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...McCormick's credo...

...If they emerge with their reverence intact, they will have put up a better fight than we think most of them capable of...

...The and a formula, which is Menckenese diction with an added fillip of sophistication, has furnished quotations for many an evening's conversation and, incidentally, a raison d'etre for the world's greatest color-page advertising medium, Fortune...

...Thompson was seriously alarmed at the alleged extension of British influence in the United States, no one doubts that freedom from the World Court is the first and most important tenet in Mrs...

...a summary of the evidence regarding murdered or imprisoned prelates, which evidence showed first, that the protest of the Papacy was based on events happening during many years and not upon anxiety lest the capitalistic system be undermined, and secondly, that the record of brutality extends to the present moment...

...Whatever may be one's opinion of the conception- and possibly Dr...

...It glows with the spirit of antique Byzance, source of so much that is abidingly great in the Christian arts and close, beyond any question, to liturgical origins...

...That they are so quintessentially excellent that the Berliners cannot get enough of them...

...Justine B. Ward...

...Vrionides provides would be perfectly at home in a Catholic Church...

...Wickersham...

...They did their work in distinguished company, as the mere roster of the names of the other lecturers amply proves: Professor Edward Kennard Rand of Harvard...

...Wickersham were scored as "indefensible," in view of the fact that the Federal Council was construed as a "lobby...

...Now it is just an index to the supply of muddled thinking, emotionalism and political shandygaff which have been conjured up by a question which during the past decade has intoxicated American public opinion...

...The Sacred Art Lectures IN BRINGING to a close the notable series of lectures on sacred art, which has been going on at the Pius X School of Liturgical Music for several months, enlisting the services of the most distinguished authorities in the field of mediaeval culture, Mr...

...Big Bill Thompson made an issue of King George V in Chicago a few years ago, and walked into the mayor-alty on the strength of it, will not be surprised at the result of the Republican senatorial primaries in Illinois...

...A fact, observes Dr...

...What is founded on experimental science is "the common experience of the race," the more or less conservative practice which makes up the moral and social pattern of the majority...

...And who shall not hope that consciousness of ground shared in aesthetic tradition may be one motive impelling that future reunion now so heartily desired...

...Ringling famous or been made famous by him-so intimate is the association that we shall never know which-he is evoking an art museum...

...Russell, Dr...

...A Meeting of the Grads BECAUSE it is vigorously interested in unifying the graduates of Catholic universities and colleges, the National Catholic Alumni Federation is an organization with a real purpose and no less real prospects...

...Her Democratic opponent, Mr...

...Wickersham on the ground that he had served as chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee of the Federal Council of the Churches of Christ...

...We regret to say that all this may prove inducement to get Catholics themselves to read the paper...

...He has built a palace at Sarasota, in Florida, which, if newspaper graphic sections are to be trusted, is a fair and monumental structure, terraced and colonnaded and set with lovely statues, as though it were the house of Petronius...

...Far from establishing any-thing like amity between France and Italy, the conference has increased the bitterness between them...

...Notice as evidence the contrasted attacks upon Mr...

...Clendening, which "the morning stars of the New Reformation" tend constantly to forget...

...Several important problems will be opened for discussion by representative leaders of opinion...

...John Ringling...

...To it the public will presently be invited to view "the art objects which he has been collecting for thirty years...

...So many of us are immeasurably more eager to get angry than to be instructed or edified...

...Stopes, Judge Lindsey and Mr...

...Mark Hanna's Daughter ANYONE who remembers how Mr...

...The program for this year's meeting, which is to convene at the Mayflower Hotel, Washington, D. C, during the three days following April 25, testifies to increasing maturity of outlook and equipment...

...Or at least why we have no warrant for supposing they will...

...Beyond any question such music as Mr...

...The Pius X School of Liturgical Music is to be congratulated and thanked for its notable achievement...

...This use of words without reference to their proper meaning, and of adjectives without cognizance of anything beyond their oratorical effect, might in ordinary times be attributed to poor education...

...Professor Carl Young of Yale...

...We should like to feel that this is no concern of ours, but unhappily anything which affects the fleet of Great Britain is now bound to affect us who have won parity with Great Britain...

...Time acknowledged all this with several curious manifestations of gratitude: it featured the cartoon which Father Walsh has desired to keep out of print...

...Altarpieces and Florentine furniture, an antique entrance of marble inlay, eleventh-century pillars, the doorway from the Villa Palmieri of the Decameron-these are a few of the items included in the advance information...

...Reverend Cornelius Clifford...

...On MARCH 21 and 22, Time wrote and telegraphed Father Walsh requesting information con: cerning (a) the caricatures which had appeared in the Journal of the Godless, and (b) the Russian bishops penalized by the government...

