Week by Week
WEEK BY WEEK Cardinal Gasparri Resigns PERSISTENT rumors that Cardinal Pietro Gasparri has resigned as papal Secretary of State compel one to believe that this venerable dignitary has bowed to old...
...When the French argue that they want submarines for defense, they must be proceeding on the principle that the best defense is a paralyzing offense...
...But we so freely admire the American millionaires who give carillons to the communities and universities which they wish to favor, and so earnestly hope that they arc inaugurating a fashion which will soon prevail among all wealthy men, that the reduction of the duty on carillons, at least the heavier sets, has become one of those causes in which we are unreservedly willing to speak our very best...
...During 1917 the British very adroitly dissolved the empire and set up the "dominions...
...The Case of Mr...
...London Fogs AS IS usual in such cases, sunshine and balmy breezes are deserting the London Conference...
...He is well known in Europe as the comic-operetta sort of aristocrat, who looks back ardently upon the privileged glories of gentlemen and army officers in the golden days of the lamented empire...
...Meanwhile the Labor government, saved from dissolution by a majority of merely eight, announced in debate that questions of "naval policy" would not be discussed at the Conference...
...This remark was promptly resented by the Attorney-General, Dr...
...Of course Mr...
...It is likely that their request last fall for 70 percent as many 10,000-ton cruisers as the United States will have, which would give them a large-cruiser fleet almost as important as Great Britain's, was made principally for the bargaining power it would have in London...
...The problem needs to be faced openly and frankly, so that a coming generation may not be forced to bemoan the tragic short-sightedness of the present era...
...For the right sort of reader no better gift could be suggested, and of course more than one copy should be purchased by those folk of good-will who like to see literature regarding the Church in America available in public reading rooms and reference libraries...
...But after all, such action was well grounded in tradition, and understood everywhere...
...and to hew to the evident principles of canon law in securing workaday relations with civil governments...
...Particular consideration will certainly be given his suggestion that the prison working week, now from twenty-six to thirty-nine hours, should be increased to forty-four...
...More recently he was holding Congress rigid for the law by repressing the antidrought remarks of Senator Reed...
...Bishop Machebeuf We NOTICE that Willa Cather's Death Comes for the Archbishop continues to make new friends, and that a de luxe edition was much in evidence during the holidays...
...Indeed the only thing to be said against this plan is that it will be very expensive...
...In a word, the Quai d'Orsay sent out its usual conservative bulletin...
...Borah appeared on the scene...
...Wadsworth's ideas may not win a hearing so readily...
...Some hold that it should not attempt to be critical at all...
...which probably means that the rate will be kept at 40 percent instead of being lowered to 20, which the House bill indicated as proper...
...This is a comfortably long era, some frugal dozen details of which have now passed...
...of course he had valuable connections with labor, and of course to replace him with Mr...
...At any rate, the subject proposed for the Conference is obviously "naval strength...
...It is therefore a pleasure to say that the remaining copies are in the possession of Saint Thomas Seminary, 1300 South Steele Street, Denver, Colorado...
...Similarly appropriate is the clause which provides that martial law may be declared for the whole country if a frontier incident occurs...
...We hope that some of the ideas which he advanced will be embodied in the New York prison reform program, whenever that program does manage to get under way...
...Doubtless the book is a little hard to find, few librarians, even, possessing a copy...
...Now, for instance, the National Indian Congress is just about ready to meet at Lahore...
...Six weeks after the accident, the United States, unofficially, of course, asked Soviet Russia to conduct such a search...
...According to the Idaho Senator, the law has been ably and completely defined...
...The fact that Nobile eventually was rescued by a Swedish flyer, and that the rest of his party owed their salvation to a Russian ice-breaker, does not seem to be entirely irrelevant...
...That does not seem too inhuman a schedule...
...Offered Without Comment IN NOVEMBER, Ben Eilson flew from Alaska to the rescue of a stranded ship...
...Carillons on Schedule WHAT will happen to the carillon rate when the sundries schedule of the tariff bill comes up for consideration shortly is a development which will be awaited with the deepest interest by Mr...
...The Japa- Offered nese have prepared very carefully for without the Conference, and are now in a favor- Comment able position to bargain...
...Prison Industry Of SPECIAL interest at the hearing of the New York State Crime Commission was the report of Mr...
