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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE. KANSAS
TUE$DAY, JANUARY 25, 1928
Comment
We Think,
We Hope, We Guess
The general impression is that today is Tuesday—so we'll proceed on that assumption. . . We really wouldn't know, . . would you? The publication schedule and the calendar are all here . . but what good are they when we don't know what day preceded this one or which is to follow? Some of the lucky ones are through and can orient themselves to a world where worries are relatively few and where clocks and beds and books and things conduct themselves in a fairly normal manner . . others will hang on 'til Friday and either go home and give up or just give up.
What the Kansan wants to do here is hope that you've had a good semester, that you will all come back, and that next semester will be even happier than the one that is giving us the final, testing blow.
Facism Gains Again in Africa
The Italian Empire swung onward and outward last week. This time, as before, the gains were made at the expense of Great Britain's "life-line" to India, gains which threaten the all-important Suez canal and thus the British Empire itself.
Farouk, for half a year king of British-dominated Egypt, last week dispatched his premier, Nahas Pasha, in an effort to strengthen the royal prerogative. Nahas Pasha with his private political army, the blue-shirted Wafd, has been occupying a position of increasing importance in Egyptian political affairs, rivaling that of the king himself. In his place Farouk has named Nahas' rival, Mohammed Mahmoud Pasha, leader of the Greenshirts.
Mahmoud Pascha's first acts were (1) to appoint three pro-Italian members to the new cabinet, (2) to increase the Egyptian army from 11,000 to 50,000, and (3) to hurt catchwords of fanatical, anti-foreign nationalism.
These acts indicate Britain's weakening power in Egypt, for they mean, respectively, (1) that Egypt is thinking of changing her lord protector, (2) that Egypt is counting none too much on British military support in case of war in the Mediterranean, and (3) that Egypt's present leaders are preparing her to become the African step-child of the Fascist family of nations.
Across the Suez canal from Egypt, Britain realizes her grasp is being shaken loose and has taken only feeble steps to reassert herself. Last summer, Fascist propaganda from the Bari delle Puglie short-wave radio station in southeastern Italy incited Arab riots in Palestine, a British protectorate of the League of Nations since 1919. The intensity of these riots drove Britain to urge upon the League's council a partition of Palestine between Arab and Jew.
Since the Ethiopian conquest and England's hampering sanctions, Italy has been handing out radio sets locked to the Bari station to Arabs in both Arabia and Palestine and has increased the pro-Fascist, anti-British broadcasts in the Arabic tongue from that station. Britain has vainly protested, and today she is handling to the same Arabs radio sets locked to the British Broadcasting company's Daventry station near London. Last week she began what Time calls "a fine sputter of pro-British Arabic" from the Daventry station.
The British Empire is disintegrating and Italian Fascism is not long in forging new allegiances to another empire.
Question, Question---
Whither Next?
President Roosevelt must clarify the policy of his administration in regard to industry. Before he can accomplish anything basic, he must choose between two ultimately conflicting desires arising out of confusion in the mind of the chief executive.
Is Roosevelt going to advance the natural concentration of business into fewer and fewer hands or will he attempt to check this centralization of economic power by enforcing, through legislation, the present state of organization and perhaps even tending the United States back toward a country of small shops and stores?
In other words, will Roosevelt continue to push wage-hour legislation which plays into the hands of large scale industry and tends to penalize the less efficient stores in small towns? Will he cling to the principles of his invalidated NRA which fostered price-pegging and tended to eliminate the small operator? Will he urge labor leaders and prominent industrialists to confer with him on governmental policies—conferences which, because of their size, leave the independent producer outside? Will his administration urge further railroad
combines, as it did recently in the middle Atlantic states? Will he centralize banking through increased powers for the federal reserve system?
Or, on the other hand, will he prosecute monopolies? Will he flail the holding companies which make concentration possible? Will he continue to oppose concentration of industry by refusals to revise the excess profits tax?
The divergent purposes of Roosevelt's administration regarding the concentration of business make his whole program ineffective. He cannot ask congress for a wage-hour bill and more stringent anti-trust laws in the same breath. He must choose one or the other.
Either Roosevelt must recognize that increasing concentration of industry is natural and that the thing to do now is to make this economic power more responsible to the public welfare; or he must recognize that America can yet return to a land of small shops and stores if she is willing to pay the price in economic losses.
'Toujours Gaie — Toujours Gaie'
Author of a new thing in typographical form, which is slowly tending to come into usage at least in part, Donald Robert Perry Marquis will write no more stories of the adventures of Mehtabel the amorous cat. Marquis died a short time ago from cerebral hemorrhage.
Best known and most unusual cf Marquis's works were those written by proxy through Archie the cockroach's ability to jump from key to key of Marquis's typewriter. Archie no sentence forms nor any of the customary devices of punctuation. He merely jumped from key to key composing words expressing his philosophy on Mehitabel and her amours, for Mehitabel was "tojourns gae, toujours gae."
A world of homely philosophy is apparent in the works. The author unveils his innermost self unsparingly but with many a humorous quirk. It is unfortunate that such a man is lost to the reading public of the country.
Campus Opinion
Articles in this column do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the University Daily Kannan. Articles over 200 words in length are subject to cutting by the editor. Contributions on any subject are invited.
Bad Knights
Chivalry is not dead but it is surely being worn stick these days. Perhaps notice of the door to the library is caused by the increased ruffle through it. Chivalry causes such embarrassment to those who would be gentlemen.
Editor, Daily Kansan;
The energy necessary to open and hold open the door of the library almost prohibits courtesy. It would seem that a door stop such as is used on other doors might be available. The one in question opens most easily with the right hand, and son who doesn't leap from its arc is up to be caught in the jam, and it's just too jam bad. A. A.
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Dr. R. A. Schwegel, dean of the School of Education, spoke last night at a dinner meeting of the Osswatimie city teachers in Osawatimie.
He will be guest speaker at a meeting of the Wilson County Teachers' Association at Fredonia Saturday. His subject will be "Education Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow."
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