1940_04 The Daily Collegian April 1940

              QUESTION . . . What is the reasoh for the
comparative quiet on the local political front?
With the election only five days away none of
the candidates seem to have gotten their campaigns out of low gear.. . . However, the situation has a carryover to another field. Many of
the "smart boys" are riding the fence until the
run-off election next Friday, hoping to then
jump on the winning band wagon, and to come
in for their share of that much-talked-of gravy.
_ The Fresno State
IlvrmAMURAL BASEBALL
The medical office will soon be flooded with'
students injured in slipping .ind tumbling around
on the wet intramural base-ball diamonds unless
steps arc taken by thc athletic depart
get the diamonds in "shape" before permitting
games to be played on them.
Wednesday night one of thc diamonds, used
for s fraternity league game, was so wet that
puddles of water actually were visible in thc
outfield. Several times players took bad tumbles,
but luckily no one was seriously injured.
Although the games arc sanctioned and receive
appropriations from the athletic budget, no tegular bases, scorebooks or experienced supervisors
are available for the use of thc 100 or so players
who take part in the intramural games. Fot a
very little expenditure it would be possible to
supply the missing items and make thc intramural games both interesting and safe to thc
players and spectators.
BIRTHDAY JUNK
WITH ... the spring social season just around
the comer, the "be nice to tong members" week
is on top again. Once more the "campusites"
who ordinarily would be sitting at home find
themselves the rapt object of social attention.
For a more personal column there are several
nice stories "f "r-.oti-orgs" and their desperate
bids for social fame through gullible sorority
A SOAP . . . box was all that was needed the
other day for a college librarian to make her
unannounced speech at least look good. In place
of enforcing the effective library' card system,
or unceremoniously booting the offending students out. the packed main reading room was
subjected to a five-minute discourse on how college students should behave in such a place.
The inimitable Field Marshal Hermann Wil-
helm Goering has thought up the best of all
possible gifts for the German people to give
Adolph Hitler on his 51st birthday, April 20.
He calls on the Reich to become one vast
junkshop and thereby creu
copper, brass, bronze, zinc, lead and nickel, e
at great sacrifices. Thereby, he l
machinations of the Allies to cut off Germany's
• supply of these essential metals will be set at
naught.
Junkmen also deal in—bones. Herr Goering
should  have thought that through. It might
also  have occurred   to  him  what
order of leadership he and Hitler could repre-
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sent today if they had given their power and
ability a little twist so that sacrifices would
be laid on an altar of peace and industry rather
than on that of death and destruction.
But, unfortunately, Herr Goering does not
think in those terms. And perhaps
for a junkheap birthday gift for Adolf is appropriately symbolic of the junkheap of European civilization that will be left when the
brass, bronze, zinc, and what-not are used up
order that thousands of German boys can die
in the process of using them to kill thousands
of British and French youths.
When
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News received from England reveals that almost all the private citizenry have given up their
automobile! and laheit lo bicycle!. Although this
is an excellent way lo save "petrol" il will certainly make it hard on the poor hitch-hikers.
•
Insurance, according lo statistics, is becoming
more popular every year. However, when we
hear oj the man that loves hit wije to much
that he insures her life for SiO.OOO we wonder.
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American lady that she looks like a million dollars, the lass' is thrilled from poliihed ioe-nail
lo freshly finger-waved hair. However imagine
a young English blade idling his English young
lady that she looki like a million pounds.     .
TLMID TALKIES
No doubt one should sympathize with the
$2,000,000,000 American film industry, which
has been drawing 35 per cent of its
from abroad, and which now anticipates loss
as a result of the war closing markets.
But sympathy refuses to develop, at least
among those without a direct financial stake.
The fact is that the talkies have suffered tremendously through pandering to foreign markets, and from the artistic standpoint at least,
it would be an important gain if the whole
business were ended.
A few months ago the same situation was at
the point where a company which anticipated
sales abroad did not dare use "heavies" or
character actors representing foreigners. An
Italian couldn't be shown eating spaghetti or a
Greek waiting on table, or a German with
Prussian pompadour. Somebody might be offended.
So every crook and every funny man had to
be an American, and as for political criticism,
that was definitely out. We would be a lot better off artistically, if not financially, if there
Don't go to college expecting to learn
how to make a living. The purpose of
college is to train students' minds so
thaf they may intelligently confront any
problem. If we cannot develop citizens
with sound character and sound intelligence, democracy will be a failure.
To develop character and intelligence,
colleges should stress mental discipline,
simply by means of the three R's—reading, writing and 'rithmetic—and they
should pass on to the student the accumulated wisdom oT the race.—Robert
Maynard Hutchins, president, University
of Chicago.
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