Judge — September 29, 1928 — page 15: what you’re looking at

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niin neta te JUDGE Editor, Norma Anthony The Hopeful Freshmen hundred thousand this autumn sand will never go bac THREE img colle freshinen are enter- Of these, sixty thou for the sophomore year. And only one-half of this army of hearty, idventurous, intelligent youth will win degrees and four years hence belong to the fellowship of educated men and women, There's a sweetly solemn thought for you as the chapel bells toll and the thud of the pigskin is heard ind the voice of the lecturer drones and light feet go skipping under the elms or shuffling « One's first: impuls back or sha guine ong the corri- dors. ch muscular » a finger under cach powdered nose and preach, “Now don't you be one of those who fail.” The tragic part of it is that the failures are already predestined. Individuals indi- vidual zeal will, in some small percentage of cases, mean the difference flunking and passin But take it by and large, a colle cer is not what the student makes it, but what the system makes it. And the system doesn’t consist of college alone. It drags its tortuous length back through prep school, ool, pre-school training and infaney, per- further. It is pointed, also, toward the : 1, the rigid requirements of the profes- sions, the fancied requirements of the business job, the scrambled requirements of our cultural standards, so many of which Isitied. The educational edifice is too ancient to be fit for our needs, and at the same time too new to be razed and built all over again, as it probably ought to be Meanwhile, the only sincere advice to give a boy or girl is “Be yourself. Do your possible. Don't lag, but don't strain, Take the best that college can offer you, take it as it comes, not for tomorrow's con- jectured use but for today’s assured fulfilment. ‘Trust that the system will do better for you than it did for your fathers, and observe keenly So that you y help to make it do better for your children.” * * * is to slap e practically h or between ide se! haps even years ahes re outworn, perverted or [5 the Judgment of excellent erities, the tennis player in the world, perhaps of all time, is Karel Kozeluh of Czechoslovakia, Never heard of him? Oh, well, he’s not the sort of person one knows or talks about—just a professional. Only four hun- dred persons went to the match in London in which he defeated Vinnie Richards—that benighted youth who tossed away his amateur standing for a handful Avwciate Editors, Ricbard J, Walsh, Phil Rosa, Jack Shuttleworth of silver. What a queer. twisted standard it is!) We look with a sort of disdain on a man who honestly and openly accepts moncy for exhibiting his skill, while we go into parexysms of hero-worship over others who by devious methods get excellent livings out of tennis and. still amateurs in Golf is more democratic, in America at least, in that it has fostered matches between amateurs and pro remain name, fessionals and has learned that the pro is often more of a gentleman t run of country club members. Neither tennis nor golf will be a straight forward sport until we quit the time-honored effort to draw the ateur line enough to attract paying an the average well ng those who pl alleries. Speeding Up V Jirimn the past three years the limit of speed permitted on bh twenty-three least thirt five, and in that of ri all the Associ: been increased in Most of these now let you go at five miles an hour, several permit forty- mnceticut and Michigan the limit is only isonable, proper and careful operation. In tates, according to the American Automobile tion, the authorities “have been pleased with the results attained in moving tratlie with safety.” It has taken entirely too many years to break down the old fallacy that speed is itself a me learn that it is the slow drivers who ch stall in traffic, get rattled at crossings and generally blunder into During the coming winter, more States ought to speed up the speed laws. * * * Ee years ago Frances E, Willard planted two chestnut trees in the yard of her Illinois home, and declared them to be symbols of the cause that was nearest her heart. “As these two chestnut trees grow and spread their branches,” she said, “so the cause of temperance shall grow and spread throu out the world.” And so it did. ‘Temperance made famous progress until a few years a Its deeline dates from the > of the Eighteenth Amend ment, ow ecomes the news that a blight has struck the old chestnut trees The unthinking see in this an omen of Al Smith's election. But if we are to be superstit all, y rather take it to foreshadow Smith's defeat. another victory for Prohibition clearly means another setback for Temperance. ways tes. re, and to the roads, ccidents. passa nd they no longer thrive. RoI W, comicbooks.com