Week by Week
WEEK BY WEEK /^ERMANY'S new Reichstag is funny only in cer^^ tain minor ways. Hitherto Fascist and Communistic gentlemen have shouted so vociferously in the august hall that the...
...The picture of "the petty rascality and sexual promiscuity of southern plantations, mills and camps...
...But even so all the farther anybody got was to sign another resolution...
...Lupton's proposed rosary, the use of "seven keywords which hold within them some of the greatest ideals of our race: self, others, God, health, truth, beauty, goodness," we will not express an opinion, other than the remark that Catholics will continue to find these ideals well expressed in their own rosary, linked to ideals that transcend even those of the human race...
...Bertrand Russell, Judge Ben B. Lindsey, Dr...
...On the negative or "analytical" side, according to the advance publicity, this course will evidently carry on the good work of that part of our national advertising which is devoted to the instilling of phobias...
...the intrigues and erotic exploits of panders and perverts of modern urban life...
...But in pointing and Negro out that there is altogether too great a Thinkers tendency to restrict the colored creator to the racial and what is called "the primitive," the author, Mr...
...those "sexual philosophers" who are "constitutionally incapable of getting the simplest fact about sex in true proportion...
...No problem on the list noted above can possibly affect the colored thinker like the problem of his own race...
...The disaffected are for a new social order pure and simple...
...Of course it would have been greatly to the advantage of Briand at home if he could have obtained some immediate and novel success...
...And where there is dissatisfaction there is also danger...
...We wish, of course, that his position were completer, that it were as intelligible morally as it is sound biologically, if it were only because his influence now is bound to be restricted, as a purely individual conviction is always restricted...
...And then the positive work will start: the rearing on this foundation of the triumphant synthetic structure of "personality...
...Steward's further contention: that the Negro thinker and leader of opinion is restricted in a corresponding and positive way...
...These are of real interest...
...In his view, the overwhelming experience of the race stands behind it...
...Whatever may be our distaste of many elements in the Catholic Church," Mr...
...SlGNS of hard times are discernible in the returns from diverse primaries...
...What seems to be the real truth is that Negro writers deal with Negro topics because they are more interested in such topics than in any others...
...The most notable scenes were Wisconsin and Massachusetts...
...He demands why American magazines do not carry discussions by Negroes of our general national problems—"say, the tariff, farm relief, prohibition, power control, communism, civil liberty, unemployment...
...Lupton writes, "we must admit that Catholics are, for the most part, profounder psychologists than we Protestants...
...VvE ARE evidently far from that old-fashioned Protestant view of the rosary as a merely "mechanical" substitute for prayer...
...Smith and Morrow have recommended to the public...
...The nation is once more ready for a debate the outcome of which has not been arranged in advance...
...and the old-fashioned spectre of a fast and furious liquor trade perched on the edge of a state line must not be resurrected again...
...YET, admitting that the Negro artist works under the handicap of a tradition that will barely concede him universality or moral depth and seriousness, barely permit him to deal with the sort of beauty that is linked with refinement of feeling, it is not easy to follow Mr...
...The motion-picture camera is to be used in listing all the ascertainable personal and social defects of every pupil...
...Its writer, Mr...
...But if the situation in which the Germans find themselves politically is not easy, the results are probably a faithful picture of the point of view of the electorate...
...It would seem, therefore, that if anything is to come of the plan ultimately it must mean a closer identification of Geneva with European interests and powers...
...Whatever it is, it can be had this fall at $22.00 a semester...
...It would seem to be the appropriate moment for an American remark to the effect that reckless disturbers will find us permanently bored and determinedly resentful...
...It is argued, however, that he owes success to the fact that there were two of them...
...Clendening's balance is apparently inCommon born...
...I mean Mr...
...State boundaries are, for the most part, purely nominal geographical lines today...
...Henderson paid a warm personal tribute to the French statesman—in its way as touching a eulogy as any yet heard in Switzerland...
...1 HE resignation of Mr...
...W E ARE in general accord with a vigorous protest against a certain unjust and unhealthy canalizing of the Negro's artistic efforts, which apNegro Artists pears in the Nation...
...He is unquestionably right in saying that books from white pens, like Nigger Heaven, and Black April, set a standard of atmossphere and approach which Negro writers are encouraged and expected to follow...
...Germans say their country has never known a more picturesque demagogue...
...The first suggestion is rather novel...
...Regardless of Briand logic and oratory, the element Europe °^ metn°d and the habit of caution ^ , were ultimately stressed as matters of Jronders r j ,. i • *. ^r fundamental importance...
