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...As a Catholic and a wet, he would strike a completely new note...

...WHILE one may not agree with every deduction drawn by Isaac F. Marcosson in his series of articles on conditions in Mexico, now appearing in the Saturday Evening Post, it is a source of satisfaction that the conditions themselves should be disclosed competently and fully in a publication of such wide circulation...

...Their skulls, though actually of the long, narrow type, as might be expected of Scandinavians, are yet not far from being brachycephalic, or broad-headed...

...If they did, they would address him in a manner which would make him understand that he has definite obligations to others...

...Furthermore, he pointed out that President Borno, lifted into office by United States mandate, was not constitutionally eligible for the position...

...Moore's charitable implication, contains a despatch from M. Jules Sauerwein, of the Paris Matin...

...and the judges and magistrates who shall try such cases are authorized to cancel permits...

...The Pan-American Union is not strong enough to master the situation, but it may conceivably serve as the nucleus for a new and adequate organization which can be called into being if there is sufficient good will...

...The life in religion of this soldier-priest, though necessarily brief, was intense and largely spent in the confessional...

...THE call to the sacred ministry did not reach General Fosco until late in life and when retired from the army by the regulation age-limit...

...Drinking in public is prohibited, all liquor having to be consumed in residences—which term is held to include rooms in hotels and clubs...

...A VERY curious and interesting discovery has just been made in the choir of Saint Magnus's Cathedral, in the Orkney Islands...

...Yet this is probably the case in which transition is felt as least abrupt...

...There are those who will challenge another statement that to urge our government's obligations to its citizen bondholders and taxpayers is to evade the real issue "which does not concern the relation of the government to the people, but our national policy toward certain other states...

...He likewise drew attention to visible practical results—prosperity, order, good roads, sanitation...

...IT IS encouraging to note that the fear of Al Smith, which has recently driven the "comedian of the Senate" into a variety of antics, seems to be dying out even in quarters where one might have expected it to linger on...

...but it cannot easily help recognizing the value of Professor Moon's concluding recommendation: "If, when armed intervention seemed necessary to check disorders, we could call upon some international body, such as the Pan-American Union, to pass on the facts and acknowledge the necessity for intervention, the United States would be less open to the charge of aggression...

...it may cancel permits without giving any reason, and it is expressly stated that none of the board's rulings are subject to revision by any court in the land...

...M. Sauerwein's description of the terrible Soviet leader as a bluff and good-natured person—"a cross between a notary taken from Balzac, and an old-fashioned sea-captain"—is good journalese, and can be let go at that...

...This puts any discussion which may follow on a new plane...

...We do need to think ot American problems internationally, as Europe is thinking of continental problems internationally...

...Perhaps they do not...

...Thomas F. Millard, a resident for many years of the treaty port, and quite evidently conversant with the situation which has culminated in a demand that extra-territoriality should cease...

...OUCH a situation is interesting because it attracts attention to the complexity of American relations in the Caribbean and districts further south...

...That everybody—Catholic and Protestant— ought to view men in public life frankly, and disagree with them if necessary, is, of course, conceded...

...But it is also easily within the range of possibility that the attractive qualities, political skill, and fine public record of Al Smith might upset all political reckonings, confound all religious bigots and temperance fanatics, and bring him and his party to power...

...Walter Scott Penfield made the point that protectorates, acquisitions, and spheres of influence as they now figure in United States policy grew out of the duty to protect property in areas made chaotic by revolution and bad government...

...DUT then, Ontario is not going into the bootlegging business on its own account...

...For his statement, contained in a despatch printed on March 8, that "the suffering of the Chinese people" debarred (by the strike) from their natural function of working for the foreign concessionaires, "is everywhere heartening to behold," we would like to think an error in proof-reading was responsible...

...Governor Smith, apart from offering the certain promise of carrying a great pivotal state, has a nation-wide fame and fund of popularity with the working-classes of the North...

...The attempt along these lines in this country was as ignominious as it was expensive...

...Millard's thoughtful articles...

...One of the remarkable features of the bill is the severity of the penalties which it imposes for any infraction of the proposed law...

...A particularly interesting case of the kind is recalled by the death of Padre Fosco of the Dominican order, once (in the world and the Italian army list) General Alfonso Fosco, commander of the military division of Padua...

...but it will require some courage for the party managers to risk the antagonism of such formidable organizations as the Anti-Saloon League...

...It was eminently fitting that United States District-Attorney Buckner, in New York, should have admitted, in filing a nolle prosequi dismissing an indictment obtained a year ago against a large denaturing plant, that the government would be unable to produce evidence which might reasonably be relied upon to result in conviction...

