It is all very well that Easterners should boost the East and the native sons of California shout their claim to fame in every ear, but when the Mid-West gets together and plans to yell for their section, the East seems to become offended. Eastern papers are said to be a sophisticated lot, but when one of them comes forth with a story filled with bunk and hokum about the so-called "comparatively unimportant college grid contest," then the boosters of the Mid-West cry "On to Harvard" with the largest possible exclamation point added for both Purdue and Indiana.

The Mid-Western college supporters, especially the Big Ten, seem to be "on the par" as far as Eastern papers are concerned merely because the Big Ten graduates in the East are planning to get-together and cheer Purdue when the Crimson of Harvard gets into action on the same field as the Old Gold and Black of "that small college located somewhere in Indiana."

The paper claims that over half of the modern Americans who will cheer for Purdue have never even been through the town in which Purdue is located. Probably that is true, but just the same 300 modern Americans will be in the stands stratuing every chord in their vocal organs and they will root with might and main for "dear old Purdue." We had never thought of it before but that little phrase "dear old Purdue" is almost as catching as one sometimes connected with Harvard, and we are glad newspaper saw fit to use it.

Perhaps, such enthusiasm is synthetic, but the Mid-West must shout their claim to fame along with the East and West if they are going to "tell it to the world." The Purdue Exponent,   September 27.