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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
THURSDAY, MAY 12, 1929
Comment
Need for Clarity In Domestic Policy
Since Roosevelt has compromised with William Green on the minimum wage-maximum hour bill now languishing in the house labor committee by deleting the five-man board, the A. F. of L's influence is put squerely beside that of John L. Lewis and administration forces to pass the measure.
At the same time, the 4,512 million dollar lending-spending program advanced by President Reevecl April 14 is nearing congressional enactment.
The latter is intended to end the so-callee Roosevelt recession. It means that money will be spent on capital goods construction which would not otherwise be financed by private enterprise. It means that this four and a half billion will find its way directly into the hands of people who will purchase consumption goods almost exclusively. It will not first have to pass through the capital goods industries. By increasing demand quickly, prices will rise, giving opportunity for windfall or abnormal profits.
Therefore, while government is encouraging business and industry on the one hand, it is discouraging it on the other.
This leading-spending program will thus greatly encourage and stimulate business, newspaper opinions and tax howlers to the contrary. But investment in capital necessary to produce these consumption goods will not increase permanently if entrepreneurs are not sufficiently assured of the prospects for continued profit. This assurance cannot be given if entrepreneurs see a rise in the price of labor—a rise which both friends and enemies of the wage-hour bill agree will occur, if the measure passes—for profits are a function of the cost curve.
Clarity in domestic policy is necessary. Will Roosevelt encourage business, prime its pumps, and at the same time free entrepreneurs from the prospect of further reform? Or will he push on to vitally important and significant reforms in America's economic foundations and let business and industry struggle along as best they may in the interim.
The choice is clear. It must be made
Socialized Medicine In Kansas City
Socialized medicine, under the name of the Community Civic Hospitalization plan, comes to Kansas City. The new group plan, to be initiated next fall, is at least a step in that general direction. For $9 yearly, an employed person may insure himself 21 days hospitalization at one of the Kansas City hospitals subscribing to the plan which now includes St. Joseph's, St. Mary's, Trinity Lutheran, and Menorah. The hospitalization will be offered only to industrial and business groups. None will be sold to individuals.
For the $9 the patient will get 21 days in a semi-private room, general nursing care, food, use of operating rooms, maternity care, ambulance service to the hospital, and routine laboratory tests. He may choose any doctor who is a member of the Jackson County Medical Society.
The plan has been sanctioned by the superintendents of Kansas City hospitals, by the boards of directors of the above mentioned hospitals, and by the Jackson County Medical Society.
As an experiment in group or socialized medicine, the results will bear watching. Differences of opinion on the value of plans somewhat similar to this are varied with most of the opposition coming from members of the medical profession. Kansas City doctors deserve at least a vote of appreciation for their willingness to try progressive ideas. It will be interesting to watch the plan in operation. If success follows it may mean further reorganization steps; if failure is the result, a reversion to the old system.
Investigation Of Nazi Propaganda
Congress is now contemplating an appropriation for the investigation of Nazi activities in the United States. In the eastern part of the country where such activities are beginning to result in parades and publication of propaganda sheets there has been a great demand by the people for an investigation by the government.
Some cities have taken definite steps to refuse Nazi leaders the right to stage parades and other demonstrations.
It has been rumored that some 20 different business organizations have lent their support to the spread of Nazi propaganda in this country. These businesses, it is believed, are lending their support in order to safeguard their holdings in those countries which are interested in spreading such propaganda in America.
Propaganda needs to be feared in America more than invasion. Fascist leaders have used propaganda as the front rank of their "conquest." This propaganda is designed to show to the other countries the advantages of the Fascist form of government, the satisfaction and contentment of the people, and the country's ability to find employment for its citizens Of course, this sort of propaganda is showing only the favorable side and does not touch the other side which would represent an entirely different picture. The aim of this one-sided propaganda is to create among the people of other countries dissatisfaction with the present system, for the propagandists know that dissatisfied people are easily persuaded to try a new scheme. Then after the propaganda has converted the people, it is much easier for the armed force to gain control of the country.
An appropriation for an investigation into any attempt by Nazi or Fascist movements to undermine the morale of this country with the view ultimately to overthrow the government may be wise and money well spent. And careful investigation followed by the necessary steps to quell such practices may serve as a defense and protection against the attacks of foreign propaganda.
Campus Opinion
Correcting an Error
Edior's note. In the issue of April 12, the Kanan printed a story about the Alumni Associations drive for members to take part in the inauguration of ourMYkland Mylkland led the opposition of the senior class to joining the association. This statement is in support of the association.
Mr. Mykland wrote the following letter to Fred Ellipson, secretary of the Alumni Association:
I just received the enclosed clipping from the University Daily Kansan, in which you evidently erroneously credited me with secretly burning up about the article for two reasons. First, I was not a member of the class of 1934, but graduated in 1935; and second, I do not receive any credit for my participation in the 1935 joining the Alumni Association in a body, Why, after mentioning the fact that the classes of 1934 and 1937 did not join the association, I did not comment on the conspicuous offerer—and then plaster my name on it to-I cannot understand. I sincerely hope that my loyalty to Kansas has not been this questionable, and trust. This is an error which can be corrected.
