Week by Week
WEEK BY WEEK The Big Ships WHATEVER else comes out of the London con-ference, it now seems likely that there will be an agreement to postpone replacement of obsolete battleships from 1931 to 1936....
...What he achieves may well mark an epoch, for New York's satisfactory solution of the question of water power development for its people will undoubtedly set a salutary precedent for the country at large...
...The first is a frank recognition of the part which the dealer plays...
...Today Boston proper is only the nucleus of fifty odd towns, perched upon neighboring plains, devoted to their names and lineage...
...Doubtless Father Walsh supplied some of the evidence...
...Thus if the replacement of battle-ships is postponed to 1936 it is likely that they will never be replaced at all...
...Of course everyone hopes that another six years will demonstrate either that there is no further need for a weapon which is strictly an offensive weapon, or else that 35,000-ton ships are futile even in an offense because of the temptations which they offer to enemy airplanes and submarines...
...These involve New York's acquisition of riparian rights now owned by private interests...
...on the other hand, if the time is not ripe it would be a decided blunder to accede to the selfish desires and unreasonable demands of the present group of protectionist senators...
...That augurs some curtailment during 1930, perhaps, but is likewise a manifesto of common sense...
...His vision of that is not without grandeur, or even poetry...
...Curley's mind has a picture of the present, past and future of almost every office-holder...
...Still more amazing is the circumstance that in writing about themselves, people will unconsciously give wrong dates and names...
...Left-handed Independence HEADED by Manuel Roxas, a Filipino delegation is in Washington where a Congressional committee is considering the question of independence for the Philippines...
...Nine times out of ten, equally trustworthy statements will disagree on quite important matters...
...Louis Fischer's History of Soviet Foreign Affairs will be an interesting book...
...Since there is a heated debate over the question of an all-American versus a St...
...We trust they will not recover...
...Julian Harris, whose departure from the Columbus Enquirer-Sun was recently announced...
...Such sincere differences are matters of conscience between the individual soul and its Creator, and are therefore entitled to universal respect...
...If the time is ripe (a full investigation of the situation may determine that it is) then the United States should not hesitate...
...Meanwhile Republican grooming for senatorships goes on apace even if with some qualms that the best and most favored horses may lie down on the politicians...
...Lawrence at Hawkins Point and of a power plant...
...and the number of immediate decapitations suggested by this gallery is a marvel of the age...
...If the 1930 elections fail to clarify any political facts they will at least be extremely diverting...
...Outstanding attractions seem to include a sixteen-cylinder motor for those who can afford it, a new system of gravity carburation, a method which cools the pistons from sole to crown, and a lighter crankshaft...
...It has been a bitter fight, but certainly the stakes were large enough to justify almost any amount of rancorous debate...
...Science in Kansas Dr...
...Newpaper and magazine obituaries may be correct about a dozen matters, but they are almost sure to slip on the thirteenth...
...The second development appears to be an effort to improve the working mechanism of the automobile rather than the paint job...
...These received gubernatorial appointments secondarily, if not primarily, because of belief in their ability to secure reelection...
...Governor Roosevelt is to be admired for his courage...
...a return to constitutional freedom of speech and freedom of religious beliefs without prejudices...
...These difficulties might discourage even the most stout-hearted...
...It must be confessed that England's roster of our great men is both incomplete and fanciful, that errors of fact abound and that an element of unintentional farce sometimes creeps into pages whose object is to inform sedately...
...Roosevelt declares, "Nobody has yet tried, and the only way to find out is to make the try...
...Discrimination-political, social or economic -based solely upon religious prejudice and intolerance, violates both the spirit and the letter of the constitution, and is fraught with grave peril to the security of the republic...
...If it broke me, it was all right, and Mrs...
...After years of scrambling and running in and out of the city hall, he may fairly be said to have learned the way of the world...
...The only trouble with prohibition is that the country refuses to obey it...
...It is not everyone who can observe so patiently, and report so accurately, upon the rabbit, and argue so cogently from his own findings...
...And so I fought certain things...
...Sobered prosperity may give thanks for so much...
...For instance, it is possible that twitching the nose and wriggling the ears are not acquired characteristics, as we have always supposed, but inherited...
...Again, Ontario now has as much power as it can use for many years to come and its laws limit the exportation of power...
...From this he concludes that "if such conditions of inheritance exist in rabbits there is no reason why they should not exist in man as well as in other animals"-evidence that unruliness is inherited rather than the result of environment and training...
...H. L. ISBEN of the Kansas State Agricultural College has been experimenting with ill-natured rabbits...
...It is instructive and amusing to compare accounts...
...It is interesting to note, as the chapter gets on, Mr...
...For these senatorial gentlemen are anxious to exclude the 540,000 tons of sugar which are annually exported to this country, duty free, and the products of the cocoanut, likewise duty free, which are injuring our dairy and farm industries...
...It is hard to imagine how he could have refrained...
...Isben to the various foundations which are interested in the advancement of learning...
...In five years they lost $42,000, but they whipped the Klan in Columbus, and that was the start of the rout which eventually had this once powerful organization backed up into the swamps...
