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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
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MONDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1931
BACK IN THE RUT
Well, after all it looks like a long, cold, hard winter. About four thousand bleary-eyed students are back in the rut. Professors are painting dive pictures of what the future holds, and a rocky road 1 e a ds. toward Christmas. We've seen a lot of vacation after-maths, but never have we seen one quite so depressing.
It was a great vacation while it lasted, though. Perhaps that's why the future looks so black. We're not intending to frighten freshmen who are scholastically unsound, but just the same the thought of seven final exams sort of leave us nauseated. Personally, after a four-year road fraught with hardships, we've arrived at the stage where every hour counts.
Tomorrow it won't seem so awful, but right now we feel about low as that hole wrest of Fraser hall. But even that hole is rising to a new level, so maybe our spirits will soon be elevated too. No one can expect too much after a Thanksgiving vacation following on the heels of a Homecoming. Which reminds us that after all, there is some cause for the perennial question, "What's wrong with prohibition?"
SOVIET TRADE
American trade with Russia will in all probability be one of the many perplexing questions which will face Congress this winter. The problem of Russian imports from the United States has been growing in seriousness ever since the first of the year. They have declined 50 per cent. In October this year the Soviet purchased only 10 per cent of the amount which they bought in the same month last year from America.
There are numerous reasons for this decline in trade. Government representatives denied that American manufacturers have been urged to use caution in extending credit to Russia, but the greater risk, due to the huge debts and the unfavorable balance of trade of the Soviet, have been pointed out. In the long run, imports will have to be paid by exports, and Russia's unfavorable balance of trade for the first eight months of this year was $105,000,-000, compared with $30,000,000 for the same period last year.
Some Americans have been working hard for em bargoes against Russian lumber, coal, and managenee. Last spring this was said to be one of the chief reasons why the Soviet had greatly expanded its trade with Germany, Great Britain, and Italy and reduced its trade with the United States.
The decline of Russian trade will prove to be a hardship for American manufacturers, but if the Soviet is unable to pay for purchases, it may prove to be a blessing. Russia is said to be *aproaching a crisis due to her inability to meet financial obligations and a threatened curtailment of wheat exports.
TAPS
Last week four venerable and gray haired veterans of the Lawrence post of the Grand Army of the Republic assembled at a banquet with some of the state's most distinguished citizens for the farewell meeting of the organization. Out of a membership that has included over nine hundred of the veterans of the war of the rebellion these four are all who were present to witness the passing of their organization, and to hand over the torch of liberty that they fought for more than half a century ago into the keeping of the American Legion.
There is something touching in the meeting of these old troopers who fought to preserve the union of our United States. They are all that remain of an almost vanished race—a race that gave unstintingly of its youth and resources in the time of our country's greatest peril. We of this generation do not and cannot fully realize what their triumph has meant. But we do honor and revere them as the heroes of a national crisis.
Slowly but surely their ranks have thinned until only a few remain. They have lived to see the fulfillment of the cause for which they fought. They have entrusted their ideals to younger and steadier hands to uphold and defend. Now only taps remain.
A JUDICIAL INSULT
The Minnesota supreme court recently ruled that a passenger has no business to supervise the management or operation of a car unless he discovers a danger of which the driver may not be aware. What a superfluous decision!
Back seat drivers aren't accustomed to call to the attention of the driver dangers which he already has sensed. The trouble is that the manipulator of the steering wheel just can't see the squirrel in front of him, the hole in the pavement, or the slow sign to the right. He is too near the front of the car to notice that the vehicle ahead has stopped or that the road is too hazardous for forty mile speed. The one on the back seat alone knows about these things. His eyes are on the alert for just such facts to impart to the unappreciative driver of the car.
The Minnesota judges should have gone further in their opinion. They should have given to back seaters the exclusive right to dictate movements to the driver, who should be merely a mechanical dummy to carry out the instructions of the observant.
The national advisory committee on education, composed of fifty-one leaders of learned appointed by President Hoover two years ago, has reported in favor of a reversal of the present federal education policy. The report recommends no interference with the autonomy of the states in matters of education, making all aid given to the states for education general, and the creation of a department of education confined to research.
EDUCATION
Most states will welcome this report; for the varied and perplexing conditions of education in the various states makes federal control undesirable. There are some things which state governments can do better than the federal government. The promotion of education is one of them, as is shown by the complex and inconsistent way in which the federal educational activities are handled. However, more centralization of education in the individual states is essential to the best interests of our school system.
