ELL, that's over! For the

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not have our food salted with wood ashes and sweetened with bits of green twigs and wandering insects. We can sleep in comfortable beds and wash in the hot water that emanates from shining shining faucets. Mosquitoes, black flies, ants, and their like have had their last succulent meal of our flesh for another year. No more will the Blue Book lead us, all unsuspecting, into quagmires of detours or facetiously land us, by meticulous directions, in the backyard of an irate householder. No more will we sit in the tortured boredom of hotel verandas. We have done our duty. We have taken our vacation. And now we can settle down in the accustomed harness, between familiar shafts, and jog along our well worn ruts for another year. Labor Day is well

placed. Never does a desk well piled with work look so appealing, never are the glorious advantages of one's own kitchen versus the makeshifts of camp so apparent, as when one comes upon them after a strenuous bout of vacationing.

The sound of industrial wheels beginning to turn more swiftly after the summer lull is a welcome one, but it is not so far reaching as another September sound, the ringing of school bells. Kindergarten and university, the little white schoolhouse on the back country road and the well-equipped brick plant of the large city, schools which specialize in professional training and schools which adhere sternly to the three R's-before the month is over they will all be full of young life and activity.

For New Hampshire the opening of school has special importance this year. For the first time in our his

tory we have a state University. As we understand it, the difference between a University and a College is not size but diversity. A college turns out graduates fitted for one thing-just what has not yet been determined. But a University offers its students a choice of careers. Will you be a dirt farmer or a corporation lawyer? Will you specialize in medicine or mechanics? The larger the University the greater the range of choice. And this fact gave us an idea which amounts almost to inspiration.

Last winter four hundred odd statesmen found employment in our legislature. This winter they are out of a job. There is no legislature, the new campaign is in a very embryonic state. What can they do? Why not let the state University profit by their vacation? Why not institute at Durham a course in that most widely popular of all New Hampshire's professions-Politics?

We have broached the idea to several friends with disappointing results. One remarked that the only subject most politicians knew was Slychology; another suggested that a certain state Commissioner might qualify as Professor of Raiding and Writhing. But we have more serious thoughts in mind. In imagination we can see a Durham classroom with a group of eager young people entranced, listening to a gubernatorial candidate of Grafton County discoursing on "What the Well-Dressed Politician Will Wear." What a privilege to learn the fine art of publicity from a man who has been "spoken of" as a possible president of the United States! A course in real political economy, including lectures. on "How to Live on Forty-eight

Hours a Week" could be conducted by a number of our prominent Republocrats. And any one of our tax reformers could make a regulation professor of higher mathematics open his eyes in amazement. -H. F. M.

Notes

The other letter is from Mr. H. D. Howie, Secretary to James M. Storrow, chairman of the joint committee which has been investigating the New England railroad situation. It reads as follows:

"I have just read the article on the New England Railroad Situation in your August issue. I think it would have a very helpful effect if this article could receive wide dis

writing to ask if I may purchase 1000 copies of the August issue for that purpose."

"May I be permitted one criticism of a minor thing? The caption to one of the illustrations in the last number speaks of the settlement of Dover in 1623. I doubt if you can find a historian of any standing who will tell you that Dover was settled in that year. Of course, the Dover residents are anxious to have it appear that it was so, but that doesn't make it so."

We are very glad to announce, what many of our readers may already have guessed, that the donor of the prizes in the high school contest, awards for which were made in the last issue, is Mr. Erwin F. Keene of Concord, N. H.

Our cover picture is of the Grand Army men at the Weirs. At the head of the procession are Major R. H. Trickey and General Charles W. Stevens.

Three opinions on the Republican party which appeared in our July issue awakened so much interest that we are presenting in this magazine three corresponding articles on the Future Policies of the Democratic Party. The writers need no introduction. They are HON. RAYMOND B. STEVENS, one of the men most talked about as a possible Democratic candidate for Governor; PRESIDENT EATON D. SARGENT of the New Hampshire Manufacturers' Association; and HON. GEORGE E. FARRAND, State Treasurer and former Chairman of the Democratic State Committee.

MR. H. R. GOODWIN is a hiking enthusiast of Milan, N. H.

PROFESSOR H. C. WOODWORTH, who writes of the Marsh King farm, is the extension specialist in farm management of New Hampshire University.

MR. H. B. NABSTEDT is the superintendent in charge of the construction of the Bristol dam. He has been with the Ambursen Construction Company for seventeen years and in that time has constructed fourteen dams of various sizes. He is a product of Phillips Exeter Academy, but is a native of Iowa.

MISS GRACE BLANCHARD is librarian of the Concord Public Library.

As district chief of the New Hampshire Forestry Department, MR. E. E. WOODBURY knows at first hand the destruction which fire brings to our forests.

MR. SAMUEL COPP WORTHEN is Geneologist of the New Jersey Society. S. A. R.

PROFESSOR POTTER'S third article on New Hampshire orchards shows what can be done with New Hampshire farms.

President Harding

Of Warren Gamaliel Harding as President no estimate could now be just. It will be viewed in the perspective of time, and in our belief will be accorded high place. Largely successful in private business, he had well served the state of his birth, and he was an outstanding member of the national Senate, when swept into the Presidency by a surging wave unprecedented in its volume. This was to him, for the time being at least, unfortunate. A Congress, nominally supporting, was, in its lower house especially, unwieldly, too large for effective control. Nor were many of its members, elected as Republicans, actually such. Blocs multiplied, and sectional demands were clamant. This severely taxed the President, as did the wearing grind of routine duties and the vexing problems which came as an aftermath of the World War.

