Leaving the local scene almost entirely alone in its aim to become a nationwide student's magazine, the April Progressive contains eleven articles, six of which ought to be of special interest to socially aware undergraduates all over the country. The other five items, including competent reports from Washington and on Palestine and a clay pigeon contributed by the opposition, entitled "The Failure of Democratic Socialism," bear the stigma of being inferior examples of what The Nation or The New Republic do all the time. But rounded out by two superb editorials on the Truman Doctrine and on the Students for Democratic Action organization by Allen Barton '45 and some nicely-written criticism by James J. Taylor '48, The Progressive well deserves to be successful in its ambitious circulation plans. A little more color in the die-straight writing. and the magazine would appeal to the potentially, as well as the already, politically conscious student.

Most interesting and starting of the articles is a factual report by two Scandinavian student visitors to Budapest, of conditions among those trying to get a college education. Leaving out graphs and generalizations, the report has passages such as, "The students often live 10-16 together in a room, with broken windows, no heat, poor light. In one college we saw a girl student lying ill with fever in a dank room where the temperature was only 2 degrees C."

Don Willner '47, president of the liberal SDA. has written his idea of a platform for the National Students Organization, which meets this September in Wisconsin. The articles, advocating safeguards to assure democracy within the organization, is timely, lets a few generalizations suffice for a positive program. Then there is a study of veterans' bonuses that shows four or five better ways by which the government could spend this money: city planning, cancer research, mental hospitals. In a rather illogical about-face at the end, the author suggests that veterans ask for the money and give it to these worthy causes.

Among the shorter material, there is a clear precis of the Club 100 affairs, called "Victory Over Discrimination." Comic relief comes in the form of a parody of literary criticism. The belabored humor only goes to show once more that The Progressive shouldn't mess around with such things.