Page Tiv* PENN STATE COLLEGIAN Successor to The Free Lance, established 1887 l'oblitthed seeni-teeel.l.g dortng the College year, execht on holidngn. br ateolento of he Pennsylvania State College, In the interegt of the Collette, the ettofento, thettltg, . I ...tie anti relent!, HARRY 11. HENDERSON JR. '36 WILLIAM li. SKIRBLE '36 Editor Rue Duos Mannaer DONALD P. SANDERS '36 ROLAND W. 011E111101.17.ER '36 Mount:lna Editor Circulation Manarter • W. BERNARD rm.:l7llmi '36 WILLIAM It. ILECKMAN '36 Snorts Editor Advertinina Mnonacr VANCE 0. PACKARD '36 1.1111.11 1 G. CVANS '36 Ansionnt Editor Loral Advertielna Manager JOHN Id. MILLER .IR. '36 LEONARD T. F.IEFF '36 Atwintnot 31moutina Editor eretlit Mummer CHARLES NI SCHWARTZ JR. '36 L. MARYBEL CONAIIEE '36 Alston' Spans Editor Women's Editor WILLIAM P. McDOWELL '36 RUTH E. 1:0FOILER '36 NolVi Editor Women's Manakin= Editor 30113: Ii LAtINES JR. '36 A. FRANCES TURNER '36 News Dditor Women's Neves Editor Monsuinir Uhl's This Issur Nn Editor Thil Issue_ Tuesday. March :3. 19:36 DEFEATISM 'The worst enemy of peace is not the "war-mon gers," it is to be found in the attitude of the people. Prom birth man is conditioned to accept war as inevit able, as a necessary accompaniment of civilization. We study history as a succession of wars. Life is filled with continual strife, competition is the life of trade, And from birth to death we are continually striving to beat someone else to the coveted prize. Is it any wander that pehee action makes so little progress? If it were possible to make a comprehensive survey of the entire student body on the question of War versus Noce tile result would be overwhelmingly against war. No one wants war, Everybody realizes the enormity of the loss of human life, and property which war necessi- trttes and all its attendant horror and-suffering. That, any person wants to wallow, half-starved and fright ened to death,ln the slime of a trench, target for every kind of death horror from dent-dons bullets to chlorine gas. is unthinkable. No person in their right mind Would put their stamp of approval on war. And yet when it comes to constructive action to wards peace the response is pitifully small. Not more than one per cent of the student body actually believes that war can be prevented. With a defeatist philosophy like that, certainly war is inevitable and when it comes they will go will ingly—nay, gladly—to their deaths, They will be he- rOCS, martyrs, victims of themselves--fit sacrifices to the greedy avarice of the war makers! Anti so, licked before they start, supposedly intel ligent students sit in stolid inactivity and idly admit that war is an invention of the devil, but one about which they can do nothing. The great majority of these defeated persons just refuse to do anything. They don't even think about it, much less take part in any concerted action against war. With supreme indifference they merely push it away front their consciousness like May's 'tern,. papers And turn to more pleasant things such as which chicken br'ained - 'coied'iirtake to Spring House A union minority of students, infused with this war-is-inevitable spirit, suddenly get to thinking about it and decide that for their own future• safety and bodily comfort they better do something about it. So they take advanced rt. 0. T. C. Of course, not all ad vanced' R. 0. T. C. officers are motivated by' the rea son, for after all, one does draw a salary, it's an easy "3," and think of the pretty uniform! But many of them do. Front the depths of defeatism they assume that who' are thCy to beat the war monger's millions, and they hurry to get on the winning. side. Incidental ly, an officer from his position back of the front is not nearly so ready a target for an enemy bullet as the poor devil in the trenches. And that is the position of pence in the world to day. Before any appreciable progress can be made to wards a sane and sensible solution of international dif- lichlties through arbitration, ninety-nine and ninety nine.one hundredths per cent of the, peoples a the world must somehow be shocked out of their inborn conviction thht war if; inevitable.. Manifestly true is the oft-re peated statement that if everybody in. the world re fused to fight war would disappear s from_thp' face of th'e earth. How devilishly paradoxical is the situation in the world today when the basic and fundamental con- cept of life is the urge' to self preservation and yet nt the same time humanity is ready, at a minute's notice, to throw down its life for somebody else's benefit! War is not inevitable! It never has been and it never w,ll re, ear centuries humanity existed—shack led, beaten, outraged, more beast of the field than hu man—just because it believed that kings were of div ine origin, the outward manifestation of God. Where is that belief today? Right where the inevitability