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...The service as a whole was broadcast over a nation-wide hookup, so that everyone who cared to could find out what the central act of Christian worship really is and meditate upon Bishop Turner's dignified plea for a fair hear- ing...

...They have," according to Senator McKel- lar, who harmonizes his voice of eulogy with that of Mr...

...A recent evening's entertainment provided by Our Lady of Lourdes Dramatic Society, New York City, amply demonstrated how much can be done...

...It is characteristic of man, at least of western man, to make his abstractions con- crete...

...Orebaugh's views are really those of any considerable number of people...

...It would be simpler to buy up every vestige of Mexican territory for financial interests than to annex a square foot of worthless Sonora soil...

...Orebaugh are on the mailing list of the Foreign Policy Association...

...whereupon her husband killed himself with a revolver...

...To anybody who believes in the remedial power of enlightened and generous public opinion, its total eclipse in this particular instance must seem omi- nous and unfortunate...

...Be-fore, therefore, giving any serious consideration to Mr...

...A permanent state of conflict exists be- tween Poland and Lithuania...

...Never-theless, since necessity is the mother of invention, some way must be found of assuring to Austria the mere ability to exist, and of straightening out the mess that has been made of the Dantzig corridor...

...If the essence of drama be "impersonation," how can Drama one grow social at all without develop- within ing the habit of creating a personality Reach for display...

...I DEEPLY deplore the killing of any person," declared Mr...

...Darnton...

...We refer those who entertain doubts regarding the Democratic future to that eminent soothsayer, Mr...

...Religious liberty, religious instruction, religious peacewthese are still out of reach, and no prophet is bold enough to declare that they will be attained soon...

...Nothing in the world could be harder to secure than Philippine inde- pendence...

...Such proof will be eagerly wel- comed by all who recognize the need and value of an intelligent and vigilant minority...

...Doubtless, however, the willingness of the Vatican to underwrite the existing agreement implies a belief that further progress can be made chiefly through the instrumentality of the United States...

...In a work- ing and balanced society, the corollary of the almost purely mystical doctrine of the equality of all kinds of men is the equality, in necessity and worth, of all kinds of labor, the equality, in dignity and responsi- bility, of all classes of society...

...If Mr...

...MEANWHILE one must note that none of the major issues has been met...

...but the thought occurs that per- haps even his grim statement that the masses are being over-educated, to their detriment and the world's, may fall short as a diagnosis of the real diffi- culty...

...And the result...

...Orebaugh, together with the fact that they are published in a magazine such as the Forum...

...But, though its manifestations are social, its root is probably not, in the narrow sense, social: it is rather to be found in that piece of political metaphysic which tells us, in varying phraseology but with dog- matic explicitness, that all men are created equal and have certain inalianable rights--and so on...

...On the whole, such hap- penings give one a deepened respect for those realists who keep their sense of the ridiculous strictly in abey- ance-for certain of the Russians, and most of all, for Hardy...

...Or does Mr...

...He held his hearers spellbound by treating them to succu- lent details of what the emperor of China was doing at that very moment...

...He referred very frankly to pre-election prom- ises: "I have made it clear both before and during the campaign that I put relations with the United States in the forefront of our national concerns...

...It also must have misunderstood the high good- will of Democratic senators toward the farmer when they united with the "progressives" to make the Presi- dent swallow debentures or go without a farm relief measure...

...He might venture a timid suggestion that a few shib- boleths, once rather helpful, annoy a considerable number of citizens nowadays...

...Raskob's wage-earner's savings scheme by Mr...

...Who can doubt that Hen- nepin would have found it exceedingly difficult to understand the kind of religious bickering which has been rampant among us lately...

...It is more than pathetic to observe the consequent rejoicing of the nation, which found expression in one of the largest pilgrimages known to history...

...But why should the Forum permit such fantasies to be broad- cast in its pages...

...IT CAN be conceived that the Democrats are pleased with the legislative accomplishments of the minority party in the Senate during the special For session now interrupted for recess, but What most observers would expect that pleas- United...

...A DESPATCH from Bucharest to the New York Times details a tragedy which is so weirdly complete that it inevitably suggests caricature...

...Giddings denominates as "intellectual dead beats...

...Though the moment for definitive comment has not yet come, one is permitted to sup-pose that the Holy See has, in a measure, adopted a point of view phrased long ago by the title of a Com- monweal editorial: "Have faith in Morrow...

...Columbus and Hennepin gave, as we are giving here," he said, "the expression of their deep religious feeling in the language of the oldest of the Christian churches in the Te Deum and the Mass of the liturgy...

...However, the author's readiness and aptitude to discover crowned ancestors reminds us too forcibly of Mark Twain's magician in the Connecticut Yankee...

...Mr...

