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...But though this material vitality was found encouraging, THE publication of details concerning the plan which greater promise was discernible in what the speakers the unfortunate Hapsburg crown-prince, Francis Fer- outlined as the spirit of the Academy...
...Finance is so distinctly the great problem cannot help regretting that the Austro-Hungarian of the Paris government that a refusal to see some- people, annulling their four-centuries-old tradition, thing of its stark significance for the people of France developed into nothing more than a handful of muwould be to forget utterly the role which, for better tually spiteful states, each pauperized by its individualor worse, we played in the conduct of the war...
...No a number of his canvases have come to America...
...Acting on the theory that reform, when training of a young mind in exceptions, when the backed by the federal government, is able to surmount world in which his work will have to be done is one all obstacles of a practical nature, the sponsors of the in which exceptions will have been legislated away...
...The first was the cautious admission that the one might have been led to believe...
...wings" to bring the clash of interests to a showdown While it is early to use the ominous words "social in some manner that will cast discredit on their opwar" for the emergency which the British cabinet and ponents...
...servative souls in the old country that the initial cost To empower seven individuals to "pronounce judgof the change would be large, entailing as it must the ment on the screen entertainment of 17,000,000 people reprinting of every text-book and classic used in educa- of our own land, and of millions more in countries tion, would not have much weight in a country which, to which American-made films might be exported," it is notorious (in Europe anyway) has more money would be, as the Reverend John J. Burke, general secto spend than it knows what to do with...
...Dr...
...It is istic curriculum, and thereby avoid catering to the ex...
...The exact point at which normalcy will break exquisite traceries of the windows, the rich and lovely into the police blotter, not to say the criminal calendar, floriation of the interior chilled to a gloom reverent has never been accurately mapped out...
...The most that could be said in favor of sider the sad state of accepted spelling in England and Canon William Sheafe Chase, who appeared in deto simplify it by enactment, will not lack for company fense of the bill, is that he has sworn to uphold the or support if they decide to extend their propaganda constitution of the International Reform Association...
...And indeed it that the old spelling is worth while because it teaches was very easy for Mr...
...In bitterness there is no wisdom...
...Subscription Rates Yearly : $10.00 Single Copies : $0.20 ONE of the greatest misfortunes of the present crisis, and one indeed which makes optimism as to its WEEK BY WEEK speedy solution hardest, is the fact that, in both parTHE sudden labor crisis in England came with the ties, extremists, though not in place, are in power, paradoxical unexpectedness always to be observed and that the efforts of those anxious to find a solution when a menacing situation has lasted so long that its seem to be hampered by the resolution of powerful sub-acute stage has become a habit of national life...
...But between what it can do and what as naturally as, under other circumstances, it might the suggested federal commission could accomplish, have offered hospitality to what was successively there is one abiding difference-the difference between noblest in human life...
...Baron Eichhoff, diplomat and royal ad- food for thought about the peculiar significance of the viser, narrated in a recent issue of the Vienna Reichs- middle-ages "for us now in our own time of change post more than one fact of which the historian must and decay and rejuvenescence...
...The case has ended shrine...
...The professors evil results of the game were not felt at "all instituwho interpret the student silence, do it in various tions...
...Hence the spirit of made to swell the total under the heading "arrests...
...Spanish socialism of its organizer and greatest leader...
...We relish the practical point implied in this the country, but instead singleness of customs-collec- counsel-that the Mediaeval Academy is to concern tion, railroad management, and national defense...
...Then, as now, beneath in both parties will be able to depend on support from a surface kept fallaciously calm by optimism and the the men behind them...
...Only then on...
...A comparchment...
...matter with a reference to the "report of 1915," which, at least in its authors' opinion, shows how the WHAT would be immensely interesting and impor- problem of athletics has been solved at one university...
...itself with the abiding realities of civilization, as these were expressed in the middle-ages, and not with dotted I F one remembers the nature of Austro-Hungarian is and crossed t's...
...We do not MICHAEL WILLIAMS, Editor greatly relish the gloating statement attributed to Sir Alfred Mond in a United Press despatch, that "the Assistant Editors THOMAS WALSH HELEN WALKER unions' finances are depleted and that they will, thereHENRY LONGAN STUART GEORGE N. SHUSTER fore, not be able to hold out for long...
...Germain, one promptly...
...interested, for its own reasons, in representing the Benjamina Gallibeaus, a good girl of sixteen, on her great cities of America, not as hives of human activity leisurely way home from church, was sitting on a where good and ill are naturally at their intensest, news-stand with two companions of congenial age and but as "Babylons" of iniquity, engaged night and day, tastes, possibly discussing the sermon, and almost cerbut more especially at night, in violating the national tainly sucking an ice cream cone...
