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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
WEDNESDAY, MAY 22, 1935
Official Student Paper of THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS LAWRENCE, KANSAS
PUBLISHER CAROLYN HARPER
University Daily Kansan
EDITOR-IN-CHEEP • CHARLES D. BROWN
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--deal with that "brazen" young man who had not accompanied her home from the dance, "Perplexed" would find herself advised in some such manner:
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ABOUT FACE
Strikers, as the public generally conceives of them and the American press attempts to define them, are misguided individuals who are always tearing down what has been built up to better the living conditions of the American people.
Whether this attitude is true or false, it will be conceded that it is prevalent among American people. There are certain paradoxical conditions, however, which may arise where the strikers are attempting to keep things which the owners are attempting to destroy.
Such a thing happened in La Salle, Illinois, recently. Strikers, and four or five hundred sympatizing citizens, stormed the Apollo Metal Works when that company hired workmen to dismantle the plant for removal to another city. The plant employed about seventy-five men, who had walked out when the company refused to comply with their demands for union recognition, the reemployment of five dismissed workers, and the dismissal of one foreman. The company retaliated by ordering the plant to be dismantled.
It is certainly an odd condition when police are forced to protect a building that is being torn down by the owners. Generally the boys in blue are called out to prevent a plant from being destroyed by strikers and agitators. Such, anyhow, is the popular conception.
The company has the right, the legal right, to move its factories wherever it pleases. It doesn't have to worry about those workers who will be thrown out of jobs because they strongly forced to live on charity.
Do the owners have a moral right, as well as a legal right, to move plant and equipment when workers will have their economic status undermined by such action? Of course they do. Even the press speaks indignantly at the thought of strikers trying to prevent their own economic destruction; and the reading public usually holds the same opinion.
Isn't this an upside down picture in America? There we have the police literally cracking the skulls of workers who are battling to keep property from being destroyed.
DEAR PERPLEXED
We journalists are great and breathless followers of the "Love-lorn" and "Chaperon" columns. What we don't understand is how the poor printers on the big papers keep all those advices and confessions straight. We know what have a typographical error can cause, or just a line put in at the wrong place.
What might the dear "Perplexed" do if the linetype operator lost his place reading from the copy? Seeking advice on how to
Dear Perplexed: Under the circumstances it was not so bad. It is always better to be a wall flower than a wild one; and it is natural to become too introspective under such circumstances. Just eliminate personal feelings as much as possible.
After all, we have to take people as we find them, so tell your mother how sorry you are for the way you have treated her and events will shape themselves
Have patience and you will eventually attract the right sort of young man who may or may not come riding on a white horse; but of course a man's place is always on the outside no matter if he is walking with ten girls.
Nevertheless, one can stop raying hair if one can stop worrying. Just protest in a nice way and see how much the children mind you. You will be astonished at the results. A brass bed would not take stain.
"Out In The Cold Again" sings the popular crooner. How would that go at Commencement?
BILLIONS FOR WHAT?
The billions of dollars that Congress has appropriated for work relief will have to be paid back sometime. Since the money is being borrowed on the national credit, or "earned" through in-kind payments, it must be sent to ask, whom will the burden of repayment fall?"
The younger people of the country and the working classes will have to pay for our present spree; federal taxation of all sorts will necessarily arise
How in fact is the money being spent? On necessary projects to be sure, but too largely on grading a plot here, on placing an ornamental stone fence there, and doing temporary jobs of sodding, cutting weeds, or banking a stream bed.
Since livelihood must be provided by the relief work and since so many of our people are in grave need, would it not be expected that this work should go into construction of homes, school equipment, highways, shum clearance? All of these things will have to be done sooner or later. While we are spending the money giving compensating the money giving employment to millions, can we not construct permanent and desperately needed projects?
Those who will meet the heavy burden of taxes to support the present appropriations ought to raise a voice of protest against expenditures on trivialities and minor temporary improvements. They must insist on helpful, useful, permanent projects. If they do not, they will find themselves oppressed by taxation resulting from work that has given them nothing.
Minority groups are always reminded of their "full legal rights." That is fine, but isn't it like the man now who has a "full legal right to work."
France is slipping as a major world power. An unsatisfactory birth rate foreshadows early inadequacy of armed forces. A flood of foreign goods is displacing inactive products in domestic markets.
WHAT IS TO BECOME OF FRANCE?
