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out hesitation, it goes on to summarize frankly the extant dangers. If credits are withdrawn from the general economic stream and diverted into channels which irrigate speculation, the normal ebb...
...It is so modest a proposal, and it serves so well the best inter- ests of the country, that hardly anyone is likely to view it with "grave concern...
...The awards for biography and history seem to indicate primarily that the work done in these fields during recent years has been relatively meagre...
...K. F. Herzfeld, Research which The Commonweal published on Once More March 2o...
...And that means a government formed by an alliance of two of the parties--a frail foundation likely to crumble at any time and precipitate Right Honorables into the dust...
...That is a splendid record for the movement which the Reverend Edwin V. O'Hara inaugu-rated in 1921, and which he has promoted so faith-fully ever since...
...After all, the extinction of the old party has not been considered an impossibility since the elections of I924 returned but forty of its candidates...
...The mere Seven patriotic reflection that while they Bronze lasted, they made a splurge--that Towers London's traffic commission once came here to study them, and that certain cities in France actually reproduced them--is likely to leave him unreconciled...
...WHILE Bishop Charles Gore's Jesus of Nazareth, a little book written for the Home University Library, which Henry Holt publishes, is not all About the that a Catholic reader would desire, Saviour we believe that it merits wide distribution among those who are troubled in heart and mind...
...News- paper observers have been unusually wary of fore-casts, but seem inclined toward the opinion that no party will receive a majority...
...Lloyd George's Liberals have made statements in a similar spirit, but in much less detail and with less vigor while their criticisms of the govern...
...How shall liberty and authority work together...
...We do not believe that these objections constitute an indictment of the "American system...
...Chief among these is, we think, a willing- ness to reduce all human life to a series of figures-- to be content with a civilization which shows a profit, regardless of the grossness of its outlook and the absence of generosity from its heart...
...Waste of natural re-sources, incompetent leadership, greed and dishonesty are all hostile to economic welfare...
...When you squeeze a dozen such trifles together, the result is a great waste of time and a distortion of the actual scene...
...IN ONE of the most beautiful of all his books, Fran$ois Mauriac said of his friend Andr6 Lafon that he "understood the ritual of the Beauty home...
...With an enormous surplus on hand, and facili- tated distribution, it was not to be expected that prices could be kept up...
...The way in which he cut bread upon or sliced a melon betrayed, we are told, Request his understanding of that mysterious nobility which attaches to a family board...
...and the getting of circu- lation has, generally speaking, come near the end of the rope...
...Paul D. Cravath, eminent corpora- tion lawyer, intimately associated with many of the greatest exemplars of big business, presenting a strong argument to prove that big business itself is a menace...
...Even if bookbinding is but a small matter," he said, "I must console myself by saying that most men must be content to do small things with a great heart...
...Years ago our young fingers learned to draw cubes and spheres with an almost automatic regularity, just as we paid strict attention, when we arose to speak, to the precise acuteness of the angle at which one foot was to be poised against the other...
...As a result the name of Dr...
...On the other hand, it is futile to hurrah the status quo in a mood of bland indifference to dangers and evils...
...He has not merely supplied the organizing energy, but has devised a sensible and effective program that is a real contribution to relig- ious pedagogy...
...Louis University is eminent for experi- ments in insulin and the problems of pharmacology...
...The knowledge that cross- town traffic (which the towers, because of their wide spacing, could not control) will now receive the atten- tion merited by its volume and vivacity, will hardly be compensation enough...
...Frear of Wisconsin calling for a bounty on sugar produced within the United States, is worthy of more consideration than it is likely to receive, either from Congress or from the press...
...and everybody was led by the memory of some name to shape the pattern of his own resolve according to some model of high heroism...
...Those small, soaring shapes, so beautifully and featly made, so compact, simple and swift, were the embodiment of power in classic arrest...
...Altogether the reader must feel that Father Power makes out a very fair case for hope, and we are very glad to offer this brief summary of it as a supplement to Dr...
