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...let him be respected for sturdily standing above cheap- The literary town-crier would raise no great alarum ness, insincerity, and-contentment...
...trophic was the disruption and how necessary the re- They were so determined to get rid of an enemy and building of the kingdom we call Christendom...
...But it is not nearly so clear that ruler is no longer a shepherd on a merely domestic these nations are in a position to open their doors to scale...
...Returning to his a manufacturing centre that happens to be presided post with renewed health and vigor, he will no doubt over by another flag, leave the farmer in penury as restore some of the enthusiasm with which the Catholic matters now stand...
...The portent is excellent...
...sidered appetizingly pleasant...
...complete, if melancholy, satisfaction...
...Plus XI, using torically, geographically and economically, the nations the prerogative of the year of pilgrimage in address- made out of Austria and Hungary had been federaling the world, therefore spoke in a fashion which ized...
...Compared with an assemblage of the Five Nathe influence of the Church is still far too great...
...During the whole of his life there was nothing manuscripts...
...When that was the scene through the medium of visible things...
...we feel that if the solidarity of Europe is to be at- The revelations of people like Emmons and the clantained, it must come as a result of the extension of co- destine suggestions of Stevenson only emphasize again operative movements which, joining hands with similar what has long since been obvious-that the Klan orgroups in foreign places, will discover the advantages ganized a great deal of potential political energy which that come with pooled assets and gradually bring nobody in charge knew how to use...
...A certain sense of the brightness of civiliza- an abbey, college, and seminary notable for civic intion from which the poor were outcasts, illuminated fluence and intellectual culture...
...The tri- in so far as their neighbors are concerned, but they umphs and mercies of the Saviour have long since been were simply trying to do the best they could to imiobserved with so much splendor that they are iden- tate the methods of trade success in practice elsewhere...
...At the conclusion Orpheus sits at the table, round what becomes of the specific ideas of Darwin...
...Agricultural products which might come depends ultimately upon the conservation and be turned into manufactured articles cheaply if they deepening of religious life in the nation...
...He stood almost alone, however, in the Forty-four years of patient labor in a land that only a constant devotion he bore to the cause of indigent short time ago was part of the frontier, had built up labor...
...Kam- which the light of the Christian world is beautiful and merer claimed that he had produced in a frog a cer- strong, praying: "Lord, we thank Thee for having tain modification in the nature of a pad on the fore- saved Eurydice because, out of love, she slew the leg, and other modifications also which he asserted devil in the form of an angel...
...Compared with some of the cated Asiatic reader upon certain fundamental qualibright and busy little chaps who, in their capacity as ties of English literary art...
...Thou art truly poetry...
...November 3, 1926 THE COMMONWEAL 62 THE papal experience has been wonderfully broad THE COMMONWEAL and profound...
...It was honestly very harmhis countrymen without religious convictions "feel that less...
...It influenced camabout the end of destructive barriers that have been paigns in much the same way as knowledge of the erected in the name of politics...
...The so numerous that the fire which destroyed the BeneSocialist movement in the United States has been sup- dictine institution at Mount Angel, Oregon, can be ported by more brilliant intellects and vastly more considered merely one among current calamities...
...For some years the is herself caught in the trap and carried off by death...
...The symbol of authority, of watchful care Europe is indefensible...
...Secu- Catholic Truth Society has carried on a work of enlarization would mean, therefore, a constitutional lightenment rendered very necessary by certain gulfchange...
...The little, brand-new Centralpendent world safe and profitable...
...Mount Angel College all his plans for the social commonwealth that was to was a repository for valuable books, records, and be...
...November 3, 1926 THE COMMONWEAL 627 Therefore gratitude is given with especial fitness to doing, that the Youth's Companion can...
...Of course, a vast army of bigoted simpletons the most important political tasks of his career...
...If only secular schools are to be subsidized from largely that courageous counter-attacks by this society the public treasury, then those who do not favor secu- have driven a number of scoundrels out of business, lar schools must pay for them, as has been the case and so destroyed the worst sources of prejudice...
...It was said that of Henri Gheon...
...She therefore plots with a strange of first-class importance has recently been exposed by and handy individual for the removal of Pegasus, but an American man of science...
...First, it dividualisms, wars more terrible than any human was a mistake to dismember the Austro-Hungarian nightmare-were needed to reveal fully how catas- empire in the fashion which the treaty-makers adopted...
...Though ramb upon the masters of our own poetic tradition...
...The restrictions placed upon in governing places, thus reveals the common human- trading by many of the nations created by the war, ity which distance and separate nationalities some- has stifled industrial development and all but induced times obscure...
...More- the visible...
