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A PAPER ABOUT THEMSELVES, PUBLISHED WEEKLY BY THE STUDENTS OP ALFRED UNIVERSITY

VOL. V ALFRED, N. Y., TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1917 NO. 8

PROFESSOR CLARKE GIVES THE STUDENT BODY A NEW VIEWPOINT ON T H t WORLD SITUATION

STUPIDITY REAL CAUSE OF WAR

Harry Emerson Fosdick in " The Challenge of the Present Crisis " says,

" when all the special treatises who have thrown their light on the great struggle have had their say, an inner problem still remains unsolved," and this was the text of Prof. Clarke's address. " I n what mood shall a Christian, or an idealist of any kind,"

he asked, " f a c e the catastrophe?"

With what considerations and insights can he support his faith and hope ? And how can he harmonize his ideals with his necessities or action in a time of war ? The morale of our people critically depends upon their answer to such questions. Is it necessary to assert this long after the outbreak of the Great War—that we human beings (you, and I, as well as the rest of the world) have been blind to some of the fundamental and significant factors which are involved in human living to- gether ?

Will college, will business, will life at large " be as usual " when the boys come marching home, except that woman's place in industry and politics may have shifted, new industries be built up, labor unions may have secured more influence, science stimulated, literature enriched by tales of heroic deeds and the rise of new ideals, and that here and there your friend and my friend, your brother and my brother may be numbered among the missing ?

If life goes on as before, except for these changes, it will be because we have looked upon this terrific conflict as a temporary disease, instead of as a symptom of something more fundamentally wrong; it will be because we have seen this as an accidental abnorm- ality in human relationships, rather than as an indication that we have been too stupid to see what living to- gether in this world really involves.

And the pity of it all will be that sooner or later a conflict more horrible than this must be the result—for all the forces which kindled the flames of this war will still be active, and more in-

"THE PENNANT"

Juniors Frolic in Delightful

Musical Comedy Saturday Night

Next Saturday evening in Firemens Hall the residents and students of Al- fred will be treated to a real perform- ance, and one which should be thoroughly enjoyed by all. This fea- ture is the "Pennant," a two-act college comedy, which is presented by the Junior class of the University for the benefit of the Kanakadea. Mrs.

Ramon Reynolds is directing the play in a very capable manner, and the production on Saturday evening is sure to please. It might be a good plan to buy your tickets early, and they may be secured from any member of the Junior class or any Freshman whose services have been secured for the play.

tensified in their activity by the in- evitably growing intimacy of the world relationships.

In what ways has this stupidity and lack of insight shown itself?

1st, In the very fact that we at first assumed that this conflict was a local affair—as if any war at this stage of human social evolution could be a local affair.

2nd, In the fact that we have been trying to lay it all up to the kings, kaisers and diplomats—as if the destiny of mankind depended upon anything so capricious as the whims or ambitions of a small group of men, when science

tells us that we live in a lawful uni- verse.

3d. In the fact that we have too long searched for the causes of the War entirely or mainly in the eco- nomic and material conditions of life in the vari ftis nations at war, rather than in the interaction of human ideas, ideals, attitudes, and valuations as they are affected by and find expres- sion in these conditions.

4th. On the fact that most of us even yet assume that the winning of this war is largely a matter of men, money, and munitions, rather than a

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ALFRED'S Y. M. C. A.

STEPS INTO LINE

College Association Plans To Raise $500 As Its Share of Nation-

wide Campaign For $35,000,000 For Y. M. Friendship Fund

TOWN CANVASS FRIDAY AFTERNOON

The entire United States is in the midst of raising a fund of $35,000,000 for the continuance of the War Y. M.

C. A. work, and it is up to Alfred to do her share in this highly commend- able project. There will be a Y. M.

C. A. subscription day in Alfred next Friday, and all are urged to make plains to ccintribute a little at least, to this cause.

The wcymen of New York City reported Tuesday that their first day's campaign for the war work fund had resulted in contributions of practically half a million. Included in this is the contribution of Mrs. E. H. Harri- man of $10,000 a month during the period of the war. Other wealthy ladies have subscribed large amounts, and the total for New York City on Tuesday was $3,534,645.

