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...True they are conceding a good deal more than they were expected to, as the foremost exponents of the submarine idea...

...Many groups of Protestants have responded to the plea, so that the occasion is evidently one which finds all American Christians unified in a spirit of petition and protest...

...THIS plea was followed by the report that the congress of the Moscow League of the Godless, which is meeting to elaborate the "five-year anti-Christian plan," has adopted the slogan, "For a Godless Russia, for a Godless Collectivized Village," and has declared for an anti-Easter campaign starting on March 15...

...Yet her motives ' in adopting the dramatic form might well be that of the Catholic playwright today...

...Today so much material has been unearthed and critically examined that it is the work of a lifetime to encompass it even cursorily...

...Kenney is the sifter and weigher...

...Germany's Ersatz Preussen is the best thing in its class, but the German program calls for only four like it within fifteen years, and even that program seems too heavy for Germany's tax-payers...

...But since all of us can know the address itself, the thought that generation after generation may learn the American creed and the American will to live from so pure a source is blest with peace and hope...

...And ordinarily we should not find any great national significance in the election of a Democrat to Congress from the second district of Massachusetts, even though that district includes Mr...

...Hughes as Chief Justice all testify to this...

...So many people believed that royalists and the Church might combine to order an offensive against the republic...

...Each Guild has for its purpose the fostering of active participation in some form of welfare work-boys' clubs, catechetical instruction, travelers' aid, parent-teacher associations, among others...

...Taft has there been such a general political unrest...

...But this has not been an ordinary year...

...Thirty years ago precious little was known about the beginnings of Irish history, other than that the people had used a curious jargon and that Saint Patrick had banished snakes from the island...

...But one cannot help thinking that the equipment which a scholar now brings to his work is, in a way, more astonishing than any other manifestation of inventive genius...

...The Churchman's favorite contention is that the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors have used the churches and the women's clubs to lend a tone of respectability to their organization, at the same time continuing to produce films of questionable character and "degrading influence...

...The poet who affirmed that, of a' the airts the wind may blow, he dearly loved the west- would he have expressed this marked preference had he known that, although blowing (hypothetically) only one-eighth of the total time, the west wind deposits one-fifth of the total dirt...

...Our surprise is evoked because we were not prepared for them to be consistent in this respect...

...Then follow the shadowy but absorbing records which hint at how Christianity came to Ireland, probably in the fourth century as a result of the monastic foundations of Saint Martin of Tours...

...What a corrective to the unscientific tradition of mere song and story...

...But in a year when the Republican party is divided it assumes a dramatic importance...

...To which warning the Churchman replies that it will continue to criticize the Hays policy, "under the right of a newspaper . . . to publish with impunity truth, with good motives, for justifiable ends, though reflecting on government, magistracy or individuals...

...But they stuck to it, and so they are not now being inconsistent if they help to curtail, on paper at least, the submarine's offensive operations...

...a fortunate summer and a heavy harvest have changed the temper of the nation more than once...

...and then, of course, there was politics...

...The account was curiously juxtaposed to a cabled summary of the attitude of the Soviet press in response to the papal letter...

...He sets to work with a method and an apparatus so nicely adjusted to the problem in hand that watching his results is almost incredibly fascinating...

...Is General Weygand Dangerous...

...Since most of the world is persuaded that the submarine is not eminently suited to that purpose, it was a little hard for many of us to believe their story...

...Catholic Action in Newark UNUSUALLY ambitious and forward-looking is the plan of organization developed by Bishop Thomas J. Walsh, of Newark, for charity work in his diocese...

...Content that others should tell the story itself, he has assembled the evidence...

...Averring that he was a believer in the republic, the new chief added with noticeable irony that no one could accuse him of "being disturbed over the religion of others" to the extent of lecturing his subalterns...

...It was followed in England by an address in which the archbishop of Canterbury, on behalf of the Anglican Church, supported the declaration of the Holy Father and assured his hearers that "unless there is evidence of a real improvement I may feel bound to deal with the matter in Parliament-not as a matter of politics, but as a matter which concerns the honor of a Christian people and the demands of our common civilization...

...Hoover...

...The papal letter summarizes a good deal of evidence, of which there is verily no dearth...

...Thus we progress, our knowledge gets more and more accurate, and all we lose out in is poetry...

...This number will eventually grow larger as other parishes are enlisted...

...Coolidge among its voters, and has been regularly Republican for almost half a century...

...the replies of the Hays organization have been vigorous enough, and indignant enough, but have usually been reducible to something like "It's not true...

...Indeed there would be little interest in the affair if it did not prove that rabid anticlericalism in France has ebbed considerably...

...If the picture drawn is realistic, boys and girls in their early teens have been lured away from home with the bait of supposedly high wages, have been used for their appeal as house-to-house salesmen, and have then been left stranded without enough money to bring them back like more or less safely restored prodigal sons...

...It is strange that so small a group of words, uttered by a man trained by experience alone, should possess such inexhaustible vitality...

...Now whom has France to fear...

