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This article comments on how the Poles interpret their own history as a struggle to remain loyal to Western ideals in the face of a tragic geography. They view the election of Pope John Paul II as payment for their loyalty, as recognition of their right to foreign attention. It offers background on the Polish economy and on the reach of the Polish Catholic Church.

Comments on the remarks of U.S. Senator Robert Kennedy regarding the things the young should believe and analyzes the way older people treat the youth. Objective of political education for the youth; Values which should not be incorporated to young people; Distinction of the nature of generational change; Implication of the revolt done by young against the values and standards of their elders for the way they were brought up; Reason of the young for despising business; Factors that influence the activities of the young.

Explains that former United States President Theodore Roosevelt's speech in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania reconstructs his program of "new nationalism" to meet the conditions, alarms, and outlooks brought into existence by the First World War. Solemn attempt to quicken the national conscience, arouse national loyalty, and to reunite Americans on a positive program of national regeneration; Warning that the U.S. cannot prepare for war without being false to its national ideals and traditions; Associating military preparedness with the vision and method of a better American nation; Conscious and intelligent devotion to ideals.

Focuses on the contrasting perception of the United States as compared to Germany on the issue of German ideals. Intensity of emotions aroused by the war; German influence on other countries such as Italy and Great Britain; Social politics of liberalism; Opposite view of the American mind on the social forms established by the Germans; Repudiation of German ideals; Truth and justice in the American ideals; Necessary establishment of the American ideal different from that of the German.

Focuses on the trip of the People's Council to the Middle West. Objectives of the council; Integrity of the Council's ideals; Result of the trip.

Claims that two sets of hard-headed people have been made uncomfortably by the statement that America is in the war for the sake of ideals. Influence of the philosophy of absolutes, akin to the religion of absolutes, in justifying the complete separation of the ideal and the real; Description of the attitude of both the strandpatter and the suspicious pacifist toward the war between the United States and Germany.

Editorial. Focuses on the Ku Klux Klan's devotion to political lobbying in its desperate effort to defeat the project for the participation of the U.S. in the World Court. Attempt to influence national legislation; Representation of the ideals of the society; Consideration of the Klan's decline in the number of members and status of the publication of its "The American Standard" journal.

Discusses how the Jews survived in the United States. Focus on the rationale of the land's material progress; Symbol of a separate ideal; Irrationality of the American Jew; Creation of the movement called the Menorah; Jewish contributions to American life; Jewish schools of thought.

Comments on the social ideals of Angela Buchanan, sister of Republican presidential candidate Pat Buchanan. Information on her political doctrines; Importance of family and traditions for Angela; Gender-neutrality of Angela's family values; Information on her conservative principles.

This article presents an argument pertaining to the absence of perfection in anybody's work. A man may be led, by the connections of things themselves, far from his starting point, just as "Sainte-Beuve" as literary critic, was led to study the whole of social life. Where there is no vital connection, the man may be a brilliant virtuoso, but is probably nothing more.