Week by Week
WEEK BY WEEK Hunger and Homeopathy RECURRENT breadlines in practically all the larger cities of the United States are decidedly not sops to the national pride. The Salvation Army and other relief...
...Senator Robert Wagner, of New York, has therefore been advocating with no little eloquence a homeopathic remedy...
...Theorists of those days had the whole plan neatly outlined-cooperative kitchens and dining-rooms, scientifically trained nursemaids...
...Whether this trend will hold to the bitter end we have no way of telling, but there is little harm in predicting that the final totals will find the largest number of votes in the "repeal column...
...It goes without saying that a wife and mother in our age will necessarily have occasion to do, live and act outside her own four walls...
...Of especial interest, however, are the reasons which have prompted this action...
...Stimson should perchance read an account of himself in la Revue Universelle, the French royalist journal, he might well be impelled to meditate upon this truth...
...and it is not Mr...
...He deposits his money on any day of the month and withdraws on any day, and receives full interest for each and every day his money remained with the bank...
...in New York, one-sixth...
...Michigan, we remind them, is one of Mr...
...Appropriate honors are to be conMaryland ferred upon men and women who have distinguished themselves in arts and letters...
...Who knows but what the Sisters of Bon Secours will, in a few years, be as familiar in the United States as they are abroad...
...Ford might be persuaded to turn his attention to the theoretic aspects of the case, and instead of joining battle with the feminine magistracy of Stephenson, might take on M. Romier in debate...
...A group of four corn belt states, however-Ohio, Indiana, Illinois and Iowa-display a much more divided public sentiment...
...This, coupled with a prevailing interest rate of 41/2 percent-which is better than the yield on many seasoned bonds and higher than the recent rates on call money-makes the savings bank something far more interesting than a cemetery in which to lay embalmed pennies...
...it is intensified when the children are blind...
...The sum needed for this highly important work is comparatively small...
...To this order rich and poor, humble and mighty, Catholics and agnostics are all fellow human beings, who need help in the spirit of Christ...
...What Will Mr...
...To date the verdict on Volsteadism is, of course, not clear...
...In spite of all this, however, the Secretary is described as being "very active, amiable, simple, a bit brusque, courageous, given to studying problems with the most scrupulous care...
...Much has been done for those so afflicted and much yet remains to be done...
...Exultant feminists should not string their harps too soon over this, however...
...But to meet this, several of the larger savings banks have introduced a new economic factor in the form of daily interest on deposits, thus providing the man of modest means with an amazingly high rate of interest on absolutely liquid cash...
...The indispensable sewing department describes Russian embroidery...
...Twenty states, including the District of Columbia, have been heard from, and with the single exception of Kansas the wets have the better of the argument...
...Immediately afterward, in a spirit of rapprochement that no one could have foreseen, the village of Stephenson, Michigan, elected women to every one of its offices...
...The Salvation Army and other relief agencies report that Huneer and "conditions are worse than they have been for a good many years...
...THE celebrated French editor, M. Lucien Romier, recently said that "man's authority throughout the world is on the decline," and that woman will soon dispute with him pre-eminence in every field, domestic and professional...
...But the freshened vitality of the New York savings banks-mutual institutions, all of them-stems from at least one source that lies deeper than mere conservatism...
...It is a little difficult for Americans to visualize this situation, accustomed as we are to finding our nursing sisters closely identified with hospitals and infirmaries...
...Hitherto precisely these have been difficult to find in the United States, owing to the circumstance that the congregation had no novitiates outside of France...
...To do Tariff the job up right it rejected Senator Seekers Walsh's clause to admit lumber duty free from Canada, forest conservation not bulking very large in the face of reports from Missouri predicting disaster without duty, as read into the Record by Senator Hawes...
...The intelligence with which it addresses its aim might make this modest magazine for readers in their teens a model for many pretentious adult publications...
...Taking the figures so far accumulated, one finds interesting regional differences...
...and Mrs...
...strain of the trial is happily over and done with...
...Within the next month a national convention of independent oil producers will be assembled to consider further steps in the oil tariff campaign...
...The American Girl NAVAL conferences and formal international agreements do not create the only good-will in the world...
...The Savings Bank Revolution PLATITUDES alone will not account for the recent encouraging reports from thirty representative savings banks in the New York district...
...Doheny Acquitted NOBODY save a hard-headed and tough-hearted legal zealot clamoring for the application of the utmost rigor of the law will quarrel with the verdict in the Doheny case...
...and an accurate timing of public work to take up the slack in industry...
...A breezy, shrewdly edited number, its friendliness is not sugary, and its entertaining information translates "foreigners" into human beings without being patronizing...
...After The the heavy withdrawals during the OctoSavings Bank ber and November market break, these Revolution banks have found the rate of increase of deposits accelerating as against recent years...