...But of course the job of today is largely expressed in terms of very practical gifts, of men and women, of school supplies, of homely trifles like beds and stoves...
...Herzfeld would permit himself, and one is heartened by the very respectable array of evidence which he is able to cite...
...NOTHING could be more extraordinary, for in-stance, than the enthusiasm with which contemporary school children are going into the crafts...
...If credits are withdrawn from the general economic stream and diverted into channels which irrigate speculation, the normal ebb and flow of business capital will cease...
...Now, for some curious reason, youngsters weave intricate designs out of colored paper and cloth, sketch moving figures with extraordinarily fresh perception, and talk with a rhyth- mic artlessness which our stiiI old selves envy not a little...
...It is a distinct pleasure to see that such a book has been included in this popular library, the volumes of which sell for a nominal figure and are almost uniformly authoritative...
...The explanation seems to be that all these exploits are become portions of an art rather than of a science...
...Admirable, indeed, is the willingness of sisters busy all year long with the regular class room to go out to this new and equally arduous work...
...Just how widespread is the practice of employing children in the beet fields may be realized from a glance at the results of recent investigations, notably those reported by the Department of Labor, and at some correspondence on the subject in the Survey...
...DURING the coming summer, religious vacation schools will be held in more than fifty Catholic dioceses...
...The totally avaricious and selfish rich man--or the one who, though well aware of the truth, made vivid in the homely old saying that "shrouds have no pockets," nevertheless leaves all that he has amassed to his own family alone--is no longer the typical rich man...
...But it is at least strange that in all his remarks, which fill many pages of the Record, he has not seen fit to add to his case with citations from his own state...
...traces its originality to a change in the Pulitzer's name of the novel selected...
...Gibson's speech at Geneva Sir Austen Chamberlain hastily avowed: "We had indeed ourselves made proposals for such reduction...
...It is an exceptionally well-written, temperate, scholarly and reverent treatise, which surveys modern criticism lucidly and makes the case for Christianity with loving emphasis...
...It is a condition that has existed pretty generally among a perhaps larger minority of wealthy people than is generally sup- posed...
...We can believe that these will be the nonpareil of all poles, but we would give them up, sight unseen, if we might have our towers back again...
...The actual results of such round-table talk cannot easily be phrased in resolutions or codified into rules...
...One sometimes regrets a seeming inability to state the major problems of Catholic journalism in concrete terms...
...Never-theless the whole document is undoubtedly intended to form a statement and defense of the "American sys- tem," which has not been without its bitter critics both at home and abroad...
...Much of the demand for this will come from England, where a long drought has made spring crops exceedingly backward, and Liverpool will become more conspicuously the world's great wheat market...
...So far most of these last virtues have been contributed by teaching sisterhoods and auxiliary in- structors recruited from the more advanced groups of seminarists...
...and so the opportunity for genuine advance lies in concentrating attention upon them rather than upon the savings accounts of the successful...
...In journalism the prizes have gone to papers which have conducted with 6clat some one of the diverse crusades upon which the "influence" of a daily seems to depend...
...Frear that this will stimulate island production, especially when we remem- ber that under the somewhat less favorable markets of the past six years, free sugar imports from the Philippines have increased about 14o percent, and those from Hawaii and Porto Rico from 75 to 80 percent...
...It would place him, at least, on an equality with the Canadian shipper, with whom he must compete for the European market...
...It happens that 85 percent of the sugar con-sumed here is imported, and no matter how high the tariff might be set, we should continue to import...
...Generally speaking, however, even while the mod...
...FAREWELL, and a good riddance...
...The figures of early martyrs and great apostles were evoked by Monsignor Chidwick and Father Wynne in stirring addresses...
...This was the sort of thing Shakespeare meant: a month swathed in fogs, bathed in a perpetual drizzle, blown upon by the rawest winds in the whole comfortless storehouse of the east...
...Nor is it something entirely new...
...So far these ques- tions have not been answered satisfactorily...
