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432 THE COMMONWEAL September 4, I929 ized labor was struggling to get a foothold, and gentle- men of the press were out to see what they could. The evidence regarding hours, living...
...Meanwhile, with the killing of American nationals made the subject of a formal note of expectation from our government to Great Britain...
...Snowden...
...nature will be brought further under control...
...This would force the creation of a professional class in track, and it would also give the champion athlete a chance to be honest with himself and with the world...
...What can be done to bring this about ? Is assistance from Catholics in the United States practicable...
...Mr...
...They would," he declares, "be pronounced unfit to propagate and bring up offspring and be compulsorily subjected to a safe and painless operation which would effectively prevent the reproduction of their kind...
...He was born on Arlington estate and things like secession, war, emancipation and reconstruction were not understandable before the truth that those Virginia hills and glades were his home...
...And the situation is rounded out and made perfect by the fact that Dr...
...Everyone knows it is the dream of all high-minded inventors who, like Mr...
...Rabinovitch's transportation back to Windsor...
...Despite Neitzsche we are somewhat tenderer of the weak and the infirm than our great-grandfathers were...
...Gillmore's reproaches by rhapsodizing over the "poor actors--my people...
...His right in the holy places is anterior to the Moslem's in history...
...UNDER the present arrangement, this right is, as it were, half admitted...
...The speedy despatch of British troops from Epypt and Malta at first permitted the hope that the crMs was over, but later reports seemed to indicate that what began among the Moslems as an anti-Jewish demonstration might end as a general revolt...
...Ford, of course, does not think with us here...
...Great Further Britain has, as a matter of fact, enWrangling countered opposition on three sides...
...Because clerical opposition to this was strong, the government countered by instituting measures designed to hamper the work of the Church...
...Certainly the producers gave it a lesson in organization...
...The very fact that clashes of a bitter and bloody sort were almost inevitable should have elicited a clear and decisive policy which would have made them impossible...
...What he had quite mysteriously forgotten was the fact that his business and his fortune were pretty soundly established some years before the Eighteenth Amendment was passed, and that at the present time he is doing everything possible to put the products of Ford into the hands of the Irish, the English, the French, the Germans and the Russians, not all of whom are chiefly celebrated for sobriety...
...To put an end to this practice, Mr...
...Of course all students of machinery agree that eventually the new methods will create new jobs...
...For while one may not acquiesce in Professor Myers's opinion in its entirety, there was plenty of evidence during the election that where some people were choosing between the candidates on the basis of religion, others, and perhaps a greater number, were voting for an accent...
...The prospect may not please some of us, but there is no use denying the inevitability with which the "western dialect" is becoming the American language, and putting an end to the usefulness of such rhymes as are built upon the prolonged "r", the sustained and fondled "a...
...WEEK BY WEEK HE effects of the anti-Jewish riots in Palestine will be felt far beyond its borders...
...The campaign began with fair prospects of success, but in the end important issues were lost sight of while Miss Barrymore returned Mr...
...Their very bottom is displayed in a paper recently contributed to the Literary Guide, a London rationalist publication, by Mr...
...One or two Mexican speakers defended the statement that the people proved themselves eminently Catholic under persecution...
...We have no quarrel with the hours of work or the wages paid in the best of our factories, but we find it wrong that the machines which have made those hours and wages possible have put some two million citizens of this country out of work...
...Widely valued" is surely not an excessive term...
...If the two programs clash, opposition will ensue...
...The price for which a keg of it could be bought, the things that could subsequently be put into it, and the developments that might confidently be looked for therefrom, already easily rivaled new bootleggers and old Scotch as steady topics among that very considerable section of the citizenry actively interested in such things...
...And that is what Dr...
...Robert Arch...
...When the poet laureate avers that "all children are sensitive to the charm of Lycidas" he is obviously generalizing...
...His "Marse Gawge" was Major George Washington Parke Custis the adopted son of George Washington, and his "Marse Robert" was General Robert E. Lee, the husband of Mary Custis...
