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This article focuses on various issues related to politics. A brave, clean-gut newspaper campaign was waged by the New York World in behalf of David Gordon, the eighteen-year-old boy who wrote a poem denouncing the U.S. and was sentenced to three years in jail for doing so. Ostensibly the prosecution was on the ground of obscenity, but the fact that the two witnesses against Gordon were paid agents, one of the Military Order of the World War and the other of the Key Men of America, made it plain that the real animus was against his radicalism. John D. Rockefeller Jr. has done the decent thing in calling for the resignation of Robert W. Stewart as chairman of the board of the Standard Oil Company of Indiana.