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...The "high-wage policy" is dictated, therefore, by scientific management...

...He is considered an amiable and energetic young man, whose decision gives evidence of sound business acumen...

...At any rate it gives us something to live up to...

...and Mr...

...Nationalism, which played so large a part in the separation of Constantinople from Rome and in subsequent developments, has created a series of barriers between the oriental and occidental minds...

...Predisposed by early environment and very inconstant health to sensitiveness, Lawrence consciously made of himself a kind of delicate stringed instrument upon which all the forces of earth could play...

...DUT though the ideal of reunion between the East and West has been entertained during centuries, nothing suggests immediate realization of the vision...

...A far more symbolic figure is that of Mr...

...We know that it is out of all proportion to our wealth...

...We suspect, of course, that the authorities responsible for this remarkable statement put no more faith in it than we do, but the unemployment situation has become so embarrassing that someone must be blamed for it, if only to divert public attention from the main problem...

...We ourselves are too immediately on the ground to know whether he has spoken truly of us or not...

...everyone would have been pleased enough...

...The Economist adds that the situation today is interesting and strange...

...One cannot feel that this was a lofty ambition or a wholly satisfying achievement...

...Their editorials had denounced Judge Walther for granting an injunction which aimed to restrain an officer from performing his legal duties...

...Whalen's paper beforehand he would have given different testimony...

...For what Mr...

...This proposal that judges should "refer matters of contempt other than those committed in their immediate presence to another judge for trial . . . so that the court will not bring itself into disrepute by sitting in judgment in a case in which it is vitally interested," if followed as a matter of law, would eliminate from such cases the possibility of prejudice subverting justice...

...If we are going to do it in slipshod fashion there is no use in doing it...

...While we do not doubt that the Pope is speaking from the heart," the Economist concludes, "it would be difficult to believe that considerations of high ecclesiastical polity are altogether absent from His Holiness's mind...

...Of course one does not expect retired ambassadors to speak in other than the tenderest terms" of friendly powers...

...He even tackled a number of college presidents with the question: "Is there drinking in your institution...

...and gradually he became a chronicler of the stealthy wanderings of sex through the unconscious- or, at least, through what he thought was the unconscious...

...The sentence imposed-$500 fine and thirty days in jail-was as much a travesty of justice as it was an expression of vindictiveness...

...The London Economist, one of the best informed among the English weeklies, referred to the point in a recent editorial...

...Obliging Statistics SOME months ago we published an article by Frank Whalen on The Cult of Statistics which called attention to the fact that figures could be collected to prove almost anything...

...Samuel Crowther whose testimony on the dry side of the prohibition hearing was recently heard in Washington...

...In the Russian and Ottoman empires, strongholds of the orthodox faith before the war, there has set in a catastrophic decline of "Byzantine" religious influence...

...Secretary Davis admits that it is "distressing" and Senator Wagner was not exaggerating when he said that "the situation is accompanied by all the pain of an acute attack," and "all the symptoms of a chronic ailment...

...Southeastern Europe is still preeminently orthodox, but the position of the Catholic Church is stronger than ever before...

...Here, then, is a report meriting civic thanks, if only because it is a challenge to thought on a tragically important problem...

...That is the situation in Cleveland, where the Ohio district court of appeals has freed Louis B. Seltzer, editor, and Carlton K. Matson, chief editorial writer of the Cleveland Press, on contempt of court sentences...

...After reminding its readers that whereas the Papacy "has been above and aloof from the sovereignty of secular governments ever since the eighth century," the Orthodox Churches have been kept in a position of subservience to the state...

...DuBrul's contention, but one must not overlook the real change in human attitude which has been effected by trade-unionism and public opinion...

...The situation becomes clearer if one consults some such recent survey of eastern eccle-siasticism as that published in French by Pere Janin...

...We have seen a thrill of pleasure light up hundreds of faces when a play knocked out three or four men...

...But exact figures are missing...

...In reversing this sentence and freeing the writers of the charge against them, the court of appeals scored Judge Walther for improper conduct and for setting a penalty in excess of that provided by statute, but proposed a procedure in contempt of court cases which should be made obligatory on all jurists who feel that their dignity, or the dignity of their court, has been impaired...

...It may be that similar "considerations" had weight with the archbishop of Canterbury...

...This last plan is obviously so much more of a guarantee against lapses into crime than the present practice of sending the parolee forth with $10, a new suit of clothes and "a job that may not last a week," that approval of it will probably be general...

...Joseph Schwarzer, until recently coach of Manhattan College, who has retired (we are told) to organize a chain of meat stores in Syracuse...

...Certainly if he had read Mr...

