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4x2 THE COMMONWEAL August 28, I929 Against France the British case is, we believe, rather weak. Though Paris has harped too strongly upon its fate as "the victim of German aggression,"...
...Group insurance has also played a part in the war on aging workers...
...Although Mr...
...Burke is scarcely a matter of importance...
...Willebrandt or any other person submitted to me a speech attacking my own religion, I would have resented and repudiated it...
...4x2 THE COMMONWEAL August 28, I929 Against France the British case is, we believe, rather weak...
...Of course as a multimillionaire and an experienced banker, he has the added, in these days indispensable fascination of being a specialist in finance...
...THE news that General Umberto Nobile is in Germany planning on another flight to the polar regions would have been received with derision Nobile last fall, but finds an entirely different Returns reception today...
...And it may well be that the British statesmen are working overtime to arrange this satisfactorily...
...Forthwith the New York World, which remembers the last campaign fairly well, rose to declare: "This is not the point...
...Joyce has borne testimony, in his own Joycean way, at the end of The Portrait of an Artist...
...Or are we to believe that Mr...
...2) Economic greeds and jealousies are the chief causes of war...
...Snowden...
...One is almost compelled to believe that the present industrial system, uniquely conscious of social obligations, has increased rather than lessened that "economic insecurity" which produces, over and above the poorhouse, a large portion of prevailing statistics about suicide, neurasthenia and debility...
...Newman said of Johnson, In effect, that he was unhappy all his life from being catholique manqu6...
...Consequently, of the samples of adroit and cogent speechifying which the newspapers selected from the proceedings of the International Advertising Association's congress at Berlin recently, we liked best that in which Mr...
...The fact remains that Britain is profoundly ill at ease over its international economic status...
...The American capital invested in continental industries is destined to help raise the standards of wages over there, so that European labor will be enabled to purchase the commodities which Mr...
...MATTHEW ARNOLD told a Protestant world that the Catholic Church was not a sect, but the CathoAugust 28, 1929 THE COMMONWEAL 4I 5 lic Church...
...Mrs...
...WEEK BY WEEK N ONE of the cannon crackers exploded by Mrs...
...but, after all, beyond the fact that he was the most versatile and coruscant of columnists, there is hardly anything we do know about Agag...
...A Franco-German agreement which had gone beyond the problems bound up with the war to the practical necessities of the present and future would interlock the continent to an extent which might make the circumstance that England's centre of gravity is really somewhere in the Pacific quite evident...
...To us it seems that whether or not the address was O K'd by Mr...
...This figure appears also in the survey conducted by the National Association of Manufacturers, although the dead-line for skilled workers is set a little higher...
...Certainly this Agag stepped delicately, though there was something deadly about that lightness, as of the tread of small pointed hoofs that know how to cut while they caper...
...American money is leaving the country to pay foreign wages, foreign taxes, and to produce goods which may be shipped back across the Atlantic...
...No doubt frank acceptance of the Young plan is a necessary preliminary to any such larger agreement...
...He Dollar began about thirty years ago as secreDiplomacy tary to the American legation at the Hague, and since then has been charg6 d'affaires at almost every capital m western Europe...
...Matthew Woll, vice-president of the American Federation of Labor, views the great increases in American investments abroad...
...The doctor is anything but a Catholic...
...THE yawping, sneering, exaggerated and, indeed, comical lucubrations of T. Swann Harding, who admits that he wrote IiO articles last Pity the year . . . have been met in a general Nation...
...No doubt they had their faults...
...It may be added that few members of the medical profession observed the passing of the sisters during the Combes era with equanimity...
...and there are other things in his prose which go a long way toward counteracting the Stanzas from the Grande Chartreuse...
...On the contrary, these nuns, young and old, were invariably cheerful and happy, almost gay and full of childish fun and laughter, and it was wonderful to watch them communicate their happiness to others...
