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llllll 55 VOL. 17 PHOENIX, ARIZONA, OCTOBER l3, i944 NO, 4 PAINT, SKITS HIGHLIGHTS OF INITIATION Three-minute readings by each of the initiates started the annual Masque and Dagger initiation held last night in the Auditorium. Taking over, the old members transformed the initiates with paint and brushes and compelled them to give impromptu skits and portrayals cf inanimate objects. The party then moved to the club room where refreshments were served. , Those accepted as members of the dramatic society were: Dudley Miller, Roberta Brown, Dantzelle Call, Larry Cantor, William English, Beverly Busey, Pat Foutz, Mary Lou Chambers, Ruth Baum, Betty Hagerty, Dolores Philabaum, Emma Jean Foord, George Prince, Tom Gann, Millicent Good, Don Yeager, Ellen Jane Rex, Betty Heflin, Betty Sawyer, Aird Stewart, Gloria Grosh, Barbara Smith, Pat Hockenberry, Vic Pulis, and Marilyn Lee. Members of the refreshment commit- tee were Rosemary Annon, chairman, Phyllis Barabe, and Pat Haire. Mary Jo deRouhlac was in charge of the initiation prograrn. . ..Oi.-1.1 The Executive Boa rd -named -Anna Smith, secretary of the board, student chairman of the Stamp and Bond campaign. -is formulating plans for a student body HalIcwe'en Dance, October 28. -appointed Genay Schoeny, Joan Eich- anouer, and J. L. Faulkner to the As- sembly Committee. -discussed alcoholism and a plan to put it before the student body at an as- sembly. -asked Bill Henderson to investigate the feasibility of putting benches near the bus stop tor student and faculty convenience. -appointed Glenn Baker to invite Mr. Hammaker of the Y. M. C. A. to the next board meeting to discuss the World Student Fund. Battle plans are made for the Bond Drive. Beachheads were established Tuesday, and by , now the Committee has the situation well in hand. L. to R. Miss Miller, Mr. Newnam, Anna Smith, and Miss Hooper. DR. HANNELLY TRAVELS NORTH Dr. Hannelly, Southwestern Director' of the National Education Association, De- partment of Classroom Teachers, is today in Wyoming speaking in his official ca- pacity on the Five Year Program of the N. E. A He left last Tuesday by train on this tour which will take him through Chey- enne, Laramie, and Wheatland. The ex- pansion of the membership of the N. E. A. from 300,000 teachers to 400,000 within the year and from there to l,000,- O00 within five years will be the subject of his three talks. As the Southwestern Director of the N. E. A., Dr. Hannelly's duties consist, in general, of expanding membership, promoting teachers' interest in their teaching and assisting in the working out of a program for local classroom teachers. Dr. Hannelly's regular territory in- cludes California, Nevada, Utah, Colo- rado, New Mexico, Arizona and Hawaii. He is travelling out of it at this time, but he says, The N. E. A. thought it best to send me on this jaunt. Although Dr. Hannelly will be gone from the campus for three days, he will be back an hour before classes on Mon- day. BOND, STAMP DRIVE OPENS The sale of War Bonds and Stamps on the campus got under- way Tuesday with the selling of Stamps from a table in the cafe- teria. Mr. Newnam, chairman of the bond committee, has an- nounced that Bonds can be pur- chased from Miss Miller in the Dean's office. Anna Smith, student chairman of Stamp sales, has appointed girls to sell during each of the three lunch periods at this table. They are as follows: Col- leen Tummins, Wilberta Bradshaw, Ar- lene Mathew, Aird Stewart, Donna Mc- Neil, Anna Maie,Murphy, Alice Hurley, Betty Foskett, and Dora Kline.. Advertising posters which are being put up around the school, have been made by Charlotte Lubman 'nunder the direction of Mrs. Schlag. Miss Hooper, of the 'Registrar's office, will be in charge ofthe War Stamps. The student selling the stamps fourth period will check them out from her, and the one who sells the sixth period will return the unsold stamps and money to her, Dean Wyman has agreed to let the school receive credit for any Bonds which have been purchased from the post office or from local banks, provided they have not been .previously credited to sbme other organization.
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Page I4 BEAR TRACKS-PHOENIX JUNIOR COLLEGE They said it was a dance contest. Navaio or Apache, l don't know what kind it was, but grand champions were Rosemary An- non and Phyllis Barabe. Pat Haire gives out with the prizes. ABOUT THE MOVIES lBear Tracks presents as a standard feature the movie review which will express the opin- ions of motion picture critics from such mag- azines as Time, The Nation, New Republic, and The New Yorker.-Ed.J 'Dragon Seed' though often awkward and pretentious, never-the-less has mo- ments of moral and dramatic grandeur, reports the Time critic. ln addition he commends Walter Hus- ton for his characterization of Ling Tan in whom the greatness of a whole people sometimes touches sublimity. The Nation reports adversely that Dragon Seed is an almost unimaginably bad movie. The critic goes on to say that Holly- wood has clothed the actors in tailor- made peasant uniforms, turned their eyes to a slant, had them employ speech in the Biblical style, and called them typical Chinese. However, the Nation too com- mends Huston for a performance that is simpIy sincere and fine. Critic of The New Yorker expresses the opinion that Dragon Seed presents a group of Hollywood actors, in Chinese disguise silly to the eye, reproducing lives, thoughts, and experiences unknown to them in a land unknown to them and using good Chinese actors as Japanese. Also the review announces that the ac- tors' unselfconsciousness and their faith in the illusion they are creating gradually tends to convince the audience of its veracity. 'Q-.4 F' N Bill Henderson registers with Rosemary Annon so he can vote in the Bear Tracks poll to find the presidential choice. Roosevelt Winner Of Straw Vote l The Bear Tracks' Straw Vote No. I, which was held on Monday, showed that Roosevelt was the more popular presiden- tial nominee among the students. He had 101 votes as compared with Dewey's 55. The number of people voting for the two candidates broken down according to sex and class are as follows: for Dewey- l5 freshman boys, I9 freshman girls, 6 sophomore boys, and I5 sophomore girls, for Roosevelt-46 freshman boys, 22 freshman girls, I7 sophomore boys, and I6 sophomore girls. The staff members were very pleased by the amount of cooperation given the voteg 156 people, almost half of the student body, voted in less than three hours. Radio Audition Held ' A radio audition for vocal and instru- mental talent was held last Wednesday afternoon, October 4, between 3:30 and 5:00 in the auditorium. The audition was held to discover school talent to be used over KPHO, the Blue Network, two or three times weekly. These programs will be under the supervision of Mr. Smelser, who invites the cooperation of the faculty and students. The programs will consist of music and drama in fifteen minute programs. In the near future KPHO will run a wire to the Phoenix Junior College auditorium, where broadcasting equipment already is installed. A Some party. Rosemary Jagger filled the punch bowl at least ten times. Beverly Erhardt points out to a customer that it is good punch . Helen Ong and Lula Barnes pass out a drink to Virginia Harvey. Said Hel'en, What have I done?
