VOL. XXIII, No. 20
UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA
FRIDAY, MARCH 17, 1933
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GREETINGS FROM THE NEW PRESIDENT
I take this pleasurable opportunity of extending my sincere thanks to the student electorate for the splendid expression of con-
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body will find some field of ac- 4
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HUGH ARNOLD.
_ AGS DISCUSSED RELIEF MEASURES
Edmonton Commissioner Speaks to University Society
The Agriculture Club held a par- ticularly interesting meeting on Tuesday afternoon, Mar. 14. Mr. G. A. McKee, relief commissioner for the city of Edmonton, was the guest speaker. Dealing with the subject of
relief from the administrator’s point of view, he outlined in some consider- able detail the many complicated problems facing his department. The Dominion and provincial governments and the city share equally in bearing the financial burden. Relief takes the form of providing food, shelter, clothing and health service to those
whose sworn statement shows them}
unable to provide these for them- selves. A staff of inspectors are em- ployed to check up on the circum- stances of relief recipients, and the greatest care is taken to ensure just _ administration.
An interesting scheme now being sponsored here is that of encouraging indigent families to go on to farms and homesteads to live and to do what was possible by way of self-support while the city provided establish- ment funds and a monthly grocery allowance. Mr. McKee expects and supports expansion of this scheme.
Following Mr. McKee’s address,
= Mr. Ed Swindlehurst and Mr. E. N.
Davidson spoke to the club members. They are competing for the position of faculty representative on the Stu- dents’ Council. Discussion then turned to the proposed compulsory club fee, and very much opposed views were expressed. A referendum on this issue will be voted on during Students’ Council elections.
LE CERCLE FRANCAIS
La derniére séance du Cercle Francais, pour cette année, a eu lieu a Athabasca Hall, le ler Mars. _D’aprés le rapport du comité de no- minations, les officiers pour la session 1933-34 seront:
Président: M. de Savoye.
Vice-Président: M. Glen Shortliffe.
Secrétaire: Mlle. Jean Schurer.
Trésorier: M. Edward Green.
Trésoriére: Mlle. Janet Atkin.
Comite de Thé: Mlles. Hazel Suth- erland, Joan Hunt, Margaret Sutton.
Le compte-rendu de la trésoriére a montré qu’il n’y a pas de dépression ‘dans le Cercle. Toutes dépenses payées, il nous reste une somme denviron $21.00.
Ensuite M. Glen Shortliffe a raconté, d’une facon trés spirituelle, ses pérégrinations d’ Edmonton a Kamloops, en guise de trimardeur ou “hobo.” Jl a dépeint les autres _ voyageurs dont il a fait la connais- sance, surs les trains de, marchandise; et il a terminé sa causerie en con- statant que cette population ambul-
ante, sans travail, constitue un probleme trés grave pour le Canada. WITH THE MEDS
The fifth general meeting of the Med Club was held Thursday, March 2, in Athabasca Lounge at 8 p.m. The sixth year students provided the entertainment, which took the form of a clinical examination.
The rest of the evening was spent in discussing the coming Med Club banquet. Anyone who missed the meeting, missed some valuable in- structions regarding that function. It’s tonight, if you’re in doubt about the date. :
MATH CLUB NOTICE
The final meeting of the Math Club will be held on Tuesday, March 21st, in Room 286 Arts Building.
Business: (1) Election of officers; (2) awarding of Math prizes.
Mr. Morrison will give a paper on some selected topic.
PROVINCIAL BASKETBALL FINALS
Varsity vs. Raymond Union Jacks, April 24 and 25, at 8:00 p.m., in the Upper Gym.
NEW TREASURER
IN APPRECIATION
Through the courtesy extended by The Gateway, I wish to express my appreciation of the honor which has been conferred upon me in electing me Treasurer of the Union for the coming year. Many serious prob- lems face the incoming Council— most of them financial. It is to be hoped that we will be able to pursue a policy of the strictest economy, and at the same time maintain the high standards which have been set by Alberta in the past. These prob- lems will, I feel, be successfully met by the whole-hearted co-operation, not only of the Students’ Council, but also of the entire Students’ Union.
LYLE JESTLEY.
RINK NOTICE
All persons having equipment in the rink should remove it im- mediately.
NOTICE
The University Musical Club will meet for the last time this season at Athabasca Hall on Sunday, March 19. As a depar- ture from custom, no tea will be served. The musical program will commence promptly at 3:00 o’clock. (Please note the earlier hour.)
At the close of the meeting a new executive will be elected.
The subject for the afternoon is Brahms. A _ representative program of this composer’s mu- sie will be given.
Members who have not yet paid their fees are kindly re- quested to do so at this meeting.
| Rice, serious dramatist of the ma-
General Election Returns ---Arnold_ for President
CLOSELY CONTESTED VOTES
SHOW NARROW MARGINS—
NEW EXECUTIVE TO INCLUDE BESSIE CLARK,
HARRY PREVEY,
The annual Bierwagen-Arnold
LYLE JESTLEY
contest ran to a close finish, re-
turning the former secretary as President of the Union for 1933-34
with a majority of 302 votes out of a total poll of 1,970.
A diffi-
cult year is facing the incoming Council, and the genial Hughie will
undoubtedly have his problems. The Vice-Presidency was even
Bessie Clark with a majority of only 133 votes.
more closely contested, returning Previous experience
on the Women’s Disciplinary Committee and on the executives of
numerous student organizations, makes her selection very fitting for the difficult office she is to fill. The contest for the Secretaryship was the closest of all, Harry Prevey winning over Newcombe Bentley by 115 votes. Lyle Jestley became Treasurer by acclamation. The new | finance man graduated in Commerce |
from U.B.C., and is now taking a
at Alberta.
The Men’s Athletic situation is in| the hands of Fred Gale, who has had: plenty of athletic and executive ex: |
perience. Helen Ford, by acclama- tion, will guide the destiny of Women’s Athletics in the coming year.
Muriel Massie is the new President of Wauneita, the unsuccessful candi- | dates being Kay Swallow and Mary Thomson.
Faculty Representation goes to Jack McIntosh for Arts, Harry Mc- Gowan for Engineers, Ed Swindle- hurst for Ag. These were the only faculties. contested at the general election.
Harry Bell will succeed the ubi- quitous Mr. McCormick, and carry on the work so ably commenced in the debating field.
As a side issue to the main election ballots were cast to determine whe- ther. compulsory club fees. would be instituted next year. Arts, Engi- neers, Commerce and Law voted them in, and the Aggies turned them down. It is felt that a definite amount forthcoming at the beginning of the year will reduce the necessary allot- ment per person.
COMMERCE CLUB
The annual general meeting for the presentation of the budget and the election of officers will be held Tuesday afternoon at 4:30. The room will be posted immediately.
Every person registered in Com- Atlee is urgently requested to at- tend.
NEW SECRETARY
IN APPRECIATION
It is with great pleasure that I take this opportunity of thanking my many friends who supported me in the recent elections of the Students’ Union. I sincerely hope I will be able to carry out the duties of the Secretary of the Students’ Union in a manner fitting with the confidence which has been placed in me.
The duties of the incoming Coun- cil will in no way be light. Economic difficulties will arise. Problems of student government will inevitably occur. The varied program of stu- dent activities will require careful guiding. I look forward with eager- ness towards aiding in the many de- cisions and actions which will be made in these respects.
HARRY PREVEY.
NEAPOLITAN INTERLUDE
A Critique by W. G. H.
In “See Naples and Die’ Elmer
chine-age, took a night off to enjoy himself. The result is a play that is a froth-blower’s dream, but is some- what slight in literary merit. The plot is extravagant, the characters approach caricatures and the situa- tions alternate between farce and melodrama. Elmer Rice’s recipe— since his name suggests the metaphor —seems to be this: get yourself a hard-boiled though really sentimental American girl married—only techni- cally, of course—to a melancholy and degenerate Russian prince, bring the girl to Sorrento to seek help from her former fiance—a young Ameri- can, poor, but, oh, so honest and big-hearted under his crust of slang and pretended sophistication, scram- ble in an entanglement of said young American with a Viennese “pretty lady” yearning to be liberated from a brutal and bloodthirsty Roumanian general, and then sit back to see what happens.
What does happen is, to use the
American idiom, “plenty,” particu- larly as the author has seasoned his , dish with a German factotum, a} “haw-haw” Englishman, an irrepres- |
sible American tourist of uncertain |to and from it.
years and femininity, an Italian inn- keeper, rejoicing—shades of Renais- sance Florence—in the name of Medici, and a Scandinavian consort, two assassins disguised as chess-play- ers, an assortment of postmen, coach- men and Fascist guards, and, piéce de resistance, a thoroughly pagan and unmoral and therefore thoroughly de- lightful Italian peasant girl.
As will at once be seen this play is entirely different from most, if not all, of those produced in past years by the Dramatic Society of the University. Not that their choice was an unhappy one. On the contrary, it seems that ‘‘See Naples and Die” was a fortunate selection, very entertain- ing in its nonsense and splashed with color and action. The general effect of the production was certainly good, and even University professors, de- pressed by salary reductions and the
stupidities of the genus homo, were seen to smile. Re The “act of working” of a critic, |
however, as Aristotle would say, is to criticize, and, in consequence, we must turn to the production itself— referring specifically to the Friday evening performance. It can be said, at once, that the general level of the production was excellent in all de- partments. The direction, in which in past years the Dramatic Society has been very fortunate, was con- sistently good. The grouping was artistic, the movement, with one or two small exceptions, flowed smooth- ly and ease and naturalness was ac- chieved to a high degree. Especial reference might be made here to the dynamic explosiveness of the two chess-players when they burst from their static immobility into the kill- ing of Prince Kosoff and General Skluany. This was a fine bit of acting and of direction.
It may seem pedantic to ecavil at one or two trifles which fell below the general level—but, after all, they serve to emphasize the ease of the rest of the production. The placing of Rowlinson’s alleged landscape— which, by the way, might well have been merely a blob of color—seemed to result in crowding and awkward- ness whenever there was movement
better, also, to have omitted Skul- any’s shaking of his fist at Carroll just before the brutal Roumanian dragged “Kunie” in to get her beat- ing, of which, by the way, there was remarkably little trace on her next appearance, Again, although the lines of the play seem to call for consider- able obsequiousness from Hjordis de’- Medici to the prince and princess, their actual arrival to be only an- other dish of spaghetti to her.
These and one or two similar awk- wardnesses are, admittedly, very minor points. They do not detract from the distinct excellence of the direction. Mr. Jones is, in fact, to be sincerely and highly complimented on a smooth and finished production.
Scenery, lighting and sound effects do much to help or hinder a perform- ance. Here again, keeping in mind the difficulties of the University stage, the general effect was good.
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is true, were not nearly blue enough
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ARNOLD, STUDENT UNION PRESIDENT, 1933-34
this year been deprived of his usual piéce de resistance. That no major problems vexed the student life is largely due to the splendid co-operation that existed between the President and the rest of the Council, and between them and the rest of * the student body. Art has at all times proved himself an un- tiring worker in the courage of his convictions—convictions like morals are a matter of opinion —thus whether we agree or dis- agree with certain policies, we may be sure that the motive was excellent. Those of us who knew and liked Art well before he became President of the Students’ Union, still do so— enough said.
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and the charming setting could pos- sibly have been flooded with more of the bright sunlight of Italy. But the outline of Mussolini above the door of the Albergo-Pensione was de- lightful in its pugnacity—suggesting an Irish ward boss somewhere in II
heard on an amateur stage in Edmon- ton. The make-up was uniformly good.
