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...Theodore Koch, both crammed with fascinating and instructive comment...

...In this respect we in America can learn a great deal...

...If the people of one state wish a law flouted, he argues, let them take the responsibility of encouraging such conditions as must inevitably follow...

...Why not give the job to an agency...

...So is the elevator boy...

...for the solution of the fundamental problems that still face the Church and the state is as yet far away...

...We are sure it was the heat...

...DAVID GARNETT, the English author, has re-cently composed a little squib regarding himself...

...The early sessions were made reassur- ingly vigorous, we note, by the addresses of Professor Morgan, president of the North Central Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools, and Dean Withers, of the School of Education of New York University...

...It must reorganize its shat- tered services, spiritual and educational and chari-table, to its people, and its people are desperately poor...

...PRECISELY why the United States should produce the most curiously irritating bureaucracy in the world it would be difficult to say...

...Italian with Gifts pilgrims, it is said, are celebrating the Church's new peace by thank-offerings in the shape of wine for the papal cel- lars...

...and though the final Chat about handshake endorsing a parley has not Navies yet been photographed, matters have gone far enough to justify full confi- dence...

...it will fight law- lessness, even if it must eliminate lawlessness by eliminating some particular law...

...There are some things which ought not to be done for money...

...Or who among the dead ever did, for that matter...

...A few miles of plain, a path over a mountain, will make an almost incredible difference in body and bouquet...

...A camera man had come aboard to photograph the Ford party, something hap- pened to his apparatus, there was an explosion, and Miss Gleed was severely injured...

...Their personal the Heat intensity may provide them with shield and insulator against the torridity of that sunny clime...

...They have issued a souvenir booklet containing two well-illustrated articles by Monsignor Tisserant and Dr...

...One of them is printing this kind of advertisement...

...Of course none of this advice was accepted, though it seems to have been imparted with almost vehement seriousness...

...Human beings are so con- stituted that "it is hard for us to realize that we are probably 9 ~ percent the result of the conditions of our times and our immediate environment...

...The The Customs national temperament is, no doubt, of the unsuited to this sort of work Country and therefore snarls while performing it...

...The reply was a brusque "No...

...And then, finally, having glorified the selfishness of a new Jim Smith in spats and more or less immaculate trousers, you may wind up with a comparison between folk-lore and a monthly downpour of insipid amorous chatter...

...She described it Give the as enough to try out a few ideas on the Job to an public, to pay for a limited edition of Agency some especially attractive poster and (what is more important) to discern what could be done with teachers...

...We are told that the Governor is a physician, but we refuse to chalk his novel idea up against medicine...

...Ellis recommends, sane and efficient as they may be, must fail if the people themselves do not "get into the fight for orderly government...

...Just that final hint of "it pays to advertise" to justify two full, leaded columns of the most unutterably stupid drivel we have encountered in many moons l For the sake of putting that across you can hire the "great newspapers" to print an "economic interpretation" of Our Lord which every Christian and every reason- able scholar must consider an insult to man's intelli- gence...

...And who is Jim Smith...

...or it may simply unite with it to produce a punishing ardor wholly unsuitable to olym- pian counsels...

...The fairly recent instance of Miss Hilda Gleed will be docketed with all the rest of the casualties, and everybody will sleep none the less soundly...

...Twenty years ago he "came home after a ten- to twelve-hour day to his hovel and his woman and his brats...

...the mini- mum geographical interval will separate two bever-ages, both admirable, yet addressing the palate so diversely that it is hard to believe they were tasted under the same sky...

...Reams of comment followed, emphasizing both qualities...

...Therein his illustrious lit'ry father is Advice quoted as having said: "Never try to Nobody write...

...In no way could the prosperous and fortunate Catholics of the United States help more effectively to make the armistice lead to permanent peace in Mexico than by proving their charity and good-wiU by means of this aid to their brothers in the Faith...

...Michener keeps his scales even, on the whole...

...Meanwhile Professor Macintosh has made a telling speech in his own behalf, the following passage from which deserves consideration: "It may well be said that if citizens generally were admitted on this basis, it might become impossible for the government to go to war except in cases where the people believed the war to be morally justifiable...

...The catalogu- ing is likewise proceeding in the American manner...

...During two Discusses days fully a dozen addresses will be the Family devoted to this subject, in an endeavor to formulate the doctrine about matri- mony in its entirety...

...We believe this will be obtained more readily if the first conference is tri- partite, leaving the special problems of France and Italy for a later meeting...

...So efficiently was the work conducted that, despite the difficulties imposed by unusual architectural condi- tions and the distance over sea and land, almost every- thing was shipshape within six months...

...Surely American Catholics should aid Mexico to maintain the Faith that is its soul...

