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June 2, 1926 THE COMMONWEAL 87 of Locarno are...
...So far, the French have had their way with Germany, and are not likely to concede the advantage...
...It indicates the room were undergoing the formative process when the for every kind of service and the need for enlisting in Rooseveltian phrase, "malefactors of great wealth," the endeavor of social mercy all possible forms of rang like a trumpet-call through the land...
...It touched, to a greater or lesser extent, rather a fad, followed because others are following it...
...During the past year, the Ladies the more satisfactory, therefore, to have Mr...
...Once again dum drawn up by M. Berenger, based on unassailable the "wets" and "drys" are as solidly in hostile array figures and distributed among members of Congress, as two bands of unfriendly desert Moors...
...THE annual report of the Ladies of Charity, who serve the poor of New York City under the direction THE affectation of regarding Wall Street as the ne of His Eminence, Cardinal Hayes, is inspiring for plus ultra of materialism, and any connection with it other reasons than the great diversity of good works as excluding all suspicion of idealism in politics, is it summarizes...
...the number of passengers on his band-wagon...
...and journalism, and the whole of what one may term The cathedral had to do with man's deepest intertraditional Christian culture...
...Twenty years from now, might well be a model for similar bodies elsewhere...
...which he is so firm a friend...
...When Mr...
...The money cost does not, by any means, rep- the automobile brings us, and for which we are willresent all that we pay for the privilege of motoring...
...ing to pay so dearly...
...Society prior to his departure for home, raised no very Upon them Mr...
...One of these element of politics as ever...
...But, obviously, the careful...
...That the speech by the society's president, Mr...
...William D. possibility ought to encourage the administration Guthrie, prove that there is a large body of senti- leaders who were, quite undiplomatically, not averse ment in this country for whom Senator Borah is not to giving Pennsylvania a little advice about voting...
...A memoran- they have not legalized their principle...
...but the future may bring out unsuspected gifts for statesmanMOST important of all, the occasion, and notably ship in this big and burly defender of liberty...
...More seriously, this assumption that the tained in the Government of Ireland bill, which confederal government is automatically empowered to pin its own button on every local uniform might, if it stituted the Six-County Parliament, already removed "all Catholic disabilities...
...Why not say As a pendant to Mr...
...Pepper, was France's military expenditure is less today than in the informed of the people's will...
...What BERTRAM C A. WINDLE creates, because it establishes the longevity of, conSubscription Rates Yearly : $10.00 Single Copies : $0.20 temporary warfare is the grant of credits to fighting nations...
...No doubt the moral attitude of fuse to authorize loans to belligerent countries...
...So martial a course would even from penal days...
...During the past year, their work has been European cathedrals were built, but, even at present extended to more families, and preventive care has costs, we could provide each of a thousand cities and kept 630 cases out of court...
...Nothing at all like it has happened in human 4,000,000 people and vast business, uses very few of history...
...The importance we A few years ago, our great cities carried on without have attributed to the machinery of movement is monu- automobiles, and today Berlin, for example, with mental...
...Phelan mistaken...
...The President, by casually signing liament" has declared his intention of moving that an order, vised by his conscientious Attorney-General, northern Ireland be included in the new relief meas,on an afternoon when the call of Vermont was parures, when the situation can hardly escape elucidation ticularly strong, has pushed us all a mile or two furonce and for all...
...The danger now-a danger largely contingent, of THE nature of the considerations that withheld her course, upon the excesses of the puritanical negators from exacting reparation by the forcible means so who sponsored the Eighteenth Amendment-is that well within her power at the time, has sometimes we shall drift back into a virtual bar-rail trade which been questioned...
...It stimulated and nourished moral growth, spiritual exaltation, THE FAD OF MOTION aesthetic delight, religious consolation, civic pride...
...It needs the constant tioned for what we spend on automobiles in one year...
...Another concerns the charge, heard sale inspection of cellars which has recently been conso often, that France is spending on her armed forces sidered moral progress...
...Fittingly enough, the recent occasion of machinery devised and controlled by a number of comhis twenty-fifth anniversary as a bishop was graced by paratively insignificant persons, the bulk of those ema universal and spontaneous tribute of love...
...Can it be that about seventh in size of all the churches in the world, we are paying so much for rapid movement, to get and its cost will be between $10,000,000 and the illusion that we are going somewhere...
...The northern Prethe accidental goings-off of pistols, and the attempts, mier merely stated that "the bill had not yet been by amateur speed-demons, to burn the highway in the subject of negotiations," and that a clause connothing flat...
...on a vast scale, the sinews of armament will be recruited here...