...Make it a T. LAWRASON RIGGS JAMES J. WALSH festival that all men of good will can share, as they CARLTON J. H. HAYES R. DANA SKINNER profit by the affections of Christmas and the trumpets BERTRAM C. A. WINDLE of Easter morn...
...For there is nobody who reflects, Subscription Rates Yearly: $10.00 Single Copies: $0.20 however incredulous and cynical he may be, who would not rejoice at the restoration of Christendom...
...WEEK BY WEEK A QUEEN, flashing into the ken of all America, IT was a very easy matter for the bankers of the has gained, in addition to a vast amount of some- world to declare that from a broad, humane point times flabby publicity, a hearing for the needs of her of view, the erection of tariff barriers in Central homeland...
...There are merely a few timid 628 THE COMMONWEAL November 3, 1926 reactions, lustreless and without inspiration...
...It may be true that each and vests where human minds are selfish and forgetful of every people has the right to govern itself...
...Accordingly, there European states are not industrial at all...
...to the citizen who chants his own form of tained seriously and carried through effectively only Marseillaise, it it not yet everything...
...Suffice it to say that the characters appear of form...
...Today a royal governor or an elected economic chaos...
...And so natof the little volume escape attention: it is not English urally enough, the appearance of Cocteau's most recent of any recognizable variety, but a hodge-podge of de- work, the drama Orphee, was awaited with something jected clauses looking about in vain for something with comparable to bated breath...
...Writing in The Commonweal during the came together for speeches and a parade in the neighpast summer, Monsignor Seipel declared that those of borhood of Indianapolis...
...If scurrilous though the point carries a certain lustre of justice, its attacks upon Catholic persons and purposes are less fundamental weakness is apparent-even to an Ameri- prevalent now than they used to be, the reason is can...
...They may have acted foolishly the first time on October 31 of this year...
...It has seen, for instance, how the habit of national expansion assumed that deeply rooted differences of race and culture might be ignored for the sake of economic gain...
...One one hundredth anniversary of their foundation with looks in vain for a trace of his own-the eagerly exthe clear conscience and the sense of a century of well- pected oriental-mind...
...Today the natural solidarity of program of social reform was urged in the era before Europe, in so far as the machinery of commerce is the catastrophes of the world war...
...We need only add in this place that interest in and respect for religious be- WE have spent an hour in the company of a little lief remained always a distinguishing characteristic of book which purports to be the reflections of an eduMr...
...In one night, fire wiped out didate so many times being hopelessly out of reach...
...626 THE COMMONWEAL November 3, 1926 SECONDLY, one may well believe that it behooves in the United States...
...Many pertinent wound young minds and hearts...
...Dur- handed over $10.00 and wore hoods, but the entire ing the past few months, the Christian Social party outfit was incapable of piecing out as much discipline has come to recognize the imminent danger to the and purpose as is displayed by one normal Chicago existing status of religious education from radical op- "gang...
...Jean Cocteau is said to Communistic Academy at Moscow that he wrote his have been disappointed by the fact that his audiences last letter before committing suicide, admitting the merely applauded his drama as an amusing spectacle faking of the animals, but claiming that it was done and ignored, relatively speaking, the import of the without his knowledge and that he was in entire igno- lines and scenes...
...And thus Orphee is quite as much a over, the black salamanders of which so much had mystery play as the most definitely mediaeval offerings been made were similarly faked...
...Some believed in him...
...he must go out, look abroad, in the endeavor to industry which is safeguarded at home by a policy make the ways of a singularly unified and interde- of stern protection...
...Monsignor could be shipped, without exorbitant added costs, to Seipel is the ablest standard-bearer...
...We thank Thee for were hereditary...
...No economic or political power to consider how the business of scuttling might seriis its rival, and none need fear its aggression...
...To Him homage is not merely due, but necesHENRY LONGAN STUART GEORGE N. SHUSTER sarily paid, if we are to overcome a little the barbarJOHN F. MCCORMICK, Business Manager isms which have forced us into chains of hate, destrucEditorial Council tion, rapine, and immeasurable greed...
...concerned, is so obvious that even diehards clamor for it...
...What matter if the fable has been Kammerer, disgusted by the treatment he received in derived from antiquity and transposed into ultraVienna, had become a socialist and was considering modernity...
...We remember a Klan convocation which position...
...everything, growing from a spark enkindled by deIn the end, a severe prison sentence likewise failed to fective wiring in an out building until the whole place make a martyr of him, so indifferent had the ma- was wrapped in flames...
...In Indiana, it has meant an issue, the basic theme of the contention is the cracker-boxes and tobacco-juice...
...But though the loss is heavy jority of Americans become toward the insurgent and to some extent irreparable, Benedictine energy has idealisms for which Debs consistently fought...
...The statement of Coventry Patmore that the acceptance of an important position offered to him Venus might be a quite Christian art-subject has not by the Soviet government in Russia...
