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has been laboriously builded. But though one can easily sense this fact, action with reference to it is puzzling. Religion must serve those now living, where they live. Masses need to be said,...
...His convictions as to the dangers of radical- ism were very positive...
...DR...
...They never produced a political document to compare to the Bill of Rights...
...Mencken's education has now reached a point where he is fully aware of the exact dimensions of Einstein's knowledge...
...The the Doctor...
...ONE is glad to see that Mr...
...At the end of this remarkable panegyric there stands a staggering query: "Who ever heard of an archbishop who was as dignified and admirable a man as Charles Darwin...
...Masses need to be said, children await edu- cation, institutions are called for, in hundreds of new- built neighborhoods where grass grew twenty years ago...
...This rather vague pronouncement is gen...
...MacDonald, who must gamble his party's future on a minority government in a time of depression, or Mr...
...The letter which the papal envoy bore from Rome to Orl6ans for the centenary reads in part as follows: "It pleases us thus to give a plain proof of our devo- tion to Jeanne d'Arc, and of our continued benevolence to all of Catholic France...
...and the necessity for innumerable land- ing fields will naturally create a new type of city archi- tecture...
...the habit of never losing sight of the ideal, but also, when this is not attainable, of not despising that which is actually capable of realization...
...Once more the status of agricultural credit has been impaired...
...It alone is worthy of the clergy and of the faithful who defend their faith...
...Evidently Mr...
...It must be that the spirit socialistic has been on the growth in England these last four years, a development which may have been prompted by a good deal of economic distress, and encouraged by the discovery that Mr...
...One by one they turn into mere functionaries who despair of their own future and work callously...
...Pallen's, had the significance belonging to things which happen only once...
...The editor, for ten years, of a Catholic paper, a founder and for many years the managing editor of the Catholic Encyclopedia, editor of the Universal Knowledge Foundation, Catholic revisory editor of the New International and the Americana, he yet found energy to write and lecture almost ceaselessly, as a dozen distinguished volumes of poetry and philosophy, fiction and apolo- getics, attest...
...But blaming the Greeks for not having invented the "photographic camera" is more than a sign of educa- tion...
...The Court itself held that "value of the property" is only one factor in an estimate of reasonable charges, and an older decision cited as a precedent declares that "no more be exacted" from the public "for the use of a public highway than the services rendered are worth...
...Hardly had P~guy written than the war broke out, and Francem which had repudiated Christ officially and even, to a considerable extent, removed Him from the hearts of the people--saw that she could be saved only by emphasizing her mission as the custodian of Christen- dom, the scion of Charlemagne, the conqueror of the crusades...
...He opposed femin- ism from an intense belief that it would not only hurt the race but cheat women themselves out of their real destiny and development...
...Her story is as plain and straightforward as the chronicles of Caesar...
...That these strains should have met in a soul so humble and simple, a mind so contemporaneous and alert, an Americanism so devoted and a Catholi- cism so profound as Dr...
...The physician needs, even more than the educator or diplomat, an opportunity to develop himself...
...and politicians from the farm states are already talking of an "attack" upon the diversion of money into specu- lative channels...
...his country has lostmto quote the words which President Hoover honored himself as well as Dr...
...Many persons for whom dependence upon dogma or confidence in Revelation are unfamiliar habits of mind still think of faith as among the "finer" things of life...
...and it was fused, in him, with other fac- tors which made him a symbol unique in the history of American Catholicism...
...It is certainly one thing to see in the Church "a storehouse of beauty," and another thing entirely to conceive of it as that light and vitality by which all creation is sublimated unto God...
...First recommendations to come out of this investigation are that facts be gathered to ascertain in which of the professions ordinarily followed by college men there is least competition and most pay...
...a people that would die when it closed the road to Cal- vary...
...but surely, some time before the thirty-six years are up, the wise man will move to northern Canada...
...the art of maintaining a rigid intransigence with reference to principles, without sacrificing the rights of truth and justice...
...b) if he has not, or does not, was it honorable...
...others are only partly under cultivation...
