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IssueVol. 012 Issue 001 (May 7 1930)
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Paid articleFigure of a Bishop
FIGURE OF A BISHOP OPEAKING at Atlanta, Georgia, on October 7, *^ 1928, Bishop James Cannon, jr., declared that if the Methodist conference which appointed him chairman of the temperence board...
Paid articleWeek by Week
WEEK BY WEEK TX7TTH that keen sensitiveness to popular feeling " * which made him universally beloved, Clare Briggs always used to devote a "Mr. and Mrs." about this time of year to the...
Paid articleTariff Teetotalism
TARIFF TEETOTALISM AFTER having been well-nigh dead for a good while, ¦**• the tariff as an issue has bounded back into exuberant life. The Hawley-Smoot bill, with its endless lists of duty...
Paid articleThe Half-way House of Humanism
Mercier, Louis J. A.
May 28, 1930 THE COMMONWEAL 95 THE HALF-WAY HOUSE OF HUMANISM By LOUIS J. A. MERCIER WHEN, little more than a year ago, I published Le Mouvement Humaniste aux EtatsUnis, to help...
Paid articlePlaces and Persons
Bragdon, Claude
May 28, 1930 THE COMMONWEAL 99 Places and Persons FROM A HOTEL WINDOW By CLAUDE BRAGDON MY ROOM is half-way up the cliff-side of the hotel Mesa, which stands at the intersection of two...
Paid articlePeace or War in the East?
Carter, John
PEACE OR WAR IN THE EAST? By JOHN CARTER THE world's greatest poker game is being played today. The table is eastern Asia and the chips are bills of lading and invoices. The cards are the...
Paid articleSea Tryst (verse)
Johnson, Siddie Joe
Tryst Now that the mist is in, and no wind blows, And all of the world is a great grey silence, sleeping, I must go down to the place my lone heart knows And set my thoughts again to an old...
Paid articlePsyching the Baby to Sleep
Whalen, Frank
May 28, 1930 THE COMMONWEAL 103 PSYCHING THE BABY TO SLEEP By FRANK WHALEN 1ONG before Emerson advised the budding genius to "hitch his wagon to a star," it had been the custom of...
Paid articleAfter Music (verse)
Frant-Walsh, Joseph
<iAfter Music Once in that interminable quest Of echo after last arpeggios, You put the harp's gold from your warming breast And showed how things have endings, and love goes. Fluxed in the...
Paid articleDust
Visitation, Sister Mary of the
DUST By SISTER MARY OF THE VISITATION THIS morning's mail brings a packet of cards post marked Gulmarg, June 21; views of Himalayan passes, white peaks looking down on rope-bridges spanning...
Paid articleWings (verse)
Ward, Leo R.
Wings A buzzard that hangs In the clean heavens Watching the earth for carrion. Thunderbirds at evening Loping down the skyWhere the red west turns yellow, Then green, then grey, Then...
Paid articleCommunications
May 28, 1930 THE COMMONWEAL 107 COMMUNICATIONS NEO-PAGANISM Norwalk, Conn. TO the Editor:—No doubt, Mr. Harvey Wickham recalls that Dr. George Santayana, of whom he has written,...
Paid articleThe Play and Screen
Skinner, Richard Dana
May 28, 1930 THE COMMONWEAL 109 THE PLAY AND SCREEN By RICHARD DANA SKINNER Ibsen's Vikings YOUR most confirmed Ibsenite will probably admit that The Vikings is better in idea than...
Paid articleBooks
Repplier, Agnes; Sands, William Franklin; Carver, George; Healy, Patrick J.
BOOKS The Bolshevist My Life, by Leon Trotzky. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. $5.00. WRITING an autobiography has always been a pleasurable experience; but My Life must have afforded...
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