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NATIONAL DEFENCE MEDIATION BOARD
A lot of people heaved a collective sigh of relief when newspaper headlines recently announced the formation of a National Defense Mediation Board. At last, labor was going to be forced to cooperate with capital.
FRIDAY, APRIL 4, 1941.
Which leads one to this question: Why should labor alone be patriotic? After the excess profits tax was passed, capital was forgotten. It had been made patriotic.
Exactly what is the new Board going to do? To freeze wages, hours, and union organization as it is, would be practically impossible. Capital, already the beneficiary in the defense program because of increased profits, would gain doubly through the curbs on labor. Anyway, this would mean a surrender to a small group of reactionary industrialists who refuse to recognize the fact that collective bargaining for labor has been established by law and upheld by the Supreme Court. Most of America's mass-production industries have accepted it.
During the first World War, the War Labor Board was organized. This corresponded roughly to the new Mediation Board. But the situation of labor itself is much different now than it was in 1918. At that time labor was poorly organized. It lost nothing by agreeing to stop organizing non-union shops. Today the reverse is true. Nearly every industry in the defense program has union organization. Collective bargaining procedures have been established.
The whole problem of labor unions in America is surrounded by fears and taboos. Many conservatives are for completely banning strikes during the present emergency, but even industry is probably against that. Some are afraid that America is becoming dominated by the labor group, as is Britain. This group fears the Socialization of America, just as Britain will probably be Socialized after the war.
On the whole, the effect of the National Defense Mediation Board will undoubtedly be to reduce the number of strikes. Most persons agree that strikes should be kept to a minimum during the defense preparations. However, at the present time 40,000 workers are out on strike. There are more than 40,000,000 workers engaged in American industry. This means a stoppage of one-tenth of one per cent. The Bureau of Labor Statistics estimates the ratio to be one-fourth of one per cent in terms of defense industries alone, which isn't very alarming.
BALKANS FIRST
The fact that Hitler has, supposedly, a stronger war machine than the British would indicate that he is better equipped than the English to carry on a two-front war. On the other hand, nothing is to be gained by Hitler in an invasion, for even if he succeeds, chances are very good that the British will fight on from their empire holdings.
Well, spring is almost here, and the time for Herr Hitler's offensive against the British Isles is at hand. But perhaps there won't be any offensive against the Isles until later.
The concentration of troops in the Balkans seems to lead to the conclusion that a major battle is to be staged in that area. It is possible that both projects will be carried out at once, but there might also be hope that the invasion attempt will be delayed until after a decision in the Balkans.
On the other hand, if Germany conquers the Balkans and wins a decisive victory over the British there, Hitler will have two things in his favor; an oil supply route from the Near East, and an effectual blockade of England from her Near Eastern holdings.
Everything seems to indicate a big fight in the Balkans, and a lull in Britain.
LUCKY KANSAS
Nothing has given our craving for spring a sharper twinge than the news item from Lawrence, Kan., that University of Kansas students will be given a full day's vacation tomorrow to pull dandelions from the campus greensward.
Dandelions in Kansas on April 1—a vision of delight! Kansans don't know their luck. If we found a dandelion on our gray and snow-pocked lawn we'd nurture it tenderly, put it in a flowerpot and water it daily as a symbol of the season which makes a wonderland of Minnesota, but always comes with exasperating slowness.
Pussywillows are beginning to make fuzzy debuts. Crocuses will soon peek at the March sun. Skunk cabbage can already be found in warm hollows. But there are no dandelions yet, lilacs are a poignant futurity, lilies-of-the-valley are biding their time. Come on, Spring! Don't muff your cue.-The Minneapolis Star Journal.
OFFICIAL BULLETIN UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
Vol. 38 Friday, April 4, 1941 No.121
Notices due at Chancellor's office at 3 p.m. on day before publication during the week, and at 11 a.m. on Saturday for Sunday issue.
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE ORGANIZATION: The Christian Science Organization will hold a regular meeting Tuesday afternoon at 4:30 in the Pine Room of the Union Building. All students, graduates, and faculty members are welcome—Betty Charles, secretary.
L. S. A.: Luther Student Association will have a Sunrise service Palm Sunday at Holcum's Grove. Meet at the church at 5:30 for transportation.-Leon Carlson, president.
SYMPOSIUM; The Symposium will meet Sunday evening at 7:30 o'clock in the Pine room of the Memorial Union building. Mr. Hilden Gibson will start the discussion by giving a short talk on "Profits and Patriotism." All interested persons are invited to attend and participate.—James I. Nelson, Chairman.
