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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
THURSDAY, NOV. 10. 1928
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Kansan Comment
Regaining Trade With South America
The midwestern conference to be held in Kansas City this month, for the discussion of plans to recapture and hold foreign markets, promises to be the foreruner of definite action by the United States to strike for more South American trade.
While at present the United States still holds a preponderant position in South American trade, it should be realized that in the period from 1933 to 1936, Germany increased her export trade to Central America about 500 per cent, that her arrangements with Mexico will barter oil in part for German machinery will also cut into purchases from the United States, and that her trade has steadily increased with South America.
Italy has made dramatic gestures in aviation that have caught the attention of potential buyers and resulted in the sale of planes where more prosocially demonstrated American aviation equipment failed to obtain contracts. Japan's trade with the South American countries is mostly in such products as cheap textiles, cameras, toys, toothbrushes, and lacquer ware, and is lagging, largely because of her war with China.
The importance of South American trade to the Middle West is undetermined. Warren Lee Pierson, president of the Export-Import bank, who has recently made an airplane tour of South America, believes that while trade possibilities in non-competitive farm products are still open, the field is much wider for manufactured goods produced by mid-western industries.
Pierson pointed out, "In the long run the American farmer will be benefited by providing more South American credit with which more American motor cars can be bought, for it will mean more purchasing power for farm products by the industrial workers in this country."
The practical solution to the problems of trade restrictions and inequality of treatment lies in bilateral negotiation. The reciprocal program introduced by Secretary of State Hull has been reasonably successful in increasing trade with Latin America. Ten reciprocal treaties now exist with these countries and it seems to be feasible that others be extended to South American countries.
It is not sufficient to deplore the amount of trade being snatched by competitors. Action must be taken **soon**, if the United States is to recapture and pass in volume the trade that she has had in the past with the countries south of the Rio Grande.
A Practical Solution For Industrial Problems
In these days of savage industrial bickering between "Capital" and "Labor" in large scale production, it is refreshing to note the example of industrial democracy, the establishment of harmonious labor-management relations, furnished by the Nunn-Bush shoe company, described in the current issue of Fortune, the business man's magazine.
By a system of regularized production which provides that the plant must operate at a fairly even rate throughout the year; by paying labor a share of the value of the goods produced, rather than a straight wage compensation; by a system of mutual co-operation whereby the workers are trusted to initiate discharge proceedings against those of their members who are doing unsatisfactory service, and the employers are entrusted in turn to present the truth about the company's financial condition, this large scale manufacturing concern has evolved a plan of employer-employee relationship which may well serve as a solution for other companies throughout the country.
Essential differences between the Nunn-Bush plan and the traditional organization of such companies are threefold. First, there is the elimination of the seasonal variation in production, accomplished by leasing shoe departments in large stores, operating their own shops at a book loos, and radically changing sales methods so that ninety per cent of all employees receive fifty-two pay checks a year.
Second, a no-arbitrary-discharge rule provides that no employee may be discharged without the consent of the workers themselves. And third, a profit-sharing return to laborers enables them to receive twenty per cent of the wholesale value of the goods they produce in weekly instalments.
Both labor and employer profit by the plan. Labor, here, is not a commodity to be bought at the lowest possible price, but instead a partner in a concern sharing in the profit and loss of the company, but always receiving a continuous wage and steady employment.
Correspondingly, the owners profit
There are no expensive labor troubles to hamper production and increase cost. And by eliminating a large labor turnover and consequently ensuring experienced and efficient workers, goods are produced at less cost per unit.
The Nunn-Bush plan is not simple in practice, but it does work to the satisfaction of both labor and capital in that company. Other businesses sincerely seeking a solution to difficult labor-management problems might do well to investigate it further and see whether it might not be made adaptable to their needs also.
Ghost Writing Not Confined to Campus
Are voters being duped by ghost-writers? Almost every candidate of any importance has a ghost-writer write his speeches.
If politics were economics, with its only purpose to produce and deliver as many speeches as possible for public consumption, there would be no complaint. The ghost-writing method is efficient, and the finished product is much better than the home-made kind.
But the purpose of a political campaign is not alone the production of better and shorter speeches. It should also acquaint the voters with how the candidate stands on certain issues. Is he in favor of the rearmament program? Is he in favor of Roosevelt, "cross my heart and hope to die?" Where does he stand on taxes and tariffs?
The only way a voter can tell what a candidate thinks is by his speeches. But do his speeches tell what the candidate himself thinks, or what his ghost-writer thinks? John Hamilton, after the 1936 election, delivered a few speeches which contained liberal tendencies. He had a new press agent. Later, when he hired another one, the speeches became conservative again.
As long as ghost-writers write a candidate's political speeches, it will be impossible to tell whether a given speech is the candidate's or only the ghost's. But the duped voters, vote only for the candidate to serve in public o ce, not realizing that they should vote for the ghost as well.