...both alert and kind...
...A great city is the home of violent contrasts, and there is no need to go beyond that drawn NEW YORK and Brooklyn, so far as we know, were by Mayor Walker in his speech at the commemoration normal on a recent Sunday morning...
...First and foremost, un- it postponed the agreement in order to test popular doubtedly, is the feeling that its brief essay in power, sentiment on the matter while the Italian and Belgian so widely heralded as the triumph of the democratic settlements were being discussed in Congress...
...An educational system created entirely by by Monsignor Luke Evers, of Saint Andrew's Church, the authors of doctorate theses might be an exceedand carried on since his death by the beloved pastor, ingly dull affair...
...new bill are content to rest the case on a matter of morals...
...In the principle, was in the nature of a rather contemptuous face of populist opposition like that of Senator Reed, experiment, and that it was terminated abruptly and it was hazardous to accept as established the principle by virtue of what looked very like a conspiracy be- of payments based on ability to pay...
...Bandits in the dinner later in the day, "between that great crowd in down-town section were assessing damages done by the Cathedral this morning, the crowds in Saint An- random bullets to their high-powered cars...
...Even some their blight upon the lovely towers of one of the archi- of these proved distasteful to Iglesias, who trained his tectural masterpieces of the world-and the fair Nor- followers according to a rigid code of discipline and man Gothic cathedral, begun early in the thirteenth relied upon personal contact to gain friends and adcentury and finished in 1567, after some three hundred herents...
...The elements that precipitate disaster, No settlement that leaves this worse, or even no betwhether social or international, seldom appear clearly ter than before, will be worth the paper it is written until after the explosion has taken place...
...with the spirit of our good will toward their different countries, assured that we can clasp hands more I T is strange to note that this same trait governed and more firmly, both North and South America, in the activity of Pablo Iglesias, whose death deprives the deeply significant phrase : "We are all Americans...
...Rand...
...Alfonso Robledo, the two extraordinary leaders and organizers of opinion...
...and in sheer desperation its victims known wherever press men foregather as "Father might yell themselves hoarse at a 'varsity debate...
...the terms as they stand are dependent somewhat upon the ability of Germany to bear up under the strain THE first annual meeting of the Mediaeval Academy of the Dawes Plan, and may, moreover, severely tax of America was characterized by optimism, in a twothe resources of the French people, their effect upon fold sense...
...may have to offer...
...Accord- have never visited it, as stark and abysmal-the theing to the plan," says Baron Eichhoff, "the nine dis- ology of the Schools...
...There were mopping up surplus blood and hooch, and makis a certain school of political propaganda which is ing everything trim and snug for another long "night...
...And now that the canvas is Hays shows that the producers are normally ready going to the Louvre, years after its purchase by the to make changes suggested by those who review picFrench Minister of Fine Arts for a small sum, one tures in the interest of public ethics...
...But though motion-pictures are still frequently well known as the Mona Lisa or Rembrandt's Hagar...
...He ventured even into that that a discovery of what kind of man Francis Fer- dusky territory, so often referred to by persons who dinand really was is almost a civic necessity...
...Edward K4ennard Rand in his discussion steadily by writers who think themselves impartial, of Mediaeval Gloom...
...Charles Pettijohn, counsel for a child "the great lesson so valuable in later life the motion-picture producers, to force Canon Chase that the exceptions to a rule or principle are more into an admission that he has not reflected upon the numerous and important than the cases that come un- technical duties or the possible expenditures of the der it...
...And until these give more proof of artistic further any and everything that a resolute group of competency and intimate acquaintance with the demisfits considers timely, has long passed from its theo- tails of motion-picture production, there is really no retic stage and has become almost a constitutional valid reason why the people of the United States principle...
...Whistler, whose cosmopolitan- an autocratic mandate and the public will...
...Don Maura, tention to the difficulties of any student here who de- who remained a fervent Catholic to the day of his sires to consult first-hand discussions of problems that death, and who often gave his king the same kind of in their final development are liable to become inter- good advice which French monarchs had received from national issues...
...THE people of the United States have made That morals are important we should be the last to Whistler's painting, Mother, a woman of art fully as deny...
...his death through the most fateful murder in history...
...May 12, 1926 THE COMMONWEAL fore the Labor government had had time to outline THE COMMONWEAL its program for social amelioration...
...It reveals considerable parts of our monarchy, we consider it our first duty divergence of opinion, not so much upon the system May 12, 1926 THE COMMONWEAL 5 itself, as upon its implications bearing upon the general at Saint Patrick's on the Sunday morning of May 2, degree of religious life among young American man- it would be interesting to get their impressions...
