Abstract

Editorials

The article focuses on some issues related to politics in the United States. The decision rendered Monday by the United States Circuit Court of Appeals, upholding the sentence in the case of a bank wrecker, is an event of the first importance. One aspect of the decision peculiarly interesting at this time is the way in which it strengthens the wholesome tendency, at last manifest in the courts of appeal, to ignore trivial objections. The reported decision of the Defense Department against further army and militia maneuvers comes as a surprise, even to army officers, as General Leonard Wood's interview of Friday morning attests. It was not understood that the hardships of the troops taking part in August were extreme; certainly they were not so severe as those experienced a year before in the camp at Pine Plains, New York.