Many prominent men are back of this movement, including President Wilson, Gov. Whitman, and Newton D.

Baker, Secretary of War. The following letter was sent out by President Wilson to Dr. Mott, chairman of the International Y. M. C. A.:

"The special campaign for $35,000,- 000 which the Y. M. C. A. has in- augurated is of vital importance to the work of increasing the content- ment and efficiency of our citizen army; it is fundamental to making morale the 'basis of a military morale, and should engage the generous support of all our people. N I bespeak for it an unanimity and a unity of . effort and of gifts, to speed this patriotic and practical work for- ward to abundant and complete success."

Gov. Whitman in an address at the opening of the Red Triangle Campaign in Buffalo, said in part:

"For the past two years I have been

close to the uniformed men of the State of New York. Last summer I visited the Texas border and I can say without fear 01 contradiction that all the other means for good, as opposing the forces of evil, combined did not contribute as much to the welfare of our soldiers as did the Y. M. C. A. I visited the Y. M. C. A.

building and found our boys there being taken care of and being given the environment, comfort and help of the home life, and when we give to the Y. M. C..A. we are giving al- most directly to our own sons, our brothers, and the men who are tak- ing our place in shouldering this bur- den of civilization."

It is up to the students and residents of Alfred to do their part in helping to produce their quota of the $35,000,000.

Let everyone do his part next Friday when the Alfred campaign will be in force. Support the Y. M. C. A.

SHIPS OF CONCRETE

Hugh N. Nelson of Chicago Delivers Interesting Lecture In Alfred

Monday evening, Nov. 12, an illus- trated lecture was given by Mr. Nelson in Agricultural Hall, on the subject,

"Concrete Ships and Barges." It was a very interesting and instructive lec- ture1. Mr. Nelson came from the Portland Cement Co., Chicago, 111.

This Association has a series of lectures which are being sent c(ut to various engineering schools and de- partments of the country, and it is expected that at intervals of two or three weeks this winter, lectures on "Con-

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EMPHASIS NOW

ON BASKETBALL

Early Practice of Unusual Number of Applicants

Promises Excellent Team SCHEDULE TO IN-

CLUDE TEN GAMES

The oval pig-skin ball that Coach Sweetland handed to an ambitious line of gridironers this fall on Alfred field, has been discarded formally for the season of 1917, and now the center of Alfred's athletic activity lies in the old Academy Hall, where the basketball season is just getting under way.

There are a large number of candi dates this season, fully thirty men having reported at different times, and the prospects for a first class team are excellent. This is the first time in several years that Alfrd has em phasized basketball as a major spc.Tt, and the complete schedule will call for ten games, practically all of these being with inter-collegiate opponents.

There will be no cut in the squad this season, and every man that re ports faithfully is assured of a square deal. It is better that this should be so, as there are many men who can not hope to make this year's team, who may be likely for Varsity material another season, and a year with the scrubs will help them greatly. Of course, after a' good general estimate has been made of each individual's ability, the men that are doing the best work will get the greater oppor- tunity for practice, and will get more work at each practice period than the more mediocre players. However, every man that reports will have a chance, and each man that is already out or contemplates being out is urged to remain as a candidate.

The men who have reported to date are as follciws: Lobaugh, Hagar, MacFadyen, Cole, Sherwood, Craw- ford, B. Witter, DeWitt, Alderman, Ne- gus, Poole, Moyer, Kane, Collin, Dan- forth, Solar, Gauiss, Vossler, Planck, Holmes, Ockerman, M DeWitt, Ellison, Spink, Mohney, Carter, Clarke, Ban- gert, Spencer, Maxson, R. Witter, Hil- debrand.

There are possibly one or two others who have reported, whose names fail to appear above.

The regular practice periods will be on Monday, Wednesday and Saturday evenings, and on Friday afternoons.

During the present week, however, the practice of the Junior play will conflict with basketball and the Bulletin Board in the post office will state the time and date of the practice periods.

Competition for places on the team is very close, and Hagar, Lobaugh, Crawford, Cole, Collin, Poole, and others have been showing up in excellent form. At center the fight is between Sherwood, MacMadyen, Carter, Hildebrand, Danforth and Mohney, and all seem to be doing first class work.

