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Friday, October 19, 1951
.Tom Rsci9-
The lata President Franklin D. Roosevelt once
said "The only thing we have to fear Is fear itself."
This statement has been hailed time and time
again as one of the great utterances of recent times.
It hat been quoted repeatedly by Fourth of July
speakers, as well as other noted orators.
Roosevelt was right, without question. What-
The Inner Fear
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ever one thought of his political philosophy, one Roosevelt. They dared to do something different,
could hardly accuse Roosevelt of cowardice. He and for a time at least, they succeeded. They
was a master politician, If not a master states- changed the history of the world. They changed
man. He handled matters of state with suavity the world, not always in the way they intended,
and finesse. He was not always right, but then, but changed It nevertheless. They were not afraid
he was only human.
But how many people In the American busi
ness world, yes. even how many students, are
seared to death every waking minute of their
lives. From the time they learn to toddle about
and otter their first "da-da," they are scared
silly. They are afraid mainly because of their
social standing. They want recognition. They
do not like to be called nasty names. They do
not want their ideas questioned. They do not
want to be referred to as "different." As a re
sult, they conform. They conform not necessarily
because they think they are doing the right
thing, but because they don't want to be dif
ferent. Some people go around all through their lives
nursing groundless fears. They want to "keep up
with the Jooses." They Join the right clubs, the
right groups, and buy the right clothes, not be-
to be "different."
I have a number of people say to me that
they either agreed or disagreed with the views
expressed In this column. "Why don't you write
a letter to the editor about It?" I asked them.
In the vast majority of cases, the answer was
"Oh, I don't want my name in the paper," or
"I wouldn't dare. What would people think?"
So who cares what people think? The Important
thing for each Individual Is the ability to 'live
with himself and know within himself that he
has done the right thing. Persons who sacrifice
their own beliefs for the sake of "keeping up
with the Joneses" sometimes find that they have
sacrificed their personality and individuality
as well.
Any number of students start out in college
to study, On the way, they discover that there Is
cause they like them, but because they want to a possibility to gain power and prestige as well
conform. In so doing, many people lose their own They decide that power and prestige are desirable
individuality. They become human forms running whatever its cost, or whoever It hurts, borne-
around parroting someone else's opinions. They times they get it sometimes they don't. Whatever
happens, the individual is changed, usually for
the worse. They are willing to use any trick-
no matter how cheap or how shoddy to attract
attention to themselves. Once the desire for pres
tige has begun, it can seldom be stopped. It just
grows,
These individuals stand for nothing. They are
for themselves, first, last and always. They help
others only Insofar as they can help themselves.
All this is just abstract philosophy, you say.
are afraid to change because "somebody might say
something."
How far would this world have gotten had
some one not been brave enough to try some
thing different? What if Edison had been afraid
to try to make the electrlo light or the phono
graph? Some of his contemporaries thought he
was erasy. He wasn't. He was "different."
The men throughout history who took the
biggest chances often made the biggest gains. Re
cent history is full of them: Napoleon, Bismark, There aren't any people like that on this campus
Napoleon III, Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wil- or in Lincoln? Take a second look. I know quite
son, Adolph Hitler, Nikolai Lenin, Franklin a few.
-Joan Krueger-
I Where's My Gym Suit?
Three hours every week for two years of each ment to make such demands on freshman and
coed's University life are devoted to bodily exer- as provided at present, I recognize the excellent
cises known Collectively as physical education. You
probably know the courses by the collegiate "phys
ed" or "PE."
Many times when I was throwing bean bags
to waits musio or vainly trying to get the horse
shoe over the stake (one time someone got their
sight wrong and as a result I limped for a week),
I wondered what tangible or even intangible
benefit I might be getting from the course.
sophomore coeds who do not intend to major
in the field. A great many complaints voiced
yearly by girls who are forced to take the courses
would be eliminated if the department would cut
out grading and merely give credit for the
course.
Although I do not advocate the PE system
facilities and staff. Many coeds would enjoy tak
ing tennis, golf or similar sports if they had not
tasted semi-regimentation of freshman and sopho-
It is only logical that I learned something in more years.
two years especially after trotting there three
times a week. That is unquestionable. But what Whether physical education classes improve a
runs through my mind is whether I learned enough student's health is a toss up question. Some coeds.
to justify taking that course as a graduation re- may be benefited; others may be merely disgusted
quirement, I also doubt if students should be or bored. .
graded In such a course which generally is re
moved from chosen fields of study.
One semester during a coed's freshman year
la devoted to general physical education. The
other Is taken up with swimming or volley ball.
