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...back to Long Island he stopped over in Washington and left an idea in the political pool. Congress, he suggests, should enact a law providing for national referendum on big issues. The law would direct the Secretary of State to request all Governors to put on the official ballots in national elections any question upon which Congress may wish to obtain the opinion of the electorate...
Among the specialty numbers will be one in which four members of the female chorus will dance in hoop-skirts and the accompanying dress of the nineteenth century, and a second where another quartet will enact a burlesque on Joseph,, Alger '22 and F. B. Taussig '22 will present a specialty number, a take off on the Duncan sisters...
...excuse for a plot is conceived in a novel manner. In a sort of prologue, Professor Fakir introduces his class of six budding playwrights, who announce in turn the subject of their first dramatic efforts. The scenes that follow offer the amateur composers an opportunity to enact their creations, and thus we have six miniature playlets within the play, interspersed at varying intervals with the inevitable dance and song divertissements which are essential to all true musical reviews. The first incident,--"The Hat Bazaar,"--immediately puts the spectators in good humor, a humor which is constantly enhanced as the show...
...tendency to enact uncertain laws seems to be increasing, and, what is still worse, the people tolerate it and there are but faint demands for improvement. Intent on some immediate exigency, and with slight consideration of the larger issues, we create autocratic power by giving administrative officials who can threaten indictment the opportunities of criminal statutes, without any appropriate definition of crime...
...there is no real and complete coordination between the different Departments and the Committee of Congress. The whole system is fundamentally wrong, and in these days of high cost of government, an earnest effort should be made to change it, and it is the duty of Congress to enact legislation to that...