A i GE TWO THE INCILY COLLEGIAN "For A Better Penn State" 1940. Successor to the Penn State Collegian. established 1994, and the Free Lance. established 1887. Published daily except Sunday and Monday during the regular College year by the students of The Pennsylvania Slate College, Entered as second-class matter July'6, 1934, e.t the pact-o__c.e at State College. Pa.. under the act of arch 3, 1819. Editor Business Manager Adam Smyser '4l ' Lawrence Driever '4l Women's Editor—Vera L. Kemp '4l ; Managing Editor —Robert, H. Lane '4l; Sports Editor—Richard C. Peters ; News Editor—William E. Fowler '4l; Feature Editor .--Edward J. K. McLorie '4l ; Assistant Managing Editor— lEta y ard Bloom '4l; Women's Managing Editor—Arita L. -an '4l ; Women's Feature Editor—Edythe B. Rickel '4l, Advertising &Tanager—John H. Thomas '4l ; Circulation Xi aI) cimr—Robert G. Robinson '4l; Senior Secretary—Ruth Cold , o,ein '4l: Senior Secretary—Leslie H. Lewis '4l. Junior 'Editorial Board—Jotin A. Baer '42. It. Helen Col'lon '42. Ross B. Lehman '42, William J. McKnight '42. Alice M. Murray '42, Pat Nagelberg '42, Stanley J. PoKemn iner '42. Jeanne C. Stiles '42. Junior Business Board—Thomas W. Allison '42. Paul Goldberg '42, James E. McCaughey '42, Margaret L. Em i.ozry '42, Virginia Ogden '42, Fay E. Rees . '42. • Ciaduate Counselor 4 , 11 - ThArial and Business Office 113 . 01 d Main Bldg. Dial 711 ilyiftitaiting Editor This Issue Pat Nageiberg '42 News Editor This Issue Richard A. Bakee'43 Women's Editor This Issue - _R. Helen Gordon '42 Assistant Managing Editor This Issue __Robert Vv. Cooper '43 Tuesday Morning, January 7. 1941 Us, Democracy, The Free Press, —And The New Year New Year's resolutions are not as popular as they once were but everybody who welcomed 1941 end the new decade can afford a New Year's wish. The decade promises to be an important one for the world politically and perhaps the best and -..s,iost selfish wish every American can make. for 4iiniself and for the nation is that he can see the • •)cKt decade ushered in with America as well sit - tiat..?.d as it is now and more safely so. Our principal disease today is not caused by the )pelt of anything. only by the threat of many lacks. We can hope that the 1940's will see them pass at the least possible cost to us. • One of the things which many fear is that we Inlay lose our democracy and our self-determin ation. The press cf the next 10 years will in some degree decide whetter this may happen and in an ramost perfect correlation will show us whether this has happened. Democracy needs a sentinel and a champion. .Tri free speech and the free press it has both. If it ketains them we will know that democracy has been retained. . . . The free press is a jealous and a selfish chain vlon of democracy. It and democracy have ex .i,stences so close as to be almosl inseparable. When the one falls so must the other. In the years to come there will be strong voices crying that the free press must be throttled. We bisye heard one of them already from a source no mss respected than the president's cabinet. That One was soon lost in the uproar, but there will be -Wore and they will. be stronger. In the past 18 months we have seen our minds changed about many things. Our thinking is be coming hysterical but it is not yet too late. Presi dent Roosevelt said rightly that it will never be c arlier - than now. One of the thingo we must decide now if we are to see our wish for 1951 come true is that we will adhere constantly to free speech and the free press and will not see tl•Pm torn from Us. If in 1951 Americans can still write or say what they think, required to seek no counsel but one they want, knowing that what they say need pass 400 censor, they wail know their efforts of the 940's were not useless. No Word From The IMA Christmas is past, but there is no word from the Independent Men's Association about what it is going to do That busy organization with a potential mem bership of 3,500 men and an almost unfathomable field of possible action has maintained a bleak official silence about Collegian's pre-Christmas