Judge — December 1936 — page 17: what you’re looking at

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tention is to use the same human ma. With the exceptions I have already noted these terial now offered the educators. young morons have no intention of be. ing educated. If they can learn enough to read a roadmap and get to the weck- end football games, they will be grate- ful to their alma maters. Some of t become successful business men and are so startled at finding themselves spoken to by intelligent people that they imme- diately elevate themselves to the status of national leaders and begin issuing statements of alarm, which accounts for most of the evil things that have come Ata knowledge and foresight is as necessary upon us. time when economic to an industrialist as water to an ex. plorer, the great minds are interested in such problems as why their line ts not going so South Bend, although the same salesman well in Terre Haute as in is handling both towns. John R. Tunis has been writing about the Class of 1911, Harvard, in his re. cent book Was College Worth While? and the verdict seems to be in the nega- tive. It is not so much that the average total yearly earnings of these men twen- ty-five years out of college is less than $4,000, but that on side they seem to have achieved an intellec- tual status comparable to that of a hotel detective. Out of a graduating class of the cultural 541, Mr. Tunis, as the result of ques- tionnaires from 86% of the class, esti- mates that one-eighth of the graduates now live cither off the government or off their families. That could be hard luck and nobody is to be blamed for it, but if college is to mean anything be- sides pep talks, smut sessions and an old age spent in the locker rooms of coun. try clubs, something will have to be As man done with the American college. Mr “Only among this entire group chooses poetry ting matter today One man states that he hasn't read twen Tunis reports one as his favorite rea ty novels since 1911... (Three men in the class write novels—total output, six novels). Other reading choices include Kipling, Science and Health, a Key to the Scriptures, stamp-collecting maga zines, Havelock Ellis, Saturday Post, and Dickens, while one reports rening that his reading is ‘varied, but not this modern, distorted, realistic stuff These are the quarter-century edi- tion of the young reactionaries who booed the President during the cam- “Courage, madame, courage!” paign and can always be counted on to help break a strike which may give the cleaning women an extra fifty cents 4 week classes who start learning to dice before the they clutter up the earth while mankind They are the American educated they begin to live. In meantime awaits for somebody who will invent a plan for hastening them on to oblivion If there is a genius about secking an outlet for his talents, T suggest that he look into the matter and rig up some thing in the nature of a selective anni. hilating gas which will save these col legiate gentlemen the need of continuir an existence which never meant anything to them from the start IDEAL GIFTS A toaster that throws the burned pieces out the window Round-shouldered coat hangers for vadded coats. Portable stoves for WPA workers. And this year Santa Claus may have considerable trouble: Vellir Finding derby kids. Getting down the the quintuplets apart presents for all the stork chimneys of auto trailers. Locating a fireplace in the electrified Tennessee Valley Judge comicbooks.com