Show I Prevailing Opinions V I Comment of the American Press J V College Competition In this country according to the World Almanac there are institutions of higher learning some of them founded in the colonial or later pioneering days It was once said that their numbers numbers numbers num num- bers increased over 50 a decade now the rate of growth Is de de- de creasing The Carnegie Foundation Foundation Foundation tion which has issued its annual report on things educational be believes believes believes be- be that this decrease is en en- In the report President Jessop describes the typical college as one employing publicity agents and recruiting its alumni that it jt may gather in the largest number number number num num- ber of tuition paying students We Ve have recruiting agents he says alluring literature and perfected perfected perfected per per- up follow systems There may be two sides to the question If It pressure high-pressure salesmanship sales sales- manship succeeds In giving an education to one who may have been Indifferent toward more modest appeals can it be said that large harm is done The report would have haveit it that the colleges colleges col cal leges have gone In for the ballyhoo ballyhoo bally hoo They seek great athletes for the publicity which results and more than all else they hope for large enrollments of students who may pay their tuition fees The educator convinced that the paths of learning lead toward largest success and happiness may have sound reasons to jus jus- efforts to enlist larger numbers num num- bers hers of young Americans for college college col col- col- col l lege c careers It tt t is when the ballyhoo ballyhoo ballyhoo bally bally- hoo attracts men and women in inno inno inno no way fitted for the experience that a public is called upon to pay the costs The The Oakland Tribune Knitting the Americas It would be hard to imagine a amore amore amore more dramatic demonstration of how close in point of time the peoples of the Americas have been drawn by the magic of wings than the flight completed recently recent recent- ly at Buenos Aires by six giant B 17 planes of the army air corps Landing but once to draw a fiery breath of fuel at Lima Peru five of the squadron in command of Lieutenant Colonel Robert Olds completed the journey of miles from Miami to the Argentine Argentine Argentine Argen Argen- tine capital in less than 36 hours Yet these were no racing planes aiming at records but among the largest aircraft in the world spreading their majestic wings feet and weighing fully loaded loaded loaded load load- ed some 20 tons apiece Four great engines give each craft more than horsepower Land planes they yet made light of the thelong thelong thelong long water over-water stretch of the first leg southward and then de despite despite despite de- de spite their heavy loads of gasoline gasoline gasoline gaso gaso- line easily got off in the thin air of one of the worlds world's high airports airports airports air air- ports at Lima to soar majestically above the Andean snows Again the proponents of big air air- craft have been justified Again we have had an object lesson in what soon is to come when craft incredibly large to be air borne will mock at distance across oceans and the land It Is plain that the giants of the general headquarters air force would be dire weapons for war but their magnificent flight to South America America Amer Amer- ica lea holds far more important implications implications implications im im- im- im for peace The peace The New NewYork NewYork NewYork York Times Eighty Years Ago I 1 have no confidence at all In dictators I think that with a parliament parliament parliament par par- one can do many things Impossible for an absolute power A 13 years' years experience has convinced convinced convinced con con- vinced me that a e. faithful and active active active ac ac- ac- ac tive minister who has nothing to fear from parliamentary disclosure disclosure disclosure dis dis- dis- dis closure and who is not of a disposition disposition disposition dis dis- dis- dis position to be intimidated by party violence has all to gain from parliamentary contests I have never felt myself so powerless powerless powerless power power- less as when parliament was closed Moreover I cannot betray tray my beginnings or renounce my lifelong principles I am a son of Liberty I owe all that I am to her These would be dangerous words today in Italy They were spoken by Camillo Cavour founder found found- er of united Italy The The San Francisco Francisco Fran Fran- cisco Chronicle |