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...With reference to this, the Baumes laws may be brooms that sweep too vigorously...

...Bourdet's play is voted "the most subversive, corruptive, and potentially evil-fraught play ever shown in the American theatre...

...Suez is, as has been said, not merely the world's gateway, but also its market-place...

...and points out that jacked-up prices will wobble before the attack of the public...

...One remembers a sigh of relief running up and down Michigan Avenue, and seeming to rejuvenate the straggling grass of Grant Park...

...Is it an ominous shout...

...Nathan proposes: "Let them take a night off, go to the theatre and see Congreve's Love for Love, return home and read a certain celebrated piece of literature by Alfred de Musset, and then sit down to the piano and try to keep their minds on Nearer, My God, to Thee...

...If this was not the purpose, the man in the street, who at night becomes the man in the cellar, may well ask what, in the name of reason, they ever got together for at all...

...That the will of Congress has been ignored is one of the chief reasons for the oppression of the individual and the deterioration of the public service which Mr...

...MEWS of the failure of mine workers and operators to arrive at any agreement at the Miami conference to arrange a new contract to replace the Jacksonville plan, which expires at the end of the month, and consequent imminence of another coal strike, causes a feeling closely akin to disgust...

...Perhaps these are so firmly convinced that money is the only thing which makes the world go round, that they are fully ignorant of the influence of suggestion...

...The sigh was caused by the news that the aforementioned Mr...

...If it were not already perfectly clear that moral guardianship has gone to the dogs in this country, one might well wonder why there is not a universal display of vigorous spanking by parents and educators...

...NEW YORK'S illustrious Baumes laws, which make prison sentences cumulative in a ratio which finally ends in life-terms, have run the gamut of violent criticism...

...It is not always easy to corroborate charges of this kind, as excuses for discharges, demotions, acts of petty tyranny, as well as for promotions and acts of rank favoritism, are ready at hand...

...It was not at all surprising that each side should have come to the meeting with certain fixed ideas about one matter or another...

...And the result...

...This ambitious academic foundation aims to maintain not merely "a bureau of general information concerning Poland," but also a library, an editorial organization, and a "centre" from which the movement can radiate into clubs and circles remote from the metropolis...

...Thompson (then mayor) had finally been ejected from the city hall, after years of ridiculous ballyhooing and inefficient government...

...In this particular case, however, a check, if not a total corrective, is ready to hand...

...Once he has done his share in establishing the fine piece of work in its proper place, the critic may conceivably be privileged for a moment to let up being a critic and to look at the work with eyes removed from contemplation of it as art," says Mr...

...Stewart points out in his letter to the President, Congress long ago recognized the necessity of throwing certain safeguards around the rank and file of government emplpyes...

...This is not the way railroad owners and railroad workers settle the matter of a new scale...

...But the five men who are to be named by the President to represent the five zones into which the country will be divided, will have no easy task, nor one that will make for personal popularity...

...And now 300,000 American voters —many of them native—have raised their voices in his behalf again...

...Saint Francis himself may be said to have inaugurated it, when, in the summer of 1219, he joined the Crusaders at Damietta and ventured to preach the Gospel to the relentless Sultan Malek-ElKamel...

...Nathan...

...It was not until he had sought relief by the means which he had seen others employ in order to enrich themselves, and had 480 been rebuffed in what he regarded as the most unexpected quarter, that it dawned on him that perhaps extreme tariffs were hurting him as well as the ultimate consumer, and that a square deal in the markets in which he had to purchase for the farm, plus energy and study of modern methods, would produce better and more permanent results than an application for special favors for which others would have to pay...

...One may doubt the appropriativeness of these superlatives, but there is no gainsaying the evidence upon which they are based...

...WHEN Sir Esme Howard, the ambassador from Great Britain, recently delivered, on behalf of King George, an alms-dish as the gift of the British ruler to the Cathedral of Saint John the Divine, Bishop Manning, in his address of acceptance, took occasion to refer to the links binding the new Protestant Episcopal temple to the historic cathedrals of England...

...Stewart deplores...

...Chicago faces great civic problems...

...But history and circumstances have confronted them with a tremendous handicap...

...Thus a congregation was founded, which now carries on in divers languages—French, Italian, English, Maltese, German, Spanish, Arabic...

