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544 T H E C O M M O N W E A L October 2, i929 whether a national outlook which favors rather than offsets these developments may stand in need of correc- tion ? It is hard, in this day and...
...Vare's popularity in Pennsylvania will encourage his friends in the Senate, and prompt his enemies to keep their peace...
...Australia, in consequence, is alarmed...
...There is similar lack of harmony anent the tariff and technical advancement...
...Vare will not be his power in the homeland, but the gratitude of the administration for the act which assured the nomination of Mr...
...It is being said in many quarters that the reaffirmation of Mr...
...The optimists among our Volsteadians have spoken of our size, our heterogeneity, our "foreign element" (meaning our Latins and Slavs) as factors working to postpone the far-o~ divine event of complete enforcement...
...At all events, one feels that Senator Borah's speech has once more made a subject for conversation out of the implications of the tariff---and that ultimately the stability of Republicanism may depend upon what attitude it decides to take...
...After the age of eleven, the child is to be taught the catechism, with rote memory pushed back into the subordinate position to which, in all justice, it ought to be chained for the common good...
...It invades the city in a tide of mild light and divine crystal air...
...He holds that cheap labor is not an important factor in the development of industrial Dixie...
...The story method is, indeed, used almost exclusively with children younger than eight, and all appeals to morbid moral terror are excluded...
...But they all made one blunder in tying up with Mr...
...Shearer and another in ridding themselves of him so clumsily...
...Japan, too, hints of increasing her capital ship ratio to 3-5...
...William B. Shearer that one more morsel may be added without apology...
...Quite the opposite is true...
...Many papers see basic significance in the statement made ten years ago by Henry C. Wallace: "We are approaching the time when we must determine whether we shall strive for a wellrounded, self-sustaining national life, in which there shall be a fair balance between industry and agriculture, or whether, as have so many nations in the past, we shall sacrifice our agriculture for the building of cities...
...What interests a distant spectator particularly is the character of the composer...
...What, if anything, will seat Mr...
...At the present writing, no one knows when 4,o0o employees of the county building, who have been waiting for their checks since September I5, wiU be paid...
...This Canals would provide an all-American waterway between Great Lakes ports and the sea, and assur~ to New York City the grain shipping which has made Montreal such a prosperous export centre...
...Emmanuel is said to have been so much an innovator that he had to wait an unconOctober 2, 1929 THE COMMONWEAL scionably long time for musical taste to catch up with him...
...It is Thinks interesting to observe a considerable difference of attitude toward such things as the tariff and the recent Agricultural Marketing Act, and the relative homogeneity of the views concerning matters of general policy...
...With the attitude behind it we are equally out of sympathy, for it assumes that the world at large shares with those who take football critically and professionally a deep interest in seeing the stronger team win...
...If the questibn were one of national pride then, obviously, the MiddleWest would wish their products to be routed through American ports...
...And these tactics gradually had their effect on him...
...In order that the National Security League might be appropriately entertained, he delivered several ad...
...crimes of violence have inIt Speaks creased...
...We need to plan for the future...
...ATTRIBUTING to our very unusual prosperity the general apathy toward incompetence in government, some prophets have been known to pray Down and for hard times in order to bring the nation to a sense of the indignity of Out Chicago tolerating the presence of the wasteful and the corrupt in official places...
...They hit back, and the school was discontinued...
...Maurice Emmanuel has, as a matter of fact, long been a professor of the history of music at the Conservatoire...
...Doubtless the seeds of a Catholic music revival have been sown, and sown exceedingly well...
...WE HAVE said previously that the development of the Schola Cantorum at the Catholic University of America must be listed among cultural At the events of primary importance...
...Vare expects...
...It is weather in itself, Platonic weather, practically, unaided by any of the props which make the rural pageant so triumphant: as, carpets of leaves, fields of goldenrod, bonfires, vistas of russet and gold...
...We do not scorn a naval officer who wants a first-class fleet...
...SINCE the passing of the national prohibition law, the annual per capita consumption of alcohol has about doubled...
