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...Indeed, during moments of fine logical insight, it is likely enough that he really hopes that the Catholic Church will retain its hold upon the majority of Mexicans...

...The towns and farms within flood area have to take their chance, which fortunately enough is not exacted more frequently than once in a generation...

...Advocates of trenchant language, old-fashioned champions of the phrase that really means something, will be apt to find it a little over-diplomatic...

...At any rate, Bishop McConnell has addressed to the Christian Advocate a paper dealing with the religious situation in Mexico which, though it does not take full measure of Catholic thought on the subject or abandon a frankly Protestant point of view, is deserving of attention and sincere respect...

...Often his counsel has been qualified by a fairness and sanity deserving of more imitation than it has received...

...It would have been sharper had not the burking of all discussion on the freedom of the seas at Britain's dictation smothered it at the start...

...IN ANOTHER section of this issue we publish an interesting account of the famous Veil of the Virgin, devotion to which was so marked throughout the middle-ages, and of the quaint observances connected with it...

...We have consistently failed to understand why he and his compeers have not won out over the credulous, misinformed Samuel Guy Inman type of missionary...

...THE lot of a member of the present British cabinet, like that of a policeman, is not a happy one...

...NO CHARGE against Protestantism or, speaking more exactly, Protestant ideology, has been more deadly than that, by consecrating wealth as a symbol of merit, and even while maintaining corporal works of mercy, it abandoned this old attitude of reverence for the deprived folk who, in a homely phrase full of significance, were once termed "God's poor...

...To the researches into the past of its secretary-archivist, M. L'Abbe Delaporte, much of the out-of-the-way information contained in Miss Maydwell's article is due...

...It is evident that the Trades Union Defense Committee, a joint body representing the Labour party and the Trades Union Congress, will conduct a vigorous and intensive campaign in every constituency in the country against the bill...

...But if the American voice scores low marks for intimate communication, it takes its revenge where the teaching of large masses, seen or unseen, are concerned...

...Destitution," as Beatrice and Sydney Webb remind us in the first volume of their English Poor Law History, just published in London, "was in effect adjudged to be a public nuisance, like muck-heaps, or vermin, or vagrants...

...To the lame and the halt it is always evident that the Church is the source of lawlessness and violence in Mexico, and that a government wholly dependent for its existence upon military drill is pacific and lamblike...

...But it is difficult for people not familiar with the scene to realize the full extent of the great river's fury in times like these...

...Some say outright that they cannot believe in God, but that they do believe in humanity, and they ask if there is some way in which they can support Protestantism for its human usefulness without accepting its thought of the Divine...

...Those who have sat at the back of a hall, suffering from the conversational pitch of much heralded lecturers from across the Atlantic, will not see in this stamp of artistic approval set upon an English voice any insinuation that the American voice, simply because it still has a great deal to learn, has nothing to teach...

...That the measure is extreme in its proposals is at once apparent to those who know the conditions under which labor unions operate in the United States...

...The argument depends, of course, entirely upon one's view of the function of government...

...To affect to see no possible divergence ahead, with such recent history as background, seems unduly optimistic even for a post-prandial mood...

...But just as a wholly impregnable line of defenses is unknown in military annals, so dikes which can be relied upon to stem the impact of the river's current have not yet been devised...

...They are likely to fall outright into atheism...

...READ in every Catholic church in the archdiocese of New York, and broadcast nation-wide over the radio, the appeal of Cardinal Hayes for our poor and suffering brethren comes as a reminder to the charitable and a challenge to the indifferent or preoccupied, no less urgent because it has become an annual and foreseen event...

...The Bishop feels that the root of the trouble is exaggerated respect for the state on the part of officials, although he adds his belief that the Catholic Church has demanded too much...

...and this nuisance had to be abated in the manner and by the officers prescribed by the law...

...But, for some strange reason, even Protestant missionary forces in the United States —constantly on the alert against the machinations of Rome—no longer quite believe these established truths...

...The wording of the questions put to prospective talesmen last week leaves one with the impression that the only juror really acceptable to the Snyder defense would have been a celestial visitant just fallen from Mars, or an explorer rescued from a six months' sojourn on the banks of the River of Doubt and kept incommunicado pending his production in Queens County court-house...

