Week by Week
WEEK BY WEEK A S WE write, Washington has hardly gone further **¦ about its business than to commingle heat with oratory about the Naval Treaty, still awaiting ratification. To some persons...
...That is the sad truth, and it is no credit to anybody...
...Crimes, especially burglary, went up over 11 percent last year, the increase in actual number being 1,778...
...This idea has, as a matter of fact, been taken for granted during recent years, so that vast amounts of money have been expended on research into ancient civilizations...
...1 HE value of the papers, taken together, is that one puts a question very important in our time, and the other gives the only possible answer...
...HOSTILITY to Americans has been fairly evident in France during recent months, and it is only natural that a country which has faced so many trials France anc^ Per^s snould occasionally discover r.a n , that it has nerves...
...The writer in the World could tell her...
...but suppose the Liberty Bell or the original Declaration of Independence were nailed to Mr...
...To some persons the two things Treaties seem inseparable...
...Besides which, AmerOff Color . . , • t, q,, ,. icans are not always amiable...
...Today a gentlemanly, courteous priest on the golf course has a similar chance to exemplify and sometimes to expound the faith to which his life is dedicated...
...And, despite the humor of the Comedy of Errors aspect which threatened Nebraska, there was obviously a vicious attempt to deceive the people into believing they were voting for one man when actually they were voting for another...
...She never alludes to children...
...The first argued that the mere presence of "secret documents" indicated diplomatic juggling of a suspicious character...
...Who of us is so emancipated or so blase not to feel outraged at the sacrilege if it were torn away in protest or contempt...
...We have no such august hammer in our own history...
...That accepting a small salary from choice is economic selfishness, that the world needs the "elegance and charm" that only the home woman can supply, are true, but they are wholly beside the point and what the point is, the Forum writer does not even begin to suspect in the whole course of her analysis...
...The London agreement, said the Senator, constitutes another victory over the militarists...
...A Labor member protested the More Than silencing of another Labor member who „ ,. attempted to challenge the government a au on India, by jerking the sacred symbol from its fastenings in the speaker's table...
...she also confesses her emptiness of resource, her unfitness to sustain that "elegance and charm" which the sheltered amateur can, and should, contribute to civilization...
...JVlORE important possibly, and certain to be heard from again, is the proposal advanced by Senator David I. Walsh of Massachusetts...
...His threat to do so—apparently a procedure which did not occur to his enemies—brought the plotters to their senses...
...Mediaevalists do not begrudge the orientalists and archaeologists their good fortune," Professor Manly said...
...A home is, primarily, a place where children are brought up...
...SENATOR GEORGE W. NORRIS has escaped the menace of the mysterious candidate from Broken Bow...
...A jail-break of unparalleled daring is also recorded, and the report finally stresses what it calls the "motorization" of crime—the adoption by criminals of automobiles and airplanes, along with up-to-date methods that suggest the devices of our own indigenous racketeers...
...His suspension was immediately and overwhelmingly voted, and in the editorial comment which straightway burst out all over London, indignation is the universal note...
...This has now induced the government to broadcast complimentary remarks anent the "Yankees," and to stimulate the heart which caters to visitors...
...Perhaps this sacramental attitude is normal...
...Senator Norris is apparently more useful to the Republican party in Nebraska than is the Republican party to Senator Norris...
...Reports of their sad experiences, as brought home by many, seriously detracted from the magnitude of the annual French summer collection...
...EjVEN those of us who have been chagrined at the contrast between England's criminal statistics and our own will hardly welcome the disturbed London's anc* ommous rePort of London's comT , , missioner of police for 1929...
...If he takes advantage of this opportunity, and incidentally keeps himself from going to seed under the pressure of a sedentary life, we are all in favor of his "lowering himself a few feet farther...
...Ine disapproval in question, however, is largely the result of a fairly systematic campaign by means of which the press hoped to transport across the Atlantic the idea that Frenchmen resented the financial treatment accorded them by Washington—war debts, tariff —since the war...