...Rough winds do shake to May the darling buds of May"--the lines come back to one with a cold shock of realization...
...Higher tariff on dutiable sugar means a greater profit for the island producers, and it is not difficult to agree with Mr...
...We believe that on the whole its facts and inferences are, indeed, formidable chal- lenges to dissenting opinion...
...Hoover's decision will not be nullified later on under the Capitol dome...
...Thomas P. Hart, veteran editor of the Catholic Telegraph, is likely to become internationally famous...
...Hoover expenses incurred by the army of occu- pation...
...In the matter of present-day Catholic achievement, Father Power seems to have a slightly more optimistic outlook than Dr...
...In what manner can news and thought (or scholarship) be associated...
...WEEK BY WEEK H AVING summoned leading congressmen and Cabinet members to a conference, the President gained approval for an offer to deduct Io percent from the total charge against Germany for Mr...
...Surely nothing is better adapted to conquer base self-expressionism, anarchical and destructive of the personality, than such humble spending of one's powers in the service of perfection...
...To have suggested this subtraction in Congress would have meant debate in which filibusters, committee meetings, party alignments and other things would immeasurably delay decision...
...and nothing could have emphasized it more strongly than the welcome which the Cincinnati press men extended to their guests...
...At Cincinnati it was not always dear that two major problems are foremost and universal...
...Edward A. Filene, who sees in big business the most practical and benefi- cial way out of our most serious social problems...
...But though these facts are plain, our treat- ment of them is quite uniformly a system of passing the buck...
...The Chemo-Medical Research Institute at George-town, for which plans are being completed, will fulfil the ideal prescribed by the American Chemical Society committee...
...It is not, then, a question of preserving the market for our domestic producers...
...We consider thls a most corn- Is Right mendable and salutary action...
...Some-how the cult of being a "gentleman" has seemed to imply that one could only be an artist by ceasing to be a gentleman...
...therefore the huge "war chest" which he has raised, and the pro- gram of public works which (as he declares) will reduce unemployment to normal proportions without adding "one penny to national or local taxation...
...ON ONE count at least, a victory for Labor in the British General Elections this week will remove some uneasiness in the United States...
...It is unlikely, however, that he will get the chance...
...It needs no commentary...
...Obviously this is so...
...In one Sunday newspaper we have the spectacle of Mr...
...Canada has large unsold surplusages of wheat also, and is follow- ing our lead in rail schedules to expedite the market- ing...
...To play the game of home, of school, of faith as earnestly as one plays other games, is simply to express their significance and therefore also their radiance...
...Herzfeld's idea of the importance of first-rate research workers, recognizing that they are "basically and fundamentally the men who, far behind the scene of action, throw the switches and press the buttons releasing and directing forces of incalculable power both in the intellectual field and (indirectly) in the field of human conduct...
...Meanwhile the status of the Indian has advanced generally, though indications are not want- ing of much which remains to be done...
...and more especially, "The moon . . . pale in her anger, washes all the air, that rheumatic diseases do abound...
...This omits, as is well known the "some" which used to be appended to "whole...
...The work of the Jesuits in seismology is acknowledged to be unrivaled, both nationally and internationally...
...Everybody realized that the United States could not sit tight for all it had coming with- out incurring storms of abuse and even risking the loss of its present diplomatic evidence...
...Yet there was no way toward progress excepting through the President...
...How to bring religious instruction to children scattered as a result of the isolation which attends farm living is now no longer a theoretical problem, but simply a task which demands effort and sacrifice...
...It does not take much more than a million dol- lars from Reich annuities, but it may profoundly affect what are termed "international imponderables...
...The Beardsley period was poor at cricket, and--possibly for this reason--more than a little flabby...
...Indeed, the whole blue-ribbon list may prove to be a bore...
...But they are still here...
...The first is a matter of finance...
...When one bears in mind how much religion means to rural life (and vice versa) this whole development wins enthusiastic approval...
...Henry Ford's "Out of the trenches by Christmas...
