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PERFECT NONSENSE

This week’s contributions. seem

to have confined - themselves to
verse. A _ little prose, we think,
would. be.a-change from-this_soli-|.
Crazily enough,
the anonymous winner of first hon-
ors calls her animated piece :
This Isn’t Nonsense!

This college’s bane
(They drive me insane)
’Tis those asking dumb questions
Again and agane.
To boast what they know
Or Folly to show
They murder our classes ;
Let’s bash them to dough !*

* Possibly there are better meas-
ures, but: this one rimes.

x * *

You have forgotten no doubt,
gentle reader, the stirring descrip-
tion in last week’s News of the com-
ing of darkness to the Library chan-
delier. Ah! but all have not for-
gotten, . That one remembers the
red-rihbon- -winning poem bears wit-
ness :

The Last Light Bulb

I stay;
I shall not go

Till jealous oxygen allay
My slender filament’s glow.

The time is: past, ah, long since gone
When I was only one
Of myriad gleaming circled lights
That put to shame the sun.
Where. are they now~the luminary
souls
That made. alive the tungsten and
the glass? °
Over their light the last great nied
ness rolls.
Se-must—l pass...
Each night, a click of switches in
the hall,
Stern Duty’s call \e
Arouses me again—I anrawake.
But still my comrades all
Sleep on, alas! No more shall any
calle
Their slumbers ‘break,
Fach-night,-each_night!
shall. come a day
When the’ pulsating current shall
not awake, but slay!

But. soon

The last lone soul ‘shall flee
hark, :

The filament snaps--and after that
the dark.

I stay;



I shall not go
Till jealous oxygen allay
My slendet filament’s glow.
A.M. B:

ee

Me an’ Kellogg

“The pen is mightier than the

sword,”
I said, but Kellogg ‘just looked
bored. .
“Come Jet us arm with fountain
pens «

And feel secure from hostile mens !””

“How awfully silly!” he deplored.

The sword is mightier than the pen

Or why have we a navy then?
—Me.

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Platforms

Capitalism : catechism,
Socialism : radicalism,
Communism: cataclysm !—
Anything but Feminism.
—M.

be Ne ee

Prawn Pudding

Precocious, I prattled prostrate in
my pram,
Previous prandial prawn pudding
praising,
“Gracious!” my _ gleeful great-
grandmother gutturalized,

“Rorty the rumpus -the rascal is |

raising !”

*

But not as rorty as we are at the
thought of all these contributions.
Just the same there’s room for a lot
more; we feel that in the field of
undergraduate and graduate wit. we

haven't scratched yet.
a

povertive

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‘to take the leavings of capitalism;

ee

Than either soprano or bass.
She lets. everyone know
All about so-and-so,
With the sweetest of smiles
her face.

on

a, act onan RY Sak

She got o on Self aa
But not through my love ;
Her diction is tated correct.
She gets twelve hours’ sleep
And I’m ready to weep,
For her Virtue’s her only defect.



Scott Nearing Attacks
System of Capitalism



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small and religious but there were in-
dividual unions and the Knights of Labor
who fought the trusts bitterly and with
guns. The Knights of Labor,.. whose
membership totaled one million at one
time, were at their height in 1886 and
1887. They met their defeat in the last
big~ strikes against the trusts. In 1881
the American Federation of Labor was
organized... Now it, the four important
railroad # otherhoods, and the Amal-
gamated Clothing Union are the impor-
tant labor organizations in the United
States.. The American Federation of
Labor has, however, through its policy
of trade agreements, become virtually a
part of the capitalistic system and noth-
ing will come of it. Only about 10 per
cent. of. American .workers.are.organized,
and those that are organized are willing
it is
necessary that American workers organ-
ize and fight.

The possibility of legal remedy for the
worker grows steadily less. In the
“muck-raking” period from 1905-1914 re-
fd¥iners like Ida Tarbell had. an organ
in such magazines as Colliers; McClure’s

+and-the-American-tor-the-spread-of- their.

ideas, It Was a period of romanticism
and hope. Then the. buSiness interests
bought the movement out and crushed it;

the war finished the job. Now free
speech is.denied Communists. For or-
ganizing’ workers Communists are set on
by thugs. or imprisoned fifteen years or
more. In 1912—-New— York -passed- the
Airst..law.. against, orggnization; now
‘thirty-seven States have similar Taws. In
1896, during Bryan’s campaign for free
silver, the worker experienced a short
period of hope, but this soon passed.
There is now no educational or legal
remedy for the worker; he is helpless
and inarticulate. It is probable that the
movement in. America will follow with
fidelity that in Russia.