...James of Charity maintained fifty-three parish centres, comJ. Phelan, a financial figure for whom Wall Street is mittees of women from which visited "every hospital very much native air, declaring his faith in young men and home in the Bronx, making weekly calls on the in politics and scoring the pessimism that is too com- men and women in the wards, and remembering every mon a resort when discouraging symptoms (for which patient with a gift at Christmas and Easter...
...they youth, by the way, can hardly be held responsible) supported Saint Eleanora's Home for convalescents, are noted...
...It is she has to meet are due to the nature of the mandates true that the successful nominee has so far been diswhich were assigned to her by the general settlement tinguished for little excepting an ability to increase of Versailles...
...There was, for example, the enthusiasm for cathe- Can it be that this huge movement is not an intellidral building which marked the twelfth and thirteenth gent effort to achieve a profoundly desired end, but centuries...
...Volsteadism less sinister and uncivilized...
...In a world ruled by credit, views of the problem...
...Guthrie reminds liness with the foes of prohibition...
...Craig's comment upon the have been less scornful of the growing popular constatement that it was the intention of Ulster to cling viction that the first duty of the police, employed by to these outworn relics of persecution and its authormore or less self-governing communities, is to prevent ity was guarded in the extreme...
...What casting of the question : "Will there be anything but if the world decided to profit by this lesson...
...his interest in the nobler forms of civic and religious The work of making automobiles is done chiefly by endeavor...
...June 2, 1926 THE COMMONWEAL 87 of Locarno are feasible and that the world cannot THE COMMONWEAL wait until a firm guarantee of international security has been underwritten...
...It touched intimately the sacred matters of birth, youth, T HE Bureau of Industrial Technology recently marriage, sorrow, death...
...a disagreement rooted in the historical circumstances of military defense...
...at an accurate definition of armament...
...It was work in which a normal citizens of his diocese and by all who have appreciated human being might well take interest and find pleasure...
...this year's crop of automobiles will be rust...
...Obvito pay full reparation and indemnity," he puts his ously, this reaction may carry the country back to the finger on the sore point that is envenoming all dis- worst of the repudiated evils of the ancient liquor cussion and comment in France...
...And certainly peace...
...At $15,000,ooo...
...normal use of our city streets...
...but this diversity impresses the obvery stubborn-especially among men whose minds server as unusually important...
...An "English Unionist Member of Parto any such thing...
...Men have always had their special enthusi- them...
...and the work of a large proof office cannot, however, account for the affection of portion of these required personal thought, taste, and a very personal sort which is felt toward him by the skill of a high order...
...As arises of revaluing France's capacity to pay in a "gen- things stand, it is merely an irritating and ridiculous erous spirit of fair play...
...until a new spirit reigns among the dominant party in He merely admitted with a flourish of the pen that the North, where a third of the population is at preswhat we have all been saying is quite true-that the ent not represented by a single Catholic high legal Treasury Department, or any other department, will official, legislative measures of relief really possess solve the problem of prohibition only when everybody only an academic interest...
...The mere matter of carrying We sacrificed more than twelve thousand lives to the people and goods from place to place is surely not automobile last year, and every day we sacrifice the important enough to bulk so large in our economy...
...The prerogatives iron, slate, leather, etc...
...But her share in the victory that made them possible I F the President's weird order directing that state, is a matter of fact...
...In any case, it is to be feared that, ther toward the repudiation of badly bungled legality...
...of bringing these children-and often their careless 90 THE COMMONWEAL June 2, 1926 parents-back to the Divine source of strength...
...The text of Mr...
...To the ployed being machine-tenders, doing routine work letters and addresses of felicitation which reached which gives little or no scope for human interest or Cardinal O'Connell in such large numbers on that day, development...
...pressed to serve the Treasury Department as watchThese things create, to use Mr...
...It was the centre or backpublished its estimate that this country's automo- ground for fetes, pageants, games, fairs, town-meetbile bill, including cost of cars, insurance, upkeep, ings, and all sorts of community activities...
...give here to describe the work they have been doing But its general tenor may be gathered from the Irish on Welfare Island, and the praiseworthy activities of Statesman's comment upon his visit to the country of the League of Catholic women...
...The same memorandum shows that which an able senatorial veteran, Mr...
...FUNDAMENTALLY, the disastrousness of modMICHAEL WILLIAMS, Editor ern warfare lies not in the number of troops which Assistant Editors can be put into the field nor in the adequacy of ultraTHOMAS WALSH HELEN WALKER modern equipment...
...Bernhardi and Von Goltz, firm Editorial Council believers in both as deciding factors, were proved T. LAwRASON Rims JAMES J. WALSH wholly erroneous in their conviction that the struggle CARLTON J. H. HAYES R. DANA SKINNER of Europe could be decided in ninety days...
