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...Italy wants a theoretical parity with France...

...Simmons Explains ONE of the most careful analyses of recent financial events is surely that made lately by Mr...

...Acting on protests which have piled in from every hamlet and city, Governor Roosevelt has now asked the legislature to petition Congress for action on a measure which restates demands presented without success years ago...

...But the legal profession at its best-a best which needs attention at a time when the whole bar is struggling to stem the tide of vulgarians and profiteers seeking entrance to its privileged domain-is a matter of national, not merely state development, and Mr...

...Wiley's journal holds an honored place, chronicle religious happenings with a care and impartiality one cannot refrain from admiring...

...But the advantages, outside of centralizing agencies which are now scattered among eight buildings, appear to be chiefly psychological...

...This will relieve the subscribers from paying $3,000,000 of the $14,000,000 income the company hoped to get from them...

...and though not a few of these admitted that it was well that the editor said what was on his mind frankly, without subterfuge, or that the Times was a good paper in spite- of this offense, the incident reveals how dangerous it is to utilize the daily press as a medium for expressing opinions regarding ecclesiastical decisions or affairs...

...A decision of the federal court authorized a 7 percent return on a fair valuation of the company's property used and usable...

...What has usually been considered an accident of the post-war period, then, begins to look like a habit...

...and Japan, anxious for economies, is probably more interested than any of the others in actual reduction...

...It seems to us that there is every reason to support Governor Roosevelt...

...THE suavity with which the New York Telephone Company announced its increase in rates did not disguise the fact that the new rates were placed too high...

...Perhaps limitation is all that we are really seeking at present...

...After a year of mammoth flotations, "in September alone investment trusts and holding companies put on the market about $650,-000,000 of new securities...

...The trouble is that no remedy we have yet learned to apply can lessen the distress which must be felt during this period of transition, and that the progress of mechanical improvement is so rapid that no one can say when there will not exist such a period...

...The decision of the Public Service Commission, which reduced the property valuation, will inevitably be thrown back into the courts...

...A knowledge of the trials and tribulations of my country over a period of centuries, with the resulting achievements, will enable one to understand better what Belgium is today...

...The author and the playwright may contribute to the universal recognition of the blessings of peace but this period is not unique in its portrayers of war as it really is...

...Klein, of course, is not pessimistic...

...A lay apostolate, Father Bruehl declares, cannot be argued into being...

...Successor to the Tin Cathedral RIGHT Reverend Donald Martin, Bishop of Argyll and the Isles, whose diocese is one of the poorest and most scattered in Europe, has announced that work on the new cathedral of Oban will begin in the spring...

...That relationship must be grasped in confidence and charity...

...But it is impossible to expect more of him than he is empowered to give...

...Thirty-two floors, he thinks, will be sufficient...

...And it is to be hoped that others, equally generous, will be found to offer all that is necessary to replace the Tin Cathedral with the lovely structure designed by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott...

...The criticism sometimes thoughtlessly made that the spirit of public service in our profession is lessening is not warranted...

...An example of this might be an "advertisement editorial" commenting on a "love murder," pointing out that the girl involved had disregarded the advice of her pastor, had frequented a cheap dance hall, had given up attendance at church, and had then gone her tragic way to its close...

...Industry in Transition IN A recent message, Dr...

...What Price Telephoning...

...The comment which the New York Times published anent the Papal Encyclical undoubtedly met with the disapproval of many Catholics...

...Guthrie's words may justly be read in that sense...

...and the matter is one in which the legitimate rights of the state have been flagrantly ignored...

...Desertion is caused by dwindling courage, lack of interesting employment, unfavorable surroundings...

...The coming month of March has therefore been set aside for public commemoration of the event, following which there will be commemorative festivities lasting into autumn, Expositions will be held in both Antwerp and Liege...

...Taft...

...The reporter does not stop to point a moral or to remind his audience of its eternal destiny...

...This medal, bearing on one side the coat of arms of the Belgian ambassador, will be given for the first time next June...

...One grants that all this is quite accurate...

...Wiley declared, there is considerable activity...

...NOTICE, for instance, the difference between direct and indirect apologetics...

...WHAT really counts is the failure to derive from newspaper reading any spiritual suggestion or impulse...

