Abstract

The Week

The article presents various socio-political development from the world. The selection of Conrad N. Jordan as treasurer of the United States will be generally approved by the business community of New York. There appears to be a disposition in some quarters to look upon Jordon's appointment as having a significant bearing upon the policy of the administration. It is a queer comment on the state of public opinion regarding the civil-service law, that immediately upon the announcement of Jordan's appointment, alarm and perspiration broke out among the whole force of employees in the Treasurer's office, which was only assuaged by the personal assurances of the new Treasurer that he intended to observe the requirements of the act in letter and spirit. The French have brought the Chinese war to a lamentable close as far as prestige is concerned. After all their fighting they get nothing. They give up all they asked for before beginning, including the huge indemnity and the island of Formosa.