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435 September 16, 1925 THE COMMONWEAL THE COMMONWEAL Published weekly and copyrighted 1925, in the United States by the Calvert Publishing Corporation, 25 Vanderbilt Avenue, New...
...third, an organized trip to Italy to study the selection of wheat and the silk-worm industry, with prizes for the most successful breeders of silk-worms in France...
...All these facts mean that responsible men are willing to take the future into account while conducting industries for service and profit...
...The keynote at this year's convention was struck by Mr...
...While labor is pursuing this policy, an increasing number of responsible business men hold to the same conviction and are giving it outspoken expression...
...If anything exists more obviously and restlessly impatient with everything round him than the arboreal ancestor whom London evolutionists will not be cheated of by any Nebraska theorist and lecturer, we cannot think of him at the present moment...
...Unfortunately the situation does not afford much hope that the public, so dependent upon the stability of this vital industry, will be relieved of worry or added expenditure for some time to come...
...Perhaps Mr...
...The Verein's leaders are acquainted with the theory which during the last seventyfive years has been developed under the shadow of the Church...
...Theoretically, crime is committed against the "people" of a state, as the very words employed in legal procedure infer, and the people have a right to know that their sentence will be respected...
...1 HE annual Labor Sunday message of the Federal Council of Churches is in virtual agreement with what has been said on the same subject by authorized Catholic spokesmen...
...Search for arms after a clash in western Massachusetts has shown that an unduly large number of permits to carry weapons arc being freely issued by selectmen to members of the order...
...Mencken was nearer than he guessed to Dr...
...A tradition that has been fondly believed in by ten generations has acquired a respectability all its own, regardless of its authenticity, and the best plan would seem to be merely to let it alone...
...We must remain patient, tolerant and charitable...
...If in England the Labor program generally calls for nationalization of the mines, it is because the British Labor party is politically powerful, and has tended more and more to press its demands through the extension of state power and control...
...and the suggestion that the much-advertised Commission on Crime might take it to heart is timely...
...It is Mr...
...Press accounts reviving a discussion of the theory of nationalization of the coal industry do not originate with the mine workers," says Mr...
...Dooley used ungrammatically to term "them bonds" are going to be subjected to considerable strain...
...second, four agricultural expositions in Paris, Strasburg, Lyons and Languedoc...
...LjLOTHING experts are prophesying brighter colors in more daring combinations for the male bird next summer, and signs are not lacking for those who have eyes and leisure to note them, that male love for bright vesture, so long confined to "neckwear," is on the point of invading new fields...
...in the willingness of so many large industries to take the initiative in setting up workers' councils within their establishments...
...If it be a civil case in which he finds himself opposed by some powerful corporation, the temptation to a young lawyer with his way to make of securing powerful friends by a little docility in the right place, hardly needs to be stressed...
...Not to be prolix, these activities include—first, an extended commission in England to study the conditions of the import of fresh fruit and vegetables...
...1 HE position of the very young lawyer, whose sheepskin is hardly dry, and who finds himself opposed by one of the highly-briefed veterans of the bar, is a difficult one, no matter how honest and enthusiastic he may be...
...It would be interesting to compile a list of delinquents sentenced to long prison terms, say, five years ago, amid a chorus of popular approval and after filling columns in the press with the story of their misdeeds, and to ascertain how many of them are actually working out their sentence today...
...There is no great apparent desire on the part of American workers to develop an extraeconomic organization...
...The quality of the men selected to do so and their financial reward should be commensurate...
...England he found "facing a very serious situation...
...The last weekly bulletin of the National Catholic Welfare Conference puts its finger with great precision on the real flaw in their argument, when it points out that in the state of Tennessee itself, out of a population of 2,337,885, the total number who wrote themselves down as adherents of any religious body whatsoever in the census of 1916, was no more than 840,133...
...Rice's theory, when he defined, as the salient characteristic of his "first-caste man" a "sort of restless impatience with things as they are...
...Disquieted, after several hundred years, by the vogue that has accrued to their town through the tradition that it contains the grave of Hamlet, they are considering whether they can any longer, with peace of mind, consent to enjoy the commercial profits which pious pilgrims bring them, year by year...
...The fun of wearing the "authentic colors" of clubs or regiments with which one is not connected, is not apparent on its face, neither is the point of sporting a blue mackenzie or red heckle during office hours when you could not cast a fly without alarming every hookable fish within a radius of a hundred yards...
...She will pull through, of course," Mr...
...Lewis...
...When night descends, you may be quite sure the ghosts of Mimi and Schaunard, and Enjolras and Cosette will haunt the Place Maubert and the alleys of the Luxembourg where their lives and loves burned out...
