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"I Can Work Without Worrying If Sickness Comes, My Income Will Not Stop"

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NOV 19 917

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'HE PRESENT CRITICAL state of the world has brought about a much greater interest in the study of history. We are gradually getting a new perspective on events of the past. Opinion in regard to many of them is changing.

Of special significance, therefore, is the publication of a new history by such an eminent authority as Albert Bushnell Hart.

NEW AMERICAN HISTORY

By ALBERT BUSHNELL HART, LL.D., Professor of Government, Harvard University.
In this new book Professor Hart has combined into one volume the
broad and manifold phases of the nation's life in a remarkably successful
manner. He has written about the things that count. In an extremely
readable style, clear-cut and vivid, he describes events which have helped
to make us Americans, and he sets before his young countrymen the
ideal of true national greatness.

Distinctive Points of Excellence:

a. Its special attention to the European background of American history.
b. Its freedom from provincialism and its fair-minded treatment of both
sides of great issues.

c. Its subordination of the military details of our wars and its emphasis
on the social and financial problems arising from our wars.

d. Its clear, coherent and well-balanced presentation of the life and indus-
tries of the American people.

Its unusual attention to social details, such as education, religion, societies,
home life and the different racial elements of our population.

f. The fullness with which it treats recent history thus giving the pupil a
keener appreciation of present happenings.

The book is intended for high school use

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THE WEEK IN REVIEW

CHAOS IN RUSSIA.

over

The red flag of the Revolutionary headed by Socialists, Nikolai Lenine, and known as Maximalists Petroor Bolshiviki, waves grad and over how much of Russia is as yet uncertain. These extreme radicals bombarded the winter palace, the seat of government, with the guns of the cruiser Aurora and the St. Peter and St. Paul fortress; drove Premier Kerensky out of the city, and put several of his ministers under arrest, and gained control over the garrison of Petrograd. The revolutionists, who call

full

hemselves the Petrograd council of

do

as

soldiers' and workmen's delegates,
have issued a proclamation to the
army, in which they call for the im-
enemies of all
mediate arrest
officers who
not immediately
join the revolution, and close with
"Soldiers! For
this watchword:
peace, for bread, for land and for
the power of the people."
THE

REVOLUTIONARY
GRAM.

PRO

The program formulated in the calls revolutionary proclamation for: First, the offer of an immediate democratic peace; second, the immediate handing over of large proprietorial

lands to the peas

ants; third, the transmission of all authority to the council of soldiers' and workmen's delegates; and fourth, the honest convocation of a Summed constitutional assembly.

an

close that only the official figures the line of the Tagliamento river will determine the result.

ABSENT VOTING.
One of the amendments to the
Massachusetts Constitution just
ratified by the voters authorizes
measures for recording the votes
of voters who are absent from
their homes when an election is
held. New York already has such
a law; and if the margin in the
city election had been closer, the
result might have waited for the
counting of the vote of absent sol-
diers and sailors. The same thing
would be true of the vote on the
suffrage amendment. More than
65,000 voters of New York City are

in the armed forces of the govern-
ment, and approximately 55,000
more from other parts of the state
are in military service. The count-
ing of these ballots, under the law,
must wait until December 18, and
an additional element of possible
confusion and uncertainty is found
in the possibility that some of the
ballots of the men in France might
be lost on the way across to this
country.

THE ALLIED CONFERENCE.
The war conference of the Allied
Powers, which is about to be held
in Paris, was never more needed
than now, in view of the demorali-
zation of Russia and the critical
position of Italy. As was antici-
pated, the United States is to par-
ticipate, and the commissioners
who are to represent this country
are already in London. President
Wilson's singular personal attach-
ment to Colonel E. M. House, and
his confidence in his judgment, are
again shown by his selection of him
as head of the American mission.
With him are associated Admiral
William S. Benson; General Tasker
H. Bliss; Oscar T. Crosby, assis-
tant secretary of the
treasury;
Vance McCormick, chairman of the
war trade board; Bainbridge Colcy
of the shipping board; Dr. Alonzo
E. Taylor of the food administra-
tion; and Gordon Auchincloss, sec-
retary.
But,

up briefly, this program means
surrender to Ger-
unconditional
many, and the immediate confisca-
tion of all landed estates and the
It is
property of the well-to-do.

a

few

not believed that this revolutionary program will find national support. council's execuThe Pan-Russian within tive committee had days voted disapproval of the revolutionary plans and had urged active measures to prevent their conlocal the recent summation. At elections, the Bolshiviki were practically beaten everywhere. for the time being at least, sian war activities are paralyzed.

