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...comments on a recent Roper public opinion poll, in which it was found that 62 percent of the American public are willing to submit international problems to an elected world congress with mandatory powers, two faculty experts in international problems expressed disagreement in interviews yesterday...
According to Sharpe, feelings differed toward the drive for funds. "I am proud," he said, "to be a member of the same institution as those veterans in Grays and Matthews, who are barely getting along on $65 a month, but 90 percent of whom managed to give $1 or $2 to the drive. In contrast to these, there were men in Wigglesworth who argued for a whole afternoon in refusing to give as much as 50 cents...
Rhind also said that the board of trustees had established, years ago, a policy of realizing two percent of the dormitories' value yearly, and added that, since the institute had spent $72,000 for renovations since the end of the war, the increased prices will result in only half the normal net income...
Eight Balls. Dr. Claude Uhler of Dallas spent most of the war attached to an outfit of "eight balls," chronic misfits who had sifted down to the unexacting job of guard at a P.W. camp in the U.S. Thirty percent of them should have been discharged as unfit for any kind of duty, wrote Uhler in the A.M.A. Journal. They were kept in service by the Army's evasive psychiatric procedures by which a precise diagnosis was avoided in favor of mere description and paraphrase. Results: "More than one-half million misfits carried along for an indefinite period...
Payments will be made by each or government bonds, which will draw 21/2 percent interest until maturity...