Illustration that cross-eyed persons
----When a cross-eye man and a
blind man ran into each other, one
said, "Why don't you took where you are going!" The other replied, "Why don't you go where you are looking."
WHEN I OPE MY MOUTH,
Let No Dog Bark-
By the Soge of Fahnestock Hall
the birthplace of the gentle gulf stream, across, these vast and fertile plans to where the majestic hood towers in awful splendor and the mighty Sacramento flows through the Golden Gate, what have these people in common? Nothing but their lack of years. There are young peo-
2. Every age has produced its great men, and whether the chronic howlers like it or not, every age is going
to keep right on producing its great men. The poetry of today, the mormons Golden Gate bridges.
the eradication of many diseases, the widespread acceptance of Christian principles the reciprocal trade agreements are all mighty monuments of the great men of our day. And the young
people of today are not asleep to their challenge, they are not soft and weak willed.
Witness the heartbreaking research on cancer, the unceasing efforts of pacifists, reformers, teach-ers, researchers. The present generation will produce its quota of great men. When bigger and bet-ter bridges are built, some person young today will build them. Bigger and better sermons Will be preached, bigger and better stories will be written, bigger and better medicines, and serums will be discovered, and as long as the social ills of the world go unattended, bigger and tougher criminals will be produced.
Why? Because the generation knows many things at the end of ad-
kind collectively more than 3,000 years to learn. This generation will not only produce great men, but it will produce greater men than the world has ever seen. The monu
ments of tomorrow will be economic democracy, free trade, equitable distribution of the world's goods, world peace, practice of eugenics, better psychological health, energy from atoms, and other great things which we are only just beginning to sense.
So to those who wail about youth and youth problems: You need not
worry that this generation will not produce its share of better people of all kinds. And if we are to stand on your shoulders, surely you can't mind a few kicks as we scramble up.
Note—The short phrases in parentheses have been inserted in this article in an attempt to make the article more under-standable in the average, none-comprehending college student. —The Editor.
this comment is needed. When Shake-speare first said, "Let no dog bark,” he didn't know about the McPherson Bulldogs. So that exception can be made. As long as the team shows the fighting spirit that they have, I say, "Let Bulldogs Bark!"
After being told one thing by one person, and a contradictory thing
by someone else; after having ped-ants, politicians, demagogues, professional mourners, and chronic pol-lyannas, shout their dirges, dilthy-rambs (choric hymns or lyric poetry), and panaceas (cure-alls) to all corners of the world, a person finally gets griped enough that he sits down and decides what he really thinks, And this, my children, is one of those times.
Out of the din and confusion, these words seems constantly to reappear, youth, the youth problem, the youth
at. One speaker tells us that the youth of today are becoming soft, that they are losing their self-discipline, their moral strength. They haven't any character, will power, persistence, ideals, or beliefs. Their only activity in life is the satisfaction of their cutaneous senses. In short, the youth are nothing but a cynical bunch of hedonists (Epicureanists).
And there is that school of thought that says that the youth are got to be blamed for their shortcomings; that they are beset with greater
decay of tradition: the spectre of national uncertainly haunts their every move. This school of thought instead of dolefully proclaiming that the world is going to the dogs, shrieks "sic ’em" at the top of its figurative
As is readily palpable (perceptible) both or these cannot be right. And something is sadly amiss, if either one is right. I would like to outshout the shouters that neither view is right. And my reasons for such a bold view are:
1. There is no youth problem because there is no youth. There is John Smith, and Mary Brown, and Henry Everyman. These are young people raised on quiet farms, in noisy tenement district. In political chaos, in Christianity. In atheism; there are poets, farmers, mechanics, hop-heads, drunkards, geniuses, men-
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Where Does Uncle Sam Get All His Money? Whom Does He Owe?
An editorial which appeared in the Topeka Daily Capital last Friday puts an interesting light on the financial affairs of the national government. While it is pri-marily of interest to taxpayers, it nevertheless should prove worthwhile to all students of economics, history, and political science and to any others who want to know what is going on in national affairs at present.
___Uncle Sam—which means the United States Government
which means you and your neighbor—is now about $50,000,-000,000 in the red.
To get a rough idea of how much money that is, consider the fact that there are only about $6,000,000,000 actually in circulation in the United States today. To get a clearer conception of America's debt, just do a little simple dividing. You will discover that every man and woman and child in the country, as part of the Government, owes Homebody about $385.
......Whom do we owe? Where did Uncle Sam get all this money
in the first place?
Creditors for more than a half of the national debt are holders of treasury and savings bonds. More than $3,000,000,-000,000 worth of such bonds are now outstanding.
..... Another way in which Uncle Sam has managed to get his
hands on active capital is to take over the reserves in pension funds, including payments of workers anti employers to the Social Security kitty, and to deposit bonds in their place. Up to new, this procedure has netted the Government $8,900,000,000.
Short-term notes and bills, sold to banking institutions, have brought in $7,682,000,000, The Government is especially fond of this method of borrowing because the interest rates are low—often only l per cent. Only trouble is that shortterm paper runs out within anywhere from one to five years, and the notes must be redeemed.
Banks also hold $1,808,000,000 in adjusted service certificates.
The remainder of the public debt—$5,788,000,000—is held by citizens in the form of guaranteed obligations. About 80 per cent of this sum is in bonds paid in exchange for mortgages on homes and farms.
There will be no budget-balancing in the middle of a defense program. But suppose the Federal Government suddenly decided it would wipe its slate clean by taking the deficit out of the national income for one year, how would you come out?
Last year the national income was about $70,000,000,-000. In addition to your normal taxes, you would have to pay Uncle Sam about 71 per cent of your income for a whole year. That is where national finances stand right now.
Population Is Not Shifting From Rural To Urban Centers According To Latest Census
Recently a chapel speaker deplored the unhealthy situation of so many rural children going off to the cities. He considered it unwise to leave the ‘'clean smelling" farms to go to the cities which always smell of "smoke and garbage cans." The farm, in his opinion, was the best, if not the only, place to raise a Christian family. Financiers were depriving many famers of their farms and making it harder for youth to get started in an attempt to make their living on farms. Give youth the chance, he stated, and they would gladly farm.
Interesting statistics concerning population trends were just released by the Bureau of Census and publised in various leading newspapers. As shown by these statistics, cities of 25,000 and over increased only in per cent in the 1930-40 decade, while the population as a whole increased 7 per cent during the same period of time.
If the speech originally referred to had been given ten years ago, it probably would have been more appropriate, for cities increased 25,5 per cent in the 1920-30 decade. Thus there might have been a shift from rural to urban papulation in the preceding decade. But in the last decade, the shift, if any, has not been toward the cities of 25,000 and over. Proportionately. the cities lost, when population is figured on the urban and rural ratio of population in the United States.
Many reasons can be given for the change in the population trend, but that is not what is significant now. It only shows that many chapel speakers give talks on subjects, showing their hopes and prejudices, often not knowing the truth of the subject but generalizing from their own meager experience.
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