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...The check put upon unrestricted immigration today by the wisdom of our legislators may not commend itself to every school of economic thought...

...His point of view, we are glad to say, dominates the Conference itself...

...In due time we shall know when Congress will actually meet...

...This will discuss many other matters during two crowded days, cooperative relations in industry, unskilled labor and American economic radicalism being some especially important topics...

...In short he was a "spiritual ambassador" who met a critical opportunity nobly and who counted it singular good fortune to render service...

...Wells to the south of the English Channel...

...Incidentally, of course, he did what he could to break down stupid hostility based on national strife...

...But that is no reason why a peace treaty should be dragged across the stage as a preliminary pantomime...

...Well, it would undoubtedly assure the French that the United States would not become a party to any alliance hostile to France...

...An important place is to be given to consideration of Frederick Ozanam, great French social leader and one of the noblest of modern men...

...But this must be said of it: it permits the whole problem of assimilation to be treated with more deliberation, reason and sympathy than has always been possible in the past...

...Unfortunately there is always a cloud on the Washington sky...

...When the first edition appeared, a critic declared that "there are minor points in Dr...

...Perhaps the remedy will come when multiplicity of advertising has defeated its own ends...

...Is the arrangement of any immediate practical value...

...This is best set forth in his Distributive Justice, a new edition of which, incorporating certain valuable restatements, has just been issued by the Macmillan Company...

...There is danger in accepting peace nominalistically— as a principle or a proposition rather than as a series of real facts and conditions which are established as slowly and carefully as armaments are organized...

...The General Deficiency Bill, held up last season lay a jam of injunctions, was described as getting itself adopted almost automatically...

...So that Mr...

...It is a mortifying situation for an imaginative artist to be in, but the trend of the cosmos simply will not be interfered with...

...The Catholic Times has unearthed two statements made by Mr...

...These words may be repeated confidently today...

...and numberless other measures, upon which the life of the country depends, were visualized as signed and tucked safely away by next June...

...GEORGES SOREL, the ruminative syndicalist from whose doctrine the vastest of contemporary social , changes have sprung, said somewhere that he considered the role of educator most important in the modern industrial world...

...Finally, I dare cherish the hope that, after your brief stay In our midst, Your Excellency will carry away the conviction that, although by our profession we are entirely separate from the world and wholly devoted to the service of God, still there are none In the whole wide world who are more sincerely loyal to Your Excellency, more deeply devoted to this fair State of Kentucky, nor more faithful citizens of the United States, our glorious fatherland, than the monks of Gethsemaiii...

...The first part of their duty is to see that America shall be lovable...

...THERE was an interesting moment on Ascension Day, May 26, during the address of welcome given by the Right Reverend Abbot Obrecht of the Abbey of Our Lady of GethsemanI, the Trappist house in Kentucky, when Governor Fields of Kentucky presented his wife to receive the privilege extended by canon law to the first lady of the commonwealth to enter the enclosure so strictly closed to all of her sex by the institutional laws of the Trapplsts...

...And from the White House came the solemn declaration that official truth had no share in the pigment used by Senator Smoot...

...It is not the clubwomen's fault that probably sixty-five score, or sixtyfive hundred, remain for whom the chance of a single sale would outweigh all the aesthetic considerations that a plebiscite of beauty-lovers and nature-lovers throughout the Union could present...

...The genuine positive effect of the Briand proposal is not to be identified with these things at all...

...Belloc, the latter had gently hinted that the reason why a certain work was not mentioned by Mr...

...S E N A T O R S M O O T has obviously tripped over a twig...

...on the other hand, no man was ever more ready to explain German methods, achievements and institutions...

...On the one hand, he was an untiring host to visitors from the fatherland, introducing them to American circles and customs with a refreshing magnanimity...

...It deserves to be recorded that the Monsignor, who was always patriotically German but ready to admire the virtues of other peoples, met with a success which saved thousands of lives and brightened numberless homes...

...Wells, on his own showing, reads French with great difficulty when he is in France, while in England it is his second tongue...

...Wells...

...but this is already promised in great measure by existing agreements and virtually guaranteed by present world conditions...

...It "represents an attempt to discuss systematically and comprehensively the justice of the processes by which the product of industry is distributed...

...We here feel and have often declared that the whole European situation demands a more generous settlement of those obhgations than the United States Commission was willing to agree to last year...

...And we shall serve peace honestly when we treat it frankly as a: goal of primary importance, to be reached by patient, definite, detailed agreements, and not by theatrical gestures which have their share of publicity value...

...Sixty-five corporations, it appears, have promised to cease defacing the countryside along our post-roads, and cloaking the beauties whose preservation is everyone's business by recommendations to eat, smoke, and lubricate which are their own...

...Catholic priests clung loyally to their people, gave them guidance and blessed them...

...that he will be remembered is wholly certain...

