Week by Week

...Hence, Professor Lucifer violently shouting down the mild monk Michael (from the first novel named above) or the anarchist poet (from the second) screaming maledictions upon the outmoded and jejune sacerdotalism of the orthodox policeman, have prepared us with quite startling prescience for the official atheistic attitude in Russia at this moment...

...It is a pleasure to think that these years of brilliant effort have now been rewarded with one of the highest honors within the reach of the American Catholic laity...

...As a young man he had lived in the atmosphere of middle-western liberal Socialism, so well represented by the personality of Victor Berger...

...It is, at all events, necessary to do something about the incoming Mexican, who is frequently not only a menace to American labor but also a victim of exploitation and social neglect...

...COMPETING with the discovery of the new planet (which we most earnestly pray will not be called Percival) for our favorite news of late, The is a report from the director of Colgate Soporific University's psychological laboratory on Onion the sleeping habits of more than five hundred distinguished Americans...

...We may add that his interest in the work of The Calvert Associates was of almost incalculable importance...

...But we are not concerned with their content so much as with their philosophy...

...It applies a "modified quota" plan to all the Americas, thus clamping theoretical restrictions upon immigration from Canada...

...Lee ceases to be a realist, however great her experience in guiding young women may have been...

...Instrumental in effecting one of the fundamental economic readjustments of our age, he had seen what is termed statesmanship at grips with fundamental realities...

...It is a pleasure to see that a man known primarily as an economist and financier underwrites statesmen to which contemplative human reason-sometimes unfairly dubbed idealism-indubitably subscribes...

...And that most colleges practise already...

...there is no monopoly on the onion, and it requires no learning in law, astronomy or mathematics to know how to eat one...

...Ford should visit the bread lines in the United States...

...Nothing could have been clearer, however, than his determination not to rest content with the making of money...

...Brady's service to the nation was reflected in many acts, most particularly, one thinks, in his ardent service as a major in the Red Cross commission during the war...

...Tinkering with the tariff and efforts to reduce unemployment are a waste of time...

...These were either without indices, or were catalogued only volume by volume...

...This view is confirmed by the commissioner general of immigration, who says that the total number of bona fide entries last year-42,000-does not begin to represent the total trek across the Rio Grande...

...Even more distinctly, however, we have learned another matter: "After all, we must remember that politics and economics are not the masters of men -they are their servants...

...WE VENTURE to believe that the address delivered by Mr...

...They are recognized -to revert to our own terminology-as being socially necessary without being morally binding...

...We were free to follow where life was pulling us...

...Few Catholics in the United States have taken a deeper interest in these matters or confronted them in a more practical way than Mr...

...Doubtless some adroit diplomatic maneuvering may help us here...

...Henry Ford salutes the manufacturers of England and tells them what is wrong with Mr Ford them...

...They represent chiefly the immemorial instinct of civilized society for protecting the thoughtless and the unformed, and for giving tone to the social communion of men and women...

...Such an ingress of peons at a time when unemployment conditions are bad is a social menace...

...We agree (and we don't know what is to be done about it, any more than Mrs...

...A thought suggested itself: why not promote the compilation of a Catholic periodical index...

...Their contempt of the, as they say, worthless and pitiable affirmations of religion, for some reason, hardly ever remains calm...

...Louis...

...America has learned that high wage scales are consistent with low production costs and high earnings...

...Those faces must all move together for good or ill...

...Lee complains the eminently normal young women of college campuses treat them: that is, they are accepted for their known value in the mass, with the clear if unspoken proviso that they are not necessarily inflexible in the concrete...

...Of MR...

...Lee alleges...

...Tariffs and other petty political barriers, temporarily justifiable, only accentuate the trouble...

...Though they burdened the police with extra employment and frightened some of those who had planned to attend the meeting, they focused attention upon one major purpose of the event...

...The one man whom we nominate as a great public benefactor is the college professor who eats onions...

...Americans of all creeds and social groups may well regret his passing and, in their goodness, pray for the peace of his soul...

...She Rules for feels that it suffers from being forced College to administer the regulations designed Women to control social conduct on and off the campus: regulations which reflect either "the desire of many parents to prolong the dependency of their daughters," or the desire of the colleges to avoid "unfavorable publicity...

...THIS year the Laetare Medal, conferred annually by the University of Notre Dame upon some lay Catholic adjudged to have rendered distinguished The Laetare service, will go to Mr...

...a nickle should be enough for two nights' supply, and finally it is one of the sweetest of fruits that grow in plain or valley...

...The choice is Award particularly apt because this has been a season of baffling economic problems, of unemployment and clamor for social reform...

...They follow with fantastic faithfulness the picture given us in those novels of the nonchalant no-Goddite who becomes purple with passion the instant he is contradicted-the serene and self-sufficient blasphemer who is hysterically upset by a recital of the Creed...

...America, as the greatest creditor nation, is more interested than any other in economic reintegration...

...What at present is its importance in the world of international affairs...

...She evidently has not realized that, translated into specific results, it would simply mean more rules...