Socialism is no remedy. Those who
think anything can be achieved by legal
means are chasing will-of-the-wisps.

Economic conditions of workers under
Capitalism travel. in a curve. At first,
while industry is growing, labor is scarce
and wages rise. Later the curve passes
its highest point; there is unemployment
and low wages and the standards of liv-
ing of the worker are lowered. Great
Britain has come to the low end of the
curve and we are descending to it. Stand-
ards of living of many American workers
are lower than they were in 1913. :

While the capitalistic system is ‘disin-
tegrating it still wields such power that
only revolutionary action will meet. the
problem. A proletarian dictatorship like
that in Russia will prevent another fall of
Rome when the crash comes. A social
economy rather than ‘an individual econ-
omy. is needed. The next: forty. or fifty
years wilt probably bring. it and the
movemerft will probably be from Eurasia.

In conclusion, Mr. Nearing warned
| the audience that they must not allow
economic textbooks or newspapers to lull
them to sleep. Only 7 per cent. of the
world’s inhabitants’ are. American, but
one-third of the world’s unemployed are
in this country, and less well cared for
}than_in any other country except Japan.
It is for this reason that the pressure
towards Communism is so strong in the
United States. -



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College Is Bad For Girls

“The girl whose ambition and aim is
to charm is still the winner with men.
And,. believe me, she’s rarely a college
graduate,” declares Nina Wiléox Put-
~Jekege, Humor,
“T am particularly. prejudiced against
colleges run strictly for women, but
feel that ‘there is a lot to be said in
favor of co-educational institutions. In
fact, I believe the worst that can be
said against the latter is that a co-
educational institution throws people of
opposite sexes, who are still pretty
young for the task, into a lot of grown-
up situations which they are really not
capable of handling.

“But the purely feminine college, run
by women for women, is a holy terror,
to my mind. To me it seéms to do
something awful to a girl. It’s a com-
pletely false world to begin with, be-
cause women are ‘basically rivals all
through their lives and do not herd

together naturally and impersonally as’

men do. Therefore a vast campus
simply crawling with females who ape
the independence of men_ without
achieving the solidarity of men. isto
me a false and pitiful thing. And at-
tendance at such a college more often
than not leaves a girl hanging midway
between intellectual snobbery and a
practical education in: living, without
achieying éither. Of course in the case
of a-girl who is deliberately planning
a career to which a special’ course of
study is essential, my verdict is entirely
different. She must, of. course, go to
college.

“But for an average girl
tends to make marriage her chief busi-
ness—and, thank heaven, they are still
in the majority—to waste four precious
years that ought to be devoted to ro-
mantic adventure, at a college which

who. in-

| offers contact only with her own sex;

seems tragic. And, what’s more, the
experience is often mighty unhealthy
for her whole point of view on sex.





“Some wise author, I’m not suffi-
ciently educated to remembér his name,
once. pulled a splendid gag to the ef-
fect that a little knowledge is a dan-
gerous. thing,..And.that’s how I feel
about the knowledge a girl gets at a
female university. What's the value
of a smattering of the classics, a course
in trig, or a sentefice or two ima dead
language, all of which is soon forgot-
ten, as against thé good, red-hot warm-
ing-up for the business of life which
a girl gets out of normal social con-
tacts during the four years which she
averages before marriage and after
school? Why waste that precious in-
terval by putting a girl-away in a sort
of home for grown-up female orphans
where life is artificial to the hth degree
and bears no relation to her real
future?

“Let's keep college for the grinds
and let our marriageable daughters
strut their: stuff at home. And if a girl
wants an occupation, let her get a job
of work, Any. work, practically, will
teach her more in a’ month that will
be of real value to her than she’ll pull
out of four years at Wreckem College.”



Shorthand For Everybody

Although most of the world’s output of
shorthand today .comes from the pencils
of women, John R: Gregg scouts the idea
that there is anything effeminate about it.
In an interview in the current number
of The- American» Magazine, Mr. Gregg,
himself the. inventor of widely used
system, harks back to the masculine be-
ginnings of abbreviated modes of writing.

The first practical pothooks, he. says,
were devised by a .young man named Tifo

a

in the first century B. C. Julius Caesar
was an adept stenographer, and ‘other
ancient and eminent Romans had_short-
hand: systems’ of their own. Contests

were held and prizes awarded, much as
they aré today. In those sterner days,
stenographic errors in reporting speeches

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