...Since the Court had already held those "costs" legal in utility rate-fixing, it could not very well avoid ex-tending the same principle to the railroads...
...Nor is the economic well-being of a country ever independent of the health of its citi- zens...
...To such contagion, however, our sage will hardly expose himself...
...NEVERTHELESS the best German opinion does not favor an abandonment of this experiment...
...WHEN in doubt, says an oriental proverb, go to sleep...
...The voices spoke and she fol- lowed...
...Regardless of what might be said about such a decision, the fact remains that in prac- tice no notable increase in rates is probable...
...Many wars and battles have been fought since I429, almost on the same ground...
...The restoration of the Catholic art tradition owes more than a little to this point of view...
...But all this does not seem to be enough to explain the fact that Labor has gained 137 seats more than in 1924, most of them from the party in power, and even a handful from ministers of His Majesty's government...
...His work with the Depart- ment of Subversive Activities of the National Civic Federation should be noted in connection with the fact that he was the indignant foe of restricted immi- gration...
...Indeed, Mr...
...Mencken would be in bed, covers up, blinds drawn, windows shut, with an aroma of formaldehyde prevailing...
...This is doubtless a sane and charitable suggestion, but acceptance depends upon whether a quantity of grain sufficiently large to count can actually be shipped to the famine-stricken districts and if the Chinese will be satisfied with wheat when they get it...
...Unless all signs are misleading, he has succumbed to the blandishments of Professor Charles Beard, dispenser of machine-age optimism...
...Thus another story could be added, with a new nave and chapel, if the congregation increased rapidly in numbers...
...They never invented anything half so ingenious as the printing press or the photographic camera...
...In a phrase well understood this side of the water, it was a case of "bunching hits...
...Jeanne hastened toward her tragic destiny, wholly unconcerned with either herself or the treacheries of men...
...Her virtue, he declared, was humility...
...The indus- tries now massed in comparatively restricted areas will, it is hoped, be scattered at various distant points, each serving as the centre of its own working popula- tion...
...George F. Babbitt himself has corralled a disciple...
...It is, of course, an open question whether the losses will more directly affect the farmer or the banks which have loaned money in advance on the coming crop...
...Wheat suddenly dropped to $.9 6 a bushel on the exchange--a half- dollar below the price of one year ago, and well under the average for the past twenty years...
...they confirm error and bad will...
...willingness to seek points of contact with the adversary with a view to enlightening him, instead of incurring the risk of increasing his opposition or hostility by ill-con-sidered attacks...
...One such revelation came after his death, when all day long scores of strangers, many of them very poor, appeared with their tears and their broken testimony, to pray beside his body...
...On the contrary, one loses doubly...
...The point at issue was really whether the Interstate Commerce Commission is empowered, under the transportation act, to determine railway values on other bases than that of "present reproduction costs...
...Who does not, in a measure, repeat those words out of the depth of his heart...
...The Committee was told to look ahead into New York's future, in I965 and it has looked ahead with a thoroughgoing conscientiousness which should justly earn it praise...
...One architect has already suggested that churches be erected skyscraper fashion...
...skill in making all feel that--even when one must talk frankly and unflinchingly--one has no other aim than to serve a very noble cause, separate from all personal pride or ambition--is this not the best formula for instructing, winning over and convincing others...
...ALL talk of Great Britain returning to a two-party system may as well be forgotten for a decade or so...
...But we still await the definitive report which will tell us precisely where we stand in an endeavor to which our souls are bound...
...Baldwin, whose pres- ent status needs no elucidation...
...There is no doubting its truth, no question- ing its motives...
...Its extraordinary lucidity is apparent in a host of saints...
...Whole portions of the field are, in fact, untilled...
...Her's was a procession not of malediction but of charity, not of war for victory but of "war that war might cease," not of ambition but of the people's mercy...
...The dedicated devotion Cond~ which Dr...
...the ability to keep oneself at an equal distance from excessive de- mands and cowardly surrender...
...That was all...
...The c~ e as the state physician is Stadtkass narzt," called, serves the masses...
