1941_03 The Daily Collegian March 1941

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-The Fresno State College Collegian—
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By loo Hinrnon
THE DRAFT . .
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stuff
d Friday night to
the score of college students that collected to
witness the entrapment of the national Guard
for their year's service. The sight of a dozen
prominent campus luminaries wearing the drab
olive did more ti, impress the locals of the seriousness of the situation than a mile of news
space or a thousand speeches.
EDITORIAL BOARD
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THE OTHER SIDE
THK OPPOSITION ... to the constitutional
ameinlnient that proposes to allow the candidates for student body offices the right to
few chips iH-sides the money laid out
for their signs, has come from the strangest
places. Fer instance: E. McPherson, who gave
birth to the idea, was cornered after the Student Council nicotine; the other night by several
of the boys from the house down the street who
hat he thought he was doing." This was a logical question, but they had
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question - ■•: all sides h
On ..      the C llerian fi
Big Stick vs. Swift Kick
sequiur" is th.it which says the- Lease-Lend Bill
was passed to give the- President the- power to get
us into war. From the narrowed isolationist viewpoint, the President is craftily doing
to pet enough power to send Americans away to
fight in a foreign country.      '
Now. if Roosevelt and Willkic. both pro-lc-asc-
lend. ran tor the office of President for the sole
purpose of seeing bow quickly they could send
the country into a war, they had
path open to them than drumming up a lease-
lend bill.
Though only Congress can declare war, the
President can constitutionally commit an "act of
war"' by sending either the standing army or navy
to a foreign land. It was done- in Nicaragua, it
was done in Mexico to get Pancho Villa, and it
was done iii China during the Boxer rebellion.
If the- President has an uncontrollable de-sire- to
fight in Europe, he has but 10 decide- that Hitler
is endangering our foreign commerce and he- has
a constitutional reason for sending our army over
there. With this in mind, it is unbelievable that
the- President advocated the Lease-Lend Bill just
to pave- the way for troop landings in Europe.
The Lease-Lend Bill is but the recognition ihat
though we- may not want to help a neighbor keep
his house from burning, it certainly is our business to see that be gets the- water with which to
put it out. so that the fire doesn't get over to our
house.
dangerous  statement  that  the  isol.
advance, says that   "there is no dir
him the isolationist blindfolds his e-ye-s and—like
the horse—feels secure. The fact that no threat
has been made- yet doesn't mean there's not danger
of invasion.
' If the. British and French navies fall into the
hands of ihe axis and are- combined with those-
of a Gc-rmanic-lialo-Japancse tsfa, it will take-
more than the blueprints of an unfinished two-
ocean navy to keep them out of the- Western
Hemisphcte.
Once they have- bases in South America what
is to'keep the axis from demanding territorial
concessions in Alaska, Canada, and the United
States itself? Certainly not our standing army,
which is about the size Holland's was—once. And
certainly not respect for our great defense production industry — which lost 591,000 man-days of
production through strikes in the last two months
Nor can wc bury our diplomatic "big stick"' in
the sand, and our treads, too—ostrich fashion—
-The Fresno State College Collegian-
"COUEOIAH SPORTS
San Joaquin Valley Class 6 Champions
Managerial Plan
Up for Final
Approval Today
Fresno State's much-discussed
iw managerial system will be
ibject to a final approval today
■ 11 o'clock when it is placed -
before the Board of Directors.
BASEBA1.1 is in the air again. This is attested to more by the "winter-weathered" frat
lawn and at the stadium with a soft ball, than
all of the hardball games in the country. Although this isn't a sports
to say- that anyone who misses any of the
lither of the two intramural leagues
might as well crawl back in his book. Watch a
certain national tong: they've a good chucker
this year and they'll really make a valliant effort to unseat the Mus, who have virtually ruled
the frat baseball roost for three years now.
in order to attain safety or solve any of our problems. Chamberlain threw away his "big stick,"
buried his head in the sand—and got nothing
but a swift kick from a Nazi boot. Isolation is
a static, a negative- thought-process, and if in
spite of it Hitler is stopped, it will attempt to
block America's efforts to help correct the troubles which caused, a Hitler in the first place.
—O. Stebbins.
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EDITORIAL SHORT
"War is just plain hdl," Dr. Ray Lyman Wilbur, president of Stanford University, recently declared, but if Satan could visit Coventry and Poland, he'd say, "Hell was never like this."
Drive for Gymnasium
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