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A Loss
To The World.. ..
I T APPEARS almost useless to eulo-
gize Jane Addams. Her life was so
completely an everlasting monument that any-
thing further to be said must, of necessity, seem
pale and superfluous.
Beginning with the study of civics in the grades,
Jane Addams was a familiar figure to American
students. Her name, inextricably bound with Hull
House, has always stood as a symbol of super-
human accomplishment in the field of sociology.
Second only to her work among Chicago immi-
grants, stands the record of her efforts against
war. Jane Addams was no mere peacetime paci-
fist, but when nations were actually fighting, she
clung to her ideal and struggled against world
opinion. Nor were war and poverty her only en-
emies, racial and religious antipathies, child labor,
political corruption, and sex inequality all felt
the influence of her unremittent opposition.
One fortunate aspect of Jane Addams' work
was the recognition that came during her lifetime.
She was the recipient of the Nobel peace prize,
ten honorary degrees, the M. Carey Thomas prize,
and numerous' other awards. It is doubtful, how-
ever, if these, or any award could adequately repay
her. Probably Jane Addams did not wish to be
repaid, and we can only hope that the satisfac-
tion she received in surveying her accomplish-
ments, equalled, in a measure, her untiring efforts.
Theodore Roosevelt once called her "Chicago's
most useful citizen." Mankind may remember
Jane Addams as the world's most useful citizen
during her own period.
This Matter
Of Liberalism. .
AN ISSUE that raised its head at
Aith Spring Parley made its appear-
ance again Monday night.
Liberalism -is the term more than an empty
jingle?
Preston W. Slosson, first at the Parley and then
again in the debate with William Weinstone; com-
munist, sees it as the saving grace of a rational
social consciousness.
Liberalism, he declared, is the right to freedom
sor Slosson rather than with those of his com-
munist opponent.
However, the bugle call of reason appeared not
to survive the rational examination. What is the
]iberal man's viewpoint in facing our present diffi-
culties, we wondered.
Well, liberals have no plan. A liberal man
should experiment with different forms of govern-
ment and take from each its best qualities. He
should be restrained by a general feeling of passive
"watchful waiting" while natural forces permit
evlution - painless and certain - to bring us into
an adjusted economic order.
Neither of these attitudes is substantial. They
are, as Professor SiAsson's opponent put it, "plan-
less plans," and are not justifiable ways of facing
our economic dilemma.
The laissez faire excuse for inactivity (it was
called, at the Parley, "arinchair liberalism") no
longer can be accepted after rational examina-
tion. The exigencies of the situation are such that
they require the active agency of every element
in every government.
And the idea of experimentation, the scientific
attitude, is attractive, but lacks plausibility. The
New Deal might be mentioned as just such an ex-
periment. Found underlying much of its actions
are basic philosophies at extreme variance with
one another. "All that is necessary," the liberal
might say, "is to observe whether those functions
motivated by one philosophy are more successful
than those of another and to act accordingly."
But it doesn't work. Nowhere, in the New Deal
or in any other experimental society, can con-
ditions obtain where predictability of reasonable
certainty is offered. Adjustment for changing con-
ditions and.failure of experiments to operate in the
pure agar uninfluenced by factors not taken into
account makes for uncertainty.
Liberalism as a political doctrine can mean no
more than an appeal for a tolerant consideration
of other more substantial doctrines. It does not
in itself constitute an attitude.
This argument does, it is true, leave the problem
essentially unchanged from that of the conclusions
arrived at in the Parley sessions. Something more
tenable than Professor Slosson's belief is called for,
and yet we do not feel that rejection of his argu-
ment constitutes an acceptance of the point of
view of his opponent.
The Future
Of Airplanes...
N RUSSIA the Maxim Gorky,
world's largest land plane, crashes
with an escorting ship, breaks up, and 49 per-
sons are killed. In America there have been two
serious passenger plane crashes within the last
month. Incidents such as these naturally give
rise to the question of whether or not the future
of flying is as unlimited as the rapid progress
made in the last decade would seem to indi-
cate.
Optimistic inventors predict a flivver plane inr
every garage, and pessimistic commentators on
world affairs warn of the great danger of attack
from across the seas by great fleets of hostilel
planes. At the other extreme, are the die-hards,t
who predict that the airplane will never be of any
great commercial or military value. As far as they
are concerned, man's flying future is very dark.
It is probable that both extremes are wrong, and
that the airplanes will never be much more pop-
ular, or of any more commercial or military value
than they are now.
One factor that precludes the possibility of every
man being his own pilot is the intricacy and
danger of flying as compared with the driving of
an automobile. The ordinary driver has a few
slight accidents over a period of years - in the
air there is rarely a second accident. Only skill-
ful, well-trained experts can pilot planes now -
even then not too safely - and there is little
chance of this condition ever changing.
It is tempting to point to the rapid development
of land transportation and then predict the same
evolution for the air, but they are too different to
be compared.
The airplane will never become a thing for the
masses, there will never be one in every garage,
nor will there be any great menace of them cross-
ing the Atlantic or Pacific oceans to attack the
United States or any other country. As it is today
used for travelers who are in a hurry, for carry-
ing perishable cargoes, and for use as an agent
ofv local military power, so will the airplane be
used in the future. Perhaps these activities will
be on a slightly larger scale, but basically they
will remain unchanged.
