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PENN STATE COLLEGIAN
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THURSDAY EVENING, JANUARY 11, 1934
AN AMERICAN YOUTH MOVEMENT?
2. Student Radicalism
If it pointed out nothing else, the recent National
Conference of Students on Politics held in Washington
showed the unconscious humor and ineffectiveness in•
radical methods. The L. I. D., a student socialist group,
and the N 5. L., with communiq leanings, dominated
the conference. ',Both attempted in the face of some
apposition to secure the passage of resolutions against
the usual things; war, R. 0. T. C., racial discrimination,
and Fascism. But finally, the refusal of the N. S. L. to
make a minor compromise split the two groups and turn
ed the. last session into the hectic sight of students de
manding of an harassed chairman to be heard.
To many others at the conference, this was a fine
demonstration of the futility of radical procedure. It
gave th,, impression of much "hot air" and.little effec
tive action in the end. 'By demanding certain things,
by drawing a circle around themselves and saying, "We
are right!" the radicals unconsciously drove the neutrals
to the other end of the arena. By a sort of inbreeding
process, the radicals so fortified each other's views that
they could not conceive of any different opinions that
might be just as effective as theirs. They did not real
ize that an evolutionary procedure of cautious advance
and compromise is nee2ssary if progress is to be made
by parliamentary methods in a society composed of all
sorts of people with widely-divergent vitas. Their vin
dicative and dogmatic attitude not only tended to alien-
ate thoso whom they were trying to convince, but in
dicated that with anything less than a dictatorship they
would be ineffective in the give and take of practical
This uncompromising attitude, this unwillingness to
see some good in the other fellow's point of view, is one
of the real defects within the ranks of the radicals. The
split at the conference between two groups with essen
tially the same ends is typical of the whole radical move
ment. They don't seem to be able to agree among them
selves as to what ought to be done and how it ought to
he done. The bitter struggles between adult communist
and socialist groups are proverbial, and are reflected
in the student quarrels.
13y the very nature of their tactics, therefore, the
student radical groups are excluded from the possibility
of ever forming a united Youth Movement in this coun
try. Just what is their worth, then? They can, and do,
arouse other students to a realization of the pressing
problems confronting American students and non -college
youth. This awakening of students out of an intellec
tual sleeping-sickness is their worthiest contribution,
and should be continued.
INDIVIDUALISIVI
Dean Sackett's support of American inventiveness
with a view to profit might he questioned in the light
of what is known about inventiveness in general. The
majority of inventions in the technical field are the re
sult of research financed by large-scale industrial or
ganizations, and the reward'accruing to the inventor is
at most a royalty,,whieh doesn't compare with the fi
nancial gains madelh'y the Otployer. F",urtherinqre, do
true scientists and inVentorshvork beeaiisd:theY e'to
profits or liecause•they enjoy creating?. •
The Dean's reference to the panic of 1907 as a "dip
in business" is important. Is a depression a "dip in
business?" Able-bodied men walk the streets, bread
lines stretch nut for blocks, huts rise on city dumps,
disease spreads because hungry people dig in garbage
cans. At the same time, cotton is plowed under, wheat
is burned, and pigs are killed because of "overproduc
tion" which is based on purchasing power rather than
want.
Them is very little security in the lives of the work
ing. people. Any day they might be thrown out of work;
any day another "dip in business" might come. Dean
Sackett recalls the depression of 1893, and says, "People
advocated new systems, but as soon as industry and busi
ness revived, they soon reverted to the old state of
mind." The same thing happened after the panic of
1907. The fact that these depressions have recurred
with no attempt at changing the system causing them
is an indication of the cow-like American state of mind.
Surly when hungry, it is immediately mollified with
a crust and goes back to the trough of complacency.
The'problem of initiative resolves itself into one of
definition. Dean Sackett seems to define the term as
ccupled with tiM profit motive anti inseparable from it.
Individualism of this kind, brings subsistence living for
the masses and luxury for the few, is too costly, both
economically and socially.
There is another kind of individualism which all
people can practice. It is the cooperative individualism
which allows each to work according to his ability, with
the geniuses and specialists bringing benefits to all
rather than crushing them in their rise to the top. This
is the desirable individualism which will come about with
the alteration of the present system. It is destined to
come because it is not destructive, but constructive,
social individualism.
"Cadaver sea a corpse Walke? Well we didn't."
(That's a pretty stiff one). However, we arc told
that there are seven human carcasses lying in state
up at Roe Hall—six whites and a black, all bandaged
neatly and ready to be jugulated, gored, and butcher
ed by a bunch of heartless Phys Ed-ers.