In the guard positions DeWitt, B. Wit- ter, Alderman, Negus, Gaiss, Moyer, Kane and others have been more than holding their own. There is no question but that the proposition of pick- ing a team will be a hard one.

SIXTH ANNUAL

FRUIT SHOW

SCHOOL OF AGRICUL-

TURE, NOVEMBER i

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, 16 Niagara Farm Bureau Manager

N. R. Peet Speaks on "Fruit Growing in Niagara County"

"Cows are not all there are in New York state," said Mr. Peet in a snappy, business-like talk before the Country Life Club Thursday evening. And he proved it, too, when he said that Ni- agara county, ranks first in the production of peaches, pears, plums, prunes, quinces, and apples, and that in the total production of all fruit, it ranks second. 2500 cars of peaches were shipped out this year, representing the peach crop harvested in two and one-half weeks. It usually takes over 2400 extra men for harvesting, but this year only 1100 men were available, and the Farm Cadets, who were expected to help, failed to show their patriotism.

He also gave a very interesting de- scription of the Fruit Spraying Sys- tem which was worked out this year in that county during the spring. The big thing about this system is the fact that it worked.

The county was first divided into- six zones. A criterion orchard was.

then selected from each zone and visited each day during the several periods of disease infection by the spraying expert. When he returned to his headquarters each night, he had

"all the weather in the world" at hand from which to' make out his reports.

If he thought conditions would be right for spraying the next day in zone five, for instance, he telephoned his reports to a certain man in that zone. This man telephoned it to three others each of whom gave it to three apiece.

Each of these nine men got it to>

twenty-seven others and so on until everyone who was in the system was notified. All information was sent in code and it was all read back to be O. K'd. by each man. Every member had a chart of the telephone system and the telephone numbers of all the men for whom he was responsible.

Everyone had to keep the information which he received, on blanks made for that purpose. Two things show the high specialization of this Spray- ing Service System: first, everyone in the county could be notified in less- than an hour and second, all these reports which have since been returned ta headquarters (about 75 per cent of the total number) have been found correct.

The Fruit Show that was held last Thursday was a pronounced success, even though the amount of fruit raised this year is of an inferior quality as compared to the products of other years. Some very good exhibitions were put up in which the finest apples, in this secti(in were representd.

There were 210 plates of apples en exhibition, and 25 plates of pears, besides several plates of miscellaneous fruit including grapes, quinces and persimmons.

FOUNDERS' DAY

Prof. George L. Burr, LL. D., of the The day will probably be observed Pres. White Library, who is professor

of Mediaeval History at Cornell Univer- sity, will give the Founders' Day address this year.

on Thursday, December 6, as Prof.

Burr will be unable to come to Alfred on Wednesday, December 5, which ia the anniversary.

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AGRICULTURAL SCHOOL NEWS

Prof. Banta attended a school fair at Purdy Creek on Saturday evening.

Prof. Cone was present at a teachers' conference at Savona on Thursday.

The Faculty held an informal ban- quet on Wednesday evening in Agri- cultural Hall.

Director Wright attended a meeting of the Board of Supervisors at Belmont on Wednesday last.

Miss Cheesman gave a demonstra- tion in connection with food conserva- tion work in Hornell last Saturday evening.

The State Department of Agricul- ture will probably detail several men to this school for further instruction along this line.

Prof. Barnhardt attended a school fair at Big Creek on Thursday evening, where he judged the fruit and vege- tables which were exhibited.

Thornton McAllister, N. Y. S. A. '18, left on Friday evening for his home at Ridgeway, Pa., Jerome Powell, N.

Y. S. A. '18, accompanied him.

The Bachelors' Club initiated on Wednesday evening, and the follow- ing men were admitted: Harold G.

Langworthy; Edward Anderson.

A meeting to establish a Poultry Or- ganization was held last Monday even- ing in Agricultural Hall. This was due to the great interest shown in this line of agriculture by several of the students.

A new course is to be given in the Agricultural School ta prepare men to meet the examination which the new state law compels men to take in or- der to receive a license to test milk using the Babcock Test.