...It is now of some point to remember that when word came that Nobile was down in the Arctic, the Italian government immediately requested that Sweden and Russia cooperate in the search it was organizing...
...It seems indisputable that students who are being prepared for "leadership" in ever so many ways ought also to be taught how to take a part in normal parish life-to understand what the relationship between clergy and laity should ideally be, and how to participate with the intelligence of educated persons in liturgical and social activities...
...The English voter is interested in wages and unemployment, in better international relations and in other matters which the partizans of Mr...
...MacDonald has evidently been reading Burke and agreeing that, though "there are sometimes explosions of eloquence which surpass Greece and Rome in the days of their greatest pride, nevertheless a man will accomplish more with figures of arithmetic than with figures of speech...
...Meanwhile the historian of culture has likewise made his bow, professing to examine literature for the information it gives regarding the experience and spirit of a people...
...There remained four basic diplomatic problems: to assure the political independence of the Holy See by settling the Roman question...
...This was a post demanding unusual care and patience...
...Mayor, half a dozen other philanthropists and ourselves...
...It is therefore interesting to note that the Swiss prize for literature, a coveted yearly award, has just been conferred on Nadler...
...All this protest was really beside the point, failing to comprehend as it did the cosmic spirit of fun which sometimes characterizes Mr...
...It will not be abolished at the present Conference...
...But let us hope, at any rate, that during the last six months the force of this objection has been lost...
...Unless all signs fail, the case is one in which no true Briton will feel justified in putting his faith in subtraction...
...A note to the librarian there and a check for $3.50 will bring a copy...
...Everybody knows what it is...
...Combining the qualities of the scholar and the diplomat, he will be remembered not merely as the peer of the great statesmen of his time but also as the one who, more than anybody else, is responsible for the codification of canon law-certainly one of the outstanding ecclesiastical achievements of recent centuries...
...This was really not bad as humor, but it paled into insignificance when Mr...
...Some time afterward the present concordat with Bavaria was signed...
...Limit The Submarines THE effect of Italy's decision to stand with America and England for abolition of the submarine has been more than balanced by the way in which Japan has emphasized the value which it places on this weapon...
...John P. McLaughlin, was a simple sort of party discipline...
...That he should be dissatisfied with the agents operating in New York or Detroit is understandable though not important...
...In all probability inquiry at other colleges would reveal similar conditions...
...So skilfully was neutrality maintained and so deeply was the unceasing effort of the Papacy to advance the cause of peace appreciated that when hostilities were finally ended the prestige of the Vatican had grown immeasurably...
...Borah and Enforcement SENATORIAL mirth was as luscious an addition to Yuletide fare as any goose stuffed with oysters and sage...
...The Japanese had just finished conveying the impression that they were heartily in favor of paring down navies to as near nothing as possible when the French sent an official declaration which, though leaving plenty of work for experts in deciphering diplomatic codes, indicated that they desire everything in the way of a fleet they now have, and that submarines are dear to the Gallic soul...
...Bok, Dr...
...MacDonald have discussed with fervent skill, but he remains committed to the belief that the centre of the dominions is India...
...Literature and History LITERARY history is a term for which there are varying definitions...
...What he now seeks, however, is a different variety of chief executive, a reformed Cabinet, a new Enforcement Commission and a purified Congress...
...First came Senator W. J. Harris, Alabaman, who not only denounced the declaration of Federal judge P. J. Mc-Cormick that searching houses without warrants was reprehensible illegality, but also went on to say the nation was having a Merry Christmas "because of the salutary effect of the very general observance of the Eighteenth Amendment, despite its violation by a small group...
...At least one positive result may, however, be safely claimed to have followed from Nadler's work...
...Observers seem to think that, while the majority of native leaders will be more restrained than Gandhi in demanding home rule, there may be a considerable effort to get further along that road...
...Doran and crowds of other folk...
...But the sage from Idaho is nothing if not revolutionary...
...During 1917 he went to Germany as apostolic delegate to Bavaria and there submitted the celebrated Vatican peace proposals, which the dilatory action of the German Chancelor and other facors robbed of a chance for success...
...Oftedal THE Oftedal appointment is doomed, but not forgotten...
