28 JUNE 1930, page 16

The Cost Of Elections.

The recent primary campaigns in Illinois and Pennsylvania hive again called attention to the increasing cost of seeking election to the United States Senate. Some time ago the......

American Notes

Passed in the face of the considered and reasoned objections of many nations, leading economists, newspapers, farm organizations, manufacturers, exporters, and bankers, several......

The " Blue " Laws.

A campaign by local clergy and church people to compel public authorities to stop Sunday cinema performances has led to wholesale resuscitation of the Colonial "blue laws" in......

The Knowledge Of Shakespeare.

One bequest in the will of the late Henry Clay Folger is distinctly unusual. It creates a foundation for the develop- ment and diffusion of knowledge of Shakespeare, and......

A.a. Traffic Control.

The highway traffic patrol system operated by the Auto- mobile Association in England is to be copied, as an experiment, by the traffic authorities of the State of Connecticut......

The Business Depression.

The optimistic belief which prevailed in the United States a few months ago, that the business depression would be short.. lived, has now given way to a feeling of intense gloom......