THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Economy Program In Germany to be Introduced Soon
attempt Made to Curtail Luxuries by the Increase of Taxation
Taxation
(United Press Staff Correspondent)
Berlin, Oct. 24—Once upon a time just before the war—one could buy a good milk cow in Germany for 400 marks. Today one is lucky if one can buy a couple of pounds of butter for the same amount.
And everything 'else has risen in price in proportion. No matter whether produced in Germany or in foreign lands, the prices move only slightly in the value of the mark reckoned on a dollar basis. By the time this is printed they will probably have doubled. In the last two days the price of margarine has been artificially raised from 120 and 10 marks per kilogram to 289–for other reason than that the dollar has risen rapidly in the last few weeks.
Prices are High
Margarine, practically a home product, with some Dutch importations now costs as much or more than butter, and the German people—especially the "restless" press, are beginning to wonder why.
Attempting to Check Rise
Everyone who has something to sell or a service to give has followed the course of the dollar faithfully, boosting his price when the dollar was strong—and keeping it boosted when the dollar tumbled.
Attribution.
An artificial high level of prices has therefore resulted which in most cases have logical basis for existent prices. The prices double and treble over the course of a few weeks and wages hardly have a chance to catch up. Hence, the German worker and white-collar desk fellows with small pay feel the pinch which their own merchants are creating.
The government is greatly concerned with the situation. Means to check the rise in prices are being proposed. The government proposes to regulate the use of grains and sugar in the food industry, in a tighter watch on the night life. Efforts will be made to see that all taxes are paid and paid promptly.
To Start Food Rationing
A curtailment of luxuries is being attempted by increased taxes thereon. food rationing will no doubt be resorted to before winter comes. The factory councils are demanding that there be less waste in business. A compromise between the old farm and the new program will be invoked. Deliveries of goods from the farm lands to the cities will be expedited.
A genuine alarm exists in Germany over the coming of winter. With workmen forced to pay 25,000 mark for the winter's supply of coal, workmen are now paying yearly wages—the situation along that line especially looks gloomy.
Blind Student Is Marvel
For His Success
Dallas, Tex., Oct. 24 - Jeff William Smith, student at Southern Methodist University here, does not permit his blindness to interfere with his ambition.
Wonderful Memory Accounts For His Success
Smith, a freshman, has been reported by his instructors doing work far above the average of his class.
sible for Smith to master each day's assignments without any difficulty, it says.
Being unable to read the textbooks,
Smith has some of his fellow students
to read the lesson to him. Only one
reading is necessary for him to fully
read it.
Besides being a good scholar, Smith takes an active part in student activities. He is a member of the university band, and has attended all football games this season, and said he enjoyed them.
Five Try Out For Club
The first tryout play for the Dramatic Club will be given in Little Theatre at 7:30 on Wednesday October 25. The play, "Mrs. O'Nalky Telephone," is a short movie with a cast of four characters. Those who are trying out by reading to-morrow night are Stanley Pennell, Lois Robinette, Wilda Dobson, Elizabeth Hewderson, and Allen Chappius.
Lane Dutton, Edward Riley, and Roy Linn spent Saturday and Sunday in Soldier, Kansas.
Miss Dorian Parks of Kansas City Ma. spent Friday and Saturday in Lawrence.
Fayetteville, Ark., Oct. 24. The University of Arkansas's youngest freshman this year is but fourteen years old and has received educational training students in forty-six.
Lad of Fourteen is a Junior at U. of Arkansas
Records of the registrar show that the junior student, Cleveland Buchan Hollobaugh, Jr., of Leslie, Ark, is one of the youngest students ever admitted to the institution. He graduated from Leslie High School last spring and is carrying a regular course in college.
The oldest student is Robert Horton Angus of Fayetteville. He was married in 1911, and went through the world war, being wounded while in France. He is taking an engineering course.
The youngest woman student is Miss Mary Elizabeth Smith, 15, of Paris, Ark. She is a regularly classi-
sioned in the College of Arts and Sciences.
Junior Women Will Hold Big Dinner To Create Class Spirit
Games, Stunts, Yells Will Be Feature of the Program For the Evening
"In this way," said Mary Rose Barron, junior W. S. G. A. representative, "we hope to create a better class spirit than ever before—that, in fact, is the main purpose of the dinner, although we also want the Junior girls to get acquainted at the same time."
"You'll be sorry if you miss it, say the girls who are planning the Junior dinner which will be held Thursday evening, October 26, at the
Promptly at 7 o'clock the girls will march to the Commons for dinner where Dean Blitz and Miss Barnen will talk to them.
At 6 o'clock the girls will meet at Robinson Gymnasium to hold a "yelfest," play old-fashioned games, and entertain with a series of stunts under the management of Elizabeth Martin.
Joins "Puddler's" Crew to Learn Business
There will be no election of class officers this year, Miss Barrons said.
Millionaire's Son Labors
Business
Chicago, Oct. 24 (United Press). A chip off the old block is Joseph Block, who is going to follow in his father's footnotes.
