UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
The Official Student Paper of the University of Kansas
VOLUME XXXI
Commodity Dollar Is Logical Remedy States R. S. Howey
It Would Be Great Single Step Toward Improvement of Economic Conditions
By Max Moxley, e'uncl.
That the adoption of a commodity dollar would be the greatest single step toward industrial prosperity, was the opinion voiced by Professor R.S. Howey of the department of economics yesterday. "It is the most logical and most possible thing for us to do to remedy the lamentable economic conditions now existing," he said.
That the stabilization of the dollar is the paramount issue before congress is evident. "Congress has been in session only eight days," said Professor Howey, as he counted the eight copies of the Congressional Record on the desk before him, "and already three major speeches have been made on the subject. I think that the next three weeks will see the passage of a stable-money bill," he asserted.
LAWRENCE, KANSAS, THURSDAY, JANUARY 18, 1934
Much Depends on Prospective Bill
"The greatest benefit of the commodity dollar would come from the removal of the causes of depressions. The commodity dollar would stabilize price levels. Why then, should anyone stop producing, unless he found it no longer profitable to produce." Professor Howey went so far as to say that upon the success of such a bill depends the question of whether America will have capitalism or socialism in the years to come.
The commodity dollar, he explains, is a dollar that always has the same general purchasing power. With such a dollar, $5,000 would buy the same amount of goods today as it would in 1935. The value of the dollar would fluctuate to compensate for the variations in price levels. Under the present system, $5,000 would buy about 30 per cent more today than it would have in 1929.
Gold Content Would Fluctuate
There are dozens of ways to stabilize the dollar, said Professor Howey, but the method being considered at present is to vary the number of grains in the dollar. Just what change in the gold content of the dollar would have to be made in any particular instance cannot be told beforehand because of the new gold that is being mined, and because of the changes in the quantity of goods being produced. If gold mining marched forward at a more rapid rate, the amount of gold in the dollar would have to be increased. If gold mining and goods production progress as they have since the nineties, it would mean a continual reduction of the dollar in the dollar.
Stabilizes Value of Dollar
"It it to be understood," says Howey "that even if the number of grains is changed, no effect would be produced unless the total amount of dollars actually in circulation were increased.
"We would not expect any short time variations or sudden fluctuations in the value of the dollar unless outside factors such as tariff wars or sudden expansion of production upset the general state of economic equilibrium. As to just how many grains the gold content would vary from time to time, I am not able to say; but it is certain that it will not automatically regulate itself."
Other methods which might be used to stabilize the dollar, Mr. Howley listed as follows: (1) Varying of the re-discourse rate of the federal reserve banks; (2) Variations in the open market policy of the federal reserve banks; (3) Variations in the amount of government borrowings; (4) Public works programs.
Art Exhibition Given
The American Federation of Arts, a national organization for the cultivation of the arts is presenting an exhibition of 25 large color reproductions of modern French, German and Dutch artists in the south gallery of Spooner-Thayer Art Museum. The exhibition will last until the latter part of next week.
To Become Women's Editor
Kansas City, Mo.—(UP)—Miss Vina Lindsay, for years a feature writer of the Kansas City Journal-Post, has resigned to become women's editor of the Washington Post in Washington, D.C. She is a graduate of the University of Missouri and the author of many magazine articles.
Naismith Leaving for St. Louis
Naishtm Leaving for St. Louis Dr. Naishtm, professor of physical education, is to leave for St. Louis tonight to attend a meeting of basketball coaches and fans. Doctor Naishtm will give a talk on the subject of "Basketball." He expects to return late Saturday night or early Sunday morning.
Favor Later Closing Hours
Michigan State Reports 1:30 Deadline For Friday night; 12:30 Saturday
Extended closing hours at Michigan State of 1:30 on Friday night and 12:30 on Saturday night were recently reported by the Michigan State News. The late hours will immediately go on trial and will continue throughout the winter term. Prof. L. C. Emons, head of the committee on rules, said: "The adjustment of interweek hours was left in the hands of the Association of Women Students, since the committee felt that it was within their power to pass on such rules."
Wth the new schedule soon to go in effect the Freshmen will have 9:30 Sunday night closing hours as compared to 10:30 for the upperclassman, but otherwise the hours are the same. After the new schedule has been tried the continuation of extended hours will be decided upon by a popular vote of the women students at the beginning of the spring term.