Harry Jordan, a graduate of N. Y. S.

A. in the class of '13, is installing an Empire Milking Machine in the State Barn to be used for demonstration purposes, and in connection with the laboratory work in Farm Machinery and Farm Practice.

STUDENTS

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school boards and by the different states,

•without examination. ,

If you are nuisical and have a desire to teach Public School Music, call a t the Studio and the course will be explained

RAY W. W1NGATE

Director University Dep't. of Music

Prof. Cone attended a school fair at Hartsville on Saturday evening.

The following members of the fac- ulty were in attendance at a Masonic Convention and banquet in Wellsville last Thursday evening: Prof. Remsen, Prof. Banta, Prof. Sheffield, Prof.

Thomas, Prof. Wingate, Mr. E. E.

Poole, Mr. W. E. Drummqnd.

The debate at Country Life Club for next week will be on the following question: Resolved, "That womn who hold men's positions in war time should receive men's pay." The affirmative is to be taken by the Country Life Club, and the Bachelors' Club will support the negative.

About thirty men from N. Y. S. A.

averagedtwotdays'work each at helping the farmers in Allegany and nearby counties to harvest their potato crops.

These men are to be highly com- mended for their interest in helping the fai-mers as the days missed in school must be made up in a satisfac- tory manner.

COUNTRY LIFE PROGRAM

At the Country Life meeting held in connection with the fruit show last Thursday evening, the following pro- gram was rendered:

Gleanings Miss Marian Howe Reading Mr. Gasper Quartet

Mohney, Ellison, Tatje, Camenga Address

N. R. Peet, Farm Bureau Agent in Niagara County

Address

Mr. Smith, Farm Bureau Agent of Allegany County

Chorus N. Y. S. A. Girls

JUNIOR BANQUET

The Juniors held an informal ban- quet last Tuesday evening for the members of the class and their in- vited guests. There were about seventy-five people present, and every- one reported an ercellent time. The following program was rendered:

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CONCRETE SHIPS AND BARGES

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crete Roads," "The Cement Gun and Its Product," "Concreting in Cold Weather," and "Concrete Materials,"

will be given here by lecturers, who are engineers of high standing in the concrete industry.

"Reinforced concrete was first used in boat building," said Mr. Nelson.

"In France in 1849, a concrete rowboat was constructed which has been in constant use for 70 years' without re- pair, notwithstanding* the fact that the cement of that time was very much inferior to that of today. In 1849, scows and barges were built of concrete in Italy, and in 1905-6, an Italian engineer constructed a barge of 250 tons capacity. In Holland as early as 1887, small barges of cement were built for use on the canals. It was not until 1910, however, that ce- ment was used in American ship build- ing industry, and then only as an ex- periment. The "Pioneer," an 80 foot vessel, was built for use on the Well- and Canal, and several barges were constructed in Panama about the same time for carrying stone. The hulls of these boats are only 2% inches thick but they have undergone extremely hard usage as stone barges for several years without repair of any kind. This is obviously much better than steel or wooden barges could do. At the present time pontoons, floating'docks, barges, rowboats, motorboats, and a few passenger ships are constru -.ted of concrete. The ships are built in wooden fcirms. The ribs and beam are of steel and the reinforcements are iron webs and mesh. The reinforce- ments of the outer hull are first cov- ered with a coating of cement about an inch thick. Then the inner hull is built and cement is poured in between he two. In most of the ships two or three rows of water tight compart- ments are left between the hulls and n the case of oil carrying ships these are filled with oil.

The method of building and launch- ng these large boats is very unique md interesting. They are built bot- omside up and launched the same vvay. The lower row of hull compart- ments which are now under water lave been left open so that they will ill with water. This makes, the boat topheavy. The bucyancy of the empty compartments under water causes the joat to right itself automatically. As soon as the boat is right side up, the water is pumped out of the lower com- partments.

The U. S. government has at pres- ent models of concrete ships on trial and study. That these boats are much less liable to submarine destruc- tion than wood or steel is now certain.

Concrete absorbs shock much easier than any other material and when a torpedo would tear the whole side or bottom out ctf a steel vessel, the force of the explosion would be concentrated within- a small area in the case of a concrete ship and very little damage would be done.

