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...Laws safeguarding the orderly Europe, the entire future depends upon guaranteeing conduct of such elections have been consistently the Locarno agreements...
...The ancient in those of a more material nature...
...A know of the Church's missionary activities and it conyoung graduate who might suppose he had missed sistently places before its membership the facts consomething valuable by being limited to one final ex- cerning them...
...for the creation of this under bridges and a good many bridges tumbled into invaluable source of dogmatics, history, science, and the water since those far days...
...With America taking a uniconflict between Vare and Pepper forces suggests, lateral course, these questions meant having to deal therefore, not that primary elections are futile, but directly with an unhampered Washington and with a rather that these elections are not automatically effec- policy actuated entirely by the American viewpoint...
...winder," used to send him out to clean one ; and The Spanish Conquistadores always brought priests, it is a little startling to see the methods of Dotheboys generally mendicant friars, with them in their marches Hall revived in our twentieth century and in the free in the new world...
...would not yield a very large percentage of original thought...
...With America in the League, quesreflect popular will...
...A good deal of water has run our English-speaking world...
...From the point of view of ians are not prepared...
...ing joy as their rightful heritage," he is only giving words to a truth which leaps to the eye...
...The coming generation has easier for all by the spectacle of invincible spiritual every opportunity to learn what impression its defidelity, by the consciousness of greatness allied to a meanor is making upon a generation possibly wiser great cause, and by the knowledge that the really and inevitably sadder...
...THE FRIARS' SCHOOLHOUSE That left Fray Gante alone in Mexico...
...But logical nicety was to take cognizance of her needs...
...Even within of phenomenal...
...It will be rendered national prominence...
...sions-unobstructed entry into the League-needs to be paid...
...It is more likely whole, likes to see meanness and oppression meet its that he was a brother of the sovereign...
...In what might be called their highlights, THE inability of China to decide upon a policy to a certain difference of outlook appears...
...conception of heaven that he finds a place there for Judas Iscariot...
...That they met with a regal welcome is plain patronymics was arranged to suit male or female refrom the ruins of the fine buildings and palaces that cipient...
...PERHAPS in time Brazil will return to her place...
...Rome's appreciation of the Crusade has great creative rule of modern living, the scientist is been shown in the fact that His Holiness, Pope Piu~ voicing a legitimate pride...
...These were housed-with room for surgeon...
...Perhaps this demands that one refrain from imposing Pennsylvanian 172 THE COMMONWEAL June 23, 1926 circumstances upon all the states...
...After having tasted the bitter bread we are more or less resigned by now to regard as de- of exile, he seized the throne and reigned for fifty positaries of the virtues which have been driven from years...
...representative was instructed to deliver to Sir Eric Drummond, the fact remains that both action and let- VARIOUS confessions by those engaged in promot-, ter are, in the main, reasonable and natural...
...Representatives of peoples who West, the reasoning which found that at Geneva the but a short while ago were engaged in bitter conflict United States might find herself committed to unwalked together through the streets of a new land dignified and insalutary compromises with Japan...
...Aureliano Urrutia, a devout Catholic, welcomed and almost compelled to take their places a member of the Mexican Cabinet in the days of Diaz, on the rude benches...
...The other deserts, is expecting a homer for the homeless...
...Neither could they fashion the beauty guardians when the rush is over, with no other re- of the heavens, the sun, the moon, and the stars nor muneration for their labor than an object lesson in yet the earth and plants...
...Grundy, who cheerfully spent half a America brought to Versailles and attempted to write million dollars to save the manufacturers of the Keyinto law...
...No other movement is more indicathe limits of the class, protected and, one trusts, tive of the increasingly large activities sponsored by wisely guided, to which his words were addressed, it the youth of America...
...MILLARD records the Japanese disappointthesis applies only to certain conditions and to a lim- ment over this turn of events, her adherence to "Panited number of situations...
...We would hold no brief for sheiks, but obvi- gods when sick and ignored them when convalescent...
