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V 1 i PAGE 2 EDITORIAL PAGE OF THE BATTALION FRIDAY. MARCH 10, 1939 REAL FREEDOM j jl, ! Just what da you think would haypel ta any- ona who hald a mealing In Berlin at which he denounced the Nupi government aui ilp official*,- referred contemptuously to the Chancellor as “Adolph Hitlerovich,” and ddvocated a virtual revolution!Tu The participaata in the ■sating would find themselves swiftly incarcerated in a concentration camp—if they were fortunate to escape the head man’s axe. ; J i Yet in New York, the German-American Bund rueently held a meeting in Madison Square Garden, which was decorated for the occasion with swastika flags and guarded by men wearing Nasi storm-troop or uniforms, at which the speakers sneered at the President of the United States and eallsd “Franklin Rosenfeld," denounced high officials, including a distinguished Justice Supreme Court, called for the extermination Jews, and pledged themselves to establish a Nasi dictatorship In this country. And what hap pened? Were the Bund members arrested as eae Parade of Opinion PREVIEWS and REVIEWS BY ASSOCIATED COLLEGIATE PRESS Fraternities have long been vulperaMe to attack on the one question of their programs for the initia tes of new members. Chief contention of the fhult- finders has been (and still is) that “hell week” activities are anti-educational and do not instill into neophytes true ideals of fratemalism. BY RAY TREADWELL \ “St. Louis Bluet*, a musleal romance picture produced by Par amount, with Jeff Lasaros as pro ducer and Raoul Wash as director. together. The.Uow offers plenty of top- feature show of “Bkrndle* list tones including “St. l*ui* fjllMy Singleton, Larry Blues*, “Blue Nightfall", “I Go *** Afthur L***- That”, “Kinds Lonesome”, starring Barbara Lay, song styL The president of the University iat, Dorothy Murry, dancing com- of Tennessee j fhniwiary ' school edienne, “The Southwest Champion senior dnas is n freshman at Meaa- Jitterbugn* and other*. Alao a !*» State Teacher* College. » i , . I. t W For Thst" “Kinds I m *" ASSEMBLY HALL from a screen play by John C. ht,r » Kind* Lonesome , Suter* Moffltt and Malcolm Boylan. “Dark Byes”, “Loch Lomond", and a Warner Bros.-First National Along with the pahsing of the green caps for Showing Saturday night preview, “Let’s Dream in the Moonlight", pfcture starring Bette Davis and Sunday and Monday at the Palace If you see the show you are not Brrol Flynn. The cast: , i » apt to forget the title as it is Saturday 12:80—"Mr. Doodle freshmen on many campuaea, “hell week” is b» mr banned by many fraternities and ta being replaced with educational and work programs that are of real value to the fraternity and the individual alike. 1 But college newspaper editors, close to the real situations on thenr campuaea, are still pounding out strong editorials urging a continuation of the trend away from paddles and praakg.’Paragraphs like the following are potent arguments for their case: “If a fraternity is unable to build its fresh men into the desirable type of man without hell week, the loglegl j «om lumon to he drawn is that the fraternity la not a good one, for one of a .. Dorothy Laraour included in the show as the name Kicks Off, a RKO picture star- Lloyd Nolan of thf picture, file showboat, and ring Jo* Penner, June Travia, and Tito Guisar the *o*g; and the boat tie* up at Richard Lsme. _ Maxine Sullivan St. I-out* for a performance. Saturday <:30, 8:80—“My Lucky Mary Parker Music is furnished by the King's Star", starring Sonja Henie and fraternity’s promises to a new freshman is that R mies of the government? No—instead, <«>• of the -gill endeavor to make him better for the experience, largest concentration of police in New York’s his- Some fraternities are able to tfirn out men; others tory surrounded the meeting place, and protected them while they aired their views, which would des troy the feedora and protection they were enjoying. There isn't another country in the world where that could happen. For there isn't another country In the world where the cardinal tenet of democracy* free speech, ia so sealously protected. And free ■peech means tbs right to speak by thoOo with whom you most violently disagree, as well as those with whom you agree. It means na right to call fog a change in government It means giving fha ■ •very chance to hear all sides of a controversy, to weigh fact against fact and theory against I before reaching a decision. ’ When you hear someone