Block, 22, the son of L. E. Block, millionaire chairman of the board of directors of the Inland Steel Company and the graduated from Cornell University.
He is now learning the steel business from the ground up.
For a month he was a member of the "puddlers gang" at the Inland Steel Company mill, at Chicago Heights. The "puddlers", b y the way, have the hottest job in the mill, stripped to the waist, they direct the course of the huge billets of molten metal which come from the furnaces. They are the most versatile, half hearted way, either. He eats, lives and sleeps with his companions at the mill. He shares a room with a brother worker, carries a dinner pail and joins in the evening and morning march of the workers. He earns 35 cents an hour. Block is a favorite among the burly, musculus crew.
Long, clinging skirts, high heels,
and narrow vamped shoes did not
prove popular at a meeting of the
decade of women's colleges in Illinois
No Welcome for Clinging Skirts at Meeting of Deans
Ed. White With Spokane Company
Edin L. Wale, R. B. S. 22, is now
working for the Washington,
Population Center, Spokane,
Mr. White expects to be with this
company for the next three years.
Mr. White was President of the Stu-
dium of Agriculture and a member of a members of the Sigma Xi, honorary research fraternity.
The heralded departure of the short skirt was deplored. Due to the present sensible type of dressing, the good effect of girls' camps and the greater
Hilda Murdock, A. B. 22, who is teaching mathematics in Abileh high school this winter, visited friends in Lawrence Saturday and Sunday.
Concern was expressed that a return to the "slinker" styles would mean that much that has been gained will again be lost. Good health was stressed as the all-important goal to be attained by all girl students.
Ed White With Snokane Company
effect of girls' camps and the growth emancipation of women, the 1022 high school class, more vigorous type than her predecessors of other years, speakers agreed.
"English tramps are very democratic," said Prof. Victor Solberg, of the department of English when tell-tale stories were popular in Europe this summer. "I had nearly reached London, when I met one of these vagabonds, and taking me for one of his tribe, he offered to share with me his cannon of boiled pots."
Democratic English Tramp
Offers To Share His Can
Of Slum With K. U. Prof
"In some places the American front was perfectly preserved. There still remained the barbed wire entanglements that were part of the evidence of modern warfare."
Professor Sohberg served for Europe, early in June and began his walking tour at Chaumont, which was the general headquarters of the first American expedition to Cattillon-Sur-Seine, headquarters of the second American army.
He then went through Mont-baro,
Fonteenay, Senur, Alesia, Flavigy,
and Sombronor to Dijon. From here he followed the old Roman roads through the heart of Burgundy, the province noted for its wines.
"I met no tourists here, and very few foreigners walking in any part of France. My friends warned me
New $110,000 Dormitory For Pittsburg Normal
Work was started last week on the dormitory for women to be erected at the State Normal Training school at Pittzburg. Contracts for the erection of the structure were awarded October 3. The building must be completed by July 1, of next year. The cost is to be $110,000.
The site for the dormitory, which is just across the street from the campus on the South, was purchased by the university's administrative men. Plans for the admission to the dormitory which will accommodate 114 women have not been made, but it is probable that women status may be applied by application and in order of filing.
William Benton, LL. B. '20, spent Saturday and Sunday at the Alpha Tau Omega house.
before I started that it would be very dangerous to walk through France because everyone is so suspicious of strangers in that country, and I certainly found them so. There was a very interesting artists colony at Senur and another also in the old walled villae of Flavigny.
The second phase of Professor Solberg's trip began at Dijon, from where he turned northeast and passed Bescouan, and then to Belfast. From here he went west and followed the coast that fortress almost to Soissons.
Phi Delta Theta fraternity announces the pledging of Donald Ken dall, of Great Bend.
After spending several weeks in France, he crossed to England and spend a week in London. He then walked west from King's College at Oxford to Warwick and spent a week visiting the Shakespearean country.
"I was greatly impressed by the strip of valley surrounded by hills with Flovigyn on one side and the Roman ruins on the other. Alisa on the higher studies by Millet in the home of his daughter-in-law in Paris also attracted me as well as the battlefield of Hartmann-willerskoff in the Vosges Mountains, where 50,000 men were killed in one week."
A. F. Oiney, A. B. 15, principal of the Abilene High School, requests that all graduates and former students be present at the Homecoming game between Abilene and Emporia Highs, on Friday, October 27, at Abilene. The game, which starts at 3:00, will be preceded by a parade starting at 1:30 and ending at the field.
Moore and Knappen to Geologists' Convention
Dr. R. C. Moore and Prof. R. S. Knappen, of the department of geology, will attend the convention of the
American Association of Petroleum Geologists to be held in Denver October 25, 26, and 27. This is the second convention to be held this year, although previously the meetings were held annually.
Discussion of oil drilling methods, location of fields, and the problems of the petroleum industry will occupy the delegates to the convention. The official publication of the Association, the Bulletin of the A. A. P. G.
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