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September 8, 1926 THE COMMONWEAL 417 the...
...The missed the point by a mile...
...Naturally, if we can serve idealism Mexicans now resident upon United States soil and and safeguard commerce in one and the same breath, dependent upon United States institutions...
...Eliot was that he distinsources were available to push enterprises to their guished between discipline and organization...
...not to come true," will strike them less out a thundering brass band in honor of a Greek as expert opinion than as a rather striking example scholar or even an intelligent doctor of economics...
...Ingram has been struck by the large suffers...
...There was a fierce hunger for To this fundament of its character, Dr...
...Here is a held this year at Saint Mary's, Notre Dame, Indiana, great American work which is being done and-as is during the week of September 4, will be attended by apparent from all records-done excellently...
...between conclusion...
...The crowd, in time, might then go far toward consenting to revise somewhat its list of idols...
...Wynne, S.J., as one of the directors...
...It is therefore ment of the debt problem...
...But after all, isn't it beautifully generous...
...In their steadfastness the Brit- Ederle's triumphant smile...
...and Indian territory...
...There is something artificial, even someseems to one who is neither Anglican nor Nordic, is thing morbid, in this emotional impulsiveness which a similar ukase laid in their interests on meddlesome seeks satisfaction in a stare...
...It remains to be seen whether this to examine these diaries, memoirs, and letters-a deli- time will last much longer, or whether it is not already cate task which most people disregard entirely...
...In one which men like Paul Elmer More and Irving Babbitt important respect, the western Indians have a tradihad taught him to understand...
...of...
...it is not which still remain in "Toronto and Ontario...
...a very large number...
...But obviously, if the veniently be styled-the ability to marshal a great two elements -institution and people-were to co- many people to the support of an idea or a cult...
...Do not let us hide our take chances, are carried by it in the regular course faces from the real danger," cries the Bishop...
...theless, these endured and prospered because, as it A rectification is therefore required of those who seems to us, they were based upon a profound comprewould use these documents which, while no doubt sin- hension of what America wanted and needed at a cere, are not completely sincere...
...The savor of his writing was district of the northwest and southwest...
...Whether it will pay the individual and the nation to continue T HE dissolution of Emerson's old age by physical at the present rate, is a serious question, upon the and mental infirmity was probably a kind of in- communal answer to which will depend the future index to the quality of that reckless spiritual dynamism terest in this kind of education...
...benefit of exotic maidens and boys who had gone wrong in college or New York...
...WINNINGTON INGRAM, Lord Bishop of vigilant watchfulness of Mr...
...associated with any high standard of values...
...Recent experiments with parachute attachments, are the Bishop's chief concern...
...It is constantly being gated for the experience of a traditional intellectual changed, and constantly suffering from the failure of discipline, after which, as viri fortes in the old man- human nature to carry on certain routine matters sucner, they might find their places in the guardianship cessfully...
...Education probably has profited by its definithe New Republic that commercial development is tion as training designed to make apparent things well "too characteristically in the tempo of our whole done...
...Through his agency, many the plea of the Reverend Doctor Henry G. Ganss, then people who might otherwise have remained quite igno- an official of the Catholic Indian Bureau and personrant of the matter, awoke to the fact that mankind has ally well acquainted with the mission territory...
...We be- by that of a minor member of Saint Paul's chapter, the lieve that some of these, at least, will be forthcoming witty and gloomy Dean Inge...
...Neveryour emotion will adapt themselves to this purpose...
...ganization is about the only thing in the Church that Gone were the days when a chosen few could be segre- could be measurably bettered...
...No die...
...after all, these acts have been more orr less synonoBearing these things in mind, one can possibly get a mous with the purposes of the college...
...The latest pronouncein the near future...
...Sherman at bulky goods and, above all, passengers who do not his best...
...Sherman's quette League, a society of laymen which was organbest work had no connection with words so relative ized twenty-five years ago as the effective answer to as "new" and "young...
...The present-day work of priests and nuns, of doubt Mr...
...The benefits of BERTRAM C. A. WINDLE civilization-and in a particular sense, of religionSubscription Rates Yearly : $10.00 Single Copies : $0.20 are seldom delivered by fast freight...
...Eliot was most intellectual liberalism, but this could be gratified only blind, and whenever he said anything about it he usually by subjecting it to the busier business of life...
...Travelthe economic and industrial wounds from which it ing in Canada, Dr...
...The daring pilot, Louis death-the best literature celebrates these in its record Bleriot, who thus made history, has just celebrated of the Hellespont, Coquelin and Keats...
...I of traffic, it cannot, admittedly, be run upon a comknow' perfectly well that not all Canadians are as mercial basis, and this cannot take place until the narloyal to the British empire as those in Toronto and row margin of safety has been broadened...
