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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.
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Confelctionery
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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
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On National!Affairs
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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
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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
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by Jack Alexander
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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.
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W. H. SMITH ADVERTISING MANAGER
James Critt, Bill Murray Managing Editors
George Fulton, B. C. KneUar Aset. Adv. Mgrt.
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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!
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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
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★ 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.
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“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
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