The best testimonial our colleges and universities have had in a long time comes from the lips of that sterling patriot and spender of special party funds, Robert H. Lucas, executive director of the Republican National Committee, who finds it well-nigh impossible to make good traditional Republicans out of young persons infected with the heresies of university theorists. Says the practical Mr. Lucas:

Inasmuch as it seems to be hopeless to expect a reform in the textbooks which teach free trade, internationalism, public ownership of private industry, etc., and inasmuch as it is apparently equally hopeless to expect the teachers in institutions of higher education to abandon their radicalism, and socialistic theories, the approach to the young man and the young woman who is about to become a citizen must be made independent of our educational system.

The more independent the better. Did Mr. Lucas ever consider keeping the boys and girls in entire ignorance? Who knows but that we could make the country solidly Republican that way? But after all, Mr. Lucas is unduly disturbed. The percentage of ignorance among our graduates is high enough t maintain a good working Republican majority. Though is not very catching,. even in the colleges, and a high proportion of the population is wholly immune. Let the Republican sage not despair. The Nation