...So far, of course, the battle has been completely won only in the diocese of Birmingham...
...Come, long sought l GOVERNORRoosevelt of New York, after a trip of inspection, recently issued a half-hearted endorsement of that dream of New Yorkers, the modernization of the Erie Canal...
...a considerable section of the population have given up reputable occupations to work as distributing agents in "the vastly more lucrative liquor trade...
...The Democrats, certainly, are not to be won over by what can be to them only another proof of the incorrigibility of Pennsylvania...
...the official figures for arrests a Various for drunkenness have climbed yearly, Language the additions showing mainly in the two categories "women" and "young persons...
...However unreasonable they are, one thing which will ngt ~luiet them now is an agreement between the United States and Great Britain...
...It has been written that man shall be unconscious of the evil he does until it has been visited upon his head...
...The argument favoring some measure of protection for manufacturing enterprise follows so naturally from our prevalent basic economic assumptions that it can hardly be challenged without contravening these...
...Throughout the larger part of the summer he was as enthusiastic as an editor, much too enthusiastic for a statesman, and it was prophetic to observe how his attitude contrasted with that of Mr...
...We were moved to speak hard words, some time back, of the May that was allotted to us this year...
...We recommend these assertions to all who have, in one fashion or another, attributed genius to themselves on the ground that never at any moment had they been caught in a professorial pose...
...While the disarmament conference was in progress at Geneva, he wrote articles which did so much to evoke pessimism and opposition that the British government entered an official protest...
...Norman Thomas has been a not inactive candidate, but the fact that the Socialists polled only 3 percent of the New York City vote in the presidential elections last fall does not make him a formidable opponent...
...Ex-Governor Smith, when he soft-pedaled the issue between an all-American waterway and a Canadian one, must have realized the situation...
...Edgerton bore in mind his address of a year ago, in which the superiority of native stock as a bulwark of our national institutions was set forth with some intransigence...
...Nor is this the only fruit which the work of Mrs...
...Both city and county have gone broke in a very definite way...
...It is probably important to settle whether, when the famous Labor leader and son of the plain people sits down to eat in the national capital of the great republic of the West, Mrs...
...Gann, the Vice-President's sister, shall be seated above or below Mrs...
...And yet a system of customs levying which invites such an attack as Senator Borah addressed to his brethren of the Senate is profoundly wobbly somewhere...
...dressesmto help out, the several committees being so favorably impressed by his good intentions that they permitted the poor fellow to have his say...
...October weather in New York may be called quintessential weather...
...We should like to call their attention to the present situation in Cook County and in Chicago...
...One concludes that if American business generally were sincerely governed by such a policy, the scramble for new tariff schedules and public utility valuations would have become a totally different story...
...While we do not entirely agree with the Foreign Mr...
...We can only wait for the general conference, tentatively scheduled for January, and hope...
...In the past few weeks, Mr...
...For the same reason, some of them would like to restrict further the uses of the forward pass, and others to score one point for each first down...
...And who would expect a professor to accomplish anything creative ? The prejudice seems to have been so strong in this instance that Emmanuel's distinctive work in other music forms was long neglected...
...But it proves nothing Seating else, and it is a particularly unreliable basis for predicting that he will be Mr...
...When the cold really in breaks, he will see Palm Beach or October California, if not in actuality then in ardent fancy...
...One of the things which makes heaven so desirable a place is that the last shall be first and the first shall be last, while a glimpse of that divine ordering is given to men on earth whenever the weak rise up to slay the mighty, and the humble layeth low the proud...
...Hoover at Kansas City...
...Finland is small, homogeneous and full of sober, lawdoving Nordics--or Nordics who were sober and law-loving twelve years ago...
...And as the President has shown before this that he will not have his administration bound by pre/flection obligations, that gratitude may not be so bountiful as Mr...
...Children Anybody who has ever patiently considered the atrocious way in which spiritual pellets have been stuffed down the throats of children, who has beheld them taught in a fashion against which even an upright jackdaw would rebel, must enumerate the triumph of Father Drinkwater among the great reforms of the agenon a par, in fact, with the discovery of anaesthetics and the Kellogg treaties...
