Week by Week
WEEK BY WEEK CCARCELY had it been rumored that Moscow was ^ doing a "short" business on grain exchanges than the press of the nation suddenly turned liberal. One editorial writer declared that...
...A committee of investigation is due to report to the Board very shortly on projects for bettering the situation...
...In fact, the particular occasion that led us to this, we hope, pardonably naive confidence, was quite the opposite...
...Similarly, the unlimited wealth behind the yacht Enterprise, which has just beaten Shamrock V four times in a row, gave it an unquestionable advantage in mechanical equipment over Sir Thomas Lipton's boat...
...Thomas Hitchcock, jr., the world's ranking polo genius, and Mr...
...OAVING long hoped that voyagers to Canada might find some pleasure superadded unto wine and spirits, we are happy at having disA Memorial cerne(i promise in a recent event...
...Moody did not choose to play...
...These present are happy and authoritative tokens of that fact...
...it is secured only by a continual suspicion of those "college enterprises which have an irresistible appeal but stand in the way of the concentration and reflection necessary...
...One of the unfortunate aspects of our unbeatability is the fact that the English press pretty generally ascribes it to the wrong cause...
...In the matter of golf, it was the incredible and incontrovertible Mr...
...It is likewise evident that they were trained in American schools and under American conditions...
...There is a reminder of Johnsonian sanity in this: "To have nothing is sometimes a matter of necessity, but to wish to have nothing is a great virtue...
...Recently he has discovered the economic possibilities latent in serving the illegal liquor trade...
...the sitting and the resting thou dost raise, and the risen thou dost make sweet...
...The simple fact of the matter—in so far as we are now able to discern facts—would seem to be that Russia, interested in raising money, is selling huge quantities of wheat abroad at prices with which nobody could possibly compete...
...It seems to us that these conditions and tendencies cannot be remedied by outlawing the Italian still more completely...
...The October i a e which has just passed into history saw almost a quarter of a million families in the throes of this terrific transit: enduring, as usual, the wastage and superlative inconvenience of the hurried labor, and paying the usual abnormal charges, which their abnormally concentrated demand makes inevitable...
...Harold Vanderbilt the king of yachting skippers...
...They may not like it, but ¦p...
...That was our trouble, we had been held captive by pagans, by pagan ideas...
...The action would force European farmers to seek government aid in raising barriers against the importation of wheat so that a repetition of the situation would be impossible...
...L HERE is much splendid writing in the Selected Works of Richard Rolle, which Mr...
...and it would seem, indeed, that Americans of Italian derivation do take to knives and machine-guns more rapidly than do groups of a different stock...
...G. C. Heseltine had transcribed and which Messrs...
...In the matriculation sermon at Yale University, about two thousand young men were told that the only way to develop the idealism in which (so ran the grim assurance) their generation is conspicuously lacking, is by abandoning the pursuit of group activities and wordly success, which are "the pathway to the soul's eclipse," and by learning in silence and retirement to ponder on "the vulgarity of our sophistication" and "the foundations of life...
...JliUCHARISTIC congresses, such as that which has recently been in session at Omaha, Nebraska, have for their purpose manifesting reverence The and love for the Body of Christ...
...But Russia has not been exactly an ingratiating host to the rest of the world, nor has it played economic ball without charging admission...
...France Our Peak / i u . \ i meets (and beats) us only at tennis, and our contacts with other nations, outside of the Olympic games, are negligible...
...It is said that this method of "staggered leases," as the New York World calls them, is being tried in Chicago with encouraging success...
...It had existed for ages—was in the air, as it were—and could be taken for granted...
...1 his is meant in no pagan sense of trafficking with God for small material favors...
...Here the Italian works under the crudest conditions, is educated very frequently in a secular school, and finds little opportunity to express himself emotionally...
...WE ARE not the first to say, nor shall we be the last to feel, that there is an unhealthy monotony in America's international sport victories...
...But this fact illustrates precisely the difference between our point of view and that of the Soviets...
...For the ransoming from slavery of the Christians held captive by pagans," was the order and prayer...
...The author Murderers...
...A FEATURE of the Catholic liturgy that cannot fail to impress those who use their missal day by day, whether or not they go to daily Mass, Our Ladv 1S ^e heartening practicalness of the j. r, suggestions in the Propers of the Seaof Ransom &6> , £ ., c • ^ tl' • son and or the baints...
...Our money is not actually the prevailing factor that their editors suppose...
...There were addresses enough to constitute one course in poetry, though if there were stray folk from the United States at the scene the subject-matter must have been novel to them...
...today, on a larger and possibly more intense scale, the same idea enlists the homage of vast crowds...
