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August 28, I929 THE COMMONWEAL 427 BOOKS The Wicked Street Wall Street and Washington. by Joseph Stagg Lawrence. Princeton: Princeton University Press. ~5.oo. Stabilization of...
...And so sure and deep were the foundations lald thal even the upheavals of industrialism and the growth of capitalism have left unshaken the principles on which his work wa~, founded...
...The Reserve Board's measures have been futile, and it has lacked the courage to employ others which would be successful...
...JOSEPa J. REILLY, a member of the Enghsh department of Hunter College, New York Ctty, xs the author of Newman as a Man of Letters...
...but it has escaped both the pseudo-internationalizing of the East and the arid and despiritualizing materialization of the West...
...Chapman added her name to the llst of southern novelists who are producing probably the most vital work in contemporary American creative literature...
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...This is a charming book, with its frequent glimpses into outof-the-way places, its tolerant and kindly point of view, its lightness of touch, and its incidents unfailingly colored by humor or mildly sophisticated sentiment...
...The narrative slips frequently into dramatic form and we are face to face with the saint in the crises or in th~ normal incidents of his career...
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...Ostensibly it has done all these things because it believed that "there is danger of a scarcity of gold," that "there is danger of a general credit expansion and inflation" and that "the 'undue' absorption of funds by the stock market deprives commerce of its legitimate due and the latter has suffered or is suffering or will suffer...
...GERTRUDE RYDER BENNE~TT is a Brooklyn poet ADRI^n SCOLTEN lS a research student in mcdmine at the University of Wzsconsm...
...who grappled with poverty as a problem rather than a chronic social condition...
...but it is not lacking in the finer qualities of perception and poetic feeling...
...The readiest proof of this lles in his last chapter but one, entitled The Trip to the States, in which he gets no farther than New York and Boston but proves in delightful prose that he has caught the savor of each...
...It is the natural manifestation of the chronic attitude of a type which can be traced back to the antagonism "between the democratic pioneer communities and the tide-water 'nobility' [which] was evident along the entire coast...
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...Coming to the case of the Federal Reserve Board as stated by its representatives at the hearings, we are informed that it has done about all that it thought wise and legitimate to keep call loans, prices and speculation down...
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...The rules of this code, he remarks, "apply only to its [Wall Street's] own members and their violation is visited with severe punishment," whereas "Congress passes laws for others to observe which are flagrantly violated by the very men who have passed them...
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...Every page bears evidence of the author's strong conviction and courage...
...Lawrence and Saguenay, Bermuda, Porto-Rico, Havana and West Indlas...
...and ashes indeed seem their thoughts and lives beside the splendid vitality of Mrs...
...In fact, too close attention to the economics might make one lose sight of the politics which for many readers will constitute the pith of the matter...
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...But after all, these moments are to be forgiven for the beautiful truth of the major portion of the book, a book which "asks no hidden questions" but which tells a simple story in a language of rare orlglnality and poetic power, spoken by people who are of the earth and yet of the spirit...
...REv LEo R. WARD, C S C., of Notre Dame Umverslty, is an essayist and erltm...
...JOSEPH J. REILLY...
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...BOOKS AND COMMERCIAL PRINTING Saint of the Poor The Heroic Life of Saint Vincent de Paul, by Henri Lavedan...
...Worst of all, in the form of rediscount loans, this borrowed money comes in part even from the Federal Reserve Banks...
...One of them is reputed to be the leader of the Ku Klux Klan in his state...
...Homeplace is not a great novel...
...Against a background of conflict, civil and religious, of degraded poverty and irresponsible wealth, of brilliance and squalor, of selfishness and heroism but of heroism latent and inactive--the writer draws for us, in strong but simple outline, the figure of the Gascon peasant, the devoted priest and missioner, the pioneer of modern charity...
...Stabilization of Prices, written in I928, Professor Law- N rence takes issue with those who believe that some steps more positive than discussion and study should be taken in the matter of stabilizing prices...
...Unfortunately, more credit was advanced from the hinterland anxious to benefit from this higher interest rate and, of course, prices and volume of speculation in Wall Street went higher still...
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...He it was who first systematically directed the hidden impulses of charity in thousands of hearts into practical channels of rescue and relief...
