black... Charles Willis Thompson

The Sign Post: Questions and Communications

The Passionists in China

Geomancers Open a Gate... Timothy McDermott, C.P.

Gossip in Wuki... Joachim Beckes, C.P.

Bridal Tears and a Flood... The Sisters of Charity

By the Message of an Angel... Enid Dinnis

Forrest People... Earl Lawson Sydnor

My Road to Rome... Arnold Lunn

The Final Sacrifice... Aileen Mary Clegg

The Call of Israel... David Goldstein

Woman to Woman... Katherine Burton

Death in the News... Daniel A. Lord, S.J.

The Eighth Station... Hugh F. Blunt, LL.D.

Notes on New Books

Gemma's League of Prayer





Volume 13              Febuary 1934                  #7



Press Month... Harold Purcell, C.P.

Current Fact and Comment: 

 -A Modern Miracle Play on Broadway

 -Is Facism Coming in the United States?: 

    The Khaki Shirts; Order of '76; The Silver Shirts; 

    The Crusaders; Crusaders for Economic Liberty; The National Watchmen

 -The Pope's Voice in International Affairs

 -Some Centenaries in the Year 1934

 -Toasts Within the Month.

Categorica... N.M. Law

War in Europe?... Denis Gwynn

"Adequate" Currency... Gerhard Hirschfeld 

The Soviet War Against God... G.M. Golden

Fang Fang Hu's Own Parable... Winifred Feely

Content... T.M. Howard

Is the Devil Dead?... T.M. Howard

Woman to Woman... Katherine Burton

The Sign Post: Questions and Communications

The Passionists in China

Flowering of the Faith... Francis Flaherty, C.P.

Dispensary Experiences... Sisters of Charity

China's Great Wall... Raphael Vance, C.P.

Black Thought... Edward F. Murphy, S.S.J.

Asphodel, The Flower of Death... Marion Pharo Hilliard

The Russian Character... Lord French

Romance and Reality... Charles F. Ferguson

The Third fall... Hugh F. Blunt, LL.D.

The Fifth Station... Matthew Richardson

The Figure That Turned... Cecily Hallack

Priests and Calender Reform... Edward S. Schwegler

The Christ Whom Men Saw... W.J. Blyton

Notes on New Books

Gemma's League of Prayer





Volume 13                   March 1934               #8

Little Office of the Passion... Ven. Leonard Lessius, S.J.

Current Fact and Comment: 

 -Catholic Help for German Protestants

 -Not Needed: The Child Labor Amendment

 -"A Tragic Jewish Paradox"

 -Maryland:The Land of Sanctuary

 -Necessary: A Navy Second to None

 -Baptists Undertake Laymen's Retreats

 -Toasts Within the Month.

Categorica... N.M. Law

Lord Halifax... Denis Gwynn

The Church "Sociable"... Marion Pharo Hilliard

The Jewish Mystery... P.W. O'Gorman, C.M.G., M.D.

The Part of Gold... Gerhard Hirschfeld

Mistaken Identity... James B. Yelants

Spring Rain... Earl Lawson Sydnor

The Sign Post: Questions and Communications

The Passionists in China

The New Deal at Supu... Raphael Vance, C.P.

Our Medicine Hall... The Sisters of Charity

Gleanings from Wuki... .Dunstan Thomas, C.P.

A Pagan Solider Makes a Christian Confession... Daniel B. Pulsford

Moochien! Moochien!... Winifred Feely

Dies Irae... Sister Mary Marium

Naturalism in Education... Albert F. Kiaser, C.PP.S.

Praying Hands... Grace Keon

Fact Versus Guess... George Rypins

Internationalism in Catholicism... Edward F. Murphy, S.S.J., h.D.

Who Puts Water in the Faucet?... Karl H. Rogers

Good Friday... John Desmond

Woman to Woman... Katherine Burton

Straws in the Wind... Thomas Franklin Powers

The Tenth Station... Hugh F. Blunt, LL.D.

Notes on New Books

Gemma's League of Prayer





Volume 13              April 1934                    #9



The Cross of Christ... Harold Purcell, C.P.

Current Fact and Comment: 

 -The President's First Quarter

 -After Seven Months of the Blue Eagle

 -Leopold Becomes the King of the Belgians

 -Notre Dame Does More than Play Football

 -The Police Court and Warden's Office

 -A Campaign for Decent Movies

 -Toasts Within the Month.

Categorica... N.M. Law

Upheavals in Europe... Denis Gwynn

Not Light But Lightning... Daniel A. Lord, S.J.

A Spring of Myrth... Enid Dinnis

Death at Seventeen... Patrick O'Connor

A Lad Born Blind... Thoedora Bates Cogswell

The First Year... Gerhard Hirchfeld

The Sign Post: Questions and Communications

The Passionists in China

Meeting My People... William Westhoven, C.P.

