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countenancing debentures on the other. In theory the farmer is quite as definitely entitled to an export bounty as the manufacturer is to import duty. The philosophy of the matter is admirably...
...It is plausibly asserted that the new combination has two ideas in mind: to effect, gradu- ally, a juncture between upstate and downstate New York utilities, and to develop the immense hydroelec- tric resources of the region...
...Now this faerie logic is exhibiting itself in reverse, in the agitation of the South's most important Hoovercrats over a recent White House tea...
...This cow's inability or unwillingness to keep up the supply would, ultimately, involve no end of trouble...
...But he would have said something about it, humorous and yet not sophisticated, which would have merited remembering...
...Who can doubt that, as time goes on, discussion of the war debts accruing to the United States will be conducted in similar language...
...Chaos attacked the universities and schools in the guise of students in droves and teachers selected by necessity...
...It influences him as soon as he is able to read, and it keeps close to him long after he is through with schools...
...For while everyone upon our limited horizon is hammering away these days at the unscru- pulous advertiser, what ground the enemy has given up is not measurable by our unmicroscopic scales...
...The other way is easier and more familiar...
...But important as is this emphatic iteration of principle, it is more important that a Republican leader of this generation should have distinguished, even in the case of self-governing countries, between "the people" and "the government...
...He is convinced on the other hand that levies on the people (in the form of customs and duties) are indispensable lubricants to that machinery...
...We have all become Tea Party familiar with the almost ethereal tenuity of certain of the arguments leading to such loyalty in the immediate past...
...Norman Thomas that a ballot which did not include his name would The seem as strange as one without the Perennial star and the eagle symbols...
...A VERY handsome booklet which we have just received calls attention to the silver jubilee of the College of New Rochelle, and serves A Silver to remind us that the present is the Jubilee right time in which to say a word in honor of this good school...
...Monsignor Pace and Father George Johnson will be able to contribute much to, and learn much from, the discussion impending...
...The tea was given for the wives of congressmen...
...Indeed there Secretary was grave danger lest the contest be Wilbur's fought over different matters entirely Committee than the well-being of scholastic endeavor...
...And who will deny that the successful prexy of today could have earned his fame among bankers...
...I. C. Trotman of Virginia, member of the Anti-Smith Committee of Ten, says that not only has the Republican party in Virginia lost 25,ooo votes by Mrs...
...But Mr...
...However the deserved punishment which the foolhardy youth most merited--the deprivation of all notoriety--has been remitted by a press which lost no time in publishing his picture, history and irrespon- sible, vain-glorious statements...
...One need not look to magnanimity, however, for an explanation...
...HOOVER is a solid man, in person and achievement, but about some of the loyalty which he has elicited there has been a quality The which can best be described as dell-Washington cately fantastic...
...President, that the protective system is being tested at this time...
...He has introduced a resolution to this effect, and in its success lies about the only hope for the disappearance of propaganda which suggests the high social advantages of leanness, and the ease with which it can be secured through the substitution of nicotine for food...
...the Nation active interest which has been stimulated...
...Three objects of study have been proposed to the commit- tee: federal activities in education, federal grants to colleges, and federal grants to schools of less than college grade...
...He would empower the Food, Drug and Insecticide Administration to exercise the same control over de-ceptive statements made through advertising media that it now exerts in preventing the use of misleading labels on food and drug containers...
...For a time the notion that military, athletic, theatrical, operatic, literary and life-saving abilities could all be developed by the systematic use of cigarettes was the second-best of our national jokes, bettered only by the fact that there existed military, athletic, theatrical, op- eratic, literary and life.saving notables willing to lend their portraits and their signatures to the spreading of that notion...
...If New Rochelle has come into eminence more quickly than colleges with which it compares, this is because it has been fortunate, no doubt, in its outlook and control...
...There may be a certain abstract justice in the application of the law, "easy come, easy go," to some of the support which rallied to Mr...
...Thomas has only a handful to lead...
