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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN. LAWRENCE. KANSAS
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 30, 1932
University Daily Kansan
Official Student Paper of
THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
EDITOR-IN-CHEE FRED FLEMING
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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 30, 1932
BACK TO NORMAL
At last the elements are doing their bit for a troubled world, although a trifle in it getting down to schedule. After trying every other alternative the March King found them all wanting and came back to his regular routine which he has followed since man began noting the King's actions. The baby hurricane, which swept over Mount Oulet yesterday and which has threatened to level everything on the Hill, may be a herald of normal times in more ways than the weather.
We can always find something to complain about in the weather. It is either too hot or too cold, too wet or too dry, too windy or too still, to bright or too cloudy. But when we have spring in January and February, and winter in March, our lamentations are still more loud and long. Weather in which your clothes are almost torn off, your hat blown to Kansas City, and your hair pulled out by the roots does not provide the height of comfort, but any return to normal conditions since 1928 has been viewed with the greatest joy.
So when tempted to complain about the wind just remember your complaints last week during the blizzard, and the week before when you said "This spring weather can't last long." Moreover, of you don't like the dust comfort yourself with the thought that April showers will soon be catching you unawares and taking all the press out of your clothes.
The reminiscing senior says if she had all the money she was forced to spend on hose because of chairs with spinters and protruding nails, she could afford to pay for her diploma.
A WISE STAND
In taking his firm stand against additional payments on World War veterans' compensation certificates at this time, President Hoover has placed public benefit ahead of personal advantage.
Soldier bonus bills always present lucrative opportunities for vote-getting. Veterans are solidly organized and usually wage militant campaigns, for such measures. On election years, the temptation to vote additional payments regardless of their effect upon the treasury is all too easy.
After opposing last year's payments to ve te rajan, President Hoover carried his appeal against a further disbursement before the American Legion convention in Detroit and gained that body's support for his stand. Other organizations have been less easily convinced, however, and have carried on a vigorous fight for additional compensation. A majority in the House is reported to have been secured for the move.
The proposed bill calls for payments of approximately 2 billion dollars. In the words of President Hoover, it would completely undo all the efforts which congress is making to balance the budget. The new taxation now being legislated will bear heavily upon the people. Should the bonus move succeed,
this additional burden must be more than doubled.
War veterans are entitled to all the compensation which can be given them. But more cannot be done now without further increasing governmental expenses at a time when they are already intolerably high. In times of an emergency such as this preservation of national credit must come before class benefits.
HO HUM!
The room grows dim; all sounds recede far, far away. The world seems to be whirling about. And then—a jolt. A number student awakens; he scoots himself upright in his chair, and the professor's voice dromes on and on.
The remainder of the hour is one yawn after another. At last the whistle blows and the student goes out of the door with the feeling, "Weil, that's over for the day." All this brings us to face an argument. Should we abuse vacations altogether, or should there be a law sustaining them but requiring all students to return to the campus twelve hours before class time? It might be helpful to add as an amendment that six of the twelve hours must be spent in making up for the lost sleep.
Something has to be done about it; this can't go on. Oh hum—so tired—can't write another—word.
A group of students in central Ad were looking at two newly posted signs in front of the college office. Generally there two sign boards are back against the wall.
WHERE HONOR IS DUE
Makes me back against the wall.
At this particular place the hall is dark.
Hundreds of students go trooping by, day after day, and occasionally do they stop to notice the bulletin boards.
Is it any wonder education has become top-sided by publicity given to sports when we don't give the honor roll any more place than to post it in a derk hallway? Of course each school has its own honor roll, but since the largest division comes in the regular college group, is it not an injustice to treat it so objectionally?
Since the Administration building is the center of activity, would it not be possible to erect a bulletin board in that place, post the honor students from all the schools and have a flood light reveal the fact we do have some interest in those few who "make grades?"
IS OUR COUNTRY FREE?
If Kentucky coal town officials are as deeply interested in the public good as they profess to be, what reason can they advance for not permitting food to be brought in to the hungry miners? And what possible justification can they offer for the rough treatment given those persons who attempted to carry the food into the country? The officials of Harlan county are quite evidently in sympathy with the mining operators. And, since there exists a distinct division between the miners and the operators of the district, justice has given place to political control. It has even gone further. For, through the work of the political bosses, food has been kept out, tarvation has set in and human lives have been lost.
BABY BOND PROGRAM
Again we demand, is our country free? Or must our people go on bended knee before officials for the very food necessary for the sustenance of life? Have our people the right to live or must they be granted that privilege by the officials in power? What of our freedom, we ask, if such action is to be countened?
All persons interested in the publication of a Dove are asked to meet in the north tower of Fraser Hall Thursday night at 7. Bring whatope you have from your backpack.
P MEETING:
OFFICIAL UNIVERSITY BULLETIN
Vol. XMIX WEDnesday, March 30, 1922 No. 142
Notices due at Chancellor's office at 11:30 a.m. on an regular afternoon publication day and 11:30 a.m. on Saturday noon.
The rural or small banks are about to be dealt a very serious blow in the form of the proposed baby bond issue suggested by Secretary of the Treasury, Mills. They are now making a desperate effort to serve their patrons and resume normal functions, including an extension of credit to the farmers. Now that the government has developed a campaign to sell baby bonds, the inevitable effect will be to take from the small banks and country communities a considerable part of what little cash they now have.
