Week by Week

...We doubt that the public, generally, was at all frightened during the unpleasantly remembered days of last October, and we doubt that the public, generally, is frightened now...

...there has been rioting in some of the outlying colonies...

...So the trouble between the school and the Count was, after all, merely one of lack of definition...

...Thomas in November] rather than demand that they accept our party stand and program...

...WEEK BY WEEK The Position of France THE Franco-Italian negotiations for a preliminary naval understanding have broken down, France having rejected Italy's proposal of naval parity, which was a principal point in Italy's brief...

...There was just one fairly amusing thread in the discussion...

...Forms of government turn republican only when the stupidity of a ruling house makes citizens worry about them...

...It seems to envisage political rather than economic necessities and even to indicate that these last are somewhat beyond the government's reach...

...nothing has been done, and the most recent reports are alarming, to say the least...

...What was Socialistic about them was well concealed...

...Then down to the luncheon perhaps through expediency or perhaps through sheer amiability, he went and the peace pipes were smoked...

...There are many who doubt the efficacy of this resurrected method...

...There is little doubt, however, that the present boss of the Kremlin is reverting to the tactics of Lenin...

...and the small amount of productive recession in basic enterprises...

...Most of the trouble, obviously, can be attributed to the Arabs...

...Italy had made it clear that she would accept any limit on tonnage that France considered necessary for her defense, but the French are sticking to their point that with coast lines on three seas and their overseas possessions, they need a greater naval power than Italy...

...It looks pretty much like a theory which nobody will be able to test until as many summers as there are fingers on one hand have rolled by...

...Consequently the Rand School of Social Science was quick in offering its patronage to the Count's lecture but the Hungarian revolutionary exile was not equally anxious to be tarred with its, or any, political stick...

...Like many other students of the problem, he seemed most concerned over the displacement of men by machines, and gave as a pertinent instance the supplanting of theatre musicians by the talkies...

...The time has passed rapidly...

...For as one of the members of the war Cabinet responsible for the Balfour Declaration, he should have something interesting to say...

...Curiously enough Mr...

...His confrere of Chicago, Professor John Hopkins, reminded us all that American civilization will be stagnant while 95 percent of the wealth is in the hands of 5 percent of the people...

...The speakers emphasized diverse aspects of Catholic action in the United States, laying stress both upon what has been accomplished and upon what remains to be done...

...They are aware, however, that it may be a more serious business for others, and have declared that they will place no obstacles in the way of agreement between powers unwilling to wait for that general conference which is still two stages removed from London...

...The Reverend George B. Ford, Catholic chaplain at Columbia University, was primarily responsible for the occasion's success...

...White-collar jobs are slightly harder to find, and various city agencies we have been in touch with list unusually large numbers of unplaced applicants...

...His speeches were evidently inspired by the same principles that actuate any reform candidate...

...This decision means, as Mr...

...For the French government, even the London conference is merely an attempt to get ready for the meeting of the Preparatory Commission at Geneva, which in turn is to lay the foundations for a still later meeting on disarmament in which land and air forces will be considered as well as navies...

...Who's Nervous ? THE lean years are by no means immediately ahead of us-on this point all the greatest figures in industry and commerce are agreed...

...and we certainly hope that the future happiness of the royal pair will symbolize the prosperity and peace of the Italian nation...

...Indeed the authorities have so frequently assured the public that American business is sound that many persons who never dreamed it was otherwise have begun to worry about it...

...She would like it better if limitation were to be according to general tonnage rather than according to classes of ships...

...It was recalled that the doctrine of the Church is venerable, having passed through numberless attacks fomented by ideologies quite like specifically modern philosophies...

...Obviously, therefore, good government is not to be expected of the rich...

...John Haynes Holmes, who was no doubt more zealous than was desired when he advocated a clean-cut compromise of principle so that the party might enrol the thousands of independents whose votes went to the Socialist candidate...

...The phenomenon is general and part of our machine age...

...This need may be too unimportant to be supplied but the painstaking student of political science cannot be blamed for seeking an answer to the question, When is a Socialist not a Socialist...

...What may be needed in Palestine is a new personnel for the administration...

...Its slowness, and above all its seeming inability to come to grips with the situation is not good for the Palestinian nerves...

...Walter Duranty has reported to the New York Times, a repetition of Lenin's action in 1923, which abolished by one stroke the opportunistic concessions made during the two previous years to private capitalistic enterprise...

...The only way out seems to be an invitation to Mussolini or Primo de Rivera...

