A committee of each party for the state and for each political subdivision of the state may be provided, to be selected in such manner as may be prescribed by the governing authority of the party. If no committee is selected for any political subdivision, then all such powers are exercised by the state executive committee. In political subdivisions greater than a county, the committee consists of not less than one member for each county. The names assigned to these committees are the State Executive Committee, County Committee, and Congressional Committee; apparently there are also committees in each judicial circuit, chancery division and senatorial district. Vacancies are filled by or as the State Executive Committee may direct.

If a second primary is held, the state convention is not held until 15 days thereafter.

Alabama The State Executive Committee and the party committee of any political subdivision of the state may provide for state conventions or conventions of other subdivisions of the state and provide for the election of delegates to such conventions or other party officers at the general primary.

Delegates are chosen at the primary to the county convention. Candidates for delegates are nominated by petition of 10 voters or by the county central committee. The county convention is held on the first Monday after the primary and its duty is to select delegates and alternate delegates to all conventions, including state and district conventions. The State Central Committee may prescribe rules for the election of delegates to the National Convention, and national delegates may be elected before the primary election.

Primaries may be held to elect delegates to any party convention.

Alabama

Assessments may be made by the state or any local party committee; no assessment is made in counties under 45,000 population; in larger counties not to exceed 2% of one year's salary and for unremunerative or party offices $10 in county, $20 in larger subdivisions and $50 for state.

Officers' votes for by whole state, $.50; congressmen, $10; district officers, $3; county officers, $3; township, city and town officers, $1. Credited to general fund of county, city or town.

2% of one year's salary attached to the office for which

he is a candidate. If there is no salary the fee is $1. Paid into state, city and county treasuries.

DEWEY, D. R., and SHUGRUE, M. J. Banking and Credit. Pp. vii, 506. Price, $3.00. New York: The Ronald Press Co., 1922.

This useful volume makes no pretence of covering the entire field of money and banking. The emphasis is distinctly on the descriptive and practical aspects of the subject rather than upon historical development or the discussion of underlying theoretical principles. Yet sufficient theory is presented for the purposes of the elementary student or the business man who desires a better understanding of his relations with banking and credit institutions.

The authors assume on the part of the reader a preliminary acquaintance with the chapters on money and banking found in any standard text on economics, and thus avoid the duplication of this material. which is usual in the first few chapters of books on banking. The space saved in this way permits a more detailed treatment of certain topics than can be found in other introductory volumes, notably the problem of credit analysis, to which five chapters are devoted, and foreign exchange. The operation of the federal reserve system is described at length.

In order to give concreteness to the discussion, there are appended some sixty practical problems, half of them with solutions. About a third of these are merely commercial arithmetic (interest and discount), but the remainder deal with. bank statements, credit analysis, and foreign exchange. Numerous references at the end of each chapter and an extensive bibliography are valuable guides to further reading.

The merit of the book lies in its clear and up-to-date presentation of judiciously selected parts of a large subject, rather

than in any originality of thought. It would be ungrateful to criticize the inevitable omissions, in view of the considerable success of the authors in achieving their object, the "detailed description and illustration of actual practice in the business world."

MORGAN, GERALD. Public Relief of Sickness. Pp. 195. Price, $1.50. New York: The Macmillan Co.

In this book, Mr. Morgan has organized considerable valuable material on the problem of sickness and poverty and methods being used to meet that problem in America, Denmark, Germany and Great Britain. He then discusses the facts so compiled, with reference to the relative success and failure of the methods used in those countries. His conclusion is that health insurance alone cannot meet the problem and that the best plan would be a two-fold one comprising two separately operated and distinct programs: one, a provision for contributory, compulsory health insurance; the other a state-wide system of public health centers in which the best possible health service would be provided, that service to be paid for by patients in proportion to their ability to pay.

Mr. Morgan's data for his discussion of the present American situation with regard to public relief of sickness came largely from the survey made by the Illinois state commission appointed in 1917 to study the subject of health insurance. He presents an interesting analysis of the results of that survey in which he points out the extreme difficulty of getting accurate statistics as to the cost of adequate medical relief, as compared with the much simpler task of computing the wage loss caused by sickness. His deduction that this fact makes it difficult to provide adequate medical treatment in any system of health insurance appears to be borne out by the experience of the European countries where health insurance has been quite thoroughly tested. In all three countries citedDenmark, Germany and Great Britain,