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...These transactions of a crazy stock market are made not on a ready cash basis, but largely on money borrowed from all kinds of banks, from all parts of the country, depriving all sorts of commerce and industry, including agriculture, of needed credit...
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...In consequence the interest rate on call loans went up...
...It has sold "governments" in the open market and raised rates at the same time...
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...Today the battle-cry is prohibition, farm relief, anti-Romanism and inhibition of speculation...
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...along the middle Atlantic, in the similar conflict between the farmers of the interior and the wealthy merchants and traders of the coast cities...
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...tells how to overcome foot dis in the natural way...
...He holds that this assault upon Wall Street is not the result of an acute indignation caused by the sudden discovery of the shameful behavior of bankers, brokers and speculators...
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...Of old, the devout suppliant raised his eyes to saints in glory...
...He starts out from somewhat the same premise in Wall Street and Washington...
...today the saints walk the earth with us, clad as we are, speaking our language, seeing further, gripping harder, loving more perhaps, yet with eyes and hands and hearts llke our own...
...Today our best social thought and effort show surprising correspondence with those which characterize Sainl Vincent de Paul...
...When the Federal Reserve system was established, it was expected that the Central Banks would be able to control the activities of the money market...
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...Scarcely a phase of charitable work escaped him: prison work, hospital work, the establishment of night refuges, of foundling hospitals, of associations of charity and of religious orders foi relieving and visiting the poor--these, in addition to the spiritual work of country missions of retreats for clergy and laity, and of personal direction, were but part of the vast edifice of charity which the single initiative of one man was able tc erect...
...For truly, to no man does organized social work owe more than to Saint Vincent de Paul...
...it is too local in its feeling...
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...It has raised and raised again rates of discount...
...that it is, for such a purpose, too purely Latin in the quality of its fundamental emotion and in its method of approach to the subject...
...Wall Street is hurting productive industries and agriculture...
...Especially p reading has religious biography freed itself from the taint of conscious edification, or if here and there it lingers on, it belongs to a bygone age when saints' haloes were warranted non-detachable from the cradle to the grave, and the twinkle of very human eyes was lost in the permanently uplifted gaze of the ecstatic...
...If the present age has contributed to spiritual truth --as what age has not !--the essential humanity of the saints is not the least of its lessons...
...Not until the coming of Jefferson and Jeffersonian democracy did it reach the ascendancy over the wealthy mercantile and cultured sea coast...
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...ELEAnOa DOWNZNO, a poet, is a member of the English department of Manhattanwlle College, New York City...
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...Half a century of sectionalism finally led to secession and Civil War...
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...For Professor Lawrence is of the opinion that the band of senators which now is "revealing the hideous turpitude of Wall Street" is "the identical group which has given us prohibition . . . prevented our participation in the League of Nations . . . [and] has discovered farm relief...
...As Professor Lawrence adds : "The mere enumeration of these men classifies them...
...And then--peace be to the ashes of the Intellegentsia...
...It belongs undoubtedly to the type of popular biography...
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...who studied indefatigably its many phases, and brought to its solution an enlightened charity--a charity that dealt, indeed, with the individual, but with the individual as related to the group...
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...But Professor Lawrence thinks that the Board was stung into action by fear of those men in the Senate and the things that were to emanate from that source...
...Only when Mrs...
...CONTRIBUTORS JoHn CARTER, the author of Man is War...
...The language in which it is written, so archaic that it almost seems as if we were back in pre-Elizabethan times, is yet racy, filled with poignant feeling, uplifted with an extraordinary freedom and audacity of metaphor...
...LEO KF*NNRDY IS an assocxate editor of the Canadlan Mercury...
...Chapman is not a southern peasant, and she would be more effective if, TEACHING THE CHILD AT HOME A letter from Most Reverend Nei...
...GRErZVXLLE VERNON, the author of The Image m the Path, is a crltte of mnsm and opera...
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...Considering the politics of the issue, we come to understand the author's scorn for the senators' zeal and his lack of appreciation of the Board's alleged want of candor...
...Goldrlng's interest in places does not overshadow his interest in people, and against the setting of hill or huddled village or out-of-the-way pension he sketches many a vivid figure with deft strokes...
...If the economics of the book makes fascinating reading, its politics has a persuasive appeal most difficult to resist...
