Yellow Jacket (Brownwood, Tex.), Vol. 21, No. 13, Ed. 1, Thursday, December 13, 1934 Page: 2 of 4
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Maurlne Lockwood Society Editor
THE COLLEGE OF EXILES
Thirty years ago every young student who sought a proper means of
preparing himselt for a life of scholarship and teaching looked with a spirit
of longing to a year of study in German universities. Those who were for-
tunate enough to find the means of fulfilling this ambition entered an at-
mosphere of fine intellectual freedom. They went from one university to
another listening to the lectures of masters of culture and learning. If
they persisted long enough they were awarded with degrees from German
universities which in American universities were regarded with the high-
est respect Much of the inspiration of our best scholarship in this coun-
try came from men thus prepared.
This was particularly true in the field of the so-called humanities
which in everyday language means history economics political science
and jurisprudence. Moreover the idea of a great university which would
provide intellectual freedom so important in the building of our great
universities was in large part borrowed from the principals of freedom
nutured in German universities. The picture was not so bright of couise
as some zealous American scholars such as Burgess would have us believe
because the autocratic government in Berlin imposed some limitations upon
teaching. Nevertheless freedom lived in the German universities and from
the contemplation of this freedom American intellectual life distinctly
profited.
With the coming of Nazism however this freedom was extinguished
almost overnight and many German leaders of thought to whom Ameri-
can scholars had been traveling across the seas for instruction were cast
out not only from their positions but from their native countrv. Recoc-
nizing this an American scholar Dr. Alvin Johnson Director of the New
School for Social Research seized the opportunity to establish in the United
States a graduate faculty made up of many of these men who were exiled
from their own country. Here he brought together those men to whom
American students had gone for intellectual inspiration. Dr. Johnson was
tireless in his efforts to raise the money necessary for this from public-spirited
Americans. Moreover with the aid of a number of liberals Dr. John-
son overcame the difficulties imposed by a bureaucratic interpretation of
our iimmgruuon laws wnicn ipmporarny mooted tne way toward providing
an asylum for great scholars from abroad.
His school is now well established. It is giving instruction to advanc-
ed students and the exiled professors are settling down in America with a
deep sense of gratitude and respect for the spirit of fieedom which despite
cynical critics this country has maintained. On the basis of scholarship
and intellectual leadership Dr. Johnson's graduate faculty of political and
social science in the New School for Social Research is more distinguished
than any faculty that remains in Germany. In fact it is probably as im-
portant as all of the German faculties of a similai kind put together. The
misfortune of- Germany has been the foitune of the United States. It i
quite likely that the same spirit of intellectual adventure that sent oiin--'
Americans to Germany thirty years ago will as time goes on bring ambiti-
ous young Europeans to New York for training in those subjects that are
never the possession of a single nation but are part of the univeisal pos-
session of mankind. With one stroke America has shown that where free-
dom lives culture grows and in this case culture of a most distinguished
character. Raymond Moley in "Today."
woman who fearing that her imbecile son would not be cared for after her
death which she felt was near put him to sleep forever.
The story was brought out in the trial that for the last thirty years
she had been devotedly nursing her invalid son. Not long ago she was
told that unless she undeiwent a dangerous operation she could not Hvp
more than six months. Fearing that she would die she put her son to bed
gave him a hundred sedative tablets and turned on the gas in the room.
The next day she calmly told the family doctor that she had "just put Denis
to sleep."
Throughout the trial she remained bravely calm continually main-
taining that she "did it in mercy." Her head was erect as she received the
sentence of death pronounced b the judge. Many a person in the court-
room could not keep back teais. Doubtless many others who lead of the
trial also were deeply moved.
Why? Because in the back of people's minds there is the thought
that perhaps justice was just a little blind in this instance. True we be-
lieve that murderers should be stnercly puuMicd. Nothing is too hard for
a man who wilfully and malicioiisly'kills a fellow being. But who can
tell the emotions that might hae stirred deep in the heart of the old mother
as she knew she was sending her son into eternity?