...Then lowly economics "got a hearing," and gradually moved to the centre of the stage until, in the Reparations Conference, it had the title role...

...WHILE nobody knows how many Mexicans have entered the United States, the Immigration Restriction League estimates that veritable hosts of Immigrant them have tripped across the border in Mexicans quest of jobs offered by employers in the Southwest...

...Kenkel...

...Frederick P. Medal Kenkel, of St...

...In other countries besides England there are times when to "pinch and scrape" is not a half-bad policy...

...NICHOLAS F. BRADY, whose death in New York on March 27 has been so widely mourned, it may be said that he was both a man of wealth and a man who knew the reA generous sponsibilities of wealth...

...At home he was the guiding spirit in charitable activities of all kinds, virtually blazing trails of almsgiving...

...Young, "my answer is this: economic reintegration of the world is a necessary prerequisite to effective political cooperation in the world...

...It is a pleasant duty to thank all who put a shoulder to the wheel...

...Rules that would bind the group and inevitably, on occasion, oppress the individual-when they would, just as inevitably, be evaded or broken...

...Chesterton is gratified by the latest news from Russia...

...Such artificial, formal codes exist everywhere, in some form or other, and they are treated everywhere just as Mrs...

...As there is no limit to what may turn up in the sidereal spaces, so there is no limit to the sleep-inducing tricks invented by ingenious men...

...The rules she lists for censure are simply those which might be made anywhere for the external control of a numerous group of young women freed from home control, and not yet grown into fully responsible social units: rules for pleasure hours, chaperonage, and so on, all necessarily specific...

...That way only can the benefits of civilization be enlarged-that way only can peace come...

...Now at last the wish has also been the father of achievement...

...Under his directorship the publications of this society-chiefly Social Justice-have manifested a really extraordinary vigor and scholarship...

...Twice this week have we felt like some watcher of the skies, and we are not sure but that the more genuine moment was when a new virtue of the onion swam within our ken...

...Lee evidently does) that the one flaw of the strict "honor system" is that it tries to enlist serious moral support for matters that, in general, are not morally serious...

...But, unless student government is simply done away with, there seems to us nothing to suggest, except, of course, a little common-sense watchfulness of the code, to keep it reasonably up-to-date...

...It is not the only medicine which must be applied, of course...

...For years previous it dwelt in the artificial climate created by the Treaty of Versailles-a climate in which, as Mr...

...We are very glad that the new Ford plant at Dagenham will pay its workmen a minimum of $25 a week, and hope that as many English manufacturers as possible will follow the example...

...So politics and economics, their servants, must move together too, not in one country alone, but everywhere...

...Ford's interview may be taken as the foundation of a literature to end all literature...

...Meanwhile we dare not sneer at the "pinch-and-scrape" methods of those who cannot...

...This is undoubtedly an anomaly, and we share Mrs...

...The English and Europeans have fallen behind but it is not too late for them to catch up...

...We have no hesitation in declaring that here is the beginning of an important undertaking, which deserves and will surely get the support of libraries and the applause of students...

...But the Johnson Bill, which has been favorably reported in the House, seems to get at this matter by raising other scares...

...WE SHALL not begin by supposing that Mr...

...Onions are available at every corner grocery...

...Ford does not say, but we imagine a British workman would not be too pleased to lose his job because his employer could not pay him an extra pound a week...

...Lee's regret that the moral credit of the administering bodies in colleges-the student government boards-should be impaired by it...

...How this will help the unemployed Mr...

...Merely because I have spoken of these I would not wish you to think that I consider them in any sense ends in themselves...

...This had been arranged not merely to celebrate the delights of tolerant theory, but also to protest against Russian policy...

...and since the problem can be controlled only by a law ordaining a fixed Mexican quota, something of that kind must be expected...

...FOR such regulations do not merely represent an extension of domestic tyranny, or the panic of educational timidity, as Mrs...

...THROUGH the columns of the London Spectator Mr...

...The dominions are almost sure to resent this action, and their resentment is not pleasant to contemplate...

...THE assistant dean of Radcliffe, Mrs...

...Unfortunately many of these, as disclosed in the report, do not lend themselves to a general application...

...The list of his benefactions toward his university, Yale, and to many civic activities as well as Catholic agencies is most impressive...

...Thirty-six periodicals have been indexed, and the number is to be increased until every important publication in England and America shall have been included...

...Supervised by a special editorial board headed by Mr...

...All we mean to say is that the despatches Gilbertian describing the Soviet's response to the Pope's prayers might have been plaAtheists giarized from the more farcical chapters of The Ball and the Cross, or The Man Who Was Thursday...

...BUT the interview is not without recognition of the special difficulties which have beset English business men...

...Kenkel held various journalistic positions which led ultimately to his identification with the Central Verein, an organization of German-American Catholics...

...Young declared, everything seemed possible, from rebuilding the devastated regions in onyx and marble to compressing southeastern Europe into air-tight compartments...

...YOUNG held that experience indicates how impossible it now is to segregate mankind into groups one of which shall prosper at the expense of the others...

