Editorials.

This article presents brief information on economic and social conditions of several nations. The British coal crisis seems at this writing likely to terminate in a compromise granting the miners an immediate increase but making future wages partially dependent upon output. The fundamental questions of nationalization and control are left untouched. The early reports of college and university enrolment in the U.S., indicate that 1920-21 is to see an even larger number of students than 1919-20 and that the remarkable increase in attendance which has been going on for the past five or six years is still unchecked. Prices are coming down; the newspapers say so, and the banks say it, so it must be true; but the poor consumer, sadly totaling up his weekly milk and egg and potato and meat bill, learns little of the bruited drop except what lie reads in the papers.