Taggart Outlines Policies for National Recovery
NUMBER 76
Easy Money Markets o Federal Reserve System Needed
"The main instruments of recovery must be found in the easy money market of the federal reserve and in governmental expenditures," asserted J. A. Taggart, associate professor of economics at the University, in a speech, "Monetary Aspects of the New Deal," before the Douglas county farm bureau at the First Christian church this afternoon.
"The safest way of raising prices is through credit expansion," Mr. Taggart said. "Had the Federal Reserve maintained the easy money market in 1929 it might have prevented the tremendous deflation of the next few years. The present administration is attempting to raise prices first, by having the federal reserve maintain the easy money market, and second, through governmental expenditures in the public and civil works programs."
The public works programs seek to place the purchasing power in the hands of different groups of people thus stimulating a demand for goods in various industries. Industries which furnish material for the public works programs are similarly benefitted, the speaker said. They become bank borrowers and credit is expanded; more people are put to work and the stage is set for the return of prosperity, Mr. Taggart explained.
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Legion to Honor Sweeney
Local Banker Is Chosen As Lawrence's Outstanding Citizen
T. J. Sweeney, Lawrence banker, and one of the most loyal supporters of the University, will be honored at a banquet tonight given by the American Legion as the most outstanding citizen of Lawrence during the past year.
Mr. Sweeney, a native of Ireland, attended K. U. during the years 1870-71 and 1871-72. He earned his way while in school as an express agent, and had to leave his studies to support his widowed mother. He held the position as city agent for the railroads and express companies in Lawrence for 35 years, until 1906 when he became vice president of the Peoples State bank.
Mr. Sweeney has pleaded for the University before the Kansas legislature, telling the representatives of the school's needs. He is a member of the board of directors of the finance committee of the Kansas Memorial Corporation. He is a life member of the Alumni Association, and has helped the University many times with his generous contributions.
In 1800, Mr. Sweeney led a movement among Kansas members of the Knights of Aurora, a Minnesota fraternal organization which had started defaulting on death claims, to organize and take over the liabilities of the Kansas members of this organization, and start over as the Fraternal Aid Union. This company has recently changed its name to the Sweeney Lodge, and has 1,000 lodges, and as treasurer of that organization, Mr. Sweeney handles $10,000 a year.
Every fall, he buys 100 seats for the homecoming game, and distributes them around. This Saturday, he has invited some Kansas senators to Lawrence to attend the Kansas-Kansas State basketball game.
T. J. Sweneye, III, is in junior high school now, and his grandfather is trying to obtain for him a junior membership in the alumni association.
Williams to Open Second Semester Lecture Program
Feb. 13' Date Announceer for Famous Author to Begin University
Series
Whiting Williams, industrial consultant, author, and lecturer, has been engaged to open the lecture series for the second semester, Feb. 13, it was announced today through the Chancellor's office. The subject of his lecture will be, "Hitler, Stalin, Mussolini, Roosevelt—Which Has the Answer?"
To round out the lecture series program for the year, Lewis Browne, a "best seller" author, philosopher, and writer of *The Book of Life* on March 2 on "What I saw in Germany."
Mr. Williams is particularly well-informed on the state of the worker. When it became necessary for him as vice president of the Cleveland Steel company to get first hand information on the viewpoint of the laborer, he became a journeyman among them. The result of his findings were published in a report entitled, "What's on the Worker's Mind?"
Eight Visits to Russia
Mr. Williams worked for three years in the coal mines and steel plants of Britain, northern France, and Germany's famous Ruhr and Saar valleys. In 1928 he first visited Russia's "Pittsburgh District" in the heart of the Ukraine. In 1933 he returned to get the attitude of the coal miners and steel workers toward their Red masters. This was his eighth visit of investigation and study in Russia.
He is heaunteh of several books. "Full Up and Fed Up." "Horny Hands and Hampered Elbows." "Mainsprings of the Male Mind." "The Killer's Mind?" are the four best known.
Mr. Williams received both his B.A.
and M.A. degrees from Oberlin college
He also attended University University,
and the University of Chicago. He is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical society.
He has served in several organizations, and is listed in Who's Who.
"Both Lecturers Previously ...
