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. & Waiting Game
Colonel William Terry, the
caustic-tongued manager of the
. New York: Giants, thought him
- self to be extremely facetious-not
■ long ago when he asked, “Are the
< Brooklyn Dodgers still in the
league?” The story of how this
- remark so infuriated the Dodgers
and caused them to ruin, the
. Giants’ pennant aspirations needs
no elaboration here.
■Paralleling that incident with
a current one ih the field of in
ternational relations, one might
ask today, “Is Russia still a part
•of Europe?”
The most amazing and strictest
•censorship in wartorn Europe is
. • not taking place in Great Britain,
Germany, Fiance or Italy, as one
. might suppose, hut in that wide
•expanse of territory loaded with
-undeveloped natural and mineral
resources, known as Soviet Russia.
Since last January news reports
■concerning the activities of a cer
tain Joseph Stalin have depreci
ated to the extent that today they
•are practically non-existent. The
Soviet Union has ceased its. for
mer policy of applauding the ex
ploits of Adolf Hitler as he con
tinues his campaign to subject
-western Europe to-German domi
nation.
Instead, the Soviet press has oc
casionally printed articles, which
though carefully camouflaged,
gave hints of encouragement to
Britain to hold out. The vilifica
tion of the Allies in Russian pub
lications became less prominent
as Germany continued to .gain,
and the few reports that are seep
ing through from Moscow today
have taken on the tone of British
optimism.
.■ "Whilei'Efirope has assumed all
the. aspects of a jig-saw puzzle,
Joseph Stalin has taken oh a role
of complacency as he quietly di-
rects the destinies of the Soviet
Union. Certainty the Supreme So-
viet has not forgotten Herr Hit-
ler’s statement that someday “I
will subdue those Russian dogs.”
Foreign observers refuse to pre
dict on which side the Soviet will
decide to play ball,; but they do
agree that Russia 'is playing a
waiting game, preparing to accept
the side which offers the best
terms.. Should the British offer
be most enticing to Joseph Stalin,
Herr Adolf might wake up with
the “Red Menace” pounding at
his back door.
Campus Calendar—
Today
New students in Chemistry 3,
.sections L, M, N, P, and R, should
bring their $3 breakage tickets to
ine first laboratory periods. They
.should' also bring their manuals,
Experiments in General Chemis
jtry.
|i. -Students in Chemistry 52, sec
tions A and B should bring $lO
; breakage tickets to first laboratory
■period.
First PSCA Cabinet meeting,
■ Hugh Beaver Room, 9 p.m.
will meet in Room
• 315,- Old Main, at 7 p.m.
; Application blanks for the John
>W. White and Louise Carnegie
•scholarships are available to in
-‘•terested students at .Room 112,
: pohd Laboratory. This information
;must be completed and in the
j hands of the Committee on Acad
emic Standards by September 27.
i .. Meeting of old members of
-Alpha Phi Omega, Boy Scout fra
ternity, 318 Old Main, 7 p.m.
■' ‘Open meeting of Camera Club,
: 418 Old Main, 8 p.m.
Tryouts for Blue Band marching
; and concert units, College Sym
: phony, and Infantry and-Engineer
: HOTC Bands, 401 Old QSfaih, trom
: bones, baritone horns, 4 p.m.; cor
nets, trumpets, 7 p. m.; Irottas,
p.m.~ .
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Readers’ Alley—
Two Ms On'Most*
List For Joumalisfs.
This column, a bi-weekly fea
ture of the Daily Collegian, is
open to all members of the stu
dent body and faculty; If you
have read a book that you
would like- to recommend for
either general or specialized
reading, whether fiction or non
fiction, the editors would be
pleased to have a brief review
of your suggestion.
Today’s choices have universal
appeal, but are “musts” for jour
nalists: “Countty Editor” by
Henry Beetle Hough and “Father
Was An Editor” by Joshua K,
Bolles. -Hough’s volume has al
ready received much praise, and
is now climbing the best-seller
lists. His twenty years at the helm
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of the Vineyard Gazette have
j brought him much wisdom con
cerning people and papers. There
isn’t much that can happen on a
■'weekly that didn’t happen, to
Hough, but he and his wife and
their publication lived through
all catastrophes that struck
Martha’s Vineyard, and while
they haven’t prospered, they have
progressed, and they have at least
endured. Particularly fine are
those chapters toward the close
of the book dealing with the con
trast of city dailies and cobntry
weeklies, and those pages in
which Hough sets forth his edi
torial philosophy.
“Father Was An Editor” also
concerns New England publishing.
Bolles’ father, a contemporary of
Clarence pay’s sire, is much like
Day, Sr.' He storms and rants,
but he is honest and sincere. If
you read “Country Lawyer” by
Bellamy . Partridge, or “Country
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IntTttSS, shocking chapter of
Justory, hitherto never told.
No. 1. The Mystery of Daladier
by France's Author-Diplomat
JULES ROMAINS
THE DAILY <&LLEGiAN
Preacher” by George B. Gilbert,
you will be able to complete your
study of small town mores with
out A struggle. As Editor Bolles
didn’t have a staff of reporters
(Other than the usual social cor
respondents) he roamed the
streets himself, chatting with all
comers, on corners, in barber
shops, or at the station. He wrote
most of his Own copy, and never
missed a chance to rouse the town
with his editorials on controver
sial issues. He was a fighter, a
father, and an editor, whom you’ll
like.
Poetry Society of America has.
presented 75 volumes of contem
porary poetry to City College of
New York.
Psychology and music depart
ments will add the most new
courses next year at the University
of New Hampshire.
—BUY COLLEGIAN NOW—
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this season? Which of our opponents -mil he most
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Read Pigskin Preview of 1940
by FRANCIS WALLACE
Vrtiimr Ames sets coaching in love
Young Mine® & , , outside the Whito House, he
When Young Ames sat down on a bench pmidcnt , W altcr D.
and ike American Eagle.
Communists take over U.S. Merchant Marine?
West Point g^^atio^scaj
read Sealing Soviets, by Wilbam McFec.
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For Library Exam File
Fraternities with extra copies of
•exams in their files were urged
yesterday to contribute these, to
a College file being kept in the
Central Library. The request was
made by David I. Finkle ’4l/
chairman of the file committee--
appointed by William B. Barthol-c
omew, senior class president. ■
Finkle pointed out that five let
ters to the faculty last year had
brought exam contributions for
29 courses and announced ‘ hi?
would now seek to complete the'
file with fraternity help. • ;
Expected to be ready for Use at
the end of both the first and sec
ond semesters last year, Finkle'
has now advanced the date fod
•use of the file to the end of this
semester. . -
—BUY COLLEGIAN NOW—
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