...Its fiction, juvenile of course, is vigorous and varied...
...Though the material needs of the community are largely paid for through private benefactions, the accession of young women eager to serve is the only elemental necessity...
...This attitude of mind, which seems to be prevalent among the French if their press be any criterion, is interesting and understandable enough...
...Ford's states...
...Ford Say...
...There are letters from everywhere...
...Though this is a good preventive of further ills, mass hysteria particularly, it does nothing for the disease of unemployment...
...Nor, above all, is he a pacifist...
...Its treasurer, Justice Richard P. Lydon, 60 Center Street, New York City, will gratefully welcome all communications...
...Safeguarding the Blind BLINDNESS has always been a misfortune which has irresistibly aroused sympathy and the kind of charity which springs spontaneously from the instinct of the strong to shield the weak...
...Here the dry vote averages about two-thirds of the total, one-half of the Ohio vote supporting the amendment while about three-fourths of the Indiana and Iowa balloteers are professedly dry...
...Of course Senator Norris did not lose the opportunity to point out that while official circles are anxious to inspire an optimistic view of the times, the description of the misfortunes of industry under present tariff schedules, as presented to the Senate, is heartrending...
...The expanding mutual knowledge be-tween nation and nation, and the association of various national groups for purposes other than political, have their own powerful effect in binding peoples together...
...Unfortunately tears were not sufficient persuasion in the case of oil, and producers must struggle along without the protection of $1.00 a barrel...
...This would be a splendid thing for the whole world, saddened as we all are just now by griefs and the rumor of griefs...
...and the last annual report issued by the New York mother house indicates that the sisters worked on 1,121 cases during the year, the great majority of which were charity cases...
...Here, too, they serve the sick in their homes...
...The additional outlay for housekeeping and expenses devours the salary check and then smacks its lips for more...
...Embattled Tariff Seekers THE senatorial Old Guard has again come to the aid of distressed industry, relieved the unemployed, and done a bit for prosperity by remov-Embattled ing lumber from the free list...
...it is to be hoped that many will recognize the good that is done by the Institute and financially aid it to carry its plans to fulfilment...
...But the Congregation of Notre Dame de Bon Secours, as these French nuns are called, has long since made a foundation in the United States...
...Life insurance also provides a source of saving with a tempting gambling factor to boot...
...But we are back to the old truth that matrimony plus labor is not a blessing but a calamity for the married woman...
...New life comes to an institution whenever it begins to exercise a new function-and this new function of providing high interest daily on ready cash is one of those quiet revolutions which has helped to rejuvenate the whole idea of a savings bank...
...Working at a Loss AMONG the discarded vagaries of a quarter-century ago none seems more outlandish than the notion that mothers ought to be freed of their children in order to pursue careers...
...In view of these circumstances, the machinery devised for estimating or treating unemployment is wofully primitive...
...He does not like drinking, and it is said, either smells, or causes to be smelled, the breath of every workman emerging from his factory...
...and this year, which inaugurates the ceremony, will see homage paid to Paul Claudel and Arturo Tos-canini...
...Belloc once did, Cheese around the World...
...The Catholic Institute for the Blind in New York, which is devoted to the care of sightless children, has carried on a splendid work but yet again performance does not equal the many needs it is called upon to meet...
...All in all, it is an interesting game, the value of which nobody can deny...
...Valuable lessons for its young readers to learn...
...It never seemed to occur to anybody then that all this involved a sacrifice of comradeship, love and personality-of those things, in short, which make life interesting...
...It is suggested by the coming to hand of the international number of the American Girl, published by the Girl Scouts -the number devoted "to establishing understanding among the girls of all countries...
...Those who best knew prospector who struck it rich and became one of the great oil and mining magnates of our times, never considered him guilty of deliberate bribery in the matter of the famous loan to ex-Secretary Fall, despite all the ambiguous circumstances, and the black bag which contained more than the proverbial cat...
...From the far West come reports of lay-offs affecting thousands of men...
...This is the true American spirit...
...Largely because of unsettled conditions in the colony they were unable to make any headway with the work...
...Though statements of this kind may need dis-counting because of their publicity value in any drive for funds, they happen to be corroborated at present by news from welfare organizations in smaller cities and suburbs...
...Of course, Mr...
...This, of course, is Georgetown, which now in a particular manner symbolizes the ideals with which the early Jesuits took up their work in this new land of America...
...From Tulsa comes a statement that "We have only begun to fight for our rights," and it rises from the tradition begun with "Don't give up the ship...
...Bonds were beyond his Working at a Loss reach...
...the establishment of a clinical bureau-a system of interlocking federal agencies- to handle the sick...
...Anybody who knows the western mining man, whether rich or poor-particularly those who in the early days went adventuring in the mountains and the deserts questing the natural sources of wealth which have been the fountains of so much of America's material greatness-is well aware of how generous and ready to help each other such men always were, and still are today...
