POLITICAL NOTES: In Milwaukee

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Happy the city whose mayor satisfies for three terms running. Happier the city whose three-term mayor chooses to run again. Last week, Milwaukee rejoiced when Daniel Webster Hoan, who emerged as city attorney in Milwaukee's Socialist landslide of 1910 and rose from that office to the mayoralty in 1916 despite the combined efforts of Republicans and Democrats,* declared that "to quit [now] would mean to unsettle conditions and to disrupt a well organized municipal service which required twelve years of effort to build."

Daniel Webster Hoan, Socialist, famed among U. S. mayors, worked his way through the University of Wisconsin, was graduated in 1905, ran a restaurant in Chicago, studied law and Karl Marx at night. Now it is his just boast that few U. S. cities have higher credit than Milwaukee; that no city is so economical. For example, Daniel Webster Hoan reduced garbage collection costs to $2 per annum per family, compared to $20 elsewhere.

Another Socialist mayor is Mayor J. Henry Stump of Reading, Pa., honest cigarmaker. Mayor Stump and comrades, who came to power in a Milwaukee-like election sweep last November, are out to prove that the record of the first Socialist city regime in the U. S. is the triumph of a social theory as well as of individual integrity.