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By H. M. Ross

THE THUNDER of cannon, rain
of blood, and the moan of the dead
and (lyiing—‘tliesc are Spain’s today.
Torn by internal strife and hacked
by unwanted prying of foreign
powers, Spain is passing through a
bloody chapter in her history, Cul-
minalinz years of elfort and strug-
gle on the part of the Spanish peas-
ant and laborer to rise from the
depths of poverty and oppression
come the bloody and internecine
battles of today tending: to throw
him back the few steps he has come
towards freedom and a better life.

 

PRESENT DAY Spain retains all
the unpleasant hangovers of the old
feudal system under which she was
first organized into a nation. In
the north, the land is divided into
small parcels, individually owned
and worked. In central and south-
ern Spain is encountered her big-
gest problem. Here, carried down
from the past, are enormous es—
tates, owned by a few wealthy
absentee landlords, and worked by
itinerant peasants who receive only
a small share of the crops they
raise. When one realizes that 1200
families own forty percent of all of
Spain’s agricultural land; that only
forty-five percent of Spain’s land
can be cultivated; and that eighty
percent of her 28,000,000 people
live on that land, the presence of
an oppressive oligarchy is only too
evident. .

 

NOT ALONE in his plight is the
peasant. The laborer and business
man affords him ample company in
the class of the oppressed. The
Bank of Spain, held and operated
by a few rich and powerful stock-
holders, unlike thc Bank of Eng-

    

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organized the Western Actuarial Bu
reau to handle the details of the
schedule work with the various
state bureaus. The bureau has be-
come a clearing house of informa—
tion regarding rating matters con-
cerning insurance throughout the
Middle West.

Mr. Parker‘s widow, his father,
and his three sons survive. He was
a knight of the round table of the
Union League club in Chicago and
the Illinois Pond of the Blue Goose.

The fire protection engineering:
department at Armour was begun
in 1903, and one scholarship per
year was given beginning in 1913
by the Underwriters' Association of
the Northwest. Then, in 1920, Mr.
Parker conceived the idea of sup<
plying specially trained fire pro-
tection engineers to the state rat—
ing bureaus in the Midwest.

The scholarship plan provided
twenty—five or thirty four-year schol<
arships each year. Recently, on ac-
count of the depression, the num-
ber has been reduced to eight or
ten per year. These scholarships pay
tuition and fees for the four years,
and provide two months’ work in a
state rating bureau during each of
the three summer vacations while
the student is in school. The schol-
arship man is also assured of thrne
years’ work in a bureau after his
graduation.

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they had legally lost. Numerically
pitifully weak, their cause is fought
by the Moors, mercenaries, the for-
eign legion, and arms and munitions
from foreign sources. The world
watches with anxious eyes the out-
come of the struggle. With Fasc-
ism and Communism seeking terri«
tory for the spread of their doc-
trines, no struggle, no matter how
local its courses, is long allowed to
remain a private affair.

l announcer—11*

ARMOUR TECH NEWS

 

Sequel to THE ENGINEER
——A Parable
Sequel by H. F'., Presumably of
Armour

SOON THERE WAS a great mi-
gration from Heaven to Hell. All
of the worthy citizens flocked down
to the reconstructed basement
apartments at such a rate as to
necessitate the installation of a
special subway»Hades-Express. “The
Descent of Man". Heaven became
quite a deserted place now. Every—
body had gone to Hell and only St.
Peter was left, guarding the Pearly
Gates.

Well, after a few lonely years
rolled along: St. Peter noticed a few
souls applying.r for re—admission to
Paradise. Gradually their numbers
increased and again resembled the
great migratory wave, only this
time in the reverse direction. They
were all coming back. “The Ascent
of Man”. Among the returning
crowds St. Peter recognized a brok-
en and dejected man—the Engineer.

“Come," said St. Peter, “tell me,
why are they all coming back?"

And this was the
story:

‘As long,r as Hell wasn't half full
yet, everything went along fine. The
wonderful improvements broadened
Hell's sustaining capacity, and
made it capable of supporting an
enormous population. But as more
and more settlers kept coming
down, and Hell began to fill up
with people who loved to bask on
the delightful beaches of the air-
cooled Brimstone Lake. the Devil
began to sit up and take notice.
Here was altogether too much com-
fort, too much abundance, too much
happiness, to suit him. He must dc-
Vise a plan to prevent his Fiery

Engineer’s

 

Land from becoming :1 Paradise.—
And he did devise a plan. ‘

 

He proclaimed everything in Hell

to be his own private and sacred
property. His alone! And nobody
was to touch anything!

“But we must live!” said the peo-
le.
”All right,” said Satan, “be my
slaves, and I’ll let you live.”

And thus, by asserting the right

of ownership, he forced the people

to accept slavery or starvation. A
hoary alternative!

Those who would submit to slav~
ery were at once set to work in
the sweat—shops. In return for their
manning" ol‘ the productive. process-
es, the slaves each received small
parcels of food daily ——— enough to
sustain life. Thus, as they, by dint
of their daily toil, increased pro-
ducton in Hell, all of the fruits of
their labor went to the chests of the
Devil—deducting, of course, the cost
of, their maintenance. Ohol .Even
slaves must eat, or else how can
they serve their masters?

