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...We recognize, with envy, the authentic spirit by which Albion has immemorially refreshed herself by juxtaposing shoes to ships and sealing wax, and cabbages to kings-because they are so different...

...Though last year's receipts by Mr...

...The proposed lace duties aroused more than ordinary resentment in France, and on this side of the water, at least, are believed to have been responsible for the new French tariff on automobiles, which is high enough to keep all low- and medium-priced American trucks and autos out of the French market...

...In selecting the House rate for its approval, the conference reversed its general practice, which has been to pick whichever of the two rates is the higher...

...Youth has its obvious importance, but this matter of education is central in the whole of life and civilization...

...In case of refusal he suggested that the countries named demand indemnity from the Danish government...

...It has established numerous scholarships both for nuns and laywomen...

...There are exceptions, of course, and these are an index to the progress made in recent years...

...Incentives ti Growth HARDLY discovered, the new planet has caused no end of an intellectual rumpus...

...The action of the Senate Judiciary Committee in reporting the nomination of Judge Parker with the recommendation that it be rejected, is hardly a surprise: Judge Parker's conservatism is at least as pronounced as Mr...

...Both proposals were submitted to the League of Nations...

...It is certainly true that while adequate rendition is not an entirely dependable recipe for making the Chant popular, it is of very great importance...

...It has inaugurated a Catholic Press Hour in every federated school...

...Peter Freeman, a Laborite, arose in Parliament the other day and moved that lobster be stricken from the Commons' menu, because boiling lobsters alive is an inhumane way of killing them...

...It has engaged in special activities to aid the blind by issuing books in Braille...

...Curran's organization were a measly $427,213-infinitesmal when compared with the $67,565,313 expended in forty-three years by the Anti-saloon League, according to Representative Tink-ham-the engrossing point is that some of it went to support wet candidates...

...Of course it had good reason...

...Green of the American Federation of Labor, were able to reply: "A mere dogmatic adherence to judicial precedent established in a case decided during the world-war period cannot be offered as convincing evidence of the qualifications of a man to serve on the highest tribunal in the land...

...The scheme is something like this: the Amendment is a part of the constitution...

...But why not suggest that since the macro is so much like the microcosm, we ought to think not of ourselves but of other jelly fish still unborn...

...And a university...

...Nevertheless religion concedes to every activity its own proper autonomy-to the farmer the business of raising his crops, and to the scholar his endeavor to learn the truth about something...

...The Liturgical Press, of Collegeville, Minnesota, is likewise indefatigable in providing liturgical literature...

...Commenting upon singing as it is done by Anglicans and Catholics in England, the author says that the first group "has a recognized standard of proficiency" which the second does not even aim for...

...It has reorganized the curriculum of the secondary schools so that credits meet a common requirement...

...And so it has come about that in a church possessing a repertoire of the finest music of all ages, little of it is actually ever heard, and that little is seldom well performed...

...It should ultimately prove possible for them to concentrate, if even for a moment, the attention of the whole Catholic body upon this fundamental problem, to be solved only with charity, intelligence and cooperative common sense...

...Are we to feel that we have been betrayed...

...It has established a board of review of motion pictures which is at once a guide to parent, teacher and pupil, and an agent to fight the salacious and meretricious in the cinema...

...Henry H. Curran, of the Association against the Prohibition Amendment, the defenses behind which the drys plan to retire became rather easy to explore...

...We have already referred to the Leaflet Missal now being published by the Reverend Paul Bussard and his associates -a device which is, perhaps, not the ideal solution of the problem but which reckons well with practical circumstances and difficulties...

...While comparatively vast sums are expended for useless marbles and ornaments, there seems to be a prejudice against paying a decent salary to an organist and choir-master...

...Congressional talk merely advertises the fact that prohibition is coming out of hiding to be the foremost political issue in the next campaign-possibly in the next three or four campaigns...

...The new income tax is four and one-half shillings in the pound...

...Hughes it might have been predicted that the nomination of another conservative to the Supreme Court would be defeated...

...Cur-ran's answer to this-or rather, his plan of attack- was very simple...

...So far as we are aware the League has done nothing about transmitting these suggestions to the governments concerned, and we want to know why...

...Telling the truth to sell your wares is not so lofty as telling it to shame the devil, but the present case proves it may be more entertaining...

...Semper Eadem THAT something or other that lives in the marrow of the English soul, that rich unexpectedness that bred and sustained Dickens and was breath in the nostrils of Gilbert, is still there...

...The tumult was further intensified by Professor Millikan's declaration of faith in the rejuvenating powers of our world...

...Coal and free trade are twin irritants, and the dole has grown to a monstrous incubus...

...People may just stay at home and read the advertisement...

...Not we...

...secondly, the imperative nature of contemporary demands-the clamor of youth for training and intellectual guidance on the one hand, and the insufficiency of the answer on the other...

...the query of a Conservative-"What about the brutal method of eating oysters...

...There is a great deal in this remark to interest Washington...