Stage effects, direction and the play itself are, however, in the final analysis dependent for their effec- tiveness on the individual. members| of the cast. Here again, while prais- ing the effectiveness of the acting as a. whole, a eritic: should; I suppose, attempt to balance light and shade, especially since critics rush in where wise men fear to tread. The explo- sive effectiveness of the two chess- player assassins, Brian Ringwood and Al East, has already been mentioned. In the other unnamed roles, the Fas- cist guards were well done, but the carriage driver had little of the exu- berance and importunity of your true Italian. Stepan and Skulany were intended by the author to be stage props rather than actors and so es- cape both praise and blame.
In the other minor roles, Anthony Whiteside, one felt, scarcely got in either accent or manner, the stage Englishman that Elmer Rice wrote into his play. In spite of this, he 'did succeed in producing a recogniz- jable impression of the type. He was, possibly, at his best in his bathing suit, which, for the wolves of realism, was really not very wet after a dip in the blue Mediterranean. Parker Kent was better as Hugo von Klaus, although one might criticize the lack of precision in his bow. The Italian innkeeper, de Medici, was played with considerable verve by Bill Odynski. He really seemed to be enjoying him- self, particularly when Luisa was on the stage; and I liked his flying hands and feet during the excitement after the assassination. Isobel Stew- art, as his consort, showed restraint and naturalness, although with her, as with Klaus and Rowlinson, it was, at times, difficult to hear the lines.
VICE-PRESIDENT
BESSIE CLARK
VALEDICTORY EXERCISES
Graduands are asked to note that Class ’83 Valedictory Exer- cises will be held in Convocation Hall on Monday, March 20, at 4:45 p.m. Gowns for this func- tion may be procured from the Bookstore.
Duce’s ancestry—and the sound ef- | fects were, possibly, the best ever,
Miss McMullen, as Mitzi, was rather disappointing, especially after her fascinating performance in the win- ning year play. She had a tendency to view the audience, was slow in her cues and did not seem to feel that her lines really meant very much to her. There were only occasional ,flashes of the ease and brilliance of | which she si capable. The perform- ;ance of Sara Yampolsky as Luisa, on the other hand, was one of the high- jlights of the show. In ease and naturalness she was, possibly, the best of those on the stage.
An outstanding performance was also turned in by Mary Duncan as Mrs. Evans, the Baedeker American. It might be suggested that she exag- |gerated the part to a certain degree and that more restraint and a little less elocution would have made her presentation more effective. Yet the character itself was an exaggerated one, and Miss Duncan did a masterly piece of work in its presentation.
The plot of the play revolves, of course, around Nannette Dodge, Prince Kosoff, Kunegunde Wandl and Charlie Carroll. The Dramatic Society was fortunate in its casting of these major roles. Miss Cadzow, as “Kunie”, achieved a restraint and a Dresden china effect in pleasing contrast to Miss Allsopp’s more ro- bust role as Nanette Dodge. But Miss Cadzow’s performance on the opening night was marred by her failure to speak loud enough. It re- mains true that clever acting goes for little if the lines cannot be heard in a manner to carry conviction.
Miss Allsopp as the American girl who married a Russian prince to save her sister’s reputation, turned in an artistic and excellent perform- ance. Carrying a heavy role, she maintained speed and _ naturalness and achieved her shifts in mood. In one or two speeches she showed a tendency to recite rather than to in- terpret, and there were one or two occasion when her movement ‘was nervous. But she gave, on the whole, a very capable and effective pre- sentation of the pseudo hard-boiled but really sentimental and idealistic American girl, and her acting was one of the finest interpretations of the evening.
Her degenerate and melancholy prince was ably presented by Murray Bell. In make-up, appearance, voice and manner he made the character live, although there were reminis- cences of the Dauphin in St. Joan. His entrance at the end of the first act was a nice bit of acting and of direction.
The American young man was splendidly done by Bill Wheatley. His voice graduations were good, and his movement easy and natural. Here~ and there he showed a tendency to faulty enunciation, which was also observable in certain others of the cast.
But to him and to Miss Allsopp must go the honors for the acting in a very successful production.
In the way of general criticism it might be pointed out that there were one or two prompts, that pro- nunciation of words like Genoa and Albergo occasionally offended the ear, that the cast did not wait for laughs, and so spoiled some of their lines, and that there was at times a slowness in the picking up of cues. But these points, as well as the other criticisms mentioned, did not affect the excellent level of the production. It is fair to say that the effect on the audience, one of the cardinal points in the production of a play, was noticeably good, and that, in general, direction, acting, back stage effects, costuming and make-up were of such a high standard that the whole production. must be ranked as a decided success.
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THE GATEWAY
FRIDAY, MARCH 17, 1933
THE GATEWAY
The Undergraduate Newspaper Published Weekly by the Students’ Union. of the University of Alberta
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THE COUNCIL
During the year, from time to time, we have criticized the actions of the Students’ Union Council. We have not agreed with all that they have done and said, but we have earnestly tried to give credit where credit was due.
And now at the end of the term we look with pleasure at the year’s association with the Council. ‘There have been mistakes quite naturally, but we would like to think that these have been more than submerged in the good judgment, efficiency, co- operation and good fellowship displayed by the Coun- cil in the administration of their duties and all the innovations for which they are responsible.
THE TWENTIETH ISSUE
This is the twentieth issue of The Gateway. That fact centres our attention on “the beginning of the end.” Final examinations start just about a month from now, and we hope that all the students worry just enough to keep working at their most efficient intensity, and that they receive correspondingly gratifying results from their labor. The special edi- tion of The Gateway, the Convocation issue, will an- nounce final examination results, the names of the winners of scholarships and awards, as well as giving news of Convocation activities. Any student desiring to receive a copy of the Convocation Gateway will signify by writing his expected summer address op- posite his name on one of the lists which will be placed on the bulletin boards very shortly.
Owing to the policy of rigid economy practiced
by the editorial staff this year, it is expected that no papers will be supplied to students other than by mail. However, at the earliest opportunity (sometime before Convocation day), the examination results as appearing in the Convocation Gateway will be posted on the bulletin boards. The necessity of your co-operation in the matter of summer addresses is emphasized. To insure receiv- ing your examination standing, make a point of enter- ing your address on the lists as soon as they are posted.
EMBARGO ON ARMS
Just recently Great Britain put an embargo on the export of arms to countries engaged in warfare, still more recently she removed that embargo. The object of the first action was obvious, but that of the second more complex. In the first place, it was thought that by removing the supply of weapons, activities might be lessened; which does not work when one side has available a sufficient supply and the other side none at all. Nor does it function when only one of a certain number of producers cuts off its supply. No other country followed Great Britain’s example; and like the majority of ideas voiced by mankind in the interests of mankind, this scheme to make war less possible died of lack of support.
Great Britain then realised that another period of splendid isolation might have as unpleasant results as the last one. Accordingly she withdrew the embargo; rather foolish to waste a .chance of making money when everybody else was doing it.
Now the U.S.A. are flirting with the idea of an arms embargo (if others will do it too). So once more the nations of the world are putting on their little display of “I will if you will, but you must do it first,” to the tune of increased expenditure in naval and military departments.
Cand aes
CO-OPERATION
Co-operation is a necessity in most enterprises. But it is even more essential in Students’ Union acti- vities. This is partially due to the nature of the work to be done which entails a dependency on so many people. No student, in a supposedly democratic in- stitution such as our Students’ Union, can possibly bear alone the burden of responsibility of pleasing all of the multitudes, no matter how hard he tries.
Primarily though, the need for co-operation arises from the fact that any positions held by students can cnly receive a part of their attention, for their aca- demic standing must be maintained; and that few students are paid for the time and energy they devote to extra-curricular activities and therefore a certain minimum. of services can not be demanded, they work they do depends entirely on their sense of individual responsibility.
The co-operation of the student body with The Gateway has been noted and fully appreciated. The paper’s punctuality is an impossibility without the help of the contributors. And the number of people actively interested in the student publication has been increasing from one term to the next for some years, culminating in an unusually large group of contri- butors this past year.
A much appreciated evidence of co-operation with the publication of The Gateway is the attitude taken by the University staff members regarding the paper. They have respected completely the freedom of the press giving the editorial staff the entire responsi- bility of censorship. This we thankfully acknowledge.
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OFABETTER ‘OLE GOTO IT ~— > Assistant—That last seance was pretty good. Medium—Yes, just a shade more and I’ll be a success.
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“This is just the place for me,” Said the humorist at the shore. “For here whene’er I crack a joke The breakers simply roar.” * * *
Many a true word is spoken through false teeth. a cd *
Inebriate—Ish thish a meat market?
Owner—Yes.
Inebriate—Then meet m’wife at 4:30 for me, will ya?
* * * Bill Begg claims that a free translation of “Quae- cumque Vera” is, “How Cum So Weary?” a * * Early to bed, Early to rise, And your girl goes out With other guys. * * *
George Casper bought a new shirt, and on a slip pinned to the inside found the name and address of a girl, with the words, ‘Please write and send photo- graph.”
“Ah!” breathed Casper, “here is romance.”
And forthwith he wrote the girl, and sent a pic- ture of himself. In due course of time an answer came, and with heart a-flutter, George opened it. It was only a note. :
“T just wanted to see,” it read, “what kind of a gink would wear such a cheap shirt.”
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“°Tis hard to be poor,” sighed the artist, “Yes, ’tis hard to be poor,” said he. “Oh, that’s all right,’’ said the sketch-pad,
“Tf you’re broke—just draw on me.” * * *
Cop—Hey! Come out of there. allowed here.
Riley (in pond)—Pardon me, I’m not bathing. I’m drowning.
(Devilish laughter is heard from the background.
It’s probably Ed McCormick.) *
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Bathing is not
We courted on the cliff,
Our cooing mixed with banter. We sometimes had a tiff,
But made it up instanter. We’d watch each bark and skiff
Where sea-birds used to hover. We courted on the cliff—
Alas, she threw me over.
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Ted Manning—I passed by your place yesterday. Gordon Newton—Thanks awfully. * * *
“Look at that pall-bearer—his knees are giving way.” 2 “Yes, he never could hold his bier. * bad *
Things get complicated when a mine shows a deficit. The owners want to throw the onus on the miners. And the miners want to throw the minus ‘on the owners.
* * * Religious Person—I can see good in everything.
Not So Religious Person (probably Jack McIn- tosh)—-Can you see good in the dark?
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If a Hottentot tot
Taught a Hottentot tot
To talk e’er the tot could totter,
Ought the Hottentot tot
Be taught to say aught,
Or naught, or what ought to be taught her?
If to hoot and to toot
A Hottentot tot
Be taught by a Hottentot tutor,
Should the tutor get hot
If the Hottentot tot
Hoot and toot at the Hottentot tutor?
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According to the Woman Haters, there are only two classes of co-eds—those who are pretty, and those who don’t care for boys.
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Professor—You missed the class yesterday, didn’t you, McBride?
Mickey—Not at all, sir, not at all.
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The other day Larry Alexander decided to find out how business really was in Edmonton. He visited many of our prominent citizens, and asked them all the question, ‘“How’s your business?”
The egg-dealer said, “Rotten.”
The undertaker said, ‘Dead.’
The rag-picker said, ‘Picking up.”
The street-cleaner said, “Oh, pushing along.”
The garbage-man said, “Collections are good.”
