1939_11 The Daily Collegian November 1939

              The Fresno State College Collegian-
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EDITORIALS
SERMONETTES:
Y Perhaps passctl unnoticed by preoccupied college students has been the exhibit in the cast
foyer designed to inculcate lubits of reading with
discernment in iIic-m: days of reading without discernment.
The- display Tilt Collegian speaks of, was
that prepared by the- Home-making 132 class
under the- direction ni Miss Grace Allingham.
showing examples of advertisements appealing
to Reason'' and "Emotion." Students who innocently swallow the insidious guff which high
pressure advertising and propaganda interests
din into our ears day and night, probably read
with less credulity after viewing this simple but
excellent exhibit. More of this sort of effort on
the- part of faculty and students will meet with
^ This publication was interested in the results
and near-results of the- YPSL mc-cting held Tuesday, at which an "authentic Madera striker"
held  forth  at  length  on  the "brutality of  the
I'DKiiuTIKN . . . :i-c-mingly. is the t
avowal of the election committee to draw up
petition rules that will do away with any repe-
clection fiasco.
If the new election ttToup intends, to do a'
with "dirty politics," this step si
now, before the election of officers for next -
semester takes place. Although this is only a
small item, it is a step in the right direction.
BEAT C.O.P.
REVANCHE
By The Editors
DEATH EN ROUTE SOON
As predicted by the majority of opinion samplers, the House yes.
terday went on record favoring repeal of the arms embargo in the
present Neutrality Law, through the indirect means of rejectini
""   1 motion that would have instructed House conferees
(meeting with the Senate delegation today) to include an ana
embargo in the final draft of the proposed bill.   Majority Leader
Rayburn in the House said that the new law would "remove then.
es which involved us 22 years ago."   With rapid Congressional
n foreseen, it was widely thought that the hue and cry would
•r by Saturday night, and that hundreds of planes, anti-air-
't guns, and shells would   be  enroute  to   England   by  next
Wednesday.
NEAT SLAP'
The Russian Molotoff received a neat back handed slap from
President Roosevelt yesterday, when the latter answered the Soviet Foreign Minister's charges of "American meddling" in the
rrcnt Finland siluatinn'with citation of Russia's "profound sym-
pathy" toward the U. S. move last April to prevent attacks on
• Finland. Both the German and Russian high diplomats and propa.
gandists hit the incipient removal of the arms embargo as "outright support of Britain and France."
RUSSIA RUNS US
That Russia controlled 80 per cent of the U. 8. shipping industry through tie-ups with the National Maritime Union, was u-
sorted by Martin Dies' current star witness, Fred Phillips, ex-
labor aide. The link between this intelligence and the recent*
actions of Russia in opposing the embargo repeal, made beautiful
scare headlines.
DECEASED
Close on the death of Wild-Westman Zane Grey, came the death
yesterday of Opie Read, 87, author of the "Arkansas Traveler"
OPEN  CRITICISM
In a by-lined story from Berlin, U. P.-man Fred Oeschsner reported that the German people were resignedly settling down for
a long war, with "a surprising amount of open criticism and
grumbling heard on every hand."
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end of his discussion a Beef Squad of farmers'
sons bad file-d into the room and were catcalling and interrupting the speaker in a most
ungcntlcm.inly fashion.
When the meeting proper finally broke up,
the entire room was a tumult, in which charges
and countc-r-chargc-s were being hurled with the-
wild  abandon of a citi/e-nry aroused.
The Collegian, rakes n
i side in the- dispute.
at what protagonists
lining in the technique of accurate and unprejudiced observation.
The speaker said he saw the fanners attacking
women "and children with tire irons; the audience shouted  that  the farmers did  not at any
The speaker said that women and children were
not allowed to leave the Madera Gry Park
before hostilities opened; the audience insisted
that a five-minute truce was allowed in which
all who wished might leave the ruckus.
Thus the entire session was spent in silly
wrangling, which for the most part devolved
into different versions of the same incidents.
Those who came to obtain facts, left only with
a confused emotion.
It is unfortunate that people feeling deeply
on a subject will deliberately blind themselves
to all but that which they wish to see—as was
obviously the case on the pan of both the strike-
participants and the farmer coterie. Excellent
training in observation is the old Boy Scout
test of walking rapidly past a chain store
window, and then enumerating ALL the things
that the window contained, and their relation to
each other. Admittedly it is difficult to, be as
objective about a tear gas melee and alleged
property trespassing as it is about a whole kernel
corn display in a window. But char such action
is difficult does.no
»'tructivc-ly   resolve-
Slowing down of industrial trends means a
diminished opportunity for investment and a
discouragement lo initiative . . . INDUSTRIAL
MATURITY (in the U. S.) is likely to bring
with it more serious and more frequent periods
of under-utilizalion of the factors of production.
Shortage of capital for social improvements develops just when 'ini.il conicioutness emerges to (
demand such improvement) . . . In short, il is
probably fair to say thai our enterprise system
functions best in an expanding economy—and
our economy today is nol expanding.—Glenn
McLaughlin in The-Journal of "Political Economy.
•
Labor really asks Utile. When a man decides
to be a worker, when consciously or unconsciously he makes the decision nol lo go after
money and the power of money as his life's fir si
aim, but instead elects lo live hy the work of
his handi. right then and there the average American worker indicates rather definitely thai he
will be happy with a middle class status . . . By
"middle  class"  1  mean:   A  decent  home  with
plenty of good food, respectable clothes, educational possibilities for the children, including
high school and college should they so desire,
security against sickness, old age, and unemployment.—William Allen While, in The North
American Review.
•
One is impressed with the fact that parents
are deeply concerned over the development in our
school system, which they call "secular'ixation"
and "the stress schools place upon the spectacular in education to the detriment of programs
that will improve the manners and morals of
modern children. Schools," say parents, "should
have as teachers those who are sympathetic toward the Christian and democratic ways of life."
—Letter lvins in The Journal of the National
Educational Association.
-The Fresno St«tt» ColWge Collegian -
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PACIFIC TIGERS TO TRY FOR SECOND UPSET
Traditional Far Western
Rivals Meet in 18th Game
BY EU PAVLOVICH
With reports from Stockton indicating that COP is gunning
for another upset over Fresno State .the Bulldogs this week have
worked on a defense to stop the unorthodox plays employed by
. A. Stagg, Pacific mentor.
Tomorrow night marks the 18th meeting in which the tw» Far
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