Loyola College - Review Yearbook (Montreal, Quebec Canada)

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LOYOLA COLLEGE REVIEW 23 EE fest HOMMAGE Salut bien, compagnons d'une langue étrangére! Salut, jeune collège aussi frais qu'un bos- . quet! La gaîté dans les yeux, et d'áme légère, Je mets mon humble fleur parmi votre bouquet. La vaine réverie et les langueurs de soie Ne troublent point vos fronts. Mais votre coeur ouvert A mis son espérance et ses pleurs et sa joie Dans les plis frémissants de son vieux drapeau vert! Eh bien! qu'il soit permis, race antique et valide, Pour l'idéal commun, de joindre nos succes! Et qu' enfin les liens d'une amitié solide Unissent votre coeur aux Canadiens-fran- cais! Puissions-nous, pour toujours unis comme des frères, Cote á cote marcher sur le méme chemin, L’ame 4 jamais fermeé aux troubles de naguére, Et réver d’avenir en nous serrant la main! | | | | Robert Choquette, ' 26.

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22 LOYOLA COLLEGE REVIEW Only A Street Waif NCE, not long ago, in the great metro- polis of America, among the many newsboys of the city, was a little chap whose name I need not mention since it can be of no interest to the reader. He was of an age, when the average boy is under the care andguidance of a loving father and mother. His home was the cold streets where he earned his pennies, and his friends, or rather his only earthly friend—for he had only one—was the faithful dog that sat by the newspapers at the street corner and wagged his silent approval at the coppers that fell in his young master's hat. Often in the wretched loneliness of his life he thought of a Friend who was not of this world, and whom he had known in the hazy recollection of his childhood years. And he felt instinctively that this Friend was always by his side in joy and in sorrow, in misery and in suffering. It greatly cheered his young heart to think that if ever he were to appeal to this great Friend he would receive the necessary strength to fight life's battles. It was nearing Christmas time—the season of unrestrained pleasures for the godless people of wealth who think little of the Divine Babe born in poverty or of the poor He loves so well. For some time past it had not fared well with the little news- paper lad at the street corner. A severe winter, which his emaciated and poorly clad body could hardly withstand, told its tale in the hacking cough that shook the tiny . frame from time to time. Christmas Eve found the little outcast, near midnight, plodding aimlessly onward in the teeth of a biting blizzard, his bundle of ragged wares under his arm. Не mumbled inco- herently as he staggered weakly in the blinding snow. А large door swung open and the clear notes of the “ Adeste Fideles through the cold air awoke the benumbed urchin to a realization of his surroundings. A large church loomed up before him and the warm light that radiated through its open door beckoned him in from the cold streets. Scrambling into a back seat he drew his threadbare coat about his shiver- ing body and blinked in wonder at the solemn splendour of the vast cathedral. At the elevation of the Sacred Host, when all heads were bowed in silent adoration, tears coursed down his pinched cheeks, while his lips moved in prayer: Once more the large door in the back swung open and the crowds went out, a quiet happiness in their hearts. The little lad perceiving himself almost alone, shook himself and with an audible sigh of regret painfully regained the cold streets. Next morning a casual passerby noticed a silent, huddled figure on the side-walk; covered over with a thin mantle of snow. A crowd gathered; a policeman turned over the little body to disclose the stiff form of a child in rags, whose features were set and still in death with a peaceful smile frozen on the pinched lips. Across his feet was the corpse of a dog whose last efforts it seemed меге spent in a vain attempt to arouse the slumbering boy. There was a momentary commotion in the street followed by the usual morbid curio- sity of the crowd. Then the ambulance— a murmured word of compassion from a kindly old lady—and the crowd dispersed. The busy life of the Metropolis swept on unruffled and the sad little tragedy passed out of the hearts of men. It was only a street waif, but the tired little soul had gone home to his true Friend. C. Malloy, '26. A WISH Mine the glory of a mountain lake, Moon that flings a golden path across the water blue! Let me glide in frail craft, and take The hope of my life—you.—7. McGovern, H.S., 23.

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24 LOYOLA COLLEGE REVIEW Socialism INCE the advent of industrialism in the 18th century and the evo- lution of the capitalistic order which holds sway to-day, social reformers have busied themselves in the proposal of measure upon measure for the correction of defects in the prevalent status of society. It is not the intention of this essay nor of its author to defend modern society and its ramifications in every detail. Nor will we seek to refute in every other doctrine, false bases and the error of their funda- mental concepts. As may be easily realized today, the most persistent and widespread of all social remedies proposed for the ills of the capitalistic system 1s that of communism. And it is the purpose of this essay to treat of communism's most eminent offspring, moderate socialism. Time would not per- mit the exposition and refutation of all the tenets of socialism. But let us take the most fundamental of all these tenets, the one which once undermined, will cause the huge superstructure of socialism to fall with it, namely, the theory evolved by Karl Marx, the theory of surplus value. In Russia since early 1916, at the time of the Red Revolution, the reins of the government have been held by that faction known generaly as the communists or adherents of communism. This is in gen- eral correct, but communism is merely a genus enfolding many and various species of communism. Communism is the theory that all goods as far as capital or means of production is concerned, should be the common property of the community. There are two types of communism, positive and negative communism. The theory once upheld by negative com- munists, the most notable being Moses Hess, has few, if any supporters in recent times. Men have come to realize that an order where, as Cathrein states, one man may reap the harvest which another has sown by weeks of labour, is wildly un- practical. For negative communism up- holds the theory that denies to all men the right to own property, makes all goods common to all, and makes everyone the owner of everything. It is positive communism, however, that embraces the more reasonable and widely followed theories of the day. Positive communism denies the natural right of man to own private property. But it goes „even farther and provides that all or part of all material goods should be put into the hands of communities or of a state, which acts as the administrator, distribu- tor and owner of these goods. Because positive communism does not specify what goods are not to be exclu- sively possessed, there have arisen two factions. Extreme positive communists demand the control of all goods without exception under one administration. Mod- erate positive communists, on the other hand aim only at the abolition of private property as far as capital and productive goods are concerned. This moderate form has by far the greatest number of adherents in our own day. But the question whether these com- mon goods are to be controlled by com- munities or independent groups of la- bourers, or by a body representative of society in general, without reference to class and known as the state, has given rise to two bitterly opposed factions, anarchists and socialistic communists or socialists. Anarchism, as sponsored by Bakunin, would abolish all private property by force and terrorization, even to the extent, as we have seen in the past, of seeking to gain its ends by bloodshed and the use of explosives. The distribution and admin- istration of all property would be in the hands of communities of working men, united by federation, each individual receiving his own products. With man given full liberty, anarchists hold that by a theory of evolution, he will rise to. the highest stages of perfection. The distinction between anarchism and socialism is shown by the very definition of