Threshhold of Faith... Sisters of Charity

Gleanings from Wuki... Dustan Thomas, C.P.

Gemma's League of Prayer

The Soviet War on Peace... G.M. Godden

The Inside of the Glass... John Blount

Contrast... Sister Miriam

Fact Versus Guess... George Rypins

Cross or Swastika?... Daniel B. Pulsford

Religion in Homespun... Charles F. Ferguson

It Was God's Grace... Grace Brewster

Woman to Woman... Katherine Burton

The Foundation of our Hierarchy... Louise Malloy

The Sixth Station... Matthew Richardson

The Orient Awakes... K.E. Job, M.A.

Nailed to the Cross... Hugh F. Blunt

Careless April... Earl Lawson Sydnor

Notes on New Books





Volume 13                   May 1934                 #10



Saint Paul's Guild... Harold Purcell, C.P.

Current Fact and Comment: 

 -Nazi Opposition Generates A New Catholic Fervor

 -Lobbies: A Sinister and Deadly Cancer

 -New York's "Finest" Give Five Memorials

 -Mother's Day: With and Without A Meaning

 -Catholic Books in Public Libraries

 -Charles Dickens' "Life of Our Lord"

 -The Communism That Should Be Investigated.

Categorica... N.M Law

The Third International Exhibition of Religious Art in Rome, 1934

  ... Gabriel Francis Powers

Catholic Action in Republican Spain... Denis Gwynn

America is Not Bankrupt... Gerhard Hirschfeld

Is Evolution True?... Arnold Lunn

Some Family Names... Leonard Wilson

Fact Versus Guess... George Rypins

Pink Carnation... Frances Marie Shannon

The Sign Post: Questions and Communications

The Passionists in China

Peace Comes to Rose Kang... Joachim Beckes, C.P.

Christmas in Schenchow... Sisters of Charity

Gemma's League of Prayer

A Slump in Dollars... Enid Dinnis

Six Medical Converts... James J. Walsh, M.D., Ph.D.

Woman to Woman... Katherine Burton

No. 30 Humility Street... Edward S. Schwegler

The Roman Index... P.W. Browne

Dying on the Cross... Hugh F. Blunt, LL.D.

Notes on New Books





Volume 13                   June 1934                #11



A League of Decency... Harold Purcell, C.P.

Current Fact and Comment: 

 -Pope Pius XI Interviews The Roman Correspondents

 -Legalizating Pagan Principles and Degenerate Practices

 -Protestantism at the End of an Era

 -An Adequate Defense Will Guarantee Peace

 -Pity and Help the Poor Criminal!

 -Toasts Within the Month.

Categorica... N.M. Law

Mr. Chamberlain's "Great Expectations"... Denis Gwynn

Fidelis Goes South... E. Francis McDevitt

The Colored Harvest... John T. Gillard, S.S.J., Ph. D.

Fact Versus Guess... George Ryphins

The Soviet War on Women... G.M. Godden

The Sign Post: Questions and Communications

The Passionists in China

They Also Suffer... Basil Bauer, C.P.

Mended Bits of China... The Sisters of Charity

How Yungshun Lost a Gate... Timmothy McDermott, C.P.

Gemma's League of Prayer

Is Evolution True?... Arnold Lunn

An Old Fashioned Bouquet... Grace Brewster

The Holy Oak... Enid Dinnis

Whither Civilization?... P.W. Browne, Ph. D.

The Holy Shroud... Peter M. Ranaldi

Uncle Sam: Investor... Gerhard Hirschfeld

Spring Rain... Earl Lawson Sydnor

Woman to Woman... Katherine Burton

Religion and Humanity... James H. Moynihan, Ph.D.

The Thirteenth Station... Hugh F. Blunt, LL.D.

Star from Star... Richard A. Weffle, S.J.

Notes on New Books





Volume 13                   July 1934                #12



The House of Our Holiness... Harold Purcell, C.P.

Current Fact and Comment: 

 -The Y.W.C.A. Capitulates But Not the Liquor

 -President Roosevelt Still Looks Forward

 -The Catholic Call For a Legion of Decency

 -Cardinal O'Connell, Archbishop of Boston

 -Belloc's New Series of Historical Sketches

 -Toasts Within the Month.

Categorica... N.M. Law

The Soviet War on Youth... G.M. Godden

Cardinal Faulhaber and the Nazis... Denis Gwynn

Madame and Monsieur... George B. Pinchera

Fact Versus Guess... George Rypens

When the Cock Crowed... Enid Dinnis

"What God Hath Joined"... George Stuart Brady

Woman to Woman... Katherine Burton

The Sign Post: Questions and Communications

The Passionists in China

Cuthbert O'Gara, C.P., Bishop... Theophane Maguire, C.P.

Standing on Cermony... Nicholas Schneiders, C.P.

