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...Stimson to excuse, if somewhat feebly, the policy of his predecessors by declaring that in the past the State Department has acted in the Karolyi case on one set of facts while he was acting on another set...

...Meanwhile the archbishop had appealed to the new "Codex Juris Canonici," which expressly provides that a collative chaplaincy cannot be given to anyone who is not an ordained cleric...

...Neither should ninety-six senators and four hundred odd representatives make such a pretension...

...Economics has, of course, long since been the historian's ally...

...In contrast with the acute anatomizations of our own critics, they are surprisingly kindly and general...

...there were even fewer who believed that the Karolyis wished to involve themselves in Communistic or radical activities...

...The presence of the apostolic delegate added a tribute and a blessing long to be remembered...

...A lecture so rich in varied, dependable information is enough to make the series memorable...

...The Convic-tion of Fall HAVING assisted at the curious spectacle of former Secretary Fall's conviction for having accepted a bribe which Mr...

...and he further claimed that the case was properly one in which the civil courts had no jurisdiction...

...There were few who believed that this country ever needed to be protected from such efforts...

...Even that old fire horse, Senator Borah, finds himself in the anomalous position of leading the Republican revolt in a special session which he was most instrumental in convening...

...No citizen ought to forget that the bulwark of religious and other liberties lies in the federal constitution and the federal government...

...At first they Victory for answered it in different ways, but now that they have been comparing the re-Modification sults of three systems, all operating within the dominion, they are all turning toward one solution...

...and this reasoning was strong enough to win for the plaintiff a decision in one of the lower courts...

...Chesterton, for instance) might advantageously talk out their differences at a conference table...

...For these and other reasons, the present case is likely to rank with Watson vs...

...Advice to Mr...

...Beyond this optimistic statement, the President could not go...

...Under the old canon law and custom, it was argued, his title could not well be challenged...

...Frederic R. Coudert...

...Frank B. Kellogg barred to the Count Enter the and Countess Karolyi, their fears were on a level with Mr...

...Just what these two sets were he did not disclose, although he did affirm his disapproval of making a mountain out of a molehill...

...These stressed matters-birth control, centralization of educational control, peace and the Mexican situation-which have for years been staples in the national Catholic larder...

...Nothing is done about it because on this problem, unlike the provinces of Canada, the states have lost their right to be heard...

...The aged satyr is still pursuing a god, though it be no better than Pan or Priapus...

...Helena, or otherwise effectively excluded from the studios the moment they demonstrate the practicalities of their inventions...

...We note especially the following passage: "Among the Church's laws are those creating tribunals for the determination of ecclesiastical controversies...

...These are not precisely the faltering accents of the proselyte to the Religion of Nature...

...Getting hold of the former Secretary of the Interior and fastening upon him the sole guilt is not a solution but a makeshift scarcely justified by what the public has been allowed to see of the evidence in the case...

...The Court Settles It CURIOUS cases at law sometimes involve far-reaching and interesting consequences...

...The court also declared that neither the foundress of the chaplaincy "nor the Church authorities" could have intended that "the perpetual chaplaincy created in 1820 should, in respect to the qualifications of an incumbent, be forever administered according to the canons of the Church which happened to be in force at that date...

...Shaw means-as one may fairly guess him to mean from the context-that it would probably transpire that the opposition to his particular views was not very real, we recommend him not to count on it...

...The government has never made any real effort to make plain just how the disposition of the notorious oil leases was effected...

...If the problem is worth solving, it should be explored to the bottom and wrestled with manfully...

...When one compares the resolutions adopted by the convention itself with the ideal thus outlined, a certain disappointment is in order...

...Most recently, Nova Scotia, comparing its prohibition with Ontario's government sale and control, has voted for the Ontario way...

...Conditions in Ontario, Manitoba and Saskatchewan are similar to those in the northern tier of states...

...He is so peculiarty unlikely to consider his own person, or personality, a "corpus vile" that he cannot have approached the experience as a mere experiment...

...The experiment will last two months...

...THE chronicler of yore has learned much from other pursuits and sciences, thus weaning himself from inclinations to be cocksure...

...This is one reason why prohibition should never have been a subject for federal action...

...William D. Guthrie and Mr...

...George J. Gillespie...