...Thomas's speeches while campaigning for the mayorality of the City of New York and his statements during the maneuvers to revise his party's policies so that independent voters might swear permanent allegiance to it, reveals more of the humor of the most recent Karolyi affair...

...Apparently things have changed...

...And this happy silence is a sufficient guarantee, for us at least, that reading will still be a major pastime in A.D...

...Experience with faculty meetings leads us to believe that this expedient would not merely be precarious but that it would be bitterly resented by the other professors...

...The murderous intent of a revolutionary in Brussels was forgotten, and everything in the way of vivas, uniforms and confetti was generously supplied...

...Such a commission would be an advertisement to the world that Britain has not weakened in a task to which her honor is pledged," said this letter, "and at the same time an assurance to Jews and Arabs alike that any proven defects in the present system of government will be made good...

...THE arrival of the troops four months ago meant only that major disturbances, for the time being, were at an end...

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...Speaking at a meeting of the executive council of the American Federation of Labor, President William Green announced plans for a detailed survey of the situation...

...Thomas who suggested that "there may be groups within labor and one group of intellectuals that we should invite for a conference to talk over this situation [the situation being the large number of votes polled by Mr...

...Democracy Under Fire PROPAGANDA has been under fire at Rollins College, Florida, while diverse experts have investigated our monstrous mass rule...

...Thomas, consciously or unconsciously, adopted it during his campaign...

...Or shall we come back, after all, to the clergy...

...Changes in Palestine ONE of these days we hope that General Smuts will jettison his program of speeches on pacts, treaties and the dawn of peace long enough to comment on the situation in Palestine...

...This year's meeting appears to have been an exceptionally successful one...

...Our hope is that conditions will change gradually and benignly...

...That is why we are temerarious enough to invite him to speak his mind at this time when everyone seems willing to push aside the coffee cups, and proclaim what should be done for peace in that far-off land...

...Nevertheless it is not difficult to foresee many an hour of stress for Humbert...

...Industry would doubtless give at least one of its socks for some vast new enterprise able to stabilize the labor market...

...The colonies of Zion are apprehensive...

...There is no need to believe that the future cannot see an adjustment of these differences, especially when it is remembered that the French attitude all fall has been one of watchful waiting, and that she has left open possible avenues of retreat, should future developments warrant it...

...the relative stability of commodity prices, despite a considerable cheapening of money...

...But a respite had been provided, and it was hoped that the opportunity could be taken to adjust political differences at the root of the troubles...

...Such an assurance will certainly not be superfluous...

...In a situation of this sort, having the right officials is worth five commissions and ten armies...

...But the Arabs think they have a grievance, and England has done nothing in four months to modify it, if it does exist, or to prove to them that it does not...

...But how steadily the king of Italy is being pushed into a position of arbiter between Fascismo and other movements is obvious even from the emphasis which the Papacy is placing upon cordial relations with the royal family...

...When Professor Bruce, of Dartmouth College, declared, "It is my belief that popular government is government by mediocrity," he left us wondering just a little as to what kind of government would not be mediocre...

...Employment is the index which has been most anxiously observed, and one is led to believe that there has been no marked fluctuation directly traceable to new conditions...

...Thomas's known probity for him to seek followers by a pretended abandonment of the more unpopular tenets of Socialism...

...The Pot Calls the Kettle THE boycotted lecture and the conciliatory luncheon which followed the visit of Count Karolyi to the United States showed some aspects of a comedy of errors...

...So far the only business about which we have not been reassured by twenty different experts in twenty separate states is the book business...

...It is in consonance for him to redefine exactly what principles he would expect to carry over into the formation of a new party, whether it is to be known as Socialist or by any other name...

...He was promptly supported by Dr...

...Its realization must depend largely on the tact, the courage and the popularity of the royal family...

...It will be interesting to see just how large a percentage of the 3,000,000 jobless citizens of the country can trace their woes to this source...

...Both sides are busy forming illegal political and defense societies...

...Someone is nervous...

...The present Commission of Inquiry, with its limited powers to inquire into specific matters, has exasperated more than it has conciliated the quarreling forces...

...With Lloyd-George and Lord Balfour, General Smuts recently signed a letter which urged the appointment of an authoritative commission to conduct a searching inquiry into all the questions of policy and administration connected with the Mandate...

...On the whole we find the Russian situation more interesting just now than it has been for some time-As a consequence we hope to publish, in the near future, one or the other articles bearing on the matter...

