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519 October 7, 1925 THE COMMONWEAL THE COMMONWEAL Published weekly and copyrighted 1925, in the United States by the Calvext Publishing Corporation, 25 Vanderbilt Avenue, New York...
...In his zeal for the promotion of human welfare, the Governor has apparently developed much sympathy for Abd-el-Krim...
...Still more emphatic is Cardinal Dubois, the metropolitan archbishop of Paris who, in a public letter, frankly admits that his sympathies are with the strikers...
...On one side, these were purely geometrical...
...but on the other, there was a figure which, had the bone been discovered in Europe, would have been without hesitation taken to represent a mammoth, since that great and long extinct elephant was frequently drawn by the ancient members of the human race with which it was there contemporary...
...Money and the empire are only relatively stable...
...Roach Straton, who urges ministers of Protestant denominations to cease meddling in matters outside what he imagines to be their sphere and to "concern themselves with sin," reaches rather as the voice of the ostrich, muffled by a layer of intervening but unconcealing sand...
...Before conversations are entered upon with France on the debt settlement, America should demand a halt in this ruthless warfare," telegraphs the Governor...
...Carefully and reverently the masters of an earlier age cast chimes which awakened all earth to the tidings of its peace, until the boom and peal of blessed metal, sonorous or mellifluous, resounded from Westminster to Camaldoli...
...Through it the citizen who loves the comfort of his home after a busy day is made to share ideas and creative skill, dispensed with liberality and sufficiently democratized...
...O O far the university is exclusive in the sense that all courses are conducted in the Hebrew tongue...
...1 HE action of the French bishops in the recent strike of bank employees has been referred to...
...We are justly proud of the fact that WLWL is perhaps the only radio pulpit in the United States where evolution can be sponsored or rejected without splitting a religious group into hostile fractions...
...Generous benefactors in all parts of the United States have endowed what colleges already exist, have provided the necessary equipment, and promise to encourage the further development of the institution...
...Charles Wesley once made up his mind that the devil should not have all the good tunes...
...The Roach Straton state of mind is confined to no country and it is not surprising that the Cardinal's letter has called forth a prim protest by "loyal" employees, who are surprised to see their episcopal head supporting a strike "fomented by extreme radicals...
...Christian art is a sacred treasure, the preservation of which is as much a duty today as it was in the time of the structure of the great cathedrals...
...The natural conclusion to be drawn from these discoveries is that these extinct elephants must have survived on this side of the Atlantic to a very much later date than has heretofore been supposed to be the case...
...Geneva has certainly cured many minor political diseases, whatever may be its power over organic maladies...
...The list of instructors includes men internationally distinguished for scholarship...
...Barry O'Toole in favor of a different hypothesis, or with Father Schwitalla, regent of St...
...W HEN bells first spoke from the towers of Christendom, a great move had been taken in the development of the missionary activity of the Church...
...The spare towers which rise over the roofs of old Saint Paul's mark the entry of the Church into a missionary field almost unlimited in size and opportunity...
...During the long years of war, he was one of the few whose minds saw far enough "beyond the battle" to keep charity always in view...
...Preparations are now under way for three endeavors of the greatest importance—a disarmament conference, a conference for the discussion of the economic roots of war, and a conference for the control of the private manufacture of arms...
...The political basis for the Hebrew "national home" was laid by the British government, through the celebrated instrumentality of Earl Balfour...
...At any rate, he believes that French financial obligations to us should be employed as a lever for pushing M. Caillaux towards peace at any price in Morocco...
...1 HE seventh anniversary of the great advance of the American armies in France has passed without any official celebration other than the issue, for the first time in detailed form, of the losses incurred...
...These men had no corporate quarrel, racial or traditional, with the enemy they outfaced...
...they have lost their faith in Christianity...
...His conclusion—which is also that of any unprejudiced person—would necessarily be that since Zionism is the fruit of political and economic circumstance, it will continue to lie at the mercy of change...
...but the institution which, in Jerusalem itself, will express the spirit and intellectual aspirations of modern Jewry—the Hebrew University—is almost entirely the work of Americans...
...To accuse men of light and good will who are laboring to prevent such a hideous impasse, of complicity with those who have every motive for seeing it speeded-up, is a singular instance of the blindness of men who refuse to "think in their hearts...
...But we must also observe that Geneva is gradually becoming less interested in broad pacific schemes and more concerned with the practical problems confronting one nation dealing with another...