I" , oggestion that it find something to do or disband. Unless, and Collegian hopes this is not the case, H considers as an answer its action of December 18, there is only silence. That night 10 members meeting in regular ses rlon took the most constructive of constructive actions in deciding they were against boOing at ltec Hall events! Collegian renews its request and in . more spe cific terms: Either the IMA should show—by fiction, not words L-an alert membership and a :pecific-program filr independent men or it should lose its representation' in the All-College Cabinet rtd be replaced in all' for,ms of student activity ;,nd control by a more suitable and. aggressive or gnization at non-fraternity men. C. Russell Eck Downtown Office. 119-12.1 South`Fratier St Dial 4372 War Opinion Of College Students Has Changed According Jo Poll By Student . Opinion Surveys AUSTIN, Texas, Jan. 6.—Although still more oPtimistic about the United States staying out of war than the general public is, American college students have lost some confidence during the last twelve months that. we can avoid the conflict. This is the tenor of national campus opinion to day expressed through the cross-sectional samp- IMgs of Student Opinion Surveys - of Anierica. The Daily Collegian is one of the 150 college news papers cooperating in conducting these scientific polls. The defense expansion program that this coun try is now witnessing will be a factor in helping to keep us out of the. European conflagration, two out of every three collegians believe. Asked by Surveys' interviewus whether they "felt the en largementof our army and navy will help to keep us out of war or draw us closer to war," these were the answers given, in percentages Will help to keep, us out Will draw us closer Exactly one year ago, in December 1939, Stu dent Opinion .Surveys sampled the college world with this question: "Do you " believe that the United States can stay out of the present war?" That was shortly after the German invasion of Poland and the beginning of 'general hostilities. The question has been repeated, and this is the comparison: Believed we can stay out; December 1939 _69% Believed we can stay out. December 1940 ..63 Cross-tabulations show that opinion among col 'ege men and among co-eds is identical. • 39 Percent of Students Read Editorials By Student Opinion Surveys AUSTIN, Texas, Jan. 6.—Do college students tead the editorials in their campus newspapers? The college editor often feels what may be the apparent futility of composing and publishing ed itorial comment, hut statistics on college reading habits just produced by Student Opinion Surveys of America bring a new note of encouragement and furnish one measurment of the power of the undergraduate press Interviewers over a cross section of representa tive colleges and universities stopped students on their campuses, and placing before them the edi torial page of their own newspapers, asked, "Have you,.read any of _the editorials on this page?" Those who answered yes were further queried, `Completely or only partly?" Here is the national tabulation: Has read editorials— Completely . Only partly .... Had not read editorials \ Manhattan SHIRT AND PAJAMA —SALE— t:::::::::::::::::: 1: :: :: : ::: : :::. : :::: . ::: ..... ' ... ':::i:::: :k gie:: BOSTONIAN SHOE SALE elitelt) gliMitit •••••-•• ......... f 4 •19E.D. , a , .c. , OPEN EVENINGS i:. •::::::::::: 11 t... ii ::, ..: • THE DAILY COLLEGIAN Letters to the Editor-- Loan Fund Urged For Class Gift To the Editor Keeping the practical value of a class gift in mind, I suggest that the class of '4l turn their balance over to the Dean of Men .to be used as a loan fund for students. I would like to qualify the term "students." There are over a thou sand students working their way through college. By working through many hours at any kind of a job, these people are spending less time on their schoolwork as a result of which their college aver ages suffer. They do not have a 2.5 average and therefore are unable to benefit from the many "scholar ships" that are available to high scholastically ranking students. 