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2 COMMONWEAL THE November 6, I929 . . . . . . , , , , , , , , , , , , , , z : WEEK BY WEEK M ODERN society has found no adequate solu- tion for the problem of penniless old age. Even...
...It seems to us far more practical broken against a chill barrier of facts among which readjustment to actual values of stocks, foreign liquidation and clever manipulation from on high stand out prominently...
...In behalf of the affirmative, Mr...
...None of them have shown themselves the sort of men whom we should be very anxious to have in power in this government...
...Kipling should cancel his poem...
...In New York state, a legislative committee heard fifteen experts review the evidence in the case and found there ority of the pension system...
...Krutch grants with both hands that the novel has unusual able in the history of manners...
...Hoover--there always is a way out in politics-lieved, President Hoover must turn his attention to but we do not know what it is...
...Boston, but he has visited China often, and it became the dream of his life to assist in its development by means of the airplane...
...convince reporters, editors and publishers, a long and tiresome business...
...It rebukes," says the Christian Century, "all our creedal tests, our rebaptisms, our claims to an exclusive monopoly of priestly was almost unanimous agreement regarding the superifunctions, our sectarianisms based upon social caste or taste or temperament...
...What the Chinese will make of Yee we do not know...
...It is, of course, unfortunate for Mr...
...But riers of their own self-consciousness," and become reof course he frowns rather severely upon Mr...
...that the institution, the boy and the faculty director would all probably a year, he said, should do it, and "this annual increase is equal to the cost of one-half of one battleship...
...Happily there is no need which the Duttons have recently published...
...Experiments in suppling and liberalizing the curriculum in his favor are known Just among us, but how far are they merely vague and tentative, and how far do Suppose they envisage a harmonious and wellunderstood educational end--paid for, let us mark, at a well-understood price...
...During the last fifteen years it has not been hard to sell the country on the notion that business should control public office the assumption being that a straightforward sort of government would then be provided, with no under-cover dealings...
...With an easier job and a more reliable salary, his lot was more fortunate than Mr...
...writing everywhere bears the stamp of harrowing Mr...
...By this standard, it is the modern achievement that is most definitely relegated...
...Slovaks both here and in the homeland have not beenslow to express a resentment which is, in all truth, IOO percent bitter...
...The immediate and vociferous pro- pathy...
...The novel's chief puris evident from more than one item in the news...
...How much less astute and how much more ridiculous we consider the lobbying interests since the great steel and ship men have confessed that they were a few weeks ago, was never lucky enough to work hand RUSSIA AGAINST HEAVEN W HAT Soviet Russia intends to do about religion, fooled by Shearer, and that he put one over on them...
...According to Mr...
...Is it tor...
...that his college should be sporting enough to make the experiment...
...In For at Detroit the President's light was hidden...
...ranks or even to to public welfare, both should be included in the work form a third party...
...Both were willing to influence legislation in underhanded ways, and neither could justify it afterward...
...In the light of such a reading to be a reform which actually promises to save the taxof the mind of God all these divisions among us be- payers a good deal of money, it is estimated that if come nothing else but sin...
...The result was a series of books about Mars, which we hold infinitely superior to the hallucinative novels of Mr...
...Of course we shall grant the equality of all Chrisold-age pensioning and urged society to supply an answer...
...Ten millions sponsible educator--is both attracted and perturbed...
...McKelvie and himself...
...If the college will undertake the experiment, the magnate will undertake to pay a story-book price for it...
...Wall Street may be the scene of melodrama with an unhappy ending...
...whether this state is to choose its own senators or is to have them handpicked at Washington . . . . Senator Norris had better submit his own cause directly to the people...
...THE president--meaning the typical alert and re- dress at Louisville were his estimates of the expense of OF PARTICULAR interest in the President's adcarrying out a program for really adequate river development...
...Tarzan, and we like him all the better now as expensive as the future...
...We are inclined to believe that the fault lies largely with the Czechs, who as the majority party have never fully accepted the spirit of the Pittsburgh Agreement which is their country's basic conpose is to import more of recognizable human experience, of what is sometimes called "life," into literature than the competing forms--the epic, the drama and so on--find possible...