In one school district in central Kansas there is a teacher who, although he receives a substantial salary, has only one pupil in his care. The members of this district may save some money by failing to consolidate with the adjoining district, but the educational system of the state as a whole suffers by this lack of centralization. In order to provide the youth of Kansas with the best educational facilities, co-operation rnd a certain degree of local and state centralization is necessary.
GET TALL!
Dr. Logan Clendening, Kansas City columnist, who recently was hailed as a friend of ordinary folks because in his new book "The Human Body" he told us we needn't exercise our bodies unless we feel like it, that we don't need to see our dentist twice a year and that it is unnecessary to worry about the number of vitamins in our food, disappointed his newly-found devotes in a column issued last week.
In the tell-tale column which makes us believe that Dr. Clendening is just another physician after all and not the saint we thought he was, he set up his definition of a good body posture. The rules run something like this—stand tall, sit tall, lie tall, walk tall, think tall—in other words be.
tall, even though both parents contributed short chromosomes to your make-up. When he her by "think tall" the medical columnist means that one should think with the head thrust straight up into the air or that he should allow only high-minded thoughts to enter the sacred portals of the cranium is a matter of speculation.
Dr. Clendening, who formerly befriended the daily dozen enthusiast, shows little sympathy for those of us who like to slouch down in our seats. We'd rather rest our necks on the back of a chair than be spared a trip to the dentist.
At least, though, we are saved the trouble of going through the matinal process of limb stretching since we have to live in a strained position all day and can't even curl up at night. And there is another consolation, we don't have to chew our food tall and kiss Mary tall.
We now hear from Wichita that the duck season was the worst it has been in years, and that Federal supervision may halt the open season on ducks for two years at least. A government survey announces the astounding fact that there is an alarming shortage of ducks in North America.
A DUCK SHORTAGE
BUSINESS ADVICE
All of which may be true, but it certainly doesn't explain the enormous flocks of ducks and geese that passed over Lawrence Friday and Saturday. Great flocks, at times so large as to be almost a cloud, winged their way southward, blithely ignorant that the Federal government had declared them scarce and invalidated the idea that such flocks as they represented were still in existence.
It may be that the ducks and geese have been fooling the Federal government, and whenever they saw a government survey man coming hid out in the reeds until he passed by. If this is true we'll bet they're laughing up their wings right now, at how they fooled the "Federalals" and gained two years of reprieve from the guns of the hunters.
American industrialists would do well to follow the advice which the Prince of Wales recently gave to British industrialists and business men. He said, "Men in trade and industry must personally go and visit the countries, study conditions on the spot, find out what
Then again it may be that they have been, so to speak, two-timing the hunters, sending out one of their number to be shot at while the rest stayed under cover. In case this luckless duck happened to get shot where would the hunters be? Against such a system they have no chance. It looks as if, between the Federal government and the ducks themselves, the poor hunter hasn't even a chance.
Meeting of vesper chorus is called for 4:30 sharp Tuesday afternoon, Dec. 1,
in Professor Skilton's room, number 32, Administration building. Everyone
please, in syringe, arrange to be present. D. M. SWARTHOUT.
OFFICIAL UNIVERSITY BULLETIN
Vol. XXIX Monday, 9th, 19.31 No. 65
MAC DOWELL FRATERNITY:
Initiation for new members will be held Thursday evening, Dec. 2, at 5:30 p.m., in the room at central administration building **HUDOLIM WENDELIN**, President **HUDOLIM WENDELIN**, President
CHRISTMAS VESPER CHORUS;
PEN AND SCROLL:
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he rest room of central administration building.
VIRGINIA RUFI, President.
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Our Contemporaries
PREMEDICAL STUDENTS;
The Association of American Medical Colleges' aptitude test will be given in Dec. 11, 2013, at 12 p.m. in room 101 Snow Hall. The test should be taken by all students who expect to apply for entrance to a medical college or one of the normal requirements for admission. This is the only time it will be given this year and before all students planning to enter a medical school next fall should take it. A fee of $1 payable at the time of the examination is required. PARKE WOODARD
Gamma chapter of P. Lamda Ltheta will meet Tuesday, Dec. 1 at 7:30 pm in room 191, Fraser Hall. CTYLTICE WILEY NICOLS. Secretary.
Regular meeting of Theta Epsilon will be held Tuesday, Dec. 1 at 1124 Mississippi at 6:45.
DELORA KLEOGO, STATE
the people want and then supply them what they want." German industrialists, not waiting for better days, are following this advice by investigating market possibilities on the spot in the small country of Bulgaria.
