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WEEK BY WEEK T N addressing an appeal to former La Follette sup¦¦¦ porters, the Socialist party of New York City stresses the fact that it is the only political organization covenanted to...
...This is interesting, because it recalls the strong sources of opposition to that amendment when it came before the states...
...Much has been said about the possibility of our being drawn into European armed conflicts...
...A public which rewards most highly those who supply it with products that are additional to the staple necessities, is not a public in need...
...The remedy, when it comes, will be one of the fruits of active, intelligent agricultural leadership which can promote cooperative and civic ideals...
...It should enlist the support of everyone whose heart is touched by human suffering, and even more of those who see in service to their fellow-man, a means of showing forth the Divine love which spared not the Son of God in order to redeem mankind from the thraldom of death...
...loudly asserted the determination of his fellow Ulstermen not to yield an inch on the boundary question, regardless of the decision to which British faith is pledged...
...seems 1 HE day of set discussions on religious topics to have passed, and we may feel thankful for it since it is doubtful whether such things ever effected anything but the stirring up of rancor...
...WHATEVER may be thought of the rights of small nations (we are not hearing so much about them just now as in the roseate year that followed the Armistice) there is no doubt their sensibilities are acute...
...Looked upon therefore, in the cold light of an investment, medical equipment on the missions pays...
...As in Zola's La Terre, there is every indication that the sombre colors are overloaded...
...The signal success which has attended Catholic missionary work will, unquestionably, be greatly enhanced, once the missions are adequately equipped from a medical point of view...
...His plea for political peace and "better mutual respect among those who differ politically," was all the stronger for this, and the enthusiasm which greeted it is a good augury for the future...
...As a contrast, the Orange drum was thumped with all its old vigor at Derry, where a certain "Mr...
...Many Catholics think they perceive in the course of events, a providence at work that is drawing the Church of the Catacombs and the Church of the Cavaliers more and more into one another's orbit, and they hope and pray wholeheartedly for some clear issue that will save their separated brethren from the humiliation and confusion that have descended upon them...
...and should President Coolidge issue his proposed invitations to a similar conference in Washington, he may discover an indifferently attentive world...
...It is gratifying to see how quickly the good act was brought to the attention of the many...
...1 HE recent convention of the medical mission section of the Catholic Hospital Association, held at Mount Saint Vincent, New York, was a notable instance of the advancing interest on the part of Catholics in all good works...
...Charles Schuchert, of Yale, refers to him as 'a fundamentalist harboring a geological nightmare.' " A discussion on such a subject (with lantern slides) by such men and with such a chairman, must have been indeed something worth listening to...
...McCabe and Price, with Earl Russell as chairman, whose career is well known to most people on both sides of the Atlantic...
...Failure to reach Hawaii implies that aviation is dependent upon weather and fuel to a far more hazardous extent than any other form of transportation...
...If librarians and investigators, teachers and custodians of the public safety, are those who perform the most essential services to the democracy, then only a malevolent cynic could gaze at the gilded lists supplied by the revenue office without a qualm of conscience or the first symptom of a good resolve to do all possible to better their condition...
...Moles, M.P...
...And the matter was put still more tersely when Mr...
...The attempted flight does not prove much about anything excepting that the vessel was ship-shape, dependable and well-manned—details which restore confidence to the public mind and do the service no harm...
...O'Toole, who evidently thinks well of his ideas, quotes him freely, yet admits that "all orthodox geologists have long since anathematized him, and outlawed him from respectable geological society...
...But what makes the studies particularly painful reading to those who know the Irish and Breton peasant, is a sense throughout them that something is missing which tempers the harsh impact of materialism for the other two great branches of the Celtic stock, and that the faith that illumines toil and casts the rainbow veil of hope over the harsh outlines of destiny, should have been filched from this gallant and tenacious people by a monarch of their own race 400 years ago...
...Lloyd George living in the metropolis, that makes the scenes witnessed in Boston and New York during the performance of Synge's famous Playboy of the Western World seem gentle and urbane criticism...
...and the profits of farming are small enough as it is, without the possible burden of 464 THE COMMONWEAL September 23, 1925 youthful members of the family group restrained from lifting a hand...
...While to describe a revolution in beliefs and practice which entailed the scrapping of five sacraments out of seven, and the parody in common parlance of "hocus pocus" for the most sacred words of Catholic ritual as "a detail of change of detailed administration, and non-essential teaching and practice," certainly strikes one as very special pleading indeed...
