We must be careful at every point lest by carelessness of political forms or lack of understanding of what those forms should be, we hinder the development of that free and rational society in which the noblest thoughts and highest ideals of the best and finest of our leaders can alone find root and grow.
=Problems Voters Must Solve.=--Three special problems are before the voters of our country, problems commanding in importance and not easy of solution.

They are, first, the problem which inheres in our union of States, with their wide divergence of climate, soil, industries, population, standards of action and ideals of national and local action.

The problem is this: what shall we decide is the measure of wise and useful division between the laws and conditions we shall make national in extent of social control and in practical functioning of political administration, and those of smaller autonomous units?
What shall belong to the Federal Government and make field for its activity?
What shall belong to the various States and make up their separate systems of law and administration?
And what shall be left to each locality, or each county of each State, for its own political activity?
These are not easy questions to answer, and the constant movement toward centralization of power, not only of standardization but of control in the National Government (a movement which received such an immense impetus during the war), is likely to make this a movable problem of differing answers as our nation grows older.

The division of States may give a geographical symbol of deep inherent differences of background of culture and even of race, or that division may mean only a superficial mark of geographic outline between two sets of communities alike in all their inheritance and tendency.

In any case, how much weight shall still be attached to "States Rights," and how much shall we press for a uniform life throughout all the land?
What shall be the special duties of each local community toward its common needs of education, of recreation, of moral protection, and social order?
How much in any given place shall the tendency of neighbors to be unwilling to testify against each other when wrong-doing is practised, and unable to withstand any evil influence when near the centre of its working, lead us to unite in demanding a larger unit for the Juvenile Court or the enforcement of laws against commercialized vice or any other social concern where justice demands a free hand and no favor to any group?
These are questions with which some of our volunteer agencies of social work have wrestled.