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Focuses on the peaceful adventure of democracy. Final argument against cannon; Building of the Panama Canal by the American Army; Seizure of all loyalties and subjugation of all intelligence by war; Planning of war requires passion; Hope of labor; Financing of the armies by the surplus of wealth; Obligations of the United States to the world; Understanding of human values; Horrors of the battlefield; Admiration for the organization of war.

Examines the influence of the Federal Reserve Board on the banking industry in the United States. Members of the Federal Reserve Board; View of the author that the direct power and indirect influence of government over the entire financial and even the entire industrial system of the country is bound to be huge and is likely to increase; View that the greatest check upon the Federal Reserve Board is likely to come from the members of the Board themselves.

Comments on the opposition of local governments in the United States to public ownership and operation of municipal utilities. Ratification of laws in the states of Illinois, Indiana and Pennsylvania that deprives cities of their authority over utilities; Support for the empowerment of municipal governments to retain a degree of control over the operation of public utilities; Regulation by a state commission of municipal plants or private plants operating wholly within the city.

Comments on several issues relevant to foreign and domestic policies in the U.S. Indications that the time of the U.S. Congress may be occupied with the problem of military reorganization and national defense; Unemployment; Casualties from mines and quarries in the U.S.

Comments on the 34th annual convention of the American Federation of Labor in the U.S. Resolution in favor of industrial organization; Rejection of the proposition in favor of an independent labor party; Implications for the labor movement.

Features American journalist Norman Hapgood. Highlights of career and academic background; Style of journalism; Published works of note; Association of Hapgood with "Collier's"; Subjects discussed by Hapgood; Work as an editor and speech writer; Character and reputation.

Presents letters to the editor referencing articles and topics in previous issues. Opposition of the increased armament of the U.S. navy and army; Criticism of the article by Charles Beard titled “Stultified” on women suffrage in the December 12, 1914 issue; Reactions to the criticism of the New York Board of Education for its policy regarding married teachers; Details of the Kinston incident while it was occupied by the Union forces.

Discusses efforts by United States government officials, economists, employers and trade-unionists to establish a national system of public employment exchanges. Status of public employment bureaus, philanthropic employment bureaus and private employment agents; Lessons that can be learned from the British labor exchanges; Duties of a federal employment bureau; Employment of juvenile workers; Duties of officers that would head the offices of the bureau; Role of the Federal Department of Labor.

Argues against the belief of Wall Street investors, bankers and railroad managers in the United States that the U.S. Interstate Commerce Commission is biased against the railroads. Stability of railroad rates due to government interference; Impact of the actions of big shippers and traffic managers on railroad rates; Rate wars between railroad companies; Performance of railroad securities; Impact of the Commission on competition in the railroad industry.

Focuses on academic freedom in the United States. Habit of academic conservatism; Solution to the problem of trusts, tariff, labor and socialism; Appraisal of the whole range of social institutions from the matriarchate to monogamy; Existence of scholasticism; Formation of teaching matter and method; Growth of the dimensions of socialism; Admission of the portals of the commonwealth; Fear of radicalism; Boards governing American public and private colleges.

Comments on the debate over women's suffrage in the U.S. Congress. Emphasis on protecting women from all temptation and the dangers of politics and elections instead of on the actual place of American women in industry; Ideas of women that reflect ignorance, insensitivity and complacency; Implications for women and politics.

Explains that Americans think industrial peace is synonymous with peace of mind, but such a state of non-resistance may signify a profound disease. Conduct of business in the absence of strikes and agitation; Industries in which every attempt at collective action is crushed; Problem to create conditions in which men can meet each other as equals and no despotism is possible; Possibility of developing the habit of settling questions on the evidence in accord with reason; American economic leaders admit ignorance of labor conditions.

Explains that during the hearings before the Industrial Commission in New York, witnesses focused on the problem of working out a safe and sane form of corporation organization in the United States. Unwieldy and irresponsible directorate has much to do with the errors and evils connected with industrial management; Businessmen are coming to admit the existence of defects in the organization of big business; Discrepancy between practice and theory; Large American corporation with a widely distributed capital stock is a kind of representative democracy; Majority of large corporations are operated as complete administrative autocracies.

Comments on the speeches of U.S. President Woodrow Wilson. Problem of the relationship between politics and business; Grievances of the business sector against politics; Endeavor of the businessmen to secure uninterrupted stability; Suffering of business from political interference; Declaration of a solution to businessmen's trouble by President Wilson; Impact of the work of reconstruction on commerce.