...Others felt that citizens ought to bear in mind that the several states remain sovereign with regard to schools, and that such right as the federal government possesses to flood them with propaganda is solely a matter of good-will...

...The sur-passing detachment which enables a young man to say that his generation is not going anywhere in par- ticular, since "to go anywhere, be it to heaven or to hell, requires some originahty and force of character," while it is a little disconcerting, may be the beginning of more positive things...

...Schwimmer's atti- tude had much in common with Quakerism, Professor Macintosh has expressed a traditionally Catholic stand...

...Cases beyond number of doddering stupidity and execrable manners are on record, and yet nobody makes a move to effect reform...

...One can dodge his achievements fairly of Nerve easily as a rule, but when one bumps squarely into such advertising as the New York Times and other metropolitan journals printed recently on behalf of True Story Magazine, it is diffcult to refrain from wondering if there are any hiding places left...

...Whereas Mme...

...Holding to the sound traditional view that ideal and real coalesce in our world, the program will concern itself quite as much with social and industrial barriers to family progress as with the more purely ethical problems...

...He will not concede that his peers have the significance of deliberate malefactors, though "there have been so many sermons preached and so many novels written about our regrettable morals that we have come to believe that we actually are ringtailed snorters...

...It is a far more tedious and tlme-consuming endeavor than erecting the stacks, but when it is finally com- pleted scholars in these parts will share the Holy Father's pride in the achievement and his pleasure in the resources which have been placed at the disposal of inquiry...

...It remains, of course, for better moralists than we are to decide whether the conditions of mod- ern statecraft impose a more arbitrary obligation upon the citizen than was formerly the case...

...The variety and excellence of the vintages of Italy are, as is well known, as extraordinary as the variety and excellence of English cheese...

...The other day we were deeply impressed with a news account of Miss Betty Ford, seventeen-year-old Stanford University gradu- ate, who read briskly when she was three and who has received the highest possible compliment from a nice psychologist...

...He confesses to the charges of heavy drinking and petting which are oftenest made against his kind, but hazards the guess that, in regard to the latter practice, the differences between the generations are less than the current moral clich6s would indicate...

...It has no revenues, no income, no property...

...But we read more of the account and were sorry to have to disagree...

...He is least individual in his references to the churches, with their "futile quibblings over petty de- tails of ritual," but as this comment is linked with a plea for "truth . . . mental pabulum to crunch upon," one is inclined to overlook its derivative char- acter...

...THE supreme result of all this marvelous sequence of events is, of course, the fact that Jim is now writing his yarn for True Story, which thereby becomes "a real folk-lore literature that is telling the story month by month of America's great discovery of money and leisure for labor and what that discovery has brought about in the eagerness of the masses for the comforts and conveniences and luxuries of modern life...

...Accordingly, one is glad to notice that a special effort will be made this year to welcome foreign guests...

...This is easier to talk about than to carry through, and a great deal depends upon the consent of all the participants...

...Professor Morgan's plea was for a federal appropria- tion to increase the quality of teacher training in the United States...

...Dean Withers looked indirectly toward the same end by demonstrating that we train too many teachers, and train them too fast, with inevi- tably unhealthy results in both the economic and the intellectual fields...

...The campaign thus outlined was intrinsically funny but potentially serious...

...The world war and prohibition are both given their share of blame, but Mr...

...We make bold to suggest a further service to Mexico's tormented and impoverished Church which might well be considered by our Catholic leaders in the United States: namely, the raising of a Mexican relief fund by popular subscription among American Catholics...

...MacDonald and Dawes seem to be interested in ar- ranging a session in which only a minor part will be assigned to nautical experts...

...A real taste for drink," he sapiently observes, "is hard to acquire and takes years of constant practice to de-velop...

...It is good to remember that our own bishops' pastoral letter on Mexico was by far the most helpful utterance on the subject of the persecution of the Church issued from any source...

...Although the mere thought of sending a diplomatic representative from the United States to the Vatican would rob many people of a night's sleep, several intellectual embassies have already gone from here...

...Never have anything to do with Follows publishing or the book trade...

...WEEK BY WEEK N 'AVIES will form a major item in the world's con- versation some time during the fall...

...It is a good thought that this rich differentness, this happy and loving skill whereby the taste and savor of each indi- vidual countryside are made quintessential and even partly immortal, is to be represented by eager gift in the stores of the Pope...

...He was living in a time when social conditions were "pretty close" to those which prevailed in Jesus' time...

...This young woman met with an accident on the steamer Beren- garia while it was docking...

...Other-wise we should have been without our best book about the "shy man of Salem...

...Thus an interesting comment is in order...

...but the rest of the ad leaves us in no doubt...

...The present Congress is the sixty-eighth, and will be held at Freiburg in Breisgau during four days following August 28...

