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February 17, 1926 THE COMMONWEAL 395 THE COMMONWEAL Published weekly and copyrighted 1925, in the United States by the Calver{ Publishing Corporation, 25 Vanderbilt Avenue, New York...
...It is interesting to observe that this first effort on the part of American Catholics to correlate opinions upon one of the most vital aspects of contemporary public life is almost simultaneous with the discussion of international relations at this year's "Social Week," in France...
...Gay crowds were touched momentarily by the knowledge that the beauty of Barbara Lamar, the Nell Gwynn of the screen, was ended, and some few smiled at the verses which constituted her pathetic attempt to express her soul...
...Women should concentrate upon organization...
...In the first case, the use of her colonial troops will be put out of the question by Italy's fleet...
...This year in the glorious shrine of Saint James, "el Botasumeiro," the giant censer, will strain from the rafters, wafting in incense a vast prayer from the heart of Spain above the heads of the Prince of Asturias and the royalties of the kingdom, and it is hoped that the throngs from the outer world will bring back the fading pictures of the days when all the world took staff and scrip, and the pilgrimage to Compostella became a never-forgotten experience...
...and when Spenser wished to employ an image of melodic loveliness, he spoke of "the mavis descant plays.'1 And yet it was only a simple form of variation carried over and above the theme as that was sung by boyish soprano voices—a form of counterpoint, if you will, but homely, sweet, and untechnical...
...John M. Cooper stated: "In helping to put into effect a concrete program for the woman in industry, the Church, in accordance with the spirit of religious action, depends primarily upon the use of social education and moral suasion...
...How beautiful it must have been can be guessed at from allusions scattered among the poets...
...Obviously, the present widespread tendency to achieve labor reforms through non-political organization is no longer a stranger to feminine groups...
...A careful eye can really gather a picture of official Washington from these clippings and memorials...
...Contemporary scholarship is almost unanimous in the belief that chanting was only the basis of the music used in Divine service, and that the governing principle was to arouse echoes of varying pitches and shades until the whole church would be filled with the triumph of song...
...It is rather singular that Fascist Italy should take it upon herself to berate Germany at the very time she is busy copying all Germany's mistakes...
...Warnings of a general nature being in order, one is addressed to France by L' Impero 396 THE COMMONWEAL February 17, 1926 of Rome...
...His patriotic and unselfish service in this work was one of the chief inspirations that led to the organization of the American commission, under the auspices of the Southern Commercial Congress, that made its investigations of agricultural economics and cooperation in eighteen countries of Europe...
...And above her wan "figure which all the world had forgotten, there was the copy of a song, I Found Her Among the Lilies, by Ida Fithian Hinman, M.S., M.A...
...It is something of a sacrificial tragedy, this mingling of fame and ashes in the heart of a girl...
...Like the Santa Maria, Captain Franco's vessel lingered in the harbor for the same blessing which has guided Christian courage since long before Castile was wedded to Aragon—the solemn petition of the Mass and the benediction with a reliquary...
...Everybody will wish Dr...
...This is not to say, however, that it must shrink from advocating legal compulsion in so far as such legislative action may be called for to serve the ends of justice...
...But there are few records which the American people will follow with keener interest—the fleeting, numberless impressions of Woodrow Wls°n in the process of construction into a world figure whom many have damned and just as many glorified, but who, in the ultimate analysis, is "the man whom nobody ever knew...
...Nothing precipitated the conflict in which the Reich dream of universal dominion went glimmering so much as a constantly expressed determination to expand, voiced again and again by her statesmen as chorus to the obstreperous Kaiser, with a general vagueness as to the country or countries at whose expense the expansion was to be made...
...For its part, The Commonweal, having opened its columns to articles on the topics which the speakers are to deal with, feels that, though the majority of citizens are comparatively indifferent to questions as wide as the world in their scope, a growing few are steadily more and more aware that American interest in the business of peace is equivalent to a full performance of civic duty...
...Particular interest attached to the lively discussion of whether labor legislation was the right road to the achievement of what feminine labor is seeking...
...The warning to Germany would be more impressive if made to a country less chastened in Spirit and ability to bandy threat with threat by a long diet of humble pie...
