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Show Parfe 2 THE SIGNPOST The Signpost Published every other week by the Associated Students of Weber College Co-Managing Editors Frank McQuown and Max McEwan Editorial Assistants Administration .Elzada Carlson Features Dorothy Dixon Society Aurlene Osmond Sports .. Pat Quinn Business Assistant . Morton Fuller Advertising.... Norma Pantone, Jacob Weese Circulation Manager Chet Gilgen Artist .....Hugh Garner Criteria! Unemployment Cards For the last, eight years the U. S. government has been struggling to solve the problem of unemployment but not until last summer did Congress act to find out how many people in the U. S. are unemployed. In the rush of legislation at its session's end, Congress passed a bill which called for an unemployment census, appropriated $5,000,000 and left just how the job was to be done up to the New Deal. Two months ago, President Roosevelt picked the man for this ambitious job. He was "Liberal Republican" President John D. Diggers, of Libbey - Owens - Ford Class Co. For over a week Mr. Riggers' extensive publicity campaign has been progressing speedily. Climax came Sunday with a "fireside" talk by President Roosevelt encouraging unemployees to fill out and return their blanks promptly. Normally on Novenvoer 16, the post office carries less mail than on any other day of the year. But this year on November 16 mail carriers lugged to all the 31,000,-000 homes in the U. S., (26,000 in Ogden) cards containing 14 questions to be answered by anyone partly or wholly unemployed. In adidtion to name, age, sx, race, the answers to the questions should indicate when the recipient worked last, what at, how much work he did on the previous week and year, whom he supports, whether anyone else in his family is u nemployed. The cards must be returned to any postal box before November 20. The Post Office Department will return the cards to Washing-Ion to be sorted by census bureau TRUCK clerks. Preliminary results will be ready by December. Complete tabulations should be available on or before March 1. The 14-point questionnaire is designed to show the number of unemployed, total number of partly employed, age groups of the idle, geographical location of the idle, and work qualifications of the unemployed and industries which they are fitted by training to engage in. Every unemployed should consider it his duty to accurately fill out his card, for only in this way can new jobs be found for them. College Men Dumb? Who says these college men aren't smart. Back in Iowa one recently took a Civil Service examination. The examiners were amazed to find that he correctly answered two of their prize catch questions. You know the type; there are no answers and the best thing to do is to leave them entirely alone. The first question was, "How far can a dog run into a forest?" Think now, could you have answered the question. Well, anyway he did. "A dog can run only half way into a forest. After that he will be running out." Ahem! The second question was likewise, "How long is a piece of string?" This didn't stop the collegiate. The correct answer A piece of string is twice the distance from the center to either end. By the way, he got the job. Apology Due to a typographical error, the line "We might add, who'd want to be the sweetheart of an Excelsiorite" as well as other portions of a column in the last issue Headquarters For STUDENTS PREFER S. L MOON A week ago last Wednesday the astronomy class made a trip to the Observatory at the University of Utah. Jupiter, Vega, the moon, and some nebula were observed through the telescope. Two or three of the girls with Salt Lake interests gained considerable extra knowledge of the phases of the night-time sky. The trip as a whole was astronomically instructive in spite of the fact that of the students were inclined to misunderstand the purpose and method of star gazing. Weber Dominates (Continued from page 1) defeated Coray and Quinn in the quarter-final round and eliminating Polidor and McQuown in the semi-finals, lost a unanimous decision of three judges to the first named Weber duo. Authorities regarded Coray's constructive speech and refutation a3 among the best heard in some time, while Quinn captivated the audience with his striking appeal and smooth diction. In their march to the championship the Wildcat logicians won 16 of 19 debates. The champions defeated Redlands U.; Pasadena J. C. ( 1 ) ; U. C. L. A. ( 1 ) ; Glendale J. C. (1); Los Angeles J. C; U. C. L. A. (2); Pasadena (2); one unknown team, and split two decisions with U. S. C. (1), for a record of 9 of 10 wins. Polidor and McQuown defeated Bakers-field (1) twice; Glendale (2); Pacific College of L. A.; one unknown team; Bakersfield (2); U. C. L. A. (1); and lost decisions to U. S. C. teams (1) and (2), for a record of 7 of 9 wins. HOT AIR: The frost is on the pumpkin, The leaves are everywhere, The air is full of footballs, And the football's full of air. : The Ute Chronicle JOKE? Scotchman (to usher) : "What is the price of the seats?" Usher: "Front seats thirty-five cents, back seats twenty-five cents, program a penny." Scotchman: "I guess I'll sit on the program." of Signpost was altered to conserve space. While the error was not ours, we are in a way responsible. The mistake has been made, and we regret the line was interpreted as it was. Fashion - Wise Weber I I I'll 1 A. M. S. To Present All Men's Review At a recent assembly of the Associated Men Students of Weber College, under the leadership of Stanley Mansfield, president, Val Scoville, viec-president, and Max Carruth, secretary - treasurer, it was decided that an all men's musical show would be sponsored by the association. James Andrews heads a committee, planning the presentation during the winter quarter. The association will hold a Men's Day, Friday, December 3. Plans are not yet completed, but Mansfield said a big dance would be held in the evening. Readers' Dri-Jest Continued from Page 1 5. How old was George Washington at the age of thirty-five? 6. Who wrote Dante's Inferno? 7. Which is more expensive, a dress costing eight dollars, or one costing $7.99? 8. Is Mickey Mouse a dog or a cat? 9. Who wrote Dante's Inferno? 10. How many children comprise the Dionne quintuplets? 11. What is Joan Crawford's first name? 12. How many people are there in the Weber quartet? 13. How many tails has a cat- of-nine-tails? 14. What is Spanish for "Quien sabe"? 15. Who formulated Mendel's Law? Debate Lowdown Continued from page 1 your correspondent's aforementioned expose, flatly denied everything as begging the question and took a definite negative stand. However, I've presented my affirmative case, and I'll leave it to the judge to decide who's right. Betta Kappa platonic, Alcibiades. ADVICE FOR FRESH MEN: A stitch in time saves future embarrassment. Early to bed and early to rise makes you miss a lot of fun. A typist is one who typewrites, and the typewriter is the machine or instrument upon which the typewriter typewrites. Therefore the typewriter typewrites on the typewriter until there is no more typewriting to be typewritten on the typewriter by the typewriter, on the typewriter on which the typewriter typewrites. ..-.-YjjV'S--y 4 3 Men and Women 4 Jte OuUije World By Wayne Farrell Most U-S-ians can take a regular session of Congress in their normal stride. But when an extra session comes to town, such as President Roosevelt proclaimed for November 15, a wondering country naturally senses, even if it does not immediately recognize an emergency. We steady ourselves for a shock, maybe for an upheaval. We instinctively anticipate, and prepare for, another "crisis". The stock-market takes a drop, businessmen hurry back to offices and plain citizens furtively scan the news papers. The present session is not only extra but extraordinary. A crisis seems not to exist. We are not at war, nor on the eve of war, let us hope. The Treasury is not bank-' rupt. In fact, none of the national or international machinery seems to need immediate repair. The President himself does not argue that an urgency exists. He said in a recent fireside chat that he wanted action on a four point program; not a new one but an old one. Nor is he innocent enough to imagine that this action can be achieved in the short five weeks bfore Christmas when the last Congress wrangled five months and never passed any of it. In his opening address to Congress President Roosevelt outlined their work for them as follows: 1. "An all weather" surplus crop control plan aimed at "abundance without waste" and backed by new taxes should the cost exceed the regular budget. It is this bill that Congress promised last session to act on first in its next session. 2. "Flexible" machinery to provide minimum wages, maximum hours and the banishment of child labor. Everyone agrees on the ends sought but everyone objects to the means proposed to achieve them. 3. Reorganization of government in the interest of '"efficiency", but with a waning against trying to make "major savings" in this way as most congressmen hoped would be possible. 4. Regional planning boards to avoid waste and to give the nation its money's worth" from governmental expenditures. The President did not ask action on tax revision at the special session but a near stampede to revise taxes on business, in an effort to help it out of its present slump, developed at the start of the new congress, increasing the confusion over the legislative program.; ', Y. iiiM TRUCK |