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Presents information on the political and social conditions in the U.S. Significance of Tammany Hall, a Democratic political organization of New York City, in the social improvement of New York; Difference between New York politics of today and New York politics of twenty years ago; Ratification by the voters of New York state of the proposal to reorganize the state government in the agitation for the short ballot; Changes made by the U.S. House Ways and Means Committee in fixing tax rates; Comparison of the tax rates of income taxpayers fixed by the Committee with that of U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Andrew William Mellon; Levies on all forms of property and income proposed by French premier Paul Painleve; Details of Painleve's program related to tax collections; Factors affecting share prices at New York Stock Exchange; Theories of the American College set forth at the meeting of the Alumni Council at Amherst, New York.

The article presents information on various developments in the U.S. Within the Pentagon, in the combat zones of Vietnam, plenty of information is being obtained. It is technological information, the kind which will be useful in fighting the increasingly technological wars of the future. The report on 430 admissions to 98 New York hospitals, selected at random from Blue Cross files, which claimed that less than optimal treatment was received in 43 per cent of the cases was a shocker. On Sunday, April 25, some 100 million people in the U.S. in twenty states advanced their clocks, thereby gaining a daily hour of light until the clocks are turned back on the last Sunday in October. But as the Transportation Association of America points out, these 100 million were out of step with the other 80 million people in the U.S. who either shifted to D.S.T. at other times.

In Harlem, New York, for the largest Negro community in the U.S., the war doesn't seem to matter much. The people there have asked the question, "What will the war bring us?" The answer, as most of them see it, is "Nothing." They still want the United Nations to win, but only casually. Harlem's people hoped for a while that the inequalities which "stung and dishonored" them would be swept away in the war. It was, after all, a war for the Four Freedoms. At the very least, they thought, race barriers in industry would go down under the pressure of war needs. They know better now. "It is true that some jobs have been opened to us," they say, "that economically we are better off. But most Harlem people can still find work only as domestics, chauffeurs, or common laborers."