'Wednesday, January-23, 1918 'LETTERS FROM THE FRONT rEs s S'l' yr!: .1 v wroit S ANXIOUS FOR NEWS U. S. Service, ' A. 1: F., Fiance. Dec. 19, 1917 Editor of the COLLEGIAN. A copy of the COLLEGIAN dated No vember 14, landed in camp sometime within the past week and is the cause of this outburst from this side. Mail over hoe is an event, any mail at all IS welcome even a letter from a cred itor; so you can possibly imagine what the paper flora school meant to the "bunch" of its from State. It is the first real loon of news we've had of school—the latest we've received and we surely did apin mate it—es en the "ads" Were of intm est Co us. This is one of the largest aviation schools in Fiance and is completely under U. S coal id with the exception of the each "Alonitors" The men hoe whu are tieing taught to ❑y are, with very few exceptions, college men, men graduated from wound schools in time States and then sent here as honor men of their classes for training. Penn. State is loth esented here by the following men' "Whitey" Thomas 'l7; "Slimly" Mendenhall 'l3. Holland 'l7, and myself. We me all in the same squadron, tame across togethrr and have been to gether our entire time On this side. We all started in flying about the first of November and as yet ale still very much in the game. :Mendenhall and Thomas ate waiting for a good day to make their "flop",—that is, their first solo flight. Holland is nearly finished with double conti ol woik which in e cedes the "Bop". I had a start of a week on the other fellow's and have made a number of flights alone, two of them very disasttous—they picked the machines up with a mop and vacuum eleanei! Like the Work We are all mot e or less pleased with this blanch of the service for it is great sport, to say the least. Besides these State men her e, there are several others here in France and Italy in the avia tion yelps "Casey" Jones and Nutt are in another squadron in another schoO); Devoe, a member of mu squadron left us to go in tiaining . in Italy; while thee are three others. names unkniswn, in another squadi on at a bombing school. At the finish of the coin se here, we will be sent to another school to work with faster machines, after• that a course in acrobatics, and we are ready for the Front What we do depends upon our luck and ability Some of us Will have scout machines, some will serve as observers for artillery, and others as bombers. The r eal feeling is not what we do, but just that we do and kill ily. Conmussions await us at the end of the training. but mo , t of the squadron would lather fly without comnussion than not fly at all, so that is really a minor consideration. We ate all sorry to heat of the rather disastrous football season, but under the circumstances are willing to wait until, this:mess" is over and then we know Penn State will come back to her own We made several donations to W. and J men as a result of the game, and Lehigh also collected a few of the coins of the i calm—but now we't e just wait ing for the come-back in the future for we know that it is coming. The Fresh man team surely points toward some thing in the futm e unless they also get mixed up in this affair. Waiting now fin the list of casualties from the "Tie-Up Scrap." Pei sonally, it seems that Lt might make .t fine civil "Strait" at Penn State, 'egret that we're not in it—nine exciting than this big affair. Want Collegian and Froth Am starting a special letter with sub scriptions to the COLLEGIAN and FROTII—we want them badly over here. Needless to say now that the COLLEGIAN is better than ever to us and —take the ei edit—you deserve a lot of it for keeping it even up to standiud under the conditions that must exist Our hest wishes to "State" and - the COLLEG TA N. R. L. - Hartman 'l9 PENN STATE FOR EST ERS ARE (I EWING INTO 111 E FR A A Co. C. sth Battery. 20th Eng Camp lielvoir, Va Dear Mr. Pergubon I received your splendid letter several days ago and certainly was pleased to hear nom you No doubt you wonder why t received it at so late a date, but it is due to the poor mail service that we have down hole. It is strange that we cannot have better service. I wrote home for my boots the first day I spent here. as this is a very muddy country, but I did not. receive them until last evening. We are about ten miles flora nowhere and it certainly does not im prove matters to have your mail cut off. Hal Johns (State 'l6) WWI examined with me at Washington D C, and is acting first sergeant of my company I certainly was mighty glad to see him. Both of us are pretty busy at the pres ent tune, but whenever we have any time off we get together and talk over old times at State. I had another sur prise several evenings past. I