...Julian Harris JOURNALISM in the United States cannot spare Mr...
...This opinion seems to us nothing short of funny...
...Those who have had occasion to seek out material regarding some eminent person of a former age know how unfailingly difficult it is to get the record unadulterated...
...Possibilities are certainly unlimited...
...Whenever we have a couple of bad business years, there will be an ameliorating reinterpretation of the Eighteenth Amendment...
...He has bred the most bad-tempered bunnies that he could find, and reports that their children and grandchildren all manifest the ugliest dispositions...
...Now when Congress shows its first disposition to consider these claims officially, certain Philippine leaders, notably Manuel Quezon, are none too sure that independence is, after all, closest to their heart's desire...
...Out where the corn grows and Senator Norris bolts, no less a personage than General Pershing was sought to put regularity's colors ahead of independent progres-sivism...
...And so it really does not matter whether all the agencies to prevent smuggling are merged into one under the Coast Guard or not, and whether the work of investigation is transferred from the Department of the Treasury to the Department of Justice or not...
...And if this is proved to be true of rabbits, there is no reason why it should not be true of men...
...Apart from the usual amount of public interest, manifested in the form of inquiries and gasps of pleasure from feminine visitors (not seldom calculated to impress upon the paterfamilias the virtue of some car he thinks he cannot afford) we seem to have noticed two developments...
...Harris felt the same way...
...The people of the state, however, should be too grateful for some settlement of the controversy to be concerned as to which group of politicians have gained the tactical advantage...
...Pro Bono Publico 1 HOSE interested in the work accomplished to promote more friendly relations between Catholics, Jews and Protestants through the open forum method will be glad to know that a report summarizing the recent discussion at Harvard University has been published by the Calvert Round Table...
...We cannot share the excitement because it seems to us that the prohibition situation is too simple and obvious to become excited about it...
...Lawrence ship route, nothing can be done until Washington makes its final decision on this question...
...As The Commonweal pointed out long ago, it has never been a question of preserving the market for our domestic producers (under a $.02- or a $.10-tariff we should still have to import about 80 percent of our sugar next year) but from the first it has been a question of how much the home boys could grab out of the Republican bag...
...Repairing and Grooming POLITICAL fences, it appears, are perennially in need of repair and Senators can be expected to use the Capitol during the coming months as a rostrum for appeals to their constituents...
...What hope did the motor show afford...
...and determination of where state control will end and private control begin...
...Mayor Curley DO NOT forget that Mr...
...We shall not forget what they have done, and we hope that it is not long before their work is resumed elsewhere...
...Fischer's evident conviction that in this instance an American Jesuit triumphed over the Pope...
...and Mrs...
...cooperation in financing, and distribution of power...
...And Boston...
...Somehow, we know, the horns of this dilemma will be escaped...
...Someone should recommend Dr...
...They are not agitated by quixotic sentiments of a people's ability for or right to self-determination in government...
...James Michael Curley is not only mayor of Boston but one of the most impressive figures in American municipal politics...
...Protective tariff is a mild name for anything which proposes to jump this bounty higher...
...The present rate of $.0176 a pound on Cuban sugar is worth $92,-000,000 a year to them, and all told costs the consumer well over $200,000,000...
...The Smith-Roosevelt principle has been upheld...
...Primary provision will be made for state construction of a dam across the St...
...Thus far does the human race carry the habit of guessing, to the immense perturbation of its many biographers...
...The spirit in which the effort was made can be seen from the following declaration: "Sincere conviction as to the absolute truth of one's own faith, and, as a corollary, the error or inadequacy of all other religions, involves no question of the spiritual sincerity of those who differ and who hold firmly to the tenets of their own faith...
...We are told, for instance, that "two tendencies existed at the Vatican" regarding relations between the Church and the Soviets-"one led by the Pope which aimed at a compromise with the Bolsheviks and the winning of the vast multitude of simple-minded followers...
...But as the evidence regarding the actual practice and policy of the Bolsheviki began to drift in, it became apparent that no settlement could be reached...
...Curley, no innovator in this respect, proposes a unified and orderly Boston, taking her rightful place among the nation's largest towns and engineering a program of civic work able to impress all existing societies for reform and advancement...
...Russia and the Vatican JUDGING by sections of it which have been published in the Nation, Mr...
...The Islands were guaranteed independence when they came under the Stars and Stripes after the Spanish-American war, but with the understanding that independence would be the reward for their own progress...
...As Mr...
...There will be no reduction in the size of the ships, at least not below 30,000 tons, because the United States holds that a smaller battle-ship is not a good battle-ship, but there will be an extension of their service from twenty to twenty-five years...
...We hesitate to become too cheerful about the outlook, however, since we have no way of knowing how such huge savings would be spent, whether for the ordinary expenses of government, the enforcement of prohibition, or the construction of battle planes and submarines...
...All of this seems fairly sound and attractive doctrine, worthy of some genuine missionary interest...
...Copies of the report may be obtained by addressing a request to the Round Table at 177 Milk Street, Boston...
