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The article discusses the nature of the international-language problem. Currently, the United Nations admits only five official languages. The author points out that the languages German, Italian, Portuguese, Japanese, Hindu-Urdu, Arabic, and Malay should not be indefinitely treated as negligible dialects. Several philosophers have already explored the possibility of a more accurate instrument of thought, at a time when there were actual international languages French and Latin. With the increase of linguistic nationalism, the problem has grown more acute.

Focuses on problems faced by the U.S. steel industry workers as of September 07, 1974. Terms and conditions of the Experimental Negotiating Agreement (ENA), made between president of the United Steelworkers union, I.W. Abel and major steel company representatives; Features of the clause made in the agreement regarding strikes of steel industry workers; Methods used by workers to fight against the implementation of ENA.

Reports that Sidney Hillman open the first session of the convention of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America in Boston, Massachusetts. Effort of the General Executive Board to achieve the 44-hour week; Method of the Amalgamated; Theory of the ultimate management of industry by the representatives of all persons working in industry; Debate on standards of output.

The article discusses events related to U.S. politics. Senator Ed Muskie has proposed a plan for the withdrawal of troops from Vietnam. Libraries have denied inquiries by the U.S. Internal Revenue Service (IRS) for information on readers of certain books. The author suggests policies by Donald Rumsfeld, director of the U.S. Office of Economic Opportunity (OEO), have demoralized the community organization group Volunteers in Service to America (VISTA).

Reports on the retirement of Jay Lovestone as director of the Foreign Affairs Department of American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organization (AFL-CIO), as of September 07, 1974. Role of AFL-CIO to coordinate with all labor unions; Efforts of Lovestone and George Meany, president of AFL-CIO, in alienating non-communist trade and labor unions from the world.

Highlights the changing image of the U.S. police in mass media. Change in the tendency of middle-brow readers with regard to police role in the detective stories; Picturization of a cop in the television program "Dragnet"; Visualization of implicit relations of the cop to the society as depicted in "Dragnet."

The article discusses some of the political updates related to the U.S. Opponents of protective taxes have asserted that not enough money could be got from them to pay the expenses of the U.S. Government. Internal revenue taxes were to be reduced and eventually abolished altogether and ample revenue for the Government, at the same time with full protection to American labor, provided by a high protective tariff. For a long period of time the very basis of the plea for a protective tariff was the competition in manufactures from England. Experience has demonstrated that high wages in the U.S. mean high productive ability and when American manufactures meet similar foreign products in neutral markets and controls those markets, the theory of the protectionist falls.

The article focuses on acid throwing incident on Hearst labor columnist Victor Riesel. The usual criminal mystery be comes less mysterious with the arrests that are supposed to mark its solution, but the sensational acid-blinding of Victor Riesel flouts this rule. The more that is known about it, the more mysterious it grows. He had begun his career on the right-wing Socialist weekly, the New Leader, exposing Communists. When he switched to the labor field, he attacked crime and rackets with fiery verve. U. S. Attorney Paul W. Williams had launched a sweeping probe of New York rackets. When Riesel was attacked, Williams instantly saw the event as a "dastardly" attempt by the underworld to flout the authority of his office.

More and more people visit galleries and museums, and buy art books, and take art-appreciation courses or even attempt to paint. These signs of a growing interest in art, however, generally stop short at a crucial point-the purchase of an original. Yet to choose and hang the work, however modest, of a promising contemporary is an act of real participation in the affairs of art. Compared to it, the hanging of reproduced masterpieces is mere decoration. Price is always a determining factor. The cheapest form of art is prints--a lithograph, an etching, a woodcut, or a serigraph. The choice is wide, from black and white, to color, and to an exciting array of contemporary Americans.

The Caribbean zone is vulnerable because the U.S., which for over a century has controlled and directed its destinies, today operates there without a policy. Although a first team of diplomats occupy strategic posts, thanks largely to the efforts of U.S. Senator Wayne Morse and his subcommittee investigating inter-American affairs, they go unarmed with either political or economic weapons. Unless a clear-cut policy is adopted, there is danger that the U.S. may walk into one or both of two traps that have been prepared. The first is to provoke its military intervention. This is the purpose of the filibustering expeditions of the kind which invaded Panama and Honduras recently, and which last week invaded Nicaragua.