was writ ing a letter in the Y. M.'C A., and hap pened to hear a very familiar voice. There was no mistaking that voice or laugh, so I did not have to look twice to mike sine that it was "Moondog" Davis 'l7. Tom Buticy left the day I got here There are quite a number of State men scattered thru this regiment, and the old school will be well epre seated when me go act oss As I said before, out camp is located about ten miles ft om nowhere. We are tucked away in the l% this of Virginia about seven miles from Mt. Vet non. The camp is on the south side of the Potomac River, and we get the benefit of the gentle (?) sea breezes which float up from Chesapeake Bay. Before the liver froze up we received plenty to eat and our mail. Howevei, the river froze up four days after we landed, and since that time our chuck has been very poor and mail is at a premium. There are rumors of our moving to American University soon, and if such should - prove to be the case, I know there would be joy throughout the camp. Well the lights are due to go out in five minutes so I'll close for the present, hoping that I will hear from you again. the Forestry Building, and hope that I wish to be remembered to Mr. Ander son and the boys that still assemble in some day I can come back and see the building in which I spent so many hippy hours. Your old pupil, FELMS“ TREES IN FRENCH FORESTS merican Ex pedi tioharyleorces Dear \U• Ferguson and boys I guess you think f - have forgotten you in the shuffle, but I have been thinking of you and have lucid good in tentions of writing. I guess that I will have to start fi ma the beginning and give a good account. of myself The till) across was without excitement, so this will take little space, but the fun started when we left Eng land on our hip across the channel. Our squad was detached to look after the regiment's baggage and freight. We lett early in the evening to make our dash across she channel, which was either . to put us safely "somewhere in Ni anee," or somewhei e in the English Channel. On the boat was our baggage and also a detail of Englishmen looking aftei a battery of artillery. We got into a Vi ench harbor eel ly nest morning but had to wait a day and a half, be cause of the squall that made the old tub 101 l like a chip. We lrid test class qua' tors, Inst. deck below the mules. It ran something like this; office's, horses and mules, soldiers', and with the only thing be tAN een Lhe ocean and us being the engine loom I can never forget the clay we laid in the harbor, for I was kept busy carrying .1 few "Sammies" off Lhe deck. They were too weak to walk and they laid up against the lad, wish ing for n wane to wash them over and end it all- We were at this French port about ten days We woCked on the docks din mg the days and slept there nights. IL was the most comfortable bed that I have slept in for a good while, a cobble stone foi a pillow and one in each rib. From there w e hail a day and two nights tide to ‘vhere_we wet e to meet the rest of the boys it was in these two nights that I had the most comfortable bei tit since I left the States. We used to think ourselves crowded when we slept two in a bet th, coming up hum Philadelphia after vacations, but this wits the first time that I ever slept in a clothes rack above the seats. l cer tainl did (we] come Newton's Laws of gravitation that night. Well, those days of travel are put down as "Experience," and now we are out in one of the French forests. 1 would like to find the hat who said these forests were like parks without underbrush Every Lillie you try to fall a face it hangs up in the beech or oak sprains. The foi ests ale divided into sections about a kilimetet square Be tween each square is a wide fire trail. We are cutting what the French forest ranger says ai e Scoth White Pine. The bark looks like our Scotch, hut the nee dles do not seem the same as ours. Most of them are small trees, eight to twelve inches and running about twenty logs to the thousand. That is m hat several lumber Jacks estimate it at. At present. I am felling and it is meat fun We are working in crews of live, two sawyei s, two swampers and a team. since I left you last June. So I guess Well this is about what I have done my tale is told. Witlt best wishes to Non all for a successful New Year, I re- hulled 11. Li%ingst.on, 'l9 Co I , ' 101.1 . 1 Engineers. 1,, IX Al' CAM I' MEADE TELLS MEN 'ED STAY IN COLLEGE The following letter recently received by Lieut. J 0 Keller from a former Senior is good evidence of the truth of the statement that the college man must stay In college and finish his course it he expects to do the most for his country when he gets m the army:— Camp Meade: MI .Jan. 14, OIL Aly dear Keller. I hope to be fortunate enough to be called before a board of examiners for a commission in the Q M. Corps. A let ter of i ecommendatton, stating' that I ‘s ould have received my degree this spring, would be greatly appreciated. 