Pessimists, including many of the old-line Democrats, practically all the maltsters, and Aunt Emma Goldman, are filled with a dismal conviction that creation has gone plum' to perdition in a hand basket.

Those more optimistically inclined look upon the brighter side of things and distill consolation from the thought that nothing is so bad but what it might have been worse--Trotzky might have been born twins.

Great Britain has her post-war industrial crisis, Serial Number 24.

The Sinn Fein enlarges the British national anthem to read God Save the King Till We Can Get at Him! By a strict party vote Congress decides the share in the victory achieved by the A.E.F.was overwhelmingly Republican, but that the airship program went heavily Democratic.

Popular distrust of home-brew recipes assumes a nationwide phase.