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~~ ‘The Straw oe ar e*
| the Donkey’ s Back-Bone

ae Hoover won the,
» Hoover won the debate; and now, true
_ te form, straw
. wote. ) thé vdcal dynamic?.of the
Smith supporters cannot conquer the
comparatively inarticulate (this does
“set refer to M. Larbert on the debat-.
of the Republi-

coinpiled from a

bisshow game;

Hoover. has won the

ig platform) inertia
-eans. The results, aa
poll takev in each of

days fast iveek, were as fallows:



. Heever _..... pa yh Kee db v0 Hee orale 188
PE wacacees SU RI 114
~~ F homas Sg ERT ARRAY

i SRR ARE a Mire ile +324

Of these( ‘however, only a few are
actually going to regtster a vote on
Wovember 6. The statistics are:

test vote: “was” cast in-Virginia- and- the
lightest vote .in Arkansas.

Of the central States, Hoover” car-
ried every one of.them. The west-
central States (North Dakota, South
Dakota, Minnesota, -Missouri, Nebraska
and Kansas) alf went Republican by
a total] of three to'one.

Hoover carried every western State
(Montana, Idaho, Wyoming, Utah,
Colorado, Arizona, Nevada, New Mex-
ico, Washington, Oregon: and Calif-

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the halls on two!



ioover Seer Pree eee 38
Smith i aia re +. 90

he RR Se ee ES s anew 9
af WE ist Se aC eek 67
The relative strength of the two! ‘

e@hief candidates is almost unchanged
since the nominations held. at Bryn

«. Slawr last spring.
Hloovér received 114 votes, Smith

* and the remainder of the 298 votes cast |
by the student body divided
“among minor Republicans and ‘Démo-
«rats Only the: socialist candidate, |

. therefore, inade, any appreciable
gain.
votes to Hoover's 38 and Smith’s 20;

as almost startling, and, considering ,
‘sw Mr. Thomas’s chances in the campaign;
seems to indicate a certain strain of
fatalism among the college voters.
Another startling revelation is the-
paltry handful of people over 21; only |

67 out of nearly 400 students. _
The faculty statistics last year were |

935°

were

has

4a for Hoover, 13 tor Smith and 13:|
scattered. This year we were unable
a. collect the informatjon, owing to |

|
,. the short space between classes.

The results of the Cotlege Humor
-epoll, just out this” that |
* Hoover -will--get a similar majority |

* em students all over the country. ‘4

“+ heyvhave issued the following state-

ehh an

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week, show



Students: 2. to 1 for Hoover. i

In the first American college straw |
wote ever taken by College Humor:
anagazine and the college «dailies
Hoover received a two to. one vote.
At -the~ September registration this
year there were. 892,808 students in the |
1104 American golleges, of which 544,-
€85 were men“and 348,123 girls. This
army of young voters (most of cen |
~. dhad never.liad —any.experience-at—the-
Pous) ‘have been termed by Democrats
and Republicans. as the hope of Amert-
ea. The two parties should be interest-
ed in figures obtained. :
The co-operation of the college
wewspapérs was secured,. the: majority |

ae

gages. Voijing boxes were placed at:
strategic on the campus. Re-
-turms. were wired to Chicago at the
Iatest possible moment. Thousands of |
secret ballots were mailed. by College
Humor to: fraternities and sororities.
in every ¢ollege. In many schools,
“particularly in the southern states, the.
students did strenuous campaigning for
their favorites.

Analysis. of. the vote showed tMat
“Herbert Hoover had the.-majority of
Sindent gvotes in 38 States and the
District of Columbia, Alfred E. Smith
North Carolina; S@uth Carolina; |
Georgia,. Florida, Alabama, Mississ-
3) pi, Louisiana and, Texas.

Dividing the country

spots



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into zones,

CVE one -of the following eastern
States voted for Hoover: Maine, New
Hiampshire,. Vermont, Massachusetts.

t.hode Island, Connecticut; Néw York,

ware. The largest vote for him was
in Connecticut, nine to one. Smith
made his best showing in New York,
where the vote ran nine to five for
Hoover. The total. votes in. the

‘eastern. States gave Hoover a three to

_-—s ene _~-majority.

‘ In the southern States, Smith carried
every State with the exception of West.
Virginia; Kentucky, Tennessee, Okla-

-. homa, Arkansas and the District of:

‘Columbia. The vote was: ‘closest: in

Kentucky and West Virginia, Hboyer





“three “votes in both cases. Smith’s
majéerity was a comfortable one in

every other State he-carried, Texas | ,
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On that occasion, ,

That he should getenine actual }:

ia payment for the German reparations.

inrents are due this year for the ‘first |

i make a plan.
Lappointed

clear.

| dtretion

| Stated that she only wants enough to

is possible, but the-total amount is stilf
stupendous, vue 1:

Taking’ the total of all fotes





Name to thiennies arrangement, so-the-

| furopean nations are anxious to please
‘America by the arrangement. °°

The United States could’ reduce Ger-
many’s total by reducing England and
France's debt to” her, but the present
Republican administration and -Hoover
are opposed to this reduction.

The commission that is about to be
appointed will have a harder task than
that which confronted the Dawes corh-
mission. Since the German bonds are
to be floated in America, there will
probably be an American on the com-



ast in this section he led three to one.
ix Colorado the Democrats were |.
s'rongest, three to two and in Mon- |
«ta the weakest, 39 to one. Of all the |
States in the Union, Montana: was. the |

os arn for the G..O:-P. forces... eet

Virginia cast™he greatest number of |
- dividual votes for Smith, and Pennsy-.
Ivania.the most votes for Hoover.. The |
largest perceritage in any one college
was 21 to 1 for Smith in Mount St. |
Mary’s College, . F. mmitsburg? Mary- |
land. . The largest percentage for |
ey the in any,one college was 18 to 1
+ Wheaton College, Wheaton, Ilinojs.
Will Rogers obtained one-half of.
per cent, of the total student vote.
ie fo ing was received from St.
'ehn’s Collegiate, Annapolis, Maryland
“tloover i 120, Texas Guinan

‘2. Students @ry and faculty all wet.”

