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■Saturday Morning, June 5, 1943
77ie Battalion
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Peace — and Tomorrow’s World..
The forces which are rocking this civilization of ours
back on its heels are more fundamental than we
seem to realize as yet. The conventional alarms by
which we are urged to intensify the war effort and
go “all out for victory” are superficial to the point
of being sickly. Even the victory for which we are
urged to strive has as yet taken on no substantial
meaning. The moral force behind our effort is piti
fully weak because the standard under which we
strive is colorless.
Neither John L. Lewis nor anyone else could
lure a half million American miners into a strike
which undermined the military effort if these min
ers, whose sons are on the fighting line, were con
sciously enlisted in a crusade which gripped their
souls. Nor would the operators permit any semblance
of an occasion for a dispute over a new contract
with the miners if these operators were as absorbed
in the remaking of a world as they are in the profits
of the moment.
This Is more than a conflict between two ideol
ogies or two “ways of life.” It is not as simple as
the difference between white and black. It is not
even a case of Right struggling against Wrong, or
Good fighting Evil. Such a formula doesn't even
fool our children in spite of the over-reaching sales
manship of our national propaganda agencies. This
world is far more seriously ill than most Americans
THE BATTALION
are willing to believe for the simple reason that we
Americans are a part of the illness.
It is midnight for this civilization and there
will be no dawn, come victory or defeat, unless
white men snap out of their coma and go out and
meet the dawn with open eyes and contrite hearts.
Fascism with its brutalized cynicism threatens the
world with a long and ghastly darkness, therefore
Fascism must be once and for all rejected. So be it.
But Fascism is only one symptom of this world’s
illness. Imperialism is another. Rabid nationalism
is still another and unbridled individualism is still
another. Any one of these can throw the world into
a raging fever if permitted to dominate in the rela
tions of men and nations.
Millions of people in the forgotten areas of
this world are due for new opportunities; opportu
nities of which they would be deprived under world
Fascism and of which they are now deprived by the
domination complexes of the great democracies.
These people can be the nucleus of the next violent
explosion unless from this travail is born a new
world order based on a will to justice. Tf victory
restores the world of 1939 it will be a human trag
edy. If victory restores the world of 1914 it will be
a human tragedy. This world must have something
infinitely better than Fascism and infinitely more
hopeful than the grasping and bickering democra
cies of the pre-war period. This world must move
up to the level of brotherhood or perish.
The American productive plant may be the hope
of a military decision but it is not the hope of the
world. A nation of fighting mad Americans may
annihilate Japan but it will not save America. Un
less our people can lift themselves above the hysteria
of an international dog-fight and snatch a spiritual
victory from this conflagration, this war will some
day be recorded as the beginning of the end of a
civilization which was impaled on its own sword.
Mute millions of plain people in this world look
to this nation for leadership, not only after the war
but now. If we allow our leaders to let them down
by a return to the folly of isolationism or the stu
pidity of narrow nationalism, the night beyond vic
tory will be a long, long night.
Rollins College recently celebrated its
fifty-eighth anniversary.
“Mohawk” is the name of a new high-
quality baking potato introduced by the
Cornell university agricultural experiment
station.
“In all abundance, there is a lack."—
Hippocrates
“Blonde or brunette, this rime applies,
Happy is he who knows them not."
—Francois Villon
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School of engineering at Man
hattan college recently celebrated
its golden jubilee.
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DONA DRAKE
and Many Others,
Saturday midnight, Monday,
and Tuesday will feature Joan
Bennett and Milton Berle in
“MARGIN FOR ERROR”
“Sock-a-bye Baby”, “Wonder
of Paradise”, and Fox News
will be featured as added at
tractions.
WHAT’S SHOWING A
At the Campus: Last time
today, STAR SPANGLED
RYTHM. Midnight tonight and
running tomorrow and Mon
day, MARGIN FOR ERROR,
with Milton Berle and Joan
Bennett.
At Guion Hall: Saturday
only, THE HIDDEN HAND,
with Milton Parsons, Craig
Stevens, and Elizabeth Fraser.
Also Saturday only, LAUGH
YOUR BLUES AWAY.
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Qamtms ‘Distractions
By Ben Fortson
The midnight show tonight^ and
showing Sunday and Monday at
the Campus is MARGIN FOR
ERROR, with Joan Bennett and
Milton Berle.
The picture is based on Clare
« Booth’s successful stage play of
the same name and deals with
the idea of Mayor LaGuardia that
policemen should guard the Ger
man consulate, before the out
break of the war. Joan Bennett
portrays the wife of the German
consul and Milton Berle plays the
policeman guarding the place. Ot
to Preminger is the crooked Ger
man consul and ends up by acci
dently poisoning himself. Also
during the turn of events a Ger
man maid falls in love with the
policeman and the consul’s secre
tary, tiring of the cold-blooded
methods of his boss, joins the
American army, so you can see
it is a merry mix-up.
The picture contains plenty of
Berle’s humor and is very enter
taining.
... The Lowdown: A show everyone
should enjoy.
Saturday only at Guion Hall is
a double feature: THE HIDDEN
HAND, and LAUGH YOUR
BLUES AWAY.
THE HIDDEN HAND is about a
faked death test and nearly every
one concerned gets killed. An eld
erly woman fakes death and bur
ial to test her dreadful relatives
and during the process, five corpses
are accumulated. Milton Parsons
plays the part of an escaped crim
inal and Craig Stevens, Elizabeth
Fraser and Ruth Ford are the
other members of the cast.
This picture is not much better
than the usual run of low-grade
murders but those of you who like
that type of picture will like this
one.
The Lowdown: Just fair movie
going.
LAUGH YOUR BLUES AWAY
is a comedy musical with Jinx
Falkenburg and Burt Gordon, bet
ter known as the Mad Russian.
Sunday and Monday at Guion
Hall is LARCENCY INCORPO
RATED, with Edward G. Robinson,
Jane Wyman, and Broderick Craw
ford.
The cops and robbers are at it
again. This time, the plot is cen
tered around a bunch of ex-cons
who have bought a luggage shop
next door to a bank. The usual
amount of gangster excitement is
present with Robinson playing the
part of “Pressure” Maxwell. The
main fight is between the two
rival gangs who have both “cased”
the bank and are now trying to
beat each other to the punch. As
usual, law and order triumph in
the end.
The show is pretty good but it
doesn’t come up to the usual rat
ing of Robinson’s gangster pic
tures.
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