Abstract

Editorials

This article discusses social and political issues of several nations. It was supposed to be in a spasm of economy that the U.S. House voted recently to repeal the Tarsney Act. This is the law under which the Supervising Architect at Washington is empowered to invite the submission of plans for public buildings by outside architects. Figures were submitted to the U.S. Congress intended to show that this method was more costly than the old one. The series of articles contributed by H.G. Wells, to the London, England-based periodical "Daily Mail," on the present labor unrest, has an interest other than that which attaches directly to the subject he discusses. These articles are valuable as revealing the temperament and mental attitude of Wells. Since political candidate Woodrow Wilson's nomination at Baltimore, Maryland, there has been almost universal agreement that he was the strongest candidate whom his party could have named. No other could better unite or so well lead inspiringly his own party, while no one else had anything like his chance of taking full advantage of the divided and distraught condition of the Republicans.