...THERE is an ancient Latin saw which insists that they who cross the sea, though they change their residence, do not alter their minds...

...Ten years have proved that, however much one may differ from him on certain interpretations of economic processes...

...Now the Fifth Annual Catholic Industrial Problems Conference, which will convene in Detroit on July i and 2, promises to meet this difficulty admirably, in so far, at least, as Catholics are concerned...

...Ryan has indicated an intelligent and sound recipe for the establishment of social justice—a recipe which, however far society may be from using it, deserves the earnest consideration of every genuine citizen...

...But he continued: "I must confess to you that I have received little French influence at first hand...

...let us now hear him when he crosses it and returns to his native land...

...So much for Mr...

...It Is Idle, given the present public attitude toward business, to expect any remedy from legislation, or even such a campaign of good will as the women of the Federated Clubs are organizing...

...The Mercure de France had just been praising Mr...

...It is because "Flis" seems to have seized upon the, happiest manner in which this twofold duty can be discharged that its work is so worthy of praise...

...One is sure that his request will be heeded by many generous persons, but the work of ecclesiastical rehabilitation may prove a serious burden for a long time to come...

...THE late Joseph Pennell's eyes, which did not see much during his closing years to make them brighten, would have lit up a little, one likes to think, at the recent report from the General Federation of Women's Clubs telling of the success obtained by them up to date in their war upon the bill-board plague...

...flood relief was seen being carried through almost as rapidly as a canoe might race down the current...

...Belloc points in a beating...

...The sentiment of Americans of the older stocks toward the stranger at their gates has gone through many phases, from the whole-hearted, If careless welcome, when the stress of upbuilding was calling for thew and muscle, to the suspicion and even alarm that has tinctured the work of later writers on the problem of Americanization...

...Their legitimate hope for thus pointing out a good path to the laboring majority is, however, handicapped to some extent by the difficulty of finding some single modern figure from whose activities and writings the average individual might gather the precepts of encouraging example...

...The Abbot closed his address of welcome with the notable words: "As a proof of our respect for lawful authority and as a public expression of our whole-hearted attachment to the state, in the person of its chief executive, we today make an exception to our universal rule, and from the bottom of our hearts we...

...but very obviously the generation prior to 1914 talked continuously of the horror and impossibility of war, and was quite as astonished when the guns leveled Liege as the Trojans must have been when the wooden horse proved deadly to their security...

...Chamberlin's plane, and virtuallyi establishing the world's political efficiency record...

...As a student of morals he learned points of view which have long since become identified with Christian tradition and therefore with western experience...

...Wells and comparing him with Diderot...

...Ryan's interesting book with which his friends might take issue, but in the main friends and antagonists alike will admire its sanity and tolerance...

...Ozanam combined sanctity with sanity—a knowledge of the ways of Providence with an understanding of limitations imposed by earthly circumstance...

...Was the President going to bring Congress together a little earlier than usual...

...The man who could inspire the masses with an idea of the direction in which they might desirably move would be the true master of those masses...

...There is always a twig on the political pathway...

...In due time we shall also know what Congress will not accomplish...

...Such actions smack of diplomatic subtlety...

...At that time of separation and wanderings...

...They have set to work earnestly—studying social conditions, issuing reports of investigations, making declarations of principle...

...In the course of his prolonged controversy with Mr...

...The people concerned are descendants of the Acadians who once before in history lived through the tribulations and perils of a great exodus...

...H. G. Wells which seem to show that there may be cases where the saw is in the wrong...

...A CAREER of unusual heroism and interest came to an end suddenly with the death, in New York City, of Monsignor Frederick Schlatter, director of the Saint Boniface Society...

...Wells replied to this suggestion by the statement, in G. K.'s Weekly, that "for all practical purposes I read French as well as I do English—in all probability, if it came to using a German, Spanish, Portuguese, or Italian scientific work, I could give Mr...

...M. Charles Chasse, in one of the March numbers of the French weekly periodical I'Opinion, gives an account of an interview with Mr...

...This cargo of good news gave the Senator himself a great deal of pleasure and he knew that we would like it, for a little while anyhow...

...Baseball fields, rice warehouses and similar places substitute for the parish churches round which the flood waters lap destructively...

...Henry Pratt Fairchild puts the matter concisely when he tells us that "instead of preaching to the immigrant about the duty of loving America, Americans should recognize their twofold duty in the matter...

...welcome the first lady of the commonwealth, who with a fair galaxy of noble companions has come to grace our monastic solitude...

...Personally he knew hundreds of donors, and we are sure that he thought of each of them with a deep personal feeling quite independent of his belief in the cause he served...

...but the ancient sacrifice and consolation abide, are always the same, are even what they were in the strenuous days of Evangeline...

...Our attitude toward the now celebrated Briand peace proposal ought, as a consequence, to be determined by what we see in it as being really true and factual...