...Ford and Mr...
...Hoover's, already endorsed by the populace, than to Mr...
...This, in itself, is highly treasurable...
...The Moslems own "legally and absolutely" the site of the famous remnant of Soloman's Temple which is the centre of the controversy...
...the radio annihilates space, plumbing annihilates dirt, and so on...
...It can lead to disorder and to momentary community uproar...
...Invitably, they have striven to enlarge their claims...
...Temperamental outbursts may be effective when the bargain to be driven is between two individuals...
...Public opinion in the South is on trial as well for its attitude toward the "labor law breaker" as for its estimate of wealth which, for selfish reasons, has earned the title "predatory...
...This is profoundly disliked by Germany, whose government is pledged to clearance of the occupied zone...
...We enjoy advantages of which our ancestors dreamed, and we spend most of our leisure puzzling out answers to problems with which they had no concern...
...The country as a whole has passed through experiences which make the adventures of North Carolina, Tennessee and Virginia seem anachronistic...
...We do not know on what ethical principle the officials have decided that Mr...
...A new picture superimposed upon the old...
...One imagines that the conference will arrive at a definitive settlement, with Mr...
...Concerned all his life with the criteria of reason and morality, he managed to strike off more than a few maxims in neatly turned couplets, but he realized as well as we do that birth had favored him with no such prosodic genius as Goldsmith carried in his pockets...
...He has genuine potentialities, which it is disappointing that he has not realized...
...We are less likely to attribute aberrations of conduct to an innate viciousness, more willing to seek, in sympathy, an understanding of the varying ways of life about us, not quite so sure that we ought to make over everyone else to conform to ourselves...
...As we look back over the century of progress, we see what has made us all a little happier has been an expansion of the social consciousness...
...FORD AND THE NEW AGE R. HENRY FORD, commenting on the marvels of the present, made manifest to us through Mr...
...He concedes generously that the great man was not en rapport with Milton, whose politics and favorite books aroused his ire...
...Recently he declared that if the Eighteenth Amendment were repealed he could not continue making automobiles because, in the first place, his workmen would lose their efficiency, and in the second, he could not conscientiously put motor cars in the hands of a drinking people...
...AMONGthe agencies devoted to preparing boys for life by affording the right kind of activity and environment, none is more worthy of approval While than the Catholic Boys' Brigade...
...Then there will be comparatively little unemployment for five years or ten years--until methods and machines, are further improved-when every sixth man will lose his job again...
...Consequently there has been no reason for the administration to exert itself...
...and since a positive decMon is the indicated alternative here, there can be no doubt that it should be given for the Jew...
...Now it has withdrawn from the field, taking with it in recompense for a long struggle only the consolation that it has had an experience which may help it to win another day...
...it might even have been praised for its sportsmanship...
...Rabinovitch would have been quieted...
...Meanwhile, the situation at its minimum is grave enough to prompt a deliberate challenge of the way in which Great Britain has administered the mandate over Palestine...
...But unless the Souffn conforms with the nation's general economic ideal, it will in the end lose the natural advantage...
...Bewildered and aging he saw the nation's heroes, "each in his narrow cell forever laid," join the white headstone ranks, but he stayed on...
...This organization has been defined as "a They Grow nation-wide union of individual branches guided by national and regional headquarters in doing preventive work among all types of boys by means of organized recreation and modern social work...
...Smith's defeat...
...Zionist leaders deny the story, in so far as it charges the nationalist section with "Fascist" tactics, but the demonstration is not denied...
...We cannot complain because the journey from New York to Chicago takes two months...
...Hence the Federal Board recognized "raisin and other grapes" grown in California as worthy beneficiaries logically inviting its good offices...
...R. W. Chapman...
...but it is probably the one which will cause most disturbance...
...Snowden winning his game...
...He says that the men who promote track and field contests, "for their own or somebody else's benefit," realizing how indispensable to the gate is the presence of a celebrated athlete, are not averse to offering him a cash inducement, over and above his expenses, nor he to accepting it...