...Professor Young is to speak again on November 15...

...in which many sages have sought in vain to achieve the innocence of the animals...

...The Psycho-technic Institution wishes "to measure how much alcohol the average person of In Aid various classes of society can drink before becoming inebriated...

...Accordingly, the claim has been advanced in favor of Mr...

...Iceland Returns IN THE reconstitution of the see of Iceland, the return of the island to an importance not based solely upon its history and ancient prestige is Iceland recognized...

...For no man ever made a beast of himself...

...Shaw, it occurs to us to extend our counsels to another matter...

...But this makes the necessity of conducting a formal experiment difficult to understand...

...This...

...Out of the welter of cross-purposes and recriminations one fact emerges clearly...

...Victory for Modification PROHIBITION in Canada has never been a dominion question, but one for the separate provinces to answer for themselves...

...Congress is an inadequate machine for the fixing of tariff rates...

...The dispute was over the right to a collative chaplaincy (that is, an endowed chaplaincy subject to ecclesiastical control) established in 1820 by a wealthy woman...

...We advise Mr...

...but enough has been said to prove that patriotic hysteria and bad administrative morale were heavily involved...

...Fall...

...and, for Shavian good measure, inventors of apparatus must be "drowned, shot, sent to St...

...It was courteous of Mr...

...During most of this period, Iceland has had only a very obscure part in the world's affairs, being reduced from a nation of poets, scholars and explorers to a colony of fishermen...

...but that, at least in our progressive country, depends not on what a man has in his head, but on what he has in his purse...

...Contending first that "although there was a large number of symbolistic ceremonials, they do not lead us into the main current of dramatic development," the speaker offered an absorbing commentary on the "embroidering of the liturgy" which monks and poets of northern Europe undertook so passionately...

...with the result that the schools would soon be "in the grip of a federal straitjacket...

...Because the present appointment is a canonical act, it is the function of the Church authorities to determine what the essential qualifications of a chaplain are and whether the candidate possesses them...

...We ourselves have been observing under unusually favorable conditions for the last decade, and we hereby offer them the answers to both of their solemn questions: First, in drink, all men are brothers...

...So many volunteers have mobbed the Institution clamoring to demonstrate, in the interests of science, just how high their saturation point is, that one is forced to believe that that talent for heavy drinking of which Hamlet complained has lasted on among the Danes in an unbroken tradition to the present...

...The force of this example should not be lost on the United States...

...In modern times one of the strong supports of the nationalistic spirit has been an interest in Iceland's heroic past, and the desire to create its equal...

...Finally, the social sciences have greatly clarified the perspective...

...It would probably transpire, he feels, that the differences were not very real...

...And until some common time unit is devised for the sequences which are designed to fool the eye and those which cannot possibly fool the ear, we advise Mr...

...the residents of those provinces resemble their neighbors in the states more closely than those of Ohio and Michigan resemble those in Alabama...

...The talkies' chief, and almost insurmountable, problem, he says, is the divergence between its two mediums: one almost indefinitely fluid and illusory, the other static and exactly reproductive...

...there is no more difference between class and class in spirituous capacity than there is in spiritual...

...His Grace, the Archbishop Fidelium of Cincinnati, formulated the matter in an address which should do much to give practical content to what is now mostly a vague theoretical aspiration...

...By so doing he has acted in accord with public opinion, which never has countenanced an expulsion for which no valid explanations were given...

...Thompson's recent perturbation over King George...

...and counsel for the plaintiff was headed by Mr...

...you can only turn it into a mystery of iniquity...

...If you give the Congress a purse-string power over the schools, you must expect that body to discuss the whole gamut of school problems and step by step to take over their solution," was the gist of the argument...

...He ought, at all events, to have known better...

...Originally King's Col-lege, it came into being 175 years ago, which was considerably before General George Washington fought any battles in the vicinity...

...There is a relation between the results of alcohol and the quality of alcohol...

...Psychology has come to the fore, "strengthening the historian's suspicion that man himself is the greatest of riddles" and encouraging more deft probing into motives and currents of feeling...

...Nor are the Republican leaders, so-called, any more capable of controlling a situation where they no longer hold the whip hand over the ProgressiveDemocrat coalition...