Is ~Others SeeItj
Transition
(From the Cornell Daily Sun)
APPARENTLY many colleges have realized the
great problem of transition guidance for en-
tering high school pupils for universities through-
out the nation have been testing different plans
which seek to aid the secondary school graduate to
orient himself in college. Most of the schemes
operate along the lines of the Cornell DayWeek-
end or where the college is located in or within
a reasonable distance of a large city the pre-admis-
sions program.
Hunter College has met with considerable suc-
cess in conducting a pre-admissions program
which entails two or three visits to the college
by students who wish to enter Hunter College
and have a better than average chance to be ad-
mitted. The visits comprise attendance at a mass
meeting, conferences for individuals or for small
groups between the prospective freshman and a
representative of the department in which she
intends to major, and also contact with a Bureau
of Educational Guidance.
. According to a reiort of the Bureau of Educa-
tion Guidance at Hunter, the effect of the pre-
admission program has been to decrease the per-
COLLEGIlATE
OB.SERVER
By BUD BERNARD
"Dear Bud," writes L.F.M., '38, "hope you
can find a place for the rhyme below in your
column."
FOOLED
Oh we were just platonic friends,
Or so at first I thought.
He called me always "little pal,"
And all that tommyrot.
He dated not another girl,
Took me to all the dances,
And not a once in all our dates
Did he make any advances.
Now vacation's drawing near,
And as the school ycaar ends
I hate to say -but oh I must,
We're parting just platonic friends.
Hearst Metrotone News took another slap in the
face recently when the operator of a theater on the
Princeton campus yielded to ,popular demands
and stopped showing, according to the Cornell
Daily Sun, jingo newsreels.
This third coup of the anti-Hearst campaign,
the Cornell publication says, which puts the
Orange and Black in a fighting class with Williams
and Amherst Colleges, leaves the liberal elements
rubbing their hands. From behind their strong-
holds in Williamstown, Amherst and Princeton,
the Cornell Sun says various student leagues are
issuing encouragement to the allies. They pro-
phesy an early downfall of the enemy, the paper
says, and paint the rosy picture of a future minus
Hearst newsreels. If results mean anything, the
publication concludes, we must certainly agree
that they have gotten the propagandist with his
tail behind his legs.
Heres a little object lesson for administra-
tive officials.
Not long ago, Morrie Ryskind, together with
three other authors of "Of Thee I Sing," re-
ceived the Pulitzer prize award from the hands
of Nicholas Murray Butler of Columia Univer-
sity.
This gave him the biggest pleasure, because
some years ago, he was forced rather abruptly
to sever his connections with the aforemen-
tioned university when, as a student editor,
he ran a caption thusly:
NICHOLAS MURRAY, BUTLER
This happened at one of the fraternity houses
at the Indiana University, at least the columnist of
the Ohio State Lantern vouches for the truthful-
ness of the story.
The young fellow dashed into the house, peeled
off his clothes, sprinted into the shower, rubbed
himself vigorously, and dressed with meticulous
care. For 15 minutes he perfected his appearance
before his mirror. Then he sat down and twirled
his thumbs until 8:30 when he rushed into the
phone booth and called his girl friend long dis-
tance.
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A Washington
BYSTANDER
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By KIRKE SIMPSON
WASHINGTON, May 22.
MAGAZINE PUBLICATION of a ground floor
diagram of the new White House executive
office some time ago put Secret Service teeth on
edge. The publishers heard about it from head-
quarters and it's a reasonable guess that some got
called on the carpet for letting the plan leak.
The only "news" in it was the pointing out of
means of secret exit of secret presidential visitors.
As a matter of fact, there are probably a dozen
different ways in which visitors could be ushered
in or out of the presidential office without any-
one excepttheWhite House staff knowing about it,
and there always have been.
THE LOCATION of the press room, where re-
porters on the White House assignment hold
forth, just inside the main door of the office build-
ing originally was a concession to the conven-
ience of visitors. By and large, the majority of
presidential callers in business hours would rather
miss seeing the President than the reporters.
That executive office lobby is about the best po-
litical publicity sounding board in the country.
Everyone in Congress knows it. Whenever a sen-
ator or representative has an idea, legislative of
not, that looms to him as having personal political
value about it, he is almost certain to make a date
at the White House. Maybe he talks only weather
with the President; but he talks publicity turkey
with the reporters when he comes out.
It is only when the idea gets about in Congress
that a President's popularity is waning in the coun-
try that his congressional calling list falls off. The
White House reporters began reading portents of
what was to happen in 1932 many months before
election, by that sign.
THERE SEEMS to be some mystery about just
who laid out the plans of the new White House
offices anyhow. It was a hurry-up job. There
are so many passages and corridors and doors
all about that even the messengers had difficulty
learning their way about.
Architectural fancy seems to have dictated some
arrangements. There is one secretarial ante-room,
for instance, with two big doors, within a yard or
so of each other, both opening into the same room.
The idea may have been to afford the staff oppor-
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