...Hence its problems took on importance...
...It would have received no unwelcome publicity...
...ALL during these months in which the Senate Finance Committee has been sweating over the tariff bill, Mr...
...Hoover has held to a pleasHave ant position in which he can regard Faith in some of the items in the bill as indethe People fensible, and at the same time remain confident that the sentiment of the people will compel Congress to remove them...
...Less instruction had been given in economic methods and morals...
...To him, for instance, prohibition is progress...
...It has been a peculiarly difficult task, unquestionably...
...DISCUSSION of the Mexican situation as that figured on the menu of the Institute of Public Affairs of the University of Virginia, possesses Estimates the value of an index to what definite groups of people are thinking...
...with Britain's own Labor party (which a year ago bitterly protested an almost parallel action of the Conservatives in China) ordering every engine of force immediately available to the scene of September 4, I929 THE COMMONWEAL 433 the conflict--the world is listening to a grim sequel to the talk of universal disarmament...
...Certainly it is much less prolific of grief, for who ever heard of a professional who was accused of being an amateur--except, of course, in the eccentric, inspired reporting of Mr...
...If the answer is a little more affirmative How To Be than usual, it is because Mr...
...It is no secret...
...As usual, Communism in America presents itself as a more or less frantically organized emotion, powerless to effect more than a question mark...
...Charles Paddock, who was breaking all the an Amateur records that ever existed for the 220 a few years ago, and was a very smart performer in the shorter sprints as well, has been telling the inside story of amateur track activities...
...Indeed, he looks forward to the time when the rationalist spirit will be able to deal with Catholics as society now deals with lunatics...
...Here the influence of the administration will not be a superfluous influence, and the President is being "represented" as determined to force action before 434 THE COMMONWEAL September 4, I929 the special session adjourns...
...IT IS not to comment on politics but to instruct the poets that we quote the recent statement of Dr...
...Now, if he is an astute gentleman, he will have a bill to present for lost wages and mental suffering...
...We do not believe that there will be no problems...
...Rabinovitch must defray the costs of their mistake, but undoubtedly it is the same of which the hunter was aware when, having shot at a deer and killed the farmer's cow, he demanded a slice of beef in return for his wasted bullet...
...What additional tragedies the world may read when all the facts become known can only be a matter of conjecture...
...His review September 4, I929 THE COMMONWEAL 435 of the doctor's poetic criticism is, indeed, a scrupulously fair and entertainingly convincing summary of the evidence...
...But it is conceivable that the stakes may prove altogether too paltry a substitute for other advantages Which his action has imperiled...
...Mr...
...THE Canadian Immigration Service had no good reason for deporting Mr...
...Paddock, and we would add that it is perhaps quite as good as being an honest amateur...
...432 THE COMMONWEAL September 4, I929 ized labor was struggling to get a foothold, and gentlemen of the press were out to see what they could...
...One profound difference, however, must be noted...
...Walker as an executive are finally defeating themselves...
...The airplane annihilates time...
...He himself is responsible for the superficial estimation of his administration...
...Even before the warm endorsement of Senator Gould, of Maine, appeared in the public press, the juice of the California grape had become at least as generally celebrated as the suavity of the California climate...
...Copies may be obtained upon application to General Headquarters, 2i 7 West 3oth Street, New York, New York...
...These are the people whom Mr...
...Such a delay, for economize and political reasons, the President also regards as indefensible...
...If for the moment there is some talk of hostility to Briand for breach of promise, the whole Reich knows where diplomatic responsibility for any delay would really lie...
...True we may be unable to visualize the details of his development, but we know to what order they will belong...
...but we do complain that crack trains are seldom on time...
...It is a much finer thing to be an honest professional than a dishonest amateur," writes Mr...
...Meanwhile the German spokesman has made a very effective address, wich recalls the fact that any kind of settlement must ultimately hinge upon the good-will and prosperity of Germany...
...and, speaking as Christians, we hold that his right is spiritually superior, as well...