...England has 1,500,000 men out of work...

...The Guild Advertises IT PLEASES us to see the Theatre Guild boldly applying the logic of the new advertising in presenting its play, Hotel Universe...

...Perhaps like the radio...

...The first fact is feast enough-and we speak quite without irony or derision...

...Terry then goes on to what he terms "a rather curious point": "In proportion to their numbers, the Catholic body in this country produces a very large number of competent musicians, but the fact remains that very few indeed ever devote themselves to church music...

...We enjoyed, however, the meditation to which Professor Millikan drove the editor of the New York Evening Post...

...Placating France IN THE near future we should welcome a reliable book on tariff conflicts, because it would provide us with some information which we desire, but are unable to get for ourselves, and because it ought to be amusing...

...the fight for Judge Parker was defensive from the start...

...This body, organized a short fifteen years ago, has enjoyed a slow, yet steady growth, which is a tribute to its founders, its officers and all who are associated with it...

...American Catholics, taking stock of their educational facilities and needs, may well reflect that while they have given generously to the school system they have not yet "realized" the college...

...The advantages of this sudden shift of perspective are apparent...

...According to this sage, "We must look upon things with a broad view and think not of ourselves but of other worlds still unborn...

...But so long as there is no "rule" of excellence, hope for marked betterment must give way to resignation...

...In one of these we read: "Gregorian Chant does not and cannot appeal to the people-if they have had it presented to them with prejudice or with poor and slovenly methods of rendition...

...It is well to remember that even Saint Thomas, however much vitality he may have brought to the University of Paris, did not make that University...

...On such matters it is well to maintain, with Saint Thomas, a dignified silence respecting the limitations of human reason...

...The frantic eleventh-hour switching of the rates on lace is a case in point...

...Today we see the beginnings of one great move forward-the alignment of the alumni in support of the endeavor and in view of the future...

...You mingle honest claims of its excellence with an honest admission of its limitations, and trust the public to buy from the straightforward fellow you prove yourself to be...

...Here in this country, two things are abundantly clear: first, the record of heroic sacrifice bequeathed to us by a succession of sturdy men who planted Catholic educational enterprise in the very earliest clearings made in the pioneer forests...

...Some scholars have turned sceptical, others have whispered of a comet, and a handful have been driven to revise their theories of the universe...

...If one reflects sufficiently upon the world which is to be delivered by some proud stork in the year 10,000 one's personal worries will disappear rapidly...

...Among recent pamphlets to reach us from this source there is one dealing with The Chant of the Church and including, besides The Apostolic Constitution Divine Cultus Sancti-tatem, two very good interpretative essays...

...Judge Parker and the Senate AFTER the astonishing fight which was waged against the appointment of Mr...

...It helped, rather, to make him...

...There seems," runs the Guild advertisement blithely, "to be a difference of opinion" -and forthwith illustrates by ranging the critical salvos for Hotel Universe against the critical sneers...

...The last few months indicate that the Senate has been caught up by the growing sentiment for a leavening of the conservative Supreme Court with the liberal temperament...

...To which his opponents, led by Mr...

...but unless there be fish in the lake and equipment to catch them with, he might as well spend his time twiddling his thumbs...

...The devil's fire has broken out on both sides of the front...

...Holding that the common spectacle of matter's break up into energy has its counterpart in the diligent effort of radiant energy "somewhere" to build up new stores of that hydrogen out of which the elements proceed, the ominent scientist returns to the old quandary regarding the permanence of time as a factor in the cosmos...

...But in the United States, where no such grounds are discernible, the same situation obtains...

...Christianity itself, at least in its western history, has also leaned heavily upon university theologians and philosophers, thus recognizing their utility...

...There is a genuine audacity about publicly announcing that one critic has said your play "can only be described as a pretty terrible beating," and another has called it "depressing and tiresome," and a third has affirmed that "it has no more intermission than a toothache," that should please the Guild's patron demon, Mr...

...They imply recognition of the undoubted fact that pioneer days are over, that (even as in the seventeenth century) religion must count upon its ability to use humanistic interests as a starting point, and that the doctrinal content of the liturgy is of the highest spiritual importance...

...ONE point of practical significance in this connection is brought to the fore in Dr...

...It is a good answer, but what interests us especially is that it has been much more effective today than it could possibly have been four years ago...

...A fisherman may be unstinting of his industry and devoted to the noble purpose of feeding his family...

...The economic factor involved is explicable, says Dr...

...In each of them the analyst may discern a creative principle, the germinative cell of some aspect of a generation...

...We wonder how it will work...

...Advertising the Drought THOUGH the kind of repartee indulged in before the Senate Lobby Committee has really not provided an excuse for canceling one's subscription to the New Yorker, it is in several ways a tribute to the discernment of Washington's canniest statesmen...

...But now that 90 percent lace has been written back into the bill, what if France decides not to ac-comodate us...