...But it is to be feared T. LAWRASON RIGGS JAMES J. WALSH that it marks only too clearly a material spirit and CARLTON J. H. HAYES R. DANA SKINNER desire for a knock-down-and-drag-out fight of which BERTRAM C. A. WINDLE neither side is guiltless...
...actly what the government of Queen Anne succeeded Nevertheless, we may indeed rejoice that so large in doing for Defoe when it put him in the stocks...
...For our part we cannot see why any well whole of the art world is interested in the preservaconducted man or woman, boy or girl, of no church tion of this edifice which represents the age of King standing whatever, and whose origins are shrouded in Ferdinand, the sainted conqueror of the Moors, of the most perfect obscurity, may not linger where they the Englishman who became Bishop Maurice, and like and as long as they like, on any sunny Sunday Meister Hans of Cologne, who contributed the permorning, and laugh at anything this sad old world forations of the lantern and tower-points...
...and distinguished representatives of the Spanish and The inflexibility of the Spanish character-a trait Brazilian press who have been visiting the United which is quite admirable but often rigid-was his to States, will return to their homes firmly impressed a marked extent...
...It is, doubtless, the germ of a dualism, as established in 1867, it becomes immediately great cultural program which is destined to elicit the apparent how courageous was the young man who met cooperation of many...
...Did anybody imviolent rupture with diplomacy or arbitration...
...On its face the proposal to create a federal commission invested with FADDISTS and cranks are confined to no country, the power to decide what motion-picture productions and the 1500 "reformers" who have just petitioned shall live, and what their conduct shall be, smacks of Premier Baldwin with a "royal commission" to con- absurdity...
...In spite of all that has happened in Spain years of growth and ornamentation, is reported to be since 1879, Iglesias's funeral was the occasion for a showing signs of decrepitude...
...A shining example of the aspect under petent sport writer who collected "the goods" at colwhich a compulsion that death only terminates can be leges and universities which have so energetically viewed, was demonstrated May 2, at Saint Pat- whitewashed themselves during the past week, would rick's Cathedral, when amid all the pomp and circum- place in the hands of the professors a document as stance of arch-episcopal ceremonial, Cardinal Hayes impervious to presidential rhetoric as a battering-ram...
...Not that boundaries were questionable, they were to be settled the goal was shifting...
...He would have been obliged to refuse to take the oath THE poll upon compulsory college chapel just conof coronation in both Austria and Hungary until these cluded by the National Student Federation of America, two had agreed to welcome the manifesto already pre- has succeeded in eliciting the opinion of 315 college pared for the occasion-a manifesto which declared heads, forty-two student editors, and twenty ministers boldly that "for the well-being of all peoples in all engaged in collegiate work...
...is it realized how immensely important is that incalculable factor, the temper of a people or of a social THE terms upon which the French debt is to be class...
...of the number of angels who could stand on the point There would have been no commercial barriers within of a pin...
...There is room has a feeling that the destiny which rules art has been for further improvement through the same system...
...Not only Spain but the family...
...Thus every notions sometimes about the philosophy of the Schoolcitizen of the `United States of Austria' would have men, particularly from those who have not read a enjoyed, in so far as relations with foreign countries tractatulus of their writings and who characterize the were concerned, those advantages which result from a main object of scholastic thought as the calculation unified, powerful, industrial and tariff centralization...
...We have therefore been treated to the named in press reports, who thinks that the student is spectacle of college presidents and deans in series, busily "drifting to Bolshevism...
...Robledo also urged a larger distribution in and they may be considered the first marked departures American educational and reading centres of the best from the program of international isolation which had books and periodicals of South America, directing at- so long been characteristic of Spain...
...Indeed, there are many rea- If the proposed commission could be established and sons why America, just at present, should present the properly controlled, it would no doubt be subservient most congenial soil for the movement...
...Here the prin- to the agencies responsible for its coming into the ciple that government exists, first and foremost, to world...
...Though ism and stripped of all idealisms save a bleak future...
...And mounted patrolconscience...
...The same theme was take cognizance...
...But it cannot help remembering their HE Upshaw bill is only the latest link in the names for a great while to come, as symbols of the interlocking directorate over public and private tendencies latent in the era through which it passed to opinion which certain forces in American life have renewed importance as a world power...
...But most of all, what seems remembrance of past occasions when danger had been to be necessary is a change in the national temper of conjured, all sorts of dark forces and irreconcilable the country that was once called "Merrie England," ambitions had got out of hand and were racing to and some manner of reconciling rights with functions...
