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Student Opinion Surveys of Amenca
•rw 50 p«r cent of thi* country e toller
"omen would feror comnuinum orer fteeiati ahoold
the time »rrW« that auch a choice would hawe to ba
that
“1
But we cannot aae that there ia mw
iafo ® Totinf on kaeh a question. In
place, ahould either ever fain rontml
United Stataa, the people would have
Second, like Walter Winchell, we’d
cide to either, hecaeae one features
aa much auppreaaion
Both m one of
power refuse to all
person that opena
the government is
centration camp for i
as is convenient for
The free press
efficiently throttled,
to which readers n
lection to one which
and doctrines of the
Under neither
religion of his ehoi
dangerous to or ii
practices at the atroi
The free bafto<
longer does the av
his government, but
barrel and vote <t ye
underhand methods o
•lections.
Bvery man, pc
forced into militar
peace. And if the ,
all property to be
hold his private ge
power wish.
These are only
that the aforement
mon. There are ma
if there ia any choi
whether one prefer
mar and sickle aa Y
\TZt SELF-DEFENSE?
. t I -“'iF'T
have learned to offset the haaards of the devfHsh
steel box, will youth still refuse to keen its lasaoo,
•till refuse to condition itself to the deadly environ
ment? i 4 ;
X "Horn long will youth flirt with death?”
t —POMONA STUDENT LIFE
THE BATTALION
TUESDAY, APRIL IS, 1939
*
, quickly cud
roni »n organ
ruU had P«>-
he propaganda
the
joke
I all i
loUr
sn
«
Germany, with the biggest army in Europe, the
deadliest air fleet in th world and the scalps of
Austria and Csechoslevakia hanging at her belt* is
being forced by Great Britain's policy of “encircle
ment" into a war of self-defense.
" Thst ia the reaction of the mspifed German
press to the almost frantic efforts of Great Britain
and Prance to' build sort of defensive si-
liaaec that will gualWntee to the smaller, wenket
nations of Europe some ^hupee of survival aa inde-
) pendent states.
Germany is so mounded by tommies that hist
for her blood. The war mongers are ;
That ia the story the Nasi
the German to ewalker.
It ia a big order, even for Germans who haVu
1 been taught by successive generations of iron-fisted
dictators to take their opinions ready-made and
whose hereditary background ia such that they ask
few questions of those in authority.
Undoubtedly there art millions of Germans
who see through this flimsy pretense, who under
stand that the Nasi propaganda machiasry is
trying to lay a predicate among the German people
for placing war guilt, if a war comes, upon the
shoulder* of others.
They hardly can fall to understand that Ger-
over many’s ruthless policy of military conquest, which
con swallowed up Austria and Czechoslovakia, end her
« in *> equally brutal policy of economic conquest which
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javocimi msmuuons crvRiig^ ^ ae-
ther one Iflao it or not, and the
student who has ben encouraged to
think seriously abont social prob
lems while in col
likely to adjust
changes when they occur, and will
be leas in danger at being , cspti-
vnted by a shallow
than ha who has never peoi com
pelled to evaluate conflicting argu
ments.A Harvard Ui
Faculty committee ritea
hop, but she junt couldn’t ha lo
cated. Ha called New York and
Miami and several other of Bren-
dn’i hangouts, but she wamt to
he found probably because he
made all the calls collect!
What’s Showing
ASSEMBLY HALL
Tuesday and Wsdnsadny—"Hey
reason for complete aeademfc free- Mode Me a CrimteaT, with John
fea Garfield. Ana Sheridan, May Bob-
“Great books represent the work con, and the "Drad End" kids,
of the human mind in its highest Thursday and Friday—
quality, as weU aa in relation to krw
its most significant themes. One
of the greatest educational in- Tuesday-"* Smart Girts Grew
fluences is found in thi* clotveneee ^ D, * nn * Durbin *
^f contact with the leader*: ia ha- Gr **- *** H,kn ParTiak -
man intelligence. Teachiqg rest Wednesday—“Johnn O’Brien and
largely in the hope that gvnatneM hia Harmonica High Hate" a stage
of mind may be contagious. Dr* wgue. On the screen, “Back Deer
Alexander Meikkjohn, vjfornum to Heaven" with Stewart Erwin.
