| THE  RELIGIOUS  ISSUE ''IT IS a dangerous thing to throw the religious issue into any campaign," said Mr. Hamilton, the chairman of the Republican National Committee, at a press conference in... | 
    
    
      | 314 Week by Week SELDOM has there been greater uncertainty about the immediate future of the farmer than has prevailed during a week of sizzling heat. Predictions that there would... | 
    
    
      | 317 PEOPLE,  PRESS AND PROPAGANDA By DONALD ATTWATER IT    is    often    asked: "What exactly is the value to the Church of  the   Catholic  press? What is the ideal Catholic ... | 
    
    
      | 319 G.  K.  CHESTERTON Bv   GEORGE   N.   SHUSTER HE was first of all a great, a good, a singularly unworldly man. It is hard to believe there could be such a one, until after he is gone.... | 
    
    
      | 321 COOPERATIVE    CREDIT By   EDGAR    SCHMIEDELER THE IMPETUS that has been given to cooperation in this country over the past few years has not been limited to consumers and producers... | 
    
    
      | 323 A DIONNE MEETS PATIENCE By  PHILIP  BURNHAM THE QUINTUPLETS, who already have the British Empire for legal parent, seem in some danger of getting Patience as their official disciplinarian.... | 
    
    
      | 324 Communications THE  EMPLOYER Washington,  D.  C. TO the Editor: In their letters in The Commonweal of May 15 Father McGowan and Mr. DeBrul are in agreement on the facts but differ in their... | 
    
    
      | 325 Seven Days' Survey The Church.—One of the outstanding summer musical centers in the United States is being built up by Mr. Claude Gonvierre at the Catholic Summer School of America in its... | 
    
    
      | 328 The Play and Screen The Negro "Macbeth" THE NEGRO performance of "Macbeth" under the auspices of the Federal Theatre has now been brought from Harlem to Broadway and is shortly to make a... | 
    
    
      | 328 The Play and Screen The Poor Little Rich Girl THERE are strong indications that her producers are proceeding strictly on the premise that no matter how much Shirley Temple there is in a... | 
    
    
      | 329 Books Nebraska Spring Storm, by Alvin Johnson. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. $2.50. EVERYBODY, the saying goes, has a novel in him, and, judging by the publishers' lists, everybody sooner or... |