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“T have a terrible rumbling on my stomach. It’s like a wagon going over a bridge.”
“Tt’s most likely that truck you ate this morning for breakfast.”
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Mother—Well, dear, did you have a lot of atten- tion paid to you at the party?
Bobby Brown—Some, mamma. made faces at me.
Two little boys
And we are also grateful to the professors who have contributed to The Gateway. We hope this practise will continue and increase.
Without the co-operation of the students, the University staff members, and the various organiza- tions on the campus the undergraduate newspaper would be impossible. Accordingly, The Gateway staff thanks everyone for the active interest displayed this
_term, and bid you adieu.
Editor, The Gateway.
Dear Madam,—It is, perhaps, a daring venture to draw attention to a view contrary to that in a sermon preached to University students last Sunday, amid which there was much rejoicing over the postulation that “materialism is dead.” We have not, however, seen its epitaph!
If our “economic” materialism is not dead, it must be admitted that it has lost much of its former vitality. But it is almost ridiculous to assert that because this is the case, we must slacken our interest in its health. Rather than forsake the solution of our means of livelihood to seek shel- ter in “inner values,’ we should launch out to do what we may to improve our circumstances. When the conventional ostrich is distressed it hides its head in the sand. We are asked to do the same, leaving it to those who will, to improve conditions in their own way. Perchance we may be able to pick up a few crumbs.
Certainly there is no quarrel with Christian ideals. But all do not pos- sess them; and in former times those who have possessed them have not taken the initiative in working out the problems. While they were rum- inating in their sleep, conditions were emerging about them which were bound to cause distress. We can, at least, be thinking.
Rather than reaching back to get a soother from the ancients, we should declare for pragmatism—ideals jn action. Anyone who needs a sop to pacify him in a hard situation, where courage and vigor are needed, will do little to promote the world, either spiritually or in material ne- cessities.
“Ts not Christ at work in the world today?” We are wondering!
University of Alberta, March 138, 19338. Editor, The Gateway.
Dear Madam,—I am writing to comment upon the meeting of the Students’ Union this afternoon.
It looked rather poor indeed for some of the future members on the Council who were called upon to speak not to be even at the meeting. Do not such meetings as this interest even them?
It would have been more impres- sive if all the speakers whom we came to hear had sat in front of us on the platform where the blackboard was instead of being mixed among the audience. They would have no opportunity, or little opportunity, then to show their shyness by speak- ing behind our backs rather than coming to the front to speak.
In the Students’ Union meetings which we are given an opportunity to attend semi-annually, it would be a good departure from the regular custom for the Council to sit facing us on the platform, so that we could see them all. I am suggesting this as a means of increasing the attend- ance and the interest in the meetings.
I suggest further that we should have more Students’ Union meetings than we have had during this session. Why not allow the students to de- cide important questions themselves and so reduce the amount of criti- cism which the Council receives? Sufficient students would be free af- ter 3:30 or 4:30 in the afternoon, or it could be held at night. Look at the good attendance we had early in the year at the debating forum when good speakers and topics were chosen. If the question was suffi- ciently important, and the students knew about this well in advance, would they not come? The ques- tion a member, attempted to raise this afternoon shows student interest to be not altogether dead.
Referring now to that question, I believe the gentleman has spent a large amount of time considering the problem, and is vitally interested in it. It is possible the Students’ Union might manage on less than they re- ceive. But it is doubtful if any or- ganization is going to reduce its own assets if it can possibly help itself. If a person thinks any organization’s rates or charges, which must be paid to receive its services, are unreason- able or excessive, after failing to get a reduction, the person invariably either leaves the organization or ap- plies to some compelling force such as the courts, stating his reasons to get relief.
Very truly yours, P. H. WILSON.
THE OPEN MIND
March 13, 19338. Editor, The Gateway.
Dear Madam,—From an editorial over the style “C.J.J.”’ in your last issue, I am prompted to the follow- ing thoughts, corollary rather than opposed.
In these days it is fashionable to have an open mind and no convic- tions. For some of us it is hard to be patient with our open-minded. There may be a world of difference between the open mind and the un- prejudiced one—the latter connating some content even if the organism can not be entirely unbiassed. The unprejudiced mindvis capable enough of conviction, but the wind of thought may blow through the open mind and leave it open, or even va- cant. It is one of the properties of a mind to know when to shut: even a clam knows that. As a-rule, the better the mind the firmer it can shut itself against the poison of propa- ganda and advertisement, with which the open mind is so continuously doped that it losses the taste for real mental food. A man should be some- thing of a connoisseur in regard to his mental diet. There is no more reason why one should go around with an open mind than with an open mouth.
But the mind should’ open, and open wide, for the anastigamatic eye
of-intelligence works best at a wide
WOMEN
Women are what men have to marry. They have two feet, two hands, and are usually two-faced. Owing to their “gimme” characteris- tic, they should never be allowed to see more than one dollar at a time. Women are all made up with the same material, the only difference being that some do a better job than others. Generally speaking (at the top of their voices), they may be divided into three classes—snobs, gold diggers, and dumb Doras.
Millions of men, with their char- acteristic courage and tenacity, have tried to make a respectable wife out of a woman, but none, as yet, have succeeded.
All women, in their atmosphere of vanity and self-satisfaction, are un- der the dilusion that men enjoy kiss- ing a painted broom-handle flourish- ing red finger-nails, and wearing a pair of trousers.
All women have a knack of making themselves look ridiculous. They ac- complish this by numerous schemes, such as dieting to extremes, wearing funny clothes, assuming a Union Jack complexion by the use of rouge, pow- der and mascara, sucking at a cig- arette with a “half-mast’’ expression on the Union Jack, or walking here and there after the manner of an underprivileged colt with spavin.
If you flatter a women, she will hang around for years waiting for more, and if you don’t, she won’t even recognize you the next time she sees you. If you make love to her, you are a playboy; if you don’t, you are a nincompoop. If you lie to her, you are a heartless, unsympathetic good- for-nothing, deceitful wretch, and if you tell her the truth, you are just a plain goof.
There ain’t no use!
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Fooling the Prof.
An English professor at Cornell in- formed his class that he had discov- ered an essay which had been copied word for word from the preface of a textbook not used by that class. With utmost severity, he ordered the of- fender to see him after class, adding that he would omit the mention of his name in the classroom if the student would present himself after class. After the dismissal, he found himself face to face with five individuals.— McGill Daily.
If one is logical how should he answer the following question sug- gested by the St. Norbert College Times: “If the people of New York are called New Yorkers, do you think the people from Great Neck can live up to ‘their name.”—The Xaverian Weekly.
“Are You Telling Us?’
Describing examinations at Oxford, a member of that university’s debat- ing team said: “First, we all light our pipes and sit around discussing the subject for a while. Then we start to write, and if we get stuck we can always ask our neighbor. That is all expected. You can’t write a paper unless you know the subject.” —Lehigh Brown and White.
aperture. It is the cheap camera that permits only of the pinhole opening, and it also requires a proportionate lengthening of the exposure to get a developable image of truth. Too many open minds have pinhole aper- tures, on which account they are so slow of apprehension that truth passes by before it can be perceived.
The flower opens in the sunlight that the bee may enter and enable fertilization of the ova. The mind must be open in that sense. For the mind is like the ovary, ever seeking fertilization of its germinal ideas. But again it is too often fenced around with the contraceptive of fear—fear of facing realty, fear of the discomfort of mental labour at the birth of a new idea—ideal fertil- ization fails, and the mind condemns itself to sterility and barrenness in return for the satisfaction of the comforts of indolence and illusions of unrealities. That is why the very Le of civilization is threatened to- ay.
Those who are “going down” from a University ought to know when to open and when to shut the mind; however few their convictions, they ought to have the faith that man’s in- telligence—without humbug—is his surest guide: if not, it were better they had not “come up.” The mind grows by what it feeds on too, and there is at least the consolation that, whatever the prospects for the stomach,. there will be no lack of genuine food to assuage the largest of mental appetites. May truth thereby become more familiar in the
land! G. HUNTER.
MEN
Men are what women marry. They have two feet, two hands, and some- times two wives, but never more than one dollar or one idea at the same time. Like Turkish cigarettes, men are all made of the same material, the only difference being that some are a little better disguised than others. Generally speaking, they may be divided in three phases, husbands bachelors and widowers. An eligible bachelor is a man of obstinacy sur- rounded by suspicion. Husbands are of three varieties—prizes, surprises, and consolation prizes.
Making a husband out of a man is one of the highest plastic arts known to civilization. It requires © science, sculpture, common sense, faith, hope and charity—especially charity.
It is a psychological marvel that a ~
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little thing like a woman should en- joy kissing a big, awkward, stub- chinned, tobacco and bay-rum scent- ed thing like a man.
Tf you flatter a man it frightens him to death, and if you don’t you bore him to death. If you permit him to make love to you, he gets tired of you in the end, and if you. don’t, he gets tired of you in the beginning. If you believe him in everything, you soon cease to inter- est him, and if you argue with him in everything, you soon cease to charm him. If you don’t, he thinks you are a cynic.
If you wear gay colors and rouge your cheeks and wear a startling hat, he hesitates to take you out, and if you wear a little grey toque and a tailor-made suit, he takes you out and stares all evening at the women in gay colors.
If you join him in his gaieties and approve of his smoking he swears you are driving him to the devil, and if you do not approve of his, smoking and urge him to give up his gaieties, he vows you are treating him like the devil.
If you are the clinging vine type, he doubts whether you have a brain, and if you are modern advanced and independent woman, he doubts whe- ther you have a heart.
If you are silly, he longs for a playmate. If you are popular with other men, he is jealous, and if you are not, he hesitates to fall in love with a wallflower.
So what’s the use!
William “Jumbo”? Morano, star guard on the Sing Sing football team recently released on parole, to the despair of his coach and teammates. He was immediately signed up by a well-known eastern professional eleven:
Sing Sing’s coach for the past season, by the way, was none other than John Law, of Notre Dame.— St. Louis University News. :
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NOTICE
It_is the regrettable duty of the Freshman Executive to have to announce that, due to the almost negligible sale of tickets, the Freshman Reception to Sophomores has been cancelled.
This announcement has been postponed till the latest possible date, in the hope that there might be an appreciable increase in the sale of tickets. This much hoped-for event having failed to take place, there is no alterna- tive to cancelling the dance.
_ In spite of the fact that this is a year of hard times, this . break in a time-honored custom casts somewhat unfavorable re- flections on the spirit of the Freshman class. It is to be hoped that the failure of the dance will not prove to be an augury of the once noted enthusiasm of the Freshmen for their class.
We hope that the Sophomores will accept our apologies for fail- ing to hold this dance, which was to have been given in their honor.
YEAR BOOK “A” AWARDS
The following persons have quali- fied for Year Book “A”? awards which are being granted this year for the first time for meritorious service to the Evergreen and Gold: K. Alexan- der, H. A. Arnold, A. D. Bierwagen, P. Garrow, A. M. Wilson.
To qualify for this decoration, a student must have served the Year Book in some official capacity for three years, or for only two provid- ing one of these was spent in one of the major managerial positions. In future, only three such awards will be given annually.
THANKS
_ Through the medium of The Gate- way, I take this opportunity to thank all of those students who supported me in the recent election.
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Electioneering is a gift.
It’s a wonder there aren’t more Millers in the House Ee. faculty— because of their flour-like quality and so much meal work.
Lucky we’ve bought that gradua- tion dress—now we can start to win the right to it.
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so much hot air we’ve had.
