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'No Panacea
For Sororities.. .
S ORORITY women decisively showed
that they do not approve of chang-
ing the present rushing system in favor of a de-
ferred plan, when for the second time they voted
against the proposed measure Tuesday.
The deferred plan was first voted on in January
and defeated by a close margin. With the instal-
lation of new rushing chairmen in the sororities,
it was felt that the opinions might have changed,
but the new group opposed the plan by a 15-to-4
vote.
Their decision was undoubtedly the wisest course
of action. Had the deferred plan been inaugurated
the rushing season for women would not have
started until two weeks after the beginning 'of the
semester. It is well-known that the rushee is too
obsessed withlmaking a favorable impression to
do much studying. Ordinarily, by the beginning of
the second week the social flurry has quieted and
students are beginning to think about going to
school. What would happen to the scholastic aver-
ages of the girl being rushed to a sorority over
this prolonged period of time, certainly would not
be helpful.
Actives in sororities would also have to tempo-
rarily let their work slide in order to insure
their houses a good class.
Friends of the proposed deferred plan insist
that both actives and rushees would become better
acquainted and as a result both could make wiser
selections. But sororities would not be allowed to
actively rush a girl until the official season opened
and this season would be no longer than previously.
At the same time the two-week period of in-
activity before the official rushing period opened
would serve to promote to a greater degree the
bane of dirty rushing.
As for the age-old argument against the evils
of pledging rushees on first impressions, the only
way in which to correct that evil is to defer pledg-
ing until the second semester and have regular
rushing occasions during the first semester. The
Interfraternity Council instituted such a system
here three years ago, however, and so many major
flaws were brought to light that the plan was soon
dropped.
What brought about the controversy according
to reports, was the alarming decrease in the num-
ber of girls pledged to sororities last year. "Some-
thing must be wrong with the system," said some,
and set about to innovate some new plan, never
A Permanent
Chicago Fair?.. ..
WHEN CHICAGO'S BIG SHOW, A
Century of Progress concluded two
successful years with a fair-sized surplus over all
obligations, it decided definitely to wind up its
affairs while its reputation was still perfect.
The marked drop in attendance for the second
year was one indication that this world's fair would
not draw forever. Officials of A Century of Prog-
ress probably did well, in view of continued hard
times, to heed the warning of last season.
At the same time it is almost inevitable that
someone or other should be toying with the idea
of establishing a permanent summertime attrac-
tion of similar nature. The Illinois legislature is
considering bills providing for new exposition au-
thorities. Persons feel a sentimental fondness for A
Century of Progress, and Chicagoans who found al-
most th'eir only economic hope in the tourist bus-
iness will be glad to endorse the effort for a con-
tinued fair.
If the fair is reborn in some form, it will prob-
ably be on a less extensive scale, but with industrial
displays as the nucleus. One plan is to have the
central feature changed from year to year, as
from automobiles to airplanes to agricultural ma-
chinery to railroad equipment, and so on. Added
entertainment features of both highbrow and low-
brow nature would probably be necessary to make
the exposition a success.
It seems logical to expect that Chicago and the
Middle West would be able to support many per-
manent educational attractions at a convenient
center such as the Chicago lake front. A beginning
is afforded by the Art Institute, the Field Museum
and the Planetarium. But if the show must run
at the tempo it has during the past two years,
leaning heavily onvarious types of ballyhoo, it
will face the risk of undoing what was so success-
fully wrought by the first fair management.
gAs Others See kt
A Job For General Johnson
(From the St. Louis Post-Dispatch)
OINE OF THE THINGS about the depression con-
cerning which we have no exact knowledge is,
oddly enough, the extent of unemployment. We
believe it to be in the neighborhood of 10,000,000
persons. We believe it once was as high as 14,000,-
000 persons. But no one knows what the total
figure is. The American Federation of Labor gives
out a periodical estimate, which is widely accepted,
but it is only an estimate.
Mr. Roosevelt makes the excellent suggestion
that a census of the unemployed be taken. Such
a census would yield information of the greatest
importance. It might show that unemployment is
more widespread than anyone suspects. It might
show that it is considerably less serious than it is
supposed to be.
Se retary Roper of the Department of Commerce
is reported to be planning an unemployment census
through a house-to-house canvass. A hundred
thousand or more enumerators would be employed
and the cost would be from $12,000,00 to $15,000,-
000. The work would take a long time. The
chances are that before the census was completed
it would be already outmoded. At this point, Gen-
eral Johnson enters the picture. In his. daily article
of April 11 he suggested that the census be taken
by using the method employed so successfully in
the World War draft registration. Gen. Johnson
knows all about that, because he ran the show him-
self.
During the war, three nation-wide draft regis-
trations were held, involving 28,000,000 men. Each
time, the registration was completed within 24
hours and the degree of accuracy ,according to
General Johnson, was 98 per cent. Under the Gen-
eral's plan, the President would appoint a day
when all people seeking employment would register
at their accustomed precinct polling places. At
each of these would be a registrar, appointed by
the governor or mayor, and several volunteer clerks.
The Federal government would furnish forms to
be filled out, on which unemployed persons would
set down such facts as age, experience, depen-
dents, preferred form of work and references.
To insure complete, or nearly complete registra-
tion, the press and radio, of course, would broad-
cast the importance of going to the polls on the
appointed day. In addition, all who registered
would be given certificates, without which no one
would be eligible for employment on any public
works project. The registrations would be counted,
collected and handled in every way like election
returns. The morning after registration the re-
sults would be known throughout the country. "Be-
cause of its speed, economy and simplicity," says
the general, "it could be repeated every 60 days."
