PAGE TWO FRIDAY, MAY 10, 1935 UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS University Daily Kansan Official Student Paper of THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS LAWRENCE, KANSAS PUBLISHER CAROLYN HARPER EDITOR IN CHIEF CHARLES D. BROWN Associate Editors Associate Editors Robert Robinson Genevieve Horn MANAGING EDITOR HADDY VALENTINE Cameron Editors Staff Herbert Mayer Makeup Editor Mariana Marcus Spark Editor James Worthington Secretary Joachim Jordan Secretary James Worthington Secretary James Worthington Business Manager ... F. Quentin Brown LINNAN BOARD SECRETARY Lena Wheat Miller Mice Jane Kirkpatrick Carolyn Harper Stephen Burris Homer Brown Homer Brown Homer Brown Max Molvin Wade White Business Office K.U. 6, News Room K.U. 27, Night Connections, Business Office 270K 18 Night Connection, News Room 270K 18 Publicized Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday through March 30, 2014, weeks of holidays by students in the department of Journalism at The University of Texas at Austin. The Press of the Department of Journalism will be open Monday through Saturday for advances, $2.25 on payments. Single classes, $1.50. Entered the second class matter, September 1910, at the post office at Lawrence, Kana- bor. FRIDAY, MAY 10, 1935 LOST—STUDENT GOVERNMENT Button, button, big joke—a few days ago. The two copies of the M.S.C. constitution are both absent without leave. Simply gone, not to be used for the benefit of the group or the seeing who is imposed to do what. Lyman Field, newly - installed president of M.S.C., left a copy of the document in the Council's next day—bibno and it was gone. Of course it is a blow to the pride of many literal constructionists to find that we are apparently built on as well without the constitution. However, what was perhaps funny a few days ago is no poke now. Someone has the constitution, or knows where it is, and that someone ought to produce same. PROGRESSIVE RETROGRESSION "Iidot, moron, deceiver of youth and booh," were a few of the "nicer" things shouted at H. L. Mencken, whose then fiery editorship of The American Mercury described wrath and loud contempt from America's many professional savers of youth. Once Chicago University was "spotted" as a center of dissention and potential anarchy because so many students there were gay, the famous green-covert "Bible of Rebellion." How long ago. After 1934, when Mr. Mencken kissed good-bye to his Mercury public, strange workings calmed his mind. Marriage and financial security began to look as beautiful and rhapsodic as formerly did his jug of whiskey (which he seldom used) and his Rabeialian (self-confessedly) humor. Recently seven office workers on the Mercury staff went on strike for the right to organize granted under section 7A. The present publisher and the editor said they "refuse to have their magazine managed by a shop committee; they do not feel that switchboard operators are qualified to read manuscripts, and they are not inclined to take orders from bookkeepers." But, as Heywood Brom points out, the airboy boils down to this: the Mercury's action is a "curious reaffirmation of that strange doctrine that although employees in a concern may be worthy of a higher wage they must never on any account ask for it." And how, one wondered, would the fire-eater of the twenties, who prided himself on shocking all our Aunt Laura's sensibilities, respond to a bit of the "direct action" he preached for 15 years? Mr. Mencken met a group of the Mercury's former employees, the present strikers, and lectured them on "the futility and foolishness of strikes." He appealed to them not to use the word "damn" perhaps forgetting his own book by that title. The incident recalls vividly once more that Mr. Mencken's generation, wild and pioneering in its time, is out of touch with what is going on and can't understand the new social forces operating on every one of us. BEHIND THE SMOKE SCREEN The tobacco industry, one of the most important from the standpoint of the volume of business transacted yearly, is perhaps less subject to public scrutiny of practice than any other major business. Yet this vast monopoly, eighty-five percent of whose business is concentrated in the hands of four major companies, is guilty of some of the most flagrant of labor abuses. Laborers in the tobacco industry attribute their plight to S. Clay Williams, former president of the R. J. Reynolds Company, largest of the "big four". At the time of the signing of the code and for some months prior to that he was chairman of the National Industrial Recovery Board. Since his resignation, the tobacco laborers have taken new hope for improved conditions. The activities of the laborers have also contributed Williamson, largest of the independent tobacco