Jninex H. W3tson Jr. '35
- Kenneth C. Hoffman '35
know you way around, for, understand, they are not
strung from the rafters for the entertainment of visit-
ing teams. First, you go clown an innumerable mini-
I r of stairs to about the sixth or seventh under-
ground level. Then you start going through doors,
five of them. As you open the fifth you gee before
you, in a weird grayish-green light, seven corpsCs, a
"choir invisible," all decked out in mummy-fashion
lying in huge sardine cans. Sometimes, if you are
very fortunate, you will ace Director Bendel: there
too, gleefully romping about and leering at you cada
verously from behind the bier of his Favorite.
Already some playful students have ken carry
ing choice chunks to the privacy of their own rooms.
One student is the proud owner of an car while still
another ; probably an aesthete, posseisis an unburied
piece of very artistic tattooing.
As a matter of fact, we have our duobts about
the whole ghastly business. Its Director Bezdek a
sadist? Why is he converting Recreation Hall into
Requi-ation Hall? Do these mortal remains, these
"tenements of clay." represent the seven cardinal
points of the New Athletic Policy, or is this food for
worms to be used to scare off a few more coaches?
If some enterprising, public-spirited co-eds do
not step forth bravely within the next twenty-four
hours and offer Pan-Hellenic dance bids to this colum
nist and to the Maniac, we promise faithfully to Pan-
Nell out of the whole affair. In the meantime, per
haps we might mention some of the more elite who
will pair off together when promenading to the bar
tomorrow night.
Females
Isabel Loveland__
---- --Bob Morini
Emily Rose Gans ----- - ,__Bob Scarlet
Hortense Ditto __.____.._Chick Poster
June Brown___., } Bob Hanawalt
Sunny Merrill__ ___Bob Gans
Ed Williams • ___ • Carl Wittum
Helen -- -- Don 'Ross
Helen Hinebauch AlWarehime
Mao West _,Satch Clark
Lydia Pinkham____. Frank Musser
Deans Sackett and Warnock discussing the Ath
letic Situation while - trespassing on Mr..Ebert's nice
grass in front of Old Main ... Recovery Note: Mac-
Farlane had his hair cut .. . Revolution Note: Doc
Dangler bought a new hat Skallions to the Watts
Hall boy who thought he'd keep his pet gold-fish from
'freezing during the Christmas holidays by putting
alcohol in the bowl . . . A bad combination. of man
dolins and guitars serenading the gals in Grange ...
What were two Grange Dorm co-eds doing in Old
Main about 2 o'clock last night? ... Academic Note:
Doc Alderfei, read a;:boelt reyiqw%of, a..'nice set of
volumes costing nine money, but
haweeP,.he.'sthinking about
. . . the review didn't say they
were written in Latin ...
h• 3 bought theni
sending theni back
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CHEESE PARINGS
THE PENN STATE COLLEGIAN
`Collegian' Letter Box
To the Editor
It is indeed:strange and sad news
to hear a Penn State Dean disregard
one of . the first principles of an ad
equate educational : philosophy. Pri
marily, education is. it Means of em
ancipating people from antiquated
customs and ideas by offering a new
and better system of thought and con
duct. Education; assumes that hu
man nature can be changed.
The age-long dictim that "human
nature being what it is, we are help
less to do anything about it" is per
ceptably bound up in the statement,
"We can never abolish American in
, dividualism." Thus, human 'nature in
America can never be motivated by
anything else than the desire for pri
vate gain. (A rather low estimate of
the human family). But what is hu
man nature?
1 Human nature is Napoleon wrest
ling for power in Europe, but it is
I also Immanuel Kant saying, "Two
things fill my soul I with awe: the
i starry heavens above and the moral
law within." Human nature is tne
mob shouting for the blood of Wil
liam Lloyd Garrison, but it is also this
same liberator who was convinced of
i the injustico of 'slavery. Human na
-1 tare is Al Capone and J. P. Morgan
(with all their dndivkmalism and mo
tivation for economic profit, but it is
i
also a Jane Adams and a. Wilfred
iGrenfell. Human nature is Samuel
!Insull seeking a-haven.in some Euro
' peen 'court which dares to receive'
him, while utilities investors stand in' ,
' American breadlines; but it, if also 1
President Roosevelt saying ; "Now that
we are definitely In the process of re
covery, lines have been drawn between
those to whom .recovery means a re
turn to the old methods—and the num
ber of these, people is small—and
those for whom recovery means a re
form of many old ways of thinking
and therefore or our social and econ
omic arrangements."