...We should like to spare him this, for he has had already more than his share of trouble and misfortune where Senator Hiram Johnson is concerned...
...A hundred years or so, Lord Birkenhead surmised, would have to pass before the cities on the Ganges could properly rule themselves...
...It is likewise generally felt that the attitude of Mr...
...Indeed, the bill seems inconsistent only in its omissions...
...Replying to many letters of protest on the existing rate, Senator Smoot said recently that in his opinion American carillons can be made quite as good, even in the larger sizes, as the European...
...How large is the Catholic student body in secular colleges ? Are the religious training and guidance adequate in either case...
...WHILE the news that Cardinal Eugenio Pacelli will succeed Cardinal Gasparri has not been officially confirmed at the present writing, it is certain that His Eminence has left Germany definitely...
...For an industry which exists only sporadically in the United States, the carillon business seems to be obtaining some exceedingly fat concessions...
...Has the public realized, however, the excellent qualities of the book (Father Howlett's Life of Bishop Machebeuf) from which Miss Cather derived so much of her material and inspiration...
...In war the submarine's merit is that it is a great offensive weapon, one of the greatest of offensive weapons...
...India Astir IT HAS long since been announced that foreign policy is the Labor party's dangerous cliff...
...at the same time they would vary the prison routine, and the value of that is easily understood, since one of the principal causes of prison unrest has been sheer boredom...
...It is no secret that a measurable proportion of this very heartening success has been greatly due to the personal genius of Cardinal Gasparri...
...G. K. Wadsworth, in charge of the Division of Prison Industries...
...These thoughts are suggested by the fact that a recent survey of Harvard College reveals a Catholic student body of 695-the third largest confessional group in the institution...
...in peace it is of little value, even for patrol work...
...to prepare the way for possible reunion with the schismatic Churches of the East...
...it is the same which the average citizen is expected to follow, and we can understand that the extra leisure which we all hope the average citizen will get some day may not figure very largely in the dreams of the man in prison...
...MacDonald's Cabinet has added not a little oil to the wheels of Indian sentiment...
...The great war was in progress at the time, necessitating extreme care lest the Church incur accusations of partizanship...
...Indeed, a veritable school of "Catholic literary study" has developed, manifesting its prowess in such highly respected publications as the annual of the Gorresgesell-schaft...
...He was Wilkins's pilot on that grand flight from Alaska to Spitzbergen which Amundsen called the most important ever made, and again on the flights over Graham Land which resulted in some of the greatest discoveries recorded in the Antarctic...
...The removal of Senator Johnson's protege, Mr...
...McLaughlin was efficient in his post...
...Here is given the narrative of two representative and nevertheless wholly individual missionary pioneers...
...to find the right basis for cooperation with the League of Nations...
...WEEK BY WEEK Cardinal Gasparri Resigns PERSISTENT rumors that Cardinal Pietro Gasparri has resigned as papal Secretary of State compel one to believe that this venerable dignitary has bowed to old age and increasing weariness...
...But in most places so little is done for these men and women, and they find themselves so definitely under a dual shadow, that many of them acquire what virtually amounts to an "inferiority complex" regarding religion...
...In so far as Bombay and Bengal were concerned, however, the result was merely a declaration that the East was not yet ready for self-government...
...He did not return, and everything indicated that he was down Offered somewhere on the Siberian coast...
...Certainly that is the purpose of his intention to reestablish the flogging of delinquent soldiers...
...The traditional home of Lutheranism had regulated its affairs with the Vatican in a manner agreeable to both parties...
...This may help to introduce him to circles which assuredly should have been long since familiar with his characteristic method and his point of view, but which remain, to the present, unfortunately, totally ignorant as to both...
...That is all as it should be...
...It need not be said that The Commonweal will return, if the news warrants, to the discussion of this significant event...
...To what extent is he or she attending institutions of learning conducted under professedly religious auspices...
...But other of Mr...
...flogging for the rank and file, and dueling for the gentlemen, are surely part of one system, and work toward one purpose...
...The retirement of Cardinal Gasparri means not merely the end of one stage in the progress of the Church on earth, but also the acquiescence, to years and the infirmities they bring, of a most remarkable man...
...Even Senator Johnson may feel that his revenge has turned out to be altogether too great and hilarious...