TEACHERS' APPOINTMENT BUREAU: All students who expect to use the services of the Teachers' Appointment Bureau in locating a teaching position for the fall of 1941 should complete their registration in the bureau immediately. Calls for teachers are now being received and the number of such calls will increase after the annual school meetings April 10 and 11.H.E. Chandler, secretary, Teachers' Appointment Bureau
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More Fun--- College Campuses Have It
Brown University's campus was covered with over-size editions of the Brown Daily Herald this week. It was the fiftieth anniversary edition, complete with a reprint of the first edition published in 1891.
At Wisconsin University last week the Alumni Research Foundation presented the Board of Regents with a check for $200,000! The funds were gained through patents held by the organization on vitamin D foods and irradiated vitamin D milk. Could such a thing happen in Kanas, vitamins, or no vitamins?
Northwestern University has found itself with too many campus beauty queens. Excerpts from a poll among men students bring to light such opinion as:
"I think they are a lot of nonsense. Feminine pulchritude will hit you in a personal way and it takes no beauty contest to convince you that a girl is beautiful. You judge that for yourself."
"I think there are entirely too many contests and not enough queens."
"Too many of them for me to keep up with."
"They've been having a lot of them, but I think it's all right. It brings out the best in lovelies."
A new preparedness course is being introduced at the University of Purdue. A Physical Preparedness course will be offered to build up college men to meet the requirements of the Selective Service Act. $2,250,000 were awarded to the University in the way of a budget by the state.
Agreeing with Purdue, the University of Oklahoma has instigated "toughening up week" for students
---More Trouble
who will join the nation's armed forces at the end of the current term. Corrective exercises for minor physical defects are the piece de resistance of the offering.
Coeds at the University of Vermont acted as hostesses at a dance in honor of soldiers stationed near their campus, much to the chagrin of University of Vermont men.
The Pittsburg Collegio moaned loudly because they couldn't publish on Tuesday (April Fool's Day). What a good alibi they missed.
A prof at Auburn Polytechnic Institute entered his classroom the other day and spied a cigarette smouldering on the floor. "Whose cigarette is that?" he queried, pointing to the offending bit of paper and tobacco.
No answer.
"Whose cigarette is that?" he repeated, a bit more irritate.
From the depths of the room came the answer. "It's yours, prof, you saw it first."
And we know that couldn't have happened in Kansas.
Display Modern Architecture
The last and latest word in modern architecture is on display in the main lounge of the Memorial Union building by the department of architecture.
Miniature wooden and glass models of a swimming pool, furniture storage building, and country club for Lawrence are epitomes of modern utility.
In addition, sketches of homes and tea houses depict the future of architecture.
ROCK CHALK TALK
By HEIDI VIETS
Last night the Theta's had a pig in the parlor.
About 11:30 Margaret Neal and Jeanne Brock heard a scuffing and went downstairs to investigate. Margaret flicked on the light and called bravely, "Come out from behind that chair, whover you are."
A little pig meekly waddled forward.
Someone had broken one of the parlor windows enough to reach in to the lock, had raised the window and deposited piglet. A card on the stowaway read, "My name is Porky. I've been pignapped," and gave a telephone number to call for further information.
The girls called the number but the only response to their queries was, "There's been some mistake"
This morning piglet was running around outside the Theta house, bewildered, still wondering what had happened.
Bob McClure, better known among brother Phi Delt's as Misto, suffered a bitter blow yesterday afternoon. He didn't mind so much when Clint Kanaga came in and literally dragged him away from his books because Clint promised that if Misto would drive him to the drug store to get a milk shake, he would buy him a package of cigarettes.
Even when Clint pulled out his wallet at the store, announced, "No money," and cancelled the cigarettes, Misto wasn't unhappy.
But on the way home a car honked at him, he honked back, gunned ahead, then heard a siren behind him. "This is no honking contest," growled the policeman, and proceeded to make out a two-dollar ticket.
How is it, asks McClure, that a man can sit down with sincere desire to study and come half an hour later with no studying, no cigarettes, and a two-dollar police ticket?
Jackpots are easy for Ralph Burson. Last night he put a nickel on the machine at The Cottage, and walked out $41 richer. Then he surrendered down to Brick's and won $14 on the machine there. Amazed, he went back home to 1142 Indiana to brag and set them up to all the boys.
Prof. F. A. Russell recently had a unique experience with animal life. At the breakfast table he put two slices of bread in the electric toaster, turned it on and waited or results.
Soon one of the slices began to squirm. Then out jumped a mouse, clearing the top of the toaster by some five inches.
Conclusion by Professor Russell: Heat causes action.
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