...And the marked divergency between British and French then again, perhaps it has...
...Of course, building of this sort is far present, 757 children are under the care of the Big more expensive now than it was when most of the Sisters...
...used by responsible British statesmen during the brief For those who are interested in settling the liquor honeymoon of triumph can honestly deny that, if an problem rightly, the time to take salutary steps is now...
...In how far is preparation for war scientific in character...
...But far more important, it seems M. HENRY BERENGER'S speech at the recent to us, are the dogged manoeuvres for superior posi- banquet tendered to him by the France-American tion now being carried out by continental powers...
...ultimate destiny, his supreme loyalty...
...encouragement of all, and interested help from every- The cathedral, under ordinary conditions, should be one who can be of assistance...
...If the object is to frighten be added that more hopeful news comes from Ulster California-against which the presidential mandate is regarding the alleged reluctance of the northern Parprimarily directed-it might have been more feasible liament to align itself' with the British Parliament and to organize the Marines under the austere leadership make a clean sweep of Catholic disabilities that linger of General Butler...
...It would be ridiculous to deny it may be that credit will become the umpire between the importance of the disagreement here indicated- hostile battalions...
...It is all strength and talent...
...Guthrie's well-chosen dogs and bloodhounds in the enforcement of the Eightphrase, "a weighty equity," and he is voicing the feel- eenth Amendment had been proclaimed in any other ing of the better part of the nation when he pleads country, we should doubtless be commenting upon it that they should have all their weight if the necessity as new evidence of the progress of Fascismo...
...That France was regime...
...We do not, however, feel that it will lead on this view...
...Before becoming too sceptical, one ought to rule that neutrality would be violated by furnishing bear in mind that the conference will have rendered a financial aid to a belligerent nation might prove a very very helpful service if it succeeds merely in arriving effective barrier to the declaration of war...
...The work of building and furnishing the cathedrals THE Cardinal-Archbishop of Boston occupies a provided the best of training and experience for stoneposition sufficiently prominent to attract the attention masons, stone-cutters, sculptors, carpenters, woodof all Americans...
...clause in the confession of impotence which has slowly June 2, 1926 THE COMMONWEAL 89 been formulated by the uncandid drys...
...Once these things Geneva might go very far toward arranging the outhave been determined, it remains to be seen what come of the struggle...
...abiding as any other class of servants to the public...
...Whatever the enforcemisconceptions is that the average French citizen is ment agencies of Volsteadism may have accomplished, taxed more lightly than the American...
...Indeed, the work is towns with a cathedral as expensive as the one menheavy and often disappointing...
...What is GRANTED the League's right to determine whether the role of standing armies and navies...
...the thing to be done is to make what follows over the spirit in which the treaties were accepted...
...on the census lists is willing to bury his or her last dead soldier with unctuous finality...
...From time to time, he has taken carvers, painters, organ-builders, glass-workers, weavadvantage of this authoritative eminence to give coun- ers, dyers, tapestry-makers, embroiderers, illuminators, sel about the affairs of the nation, and to strengthen jewelers, and craftsmen in gold, silver, bronze, lead, the prestige of the Catholic body...
...Perhaps the hour has not yet come for MOST observers of the proceedings have emphasized decided emphasis on this aspect of the problem...
...New York's organization good for a thousand years...
...this one is so peculiarly ours that it tells a good delight in nature are better served by being whisked deal about us, and may serve as a standard of com- along a crowded highway than they are by a walk in parison between ourselves and people of other times...
...All of one's being must be devoted to the task no reason to believe Mr...
...It was suf.proves that he is taxed just twice as highly, although ficient for a canny politician like Mr...
...Many will regret the years preceding the war, and that many of the charges event, in so far as the two men are concerned...
...Published weekly and copyrighted 1925, in the United States by ness of powers whose sovereignty or interests are the Calvert Publishing Corporation, 2S Vanderbilt Avenue, New York City, N. Y. menaced is hardly likely to give way to unprotected magnanimity until the word "peace" becomes something very much more steadfast than an illusion...
...There is now existence, of making up our minds what life is about, being built in this country a cathedral which will stand and how we are getting on with it...
...all the people of the communities concerned, and in- Can it be that what the automobile provides is an volved a huge expenditure of effort and treasure, escape from the necessity of facing the problem of which some have considered wasteful...
...It is said that in the Ford plants the we wish to add our own word of gratitude for his usual workman is expected to learn in a week, or less, manly enthusiasm for the arts, the work of literature all that he needs to know about his job...
...The talk...
