THURSDAY.' JULY' 2:4i- 1941 powwaspt;7 - f' paitt*Habili:-: If.. yOu.. are:.. near-sighted; ,it is hot 'bediu.§e you Were born thai -way„ but. because you formed bad fading habits in 'your Youth, re- Cent' investigations- haire shown: People- havebeen asking us if "Many peOide belieire thiat near- we like -ALL' the' books we- read, sightedness is caused by a Imig_ .. •.• ..• . ior the y . so seldom see e. li ne of eyeball - and far-sightedness by a 'Panning in this alley...No,"we don't hort. one," Dr. Emmett A. Betts, like ' all the books, ' but -we have ector of-the reading : clinic, said. rarely ' seen. One that didn!t, have ' 1 however, recent studies in var- something to recommend it ..We lOU§ medical and educational din- Juit get choosy bekore we; romp its: -ow that there is no such home with an evening's opus, and thin as myopia or hyperopia th t when we_ do. come. across one for wi the . eyebali. Instead, the which we can not muster even a cause} lies in the • brain." - ' ' faint whoop, we just forg et about .' . Explaining that most near-sight - it. . - One of our challengers; hoW edDess • is' acquired by • sacrificing ever, said - that he ()rice tore up a firtpoirit clearness for near-point volume of Thornton Wilder's /clearness, he pointed out that a Merely because he didn't think his !certain amount of. far-sightedness wife ought to waste tier time with i t.n. children is essential as a pro- it. That particular book wasn't tection against near-sightedness. very good, we agree, but it wasn't . • - `!The structure does not have quite that bad. - very much to do with how the eyes - If you are a perennial reader. of "function," Dr. Betts added. the New York Times Book Review "Therefore there is a difference and Magazine Sections, you have between exarnming the shape of already 'clucked your tongue over the - eye . and 'examining the - ability to " . .. the' drawings and interviews of . see. prominent people by S. J. Woolf. .- Since the cause of the trouble So many of his friends said,, "You often lies in the brain, and since meet - such a lot of interesting seeing is an act which has been people," that Woolf decided to learned, some cases can be treated assemble many of these portraits more satisfactorily from a psycho- and• hitherto imprinted comments !Physiological approach than from about - the- -contemporary - great. a mechanical approach, he con- Bookshelves are therefore heavy lends. with his autobiographial volume, F ;The College reading clinic i s HERE A'M . I. 4herefore working on the question Born on the East Side and a New for the purpose of helping teachers Yorker almost all his life, Sam, who are interested in the effects from the days when he showed of visual handicaps on a pupil's talent for painting in the Gay ability to study and from the point Nineties, is able to catch the of view of industrial leaders who evanescent flavor of a city pild ire interested in the visual ability hood, and keep pace with the times of a worker to: do his job. and changes up to the present. .A graduate of CCNY (which then had its campus on 23rd Street) he afterward attended a dozen art schools before he struck out for himself. During these early years of •struggle and-•privation, • includ ing the trials of a secret marriage, to a shicksa (a Christian girll he, met almost every living painter; illustrator and cartoonist both worthless and famous. His murk ones of thes intimate associations MICHELSON'S are reason to make this book re- Ghost ..' Writers Service quired reading ft:if every art stu helps students in .editing ana dent on this. campus.' Prior to the preparing essays, term papers. first World War, he had numerous theses, etc. commissions for portraits that won Expert Reasonable prizes and now hang in . famous Wickersham 2-6786 collections. It was after he had 420 Madison Avenue, N. Y. -sketched George Bernard Shaw Students at the University of Rochester are experimenting with combined junior yearbook for their co-ordinate college. • • There are 928 semi-circular arches in the main barracks Of The Citadel, South Carolina mil itary. college. - _ -PENN'S- -CAVE • AMERICA'S ONLY ALL-WATER CAVERN Located 18. Miles Southeast , of State College 5 Miles East of Centre Hall on Route '95 Open Day and Night• DOLLAR DAY SOECIALS!! "'Group of Dresses - sl.ool_ r _TNats' - 504 to 81800 -Stones— - _ 8110' - 2 tOr titiit ittesser - . - • .. . . • $2.00M MOO loadot -59 e, - • .114110reigt-Iltesses • - 8149. • • SMART SIKW Dial 2895 123 S. Allen st. 7'lwßfO r frne: _ . _ Reviewer Admits He's Choosy And Doesn't Lil 4 Everyt!ing r.ty ROBERT E. G.PELBRAITH Agisociaist -Professor-of-English Compsition THE'. SUMMER. COLLEGIAN.: . that a Times editor asked him to ; submit an- article to accompany the pictUre. So, for the last two deca:des, Woolf . has been meeting teachers like Dewey; industrialists like Ford and Knudsen, poets such as Misefield and Tagofe, nOvelistS of the rank of Lewis and Mann, and artists the some Dali and Disney. By Some strange personal *approach, which Sam does not himself understand, he was able to., probe . somewhat more deeply into the' personalities of our time than. many a 'current biographer, and we know you will like some of the facets of character that he is able to cut and polish. • In order to get a bit of atmos phere into our comments