1939_02 The Daily Collegian February 1939

              THE FRESNO STATE OOLLEGE COLLEGIAN
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EDITORIALS
Dumb People Become Teachers
' A little less than half of this semester's graduating class have applied for teaching credentials
of some sort or other. Presently they will enter
the pedagogical   ranks,  there  to  infli	
better or worse thc lives of unknown
of the states children—mold juvenile minds and
ideals during the formative and most crucial
period of life.
It is indeed a calamity, then, that statistics the
nation over show that those who take teacher-
training are in thc lowest brackets of intelligence
and scholarship.
The profession has got to thc point where
those who have the mental acumen to become
valuable assecKtp the educational system of thc
natioti, call teaching a "racket" and those in thc
profession "I.Q. Sixty's." A facile, scholarly mind
would rather slave over a drafting board on the
long road to architectural glory, than, other
things being equal, enter the ranks of classroom
Last spring's Carnegie Foundation report
showed that one out of every eight high school
seniors knew more than the average teacher-
, training candidate.
( eastern survey declares that
i little about their subjects and social conditions, and too often do not
like children. "Teaching attracts a less able group
Cornell University is now the first of the 1,20
institutions graduating teachers to stop "realmn,
" and do something about it. Coi
teachers who graduate each year will be hand-
picked—giving evidence of mental fitness,
tjonal stability, and SCHOLASTIC ACHIEVEMENT.
If the time will come when teachers will be
"admitted to thc bar" in their profession instead
of ground out cither because marriage
1 immediately
assured-^hen pedagogy will be regarded will
held,
is now too many frankly dumb people
iving teaching credentials.      —E.A.P.
Next Spring: World M*yi
Opera Bouffe in Tragedy
Those on the campus with deathless interest
in thc things of the political present may look
forward to a spring of H; V. Kaltenborn's close-
clipped voice broadcasting a widely advertised
war crisis and thc name "Hitler" being used in
lights to shine in a star rote.
Reminiscent of the grand scale show of last
autumn when the world attended radio midnight
matinees to follow the Comedy of Pre-Munich
and Munich, thc coming spring will, no doubt,
offer even a greater -show on earth. The world
will go into a case of stage fright equalled only
by the terror of the times.
With Herr Hitler, thc play will be but aaothcr
Opera Bouffe to keep the rest of the players
scared and backing them off-sage where the
center position will be securely his. Surrender by
thc Western Democracy players is necessary fot
Hitler to provide him with necessary resources -
for his leading role and as long as he can do
it by slow moves his part is secure.
Refusing to believe that his stock-in-tricks is
wearing thin within its own Act. Hitler is merrily
moving ahead with German economic and human material subordinated to his whim. He will
not believe that his Aa has reached its peak of
internal struggle and must decline; therefore he
anticipates another political victory to provide thc
necessary materials fot his Aa.
Thc play will be certain of an audience from
thc gallery to the Diamond Horseshoe with free
tickets for all. The dramatic suspense rests with
whether or not thc Western Democracies will
ride in with thc cavalry to contest the Aa or
will enter      -saw-ill remain in their own juggling aa!
hundreds   Idle Chapters
Otftl DIIJETTANTE
DON'T  GO  NEAR  THE WATER
IN EFFIGY
By NKD
x Beautiful Baby
Mama has lived her poet's lines, but when daughter wants to     ^^^ .
she hesitates (a good mother would have put a brogan down ^ j^^ jtot™u£i!£
firmly) and then has to be consistent with her early Greenwicn  inf..Upt  Stanley  Student B»T.'
and Annabclla   Admini.tJS?.'
fast growing old, 	
and bedded  'way back  jrTX
halcyon hey-days of Prc-Spring!
QNE PERSON'S   II
m.k. .nr Campus Conning
Art Speaker Addresses       PLACEMENT BUREAU
Class xm Design in Industry SCHEDULES MEETINGS
Boxers Take  ~^™™*f~
Step Toward
Mural Finals
i Bulldogs Fail to
Place in S.F. Meet
Borieske's Nine
Wins Debut in
Game With FAS.
THE
HECKLER
By DEAN St. JOHN
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BULLDOtf CAGERS
TRIM PACIFIcTtWlCE
Fighting hard to keep out of the cellar position of the Far
Western Conference basketball league; the Fresno State College
Bulldogs twice defeated the College Of Pacific Tigers by scores of
34 to 80 and 44 to 41 in games at the Fresno High School gym-
   Prldar and Haturdaj nlsjhta.