...But we doubt that the Governor's telegram will become popular American literature...
...Thus read, the mass of human suffering they represent, the tale of young lives cut short in the prime of their manhood, the tears and desolation of the bereaved at home, "humble and heart-broken protestants," in Thackeray's memorable words, against the hatred and violence of the world, strike us with fresh poignancy...
...The nature of the living conditions that have called it forth may be guessed by the fact that, among the demands which Bishop Champavier of Marseilles begs the employers to concede is "an annual vacation...
...Nor is the case at issue without its peculiar circumstances...
...Verily, this is the fashion of true international concord—to unite men's hearts in a society mightier than their petty aims, pledged to a communion without end, and dedicated to that peace which, too frequently, is left for the angels to sing...
...There is only one possible answer and the Paulists have made it...
...The slogan of Dr...
...In line with this great object, the Catholic Rural Life Conference which is to be held in St...
...Cardinal Dubois's dignified reply to the charge is worth pondering if only because it casts a ray of light on a confusion of cause with effect that bemuses a good many worthy people whose good will in vexed social questions is in inverse proportion to their judgment...
...At the present moment, there are faculties of arts, practical medicine and applied science—faculties which show that the aim of the founders has wisely been not to foist a ready-made school upon the Oriental public, but to provide branches of study serviceable at present...
...When Newman enumerated the aspects of England's "Second Spring," he turned back for a glimpse of the earlier days when all the sees of Britain had their saints and might speak of others sent out into the far world...
...The skull is being carefully put together and it will be exceedingly interesting to ascertain whether it conforms to the common Amerindian type or belongs to that of some more ancient race...
...Without selfishness or passion or prejudice, at the sacrifice of health and wealth, of fame and friendship and life itself, the real scientist worships at truth's altar, realizing, as the Church teaches, that there can be no conflict or contradiction between the truth revealed to man by God in the natural order and that made manifest by Him in the supernatural...
...It has simply forgotten the anguish with which France has watched the threatened collapse of Marshal Lyautey's colonial success at the hands of a barbarian, and the stern necessity which has rushed an already sorely tried nation to the ramparts of the national defense...
...Governor Blaine apparently believes that the French people have snapped their fingers at the right and wrong, the profit and loss, of the Moroccan war...
...Now that the terrible years have retreated far enough into the past to make a clearer international vision possible, he comes to London for the final blessing of a church which, probably more than any other, is a monument to Cardinal Manning's solicitude for London's poor and his labors on behalf of industrial peace...
...1 HUS is there retraced, in a simple act of religious ritual, a great spiritual bond between nations—the bond of Christendom, the common faith handed from one people to another without stint of sacrifice...
...They have ended with abandoning it...
...Famed preachers of the ancient time might well envy this chance to gather whole peoples into one immeasurable audience...
...In our leading editorial this week, The Commonweal gives some account of efforts that are being made in Belgium to break up the mass of congestion that has resulted from an unintelligent application of the industrial system and to restore the smaller and saner group as a unit...
...There were scribings on both sides of it, obviously the work of man's hands...
...It is easier, and therefore more popular, to tear down than to build up...
...The report of the committee, which is communicated by the Department of Social Action of the National Catholic Welfare Conference would have been regarded in less stressful days as a positive cry of alarm calling for instant measures of redress, and it is some indication of the menacing situation which the world is facing that it should be regarded by the press generally as a matter of routine...
...And were he alive now, he would understand the significance of the act by which, in a shrine built by his great contemporary, a relic of a great English apostle is laid to rest by a foreign churchman, faithful to his mission of charity in the dark days of conflict...
...How many a little church, would be worthier of the Redeemer it enshrines if the advice of a responsible builder had been taken...
...1 HERE is more than a little poetic justice in the visit of Cardinal Schulte to London for the consecration of the church of Saint Boniface...
...Effective private conversations between men entrusted with various political destinies is of especial value to smaller nations whom the older system ignored during times of stress...
...In the church will be placed a relic of Saint Boniface, patron of Germany and one of the many Saxon martyrs who toiled and died for the conversion of northern Europe...
...But there is a tangent matter which the historian will also not forget...
...They had grown up with no impending shadow over their life of the fate that was to strike them down upon its threshold...
...Perhaps with the opening of the new Paulist radio station —WLWL—in New York City, we are on the verge of a step hardly less important...