Comments on political and socioeconomic issues concerning the U.S. Criticism on the efforts of the Wilson administration to force the Ship Purchase bill through the Congress by formulating a special rule; Proposal for philanthropist John D. Rockefeller to make an experiment in the industry by trying out the combination of high wages, model working conditions, and consumers and workers representation in the management; Significance of the Children's Bureau in serving all children and its efforts to work out standards of child care and protection; Detection of the rate of the death of infants by the bureau.

Discusses several ways of U.S. intervention in Mexico. Speculation for the country to suffer economic paralysis, a starvation of government, and unlimited consequences if the U.S. chose to ignore and isolate the country; Recognition of the responsibility of the Wilson administration on the country; Suggestion for the U.S. to avoid military conquest; Need to formulate a foreign policy to solve the problems of the country; Recommendation for a form of diplomatic and economic pressure that would compel the Mexicans to police themselves.

Discusses the threat of inflation in the Federal Reserve Bank system in the U.S. Issuance of emergency currency by the Treasury Department to arrest a panic and shut it up in the New York Stock Exchange; Debate on the option of calling the situation an extremely dangerous financial time or defer the event and trust to the emergency measures already adopted; Reasons for such an inflation; Discount rates offered by the Federal Reserve Bank in order to stem the inflation; Scheme of the Bank to expand credit for the next three years; Function of the system to stabilize credit and not to make credit cheap.

Presents several political and socio-economic issues affecting the U.S. Failure of the sixty-third Congress to make itself a more effective legislative body and its legislation to improve fiscal policies; Hesitation of the Democrats to extend Federal power that the national problem of unemployment and child laborers have been sacrificed on the pretentious and deceptive plea of states' rights; Dilemma over the appeal of the U.S. pacifists for peace and schemes for a quick and lasting peace in Europe; Debate over the issue of women suffrage; Efforts of law enforcement authorities to get rid of anarchists, radicals, and revolutionaries in New York City; Speech of Granville Barker on the history of his association with the modern English theater and the intellectual and dramatic aims which had molded his work; Consideration of the Army Appropriation Bill and the passage of the Pension Appropriation Bill; Appeal of university professors for publication of everything under the sun and conformity of man's belief in infallibility; Denial by the New Jersey court for retrial of Patrick Quinlan, a conspirator of the Paterson strike.

Provides several opinions on world politics and culture. Refusal of the British government to establish a regular blockade against the United States for trading with Germany; Relations of Great Britain and the United States during the war; Foreign interest of the U.S. on Mexico; Editorial contribution of the late Samuel Bowles to the reputation of "The Springfield Republican"; Discussion of the minimum wage issue in the article of Walter Lippmann.

Explains that Rome G. Brown is a lawyer who has fought living wage legislation in the United States, and is the author of a brief filed before the Supreme Court in Oregon. Practice in which businesses pay its labor less than the labor can live on; Damning wage statistics revealed in one state after another and clinched by the Factory Investigation Commission in New York; Brown is against compulsory minimum wage but he is for the ethical minimum wage; Under Massachusetts law, a Minimum Wage Commission may establish Wages Boards in particular industries; Brown has come to fear the tyranny of public opinion.

Presents a letter to the editor referencing an article about the foreign policy of the U.S.

Presents a letter to the editor referencing an article about motion picture censorship in the U.S.

Discusses various issues relating to U.S. politics. Commentaries on the document which assumes that Americans are all highly-minded gentlemen who would not possibly ask for an unfair advantage or attempt to make trouble in a friendly country; Discussion of Johann Von Bernstoff's plans in helping the United States maintain its neutrality; Description of the resentment felt by Germans against the United States; Examination of the U.S. government's relation to banks; Similarities in the death rates among negroes in Northern cities and Southern cities.

Describes the vocational training offered by Gary school in the United States. Limitations to the practical work of Gary school; Comparison between an ordinary school and a specialized vocational school; Contrast between the real shops of the Gary school and those ordinary shops and kitchen with their dozens of little machines at which at a given time the entire class does its little stereotyped stunt.

Discusses various issues relating to U.S. politics. Focus on Doctor Bernhard Denburg's attack on the fairness of the American press. Discussion of the mass of ignorant denunciation of Germany which will cost the Americans in the assessment of good will; Description of partisanship in press' presentation of news; Emphasis on the statesman, Elihu Root's announcement of the committees for the New York Constitutional Convention.

Presents letters to the editor about the political conditions in the United States. Views of a soldier about war; Prussian militarism; Appeal to make diplomatic correspondence public; Capital's alliance with the universities.

Analyzes various political and social developments worldwide. Resignation of William Jennings Bryan from his position as U.S. Secretary of State in the government of President Woodrow Wilson; Bryan's attitude toward diplomatic negotiations with Germany found in his treaties of arbitration; Bryan's proposal to apply the principle of his peace treaties in the controversy with Germany; Task of political and social reconstruction in Mexico under American tutelage; Means that can be taken by submarines to distinguish between ships that carry innocent and inviolable private property and ships which carry military supplies; Author's criticism of the "New York Times" newspaper's coverage of the trial of Steel Corp.; Factors considered in the appointment of the Postmaster-General; Constitutional change in Denmark which enfranchises women and makes them eligible to all offices and which abolishes the property qualifications.