Concrete for ships has heretofore not been considered very seriously, but at present there are ships under construction as high as 3000 tons ca- pacity. Some of the mam advantages over wood and steel of concrete for boat building are:

1. Concrete ships are not effected i by wood eating wc<rms or by barnacles. | Consequently, the expense of docking and scraping is saved.

2. They do not have to be painted to aid in preservation.

3. They are absolutely fireproof.

4. The smooth surface of concrete lessens the power needed to drive them through the water by 15 to 20 per cent of that needed for the same size wood-

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Just because you feel strong and healthy today, don't neglect to take out that insurance policy.

"Some little Bug is going to get you some day." Today is the time to take out insurance. Tomorrow never comes to a great many.

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FIAT LUX

Alfred, N. Y., November 20, 1917

EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Julia Wahl '18

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AGRICULTURAL EDITOR Ualph Mohney, N. Y. S. A.

ASSOCIATE EDITORS Enid White '18 Robert Sherwood '19

REPORTERS Raj' Witter '20 Charles Alsworth '20 MANAGING EDITOR S. Pritjof Hildebrand '18 ASSISTANT MANAGING EDITOR

Harold Reid '20

AGRICULTURAL MANAGING EDITOR Donald Alderman, N. Y. S. A.

TEKMS : $1.50 per year in advance Address all communications of a business nature to E. EVitjof Hildebrand.

Responsibility is quite an ordinary

•frord, ordinary in the sense that we are familiarly with it, but how many of us actually know from experience Avhat it really means? Why is it that certain individuals among our midst invariably try to shift the responsi- bility of certain tasks from their own shoulders to some one else's? There are some people, to be sure, who carry out the duties assigned to them. There are others, who, when asked to do a thing-, either refuse absolutely, or else do it in such a half-hearted way that it might better have been left un- done.

Have you ever stopped to think what the result would be if everyone should refuse to fulfill the obligations he or she Is asked to carry out? No

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you haven't, for it sometimes takes

energy to think, too.

We often think that our small part in college c,r social activities is not of much account. In a way it is small.

But if we are willing to assume the responsibility of smaller things, when the time comes we will be more Capable and better prepared to do the bigger things.

Now, more than ever before, when the whole world is at war, we know liot for how long, it behooves each and every one of us to do whatever work may be assigned to us. We do not know what we may be called upon to do in the future. People of other countries Have had to perform tasks Which before the war they would have thought impossible. We, too, have thought of the war as some distant dream,—as something which could not touch us. But it is a bitter reality, and it is going to demand unselfish Sacrifice and untiring work on the part of each and every one of us.

Don't be afraid of doing too much, but do the work assigned to you, Whether it be pleasant or unpleasant, and you will at least have the satis- faction of having done your part.

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Senate, Brick.

Red Cross, Ag Hall.

Sabbath Choir Practice Glee Club, Studio.

Reception for Fresh- men, Pres. Davis'.

Tag Day.

Sunday Choir Practice, Gothic.

"The Pennant," Fire- mens Hall.

MEETING OF THE NEW YORK STATE BRANCH OF THE

AMERICAN CERAMIC SOCIETY

In Hornell Monday and Tuesday

The members of the Ceramic So- ciety from New York State will meet in Hornell, Monday and Tuesday, to organize a New York State Branch of the American Ceramic Society. The meetings will be held in the Carnegie Library. Monday will be taken up with organizing and electing officers.

Tuesday there will be talks on differ- ent subjects of interest to the Ceramic Engineer. Prof. Binns will talk on Chemical Porcelain. Raymond Howe, '15, will give a paper on Refractories.

Mr. Purdy, Mr. Barringer, and Mr.

Biddle, all prominent Ceramic men, will give talks. Most of the Ceramic Engineers in school are expecting to attend the meetings on Tuesday.

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Y. W. C. A.

The meeting was in charge of Ada Walsh and Sara Randolph, who took up the very interesting little pamphlet,

"Making the World Safe for Women."

It was a resume of the Y. W's. of France, Belgium, England, Africa, South America, China, India, and Jap- an. Some of the material threw in- teresting side-lights on effects of the war and the sword,—the sword that strikes hardest to the heart of woman.

