THE WEEK
Peavey, Lynn
The Week Hoover Calls Drought Meeting. Eugenics Courses Lose Gift. Europe's Jobless Army Grows. Novel Contract Fulfilled. By LYNN PEAVEY ACONFERENCE of state governor*"to be held Thurs. riav for...
...More than 2,000.000 are idle In Great Britain: Italy has officially reported 322,287 unemployed...
...The bequest to Harvard "was not a gift for that university's benefit, but for the human race, being thus a charity of wide public purpose," the supreme court, decision declared...
...I read the paper with much pleasure and always hand my copy out to someone else...
...I wish to receive one of the large portraits of Senator La Follette Sr...
...He can be depended upon to clinch a victory at the next legislature with the encouragement lhat has come from the attorney general...
...indorsed by the Farmer-Labor association for the legislature from the 32nd district, has been a consistent advocate in the legislature of optional training at the university...
...I wish you the best of success.—Ulrich Dierauer...
...He is a free lance newspaper writer...
...Meanwhile the university authorities disclose through their attempt to hang on to the compulsory system that It is not educators but militarists who are in control of the university...
...Ineligibility for re-election would remove the ground which today make the president tco much the head of the party rather thsn the head of the government...
...The eight-hour day, for instance, was a bigger adjustment to make, and so was the five-day week...
...Unless the university authorities1 act to make military training optional there will be another bill introduced at the next legislature to bring this about...
...Only five of the 106 treaties regarded the abolition of war or the reduction of armaments...
...handed down this week by the Pennsylvania supreme court in the case of a will which made a bequest to Harvard university to be used In endowing courses in the instruction of eugenics...
...EDUCATORS OR MILITARISTS...
...Far from it...
...Hoover will work along th...
...Theodore Christiansen, Minn., declared that conditions' do not warrant, the conference...
...GIFT IS REJECTED ANOVEL decision was...
...lines of the conference called by the president at the time of the Mississippi floods when the governors were urg?d to set up local agencies to take care of the situation...
...Hoover has appointed as chairman of the Republican Natiolnal committee, is on record as being opposed to a .second term for presidents...
...Do the university authorities bow themselves out gracefully...
...PREDICTS 10-MONTH TEAR APREDICTION that a 10-month year will be adopted in the industrial world as well as the 5-day week was made this week by Henry Ford in a copyrighted interview published Sunday in the Border States Star cf Windsor...
...Withou^ the old alibi of losing government funds it will undoubtedly pass...
...Simeon D. Fess...
...PACT IS CARRIED OUT AN anti-companionate marriage contract was fulfilled Tuesday with th.» birth of a son to Mr...
...Mover were married on Jan...
...2, 1930, they revealed their nuptial pact which read: "We do hereby agree to marry for the deliberate purpose of creating a child...
...When Mr...
...ecntlves were non-committal...
...As chairman of the Republican National committee, it will be the principal duty of Fess to do all within his power to bring about Pres...
...and Mrs...
...Hoover shortly before he went Into consultation with Secretary Hyde and James C. Stone, vice chairman of the federal farm board, at his Rapldian river lodge in Virginia...
...Hungary has an army of 400,000 jobless, in Germany, 2.757,000 are without work, and in Austria 450.000 are idle...
...The decision of the Pennsylvania high court holds that since the specific purpose of the will has failed because of the university's rejection of the gift, the court will n.ime another medical schocl ?..» brnrflciarv ol the will...
...Arthur J. Weaver, Neb., axaerted that he doesn't care to "advertise Ne-bras'CH as a drctlght-riddqf .-tale miles- it is essential...
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...Not infrequently...
...Legislation introduced in the legislature to make military training optional at the university has been fought and defeated on this ground...
...To nullify such charity, under the circumstances of this case, would require us to ignore the entire trend of our decisions on the subject...
...Ohio, whom Pres...
...100,000 are out on a strike in France and 20,000 more are unemployed involuntarily...
...From Minneapolis Labor Review For years the regents of the University of Minnesota 'have insisted that, all male students at the university must take military training or the university would lore certain financial aid it receives from the federal government...
...Hoover's re-nomination and re-election, but if he does this he will be assisting in a program which he is on record as saying is not best for the public welfare...
...riav for forming plans to aid the dicught-stricken states of the union was called Saturday by Pres...
...READS PAPER WITH PLEASURE Alma...
...Since the university declined to accept the bequest for the purposes given In the will, no beneficiary remained...
...expresses their thoughts without fear or favor of the money power...
...Clara Kuenii...
...I think this is the paper for the common people, for it...
...Fess wrote, "much of the energy of the head of the adminis-tration during the first term is expended in getting ready for re-election...
...and Mrs...
...The summer months are not good months to be *ork-lng in a factory and people need change," Ford is quoted to have said, "Such an adjustment will take time of course," Ford said, "because the workers as well as the manufacturers will have to adapt themselves to such a schedule, but we have accomplished bigger things in the past...
...A 10-month industrial yea" will be the next, thing...
...A PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE 'Port Austin, Mich., Aug...
...S. A. Stockwell...
...If, at the end of two years, we have failed in our purpose, it shall be the privilege of either to apply for a divorce without consulting the other.'' Moyer is a member of the International Rebel Poets' society and similar organizations...
...The Attorney General of the United States has ruled that making military training at the university optional will not sacrifice financial assistance for the university and ihe state by the federal government...
...It Is believed likely that the conference called by Pres...
...6. —I have been a subscriber to La Folletle's Magazine for over 15 years, and now am a reader of The Progressive...
...The university president indicates thai the compulsory training will be retained regardless of the ruling of the attorney general...
...FESS OPPOSED TWO TERMS ASTONISHED leaders in the national Republican party learned Saturday, not without chagrin, that Sen...
...William Kenneth Moyer at Souderton, Pa...
...UNEMPLOYMENT RISES UNEMPLOYMENT in Europe reached a new high mark this week with the announcement that 6.049,287 men and women in six nations are dependent upon charity, public doles and bread lines for their existence...
...The Progressive is so full of interest that I do not like to destroy any of it by using the clipping.—Mrs...
...it was disclosed Sunday by the New York Times...
...By late Saturday night, two governors of states effected by the drought had announced that they would decline to attend the conference, while other state ex...
...Gov...
...The London Herald has estimated that thene are 16,000,000 unemployed men and women in the world...
...FULL OF INTEREST iWatertown, Wis., Aug...
...MANY TREATIES SIGNED SINCE Jan...
...Hackney...
...1, the United States has formed 22 treaties with foreign nations, and has ratified 106 since 1924...
...Give it to them straight, with all mk-cess to you.—Thos...
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Vol. 1 • August 1930 • No. 37
