1939_10 The Daily Collegian October 1939

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-The Fresno State College Collegia
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AFTER "30"—
By J. E. rL and R. S.
DISAPPOINTING . . . Was the failure of a
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tution of "lamin'." It was not through their -i dm
lack of knowledge of what was going on; there- H.
fore, the only excuse that can be offered for "~J«
them is a lack of political knowledge. However, >h<- J
this was not the only place wherein they fell „, ,
down, for we have on good authority that there „,„,r
were at least two other lax interpretations of 8K(p
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CONTRIBUTING EDITC
Dlen Bennett. Dean S
Harkness .
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AUTHORITATIVE ... was the word received
last night that a national fraternity will attempt
to colonize on the F. S. C. campus within the
next six or eight months. The men that will
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EDITORIALS-
BLAME THE COLLEGE,
STUDENTS AGAIN
And n
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.1 poll a
blamed as a major cause (or World War I! Thc
San Francisco Chronicle in J recent editorial by
implication damns thc English Oxford Union
students (or adopting a resolution before World
War 1 which stated that wc will not under
any circumstance light  for King and Country."
Now in World War II the Chronicle is beginning to conjure up trouble—and editorial
material—by using the premise that college polls
are often inaccurate: Mae West and Fritz Kuhn
arc sure to poll big votes for president of thc
United States" in any collegiate sample balloting.
The Collegian grants that premise. Sadly
enough, college students never seem wholly tyi
forget their juvenile desire to be "funny" and
prankish.
The Chronicle's next move in completing its
syllogism is that foreign countries take very
seriously the results of ballot-sampling of public
opinion. Even this may be true in thc case of
Gallup and Fortune surveys.
Thc sratement that German diplomacy was so
naive that it actually put enough credence (in the
Oxford Union's resolution) to embark on a world
war safe in the knowledge that English youth
would NEVER UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES enter a conflict, however, is impossible. If German diplomats actually believed so
strongly in the adequacy and accuracy and authority of a student poll and resolution that they
pus, and the national secretary for the fratern- JJ™
ity will come to Fresno to make further plans „,„
within the next few weeks. It was also reported n
that this fraternity is not AKU. Alpha Kappa „,„
Lambda, an organization that has been dicker- "Roc
ing for a local chapter during the past year. CAM
launched the biggest war in trie history of civilization—then German diplomats must have been
fed from a bottle and put to bed at 7 every
nigh,.
The conclusion that the Chronicle wishes to
draw  from  this erroneous set of conditions,  is Tb
that thc many polls that are being conducted in w"h
colleges  and  universities  all  over  America  arc „<,,(,
really credible straws in the wind on which for- '«ir I
eign powers greatly rely as a  basis of future ncm
action. Thc Chronicle makes the inference that unha
had not thc Oxford Union conducted a poll and '« "•
made a resolution which said that English stu- im,c
dents would not tight, the German army would cons,
not have marched, for it would not have known jj^"
whether or  not Great  Britain  was a  possible !>„,
On such a thesis, thc results of Fresno State's „uhi
recent poll on Ham and Eggs and the efficacy of "M».
the Neutrality Bill, may well have reverberations "^
that may precipitate a world cataclysm. •
Isn't it silly?
At best student polls arc worth noting as pos- waa
siblc indications of the way public opinion may 7TT
be at the moment. But as a basis on which ro Pa
plan a social and economic upheaval, they arc '    ca
no more valuable or accurate than thc opinion 5oo
o( a hotel doorman on the theory of relativity. ^w
Permit our skilled furriers to transform your worn
or "dated" furs into any of the new fall fashions.
Estimates without obligation.
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.   By The Editors
AGAIN THE LUStTANIA?
Another Lusitania. incident seemed about to take place when
late yesterday the White House announced that a warning had
been received from the German government that the United
States liner Iroquois would be sunk near the American coast.
That the Germans might do the sinking waa not certain, for the
message alluded to circumstances ''similar to the Athenia sinking"—which the Germans have insisted was a put up British
affair from first to last. Meanwhile, Hitler seemed in no hurry
to push any advantage be might have attained since the Polish
rape. He preferred, apparently, to dawdle and keep the Allies
e part of a clever Nazi
TRICK NUMBER TWO
Trick Number Two was pulled from the hat in the anti-Ham
A; Eggs campaign yesterday when the California Retailers' Association, counting member-stores with millions of customers, announced that should Ham & Eggs go into effect, their association members would not accept the Thirty Every Thursday warrants. Trick Number One was the arranging for moving the S. F.
Stock Exchange to Reno, Nevada "just in case."
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As was expected the Russians neatly got Latvia's many advantages cinched down for the Reds' own use. The right to establish several air fields and naval bases were obtained with apparently little argument. Other designs that Russia may have in
the way of further Balkan pacts, are sending the British back
to textbooks on diplomacy. *
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