1938_11 The Daily Collegian November 1938

              THE FRESNO STATE COLLEGE COLLEGIAN
College Crowd Moves in on
Author Stone With Quizes
Charlie McCarthy Presents
Edgar Bergen While Martians Arrive
"Columbia preaehla the Mercury Thcu r of
the Air, starring- Orson Welles."
Failure to catch that phrase and being tram.
ported into belief of truth by the dramatic real!
Ism of the 23-year-old stage genius, score, 0(
i, the United States last Sunday .„.
the United States being attacked by
from Mars! Newspapers now call it n,e
greatest hoax since Edgar Allan Poe wrote ariil
cles in the New York Sun of people Inhabltis,
ition of creating one of th,
most harrowing broadcasts possible for th.
honor of Hallowe'en, Orson Welles and his Mercury group adapted the H. G. Wells "War o(
the Worlds." Without intention the dranu
group created one so harrowing that folk evacuated from the alleged spot where Martians
landing in their steel tubes, men from ove.
Straw Vote 'Saves' College
A Mr. Knowles Investigation
Today the columns of The Collegian carry
the pitiful story of a straw vote taken to measure student reactions 01
ters. No one can deny that a poll that can tally
only 60 votes on both sides of any single question, when the popubstton of the College
amounts to more than 2,000, is
The Collegian might take umbrage at this
fiasco. It might weep crocodile tears and say
eaders don't take it seriously, that
  ie The Collegian of trying vainly to
whip up interest in a dead issue, or of attempting to fill up
e didn't realize
u quite so thoroughly defunct as today's 6g-
r. We still can't believe it, for
for the buck
A murder was committed two years ago—
a gory, dastardly murder. The victim was—It
must be faced—the straw vote. It may be impolite to point fingers, especially at murderers,
but The Collegian risks a breach of etiquette in
asserting that two years ago the editors of the
Literary Digest perpetrated a nefarious deed in
killing off one of the handiest playthings that
journalism ever had.
Let us all gather for a wake over the corpse,
and never be deluded into believing that this
lump of clay will ever draw breath again.
. Yet what is this that The Collegian reveals
to the world today? Nothing but a weird, contorted phantasm of a once-vigorous being.
Any member of the Dies Committee, obviously, could tell you that. For who ever heard of
such an anomaly as a college that voted predominantly Republican, conservative! The committee knows that the "borers-from-within" arc
sinister in their silence. These radicals don't
talk, but in silence set about with their augers
and gimlets.
At any rate, The Collegian is sincerely regretful that the straw vote was not able to furnish Knowles and his henchmen something to
view with alarm. It must get mighty lonesome
s, with nothing to talk
Or nine, or ten. or any shock Qne   Anointed;
Uke that. And mn-, I   s        ■■.,■_
In jolly Santa Clou,. One Annoyed
And may instructors pardon me ■■■ (Callafher and Mr. M-
Hul. Pal. this is the loufhes
Re-Elect
RAY
HAYS
San me from roUine i
Sign of the Bull
6 SIZE LAMP BULBS
ARE MISFITS, TOO!
If you don't mfnd eye-strain,
you can "see to read",under
one lone 26-watt lamp. But
for real eye comfort, it i
to use the right size bull	
every reading task. And
that means: FOR READING, not less than one 100,
two 60's, or three 40-watt
Mazda    lamps.    IN
HOME LIGHTING
DIVISION OF
SAN JOAQUIN	
country volunteered their si
* t» fight
nstcrs, and women fainted in Uie
r the a
T   Of   p
presentation
Columbia Broadcasting System used to
advantage in their excellent coverage of the late
European crisis, the play was top dramatic stuff.
One commentator, who was among the first to
die (in the radio script), even sounded like II. V.
Kaltenborn, the CBS broadcaster.
A great avalanche of protest has fallen upon
the program; and that is not only silly liL:
futile. It is best dismissed as another hit .show
for the Mercury Theater, which dressed the late
Julius Caesar and the late Brutus in modern
clothes and had a satire on Mussolini written by
William Shakespeare on their hands.
It should seem a mild anti-climax fur folk
who tuned in on the CBS horror and believed it
a news broadcast of actual happening, to
switch their dials to the National Broad. ;t-m „•
Company stations to find Edgar Bergen and
Charlie McCarthy bantering each other in the
face of an invasion from Mars. No doubt the
wooden-headed McCarthy would be more serine
in the face of a crisis than many of the llesh-
dummies who went into an impromp
performance Sunday night.
Idle Chapters
By   ARNOLD   C 	
WITH EDITORS ELSEWHERE
The only hop« for the pitiful east
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THE FRESNO STATE COLLEGE COLLEGIAN
COLLEGIAN SPORTS ^£^.$3
,;:-rrr.,"ri: BULLDOG RESERVES CHALK UP
%Bz%& » YARDS AGAINST CAL AGGIES
Coach Jimmy Bradshaw's Bulldogs unleashed a powerful
display of ground-gaining antics in winning their second Far
Western Conference game Saturday night at Fresno before a
crowd of 6,600, when they crushed the injury-stricken California
Aggie Mustang eleven, 34 to 7.
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