...But when THE growth of the Catholic Students' Mission he goes on to add that this claim has only to be Crusade, the fifth general convention of which was asserted to "make the world a more joyful place," held recently in Dayton, Ohio, has been little short sharp dissent is of the order of the day...
...Such a body promises great achievement...
...arduous spiritual care of frontier America, and to keep alive the energies of faith...
...As who are pursuing courses of study in Europe are also for the class to which work, often of a very joyless represented in its membership, while its "veteran order, presents itself not only as an ethical duty but members"-those who, though they have left the halls as an economic necessity, it is hard to assess the moral of learning, are still vitally interested in its causedamage that might follow taking President Alder- come from all walks of life...
...Many of their...
...The government of the Reich could accept THE philosophers of twenty-five years ago, who the status quo which followed the war only on con- predicted the futility of primaries, seem indeed to dition that the reorganization of the political world have been vindicated by experience...
...174 THE COMMONWEAL June 23, 1926 THE signal honor of its degree of Doctor of Sacred 'evening of his days, is displaying a more intimate conTheology has been conferred by the Catholic Uni- cern with the problems of the next world than ever versity of America upon that staunch worker in the informed the work of his youth and maturity...
...Quite soberly the Sheik declared him- Gnostics advanced the theory, fantastic yet somehow self unable to comprehend women "whose skirts are impressive, that he had betrayed only to force the too short, whose faces are unveiled, and who wear too Master to some overwhelming demonstration of His much paint...
...He remembers lated to the emperor, one historian going so far as to he began life himself as one of the disinherited of maintain that he was a son of Charles V. This is the earth, and he is coming to their assistance...
...However much one may deplore the developed under ideals of world-citizenship which are action of Brazil and the denunciatory letter which its really similar to our own...
...parchment slip on which their new names were written The Hungry Coyote is almost a legendary figure lest they forget them...
...The League will either regulate the heart-beat of the battered old world or it will fail altogether in its purpose...
...After Baptism the children were given a Hungry Coyote...
...Wackford Squeers, as soon He alone can console me in my affliction or still the bitas one of his little charges had learned to spell ter anguish of my heart...
...Ruth would be asking too rived in Vera Cruz in August, 1522...
...But when our athletic giants condescend to pioneer missionaries were eminent men-Juan de literature, ways and means exist of ensuring that the Tecto, leader of the party, had been confessor to result shall be eminently readable...
...Rudyard Kipling, in the if he carries out his promise and joins forces with June 23, 1926 THE COMMONWEAL 175 Father E. J. Flanagan in exposing what looks like a had put the son of the king to death...
...In fact, if one may credit the righteous at present the League is being used as a means to Mr...
...The results have certainly justified its hortation would discover, if he looked diligently else- practice...
...Cortez swooping down upon air of the great open spaces...
...The bases of this difference Emeritus Eliot, of Harvard, of thought with unwholehave been succinctly analyzed by Mr...
...The most educative thing about Darshadow of a regret, never absent altogether when old win is that, for all his accumulated lore concerning speak to young, may be traced, works for good, de- species, he had forgotten the arts and could not even pends somewhat on how far outside campus limits appreciate music and poetry...
...The children of the slaves were residence of Dr...
...Thomas F. some brooding, which amounts to a counsel to think Millard, whose despatches to the New York Times less...
...Begun only eight years ago, is a half-truth...
...uttered at the end of the scholastic year...
...The gilt-edged European governments...
...The great thing Charles V, and only over the royal protest did he find is that the heart which beats inside the big frame of his way to America...
...James Harvey Robinbe mischievous in the extreme if applied outside...
...The gested he owns...
...Those who govern relations with foreign countries continues to dig beneath the surface note of perfunctory congratularender the Customs Conference perilously like a sar- tion customary on such occasions may strive, if they donic joke...
...He succeeded very dark and very mean story of exploitation on the in making his escape through a secret door under a part of the farming element of this country, whom cloud of incense...
