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Required by the church to send their children to parochial schools whenever possible, Roman Catholic parents are not always happy about them. Last week the Jesuit weekly America printed a long letter from Mrs. James R. Cronin, 31, wife of a roofing contractor and onetime Chicago reporter, who has four children in St. Philip Neri School on Chicago's South Side. Not all of Pat Cronin's grievances were major, but many would probably be recognized by other Catholic mothers. Items...
Concluded Mrs. Cronin: "If anybody has the answers, please-write, wire, phone. Do something...
...NORTHERN LIGHT, by A. J. Cronin (308 pp.; Little, Brown: $4), finds Novelist Cronin (The Citadel, The Keys of the Kingdom) crusading again and moralizing again, but the muscles of his indignation have sagged. His wide-open target is the English "popular" press, which runs to sex, sadism and trivia. Small-town Newspaper Publisher Henry Page seems hardly the man to lift his lance off the ground, much less to slay the dragon. He has been twice mayor of Hedleston, and is the great-great-grandson of the founder of the respectable Northern Light. Unfortunately, he is the kind...
...which she announces her admiration for their paper. Poor Henry is brought to his knees, and to bringing out the Northern Light by duplicating machine. That starts rallying British readers to the underdog, and in the end, after other trials that the reader may endure less readily than Cronin's hero, the Northern Light shines...
...Author Cronin is, as always, on the side of right, and few authors have ever made the right so palatable to so many (total sales of Cronin books in the U.S. alone: 7,000,000 copies). This time, what with tired writing, so lugubrious a hero, and the skimpiest knowledge of newspapers, the right may not be enough...