Week by Week

...V J N E of the most significant items among the Pullman porters' demands is that the tipping system should cease...

...For work like that of the Economic Conference, it is best to put forward the modest claim that it is a good day of hard labor done for an excellent and vital cause...

...People have so readily outlined his difficulties for him that we here need do nothing further in that direction...

...The new law, whose ostensible aim, it need hardly be said, is the discouragement of the undesirable alien, hedges in residents (or visitors who stay more than three months) with a host of vexatious regulations eminently calculated to make them feel their apartness and condition of sufferance...

...Now, granted the propriety of this attitude, one has the right to expect that Freudianism show signs of development, of approach to definite formulae, of ability to absorb useful materials from other fields...

...But it is far, far below the standard of work and wages of which Americans are proud to boast, and there is no reason whatever against, and every reason for, its substantial betterment...

...DECEMBER will bring the fiftieth anniversary of an invention which has perhaps carried a greater volume of entertainment and brightness Into lonely and secluded lives than any within the past century...

...Probably the only public record of the Cross discovery today is contained in a back file of the Semaine du Clerge, a clerical organ at that time edited by the inventor's friend Abbe Lenoir...

...acres of soil and thirty buildings under the walls of their monastery where intending Catholic immigrants may make their acquaintance with the strenuous tasks that beset the settler in new lands, and may prove their fitness for them before embarking on the new life...

...Having been, so to speak, emigrated into the pre-industrial past, the guests of the brethren of Caldey Abbey may feel a reluctance, when the lesson is over and the signal for departure given, to go any further, and inclined to cry in chorus "Hie optime manebimus...

...This is a fate which many have anticipated and which, barring some details of evidence, is probably an advantage to scientific Investigation of human life...

...Precisely this expectation is steadily being undermined...

...This Russification," reports Baron Wrangel, "sometimes took grotesque forms...

...Men and women, who, upon rising to go, lay a far larger tip upon the tablecloth know or should know that their generosity is not putting one dime more in circulation than would be the case were the entire practice abolished tomorrow...

...Before their eyes the intending immigrants will have not only the example of men who have literally built up their own sacred enterprise from the ground by community of labor, but personal evidence of the extent to which prayer and brotherly unity can sweeten toil...

...Your Excellency,' Potapov's princely host interrupted, 'the man is a cook.' In response to the General's bewilderment, the host added: 'The fact is that it was impossible to find an Orthodox coachman to drive you in the whole town...

...When they found me firm in my decision, they, too, left, and on the way out one of them subscribed for the Eagle—making a net loss to the paper of one subscriber...

...The day is long past when Americans traveling in Europe, could note the practice of offering gratuities as one survival the more of vassaldom...

...I am a cook and not a coachman...

...His callers threatened dire things, and covered their respective exits with canceled subscriptions...

...The Conference, of course, "did" nothing...

...Nevertheless the struggle was not yet ended...

...There the appearance of petroleum in fabulous quantities has forced the market to take on a supply which brings the selling price of crude oil below the cost figure...

...You naturally thought it better that I should break my neck through the services of an Orthodox cook than that I should be properly driven by a Catholic coachman.'" In this case, which is typical enough, it was apparently impossible even to drive the horse to water...

...It is with the deeper regret, therefore, that we see the home of Gaston enacting in its General Assembly one of the most drastic acts ever prompted by racial discrimination...

...Potapov was unhurt, but his coachman was a pitiful sight...

...These priests proffered a paid reply in the form of a display advertisement, to the 'nun' ad...

...If this, in your opinion, is good Americanism, then the sooner you gentlemen tell me so, the better for all concerned...

...How could the struggle have been carried on without this priceless elixir of motion and mechanics...

...The bulk passes into the hands of thoroughly organized and very wide-awake groups of concessionaires and lessees...

...Yes, a cook I am, and Pve never driven a horse.' 'Poor devil,' said Potapov, 'he has lost his head completely...

...Though this will never be digested by any great number of people, it will ultimately reach the public through the filter of comment and leadership...

