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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 6. 1938
Comment
Wage-Eearner Needs Socialized Medicine
Save for that of unemployment, sickness is the largest problem in the area of social insurance.
The problem of work accidents and occupational disease in the United States has been partly solved through workmen's compensation, rehabilitation, and safety legislation. Recently the Social Security Act and state legislation have made a beginning in providing for the unemployed and the industrially old. We need corresponding attack upon the problem of sickness.
Several surveys made by official and unofficial organizations have given us fairly reliable data. The Committee on the Costs of Medical Care estimated that on any average day in the year two per cent of the working population are disabled by illness of some sort.
During the years 1928-29, the annual wage loss approached $1,000,000 a year, the committee estimates. This sum would be greatly added by physical defect, accident disabling sickness, and premature death, the losses of which are difficult to estimate.
In a survey of 8,581 families living in different communities and representing several economic groups, the committee found the average outlay to be about $30 per person and $108 per family. Since the wage-earning families are less able to pay than other economic groups and frequently forego needed medical care, the outlay of this group is less than that of other groups.
The total of medical expenditures in the United States is about $3,600,000,000 per year, according to estimates made by the committee. This represents about four per cent of the normal national income. Public expenditures out of government revenue represented about 14 per cent and the "patients" paid 79 per cent. It is difficult to estimate what part of this sum is paid by wage-earners. The committee estimated that persons with income less than $2,500 lost income to the sum of $900,000,000 and the medical bills were about $1,500,000,-000, making a total of $2,400,000,000.
A further investigation by the committee shows an unequal payment of sickness bills. Of the 8,581 families covered in the survey, 57.8 per cent had medical bills less than $60 per year and paid 17.9 per cent of the total outlay; 31.9 per cent had bills ranging from $60 to $250 and paid 40.9 per cent of total, while 10.3 per cent had bills in excess of $250 and paid 41.2 per cent of the total cost of medical services.
Michael Davies in his book, "Health Security and the American Public," says "an unlucky one-sixth of our people pays in one year half the total sickness bills paid by everybody in that year."
The greatest burden falls upon those who are least able to pay. We need a program by which the wage-earning families may secure adequate medical treatment.
Social Maladjustment In College Elopements
"Why do people elope?" begins an account of an interesting study reported in the February issue of the American Sociological Review. Secret marriages a r e no doubt more widespread among students on the Hill than is generally suspected. Paul Popeno, author of the article, lists five reasons for elopements, ranging all the way from parental objection to a miscellaneous assortment of thrill-seeking, spitefulness and drunkenness.
Probably his second and third reasons, avoidance of publicity, and economy, account for the greatest number of secret marriages among university students. Parental objection to marriage before school is finished o f t e n leads to elopements. The record of happiness in elopements caused by parents' opposition is not more than 10 per cent lower than average while in marriages caused by the second reason a h i g h percentage of success is recorded—60 per cent.
The other cause of runaway marriages, pregnancy, represents the smallest as well as the least successful group. This group includes a type which is not rare—that in which a girl pretends pregnancy merely to "catch her man."
The prevalence of elopements shows a very definite lack of social adjustment. It demonstrates the confusion existing among young people in regard to planned courses of action. The time has arrived when educators are beginning to feel the need for training young adults in the immense problem of matrimony.
The University is taking a short step in this direction by offering a series of lectures on the subject, the first of which was Dr. Margaret Dale's successful one last Thursday evening.
It is to the benefit of every wondering student to attend the next lectures.
Attitudes Toward Women Made by Men
In a survey based on a questionnaire submitted to an equal number of men and women, comparing their attitudes toward women, the results support the opinion that present-day attitudes toward women have been made by men. Dr. Philip M. Kitay of Teachers College, Columbia University, who directed the survey, pointed out that since many prevailing opinions are accepted as facts, women often possess the same opinions as men and therefore see themselves through male eyes.
For instance, 91.7 per cent of the men and 91.1 per cent of the women questioned agreed that "women are more interested in trivial things of life than men." General assent was indicated by both sexes in considering it "more shameful for a married woman to have extrmarital sexual relations than for a married man." Almost an equal number of both sexes favored greater social freedom for women and advocated giving them courting equality.
Opinion differed when nearly 85 per cent of the men declared women were more unstable emotionally than men, to which only 44.1 per cent of the women agreed. As to the belief that women possessed as much ability as men to create new things, 92.9 per cent of the women agreed that this opinion was true, but were supported by only 48.6 per cent of the men.