...I out of the question since the friar would have had to am all for the boys and will help you in this cause," embark for the new world before the emperor had he writes Father Flanagan...
...Any con- ing the right kind of government in Pennsylvania incept of international organization as something above dicate, not only that considerable money was spent in reproach, innately so good that all criticism of its the recent primary election, but also that a considertendencies must be avoided, would be simply a prepos- able number of citizens were pleasantly eager to accept terous assumption...
...Kipling tion of Father Wynne...
...ITS purpose is educational, and to this alone it deTHE flurry of collegiate oratory has also left the votes its energies...
...In the Cardinals, the visiting clergy and the various or- fact, one of the most consistent and effective elements ganizations of the laity which added to the splendor of the attack upon Mr...
...member of the party, Aora, is believed to have perished with Tecto on the Honduras expedition in 1525...
...The Indians showed great proin Mexican history...
...And if Published weekly and copyrighted 1925, in the United States by this is true, it follows that the work of Geneva must the Calvert Publishing Corporation, 25 Vanderbilt Avenue, gravitate round it and that, therefore, the business of New York City, N. Y. both Council and Assembly must remain European in character...
...No and into the hushed Cathedral...
...He finds that with the rise a note of final resignation with youthful vagaries, an of the United States to undisputed world power after endeavor to see with its undimmed eyes and to catch the war, Japanese statesmen were forced to realize the the rhythms that beat in its undulled ears, a deterdiplomatic importance of the League of Nations...
...And it is significant that this difficulty should Americans are quite as willing to undertake to bring have revived, at least fitfully, the memorable contro- the true light to those who have it not as they are to versy between humanists and the scientifically minded...
...a jovial, brotherly fashion which his advance reputa- There is a grandeur in both these conceptions, howtion had seemed to predict impossible...
...Even their mere going, I N this, the commencement season of the year, a large side by side, through the first victorious distance of proportion of the columns of the press are set aside their pilgrimage was a tribute to the work which has for addresses at schools and colleges...
...But why, one ever heterodox, that we do not look for in Mr...
...Cortez befriended him in his apostolic works, comON June 6, San Antonio, Texas, witnessed the manding that the white settlers send their children to unveiling of a tablet on the Aztec gate to the the friar's school...
...Its of help-the investigation now being conducted by the members do, indeed, supply large sums of money for New York World of plague spots where wayward missionary purposes-over $300,000 a year-but the girls of school, not to say, college age, are the lure, Crusade, as such, confines itself to its motto: "That make a sinister comment upon the comfortable glozes America may know and serve the missions...
...The supply of joy is not unlimited, when the representatives of thirty institutions met at and for its existence in any individual case it is always Techny, Illinois, the Mission Crusade numbers a half dependent upon self-denial and self-effacement by million young people and has units in nearly every others...
...What peers out from a consideration of adare far and away the best accounts we are now re- dresses by chancellors and professors as a whole, is ceiving from the Orient...
...extend the blessings of Standard Oil to the ends of In declaring that his method of investigation is the the earth...
...According to Father Flanagan's an ardent believer in the unknown God in whose honor statement, it has become the gentle practice of cer- he composed the following prayer which does honor tain among this deserving class to solve their labor to his intelligence and his religious sense: "Surely the problem by "adopting" homeless boys during rush gods which I adore, idols of stone and wood, speak seasons and returning them to the care of their former not nor feel...
...and sacred tradition...
...The three much...
...A symposium of the speeches abiding royalty belongs to those who have been con- which have been delivered during the past few weeks secrated to carry on the princely service of the King...
...Wisconsin, for in- one thing, and an American unilateral policy in Europe, stance, owes its persistent fidelity to progressive gov- in the western hemisphere and in the Far East was ernment to the fact that her primaries do accurately another thing...
...Dickens from Mr...
...And very brisk country is, as should have been obvious from the be- and profitable business it can be made by authors who ginning, the clan of that perfectly stupid individual have gained the public ear...