These developments are alarming. France is a rich country with a rather small population and extensive colonies. Therefore, "France must maintain what is probably the largest standing army in the world, with the possible exception of Russia's." With a population of 42,000,000 the reservoir of man power needed to keep this standing army is diminishing. For 1935 and ensuing years the rate of deaths in France will be greater than the birth rate
military service from one to two years and reduced the eligibility age from 21 to 20, and provided for the recruiting of military specialists. But the feeling of security engendered by adopting these measures lasted exactly 24 hours.
The French government has increased the term of compulsory
The French now hope Germany can be induced by concessions or pressure to remain under military constrictions. But all realize that this cannot long be done. Some say, "It is the duty of All Frenchmen to raise three children." Even if the people heed this appeal it will be several years before they reach the fighting age of 20.
L. A. Sigaud in stressing relative population and birth rates of France and Germany fears for the future of his country and probesies that in 50 years, unless a miracle intervenes, 35,000,000 Frenchmen will be faced by 100.,000,000 Germans. How Fascist Germany could support such a population without going to war for foodstuffs and markets is another question.
"What is to become of France?"
is a part of the larger question,
"What is to become of western Europe?"
Our more timid girl friends say they are relieved since the lawyers quit whistling as they go by. Maybe someone told them they were whistling in the dark any way.
CAN PRIVATE INSURANCE DO IT ALL?
National Insurance Week is being celebrated throughout the country forcibly bringing to mind the problem of social security for all.
Sponsored by the Insurance Companies, the purpose of this week is to make all Americans realize the necessity and advantages of providing for the now prolonged "rainy day".
This is important because if every American citizen had been prepared by insurance for unemployment, old-age, sickness, etc., the government would not now be
the government would ... appropriating billions of dollars so work may be "made" and some sort of mere subsistence provided for the 17,000,000 unemployed people in the country.
people in the military.
Bringing to the public mind the realization of the benefits to be derived from insurance will not solve the problem. When a man does not make enough money to feed and clothe his family, he cannot spend money to buy insurance, however great the need for it may be. And when a period of depression comes, many of those who had a little insurance are forced to drop it. A decrease in wages, or absolute lack of them, makes it impossible for thousands to continue payments.
To a certain extent insurance of his kind exists today. But the workers' compensation, old-age, unemployment and similar kinds of social insurance existing at this time serve only to emphasize more
The problem of insurance for the masses is up to the government and to groups of workers. Compulsory payment of stated amounts by employees into a general fund, that fund to be contributed to, and possibly matched, by the government, is the only sure way of having it. In times of sickness, unemployment, and disability the worker would be provided for, not on the scale which he was while employed, but with enough to live on.
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County Consolidation Would Relieve Tax Burdens of Local Government
The A.S.M.E. price will be held Thursday, May 23, weather permitting. Meet in front of Marvin hall at 4:30. All members are urged to attend.
Wednesday, May 22. 1992
A. S. M. E.
The need for county consolidation to ease the taxation burden is not confined to Kansas. Many people throughout the country have advocated county consolidation, and committees of research have given such recommendations a favor.
In 1932 the per capita levy in Montgomery County amounted to $466; in Hamilton County the per capita levy was $29.00. Both of these counties are made up of a number of areas in the county assessments is made the basis of an M.A. thesis by James S. Milligan, "The Fiscal Aspects of County Assessment" at the University of Kansas in 1934.
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INTERRACIAL COMMISSION OF Y. W. C. A.:
The last gatt-get-together of the year will be a plaine at Potters' Lake on Thursday. Meet at Hensley house at 5:20 p.m. Reservations for the 15 cent hurdles start at 6:30 p.m.
basis, but most states have as yet failed to try the experiment.
There will be a meeting today at 4:30 in room 191 Fraser hall. Come prepared to order your outfit for next year.
BETTY THOLEN, President.
JAY JANES:
MARTHA PETERSON and DOROTHY HODGE
The regular mid-week dance will be held this evening at 7 o'clock in the Memorial Union building. All students must present their identification cards. Stag limit 200.
BILL COCHRANE, Manager
MID-WEEK DANCE:
The history of transit in any American city shows how much more efficiently we do these things. First we organize a group of people to get a perpetual franchise. Then we organize the Imperial Moscow Horse Corp corporation, which takes over the franchise at a fat rental. His Majesty's Troll company owns the corporation's rights in the Droskoy company's franchise, paying the Horse Corp corporation a rental. The subway company pays the rights of the trolley companies' rights in the Droskoy franchise.