...Rheta Childe Dorr, in the September issue of Harper's Magazine, it has now reached a pitch of noble experimentation which ought to make any stray American feel entirely at home there...
...When spring troubles the world, he thinks of Pinehurst and Bermuda, and frequently goes there...
...La Guardia, who has not hereof tofore failed to arouse excitement in New York whatever lists he appeared...
...Holding that the rapid change from rural to factory life is accountable for much of the trouble, Mr...
...La Guardia has performed most doughtily on many platforms, but no amount of rhetoric, however ardent, has been able to impress Mr...
...HEARING that the Reverend F. H. Drinkwater, indefatigable English searcher after better educational methods, has won his case for a new Good News way of religious teaching, we shall herefor Little with purr as contentedly as any kitten...
...We believe that the Catholic University has, through this acquisition of a distinguished leader, paved the way for secure future advancement...
...That country has had the benefit of being bone dry since 546 THE COMMONWEAL October z, x9z9 1917, and according to Mrs...
...A fumble is a mistake...
...All this is enough to make anybody sit up and take notice, but the end is not yet...
...SENTENCES like the foregoing have been so long and so painfully familiar that it needs a moment of adjustment for us to take in the fact that they actually apply, in this case, not to us, but to Finland...
...The National Security League is not all hot air...
...Both are suddenly dissatisfied with their capital ship ratio of 1.75, and both are wrangling over cruisers...
...The application of the law disregards the moral standards of criminal law in general...
...We wish Michael better manners in time, but we thank him for showing, just at this crisis, how common is the common denominator of mankind...
...He remained, to say the least, a quite uncompromising savant...
...Vare seated when the Senate takes up the subject of his admission at the regular session in December...
...France has just launched the fastest IO,OOO-tonners in the world, and Italy plans to better them...
...We have heard so much of bad government in Chicago, and seen so little indication of a willingness to exchange it for something else, that the city has come everywhere to be associated with stupidity, and with a very arrogant sort of satisfaction...
...At least this is what the proponents of the plan believe...
...We quarrel with the new rule because it removes part of the punishment for error...
...Proximity to raw materials, the availability of hydroelectric power and improved transportation facilities are responsible for the sound progress achieved...
...There are reasons why a ship-building corporation should enjoy a contract or two...
...It is really tragic for everyone that the MacDonaldDawes-Hoover conferences should not have been received more cordially upon the continent...
...There is, of course, another and a most important reason...
...At any rate, from a white-haired evangel of the peace he has become the watch-dog of British security...
...Though he was confessedly in the employ of great ship-building firms as a "reporter," his job dwindled into a mere microscopic nothing the moment he was labeled a "propagandist...
...large numbers of working people are undermined morally and physically by drinking the undiluted spirits which are the principal commodity dispensed by bootleggers...
...To him we owe the discovery, in Spanish archives, of numerous beautiful old manuscripts, the rhythms inscribed upon which have contributed greatly to our knowledge of the Church's song treasure...
...in any game one should be in a position to take full advantage of the mistakes of his opponent, and in foot548 THE COM | ball full advantage means running for a touchdown...
...The point at issue has been control of the power and navigation resources of the Saint Lawrence River: Feeling that so powerful a merger could endanger the interests of New York state, Governor Roosevelt issued a statement in which the rights of the commonwealth were affirmed and the purposes of the Corporation challenged...
...To eliminate the deficit and remain within the estimated revenues next year, it has been suggested that z5 percent of the county forces be dismissed, and 3z percent of the city employees, which would mean the loss of 800 firemen and 2,ooo police to Chicago...
...His difficulty seems to be in finding an opponent...
...T HERE are no indications of a developing interest as the campaign for the mayoralty of New York progresses...
...THE most recent copy of Information Service, the bulletin issued weekly under the auspices of the Federal Council of the Churches of Christ, What the affords a useful summary of editorial Farmer opinion in agricultural journals...