...Versatility was a trait of character as native to Dr...
...IT was a kindly idea which suggested the tribute paid to the memory of Maurice Francis Egan under the auspices of the International Association of Arts and Letters...
...If we read these two stories in the annals of a vanished Arabian city, which woman should we honor most...
...In this way a noble tradition is continued, and modern inventions like old customs are sanctified...
...and the list of speakers is headed by Professor Parker Thomas Moon...
...Fourteen years ago Dr...
...but he displayed it always with a grace and tact which today seem to have perished...
...but it was, nevertheless, a voyage without precedent and rich in potential consequences of many kinds...
...saints like Saint Francis of Assisi and Saint Brigid of Sweden...
...Sometime, when the vigor of religious feeling is triumphant in a newly acquired freedom, a lover of the past will rediscover the dim spiritual trails, the forests, and the star-lit settlements, and there will be a book comparable to Cooper's masterpiece...
...rulers and exiles, crowding into the city that grew up around the shrine amid its colleges, hospitals, monasteries, and churches...
...1 HE supreme challenge to man's estimates of himself is flung by the irony of death, who is an artist knowing the pertinence of sharp contrasts...
...In the second eventuality, she must be prepared, in return for leave to use them, to purchase the privilege at the cost of "a good part of her African and Asiatic possessions...
...In all likelihood the poor woman herself, under her prim little hat, rather shadowed the prospect of companionship...
...But resurrection of the past is so much an instinct with all of us that the imaginative artist who can do the thing well is always sure of a welcome...
...Walter Henry Hall, of Columbia University, announce that an effort will be made to develop descant singing in the...
...What odds if these Indians— and more especially the heroines often associated with them—wear at least as much stage paint as war paint...
...But it was really spontaneous generosity which stirred England to cheer another romance of the sea which has brought the world to attention—romance of the sort which Conrad made immortal, and which has thrilled readers since Shakespeare brought the wrack and Neapolitan royalty under the wand of Prospero...
...No country, even with the advantage of having scrapped the decencies of international intercourse, can afford to sow dragons' teeth broadcast...
...JUDGE BOWEN, a noted wit upon the English bench at the end of the last century, once told an over-energetic counsel who appeared before him that he could teach him "law, but not manners...
...He believes that such singing will help to foster uthe religious awakening which is at hand and which this nation, so rich in materialism, sorely needs...
...Its report is the basis of the federal farm-loan act, under which approximately two billion dollars have been loaned to American farmers, stabilizing and regenerating rural America...
...It is a tale of a plea for help coming out of the darkness and the roar of waters— a plea so faint and helpless that it seemed, in that devastating clash of the elements, almost the outcry of a child...
...But, perhaps, there was really much of the spirit in this all too lovely, careless creature, raised from humdrum poverty by the wonder of her face—cast like a fringed gentian to the giddiest of winds...
...The list of ancient pilgrims includes practically all the famous figures of the past—emperors and their kin...
...BIBLIOPHILES are not alone in observing the centenary of James Fennimore Cooper's most renowned novel, The Last of the Mohicans...
...Well, death is a great leveler...
...The conditions under which the reduced Reich may continue to enjoy the friendship of her once docile ally of Rudini days—"looking you in the eye and with your hands raised above your head" —will appeal particularly to Americans who are familiar with the posture from news stories more or less headed Thugs Hold Up Store...
...In an especial manner will be celebrated the Holy Year of Spain, where, by a bull of Alexander III granted in the year 1179, the shrine of the Apostle, Saint James, at Compostella, was confirmed in a privilege still more ancient, whereby its pilgrims, thronging in the old centuries from every part of the Christian world, were able to gain all the indulgences and the full jubilee in the same manner and form as held in the Roman Church...
...1 HE general truculence of their leader is reflected by a faithful press...
...The prominent Washingtonians who attended the service were naturally mindful of the courtly scholar and poet who seemed himself "like a good deed in a naughty world...
...scholars and statesmen...
...Scholarly consideration of the important problems created by modern commercial and political rivalry ought to bear fruit in a wider public understanding of what can be done to secure peace...
...But in all truth she had stood for a different view of successful womanhood than had been cherished by homeless little Barbara...