...When he formed the party in 1879, there was only a THE years and the sharp winds of Burgos have left small handful of people to stand with him...
...The incident although greatly diminished in importance due to the makes a curious comment on the petty items that can be development of railroad traffic...
...Will and stirs recollection...
...to this shrine, half dug into the side of a hill, the grey He was, of course, resolutely moderate and held aloof May 12, 1926 THE COMMONWEAL 7 from communism as well as from conservative capital- FEDERALIZING THE FILM ism...
...Reports from the officials in charge of the franc ought to prove an inestimably valuable stimu- organization-work indicated a steady and satisfactory lus to international commerce...
...Elsewhere in dinand, had prepared for the reconstruction of Aus- this issue we reprint a portion of the address delivered tria-Hungary is a journalistic event of the first im- by Dr...
...Burgos in the older days was a city of great in the Coney Island Court, where Magistrate Golden commercial importance: its annual fair was one of the dismissed the charge, describing the arrest as one of trading events of southern Europe and still continues, the most "vicious" he could imagine...
...While one retary of the National Catholic Welfare Conference, can imagine the short shrift that would greet the declared in a public statement, "an unlimited grant argument, proffered by the hide-bound Saturday Re- of arbitrary power such as was never yet conceded to view of London without a suspicion of its obsolescence, any agency of popular government...
...INTEREST in Spanish political and social happenI N his recent address before the first American ings is aroused by the almost simultaneous deaths of Congress of Journalists, Dr...
...Of what earthly use, it will be asked, is the commission...
...It should never be forgotten that the election which followed, though Published weekly and copyrighted 1925, in the United States by it resulted in a sweeping return to power of the party the Calvert Publishing Corporation, 25 Vanderbilt Avenue, New York City, N. Y. opposed to Labor, revealed an actual increase in the total Labor vote...
...It is to be hoped that the influential Bossuet, was nevertheless a man with an iron soul...
...The French agreement ought to be ratified which has followed the Treaty of St...
...The ancient palace, built for The work ought, perhaps, to be standardized and kings and their glory, houses beautiful works of art regularized...
...the second was the failure to be specific about moods of depression or optimism, ranging all the way vices more concrete than "hysteria" and "the tendency from President Hibben, who sees a "more widespread to exalt football prowess above all other kinds of interest in moral problems," to another president, un- excellence...
...In his turn, President cannot be presented in the same service without de- Butler of Columbia rather jauntily tosses aside the grading religion...
...A great deal in the immediate future depeople find themselves facing, there was more than pends on the character of Premier Baldwin, whose rhetoric in the parallel which Mr...
...celebrated the twenty-fifth anniversary of the night- But it may be desirable to delay the birth of such a workers' Mass founded a quarter of a century ago document...
...In this case it and holy, the priceless tapestries and banners hanging broke when the bicycle-boy, an agile young ruffian, put limply in the damp of ages...
...The ed ultimate theological truth made the quest of the inhabitants of each district were then to enjoy com- seeker real, and inspired his great attempt...
...But we seem to 4 THE COMMONWEAL May 12, 1926 have decided, as a people, in favor of something bet- to unite them all in a sovereign whole and to establish ter than literal justice-better both because of its coordination between them on the basis of just prineffect upon European reconstruction and its share in ciples...
...tricts which had been given each one a separate cultural character by the races indigenous to them, were "I WOULD remark that even mediaeval theology to be delineated carefully...
...Some comJOHN F. McCoRMIcx, Business Manager ment upon the moral values at issue would have been Editorial Council more in place at such a time...
...and how secondary, in comparison with it, can liquidated indicate, naturally enough, that loans of be the merits of the particular case which drives it to this character are not profitable...
...learned representative of the press of Colombia, our Don Antonio Maura, internationally famous as the nearest sister republic, pointed out several practical minister who demanded and obtained the execution of measures to promote the harmony and mutual intelli- Ferrer, was a staunch conservative...
...Caricatures of the Hapsburgs as elaborated, in a different fashion and with brilliant "idiots" and "degenerates" have been palmed off so wit, by Dr...
...now apparent that both these developments had a cessive fiery quality of too much southern journalism...
...If any of its representatives were present man James Conlon, booted and spurred, was chasing 6 THE COMMONWEAL May 12, 1926 a small boy who was riding a bicycle along a foot- light of the Burgos morning struggling through the path...
...There is a general tend- removing all stains from their own reverend campuses ency to regard chapel first and foremost as a means of and conceding that the situation may be different else"getting students together," and one would like to where...