...Clendening, his powers of derision evidently quite unimpaired, directing hearty and unmistakable hoots at those "uncontroled thinkers . . . supposed to be men of science," whose habit it is, upon having a thought, "instantly to proclaim it as true...
...No matter how urgent the need may be today of active, exterior works of Christianity, the need for that power of prayer without which exterior works wither or lack right direction is even greater...
...He favors repealing the Eighteenth Amendment and replacing it with another stipulating that the saloon shall be outlawed everywhere in the United States and that the national government be given full power "to cooperate with and assist states which have prohibition either in whole or in part...
...His answer is that Negro writers have come to understand that any manuscript from them must deal only with topics about them if it is to receive an editorial welcome...
...In the same spirit, we were glad to supply to an official of one of the leading Protestant church councils information requested by him as to the leagues of prayer within the Catholic Church, to be used in connection with the development of intercessory prayer within his own communion...
...We favor an amendment giving the federal government full power to regulate but not forbid the manufacture and sale of alcoholic beverages in consonance with the reasonable demands of the several states and of the country as a whole...
...This alone would keep such a barrier from operating among purveyors of ideas...
...G. A. Steward, possibly misconstrues other facts...
...In Indicative t^ie first>named Badger state, old strata p . . of opinion appeared, cleansed of the moss which somehow grows there during presidential years...
...and Mrs...
...Suppose that some states desired taverns dispensing light wines and beers similar to those operated in connection with hotels in Canada...
...Hitherto Fascist and Communistic gentlemen have shouted so vociferously in the august hall that the government had to Hitler to ^° most °f lts business in committee , p, meetings...
...In Massachusetts the Republican battle took moisture for its chief bone of contention and ended with the triumph of former Senator William Butler over two wet opponents...
...The La Follette dynasty rode to victory as "young Phil," denouncing the political ideas of the national administration, beat out Governor Walter J. Koehler for the Republican nomination...
...Realistically minded people see the trouble but believe that grinning and bearing it is the best recipe...
...Similarly, in the plastic and pictorial fields, the prime point of attraction is too often either a subject illustrative of the American Negro's laziness or debauchery, or that savage ugliness which is modeled upon the crude relics of his African past...
...In behalf of Germany, Herr Curtius spoke in favor of international friendship and the policies of Stresemann...
...Nobody in the Reich actually believes that the existing settlement is a settlement...
...On the other hand we believe that the separate states should never again be given a free hand in determining what they wish to do about liquor, beyond specifying whether they want it to be sold or not...
...In a recent number of the Christian Century, an "undenominational journal of religion," whose vigorously written and capably edited pages are predominantly devoted to the discussion of the problems of the "active" Christian life, as viewed by devotees of social service, social reform and political action (in the broad sense of this last term), we find an interesting plea for "a Protestant rosary...
...HAD been expected, the fate of Europe's United States rested with Great Britain...
...but •d what is not so well known, yet even more worthy of notice, is a well-defined tendency on the part of certain Christian bodies of both the "evangelical" and the "liberal" types to adopt, or, rather, to adapt traditional Catholic modes of religious expression belonging to the more mystical aspects of faith...
...ALL of us are familiar with the multitudinous forms of the query, What does American education need...
...We on this magazine do not profess to Culture know the answer, though we have our share of tentative ideas on the subject...
...Tuttle tional prohibition...
...But inevitably a great mass of harassed people prefer to listen to one who can draw a complete picture of their woes and whose system of escape is lurid and simple...
...If government liquor dispensaries are established, they should remain under national scrutiny to a far greater extent than meat packing or railroad rates...
...This we venture to question...
...1 HE increase of the use of many details of Catholic devotion, mainly ritualistic, among Protestant denominations, in particular the EpiscopaliWanted- anS) 's a familiar phenomenon...
...Not to be outdone, Mr...
...But we can sympathize with those who are at last discovering the need for the cultivation of spiritual life, and trust that they will increasingly avail themselves of what our faith contains for all...
...Under the circ i cumstances this document may be sus" pected of political tendencies, but it probably does contain Mr...
...In the long run, however, the present idea may prove more realistic...
...In spite of all that has been said to the contrary, European internationalism is not widely acceptable on the present basis...
...the knife and gun encounters of gin-crazed, crap-shooting nomads," is now a stock picture in the literary gallery, and the colored novelist or sketch-writer who wishes to supplant or even supplement it must work outside the tradition, and against the wishes of his paymaster...
...This document seems to have for its chief purpose suppressing all action outside the scope of the League...
...he is a freethinker, and the philosophy which makes him advocate reticence, chastity and "a rigid code of conduct in sexual matters" is purely pragmatic...
