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PENN STATE COLLEGIAN
Published semi-weekly during the College year. except on holidays,
hi strident. of The Pennsylvania State College, in the interest of the
College, the etedents. faculty, Islam', and friends.
CHARLES A. MYERS '34 FREDERICK L. TAYLOR '34
Editor Business Manager
GEORGE A. SCOTT '34 HAROLD S. DATSCH '34
Managing Editor Circulation Manager
WILLIAM M. STEGMEIER '34 H. EDGAR FURMAN '34
Assiquits Editor Local Advertising Manager
FIF.RNARD H. ROSF.NZWEIG '34 JOHN C. IRWIN '34
News Editor Foreign Advertising Manager
JAMES 3f. SHEEN '34 FRANCIS WACKER '34
Sports Editor Classified Advertising Manager
RUTH M. HARMON '34 MAE P. KAI'LAN '34
Women's Editor Women's Managing Editor
EVA M. BLICIIFELDT '34
• Women's News Editor
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Alan:mine Ethic, This Ireue
News .i.Mitor This Issue
MONDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 11', 1933
OF LITTLE AVAIL
Open student protest against the R. 0. T. C., for
same reason or other, has been rather feeble. There has
bean plenty of grumbling because of the irksomeness of
the thing s and quite a little objection to the compulsory
course on theoretical grounds. .But these protests have
been confined to "bull sessions" and other occasions at
which very little courage is required to attack the exist
ing set-up.
The letter of a freshman in this issue, therefore, is
a welcome communication. Like any other opinion, it
has points which could be questioned and proved flimsy.
Bat it cannel be disregarded, even by those who would
denounce it as "pacifistic." In substance, it represents
the opinion of a good many students who have taken or
are taking the two-year basic military course.
The sympathies of this paper are not with the R.
0. T. C. On the whole, the time spent on the drill field .
and in the classroom could be used to better advantage
in other courses or activities. Military training itself
is usually irksome, and of little value as physical exer
cise. The aims and accomplishments of the R. 0. T. C.,
as listed in the College catalogue and quoted in the letter,
are exaggerated. The ultimate purpose of any course in
military training is one which does not receive the sane-
tion of 'those who are convinced of the futility of war
and its instruments. Finally, the "obligation" of any
college to require military training is open to question.
But these and other points are• familiar to almost
everybody. They have already been expanded at great
length, often to no avail. Some change for the better
Was made in the It. 0. T. C. set-up here this year, but it
did not greatly alter the charges which can be made
against military training as a whole. There are cir
cumstances, it seems; which prevent any really great
changes. There is reason to believe that some persons
in responsible positions would like to make a change if
they could, but the.matter of expediency enters in. Be
cause of this situation, therefore, it is difficult to see
just what Can be done, other than swallowing the bitter
pill.
THE LETTER PUBLISHED last week regarding
medical service here was published because the writer
thought he had a just complaint to make. There have
been other cases of a similar nature. Probably there is
a good reason for the present situation. If there is ; some
scrt of a dignified explanation should be forthcoming.
At least, it would put a stop to charges which may be
unfair. Silence merely encourages them.
MANAGERS AND POLITICS
The recent football managerial elections, hi which a
non-fraternity man was elected a first assistant, should
be a set-back to those who arc always howling about
"polities" and "string-pulling." In this instance, at
least, the men who did; the worlt , ,and ;were 00imost
Capable presumably Were 'elected. The precedent is a,
good one for future managerial elections to continue
The calibre of the present senior sports managers is
of the sort that gives promise of honesty and lack of
favoritism in elections. In the past, there have been
it good many instances of "I'll put your man in if you
Put my man in." These gave rise, and justly so, to a
student attitude which believed religiously that "the
manager's man always made out." Consequently, there
was a feeling of hopelessness on the part of a manager
ial candidate who didn't have anyone to "pull" for him.
This then led to the suggestion early this year that men
belonging to the same house as the manager be barred
from competing for a managerial position in that par
ticular sport. Obviously, such a proposal if put into ef
fect would do little to stop favoritism, as there could be
"trades" between the managers of different sports.'
Furthermore, the manager has only one vote in elec
tions, and if men from his fraternity are barred from
competition, then men belonging to the same houses as
the other members of the elections board should be
barred. These evident defects in the suggestion have
led to its rejection.
In its place, however, a much better proposal has
been advanced, and used in the recent football man
agerial elections. This plan requires that each of the
three first assistant wanagers, in suggesting three new
assistants to the elections board, submit three identical
lists. If the three first assistants can agree on three
men to succeed them, then the action of the executive
board must be somewhat of the rubber stamp sort. If,
on the other hand, three lists containing seven or eight
different names are submitted, then the opportunity for
"politics" at the elections board meeting is increased.
