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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
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-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
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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.
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