Doctor Kitay contends, nevertheless, that some of the common views held about women were "unquestionably" originated by men for their own benefit. "Thus, the belief was strongly supported by men that women were frail and delicate creatures who could not do any of the world's work that involved strain," he said. "This was an effective way to keep women from competing with men."
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A. S.ME. The A.S.ME will meet Thursday evening at the Kansas Electric Power company, will speak on "The Economic Impact of Power Production and Sale" AlgoI
EMPLOYMENT FOR WOMEN STUDENTS. Will women students who are remaining in Lawrence during the Easter vacation and who desire extra employment with the Miller-Marie Miller, assistant to the adviser of women.
ENGLISH MAJORS: Miss Nellie Barber, Mist Blanche Yeemans, and Mr. Arthur Adrian will speak to English majors on "The English Curriculum in Kansas High Schools" at 3:30 an hour in 2018 who more interested in teaching are especially invited. W. S. Johnson, Chairman, Department of English.
JAY JANES: There will be an important meeting at 4:30 this afternoon in the F1 win-room - Robert C.
LE CERCLE FRANCAIS: Cerulea Francais will
hail at 430 COPERNICUS room 113. Frank Strong
will attend, Secretary, Secretary
PRACTICE TEACHING: Students who wish to do practice teaching at Orcad Training School during the fall semester should make application at the School Department. Courses — R.A. Schweiler, Dean of School of Education.
UNIVERSITY WOMEN'S CLUB. The University Women's Club cordially invites senior and graduate students to the annual women's luncheon Thursday, April 7 in the Men's Lounge of the Memorial Union building - Mrs. E. H. Landley. Presi-
YW.-YM. LECTURE SERIES. The second lecture of the YW.-YM. lecture series will be given at 8 o'clock Thursday evening in the Memorial Union building. Lecture time is from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. "Emotional Adjustment" - Ellen Payne, J. L. Hunt.
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Editor's note: This is the final article by Uarda Sherry dealing with Far Eastern conditions.
Japan Faces Problem Of Maintaining Her People
The total area of the Japanese islands is approximately 285,000 square miles. The population approximates 71 million people. The islands birth over deaths, is one million each year. Added to this number are the lives saved and maintained by means of an increasing knowledge of western medical science. Japan faces the question of the maintenance of these people.
Certainly the Japanese government is not offering prizes for large families, yet the increase in number is there to be dealt with as a tangible fact. These people of Japan must eat or starve, wear clothes or be naked, have shelter or suffer exposure.
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Economic Japan is able today to support its population with one meal a day only if access to the raw materials, resources, and markets of China are open to it. On every arable square mile in Japan there are more than 2000 people living. In western countries, 500 people to the square mile is considered an extreme density of population.
Not every square mile of Japan's land is arable. Small in any case, their country is a maze of rugged, inhospitable mountains, mostly volcanic. For this reason, three-fourths of people live close to the sea and that has made the most densely concentrated population in the civilized world.
Not All Land Arable
With this density comes an economic knife edge. The head of a Japanese family walks this edge between sustenance and death. To the Japanese, starvation and famine are not remote future possibilities but stark realities with which to reckon. In a good year, the Japanese government can, "on paper," just feed its people. Not every year is a good year. That is when your good vests t冬天 to had is one reduced. When the harvest falls or is reduced, food importations are necessary.
Importations from a distance are creatively. Japan looks to her neighbors, even as the United States, if faced with similar difficulties, might look to Mexico or Canada before turning to Europe.
Flea-Dog Simile Applies
The simile of the flea and the dog was used by Doctor Davis in describing the status of Japan to China. The dog can live without the flea but the flea cannot live without the dog. In all fairness it can be pointed out that Japan is not the only flea harassing China.
China's long history is one of internal disorganization. Western nations in extending their commerce have taken advantage of this disorganization. Those countries with heavy materialistic interests in China know Japan as an economic rival.
Great Britain, Japan's strongest competitor in China, is building a huge and costly naval base at Singapore. China is an important outlet for British capital. Chinese railways are owned by English bondholders. Yet the Chinese sell two of their greatest staple food products to Japan. The Chinese can buy piece goods more cheaply from Japan than from Great Britain, not because Japan has better portation but because Japan has an abundance of water power available at low cost.
