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WEEK BY WEEK more gold pen achieved historical prominence as President Hoover signed the London Naval Treaty, surrounded by those who had done most to impress its virtues upon a...
...This science has been greatly developed particularly by Italians whose country is, to some extent, a constant tremor laboratory...
...The blow comes, however, at an embarrassing moment, when the general economic situation is affected by serious depression...
...Sweeping ethical judgments will not solve these problems...
...But it was largely inherent in the circumstances...
...There can be little doubt that some of the grewsome conditions of yore have been corrected, and that newscrying is no longer so efficient a training-school for gambling, corruption and crime as it once was...
...Various historical associations, some of them manned by remarkable scholars, have done heroic work in preserving the Catholic legacy...
...Only by careful study and wise statesmanship can the policies of nations as regards such matters as imperialism, nationalism, armaments and economic conflicts be so adjusted to the spirit of Christianity that peace may be made secure...
...WEEK BY WEEK more gold pen achieved historical prominence as President Hoover signed the London Naval Treaty, surrounded by those who had done most to impress its virtues upon a perspiring Another an^ traditionally recalcitrant Senate...
...Whether the Treaty has anything more than a moral significance remains to be seen, of course...
...A buildWinning ing leased as a church by a Negro conGood-Will gregation several weeks ago was padin Jersey locked by dry agents on the eve of its first opening for services, because a former tenant had sold liquor there...
...It is bad enough to find ragged youngsters everywhere, at any hour of the day or night, offering papers which drum up circulation by getting there first...
...The picThe Two tures do not "vulgarize" the South Pole, r t n i as he charges, but they do dismantle it South Poles c . & ' jt . . . . of the remoteness and sinister majesty which it has worn in English imaginations, particularly...
...The fault may lie partly in the technique of the cameramen whom Paramount sent with the expedition, and partly in the process of selection which assembled the final pictures from the thirty miles of film actually taken...
...EARTHQUAKES in the Apennine region just north of Naples have exacted a heavy toll of lives...
...It is not true that the camera "found the Antarctic snow and left it slush"—the irrelevant and sentimental touches make only a small part of the whole...
...Shaw's considering any title up to, and including the Prince of Wales...
...need not subscribe to the comments in the London Times on the Byrd Antarctic pictures to understand the critic's vehemence...
...But there is no theory—except possibly animism—that makes intelligible the punishment of a building after the evil-doer has departed from it...
...Such study and statesmanship—or at least intelligent appreciation of such study and statesmanship—are duties of no trifling kind...
...Shaw's orphic answer to the recent offer of a peerage...
...and if one can secure a good copy of Poe's Poems, second edition, New York, 1831, for $125 in Chicago it would pay one to charter an airplane and go after it...
...In the larger cities, distribution systems have virtually eliminated the yelping little fellows...
...These are news films of the greatest venture that the camera has ever recorded in detail, and they were properly concerned not only with the prospect and landscape of the frozen continent, but also with the day-to-day activities of the expedition's members...
...No solution could be reached at London, because France and Italy refused to predict how much or what they intend to build...
...in less metropolitan places, "the carriers work under close office supervision and live at home—often in homes of comfort and even luxury...
...Of course the word "nobody" is merely relative...
...Even worse is the omnipresent spectacle of little fellows perched on curbs digesting the almost pornographic sheets which they have been hired to sell...
...By declaring in a body at this date for the sacredness of the home and the inviolability of private morals, these estimable ladies and gentlemen merely fall into step behind the leading wets—several years behind...
...One may hope that the willingness of the three great powers to reach an understanding will eventually influence public opinion in the two countries now holding out...
...after Sidney Webb was turned into Lord Passfield, for Labor's sweet sake, there was probably no chance of Mr...
...The explanation offered is that a legal technicality halted padlocking proceedings until this moment...
...These prices are comparatively reasonable if one reckons with some of the very rarest Americana...
...Hawthorne's Peter Parley's History is worth close to $750...
...x ERHAPS the longest shot ever taken at the general mark of prohibition enforcement was the one recorded in Jersey City the other day...
...And most alarming of all is the easy discovery that gambling and vice, though curtailed, still prevail among sizable groups of boys in cities which pride themselves upon their respectability...
...We think it simply means that the idea was tried elsewhere first...
...AN EXCEPTIONALLY compact and thoughtful pamphlet dealing first with the causes of war and then with the foundations of peace has been Underpinning issued by the Catholic Association for r -K* International Peace...
...Included in the estimate are volumes of great value as religious or historical testimony—which goes to show that nobody has been interested in collecting or studying them...
...Prices now paid for notable first editt 1 „ • tions will seem almost incredible to those Values in . , , . . , . _ . who lack experience with such matters...
...We may conclude that while collectors' cheques are by no means an index to literary values, they do pretty generally go toward paying for books which popular and critical favor have endowed with lasting significance...
...Irving's Sketch Book in parts would probably necessitate a collector's parting with $3,500 in gilt edge securities to obtain a set of first issues now...
...But it is true that this does not seem to be the land where Scott died...
...that "personal habits and the conduct of the home life are in the field of private morals," and "should not be touched by the hand of the law unless they cross their boundaries, and then only by due process of law"— they might have saved their experiment...
...measured by the appalling and glorious previous record, an anticlimactic expedition...
...Needless to say, the sympathy of the world has been aroused, and the American Red Cross has offered its services in behalf of the people of this country...
...It is instead the land from which Byrd brought back all his men alive: a soberer glory, but perhaps no less real...
...Or put the aphorism that the children of a born wife and mother naturally run away from home, beside the noble tributes in Candida, and you have material for limitless conjecture...
...Shaw means by any given statement is always good for a debate...
...or, if not that, at least made of it a respectable challenge in the field of practical social legislation...
