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WEEK BY WEEK Human Welfare in Porto Rico NOWHERE else in the world are the effects of destitution more noticeable than in Porto Rico, and nowhere else are the people less responsible for their...
...But if the latter is lacking the farmer can do no better than to follow suggestions which are made by those well fitted to make them and the value of which he himself realizes in his more analytical moments...
...Many innocent bystanders had a sample of official brutality, numerous injured were carted away to the hospitals, the agitators added new names to their list of heroes and the police retired sheepishly to their station houses...
...But it seems obvious that the result can hardly prove to be a paring down of contemporary judicial business, despite the fact that a wholly novel mortal-the commissioner-has been seated upon the bench of justice...
...Part of this money accrues through payment of membership fees, but a large portion is earned through affairs which the Guild sponsors...
...Nor bootleg products, which he unequivocally and indiscriminately calls "poison...
...Senator Fletcher, whose amendment to return the duties already collected on large carillons was ruled out of order with the tariff bill, has announced that he will offer it as an amendment to the appropriation bill for the Treasury Department...
...But the police always fail pitifully when they attempt to match violence with violence...
...But it is the inevitable result of present conditions in music, where the only harmony discernible is in the composer's score...
...What makes the situation more shameful is the fact that it has not been unexpected...
...After the accused has been tried without jury for a minor offense, he has the power to declare that he has really been corralled for a felony...
...Paraguay notifies the League of Nations that a surprise attack has been made by a Bolivian patrol...
...Fifty years ago they would have been fighting long before the quarrel had developed to this point...
...How much more felicitous to refresh our foreign guests by tapping a mountain reservoir instead of a keg of Pennsylvania beer...
...It has prepared carefully for success...
...The Excitement Grows DURING the week there has been a great increase in congressional and allied remarks on the prohibition question...
...Homes, plantations and public buildings were all swept away by the storm, leaving misery and hopelessness behind...
...New York's finest were empowered to disperse an assemblage met to protest against the police shooting of one of their numbers...
...The Police and Mobs COMMUNISM, and those in this country who believe in it, seldom achieve more than passing notice in our press save on the occasion of such a riot as occurred recently in front of New York's City Hall...
...News must be scarce there now...
...It is as though the Philistines had shaken down the temple in order to throttle Samson...
...It is easy enough to blame either side...
...Referring to the congestion now created by prohibition cases brought to judicial book, the Commission argued that the trouble lay in "the necessity of proceeding by indictment in all cases, except for maintenance of a nuisance or for unlawful possession, is a serious handicap for dealing with major infractions and makes the handling of minor infractions perfunctory...
...THE importance of the effort thus planned is apparent...
...It is at least partly because many who are not afraid to fly have not had money enough to do so...
...So, somewhat in a spirit of tributary reciprocity, Monsieur Zelli, operator of a famous night club in the French capital, visits our metropolis and seeks out the national drink...
...bigger and better carillons...
...It is no doubt the Commission's point of view that guilty parties would not invite trial for a felony if they could escape with trial for a misdemeanor, and that only the innocent would apply for a new hearing...
...Wages at Harvard IT IS a little difficult to put credence in the report that when the Massachusetts Minimum Wage Commission rebuked Harvard for employing scrubwomen at something less than what is considered a living wage, the university cleared itself of reproach by firing the scrubwomen...
...Surely for every case of continental liquor smuggled into this country, we could export a shipful of the finest bottled croton...
...Many of these are amply provided with funds and are building up a welfare program which earns popular good-will...
...There is not a little glamour about Porto Rico...
...No doubt the cause must be found, in part, where Signor Toscanini begins...
...The demonstration is the favorite Communist method of procedure...
...Truly a sense of natural blessings is lost in familiarity...
...Things are so desperate that Cook County has voted to pay its employees in tax anticipation warrants, which will have about as much value as a German mark had in 1924, once they are offered to the grocer...
...The habit of music, like the habit of height, would spread...
...Industrially the island is dependent upon a few staple crops, and a teeming native population can make little enough out of them...