Argues that the crisis provoked by the European war is putting the mental and moral fiber of the American people to a severe test. Discussion of the issue of peace and war and its relation to national policy, interests and ideals; No indication as yet of any effective consensus of opinion; Prevailing agitation for and against increased armament; Argument that it is not whether the American people are armed or unarmed, but it is the spirit in which and the purposes for which the burden of armament is incurred.

Reports on news and developments concerning world politics. Impact of the sinking of the Lusitania on the relations between the United States and Germany; U.S. President Woodrow Wilson's demand for Germany to operate the submarines subject to the rule of visit and search; Excerpt from a letter by Arthur L. Garford, president of the Cleveland Automatic Machine Co., explaining the company's advertisement in the “American Machinist's Magazine”; Anti-suffrage remarks of Cardinal Gibbons.

Presents letters to the editor concerning the United States politics. U.S. Chamber of Commerce's creation of a Foreign Trade section; U.S. resolutions urging the rehabilitation of its merchant marine; Effects of the LaFollette bill on the shipping business; Business reasons that led to the termination of the protocol in the New York garment trades; Findings of the report of the Industrial Council of Great Britain; Effects of the union's insistence upon equal distribution of work.

Pays tribute to a college professor in one of the fastest growing colleges in the United States, focusing on his literary preferences and his inspiring influence upon his students. Appointment to the chair for English literature; Interest in literature among young men who were college students in early 1900 and who belong to the professor's generation; Establishment of a literary society in the college; Interest in the religious life of the college.

Provides several opinions on international politics, U.S. politics and culture. Impact of the sinking of the Lusitania ship on U.S.-German relations; Creation of the substitute for the protocol in the Cloak, Suit and Industry of New York; Speech of Democratic leader Nugent in relation to the speech of Senator Elihu Root in the New York Constitutional Convention of 1894 opposing woman suffrage; Testimony of Professor James H. Brewster before the Industrial Relations Commission on the matter of the Colorado strike; Criticism on the inclusion of Sir Edward Carson in the British coalition cabinet in tackling the Ulster issue; Stand of the National Association of Manufacturers on the minimum wage issue; Cooperation of inventors Thomas Edison and Orville Wright in the U.S. science of naval warfare.

Focuses on various political and economic issues from around the world. Realization by the British government of the risk involved by a further restriction of the sale of cotton in Europe; Progressive degradation of the standards of administrative independence and competence in Washington; Information on charges against the striking machinists of Bridgeport; Discussion of a conference on the universities and public service.

Discusses the state of public finance in the United States in the midst of World War I. U.S. was almost paralyzed by a sense of its own impotence; Country of greatest economic resourcefulness in the world; Most productive and most complacently self-sustaining; Current account owed by Wall Street, New York to London, England; Debt annually contracted in the pursuits of finance and commerce amounted to half a billion dollars; London wished the balance settled in gold; Wall Street idea to protect the American stock of gold.

Discusses the implications of the First World War for the United States' tariff policy. Every American chemical industry has been expanded with haste to meet the shortages caused by war; Machine and shipbuilding industries have been enormously stimulated; American policy of military preparedness; Rational development of protectionism in the U.S.; Academic question as to whether high tariffs raise wages; Progressive governments of the world have been engaged in developing a large administrative technique for the improvement of working-class conditions.

Comments on the strength of demand for home rule for U.S. cities, which is readily accounted for by the way the legislature has behaved towards municipal corporations. Numerous acts of rapacity and oppression committed against cities; Logical basis for the proposed home rule; Implications on local politics and government.

Discusses the establishment of a “citizen army” in the United States under the term of President Woodrow Wilson. Recommendation of the executive government to the Congress on the citizen army creation patterned after the model of Switzerland or Australia; Advocacy of Major General Leonard Wood on the volunteer federal militia; Lack of knowledge regarding the citizen army; Essentials of the Swiss citizen army; Chief attention given to gymnastics and shooting rather than parades and drill; Excessive money involved in the maintenance of the U.S. Army; Difficulty of any program of preparedness presented to the Congress.

Discusses the importance of the submarine fleet to the ongoing war of Germany with the Allied forces. Impact of the sinking of the United States' Lusitania; ways by which submarines can be destroyed; Attacks against submarines by merchant ships; Treachery involved in submarine attacks; Prediction on the construction of a type of submarine which will be safe from attack by merchant men; Germany's intent of winning the war by controlling the seas through submarines.