...Twenty years ago there were fewer people who had grown out of factory toil of the hardest kind into some measure of economic ease...
...Arch keenly disapproves of Catholic Emancipation, on the ground that it postponed the removal from this earth of "the most baneful and blood-stained organization that ever darkened the human scene...
...It is good strategy to abandon the fight temporarily, and to concentrate on the dissensions within his own forces, before re6ngaging the enemy...
...When Equity looked its strongest, they were firm for a compromise...
...ANALYSISof a public figure often runs afoul of the pat characterizations which have been fastened on him after consideration of his more Accepting spectacular activities or omissions...
...He expressed the opinion that not a few of these measures were "obviously oppressive...
...Ford welcomes is to be...
...We recommend the cause most warmly to our readers, feeling that many of them are anxious to help solve the boy problem through the establishment of the proper agencies...
...The ultimate outcome depends upon "education" as that is interpreted by the Church and by the revolution...
...William Starr Myers to the effect that The Western "Smith's dialect was not acceptable to the American people...
...But in this case he is not at all so sure that public sentiment will dictate to Congress the proper course of action...
...Invariably, in their old age, they see visions of a future in which mechanics will have made enchanting all the circumstances of existence...
...Arch risks losing in his campaign to improve England's quality...
...This policy Mr...
...Of course few will hold that Johnson himself resembled the nightingale or the woodland thrush...
...On the score of Lycidas he admits that Mr...
...Mr...
...By comparison Mr...
...Some people have even examined the record and found that Mr...
...What is more unpleasant, the Immigration officials will find themselves subjected to at least nine days' laughter, and the Canadian government will lose some of its prestige as the model of democracy on the western continent--a reputation which it has been at pains to build up...
...Geography has decreed that textile mills should be established in the South rather than in New England...
...But the very nature of the difficulty should have produced special safeguards...
...That degraded labor in one state and relatively emancipated labor in another is socially dangerous we have long understood...
...New York's absent mayor," "Jimmie, the well-dressed mayor," and "the man who does nothing, gracefully" have been so often repeated that these glib appraisals and dismissals of Mr...
...and the Strangely enough the world has gone Poets on for 200 years since Johnson was at Oxford without settling the momentous question of his sensitiveness to poetic inspiration...
...Ford's machine development is not beyond the general comprehension...
...Wodehouse...
...operation--the abandonment of anti-religious propaganda on the one hand, and a helpful social teaching on the other--may eventually bridge over a gulf created by years of suffering and war...
...Ernest Gruening, for his part, averred that the Mexican constitution is not a legal document but a program rendering possible a code of revolutionary civic action...
...Doran, the federal Prohibition Commissioner, deeply disturbed by reports that Bacchus has been seen in person moving eastward from the Pacific hills, has just undertaken an inquiry into the activities of the California growers...
...Hoover's western Dialect dialect was...
...If the new age which Mr...
...In one respect, however, the present editor would like to append a word...
...What we cannot foresee, however, are the special social and economic problems which will accompany the new age...
...All this is no longer a faith...
...He stopped running errands 436 T H E C O M M O N W E A L September 4, I929 when Lee freed him, but he remained to build forts and then to bury the dead...
...Edison, speaks of a future development "so vast" that it is "beyond our powers of comprehension...
...The idea of suppression has been tried, and tried with especial skill by England...
...Experience seems to indicate that youthful souls whom education has not inured to the technique of classical mythology and conventions find Lycidas frighteningly dull and staggeringly stiff...
...You may return at your own expense...
...All this, of course, Mr...
...We are more generally eager for peace, at least we are doing more to guarantee it...
...Today there exists a large body of citizens who know something about industrial circumstances and are prone to estimate them according to standards which they think should represent the nation...
...Paddock suggests that the A. A. U. allow athletes to appear only in supervised meets...
...As WE write, the Hague conference seems to have made little progress toward extricating itself from the tangle created by Mr...
...No less a person than Robert Bridges has recently ascribed to him "an unpoetic mind," on the ground that the slashing critique of Lycidas reveals all sorts of incapacities...