...and though the leaves in the park shrivel unregarded and the autumn moon above us shines unseen, the city is paradise enow...
...He has run into continental opposition which was certainly unexpected...
...He has been an active missioner of progress in ecclesiastical music, has taught the chant to many dioceses in France and Spain, and has directed various congresses of sacred music...
...The pacifist spellbinders are sometimes woful cranks with a notion that the world consists of taffy...
...Above all, we need to be ready for a shock, when that comes...
...MANHATTAN'S choicest month is upon her--the one brief season which quiets the heart of the city dweller and makes him glad to stay New York where he is...
...Stimson...
...It is, we add, quite as satisfactory to note the educational progress being made by England as it is salutary to hope for a vigorous broadcasting of that progress...
...Even the situation of our California grape-growers being aided by the Federal Farm Board is paralleled in Alice-in-Wonderlandishhess by the situation of the Finnish bootlegging ships: they escape the search stipulated by treaty with Germany and Poland (the two nations of prime supply) by flying the flag of "that conspicuous maritime power, Czecho-Slovakia...
...He is likely to be honored with a larger percentage than that in his present candidacy, partly because neither Republicans nor Democrats will go to the polls in such numbers as last fall, and partly because of an increasing friendliness for Mr...
...SALAMINE, a new opera, is now all the vogue in Paris...
...And this despite the candidacy For Mayor of Mr...
...Hundreds of choir leaders and organists throughout the United States may be expected to avail themselves of the guidance thus generously offered...
...T HE football coaches have agreed to prohibit the defensive team from running back a fumbled ball, and to justify this new rule they assert that Protection it removes one element of luck from the for the game, making it a little more certain Strong that the stronger team will win...
...With tonnage and gun calibre restricted, they are concentrating on speed...
...Walker, of course, is seeking re~lection, but Mr...
...but the officers of the navy apparently did not even realize that a mortal named Shearer was on the globe...
...but, unhappily for those jealous of the prerogatives of New York City, the grain shippers consider finance first and metropolitan prestige second...
...As is usual in such instances, collapse is likely to be made impressive by the pressure of economic sacrifice and curtailment it would involve...
...Where is the expectancy of peace ? It is only too apparent that, for the present, fidelity to the pact is obscured by the most violent of suspicions...
...Thomas himself...
...The obvious question is why this should be, when all nations have so recently affirmed their faith in the Kellogg pact...
...Michael, it appears, was made the central pupil of a select little school at the royal palace in Bucharest...
...Both France and Italy insist upon regarding the Anglo-American accord with suspicion...
...But those of us who miss the palpitating significance of this issue, and who perhaps had our fill of the whole question in the post-election stories last year, will read of Michael's goings-on with positive relief...
...No one, of course, feels especially sympathetic...
...But partial progress has been made in so many places both in England and America that, once the excellence of the new plan is known, it must prove as contagious as other first-rate habits...
...The reply indicates that the new owners intend to deal openly and squarely with the public, discountenancing all tunneling and dodging...
...But that is the only difference...
...He became cautious, wary...
...THOUGH optimism goes with the job of being president of the National Association of Manufacturers, Mr...
...The farmer and the small merchant have not yet proved themselves masters of co6perative method...
...We suppose that it is satisfied enough with the present state of affairs...
...Further, many Republican Senators have found it advantageous to oppose the seating of men who have spent large sums in their campaigns...
...On an average he is not pressed harder for the rent than city folk are, but he does suffer from chronic isolation...
...WEEK BY WEEK O MUCH has been written by way of summary regarding Mr...
...But October brings him home without repining...
...But then we should certainly become aware that the processes of undermining, or of decay, had been evident in a score of moral fissures too small and too little troublesome to worry about...
...Justine Ward may be expected to bear...
...Not unamusing would be a record of the various moods in which the British Prime Minister has delivered himself on the subject of a naval agreement with the United States...