The second year, each coed may choose tennis,
swimming, badminton, modern dance, golf, or
others. The program could be fun if you could
bat the tennis ball without wondering if the
PE teacher was marking a flunk or pass after
your name.
o
Besides having to worry about grades, you
nearly sign your life away to get excused from
class for a reason which would be acceptable to
most teachers. Even if the absence is excused, you
generally must make it up. I know of one girl
last year who had several excused absences and
Consider another point. It probably would
profit any PE major to know how to write a
news story in case she happened to get a job
on a newspaper. It would benefit, a psychology
major to take a few courses in engineering also,
just in case she happened to take an electrical
engineer's job some summer. It would help a
coed to take a course it dietitics, regardless of
her major to improve her health. If we went on
down the line, we'd find that every coed should
take one course in every line of study offered at
the University. We favor liberal education, but
not that extensive. There would be no time to
specialize.
.
Thus, perhaps the phys ed department, with
all its potentialities of offering a beneficial and
popular program, should be more lenient and
was quite astounded when she was sent a down recognize that students are forced there for two
slip for "unsatisfactory" work in P.E. The ironical years.
part was that the coed could make ug only one So long as they are assured of having them
hour each week. Meanwhile the down hour con- two years, it seems they could make the stay en-
tlnued. joyable. PE already is compulsory; let's don't regi-
It seems a bit unreasonable for one depart- ment it.
Rev. Richard IV. Nutt.
Modern Man Forgets Goal In Life;
Too Busy 'Seeking Out Facts'
S&hmimsdisL
The tragedy of our modern day is that man
has too often failed to match his motives with his
intellect He has been so concerned with "seek
ing out the facts" that he has completely forgotten
the goal for which he sought the facts.
Pierre Van Paassen tells the story of a man
In Holland by the name of William Bos, a book
'seller. William Bos was the most educated man
In bis village. Always he was reading books and
arguing politics. "He never did anything but read
and make notations with a stubby pencil in a
huge ledgerlike book."
Technically, William Bos was prepared for a
great life. But spiritually he was minus a mood,
the essential mood. Thus he felt no purpose for
life, no hope for society, no future for himself.
So, one day, in a fit of desperation, he opened
his little stove and began throwing his books Into
the fire and then he destroyed himself.
A
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lUptUt Student house, 315
North 15th street. Friday 7:30
p.m., graduate and married cou
ples forum, "Colorful Puerto
Rico" with Migutri Limardo as
leader.' Saturday football broad
cast party. Sunday Church
scnool and morning worship in
city churches: 4 p.m.. All Univers
ity songfest at University chapel;
3 p.m., cars le?ve student house
for annual outing at Giesecker
cabin on Blue river near Crete.
Regular meeting at 5 p.m. in case
of rain.
University Episcopal chapel,
13th and R streets, Jack Sweigart,
pastor, baturaay 5 p.m., eve
ning prayer. Sunday 9 a.m.,
Holy communion with breakfast
following; 11 a.m., Holy commu
nion and sermon. 4 p.m., au
University hymn sing; 7 p.m. eve
ning prayer; 7:zo p.m. canterbury
social evening with refreshments.
Monday 5 p.m., evening prayer;
7:30 p.m., auxiliary meeting.
Tuesday 1:30 p.m., auxiliary
meeting; 5 p.m., evening prayer.
Wednesday 7 a.m., Holy com
munlon; 5 p.m. evening prayer;
7:30 p.m., choir rehearsal. Thurs
day 5 p.m., evening prayer;
p.m., Altor Guild meeting.
Lutheran Student association,
Alvin M. Petersen, pastor. Friday
8 p.m., hayrack ride with lunch
afterwaru, meet at student nouses
Saturday football coffee hour.
Sunday 9:15 a.m., Bible studies at
student houses with rides to
church. 5 p.m., City campus LSA
meet at First Lutheran church at
17th and A streets for cost supper
and program. 6:30 p.m., Ag LSA
meet at student house for cost sup
per and prograrry. 4 p.m., All
University song-fest at University
chapel. Tuesday 2 p.m., "This
We Believe;" 3 p.m., "Missions in
the First Century" at 1440 .
7:15 p.m., vespers. Wednesday
p.m.. "Missions In the First
Centurv:" 4 p.m.. "This We Be
lieve" at 1440 Q. Thursday 7:15,
choir practice at 1440 Q.
Methodist Student house, 1417
R street. Richard W. Nutt, pastor.
Friday 7:30 p.m., outing to Rob
bers' cave. "Do-drop in" hour,
Monday thru Friday, 3:30-5:30.
Saturday open house for radio
broadcast of football game. Sun
day 4 p.m., All University song
fest at University chapel; 5:30
p.m.. Wesley Fireside. "A Christ
ian Professor's Place on the Cam
pus." Donald Pierce, speaker.