...The only doubt which could have been entertained with regard to the Missouri fragment was due to the fact that there was no evidence that man and the mammoth had ever been contemporary on this side of the Atlantic...
...Transit facilities, problems of freight, and access to the sources of supply of raw materials, all have something to say...
...W ISCONSIN is always interesting, and as a general rule it is rather serious...
...Through its novelty he may be brought to understand more deeply the immemorial and the unchanging...
...OOME two or three years ago, a very interesting fragment of bone which had been discovered in a spot called Jacob's Cavern, at Pineville, Missouri, was described and figured in the reports of the American Museum of,Natural History...
...WHETHER such a movement will be duplicated in this country, depends on a variety of factors that will have to be considered on their merits...
...DUT no amount of implied pacifism can disguise the blind illiberal dogmatism of the stand taken—a stand which assumes, as a matter of course, that the United States is qualified to decide the casus conscientiae of whatever fragments of the universe lie outside its boundaries...
...W ITH the Presbyterian body, always well to the front where social matters are concerned, getting ready for a sweeping enquiry into "the causes of social unrest," with a meeting of the International Union of Catholic Women's Organizations at Rome scheduled for this month, and with the dramatic interposition of French bishops into the strike of bank clerks for a living wage in France, the common reproach that the churches are failing to interest themselves in economic questions must be laid aside for the immediate future...
...There was an art of ringing, both significant and beautiful ; but even the simple daily intoning of the Angelus has cast a glory over all the world...
...F ROM the discoveries made by a joint expedition of the Smithsonian Institution and Amherst College, it now seems clear that man did actually exist on this continent at the same time as the mammoth and the mastodon...
...519 October 7, 1925 THE COMMONWEAL THE COMMONWEAL Published weekly and copyrighted 1925, in the United States by the Calvext 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 HP HE Sixth Assembly of the League of Nations ¦*¦ ends with no spectacular success to its credit, but members may rightly feel that it is more solidly established and more smoothly organized than before...
...One of the best immediate remedies for social unrest would seem to be an equal resolution that destructive, as opposed to constructive, social criticism shall not have all the fervor...
...While no one can as yet venture to predict the continued success of the Zionist movement, it is quite certain that we shall have to reckon with it as an established historical fact, and give the Jewish race credit for tenacity, idealism, and sacrifice...
...European working women," the report states, "are rapidly abandoning Christianity and this is due most of all to the economic conditions they meet...
...Holmes, at any rate is not willing to accept the evidence now brought forward as conclusive, and in a very careful study of the recent finds in a late issue of Science he states that the failure, so far, to date the close of the Pleistocene period, and the entire absence of any representation of the mammoth in pictographic art, with the exception it may be added of the highly doubtful example named above, makes it quite probable that the flint blade on which so much is built was "broken by a Florida Indian in the attempt to utilize bits of fossil bone in implementmaking and at a period ten thousand or more years after the last Florida elephant had disappeared...
...The discoveries that have been made in Florida consist of a crushed human skull, together with stone arrowheads and other bones and teeth...
...If each of these meetings leads eventually to resolutions adopted by the fifty-four nations, the League will have proved itself the most successful and beneficent of all international agencies...
...REAFFIRMING the right to a living wage as "a law of justice superior to human desires," the Archbishop 'defines the doctrine of the Church by which a strike is "a state of war which, in certain circumstances, can be legitimate," and calls for remedial measures from those in power which will forestall it and so prevent the violence which it entails...
...October 7, 1925 THE COMMONWEAL 521 I HE committee's recommendations, issued as they are on the eve of the general airing that the question will receive in Rome, are necessarily of a general nature, but it is significant that they reaffirm as the remedy that must be kept in sight as a clue to all ¦remedial measures, the inalienable right of the worker to a home, and to a wage which will restore the wife and mother to her vocational sphere as its keeper...
...D URING the past week of solemn racial holiday, the Jews of the United States might well congratulate themselves upon the success of the Zionistic endeavor in Palestine...
...Paul, Minnesota, in October, under the patronage of the Archbishop of St...
...and it must be remembered that this same tongue has been raised to the dignity of an official language in Palestine...
...It is evident that, to a considerable proportion at least of spiritual leaders in all denominations, the concern with sin presents itself just at present as the need of identifying it under forms of injustice and exploitation which have too long escaped detection...