...We certainly think in much the same terms...

...Houghton...

...But such matters of detail take a back seat before the inner implications of this Georgia cotton baron's ukase...

...Houghton, "prepared, if need be, to impose its collective will by force, would, if it were possible, tend neither to produce peace nor assure our mutual security...

...Its promulgation may be expected to strengthen the Labour party in many parts of the country, and is bound to plague the Conservatives at the next general election...

...rvARITY creates legend, and the golden voice of Edith Wynne Mathison was a tradition years before the Academy of Arts saw fit to confer a gold medal upon it...

...WITH all respect, we find a great deal of hesitation, and believe it shared by a majority of our fellowcitizens...

...The editor plans seven series devoted to as many separate national schools of painting, and announces that the first, which deals with Italian art, will comprise seven portfolios containing in all 100 reproductions, together with appropriate comment...

...Anderson's conception of the functions of ministers of religion is a rigidly spiritual one...

...To trust that they have brought us any nearer to remedial measures which will restore a modicum of common sense to the prelim706 inaries of our criminal procedure would be an abuse of the divine faculty of hope...

...The "kind of future" envisaged by the two English-speaking nations was contrasted, on one side by an open scramble for mandated territories, on the other by a resolute standing aside from territorial acquisitions, only coupled with a request that sources of raw materials should remain common property...

...Recently the Supreme Court of the United States declared that a certain Indiana union could not refuse to complete work on stone partially cut in non-union quarries because the product entered interstate commerce and a union refusal to deal with it would violate the anti-trust law against combinations in "restraint of trade...

...The Bishop justly concludes that this is not an attitude of mind which any church can regard with satisfaction, provided it retains some consciousness of its religious mission...

...If you accept Socialist control of production and distribution as the possible ultimate function of the state and then set out to formulate something equally drastic but different in character, you will arrive at the Fascist notion of a government authorized to enforce the "peaceful cooperation" of industrial agents...

...These will begin with a procession through the Cathedral on May 31, conferences and conducted visits during the next two days, interspersed with religious services...

...THE commercial status of the "Bibb Manufacturing Company, of Macon, Georgia," is unknown to us, still more so the social significance in his community of Mr...

...Its only result would be 704 to unite all the rest of the world against us...

...Bishop McConnell of Pittsburgh has, of course, never represented extremists among his brethren...

...This special quality may be said to come from the covenanted place that the poor man or woman holds in the older Church...

...Now, through the efforts of Dr...

...The ideal acting voice is modulated...

...Nevertheless, "I know too well what happens in Mexico when Roman Catholics become indifferent to their Church without making connection with some other religious organization...

...To say that the proceedings cast fresh discredit upon the chaos into which the preliminaries of our criminal trials have been allowed to drift, would be a very moderate expression of opinion...

...1 HE Fascist Charter of Labor is based on a kind of logic that would not be acceptable in the United States...

...The right to challenge the panel, if it is to be preserved us, must be freed from the disrepute that is overtaking it at the hands of "fighting" counsel...

...Until recently, however, it seemed impossible to produce adequate reproductions in the United States, although several European printers, notably the Germans, had achieved distinguished success...

...Even so, the record of great floods is extensive enough to include huge chronicles of sacrifice and heroic action which, though not well remembered or often celebrated by poets, are glorious additions to the national history...

...RUSKIN'S advice to "live long in the presence of great art" is still the best rule for all those who honestly desire to know the beauty of nobly conceived canvases...

...They will be interested to know that a very active "Society of Friends of the Cathedral" exists and is making it its business to remedy this...

...To bring the English-speaking nations together into an armed exclusive group," declared Mr...

...Normally rather placid and amenable, the Mississippi becomes, during flood periods, a veritable inland ocean, lashed into white foam by tremendous waves and rushing ahead with a force that seems almost bestial...

...They avoid that haziness of outline which seems to characterize so much work of this kind, and their effectiveness is heightened by the use of excellent materials that convey the full artistic values in each masterpiece...