1 , 1 opal ations are being made here to move about one hunch ed of us to France, and those who will go, will in all probability be commissioned. Last week I appealed before an ex amining board at the 30 Rh Engineers Ileadqual tors. to pass inspection and a plehmcn:u•y examination for appoint ment as provisional 2nd lieutenant My name was among those forwarded to - Washington. 1 had been, studying up mechanics, calculus, heat engines, and other subjects, and felt pretty safe the exam would not be a difficult one to pass, from one I had seen, that was given on a past date. To day &was informed that L was disqualified because 1 do not have my degree A note appended to the letter quoted a section of a- statute, where a dem ec from an approved technical school is essential, with the word "ap proved" under lined. So tell the boys to stick it out until they have their sheep skins It goes a meat way in the army. I am really sorry now, that I enlisted so early in the game. Dec 29, 1917 Remember me to the boys, and tell Chet to wiite to me I would appreciate a letter from them; Trusting to hear from you, I am a Groceries and - - • Meats And the Best Quality Dry Goods No matter what you need in the above line, we have it and at the right price. Mc Eachren's Frazier St. EIGHTEEN DEGREES AT MID-YEAR CONVOCATION Dean Holmes Explains the True Meaning of Commencement to the Graduates Eighteen degreM N‘ete conferred at the annual mid-year convocation held last Wednesday night in the Auditori um The candidates for the advanced degl ees weie presented by Dean Holmes, it bile the vat ions deans presented the graduates of their respective schools. There ‘‘ as no outside speaker pres ent but Dean Hohnes delivered the ad dress I fis general topic was the gloat changes which the country has evpen enced on account of the war, and he dwelt nn the way in which the present condition of the country should affect both the graduate anti the undergrad uate. Ile , :iid in pai t, "We are living in changing and perilous times The whole world has grown serious. Our country has gone through a quiet revo lution—bloodless—but nevertheless as much of a revolution as in 1776. "The extension of the powers of the govei nment has been wonderful during recent, times Government management of the railroads, control of the food and fuel ximplies, and compulsory military service are all new thing, to the United States. Hut, the people ate not merely submitting, to the changes, but are clamoring for them." Dean Holmes then spoke briefly on the amount of education that must have been acquired by the graduates during did] «wise at Penn State. He stated that since an insti uctor can speak at the rate of about one thousand words an hour and considei ing fifteen hours a week as an avei age for an instructor, in the four yeais the student hears about 12, 000,000 woi ds, which he is expected to take in Then, assuming that each woad is an idea, the student, should ac quire haelve million ideas. However, he then pointed out that with six million brain cells apiece, there was still minor tuna% for them to continue learning, or mot e moperly to commence le:tilling. In speaking to the undeigraduates, and commentmg on the change in the semester, he asked that every one do his utmost to make this semester a sic= cessful one in all respects, and that every one try to get the spirit of the "lio3s it or there." In elmang. he made a plea that every one make a vow "that the things that you daily do shall be high and noble unto God, who rules the affah., of the earth " NEW INSTRUCTOR FOR SIGNAL CORPS CLASS Upon the recommendation of Lieu tenant-Colonel N. Slaughter, who is in charge of the Radio Division of the U. S. Signal Corps. Pt ofessor .hunes Owen Peryine, professor 01 Physics at the lowa/State Teacher's College, Cedar Fall',. lowa has ben offered, and has accepted, a temporary position at Penn State. as assistant professor of Elec trical Engineering to give instruction to the Seniors who have entered the Signal Training course. As ever Bob Professor Perrme has been granted a leave of absence from his pi esent position, and comes to Penn State in time to assume his new duties not later than February first Ile is a graduate of the University of lowa, receiving the A. 13. degree in 1906, and in 1916 the University - of Michigan conferred upon him the degree of M S. Ile was an instructor at the latter institution before accepting, his present position at lowa State Teacher's