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Political DanglesBy PETE KALOGRIDISThe new- fitiin around the world I of the color red in all manufactured looks extremely encouraging this products—because there are so week. Reports indicate that all is I many bulls in the country, well in the four corners of the globe Digressing a bit front the inter-antl that the industrial revolution national and national scenes, much is spreadingjlike wildfire through- activity is to be found this weekout every nation in the world.Evidence of this rapid spread is particularly conspicuous in the So-\ iet Union Only two days ago thein the local elections concerning that famous institution of higher education, Davidson College. As you will recall, ^his spot recentlyRussians published the startling an- claimed national attention by theuouncemeut that their scientists. Karliboff, Mvdidensky, and Tor-previous strike of its students for ten instead of twelve hours worksakov. had invented new phenomena day. The authorities, however, seemM* Iknown only to the outside world9as tlir “electric light, “telephone, “automobile.“ and baby « diapers. Tin's research on the pail of the Soviets is extremely laudable. If they keep up the good work theyto have survived the test of strength and the students were back on the job shortly. vRut now excitement has returnedto the campus in the form of thetudent body elections, “('ash Jack-should he discovering America be-| son. an executive of the college, in-fore too long.Late dispatches from Washington have sounded a peculiar note in llie national field. A rather violent argument was precipitated in the Senate yesterday when Senator Snort (D-Fla.) and Senator Gliimp (R-N.Y.) were engrossed in debate over the questions of statehood for Lower Slobovia. It seems that the Senator for the South, who claims to he quite* a history scholar, kept I ticc promised, if elected, to seenrereferring to the Senator from New a svstem of co-education for Davidtroduccd the candidates for president in chapel in the following fashion:What kind of shoes to the angels wearSlipping and sliding o’er the air; Golden slippers with silver socks, Rut your dollars in the Davidson box.One student, aspiring to the of-York as the “New Rotterdam Yankee. The ill feeling first arose,son College ly the beginning of the next school year. Tiis opponent.however when Senator (dump made | John Ir Glubbernubber, won muchthe statement from the floor that I support through his widely dis-thcre were only two political parties | cussed platform. In his own words: in the United Stale?—the ’1’tihlirans and the Sinner.*..“I stand firmly upon the protection ami continued well-being ot allEverything else seems to he run-1 constitutions, institutions, and pros uing fairly smoothly in the nation’s I—(ligrc he was interrupted by a capital. Representative Bovin has I great* ovation)—periiy.” The out-introduced a bill granting a $50 come of this important election is monthly pension to anyone who can anyone's guess. i , i x x. t 11 a prove he is a citizen of the United win.States. This pension goes into ef- Switching hack again to the ua-fect. regardless of the person’s age, tional field, the country rejoiced immediately upon the submittancc over the congressional announce, of such proof to any one of the 10 ment that there was not u single million congressional hoards set up sense left in the national debt.\ Ifor this purpose. In addition Uon- And that is how the world silua-gress ha forbidden by law the use It ion looks from here.
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Davidson Davidsonian
Davidson, North Carolina, US
Fri, Apr 01, 1949
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