...and that daily moment when tower answered tower in red or emerald lights across the first deep dusk was worth a poet's waiting for...
...Among all those effects, light, hard, delicate and strong, which have bloomed so surpris-ingly out of the harsh physical exigencies and mechani- cal inspiration of New York life, the towers' contribu- tion was almost supreme...
...In one of these the total Religious number of pupils will no doubt be well Vacation in advance of last year's 5,ooo, disSchools tributed over the whole area involved...
...What is the function of the Catholic paper in American life as a whole...
...Certainly two reasons why this is so are: the farmer's inability to achieve the same control of markets as financial centralization, tariff legislation and labor turnover have attained in manufacturing...
...Oddly enough, the significance of foreign markets is not emphasized, nor does the published summary of the report (which will be issued, we are told, in two full volumes) make any definite pronouncement anent the tariff...
...The Zero Hour repeal of the British reservations to the in Britain Kellogg pact, the conclusion of an agreement with the United States regarding the freedom of the seas, the withdrawal of all foreign troops from the Rhineland, and principally "the reduction of armaments by inter- national agreement to the minimum required for police purposes," promise a co6peration with this country of a more whole-hearted nature than the record of the Conservatives in the past five years have led us to expect...
...The other important aspect of his resolution is sociological...
...Father Power entirely shares Dr...
...Meanwhile American repre- sentatives sitting in Paris must be drawing a deep and invigorating breath...
...Never was any month so nipped and recalcitrant, so dank and ungenial, as the one which we are speed-Farewell ing on its way...
...Senator James Couzens has just put aside $Io,ooo,ooo for the benefit of the children of his home state, Michigan...
...The nine men's morris is filled up with mud...
...The first is rather obvious-the virility of the religious press in the United States, which now dispenses a vast quantity of special news and which is consulted even by rank outsiders for its point of view...
...with the provision that both capital and income are to be spent within twenty-five years, so that the children of this generation may derive the full benefit of his gift, and also for the more important reason that he believes each generation should be left as free as possible to deal with its own problems without being handicapped by methods inherited from the past...
...In the first place, it may well be that our prosperity is contingent upon "accelerated production" in a world where eventual limits cannot be transgressed...
...For weeks a conference summoned to arbitrate the reparations problem, and virtually presided over by Americans, has been working hard to scale down Allied claims...
...Further, approximately 33 percent of our imported sugar comes from our island possessions duty free...
...and for the inhabitants of the distant Congo, Cincinnati will doubt- less be identical with paradise...
...Finally, such problems as unemployment and financial equality on a relatively more equitable basis remain to be solved...
...But though the throng which gathered for the Mass and reception included many distin-guished persons, all thoughts seemed to turn away from the present to the age-old record of Catholic missionary service among the Indians...
...The real struggle is between Messrs...
...But in assuring his audience at Princeton University that he meant to take up bookbinding, the ambassador was far from conceding the rightness of the decadents...
...These and many similar events are being taken by the press as proofs that the possessors of wealth are more and more realizing the tremendous responsibility of stewardship that rests upon them...
...ment's attitude at Geneva in 1927, and of the Anglo- French accord, have been comparatively mild...
...Traffic experts have already indicated a modification of grain inspection rules...
...At all events, one may hope so, believing as one does that Christ is the only door to everlasting life...
...On the other hand, too much credit cannot be given to the director himself...
...OUR annual supply of Pulitzer awards has now been received...
...Joseph Freedlander, who designed them, and the Fifth Avenue Association, which under- wrote them, are planning a system of diagonally placed bronze poles to perform the function of traffic control perfectly, and to gladden the eye as well...
...Certainly his promise to achieve this within a year is reminiscent of Mr...
...No satisfactory way has been found to capitalize the Catholic press with either investments or endowments...
...And there you are...
...Next comes the demonstration of how valu- able discussion of common problems may prove to be...
...betting odds indicate sixty as the num- ber of seats the Liberals are likely to win...
...So Mr...