...A SOMEWHAT similar trend toward realism was evident in an address delivered by Mr...

...For all indications are that the summer will find several million of our fellow-citizens still jobless, despite the customary seasonal pick-up...

...Those eastern churchmen who sought protection against the encroachments of secular authority have normally "looked to Rome as the champion of ecclesiastical liberty...

...But the prayer for Christian unity, almost as ancient as the Church itself, must be patient and persevering...

...As a successor to the Senate coalition and the delayed tariff, therefore, we propose the lawless drinkers of the country, who are forc-the government to spend money on enforcement which might have gone into the digging of canals...

...We know nothing positive about our fellow-countrymen generally...

...We are not an intelligent community when we do not finish the job that the prisons begin...

...Although the editorials were published after the court action was completed, Judge Walther hailed the two defendants before the bar, and presided at their trial...

...WEEK BY WEEK The Jobless Millionsing WE CAN make nothing except a bad joke out of the statement that the Senate's delay over the tariff bill is responsible for continued and increasing unemployment all over the country...

...ONE reason for the absence of everything except explanations is the fact that no one knows how widespread unemployment really is...

...There Is No Hurry for Coffin Nails PUBLIC welcome of Mr...

...Something quite like a zest for human raw meat has been noticeable in the crowds which, amply befuddled with alcohol, have assembled in diverse stadia during recent seasons...

...The President has spoken in favor of such machinery on several occasions...

...But few readers who have any realization of the growing importance of preventive agencies of all sorts will disagree with the principle of Chairman Lewisohn's statement: "Parole is as important in crime prevention as imprisonment...

...Eastern Christian Unity THAT the Vatican is constantly striving to win the eastern schismatic Churches for Catholic unity is a thought which, naturally enough, has been suggested by the recent summons to prayer in behalf of Russian sufferers for the Faith...

...Crowther had to say in favor of prohibition was based on statistics he had collected in order to write an article for a decidedly dry magazine-a magazine which would not have printed anything suggesting that the Eighteenth Amendment was not a success...

...The committee numbers Sam A. Lewisohn, George W. Alger, Edwin J. Cooley, Jane M. Hoey, John S. Kennedy, and Raymond Moley-workers in this field whose eminence and long and disinterested service invest their recommendations with great authority...

...The number of Roman Catholics living according to oriental rites is only about eight million, or slightly more than 4 percent of the total...

...Possibly he might even have decided not to appear...

...Low wages and social indifference are not assets to any corporation, and the mere fact that even the spurious "high pay" claim assailed by Mr...

...Sir Esme's Compliment IN HIS address at the Pilgrim's dinner, Sir Esme Howard paid the United States the finest compliment which it has received in a long time...

...This brutalization of the audience is, perhaps, a far greater peril to the game than any amount of subsidizing or supercoaching...

...These figures indicate graphically the extent of the progress made during hundreds of years of unrelenting effort...

...Schwarzer had certainly impersonated a growing tendency to regard the sport of football as a kind of modern gladiatorial spectacle...

...Now personally Mr...

...DuBrul predicted that this would lead eventually to a better distribution of employment and to shorter hours...

...Some of those recommendations may startle by the lengths to which they carry the logic of the parole method...

...The question may not be as fallacious as the famous "Have you stopped beating your wife ?" but surely the inquiring journalist could have anticipated no other answer to it...

...Whatever may be done toward speeding up the government's program of construction, any relief which that affords will be only immediate and transitory unless we establish a system meanwhile (such as Senator Wagner's three bills provide for) to gather the facts on unemployment, maintain labor clearing houses, and stabilize business through the accurate timing of public building...

...His best books, which it is already quite easy to select from his enormous output, are almost the quintessence of modern naturalism...

...For a New Parole Board THE recent report of Governor Roosevelt's special committee on New York's parole system invites the serious attention of citizens...

...One single item in the committee's survey-the fact that last year forty-eight workers, state, social and religious, were required to supervise 3,951 parolees-shows that the state is assuredly not now finishing the job the prisons begin...

...It appears that more than one hundred and seventy-two million is a conservative estimate of the membership in the dissident churches...

...E. F. DuBrul, of Cincinnati, at the regional meeting of the Catholic Conference on Industrial Problems held recently in Pittsburgh...

...Englishmen do not realize, he said, "the true desire in the hearts of all its inhabitants, barring some traditional isolationists, to be of use to the world at large, though without political commitments for the future...

...Denying that employers pay better wages in order to increase the market for finished products, he declared that experience in many forms of enterprise shows that men will work faster and harder if they are paid more...

...Union will be reached not through some spectacular action but through what the Baron von Hiigel might have termed the "deserving-mindedness" of the Church as a communion of souls...