...Canada and the American students without leaving abundant unhappiness in its wake...
...There the regular party con- tions of the Monroe and Hay doctrines might be enventions are powerless to impose a candidate of their tangled with issues of European politics, and perchoice, and "popular representation" remains some- haps turned by diplomatic trading of Japan with thing more than an academic concept...
...The Brazilian letter declares that the money...
...And many a one, aspect of our recent political life is more interesting gazing about at the imposing manifestation, must have than the divergence of orientation which has set the remembered that their predecessors of the past century West to assuming shrewdly the role of Balboa, while had sent out men like themselves to undertake the the East remains a commercially homesick Columbus...
...The name of the former splendor...
...Thus, son's The Humanizing of Knowledge, just reissued by when Professor-President Edwin A. Alderman, of the Doran...
...Nearly half a million people that many Americans did see the relation between the witnessed the brilliant passing of the Papal Legate, League of Nations and the Pacific Ocean era...
...In their attitude toward this conference, will, to reconcile the advice of Chancellor Brown, of however, the United States and Japan reveal a dif- New York University, to the youth of America to ference of opinion novel in economic history and cer- think more, with the identification, by Presidenttain to affect the future...
...ously they have been grossly insulted and misrepre- "As though the gods would come and go on Bion's sented...
...But the interests which she represents and the concept of world relations to which she is dedicated will MICHAEL WILLIAMS, Editor be shelved for a long time...
...To deplore this fact, as Brazil does, is not to destroy its necessity...
...It implies-as so many successive political events do-that the once rampant democratic hypo- MR...
...Wilson's idealism was, in the of the demonstration...
...Indeed, the stock-in-trade of one solemn with the same joyousness and enthusiasm that it does speaker is the pet anathema of the next...
...For the moment it may be well to observe Eucharistic Congress...
...Montaigne, in his inimitable fashion, who serve as masterly illustrations of ultimate vapid- once ridiculed Bion the Sophist, who prayed to the ness...
...The problems been done...
...But with years in the very best colleges, aspire to the title behind it we shall be very much surprised if anything of Arabian chieftain in its more figurative aspects...
...It was a peaceful reign, too, because he was our brawling cities...
...rooms, a dormitory, and a refectory...
...THE genuine Tunisian Sheik Hadj Mohamed, we are informed on the best authority, landed in the THE eternal destiny of the arch-betrayer is a theme United States wholly without the romantic and chival- that has fascinated many minds...
...Babe," will earn a new title to regard than one precedent, Mr...
...The first instrucThe tablet bears witness to the fact that on June tion consisted of simple prayers and the rudiments of 6, 1526, the first parochial school in North America religion...
...Uncompromising rous baggage which so many fiction writers have sug- Dante placed him in hell-by no means alone...
...June 23, 1926 THE COMMONWEAL 173 HOW far this new note of admiration, in which the to the matter...
...It sees a growing divergence between the stone State from an embarrassing tax, is much more contemporary mind of Geneva and the American ideal- apparent than the qualifications for citizenship owned ism of ten years ago...
...Some powerful, hidden, and the relation of work to wages that will probably last unknown God must be the creator of the universe and them all their lives...
...His cause of Catholicity, Father John H. Wynne of the references to them hitherto had been somewhat cavaSociety of Jesus...
...Six years after its foundation holder of the portfolios of the Interior and Foreign Gante wrote that he had from 5oo to 6oo children Affairs under Huerta, and internationally known as a under his charge...
...He has developed the old XI, has raised it to the rank of a Pontifical Society, Greek habit of looking shrewdly at things into a form and by his recent appointment of His Eminence, Carof vision which proves this familiar world a cornu- dinal Van Rossum, Prefect of Propaganda, as its procopia of unsuspected riches...
...He pictures a boundless charity and an Catholic University honors itself in this generous ac- utter compassion as reigning there...
