I? .. Firm-”:- n? El ie on a This committee under the chair- THE LOGICAL sequence of local government might be termed as that of a city in a county in a state. The city is fundamental in existence, it is an element of the state. Likewiec, the state is an element of the nation. _ « Moreover orders will be taken as" How about the county? Taxes 1m”locon an the, bu or return: from Nev; city, taxes for the state, and—in all “ ‘3 y' ' ‘ ‘ its absurdity—taxes for the county. l Yin: It is impaled that those WM There does ciciiit the possibility of was to gel "ladle“ can be “1&5.“er eliminating: the burden on the public 1 next week, starting; Monday, April 16’ ' The price Will be somewhere near $5. According to information from the ,committec it should be a jacket the clans will be well satisfied with in that it will be good looking, made of good material, and last but not least, it will retail at a reasonable price. l It is certain that the jackets will be ready for wearing: before Junior 4...... W a , a L SiflELl’NFfi .luiiior locket lied MI ”in . "WW invert to Monticello WWWW l ,,. __.__ By LEROY BEMKMAN in a short time another jacket will WlTl‘l OUR PRESENT occupancy i be seen worn about the campus, as as students 0f higher learning, We the bid for junior clans jackets has have the opportunity 01' Sitting ”Mk ‘ been placed with Mandel Brothers by and silently observing the facts Ollthe jacket committea government. Government for good‘ and government for bad, how 01: l manship 01" C. Handler has been which would naturally contribute to working conscientiously for the pur~ our perplexlty. We observe 300d pose of placing the bid for jackets. national government occasionally, ' A jacket was previouely $6,190th and which in turn is counteracted by uni , plans were well under way for the desirable local government, Now i making of it when the junior clues about the local government—that of l decided that it didn’t wish to pay the the city, county, and state? i rather steep price asked. The com- ,mittee, therefore, set about to place 'the bid with another concern. Mam l shall Field's offered a sample but this lwas rejected because it was not the ltype wanted. It has now been defin- litcly decided that Mandel Brothers ‘will make the jackets. by consolidation, or eliminating cnv tirely, the counties of the state. THOUGHTS pertaining to county problems have been fairly coneintcnt for the past four or five years, but they reached the peak at the time of President Roosevelt’s inaugura- tion. The president is quoted as say: Week, which Will enable-the juniors ing, “We have a system of county toehow their colors on this prominent government whose general form and ‘necasion. structure, is no more fit for its pur» pose than the ox curt would be for the task of supplying modern trom- portation between New York and Chicago." The president added, too, that a large majority of the States ere contending with the Home prob‘ lem, that of financing county admini. stration. ‘Socieriee to Hold Monthly Marcello 3 Under a plan fostered by Arthur ‘ llighman and Rolland McFarland the l engineering societies of Armour will hold a joint meeting once a month, next nemeeter, The plan is to secure .rf-presentative speakers from each field of engineering: to speak before the joint meeting. Thus the entri- Yltrel‘Sl will hear a chemist one month, a c l engineer the next and no on. With this. plan the speakers com- mittcc Will be able to secure the most their fields, ARE COUNTIES neocosai'y? We venture to any that their existence under present circumstances li~l not‘ called for. Iii the city, such as: Chi» cage, we have an organized govern~ merit in the city hall—-a stall oi' sup- posed experts, each of which special- izes in some phases of city govern-l merit and all of whom draw heavily} DYUEWHWH SP‘EWKL‘Y'S 5“ on city funds. in addition to the fore ‘ Slime a large audience Will be 2.2+ going government there exists an sui'ed. Tb audience will aleo hear other government of similar construc- ‘ mo") dive?“ 9‘3 Eub‘leds- tion in the very same city—the coun— ‘y ty administration. In the case of ferenl societiec will be held just as large cities, counties are largely pre. l before. dominated by the city goveri'iment—w1 which acts the county udmlnistratlor us an exact duplicate and not worth the expenditures incurred in that di-' rection. Most certainly the present county system of government is ob-‘ colete. The regular meetingi; of the dif- Wéreuer of (humor to Receive Free Bid Not to be outdone by any of the 3 previous social committees, the fresh- :man and sophomore committees are ‘leavmg nothing: undone that will an— isure the success of their dance. PROFESSOR T. H. REED of the University of Michigan, an authority _ on state government, submitted an , As has been the custom in the past article recently in a magazine devoted ‘3 they are {“52“ng e ”03“”. contest to problems of state government. Pew and to insure participation are offer. training to county government, thellng 3 I’ll Of one free bid to the authority Says: “Modern means oflwinner. No restrictions are placed transportation have made obsolete l upon the >371? “l' (7010’ ”l ”‘1‘ P031“ the traditional areas of local govern— , The followmg information is offered merit, city, county, township, school for the benefit of those int: exited: (“Strivtm4fil once were m prac- place, llotcl Knickerbocker; date, tic-ally adapted to the needs of gov ‘ April iii, ”’34; time, 9 l" m. to l a. m.; orchentra, Dell ‘bid, $i73 Entries will not he accepted after eminent. The county "7 the unit Coon; mice Of through which the state provides for elections, highways, justice, and for the as essment and collectioniwas so laid out that a. farmer could drive in a buggy or buckboartl from farm to court house and return between morning. and evening chores." llzive We that cause for similar conditions today? ‘ Heald‘s (Alice. Chess Club Will Play Return Mulch Friday An election of officers took place at a meeting of the Armour Chose . Club held last Friday and because of ,the fact that the majority of mem— lbers are graduating, R. llella, the THE DEPRESSION has created a tax~conscious people. Counties have been continually losing population to the towns and cities, thereby increasi— ing the tax burden on the rural dis- ‘ tricts. The cities do not need the county, and the rural districts can. not support the county administra-l tion. Naturally any sane person sub-l American Chess Club, fOI‘mBle the jectgd m taxation would object ml South Side Chess Club, which hes present county government—a leeehl‘originally scheduled for last Thurs— in the sea of local administrations.id3ys W213 PGBWGYled until Friday, Why not be a sane person? l April 13‘ - dent. The return Armour lnetitutc of Technology, Chicago, lllinois livelihood lliltll no one one i which; intuit lonelier lire» Milli Milli lllil‘h , , . . held luut Friday evciiinfK :‘Yll‘qzl’lle chap; 31in. French Teams limiter l::1llll?,m;]..fll; inlaid ii. th‘lcl'llls“: kits, E. N. Searl, and (i. W. Whea- Enlelfifllafifi Swill: Built“ ton. Thane men were pledged public- Tournament Formal initiation ceremonies Illinois Beta of Tau Beta Pi were ‘ 1y two weeks ago after u considera— . tlnn of the qualities of scholarship, 1 character, and activity about Armour. l Following): the ccrciiioniec a banquet In a peaceful and luminous—like sen~l was served ll’! the, Faculty Grill. vim! the freshman and cophomore l About thirty men attended. Norman classes met last Friday, primarily to , talk over their coming: dance, but. also, for the freshmen. to hear some— LUKAS ADDRESfiSES PROS?! faculty members present for sliuit . l x 115:. T - . .4 thing on the subject of green hath l to 4 he YLHXHH'lHtN writ (Alinoat all. 1 1 th e m'nr interci‘ma interde , H! the unturn- oi reminiscences oi am e o i g, a. v ' :gurly chaptcl‘ or school ttCllVlLll‘S. partmental, intro—mural soft belli : tournament. l Michael Lukas, chairman of the .l'rciihman board of control, told the, freshmen that the upper classmen had no desire to force them to wear . . caps. but hoped rather that they they wrti’im.i<-