...This rule has now been changed...
...Ford has said publicly that he does not like feminism, women being unfitted to excel in industrial or professional-or, presumably, political-life...
...Ford's habit to sit quiet under what he does not like...
...Today, however, bonds may be purchased in instalments...
...The Digest Poll ONE'S opinion of the Literary Digest poll of prohibition sentiment must reckon with the startling success of the magazine's previous in-The Digest quizes into the nation's point of view, Poll In ways that baffle comprehension somebody appears to have hit upon a method for sizing up the will of the majority...
...Ford and M. Romier are so perfectly matched, the nonsense of the one on the subject of women workers is so exactly opposed by the nonsense of the other, that each should bring out the other's qualities to the full...
...One might piously lay it all up to the caution of the once burned who now prefer safety to perishable paper profits...
...To date it has consisted mostly of a psychological invention which takes the mind off the jobless in order to concentrate it upon prosperity...
...In Connecticut the dry percentage is one-eleventh...
...It is to be hoped, therefore," says our article, "that Stimson, who is accustomed to trying to understand and adopt the point of view of his adversaries, will not voluntarily close his eyes to the sacrifices which France has made for the maintenance of peace and will not demand that she run the risk of exposing herself, some time, to enemies more powerful than she is...
...Hope has not yet been given up, however...
...This undoubtedly was the view taken by the jury...
...The danger from fire to children housed in large groups is always grave...
...Its facts are carefully garnered and carefully representative...
...the cooking considers, as Mr...
...Sisters of the Sick ANYONE who reads French news will be struck by the fact that beside ever so many sickbeds, even when the patients are notoriously anticlerical, there is reported to have been a "sister...
...This thought, never too commonplace to be comforting, is suggested just now not by the manifesto of some peace-promoting organization nor by the yearbook of some learned international society...
...Precisely these blends are among the most difficult of international problems...
...Now comes Miss Frances Perkins, industrial commissioner of the New York State Department of Labor, with the announcement that a married woman's career which is not worth $3,500 annually is a business failure if the family lives up to prevailing middle-class standards...
...At present, drawing a salutary lesson from the disastrous fires which ravaged convents in Canada, the Institute is conducting a campaign to convert its inflammable frame structures into fireproof modern buildings...
...The one matter on which there might well be disagreement is the allocation of a definite sum annually for public works...
...If Secretary Stimson, during his French See apparently numerous hours of leisure, Mr...
...It was a human and commendable view, and so far as The Commonweal is concerned it can only add its measure of congratulations to Mr...
...We are heartily in sympathy with his ideas...
...An American novitiate has been opened on Victory Boulevard, West New Brighton, Staten Island, New York...
...The Fathers of the Society of Jesus who came with the Ark and the Dove to these shores had planned to establish a seat of learning in Maryland, and had secured (in 1640) official approbation of their project from the general of their order...
...But who does not see its strange blend of distrust of the United States with almost unlimited desire for the assistance of the United States...
...Doheny that the long strain of the trial is happily over and done with...
...Stimson INTERNATIONAL good-win has a good many obstacles to surmount, not the least of which are curious partizan conceptions of world pol-As the icy...
...Even a normally prosperous Connecticut town has decided to open a campaign for old clothes and odd jobs...
...Henry L. Stimson," one reads there, "is first and foremost the right-hand man of President Hoover, his confidant, the faithful interpreter of his thought, the blind and devoted engineer of his mystical imperialism...
...Georgetown and Maryland GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY has set aside March 25, anniversary of the establishment of the Maryland colony, as the day upon Georgetown which to commemorate its own found-and ing...
...Informative articles include a piece on French mediaeval pottery, another on an authentic modern girl pilot of the Red Sea, a very readable record of international Scout encampments, and perhaps the best interview with Ishbel MacDonald which has been printed in America...
...Would it not be better to fix this to move between a maximum and minimum, so as to avoid unnecessary expenditures and to take care of emergencies...
...A few decades ago, it was the only place for the man of modest income to deposit and receive interest on small sums of money...
...He did not like the war, and sent a peace ship to stop it...
...Miss Perkins admitted, of course, that modern vacuum cleaners and dishwashers render the average wife much less a Cinderella and more of an older sister...
...and it was not until 1789 that Bishop Carroll could proceed to build a "college on the banks of the Potomac...
...As the Frence see Mr...
...This treatment consists of three parts: scientific study of the malady, through the compilation of adequate statistics regarding the unemployed...
...The actual place of the savings bank in the business structure has been changing...
...The "metropolitan group" of eastern states-Connecticut, New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania-is overwhelmingly opposed to the amendment, only about one-seventh of the ballots cast favoring enforcement...
Vol. 11 • April 1930 • No. 22