...In his address for the Catholic point of view, Dr...
...1 HE reader of mediaeval letters cannot go far without coming upon some reference to the pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostella, "the Jerusalem of the West," where crusaders and troubadours crowded the shrine, where special orders of knights guarded the roads from France and Italy, or crowded the seas from England and Ireland...
...1 HE National Council of Catholic Women, through the agencies of its aggressive New York chapter, is promoting a series of lectures on international relations...
...The republic is advised that she would do well to reduce the extent of her colonial possessions to Italy's benefit It is pointed out with trenchant logic that the next time France fights she must do so either as Italy's enemy or ally...
...But even so, the narrative is satisfactorily satirical and malevolent...
...And yet it is even more wonderful that somewhere in that tremendous expanse of watery loneliness, heroes went to their death in a moment that will be remembered...
...But the road to new achievement—tightening the bonds of common culture and developing the growing riches of commerce between ancient Spain and its former colonies—was also plainly indicated by the success of the Plus Ultra...
...The announcement that 31,000,000 pesetas have been appropriated for the construction of an airport at Seville, which will house Zeppelin ships adapted to long trade-voyages, is one of the most important entries yet written into the annals of the air...
...Time was when people questioned the value of such portraiture...
...lHE Holy Year that has been ended by His Holiness in Rome has been extended for 1926 to the entire world...
...She had been very proud of both the music and the degrees...
...The mere name "Mussolini," glimpsed In a headline, is sufficient warrant for any reader who cares to go further that he is in for a unique and yeasty brew of bombast and futurism...
...but what is missing is a Colonel who is more substantial than a wraith...
...Some of the topics discussed will be the doctrine and economics of world affairs, the Locarno compact, and the international influence of the Papacy...
...1 T must have occurred to Captain Ramon Franco, pilot of the Spanish seaplane which was the first to cross the south Atlantic, that he was following pretty closely in the footsteps of Columbus...
...Especial significance was lent the occasion, however, by the presence of official representatives of Denmark, who recalled the former minister's happy and useful years in Copenhagen...
...Though many of the speakers were still firmly rooted in the older modes of feminism, there was also observable a tendency to disclaim for woman any special or "class" code...
...Miss Josephine Casey, for instance, discountenanced legal action, saying that "the only thing we want is a chance to develop our own strength and personality, and to do things for ourselves...
...Small wonder that Captain George Fried and his crew, arrived in England with the rescued men and their skipper, were received with an ovation that the ancient princes might well have envied...
...It will be interesting to see whether disciplinary action of any sort overtakes the editor of L' Impero, as it has already overtaken the great liberal press in Mussolini's realm...
...But while the idol lay shattered, an old woman sank lifeless in the cheapest room of a Brooklyn boarding-house, beside a pile of worn clothes that needed washing...
...And, indeed, this old form of popular ecclesiastical music, so familiar to Tudor England and so much an enrapturing commonplace in the great minsters, may help to deepen the sense of congregational worship...
...This jubilee at Santiago de Compostella was fixed upon the year when the feast of Saint James, Apostle, fell on a Sunday, and the privilege is conferred even when, as during the present year, it coincides with the universal celebration in Rome...
...We have lived a long while since that drowsy evening when a bored husband tossed aside the story he had been reading to his wife, and vowed he could do better himself...
...Though aviation is still largely a thing of mystery and almost poetic intangibleness, it can be the serviceable link between ports and markets...
...and her whole career was probably made up of daily dozens to the tune of Excelsior...
...Egan was invited to deliver a series of addresses throughout the United States on the question of Danish cooperation and standardization," said the speaker...
...February 17, 1926 THE COMMONWEAL 395 THE COMMONWEAL Published weekly and copyrighted 1925, in the United States by the Calver{ Publishing Corporation, 25 Vanderbilt Avenue, New York City, N. Y. Michael Williams, Editor Assistant Editors Thomas Walsh Helen Walker Henry Longan Stuart GEORGE N. SHUSTER JOHN F. McCORMICK, Business Manager Editorial Council T. Lawrason Riggs James J. Walsh Carlton J. H. Hayes R. Dana Skinnner Bertram C. A. Windle Subscription Rates Yearly: $10.00 Single Copies: $0.20 WEEK BY WEEK '-pHE Industrial Conference called by the Women's 1 Bureau of the Department of Labor commented Upon many theoretic and practical aspects of life as the woman in industry sees it...
