SKIDMORE NEWS, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 20, 1935 PAGE THREE Crime Prevention And Cure Discussed By Mrs. Sporborg (Continued from Page One) out, -would offer vocational opportunities for young men and women. Mrs. Sporborg cited examples of the disgraceful conditions in some of the reformatories and prisons in this country and showed the great amount of work to be done along this line. The passing of more stringent rules to regulate the sale and transmission of firearms is another thing in which women are greatly interested. While regulations have been passed for machine guns and sawed-off shot guns, pistols and revolvers remain unregulated. Regulation is necessary here, because statistics show that 90 per •cent of all homicides in this country are committed with pistols and revolvers. It is felt that if these weapons of crime were controlled, the prevalence of crime would be less evident. In closing, Mrs. Sporborg stated that the brutality of crime as well as the depression are outgrowths of the Great War. War cheapens moral life and brings out conditions upon which crime thrives. It is up to the young citizens to increase the moral fibre of the country. Mrs. Sporborg said that there is great hope in student discussion groups and applied education to displace the machinery of war by the peace machinery and thus to aid in the prevention of crime. Hither and Yon By DOROTHY JOGGERST “Women’s faults are many Men have only two— Everything they say And everything they do!” * * * Dartmouth’s senior class recently endorsed three curricular reforms: a course in marriage, abolition of the present marking system, and unlimited cuts. —Swarthmore Phoenix. * * * The presence of over 400 bicycles on the campus at Smith College has proved such a menace to the safety of the students that the student government association has formed special traffic rules. * * * Upon observing a notice “Dates for English Exams,” a freshman at Harvard remarked that there are hardly any more functions here to which a fellow can go stag. * * * A professor of psychology at Boston University has banished note-taking in his courses, declaring that note-taking substitutes the hand for the brain and in the end offers a very poor and incomplete reproduction of the lecture. * * * A conversation between women always concerns who, why, how, when, and wear. * * * According to the P. and M. Weekly, it takes the average man four years to learn: 1. That women, gin, and deans are not to be trusted. 2. That life requires at least nve hours of sleep per night. 3. That pipe-smoking is manly and romantic. 4. That you can’t invite three girls to one dance without getting in bad with at least two of them. 5. That sometime you’ll have to go to work. * * * Approximately 31,300,000 persons are attending school in the United States at the present time. * * * A professor of political science at the University of California is quoted as saying, “All men are created equal, but some of them get married.” * * * Is it better never to have loved than to have loved and lost? This subject was debated recently by the men of Hobart College and the women of Wells. The latter maintained that lost love was a great economic waste because the expensive cosmetics worn by the weaker sex were removed uselessly. The feminine audience refused to vote for the winning team. —Swarthmore Phoenix. Skidmoronia Skidmore certainly went on tour this week-end—ask any of us who stuck by the home fires and watched our co-eds disappear into the dim distance! There is definitely no partiality shown —we are a diplomatic college—Colgate, Princeton, Union, and the Infirmary— we sent representatives to each. The rest of us, the fireflies of the weekend, sat in lonely state in the smoking area, wandered aimlessly about, or sat and thought—most of us just sat. Even the library wasn’t its same lively self! The exodus began on Thursday and on Wednesday the about-to-be-departed fellow students were marked women. They could be identified a corri-dor-length away by the condition of their hair. Their most pressing problem was voiced by one in the proposition: to take, or not to take a reserve-shelf library book to the hairdresser’s to be read while under the drier. It’s a hard life! If anyone is consumed with curiosity to know the outcome we’ll donate the information—she didn’t take one with her. Funny thing, HAIR—them what has does and them what hasn’t doesn’t. Fret, we mean. It seems that there are three great and burning questions involved in the subject of “woman’s crowning glory,”’ i.e., to cut or not to