...The rate-making power should be in the hands of a competent commission- such a one as Alfred E. Smith proposed-which would be equipped with specialized information on all the necessary facts of industry and trade and could apply its knowledge with the influences of partizan politics lowered to the irreducible minimum...

...In all such cases it is largely a matter of how judge and jury react to the legal talent employed, and in this case their impression seems to have been unfavorable...

...in a sense, he had no such luck...

...while Ontario, which has been trying out the control system after a decade of prohibition, has voted to retain it...

...Proudly averring that "when the tercentenary of King's College is celebrated, it will then be said that during the first quarter of the twentieth century, professional historians first began to understand that they were students of parts, of phases, of a vast human comedy of reality, infinitely grander and more tragic than anything which had ever before been fancied," the speaker went on to summarize changing attitudes toward the matter of history...

...Professor Young Lectures HOW modern drama grew out of the liturgy of the Church is a subject about which there has been no end of speculation, and which is eminently Professor practical once more, now that it begins Young to look as if drama must again seek ecclesiastical patronage or die...

...Doheny was juridically absolved from having given, one surmises that the ways of iustice are curious tion of Fall indeed...

...On the other hand, take Mr...

...but it was the source from which a new art of literary expression derived...

...THE Court's opinion is significant because it was probably the first time that an American tribunal expressly recognized the fact that the new codex has supplanted the old canon law...

...Jones and other eminent decisions as a guide for future judgments in matters pertaining to the legal status of ecclesiastical corporations...

...But to wish for something new, something born out of the struggle of the hour and bright with hope, would mean expecting a virtual miracle we have not yet deserved...

...the gradual trend toward impersonation in the handling of the Sequence to the Introit of the Mass for Easter...

...Senator Wadsworth on Education WE HAVE so consistently opposed the federalization of educational activity that we shall not be misunderstood when we say that the attack Senator upon it recently delivered by former Senator James W. Wadsworth, speak-on Education ing in Cleveland, seems to be mostly buncombe...

...Seldes's recent comment which, as it happens, develops a point made by The Commonweal last year...

...Enter, the Karolyis IF there actually were Americans who shivered behind the gate which Mr...

...Now Secretary Stimson has lifted the ban...

...This spirit was manifest in the first of the public commemorative addresses, delivered by Professor Carlton J. H. Hayes...

...Chesterton deals with one of those views in the current issue of America-the view that the mysteries, and most of the consequent tragedies, of sex have been created by Christian morality: imposed, as it were, upon the natural innocence and unself-consciousness of man- and judging from the sample submitted, we should say that Mr...

...Wadsworth then went on to declare that the discussion would include debates on modernism versus fundamentalism, the menace of the Pope and the viciousness of the Darwinian theory...

...Opposition to federalization must remember that, while it marshals sound arguments based upon the competence, the cost and the desirability of a hypothetical Cabinet member devoted to pedagogy...

...This last plea the Supreme Court denied, but rendered a verdict in favor of the archbishop...

...SHAW must have definitely made up his mind that the talkies are all right some months ago, before he consented to appear in one...

...It is a pleasure to add one's congratulations to the flood of appreciation evoked by the current anniversary exercises, primarily because the university has become, under the guidance of President Nicholas Murray Butler, a powerful agent for reasoned tolerance...

...Chesterton's opposition is very real indeed...

...and likeof Science wise "to measure individual intelligence by comparing the results of alcohol on various persons...

...Charles Evans Hughes and Mr...

...Shaw not to turn The Apple Cart, or any other play, over to the vitaphones...

...The relation of man and woman was a thing made by God entirely for good, and twisted by man or the devil very largely to evil...

...However, the terms on which he accepts this composite, and controverted, form of entertainment are just published in the Theatre Guild Magazine...

...As the second of the lecturers on sacred art at the Pius X School, Professor Karl Young brought to an interested public the benefit of his vast knowledge of mediaeval plays...

...Columbia and History COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY may fairly lay claim to being one of the oldest extant residents of New York City...

...It is not altogether commendable, this fanciful tampering with the classical serenity of the old texts...

...The President has admitted that he "could not pretend to have the necessary information in respect to many thousands of different commodities which such determination (of details of rates or any compromise thereof) requires...

...is attested by all actual human history and experience...

