STUDENT WAR STRIKE

The field in which the radicals have stirred up the most response and done some really creditable work is the field of peace promotion. But here they have clouded the issue and neglected the opportunity to get out in front of the whole undergraduate body by waging their campaign along partisan lines. Some 900 undergraduates turned out on April 12 for the mass meeting in Webster Hall, Dartmouth's part in the International Student Anti-War Strike. Contrary to the belief of the skeptics, most of these men were not there just to join in the excitement. They were definitely and sincerely interested in the cause of peace, and they went to the meeting to hear a denunciation of warwar in all its forms. Instead they heard a denunciation of capitalism, and incidentally the war which it breeds. Most of them filed out disgusted and disillusioned.

An interesting phase of Dartmouth life in the past month'has been a sudden spurt of creative energy in the field of writing. Samuel F. Morse '36, of Danvers, Mass., had five poems published in the March issue of College Verse. A humorous article by Robert A. Sellmer '35, of Milwaukee, retired Managing Editor of Jack-o-Lantern, was published in the April issue of Life. Two short stories by Budd W. Schulberg '36, of Los Angeles, Editor-in-Chief of The Dartmouth, and one by George E. Cole '36, of Winnetka, Ill., were selected as Dartmouth entries in the College Short Story Contest sponsored by Story Maga- zine. Harold J. Kennedy '35, of Holyoke, Mass., sold a play he wrote to Samuel French and Co., and it will be published soon. And in late May the Dartmouth Players will produce a two-act musical satire, "Banned in Boston" by Maurice Rapf '35. of Los Angeles, and Budd Schulberg, with lyrics by Paul M. Siskind '35 of Lawrence, Mass. This will be the first show written by students to be presented in Hanover since 1931.