companies, have also supported labor in sponsoring a more liberal code. In order to demonstrate clearly the trust power of the big four, we must look to their activities during the years of depression. For the first three years of the war, they were more profit than any other time in their history. They combined to fix tobacco prices, price to dealers of their product; and in 1931 they actually raised the price of period from 1939 to 1933, American Tobacco Company's dividends averaged $1.238 yearly per employee. But employees didn't benefit from these dividends. Their average yearly wage was $742.00. In addition to these abuses, the three larger companies have "bonus" systems which throw the majority of the profits to a small inside group. George Washington Hill, president of the American Tobacco Company, from 1928 to 1933 received an increase of salary and "bonus" which reached a peak of $1,051,630 in 1931. This is fourteen times the salary of the he finished product. Over the condition which has gone so long period from 1920 to 1933, Ameri- unbleached president of the United States. In 1932 with his salary a paltry $825,000, he still received as much as a group of 1,500 workers in his own company. In 1929 the average salary of the cigar worker was $870 per year. In 1933 the average salary was $614 per year. This is a drop of 30 percent. At the same time business was on the upgrade and the salaries and "business" of officials were being increased. Probably the officials, foreseeing that the depression was still far from finished, were storing away a little nest egg for a rainy day. It is just barely possible, however, that they might have done more in the way of lifting the depression had they shared a small part with their workers. A gigantic industry, long working in the dark behind the pill of the American smoke screen has at best revealed itself as one of the greatest of our capital monopoles. When it becomes impossible to pay the workers of the most profitable industry in this country (living wage, it is time that some Prof. R. C. Moore, head of the geology department and state geologist, quits this fear. He says that the recent shock was caused by a shift at a minor rock fault on the North Island of the Flint Hills—a fault that can never cause any major earth movements. Kansas city may sit back, relax, and enjoy their dust storms in pores. Regardless of the recent tremor the state has need no fear of a disastrous earth. OFFICIAL UNIVERSITY BULLETIN The absence of faults, the prime cause of quakes, contributes to the pre-eminence of Kansas as a field for geological research particularly in the study of earthquakes. break was only an indirect consequence of "mountain building," the result of the gradual upturn of rock layers on either side that culminate in the Rockies and the Pacific. Faults are breaks in rock layers, either vertical or horizontal, that may permit displacements of rocks. These faults can be caused by layering. These breaks in the rock strata or layers have been caused principally by the overstraining of the earth's surface either through intrusions or by erosion of its surface in shrinkage due by internal cooling. Professor Moore By Robert Hughes, c'36 Despite Recent Earth Tremor, Kansas Need Have No Fear of Heavy Shock Notices due at Chancellor's Office at 3 p.m., preceding regular publication days and 11.38 a.m. on Sunday, latex issue. Geologist Moore revealed the fact that the rock layers in Kansas are unremotely regular and undisturbed. They are accordingly being used as a source of geologic data for the period when most rock strata in the world were being disturbed by a mountain building eruce. Moore and his associates, including Dr. N. D. Newell and M. K. Ellas of the geological survey staff, with the aid of a research grant, have conducted extensive and intensive report on such investigations. In south Oklahoma and Texas, in the Appalachian mountain district and in western Europe, rocks of ages corresponding to those in Kansas are bent, folded, and broken by裂纹, dislocations, or shear stress. The rock strata were originally horizontal, but the earth crust was squeezed to form mountains. Research in Kansas by means of similar fossils and other No.151 Pa Chi will hold a luncheon in connection with the Midwestern Psychological convention Saturday, May 11, at 12 o'clock noon, in the private dining room of the cafeteria. Tickets are $35 and are available at the registration desk in the hotel lobby. Attendees will be required to attend. Come and meet the members of the other Pa Chi chapters. STUDENT OF THE DEPRESSION Fred H. Turner, dean of men at the University of Illinois, has scored a direct hit in his recent magazine article entitled, "Student of the Depression," which appeared in the Saturday Evening Post. Dean