WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1940
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Nibbling
At The News
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Arilid conflicting claims of mbr
ale-shattering attacks bn London;
fldhiirig aha ruined Nazi attack
basfefe; ahd Italian preparations fbr
smashing Gibraitor, thfe storp oi
K&enfe Pdririfehtifer sticks out as
would a skpscrapfer lit Boalsburg.
. Parmentier was born in Hol
land sbme thirty years ago. Like
mbst people he SSgjglfred consider"-
ablfe lobe' for his country as he
grew up. Along with that, he be
came interested in flying and af
ter some years of work, and study
became a transport pilot. He rose
■quickly to the position of chief pi
lot, married, and became.the fath
er. of a small family. Xn. short;
Kogne Parmentier was a success.
Then came May, i 940. His na
tive iarid crushed, his family wip
ed out by one Nazi bomb, Parmen
tier fled through France and Por- 1
tugai to England. Flying cronies
who met him during his flight re
ported that he had little to say ex
except that- he would occasionally
mutter something about “repaying
the Nazis.”
-Almost since the beginning of
the bombardment of Britain a
Dutch bomber has nightly taken
off from an English airfield. The
pilot speaks English with a decid
ed Dutch accent" Later that same
plane hurtles down oh the Ger
man bases at Rotterdam, Panrien
tier’s own city, scattering death
and destruction. Then, as the ship
climbs away from the city through
a hail of anti-aircraft fire; a tiny,
weighted note spins groundward,
warning the Dutch people where
a .man’s vengeance for death of
family and country will strike on
the following night.
It isn’t a very iong story; one
can only guess at its ending, arid
many of th'e details have been fill
ed in purely by imagination and
surmise. Yet, it may have its
meanings if spirit and emotions
have even one atom of bearing on
the present conflict. - ■ -
' Perhaps thfe headline “Rfeiifeilibri-
Reported Among Nazi Troops”-
could ihakfe an interfestirig, cortt
parison with the story of Koene
Phrfiifeirtifer. " '' '
'Long And Shaft' Of If
Illustrated By Fiashmen
The “long and thfe short” bte
twfeen college' generations was il
lustrhtfed today by tWb membters
oi thfe hew freshman class.
.’iferutee Wbrrfell Jr., Who is en
rolled -in the School, of- Liberal
Arts, is the grandson of thellte
Passmore Hoopes who attended
Penn State 82 years ago.
'At the other fe&treirie is Phyllis
Garrison whose father, J. A. Gar
rison was graduated froih the Col
lege just 13 years ago.
Profs Attend Bicentennial
; Prof. Jacob Tariger, head of the
gblitical science department, and
Frof. H. F. Alderfer, executive seer
retary of the Institute of Local
Government, attended a reception,
dinner, and other activities of the
bicentennial celebration, given by
Samuel R. Harrell, trustee of the
University of Pennsylvania, and
thfe National Foundation for Edu
cation in American Citizenship, at
Philadelphia last' Thursday and
Friday.
Mew Ed Building Shown
Penn State came Into its oWh
Stinday when a picture of the new
ly opened Burrowes Building was
piiblished in the Educational Sec
tion of the New York Times.
tibn of the New Yprk ; T?lhiei. G&p
tibn under the picture ’stilted
thtet it was one of ,il structures
costing $5,Q00,000 which. students
■wHll use for the first time.
b?he School of Agriculture o&ers
cbirespondence courses in .42 sub- :
jjjcts:
_The Pennsylvania Agriculture
Exponent Station was Organized
Readers’ Albeit—
Contributions Wanted
—And Another Review
Have you read a good book
lately? This column welcomes
guest reviews of fiction of other
wise from and for both students
arid fdcuity. Try a thumbnail
outiihe in simple prose; ff'efe of
critical faricywork,, arid riiail it
to thfe Collfegian office, 313 Old
Main.