...For what else is his narrative of peril at sea but a story of modern marvels in an old, wide world...
...1 (what a name, gentlemen...
...Chamberlain...
...In the first place, country families are normally larger than city families ; work in the open air is not only healthful on the whole, but is an excellent preparation for the profession of agriculture...
...Only those who have been privileged to hear Land of My Fathers intoned in chorus during an international football game at Cardiff or Newport, will realize how complete a barrage song can be made by the sons of the Cymri when they are in deadly earnest...
...Sister Mary Assumpta and Sister Mary Immaculata, disregarding the fact that their heavy habits made swimming difficult, plunged into the stream to save three little girls, whom an unavoidable accident had swept into the current...
...LJ R. FISH mentions as one of the main reasons for dissatisfaction among the High Church party in England, "the spectacle of Protestants and non-Christians dealing with ecclesiastical matters, and a non-Christian Prime Minister appointing bishops...
...But upon the means by which such an end is to be attained, and on the way that escape lies, their conviction is as clear today as it was in the second spring of the Oxford Movement...
...But through it there comes—• and necessarily so—the sound of Roland's horn, speaking of danger and high bravery...
...but he abandoned that order and his religion, and became an active member of the Rationalistic Press Association—an energetic and well-financed organization which earns a considerable income, it is believed, by the issue of works like Haeckel's Riddle of the Universe...
...fluttered to the waves and drifted to an island...
...This the League alone is capable of assuring, and therefore all Americans will endorse the League...
...Farmers simply could not stomach legislation which threatened to interpose the hand of the state between them and the work which little William or Susan might do about the place...
...The far West had in Senator Borah a vigorous opponent of the amendment...
...McCabe was once, as Father Anthony, O.S.F., a friar in Killarney...
...WEEK BY WEEK T N addressing an appeal to former La Follette sup¦¦¦ porters, the Socialist party of New York City stresses the fact that it is the only political organization covenanted to support the federal child-labor amendment...
...The preliminaries to the conference on the Security Pact, the addresses at Geneva, and various other circumstances indicate that the aftermath of war has proved the necessity for using whatever machinery of cooperation is available...
...J\ MISSION which has for its purpose the amelioration of these conditions, must appeal to all (even those who do not profess a religious motive) on the sheer ground of its humanitarianism...
...Patriotic Welshmen," we are told, "grouped themselves together and sang Welsh anthems...
...We should hesitate to voice a desire that American delegates be confronted with the task of choosing between M. Boncour and Mr...
...Americans whom prejudice does not blind, will see in the contrast between the tantrums and wardance in the Ulster plantation, and the statesmanlike language at Waterford, a pretty fair indication of where the merits of the case lie...
...It is informing to note that each of some twenty-five organizations paid the government over two million dollars in gratitude for favors received during the past year...
...something might also be whispered about the danger of immersion in European political and economic differences...
...This is an age of peace parleys and addresses by Professor Beard...
...In this case, the very concentration of wealth indicates the wide distribution of wealth...
...P. W. Wilson's article on the crisis in the ranks, published two weeks ago in the same journal, is a surprising document, both for what it admits and what it denies...
...Commander Rodgers is a person all of us are interested in because he affords a healthy and unmistakable sample of that manhood which, when everything has been said, guarantees the nation's integrity much better than money or words...
...We hail the success of the League...
...Yet there was a time, not a hundred years ago, when people flocked in thousands to hear Pope, the Protestant champion, go for Maguire, the supporter of the Catholic faith...
...In consequence, the health of very many zealous heralds of the Cross has broken down, and not a few have succumbed to easily cured ailments simply because no competent medical help was available...
...Caradoc Evans, is blood of their blood and bone of their bone...
...Those who regret the concentration of wealth to the extent indicated by the tax returns are, perhaps, engaged either in labor or in one of the cultural pursuits which never feed the federal budget anything very substantial...
...Fish is not the only loyal member of the Episcopal communion to feel a humiliation in the very disreputable origins of the Reformation in England, and naturally strives to belittle the part played by Henry VIII's wandering marital eye in the great change...
...At Cavan, which is in Free State territory, Grand Master McGarvey, of the "Royal Black Preceptory," roared as gently as any sucking-dove...
...His schools are primitive places which give a few months to the three R's...
...Labor in a spirit of love, for motives far above those which actuate men of business or adventure, is their aim and their promise of the reward...