...Before embarking for the hospital, she sent a request to the customs offi- cials that her baggage receive immediate attention to avoid its being held in storage until her recovery...

...At any rate, the voice of Miss Sutter has been drowned out, even the pam- phlets seem in danger of destruction and virtually only the $5o,ooo remains...

...You can ignore completely that part of con-science which insists that the consummately miraculous life of the Saviour is incompatible with any sort of shoddy verbal horseplay...

...The last naval conference did almost as much damage as a handful of other conferences had managed to do good...

...Moreover, true charity breathed through the apos- tolic delegate's words expressly recognizing that "the government has given proofs of its sincere good-will in arriving at this agreement...

...Genius may ultimately be defined as an infinite capacity for taking advice...

...She is writing a novel...

...The contract for stacks and other equipment was awarded to Snead and Company, a firm established in Jersey City...

...The keynote of his message is struck when he calls upon the Mexican Catholics "to accept with all their hearts this solution...

...He and Saint Thomas shake hands across the centuries...

...which agreement is itself "the best guarantee that we have reached an era of conciliation which will lead, with God's help, to true peace...

...The Mexican Church is facing a truly gigantic task of rehabilitation...

...So are we...

...American Protestants give millions of dollars to their proselytizers in Mexico...

...The aftermath, we feel sure, will come quickly...

...We believe the Catholics north of the Rio Grande should also display, in a practical fashion, the spirit of good-will and charity invoked by Archbishop Ruiz...

...Incidentally, most of them will probably remain there--in the cellars, that is--for the succes-sors of Peter have been more remarkable for defend- ing wine than for drinking it...

...THE National Education Association has convened in Atlanta this year, which leaves the well-wisher of pedagogy uncertain whether to be sorry It Was or glad that educators are by nature such serious people...

...Indeed, a prohibi- tion pamphlet was reported as averring that "the gov- ernment needs the co6peration of every teacher from Maine to California...

...THE current number of Plain Talk carries an anal- ysis of the younger generation by George H. Michener...

...The single pursuit of riches, however, has often worked otherwise...

...So is everybody writing a novel...

...Who now living considers it good counsel...

...Michener informs us that he is What one of the "youngsters" whose antics Are They are causing the world so much pertur- Coming To...

...Drinking he regards partly as a pose and partly as a psychological response to the Eighteenth Amendment...

...But why should any democratic govern- ment want to go to war unless its people, or the great majority of them, can be led to see the justice of such a course...

...Precisely what this sentence means it would be difficult to say...

...Vigorous and direct action by the people will never foster lawlessness...

...and only the continuance of the spirit which led to this solution can bring about the final settlement...

...The case is of great interest to us personally...

...The profes-sor declared that the nation would get military service from him only if the struggle in which it might hypo- thetically engage were morally justifiable...

...Messrs...

...All told, when the (presumably automatic) Menckenisms are abstracted from this apologia, it remains a rather taking piece of candor...

...WHILE the papal state is one of the smallest "countries" in the world, its literary and art treasures are almost as great as those of any Reading in other...

...ONE need not be a militant wet, or a crusader for the Bill of Rights, or even a disciple of the Chesterbelloc, to take pleasure in the report Pilgrims that has just come from Italy...

...Toward this point of view the District Court was noticeably courteous, but considered itself bound by the recently established precedent...

...Vinum non caelum mutant"- the famous tag might be thus appropriately para-phrased for the sons of the Caesers...

...Catholics touring Europe will find it eminently worth while going there, and may communicate in advance with the Right Reverend Monsignor Fridolin Weiss, Dean of the Cathedral Chapter, Freiburg, who will undoubtedly be glad to furnish all needed information...

...bation, but one would have guessed it anyway from the mixture of jocosity and cynicism in his reference to his contemporaries...

...But thanks to the "tremendous economic change brought about by men of affairs in the whole working life of America," Smith works eight hours, "his wife has clothes," and both "have learned moderation even in the matter of children...

...Miss Ford clearly lacks originality and distinction...

...What Miss Sutter and her companions need is, most likely, the repentance of every bibber from Tia Juana to Bowdoin College, with the Dollar Line thrown in for good measure...

...One draws the conclusion that the really curious aspect of the incident is the detail that, in order to "promote the enforcement" of a law, it was found expedient to address the generation which is not yet violating it...

...The Archbishop, of course, refers to the solution of the impasse which for years has kept Catholic Mexico on the rack of martyrdom...

...That the Mexican government was obliged to change its policy because it had become quite evident that it was impossible to crush the Church need not prevent us from recognizing, as Archbishop Ruiz so cordially does, that it is facing the logical consequences of that defeat sensibly...