College. The number of students enrolled at present in the Signal Training course is 20. Of this number, 21 are in E. Fl., tout in M. E., and one in Electro- Cheinical Engineering The number of students in this course is to be lim ited to thitty. It is planned to have the course run from February lut to May ist. FRENCH SOCIETY TONIGHT Le Cercle lorancais meets this evening at seven o'clock in Old Chapel for its fortnightly hour of entertainment in French This meeting will be quite dif ferent from others in that the presi dent of the society, C. Watson Owings will Join-in, ati Mimi membeis have pre viously done, to be one of the entertain ers of the evening. A review by the society of some of the Drench folk songs, under the leadership of Professor Leslie Burrage will conclude the ogram after a brief reading by Mer- 1647 TEACHERS NEEDED In 24 Hours Dui mg twenty-four consecutive work ing days, EARLY last season employers asked us to i ecommend 1647 teachers for positions in thirty-two states. No enrollment fee necessary. Easy terms. Department of Education Western Ref erence & Bond Association, 742 Scarritt Bldg.. Kansas City Mo. Special for Friday and SAturday BOSTONIAN "Tony lied" $8.50 Values at $6.'75 Other Reductions Cordially, Albert Ants 'lB The College Boot I=l Athletic Our Business is to Supply Your- Every College Need; we are Prepared to -Do lit id On the Co-Op Coi PENN STATE COLLEGIAN News From Other Colleges . •:. -:-:••:-:•+++4-:--:••:-:-:-:-:•00-:••:•-:.•:•-:•-:•00.:-:•÷: PIVNBURGH—The second semester of the collegiate year at Pittsburgh Univer , ,ity has been shortened three week. - The commencement exercises mill he held on May :11 , ,t instead of Juno 19th. i LAPAT ErrE—lnthrect dispatches from the Associated Press indicate that Ambulance Section iled. known as the 1 Lafa ette Unit, is now in France under the c..mmand of Major Devereaux.- h'iltArllSE—Fleginning January 14th the g :innusium of Syracuse University was in det ed closed for an indefinite pei iod because of the coal shortage. The closing of the gymnasium ii gl sevei c blow to the University athletics, it 'icing necessary for the 'varsity bas ketball team to suspend practice until a suitable door can he secured in the city. The Library will be closed even ings. Syracuse University, together with Yale Princeton and Cornell has can celled all scheduled inter-collegiate de- CAI NEGlE—Military drill was be gun at the Camelot? Ingtitute of Tech nology last Thursday. CORNELL—The hoard of Trustees of Col ne 1 Univei city has recently i uled that the 136 Juniors in Sibley College of Engineering devote the summer of 1918 to a third teem of instruction in order that they may graduate in Pebruary of 1919 According to present plans ap proximately ten days will be allowed be tween terms and a week or more for Independence Day. GET A DIRECTORY AND WORK IT OUT YOURSELF A Porter, who had i eceived a sound Rapp on the Knoll, which theiefore was Aiken was suddenly roused from his slunil , ei by a Bell. ' lie was a Stout fello‘‘, and started on his Way West, which proved to be very Hockey He had walked a Good ways when he sud denly met a Rider who was just recov ering from a Cope with a Miller lie called the 'Marshall and after a long Mnick they discovered a Barber and a Fisher who were having an argument with a Smith who was both Clever and Kra ft(y) They passed a Green Glenn ‘thick was full of Junk. The Barber suggested that they have supper and the Taylor, who had had nothing to eat for Weeks said that would be Bliss The limiter, after having sharpened his knife killed a Black Bair and a Wolf. To Kapp the climax the Barber went after some Wood, and the Rider made a donation to the mimic' in the form of some Hamm from Holland. When their supper was finished and there was no Moore, they ci ossed a Moat and there met a Fox. But they finally reached the inn and %%mit through a Long Ball. After closing the door with the Locke, they finally went to sleep to the music of a Waltz PRtININO OF 'DEBATING - TEAMS IS AT STANDSTILL The training of the several debating teams by Professor Marshman for par ticipation in the various intercollegiate debates is practically at a standstill due • to the fact that the secretary of the In tercollegiate Debating League has not as yet informed Professor Marshman as to the sides which the remainder of the colleges composing the League have chosen. On this account, it is prac tically impossible for any teal work to be done other than the preliminary training which the squad is now going through. - - The failure to receive this decision bas set back the training to a, great extent and as matters inay„;t a i,:A , there will not be any rlTie . than suffi cient time for acTahffig a thorough knowledge of the p r o,position before the first of the series lof debates will be held Stetson (ordovan's We will offer you our $ll.OO Stetss n Cordovan For $9.90 Diamond (ordo Calf Beautiful 1 -ist—Special At $"7.00 It will be a bleasure for us show them tolyou. FROMM ' S Economy Store 130 E. Co4 ge Avenue Shop .. 