...NO OCCASION can be better than the present for saluting the advances made by the movement for adult education during the year: the A Post- new energies, abilities and enthusiasms Graduate which have been attracted to it...
...France is, of course, the exception, having a legitimate claim for assistance in rebuilding mani- fold ruins...
...EX-AMBASSADOR HOUGHTON'S speech to the graduates of Syracuse University concerned peacem a subject which would seem to be vague The enough, and sentimental enough, to Nature of suit the needs of any commencement Government speaker...
...Europe has talked in terms of economic reality...
...Such an action is symptomatic of a sad condition in the field of exploita- tion and in it perhaps lies the best excuse that can be brought forward in the stowaway's defense...
...Even in this case, however, the surplus allowed over and above the obligations to the United States has been curtailed by nearly one-half...
...Very few people care whether anybody besides George Wash- ington served at Trenton and Yorktown, and fewer still have ever heard that an Irishman was involved...
...Both displayed the competent lightness of those who have not the habit nor the manner of defeat...
...Hoover's views on the vexed question of social equal- ity between the races are known, but it is overwhelm- ingly obvious that, in an impersonal, inclusive, official function of this sort, those views are not even dis-tantly involved...
...The department of experience thus exempted, the province of the mystic, has its own complete authority, attested even in the fact that "our consciousness is not wholly, nor even primarily, a device for receiving sense impressions...
...For it is trying not only to identify a need with the means of gratification, but to create a need where none exists...
...Mabel Walker Willebrandt, now Washington counsel to the Aviation Corporation, which helps to operate the new combination system...
...The questions at stake are, fundamentally, two: Is centralization of educational authority desirable, or are there good reasons why the several states should preserve their autonomy...
...Heflin was present and arose...
...But this is very difficult and discouraging...
...Germany, as all but the most superficial observers testify, is working fearfully hard Eand working to pay off the richest country in the world...
...The chief sender-of[ was, of course, New York's inimitable Mayor...
...The inefficacy of the first attack is a little frightening...
...The protective principle is approved when it appears as the servant of this last...
...it is condemned when it seems to be something else entirely...
...The philosophy of the matter is admirably summed up in Senator Borah's now famous words: "Unless the pro- tective tariff applies and can be made to apply as a system to the nation as a whole, then it becomes a special privilege, the result of governmental favor, and is intolerable...
...Very naturally Mrs...
...America will be the sole recipient of war pay-ments, however arising--America, who entered the war on the basis of 'no indemnities and no repara-tions.' The thing is unthinkable...
...The conclusions of this eminent physicist and astronomer (whose volume, The Nature of the Physical World, perhaps served as the definitive refutation of what remained among responsible thinkers of the doctrine of a self-contained materialism) can here be noticed only in the briefest summary...
...first story...
...This ambiguity, however, is at least two-edged...
...Through their extension systems, universities are establishing classes here and there for the lettered...
...Preach-ers and professors, the ladies' clubs and the parent- teacher associations, even organizations of advertising men themselves, have delivered stout blows...
...That was a turn of things to be resented...
...In entrusting to the lady's care a bottle of water--said to be taken from the Atlantic and destined to mingle with the Pacific, to symbolize the occasion: but still a bottle of water-- the gentle- man is one sly and successful gesture up...
...The declaCompleting rations it incorporated were specific, but it expressed the desire of citizens the Circuit then living to halt the progress of business and financial consolidations toward monopoly...
...His voice finds echoes in responsible administrations which have recognized that there are degrees of democracy and that we must reconcile our political progress with the highest ideal...
...Perhaps the result will be to improve service, lower rates and conserve natural resources...
...Meanwhile, of course, one may legitimately wonder if the farmer is right after allmor if American urban industry would be satisfied with a similar relief pro- gram, minus the tariff...
...Without its support those who still cling to the Socialistic plan build in vain...
...Commendable, too, is the invitation extended to two Catholic school- men, and the endorsement which their acceptance of it received from the authorities to whom they are, respectively, subordinate...