...A delver into the past is no longer a nearsighted person who has collected a few ancient folios...

...It is well that the French government can now Debunking the West Wind THE Meteorological Observatory in Central Park tells us that the west wind is the dirtiest of the eight winds that blow upon our city...

...As one estimates the possibilities which confront those who labor for social betterment in a spirit of Christian kindliness one sees that Newark is well on its way to caring for those more or less victimized by industrialist surroundings...

...Realizing how difficult it must always be to maintain the enthusiasm of volunteer groups, most members of which are accustomed to think of alms as an annual or monthly contribution, the Bishop has established five Guilds of Mount Carmel...

...The visionary who actually aspired to be merged with that skyey voyager-"Be thou me, impetuous one...

...The evolution during the tariff debates of what amounts in everything but name to a third party, the discontent with prohibition enforcement (shared by drys and wets) and the opposition to the confirmation of Mr...

...Lincoln in Retrospect No OBSERVANCE of Lincoln's birthday would be complete without further books devoted to his character and achievement...

...This, no doubt assumed to justify the government's stand to the people, is based on vehement denials that "religion is being 'persecuted' in Russia...

...Since then the extremely embarrassing problem of French-Italian parity (embarrassing to everyone but France) has kept them in the strategic position...

...The membership fees are nominal, so that the emphasis upon actual rolling up of the sleeves will not be wasted...

...And also that the Soviet censors of press despatches have realized their mistake in allowing too much of the true state of the religious warfare to be forwarded to foreign journals...

...A close relationship between clergy and laity is guaranteed through the appointment of moderators...

...Next it is Saint Patrick who engrosses our attention, writing letters which prove the excellence of his missionary endeavor but telling us very little about himself or the land...

...Significant in this connection is the statement of Bishop William T. Manning, of the Episcopal Church...

...Much interest was aroused by the news that Mr...

...Whatever game they are playing, they have come near wrecking the conference, which would be a sadder result for France than for any other of the nations at London...

...The election of a Democrat in a Republican stronghold can usually be traced to local grievances which are of little import elsewhere...

...Barton's Lincoln at Gettysburg) may be termed genuinely interesting and valuable...

...The other poet, who repeatedly besought the wind of the western sea to "breathe and blow"-would he not have faltered had he realized that these activities would leave .3 of an ounce of soot per month on every square inch breathed and blown upon...

...Roswitha: "The Mighty Voice" ROSWITHA, the nun-poetess, whose tenth centenary was recently celebrated in Germany, was far removed from the twentieth-century stage and cinema palaces...

...There you have a promise which destroys the effectiveness of the submarine as an offensive weapon...

...Russia and Religion AT LAST the plight of those who suffer persecution for justice's sake in Russia is stirring what remains of civilization to protest vigorously...

...The world advances, after all...

...WILL HAYS'S bureau for bigger and better movies has become so agitated in its quarrel with the Churchman that it now threatens legal action...

...PERHAPS it was a little uncourteous of the press to have expressed so much astonishment at the willingness of the French to put the submarine on its best behavior in time of war...

...James F. Kenney's study of the Sources for the Early History of Ireland, one volume of which the Columbia University Press has just published...

...From then on through the twelfth century one confronts a constantly increasing mass of testimony, all of which needs to be sifted and weighed before its usefulness will be notable...

...The Soviet reply puts forth the assertion that religion is the great opponent of Communism and must therefore be fought...

...he was elected at a time of greatest prosperity in the anticipation that he would help to promote it, and shortly after his inauguration prosperity began to wobble on its pins...

...Witness, for instance, Mr...

...And by subscribing to Articles I and II of the ten-year-old Root resolution they agree that a merchant vessel cannot be seized before it has been subjected to visit and search, and that it cannot be sunk before its passengers and crew have been removed to safety, which is obviously impossible when the attacking craft is a submarine...

...Kenney's book is a critical bibliography, incorporating the findings of a host of scholars and summarizing what has been learned from ancient and monastic writers about the early fortunes of the Celts...

...There is no reason why the failure of the Hays bureau to improve the movies in the way in which it was called upon to improve them should go unrebuked...

...The work has been so competently done that an editorial writer, hard-pressed to learn the truth about some contemporary incident, feels that he is only a blundering amateur, without insight into the secret springs of knowledge...

...Not, of course, a peace at any price...

...It is a happy circumstance, then, that Gandersheim where the aristocratic Helena von Rossow became the unassuming religious, should commemorate her anniversary and recall the lofty purpose of "the mighty voice" of the first German poetess...

...Not since the administration of Mr...

...But a peace to be prayed and struggled for, to be utilized in the hope of avoiding further conflict...

...Meanwhile the whole Christian world will pray for the cessation of monstrous misrule in Russia...

...OERE is a bird's-eye view of what antique civilization-Phoenician, Greek and Roman-knew about the mysterious islands where tin was mined...

...If the debate is brought into the courts, we have not much doubt as to which side would finally emerge victorious...

