Fourteen Scribulus Towards Peace By George U. M. Matsu. The greatest single question facing us today is the alternative between peace and war. It is the problem of our generation. We have come to recognize the fact that permanent peace, like all good things cannot be had by dreaming about it, nor merely by declaring our desire for it. World peace is not an end to be gained through haphazard means; it requires patient study and wise application of the products of such study. In other words, there must be a substitution of rational thinking for mere idealisms. ACTION PEACTICAL ACTION that is what we need, for we must remember that blind action is more destructive that inactivity. Rational analysis of existing situations from a world point of view is the essential foundation for constructive action. Dr. Joseph L. Kunz, a distinguished international lawyer and an eminent authority on world politics, confirmed this doctrine in speaking before an earnest audience of young diplomats and statesmen at the Fourteenth Annual Rocky Mountain International Relations Conference, which was held late this fall at Logan. He declared, "It is no longer enough to want peace or pray for it . . . We must do something . . . This does not mean merely making propositions . . . We must study the political, economic, and social problems from the League point of view. Many propositions are impractical because they are not based on a philosophical point of view . . . What we need is practical action founded upon a thorough and sympathetic understanding of the problems involved ..." It was for such a purpose that the International Relations Club was founded under the sponsorship of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. The organization aims neither to formulate resolutions nor make demands, but only is it striving to arrive at logical conclusions after a careful study and discussion. It is a medium by which the students might engage in an impartial consideration of all international problems. Its immediate purpose is to stimulate interest in the analysis of existing international situations. The number of International Relations Clubs is constantly increasing throughout the United States. This growth is an encouraging indication that students are taking an increasing interest in world affairs. There could not be a more promising sign for better international understanding than that the future generation will be led by diplomats and statesmen who will have lived in an atmosphere of international thinking. There cannot be a more visual assurance of progress toward peace than the fact that there is an organization of youth for the leadership training indispensable in coping with problems of ever increasing complications. The International Relations Club is the one organization that is destined to play a pre-eminent role in the youth movement for permanent world peace. Scribulus Fifteen Correspondence LETTER TO THE EDITOR Dear Sir: Having been present at the 1931 demise of the "Acorn" annual, and having been somewhat involved in the brief but meteoric career of that classic publication, the "Acorn Crumbs," sometimes known as the "Bums' Bible," and yet again having witnessed the valiant but vain effort of the "Weber Herald" to re-establish itself as an organ of student opinion, I find myself deeply interested in the future of your publication which appears with this issue in the soft cloth and safety-pin stage. When I first heard about this paper being started, I consulted the mystic Ikki, the Yogi, to see what would become of it. However, Ikki insulted me; so I came away with no prognostications for your edification. Do you think it will be possible for you to uphold the fast fading spirit of Weber in your paper? Can you make it take the place in the hearts of the present students that the "Acorn Crumbs" held in the hearts of the students of 1931 and '32? I am afraid not. Deterioration seems to be the keynote of Weber now. Gone are the wonderful gloomy hallways in which collegiate hearts used to palpitate in romantic symphony. Now one can't get lost even on the top floor. Gone are the grand sweeping banisters on the circular stairs where used to sit the lovelorn under-graduates. Ah, those stairs! And more especially those banisters down which used to slide the greatest minds of the student body (that spine tingling thrill of smacking against the newel post at the bottom sweet memories.) No pair of blue serge trousers ever wore a smarter shine and polish than did that banister. Replaced by modern stairways austere in their severe straightness, the circular stairs live only in memory. Sober-minded students now congregate in sedate little groups where once the boisterous 29'ers loudly argued where to throw their next brawl. The College Inn, once headquarters for the Isolated Bums, now shelters quiet-voiced, gentle-mannered students politely requesting a sandwich or a malt. Even the barmaids don't shout stories of their experiences of the night before across the room any more. And the contests Where once iodine, paint, soft tomatoes, and rotten eggs flew between freshmen and sophomores,inciden-tal to the flashing of opponents' razors in the beard-growing contest, now you have young men pathetically attempting to get some entertainment out of a mere tug-of-war. But I could ramble on for days at this rate extolling the virtues of such men as Kaboola Zane, Ring-Ding Ing, Elton Ains-worth Doolittle, Kilfrigen Eddie (Red) Knapp, D. Weber Bum, Bulldog Read, Poosh-em-up Paoletti, Quinsey Allison, Gus Warlaumont, and Willy the Weasel (excuse my modest blush); but it would be useless. As I have already said, deterioration seems to be the keynote of Weber in these days. You cannot even find a pair of dirty cords among the entire student body. Nevertheless, for the sake of the forgotten alumni, please do all you can to keep the spirit from deteriorating too much. Sincerely yours with best wishes for a successful season. William F. Smiley, Associate Professor of Bumology W. C, 1930-34.