Thls plan, coupled with a conscious desire on the part
of some of the present managers to observe candidates
at work and reward the best men, will remove much cif
the truth from the charges of "politics" on this campus:
Recently wcoverheard a freshman crying the age
old grievance against the R. 0. T. C. But this fresh
man had a constructive suggestion to make. "Why
not," lie wanted to know, "do away with the Army
in favor of the Navy?" He said he'd much rather be
a sailor than a soldier any day.
This suggestion has more merit than is apparent
on first glance. Consider. Instead of being en
veloped in itchy, ill-fitting uniforms the boys could
wear a snappy blue ensemble which would go over big
in Bellefonte and San Francisco. Instead of sitting
through dull, laborious lectures the lucky students
taking "Rudder-C" could be put to work building a
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James H. Wntsoo. 3r.
—Phillip W. FM,
training ship on the front campus, or they could just
play that they had a ship there. The flagpoles would
help the illusion along. Sailors should know how to
swim; they could be taught in the College duck pond
near the Evergreens which would undoubtedly be a
relief to the people who try to find a use for that
forlorn spot.
over to Penn State in China; they'd probably appre-
date the . honor.
By the way, does anyone know the identity of the
lad who called up the Phi Mu house and asked the
Pope if she Was going steadily?
To our mind this past week-end takes an all
time prize for wetness without apparent reason. The
College was flooded with beer and conviviality, voices
were constantly "raised in song," the whole atmos
phere was decidedly mellow.
Repeal? Well, maybe.' But the bottles that
were so aggressively displayed were mostly old, faith
fuls filled with very, very, new "moon."
The Phi Gain house was rather crowded on Sat
urday night, and some of the dancers were shoved right
into the noses of the band. All of which is neither un
usual or funny. But it so happened that Jim Norris
(Thespian, Beta, Adventurer and Man About New
York) was dancing - in just the right position when
Emery May reached for a low note on his trombone.
We understand that although Dean Warnock
really did purchase a copy of The Old Main Bell, there
is absolutely no truth in the rumor that Director Ben
dek 'tried. to •buy Mit - the "ivhole simply!"
MacFarlane and Marge Kushke at the Phi Ep
house on Friday night . Fran Turner and Phillips
at the same . . . who said they wished Sue Hoffer
would let down her hair? ... such an unbraiding
all is not what it Seamans in the "Y" ... who poured
The Campuseer into bed Saturday night? . . . Fay
Christine claims to he simply ga about uniforms ...
and `as dawn:,bipaks: over a •siltnt, ilserted, campus,
your. little Mani'ae does an "Of.eto Buffalo" into the
shadows, wishing you a merry, Merry, New Year. We
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To the Editor:the disciplinary features of the course.
I am irritated by the course in' It is only, too true that discipline is
"citizenship" training otherwise corn- the point receiving the most emphasis;
manly known as R. 0. T. C. Annoyed, but this is the discipline of obedience
perhaps, because I can not interpret to the dictates of a single individual
citizenship in terms of rifles, marks- and require the order to be carried
manship, close order drills, brass out regardless of consequence or
bands, and the practical and their- merit. In the tradition of the soldier,
etical instruction of the soldier. My "It's not for us to wonder why;
exposure to three months of drill corn- but for us to
. do or die." This is not
polls me to suspect that Noah Web- the development of individuality: This,
ster, too, is 'unfamiliar with the term is the foundation of mob rule.
in its relation to R. 0. T. C. Beyond all doubt, there are those
It arouses the suspicious nature in who question the truthfulness of these
a student when he learns that he has
been gently coerced into a movement
which bears no semblence to the con
ception that he once treasured of it.
I He is disillusioned because he has ac-
I cepted at full value its virtues as they
have been so vividly portrayed to him.
He wonders why it was necessary to
use pretense to - •urge him to join the
ranks. He has been told that R. 0.
T. C. has been instituted "to give
training in leadership to male stu
dents . . . . as will be of value to
them in civilian, industrial, or profes
sional careers," and then speaking of
graduate students in R. 0. T. C. "they
become the professional associates of
prominent men :in their community."
(Quotation' from-College Catalogue).
After he becomes better acquainted
with the course,- he finds that he has
lost "liberty and independence" which
his fore-fathers tried. to secure for:
him on the bloody fields of the Revo- 1
lotion, because he is not permitted to
question or discuss the value and' pur
pose of R. 0. T: . C. in the class room.
The War Dept. prescribes that "this
course shall be taught by the didactic
method, without discussion and with
out argument." (Excerpt froin the
Training Manual issued by the War
Dept.) •
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