Abstract

Editorials

The article presents information related to politics. It states that the Maine election and numerous primaries held during the past week have served only to strengthen the impression created by earlier events of the year's campaign, an impression, on the whole, of political futility and unreality. These primaries have turned mostly on personal or local issues and there has been as yet no emergence of any of the great national questions on which real politics turn. Little public education on important issues has as yet occurred. People have simply been engaged in selecting a new set of office-holders to take the place of the old ones. There are thirty-five U.S. Senate seats to be filled this year and eleven of the present incumbents are already definitely eliminated.