Archive for September, 2006

World War 1 War Debts 1925

EFFECT OF WAR-DEBT FUNDING ON FOREIGN BONDS
FRANCE, Belgium, and other European countries have recently been funding their floating war debts to the United States Government. It happens that these countries have also floated a number of government bond issues in the United States, and the bonds have been sold to American investors and are being [...]

Status of Credit Unions 1925

THE CREDIT UNIONâ€””E PLURIBUS UNUM BANKING’
COOPERATIVE banking for the man of small means is being developed in this country by the credit union, which does for the small borrower for miscellaneous needs what the Building and Loan Association does for the home-builder. Credit unions have existed in Europe for three-quarters of a century. In this [...]

Nathalia Crane Child Poet 1925

A POET AT TWELVE
NATHALIA CRANE IS CALLED “the twelve-year-old poet of Brooklyn.” Of course she can’t hold that title long, but her present guaranty is found in two volumes of verse and an election to the British Society of Authors, Playwrights and Composers, of which Thomas Hardy is president. Her first volume, called “The Janitor’s [...]

Edith Thomas Woman Poet 1925

WHILE ONE STAR IN THE CONSTELLATION of women poets is rising, as noted elsewhere in this department, another went to its setting.
Miss Edith M. Thomas, whose verse appeared on occasions in our poetry page, died September 12 at the age of 71. Miss Thomas had for some years been connected with Harper’s Magazine, and she [...]

Tidal Waves 1925

A STUDY OF TIDAL-WAVES by Professor Vaillaux, a French authority, is given in The World’s Health, the organ of the International Red Cross (Paris). Says this writer:
The determination of the causes of this phenomenon, which often produces terrible loss of life and property, is especially difficult in view of the difficulties of observation. Testimony of [...]

Cuban Terrorism 1929

THE DRIVE AGAINST CUBAN “TERRORISM”
MACHADO’S “REIGN OF TERROR” is what critics and political opponents of Cuba’s President call his government regime, involving Americans as well as Cubans in a “despotism” that respects neither property nor human rights, and since by treaty the United States holds an “intervention” club over the island Republic, Senator Borah’s Foreign [...]

Church and Politics 1929

CAN THE CHURCH KEEP OUT OF POLITICS?
MUST POLITICS BE GIVEN OVER TO THE DEVIL, so far as the Church is concerned? Or should the Church enter the devil’s own parish, as some are apt to characterize the field of politics, and fight him on his chosen field? The question has long been a matter of [...]

Soviet Fear of Religion 1929

GOD AGAINST MARXâ€”that is the great duel going on in Russia to-day, for it is the fear of religious success, Paul Hutchinson tells us, in effect, that has driven the Soviet State to inaugurate a reign of terror to eradicate the last vestige of vital religion from Russian life.
Mr. Hutchinson, who is managing editor of [...]

Problems in Palestine 1929

DIVIDING THE BLAME FOR PALESTINE BLOODSHED
THE ARROGANCE of the so-called Zionist Revolutionists is doubtless a causative factor behind the Moslem outbreaks against the Jews, says The American Hebrew (New York), in apportioning the blame among all those immediately concerned in the blood-letting in Palestine.
Primary responsibility is placed on the British authorities for permitting the opening [...]

American Drama 1916 Part 2

WHAT was needed to remake the theater was not better managers, better actors, better playwrights, butâ€”fore and aftâ€” that same sixth sense, a “national consciousness” that would enable us to distinguish the better ones when we saw them. We needed to think “theater” in America, not solely as a place for entertainment, but also as [...]