The little poem below may well be applied to other countries besides Eng- land where it was written:

"Oh, it's dreary work, and it's weary work,

But none of us will fail or shirk;

Not women's work — that should make, not mar,

But the Devil drives when the world's at war."

Y. M. C. A.

Pastor Biirdick gave a very inter- esting account of the work of the Y. M.

in the concentration camps. He told of the many branches of work done by the Y. M. secretaries. Having been at Camp Merrit, Pastor Burdick told of what he actually saw of the fine work the Y. M. is doing there.

Next Sunday evening Moyer and Sherwood will have charge of the program.

ANOTHER NEW ATTRACTION IN THE BANK WINDOW

The Alfred housewives have found food for thought this week in the milk exhibit which the home economics de- partment of the Agricultural School placed in the bank window. This dis- play of food materials has fc(r its aim the comparative food value of milk and other foods. There are three separate groups. In the first are shown por- tions of different foods, equival' * in

protein value to one quart of JU. k.

For example: a person must eat five eggs to receive as much protein as he would get from a quart of milk.

In another group we see the differ- ent amounts of food which are the energy equivalent of a quart of milk, and in the third group the proportion of lime in milk is compared with that in other foods. Thus one reaches the conclusion that milk at twelve cents or even fifteen cents a quart is a cheap food.

RED CROSS

The Red Cross has solved the prob- lem of candy making in these sugar- less days. They have solved it be- cause they wanted to send Christmas boxes to the Alfred soldiers, so they bought dates and stuffed them, and they boiled and stirred maple syrup in- to a very fine variety of fudge? Twenty- five boxes of sweets was the result.

But there are many more boxes to be made; so this week they will meet again at Agricultural Hall. If you are interested, and you are, why not give a box qr two of dates to the president, Miss Wilson, or a little money with which to buy materials? Remember the boxes are for Alfred boys.

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CONVENTION AT SYRACUSE

The Sigma Alpha Gamma is not a member of the Women's Student Gov- ernment Organization because the Or- ganization demands that there be at least thirty women in the graduating class. But the local governing body is interested in the problems of other colleges, and it is desirous of advanc- ing the interests of Alfred. So, Miss Elsie Swallow was elected as a dele- gate to the Convention held at Syra- cuse, Thursday and Friday, under the direction of the Organization. Miss Ethel Smith and Miss Laura Keegan also attended the Convention.

CERAMIC ENGINEERS HEAR OF THE PRESENT POTTERY

SITUATION

At the meeting of the Ceramic So- ciety last Tuesday evening Donald Fuller '19, gave a very interesting talk on the pottery situation at the pres- ent. He reviewed the recent strike of the potters in East Liverpool, Ohio, telling of the causes of the strike and the final agreement reached between '.he men and the manufacturers. The next meeting will be held a week from tonight.

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COLLEGE CAMPUS

Dr. J. N. Norwood spoke at the Bap- tist Church in Cuba last Sunday.

Dean Worden '19, has returned from the farm. We are glad to see him.

Pres. Davis has been in Plainfield, N. J., and New York City this past week.

Leroy McAstlin of Elmira has been visiting the Elmira boys at the K. K.

K. house over the week-end.

Dr. P. E. Titsworth and Dr. G. Chap- man Jones were in Cuba last week in the interests of the Improvement Fund.

Pres. Davis says the campaign is averaging about $1,000 a week.

Colwell Davis '20, left Saturday night for Westerly, R. I., where he will act as witness in a trial. Davis saw an automobile accident and now is getting a fine trip to act as witness. He ex- pects to visit his brother, Stanton Davis '17, who is at Yale Medical Col- lege.

The University quartet received a hearty welcome at the Masonic ban- quet in Wellsville last Thursday even- ing. The quartet, Wingate, Davis, Fiske and Sherwood, were booked for two, numbers. They must have made an impression because they were en- cored heartily both times. And Prof.

Wingate sang one of those many good songs he sings. And Pres. Davis gave a very interesting speech on Patrio- tism, reviewing the War at the pres- ent time. Alfred was well repre- sested.