FENCING CLUB:
There will be an important meeting of the Fencing club tomorrow at 4:30.
All members please be present. DONALD H. RONZE, President.
IDA H. HYDE SCHOLARSHIP:
Applications for the $100 scholarship, intended to give advanced women students specializing in the sciences, preferably biology, an opportunity to study in other research laboratories, should be made to Professor H. H. Lane, head of the department of zoology, before April 4.
E. GALLOO, Chairman Scholarship Committee.
INTERNATIONAL GROUP OF Y. W. C. A:
The International group of the Y. W. C. A. will hold a supper meeting n fenley house Thursday evening, March 31, from 6 to 7:15
MARIAN NELSON, ANNIE MAE HAMLETT. Co-eanrmen
JAY JANES:
There will be election of officers Thursday evening at 7:30 in the women's lounge of the Union building. All members please be present.
WEDNESDAY NIGHT VARSITY:
NELL REZAC, President
There will be a regular Wednesday night varsity tonight at the Union
Stags will be filled a dime. NEWMAN JEFFREY.
Y. M.C.A.
--able part of what little cash they now have.
There will be a Y. M. C. A. business meeting tomorrow afternoon at 3:30 a room 10 of the Union building. All members are invited to attend.
Not only will an "unlimited" bond issue such as this be offered to the so-called boarders, but all classes of investors will have an opportunity to purchase. This really means that the people who are not boarders, but who have misgivings against the present banking situation will be attracted by these securities, and notwithstanding the low interest rate, will be tempted to withdraw their savings and other deposits to invest in the baby bonds. The government seeks to market these bonds through the small banks themselves. These banks by selling the bonds would cut their own throats in encouraging their depositors to withdraw their deposits in order to buy the bonds.
Every baby bond bought represents so much money withdrawn from the local banks and sent into some distant city where it cannot possibly help the people in the community where the money was earned and where the owner lives. The plan will take ten dollars out of the banks from the money on deposits for every dollar which it calls from hiding. Persons who are afraid or ashamed to hear will be encouraged to invest in baby bonds. In effect, the government proposes to hoard the funds of the public, safely and pay a nominal amount of interest for the privilege.
No matter what our feelings may be on prohibition, we all realize that there is too much "bally-hoo" and too little real knowledge of the facts. The whole liquor question has been placed on an emotional basis, and it is indeed refreshing to find a few logical arguments offered.
PROHIBITION DISCUSSED
Nine points advanced by the anti-prohibitionists have been attacked by the National Woman's Christian Temperance Union in an article in the Christian Science Monitor.
The argument that "Prohibition enforcement cost the country billions of dollars" is contradicted by the Temperance Union with the following statement: "Total cost of enforcement, 1920 to 1931, $284-156, 524; collections from fines and penalties and revenues from taxes on lawful and distilled and fermented liquors, $458,588,884. The net is a balance in favor of the Government of $264,422,260." These figures were compiled by the director of prohibition.
The second "wet" argument,
"Prohibition has caused an enormous economic loss," is balanced by the statement that "Total national wealth in 1914 was 192亿 dollars in 1931 it was 329 billion." "Repealing prohibition w o u l d p put 1,000,000 men to work," is declared false by the Bureau of Business Research of the College of the City of New York. In this, one
must consider the men who would be taken away from the soft drink trade and the fact that only 86,000 were employed in 1914 in the manufacture and sale of liquor.
We hear the claim that "beer will bring prosperity," but the Temperance Union say that "to encourage the return of the saloon, or even let up our efforts to control the drink trade, will injure every legitimate industry in two ways. The average workers will have fewer dollars to spend for the products of industry; second, the liquor trade will get more of the dollars which ought to go for useful industries." This is based on a statement made by Thomas Carver, Professor of Political Economy, Harvard University.
The claim that the tax on beer would produce a revenue of a billion dollars a year is untrue, figuring that to raise this high revenue it would require a consumption of 12½ gallons of beer daily by every family in states permitting its sale. Following up this argument a little further, the highest liquor tax ever received was $483,000,000 which included a tax in 1919. The average year's liquor tax was less than 10 per cent of what the wets promise, according to the statement made by the Temperance Union.
The seventh "wet" argument is, "Prohibition has lost billions of dollars in taxes to the Government." In answer to this the W.C.T. U.S. says, "In the first decade of prohibition, although cost of government increased as the country increased, the Government paid off billions of indebtedness and reduced income taxes."
The anti-prohibitionists say that prohibition has increased drinking, but the Temperance Union offers Colonel Woodcock's testimony before the subcommittee of House Appropriations Committee, Jan. 21, 1932, as a fitting answer. "The Government measured the amount of hops, corn sugar, rye, bryale, etc., raised and imported, subtracted the amounts used in known legal enterprises, and reported that the amount of raw material left would make less than a third of the former liquor consumption."
Perhaps we may rightfully question some of these points, but we can at least say that the "wets" and "drys" are marshalling their forces, and are seeing the need of specific, concrete arguments from authoritative sources.
And finally, in answer to the challenge that "bootleggers thrive on dry votes," the W.C.T.U. advances the statement that "Every corrupt city administration in America has been elected on a wet ticket."
We see where Stanford University women favor the cave-man type of male. Were they born a hundred years too soon or a hundred years too late?
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