Wendell M. Strong, B.A., M.A., LL.B.: LIFE INSURANCE; ACCIDENT, HEALTH,
AND LIABILITY INSURANCE.

Associate Actuary, Mutual Life Insurance Company.

Graham H. Stuart, Ph.D.: LATIN-AMERICAN RELATIONS.
Professor of Political Science at Stanford University.

James Swan: NAVAL ARCHITECTURE; MARINE Engineering,
Editor, Marine Engineering and Shipping Age, New York.

Virginia Tanner: PAGEANTS.

Pageant Manager, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Harry Taylor: WATERWAYS AND HARBORS,

Major General, U. S. A.; Chief of Engineers, War Department.

Hugh S. Taylor, Ph.D.:

INORGANIC AND PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY.

Professor of Physical Chemistry at Princeton University.

William A. Taylor, B.S., D.Sc.: HORTICULTURE,

Chief, Bureau of Plant Industry, U. S. Department of Agriculture;
member, American Society for the Promotion of Agricultural
Science, American Pomological Society.

Aubrey Tealdi, Ph.D.: LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE,

Professor of Landscape Design at University of Michigan.

Walter M. Thayer, Jr., M.D.: DEFECTIVE DELINQUENTS.

Superintendent, State Institution for Defective Delinquents, Napanock, New York.

Arthur W. Thomas, Ph.D.: BIOLOGICAL AND FOOD CHEMISTRY.

Associate Professor of Food Chemistry at Columbia University.

H. J. Van Cleave, Ph.D.: INVERTEBRATE ZOOLOGY.

Professor of Zoology at University of Illinois; secretary, American
Microscopical Society.

Burton M. Varney: METEOROLOGY AND CLIMATOLOGY.

Assistant Editor, Weather Bureau, U. S. Department of Agriculture.

August Vollmer: PREVENTION OF DELINQUENCY.

Chief of Police, Berkeley, California.

M. W. von Bernewitz: GOLD AND SILVER.

U. S. Bureau of Mines, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

C. Laurence Warwick, B.Sc.: MATERIALS OF ENGINEERING.

Secretary-Treasurer, American Society for Testing Materials.

Maurine Watkins, A.B.: MOTION PICTURES; THE DRAMA.

Associate Editor with The Macmillan Company; member of The 47 Workshop; Motion Picture and Dramatic Critic.

Roger H. Wells, Ph.D.: STATE AND COUNTY GOVERNMENT.
Professor of Economics and Politics at Bryn Mawr College.

Ray B. Westerfield, B.A., M.A., Ph.D.: NATIONAL CURRENCY.

Professor of Political Economy at Yale University; member, American Economics Association.

James A. Wetmore, LL.B.: PUBLIC BUILDINGS.

Acting Supervising Architect, U. S. Treasury Department.

C. N. Weyl, Ph.D.: ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING.

Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering at University of
Pennsylvania.

C. H. Whitaker: ARCHITECTURE.

Editor, The Journal of the American Institute of Architects. Charles P. White, A.M.: LICENSE TAXES; AUTOMOBILE TAXES. Instructor in Economics at University of Pennsylvania.

Herbert T. Whitlock, C.E.: MINERALOGY AND PETROLOGY.

Curator of Mineralogy, American Museum of Natural History.

Frank C. Whitmore, A.B., A.M., Ph.D.: ORGANIC CHEMISTRY.

Professor of Organic Chemistry at Northwestern University; member, American Chemical Society, American Electrochemical Society, Deutsche Chemische Gesellschaft.

Francis G. Wickware, B.A., B.Sc.: BOOK PUBLISHING.

Editor with D. Appleton and Company, New York.

Delos F. Wilcox, A.B., A.M., Ph.D.: ELECTRIC LIGHTING AND POWER.
Public Utility Expert, Grand Rapids, Michigan; member, American
Economics Association, American Political Science Association,
Academy of Political Science.

Malcolm Willey, Ph.D.: SOCIOLOGY APPLIED TO HISTORY AND GOVERNMENT, Professor of Sociology at Dartmouth College.

C. E. A. Winslow, B.Sc., M.S., A.M.: PUBLIC HEALTH AND HYGIENE.

Professor of Public Health at Yale University; member, American Public Health Association; Chairman, New York State Commission on Ventilation.

Clinton Rogers Woodruff, A.B., Ph.B., LL.B.: CIVIL SERVICE; MUNICIPAL
GOVERNMENT.

Member of the Pennsylvania Bar; Honorary Secretary of National
Municipal League; Editor, National Municipal Review.

John C. Wright, B.Sc., A.M.: VOCATIONAL EDUCATION.

Director, Federal Board for Vocational Education; member, National Society for Vocational Education, Society of Automotive Engineers.

