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...It failed signally, however, both because it could not succeed in getting the agrarian reform it WEEK BY WEEK supported carried out in a legal, intelligent and scienT HOUGH the news despatches are vague and tific manner, and because its hope to establish religcontradictory, it is clear that a first step has been ious liberty in Mexico was compromised by the very taken toward ending religious war in Mexico...
...interior decorating...
...HENRY LONGAN STUART GEORGE N. SHusTER Above all, history has revealed the futility of attempts JOHN F. MCCORMICK, Business Manager by our government to regulate the affairs of Mexico Editorial Council from Washington...
...together this year at Bierville, France...
...Upon the heels of the Sillon move- difficult to work out in detail, and meanwhile one ment followed the scheme for universal amity, as ex- notes with comfort that the underlying effect of Mr...
...Govern- on a level with a citizen who prefers a stocking to a ments, or rather courts, were reciprocally sensitive to savings bank...
...so untouched by realities, so much in need of direcAllowing for some exaggeration-statistics are ob- tion...
...Kellogg assured his Plattsburg itual mission in the face of swiftly changing governaudience that the government is not examining the ments and political programs has been a truly marclouds...
...Another reason, rather implied in the of individual industries this control is exercised...
...Atlas had no heavier a burden on his shoulders...
...We take this to mean that the order the necessity for a graceful retreat, especially since does not ask for intervention of any kind, and we the Catholic party has so clearly repudiated all forms should like to see it go on record now as determined of violence, and everything like a "state-church" plat- to aid in getting at all the facts about the Mexican form...
...Jersey, to Governor Moore that the Hall enquiry be Evidence before the Tariff Commission, which The dropped on account of the unpleasant publicity it is Commonweal quoted a few weeks ago, gives some bringing to the neighborhood where the crime was idea with what meticulous attention to the demands committed...
...Remember Ruskin's burry advice to a Glasgow prosecution will end in preventing our young fauns correspondent: "To love the beautiful in painting, and centaurs of literature from giving a spurious value you must first love it in nature-then be long among to their releases by having them set up under the noble art...
...N O outcry that has followed the great war is more .HIS own eloquent plea that disarmament will depend unceasing than the demand that state secrets be pubon exchanging the present League of Nations for a lished...
...Devoted to religion and the welfare of humanthe carefully selected representatives are the chorus ity, ready to employ his once considerable riches to which reechoes his dictatorial solo...
...THE DOCTOR OF LETTERS The more one thinks of it, the more one sees that this business of teaching literature is dizzily difficult...
...Having given its protection deserved reproof...
...It concedes that there are important reasons velous manifestation of patience and sturdy determinawhy armaments should be larger in Europe than they tion...
...Such a person will be well-bred as Mr...
...They believe, or and Chambers of Commerce, and not issuing its or- profess to believe, that by letting the whole world ders until a graph of sales and property-values has produce and sell anywhere and everywhere, at its own been put into evidence, would be diverting if the drab unhampered gait, a level of well-being would be materialism that lies behind it did not rather provoke reached, higher, or at any rate no lower, than that disgust...
...How is a younger person than Dr...
...The judicata...
...but it is not timidity of the weak...
...But where defense is a duty incumbent not only upon bishops and we have a group of nations which have common inter- clergy but also upon citizens of whatsoever nations...
...viously notorious-the opinion is probably correct in How is one to manage...
...through an existence we cannot foresee, that little We are all reasonably familiar with Browning's seed may grow into a branching tree, and fill the heroic Grammarian, who "settled Hoti's business" and garden with shade and fragrance...
...The ruin of the old order in France...
...Frank Harris in France a door only a little way and were undecided about under that deadly and vague section of the Code whether to go out or stay in...
...New Brunswick Board of Trade nursing a well- But one thing is certain...
...eccentric, youthful philosophers who some tendency on the part of Geneva to put forth take the romantic view that history is what it is be- suggestions which our present international status will cause mankind overlooked the proper formula of con- not permit us to accept...
...That golden loaf, so fair to the eye in its ing from Albany, and pleaded for a little breathing waxed paper wrapping, so lavishly advertised on billspace for hard-pressed capital...
...A veteran teacher-Mr...
...But it is nevertheless only too obvious that sociological situation, and in building up a regeneraroseate hopes for a speedy settlement of the problem tive program based on those facts...
...of these armaments may be practicable...
...The lot of the fugi- man who advertises his right to admire shoddy art is tive printer was by no means an easy one...
...and sec- might do good by fomenting some kind of armed vioond, that the only religious body in Mexico which lence in the republic of Mexico...
...plete...