M. Browne in a letter to the Chancellor says that in his speech here on March 2 he will tell "primarily of the intellectual and economic factors which made the rise of Hitlerism almost inevitable, discusses the actual consequences of World War II, and suggests what s the possible outcome."
He has just recently returned from a trip to Germany. He is especially interested in the position of the Jew under the present regime.
My Brunette has appeared at the Uni-
versity before about four years ago
and is now in her 30s.
Mr. Browne was born in London but came to this country in 1912. Since his residence in America he has written many books, among them being, "This Believing World," "Stranger than Fiction" and "The Grecian Bible," and "That Man Heine."
The new water tank and tower which is to be erected west of the University campus arrived yesterday. The tank will serve the high level district on the Hill and work on the foundation is scheduled to start immediately. In addition to the construction of the new tank an extensive program for the replacement of old and the laying of new mains has been announced.
New Water Tank Arrives
An additional grant by the PWA of $2000 for the project was announced by C. T. Hough, Superintendent of the Lawrence water department. The change in location increased the expense.
Freeland Franklin Penney and Dudley Eugene Brown, law students at the University, successfully passed the January bar examination yesterday along with 25 other young Kansas lawyers. The examination was given at Topeka.
Additional Grant Made for Project Work to Begin Immediately
Kansas Students Pass Bar
The usual committee reports will be supplemented by each cabinet member reporting the progress which has been made by the committee of which he is a member. Each member is asked to be present at this important meeting.
The Pittsburgh-Des Moines company manufactured the tank, which is to be delivered in sections for erection at the site. The volume of charge of the building of the foundation.
Y. M. Cabinet to Review Work
A review of the work which has been accomplished by the Y.M.C.A. will be made when the cabinets meets this afternoon in room 10 of the Memorial
Choir Will Offer Concert
The Westminster A Cappella choir will give its mid-winter concert on Sunday evening at 7:45 under the direction of Dean D. M. Swarthout. A program of many of the finest numbers in the choir repertoire will be sung, most of them unaccompanied.
Dean Swarthout Will Direct A Cappella Group Sunday
Solois for the concert will be Alice Denton, soprano; Mary Louise Beltz, contralto; Madge Craig, contralto; and Dale Vliet, baritone.
The choir in the early spring will give a number of concerts in nearby cities, dates having already been made for Emporia at the College of Emporia, and for Topeka. Concerts will also be given at Kansas City, Mo.; at Haskell Institute; and in other cities where arrangements are now pending.
The aim of the Westminster Choir in its program is the promotion of better church music in the churches of this part of the state and its programs are set up with this objective in mind.
Title 'Hilarities of 1934'
Is Selected for Revue
Howard Turtle Announced as Prize Winner in Contest
"Hilarities of 1934," submitted by Howard Turtle, is the title chosen for the W.S.G.A. musical comedy in the contest sponsored by W.S.G.A. and the Kansas. This title was selected from many turned in to the committee, and won the prize of free tickets to the show.
Virginia Sterling, c24, announced that tryouts for the musical comedy will begin the second semester. The chorus tryouts will be Thursday, Feb. 8 at 4 o'clock in the women's section of Robinson gymnasium. The cast tryouts will be Friday, Feb. 9 in the Central Administration auditorium from 2:30 to 4:30. The chorus tryouts will be under the direction of Miss Sterling and Ruth Pyle and the cast tryouts will be directed by James R. Patterson.
It is announced that a men's chorus to be used in the show, for which about 12 or 15 men will be used. There will be a large women's chorus and also a large cast since there are eight sketches in the show.
These tryouts are being withheld until the beginning of the second semester o that the students will be able to fit whether or not they are eligible for the tryouts, and may later after the tryouts, and the show will be produced about the middle of March.
James Patterson, director, says that persons who do any sort of specialties are particularly asked to tryout to a need for such talent. He further said, "We want anyone who is the least interested to tryout. The show calls for a large cast and you won't have to be a Barrymore to have a chance."
Activity Book to Be Altered
Laws Governing Tickets Will be Printed on Inside Cover
The activity books which are to be issued for the spring semester are slated to carry several alterations from the form now in use. An identification card will be carried along with the book and all laws governing the books will be printed on the inside cover. The spring activities include:
A dramatic production, "Distant Drums," by the Kansas Players which will run for four days beginning Feb. 17
A continuation of the community lecture course with Whiting Williams lecturing on Feb. 13, "Hitler, Stalin, Musolini, Roosevelt—Which has the Answer?" and Lewis Browne, March 2, on "What I Saw in Germany."