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I Page I6 A BEAR TRACKS-PHOENIX JUNIOR COLLEGE BEAR TRACKS I Published By the Students of Phoenix Junior College Member Associate Collegiate Press SU PERSTITION VS. KNOWLEDGE TODAY IS FRIDAY THE l3TH . . . It seems only right and proper on such a widely acclaimed day of black magic to delve into the occult and into super- stition itself. For all of us, despite denials to the contrary, have pet beliefs which can be classified as superstition. You'll find an attempt here to convince you of their foolishness . . . for the key to solving the source of all such strange be- liefs follows. SUPERSTITION IS BASED on the com- mon logical fallacy often termed post hoc ergo propter hoc lafter this, there- fore, because of thisl. That is, the belief that a temporal sequence of events car- ries with it a casual relationship. THATS HIGH-POWERED language, so let's take an example such as the familiar black cat to illustrate this type cf thinking. Suppose a man was walking down a street when a black cat crossed his path. Immediately after he fell and broke his leg, and just as immediately laid the blame upon the cat. Thereafter, he avoided all black cats, deeming them a cause of misfortune. YOU CAN EASILY see how this idea originated and grew from those ignor- ant folk of long ago, who lacked rational or ,satisfying reasons in terms of cause and effect. Their ignorance of natural laws and their fear forced the explana- tions into the world of the supernatural, and regardless of much intellectual head- way since then, we still find ourselves bogged down in the mire of supersti- tion. HOW MANY OF YOU connect a square jaw with will power, red hair with temper, low forehead with crimi- nality, slender hands with artistic tem- perament? How many of you believe that fx lightning never strikes twice in the same place, that friends walking on opposite sides of a post will quarrel, that if a man can't look you in the eye he is dis- honest? HOW MANY OF YOU, through noth- ing but wishful thinking, place blame upon ladders, umbrellas, cats, the num- ber l3 or 3, a two-dollar bill, the moon, or a broken mirror? And how many, with the same wishful thinking, consider a wish made upon a falling star, a load of hay, the first evening star, or a white horse in- fallible? CHECK THE THEORY we mentioned above with any of the following super- stitions, and see how easily it could be applied to their origin, also . . . Tell a dream before breakfast and it will come true, expect company after dropping a fork, howling of a dog a sign of death, a person catching a bride's bouquet will be the next to marry, plant crops by the moon, sign of coming bad luck is a broken dish at a party, it is bad luck to take a broom when moving to a new house, a lost wedding ring means an un- happy married life. SO YOU SEE, we cannot place all the blame upon those primitive people, for we, too, despite our. culture , still fos- ter that line of thought. lt grows not only from wishful thinking and erroneous thought, but from emotional maladjust- ment and attempts to escape distasteful or painful reality. SUPERSTITION IS A PROBLEM, for superstition is ignorance. As knowledge grows, so does superstition wane, though it is far from being stamped out yet. Much of this fallacious type of thinking still persists, and it is a challenge to our search for truth and reason. IT SEEMS T0 ME ll am indebted to the late Hey- wood Brown for the title of this column.-E. L.l The assemblies this year have been particularly good. A repeat performance from the musicians which we have heard this year would be enthusiastically re- ceived. George Warner with his boogie- woogie and Messrs. Tretick and Redewill with their violin music would not be too hard to listen to. Where are the hands on the clock in front of the auditorium? Two stars in the political firmament have gone out with the death of Al Smith and Wendell Willkie. Both were also rans who had the fortitude to remain active in politics even after they were defeated for the presidency. Their influence was felt greatly and they will be' sorely missed. We are glad to see- that our old friends Fibber McGee and Molly back on the air waves on Tuesdays. Posted about the campus at strategic points are signs which read, Please fol- put up for to protect low the walks . These were a specific purpose, namely, the lawns from lazy students who would save a few steps by walking across the lawns. lt takes but a little while longer to follow the sidewalks. Those of us who were at J. C. last year can remember the paths on the front lawn between the doors of the Liberal Arts and the Science buildings. lt did not take long to wear the paths, but it took several months for the grass to grow back on the worn spots. Let this be a gentle reminder to those who look at the signs and then cut on across. E. L. 5 I S MUgTN'1' LET ,qN07,H 1 MAN cxosg MVPATHLZ? .-Us BAD Luck VHP
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