...In homely language, they tive that the goon name of a district is imperiled more claim that what the consumer and the worker gain by languid efforts to apprehend a culprit than by any upon the ice-cream stand of higher wages, they lose activity after a crime has been committed, leaves the upon the merry-go-round of increased living expenses...
...pressed in the International Peace Congresses, of which Kellogg's address is to reassure the world of American the sixth has just taken place...
...In short, United States subsidy conference between representative bishops and Presi- of the Carranza revolution was one of the worst dent Calles made two things clear : first, that the blunders ever made by a government, and ought to government is by no means sure of its ability to force stand as a permanent warning to those who think they its views upon antagonistic public opinion...
...The without whom modern civilization would not be comcongress and he himself are one and the same power...
...But to those worthy portents as a capitalization of $24,000,000,000, the residents who resent the publicity that has descended state cannot "stop for a while...
...Wherefore, to be brief, we shall say his enterprises...
...But if his foot...
...nature of the body which has made the complaint than Exactly who gains in the long run from a system of in anything it says, would seem the bad business that tariff-protected industry, is far from being a "res adis following in the wake of the investigation...
...and wandering orators from the East, whose be more-that we can support and promote to real Buddhism has shortened to bedlam...
...The agents it supported...
...WILLIAMS, Editor United States...
...Intervention must either be a comT. LAwRASON RIGGS JAMES J. WALSH plete absorption and regulation, or it should not be CARY.TON J. H. HAYES R. DANA SKINNER tried at all...
...Many other observers may "did not demand that the American government interfeel that the establishment of a compromise is now vene in Mexico," but merely pointed out that condionly a matter of time...
...It knows that no law favoring labor at Albany or elsewhere, gets upon the R OBESPIERRE, whose taste for executions on a statute-book without having undergone the sharpest wholesale scale did not prevent him occasionally get- scrutiny from very keen and very powerful men...
...Sinclair Lewis has termed "holy simplicipresident of the New York Bankers' Association, and ties of life," henceforth only to be known as traditions Mr...
...Mexico is a Catholic country, an order as capable and highly respected as the Knights of Columbus can exPRESIDENT CALLES'S suggestion that the Mexi- emplify to citizens there the benefits of organization...
...The history who has looked around patiently and chosen...
...the past twenty-five seasons by diverse circumstances, A. C. Benson-once said something to the point among which are poor salaries and crowded curricula...
...Nothing could be more true, of course, than that Its activity was at its height just before the French argument about tastes is futile...
...Troublesome theorists still exist who go mere notion of a department of justice conducting its further than either Mr...
...Barnard, president of the American Instivery government that is now asked to stay its hand, tute of Baking, told them that various bakeries had 400 THE COMMONWEAL September 1, 1926 attempted to market the more nutritious forms of "properly based Oun...
...In any case, we hoped they laughed out loud being changed all the time...
...but "tastes" is not at Revolution, and those who possess or have access to all the same thing as "taste...
...In either case, the reconstruction of Mexico will remain a vast and unusually complex undertaking...
...Barnard that the American public will buy to gain imaginative perception of life's values if the anything that is offered to them...
...In tions throughout the world are so dissimilar, and in all these cases we have no political end in view...
...Many of the laws, he insisted, "ignored The bleached flour of which it is compounded has the fact that economic laws could not be changed...
...A criminal investigation is always to the manufacturer, and thereby made possible such a blow to local civic pride...
...It remains quite essential to whole-wheat bread, only to find that the American admire the Grammarian while conceding that very public "wouldn't buy them...
...ting off some very astute things, once declared that "mankind will forget a good deal, but never to buy BREAD, it appears, must be added to those things cheap, and to sell dear...
...Williamstown must have a peculiar sense of humor...
...No one should know better of disciplined judgment...
...public, after all, is no fool...
...appetizing flavor, and proud fathers and mothers enWheeler...
...Appearing before the staff of life as supplied to the people of these United Industrial Survey Commission, in the rooms of the States...
...Amicable, constructive, helpful relaAssistant Editors tions must take the place of the mutual distrust and THOMAS WALSH HELEN WALKER contempt that have existed during so many years...
...ests, as well as possibly common dangers, then the Nothing proves so well the willingness of the Church same factors generally operate upon the size of the to accept every kind of regime, or every possible form armies which they respectively maintain in time of of compromise with government, as does the stormy peace, and a common consideration of the limitation and crowded history of the past few years...
...counts when a show-down is in order, is the Catholic group...
...Chase in business in close liaison with local Boards of Trade their devotion to economic law...
...Carleton A. Chase, which Mr...
...It may be that aid what seem to him good causes, he has lived and the President really wishes to abandon the religious moved in a wilderness of idealistic chimeras difficult 398 THE COMMONWEAL September 1, 1926 to view seriously...