...Witness the new Morgan public utility merger in New York state, which speaks for itself and needs no comment...
...What teacher, or what com-bination of teachers, elementary, high school and uni- versity, has half the educational opportunity of any combination of national advertisers ? Yet of all the agencies through which ideas are spread, it is the only one not subject to control...
...Movies and books are censored...
...He said, in the simplest of words, that the power to declare war must hereafter be vested in the people rather than in their governments...
...And we wish him luck because his job may not be an easy one...
...Censorship...
...WE SEEM to remember that there existed, in the prehistoric past, something that was termed the Sherman Anti-Trust Law...
...Scientific accu...
...Surely the farmer's case rests upon his right to phrase a definition of prosperity which will cover his situation, but will not jeopardize the welfare of others...
...Today it is still startling to come across this passage in his writings: "I do not remember having used formal punishment...
...Walker in I924, the governor- ship to Mr...
...We wish Senator Smoot luck because he is trying to tie the hands, chain the feet and gag the mouth of a practical joker...
...De Priest was invited to the tea, and as natu-rally came...
...There can be no question of annulling obligations or of "for- giving" money fairly owed...
...He said that governments possess both "the power to create conditions which may lead di- rectly to a clash of national interests," and by declar- ing war, the power "to force those issues to a test of armed strength...
...WHAT does this situation mean...
...EDUCATION TAKES STOCK A BOUT the only real diamond-stickpin-novelty that drifted into the area of education during the past season was Professor Rogers's "extemporaneous speech" to the graduates of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology...
...For Mr...
...It would have been unheroic for them to have been anything else, and perhaps the world would have been a little bit the better for it if one of the three on the sands of Santander had turned to and given "le gosse," as the Parisians have dubbed him, a thorough thrashing...
...Under pressure he relented a little, though not far...
...The concession involved is, doubtless, the chief reason why the experts' conference proved successful...
...Finally, problems of administration have been defined frankly...
...Sound economic sense realized that the r61e of milking the cow dry was far from enviable...
...You cannot apply such a scheme to the parts of our personality which are not measurable by symbols any more than you can extract the square root of a sonnet...
...The result was a deluge of quackery...
...Neither the President's nor Mrs...
...For protection is not the G.O.P...
...A better way to go about it is to go it alone...
...Labor in America has passed it by and, as in England where the victorious party of MacDonald would have been classed as Socialist twenty years ago, labor re-mains the indispensable corner-stone on which the party might be erected...
...For the moment, however, too much material for rebuttal is on hand...
...However, honors were not quite even...
...Now all this may have been said before, but, as should be apparent, it has not been said often enough...
...EVER and anon Senator Heflin does American edu- cation a real service...
...Hoover feelsE quite as his predecessor felt--that actual govern-mental subsidies to agriculture would be so many wrenches thrown into the country's economic ma-chinery...
...Owen D. Young, is the circumstance that Great Britain adhered loyally to the tenor of Mr...
...The facts in the case argued so plausibly for so lucid a point of view that virtually all the Allied powers assented...
...We are all becoming impressed with indica- tions of a response to the overtures...
...The chief significance of the recent agreements lies in the fact that the sums at stake have been computed on a practical basis...
...Thomas need not feel, however, that his work is unrewarded...
...Having enumerated these matters, the government declares that it will develop such remedial agencies as can be established...
...It is no longer popular, excepting among the benighted, to suppose that pedagogy is merely a synonym for starving in a gentlemanly way...
...Young's the Baldwin note...
...At this point, however, a remark is in order...
...Nothing could be clearer than the party's determination, built up and solidified during the past decade, to rest on a foundation of "prosperity...
...Only in a measure, however...
...Those familiar with the personal styles, so to speak, of the two main personalities, would have known better...
...It is, he says, "not applicable to the unseen world behind the symbols, because it is unadapted to any-thing except symbols, and its perfection is a perfec-tion of symbolic linkage...