...King Albert and the Queen have already arranged to attend a variety of exercises...

...There have been intimations (false, we hope) that President Hoover was not echoing the sentiments of everyone in Washington when he said "They cannot go too low for us...

...Or it can use publicity and advertising methods to make the point it wishes to leave...

...the United States will adjust her strength to Great Britain's...

...An individual group, it seems to us, can do only one of two things...

...The Bishop tells, with no little humor, that while celebrating Mass there recently, he was given a shower bath through the ruined roof of the sanctuary, but at the Introibo not at the Lavabo...

...We must consider European conditions more closely and more critically in the future," Mr...

...All of which sounds astonishingly like common sense, though there may be little comfort in it...

...Granted the temper of public opinion, he is sure to win his point later, if not now...

...and they are not very much affected by the circumstance that some item of religious interest fails to get itself reported in detail...

...Iona in Columba's day was the cradle of missionaries whose zeal for the Faith indelibly impressed itself on European civilization...

...Four points may be noted here...

...I feel that it would be mutually beneficial to both nations and still further promote existing friendship if the leaders of tomorrow in the United States-its university students of today -could be encouraged to make still further studies in Belgian history...

...Here the important business is to keep oneself unspotted, to refrain from evil, to remember the worship of God...

...In a way these are timeless enterprises-states rather than events...

...the growing pains of industry may really indicate an incurable disease...

...Citizens who open their morning paper want to-in numerous instances must-know just what every stock is selling for, what play has come to town, what political incidents are altering the civic alignment, what deaths have occurred...

...exemplify the truth of this assertion...

...Chief Justice Taft Retires NO MORE dramatic shifting of the scene of high American statecraft has occurred in many years than the resignation from his sick-bed of Chief Justice of the United States, William Howard Taft, and the appointment by the President of Charles Evans Hughes...

...Reporters cover all significant events having a religious cast...

...But perhaps we do not want to be forced into the open...

...Be that as it may, this graphic presentation of life at the front was a good publicity stunt for all concerned and on the whole the editorial comment tended to credit the pacification force of the performance...

...What Mr...

...Great Britain wants strength enough in comparison with other fleets to guarantee that her commerce will not be interrupted in case of war...

...The second is obviously the easier and less expensive way out, and there are certainly some reasons why it could be recommended to Catholics in particular...

...Perhaps the cause of the break needs to be sought in the record amount of new stock put upon the market...

...It is a living thing," he says, "and must build up its own forms of expression spontaneously and from within...

...Religious news is relatively more important than all this, to be sure, but it is not so practically and immediately necessary...

...That all await its development with great eagerness follows from general recognition of such facts as that lay action can "stop the leakage which annually costs the Church so many members...

...The French feel that the limitation of armaments cannot remain a technical matter only...

...William D. Guthrie recently said about Mr...

...The laity is the mirror in which the clergy see themselves...

...Simmons, "is very much more affected by business than business is by the stock market...

...It was on the basis of an increase in this property valuation that the new rates were fixed...

...Louis Wiley, business manager of the New York Times...

...where disagreement may arise is in working out the details of their application...

...Simmons averred...

...Julius Klein, Assistant Secretary of Commerce, declared that the productivity of industry per unit of man power is still on the increase, which means that we are no nearer a fixed level of employment than we were in 1919 or 1920...

...If the offer should be definitely made, we could not dare refuse it, for a cut of 25 percent in the French fleet would permit of substantial reductions all the way around...

...We await the results of the American Federation of Labor's survey into the effects of the industrial changes, knowing well enough that the report will not be particularly cheerful...

...Taft, except, of course, for the inconsequential circumstance that the New York bar cannot claim Mr...

...If one asks why, the right answer is probably that American companies purchased many European securities, or loaned money on their own accounts, while the European scene was marred by incidents like the calamitous Hatry scandal...

...And probably the report that France would be willing to cut 200,000 tons from its naval program if the other powers should promise not to aid an aggressor nation was an effort to coax an endorsement from our delegation...

...Perhaps no one would find it especially easy to measure such advantages in dollars and cents, but we venture to assert that they will be worth the ten or fifteen millions at which Mr...

...They have for their subject apostolic effort in the present era, and place the layman and the priest in the right perspective-a matter precious enough in view of the haziness of much current discussion...