- When ClarPrice Ldvejoy wrote
“So You’re Gbirig to Cbliegfe,” he
had iri mind p-Sti boys who arfe
woridfetihg whfefre the rtfeit dlirie or
meal is- cbmirig from. His dirii is
to survey your chances bf wbrkihg
youf way through, it is ribt too late
to look into loans; prizes, scholar
ships (oh the basis of grades—not
athletic prowess! of to cbhsidfer
some of the unusual ways of earn
irig cash, if you have iiitle or no
Pagination, you_can go on wait
irig tables,' clerking on NYA, stbk
irig fuftidc'es br washihg windows;
but if ybu have an adventurous
spirit, you will find a hundred sug
gestibris fbr fehipldyihg ydilr tal
ents on your own time and study
budget; ffbm a few minutes’ ac
quaintance With Lovejoy’s book.
Aside frorii these helpful fea
tures; “So You’re Going to College”
will provide interestirig compari
sons bf colleges and universities,
since it checks enrollments; facul
ties, endowments, library facilities;
special courses, and a dozen other
items bf studeht cohcern. If you
are a student, you can check -on
your professors’ alma maters; and,
if you are on the staff, you can find
but abbut the collegiate connec
tions of those fascinating people
you met at. your last convention.
Lovejoy lists the assets (and lia
bilities) of 900 institutions.
Chapters on careers arid the at
titudes of employers toward col
lege graduates will surprise you
with startling facts arid amazing
statistics—and the information is
there iri simple', concise, and two
fisted prose.
If- you are a James Thurber fan,
you wiil want to piie right into his
“Fables For Our Time and Fam
ous Poems/’ though you may have
them clipped and filed for that fu
ture onslaught of the blues, for
most of them appeared in The
New Yorker within the last year.
Thurher has outdone Aesop and
•George .Ade in .his..ironical.tales
involving war, love, drinking, so
ciety/ arid cither .probleffis arid mo
dern hiklldjUstirients 'of mankihd.
Of course, thfe volUme is illustrated
in thfe best ThuHSer ihahnfer.
In.“ Gossip,” St. Clair McKelway
has 'chojiped Waiter Wirichell down
to life size. In fact, McKelway re
duces the midriight mole to a ter
mite. Did you know that W. W.
whs Only '4d% accurate ih those
scoops and blasts, tips and inuen
does that have whooped up second-1
The Commerce Club of Stale College Invites You lo Stale College and Presents the Following
It costs no more lb outfit arid to supply your son or daughter Ih Stile College thin in
any other town iri.the state of • PehnsyivUnlh; State Cbllege mferfcharifs fekttlie only
goods of national tbpriie triad clifer ttt 4fik GollfeSis cbrrithUriity. duality hak aiwfeys btelh
the prime factor among the localmerchanis, arid dfetelincf With hfetibrial brands hak
. been the student's assurance bf lhls’impßrtani factor fof fai&nfr yeltk. Stebbhd to qualify
it must be remenibfered that ihte sljstii Cblll'gS mefchants ferifitre Only auhferilic clfnfittk
fashions and the lllest in siudehi supplied, We invite yeti fb Inspect bur slbrfes on
your next visit fb State, and We feel Sure'that you wili agrefe with ybut ston or
daughter when hb fcayk "the bfest bte iri fetafe fcbllb^e/*
ALL LEADING STATE COLLEGE MERCHANTS ARE MEMBERS OF THE COMMERCE CLUB
THE DAILY COLLEGIAN
Conscription's Effect On College
Students Not Yet Determined
N 1,740 Undergraduates
Eligible For Training
What effect will compulsory
military trkihihg havfe ori iriy sbri?
MSny niothfers bf College stu
dents between the ages bf 31 and
36 arb asking this qtlestibri; today;
and thfe answer tb it is still un
known. However, thfe probable fef
feeiT cart bfe prfedifctfed with soriife
claim tb afcciirarp.
Thfe riuriiber bf Cbliegfe sttidferits
whb Witt be called is a problem
which cari bfest be ahsWferfed bp
statistics. With i6;soo;fibo rii'eri
available for cbrisCHptibh; orite in
165 will bfe drafted fbr fevfefy iOO,-
000 called. Last year i,74iJ Pferin
State men wfere within the diraft
ages. On this ratio, the College
would lose only il students in a
100,000 draft, and 99 in a 900,000
draft.
It is likely, however, that ex
emptions wili change thfe propbr
tiori of college students taken. Un
der the' provisions of exemption
for nifen- with dependfents, men in
essential industry, men with phy
sical disability; and men with
previous military . training* the
number of available “trainees”
would be cut to 6,200,000, the
Army has estimated. These rea
sons would exempt only a few
college students.