...It is also of some moment that all who have come in contact with the great practical philosopher of M. I. T. learn whether he was speaking out of his own experience when he said: "Dress, speak and act like a gentleman and you will be surprised at the amount of murder you can get away with...
...Here one returns to those subtler realities of the spirit with which, it is widely believed, Christianity retains a definite affiliation...
...This, and the fact that fifty-six seats are enough to give Liberalism the balance of power in the new government, retains for the party a reasonable amount of dignity...
...For only a few students are expected to sacrifice higher pay for the chance to practice a desired profession...
...Its lustre is in a throng of deeds and books, all of them "gesta Dei per Francos...
...and he called his book The Mystery of the Charity of Jeanne d'Arc...
...We have been informed, however, that both thinkers really hold to the same fundamental view of space and cosmic area...
...So obvious is this modern concession to the Church from without that not a few have seen here the best begin- ning of apologetic effort...
...the Benoists, favorites of Charles VII and Louis XIV, from whose dissolute court the Chevalier Benoist came to Canada as Montcalm's aide, to make his soul in peace...
...Charles P6guy, born of the poorest of the poor in Orl6ans, had found his way through the phil- osophies, the social doctrines, the theories of his time...
...In him the Church on earth has lost a scholar, a cham- p.ion and one of the choicest of her children...
...In the haunted shadows of Jansenist cloisters there was no place for her gleam- ing sword...
...Belt lines tunneling water and land will serve the commuters over the lengthened distances between offices and homes...
...Later, on going into the details more closely, one is bound to acknowledge that, in so far as the curse can be taken off this awesome total, the Committee's plans aim at taking it off...
...and it is strange that since Jeanne's time, one has almost been able to measure the spiritual constancy of France by the constancy of her fame...
...Then, suddenly (well-nigh as suddenly as her own coming from the green hills of Lorraine) there was a change...
...erally held to mean that what the user of transporta- tion has to pay is of more than trifling consequence, and that competition retains not a little of its own snap...
...Mencken may, one of these days, meet an archbishop...
...Once this has been done, the colleges should make known their findings, and then, we are told, readjust- ment will follow of its own accord...
...Louis and O'Fallon railway case will depend upon what happens in prac- The rice, there cannot well remain any doubt O'Fallon that "existing property values" are Decision going to figure prominently in the development of all public-control indus- tries...
...The ardor of a calling to serve and heal is chilled in them...
...Crowds of little children could be fed once more when she had gained a victory...
...Most of us have not yet solved Aristotle's slightly gnarled metaphysics, and cannot decide whether "relativity" is a gag or a find...
...How this can be accomplished is a problem of tremendous dimen- sions, and what the Germans do toward solving it will merit watching...
...It is as if the court of heaven had decided that a host of "marvels," summoned up by popular imag- ination during a thousand years to incorporate hopes, ideals and moral judgments, should suddenly be crys- tallized in the stark virility of this Maid...
...Rheims, where the king was crowned while Jeanne knelt close by, is not yet healed again of the wounds of conflict...
...States must, therefore, reckon with medicine in terms of the community and carry the work of social sanitation much nearer the individual...
...Ramsay MacDonald's luck, which enabled his party to win thirty-six more seats than the Conservatives, with about three hundred thousand fewer votes...
...And nowhere else in the western countries has this radiance shone so bright and so sanctified as in those lands where the Frank and the Gaul refashioned the task of Rome...
...problem is of genuine importance to the relatively wealthy as well as to the poor...
...PALLEN brought to his sociological and poli- tical convictions a charity which humanized and illuminated their conservatism...
...Con- Mencken, tagion of every sort might thus be Convert avoided, and of course the age is rife with spirit microbes which induce all sorts of weird conditions of the soul...
...She was to him not a pattern of knighthood or a model for soldiers, but a saint of the people...
...Without malice of any kind, we should like to know whether the professor has followed, or intends to follow, his own advice, and (a) if he has, or if he does, was it politic of him to speak about it...
...Families could live tranquilly again...
...Few Americans, living or dead, could have matched ancestors with him: the d'Ibervilles, pioneers of the Louisiana Purchase and founders of New Orleans...