...Federate Alumnae IN AN issue devoted to the furtherance of Catholic education it would be impossible to ignore the fine work which has been done by the International Federation of Catholic Alumnae...

...Hughes could be made aggressively-everyone admits that he is one of the great lawyers of our time...

...In case of refusal he suggested that Great Britain, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, etc., demand indemnity from the United States...

...With the ensuing debate we are not concerned: the assertion that the groans of the scalded crustaceans resound in the Commons' kitchen...

...As the tariff bill passed the House, it carried a 90 percent duty on lace, but as amended by the Senate the duties on some laces went as high as 300 percent...

...The new advertising, as we understand it, consists in telling the truth about your product...

...Terry, on historical and financial grounds...

...The memorandum prepared for the President by the Department of Justice declared that "To refuse to confirm the nomination of Judge Parker for his decision in the Red Jacket Coal Company case will amount to refusing to confirm him because he followed and gave binding effect to the decisions of the Supreme Court of the United States...

...Strictly considered, a college or a research laboratory can be only a means to an end for the Church, forever concerned with a soul's ultimate salvation...

...Politically speaking, nothing could be more significant...

...Despite the thinking brought to bear upon the task by such effective leaders as Bishop Shahan and Father Burns, the job has never been summed up properly and without bias...

...It is to the interest of every statesman to find out, as nearly as he can, the voting as well as the sentimental strength of the forces aligned on both sides of the Volsteadian fence...

...The fight for Mr...

...Our automobile manufacturers, therefore, have been painfully interested in restoring the House duty on lace, hoping that the French, like good sportsmen, would reciprocate by abandoning their motors rates...

...In such apostolic work, the Federation reaps fruits that are not only very gratifying to its 80,000 members but also highly beneficial to the Catholic Church in America...

...In five years, he declared, the people of the United States will quietly revise the constitution...

...And it is possible for a member of the Labor party, the official ponderers on these matters and bearers of these burdens to be heard in the august Commons on The Sensations of the Lobster...

...Richard Terry's very interesting collection of papers on musical questions, A Forgotten Psalter and Other Essays (New York: The Oxford University Press...

...And lastly, it has united with other national Catholic organizations in undertakings, such as the protests against the recent religious persecution in Mexico, which characterize bodies alert in the defense and spread of truth...

...Other plans for the coming months will be pushed with similar vigor and judiciousness...

...For what are such trifles as paying the rent, or legislative jams, or even the salvation of the soul, compared with a ruddy new Saturn, furbished with a dozen bracelets, which may loom up on the other side of the North Star...

...Much excellent work is already being done by the organizations of men and women...

...It is greatly responsible for the popularization of college education so that today the problem is not student material but one of providing for the flood of applicants...

...Shaw...

...A few years ago-in 1926 if we remember correctly- the distinguished Roumanian engineer, M. Dimitri Joanovici, proposed that the Danish government be urged to blow up the Greenland glacier in order to remove the menace of icebergs from north Atlantic shipping lanes, and also to raise the temperature of eastern Canada and the United States...

...Hughes's, and his record is not a tenth so impressive...

...and, therefore, current opposition to drought is rebellion, which may eventually become a real civil war...

...Others may hint that Peter's is the higher relevance: that he was merely cloaking in kindness a sterling Laborite objection to a viand which symbolizes the patrician epicure...

...opposition to that means war or treason...

...If the Federation had no other object than the higher education of the sisterhood, with the consequent elevation of the standards of secondary Catholic schools, its achievements would set a precedent in Catholic action...

...We shall not be astounded if forthcoming campaign behavior should resemble, at least in one essential particular, the unpredictable conduct of the weathercock...

...Yet the Federation has not stopped there...

...The evidence supplied by the Literary Digest and other polls has had its effect...

...Human activity is ignited by the sparks which fly from the university anvil...

...the spirited denial...

...Has it no interest in hastening the disappearance of the remaining vestiges of the last great ice age...

...This was all to the good so far as North America was concerned, but what about Europe ? M. Joanovici also proposed that the United States blow up the Aleutian Islands which now prevent the warm Japanese currents and Pacific tides from entering the Arctic sea, and melting the Arctic ice flow which lowers the temperature of northern European countries...

...This compels us to raise a question which we have had in mind for some time past...

...Our Climate,Right or Wrong CAPTAIN Sir Arthur Rostron, with other veteran navigators, is convinced that the gulf stream is gradually backing up toward the coastline of the United States, and adds, rather jestingly, that the time may come when Long Island will resemble Bermuda...

...Or does it fear to strengthen the suspicions of isolationists in the United States by giving publicity to European designs upon our climate ? Aspects of the Liturgy HEROIC efforts are being made these days, to imbue the faithful with a consciousness of the liturgy...

...It has established book, music and art clubs throughout the country...

...During the hours devoted to the debate between Senator Caraway and Mr...

...PRECISELY because education is a business having its legitimate autonomy, it cannot be only a matter of good-will or high theoretic ends...

...Give us the broad view every time...

...Which way is a poor solon to turn...