...Some day the country will try to solve the problem of "what ought to be taught" by setting up a frankly denominational school system-the only right way, and indeed the only possible way, out...

...Hoover promised ade-quate protection to agriculture and to Mr...

...and the Passion plays preserved in a tenth-century manuscript, apparently rendered in a German Benedictine monastery...

...Shaw not to bring the round-table conference off...

...It is extremely unlikely that the nation as a whole would ever be more than amused by such debates, or that it would go as far in dictating educational programs as the several states have ventured...

...Under the terms of the establishment, rights to inheritance of the appointment were vested in relatives and their heirs...

...IT WAS in the nature of things that the chief concern of the recent convention of the National Catholic Council of Men, held at Fort Wayne, Instauratio Indiana, should have been "Catholic Action...

...Almost four hundred years separate the recently consecrated Bish-Keturns op Meullenberg from his predecessor, John Aranson the martyr...

...In Aid of Science IT IS queer news that has just come out of Denmark...

...AND while we are advising Mr...

...Meanwhile it is pleasant to note that the convention was genuinely successful, and that the list of speakers and delegates was brilliant with important names...

...The needs of the hour certainly demand lay expression and leadership far superior to what has been evoked, so that the Archbishop's appeal ought to get more than a cursory hearing...

...You cannot destroy the mystery of holy matrimony...

...Regardless of how the matter is settled eventually, we believe that the process of electing Mr...

...In the absence of fraud, collusion or arbitrariness the decisions of the proper Church tribunals on matters purely ecclesiastical, although affecting civil rights, are accepted in litigation before the secular courts as conclusive, because the parties in interest made them so by contract or otherwise...

...Senatorial confusion is, in consequence, more disruptive than it has been for many years...

...He has lately suggested that he and his various philosophical opponents (Mr...

...If by this Mr...

...Gon-zales, who is only fourteen and whose father had relinquished the chaplaincy, that he is entitled to revenues from the foundation...

...Fall to the position of "sole goat" has gone too far...

...Of course we make no brief for Mr...

...We should say that they give the champion of orthodoxy at about the top of his form...

...economic situation demand assistance...

...The players must master "the special technique of motion, speech and song required for reproduction by instruments which greatly magnify and intensify them...

...A recent example is the Supreme Court decision in a liti-The Court gation between the archbishop of Manila, Philippine Islands, and Mr...

...It may be a good thing for Georgia (although we doubt it) but it is certainly not a good thing for the people of New York, of Maryland, of Wisconsin and of other states, and they have said so repeatedly...

...In all Canada, only Prince Edward Island still holds to prohibition...

...With such rich material on every hand for private observation, these scientists should know already all they can ever find out about this matter...

...the producers must "know good work from bad...

...All of which is good news...

...Hoover the industries where the changes in the Do...

...In both extremes it remains a strange and mysterious matter, deeply involved in moral and metaphysical things...

...Raul Rogerio Gonzales- Counsel for the defense included such eminent barristers as Mr...

...This is so much to the purpose that, we should think, no intelligent producer can afford to disregard it...

...Shaw MR...

...Either the Count and Countess may be congratulated on having purified and redeemed themselves during the past four years, or else America must congratulate itself on the fact that its institutions are officially pronounced beyond danger from the efforts of individual agitators...

...Second, there is no ascertainable relation between individual intelligence and the results of alcohol...

...This promise must be fulfilled and declared that he believed the tariff situation was not hopeless...

...Professor Young described in detail the mediaeval ceremony of "depositio" and "resurrectio," as that was commonly executed in English convents and churches...

...But "though we strive more and more to learn how man has reacted to his economic environment, historians as a class now certainly reject that form of the 'economic interpretation of history' which, a generation ago, envisaged man as a greedy automaton and his past as a proof of determinism...

...One may therefore conclude that historians are "gradually regaining the breadth of view which characterized the eighteenth century, although in a spirit which the historians of that century lacked -the spirit of humility...

...Despite the overwhelming majority which swept him into the White House he is as helpless with Congress as Wilson was with the 1919-1920 session...

...It is false to argue that the Canadian liquor problem differs very greatly from our own...

...Independence has been at last regained-there exists only a nominal allegiance to Denmark-and now the Church will be able to play its full part toward the reconstruction of a national culture and society...