...Its other purpose was to bring Japan, France and Italy into line with the agreement privately reached between Great Britain and America last October...

...But his prediction of an agreement between France and Italy seems to us merely a bit of hopeful press-agenting...

...Logan Clendening's Doubts about the Millennium, in Plain Talk for April...

...Frank Hogan of Washington, D. C. It is a matter of personal gratification to us that the editor of The Commonweal has been invited to attend...

...But the combination of the creator and the critic is a particularly valuable one...

...If, however, as Pater says, all the arts aspire to the condition of music, nevertheless music itself is enriched through its practitioners by being aware of the activities of its sister arts and crafts...

...The various departments of culture today tend to become more and more standardized, and too often are conducted by specialists who seem unaware of what other specialists are doing...

...Its comment on the Papacy has been spiced, for instance, with that something more than amused condescension which is malice...

...Our estimate, which is based of course on our optimis-tic hopes for this meeting, is that it has been 60 percent effective...

...We have backed out of a security pact, and thus done obeisance to our post-war passion for isolation, whatever that is...

...Mencken has fairly worn out these geographico-racial possibilities in his Americana, and we have long ceased to feel that they mean anything at all...

...But what...

...First of all it was expected to apply the principle of limitation to all classes of fighting ships, and this has been done...

...McCormick as well as denunciation of the World Court...

...The Heterodox Doctor THOSE who accept reverently the great progressive certitudes on sterilization, sex education, trial mating and birth control are recommended to read Dr...

...Something might be inferred, perhaps, from the fact that the gentleman, though barely arrived, had immediately gone, or been taken, to an American movie...

...In fact, the incident has no moral...

...These remarks may serve as an introduction to a bit of recent journalistic history which involves Soviet Russia, the Reverend Edmund A. Walsh, S. J., and the usual ethics optimistically assumed to have a bearing upon news publication...

...and it appended a judgment: "The Walsh pamphlet is another presentation of the same out-of-date stories against which Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald recently warned, urging Englishmen to demand fresh not vintage news from Russia...

...He is not, or affects not to be, interested in the moral aspects of the more advanced reforms projected by Mr...

...For out of the peanuts and pink lemonade, the three sawdust rings and the brave blare of brass which have either made Mr...

...Tinkham Talks PROHIBITION is in some danger of becoming a stale issue...

...Japan was agreeable, and Secretary Stimson is not being overly cheerful when he says that "The very great improvement in the friendly relations between the United States and Japan which followed the Washington conference will certainly be intensified and continued...

...As all who are aware of the present situation in church art know, Mr...

...Ralph Adams Cram, who gave two lectures on architecture in the same course, also combines these high qualities...

...Hitherto the annual conventions have served to ad-vertise the work and to interest those who are eligible for membership...

...The qualifications for such work-international legal connections-possessed by Mr...

...Raskob and Mr...

...Christos Vrionides, a young master of Greek harmony resident in New York, for a "choral mime" destined for Saint Mark's in-the-Bouwerie...

...If their owner makes good their promise as satisfactorily as his tent performances have always made good the promise of his street parades, our own Metropolitan Museum will soon be busy trying to hold its own...

...It is obvious that against an opponent as colorless as Senator Deneen any other notion, the yellow peril or a five-duck limit, would have served Mrs...

...Even more curious and reprehensible was the series of aspersions cast by Representative Tinkham and other statesmen at Mr...

...Serving many thousands of people who cannot read newspapers (eyesight, bridge, early training) it is popular enough to be considered an influential weekly...

...and Reverend T. Lawra-son Riggs...

...for indeed perhaps at present we need artistic theorizing and creative criticism even more than we need works of art themselves, unless they are original, authentic, and belong to the realm of quality rather than of quantity production...

...But Mr...

...Or still another moralist might make play with the names involved: the German who lost the money bearing the designation Ephraim Rosenberg, and the American usher captain who turned it in appearing in the report as J. V. Pisapia...

...What the election proves once again is how easily a persuasive campaigner can divert public attention from issues of some pertinence to personal prejudices, however fanciful or outworn...

...That the Federation itself has almost limitless possibilities is an observation which requires no substantiating evidence...

...And naturally enough all the smart-alecs among the antis have been eager to commend a publication in which a prelate figures as in no whit distinguishable from a clown...

...For it is not they which are founded on experimental science, in any real sense...

...We are lucky in our millionaires, whatever the Communists may say, and the process that turns steel into public libraries, or oil into clinics and experimental laboratories, seems to us by now a sort of secondary law of nature...

