Are there many magazines or papers that are not controlled by political or business interests? How much can you believe in a publication controlled in that way?
The voters of the country are divided into several political parties. Would it be better or worse if there were no regular parties and every voter voted independently?
What is a real democracy? Is the United States a real democracy now? Why?
What is meant by direct legislation—the initiative, referendum, recall and imperative mandate? Big words, but they stand for things worth knowing about and having an opinion on. And they are easy enough to understand. Would these things tend toward real democracy? Have they been tried in actual practice? If so, have they proved a success? Why? What effect would they have on the whole party system?
There, I think that is enough questions for one person to ask. Someone is likely to ask me a question in return—How do politics affect our daily bread? Well, there are several hundred answers to that. Let’s each of us suggest for the May number one or more ways that politics (according to both definition No. 1 and definition No. 2) affect our daily living.
We are not going to try to become experts in politics, but we do want to have an intelligent general idea of them. It is our duty. In our May number I hope to have many opinions from women all over the country.
THE INTEREST OF EVERYDAY THINGS.
We had a glimpse last month at some of the interesting things concerned in bread and bread-making. The house is full of things we have known so long that we scarcely think of them except as parts of the daily routine, but which, if we turn our attention to them, prove veritable mines of information, history, travel and even romance.