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T' ^HE world's second effort to lessen competition in naval armament has stirred up a great deal of excitement in Geneva. It is well to remember that this is not caused by visionary outlines of...
...We respect the latter highly, but as a means of conveyance It meets with certain obvious objections...
...Into a positive recommendation of liaisons not even blessed by the Romany concession to seemliness of jumping in pairs over a tribal broomstick...
...How they would work In the far larger class that feels rather than thinks Is to be gathered by a glance, any morning, at the more lethal columns of the dally press...
...Winkler in referring to the brake upon investments abroad which the government in its wisdom has applied since 1922...
...To this question the three powers have given different answers...
...They are mere euphemisms masking the real danger and decay that is gradually overtaking family life...
...Luther and Melanchthon both united In abusing the book but until the time of Galileo no word of condemnation came from the Church...
...Indeed, almost died out, as species will die whenever they lack nourishment...
...Prudence suggested, therefore, a common agreement under the terms of which no power would force) others to carry out undesirable building programs...
...Perhaps that is why Udet, the German ace, plans to follow almost the same course taken by De Pinedo...
...Who can estimate the burden of poverty and oblivion, cavil and empty words of praise, which the majority of definitely Catholic writers have borne...
...Frankly we were surprised to find the little journal better than almost...
...Something' very fine Is going which will be difficult to replace—a something of the spirit, blending scholarship with charity and knowledge of men, which can be found only in the great...
...WiUIam Kerby, whose work at the Catholic University is ample proof of his ability...
...In any one of a number of fields, during the year...
...In 1914, we are told, this country was indebted to Europe to the extent of $5,000,000,000 and our investments abroad totaled only $2,500,000,000...
...Its throbs will do what the protests of intelligence and taste could never effect...
...VARIES of afillctlon are reaching us from over-prosperous Hollywood, where one of the largest motionpicture producers recently announced a 10 percent cut In salaries...
...Surely that is an excellent and comprehensive program...
...Lewis's counsels of despair without ensuing tragedy...
...N OW that the third American trans-Atlantic flier is waiting to whirl off toward resounding welcomes, it is not out of place to wonder whether we who know relatively nothing about propellers, wings and their management can ever be safely transported to Europe in a day or so...
...These the newer ship has not entirely overcome, but it is truly a marvel of mechanistic contrivance and arrangement...
...to seek to raise the general status of the Negro in the Church...
...Another Is that the Dempsey personality make^ a very special appeal to the psychology of the group that follows boxing eagerly...
...There seems to be radical divergence between the British and American points of view...
...This species of writer has...
...A modern armada costs a great deal of money which public opinion, anxious to avoid hostilities, is unwilling to pay...
...but they are really tending to become less of an incentive to strife, less of a provocation in themselves, than they were at the close of the great war...
...The first is that expert ring prophecy received a blow upon September 23 from which It Is still reeling, and that the prospect of capitalizing a reversal which will restore its credit is too tempting to be resisted...
...Lavish expenditure for its own sake was the producers' slogan of the day...
...Or are the movies simply awakening from a glowing dream...
...EVERY director of conscience knows that a smart moral shock sometimes works good, if only because it registers the distance that has been traversed away from old landmarks once unhesitatingly accepted...
...to advance the cause of Catholic education throughout the Negro population...
...Flying by stages to the' Azores, the Bermudas and the United States seems a great deal more like sober travel than trying to cross the Atlantic in one brave swoop...
...and to stimulate Catholic Negroes to a larger participation in racial and civic affairs of the various communities and of the whole country...
...ISSUED by that wide-awake concern, the Research Department of the Foreign Policy Association, a pamphlet by Dr...
...It was placed on the Index, but only donee corrlgetur...
...The persistence of the Dempsey legend in a country where deposition Is so readily taken for granted Is rather curious, but we believe that one or two facts go far to explain It...
...The Negroes themselves, however, regard it as a preliminary step toward the establishment of an organ able to take rank with the best of the general publications issued by their race...
...More charity is sorely needed...
...Since then the Ecclesiastical Review, long since grown indispensable to the Catholic clergy and to many besides, has briefly announced the retirement of Father Heuser from the editorship...
...Thus, even if the present conference Is not immediately a step toward peace, It does testify to the influence which the people now possess over preparation for war...
...Clearly the Byrd plane is a better reason for hopeful thinking than the Spirit of St...
