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IN THE LEADING ARTICLE THIS MONTH, Beulah Amidon, associate editor, describes the efforts of organized labor to achieve a positive place in politics (page 485). Miss Amidon draws upon developments up to the twelfth of September in the primary campaigns of this historic election year.

JUST RETURNED FROM REVISITING JAPAN, Ernest O. Hauser, author of The Rest of the World (Stackpole 1938), and a former staff member of the Institute of Pacific Relations, describes conditions in the island at war (page 489). On this special assignment for Survey Graphic, Mt. Hauser covered most of the area of Japan proper, and made several intensive field surveys of working-class districts.

WE CALL SPECIAL ATTENTION TO Survey Graphic's series of articles on the Anatomy of Government, represented in this issue (page 494) by a discussion of the so-called quasi-judicial funtions of the agencies and department heads. This is a highly contreversial subject, and considerable fuel was dded to the fiery dscussion of it during the recent annual meeting of the American Bar Association. Arthur T. Vanderbilt, retiring president, voiced his fear of the despotism of administrative agencies, and Dean Emeritus Roscoe Pound of the Harvard Law School, as chairman of the committee on administrative law, submitted a report listing ten tendencies toward "absolutism." Sharp issue was taken with the Pound report; and Jerome Frank, member of the Securities and Exchange Commission, asked a challenging question, "Did te committee observe the very standards of fairness it purports to find absend in the SEC?" Mr. Feler, author of our article, has been on the faculties of both Harvard and Yale and is the author of a widely discussed article in the Yale Law Journal (February 4, 1938): Prospectus for the Further Study of Federal Administrative Law.

FARNSWORTH CROWDER WRITES AN ARTICLE (page 497) which we recommend especially to the audiences of two of our esteemed contemporaries, Time and Harpers. Time readers, familiar with Nebraska's advertising campaign in that publication, now have an opportunity to see Nebraska while. Harpers readers will be interested in what turns out to be a natural sequel to George Leighton's two brilliant articles on Omaha. Mr. Crowder, a resident of Colorado, spent much time in Nebraska, seeing for himself some of the tattle-tale gray on America's White Spot. (For the title, he acknowledges his indebtedness to the advertisements of Fels Naptha soap.)

THIRTY YEARS BEFORE THE PICTURE MAGAzines (with their sequences of pictorial documents of our time) appeared on the newsstands, Lew Hine, pioneer social sharpshooter with the camera, embellished our pages with his photographs. The story of his pioneering is told with candid appreciation by Elizabeth McCausland, art critic and former editor of the art pages of the Springfield Republican (page 502).

FREDERICK H. HARBISON, WHO WAS A GUEST at the SWOC summer camp which he describes (page 506), is a graduate of Princeton, for whose Industrial Relations Section he has written a report on collective bargaining in the steel industry.

MAXINE DAVIS, WELL-KNOWN JOURNALIST, visits some public health nurses (page 508) and reports on the job they are doing in the country districts. 

AS AN OBSERVER REPRESENTING THE HENRY Street Settlement at the Second World Youth Congress last month, George C. Stoney had a unique opportunity to become acquainted with youth from fifty countries in and out of session. His report on their objectives in the world today appears on page 520.

PICTORIAL STATISTICS, INC. (RUDOLF MODley, director), who produce the cover designs for Survey Graphic, announce that the can furnish special charts or symbol-sheets to schools with wish to use charts more freely. Since March the organization has syndicate a daily newspaper feature, Telefact, to a growing national audience.

OCTOBER 1938           CONTENTS              VOL. XXVII NO. 10

Worker                        PHOTOGRAPH BY LEWIS W. HINE  484
Labor at the Ballot-Box                     BEULAH AMDIDON 485
Japan's Silent Masses                     ERNEST O. HAUSER 489
Administrative Justice                        A. H. FELLER 494
Tattle-Tale Gray on America's White Spot FARNSWORTH CROWDER 497
Portrait of a Photographer            ELIZABETH MCCAUSLAND 502
Steel Workers Go to Summer School    FREDERICK H. HARBISON 506
The Woman in Blue                             MAXINE DAVIS 508
Through Neighbors' Doorways 
Of Savages, Science and Imaginary Lines  JOHN PALMER GAVIT 511
Letters and Life 
On Understanding Europe                       LEON WHIPPLE 513
Youth in Session                          GEORGE C. STONEY 520

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