I In 1934 certainly, students need
!faith in human nature; they need edu
cators who will be willing to draw out
that side of human nature which has
heretofore been thwarted by a misin
terpretation and false application of
the philosophy of Darwin and Hux
ley. Human nature needs a chance to
express itself cooperatively.
—Roland R. Ritter '34
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To the Editor
I Dean Sackett said some interesting
/things in the last iSSII.2. It will be
.
interesting to scrutinize them a little,
the first statement anyhow. There
probably won't be room for any more.
He said, ''This administration or any
other administration cannot remove
individualism and initiative from the
American makemp."
If_lAlisl, - ,not4ilk,.that,,this. state,.
iiient *ad meant 'seriously I would
' consider it a clever travesty on the
present state of affairs, a little
thought on the matter should. con
vince anyone that ever since the rise
of the industrial barons, since the
day when Rockefeller, Morgan, Har
riman, and the others of that mot
ley crew set up the prototype of In
cull, Mitchell, and Wiggin, this na
tion of ours has been a' nation of
floundering sheep, content to be ex
ploited by ruthless capitalism, eu
phemistically called 'individualism
and initiative' fighting for profits.
We have degenerated into a nation
of wage slaves—ithat is, in times of
prosperity. In as , depression, we
don't even have',.the advantages of
slaves. They, at" least were fed and '
The BeeiThat Made Milwaukee Famou
• ...../t1...;41. Jul. o.llta tlr0;1+1.0;
clothed. We are given neat phrases
of over-production, retrenchment,
business cycle, etc., kicked out of a
job, and allowed to starve.
Can there be true individualism in
a system where every worker's mind
is moulded by. the constant necessity
iof holding his job? Can there be
true initiative in a state where econ
omic insecurity is a constant . threat?
It is absurd. The only people left
with any individualism and initiative
;are the gangsters and the big-time
capitalists. .That's not exactly true
—the unemployed are manifesting
great initiative and ingenuity in
bringing up a family of five or six
or seven on three dollars a week.
It is conceivable that under the
proper stimulus, this initiative will be
turned to revolutionary processes. I
hope so.
—RAGGED INDIVIDUALIST.
0
To the Editor:
That the events and ideas of 1893
arc deeply ingrained in Dean Sack
ett's mind and prevent his realizing
clearly the failure of certain features
of our increasingly complex economic
system and resulting need of change
seems clear to a student who attempts
to _reach an unbiased understanding
of the reasons for uur troubles.
I question that inventors have the
profit motive in the foreground. Most
inventors love their work, and are
happy to have the opportunity to
carry on their research. Some of
them, in fact, are prevented from!
achieving a full realization of the
value of their work by narrow desire
for profit on the part of 'big' business
men.
Studies have shown that inventors,
of all people that the Dean could
have chosen, work under the profit
motive as only a minor incentive, if
not actually as a hindrance.
The provincialism of the Penn
State campus must have affected the
Dean's understanding of the extent
of human suffering and social waste
caused by a 'dip' in, business. The
complacent prediction of a future de
pression is at the best an admission
of defeat and of inability to attack
these problems rationally, at the,
worst, the best possible argument for
the need of immediate redistribution
of power by revolution.
The development of a more highly
mechanized system must not be per
mitted to result in lessened security
for 95 percent of the people or utter
misery for one third of our popula
tion. Should not logic suggest that
the increasing ability to produce so
well ought to carry with it a more
abundant life for all? Until a social
consciousness can be aroused that
will make possible a. cooperative com
monwealth, gradual progress may
best be., meintained . by.. ! measures
which insure security to all• who will
work, at the expense Of limiting the
mass of profits to be piled by 'in
dustrial' executives, Peruvian bond
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nulls.
F. B. Jr. 'O.l
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To the Editor
I and other students on the campus
can't understand why James Jul
ian, "brain , trust" of the freshman
class, doesn't come out with .a public
statement proving his justification
for not being in sympathy with our
bold president's plan for recovery.
Many students on the campus are
not in accord with the recovery plan
—those relying and believing in the
President should be presented with a
justification. As we understand
Jimmy Julian is the most competent
man on' the campus to give the dis
senting argument.
_ .
I hereby, together with others, pub
licly challenge James Julian to give
his arguments against the Recovery
program. We think he will be man
enough to accept it. We sincerely
hope he does not disappoint us.
A. PATRIOT
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