...Since early fall the world at large has known that Chicago was wobbling on its pins, and everyone on the ground must have been aware of the threat of collapse long before that...
...Volstead...
...The reds congregated...
...Whether or not he succeeds in adorning his new Empire State building with a mooring mast for dirigibles, we think he should seriously consider the installation of carillons...
...Thus, whenever news is scarce in New England, we expect to hear of the horse that eats raw beef, or the rooster that lays eggs...
...Mayor Thompson and his friends have hard words to say about "reformers" who forced this reassessment, which reduces valuations in the business district by $300,000,-000...
...Rates on Airways REDUCTION of rates on the more important air-wavs this year to something like first-class railroad fares ought to help commercial aviation to stagger out of the woods...
...It is a pity that this should have been so, even as it was a pity years ago that Farrar left the opera...
...We hope that he can manage to see it through, for we wish to encourage those philanthropists who have already donated imported carillons to continue the practice...
...Skyscrapers are pushing up and up...
...Left to themselves, 200 agitators could obviously create considerable trouble...
...For Destitute Mothers NOT many forms of charity have greater appeal or value than offering assistance to unfortunate or destitute mothers...
...It is hard to maintain even tempers when set upon by a mob of youths, girls and women...
...Anyway, it is about the only thing left to try...
...If so few persons flew in 1929, it is principally but not altogether because there is yet no general confidence in flying...
...And what a lesson his words are to Americans...
...The result is a sweetening of the hearts and lives of very many poor women, the sustenance of babies and the spiritual improvement of souls in a measure beyond reckoning...
...They may fight yet, for we think that Geneva is overly optimistic in looking upon Paraguay's report as a gesture of obedience to the League, and an indication that the council's intervention in the dispute last year is still effective...
...Gifted musicians might escape from the calamitous routine in which so many of them now succumb to boredom, hot tempers and envies unrestrained...
...We don't believe it...
...Nor does the report just issued by the Bureau of Agricultural Economics of the Department of Agriculture, in cooperation with representatives of agricultural colleges and extension services of state and federal farm boards, present a cheerful picture...
...The historian who told us all about it would have an almost incredibly rich and intricate subject...
...Incidentally we have a suggestion for Mr...
...Alfred E. Smith...
...The wets in the House marshaled courage and attacked with addresses and resolutions...
...the said guilty, if convicted, may appeal for a trial by jury...
...Practically, therefore, the suggestion amounts to giving the aforementioned district attorney power to change his mind-with the connivance of the accused...
...Then at the first display of banners, previously hidden under coats, the officers, almost equal in number, swept into action...
...Bolivia denies it, and finds evidence that Paraguay desires to evade the Washington protocol...
...Bolivia denies it and declares that Paraguay is establishing an excuse for an attack...
...This is particularly true when it comes to problems of overproduction...
...Practically the entire population of Porto Rico is nominally Catholic, and observers say that the people have remained loyal to the Church despite the dearth of priests and the abundance of other obstacles to religious progress...
...Suggestion for Skyscrapers WE HAVE had so many uncharitable things to say about the 40 percent tariff on carillons that we should be remiss in our duty if we did not now thank the Senate for its gratifying action in voting to admit large carillons (thirty or more bells) free of duty when intended for schools or religious institutions...
...And if she is sincere in her desire to prevent a war, she may wake up any of these days to wish that she had waited...
...Again how neglectful we are of economic advantages...
...THIS new mechanical invention operates as follows: the offense is gauged according to the "quantity" of liquor sold, transported or possessed...
...During the past few years Protestant missionary activity on the island has greatly increased, it being estimated that hundreds of workers are in the field...
...One way to get them is to put the service within their reach...
...Paraguay has too much at stake in the Chaco to let the settlement hang fire...
...Not grape juice, it is to be noticed...
...and the newspapers speak of graft and waste in the City Hall...
...It may, of course, be true that we are advancing toward deeper understanding and more unbiased appreciation of melody...