...Immediately, we read, the House was paralyzed with horror...
...They add that what matters is the spirit of fidelity to duty and self-sacrifice, not the letter of convention...
...1 HE uproar over the seizing of the mace in the House of Commons is probably not as funny as it seems...
...This discussion strikes us as really very curious, and the number of reflections it suggests is legion...
...At any rate shrewd and Ther- reporters are of the opinion that, owing mometers to record temperatures and a desire to leave the capital, ratification is just around the corner...
...Far worse, said Senator Hale, "is the abandonment of the basic principle that each country shall have the right within the limitations of a category to build the type of ship it considers essential...
...even the Irish never touched it...
...1 animating philosophies are not at all the same, but the facts they observe and interpret are so indisputable, and supplement each other so neatly, that they make in combination a pretty complete history of their subject...
...Perhaps the deep-dyed Republican who Senator and regards party regularity as a sacred Broken thing, will regret the Senator's triumph Bowman m court which is almost certain to presage his triumph in the primaries...
...MacDonald is credited with standing "white and shaken," and the rebellious Laborite had actually reached the door with his booty (where he was taking it is not clear) before his colleagues recovered their wits sufficiently to stop him...
...She outlines the domestic career of the typical middle-class, college-bred Catholic girl, who marries young and sacrifices a good salary and personal ambition to help her husband struggle into recognition and security, and to bear and rear her children...
...The author of the paper in the Catholic World is concerned with the activities of another type of woman—activities which possess their own "grace," undoubtedly, though there is very little leisure about them...
...The second onslaught came from those who, like Senator Frederick Hale, are not satisfied with the extant majesty of the navy...
...Two forms of attack have absorbed the energies of the opposition...
...More, the proportion of unsolved crimes, including spectacular murders, was very high...
...Perhaps, we suggest again, all this is not so much like a scene from The Mikado as we would like to think...
...Ambassador Claudel's address, summarizing the virtues of the United States, was almost the opposite extreme from recent denunciations...
...But there is little doubt that the United States would be better equipped to play a leading role in coming international disarmament conferences if it revealed itself as determined to reckon exactly with its rights and requirements...
...Meanwhile several distinguished literary men who know America have produced compliments of their own...
...Of course one should not expect to meet a Trappist at the eighteenth hole...
...Whatever work is done, even that accomplished by Catholic investigators, derives not a nickel of support from Catholic wealth...
...Here the capitol's strategists went much farther than those admirals who had bitterly regretted the limited allotment of eight-inch gun cruisers...
...Their otay riome...
...They would "reduce our navy through negligence or lulled belief in our security, without adequate protection to an inferiority that would make our position much worse than it was before the negotiation of this treaty...
...And there are enough other things to justify the suspicion that the tide has turned...
...Senator Norris, a victim of the small-minded in the party to which he nominally belongs and which has not yet the courage to disavow him, could not have done otherwise than run as an independent candidate...
...Aside from Cromwell, we are reminded, no parliamentarian has ever taken liberties with the mace...
...Some reasons why this neglect exists are evident...
...The result was a great deal of personal discourtesy, manifested particularly to tourists...
...Accordingly a resolve to do what we are entitled to now in the way of vessels and guns would make the country safe for that democracy which does not seek war but believes in carrying something dependable in its holster...
...But for those who believe in an honest election, any effort to becloud an issue can only be regarded as unfair tactics...
...A correspondent had urged r .( that such a spectacle might leave a bad taste in the mouths of the public at large and quoted a "prominent layman" as saying, "It is awful to see the clergy lowering themselves thus far...
...By way of comment the editors suggest that "wearing clothes suitable to a given occasion" can hardly be improper, and that the priest has as much right to put on the green as any "ordinary business or professional man who feels the need of exercise...
