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"The Crisis in American Home Life." By Simon N. Patten, Ph. D., LL. D.
Indepen
dent, v. 68, p. 342 (Feb. 17). "It is no solution of the present problem to increase the incomes of some of those earning $1,500 to $2,500 or the earnings of those etting $2,500 to $3,500. The in dividua thus changed simply drops into a. new class with a higher standard and finds the pressure of the new situation as t as before. The relief must be genera to be efiective, and it must include the possibility of saving as well as the possibility of living. Only a comprehensive social policy can accomplish this, and to show the direction along which the nation should move, I give the ‘following res of savings and ains in income that it would bring to a fami y at the minimum of comfort, say $1,000 a. year:— Per cent.
"A rational tariff . . . . . . . . . . . . . . The control of monopolies . . . . . Reductions in rent . . . . . . . . . . . . Technical education . . . . . . . . . . . Co-oiperative buying . . . . . . . . . . . By oubling the nation's capital (a) Lowering prices . . . . . . .
. 10 . 15 . 10 .25 . 10 . 10
(b) Increasing income . . . . . .20"
"The Tarifl and Cost of Living." Byron W. Holt.
By
Independent, v. 68, p. 392
(Feb. 24). In the third article of a series written by well-equipped slpecialists, a leadin member
plished, however, by a proceeding somewhat different. India. “Intellectual Leadership in Contem porary India." By Prof. Paul S. Reinsch. Atlantic Monthly, v. 105, p. 214 (Feb.). "The intellectual leaders of India have dually come to the conclusion that their
dership is ex sed to sterility on account of the lack of a road popular following. . . . Thus the ardor for social reform wanes, while litical excitement is fanned to a white cat." IriBh Home Rule.
“The Parliamentary
Position and the Irish Party." Barker.
By J. Ellis
Nineteenth Century and After, v. 67,
p. 238 (Feb.). "Whilst economic Home Rule is clearl a chimera, political Home Rule, in a. mu wider sense of the term than is dreamed of by most Home Rulers, is perfectly possible, as soon as Ireland's loyalty to Great Britain and the Empire is beyond all doubt. At the same time, the complete loyalty of Ireland can be expected onl when reland is happ and pros rous. Ire and's grievances, thoug apparent y political, are in reality economic ones. "Ireland." By E. B. Iwan-Muller. nightly Review, v. 87, p. 305 (Feb.).
Fort
“A diflerence in the customs of the two
"I cannot believe that Ireland as a fore‘ nation is any more menace to Great Britain than Cuba is to the United States of America. A vigorous, rigorous watch upon the move ments of the government—if there ever is one -—of the Irish Republic would no doubt be a costly business, but the cost would be infinites imal compared with the annual waste of money, time, and opportunity for servin at Imperial purposes which the peren ' ' loyalty, ingratitude, and barbarism entail upon the taxpayers and legislature of what
countries so emphatic . . . must necessarily
is still ironically described as the United
have its roots deep in national character.
Kingdom."
of the
aiifi
eform Club of
ew York,
analyzes the effect of the tariff on rices. "he ‘protection part of our tarifi) increases our cost of living more than 11 per cent and is responsible for about 10 r cent of the increase in the cost of living since 1896." Elections. "English and American Elec tions." By Sydney Brooks. Fortnightly Review, v. 87, p. 246 (Feb.).
The
comparative
tranquilit
of
litical
meetings in the United States is due, think, in part to the American love of doing things according to rule and regulation, of always observing the letter even when they neglect the spirit of the game they are playing. . . . They have been educated on the same system
Journalism. "The Suppression of Im portant News.” By Prof. Edward Alsworth Ross.
Atlantic, v. 105, p. 303 (Man).
48, p. 455 (Man).
"The immense vogue of the ‘muck-mlcing' magazines is due to their being vehicles for suppressed news. . . . Congressional speeches give vent to boycotted truth, and circulate widel under the franking piivile e. . . . "hen all is said, however, t e defection of the daily press has been a staggering blow to democracy. . . . Endowment is necessary,
The hero of this story, while he has been pronounced legall dead, is alive de facto, and is very much thered by his legal ghost. whose company he cannot get rid of. A legal friend advises im that "a merely legal ghost is quite within its rights in haunting a legally dead man," and that he can get rid of it only by going into court and having his legal deat annulled. A similar result is accom
a public-owned daily newspaper, t e funds must come from private sources. . . . The endowed newspaper in a given city might print only a twentieth of the dail press output and yet exercise over the ot er nineteen twentieths an influence great and salutary." See also article by Mr. Bonaparte, under Monopolies, supra.
and up to about the same level, and there
most of them have stopped.” Fiction. “The Case of Horace Bliffington." By Ellis Parker Butler. Cosmopolitan, v.
and, since we are not yet wise enou h to run