on FATHER OF THE BLUES by W. C. Handy, the famous Negro musi cian, we - are listening to, Basin Street Chamber Music program (9 p.m. Mondays). Mr. Handy, in _writing, his ~autpbiography, gives an interesting account of : that 'sentimental 'era 'in our national musical .history known as the "Blues." True, this is a narrow segment in the evolution of swing; but : because Handy . played in dozens of bands, composed scbres of blues, and was a leader of his race, we think you will find num erous interesting summaries on the times and the people from his spe cial viewpoint. What we liked most about this personal hiitory is the steady rise and fall of each year of Handy's struggle, for, with each surge •of success, there seemed to come a wave of recession. Born in Florence, Alabama, the son of a preacher, into a family that scorn ed music of. the sort the young Handy liked, he struck out for himself, a "young man with a horn," the cornet being his first instrument. During his later years, when blindness overcame him, he made a living at the piano. (We heard him a dozen or more times around the town). A particularly moving • chapter concerns' the Plight of the Negro,' entitled "Trouble, Trouble . . ." Although W. C. Handy is men tioned only twice in JAZZMEN, that interesting anthology of cur rent masters of swing that contains a sketch of Bix"Beiderbeck by our own campus authority, Professor E. J. Nichols, he merits a distinct place in the annals of pre-swing music. So; you players of the sad and gay notes up at Varsity Hall, you might look over this book. We - think you'll enjoy your "Memphis Blues" a bit more the next time you blare it. NOt that \ve . expected to find any short-cuts toward a fortune, but just as a_ guide to tell us what to do with our first million, we sailed into John T. Flynn's MEN OF WEALTH. We have long followed Mr. Flynn's articles on current financial affairs, but we now wave our hats as we view this parade of biographical mammoths. • In clear, readable" piose, he — has por trayed the lives and activities of a dozen. wampum-wizaids. Aside from those recent magnifcos, Rockefeller and Morgan,,there are such tycoons as Cornelius Vander bilt, Cecil Rhodes, Mark 'Hanna, the Mitsui; Betty Green, Basil . 7.ahiroff, and Nathan. Rothschild. Though. Flynn' attempts to be ob jective, his writings are devesting indictments. Of the 'men and their methods. ' if you want a quick taste of this 'volume, skim. through the brief interlogues (there_ are only :three) until you come to the , one on the Money that writers - have made. (We read this Chapter twice, but we doubt if it will.heln_us though it shoultibe useful-infor mation to English. Majors.). There have been other writers who pilloried our inagnates,, but none we have read has succeeded-in do ing - the job so thorovighly or so • interestingly. Who said "required reading for C & F -students?" We Solve IL S. Problems, Philip: lifolleffe Says (Continued from Page One) Europe but will perhaps "have lost the last vestige of it here." . 4. He said that we are faced at home with grave 'economic prob leins and that we should try to solve them rather than enter the War. He foresaw the possibility of a dictatorship, - in the United States. He also gave two main risks we will run if we stay out of the war. They are: 1. Economic competition with Germany. LaFollete minimized this danger by stating that our foreign trade makes up only 7 or 8 per cent of our total volume of trade, adding, "We. don't waril. to wreck 93 per cent of our trade to save 7 per cent." 2. Invasion of the United States. He said that there is no military evidence which shows that this country can be invaded and said that the idea is ridiculous . . He pointed out that the Nazis have been unable to invade England which is separated from German bases by only 20 miles of water, instead of 3,000 miles of ocean as is America. The New York Library Club re ports that with the exception of Hunter College, library facilities of the city's four college are inad equate. , , PAGE VIM* Movie Helps Job-Seekers •Many of Pennsylvania's unem ployed are "going to the movies" to find a job. • To teach jobless students in en gineering defense training courses the proper interview techiiique; the College is using a movie film, Joseph W. Bird, in charge of placement for the emergency pro gram announced. The film, entitled "I Want A Job," has been shown to men tak ing special part-time courses with} the College. It will be shown al so to more than 3,000 high schoo4r , graduates who are preparing for defense jobs by taking summer courses in introductory engineer - - ing subjects in 98 cities and towns in Pennsylvania. • - In addition, Dr. Bird said, these groups have received a booklet, "Get That Job," to guide them in their' job-seeking, and in all courses are given special instruc tions for getting placed. The Engineering Defense Train ing program now has under train ing in both day and evening courses nearly 20,000 young men. and women. Schooling is provid;. ed by federal funds under the sponsorship of the United Stateit Office of Education to create at reservoir of trained workers for the defense industries. Su, mer Session Students: Your Week-end Guests Will Enjoy Staying Al the State College Hotel Phone 133
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