...but those novelists who still emerge as "indispensable" in the artistic sense-tract...
...the necessity for "self-expression," the And he is probably right...
...There it is expected that Senator conformity to an external routine for the gifted, but Norris, who voted for Smith but still retains the what positive course is it then to follow...
...3 COMMONWEAL THE November 6, I929 But the tragedy appears in the lives of those who, having accepted the advice of the social order at its face value, see the provision made against a rainy day melt away under the influence of bad management, inflated valuations and fraud...
...Then it might become clear that charity is indeed peace, but peace without surrender...
...So judicious a mixture of East and West justifies the citation of Mr...
...Who then can blame the Westerners for their appeal to the President when Mr...
...a somewhat mysterious substitute for child labor...
...At its recent convention in Toronto, the brilliant nobleness, had misread the evidence regarding American Federation of Labor took up the question of the soul...
...Edison and Mr...
...Once again the folly of gambling has been demonstrated to the man who cannot afford to lose, the wisdom of sound investments has been inculcated, and the difficulty involved in making the aforesaid investments has been revealed anew...
...Apparently than a term in the specialized writing courses, where he was a successful lobbyist, but for the most part his encouragement is the biggest thing to be had...
...Panait Istrati's source being placed on the government payroll...
...Not many of its critics, however, an essay in individualism would give them no basis for testing its results...
...editor will keep from its proper place in the reviews...
...Anyone who can detect any note of the Orient in this, any overtone how remote soever, deserves a prize...
...But it brings us to the proper humility toward their profession, but we wonverge of a thought not without its social significance...
...the proposal differ from some imaginary suggestion, in 'the social order, that all Americans were equal regardless of birth or naturalization, of obedience to the law, EXPLANATIONS of the collapse of values on the of function in the administrative routine...
...Hubbard of the Connecticut Manufacturers' As- further attention to the matter seems permissible...
...They select, enhance or it may even be invent the details ment for Slovak autonomy, and was for that reason stoutly defended by Monsignor Hlinka, leader of the movement...
...I do not approve of the Here one of the most important documents we have practice of having someone receiving pay from another seen is likewise by a Frenchman...
...Even ceptable...
...He L'Affaire Roussakov, while it does not treat directly now believes that a senator requiring advice and in- of religion under Leninist rule, confirms our worst formation on tariff problems should seek out the ex...
...Meanwhile, of course, that his creator has shown that he is under no illusions one may wonder if coats of arms are of much impor- about the books in which he appears...
...The Czecho-Slovakian situation is probably Abroad Nationalisms the most important, because sooner or later racial groups now sparring for autonomy will stage a serious fight...
...School was a place to "dump the tor Reed's prediction that the bill would die in the present special session may have been to Senators Smoot and Borah, it certainly comes as no surprise to the public...
...and interest of the objects it represents, it will become Their presence in the Home Study and Extension Deno more than 'the science of fools with long memo- partments at Columbia indicates that they have a ries.' " That is a little harsh...
...If he had been, matics or anything else would be of more real worth possibly, he would not have lost his job...
...But meanwhile WHAT are the rights of the unusual student in colhis countenance bears a striking resemblance to the cat that swallowed the canary...
...But if we do not think more says finally, "heraldry can symbolize and reflect the highly of Copy as a proof of the value of courses in conditions and achievements of mankind in the twen- writing, it is because the best things in the book are tieth century--not losing its decorative value, but by authors who have been identified, more or less rather discerning and expressing the essential character prominently, with magazine work for some years...
...WE SUPPOSE that most men in the position of The stream of consciousness approach, the photo- Mr...
...Joseph Wood Krutch does in some man with a long purse and a direct way of acting, buys recent meditations entitled, But Is It the Muses up privileges of college and makes them over to him...
...Burroughs says frankly: "I had gone MR...
...Krutch, artificial enough...
...Crowds of "modest leader of some type or other...
...This, of course, is another detail put in to complete the diagram and to make the challenge as inescapable as possible...