...IT IS, no doubt, symptomatic of modern social health that the theme proposed for the coming General Congress of German Catholics should be Germany "the Christian family...

...Certainly his suggestion that pupils be fingerprinted "to aid in determining their mentality" has a curious note, even in ears inured to the progressive quaintness of modern educational theory...

...Ruiz, himself a Mexican and therefore keenly aware of the sufferings of his fellow-Catholics in Mexico, and charged as well by the Pope with the chief responsibility for the successful issue of the delicate and difficult negotiations now proceeding, should have so promptly and emphatically expressed these principles Is clear proof of the splendid spirit animating him and his fellows among the Mexican clergy...

...Perhaps it is in Governor Hard- man's speech of welcome that we find the justification for our misgivings about the temperature...

...The spread opens with a blurb for Professor Shirley Jackson Case's life of Christ, which ends as follows: "Here for the first time was a history that had nothing to do with theological argu- ments, pro or con, but had everything to do with the natural sequence of events in which any individual must become involved as a result of the things that are happening to him...

...One recalls Hawthorne turning quite angrily to his youthful daughter Rose, and ordering that she refrain thenceforth from trying to express her thoughts on paper...

...We fancy that in the future a the Papal goodly number of relatively "perma- State nent" guests will be scholars in quest of information...

...Though nothing spectacular has happened to navies themselves during the past year, the world has listened to England voicing an emphatic opinion that "armament racing" must cease...

...Rosika Schwimmer out of the company of good American citizens, the Supreme Court is headed for another conun-Squads Right drum in the case of Douglas C. MacIntosh, Yale University professor, vet- and Morality eran of the world war, and believer in the rights of conscience...

...FOR Miss Anna Sutter, director of prohibition statis- tics, the $50,000 fund recently voted by Congress, was "only a starter...

...What really counts is whether preparations are being made to obstruct another fiasco...

...No doubt the friends of Senator Jones could, it was felt, sequestrate sufficient money to deluge every school with propaganda and, having given the impression that no other point of view was patriotic, might en-dear the Eighteenth Amendment to assorted millions of youngsters...

...Ellis sees a "steady progressive increase in crime and disrespect for law in this country for at least thirty years" directly resulting from the tremendous increase in wealth, its arrogant display, and the spread of the belief, both here and abroad, that America is the land where opportunity quickly flowers...

...HAVING kept Mme...

...Time and patience work wonders, even among servants of the sovereign people...

...Somebody had already ordered that the Ford baggage be given preferential attention, but his excellency could not be reached and all other functionaries were minus authority to deal with the emergency...

...OF SOPS to an illiterate reading public there are as many as of ants in a Rhode Island farmyard, and to their number Mr...

...He called her a "genius...

...Meanwhile Snead and Company are celebrating in their own way...

...Since the United States has already expressed its complete willingness to partici-pate either way, the outcome hinges upon Premier Mac- Donald's maneuvers with other countries and with the League of Nations...

...One of these was the mission of American librarians which the Holy Father, cooperat- ing with the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, invited to discuss the cataloguing of the Vatican Library...

...Moscato, Baroloun, Lacry- mae Christi, Chianti, Castelli Romani--all belong there surely, for all may be viewed, without straining or irreverence, as examples of that natural sacra-mental order which testifies everywhere to the bounty of God...

...The result was eminently practical...

...Wade H. Ellis of the American Bar Association's Crime The People Commission is essentially right in his and Crime analysis of the causes of crime increase in this country...

...ALTHOUGH his criminal statistics may not bear too close an examination, Mr...

...Both Great Britain and the United States have set their hearts upon threshing this matter Another out satisfactorily...

...You can deny with one glib assertion the social misery that actually and verily underlies the veneer of American prosperity...

...After all, the reforms which Mr...

...It is to be hoped that Miss Gleed will ultimately acquire sufficient strength to return to the Customs House at an hour not assigned to siestas, wait in line until somebody condescends to appear for the inspection, and capture her belongings...

...It will be worth waiting for to see what the Supreme Court does with that poser...

...Fortunately she waited until his back was turned and then started right in...

...It has prevented a serious consideration of the dangers threatening the country by lawlessness...

...Bernarr MacA Bundle Fadden has contributed handsomely...

...Its moral force out- weighed the specious propaganda of Chapultepec, although the latter was so much more in evidence...

...Mr...

...This we can believe more easily of "Jesus than of our-selves," but "what was true of Jesus is equally true of Jim Smith...

...Nevertheless, the apostolic delegate clearly sees that without a spirit of true faith and hope this first impasse could not have been solved...

...This idea leads him to suggest that Congressional prohibition appro- priations be withheld from states which make no attempt to enforce the law, since "the enforcement of prohibition is primarily their business" and not the business of the federal government...