Week by Week
WEEK BY WEEK LIFE has not grown much simpler in Palestine. - Though the list of casualties is noticeably smaller, both sides in the racial struggle are drawn up in taut lines. A general strike...
...they had even given it clews to follow up...
...Of the 14,000 students who are technically qualified to enter medical training schools each year, only 7,000 are actually admitted-a fact which will perhaps operate to reassure those of us who occasionally wonder whether doctors are not being turned out in job lots today simply to make a living off the community instead of to serve it by means of a recognized vocation...
...The judge in such a trial recently summed up so as deliberately to include just those scandalous details of private conduct which the law was originally designed to keep out of print...
...Religious subjects form the bulk of the exhibition, and include paintings of such rare beauty of composition and perfection of detail as The Dream of Pope Sergius, by Roger van der Weyden, and the warmly colored Annunciation of Joos van Cleve, to say nothing of the exquisitely painted Madonnas by the same master and by Memling...
...Major La Guardia did a great deal of talking...
...It also happens to be the only manuscript of the Rule written in uncial characters...
...The former will see in the manuscript another witness to the continuation of the influence of the Roman mission to England...
...Not every visiting Englishwoman has a solidly pleasant and unaffected way with her...
...Deriving from this, most divorces are actually based on what has come to be known as incompatibility, whatever the technical charges behind them...
...A letter written to the New York Times by Mr...
...Many educators in the United States are interested-eventually stenographers may write with entire legibility...
...This folio is the "oldest Oxford manuscript of English provenance," and as such is both interesting and beautiful...
...Bishop Cannon will feel that the menace of Mr...
...There is no way of canceling thirteen years of undeserved imprisonment...
...Hoover deliberately played 'possum...
...On the contrary, "they were morally obliged to persist in their refusal," in view of the fact that their secret was a professional one, and that they had promised to respect it...
...A general strike proclaimed by the Arab Executive was aimed rather pointedly at the retention, by the British government, of Mr...
...Overcrowding means overtaxing of the housing and feeding facilities...
...Meanwhile, it is an interesting addendum to the story of our tightening requirements that 1,000 of the excluded students have been accepted by universities abroad-800 in Scotland alone, that home of medicos...
...It was confidential information which they were professionally obliged to keep secret...
...The opportunity to view these treasures of early art, the choicest gems from the private galleries of Americans whose generosity has made the exhibitions possible, is unique and will probably not recur...
...For that reason alone it merits special study...
...It seemed incomprehensible that so doughty a citizen could ever be overlooked, snubbed, left out in the cold, made to figure in the gossip menu as piece de resistance...
...Imagined fears may impel a mob to foolish deeds, but the frenzy is never sustained...
...We welcome most heartily, therefore, the decision of Fordham University, New York City, to provide a series of conferences at the university church, 190th Street and Third Avenue...
...In such a situation, only the Governor can act, and because no Governor so far has been willing to accept the responsibility (for what reason no one knows) Mooney and Billings have remained in prison...
...POLLARD'S victory-two to one-could not have been much more decisive in the old one-party days...
...Of unquestioned general interest is the proof brought forward by the meeting that the standard of requirements for American medical students is becoming steadily more exacting...
...Brown, his opponent and Bishop Cannon's candidate, represents nothing except the fear of Smith and-shibboleth of all politicians who have no constructive program to offer- "lower taxes...
...In the past two years they have shown, for this admirable charity, the early art of Germany and France...
...Modest and friendly Englishmen have come among us whom it is a joy to remember...
...Edward Johnston, an illuminator...
...However, one need not have feared for Miss MacDonald...
...That the Arabs have not abandoned one tittle of their claim on this point is evident from the letters of protest addressed to London and the Vatican...
...He will be followed by the Reverend John Corbett, S.J., whose subject-The Bible: Its Use and Abuse-will likewise form the matter of three discourses, the first of which is set for December 1. We hope these conferences will meet with public favor...
...AN ENGLISH law confines newspaper reports of divorce trials to an outline of the charge and decision, and the judge's summing up...
...The Republican strength manifested in Virginia last fall could not endure for long because it was too special to be permanent...
...Louis University School of Medicine, and Professor William C. McTavish, of New York University...
...Why should there not prevail in the musical world the same separation that has for years prevailed in the world of painting and sculpture...