...biological world has been torn asunder by a contro- The husband, now suddenly aware of his wife's perversy as to the validity of the experiments by Kam- fections, goes in pursuit, thus bringing the fable round merer, an Austrian, to establish the heredity of ac- to an interesting and satisfying conclusion...
...existence of a third-rail modifies the conduct of a traveler across tracks...
...It is one thing to discuss differarate, and that those who do not favor "schools of ences amicably...
...This goal cannot be reached, however, through AS yet, not much has come out of the Hoosier Klan any such simple expedient as adopting the advice of investigations, and we scarcely believe much ever will...
...Of course, the battle ensible in any other way...
...He with a sense of gratitude to the present and former declared that apologetics in this age must be scrupu- editors of the Youth's Companion...
...often nothing more than dexterity in swinging a censer Getting rid of improper literary habits is one of the before a professorial throne...
...crafty souls...
...school...
...In a country so generally Cathomodern Europe to pool its resources...
...Under the Austrian constitution, retained to some extent from the old imperial time, the Catholic DURING twenty-seven years, the International system of education is subsidized by the state...
...After all, however, we may charitably take in modern raiment and speak the language employed our author at his word and smile approvingly when by the average citizen sufficiently educated to know he says, "My claim, if there is any, for any contribu- that rules of grammar must not be confused with the tion toward the study of English poetry is a very fate of nations...
...The great game was to grab off local jobs and wriggle close to the state governMONSIGNOR SEIPEL, returning to political office ment, the jury system, and some forms of municipal as Chancellor in a new Austrian cabinet, faces one of graft...
...The Saviour shall be King by universal acclaim...
...Though divorce is also means planning and power...
...It is evident to all what impor- uses the machinery of this ingenious and often satirical tance attaches to this point, for if a condition acquired play in the mood of a subtle and not very naive moralby the action of environment cannot be inherited, ist...
...Kammerer claimed that most of his mate- Cocteau obviously joins hands with those playrial had been destroyed during the war and that there wrights who strive to place the invisible world upon was only one specimen in existence...
...he might really hope to gain in a personal way, the and the agricultural work undertaken by it was expolitical office for which he offered himself as a can- tensive and promising...
...And so the Christ who walks MICHAEL WILLIAMS, Editor abroad among men at the bidding of His earthly vicar, Assistant Editors wears an aspect of pity as well as the mien of august THOMAS WALSH HELEN WALKER power...
...that Orpheus is a young literary man modest one...
...Such claims usually are very modest whose wife, a thoroughly up-to-date and really most indeed...
...Debs's mind...
...His exhibited, it appeared that the pad was not a pad at own epigraph puts the matter clearly: "The amateurs all, but a dark stain on the leg, and that the stain of our time are mistaken in not loving anything but was a species of tattooing and plainly of ink...
...So far, everything is well...
...EUGENE V. DEBS was a man with whom many RELIGIOUS foundations in the far West are not differed, but whom no one could hold in scorn...
...Noble...
...To them, business is riot in Wabash land...
...over the matter...
...It is a force in southern Europe that they never stopped not of this earth...
...merits the attention of all men, even those who observe Events have proved that, to what must be everybody's no immediate fealty to Rome...
...it has avoided of the papal purple, and of a testimonial dinner ar- in periods of controversy anything that might stain or ranged by friends and co-workers...
...But though beaten, always respond so generously to the call of need, will outlawed, and superseded, the man abides because he bear his plea charitably in mind...
...was truly personal and great...
...Thus a note of the personal Dr...
...Had Cocteau decided which to claim kinship...
...It was like turning from the crudities of curnot for the fact that what is called "scholarship" is rent argot to the rich symbolism of ecclesiastical Latin...
...The develop- lic as Austria, this would involve, not only moral loss, ment of a satisfactory economic situation is not pos- but also economic injustice...
...tified with the separate seasons...
...Honesty is always disarming...
...Solely ously impair a number of good things established the powers of darkness, which reap their tallest har- under the Hapsburgs...
...specimens...
...It is the culminaeach other by insurmountable national barriers, become tion of a conflict now many years old, and the outprohibitively dear...
...But underground sources and root them out...
...It has watched the growth of what Published weekly and copyrighted 1925, in the United States by seemed slight and relatively harmless principles into the Calvert Publishing Corporation, 25 Vanderbilt Avenue, rules of conduct almost universally taken for granted New York City, N. Y. as paramount with the laws of nature...
...For generaMonsignor William F. McGinnis, of Brooklyn, who tions it has served the American boy with a healthy recently received tokens of appreciation in the form expression of national and manly ideals...
...Others did having saved me also, because I adored poetry whereas not, and among these was the late Professor Bateson...
