Page Four By S. M. Miner COOPERATIVE ORGANIZA» TIONS in the United States, and in all the world in fact, have been subjects of widespread discussion during recent years. The economic experiment started by the Rochdale Textile Workers over ninety years ago as a means of bettering their financial condition, is now reaching a position of notice in the social as well as the business world. Opinions, policies, functions. and organiza- tion are now so divergent, that no discussion of principles can blanket the entire group. J. B. MATTHEWS, a co-director of Consumers’ Research, Inc., has written an article in which he covers the production and product side, principally; while H. A. Fierst, who has studied the cooperative move— ment in almost every country in Eu— i rope, has written an article discuss-i ing the question from the labor standpoint. In spite of the fact that these two articles attack the subject from different angles, they form a good starting point for contemporary study of the problem. ‘ THE EXTREMELY VARIED rc—l action (from claims of communisticl tendencies to denunciations as capi- talistic expansion) toward coopera- tives is stressed by Matthews. He then goes on to a discussion from the standpoint of product, advertis— ing‘, ultimate savings, competition, all of which he claims do not meet with expectations. Fierst, on the other hand, while slightly favorable to- ward cooperatives, does not believe that its bonciits are broad or quick enough to serve the ends of the labor class. However, the question certainly deserves study: Whether or not the experiment will ever attain to im- portance such as that predicted by its strong protagonists, only time can tell. .1. a .1: BUDGET BALANCING discus sions, rife throughout the country during the campaign, are still domi— nant and often heated. The inter- esting feature, however, lies in the fact that all of these discussions, which naturally center around the. ”thirty billion dollar national debt,” are invariably concerned with certain personal financial conditions or oc- currences and not with the problem of how or why the debt came about, or how, when, or why it should be levelled. QUOTING FROM the December “Harpers,” we find these two widely divergent views to illustrate the con- versational trends. “Iowa tourist camp owner: ‘I got a cousin back East, and they took away his sawmill and five thousand acres of the finest timber land in Maine because he couldn‘t pay these damn fool New Deal taxes . . . the deeper this crazy administration runs in the hole, the nearer the government comes to own- ing your and my business. . . . We’ll find out sooner or later that the peo— ple behind all this is those dirty so- cialists.’ ” WHILE ON THE other side we hear from a small-town hotel clerk in Missouri who claims he works twelve to sixteen hours a day, seven days a week, for only forty dollars a month “and the wife and three kids have to live on it. . . . Why can’t a, bio country like this make its own money instead of owing it to the banker? . . . Lemme tell you, if they let the bankers steal this fifty bil- lion dollars (sic) the way they done before with the war debt, there’s go- ing to be a Communistic (accent on the second syllable) revolution and no fooling.” In the face of such dire warnings, the Administration (in fact the whole country) had better fold up and hide. While of course the concrete and1 studied solutions offered should cer- tainly immediately solve the prob- lem and set this country on its feet. t 0’ yesll =l< iii it: AN INTERESTING INCIDENT of ironical, historical importance oc— 1 CONFERENCE—— (Confirmed from 7NIflI‘ 4mm ity rules. This means that a list of players must be approved by the fac- ulty before every contest. This rul- ing is likely to eliminate a few men ' from some of the squads but not enough to handicap the teams to any extent. In order to cut down traveling ex- penses, Armour willplay only teams in the northern division. these teams are already on the sched— ule however. Augustana, Wheaten, Elmhur. 1. North Central, Bradley, St. Via’m . De Kalb, State Normal, Knox, and} Monmouth. Total membership in the i Little Nineteen consists of about twenty-one schools, all of which are of medium size. The league has been running for a good many years, is well established, and is recognized as the best conference in the middle west for smaller colleges. It is not in a class with the Big Ten, of course. ._..__..—~——-————————~—— curred recently, when the German government released, “uncondition— ally," Carl von Ossietzky. Ossiotzky, it seems, was imprisoned in a con- centration camp for “traitorius beha- vior." When it was hinted, mont'is ago, that he was to be considered 1’ 'r . the Nobel peace prize, the German government “announced that it would consider it an unfriendly act to award the prize to ‘a man impris- oned for his traitorous behavior.