...The conviction that there existby means of a simple and equitable plebiscite...
...hood of college age...
...Perhaps even more effectual in envenoming the temper of the workers has been the tone of the conservative press, more and more a syndicated and controlled affair, for whose temper it would be hard to find a parallel since the days of the Anti-Jacobin, and between the lines of whose diatribes it is not hard to read an implicit plea for the abridgement of liberties granted in easier days...
...The greatest gence of our American nations...
...Six hundred questionnaires were distributed to each of the two former categories, and THE reaction to the verdict against football which the mere fact that less than io percent of the student was handed down by the American Association of editors thought it worth their while to reply certainly College Professors might have been anticipated...
...His the regulation that commercial exchange would be un- quest was permanent and not static...
...Today Spain seems to belong neither to Maura nor to Iglesias...
...progress in the recruitment of membership...
...Though the professorial report and the "parknow a little more of the experience of President John ley" which preceded it were endorsed by many western Hoffmann, of Ohio Wesleyan University, who remarks faculty members, various executives have seen fit to cryptically (and unhistorically) that "at Wesleyan we declare the Mississippi valley and territories adjacent demolish the old conception that religion and athletics thereto, free from all blame...
...destruction...
...The Spanish cabinet has himself beyond the trampling hoofs of his pursuer, done well to come to the rescue of this venerable and when Benjamina "laughed...
...profound influence upon the entire European situation...
...The Upism joined American birth to the most aesthetic of shaw bill would accomplish for the motion-picture exEuropean careers, seems apart from places and origins...
...The plea advanced by timorous and con- should legislate them into a super-business...
...agine they were...
...For the plete autonomy: and under the new constitution the ultimate and revealed truth of theology was one thing, national freedom of each was to be limited only by and the human solution of the seeker another...
...doubt the public would complete the resemblance by...
...There are few travelers tremendous popular demonstration in which all classes who will not recall the thrill of an early morning visit and representatives of all political tendencies joined...
...The justifies the federation in its rather double-edged re- widely discussed report suffered, in fact, from two mark that "the agitation among undergraduates on the weaknesses of generalization that made retort inevitsubject of compulsory chapel is not so widespread as able...
...a source of danger to the young and a spur to the She is the most fitting symbol of that feminine great- passions of elder men and women, a reasoned conness which helped to build the nation-the simple, sideration of what has been accomplished by the sysreticent, sacrificial womanhood that touches the heart tem of cooperative censorship established by Mr...
...He stressed with an achievements of his career were, perhaps, the decisive impressiveness truly foreign the work that is being victory gained over Spanish anarchism in 1909, and accomplished by our American schools of journalism, the signing of the Mediterranean pact of 1907 which showing that our educational leaders would be wise established the solidarity of France, England, and to give a firmer note of conservatism to the journal- Spain with reference to their African policies...
...been working overtime to establish...
...Wherever the natural has its plastic elements," said Dr...
...Lloyd George in- resignation, under pressure of more extreme elements stituted between the eve of the general strike and the in his party, was rumored only a few days ago, and few days which preceded the plunging of Europe in a great deal upon how far the more moderate spirits the vortex of a world conflict...
...At the drew's every Sunday morning, and the people who, at night resorts in the roaring forties, yawning helots the very same time, are filling the night clubs...
...Very likely causes are not far to seek...
...Bill" Cashin...
...tant to ascertain is, not so much the outward temper in which the undergraduate accepts compulsory at- THE conclusion to be drawn is obvious...
...The coltendance at church when it is made part of his four lege professors have said many true things, but so long years' curriculum, as the effect that the discipline has as the powers which really control campus activities upon his observance in later life, when "bright col- refuse to lend an ear, no drastic reform is possible...
...And if one compares the possibilities inherent guaranteeing the stability of our own foreign com- in this sane and constructive program with the reality merce...
...lassitude, of tranquil reconsideration of a past imMagistrate Golden made much of the fact that Ben- portance, settles on Burgos, as on other outmoded jamina "stood high in her church and came of a good market-centres of the world...
...Ralph Adams Cram, in which there is much portance...
...this side of the Atlantic...
...So little difference exists between the present accord and the suggestions which Caillaux THE temper of the working classes in England has sailed to offer, that we cannot believe the Debt Combeen sullen and antagonistic for many months, and the mission held out to get this difference...
...lege years" have been put behind him forever, and Perhaps the only effective measure would be the pubwhen the "compulsion" is either a moral and spiritual lication of an empiric report on what happens at defione, or has been laid away between the folds of his nite institutions during the gridiron season...
...One gets curious hampered anywhere in Austria-Hungary...
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