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EDITORIAL COMMENT_
THE LEGIONNAIRES AT DETROIT.
(From the M. C. Advocate)
By WILLIAM PHELPS.'
Detroit has been for a whole week in the throes
of entertaining the American Legion. The cold fact
is that we have really been entertaining five legions.
First of all, there were the honest-to-goodness
Legionnaires who really fought for their country and
then went back to lives of usefulness and service and
got started on the patriotism of peace. No pen will
ever record all the fide episodes of the meeting.
There were reunions, little and big, meeting of old
friends, fellowships of the highest order. It was
quite a sight to see the men with their families
pouring into Detroit. We had no trouble with the
men who brought their families to Detroit. There
were plenty of fine things that the big crowd did
not see.
Then there were the Legionnaires of the baser
sort, made still rougher by the war, releasing for the
week their coarser selves and taking.off the lids from:
their lives. They showed their real natures by their
"fun," insulting girls, playing crude jokes on women,
knocking at the doors of hotel rooms and demanding
admission, throwing things at folks, playing 'craps in
hotel lobbies, having what they called a good time.
The Detroit Times reporter put a lot into one
brief item: "See that man over there," a service man
remarked to a pal about a celebrant who had fallen
by the wayside, "one more convention will wipe him
off the map." This writer saw more drunks in eleven
hours than he has seen in eleven years in Detroit.
Knowing what was coming, the wise and wary
ones prepared for the worst. Some stores boarded up
their windows and some of the hotels stripped their
lobbies of all furniture and pictures, and even their
chandeliers were taken down, ready for the rough-
house on a big scale. One big merchant warned his
clerks against crossing the Legionnaires, instructing
them to put up even with their freshness or worse,
almost anything to save the store against arousing
ill will. The city also took precautions to keep the
roofs of poorer buildingp free from crowds, fearing'
possible collapse of frail' buildings.
The, possible collapse of morals did not seem to
bother many people. Having had five legions here
for a week, we now understand better the cost of
war.
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NO SUBSTITUTE FOR COLLEGE
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Alfred Stresen-Reuter -
William Thal
G. R. Winters
Charles Woolner
Brackley Shaw
Ford Spikerman
Parker Snyder
Cile Miller
Elsie Feldman
Eileen Blunt
Eleanor Rairdon
Martha Littleton
Prudence Foster
TED mRPLL
BACK-TALK FROM
COEDS AFTER
BEAUTY QUIZ
Gee whiz, it seems that we never
can get rid of the beauty business.
Sometimes we think that maybe
we put our foot into more than
we can chew. Today we got a let-
ter from a coed. Now it isn't that
wd don't like to get letters from
ladies because we do; oh sure, we
love it, but this particular letter-
well, perhaps we'd better print it
and show you what we mean.
Dear Smiley,
I read all those things that
you printed about what the
freshmen think of the girls on
the campus and I think you
are simply horrid. Why don't
you give the girls a chance and
ask them what they think of
the boys. That would give the
women an opportunity to get
even. I dare you, Mr. Smiley.
An In dignant Coed
I guess you can see now what
we meant when we said those
things about the letter. We of
course understand that it is only
fair that the females be given a
chance to vent their recriminations
but to tell the truth we are a lot
braver on a typewriter than we are
on the campus asking questions,
expecially of women. We find it
Very hard to approach, accost, and
interrogate women whom we have
never before seen. Even if we got
so far as to ask a girl a question
we would fidget around and blush
like anything and we wouldn't be
able to remember a single thing
she said, and as for asking her
name and address-Gee whiz, we
are blushing and fidgeting already.
And another thing-it is beyond
our powers of discernment to dis-
tinguish between a Freshman wo-
man and an upperclass woman.
However, despite the fact that we
are scared to death, we have de-
cided that it is only right that the
women be given their oportunity.
In the very near future this column
will be devoted to interviews with
women. We hope it will shed some
light on Campus Beauty; at any
rate we will get to know some aw-
ful swell people we betcha.
.This is How We Feel When We
Interview Women
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NIGHT EDITOR-J. CULLEN KENNEDY
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1931
. I
(Purdue Exponent)
Cover9S.
ances- in 1932,
In spite of the business depression, unemploy-
ment, industrial crises, and other related troubles,
chances for President Hoover in 1932 are any-
thing but bad. Mr. Coolidge's outspoken support
in the recent issue of a prominent magazine cleared
away what doubt there might have been as to the
Republican nomination, and the G.O.P. organiza-
tion could not do much better-than nominate the
present imcumbent. And such has always been
their policy.
The claim that Hoover will lose many Southern
votes, which he received in 1928, can in part be,
offset by the reapportionment of representatives,
thus giving several states more votes. Michigan,
for one, gains four more votes in the electoral col-
lege, while California gains seven. These two
states have always gone G.O.P., both good and
lean years, and there seems to be no good reason
why they should not do the same this next elec-
tion. On the other hand, most of the states which
will lose votes in the electoral college are those
which will probably switch back to the Democratic
standard next November. So the Hoover cam-
paign will not lose as many votes in this manner
as was at first expected.
