1925 THE COMMONWEAL A Weekly Review of Literature, The Arts Published weekly by the Calvert Publishing Corporation, 25 Vanderbilt Ave., New York, N. Y. Application for entry as second class matter is pending. Fayou AS THIS, the first number of THE COMMONWEAL, goes to press, the election returns are far from complete but it is known that CALVIN COOLIDGE has been decisively chosen as the next President of the United States. We would say to the American people, and to the man chosen by them as their Chief Magis- trate, a few words, proffered with humility, and in the and to no longer faces divided party couns of, is this no recess soul. Of Faith, because we exercise it not only in re- The man who will direct our government during the next four years, to whom the people, through lawfully ordained methods, have entrusted the supreme executive power and the headship of the army and navy of a mighty nation, finds that nation troubled and perplexed by most serious and highly perilous problems, complicated by the fact that this nation must in one way or another play a leading part among the other nations of the world at a time when all peoples are facing a crisis graver than any recorded in the annals of humanity. The extraordinary com- plexities his administration must face will draw from Added to this new burden and opportunity, demand- moral, economic and international. The conduct of |