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...Even harder to explain is a third dictum that inee for United States senator, is a typical example, the graves of America's dead, which have been left having been elevated to prominence from rather dark with their French comrades as a sacred trust, are being obscurity...
...lines...
...punishment is finding expression, this time in comand it would be a serious error to make important plaints that counsel are grossly exceeding their duties public service impossible for men without private for- to gentlemen in trouble, and in a suggestion that their tunes, as is now the case in the diplomatic corps...
...It is possible, as our bookstalls evidence of them-It Never Can Happen Again...
...As a man of wealth, Gover- and dissatisfaction with the tempo and volume of its nor Fuller, of course, was hardly in need of the salary...
...This reservation, which protects the United may happen, there is no doubt that republican GerStates against Geneva opinion involving American many has staked everything it can muster on the effort affairs, is of the highest importance to those who feel to harmonize Europe without sacrificing further the that the Wilsonian covenant should remain strictly independence and stability of its own country...
...They write now out of a sub...
...to be appreciated...
...His vision of a federated Europe reposed upon a hopedWEEK BY WEEK for Franco-German accord which would put an end PRESIDENT COOLIDGE'S resolve to parry any to the preponderance of British influence on the conattempt by the League powers to modify the fifth tinent...
...The first statetion, as of inability to recruit men who seem fully ment, which had reference to the ineligibility of Govqualified for leadership...
...It is a blow to the of the Atlantic, to move westward and northward into national pride, even if it has proved anew Yankee the South Atlantic or Gulf states, and to dissipate their ability to accept defeat with a smile...
...To swell second- or rival university city...
...Most men of his type is virtually an accessory after the fact...
...The ing by anonymous syndicates...
...Zimmerman gether an accident...
...Its phenomenal circulation has not been built a long, though we trust not an "encyclopaedic" novel, by lowering its tone to meet some shrewdly calculated which shall re-create for us, through the medium of common multiple of human intelligence...
...but they will be very public or private benevolence, the purpose of which blind partisans if they continue to insist that Wash- is to assist the needy, to carry on scientific research, ington should proceed farther than the general public to conduct schools, or any other legitimate purpose is willing to advance...
...men and women sort, of a man sixty-five years old, was published and incapable of thinking and daring originally, will be took the reading world of two continents by storm in happier if they do not try to move in from the side- a few weeks...
...We should then be treated to a situation con- the university one of the oldest and most successful siderably different from that which has prevailed in Catholic colleges for women in the Middle-West, is the neighborhood of prominent officials for some years...
...tricks of any other...
...And perhaps it is Wisconsin primaries was a severe blow to orthodox not too much to hope that here Progressivism may Republicanism, it was attended with happenings scarce- find the leaders upon whose prominence and ability its ly less favorable to the Progressive movement...
...whatever, may not acquire property in excess of that which is indispensable for their purpose, and is immeGERMANY'S entry into the League of Nations is diately or directly devoted to this...
...crete, and with all the complex machinery of drainage c+ and communications, water and light supply, in terI CONSIDER it a duty every man owes, to render ritory periodically subjected to hurricanes, raises a new public service to his state and country, to interest him- problem for the town-planner, and it will be interestself in the business of the nation, and to see to it that ing, when the experiences of the past week have been his children's children maintain this democracy," said tabulated, to see just how it is proposed to deal with it Governor Alvan T. Fuller, of Massachusetts, in explaining the fact that he had not cashed checks amount- SPACE is again being given in the daily press to the ing to $So,ooo offered in payment for his services as perennial and unpleasant subject of crime in America, legislator and executive...
...Their recent decision to incorporate in pose...
...They should be set apart from all other asters, which during the past thirty years at Messina, forms of crime into which mankind may stumble St...
...Yet one clearly, for a thing to be very big in scale, and very likes to believe that, somewhere or other, a gentle and mean in conception...
...As short a time as ten years ago, a similar disaster THE downfall of American tennis masters before taking place over exactly the same territory, would the onslaughts of the invading French team, was not have attracted a mere tithe of the interest that the expected-particularly after the outcome of the Davis present one exacts from press and public...
...It is, perhaps, more reaBERTRAM C. A. WINDLE sonable to see how much the agreement does to proSubscription Rates Yearly : $10.00 Single Copies: $0.20 mote the concept of "Pan-Europa," developed some years ago by the Austrian, Coudenhove-Kalergi...
...We might also add that the increasing odd scraps of paper to beguile the tedium of a long keenness of competition in sports is dangerous in so convalescence, and only submitted to a publisher when far as it tends to promote still more of that excessive a faithful wife detected its merit...