Tuesday 6:30 p.m., International
Friendship tea; 7:30 p.m., Kappa
Phi. Wednesday 6:30 p.m., Wes
ley worship.
Religious Society of Friends
(Quakers), 302 South 28th street.
Sunday 9:45 a.m., meeting for
"Work of the Society lor bociai
Responsibility in Science," led by
Victor Faschkis of New Jersey.
Lutheran (Missouri Synod), A.
J. Norden, pastor Divine worship
on the campus, Union Room 315,
every Sunday, 10:45 a.m., with
anthem by choir under direction
of Harry Giesselman. Gamma
Delta, Christian knowledge and
fellowship club, Sunday, 5:30 p.m.,
University YMCA lounge, Temple
Bldg., beginning with cost supper.
Sunday evening, special feature:
The Rev. W. C. Ollenburg, speak
ing on the church's institutional
work. Wednesday 7 p.m., choir
rehearsal, band room. Temple.
RCCU Names New
Water Safety Head
Phoebe Dempster has been
named chairman of water safety
for the Red Cress board.
This announcement was made
recently by Joan Hanson, president
of the Red Cross College Unit.
Miss Dempster Is a junior in the
School of Fine Arts. She is a mem
ber of Aquaquettcs, a women's
swimming club, Sigma Alpha Iota,
honorary music sorority and Kap
pa Kappa Gamma.
She replaces Jo Raben.
Also. Donna Pilcher has been
appointed to the board as Blue
bird group chairman. This office is
a new addition.
Miss Pilcher is a member of
YWCA and Gamma Phi Beta. She
is a junior in Teachers college,
By KATIIRYN RADAKER
Staff Writer
Frankle Masters and his orches
tra will play for college night at
Kings ballroom tonight. Advance
ticket sales may be purchased at
Haun's Music Company, Advance
tickets at priced at ,$1.20; at the
door $1.50. "
"The Desert Fox," Twentieth
Ctntury-Fox's dramatic story of
the man who defied Hitler, Field
Marshall Erwln Rommell, starring
James Mason in the title role, is
showing on the Stuart theater
screen.
It is based on the best-selling
biography "Rommel The Desert
Fox" by Brigadier Desmond
Young, which won wide acclaim
in Europe and the United States
during the past year. The Nunally
Johnson screen play traces the
career of the commanding general
of the Afrlka korps who became
a legend In his own lifetime. His
exploits on the field of battle cap
tured the imagination of the entire
world, friend and foe alike.
Here is the adventurous ac
count of the fabulous desert fox
who chased his hunters back
and forth across north Africa
as often as they chased him, the
fox whose tricks and turns made
even the British tommies
chuckle.
It la also the story of a man
who fortified his life in a plot
to assassinate Hitler.
"Force of Arms," the love story
of a young lieutenant and a Wac
set against the background of the
daring 36th Texas Infantry Di
vision and Its campaign through
war-torn Italy during the World
War II, is now showing at the Var
sity theater.
William Holden, Nancy Olson
and Frank Lovejoy play the key
roles in the Warner Bros, drama
directed by Michael Curtiz.
With a few day's leave before
returning to the "line," William
Holden and Frank Lovejoy with
their men are celebrating in a
small Italian town. Holden meets
Wac officer Nancy Olson but
Lovejoy tells him he's "wasting
his time." Holden persists and
their warfront romance turns to
love.
Leaves are suddenly can
celled. The outfit returns to
battle. Lovejoy is killed when
Holden turns unaccountably
cautious, his mind on the girl
he wants to marry. Soon he too
is wounded. Nancy and Holden
are reunited and his convales
cent) is speeded by their mar
riage and Idyllic honeymoon In
an Italian friend's home.
But Holden is troubled by his
conscience over the death of his
friend. He flees to rejoin his old
outfit at the front. In the ensuing
campaigns, Holden distinguishes
himself but is wounded and is re
ported missing. Nancy searches
everywhere, refusing to believe he
is dead. After long, harrowing
days, she reaches Rome as an Al
lied victory is proclaimed. There,
at a base hospital among many
badly-wounded men, she finds
Holden at last.
"The Scarf" is now showing at
the State theater. The cast is
headed by rugged Jon Ireland, and
the dynamic film actress, Mer.-venture He , n -
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Port Moresby and plots with For-
unscrupulous
pHoa MrCambrldae,
Ireland, a Los Angeles war vet
eran, plays the foster-son of a
wealthy man who did not come to
his assistance when the young
man was sentenced to life im
prisonment for the violent
strangle-killlng of a young girl.