...An automobile trip from New York to Boston along the main highway has now become a maddening medley of varicolored appeals) to eat hot dogs or buy chow dogs, to settle and build in some "Homeland," to Invest loose currency In fresh vegetables or "old-world things," to say nothing of the ukases of the oil and tire' magnates, beside which the old-time advertisements of Peruna on the sides of barns have almost become a cherished fragment of Americana...

...That he will be missed goes without saying...

...When the fact that children were starving In post-war Germany became widely known to Americans, it elicited, as we all remember, that generous relief work which some of our higher military officers inaugurated and directed...

...Today, In the words of Bishop Jeanmard, "priests have followed their people and are ministering to their spiritual needs In the camps established at Lafayette and elsewhere...

...Senator Smoot, of course, dated his picture 1927...

...Thus does he "suffer a sea-change...

...What follows is specially to be noted: "Unfortunately, in fact, I read French with difficulty, and when I have gone through twenty-five pages of a book written in your language I am obliged to stop through weariness at meeting so many words that are unknown to me...

...The statement issued by Princeton University on this question seems to us so lucid and challenging that American opinion would be foolishly blind If It went on exacting a "stand-pat settlement...

...In this country the correctness of Sorel's reflection has been assented to, officially at least, by many of the Christian churches...

...as a student of economics he became acquainted with the facts and developments which characterize contemporary society...

...Wells was that it was, written in French and there was no translation...

...The book sets forth a thesis without attempting to bind all it has to say to that thesis...

...The organization, handily known for over five years by those interested in the problem of humane and worth-while assimilation of the immigrant as "Flis," has been a pioneer in this respect— that it has not only sought, by means of press matter in a dozen European languages, to interpret America to the alien, to advise and where necessary to warn him, but has also made it a part of its policy to interpret the alien to America...

...Some people seem to think that if the idea of universal concord is given sufficient publicity, nothing can prevent it from becoming a practical reality...

...At this moment the Senator became expanslvcj He drew a picture like the one which some day, nearer to the millennium than we are now, will hang on the most prominent available wall in the Capitol—a dream picture of an ideal Congress, setting to work with the resolute diligence which characterized those German mechanics who repaired Mr...

...In its magazine, The Interpreter, are to be found sympathetic accounts of the historical and cultural backgrounds of men and women who too often disappear into the anonymity of toil without having given a taste of their national quality...

...Masses are said daily, and rosary devotions, so dear to the people, are held in the evenings...

...The French premier suggests that a new treaty outlaw war between his country and the United States, and his admirers at Columbia University have already begun to draft the practical details of such a treaty...

...For the harassed traveler by road has not gone many miles today before buying consciousness ceases to register...

...That the moral principles and the economic facts bear some relation to one another is obvious, even as the circumstance that these relations are not always harmonious has likewise become obvious...

...Yes, indeed...

...No man has aroused more opposition, simply because none has presented so many live topics for discussion...

...NOTHING but encouragement should go to the campaign which the Foreign Language Information Service is launching for increased membership, with a view to extending its activities...

...Almost at the same time Cardinal Gibbons sponsored the coming to this country of Monsignor Schlatter, who was secretary-general of the great German Catholic charities organization and who had bravely resolved to believe that American kindness would not refuse alms to the suffering children of a vanquished enemy...

...Having arisen in an optimistic mood on a morning brighter than usual, having been invited by the President to talk over some very special aspects of the nation's welfare, the Senator stepped forward to reassure us all...

...If the personality of Ozanam could be made as real for American Catholic workers as the personality of Lincoln is to reflective citizens, there would be every reason to believe that the contribution of the Church to social progress in this country might be larger than anything which now seems possible...

...These are tenacious people who will return to their soil and make It bloom again...

...Wells told his interviewer that he had "encyclopaedic tendencies and also cosmopolitan tendencies...

...Father Ryan has courageously attempted to find a method of reconciliation...

...He may even miss the information that a bill-board ten feet by eight upon some daisied slope was erected to afFord him, namely that Bolony Oil means happy engines and that he is about to pass through the hamlet where the man lived who owned the goose that shed the quill that signed the Declaration of Independence...

...Would this Congress profit by the bad example of its forbears and settle a great deal of urgent business pronto...

...THAT such topics are being discussed at all by Catholics in this country ii a fact which one must attribute, at least in large measure, to the influence of Father John A. Ryan...

...B I S H O P J E A N M A R D , of Lafayette, Louisiana, has written a succinct account of the havoc effected by the flood In his diocese and attached to It a plea for aid in continuing the work of the missions and schools...

...That effect is to supply further proof of friendliness between France and the United States, at a moment when discussion of the war debts is to be resumed...

...Meanwhile a little kindly aid from everyone would assure the safe continuance of religious life in a district where, during the next few years, heroic efforts must be made to,stave off economic disaster...