...To the cynical or neurasthenic who might assume that the fact that the paper expired was an indication that placidity persevered in leads but to extinction or Nirvana, we would recommend his further observations that he let the journal lapse when the need for it no longer existed so that he could give all his time to "writing and painting and conversation...
...There is money in this business and his appetite for more is whetted...
...thou dost restore the fallen, deliver the bound...
...The Church, the saints, the memorials of a long tradition lent to the here-and-now scene an otherworldliness entirely missing in the United States...
...If thou truly foresakest all things for God, see what thou despisest rather than what thou foresakest...
...There is only one defect in this suggestion and it happens to be fairly impressive...
...One's admiration for the youthful Miss Nuthall's prowess and promise does not cancel the fact that she carried off our women's tennis title because Mrs...
...And when we leave these two fields, the facts are even clearer...
...thou makest man equal to the angels...
...We have a clear enough claim to sporting preeminence...
...All our pother had been about the pagan possession of things...
...MOVING DAY is something which New Yorkers have accepted from the same dispensation as gives them crowded streets and carbonThe Direst laden air...
...On T September 13, writers and reverers to Lampman gathered in the little churchyard near Morpeth, Ontario, to dedicate a cairn to the memory of Archibald Lampman...
...We have said before that we believe the great realities of mind and spirit are returning to their place of honor among us...
...IF WE seriously thought there was need for another publication in these times of violent differences, we could suggest no better pattern than Right t^iat which "AE" is quoted as having im ,. followed in the Irish Statesman: "There was great need after the revolution for a medium of placidity, and I edited the publication, making it more placid and more placid until finally everyone who read it was placid...
...Finally, it appears that their parents are hard-working folk who seldom get into trouble...
...In a speech commemorating the one hundredth anniversary of the Brown University chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes defined the same need, with reference to the life of culture...
...Its system of expropriating grain for the purpose of raising national capital is equivalent to confiscatory taxation, and such taxation can only be achieved by sheer ruthless force...
...Which means that protective tariff is responsible...
...Automatically Russian wheat would be worthless, foreign consumers would get a great bargain, and the price of grain in this country—if imports from Russia were barred—would rise...
...In the solitude of individual prayer, removed from the tossing and jarring of crowds, the work of the Saviour for the redemption of humanity is completed...
...a team with any number of first-rate mounts, and all the leisure in the world to keep in form, of course has the drop on a team which cannot afford to transport men and ponies across the ocean in time to get them properly acclimatized...
...What this something is may be termed an important and interesting conundrum...
...But it is not money which makes Mr...
...Adept at making wine and resident in districts where storing and selling it are relatively easy, he soon becomes the caterer to vast throngs of dry souls...
...No good reason can be cited for not spreading the demands which are now arbitrarily focused on one day, over two or even three months...
...The radio broadcasts sermons and ceremonies to all who wish to listen...
...Bishop after bishop, representing varied population areas remote from one another, unite in calling attention to the supreme fact in Christian and human history—the Incarnation of the Son of God and His permanent dwelling among the children of men...
...It played a part, naturally, in the recent polo massacre...
...But though habit and necessity have rendered the mass of us meek and docile in regard to the lease that runs from the first day of October to the last day of September, following, community counselors and domestic engineers have long criticized it, and the New York Board of Trade begins to show signs of doing something active about it...
...With a mental demi-volt we cast off our chains, resolved to abandon these possessions that had possessed us, the accumulated impedimenta heaped on us by our low sales resistance, and chastened in spirit and thankful we went forth feeling athletic and keen for some good fight...
...What could be pleasanter fruits of peace, and not less, but more and more abundant life ? In our present era of industrial overproduction, cannot some amiable, bearded prophet conduct us placidly to ways of enjoying leisure creatively, while—completely relaxed—we consume a little of the superabundant goods of our labors...
...Possibly he had been quite unconscious of this over there...
...ADDRESSES made to college students on "occassions" do not always embody the most living or sig„_, nificant thoughts which animate our so, ciety...
...Jones who crossed the ocean and won two of his four crown jewels on British soil...
...This is a far cry indeed from the manwho-can cultus, or the cynicism which, masquerading as wit, can counsel students to "be snobbish...
...Yet Moscow does still more...
...New doctrine had, therefore, to be unearthed in a hurry...
...And here is a precious epigram: "What is worse than a poor man proud, what more cursed than an envious beggar...
...Alone on ^n's means especially her victories over r. r, , Great Britain, her first rival...
...Gradually he learns the secret combinations which control the liquor traffic on a larger scale...
...The New York World, always to the fore, argued that "the principal weakness of the American experiment [as contrasted with the Russian experiment] is that it cannot succeed within the frontiers of America alone...
...Ontario lives in his verse as—though with greater intensity—England lives in the poetry of Keats, the novels of Hardy and the pictures of Constable...