...No doubt he was always somewhat conSeptember 8, 1926 THE COMMONWEAL 419 strained and repressed by the academic atmosphere Iroquois and their enemies had vanished from the which had created him-unable to feel his own way scene...
...ing, one can well believe) which the traveling dignitary is forced to pay to the loyalty of a very much larger POPULAR idolism burst all bonds surging to see and more cohesive element-the French Canadians in Rudolph Valentino's slumbering face and Gertrude Quebec and elsewhere...
...it would profit further if it could imply getting civilization...
...Years ago re- one who, though he may have had a share in public ports were widely circulated to the effect that the once affairs, is a partisan survivor rendered suspect by his mighty western tribes were dying out-even as the passions-Saint-Simon is the most remarkable exam420 THE COMMONWEAL September 8, 1926 ple-or by that inevitable deformation of the past would look like after it had finished growing up, which follows the working together of memory and seemed out of date...
...To write to anyone means educational ideas sponsored by Dr...
...In so far as letters are concerned, the Fierce and lengthy debates have closed about the situation is hardly different...
...To assure its reproduction probably regret to its dying day not having been able among the new immigrants, all that is necessary it to attend...
...nearing a close...
...THEY will point, with some effect, to the parallel of the railroad, which, within an equal period, from I N one of the earliest issues of The Commonweal, 1830 to -1847, had not only overcome the prejudices we drew sustenance from certain reflections on Anatole and fears of all but the most timid and hidebound of France written by Stuart P. Sherman...
...Orexistence was really moving...
...To offset these concrete convic- order that fat ground-rents might roll into the estabtions, the friends of debt annulment must summon up lishment...
...It pleased even those who were a own time has not suffered this missionary fervor to bit stunned by the author's moral temperance...
...There was something uncannily well-regulated about One hesitates to make a phrase try to do more than Dr...
...To definite humanistic tenets with which he had begun to pretend that the progress of aviation has anything to teach and write, those paragraphs on the "great scepshow comparable to this, would be absurd...
...Eliot, and whatever he did or said seemed to its duty, but there is a great deal of truth in the saybe part of a careful plan drawn up for an era when re- ing that the point about Dr...
...facts and events happening in his neighborhood, is continuously falsifying his perception of his own perTHOSE who have seen queer aboriginal faces star- sonality and that of others, either through unconscious ing with almost infinite patience down the crimson vanity, or ill will, or-as was the case with the Gontrails which lead away from Albuquerque or Santa Fe, courts-a blind and confused acceptance of the most must have experienced also a sudden, intimate con- niggardly rumors...
...the coming convention will serve as a rallying point An egoist who keeps a diary and who takes snapfrom which the energies of the federation will set shots, every evening, of his state of mind or of the out to achieve even more and better things...
...The inforand leaders in educational activity, as well as a care- mation thus gathered seems very reliable, but in refully planned social calendar...
...It created an intelligent, and there- work is due to the financial support given by the Marfore a fructifying, opposition...
...But Catholicism is primarily-one may say, of the public trust...
...Eliot, curiously Cicero...
...Charles ultimate victory over the Eliot idea is therefore only William Eliot, "grand old man of Harvard," whose a matter of time-because humanism is logically and span of life closed within eight years of a century...
...speed, it has to be owned that until some method of securing stability in the air when the motive power ON the face of the matter, it is not quite clear why is at rest has been achieved, aviation itself, as a pracany burning desire for annexation should come from tical proposition, remains at something of a standthe "Poles and Galicians and Lord knows who," who still...
...Of late his repute has been overshadowed no less concrete and equally convincing facts...
...No doubt it is old and fingers and muddled heads, a goodly proportion of deeply rooted in primitive human nature...
...Forced to resist the attacks of the government against the principle of liberty of conscience, large numbers of people are waking up to the fact that 0 there is something like public opinion...
...It is to be hoped that ality is frequently most inexact and even insincere...
...can mind were great...
...In alesce harmoniously, it was necessary to find the his honest fashion he thought the "system" might be rhythm, the tempo, according to which the national improved-and in this, of course, he was right...
...But Mr...
...Now we know that the redskin abides and enthusiastically into the new books and minds, in- thrives in as much of the atmosphere of his forefathers clined to repose happily upon the older classic letters as contemporary civilization will countenance...
...The program ar- strained appetite of our time for the letters of famous ranged includes addresses by distinguished clergymen men, or for their memoirs and diaries...
...In so far as liberal which his circle, and to some extent, his age, professed...
...Hawthorne was helpless after his return Shelf...