Chinese High Festival... Sisters of Charity

Yuanchow Toasts... Germain Heilman, C.P.

Gemma's League of Prayer

Virgina's Part in Founding Maryland... Michael Kenny, S.J., Ph. D., Litt.D.

What is Fascism?... Ross J.S. Hoffman, Ph.D.

Pitfalls of Criticism... Gerhard Hirschfeld

After Turning Catholic... Selden Peabody Delany

Dorothy's Daughters... Molly Veness

Catholic Action... W. Joyce Russell

Apostles of the Negro... Helen Grace Smith

The Spacious Vision... John Desmond Sheridan

Notes on New Books





Volume 14                    August 1934              #1



A Personal Appeal... Harold Purcell, C.P.

Current Fact and Comment: 

 -The German Hierarchy and the Nazi Regime

 -Bishop Fiske Takes the President to Task

 -The First American Marian Congress

 -The Railroad Retirement Act

 -Magna Carta and Ecclesia Angelica

 -Pesudo Science and Virgin Birth

 -Twenty Years After Sarajevo

 -Toasts Within the Month.

Categorica... N.M. Law

The Drawn Battle... Hillaire Belloc

Looking Ahead... Gerhard Hirshfeld

Re-Silvering the Silver Screen... Nicholas Lawlor

Why Heresy-Hunt?... G.K. Chesterton

The Brightness of Black... Edward F. Murphy, SS.J., Ph. D.

The Eighth Station... Matthew Richardson

Fact Not Guess... George Rypins

Re-Armament and Insecurity in Europe... Denis Gwynn

Reckless Dawn... Earl Lawson Sydnor

The Sign Post: Questions and Communications

The Fire Bringer... Daniel B. Pulsford

The Passionists in China

Business and Pleasure... Sisters of Charity

Chinese Banquets... Nicholas Schneiders, C.P.

Gleanings from Paosting... Dunstan Thomas, C.P.

Gemma's League of Prayer

The Young Man of the Tribe... Charles Willis Thompsan

The Web... Mary Welcome

Il Duce in Secret Session Confronts Der Furher... W.R. Titterton

Catholic Terms Defined... Donald Attwater

Woman to Woman... Katherine Burton

Mr. Benjamin Goes on His Own... Enid Dinnis

A Boon, Lady!... Frances Marie Shannon

The War on Children... G.M. Goddden

Passion Prototypes... Herbert McDevitt, C.P.

The Catholic College and "Social Advantages"... Edward Anthony Connell

Baldello's Tower... Gabriel Francis Powers

Notes on New Books





Volume 14               September 1934                #2



A Message From the New Editor... Theophane Maguire, C.P.

Current Fact and Comment: 

 -The Tragic Death of Dolfuss

 -The Catholic Priest Sticks to His Job

 -The Drive Against the Movies Continues Unabated

 -A Warning Against Bogus Agents

 -A Modern Angel of Mercy

 -The Strike Situation Demands Action

 -The Perennial School Problem

 -Toasts Within the Month.

Categorica... N.M. LAw

Europe Re-Arms... Denis Gwynn

Talking About Wages... Gerhard Hirschfeld

-And the Deep Sea... Enid Dinnis

Transiens Viator... Francis MacManus

Henry IV of France... Hilaire Belloc

Artist to the King... Agnes Roberts Martin

Abel: Priest and Victim... Hebert McDevitt, C.P.

Our Lady's Birthday... Frances Marie Shannon

The Sign Post: Questions and Communications

The Passionists in China

Retreat for Chinese Catechists... Antoine de Groeve, C.P.

Farewell to Sabina... Francis Flaherty, C.P.

Fighting for the Faith... WIlliam Westhoven, C.P.

Gemma's League of Prayer

Catholic Canada's Four Hundredth Birthday... P.W.Browne, Ph.D.

Confessors... Julester Shrady Post

The Dog and the Professor... A.R.Bandini

Sinner of Yesterday... Mary E. McGill

Woman to Woman... Katherine Burton

The Parochial School... A Non Catholic Mother

A Psalm for Confirmation... John Gilliand Brunni

On Ringing Out the Old... Charles Willis Thompson

Mothers Don't Understand... Edmund B. Maloney

Catholic Terms Defined... Donald Attwater

Why I am A Priest... Francis Woodlock, S.J.

Balance Sheet of Adolph Hitler... George Ryphins

Notes on New Books





Volume 14                    October 1934             #3



Christ in the Home... Theophane Maguire, C.P.

Current Fact and Comment: 

 -Business Attacks NRA and "Brain Trust"

 -Our Lady Queen of Peace

 -Liberty League and Mr. Hoover

 -American Youth and the Liquor Problem

 - A New Catholic Book Club

 -Honoring the Eucharist at Buenos Aries

 -Toasts Within the Month.

