IPAGE TWO- With the Editor— i jetting the M 1 WSi lie Present Many think the first peacetime draft in Amer ican military history must ring harshly on the ears, of Collegian editors who; through the years, have opposed compulsory KOTC at Penn State. I' think not. f would rather think that these Collegian edi tors- agree 1 that 1940- is not 1937 or any other year; that in 1940’ compulsory military training is desir able where in 1937 (when Collegian last seriously attacked KOTC)' and before, it was not desirable. All of them must hope that America can now become strong, enough quickly enough to save de- *i»ocracy, but they must hope still more that some time somehow the threat to- democracy will pass \ and we can return to the days when military might is unessential and undesirable. ' That was the position of the editors who at- tached compulsory RO-TC. Time has proved it a false one, false since Adolph Hitler ascended to power in 1933,. valid before then. The problem of 1940 is to. stand ready, to be pre pared to fight, to fight if necessary, and. to- be able to win when the fight comes. There is a weakness in compulsory military training that makes us all hope and that has made Congress recognize that it should be inpermanent. Compulsory military training, is democratic only as long as it is temporary, only as long as a crisis lasts. . That we; a great democratic nation, can mar shall our forces and our morale when it is neces sary to do l so is a brilliant reply to charges of in efficiency and: inability to- act in an emergency tli at have been leveled at democracy. We have proved that we have the wili and. the power to fight if fight we must. We do- not like to-fight,, we do 1 not want to- fight, but we- will fight rather than lose what generations past have won for us. / Democracy is something, somebody is always dying for, but it is better than starving and goose stepping. for fascism and then dying for it, too. Democracy is the government of an enlightened people, fascism of a muddled.race. If we are enlightened enough, then, to recog nize that we need' compulsory military training to defend ourselves, it is to our credit. “The young man or woman planning a career .Should begin to point toward it in high school or. even earlier. He should learn which fields interest him, which he seems to be fitted for, which will call for capacities he seefns to have. He can de velop hi st aients along these’ lines, and if his interests shif he can change his goal, But he should' be pointing toward something, talking about it, reading about it, working at it in his spare time, if possible. Then he will come out of school-with some understanding of what he wants to do, what ho can do and why he thinks as he does. He will he ready to start a career.” Walter Hoving, writ ing in the New York Times, restates an old fashioned. truth. HIE DAILY COLLEGIAN "For A Better Pena State" Successor to tho Perm State Collegian, -establißh-r.] 190-4, and the Free Lance, established 1887 Friday Morning,' September 27, 1940 Published daily except Sunday and Monday during the* -fcogular College year by the students of The Pennsylvania State College. Entered as- second-class- matter July 5. 1934, at thd po3t-office at State* College, Pa,, under the act of -■4»arch 3, 1879-. Editor Business Manager 'Adam A. Smyser '4b Lawrence 3. Driever '4l Women’R Editor—Vera I>. Kemp- '4l; Managirup Editor —Hobart H. Lano '4l; Sports Editor—Richard C. Peters- *41,; Mews Editor—William E. Fowler '4l; Feature Editor. —Edward J. K. Mcl/wie- '4l; Assistant Managing’ Editor —■ ’•ayord Bloom '4l; Women's Managing Editor —Arita E, -■nattcOSeran "'4l; Woman's Promotion, Manager—B3ytß<r 'a. '4l. Advertising Manager—Jbhn H. Tfioaws- '4l; Circulation “^ianaffer —Robert G. Robinson '4T; Senior Secretary—Ruth Goldstein '4l; Son tor Sooretary—LhKHr H. 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McGowan niuiuiiiiiinnniiNiiuimHiiiiiiiiiiimiuumiiiiiiimiiniinniiiininnniiiiuuuiiiu PENNSYLVANIA AND DEFENSE iiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiuiiiuiiiiiiuiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiin By EDWARD STEIDLE, Dean School of Mineral Industries EDITOR’S NOTE: This is the first of six articles prepared by the School of the Mineral. Industries and released to the Collegian. The articles will appear in this column on consecu tive 1 Fridays. * One of the outstanding. lessons of the- World War was the importance of minerals in the conduct of military affairs as well as in the normal' activities of the country. At the same time certain defi ciencies in domestic supplies were emphasized and the public became conscious of the complex international relationships involved in supplying our industries with mineral raw materials. Enormous advances in technology have been made since 1918. These are reflected in the strat egy of the present conflict. Mechanized warfare employs the machine to an extent undreamed of in the past. And the machine is essentially a min eral aggregate powered and lubricated with min eral products. Coal, petroleum and steel are the irreplaceable elements of national defense. They are also subjects of fundamental concern in the curricula of instruction and research of this School. That the mineral engineer and mineral technol ogist will play a leading role in the program of national defense now, under way is certain. His responsibility will extend from the securing, of adequate supplies of raw materials to their reduc tion to useful form and if necessary the develop ment of substitutes for mineral products which no longer can be imported from foreign sources. Pennsylvania will be called upon to carry a large burden of the defense program in the min eral industries since it is the leading mineral in dustrial commonwealth. Pennsylvania’s School of Mineral Industries and Experiment Station has a staff and facilities for instruction and research in all phases of the min eral industries which are second to none in the country. The unified program of the School em braces all branches of the earth sciences, mineral engineering, mineral economics, and mineral tech nology. In view of the well established program of construction, both resident and extension, and of research, the School has much to contribute to the national defense. The staff of the School feels a certain gratifica tion pride in the thought that the long list of suc cessful graduates now form a group of diversified technical skill competent to assist in so many ac tivities upon which the future of “the Nation may depend. It is hardly necessary to state that the School offers its services in the direction of any national defense projects on the campus, instruc tion or research, for which the staff is particularly qualified. You*!! 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