...We think that the democratic organization JOHN F. MCCORMICK, Business Manager of Mexico will be a slow process, extending over a Editorial Council long period of time : at any rate, the present struggle T. LAWRASON RIGGS JAMES J. WALSH between the Catholic bishops and Senor Calles is by CARLTON J. H. HAYES R. DANA SKINNER no means on the brink of a solution...
...These, we believe, are deepest and most can- number of non-English stock who are farming (and cerous in Germany and Russia, upon whose well-being populating) the empty acres of the West, and he, 4i8 THE COMMONWEAL September 8, 1926 utters a cry of racial alarm...
...Sherman, in his four-square moods, really catechists and instructors, continues under less glamorfelt that the "new literature" had been created for the ous conditions than of old, but continues faithfully...
...IT begins to be apparent that the religious controversy 7 Ln in Mexico may have an extremely beneficent socio-, logical effect...
...The only trouble with this neatly labeled selecfrom abroad...
...And even passengers, but was already exercising its profound in- though the crowded years of this estimable critic's fluence over the economic life of England and America, New York career seemed to lure him away from the and casting its shadow over the world at large...
...To spent some odd thousands of years testing its ideas date, the league has contributed about $soo,ooo to and its art...
...A feat of but naval attack that twenty-one miles of sea had swimming, a blaze of passionate acting, and early afforded Britain in the past...
...Even the confident prophecy of work...
...what might be called the new mysticism...
...Missionaries loved and it traditional culture which, until then, had been rather struggled for the rough old settlements in almost every an aristocratic affair...
...He immense faith in the institution and in the people who always admired the "Roman system," as it can so conwould take advantage of it...
...One must take time particular time...
...The memorialist, for his part, is viction that the Indian will remain...
...The work of the federation has attracted the most favorable notice everywhere, THE gradual disappearance of all traffic regulations and the importance of Catholic graduates as a force for readers of literature, current and classic, is probin the making of public opinion grows with each year...
...Coolidge...
...and in the second place, would surely profit from a generous settlement of all perhaps, an organized interest in the vast hordes of war obligations...
...The practical needs of the Ameri- essentially-a discipline, a way of growing into life...
...September 8, 1926 THE COMMONWEAL 417 the stability of the continent nevertheless depends...
...We shall have to take a long with greater forcefulness than former Secretary of breath and begin the real work to be done-a work War Baker, whose appeal to the national idealism which, in the first place, is a gathering of accurate was adroitly linked with the remark that business knowledge about the situation...
...psychologically correct...
...It maintains offices at 1o5 East Twenty-second Street, New York ADVANCE news indicates that the convention of the City...
...Once Europe regains some soli- ment of London's episcopal head will not add greatly darity of consciousness, it will reflect more distinctly to his reputation for foresight or good sense...
...The officials of the league include judge Plato...
...and that a majority which is Assistant Editors really interested in having its way will, in the long THOMAS WALSH HELEN WALKER run, win out-provided its convictions and purposes HENRY LONGAN STUART GEORGE N. SHUSTER are right...
...Doubters will not were not so dead against being enthusiastic about his feel quite so sure...
...Names like due to the fact that it retained all the best arts of peda- those of Father Badin and Bishop Marty blend with gogy-intelligence, pertinent presentation, wit, and the chosen pseudonyms of the Franciscan padres...
...Humanism's better impression of the significance of Dr...
...If the supplemented by liberal knowledge of a contiguous point could once be made clear, the position of the kind...
...To this no one has contributed steadily dwindling...
...Only it later generations will note, as a signal instance of the would be more helpful and convincing if some tabula- wisdom of the Holy See, that it was content, in the tion of the specific advantages to be gained from debt midst of the embroglio, to recommend only prayer...
...All this will be remembered thankfully by very Alfred A. Talley as president, Reverend William many who read, almost with a sense of deep personal Flynn as secretary-general, and Reverend John J. loss, the news of Mr...
...Perhaps the prospect is bright and worthy enough...
...Perhaps even a poet might draw a record daily routine, all that could possibly be demanded of throng on Broadway if his brethren in the profession a period comparatively so brief...
...and it invites the bitter satire of those who feel they have outJUST seventeen years have passed since the sudden grown it...
...and watched his body collapse around his sturdy heart...
...Eliot succeeded...
...The millions of New ish empire is reaping the fruit of a very wise and Yorkers who participated in both demonstrations tolerant policy, forced on them it is true, by the cir- merely did their duty by the whole country, which will cumstances of the times...
...They depend entirely upon the demand expressed for them, and cannot effectively be shoved down people's throats with WEEK BY WEEK gun-powder or pompous edicts...
...table as the crowd...
...Our human interest...
...Both the summoning to mind and then visualizing the effect humanists and the defenders of the ratio studiorum which the phrases you are employing will have upon discovered and exposed the manifold weaknesses of the person addressed...
