PAGE TWO With the Editor— About Quit Trademark, Tfhe Sip, Qf A Student's Letter Home It has been suggested that this communication from the students to their parents would not seem genuine if there were not incorporated m it a request for money. The trademark has not been omitted. It is on pages 4 and 6. Whether the two offers there are worthwhile is up to the parents to decide. Briefly, here is the case for them. The Parents’ Association membership coupon previously had been transmitted to the parents by way of “The Nittany Firesides,” a leaflet mailed several times annually to all parents of Penn State students inviting them to visit the College for such occasions as Dad’s Day _ and Mother’s Day. The Association takes on itself the responsibility of promoting College observance ot these days and on inviting parents back at a time when they can see the College in action. f'Vtnds received from the Association dues are used to promote these days and this year are paying part of the cost of this special issue of The Daily Collegian. The Collegian subscription coupon bases its case solely on the desire of the parents to keep in touch with the College at which their sons and daughters are students. Daily this year for the first time, the Cpllegian publishes five morn ings a week, Tuesday through Saturday. The Collegian program aims primarily at coverage of "student activities and thus offers parents at a comparatively small cost a complete report of the Penn State activities and the J?enn State program. Type Lice: Type lice are scapegqats. They must have gone to work in the Collegian office on Monday night while the staff and the printers were out for a midnight 1 lunch. How else could all those mis takes have been made? Certainly we couldn’t have made them. Certainly. Would we have said that Chi Phi pledged two men when actually it pledged 13? That -Pi Kappa Alpha pledged 41 when actually it pledged Would we have listed Sigma Phi Sigma’s pledges* ■: pnder Sigma Phi Epsilon? Or called a Cq-op Dorm [ a Co-up D°rm? Or tried to say that the College last fall had enrolled 72,0Q0 freshmen instead of 7,200? Qr called Ned Wakeman’s step-father his father and -brother-in-law? Or omitted the notice abqut the intramural deadline? Or not known that 43 of the 47 fraternities had been called and told they could get copies of the list qf freshman residences at the Tau Kappa Epsilon house be ’ tween 2:30 and 3:30 a. m., qn September 12, just after they became available? _We don’t think it sounds .like us. But if you don't believe ip type lice, whom else can you blame? THE DAILY COLLEGIAN "For A Better Pern* State" Successor to the Rent} State Collegian, established 15(0.4, and 1 'Free Lance, established 1887 Wednesday Morning, September 25, 1940 Published'daily except Sunday” and Monday during the jrearular Coltee yea* tar the atiKtenfe of The' E.ennsylvapui State College." Entered as second-class waiter July f>. 1934. at the post-office at State College; Pa., under the act of fjarch - ' Editor Busings Manager Adam A." Smyser '4l Lawrence S. Driever '4l Women's Editor—Vent L. kemp HI; Managing E<hto.r —Robert' fii She Mtf Sports Editor—RichM C. Pete* Ml; News Editor—William E. Fhwler Ml; Feature Editor. —Edwaid j. K.'McLOrie Ml; Assistant Edxtoth- Bayard Bloom Ml; ‘Vfpien’s Editorr-Arita L. HeflSran 11 Mi; Woman’s Promotion ” Manager— Edythe B. Manager-Jolm H. !Tticunas Ml i Circulation Manager—RobCrt G. Hobihson Ml: Sehtor Secretary—Ruth pqldstein Mf : Senior SqwetaTy—Leslie H. Lewis Ml. « Junior Editorial A. Baer !42,- B. Hdon Ji Gordon' RiW B; fifehmAn M 2, William- 4. M- ’ ’ ***** * ****** V junior” Business' Board—Thomas W. Allien ’42, Raul ' M. Goldberg Jamcg E.‘’McCaughey ’42, T. Blair Wallace f|2, Margaret Embuyy M 2, Virginia <}gden 42, Fay B. Graduate Counselor Editorial and Business Office , 313 Old Main Bldg. Dial 711 Managing Editor This Issue Ralph C. Routsong Ml £Nnv/s Editor This issue - William J. Mcknight 42 lssue Editor .-Alice M. 'Murray, 42, gßophomore AssipJijU. • —Nick' yoccy. f * * C. Russell Eck Downtown Office 119-121 South Frazier St. Dial 4372 THE DAILY CQLLEGIAN A LEAN AND HUNGRY LOOK iiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiipiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiuimiin There are a number of places on this lovely campus of ours where the casual stranger is defi nitely not welcome.. Ever since we came here we’d heard about them from nervous people who claimed that the petroleum lab- was the most im portant bomb target west of Bellefonte. Comes the present defense hysteria and we began to feel a more than passing interest in the secret places. So we strolled down into the maze of engineering buildings, intent upon investigation. We ended up in the petroleum laboratory, the very bowels of the joint. They were very polite about it, but very firm. There was, they said, alwdys the dan ger that the whole place might blow up in one vast explosion. “Experiments,” they muttered darkly. They offered to show up around a bit, without too much enthusiasm. We left quietly. Down in the insulation experimental station they ignored us in a marked manner. They knew that whatever we saw we wouldn’t understand anyhow. Even the janitors in that establishment have a godly air. We dare say it gets you . . . being in on the conception qf scientific marvels. Probably explains, also, the low morale of other than the janitorial staffs. We are struck, now and again, by the futility of writing a column for a collegiate newspaper. It profiteth naught ,and bringeth only