...What are the terms of the oath they took...

...Giddings believes to be social: "Notice, recognition, compensations for inferiorities and balms for complexes must be had at any cost...

...The urge for spurious gentility is the universal phenom- enon of our present life...

...Russia wishes to modify her Polish frontiers and to take Bessarabia from Roumania...

...A frightened inquiry, on the part of not a few Demo- crats, as to what is happening to principle...

...Dawes made four points with cornAnother mendable skill and thoroughness: that Love the time has come to insist upon armaFeast ment reductions as a first step toward the achievement of peace...

...One may be pardoned for noticing that this observa- tion is not a little like a line in Mr...

...Robinson's, "in the interest of the farmers, forced a vote, in both houses, on the debenture plan showing the unwillingness of the Republican majority to carry out the farm relief plank of their national platform...

...Hungary is conducting a campaign to get back those districts assigned to her neighbors...

...We saw a worthy point in the fact that one play, a realistic character comedy by George Kelly, argued so amiably for friendship between the church and the theatre...

...It is these activities that are at the root of all our difficulties...

...Yet it is obviously the sort of case which demonstrates that our prized sense of humor is no infallible gauge of values or proportions...

...We merely recognize dearly what the dan- gers of its affirmation are...

...They are in a quandary to know which of these fealties they shall abjure, realizing that they cannot consistently hold to both...

...Orebaugh really think that such an oath was administered in secret, in the mysterious depths of Catholic churches, perhaps in those base- ments in which--according to many other Protestant writers about the Catholic Church--the Papists con-ceal their arms and ammunition in preparation for the day when they mean to march against Senator Heflin...

...Thence it is only a step to giving expression to the character of the group to which one belongs...

...It differentiates him at once from diverse eminent Methodist clergymen, and it is not without a suggestion that restraining influences will be injected into Mr...

...Byron Darnton...

...He was safe as long as there was no possibility of verification, but failed miserably on Alfred, who was represented as resting at Camelot when he was actually traveling toward the magician...

...Priests may now return to their congregations, Mass may be said, doctrine may be expounded from the pulpit...

...Here is sufficient proof, if that were needed, of the crime which has disgraced the world during more than three years, and which has been so flagrantly disregarded in this country by those who would ordinarily be most ex-pected to champion the cause of justice...

...After referring to those who question the Catho- lic's right to live in this country, the Bishop associated the event of the hour with "the advent of the first discoverer of America...

...Anyone can say that the "na- tional minorities" principle was wrong...

...Ambiguity and vagueness and a positively reckless display of ignorance in many instances mark their work...

...The young son-- so runs the news item--threw the family funds into the fire...

...No one could Education feel, after reading this veteran educator's opinions, that he takes a rosy view of the subject...

...The country, then, must have been viciously deceived into believing that it was Mr...

...The substance of education, as they conceive it, is a mysterious medicine, bringing not knowledge or skill but gentility...

...It is a corol- lary which must be built slowly and painfully into our traditions by those whose vision is broad enough to see its need and whose minds are distinguished enough really to believe it...

...Where is the "core of idealism," where the fervent convic- tions, which once animated the party...

...He would like to develop efficient, well-lubricated machinery...

...Raskob did not pose as a new political oracle, but merely as a manager aware of the practical difficulties which campaigning has latterly involved...

...It is im- possible not to meet this recital with the disconcerted laugh whereby we mark our recognition of incongruity or excess...

...THE question of college standards in a democracy is broached in a recent interview given to the New York World by Franklin H. Giddings, Of professor emeritus of sociology at Democratic Columbia University...

...Or the queen of Sardinia...

...Death is death, though four times multiplied...

...The object was to establish a for Mexican modus vivendi through which restora- Peace tion of the religious ministry could be attained, and the virulence of the "Catholic revolt" appeased...

...Nevertheless he was mindful of the weather on previous occasions: "There are obstacles to be surmounted, differing inter- ests to be reconciled, some historical inheritances to be soothed, and rivalries which are legitimate to be confined to their proper channels...

...Hoover who forced the House vote on the debenture plan...

...COMMENT on the recent Democratic party dinner in Washington continues to be generally mournful in tone...

...and Haiti has caused us more trouble than the tariff...

...UNUSUAL interest attaches to the Mass which was said recently on Goat Island, close to the roar of Niagara, in commemoration of Father Mass at Louis Hennepin's sojourn near the falls, which he was the first to describe Niagara in detail...

...The prize for guessing must go, however, to the New York Evening Post, for publishing an article on Mr...

...POINCARE'S analysis is, no doubt, correct...

...And this is a corollary which the unled and unillumined will never supply, no matter how pointedly they are referred to as hewers of wood and drawers of water...

...Of course the Democrats have been united...