...It is curious enough that Secretary Mellon was fated to be the critic of such bureaucratic machinery as the McNaryHaughen bill involved—Secretary Mellon who in public life has so firmly championed the intricacies of tariff collection, and who, as a private citizen, has profited hugely by those intricacies...

...But the old saw abides—a mongrel may be a mongrel, but one expects something of pedigreed stock...

...Or merely a little threat...

...Certainly, anyone reading the report of the final session of the conference might well be moved to invoke a plague on both of the houses involved...

...You will find them, among other places, at The Constant Wife, a play about which little has been said but which you may write down as one of the most harmful and devitalizing shows on Broadway...

...He demands that action be taken, without further delay, to carry out the commands of Congress...

...but it may well be that out of the present turmoil there will eventually come a challenge to that tradition which will have, to borrow a homely but pertinent metaphor, all the wallop of a knockout arm...

...Everybody knows that even though Tammanyites may charge a certain percentage in privileges, they will not stand for gunrunning and sinister foolishness...

...Divine grace is all-powerful, but its work is sometimes impeded by a total lack of the saving grace of humor...

...It is rather the fact that a senator, blinded by the sense of his own importance, has succeeded in making himself and his nation ridiculous in an hour when tact, carefulness, and responsibility are needed...

...But willy-nilly, the Republican party is meanwhile brought face to face with a challenge to its fundamental doctrine...

...A YEAR'S talk leaves the country's agricultural problems farther from solution than ever...

...It has taken the agriculturalist who inherited his Republicanism and his farm from his father, many long and sometimes lean years to apprehend that he might possibly have things in common with "low tariff cranks...

...But both movements testify to an awakening consciousness on the part of Americans of the various old-world cultures which all have their share in the background of our nationhood...

...But long before this committee had been authorized—or rather, discountenanced—the Senator had engaged in that touching personal correspondence with President Calles which has now been made public property...

...The big thing is the aroma—even the very pious aroma—with which the offering is dedicated to the great Borah...

...There can be no doubt that radio conditions have reached a state where some scientific adjustment and regulation is necessary...

...Nevertheless, the Faith progresses there steadily, tranquilly, in the same spirit as obtained when Saint Francis braved the terrors of the sultan...

...COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY, New York City, has established another "international contact" with the recently opened Institute of Polish Culture...

...Inaugurated as the campaign of a bloc and directed on behalf of interests as "special" as any organization of bankers or of manufacturers, its continuance may have the result of consolidating the forces of those who are opposed to special privileges for any group...

...He questions the constitutionality of the measure...

...It has brought popular political organization out of the dark, and given it status and a sense of responsibility...

...Chicago citizens are interested in their great municipality and anxious to provide for its needs...

...One look at the Chicago condition ought to convince anybody who still identifies Tammany Hall and corruption that the New York institution has accomplished the very thing of which the middle-western metropolis is so much in need...

...Now here was the maximum of the wishes of each party...

...but it should be remembered that the dirt to be removed is exceptionally menacing...

...He had, of course, assumed that as chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee he was the man chosen to supply the nation with that accurate, unbiased information which neither Mr...

...President Coolidge's veto of the McNary-Haughen measure, though expected, will tend to make this very dubious system of price-fixing the thing round which justly dissatisfied farmers are expected to rally...

...IT IS often objected (with a serious disregard for the rules of refutation) that tabloid newspapers and lurid "art" magazines do more harm than all the skilfully executed works of dramatic and artistic genius...

...DO THE recent Chicago primaries indicate that Mayor Dever's administration has so well pleased and unified the better citizens that all the rest have rallied in dismay round the standard of William Hale Thompson...

...Each manifestation of lack of willingness to change it encourages those who clamor for public ownership, and makes for them new supporters—not because public ownership promises efficiency in operation, but because it holds promise of a full coal-bin...

...Doubtless the Baumes system is not dedicated to humanitarian standards, and doubtless it treats some offenders unfairly...

...i HERE is one feature of this fight which has resulted in the veto which is peculiar and significant...

...ABOUT as neat a right-about-face as one has seen executed in many a day, must be credited to Mr...

