Abstract

Editorials

The article presents news related to political issues in the U.S. The people of this country generally know little of what the relief workers are thinking and saying these fine summer days. Winter is still five months away, but the almoners of charity are already turning their minds anxiously to the task that is going to confront them then. It might be interesting to know what arrangements police and military authorities are contemplating if the civil disorders that some of them fear actually break-out. The Association of Community Chests, under the presidency of J. Herbert Case, is accordingly girding itself for the task of raising $82,000,000 for the coming season. On June 23 Bernard K. Marcus and Saul Singer, president and executive vice-president respectively of the Bank of United States, were sentenced to prison terms of from three to six years for wilful misapplication of funds in connection with one of the many tortuous operations of the bank.