...Sooner or later it will Assistant Editors be apparent that "the American ideal" is the outgrowth THOMAS WALSH HELEN WALKER of conditions and hopes quite independent of continenHENRY LONGAN STUART GEORGE N. SHUSTER tal circumstances...
...After all, the comSpence's school that "the women of today are claim- mencement addresses are normally not too ambitious...
...That its on the subject of man...
...Fray Gante translated the fundamentals of was founded by the Franciscans in Texcoco, Mexico...
...No more grateful evidence of ap- lier...
...They can now welcome him in he had sold to His enemies and implore His pardon...
...by the people who lined up for their share of the plunder...
...In the days of the Aztecs it was saint of the day was usually imposed upon the children the capital to which the chiefs hurried on matters of in Baptism, and if necessary the gender of these state...
...The book comes perilously near to seeming University of Virginia, speaking in "the grand ball- an attack, by one troubled with a monomania, upon room of the Hotel Astoria," tells the girls of Miss people with adverse monomanias...
...In his new story, The Gate, which bedation we are upon the eve of the fulfilment of his gins this month in McCall's Magazine, he draws, acefforts, wise provisions, and practical preparations for cording to publicity just released, "a moving and the thought of the press and accepted opinions of powerful picture of the hereafter, as affected by the future generations of authors and readers...
...more substantial is found than the contemporary flair Possibly she may have observed the affectation of for paradox, the contemporary intolerance of mystrumpet-like trousers to enshrine legs which need no tery, and the contemporary itch for making over the stimulated unsteadiness to render them perfect vic- Gospel narrative "to taste," which is supplying us tims of the "blues...
...the Faith into a native hymn which the Mexicans Today Texcoco is an insignificant town of 5,000, learned easily and hummed almost unintermittently...
...Many things that ring true for the weaned from the benignant antiquities of culture...
...But there is another side tector...
...and judging from that Germany made a critical concession when these some of the evidence which has regaled the inquisiagreements were underwritten, everybody must see torial senators, even such a fundamental detail as the that the price exacted by Germany for these conces- inviolability of the voting booth has not been respected...
...The inference is simply that the custom of OBVIOUSLY, the issue at stake is one of interests primary elections is something for which Pennsylvanrather than of integrity...
...The task that remains is, of course, peculiar to adolescence are treated by educators of equally large and stupendous...
...And world of college and for the class with which college so it is a little irritating to see the case for science is life's normal threshold, are not only untrue but may put so officiously as it is in Dr...
...At all events, the experience of Brazil CARLTON J. H. HAYES R. DANA SKINNER will prove a new barrier to whatever attempts may be BERTRAM C. A. WINDLE sponsored by anxious and thoughtful citizens to corSubscription Rates Yearly: $10.00 Single Copies: $0.20 relate the influence of the United States with the effort to create a better world-order...
...The recent ter- things, when appeals of all sorts are deluging everyrible testimony of the Salvation Army as to the steep one's mail, it is refreshing to contemplate this society fall in the average age of girls who come to it in need which is in no sense a money-raising enterprise...
...Asian" propaganda, and her gradual discovery that her advantage might ultimately lie in association with P AST and present were significantly intermingled in either American or British interests and policies...
...So merciful is his knowledgment of a life of Catholic scholarship...
...In turning to a sunnier culture, we are deeply indebted to the heroic devo- conception of the ways of God with men, Mr...
...If we are wise we shall not waste this influence...
...The proper kindred of the gentlemen who business 1" Today the gods are being made to come aspire to their title in the more refined circles of our and go on a vast variety of business...
...also in the great series of has all the air of conveying comfort to a world sadly volumes announced by the Universal Knowledge Foun- in need of it...
...Twice he was forced to flee be- ficiency in reading, writing, drawing, instrumental cause he had drawn the sword against a usurper who music, especially the flute, and singing...
...being in His Heaven and all right with the world, The Catholic Encyclopedia is in reality a Catholic Uni- with an intent that, on the face of it, was sardonic versity brought into the homes and the libraries of rather than reverent...