...No matter how honest and enthusiastic he may be, the incentive to a young District Attorney in securing a conviction, is altogether less than that of his senior in securing an acquittal, and its reward less immediate and tangible...
...This seems to be a particularly fine instance of a distinction without a difference...
...435 September 16, 1925 THE COMMONWEAL THE COMMONWEAL Published weekly and copyrighted 1925, in the United States by the Calvert Publishing Corporation, 25 Vanderbilt Avenue, New York City, N. Y. Michael Williams, Editor Assistant Editors Thomas Walsh Helen Walker John F. McCormick, Business Manager Editorial Council Carlton J. H. Hayes James J. Walsh Bertram C. A. Windle Henry Longan Stuart R. Dana Skinner T. Lawrason Riggs Subscription Rates: Yearly: $10.00 Single Copies: $0.20 WEEK BY WEEK strike in the anthracite fields will continue...
...Moreover, it has provided the state executive with an opportunity to evade at least the spirit of the law which provides that pardons may not be issued save after notice to the state attorney of the county in which a crime was committed: 1 WO things will suggest themselves in considering this abuse of the pardoning power...
...Over the further question as to whether Hamlet himself ever existed, their concern is less personal...
...It is not surprising that, even before the scheme has been tested out (the Cite does not open till November) foreign students have hastened to follow its example, and that a Canadian, Belgian and Italian city are being laid out in proximity...
...but even more they know the needs for social action afforded by this country, and have manfully done all in their power to alleviate those needs...
...May the next sixty-nine prove it on a larger scale...
...However conscientious his scruples may claim to be, he belongs in the large category of those who are malignantly busy "taking the joy out of life...
...Unprejudiced observers must admit that, in so far as the study and practice of social principles are concerned, the Verein has set the pace for other American Catholic societies...
...One must be poor, one must be French and one must be a "serious student," duly authenticated...
...Perhaps they will see nothing but a hint of camouflage— and protective coloration...
...Swarthy South Americans and blond Scandinavians are spend438 THE COMMONWEAL September 16, 1925 ing the profits of neutrality in his restaurants...
...They "come" mostly in yellows, greens and scarlets...
...In one Fifth Avenue store, combinations of hues, calculated to "make the rash gazer wipe his eye," are being recommended as the "authentic colors of British clubs and regiments...
...It is here, within fairly easy reach of the schools, that the "Cite Universitaire" is coming into being...
...Hi VER since the close of the great war, the plight of the native student in Paris, has been hard indeed...
...It is small wonder that he has revolted at last, and is shaking the dust of his desecrated quarter off his feet and leaving it to the pushing, hustling alien to work his will upon...
...Charles Dolle, who spoke as the representative of Admiral Benson and the National Council of Catholic Men...
...In France he found "prosperity everywhere...
...Details of the settlement that have just been released make attractive reading...
...One more tradition has gone into the limbo of the past...
...There are plenty of tares in the French wheat, as has been pointed out more than once in these columns—irreligion, low natality, drift to the cities, the Communist menace...
...Science may always be trusted for a new theory or something that will buttress an old one it is not ready to give up just yet...
...Hammond who proposes that the Republican majority in Congress shall depart from its policy and, through legislation, establish a semi-regulation of the industry...
...One is that the crime which it condones was attended by no extenuating circumstances whatsoever, and was one calling for exemplary punishment in the interests of public security and the principle of religious toleration on which the commonwealth is built...
...The sole guarantee of lasting peace in the coal-fields, therefore, unless we care to face the prospect of economic exhaustion on one side or the other, is the gradual development of cooperative operation—a movement only in its infancy among us, but destined to grow in direct proportion as the encyclicals of Leo XIII are transformed into social action...
...The correspondent, whose name, unfortunately, is not given, seems to know whereof he speaks when he refers indignantly to the recent appointment by United States District Attorney Buckner of eighteen aides, "who are glad to accept low salaries to get training in courts," and declares that "right here" the Crime Commission "can put its finger on one of the worst evils of our judicial system," and "solve the riddle of why so many of our criminals escape punishment...
...It is the corporate effort to grapple with them, so evident in one country, so absent in the other, that compels our admiration for our old friend and ally...
...The schools will still draw him to his old home during daylight hours...
...For the time being, Mr...
...Imagination exists in very different proportions in different people and the man whose dry-as-dust erudition would rob the world of any association that sets its pleasant chimes ringing shall not escape reprobation...
...His "saucissons" have soared beyond his reach—the price of bocks and books threatens to overbalance his rickety budget...
