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Show UJpt o wvikd about Mj.sra.zine Solicitors. HOUSTON, TEX. What has become of all the struggling collegians, ranging rang-ing in age up to fifty-five, who used to solicit magazine subscriptions sub-scriptions so they could spend another semester at dear old Bushwah? We counted that day lost whose low descending sun didn't find us signing on the dotted dot-ted line. And sometimes some-times we got the wrong magazines and sometimes we didn't get any magazines mag-azines at all and once in awhile we got the magazines we'd ordered and then didn't like them. But our consola- I i , ' 1 Hon was that we'd irvin s. Cobb aided all those earnest ear-nest undergraduates to complete the education for which they panted as the hart panteth after the water-brook. water-brook. Can it be that the 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 unaccount-able falling-off in the business. We are bearing up bravely, since now we have more time in which to lead our own lives. P. S. I have on hand a complete Ale for 1935 of the Northwestern Bee Raiser which I would like to trade tor a ukulele. Matriarchy's Approach. SOME inspired philosopher and not a woman either declares that within a century women will dominate every imaginable field of human endeavor. What do you mean, within a century? cen-tury? If the prophet will leave out the ancient science of growing chin-whiskers chin-whiskers and the knack of making a sleeping car washroom look like a hurrah's, nest I'm saying that women wom-en are already away out in front everywhere. Since Henry the Eighth, the two greatest kings England had were both queens Elizabeth and Victoria. Victo-ria. Men thought up war and improved im-proved the art of war and now are hoping to perfect it to the point of exterminating the species, but 'twas in the midst of bloody warfares that Florence Nightingale laid the foundations and Clara Barton built the structure of mercy by method and life-saving by skill and tenderness tender-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, liiLiuuii miiy , cumuli n, iui cuuui- ance under strain, what man amongst us is to be compared with the first lady of the language, Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt? Banishing Sectionalism. ON ONE stretch of road down here and it is not a main-traveled highway and this not exactly the tourist season I saw cars bearing bear-ing license tags of nine separate states, ranging from New Hampshire Hamp-shire and Florida to Utah and Oregon, Ore-gon, besides one from Hawaii and 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 getting acquainted with their fellow-countrymen fellow-countrymen and finding out that, when you know the other fellow, he's not so different, after all. Like most evil things, sectionalism sectional-ism and parochial prejudices and with Vermont neighbor to Virginia and the Dokotas talking it over with the Carolinas, there's seed being sown which inevitably must sprout a finer yield of Americanism than any our land ever produced if only we keep the tares of communism and the chaff of snobbery out of the crop, only make patriotic service a thing of elbow-grease and not of lip-movements. What price, then,, the wearers of the black shirts and the white sheets; the parlor pinks, the yellow internationalists and the red flag wavers? Freedom of the Tress. DICTATORS invariably cancel freedom of the press and curb freedom of education. Otherwise, they fail. Although he uttered the words over 230 years ago. Governor Berkeley Berke-ley of Virginia spoke for all the breed of political tyrants when he said: "I thank God there are no free schools, nor printing, for learning learn-ing has brought disobedience and heresy into the world, and printing has divulged them." Foulness in drama 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 . formation put in type keeps on .raveling. No people ever stayed rce once the press and the school-eacher school-eacher had been muzzled. irtVIN S. C0'J3 Copyright. WNU Servire. |