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WEEK BY WEEK TX7TTH that keen sensitiveness to popular feeling " * which made him universally beloved, Clare Briggs always used to devote a "Mr. and Mrs." about this time of year to the...
...Perhaps it is, but now and then an alien fact impinges on the "Freedom in tradition with a sound that reaches Her Regal across the Atlantic...
...Can it be the Supreme Court of the United States to which Mr...
...Naturally there is much talk of Sir Eric's successor...
...MlSS BAILEY cites the watchwords of this theory, and deals with them keenly and courageously...
...Louis...
...public recognition can do much toward making them live up in the future to the high standards of their present achievement...
...This Extraordinary from Seymour Lowman, assistant secreStatement tarY of the Treasury in charge of prohibition, in regard to home brewing...
...It is not likely that such really sinister stupidity comes from a local course, like living in Nashville...
...There is surely a great need for true religious artists in America today...
...A note of intellectual detachment, of watchful waiting for a change in public opinion, testified as much to inward conservatism as to absolute personal integrity...
...about this time of year to the everlasting question Mr Hoover's °^ "What are we going to do this sumVacation mer...
...This year's outstanding winners are, as usual, the dramatist and the novelist...
...Simpson's effort...
...This seems to cover all three possible motives for personal objection against war—pacifism, civic conscience and religious belief...
...Naturally the annual awards de Rome £ •111 ur v Tt • are sure of considerable publicity...
...de Maio is one of thirteen children...
...There is need of amusement in this sad world, but it is not always possible to be happy over an incident just because it would make a perfect vaudeville skit...
...One Less Citizen Everyone reads stories and sees plays...
...Madame Rosika Schwimmer refused because she disapproves of war...
...The Franciscan nuns of Norfolk also heard of his work and visited his studio in a body to see the statue...
...Every Catholic must see with pleasure such recognition of religious art...
...he first began to draw in high school, and earned his way through Yale by playing the cornet in a dance orchestra...
...The real reason is probably a desire to give some one else a chance at the office...
...Committed as we have been to a program frequently in sharp conflict with his ideas and aspirations, we even so confess to having adopted a journalistic method and attitude which he was the first to revive...
...Shaw's Pygmalion, years ago, to the recent barring of the Soviet sporting club that wished to tour the island...
...Croly was genuinely an innovator...
...It was built upon recognition of the fact that the weekly periodical is now the only possible "journal of opinion," and that if it is to be an honest spectator rather than a caterer of news, amusement or literary sensations (for all of which either the daily or the monthly is, perhaps, the normal medium) it must have sufficient financial support to render it above surrendering to irate subscribers or advertisers...
...Especially is this The true when such prizes cover several scatPulitzer tered fields of human effort...
...The whole campaign is an attack from the north against China's only eastwest railroad...
...Perhaps a compromise choice would be Eduard Benes...
...Simpson is not a Catholic, but when he conceived the idea of his prize-winning work, he got in communication with the Franciscan fathers in Washington, who supplied him with correct historical details concerning the habit...
...The British hope to have another Englishman head the secretariat...
...Even its critics—among whom we are enrolled—have never doubted that it drew strength from a triumph over venality and time-serving...
...But there is the rarer child with a capacity for individuality, for separate strength, for acquiring the knowledge that life is at bottom "a solitary venture...
...if most of Prizes them seem appropriately given, at least one will seem all wrong to each freeborn citizen, and each citizen will thereupon condemn the whole business...
...The mere circumMisunder- stance that people are willing to meet standing and discuss the problem is evidence that many, at least, are aware of current prejudice and anxious to root it out...
...The prize for painting goes to Salvatqre de Maio of New Haven, a student in the Yale School of Fine Arts...
...1 HE specialized mind was wonderfully at work in a recent fire in Nashville, Tennessee...
...The latter have Japanese and German technical advice, together with all the latest scientific instruments of slaughter...
...Anything Sir Drummona -r...
...If supervision and continual society help to tide the adolescent over morbidness and brooding, they may, since they grow by what they feed on, lead directly toward the mental crashes that come later...
...ANY group of artistic prizes, the awarding of which receives much public attention, naturally is subject to universal criticism...
...As we go to press, the line-up is Chiang Kai-shek for the Nanking Nationalists, the official Chinese government, against Feng Yuhsiang and Yen Hsi-shan for the Northern rebels, centered at Peking...
...This reading genSeat" eration recalls a whole series of such facts from—at random—the interdiction of Mr...
...Farm relief, the tariff, the World Court, and the naval treaty will undoubtedly be the chief subjects of discourse, and it will be instructive to hear what the administration has to say on these subjects...
...Lowman has been misquoted and that no executive officer of the United States government would dare make such a statement, especially at a moment when the whole question of prohibition is in the public mind as it never has been before...
...With a strange inconsistency he is unwilling to kill yet is perfectly willing to engage in propaganda for killing and, like the Quakers, to care for the wounded...
...The other day Mr...