...544 T H E C O M M O N W E A L October 2, i929 whether a national outlook which favors rather than offsets these developments may stand in need of correction ? It is hard, in this day and age, to take the tariff very seriously...
...He is easily the most interesting personality in the field, but he has no more chance of success than Mr...
...Dan O'Brien, king of the hoboes, who campaigns on a platform which proposes to settle the subway quarrels by abolishing fares altogether, and to solve the crime problem by establishing a municipal commissary with a cuisine presided over by Oscar of the Waldorf...
...the United States is ready to...
...even in conservative newspapers it has been interpreted not as a pacific move, but as a hostile one, not as the end of arms for aggression, but as the beginning of a military alliance which would combine the greatest fleets in the world...
...and assuredly this factor is genuinely important...
...THE advance rumblings of the social storm which seems due to break in Washington when Premier MacDonald visits there, are matched or Mrs...
...Not a statement of his was allowed to pass without a word from Washington to show that the United States was not officially so ready as he to regard the negotiations as successful...
...The low wage level should be traced, he avers, to the high premium exacted for capital investments in the South...
...But the Senate demonstrated in the case of Mr...
...Walker so far has not taken the congressman seriously...
...Now the Schola rector announces that a foremost EuroCantorum pean authority, Dom Sablayrolles of Solesmes, has been appointed professor of Gregorian chant...
...And when the matter is referred to the taxpayer, he may cast his vote with an eye to his purse...
...It would have been difficult to secure a more illustrious man...
...Edgerton reported that a letter urging manufacturers to accept as a duty the October 2, I9Z 9 THE COMMONWEAL 545 task of humanizing the employment they of[er had elicited a "most gratifying" response...
...Mr...
...Smith of Illinois that it does not listen to the argument that a state has a right to the Senator whom it elects, and in whom it reasserts confidence, regardless of the imputations of rascality which surround his name...
...But the truth that such sincerity is not yet characteristic of our economic activities as a whole makes one radically distrustful of the current trend to monopoly...
...MacDonald may repeat as often as he wishes that his country will not build against the United States, and he will cause no great uneasiness in England by so doing, but he has every Britisher's alertness for signs of hostility on the continent and in the Pacific...
...Seriously, is there not material for deep and disturbed thought here...
...The city's deficit for I9Z9 is almost fifteen millions, the county's is about half that...
...John E. Edgerton's recent Manufac-comment upon the southern industrial turers and situation is nevertheless sober and senthe South sible...
...Sad as it is that a little king should fail in the principle of noblesse oblige, it redresses with ironic justice the i i ludicrous situation in Washington...
...And the willingness of all to respect the higher unity of the moral and civic law seems to be decreasing even while the imperative need for it is more manifest...
...the average of community health has been lowered "by increased records of chronic drunkenness, delirium cases and alcoholic insanity...
...But one wonders if, as he made his comment upon the human equation involved, Mr...
...The misuse of medical prescriptions has turned out to be an unprecedented scandal...
...To begin with, the child is taught how to pray and how to grasp with its imagination the great historic truths of the Christian faith...
...Neither will follow the lead of England and America for abolishing the submarine, and in this they are supported by Japan...
...Indeed if the municipal authorities do not lose out at the next elections, government by the unscrupulous and inept will have received only its expected endorsement...
...Doubtless he might well amend it, at the present moment, with a few reflections upon the circumstances that a rapid change to industrial life influences human beings in pretty much the same way, regardless of whether they hail from Hungary or the Blue Ridge Mountains...
...There is implied here the wellknown sincerity with which some financial and industrial leaders have faced their responsibilities...
...The music, which is distinguished by considerable novelty, enshrines a version of Paris Aeschylus's The Persians...
...So far, however, they have avoided the blunder of mistakenly identifying themselves as candidates for big bank accounts...
...If only a little more than 3 percent of the manufactured articles we purchase come from abroad, then we are really living under an "embargo," and there is little need for doing anything further...
...After that will come initiation into the meaning of the Mass, preparation for the right reception of the sacraments, and the formation of liturgical habits...
