Junior College Situation About three hours before this third edition of the Crumbs was scheduled to go to press, ye editor called us into his sumptious inner office. "Go out," said he, "and get for the Crubms teh facts on all this talk about college legislation, and committee of nine stuff, and selfishness in high circles that everybody's talking of." "Yes, sir," we said, deeply saloaming (editor's orders), and with realization of the great mission for the enlightenment of humanity that we were about to perform, courageously set forth. Now we reasoned with the best Alsupian logic, there are two parts to the school, student and faculty. Since the teachers are notoriously incorrect, and never read a newspaper anyway, that leaves only the students. So, we kept an eye peeled for them. First we encountered Cecil Tucker. "Mr. Tucker," we said, "the great multitude of Crumbs readers want enlightenment." Tucker expanded. "You came to the right man. What's the subject?" "Can you - excuse me - will you - give me the inside dope on all this Junior College legislation?" "Well," quoth he, "first let me take you back to old Grecian times. Some of the earliest great schools wore in Athens. I am told that the students there learned reading and writing and arithmetic - in Greek, you understand." We told him we did. "Good," he continued, "It was Carlyle who said, 'In the education of the people lies the safety of the republic.' That is noble sentiment. Such a statement, I am sure, is not irrelevant, incompetent and immaterial. Yes, we must have schools where we can train the young minds of our children in the finer things of life. But when I was in Mexico, I saw those same little children, instead of buying lunch, go into the gambling dens, put their pennies and nickels and dimes on the tables - and take a chance. It was pitiful - (deletions here due to lack of space, not material) - Yes, all in all, after due consideration, I conclude that I'm in favor of it. You may quote me as to that." "In favor of what?" "Education." But this was too much. We fled back to the office, confessed our failure, and then pillowed our heads on the rough and uncovered, but copious bosom of ye editor and had a good cry, being consoled by the though that nobody else in the school knew any more about state Junior College politics. Jim Sunquist