...Intellectual workers a New of all sorts, eager to ferret out material Index buried in periodicals, had found it virtually impossible to utilize files of Catholic magazines...

...Advocates of the Johnson Bill state that the Canadian quota has been fixed at a number larger than is now filled, but it is difficult to convey the significance of this point to Montreal and Quebec...

...SEVERAL years ago the Reverend Paul Foik, C.S.C., then librarian of Notre Dame University, led a crusade for improvement in an important do-Hailing main of research...

...In addition the Central Verein has, under Mr...

...Owen D. Young at the University of California on the general topic of inter-Mr...

...For the present it is, perhaps, more imperative to express one's gratitude to the individuals-cranks or otherwise-who threatened to "blow up the Opera House" and cause sundry similar catastrophes...

...The high wages which mechanical improvements have enabled Mr...

...Ford and other reputable American manufacturers to pay have not yet created jobs for the six million men and women displaced by those improvements...

...MR...

...Surely freedom from bookishness cannot be sufficient to explain the American success...

...There is the further advantage of cheapness...

...The theory of social reform there expounded is the well-known "solidarism" sponsored by a prominent group of German sociologists and economists...

...To her isolation, either economic or political, is impossible...

...Thus in solving the problem however successfully for themselves, these men have contributed nothing to the peace of the world at large...

...It is sad to think that he was called at a relatively early age, when the door toward new activities seemed open...

...Ford cites one advantage to American industrialists in the twentieth century which has not been emphasized before...

...Back of them stand myriads of human faces...

...The speaker had the priceless advantage of experience...

...Ford would have come through...

...The managers of both too often think and sometimes act as if human beings were merely the fodder of political and economic mills...

...These regulations cannot be universally enforced, she says, because they are trivial and irrational, and if student government continues to be charged with them, it is in danger of developing, "instead of honorable and responsible citizens, students who, if not guilty personally, will condone sneaking, lying and hypocrisy...

...And while we have learned that high wages is a very sound industrial policy, we have also learned that it does not obviate the necessity for a continuous machinery to reduce unemployment...

...We seem to have heard that England is not the only country wherein men are jobless at the present time...

...Let no man think that the living standards of America can permanently be maintained at a measurably higher level than those of the other civilized countries...

...Characteristically he shows no patience with long-pull remedies...

...And we may say that, thanks to the press, the opinion marshaled by The Calvert Associates and their friends has been advertised in the Bermudas, Borneo and the Bronx...

...Lee's own suggestion-"Colleges might meet the issue by appointing a commission made up of qualified undergraduates, faculty members, and specialists in mental hygiene to study the whole subject of regulating the social behavior of the students"-is general...

...The initial number of the index, covering the first quarter of 1930, has made its appearance...

...We seem to recognize in his remarkable statement a confidence that even though he had been as crippled as the English by a bookish tradition, Mr...

...Well," said Mr...

...they are suitable only to the men who invented them, and may fairly be called unique...

...Born as one Man Passes of theirs to a great fortune, he was known throughout life as a master of business methods, and his connection with scores of basic industrial and financial enterprises testifies to the confidence which others placed in his judgment...

...There must be an importation of the American manufacturing "outlook," less placidity and no doubt more pep...

...Kenkel's guidance, accomplished a great amount of hard welfare work, notably among the immigrants...

...WEEK BY WEEK OWING to a vast accession of cooperative goodwill, the Seventh Annual Celebration of the Founding of Maryland, as The Calvert Associates chose to call their public meeting in the MetroCalvert politan Opera House, New York City, Day on the evening of March 25 last, may be termed genuinely successful...

...Two pages of the present issue have been set aside to meet this and kindred obligations...

...There can be no doubt that public ceremonies of this character help greatly to make efforts for religious liberty popular and effective...

...It is good that collective dislike of wrong-doing should be voiced in no uncertain terms...

...High wages is the prescription, and as to manufacturers who are unable to pay them at present because of small profits, "The sooner they go, the better...

...Chesterton has discovered a penetrating fact about atheists: that there is some secret uneasiness at the core of their professed certitude...

...Francis E. Fitzgerald, of Saint Thomas's College, Scranton, Pennsylvania, the index is published by the H. W. Wilson Company for the library section of the National Catholic Educational Association...

...But, though not morally serious, they are socially and psychologically necessary, and in not perceiving this, Mrs...

...It is no secret that the Vatican regarded him as one of its chief financial and advisory abettors, and the friendship of prelates and cardinals here begun was continued later for more personal reasons...

...Perhaps the way is through a general pact to sink all literary theorists, or perhaps Mr...

...Later on, having decided to place his knowledge and gifts at the service of the Catholic Church, Mr...

...Mabel Bar-bee Lee, discusses self-government in women's colleges in the current Atlantic Monthly...

...Young national affairs is, taken all in all, the finest political comment offered the American people in years...

...Either we shall lift theirs to ours or they will drag ours down to theirs...

...Europe has learned that class separations mean class warfare...

...One difficulty we didn't have which England has in abundance-we did not have so many literary men and theorists who knew from books just what could and could not be done...