Focuses on diverse meanings of the word "Nationality," in the context of developments in the world. Opinions regarding the definition of mystical entities with references to utterances from the past and the present; Citation of justifications given to the saying that "It is better to be it in Middleburg than nit in New York"; Changing constituents and meaning associated with the word "nationality"; Need for humans to be at peace with the sources of life; Dilemma associated with German Americans regarding their loyalty to the place where they were born versus the place where they live in the wake of pressures to denounce their homeland or be denounced themselves; Impact of discriminatory behavior towards German Americans for their sentiments; Facts and consequences that led to the eruption of the feeling of nationalism in German Americans.

Presents information on various political and social developments in the U.S. Weaknesses of U.S. President Woodrow Wilson's preparedness program; Factors determining American policy with respect to the making of war materials; Decision about the new state constitution for New York; Death of novelist and playwright Paul Hervieu at the age of fifty-nine; Impact on the public of the arguments against suffrage.

Discusses various developments in the U.S.related to the war. Discontent among people about the war; Description of destruction caused by war; Need to see the subjective side of the war; Danger of American unpreparedness for peace; Need to devote entire national energies towards emphasizing those realities of peace in social organization and social prosperity that ought to be decisive factors in the world.

Focuses on the regulation of ocean shipping. Need for regulation of ocean shipping attributed to the growth of U.S. foreign trade; Competition with foreign goods makes cheapness, speed and regularity of transportation important considerations; Control of the shipping conferences and combinations which control ocean trade by the Interstate Commerce Commission; Combination in ocean traffic brought improved equipment, regularity of sailings, specialization of routes and stability of rates; Statement that despite their clear economic justification, the legal status of shipping-pools and conferences under the Sherman law is by no means assured; Discussion of a bill drafted by the chairman of the House Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries to extend the jurisdiction of the Interstate Commerce Commission over all coastwise and foreign shipping.

Presents several letters to the editor referencing articles and topics discussed in previous issues. Response to S.N. Patten on his article related to the war involving the United States and Germany; Reference to the article "On Acquiring New Ears," by H.K. Moderwell; Comments on the article "American Use for German Ideals"; Arguments on the role and freedom of women.

Discusses the nature of the attack on United States President Woodrow Wilson's leadership. Withdrawal of a positive ideal; President's first message to the American people; Failure of Wilson to understand that the enunciation of a great purpose which enlists emotion is the only way to avoid the clashing of emotions.

Discusses the difference between U.S. President Woodrow Wilson and political rival Franklin Roosevelt's conception of diplomacy. Reputation of Wilson as a pacifist; Attitude of Roosevelt toward the belligerents; Comparison of the methods used by Wilson and Roosevelt in dealing with the issue of diplomacy and war.

Focuses on the opportunity for increasingly intimate business relations between the U.S. and South America discussed during the Pan-American conferences. Means of satisfying the expanding home markets and in supplying Europe with raw materials and manufactured specialties; Importance of establishing an effective selling agencies in order to build up an American export trade with South America.

Presents information regarding the economic conditions in the U.S. in the face of the World War I. Argument that with the absence of foreign players from the U.S. market the country's economy is growing soft; Contention that the economy is being sacrificed to output; Apprehension that the U.S. coal-tar dye industry will be overwhelmed by German exporters after the war; Suggestion that only an effective system of industrial espionage can give the required information as to prices charged by foreign producers in their own markets; Argument that the textile industries and the minor trades making small demands upon the strength of the worker will be abundantly supplied with cheap labor.

Analyses the incidence of poverty in the U.S. Cases of needy highlighted by the press; Case of a fatherless boy of four who cannot walk without braces; Case of a widowed mother with ten children to support; Information that the sociological data gives proof that there is nothing casual or unique in these cases; Observation that a proportion of the children arriving at working age will be too feeble to hold regular employment.

Comments on a letter written by United States President Woodrow Wilson to Representative A. Mitchell Palmer published at the "New York World," explaining Wilson's objections to the Bryan plan for limiting the tenure of the president to a single term. Confidentiality of the letter at the time it was written; Belief of Wilson that in 1916 candidates would be chosen at a nation-wide primary; View that Wilson will use the power of patronage to dictate a renomination; View that the letter explained why Wilson has become a practical politician.

Explains that Americans' faith in the Americanization process of immigrants have given way to a corresponding excess of disbelief in light of the First World War's revelation that assimilation has had a very superficial effect. Powerful German, English, Italian, and French parties constituted of immigrants and children of immigrants; Forces of assimilation and disassimilation, operating since the outbreak of war, have been equally unconscious; Progress of Americanization is most rapid when the flow of immigration is even and moderate and when the newcomers are distributed widely through the population.