The remainder of the concert offers the Roth String Quartette, Mar. 8, and Josef Hofmann, a well known pianist, May 17.
As usual, the Kansas Relays will be included in the book. This year the Relays are scheduled for April 21. A dual team is scheduled for May 21 and Kansas State will be held May 25.
Potential events, which include the annual Glee Club concert, University debates, tennis matches, and wrestling announced later, as they are not guaranteed.
Student Critically Ill
LeRoy Bishop Weathered, m'36, of Arkansas City, is critically ill at the Watkins Memorial hospital. He has pneumonia and kidney involvement.
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New York, Jan. 16—(UP)—New York University officials and the national board of review of motion pictures have announced that "The Motion Picture — Its Artistic, Educational and Social Aspects," will be offered by the University as a course in the academic year of 1934-35.
COURSE ON MOTION PICTUBES WILL BE OFFERED AT N. Y. U
This is a new turn in college curricula which will give the students of N. Y. U. an opportunity to become motion picture critics.
Journalism Classes Hear Kansas City News Editor
"Everything else is supplementary to the editorial department of a news paper," Robert Reed, news editor of the Kansas City Star, told journalism students today. "The manner in which it handles or treats its news marks the failure or the success of a newspaper."
"Every newspaper has certain general policies. The policy of the editorial page is, of course, laid down by the editor. There may also be a news policy which the editorial page has to carry on. As to features, the managing editor, the chief executive, and the editor must work in harmony with the editor to distinguish the best of the features."
Mr. Reed also said that the editorial department should co-operate with the business department in encouraging the small advertisers to become big advertisers.
As to crime news the idea of the newspaper is to tell all of the news but not to color it, the speaker explained. In answer to a question Mr. Reed said that the star has tried to give the Boynton story without color or propaganda and the same is true of stories on the NRA, the CWA, and son on.
"It is necessary to keep a newspaper at the highest level of reader interest," said Mr. Reed. "Co-operation with the circulation department is absolutely essential. The women's page and the sport page are just as important to some persons as a front page feature."
"The NRA code for newspapers is probably a good thing," he said. "A reporter is taken on as an apprentice however, and at $3 hours a week under a code he will have less opportunity to develop."
In giving suggestions to reporters for courses to study in addition to those in journalism. Mr. Reed advised not to neglect history, political science, sociology and economics because they are a great aid in the newspaper business.
Practice Teachers Listed
Forty-one Names Approved for Next Semester by Committee
Forty-one names have been approved for practice teaching in Oread Training School for next semester. The Committee on Administration of University teachers diplomas which just completed the approval of the following list of names, also states that several more names can be added to this list by the time of next semester's registration. This list includes the following:
Art: Katharine Stevens.
English: Thekla Anderson, Mary Ason,
William B. Bracke, Mary M. Haim
Mary Louise Heinemann, Lena B. Hill
Mildred Jones, Mae Kennison, Mary
Meyers, Arian Newman, Mildred Reagar,
Belva Roelsrone, Dorothy Roberts,
Dorothea Watson, and Lucile Weiss.
Swedish: Helen Goken, and Lailia Sula
nisch.
Home economics: Garnetto Hughe
and Mary E. Shuler.
Social science: Frances Ballard, Lee Burns, Kathleen Boucher, Louise Clarke, Dorothy Davis, Kalita Kerkendall, and Dorothy Zimmermann.
McDaniel, and Mary Willek
Buckman. Underwood
Walface Anderson, Bec Buchanan, Har
Dickinson
Spanish: Gordon Gustafson, Mary Louise Harrison, Elizabeth Jolous, Lori Wheeler, Margo Wheeler
FUMBLING TEAM WILL GIVE
EXHIBITION BETWEEN HALVES
A tumbling exhibition will be presented between halves of the Kansas-Kansas State basketball game Satur-
day, March 21, at the University of the
Universiety, tumbling team.
Herbert G. Allpin, who is in charge of programs between halves of all basketball games and instructor of the tumbling team, said today that various organizations would contribute to the programs. The Jay Janes, the women's pep organization, will provide the program Feb 8, between halves of the Kansas-Oklahoma game. Other programs will be presented by the women's gym team, and the Kansas Relays club, which will provide the program for the night of the Kansas-Missouri game, March 6.