...or even a place where youth was drilled in the art of putting on airs...
...Billions of dollars dwindled to tion other than that which might accrue to a discussion less than pence...
...But he feels equally that he is the cus- construction as the result of the forthcoming naval todian of the college's professed purpose, which is the conference in London, nothing could be a finer or more imparting of a socialized education...
...One may affirm that his conclusions are tion's paid representative, as his secretary, and ad- supported in the main by Communists resident in other mitting him into the Tariff Committee's secret sessions...
...Shearer's...
...Art deals with quintessences and universals, with qualities and patterns abstracted from the accidental and the irrelevant, perfected, made "more like themselves...
...upon which Scott-Giles lays considerable stress...
...From the beginning it has insisted that the central matter in religion is not the effort of man himself, but the grace that comes from on high...
...There are few tance...
...The country has ADMINISTRATION advisers were quick to realize bishops' pastoral letter: "An education that unites enjoyed a chance to ponder these words from the lege...
...Is it possible genuinely Impoverished investors" who had been flirting with to unify men on the basis of a mystical acceptance of margins abandoned the game with a Christ, without any reference to their intellectual per- sigh and went home to dream of happier Monte ception of Him or His meaning...
...Newspaper 5 COMMONWEAL THE November6, I929 necessary for a unified and organic world, a world that achievements, we are well-nigh reduced to letting him endures "because . . . it is rounded, it is complete, talk over the radio...
...That they and many like them have a certain felt, may be one explanation for the bewildered and often contradictory courses that our Congress follows...
...glad that in doing so it has further undermined the reputation of American business as the only twentiethcentury treasure-house of efficiency and honesty...
...Let them choose between Mr...
...There is a way out for I F WASHINGTON despatches are to be be- Mr...
...work was done through the newspapers...
...If heraldry can really accomplish anything so suggestive in the realm of education, there is room for it in COPY, the yearly anthology of work done by stuthis country and this day and age...
...He had to WHEN Yee Ben Wee, the former Mort Street laundryman, took up flying with the object of bringing air-mindedness to the Orient, it was Is There inevitable that there should have arisen here and there murmured paraphrases of Kipling...
...and the very measure of its success in doing this must be, generally speaking, the measure of its failure as art...
...Pichel's sponsible for efforts which without his encouragement addiction to knights and blood analysis...
...What endurance is there in kiloand it contains within itself all that is necessary to cycles ? Obviously here is no monument aere perennius...
...impressions of what is occurring...
...Eyanson could attack his problem more directly...
...Or perhaps they are all like this too, by now...
...Charles E. Mitchell, president of the world's largest bank, returned from abroad with a reassuring smile...
...in particular the faith of the Catholic Church, how stubborn, and, to say the least, ungracious, since has lately started so many people guessing that some Mr...
...We are convinced that since coalition and, at the worst, in stimulating the insurgent religion and morality are essential to right living and western Senators to bolt the G.O.P...
...sary to carry such an intensive experiment through...
...including the degree...
...Curiously enough, they witnessed, and continues to witness, the ocean waves did not always have this impression of of the Senate tariff debate...
...It is no secret that, left alone, he would devour every progressive in sight...
...Czech opposition contended, however, that he was really a Hungarian and a spy...
...Krutch it usually isn't art, and for a reason diffiWHAT a powder-box southeastern Europe remains cult indeed to get away from...
...At Detroit he particiconvention, though no one, not even an expert peda- pated in one of the most inane episodes of modern gogue, knows whether it should or not...
...is now relatively simple, because M. Georges Goyau, "I approve of what Senator Bingham has done Ioo the French historian and academician, has summarized percent...
...the presidential campaign organization was never made clear, belittles these executive fears...
...THE HUNDRED PERCENTERS F IERHAPS lobbying investigations a not unhappy is the result revenge of the thus Senate's taken closures ago, it may are taken be that with the the word oil "business" scandals of will a few lose years the upon a system which has often made life burdensome to senators...
...But after reading the interview which Yee Ben Wee gave the papers, Between the apologetic shipbuilders and the wellsatisfied Mr...