...Not only is the power to strike restricted, and picketing made almost impossible, but unions are deprived of their legal right to raise political funds, civil servants are prevented from joining with other workers, and any sympathetic strike is made liable to condemnation as criminal...

...And the pious chairman of the Bibb Company goes on to accuse the pastors who have disturbed the secular calm of "model" mill villages by their report with lack of "tact . . . information, training and experience...

...The question of enlarging the franchise for women caused dissension and trouble enough, and now comes the necessity of defending the drastic Trade Disputes bill, which will be introduced in Parliament as a government measure this month...

...Nevertheless, it must be frankly admitted that the American method of "industrial freedom" is an experiment which, for all its attractiveness, may fail unless the two elements in industry can bring "voluntary cooperation" to something like the same stage of efficiency as the government of Mussolini promises to achieve by peremptory method of mandate...

...Men whose interpretation of things necessary for salvation the godly South is quite prepared to write into its legislation are represented as careless, insincere and subject to "sinister influences" the moment their counsels leave the sphere of divinity and enter that of dividends...

...But their effect is impaired, if it is not negatived, by words that went before it, demonstrating the ease and naturalness with which Anglo-American cooperation can be secured without the fuss and trouble of protocols and commitments...

...In a country and age where charity is well-nigh universal, there is no ground for laying claim to a distinctively Catholic quality in the sentiment that hastens to the succour of human distress and human pain...

...By so doing, it releases a spirit too long held in bondage by the material view of wealth and poverty, and diffuses it in a measure that must inevitably transcend the confines of Catholic discipline and communion...

...The spiritual leaders who in a few months' time may be rallying the faithful to the support of free churches in a free country are seen to be at odds themselves with Erastian tyranny in a very mean and very petty form...

...Francis Pristera, Ph.D., L.H.D., professor in Fordham University, there is being offered to the public a set of art portfolios which combines tact in the selection and discussion of pictures with attractiveness of execution...

...AFTER a week of challenges, peremptory and otherwise, which seemed designed to make the fortune of the paragraphist and cartoonist, the sordid Snyder case is in the hands of a jury and may be left there...

...The difference in values was apparent from the very first meeting in Paris that followed the Armistice...

...We believe that no conception is so fraught with international peril, nor so responsible for rendering discussion on arms limitations and other contentious matters futile, as the idea, from whatever quarter propagated, that American and English delegates come into every conference with an Anglo-Saxon gentlemen's agreement between them, conscious or "unconscious," from which other parties to the discussion are excluded...

...Nevertheless, it may with justice 705 be asserted that, in the spirit with which Catholic charity is administered, a certain quality inheres that is part and parcel of Catholic belief...

...As to the possible dangers of an alliance, we will carry Mr...

...AMBASSADOR HOUGHTON'S recent speech before the Manchester Chamber of Commerce upon the pros and cons of an Anglo-American alliance was a nicely calculated affair and does credit to the talent for suave oratory possessed by our envoy to Britain...

...He adds that he has good reason for thinking so, "for just after those laws were passed, President Carranza told me personally that they were so aimed and that other religions—'religiones1 was his word—had nothing to fear...

...But when the latter cracks the whip over "forty-one southern bishops and ministers" who have lately issued a report describing the conditions in mill villages as "deplorable" and urging their abolition, we hope the thoughtful world is listening in...

...The Supreme Court dissenting opinion, however, held that the Indiana union action was proper and reasonable because it was the only means of self-protection "a small craft of workingmen" had against "a combination of powerful and militant employers...

...So much, it seems to me, we may accept without hesitation...

...It chuckles over them, makes them matter of flippant comment, and does not, apparently, see that by the reduction to absurdity of a very precious palladium it is playing into the hands of those who are avowed enemies of the jury system and advocates of juridical dictation...

...Perhaps nowhere else have United States engineers expended so much skill in erecting fortifications as in the Mississippi country...

...But if you believe a certain amount of "laissez-aller" necessary in order to preserve economic relations from rigidity and political meddling, you will stand with the American Federation of Labor and most of American capital in believing that anything like compulsory arbitration and contract fixing is reprehensible...

...These are wise words, and one hopes their echo will reach at least as far as Shanghai...

