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Presents letters to the editor referencing articles and topics discussed in previous issues of "The New Republic." Reaction to concerns about the use of pieces of paper to denominate general claims to goods and more specific ownership claims; "New York Preliminaries," which questioned the steadfastness of the adherence of U.S. Representative Samuel Stratton to liberal principles; "Uncle Tom's Cabin," which focused on the social condition of African Americans.

The article focuses on the liberal campaigns set out by the U.S. labor union press which aim to abolish right-to-work laws and to ban lie-detector tests from employment procedure. It notes that the union papers have carried regular columns of various issues including cooking, travel, and social security. It says that the International Labor Press Association are focusing on those advertisements that may yield to an old labor press racket of shaking down businessmen.

There ought to be a place in New York city for a liberal newspaper. No daily has ventured into the vast territory which lies between the radical press and the newspaper "New York World." The radicals themselves are meagerly served in English-language papers. There will be no argument, think, that the World comes closest to being an American Manchester Guardian, but it is at best on the outer rim of the target. Possibly the contention may be raised that there are not enough liberals in New York to support a daily paper. It seems to me the try is worth making. Liberals need not be born. They can be trained by care and kindness. The word "liberal" itself has fallen into disrepute. To a radical it is a label for a man who professes friendship and then rushes away for his thirty pieces of silver as soon as the crisis comes.

This article provides news briefs. The U.S. Senate Committee recently learned that Standard Oil tankers were delivering oil to Teneriffe Island for German and Italian use. The makers of Absorbine Jr., the liniment that made a fortune as a nostrum for "athlete's foot," will no longer advertise their product as a complete cure for that ailment. William Allen White was invited by a group of liberals to join them in asking the President to intervene in behalf of the striking Ford workers. Clement Attlee recently proposed to the Executive Committee of the British Labor Party that no Labor MP's be allowed to vote against or criticize government measures.

Presents a letter to the editor about the liberal progressiveness among the daily papers with the "Seattle Union Record."