Life in Lithuania
Koncevicius, Joseph
June 23, 1926 THE COMMONWEAL 185 transmit an hereditary disease, or even of persons LIFE IN...
...Even the Archbishop of Can- T HE Lithuanians are one of the oldest nations in Europe terbury in opposing a resolution in favor of the teach- and were located in prehistoric times by the Baltic Sea...
...Lithuania Have you heard silence murmurously singing has now adjusted her difficulties with her neighbors, except Into your ear, those with Poland under whose occupation part of Lithuania A magic music wrung from depth of shadow still remains...
...it isgained her independence, three and a half centuries had passed...
...From 1915 to 1919 Lithuania was under of view...
...There is something prophetic in which they were arranging in the hands of Professor Sheldon, the fact that this year, on Resurrection Day, the Lithuanian of the physics department of New York University, and his people saw the birth of a new Church province within their assistant, Mr...
...From it they receive new strength and courage to obtained from a gold-free source, and in the first instance, used resist the adverse influences by which they are beset, greater a lamp of their own construction which they considered to determination to remain independent as a nation and faithful be an improvement on that of Miethe, but later resorted to as a people to the Catholic Church...
...June 23, 1926 THE COMMONWEAL 185 transmit an hereditary disease, or even of persons LIFE IN LITHUANIA whose economic position would be lowered if they had a number-of children...
...This statement by the Archbishop has been influence of other nations upon their national and political hailed by those in favor of birth control as one which affairs, and thus it was that they remained true to their pagan "happily completely separates the Church of England beliefs...
...distilled their mercury three times, but did not obtain results It was in 1250 that Grand Duke Mindeugas endeavored corroborating Miethe...
...On Easter Sunday of this year Pope Pius XI announced in Amsterdam, declared that they had been able to split up the formation of a distinct Lithuanian province with one lead into two other elements-a much more difficult problem, archbishopric at Kaunas and four bishoprics, at Telsei, Pane- since the vaporization of lead requires a far greater heat than vezys, Kasedoriai and Vilkaviskis respectively...
...no real organization for the reason that part of its population ELEANOR DOWNING...
...the matter of religious faith she remained true always to the Catholic Church...
...country was called upon to wage in defense of her religious faith during this period, particularly against the propaganda Have you seen beauty blooming in the wasteland, of Bolshevik Russia...
...Not less severe were the struggles which the And of fear...
...cabinet with the portfolio of Foreign Minister...
...Estey...
...Altogether, from the consummation of consequent confusion of thought, the Conservative the union with Poland at Lublin (1569) until Lithuania reparty is according to its lights a Christian party...
...Bishop Skvireckas is the newly appointed to- rid mercury infected with gold from all the latter impurity metropolitan of Lithuania and Archbishop of Kaunas...
...to establish a province in Lithuania, an effort which did not The Scientific American, with commendable spirit, then set meet with continuing success...
...The moral issue seems to By JOSEPH KONCEVICIUS escape them altogether...
...At the present time the Christian Democrats And tawny grass- (Catholic) are in power with an absolute majority of three Have you seen beauty, starry-petaled, blooming representatives in the national parliament...
...Thus the work of the Berlin observers two things-first of all, how to prepare the elixir of life...
...Yet after ten hours' subjection to the arc, tion of the new province was entrusted by the Holy Father they declared that the lead spectrum disappeared and was to the Nuncio, Archbishop Matulevicius, formerly bishop of replaced by those of mercury and of thallium---a very rare Vilna, which part of Lithuania is now under Polish occupa- metal...
...another, Dr...
...was under the jurisdiction of a German province, part under 186 THE COMMONWEAL June 23, 1926 a Polish province, and the remaining portion within Lithuania Shortly after this, two chemists, Smits and Karsen, working itself...
...The results of their investigations showed that this gold-free mercury did not, in fact, transmute into ALCHEMISTS OLD AND NEW gold, nor show any tendency in that direction, the assumption being that the mercury used by Miethe could not have been T HE alchemists of mediaeval days were bent on finding out quite free from gold...
...The Then came the radio-activity discoveries which showed that there was no such difference between the elements as had been supposed, but that what distinguished one from another was BENEDICTINES the number of units of negative electricity-electrons, and of positive electricity-protons, which the atom of each contained...
...For over two centuries position solely on the ground that there were plenty the most strenuous efforts were made and every possible measure was employed, by the Knights of the Sword from the East of voluntary agencies for those who wanted them, and and the Knights of the Cross from the West, to spread Chrisobjected only to the use of public money...
...Of the three newly consecrated Lithuanian bishops, one, Next to attack the problem was the Chemical Institute of the Monsignor Stangaitis, had been president of the Lithuanian Berlin University, the experts at which came to the conclusion parliament...
...whole...
...Transmutation Lithuania always strove for independence...
...These investigators employed mercury borders...
...That idea was that all things were composed of the same prime feat may yet be accomplished...
...The moral tianity in Lithuania, but without success...
...ing of contraceptive methods at maternity centres in Lithuania was, however, amongst the latest of the European a recent debate in the House of Lords, based his op- nations to receive the Christian faith...
...These parties, however, are reduced in the ultimate Where cloud-shapes never pass, to two outstanding parties, namely, the Christian and AntiAnd dew drips not upon the rough-thorned cactus Christian parties...
