Word: ownership
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...recent editorial from the Philadelphia "Public Ledger" is printed in full below. It is an example either of a desperate effort to fill space or of a deliberate attack on the University, based on conjecture. Dealing with the letter which President Hibben sent out to parents concerning the ownership of automobiles by students, it pictures the authorities driven to despair by youthful prodigals roaring about the campus in high-powered motors...
...relieved of the menace of unemployment and social pessimism only by transferring the credit center from the ownership of property to the production of goods. This would assure a steady production of the necessaries of life and regular employment for all who wished to work...
...answer to the question as to how he thought this would occur, Senator Ladd said: "It will come by a general breaking down of the railroads. This will prove to the country the impossibility of satisfactory or efficient management under private ownership, and, in self-defence the Public will demand that the Government step in. After that it will be only a question of time before the Government either owns or controls all the railroads, under some system to be worked out later...
...easy to see that a sense of ownership would be developed and the native people would feel and say, "Our College". After twenty-five years of successful development, an advance along the lines foreseen was authorized, so that today the Board of Managers has four American and six native members, a native majority. This Board was ready in 1914 to accept responsibility for the financial solvency of the institution...
...scheme of Government ownership, so much discussed and prophesied today, Professor Cunningham is absolutely opposed. In explaining his stand he said, "There is at present, on the part of employees and of a growing minority of the public who fail to appreciate the ultimately unfavorable effects, a strong demand for government ownership. It is to be hoped that such an economic calamity may be avoided. The weight of public opinion is in favor of leaving to private initiative those things that can be done better by individuals than by the Government. A continuation of Government operation was overwhelmingly opposed...