Surely she loved him. No mother would have nursed a son so devot-
edly for thirty years without loving him. She must have labored for long
hours in watching out and caring for her pitiful offspring. Perhaps many
times at night she prajed ceaselessly that her son's affliction might be
taken from him and pcihas she ciied silentl) as the doctors would tell
her repeatedly that there was no cure.
Yes she look her son's life took fiom him the horrible dimly-felt
half-Iicht that was his and in exchange sent him out into that unknown
world where thcie is happ life cei lasting. In doing so she felt that with
in a little while she too would be able to see him again as in the years of
his babjhood she had hoped he would be.
She will sec him bcfoie long that is true but at the hands of a sort
of justice which has failed to see the truth; but we dare believe that a high-
er court aboe will set aide the veidiet of a group of human beings. Then
and then only will justice be done. East Texan.
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WISE MEN ARE MADE NOT BORN
Scholarship is not necessarily ability; it is attainment. We base our
contention on the fact that in a recent psychological examination the high-
est mentality registered was not that of an honor student.
In other words wise men unlike heroes are made not born. The
ability may be native it is true but the cultivation of it is above and be-
yond the mere inheritance. Intelligence is a rare enough quantitiy; the
squandering or disregard of it is all but inexcusable.
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imi is j saj mat io uvcu-uiiic me suunorinai miiuence oi tne uelow-
average mentalities in the world the superior intellects should be utilized
to the fullest. The gold of mental possibilities should be mined to the
final vein.
If those who possess our best brains are failing in their responsibilities
oi development men our leaders possess only second-rate capabilities and
our achievement will never forge higher than second place.
It is somewhat a comfort to pessimists however to find that through
our ignorance of its existence we have failed to exhaust our supply of high-
est intelligence; that there is beneath the strata of our present intellectual
leaders unplumbed depths of mental potentiality a reserve force on which
we may call if need arise.
Mentality like anything else of perishable nature deteriorates from
lack of use. Those who do not possess it obviously cannot employ it. Clear-
ly then the gauntlet is thrown to those who do and can. The Texan.
THIS WEEK AT
THE LYRIC
Thursday and Friday Dec. 12 13
Loretta Young and John Boles in "The
White Parade."
One of the most human compelling
and dramatic screen narratives in
years Jesse L. Lasky's "The White
Parade" is hereby recommended as
superlative entertainment. It is a
story with a soul!
"The White Parade" may safely be
described as an extraordinary pictuic.
Extraordinary not only in its material
but in the approach of Director Irving
Cummings and Pioducer Lasky to the
telling of their story. It is a gripping
and a poignant drama and the man
ner of its presentation buoyant easy
skillful is a distinct contribution to
screen history.
Loretta Young offers a masterly
performance as the young student
nurse who is the heroine. The film
follows her schooling from the day of
her enrollment until just graduated
she has to make her choice between
TO MUCH
paths in preparing for her life on the
stage and scieen that Miss Porter did
in psepaiing for her literary efforts.
This piominent screen luminary
spent about 20 years on the stage be-
fore making her cinema debut with
Pauline Frederick in 1923. Since that
to the screen and has appeared In
time she has devoted her entire time
many .successes such as "State Fair"
"Cradle Song" "Scarlet Empress"
"The Woild Moves On" "David Ha-
nini" and "Servant's Entrance."
In her latest vehicle Miss Dresser
is co-featured with Ralph Morgan and
Maiian Marsh while others in the
stellar cast assembled by Monogram
Pictures include Helen Jerome Eddy
Henry B. Walthall Betty Blythe Bar-
bara Bedford GiGi Parrish Robert
Ellis Ed Nugent and Tommy Bupp.
Christy Cabanne directed from the
Adele Comandini adaptation of the
novel.
Monday and Tuesday Dec. 16 17
"What Every Woman Knows."
"A Wee BitO' Scotch!"
