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The Green Bag

"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