...But co...
...Edison, are concerned with the burdens of mankind...
...Those who have visited the stately colonial Uncle Jim's mansion which looks across the PotoHome mac's waters to the Capitol dome may remember the white-haired Negro who served as guide in the home where he had once been a slave...
...But supposedly detached writers should not play the politician's game of disguising facts...
...This does not mean that the amateur cham~on is likely to make a fortune...
...Hoover's wishes, and the country will be properly served after all...
...Gilbert, thou shouldst be living at this houri WHEN the American Catholic is depressed by fiery charges brought against his Church, he may derive some comfort from the thought that a The Klan, certain gentleness--or perhaps timidity --has prevented the Klan and its assoPreferred ciated agencies from emptying the vials of wrath completely...
...Bridges may be right, and that Johnson may have erred through petulance or blindness...
...MR...
...When in a reminiscent mood he would spin tales of an intimacy to delight historians...
...But now everybody realizes that it is bad business as well...
...The Zionist experiment has juxtaposed within the intimate geographical confines of Palestine two races, two religions, two cultures, whose profound self-consciousness and separateness were already deeply and sombrely engraved in history...
...The extent of the harm done there could hardly be determined when this was written...
...Johnson Lichfield by Mr...
...Walker...
...Snowden's endeavor to wring concessions from the other powers, notably Italy, seems a minor affair...
...Either he was speaking carelessly or he was underestimating the popular imagination...
...would have felt that this was an example of fair dealing under western skies...
...Our attention was directed to this eminent journal by the London Tablet...
...that the coaches are drafty...
...Men, freed from the slavery of manual labor and from the capriciousness of the elements, will be able to live for the first time as men...
...of Carl Sandburg rather than of John Dos Passos...
...It is a civic certitude...
...As in the past, technical improvements will call for a new technique of living, and there will be suffering in the change...
...So that if there is ever to be a single American accent it will be nearer to Mr...
...At present the directors are engaged in sponsoring a "development campaign," so that a host of new opportunities may not be lost...
...IT WOULD have been incongruous for Uncle Jim Parks not to sleep his last sleep in Arlington...
...An His Pards arrangement has been reached whereby the Federal Farm Board and a group of western banks will jointly finance a loan of $9,ooo,ooo to the grape industry of that state to ensure stable prices and a satisfactory market to its widely valued product...
...Walker has to his credit real achievements, notably his forcing state legislation as a necessary first step in subway building and other public improvements...
...Arch justifies on the ground that "toleration" of Catholics involves more of evil and suffering than their suppression would...
...The people are being relied upon, and where they are apathetic, or ignorant, as on the subject of manganese, it may happen that the interests of big business will be in agreement with Mr...
...Now, however, there is good reason for supposing that the bill may carry over into the regular session...
...Myers meant when he said that the radio was a most important factor in Mr...
...Smith's...
...LaGuardia whose friends go so far in their zeal as to contrast his war record with that of his opponent, must have also discovered the same fact...
...If the world is in some respects a better place than it was Ioo years ago, the improvement is hardly to be attributed to the industrial arts...
...That is what his development would do...
...Then, altogether generously, it sent this message by radio: "Deportation order rescinded...
...Unfortunately there is just one flaw in the reasoning so enchantingly outlined...
...It will be the accent of Chicago rather than of New York...
...Thrice welcome, therefore, is the heart-easing mirth of Bacchus and the present situation in California...
...Things would have been much simpler for the Canadian government if it had arranged for Mr...
...The Jewish suburbs Strife of Jerusalem had been pillaged and in the burned, the rabbinical college at HebHoly Land ron had been attacked and outlying Jewish colonies had been raided--all to the accompaniment of a steadily mounting death toll, which included nearly a score of Americans, most of them students...
...We hold no particular brief for Mr...
...when Equity wavered, they had no concessions whatever to make...
...If one disregards other aspects of the discussion, these essential remarks may be accepted as a fairly accurate sketch of the situation...
...Hence the industry grew in wealth...