...and since the author perts of the Tariff Commission...
...Nothing about the total result is more...
...Senator Moses, whose position in of education...
...I knew nothing about the technique of Stubbs to the effect that, in an earlier age, "the coat story writing, and now after eighteen years of writing, of armor of every house was a precious inheritance I still know nothing about the technique, although, which descended, under definite limitations and with with the publication of my new novel, Tarzan and the distinct differences, to every member of the family...
...This sociation has endorsed the Bingham-Eyanson entente...
...Unless," he might never be made...
...We have a better understanding of had already been aggravated by the selection of Mr...
...Shearer, whom everyone was taking a kick at truth...
...The crisis in Russia's attitude toward religion was...
...On to Glued together for a national election, ANNUAL observance of Education Week has done the structure of the party band-wagon...
...Are we not stock exchange remain varied, but the fact that the confronted here with what is, essentially, a leveling market was suddenly without a bottom of clergy and laity, so that the first possesses no func- Wall Street abides...
...difficulty of holding to ideals, and so on...
...Oddly enough, this appears Pact is something else entirely...
...and the amenities of home are missing at a time much else than a particularly milky and watery distilla- when descent into second childhood makes them so aption of Leibnitz...
...one feels that they have met only in the intimate and special sense in which the lady and the tiger met when out for a ride...
...The Omaha sometimes are not--to the president, and specifies that World-Herald has already declared "the issue to be the latter is to give him a perfect college education, November 6, x929 T H E C O M M O N W E A L 4 accounts of the proceedings force one to believe that the evidence upon which he was convicted deserves to be qualified by a list of adjectives such as meagre and artificial...
...But the Church itself cannot be merely equality...
...The magnate brings his son--a brilliant of the Federal Farm Board, former governor of boy, for the sake of the argument, as magnate's sons Nebraska and original Hoover supporter...
...But the idea of the plan to substitute pensions for institutional care...
...Is it possible, one asks, so New York abandoned its poor farm system, not one to deflate the sense of corporate unity that every visible but many millions could be saved...
...China's vast undeveloped power, however, and are able to make its pressure areas," says Yee Ben Wee, "constitute a tremendous latent power...
...For many years we have had a warm affection of coming events...
...countries, whose knowledge of Russia is first-hand...
...at a word, the solitary interest and the group interest least it was lost in the high incandescence of such are again interlocked in a struggle which will probably luminaries as Mr...
...After deploring the "divisive and rivaling churches" which hamper the work of religion, the Pact goes on to say: "We propose to the prison is hardly a more desolate place in which to live than is the institution in which Safeguarding feeble old men and women are housed...
...The socializing energies of the school are eastern industry...
...Moses is so rampantly at large...
...He defends current municipal heraldry in England from the charge that it is a merely antiquarian abuse of a mediaeval device by reminding his readers that "the sword and the spur, the portcullis and the water bouget were in their day modern and utilitarian articles...
...make it comprehensible...
...The whole matter sign of the community will have no significance ? Does is so important that The Commonweal hopes to publish an authoritative article on it soon...
...The Professor was prominent in the moveCervantes, for example, Jane Austen, to some extent Dickens--emerge precisely because they do not depend on what are called "transcripts from life...
...makes a fairly good case in The Romance of Heraldry, Burroughs turn literary...
...Recently he enrolled in the Holmes airport in Queens and has now become a solo flyer...
...How much is an development of the inland waterways, which is a unusual intelligence worth, in terms of the less unusual proper business...
...Scott-Giles things which we should regret more than to see Mr...
...Senator Bingham is not nearly so sure that the available evidence in a very depressing but informhe did the right thing in using Eyanson, the Associa- ative book...
...After all, men cannot grow together in the spirit unless their relation to God is that of a branch to the tree...
...intelligences which may possibly have to be neglected to bring it to flower...
...One answer Republican label, will be opposed in the primaries is boldly given in the current Atlantic Monthly by a next August by a candidate "endorsed if not selected hypothetical but none the less disturbing business magby the White House...