...All that can be done is to prepare the way and to remove obstacles, so that Providence may not be retarded by human factors...

...Reversal VINDICATION is always satisfying, but one's joy may be tempered by the thought that the need for vindication should never have been created...

...The status of religious and social workers, whose contribution is admittedly of great value, must also be clarified...

...or the French at the naval conference (presuming it fails) on the supposition that they will have tied up our money in battleships instead of releasing it for new roads...

...CHIEF features of the ideal parole program, as envisaged by the committee, are that the powers and activities of investigation and recommendation now shared among five state parole systems be vested in one board...

...It compelled him, in the end, to defend his prejudices with reasoning anybody can see through...

...MacManus suggests: "Let every American business man go back to the good old plan of doing his own thinking, running his own business, preserving his own independence (with due respect for the rights of others) and America will prosper more surely than it ever can or will by blindly following or being frightened by a dogmatic rule set down by one fellow business man, or any group of them, no matter how large and influential that group may be...

...From its very beginning the case against the two men was malodorous...

...Other provisions will invite debate...

...in any plan to help them, therefore, the possibility of error may be as high as 100 percent...

...Perhaps no other modern prose writer-and a few poets excepting James Stephens-offer so much arresting and haunting imagery to describe elemental and yet fascinatingly delicate experiences which grow out of man's concern with nature...

...A Future for Coaches AT LAST a coach has been found who at least suggests the popular ideal...

...For facts are always facts, and they indicate that in the present instance costs are pared down by farming out the manufacture of parts to factories which pay low wages and by curtailing the earnings of the dealer...

...Well, a writer no doubt must earn a living but at least he should have sufficient sense of humor to know how far he could carry a joke...

...It implies that the tariff schedules developed under the last two Republican administrations were not worthy of the name, and it disrupts the connection drawn in 1928 between prosperity and Republicanism...

...Doubtless the vast political and economic changes now taking place will have a profound effect...

...All these things, possibly, are true of us, and we hope that what Sir Esme has said is also true...

...We are amazed when a French journalist says that we are happy, but not more so than when an English novelist says that we are melancholic, and we should be amazed if anyone said either that we are a very independent race, or that we can be led around by the nose...

...Theodore MacManus's advertisement editorial, as published last week in The Commonweal and in the daily press, has been cordial even if a little bewildered The toy balloon with which diverse publicity agents have been amusing themselves-the doctrine that the country's biggest producer of a commodity on wheels is selling his product at the lowest possible figure even though he pays the highest known wages-was here punctured with disconcerting neatness and despatch...

...We would recommend a reading of this article to Mr...

...We may add that several large American corporations are now more or less actively considering the five-day week, believing that the result would be a conservation of the health and energies of their employees...

...It is an excellent and impressive editorial...

...There is no doubting that Rockne is too jocose and scientific, Alonzo Stagg more conservative and academic than necessary and Biff Jones too martial...

...So he needed dry statistics and he found them...

...that the board undertake to maintain discharged prisoners in employment, and otherwise, in the most active way, to reestablish their normal relations with society...

...The philosophies he sought out and labored to incorporate in his books were those which aimed to abolish every vestige of restraint...

...Erotic Genius WILL there ever be another D. H. Lawrence ? The death of this most fiercely discussed among modern English writers testifies, at all events, to the waning of an art tendency which threatened to become dominant...

...He could have done that by speaking vaguely of our wealth, energy and ambition...

...in a country as large and of such varied interests as the United States, where the ordinary causes of unemployment are complicated by immigration and a considerable shifting of farm and urban population, to proceed without it is to waste money and to continue needless suffering...

...But though he was a victim of what is probably the fundamental aberration of our time, Lawrence was genuinely a poet...

...McManus has advertising value merits consideration...

...Yet, in venturing upon his new career in roasts and chops, Mr...

...All this and more supports Mr...

...Schwarzer is not so much of a butcher as this announcement might seem to indicate...

...DuBrul is general manager of the Machine Tool Builders Association and has long since manifested a keen interest in business ethics...

...Anywhere between three million and six million persons may be out of work at present...

...We wonder what will be found to serve this purpose once the new tariff is passed and in effect...

...that this board function under the Executive Department instead of the Department of Correction-that the number of workers in the field be much increased and that the salaries of the board and their staff be large enough to secure the full-time services of experts ($15,000 is the top figure named...

...In a crisis like this the active mind will not fail to discover explanations...

...and triumphantly produced their unqualified negatives...

...But on this occasion it does not appear that Sir Esme was merely satisfying the conventions...

...Pope Pius XI is, therefore, acting according to much precedent when he appeals for recognition of the rights of the Russian people...