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RAYMOND L. KIRK
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ASSOCIATE EDITORS
Ruth Hughs
U Ann Bell '23
Margaret Lavin '24 Cliauncy Forgey, '26
SPORTS EDITOR
Eugene

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Assistant Sports Editors
Robert W. Berry '25
Robt. VanPelt '26
NEWS EDITOR
Elixabeth

Ellis '24

Photographer
BILLY WILLIAMS, '23
Business Manager
Staff

L. B. MALL, n23

Advertising Manager
WILLIAM BLANTON, '23
Circulation Manager
WILLIAM TATS, '23
REPORTERS i
Dorothy BUtx, '33
A (Tie (Hammond
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Mary Barnard 34
Helen King '23
Alma Hutchens '23
Gardner Bavlesa '24
Orine Martin '24
George Lee Mvrfky 'IS
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Betty Barbovr '21
Louise Burks '2S
Thos. H. Rooney '26
Joan Walsch '25
Eugene O'Mara
Lora Bant '21
D. C. Vest '24
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UNIVERSITY NEEDS
Woman's Dormitory ..$200,000
Heating Plant
300,000
Recitation Building;
200,000
Agricultural
Engineering
Building
100,000
Engineering Shops
30,000
Operation Costs
100,000
Annual
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Total

$1,030,000

(Theme written- by Henry Taylor for
editorial class in Journalism)
Claiming that an agency for evil
and a force that will eventually undermine all morality exists in what
we term "Jazz," modern day reformers Have cussed and discussed, held
up for ridicule and torn down with
austerity attempted to suppress and
pronounced the obituary of the little
jazz demon in no uncertain terms.
The causes, existance and effects of
the term have been abandoned or condemned on soap-bo- x
and in pulpit,
before rich and poor probably no
nother patois has received the advertisement that has been accorded to
four little letters, meaning nothing at
first, but covering a multitude of sins
at present "Jazz."
While jazz has been depreciated by
some .its opponets have overlooked
the human side of the question, even
as its supporters decline to recognize
its shady side. Certain it is that jazz
embraces both good and bad, and only
the hour glass can live to see its effect and pass final judgment on its

merit.
The largest division of the jazz army is music, and of this aggregation,
Field Marshal Saxaphone is com
jnander-in-chieMany persons continue to carry out the military idea
by pronouncing the commander a
""general nusiance" and recommending
"corporal punishment" for those enlisted in the ranks.
Musicians of the old school stand
aghast when the hated word is mentioned. They sudder in horror when
the orchestra begins its evening captioned. They shudder in horror when
flee into darkness when the performers become warmed up and converse
with each other by note.
But the same sounds that chill the
e
musicians have an
hearts of
entirely different effect on those in
whose veins the blood of youth races
wildly. The pulse is quickened, the
body sways in accord with the strains
of music, and feet .that have been
weary and heavy all day suddenly become alert and for the next few hours
show no sign of fatigue.
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For jazz is the musk of youth the
titles, discords and rapidity reflect
the spirit of youth, and the twentieth
century is very youthful. Not only
arc the titles of jazz selections a symbol of youth, but they reflect the lack
of age of the composers. A man of
mature years, intelligent, serious could
never conceive or give birth to such
names as "Livery Stable Blues,"
On," "Hot Lips,"
Got My Habits
"Got to Cool My Doggies Now,"
"Cow Bells," "I Like It," "Teddy Bear
Blues," "Ooogic Waw Waw," "Bow
Wow," "I Wonder Where My Sweet
Daddy's Gone," ct ccrtera ad infinitum, including the whole jazz family
of blue Mama's, lovin' Daddy's and
sickening Baby's.
When jazz made its debut on the
shaky boards before the limelight of
life, it was heralded as a passing fan
cy a fad that would decline and die
Many years have
a natural death.
passed since that time, but Jazz has
grown into a bouncing adult, and dis
Replays no signs of deterioration.
gardless of what it stands for, JAZZ
IS HERE TO STAY. No Jazz
song survives the fickle and frivolous
crowds for more than a month, and
before it reaches the outskirts of its
native haunts, another song, even jazz
ier, has taken its place, and only the
phonograph records record the earl
ier creattion. Jazz is similar to the
pleasant profession of moonshining.
As fast as one still is destroyed, an
misguided
victim
reckless,
other
arises to the occasion and collects all
the copper and lye in his neighbor
hood.
Primitive man had his dances and
he provided wild orgies of feasting
and drunkenness to accompany them.
But primitive as he was, his dances
abounded with rythmic motion and
graceful movements instead of short
jerks, elusive steps and
contortions. Dancing in itself is nat
ural and good. A child has an in'
nate tendency to dance and this desire
is not lost when age claims its owm
But dancing shorn of the beautiful
and robed with the undesirable is
dangerous and pernicious.
Jazz in its most abuse dform is re
fleeted in the latter sense, and in
this sense is obnoxious and worthy of
destructive criticism, for it in itself is
destructive.
But when jazz has a
connotation of innocent joy and pleas
ure it is permissible even desirable
in its worst form, it is truly "a mon
ster of so frightful a mieni; as to be
hated, needs but to be seen. Yetseen too oft, with increasing grace,
we first endure then pity then em
brace."
But to judge jazz by this perverted
meaning is not fair spinisters and
classical musicians to the contrary
for the good suffers unjustly by com
parison with the bad. Jazz HAS a
better side a side not seen by the reformers, but a side to be cultivated
and supervised, while on the other
hand, its evils, while exaggerated by
those who judge only in the Kght of
yester-yea- r,
DO exist and are worthy
of concerted action if they are to be
suppressed.
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HELLO DAY