...Despite these qualifications and provisos, however, the outlook remains quite favorable...
...We have felt, and shall continue to feel, that if the navies of the world are to be for defense only, the submarine must go...
...It should provide, in case of enactment, that the War Minister would inaugurate the new code by giving the first lashes, and making the first challenge...
...Gradually the way was prepared for the concordat with Prussia, signed during June of 1929 and constituting one of the most memorable documents in the modern papal archives...
...In 1920 Monsignor Pacelli was made nuncio to the German republic...
...that much is certain, but is there any reason why it cannot be limited ? As the Manchester Guardian points out, "If submarines remain unlimited, then the small surface craft needed to hunt them down must remain unlimited, and if these remain unlimited, then larger and ever larger craft must remain unlimited...
...From a British point of view, the topic must be discussed with real adroitness, because otherwise the end of the present ministry would be as inevitable as the passing of Christmas...
...and we think that few volumes of Catholic history in the United States have so much appeal or beauty...
...Some of them even went on to declare that enforcement had been acting under "unceasing pressure" from the President...
...But "it will never be enforced with the present personnel, from top to bottom...
...During the last twenty years Cardinal Pacelli has been entrusted with several of the most important papal diplomatic missions...
...Alf Oftedal, whose only recommendations were that he was liked by the Anti-saloon League, and had shared in the counsels of Mabel Walker Willebrandt, was not altogether in keeping with the Hooverian legend of "the best man for the job...
...And in the end it may well be that, like Mark Twain or Josh Billings, he is really clamoring for a new people and an altered race...
...The Imperial Code IT IS not so strange that the Hungarian Minister of War, Julius Gombos, should have included obligatory dueling in his new military code as that the bill establishing that code should have any chance of being passed...
...Thus there is brought to a close one of the great diplomatic careers of modern times...
...For Minister Gombos has made fantastic statements before, as president of the Awakening Magyars, the irredentist and Anti-Semitic organization...
...He recommends that apprenticeship courses be created "with involved additional personnel and equipment, in some instances quite apart and in addition to endeavors of productive industry...
...It was without big news for, except Byrd, Eilson has Comment done as much as any man since the war in the exploration of the Polar regions...
...A more auspicious choice could hardly have been made...
...For some reason or other, a Labor government eventually proves unable to sustain that belief in other parts of the world...
...Some may hold that it is not an important matter, on the principle that a man who can afford to make a present of a set of carillons worth $75,000 or more can afford to enrich the government with an extra ten or fifteen thousand in revenue...
...All were approached with so much tact and intelligence that, despite the outbreak of religious antagonism in Russia and Mexico, the period abides as one of the most fortunate epochs in the history of the Church...
...That the man selected for collector of internal revenue in San Francisco should turn out to be a registered voter of Maryland is the most fantastic turn of the ill-luck which has been pursuing President Hoover since March, and it must be the cause of more embarrassment than all the troubles in Haiti, or anywhere else...
...Such a one is Joseph Nadler, author of a monumental history of German literature which classifies the material according to the different tribes or races which produced it...
...Thus would the dignity of the ministry be upheld...
...Few modern works in this field have been so warmly debated, so extensively imitated or so resolutely opposed...
...Such courses would really help to prepare the men for their return to freedom...
...A few blind attempts were made to reach him from Alaska, but anything like an intensive search, combining dog sleds, planes from the Siberian mainland and ice-breakers (several of which were in the vicinity) was not tried...
...When Benedict XV ascended the throne of Peter, he immediately gave Cardinal Gasparri, his associate under Cardinal Rampolla, charge of the affairs of state...
...others believe that the criticism should be limited to purely aesthetic matters...
...He showed that it is unfair to assert that German literature is all of one stamp or that the Catholic Teutonic peoples have been immemoriably silent...
...What Shall Be Done MUCH has been said regarding the Catholic college student, but it is still doubtful if any adequate understanding of the problem has been gained...
...Borah...
...He is not stepping out of character when, as War Minister, he decides that the way to create the proper martial and nationalistic spirit in his country is to revive the code of those days...
...It is out of all proportion to his complaint...
...A year or so ago that gentleman was vigorously endorsing Mr Hoover on the ground that in his hands both the country and Vol-steadism would be safe...
Vol. 11 • January 1930 • No. 10