...The fact remains, however, that none of these workers is content with the situation, or unaware of how much need there is for co6rdination and exten- sion...
...If there must be 2o,ooo,ooo people in one city, this is undoubtedly the way to deal with them...
...Naturally enough, the world of Satan has always battled fiercely against this illumination...
...And then, of course, there was Mr...
...Summon to mind the martial genius which guided all this clashing at arms, and you have with few exceptions the names of the very greatest captains--Napoleon, Von Moltke, Foch, Vauban, Marlborough...
...It is estimated that the collapse means a loss of more than half a billion dollars, not including possible mort- gage cancellations and bankruptcies...
...Finally, what is the relation between religion and "social action" in the modern city...
...Or can it be that Mr...
...One of the titles which Our Lord gave to Himself and the Church was "Light of the World...
...From his student days at Georgetown and the American College in Rome (where the man who, as Pius XI, was to confer on him the Knighthood of Saint Gregory, was his class- mate) his life was one adventurous campaign for his religious and civic ideals...
...It is pointed out that, social conditions being what they are, the health of the individual is now of greater general importance than ever before...
...But the party polled some five million votes, or about one-fourth of the total cast, which ought to indicate that the Liberal temper is active enough in Britain to be in the running for some time to come: to be threat or promise for the future, depending upon your view-point...
...Again, words of hate, insults and appeals to force necessarily result in disorder...
...the thrice-famed CondOs...
...Meanwhile Germany is experi- menting with a relief program which, though it incor- porates the principles of our own public clinics, goes much farther in the direction of social welfare...
...SOME time ago we commented on efforts being made, under the auspices of a large insurance company, to determine the cost of medical What of treatment to the average family...
...Charity condemns them...
...This formula should be preferred by Catholics, because it seems to us, and in reality is, most definitely in the spirit of the Gospel...
...And we suspect that they were prompted by a study similar to that which has recently been started at Teachers' College...
...That query bodes no good to the patron...
...AT THE Massachusetts Institute of Technology (of all places) is a professor who advises graduating students to be snobbish...
...dows tight before going to bed...
...This would under- take at once to stabilize production and with that prices...
...The key to most of the contem- plated changes is, of course, the development of air- craft like the autogiro, capable of rising in an almost straight line...
...The sad autumn of 1924 is for- gotten, and Mr...
...The chroni-cally sick poor must be supported by charity...
...And it is not un-American, surely, to say that we can learn from the long tale of his labors how nobility, whether of faith or blood, obliges...
...They contemplate a horizontal rather than a vertical extension of the city, so that one of our pet nightmares--the man who never sets foot on Mother Earth--will be avoided...
...It gleams through the history of a score of councils...
...The impression that Jeanne was a kind of roystering...
...And when the nineteenth century was closing, the tide of scepticism bore nothing so precious as her memory, imprisoned in the laughter of Renan and Anatole France much as a peerless gem might be hidden in the rags of fools...
...WEEK BY WEEK I T IS easy to lay hands on three factors in the British general elections accountable for Labor's moral victory, unexpected in its proportions...
...Modern cities have need of both so that life may not become all utilitarian or materialistic, but wear the graces upon its head as Athens wore Plato and the Acropolis...
...IT IS probably unfair to find fault with the cheerful- ness animating the reports of New York's Committee on Regional Plan, as outlined in the New York Times...
...Lloyd George may be thankful that the miraculous did not happen: for if the gods of caprice had dictated a great Liberal uprising, his might have been the embarrass- ment of a majority leader with a program calling, among other things, for the reduction of unemploy- ment to normal proportions within the terrifying briefness of a year...
...Every-body is now entitled to a 6 percent return on--not the investment involved, but what that investment is worth at present...
...P6guy, con-scious always of the throng of his people about him, then gradually became conscious also that this was a people irretrievably doomed to Christendom...
...In the story of Jeanne, all folk-lore became splendidly real...