...The Republican managers of 1928 knew that they were building only for the moment when they accepted such aides as Bishop Cannon...
...Curiously enough there does not appear to be any loss of speed, the fingers turning out separate letters as nimbly as they ever did the unified words of Spencerian or Palmer penmanship...
...The American divorce rate has also been increasing, as it happens...
...Fortunately for Mayor Walker, the party of Mr...
...Congressional approval of the Mitchell plan should be immediate...
...The resultant controversy has been distinguished, in general, for everything except calm...
...We affirm, therefore, that Miss MacDonald's compatriots sometimes have sent good people here to represent them in the past...
...Gann was forced to spend in the company of her cat and fire tongs...
...But it is impossible to believe that President Hoover was in any way involved in the present dinner "mistake...
...The idea seems remarkably sound and ought to act like oil on the proverbially troubled waters...
...Miss Wise is really enthusiastic about the discovery, which seems largely due to the efforts of Mr...
...Walker has a way with him, and that the magistrates in various boroughs are competent and popular men...
...The election demonstrated, of course, that ex-Governor Smith is still a power, that Mr...
...This year the exhibition is devoted to the primitives of Flanders...
...Her title to the unusual is still secure...
...These he lists as overcrowding, dissatisfaction with the food and lack of work...
...As the Reverend John A. Ryan writes in the Baltimore Catholic Review: "That the common good was injured in any substantial degree through failure of the public prosecutors or enforcement officers to get the names and addresses of a few bootleggers more or less is a supposition that no sober and intelligent person will seriously entertain for a moment...
...John J. Raskob has been underestimated...
...For the present, Mr...
...One had been accustomed to the cheerless evenings which Mrs...
...Pollard represents a policy which means for Virginia better education, good roads and opportunities for industry...
...The fact that these uncial characters were penned in England, where uncials were not common, renders the manuscript of peculiar interest both to the historian and to the paleographer...
...GOOD news from California is that Governor Young will shortly reconsider Tom Mooney's application for pardon, and with it an application now being prepared by Warren Billings...
...DURING past years the idea of placing universities at the service of their communities has made considerable headway...
...1 HE three Washington reporters who investigated drinking facilities in the national capital should have been thanked for a friendly service by the district grand jury...
...The advantages are said to be legibility, beauty of appearance and pedogogical simplicity...
...I was struck very much," she said, "with the sense that we Britishers have been wrong in going to the United States and Canada imbued with a superiority complex and trying to push our ideas on to Americans...
...Poorly prepared and served food . . . coupled with idleness frays the nerves of the prisoners and results in the flare-up of nervous excitement and consequent disorders...
...the paleographer will find in it confirmation of the fact that English scribes evinced great aptitude for penmanship from the earliest times and learned to use the traditional Italian scripts as expertly as they used the script taught them by their nearer masters from Ireland...
...An occasional divorce represents (like the English case under consideration) the punishment of gross misconduct, and it is arguable, though by no means certain, that publicity in those circumstances might act as a moral check on the rest of the population...
...Pollard to the governorship of Virginia means, of course, the disappearance of Bishop Cannon as a political figure of any consequence in his state...
...Petrus Christus is represented by his powerful Portrait of a Carthusian Saint...
...To date no one has been able to advance a theory which tracks the responsible culprit to his lair...
...But one has only to suppose that Republicanism had got hold of as able a leader as Mr...
...But somehow that threat to the welfare of Virginia could not be made so convincing as the designs of the Pope on Washington one year ago...
...that is, for refusing to divulge the names of speakeasy proprietors...
...IT WAS a fine thought which prompted the Clarendon Press to offer, on behalf of Oxford University, a tribute to honor the fourteen hundredth anniversary of Monte Cassino...
...He knows his countrymen too well not to realize that they would resent any action which injected personal feeling into the business of government...
...But because he talked common sense, he sold it to 175,000 people and gave it a prestige which may conceivably endure...
...As a matter of fact, records of his remarks would fill (if they had been made) a new Victor catalogue...
...Thomas to realize that the battle for office might have become intensely dramatic...
...One surmises that this step will do about as much good or harm as the average strike does...
...In returning to its traditional party allegiance, Virginia really decided for government by liberal and progressive men as against a reactionary movement, under obligations to the most uncivil interests, which would have undone practically all of the good work accomplished during the administration of Governor Byrd...
...We do not think his inference was logical, or his action well advised...
