The Oklahoma Daily (Norman, Okla.), Vol. 24, No. 224, Ed. 1 Tuesday, July 25, 1939 Page: 2 of 4
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The Okla&La Daily
Student Publication at the University of Oklahoma
Entered in the Norman postofflce aa second dasa
mail under the act of congress March 3 1878
- Published daily except Mondays from September
'to May both inclusive and daily except Sundays
i-amd Mondays during June and July
BILL BRINKLEY
NANCY ROYAL
CARTER BRADLEY
CELANB GOURLEY
VIOLA VAN DUYNE
r VIRGINIA HOOPS —
Editor
Managing Editor
News Editor
-Campus Editor
-Feature Editor
—Society Editor
MIKE SMITH
BAM WALKER
Advertising Hamper
-Advertising Manager
An American Fantasy
-TYHEN Herman Limberg wrote his
‘ r recently published booklet “Third
term tradition: An American Fantasy” he
: tcnaynot have been just writing because he
thought that he had some facts that were
essential to the welfare of the American
- public but rather with the definite purpose
: f preparing the way for a third term for
JRoosevelt
) Regardless of the facts and the method
(Of treatment of these facts in this book the
Jauthor is still open -to the criticism of writ-
ling a book which if not written intentionally
Ins a Roosevelt propaganda handbook can be
adopted very easily for that purpose
I His statements which tend to show that
presidents who were eligible for a third
iterm either could not get it or did not want
fit-are at least open to question To declare
ithat the American people do not believe
strongly in a tradition against a third term
ior a president is to ignore the results of a
xecent poll by the American Institute of
Public Opinion
Relying on the American people’s inher-
ent tendency to believe printed material
this book may go a long way toward erasing
the tradition before the next presidential
election unless editorial comments of the
press of this country are of such a nature
Ss to expose its possibilities as a propagan-
diz-ng agency
—Orville Dee
A Dizzying Business
' HTHE United States is spending between
- three and one-half and live billion dol-
3ars for alcoholic beverages annually The
kvtail sales for all commodities are appro xi-
Jnately 40 billion dollars Thus Americans
spending about one dollar of -every ten'
lor liquors
The nation’s liquor bill is almost one bil-
lion dollars more than the total spent on
education each year More money is spent
lor alcohol than food
Eighty per cent of this bill is paid by the
working class with ’jrge percentage of
WPA workers in the group
According to a survey by the National
Safety council liquor-bred accidents caused
a total Ions of $1 15364 1G2 during the years
1D34 to 1937 Cost of hospitalization of alco-
m!!?s cost to business due to hiss of effic-
iency of thM indulging cost to the govern-
inrnt for curbing crime prompted by alcohol
and other losses reach a gigantic sum
Citizens arc constantly griping about the
economy of government Last year the na-
tional budget was $3f-O00nQlti0Q Why don't
t!e start the eronomy move in
tJrir own le me by loppine off half of ibis
mreunt uwtc: w:ry li'pur conMimption
lo nc e!i )c-t?
—DcWitt Kelley
tf-aculty fy&iuM
i
By Dr Ellsworth Collings
AMERICAN education is suffering from
over-organization and over-formalization
These two facts are raising the expense
and reducing the efficiency of our educa-
tional system
If we could conquer these two sins of
the classroom we might achieve at one
stroke two highly desirable results — we
might reduce the cost and raise the character
of American education
These twin tendencies to over-organization
and over-formalization flow naturally
from the more-or-less unconsciously held
notion that whether or not a student “gets
educated” depends upon the efficiency of
the school rather than upon the eagerness
i of the student
Looking upon students as so much pas-
sive raw material to be molded and manu-
factured into educated men and women we
reach out after an encyclopedic sweep of
subject-matter and a factory-like standardi-
zation of method
TbUT genuine education never has and
never will come out of such over-organized
and over-formulated mind-factories
for education like religion is caught not
taught
: Genuine -education flees from the touch
of the super-organizer
" We ask too much of education We
’ make too much of it We monstrously
over -organize it and we cruelly overload
it Education can do for us indefinitely
I than we have come to expect and
what little it can do is on the condition
that it be left simple natural and free
I have known very few men who were
made into anything great entirely by their
education and I have known a good many
who were entirely ruined by it and were
finally turned out as pedants prigs or idiots
And the more we organize education the
greater is the risk of our finding this remit
A LL that education can really give is
ths: it can supply the opportunities of
self-culture it can bring the budding mind
into contact with a formed and matured
mind it can show him a superior intellect
in the act of collecting and distillinj his
materials it can suggest explain correct
and guide iia very general and occasional