Turner characterizes the colleges of today as "a great crowd which comes near to my idea of what real life should be than any other group which I have observed in my experience." The dispensary will be closed all day Saturday, May 11, to permit the staff to attend the meeting of the American Student Health Association at Park City Hospital. PSI CHI: BYRON SARVIS, President. STUDENT HOSPITAL: The fraternities present another interesting example of how the depression has raised the standards at Illinois. Five years ago there were 85 Greek letter houses on the campus. The number is now reduced to 62, and significantly enough, those that have survived have their position instead of weakening it. (Cornell Daily Sun) Far too many university authorities and others interested in American college life have pointed out the dicker aspects of their profession, and he is maintained for Dean Turner to present clearly the brighter side. Dean Turner draws on his experience to show how the less fortunate students have arrived at college, he lands the student body of today because he has a far wider range of interests than his predecessors had. The contoural controversies which are aired in newspapers attack college newspapers attent this fact. The depression has also forced college students to take their social enjoyments at a much lower cost than in the past. The increase in student loan $ compared to the present $2.50 rate, and what is more, students have discovered that they can have just as much fun when they pay less as they did when their entertainment bore a higher price The follies of extravagance are now realized and most of the former misinjection is being eliminated. In almost every instance, the wolf and the sheriff who are supposed to be outside each fraternity door will have a long list of awards and reward increment policies adopted as a result of the depression. Friday. May 19, 1935 Vol. XXXII geological landmarks has enabled geologists to learn the nearly exact period of crustal disturbance in these places and established the existence of a general period of mountain building. North central Texas and East Russia are the most recent examples of rock structure. Professor Moore has investigated the coal-bearing rock layers in north central Texas and published his result in a "Report on the Peninsula of Texas" in 1903 Dr. Ellius has made similar investigations in the Russian district. State Geologist Moore credits Professor Haworth, pioneer geologist of the 90's after whom Haworth hall is named, with the early work that has resulted in giving wide acceptance to local nurses in the state. Rock types shale and Topka limestone are commonly used for identification of rock types in neighboring states as well as in Kansas. Attempts are now being made to synchronize these names with even more distant equivalents. As a result, many may be given universal application. Professor Moore speaks of the discovery of the relationship of rock layers to the physical conditions of the times in which they were deposited, the cycle of sedimentation, and the extent of the sea, Caribbean in the case of Kansas), and the changes in character because of climatic conditions. These layers are classified into four inclusive natural layers, each with a thick, called Des Moines, Missouri. Virgil (from a Greenwood county town and including the Oread and Lawrence layers), and Big Blue (from the river unites an area that is probably prolonged earth periods in this region. During these periods For MOTHER Beautiful flowers to express your love—delivered here or anywhere. Mother's Day. May 12 a state of hiatus (non-deposition), or in some places removal of previously formed rock predeveloped. The rock layers may be thought of as chapels and the four classes that include them as volumes in the physical history to the world. The committee is based on the committee on geology of the National Research Council. This committee has been designated to organize knowledge concerning the Pennsylvania (coal bearing) rocks of North America. The committee includes geologists from the United States, the United States and is using a grant from the Geological Research Society. Kansas can accordingly elimn muel geological importance without claiming the dubious distinction of being an earthquake center. The City is Full of BUSYBODIES And the Bodies are Trying on Ober's SPORT SUITS Salesmen bury .. customers busy. Not a dull moment nor a dull model. The customer who buys his Ober Novi on Tuesday sends in a friend Wednesday. It's an endless chain of action without a weak link . . . for here is a stock that is kind to the customer, not to the cash register . . . an assortment that gives it desired home an unlimited stretch of imagination. 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