THETA EPSILON:
Debolt, Ken—Sunday trains on the Beloit-Salina branch of the Union Pacific probably will be discontinuited in May. **C. A. Moore, division superintendent**
Thus, it would appear that Russia, like other nations, must have world co-operation if it is to make progress, for with the present unfortunate balance of trade in the Soviet Republic there will be no plan if very seriously threatened.
Finding out what the people want is not the usual way in which the big industrialists of America do business. At least the people's wants are not considered seriously on the spot. Our system of mass production demands the creation of wants. Many manufacturers make out a quota for a given territory and then by high-pressure salesmanship proceed to sell enough articles in this area to fill the quota. It may be good business to create wants, but this should be done intelligently and with extreme care.
Big business in America does not ask, "what do the people want?" so much as "what can the people be made to want?" There should be more scientific investigation of the normal wants of the people and less abnormal forcing 4 sales. Mass production should not be allowed to run wild. The application of reason and common ense is essential to business prosperity.
To Discontinue Sunday Trains
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Russia inalsult by my use the "depression Russian law" country since the adoption f its Five-Year Communistic plans. Russia's economic crisis lately as have oceans economic crisely as have oceans
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was born fourteen years ago this month, and the new movement have been attempting to change that country from a purely agricultural one, with its militant roots, to a more democratic, progressive and powerful nation. Machinery and other modern contrivances were used in the development, with a view of educating the inhabitants to other vocations than that of farming. The Yeran plan, which established certain goals of production, was instituted. For the most part, this plan has succeeded.
The Soviet Republic, however, repudiated all of the Russian pro-war assets with an entirely new financial program in 1917. Owing to the character and practicality of the special social policy, loans, with which to carry on their program, have been hard to obtain from other countries. Thus, the United States began to upon foreign trade for the acquisition of money. As long as Russia's exports were still going into poured into Russia and the five year experiment was kept moving. During the war, Russia's imports have exceeded exports.
Javhawks Flown
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John S. Seburich, 71, has a teaching fellowship this year in the laboratory of the electrical engineering department at Michigan State College.
News has been received by the death of John R. Thorne, 96, of Waukee, sixth district. Mr. Thorne was 68 years of age and was engaged in the institution.
James Connelly, '25, has purchased the County Capital, a newspaper in St. John, Kan.
Howard Sutton, 31, has been doing mapping and appraisal work for the Kansas City Power & Light company during this last summer. In October he attended a conference with the Westinghouse company, for whom he had previously worked.
Harold J. Matthews, 22 is now executive director of the Children's bureau of Houston. Tex. This bureau has two children, both in South. It was one of 15 children's agencies in the United States studied by the Howover commission on Child Health and Child Welfare. He has in his description a number of phases in various phases of child welfare.
News From Home
Goodland Strays Into Kansas
Clay Center—Two sportsmen of this city while hunting ducks along the Red River in the eastern part of Kanauan Goodland. The Goodland is an unmigrating species. No one is able to explain its presence in Kansas.
Goodlander Strays Into Kansas
Campaign Against Diphtheria
Neodesha—A diphtheria immunization campaign is under way in this city. The first day of the campaign 182 children were treated. The toxin antisirum is furnished free to those children who are unable to pay for the treatment.
Boy Strangled in Trapeze
Erie—Quentin Olson, nine year old, was stranded to death while at play on a boat in the basement of his home. The boy had been dead only a few minutes when his mother (found a minute) efforts to retrieve him were of no avail.
Postal Workers Convention
Dodge City - Probably 500 postfixes employees of the state of Kansas will hold on Feb. 12 to hold a one-day convention.
Diphtheria Epidemic Threatens Newton—Because of a threatened school district, the local board of education, in conjunction with the county health supervised and the county medical society, has agreed to all school children free of charge.
Midget Couple In Movies
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Shultz the Tailor
Postal Workers Convention
Sabeth-Sabethe's mitget couple, Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Hennigh, have entered the movies. They recently signed a contract with Radio-Keith-Universal to produce a feature film and will leave for Los Angeles to begin production within a few days.
Pratt-At a meeting of the First Baptist church here only pennies were accepted in the collection. It took a good effort to collect all the 6,428 pennies collected, carry away the 6,428 pennies collected.
Pennies In Collection
Manhattan, Kan—Beta Pi Epion,
deaf fraternity at State College state
bachelor of Theses XI, national fraternity,
with the invitation of several Anglo-stu-
der students.
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