EDITORIALS
Hobbles THE hobble skirt may be beautiful and modish. It may be artistic. It may be all that is pleasing to the eye; but of one thing we are quite sure—it is not built for speed. That's why it is...
...The course will deal with the practical affairs of the city, including industries, homes, streets, transportation facilities, education, public institutions, public health, wages and cost of living, recreation and social centers, civic improvement, and city government...
...It was the promulgation of the candidates, not of delegates...
...There is no fustian, no organization buncombe attending the pledges of men whc must address themselves to voters knowing exactly what they want and trained in using the ballot to get it...
...You will find it a very simple and helpful guide to food values...
...but in spite of it...
...The fuel value of 310 calories per pound is represented by printing in solid black nearly one-third of a square one inch on each edge, since one square inch represents 1,000 calories...
...In reading this comment, keep in mind that in Wisconsin party platforms are written by candidates who have received their nominations directly from the people...
...He describes an election in Switzerland, where the referendum has been used extensively, and draws the conclusion that "the referendum, when it is carried out in the democratic spirit by a democratic people, is a very democratic institution...
...they retaid progress...
...These charts are printed in colors and show graphically the protein, fat, carbohydrate, ash, and water contents, and the fuel value, of many articles of food...
...And that is true of all kinds of hobbles...
...It is aimed to give the students of the University a training in good citizenship...
...In some cities, says Mr...
...A Democratic Institution EDWIN E. SLOSSON has an interesting article in the current number of The Independent on "The Referendum in Action...
...Measures were for once disentangled from candidates, from parties, and from one another...
...Moving forward in a hobble skirt, even on level pavement, is a matter of much uncertainty and labor...
...but he is known widely as an effective champion of popular government...
...Hobbled with the sophistry of the "old guard...
...PARCELS POST IN CHILI IN CHILI, the small buyer as well as the merchant is reaping benefits from the use of the International Parcel Post...
...The voters had the incentive of knowing that as they voted so it would be...
...Knox, railroads own almost the entire water frontage and are able to stifle possible water competition...
...What else would you call a garment that fits so tightly about the knees that it permits only the shortest possible steps...
...Despite the lavish use of money and all else that great wealth and the united political machines could do to mislead—and they did much—the people adopted each of the six measures designed for their welfare, and rejected all of the fifteen which were not so designed...
...When the People Make Platforms WILLIAM R. NELSON'S big, progressive newspaper, The Kansas City Star, makes the following comment on the platform adopted by the Republican nominees in Wisconsin...
...Professor Johnson's special field is engineering...
...Europe's great natural highways are used to carry commodities between producer and consumer as cheaply as possible...
...By considering these Western manifestations, one can readily enough see why the machine and special interests of New York fought so desperately against direct popular government in that state, and one can the more appreciate the value of Roosevelt's victory over them...
...It may move forward into the ranks of the progressives...
...Europe looks upon her waterways as a resource to be developed in the interest of the people...
...For example, in the case of whole milk, a glass of milk is shown...
...87 per cent, of the figure is colored green to represent the water content, 3.3 per cent, red to represent the protein, 4 per cent, yellow to represent the fat, 5 per cent, blue to represent the carbohydrates, and 0.7 per cent, drab to represent the ash content...
...Hobbled with unstinted praise of the Payne-Aldrich tariff law...
...Platforms thus written reflect the public will more clearly than when written by bosses and delegates under the old convention system...
...Denver, in that election, had the chance by direct popular vote to settle each of a series of twenty-one questions...
...Hobbled with a fulsome eulogy of the Administration, with its Ballingers, its Wicker-shams and its Knoxes...
...The course will be in charge of Howard T. Mosher, a practicing lawyer and chairman of the Democratic county committee...
...It was fully improved...
...Here was a chance for intelligent action...
...It's a hobble platform...
...Civic Engineering GIVIC ENGINEERING—that is what Lewis Jerome Johnson, a Harvard professor, suggests as a name for the new "applied, constructive political-science" that is developing so rapidly in all parts of the country...
...With these instances of the effectiveness of direct popular control of government in mind, Professor Johnson expresses the basic principle of the Applied Science of Government as follows: "The people must rule—by indirect control so long as that suffices, and, that failing, by regular and orderly direct control to such extent and to such degree of detail as may be required for complete success...
...It consists largely of fancy goods, gloves, feathers, etc...
...In the United States they are allowed to lie unused and undeveloped, because of the selfish interest of the rail transportation monopoly...
...As for going up hill or climbing steps—well, of course one may be carried...
...It will not do so, however, because of its hobble platform...
...Write to the Department of Agriculture for a set of these charts...
...of men holding their commissions direct from the people and not by the favor of organizations and interests...
...Says the Star: "The great platform of the Wisconsin Republicans was the product of years of drilling in popular political control...
...Consul Winslow reports that during 1909 articles to the value of $944,298 reached Chili through this means as compared with $516,945 in 1908...
...Says Commissioner Knox: "Probably the greatest single deterrent to water terminal advance in the United States is the present adverse attitude of rail lines toward independent water traffic, in their exclusive control of frontage, in refusal or neglect to coordinate with general water traffic, and in refusal to pro-rate generally with water lines in through movement of traffic...
...That is what he calls the First Law of Civic Engineering...
...He points out in a communication printed in the Engineering News that the experience of Los Angeles in building her 280-mile aqueduct, and of those cities that have turned to the commission plan of government, "may indicate both the existence and the nature of a Law, perhaps the First Law, of the new applied science—a science which would seek to apply the engineering principles ®f rational, disinterested constructiveness to the great economic and administrative problems of society...
...Take the New York platform, for example...
...The Republican party in New York may make progress...
...Selfish Interest THAT the one great obstacle to the development of our waterways is the opposition of the railroad companies, is the statement made by Commissioner of Corporations Herbert Knox Smith in his report to the President on September 26...
...TRAINING FOR CITIZENSHIP INSTRUCTION in citizenship will henceforth be part of the work of Rochester University...
...He adds: "The Denver elections of last May show still further the value of means of popular control suited to the magnitude of the task...
...That's why it is called the hobble skirt...
...Nothing could more clearly demonstrate the values of the direct primary system than the platforms of the Republicans of Wisconsin and of Kansas...
...Europe's rivers are busy arteries of commerce...
...To meet this popular demand, the Department has just issued a set of 15 charts on the composition of food materials...
...Food Values Shown by Colored Charts THE RECENT widespread discussion of the high cost of living, has led to an exceptional demand for the publications of the Department of Agriculture relating to food and nutrition...
...The increase was practically all from Europe...
Vol. 2 • October 1910 • No. 41