...and distilleries and breweries, which will operate under the supervision of government inspectors, may sell only to the government itself...

...But whether one agrees or disagrees with the statement of President Hibben issued as explanatory of Princeton's stand, it is at least frank and clear...

...The commission created to administer it is given wide powers...

...1 HE same issue of the Times that gives us Mr...

...It looks as though bootlegging in Ontario will be neither as lucrative nor as safe as it is under prohibition in the United States...

...Upon several occasions, the Senator has seen fit to upbraid United States policy in Haiti...

...The act is so worded that by the powers given to the commission, that body may, at its discretion, give to hotels the privilege of selling wine and beer with meals, but does not, by its own wording, confer such privilege...

...Individuals convicted of selling liquor must go to jail for two months without the option of a fine...

...Recently the London New Statesman commented upon the situation in terms which deserve to be noted in this country...

...They demonstrate that the key to the state of constant turmoil is found in the closely coordinated class-government, in which a particular group, having gained power by force, retains it by the same means, with contempt for all forms of law and with disregard of all obligations to the nation as a whole...

...In neither one life nor the other is personal gain the object, and the man who has "endured hardness like a good soldier" is not likely to repine at it as a good priest...

...Druggists are not permitted to sell liquor, which will only be obtainable at government stores...

...Cultivated Protestants have, of course, long since agreed that opposition to a presidential candidate merely because of his religion would be morally indefensible...

...It was a moving sight," we are told, and can well believe, "to see this man, already old, seated among the youthful aspirants for the sanctuary...

...After declaring that Governor Smith is "today the most interesting personality in the public life of the United States," the editor went on to say: «< WHAT are the chances for this man to secure the Democratic nomination...

...Dingwall, though a royal borough and a place of great antiquity, has a population of not more than two thousand, and owes its name to the Norse "thingvollr," or "field of the meeting...

...He was, in short, acting as a critic of the State Department, over which the Senate is expected to exercise some mild surveillance...

...IT WOULD be difficult to state both sides of a vital matter more fairly and succinctly than these two speakers did...

...Perusal of the provisions of the measure introduced into the legislature by Premier Ferguson, shows that this will be an act with teeth in it...

...Discipline, respect for delegated authority, have become second nature...

...Saint Rognwald, a famous Norseman, founded this cathedral, but Saint Magnus (also Norse) to whom it is dedicated, was its more prominent patron...

...and in the general breakdown of normal party lines which would ensue, ordinary political calculations would cease to operate...

...Public opinion may well weigh the two statements carefully...

...Thence they were taken to another church, and finally to the little cathedral...

...This is particularly true when the grizzled neophyte is an old soldier or sailor...

...An illuminating debate upon this problem, staged under the auspices of the Foreign Policy Association at Albany, New York, reflected very well two currents of opinion on the subject...

...537 THE action of the 116 members of the Princeton faculty in endorsing the desire expressed last December by the faculty of political science of Columbia University for a reconsideration of the settlement of the Allied debts, will let loose another flood of letters to the newspapers...

...To some extent there exists also a legitimate "interest" in the Panama Canal, the safety of which must be maintained...

...For this reason, if for no other, it is well that the members of the Princeton faculty should have made public their views on the question...

...Does the State Department, tired of senatorial prying into a very tangled and difficult Nicaraguan situation, wish to keep the public eye off Haiti for the present...

...Millard's comments on the changing situation were not couched in language that aimed to please the British authorities, either on the spot or at Downing Street, and it is with more regret than surprise that we see him replaced by Mr...

...Harsh, domineering, the demagogue who professes the most profound love for the peon, yet himself maintains an immense estate, he appears sinister and impressively typical...

...On the other hand, with the convincing evidence of the growth of anti-prohibitionist sentiment provided by the referenda of last November, and with the Republican party irretrievably committed to dryness, elementary considerations of political strategy would seem to dictate the choice of a wet candidate by the Democrats...

...THE Liquor Control Act for Ontario appears to have been well named...

...Works on China of your eighteenth-century Jesuits,' he says...

...On a clear issue of fact, Mr...

...Only at the end of his studies did Don Fosco reveal the fact that he had been a soldier, and a brilliant one, with a long record of active service in Africa...

...High up in the choir, with pillars on each side, two skeletons have recently been found, walled up in niches...

...IT IS no disrespect to the vast majority of our priesthood, who take the beaten track to the altar by way of school, college and seminary, to admit that there is, to the lay mind at least, something especially appealing in the history of eleventh-hour vocations...

...Radek showed me a shelf on which are very old volumes in superb morocco bindings...