Since the beginning of the industrial revolution, technical advances of the U.S., have had increasingly awkward consequences. The trouble is that scientific technology, is in fact the great mover and shaker in the modern world; it goes against the bias of the age to state the problem in any terms other than those suggested by our preoccupation with the nature and role of science. Even the political rivalry of the U.S. with the Soviet Union, is seen from this point of view. The Russians demonstrate that they are better than people of the U.S. are, at rocketry; the practical men who govern the people of the U.S., conclude that one must exaggerate the technical bias of educational system in the nation.

This article focuses on the foreseeable future of education. Education for the foreseeable future must be guided simultaneously by two landmarks: first, keenest insight into the problems of contemporary life with their implications for the future, and second, the finest ideals and aspirations as to what it means to be a man and to live. Insight into the problems of contemporary life is the reality framework in which education must be conceived; ideals and aspirations are the potentialities they envisage for building a life out of the problems which they encounter. The accumulation of knowledge, the creation of worldly goods and the readjustments in family and communal living have pulled the rug from under their legacy of the 19th century modes of thought and conceptions of life and education. A good deal of their material progress has come through, the deliberate obsolescence of still useable material goods by supplanting them with somewhat newer fashions. As a people, they have been quick to accept changes in the fashion of material goods.

The article presents the report of Captain W.W. Pettit. In Petrograd, the present communist government has a majority of the workingmen behind it, but probably less than half of the total population are members of the communist party. Foreign intervention would unite the population in opposition and would tend to greatly emphasize the present nationalist spirit. Revolution would result in chaos. At present the situation is bad. Soviet Union is straining every nerve to raise an army to oppose the encircling White Guards.

Presents several letters to the editor regarding various current socio-political developments in the U.S. Evaluation of a recently formed real-estate bondholders' protective committee in the U.S.; Clarification on real-estate bondholder's rights under the proposed protective committee; Invitation to form a group for the study of the Douglas Social Credit proposals; Appeal to American people to contribute and join the process of establishement of the World Congress against war.

Presents letters to the editor referencing articles and topics published in previous issues. Debate over the viability of issuing stock dividends as a method of stopping tax evasions; Suggestion that the evasion of taxes should be discouraged; Information regarding the provision in a law which taxes all money carried to surplus beyond the legitimate needs of the business as though it had been distributed to the stockholders; rejection of the plan of prohibiting the accumulation of surplus for reinvestment; Comment on the capacity of the Allies to repay the debt taken by them from the U.S.

Reviews an exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum in Brooklyn, New York.

Separated only by city-limit signs and a few forced attitudes, Minneapolis, Minnesota and St. Paul harbor between them about a million inhabitants, some so highly literate that the magazine, Life, ten years ago undertook an investigation of what made these provincials tick with such creativity. The magazine discovered a literary boom. literary "boom" forming around the then-young authors Max Shulman, Thomas Heggen, Feike Feikema, Mabel Becky and William Bushman. Of the lot, only Feikema proved to have an enduring, multi-book talent. Sadly, Heggen is not writing, Bushman apparently never did.

The article focuses on the literary style of the author, Arthur Symons. His work "The Symbolist Movement in Literature," is described in "The Background of Modern Poetry, "by J. Isaacs as forgotten and no longer necessary, but in its time epoch making. It has indeed lost its original use as a guide and leaven, but Mr. Isaacs still quotes from it at length. Symons' personal acquaintance with the French symbolists gives his book permanent vitality, and his style gives it charm. Some of Symons' statements have been corrected. Issac's six essays are lucid, perceptive and good introduction to modern poetry.

Whatever the ultimate outcome may be of the sweeping victory that the "Gaullists" have won, it means not only a major revolution in France itself, but the crystallization of a virulent kind of nationalism of which the Free World has been comparatively free until now. This is not quite fascism yet--but the Union for the New Republic (UNR), which now has 189 seats in the new Assembly, undoubtedly contains the seeds of what may well prove to be a new brand of fascism. And it is this which is the most significant aspect of the French election. The results of the first round of the election were., in a way, less disturbing than those of the second round. It could even be argued that there had really open no major land-slide: that the 3.6 million votes of the UNR merely represented the votes of that, authoritarian, anti-Parliamentary fringe, that has always existed in France.