RE-ELECTION OF GOVERNOR McCALL

On November 6, the people of Massachusetts re-elected Samuel W. McCall '74 to a third term as Governor of the State. Widespread approbation of his election was voiced editorially in the press, not merely of his own state, but of the whole country. We quote the following editorial from the New YorkTimes of November 7 as a representative expression:

"The Governor of Massachusetts is constitutionally entitled His Excellency, an honorific phrase, beloved of John Adams. That eighteenth century courtesy applies felicitously to the Hon. Samuel Walker McCall, yesterday elected Governor for the third term. He was excellent in peace. He has been even more excellent in war. In all work for preparedness and mobilization, in food administration, in co-ordinating the resources of the State, he has been singularly energetic. He has devoted himself without partisanship to the prosecution of the war. He has proved himself a worthy successor of the Bay State's other War Governor, John Albion Andrew. And he has stuck to his patriotic task so faithfully that if he has made more than one campaign speech we have failed to hear of it. His achievement was a sufficient orator . .

. . The triumph of Mr. McCall, a particularly able war worker, is a triumph of proved capacity and effective, fruitful patriotism."