Marks in Germany may have de- creased in value, but our examina- tions result in the discovery that such a state of affairs has not come to pass in Canada.
When this snow starts to melt we’ll have to borrow one of the boy friend’s rubbers and float to classes.
These new cars have taken the edge of our appetite for walking, and fully rounded out our ambition to be snooty too.
Plays may come and plays may go, but Dramat parties flow on forever.
T stands for talk, but have you ever been at a conversational bridge party?
At last we’ve gotten to the root of the Arts ventilation trouble—it seems a law student was in the ventilator shaft, opened his mouth, and shoved the draft all the wrong way.
The Frosh dance is called off be- cause they couldn’t sell enough tickets. If next year’s class don’t like receptions any better than this one did, whatever are the Council going to do with them next fall?
It seems the light switch for Pem- bina is in Athabasca Hall. What a pal!
Wonder if “scalping” on library seats is allowed. Especially if the settee is noisy.
The Valedictory exercises take place next Monday. Wonder if we’ll be stiff, or will we fall in tiers?
Convocation: call together. But even howling in unison won’t bring up those marks.
Judging by “See Naples and Die,” we must say that the students have all the appearances of enjoying dra- matic action.
And now the ninth life is spent. So long.
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A FEMALE PANEGYRIC
Before we forget our merits in a self-deprecatory frenzy of last minute cramming, let’s take a retrospective glance at the past session
as important as we naturally assume it to be.
Starting off with a bang last September, the initiation committee was on its toes to put timid Freshettes, bold Freshettes, beautiful Freshettes and bored Freshettes through their paces. don’t think it was successful, look at the Freshettes. out to be a pretty fine lot of gids—good sports—anxious to do their
Another chance for an enlarged ego came when the tennis team went to Saskatoon and the girls came back the winners. But when the girls’ track team returned from the east with
Badminton, hockey and basketball haven’t been so lucky, but we’ve kept a stiff upper lip and put up a good losing fight.
: Remember last year when only one girl had a speaking part in the spring play in order to give some twenty-odd men a chance to swashbuckle around in armor and silk This year six women played leading roles, and anyone who saw the play last week will know they were as good—maybe better—than their fellow Barrymores who also took part.
skepticism when they heard a “WOMAN” was going to edit The Gateway. Such a thing had never been done before—and being a conservative sex—they wondered. though. For when the paper began to appear regularly on Friday afternoon’s, and what’s more, a good paper, they threw away all doubts, and enthusiastically backed the daring female who had thus rashly ventured into their domains.
And speaking of ‘The Gateway—lI’d like to thank all the women students who have contributed to these columns. time anything like this has been tackled—the first time there has
experiment—but you have responded greatly.
Yes, 1932-33 has been an outstanding year for women’s activi- And now, after this little back-patting contest, let’s settle down to the grind—and show the men that in intellectual prowess we really aren’t as dumb as we look.
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IT’S HARD BEING HIGHBROW
Being an intellectual isn’t the easiest thing in the world. Even being a psuedo-intellectual is difficult
)——for me, that is.
If you are the child of poor but honest parents—or just poor parents —and have received your early edu- eation in a little schoolhouse (not red—I’ll wager there isn’t a red rural school in Alberta), at the hands of inexperienced maidens who don’t know Milton from Vachel Lindsay— well, it is hard to achieve the proper altitude for eyebrows.
Personally, I flatter myself that I ean get by with medium highbrows by the use of large quantities of judi- cious silence and a number of help- ful phrases. For the benefit of other aspirants, I should like to say that it is well to have your silence slightly tinged with melancholy—rather an “Ah, things aren’t as they were”’ sort of air. It gives people the impres- sion that you aren’t talking because you don’t want to, not because you can’t.
As for the helpful words and phrases, the word “powerful” is per- haps the most essential. It can al- ways be applied to the drama, mod- ern novels, epic poems and the more discordant forms of music. The more unpleasant of the modern novels may be called “sincere.” Comedies “sparkle,’’? lyrics are “colorful.” In art, anything which is not black and white may be neatly summed up in the words, ‘His use of color in rather If the picture consists of backyards and garbage cans, it is well to raphodize on the “beauty of symbolism.” ‘Stark realism” is good too. Then there is “rather,” a word which has done more than any other
to establish a reputation for discern- ment and culture. To bluntly say “That is good” is crass, not to say dangerous. To say “rather good’ is to express an opinion, but not too de- finitely. It places one in a position from which one can retreat with de- corum.
But my Waterloo is pronunciation. It is something you can’t depend on. Take “Cowper.’”’ Cowper and I have been acquaintances for years. At first I called him ‘‘Coo-per’’; then I heard someone who should know call him “Cowper” (first syllable pronounced like a domestic animal). Now I hear that it is “Coo-per” after all. It’s very trying. And St. John. It ap- pears that those who know say ‘“Sin- john.” And “naive’’—TI have at last “ete” to it, I give up. Then that conquered that, though if you add an profound German gentleman, Goethe. It is sad when one had read him and would like to impress people, for his name simply can’t be pronounced. I still struggle, but I fear it is a losing battle, so only the people with whom I correspond will ever know that I have read him.
Altogether, going highbrow is not easy work. The road:is beset with difficulties, and often you will sigh for the pleasant fields of Ignorance and Crudeness which you have left behind. I warn you to think care- fully before you desert Kathleen Norris and “The Maiden’s Prayer’ for Feuchtwanger and Debussey.
Sometimes I wish I had never started, and sigh for the happy days before I lived in hourly dread of splitting an infinitive. ‘For you see, to accidentally split an infinitive is to irretrievably lose caste with the intelligentsia.
HELLENIC BUNDISTS—ALIAS NUDISTS
“To bulge at east—as Nature planned, Unhampered by confining band.”
“Caste off your clothes,’ begins Merrill in one of his books on the nudist cultism. And forthwith he proceeds to eulogize at length on the respective merits of the garb which Adam wore before the snake had even crawled in through the first hedge in the famous garden. Chief among these merits is health.' The ultra-violet rays of the sun have a wonderfully beneficial effect—which varies directly per square inch of epidermis exposed. He cites instan- ces of near-miracle cures, of neurotics who lose their neurasthenias (what- ever that is), and cripples who liter- ally “take up their beds and walk.” Moreover, not only physical health is achieved, but mental and moral health as well. In fact, he thinks nudism is a great moral uplift move- ment. There is only mystery where there is the unknown. If all is known there will be no mystery. If no mystery, then no morbid curiosity —and hence no precipitation of in- decent thoughts or actions.
The fact that so many are rapidly adopting the new movement seems to be a point in its favor. Thousands in Germany and Central Europe pay regular visits to the'camps. Most of the members come from the middle and lower classes, but a number of the best thinking people are falling in line with the idea. Merrill thinks the movement is likely to gain great favor in America, It may all right for those Texans and Californians, but what about the winters above the 49th parallel...
However, all writers aren’t so sym- pathetic as the Merrills—husband and wife. The bookstalls are rife with satires on the subject. One of! these which has caused a lot of com-
ment is “The Bishop’s Jaegers.” A ferry on the Hudson river became lost in a fog. The passengers are a motley crew—a bishop, a successful
ryoung business man, his stenographer,
his fiancee, a pickpocketing gamin, and a woman of the streets. Compli- cations ensue which culminate when the unchartered vessel is rescued by the leader of a nudist colony on the banks of the Hudson. And this lead- er is no slacker, for he straightway proceeds to avail himself of the heaven-sent opportunity to make con-
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ELECTIONS
Elections rouse my animosity. Partisans rave with great verbosity. Hach candidate appears to be The soul of generosity, At the same time it seems that he Will practise great economy. His many sterling qualities Are quite without frivolities. His wit and quick intelligence’ Are wisely joined with common-sense. With superhuman sanity He’ll censor all inanity. In times of great adversity He’ll guide the University, And pass the most enlightening laws To help along the common cause. We wonder that no new day dawns, We have so many paragons— Such glorious genius, heaven-sent, To operate our government!
L. W.
CO-ED SPORT
By K.W.H.
Since this issue of The Gateway winds up our reports and criticisms of the year, we thought that a brief review of each branch of our acti- vities would be acceptable, perhaps even enjoyable.
Who are the athletes who strug- gled valiantly against the invincible Gradette machine? Well, there is Captain Jo Kopta, Manager Lillian Carseadden, Doris Calhoun, Cal Holmgren, Helen Ford, Barbara Humphrey, Mary Howard, Kay Swal- low, Margaret Sutton, Margaret Dixon.
After a fairly rigorous period of training under Coach Parney, the little group above-named sallied forth to meet the Gradettes, In February they lost three successive games to the Gradettes, but played a fourth anyway because they appreciate be- ing able to play a good team. Then they had a friendly game with the budding school-marms, in the Normal gym, and scored their first victory.
In Calgary, March 1, the girls snatched a win from Gibson’s team —and then made a bid for world championship—but the Grads decided to keep the title and piled up a cum- bersome score.
The girls, while deeply regretting the departure of Jo, Doris and Cal, loyal, basket-making members of the team, wish them every success after graduation. Splendid athletes and genuine sportswomen, they leave it to the rest of you to make the team worthy of the U. of A.
The swimmers worked under nu- merous handicaps this year. They were only able to practice once a week, and then at an inconvenient hour, so that there was a decided
record-breaker. None of the swim- mers are graduating though, so they intend to start early next season and work hard. Evelyn Barnett is Var- sity’s outstanding lady swimmer at present.
Judging from the number of its members and from the keen interest shown in the games, House League basketball has had a successful sea- son. Three full teams, the ‘Arrows,’ the ‘Comets’ and the ‘‘Overtowners”, entered the league. The fourth team, sad to say, never had itself all col- lected at one time. The “Arrows,” with Gwen Nixon as captain, cap- tured the E. Bakewell trophy by win- ning two out of three games in the finals.
Shortly after Christmas, Helen Ford gave up her position as manager of House League to Jennie Filipkow- ski, as she had another position on the athletic executive. Jenny thinks there should be several recruits from House League ready to play with the senior squad next year.
Now that the dust of the badmin- ton playoffs (which have been pro- gressing for the past two weeks) has begun to settle, and the cheering is dying down, we begin to see cham- pions emerge.
Priscilla Hammond and Red Cooper defeated Peggy Aiken and Fraser Mitchell and captured the mixed doubles title.
The number of team in ladies’ doubles provided keen competition. Defeating Fern Atkinson and Edith Garbutt, in the finals, Peggy Aiken and Priscilla Hammond hold the title. In ladies’ singles, Fern Atkinson and Peggy Aiken have come through un- scathed so far, but have not had their final playoff.
In the ski-sliding contest last Sun- day, Marge Allen came first, with Muriel Massie a very close second. Muriel is a very enthusiastic skiier, and deserves much credit for the work she has done in this connection.
The team sent to Saskatoon in- cluded Jo Kopta (captain), Jennie Filipkowski, Ruth Freeman and Doris Calhoun. They brought back the Rutherford trophy with them. It was a cold, snowy, blizzardy day, but the girls were undaunted. Jo Kopta even broke a record—she threw the discus 8 feet farther than any lady ever threw it before. We are look- ing forward to having another good © team.
The hockey girls aren’t waving any victoria banners, but they quietly and joyously look themselves over, and contemplate their vast improve- ment. Next year they won’t have. their captain, Marg Moore, or their manager, Gwen Manning, or their co-- ed sniper, “‘Blue-line’ Mary. They will be very much missed, and it will
shortage of training. And then Miss Hazlam of the University of Sask- atchewan turned out to be a real
be extremely difficult to find any- one who can even pretend to fill their places adequately.