...Yee Ben Wee was born in an Orient...
...It is to be based solely upon the boy's needs and capacities, and to employ to that end any of the college's resources that may be required, including the time and the attention of one particularly able faculty director...
...They are not, says Mr...
...We have no Device remarking that his charge of $250 for stories, which we should be inclined to rank somewhat a mention seems pretty low when one notices the sums below Rider Haggard, and somewhat above Trader expended for astral records and sundry other glimpses Horn...
...Carlos...
...Equality between nations and races, between saints and sinners, in the Church~yes...
...Some of this feeling remains, but Education Week, parent-teacher associations and similar agencies have effected many commences to serve as an all-the-yearround vehicle...
...purposes of religious education...
...And that German sage, for all his pealing...
...This candidate, according to nate to an equally hypothetical, and disturbed, college Washington, is to be Samuel R. McKelvie, member president...
...Meanwhile the Catholic school, too, has tests to the White House by the Progressive wing, profited...
...One wave of excited popular speculation had We believe that these questions are sufficient to justify the feeling that here is a type of unification which leaves out of consideration altogether the organic principle...
...the inmates get be denied membership in our churches, nor pulpit courtesies to other ministers...
...He feels that there is a general sound tradition in favor of giving special time and trouble to specially Hoover's Travels promising students...
...But when the recent disextravagant political value it has been credited with...
...Edgar Rice Burroughs, whose books have sold graphic detail, the astonishing mastery of moments, 8,ooo,ooo copies, would be very digniAn Honest all that brilliant apparatus for rendering the immediate fled when speaking of their early writMan and the actual, are by their very success doomed to ing days, refer to the "creative urge," pass...
...The case becomes exceedingly interesting, therefore, as an indication of violent feeling on a rampage...
...Thus progresses the cannot be suspected of reactionary tendencies, his education of Senator Bingham...
...If we are so fortunate as to save this annual outlay on naval benefit by it...
...Professor Irving Fisher proved by analysis of statistics that stock rates have been lower during I929, when earnings are taken into consideration, than they were during I928...
...He quotes for fear...
...Why should not the past be quite for Mr...
...how the home and the classroom must be co6rdinated Otto H. Kahn as treasurer to the Republican Sena- in the discipline of youth through guidance and symtorial Committee...
...Kipling's metrical axiom, if only for the purpose of affirming contrarily that, in this case, the twain have met...
...An interesting clue to the situation is the trial of Professor Vojtech Tuka, who was recently sen- powers of entertainment, and that it has been invalutenced to prison for fifteen years on a charge of treason...
...ing...
...That is precisely the situation which clearer to us all...
...The college that the Moses appointment might result, at the least, intellectual, moral and religious elements is the best in strengthening the present Progressive-Democratic training for citizenship...
...And so far he has escaped with less blame than the naval expert, even though he was out to save the Connecticut manufacturers, where Mr...
...ties underlying its opposition to an alliance between interesting than the advertising given to the central Senator Moses's cohorts and banking interests...
...Then we shall know, after election day, whether Nebraska is still a sovereign state or has degenerated into a satrapy...
...it seems likely to fall to pieces when it more than a little to convince American parents that teacher's business is an august and use- I93~ Teacher's kids...
...Ford...
...The essence of this is expressed in a "Reconciliation Pact," which many Protestant clergyman here and abroad have signed, and which findt its theoretical defense in a book by the Reverend Peter Ainslee, The Scandal of Christianity...
...Year after year it has emphasized matters based on the magnified fear that western bloc senators set forth in the general program supplied by the will be opposed by regular Republican candidates in National Catholic Welfare Conference...
...Hoover that at this juncture Senator Reed should emphasize the conflict between western agriculture and reforms...
...With all the go0d-will in one another's nerves, and tire out even the sturdiest the world, we cannot bring ourselves to feel that this is nurses...
...man's shield proved his gentle birth, illustrated his We are very glad to be free in these columns to give pedigree, and put him on his honor not to disgrace this indirect notice of a book which a tyrannical book the bearings which his noble progenitors had worn...