...The course will open on February 19, at the Catholic Club, New York City, and in all likelihood an effort will be made to broadcast the various speeches so that their influence can be extended to a larger audience...
...It is also the story of disciplined adventure, which gave life for the lives of others and asked for the prompt decision that wins fierce battles...
...Such men join hands with Trafalgar and the expedition of Magellan in the deathless greeting of those who gained February 17, 1926 THE COMMONWEAL 397 a victory over the oldest and most baffling of the enemies of humankind...
...But we have not been served with another romance of the American development at all worthy of comparison with the dramatic adventures of Chingachgook and Uncas...
...California, Maryland and the Mississippi, the missions, and the afterglow of Aztec and Inca civilizations, the heroism of the servants of Christian civilization in its various forms—these still await celebration and the firm contours of imaginative life...
...Perhaps her tunes were really very terrible...
...Clarence Owens, president of the association, described an effort to which Dr...
...Egan had contributed a great deal by reason of his Danish experience, and which is both so important and so little known that it deserves mention...
...But, though the gallant commander of the Roosevelt carried on his thrilling rescue with hard work and sacrifice, the Story of the Antinoe is almost more magical than old romance...
...To the older America, long before movies had been followed by the radio, she had been a familiar Methodist hymn-writer and revivalist...
...Plainly, the Colonel has clipped the wings of his chance to rival Pepys by entrusting the entire work to the hands of an historian...
...The problem indicated is sure to become increasingly important...
...Evidently, the present Spanish government is alive to both aspects of the matter...
...In the approved modern fashion, august statesmen and their hungry hangers-on appear for a moment in disarray, forgetful of exposure all too evident to the shrewd, spectatorial Colonel who knows politics well enough to guess the path of breeze as well as tornado...
...he becomes almost ineffective when, in the narrative he constructs, he comes to resemble a masterly card-player who can make a grand slam with a poor hand...
...Egan as good humor and fantasy...
...In rebuttal to these opinions, such women as Miss Mabel Leslie, representing the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, declared that "we must cling to our right to ask Our representatives in the legislatures to raise our standards...
...Cooper gave us the picture we dearly wished to have, and which could be somewhat more easily painted in days when the breath of pine was not wholly alien even to Manhattan...
...Who knows but what history may again undertake its eternal repetition, and new gold be carried in the galleons of a new age by more peaceful conquistadores ? vjrOLDEN honors from the royal treasury and the homage of the King's accolade are not trinkets to which American sailors are over-accustomed...
...Obviously, it tried to be nothing more than an Anglicized version of those hallowed, antique ecclesiastical harmonies which we call "Gregorian chant" and which might have a stronger modern appeal if we termed them "Gregorian plain-song," and followed the historical practice of blending them with variations of the sort exemplified in descant...
...The terror of seas unknown, and the possible horror of the outcome of that first venture through the gates of the setting sun, was not attendant upon this smooth and steady hum across charted waters...
...The story of Compostella makes an eloquent chapter in Irish memories due to the hospitality and pity extended to refugee monks, nuns, and laity fleeing from the Protestant enactments of the north, and welcomed at Compostella for centuries...
...The manias most effective when he was a man of mystery...
...In his recent speech to adoring and hand-picked henchmen in the Italian chamber, "il Duce" did not mince his words...
...1 HE early instalments of Colonel House's story, based upon letters and diaries of intimate historical significance, have appeared in the New York HeraldTribune...
...Hall the greatest success in the effort to be made...
...Ultimate candor disappears under the careful gloss of editorial fingers...
...a moment when there is much talk of liturgy and the revival of sacred art in the conduct of church services, it is comforting to hear Dr...
...There is also food for American thought in the statistics quoted by the leader, who adds into his total of men "ready to march at his word," 10,000,000 Italians "living abroad...
...No one expects good manners from the colossus who is bestriding the seven hills of Rome at the present writing, and no one gets them...
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