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As A Man Thinketh...
m th * bUrm, trying
Un*t d iJS7* thl, ! f Av 0r othtr Und ^ rmdio
iirl Deddling *t«th<*copeg); “seven out of
ten Hollywood sUrs” drink or smoke or wash
their'faces with such-and-such; '•‘your den-
Sj n 3f* Jj* 1001 ” < w « ours, and he
jaani). When is most? Seven out of ten
but how were
consulted, and who determines what a Holly
wood star is? Don’t doctors ever raise a
"**, in prots* against the calculated ex
ploitation of an entire profession? Are.
they always going to take it, like their pa
tents, lying down? ^ ^
Oh people say tolerantly (precise propor
tion of people not available, but too big),
you have to expect that sort of thin* in a
radio commercial—you’ve read “The Huck-
•ters, haven’t you? Oh, yes, “everybody”
■“ r ®» d The Hucksters.” Wasn’t that the
book in which Mr. Wakeman planted a land
mine which he carefully ticketed “Soap Op
era and then tripped over it?
... “V, 1 J*° we have to expect “that sort of
2f n * » reporter? “It is considered
significant —who considers It significant
y ' v 1 ! I
too often—the interviewee yielded to the glo
rious opportunity to become a spokesman, an
interpreter, a know-it-all, ahd hal th7coi
plete, pat answer to what “the soldiers
thought” InvarisWy, of course, he rfmply
told what ttB thought. He had taken his
opinions with him, and he had brought them
back again.
■The Army, rightly or wrongly, prohibited
actual soldier polls by outsiders—probably
nghtly, if only for the reason that other
wise there would have been more voting than
fighting. Iirtl—NHy, the Army did some
highly worth-while polling on Its own ac
count, and for its own information, the re
sults of which were not made public Why
not let them out now? In those figures only
is there any accurate indication of what sol
diers really thought. They thought, all right
It seems equally bad reporting, to ap
proximately 7S.4 or so of us, to quote three
or four individuals (Including full names and
Jddreases) with the implication that as John
Doe thinks, so thinks the country, or the
South, or an entire labor union.
-Ayl one should not uncrs-enthw. one
should Ignore—the speaker who has the <
cer who has
audiences—
■ wig agree w
or 'The American busir*
- , —* r'"'—— ——-essinw etiivs n/BVVaYUM, A “ “
•A"*' w “‘ of it. both sUtistteaUy
id polltleallyT' Washington seems to ha-
u •nxwsy. Htrs'l hop.
**t» It. The city of Washington is
r— —~ aiiwiTTOI. Ul ( wasn
•wms to believe”—does that mean the
population, plus Bethesda and Hyattoville,
or, if not, what —‘ - ** " * * ■ * "
and
mede up, among others, of natives of the
lumfia/ ,UU- * nd 0t th# Diitr,ct ot ^
This sort of “meet of’ and “believes"
futsineas reached en apothesls of ineptitude
during the war. Every returning entertainer
or correspondent or member of Congress or
whatnot was asked whet “the soldiers
thought” about every conceivable subject
The honest answer, of course, would heve
been: “1 don’t know,.
t talked at moat with a few hundred out
of eeverel million men, and that subject did-
n t come up to any greet extent. There were
too many other things for the soldiers to
worry about (I didn’t have to worry about
them so much myself), such as whether the
next meal would be cold or hot or the chances
of keeping on living.” But too often—far
‘Great Issues’ at A. & M.?...
tnat moet of my listei _
too we?l A meric * n bu **n«sa'man appreciates
, Tb * rt n m ?y h® nothing particularly inaid-
»ous in all this. And again there may be.
The average intelligent listener or reader,
one hopes (or do we statistically presume?),
discounting, tnd does discount.
mor# ll fbl f ran t numerical attribu-
tions and genersllsatlons. Many of the gen-
•rallgations are the product of sheer lasinMs
M much physical as intellectual. It is so
much easier to writo a think-piece, eo much
■impler to Interpret “local opinion,” or to
lean back on dat ole d«*bbll Consensus with
out putting onself to sll the hSTwk Jf
rounding up substantial and provable facta
U V§ S&L undet,r
mined) to blame. Time was when a reporter
had to use his feet as well es his head: too
often today the mimeograph machine makes
it unneoeeaery for him to overexert either
Everyone has a right to his own opinions
—end e right to no one elec's.
—Saturday Review of Literature.
This fall Dartmouth College will launch
what is perhaps the moet promising of many
courses instituted in college* and universities
throughout thq country since the end of the
war. Known as the “Great Issues" course.
It is eunply an analysis of contemporary na
tional and international problems.
aw ^ P roc * dur * to be used in presenting
the study is simple and easily adaptable to
any school in the United States. The three-
hour course is divided into three logical
steps:
First, the class is briefed on the problem
for discussion by k qualified member of the
faculty. This will take one hour
Second, a prominent guest of the week
will lecture on the subject selected by the
members of the faculty in charge of the
course.
Third, s one-hour “Soeratk Dialogue” will
be led by the president of the college. Dr.
John Sloan Dickey. Students will tear apart
the caee presented by the speaker of the
previous period, who will be present during
the discussion. It will be debated, discussed,
and digested by Dartmouth seniors.
Textbooks will be replaced by copies of
The New Jfork Times” or the New York
Herald Tribune.” All students will supple-
ment their lectures and discussion through
journals and periodicals devoted to contro-
vtrsial matters. "Harper’s”, “The Atlantic”.
‘Tortign Affairs”, and the ”8aturd» y Re!
view of Literature” will provide the back
ground material necessary for receiving full
btnam from the course.' A separata comer
In the Dartmouth Library has been set aside
for section meetings and individual confer-
Mjgy In this room will contain
clippings fi«l newspapers and periodicals
all oyer the nation showing various editorial
opinions from all sections of the country.
