Professor Samuel Cahan of the Syracuse department of journalism takes occasion to bewail the unrestrained policies of college dailies in a special feature article appearing in the Daily Orange of the New York institution, pointing out that "youngsters (on college newspapers) act impulsively and are sometimes carried away by exhuberance without bothering to dip into facts" in their treatment of news. He seems to feel that the more mature slant of professional newspaper folk is all that is saving the journalistic reputation of the country, and he infers "intelligent guidance" is necessary in the regulation of college newspaper policies.

But Professor Cahan, in condemning the antics of Columbia's Harris, Center's Thurman, North Carolina State's Wilson, California's Arlett, Chicago's Ridenhour and a host of other more or less militant collegiate editors who have incurred the wrath of their institutional administrations, forgets a host of professionals who far outshine the college editors in sensationalism. Balance the above list with the tabloidal handling of the Lindbergh case, with the New York Times' high powered and exclusively sensational reports of Admiral Byrd's progress in the frozen wastes, and with the fevered and unreliable dispatches to the metropolitan dailies from the World War front, which were rushed into extras by the most conservative publishers and hawked about by excited newsboys. Balance against the "militant youngsters" the richly exclamatory dispatches from Floyd (Well boys and girls, what a war!) Gibbons from the battle-scarred Chapel in the late Sino-Japanese debacle.

And on the other side of the scale: Wisconsin's Daily Cardinal fearless and intelligent attack on Chapel, who was seeking to besmirch the university's fair name; the Columbia Spectator's justified attack on corruption in the college's dining halls; The N. C. Technician's attack on what it deemed an unwise gubernatorial policy.

Perhaps the professional press will lead the way out of this era of Professor Cahan's "unrestrained freedom." Meanwhile the "sensational college press" goes its radical route, trying to put this old world on its feet. --The Daily Tar Heel.