...It was requested by the Republican National Committee, and even approved (she declares) by the Honorable James Francis Burke, G.O.P...
...Burke replied with a sweeping denial of the charges, making the specific point that "it is needless to say that had Mrs...
...Baldwin, when being sworn in at his instalment in office, instead of using the prescribed form, declared that now he laid him down to sleep, he prayed the Lord his soul to keep...
...mass production has resulted in high wages and increased purchasing power, therefore advertising is responsible for our prosperity...
...Some of the most caustic words penned during the same Advertising period gave expression to charges and, in rebuttal, counter-charges, that the and War code of advertising ethics had been violated--treated as a scrap of paper...
...Naturally it is absurd to take that gentleman to task, as some have done, for breaking a piece off the "indivisible whole" of the Young plan...
...Christina Rossetti was completely in the Catholic ascetic tradition, in life and expression...
...Since it is true that "the older the average age of the factory or office force, the higher the premiums under the group insurance schedules," it follows that an employer will hire the youngest force he is able to recruit...
...extensive advertising can create an international prosperity...
...WE MOURN the news that Agag, the devastating jester who has entertained us the past many months by his department, Across the Bar, in Farewell G.K.'s Weekly, will perform there no more...
...A passage from a book we hope to review soon is so much to the point here that we feel it deserves quotation...
...Even their worst enemies have never dared to belittle their all-sacrificing devotion and their all-enduring patience...
...way by the medical professions with yawns and with pity for the editors...
...Woll has no remedy, he declares that from the view-point of labor, nothing could be worse...
...international prosperity will remove the sources of these greeds ~md jealousies...
...but fundamentally the idea seems pretty sound...
...Some of the best, and certainly the most entertaining criticism, was that directed against advertising hokum...
...Chesterton...
...Masters's Father Malloy is unequivocally qne" and among the novelists, even discounting the perhaps not unmixed praises of Mr...
...and though "relief funds" administered by the trades unions prevented wholesale starvation, eighteen days of trouble improved the health and the spirits of no one...
...He lists Chatterton, More Names Scott, Morris, Disraeli, Byron, Burne Jones, Ruskin and George Eliot as contributing each some share to the chorus of defense and appreciation of things Catholic by which those outside the fold have again and again exhibited their intellectual generosity or their instinct for truth...
...Both he and Mrs...
...TEXTILE milling has received few smiles from Dame Fortune anywhere recently, but the closing of the factories in Lancashire, England, Arbitration was a particularly heavy blow to a country already beset with staggering in Lancashire unemployment problems...
...vides that no rate or fare shall be charged for a long haul that is in excess of the aggregate of intermediate rates or fares...
...counsel...
...This was thirty-two years ago, and whatever the Interstate Commerce Commission may decide to think about it, the general public will not be convinced that what was fast in the late eighteen-nineties is fast in 1929 . UNDER the title, Catholic Tradition in Non-Catholic Literature, the Reverend H. E. G. Rope publishes in the current Month an interesting bit A Few of research into English letters since the Reformation...
...IMIGRATION quotas have been cut so that only a handful of the very best people are let into the country each year...
...Edward A. Filene said: "We have assumed the r61e of guide, philosopher and directing friend to the world...
...Wilder and Miss Cather's altogether glorious archbishop...
...People used to say that the sisters went about their work with sad, sullen faces, their thoughts more occupied with the salvation of the soul than that of the body...
...Mabel Walker Willebrandt in her current series of articles has made a noise comparable to that which attended the news regarding her adBelieve It dress to the Springfield, Ohio, Methodist Conference last fall...
...border patrols are conUnpatriotic stantly making it harder for smugglers to get aliens across the boundaries, and Capital cheap foreign labor is being forced to remain at home...
...as an aeronaut his reputation has been considerably rehabilitated by the recognition of the fact that the decision to fly in May, against the advice of the Germans, was largely forced by the attitude of popular and official Italian opinion, eager for immediate prestige in air exploration and displeased at the suggestion that the trip be delayed almost a year in order to take advantage of the better flying weather of April...