...The most vivid blunder discovered to date is the statement that Colonel Lindbergh married the daughter of Dwight Davis, United States ambassador to Mexico...
...Has not even Lindy been guaranteed authentic by fame...
...At the same time they are faced by the realization that time out for spectacular oratory will delay necessary congressional business and, by protracting the session, keep them from maintenance work in their native states...
...Unfortunately it gives evidence of having been almost completely inspired in Moscow...
...the other represented by Walsh himself [that is, the Reverend Edmund A. Walsh, S.J., of Georgetown University] whose program was to combat Bolshevism...
...And so the Harrison amendment, unless it is ditched in conference, has saved us between $75,000,000 and $150,000,000 in our sugar bill...
...agreements between the state and the federal government with regard to navigation...
...Each one of these things means that engineers have been thinking hard and that stress is being laid on matters which deserve it...
...and Mrs...
...Senor Quezon's attitude is emphasized by his absence from Washington...
...Catholic documents long since made public reveal the eagerness of the Vatican to arrive at a modus vivendi with any government capable of establishing order in Russia...
...And here the first obstacles will be met...
...He ought to extend his investigations into other of his subject's inherited idiosyncrasies...
...Many movements, some of which have led to bitter and sanguinary contests, have been inaugurated on the premise that the opportune moment had arrived and yet been overlooked by the United States...
...For there are many places in the United States which need the Harrises as sadly as did the city of Columbus, Georgia, in 1920...
...It reprints the chief addresses, summarizes the debates very clearly and effectively, and prints the resolutions adopted by the group...
...He ought to be subsidized...
...That, too, the next six years will show...
...New York's Water Power REPUBLICANS and Democrats alike claim the victory of the recent maneuver in the New York state assembly by which the majority has declared its readiness to vote the Roosevelt water power plan...
...Senators Sackett and Edge have received executive rewards and have set out on their first ambassadorial journeys, leaving Republican governors to designate for their unexpired terms, such stalwarts as Dwight F. Morrow and Representative John M. Rob-sion...
...Faulkner of the Auburn Company, that success depends upon selling rather than producing automobiles...
...So if financially their policy was a failure, editorially it was one of the greatest successes in the history of journalism anywhere...
...Senators Smoot, Ransdell and other representatives of sugar-producing states are, to him, too much like the Greeks bearing gifts...
...Prohibition is being enforced about as well as it ever can be short of setting up in this country something like the Cheka...
...A good piece of work, we term it...
...But they are heart and soul behind the King bill which provides that American sovereignty over the Islands cease as soon as the people there adopt a constitution and set up a national government...
...Such 'agreement to disagree' as to the fundamentals of men's respective faiths in no way interferes with their active participation in all undertakings making for the welfare of the community...
...Ten Years Old THE tenth anniversary of prohibition finds more agitation in Washington over our greatest domestic problem than at any time, perhaps, since the Eighteenth Amendment was adopted...
...The Senate on Sugar WITH eighteen Republicans voting for it, and only four Democrats against it, the Harrison amendment to prevent any increase on raw sugar had an easier time of it in the Senate than was expected, and the beat-sugar interests took a jolt right in the vulnerable midriff...
...It remains to be seen if the working out of the plan will not snag on one of the many shoals which are immediately ahead...
...In Massachusetts, the ex-President in one of his characteristically Delphian pronouncements shies clear of any question of candidacy...
...Harris was reported as saying (The Commonweal, August 10, 1927) "My hope was to put before southern editors a perfectly rational view: justice for rich and poor, black and white...
...treaties between this country and Canada regarding the dam site...
...Administering the utilities-gas, water and so on-within such a net-work of urban individualisms remains as intricate as the wheels of the Strasbourg clock...
...Many a manufacturer's representative has declared, in unison with Mr...
...Without further hesitation we extend our hearty wishes for immediate success...
...Here is a man who ought to be encouraged...
...So long as we have prohibition the Anti-saloon League will be dissatisfied with its enforcement, and how long we have prohibition depends upon how long it is associated in certain minds with prosperity...
...As such he is worth considerable to the hub of the universe even in the way of advertising, not to mention scenery...
...It is a not ineffective remedy for pretention that, even after one has become celebrated enough to enter a catalogue of worthies, the most intimate details regarding oneself are reported incorrectly...
...With few modifications the governor's recommendations to the legislature were those of ex-Governor Smith, which Republican leaders have bitterly fought for almost ten years...
...Of course they knew perfectly well what they were up against in 1920 when they took control of the Columbus paper and began their fight against racial prejudice, religious intolerance and corrupt politics...
...And the United States will be saved some $600,000,-000 which it would otherwise have spent for fifteen new ships before 1942...
...Motors on Parade PROSPERITY has viewed this year's motor show with a somewhat dissipated smile...
...Errors Concerning the Great SOME amusement has been garnered in various quarters from the 1930 edition of the British Who's Who...
...After having feasted as lavishly as ever before in history, it awoke to discover its pockets had been picked in Wall Street-and to recall, in a serious mood, the intimate connection between automotive production and such matters as business and employment...
Vol. 11 • January 1930 • No. 13