...For surely there is no room for pride in tactics which have been employed solely for the pur- pose of showing up the Republicans...

...and that equitable naval realignments ought to be expressed in clear terms which the "man in the street" can understand without the help of a glossary...

...According to this acute analyst, if workers respond to this appeal to the extent predicted, there "will be concentrated in this little man sufficient power to make him almost a despot...

...GENEALOGY still remains an absorbing subject...

...But to expect the answer from the manager--thrown in, as it were, with a solid financial contribution--is to be really quite optimistic...

...Orebaugh is wrong (and the truth is that not even one American, to say nothing about 2o,ooo,ooo, has ever taken such an oath, for the reason that there is no such oath to take, and if there were nobody would take it anyhow ) --why, obvi- ously, all of Mr...

...It symbolizes itself in the silk stockings and imitation furs of the shop girl, the expensive radio of the laborer, the country club of the small suburbanite, just as definitely as in the super- stitious pursuit of a higher education by the class whom Dr...

...AMATEUR theatricals, like back-lot baseball, are important criteria of civilization...

...Who administered it...

...He even indulged in both himself, to some extent...

...This can be under- stood best by drawing a parallel with possible situa- tions in United States foreign affairs...

...Obvi-ously it will be found much easier to regulate the finan- cial and armament problems bequeathed by the war than to effect a completely satisfactory settlement of territorial difficulties...

...Wisely enough the Society did not strain these so desirable relations by devoting itself to a series of purely pious plays...

...If this process of translation tends to be fixed on vulgar levels among us, the fault is not so much that of the vulgar minds as of the superior minds: the minds which should lead, illumine, define, and which fail in such large numbers to do so...

...the mother, distracted by his cries, left her year-old infant to drown in the bath tub, and upon discovering this second death, drowned herself in a pond...

...We have now really come to a point where a proclamation by the President that he is without homicidal inclina- tions becomes significant...

...Mark Twain, too, was interested in ancestors but became a mite discouraged when he found that his family tree looked uncommonly like a gibbet...

...It is a perti- nent question which we hope will be answered, because the great majority of contemporary Democratic sages are uninspiring enough...

...Does the Forum share his belief...

...Even Darwin could not disturb its study by his curious belief that if a man climbed his family Those tree too high he would find a monkey Family grinning at him...

...Or the king of Spain...

...Thus we find the New York Times opining editorially that "registration" is the main issue...

...Still more interesting is the rest of Mr...

...Orebaugh were writing for the Forum on any other subject--let us say, on the settlement of the interna- tional debt plan by the financial experts in Paris-- everybody concerned with his article, himself, the editor of the magazine publishing it, and his readers, would expect him to know the facts he was dealing with, and be able to express them with accuracy...

...One might even argue that it is more important to appoint inter- national commissions to study these two sore spots on the body politic than to attempt to halt further increases in naval armament...

...Orebaugh's doubts and fears and terrible imaginations become quite absurd...

...Talented young people--including a few whose youth is now only of the heart--shared in pre- senting a medley of comedy and drama which reflected an admirable spirit and approximated so closely to professional standards that the spectators might well have believed themselves on Broadway...

...that the naval expert is an excellent professional person but a source of confusion to the statesman...

...Considering this policy, Senator Robinson is correct when he declares "the Democrats in the Senate are almost equally united...

...Lowman's brigade...

...Well, one hopes earnestly that the sunshine will continue to pour and that the birds will never join a musicians' union...

...the father, enraged, killed him...

...But he would have regarded it as incredible that a nation which had established religious liberty by law, prece- dent and tradition should have grown so restive in the presence of its own sterling achievement...

...For, of course, if Mr...

...Because the parish is a group, and potentially an ideal one, it is odd enough that the opportunity to foster play-acting is so seldom grasped...

...For some reason or other, the country cannot be brought to look at Mexico even through a periscope...

...ure to be as secret as possible...

...Any attempt to revise these arrangements would be "fatal to peace," and several countries are actually thinking of such attempts...

...We accept the fact of modern society's commitment to the egalitarian creed, and feel that the dangers of its affirmation are at least less than the dangers of its denial...

...So the recently pub- Trees lished Your Family Tree, which comes out with the startling information that Calvin Coolidge can trace his ancestry back to Charlemagne, John D. Rockefeller to Henry I of France, and Secretary Wilbur to David I of Scotland, will doubtless find its own peculiar market...

...So LONG as this doctrine is fed to the masses of men, so long will they try to make it good upon those material levels which--according to the limits of their intelligence and culture--they understand and care for...

...To many it is evident that har- More mony was not effected either among the Sighs from diverse groups which have supported the Donkey the Jefferson-Jackson-Wilson program, or among the varieties of interpreta-tion which have been given to that program...

