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Comments on the definition of the principle of prioirty in time of war and in time of peace in the United States. View by the author that the food supply of the industrial population and the army has a claim to priority; Application of the priority principle to transportation and production; Preservation of the institution of profit which appears to be a vital component of the traditional economic system; Redistribution of productive power so as to give priority to the more pressing needs.

Focuses on the experience of a barber whose name is on the register as eligible to the draft. Reaction on the conscription law of the United States; Barber's attitude towards peace and war; Indications of the barber's peace-loving nature; Physical description of the barber; Fighting by virtue of democracy; Barber's attitude towards Germany's occupation of France and Italy; Barber's lack of will to fight.

Focuses on the new system of international public finance in England. Political consequences of the international public finance; Assertion that entry into the field of international public finance exposes to intangible loss from industrial depression in other countries; Importance of the rehabilitation of industry to the security of international investment.

Describes an inmate woman exiled in Siberia, Russia. Description of the woman; Childhood experiences of the woman; Her quality of life before the exile.

Explains that while the Republicans had the advantage over the Democrats in California, they lost the state because of extreme bungling. Willingness of the Republicans to risk the defeat of Hughes in order to settle scores with Governor Johnson; Observation that the blame rests partly with Hughes, who chose to direct his action while in California according to the traditions of political correctness instead of the canons of common sense.

Comments on an uncle by marriage, who represents Uncle Sam or the United States. Democrat who declares that in the presence of hereditary majesties, he would resolutely refuse to bend his knee. Pride in his self control that forbids him to act upon his mood of rage, which is infrequent; Observation that this uncle hates trouble, and prefers arguments to fists; Insistence of this uncle on definiteness, on the financial solvency of every enterprise.

Presents an obituary for economist Robert Franklin Hoxie.

States that the treatment of Mexican school children in San Antonio, Texas by American educator W.G. Knox is a model that can be followed by the United States government in treating Mexico. Knox's understanding of the handicap of the Mexican child when he first enters school; Knox's statements about his Mexican students; Comparison of the lives of Mexicans in El Paso, Texas and Mexicans in San Antonio; Need to give the Mexicans a fair change in life.

Focuses on the nationalist movement in the Russian satellite state of Ukraine. Differences between the people of Ukraine and Russian Empire in terms of stature, cephalic index, temperament, art patronage, and political ideology; Historical background on the Polish incursion in Ukraine and its impact on the country's movement towards independence; Emergence of Ukrainian periodicals that fostered nationalism.

Comments on the effect of the British cotton policy on Germany. Savings brought by ten cent American cotton to the British cotton trade; Effect of the war on the German cotton stocks; Suggestion to restrict the production of domestic luxuries resulting from shortage of labor; Doubts that the British policy of economic war will bring peace; Sympathy with Great Britain in its struggle against autocratic militarism; Need of the people to fight for the right to free commerce upon the seas.

Focuses on the need for world peace. Discussion of whether or not peace shall be concluded between German political parties, each of whom is quite capable of renewing the conflict if the terms proposed offend its pride or prejudice its interest; Non-inclination of the Soviet Union and Japan to renew the struggle over Manchuria; Status of the Prussians in times of war.

Before the World War George N. Peek was a live, aggressive manufacturer of agricultural implements, a thorn in the flesh of Alexander Legge of the International Harvester Co. U.S. financier and statesman Bernard Baruch, with his uncanny instinct for key men, summoned both Peek and Legge to Washington just when their concerns were in a position to make mountains of money. They came regretfully, rather resentfully, somewhat suspicious of each other; but Baruch was implacable. They signed up for the duration of the war at a dollar a year which they never got. Promptly they became fast friends, among the tireless hawks engaged in chasing profiteers into their holes.

This article focuses on the book "Rich Land, Poor Land," by Stuart Chase. This is a fascinating book, in spite of the deeply discouraging story it tells, of a hundred million acres, which might have maintained a million families, utterly destroyed by water erosion, of nine million acres destroyed by wind and hundreds of millions of acres more yielding rapidly to wind and water erosion, of forests slashed to the quick and the ground burned over, and of grazing lands turned into desert. Stuart Chase has a geographer's sense of contours, an engineer's sense of quantities, a poet's sense of woods and ranges, wild nature, once lovely rivers now enslaved, defiled, rebellious.

Every possessor of fixed income fears inflation. Every person whose income is relatively inflexible has reason to fear inflation. Such persons include the entire salaried and wage-earning class, because it is a notorious fact that wages, and especially small salaries, lag far behind a general price rise. Every investor in a capital enterprise whose rates are controlled by law, or in an enterprise producing goods whose price has become customary, will be damaged by inflation. The U.S. federal government is formally in a position to curb inflation. Through the Federal Reserve Board, it can change the prescribed ratio of reserves to deposits— a New Deal measure.

There are still people who read Horace. There must be many of them, else the shrewd managers of the Modern Library would hardly have undertaken to bring out a translation of the complete works. There is nothing strange in the fact that Horatians survived in the medieval monasteries, where pleasant secular books were rare, through the Renaissance with its cult of classical taste, in Oxford and Cambridge, begotten of the ancients and born old. It is not very strange that Horatians were scattered thinly over the U.S. in the first three-quarters of the nineteenth century.

In this article, the author focuses on the book "City Planning: Housing," vol. 1, "Historical and Sociological," by Werner Hegemann. What the reader expects when he opens a book on city planning and housing is a succession of idealized plans, contrasted with ugliness and inconveniences of the haphazard actualities, charts and graphs and statistics of disease, crime, accidents, calculations of cost and benefit. In his earlier works Hegemann has given much excellent material of this kind. For behind the teal-estate operator stands the financial institution, behind the financial institution, an economic system dominated exclusively by the profit motive and a political system abjectly subservient to business.

Several letters to the editor are presented in response to articles in the December 29, 1967 issue including "How America Drinks," "Tragedy at Lynchburg," and "Quarantine for Moon Travelers."

Presents letters to the editor referencing articles and topics discussed in previous issues. Feedback of a reader on an article by Irving Kolodin related to the Americanism in music that was published in the January 16 issue; Comment of a reader on the article "Wanted-An American Composer," that was published in the January 16 issue; Discussion of a resolution adopted by the Board of Directors of the National Federation of Settlements, in regard to the administration's present program for social security; Opinion of a reader on the article "Liberalism Twenty Years After," that was published in January 23 issue.

Focuses on the cotton crisis of the United States. Control of the cotton industry by banks; Government control of the cotton industry; Interests of the bank and the community in the cotton industry; Exercise of governmental functions by any class; Banking development in every modern state; Discretionary power of deposit of surplus public funds; Setting free of public funds; Dictation to the banks of a loan policy in the general interest.