...It should be gratifying to those who have contributed to the cathedral fund to know that plans have been so far advanced...

...The indirect apologetic is to be defined as a statement which has no other purpose than to gain attention for something that will be accepted as true by any honest intelligence-which, therefore, disregards the will entirely...

...and many a reader might derive from his newspaper a spiritual suggestion now missed...

...It would seem, therefore, that speculation for the rise was simply carried farther than industrial conditions would permit...

...He believes that the situation carries its own power of correction...

...The stock market," said Mr...

...POLICE COMMISSIONER WHALEN of New A Modern Police Station York City has recommended that a modern skyscraper be erected in central Manhattan to house the Department...

...When the smoking out begins at London, we hope that the delegations will not forget to repeat to themselves from time to time the things which they said on first arriving there and to recall that they will be judged by deeds, not by words...

...that the Kellogg pact is a sufficient guarantee of what our attitude should be toward an aggressive nation, and that any discussion of an endorsing clause is likely to divert the conference from its main purpose...

...And whether or not the tower is shaped like a baton, it will be a symbol of the majesty and dignity of the law, and a reminder of its presence in Manhattan...

...To extend his work and to build a suitable cathedral Bishop Martin appealed to America...

...sermons are quoted...

...Ultimately it would be found that many such comments would be accepted as legitimate publicity without pay...

...In his letter making the announcement Prince de Ligne congratulated the School of Foreign Service and said: "The people of the United States have shown, over a period of many years, their deep interest in my country and have given evidence of it by practical acts of friendship almost unparalleled in the history of the world...

...Short selling, we are asked to believe, had little effect upon the debacle, because figures indicate that during the panic it was unappre-ciable in extent, and because the peak in volume of sales was reached during 1928...

...The better newspapers, among which Mr...

...At the present time the world, save in remote sections, enjoys peace...

...WEEK BY WEEK The Conference Proceeds WHETHER we like it or not, the United States may be forced into a position where it must subscribe to some sort of anti-war clause or jeopardize the success of the naval conference...

...Even in the domain of ecclesiastical advertising, Mr...

...and differences or disturbances inside various churches add zest to the citizen's morning breakfast...

...And so (we may add) we are virtually back at the old truth that the layman must seek to do ontologically what the priest does logically -to reflect, in a myriad spheres of activity, the grace which God's minister daily begs for the world...

...These were not absorbed...

...And if he did, he would doubtless be colored by his own religious affiliations to an extent which might irritate or anger those who belonged to other groups...

...that it is fantastic to suppose that it can be supported without political guarantees...

...As a matter of fact it demands so much time to effect a victory over prejudice or to make it sink into the mind of a reader that we earnestly doubt its value in daily journalism...

...E. H. H. Simmons, president of the New York Stock Exchange, before a Philadelphia audience...

...It is plain that we cannot think of saddling the arduous work of the apostolate exclusively or even mainly on the laity," we are told...

...Or on a higher scale, it might be a similar "advertisement editorial" commenting on the circumstance that the Prince de Broglie, winner of the Nobel Prize for physics, is a practising Catholic and that many scientists are believing Christians (it would do no harm to mention a Methodist or a Unitarian...

...From the beginning of the history of our bar to the present time, from the days of Alexander Hamilton and James Kent to our own times of Elihu Root, Charles Evans Hughes and Benjamin N. Cordozo, public service has been the controlling spirit and inspiration of the New York bar and the source of its chief distinction, prestige and glory...

...In their general outlines these policies do not clash...

...Belgian Honors at Georgetown THOUGH the Belgian people look back upon more than two thousand years of stirring history, it was only a century ago that they obtained complete political independence...

...New headquarters may help all members of the Department to find a new joy in their work...

...AT THIS time it may be pertinent to recall the positions adopted by the various delegations at the opening of the conference...

...that the improvement of machines, resulting in an increase of production, will raise the standards of living, thereby creating new positions for men who are now being displaced...

...We are not so optimistic...

...an interesting Papal Encyclical is cabled from abroad at great expense...

...It can then be seen, without the passion instilled by increasing the cost of a public and monopolistic utility, if the new rates are justified or if, as the City of New York contends, the valuation of property estimates have neglected the questions of depreciation and obsolescence...