...Anyhow the current American Mercury prints a re-view of the Krutch literary novelty which makes one wonder what is coming over good old Henry L. "Aristotle, compared to Einstein, was an ignoramus," says the review, which adds that the fact that Greek tragedies no longer "make us tremble" is proof that we are "better men" than the Hellenes...
...Concerning domestic affairs, there was the general disappointment over Mr...
...Recently we heard of a business man whose sizable fortune was almost completely wiped out by the bills demanded for several major operations and convalescences...
...Of all the causes he defended, that of Catholic education was probably nearest his heart...
...her grandeur the fact that she had received orders...
...Pallen gave to Church and Benoist country throughout his seventy years Pallen of full and ardent living is in itself the mark of a generosity heroic and hence exceptional...
...WHILE the importance of the Supreme Court decision in the St...
...Mencken himself has devised nothing of the sort, and hitherto we had imagined that he believed greatness associated with literature and philosophy...
...You will The New find it just as easy to marry the boss's Pedagogy daughter as the stenographer"--such notes as these were recently penciled by the young men listening to him...
...Doubtless the maxim reckoned with the oldfashioned practice of shutting the win- Mr...
...Provocations, constant recriminations, bitter criticism, even where these are justified, merely exasperate an adversary...
...Though he was the centre of a family unity and affec- tion such as fall to the lot of few men, those who were nearest to him, and who felt the most love and pride in his magnificently Christian life, were allowed only by accidental revelations to guess at the extent of his personal charities...
...What can one gain from them...
...We have no doubt, however, of the ironic intent behind these sentences...
...The best intentions in the world cannot legitimize them...
...Churchill's final budget, and in no analysis can this be discounted...
...This in turn depended not so much upon the skill of generals or the astuteness of statesmen as upon the simple readiness of the peasant and the artisan--true kindred of Jeanne~to obey a command humbly...
...But, c6nfronted by the prophecy of a city swollen to the compass of 2o,ooo,- ooo people, it is difficult in the first shuddering moment of realization to refrain from upbraiding the prophet...
...The final results have been received with much applause by the more progressive elements in France, Germany and the United States...
...In an MacDonald election greatly influenced by women voters, the appeal of proposals to cooperate in every way with the United States for the freedom of the seas, the reduction of armaments, and the repeal of reservations to the anti-war pact, was certain to be effective...
...Nevertheless it is altogether obvious that in the future Interstate Commerce Commission decisions must ultimately face the question: Is the railway earn- ing 6 percent on the present value of its properties...
...Mencken has not taken sufficient precautions...
...We are glad to subscribe with all our might and main to these words...
...For as politics go, he is less unenviable than either Mr...
...Again, it is advocated that all building be relatively temporary and inexpensive, so as to reckon with a period of tran- sition...
...Of course the Liberals have won only fifty-six seats, and at a cost of $750,000 have increased their repre- sentation in the last Parliament by no more than ten...
...We have a fancy that if the archbishop were to present himself, Mr...
...But not all of these together ride so imperially through the forests of oblivion as the girl who watched the sheep in the meadows of Lorraine, and in whose heart was heard the order of Michael the Archangel, of Mar- garet and Catherine to the dauphin's support...
...MacDonald's nine months in office had not endan-gered the realm...
...For the cold iconoclasm of Voltaire and his followers, her miracle became the petty business of a dream...
...THE COMMONWEAL, patterned to some extent after the French Catholic review, Le Correspondant (which recently celebrated its hunFrom the dredth birthday) rejoices with the latCardinal ter's editors over a public letter of of Paris commendation written by Cardinal Dubois, Archbishop of Paris...
...But it would seem as if, in our time, he must think of this opportunity not in terms of unrestricted personal freedom but as something to be achieved through imperative functional service in the vast organism of society...
...Other grains followed suit, corn in particular registering a sensa-tional decline...
...First was the popularity of a foreign policy The Luck of program which yields in every letter Ramsay to the propaganda of peace...
...A GREAT and simple man died on May 26, and with him died something that is not likely to be replaced...
...After having pointed to Le Correspondant as a "lesson and an example," His Eminence declared: "The knowledge of what one wishes to accomplish...