...Workers would thus assume part of the responsibility for the success of the industry, and in case of a slump would be better prepared to accept ill luck with resignation...
...They well knew that I did not belong to their creed...
...Much has happened during the past eight months to brighten the prospects of the scapegoat of the Italia...
...THE bitterest trade war of the year in the United States was a war of advertisers...
...But their thoughts were so clean, their hearts so pure, they gave their whole life to their work and asked in return but to be allowed to pray for those under their care...
...No doubt they were more used to dipping their fingers in holy water than in carbolic acid solution, then the aU-powerful panacea 414 THE COMMONWEAL August 28, I929 in our surgical wards, soon to be replaced by another...
...Fletcher, not only as our representative at Rome, but as the favorite and ideal of all who believe that the United States suffers from not being represented more generally by men who are schooled and disciplined in the ways of diplomacy...
...Chesterton, on paper as in person, is insusceptible of disguise...
...You may guess still again and say that British Labor is opposed to "international capitalism" and to a bank subject to no government control...
...THE displacement of workers through the introduction of new machinery and methods is certainly one of the important causes of unemployPoorhouse ment...
...Maurice Lebon urging the reestablishment of nursing sisters in the Sisters as many hospitals as possible...
...Woll fears may invade these shores to the detriment of American industry...
...Perhaps, but one has no certainty...
...we have taken on us a jurisdiction far beyond that accorded or admitted to any other human individual or organization...
...Though Paris has harped too strongly upon its fate as "the victim of German aggression," there is no doubt regarding either its sufferings or the fragility of its victory...
...But in reality it merely constituted a step--though a very significant onemtoward such a settlement...
...Stuart Chase summarizes very impressively some available evidence regarding this development...
...Chase argues for government intervention to supply adequate knowledge regarding the problem, an intelligent program of public works and a system of unemployment insurance comparable to that in Europe...
...England succeeded in having the German navy scrapped, in getting the lion's share of the imperial colonies, in guaranteeing the integrity of Belgium, and in cleansing the Mediterranean as well as the near East of Hohenzollern outposts...
...Hoover used the wrong words in taking his oath has led to the recollection of a number of similar mistakes...
...It has been remarked of late how curiously the connotations of "dollar diplomacy" have been changed, so that what was once a term of ridicule is now the slogan of an approved policy...
...Reich statesmen must bargain for the freedom of Cologne, and any halt in the proceedings will, of course, be attributed to Mr...
...Hemingway, there are the friar of Mr...
...Willebrandt take no pride in the incident...
...envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary to Venezuela, Argentina, the Netherlands and Luxemburg...
...What astonishes everybody is the MacDonald government's very early eagerness to debate the terms...
...Fletcher, whom he succeeds as ambassador to Italy, Mr...
...They were also tolerant...
...She has been accused of going to the Methodist Church in her r61e as an official spokesman of the Republican party and asking this Church to enter partizan politics...
...Wyndham Lewis would yield quotations among the philosophers, and Miss Kaye-Smith among the fictioneers...
...AFTER all these years in which we have been paying extra fare on fast trains between New York and the West, it is very sad to learn that the How Fast practice conflicts with a section of the Interstate Commerce Act which proIs Speed...
...John W. Garrett has had a long training in the diplomatic service...
...One can only say that the fruits of Briand's unification policy are in a measure discernible already, and that if he had the idea more fully developed at present his position with reference to the British would be much stronger...
...There are Catholic flashes in Hooker and Browne, and perhaps something more in Donne...
...There is, of course, every reason for his activity...
...Both sides in the controversy having agreed to arbitration, two committees are studying the situation...
...We do not know why he is stopto Agag ping...
...At fortyfour, having already been a national hero and an international scoundrel, only great excitements could occupy his soul...
...Snowden's own opinion about his job...