...In private conversation he insisted that a Sisters," upon which the secretary, Miss Teresa R. country which was rescued from political chaos by a O'Donohue, comments as follows : "Conditions are group of almost unknown young men, possesses changing in the city and it taxes the best mental and sources of energy that require only to be released to physical efforts of the Big Sisters to carry on their accomplish as notable things in economics...
...Hugh Gibson, faithful to the instruc- new or very striking points in the tangled debt situations inculcated by the Washington government, tion...
...No man has been more ests...
...Phelan's impression of things frankly that the federal forces are unable to enforce in the newest of the British commonwealths, it may the prohibitory measure...
...Phelan . . * scouts the pessimism which just now is so fashionable AN especially interesting work is that of the "Big among us...
...For these treaties, it is true, America is not responsible...
...Her determination that peace county, and municipal servants of the law may be imshould be a peace by negotiation was based upon it...
...We have said before, and need merely reimmeasurably the greater material sufferer through peat now, that the settlement of the problem of drink the war, no one attempts to deny, and the tragedy depends upon what can be done to make those who becomes all the greater from the fact that, inevitably, minister to this human need as reputable and lawruin had to be wrought by both friend and foe...
...Vare to see how the wealth of France is about one-sixth that of the little the average voter was pleased with the wholeUnited States...
...It represented and expressed his thoughts and kindly toward those who have tried, in whatever feelings about his place in time and in eternity, his fashion, to make civilization more worthy of humanity...
...Vare, howspeedy settlement as something lower than true po- ever, the coming political campaigns lie under the litical wisdom, as "hog-sense" in only a too literal shadow of candidates whose only public merit is friendacceptance of the term...
...Phelan's speech at a Tally-Ho Rest which affords week-end vacations to luncheon tendered him in Dublin, and which was at- poor girls, the Catholic Centre for the Blind, the tended not only by official members of the Free State Young Women's Club, and two settlements ; and it government but by others representing opposition would require a more lengthy summary than we can groups, does not seem to have been published here...
...the spokesman, and who view a sour and grudging attitude toward France's difficulties in the matter of QUITE apart from the merits of Mr...
...Time and time again, American aspects of them can be regulated by international and statesmen have demanded that their government reLeague agreements...
...the woods...
...One must confess to a doubt that interest and asms...
...undertaking to base her payments on German pay- Repudiation of Volsteadism will come of itself, inments was not written into any treaty, it presided evitably...
...but only clear, practical, resolute statesmanship the fortunate wealth of the United States is obvious can effect the compromises upon which the actual mili- proof of the fact that, whenever conflicts take place tary relations between governments will depend...
...To what ex- a particular sovereign state had violated intertent may the "staying power" of a nation be consid- national ethics in ordering a mobilization of its forces, ered "potential" military power...
...There is work...
...gasoline, etc., amounts to more than $14,000,000,000 What are the important special enrichments that a year...
...It seems almost us that "the greatest part of the debt in question was as though anybody-we had almost said any nobodyadvanced, received and expended in contemplation and astute enough to declare in favor of wine and beer expectancy that the common enemy would be forced can rush into office to the tune of loud huzzas...
...They the peoples represented at the conference will go far have been actuated in this as much by economic contoward promoting achievement in the interests of servatism as by a desire to outlaw war...
...D URING its first sessions, the preliminary Dis- If the recent war has taught us any lesson it is this: armament Conference has done a lot of talking, loans granted for military purposes are contributions the chief effect of which seems to be a universal broad- toward victory, and are never fully recoverable...
...But it did a sterling service to good relations showered the dicta that regional accords in the spirit between the people of the two countries concerned in 88 THE COMMONWEAL June 2, 1926 salving certain facts and nailing them, so to speak, in THE result of the recent Pennsylvania elections is a position where it will be more difficult for misconone more proof that liquor regulation is as much an ception to overtake them a second time...
...The mere fact that a spewere carefully developed, lead to the same kind of cial act has been found necessary to repeal them outsystematized bureaucracy which has so long edified side of Ulster six years later, throws a doubtful light France...
...But no one who recalls the language will be the curse of thousands of pauperized families...
...These things, so decisive in the HENRY LONGAN STUART GEORGE N. SHUSTER early Prussian wars, were put to the test and found JOHN F. MCCORMICK, Business Manager wanting after 1914...
...Nor is the unsettled condition of eastern Europe the best augury for the end of drill or rust on equipment...
...The ability to borrow money and so to pledge to beyond the verge of exhaustion the resources of a WEEK BY WEEK people, is the heart of the military machine in action...
...The rest followed easily and money which should be applied to the reduction of her naturally-even the almost gaudy numerical figures by indebtedness...
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