Editorials.

It has taken a crisis in employment to turn the attention of Americans toward what ought to be an important perhaps the most important end of industrial progress: a reduction in the working hours of the average man. Hitherto the shortening of working hours has not at all kept pace with scientific and technological advances. The collapse of the latest negotiations between the United States and Great Britain has gone almost unnoticed because of the recent election and other news events. The British negotiators were unable to make any headway whatever, and their government has therefore decided to make another "token payment" of $7,500,000 in December.