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      |  Saving the Social Order | 
    
    
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      | THE COMMONWEAL A Weekly Review of Literature, The Arts and Public Affairs SAVING THE SOCIAL ORDER Volume XIV	New York, Wednesday, August 26, 1931	Number 17 EDITORIAL BOARD MICHAEL WILLIAMS,... | 
    
    
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      | 392	THE COMMONWEAL	August 26, 1931 language of the papal document into straightforward, simple, every-day English, will later on become the substance of a short book, or authoritative pamphlet, to... | 
    
    
      |  What Use Writing? | 
    
    
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      | August z6, 1931	THE COMMONWEAL	395 WHAT USE WRITING? WHILE we willingly confess to not knowing whether Saint Paul the Apostle would have used journalism as an instrument if it had been available... | 
    
    
      |  Hoover and Stalin | 
    
    
      | Cleinow, George | 
    
    
      | 396	THE COMMONWEAL	August 26, 1931 HOOVER AND STALIN By GEORGE CLEINOW T HE SPEECH of in-dubitable leadership with which President Hoover surprised the world on June 20, transformed what had been... | 
    
    
      |  "Blest Be the Inn-" (verse) | 
    
    
      | Hull, Robert R. | 
    
    
      | 398	THE COMMONWEAL	August 26, 1931 conceivable that recognition of the necessity for re-warding men differently according to their achievements may mean a mighty step forward. The question is,... | 
    
    
      |  Stock-taking | 
    
    
      | Sands, William Franklin | 
    
    
      | August z6, 1931	THE COMMONWEAL	399 STOCK-TAKING By WILLIAM FRANKLIN SANDS I T IS conceded to be good business to take stock once in a while, even to put a firm of chartered accountants on one's... | 
    
    
      |  A Wreath for John Dryden | 
    
    
      | Strahan, Speer | 
    
    
      | 400	THE COMMONWEAL	August 26, 1931 ideas, very vital to those who conceived them and to their descendants, have become mere theories and abstractions to other "junior" American citizens who do not... | 
    
    
      |  Ladies | 
    
    
      | Mulhern, Alice | 
    
    
      | 402	THE COMMONWEAL	August 26, 1931 LADIES By ALICE MULHERN M UCH of what Superior used to say in her talks on deportment was over our heads. Her explanation of what distinguished manner from... | 
    
    
      |  The Dublin Zoo | 
    
    
      | Colum, Padraic | 
    
    
      | August 26, 1931	THE COMMONWEAL	403 Free at last ! There still is time for a leaping gallop across the playground before the dressing bell rings!) Our examination in Etiquette came once a year, on... | 
    
    
      |  Deep Summer (verse) | 
    
    
      | Hicky, Daniel Whitehead | 
    
    
      | 404	THE COMMONWEAL	August 26, 1931 gleams of gold that my memory had spread over his neck and breast are not there. He is really black—there are small threads which in certain lights might be gold,... | 
    
    
      |  Communications | 
    
    
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      | 404	THE COMMONWEAL	August 26, 1931 gleams of gold that my memory had spread over his neck and breast are not there. He is really black—there are small threads which in certain lights might be gold,... | 
    
    
      |  The Play and Screen | 
    
    
      | Skinner, Richard Dana | 
    
    
      | 406	THE COMMONWEAL	August 26, 1931 THE PLAY AND SCREEN By RICHARD DANA SKINNER Huckleberry Finn T HAT same romantic vagabondage haunts the episodes of the screen version of "Huckleberry Finn"... | 
    
    
      |  Books | 
    
    
      | Hanighen, Frank C.; Breen, Edward J.; Kite, Elizabeth S.; Robinson, Landon | 
    
    
      | August 26, 1931	THE COMMONWEAL	407 BOOKS  A Careless Traveler Mexican Maze, by Carleton Beals. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company. $3.00. IT IS difficult to understand why this book has... | 
    
    
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