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August 18, 1926 THE COMMONWEAL 35 care...
...So completely is the mask of respect for The Commonweal has more than once extracted pearls law and religion stripped from the bigotry and sec- of observation...
...and for our part we sincerely hope that a person who makes war...
...At a conference at the University of Penn- papers relative to mediaeval studies...
...But to begood test of the distinguished exile's sincerity (and lieve that the misgivings of which we have spoken would it might be carried out) would be to borrow above are only shared by those who have to make a Mr...
...Are we now to be thrust been taken, we think, in the name of the Society of into the peculiar situation of inheriting the neutral Friends...
...BERTRAM C. A. WINDLE Subscription Rates Yearly: $10.00 Single Copies: $0.20 WILLIAMSTOWN INSTITUTE oratory is not always pertinent and convincing, but it has the virtue of being able to interest at least a small number of WEEK BY WEEK Americans in topics of world-wide importance...
...The founders hope to encourage, in a modest way, the spread of ANGER flashes through the now celebrated open amity between nations and to foster the habit of setletter addressed to President Coolidge by Clemenceau...
...But no doubt the educated average got no Without having listened in on the arguments, it is not more than their due from Dr...
...tling differences reasonably rather than forcibly...
...Pulaski, London News, compared the world in its present confor his part, is represented by a statue in Savannah, dition to an immense army on the march, a considerGeorgia, which stands not far from the battlefield able proportion of which is becoming increasingly where he fell fighting...
...In the heart of industrial Belshared in the struggle for free nationhood...
...History when groups whose business it is to practise charity indicates clearly that what gave long life to the enmity on a world-wide basis as well as in private, gather, of the South for the North during the years following in the company of guests from foreign places, for the the Civil War, was not so much the sentiment of a consideration of proposed improvements in interna"lost cause" as the constant harrowing consciousness tional life...
...On the debts a tiresome old subject which had been laid per- one hand are those who would placidly let the world manently...
...But it is the common sense of which wisdom, divested of spiritual aims, has never been anything more than YOUTH will be served, and the periodical get- the poor relation...
...When we find a man with Wilhelm's food hired labor...
...Rand, who chaffed them quite clear by what process of reasoning frankness merrily with sentences like these: "I once heard a was given the faculty of earning merit marks...
...Christopher waters or bound to be tempted to hold his tongue on Morley terms their "hard and harmless tasks" by a certain of his catches...
...As arranged, the settlements international theses so seriously that they almost seem mean sixty-two years of instalments which blend hard to have hanged their own minds on a single intelleccash with sacrifice, moral casuistry, patriotic senti- tual peg...
...We feel, however, that the spirit should at least be remembered that hostility seldom, guiding the undertaking is quite as important as the if ever, begets silence...
...The alternative monarchy under her Kaiser," it is plain we are dealing is too disheartening-the mere idea of the spectre of with a pathological case and with that most hopeless self-denial on a wholesale scale making its appearance of all complexes-the "persecution mania...
...Just NO DOUBT Secretary Mellon could travel more now, our international outlook is colored, unfortucomfortably if respectable people considered war nately, by both indifference and dilettanteism...
...A determination "frankly" expressed, merely of other creeds and other racial strains, who will see to "get by" with subjects which the young man (or to it that if the spectre of religious and racial inter- young woman) has not the slightest notion of purcourse, exorcised once for all when the American Con- suing once the campus is exchanged for the marketstitution was written, rears its ugly and atavistic head place, will always ring ungratefully in the ears of intent on real mischief, it will be to receive such a those who have chosen wisdom as their own mistress...
...It crowds upon a page the fiery and chaotic sentiments which sought expression in the parade of the mutilated battalions through the streets of Paris...
...Our own idea is that part of its present issue, The Commonweal is publishthe bet it would then be safe to lay on peace, would ing a very thoughtful and suggestive article by a pracmake the famous odds offered by the hare for a return tical New England farmer...
...No document could prove more admirably that the Jenkins has thus set an example which others ought to "Tiger," even after six years of peaceful living, is a follow...
...Mellon, is a theory Those in charge hope to arrange a modest but interrelatively naive in character...
...Apart from the BUSY with history as is The Commonweal this week, toil that has gone to make them, and which has merely at least a brief note seems called for by Premier Bald- shifted the burden of drudgery from the man who win's surprising request, made before the Anglo-Amer- works in the open air to the man who works in mills ican Conference of Historians in London, for a history and foundries, he notes, as their net result, a steady of America for use in American schools in which the shrinkage in the profits reaped by the agriculturist or "incident" of the Revolution should be so treated as grower, and an inordinate swelling in the profits atto make for better relations between the two branches tained by the middleman...