TAU NU TAU;
greatly the need of the country for it. It is improbable that all the needy would be reached by insurance that was obtained through "workers' contribution" channels. Here, however, is the largest group, one in which the greatest need is felt; it is the logical starting point for a country-wide program.
The government rightly announces it will take "boarders" off relief rolls. That depends on the definition. Would a couple of gold fillings constitute "boarding?"
TAU NO TAU.
There will be a meeting of Tau Nu Tuai this coming at 8:15 in 210 Marvin hall. Capt. Lewis C. Gordon will speak concerning "The Economic and Political Socialism in the Panama Canal Zone." Pledging services will be held.
The Russians have finally built themselves a subway. It has indirect lighting, glazed tiling, and mosaics, and is reported to be without equal for beauty. They should build the system disclose the most primitive methods and show how much the Soviets still have to learn. They simply appropriated the money and built the subway, and now charge a half-price fare. They should do the same job. A dronely once ran over the route of the subway, then a horse car, a later trolley. The Soviet authorities, blind follows, see in them only outmoded means of transportation indoors, but in this country such relials are the material of our financial artists.
SUBWAYS UNDER MOSCOW
The Committee for Governmental Research on the Organization and Administration of County Government in North Carolina concluded their report with the statement: "It is believed possible that in many instances the same overhand expense could be carried on at practically the same overhand expense as may be borne by one."
The Nation.
Old Colonel Morganbiltskys owns to the stock of the Drohsby, horse-car, trolley and subway companies, but that fact is never referred to in public. With experience proving before the Moscow Public Service corporation that a 7-current fare is needed for a fair return on his subway. From the 7 cents the Colonel pays himself a 10 per cent return on the (in-hand) pieces in the blizzard of 1888, a 6 per cent return on horse cars last seen in 1935, a 5 per cent return on trolleys that will now carry no passengers, and a 7 per cent return on the subway, including its going value, good-will, framing, and atmospheric displacement.
"There are too many counties and there are certain counties which should be consolidated." Governor Alfred E. Brown, Jr., president of New York, March 15, 1926.
LEWIS W. BENZ, Secretary
Later Colonel Morganbiltkyk organizes an All-Russian Subway Holding and Management corporation which charges the fare based on a business that—in order to safeguard a fair return—the Moscow Public Service commission raises the fare to 10 cents. True the people of Moscow will be paying 10 cents instead of a half-cent a day, because the city is to-date capitalistic financial methods. Anybody can build a subway.
The expenditures of these four counties were compared with the per capita and mollie law of Schundwick county, which measures the number of four counties in population, assessed valuation and acreage. Except in a few cases, where data lacked uniformity in classification, he was able to present a comprehensive list of the expenses of each of the counties.
a few outside illustrations, confined his studies to the counties of Kansas. He based his observations on two angles of approach. In the first place, he tested all the counties in the state of Kansas from the southeastern to the north of the various county governments. In a more particular and detailed study of four contiguous counties, then, he analyzed the fiscal records of Douglas, Jefferson, Johnson and Leavinwood公司.
From this comparison Mr. Milligan ascertained that county consolidation would be of benefit to the taxpayers involved. In consolidating, it would be possible to eliminate duplication of equipment, and it would be possible to maintain a single, centralized staff with professional training and ability to 'take charge of these offices'.
His records show, in the general classification of all the counties in Kansas grouped according to population, that the less densely populated counties have a higher per capita levy on an average; the more heavily populated counties.
In his thesis Mr. Milligan, aside from
Wyandotte county, for instance, with
the maximum population of all the counties, 141,211, has a per capita levy of $8.31 as compared to the $13.40 paid by each taxpayer in Greeley county, which has a population of 1,712, the smallest in the state.
In the past few years, counties both in Tennessee and Georgia have consolidated and have profited by the changes. The consolidation would no doubt come from the county seat towns which would cause to be community centers. The county officials now in office would naturally move to the other counties where payroll in a large consolidated county than are now on the payroll of the many small counties. Others would object because of their fear that their own county government would be lessened.
Taxpayers in the drought-striken areas of the state are bearing the heaviest county tax burden. The consolidation of adjudging counties would lighten the burden and feed townships to cooperative attitudes among the people involved.
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