THE ELECTIONS.

Rus

Outside of Massachusetts, where interest centred in the adoption by a large majority of the "anti-aid" amendment to the State Constitution, which forbids the use of public money for any institution not under public control; and the New York City election, which in a quadmayoralty rangular

THE FIRST TRENCH FIGHT-
ING.

over

The United States has had its first war list of killed and wounded in actual fighting on the western front. A small detachment of American infantrymen, which had been only a few days in the front line trenches, was attacked by a greatly superior force of Germans. They were cut off from relief by the heavy barrage in their rear, but fought galuntil dis- lantly hand-to-hand, contest places an excellent Mayor and brings Tammany back into full control; the in the moment matters of most in New votes elections were the suffrage York woman upon a amendment to the State Constitution, and in the general and prohibition. To which York, New surprise, feated a suffrage amendment by a majority of nearly 195,000 only two years ago, adopted it this year by How a majority of about 90,000. far this change of attitude brought about through President Wilson's influence, and how far it was due to the large increase in the Socialist vote are matters of conjecture. In Ohio woman suffrage large majority, was defeated by a and the vote on prohibition was so

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against the advancing Germans was
disappointed. Instead, the Italian
armies have fallen back, in a great
arc more than 160 miles in length,
through the plains of Venetia to a
new and shorter line of defence, the
rear-guard fighting obstinately from
day to day against the invaders. It
is not clear, at this stage, along
what line the Italians will make
their stand; but the morale of the
army is reported to be excellent,
and the heavy losses in prisoners
the
and guns which marked
days of the fighting have
The arrival of considerable British
and French forces has gone far to
hearten the retreating Italians. If
the Teutonic advance should be
halted by anything like a decisive
battle, a retreat through the moun-
tainous region traversed in the
original “drive” might
be an
easy matter.

not

first

ceased.

AN AGREEMENT WITH
JAPAN.

One of the most important inci-
dents in recent diplomacy is the
agreement which has been reached
between the United States and
Japan with reference to China. By
the terms of this agreement Japan
disclaims any intention "to infringe
in any way upon the independence
or territorial integrity of China,"
and declares her firm adherence to
"the principle of the so-called
'open door' or equal opportunity
for commerce and industry in
China." On the other hand, the
United States acknowledges that
Japan has special interests in China,
and both governments recognize
"that territorial propinquity creates
special relations between countries."
This is, in effect, a recognition of
the Monroe doctrine on the part of
Japan, so far as our relations with
Mexico and Latin America
concerned; and an extension of the
Monroe doctrine to the Pacific, SO
far as the relations of Japan to
China are concerned. This
ment, kept in good faith, will baffle
German intrigues in the Far East,
and will lay the spectre of possible
war between Japan and the United
States.

are

agree

THE MENACE FROM ENEMY

ALIENS.

The need of more consistent and energetic treatment of enemy aliens is coming to be realized. It is emphasized every day in such incidents as the arrest of one of them in the very act of carrying a highly explosive bomb on board of a troopladen transport in New York City; in frequent fires of mysterious origin at the Ayer cantonment; and in almost daily explosions in munition factories. It is clear that the American government and people cannot allow all this to go on with good-natured indifference. Not every

whelmed, solely by numbers. Three
were killed, five wounded, and
twelve are
or
reported missing
prisoners. Following close upon
the official announcement of this
fighting, and the names of the sol-
diers killed, wounded and missing,
came official news of the sinking of
the American patrol boat Alcedo,
in the war zone, by a submari..e,
and the names of one officer and
twenty enlisted men missing, out of
a crew of seven officers and eighty-
five men. These two incidents,
one week, are reminders-if
were needed-that we are in a real

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