...done much to allay the standardization of news-gather- If he does not do it, it is hard to see who will...
...The which he knows must be the fruit of crime, the lawyer news of a man who serves his country for nothing must who goes on fighting while there is a shot in the locker, make these parasites dizzy...
...The Jesuits have in the various third-hand gossip into a charge which implicates a September 29, 1926 THE COMMONWEAL 487 nation, is a very different matter...
...Most to the point in the record the wise philosopher, with the De Morgan mastery of Times has made in the hands that direct it today, is human hearts, the De Morgan aversion to everything this-that entering upon an inheritance of bitter and that is mean, ugly or insincere, who was a mature man fearless party welfare, it has known how to keep what when Joseph Vance was published, is collecting the was best in the old, and to add what is best from the fruit of his experiences, and will use them to give us new...
...tors who voted for the World Court, even in its carefully shrouded form, suffered severely at the hands of THE petition submitted by the Mexican episcopate their constituencies...
...One cannot help wondering if the colleges of Marquette a rapidly improving foundation enlightened exponents of state government in Mexico which now numbers its students by thousands, and prowill follow suit and agree not to "acquire property in vides almost every kind of training excepting courses excess of that which is indispensable for their pur- in agriculture...
...The mere imitators (and how many there have been...
...After all, however, the method proposed is not so expensive as warfare, and is considerably more kindly...
...bornness was justified when Joseph Vance, unabridged, became a "best-seller...
...Most of the English papers laud the JOHN F. MCCORMICK, Business Manager rapprochement, but the Weekly Dispatch weighs the Editorial Council possibility that the German foreign office may be planT. LAWRASON RIGGS JAMES J. WALSH ning the isolation of Great Britain, in accordance with CARLTON J. H. HAYES R. DANA SKINNER the old Bismarck policy...
...Advocates of the World Court may episcopate would seem in the least abnormal-unless continue, if they so desire, to educate as many per- it were the section concerning property in which the sons as they can into a friendly attitude toward the following compromise is suggested: "Institutions of proposed international tribunal...
...It is particularly important that young college is said to have measured a foot and a half high on men, eager to win laurels, be told of the risk involved the reader's desk...
...Its expansion his imagination and memory, a past that the terrible has been an outward one, from the sober and in- velocity of recent change seems to have put beyond structed heart of America-consequently an educative our reach more completely than any past through one...
...It is tor Caraway into hot water with various groups and not so much a question of failure to control legisla- persuasions among his fellow-citizens...
...He wanted, not the isolation of England, but reservation which the Senate appended to its approba- the end of the balance of power as a step toward a tion of the World Court, is obviously dictated by pru- Europe conscious of its integral unity...
...But until recently, athletic supremacy is dependent upon climatic, politino great centre of population has lain in their path...
...themselves was concerned, it had the unfortunate effect of removing personal eclat-the fortune of older MADE immediately upon the Senator's return from Progressivism-from the campaign...
...Our government is, after all, a popular no single one of the amendments suggested by the government...
...It now proves to have been but a. misunderstanding of ADD to this the palpable decline of Wisconsin Uni- certain statements, made as long ago as May, by Senaversity as a force in control of public opinion, and you tor David Reed of Pennsylvania during an argument will have a fairly good premise for the conclusion that on international ill will, and which had reference, not Madison is no longer the state hub...
...September 29, 1926 THE COMMONWEAL 48 is a still more important event...
...It really would associate two countries which, for centuries, have been hostile to each other, and it would offer invaluable financial aid to France in the present crisis...
...victorious candidate for nomination as governor is a backslider from La Folletteism, and was bitterly at- THE eagerness of the senior Senator from Arkansas tacked as such by his former associates...
...The net result of several re- using American credit lavishly but sanely...
...The tend- Cup matches had seemed to prove the superiority of ency of wind-storms to develop in the tropical portion Tilden, Richards, and Johnston...
...and the cent political campaigns has been the proof that sena- spirit of the people of the Reich is good security...
...The list pre- Europe, the allegation attracted widespread notice, sented at the polls looked dull, and dullness is an un- and the inference that it was the fruit of personal obpardonable sin in these days of glitter and words...
...There are coldknown or foreshadowed at the time of writing to blooded crimes whose inspiration seems to come directplace the Florida hurricane in the succession of dis- ly from hell...
...It has drawn Glenn Frank as president of the famous educational forth indignant denials from those who know with centre was an excellent one from the general American what respect graves, even those scattered ones not intellectual standpoint...
...At present, there tally-twisted prowler with a piece of chalk in his hand, can be no doubt that Milwaukee bids fair to become a will not manage to elude it...