University of Wisconsin professor, Thursday, Friday and Saturday—
believes that “unless we develop “Midnight" with Claudette Colbert,
a thinking, intelligent, well n ad Don Amech* John Barrymore,
public, our democracy will fail." Frann* 1,-derer.. |
“We have no choice, ifdwe love . .f'.i.. .
liberty and respect individual
worth, other than to place behind
’ .the Christian colleges of America
major features
bane in com-
it aiems that
it is based on
MllM or ham-
PREVIEWS and REVIEWS
r , „Fi _.!f r ‘ l ' ** ' ' ' i body politic is in constant And sow
BY RAY TREADWELL censorship of movies compared with need of the leavening jbflucnM
Note—1 wish to thank all that th< freedom of tbs stage can be that flow* from these institutions."
supported me in yesterday’s alec- gained from the treatment of this Nebraska's Senator Burke argues
.tor,. After W^ter br<.,h.r. lud 'f**? • I "" w
• dents ‘firmly grounds! in the fun-
story up, aa far as da mentals of Americanism."
THE NICHOLAS MURRAY
Butler Permanent Intercollegiate
the full strength of our iqsoureee, *“**•“« WF has been won by
both material and spiritgal. The * Brown Unisrrsity student.
tion for Senior Representative. It
was a good dean race with no
holds barred. I have no kick tora-
ing. Ray Treadwell.
cleaned the
actions on the '•
concerned, because
as far aa
sek end were
the broadway
LEARNING?
casing
hurtling
aginst
shattered
crackle
/• work
The scene: a black coupe racing at
along a highway near the Pomona
The time: last Sunday evening.
The action: a sudden explosion as
and rubber part company. . . a Mack
•nd over end. . . the vicious crash of
tree trunk . . . tha tinkle and clater
glass. . .a violent concussion.. . the
of flaming, gasoline-soaked paint and u;
tha heart-rending cries of two youths
th* wreckage- • 4 the whine at a siren. .
and shouting of morbid spectators
But why say more ? It was all in the
for the fire department, the police patrel car, the
hospital, and the murgu. just another incident of
the-road for the passing motorist
• S' » • *
In truth we need not say more. Am+Vica’s most
noted editor, William Allen White, mak*C a similar
incident of the road a far blood-curdling challenge:
* “Ail animals eventually accustom themselves
to th* dangers of their environment, trim their
habits and form their way of lift to overcome
dangers. So the evoluUonitry pi or. -- grows. Man is,
fairly adept at thu protective conduct put youth
seems to be impervious to warnings, and!is slow to
accommodate itself to the menacing enggoachments
of its envioronment
“Will youth ever learn that It can 1
two-ton steel cum at a hundred mile*
a public highuray without the
den death ? Steel is not always strong
steel is Strong enough, then the co-ordi
human mind does not act so perfectly
daws at Rumania, Hungary, Lithuania, Poland
and Yugoslavia, are drawing them closer and closer
to the most destructive war in the history of the
world. ! J '
It seems incredible thst the optae of Nasiam
could so completely full their sense of perception
that they would believe for a moment that Germany
is in danger of being attacked by Britain or France.
Germany may be perilously dose to war, it is
true, but if she is, it is only because the Naxi
racketeers hav designs upon other nations and plans
for subjecting them to the same fate which befell
Czechoslovakia.
