Jane Lathrop Stanford Papers

3 of a large number of the socialist and least sensational papers lately published on social questions. his great work on ''Social Control", a study of the methods and forces by which society is held together will soon appear. It is one of the quietest and sanest works on Social Science, and it would make his reputation as a careful thinker and patient investigator, were that reputation not already established. Among scholars at large no worker in this field is more widely or more favorably known. A couple of boyish speeches in defense of silver as a political issue do not break this reputation. I have carefully looked into the two recent matters. The address at Oakland was on the subject of making cities healthful. There was only a passing reference to street cars and no criticism on their present management. In speaking of the future city he said that a period of municipal ownership of street cars was coming on, to be followed by a return to private ownership under government regulation. Every one recognizes that right or wrong the present drift is toward municipal ownership. Dr. Ross thinks it undesirable and that the final condition will be in private ownership under regulations, the condition that prevails in England. In the matter of Japanese immigration, he was invited, after I had declined, to give a ''scholar's view'' to a ''nonpartisan'' gathering. He did not know the [ma]n who i[n]vited him and was not pleased with them when he had seen them. He has