And when every member of a com-
pany filming a famous Scotch play
like "What Every Woman Knows"
neien Hayes' new Metro-Goldwyn-Mayor
stairing picture has a Scot-
tish interest to stait with the atmos-
pheie should be ideal.
Miss Hayes recently finished a play
EASY
Here are some easy things; It is easy (1) to give way to impulses
and make no effort to control yourself; (2) to be mentally lazy and have
no habits of study; (3) to eat what you please instead of what you should;
(4) to lie and to sidestep; (5) to go in debt and say "Charge it'; (6) to
acquire a bad habit; (7) to pity yourself and make excuses for yourself
ana oimne oiner people; t) io De vain and egotistical; (9) to talk too
much; (10) to go with the crowd instead of following your own conscience.
It is in a word easy to go down hill and hard to goup. But everything
worthwhile is up hill. Everyday Wisdom.
HAS JUSTICE STUMBLED?
If Henrik Ibsen's "Ghosts" were to be presented in Leeds England
or indeed in any other city of the British Isles today doubtless there would
be something of an outburst of sentiment against an English count which
gave the sentence of death to a 62-year-old mother last Saturday. Even
without the play there is a growing feeling of sympathy for the little old.
LORETTA YOUNG playsayoung
nurse demoted to the cause of service
in Fox Film's dramatic and romantic
screen story "The White Parade."
It is the screen's first presentation of
the life and the heartaches of the
young studentjnurse "VjBf
!. . -- . .
"" """ sue loves John Boles and
the set vice whose true meaning has
become every day more clear to her.
John Boles contributes a splendid
characterization as the iich young
aunur who oaineci by the elusive be-
cret of these girl nurses seeks to per-
suade her that her life lies with him.
There aie memorable performances
also by Doiothy Wilson Muriel Kirk-
land and Astrid Allwyn among the
heroine's comrades and by Jane Dar-
well and Sara Haden as veteran nur-
ses who are their superiors.
Saturday and Sunday Dec. 14 15
"A Girl of the Limberlost."
The story taken from Gene Stratten
Porter's novel deals with the consci-
entious efforts of Elnora Comstock to
gain an education. Denied every priv-
ilege at home and refusing any aid
from her friends she catches moths
in me swamps of the limberlost and
sells them for money with which to
go to school.
Miss Porter in writing the story
stayed right within the bounds of the
country which she knew almost by
heart and in which she was reared
She spent most of her caily life on the
banks of the Wabash and used the
background of the adjoining swamps
hi It SiS f her famous cl8slc
which has been read by countless mil-
lions since its publication
Miss Dresser was born in Evans-
ville Ind. and traversed the same
Dudley Digges and Helen Hayes
a"WJiatJEycry Woman Knows"
"Mary of Scotland" in which she
played Queen Mary and nisn smml
a few .seasons ago in "Dear Brutus."
Her husband Chailes MacArthur is
a Scotchman and in their leisure time
logemer they .sing old Scotch songs
accompanied by an ancient Highland
harp.
Wednesday and Thursday Dec. 18
19 Constance Bennett In "Outcast
Lady."
Constance Bennett is the star and
Hcrbett Mai shall the leading man of
this vivid emotional story.
"Authentic English settings for this
story of Bntish societv wnrx nn-n
erected in Hollywood from pictures
made of actual old English homes on-
y a few weeks before" said Leonard.
i'r our cn.st a .splendid group of
- -. ...(.. juopie airs. Patrick
Campbell Heibert Marshall vt...
Stenhi'tisnn ai. t -. . ' -
Jen Haie Robert Loraine Hugh Wll-
inms were all quickly available and
thanks to the manner in which Holly-
vood d.aws its artists from all parts
of the world.
"Another English player Elizabeth
Allan was in England but In re-
sponse to our call and thanks to mod-
e in transportation she was in our
d vs tVhriaSn bat aDU Plane' 8even
days three hours and thirty-Beven
minutes from the time h w q...u
""" cngianu
Constance Bennett and Herbert i?