...The miners were determined, if possible, to extend the Jacksonville agreement for another two years...

...What was passing through the minds of the British ambassador and the British consul-general, both of whom are members of the Catholic Church which built and embellished every one of the famous shrines which are now in possession of "the church by law established," can only be conjectured...

...It affords an additional powerful urge to reform which, though based on fear, does not run counter to the basic purposes of parole boards and similar organizations...

...but it will be all the healthier for preserving contact with its roots and conserving (without adulteration) the sap that has moved up from them...

...He performs a public service in pressing such a demand...

...When it became evident that the "without-this-nothing" attitude only stiffened with argument, one would naturally expect that both sides would have invited arbitration...

...but she is right there just the same, with a cynical adaptation of that comedy of adultery which has been the curse of the French stage for twenty-five years...

...challenges its workability and estimates its economic cost...

...As for the public, it seems to favor a penal code designed to render visits to unoccupied apartments by unscrupulous gentlemen few and far between...

...criticizes the fact that it "singles out a few products" for artificial regulation, to the detriment of "other farmers" as well as of the industrial public...

...It is estimated that today his sons minister to some hundred thousand faithful in upper and lower Egypt...

...They do harm, of course...

...The theme is, as might be expected, The Captive...

...Now comes L. C. Stewart, president of the National Federation of Federal Employes, who charges, in a letter sent to President Coolidge, that "favoritism based on religious, as well as political and social considerations, is one of the sinister forces making for deterioration of the federal service...

...Who, indeed, was so well qualified to say just how matters looked from the inside as that arbiter of justice, truth, and social prudence...

...and it is extremely improbable that they can manage a satisfactory rebuttal of its sound economics...

...Nor is it always easy to correct such conditions when politics is being played all the time...

...Probably, however, their thoughts were not much different from those of their coreligionists in England when the latter learned that the Anglicans of York were arranging to celebrate with elaborate services, the thirteenth centenary of the founding of the marvelous minster which was seized by Queen Elizabeth in 1559...

...They are recommended as having teeth which snap even at too lenient judges and district-attorneys...

...It would be nothing short of folly on the part of agricultural reformists if they refused to weigh the President's argument...

...The work of the Friars Minor in the valley of the Nile is, however, centuries old...

...In fact, the vicariat touches, in one place, the boundaries of Palestine, thus virtually enclosing the route taken by the French missionaries in the Holy Land when they accepted the invitation of Ferdinand de Lesseps, and came to minister to laboring throngs...

...Instead, they reported disagreement and began to weep crocodile tears over the strike which loomed as inevitable...

...For their benefit, and for the enlightenment of us all, the President's explanation deserves a wide and fair reading...

...Here we are expending an almost infinite sum of money, brains, time, and virtue trying to prepare a selected group of people for the duties of civics and civilization...

...It was up to him, as the champion of anti-imperialistic democracy, to head an investigating committee empowered to tour Latin America and find out the lay of the land...

...One fancies the point is not so much a violation of the Logan Act, which forbids such correspondence between citizens and foreign governments as is likely to embarrass the administration...

...The argument to "be good" will come with more force when it is stabilized by the vision of inescapable prison...

...But politics in Chicago is not always equivalent to civic enterprise...

...A conference followed for the purpose of discovering what each was willing to concede, in order that a new agreement might be effected...

...And the result...

...Of course, it is an affair in which Aphrodite's veil is discreetly opaque...

...One may note gratefully also that these new contacts are wholesome in character, thus pleasantly offsetting the nostalgia and naturalistic chaos that have been so widely recommended here as "Europe...

...A flock of unfeathered goslings sneaking into cheap recasts of vile French comedy, and drawing on their dads for first editions of pornography...

...and the aspect of two rows of stagnant subway faces, half-hidden behind newsprint embellished with portraits of frowzy adulteresses and night-club habitues, is about as vigorous a challenge to Christian charity as can be imagined...

...But in the final analysis, it may prove advantageous even to many agencies which attempt to redeem those who manifest criminal tendencies or "instincts...

...One may wish this endeavor to perpetuate Gaelic culture well, while regretting a little that it could not have been identified somewhat more closely with Ireland, where the Gaelic language and tradition have entailed so much sacrifice, even in our own time...

