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WEEK BY WEEK DENSIONS are one of the best arguments against •*• going to war in a hurry. Nobody stopped to think, when millions of men were mobilized during 1917, that a general clamor for all...
...The first grants of aid to disand rensions , 1 j ^ j abled veterans were accepted as a matter of course...
...And so we may honor not merely the religious fervor, the courtesy and the kindliness of the martyred missionaries but also their generous reasonableness—as necessary a complement to sanctity as any other quality...
...Even though they themselves are ready to wait for full and authentic information, convinced that highly-placed ecclesiastics would not take serious measures without serious cause, nevertheless anti-Catholics, acting in the meantime on imperfect and biased reports, succeed in placing the Turmoil in Malta 274 THE COMMONWEAL July 9, 1930 Fordham's Speakers' Bureau Catholic authorities in a very invidious light...
...It marks that profession's sense of its continuing obligation to the public, on the one hand, and its mistrust of what may be called legal socialization, on the other...
...and he was very anxious that the new purchase add "materially to the bigness of the library...
...In a sense, of course, this is a German debt, secured by the willingness and ability of the Reich to make the annual reparation payments stipulated in recent signed agreements...
...It is estimated that if the plan is carried through without a hitch, earned profits will be sufficient to settle the whole reparations account by 1967...
...That is what the issue of $300,000,000 worth of bonds by the International Bank established under the Young Plan really amounts to...
...When such matters are in the offing, it will simply not do to have Congress live in one country and the President in another...
...Nevertheless modern historians are at least as much on the side of this generosity as partisan to the repressive contempt for the redskin which characterized so large a part of the Anglo-Saxon advance...
...One feels, however, that Mr...
...Inevitably the problem grows still clearer: service in the army can be used as an argument for getting money by anybody who can argue...
...No recognizable limit was placed to the "presumption," it being argued in the Senate that since tuberculosis could lie dormant for twelve years, any soldier who came down with it could rightly claim that the germ was hatched out during military service...
...Guthrie is determined to make an example of a government which has challenged his citizenship for years every time he tried to vote or to get a passport...
...It may be that the Jesuits, in their eagerness to restore simple health to a European civilization grown frivolous, seriously overestimated the virtues and possibilities of the Indians...
...1N HIS conflict with the Census Bureau, Dr...
...That such an arrangement will not be vehicle for the exploitation of immature lecturers is assured by the university's announcement that speakers will be drawn exclusively from its own faculty...
...Walter Lippmann is quite right in urging that the White House should never have allowed the pension automobile to get in motion...
...The outcome depends, of course, upon such varied factors as management, political and economic stability, ability to effect transfers of payments, and the German budget...
...France was humming with romantic rumors about the glory of the "untutored savage," and the Jesuit missionaries were men of their time...
...Understandably enough, the members of Congress seldom dare to oppose such a plea when it is presented for an open vote...
...HJGHT saints have been credited to the Canadian mission, and to the Church in North America generally, by the decree of canonization hallowing the names of Father Isaac Jogues and his companions...
...It was not Dr...
...This legislation suffered from the great defect of assuming a greater amount of normalcy and thrift than actually exists...
...AFFILIATION between colleges and secondary educational institutions has generally been limited to credits...
...Hoover criticized is an excellent case in point...
...WHATEVER one may think of the trouble on the island of Malta, which apparently boils itself down to the morality of Lord Strickland's action in refusing to allow the transfer of a Franciscan monk to another country by the duly authorized religious superior, one cannot doubt the utter pertinence of the comment made by the London Month...
...In the recent creation of a Speakers' Bureau, Fordham University proposes closer cooperation...
...He maintains that officials ought to know that the child of American citizens is a citizen, wheresoever born...
...Again, he does not know which of four languages he learned first, yet his phrase "polyglot education" was resented as though he had hurled an epithet instead of replying to a question...
...Putnam graciously nodded to both...
...It is really a very good and worthy bargain, even in these days of falling prices...
...by virtue of the circumstances under which he must render his services, will not be able to devote to the individual patient that careful study that is or may be required...
...iLUROPE capitalizing its security...
...All in all, the idea appears to be as sound and advantageous as any such arrangement could be...
...Senator Barkley wondered if the purchase would not also help to "create the impression that ConThe Jesuit Martyrs Acquiring a Gutenberg gress after all is composed of men who look upon matters a little differently than from the materialistic and narrow standpoint—that they have a little aesthetic sense...
...the attack is in full vigor long before the defenses can be organized...
...Few are more interesting or more radical than the one embodied in a resolution adopted by the American Medical Association at its recent annual convention in Detroit...
...Then came the bonus, which assigned something like future pay to every ex-soldier who cared to apply for it...
...Nor, we will permit ourselves to add, should it be furnished to the Catholic press alone but also to the great and usually relatively impartial news distributing agencies of the world...
...and Senator Walsh of Massachusetts, supporting the bill, urged his brethren to remember that pension bills would July 9, 1930 THE COMMONWEAL 273 The German Loan doubtless grow dearer and dearer to their hearts as years sped on...
...Their story is the greatest heroic poem of the new world and one doubts that either its beauty or its significance has been fully recognized...
...It is hoped to make the findings of this Bureau the basis of a new social policy of "voluntary collectivism," to be operated, according to the present plan, through the existing county medical societies...
...For instance, though born abroad and never naturalized, he is a citizen— a thing which there is no provision for recording, and which the enumerator therefore declared to be impossible...
...This excellent suggestion applies in every detail, when names are changed, to the United States: "The need of an effective Catholic foreign news agency, as well equipped and expeditious as is Reuter's, has been keenly felt by British Catholics since the ecclesiastical troubles in Malta began...
