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Uppermost in the mind of every solon is the fact is the fact that a Presidential election is less than two years away. There are 51 potential Presidents among Senate Republicans. Even the baby Senators are getting illusions of grandeur. No one wants to tie himself to a party program until he has had more time to sound out public feeling, and Republicans are still in doubt as to the exact meaning of their November "mandate." For these reasons the eightieth Congress is likely to be notable for what it does...
...author reviews succinctly the plans of Britain, Canada, Australia, and Sweden, contrasting with them the patchwork procedures so far evolved in the United States. The object-lesson is pellucidly set forth; in matters economic, this nation runs a poor fifth to its more enlightened and more alert neighbors. A solon utterly unable to follow the rigorous argument of the other parts of Professor Hansen's work would learn that the heresies of Lord Keynes are fast becoming the orthodoxies of chancellories from Stockholm to New South Wales...
...responsibility and Congressional authority, the La Follette-Monroney Committee makes some proposals which will probably be greeted with the same enthusiasm as the recent suggestion of whipping-boy Wallace. Besides recommending adoption of an honest-to-God budget, increases in Congressional salaries, appointment of an administrative assistant for each solon, and the lifting of petty but time-consuming burdens such as the supervision of the District of Columbia, the report advocates a revamping of the overlapping, over powerful committee system. Congressional committee have long been the stronghold of the "rugged individualist" and the chief means by which a small group...
...Dreiser was far less a theorist than a humanist; essentially his novel is not a social thesis but the timeless story of family life. Of Solon's five children, one is set apart by her homeliness; one is a born Pharisee; one is a self-conscious beauty; one is an artist; one is a natural cavalier. Dreiser is interested mainly in the two latter, the arch-rebels. Against them Solon Barnes finds sternness and tolerance equally ineffective. His son and daughter, in the struggle to come to life as autonomous human beings, become thieves, and worse. The soberly beautiful...
...story has been told many times, and more dramatically, but seldom with more balanced compassion or gentler insight. The Bulwark's closing chapters, in which Solon Barnes realizes what his good intentions have wrought, and is battered into a simpler, humbler kind of religious understanding, are of a searching, level, melancholy beauty which cannot be expected of any living American writer...