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IssueVol. 011 Issue 005 (December 4 1929)
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Paid articleDictatorial Education
DICTATORIAL EDUCATION FFFORTS to transform the "office of education," which has been an appendage to the work of the Secretary of the Interior since the Civil War, into a full-fledged department...
Paid articleWeek by Week
WEEK BY WEEK Joining the World Court MR. JAY PIERREPONT MOFFAT, charge d'affaires ad interim at Berne, has signed papers making the United States a member of the World Court. It is assumed that...
Paid articleBi-national Palestine
BI-NATIONAL PALESTINE WE ARE inclined to discount recent alarmist des- patches from Palestine. It is three months since the outbreak of rioting there-too short a time to effect a basis for...
Paid articleSuffering the Little Ones
SUFFERING THE LITTLE ONES THE season, with its lists of destitute families and its answering impulses of benevolence, hears more tales than it should of neglected children. Here is an example...
Paid articleWe and the British
Carter, John
WE AND THE BRITISH By JOHN CARTER More than one reason exists for believing that relations between the United States and Great Britain constitute the hub round which international diplomacy is...
Paid articleThe Present Need of Hermits
Allen, Frances N. S.
THE PRESENT NEED OF HERMITS By FRANCES N. S. ALLEN IF YOU should meet a hermit in the wild-wood when you are driven there by doubt or anguish or perplexity, would you consult him ? If you should...
Paid articleLabor and the Church
Lynch, Frederick
LABOR AND THE CHURCH By FREDERICK LYNCH A recent book edited by Professor Jerome Davis summarized the views of several labor leaders regarding religion and so received considerable attention. The...
Paid articleThe Cardinal of Holland
Wahlen, Francis J.
THE CARDINAL OF HOLLAND By FRANCIS J. WAHLEN FIFTY years ago a young Lombard cleric, Don Achille Ratti, said his first Mass in that curiously mystical Lombard sanctuary on the narrow Corso in Rome...
Paid articleBliss Carman's Sanctuary
Colum, Padraic
BLISS CARMAN'S SANCTUARY By PADRAIC COLUM THERE is an hour in the day when birds fly close to the hedges and are suddenly present in gardens; when flowers are no longer flaunting, and trees are a...
Paid articleCommunications
COMMUNICATIONS EVOLUTION OF A MODERATE DRINKER New York, N. Y. TO the Editor:-To some of the implications contained in the article of the Reverend J. Elliot Ross published in The Commonweal in...
Paid articleThe Play
Skinner, Richard Dana
THE PLAY By RICHARD DANA SKINNER Shakespeare a la Mode THAT new play-producing group known as the New York Theatre Assembly has had a rather unfortunate time in trying what might have proved an...
Paid articlePassing Incident (verse)
Cooke, Le Baron
Passing Incident Swiftly we pass Without a sign That we once pledged ourselves Forever friends; So beauty ends. No thanks, I decline Pressed flowers under glass. LB BARON...
Paid articlePoems
Eleanore, Sister M.; Duckett, Eleanor Shipley; Davidson, Gustav; Golding, Louis; Storey, Violet Alleyn; Maring, Helen Emma
POEMS The Lesson I had not known what life might be, Until death came to talk with me. But now I know the reason why The brave, white stars are riding high. I know why grass wants rain, and how...
Paid articleBooks
Hayes, Carlton J. H.; O'Sheel, Shaemas; Phelan, Gerald B.; Clark, Edwin; Graham, Gladys
COMMONWEAL THE December 25, 1929 BOOKS Modern Italy A History of Italy, z87z-z9z5, by Benedetto Croce; trans- lated by Cecilia M. Ady. Oxford: Clarendon Press. $5.o0. C ROCE has...
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