...He must realize that economically he fits into a broad scheme and that if he sows with an eye to market perspectives he will reap where others less foresighted will leave a worthless crop rotting in the fields...
...The event, we are told, "depends entirely upon the disposition or digestion of the district attorney...
...The question therefore suggests itself: why must a man so genuinely qualified for musical leadership be lost to America...
...A university in opposition to the principle of the minimum wage ? Harvard underpaying its scrubwomen Tut...
...We sympathize with those who meet unrestrained opposition in line of duty...
...Back to America for Water EVEN the driest Americans when in Paris neglect the Louvre and the Madeleine for the boulevard wines and champagnes...
...During the past twenty-four years it has looked after thousands of mothers and children...
...But we are still a long way from these delectable mountains and the air in the valleys is not so very good...
...WEEK BY WEEK Human Welfare in Porto Rico NOWHERE else in the world are the effects of destitution more noticeable than in Porto Rico, and nowhere else are the people less responsible for their plight...
...But this is not all...
...Recently the matter was discussed from another point of view by the Right Reverend Aloysius Willinger, of the Re-demptorists, who has lately been consecrated bishop of Ponce...
...and the final disposition of the case is in the hands of the district attorney...
...For who does not know how ably the universities of this country spread the doctrines which led to the formation of Minimum Wage Commissions...
...If Chicago's officials have been operating on the wildest sort of financing, very thrilling to watch-not a civic policy, but a game of chance-the only move made to head them off was to cripple the city's revenues...
...He substantiated Colonel Roosevelt's conclusions, described the destitution of the children in touching language, and noted that damage to ecclesiastical property has been estimated at $500,000...
...Exit a Music-Master WHEN Willem Mengelberg made his farewell appearance in New York as director of symphonic music, he chose the form of a concert in which all his best gifts were brought to the fore...
...A set in the tower of every skyscraper in New York...
...Paraguay announces that Bolivia is mobilizing...
...It is as good as champagne...
...But water...
...In our opinion Professor McBain rightly questions the legitimacy and efficacy of these proposals...
...For the present we are most concerned about the lack of word or sign from Uruguay, which is responsible to the Pan-American conference for execution of the protocol...
...It has the lines, the schedules, the airports, the pilots...
...If the League is forced to intervene again without an appeal being made to it the Pan-American conference is sure to lose prestige...
...Higher and higher buildings...
...It is to be hoped that the Guild will eventually have its counterpart in virtually every American community, so that Christian charity will nowhere be shamed by its failure to accomplish a task which He Who loved both mothers and little ones must surely consider essential...
...Too often the history of cooperation to prevent such a condition results in public agreement to plant less of given products and a private failure to live up to that agreement...
...It may, he declares optimistically, force popular theatre managers to get rid of "canned music" which a million devotees of broadcasted programs know is banal and raucous...
...The Empire State building will not long enjoy the distinction of the world's tallest, but the honor of being the first to have carillons could never be taken from it...
...That would be something for the city of the not distant future...
...Apparently Mr...
...Strawn's rescue fund is the only guarantee that the police and fire departments, schools, hospitals and asylums, will not cease to operate, or at least that their activities will not be greatly curtailed...
...The entire episode, from the Communists' standpoint, was far more effective than any amount of oratorical or placard display could have been...
...Orchestra after orchestra, opera company after opera company, would therefore be destined to flourish, modestly in some cases, luxuriously in others...
...What freshman in economics has not been impressed over and over by man's right to a living wage...
...What a country...
...Those qualified to discuss the virtues of melody affirm that he supervised strings and bassoons with rare understanding and verve...
...No bottled waters in Europe compare with what gushes right out of the taps here...
...and the more meditative Mengelberg probably saw his own tranquil paths deserted in a way that meant bitterness of soul...
...Not Relief but Advice FARMERS during the past twelve months have experienced severe disillusionments in Congress...
...And the city is thinking of adopting the same plan to meet its unpaid salaries, which now amount to more than $4,000,000...
...At present there is a crying need for schools and churches, none of which the natives themselves are able to erect...