...It rises and falls: it is full of delicate shades of intonation that almost demand visual aid for their full comprehension...

...But, if they are further from the sun, there is no Catholic worthy of the name but will feel that they are, for their very suffering, appreciably nearer heaven...

...And it is a voice that, for reasons which we have no time to linger upon, is found oftener in the old country than the new...

...The recent ghastly train hold-up in the mountains of Jalisco was executed by ferocious bandits who, if one may credit the news, showed no quarter to women and children...

...Undoubtedly the demand for relief will be answered satisfactorily, and further steps will be taken to fortify the levees...

...Somewhere between the Church militant and the Church suffering, a body of brothers and sisters in the Faith has always been recognized to exist, who are working out their salvation or reparation in an earthly purgatory and who, in the words of a great but unbelieving writer, seem to live "on a planet much further from the sun than ours...

...Thus Mr...

...They will judge that our ambassador, in an endeavor to make amends for the douche of cold water thrown upon the idea of an alliance, went a little further than was wise in conceding an understanding which really amounts to much the same thing in the end...

...Houghton's thought a little further than he seems to have cared, under the circumstances, to carry it...

...Just now even those most distant from the Mississippi may well join the work of rescue by contributing a little of their wealth, so that the task of rehabilitation may proceed more quickly and amply...

...The public has grown used to these farcical displays, where a will to dodge jury service goes half-way to meet the forehanded resistance of the defense...

...Its strident and resonant quality, its more liberal use of emphasis, even the differences in accentuation that have insinuated themselves as time went on, make it a splendidly practical medium for the lecture platform, the telephone or the radio...

...Much of this program, which must be defended from public platforms by the members of the cabinet in the next few weeks, looks antiquated if not almost obsolete...

...A TORRENTIAL Mississippi once more harasses the south-central states, impoverishing whole towns and threatening to take a vast toll of lives...

...The outstanding merit of the task to which the Catholic Charities body has addressed itself is that it restores to good works carried out upon an imposing scale, the ancient conception, not of a nuisance to be abated, but rather of a debt to be discharged...

...solemn High Mass on Whit Sunday, and, to close the celebration, a procession on Whit Monday through the streets of the ancient city, bearing the relic associated so greatly and picturesquely with its secular life for eleven centuries...

...W. D. Anderson, its president...

...Intending tourists who are led by it to include Chartres in their itinerary may be glad to know something of the order of services arranged for Whitsuntide...

...Consciously or unconsciously, we are seeking for the same kind of a future...

...On the face of it, and without having read the report, a course in economics and mill management does not strike us as necessary before forty-one presumably educated men can speak with conviction on what they have seen, heard and smelled around them...

...In fact, however, the laws are being put into force quite impartially...

...Many publishers have tried to make it practicable for those who do not possess the leisure to haunt the great museums and the still more instructive "monuments...

...We need the help of our bishops and church leaders," he is reported as telling his brother members of the Georgia Association of Cotton Manufacturers recently, "but not at the point where they are seeking to inject themselves...

...BlSHOP McCONNELL agrees that the Mexican anti-religion laws "are aimed chiefly at the Roman Catholic Church...

...Many visitors to Chartres of late have been saddened by the evident need of repair of one of the most perfect Gothic fanes in Europe...

...Characteristically, the official report declared that the robbers had been organized by the Catholic episcopate and led by priests—a declaration which the government itself does not believe, but which seemed expedient propaganda...

...Neither labor nor employers' associations here would be prepared to admit that industrial relations must be determined by judicial arbitration...

...The level, grassy lowlands are difficult to defend against its ravages...

...We have the same scale of values, we want the same kind of a world...

...Having seen the first issue, we can testify to the ample dimensions, the charm and the deft execution of these photogravures...

...One of the most pathetic features in the Mexican situation is the wistful eagerness with which some of the leaders in Mexico's political and educational circles look upon the human serviceableness of the Protestant churches...

...It is rather notable that American comedians, when they seek to reproduce the English voice for purposes of ridicule, insist upon this flexibility, and, in the case of men at least, convey a hint of something approaching unmanliness...