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Rathcreedan, Lord, 455.

Reed, Senator James A., 9, 349.

Roberts, Governor A. H., 229.

Roberts, Helen, 229.

Robertson, Miss Alice, 571.

Robinson, Senator Joseph T., 119.

Rocksavage, Lady, 168.

Roosevelt, Colonel Theodore, 27, 237.

Roosevelt, Franklin Delano, 127, 239, 241, 275,

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Roosevelt, Mrs. F. D., 135, 241, 277.

Root, Elihu, 579, 234.

Rowe, Dr. Leo S., 357.

Sassoon, Sir Philip, 168.

Sawtelle, Mrs. W. H., 177.
Schiff, Jacob H., 478.

Schurman, Jacob Gould, 410.

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Shanks, Air Pilot, 627.

Shorey, Paul, 25.

Shortridge, Samuel W., 470.

Simonds, Frank H., 569.

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Smith, Edgar F., 410.

Smith, Governor Alfred E., 120, 241, 345. Spencer, Senator Selden P., 9, 349, 469.

Taylor, Dr. Alonzo E., 215.

Thomas, Senator Charles S., 468.
Thomas, J. H., 429.

Townshend, Major General Sir Charles, 306.
Turner, Ben., 429.

Upham, Frederic W., 27, 231.

Victoria, Queen of Spain, 140.

Villa, Francisco, 22.

Wadsworth, Senator James W., Jr., 469.

Walker, Harry C., 469.

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Weeks, John W., 231.

West, Dean Andrew F., 25.

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Willcocks, Sir William, 613.

Williams, Howard S., 178.

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A DEMOCRATIC LEADER, AS VISITOR AT THE REPUBLICAN CONVENTION

(Hon. William G. McAdoo, with Mrs. McAdoo, were interested onlookers at the great spectacle in Chicago on two successive days. Mrs. McAdoo, who is a daughter of President Wilson, had never before seen a political convention. Mr. McAdoo's personal popularity at Chicago, like that of Mr. Bryan, attests the fact that the spirit of good-will engendered in the united efforts of the war period still exists among our public men, regardless of party ties. Mr. McAdoo's energy and success in marketing unprecedented war loans and in managing the railroad system for war-time efficiency have given him a prominence among presidential candidates that has not been stimulated by any effort on his own part. In the picture, taken by a photographer of the Chicago Tribune, Mrs. McAdoo is in the center, and the third member of the group is Mrs. Kellogg Fairbank of Chicago)

VOL. LXII

THE AMERICAN

REVIEW OF REVIEWS

THE

Vacation Time

on

NEW YORK, JULY, 1920

PROGRESS OF THE WORLD

With the adjournment of Congress on Saturday, June 5, and Capitol Hill the opening of the Republican National Convention at the beginning of the following week, there was an almost complete shifting of interest in public affairs from Washington to Chicago. For the first time in several years, Senators and Representatives saw ahead of them several months of freedom from official work. Many matters of importance remained to be considered by Congress, but all attempts on the part of certain members to secure a brief recess of a month or more, over the convention period, instead of full adjournment, were emphatically voted down. Senator Underwood, speaking informally, but with evident authority in his capacity as Democratic leader, informed his fellow Senators that the President would not call Congress back to Washington in extra session unless some unforeseen necessity should arise. Thus members of both Houses left Washington for the Conventions or for their homes in the mood of a lot of schoolboys who had passed their examinations and had the long vacation just ahead of them.

Congress Off Duty Till December

Unless some emergency should arise, Congress will not be in session until the first Monday in December, and its term will end with that of President Wilson on the fourth of March. Thus the Senators and Representatives could fairly count upon six months of freedom from the legislative grind. Most Representatives, however, are candidates for reëlection, and, quite apart from their commitments in the presidential campaign, they have their own political situations to meet in their respective districts. For some of them especially those from Southern districts their party nomination is as good as an election, and they are not worried about

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what may happen on November 2. But in many districts the Congressmen will be kept very busy with their own campaigns and their incidental share in the State and national contests for all of four months. Thirty-two of the ninety-six Senate seats are also involved in this year's elections. Sixty-four of the Senators will be comparatively free to give attention to private affairs and obtain rest or recreation, although all of them will be drawn to some extent into the general party contest.

The Caliber of Our Law-Makers

There is such a confirmed habit on the part of many newspapers and many good citizens to carp at Senators and to belittle Congressmen that it is hard to secure open-mindedness for a just estimate of the personal quality and the statesmanship of our national law-making body. We know little about the rank and file of membership in legislative bodies abroad, because under the British, French, Italian, and other representative systems, it is almost invariably true that a small group holding ministerial rank comes to the front for personal approval or criticism, and the ordinary member of a legislative body does nothing except to give his vote along with those of the party group to which he belongs. Our committee system at Washington throws into prominence a much larger number of members of Senate and House than are brought forward in the British House of Commons, for example. There seems to be an impression that our representatives at the two ends of the Capitol building at Washington are men of smaller caliber than their predecessors twenty or forty or sixty years ago. Taking them on the average, however, the men now in public life will gain rather than lose in repute if subjected to strict comparison with those of earlier periods, in points both of intelligence and of character.

Copyright, 1920, by THE REVIEW OF REVIEWS COMPANY

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