...emphatic...
...Audiences at spokesman was insincere or conscious of misstatement...
...We may prefer shantung to pongee, but only of the secret influences that were combining for the the unwary will choose a second grade of either...
...Eventually, why magnitude and complexity of what has been seen...
...America, he claimed, was offering bread to Bar Association, both gentlemen complained of the its millions, the production of which was "simply a "steady stream of restrictive legislation" that is com- crime...
...We erature through college and other agencies may well may delay and hamper it, but we may yet dare to take the matter to heart and ask, at least, precisely hope that through experiences we cannot imagine, what is an admirable doctor of letters...
...of bootleg literature is a long and interesting one...
...In other places, ternational action was also a resume of the disarma- the skill with which the Church has carried on its spirment problem...
...What, then, must the fate of these answer is one that seems paradoxical and improbable classics be if, as is asserted anew by three recent critics -to keep alive in oneself the spirit of youth, the joy in the same cities we have named, the standing of of living and adventuring, despite the thousand cares literary teaching has been lowered abysmally during that make for dreary age...
...What are termed French Revolution, they solve the problem by eating "economic laws" not only are not immutable, but are cake...
...It is difficult for one not familiar with has its devotees, but the business of outlawing war conditions to understand with what tenacity officials is so serious, so necessary, and so difficult to conduct still cling to ecclesiastical privileges attached to the that one cannot help wishing these "International Con- now ancient and almost completely superseded regime gresses" would take up the study of needlework or and order of Spain...
...We do not ask you boards which feature rosy children delighting in its to discard any of the laws favoring labor," said Mr...
...Professor dustries of the State, with an imposing capital invest- Albert P. Mathews, of the bio-chemical department of ment of $24,000,000,000, were in the news last week the University of Cincinnati, did not mince his words to remind us afresh in what unexpected places human at Williamstown when mentioning the matter of the wisdom may be made vocal...
...It feels that, at present, no universally for the freedom of the Church, for the sacredness applicable recipe can be determined upon...
...THE right of the state to appoint a bishop to a I N so far as it was positive, Secretary Kellogg's state- vacant see, for instance, was a claim which led to ment of the official United States attitude toward in- years of controversy in the Argentine...
...What is wanted is Napoleon which reads, "offense against public morals," neither the rash boldness of the headstrong, nor the makes a rather sensational news item...
...and another world that will have to sors," one of them remarks, "not more than two or be experienced by the young who approach, so eager, three copies of Thackeray would be sold in a year...
...master under whom he sits is vague in his interpretation, or narrow in his mood-just as if he had opened THE prosecution of Mr...
...We merely wish to point out how.profound a fallacy Perhaps, like the apocryphal peasants on the eve of the lies at the root of their plea...
...The guiding principle is well expressed in an are here, and that the discussion has not been shifted address by Pope Pius XI: "We act only in the sphere to land forces in order to avoid any further limitation of religion, we defend only religion, when we battle of the navy...
...There may be even a pop-gun...
...Therefore the congress, in solemn conven- is so great, that one comes away from the panorama tion assembled, decided by plebiscite that all arma- created during the past few years, bewildered by the ments are to be abolished at once...
...One knows the species interest in, and readiness to cooperate with, the League of queer duck that invariably shows up at meetings of Nations to secure all possible modifications of the of this kind-anaemic, unsanitary mortals who loathe present provocative military situation...
...Maxwell S. Wheeler, head of the Associated In- by Americans who do not cross the ocean...
...Harris when he faces trial, and we can be quite well as well-read...
...God will not let any of us stay where we are, and Readers who have been developed into lovers of lit- yet the growth and progress must be our own...
...who reon the French queen...
...It may be, on the Calvert Publishing Corporation, 25 Vanderbilt Avenue, the other hand, that the suggestion is merely a ruse New York City, N. Y. by means of which it is hoped to offset the fact that the majority of Mexicans do not favor the religious laws...
...To their control by the when Dr...
...One may hope for the best without neglecting to make preparation for the worst...
...He will have pocketed nuggets of sure that an abundance of eloquence, with the freedom experience and made wine from things trodden underof the press as its theme, will be spilt...
...But everybody knows that the archives of nobler, more perfect "league of peoples," probably the Vatican have nothing to conceal," declares Von .struck him as the farthest discovered point of Quixotic Lama, in concluding his history of Pope and Curia, radicalism...
...September 1, 1926 THE COMMONWEAL 39 fight-though his attitude toward registration of the THE COMMONWEAL clergy seems suspicious-and will therefore act through Published weekly and copyrighted 1925, in the...