...An article In Science calls attention to the fact that there Is a fine copy of the original issue of his work De Revolutlonibus Orbium Coelestium In the New York PubHc Library...
...Far more important than the $10,000,000 which American Investors are reported to have lost through this technicality is the evidence offered that finance today knows no geographical boundaries, and that while the International enthusiast In terms of peoples never had rougher weather to contend with for his theories, that very practical dreamer the investment banker is busy doing his work for him, but doing it his own way and with very different ends in view...
...Surprise is not in order and only those need rub their eyes who have been keeping them closed...
...Thanks to the service which economics may render to art, we may even see a spectacle film that will not be widely advertised as "the costliest production on earth...
...The Federation itself functions under the auspices of the National Catholic Welfare Conference and in addition to Its organization routine sponsors such things as dramatic and musical festivals...
...If the famous meeting between David and Goliath at catch-weights could be arranged today, we make no doubt that not only the odds, but public favor, too, would be found going the way of the big walloper from Phlllstia...
...The mere figures which illustrate the reversal that has taken place in the financial relations between the United States and foreign countries are staggering...
...The cheery young marine, who took an honest share In danger where his thews and muscles would avail him nothing, is likable rather than impressive...
...The unhappy distinction of this country is not so much the volume of its divorces as the reputabllity that has been gradually permitted to invest divorce...
...But now comesi the judgment...
...What Isi being done to put it Into practice...
...The balance of the comment upon "companionate marriages" seems to show that our people are not yet ready to condone unions that advertise their transient nature In advance...
...That is precisely what It was, for neither Copernicus nor Galileo had made out a scientific case for the heliocentric theory...
...Max Winkler entitled America the World's Banker makes striking reading...
...If any rumor as damaging to Dempsey's reputation has been unearthed, his supporters have succeeded in suppressing it...
...AMERICAN sportsmanship, which has a meagre reputation abroad as regards the consideration it shows losers, is redeeming itself nobly over ex-champion Dempsey...
...And yet who could write the intellectual history of the Philadelphia archdiocese without rendering homage to the work of two priests...
...The social category that prattles familiarly about "the findings of modern science and psychology" might be able to carry out Mr...
...But this did not prevent Lazard Brothers of London from undertaking and carrying out the financial operation...
...Has the Niagara of nickels and dimes stopped pouring into the bungalows near Los Angeles...
...Lee HIgginson of New York could not float a German potash loan in this market, but "HIgginson and Company of London underwrote the issue...
...Louis...
...The Superwal, for instance, is a giant craft developing horse-power more than sufficient to support its weight and sixty passengers besides...
...Navy men immediately began, however, to see how good a navy they could develop within the limits established...
...After the nine corrections had been made, the reading of the book was permitted, though for some reason it was not formally removed from the' Index until 1758...
...Its aim "shall be to bring about a closer union and better feeling among all Catholic Negroes...
...Nevertheless one cannot help feeling that the retirement of Father Heuser, who was teaching Latin in the ecclesiastical seminary in 1873, marks the end of a cycle...
...The truth seems to be that economic laws are much better friends to art than most people admit...
...Lewis's later emendation of his words to a plea for "dispassionate consideration and discussion of the findings of modern science and psychology" In relation to morals, and on what is at least his tentative suggestion for a two-year term before "legalization...
...The magazine will, of course, go on, under the guidance of Dr...
...r HILADELPHIA became an archdiocese in 1875...
...In all likelihood, however, a settlement will be effected on the basis of compromise, because whether they enjoy doing so or not the naval authorities must reckon with that economy upon which public opinion insists...
...Of more interest to the political thinker is a significant fact noted by Dr...
...Now at length comes a suggestion which if realized will for the first time lead to something truly constructive in their behalf...
...The sling and pebble from the brook would strike the crowd at best as an impudent Interference with the law that bulk must be served...
...The functioning depends upon the generosity of those who can be interested in the plan...
...They found that such matters as the age of fighting craft, the total tonnage, the ratio of one kind of vessel to others, made a great deal of difference from the admiralty point of view...
...On the other hand, considerable countenance comes from rather high quarters on the Reverend Mr...
...What does this mean...
...Today the debt is not only obliterated but converted into a credit of $13,000,000,000, this exclusive of the rather speculative "political debts" which account for a further $11,000,000,000...
...Every man and woman of the world knows of the sordid storfes that lurk behind such comparatively innocuous phrases as "incompatibility" and "desertion...
...The separate governments are represented by practical diplomats and navy men who are trying to settle a difficult problem...
