South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1922-05-21
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Fruit OF Staff
OF Best Talent
Shea, Editor-in-chief, Gains
Hearty Support Of All
Loyal Students.
By Nat Damien

- ~ these DAYS Of unfettereI youth
ful freedom. when fappers and
= fippers delight ln treading 20
the dangerous edge merely 20 en-
Joy the thrill OF just nearly going
over. r. Is pleasant % find that there
are some things not Of this doubtful
nature Some one has recently said
that these young cages imagine they
have drunk 10 the full Of the cup OF
life when 80 Is hardly time for them
20 have been weaned. Self-import-
ant youth IS numerous but all of
Us know that all young people are
not treading perilous ways. Every
youth Is happy because he has no
responsibility lie need not worry
but his nerrimeut need not have
a dangerous tendency
The average college comic. how
ever. mirrors the tendencies Of the
day The editors do not excuse
themselves. Their readers. they say
want things rare and racy. They
point 20 the changes In the worlds
code Of morals. and in this time
when TO he drunk is not a disgrace
bur a distinction. they attempt 10
the musical comedies. and the life
Of the readers Of the college publ
cations. Drunkenuess and other
forms OF doubtful pleasures are more
frequent this year than ever before
among college students and other
people Of the same age, figures say.
II the college students delight IN
such things and demand It in the col
lege comics, they must have it. argue
dhes editors Of most college comics.
And the editors give 70 to them
Now and then a college faculty
gazes in holy horror at the sup
posed humor. and now and then an
editorial board faces the grim per-
feet OF discipline and treads the
path 20 home. The editors Of The
Ghost" at George washington uni
versity printed an unusually risque
number during this last year and
because Of pictures that portrayed
the ~pealng Of the bellies and sim
liar scenes. they are no longer stu
dents at that little school. The
editors of The Orange Peel" of
Syracuse. "The Williams Purple
Cow" and OTHERS have also ended
their college days because they gave
the students what they wanted.
But there IS more 10 college life
than petting and kisses and moon
shine. There is another side that
does not smack Of Hot Dog or
''Whiz Bang" and there is as much,
if not more. real humOr TO the
campus and class room absurdities.
m dor of rsTr N
IS too great. IL IS not a true rehec-
ton of college life. although even
the greatest of the college comics.
very good in their makeup and ma
terial, have given such fun extrava-
CANT space.
wholesome fooIishness ia the
best humor after all Several col
lege comics have made an effort
70 truly mirror the whimsicalities of
the campus One Of these in The
Jugglor" at the University Of Notre
Dame. Nothing unclean may enter
dts covers. the editors say In the
last issue. the Prom Number. they
commented editoralIy on the sub
ject:
The Juggler. in scanning the ex-
changes which monthly flood his
maflbox. notes with concern the
tendency of WIFI Bang which is
evident I'm the majority OF college
comics with the exception of a
few or our oldest and most firmly
established magazines. the college
humorous publications are degrading
10 a level which must make Captain
Billy fear for his future
"He feels that the only salvation
for those misguided editors is to
clean up their pages 10 substitute
genuine humor for the salacious and
suggestive In the future as In the
past he VIII avoid scrupulousIy all
that is Objectionable 10 the men OF
NOtre Dame.
incidentally. his thumbs are
down for faPpers. prohibition, ga
1oshes and petting-p parties his