Ise and Trovillo Will Be Featured in Musical Event
Annual Mid-Winter Concert to Be Presented by Symphony Orchestra
Professor John Ise, basso, and George Trovillo, fa'35, pianist, will be featured as soloists on the evening's program. Professor Ise will be accompanied by the orchestra in Schubert's "Etling," and Trovillo will have orchestral accompaniment for Gershwin's "Rhapsody in Blue."
Under the direction of Professor Karl Kuersteiner, the University Symphony orchestra will present its thirty-first annual mid-winter concert tonight at 8 o'clock in the University Auditorium.
The New World Symphony includes the well-known second movement which in part has been used in the song, "Goin' Home."
The concert will begin with four movements from Dvorak's Symphony in E minor "from the New World." Much of this composition was probably done in Spillville, Iowa, where Anton Dvorak stayed in the summer while on a visit to the United States from 1892 to 1895. It has proved to be one of the most widely recognized contributions to contemporary symphonic literature.
The second number on the program will be the selection by Professor Ise, to be followed by the Rhapsody "Espana" (Chabrier). The closing number will be Gershwin's "Rhapsody in Blue" featuring Troville.
The personnel of the orchestra:
Second violin: Robert Sedore, prinelal; Maurice Cailer, Mariner Chapman, Margegat Lyman, Margaret Hutchins, Lyman Henderson, Knapp, Towanda G巴巴ard, David Spicer.
First violin: Ruth Gregory, concert-master; Margaret Love, Mildred Allen, Martjorie Lovas, Marcia Neumann, Jennifer Bond, Adelaide Druskus, Saul David Kass, Sol Lindenbaum.
Cello; Corinne Dick, principal; Wanda Marie Harpster, D. M. Swarthout, Gordon Kinney, Ruth Beaty, Freeman G. French, Walton Ingham, Myra Wildish.
Viaja: I Moeer Brandstetter, principal; Ernestine Booher, Ednah Hopkins, Vivian Marquis, Lawrence Spalsbury, Mary Lou Becker.
Bass: Rex Christie, principal; Cather-
ney: John Winter, Robert Ardley,
Kaplan.
Piccolo: Bruce Lamb.
Westlake, Norman McCullough.
Bascony, W. F. Wickham, Elliot Ben-
635.
English Horn: Ralph LiBeau
Flute: Bruce Lamb, Margaret Speir
Bocce: Elizabeth Rees, Leli Montgomery
Carnet: Max Murphy, Richard Forster.
Saxophone: Finger, Robert, Robert
Clarinet: Max Murphy, Richard Porter.
Bassoon: C. W. Erickson, Elliott Penner
ner.
Horn: Millard Laing, John Clement,
sid Sloan, Betty Bridges,
Trumpet: Lawrence Penner, Helen
Helen
Tuba, John Tah
Tympanic Jack Moore
Trombone: Calvin Gurtler, Oliver
lobbs, Ted Gress.
Percussion: Tom Ryan, Ray Lawrenson.
Bano: Gordon Kinney
Harp: Carp Bushing.
Piano: Helena Kelley.
Librarian: John Doe.
Swimming Meet to Be Held
Varsity and Freshman Squads to Have
Dunl Next Week
A dual swimming meet will be held between the Varsity and freshman swimming squads next week. This is a pre-season meet to determine the ability of the swimmers, and to determine men who will compete in the dual meets to be held in February.
The first events will be run next Monday afternoon starting at 4:30 at the University pool. At this time there will be a 400-yd relay, 200-yard breast stroke, 150-yard back stroke, and 50-yard dash. The remainder of the events will be held Wednesday afternoon, Jan. 24.
Workman Dumns Own Slin
Harold White, one of the workmen in the pit in front of the library, has a unique way of dumping his slip. White drives the tractor. Noticing that the man who drives the team of horses dumped his slip himself. White climbs down from his tractor, dumps his slip and climbs back on, thus dumping his slip himself without the aid of anyone and without stopping his tractor.
Northwestern Union Dissolved
The Men's Union was completely dissolved at Northwestern University by its own vote, when it decided to sign a new constitution of the Evanston Campus association, according to the Daily Northwestern newspaper. The biggest problem left to the organization is the disposition of its recently acquired building.