Week by Week
WEEK BY WEEK Mapping a Blind Alley GROWING conviction that Mr. Hoover's energies have been absorbed in a stubborn wrestling bout with a recalcitrant Congress has much to feed on these days. He...
...It is not always easy to turn from one part of a missal to another, and the reference work required by some editions is almost stupendous...
...That they work detrimentally to the large numbers who regard their occupations as reasonably permanent is an unfortunate situation but one not yet easily curable...
...Two enterprising young priests of the St...
...a producer who breaks the agreement is to be barred from selling his tickets through any bonded agency...
...He called for the abolition of gate receipts, professional coaches, subsidies, and (we judge) even cast a dynamitic eye upon the stadium...
...Though several of the excuses they proffer will hardly bear analysis, one is doubtless authentic and important...
...The situation is now quite different from the customary antipathy between a President and his Congress...
...It is when bad plays and bad service makes for bad business that they speak of reform...
...Bernarr Mac-Fadden, he would doubtless be reposing, in the form of several smithereens, under an assault of fame as weird, as banal and as overwhelming as a crowd of Holy Rollers catapulted over the edge of an unsuspected cliff...
...Rivers simply will wind to the sea...
...Modern college football is a distinct creation...
...the Senate and House are distributive, manifesting the innumerable variants of sectional opinion...
...It is when plays are failing left and right that producers are most actively interested in giving the public a square deal...
...It was born of a clear-cut campaign promise to secure the facts regarding the actual working out of the Eighteenth Amendment...
...Millions will gobble it up and ask for more...
...The human universe is a marvelous, incomprehensible unit...
...And during recent years so much has been neglected that is quite as important as research into nature that the outlook is not too hopeful...
...With much of this we are in complete agreement...
...Inquiries may be directed to the Leaflet Missal, 244 Dayton Avenue, St...
...We hold it far wiser to consider paying athletes as coaches are paid...
...Now finally it has been made clear, in a talk between Mr...
...It Is inevitable that after Trust Story, Physical Culture, the Graphic and Beautiful Womanhood we must get Bernarr himself...
...It is a drastic remedy for the "vicious circle" which hinges on flask-carrying alumni, but the point is that it might eventually make all things square...
...that it is weak or temporary, he denies...
...Very little of the dictator's program has been carried out...
...In short, the trouble is that science has been praised or blamed for things with which homo sapiens must be charged...
...Science is one form of the use of reason, and it is impossible to believe that reason was intended to lie idle...
...This would, to be sure, necessitate curtailing a little the rents which colleges are now charging for the ground upon which football is played, but after all a virtuous game would be worth a nickel or two...
...At present we seem to be witnessing a President who has lost his interest in Congress...
...He will speak of it, with all the other means for insuring peace: the World Court, the Naval Disarmament conferences, the Kellogg pact and the Locarno treaties, but he will not suggest that we join it...
...Chivalry is not yet a myth (parenthetically such a designation controverts the truth) but in America it is fast taking its place with the buffalo...
...A little pamphlet contains the text of a given Mass in translation, and incorporates a few brief notes...
...You can simply abolish it-if you can...
...And so the Senate has not only done what it wanted about federal judgeship appointees and the international bank, but has plunged Washington into a prohibition turmoil which the President, however successfully he may preserve his equanimity, can hardly view with pleasure, and which has scant prospects of precipitating anything concrete...
...IF MUCH credence is not placed in reports from Spain that Primo de Rivera will shortly establish a new Parliament, composed of a single house, and then resign, it is not because we mistake in the Spanish Dictator another Mussolini, bent on remaining in power for the rest of his days...
...We hope that this is sufficient to relieve some of our contemporaries whose pleasure in the prospect of a visit from the General was tempered by uneasiness that one of the chief sponsors of the League of Nations should be commemorating its tenth anniversary, not at Geneva, but in the most important of the non-member countries...
...If a choice must be made between the three volumes, our hats are off to the one by Clement Wood...
...That she does win this consideration in many cases is proof of a greater chivalry than is evidenced by men arising at her entrance or giving her a seat in the subway...
...Woman's Economic Lot COMPLETING a survey of women's position in industry, Miss Agnes L. Paterson, assistant director of the Women's Bureau of the Department of Labor, complains that their lot is growing harder...
...General Smuts WE WELCOME General Smuts, whose influence may wane from time to time in his own country, but grows steadily greater upon the rest of the world...
...It is a dismal prospect which he opens up, for the Balfour Declaration will certainly not be withdrawn...
...Woman herself, with her demand for equality, and modern conditions of transportation tend more and more to leaven man's treatment of her...
...married women often require concessions which are made necessary by the exigencies of their wedded state...
...An executive must always cling to a central, nation-minded program...
...The dictator may as well have resigned after the surrender of Abdel-Krim in 1926 as at present...
...Paul archdiocese have therefore devised a "leaflet missal" which seems to answer a genuine need...
...Revolutions are frequent, and although they never amount to more than rather violent demonstrations, they serve to indicate the country's uneasiness...
