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[ Wednesday, Oct. 16: England urges League to forbid imports of \ L y P C4 j MTs u - Page Two __ Entered: as second-class mail matter at Post-Office, Elmira, N. 'Y. ' Member of Intercollegiate Newspaper fisaoqietion EDITORIAL STAFF - . :»..,...... Florence Elberson '36: ............ Arline Gould '37 . DEPARTMENTAL STAFF | Editor-in-chief .... Assistant Editor .... TeCDAICAL EdH&OP Doris Hubbard \3 SOG#AL Ed$LO7 Elizabeth Van Velsor '3Z7 Humor Editor ...... . Helen Nolan '36 Etiquette Editor ...... Edith Wagner Book Reviews ...... Dorothy Fleming '36; W OTId NEWS eee Margaret Gortell ©*36, Exchange Editor ................... Drama Editor Sports Editor Town News .. Margaret Furman \86 . .. Fay Mitchell '37; Josephine Williams '37. REPORTERS | Ruth Cain '37, Dorothy Becker '37, Fern Royall '37, Marion Dunn '37 Janice Trost '38, Helen Brunner '38, Emma Sue Binswanger '38,. Mary Ann Gallagher ©39, Elizabeth Baas ©'39, Dorothy Glein '39, Jane Gill '39, Sue Billings '39 Clara Oparil ©39, Harvina See ©'39, Barbara Johnson ©'39, Jane Cobb ©'39, Jane Gordon ©'39 BUSINESS STAFF - Business Manager ... oe ...... Marijane Suter ©'36 ene}. Emily Baldwin '39 Assistants-Marjorie Hill '36, Marie MacNamara '37, Esther Jenkner '3Z7 Marjorie Hoffman '38, Hester Beaudry '37 June Bannister ©'36 Assistants-Eleanor Schrader '37, Elizabeth Smith '37, Enid Mathes '37, ~ Virginia Duffett '37 * The Commercial Press, Elmira, N. Y. E DIT O RIA L S Is the Stay-Spangled Banner too militaristic? Dr. John I: Tildsley, assistant superintendent in charge of the New York City high schools [ has made the charge that our national anthem is too militaristic. While not a pacifist, he believes that the Star Spangled Banner has parts in it that should not be taugh high school students as part of their nation's creed as it were. He cites specifically \bombs bursting in air.\ Naturally, such an unusual statement aroused a storm of criticism. The heads of the various historical societies in the city protested quite violently, particularly the regent of the Daughters of the American Revo- lution. Dr. Tildsley contends that in addition to being militaristic, the anthem has no real significance and contends that there are other songs better suited to the purpose. It will be interesting to see the. storm of protest that will follow this - + + * ‘ s radical pronouncement. The spirit of \the Star Spangled Banner\ is deeply ingrained and while we admit it's defects—prmcnpally musically- we would object strenuously to seeing it discarded because of \bombs bursting in air.\ [end in Elmira College brings with [it a new idea of proper etiquette. ND ll Helen Turner Last Week Around the World Sunday, Oct: 14: Rome intends to set up a puppet emperor in Ethiopia, Gugsa, the Emperbr’s son-in-law. U. S. annexes three islands in Pacific as air bases. a Monday, Oct. 14: League adopts inogram for financial bllockade \ against Italy, as new peace attempts are made at Paris. ~ | Tuesday, Oct. 15: Thirty British warships open manoeuvers near Suez Canal. e - _ s League adopts French plan to halt import of key products to Italy. . Italy's products. Italy fearing English blockade is ready for national suicide. Thursday, Oct. 17: France will aid British Mediterranean fleet if at- tacked. _ ' Italy names Gugsa, Ethiopian deserter, as chief of the Tigre Province. FridaIyrilOct. 18: League expected to adopt economic embargo against taly. ' AnngItalian accord hoped for as II Duce sees the English envoy. .S'a:tt47:day,l dOct. 19: Britain is to act only through the League, Mussolini is told. Fire breaks out as quakes continue in Montana. _ | Sunday, Oct. 20: Laval is reelected in French vote despite trend to left, - Monday, Oct. 21: Italy announces a big victory on the Southern - Ethiopian front. L _ The League invites the U. S. and ten other non-members to co- operate. ' Britain decides the naval conference must be held this year. - Tuesday, Oct. 221 Britain promises no military sanctions against Italy. {fall cooperate to make it a long and I| well-remembered one. « || To the Thinking Public of Elmira |mistic estimate credited 30 per cent| It would seem that every week-] 'The weekend that approaches sug- 'gests a-should-be air of hospitality, graciousness, and respect. There- fore, we, the