Gunnar Mykland
Official University Bulletin
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Vol. 25 THURSDAY, MAY 12, 1938 No. 152
--plot the plane which will arrive at the Lawrence airport at 12:12 o'clock Thursday noon and leave at 12:32 o'clock. From Lawrence he will go to Topeka, Emporia, and Osage City.
ASME: The ASME will hold its last regular meeting at 8:15 in evening in room 210, Marvin hall. A film, "Through the Oil Fields of Mexico," will be followed by election of officers for next year. All members are urged to attend—Algot Johnson, Secretary.
FEDERATION OF COUNSELORS. There will be
many seminars in counselors of this afternoon
in 109 Franklin Street Intl. Tech.
HOME ECONOMICS CLUB: The annual club banquet will be held at the Colonial Tea Room or Tuesday, May 17, at 6:30. Those who are planning to attend the banquet must be registered online; otherwise, they office忙通—Nadine Wegman, President.
SENIOR ASSEMBLY: A meeting of the senior class will be held at 10:30 this morning in Fraser theater. All members are urged to attend—Grant Cowherd, President.
University Daily Kansan
Official Student Paper of THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS LAWRENCE, KANSAN
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NEW JERSEY EDITOR
SUNNY EDITOR
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MIDDLETON EDITOR
Kansas Board Members
J. HOWARD RUSCO
DAVID E. PATRICKHORN
CHARLES BURROWS
GRACE VALENTINE
Q. FREQUINT BROWN
WILLIAM FITZGERald
ALEX AHLER-MADJAN-JUKE
ALEX AHLER-MADJAN-JUKE
MARTIN BENTSON
MANGEL GOBERE
JANE FLOHE
MORRIS THOMPSON
ETLTON E. CARTER
MARK KLEIN
TOM A. ELLIE
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Hundreds of Jayhaws will take wing from the Lawrence airport May 19 on the first air mail flight direct from this city. The flight is in commemoration of the establishment of air mail service in the United States 20 years ago.
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A Jayhawk perched on a capital K will be machine stamped in blue ink on every letter sent on this flight. This design was made by Arvid Jacobson, assistant instructor in the department of design.
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All over the country, towns at which the planes will stop are preparing significant catches for use during this week. A stamp collector in Emporia expects to send 6,000 covers to receive these special cancellations. This will cost him about $3,000 in postage.
Two cachets are being prepared
University of Kansas will be stamped in red ink on all outgoing air mail sent from the Lawrence post office during the entire Nauva experiment, May 14-23. This cachet was also designed by Professor Jacobson.
Maurice Austill of Lawrence will
by the federal post office department in honor of Wilbur and Orville Wright. One will feature the first air flight made at Kitchaway, N.C.; and the second will show Dayton, Ohio, the home of the Wright brothers. Stamp collectors desiring these caches should ask
for them, or the letter will be given the local cancellation.
A steady stream of letters is flow-
into the Lawrence office to be in-
cluded in the first air mail flight.
Letters and packages can be sent by
air mail to any place in the United
States for 6 cents an ounce or fraction
thereof. One may even address a
letter to himself and it will be
taken on this flight and returned
to the writer proudly hearing the Jayhawk.
Hutchison Alumni Meet Tonight
Hutchison alumni will meet in the Hotel Stamne tonight to hear Chester Woodward, president of the Alumni Association, and Fred Elsworth, president of Ad Lindsay, football coach, also speak. He will join Mr. Woodward and Mr. Elsworth at Salma
How many of these Questions can you Answer?
1. What is the shortest time element an engineer has to deal with?
2. How quickly can an 8000 H.P. slow-speed steel mill motor be driven from full speed ahead to full speed ahead?
4. The purchase and development of what patients, by whom we are most aware of our present day universal availability of electricity?
3. What is the most powerful Diesel-electric locomotive in use today? What is its horsepower?
5. What are the lumens per watt of (a) a Mazda lamp (b) a mercury lamp (c) a Neon lamp?
6. What is the De-ion principle of are control?
7. Who discovered it?
8. What is a "Spencer Disc?"
8. Your streetcar are called "P.C.C. C" cars in the infirmity, what do these letters stand for?
10. What initials, which in the United States mean simply one of many U. S. broadcaster stations, form the word for "broadcasting" in the Eskimo language?
ANSWERS WILL BE FOUND ON PAGE 4
THE GREAT OPEN SPACES
We are headed for the open . . . Open spaces where fresh air and sunshine put roses in our cheeks. Open diplomacy that substitutes frankness for secret scheming and negotiation. Open opportunities, open doors in business . . . And modern business in general conducted in an honest and open manner.
No force has been as powerful as advertising, in bringing American business into the open. A manufacturer who advertises, issues an open challenge to every competitor to produce better goods if he can. He invites the public to compare his article with all others. He makes definite claims for his product over his own signature. And he knows the vital importance of keeping his promises.
Advertising tells you where you can get the greatest value for your money. When you buy an advertised article, you know it is dependable. An unknown product means nothing. Advertising prohibits the worthless, and promotes the good.
Advertisements appearing in the KANSAN are the daily record of business progress, the report to you of the manufacturers and merchants who serve you. It will pay you to read them.