...and unheralded landing of a twenty-five horse-power Millions who themselves never rise above a humdrum monoplane on the English cliffs near Sandgate, brought level, who know their destiny is to be mute and inhome to the world, in a dramatic fashion that none glorious, cheer lustily and unselfishly for others who could escape, the dawn of a new era in transit-and, have done things very well...
...The efforts of the league ought to interest not International Federation of Catholic Alumnae, to be only more people, but many more people...
...And the bogey of "annexation to the possible tribute has been paid to the skill and bravery United States" is dragged once more from its ancient of inventors and pilots who overcome gravity through and cobwebbed retreat...
...It helps to support hundreds of that when a young man has gone so far as to read a priests and sisters, and to assure the maintenance of Zola novel, he has not yet necessarily outstripped schools...
...no less his complaisant attitude toward beneficent effect the erasure would have upon their the wholesale destruction of Wren's noble churches in business ventures...
...When all Ontario...
...Until tic" might still be used to exemplify Mr...
...The rule of faith W E are not inclined to believe that there will be- being essentially a discipline, times of persecution are at least in the near future-any radical change often fundamentally helpful for the reason that they in the official United States attitude toward the settle- develop stamina and resourcefulness...
...and a sensationalism entitled When It Was Dark, will be large proportion of them are quite unaware of what remembered...
...The growth of graduate law-schools, for instance, has been extraordinary...
...Mary's, at which the Sisters of the Holy seem to apply very well to the case with which they Cross have established one of the most beautiful wom- deal: "I shall admit that I do not share the unreen's colleges in the United States...
...ably not an undiluted advantage...
...studies are concerned, the fact is already apparent It is curious to note how few of those who lived them- that the gathering of mere knowledge without referselves out as whole-hearted romantics, either in ence to the structure of the human person leads only America or other countries, endured long enough to to the impasse of meticulously reared and unusable speak wisely de Senectute in the manner of antique mountains of further knowledge...
...This is borne out particularly well in his ranwhich was setting the pace for America...
...Instinctively your thought and the elective system and other proposed reforms...
...But Senator Borah's ener- a relief to see that such Catholic opinion in the United getic remark, combined with certain statements from States as was in favor of allying the struggle in Mexico foreign sources, has certainly started a good deal of with extremely doubtful means toward victory, is healthy discussion...
...that, after all, there are mental standards the work, and has erected more than eighty chapels in quite as truly as there is a monetary standard...
...His fortune was that, at an early age, growing into something and being made into somehe could take charge of an educational institution thing...
...This feeling was ex- FEW know to what a great extent the success of this tremely valuable...
...Of course these things incidentally, an end of the isolation from anything are of a kind understandable to millions...
...that this is a weapon far easier to handle than artillery and considerMICHAEL WILLIAMS, Editor ably less destructive...
...and poor Henry David Thoreau tion was that it did not educate or humanize...
...At all events, the No better site could have been chosen for the conven- following words of caution, written by Paul Bourget, tion than St...
...Most of these London, was once much in the public eye...
...The best answer to which have given a fair measure of success, indicate his fears is to be found in the tribute (a little grudg- along what lines the problem is likely to be tackled...
...His real mission was tion which identifies them historically with the life of that he approached democracy with the offer to teach white men on the continent...
...New England's own Augustan best fell early: enough, seems to have divined this fact in setting forth Melville sputtered out in unintelligible dithyrambs and the idea which led to the notorious Five-Foot Bookfinal silence...
...THE COMMONWEAL To deal with other countries separately and apart from Europe as a whole is, therefore, poor financial policy Published weekly and copyrighted 1925, in the United States by the Calvert Publishing Corporation, 25 Vanderbilt Avenue, and will be proved more palpably unsatisfactory to New York City, N. Y. Americans as the sixty-two years drift on...
...But citizens the anniversary by making what for him was a second on a level with the best literature are seldom as charicross-channel trip, in a 420 horse-power air-liner...
...But after all, the weakpopular demand was for new, professional disciplines ness was typical of Americans of his kind...
...The sense of self-importance Optimists will see in the technical progress achieved, somehow dims the applause meted out to exquisite the thousand-mile flights that are now a matter of merit...
...imagination...
...Eliot...
...He had dom declarations about the Catholic Church...
...but so also has NEW ENGLAND'S WISE MAN been the increase in the crop of lawyers...
...His recombelieve, with relative vehemence, that we have been mendation as a tract for the times of a piece of trashy somewhat too idealistic during recent years...
...annulment could be arrayed in concrete form for the benefit of those incredulous tax-payers who enlist the DR...
...The old religious humanism, which began with Church in this country would be utterly different from a pretty definite vision of what the personality-tree what it is or what it ever has been...
...Sherman's sudden death...
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