...Most of the pilgrimages in "historic Boston" are pilgrimages to sites, and an aroma of restoration clings about the home of Paul Revere...
...IF is an interesting speculation to wonder just how much time and how much money, within the same period was spent by railroad shareholders upon any form of agricultural enterprise in industrialized Britain, where the divorce from the soil, in which lies the safety of nations great and small alike, grows more accentuated every year, where the only remedy for conditions that Mr...
...436 THE COMMONWEAL September 16, 1925 1T concerns the activities of two railroads, the ParisLyon-Mediterranee and the Orleans during the year 1924, carried out on behalf of agricultural interests in the districts they serve...
...It is obvious that, if he never lived, he can never have died and been buried at Elsinore, or elsewhere...
...For the rest—Ichabod...
...However "big" the men lined up against it, the biggest job is always that of representing the people of a democracy and their interests...
...Lewis, the Mine Workers' president, has riveted his attention upon John Hays Hammond's alleged attempt at talking Washington into nationalizing the coal industry...
...There are only three requisites for citizenship in this new commonwealth of the spirit...
...Gilbert Chesterton is the only prophet left patriotic enough to point out the dangers that lie in wait for a land of landless men...
...1 HERE is a very strong hint to our judiciary in the letter which the New York Times published last week from an Atlantic City correspondent on the subject of the age and legal status of the men who are charged with the duty of collecting and presenting the case for the state in criminal and civil cases...
...An American neighbor, modeled on similar lines, would be an interesting experiment...
...But a report just released for any who care to study it, by the French Bureau of Information, supplies a few items which may not be without their bearing on the very different nature of what the American traveler observes in two countries separated by twenty-one miles of sea...
...In practice, what seems to be the case is that from the moment an offender enters prison anything at all may happen...
...Another is that the law which leaves "paroling" at the unassisted discretion of the state executive, is particularly subject to abuse...
...But we owe it to our country no less than to our church to be conscious of our rights and liberties, and to be resolute in our determination to preserve them...
...Only the other day, at Stockholm, Bishop Cannon, of Washington, D. C, carried over the time limit by his enthusiasm for prohibition, was roughly recalled to schedule...
...IT is rather a pity the professor was not given a chance to air a thesis for whose plausibility evidence does not get any weaker as time goes on...
...L/AST week we had occasion to comment editorially upon the meeting of the Klan at Buckeye Lake, Ohio, and their avowed program of putting the "Protestant Bible" into all the public schools of the United States...
...With the French care for the amenities of life first of all, lawns have been laid out round a number of cottages whose architecture is modeled on that of old French country houses, trees have been planted...
...Sixtynine years have proved the usefulness of the Verein...
...Keen Greenwich Villagers from the MiddleWest, snuffing atmosphere hungrily and with advances from trustful publishers burning holes in their pockets, have shouldered him out of his modest apartments in the rue des Ecoles, and the rue Sommerard...
...Its eminent value lies in the fact that it continues in this country the liberalizing and energizing policy of the German groups upon which it has been modeled...
...and in the efforts of the Department of Commerce to bring about constructive cooperation within industry to correct its own evils and to reduce forms of economic waste...
...Kingsley added cheerfully...
...fourth, the distribution to forty communes of 60,000 mulberry trees, and 2,000 walnut trees...
...Since it is obviously part of the mission of Christianity to apply the mandates of charity to social living, it is encouraging to see that messages from the Federal Council of Churches and the social action department of the Catholic Welfare Conference are listened to with increasing respect, and not brushed off-hand into the realm of "theory...
...Dante's house" at Florence is none too authentic, and the "portrait" of the divine poet in the Bargello hard by, rests under more than suspicion...
...Manifestations of this point of view are appearing in the railroad service, in the notable agreement of the Baltimore and Ohio railroad with the International Machinists' Union, and in the more recent agreements of the unions with other railways...
...The mystery is not dispelled by Governor Billings's statement that what has let this dangerous bigot loose upon society after nine months of his three-year sentence had expired, was not a "pardon" as reported, but a "parole...
...1 HE animus of these remarks is clear...
...Pulling through," and "muddling through," are processes of which Britain appears to possess such a monopoly that one hesitates to question their adequacy a moment...
...Kingsley is not the only American to notice is "more of the same," and where it seems at times that Mr...
...A young woman who pleaded that "she couldn't stand it any longer," was the leader of the hostile element who clamored for a curtailment of the speech...
...1 T is to be hoped some means of settling the question will be discovered that will not too roughly unsettle the historic confidence among tourists...
...They are primarily concerned only with the proposition of securing a wage agreement that will permit the anthracite industry to resume operation...