In a very short time Hell was
faced with a crisis. Even positions as
slaves became, difficult to secure, in~
asmucli as the Devil handed out
slaveships very sparingly (but with
great magnanimity, howeverl).
People were starving: and they began
to struggle among themselves for an
existence. People starved, yos——-chil-
drcn fell sick and died-4mm want
of the very things which their parents
created in the factories, but which
now lay inaccessable in the hands of
the Devil. War began to spread, fol—
lowed by great plagues of Insecurity
and Exhaustion. And the slaves be-
gun to doubt that they were once
angels.

Finally, the downtrodden l-Iellsfolk
petitioned me, as follows:

“Apply your mathematical prin—
ciples and your knowledge of the
forces of nature to conquer our
misery! Save us!"

And I answered: “I know more
about the forces of nature than I
have ever known. My mathematical
principles can do wonders to make

 

This week rolls around with noth-
ing of great moment (as if there
‘ happening and so the col—
1 be made up of a both.
you and your (amilms more com-
fortable and happy. The improve-
ments which I originally installed are
nothing compared to what my Know-
.lcdge and Hell’s resources could yet
make. possible. You could all live full,
happy lives—rather than slave away
for the Devil! Beauty, culture, love,
—all could be yours. . . . Hell could
become Paradise.

“But no! It spite of my ability, I
can do nothing to alleviate your not
fcring, because Progress means the
enrichment of Satan at your expense.

“As long as there is want amidst
potential abundance, Hunger with
more food than Hell can consume,
competition, rivalry, hatred, greed,
leading to starvation, disease, war,
crime, poverty-as long as there is
misery where should exist peace,
prosperity, and happines .... as long-
as men live by Exploit on rather
than by Cooperation, then I-Iell re-
mains a Hell!”

1k 11‘ 4h

    

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We do not neccsmrily subscribe to
any of the political views presented
in the above article.

R. W.

3035 Woolworth Ave.
We bee: to
Wired to in
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Tuesday, November 3. “336

podge ot‘ minor incidents.

0f prime importance to all of
us, of course, is the Ar): Dance.
The bids are out and the juniors
are very gratified with the sales
to date. It is the dance commit—
tee‘s ambition to sell every Arch
in the department, plus about three
hundred engineers, at least one bid
apiece and five bids to Schmaltz.

>r n: a:

Four of the fresh managed to»
weather through the freehand judg—
ment and from just a cursory
glance at their work it seems that
many more will be joining the men»
tion men: Show, Robinson, Burn—
ham and Cerovski in the next judg—
ment.

Bagntelleu: Atkhe request of Mr.
Mall, Thatcher has stopped his red
hot and lowdown crooning. There is
a rumor abroad that Wilkinson is
seeking the office of Ar}: Dance
Life Guard; Cunningham won't fall
asleep in history any more for fear
of being hit an the head again with
the pointer. Mr. Hofmeester prob—
ably feels that he is lecturing to a
bunch of dummies anyway but at
learnt he wants them to stay awake;
Woolaey ought to try staying awake
in construction lecture. Mr. Harper
has seen him nodding but hasn't
said anything as yet; I wonder why
no mtmy men like to trigger for
Licclierl “Rickey" will also watch
what he says in the presence of a
certain somebody: or will be? Why
don't the engineers draw their own
Smokie Stovcr posters instead of
swiping ours?

Don’t forget the Arx Dance No-
vember 13.

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land or our own Federal Reserve
System, is operated only for those
few. With a capital of only 150,-
000,000 pcsetas the Bank of Spain
showed a profit of 366,000,000 pe-
sctas for the years 1931 to 1933»—
a time during which Spain’s markets
were being drastically cut as a re-
sult of world depression. In 19:34,
Spain’s darkest year, economically,
they declared a dividend of one
hundred and thirty percent. Where
interest rates in other countries
went from five percent to two or
three percent on loan renewals, the
rate of interest of the Bank of
Spain went to eight, ten, and even
twelve percent. Freedom from these
oppressions: that was the desire of
every commoner.

 

IN 1931, AFTER years of peace-
ful revolution, the people of Spain
won their greatest victory. Legally
and without bloodshed they declared
for the new order—a Republican
form of government—and by the
aid of the ballot deposed the old
order of monarchy and suppression.
But it wasn’t as simple as that.
With this peaceful change to Re-
publicanism was carried over a
greater part of the evils of the old
system—the king was removed, but
left behind were the nobles, the
large landowners, the cumbersome
monarchical army—each with its at—
tentive privileges under the old re-
gime. The new government set out
at once upon the difficult task of
reconstruction and of tearing down
a system which had been firmly
entrenched in the order of Spain
for centuries past.

 

THIS CHANGE meant freedom
and a chance at better living for
the peasant and the laborer. For
those few who had until now en-
joyed the power of control it meant
the relinquishing of priviliges, the
giving up of the whip of despotism
which they wielded to their
own advantage and to the
destruction of the man who makes
up over eighty percent of Spain’s
population. These, then, were the
conditions which precipitated the
present Spanish Civil War, a count~
ervrebellion of the reactionary
forces against the duly elected left-
ist government.

THE SPANISH Revolution was
a peaceful one. What followed was
that the deposed leaders sought to
regain by force the powers which

 

  
 
 

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