...But hisorder, stand marshaled for its doom...
...and tions, or a real old-fashioned Seneca pow-wow, it retheir goal is secularization of the fundamental Aus- vealed nothing so well as the unfitness of the Anglotrian law, after the fashion of those countries in which Saxon invader into this continent to maintain the level complete secularization of Church and state has al- of an existing civilization...
...it is another to trace calumnies to their faith" ought not to be obliged to support them...
...They could not be de-federalized without loss...
...Nowadays one expects annexes to modern business, make ready to develop almost anything of the oriental mind...
...But hundreds of There are only two points of view from which the years-social cleavages, arrogant and destructive in- bankers' statement can be judged favorably...
...its buildings were valued at $I,ooo,ooo...
...The founder of lously fair and written in a manner calculated to em- this unique periodical was the distinguished American phasize the universality of Catholic tradition and the poet and man of letters, Nathaniel P. Willis, the debeauty of Catholic life...
...It was to the been sounded to the bottom...
...Thousands of men things were said upon the occasion, but none is remem- look back on the formative years of their boyhood bered so well as the comment of Father Wynne...
...This principle has always scendant of several generations of Congregational governed the activity of the society, whose founder forbears...
...Here again, there is an ex- to turn classicist, as the title made famous by Gluck ample of what is alarmingly prevalent in dissertorial and others seemed to indicate ? literature-a mistaken fancy that heaps of informa- We cannot outline the new version of an ancient tion are a better testimonial to ability than is mastery fable here...
...In April, 1827, his first issue was directed has enriched his spirit with a wide knowledge of men to a Sunday-school audience, and this venture for and their ways...
...Through four years, the peoples of Christian Europe wrung their hands in utter desolation at the threshold of the Roman See, while the powers of earth were impotent to stave off their own destruction and the decline of a world...
...charming creature, is jealous of the Pegasus that, in a very concrete form, gets most of her husband's doA SCIENTIFIC forgery, if one may use the phrase, mestic attention...
...we believe he was fundamentally wrong in the con- and it must be conceded that the present little book clusions he drew from the spectacle of social injustice, has to do with great names...
...It is a long time since a moralist has been conThe public will draw its own conclusion...
...But unfortunately the author's wares are a convincing proof of how poorly Japanese who THERE are few periodicals that can celebrate the come to this country for an education are trained...
...men who have for the most part conquered attach- The visions of mammoth collusion and fraud conjured ments to things that make nationalism prosper, and up by editors and a few ex-Kleagles are far too who might be suspected of profiting considerably grandiose to jibe with the kind of secrecy that has run through uninterrupted trade...
...For ourselves, by men with some noticeable supply of mental energy...
...They could have been entereverything...
...His hope and ours is, Holmes-regarded at first as a dangerous influence, therefore, that long, bright years of "going ahead" but eventually accepted as the norm of what we now may be in store for him...
...Cocteau quired conditions...
...At present, perhaps even true that the community of radicals who Dom Alcuin Heibel, rector of Mount Angel College, honored his death have departed so far from his is busily soliciting funds for the reconstruction of the methods and standards that he could mean nothing foundation...
...Kingsley Noble, of the American Museum of brings the cycle round to a close, and the total effect Natural History, went to Vienna to inspect the famous is rich and suggestive...
...It is surmounted many similar catastrophes...
...we should the "sales possibilities" of the church, this former really be vastly entertained by a neat Japanese dithySocialist leader was a good friend of faith...
...Nor can another aspect severest tasks of religious discipline...
...Historically, is a rare and appropriate majesty in the feast of they have never profited by a system of preferences Christ the King, which Catholics are observing for and colonized capital...
...Instead, JEAN COCTEAU'S "ORPHEE" one gets an almost endless series of quotations from the works of professorial writers-quotations arranged HAT there was something almost spectacular in with the most careful art of pedantry, and adapted to the conversion of Jean Cocteau, the most brilliant bar the writer from the use of his own intelligence...
...know as New England liberal thought...
...We feel certain that Americans, who more than a precursor to them...
...The radical argument is that the functions streams of religious ignee ance which flow pretty reguof religion and government ought to be entirely sep- larly round the world...
...Coal and iron separated from visages a good many other things...
...But this is, after all, not discouragrance of the fact until it was discovered by Dr...
...In some places, secrecy ready been carried through...
...of the young French literary "modernists," few will It would be futile to insist upon the point, were it deny...
...ing...
...Monsignor McGinnis is old enough young readers was shortly followed by the foundation to realize that a good deed done for mankind is soon of the Atlantic Monthly, the organ of another disforgotten unless it is followed by a constant series of tinguished group-Emerson, Lowell, Longfellow, and other deeds equally good...
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