The War and America discusses the essential factors and issues of the European War and their meaning and import for Americans. All the fighting that has been done through the thousands of years past were nothing but mere skirmishes as compared with the conflict of to-day. The one great lesson for America in the European conflict will show that the loss and waste will be so much larger than the righting of a possible wrong will amount to that it will be utterly impossible to even think of going into a war on a large scale as has been done in the Great War. All concessions could have been granted a half dozen times over by each and every nation involved in the conflict, and yet, the cost would have been but a mere drop in the bucket as compared with what it now amounts to, after one year of hostilities. Professor Münsterberg says: “A gigantic destruction of human life such as this war demands must naturally force on everyone the wish for a substitute which is less painful to the imagination.” Perhaps good will come of the war in that respect. It will be such a lesson to the world that it will be thoroughly awakened to the real danger of the present foolish method of settling international disputes. Professor Münsterberg is a writer of great fame, having written more books on Psychology than any other man, he gives a broad interpretation to that peculiar state of international affairs which have ultimately to reckon with the Peace Movement. THE INFORMATION DESK An article by Ellis B. Usher, of the University of Wisconsin, in a current magazine, says the vote of the State is steadily falling off. In the year 1900 the percentage of votes cast to the voting population was a fraction above 74. In 1912 the percentage had fallen to 46½, and in 1914 it was only 43. Professor Usher attributes the steady decrease in the number of votes cast to the disgust of the voters with the primary election laws and other meddlesome legislation. “We have attempted,” he says, “to substitute machinery for citizenship. We have cumbered our statute books with laws, and expected them, unaided and automatically to create citizens faithful to their duties. Instead, this new machinery has proved an annoyance, and a restraint upon the electorate, and has defeated that untrammeled action by the voter that is of the highest essence of citizenship.” * * * * *