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same s irit as it has proceeded against common rum-se lers?" See State insurance.

Miscellaneous Articles of lnlerest to the Legal Profession American Traits. “American Affairs." A. Maurice Low.

By

National Review, v. 57, p. 649

(June). “When the Ferrero of the twenty-ﬁrst century comes to exhume the long forgotten past of the American peo le and reconstructs their history

he will doubt ess be puzzled to ﬁnd adequate explanation for the weltschmers that possessed the Americans in their youth. . . . Not to hear the still small voice of reform is to be guilty of mortal civic sin. Not to take part in some movement for reform, not to join a club or organization or society whose mission is reform, is to earn the contempt of one's fellow citizens. . . . The tariff has made the American people rich and powerful, therefore it must be reformed; in the teapot lurks poverty and disease, therefore it must be regulated by the

reformer. The police force is trying to reform the burglar, and the burglar is preach ing reform to the police force. In the wide ﬁeld ofgreform there is work for every man, therefore every man is happy in his misery ursuing re form with a zeal that the worl has never before known." Biography. “Chief Justice White." By Richard Henry Jesse. 45 American Law Review 321 (May-June). "Johnson, A Governor who has made Good." By William E. Smythe. Hampton's, v. 27, p. 91

(July) The immunity of the judiciary from the recall “is the very citadel of the Interests. But Hiram

Johnson and his cohorts are thundering at the gate. They know that they must revail in this struggle if California is to be won or men — and stay won."

China. "The Struggle for Existence in China." By Prof. Edward Alsworth Ross.

Century, v. 82,

p. 430 (July). "A Western ﬁrm that wishes to instil the masses with its wares must make a de of extra cheapness for the China tra e. The British-American Tobacco Company puts up a package of

twenty cigarettes that sells

for

two cents. The Standard Oil Company sells by the million a lamp that costs eleven cents and retails, chimney and all, for eight and a half cents." Prof. Ross gives a most interesting description of China life, especially of the domestic system. The extreme poverty of China is due chieﬂy to overpopulation, and "in forty or ﬁfty years there will come a weriul outward thrust of surplus Chinese." What we shall do with these people will then become a world problem. Fiction. “The Wine of Violence." By Kath arine Fullerton Gerould. Scribner's, v. 50, p. 75 (July). The motive of the story, which is told with great charm and with keen insight into char acter, is the conviction, on circumstantial evi dence, of one Filippo U her of the murder of his wife. The suppo murderer is executed, and the story-writer pleads his cause. Party Politics. “The Battle of 1912." By 0. K. Davis. Hampton's, v. 27, p. 77 (July). "Mr. Taft will have back of him all the weight and inﬂuence

of the cold-blooded

and well

calculated plans of the national Republican machine. The mere inertia of the reactionary element still counts for much in a convention, and in this case it will count for the President's renomination."

Latest Important Cases Food and Drugs Act. “Misbranding"

Johnson, decided May 29 (L. ed. adv.

Narrowly Construed — Misrepresentation Permitted so Long as There are No False Statements About Ingredients of Drugs.

sheets, no. 13, p. 627), Mr. Justice Holmes writing the opinion, but three of the Justices (Hughes, Harlan and

U. S. The federal Food and Drugs Act has

Day, JJ.), dissenting. By section 8 of the statute, the term

been construed in such a manner as not to apply to quack medicines sold under

misbranded “shall apply to all drugs or articles of food. . . . the package or

labels representing them to be eﬂ‘ective cures when as a matter of fact they are not. This was the result in U. S. v.

design, or device regarding such article,

label of which shall bear any statement, or the ingredients or substances con