students of Elmira to welcome and to entertain the guests and the alumnae of the col- lege to the best of our ability. Do: we have the ability to do so? If we. feel a bit skeptical about this, we 'can perhaps be aided by the follow- ing suggestions: gracious from the very beginning,| , just a duty to talk to them. An- other thing to remember is to dress neatly and appropriately. It is not dress. member to offer our assistance no. you know we are proud of the fact that we are a friendly college. First impressions count-so do your best!. There are many means and ways have, and there are so many simple \ways which are even more effective than-shall we say \Aowery\ ways? Since most of the conversation this weekend, will be about the college, we know that our guests will enjoy hearing about every phase of col- lege life. Do not be stiff-and formal, for if you are then they will be so too. Just be friendly-be helpful- and be cheerful-and remember that they are here to have a pleasant time and to forget their daily work. Some are here to try to get a glimpse of the life that once was theirs. And by all means we must be courteous and respectful. This weekend is a great event in :the history of our college so let us Letters to the Editor: * College: Recently I read an article by a well-known educator concerning the amount of thinking done by college] students, 'His generous and opti- a of American college students with the ability to think for themselves. The others are drifting along in col- lege and swelling the ranks of the unemployable. x _ Although I deplore cynism and am at heart an optimist, I find it] | hard to perish the thought that with- in your own ivy-colored walls there [is not as much stretching of minds as there might. be. One too 'often| J overhears remarks revealing lack of [thought, or, indeed, the lack of ai {center upon a current topic about| Tokio suspects an Anglo-U. S.ial'i/gnmcnt in naval parley plans. -\Iwhich the conversationalists know dramatic failures on Broadway so: early this season-some of them not: so surprising, some of them quite astonishing. Therevis \Sweet My\! What I said was that WORTH 'College, should dutifully endeavor 3:2 2&3;th (IE/highs]? awlfiiitlzzs READING refers to what I write no more auspicious opening; and, sad to say, \Bright Star\ the new| Philip Barry play, co-starring Lee. . Tracey and Julic Haydon. ,Ye.tfl°9kj’é However, I hope that you who turn- on the other hand, at those tried] ' pe mat y SN and true productions that are now in , | their second year—aGl‘aElys George in If Ave are to be hospitable and| her riotous comedy \Personal Ap- pearance\ the number one musical 'we must first know how to welcome] hit “Anything Goes\ and that epic [those who are visiting us. An im- { portant factor in welcoming people| now in the featured role. | is to smile and to look cheerful, tol little difference-success or failure [look as though it were (and it will -yet such a great one. It makes | be this weekend) a pleasure and not| one wonder what's it really all about. U of entertaining the guests we are to| | need for it. Such remarks generally. institution! 1 There seems to be an epidemic Vofiiila. st scribbling, a very: important ilfihe, I hope lSh’e'wri‘lfl Put: it in this. week, as I feel you ought to know- how I feel about this whole business. about, not to what I write. The class will now proceed. My reading has been sketchy, ex- | ceedingly sketchy, since I last wrote. & « mo u | your eager little tyes to this column in search of a guide to intellectual . ed this time. Class will again pro- | ceed. _/ , ' G I 33 tus 0 . * BOOKS Tobacco Road\ with James SBarton. The American Ballet was in Ith- uch a . c ] aca this week. I missed it, myself, but maybe some of you luckier ones saw it. And if you love ballet, I hope you know that there's a new a | book out on Diaghileff by Haskell Madame Nijinsky Pa I happened across this interesting and Nouvell. necessary to wear your \dressiest\| bit in a New York newspaper| presented Vaslavy Nijinsky as the And then, too, we must re-] column the other day. It's entitled: greater man. of the Nyjinsky-Diag- \Highlights of a Wonderful Time] hileff combination. In fact, she was matter what the assistance may im-| in the Theatre\ and it gives us some- pretty rtasty about