...It will be interesting to see how a law which, for all its air of cooperating with the federal authorities, has some air of usurping their function of deciding whether a man or woman is a fit and proper person to enter the United States, will fare if challenged in the Supreme Court...

...But we want to pay for this," said one of the gentlemen...

...The circumstance that even the Russian delegates indorsed the report, after having provided a few dramatic moments of dissent, has been considered a very hopeful sign...

...Unfortunately public opinion, expressed by a majority, is sometimes able to cast a halo of seeming righteousness about similar edicts...

...Other omens are no less discouraging...

...This narrative throws more light upon the relations between fairness and newspaper success than reams of comment could...

...It has been the lot of Pietro Gasparri, as Secretary of State, in other words as the mouthpiece of the Vatican in its domestic and foreign relations, to be the inevitable mark, not only for lofty and deserved praise, but for a certain amount of criticism, at times from quarters where better might have been expected...

...An "ex-nun" tramped to town, and two gentlemen identified with the Klan came in to secure advertising for her...

...Mercy...

...The sum of $72.50 a month for an average working day of thirteen hours, does not, on the face of it, seem generous compensation...

...We want to buy some of the advertising space you have for sale here...

...INTERESTING light on the relations between religious bigotry and the press is afforded by the anonymous writer of an article which appeared recently in Editor and Publisher...

...Exploitation long ago turned the change in our customs to its personal advantage...

...imposed by force, and will furnish the incentive to create a greater economic solidarity...

...When read a few months later in public sessions, the invention was adjudged highly technical and its possibilities attracted little attention...

...Probably thinking that he would be hanged, he cried, 'Mercy...

...TT IS difficult to see in the World Economic Confer•'• ence just brought to a close in Geneva more than an indication of what might be accomplished if public opinion throughout the world decided to enforce correlation between economic facts and political institutions...

...READERS of Newman, to say none other, do not need to be reminded that the followers of the Saint of Monte Cassino were pioneers in agriculture in days when most of the Europe we know today was a frontier, waiting to be drained, cleared and have the sun let in on it...

...It was on December 19, 1877, that Thomas Edison took out his first "talking machine" patent, modestly entitled "a perfection in Instruments to control the transmission of electric current by sound and for the reproduction of sound...

...The hearts of all Catholicsi and friends of Catholicism were with the Pontiff's Secretary of State during the commemoration of the awesome dignity that he shares with the lowliest ordained priest among his brethren in the Faith...

...NORTH CAROLINA was the native state of Judge William Gaston, whose famous speech against proposed religious discrimination, made in 1835 before the Constitutional Convention, struck the obnoxious clause out of the statute book...

...Just now it has come to the fore in connection with an effort being made by interested producers to curtail the output in the Seminole field...

...One may reasonably assume that it will collate an immense amount of useful material, gathered by trained economists representing varied fields of research and schools of opinion...

...But granted the fact that a well in action is about as hard to stop as a fire, that people will drill in the hope of getting as rich as somebody else, and that speculation is the very backbone of the industry—granted all this, we say, the problem seems vast and complex enough to suggest that agencies more thoroughly identified with the general welfare might well be interested in it...

...Now he thinks he is a cook.' 'As a matter of fact...

...The man who enters a crowded restaurant where no facilities for bestowing hat, coat and satchel are observable, is aware by now that only a small proportion of what) he will hand to a smiling attendant at the door later goes to her personal enrichment...

...Combine these three effects and you have a powerful cause of remedial activity...

...A goodly anecdote in support of this point is made by Baron Wrangel in a book—From Serfdom to Bolshevism—which the Lippincotts are just publishing...

...I repeated to them what I had said to my other visitors...

...What really has happened is that the good will of the public has been calculated in advance, and applied by shrewd wits to cut their own wage bill to the vanishing point...

...It is the autobiographical record of experiences garnered by a newspaper editor who acquired his paper at a time when its circulation had been seriously undermined by defections of both Klan and Catholic readers...