...had been particularly impressed with the number of Italian homicides...
...but even if they could be got to admit it, one feels for some reason that it would not make our neighbors love us any better...
...In Congress former ages Corpus Christi processions at Omaha and festivals were normal public events...
...Yet we do not think we are unAmerican duly naive in singling out as meaningScholar" ful and even (in their very special way) exciting, two of them, both of recent delivery...
...Lampman, whose short life of thirty-three years was devoted almost entirely to the writing of poetry, is little enough known outside his own land...
...Compared with these festivals, the Jewish holidays and the great pilgrimages of antiquity seem like family reunions...
...Nobody in the western world is prepared to do that kind of thing, and if Congress even so much as undertook to debate it there would be two dozen filibusters and as many special sessions...
...On a morning when our spirits were somewhat dashed by miniature economic depression, we were both edified and amused to read of Our Lady of Ransom—amused because 700 years ago an order was founded, a feast inaugurated and a special prayer instituted which now was so helpful for our humble, and possibly ignoble, psychic ill...
...A liberal education, he said, signifying "freedom from ignorance and from what is worse, the dominion of folly," is directed to "creating the resources of leisure as well as of work...
...they know their place...
...But what causes this...
...We suggest that the way to beat the Soviets here and now is not to adopt free trade or to shut one's eyes but to buy up surplus wheat and sell it to Europe for the cost of transportation...
...Yet hardly had these sage remarks been written than somebody found out that Russia was undermining all the grain markets of the world...
...A message from the Holy Father, praising the achievement and conferring a special blessing upon the participants, is read by the authorized delegate of the Holy See...
...it is "not a preparation for life, but life itself," and is inseparable from the discipline of meditation...
...I consider it best and pleasing to God," he says, "to conform thyself in meat and drink with the time and place and the dignity of them with whom thou art, so that thou dost not seem too scrupulous or a feigner of religion...
...We were in no immediate danger of starving, and we had clothing and shelter enough to insure we would not be overcome by the elements, then scorching, though rains and cooler were promised...
...This limited popularity is inevitable...
...Another averred that there was nothing to the report excepting an attempt to remove blame for the existing depression from the shoulders of the reigning administration—and this, too, seemed reasonable...
...The remedy, of course, is the obvious one which has been recommended a good many times before: extend the period of leasing dates...
...One editorial writer declared that the Russia amount of Russian selling was not sufd Wh t ficient t0 affect the market—and this sounded plausible...
...Holiness Longmans have published...
...The conclusion would therefore seem to be that something in the United States evokes among young Italians a zest for criminality...
...And, finally, here is what he has to say about charity: "O holy charity, how sweet thou art and comfortable 1 Thou makest whole that which was broken...
...The sole imaginable sufferer is the realtor who stands to lose, not his fair profit, but his undue profit from an artificial "peak demand...
...And thenceforth his activities, outlawed by society, revert to the picturesque but unmoral inroads of Sicilian bandits...
...VvE BELIEVE that a little inquiry would uncover, to begin with, that the Italian misses the religious and cultural individuality of his home land...
...It is a case of one kind of world against another...
...Thus Eucharistic devotion becomes coextensive with life, lifting up both the crowd and the separate soul in the loftiest and most beautiful aspirations of which the race is capable...
...And yet these public demonstrations must, if they are to be genuine, have their very quiet and reticent counterpart...
...It could not be carried out...
...Space and time seem to disappear as men and women, clergy and laity, gather from all parts of the country...
...It is apparent, first of all, that most of the Italian criminals are young fellows who either saw the light of day here or came over as infants...
...Business simply cannot be successful if governments take such steps, which throw production balances out of line...
...An ARTICLE in Harper's Magazine recently declared that "much too large a proportion of our citizens who have come here from Italy What exhibit in their conduct a striking lack Makes of religious influence...
...And so the issue is "not so simple" as even a meditation on the tariff woud seem to suggest...
...Greater and more impressive efforts should be made to grant him the support of insituations which he himself will desire later to support in turn with all his characteristic skill and tenacity of purpose...
...This can be done because not a Soviet soul cares how much the producer gets...
...This Enand glish literary hermit of the fourteenth Courtesy century struck us, however, as having understood particularly well the virtue of courtesy, so badly neglected and so often despised...
...At any rate, many will surely pause at Morpeth churchyard to wonder during a moment at this strange lad who may have dreamed that a lyric was more enduring than bronze...
...Reading Lampman might reveal to many a traveler's eye some of the individual beauty and mystery of one of the most familiar, and yet little understood, provinces of Canada...
...Like some of our own poets, Madison Cawein for example, he was almost exclusively concerned with what his native land suggested...
Vol. 12 • October 1930 • No. 23
