IN an editorial recently in the New York World, the conditions of this time were brought under review, and the following splendid example of irony was delivered: "There are no gunmen, no police grafters, no purveyors of vice. There are no commercial frauds, no poisoners of the people's food, no lying trade-marks. There are no tyrannous employers, no striking employees with murder in their hearts and on their lips, no industrial riots, no sin, no crime. Peace is universal, plenty is for all, justice and righteousness reign triumphant. "There are no empty churches or empty pews. Moving-picture houses are being converted into temples of religion. 'Down-town' is spiny with spires. Where once stood the slums a place of worship smiles its welcome on every block of model tenements. Young men of the highest type are rushing to the ministry in such numbers that civil life must suffer unless some of them are forced back upon it."