...1 HE problem of electing the 50 percent who finally become candidates for medical degrees is admitted to be perplexing...
...not every one meets the suggestion that she powder her nose by explaining very amiably that she never has powdered it, and would feel silly to powder it now ; but every one does deliver a lecture on My Impressions of America...
...Stokowski paused at the end of a modernistic composition his orchestra had dinned into the ears of assembled New Yorkers to assert, with an amount of politeness which has since been diversely estimated, that they could like it or lump it...
...Several of the major schools now offer excellent annual courses of lectures which the public may and does attend...
...Thomas came wearing a label which is riot popular in Gotham...
...And that the process should be halted and reversed, that people with an insufficient sense of responsibility should get a greater sense from reading the unsavory items disclosed by the wreck of another marriage, is not reasonable...
...But in the main we simply have two people who have given up trying to get along together because they have not a sufficient motive for doing so...
...After all you cannot become a mayor by subjecting the citizenry to an oratorical endurance test...
...It is evidence of the inflexibility of our system of justice that so much should depend upon the Governor's decision...
...This is indeed a departure...
...It is a departure so extraordinary and magnanimous that it moves us to something like a similar gesture...
...but the mere fact that a boycott of Jewish merchants is in force can add but little to the serenity of the general situation...
...What thousands of men and women all over this country are hoping is that not one year more will be added to that record of injustice...
...In a little book on the subject (published recently by Charles Scribner's Sons) Miss Marjorie Wise describes the way in which British schools are teaching a "simplified form of handwriting" which is virtually "a return to the fifteenth-century Italian cursory writing...
...But Senator Johnson...
...The special critical findings and technical recommendations will be properly commented upon by authorities in the field...
...Johnson a nice letter of explanation and apology...
...They have likewise manifested an ability to unify which is rather unexpected and fairly significant...
...Nevertheless he has disarmed criticism by insisting on a diversification of articles produced in prison, and by specifying that they are to be solely utilized by the government...
...If it is as dead as it seemed to be, Gotham has need of a political undertaker...
...They had shown that there was plenty of cause for a grand jury session...
...In theory, and to a great extent in practice, impersonal methods wholly in keeping with the drastic selectiveness of the results, are employed...
...This feat is surely proof enough that all is not well in the realm of Tammany...
...Indeed it intensifies dangerously the perennial dispute about the use of the Wailing Wall, which the government has tentatively settled...
...That phenomenon was the large vote cast for the Socialist candidate...
...The growth of divorce is due to the diminution of the sacramental ideal of marriage...
...Normally the average citizen gains by having two strong parties in his state, just as he is better off, normally, for the presence of competition in industry...
...Gabrilowitsch imagines, "it would undoubtedly suffice if one and the same orchestra gave two distinct series of concerts...
...1 HE recent meeting at Columbia University of the Association of American Medical Colleges was noteworthy for its thorough canvassing of the present developments and prospects of the teaching of medicine in this country...
...There can be no debate about the common sense and humaneness of providing occupation for those who are penally confined...
...It is another healthy sign that this charge was recognized and met by the adoption of uniform "medical aptitude" tests, which are to be checked carefully and reported on in subsequent meetings of the Association...
...One hopes that some basis for peaceful reconciliation can be found by the British, whose traditional reputation for skilful diplomacy and statesmanlike administration of their colonial possessions is here put to a severe test...
...Unfortunately he either said nothing or said it in the wrong way...
...Actually, the margin of prejudice, unfairness and error is still large enough to have called forth a protest from such men as the Reverend A. M. Schwitalla, S.J., dean of the St...
...I am afraid we have not had very good people to represent us in the past...
...Instead, the manifold differences of opinion which have existed between the two Californians are being aired in private and public with so consummate a mastery of statistics that certain old French writers of memoirs must stir in their tombs and grope about for a pen...
...The collection is rich in portraits, including the famous Portrait of a Young Man, by Memling, and the hyper-delicate Portrait of a High-born Lady, an entrancing van der Weyden...
...Bentwich as attorney general...
...The divorce rate, he said, had increased alarmingly since the passage of the law, and publicity of this sort might have a salutary effect in checking it...
...Despite the ability and integrity of the regular Democratic party in Virginia at present, we should not be averse to a strong Republican development there...
...Topics, speakers and auspices are in admirable consonance...