cut, to wash and when to wash, to curl or how to curl. And thus is a girl ear-marked by her conversation. For, we have observed, not one member of the “fair sex” really begins to fret until it becomes imperative to impress the male of the species with the essential and profound truth of the applied adjective “fair.” At such a moment an average conversation goes like this: “How do you think I’d look with my hair parted in the middle and pulled back straight?” “Why don’t you try lots of little curls in the back and a very faint wave on the top? Your face is too wide at the bottom to part it in the middle.” “I can’t have lots of curls, I’m letting it grow and it’s too long for that and too short to put up. If I try to put it up I’ll spend the whole week-end scrambling around desperately for the hairpins that ooze down my neck—and that makes a pretty picture!” “Lissen, I tried that once and never again—don’t ever do it! That’s how I lost a bid to Prom down there, I’m fully convinced! Why not try a diagonal part, have it waved, and then have just a few curls at the ends? You can always stick bobby pins in them and they won’t fall down then. When are you leaving, anyway?” “Friday, at eleven, and I have classes all day Thursday until four o’clock and I don’t want to have it done Wednesday, besides, I have to wash it myself —finances being what they are, you know—maybe I’ll cut assembly and wash it before lunch and then have it waved at four. What are you doing this week-end?” “Nothing.” “Oh,—well then you don’t have to worry. I’m in such a dither I don’t know how I’m ever going to manage everything.” “Yeah, I know, I went through that last week. But, cheer up, you’ll manage, somehow, we always do.” So—after a few hundred of our fellows went through this we hid ourselves away in dark corners until all was over and then crawled out to say farewell, and watch them leave with broad beams all over their faces and their hair plastered down stiffly. Yea, them what has does and them what hasn’t—sits. Oh well, it is nice and restful not to worry and we’ll get a lot of work done—if we ever get around to it. Famous Vecchi Choir And Madame Dessoff To Present Program (Continued from Page One) guished in the knowledge and understanding of the great literature of choral works. The Yecchi Choir is presenting its first performances in America. Included in the program are compositions by Yecchi, Monterverdi, Porter, Ruyneinan, Dresden and Weisse. Farflung Audience Praises Value of C.B.S. Broadcast Indicating intensive public interest everywhere in governmental problems of today, the Columbia Broadcasting System reports an unusual audience reaction to its broadcast of the entire Washington scene in action on March 4, last. Soon after completion of the two-hour and 20-minute radio panorama of the Cabinet, Congress and the Supreme Court at work, there began a flow of wire and mail comment to the CBS offices in New York. Telegrams and letters of an exceptionally high order poured in from an area encompassing New York, the Far West, Canada and Hawaii. Typical excerpts, representing a widespread appreciation of informative and “special events” broadcasts, read: “Your broadcast was one of the greatest single contributions to popular education that has ever been made ...” Another declared, “I learned more from that program than I could possibly read in one book.” Still another expressed “heartfelt thanks for your splendidly informative and inspiring program ‘Of the People’ ” etc. All reflected a deeply stirred and thoughtful audience. Many requested copies of the text of the broadcast—a voluminous script of 80 pages—and one prominent government figure suggested that the material be published and circulated to the schools of the nation. Beginning with a White House announcement that President Roosevelt had been an interested listener, there was revealed an unprecedented cross-section of a far-flung audience keenly alive to current affairs. From Washington itself, U.S. Commissioner of Education John W. Studebaker commented, “This broadcast demonstrates the vast potentialities of radio in the field of education,” and U.S. Attorney-General Homer S. Cummings added, “This broadcast seems to me a fine opportunity for the citizens, who cannot be in Washington to see their government at work.” Then followed a succession of comment from listeners across the continent. Representative communications follow, in part: “Of the People, by the People, for the People” (the broadcast) . . . constitutes for me, at 73 years of age, one of the really thrilling experiences of a lifetime.”