...If this be freedom, make the most of it...
...It looks at present very much as though a citizen of one of the smaller powers might be chosen to take the position merely to avert an Anglo-FrenchItalian deadlock...
...j • * • *. ^ *. /-> \\ a- r Eric does is of interest to Catholics, for he is one of the most active and devoted of English laymen...
...All in all this meeting, notable for distinguished speakers and lively debate, is one of the most instructive congresses to have met in a long while...
...The northerners have a vast superiority in numbers, the southerners in material...
...appeared before a burning residence...
...biographies, poetry and history have narrower audiences...
...To the pedagogue who advocates turning the child loose with himself or herself, she says, agitated answers are given: "That way lie morbidness and brooding, shyness, illadjustment to the group, a sense of personal inferiority and all of its neuroses and conditionings...
...Miroch does not go so far as this...
...It is now announced that he intends to go to the Pacific coast via St...
...Since 1919 he has held his present post and has, as much as any other single person, been responsible for what success the League has enjoyed...
...He will have to make speeches en route and, in the present political situation, these speeches will have to be aimed at restoring public confidence in a badly shaken administration...
...So much interest was aroused in Catholic circles in Norfolk that Masses were said for the success of Mr...
...There has been a bloody battle, slightly advantageous to Nanking, near Yucheng, the northeastern end of the battle front...
...It was awarded for a descent from the cross entitled Consummatum Est...
...Louis recently staged a comparable seminar...
...No greater compliment than this could be paid to any retiring office holder...
...ANOTHER application for citizenship, that of Auxenty Miroch, has been denied in a federal court because the applicant refused to promise to bear arms in defense of the United States...
...She admits that the majority of pupils are largely (in the ugly terminology of the moment) "extroverts"—objective-minded, apparently developed and fulfilled by the group...
...Children study together, construct boats together, dance together, play together, even concentrate together...
...JVLlND you, I do not mean that it is legal to do so...
...The New Republic was founded in 1914, with the help of a subsidy generously contributed during later years...
...Douglas Clyde Macintosh refused because he fears that he may be obliged to take part in a war which he may not consider just, although he states clearly that he is actuated neither by religion nor by pacifism...
...The ostensible reason for Sir Eric's retirement is Lady Drummond's ill health...
...For Sir Eric many reasons such an event would have ¦p...
...1 HERE is a redoubtable tradition that England is the freest country in the world...
...Meanwhile, the perennial bandits, like vultures, seize whatever lies helpless in their path, and no human being can tell the tale of destruction, desolation and death...
...The results, as noted in the press, are most interesting and we hope to present an account of the "experience" in a forthcoming issue...
...Bacon was concerned mainly with the dangers of overorganized education and its weakening of childish initiative...
...Lowman refers...
...MacDonald's use of the Official Secrets Act...
...Nevertheless Mr...
...Everyone will concede that it has wielded an influence not at all commensurate with its circulation...
...That much can be said without contradiction...
...Conceding the high positive worth of social education, and the need of common-sense guards against morbidity and egocentricity, she points out a vitally important psychological fact: "In the forties and thereafter, it is the introverts who have the best of it...
...Miroch refused "because the Bible teaches us not to kill...
...specifically, anyone suspected of knowing anything about a leakage of government secrets was given the status of an automatic lawbreaker if he refused to divulge that knowledge under questioning...
...Miss Bailey points to a related but much deeper danger—the effect on balance and character of sheer lack of solitude...
...An even more cogent Solitude for argument to the same effect from the Children Pen °^ a teac^er' Margaret Emerson Bailey, appears in Scribner's...
...But one hopes, charitably, that Mr...
...1 HE death of Herbert Croly, founder and editor of the New Republic, will doubtless attract less attention now than it would have ten years Herbert a§0- ^e sponsored so wholeheartedly the ideals of a definite time and political current that, as the years went on, he perforce found himself in a rather formidable, barricaded ivory tower...
...There are the usual rumors of huge bribes, imperiled missionaries, communist activities, Japanese jealousy and financial panic...
...And every year in the spring even the President of the United States has to answer that question...
...Shall we have to revert to the mental habits of ruder ages before it occurs to a group of independent firemen that the thing to do is to put out the fire and then sue for the bill...
...The Green Pastures is certainly one of the best plays of the season, Laughing Boy, one of the best novels...
...It is the extrovert who shows the blind, the childish, the fatuous emphasis upon inclusion...
...Meanwhile the Manchurian dictator, Chang Hsueh-liang, remains very nominally an ally of the Nanking government...
...Evidently it is...
...VvE PUBLISHED recently a note on the complaint of a famous American writer that children are not let alone enough...
...In this program the group is literally everywhere...
...In middle life, Miss Bailey concludes, it is such seasoned people who have come through on the best terms with themselves...
...It has been saying extraordinarily little about anything for the last few months, and it will have to speak very persuasively if it hopes to avoid an even less friendly Congress next fall than that with which it has had to contend through a long, hard winter...