...You cannot develop only one part of it and expect the whole to be in good condition...
...The most important decision taken by the Historical Association was to begin publishing annually a series of volumes embodying source-material...
...and that the Creator's universe is foolproof enough to prevent human tinkering with the cosmic foundations...
...Eventually, we have no doubt, de Rivera will act as he promises and as he has promised ever since he assumed control in Spain...
...He held Dr...
...Laugh if you like...
...There were many fine addresses by members on topics which constitute part of the bridge between Saint Thomas and the moderns...
...There are 314 pages precisely like the following: "Is it any wonder that we hail such a David as of more importance than the most astute vendor of oil or rubber, or even as a greater contributor to human happiness than the man who contrives to rein electricity...
...Robert A. Millikan cheered his numerous fellows recently convened at Des Moines, Iowa...
...The development of the idea is, therefore, apparent and disturbing...
...Plain sin is humanity's tragic weakness, which many a numbskull in our time has tried to circumvent with a mere denial...
...He allowed the tariff to ride in order to get an arm free for administrative jobs which called for action...
...To prevent the ravages and evil after-effects of this disease it was merely necessary, he said, to stamp out the disease...
...This means that only those aspects of the subject will be examined which the drys wish to make topics of conversation...
...The New York World declares that his plan "is not so preposterous as it seems...
...Monsignor James Hugh Ryan, rector of the University, was elected president of the first Association...
...The plan provides that agencies shall not be permitted to purchase large blocks of tickets weeks ahead of time...
...To resign now will be to admit what many have suspected, that he cannot begin it...
...Fundamentally, of course, the difficulty is that woman wishes both to eat and to have her cake...
...Few living men have contributed so much toward the enligntenment of our times...
...That reposes intimately upon the fundamental duality of American politics...
...but we must realize how ominous it is that humanity still fondles those agents for reasons of covetousness or pride...
...But though many have worked hard to popularize the liturgy, throngs of people still do not follow so much as a prayer...
...Non-Financial Football THE goal post continues to be a topic for discussion, even though the Carnegie Report did come out...
...For what interest we may have in the outlawry of war, in the progress of the backward races, and the rights of minorities, he is to be thanked at least as much as anyone...
...The majority of employed women are at a great disadvantage," she concludes, "either because the needs of their families are so great that they do not dare to bargain about a job for fear of losing out altogether, or because they are too young and inexperienced to choose or bargain among the jobs available...
...Hoover's Law Enforcement Commission following this example...
...Will De Rivera Resign...
...that a substantial number of desirable tickets shall be kept at the box-offices...
...It was announced that the initial book, edited by Leo Francis Stock, would contain the diplomatic correspondence between the United States and the Vatican...
...But the tragic fact is that this bottomless stupidity and unlimited blather is an index to popular American civilization...
...What can insure the acceptance of this plan, or a similar one, is a continuation of the conditions which created it...
...the woman who accepts economic dependence on the male is unconcerned about industrial equality, and for her chivalry remains a pleasurable reminder of romance which she would like to see preserved...
...The Catholic University acted as host, and was apparently saturated with oratory of a very superior kind...
...Poor Wood was once a poet, and can still sling a wicked metaphor...
...The Uses of Adversity HARD times on Broadway have had this effect: that a third of New York's theatrical producers have pledged themselves to work among their colleagues for acceptance of a plan which would eliminate the worst features of ticket scalping...
...And if it were not for the brawny build and incomparable nerve of Mr...
...Nobody can blame science for having unearthed energies which can be used as dreadful agents of destruction...
...Professor Francis J. Tschan, of Pennsylvania State College, was chosen to lead the second...
...For years a French Commission studied agriculture, and the result was not so much as a single remedial statute...
...There is no doubt that these conditions exist...
...But it is the only hope and the men who see this, like Dr...
...Education is as undernourished as it was seven years ago, and the peseta is wobbly...
...And very much more applicable to the male...
...Wickersham and Senator Jones, that the Commission will not consider prohibition as a "question of national policy...
...GOVERNMENT through commissions is a hazardous thing at best...
...It is not the fact that work is standardized that matters (what could have been more mechanical than the labor of an old Spanish peasant...
...Now, after an open debate in the Chamber, the Tardieu ministry has obtained sizable appropriations for relief and has put through a sensible program...
...But we cannot be very optimistic while that charge remains so prominently on the calendar of human conduct...
...At least the average business woman, however vociferously she may deny it, does...
...History and Thought IT WAS an excellent idea to convene both the American Catholic Philosophical Association and the American Catholic Historical Association at the same time and place...
...that research and discovery were not equipping men with new instruments of destruction but were outfitting the workers for peace with new conditions: that science may have routinized labor to some extent, but that it has abolished the more frightful drudgery of olden times...
...Pure literary gold from the first letter to the last, it is the sublime text for the most awe-inspiring of rituals...
...We suggest that the "leaflet missal" should meet with a cordial welcome in places where the faithful need introduction to the liturgy, and where continued use will gradually train many for proper understanding of the missal itself...