woe. But there are compensations for the task. We are able to air our pet prejudices. Nothing has irritated us mo.re than the current surge of rampant patriotism; the waving of flags ' and the loud cries of death to the traitor. The ladies, bless them, wear little flags in their lapels; the ladies are always so very-shocked at war, but remain delightfully blood-thirsty. The gentlemen wear tie clasps with the colors tastefully em bossed in enamel, red, white, and blue. We sing, with strong proud voices, nauseating doggerel to the effect thqt it would be nice if Gqd were to bless America; we are also from the heart of us Americans. There is an element of exquisite irony in it. We know so much of war. We are suddenly so aware. We have yet to see Colonel Emery shouting qut his love of country. Robert Lee was noticeably silent on the subject; Jesse Grant’s son the same. There are a couple very angry juvenile Jack sons in the senior Rotisse class this year; not only angry but deeply hurt. This past summer as they strolled the broad avenues of Washington on leave from their summer camp, they were ac costed by a gentleman. He asked them kindly whether they were National Guardsmen. Our Zeroes Replied that such was not the case. The gentleman pondered for a moment and finally . . . ‘‘Ah yes. You are the P- C. P.” And with Sam Browne belts and all • j. - * '*O»V • fc. f. ■*'' n Dad!!_ Be Sure Your Sen Or Daughter Takes You To \ ■ * - The Corner unusual * * * * * At Poff: Dr. R. Wallace -Brewster, new administrative head of the Schuyl kill Undergraduate Center of the Pennsylvania State College at Pottsville, served for six years in a similar capacity at the Union town center before his transfer this fall. Art News Lauds Old Main Mural Henry Varnum Poor’s Penn State mural won national acclaim for the third time when the Sep tember 14 issue of “The Art News,” leading art publication,, featured two illustrations of the now.-famous fresco on the frontis piece of the magazine. One of t|ie illustrations was of the entire mural, while the other view was a detail of the agricul ture-student group. Lauding the work of Poor, “The Art News” referred to the mural as a “significant contribution to American painting.” In ai4sttaB.i reference was made to the de tailed group, as “eloquent of the strength and pictorial quality of this, ope of the most logical solu tions to the mural-painting prob lem seen amid the recent work in the fresco medium to decorate public buildings.” The other two magazines that gave national recognition to thp mural were “The ~ Magazine of Art” : and the “Art Digest,” Glass Rod Provides Clue To Sun Tan Rays !Dr. Helmut Landsberg, assistant professor of geophysics, has de veloped a practical new method for measuring ultraviolet radia tion—the force that influences the amount of sun tan a person may expect in summer time. By the use of his method, a photosensitive-glass rod, it is posr sible to determine which regions are exposed to the greatest degree of' radiation. £f.eiiuiinas’y nation wide tests showed, acpjirding to Dr. Landsberg, that' ftp Southern ERgr ions have 30 to 50 per ceht more ultraviolet radiation than the Northern. Rio Biedras, Ruerto RiGQ, had the highest recorded rat ing, and .Tucsqri, Amonq,'was : a close second. The Beef Cattle Barn was erect ed in 1923. WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1940 IIIIIIUIIIIUIIUtIUIIIIIIUUUUIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIUUUIUIIIIIIII 11» CAMPUS CALENDAR iiiiiiiiiiiiiiuiMMUi.iiHiLmiiuiuiuiiLHiuiiiuiHiuiiiiHirii TODAY Noon—Tickets for the Campus Center Banquet on Thursday night must be purchased by noon today. Qn sale by iftthlepn Barron in Atherton , Hall, by Student Union, Keeier’s Bonk Store, and Mr. David B. Pugh’s offlpe in Liberal Arts. 4 p.m.—Judicial meeting in WSGA. office, White Hall. Freshman sapper- team versus Boalsburg High School, practice field. 6:3&—Senipr Spopsqr meeting in second floor lounge, Old Main. 6:4s—Cwen meeting in WSGA room, White Hall. 7:oo—Glee Club tryouts for bari tones and basses in Schwab Auditorium, All freshman applicants for . the staff of The Engineer report to room 314 Old Main. Meeting of the officers of .the IMA central council in 418 Old Main.’ 7:3o—Meeting of the entire IMA central council in 418 Old Main. FRE§£»jlAl* NOTICE Fraternity freshmen may he ex empted ftqm customs at’ one house dancp before Thanksgiving, if house puts" in a petition "with Tri bunal '> - TOMOH^PW s:oo—Bophomore women candid > ates : fqr Collegian editorial staff, 312 Old Main. i lota Sigmg Pi supper and busi ness meeting in the S|ndiyich Shop at 5:30 p.m. September 25. ’ •’ Important Notice io Faculty: All announcements of any nature whatever will be published in this column if received by 6 p.m! on the evening preceding publication. At other institutions! similar col umns are used to announce exam inations, room changes, class changes, etc. ' Notice to Graduate Students: A course in Scientific French will be offered this semester on Monday' evenings from 7 to 9 in 304-Liber al Arts. Those interested please see Mr. Bench, Room 302 LA, or at tend the meeting, Monday evening, September 30. Makeup section for freshman library practice will be held at the new library, 7 p.m. Thursday. mm Morningslar Bread is fine for every jmrpqse. It makes ip taste and at the sainq ftto® nourishing- And if von w.fnt crisp Yoasi' that fairly ihelts in your-mouth this is the loaf'for y«n- v ' Star, Parity Bread and Trophy Winner Cake. 1 : r 5
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