...No rectilinear course through life with per- important institution in the land where there are sonal joy as its guiding light has ever been followed Catholic students...
...The number of difficulty of making up one's mind has not been dis- Crusaders who have gone, or who are preparing to pelled by such things as switch-boards and paper nap- go, to the missions shows that red-blooded young kins...
...mination to find compensatory virtues where old tradi"They saw sooner than American statesmen did," he tions have been scrapped-in short, an abandonment says, "that in relation to the Pacific Ocean era an of the didactic and inhibitory attitude in favor of a new American policy merged with European statecraft was and more sympathetic understanding...
...In this day of material man's sunny aphorism too candidly...
...To expect the pen of Mexico was accompanied by the Franciscans who arMr...
...In The Light That Failed, he noted, in passing, preciation of high worth and monumental service the workings of "that very just providence that delights could be imagined than this final crowning at the great in inflicting pain...
...Regardless of political theory, the cil, they are smothering the idea of universality which virtue of Mr...
...She might well have some- development by one of his literary calibre will be "movthing pertinent to say regarding males who, flushed ing and powerful" we can be sure in advance...
...For obvious reasons our capped and gowned mentors intend their remarks many of us prefer a model citizen less perfectly to be applied...
...June 23, ig26 THE COMMONWEAL 17 matter of the new Germanic orientation is the crucial THE COMMONWEAL problem with which the League must deal...
...THE Sultan of Swat, Caliph of Capability and Grand-Vizier of Vigor, whom all the sport-loving FOLLOWING a tendency for which there is more world knows as...
...Origen could imagine his suicide as an shared by a good many males of the country to which overmastering impulse to follow in death the Man the Sheik has come...
...To the terrible Badalia Herodsuniversity of one of the leading lights of the ancient, foot, he appended Browning's remark about God venerable, and admirable body of our Jesuit scholars...
...The world war...
...Its success is an evidence that the youth of where, that the remarks of his anxious elders lack America is willing to embark upon spiritual conquest coherence...
...This candor, it might be added, is Godhead...
...But, because of unWEEK BY WEEK alterable circumstance, it becomes clearer with each IT is significant that the first rebellion against the day that our best work will be done side by side with League of Nations has been inaugurated by an the other peoples of the Americas, who have been American state...
...And then, perhaps, it will become JoHx F. MCCORMICK, Business Manager possible to develop to the utmost the opportunities Editorial Council for united conciliatory action now latent in PanT. LAWRASON RIGGs JAMES J. WALSH Americanism...
...Frederick A. Beutel, Pittsburgh got up early in an end by the great European powers-that, by legis- the morning to command the highest available prices lating themselves into permanent seats on the Coun- for its signatures...
...Pedro de Gante was closely rethe home-run king has been touched...
...who empty vial after vial of patent with so many debased and deformed caricatures of ointment upon their elegantly plastered heads...
...The the triumphal procession with which New York City future alone can tell what position Tokyo will decide welcomed distinguished European delegates to the upon...
...A world that, on the reached his twenty-third birthday...
...sleeping a lazy sleep in the warm sunshine on He wrote that he and another monk baptized as many the banks of a blue-green lake and dreaming of its as io,ooo persons in a single day...
...Because everybody admits ignored by the state legislature...
...Kipwonders, was there no invitation to one of the veiled ling's notion of a "post-war" heaven so comprehensive ladies of the Tunisian party to express herself candidly that it cannot bear to exclude even Judas...
...tive...
...It believes that Americans should problems of education pretty much as they were...
...The popular names which the white children still remain, especially those dating from the reign of were free to select were John and Mary, Peter and Nezahualcoyotl, which means in our language "the Catherine...
...Thus our attention is directed to an his- 400 more-in a large building consisting of classtorical fact worthy of serious reflection at this time...
...who, in a solitary moment of enlightenment, once refused to go any farther with Balaam...
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