...His best chance will be to do some stout cudgeling against prohibition, and let the gallant daughter of Mark Hanna charge her windmills...

...The Naval Conference THE London conference ends in success or in failure, accordingly as your viewpoint is that of the far Pacific or the Mediterranean...

...information concerning Gabelmann, editor of the Journal in question...

...Guthrie will offer more than somewhat obtrusive antics-there is no questioning the validity and fervor of Mr...

...But for some reason, understandable enough possibly, Time has grown more and more consistently impudent on the subject of Catholic affairs...

...it added a statement that Time had wrung from Father Walsh a concession that the Soviet policy had been "modified...

...A Three-ring Connoisseur THE transmuted fortune has no novelty for us Americans...

...Shaw, Mr...

...Hieratic poetry is here blended with an appeal which, not in the least subjective, is individual in the best sense...

...Clendening, as readers of his book, The Human Body, know, is a biologist with a tough mind toward social generalizations, and also a practising physician with a strictly pragmatic eye for consequences...

...He contents himself with suggesting (with a good deal of unkind relish, and also a wealth of illustration that is none the less effective for being practically unquotable) why, humanity being what it is, these reforms will not work...

...Imagine the threat to public morals involved in giving money to oppose a dry law one considers evil...

...Yet even we may blink a little at its latest application by Mr...

...such representative statesmen as the Honorable James M. Beck, now in Congress...

...Pointing No Moral WE CAN think of no lesson to be deduced from the German pocketbook lost, found and spectacularly restored to its owner in Roxy's Theatre recently...

...May it not be true that one route toward an understanding of Gregorian chant, now unfortunately so little relished by many, lies through a reconstruction-a revitalizing -of the Byzantine background...

...We think the whole matter is something with which publications and associations interested in journalistic ethics might properly concern themselves- and not in silence either...

...Religious Music in Manhattan WHENEVER genuine Christian tradition wells up clear and fresh in the modern world, one is instructed by taking notice even though circum-stances associated with it may not be entirely to one's liking...

...Even if he should happen to flunk his post-graduate course...

...four caricatures which had appeared as late as 1929...

...Responding, Father Walsh sent a copy of a particularly offensive cartoon, which he felt ought not be published...

...Ruth Hanna McCormick won hands down, as it was perfectly obvious she would win ever since she stampeded her opponent into accepting American adherence to the World Court as the vital issue of the campaign...

...That there are no American movies in Berlin...

...only it wanned us strangely to read of it, and we are sure that at least one German engineer will go back to his (perhaps) native Berlin with an unshakable friendliness toward us all...

...Among the many speakers there will be such well-known clergymen as the Very Reverend Bede Jarrett and the Reverend William Kerby...

...Even so the early stages of its demise-if one may assume that such a thing is in progress-are decidedly ugly...

...Among these are such questions as the potential development of a national Catholic educational outlook and the fostering of a service devoted to answering inquiries from persons interested in getting information...

...The flurry which surrounded the first was as fine an illustration of par-tizan pique as one could hope to get...

...Lewis, ought to profit by the story of the Republican primaries...

...To say that this was a political trick is not telling the whole story...

...We understand that from a cultural point of view the success of this series has been so decided that a similar series will be given during the coming winter...

...It is this which has fitted the great permanent necessities of mating and child training into the great permanent reality of human nature...

...But the whole world knows that the United States can as well speak of isolation from Central American affairs, or the islands in the Caribbean, or the Philippines, as from the Mediterranean troubles which now appear above the international horizon...

...We trust indeed that such lectures may happily become a permanent feature of our American cultural life...

...Honest men are to be met with everywhere, presumably-we can- not claim monopoly of the virtue even when we return $947 to a visiting Berlin engineer...

...Father Walsh's dossier is available and certainly not abstruse...

...We do not mean to say that the theorist is necessarily inferior, or even less useful, than the practical artist...

...For while it was debatable whether Mr...

...Bancel La Farge harmoniously concludes with two lectures on sacred painting, the second one to be given on April 25...

...Or that the German temperament is so thorough that a trip here "to study engineering" begins, as a matter of course, with something entirely different...

...Vrionides's music...

...Bancel La Farge is very much more than a theorist, for fine examples of most successful murals and mosaic decorations from his hand are to be found in many churches...

...and such spokesmen for Catholic lay action as Dean Edward A. Fitz-patrick, of Marquette University, and Mr...

...Dar-row...

...The convention promises to be memorable in every sense of the term...

...Walter Lippmann may prove to have been the wise prophet, asserting as he often has that the Amendment will go into hiding after the fashion or its several forgotten predecessors...

...Thus we have listened to the music composed by Mr...