‘Difficult Problem Faces
Reparations Commission

-On Monday morning President Park
spoke on the new attempt to arrange ,



It is urgent at, this time because under |
the Dawes pla the maximum _pay-}

j time, and: the Germans cannot meet,
this maximum: Up to now the iriterest .
has had to be met. by private loans, but |
this is not a good situation.

A ineeting of five European nations, |
Great Britain, Franees Belgium, Italy |
and.Spainy.. has been held to try to.
A commission is to be
investigate good apes
and on’ last Saturday Germany an-
nounced that she wanted it to be a
| Six-nation arrangement, and suggested |
that a civilian commission, be | ap-
egnmed, The object of this latter is.
said Miss Parks; it must be a/
working arrangement, -and something
that Germany can meet ‘and that will!
| satisfy all the nations involved. This |
almost. impossible, since - the’
total amount is thirty-three billion dol-
| lars. One of the'solutions is the reé-_
the total amount, or the;
reduction ‘of the annual payments to
such an amount that they can be met.

to

; Scelns

of



In, the latter case, however, the pay-!.

|
ments would" extend= over~ many” geri="

eratious, which would be very depress-
ing,

England has stated that she- only |
wants enough from Germany to pay |
her debt ‘to America, and France has



pay her debt to America and repair
her damages. In ‘this case, reduction

If the thing thasi-to: be paid by bor-
rowing, then it simply can’t be floated,
continued Miss Park. .The American

investing. public would’ have to aT A serie

ten billion dollars’ worth of German
bonds in the competitive market: The
United States has said that Germany’s
debt to her must be Rept separate from
the other reparations. The United
States Government would have to



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Smith Swamped

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Pien i

Ler facts well in hand and brought
tnem out clearly. °

M. Lambert ’29, the first speaker for

the negative, had fewer facts at her”

gommand. Her chief poirlts were that |
Hoover. ,was typicak of the best kind

ef them, a bit beside the poin,

‘Then came: the fiye minute rebuttals.
Miss .Fry had facts: but -no rhetoric;
Miss Lambert Had rhetarical power but
uot the facts,¢ The audience was al-
Most unanimous in thinking that the
affirmative side had successfully aip-
eld its cause. But the judges brought
in a different decisian. How they
reached it no one can quite see., Cer-
tainly they could not have followed the
usual debate’ procedure of judging on
points. But we must notaguarrel with
the decision. ,.All the nai. ra discus-
| sion was held that ‘same evening in the
| various hall smoking-rooms. All.,we
shall say is that it was a very success-
fuk uvbate; .. ell as an enjoyable one,
We move that others follow during the
winter, either with or without musical
accompaniment. °

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Boswell’s Anecdotes

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of American’ manhood,~-that he was
an internationalist, that he had both |
vision and practical ability. In bring:
ing out these points, she relied on ora-
torical effects, on her power over the
audience. And- she succeeded,

EF.’ Latane, ’30, was the second speak- |
or for the affirmative. Her speech was

“hy all odds the best of: the evening. |
Not only

was she at ease with her |
sudience, not only did she have power
over it, but she had facts and knew |
how’ to bring them out. She empha-
sized Smith’s political courage and |
lonesty, as opposed to Hoover's con-/'
| servatisism, and dwelt specially on his
ability to make. popular government
actually function.

E, Bigclow, ra; cutie for the!
regative, attempted to make Smith’s
rahtinibein platform: a liability. rather
than an asset. She had facts and statis-



|

erous they were sent to ‘be bound -with
several blank sheets for future entries.
/” Boswell’s Wit Inherited.

About: half. of these- anecdotes are





ties behind iat, but-they~seemed some ts that one-may-injure=the-Hterary-repu-—
They would cr iat

tation of the author.
have value for the possible biographer of
Boswell, because here we are nearet to
his life than most readers realize.
might be used as a sort of humorous
obligato to his life.

There are a good many that deal with
his travels abroad. He was particularly
fond of telling the French ones for they

Wherever he went he collected anec-

or mean. InwBerlin he was presented to
intimate with the secretary of ,the -British
Embassy that he» réceived from him a
| collection of stories about the Emperor,
Fréderick’ the Great.

On one occasion, while he was. in Ut.
recht, there was an eclipse of the sun.
Ky exerting: some influesiee he was per-



| mitted to, ascend the observatory and view

tne eclipse from there. This incident is

| typical of him. For whenever anything

|

.of astronomical interest was-to occur. in
the literary firmament, 2 Was» sure to
observe it from some advantageous posi-
° ¥
tion, | - Riveng

It is a curious fact that we have no

“dated, but from internal-evidence it is | Corsican anecdotes, but these may have

easy to arrange-them in chonological or- | been removed on the publication of. his

der. An examination’of the contents and

_ Sources reveals the Edinburgh society in

which he lived before he went to Lon- |
den at the Age df 20.. Here there are
references to an earlier group, Sheridan,
father of the dramatist, Lord Kenmore,
aiid Boswell’s father. The second and
third’ seem to have been his greatest |
sources of wit. Boswell came by his
art naturally, not, as has been supposed,
by ,his. contact with Johnsoni. Already,
while he was still in’ his ‘teens, we find
him ‘invariably recording his sources.
This collection is like a heap of unset |
gems, needing an expert to handle them |
properly. The danger: in repeating them |







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