APPLESAUCE

Back when Ossie was a kid he wanted a certain fire engine a long time before he finally got it. He used to stand by the store window 15 minutes every day looking at it. Finally his papa tired of listening to him and bought it for him. But after he had had it for a while, somehow he didn't like it as well as when it was just new. It wasn't so much fun to play with any more. What he needed was a train. . . .

Now Ossie is grown up and at college. He doesn't play with fire engines at all any more. He plays with the victrola instead. Every so often Ossie and his roommate have to go through their pile of records and seed out all the old ones, a few weeks old, that is. They give them to Algie or maybe, when they are feeling good some Saturday night, they smash them. The same pieces that sounded so hot about a month ago, too. But they're old now. That means they're not hot any more.

Ossie buys books, too, sometimes. But they have to be new books. There wouldn't be any sense in getting that story that the boys all raved about last fall. It wouldn't be worth reading now. He'd been too busy last fall, but that couldn't be helped. He'd have to do without it now. It's old.

There's a moral in this, if anyone can find it.

The month's column perhaps'represents a temporary trend backwards toward the style under the previous editorship, which was used rather effectively but seems no longer timely. Readers seem to welcome the thoughtful, carefully reasoned, analytical editorial.

The managing editor has been doing a good job on the news functions of the paper. Glaring night editors' "crocks" do not strike the reader in the face with the annoying frequency sometimes observed.

The Dartmouth has of late been burdened by an irregular visitation called "The Gilded Shovel," a pseudo-humorous column which is run as often as there is space. It has been criticised for occasional violations of good taste, for dealing in personalities, and for being un-funny, as well as for being unrepresentative of student attitudes. It bears the marks of an amachoor colyumist who is trying to find himself. The column is not without supporters among the students—possibly because it represents the points of least elevation in the undergraduate intellect. Readers are waiting with admirable patience for the Shoveler to find himself.

The Tomahawk, struggling Liberal Club publication, surprises everyone now and then by appearing on the news stands. It contains the sort of material which a college liberal magazine would be expected to contain, and runs up against the undergraduate inertia that a college liberal magazine would be expected to run up against. The May number contained a study of the American Association for the Advancement of Atheism by W. W. Ballard '28, comparing its psychology and technique with that of the Fundamentalists. Shu-Hsien Chang '29 contributed an article on the cancellation of war debts, and A. M. Hayes '30 another, on the physiological effects of alcohol on the human body.

The Tower passed into the editorship of T. D. Donovan '30, of Peabody, Mass., for its House Party number. In response to criticism for isolation from the campus and neglect and maltreatment of manuscripts, the new directorate collaborated with the retiring directorate in a reorganization and departmentalization of the staff, which promises much for the effectiveness of the magazine under the new regime. H. L. Birge '30, of West Hartford, Conn., is the new managing editor. E. W. Merkel '29, of Cincinnati, is the retiring head.

The Tower, perhaps unfortunately, continues to represent a minority interest on the campus.

The new staff of The Pictorial includes N. A. Rockefeller '30, of New York, editor; K. A. Meyer Jr. '30, of New York, managing editor; E. H. Zagat, of New York, business manager; R. H. Ryan '30, of Montpelier, Vt., advertising manager; and M. A. Cohen '30, of Holyoke, Mass., circulation manager.

The Pictorial and the president of the Camera Club are sponsoring a new departure in intercollegiate alliance in the form of an intercollegiate photographic association.

The function of the association will be to interchange photographs between the college pictorial magazines and newspaper pictorial sections. Letters are being sent to both men and women's colleges throughout the country, inviting them to help make the proposed association a reality. So far 51 colleges have been approached, most of whom have already expressed their complete willingness to co-operate. Similar letters will be sent to about 40 more institutions. As soon as the association has been established nationally, it is planned to extend its scope across the ocean, embracing Oxford, Cambridge, and the Sorbonne.

The purpose in forming such an organization is two-fold; first to create a greater general interest in photography, and secondly it is intended that the interchange between colleges of pictures depicting the life and activities at the various institutions throughout the country will bring the different campuses into a closer contact.

The Jack o'Lantern continues in its praiseworthy effort to cling to this side of the line of respectability. For the last issue of the year it passes into the hands of the newly elected editor, R. R. Bottome '30, of New York. Bottome is also managing editor of The Dartmouth. He belongs to Delta Kappa Epsilon, Green Key, and Sphinx.

The Dart, the literary magazine of the English 3 and 4 classes, which appeared for the first time a month ago, will not be published again this year, although enough copies of the first issue were sold to pay the cost of printing it. Publication will probably be resumed next fall.