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
OFFICIAL BULLETIN
Vol. 36 Thursday, November 18, 1938 No. 43
Notice due at Chancellor's office at 3 p.m., preceding
regular publication days and 11:30 a.m.
with notice of cancellation.
A. S. M. E: The A. S. M. E will meet at 7:45 this evening in 206 Marvin Hall. The speaker of the evening is Mr. Walter Bohnstengel. There will be election of mechanical representative to the Engineering Council. All mechanics are invited to attend—Alan N. Ayers, President.
DISPENSARY HOURS: The hospital dispensary of the Watkins Memorial Hospital will be open to students from ten to twelve o'clock, regular vacation hours, on Armistice day; November 11, November 18, Ivan C. Manutenzi.
FRESHMAN COMMISSION OF YMCA: John lest will address the Freshman Commission of the YMCA at 4:30 afterternoon in the Union Building. His topics are related to health and safety, men are cordially invited to attend -George Keetner
FRESMAN COMMISSION OF Y W.C.A. The Freshman Commission of the Y.W.C.A. will meet at 4:30 to discuss the following topics:
HOUSE PRESIDENTS. There will be an important
event at 4:30 today in the Pine
Room Mary Lea Louders.
MUPHI EPSILON: The next meeting of MuPhi Epheli,
m in Pima, m in Orcutt's Studio. We will go over the entire service, and we will also practice the song for the MuPhi ephesian program. Every member must be present.
**WOMEN'S GLEE CLUB:** The Women's Glee Club picture is 14 by 18. The worker will be taken next Tuesday. Please wear dark dresses, and be near as 12:30 as you possibly can. **WOMEN'S GLEE CLUB** practice on November 14—Lilley McVeey Park, 707-756-7900.
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It's hard to say which is the worst—listening to the Republicans grit over their first victory in years, or hearing the Democrats mournfully predict the Democrats of everything fine in the world.
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The effects of childhood training aren't wiped out by going to college. This department still must be Democrat at heart. Because we are not wired back to bed after reading about a Democratic victory.
Our Alma Mater has again broken into one of the big time magazines, *The New York Times*, and he might find further details by asking foli than usual perusal of *LOOK*.
--this Shakespeare fellow because this chap Bacon might slap an injunction on them.
It is with interest that we note that Mrs. Anna Roosevelt Boettinger is expecting a child. Our interest is not in the news that the president is to be a grand-father again, but in the method of Mrs Boettinger's announcement. She announced the news in her own column in the Seattle Post-Intelligence. We wonder if this points to a new trend, and whether or not it the future, birth announcement will be sent out preceding th blessed event instead of following.
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Unnesy lies the head that wore a crown. A member of the House of Lords feels the King's English will be contaminated on his American side. He asks for a king to use slang as it is for him to have a beautiful wife.
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depression or no depression.
The old Bacon-Shakespeare controversy, awakened again by the opening of Spenser's tomb, is howing American repercussions. Hollywood producers are warning their agents not to take anything from
Student architects deserted drafting boards yesterday and forgid the dreams of the skyscrapers they built, and to view works of contemporaries.
Yesterday the traveling exhibit of the collegiate schools of architecture was on display in the corridors outside the department of architecture on the third floor of Marvin hall. The exhibit, composed of hundreds of photographs of sketches, plans, and models of work done by freshman and sophomore architectural students, represents 26 schools.
Elect Ketchum Vice-president Miss Rosemary Ketchum, head of the department of design, was elected vice-president of the Kansas State Federation of Art at a meeting held Saturday in Topeka.
An observer commented that one of the models of an apartment house looked a little like a cracker box. When he identified himself as a reporter he was not thrown out but taken inside and politely told him to come back and build it, built in this style was because there was a need for a maximum amount of air and sunlight in the modern building.
There are museums, musealuses, modern apartment houses, Greek temples, and tall towers, schools, a soio, churches, and chapels, all done in the same fashion. The trend in design predominates There is also a sketch of a special railway car for presidential candidates, replete with a battery of microphones on a streamlined observation platform. In fact, the exhibit contains almost everything architecturally the mind could im-
Cady and Diane to Talk
"Past Graduates of the University's Department of Chemistry, and Where They Have Gone," will be the topic of discussion at the meeting at 4:20 in Room 201, Barley Hall, Dr. H P Cady and Dr. F B. Dains, professors in the department, will be the speakers. All those interested are invited to attend.
Cady and Daisy to Talk:
Architects Desert Drafting Boards for Traveling Exhibits
Why all these laboratory tortures? Simply because your telephone must *prove* it can take more use and abuse than it will ever get in its normal lifetime. It must be ready to give you the best possible telephone service.
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andley Meets With Educators
E. H. Lindley Chancellor, and R. A. Schweiger, dean of the School of Education, went to Topeka yesterday to meet with a group of educators concerning the educational program for the state.
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