...There never was a time when Washington found it so difficult to eat dinner...
...But the course of justice is easily diverted...
...Instead of being commended for what they had done, they were sent to jail for not doing more...
...And we thank Miss MacDonald for wooing us from our defensiveness (which she accounts for so well) and making it easy for us to say so...
...Granted two well-established orchestras which were respectively the Louvre and the Luxembourg of music, one could arrange an evening not tormented by the cacophonies of Herr Schonberg or the monotonous sameness of Tannhauser, as the case might be...
...The explanation remains, to be sure, delightfully incomplete...
...At any time within the last eleven years a retrial would certainly have resulted in acquittal, but there can be no retrial because the evidence of innocence is not part of the record of the trial court, and "there is no provision of law by which newly discovered evidence" may be presented to the Supreme Court "in the first instance...
...I HE election of Mr...
...1 HE Kleinberger Galleries at 12 East 54th Street, New York City, are holding their annual exhibition for the benefit of the Free Milk Fund for babies...
...The baseless hysterias which the demagogue excites soon pass away...
...The time is coming fast," he says, "when it will not be possible to accommodate on the same program all the modern music desired by one group of listeners and the classical music demanded by the other...
...These are a long and crusty tale...
...EXCEPTING for one phenomenon, the election which returned Mayor Walker to the New York City Hall had all the listlessness of a mystery story which everybody can see through to the last clew...
...We rejoice to see that the President has closed the incident, which grew out of a White House dinner to the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, by sending Mr...
...He does not seek to commit the government to an extensive building project but proposes, by the erection of a new federal penitentiary, a new industrial reformatory and three federal jails or houses of detention, to relieve the underlying causes which led to the recent disorder at Leavenworth...
...not every one expresses a smiling preference for a day in the children's court to a day of sightseeing...
...We BELIEVE that the Hoover administration will be distinguished for a number of things, but a gift for making tongues wag must certainly be counted among them...
...The introduction says further: "It is the oldest copy of the Rule now in existence...
...The Reverend Wilfrid Parsons, S. J., the editor of America, will deliver three lectures, beginning November 10, on The Papacy and the World Today...
...Attorney-general mitchell has lost little time in preparing an administration program for reorganizing the federal prison system...
...Father Parsons is the author of a treatise on this subject and has studied it most diligently...
...It has normally been too crowded and hampered for that...
...1 HE mere title of the lecture delivered by Miss Ishbel MacDonald upon her return to London was calculated to make one feel, a little distressfully, that she was not living up to her promise of the unusual...
...At one and the same time the mental, moral and physical condition of the men will be improved and the taxpayer will be saved considerable expense...
...This takes the form of a reprint of specimen pages from the Bodleian manuscript of the Regula Sancti Bene-dicti, accompanied by a critical introduction...
...It is not so customary, however, to behold the Catholic university doing something of the same kind in the interests of religion...
...This last seems to be especially evident in the domain of spelling, because the child is not compelled to write a word in "ordinary script" and read it in printed letters...
...One year after his conviction, Tom Mooney had assembled about as complete and conclusive a case for pardon as could be desired...
...We could name names, but a White List is almost as dangerous as a Black List, so we rest on the mere generalization...
...The apathy or even unfaithfulness which may follow are only details in the process, not its original cause...
...ALL this is peculiarly interesting because of the new uses to which the English are putting manuscript writing...
...SOME time ago Mr...
...Appropriately, nearly all the Madonnas of these naive and homely primitives are represented as nursing the Divine Child amid scenes of warm human beauty, though touched with the heavenly charm those early painters well knew how to convey when they placed their nurseries in eternal realms...
...Mitchell is right in labeling the opposition to federal prison industries from both capital and labor as selfish...
...Yet no one has ever accused us of scanting the published details of our divorce trials...
...Without such injury, the three reporters were not "morally obliged to give the grand jury the information demanded...
...The report of the Department of Commerce, first citing the variations in New York as typical of the country, assigns the state a 5.9 percent jump in divorces in 1928...
...Under the circumstances no clear-headed person could have decided otherwise...
...Ossip Gabrilowitsch is, however, so impressive a note that it deserves stressing...
...The trial judge has asked for Mooney's pardon, every member of the jury has seconded him, and yet their declarations will result in nothing unless they can influence the judgment of one man, the Governor of California...
Vol. 11 • November 1929 • No. 3