410 ry Im ) ra n t ' 'At,. cii ionarr 4 poly PRINCETON—The Board of Athletic Control at Pi ineeton University has de cided upon an immediate iesumption of intereollegiate sport.. In malting the ruling . the Born d stipulated that all sport; be conducted as economically as possible because the Athletic AbSOCift- Lion is at present in financial difficul ties. The annual prom given by the Junior Class of Pt mceton University on March 1:5111 will be held as usual this year. The Department of Economies at Princeton University has only - too members remaining at Ptinceton. The Department recently displayed from its office., a set vice flag of six stars, but in this number are not included several memi,ers a Ito, though not actually in act:\ c government sem ice, are never thelers engaged in gin ei•nment wot k WASHINGTON & JEFFERSON—Un abIe to meet the increasing war prices on food, the board of trustees of Wash ington and Jefferson College ordered the college dining hall closed after the Christmas holidays. PI NNSVLVANIA—Over one-thous and undergraduates of the University of Pennsylvania gathered in Houston Hall j on Januat y I.4th and passed a resolution urging that the faculty present reasons for the - admission of women to all de partments of the University before tak ing action upon the matter, The senti ment of the student body seemed to be in favor of the establishment of a sepal ate institution for the women stu ff LECTURE T 4) FRESHM EN Last. Wednesday evening a reception was given in the Botany Building by .1. B. 11111 and L 0. Ovei bolts to the mem bers of their advise y sections Dr Ovei !molts gave an illustrated lecture on some of his experiences on the Conti nentdl thvide in the Rockies Just west of Denver, Colorado _The Right Place For the Right Goods At the Right Price Olewine's Hardware BELLEFONTE, PA. HARDWARE Stoves, Paints, Oils, Glass; -Crich Makers' Supplies, Etc. DOCKASH '' STOVES and RANGES ner Dealer In MNION First choice of the peo ple of America. 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Woodruff gave an interest ing talk on magnetic clutches for auto mobiles. Ile described three distinct types, pointing out the advantages and disadvantages of each iILEE CLUB PLEASES MANI The Glee Club Concert last Sunday ‘xas very well attended and the Anditotium etas crowded. The selec tions by the Glee Club were all vei well rendered. m bile the two solos by Miss Emma Kiess and the violin duet by Charles Bronk 'l9, and Mrs. Riden our, were greatly appreciated. The pro gram itself was quite elaborate, as It contained short sketches on each of the selections. 4.44++÷÷4.4-2-:-:•÷4.+4•44÷444.++0.-:. SERVICF: The Penn State Book Store may not be able to anticipate your every need but no order is too small nor none too large $ for us to handle for you. Prompt and efficient service is our $ aim. Try us and be convinced. We sell Now is the time yob will need that typewrite' them or put them out on rental. Supplies of all kinds for the student Penn State Book Store L. K. METZGER 'l5, Prop. :. ~••N 1: t STATE CENTRE ELECTRIC COMPANY .t. Headquarters for Everything Electric Store Closes 6 p. m, Frazier Street - T - 3 0, r rftrr - rurry.- - I no ,1-oro n er—nn_--norrm CHAUTAUQUA LECTURES BY FACULTY MEMBERS Those fraternities and clubs who last yeas availed themselves of the oppor tunity to hear one of the lecture cow set, in the Chautauqua circuit giv en by vat ous members of the Faculty, Hill lie interested to know that, under the direction of Dean Holmes a similar 'cries of weekly talks is being arranged for this year These lectut es will be given Wine any fraternity, club or group of twenty of mole persons, the course extending float Febinary Ist to Apt it Ist Membei s of the Faculty debiting to participate in this course ate t espect fully requested to turn hi their name! at Dean llohnes' office. Ca oups wish mg to arrange for spealmi s and sub jects should make inquiry at the Dean's Mike as soon as possible, i equests for speak el s being considered in the ot iler eceiVlqi "RILL" 1111111) TO SPCA li - - Al' COSMOPOLITAN CLUB W Wood, Dean of the Two fear Agricultural students, will speak to the members and guests of the Cos mopolitan Club at their meeting in room 220 Main Building tomorrow night at seven o'clock on the "Philosophy Cusmopolit.inism." 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