...The city code limits unlicensed outdoor meetings...
...George Wickersham in the New York World...
...if so, it is a dangerous gamble...
...The governor-general, Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, has called the attention of the United States to the situation and has advocated generous subsidies for charitable organizations in the field...
...Samson in Chicago CHICAGO'S situation would be more amusing if it did not come so perilously close to a complete breakdown of the functions of government...
...It has everything except passengers...
...With the purchasing power of consumers in 1930 somewhat reduced below 1929," it states, "farmers need to follow a rather conservative production policy...
...In order that something might be done in the name of the Church, the Catholic Porto Rican Child Welfare Association has been organized in the city of New York with the Reverend Frederick J. Toomey in charge of its work...
...Postmaster-general Brown has just issued a statement that planes carried paying loads of only 16 to 40 percent of their capacity during the last fiscal year, and that all lines showed operating deficits so great "that the very life of the passenger transport industry is in the balance...
...The Philharmonic Symphony simply could entrust him with its destinies no longer...
...in all "small" transactions, the guilty shall be tried by a commissioner unattended by a jury...
...And it is free...
...for certainly, if summary procedure is constitutionally valid at all, it is valid only because the offense is in point of fact of a very minor character...
...And finally, if like the Parisian, we had to buy good water, what then would become of our Mr...
...Unfortunately a Communist has a striking physical resemblance to a conservative...
...The drinking water is the best I have ever tasted," he declared ecstatically...
...Commercial aviation in this country appears to be as far advanced in the way of equipment as it is anywhere...
...The recent hurricane must be blamed, however, for a large portion of the prevailing distress...
...Perhaps she is pressing for an adjustment of her claims in the way she thinks most effective...
...It sounds too much like a variation of those nature stories which come so frequently from New England, the pattern of which is to endow some animal with characteristics not proper to its kind...
...It is certain that Mengelberg's effectiveness and popularity waned considerably during recent seasons...
...and so both alike felt the nightstick's blow...
...The Catholic duty is obviously to accomplish at least just as much, with the aid of generous donations from the United States...
...It should be obvious that the time for each farmer to do as he likes independently of his fellow has passed...
...Working under the direction of the Catholic Charitable Bureau, it has collected really imposing sums for the purpose it has adopted...
...Meanwhile the Senate was busy with plans for writing at least a few of the Enforcement Commission's proposals into law...
...The Guild of the Infant Saviour, a Boston association of Catholic women, has devoted itself to this form of benevolence with an enthusiasm worthy to be termed exemplary...
...Olin Downes believes that the radio has been an important educative instrument, which will help to mold the future...
...The crisis has been precipitated by the fact that real estate taxes have not been collected for twenty months, due to a property reassessment which is not yet completed...
...Surprisingly this truism, with its more causative corollary based on martyr-to-the-cause psychology, fails frequently to affect the police seemingly bent on meriting the opprobrious epithet, "cos-sacks...
...It is the only one of our dependencies which Christopher Columbus visited, and the first Catholic bishop established there was consecrated in 1512...
...Professor McBain contends that the courts already construe almost all violations of Volsteadism as maintenance of nuisance or unlawful possession, so that the proposed remedy would have little effect upon the situation-unless the machinery devised by the Commission leads to the appearance of new evils...
...To how large an extent these proposals are open to debate appears from a spirited exchange of views between Professor Howard Lee McBain, of Columbia University, and Mr...
...Quarrels in South America THE debate between Paraguay and Bolivia over the Chaco Boreal region grows more acrimonious...
...This is a year when it is particularly desirable for each farmer to estimate his probable income in view of the price outlook for each of his products, and to plan his production expenditures accordingly...
...This incomparable Italian, having an energy quite individual, blazed a trail which a relatively surfeited public was eager to follow...
...Unfortunately advice, even good advice, is a sorry substitute for relief...
...A woman giving a child to the world is in especial need of kindliness, and the fate of her little one often hinges upon whether or not the proper care is afforded at the time of birth...
Vol. 11 • February 1930 • No. 14