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FRIDAY, MARCH 17, 1983 |
FINAL BASKETBALL GAMES HERE NEXT WEEK
Engineers Walk Away With Interfac Hoop Title
SCIENCE TRIM MEDS 29-9 IN SECOND GAME TO WIN ROUND BY 4 POINTS—BURKE LEADS ATTACK THAT . WINS TITLE
Science won the second game of the series against Meds Tuesday
night 21-9 to garner the championship by four points. ball was exhibited by both teams,
scoring end.
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Interfaculty basketball, under the management of Jack Ford, came to climatic end when the Engineers took the Meds into camp
by 12 points, winning the game and the championship.
five-point lead to overcome from the previous game, the Science squad es- tablished a lead from the first, and maintained it to the final whistle. Both teams were in there to win, and the calibre of basketball shown was easily the best of the season. As to floor play, the teams seemed equal, but the Engineers were more certain of their shots, whereas the Meds were having difficulty in scoring.
The game started off with strict five-man defensive tactics by both teams. Williams started the scoring when he eased the ball in from under his own basket, but things were even- ed up when Woznow for the Engi- neers made a nice basket from the foul line. Passing and dribbling was ' well executed by the two teams, but efforts toward scoring were frus- trated by excellent checking on the part of the guards. Gaudin and ‘Holmes were especially effective, and _ their efforts resulted in keeping the sharp-shooting Science forwards from breaking through. The half-time whistle blew with the Engineers hav-
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The lineups:
Scinece—Dolgoy (8), Parsons (2), Tyrrell, Woznow (4), Vance (1), Killick (4), Lilge (2), Burke (4)—
total 21. Balfour (1),
Medicals—Holmes, Williams (2), Newby (2), Spaner
(3), East, Gaudin (1), Margolis— total 9. Referee: Bennie Crawford. Umpire—O. Rostrup.
VARSITY SKI MEET GOES OVER BIG
Peter Farmer Wins Men’s Jump- ing; Red Cooper Wins Race; Margaret Allan Wins ’ Women’s Sliding
Despite a slight fall of snow the spectators thronged the Varsity slide to the danger point Sunday when the ten contestants shot into the air only to land fifty feet farther down the hill.
Red Cooper raced over the 2%%4- mile track to just edge Otis Staples out by half a minute. The track was in first-class condition, and the con- testants easily followed its winding path through the brush along the river bank, and up the slipe to Sask- atchewan Drive, then down a aratta slide to end up at the foot of the jump.
The crowd that gathered to see the jumping was far larger than was ex- pected. The people crowded so close to the runway that the situation at times became dangerous, especially when some unfortunate skiier lost his balance and. hurled headlong down the slide as an uncontrollable mass of human energy, sometimes shoot- ing to the left and sometimes to the right, but always down.
The crowd also hindered the parti- cipants at the take-off, preventing the long-armed jumpers from making full use of their stretch in gaining balance.
The highest number of points in this event was obtained by Peter Farmer with a total of 70, and mak- ing three clean jumps, landing fifty feet down the slide. Wynn came second with a total of 56, Jens Munthe third with 44, and Otis Staples fourth with 43 points.
The women’s sliding event follow- ed immediately after the jumping, and good form was certainly shown in engineering the hill. Margaret Allan came first with Muriel Massie running a close second.
The judges for the meet were Nip
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SPORTING SLANTS
By Cecil Jackman
A special Prdtest Committee of the Alberta Basketball Associa- tion threw out the protest of Calgary Moose Domers over the game played with the Bears in the southern city last Friday.
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The committee rule, and rightly we believe, that they had no power to overrule the decisions of any official once he had been Calgary may carry the matter to the Dominion heads, but it is unlikely that they will get any other result no matter where, or how far, they go.
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Mr. Sillars, the official whose decisions caused all the trouble, officiated in the games against Raymond, and his work caused no It is probable that the attitude of the
crowd in Calgary had more to do with the trouble there than any Sillars.
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A new thing in a sporting line around the campus came off last Sunday when the Ski Club held its first meet.
events were held, and a large crowd *
Racing and jumping
witnessed the affair. * *
Peter Farmer jumped off with the jumping event, and Red Cooper won the cross-country race.
It was an meet that should grow
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Alberta’s Bounding Bears, meet with Raymond Jacks next Friday and Saturday for the provincial championship. Be there.
BEARS LOSE FIRST 2 GAMES TO JACKS
Raymond Leading 90-75 in Pro- vincial Playoff—Henderson Hampered by Injured Ankle
Last Monday and Tuesday night the Varsity Seniors took the floor in Raymond against the Union Jacks for the first two of a four-game series of the Alberta provincial finals. Although Raymond won both games, the Bears put up a strong fight, being great hampered by Arnold Henderson’s sprained ankle. Both games were hard-fought battles with both team striving for the ad- vantage. The score in the first game was exceptionally close, 38-34.
The First Game
Throughout this game Varsity had the edge on the Jacks, but towards the last the Sugar City Keeds un- corked one of those fighting finishes for which they are so well known, to win the game 38-34. In spite of the fact that Coach Arnold Hender- son had a sprained ankle, he turned in a wonderful game, being the main- stay of the team. Varsity’s strategy on Monday night is being criticized, because they used the same five men throughout the whole tilt, but it is not for us to judge the policy adopted by Henderson, who, let us say, knows his basketball from every angle.
For the first ten minutes of play the game belonged to anybody, each team taking trick for trick, but soon the Jacks slackened down for some unknown reason, thus giving Varsity an opportunity to run up a small lead, which had it been larger would no doubt have won us the game.
In this half the Keel boys were the point-getters for the Bears, while O’Brien and Fairbanks were doing their duty for the Jacks. The half ended with Varsity leading 18-11.
The second canto opened up at a fast clip, with some fresh players on the Jacks’ lineup. The southerners had a spurt of luck, and all but overcame the lead Varsity had on them when Arnold called time out. Play resumed with’ Varsity coming back in a surging attack, Mert plop- ping the dumpling through the hoop from the tip-off. It was then that Bob Anderson came to the fore and rattled in three shots that made the fans’ hair stand on end. It was to- wards the end of this stanza that the remarkable dash to glory occurred, when O’Brien, Haig and Fairbanks teamed up to heave the pigskin through the ring six times to win the game 38-34, and leave the by- standers wonder-stricken.
The lineups:
Jacks — Kirkham (2), O’Brien (18), Fairbanks (6), Rolfson (1), Nilsson, Nalder (1), Haig (10), B. Fairbanks.
Varsity—G. Keel (6), Donaldson (6), Henderson (3), Anderson (6), M. Keel (13), Buzz, Vee, Jim, Bill, Richard.
The Second Game
Tuesday night the Varsity Bears were smothered under an avalanche of baskets during the initial period, and Raymond’s renowned Union Jacks advanced another step up the ladder towards the provincial cham- pionship by capturing the second straight contest of the four-game 52-41. The Varsity quintet were Alberta play-off series by a score of swept off their feet in the opening minutes of play; they rallied later in the game, but were too closely watch- ed to overcome the lead run up in the early part of the tilt.
The Bears were off in their play,
Stone and Lyle Jestley. Both learn- ed their jumping from Nels Nelson, as they were on many occasions rivals at both Banff and Revelstoke. Nip gave two exhibition jumps for the benefit of the spectators, also in order to show the enthusiastic jump- ers how it should be done.
Due to.a slight indisposition, Dean Howes was unable to attend the meet, but it is hoped that he will be pres- ent next year when, with the history of the first meet behind it, the second ski meet will be crowned with great
success.
DOMERS TRIMMED ON HOME FLOOR
Henderson Leads Bruins to Fine
Win
The Varsity Golden Bears left here last. week-end for Calgary, where they again locked horns with the Moose Domers for the two remaining games of the semi-final series. They left here with the score tied 94-94, but last Friday trimmed the Cal- garians in the Crescent Heights gym 61-41; losing, however, the sec- ond game on Saturday night by four points, on a score of 42-38, with the Domers sunny side up. Nevertheless they won the series by a good ma- jority, the final count being 193-177 for the Bears.
The game on Friday night was a battle that will go down in history, Calgary having a fouling streak just twice as bad as Varsity had here the previous Friday, that left the Domers with only three men on the floor for the last few minutes of play, the rest of the team being ruled out of the game for excessive fouling. The Keel brothers were the high scorers in this tussle, while Richard played a defen- sive game that was hard to beat dur- ing the time that Henderson was sit- ting out catching his breath. The honorable mention for the Moose Domers, that is, those that were still eligible for play till the last, were Imrie, A. Dyck and Malcolm. ‘Calgary
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game, complaining that the referee, Ian Sillars, of Edmonton, was ineffi- cient and prejudiced; hence the games in Raymond between the Bears and the Union Jacks are being considered exhibition games until the decision regarding the protest is made. If the protest is thrown out these tilts will be counted as two games of the final series.
The lineups:
Varsity—Henderson (3), M. Keel (19), G. Jeel (19), Donaldson (7), Anderson (7), Fenerty (2), Richard (4), Woods, Pullishy, and Bowland.
Calgary—Imrie (8), N. Olson (5), L. Olson (4), Pilling (10), Malcolm (4), E. Dyck (4), A. Dyck (6).
The second game was also a strug- gle from start to finish, with Calgary running up a fouling score greater than that of the previous. night, this time only having two men on the floor for the last three minutes of play. During this game Henderson was the outstanding man on the floor, piling up a personal score of fifteen points. The rest of the scoring was evenly divided between Donaldson, Anderson, M. Keel and G. Keel, while Pilling, Malcolm and Imrie showed up well for the Domers. In spite of the misbehavior of the Calgary men they won the game 42-38; neverthe- less, Varsity took the series by six- teen points. :
Varsity—Henderson (15), M. Keel (4), G. Keel (4), Donaldson (4), An- derson (4), Fenerty (2), Richard, Woods, Bowland (8), Pullishy (2).
and had bad breaks with their under the basket efforts. Mert Keel, star centre, and his brother Gordon were so closely watched that they could not net their deadly shots. In the second half Mert was able to break loose, and ran his score up to 20 points. Varsity fought an uphill battle all they way, and they never struck their stride till after inter- mission. Arnold Henderson put in a wonderful game, in spite of being tremendously hampered by a sprained ankle.
The high scorers for the Bears in this game were Mert Keel, Hender- son and Fenerty, although Donaldson and Anderson put forward some won- derful team-work and deserve more praise than their scores indicate. The game from the Sugar City angle all belonged to O’Brien and Fairbanks.
Although our boys lost the series 90-75, we are sure that the Jacks will go down to defeat before the Bears here next week.
The lineups:
Varsity—G. Keel, Donaldson (4), M. Keel (20), Anderson (1), Hender- son (9), Pullishy, Fenerty (7), Rich- ards, Woods, Bowland.
Raymond—O’Brien (16), Kirkham (22), Fairbanks (2), Nilsson, Rolfson (9), Haig (8), Nader, B. Fairbanks.
The last fight of the Bears to gain the Provincial Basketball Champion- ship and the right to seek further for Dominion honors will take place on the big floor of the Normal school next Friday and Saturday. There will be no comfortable lead to defend when the Varsity trot out on the floor to do battle with the Union Jacks of Raymond. On the contrary, there will be a fifteen-point deficit to overcome before a provincial cham- pionship will decorate the venerable walls of this institution. But fifteen points are not an insurmountable obstacle if the team clicks, and Hen- derson and his merry men are all set to lower the colors of the Southern- ers. The Union Jack will be turned into an ebony black banner if Hen- derson’s plans materialize.
