THE BATTALION
3
Legislative Censorship Holds Less
Danger Than Editorial Erskine
OLDEST YALE GRAD DIES
CINCINNATI, O. — Edward P.
Bradstreet, the oldest graduate of
Yale university, died at his home here
recenty at the age of 100. Until a-
bout two years ago Mr. Bradstreet
maintained his law office and was
active in community affairs. He was
a member of the famous class of ’53
at Yale which had 111 members at
graduation. When he celebrated his
100th anniversary on June 5 he was
honored by the Cincinnati Yale Club
at a banquet. Before going to Yale
Mr. Bradstreet was a student at
Western Reserve university in Cleve
land, O.
In 1858 Mr. Bradstreet and his
wife were playing chess in a public
room of a hotel at Hanibal, Mo., when
they looked up to find Abraham Lin-
colm watching the game. Lincoln
was invited to join the game and did
so.
Although because of the barren
shores of Labrador sailors call it
“Land of Naked Rocks,” inland Labra
dor is a land of much vegetation.
Sight-seeing excursions for college
students, once almost unheard of, now
are common adjuncts to college train
ing.
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NEW YORK—The most dangerous
form of literary censorship in the
United States is not legislative ac
tion prohibiting certain forms of liter
ary expression, but the taboos placed
on the author by the public and the
editors and moving picture managers
who select what the public shall read
and hear, Dr. John Erskine, professor
of English at Columbia university and
author of “Helen of Troy” told the
New York Advertising club at its
weekly luncheon last week.
The author today has to choose be
tween reaching a large audience and
reaching an audience which will un
derstand what he is attempting to say,
the Columbia professor said.
“The largest audience is reached
through the talking pictures,” he said,
“the next largest through the maga
zines, and the smallest through books.
However, the most permanence is
found in books, and I think you will
find that there always will be books,
even if the author has to publish his
own, regardless of the developments
in the talking picture field.”
The real danger today, Dr. Erskine
said, is that the American author will,
because of the influence of magazine
and motion picture editors, become
merely an entertainer. The American
public, he said, does not like to learn
the truth about America, although it
enjoys reading foreign books telling
the truth about Europe, because “we
always are willing to believe the truth
about a foreigner.”
The minute an American magazine
reaches a circulation of more than a
million or so, Dr. Erskine said, the
editor begins to think his readers are
all of a standard type, to which he
must cater.
“How the editor arrives at the con
clusion as to what type of matter his
readers en.oy, no author has yet
been able to figure out,” said the
author.
The opportunity to the author is
greater today than ever before, he
said, but the temptations to do in
ferior work also are greater.
Board Grants Leave Of
Absence To Adriance
The Board of Directors of A & M at
its last meeting, on the endorsement
of President Walton, approved leave
of absence of Dr. Guy W. Adriance
of the department of horticulture,
from September 1, 1931 to June 1,
1932.
Dr. Adriance’s leave of absence was
recommended by Dean E. J. Kyle in
order that he might accept a national
fellowship offered by the National
Research Council. The work is to be
done at Cornell university under the
supervision of Professors L. H. Mac-
Daniels, and O. F. Curtis.
The investigation that will be taken
up by Dr. Adriance involves an ana
tomical and physiological study of
cutting during the process of root and
shoot formations. The results ob
tained from these studies will be ap
plied to the propagation of pecans
by cuttings which is a part of an ex
tensive program of study on pecan
propagation being conducted by the
horticultural department of this col
lege.
Dr. Adriance received his B. S. de
gree in Agriculture from Texas A
& M; his M. S. from the University
of California; and his Ph. D. from
The Michigan State college. The
work in connection with his doctor’s
degree was done with fruit setting
in the pecan.
He will be accompanied by his wife
and young daughter.
No one has ever succeeded in keep
ing nations at war except by lies.—
Prof. Salavador de Madariaga.
President Hoover’s effort to artifi
cially stem the course of the debacle
made me think of King Canute.—Hen
ry W. Morgenthau.
Students Plan To Rid
Kansas Of Bootleggers
LAWRENCE, Kan.—Undergradu
ates at the University of Kansas are
looking twice before rounding dark
corners these days—especially those
students who have a liking for a little
nip of hard liquor now and then.
This is because the University Daily
Kansan published a letter following
the arrest of eight students for using-
liquor and the passage of an anti-li
quor resolution by the campus frater
nities. The letter read:
“TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:
“In reply to the so-called ‘clearance
resolution’ passed by the men’s Pan-
Hellenic Association and the student
councils, ‘clearing’ the drinking prob
lem on this campus, we, a g-roup of
eight students, with the co-operation
of an outside group, are taking it up
on ourselves to see that these promises
are fulfilled.
to gather sufficient information to rid
the campus of its student drinkers and
bootleggers and see that your diplo
matic ‘blacks’ are not idle threats.
“We are forwarding a copy of the
letter to the men’s student advisor,
the president of the men’s student
council and the University Daily Kan
san. Watch your step.
“ (Signed)
“THE GROUP OF EIGHT.”
MONTFORT DELIVERS LECTURE
Professor P. T. Montfort of the de
partment of agricultural engineering,
left last Sunday to address a short
course for the women of the home ser
vice departments of the electric pow
er companies of the southwest.
This course is being held at the
Agricultural and Mechanical College
of Oklahoma. Professor Montfort is
expected to return Thursday.
‘Among the student body we hope
THE GREATER PALACE
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THE BATTALION
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Girdles had never confined her young body—Shoes had
never pinched her feet—Garters had never marred her
beautiful flesh—And then the culture and conventions
of civilization put their mark upon her—a wild, pas
sionate, primitive beauty.
Loneliness and the tropics drove him to forget
sweetheart and family isi t..2 arms of a half-caste,
who gave him love and happiness until he took
her into his home. In his cold world she was
cheap, wild, native!
Yhe story of a very great love told with
tenderness and passion, laughter and tears,
"throbs and thrills. Against a background of
the splendor of riches and the lavish beauty
of the tropics.
All-Star Cast
Ben Lyon
Raquel Torres
Robert Edeson
Thelma Todd y
Otis Harlan
Robert Ellis
f Alan Hale
Marian Douglas
' T. Roy Barnes
+ Donald Reed
Directed by ALBERT ROGELL
~ T I F FAN Y PRODUCTION