...Hoover in a statement commenting upon recent prohibition shootings and assur-We All ing the public that any case of ordnance Deplore misuse would be investigated by the Them proper authorities...

...These men know how to pile tragedy on tragedy with an unsophisticated and childlike gravity before which the most robust laughter finally trails into uneasy silence...

...What a world of nightmare l The Foreign Policy Association will soon issue a report on the Roman question which is a model of good journalism...

...WEEK BY WEEK G RATEFUL though one must be for the news that Church and state in Mexico have reached an accord, it is imperative to adjudge what has been accomplished realistically and impar-Maneuvering tially...

...M. Poincar6 sees the gravest danger to peace in the status of territorial arrangements made at the close of the war, when "national minorities" were the vogue...

...Its emphasis upon wholesome entertainment competently afforded was both pleasant and memorable...

...Thus surmised Mohammed in the olden days, observing that Spain still had a navy...

...EVERYBODY at the Pilgrim Dinner had a good time, including the non-Anglo-American diplomats...

...but having once been applied, it can be repudiated again only at the cost of a veritable uproar...

...We have always suffered a check in any inclination to go adventuring among our sires by giving thought to a trenchant and wise professor who thus addressed a classmate descended from Carroll of Carrollton: MONWEAL z47 i lu "You may have sprung from Carroll but the trouble with you is that you sprang too far...

...We hope that both the Forum and Mr...

...The urge among mediocrities and morons for a higher education Dr...

...Still more perilous, however, are the Austrian desire to seek Anschluss to Germany, and this last country's deep dissatisfaction with what has been done with the Dantzig corridor...

...For the "billions of dollars" which poor people now throw away must inevitably result in a world's champion financial force that will endow its superintendent with all the votes he wants...

...At present, in view of the circumstance that the citizenry keeps up its willingness to pay a good price for contraband Bourbon, it is really imperative to advise the citizenry to restrain itself...

...They have learned from life it- self how irrelevant and artificial can be those forms which the comic spirit imposes...

...Something of the difficulty which confronts The Commonweal, and indeed most Catholic journals and writers who attempt the necessary task of discussing subjects relating to the Catholic Church which are connected with other matters of general interest, is acutely exemplified by a brief consideration of these statements of Mr...

...AMERICAN students of world business will be grateful to Foreign Af[airs for securing and publishing an article by Prime Minister Poincar6, The summarizing frankly his impression of Opinions of the contemporary international situaPoincar6 tion...

...But before intelligent thinkers will wreathe them with laurel they must show that their union is for construc- tive party politics...

...and that is certainly one major function of the stage...

...Upon all this worthy diction, which included a dig at the unrestrained pacifist and the incorrigible militarist, Premier MacDonald beamed as warmly as ever the sun has beamed these days...

...This difficulty is that so few writers not of the Catholic faith seem to think it worth while to be accurate when dealing with that subject...

...This is true, beyond controversy, but there is a more perplexing truth behind...

...Tragedy in Stephen Leacock, in his moments of Roumania happier fooling, has written parody sequences in which death follows death with the grisly precision exhibited in the case of this Roumanian family...

...We would be very sorry to think that Mr...

...The most discouraging aspect of the situation is the con-tinued unwillingness of agencies of public opinion to countenance realities...

...The work done to promote agreement between nations---the League of Nations, the World Court, the Kellogg treaties, the report of the Experts' Committee--is seen as promis- ing to "create a new atmosphere in Europe...

...that any agreements which may be arrived at "should have not partial but world sanction...

...Intrigue and back- biting he, poor man, understood well enough...

...As regards them, we have not let the grass grow under our feet...

...Chesterton's poem --"that which was our trouble comes again out of the West...

...France may rightly be proud of its share in this achievement, we are told, and attention is called to the gradual reduction of the term of military service, to the finan- cial sacrifices made by millions of people, and to the resolve not to seek territorial aggrandizement...

...He waxed poetic over his first meeting with Ambassador Dawes: "Symbolizing the openness of our hearts and our purposes, sunshine poured through the windows of the great room in which we sat, and with it came the song of birds...

...Its declared policy is to furnish an arena for the debating of important subjects...

...How can you debate when fantasies are gravely stated as facts...

...Orebaugh's article, we ask him (or the Forum) please to answer the following questions: When and where have 2o,ooo,ooo American citi- zens ever "sworn fealty to the Vatican...

...Hoover's com-ment: "I hope that the communities along the border will do their best to help the Treasury in the system- atic war that is being carried on by international crim- inals against the laws of the United States...

...This is not intended as a piece of deploring...

...Loss, rage and despair do not cease to be their devastating selves though confined within the incredibly neat pattern of a single domestic d~b~.cle...