the latter. If ply. All in all we must welcome] thing to watch for in those plays you want the other side of the pic- them in such a manner so as to| we intend to see in the city this ' create a feeling of friendliness, for Thanksgiving and Christmas. ture, as well as a very good story of the whole Russian Ballet, this new biography of its leader is your meat. I found it as good reading as the Nijinsky, and that is high praise. Arthur Kobet's Thunder Over the | Bronx is just funny or highly psy- chological as you wish to interpret fit. I 'like to think of .it as - being funny. It's the story of fam- \Alfred Lunt spitting out an apple core in \The Taming of . The Shrew\ -The\ rocking \ chairs getting rhythm in \\Porgy and Bess\-any of of Burgess Meredith's speeches in \Winter- ° set\ -and Beatrice Lillie's Paris- enne in \At Home Abroad.\ When you have finished your theatre ily life in the Bronx, and funny be- cause it is human, not because it is spree, why not jot down your own highlights and submit them to this column? We'll all find them in- teresting. | Jewish. ® you're looking for jokes, this isn't it; but if you chuckle over | people because you recognize them, | this is it. Watch for the story of Here's an amusing backstage anecdote they tell of \The Taming of the Shrew.\ For the opening of the production, the Lunts and other members of the cast almost put over Continued on Page 6, Col. 1 on top of the Fifth Avenue bus. By the way-it's a good book to read if you love New York and kinda miss it when you're way out in the wide open spaces. Sinclair Lewis has a new book. He calls it It Can't Happen Here, and if you know Lewis, you know that he jolly well means 7 A that it can, and will, happen To say there is such a thing as a| here. Don't mistake me-I haven't non-thinking college student sounds read it yet. But I recommend it 'to parodoxical, but I fear it is veracious.| you on the strength of his other Potentially you are thinkers, or you! books, and with the assurance that wouldn't be here. It will be humil-| I'm going to read it myself as soon nothing, and if there is anything worse than a refusal to exert the mind it is pretense at knowledge. | iating when you find the title of| as I get a spare afternoon. Of thinker being confidently bestowed course, the reviewers have compared upon you as you take your place in| it with each of his previous books the world to find it a mere pseud-} separately, but don't let that worry onyms ' But I feel my‘ optimism struggling thing entirely different about it. for a chance to speak. This asper- And what about“ reading Anne sion I have cast upon your thinking. Parrish's masterpiece, (111 K needing-P power may be strangely out of Of course, le’s practically ‘deereplt place. At any rate, may it kindle] with age, being all of seven 'years your pride to such an extent that Oldptllls‘ December. But I just re- the refutations of my statements| read-it a féw days ago, amigo? just which will pour into The Octegon| 38 big a kick lace I've beer; will necessitate an enlarged staff to getting out of it on the average of hall « © ., twice a yeai' for those last seven peruse them and decide which will years. 1 may be wrong, shut: I have be best to appear in this column in] an idea that that means it's a good the next issue, and prove that El-| book. Christobel Caine, her hero- mira College is a thought-provoking ine, is a creature you'll adore to know o _ for the sheer joy of using that name . | on various hateful females; Chris- _- Continued on Page 3, Col. 4 Sinée-rely‘ yours, JESSIE DOWNS. stimulation won't be too disappoint- _ ° the boy-friend who picked Bella up - you; you'll probably think some- Ye editor omitted one line of my , . tern ofice girls Just tract Nor ly a num divic their \We Imm tered nity, wil’k gland The one c them to-sh then pray ~ anno other Ph. C ' clothe must child} Fresh: - sound numb sheep who three I brushe sheep adage- tooth aries 1 it up : All stories sors ha been d contrib fessor - other f visit th piece o is no d good as tractive ing pro he? go; cake pl case a have m who lor professo \What There but it t the Fres ~ siestas, | you a F whose f of Alun - to enter tently on had the before h ning dow fire drill - and the parlor fo Hete's - class to it nary cfa cracker, marked ! . ‘si‘mply 'be
