FRIDAY, MAY 23, 1941
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
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'Boy's State' Movement Spreads As Legion's Democracy School
Little Rock, Ark. May 23—(UP) As a young man in law school, John Adam wrote the following advice to himself:
"Labor to get distinct ideas of law, right, wrong, justice, equity. Search for them in your own mind . . . Aim at exact knowledge of the nature, ends and means of governmet. Compare the different forms of it with each other and each of them with their effects on public and private happiness."
Upon those famous words, the American Legion has created a progra mthat carries out the import of John Adam's advice to himself, while yet in his early years.
"Resolved by the American Legion, that we highly endorse the Boy's State movement and recommend that it be made an essential part of the national Americanism program."
The program is called Boy's State. Comparatively new, yet old enough to have established itself as a permanent organization, Boy's State was originated by the Americanism Commission of the American Legion department of Illinois during the winter of 1934-35. The idea was immediately looked upon as a direct aid to the development of a clearer perspective of governmental activities in the mind of the coming generations of men.
This method of teaching young men the correct manner in which government activities should function caught on and grew with the months until today it is an annual affair in 38 states.
Arkansas' Boy's State will be held this year at the Arkansas School of the Deaf, begining June 7, and ending June 14.
Three hundred boys, preferably high school juniors, will spend the week in a picturesque old building, receiving practical experience in the complicated activities of city, county and state government.
When these boys, selected upon their scholastic records and aptitude in gleaning knowledge, begin the week, they are enrolled as citizens of a state. They divide themselves into groups and become members of one of two purely mythical political parties. Cities and counties are set up and a state government organized.
The boys elect their own city, county and state officials; learn the duties of the various public offices; their functions and their limitations and powers. Their own legislature is established, bills are introduced and argued. Ordinances are created and rigidly enforced by a boy's police force. When any ordinance is violated their court of law administers justice.
Everything is carried on in the same manner employed by the governing departments of Arkansas. Nominations and elections are held in accordance with Arkasas regulations.
High-lighting the week's training course, the boys will take over the capitol in Little Rock for a one-day legislative session in which they will be allowed to put into practicie what they have learned.
Although it is admitted by officials of the program that one week or even 10 days is inadequate time to give the boy all the information he should have concerning his government, but it is a fact that in the
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time spent, these young men are awakened to a deeper appreciation of some of the sacrifices that have been made to obtain what we have today in America.
British Face Nazi Successes InCrete
By UNITED PRESS
The battle of Crete neared a climax today with British land and sea forces stubbornly fighting against overwhelming Nazi air superiority.
A major test of air power as opposed to sea power was in the making with the outcome still in doubt.
The Germans claimed a series of spectacular successes against British naval units defending the sea approaches to Crete, but there was no confirmation of the Nazi assertions from London which reported that the Royal navy still ruled the waves and had prevented sea-borne troops from reinforcing the airborne German invaders of Crete.
On the island of Crete itself the British faced obviously long odds in attempting to fight off Nazi air
troops which were arriving on a virtual 24-hour schedule. The Luftwaffe ruled the skies over Crete and the British had no means of breaking the momentum of the invasion except by blasting the German troops after they reached the ground.
There was no optimism in London that the British and Greek land troops would be able to battle indefinitely against constantly increasing numbers of airborne Nazi troops.
The Axis claims were so sweeping that it appeared obvious there was considerable overlapping and possible exaggeration. Previous Nazi claims of damage inflicted on naval vessels in air attacks have not always been confirmed by the British.
Hearst Ordered To Stop Misrepresentations
Washington May 23—(UP)—Hearst Magazines, Inc., was ordered by the Federal Trade Commission today to discontinue alleged misrepresentations in Good Housekeeping magazine and other periodicals through unwarranted use of seals or emblems concerning guarantees and tests of quality of advertised products.
The order, issued after extensive hearings, was directed against the publishing firm's "Good Housekeeping Institute" and "Good Housekeeping Bureau" which issue "approval" seals or emblems for use in advertising commodities.
The Commission said the representations as to guaranty of certain
products advertised in the magazines "have a tendency to mislead readers" and cause them to believe the guaranty is unlimited.
The Good Housekeeping Burcau and Institute, the FTC said, issue seals of approval, usually elliptical in form, containing the words "tested and approved."
The Commission held that tests conducted by these two departments were "generally not sufficient to assure fulfillments of the claims made for such products."
It said the "many forms of shields, seals, emblems and insignia" used for advertising purposes were "confusing to the average reader and have the tendency to mislead and deceive purchasers and readers."
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