...Of course it is still impossible (and may remain so) to determine with any degree of accuracy which percentage of the Revolutionary troops came from the north, and which from the south, of Ireland...
...THE flight of the Yellow Bird, despite its dubious value as a commercial exploit, provided the occasion for numerous interesting stories...
...Pos-sibly-who knows ?--the senator from Alabama may have inspired the first biographer of Moylan to sit down and write...
...No "if" at all is attached to the circumstance that at least consolidation has gained another important victory...
...DON BOSCO, who was first a shepherd boy, then a priest, and then the founder of the great Saleslan work among boys, would probably not Saint have been astonished if somebody had told him that Saint Peter's would one Don Besco day be illuminated for his canonization...
...The New Yorker, New York however, may be forgiven if the more permanent and portentous aspects of the matter were momentarily overlaid for him by his strictly local enjoyment of the sending- off party here...
...The schools, on the other hand, manifest clearly a high regard for nature--in so far as personality is nature...
...It has popular backing...
...Smith in i926 , and the Presidency to Mr...
...ANOTHERnote in the growing harmony between the established ultimates of religion and the small group of very superior men in the vanScience guard of modern science was struck in Comes a recent address given in London by Forward Arthur Stanley Eddington...
...But he has come so far on the road of fine honesty and natural logic that one can forgive him these incompletenesses...
...It is, therefore, beside the point to argue that the rightness of the protective tariff is a proof of the rightness of debentures, or vice versa...
...we should, let us hope, be the last to judge any school by such a standard...
...But both jokes wore thin, as jokes do, and besides we discovered that the tobacco companies were making money while we laughed at them...
...ward their own graduates...
...No Irishman of any consequence came here from southern Ireland until about 185o," he declared categorically...
...basement, but only the G.O.P...
...Public curiosity has been so enlarged by journalistic exag-gerations, it has been so whetted by charlatan pro-moters and press agents, that thousands are willing to pay for the privilege of staring at some pseudo-celebrity whose name is as transitory as his claim to distinction is ridiculous...
...All who run may read plentiful indications that the observation ex-pressed here will figure prominently in future conver-sation...
...We hope to keep our readers in touch with the work of the committee as it proceeds...
...No doubt it was alarming, in those days before boy guidance, to come upon a little country priest who herded ragamuffins into old sheds and even churchyards...
...Total assets of $5oo,ooo,00o dollars in holdings and equip- ment were tied into one compact bundle at the offices of J. P. Morgan and Company on the afternoon of June I2...
...It is difficult to believe that he died as recently as I888, and that most of his early attempts to establish a refuyio for boys were declared harmful and even insane...
...Those cognizant of the bare situation a few months back, when Mrs...
...The men and women selected come from diverse groups and localities, and there are many first-rate names on the list...
...I think, Mr...
...To continue it in adult life with classes, lectures, discussions and all the old routine of the university halls is not per- haps, the ideal way...
...The first, born in Cork and brother of a bishop of that city, became secretary and aide to Washington, and then quartermaster-general...
...WEEK BY WEEK p ERHAPS the most significant aspect of the repara- tions settlement, effected so largely by the skill of Mr...
...It is the final educator of the average citizen...
...BILL-BOARD TUTORSHIP S ENATOR SMOOT would extend the Food and Drugs Act to tobacco and tobacco products...
...One must bow in admiration before such persistency even when it has outlived the possi- bility of meeting with success...
...With God's grace, I have always ob-tained, and from apparently hopeless children, not alone what duty exacted but what my wish simply expressed...
...and that deluge is now receding...
...Hoover...
...Hoover such a large majority" is thereby almost healed...
...Hoover's tea party, but that "the wound inflicted in the hearts of six southern states that gave Mr...
...During a recent debate on national-origins legislation, Senator Irish Gerald Nye had read a list of names Minute from the roster of Irish Revolutionary Men patriots...