The team came through a strenu- ous trip to the south of the province with few injuries. Henderson him- self suffered from a sprained ankle that handicapped him in the two games with the Jacks, but this should be O.K. by next week, and he will be able to play with his accustomed wim, wigor and witality. All the rest of the boys are in good shape,
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APPRECIATION
In this last issue of The Gateway it is fitting to state that the Students’ Council appreciate the co-operation and splendid. work of the many of- ficers of the different departments of the Union, who are not on the Council, of the students who have assisted in many ways,:and of Mr. Ralph Adshead as Union accountant. _ We wish also to voice an apprecia- tion of the co-operation and many favors of Mr. A.-West, Bursar of the University, and his office. To Miss Margaret Moore, Editor of The Gateway, we wish to say that we ap- preciate her co-operation in keeping awake the interest of the students in the business transacted by the Stu- dents’ Council through the columns of the paper.
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THE GOLD STANDARD
By H.C.F.
In a time of economic and finan- cial difficulty such as the world is now experiencing, existing monetary institutions are naturally subject to severe scrutiny and criticism. It is to be expected, then, that the gold standard should receive its share of “radical” attack. Even authorities _ of considerable repute have asserted _ that the gold standard is “a barbarous relic’ and should be replaced by a permanent paper of account — a “managed currency” controlled so as to maintain a stable level of prices. But has the gold standard outlived its usefulness? And, in any case, what is its future likely to be? These questions are important, and to at- tempt an answer to them some knowl- edge of the history of the gold stand- _ard is essential, and, above all, some knowledge of how the system works,
What do we mean when we say that a country is “on the gold stand- ard’? Possession of huge gold re- serves in proportion to the amount of paper money in circulation does not necessarily mean that a govern- ment has adopted the gold standard. The real test is: Can those notes be exchanged for gold, at a fixed price, at the will of the holder? To give a specific example: Canada is not ac- tually on the gold standard at pres- ent, because it is not possible for John Citizen to exchange Canadian notes for gold to export in payment of his debts abroad.
The international gold standard is a comparatively recent development, being a product, strictly speaking, of _ the last half-century. England was the first country to abandon the bimetallic system, resorting to the single gold standard in 1816. Other nations retained the double standard until the great gold discoveries in Australia and California (about 1850) threw quantities of new gold on the market. Portugal adopted the single gold standard in 1854, and Germany in 1871. The countries of the Latin Monetary Union, which had endeavored to uphold the bi- _ metallic standard, were forced by the _ falling value of silver, one by one, to adopt the gold standard. In 1873 the United States temporarily adopt- ed the gold standard, but this law _ was modified and a limited coinage of _ silver was in effect for many years. She definitely abandoned bimetallism in 1900.
Such an universal adoption of the gold standard must have resulted in an increasing shortage of gold, had there not occurred during the same _ period a great increase in the world
production of that metal. According to one authority, sixty-three per cent. of the gild mined since the discovery of America has appeared within the last forty years. The present an- nual world production (1930) is about $406,300,000, of which the Transvaal produces fifty-three per cent.
It is now generally accepted that prices vary directly with the amount of money in circulation (other things remaining the same, as the .econo- mists say). money appeared first in modern times in Spain after she had looted the treasure-stores of ,the Incas. The flood of new gold spreading through Spain, and on, northward and east- ward through Europe, brought with it rising prices. Since then the theory has been examined and criticized, and is accepted as ‘“‘an increase in the number of units of currency (or credit) in a given area or country, velocity of circulation of these units and volume of trade remaining the same, will tend to cause a proportion- ate increase in the prices of all com- modities.” It should be noted that an increase in velocity of circulation —in the speed with which money changes hands—will have the effect
of an increase in the amount of money in circulation, and also that an increase in the volume of trade, if the amount of money and its vel- ocity of circulation remain the same, will cause prices to fall. This ex- plains the gradual decline in the gen- eral price level which took place all
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As we all know, of course, the term “amount of money in circula- tion” includes the volume of bank deposits and credits against which cheques and other instruments of payment are drawn. The quantity theory would work out quite simply if coins only were used in circula- tion, but the use of credit of all kinds rather complicates matters. Briefly, however, banks have a de- finite limit to the amount of credit they can extend, and this limit is fixed by the amount of gold they have in reserve. An increase of gold in central bank reserves may cause the bank to offer a lower discount rate (“cheap money’’) to commercial banks; these are thereby enabled to increase their loans, and the addi- tional purchasing power thus given to business men increases their effec- tive demand for commodities—i.e., it is an addition to the money me- dium in the shape of cheques or banknotes. This increased demand tends to raise prices and stimulate production. On the other hand, a drain on the central bank’s reserves causes it to raise the discount rate, discouraging new borrowing and en- couraging borrowers to reduce their indebtedness. This effectively re- duces the amount of purchasing power in the hands of the public. Thus it is that, in all countries whose currency and credit are based on the gold standard, the supply of gold de- finitely controls the amount of the money medium in circulation. In a country off the gold standard, the government or bank may prevent a drain on its reserves by refusing to redeem its notes in gold.
The. presence of an international gold standard during the past few decades has made possible the great expansion of industry during that time. Loans and investments were facilitated, because lenders were made reasonably sure of the future value of their principal. The gold standard has also helped international trade by preventing fluctuations in exchange rates (while it worked!) The obvious disadvantage of gold as a standard of payments is that it does change in value over a period of years—less, probably, than other commodities, but still enough ‘to cause serious consequences. The trouble is that all prices do not rise or fall simultaneously; wide varia- tions are usual. The effects of these changes in the value of money are included in the so-called “business- cycle.” Supposing a shortage of gold for monetary use is induced by a de- crease in production of gold or by a drain of gold in another direction (hoarding, or use in industry, e.g.), prices of products will fall. The mar- gin of profit to the business man is reduced, and-he curtails or suspends production. The result is unemploy- ment, and a consequent decrease in the buying power of the public. The process, once initiated, tends to in- crease itself cumulatively; orders for new materials fall off—the more so
; because merchants wish to reduce
(their stocks on hand in a time of fall- ing prices—and the decline of pro- fits tends to check the flotation of new loans, and credit is restricted.
The view that the-present depres- sion is caused by a world gold-short- age cannot be maintained as long as there is an increase in the total visible holdings of gold in the world. And the Gold Delegation of the League of Nations stated that the world’s gold reserves increased by approximately 100 per cent. during the period 1913 to 1929—this as a result of economies in the use of gold as well as from the accumula- tion of new gold. What are these economies? The substitution of notes for gold coins in circulation has brought much gold into central bank reserves. And the use of foreign exchange balances for reserves in- stead of gold in a vault is a great economy. For example, a country, say Holland, may use its deposits in the Bank of. England as backing for its currency, instead of retaining the gold in its own treasury. In this way the Bank of England may use the same gold as the basis for credit ex- tension.
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tries by legislation requiring the banks to niaintain very high reserves in proportion to the amount of credit extended. Then, too, the absorption of a large part of the world’s gold by France, United States and Argen- tine has resulted in a superfluity of gold reserves in those countries; a large quantity of gold has become “sterilized’”’—that is, not utilized as the basis of an active structure of credit. Some authorities aver that this is sufficient to explain the con- tinuous fall of commodity prices since 1929. But others maintain that this “mal-distribution” of gold was not a cause, but a result of the depression. The gold drains on debtor nations were caused by the impossibility of obtaining fresh loans or of selling goods at remunerative prices in coun- tries having high tariff barriers. So it was necessary to ship out gold to pay debts or to purchase foreign goods.
Space does not permit an adequate discussion of events leading to Eng- land’s departure from the gold stand- ard in September, 1931. Suffice it to say, that through many causes, after 1925 her staple exports fell off in value and in volume, and her in- come from shipping and from foreign investments also declined. In addi- tion, England was much more of a debtor nation than she had been be- fore the war, because many countries, to economize gold, kept large gold deposits in the Bank of England. The continued drain of gold to France, the German crisis, conditions in England, all helped to destroy confidence in the reserve position of London and to create an international panic—a “run”? on the Bank of England, which forced England to stop gold pay- ments .
England’s abandonment of the gold standard forced other nations to do likewise, so that over a great part of the world the system is no longer in operation.. This reduces its advant- ages, since one of its chief functions is to facilitate exchange between na- tions. Furthermore, stability of gold-prices is threatened by the dan- ger that at any time a number of nations may again adopt the standard and so increase the demand for gold. Certain it is that if the gold standard is again universally adopted, an in- ternational agreement should be reached to prevent gold shortage by (1) abolishing all statutory minimum reserves rates, and by (2) lowering the gold content of the currency unit in each country. This would make gold go farther as a basis for cur- rency and credit, and if prices in gold standard countries were thus to some degree inflated, it would be easier to link up the paper currencies of the world with gold again.
After all, the sole useful function of public confidence in the stability of gold reserves is the maintainance of the nation’s currency and credit. The notion that money must be “backed” by gold is a fallacy, but until people realize this it will be dangerous to experiment with other systems.
IMPRESSION
A wonderfully garrulous old lady from the States,
Who talked
About her brother’s wife’s cancer,
And the small of—things
In Italy.
Merely a freshette
Who scored a big hit
In a play.
A vamp,
A dangerous Latin seductress— Volupturous curves unhidden, Which made men mad—
A southern intoxicant,
In a play.
A Paris-modelled American heiress,
A dashing blond,
Who got herself in all sorts of com- plications
By marrying a count;
Or maybe a duke,
Anyhow a degenerate Russian;
In a play.
An exquisite but weak elder sister— Mitzi
Who,
In youthful folly
Committed an indiscretion with the villianous noble,
Written him letters,;—
Now blackmail;
Chameleon love and vile abduction
In a play.
An angular Innkeeper’s wife—a Nor- wegian,
Who did
All the “verk’” for her husband—a lump of Latin obesity. °
An industrious body,
Always washing
Or carrying
Laundry,
Or pulling her wayward spouse from the arms of the vamp.
In a play.
A ruined Austrian lady,
A fate-tossed plaything
Of Man.
Adrift on a sea of sin
With a blackguardly Roumanian general
Who got shot on a balcony
By a couple of chess patriots—
In a play.
players—
A jargon of pseudo-Italian,
French, German,
Maybe English,
A hot Mediterranean sun, and
A mixture of morals;
Noise of rising planes and motor-cars speeding,
Gramophone records—
Beautiful women and
Good acting.
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SIGNS OF THE TIMES
6—(a) The Problem of Unemployment (b) The Problem of International
Relations
By Lawrence Alexander
Note.—The attempt to combine two subjects such as these within the scope of a single article is almost hopeless; indeed whole volumes might well be written in regard to each. Lack of space, however, necessitates our treating both subjects in the same article. Needless to say, it will be possible only to touch on the highlights of each.
A—tThe Problem of Unemployment
The problem of unemployment is naturally one of the most widely noticed and most discussed of our present problems. It is naturally so because it brings home to everyone in the most graphic manner the fact that something is wrong in the econ- omic machine.
Economists have in the past divid- ed unemployment into two large cen- tral classes:
(1) Cyclical Unemployment (in which is included seasonal unemploy- ment). This is described as being the unemployment due to slack con- ditions in industry at the bottom of the business cycle, and to the lesser degrees of unemployment occasioned for more or less brief periods in the year owing to the seasonal nature of certain industries.