Categorica... N.M. Law

The Divinitarian... Arnold Lunn

The City of 1000 Gates... Ida Mary Smalley

The Human Heresies... G.K. Chesterton 

Monsieur Le Stryge... Victor Luhrs

Knight of the Merry Anger... Francis MacManus 

The Soul in Ecstacy... Mary Welcome

The Tragedy of Dollfuss... Denis Gwynn

All for All... Sister Mary Miriam

Around the New Deal... Gerhard Hirschfled 

Walking With God... M.H. Davies

The Sign Post: Questions and Communications

The Passionists in China

Cathay's Eight Diagrams... Sidney Turner, C.P.

The Way of Liao Francis... William Wethoven, C.P.

The Rain Takes Toll... Sisters of Charity

Woman to Woman... Katherine Burton

Christianity and Paganism... Joseph I. Schade, S.T.L.

Tom the Tale-Hunter... Enid Dinnis

Sonnet LIV... Helen Grace Smith

Fact Vs. Guess... George Ryphins

James I of England... Hillaire Belloc

Catholic Terms Defined... Donald Attwater

Now Re-enters the Chamelon... Charles Willis Thompson

Noah: Saint and Savior... Herbret McDevitt, C.P.

After Rain... Richard A. Weffle

Notes on New Books

Gemma's League of Prayer





Volume 14                    November 1934            #4



The Peace of Christ... Theophane Maguire, C.P.

Current Fact and Comment: 

 -Communist Activities Among American Youth

 -Tyrannical Persecution At Our Doors

 -Exposing the Peddlers of Death

 -Clean Motion Pictures get Results

 -A New Low in Advertising

 -Tabloids Constitute A Moral Menace

 -Toasts Within the Month. 

Categorica... Edited by N.M. Law

Tolerance in a Triangle... Paul J. Glenn, Ph.D., S.T.D.

The Measure of Profits... Gerhard Hirschfeld

Mantle of Blue... Gabriel Francis Powers

Ferdinand II... Hilaire Belloc

These Social Reformers... James A. Magner, Ph.D., S.T.D.

As Her Husband Dies... Helen Walker Homan

The Sign Post: Questions and Communications

The Passionists in China

Chu Yuan's Regatta... Edward J. McCarthy, C.P.

We Summer in Chenki... Harold Travers, C.P.

A Page From Paotsing... Dunstan Thomas, C.P.

Gemma's League of Prayer

Fact Versus Guess... George Ryphins

Lourdes and the League of Nations... Denis Gwynn

Campus Psychoanalysts... Edward Anthony Connell

Conserving Civilians... Charles Carter Boldrick

A Royal Nazareth... Enid Dinnis

Requiem... Francis MacManus

Purgatory... Edward Tigue

Sonnet LV... Helen Grace Smith

Woman to Woman... Katherine Burton

Melchisedech: King and Pontiff... Herbert McDevitt, C.P.

Catholic Terms Defined... Donald Attwater

Eleventh Station... J.Carson Miller

Let Us Dine Well... Georgia Fink

Notes on New Books





Volume 14                    December 1934            #5



Other Bethlehems... Theophane Maguire, C.P.

Current Facts and Comment: 

 -The Truth About Mexico Should be Told

 -Give Catholic Books for Christmas

 -The Laboring Man is Still Discriminated Against

 -The Catholic University: A Plea For Comas Time Challenges 

    the Generosity of America

 -The President's Social Security Plan Deserves Support

 -Toasts Within the Month.

Categorica

Thirty-Second International Eucharistic Congress... Wm. B. Reeves

The Monstrance... E.M.D.

Beatrice Chase... Annie Russell Moore

Fact Versus Guess... George Ryphins 

Gustavus Adolphus... Hilaire Belloc

NRA's Moral Code... George Stuart Brady

In A Stable... Beatrice Barry

The Happy Fault... J.B. Lux, D.D.S.

A Crib for St. Mary's... Grace Brewster

The Sign Post: Questions and Communications

The Passionists in China

The Ancients Clean House... Sisters of Charity

From My Mission Diary...Dunstan Thomas, C.P.

Yuanling Letter... Quentin Olwell, C.P.

Gemma's League of Prayer

Culture Versus Civilization... W.J. Blyton

Who Opened the Door?... Enid Dinnis

The Virgin's Story... Mary G. Hawks

The Murder of King Alexander... Denis Gwynn

Christmas Dawn... Walter Richardson

Commmunism Mobilizes the Theatre... G.M. Godden

A Christmas Chronicle... Aloysius Horn

None But You... Mary Joseph Hennessy

Woman to Woman... Katherine Burton

Abraham: Pilgrim and Father... Herbert McDevitt, C.P.

Catholic Terms Defined... Donald Attwater

Christmas at Bethlehem... Ralph Gorman, C.P.

Notes on New Books