denouncing America and its institutions, remember this. Think of wist happens to those bold enough to speak, even in moderate terms, against the regimes in power in Germany, Russia, Italy and a host of small coen tries. Ours to a freedom possessed by no other people. Why try to destroy It? . I -►THE DAILY TEXAN Norms Malone Dave Guemey Sam Ramos .... Ids . "Pittitaa* _ . „ , „ With Dorothy Lamour in a an- Men ’ M**ty Malneck and hi* Or- Richard Greene rang and eight song hit* It doesn't ehestra, and .the Hall Johnson Sunday 1:00—“Cipher Bureau take much more to make a picture c h°* r - * Grand National picture (YJLC. with appeal, to say the least Add J jX • ' " ' x A free show), to that Maxine Sullivan of “Loch “Damaged Goods," an education- Monday 7:00 — “Damaged Lomond” fame singing the title a! feature showing Monday night Goods”, an educational feature. *ong of the picture and you cae at THD at the Assembly Hall. get an idea for yourself as to just “Damaged Goods" to an vdtty- 1 what to expoct. tional picture on social diseases Dorothy lamour packed away and presents a dramatisation of PALACE said was the last time, but after in the form of a story in which i “ICE FOLLIES” a picture like “Spawn of the prodigals are paid in full, which to PREVIEW -HP |f SAT only succeed in producing over-grown ,high school boys.’—University of Kansas “Daily Kansas.* “A bad year of basing can develop a pretty **.»*"*& ** **^ j.—■ r N»H wBh . LAST DAY - SAT. rugged inferiority complex in a sensitive soul. It can make the first year of college a you of pure hell and can kill any further desire to pursue-education.” —University of Mississippi “Mississippian". “As for making long and enduring friendship*, hell week is a peculiarity. AU the rest of maakind makes friendship, but not by beating and torturing North” where she stayed under of course the way things always wraps and suffered a box-office happea in real life. drop as a result, producers reeling' that she packed more attraction as i, d mtes of 72 medical schools a part of the eye appeal rather are oa the staff of the Louisiana prospective friends. Man has Im-ch making friends ^ **f a PP e *^! 80 out * h< State University medical school.,. by trying to know sad understand mankind better. comas in 8tory M a “ ro ®f^ wearing Broadway singer who sod- — Jt/sSS? What’s Showing show boat where in the end she ends up in the boat’s show as PALACE “Aloha”, a scantily dressed aL Friitoy a «wl Saturday—The Ice traction. Follies of 1939", M-G-M, starring Joan Crawford, James Stewart, riRgflNekestsM Wt doubt if the World War made a great many friendships* —Western Reserve University Tri- babe." weft Considering all resident students, summer and part-time, New York University, with an enrollment of 88,744, leads the nation. The yearly survey of the nation’s universities In registration of fall-time students was announced by Dr. Raymond Walters, president of tbe University of Cincinnati BOYCOTT A note of not-*o-heavy thought was introduced into a week of serious editorialising when the Uni versity ef Redlands “Bulldog” came out with dis cussion of a problem that to now only peculiar to the sunmy-as-adversitzed state of Califernia. Get out your beat summer-time thinking cap and read this: ' “Unnecessary sound can be quite a distraction to concentration when one to trying to study, but there are other distractions which can be just as bad. One equally annoying hindrance to concentra tion to a squadron of flies. And our library to the home of many bussing squadrons. It’s about as easy to stady with flies on oae's nose, on one’s book, on one’s elbow, and in one’s hair as it would be to study on the corner of Fifth and Main on Saturday night (try it sometime). To have flies in one’s studies to worse than to have flies in one’s soup. Will some one please buy the library a fly spray gun and a gallon of ammanition?" The acting and the story both . . , . , „ rould t* moth bttter, tat with . * n,i L "“ Sto “ musical comedy about all one can Saturday night preview, Sunday expect is a framework that will “ d Monday—“St. Louis Bluet", hold the soi«s and acts together Paramount picture starring Dor- in some soft of semblance that oth y Lamour and Lioyd Nolan, does no) appear too much like a Tuesday only—iTbe Jitterbug bunch Of vaudeville acta thrown “Revue", a five-act stags show DOROTNT L1MQUR LlOTfi NOUN Shown Sun. and Mon. NEW DIXIE SUN. - MON. - TUBS. C’mon In— The Food’s Fine Ym, the food IS fine. That’a why so many of yon