...it has not recently been considered the proper technique in collective bargaining...
...In these respects life is more agreeable, and when we see signs that such progress is not constant or uniform, when, here and there, we see law attempt to cancel, instead of protect, human liberties, even the invention of the electric light, the automobile, the radio and the airplane cannot console us for what we must regard as retrogression in matters more important than industry...
...EACH summer we ask ourselves whether the term "amateur champion" does not contradict itself...
...of Mexico Patrick Ward held that the settlement, while by no means final, was based upon a concession by the government of the privilege to estimate the qualifications of the clergy...
...Southern industry, a generation behind the more speedily modernized North, is repeating all the acts in the play...
...Abraham Rabinovitch, of Windsor, but unfortunately for him it Canada's did not realize this until his ship was Error approaching the coast of France...
...American industry itself has pointed the way to a program through which fair wages can be exchanged for growing enterprise...
...his problem is to make some of the influntial members of the association realize it, too...
...The government responsible for peace in Palestine should never have withdrawn the garrison from that country...
...SOME of the anomalies arising from the Eighteenth Amendment have been rather grim...
...But all the world knows now (what was far from clear years ago) that it can be subdued not by its own resource of hectic violence, but by that calm and realistic reasonableness which is the spirit of the taw...
...the Craig F. Thompson's article, New Superficial York's Jimmie, in the Nation of August 28, is a case in point...
...that one is not safe from cinders even in his berth...
...When he first comes into fame, he has no idea of his own worth to a promoter, and by the time he learns what to ask for, and how to keep from being cheated out of it, his career as a star is near its end...
...We have no wish to deny that certain sections among the Palestine Jews have supplied their share of provocation in the present feud For the Zionist Fascisti to stage a nationalist demonstration before the house of the Grand Mufti in Jerusalem, as the correspondent of the New York World alleges them to have done, was a piece of incredibly childish folly...
...TO ALL lovers of the great doctor it must be pleasant to know that his birthday was satisfactorily remembered by an address delivered at Dr...
...Gillmore knows very well...
...Those interested--and who can remain indifferent ?--are urged to ask for a copy of Milestone, an informative booklet which reviews the history and purposes of the Brigade...
...One can only ask what attitude he will take if public sentiment shows itself unable to remove the indefensible items of the bill before the allotted time expires...
...Inevitably, the Moslem counterclaims are pressed, and exasperate--as lately, when the Moslem Supreme Council received permission to build so near the sacred Wall that to the devout Jew the action constituted a desecration...
...In so far as the Catholic effort in Mexico has been aimed at revision of a manifestly antagonistic constitution, all signs of victory are not only missing but beyond expectation...
...One must pause to applaud the action of the War Department, which is not too often swayed by sentiment, in lifting the ban against civilian burials at Arlington so that Uncle Jim might rest "at home...
...Machines will become more and more human...
...Such a compromise is clearly more mischievous than the most positive decision would be...
...Chapman, admitting all this, went on to declare Johnson well endowed with "that part of human excellence which we call the love of beauty...
...But always the "baneful and blood-stained organization" has bobbed up again, appearing each time with a captive group of the country's best and most brilliant souls...
...Meanwhile the question of justice in Gastonia remains as important as was, years ago, the question of justice in Paterson...
...the Jews have permission to resort thither for worship under conditions of restriction against which they have always protested...
...ABOUTthree months ago the Actors' Equity Association began actively campaigning for a closed shop in Hollywood, with the assurance that Defeat in it could win there as it won in New York, by presenting a united front to Hollywood the producers...
...Though first established in New York, the Brigade has spread until it deserves to be termed genuinely and representatively American...
...and it should have long ago defined and defended the right of the Jews to worship in their immemorial holy places...
...at the Hague While the French have consented to transfer a portion of their permanent annuities to the English account, Briand still wields the threat to postpone evacuation of the Rhineland until the debate has been ended satisfactorily...
...The evidence regarding hours, living conditions and scrofulous children was also pretty much the same...
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