(2) Technological Unemployment —that due to the displacement of men by machines in industry.
Economic science has always laid great stress upon the first of these while dismissing the second with the comment that while men might for a while be displaced in certain indus- tries by the machine, they always found employment elsewhere in new industries created by the machine. It now appears that as a matter of fact very little was really known about technological unemployment. Very little is in fact known today, though presant conditions are having the effect of greatly stimulating research along those lines.
What researches have been made in this direction seem to point to two general conclusions:
(1) Until very recent times (roughly some 10-15 years ago) the conclusions of the economists as to technological unemployment were largely correct. It was both tem- porary and self-remedying.
(2) This is no longer the case.
A constantly expanding world mar- ket up to the past few years may have a considerable amount to do with this, but recent advances in technological skill have a good deal more.
Whatever else is to be said for or against the new “science” of Tech- nocracy, it has been invaluable in presenting to the world in a strik- ing and graphic manner the dangers inherent in technological unemploy- ment today. Its figures may in some cases be exaggerated and its facts and the conclusions drawn therefrom may not always be strictly accurate, but it is an important and striking signpost on the road along which our world is travelling. Technological unemployment is here, and here not only to stay, but to increase year by year. The report on Recent Econ- omic Changes in the United States, issued by one of President Hoover’s Commissions in 1980, dealt somewhat loosely with the problem, and admit- ted that there were few facts avail- able. Yet these few facts such as they were showed a gradual increase in unemployment in the United States between 1921 and 1929, the years of prosperity, when production was increasing at an almost incredible pace. Yet this vast increase in pro- duction was achieved with an actu- ally decreasing number of workmen.
The fact remains that technolo- gical unempolyment is increasing and doing so rapidly. We stand today at the parting of the ways, and there seems to be two fairly distinct paths open to us:
(1) Abandonment of technological improvement in industry, scrapping of a good deal of our present pro- ductive plant, and return to a sys- tem in which manpower is of more importance than machine power.
(2) Regulation of the’ industrial system in some manner so as to per- mit of retention and extension of technological improvements in indus- try, while at the same time regulat- ing wages and working hours so as to insure sufficient employment for everyone, and to make certain that the purchasing power of the com- munity shall be sufficient to buy the goods produced by it.
The first alternative is definitely retrogressive. It presupposes a re- duction in the standard of living as we know it today, and means that people individually will have to do a good deal more work than the aver- age person does today. It would, however, probably provide everyone with a living of some kind, although it is difficult to say at what point the standard of living could be fixed. However, it is an automatic process and symptoms of it appear on the industrial landscape today. Who can say that our frenzied efforts to create employment by doing by hand labour what could be done far more efficiently by machine is not retro- gressive?
The second solution presupposes certain changes, more or less sweep- ing, in the economic system as we know it today. Some of the leading suggestions in regard to these chan- ges will be dealt with in the next (and concluding) article.
B—tThe Problem of International Relations
This is really one of the key prob- lems of our entire series, for upon its solution depends to some extent the solution of every other problem we have discussed. In short, one of the principal difficulties facing us today is the fact that the nations
of the world, confronted with a series of desperate problems, many of which require world co-operation for their satisfactory solution choose for the most part to barricade themselves as securely as possible behind the stone walls of a narrow nationalism, ap- parently little realizing that catas- trophe, if it comes, will be world- wide and will involve every nation indiscrimintely. _
One of the most glaring examples, of course, is the race for armaments. In spite of a remarkable recent ar- ticle (written by a high army offi- cial) which advocated the construc- tion of extensive armaments as a means of restoring prosperity by “creating” work, it is pretty gener- ally agreed that the construction of armaments and the. maintainance of vast armies is a terrible drain upon any country, and one which is in fact becoming economically impos- sible to bear. We have no room here to do more than comment upon the economic cost of war itself, not to mention its far more devastating social effects. One difficulty in the way of solution of the armaments problem is of course the profit de- rived from their manufacture. The arms manufacturer who turns nations against one another for his private profit has become too well known to necessitate further comment.
Almost more devastating are the effects of economic warfare, which as a matter of fact generally is to- day the basic cause of all war. If there was ever a time in which co- operation between all the nations of the world was absolutely essential for the re-establishment of the trade without which our industrial system cannot survive, it is the’ present. Yet everywhere tariffs are being raised, further blocking international trade, vigorous “Buy British” and “Buy American” campaigns are being wag- ed to induce people to buy at home irrespective of quality or cost; in short, every nation wants to be self- sustaining. It may be possible, but it is economically highly unsound, more so today than at any other time in the world’s history.
The problems which face us today are world-wide in their scope, and depend upon world-wide co-operation for their successful solution. For better or worse, the world has be- come a single unit, and its nations must stand or fall together.
“A SONG OF SPRING ’’
Sing, oh Happy Bird, Sing and make the woodlands ring, With your joyous notes of spring, Of the trilliums on the hill, Of pond lilies by the mill, And the darting dragonfly, Of the schools of rainbow fry, Skimming o’er the rippling brooks, Sailing o’er slow flowing nooks. Happy bird, Sing of the brook a-babbling on, Trying hard to match your song, As it swirls ’neath ferns that dip Bnet fronded heads in pure clear ips, Sing about the bridal wreath, With bended heads all snowed be- neath Their crown of blossoms deep and white, Diffusing fragrance through the night. Happy bird, Sing about your mate so true, Nestling o’er her eggs of blue, In a hair-lined cup of down, Thrilling to your love-made sound. Sing of summer coming soon, And the balmy days of June, When your pink and downy brood Stretch their necks and cry for food, Happy bird, Sing of wondrous life a thrill In the waters, on the rill, Pushing through the damp rich sod Life that closely lives in God. Sing out all your heart’s content, To that ecstacy give vent That floods your life so rich and free, Harbinger of Joy, forever be, Happy Bird, sing. —KE. R. T.
Election Slants
We hate to start a perfectly good story in the hoary, old-fashioned phraseology of the day, but excite- ment ran high as students of the University voted in their 1933-34 ex- ecutive. “Excitement ran high” is usually a colorless phrase, but for the first time in our personal experi- ence the phrase was justified.
The poll was opened at 9:00 a.m., and the tide of voters rolled up to vote. The following is a running ac- count of the election proceedings, play by play.
9:00 a.m.—We were at a lecture, sO we cannot give an authentic ac- count of the election proceedings at that time.
9:30 a.m.—The crowd increases. Comments buzz. Scrutineers scrawl more and more illegibly on backs of ballots. The Gateway representative mingles unseen in the throng, and tunes in on the following comments:
“A man must put his conscience in his pocket to vote today!” ‘Which of these two janes are the best-look- ing?” “You may be a fraternity brother of his, but still...” “Listen,. you scrounge, you vote for Oe I'll tie you in bow-knots.” “Neither of them are going to do anything, so you can’t go wrong!” “I’m not sure. . which—they’re both good men.” “Surely you weren’t dumb enough to put your ballot in the wrong box?” “Can you see any difference between ’em? I can’t. Guess I’ll vote ’em in their order.”
The crowd fades, and The Gateway man realizes, all too late, that he has missed a lecture.
10:30 a.m.—Once again the crowd rolls up, and once again scrutineers nearly go off their heads as they anxiously scan faces in a vain effort to recall names, names which cannot be heard above the din. And once more The Gatweay man mixes un- seen.
“Yes, spring’s here, and there’s an election on. That’s what they’re so excited about.” “No, I’m not voting. I haven’t time for such trivialities. But I don’t mind hanging around.” “Well, I don’t know which. of the heels to vote for.’’
Mr. Wilson is interviewed. He giggles nervously, and says, after deep and solemn thought, “I hope the best man wins.”
11:00 a.m. (Lower Common Room) —“Tt’s a lot of hooey. Who cares who gets in. Two hearts.” ‘What’s in it for me, whoever gets in.” “Elec- tions are a . Pass!” “Elec- tions are all right. -People must have something to amuse themselves with. As I was saying...” “The question is, which of the bums will be the best.” “The qugestion is, which shall we vote for? They’re all good.”
11:30 a.m.—The crowd is thinner. “Elections are all right, but I’m hungry. Tl be seeing you.” ‘Well, I’m going to dinner.” Tired scru- tineers are relieved. We go _ to dinner.
1:30 p.m.—All quiet on the West- ern, or North-eastern front. Head shakings. Predictions. Hopes. Ru- mours. And still an undercurrent of comment, wise (and otherwise), and sometimes really witty.
2:30 p.m.—The crowd consists of two hesitating voters. Two more come in. We start off to a lecture, and then remember that we had de- cided to drop the course. We go anyway.
3:30 p.m.—See head of column.
4:30 p.m.—See head of colum.
5:00 p.m.—Polls close and scruti-
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THE GATEWAY
FRIDAY, MARCH 17, 1933
SENSATIONAL SCANDAL IN UNION ELECTIONS
Being the result of an Interview with Mr. Fenet Snooy, the Distinguished Detective
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It was with the awe with which one approaches a great man that I sought out, on election night, Mr. Fenet Snoop. The editor of The Gateway had sent me to interview this eminent individual, internation- ally known as the solver of many in- numerable obvious cases, to obtain his opinion as to the rumours that were current with regard to the elections.
I found him in his luxurious suite in the Fairview Hotel, sitting on the bed working a jig-saw puzzle. With him were his trusted assistants, Mr. “Take-Off-Your-Shoes,” O. Keyhole, . formerly news editor of Hush, and the Winnipeg correspondent of that paper. They all arose and addressed me simultaneously with quaint old- world courtesy:
“What the Hell do you want?” *Where’s your warrant?” ‘We ain’t one nothing.”
When I had assured him that I was from The Gateway and not from a responsible newspaper, Mr. Snoop consented ‘to speak of his mission and its success. He had been en- gaged some time before the election by the ‘Association to Prove that the Candidates Who were Defeated were Unfairly Defeated,” to observe and investigate all unfair practices.
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“When I examined the list of can- didates,” he said, ‘‘and when I saw their pictures, I knew there was going to be dirty work. The Presidential race ,would be particularly violent. One of the candidates, Art Bierwagen (alias Beertruck) was involved in the illicit liquor traffic and showed every prospect of becoming an under- world lawyer. The other, Hugh Ar- nold, was wanted in Calgary for the murder of the King’s English. Most of the other candidates were more or less respectable, although I had my doubts about Prevey and Bentley. The former was connected with the Mafia, the latter with Tammany Hall. They were both implicated in an attempt by a gang of pickpockets to steal the Eiffel Tower and the Great Pyramid.
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“The Presidential race soon de- veloped sinister symptoms. Bier- wagen, with his underworld training, decided to resort to violence, and took to his bosom friend Ed (Strong- Arm) McCormick, a wild Irishman, implicated in the Lindberg kidnap- ping, as his buldgeon man.
“Arnold, more subtle, obtained the aid of Ernie Ayre (implicated in the sinking of the Titanic) and Harold Riley (connected with Solloway- Mills), and decided to go in for fraud. :
“T was able to gather this inform- ation by going to the Tuck Ship, a vile resort frequented by the riff- raff of the University, and there, disguised as a soda-fountain, I pick- ed up considerable information as to the plans of the conspirators. I heard Bierwagen and McCormick mention something about a “swelled head,” from which I gathered that they intended to control the head of some voter. Then I heard Arnold say something about “a stripped shirt,” which I presumed were the accepted means of conveying marked ballots.