These handicaps, demands and problems President Harding met with a calmness, decision and courage not yet duly appreciated. He had done much quietly and well. The conference of his calling for the limitation of armament and for other matters aimed at international peace will more and more be held as a supreme achievement, and there is much else in his too short administration to which time will pay due and deserved credit. He has won a high place among Presidents.

-Exeter News Letter

The death of President Harding reminds us that these strenuous trips have never resulted in any good and often seriously as in President Wilson's case. The President's job is a strenuous one without trying to shake hands with everyone from Florida to Alaska. From a political standpoint they have usually been a failure.

-Hillsborough Messenger

The cares of the Presidency these days are almost too great for the physical strength of any man. Some way of diminishing the less important ones should be devised if our chief magistrates are to render that sane and wise service which come with mental and physical health.

President's Harding's death is mourned not only in the loss of a chief executive, but also a true friend of the people, a strong, brave kindly soul representing the highest type of Americanism.

-Somersworth Free Press

There are certain peaceful and friendly commonplaces about him which cannot be else than valuable to the people, commanded so abruptly to contemplate him. Most people are average folk; they will under

There is a wholly unusual and exceptional equality of eagerness evinced by the American public to know more about the personality of the new President, Calvin Coolidge.

Perhaps it may be because at a time of unexampled vociferousness in a day when noisy demagogery is much in evidence, when the latest victor on the hustings was chiefly famous for his lung power, when statesmen maintain their Own publicity departments, and when everybody quite generally is seeking a pre-eminence chiefly vocal, there appears a "man of silence." In a world of speech "Silent Cal" is unique. He intrigues the popular imagination because he is SO different.

that all minds of the country and of the world sympathize with him as he plunges into the rush and pomp and stupendous responsibilities of the presidency. -Bristol Enterprise

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It is indeed fortunate that, the death of President Harding, there was SO safe and level-headed a man as Vice President Calvin Coolidge to succeed to the high office. The new President is sound in his economic views, he has had wide experience in public life and has been in close touch with all the important problems before the administration. has made no false steps and his speeches have been models of clear and patriotic expressions of true American thought. The question as to who will be nominated by the Republican party as their candidate for President in 1924 is now settled. That man will be Calvin Coolidge, the man of destiny.

-Somersworth Free Press

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President Coolidge has wonderful opportunity to accomplish something for the people of New England along industrial relations in the coal industry. Somehow we have a feeling that he will get results that no one before has attempted. Coolidge is from New England. He knows the strenuous winters we usually have. He knows how helpless we are without coal and we feel he will interest himself more than any of his predecessors in getting coal into New England. The coal miners also know Coolidge and know he is not be trifled with and perhaps the operators may sense something doing not before attempted. We do not believe Coolidge will be made to believe that the coal shortage in New England is "psychological" and not real. -Milford Cabinet

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The Johnsons--Magnus and
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"I suggest to my conservative brethren that recent events indicate they must choose whether progressive things shall be done in a conservative way or in a radical way. You may have to take progressivism or radicalism will take you." -Hiram Johnson

After two years deflated prices for his product and inflated prices for anything he must buy the farmer, specifically the Minnesota wheat farmer, expressed his annoyance by electing Magnus Johnson to the United States Senate. It was not a victory for radicalism; it was a protest against keen distress. However, if laws could have allayed that distress, they would have been passed by the Republican Congress of last year. That Congress was entirely aware of the political consequences to themselves of failure to pass such laws. They did their best. They put through a mass of

legislation aiming to promote the farmers' special interests. But when the supply of wheat exceeds the demand its price goes down regardless of laws and distress and Magnus Johnson.

Nothing can keep up prices of commodities save co-operative control of supply and that is something for the farmers themselves to attend to when they resolve to get together, organize great grain holding companies, and ostracize any black legs who undercut the prices.-Current Opinion

If one is anxious to find a reason for the recent horizontal decline in the stock market, perhaps the election of Magnus Johnson, an ignorant Swede out in Minnesota, to the United States Senate, by an overwhelming majority, may afford a clue. Of course, the market has been declining for weeks and the election only took place last Tuesday, but the result is a symptom of a condition which causes thoughtful men to pause and ponder. Radicalism is rampant.

-Rochester Courier

A railroad man from the Middle West who is visiting his brother, a professional man in New Hampshire, they being, like Senator-elect Magnus Johnson of Minnesota, of Scandinavian descent, gives us a view of the new Senator and the reasons for his election which is thought-provoking.

"Magnus Johnson is not so much of a freak as you would think from reading about him," he says, "but neither is he a great man. However, he serves exactly the purpose of the people who elected him The farmers of the Middle West are in danger and they are trying to signal their danger to the rest of the nation. Now a danger signal should show red and make a loud noise and Senator Johnson will do both of these to perfection. But do not think it is a false alarm he is giving. There is real trouble in the West and if neither of the great political parties offers a likely remedy for it, a third party is inevitable and would carry many states in our section of the country."

-Concord Monitor

"Hiram, Jack, Magnus and Pussyfoot are certainly a great quartet," remarks the Boston Globe. They can make noise enough, beyond a question. Their double forte passages ought to raise the roof. But we fear their voices may not blend perfectly and that some of them might fail to keep on the key.

-Rochester Courier

In reply to Senator-elect Magnus Johnson's general invitation to have a little revolution with him, Editor Al Weeks of the Laconia News and Critic replies: "We are getting along quite well here and could not possibly stop to aid in a revolution. Come to Belknap County where we are all cheerfully busy.' -Concord Monitor