Aggie students come here when you want a bite to eat or a complete, delicious ideal. ' 'i iL' When you mim that meal try our toasted sand wiches and light lunches. i' K it OANCITEiri soy . Cmot - . Confelctionery * «Y m Fountain ph\>hi-t. Professor Harvard W. Bridgman, has arrived at the derision that A famed Bridgman, lowing citizens of a totalitarian stats to share in •ctontifk discoveries to a bad practice became of the possible misuse of science by the dicUtor-con trolled nations. > T\j Published in the official journal of the As sociation for the Advancement of Science, his "Mani festo by a Physicist" declared, in pndls- “I hive decided from now on not to show any apparatus or discuss my experiments with the cittoens ef say totalitarian State. A citizen of such a State to no longer n free individual, but he may be compelled to engage in any activity whalsvW to advance the purpose of that State. The purposes of the totalitarian States have shown themselves to be la irreconcilable conflict with the purposes of free States. ~ | i , “la particular, the totalitarian States do not recognise that the free cultivation of scientific knowledge for ita own sake to a worthy end of human endeavor, I t have commandeered the scien tific activties of their citizens to serve thrir own purposes, jj \ “These States have thus annulled the grounds which formerly justified and made h pleasure of the free sharing of scientific knowledge between in dividuals of different countries. A self-respecting recognition of this altered situation demands that this practice be stopped. “Cessation of scientific intercourse with the The Texas Allege of Arts and Industries has the largest privately assembled geological collection in the south. I ' The survey rt;>orts a current enrollment of 822391 full-time students in 877 approved institu tions of the nation and a grand total registration of 1,289,975, including part-time and summer school registration X M . M r K 1. On National!Affairs . v BY DR. R. P. LUDLUM N Italian Fatripui Musaolmi did not have ms Fascist program developed when he gain, d power in Italy. His object waa to get power for himaaM. >Aflfer>8|mt had been done, he framed a program. The Fascist system in Italy has been operating for 17 years, however, and what it consists of to quite plain now.' X Private property and private capital are limit-' ed, to be sure, m the Fascist system, but the out standing fact is that they frn preserved. It is easy to point out the limitations upon them. An own er of property uses it subject jjo the absolute regu lation of the State. He may not enlarge his factory, or move It, or liquidate K, without State permis- HE'S AMERICA’S FRONTIER IN FRA FD R's Most-Telephonrd Ambassador j ■ -If • . ;■! W HO KNEW all the answers when that new Army bomber crashed, with a French Air Ministry officer in it? Who knows all the answers when the President uses the transatlantic telephone for feed- box tips on the latest European crisis? The answer is: William C Bullitt, who went from Social Register to (Congressional Record. Read his story in your Poet tonight Ftrst ©f two articles. : HE ROSE FROM THE RICH ' by Jack Alexander * t i y _ skm. Wages are ffeeA by the State; labor must totalitarian States serves the double Pin*"* of beihgLi at State labor exchsmgM; labor may be making more difficult the misuse of scientific in- discharged only with State consent But despite the formation by those States and of giving the indivi dual opportunity to express his sbhorrenOe of their practice*.” . \ [ ] ' ' The University of California, ranked first with 24309 students, Minnesota second with 11,148, Col umbia third with 14380, and New York University fourth with 14357. The Battalion Entered as second class matter at the postoffice at College Station, Taxas, under tbe Act of Con gress of March 3, 1879. t l , Subscription rates, $2 a year. Advertising rates upon request Office in Room 122 Adainis trat.on building Telephone College 8. Night phone College 699. R. prcscnted for national adv.-rtising by Nation il Advertising Service, Inc., 420 Madison Ave^ New York City. R. L. DOSS EDITOR-IN-C>IEF W. H. SMITH ADVERTISING MANAGER James Critt, Bill Murray Managing Editors George Fulton, B. C. KneUar Aset. Adv. Mgrt. E. C. (Jeep) OiitM * - ..^Sport* Editor to,i—.