...Another looms at the southwestern end, near Hankow...
...The prize in sculpture goes to W. M. Simpson, jr., of Norfolk, Virginia, for a statue of Saint Francis of Assisi Mr...
...Efficiency has its victories, no one doubts it, but training the efficient to think in general terms and to transfer their aptitudes in an emergency is not usually one of them...
...Encouraged by the success of Boston's Calvert Round Table meeting, extended reference to which was made in The Commonweal, a committee in St...
...In both cases the authors are young men...
...newspapers are more taken for granted...
...The hose was just being connected when the chief announced: "Boys, he's not a subscriber...
...And it is the extrovert whom, "if he actually does come a nervous cropper," it is most difficult to rebuild, because he is "without self-resources and self-reliance, without a fearlessness toward solitude...
...And now a very loud noise indeed is made by Mr...
...Miroch's case commands one's sympathy...
...This, she feels, is not nearly conclusive...
...This is a sound truth, for the neglect of which our society is already paying heavily: a truth which has its counterpart on the spiritual level, as we know from the Church's immemorial use of solitude to consolidate the character, and to "make" and season the soul...
...This formula has been adopted fairly Croly widely since then, but the New Republic has still the best record of success...
...One rubs one's eyes as one reads...
...At least this can be said of the Pulitzer prizes—that they go annually to highly distinguished work and that they are honored enough to serve as an incentive to good writing for all American authors and newspapermen...
...Loss, $35,000...
...the French have a candidate, as have the Italians...
...A fire engine, fully manned, the property of a private Subscribers department supported by subscription...
...MacDonald subjected to a five-hour police grilling the author of an article predicting Gandhi's arrest...
...Paul, down the coast to his home at Palo Alto, and then back to Washington through St...
...They "have reckoned long ago with the childish feelings of slight and grievance and envy when left out of anything...
...Whoever replaces Sir Eric will have a far higher standard to live up to than was ever May 28, 1930 THE COMMONWEAL China Thaws Out dreamed in 1919...
...this year it seems likely that Mr...
...Have the Quakers made bad citizens...
...1 HERE has been a persistent rumor in Geneva that Sir Eric Drummond, secretary-general of the League of Nations, will resign shortly...
...Where is there opportunity in all this, Miss Bailey asks, for that healthy aloneness that permits meditation, the sifting out of experiences, the exercise of "the inward eye," the growth in selfTHE COMMONWEAL May 28, 1930 knowledge...
...This Act, it appears from the news despatch, received in 1920, when no one was paying much attention, what we sad Americans, used to legal oppression, call "teeth...
...She traces the typical daily program of a child of the privileged classes— a program that tends to be more and more widely copied, at least in idea, with the constant leveling-up of educational opportunities...
...Here is certainly an inconsistency in our American tradition of religious liberty which should be provided for in our naturalization laws...
...It is remarkable that this year both were given for works with religious subjects...
...On the contrary, it is illegal...
...Hoover will undertake to justify himself to the American people...
...I HIS year's Chinese civil war is now well under way...
...His tact, reticence and scrupulous sense of fair play have undoubtedly won him the affection and confidence of European statesmen—no small achievement in the man who, in his own person, constitutes the League of Nations during the greater part of each year...
...serious consequences...
...Few men today have the fortitude of some of our early chief executives—notably John Quincy Adams—who braved Washington's tropical heat...
...But we can't do anything because our hands were tied by an An earlier Supreme Court decision...
...1L1NDEAVORS to use the conference method in order to allay misunderstandings extant between Catholics, Protestants and Jews continue, with Religious some good results...
...It is much more likely that it comes from the excitement over special purposes, the absorption in organization and method, that we find everywhere, breaking life apart to do the parts extra well and too often unable to put them together again into a common-sense pattern...
...It was finally elicited that the journalist had not corrupted a Cabinet member but merely set down a shrewd guess, but the Newspaper Proprietors' Association has begun a campaign, not against such incidental misuse of the Act, but against its whole intention...
...Often the presidential vacation has profound political effects...
...The Association charges that it destroys the subject's safeguards under police questioning as well as the traditional immunity of the British press, and that it gives the government the arbitrary prerogative of deciding its own "grounds of suspicion...
...Yet somehow Mr...
...Or the Mennonites, who, in the Revolution, even objected to the use of their buildings in Bethlehem as hospitals for wounded Americans...
...All efforts at aid forthwith ceased, the house was commended to the care of the municipal fire engines whenever they should arrive, and in consequence burned to the ground...
...Upon this child, so valuable potentially, is put the undue and sometimes tragic strain of conforming to the group technique which modern educational theory has fashioned for the majority...
...The courts have made it clear that whatever the reason, their attitude in this matter is settled...
...TOR some years the American Academy in Rome has had in its annual gift two generous scholarships, each equivalent to about $8,000 in cash, one The Prix awarded for painting, the other for , „ sculpture...
Vol. 12 • May 1930 • No. 4