...1 HE publication of income-tax returns may be indiscreet but, as the disillusioned say about fishing, it has its good qualities...
...And indeed, the figures now published by the National Industrial Conference Board show that 80 percent of children under fourteen who are gainfully employed, live on the home farms...
...From the indignation which he and those who think with him feel today, he may deduce the feelings of men of the ancient faith 400 years ago, who saw the historic fabric delivered over without hope of appeal to the headship of a man whom Charles Dickens has described as "a spot of blood and grease on the pages of English history," and its monuments demolished to make manor houses for his favorites...
...Yet there is a still higher point of view—that of showing forth the charity of Christ, and by means of the relief of suffering, of leading souls to seek in Him and His Church healing for their souls, as well as for their bodies, and health for eternity as well as for time...
...1 HE county of Waterford, a place where so many names recall the leaven of Norman blood which reached Ireland in the thirteenth century by trade and settlement, has always stood for a certain solidity and common sense, and its chief city was a fitting stage for the striking speech by Archbishop Mannix on the occasion of his receiving the civic freedom of the old seaport...
...McLaurin, of Sydney University, has written an illuminating chapter...
...Non-Catholic mission societies look upon their medical work as their most valuable adjunct in spreading their principles among non-Christian peoples...
...Boys and men with any meat on their bones would give shirt and socks for a strong adventure like that, and for the rugged grit which brought the happy ending...
...But when it is considered from higher points of view, it becomes not only desirable but imperative...
...For the most part these gigantic fortunes were made in catering to the progress of modern civilization—in motors and the oil they consume, telephones, cigarettes, cookies, cans and ten-cent store bargains...
...The result might do us little honor and no good...
...There are ever so many problems connected with education—methods increase in number and perplexity, people insist upon saddling upon the teacher's shoulder a larger psychological responsibility, and changes in equipment and housing must be arranged for...
...And yet, for women of this type, applause is the least necessary aspect of existence...
...We in this country have small conception of the squalor and misery which are the common lot of the multitudes in, for example, many parts of Asia and Africa...
...COMMANDER RODGERS has come safely ashore with a cheerful crew and a fairy tale...
...W HAT must add considerable bitterness to the feeling among loyal Welshmen at this satire on their race, is the fact that the offending author, Mr...
...Wherefore all of us are vitally interested in seeing that it is put into the right hands...
...He was, until recently, professor of geology in Union College, Nebraska, and is known also as a writer on the subject which he taught...
...It was, in fact, as the champion of this organization that he appeared in defense of evolution...
...and that her revival will depend, not upon the alliance of some peoples with us, but on European solidarity...
...They are entitled to vastly more assistance than they get in solving educational problems...
...o IGNS are not wanting to show that Europe is at least on the verge of dispensing with America's "moral leadership" of the world...
...Perhaps the only time that Wisconsin really doubted the wisdom of Senator La Follette was when he challenged so fiercely the "interests" which wished to exploit the young and helpless...
...An America which crowns so regally those who furnish its cookies and its outings has no excuse to offer for the destitution of professional servants...
...a law interfering with milk pails and chores might be quite unfortunate...
...Like an albatross weak with hunger, the PN-9 No...
...Their bravery and their success in winning back the precious young lives has been widely applauded...
...but to date, Catholic missions have, for the most part, been very poorly equipped in this regard...
...The Scopes incident seems to have brought about such a contest on the topic of evolution in the Queen's Hall, London, between Messrs...
...One of the weaknesses of the Episcopal Church in America is that it is forced, willy-nilly, to follow the fortunes of the parent church in Britain, which is, quite, simply, reaping the fruits of the Erastianism that presided over its beginnings...
...The terrific rate of infant mortality, the sad lot of women, especially as concerns their bearing and raising of children, the frightful suffering caused by unskilled and superstitious treatment of diseases, are things that we, who are happily spared, understand only a little...
...His statement that "we are no worse off under the new regime than we were under the old," may seem faint and ungracious praise, but coming from a quarter where religious and racial tolerance has hitherto been about on the level of the Ku Kjlux Klan, it is not devoid of significance...
...The reception tendered to the patriotic Irish archbishop from far Australia, and which was at466 THE COMMONWEAL September 23, 1925 tended by "persons of every shade of political feeling," amounted to a positive "amende honorable" for the unfortunate incidents associated with his name during the war...
...The result was a subsequent substantial decrease of his wealth...