Soon cards began to appear prais- ing the virtues of all the candidates. Most of them were harmless, al though -false, but there were two which indicated which way the wind was blowing. One of them, after list- ing the virtues of Arnold, urged people to “vote early and often,’’ and had below in large letters “Reward.” The meaning of this was obvious. Then I found another sign urging boxers and wrestlers to assemble in the gym, allegedly for club purposes. This was obviously an attempt to collect “tough guys’ for the Bier- wagen violence campaign.
While hovering in the Arts lobby, disguised as a bust of Goethe, I heard rumors of bribery, corruption and skullduggery that would make your hair turn grey.
When the great day came I was at hand in the Common Room dis- guised as a telephone. I saw from the first that Arnold was winning. His henchmen had made sure that his name was the only one that ap- peared on the ballot, so this didn’t give Bierwagen much of a chance. However, “Skiv’’ Edwards (implicat- ed in the recent earthquake) did his best .to intimidate the Arnoldian fac- tion. When a voter voted Arnold, Edwards shouted in a voice of thun- der, “That’s not right.’”’ And the strong-arm squad edged around the heretic.
On one occasion a man persisted in voting for Arnold, so “Skiv’’ stab- bed him to the heart with his foun- tain pen. The jury returned a ver- dict of “Death by the Act of God.”
There was another case of unfair practices. One McIntosh (implicated in the French Revolution) was run- ning for Arts representative. He lost many votes as a result of the rumor spread that if he were elected the “Casserole” editor would make an- other of his abominable Arnold-Mc- Intosh jokes.
“Having established these facts, I intended to inform the police,” Mr. Snoop concluded. At this moment Arnold, Ayre and Riley entered arm- ed with machine guns. They prompt- ly asked Mr. Snoop if he would like to go for a long ride. He said “‘No,” but they took him any way.
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SIGNS OF THE TIMES 7.—Towards a New World
By Lawrence Alexander
Note: With this article we bring our series to a close. Not all of the problems may have been fully stated, and the potential solutions as out- lined herein may have been discussed in too general a manner. However, it is our hope that they may serve as a kind of outline to a situation which is in its entirety beyond the grasp of the world’s greatest minds.
Attempts at forecasting the future have never been at best very satis- factory, and it is not for us to try our hand at picturing the world as it may appear in the years to come. However, the problems which we have attempted to indicate in the articles of this series are such that they call for answers of some kind, some of them very urgently. The fact that the world has recovered successfully from numerous depressions in the past is no more ground for supposing that it will recover unaided from this one than the supposition that a per- son ill from a dangerous disease will recover safely without medical atten- tion simply because he has done so before. =
The general impression amongst those who have studied the economic situation with some care is that world conditions are frapidly reaching a situation in which it is no longer safe simply to let them drift more or less at random. We have only to cite as an instance the growing internation- al tension of the last quarter-century as an example. The world of the twentieth century is more than ever before a dynamic world, sweeping changes are everywhere taking place with a rapidity hitherto absolutely unknown, and the attempt to control these vast alterations within an econ- omic structure which was never de- signed to meet such a strain is apt to have extremely dangerous conse- quences.
“The old economic life of the west- ern world is passing away before the eyes of the present generation, amid every circumstance of distress: and thinking people have ceased to doubt that the next ten years will witness, at the least, a complete readjustment of the old machinery, at the best ‘or worst, the revolutionary birth of a new order.
In the articles which have preceded this we have attempted to set forth in outline some of what we consider to be the important problems con- fronting the world today; the prob- lems raised by monetary systems to- gether with the attendant questions of the creation of credit and the re- sultant alarming and _ increasingly crushing of debt, the problem of un- employment, particularly in relation to the permanent displacement of man-power by machine-power, and the vital problem of international re- lations. We have also tried to show in some degree the effects of these conditions upon our present-day so- ciety, and the real menace which some of them present to our Western civilization. gree to attempt an answer to these questions. It should be remembered that many of these answers are at best but suggestions, and that none of them are original, but there seems to be certain well-founded opinions as to possible courses of action,
“There are... three possibilities ahead of us—a reconstruction of the present economic order on a_ basis which will at last allow the technical powers of production to be fully em- ployed and exploited at a more rapid rate, the substitution of a new and radically different economic order designed to achieve the same result, and the dissolution of the present or- der into chaos. If this third thing happens—and no one can say with confidence that it will not happen—
It remains in some de-!
then the outlook for the world is black indeed. We have therefore to make up our minds... which of the other two courses we propose to pur- sue.”—(G. D. H. Cole, in “The In- telligent Man’s Guide Through World Chaos.’’)
In general, every solution to our present problems must fall within one of the above-mentioned classes. It is fairly safe to say that, broadly speaking, every person who is not abysmally ignorant or complacently short-sighted is agreed that a change of some kind is not only desirable, but imperative. Those persons who, closing their eyes to actual facts, reiterate the fact that conditions are “fundamentally sound,” usually speak thus either out of hope or from mo- tives of selfishness, and are in any case diminishing in number rapidly.
Those who, while recognizing the necessity of certain changes, yet fa- vor the retention of the general prin- ciples of the present system, point out the undoubted benefits which this system has conferred upon the world, and feel that its defects are such that they may to a large extent be remedied, leaving the principles of the system intact.
The problems which stand in the way of putting capitalism upon a really sound basis are so vast as to be absolutely staggering, and prob- ably the single greatest problem to be faced is that of obtaining in some way, and quickly at that, a far greater degree of international co- operation than has ever been known before. In view of recent develop- ments in the international field, this prospect does not look encouraging, nevertheless it is an absolutely essen- tial step. Most of the more pressing problems confronting Capitalism to- day have arisen as a result of the World War and the period of recon- struction which followed. In general, the two results of war which are proving disastrous today are:
(1) The peace settlement of 1919 which split up large units into small nations, thus setting up a number of conflicting, intensely nationalistic units when the crying need of the world is for international trade and co-operation.
(2) The creating of fantastic debt burdens, the majority of which are absolutely impossible of payment, with resulting dislocation of mone- tary systems and further hindrance of international trade.
The debt situation is of pressing importance at the moment. There are only two ways in which debts can be met, either in money or goods. In the international field the debtor countries have insufficient gold to meet their debts, and the creditor countries, attempting to protect their own industries, refuse to accept goods in payment. The recent sharp fall in world prices has made an already hopeless situation absolutely intoler- able. Prices of every commodity have fallen drastically, but the principal and interest of debts in unvarying. There are only two alternatives, the raising of world prices to a point at which they would be in some corres- pondence with debts, or the whole- sale cancellation of debts. The first is likely to be very difficult, probably impossible, the second highly dis- tasteful, Yet one of the two is es- sential, and it is necessary that it be done at once. This action in re- gard to debts must apply not only to international debts, but to debts of every description.
The. establishment of some kind of a central bank seems to be a necessity for the regulation of international financing, for without the stabiliza- tion of exchanges the carrying on of the international trade which has be-
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First Week in May to be Spent at Lake Wabamun
Having behind them the experi- ence of two very successful adven- tures, and vote of last year’s camp group to repeat the procedure, the executive of the S.C.M. of Alberta has planned the third annual spring camp for the week starting April 29th and finishing Saturday, May 6th. Coming as they do after a hectic of examinations and cramming, the eight days at Fallis Camp, Lake Wabamun, provide an excellent op- portunity fof recuperation.
One of the features of the camp is the experiment it provides in ‘“Co- operative living.’ Run on a self- help basis with every member of the group “chipping in” on fag-duties, it is possible to cut expenses to a low figure (maximum $8.00) and still maintain a high “standard of con- sumption.”
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come necessary to the economic wel- fare of the world.
Even if all of these problems can be solved by world economic confer- ences (which have to date been not- ably ineffectual), further problems lie in the way of the stabilization of Capitalism. Such problems are the disruption tendencies inherent in interest charges and profits. It is necessary, should the capitalist sys- tem be continued, that wages rise in proportion to volume of production, and this again can only be satisfac- torily achieved through international agreement. The problem of unem- ployment can again only be met in the same way, through some kind of international regulation of industry.
There are those who, on the other hand, believe that while capitalism has in the past worked quite well on the whole, it has now outlived its useful- ness and has in fact become impos- sible to apply under present condi- tions. The procedure which would be nceessary to relieve world con- ditions should Socialism or some other system replace Capitalism would be much the same as that outlined above for the salvation of the world under Capitalism, although the methods used might differ somewhat in appli- cation. It would, of course, be in the organization of the world follow- ing the emergency methods used to clear up the present mess, that the systems would differ most funda- mentally. The Socialistic system looks not to private operation of in- dustry under some kind of control, but of actual state or communal operation of these industries. Ad- vocates of this system claim that it will eliminate the difficulties encoun- tered in connection with profits, in- terest, unemployment, and so on, from which the present system suf- fers. Its advocates also propose un- der Socialism to operate and control industry in such a way as to integrate production to consumption, thus elim- inating many of the distressing dis- locations to which industry is subject at the present time.
There seems to be one point upon which there is no choice and little diversity of opinion, and that is that a greater degree of organized con- trol over our economic activities has become necessary. For better or worse, the old system of ‘laissez faire” is rapidly passing away. There are undoubtedly many causes for re- gret in this, which are nicely com- mented upon by Irwin Edwan in The Forum for November, 1932:
“fT have sketched in outline the kind of world I think may be ex- pected fifty years from now... . The world I have sketched is not in all respects one I should choose to live in, for I suspect solitude and contemplation would be at a discount in it and, child of my age, I should miss its genialities and forget its eruelties. But it would be, I am convinced, a society less tragic in its incidence ‘than the present one, and the probability of its being what I have set down seems to me to lend a perspective of hope to the present troubled era.”
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verts of the six wanderers. How- ever, out of respect to the Bishop’s “cloth,” he is given the privilege of retaining his “jaegers.”
Another American author, Tom Cushing, has cleverly satirized the movement in an amusing and clean- minded one-act play called “Barely Proper.” This relates the predica- ment of Derek, a young and ex- tremely modest Oxfordonian, who chances to fall in love with a pretty German girl named Freida. At the end of the college term he returns to Germany with his fiancee to re- ceive the parental blessing. . Little does the unsuspecting Derek know what he has let himself in for, but the awful truth is driven home in a more-than-forceful manner. Pro- fessor Schmidt, his Freida’s father, is the founder of a highbrow nudist cult, and all the members of the family are profound Hellenic Bund- ists. To them it is a religion, and after meeting the family in “the al- together,” Derek realizes it is a ques- tion of sacrificing the girl or his modesty. Both thoughts are equally painful to him. He is appalled by “starkoism,” but loves Freida. After nude, and goes sentimental over the a terrible mental struggle he goes mere thought of “good old braces,” and decides a “little French dressing is better than none.” He prefers “plus-fours — plus anything,” and finds it most uncomfortable when a clumsy maid accidentally spills a drop or so of hot coffee on his exposed exterior. The play reaches a climax of self-renunciation when he and Freida decide to sacrifice their prin- ciples for each other, and Derek de- cides to “grin and bare it.”’ :
Of course, Canadian nudists could always “hug a stone” until they got aclimatized, but where they would put a handkerchief or a cigarette case is another matter.
history the human race finds itself in a position really to control the world, to harness the forces of na- ture and to provide for itself not only necessities, but luxuries. Today is also the first time that the human race has ever been potentially capable of completely eliminating itself from the world. . Modern inventions have made of the world a single unit, with hitherto undreamed of powers both for good and evil.
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