| THE COMMONWEAL A Weekly Review of Literature, The Arts and Public Affairs WHAT DOES RUSSIA MEAN? Volume xIV	New York, Wednesday, September 2, 1931	Number 18 EDITORIAL BOARD MICHAEL WILLIAMS,... | 
    
    
      | 412	THE COMMONWEAL	September 2, 1931 and facts are, however, presented quite frankly to the Russian people themselves, although they are not the kind of stuff which the newspaper correspondents in... | 
    
    
      | September 2, 1931	THE COMMONWEAL	415 alcohol. And now there are the vegetable gardens. Mr. Ford is reported as having announced that his workers will be compelled to grow part of their winter... | 
    
    
      | 416	THE COMMONWEAL	September 2, 1931 THE MAN OF THE HOUR By C. J. FREUND I T IS half past two on Tuesday afternoon in a large machine shop. The day's work is done and the men are lined up to... | 
    
    
      | 418	THE COMMONWEAL	September 2, 1931 A NOVELIST IN RETROSPECT By GEORGE N. SHUSTER T WENTY-FIVE years ago, German fiction was nothing to boast of. It had been unable to renounce the charms of... | 
    
    
      | 420	THE COMMONWEAL	September 2, 1931 THE IRISH PROVE THEIR SANITY By JOHN MOODY T HE IRISH FREE STATE is now almost ten years old. It was not, however, until about seven years ago that the many... | 
    
    
      | September 2, 1931	THE COMMONWEAL	421 lies the constructive record of the Free State, is the Catholic culture of its people. The thing that stands out is that the moral law still rules with the... | 
    
    
      | 422	THE COMMONWEAL	September 2, 1931 A CALIFORNIA PAGEANT By ANNE MANNING O NE DOES not expect to come face to face with romance in surroundings where size, speed, and cost seem to be the measure... | 
    
    
      | September 2, 1931	THE COMMONWEAL	423 ever seen as those Indians of California when we landed at San Diego fifteen years ago !" "The Indians of San Diego are now good Christians," says Miguel. "It... | 
    
    
      | 426	THE COMMONWEAL	September 2, 1931 BOOKS Early Man and Religion The Origin and Growth of Religion: Facts and Theories, by W. Schmidt; translated by H. J. Rose. New York: The. Dial Press.... |