...a bill as Congress passed and Mr...
...Nobody stopped to think, when millions of men were mobilized during 1917, that a general clamor for all sorts of Mr...
...The nation faces the possibility of having to meet such claims in increasing numbers and varieties...
...All of this has been boldly recognized by the Association...
...He did so and was applauded...
...It is one of the minor inconveniences of belonging to a Church, universal in time and space, that the individual member is liable to be held accountable for the conduct of his brethren everywhere, in the past as well as in the present...
...this will presumably include not only an economic analysis of the items of charge, but also a statistical report on average incomes and average budgets...
...It calls for the creation of a Bureau of Economics within the Association, which is to investigate all the factors having to do with the size and the payment of doctors' bills...
...The whole truth is that Dr...
...But as a record of the opinion of a majority of 8,000 physicians representing the whole country, it has a very real significance...
...Finally the police appeared at his home in a last effort to make him conform...
...But all the new saints, who were slain by the Iroquois after horrible tortures, represent for us the profound enthusiasm with which the Church, in a great age, undertook the spiritual conquest of the race...
...CONGRESS has been favorably impressed with the Vollbehr collection, which includes a Gutenberg Bible printed upon vellum, and we are reasonably sure that 3,000 volumes published during the infancy of the printing craft will become the property of the nation...
...Its purpose will be to furnish gratis, upon request, speakers who will address gatherings of high school students or general high school assemblies whenever and wherever a principal feels that he wishes to obtain the services of men prepared to talk as specialists and experts...
...IT IS unlikely that such a thoroughgoing and idealistic project will be transferred from paper to practice without wide changes and qualifications...
...In the discussion which followed, congressional fancies wistful and otherwise came to the fore...
...The idea is that Germany shall pay into the fund each year 660,000,000 marks—a sum which, long before thirty-seven seasons have passed, will permit the issuance of other loans and the gradual stabilization of postwar international finance...
...He remained grimly unexplanatory, vouchsafing only the remark: "If they will send someone who Answer Yes or No Substitutes for Socialization carries no chip on his shoulder, I will endeavor to explain these matters, but they may just as well desist from these appeals to arms...
...Large quantities of bonus certificates have already been surrendered for the sake of small loans which borrowers had no intention of repaying...
...Were Rome less strict in such matters, the list might easily have been much longer...
...But the good which must follow from the students' more intimate knowledge of college work and their earlier crystallization of choices of courses would be sufficient in itself to justify the formation of the Bureau...
...As a consequence it was up to Mr...
...Guthrie's purpose to be recalcitrant...
...And it is clear that the Gutenberg Bible will be expected to represent and symbolize many things, indeed, when the nation peers at it through a pane of glass...
...Hoover reimbursement would inevitably fol, o • low...
...Herbert Putnam, the librarian, who argued that the addition of books of this character would encourage collectors to bequeath or lend rare treasures to the nation...
...When one bears in mind the size of the world war army and reckons the family support it can get, one sees that the potential pressure which the seekers after aid can bring to bear upon Washington is not a mere thump on the stair...
...Though costly and not always judiciously administered, they did help the great body of those whom military service had incapacitated for civil life...
...There is, for example, Father De Noue who perished in the snow while on an errand of charity and who was termed by Parkman "the first martyr of the Canadian mission...
...Neurotic disorders especially lend themselves to plausible dating back, since nobody on earth can tell just where and when they begin...
...The skill and prestige of the members are evidently to be pooled for the benefit of the public unit which each such society serves, and the poorest patients are to be given the most up-to-date medical care for prices within the range of their resources...
...The beneficial results to be obtained from such an expansion of the university's influence cannot easily be estimated...
...Here was a measure granting about a hundred million dollars worth of help annually to those whose physical disabilities might be "presumed" to have originated during war time...
...With fees increasing, and the sense of community responsibility for health increasing also, the physician commandeered and salaried by the government is the inevitable figure of the near future—unless physicians themselves can devise an acceptable substitute...
...From another point of view, however, these are international obligations, the fate of which hinges upon the world's ability to conduct a stable and profitable banking business...
...Senator McKellar confided that "it has been my idea for a long time that America ought to have the greatest library in the world...
...That inconvenience would be avoided if some means would be found, short of the news agency mentioned, whereby the explanation or justification of any contemplated ecclesiastical coup d'etat could be furnished betimes to the Catholic press...
...The Senate was won over partly, no doubt, by signs of popular interest in the matter, and partly by Dr...
...He merely asserts that his personal history makes it impossible to comply with the form of the questionnaire, and that he does not propose to revise it to suit the Bureau—or even, if it comes to that, the Atlantic fleet...
...That such socialization is the logical term of the tendency that now prevails cannot be doubted...
...Hoover to apply the brakes with some vigor...
...William N. Guthrie deserves a victory on points, even though he is at the moment threatened with whatever form of criminal prosecution is reserved for recalcitrants...
...1 HAT most insistent problem of modern life, the steadily mounting cost of medical treatment, has stimulated various projects for its solution...
...Offered at a discount and paying interest at the rate of 5>4 percent, the loan was almost immediately oversubscribed in all countries where it was marketed...
...In writing themselves down as favoring the alternative of "voluntary collectivism," its assembled delegates present not only a plan that invites watching, but two facts that invite meditation: first, their testimony that the growing medical fee has not meant a growing income to the private physician: and second, their conviction that "the salaried physician...
...They must appreciate its sentimental and personal importance to thousands of balloting citizens...
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