1939_03 The Daily Collegian March 1939

              THE FRESNO STATE COLLEGE COLLEGIAN
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FORGIVE THEM
Further consideration of the problem of
grade students going into the teaching profession
calls for some discussion of the profession itself,
i.e.: what it has to offer students who arc capable of making good in some other field.
' The wages paid the average elementary school
teacher in California  are low when compared
with professions. One hundred fifty dollars per
month is a high estimate of the
tary school teacher's salary. Plumbers, carpenters',
brick masons, all the trades demand a wage of
at least two hundred dollars per month with no
optional requirements.
Teaching in ,our elementary schools demands
no initiative. Our students ate turned out of the
mill to enter the profession where they find their
work cut and dried. Teaching procedure is laid
down by boards of education with no opportunity offered for innovations in education. The
teacher has a routine to follow with no chance
for individual self-expression.     0   ">-v^_^
No scholarship demands are made of tne^rt*.
mentary teacher. It suffices that he or she keep
ahead of the students in their daily work.
To tliose who deplore the fact tfiat mentally
inferior persons are going into the teaching pro-
EDITORIALS
T-
CURRY FOR COMMONERS
After hundreds, of hours of planning and
practising Spring Swing is almost ready to be
staged for the people of Greater Fresno and
'contiguous San Joaquin Valley—ready to take its
place with the V^cst Coast Relays, the Hack Race
and trie Band Tour as a publiciier of Fresno
State College.
Should the show, however, in some manner
regarded innocuous to the directors offend the
moral sensibilities of a small portion of the public
its publicity value may become a boomerang, simply because bad publicity is worse than no pub-.
Scattered individuals among the faculty have,
according to reports, been rather shocked by
some of the "leg and gag" scenes in the epic.
Whether these startled previewers are prudes and
Puritans is besttjc the point. Whether they art-
trying to be "picky" and patently destructive is
also beside the point.   -
The fan of the matter is that these observers
did fhink some of the script and some of the
scenes were highly improper and might not "sit
well" with the lay public.
If this is a sample reaction, what may not the
reverberations be if 6.000 people witness the performances? The vociferous minority is soon able
to put up a howl in local club meetings and vox
pop columns that would be unfortunate publicity
for the college.
That such a minority exists, consider the cleanup drive local Catholics are now conducting
against sex magazines on Fresno new stands:
neither are the members of Fresno's 70 other
churches entirely to be dismissed as critics of "a
sample of college morals."
Let the directors remember that what would
beget polite smiles from a New York audience
at Roxy's may provoke vigorous incriminations
from a Fresno audience at the Auditorium—
merely because of one scene or a few dozen lines
In concocting a broth for the common palate,
it is best to go easy or, the curry! —E. A. P.
cl   Of
veil of idealistic blatherings by professors .of
xiucit.on, teaching at best is a low-grade job.
Low wages, stupifying routine, lack of oppor-
unity for self-expression, and absence of intel-
txiu.il demands offer little incentive to the per-
on who can possibly succeed in other fields.
Until we raise the standards of the profession
vc can expect little of tliose who enter it.
—M.R.W.
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ELECTION HOKUM
BEGINS, DRUM BEAT
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Fresno State Welcomes Women Delegates
To Annual A WS - WAA Confab Today
'You Can Take It With You' Furnishes
Theme for Eleventh Yearly Meet
Here; Gala Entertainment Planned
By Jwrnette Corain.
'^rt^°r.I,?an0. SUte Mw wiU 8win* w"e >n welcome to over 100 California college women this afternoon, when
chosen A. W. S - W. A. A. representatives arrive for the eleventh
annual convention here this week-end.
Patricia Murphy, president of A. W. S.; Patricia Tvlor nreai
dont of W. A. A.; PauU Park, and Irrna MaeW-ib^fl, S
the visitors, who will be entertained during registration at tea in
th.- A. W. S. room, with the Japanese club as hostess.
Fresno State girls who are planning to go to any of the indi-
vi.lual affairs are requested to get their tickets in the main cor-
W FOR ENJOYMENT
ng Swing" at th« Memorial Audi-
be!Eleven Entries for
.„„Collegian Race
-Filed With Officials
aiding"■     Deadline for Enfranfs
.x«y|    Set for March 30; Rule;
uo"y"!    To,d Ro9arding Hacks
FOUR HOSTESSES OF CONVENTION
rg'e or th.   lln.ncl.1   gr
U Rom Junior College.
I    moving    picture   "Snow
Social Worker on for
S. (. A. Discussion
\Land Site for Proposed College
Union Building Sought as
\Directors Approve Use of Fund
Arthur Safstrom Authorized to Begin
Negotiations for Grounds on Which to Locate
Two-story Structure for Student Offices
By Con Lanlord
A new union bunding appeared a certainty today when the
■d ot directors In special meeting late yesterday asked Student
Manager Arthur Safstrom to get prices on lots deemed suitable
for the structure.
President Frank Thomas said the action came from a con-
ference with Senator Ray Hays in Sacramento last Tuesday. Hays
-"■■• Or. Thoma. thai delay. In addl
Playhouse Can't Get   \kbt ELECTS i*,
^w^joEo.n,%ii
Election Quiet
Recedes Storm of
Office Seekers
Herb Futrell Rumored
In Race for Student
President Position
ie orlglnsl IllS.eoo
at has been prepared by t
„ng with .nd INAGEL APPOINTS I.R.C.
mslents. Mrs.   COMMITTEE   FOR
ZT' "' STUDENT PEACE DAY
German Rim   Planned
"■""ion Slate Dance
•»• Junior CUM In a recent
*tas tenutlTdv set April JS
y "W"oom are yet iTd. M
TWO.STORY  UNION
'Spring Swing' Spills Into Audience's Lap at Premiere as
Collegians Travesty 'Boys Across the Sea' at Memoral Auditorium
By Norman K. Don. and Arnold C