...Progress . . . whither and to what...
...Whether we want to or not, we feel inclined to believe that the author's diagnosis of the case against Wall Street is essentially correct...
...Their utter lack of judicial temper and financial knowledge impeaches their competence to pass on matters concerning Wall Street...
...In the career of Saint Vincenl de Paul--in his life as a shepherd-boy of the Landes and a., a slave in Barbary, in his later contacts with the humble and the great--there is much that is picturesque, and the authoi does not neglect his opportunities...
...Chapman herself speaks do we sometimes feel that we might wish her writing a little different, do we regret that she is not content to allow the characters to live their lives and speak their thoughts in the language which is theirs without striving to put her own thoughts into similar language...
...One need not be adept in the cabalistic art of high finance to penetrate the mysteries of the controversy...
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...Another is afraid of Roman dominion, an apprehension which he voices loudly--and continuously...
...Lavedan's style--simple, vivid and dramatic is peculiarly suited to his purpose...
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...The descriptions, though brief are impressive and animated by poetic feeling...
...This is the gist of the economics, stated in the idiom of the original: According to the prevailing argument voiced by the senators in question, and the members of the Committees on Banking and Currency of both Senate and House, Wall Street is indulging in a veritable orgy of speculation...
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...If we only knew, if they only knew, their destination, we might have a glimpse of the future history of the world for the rest of the century...
...Goldrlng has to say about us, we turn to the beginning of the book, convinced that in accompanying the genial Englishman on his further pilgrimages we shall find some stimulation and much delight...
...He refuses to concede that the situation is so desperate, or that we are equipped with the knowledge to determine what remedial measures beyond discussion and study we should apply...
...This has proved a vain hope...
...Finally, the Board felt constrained to warn the Reserve and member Banks against the danger of speculative loans...
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...Obviously they cannot proceed at such a rate without getting somewhere . . . or running off the rails...
...But he reminds those "gentlemen of high moral voltage and abysmal prejudice" that Wall Street "has enforced upon its members a code of ethics which it were well for the supreme legislative body of the land to emulate...
...ITH the appearance last year of The Happy Mountain, Mrs...
...Cabell out of the roster because his novels, with the exception of The Rivet in Grandfather's Neck, belong not to the South but to No Man's Land...
...J. DRSBRIRRR IRwin, a vice-president of the Aviators' Auxihary of the American Legion, as now a resident of Aruba, Dutch West Indtes...
...The book is a spirited defense of that "innocent community," lower Manhattan, and a merciless castigation of those interfering with its doings, to wit, certain members of "that chamber of absurdities," the Senate, and the Federal Reserve Board charged with doing their bidding...
...Goldrlng listens to a fellow-Englishman recount his (and probably Mr...
...That the book does not present a more subjective view of the saint can scarcely be deemed a fault--though one may regret its absence --for the author's purpose has clearly been the presentation, at once objective and informal, of the saint's life and work...
...its canvas is not big enough...
...He admits that speculative operation "has been surrounded by a fringe of fraud which has imparted to all speculation its own sinister countenance...
...Chapman's latest book, one realizes that only in a country like the South could such a work have been written...
...in the South, in "the struggle between the small farmers and the wealthy patrician planter with his army of slaves and dominant position in the community...
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...And that human treatment, that spiritual realism translating divine into human terms, has guided M. Lavedan in his study of Saint Vincent...
...August 28, I929 THE COMMONWEAL 427 BOOKS The Wicked Street Wall Street and Washington...
...translated by Helen Younger Chase...
...One feels, however, that the work does not readily lend itself to translation...
...But where are they rushing to, my dear Douglas...
...It is poor in the things of this world, it is narrow and intolerant if you will...
...The~ translation, though occasionally a trifle too literal, is on the whole excellently done...
...It is at these times that the book becomes too near a tour de force...
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...His friends, of course, introduce him to that unique American institution, the speakeasy, where over "$2.00 worth of whisky" they excitedly discuss Ezra Pound, Shakespeare, internationalism and the rest, or Mr...
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...The conversations of the characters are a joy, and the characters themselves live their lives as vitally as the peasants of George Eliot or of Hardy...
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...Against the drama of the age we see unroll itself the drama of the saint's personal ex perience...
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