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1925

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COMMONWEAL

A Weekly Review of Literature, The Arts
and Public Affairs.

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Published weekly by the Calvert Publishing Corporation, 25 Vanderbilt Ave., New York, N. Y. Application for entry as second class matter is pending.

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and to no longer faces divided party couns of, is this

no recess soul.
He no counsels, for
situation has been greatly bettered by the increase of
Republican representation. But it remains true that
our parties have become little more than nominating
machines. As agencies of government, the split in
their ranks between radical and conservative has
paralyzed their power of united action. The President
must seek support from men of like minds in all
parties. This in itself is a momentous revolution. In
its worst aspect, it promises long vistas of deadlocks,
log rolling and shirked responsibility, delays, vexations.
and painful compromises. In its best aspect—and this
is where the President's test will become acute-it will
force the Executive to achieve in fact as well as on
paper the headship of the entire nation.
have a national rather than a local support to put
through any paramount measure.

Added to this new burden and opportunity, demand-
ing an entirely new technique of government, he must
face problems of unparalleled intricacy and magnitude

moral, economic and international. The conduct of
a war is simple in comparison, for war is direct, uni-
fied. But what of harrassing tasks such as these:
restoration of confidence in the integrity of govern-
ment officials, alleviation of religious and racial

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