...Indeed it is said that the Germans, and to some extent also the Italians, consider that the practical utility of air travel will ultimately lie In the establishment of communication between continents...
...Similarly, German mechanicians, working at Friedrlchshafen under the direction of the great Dornier, are convinced that planes serviceable for transAtlantic flight are going to be developed soon...
...At present the details have, naturally enough, not been arranged in full...
...It is even whispered of him that he has been seen reading books of a serious nature...
...The first flag of distress is being hoisted above an industry whose glitter has surpassed many mints of gold...
...The builders honestly believe it may be the first step toward the construction of a practical air fleet...
...The pocket nerve begins to twitch...
...The navies of the world are by no means unnecessary or obsolete...
...Francis Spriggs, of Washington, D. C, and interested In printing news which concerns colored Catholics in America...
...Father Herman Heuser and Father Francis Siegfried...
...It was at the urgent request of Cardinal Schomberg and Giese, then Bishop of Culm, that his book was published, and under dedication to Pope Paul III...
...This was signed at Washington some years ago...
...COPERNICUS seldom comes under notice In antiCatholic discussion, yet his case Is very interesting...
...But the lethal scowl, the deadly seriousness, the entire absorption of this terrific fighting organism In the business of bash, are grateful things to a generation that likes scale and specialization...
...but if the machinery can ever be made to function it will undoubtedly mean that the position of the Catholic writer in America will be much better than it has ever been...
...r INALLY, the task of influencing public opinion has been undertaken by the Council Review, a magazine edited by Mr...
...We have sat patiently through orgies of bad taste In the movies and wondered how the still small voice of art could hope to be heard above the din...
...Both have been discerning and reverent theologians, men of culture and generous disposition...
...It is well to remember that this is not caused by visionary outlines of imminent universal peace...
...That first principle of art—restraint—could not survive the golden flood...
...Who know...
...We can only add that the idea seems to us not only the most practical advanced during a long, long time, but even indispensable to the continued flourishing of Catholic literary expression...
...Shane Leslie once sent up in behalf of the poet is now on the lips of everybody who really cares for such Catholic writers as still live In America...
...This questioning prayer which Mr...
...It is now the hope of the Catholic Press Association that a sufficient number of "Hfe memberships" can be secured to supply the fund...
...Education has been advanced through the Cardinal Gibbons Institute, to which Negroes themselves have contributed not only energy and intelligence but also large sums of money...
...It suggests, however, that the status of the Negro in this country is changing in a way which the Catholic body generally does not seem to realize and with which too few are ready to cooperate...
...The figures can be left to those who find exaltation in such things to ponder at will...
...Then, seventy years after Its issue and as a result of the Galileo episode...
...Could they be settled so as to avoid an intensive competition almost as costly as the older expansive competition...
...LAZARD FRERES of New York, he tells us, were not permitted to underwrite a Brazilian coffee loan with excellent security...
...Nine corrections were made In the book which, as the Science article states, made It "read as a hypothesis rather than a thesis...
...It appeared in 1543, the pubhcation having long been delayed, not, as often suggested, for fear of ecclesiastical censure, but because its author thought that his theory would bring down ridicule upon him...
...The Judaea boy's victory would not be a very popular one...
...This date also coincides roughly with the beginnings of a wider, deeper interest on the part of Pennsylvania Catholics in general problems of religion, scholarship and culture...
...This is a worthy ideal which will some day be realized...
...We who mourn with Father Heuser the loss of a friend know, however, that his apostolate will continue bravely, usque ad finem...
...They were close friends during more than fifty years, until the death of Father Siegfried last month ended a work that had never swerved from an unusually noble course...
...How such concerns gained renown for a number of good lay writers is, perhaps, better known than the efforts of several leaders among the clergy...
...WHY fall Thy singers Into fate...
...Such a shock seems to have reached the public in certain statements attributed to an Episcopal pastor of Ann Arbor, Michigan, and twisted, it is now alleged, by slovenly reporting...
...The Catholic Press Association proposes to establish a fund the proceeds from which will form several burses to reward the writers found to have done the best literary work...
...A magnate declares "the net income from pictures Is not sufficient because costs have mounted far too high...
...anything of a similar character issued in this country by white Catholics...
...NOT so many people know that among the societies which associate colored people in the United States and work for their betterment there is an organization known as the Federated Colored Catholics...
Vol. 6 • July 1927 • No. 9