...the effort to suc-ceed which combines a wise tenacity, an intelligent enthusiasm and a firm moderateness...
...That dignitary may not prove to be a Saint Charles or a Saint Ambrose, but we believe that he will compare favorably with Charles Darwin even under the handicap of a Baltimore climate...
...Conceivably, however, Mr...
...And the realm of the "eldest daughter of the Church" was intact--not redeemed of its sins, indeed, but free to work out its redemption in so far as men can and do...
...Lloyd George is in a position he must have coveted...
...And yet we need very much to find out if all this is really worth while, and if it can be sponsored effectively...
...A saint, they hold, is very like an artistma man apart, whose stature has not been curtailed by sordid actuality...
...Meanwhile we shall await with interest coming Einstein doctrine on logic, ethics, aesthetics and other trifling subjects upon which Aristotle, in his poor way, threw some light...
...But their effect is likely to be greatest in Italy, where a certain prestige may be given to ideas not in the best repute upon the Capitoline...
...In the Hoover's committee only a few days Manner of ago and the news regarding agricul- Damocles ture...
...They never dis-covered anything as important as the cell...
...The granaries were no longer aflame...
...History testifies to their harmfulness and their impotence...
...Possibly he is turning into a fierce democrat (though, if one can credit his pre- vious remarks, the Bill of Rights has been ignored for decades and is now a forgotten theory) who will ultimately write a biography (after the manner of Lewis Mumford) about Henry Ford...
...A positively amazing recourse to the doctor, competent observers say, on the part of people who, on the one hand, develop manias re-garding their health, and on the other force the physi- cian to concern himself with bodily disturbances which would remedy themselves if left alone...
...The status of "social action" therefore demands what the other aspects of religion we have named call for--a careful and search- ing survey of the city from the point of view of the Church...
...In a manner he was the pool in which those chaotic years looked for their picturema pool clear in itself, but muddled with bizarre reflections...
...And what is the result...
...He is at their beck and call, at any time during the day and night, free of charge...
...Children with tendencies toward disease may grow into unde- sirable men and women, handicapped by mental or physical maladies...
...They do not instruct...
...Much preliminary work has already been done...
...Without these "crime would increase" and all sorts of "destructive social theories" enter the land...
...So much has been accomplished, from this point of view, that it is hard to do anything but praise earnest and intelligent workers...
...No one can blame the profession for such eventualities, but they happen and perplex us all...
...At all events the problem is larger than the individual agriculturist's bank account...
...Both these suggestions, however, involve an attitude toward ecclesiastical art--that handmaiden expression of man's reverence for God which is pro- foundly distasteful to modern feeling and, perhaps, indifferent to distinct modern needs...
...It is positive humility...
...The city she defended against the British has recently observed her memory with triumphant ceremony, to which Cardinal Lepicier, himself a son of Vaucouleurs, came as special legate from the Holy See, and at which no people was more splendidly represented than the English, whose enemy the Maid once was...
...And yet we have long since been aware that, as in the days of early Christianity, the works of mercy must now accompany the work of faith...
...JEANNE D'ARC F IVE hundred years have gone since the siege of Orl6ans was raised by her whom the old chron- iclers called Jehanne la Pucelle, and whom the Church now venerates as Saint Jeanne d'Arc...
...At the moment there is some discussion of an idea advanced by Senator Nye, to the effect that the government purchase a large quantity of wheat for Chinese famine relief...
...Meanwhile the administration is straining every muscle in an effort to pass the bill setting up a Farm Relief Board...
...Nothing...
...UPON how thin a thread prosperity is suspended will appear from the contrast between the report on recent economic changes issued by Mr...
...It follows that doctors soon grow weary, cynical and pessimistic...
...but no one ever earned more fairly, by the exercise of an overflowing compassion toward the misery which is one of radicalism's excuses, the right to have positive convictions on the subject...
...PaUen's co-religionists by writing--"one who gave . . . largely to the men and women of his time of the rich fruits of a sincere and high-minded search for the everlasting truths...
...And so, spontaneously and yet ever so care-fully, he restored the idea of Jeanne d'Arc...
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