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JULY 22, 1926 VOL. 88. 2281 “While there is Life there’s Hope” Published by LIFE PUBLISHING COMPANY 598 Madison Avenue, New York Curantes Dana Giuson, President nwoop, Editor y, Art Editor T looks as if Europe's feelings about the United States were warming up a little. A number of things came out in the re- cent celebration of “The great Fourth of July.” There was the remarkable discourse of Mr. J. L. Garvin in the London Observer in which he expa- tiated on the development of thes States and their actual and prospec- tive power and influence with great cordiality and approval. A giant na- tion, he called this count Antici- pating for it a population of one hundred and fifty millions in’ the course of twenty years, and as an Englishman concerned with the growth and safety of the British Empire, he rejoiced in all signs of increasing power to the Yankee elbow. Europe, he said, could not rival the prosperity of the United States until it had established what would virtually be a United States of Europe. Neither could England get ahead to compare with this coun- try in manufacturing, except by accepting American methods in labor and wages. “A real constructive revolution is progressing,” he said, “in America,” and he felt that there had got to be one in England. Elsewhere there was kind atten- tion to our national anniversary, as in Buenos Aires, where our national anthem was sung in some of the schools; a considerable feat and a very pretty compliment. Some help- ful services and succors by Ameri- cans in various parts of Europe, as at Prague in Bohemia, and at War- saw, were remembered and recog- nized in Fourth of July celebrations. In Hungary we stand pretty well, Crain Maxwett, Vice-President Laxcnorxe Ginsox, Secretary and Treasurer thanks particularly to the labors of Jeremiah Smith, and glorified by his turning back his two: $100,000 on the Hui ian Govern- ment. The money was less impor- tant than the spirit in which it was declined. It has been devoted, so the papers say, to endowing two scholarships to send Hungarian boys to the United States to study. ” salary of CATHOLICS in this country are considerably annoyed by the be- havior of the Mexican Government towards the Mexican Catholics, in- cluding the expulsion of priests and nuns, the prohibition of parochial schools, and other like evidences of governmental distrust. Catholics in New York and elsewhere complain a good deal, hold meetings and want something done, which is natural. Almost any one would agree that something ought to be done but there would be differences of opinion as to who should do it. The Roman Catho- lie Church has been the main, and almost the sole, religious institution in Mexico since the Spaniards e quered it. One would say that with such a good start the Church should have members enough in Mexico to see that it got its rights, but the could have been said of France the other Catholic countries in Eu- rope where Church control of schools and social life has been considered detrimental to the policy of this or that government which has got into power. What gets the Roman Catholic Church in trouble with governments? In such a case as Russia, where an anti-Christian revolution has put government in the charge of haters of religion, one can better understand what goes on. What the Catholic Church means and docs in Mexico, what its power is, what its influence is and why the present government there objects so strongly to it are all matters of speculation to Amer. icans who care enough about them to speculate. Our government must have information. If Mr. Sheffield has communicated on the subject with Mr. Kellogg and if Mr. Kellogg feels that Mr. Sheffield’s communica- tion is interesting, reliable and in- forming, and would do to. print, be would oblige a good many observers by printing it. ERHAPS Mr. Coolidge after he gets sufficiently rested in the North Woods will tell us what ails Mexico and its Catholics and what, if anything, ought to be done. Mr. Coolidge, considering the various de- mands on his time, is a remarkably communicative person. The number of addresses he has made since the beginning of the year ought to be calculated and disclosed by some one who has read them. One hears of Democrats who were displeased with what he said or failed to say in Phil- adelphia about Thomas Jefferson. They felt that he did not give Jeffer- son credit enough, especially for what he did in composing the Declaration. But never mind! Jefferson has not been going so strong for at least three generations as he is going now. If Mr. Coolidge omitted anything about him that he ought to © put in, no doubt he will put it in later. SSCOSOSEY HE newspaners report that one person out of seventy-one in all the world owns a motor car, but that im the United States one out of six persons owns one. Very interesting! They also note that in’ seventy- eight American cities five hundred and forty-nine persons were killed automobiles in the four weeks ending June 19. Last year for the same period four hundred and ninety-three persons were killed. Fatalities therefore seem to be rising What the papers omitted to state is what proportion of these killings were due to inattention of the de- ceased because of looking at the girls at the time. Girls never invited so much attention as now and have seldom got so much. E. S. Martin. comicbooks.com