...An appeal to the authorities of the Orthodox Church (all the strings of this puppet show, however, were plainly visible) brought the answer from the Metropolitan Sergius that "religion in the U.S.S.R...

...One hopes that the situation may prove to be less alarming than the symptoms appear to indicate...

...So far as is known, there are five exemplars of this document, which is steadily becoming the most famous manuscript in American literature...

...We have no guess as to their motives, and the explanations which we have read have not convinced us...

...Pope Pius XI in a public letter scoring the "horrible, sacrilegious iniquities which have been committed and which, indeed, grow worse every day," calls attention to long years of suppression regarding which so many "liberal observers" have had little or nothing to say...

...Approving the declarations of the Pope and of the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Bishop invited clergymen and people "of all faiths" to a special service of prayer and intercession at the cathedral of Saint John the Divine...

...Anyway, with the strongest army and the greatest air fleet in the world to protect her, it is ridiculous to suppose that France actually fears Italian or German aggression, whatever her delegates say about it...

...His product is a tribute to the possibilities which confront our age...

...Some of these victims have supplied absorbing information regarding the methods used-the yarn about working for an education, the tale of the poor little girl who needs the money (told to middle-aged business men) and similar frauds...

...The luck which has been as a guardian angel to our post-war Presidents has notoriously deserted Mr...

...The lapidary of folk knowledge who gave enduring form to the statement that, when the wind is in the west, then 'tis at the very best -did he know about modern cleaning bills...

...Two factors which have undoubtedly contributed to the progress are listed in General Weygand's reply to his critics...

...Suddenly, out of a mist of legend, there emerges the great figure of Col-umbanus, so significant for the history of Europe as a whole and so representative of Irish Christianity...

...Fortunate, indeed, will be the man who can acquire and preserve so illustrious a bit of paper...

...As described, this is really a graduate course in dishonesty...

...The ministry rallied to his support, however, and the incident closed with abundant applause for the new chief whom Marshal Foch had termed an indispensable aide...

...It would seem that the Metropolitan protests too much...

...But it might be gracious to remember that the French have insisted that they want a submarine fleet for defense only...

...The Pope has directed an ax against religious suppression...

...would he not have dissolved the partnership upon learning that it was headed for a filter in Central Park...

...A Critic of the Movies MR...

...As to the ancients, what would they make now of their Zephyrus, the balm-laden, the golden, the messenger of the gods and their son...

...This year there were at least two new publications, one of which (Dr...

...We are glad to see the reply because it ought to force a showdown...

...A blush often mounted to her cheeks when, in obedience to the laws of her chosen form of poetical expression, she was compelled to portray the detestable madness of unholy love...

...It might have been well to have disguised so revealing an emotion...

...A Dangerous Job A CURIOUS social problem is brought to light by the Travelers' Aid Society's announcement that "magazine crews," as organized by various agencies interested in selling subscriptions, have employed young people with amazing disregard for their welfare...

...The Society reports more than a hundred cases in thirty different cities...

...At present nothing survives of this pristine terror excepting the echo...

...Incident in the Bay State WE HAVE not much faith in spring elections as prophetic of the fall...

...That position has been further strengthened by their seeming insistence upon a political pact of security, with teeth in it, or a 700,000-ton navy which would certainly force Great Britain and subsequently this country to add substantially to the tonnages which they have been previously willing to accept...

...Indeed, it is already achievement of a kind no previous time could have produced, and so a proof that we are not so emasculated and unworthy as sundry contemporary Jeremiases would have you believe...

...Indeed, it is the longing for peace that now strikes us as so evident a part of Lincoln's basic emotion...

...She explains them: "Lamenting the fact that many Christians, carried away by the beauty of the play, take delight in the comedies of Terence and thereby learn many impure things, she determines to copy closely his style, in order to adapt the same methods to the extolling of triumphant purity . . . as he has used to depict the victory of vice...

...Its charges have been direct, unequivocal, and supported with documents...

...Twenty years ago a soldier's Catholicism actually did bar him from the highest military offices...

...Here is a fine response to the plea for Catholic action...

...DESIGNATED chief-of-staff of the French army, General Weygand fought a preliminary battle with sundry spokesmen for the left, who averred that he was so clerical as to render an assault upon the government inevitable...

...Thomas F. Madi-gan, the New York autograph collector, had acquired one of the copies of the Gettysburg address...

...has never been subjected to persecution before or now," and that, although some of the churches have been closed, it "was not done on the initiative of the authorities but at the request of the people, in some cases on the decision of the churchgoers themselves...

...In so far as this argument is not a flimsy assumption, it is incredible to civilized men...

...She could accept a drastic cut in her present navy without putting Italy within striking distance...

...Wonders of Scholarship ACCUSTOMED as we are to devices which enable the recluse of Colorado to follow an address by King George or to take in a New York concert while he smokes his woodland pipe, no instruments of investigation seem very marvelous to us...

...the chips must fall as they may...

...Subsequently there have been other public protests by representative rabbis and spokesmen for the ministry...