...A people but seventy years removed from chattel slavery, struggling actively and often desperately with these realities in the midst of a largely hostile society, has little spare mental energy left to volunteer solutions for troubles that vex the wider life of that society at large...
...Dilworth Lupton, recognizing that the activities of the Martha type of Christianity tend to immerse its followers "in the appallingly vital thing we call civilization," to such a degree that individual spiritual life and progress must inevitably suffer, seeks for a solution in some form of the life of Mary, the contemplative type...
...1 HE extent to which these new developments constitute a threat to the German parliamentary form of government, or to the peace of Europe at large, cannot be determined...
...There promises to be a hot time in many an old town during coming months...
...Though statesmen representing the various powers have talked amiably as well as benignantly at Geneva and elsewhere, solid masses of doers-or-diers are forming behind all of them, menacing each other and the world as a whole...
...And," he adds, "if there is any question about whom I mean...
...Elsewhere echoes of the same contention stirred voters and influenced results...
...Centuries ago, the Catholic Church adopted a device known as the rosary...
...But one cannot quite believe that the dictator substitutes are destined to remain permanently, so theatrical and curious are most of them...
...3 However, we are fairly sure of two or three things that American education does not need, and high on the honor roll of these we would eagerly place the new "course in personality" planned for this fall by one of New York's largest seats of higher learning...
...The difference lies rather in the estimate of ways and means of effecting a change...
...Tuttle's amendment would prevent their establishment, and the speakeasy would remain...
...We confess to believing that the first is mistaken and the second rather vague...
...After forty years or so of freethinking in an atmosphere flavored to suffocation by the doctrines of eugenics, Freudism and the higher promiscuity, it is magnificent to hear Dr...
...There are excellent reasons why a new amendment to the constitution on this topic ought to refrain from outlawing anything...
...The chief purpose of the rosary is the counting of prayers and meditations, but in addition it overcomes the two difficulties of which I have spoken—it enables the devotee to concentrate his mind and it serves also to bring to his memory certain definite ideas around which he may cluster his thoughts...
...Recommendations for overcoming them (ranging, one supposes, from psychiatric clinics to listerine) will next be in order...
...But even so, it is surely in order for us all to congratulate ourselves on the presence in our midst of this phenomenon of benevolent tough-mindedness...
...During more than ten years nothing has been settled except that the French have won and that there has been a considerable redistribution of territory in the southeastern realm...
...This is what will be taught plastic and open-minded young people under the name and authority of university education...
...Dr...
...William J. Robinson...
...Tuttle's honest personal opinions...
...vJNE of the sanest social counselors of our time is the distinguished physician, Logan Clendening...
...Underneath the general trend our old acquaintance nationalism is doubtless moving and mumbling...
...Is it breathing exercises, we wonder, or tone placements or color rhythms which release the supermanliness of supermen and make them masters of affairs...
...M. Briand declared that the spirit of this same Stresemann was guiding and encouraging him...
...He tells us in the current Forum, Sense from that his conservatism—we should call Clendening it his healthy common sense—on the subject of sex is unsupported by any religious tenet...
...Charles Tuttle, United States District Attorney for New York, was accompanied by a statement repudiating naMr...
...As to the merits of Mr...
...The public for ideas is more liberal and disinterested than the public for entertainment...
...the second incorporates the now famous ideas which Messrs...
...Its economic hazards and triumphs, its social battle, with its accompanying losses or gains, its educational needs and possibilities, naturally and prevailingly engross him...
...and the task, with which the Centre Party is burdened, must end either with an embarrassing gesture to the Left, or an equally embarrassing gesture to the Right...
...Ihe outcome was a resolution, signed by forty-nine countries, advocating the establishment of a committee to inquire further into the art of federating European states within the League...
...Maria Stopes and Dr...
...Possibly the continent is, after all, ineradicably monarchical, though the notion of hereditary succession may have passed forever...
...Now that Herr Hitler has garnered 107 seats and the Communists 76, pandemonium should reign indefinitely...
...Herr Hitler's system is both...
...The decision taken was embedded in a collection of oratorical bouquets...
...Ivan Hamilton, Dr...
...A new parliamentary government can be formed only with extreme difficulty...
...To us he seems like an ardent and pseudo-philosophic representative of the Klan—a Teutonic one-hundred-percenter, preaching death to the Jews and big business, out to supply the country with a big army, Versailles or no Versailles...
...Simultaneously Wisconsin voted against virtually all the congressional drys, producing therewith a complete house-cleaning act almost without a parallel even in this progressive domain...
...Obviously political talk now envisages the spectre of hard times, but finds its most dramatic topic in the wet-dry antagonism...
Vol. 12 • October 1930 • No. 22