From the Republican side, further, while the
benefits of the international debt moratorium may
still be debatable, he undoubtedly strengthened
his position considerably by this move. To those
who say he has done nothing to aid unemploy-
ment, his defenders answer that neither have the
Democrats. Their coalition with the independent
Republicans certainly gave them a majority in the
last Congress, yet they failed to accomplish any-
Speaking recently before a group of Kansas fresh-
men, Chancellor Lindley of the University of Kansas
stated: "There is no substitute for college. Men of
great intellectual power have tried to find substitutes
for a college education, but they have failgd." He
explained further that there are two types of stu-
dents who go to college; first, the prudent type that
goes because it is the right thing to do. This type
comes to school because it wants the social prestige
of a college. Second, there is the ambitious type, the
type that always seeks to forge ahead, the type that
wants to learn about the activities of the world, to
become a citizen of the world and to make the world'
better for its having lived in it'
The Kansas Chancellor placed special emphasis'
on the value of a college education when he said,
there was no substitute for it. It is true that there
are men and women all around us who have forged
ahead to positions of responsibility and leadership
with no college education, but who can tell what
their limits may have been had they had the ad-
vantages of a college education on top of their
natural talents?
Of still greater significance is his division of col-
lege students into the two above groups. This division
holds true for not only the University of Kansas,
but for every institution of higher learning in the
country, particularly co-educational institutions.
There is always a group of men and women who
attend college merely because it is the proper thing3
to do. Their social prestige at home would be seri-
ously menaced if schooling ceased at the close of
high school days. This type of students generally
keeps its desire to broaden its educational horizon
but because that requirement must be met if it is to
continue in the university. This type of students is
not fooling its college or university half as much
as itself.
On the other hand is the ambitious type, the men
and women who come to college because they seek
to forge ahead, to better prepare themselvs for the
field of service they may enter after they have been
graduated. This is the type of students that really'
makes a university. Its members are the life'of both
academic and activity work. They have a definite
goal ahead of them, a unified' four-year plan of
education with a purpose back of it.
There may be in some minds a bit of doubt con-
cerning the non-existence of a substitute for four
years at college. Possibly a dozen years, more or less,
of experience in some particular lines of activity have
a value equal to or greater than our four years at
college. Be that as it may, there can be little doubt
concerning the future prospects of the two types of
students discussed above. The former, which seeks
social prestige, lives for today only; it lacks the vision
and foresight which will be largely responsible for
the advancement and success to be attained by that
latter type of students which has the ambition and
the desire to forge ahead, to prepare as best they
can for life's battles. 41
And there is
we would like
something else that
to have understood
In short, the Republican party has only to
tand pat as far as issues are concerned. Although
he next Congress may possibly make or break it,
t has been far more dangerous as regards the
)emocrats. A false step on the part of the latter
vill cause any vestige of hope for 1932 to fade as
uickly as it ever came. No one can tell for sure
ret who will control the Congress. And it will be
nuch more dangerous to the Democrats if they
hemselves control the Congress, than it will be
o the Republicans if they control it. No matter
vhat happens, the former must be extremely cau-
ious. And caution brings delay, something which
hie public will not stand for at this time.
Having surmounted the'obstacles of the Con-
ress, however, the Democrats will have to cope
rith the problem of selecting a nominee. Roose-
elt and Smith, both NeW Yorkers and alleged
rets, will alienate part of the Southern vote.
.oosevelt, with all his talk about the power ques-
on, will never be able to make an issue on a
Libject of whether or not the individual can save
3 a year on his electric light bill. His rather lib-
ral tendencies lately have caused no small alarm
> business men of the country. Neither Owen
'oung nor Newton D. Baker will be acceptable
> the more liberal west, particularly in the smaller
:ates. They represent too conservative interests.
oo litle is known about Governor Ritehie ihe
around this campus. There are
several idle persons who are bruit-
ing about certain stories about the
integrity of the Editor. They don't
believe that we really rode a bycy-
cle up and down the front steps of
Angell Hall. All we can say is that
if those silly people would think
for a few consecutive moments
they would realize that we only
rode up and down one step at a
time, and if you think that that's
an easy thing to do just try it. We
did something else that was a lot
harder, too. We rode around in a
circle on those big blocks of gran-
ite on each side of the front steps.
You might try to do that, you scof-
fers.
* * *
Here is something to look for-
ward to. Our benevolent Uni-
versity has installed the most
powerful- reproducing 1ou d-
speaker in the whole city as
standard equipment for the
football stadium. They were
trying it out yesterday while
we were out on the University
Golf course trying to break 125.
They started playing "When
the Organ Plays at Sundown"
when we were on the second
hole, and by the time we had
gotten into the trap on the
fifth they had shifted to "The
Alpine Milkman." We are spec-
ulating about the selections to
be played this afternoon at the
double-header.
NEW HUMOR TREND INDICATED
IN COACH K?KE'S SPEECH
In his speech at the Freshman
banquet Thursday night Coach
Harry Kipke told this anecdote:
There were two varsity football
men out fishing and they were
catching just pecks of fish but they
had to go in to football practice.
They naturally didn't want to for-
get the spot where they had got-
ton so many fish so they sought to
designate the place for future ref-
erence. One cut a notch in the
side of the boat. "Why you old sil-
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Now
nounce
and let
there is a great discussion over how to pro-
"Eugenie." Why not just call it a little lid,
it go at that?-Detroit Free Press.
CAN U OIPXNION
To The Editor:
If you have any more to say about the American
Legion Convention, will you also print the enclosed
clipping beside it so people will know how much
value to attach to your criticism?
KENNETH B. CARTER.
The clipping in question is nothing more than a
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