...gium, the Archbishop of Malines is preaching "simple living and hard work" as the one panacea for the THE ex-Kaiser has (or had) many monuments, but financial crisis that threatens his country...
...fossil survivals of another age, may have to say to one another about it all between semesters...
...nesses...
...Written by an agriculturist in the it held by one of Premier Baldwin's mental calibre...
...resolute retrenchment of habits learned in easier days...
...revolutionary America in 1776 of two Polish patriots, Perhaps in counselling sinners to "sin stoutly," Master Thaddeus Kosciusko and Casimir Pulaski...
...Briefly, Mr...
...Perhaps nobody cares esting program, and to extend hospitality to as many for the good will of a "victorious" France...
...Pursuing his study of the young men tional feeling that lies behind it, and so accurately is in France whose years roughly correspond to highthe search-light of sane thinking directed upon the school age in this country, M. Decout records as their dark places of fanaticism whence it issued that The most striking characteristic a neglect, amounting to Commonweal, or any other organ that might be sus- dislike, for all branches of learning which cannot be pected of an ex parte view upon the matter, is prac- speedily converted into material gain...
...togethers of educationalists for which the summer vacation gives an opportunity, seldom break up with- THE conduct of Speculum, journal of the Mediaeval out having registered their staunch belief in its integ- Academy, remains exemplary...
...and a whom we helped to save...
...for thought each time he lays his head on his pillow, It is not even surprising that our major economists declaring that the only road to peace is "to recog- should be reluctant to regard this process of simnize Germany's guiltlessness of the war . . . as well plifying life as anything more than a passing phase, as to restore Germany to her pre-war condition of due to impoverishment through war...
...Through the kindness of Mrs...
...Unfortunately, they can hardly do so with- go hang...
...A senior pupil of a leading Catholic college, when the ill-bred diatribes of men who choose the questioned by a representative of the Revue Francaise, language of the gun-man and thug to affirm their admitted that his comrades seemed to him "fascinprotestantism, and the scorn of the pharisee to en- ated" by the attraction of good jobs...
...Charles C. friendship of the Germans, whom we helped to defeat Jenkins, an "international house" has been established and of reaping the bitter enmity of allied peoples in the quiet neighborhood of Buck Hill Falls...
...In his own force their patriotism, are given the air...
...They forget everything and have nothing and daughters on the farm and has no recourse to to learn...
...continuance of the forward progress...
...Perhaps genuine improvement will come ment, and hatred of the American assessor...
...practical results that may be attained...
...The journal itself is an astonishment was reached...
...The tendency to con- to be read, pondered, and digested by all who make sider history as material which can be treated to secure the cause of the farmer something besides a recurrent any desired result is common, but it is strange to find political slogan...
...Everett Cram denies that labor-saving appliances in agriculture save any labor at all...
...The ceasing little by little to send his children to the towns Bourbons, we are often told, "learnt nothing and for- for education...
...Wells's magic and reverse the time-machine to virtue of necessity would be a grave error...
...In fact, it says the New York City, N. Y. very things which Poincare, if he were not hampered with the delicate responsibilities of government, would probably like to say for himself...
...From the point of view of Catholic citizen of means will make possible the estabpolitical expediency, the letter was as sad a mistake lishment in the United States of at least one branch as any Versailles blunder...
...It is all rather confusing...
...This has now manned many a factory, turned make comforting reading just now for those who base the plow in numerous fields, and mastered the prob- their calculations, personal or general, on a resolute lems of immigrant poverty in its own staunch manner...
...Does AMONG the picturesque memories evoked by the *the frankness with which each shortcoming is displayed Sesquicentennial celebration is that of the coming to avail to cancel the fault...
...A recent Martin Luther was four centuries ahead of his time...
...The Hohenzollerns seem to go them well, but only "on condition that he keeps his sons one better...
...We rejoice to sylvania, attended by secondary teachers from four- see that the Academy fellows now include a number teen states, a poll was held upon the vexed question, of distinguished Catholic scholars-Cardinal Ehrle, and the comparatively innocuous . vice of laziness Bishop Shahan, Pere Delehaye, Maurice De Wulf, to proved to be the only one upon which substantial agree- mention just a few...
...on the other are some who take their little out seeming eccentric...
...Cram's is an article of the English-speaking race...
...358 THE COMMONWEAL August 18, 1926 S ELDOM has any controversial statement aroused THE publication of the teachers' report from Philasuch a chorus of scathing disapproval in the respon- delphia happens to coincide with the receipt of the sible press as the recent utterance of Bishop Adna second instalment of an article upon the Youth of Leonard of the Methodist Episcopal Church, anent 1911 and of 1926, by M. A. Decout, in the Revue the possibility of Governor Smith as a presidential Apologetique, of Paris-a lively periodical from which candidate...
