Show I n oLL LL about Magazine Solicitors TEXAS What What HOUSTON H has become of all the struggling struggling struggling gling collegians ranging in age up to five fifty-five who used to so so- solicit solicit solicit licit magazine subscriptions so they could spend another se se- semester semester semester at dear old We counted that day lost whose low descending sun didn't find us signing on the dot dot- dotted dotted ted line And some some- sometimes sometimes times we ve got the wrong magazines and sometimes we didn't get any mag mag- magazines magazines magazines at all and r ronce once in in awhile we got the magazines wed we'd ordered and then didn't like them But our consola consola- consolation consolation consolation tion was that wed we'd Irvin rvin s S. S Cobb aided all those ear ear- earnest earnest nest undergraduates to complete the education for which they panted as the hart after the water- water brook Can it be that fhe he gallant army packed the campuses until vast numbers got crushed in the jam Or is it that many of them are getting too old to travel around Lately there has been an unaccountable unaccountable unaccountable able falling ofT in the business We Weare Weare Weare are bearing up bravely since now we have more time in in which to lead our own lives P. P S. S S.-I S. I have on hand a complete file for 1935 of the Northwestern Bee Raiser which I would like to trade for a ukulele Matriarchy's Approach SOME inspired philosopher philosopher and and not a woman either either declares declares that within a century women will dominate every imaginable field of human endeavor What do you mean within a cen cen- century century tury If the prophet will leave out the ancient science of growing chin chin- whiskers and the knack of making a sleeping car washroom look like a hurrahs hurrah's nest Im I'm saying that wom wom- women women en are already away out in front everywhere Since Henry the Eighth the two greatest kings England had were both queens queens Elizabeth Elizabeth and Victo Victo- ria Men thought up war and im im- improved improved proved the art of war and now are hoping to perfect it to the point of exterminating the species but in the midst of bloody that Florence Nightingale laid the foundations and Clara Barton built the structure of mercy by method and saving life-saving by skill and tender tender- tenderness tenderness ness and sanitation Take this country at the present moment for energy for readiness of speech for range of interest for versatility in making publicity and incidentally acquiring it for endur endur- endurance endurance endurance ance under strain what man amongst us is to be compared with the first lady of the language Mrs Franklin D. D Roosevelt 0 Banishing Sectionalism C ON O N ONE stretch of road down here here and and it is not a main trav highway and this not exactly the tourist season season season-I I saw cars bear bear- bearing bearing ing license tags of nine nine separate states ranging from New Hamp Hamp- Hampshire Hampshire Hampshire shire and Florida to Utah and Oregon Ore Ore- Oregon Oregon gon besides one from Hawaii and andone andone andone one from Puerto Rico And next summer Texas cars will be boring into every corner of this Union and the folks riding in them will be begetting begetting begetting getting acquainted with their fellow fellow- countrymen and finding out that you know the other fellow hes he's not so different after all Like most evil things sectional sectional- sectionalism sectionalism ism and parochial prejudices and with Vermont neighbor to Virginia and the Dakotas talking it over with the Carolinas theres there's seed being which inevitably must sprout a finer yield of Americanism than any our land ever produced produced-if if only we keep the tares of communism and the chair chaff of snobbery out of the crop only make patriotic service a thing of grease elbow grease and not of movements lip What price then the wearers of the black shirts and the white sheets the parlor pinks the yellow internationalists and the red flag wavers wavers' wavers Freedom of the Press Iress DICTATORS D P invariably cancel freedom Creed om of oC the press and curb freedom of education Otherwise they fail Although he uttered the words over years ago Governor Berke Berke- Berkeley Berkeley ley Icy of Virginia spoke c for all the breed of political poli cal tyrants when he said said- saidI I thank God there are no free schools nor printing for Cor learn learn- learning learning ing has brought disobedience and heresy into the world and printing punting has divulged them Foulness in drama rama or literature like a skunk penned under a barrel eventually destroys itself by just naturally choking to death on its own smell Control of the newest medium of publicity the radio is easy But information put in type keeps on traveling No people ever stayed free once the press press and and the school school- schoolteacher schoolteacher schoolteacher teacher teacher- had been muzzled nt VIN S. 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