Abstract

The Week

The article focuses on the political, social and economic conditions of various parts of the world. The passage of legislation authorizing the U.S. President to take over the wire lines is a direct outgrowth of the unseemly disagreement between the Western Union and its employees, but the law applies not only to the Western Union, whose methods and policies have commanded by no means unqualified approval, and to the other telegraph companies, but also to the telephone lines, including those of the American Telephone Co. After months of "watchful waiting" at Washington, the U.S. is apparently about to intervene in Russia. Precisely what form intervention is to take has not been divulged, but U.S. President Woodrow Wilson, it is said, will shortly make a statement.