He estimates the cast of such census as $500,000.
Why is General Johnson's idea not thoroughly
sound? Why could it not clear up a puzzle which
leaves the government working in the dark on
many phases of its recovery program? It may be
argued that those who are sick or otherwise dis-
abled could not go to the polls. Then provision
might be made for proxies, armed with suitable cre-
dentials. This plan worked during the World War.
It can be made to work now.
Its success, to be sure, would depend in large
part upon a capable administrator. We have him.
It is General Johnson himself. Here is a task that
exactly fits his talents. We nominate General
Johnson for the job.
It was not college professors who wrote the Ten
Commandments, or the Book of Job, or the Four
Gospels .. . They did not write the Magna Charta,
the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution
of the United States, the Marquis of Queensbury
rules, nor were they the authors of the immortal
ditty, "Yes, We Have No Bananas."- Rep. John
McGroarty of California, sponsor of the Townsend
Plan bill in Congress.
COLLEGIATE
OBSERVER
By BUD BERNARD
NEW LIGHT ON AN OLD STORY
lie says:
So spring at last is here!
Lean back, my dear, observe the moon
That's shining o'er the water clear.
Alas, the lovely night too soon
Will fade away into the dawn,
But while it's here, come, let us love;
The night was made for it, come on -
Let's make use of that moon above!
She says:
Ah, yes. I know too well
That spring is here. Spring! All it means
To you is that the nights are swell
For parking out, but in your jeans
There wouldn't be, by chance, a bit
Of dough to take me out to dance -
Oh no! So here we sit and sit
And sit; and you call this romance.
DIARY OF A CUBAN STUDENT
Monday - Paraded for three hours today. Shot
three policemen. Three hits out of five tries. Nice
work. University opens today. Registered.
Tuesday - Fought dirty capitalists this morn-
ing. Spinach for lunch again. Fought'communist
strikers this afternoon. Nice blonde sits next to me
in physics.
Wednesday -Blonde has brains. Helped hatch
plot to murder Mayor and shut off city water supply
for two or three days Later - Physics prof. sprung
quiz; didn't have time to murder Mayor - dumped
typhoid germs in water instead.
Thursday - Shot at four dirty capitalists this
morning. Missed three. Aim getting bad. The
damned physics professor is getting me nervous.
Spinach for lunch again today. Shot cook.
Friday - Wrote note to Board of Trustees, warn-
ing them to hunt for a new president of the Uni-
versity, as we are going to shoot this one. Saw
physics prof. with blonde this afternoon.
Saturday - Decided not to shoot president.
Lynched him instead. Blonde and physics prof.
had date last night. Blonde said she had to go
or he'd flunk her. Later - blonde drinking coffee
with physics prof. in Greasy Spoon. Later -
bombed physics prof.'s house. Later - Physics
prof not home yet.
Sunday - Nothing to do ... things pretty quiet.
Went down and derailed three street-cars. Started
riot. Shot physics prof. Will teach class - and
blonde - myself.
Being a professor was an adventure once. Back
in the early days Hobart College students used to
throw snowballs and bottles at the president of the
college, and drive unpopular professors from the
classrooms with barrages of pittoons, books, and
once-fresh vegetables.
Hamilton College boys were no slouches either.
Once they fired a cannon into a professor's room.
Although he was unhurt, his coat, which had been
hanging on the chair, was blown through the side of
the building.
A Washington
BYSTANDER
By KIRKE SIMPSON
WASHINGTON, April 24.
LONG the AAA flint a suspicion is harbored by
A administration men that there is a political
black man in the cotton textile wood pile. They
have a notion that a deep laid Republican scheme
has been hatched to crash the New Deal's line via
the uprooting of the cotton processing tax and by
means of a strange alliance between industrial
New England and the agricultural south.
As the storm over the plight of cotton mills blew
up so suddenly, there was a lot of talk about this
off-stage in AAA circles. No one was willing to be
quoted, however. It seemed to be founded on belief
rather than information.
FINALLY, the New England Democrats of the
House, 15 strong, rallied by McCormack of
Massachusetts, put it into words. They advised
the White House, by petition, that the textile crisis
was being exploited in their judgment mostly as
Republican campaign propaganda, aimed at 1936.
Which presents the curious spectacle, if the House
Democrats are right about it, of such other party
stalwarts as Senators Walsh of Massachusetts,
George of Georgia and Governor Curley of Mass-
achusetts adding fuel to a Republican-kindled
flame. Curley even went so far as to invite Secre-
tary Wallace out of the cabinet due tohis remark
about the "whining" of New England cotton millers
over the processing tax.
That the situation is serious from many points
of view is sufficiently indicated by steps taken
at the White House to dig into it for facts. A four-.
way inquiry is in progress, to say nothing of what
probing into political..backgrounds "Big Jim" Far-
ley's Democratic national committee scouts may be
doing. NRA, AAA, the tariff commission and a
special cabinet committee composed of Messrs.
Hull, Roper and Wallace are all busy over the
textile crisis.
CONCERN of the New England House Democrats
is easily understandable. Most of them sit
from districts notably Republican in the past.
According to Chairman Sloan of the cotton textile
code authority in a piece solicited by Senator
Walsh and printed in the Congressional Record,
there are 33,000 fewer employes in the cotton
mills than a year ago; 71 mills have shut down;
more are getting ready to close and all because
of the processing tax. Japanese cotton fabric im-
ports, increased labor costs and other conditions
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