way but it cannot teach vigorous thinking
or thrust coherent knowledge into a raw
mind
The iderl education would be such that
a body of students attracted by a great love
of knowledge should gather from time to
time round some great teacher until they
had touch of his informing mind grasped
his method of thought felt inspiration from
his typical ideas asked of him questions
and answered his questions to them and
then freely went their own way to work out
for themselves his suggestions and left him
free to think observe experiment or write
until he was again ready to teach
In the American adventure of educating
everybody we cunnot copy this idea! course
but the value of the educational develop-
ments of the next fifty years in my judg-
ment will be measured by the degree to
which we approach this ideal of informality
i
If any one wonders why the railroads are
not making money I t d1c tofta
car wr t Micks on die business si reels Vlu
railroads are simply not gelling
freight or passenger busim ss mliryi
“-Ada Evening News
Bricks Stonesand Money
Do Not a University Make
(Editorial reprinted from Christian Srience Monitor)
HUEY IX) NO BUILT more than a house of ranis in
Anyone who ha visited the state In recent years has ni-oiwhu
shown the highway and bridges and majestic public huiMl
constructed under hi regime as United States senator The politic
organization he assembled has tried to keep up the tvarlition
his passing
But now indictment of two of its leading figures within a month
by grand juries one loeal and one federal bring serious question
whether the political organization which appeared like the tteS
and stone of the 33-story state cspitol building to lie made
pretty hard stuff may not collapse as some bossisms in Amerind
political history have done
The case of ItuiRiana is no
luted specimen The people of Lou-! under Indictment for bavin alW
isiana deserve credit for the wayiedly embezzled SinoorK) of u
In which they have tried to recog-1 versltv funds
nizc whatever was good ' 'the j Inuisiana still ha the putft
aims of the Long regime have works built under the Ion m
resisted its suppression of neces-jjme including the great lmiWtnp
sary civil liberties and are now of the state university which mab
supporting the investigation lnto:a particularly fine show when tb
its alleged misdoings brightly uniformed hundred-pfai
The people of many other com- hand jn which the senator took
unties can or should he able to much pride marches forth to m
sympathize with them for many0f the games of the wcil-suppatii
It hail cimilar sxnsrienrei dif Innl ha 1 1 taam
have had similar experiences dif
fering only in magnitude or degree
Kansas City has recently seen the
indictment of its former city man- —
ager in connection with a contract brick and stone am! money a
allegedly diverting money to a I bright uniforms is necessary s
dummy engineering firm building of a great education
Institution or to supporting tfe
THE CHARGES FORM a com rlghtf
mon pattern with those In limisi-1 It be
ana where Seymour Weiss and a 1®-
few associates are now accused of Unless moral filii-e goes into da
having collected $75000 from the building of a nation's institution
state for the sale of hotel furnish- and into the efforts to accompEA
ings covered in the sale of a hotel needed reforms the political ft
for which they had already received ! turea that are built are likely h
$575000 and where Dr James Mon- topple from time to time with non
roe Smith till recently president of the weight of millstones thud
of Louisiana State university is cards
Defends Mrs FDR
Billie Itu'l sb-ftintork a Mihn-
more fro" Oklahoma 0y plans
to enicr the school of medicine
One of her main interests is the
private hospital nitrated by her
uncle a psychiatrist Billie Iluth
was once approached by a student
cameraman who wanted to photo-
graph her mouth as the "most
beuutiful on the campus”
June Rielund Norman has brrn a
music ami primary teacher and 1!
enrolled in music courses this sum-j
mer She likes to produce hlrh I
school operettas especially if she!
has a lot of talent to pick from
Her main Interest right now Is
furnishing tier big house on a hill 1
in Noble where her husband will!
be suerintendent of school next!
year j
j
!' -Ultrw rirtti win be
a senior In the school of education ‘
next fall She Isn't in school (hi
summer but is doing stenographic
work in the office of physical edtt- j
cation for women feggy is one
of those blondes who manage n
huik mol when the trinieriture Is
UN in the shade 1
Attorney General f’Mk
phy recently branded ’’imlefe-'idb
mmle by Governor lnrru II fkb
and absolutely unlntm rrmarit
bison of Michigan is trii'f
franklin If tmisereH's
linked drinking haha
a former governor of
June
the rffk
TempMns MrAlr-lrr N 11 ill
- 'lent secretary In the tV CO-OP Dining I111
partment of government She In Wjli Wcmain OpCIl
some way manage to keep her! ” 111 ivciiuim y
blind on her work while the fibs! Ul f
of nations are M‘U1ctl all around TTuV1’! ’ n ?rn
lwr She’s blonde alwavs l'ki n f 1 r!1t
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