...But recognition of the fact must come some day, and the sooner it comes, the quicker shall we find solutions for those problems which are rooted in the inability of "little dynamic groups" to represent at all times the sentiments of a nation...
...Europe has now, for all practical purposes, underwritten the Balfour note...
...Under the terms of the agree- ment, Britain's excess receipts will be $9,ooo,ooo an-nually...
...THE launching of the sixty-hour plane-and-train system of travel from coast to coast was, of course, an important event in our commercial A Party in and civic history...
...Possibly this will ultimately involve a return to the debenture idea...
...A pros- pect happy enough for the present is that we should begin in any way at all to educate ourselves...
...the second was no less close to the illustrious commander, whose friendship he retained throughout life...
...More...
...In many quar- ters it is held to be, almost literally, meaningless...
...Opposition to the more radical forms of farm-relief theory can point to several factorsmthe chaos that prevails in agri- cultural production and marketing, failure to deal efficiently with problems through the use of adequate methods, financial instability...
...As a result dozens of journals throughout the country have recalled to prominence Stephen Moylan and John Fitzgerald...
...and Mr...
...This son of the hills above Becchi has both the Franciscan spirit and the Franciscan gift of phrase...
...In the graduate schools, respect for form has staked out its imperial claim...
...NEW YORK CITY has become so accustomed to the candidature of Mr...
...Willebrandt was trying to dry up the Mayor's city, might have looked for tense silences and tightened lips on this occasion...
...And in time it comes to affect our sense of values...
...But there can and ought to be frank realization of the all important fact that discounts, in common with so much else in the world, may well be governed by international relations...
...Of the objective criteria of these deep intuitions of his, Professor Eddington knows nothing, and he is moreover explicitly suspicious of creeds and formularies...
...That Pseudo-of Armeno Lotti, jr., one of the three French aviators, emerges as particu-Gelebrity larly engrossing because of its com-plete frankness...
...But he went bravely forward, blending a multitude of miracles with practical jokes and even sleight-of-hand, his life a constant prayer and act of kindness, until, when he died, there were 250 houses throughout the world which carried on his endeavor to win boys...
...The effect of his constant eloquence reaching at our desires from every angle during our waking hours-- from the pages of the newspaper at breakfast, from the bill-boards all about us as we take a turn in the air, from the sky signs at night--is not restricted so abso- lutely as all this...
...They would have expected the urban- ity fairly to crackle, as crackle it did...
...Germany," the Manchester Guardian said recently, "is expected to meet her reparations claims in full in thirty-seven years...
...Hoover's cause...
...This must be termed, in its own way, a fairly bad performance...
...One of the foremost .9 i of the group of passengers making the inaugural trip, and hence one of the chief sendees, was Mrs...
...What does experience teach us regarding the efficacy of federal action and subsidy in scholastic endeavor...
...The definition of prosperity alone counts...
...Could there be a more encouraging or more charming saint...
...Prosperity" has been the test applied to farm problems ever since their recent ascent to prominence...
...As a rule this would have passed without notice...
...The companies involved possess properties which utilize water-power in the St...
...The Dawes plan had allowed $4o,ooo,ooo more...
...The question is whether it can be made to apply to all the people, or whether it is to be the special advantage of a few...
...Yet Senators Heflin and Simmons are vocal in their conviction that the White House has made a dreadful mistake...
...One of them vir- tually controls the centrally located power town of Schenectady...
...And he said that a declaration of war is less likely to come out of the body politic than out of "little dynamic groups of men who have them- selves helped create the very conditions which made the conflict imminent...
...That the two are not one is a conviction which politicians encourage people of this country to resist, and for an obvious reason...
...Gone are the old abstractions, in a dozen branches, which could be pasted upon the child mind without regard either for human individu- ality or the concrete structure of the world...
...Though this observation was designed to win the allegiance of protectionists for the farmer's pet scheme, it may in all sober reality be a critique of Republican foundations...
...The daily press has been congenial...
...For the present, how- ever, it needs to be borne in mind that Republicanism is in control, and that Republicanism is a definite for- mula, simple and compact...