of war concept will be when enough of the people in the world. wake up to reality and refuse to be made the dumb tools of greed and rapaciousness. CURIOUS COMPARISONS , DEPARTMENT Two weeks ago the House or Representatives pass ed the biggest peace-time War Department appropria tion bill in U. S. history. Total sum apportioned: $545,000,000; or, $5.45 was taken from every man, wom an and child in this great land of liberty. Last week, after the final checkup was made, it was revealed that the Peace Emphasis Week bond drive here had netted a total of $5OO. On a basis of 5,000 townspeople and an equal number of students, this means that every person in the district contributed the gigantic sum of five cents. In one and the same week the Tosideats of State College, supposedly one of the most intellectual and en lightened centers of the State, abased theMselves before the great God Afars and sacrificed onto him the fatted calf while, behind their hacks, they leased a crumb to the dove of Peace. Well is it spoken: "Let not tho right hand know what the left is doing!" Soap and Fish Some freshman went into Paul Mitten's the other day and asked Paul for a pair of tails that he could attach to a tux. Paul patiently explained that tails and tuxes were two different uniforms. The fresh- man bought tails and left Definition: Howard. Rowland defines sociology as ,"the poly syllabic elaboration of the obvious."' We think so too. Conversation: Saturday afternoon we happened to turn our ra dio on down at the lower end of the dial and so broke in on Ginny Thorn talking to her mother in Pitts burgh. A local amateur station, WSNAR, raised WBDJE in Pittsburgh, who knew Ginny and asked about her. After couch talking back and forth, they got Ginny at this end and her parents at the other end and they had a fine conversation. It was all very chummy. John,. Brennomnn '37 ilicharl E. ',wig '37 The local end, which was the only one we could hear, seemed to have a lot of trouble thinking of things to soy. Cinny was probably scared of such dastardly eavesdroppers as ourself. Those of you who are interested may hear her again if you'll turn your radio down to the lowest end of the dial Friday af ternoon at 3:30. (Aside to WSNAR: You came through QSAS, RB. On two transmissions, the QRM froni our land lady's vacuum cleaner smothered you under. • 7l) About Town and Campus The Kappas are going in strong tor.shces with wide straps .. We liked that profs crack about "libraries tluit spend all their time counting up state and federal agricultural phamphlets and then calling them books" . What loCal business triumvirate overdrew their account at the bank $l2OO one day last week? . . . Briggs Pruitt and Pete Lektrich found a five-dollar bill on the steps of Old Main the other day. Not be ing able to linty the owner between Old Main and the corner, they bioke it to buy beer . . . The Library got a request froni a man in Erie asking why sonic eques trian statues have the horses nosed with all four feet on the ground and others with only two or three feet. Mr. Lewis' gigantic organization is going quietly mad trying to find the answer . • We still like: Rich man, poor man, Fraternity brother, fraternity brother Hugh Morrow., the Coub•e Daily Mks star, has .gone to Sueknell to become head of the news bureau ~hene:[-:.tßvrgessr:Leitzellr,.csu ht ' . Centre .County Sheriff Keeler for illegal parking the other day. The Sheriff decided to jail himself rather than pay the twelve-fifty fine Aside to M. G. S.: Werei. I'm wearing the shirt George Donovan's bulletin board had Doc Deng ler speaking on "What We Want Women to Do" at 4 A. M. for Mortar Board's leadership conference last week ... Wayland Dunaway up from Philly for the week-end and escorting his sister May to the Theta formal ... Marjorie Rehn was considerably worried about the letter from Paul Hirsch that she left in a Corner booth by mistake. We didn't read it, Mar jorie . • Lynn Christy foiled a colossal gag planned by Highpockets Henderson (Bart Hodge's brother). Christy heard Harry struggling up the steps of their. rooming house. He went out in the hall. Hender son w•as carrying his full trunk up the steps himself where he planned to put his bed, and then go doWn to Dugan's to sleep, thus creating a great rnys,, tery. He wns sore as hell, When Christy spoiled it ADDING A LITTLE TO A LITTLE » ALITTLE MORE RESPECT FOR THE THREAD AND NEEDLE—A LITTLE MORE HAND TAILORING—A DEEPER CONSIDERATION FOR THINGS UNSEEN AND THE SUM TOTAL Is—Character. -E. T. S Character . . . . IS THE STYLE NOTE THAT SINGLES OUT STARK BROS. & HARPER CUSTOM MADE SUITS FROM ORDINARY CLOTHING—A CHARACTER BORN OF .WATCHFULNESS AND BRED OF PAINS AND CARE. FROM $25.00 TO $50.00 STARK BRQ S. _ HARPER.