...But this campaign of optimism is having its deadly effect, and unless it is moderated we expect to see everyone's nerves on the ragged edges of collapse...

...and the Arabs, townsmen and tribesmen, are restless, hostile, united for the first time in generations, determined not to accept the Declaration...

...The roots of unemployment are embedded in far deeper soil, however...

...No one expected that the country could settle down amicably...

...Indeed, one might have believed all of Rome was getting married, with a cardinal officiating...

...Yet the whole tone of the Memorandum was made friendly and hopeful by the statement that none of the difficulties to which she drew attention appear to be insuperable...

...At a time like this it is absolutely essential that every nation have its cards on the table...

...Besides he has long been identified as a champion of the mandate principle, and his position now is that of a fond parent whose offspring is not everywhere regarded as an angel child...

...INDEED her Memorandum on Limitation of Armaments showed how far apart France stands from the rest of the powers...

...He declared his independence of the Socialist-Liberal group and, because of his discriminatory tactics, delivered his more or less innocuous denouncement of Fascism to a mere handful of listeners...

...One has only to ask this question in order to hear the protests echoing back in volume...

...She would like it better if the other governments did not appear to be considering an arrangement dealing only with the five greatest navies and their adjustment by a mathematical yardstick...

...Many sensible things were uttered, and the several newspaper editors who attended the session defended their trade like men...

...The monarchy itself is in no immediate danger...

...We are far from convinced, however, that even this rather extreme measure would be a guarantee against mediocrity...

...Barred from this country by a Secretary of State who termed such exclusion "safeguarding our republic," the Count immediately became the hero of the various dissenting political minorities...

...The work at London they regard as the most tentative and informal kindergarten from which they may draw a lesson or two, but in which they will be careful to make no agreements which may be regretted later on...

...they are responsible for the recent outrages, and their anti-Jewish boycott is a constant source of danger...

...In company with the great majority of our fellow-Americans, we thoroughly enjoyed reading the accounts...

...Once again a Communion Mass in Saint Patrick's cathedral brought together a crowd of more than fifteen hundred Newmanites who then assembled for breakfast...

...Norman Thomas, who has sometimes been called the American Socialist party, had made a rather pithy statement about the noble speaker...

...Out of Work THREE corollaries of the crash in stock values may now be said to have asserted themselves: the influence of purely financial factors, such as the action of the British banking system in withdrawing funds invested here...

...EXAMINATION of Mr...

...Mussolini's party cannot be supplanted without a revolution of some sort, and this is not even threatened...

...Newman Clubs in Session THE annual conventions of Newman Clubs in the New York area invariably attract much attention and present an index to the work being done for Catholic students in secular colleges throughout the nation...

...A spirit of confidence prevailed, and many delegates averred that the status of their organizations revealed great improvement...

...The Count," he declared, "proclaims that he is not a Communist, not a social Democrat, but ioo percent Marxian Socialist...

...Well, maybe I do not at present know enough of his quarrel with Hungarian Socialists to judge its merits...

...Certainly it is not in consonance with Mr...

...Until he does this, his remarks about ioo percent Socialists remain as a case of the pot calling the kettle black...

...But this business of belonging neither to the Communist nor the Socialist party, but being ioo percent Socialist, while possible, is both difficult and dubious...

...But meanwhile Mr...

...The Prince Marries ITALY thoroughly enjoyed the marriage of Prince Humbert to Princess Marie Jose...

...She would like the London meeting better if the negotiations were to be conducted upon the League Covenant instead of on the terms of the Kellogg pact...

...The world has no reason to be depressed by the fact that the French have been frank enough and courageous enough to state a position which might not have been amiably received...

...Shall we turn to the professors...

...Morris Hillquit, spokesman of the left wing of the party, the acceptance, in theory, of the Holmes proposal was not a new one...

...Captain R. G. Canning's recent report, which spoke of the Arab resentment for "unversed judges" is not alone in indicating changes which certain administrative conditions would probably make a good deal better...

...Despite the determined opposition of Mr...

...He is one of the few men in the world whose opinion on this subject counts for anything...

...Stalin Speaks JUST what the new Soviet idea of economics is cannot be learned from published accounts of the five-year industrialization plan devised by Stalin...

...For it was Mr...

...His recent speech announced that compromise with the Marxist program would have to disappear from the scene, and the Moscow Communist party committee has followed it with a resolution that the class of wealthy peasants must be "liquidated" and that "this process must imply the basic liquidation of the part taken by private capital in commerce...