...We believe it has succeeded better in international affairs, which public opinion affects only relatively, than in domestic business...
...A ticket agency which violates the rules is to be boycotted and its bond forfeited...
...They are at the base of all economic history...
...Popular Liturgy IF ALL Catholics used the missal it would be far and away the most popular book in existence...
...Father John F. McCormick, S. J., summarized both matters well in his address as retiring president, by saying that not "all our thinking had been done for us at the end of the thirteenth century," and that "recovery of what Scholasticism actually is" must be achieved "through research and rediscovery...
...It is needless to add that the idea has the endorsement of the ordinary...
...Day wants...
...Then it was more or less adroitly changed into a body charged with examining the public attitude toward all law, on the curious assumptions that disobedience to one statute meant indifference to all and that selling a quart of liquor can be bracketed with murder under the general heading of crime...
...To the philosophers, two things seemed of major importance: to emphasize that awareness of modern science and philosophic discovery which is one of the qualities of Neo-Scholasticism, and to commemorate the instruction given in Aeterni Patris, Pope Leo's encyclical, now fifty years old...
...But the climax arrives with this comment on the one-time MacFadden poverty and the present MacFadden success: "The stone that was rejected for the foundation is become the corner-stone of the temple...
...Judah L. Magnes, are the men to trust in these days...
...Millikan's Optimism DOUSING science with abundant praise, Dr...
...MEANWHILE she should not rely on chivalry which Miss Paterson bewails as "another age-worn theoretical myth...
...These are factors which employers consciously or instinctively consider...
...If Mr...
...The throne is still weak...
...Hoover backs up in this overcautious fashion, he will sooner or later end by being the office boy...
...and ever since the Senate has been tugging, like the proverbial calf, to get more rope...
...A very revolutionary proposal was advanced in debate recently by President Day of Union College...
...This is the theatre-goers' inning on Broadway, and we hope they make the most of it...
...but that the forces which render leisure creative have not been developed...
...Although he is so largely responsible for the founding of the League of Nations, his first statement upon arrival was to assure us that he is not here to plead our membership in it...
...And it should be...
...For there has been issued not one MacFadden campaign biography, but three...
...The editing has been carefully done, the format is very practical, and the price is low...
...that all agencies shall be bonded never to charge more for tickets than $.75 over the box-office price, and that a Manager's Bureau to police the plan shall be established...
...Photographs reveal the muscular contours of the great man himself, and the "perfect figure" once boasted by his spouse-MacFadden at twenty-one, MacFadden at his office desk, MacFadden unbending at play...
...The Illustrious Bernarr THOUGH some men have greatness thrust upon them, few are beset with it in carload lots...
...The United Arabs CAPTAIN R. G. Canning's report on Palestine is impressive because he insists upon the complete unity of the Arab population, Moslem and The Christian, Bedouin and Effendi, to defeat the Balfour Declaration, and "the Arabs intentions of politically-minded Zionists...
...Nor is he blind to the charming inconsistency which leads a woman to proclaim the desire to be treated exactly as a man while using her feminine resources to win special consideration for herself as a woman...
...Primo de Rivera has hardly begun his job...
...There is a hope for peace, we believe, despite the present Arab hostility which Captain Canning reports, if the Jews can give and are willing to give substantial proof that their aspirations are not national, and if English officials can give a new interpretation to the Balfour Declarationan interpretation which will take the sting out of it...
...On the other hand, something of a double standard in employment and payment of the two sexes does exist...
...England's reputation for justice is still considerable, but is being dissipated by politicians and "unversed judges...
...Single women are very frequently job holders merely to fill the gap between school and marital duties...
...You cannot change it into the kind of sport Dr...
...Is Mr...
...But at this distance from the scene it does not appear that the peace and welfare of the country are any more certain today than they were seven years ago, or than they have been at any time during these seven years, excepting only that the Riffian war is over...
...Fair enough, but it is a safe bet that we shall hear no more of this if by some miracle interest in the theatre should pick up overnight...
...It is the world's chance to get all the information...
...Hoover appears very like a fisherman who started out to play with a big trout, and then suddenly grew absorbed in the scenery...
...That this unity is of recent origin, he admits...
...Our only doubt arises not out of a criticism of the laboratory but out of other considerations entirely...
...Ideally speaking, the debate is solved by adroit presidential leadership, which probably demands specifically political genius...
...However, woman may be consoled by recognizing the facts that her progress in almost every field of industry during the past two decades has been phenomenal and that a complete economic readjustment to her new position is still to be effected...
...He agrees with all other authoritative observers on the point that Arab resentment against the Jew is not racial, not religious, but political, and disagrees with some by saying that the Arabs still trust in the British public, if not in British officialdom...
...Personally we believe that the proposal is very much like the statement of an old family doctor on the subject of small-pox...
...The text is the purest literary incense, sprinkled with solid chunks of information regarding the MacFadden optimism and the MacFadden recipe for ice cream...
...Paul, Minnesota...
Vol. 11 • January 1930 • No. 11