...C. Harold Smith, is offering a prize of $I,OOO to the person who will tell him how he may spend $IO,OOO,OOO in a way to do the most public good...
...Even the gratifying anti- thesis that these structures which Mr...
...But no more such MaysI May quothal May indeedl THREE-CENT SUGAR I N TWO respects the resolution introduced by Mr...
...One must suffer, it is certain, not only to be beautiful but also to hold com- munion with the great...
...Mrs...
...As for the Conservatives, who are standing on their record while in office, it must in fairness to them be mentioned that following Mr...
...It is interesting to note that the Raskob plan discussion elsewhere in this issue is one of the first attempts at solution to come from inside the realm of private enterprise...
...Surely much stronger arguments can be advanced against all social- istic doctrines or experiments...
...But whereas this last often fails to interest people who retain ancestral prejudices against the Church, or who feel that it does not sufficiently respect the "rights of investigation," they may possibly be induced to weigh carefully a lucid and cogent statement by one quite like themselves in heritage and temper of mind...
...and we know of no economics which starts with the "personal liberty" argument that is also a workable science of distribu- tion...
...Even now the reign of speculation is probably due in a measure to inability to find a profitable outlet for surplus funds...
...Just the other day its silver jubilee was commemorated in New York City with appropriate ceremonies...
...This year "friend- liness" was certainly the motto of the convention...
...THE RASKOB PLAN M EN of great wealth, and men whose highly developed intellects and extraordinary energies have been devoted to the service of wealth-producing organizations, have of late been turning their atten- tion toward certain fundamental social problems con- nected with the present era of enormous industrial expansion...
...INDIAN affairs were never in a worse condition than at the opening of this century, when the vices of administration were as numerous as Mindful of horses at a Derby...
...Almost immedi-the Indian ately, however, remedial work was begun...
...Thus far in its history the League has raised $I,OOO,OOO-- an augury, no doubt, of what its future achievement will be...
...Island competition might not hurt the big domestic producers, but it would certainly be disas- trous to the smaller mills which are, after all, the ones really in need of help...
...In another newspaper a multimillionaire, Mr...
...After all, however, the fund does need to be administered and the judges have probably done their best...
...Thus he shows that reports on difficult original research in organic and inorganic chemistry have been contributed, literally in scores, by the laboratories of Fordham and Notre Dame to such authoritative organs as the Journal of Biological Chemistry and the Journal of the American Chemical Society...
...Imprint Peterkin's story is of that unadulterated lineage described in the diction which now phrases the terms upon which the selection is based--"a novel which shall best present the whole atmosphere of American life...
...There were Titania's reproaches to Oberon-- theoretically applicable to harvest time, it is true, but surely inspired by the cold blue memory of just such a spring as this: "The winds . .. have sucked up from the sea contagious fogs...
...But on our side of the Rail Rates water, the railroads may feel the gratification of having complied with an official request, while shippers have no great complaint, even if their advantage was lessened by falling prices shortly after the rates went into effect...
...Frear has made frequent and effective reference...
...They have a right, however, to expect such further assistance as the Federal Depart- ment of Agriculture may give...
...They are visible rather in the growth of a willingness to co6perate, to tear down the fence which separates one from the neighbors, and to realize that much can be learned in the wide, wide world...
...The second is a problem of interaction...
...Secondly, industrial develop- ment has left agriculture pretty well in the shade...
...Founded by a devoted priest and two laymen, the League can now look back upon twenty-five years of endeavor to minister to the aborigines...
...Whalen has torn down as Commissioner of Police in 192% he erected as Commissioner of Public Works in I922, is a bit too abstract to tide the mourner over the moment of loss...
...Baldwin and MacDonald, neither of whom, however, have such prospects for a clear majority as will support their predictions...
...A detail irri- tates somebody, catches the eye of others, and suddenly finds itself in the very centre of a tense debate...
...There is a clause which reserves the bounty payments to companies prohibiting child labor...