...But the modernization proposition is so colossally expensive that the construction of a new canal would involve a smaller outlay...
...After having written learned treatises on Greek and mediaeval music, he brought out a vast Histoire de la Langue Musicale and became one of the leading theorists in the field of Gregorian lore...
...THE Philadelphia primary recently was decisive proof that Mr...
...Never in all history was financial power so compactly organized, or so efficiently locked in what may be termed a credit goose-step...
...We need to measure the walls of our social house anew...
...It would seem that rural family tours to national and state parks are growing more frequent, and that the resultant benefit is notable...
...Of course Mr...
...We hereby declare that account closed...
...Shearer's Policy Association in holding that "he has probably done more for the cause Connections of disarmament than all the organized pacifist efforts," we cannot help feeling that the nation is deeply indebted to him...
...Hoover and Mr...
...And perhaps the response to Mr...
...Dora Sablayrolles has also been active as a research scholar...
...Is it not possible that there may be something wrong with trying to create crime by mandate...
...On the other hand, the process of welding labor together is impaired by numerous slipshod concessions to influence...
...Who can forget that the farmer's difficulties are not all economic...
...It is weather that bears the same relation to weathers elsewhere as music does to the coarser arts...
...They maintain that equalization and lowering of existing rates will prove the economic rightness of the new merger...
...MONWEAL October 2, 1929 LONDON AND RAPIDAN R. MACDONALD, a very honest man, would make a poor poker player...
...He has demonstrated, to begin with, how superficial are the contacts between man and man...
...Much has already been accomplished: England plans on fifty instead of seventy cruisers...
...Such a tourist might miss the touches of savagery by which the United States has made prohibition piquant and unforgettable, since no Finn, to date, has been imprisoned for life or shot to death in its name...
...Snowden's stand for the rights of dear old Britain had its influence, too...
...Singularly enough, none of these successes appear to have elicited the enthusiasm provoked by his labors in Geneva, to which city the Gregorian melodies seemed marvelously new and entrancing...
...When the representatives of the world's greatest democracy fall out among themselves over prerogatives and distinctions that originated among duchesses and queens when duchesses and queens were a real part of an operating social philosophy, it is but right that one of the few remaining kings should act like a little hoodlum...
...Walker with the possibility that the Democratic nomination may not be the equivalent of election...
...Gann countered in a very satisfying way by the latest news of young King Michael and Michael of Roumania...
...His first reaction, when thus inducted into the society of others of his age and kind, was to hit them...
...But to how great an extent are the profits reaped under this system socially legitimate ? Do they militate seriously against the buying power of large numbers to whom some increase in that power is vitally necessary...
...Stimson, the Secretary of State's wife...
...If we may Goes to a trust competent critics, the French may New Opera legitimately rejoice in an opera which reminds them not a little of the triumph of Debussy...
...Vare continues as the political boss of Pennsylvania...
...One idea, however, has made a hit in practically every sanctummthe notion that the farmer and his family (especially his wife) ought to take an annual outing...
...That, when the Catholic Church talks about "the natural law," it is talking about a real moral entity, and one opposed to the welbintended but disastrous piece of fanaticism which has degraded both Finland's society and our own...
...among the privileged classes, to whom dining is both an occupation and an art, the law is commonly and elaborately broken, but is held to be "like religion, a very good thing for the masses" ; a government commission, after a searching investigation, returned a general report embodying a set of unmitigatedly depressing statistics, and supplemented by two independent personal reports, of which the following statements are typical: "Apparently we have a long, hard way before us before we reach the condition of temperance existing before the war...
...The average editor seems to feel that recent relief legislation is a start toward this "fair balance," but not a few are frankly dissatisfied...
...By comparison, the manifesto issued by the Niagara Hudson Power Corporation, an amalgamation of public utilities which is controlled by J. P. Morgan and Company, is a genuine indication that business executives of the highest character remain deeply conscious of social obligations...
...When we get a new crop of plantation songs, optimism about agriculture will be in order...
...Summer takes him to Maine or Canada...
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