...If the formal tributes to Rome are few, the implicit rapprochements (which Father Rope also includes) are many...
...One turns from his thinly veiled and purposeless blasphemies, his readily recognized misinterpretations, his cheap resort to quasi-sensationalism with disgust but with reluctant admiration for his sales ability...
...He merely recognizes the "unquestionable competence and morality" of the nuns, avers that they mean a saving of millions annually, and concludes that "welcoming the cornets" is a matter of good sense...
...Is part of the Pan-Europa scheme once propounded by Count Coudenhove-Kalergi actually coming true...
...Willebrandt has not been accused of attacking the Catholic Church...
...His irony was too light-hearted...
...And why Agag...
...and of later men, Augustine Birrell has said so much for the Church that one wonders a little why he has not said more...
...After that king of the Amalek who came "stepping delicately...
...Was it just simply the outcome of "party psychology," reckoning all means fair which guaranteed results, or was it a definite group of leaders who can be listed according to the letters of the alphabet...
...Threatened with a loss of $9,ooo,ooo yearly, the railroads will contend valiantly for the principle that fast trains represent an extraordinary service...
...When trains first made the run from New York to Chicago in less than twenty-eight hours, the railroads began charging an extra $1.20 for each hour cut from that figure...
...And the result of all this is that one year after the disaster he is able to get a hearing for his plans for another attempt...
...Willebrandt asserts that she had not relished making that speech...
...And then the verdict of the official commission of inquiry which, partly to gratify the popular demand, partly to detour around certain ugly reports, and partly to relieve the government itself of accusation, placed the blame for the disaster wholly upon Nobile, was not altogether unfortunate for him...
...We close the happy memory with a final quotation: "It has been calculated that if all the living English writers were placed end on end, they would reach from Calais to Dover...
...It fixed a sum within reason for Germany to pay...
...The opinion has been informally declared by the Interstate Commerce Commission's bureau of tariffs, and a formal hearing will be held in October on the petition of the railroads for relief from application of the section in question...
...The burden of his remarks may be reduced to this: (I) Advertising has made possible mass production in the United States...
...Harding's article, the editors of the Nation must have heeded a persuasive voice indeed--a voice which was able to stifle such considerations as good judgment and good taste...
...At first the mother superior had made some timid attempts to convert me to the faith which had made her sacrifice her life for others, but she had soon given it up with a compassionate shaking of her old head...
...But surely the list could be made much longer...
...But who did decide to hook up Republicanism with evangelical religion...
...If not, there would seem to be no reason for the alarm with which Mr...
...If it holds good in the United States, it ought to be effective in Europe...
...That agreement might have been a unit if it had achieved a definitive settlement of the entire reparations problem, including the sums due the United States...
...But their case does not appear an easy one when it is considered that their standards of "extraordinary" speed have not been changed since before the invention of the airplane...
...By being so severe it made him a martyr, a victim...
...Evidently the Nation's answer would be affirmative for it prints in its August 14 issue an article by this same Mr...
...Even Mr...
...Yet he ought to realize that the situation he complains of includes no threat to us if there is anything in the theory that high wages create big markets--a theory which the American Federation of Labor has frequently proclaimed...
...The Paris writers have all stressed the importance of making this evacuation depend upon acceptance of the Young plan...
...It is very especially the reason for a comparatively new industrial Pilgrims phenomenon--"no work for men over forty...
...but so, too, is the following sly tabloid review of the Conservative dispensation: "The revelation that Mr...
...Everybody knows that technique has changed so rapidly in all forms of endeavor that people who cannot readily relearn are bound to become inefficient...
...No DOUBT it is a sign of the times that the Paris l'Oeuvre, which has been a fairly radical (though not rabid) iournal, makes room for an Applause for article by Dr...
...Viilard's weekly opens its pages to any heterogeneous mass of quotations, specious facts, misstatements and vapid conclusions if somewhere in the welter lies a sneer for the faith of all Christians...