— tapher Bob Oliver, Wayne Stark Phillip Got man Staff J. C. Diet* Ctrrutortsttl Rose Howard, H. G. Howard Circulation Assistants C F. DeVUbias Editorial Assistant TUESDAY STAFF Ray Treadwell -i - * . .Junior Editor I* E. Thompson Junior Editor Bob Niebet A. J. Robinson, J. S. O’Connor, D. G. Burk, J. A. Stanseil. Foster Wise, M. L. How ard, B G. Brady, Rkhard Litaey, W. N. Tomlinson. George Foemann, T. N. Stoder, Lewis CWnHHar. ’’ FRIDAY STAFF j j ] % > C. M. Wilkinson Junior Editor Frank Pkelaa, H. G. Tolbot, E. A, Shields, 0. A. Lopes, J. F. MeGarr, Jack Hendetton. Billy Clarkaon, L. A. Newman. Jr., Max Perkins. Alfred limitations (and a long list of them might be given), the capitalist retain* his “fundsmental privilege, that of earning private profits.” The effect Of Fas cism to to prop up the capitalist structure. The limitations upon capitalism constitute “a premium which the capitalists were willing *to pay >» order to get full security against the demands of labor." In the Fascist system, labor works under dis advantages far more severe than those affecting capital. Liberty ceases to exist in a Fascist system. The workers may not bargain; their trade unions are dissolved; they are weaker than the employers capital-labor syndicates set up by the govern- their wages may be drastically reduced; they in subject te the crises attendant upon a capi talist economy; and they lose the right to strike. Mussolini traces the history of Fascism by des cribing the things it has fought: (1) Pacifism, (2) Marxian Socialism, (8) Liberal Democracy. Con cerning the last, Liberal Democracy, he says, “Fas cism denies that the majority, by the simple fact that R to a majority, can direct human society; It denies that numbers alone can govern by means of periodi cal consultation, and it affirms the immutable, bene ficial, and fruitful inequality of mankind.” Let me give two more quotations from Mus- war. Mussolini says of • Hollywood? A genial Patterson McNutt 1 iquae. And aD its cockeyed «ck be writes an angjes. In the Post this amuring story of that fabulous Isfid, where turninf out a flop picture can even be en joyable—If you can make somebody else take the rap for it Watch doedy and ob serve a new Hollywood feature: the douhh WHAT! Civil War soldiers raiding a tourist camp! t i j I to 1939? Yes, it can happen here. And aD be cause of a honey-colored blonde named A::gd, and her vanishing $500 trousseau. Up to then, Prod. Lysander Markham had been sure the Civil War was over. Here’s a story one part historical, three parti hysterical. Custer’s Cavalry Rescues Uncle Berth h R0YCE HOWES double ct<*»! it, “War alone brings up to ita highest tension all human energy and puts the stamp of nobility upon the people* who have the courage to meet it" The second touches one of the objectives of contempor- •ry Italy. “For Fascism," toys II Duce, “The growth Of [■■pin, that to to say the expansion of the nation, to an essential manifestation of vitality* “If college life seems, at times, to take on a mediocre or drab—though hot actually brutal, at least lacking in the esuberahee and radiance which we might wish—perhaps it to so not because it is difficult, sordid or ugly in Itself, but that the lack lie* rather with «s in our fgilore to bring to it the __ , viMl approach.’’ tffle & Coaling, Mankato (Minn.) Flacker, James Eppler, D. K Hill, W; W. Sullivan, Teachers College, maintains lit to up to the student M. L Howard, Max MeCXillar, Tommy McCord. 'j-tot make his education, lively and interesting. One Big Happy Family A Hollywood.Story !]4 h PATTERSON McNUTT v ★ DETROIT BUYS A $100,000 ROOKIE. And what hum. the Tigers had him earlier to a $5,000 option—and let him go! In On* AnoJiie | Thqy Won’t Forgot, T ul O’Neil tells you about the 19 year-old wonder boy who is stfll s mystery to major league dopesters. , * MARY ROBERTS RINEHART describe* a day ia the Hie of a writer, | and sums it up for you in three words: Writing J* Work. it W.SOMERSET MAUGHAM talk* this week about You and Some _ Storm Books. He gives you his favorites—this time among writers of France, Spun and Ruwa. whose stories are worth reading. it AND . • . three Hvdy short stories. The CJbada* Sang, by Stuart Ooete; Crank Ship, by Richard HowelU Watiriaa, and Mrs. Cupid, by Brooke Haalon... it PLUS article*, editorial*, fun, and cartoon* in the Poet this week. "4:; “SUBMARINE MAIL” Spain's odd war for stamp-collectors' money Becauae freak stamps bring faiicy prices, Spain's Loyalist* engineered a nept money- rauinf exploit—mbmarine maiL A Wn rr who accompanied the first cargo d<-*sibr* tlwt hazardous trip through Franco’s kdanc torpedo-boat blockade. Stamp War by werner kell THE SATURDAY EVENING POST