—from a Kearny, N.J., pastor. “ . . . I believe your broadcast was one of the greatest single contributions to popular education that has ever been made and my personal reaction is that I have been privileged to be present at an event that will make history.”—J.W. of Chicago, Ill. “I am sure I represent the sentiment of the entire inter-mountain empire when I send you our profound gratitude for the epoch-making broadcast ... A magnificent innovation in program presentation.”—E.J., Salt Lake City, Utah. “ . . . The program was splendidly carried out ... it must help our young people to understand our government . . . ”—A.W, Rochester, N.Y. “ . . . I want to congratulate your (Special Features) department and all your actors . . . ”—J.B., Port Dover, Ontario. “ . . . Your broadcast ought to put courage and hope in the hearts of the people of the United States . . . and make us proud we are Americans.”— Miss L.F., Brooklyn, N.Y. “ ... It brought home facts about my government of which I was unaware ... I learned more from that program than I could possibly read in one book.”—H. H., Chicago, 111. “ A great advancement to radio.”—W.Y., Muncie, Ind. “ . . . Learned more about how the government is really run . . . than while taking . . . civics in school.”— G. B., Chicago, 111. “ ... It was most instructive and entertaining . . . radio has been truly a ‘soul-saver’ these last few years . . . and thank you for the large part your company has played in that resuscitating act.”—Mrs. R.E.S., Homestead Park, Pa. “ . . . All over the land there must be millions who realize more fully, like myself, this is our wonderful United States and surely I am only one of a vast throng of brethren who humbly As We Go To Press (Continued from Page One) Bronx Zoo because Ella Kangaroo has just become a mother. She, by the way, is an exceptionally cocky mother since her baby is the first one out of about 1,000 expected within the next three or four months. So now she sits and gloats over her offspring, while the rest look on enviously. Social News Colgate was by far the most popular attraction this week-end. At the Lambda Chi House were: Elise Butz, Virginia Selkirk, Peg Corson, Louise Killam, Diantha Schmid, Virginia Sweet, and Marion Green; at the Theta Chi House were: Eddie Earl, Mary Van Wickle, and Ruth Quacken-bush; at the Beta House were Sylvia Lufburrow, Miriam Lufburrow, Helen Mayer, Louise LeRoy, Irene Whitla, Mary Stagg, and Virginia Byers; at the Phi Delt House were Jane Kellogg, Miriam Kahn, and Hilda Caldwell; the rest included Ellen Graney at the Phi Gamma Delta House, Babette Jud-son at the Sigma Chi House, and Betty Shea. A close second to Colgate, though, was Union with its inter-fraternity dances. At the Psi U House were: Penelope Ferry, Nancy Ackerman, Alice Blauvelt, Phyllis Wilding, and Janet MacMaster; at the Beta House were Carol Stone, Frances Scribner, Helen Barry, and Peggy Miller; at the Kappa Sig House were Marguerite Lowrey, Elizabeth Robinson, and Helen Darrow; at the D.U. House were Jane Todd and Madeline Fischer. Besides these were Frances Wheeler, Edna Williams, Lydia Sperling, Caryl Thatcher, Rita Von Oesen, Betty Deyo, Teddy Freed, Betty Foulder, Dorothy Diment, Ruth Marschalk, Marion Lynch, and Jessie Savage. Elaine Austin, Elizabeth Bertelsen, and Ann Brooks went to Lafayette. At the Princeton Prom were Kathryn Jones, Olga Colsmann, and Doris Haeden. Elizabeth Underwood went to West Point and Laura Spencer, Ann Van Riper, and Betty Edsell visited in Schenectady. Polly Samuels was also in Schenectady as the guest of Dot McCracken. Libby Blatch attended a wedding in New York, and Betty Scott went to a wedding in Ardmore, Pa. Louise Kline went to Temple University in Philadelphia for the dances. Natalie Clune went to the Phi Mu Delta House in R.P.I., and Joyce Smith spent the week-end in Williamstown. In spite of this list, there were a few of us in college over the week-end. We try to keep things going whether they be curricular or extra-curricular activities, and we’re always in favor of house parties. give thanks for our great privilege of citizenship and determine to live up to our very highest and best. Thanks for the grand program.”—Mrs. V.A., Syracuse, N.Y. “ ... In my opinion it is one of the most uplifting and patriotic programs I’ve ever listened to.”—J.D.C., Michigan. Advices received from Honolulu said that the entire broadcast was received by short-wave with remarkable clarity and that a huge insular audience listened to the voices in the distant capital. 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