In view of historic events since German anach-
luss with Anatria in March, 1988, the German plea
of eelf-defenae is like that of a robber who draws ' nt „ It seems that H is all right for it
a gun and uses it to protect himself in his right to E 11 *" Hurray Priscilla Lane 4
j" . *7 Hm.wU. Hall Jaffr.* I «an to » h ° W <>n the Stage but SUi Soon
ddb. —FORT WORTH STARTELEGRAM. l>ou » u * H * u Jeffrey Lynn
Tite. Jty—ood Roland Yoon* “ lhf ' ,un ' * m ,h ' ,tor '
j, Ann Mum, F., Bn.nter * “ <*•*■>•
When a columnist for the campus newspaper, “Cranny 1 ’ May Robson vul * mr an<1 mu,t 001 »bown.
the Newt, called attention to Dr. W. A. Fabian’s bad Connie Nevins Genevieve Tobin ** * • mal1 minority of the people
banned from showing in the same
“ ’YES, MY DARUNG DAUGH
TER"—Warner—Screen play by
Casey Robinson. From the stage
play by Mark Reed. Directed by ^ .
William Keighley. Showing Sat- ,Ut *' New Yorkl that ^ play ha ‘ l
urday night at the Assembly Hall. bf « n »ccUi««ted one of the greatest
imm | and most entertaining hits in year*.
... Priscilla Lane
fOobber” Southard has his dat-
hit play did not pull any punches, ing troubles, and he’s no little peev-
the movie that they made was then ed
at ope Brenda Duff Frasier,
New York socialite, Bubber thought
it’d be s swell idea to haye Brenda
down to the Citadel for Dm annual
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I’hone CpD«*t 189
.North Gate
habit at keeping hia hygiene classes overtime, he
immediately took st< ps to remedy the fault
parade of Opinion
function quickly at a' hundred kniles ad
highway infested with unknown! traffic
"The deaths at Lawrence Saturdaj
a part of the toll that freedom takes
They were within their right*. They
aciously toying with death. Youth and
eternal redetvous. Age <y»eps cautiously
ride in *
hour on
of sud-
, and if
n of the
t it can
on a
P«
night are
m youth,
were con
th have an
the ceme
tery. Youth runs withk arms outspread to greet the
Reaper with his scythe.
“The automobile is s new thing on the planet.
In genera^ use K Is, in this country, but if generation
old. How long after childhood, manhofjd, and age
. ’ —^j L J! to get hu
The Ba it a lion "
Here ia ax hour’s swell enter-
tainment to My the least and
though the picture was made from
one of last year’s most satirical
plays the film version covers this
vary nicely t* give cot enough
*1 humor and with such speed that
Always active leader* in the promotion of move liable to overlook any social
merits that are designed to aid in the preservation of M ptet of the matter which, after
peace in the world, collegians give their whole- all, may be the best thing,
hearted approval to the bill whose passage would T The story briefly ia that a young
hold down profits during the time of war. couple who think that they cannot
Qoaalasnding'tbe measure, the Providence Col- married so as a last resort
leys Cowl said: “If the charges that all aorta of they decide to go off on the week
.sinister financial powers are seeking to sweep the end together, much to the horror
U. 8. into a war are valid, the bill on war profits
would militate against the effectiveness of any such
pre-war efforts. Perrons with a special financial
sxe to grind would, in time at war, be unable to feast
on the sufferings of a nation. It is obviously unjust
that, ia time of war, some men should be forced to
leave their homes and risk their lives while other men
remain in aaftey at great personal profit Conscript
the money a* well as the men.”
F> Bgt, says the Brown University Herald, some
Mpg should be done right now about the profits
made iii peace on war materials. “The almost daily
European crises have spurred the government to
unprecedented heights in military allotments. Yet no
measures are being taken to prevent wartime profits
in' peace time. If, aa it has often been prophesied,
the administration is seeking to esteblisk peace, it
should minimise the profits, both in war time and in
peace, which motivate munkion maker* to lobby
for higher "
get to see the play and think it is
“taps’’ why cannot the large ma
jority of the nation get to see it
that way t..o
All in all, in spite of the good
acting jobs turned in by Priscilla
Laie, Jeffrew Lynn, and Fay Bamt-
er. Granny May Robson comes
through with the best job of all
with her efforts to give the young
couple the right to live their Iitm
like they want Vo. Of course you
can’t overlook Roland Young as
the chief source of laughs. A worth
while picture.
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mass to stop the two but “Granny"
has other ide.
their weekead in pei
Some idea of the
m the two have
strictneM of
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