> HATTERS HABERDASHERS TAILORS -E. T. S OLD MANIA =MI -THE MANIA PENN Si'ATII CULLECiii CreSswell'Dismissed Donald M. Cressirell, former head of the department of public informa tion has been dismissed from the po sition of director of publicity for the state department of public instruc tion at Harrisburg, according to a recent announcement by W. Lester K. Ade, superintendent of public in struction. Cresswell resigned here in 1932 when he accepted the state po sition. • Letter Box I To the EditOr As a 'forestry student in this col lege, I want to apologize for that per son who signs himself "A Pledge." There are nearly 400 students en rolled in this institution who are studying . faiWttry. One student . goes off "half shot'? and.makes a mistake. That is a lot' less than twenty per cent, is it me? There are certain individeals' in the School of Liberal Arts'and Commerce and Finance, who at tiines, are just as'rabid, so please, do not take said "pledge's" outburst as' an expression of general opinion of, the foresters:, We feel bad enough about it as. Yours sincerely,.. A SENIOR P. S.: I would appreciate it if you would publish. this, simply in order that it might help alleviate any mis understandink. that . might now exist between .the foresters and the rest of the student liody. To the Editor According to the impression given, the author of the'"Hell Week" letter in your last•issue is a forester. A feeling of superiority towards fores ters seems'to be prevalent among the students. Undoubtedly' the, above mis sive will intensify this false attitude. As a forestry student, I wish to apologize for that letter, and hope that "A Pledge" will not be taken as a criterion for college opinion. S. A. GORDON '3B To the Editor Tr a forester is the instigator of the recent „letter to the COLLEGIAN may t apologize for all the foresters and for the forestry profession to, those against whom the letter may' be directed. Forestry as a form of social serv ice would' hold little for an individual of the calibre - that such a letter would indicate. Surely, the thoughts of 'a moron of that type may' be dismissed without further diseus - sion. ' • . A. 0. PETZOLD '36 CINEkANIA Big names" don't always mean fine pictures. Extremely popular .novels can't always be transformed into suc cessful film productions. Yet in "Wife versus Seeretary," playing at 'the Cathaum for the last time today, there is . a Welding of these two in gredients into a top-notch picture. It's p:ausible,, swiftly-paced, and the . CORSAGES for SOPH HOP Roses 6nrdenitis; Orchids • , fii*St.so - N. Stanton STUDENT FLORIST Phone . . . . 476 Printing for Student Societies and Fraternities Chapter Publications Nittariy ninting and Publishing Company 110 West College Avenue .Netpdcash. - ? .. 'Look, Cinentanine gets ga-ga about Loy any way. A wise-cracking front-page report er, who gets his tips from criminals, is the principil in Paramount's thrill er, "Woman Trap'," due Tuesday and Wednesday at the Nittany Theatre. He trails the gang only to'find that an excitement-seeking girl, whose life he has saved, serves as a trap to put hint in the power of the desperadoes who feel their lives will he safer once he is "wiped out Gertrude Michael portrays the girl, whose zest for novel adventure plung es the reporter into peril. Important parts are entrusted to Roscoe Karns, Akira TamirofT, Samuel S. Hinds, Sidney Blackmer and Dean Jagger. A picture that promises to be one of the most stirring' dramas of the year is "The Prisoner of Shark Is land," which opens at the Catlin= tomorrow and jumps' to . the Nittany Thursday. Warner Baxter and Glor ia .Stuart have the leading roles as Dr. and Mrs. Samuel Mudd. Support ing actors include Claude (lining., water.; Arthur Byron, 0. P. Heggie, and Harry Carey. The picture is the more Interesting becadse it is based on ,a bit of history little known to the average man; lit tle knimn because it is one of the darker; blots on the national escutch 'eon. Dr. Mudd became an unwitting accomplice of Booth, Lincoln's assas sin, when he set Booth's leg. For this act of mercy he was con demned to a living death on Ameri ca's Devils' Island, "Shark Island." Here Mudd suffered unspeakable cruelties with only the hope of escape to enable him to carry on., One at tempt to escape failed and his "dur ance vile" became even more so. Fin ally an outbreak of plague swept the island and the prison doctor 'died. Evening Hose, Slips, Bra's, Girdles, Bags and Handkerchiefs • Paterson Hosiery Shop Old. Main Art Shop Bldg. lIALF - E !. .114 . .kf110,4,1c-ES:,., 'ffNE. SWELL SMOKE! , „.. witittei .....4 ... ~. 't• . , , vito . 1 i P '-'': H - i 7 ler;;;;: , . ntt ' • flit • ---` .„..„. ‘ (17 0 ,- .. ] O'ce 5;- , . •,,:;.: i ... ..T..0, -- Not a bit of bite In the tobacco or the Telescope 'llse, which mat smaller and smaller as you sivismp the tobacco. No bitten fingers in you rents for a load, even the lest ono. 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