...While it is only too true that none of the major proposals for the guarantee of world peace could be agreed upon by the delegates, conflicting opinions and divergent aims were stated and given an airing...
...With equal truth it might be said that the new radio station may go on fearlessly recognizing the probable value of each new scientific discovery in turn, while feeling certain that none can impair the reality of the Church's truths...
...Low wages, night and Sunday work, mothers working out of the home, child labor, wretched housing, have not only imposed unmerited suffering upon a great number of men and a great number who are, like ourselves, women, but have also deprived them of religious instruction and the practice of their faith...
...This great composer had declared the organ alone worthy of the mighty liturgy of religion...
...Science, real, not false science, discloses to its followers a lofty ideal worthy of the reverence of every man...
...and his see at Cologne was the centre for prison welfare and the nucleus of several kindly missions...
...How the future will comment on this strange contrast, or how it will estimate the effect, we cannot say...
...Paul, has laid out a program which will study the needs of the rural parish in America with due heed to the racial components of which it is composed...
...We trust that the Bishop's example will be followed widely, not only in so far as the status of cornets in the choirloft is concerned, but also in its deference to the opinions of genuine artists...
...What modern Britain encourages in Palestine, it has frowned upon in Ireland—the long, high hope of the Gaelic League for just such a nation and such a seat of culture...
...1 HIS conjecture has met with considerable criticism from W. H. Holmes, the doyen of American archaeology, who expresses his serious doubts as to the coexistence of man and the mammoth on this continent, a question long debated and of the first importance in relation to the ethnological problems of both North and South America...
...But that the unrestrained tendency to overcentralization should be recognized as the root of so much social evil in so many different quarters is of happy augury...
...IN EWS comes from abroad that in ordering the cessation of orchestral music in the churches of his diocese, the Bishop of Trier adduced the testimony of Richard Wagner...
...Consequently the scribing described above may well have been the attempt of one of these men to represent the huge beast with which he must have been quite familiar...
...But among the phenomena of Badgerism, perhaps none is more stimulating than the recent declaration of Governor Blaine on the subject of French debts...
...1 HE tendency would seem to be away from an assembly of legislators and towards a gathering of executives—a tendency which is probably very healthy if the League is accepted as a European rather than a world institution...
...Evolution is mentioned here because it has been a dangerous corner ever since Huxley's pronouncements were scattered about...
...Each revelation 522 THE COMMONWEAL October 7, 1925 of science makes it less and less reasonable to deny the existence of the Creator," he said...
...This ideal is truth, always, anywhere, at any cost...
...for, though the mechanism of the radio eliminates something of personality and more of artistic grace, it answers the practical demands of the age with exceptional completeness...
...1 HIS truth—that the inferences of science are, in the eyes of the Church, buttresses of religious knowledge—was finely stressed by Cardinal Hayes in an address dedicating the new station...
...Before any concessions are made to France or any other foreign government, America should demand that they cease building larger armies and navies, and cease their warfare on smaller and weaker peoples...
...For many...
...The speaker might take his stand with Dr...
...Certainly there appears among practical men, less and less tendency to assume that the laboratory is the foe of the pulpit...
...Generations move, but the bells go on—an invention sanctified by its mission and hallowed in the dreams of men...
...As a rebuke for this indecent levity, their taxes should now be raised promptly by Secretary Mellon 1 Such a philosophy of life has its good points, but like the half-moon, it is not complete...
...The Marxian desideratum of a free-for-all struggle between capital and labor which shall end by making the present order unworkable is too well known to need recapitulation...
...Louis University, who feels that the theory of development is plausible and useful in education...
...J F most immediate interest to Catholics, is the determination of the National Council of Catholic Women of America to cooperate with their European sisters in redressing conditions of employment in Europe which they believe have reached a point where they are a menace to religion...
...520 THE COMMONWEAL October 7, 1925 This point of view is of some importance because it is held by a large number of citizens in the Middle-West...
...Statesmen and political observers on the continent are unanimous in declaring that the League is promoting the substitution of direct diplomacy for indirect manoeuvering through embassies...
...Radio, we must all admit, implies a far vaster mastery of sound, dominating the four winds with spoken words and cadenced melody, in a fashion which blends mystery with majestic power...
...i-iOULD this great discovery be long dissociated from the purposes of religion...
...One may suppose, however, that a detached heathen observer might find the actions of "Christian" nations rather inconsistent and bewildering...
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