Five years after his Imprls
o n m e n t, the legslly-lnsane
young man finds it difficult to
beHeve that he committed the
crime of which he was found
guilty. Resolved to find out for
himself, he makes a thrilling
and daring escape. If he Is
guilty, as Judged, he plans to
give himself up again to the au
thorities. Bit by bit he turns up
evidence which ties in with one
of the most amazing sex mur
ders ever commltteed.
Paramount's "Croiiw inds," a
technicolor adventure drama star
ring John Payne, Rhonda Fleming
and Forrest Tucker, is now at the
Lincoln theater.
It deals with a desperate search
for more than a million dollars in
gold bullion in the desolate wilds
of New Guinea.
Payne is seen as the prospecting
seafarer cruising the South Pa
cific in search of fortune and ad-
Ike's Comment
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PLEASE. GENERAL! ... No,
the troops don't stink. General
Ike is just pinching his nose as
a friendly gesture. He is in
specting defense maneuvers in
Germany in which an army is
"attacked" by a supposedly
enemy force.
.Act Turkpr. an
' . . i . , a
trader, to hunt for pearis ana goia.
The explosive consequences in
clude some high-speed conniving
among the cut-throst fortune
hunters, a gold attack on a native
village, deep sea diving to retrieve
the cargo of the sunken plane, and
some riproarlng battles with the
spear-throwing set.
"Bars In My Crown," now at
the Nebraska, stars Joel McCrea
in the story of two-fisted parson
whose whisper speaks louder
than six guns.
McCrea plays a Civil War
cavalryman turned preacher,
brings law and order, love and
laughter to the story.
Appearing opposite the star is
Ellen Drew, who portrays that un
sung heroine, the housewife, and
the gentle power behind many a
man's success.
Traffic
Regulations
Enforced
AU violators of University traf
fic regulations will be given offi
cial University police tickets,
According to the campus police,
each ticket requests the violator
to report to the office of campus
police in the West Stadium dur
ing specified hours on certain
days.
Students who fail to Report to
the police office within a week
will be summoned to the Office of
the Dean of Student Affairs.
Continual violation of the reg
ulations will be reported to the
Dean of Student Affairs for ap
propriate action. The action may
include placing the student on
probation, referral to the city
traffic court, suspension and
possible expulsion.
Campus traffic violations in
clude improper parking, speeding,
no sticker, double parking, red
line parking, careless driving,
failure to stop at stop sign and
parking by fire hydrant.
EXECUTIVE
CAREERS
III RETAILIDO
One-year Course
leads to
Matter's
Degree
ft
Prepare to step into a responsible
executive position in the retailing
field: buying, advertising, fashion,
personnel. Specialized training, ex
clusively for college graduates, covers
merchandising, personnel manage
ment, textiles, store organization, sales
promotion, and all phases of store
activity. Realistic approach under
store-trained faculty. Classes are com
bined with paid store work. Students
are usually placed before graduation.
Co-educational. Master's degree.
Limited enrollment. Write Admissions
Office for Bulletin C.
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UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH Plttsfeurgh U Pa.
The scribes and the Pharisees were bitterly
upbraided by Jesus because they were much
more concerned about the "trinkets" of their
faith than they were about its deep and abiding
treasures. The essentials of life the why and
wherefore are not found in the mechanics and
techniques of the drawing. board or "paper or
ganisations" but in the heart hungers of men and
their society. Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick has put
it th's way, "The boat of human life is rowed by
two oars WORK AND WORSHIP." It is the
spirit which gives the purpose to the work.
Blessed are they who know that the way they
do anything is more important than what they
do' for they shall see life fully.
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FIFTY-FIRST TEAR
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LAST MEETS WEST
IN M RELAY EVENT
You've heard of the Penn Relays. But
have you ever heard of a relay where the
hurdles are mountains, the average stride
is thirty miles, and the track stretches
coast to coast?
It's the Bell System's 0tadio-3Ula
and it brings East and West together in
one of the most important events in the
history of communications.
Telephone construction crews have just
recently completed the coast-to-coast
0ttdio-ittUfty system. Today, Long
Distance calls ride on radio microwaves,
beamed through the air from tower to
tower. And, for the first time, television
programs have been flashed from coast
to coast.
The new system supplements the thou
sands of miles of wire cable that already
tie the nation together. It helps make
America's vast communications network
even stronger and more flexible. And it
could hardly happen at a better time. The
demands of defense are heavy and urgent.
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HOW Stadio-&tlaf WORKS. Microwaves travel in a straight line. So relay
towers are usually built on hilltops and spaced about thirty miles apart. Just as a
runner picks up the baton from another runner; so each tower picks np microwaves
from its neighbor, and with complex electronic equipment amplifies and focuses
them like a searchlight, then beams them accurately at the next tower. And hun
dreds of Long Distance calls ride the beam at the same time.
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