Japan Is 'Western'
The cultural traits of Japan and the United States are more similar than dissimilar, Doctor Davis points out. He sees Japan as the spearhead of western civilization in the Orient, the only country with cultural likenesses and interests comparable to those of western people. First of all the Japanese are a people. Cleanliness is identified with Western. The Japanese are sports loving, having adopted western sports with enthusiasm. So nation-wide is their interest in sports that the next Olympic games are scheduled to take place in their country.
liberacy among the nations of the world. Extension of the suffrage in mother point in which they have been accompanied with the view of western nations.
As no other people, the Japanese seek, recognize, and worship beauty. Their love of beautiful things in nature is a national characteristic, extending throughout all classes of Japanese people. Nature is a universal medium in which to find beauty, hence the landscapes, flowering plants, and rocks that anime enjoy do not require a course in oriental art appreciation, but are the objects in which western peoples likewise find pleasure.
Since the commercial opening of Japan in 1854 by Perry, the Japanese have eagerly been "catching up" with their neighbors for approval and furtherance of public education is one instance of this activity. Their nation ranks high in
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was at the ripe old age of 22. Time struggles on.
It seems that Don Hays' birthday was the other day. When he received from his aunt a present and congratulations on his twenty-first birthday he was surprised, for he thought he was only 20. He called on me to light the light on the subject and she too was baffled. Upon looking up his birthday in some legal documents, to their surprise they discovered he
In a paragraph one day last week we mentioned that a Sig Alph wondered a little out of the beaten path. We wish to make amends to the boys for the whole thing. The felony was not a Sig Alph, but he did give one of the Sig Alph men's name when questioned by the local resident. Our apologies for an accidental reflection on the men.
Marvin Gheelet gets today's ticket to the Dickinson theater for his "spring" poem, Shirley Temple is starred in "Bebecca of Sunnybrook
Farm" with Randolph Scott. We're waiting for your ditty. Put it in the box.
The Kansas Highway Patrol has 1,270 official inspection stations scattered throughout Kansas which inspect motor vehicles and issue the OK sticker. Motorists may have their cars inspected by these stations without charge, if they are at an garage of their choosing. The OK stations inspect thousands of vehicles every month.
Highway Petrol Checks Thousands of Kansas Cars
We Carry a Large Stock of Nationally Known Pipes
These smart gabardines are ideal for it.
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NO.2
THE PRESENT
P. S. G, L. presents this year, as it always has, a group of predominantly independent candidates. With 19 of them non-fraternity and only 9 fraternity, these candidates fairly represent the independent man but can win only with their support.
JIM HAUGHEY was chosen to lead these candidates because of his proven abilities. Not once in this campaign has Jim been guilty of claiming that he is "the only qualified candidate." In his unshaken refusal to wage this campaign on a personal basis, Jim has sacrificed the self-satisfaction of having one million dollars in college funds and respect and support of a great body of thinking students who realize that a platform is valueless without just such a man pledged to its execution.
P. S. G. L. knows that in opposing a machine, it must depend upon the merit of its aims and accomplishments for your support. Will you compare the following accomplishments of this year's P. S. G. L. council with those of the other? There were four planks in our last year's platform; these are the results.
1. JAYHAWKER EXEMPTION SLIP abolished.
2. HOUSING INSPECTION inaugurated. A long range program incorporating compulsion features was completed long before this cam-
3. FACULTY-STUDENT BOARD is now in action.
4. CO-OPERATIVE BOOKSTORE—carried to the Board of Regents which refused permission for its establishment.
In addition however, these were also done:
5. CORSAGES abolished.
6. FINAL EXAMINATIONS will henceforth be scheduled so that light classes will fall on the last day.
classes will fall on the last day.
7. MIDWEEK TICKETS are now sold 15 minutes before the dance.
MIDWEEK TICKETS are now sold 15 minutes before the dance.
LIBRARY will in all probability soon be opened Sunday evenings.
8. STUDENT DIRECTORY MANAGERSHIP now on a merit basis to insure prompt delivery.
10. UNION BUILDING FUNDS are now being solicited among former classes that left balances in the business office.
11. ENGINEERING EXPOSITION GRANT OF S125 made in answer to a request dated two days before the publication of the opposition's platform.
Thus student government HAS come to have a meaning, HAS been wrested from the dominance of a fraternity machine, and with your support CAN continue to be a vital factor in student life.
Enlist Now In This Progressive Student Movement -- Help By Voting For P.S.G.L. Candidates