...can congress be petitioned to reconsider the religious clauses in the constitution, with a view to their amend- MARC SANGNIER is a variety of human being ment, is clearly a case of relayed responsibility...
...Records of the State Department show BERTRAM C. A. WINDLE that the Wilson administration, in its treatment of Subscription Rates Yearly : $10.00 Single Copies : $0.20 Mexican affairs, was actuated by the very highest motives...
...A cohort of "prominent littera- coils instinctively from the jar of falsehood, ugliness teurs" we are promised, will rally to the defense of and insincerity...
...Condi- of the family, for such institutions as the school...
...The assassins start first...
...but the open serenity of a man the innovation it is being represented...
...The juveniles were merely rebelling against a ceaseless battle to safeguard the rights and oppor"old men" (apparently including poor Marc himself) tunities of the Church, even while the eventual diswho didn't have to go to war, and accordingly were appearance of the older system of relations was being slow about ushering in pacifism...
...Don't be ridiculous and affected whatever you are...
...The scope of papal diplomacy is so vast, only a European institution, and besides that, we can- the number of individuals and circumstances involved not wait...
...But told the names of these "bakeries," their status in the there is another kind of scholarship more to the point combine, and their appropriation for advertising the and much less common...
...The very dignified answer of the state execu- which prevails today...
...I T is not our purpose to hint that in making their pro- The warmth of the professor's remarks, we are told test on behalf of the interests they represent, either in press reports, "elicited amusement...
...There are standards that scurrilous series, L' Espion Anglais, printed in and there is a difference between the genuine and the London in the 178o's, are in a position to study many sham...
...It is, if one reads carefully the reconsidered recent Knights of Columbus resolution, by Supreme opinion of the bishops themselves, only an inconsider- Knight James A. Flaherty, who says that his order able part of the distance...
...To have placed the United States squarenier must have been rather astonished at the crowd ly on the side of peace is a service for which the adhis genius-he has genius, after a fashion-summoned ministration deserves credit and gratitude...
...THIS reconstruction must depend to a considerable extent upon the attitude of citizens of the MICHAEL...
...We should like to be likely he was a student rather than a teacher...
...It is in duty and in upon New Brunswick, one can only repeat the famous conscience bound to see to it that, behind the shelter advice once given in the French Chamber during a of the tariff-wall, the manufacturer is not permitted to debate upon the abolition of capital punishment be- invoke a competitive law to lower his overhead which cause of its affront to human dignity: "Suppose the has already been abrogated to secure his profits...
...But we do ask you to stop for a while, dorsing its bone- and muscle-building qualities, is, and give industry a chance...
...Were it not for teachers and profes- by the masters...
...but there is much-there will duct...
...and London-have declared that the literary longev- Then suddenly a world settles upon his shouldersity of the "classics" is subsidized only by the academic the world that has been lived through and interpreted atmosphere...
...Chase was no less according to the professor, one dietetic fraud the more...
...Time only will decide...
...Every good cause prepared for...
...United States by the screen of congressional decision...
...Surely the only possible the main...
...Wheeler or Mr...
...It is the wisdom that comes "more nutritious forms...
...B Y a salutary coincidence, three booksellers in di- A man comes to it impelled by a certain fondness for verse corners of the earth-New York, Paris reading-or maybe skill at turning a readable stanza...
...You have little nature left at Glasgow chimeras of Notre Dame, few people will complain...
...Lord George Gordon, of riotous that only he is qualified to speak of literature who memory, was even sent to the Tower for a slander has a good ear for the harmony of living...
...within thirty miles, and no art within 300...
...But necessarily, the first step is not the whole ONE is glad to see, therefore, an explanation of the distance...
...They may surmise that the tions in the neighboring republic are such that its pressure of public opinion in Mexico and neighbor- official administration should not have been accorded ing countries is so strong that Seiior Calles realizes recognition...
...But how tame it seemed to the more juven- to which previous references have been made in these ile among his auditors 1 Why, the League of Nations is columns...
...Precisely because should be entertained cautiously...
...In other words, the plan is to promote regional armament L OCAL pride has flowered in some strange growths, treaties in so far as that is possible...
...but some areas are so disturbed . . . that it seems a futile since political representatives have attacked religion, task to devise an all-embracing formula...
...not now?," seems to have been their very original Latin-American affairs alone, for instance, have meant slogan...
...This will be but perhaps the queerest yet reported is the request September i, 1926 THE COMMONWEAL 399 made by the Board of Trade of New Brunswick, New the prosperity of American industry is largely due...
...been robbed of much of its nutriment-it dries out and is unfit for consumption "the day after it is purchased...
...Even poor Sang- advantage...
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