'Why not let the class of '4l loan fund be available to all students? Make the average required to get a loan a 1. This average includes almost all of the students who are working their way through college. This type of loan fund is the most practical, if not the most needed gift that our class can. leave to Penn State. Bells Rang—But In The Wrong Place To the Editor In the write-up of the carol sing it was stated that the rendition of "Silent Night," following the carol sing, was played on the Old Main bells. May I ask when the bells were installed? "Silent Night" and the other carols that were heard were play ed on the Memorial Tower Chimes of the First Presbyterian Church of State College. These chimes were dedicated on the 50th anni versary of the church on Decem ber 1, 1940. Am I right? A Reader Discussion Offered On Chapel Fund To the Editor: In view of the fact that a com mittee of our student government is investigating a plan whereby one chapel offering a month would be turned over.to British War Re lief or Mrs. Hetzel's Emergency fund, we would Hitt to state the merits of the present projeCt in China, carried on by means of the Chapel collections. We think Penn State in China is of so much im portance right now that no sup port of the project should be with drawn. Penn State in China is a stu dent enterprise organized in 1911 under the leadership of G. W. "Daddy" Groff 'O7. Penn State was one of the first American colleges to recognize its obligations abroad and to establish relations with a college in the orient. The students chose to devote each Sunday's of ferings to the support of Canton Christian College,/ now Lingnan University. Lingnan is a regularly chartered, first class university, and it was established in 1884. This enterprise, which has been highly successful for more than twenty five years, is a real exam ple of the Penn State spirit. After the debris of the war is cleaned away in China, we should be glad 14, .....: : : : : : :•:•: : i i . ::: : : .. .ii:::::........ ......... ......::::vz: ) ::•:: :::::::. • y." : :::: : ::; : 1 ....... .*•:::::::', :0 4 •••••?:::::1 Did You Know That the introduction of printing in England was characterized by 71 7 .: a change from Latin to English with original type faces neitheez . ...E - L: Gothic nor Roman. --- --- For The , Latest Printing Seer - _ NITTANY PRINTIN.G ___,_., And PUBLISHING C. ::i :.7 -•~.~ : y. ~'..1.. ~~:: ~ .'. l a ;...., ....., :. .....f.f.f.f..f z ...„. il ....„•.„...... ....... .:,.. :-......„../.............!:........., Sincerely yoUrs, . David I. Finkle '4l TUESDAY; JANUARY 7, 1941 CAMPUS CALENDAR TODAY: Meeting of the:-freshlman - - ice hockey team in the Armory, 8:30 p.m.- • _ P.S.C.A. Forty P ; o - Altn- mee.t[hil, Hugh Beaver R00m_304,.01d Main, 7 p.m. Meeting of Camera: . .Club Room 318, Old Main, 8 p.m. Portfolio staff meets in 416, Old Main, 7 p.m Mr. Rector, sales engineer Bakelite CorporatiOn, will speak: on "Plasticst:. in Room 110, Home Economics, 7:30 p.m: P.S.C.A. Freshman Council Cab inet meeting, Penn State in,China Room, Old Main, 7 p.m. - TOMORROW: Mr. D. 0. Noel from' the Metals Disintegrating Company will sPeak before the student chapter of, the American Society of Metals' in Room 121, Mineral Industiles, - 7:30 p.m. Subject: "Powder Metal lurgy." , . Ag Council meets in. Room 418, - Old Main, 7:30 lota Sigma PI meetixik..iii:it j oOrn .- 318, Old Main ) ,7 p.ni:' Max I)ercum will speak on *l ing At the Horne Economics settihl,y Room 110 , Home keo nornies, 7 p.m.-. • . . Dr. Donald Super, 'professor educational psychology " .ft'• University, disytutes 'the ' thetoil that everyone should havea that Penn State supports:-an-: stitution like Lingnan_ Univeffsity: which will be an important force in rebuilding China. Arthur Lentz '43 •• •- Clermont Powell '44 • • *Let Us Solve Your MILK PROBLEM - With PURE, WHOLESOME MILK, J. C. MEYER MILK . R. D. 1 Phone - 4226 =' After Xmas Sale Clearance Of :Vitire Stock. New Spring Pastel Flannels: New Spring - '.Prints At Popular Prices . SUSANNA SHOFI'--
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