...Not only must they register with the clerk of any superior jurisdiction in which they happen to find themselves after ninety days, giving afresh all the details of birth, profession, previous residence, photograph, etc., that were required from them when landing, but the names and addresses of five persons who have known the deponents "for the longest period" are to be given and passed upon before unmolested residence may ensue...

...Suddenly the General's carriage was upset...

...In noticing the forthcoming semi-centennial...

...Recalled to Rome in 1901, he was entrusted by Pius X with a work whose magnitude is hard to over-estimate, namely the collection into one code of canon law of the innumerable pontifical bulls and decisions in Council contained in the Vatican archives...

...The smile which accompanies the stowage of lighter articles in the racks over their heads or the practised whisk of a brush over their shoulders as the train nears its destination are things for which a slight honorarium will never be grudged...

...When two Catholic priests, stirred by the publication of the 'nun' advertisement in the Eagle's rival, called on me, our canceled subscriptions still numbered two...

...It is hard to conceive of any scheme which appeals so to what might be called the practical imagination...

...It is with peculiar fitness, therefore, that the Benedictine community of Caldey Island, off the coast of South Wales, comes forward to offer one of the most practical suggestions on the problem of immigration that has been put forward in recent years...

...The report to be issued promises to demonstratd the significance of European productive depression to other nations, and to outline in particular the disturbing effect of tariff warfare...

...Cardinal Gasparri surveys half a century of arduous labor, in many lands and under many conditions...

...How could the bad situation be cleared up ? The daring editor decided to address the Rotary Club as follows: "Gentlemen, the Constitution of the United States guarantees to you and me, to every man, woman and child in Blanksburg, the right to worship God in any way each of us see,s fit...

...On April 30 of the same year Charles Cross or Cros (the name is spelled in both ways) deposited with the Academic des Sciences, in Paris, a sealed packet containing a minute and detailed description of a new process for "the registration and reproduction of phenomena perceived by the ear...

...England is over-crowded, and over-crowded precisely with the type of men and women who find pioneering conditions in the new countries a harsh ordeal, in which only the fittest can hope to survive and prosper...

...And the day I cannot run the Eagle successfully on this basis, that day I will lock the front door and shake the dust of Blanksburg off my feet for good and all...

...It deserves consideration and is getting it...

...The rest of the story can best be told in the author's own words...

...Its issue of October 10, 1877, contains an article of some length, largely dictated by Cross himself, in which, it is particularly interesting to note, the word "phonograph" makes its bow for the first time on any stage...

...As a result the profits of everybody interested have been severely curtailed, stocks have tumbled on the market, and—incidentally —people have begun to wonder whether waste might not be seriously depleting our natural resources...

...THE effect of this declaration was instantaneous and satisfactory...

...THE difficulties involved in trying to make a people uniform through the influence of legislation.are rather well known, though many seem fatally ready to disregard them...

...ALTHOUGH Professor Sigmund Freud established before a Vienna court the right of psychoanalysis to treat patients independently of medical science, it is plain that the normal physician in Central Europe regards Freudianism as an extremely dubious variety of therapeutics...

...This is quite in line with his previous declarations that psychoanalysis is not affected by philosophy or even other forms of psychology...

...So ideal are the conditions that only one difficulty looms ahead...

...Collins, the independent operator in charge of the curtailment work, every success...

...How often it is assumed, in almost all countries, that persons who do not bear the obvious trademarks of citizenship are incapable of being serviceable copartners in national enterprise, with the result that many a respectable cook goes about in the mental livery of a coachman...

...They will watch with sympathy, therefore, the efforts of Pullman porters and maids, reported from Washington, to organize themselves with a view to obtaining better conditions of service and pay...

...Some brief period of probation and readjustment before the final separation has taken place has often been put forward by thoughtful people, though rather as an ideal than as a plan possible of realization, and it is this ideal that the monks of Caldey, in whose traditions the word "fail" has never been given a prominent place, propose to make actual...