“ Now, it seems that in order to‘avoid the unfriendly act, the government has released Ossietzky, who now, .n their eyes, becomes eligible to receive the much coveted Nobel award. Marya l l Many of l The list includesi l l fir ride gourd tidings smelting can giro yon ARMOUR TECH NEWS 1 l . t Another week rolls around and* things are again looking up for thel Arx Department. A little encourage~ ment seems to have gone a long way in making the men all try a little i hirder. The Beaux Art Jury treated lie Class A Problems much better than they ever have in the past, Kichaven already has one Mention to his credit, and Becker, .lohnstonc, Hrachovsky, Lohmiller, Itamp, Salct- ta and Schmaltz have Half Mentions. A few days later the Class “B" rc- port arrived and for the first time in seemingly ages the Armour Arx, had two First Mentions to theiri (redit in one Judgment. The cx-l ceedingly fortunate, or rather,‘good‘ men, were Johanson and School. Every other man excepting one re»l ccived a Half Mention. A little bask“ in}; in glory went on for a few days but the attitude seems to be “ya ain’t seen nothin’ yet!" An organized conspiracy is now on foot to bring a few Class A medals, to the school. A system is being, tried out in which thee men who are ‘ taking the Class A problem are re— quired to turn in an Esquisse-Es~ l quisse at the end of a few weeks" study in order to give them the bone- fit of criticism before the final post- judgment criticism which is, after all, ‘ apt to be something like locking the Copyright 1950, meson- & Myers Tosncco Co. barn after the horse is gone as far as B.A.I.D. rating is cohcerned. May the new way bear fruit (and we don’t mean nuts!) - There are about: twenty men in the department who are mighty sure, that is, that part of their anatomy which in so essential when their legs begin to tire from too much stand— ing. How lovely is a barrel stavel ~~—on the “give" end. Buying and eating ice, cream cones with boxing gloves on isn't so easy either, is it? “Frankenstein" Huboi . The shirlail fiend, ' Was mighty sore, Since he was sec-11., Wandering thru library Gallery and hall, Shirtail a flyiii’ Didn't know it a’tall! Librarians a laflin’ The visitors agupin’ Says he’ll punch the Guy in the 0110 Who perpetrated Said vulgar trick. Almost immoral, we call it! It was almost askdirty a trick as t e three Sophs pulled who paid for their banquet tickets with a bucket of pennies, three hundred of them! We lmow, because Mr. Lader count- ed them. Pennies makes me think of matches because you too have heard of matching pennies. The little lad from Rockford cleaned up but many won’t forget the ancient adage about o. “lag for 21 lag" and a tooth for a nail, oi sumpin’.” Next week, for one Week's showing only—flu new Arx reporter to be known to you as Art Gum ll. See you next year, and that’s no lie. ART GUM. ran aura Pit—— (Continued from page one) of Salamander, president of the F.P.E.S., student editor of the Engineer and Alumnus, manager of the golf team. and treasurer of Del— ta Tau Delta. A. Goldsmith is a mem- ber of the senior commission, mem— ber of Eta Kappa Nu and A.I.E.E., and has had 32 hours of outside work l per week since entering Armour. J. A. House is chairman of the l A.I.(‘.h.E.. president of Alpha Chi I‘Sigmu, a senior class commissioner, ‘and a member of the golf team and l glee club. M. S. Hcrz has been on the track and tennis squads, is a pledge to Chi EpSilon, and is a member of } W.S.E. R. G. Liebmann is vice-pres. lidont of Eta Kappa Nu, vice-presi~ ident of A.l.E.E., a member of the L‘elcc club, and has earned all tuition ; and expenses by outside employment. ‘ P. L. G. Moore is captain of the [boxing team, vice—president of Chi , Epsilon, president of tho Armour ‘branch of W.S.E., chairman of the senior jewelry committee, and was an assistant junior marshal. .J. J, Penn iis president of Triangle fraternity, lmanagcr of the tennis team, and chairman of the senior announce- mont committee. P. R. Schultz is lpresidcnt of Phi Lambda Upsilon, was an assistant junior marshal, an 'honor marshal, and is a member of Alpha Chi Sigma, Pi Nu Epsilon, l‘g'lce club, and mucus. l J. C. Stem is secretary of Chi ‘Epsilon, manager of the swimming ,tcam, vice~prcsidcnt 01' W.S.E., and i is a member of the junior class com- , mission. S. ’l‘aradash is president of ‘ Rho Delta Rho, pledge to Chi Epsilon, Tuesday, December 8, l936 Federal Theater to Have Armour Night In connection with their “Armour Night", on Friday, December 11, the Blackstone Federal Theatre has made available for Armour- students a block of tickets for “It Can't Hap- pen Here", the stimulating play by Sinclair Lewis, only A'meri‘can author who has won the Nobel prize {or dis- tinguished literature. Tickets may now be reserved at the book store at thirty cents for main floor seats- and twenty cents for balcony seats. It is hoped that a goodly number of students will take advantage of this. unusual ofl’er in order that the Fed- eral Theatre may make similar offers. in the future. The Blackstone The- atre is located at 7th Street and Michigan Boulevard. member of the senior announcement :qmmittec, and a member of the champion senior basketball team. H. J, Bodnar is secretary of A.I.Ch.E., assistant publicity director for the school, a news reporter, member of the glee club, track team, and Alpha Chi Sigma, was vice-president of the freshman class and president of the sophomore class. R. A. Kliphardt is secretary of Scarab, a member of the glee club, A.I.T. players, and staff of the Engineer and Alumnus, and was a delegate to the Scarab conven- tion held recently in Minneapolis. WW THE BOULEVARD CAFE 3100 S. Michiunn Avc. Tel. Victory Q35»! Invites You to Try Our Special Half Milk Fad Chicken or Sirloin Stool: French Fried Seulllon. Fried in Butter with and (‘Jolc lnw, Rudinheu. bread and butter for on y After Hull) P. M.. Luncheon: 20o Yotntoes mmild ripe whatnot" from the Carolinas, Georgia, Kenn , tucky;Maryland andVirgiuiawtbere’s aplenty of the best in Chesterfield. mammoth returnees from Turkey and Greece—and plenty to make Chesterfields taste. better-w and different. 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