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Focuses on implications of the unabated U.S. capital investment in Mexico. Importance of geographical privileges in the development of the U.S.; View that Spain rule over Mexico deprived the Mexican people of any share in the ownership or the products of its soil; Discussion on changes in the Mexican population under the Spanish occupation; Conversion to Catholicism in Mexico; Discussion on Mexico after it got its independence; Efforts of Benito Juarez, former president of Mexico, for reforming the country; View that Mexico is, for the first time, practicing self-government; Political and economic threat from the U.S. to Mexico; Implications of the fact that the U.S. investment in Mexico is continuously rising; View that the Mexicans can build up an independent national economy only by limiting and conditioning the influx of capital from the U.S.; Expression of the fear that the assertion of economic independence by Mexico will provoke irritation and enmity in the U.S.; Interest of the U.S. in converting the whole of Mexico and Central America into an economic and political dependency; Assumption on the consequences if the U.S. attempts to subjugate the people in Mexico and Central America to the interests of the owners of foreign capital.

Comments on the editorial about the author's article "Christians, Beware!" which is about religious problems. Method of propagating Christianity; Importance of a conscious experimental method in the extraction of religious self-knowledge from individual living as it is for the extraction of a knowledge of the world from secular experience; Need to discover improved processes of promoting consciousness into an instrument of self-revelation; Suggestion that it is increasing doubt about the knowledge which has determined the method of propagating Christianity.

Examines the impact of progressivism in the politics of Great Britain and the U.S. Setback received by Liberals and Labor in Britain and the Democrats and Progressives in the U.S. in recent elections; Argument that unless progressives in both countries understand the reason for their voting inferiority and search for the processes and motives whereby public opinion is formed, they will remain at a disadvantage; Failure of the British Labor party and of the U.S. Progressives to allow questions of political and economic power to become the subject of partisan controversy; Role of the growth of Labor party in Britain and farmer-labor party in the U.S., in changing the form of political conflicts to the struggle of economic groups.

Comments on the candidacy of Senator Robert Marion La Follette for presidential elections in the U.S. Reasons behind the support for La Follette among voters; Judgment on the candidacy of Senator Robert Marion La Follette; Information on La Follette's political program; Significance of La Follette's achievements in Wisconsin; Claim that the formation of a progressive farmer-labor party is premature.

Focuses on the conference on the Christian Way of Life held at Lake Mohonk in New York. Possible disruption of cooperative civilization through the morbid condition of racial, international and class conflicts; Stimulation of professing Christians to the need of associating the salvation of the individual soul with measures of social amelioration; Application of Christian principles to industrial controversies; Failure of the Christian churches to derive from their gospel of peace and understanding a method of appeasing.

Highlights a discussion related to the U.S. isolationist policy adopted since June 1919 towards its associates in the late European war. Information on the U.S. decision regarding its participation in the postwar reconstruction with other European countries. Contribution which the American nation made to the success of the Allied armies; Reason for the reversion of the U.S. to the isolation; Possession of a high sense of justice and a rare responsiveness to moral motives and a disinterested cause, which enabled it to rise to a high level of ideal accomplishment during the war; Account of the Allied cause with a lofty democratic internationalism and the finer aspirations of the traditional American foreign policy; View that Americans are a practical people who quickly grasp and do not flinch from facing the necessary consequences of their own decisions; Fact that the British and American governments could frame a joint policy which would have more chance of being effective and incur a smaller chance of war than would a separate policy framed by either of them..

Comments on the article "War and Christian Ethics," by Charles S. Macfarland, Secretary of the Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America. Misrepresentation of the spirit and action of the Protestant churches of America through their authorized denominational assemblies and through their common federal body; Failure of Protestant clergymen to understand why Christianity and the Christian churches have done little to uproot war as one of the essential institutions and vocations of the Christian people; Approaches to educating people into a vital conviction of the affiliation between peace and Christian truth.

Comments on the Washington Conference on the Limitation of Armaments. Significance for Europe and the United States; U.S. interest in land and naval armaments; Issues in Europe and the Far East to be tackled in the conference; Test of American good faith; Anglo-American cooperation; Creation of a Supreme Council for the Far East.

Focuses on the progressive voters, who have occupied an anomalous position in American politics in recent times with mention to the 1928 Presidential election. Information on the history of progressivism and third party; View that as contrasted with capitalism on the one hand and with Socialism or communism on the other, progressives are not obliged to identify the welfare of their ideal with the fortunes of one political party; View that both candidates, Al Smith and Herbert Hoover are unprogressive in their political concepts and bring with them the promise of movement which may make for social progress; Report that a progressive's eventual choice should depend in part upon the personal programs of the two candidates and in part upon the risks which they are willing to take in order to give effect to their party leadership; View that the future of progressivism as a formative influence in the life of the country depends less upon the successful capture of political power than upon the energy devoted to the improvement of existing economic and social processes.