Marshall in "Outcast Lady" 4
phere is perfect. You are not consrfJ Jl
of it any time thanks to this perfect
tion. Because it does not obtrude buja'
acts to accentuate the sincerity of the'
lines spoken the atmosphere is vitally"
important in this film." V
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HUEY"
This article is reprinted from th2
Texas Tech paper as a sequel to aZ?
merous news articles that have ap
peared in this paper concerning Hoo-'t
ey's suppression of Reveille of L. Sri
U. It gives an idea what the schoont
pi ess of the nation thinks of SenatoiM
Long's dictatorial policies: u&
The Reveille official student newshll
paper at Louisiana State Unlversitjrttl
has been 'killed" at least emporarilvMt
by censorship and dictatorship. TttMU
blight of the super demagogue of thtoa
nation Senator Huey P. Long touchU"
ed it and like any other instltutioseM
that demands freedom which he hfiU
touched it must go. ad
The entire Reveille staff resigned1
last week rather than to bow to i .
faculty "censorship board" of the pub-
lication inspired by the Kingfish and' $
aided by the university piesidentwho'Di
told the editor he would not be per
mitted to use any copy disparaging tiMa
Senator Long. inn
The controversy started when iuni
member of the faculty was appoinWrfcl
to censor the paper last week aftaog
Senator Long who recently had hinlwt
self appointed to the university boanbtt
of supervisors suppressed a letter isrsur
which he was criticized by a studttlhey
for his efforts to make Abe MickalAyi
star Tiger halfback a state senator. IBM
The Tulane Hullaballoo collep' Oc
newspaper summed up the situatiotiaa
with these words: "A new editorialkl
board will probably be organMSUill
They will bring a new 'paper' dedil
cated to suppression censotship tidad
Kingfish and university presidents. 'Jo
who are too weak to see beyond theirtliv
.salary checks." ; Pi
Needless to say the Toreador's spin
pathy lies entirely with the Reveiltiew
staff and is in complete accord mtlorti
the Hullaballoo. Tib.
The Reveille editors have voM To
hard and as a result produced one eipnu
the leading newspapers in the Soutt Me
Their effoits were for nothing ait r.
they wore thrown out. And now Dict J
tator Long assumes the editorship rid
what was once "The Reveille" aionfl
with his suppression policies. "J
Freedom of college press is just asTUi
necessary and important as is tif'h
freedom of the nation's ptess. TliWS
freedom is to be guarded as atiW
right of mankind its only obligation' f
being that of fidelity to the public iJp
terest. "8
All of which brings home with til '
ing force how fortunate the publio
tions of Texas Tech are in that uwj v
are not bound and dominated by effl rjt
borshrp. The Toreador.
"The terrifically emotional flow of porta.
STUDENTS "SHEEPISH" '
AFTER FORDHAM RAM THEfl
tarn
rut'tl
New York. Ramses VI 'ed15
the-wool mascot ram of Fordham 1'
versity this week sheepishly humnie
a iiiue amy: "i never saw a r
ram and never want to be one-j
again." y
For Ramses is just getting over
Ing the victim of four New Yortj fc
"rustlers" from New York UniverW
who kidnapped him before the
Fordham-N. Y. U. football game
shuttled him to an East HampM..;
Conn. farm and dyed his woolinesJ'
nun jjuijiu jiuu me iuv" UUV
Worst indignity of all Ramse tL
was the way his splendidly cunE
norns were bedecked wun vioict v.-
and violets.
Ttin ftitm ctnlanta whn CSPtl
Ramses from a building aMeI)?!?llj
harborlntr p-ovfirnmont-owned R. " '
P mnlnmnnt warn nrrpsted DY "
York police in the Bronx P"?!
clnct on charges of burglary rx
ter. after Fordham defeated N. J
30.13 umrn rnlnnnpH on cbaXgC1 "J
disorderly conduct according to "J
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