...In looking back over the fifty years of his ministry...

...That we in the United States may face a similar critical moment, in so far as our industry and transportation are concerned, has often been pointed out but seldom resolutely contemplated...

...If the action of the Pullman porters proves to be a wedge driven into an indefensible system, no believer in economic justice should care how far or how hard it is hammered in...

...In view, however, of what has recently been done to dynamite relations between the Soviet government and Great Britain, this "sign" looks more than relatively dim...

...They were informed that the paper had no space at its disposal...

...Indeed the reader of these chaotic chapters can hardly resist concluding that Freudianism is drifting, rudderless, toward vague generalities...

...We were driving with a whole string of carriages, with the General at the head, along a splendid road that had been specially made...

...Freud's latest books are not clarifications or simplifications of his doctrine, but inverted gropings which lead nowhere and almost seem to undermine points of view he had expressed before...

...La Vie Cathollque takes occasion to remind us that, though Edison was the first to apply the new process practically, his invention, in principle at least, had been forstalled some months previously...

...TRAVELERS by railroad who spend the night on a train or who choose, for shorter journeys, the comfort of a Pullman car, have little fault to find with the dark-skinned and liveried attendants who look after their comfort...

...But the editor was adamant...

...But there is no doubt among instructed Catholics that it marks one of the most important dates in ecclesiastical history...

...One wishes Mr...

...Today the only difference observable when traveling in the two continents is that tips on this side of the Atlantic are bigger and expected more as a matter of right and less as a matter of favor...

...Medical authorities in number declared that the method might do great harm if entrusted to practitioners untrained in any other science...

...The czar, so the story goes, had indorsed the plan to Russify Russia by insisting upon one language and one church...

...B Y A R R A N G E M E N T with the Catholic Emigration Society, and where possible, it is interesting to note, in cooperation with the National Catholic Welfare Conference Bureau of Immigration in this coun try, they propose to set aside fifty...

...One day I was accompanying General Potapov, who acquiesced in 'Russification' without approving it, on a tour of inspection...

...Professor Freud himself declared that his system could stand independently of all else, particularly medicine...

...Gradually, one hopes, the factual knowledge thus stored and tapped will modify fantastic theories and ambitions, will urge statesmen to rewrite destructive treaties...

...Recently, in fact, he dismissed critics of his theories with a gesture in which there was expressed an obvious willingness to stand apart from the rest of the exploring world...

...Eagle circulation recovered the great goodliness of yore...

...No doubt it falls within that sorry category, the "living wage," the best proof of this being that Pullman porters are still alive and in good fettle...

...NINE days ago, in Rome, the sacerdotal jubilee was celebrated of a man whose name figures in the news of the day oftener than that of any other single member of the papal court or entourage...

...Spare my life.' 'There, there, don't get excited,' said the General, 'nobody wants to hurt you.' But the coachman went on: 'I am Orthodox...

...Perhaps they will really give it their attention—when the oil has all gone...

...Elevated to the chair of canon law at the Catholic Institute inl Paris in 1880, when only twenty-eight years old, he was called from it after eighteen years to become apostolic delegate in turn to Peru, Ecuador and Chile...

...Both personally and officially, as general manager of the Blanksburg Eagle, I take my stand on the Constitution's guarantee, and from now on the paper will be run on that basis...

...There were only Polish Catholics and naturally they were impossible.' 'Now I see what you are driving at,' Potapov replied...

...ANYONE who reads through German memoirs of war-time realizes the crisis precipitated by the threatened loss of Roumanian oil...

...The preoccupations of the great war (the code was completed in its midst and promulgated on May 27, 1917, at one of its most critical moments) has prevented the world at large from realizing the significance of the reform...

...Meantime, as current handbooks tell us that "for many years there has been little immigration" into North Carolina, and as the reputation of the Tar Heel commonwealth for the amenities of life does not stand high in any comparative table, it seems that precautions against the undesirable alien are being multiplied where 100 percent safeguards are least needed...