...DISCUSSING the present state of humanistic research before a meeting of the Mediaeval Academy of America, Professor J. M. Manly conM d' al tended that the humanities are like the , sciences in that both must rest their consearc elusions upon a basis of accurate investigation...
...They no more enter her calculations than they do those of the women whose lives she is criticizing...
...Upon this principle the Senator set such great store that his confreres somewhat justly accused him of holding that the United States should seek mastery of the seas...
...Longworth's rostrum in perpetual token of our sovereignty...
...But if our press and our movies are making her criminal tyros into experts, they are doing civilization one of those costly and unnecessary damages that may never be effectively repaired...
...The "quick Law-breakers and sure justice» which has kept down murders throughout the island, the traditional security which enables the bobby to go about his duties armed only with a club, the steady decrease in law-breaking of all sorts which has led to the closing of many English prisons, have been at once a challenge and an assurance to the rest of the world...
...The Forum writer describes the mania for salaried employment that has seized upon the women of what she calls the "leisured and demi-leisured classes," women who would otherwise be free to cultivate "domesticity and its attendant graces...
...This parallel will probably not be lost upon English critics, though it will do us a certain injustice...
...We believe this suggestion merits consideration, even though we cannot bring ourselves to feel that it should be appended to the present senatorial debate as a sine qua non...
...But that not all priests are Trappists is a matter of elementary ecclesiastical information which is all too frequently ignored...
...It was quickly found possible to eliminate the Broken Bowman...
...But may not one venture to declare that, from the American Catholic point of view, prevalent unwillingness to aid mediaeval scholarship is quite like prevalent unwillingness to aid any kind of intellectual endeavor...
...What will keep women at home What is their main business in a home...
...1 WO magazines remote from each other in general tone and editorial purpose, the Forum and the Catholic World, come to hand with articles on Why Women t^ie mo<^ern woman that might have been Ci tt planned as companion pieces...
...But we do deplore the failure of the intelligent public to recognize in equal measure the claims upon its interest of those great ages which lie so near and yet are still as deeply buried under prejudices and misconceptions bequeathed to us by the Reformation and the Renaissance as the ancient cities of the Nile and the Euphrates under the drifted sands of Egypt and Mesopotamia...
...Holding that money must not be emphasized unduly when there is question of national security, the Senator urged that the Treaty should be accompanied by a reservation stipulating that the $1,000,000,000 needed to bring the navy up to its permitted theoretical strength be authorized now...
...One may be isolated as follows: when the intrepid Jesuit missionaries of yore came to the new world as servants to the Indian, they could hardly be expected to plow through underbrush in soutane and biretta...
...The job-holder from choice, she says, is not only an economic menace to the job-holder from necessity...
...Surely this is a record omission: surely it is astounding to the verge of the weird to be disturbed about the superstitious exaltation of the job at the expense of the home, and then to betray in the next breath that you have no real idea of what a home is...
...We noticed Bernard Fay's critique of Duhamel's book—a sharp rejoinder to an unwarranted portrait of Chicago in dusky charcoal...
...JVlATERIAL as warm as the season appears in our contemporary, the Homiletic and Pastoral Review, on the subject of priests in knickers on the Priests and &0^ course...
...But what of the pacifists...
...but in all likelihood even the most sleuthlike of the senators expected to find nothing more ghastly in the correspondence files than a juicy topic for further discussion...
...Sometimes this propaganda went pretty far, alleging that the citizens of the United States are "barbarians," greedily engrossed with money, machines and pleasure...
...Surely there are many in administration circles who would prefer another Nebraska Republican Senator even if he be George W. Norris, a war veteran and grocery clerk...
...They have been informed of the limits beyond which they cannot go, expend and build...
...We are not responsible for the moral breakdown represented by the commissioner's figures: England's abnormal and ever-deepening economic gloom must bear the brunt for that...
...The figures just published—covering only London, it is true—show a sudden halt and reversal in this civilized state of things...
Vol. 12 • July 1930 • No. 13
