signed, the signatures t as an evidence of °d in The Wolverine ed to the office. consideration. No eniloses postage. e the sentiments ex- .Managing Editor John P. Dawson, Jr. ......... arry B. Grundy .. . . ... Gwyneth W rentmorc . . . . . . ..Clement Smith 'ANTS an James B. Young EL~anor Miller 3STAFF 160 or 3T4' ........Business -Manager Don A en Wolfe and try-outs rnoon in the yet at 3:45. the way of y of us folks iilure, sonic- t part of-the n any other ents, and of the value of umming into hings we do COMICS-A BENEFIT The comic strip cartoon has come, to occupy a big place in modern journalism. It fills columns, even pages, of the present-day newspaper; it amuses the public; it helps sell the sheet. But does it do anything else? Perhaps. If there is one trait which we of these hectic tinies times 'have developed more than most others it is the faculty of laughing at other people. The troubles and antics of our neighbors seem to be a source of constant amusement to us; but, while we are en- joying them, we are at the same time going at our own business with all the gravity of a New Eng- land clergyman.. We laugh at others, but we have not learned ayet to laugh at ourselves. The better modern comic strip artists can do, and are doing, much toward bringing us to a full realiza- tion of the humor of our own little idiosyncrasies. Doc and Walt of Gasoline Alley, and Min and Andy Gump, with little Chester, are real folks. They live and act, day by day, just as the rest of us live and act in the main, and through their solemn- faced capers and sayings their creators take their own opportunity to snicker occasionally at them- .selves and their fellow men. In the little inconsequential things in life we take ourselves too seriously. Let us have more of the clean type of comics that will teach us the lesson of how to laugh at ourselves. We need it. Even on their back-to-nature vacationing, Ford, Edison, Firestone' and President Ejarding are made conspicuous through newspaper publicity. This business of being great must be a terrible strain. Why does a girl characterize any eighteen-year- old she happens to be interested in as a "man"? Others' Opinions MAKING THE BEST OF LUXURY (The Saturday evening Post) Explain and analyze it away as you will, the per- sistenceof luxury spending in what are supposed to be hard times is a provocative, interesting and cur- ious feature of present-day American civilization. The copper and rubber industries may be flat on their respective backs along with other fellow inva- lids, but the demand for seats at world-champion- ship prize fights aid major-league baseball games indicates a strong, rising market for amusement and recreation. It has been estimated that more than twenty-two billion dollars was spent for luxuries in this country in 1920, or more than has been devoted to education in tie entire three hundred years since the continent was settled by Europeans. It is safe to say that this estimate is grossly exag- gerated. Indeed various trade authorities have al-, ready pointed out serious flaws in the figures. Only the amateurish statistician or economist will under- take to draw a hard and fast line between necessit- ies and luxuries. Products which are known in their earlier days as luxuries often find an essential place for themselves and add hugely to the public -store of utilities and wealth. Making every allow- ancefor exaggeration in the estimates it is evident that the nation enjoys a backlog of wealth which no deflation or depression can dispel. Then, too, it is a great comfort to the taxgatherer and the lawmakers who must devise taxes. Let the home-run sluggers, the heavyweight champions and the movie queens draw down their awe-inspiring stakes, contracts and salaries. If the Bureau of In- ternal Revenue is on the job the public treasury will nt suffer.. It is all very irritating of course to the producer or distributor of essential commodities. The drug- gist who sells a seven-dollar bottle of perfume with- out hearing a murmur of pr6test from his custom- er, and finds ugly looks only on the faces of those whom he charges five cents for a liberal portion of powdered pumice stone or absorbent cotton, may find it difficult to retain his faith in human nature. But it is a deeply ingrained and natural if seemingly inconsistent and certainly very nasty trait of human nature to growl at the price of necessities and pay cheerfully through the nose for any extortion in re- spect to luxuries. We take our necessities and even our comforts for granted. Modern invention and machine pro- duction have habituated us to them, have made them comnmonplace. There is no excitement in being healthy, well fed, comfortably housed, comfortably clothed, and warm n the wintertime. But there is much pleasurable excitement in being amused, in having our palates tickled, in seeing a championship game, in decorating .ourselves for display a little more than the other fellow. These tastes are more or less foolish, illogical and disagreeable, but people are made that way, and to change them to any great extent by merely preaching against extravagance and in favor 'of thrift accomplishes little. There is only one sure correction against this trait, and it is not a pleasant medicine. If too large a proportion of the capital and income of the na- tion becomes absorbed in the production of mere amusements, appetizers, thrillers, decorations, the supply of essentials will gradually fall off until we actually suffer, and these essentials in turn become luxuries and command a premium. The basic equip- ment of civilization-coal, houses, railroads, electric- ity, to name but a part-if allowed to run down too far will be revived when scarcity really strikes home to the people. The corrective process is -sure to set in. The pity of it all is that the tendencies of human tastes, appetites and fashions must go uncontrolled until suffering results. .But apparently the forces must work themselves out to bring equilibrium. G K AA AM T W 0 O OLLEGE S T OK0E S 0 K AI A. ffM mt Dega a Daily rogra August 2 5 p. m.-Greek Magic (illustrated), Prof. Campbell Bonner. S p. m.-The Development of Medi- cine in Relation to the Community, Dean Hugh Cabot. 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