Having perused well the chronicle of the week, the Vigilant Patriot views with alarm:

A tenuous Socratic discussion between a former college President and himself. (P. 18.)

Darkness at Deauville. (P. 10.)

A blow that staggered Firpo. (P. 25.)

Bovine anger and a collapsed grandstand. (P. 10.)

The loss of an ordinary -- but highly prized--shirt, size 16. (P. 26.) A popular American playwright quite stretched out of joint. (P. 17.)

A British colonial harbor lashed into white fury. (P. 12.)

Aurora, foster-child of the Bolsheviki. (P. 11.)

Front lawns whose gushing upset the oil market. (P. 23.)

"Henry Corbett Lodge." (P. 21.)

Railroad mileage in the U. S.-- less today than in 1915 when there were fewer people. (P. 23.)

The notoriety of two Lord Curzons. (P. 9.)

Cubans who see politics as a lottery. (P. 2.)

Badenese heroism. (P. 5.)

Lord Birkenhead's concern for the Baldwin Government. (P. 9.)

A bank called bankrupt. (P. 2.)

Conferences concluded without conclusions. (P. 5.)