The eeuree “Great Issues" fctoheve-
quired ef ALL Dartmeuth eeutar aTaSwlI f
Dr. Dickey feels that three objectives will
be fulfilled in a study of this typ. s,if
learning Is evident as a primary akm , public-
minded ness, which ties in with the former
is presented as a second major objective!
last serves to present to the student the
m!l er i CI !U 1CU i* J of Dartm °uth—to allow a
liberal arts student an insight on the engi
neering student, and vice-versa.
A question which! taMsediately arises
! n w^ mind8 MWh y A. & M. es-
U ”S l Jf cour *« similar to that at Dart
mouth ?
An understanding of vital question of
the day is a matter of concern to all stu-
denta. En^inasrs, agriculturists, libera] arts
** awakened from their
coewm °f HMhffcrenc* and “do-no-wrong"
attitude There is a definite place on this
campus for a similar program.
a f i A ‘ & M muMi duvota
attention, indulgence, and cooperation
The college itself owes its students and fac
ulty the right to develop ideas, irf—i. a nd
ti^v on ^i l<d ;w thinkl, ^ itM hi3!
time that we al awoke to those two facta.
New Mr"” W,M * tUmPt todofor
No Bargain, Thin:
cam# to town. The ad follows:
' j-"- 1 FlTmJ
msnding that we charge T5# matinee and
Wa have shown as good and
betUr picture «w Mj. end (to not twtlm*
thU pietuiw to be worth tho »bov. Kale How-
is as largo as seemi
11-20 to sae all good Kn . k
In other words wo don’t
stay home.”
•t this scale
you win pay
in the future,
you If you
—TIDE
The Battalion
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gootn
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AetMtke Office
Possible GI
Buying Spree
■T A. D. Brees, h.
Yetaraas 1
b* lx.o.tr.,1
Ceag-
not duA until five pan at%or thair
Ibsm data For tho NujoHty, tho
maturity dote
win ho hi 1M1
Thooo hoods
•▼orago about
IC00 oaeh and
if all votorans
toko cash for
thorn, a sooreo
of two billion
must ba found.
Sorao dollars
can coma out
at cash o a
hand; others
Bnwo would hare to
borrowedL Neither tho budget
tae national debt win bo groat.
Jy aOsetad because funds for them
bauo been included in national-debt
to»ln and in budget calculations.
Some of the possible effects of
eataing-in those bonds might bo:
. JO 3KHV1 AS A CATALYTIC
AGENT TO INFLATION. Voto-
rano will probably use this new
po^iy power to bid for ocareo
%£ srzzs
RISE
IN THE SALES OF NON-DUR-
ABLE CONSUMERS GOODS.
Many votaraao art just beginning
to establish and equip house holds
imme^uraS? ^ ^ ^
-.TO-Arg HTTLE affect
ON COSTLY DURABLE GOODS
Individual payments will hs small,
therefore purchase# of aatomobUee,
washing ■“tMnts. ref '
and tho like will net bo
to any extent.
the tmasumr might
■AVI HOME MOnW* saa lor
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Freedom Train To
Begin Year Tour
Of U. S. in Sept
1
^ Tr *‘*" •ponaorod
tha Department of Justice to
'PfcF *• tko American public
"-iHlreds of hleotortc documents,
will begin Its year long tour of
the United States, September 17,
fradle of American Liberty.
An will bt dtroitad to
the Bill of Rights, which wOl tarS
aa Its high point the constitutional
guarantee of freedom of the press.
On display will be historical docu-
which have figured in the
development and protaction of that
freedom through the years. Among
41 J U* Thomas Jef.
nomas
feraon^i IhMes to 'Romas Seymour
F : b l l \ 1#07 -
editorial on John Peter Zenger
Noe. 10-17, 1717, Thomas JeSer-’
sea’s letter to Edward Carrington
Jan. !«, 1787, and John Milton »
Areopagitica London, 1844.
These end many other historical
docunmata * interest will he dis
played in more than »0 American
mieg and towns in which the train
will visit during the course of the
°f the world’s greatest man-
made ehnantee - the IM-milo
FrtentJLwn Irrigation canal —
toB^fS^cIworJ^ ^
•f*^nnu!t^?*tet5!ei h F frr?»
Dam and tha EaWeah Rhrer—a dis
tance of 75 milaa.
Sir-Dong Must
Produce or Go
Sr W. ItoM, Jr.
to toep. feed him
■jr-tatei, alulatein bull With
~ Ztt r-x: 7 ’;’"-
N-w TmV to tk, -inn to
Dairy Industry during the letter
tart of June tote trSd and
proven.
There are three proved aim
on each side of hie family, his
-own sire. Sir Deagleae Rotter-
JJP^Harh 848875. being one of
L W - RutaL head of the
Department of Dairy Husband
ry. -aid that -although *76^7
hasn’t be«t officially classified
that he would guess him to be
ejigh Good Plus or a Vary Good
Sir.IfcMg M Pride Gerh-Cel
Watoeu wffl W imed on the col
lege tend, end in the artificial
insemination service being car
ried on by the college. If he is
proven, the Bureau of Dairy In-
thM likely
toko Mm back to use in taown
breeding program.
row money at a much lower inter-
£ r ^ P«- <*«» that
the G. I. bonds carry.
, T^TAYERB WILL NOT BE
SSSTtor b ~ -
It is hoped that not as many
T^tornna wiB be forced to cash
bonds because of unemployment aa
wwe In 1088. In view of the 193fi
experience It might be wise for
those who are urging the immed
tote redeemption of their terminal-
toave bends to step and consider
*T drpre.klon to
wa«M be’ aJuLl?*"
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