...At no time has more or better patriotic public service been unselfishly rendered by members of the profession than at the present time, and the careers of the living and renowned jurists whom I have named strikingly exemplify the truth of this assertion...

...And if many of us are still unsatisfied with the results, if we feel that the world of the spirit has been neglected, the truth of the matter is that the newspaper's focus is not our own...

...Is there something in this idea...

...Meanwhile there is hope in the statement of James S. McCulloh, president of the telephone company, that his organization will abide by the Commission's order until the entire matter can be threshed out...

...In his diocese lies Iona, the island beloved of Saint Columba who prophesied of it: "In place of monks' voices will be heard the lowing of kine, but ere the world comes to an end shall Iona be as it was...

...Hughes applies also to Mr...

...News about the Church OUR newspapers today testify to the fact that man's concern over his relation to the Supreme Being is likely to be a first-page topic, as regularly as any other," is the kernel of an address delivered recently by Mr...

...The battle has now opened with vigor over the new rates, 80 percent of which telephone subscribers throughout the state will be asked to pay after February 1. When the company proposed these increases, which make talking to one's neighbors more expensive in the empire state than anywhere else on earth, the Public Service Commission demurred but was overruled in a federal court...

...Whalen proposes to purchase them in the interests of the City of New York...

...Under existing conditions, companies seeking raises have gone to a distant judge who thus automatically became the arbiter of a question about which he could, in the nature of things, know very little...

...France must know whether to prepare for the possibility that an aggressor nation may be given aid...

...What may safely, perhaps tritely, yet profitably be considered is the fact that the episode calls fresh attention to one of the strongest and most worthy contributions which the American system of democracy makes to the common weal, namely, the personal authority and leadership which it develops and encourages...

...Modern Speech and Religion ONE hopes that many besides subscribers will read two articles by the Reverend Charles Bruehl in recent issues of the Homiletic and Pastoral Review...

...The building which it will supplant has long been known as the Tin Cathedral since it was improvised from metal sheets which once glistened in the sun but now crumble before the spray of the Atlantic...

...We would like to share the belief of many overenthusiastic reviewers who have hailed such plays and novels of the All Quiet on the Western Front type as the best and most effective arguments against war...

...It seems to us that he said most of what he knew quite frankly, which fact should go a long way toward remedying the current disease of looking for individual scapegoats...

...The people are to be congratulated that Governor Roosevelt was so vigilant and the Public Service Commission so prompt in ordering a 20 percent reduction in the new schedules...

...In honor of the occasion, Prince de Ligne has established at the School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University, a gold medal to be awarded annually to the student who presents the best essay on some aspect of Belgian history...

...This measure provides that appeals from Public Service Commission rulings shall not be taken to the federal courts until "after the state court of appeals has passed upon the question...

...The layman who seeks to render social life Christian is therefore helping to keep the crowd in line...

...War to the Warriors THE desire to illustrate the horrors of war may not have determined the invitation of the superintendent of West Point to the cast of Journey's End to play before the cadets of the academy...

...may stimulate police activity by giving the policemen a home office to be proud of...

...Of course such a building would add greatly to the convenience of the Commissioner, and perhaps of humbler departmentals...

...The Americans have held, of course, that there is no need for political agreement at London...

...It can publish a paper of its own, if conditions warrant and support can be secured...

...For one It's a Great War, at the first declaration of war there will be an avalanche of books and plays designed to show the inevitability of strife and the desirability of defending a country's honor, saving the world for democracy, or whatever shibboleth may then be on the lips of the statesmen in power...

...Today no Catholic lives on Iona but there are many staunch faithful in the other Isles who, though poor, count themselves rich when they have the monthly visitations of a priest...

...New York Protests THAT New York was priming for a fight over public utilities control has been evident for years...

...The first stresses a point of doctrine or practice, defends it against misrepresentation, and urges it upon others...

...Others in the past have written similarly yet when the first cannons resound they have been equally quick to celebrate the glories and romance of battle...

...Sometimes the editorial writer does just this...

...At least the signs are constant enough to justify labor's concern over the displacement of men by the improvement of mechanical methods...

...It would be superficial to attempt anything like a resume of the careers and characters of these two great public servants in the limited space at our disposal as we hurry to press...