Profiles New York Governor Alfred E. Smith. Prolonged and prodigious popularity in the state; Background on Smith's career in politics as distinguished from the careers of his contemporaries; Education and personal background; Level of intelligence, fidelity and diligence; Personality; Knowledge about the needs and business of the state; Reputation as a capable legislator and a trustworthy ally; Success in initiating and carrying through important reforms in the state.

Focuses on the significance of the selection by the Institute of the Pacific Ocean as an area of profitable political association, consultation and deliberation. Description of Pacific conferences; Limitations of the function of the organization; Engagement of the institute in research.

Focuses on the economic challenges facing Europe in the aftermath of World War I. Prospects for social reconstruction; Areas in which private capitalism does not work as well as it did in 1914; Increasing compulsion to invoke the credit of the state as a substitute for the deficiencies of private credit; Inability of liberalism and radicalism to call to their aid sufficiently vigorous and lucid sources of public conviction.

Discusses the relation between liberalism and war. Opinion that the existing eclipse of liberalism is due, not to the war itself or to any essential defect of liberal doctrine and practice as clues to human liberation, but to the unnecessary endorsement of the war by liberals; Information that in the Crimean and the Boer Wars, groups of British liberals increased their own credit and did a little to vindicate liberalism; Comment that when the Great War came it revealed with awful emphasis and finality the lack of integrity in the authoritative moral standards of modern civilization; Effect of the American economic power upon the issue of the war.

Points out that the chief distinguishing aspect of the United States presidential campaign of 1920 is the eclipse of liberalism or progressivism as an effective force in American politics. Confusion in the voters with progressive opinions; Warren G. Harding's resurrection of pre-Roosevelt Republicanism; View of a progressive democrat whose faith survives the contemporary eclipse of progressivism.

Presents a chapter from the book, "The Breach of Civilization."

Comments on the theatrical production by John Drinkwater about the former U.S. President Abraham Lincoln. Contributions of Lincoln to the political continuity of American national life; Description of the actor playing the role of Lincoln; Characterization of Lincoln as a man of the people; Obtainment of the mastery of life by Lincoln; Value of knowledge to Lincoln; Recommendation of Lincoln to his countrymen the study of the incidents of the Civil War.

Discusses the present ability of church and Christianity to lead people. View that the very terms of the armistice to end the first world war provided for the application of healing Christian principles to the wounds of civilization; Discussion on the present suffering in the world; Opinion that Christian European countries have been relying on force for the vindication of their national policy; Secularization of politics and government in Europe; Discussion on the inability of the Church to lead people; View that Reformation severed the alliance between knowledge and religion; Need for merging knowledge and religion; Deliberation on requirements for the church to gain prominence in society.

Focuses on conference in Paris in which the Allied leaders proposed to write a strong peace. Comments on the principle of equal justice; Claims that Paris conference has been struggling to escape from a terrible joint predicament; Views on capitalism which is on trial at the Peace Conference; Reports that it was an act of the German government which brought on the war and it looks just to ask the German people to pay fifty billions; Attention to the suicidal contradictions inherent in the proposed treatment of Germany by the French government; Policy proposed by French; Claims that the war revealed and developed a chronic malady of French capitalism and finance; Purpose of setting up the League of the Nations; Reports that the protection of the individual, the class and the national interests created by capitalism demanded the temporary subordination of those interests to the satisfaction of the universal popular craving for food, work, security, release and hope; Liability of capitalist nations; Comments on the foregoing indictment of capitalism as a vindication of the economic determinism of Marxian socialism; Claims that economic determinists both of the capitalist and Bolshevist varieties condemn industrial democracy as ideology which seeks to redeem a sinful world with pretentious words and amiable aspirations.

Focuses on the concerns regarding organizing education in France. Association of defeat in war by Germany with neglect in organizing education; Changes introduced in the educational system; Call for independent school.

Reflects on the experiences and sentiments of an English soldier who fought in the war abroad. Recognition of war as the duty of an army on active service; Demand for the exemption of women and children from physical suffering; Inability of the government to heal the spiritual distempers of mankind; Attitude of the soldier toward the excessive claims of internationalism and democracy; Proposal for a fundamental revision of national education to prevent future wars and achieve peace.

Comments on the letter of peace sent by Pope Benedict XV to U.S. President Woodrow Wilson. Citation of the present situation around the world amidst the First World War from the Church's perspective; Insight into the preliminary expression of the underlying purpose of the letter given by Pope Benedict XV to U.S. President Wilson; Analysis of another letter written by author Alfred Zimmern on the impact of the world from ongoing First World War.

Supports the re-election of Woodrow Wilson as president of the U.S. Accomplishments and achievements of Wilson during his term; Success of Wilson in reviving the Democratic Party; Modification of the Democratic creed; Criticism on the Republican Party and its campaign strategy; Degeneration of the Republican Party under Robert Peel and Charles E. Hughes; Achievements of the Democratic Party in domestic legislation; Potential conflict in the election of Wilson and a Republican Congress.