...The Canadian grading system is much less strin- gent than ours, and it has been suggested that the adop- tion of a similar policy at our seaports would do much to help the exporter...
...A law which has been in effect these past four years declares: "Children under fourteen years of age must not be permitted to work in sugar-beet fields more than eight hours in any day, nor more than forty-eight hours in any week, nor before 7 a. m., nor after 7 P. m. "Children under fourteen years of age who have not finished the eighth grade in school must not be permitted to work in sugar-beet fields during school hours when the school in the district in which they are living is in session...
...Perhaps, then, these thirty- one days of acute discomfort have been worth it, if they have thus brought us, a race nourished on per- petual sunlight, to even this brief understanding of what that great immortal smilingly endured...
...FINALLY--and this is probably most important-- there was evidence that difficulties and disagreements need to be surmounted...
...It is said that Mr...
...THE traffic towers are gone from Fifth Avenue, and anyone who really loves the queer beauty of this city will be hard to console...
...Inside the Catholic journalistic realm, there exist abundant confidence in the future and a really considerable pros- perity...
...and the fact that transportation costs are determined by industry...
...The inference appears to be not that the author must get in the forty-eight states, but that he or she must leave nothing out for moral or other reasons...
...Some attempts to raise them were made, however, and for these the visitor to Cincinnati will remain grateful...
...First of all, it raises the question as to whether the proposed three-cent rate on sugar may properly be considered a protective tariff...
...Frear proposes to keep the tariff at its present level, which will save consumers about $240,000,000, according to his esti- mates, and to pay the domestic mills a bounty of $.02 for each pound of sugar they produce, which would cost the treasury about $35,000,000...
...Lloyd George will not be too downcast if there are winning Liberals enough to give the party a parliamentary representation somewhat in keeping with its prestige...
...his argument being opposed by Mr...
...Has the Anglo-Saxon failed to understand them ? At any rate, Sir Esme Howard is not the first Briton to declare that the significance of the aesthetic is missing, to a large extent, in English-speaking civilization...
...Bishop Gore's acceptance of the Gospels as historical documents, his defense of miracles and his statement of Our Lord's teaching all approximate to the Catholic view...
...IN THESE last days preceding the elections, each of the leaders is claiming victory, but by victory they understand diffferent things...
...UNDER the title, Research in Catholic Schools, the Reverend Francis W. Power, S.J., appends in America an instructive note to the article on the Catholic same subject by Dr...
...All such gestures are, one may add, as reveal- ing of loveliness as they are of meaning...
...and of this the effort sponsored by the Marquette League remains an excellent instance...
...Probably Mr...
...To conditions in Colorado and Michigan, where chil...
...Still a number of objections are quite obvious...
...One is reason-ably certain that Mr...
...Thus the indus- try would be aided, and substantial economies effected...
...It is true, of course, that Wisconsin has already advanced one step in the proper direction...
...AS IT has turned out, Europeans are the chief beneficiaries of our reduced rail rates on export wheat, the new schedules meaning, for them, Reduced cheaper bread...
...There is very little of startling or even refreshing novelty in the list, which Mr...
...And one profoundly hopes that there will remain in later life something akin to what Sir Esme Howard desires--some pleasure in a handiwork which makes available a genuinely human mastery over things...
...and the plight of several industrial dis- tricts--notably textile-making New England can safely be attributed to the difficulty involved in realign- ing outmoded factories...
...Herzfeld's tonic paper...
...Fred Albert Shannon's book on the Union army during the Civil War is an excellent special study, but one scarcely believes that its subject-matter is of any great interest to very many people...
...The conviction strengthens as other passages present them- selves...
...Australia, too, has wheat to dump...
...If the poor were no longer with us, in the money sense, we should still be obliged to deal charitably with the pauperism of mind and spirit which everywhere crops out from under the veneer of comfort...
...THIS year's convention of the American Catholic Press Association, which was held in Cincinnati during the three days following May i6, may Between be said to have demonstrated three Editorials things...
...dren as young as six are frequently seen working in the fields, Mr...
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