...The second, which very nearly caused paign, for instance, Labor, the official organ of a rail- a resolution to be passed by the Illinois Federation of way union, hotly championed the complete Progressive Labor, condemning the Senator in no faint terms for slate...
...and it is safe as it does the relations between religion and governto say that if the administration agreed even tenta- ment as these are established by the principle of authortively with a suggestion that United States standing ity and the idea of freedom...
...During the recent cam- escaped him...
...SO often has The Commonweal, in taking its weekly The series of novels that followed were all stamped survey of what seem points of especial significance in with the qualities of the first: great length, digressions the pageant of the world, found itself under obligation almost Shandean, and a tenderness and wistfulness that to the New York Times, that, in joining its voice to pierced through a great deal of shrewd knowledge of the chorus of congratulation that is reaching West the world...
...The years of energy somewhere in the North Atlantic, has long our success have demonstrated, incidentally, how little been observed by meteorologists...
...When it is possible, on one time, General Lee created a platitude by saying that page of a daily paper, to find eleven men in Long "duty is the sublimest word in the language...
...Practice has only too thorbe heard on any disputed question...
...That it must surender, in exchange, some- task and settled in England, in failing health, to end thing of its hitherto unchallenged mastery, goes with- his days...
...In the United States, sideration...
...The stability as a political agent must depend...
...Train- SEPTEMBER 17, for those who prick literary ing is the recipe for success, although it is as much a dates on their calendars, was an interesting annimatter of morale as of physical regimen...
...The choice of to graves at all, but to war memorials...
...pronouncement on the Constitution, they cannot escape, Obviously, this public will demands and deserves con- the responsibility of answering...
...No vigilance will ever minds the brilliant economic teaching that used to cen- be so ubiquitous and unsleeping that the cad or mentre around Professor Richard Ely...
...The circumstances under which it was written make To the United States, however, must go the credit one of the curiosities of literature...
...Like most elderly and successful men, they yearn for honor without quite realizing it...
...The long-drawn out battle or morals can wheedle themselves into American politi- to avoid punishment, it is noted, is suspiciously recal office for the sake of what there is in it-overtly lated to the funds of which the culprit disposes, and and otherwise-needs to be counteracted with just the charge is even made that, in accepting the money such as example as Governor Fuller has set...
...It would be an interesting study rolled up an impressive plurality is a sign that Wis- to trace and assign to its proper psychological irritant consin citizens are not wholly satisfied with the way each of the impulses that have recently plunged Senain which state government has been conducted...
...He Island charged with abducting and mistreating two saw it from a soldier's point of view-but it does not hospital nurses, and four miscreants in masks sought change its color by being transferred to politics...
...The final result of this must be to shift the birth of liberty for religion in Mexico...
...In its editorials, the great failing of our mature writers is that they began voice of tolerance and sane liberty is pretty sure to writing too long ago...
...On that day twenty years ago, Joseph women unaccustomed to tennis courts or golf links, Vance, probably the longest English novel since cannot perform brilliantly on them, no matter how Clarissa Harlowe, and the first essay in letters of any impressive their brawn and endurance...
...Even if no to let himself at intervals be made a broadcaster of one can predict what will happen when the final elec- ill will and contentiousness, is too marked to be altotions are staged, the mere fact that Mr...
...her more recent attempt to arrive at a solu- in Mexico would bind itself to own no surplus proption of the difficulties existing between her and France erty, and to be at all times accountable for the wealth 486 THE COMMONWEAL September 29, 1926 in its possession...
...necessarily inspire the sort of tribute which such a re- Neither his story nor his stories are likely to be view as The Commonweal cares most to pay on such repeated...
...Once upon a dismay, as its nature...
...To borrow a title from one of the best an occasion...
...have ever bulk and authority of the Times, its ocean to ocean succeeded in capturing the charm of the old man who distribution, and the more permanent publications "commenced author" within five years of the psalmwhich its success has enabled it to undertake, need not ist's limit...
...If this was excellent in so far as the prin- desecrated with insulting inscriptions scrawled upon ciple of choosing executives from among the people them by the debt-burdened natives...
...But the candidates were almost without excep- his election charge against President John N. Walker, tion men from small towns whose careers as lawyers turns out to be based on no firmer ground that inforhad given them local prestige rather than state-wide mation "from one of Illinois's most prominent citisignificance...
...If it succeeds, New York City, N. Y. the people of the Reich will shoulder an enormous economic burden for the sake of guaranteeing the integrity of the Fatherland, and incidentally for removing the causes of international friction...
...TO the reader of our daily sheets, it is not so much For them, also, Governor Fuller has set an example...