...MORE than once in the recent past we have had occasion to congratulate the New York Times on the excellent correspondence it was receiving from Shanghai on the part of Mr...

...The head of the university takes the ground that in economics, as well as in morals, altruism is indistinguishable from true self-interest...

...I resisted the divine call as long as I could, esteeming myself unworthy," he admitted, "but after a Communion I made, Our Lord overcame my hesitancies...

...He talks glibly about fair play, and declares the authorities at Washington do not understand him...

...They have been very carefully examined by Professor Reid, a distinguished anthropologist, who seems to have made out as clear a case as possible for their complete identification as the skeletons of the two saints named above...

...This drift Professor Moon criticized as being contrary to the basic intent of the Monroe Doctrine, as involving "acts of military aggression," and as liable to serve the wishes of "private business interests...

...The more completely the facts are known regarding the situation in Mexico, the less need there will be for argument, or even discussion...

...The picture of Calles himself, drawn after an intimate study of the subject for several days, is illuminating...

...On the face of the matter, cheap 535 536 sneers at the Chinese demand for nationality, such cheering news for peace as the hint that a brigade of European troops with a free hand could bring the Celestial Empire to reason in short order, and considerable sophomoric humor whenever the more grotesque aspects of the Celestials intrude themselves, seem a poor exchange for Mr...

...Rather more to the point is a little anecdote that is not without its suggestions: "M...

...This describes an interview with M. Radek, professor at a university in Moscow, which is embarrassing Great Britain's efforts toward pacification on British terms by educating 6oo Chinese workers, men and women, in western methods...

...Or is he, perhaps, acting upon a suggestion from higher authority...

...Until such a thing is accomplished, the State Department may act with a comparatively easy conscience, but it will perennially have to face the protests of opinion at home and abroad...

...but thoughtful consideration of the relation of altruism to economics should at least widen the whole outlook in regard to the question of the debts...

...But in conclusion he made the very commendable statement that one should speak of foreign "situations" rather than of a foreign "policy...

...If so, there is really no way of telling whether Senator Borah may not be viewed with grave suspicion by President Diaz...

...These facts show clearly that, as Mr...

...A work very near to his heart was the abolition of dueling in the army, an incident of his youth, when he took part in an "affair of honor," as second, having remained the bitterest of all his old memories...

...He puts vastly more faith in the military than in the legislative personnel of the great "sister people" to whom he owes so much...

...and the Governor of New York will not be favored by fellow-Catholics who cannot accept his political standards...

...and persons found with liquor in their possession must prove that they obtained it from a government store or go to prison...

...Both the Icelandic and the Orkneyinga sagas agree that Saint Magnus was murdered—executed by beheading, it was called at that time—and that his remains, as those of a martyr, were taken from his grave and enshrined over the altar of Christ Kirk, Birsay, twenty years after his death...

...He maintained that the rule now established, wholly dependent as it is upon the will of the military commander, has nothing in common with "liberty...

...The plain fact of the matter is that the disclosure of the "under-covcr" methods of government agents in operating illegal liquor concerns for the purpose of trapping the bigger bootleggers, has made it almost impossible for any district-attorney in New York, where the government conducted its illegal business, to obtain a conviction from any liquor-trial jury...

...The campaign might be colored with tremendous bitterness...

...They are a hundred times superior to anything written by modern savants, and show a comprehension of the Chinese spirit which has never been equaled since.' " One likes to think that the generally fine attitude of the missionary body of all persuasions in the Chinese crisis, may owe a little to this old-time Jesuit "comprehension of the Chinese spirit" which the Soviet leader, to his credit be it said, was honest enough to praise...

...It is therefore impossible to avoid diagnosing the present queer decision of the Haitian President as anything save a resolve not to imperil his present comfortable status quo by putting up with mere official curiosity...

...Moore has already been taken to task by a Chinese graduate of the Yale department of education in what is, by contrast, a singularly temperate and convincing letter...

...His opponent, Professor Parker Thomas Moon, maintained that toward the end of the nineteenth century, interpretations of the Monroe Doctrine began to "change," there being a distinct drift toward what is call imperialism...

...Marcosson points out, the spiritual, as well as the business life of the neighboring republic is being impeded...

...The skulls of the majority of mediaeval ecclesiastics seem to belong to the broad, or round, group...

...Keeping his rank and station a secret, the Osservatore Romano tells us, the aging soldier came to Rome, lodged with the Benedictines of Saint Ambrogio, and attended courses of philosophy and theology...

...Frederick Moore, a lively writer with whose views and their expression the same fault is not to be found...

...If he were a Protestant, it would be handed to him on a silver platter...