ihe Kernel heartily endorses a
y
movement inaugurated by the
Circle known as Hello Day which is
expected to become an annual event.
The purpose of such a day was to re
persons upon
mind
the campus
that they should speak to every per
son whom they meet even tho they
had never been formally intdoduced.
The success of such a movement can
not be measured by the results ob
tained in one day alone when every
person was "tagged" to remind him
to speak to other persons for even
then there were many persons who did
not enter into the spirit of the day
because they held to the conventional
custom of formal introduction.
It is hoped that such a momement
will bring to the minds of many persons the idea that they have perhaps
passed many persons by upon the
campus Whom they uqintenitonally
ignored reserving the idea that they
"didn't know 'em," but that the same
persons whom they ignored might
some day become a valuable and life
long friend.
The conventional crust has been
"formally" broken and persons may
now speak to each other without the
least hesitenacy or embarassment
Let's make every day a Hello Day.
Su-K-

EUROPE NEEDS AMERICAN

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Dr. McVey announced as his subject
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"Some Comments on the European
Students Wants.
Situatin" and epitomizing the conditions as they obtain in Europe today,
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he said "We find Europe a sullen deJust Around the Corner from the University.
fiant Germany, France determined upon saving her honor and averting
strikes and unemployment and an Irsh
situation that .'s yet turblcnt, Russia
fighting hunger and enduring the pang
of the aftctmath of a great social
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revolution, Italy wondering and discouraged as to the outcome, debts
overwhelming and the currency system
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The problem of Europe is a problem
reparations. The nations of Eurof
ope cannot pay the United States
unless Germany pays her reparations.
Obligations between nations, international payments, can be made only
Germany can not pay
in products.
unless she can produce and she cannot produce profitably unless she has
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international trade. To build up a
she
trade
profitable international
must sell in the markets of the world
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under as free trade conditions as
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possible.
"When you set up a tariff you erect
an obstacle in the way of Internationa'
trade. The tariffs in operation by
many of the nations are standing in
the way of intrnational commerce.
"The situation is further complicated by a currency depreciation which
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ihas brought high prices followed by
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high cost of production. As a result
capital is being consumed."
Discussing
action of
the recent
France in seizing the Ruhr basin, the
speaker said, "France is bankrupt unless she can collect reparitions from
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Germany. If you owed the bank
and a certain person owed you
$50,000, your payment of the debt at
the bank would be contingent upon
your ability to collect from the perSPECIAL RATES FOR STUDENTS IN CLASSES AND
son indebted to you. That is the sitPRIVATE LESSONS
uation in which France finds herself.
"As the result of the destruction of
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French mines which were flooded by
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German armies, leaving ithem filled
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has been wiped out.
"France at first had in mind the military occupation of the Ruhr region
to maintain an economic advantage.
She modified it to an economic occupation as the result of pressure
brought to bear by other nations. She
is now, however, moving toward a military occupation which she deems an
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had in mind to take over the Ruhr basin permanently ito place within her
control the rich iron area of the region and reduce Germany to a state
of economic vassalage.
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opinion in (the United States on the
matter of French occupancy. At first
the press was inclined to feel that
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capital out of the country and are
succeeding in a large measure."
In discussing the effect of European
conditions upon the prosperity of the
United States, Dr. McVey said the
price of wheat is not determined in
Chicago, it is fixed in Liverpool and
is based upon the marginal supply of
wheat Europe can buy.
"As long as Europe is unable to buy
American cotton,
wheat and other
agricultural products there will be a
slow return to prosperity.
Europe's
indebtedness to the United States can
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bearing possibly three and a half per
cent interest, President McVey said,
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competition which might reacTt the
proportions of a commercial war as a
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