...Cooperation is stressed as the remedy for social disturbance...
...sixth, the distribution of literature on pest cures, weed destroyers, and chemical manures...
...W HILE upon the unpleasant subject of the Klan, it might not be amiss to take note of two disquieting incidents notified to the press within the past few weeks, and which seem to prove that the activities and influence of the hooded order are not by any means confined to the West or South...
...If conversion of a very wholesale nature has not taken place since, and if these figures are any general index to the dogmatic situation below the MasonDixon line, what the states of the South would seem to be offering is not so much a body of Bible Christians, eager to be the leaven of a pagan North and East, as a field for evangelization on the spot of the most speedy and persuasive nature...
...It is a case of the minor premise following the major...
...In whatever we do to safeguard our position," he said, "we must avoid any feeling or appearance of aggression or challenge...
...1 HE city fathers of Elsinore, Denmark, seem to be afflicted with what used to deserve the name of a New England conscience...
...The precipitous rise in the cost of living has rendered the modest stipend hitherto allowed him by thrifty parents, a derisory and inadequate sum...
...The demolition of the fortifications, since the war, which were built during the reign of Louis Philippe has left an open zone of some 200 yards width all round the French capital, bordering at many points on parks or fairly open country...
...At Burlington, Vermont, a chance communication has revealed the fact that William G. Moyers, the Kleagle who broke into the Cathedral of Saint Mary in that city last November, was released from prison a week ago...
...If it be a criminal case, everything is against the prosecution—the wealth and repute of counsel for the defense, his familiarity with the court and court procedure, his skill in taking exceptions and in directing his appeal to the jury, the attention always paid by press and public to the spectacle of a man on trial for life or liberty, and which sometimes degenerates into a perverse sympathy...
...One of the most beautiful and unfrequented is the Pare Montsouris in the southern section of the old fortified zone...
...Lewis and those he represents obviously do not care for federal control, and are confident of their ability to battle ahead for what they desire...
...And now in London here is Professor G. McReady Rice, of Nebraska, suggesting that, far, from men deriving from monkeys, monkeys may be only "a degenerate form of men," shouted down for his pains...
...Nearer home is there not a local legend that the "House of the Seven Gables" acquired two surreptitious and wholly unwarranted gables in the years that followed the vogue of Hawthorne's deathless romance...
...Possibly the document may be a little more optimistic than circumstances justify, but there is a salutary tonic in observations like these— "Free and intelligent cooperation affords the only sure foundation for American industry...
...It is likely enough also that the bituminous industry will be affected, with the result that the prices, which various dealers have already tilted slightly upward, may go high...
...r OR building a new Latin Quarter, the Paris student has been lucky enough to find a rare opportunity within his reach, and one which it is not easy to imagine occurring in any great American or English city...
...President darwin p. kingsley, of the New York Life Insurance Company, who is just home from two months in Europe, has given reporters two estimates of post-war conditions in England and in France, which, rough and ready as they art, make a striking comparison...
...AMERICAN speakers with new light to throw on knotty problems are meeting with an inhospitable reception in Europe these days, and unless something can be done to stop it, what Mr...
...Joubert has reminded us that it is an evil practice to dig up traditions in order to examine their roots...
...In another, feathers of the more southerly of the humming bird family are being sold to be tucked into the hat band as knowing fishermen carry flies...
...there is a large Gothic hall for dancing and theatrical performances, boxing and fencing rooms, and the whole is under the supervision of a young professor chosen from the university...
...Occasionally (by pure accident- in the present case) the public rubs its eyes and realizes that the sentence was not much more than window dressing and that astute lawyers for the defense have waited for conviction to take place before starting their real work...
...She generally does...
...And how are our heavy social prophets of the Shavian kind, who have been noting a shyer attitude on the part of man, the pursued, in answer to franker tactics on the part of woman, the pursuer, going to say about it all...
...It was Josh Billings, or Russet Appel, or some other of our unsmiling humorists who noted, as the fruit of his observation, that, 10,000 years may have been needed to evolve man from monkey, but five minutes was enough to make a monkey out of most men he knew...
...A noted native author, Johannes Jensen, has even told them roundly that what is an "admitted hoax" is unworthy of a cultured people...
...fifth, conventions at country fairs to discuss local problems in the raising of fruit and small vegetables...
...A complete account of the proceedings will soon be ready, and should receive the attention of many outside the organization...
...September 16, 1925 THE COMMONWEAL 437 1 T is encouraging to note that the sixty-ninth annual convention of the Central Verein testified to the continued growth and increasing vitality of the organization...
...The world is full of what might be called "phony" shrines...
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