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The Class of 1919 in Alfred University

presents

"THE PENNANT"

AN OPERETTA IN TWO ACTS Directed By Mrs. Ramon Reynolds

Saturday Evening, Nov. 24th, 1917

7:45

At Firemens Hall

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A CHALLENGE TO INTELLIGENT IDEALS

Prof. Clarke Gives The Student As- sembly a New Viewpoint on The

World Situation Continued from page one

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matter of which group of belligerents can hold onto its ideals through the stress and strain of war.

5th. In the fact that most of us are satisfied—now that someone has de- fined the war to be fundamentally a conflict between autocracy and democracy, a struggle, so far as we are con- cerned, to "make the world safe for I demqcracy" to accept that definition, throw ourselves into the struggle, and give up any further thinking until our blood and brawn shall have subdued the Germans, little realizing that in I

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that very act of dropping back to the j level of instinct and force alone, we j are doing our worst to make the world j impossible for democracy.

But what is so stupid or lacking in insight about these attitudes toward the War. Fundamentally, just this, I that they are all largely instinctive j reactions to a world situation which!

human instincts were never fashioned' to meet.

There are other factors and forces i involved in this world struggle than i tonnage, focd, clothing, munitions, and j the physical energies of men. And!

these factors are the social attitudes,' the social ideals, and the social values held dear by millions of men and women on both sides of the conflict.

These factors are not mere counters, mere instruments in the struggle;

they are the living, interaction, growing forces which produced the War and whose adjustmnt must finally de- termine its outcome. But the problem is one which we cannot hope to solve without passing through Gese- mane. It challenges the keenest in- telligence, the broad vision, and action upon the deepest convictions that we men and women can summon.

The problem may be stated: "What has it in our relationships with each other that could not help but lead on to such a terrible conflict, In what fundamental ways must we modify our human attitudes and relationships—

industrial, commercial, political, sci- entific, religious—in order to secure the foundations of a worthy and lasting peace? It will do no good to lightly throw all the blame off onto the Central Powers. We are de- fining this war as one to make the world safe for democracy and many are properly beginning to question whether we must not do something besides defeat the Germans in arms i before such a state of affairs can be I ushered in.

Education, fraternalized commerce, social idealism, international law, and Christianity—these are not ready for the discard. They are humanity's great hope. This war is not so much [ an occasion for despair concerning

them as it is a challenge to a better understanding and a finer use of them.

One of the most sericfcis conditions is that change of attitude toward the Germans which thousands of our allied soldiers and sailors, and even those who are at home are undergoing.

Everywhere we read and hear that the War on both sides has been gradu- ally settling down to a war of bitter hatred. Men who have entered the Red Crftss work, the engineering corps, the merchant marine and other non- combatant branches of the service to avoid the horror of having killed a brother man have become so bitter that they now have no keener antici- pations than those of getting a chance to gore with the bayctaet as many Germans as possible, or blow them in- to smithereens with grenades or aerial bombs.

Can the world be saved for democracy if such a process is to go on in- definitely? Can we ever win this war from Germany and for a better world by sinking to the level of Germany's inhuman methods the methods of instinct in all its dehumanized brutality?

Of what use is it to try to beat the Germans in the trenches, on the seas, or in the air, if we allow the Germans to beat us in our souls? Can real democracy live in a world where hate thrives? Can we reasonably hc'pe for even a human ending of the War if men and women are going to permit their attitudes toward their enemies to be determined by instinctive tend- encies alone rather than by a firm resolve to think things through?

Christianity, commerce, education, international law, will fail unless we inject a new spirit and a new atti-|

ude into. them. And that new spirit]

and ideal can never come so long as we rely cln traditional attitudes and instinctive reactions. It will come only as the result of earnest effort to understand what human living to- gether really involves, to see where our old assumptions and attitudes have been weak and to firmly resolve that we shall progressively work out intelligent ideals ta guide the course of our life.

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The State School of Agriculture a t Alfred University will cffer during the coming winter short practical courses in Food Produc- tion designed especially for those who are unable to attend the regular long term courses.

No tuition No Entrance Examinations Term begins January 3, 1918.

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