...It Signature might just as well have been used a month ago, because the long wrangling merely emphasized the fact that the document in question is as prosaic, fool-proof and nonrevolutionary as any on record...
...That is one of the things that make Mr...
...It asserts precisely those principles the disregard of which has turned the Amendment from a serious, if mistaken, attempt at solving a social problem into a tragic farce...
...This is what the pictures mainly show...
...The practical problem is not whether Great Britain and the United States can be induced to agree upon navies of equal size, but whether European political conditions will permit Great Britain to bring that size down to the limits desired for the sake of economy and peace...
...Most regrettable is the apparent failure of years of hard work in earthquake forecasting...
...Conditions we are told, "bear no comparison with those of 40 years ago...
...For the present it is inexpedient to be too optimistic...
...If they can hold the fort long enough, good results will surely accrue in time...
...This may mean that Mr...
...Yet one feels that easy optimism is unjustified...
...and meanwhile the present lessees have spent their money and energy on the place in absolute good faith...
...Or it may mean that, if the Labor party can scratch up something really good, he will take it...
...Whatever objections may be raised to these activities, at least there is some discernible connection between them and an attempt to enforce the dry law...
...A number of famous towns, historic and thrivItalv's *n§ a^ke> were shaken from their hilltop ™ perches quite as a wind might fling birds' 1 a nests down upon the ground...
...Too frequently people sanctify their prejudices by appealing to a maxim which, though perfectly correct, is about as deftly applied to a given situation as a piece of court plaster by a wounded polar bear...
...WHOEVER is failing to estimate American literature at its true worth, it is evidently not the collector...
...Affirming that enmities between individuals and peoples may all be traced to disregard for divine laws and to materialistic points of view, the authors go on to say: "On the other hand, it is to be noted that the political and economic sources of international enmity are complex and very controversial matters, upon which the verdict of Christian morality is not to be pronounced easily or lightly...
...With the possible exception of Father Tabb, no Catholic author of yore has written a book that cannot be bought in good condition for a dollar...
...Shaw so interesting...
...The Labor party is reported as being anxious that the famous playwright and political doctrinaire help to elevate its prestige in the House of Lords, and he seems to have replied that he would accept any title that was more distinguished than the one he would be giving up...
...It is relatively easy to deduce the status of American Catholic letters...
...Is there no discretion in the heads of padlocking magistrates...
...Or it may be only a typically Shavian "out," based on the desire for ease of a man now turned seventy-four...
...If the responsible dry spokesmen had, years ago, given the nation assurance that they are actively concerned to preserve the Fourth Amendment...
...Shaw really holds the opinion long credited to him by popular gossip— that he is greater than Shakespeare...
...a lucky expedition...
...This happens to be quite literally true...
...W HAT Mr...
...Such natural catastrophes are part of our human fortunes, and it is strange as well as instructive that they are found to occur most frequently in the outstandingly beautiful sections of our earth—a fact which makes such tragedies doubly poignant...
...This fills us with nothing but weariness...
...His Nature's celebrated saying that to speak of "the ¦nt 1 deserving poor" is to utter a contradiction in terms has kept economic exegists busy for years trying to establish the exact relation between so inhuman a piece of Fabianism and his known humanity...
...How in the name of common sense and Dwight Morrow do they expect to win adherents to an imperiled and detested measure by closing up, of all things, a church, just because they happen for one crazy moment to have the power to do it...
...But it was a modern expedition, well manned and scientifically equipped...
...In this case, as it happens, he departed seventeen months ago...
...1 HE manifesto in favor of personal rights, signed by many of the leading drys of the nation, probably comes too late to reverse the growing The Dilatory ^ee^nS against the Eighteenth AmendDrys ment...
...The same breadth of interpretation applies to Mr...
...Without the help of Senator Robinson of Arkansas, who kept enough Democrats in Washington to maintain a quorum, no decision could have been reached before fall...
...Though it is doubtless a little curious to find Signor Mussolini averse to accepting any aid from abroad, his desire to prove that Italy can bind up its own wounds is understandable as a means of intensifying the nation's sense of unity...
...If they had raised a corporate voice of protest at the illegal seizures and searches and the legalized murders which have enlivened the past dozen years, or shown a little fastidiousness about their public allies—the politician who votes dry and lives wet, the fanatic who honestly sees no difference between the law against drinking and the law against murder—they might have built up by now a solid following among the liberal and stable citizens who have become the active enemies of enforcement in the mere interest of human decency...
...1 era u e Reviewing a recent bibliographical manual, two critics offer the readers of Publishers' Weekly the following topics for meditation: "Cooper's The Spy, one of the rarest of all familiar firsts, can be offered at a fair retail price today for $2,500...
...While the standard newspapers have taken the problem to heart and largely solved it, cheaper varieties of journalism still create a source of juvenile infection of which no spectator with his eyes open can be unaware...
...Apparently no warning was given in the present instance, Vesuvius and Etna not having been noticeably affected...
...IN THE wake of a recent convention of circulation managers, Editor and Publisher was moved to comment upon what has happened to the Exit Horatio old-fashioned newsboy, who slept in an .. empty grocer's box and dreamed of com° ing wealth and fame...
...Villanova, Avellino and Melfi are plunged in deep mourning and the government will find it difficult to restore to thousands of families their homes and normal means of livelihood...
...Hoover gratefully remarked that another step toward guaranteeing peace had been taken, credit for which was due to public opinion and to both political parties...
...This, we submit, is an even weirder proceeding than sinking boats because they may be rumrunners, or killing motorists on the chance of their having alcohol concealed in their car...
...Are there no discretionary clauses in padlocking laws...
Vol. 12 • August 1930 • No. 14