...Let us have some cen- sorship of advertising...
...By its faculty and by its graduates is the worth of a school measured, and through the records of neither will the reputation of the College of New Rochelle suffer...
...Nothing on earth can prevent collection of the war debts in full from becoming an increasingly embarrassing business...
...If it has not been exaggerated, it indicates a degree of humility which has not generally been suspected in the Ameri- can adult character, and a recognition that education does not stop with the class room...
...Our regard for it has nothing to do with the fact that it is the largest Catholic college for women in the United States...
...The Socialist party, as a party, no longer exists...
...But in utter disregard of the conventions of the occasion, our most eminent retired diplomat had no beautiful generalities with which to dazzle his audience...
...There can be no doubt that the advertiser influences us about more things than the merit of his product...
...A magazine which publishes a shady story will be barred from the mails, but it may fill half its space with misleading advertisements and circulate freely...
...Speaking of "the first stowaway in a heavier-than-air craft to cross the Atlantic" (such is the empty title for which the lives of four men were so thoughtlessly endangered) M. Lotti declared that "our first instincts, we are free to confess now, were homicidal...
...Hoover in I928, as its choice for mayor of New York in I929...
...One may even inquire a little into the thing "called" prosperity, and wonder how extensive and deep it really is...
...It is a proof of Secretary Wilbur's sober common sense that he has appointed a representative committee of educators to weigh both queries in rela- tion to the evidence...
...Its erstwhile adherents have graduated either into Democrats or into Communists...
...May leadership as excellent be with it always in the future...
...Most instruc- tive is his delimitation of the realm of natural law...
...He lived so constantly in the neighborhood of God's wonders that he might well have termed this event just another--though really curious --miracle...
...It was, Candidate therefore, almost inevitable that the "unofficial city Socialist" convention should name this perennial standard-bearer, who lost the mayoralty to Mr...
...Also it plainly has a competent chief in Mr...
...That propaganda should disappear because it has ceased to be funny, even to risibilities which are always primed and cocked...
...racy, strict limitation of the enrolment in numbers and purposiveness, and mastery of research method are stoutly demanded...
...But it was certainly no worse than hundreds of flimflam experiments and re-cipes which have been tried out in education proper during the past troubled years...
...A decided wave of fanaticism mpositive or negative--had come to the fore, and many people were ready to conclude that Catholics were utterly selfish in their opposition to the depart- ment (whereas, in all truth, it would operate to their advantage in not a few cases...
...MR...
...Already one may note sure signs of a new stabilization...
...This document had stated that His Majesty's government Victory would ask from its debtors only what was needed to meet its own obligations to the United States...
...Whether or not this desire was right in principle, there can be no doubt that it has been overwhelmed by practice...
...One of the representatives from Illinois, Oscar De Priest, is a Negro...
...Especially it has not been said before, but, as should be apparent, it has not alliance...
...Leaders are no longer satisfied with Americanization classes for the foreign-born, with night schools for those whose academic opportu- nities have been largely restricted...
...Lawrence, Mo- hawk and ttudson River Valleys...
...through their alumni associations, they are fulfilling a new-found duty to...
...We wish him luck because his success in this matter might make it somewhat easier to con- trol the activities of all mischief-making advertisers, some of them quite as disagreeable as the tobacco com- panies...
...After that she will only have to pay the Allies sufficient to enable them to pay Amer- ica...
...The corollary of this acknowledgment of the sover-eignty of personality is--though he guards the term carefully--a personal God: not a vague, pantheistic force but a divine spirit "indwelling . . . in the mind of man...
...the monthly magazines have opened their pages...
...On the specific merits of the De Priest case, he is as much in the right as as any man can care to be...
...FOR years the controversy about whether or not there should be a federal department of education has raged to no avail...
...Since good examples of both depend upon a tradition of scholar- ship and upon policy derived from the experience of many administrations, twenty-five years do not leave a school much room...
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