...Already there is talk of overtures to advocates of tariff reform, and it begins to look as though the very forces which launched the drive for special favors for a certain section of a particular class will be responsible for a real revival of the tariff issue as a major topic in the next presidential campaign...

...Almost simultaneously it was announced that funds were being collected in the United States for a Gaelic university to be built in the Scottish highlands...

...The Scotch," it is said by way of explanation, "have contributed much to the finer side of American civilization...

...Monsignor Dreyer will, of course, have charge of a region considerably more vast than Port Said, and the two or three other towns near the canal which harbor Catholic congregations...

...That the information which came from the very citadel of Calles impartiality was almost verbally the same as that which had been given out by the "Mexican government" through more public channels, is only one ironical characteristic of this epoch-making correspondence...

...Under the Classification Act of 1924, the Personnel Classification Board was instructed to make a survey and establish standards of qualifications, duties in the several grades, and lines of promotion which must be recognized...

...for subterranean cabals and reigns of terror...

...Port Said affords an interesting example of polyglot, cosmopolitan Catholicism, and has a curious 482 history...

...In addition to issuing licenses, the commissioners will determine wave-lengths, assign locations for various classes of stations, and exercise authority in a dozen other matters whch may "promote public convenience or interest, or serve public necessity.11 All licenses now held will expire on April 24...

...the operators, alleging restrictions under this contract which hampered them in their business, were united in their resolve not to agree to such extension...

...IT IS scarcely likely that there will be any wild scramble for positions on the Radio Control Commission, which will be created in the near future as a result of the new law which went into effect when President Coolidge signed the compromise bill passed by Congress...

...Undoubtedly the country is not yet prepared to see a chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee assume the functions of chief executive—even though that chairman be the great Borah...

...They are now rescued from attacks by members of the 481 bar, by a decision handed down by Judge Crane, in the Court of Appeals...

...It is a rotten condition...

...It is desirable that the United States tree should flourish and bring forth fruit of its own...

...THE appointment of a vicar apostolic to the region of the Suez Canal is an ecclesiastical event more than usually colorful...

...Of course, there was immediate denial from departmental heads of any such condition, although all Washington knew that the Klan was making great efforts at that time to strengthen itself in the national capital...

...ABOUT a year ago, Archbishop Curley, of Baltimore, publicly charged that religious discrimination was general in several of the federal departments and bureaus in Washington "under the very shadow of the White House...

...Suddenly, before you are aware of what is going on, this illustrious censor of the canaille and other puritans, turns and thunders almost perfect scholastic doctrine at you anent the subject of art and morals...

...One is inclined to believe, furthermore, that the real problem lies in changing that "criminal environment" which cannot be improved by remedying the more general sources of social evil...

...As Mr...

...However, if the members of the new board, none of whom will have any financial interest in the manufacture of radio apparatus, or in the transmission or operation of radio telegraphy, radio telephony, or radio broadcasting, show they are earnestly endeavoring to improve conditions, with fear of none and special favors for none, they will have a public opinion quickly formed and loyal in supporting them...

...Tradition weighs heavily in the support of industrial protection...

...The rapid growth of the city seems to have precluded party organization on a basis thoroughly above board...

...Coolidge nor the State Department could be depended upon to supply...

...If so, they might well try the test which Mr...

...During the past few years, much has been done to meet them, but that "much" is only a good start which other honest administrations will have to carry on long after Mayor Dever will have been removed by old age...

...It is pointed out that the laws are mandatory and must be obeyed...

...Finally, the laws tend during the course of their operation to eliminate from society those hardened cases which never do prove amenable to reason, leaving the social worker free to devote himself to individuals of the better sort...

...as there are some 18,000 of these, including 725 broadcasting stations, more than half of which will have to be shut down in the effort to establish a satisfactory condition of less interference and greater efficiency, it is likely that about the twenty-fifth day of next month, much wailing and gnashing of teeth will be noted in all parts of the country...

...it seems to be a condition peculiar to the coal industry...

...George Jean Nathan, of the American Mercury...

...During 1862 an epidemic of typhoid fever broke out, and an encampment of laborers refused to stay unless the friar who was laboring as a missionary in the neighborhood would take up his residence among them...