Reprints the article "The Paradox of Lincoln," by Herbert Croly, which appeared in the February 18, 1920 issue of "The New Republic." Characteristic of former U.S. President Abraham Lincoln that his biographers failed to emphasize; Influence of Lincoln on the people in the U.S.; Factors that recognized him as a universal statesman; Highlights of Lincoln's political career.

Focuses on the controversy over the meaning of Christianity as expressed in Kirsopp Lake's recent book "The Religion of Yesterday and Tomorrow." Opinion on the future of Christianity as the dominant religion of Europe and the U.S.; Distinction between religious belief of three groups, namely the Fundamentalists, the Experimentalists and the Institutionalists; Hope that the Experimentalists will not be driven out of the churches, and those who understand the cost of a breach in the continuity of an institutional religious tradition will share his hope.

Analyses the proposal by William H. Beveridge, director of the London School of Economics, for the establishment of a general intelligence division for economic problems in the British government. Description of the composition of the proposed bureau; Information about working areas of the proposed bureau; Role of statesmen and politicians in the official economic policy; Significance of Beveridge's proposals for promoting relationship between the science of economics the art of government, Role of the bureau in sorting economic problems.

Presents a discussion on the implication of adult education, in Germany in the post-World War I period, for devising adult education programs in the U.S. Motive behind establishment of adult education centers; Steps taken by the Prussian and other governments to encourage adult education; Membership and enrollment criteria for joining these courses; Purpose and pedagogy; Realization that the practical occupations tend to stereotype minds and dry up the sources of curiosity and personal adventure; Adult education as a means of spiritual attainment; Lessons from the German experiment of adult education for educating the American adults; Conception that adult education is nothing if it doesn't have moral and social element; Expectation that German-type adult education will soon be followed in the U.S.; Account of precautions to be observed while implementing the idea in the U.S.

Presents information on Christianity and its relation with naturalism. Discussion of a controversy between the Bishop of New York and the Rector; Expression of a doubt about the meaning of Christianity which is one of the most fundamental in its history; Report that the Episcopal Church will take on the character of a political rather than a religious body; View that a religious body needs to tolerate radically different ways of conducting practical activities for the sake of vindicating a common vision of religious truth; Discussion of the real danger to Christianity; Opinion on Christianity that will not only survive a thoroughgoing loyalty to naturalism; Discrepancy between scientific and religious truth, is, not to ignore its existence or to compromise it but to combine the two into an effective working union.

Discusses the political Americanism. Information on the political activities in the U.S.; Comment on the political organization in which sovereign governments of states as well as of the nation were not merely supplemented but checked and balanced by local governments; Statement that Federalism was the chief presupposition of the political Americanism; Role of different groups and communities of American public in Americanism; Description of Americanism in American industries.

Presents an obituary for Willard Dickerman Straight, a diplomat, a businessman and a soldier.

Focuses on a dinner in New York City which was attended by radicalism and conservatism advocates, with H. G. Wells as guest of honor. Characterization of Wells as a parlor Bolshevik; Wells' indictment of the existing organization and conduct of society; Response of the succeeding speakers to Wells' fatalism; Proneness of Americans to optimistic fatalism.

Argues that the nomination by the Republican party of Herbert Hoover for President signals the influence of novel factors in American politics. Personal background of Hoover; Qualities of American political leaders who have qualified for the presidency; Impact of President's Calvin Coolidge's whole performance on Hoover's nomination; Evidence that Hoover's nomination is the triumph of business over traditional American politics.

This article presents information on John Drinkwater's legendary drama of former U.S. President Abraham Lincoln. half hero and half saint. He had earned the gratitude of the American people by helping them to steer a true course into and out of a civil war, which, had they gone astray, would have shattered the moral and political continuity of American national life. emphasised. His mind was capable of harboring and reconciling purposes, convictions and emotions so different from one another that to the majority of his fellow countrymen they would in anybody else have seemed incompatible. He could hesitate patiently without allowing hesitation to become infirmity of will. Hence it is that Lincoln is at once the most individual and the most universal of statesmen. No man could reflect more vividly the manners and the habits of his day and generation. He is inconceivable in any other surroundings.

Focuses on the effort of U.S. President Woodrow Wilson to seek for both peace and victory after World War I. Speech of Wilson which challenge European statesmen to justify the continuation of the war; Response of German rulers to the call of Wilson; Assertion that the policy of retaliation by the people who are afflicted and enraged by the injuries caused by the German nation on its neighbors cannot sustain such attitude; Opposition of the president to Lex Talionis or revenge.

Comments on U.S. President Woodrow Wilson's failure in his much advertised and cherished attempt to resurrect the Democratic party as an indispensable organ of government. Ineptitude and bankruptcy in principle of the Democrats; Renewal of Democratic self-confidence by showing that traditional Democratic principles were adequate to solve industrial and social problems; Implications on politics and government.