...By seeming to be totally unaware of the trend Assistant Editors THOMAS WALSH HELEN WALKER of feeling in the United States since 1918, the Tiger HENRY LONGAN STUART GEORGE N. SHUSTER demonstrates a strange naivete in the face of a comJOHN F. MCCORMICK, Business Manager plex, difficult, and dangerous situation-a naivete Editorial Council which is clearly one of the causes of those disasters T. LAWRASON RIGGS JAMES J. WALSH which now affect his country, and which do not seem CARLTON J. H. HAYES R. DANA SKINNER to justify any optimistic augury of abatement...
...If so, it persons as possible...
...Rand to in bartering new lamps for old, the rising generation which reference has already been made in these colis leaving the world at large any the worse for the umns, a number of unusually fresh and competent exchange...
...William match with the tortoise, trivial by comparison...
...Well, careless of others' comfort or feelings, frankly indif- sometimes the parenthesis, like the postscript of a fair ferent, even, to what professors and teachers, those lady's letter, contains the gist of the matter...
...But it merely aids to saddle more firmly upon France the burden of the debts...
...Does not Clemenceau realize even yet that he is one of the men to whom a deep American resentMICHAEL WnuAMs, Editor ment of the whole war has fastened a title of opprobrium...
...Remarkable tically dispensed from further comment...
...In another the last days of July, 1914...
...It embarrasses the Poin- of the Catholic Union of International Studies...
...It is lecturer declare that the middle-ages represented a possible, one supposes, to be frankly lazy, frankly parenthesis in the history of human thought...
...for the payments arranged by Mr...
...A very at the feast of production too unsettling...
...To counterbalance it, the teachers, ing proof of what energy for idealistic study exists in who are far more conscious of their own failings the United States, and one hopes its successive numbers than of those noticeable in their charges, agree in will rise in order like so many unimpeachable witnoting "frankness" as youth's outstanding virtue...
...brand of obloquy as shall render its return unthinkable...
...They can among them," he sums up, "is a very marked cononly register, and not for the first time, a heartfelt sideration for monetary reward in the choice of a recognition of a fact that is sometimes overlooked career...
...That the French, for in- first meeting, at which delegates from the Filipino stance, will learn to applaud the benignity of the people were present, gathered representatives of variUnited States while grubbing for the gold required ous faiths for the lecture and subsequent discussion...
...combined, led the Polish migration to the United Consular and press reports from Europe do not States...
...Behind all words, "all the talk you hear is about big money...
...He has learned that agriculture pays got nothing...
...From Greece Though a considerable proportion of those who joined comes news that the prohibition on the importation it are still comparative strangers in their adopted land, of "articles of luxury," including that headliner in they must reap no little pleasure and encouragement the complex theory of life, the automobile, has been from the thought of how gallantly their ancestry indefinitely extended...
...These men in whom the best overtaken by doubts as to whether its guides have not martial and idealistic qualities of their race were led it astray and is slackening its pace in consequence...
...A profitable step in this direction has of poverty and exploitation...
...most prosperous country of the world, it throws its The man who lets his net down into the past, seeking own justifying light upon the conduct of brethren anything but the truth, is either fishing in the wrong abroad who are tackling what Mr...
...August 18, 1926 THE COMMONWEAL 35 care government at a critical moment when the THE COMMONWEAL Premier, having won the initial battles for franc stabilization, is confronted with a deep parliamentary Published weekly and copyrighted 1925, in the United States by the Calvert Publishing Corporation, 25 Vai derbilt Avenue, division on the subject of debts...
...In Italy, the letter sent to Hermann Bernstein by the comfort- sumptuary edicts, issued by its dictator and "duce," ably lodged and opulently subsidized hermit of Doorn, have become a matter of routine...
...gathering of Polish men and women round about the August 18, 1926 THE COMMONWEAL 359 marble figure which is among the finest adornments THE SPECTRE OF SIMPLICITY of West Point, recalled the romantic career of the man who was largely responsible for the fortifications of N EARLY two years ago Mr...
...In Germany, notes on the occasion of the twelfth anniversary of the blow- the French writer, Pierre Delattre, the peasant is ing-up of the world, easily overtops the loftiest...
...G. K. Chesterton, the Academy, and whose genius as an engineer served in one of his weekly articles to the Illustrated the colonial cause upon many another occasion...
...It the thunder and the shouting, behind the vociferous would be interesting to ascertain whether the "lazimenaces of these heeled ministers of the Prince of ness" of which the American educators complain is Peace, a solid and sagacious body of opinion exists, not merely another manifestation of this new sense of in daily intercourse with their American fellow-citizens values...
...In the current issue, rity and in the lack of foundation for any fear that, one may find, apart from the address by Dr...
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