A POLITICAL SURVEY

sound financial readjustment beElements of Policy.-A survey of tween nations the Government turned the political history of the United its attention to the settlement of States during 1925 indicates that the the debts owed to us by European nation has been still struggling with countries. National defense on land important problems of readjustment and sea received a more careful concaused by its participation in the sideration than was normally the World War. In Administration cir- case before our entrance into the war cles the "return to normalcy" policy, in 1917. Though the American peooriginally voiced by President Hard-ple had apparently decided that, as ing, remained the central point in a nation, they would avoid Eurothe program of President Coolidge pean complications in the future, and his advisers. It was particularly there were numerous indications of noticeable in the vigorous campaign governmental concern over the ulti, for economy, a campaign designed mate political and economic settleto relieve the taxpayer from the bur- ment across the Atlantic. den of abnormally high taxes and to strengthen business by curtailing wasteful expenditures.

While the campaign for American entrance into the League of Nations seemed to lose ground, a strong deIn Congress the more or less fruit- mand in both parties arose for the less efforts to find a legislative remimmediate participation of the edy for the ills of the farmer re- United States in the benefits and vealed the fact that agriculture was responsibilities of the World Court. but slowly recovering from the de- More than six years after the Armispression following the war years. In tice, then, the nation was still grapthe interest of what seemed to be a pling with problems growing out of

the greatest war in history. That 1927 indicated that there would be some of the most perplexing of these 50 Republicans, 40 Democrats, 5 La questions were slowly being answered Follette Republicans and 1 Farmerwill appear in the following pages. Laborite. The membership in the Presidential Election of 1924. The next House included 232 Republicans, political situation during 1925 was to 183 Democrats, 5 La Follette Repuba large extent determined, by the re- licans, 3 Farmer-Laborites and 2 Sosult of the 1924 electraits. The vic- cialists. For the Democratic Party tory of the Republican Party at the this represented a net loss of two polls, while not as overwhelming as Senators and twenty-four Represenin 1920, was rather greater than eventatives. The Farmer-Labor Party its optimistic leaders expected. Presi- lost one Senator in the defeat of dent Coolidge's popular Republican Magnus Johnson of Minnesota, but vote was 15,718,789, nearly fifty-five gained two members in the House. per cent. of the total vote cast; as The Regular Republicans gained fifDemocratic candidate Davis polled teen members in the House and three 8,378,962; and Senator La Follette, Senators. the Progressive leader, received 4,822,

blocs into a compact minority party Some publicists, indeed, raised the question of whether the future opposition to the Republican Party would be a system of blocs rather than a national party.

From the statistics of the vote fo 319, The outstanding feature of the president and for members of Conelection was the relative strength of gress it was evident that the Demothe Democratic and Progressive can-cratic Party had not recovered from didates in the trans-Mississippi west. its overwhelming defeat in 1920, and In twelve states the Democratic vote that the forces of Progressivism had was less than the La Follette vote, not succeeded in uniting their various Mr. Davis securing only about 10 per cent. of the total. In certain sections of the country the so-called third party had become temporarily the real party of opposition. How ever, any theory that the Progressive Party would succeed to the place in Democrats Taking Account of American politics occupied by the Stock.-The serious situation of the Democratic Party was clearly chal- Democratic Party was quickly sensed lenged by the failure of Senator La by national leaders of prominence, Follette to carry the grain-growing who sought some means of healing states of the northwest, and by the the wounds which had resulted from solidity of the southern states in the battle between the supporters of their Democratic allegiance. Lesser Alfred E. Smith of New York and parties, which appeared sporadically William G. McAdoo of California in on the ballots, failed to secure any the 1924 nominating convention. The widespread support. The Workers' Chairman of the National CommitParty, which is avowedly Commu- tee, Clem Shaver, of West Virginia, nistic, and the Socialist Labor Party who had managed the Davis cameach polled less than 35,000 votes paign, was criticized for his failure while the National Prohibition Party to reconcile the hostile elements. surpassed them with 48,000. The Commonwealth Land Party, devoted to the Single Tax, secured a negligible vote, less than 3,000.

Certain eastern leaders, who believed that the party organization should be more active between national campaigns, joined Franklin D. Roosevelt Congressional Elections of 1924.- of New York in advocating a general A more effective control of Con- conference of party workers, simila gress was one of the fruits of vic- to a national convention, for the purtory for the Republicans. After the pose of discussing ways and means results of the Congressional contests of strengthening the party throughwere finally tabulated it appeared out the country. Mr. Roosevelt's sugthat losses had been suffered by both gestion received the hearty endorsethe Democrats and the La Follette ment of Senator Walsh of Montana Progressives. In the Senate, for ex-and Senator Robinson of Arkansas, ample, the new alignment for 1925- and was approved by Chairman