...Now not make gold any cheaper, for the infinitesimal amounts prosubstantial forms can be changed, as in ordinary chemical trans- duced will have been brought into existence at an expense imformations, and if this is so, why should it not be true of mensely beyond their own value...
...Nevertheless, what has been shown is and secondly, how to transmute base metals into gold...
...The Commoncelebrated Technical School at Charlottenburg in Germany, weal...
...artificial diamonds over again...
...In 1569 Lithuania and Poland were united and this union The Catholic Church is thus, as ever, the one bul- endured until the so-called Poland-Lithuania partition by Ruswark for the protection of family life and Christian sia, Austria, and Germany in 1795, following which the Church idealism...
...a replica of that which he had employed, which was made for them in Germany...
...When, if ever, it is, it will matter and differed because of their substantial forms...
...Where all lay parched and white It is true that 75 percent of Lithuania's population is CathoBeneath the terror of the all-revealing, lic, but this population is represented by some fifteen political Enshrouding light...
...from the Church of Rome on this important national Iagela, the Grand Duke of Lithuania, in 1386 married the issue...
...has been corroborated...
...Bishop Matulevicius was caused to resign his see at theoretically possible-namely, the breaking up of one element Vilna in 1925, following upon which the Pope created him into others-has practically been accomplished...
...declared that he had actually been able to make gold out of Price, $2.00 quicksilver or mercury by the action of an intense electric arc on the metal in a quartz receptacle...
...It will be the story of metals...
...They that the method employed has not yet turned mercury into worked on true philosophical principles, for the basis of their gold-not that mercury cannot be turned into gold...
...Happily, however, there are in all parties in Lithuania was placed under the administration of a Rusa number of men, not of our faith and sometimes not sian province and so remained until the outbreak of the Euroof any faith, who accept in the main the Catholic point pean war in 1914...
...Now the ambition of Lithuanian to work to solve the problem, and placed the investigations Catholics has been realized...
...When Boyle, in 1661, published his Skyptical Chymist, and appeared to show that all the so-called elements were "ab initio," and unalterably different, it seemed as though an end had been put to the labors of the alchemists...
...By EDWARD SCHNEIDER Such being the case, it became clear that, theoretically, by the Translated by JOHAN LILJENCRANTS abstraction or addition of one electron or proton, one element might be turned into another, and thus the road was clear .for "The book should get a wide reading, because besides being important it is one of those rare treatments of a religious a new alchemy-for the attempt to transmute one metal into theme which seem to have been done sacrificially by an artist another...
...The Lithuanians question was raised only by the Catholic Lord Fitz- were not afraid to accept Christianity, but they did fear the Alan...
...In fact, from that time on, but little was heard of them...
...but it does not titular archbishop and appointed him Papal Nuncio to show that Miethe was right in saying that he had made gold Lithuania...
...The propagators of was carried by a large majority at the recent National the Faith in Lithuania were Poles and from this time for over four centuries the Catholic Church in Lithuania was subConference of the Independent Labor party, though ject to Polish influence and was, in fact, dependent upon a this does not, of course, commit the Labor party as a Polish province in matters of administration...
...and inspired them to greater effort...
...The organiza- that of mercury...
...Bishop -even after several distillations in vacuo...
...while the third, It is difficult, but possible, to procure mercury from a perfectly Monsignor Paltarokas, is a former vice-rector of the Priests' gold-free source, and it seems to be practically impossible Seminary at Kaunas...
...Rainys, had been a member of the that the mercury used by Miethe could not have been quite pure...
...The desert-rose that blossoms from the anguish The Catholic Church in independent Lithuania had achieved Of burning skies...
...The President and Before your eyes, members of the cabinet are all Catholics...
...Throughout those centuries Lithuania, from the national and the defender of religious education, and is in general economic standpoints, suffered much and lost much, but in a defender of the rights and prestige of the churches...
...The ideals voiced Have you heard silence singing in the twilight, by the late President Wilson, of independence for all small When all was hushed and grey, nations then under the domination of their larger and stronger When black and still across white pools unrippled neighbors, afforded encouragement to the Lithuanian people The shadows lay...
...Apart from this Protestant mentality and German occupation...
...At the end of the EuroWhen from the marshlands rose the mists upcurling, pean war they saw their dearest hope realized in the regained And not a wind-breath stirred, independence of the nation...
...Were this true, what GREENBERG, Publisher must have happened was either the addition of another electron 112 Bast 19th Street New York City or the removal of a proton from the atom of mercury...
...Catholic Polish queen, Jadwiga, becoming himself a Catholic The Labor party is equally unsound on this ques- and so giving encouragement and impetus to the general intion and a resolution on similar lines to the above troduction of Christianity to the country...
...This experiment, if confirmed, shows that what was tion...
...This independence was not won And not a cricket quavered from the meadow, by Lithuania without many serious struggles with her neighbors, Nor note of bird- especially with Bolshevik Russia and with Poland...
...parties ranging from extreme communistic to extreme conserWhen noon lay level on the tortured prairie vative...
...Not long ago, Professor Adolphe Miethe, of the fully aware of the beauty given into his hand...
...out of mercury...
...The Berlin men Karevicius has been appointed titular archbishop...
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