The list of Penn State eligibles
would be cut about 10 per cent;
it has been estimated, and ex
emptions nationally would be 60
per cent. This means that Penn
State would lose 25 men for every
100,000 conscripted and 225 for
every 900,000.
> No college student will be re
quired to take military training
until next summer. A clause iri
the Selective Service Training
Act reads: ‘Any person who, dur
ing the year 1940, eritered upon
attendance for the academic year
1940-1941 ... is selected for trairi
irig, shall, upori his request, bfe
deferred from induction from
such trairiirig until the end of thfe
academic year.” "
For thbse sthdfentfe' who elfect to
takfe coiriptilsbry trainirig: when
caiifed, the usual regulations 'gov
erning fefe rebates wifi bfe hrforce,
Riisseli E. Ciark, Cbliege bursar,
has said; These rfebatfes arfe ar
ranged ori a sliding scale. Coiri-
raters arid made hohtest folk seek
isolation? Good thing .Walter
doesn’t play the pohi’es with equal
fallibility; he’d be brßke today,
instead of being, the ; top-salari6d
columnist. The articles ■ appeared
as a series—the longest “profile”
ever printed iri The New. Yorker.
Soj if you missed looking through
the keyhole-at Walter, now’s your
chance to catch up.
IT’S YOUR DAY, DAD
Saturday, October sth
BUCKNELL VERSUS PENN STATE
Message to Penn Stale Parents
plete details may be found in the
Regulations • for Undergraduate
Students.
Concerning registration on Oc
tober 16, students nefed not go
home tb register but will be per
mitted to register with the draft
board nearest tb state College.
This Wili probably be considered
“absentee registration,” accordihg
to Cbl. Ambrose R. Emery; head
of the College ROTC uriit. Ab
sentee registration, COlbhei Emery
said, means that students wodld
be taken frbm the quotas of their
horiie cbuhties Shd nbt from
Centre Cbuiity quota.
Electrical Engineers
Have New Relay Panels
Electrical engineering students
returning id class today will have
the use of two new type relay
demonstration panels, showing the
latest developments in automatic
protection against power system
disturbances.
The panels, which are part of
the equipment for the nbw Elec
tricai Engineering building,
erected by the General State Au
thority, are equipped With shbirt
circuit buttons by which students
can, cbntrbl a 115-volt electric cur
rent to produce a picture of what
happens when lightning strikes a
power line, or other trouble
occurs.
Designed especially for the Col
lege, the panels were assembled
at the Westinghouse service de
partment plant at Philadelphia.
YES, we know it will be Dad's Day, BUT
we know there is one thing Dad puts be
fore himself arid that is his son or
daughter—So we feel sure Dad will get
you a pair of duality shoes af . . .
■
Bottorf Bros.
Entrances Oh Allen and Beaver
—R.G.
PAGE THREE
Fraternity Pledge Dinner
Es Scheduled October 6
The annual _ Interfraternity
Pledge dinner will be held at the
Nittany Lion Inn at 6 p. m. Octo
ber 6, according to tentative ar
rangements released yesterday.
Dr. Frank Kingdon, chapel
speaker for that date, will also be
the guest speaker at the dinner;
and Arnold G. Laich ’4i will be
the toastmaster.
Notice of the drnner will be
mailed to all fraternities next
week.
Bells Says Vision
Stews Many Pupils
“Pupiis starling iii the public
schools should be required to pre
sent a certificate of visual readi-;
ness along With their vaccination;”
says Dr. Emmett A. Betts, research
professor in elementary education.
Dr. B'etts says in many casfes
poor vision is the cause of pobr
grades and slowness in ' reading
because of the general neglect of
eyesight among school children. It
is his opinibn that if byes were
examined and faults corrected, be
fore children started school, their
chances of success Wbiild be much
greater.
Extension Service Holds i
Accounting Clinic Here
Thb .Extension Services of the
Pennsylvania State College have
announced that the third anniiat
Pennsylvania Accounting Clinic
Will be held at the College Oh Sep -
tember 27 and 28. Th'e clinic will
dbal with current changes in tech
nical accounting problems.