...Those who believed and those who did not were all the same to them...
...For, in accepting Mr...
...It seems a little unfair to suggest that the French should now cede any large portion of the moneys which Germany will definitely pay...
...There is the objection, of course, that some of those at the extremities of the line might scramble ashore...
...What miseries have resulted from failure to observe that rayon was taking the place of denim l The British hope to establish a measure of "co6perative democAugust 28, I929 THE COMMONWEAL 413 racy" in Lancashire, acting according to the principles suggested by Sir Ernest Benn...
...Nor can one easily believe they will consent while postponement of the Rhineland evacuation remains with them like a lucky number in a lottery...
...Most of it has been supplied by the Secretary of Labor, who has observed that the average acceptable age in the steel and other mills is now forty-five...
...Axel Munthe's Story of San Michele is the work of a Protestant, and here is what it says: "I saw the nuns go and a pity it was...
...Dearmer...
...therefore advertising can prevent war...
...It is hard to say whether their owner had a happier hatred for Liberals or Conservatives...
...Only one important poet in the Metaphysical group was Catholic, but who can question the authentically Catholic mood of Henry Vaughan...
...Belloc...
...He was certainly not responsible for the move, and probably could not have stopped it anyhow...
...This should be enough to show that he is the logical successor to Mr...
...In all likelihood it will be found that, as in various portions of our own New England, equipment is antiquated and the product out of step with the times...
...In a recent article in Harper's, Mr...
...The disinterested testimony of Lundborg and Behounek as to the General's conduct after the disaster have cleared his character as a man...
...Are these contributions worthy of space in periodicals that are presumed to be devoted to thought and sound opinion ?" This is a question asked editorially by the Journal of the American Medical Association...
...I am told, for example, that Mr...
...The speech or Not became famous primarily because it informed the assembled ministers that the 600,000 Methodists in Ohio were "enough to swing the election...
...The eventual outcome depends, however, upon so many factors that one must await developments with anxious hope...
...he is often quite energetically Catholic in instinct and belief...
...and he has, besides, served on many international commissions of arbitration...
...Nearly half a million workers left in protest against an announcement that wages would be reduced a fifth...
...Wordsworth's tribute to Our Lady--"Our tainted nature's solitary boast"--is famous, and likewise Carlyle's enthusiastic account of the great Abbot Samson...
...Probably not...
...To skip across the sea (which is not strictly fair, but one is carried along on the crest of the idea) Longfellow, the most cultivated of our early men of letters, knew enough about the history of culture to have a deep literary sympathy with Catholicism: vide Evangeline and the translation of Dante...
...Who was he...
...Harding...
...Browning's Spanish Cloister and Bishop Blougram are not definitive...
...chairman of the special diplomatic mission which negotiated and signed the Berne treaty in r918, and secretary of the general disarmament conference at Washington in I92I...
...There was one description of the Liberal dinner given in honor of those members of the party who were not standing for office which is unforgettable...
...It is certain that some of Coleridge's private creed was so Catholic as to draw a rebuke from Charles Lamb...
...LIKE Mr...
...There the matter must rest, for the present...
...Our moderns, too, have produced their tributes...
...The plan has therefore always been an "estimate" rather than a contract...
...This eagerness may, in part, have been dictated by domestic British politics...
...This it reapportioned on a basis with which Great Britain is not satisfied, and then proceeded to enumerate hypothetical other sums which might eventually be secured...
...If anything they seemed to be more anxious to help the latter, because they felt so sorry for them and showed no signs of resentment even for their curses and blasphemies...
...Despite th~s, American labor is gradually being brought into competition with it...
...This was, indeed, a mistake...
...They do so most intelligently...
...and remembering that pathetic entry in his diary in which he notes that he prayed for his poor Tetty's soul "if it be permitted," one is constrained to believe this...
...It may in part be attributable to Mr...
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