Editorials.

SOCIAL conditions in Germany; PASSIVE resistance; SURRENDER (Military); INTERNATIONAL relations; NEWSPAPERS; SOCIAL psychology

The article reports on the social and political developments in the world during 1923. Gustav Stresemann, the Chancellor of Germany has determined upon complete and unconditional surrender to the French demand for abandonment of passive resistance in the Ruhr, Germany. New York without its customary newspapers was a curious sight to those accustomed to the solid rows of papers that usually hide men's faces in the subways and on the elevated. It was a revelation of the function of the modern daily newspaper, to supply unreal entertainment as a relief from real monotony.