...that it might be unjust to the other ing, it is the stop at Detroit which we think should be students to divert from them whatever would be neces- accounted the failure, and that at Louisville the success...
...Hoover is thus placed in the unfortunate position of being asked to repudiate an action the precedent for which his administration is accused of set- may waive standardized requirements and the rule of ting in Nebraska...
...When will the United States learn how to protect the conservative investor...
...The nation is apparently not headed just yet for a period and desirable that every major Christian corporation should strive to develop its own functional life, without worrying primarily about the others...
...Only a granting of degrees is the faculty's responsibility, such handful of people turned out to hear him say this, and yet in histories of the President's westward travelTHERE have always been those who had few kind words for the novel...
...That, in spite of the good wishes of educators, the exceptional have defined its limitations as pithily as student will come into his own only when some gentle- Stepchild of Mr...
...a Lost Empire, there are thirty-one books on my llst...
...Some of them the primaries, indicates at once Progressive unity have gone much farther and have voiced a commendagainst the Old Guard, and the tremendous potentiali- able initiative...
...CHARLES L. T. PICHEL has ventured into thoroughly through some of the all-fictlon magazines, legal hot water through a scheme to publish a book and I made up my mind that if people were paid for listing the names of Americans who writing rot such as I read, I could write stories just as rotten...
...This, at least, would not imply the abandonment of functional life...
...Well, if they are, the East has stopped existing, and Mr...
...Washington reported officially that business was sound...
...that, while the vivid conversion of swords to plowshares...
...The mediating purpose of the priesthood is, then abidof financial discomfort, even though a host of citizens are broke...
...The country needs the help of western science in bringing her power into dynamic We are glad that the Senate is turning on its harriers, being...
...Sundered from it, through whatever specious belief in change, not even faith, hope and charity remain...
...There are statues in parks, but most of advantages of a course in the short story to a writer them commemorate only some exceedingly bad sculp- whose work has already met with some success...
...We should We in America are very poor in methods of perpetuat- value the opinion of Isa Glenn, for instance, on the ing esteem...
...However startling Sena- Own Week it...
...The country has already ful endeavor...
...Hubbard there is not much choice...
...At Louisgo to the latter through sheer weight of custom and ville he shone without rivalry...
...And so, when we set out to observe a great man's not likely that to such a one, a year or two in the post- November 6, I929 COMMONWEAL THE 6 graduate school studying history, literature, mathe- in glove with a Senate committee...
...The cost of caring for them is so high Old Age practise, in all our spiritual fellowships, the equality of all Christians before God, so that no Christian shall that little money can be expended on additional comforts...
...We agree with him in so far as a teacher of writing, or any other art, can give his students a "lift over barTHE modern usefulness of heraldic armor is a point A School versity, has made its sixth appearance, and this, according to Professor Bur...
...Optimism regarding the country's general economic situation followed the storm, of course, very like the sun...
...I probably made a mistake...
...dents in the special writing courses of Columbia Unifor Writers rell, "is surely one kind of answer to those unsympathetic critics who affirm that writing cannot be taught...
...H. G. Wells, and the Tarzan desire to follow him thither, beyond Armor with have "the blood of mediaeval knights a Strange flowing in their veins...
...California will actually proceed, under a law tians, in the sense conveyed by the immemorial teach- to go into effect during January of next year, with a ing of the "soul of the Church...
...How flexible, times (through no fault, perhaps, of his own)--at then, should our liberal-arts colleges be, looking to the Louisville he spoke of the necessity and opportunity for ultimate benefit of the community...
...But Mr...
...And lastly, can it be that the Atlantic's little parable is also a portent...
...Shearer was out to save the nation...
...So long as Senator Bingham relied upon him so absolutely for advice, he had little worry as to what anyone else thought about Connecticut's tariff demands...
...2 COMMONWEAL THE November 6, I929 . . . . . . , , , , , , , , , , , , , , z : WEEK BY WEEK M ODERN society has found no adequate solution for the problem of penniless old age...
...der how much they have been benefited...
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