1939_11 The Daily Collegian November 1939

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-The Fresno State College Collegian-
•COU£QIAN
cusc inc" miyht have passed unnoticed as most
modern apologies are. A young lady in the group.
however, startled the victim by asking rather per-
tinently:    Why excuse yourself?"
The implication was obvious: Since the victim
couldnt help tneezing in the first
should he ask to be pardoned or excused? And
even it his plt-a for pardon were valid, the others
in iik group were hardly in a position to decide
whether his excuse should be accepted or refused—and so they ignored his apology altogether as the victim knew they would.
This incident called to mind the onerous
to which our entire modern courtesy code has
retrogressed. The hundreds of little white lies
we mutter each day. the continual abracadabra
we force ourselves to chant in supposedly smoothing the irregularities of social contacts, have in
reality made a system of 'social graces," already
archaic, the epitome of insincerity and laughable
Why do men continue to tip their hats to
ladies, centuries after the era of knighthood when
tipping of the helmet v.zor was an understandable and operationally useful practice? Why docs
the escort walk behind the woman as the couple
-* battles single file through a holidav shopping
throng, while the same escort takes the lead ai
the couple is shown to a pew in church? Is there
any point in insisting that the man alw.1yf~5h.1ll
a crowded sidewalk, thus leaving th
protection-needing" woman to fend
phalanx of brushcrs-by?
It has been suggested that our colleges and
universities are not insisting as mu
ought that graduates be- schooled in proper social conduct and the niceties of out ramified
social routine. We concur with this view; it
should be mandatory that all persons attending
institutions of higher learning be made cognizant of and, by the force of outright numerical
pressure, be made to practice the more useful
and sensible dictums of our nebulous courtesy
code. Admittedly, the greater percentage of col-
■ lege students are often boorish and thoughtless
in their social fclations'on the campus—this, perhaps, because "familiarity breeds contempt" and
with it disregard.
However, before we begin insisting on "better
manners among collegians," it is necessary that
we res-amp, prune, and synthesize the countless
atrophied appendages in our courtesy code, so
that reasoning, occasionally incredulous, suspicious students will not have their intelligence
overly insulted by patently unacceptable and un-
STORM . . . warning, to local men who escaped
so cheaply with their Stockton escalades, if and
when they attempt any similar measures on
the San Jose campus. Still stinging—and shivering—from the beating—spelled clipping—
they received from the Tigers when they attempted to raid their lair, the Spartans, having
heard of Fresno's nocturnal doings, are expectantly sharpening their clippers. It will not be
a defensive prc-Kame battle entirely, if the
. spirit shown by the sons of Sparta in yesteryears still exists; so local defenders had better
get caught up on their sleep in preparation for
the expected onslaught two weeks hence.
By The Editors
STRAW DUMMY
With the Ham and Eggs circus scarcely over, the State of i
fornia today prepared an even better show in which a straw dtun
would model as a San Quentin prisoner for a court exhibition o
alleged flogging tactics by "monstrous prison guards." C
present purpose of the attorney for the accused prison board n
bera is to show how preposterous is the statement by Pi
Guard Bell that he only struck a man he was flogging "eigh
ten times in three or four minutes" with the "loaded nil
her fingers thi
fashion at Herr Hitler in the matter of the release of the low
detained American liner City of Flint. Little Norway in rilij,
teutonic might argued in favor of her releasing the America
vessel on the ground that Germany lost legal right to the ship
German prize crew took it into port at Haugesund, tag
o go wherever the American sailor.
AINT GOT NO PAPA
The  first  mammal  known   to  have   been produced throoafc
"fatherless" birth, emerged yesterday as a normal doe rabbit, ti
the original fertilizing agent was not male cells but a solo.
table salt.   The doctors were reticent in th
its on the probability of a similar method in the case o
USUAL CANT
As might have beeii expected, the Russian Molotoff assa
the passage of the arms embargo repeal by the American Co
gross, in the usual cant of Communism: "The American burgeo
very interested in further developing the war, has repealed
embargo on the export of arms in order to secure huge profits
the kings of the munitions industry."
-The Fresno State College Collegian-
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COUE^AM SPOBTS
Mu Alpha Glory Boys Overpower
Poontahs; Spartans Also Win
I, will be the Mu Alpha Delta Glory Boys vs. the Spartans in
th. three game su»(Ur*Wym'nmg this afternoon which will determine the intramural basketball championship team.
It„th outfits emerged with close victories in games last night
against the Mu Alpha Poontahs and the Yellow Jackets.
■   staffed   a thlrd-quarte
FROSH WIN
Jurkovich and
Sherman Star
Yearlings Down Visalia
13-6 in Final Game
L*d by Jo* Jurkovich and dlmln
re Roy Sherman, the Fresno Sta
("oiler.,- Dullpups climaxed an In ai
workable s<
ial dictums.
And whatever the
steps taken on this c
revamping or whatever the
unpus to "revive courtesy,"
... of unhappi
Ill-health, poverty, and an unsatisfactory sex-
life . . . Poverty, since the industrial revolution,
is only due lo collective stupidity. — Berlrand
Russell in The Aims of Education.
Renfro and Myers
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PORTLAND HAS MORE THAN MALONEY
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This Week
Bud Myers Will
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locklne tor the safety man
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