...merely an illustration of the effort being expended to Unfortunately, the response to this inquisitive wonder- develop Marquette into a truly all-embracing institument is far more definitely imaginable than is a new tion...
...Its special correspondence all over the world has which an old man can have lived...
...One slight consideration, however, will occur to many...
...MICHAEL WILLIAMS, Editor That the idea will be opposed for good reasons and bad, is obvious...
...We are inclined to believe that the THOMAS WALSH Assistant EditorsHELEN WALKER attitude taken by Great Britain will be of very great HENRY LONGAN STUART GEORGE N. SHUSTER importance...
...Pierre, San Francisco, Nagasaki, and Galveston, through passion or ignorance...
...Thus the Church an event...
...for discussions upon the ethics of counsel, but for some form of short and sharp correction in which, once ALTHOUGH full details of the Miami disaster conviction has taken place, the barest and sternest will be some time in coming to hand, sufficient are essentials of justice are sufficient...
...Among the are discouraged from statesmanship by the thought many recommendations for ending what has become a of petty opposition from mean newspapers, and still national reproach, it is rather surprising that some meaner little scramblers...
...And whatever dence...
...but average Wisconsonians have under the care of the Monuments' Commission, are never understood him, and he does not replace in their invariably treated in France...
...Several Republican towers of to the Calles Congress is an able document, covering strength have been undermined already...
...But the author was as deaf to and of any weaknesses which might be gravely inten- worldly counsels as the potter had been, and his stubsified by athletic struggle...
...They think, naturally enough, plan for sharply defining different degrees in crime, that disinterested service, conscientiously given, ought and treating them accordingly, is not advanced...
...Publishing houses straining of energies which has already taken so heavy shied, not unnaturally, at its volume (the manuscript a toll...
...Good for setting fire to the house of a New Jersey recluse government is a difficult job, and a man who carries and flinging him into a swamp to die, it is plain we it on with the highest of motives deserves to be re- are face to face with a state of things calling, not membered even by the innately forgetful...
...the volume of crime in the United States that strikes He has emphasized the right word...
...Better constructed novels than Joseph Forty-third Street upon this, its seventy-fifth birthday, Vance, Alice-for-Short, and Somehow Good are in it can feel, behind its felicitations, that justifying mo- every spring and fall list...
...His story was scribbled on note-books and out saying...
...William De Morfor having made the prizes of athleticism sufficiently gan, after a whole life spent in an attempt to wed attractive to induce a new army of foreign contenders beauty and craftsmanship to the commercial production to shoulder the details of the arduous discipline in- of glazes and porcelains, had abandoned the hopeless volved...
...The very best oughly taught them the tricks of their own trade and wishes of those Americans who value American repute, only too thoroughly kept them from contact with the speed the New York Times to its centenary...
...One hardly knows THE COMMONWEAL what to think of the plan to market a sufficient sum Published weekly and copyrighted 1925, in the United States by of securities to liberate the territories held by the the Calvert Publishing Corporation, 25 Vanderbilt Avenue, French under the Versailles treaty...
...No nation has a monopoly of such persons...
...know how to attach it, is failing in a prime function...
...If people once felt there 488 THE COMMONWEAL September 29, 1926 was something "in the air" which guaranteed the ap- THE ULTIMATE NOVEL pearance of excellent boxers and oarsmen, the history of sport has abundantly proved them wrong...
...The La Follette organiza- ernor Smith as presidential timber on the score of his tion was largely the result of a compromise between religion, was thrown off as the Senator boarded an a rural population, rather definitely centered around east-bound liner, and it is possible that the full force Madison and its university, and the labor electorate of its repercussions, which were immediate and profuse, of the Milwaukee metropolis...
...But activities should be made to end, once and for all, with the uncanny skill with which persons without industry conviction and sentence...
...educational emphasis at least relatively from a small city to the metropolis-to bind Wisconsin's one great THOUGH the defeat of Senator Lenroot at the industrial city with the countryside...
...Men and versary...
...Public ignominy is one have emphasized the fragility of the works of man of the weapons of the law, and the law that does not when confronted with nature in devastating mood...
...But none of De Morgan's tive-recognition for services rendered...
...It is a foreign institution...
...Whatever Senator The development of certain parts of Florida as urban Caraway has been carried away with, it is certainly communities with towering buildings of stone and connot an excess of charity...
...Though one must doubt before the Court should be on a par with "other mem- the willingness-and perhaps the fitness-of Mexican bers of the Council of the League," the electoral ire legislators to weigh the details of a fulsome ethical would, in many places, be nothing short of devastating...
...servation was as natural as it was unfortunate...
...cal, or financial conditions...
...Governor James Blaine, the present nom- zens...
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