...But we doubt very much if a United States delegation—probably composed of prosperous and static thinkers of the September 23, 1925 THE COMMONWEAL 465 old school, little trained in European problems—could use its time more profitably in Switzerland than by visiting Lake Lucerne and patronizing the best chalets...
...M. PAUL BONCOUR'S celebrated speech about the protocol and the "rule of justice on earth" is, when calmly analyzed, demagogic hot air by a person with a gift for shaking his head...
...A law prohibiting the use of child labor in factories would be wholly wise...
...Hisses and cat-calls were not the only or most potent weapons employed...
...Born at Llandyssul, in Carmatthenshore, of humble parents, his talent as a forceful writer was first recognized by the London New Age fifteen or twenty years ago...
...To the medical profession, moreover, it makes its appeal (again regardless of religious convictions) in its efforts to fight such things as typhus, bubonic plague, leprosy, and a host of less known, but equally pestilential, scourges which are almost endemic in tropical lands...
...But even these can hardly avoid admitting that such gigantic figures are a significant testimonial to the general national prosperity...
...and Maguire go for Pope, on behalf of their respective beliefs...
...The picture they paint is that of a primitive folk, immersed in the sordid details of life, their existence darkened and haunted by a sombre Calvinism, cunning and hard-hearted in their dealings with one another, and prone to violence and moral lapses...
...Grant, his fellow member in the ill-mannered parish council at Belfast that has been dignified with the name of parliament, challenged the South to "come and take it if you can...
...There is, however, another aspect of the situation in which many can find refuge...
...GEORGE McCREADY PRICE, M. A., the opponent of evolution, hails from this side of the Atlantic...
...His plane is also of some importance...
...Upon his motives, character, and the probable causes of his childlessness, the late Dr...
...These higher points of view are two—first, there is the betterment of conditions under which human beings are compelled to live...
...O BVIOUSLY, the problem is a thorny one...
...The sisters worry a great deal about these various difficulties...
...ixT this season, when the schools are reopening and files of little ones go dutifully about, the sisters deserve a special remembrance...
...A helpful word, a kind deed, are rewards which they accept, with an enthusiasm unknown to lesser mortals, as magnificent contributions to the fund of energy, loyalty, and religious earnestness which is basic to their work...
...A foretaste of the criticism that has now descended upon him was seen when his studies of peasant life in remote districts in Wales were published in two books, Capel Zion and My Own People...
...There is no great need to comment on the statement...
...Doubtless there are manufacturing districts where children work in factories, but the outspoken hostility towards the law came from the farms...
...A NEWS-DESPATCH from a city on the Hudson River, brings a simple story of danger and rescue which is more than usually impressive...
...In all likelihood, the French government will hold out for a disarmament conference under the auspices of the League...
...The patriotic prelate made it quite clear that his feelings on the complete independence of his country had not altered...
...This thought once occurred to a "rich old sinner" (at least so he termed himself) while visiting one of the hospitals of the Orient...
...The whole thing is just as convincing as the three words so familiar to users of French coins...
...But the uses of flight are so great and manifold that, even if the risks cannot be much reduced, aeronautics will increasingly control the sea and the land...
...1 HE letter of the rector of Christ Church, Elizabeth, New Jersey, to the New York Times on the subject of the Anglican church generally, and of Mr...
...In any case, Americans who are in daily nearness to such events as that reported from Nyack, have no excuse for overlooking those who figure heroically in them...
...That "Henry was right in law," Catholics have never admitted...
...but we do not feel that this good news necessarily strengthens the case of those who bewail the absence of the United States from official Geneva...
...Under the prevailing arrangements, Europe will probably arrive at the conclusion that, far from being a community of archangels, we are a large nation with multitudinous problems all our own...
...Unfortunate though this may be for the rising generation, the difficulty will hardly be settled by urging federal legislation...
...He has been a most prolific author as well as a translator of many books...
...In the second place, the average farmer has not yet come to see the relation between his own welfare and general civic progress...
...The work of the Medical Mission board lies in its efforts to bring about such an equipment...
...Naturally he never had any serious scientific training, and anything that he knows about the subject must have been picked up in the course of his reading and writing...
...Press reports from London, where a play named Taffy is satirizing peasant life in "Welsh Wales," tell of an outbreak of indignation among the audience, largely composed of compatriots of Mr...
...What would we all—no matter of what creed—do without the sisters...
...iL CHOES that come from the North are of varying quality...
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